skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biometrics are not a secret and they are very easily stolen and used in replay attacks. They are not revocable or changeable. You should never ever use biometrics as a core way of authentication. You can of course use it as an incremental additional signal.

It would have been good if they mentioned the vendors that failed the test and the sole one that succeeded the test.
Cards on the table first: I consider the stone faces in the Mori Art are genuine art.

My first point is this: humanity is part of Nature, so all art is ultimately created by Nature. Human-produced nature the process just involves raising a human at some point during the process.

Second point: Human artists don't live in a vacuum; all of them create through "imitation and recombination" of other art; "Great artists steal" and all that. The fact that an AI "recombines existing art" is an argument that makes it more like human-produced-art, not less.

Third is the time scales involved. Humans start producing art when they are 2 or 3 years old, and finish producing art when they die - let's say 80 years old. On the other hand, it takes nature thousands of years to produce one of those human-looking stone faces in the museum through geological processes alone. Considering the times involved, the human-produced option feels like "the shortcut", the cheap option. Using an AI to pump 100 works per second is just the obvious next step.

Finally, in the case of the Mori Art Museum, *someone* had to go through those rocks and decide "this one looks like a face" (throw into pile A) and "this one doesn't look like a face" (throw into pile B). That constitutes "Art", in the sense the Author is talking about - there was a consciousness and curation is a form of art on its own right.
Modern autos still have the overheating issue? Not an issue on road, becomes an issue offroad when your really pushing the vehicle
Yes, but without this information one can't arrive at the conclusion that it's OK to phase out https://old.reddit.com

The information you provided may not serve as a basis for such conclusion.
"I have constant pain in my hands, back and knees for my 10 years."

There are a bunch of industries out there where the pay is horrid and the skills required are high. EG: butcher, carpenter, chief, school teacher, most retail, auto mechanic, etc. I would want a high price for "knees".
Their complete bewilderment about the labor shortage and insistence that inflation was transitory suggests otherwise.
Yes, it's actually both of those things.

Primarily, the different settings they have. I've found a plugin that gets closer to their functionality: https://github.com/ahrm/chrome-fastread
If we can’t figure out a way to feasibly recycle them, we should make a huge catapult that can fling them into deep space towards a black hole. Only half joking.
Last time I tried Zola (about a year ago) it was not very clear how do you use and manage themes (GIT downloads in a sub-directory IIRC) and it was way too flexible for its own good IMO. What I mean is that you can determine directories and sub-directories for everything by yourself (I think?).

In general I liked Zola but I found it hard to work with. I really wanted to set a few metadata fields, pick and apply a theme, put a few meta-pages (like blog index), write 3 articles and be done with it. And it didn't serve me well for that.

Have you considered writing a guide for how did you setup your Zola blog? I'd read and try it.
> That would be great ... if human interactions happened in a vacuum then sure, nothing matters. But that is not how humans work. Every interaction matters, every interaction affects our brains, affects what we think is right and wrong.

That is reality, not ideology. That is precisely the point I am making, actions have consequences.

Please point out __which__ part of my comment is ideologically fueled, because I see just facts.

Maybe you will grow up some day, probably not.
Getting really annoying to have to keep track of macro events affecting my life year after year instead of just being able to live a normal peaceful life.
I’d like to see the evidence of this. I can imagine that maybe wearing a helmet gives a false sense of security, and therefore leads to a bit more recklessness. Still, I’d bet that even if you have more accidents when wearing a helmet, you have fewer deaths.
So what you're saying is that your reply isn't a yes/no it's more in-depth?

I'm not seeking a yes/no answer. I'm seeking opinions of what people think not just about the idea, but the issue at hand with instagram without censorship or complex policies.
Almost everywhere in the US is at will so there’s likely no successful lawsuit in the situation you describe.

Sadly, it’s likely the first driver who dies without a helmet will result in their family filing a giant lawsuit. But that payout will be paid by insurance that is probably already factoring in the probability of such a payout.
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/46/1/278/2617198

> Bicycle helmet use was associated with reduced odds of head injury, serious head injury, facial injury and fatal head injury. The reduction was greater for serious or fatal head injury. Neck injury was rare and not associated with helmet use. These results support the use of strategies to increase the uptake of bicycle helmets as part of a comprehensive cycling safety plan.

OK, let's see your data!
Their approach seems different. SolveSpace is interactive-oriented (similar to most CAD programs) whereas OSCAD is code-oriented. Depending on what someone is doing guess they're complementary?
I was very close to switching from a safe-but-boring FAANG type job to a slightly more exciting but very wary stage startup. While there were a few other signals that it might not be the right place for me, the biggest factor was that I wasn’t confident in the company’s ability to survive the next two years, for the exact same reasons the author outlines in that post: tightened money supply spells doom for startups founded when money was flowing freely, especially if they haven’t found a good market fit yet.
Can you cite any of those studies? Is this one of those things where studies count the accidents reported for each group without controlling for population size?

I ask because there are “studies” that show there are more skiing accidents with helmets than without, but anyone who has spent a day at a ski hill can tell why that is: the vast, vast majority of people are wearing helmets. Throw a rock into a crowd of skiers and you’ll probably hit someone with a helmet. Does that mean helmets attract rocks?

Assuming their accident rates are anywhere in the same ballpark, accidents will involve more helmet wearers by a significant margin just because they outnumber non-helmet wearers.
One drives the other.
The stone faces themselves are not art, but the collection of stone faces is art. It's not just a random sample of stones.

In the same way that particles of pigment are not art, but clusters of pigment spread on a canvas is a painting.
Any recommendations on where to get started to understand the idea behind it, where it’s used and how to approach typical problems?
I wonder if this project had some bearing on NASA later publishing the infamous “Power of 10” rules https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Dev...

> Lisp also has automatic memory management. “It’s just so much faster and easier to get things done when the language you’re using provides you with some of these high level abstractions

While the story is rooting for Lisp, it concretely demonstrates why using a garbage collected high level scripting language is dangerous for embedded devices operating remotely.

It’s true in my experience that Lisp and other languages like Python and JavaScript are faster to develop in, and I’d even go so far as to say more fun, but they hide too many things from the programmer (which is precisely why they’re fast & fun to use). The Power of Ten seems to be centered on the idea that the code should be so simple that you can understand the complete operation and effect on the system of every single line.
I'm glad Google didn't let this through. I wish they'd go a step further, though, and make it a CDD requirement that this change isn't there, since otherwise, all Xiaomi phones will end up with it anyway.
For an updated treatment of the same topic, I'd recommend Robert Sapolsky:

Robert Sapolsky Lectures On The Biology of Stress

Science Now | 24 videos | Updated 10 months ago

https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=PLQyYB9LxK3ALwsfc6pssu0LJGafj...
This seems to be to say that they've found a way to make a single quanta of magnet that works at room temperature. Without a subscription, I can't tell if the direction of the field is somehow locked to the substrate, as I would expect, or not.

I wonder if this can somehow be used as an equivalent to a Josephson junction. I also wonder if it can have a superposition of states.
Reality is the public couldn’t handle the facts.

When scientists in the U.K. started talking about herd immunity - the only way out of a pandemic - people went nuts and they quickly had to stop using the term and start reassuring more than informing.

Average pandemic is about four years, not much has changed. They just had to keep people going at the time.
No-Code Paywalls on Notion via Monetized
This seems to have worked pretty well with the "core return" system on used 12V batteries for ICE vehicles. Even with a pretty small (usually $15-20 in my experience) financial incentive, people do tend to bring them in.
5 minute walk to the store means 10 round trip, let's say 25 total with your other numbers (although I think your aisles estimate is an overestimate given it should scale by how much stuff you are getting), then multiplying by 14 as the person I was replying to says they go daily and I go biweekly and I save ~5 hours per biweekly large trip I go on.
You're talking about widening your attack surface as wide as physically possible (no virtual devices yet). Now you need to ensure every device that can see the internet is perfectly impenetrable. How feasible you think that is?
There are other huge differences though, right? In the second half of the 40s the US had a giant manufacturing economy whereas the rest of the world's manufacturing output was devastated by the war. I'm not an expert in this area but had the impression that it was this imbalance between the US and the rest of the world that played a huge part in our hegemonic success following that period, so I'm not sure what the purpose of comparing to that period would be, you wouldn't seem to be able to meaningfully extrapolate anything about the future out of it.
Models can produce out-of-distribution results if you push them. The results won't necessarily be good, but describing it as an average, suggesting that it'll always be inside the some tight hull of the training set is misleading.
Also note that averages can actually be highly unusual results if you're working with N-modal data, if you have a training set of horses and unicorns then you can get unusually short horns or other weirdness like horn-looking hair decorations.

Just look at the avocado chair or dogball.
I'm not interested in debating this topic yet again. Photography, movies, radio shows, TV, video games, digital photography, self-published books, online personas acted out in real time. Whatever it is, if it's new (and people are still figuring it out) it's supposedly "not art" until the critics die and nobody remembers them and all we're left with is people making shit and other people finding some kind of connection to it.

Even the rocks example sucks. No, no conscious person carved that rock. But a person did pass over thousands, millions of other rocks to select that particular rock and ascribe meaning to it. How is that different than an artist who shoots hundreds, thousands of photos, and picks the one that is "good"? The one that they will then stamp approval in and say “this is what I want to say"? It's not.

Whatever, dude. You do you. You'll be dead soon enough.
I cant tell if youre joking or not because I sorta do think it is all a scam. I think the stock market is a way to keep the sociopaths doing something less dangerous than continuous war and insurrection. Whether intentionally or not, I think that's it's primary value.

It basically magnifies wealth discrepancy which is what the sociopaths want. The rest of us just try not to become poor by playing their games. Whenever everyone gets too close to fair, they invent a new game, or take the ball and go home. You know? I'm only sort of kidding. :D
Git alternative that works with GitHub but isn't git
kagi.com is the best of the new searches that I've tried. My only reservation is that the planned cost when they start charging is more than I want to spend, but in the meantime, I'm really enjoying the search. It's the first non-google search engine where I'm not using !g or equivalent 20% of the time.
A great example of this circumvention is Texas permitting civil cases to target individuals that get abortions, because their criminal laws got stomped as unconstitutional.
I use the wappalyzer chrome extension almost everyday when I'm browsing the web, pretty useful at getting a highlevel view of the tech used
Right, but there is exactly one outcome with all heads, and there are at least millions of combinations with 50% heads and 50% tails.

To make it more obvious, let's take just 4 flips. There is exactly one combination with 4 heads:

HHHH

Whereas all the following will give you 2 heads and 2 tails:

HHTT
HTHT
HTTH
THHT
THTH
TTHH

So you're 6x more likely to get 50% heads/tails than 100% heads. Scale that up to 30; the chances of getting 15 heads and 15 tails is not the most common thing but not unusual. The chances of getting all heads is quite rare -- if every human on earth did this test, we'd expect around 7 such instances total.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/245475107?storyId=245475107

If you are convicted of vehicular manslaughter, you are very likely going to serve time.

However, if you hit and kill and cyclist in the US, you are not likely to be charged with vehicular manslaughter, so long as you were sober and weren’t actively trying to hit them.
Indeed the researcher was his own test subject.
My insight, from watching many movies about what a fulfilled life looks like, is to keep learning new things:
https://moviewise.substack.com/p/going-through-an-existentia...
And the examples cited here in this article show the major problem with this dumbed-down electorate that seems to be catered to. Of the four points given in the example candidate that is being sought two of them are in
innate qualities that the candidate would have no control over, one is a religious affiliation which may or may not actually affect how the candidate legislatively decides issues, and finally we have one policy issue.

This seems like a major problem to me. Shouldn't all points for considering a candidate be how they would react and vote on policy issues. They are supposed to be a Representatives after all. Your race and gender mean nothing if the policies you support aren't the ones that your electorate want supported. Maybe no one's paid attention but people of the same race and gender can support different policy positions. Selection of a representative based on race and gender seem to be a big step backwards for the idea of universal equality.
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It's possible to describe some of these tokens as lotteries or games of chance as well; people have been buying negative-expected-value lottery tickets for decades now and it's mostly treated as normal.
All the things I’ve read about passive funds have pointed in the same general direction. I can completely buy the reasoning but I worry I’m missing part of the point, which brings me to my question.

In a scenario where passive funds are the best investment vehicle when looking at long term returns, what’s the role of buying and/or trading individual stocks?

Are there cases in which you’d prefer stocks over funds?

I’ve got some Netflix, Microsoft and Apple stock which I plan to keep for the long term. I could never figure out if that money would’ve been better spent as a fund purchase.

What trips me up is stocks tend to lead to bigger earnings (when things go right) and companies like Apple are almost certainly going to remain valuable for a long time.

What am I missing?

Edit: this has been a recurring theme in discussions I’ve had with my dad (who’s a financial advisor, ironically). I’ve pointed out to him that passive funds seem better but he keeps wanting to put my money into stocks, active funds or sometimes narrow, low(er) cost managed funds (e.g. biomedicine and robotics stuff).
I learned a tremendous amount from early computer advertising in the pre-internet days. Companies had to do more education back then in order to sell these products, which were not widely understood or available.
3D graphics especially interactive interfaces is still far too complicated, presently needing to be build over layer upon layer of libraries and toolkits. I think a simpler approach will be a good thing to have for developers.
Is WFH actually more productive? I've heard conflicting reports, but haven't seen any data.
This is the truth. What people do not understand is that interest rates will have to rise above inflation for in inflation to slow down. I assume the FED is trying to figure out how much inflation is caused by the money supply and how much is caused by supply chain issues. But too me this means even more trouble because they are waiting when there was obvious asset inflation well before the supply chain issues.

IMHO, we will not see a recession, we already are in a recession. What we will see a depression.
It's hot this week in france and I had very poor sleep.

I have been thinking to move into the mountain, in a city where the weather is much cooler in the summer.
There have been nearly no investment on energy storage in our history (for very obvious reasons). Thus, any such report done with information collected by looking at history is prone to be completely wrong.

(And yes, we are going to need a lot of storage. On amounts close to 1/3 of our daily generation capacity. We also need some long-term and transportable solutions. And yes, there are currently no options on the market, for very obvious reasons. All of those can be done.)
my personal theory is that active management can still produce market-beating returns but the good active managers will rapidly grow their capital base to huge levels where they don't need much outside investment.

On the other hand - now we have a situation where most investment savings by individual investors are tracking passive indexes. But if everyone is indexing - what determines the relative weight of each stock in the index?

The answer is active investors. But with an increasingly smaller field of increasingly skilled investors (with more discretionary capital), we end up with the valuations of companies (and thus how societal time is allocated) competitively determined by a fierce prediction competition between the top active managers (Renaissance, DE Shaw, Citadel, etc).
Yes, it is. One of the biggest providers is called GoGo who in turn use satellites from SES. My comment about satellite was that I've also worked in very remote places using much poorer links and HN still works, amazingly.
Same statistic for motorcycles. You are more likely to be injured in a crash if you wear a helmet.

Because otherwise you go in the dead column.
In the Netherlands and several other European countries, there is presumed/strict liability on the part of the automobile driver. Regardless of fault, a car driver has responsibility for any accident between their car and a bicycle. There is of course more nuance to this, but that's the basic overlying principle.

A joke I heard a few times was "If a bike fell out of the air onto a parked car, the car owner is going to court."
Target shocked investors because not only did they suffer from rising costs due to inflation that they are currently subsidizing by not meaningfully raising prices but because they reported rising inventory in discretionary spending categories as consumers pull back likely due to higher prices they are facing nearly everywhere.

This has more to due to impact of inflation and less so just a function of a dividend and rates.
My guess is very few people are willing to go back to pre-A/C days. Especially in automobiles. And any attempt to persuade people to give them up is going to be met with forceful pushback. It's now a luxury few will be willing to give up.
There’s a morbid joke in the U.S.: if you want to kill someone, do it while they’re riding a bicycle.

Certainly the perception is that drivers don’t face jail time in such a situation.
On Structural Advantage
Employment and wages are lagging indicators, which is why folks are worried.
A fun take on this - https://moforgeries.org/
That can’t possibly be true, right? GDP plummeted and employment is high, so productivity can’t have increased…
Half way around the world, actually :) In Bucharest, Romania.

Where we live now the super-market is oftentimes closer to our building’s entrance compared to where I park our car (the supermarket is obviously always in the same place, but the parking location is variable from day to day, depending on luck). Even at the place where we staid before this, the tram station was just across the street, so it was doable to get out of work, pass by the supermarket, get in the tram, home.

As I now work from home (since even before the pandemic) I value the shopping and the interaction with the supermarket’s cashiers for itself, not quite like in a Shop Around the Corner way but, nevertheless, it kind of builds some “community”-like vibe.

I also do the shopping for our two pets by walking to the pet-shop myself, it’s a 15-20 minute walk each way I’d say. It would be a little cheaper to buy their food online, in bulk, and would “save” that time that I spend walking to and back from the shop, but, like mentioned above, buying food for our pets while talking with the pet-food cashier about what new pet treats they have brought in or some other stuff like that is an experience that I value for itself.
Fair is fair: capital is what builds economies, capital wins wars, capital allows culture to form, capital makes resources available. And capital will go where it is best protected.

So a country that lets it's capital get destroyed is pretty much fucked.

This is the fundamental issue with most forms of communism, socialism and theocracy: they're perpetually short of capital.

Places like Northern Europe work very hard to simultaneously protect capital and human assets. And that's good. And we should emulate that. But all to often people try to down grade capital instead of upgrading people.

The places people so often think of as alternatives (Venezuela as a recent example) all too often fall for this error and doom themselves.
Look left, look right. It appears so.
Even Walmart has begun to have “half sized” carts which are much more manageable - especially as compared to the double-wide SUVs you find at Costco.

I wonder if someone could correlate shopping cart size to average purchase size.
I like talking to people in the checkout line. The lady who checked me out today grew up in the same tiny town my parents retired to, 7 hours from here. Just learned that today. Plus, the UX of self checkout systems generally sucks to the extent that it makes me angry when I use it, and I'd rather feel better at the end of a transaction than worse.