skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hooking on this, for someone like me who'd like to start DIY maintain my car but have just about zero experience with cars (but generally handy), what are some great resources I can trust to give me accurate information about how to go about it?

Edit: in case it matters, the car I have is a Audi from 2019.
Big discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30611859
It seems wield. There are people being killed around the world every day. Why only Ukraine but not vitims of other invasions?
Probably isn't the best idea to compare AVIF to JPEG. JPEG is better suited to high fidelity images, while AVIF is ideal for making the image look good as small as it can.

I suggest looking into JPEG XL for things like photography, scans, etc.
I have honestly no idea how Bismarck ended up with a sometimes that bad reputation. It was Bismarck's system Alliances that kept peace in Europe for a tremendously long time, it also prevented, through complex, overlapping defensive agreements between all major European powers a war like WW1. Under Bismarck's system, basically any party starting such a war would be isolated without allies. Wilhelm II changed that, first kicking Bismarck out and then by re-negotiating those alliances in a way that created the blocks that would turn into the Central Powers and the Entente during WW1, the Axis and Allies, in Europe at least, largely formed along these lines as well.

Bismarck kind of saw that coming, to me it seems he did what he could to prevent it. That Bismarck was also a true Prussian conservative, and that wars still broke out during his time doesn't prove any of the above wrong.
If you went through five pages and didn’t see any, that’s on you. I just quickly flicked through and saw some about Rust, GDScript and C++.
Because we had more 30 years ago and people are still alive who were born then. It's not necessarily important what we're doing right now, but you need to start by acknowledging how much better it is now than in 1990.

It's also good to compare to our neighbors south of us rather than across the ocean - we have a lot in common with them too and too often forget that.
I don't agree. I'm perfectly happy seeing their internal metrics.

I remember one night a long time ago while working at Google, I was trying a new approach for loading some data involving an external system. To get the performance I needed, I was going to be making a lot of requests to that service, and I was a little concerned about overloading it. I ran my job and opened up that service's monitoring console, poked around, and determined that I was in fact overloading it. I sent them an email and they added some additional replicas for me.

Now I live in the world of the cloud where I pay $100 per X requests to some service, and they won't even tell me if the errors it's returning are their fault or my fault? Not acceptable.
I see a lot of posters saying they don't like the algo feed, but I prefer it. When I launch twitter, I really want to see what's going on, what I've missed and what the current popular posts are. I follow hundreds of accounts, and if I were to go through it all in rev chron order, it would take hours.
NATO – Russia using Belarus as a launch-point for Air-Operations against Ukraine
But I'd assume that license wouldn't be an easy thing to get. So it would be rich companies getting it.

It would price innovation out of the market.

Also, not sure what you mean by weak encryption. An average attacker now has access to decrypting tools out of the box (with a few Linux distros) so wep isn't stopping anyone really. Even noobs can be trained to crack with an hour of youtube.
Why would they show Russian information about the war when you search for Midterm elections?

The issue is that they are introducing a manual intervention in the algorithm out of political motives.

They are not automatically a great authority on correctness of information regarding the war. I don't think DDG has investigators on the ground in Ukraine.

Of course ultimately all search engines will apply some criteria for correctness or relevance of information. Maybe we should applaud DDG for at least being transparent about it.

So in the end presumably you have to pick the search engine just like you pick your other news sources.

It is just a pity that DDG previously advertised itself as "unbiased", and now they throw that goal out of the window.

Still it feels like the search engine feeding me results that they want me to find, not the ones that I most likely would want to find.
I just taught a module on Tensors in one of my physics courses. The mistake lots of people make is not show examples of matrices that are not tensors. But this is really difficult to do in physics courses because all physics matrix-like-objects must be tensors. Any theory that has non-tensor like objects in it will necessarily fail as soon as you change your coordinate system.

Thankfully, there is a great historical example of this. The electric field vector \vec{E} = (E_x, E_y, E_z), is not a tensor. It doesn't obey the tensor-transformation law. Similarly, the magnetic field vector is not a tensor. These are matrices, but not tensors.

As you know the Electromagnetic tensor [1] is the tensor that correctly transforms under coordinate transformation, and hence allows different observers to agree with each other.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_tensor
You want to keep the higher paid staff more than the lower paid staff. That’s why you pay them more.

Which staff you want to retain depends on a lot of things other than seniority and pay, but that's not the point. More senior staff are already being paid more.

Let's reframe this problem slightly. Imagine you have two people, one on 100k and the other on 500k. The difference in 'value' is measured as 400k. If you give both of them 5% raises, so one is 105k and the other is on 525k, the difference in value is now 420k. Why has the pay differential between junior and senior staff increased by 20k now? If you don't fix it, over a couple of decades you're going to be paying your junior staff an order of magnitude less than the seniors. How do you justify that?

Here's another example. Imagine there's a company where seniors are paid slightly different amounts despite doing the same work. One is on 200k and another is on 180k. If you give both of them 5% that's really giving the higher paid one 1k more (10k vs 9k). You can't claim that it's fair to give someone a bigger pay rise on the basis that they already earn more. That makes no sense.

Blanket percentage-based pay rises don't work. Companies should be more intelligent and work out more nuanced solutions.
Azov is big in propaganda due to being one of the first in the door among volunteer militia, and being... well, Azov. It's telling however that the closest thing to a parent organisation pretty much lost all political gains it made since Euromaidan (they now have 1 single-vote region in last election, an election won by ethnically russian jew who speaks russian with family) and even just after Euromaidan they were rebuffed in various escapades even by government, despite the desperation of early war.
Are We The Baddies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOpPNra4bw

2 mins of hate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4zYlOU7Fpk
Related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZEX_l0DFK0
Opt-in vs opt-out is a huge psychological difference.

Opt-out organ donation has like 90+% of the population, while opt-in only around 10%. You can believe how much of a difference does that mean.
Yes, mass refugee movements are laden with problems.
I think GP was referring to something like that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZEX_l0DFK0
I like having late sunsets.
I meant of the situation now. He's literally exiled in Russia when he could have been working to protect us against Russia.
I can't speak for this individual, but when kids are involved, it's normal to get tested and confirm, yes, you've gotten infected with influenza.

A year pre-covid my whole family (kids first) got the flu. Viral test confirmed one kid got two strains in succession ("A" and "B").

Its sudden onset, sudden remission, total body exhaustion, lack of my traditional cold symptoms, etc. made it very obviously different from any cold I'd had. Previous to that, I thought "the flu" was some strong "the common cold". Or just a word for arbitrary viral infection (e.g. "stomach flu").

I understand "the flu" has an ambiguous meaning now in English, but I'll certainly recognize that kind of infection again.
>in the context of the Ukraine invasion
As this is done at very low level, it is hard to make a routine that can write to the screen at any possible graphics mode, and without the OS knowing (i.e. the message could disappear as soon as it appears because it would have been overwritten). Given that there are no specific LEDs to indicate those kind of faults, they probably came out with this creative way of using the PC speaker (something rarely used by the OS/applications, reducing a lot the risk of interference). For clarification, this is the internal PC speaker controlled by one of the motherboard chipset timers. It can only play square waves. To play an audio message, custom additional hardware would be needed on the motherboard...
Yin Yang of AI
In theory I would like this feature for discovery, but the signal to noise ratio for me is terrible, I have tried to use it, blocking 20 topics and it's still a poor experience for me. I could well be an outlier for this feature.
Closer to the original than WebP too. Thats pretty damn good.

I wonder if machine learning/deep-fake technology has created even better compression algorithms.
> This seems entirely reasonable to me, and if I want to see the rest, I can just keep scrolling.

If only that were actually so!

Back when I still bothered using twitter, I only followed a few friends, and read every single tweet, and yet the algorithmic feed seemed to make me entirely miss some. Not sure how that occured exactly, whether it was outright dropping them or making them difficult to find by pushing below older ones I've 'already read' and would stop scrolling on. Either way, as someone who indeed tried to just read everything, the default feed is a mess.

The other fundamental problem was that when people made references to some discussion or event, the out-of-order timeline made it impossible to follow what was happening.

I totally respect that some people just like the default feed, but for some of us it's completely unusable. It would not hurt you at all if the simple chronological timeline was an optional feature, but it does hurt me that it isn't.
The question is: who chooses the topic?
In Google, the default results of the search engine can be circumvented by adding keywords to force the search algorithm to follow your thoughts.
In Twitter, well...
You hope Twitter won't be evil.
[Guess what? It eventually will]
Just use Twitter's lists. I've been using them for a long time.

I added to one of my lists only the accounts that I really want to see on my feed (no old school friends, acquaintances, nor random people that some of the accounts I follow just started following: only sources with added value).

The result? Open your list, and you'll see all the tweets sorted chronologically, only from the accounts you really care to follow.

The quality of the time I spend on Twitter has dramatically increased since this change. No more time wasted scrolling through whatever irrelevant tweets the platform wants me to see. Twitter for me has basically become like an RSS feed aggregator with a curated list of sources to follow, reported in chronological order. And that's exactly what I wanted. Fck their algorithmic sht: I know better than them what I want to read.
So you want an aggregate newsletter with the top posts of the last X days in your email and then a link to substack? What part of that experience isn't possible on the web?
PB&J is a sandwich. This is not in dispute.
Is there a possibility that US released covid-19 to blame China?
I interpreted the “even” there as in contrast to current times.
WebKit already supports AVIF directly, but Safari disables that and relies on macOS’s image decoders, which currently don’t.[1] I imagine it’ll arrive at some point.

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207750#c25
What a bold government, what will be western's response? other than "wanting to have chip plants" by subsidizing Intel?

That kind of investments starts at the education level, Taiwan is placing the best bet so far
I understand the point being made, but this is solved trivially by including a published date, eg:
Best $product - published $exact_date

(or alternatively, instead of "published" use "updated").

This has the added benefit that those searching for $product towards the end of a year can decide whether such lists published/updated near the beginning of the year are relevant or not.
Sounds like this: https://youtu.be/QrYK7eOE5R8
This is the same price in Tesco, and it's the cheapest they have. They aren't cheating on the filling though, it's even.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/260255657

https://www.allsandwiches.com/tesco-just-ham-sandwich-review
Governments already have all that power with existing non-cash money. You can't really use cash for buying things online, but still drugs get sold online
But they define dangerous content as anything right leaning, and lack of moderation as lack of deletion of said content.
I feel like these have gotten better over time. The pitch used to be that your ISP was spying on you, now the pitch is that you can pretend to be in a different country. That's closer to the truth. (But of course, everyone has the list of VPN exit nodes and just blocks them. I wonder if any of these VPN services are actually peer to peer, so that your IP is an exit address for people that want to pretend to be in your country. The legal liability sounds staggering, but I guess that's why you set up your company in some country that doesn't care, accept crypto for payments, and hope for the best.)
And lost his VPN ad deals. There was no better way to confirm his narrative than to pull out.
Never doubted for a second that HHGG would be represented.

There are many great lines, here's another one I've always liked:

"In the beginning, the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
Why do your kids eat breakfast? Do they want to?
Interesting, thanks for the suggestion. Is there an easy way to create a list with everybody I follow?
I've had this issue too. My iPad pro is generally within 4 foot of an airtag which is attached to my keys. During the day I don't see any real battery drain however during the night it seems to be draining the battery at an accelerated rate.

I'd wake up and check it within the battery info section to see Find My using 90%+ of the battery over the last 24hrs.

I now have a shortcut setup to disable bluetooth on the iPad from midnight > 7am. Find my usage drops all the way down to <2% and battery drain is very minimal - if I leave bluetooth on overnight it jumps all the way back up and drains approx 40-60% of the battery overnight.
Quite impressive demo.
If it was aspirational reading people wouldn't pay so much for it.
See this for the process used to make "toast" bread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process
AlphaGo is local search guided by a learned heuristic, which is trained in a simulator of the game. The heuristic learns an approximation of the value of moves and board states, and is analogous to the "compute_cost_of_tour()" routine in TSP algorithms.

In the basic TSP (for example) there is no other data to learn from than "distances" between vertices, and anything learned from a single instance of the problem amounts to overfitting. This might still be useful - for example learning efficient sub-paths on a fixed map, rather than searching for them every time.

Self-organized maps can be used as a neural approach to find TSP solutions; in these cases the network itself is the optimized solution. Think of it as ~gradient-descent~ optimization for TSP. Not sure if it is relevant in benchmarks. (I think it might amount to minimizing the sum squared distance between hops (or a bound on that), not the total length of tour. It favours many shorter hops over a few long hops.)

(If you want time-window constraints in LKH, IIRC, you can try adding the time-diff as penalties to your global cost function.)
Sometimes the point of a technology is not its direct utility but to
carry forth or promote an idea.

Because of what's happening with climate, pollution and e-waste, the
future is modular. Modular phones, computers, cars and even nuclear
reactors.

Having this kind of thing in schools helps kids get used to the idea
that technology is configurable at the physical level without
electronics skills.

Strong interoperability legislation should be a part of technology
going forward. Industry will welcome and adapt to it because it's
ultimately a better compromise than tougher regulation and export
controls.
Isn't onigiri meant to be most of rice? Can't say the same for sandwiches.
How is the war in Ukraine affecting the country’s tech workers?
They think that is possible to wear Russia down that Putin decides to quit.

Even the US could not win in Vietnam and Afghanistan but not because these countries had objectively stronger militaries.
Blocking domains for search results?

I understand why I need a sign up to use Search, so they at least can have a subscription model - but that seems like a barrier for entry and also the necessity to instill a lot of faith into a product that hasn't garnered trust (yet, rightfully so)
When you say not reported do you mean other than CNN, MSNBC, Fox News?
> of being a market

of _having_ a market. Not all art is put forth, sought after, or marketable.

And it's the same for science. With how academia/publishing/industries works now, there is a market for science too. But not all of it either.
Tell that to the police, who target the working class with crimes like loitering, jaywalking, or "driving on a suspended license" (inability to keep up with court fine on top of court fine)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/04/coronavirus-ne...
There is also a good review in the Financial Times which emphasises Stalin being well read. My favourite was 'On a book about the English Civil War, he made a mark comparing the Puritan chaplains of Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army with the political commissars of the Soviet Red Army.' This is apparently a popular comparison and Putin is a Cromwell fan too.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/af83a4c8-966... (amp link hopefully avoids paywall) and https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/stalin-hitler-and-cromwell-a... for a Stalin/Cromwell comparison.
Well, for Lithuania is personal. I can't blame them for not wanting to support their own destruction falling in a 'Donbas trap'
The Conti Startup
Check Point Research combing through the Conti leak and extract org structure and modus operandi of this cyber crime group which is actually a start-up company
https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g
The book is a Kunstlerroman. It tracks his development from infancy to adulthood. I admit the first part of the book isn't nearly as interesting as the later parts. It's still my favorite novel ever, and I'm convinced Joyce might be the greatest English writer.
You don't ever own an electric vehicle
Last year, I throw some significant amount of time, energy, and dev focus to get into this; on the basis that I _wanted_ Mastodon to be a successful thing. To be specific, I've first spent around 2 weeks for "searching"/browsing (there's no search, only tags :/ ), seeking out acquaintances, and looking for topics/servers that would tickle my curiosity/insight senses.

There were none for me.

So, given that mastodon is large, and federated, surely the problem is with me right? So, I said fuck it, let's break out the API. I wrote a scraper, seeded with a few least-bad people's profile, programmed it to pull the last ~32 toots & add all connections of the user to scrape breadth-first to get a wide array of perspectives. ~150 servers & 50,000 toots. I then took my general keyword list (~150 items, representing majority of my interests in both layman and technical terms) that I use to evaluate social networks, and search engines, and crunched through the toots.

Results: deep technical terms have accidental hits, generally used either in different context; or scratching almost none of the surface.
Wide terms generally pull very low signal, from the general vicinity of conspiracy theories/how bad twitter is/crypto/mastodon is great.

I'd really really would prefer to actually use Mastodon, but

1, the features they offer optimizes against it's own usage (lack of search, lack of discoverability; you can call this positive change, but again, it optimizes against onboarding & finding interesting stuff)

2, because it's federated, there's no-one dedicated to acquiring people who have better use of their time, and

3, the people who are in there, do not, currently, would lead me to level up in directions I care about.

Mastodon represents a set of preferences, and I'm happy for you that it seems to be aligning with yours; it does not aligns with mine, is all I'm saying.
> a good test of when social networks turn the corner and become evil is

... when they are created.

Social networks are inherently evil, that's their business model: manipulate users into addiction and serve ads.

How do non-evil social networks look like? They're forums, plain old forums.

But you don't become an ultra trillionaire with PhpBB.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309645
https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-28309645 :

Re: Phonemic awareness and Phonological awareness,

> What are some of the more evidence-based (?) (early literacy,) reading curricula? OTOH: LETRS, Heggerty, PAL:

> Which traversals of a curriculum graph are optimal or sufficient?

> You can add https://schema.org/about and https://schema.org/educationalAlignment Linked Data to your [#OER] curriculum resources to increase discoverability, reusability.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24527589
https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-24527589 :

>> A bottom-up (topologically sorted) computer science curriculum (a depth-first traversal of a Thing graph) ontology would be a great teaching resource.

>> One could start with e.g. "Outline of Computer Science", add concept dependency edges, and then topologically (and alphabetically or chronologically) sort.

>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_computer_science

>> There are many potential starting points and traversals toward specialization for such a curriculum graph of schema:Things/skos:Concepts with URIs.

> https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/ ... Ctrl-F "interview", "curriculum"

OpenBadges as Blockcerts for Q12 competencies
https://archive.ph/2022.03.11-084325/https://sifted.eu/artic...
"Sorry only because we got caught, and only because it looks like enough people care".
Krita UI Redesign v0.5 alpha released, requesting feedback
There's different types of equity that you need to use to frame your answer. Nonvoting equity is colloquially not seen as diluting your ownership because you retain the reigns. How to actually try to set such a thing up, especially when you're still private but wanting to transition to public, is extremely useful to founders and something I've not managed to find good information on myself.

A bunch of older threads on here went down the path of "you're going to get fleeced by your VC, just accept it because they have infinite lawyers."