skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I downloaded it in a Linux VM so if it gets infected in some ways, I can delete the VM

Note that, though rare, some malware can escape from a VM: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine_escape
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Jewishness encompasses both religion and ethnicity [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews
For the Jewish part I'm convinced it's correct.

However there is the mostly forgotten Romani genocide part that was definitely about race.
Would a warning have even helped that much? Since HTTP/3 was expected to be working there wouldn't be a cause to worry.
I've never understood their reasoning. It sounds like a Most Interesting Man in the World commercial: "I don't always tackle the hardest AI problems known to mankind, but when I do, I tie one hand behind my back by not fusing data from every possible sensor I can find in the DigiKey catalog."

IR lidar would be pretty useful in rain and fog, I'd think. But I'd rather have all three -- lidar, radar, and visual. Hell, throw in ultrasonic sonar too. That's what Kalman filters are for. Maybe then the system will notice that it's about to ram a fire truck.
> Microsoft made a key/value database in C# that could do like 250 million requests per second. (Proof of concept, but still).

Can you share more details on this?
Most stuff doesn't get published because preparing things for publication is such a grind.

1. I have a complete optical flow training data set here. It is built specifically to highlight the shortcomings of some state of the art AI algorithms and (as expected) they fail on it. We used it internally to fix those issues on our own proprietary AI. To turn this dataset into a publication, someone would now need to get access to or re-implement most of the top algorithms on other benchmarks like Sintel and run them against the new dataset. Otherwise, there would be no comparison scores and, hence, no use for someone to evaluate their algorithm on the new data set.

2. By participating in the gocoder Bomberland AI competition, I noticed that most state of the art RL AI algorithms fail badly in an environment with a non-deterministic enemy. It would probably be very useful to package that environment as a OpenAI gym python package and then do a proper "best out of 3" evaluation of common algorithms on that environment. It'll mostly be failures, which is a great backdrop against which to propose a small tweak to DQN that makes things work, which is to estimate the variance in addition to the mean so that you can work on the 30% percentile of the expectation of the state action score.

Both dataset papers and AI algorithm ranking papers tend to get cited a lot. But they require a lot of effort to produce.
What other countries inherited the Chinese civil service system?

Does Taiwan count? I would hardly say it has diminished or fallen apart. Of course, that is only my humble opinion.
He doesn't place braces around single statement conditional/loop bodies. Would not vote for him. While pretty unexpected from a politician, he did graduate in Maths & CS at Trinity College. Senior Wrangler, no less.
Isn't it more poststructural? E.g. instead of some well defined "this one person invented X" narrative structure being the way society happens, the reality is more often nuanced (and badly recorded) with multiple personal involvements with the new concept.

Though I think this is more just the subject of 'history' and figuring out what exactly happened.

Some people seem to get defensive when they find it the history they have been taught is challenged. Why not be wearisome about the flawed system/culture that keeps promulgating half truths?
> I offered him a gummy bear. He politely declined.
This is the best thing I've ever read.
Hm, the article makes it sound as if mmWave radars are a fairly new addition to cars. But 77 GHz radar sensors have been in cars since over a decade now, thanks to suppliers such as Bosch and Continental.
For the love of God, can we please get an "Only show me things in my native language" option?
It's not firefox, it's your distro.
I've run into this a lot as well. If I'm looking up a place that catches my interest, 9 times out of 10 I'm *not* interested in hotel rooms or flights there. One Firefox search bar feature that I dearly love is that I can quickly and easily override my default search engine.
The creator didn't want to monetise it themselves, and wasn't really intended as a global phenomenon so this seems like a great option for them.

Also I wouldn't be shocked if NYT keep it free. They have some free word games, and encourage you to sign up for the rest of them - having a huge audience that come and play word games every single day seems like a great opportunity for upselling.

edit - a quick search suggests it's millions of people per day. At £25/year for a subscription, you'd probably not need a huge conversion rate for it to pay off quickly.
I'm aware of what's widely accepted as the truth regarding this issue.

What I don't understand is on which logical basis it's widely accepted.

How can a black Ethiopian and a white Polish be considered part of the same race?

It does not compute.
If you like that you may also like https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

(Also "Hackers Delight" if you really can't get enough of it.)
Neither are solutions.

In general, any recommendation system should come with two things:

- an option to clear all recommendations and start from scratch

- opt out of recommendations entirely
There's rubble.

https://github.com/jonas-schievink/rubble

We've been approached by multiple parties to finish it and we are up to it, but the final effort, particularly certification is currently prohibitive. Serious inquiries taken, though - we're also happy to play "consortium" in that this does not have to be financed by any single party.
Why not Ffederasiwn Rhyngwladol Wordle given the original programmer is Welsh?
Still, a better title would be "Israel to roll out laser defense system", to make it slip less present-y and a bit more future-y.
Google is clearly an abusive monopoly and stifling innovation and privacy wherever possible.

HOWEVER, in this instance, I don’t really see the issue. Workspace customers will obviously want to search their document history, etc. and this info will be walled off from other sides of the business.

The melodramatic hysteria in the comments here is interesting though, and underlines just how far Google’s reputation has fallen in the tech community.

There is zero trust for Google here, and this lack of trust can even be a roadblock to making rational product decisions. People are rightly suspicious of power, because it always gets abused.
Good luck clashing with the EU GDPR requirements. Bad for Google's pocket and their reputation. That said - this thread isn't doing their reputation much good anyway...!
I mean, he might yet? What someone does now is not their permanent lot in life.
What do you use in replacement for GMail?
And what about seeing peoples' expressions? Optical AR is an order of magnitude more likely to be acceptable in a social situation.
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Being critical of the governance of Israel doesn't make you anti-semitic.
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Yes, Wall Street (high finance) also has many people (traders & quants & risk controllers) who do not have financial engineering degrees, yet deeply understand the field as practitioners. Some common "alternative" degrees: economics, mathematics, physics, chemistry, microbiology, computer science/engineering. The previous generation was even less specialised -- many had liberal arts degrees!
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I'm glad this realization exists. When I was in school, I quickly realized that most of my peers - the ones that came with me from an associate's degree course in IT, more sysadmin stuff - just couldn't keep up with software development, they didn't have the knack for it.
Some starting points:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnoreligious_group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F

Note how ethnic factors are mentioned a lot. "Jewishness" gets mostly inherited, and is thus tightly intertwined with ethnicity and "race" (scare quotes because its IMHO not an all-that-useful or well-defined term).

> No matter how one defines race

The Nazis were very explicit about exterminating the "Jewish Race": people with ancestors that were Jewish. If people get prosecuted because some of their ancestors were Jewish, without consideration for their own religious practice, you can't pretend it was "just" religious persecution. (also to be noted that this is indeed different than many other instances of anti-jewish policies in history which were motivated by religion not race and did not include people who were not practicing Jews)
Exactly this.

With a user that has more power than what they understand, they will break the layout and blame the developer. You then have to go look at what they did.. and as it is in a GUI and not in code, it will be much harder to troubleshoot and thus fix for a reasonable price.
Of the list above, I'm most surprised that Swift doesn't have a Turing complete type system.
I do not understand how cars can really be self driving IMHO. For example, say I'm going down a residential street and there's a few children playing with a football on the side of the road ahead of me. Well, in that situation I'm thinking "one of them could kick the ball into the road and run out" so I'll premptively slow down and be on "alert" just-in-case that happens.

If the worst happens and a child runs out, even though I may have a slower reaction speed than the fancy car, I was already going slower and in the back of my mind I was prepared.

I don't see if a car can do that kind of reasoning.

Another example I can think of, at traffic lights with a pedestrian crossing, my driving instructor taught me to look out for the lit up "Wait" text, if it's on, I can slow down and preempt that it might change before I pass.
profiles need no command line anymore. Just use `about:profiles`, it's pretty cool!
While I agree that everyone CAN learn anything, it doesn't mean they want to. Motivation is a big factor.

And when it comes to software development, the actual writing code part of it, I'm confident you need to have a knack for it.

Mind you, there's plenty of jobs in software engineering that don't involve writing code. We're desperately looking for a manager for example, because our current "self-managing" team is far from effective.
I just drove through the Alps, at night, during a snow storm. This is hardly everyday driving, but it's the sort of experience Canadians are no strangers to.

Success is when I trust the autopilot to handle the weather conditions where I live, not just sunny days in California.
Of course, the "urgh" was a consequence of having been doing a little drinking myself earlier in the evening.

My polite well mannered controlled self would have only thought the "urgh" and never posted it on this forum.
A bogosolver is a valid approach. I mean it'll take forever, but it's valid.
If there are no vehicles or pedestrians near an intersection, Teslas should be allowed to run stop signs at regular speed, no need to even slow down /s
It's a very common technique when seeking performance, so don't have a heart attack please.
EV cars surpassed diesel cars in Europe because diesel cars are mostly bought by companies. For most other people they have been a bad deal for a long time even before EVs actually hit the market.

Companies don't care about the car prices because they are almost entirely tax deductible. They have private charger stations and like the eco image that comes with the cars. There is also legal uncertainty because some diesel cars are not allowed to drive into the city anymore.

Your employer either has a charging station or you have one on your own property. Not difficult to see that a lot of people cannot afford an EV and have no way to arrange sensible charging.

We had electric busses for a while that were quite awesome. They were scrapped because their reliability rate was at ~95% while diesel busses were at 98%. Subsidies would have made sense here since they provide so many secondary benefits like being more silent and less polluting. But even here EV were rejected after a while.
The non appearance of flu season says you are wrong.
Software engineers from a CFO perspective aren't any really different than plumbers or carpenters

Plumbing systems are extensively documented and well-understood. The equivalent situation in plumbing would be that the entire layout of the city's sewage system (or similarly, the construction plans for the company's headquarters) is only kept inside the heads of two senior developers, likely because the Powers That Be have decided that keeping accurate documentation is not worth the cost. Preventative maintenance and quality control are impossible, because nobody knows which pipes have been laid first and are the most at-risk from leaking.

Point being: everything is just labour. That doesn't mean software "engineering" should be allowed to fall so far below the baseline we expect from other engineering professions.
If Walmart could be making more money on interest from their cash flow, they would be already be making more money. It is not a novel or difficult idea.

The profit margins of the business of retail is not in the MAMAA league. Being a retail middleman is simply not as profitable as what the tech companies can do because they can scale at extremely low marginal costs, and barrier to entry is very high.

Amazon’s value lies in AWS and prime video/music/logistics/platform, not the part where you buy something shipped and sold by Amazon.com. Hence why Amazon removed the button to filter searches to only items shipped and sold by amazon, and why Walmart introduced their own version of a platform where they can make money as a platform, rather than a retailer.
In both those cases they wouldn't be able to drive anyway, and the result is not more dangerous or worse then the alternative.
I'm not sure about what I've read, but I have a headache now.
No, NYT bought the NFT of Wordle
Why AI isn't making it to factory floors
I've used most of them: FusionBuilder, WPBakery/Visual Composer, Elementor. I honestly despise these page editors. They are so incredibly slow, and the markup they produce is indecipherable.

I've been pretty happy with Gutenberg. It has some pain points - notably around block recovery - but it produces sane HTML, its CSS payload is minimal, and there's no frontend JS at all (at least in the default blocks).

You don't get the millions of features of those other editors, but it's those same features that make them slow and cumbersome. I think Gutenberg strikes a good balance. It's the first page editor I don't hate.
Absolutely. Google search is now my choice ONLY when I want to buy something, and it's likely to be from someone who'd advertise through google. Otherwise you've got to go a long way through the results, and then you get to just junk - pretty useless.

Google maps is just as bad - other than street names and a few "public" places, the only locations that show up seem to be those paying to appear. Given how many (most) businesses google has details on, it's obvious that maps is filtering out non-advertisers.

So google is no longer a search engine, or a maps provider - it's degraded to be a small-time "yellow-pages" advertising directory. Sad really.
I haven't noticed anything and I use Firefox every day. Nor have any of my clients where I deployed Firefox called. Is this because I always disable data collection in settings?
I plead the halting problem.
Ask HN: Which method of authentication for a B2B HTTP API?
I need to build a simple HTTP API so business partners can integrate with our system (read, write, update).

It's only back-end to back-end.

Which method of authentication is your go-to technology?

Basic auth would work well for our needs and it's very easy to build and use. But is it considered safe?

Is JWT in a bearer token a good solution?
It depends on what you encourage people to identify as. I predict better results from someone who identifies primarily as a "human truth-seeker" than from a "$immutable_characteristic $ideology world-improver".
> The thought of client side marketing interns ‘play(ing) around with site-wide designs’ should make the blood of any professional run cold. Sites that have been painstakingly, designed and built, reviewed and refined to the last detail every step of the way with stakeholders on the client side, optimising UX, legibility, performance and upholding the client’s brand can now be squelched in an instant by someone 3 months into their job who prefers yellow.

That's why you set the intern's role to editor.
I would love to hear the "underpants planning" of self driving cars iterated, critiqued and discussed.

Telsa's underpants plan appears to be (still?): [1] Base self driving software on affordable components that already exist in production models. [2] Get lots of high quality data from an existing fleet using this hardware [3] Climb the "levels of automation" ladder step-by-step, straight to consumer [4] Robotaxis, with Tesla owners lending their cars to Tesla's Uber (Tuber)?.

If/when version X of Tesla's self driving software "solves self driving" in the sense that it can use roads/infrastructure as-is and achieve superhuman safety... Tesla hit a massive jackpot. They'll already have millions of cars on the road. Producing millions of cars takes time, and a lot of capital. This amounts to few years' head start and is a big advantage.

Waymo's underpants plan is more of a traditional prototype/proof-of-concept/R&D lab thing. Google already poured >$20bn into Waymo without a start date for a business model. But... they have every advantage. Expensive sensors & hardware. No limits imposed by industrial engineering, manufacturing, marketing or cost concerns. Limited, hand picked routes areas of operation. Waymo is set up to smash performance milestones as quickly as possible.

Waymo, on paper, are better set up to achieve milestones... a working L5 vehicle. But, the road from this milestone to profitable revenue & scale is still pretty long. What if the hardware costs too much? Even if it doesn't cost too much, how long to start and scale production to Tesla levels?

George Hotz has his "Android to Tesla's Apple" underpants plan. No vehicle.

It seems to me Cruise (kvogt, the ceo has commented) is doing something similar to Waymo, strategically. There's a lot of interesting stuff to discuss. Personally, I'm interested in takes on how self driving "rolls out." Will the infrastructure (roads, signs, etc.) need to be adapted? How can this all play out?

BTW... kvogt. It would be great to hear you on Lex Fridman.
Released under MIT no less (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B2G2LjIu7Wbdfjha...). Great to see more government (employees) using open source licenses :)

Edit: apparently, you can't directly link to the files inside the Drive, as the URL doesn't change when you open it in their file browser. What's the point even?
Frank Zappa wrote a song about the Magic Leap investors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_WgCGOWae4

https://www.google.com/search?q=cocaine+decisions+lyrics&oq=...
She's probably earned another raise if her actual reason for appointment is to drive chrome adoption while soaking up community engagement to prevent another open source browser competitor, then she's succeeding very well!
You have a 9x9 grid, subdivided into 3x3 blocks. The goal is to ensure that every row, column, and block has the numbers 1-9, so that no row, column or block has a duplicate number. The puzzle will have some numbers filled in, the rest is up to the person filling it in.

I wrote a solver for it back in school, it... wasn't the best? But it worked. The one solution I built solved it like I did - go through every row, column and block, then every number, and ask "is this number possible here" - look for conflicts. The next iteration was "is there only one number possible in this space".

Of course, the teachers were expecting a more brute force approach; I forgot the name, but basically it involved iterating over every space, then every number; if the number fits, move on to the next square; if no numbers fit, backtrack to the previous space and iterate on that number. It solved everything within a second or so, but it was really brute force.
How does ClassicPress prevent the intern from painting the site yellow ? /s
Well I'm in my early thirties so I'll leave that up to you to decide if that puts me in the "younger generations" bucket
I would not vote for him because the last for loop has unnecessary braces
It's the kind of thing that I would expect a compiler to know about and use; when writing code in a high level language you shouldn't have to think too much about what happens on the hardware level.
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57 was worse.
Dogma are "bad" if not challenged, correct.
Can we adapt/change these programs along the flow, to adapt to the new situations and knowledge? I am confident we can.

Now, what are you proposing to really change the mindset of the world population around climate change and the fact we are running into the wall?

the other option is the current one, we do close to nothing and we wait.
Not convinced about this strategy to prepare a better future for the planet and the next generations.