skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pro tip: if you're using Solarized, change to another color scheme before running it.
Bigger scale: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms_Pumped_Storage_Plant
I guess what's going on here, the reason people are divided, is that on software that you dislike (or are forced to use) people generally hate settings and just want the thing to work. On software that people love (like a piece of software that helps you make music or edit video) then people generally enjoy being able to customize it further and further.
So Tesla news can be discussed anywhere except HN?

The reason HN is exceptional is that it has a lot of readers working on or near AI, who will quickly call out the B.S. in Tesla PR. They know this, so all Tesla stories get nuked.
But when people do succeed in killing others through the vote, it's usually a LOT more than they could have ever hoped to do with a firearm.
As I wrote in another comment, my material science and mechanical engineering is very rusty at this point. :-) But, yeah, I-beams basically wouldn't work if steel were weak in compression because, assuming a straightforward loading of a supported beam you're basically putting one flange of the beam in tension and the other flange in the equivalent amount of compression. So the fact that one part of the I-beam is strong would be pretty much irrelevant if the other part were weak.
I don't know if we can assume males and females drive the same amount.
Unfortunately the CEO does not report to the ethics hotline.
The use of microtones, or rather lack thereof, is what I'm referring to (from a comment by pythko):

>I believe the GGP meant to refer to “microtones,” which are frequencies that don’t fall into the Twelve Tone Equal Temperament tuning system. These are commonly used in non-western music (Indian music is a typical example), and occasionally in some western music styles (blues, some jazz, some sub-genres of rock, maybe), but you’re not going to find microtones in most western music.
Widely profitable for who? For society or directly in dollars for the individuals involved? Righteous by whose definition? Honest by whose definition? How widely shared are those definitions? Rhetorical questions, please don't answer.

Someone has solved a particular kind of collective action problem. Now we have a playbook for addressing a specific type of situation. It doesn't seem to be a general solution or readily adaptable to a general solution.

Perhaps we could be happy that we have gained a useful tool. Even if it's not quite the tool we might have wished for. Otherwise we're essentially lamenting that all the money and effort that goes into, say, consumer goods R&D (or another unworthy cause) isn't instead used for medical research (or another worthy cause).
I just wanted to point out what I thought might be new information for some readers. I have no position on Tesla, neither short nor long. I just consider them for entertainment value :)
Not yet!, https://twitter.com/thedovestype/status/836575846513147905?s...
I think of “privilege” as something that persists (e.g. IQ) vs “luck” as something that happens once (e.g. winning the lottery).
Is the workout thing why they're getting death threats; does that predate the notoriety?
I think that while FR had a lot of practical effects, to call the CGI only enhancements does it a disservice. CGI was used in almost every single scene and shot.
Organizational scalability and flexible database schemas
They can use the screens of any size but only with 1366x768 resolution. That would be better.

Just took a look at Levono.com, played with filters... in the year 2022 you still can buy a model with such screen:

Part Number 20X1CTO1WWUS1
Processor : 11th Generation Intel® Core™ i3-1115G4 Processor (3.00 GHz, up to 4.10 GHz with Turbo Boost, 2 Cores, 4 Threads, 6 MB Cache)
Operating System : Windows 11 Home
Lenovo recommends Windows 11 Pro for business.
Graphics : Integrated Intel® UHD Graphics
Memory : 4 GB DDR4 3200MHz
Storage : 128 GB PCIe SSD
Display : 14.0" HD (1366 x 768) anti-glare, 220 nits

I can bet $15 most (as in 99.99%) of the UX/UI designers at Google have at least FHD screens, many of them with 4K screens.
How are they inconvenient if they have no impact on behavior?

Either one can ignore the lockdown and continue their usual behavior or one can't ignore the lockdown and their behavior changes.
Autonomous? You mean, like a system that takes photos and sends you a bill? Yes, most such things were removed in our town after it turned out they were set wrong (sending tickets to people who didn't break the law).

Our city manager reads patch, reddit and other things for our town and occasionally engages with the community around policy. This is absolutely something where if you wrote a careful post on reddit saying "Hey, are our cops doing the right thing stopping people going 1mph near a school instead of stopping <whatever>"? There would be an argument, a few people would say 1mph is 1mph over the law, but really, the outcome would be that the ticket appeal would be approved and the cops in my town would be told not to do that.

Pointing out to somebody who says "in my experience" that others would have a different experience is pointless. I know that. If cops are giving people tickets for ethnicity (or even deadheads driving through georgia, which used to happen) that's an entirely different problem from pointless enforcement.
And, to be clear, this is a human solution.

Not as efficient as mine, but kudos.
Median vs mean of what measure?
Not the person you're replying to but William D Callister's Material Science and Engineering is a pretty standard engineering book I've seen used in my different universities across 2 continents (and have studied from too), so I'm going to say that it's a good starting point.
Australia’s biggest success was controlling the virus at the border, also. They spent large parts of the pandemic without ever locking down, and when there were lock downs after early 2020, it was localized to a specific city or state where the virus had escaped containment rather than the whole country (sometimes people seem to not realize this).

There was never really an analogous situation in the USA since we maintained open borders to the virus (US citizens were allowed to come back from Europe even after the travel ban in March 2020, seeding the virus across the country.)
You have to be one to make that much money.
My bad. It does intrigue me then, what was the comic that started all this?
Flu and covid are spread similarly. The masks slow down the transmission of covid and flu, so you don't die. The indication that flu transmission has virtually stopped is an indicator that the transmission rate of covid could be much higher than it is.

Put on a damn mask and stop crying about it.
I wouldn't be so sure. Programmers (and drivers and cashiers) can "survive" in poverty like millions others already do. This transformation is coming in waves that keep the proverbial frog in the pan.
EU plans to label natural gas and nuclear power plants “sustainable”
> That's not really how it was initially portrayed entirely

What did you think "bend the curve" meant, exactly? But that was the mantra when these measures were instituted.
I've been following these guys for a while. Really cool tech... basically a solid state CO2 absorbing cell using organic compounds and electricity. I think this is the most promising avenue for economical land-based DAC.

Relevant paper here: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/ee/c9ee0...
doesn't work anymore as it just redirects. assuming author was told to take site down.
I can't help but wonder if that's subconsciously learnt by association of the typeface with (La)TeX and academia rather than based on the sole merits of Computer Modern itself. If we're just looking at the typography, Computer Modern is quite average and its screen legibility is horrible (vertical strokes are way too thin).
Unfortunately, this is a Prisoners' Dilemma. If there were no personalized ads, regular ads would soak up all the ad budget and therefore be sustainable. But as soon as there are personalized ads, they quickly outcompete regular ads. Hence regulation is required.
Those roads seem much easier to drive on than basically any city I've been in Europe. Paris is 10x more complex than that for instance. If FSD can't handle that there's really not of a use case apart from highways in Europe.

To give you an idea of the incredible features in some cities, I have recently driven in Rennes where they found a good idea to makes roads with one single central lane for cars with wide bicycle path on each side. You are supposed to drive in the center and if a car comes in the other direction each car needs to go on the bicycle lane on their respective side of the road while giving priority to bicycles. I wonder how FSD would handle that...
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Have you ever talked to a journalist? You cant do much investigative journalism when you're doing the same number of beats 3 people did before and are pressured to produce the same output.

The economics of writing have changed. This was something done to journalists not by them.
> Suppose AlphaCode was trained on Github code that contains the entire set of solutions on Codeforces, is it actually doing anything "difficult"?

They tested it on problems from recent contests. The implication being: the statements and solutions to these problems were not available when the Github training set was collected.

From the paper [0]: "Our pre-training dataset is based on a snapshot of selected public GitHub repositories taken on 2021/07/14" and "Following our GitHub pre-training dataset snapshot date, all training data in CodeContests was publicly released on or before 2021/07/14. Validation problems appeared between 2021/07/15 and 2021/09/20, and the test set contains problems published after
2021/09/21. This temporal split means that only information humans could have seen is available for training the model."

At the very least, even if some of these problems had been solved exactly before, you still need to go from "all of the code in Github" + "natural language description of the problem" to "picking the correct code snippet that solves the problem". Doesn't seem trivial to me.

> I don't believe it would be difficult for a human to solve problems on Codeforces when given access to the entirety of Github (indexed and efficiently searchable).

And yet, many humans who participate in these contests are unable to do so (although I guess the issue here is that Github is not properly indexed and searchable for humans?).

[0] https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/AlphaCode/comp...
The DH-4 was made in 1954, followed by the HZ-1 in 1956. The video shows N64N in the video, but the N64N-1 didn't have water applications.

Sources:

https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1140732

> It is the only surviving HZ-1. The prototype, designated DH-4 ...

https://transportation.army.mil/museum/coldwar/index.html

> The HZ-1 was tested at Fort Eustis in 1956.

https://archive.org/stream/ArmedForcesFilms1956/ArmedForcesF...

> IESM-543 . Released July 1956 ... The Aerocycle is an experimental
one man flying machine.

http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/lockner_helicovector...

> DH-4 first flew in January 1955.

https://asc.army.mil/docs/magazine2/armyalt-oct-dec-15.pdf

> In 1954, he proposed that if the rotors of a helicopter were on the bottom, a pilot could use his own weight to steer the vehicle using kinesthetic control, similar to riding a bicycle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lackner_HZ-1_Aerocycle

> First flight 22 November 1954

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyBHM1vZLzc

> The De Lackner DH-4 "Aerocycle", later renamed the HZ-1 Aerocycle
It’s arguing with half truths to defend actual quacks being called out for purveying views that lack evidence to prior events when people with actual supporting evidence backing their work got pushback. Despite the church, Galileos work got support from a significant number of people when they were able to see and test reproduce his observations, something that quacks can’t stand up to.

The roles here are being mixed up. The quackery equal time supporters are like the church, wanting something to be true and heard simply because they like the way it sounds. The anti-quacks are simply saying look “here are the facts as to why that’s not true and show that’s snake oil”.
You might also like to check Dr. Jeannette Wing's talk on the same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Pq4N-iE4I
Pressurization cycles is what killed the reputation of the first commercial civilian jet, the De Havilland Comet.

The British were good in early jet design and actually introduced jet aircraft into the non-military world, but the early hulls would fail catastrophically after a certain, relatively low # of cycles, tearing the fuselage apart mid-flight and killing everyone on board. After several such incidents in short order, the entire fleet was grounded and scientists came up with solutions, but by then, the reputation of Comets was tarnished and Boeing came with a competing 707 model.

These days, the UK does not have a domestic jet manufacturer anymore.
Where are the 6 test cases? I only see one on the leetcode page, but I might be missing something.
> You can't take a vague dataset and then "correct" it like this without absolutely huge error bars.

That ship has already sailed; Tesla makes active safety claims based on that dataset. To hold research to your standard here would be to say that Tesla can make its claims, but nobody can challenge those claims.

> Why did they all push the results in one direction?

If you have two correction steps, then a priori you'd expect a 25% chance that they both act in the same direction. I don't think this is very remarkable.

> Why not gender?

This probably would be a reasonable addition. I doubt it would change the results much, but we have the well-known fact that insurance rates differ for men and women, so it may be relevant.

> Why not income?

First, is this data even generally available? If the data doesn't exist, then we can't control for it.

Second, should we expect crash rates per mile driven to differ greatly by owner/driver income? A priori, I wouldn't think this demographic quality to have a strong impact.

> Why not compare vs. like cars?

I think "personal vehicle" is a reasonable comparative category. Would we expect collision rates to differ greatly between more specific categorizations? For the sake of the overall conclusion, would we expect Tesla-equivalents to be particularly crash prone in the broad dataset?

Any statistical analysis will have its limitations, but when we're talking about life-safety claims from a manufacturer I think we should have wide latitude to look at critical evaluations of the original data.
I do not expect FSD to handle that. Nor would I consider it an explicit design goal.

However, I was just driving in my neighborhood in northern CA and saw conditions very much like that (I live next to a school and I was driving right when school let out).
At the request of German authorities...

Come on, nothing is black and white.

A big problem I've noticed is not that people assume that Russian, Chinese, etc news are propaganda and that these governments cannot be trusted, it's that they assume that Western news and governments are beyond reproach and don't play the same games.

"The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World He Didn’t Exist"
This is interesting. I have seen similar videos of Tesla self-driving successfully on similar type of streets in Seattle. I wonder if the quality of FSD changes from city to city based on how much data Tesla receives from other drives in that city. I guess I'm suggesting that Seattle could have more Tesla drivers than Boston. I have no idea if any of this is true. Just a thought.
* In fact, those "warranty void if removed" stickers you see on a lot of devices are flat out illegal. *

Totally unrelated to the matter at hand, but I wonder to what extent is lying illegal? Like, is it illegal to put such text on a sticker on your product, or is it only illegal to not fulfil a promise that is covered by warranty when the sticker is broken?
If he's saying "everything is worse now that buildings don't look like the Taj Mahal, and clothes don't look like traditional Chinese ceremonial robes", how does this translate into support for Western exceptionalism?

It seems to me like your postive example is a non-sequiter. I don't think Scott is arguing that it's impossible to make architecture that "moves the spirit" using modern design/construction. He's arguing that, for the vast majority of modern buildings, nobody is even trying to move the spirit. Even in cases where historically we would expect them to (major institutions, public art installations, large companies, rich people with large houses).

The question is, why do people with almost unlimited resources choose to build rectangular prisms of largely unadorned glass or concrete?

And your answer is (please correct me if I'm wrong), because modernists think it's better, and people generally agree even though they can't express this agreement in surveys?

What is your basis for believing this? And even if you engage with the literature on aesthetics in architecture, how do you find yourself siding with the modernists instead of the critics of modernism like Christopher Alexander and Nikos Salingaros? This is a serious question, I've been trying for a while to find a defense of modernist architecture that I can actually understand.
It appears to be redirecting me back to the original one: https://i.imgur.com/gbonKb9.png
Cold Comfort: The History of Automatic Climate Control
I'm talking about the ability to expose what would appear to be overexposed details in clouds while allowing shadows to be exposed to avoid details lost in the blacks. When color corrected, the highlights have the ability to be recovered to see the details back in the clouds. Just an example of a shot. If the exposure was too much for the clouds to be recovered, then the roll off in film looks much cleaner than just the clipping that occurs in digital.

Your reply comes off as if I don't know what I'm talking about which just isn't the case. I've already stipulated in a previous comment that modern digital is good enough for most everyone one but purists. So your audiophile comment implies to me you missed some salient details.
So the feature is useless in most european cities?
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One thing the Mac doesn't let me configure, even from the command line, is scroll wheel acceleration.

Sure, I can disable pointer acceleration, and I can change the overall scroll wheel speed, but I can't disable acceleration. I feel most comfortable with 1 scroll click being 3 lines of scrolling. It should ALWAYS be that way, no matter how fast I move the wheel. If I quickly flick the wheel and do 5 clicks, that should be 15 lines of scrolling. If I'm very slowly going click....click....click....each click should be 3 lines.

Instead, if I scroll quickly, each click might give 5 lines, and if I scroll slowly, each click is a pixel or two, and there's no option to disable this awful scroll acceleration behavior, even on the command line.
This seems the obvious answer. The replication crisis isn't about published material being wrong, it's about the inability to reproduce the results of experiments or studies in a repeatable fashion.

It's not like you make a hypothesis in math and then need to go away and interview a sample of 1,000 circles and report back that, controlling for ellipses that may be misreporting as circles, the ratio of the circumference to the diameter is 3.2 +/- 0.1 (p<0.05).
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why not turn the premise from the article around. Instead of suggesting that math might also have a replication crisis, why not question whether the whole replication crisis thing was overblown and effectively more of an ideological attack on a few disciplines.

Errors in science, disagreement and lack of reproducibility I think are common and prevalent but it doesn't necessarily imply that a discipline as a whole doesn't make progress. The obsession with statistical accuracy and 'science as bookkeeping' mentality seems fairly new to begin with, and science did just fine before we even had the means to verify every single thing ever published.

It kind if ignores the dynamic nature of science. Most of what is published probably has close to zero impact regardless of whether its right or wrong, but paradigm changing research generally asserts itself. Science is evolutionary in that sense, it's full of mistakes but stumbles towards correct solutions at uneven tempo. In a sense you can just look at it like VC investment. Nine times out of ten individual things don't work, but the sector overall works, the market economy is full of grifters and failed businesses, but it doesn't matter that much.

So, maybe half of math is bullshit but so is everything else but in math people just say "whatever" until they find something good, whereas in psychology people use it as an opportunity to hack away at it.
Debian stable repositories currently serve version 4.13.13.
Multiple security releases have been issued by samba since then: from 4.13.14 to the recent 4.13.17 which fixes CVE-2021-44142 [1].

It seems the current maintainer does not have any more time to work on the package [2].

[1] https://www.samba.org/samba/history/security.html

[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814382
https://archive.ph/6LZz5
Show HN: An Online Agenda for Students
I don't know if it's the scrolling per se, so much as the more general psychological relationship we have with phones whose hardware and OS are designed to tantalize and distract. The majority of our prior experiences on the device will have primed our brain for something antithetical to the long-term concentrative state that's necessary for deep comprehension. By the same token of the advice for insomniacs to reserve your bed strictly for sleep, there's value in having purpose-built objects instead of just a singular omnipotent slab of glass.
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> A different riddim (bookshelf), but great example of seeing the DJ at work on a riddim mix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyGhjR7CE3k

that's awesome. he's actually mixing! :D

as a vinyl DJ myself, i have to say mixing break beats is the most fun. you can really bounce rhythms around on the 2s and 4s, and the relative sparseness of the percussion lines lets you do some neat things by mixing in and out the highs and mids of two tracks while just playing the bass line of one.

fun stuff, and super cool story. thanks for the links!