skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly the problem -- the driver had to hit the brakes because his car had started to pull into the path of a fast-moving UPS truck that his Tesla doesn't pick up until the last second. The "360º view" scanned "200 times per second" and acted upon with "superhuman latency" still randomly decides to pull out in front of traffic. Either the cameras are buggy or the software is, but we can do better.
> I was curious how claims like this line up with the incredibly stark difference between, say, the US and New Zealand:

From the discussion section of the paper:

>We propose four factors that might explain the difference between our conclusion and the view embraced by some epidemiologists.

>First, people respond to dangers outside their door. When a pandemic rages, people believe in social distancing regardless of what the government mandates [...]

>Second, mandates only regulate a fraction of our potential contagious contacts and can hardly regulate nor enforce handwashing, coughing etiquette, distancing in supermarkets, etc. [...]

>Third, even if lockdowns are successful in initially reducing the spread of COVID-19, the behavioral response may counteract the effect completely, as people respond to the lower risk by changing behavior. [...]

It's plausible that new zealand was already predisposed to contain a pandemic well (because they're well isolated) and/or that their citizens are conscientious.
> No. It’s a bs talking point the media gleefully pushed to divide the issue into camps and further stoke tensions in the populace. Don’t fall for it.

The only way you can think that is if you yourself live in the bubble of American media where far-right sources have continuously injected skepticism in a way that's unparalleled in any other developed country. In most of the rest of the world this skepticism isn't shared.

At this point the only holdouts are skeptics, who've been wooed by the far-right's ideas of seeding doubt even when there isn't any. A minority of left-wing extremists with various crazy ideas are also vaccine skeptics, but the horseshoe theory of political crazy seems to hold up here.
Wonder if it work as a rebar replacement that doesn't rust.
I see what you mean.

How does that work out in reality though? There are always people in all those age groups in society and if you let the disease run amok, that just means the 40yo of now are more likely to catch it before there's a vaccine or better treatments, doesn't it? OTOH if you slow down the kids getting it, they will be less likely to spread it to the teens and middle-aged kids :D until those are available. i.e. pretty much the same, is it not?

Disclaimer: I'm pulling those ideas out of my arse, I have no real data or knowlege to back my thoughts.
Ah, I had thought 1600 missiles x MIRV multiples of at least 12.
But thanks for the correction. I'm sure people in Nampa, Idaho will sleep safer.
I am thinking whether this result can create a type of loop that can self-optimize.

We have AI to generate reasonable code from text problem description.

Now what if the problem description text is to generate such a system in the first place?

Would it be possible to close the loop, so to speak, so that over many iterations:

- text description is improved

- output code is improved

Would it be possible to create something that converges to something better?
I did not mean to imply it was an argument either way. I meant it more as a way of demonstrating that we need to be careful to be precise about the actual relative impacts of each option, since they each have non-linear side-effects (including rates of compliance). So we should not get caught making absolute statements that something is always better or that it never works in this case, but instead look at the Pareto optimality frontier for each particular region when making policy recommendations and analysis.
A good replacement might be “I am confident we can make this work.”
> while that does make sense, i am in a pretty isolated region and i'd like to pick a specific different region.

Really, people shouldn't have to be aware of regions at all, which is why I initially wanted to use just one server, rather then deno deploy. (I still plan to realize that with deno deploy, it's just harder.)

> also, while i am at it, i'd prefer a small group rather than one on one.

Thought about that, but one-on-one seems simpler in many ways. There's never the question of who starts speaking. If one person stops, the other starts. It's also easier for two people to find a common interest then for more.
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I have an original Barnes & Noble Reader, but B & N will no longer offer software updating for my old device. Is there a way for me to update it manually to version 1.4.4?
I don't think anyone has ever claimed that graphene is easy to manufacture.
Ask HN: Is there a search engine that only returns non-commercial sites?
I.e sites that are not companies and not trying to sell anything? Presumably advertisements are ok.
I respect your honesty and encourage you to try some remedial driving lessons to avoid being a “really terrible driver.” It can save your life and others also.
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Oh!! <3
A sort of "Buddy System" where you get paired with other dads in same situation, yes!! It's on the roadmap.
Worse still, you can't get schematics for John Deere in the US, but John Deere provided full schematics as a condition of access to the Chinese market.
For instance, I'm imagining a wiki-search engine.

The builder would need to load the first few hundred thousand results and then add some sort of user moderation system, where search results get a reputation and site submitters get a reputation as well.

Donation funded, with maybe one sidebar section for curated ads that are tied to search results and not with a tracking cookie or fingerprinting.

With a few tweaks, that would be a really good start, right?

Once it reached a certain point, it would be overrun by the same systems, using human and bot armies to bias results towards the results that would make them the most money.

As long as there is a profit to be made somewhere, people will undermine any obstacle placed in front of them to make it, and I can't imagine any fix for it that isn't "run your own servers and pay for it out of your own pocket".
You can find the rating distribution filtered for >5 contests here: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/71260

I am rated at 2100+ so I do agree that 1300 rating is low. But at the same time it solved https://codeforces.com/contest/1553/problem/D which is rated at 1500 which was actually non-trivial for me already. I had one wrong submit before getting that problem correct and I do estimate that 50% of the regular competitors (and probably the vast majority of the programmers commenting in this thread right now) should not be able to solve it within 2hrs.
Why isn't there a replication crisis in math?
Indeed another person quoted in the article suggests that the hacking might have come from China.
Hoppscotch (https://hoppscotch.io/) is another one I've heard good things about.

Personally I like the VSCode REST Client best: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
Why couldn't a search engine look out for the searcher's interests before the interests of the content-producers?
And the point is that perhaps CGI being a rarity back then, and in the hands of the best production studios, meant that it was used more judiciously and to higher quality.
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When I was kid, before the chickenpox vaccine, it was common practice to ensure your kids got it by intentionally exposing them. I guess our parents had all had it, so there was no risk of getting it again.

Now we have a vaccine so I assume this doesn't happen anymore.
Cool, and your elitedesk I believe comes with remote BIOS access with Intel vPro, that's even cooler, never have to plugin display.
Sure, when I sit my ass down at the latest marvel movie I'm not there for 'reality'. Reality is, generally speaking, the domain of documentaries.
> One theory has been that language runs on a bit of brain hypertrophied as a sort of peacock's tail

> Others have suggested language originated between mothers and children, growing out of lullabies.

Sources?

——-

Separately, is language unique to humans? Are there examples of convergent evolution (semblances of grammatical structure) that can give us more clues as to how language may have evolved in humans?
That's an interesting film. Clarence Boudica?
I bet AMD itself is not able to get even close to the 204 GB/s bandwidth that they "promise" for these CPUs.

AMD instructions for measuring peak bandwidth are here: https://developer.amd.com/spack/stream-benchmark/ (essentially does a multi threaded memcpy). The script there will pin 1 thread per CCD, and with 8 threads you'll get close to peak bandwidth on CPUs with 8 CCDs (adding more threads doesn't help).

I've run it in the same CPUs that AMD uses there, following their instructions to the letter, which should be able to achieve 204 GB/s, but the best I've seen is about 165 GB/s. That's 80% of what AMD advertises.

HOWEVER, THIS NUMBER IS A LIE. It is using the AMD compiler with a flag called "-fnt-store" to turn all stores into non-temporal stores. This is something that no real-world application in practice would actually do because it does not make sense doing in general.

Without this flag, the peak bandwidth that AMD scripts report is about 124 GB/s. That's 60% of what AMD advertises and the best that most applications can aim to obtain in practice (the blog post author is really close to it).

The fine print (https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-7742) does say that 204 GB/s is a "theoretical" number.

So I bought a "theoretical" 204 GB/s CPU that delivers 60% of what it "theoretically" promised.

I feel scammed.

---

Instead, if I run STREAM on my GPU, I get close to 100% of what the GPU promises, and about 90% or so of it in practice.
Just coat the rebar, one of its properties is that it's impermeable to liquids and gases.
If you need to include/exclude multiple things, you can go `grep pat --exclude={foo,bar,baz}` which expands to: `grep pat --exclude=foo --exclude=bar --exclude=baz`. Much easier than typing out the flag multiple times
I don't want to act all offended and everything, but I honestly don't understand why a list of rewards is a counterpoint to my personal opinion. I'm aware that everyone loved the movie. I don't care and I'm not just trying to be a troll.

Update: Actually, your response makes sense if you assumed, reasonably, that I actually wasn't sure how I felt and wanted expert opinions. Left some other similar comments further down in the thread. Sorry to snap back like I did.
Is there an advantage to using taskflow for parallel for, if you already have another threadpool implementation? I recently removed taskflow in a project that was only being used for a parallel for loop (as part of a larger refactor, the code had a number of issues...), and I'm wondering if that was a mistake now that I see that pattern somewhere else. :)
Those who claim CM is the worst font probably mean using it as a screen font. Which to be honest, is not far from truth on low PPI displays and/or subpar font renderers.
I see comments saying that he may be interfering with actual operations against NK or that now that he has done this they are more likely to patch their systems and be more secure, contradicting his own intentions.

It's also entirely possible that this action, including the WIRED article and it's high visibility, is part of a broader effort and strategy. In reality we just won't know in this type of situation.

Any casual judgement that talks about how obviously naive this is may be a little too shallow.
On the other hand, most systems in place today do not stop reliably when they should:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjdabZmR5Yc
Nearly everyone will eventually be immune to it, but CDC data still is showing that the majority of vaccinated people will not get sick with it to get there.
>Even accounting for inflation, Jurassic World in 2018 cost about 25% more to produce than Jurassic Park in 1993, and all the dinosaurs in the original feel ten times as tactile and threatening.

But, but, dinosaurs in the original were famously CGI!
well, there you go, who needs Dadditude when the HN community is looking out for each other like this! (As a dad of 1, I feel triggered by your last words... I wish we'd bought a duo pack)
This looks really sharp! Love the opinionated approach to how to handle incidents with assigned roles!
> Singapore is a real, functioning democracy.

Singapore is a "democracy" where the system is heavily stacked against opposition parties, and where supposedly apolitical institutions funded with public money like the "grassroots" People's Association [1][2][3] are heavily biased towards the dominant People's Action Party.

[1] https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/explainer-perennial-is...

[2] https://theindependent.sg/wps-sylvia-lim-has-to-use-void-dec...

[3] https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/jamus-lim-reiterates-...
The USB-IF normalized that sort of naming sillyness, I fully expect it to spread.
Please don't. It's off topic and will just start an arms race.
Also, Dune is a science fiction movie. Looking as real as possible was not necessarily the goal, but rather to maintain a stylized glean appropriate for a movie with hunter-seekers, force-fields, and sand worms.

I think the VFX approach worked well for the movie, and movie critics seem to universally agree that the cinematography and effects were magnificent.

A better comparison would be a modern period epic like Dunkirk.
I wonder if it was a veiled reference to the debate between Linus and Andrew Tanenbaum, who wrote MINIX based on OS research that, according to him, showed that microkernels are better than monolithic kernels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...
For the single threaded version, I believe they have a similar problem with

auto sums = _mm256_set1_ps(0);
for (; it + 8 < end; it += 8)
sums = _mm256_add_ps(_mm256_loadu_ps(it), sums);

Where each SMD op is trying to overwrite to a compact data structure.

But in the threaded version https://github.com/unum-cloud/ParallelReductions/blob/fd16d9... they have separate slots for an accumulator but it's still in a shared vector, which most likely has the issue I described.
That's called a competing product :)
You're right, that is a much better choice for this situation!
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Mixture of things -

First - what they are protesting is mandating vaccines as part of doing a job and general restrictions meant to curb Covid, at least that’s my understanding as both a non Canadian and someone only vaguely focused on it. So really what they are protesting is a disagreement about the ethics of a government taking actions to protect people during a pandemic and where the line should be drawn.

Second - if we assume my assertion above is correct it becomes relevant that these groups are being led by extremists because it undermines the belief they are arguing in good faith and not merely using the current situation for their benefit. If prior to Covid you advocated to secede from the national government over presumed grievances and now you’re leading some protest against it for something else I have to wonder if you’re not just an opportunist. (You here doesn’t refer to you but to the organizers)

Basically - I don’t trust that the leaders are operating in good faith. It falls similarly to hearing Tucker and the rest of the Fox crew rant against vaccines, vaccine mandates, and any sort of reasonable public health tools knowing full well they are vaccinated and have a far more strict vaccine mandate than most places. They are using people, and in some cases getting them killed, for their own motives. I don’t like that.
I find it unfortunate that most studies that this data meta-analyzed were for data periods ending in the Spring or early Summer of 2020.

I would want to see longer data periods that would tell me that early lockdowns slowed down the spread enough to identify better treatment options as well as allow more people to survive till vaccines were available in 2021. In other words, whether people who caught Covid in the fall 2020/winter 2021 had better survival odds than if they caught it in the Spring/Summer of 2020.
> For the monomer building blocks, they use a compound called melamine, which contains a ring of carbon and nitrogen atoms. Under the right conditions, these monomers can grow in two dimensions, forming disks. These disks stack on top of each other, held together by hydrogen bonds between the layers, which make the structure very stable and strong.
Courts can only interpret the laws defined by Congress. There is little they can do if the problem entity X has with entity Y is perfectly legal under the current legal code.

Most democratic systems are built this way on purpose, to ensure no one branch of government has too much power. We don't necessarily want the branch in charge of interpreting the law to also be given the ability to write it.
The article says it is a melamine polymer.
I don't necessarily disagree with any of the few specific comparisons the author makes. Maybe Tim Curry's Steppenwolf does look better. But this small set of specific comparisons, even if they're uncontroversial, don't provide evidence that a CGI effect on average will look worse than a practical effect. I can think of plenty of examples of practical effects that looks terrible and CGI effects that look great (and, crucially, aren't even noticeably CGI to most viewers).
Not sure what I said that's incorrect?

The original issues were from 2015 & 2017 - Scratchpad was only added to docs in Jun 2021 (before that was an undocumented feature for likely under 2 years I would guess).

Also, on the suitability of Scratchpad as a workaround for this bug, as quoted from person who created the linked issue:

> and no, scratchpad is not a solution to this.

The same sentiment is echoed through many of the more recent closed issues created in Github on this topic.

Either way: my comment above was mainly about dark patterns, which makes the existence of a workaround (not matter how suitable) somewhat moot. Even if this issue gets fixed "properly", the attitude of their devs over this long a period of time has been more than enough to turn me off using their software.
Ah, chicken. The quintessential centerpiece of a weeknight meal. I fondly remember my childhood in Kentucky, rolling in a pile of leaves until the warm, scrumptious smell of roast chicken wafted out from the kitchen into my eager young nostrils. I can go on for hours about this, and I will, but I knew that someday billions of people would lovingly read this long, overcooked story before dinner because it was their inner heart's desire.

Preheat oven, insert chicken.
Thanks (!!) for sharing all this thoughtful feedback. I promise to reply later.
I'm fairly certain you two are speaking completely past each other about radically different climates.
You must really wrap that foil hard for it not to fall off with the missile flying at Mach 4. They'd probably need to use a bunch of duck tape to secure the foil, and with inflation making duck tape more expensive it will hurt their economies.
Win for Israel.
hahahaha. Mine too! I'm really glad it doesn't just throw you into a conversation. That "click anywhere to start" is critical.
Those are great links, thanks for sharing! My memcpy-s were even slower :)
No More Hubs from Samsung?
There's nothing on the SEC that says that. If fact, the SEC says the price movement was about retail and FOMO than shorts closing their position.
LiveBeats is hotlinking https://fly.io/ui/images/<region>.svg and Kurt updated a few of the US region images to be more specific vs blanket flag. The browser on the right is chrome, with the cached old image, and left is safari with the new one :)
But think how large of a job program that would have been.

Hundreds of people manually writing assembly and paid middle class wages.
Not a compiler in sight.

In the years leading up to the singularity I’d expect to see a lot of Graeberian “Bullshit Jobs”.

Everyone knows they’re BS but as a society we allow them because we aren’t willing to implement socialism or UBI.
Yea I was wondering about the legality of this cyber self-defence, but like many crimes, if the victim (deserving or not) does not report it, you’ll probably get away scot free.

In the case of NK, they could probably even register a complaint and have it ignored, assuming the effort needed to locate the perp was greater than the fucks given by the appropriate authorities.

Hats off to the author but I would also caution them against broadcasting it publicly. The people who would appreciate this the most probably use secure channels anyway ;)
Another way to look at this - maybe this is a way to give a pressure relief valve for all the privacy conscious so they stop harassing them so much for the 90% of consumer case that doesn’t care?
Modern digital cinema capture has nearly film-like dynamic range. It's gotten pretty good. Film is the gold standard but it's not always worth the trade-off in cost and complexity. And ultimately a lot of it comes down to good grading, not the DR of the original shot.
Spot on. I have an in-depth article about a niche topic and ranked on place 1-3 for many years. Everybody who typed the short keyword would want an in-depth explanation.

These days, the search volume went way up and my article went down to 6-10. The first three spots merely give a rough explanation of my in-depth topic. Quite insulting actually.

But upon further reflection I realized that most people these days only want a rough definition and no in-depth explanation. Google gives this to them.

The people who used to search for my keyword now add 2-3 more words to get to my in-depth article. The typical long tail.

What I find worrisome is that sometimes, the long tail query I use to find quality content gives me the same results as the unspecific short query. Some stuff is close to impossible to find without knowing a very topic-specific thing.
No one gave you that advice, because it's not really great advice.
Sure, you can buy Kubota or Massey Ferguson but in many areas of the US with active farmland, you'll have to drive many hundreds of miles to even find a dealer to support these brands. John Deere is ubiquitous.
Does a mobile app alone solve this problem though?

My understanding is that fake users can still download an app (or call the API the app would have called), but a phone number is harder to continually spoof/generate.
Do they have desktop client? Hoppscotch seems to be web client. How secure is it to use authtokens for our API endpoints from a website?
Does Fastmail?
I did all of my homework in college in LaTeX for this exact reason (and would liveTeX lectures). I had a setup where my input was side-by-side my output and the compilation time was very fast, so I could almost see what I was writing in real time. It actually became easier after freshman year than writing things down.
Interesting. How does this differ from HLC in practice - in the article you say you use a 500ms max skew for HLC?