skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Democratic' jackdaws use noise to make decisions
Amazing! Love it so much. My brain was running wild with possibilities (like having an autocomplete from the corpus, live audio only previews, and the above)

I didn't realise there was a github! You should add a link to your tutorial

https://github.com/antiboredom/videogrep

If I have the time I'll see how I go dipping my toes in the code.
That is okay for a business
Another reason this might be news-worth is if the rate of Tesla fires suddenly rose. I didn't look at any numbers and I suspect the number didn't suddenly change. Just trying to point out that ICE fires aren't the only baseline to compare to.
Is there still the dead-zone just north of Sand Hill Road on 280? (I "remember" a dead-zone in Portola Valley and/or Woodside.)

For those of you outside Silicon Valley, yes, that Sand Hill Road. Interstate 280 is the best access (driving through/around Stanford is a pain).

That said, dead-zones can be convenient excuses.
Abortion

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ft_20...

Maternity

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/03/23/america...

Wage

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/22/most-americ...
I am highly dubious that it would be possible to manage 100k servers, specially to do interactions with large numbers at a time. The way tower collects results in a thread pool, assuming success, simply does not work at any scale. I tried and tried. I fixed many bugs and got to about 4000 hosts before changing to another platform.

If almost every server is reliable, I am sure it would work fine. That is not going to happen at scale.
It's just like the rebellious web designs of the 90s, where 1.5 mb Flash splash screens wouldn't load on broadband.
I suggest you take a look at parser combinators. They are quite readable compared to regexes
All DeFis are just very expensive bug bounty programs.
I think virtualized rendering might be the future both for privacy and security. MS has (had?) Appguard with edge for example, although it wasn't for privacy. Hardware enforced boundaries.

Although, ultimately my opinion is this is a legal problem. The entities that are a threat to my privacy that also use fingerprinting operate within the boundaries of criminal law.
Common sense skeptic is a "hit channel" dedicated to producing and monetizing anti-Musk-related fake news. He has a captured market in a similar vein to anti-vaccine propaganda. So you should watch anything produced by him with that idea in mind.

The videos produced as a general rule will cherry pick information and also use outdated pieces of information and then mash them together to produce the illusion of something being much worse than it is.
I thought that too until I (as a former/current BMW driver) saw how many new BMWs burned down. What I found most interesting is how e.g the Korea recall did not even register on any of our German newspapers or news agency in any way comparable to Tesla (there where some really small footnotes to be fair)

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/14/news/companies/bmw-korea-fi...

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/bmw-mystery-fires-abc-news-i...
Maybe not draw, but we can do an image search for "chess puzzle mate in 4" which gives plenty of results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=chess+puzzle+mate+in+4&tbm=i...

It would be surprising if AI couldn't do the same search and produce a realistic drawing out of any one of the result puzzles.
I can't help but put on my PM hat and say well this is almost certainly a statistical artifact, but they should probably take a closer look at the last software update.
You surmised right, though I adore Nim's particular implementation of it compared to the times I've attempted it in, say, Javascript :)

Parsing expression grammars are easily one of my favourite tools. Honestly, I find them superior to regexes.
Not so much in this sense, but it was absolutely very handy to be able to do remote dev when my company wouldn’t give me a new (higher spec) laptop, but did allow me to create anything I wanted in AWS.

The only huge negative was that IntelliJ doesn’t have such a great remote story, so I had to switch to VS Code.
I usually search for things like "price", "costs", "check for service" etc. Things that indicate "this is where you find the price". Hiding it behind the "order" button is just silly because I'm not going to order before I know how much it costs!
On the prices, I haven't heard much optimistic news, the last I heard was at best, parity with current lithium ion prices:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...

But that was five years ago, and as a manufactured product perhaps they can achieve better pricing over time.

Lithium ion has no disadvantages for stationary storage, and it has one absolutely massive advantage: there are lots of higher-margin uses driving production scales up, and manufacturing costs down.

If the dropping price of lithium ion batteries suddenly opens up new markets that are so huge, that demand can not be met, prices plateau for a long time, then I hope that other technologies can catch up. But as it is I see little chance for other chemistries or technologies to scale to match lithium ion in the near term future. I'm perhaps hopeful for iron-air batteries from Form Energy, but that's only because their management team has lots of hot shots, and not as much because they have an innate technical advantage. At this point in time, execution is everything, and there's precious few people with the executive capacity and the names that would allow them to attract sufficient capital to compete with the lithium ion juggernauts.

(I would love nothing more than to be proven wrong. And I have been proven wrong on my skeptical tech takes in the past, so I know I'm not invincible here.)
In my experience, Windows NT (now just Windows) is very fond of its file cache and large copies can blow up into memory paging as well.

Early Windows NT was awful with this, pegging the system with a cascade of disk IO at unpredictable times, often for ten seconds or more.

Can anyone suggest ways to avoid blowing the file cache on Windows with large copies? Is this even a problem anymore?
Thanks! I can't wait to dig in to Warp and maybe Hyper.
> I get to pay even higher taxes because my locality actually provides things like sound education.

Which your area benefits from....
> You’ve probably already guessed the turn here, given all this windup: what I found as a doctoral student, and should have grasped while getting my MA, was that writing studies had become just as disdainful of writing as English had been. The field had replicated the very conditions its founders had lamented. The tale I had been told of an academic field where writing was honored and respected was, by this point, a fantasy. Correspondingly, the empirical research I had discussed with my MA advisor was once common but had all but disappeared; when you’ve given up on the actual writing of students in favor of abstract theory, politics, and pop culture sermonizing, what was there left to study empirically? And anyway empirical study, particularly that which utilized quantitative methods, was constantly assailed as racist heteronormative patriarchy. Over a depressingly short timespan I signed up for a field that (I thought) centered student writing and studied it empirically and then found myself in one that had no interest in the subjects I cared about and which essentially forbade using the methods I wanted to use to study them.
> What's the difference between "putting all your wealth in a foundation that will do your bidding after you die" and "donating all your wealth to the most like-minded person that will continue to do your bidding after you die"? Sure, the latter isn't 100%, but the former isn't 100% either (regulations can change in the future), and even disregarding that, are we suddenly okay with it if the chance that your bidding will be carried out is 99% rather than 100%?

That 99% compounds though. Sure, maybe you find someone pretty like-minded. 50 years from now, are they going to be able to find someone 50 years younger than them but just as like-minded? And their replacement 50 years on? Realistically you couldn't maintain any objective that was too far out of line with the general culture.
> But pretending they're peers of engineering and lamenting that they aren't treated as equals is just based on a fantasy.

Being QA is not that much different from engineering. During my childhood I quite enjoyed breaking games if I could. I hated being restricted, and I loved hacking[1] them. Speedrunning works much in the same way. This is what lead me into engineering. Of course one requires much more education, but I'd argue that the time, dedication, and thought process is about the same.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
That is because we have expensive MacBooks and elaborated development setups. Having a web-based IDE is great for newcomers and will work on cheap Chromebooks or iPads. Especially as Gitlab the entire infrastructure for both development and deployment.
That’s not true, though! It’s written for humans to read, not for machines to parse, and any human reading this will realize what they’re supposed to be.
Interviewer: “Name one thing that people think is in the bible, but isn’t”

Interviewee: “white folks”
Are you talking about EDLs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_decision_list
Wait how does this anecdote change the need to compare apples to apples? Also, if anything this anecdote highlights why this comparison is so poor. What if BMWs are responsible for all the ICE car fires? Why wouldn't Tesla compare against the safest or biggest automaker's stats then, to know if they're doing well? E.g. Toyota?
There's so many levels of wrong in this post I don't know where to begin. Data isn't being cached. Encrypted data doesn't help anything. It's a flying network router. If you're worried about "cached" data, then don't use the internet (don't actually worry because routers don't substantially cache either).
I've been in academia since 2004; just not US academia. Maybe that's the main difference?

There's plenty of wrongs in academia on this side of the pond as well, but some of the stories here just couldn't occur.

Case in point: a regular PhD position is an actual full-time job (with regular salary, healthcare, other benefits) here. You have to apply for such a position - which comes with a supervisor & a project description. No "can't find a supervisor" problems; no deciding on a subject all on your own.
login with eth/ens has more traction than pgp ever will. a win for decentralized identity.

messages on the btc or eth blockchain or arweave are more durable and uncensorable than messages on social media.

international transfers now cost less than 1% instead of 2-5%. since we have stablecoins, there's no crypto volatility. (use usdc or dai, not usdt or ust)

nfts enable collecting generative art, and galleries make the art viewable anywhere with an internet connection. being able to sell the art is what allows artists to make a living.
> Impressively, they bit bang low speed USB (1.1)

You're not kidding, that is very impressive. I always find it fascinating what some people manage to achieve with bit-banging.

This is one I remember being quite impressed with back in the day:

https://hackaday.com/2011/05/10/bit-banging-vga-from-an-sd-c...
Every long journey begins with a small step. You won't do the journey unless you are willing to do that small step. And the next.
Maybe its just my inner caveman peaking out but this feels like a problem begging for the liberal application of high explosives to de-compact the clay.
Did you have a look at the source for the page?

This is a real, self-contained HTML page as intended by the old ones.
That's just being bad at statistics. How old are the cars that catch on fire on average, and why do they catch fire? You can't just compare all cars to some subset of cars and derive a basic conclusion from there. For example; the average car on the US roads is 12.2 years. Tesla only started mass production 10 years ago.
1. DeepCreamPy draws over hentai sensor bars if you direct it where the bar is: https://github.com/gguilt/DeepCreamPy

2. hentAI automates the process: https://github.com/natethegreate/hent-AI

3. [NSFW] Should look at this person on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nate_of_hent_ai

4. [NSFW] PornHub released vintage porn videos upscaled to 4k with AI a while back. The called it the "Remastured Project": https://www.pornhub.com/art/remastured

5. [NSFW] This project shows the limit of AI-wthout-big-tech-or-corporate-support projects. This project creates female genitalia that don't exist in the real world. Project is "This Vagina Does Not Exist": https://thisvaginadoesnotexist.com/about.html
Wow. The last paragraph of my comment looked nearly identical to yours, but I deleted it before submitting because I didn't want to derail. Exactly my thoughts...
Lots of cites in the short wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate
To paraphrase the wiki, it still won't stop US ad-copy writers from touting "MSG Free!", even for products that already contain glutamic acid.
Unless we are talking about High-intensity interval training.
Not on the rear doors of the Model X. I just checked, there is no internal mechanical handle.
I'm like a broken record saying ALL BEV's should have mechanical door locks because of the huge fire risks
Hatmonium is not at all suitable for Carnatic music because it can not render gamaka (complex blending of notes back and forth at varied speed and levels) which is the crux of that system. Hindustani music has only limited stress on such complex treatment of gamaka. So it is widely used in Hindustani music.
Not quite.

1) There are live adenovirus vaccines currently in use (e.g., https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0264410X163061...).

2) People report being sick from inactivated vaccines so those carcasses you mention evidently still trigger symptoms, and according to Wikipedia "most" viral vectors are designed to be incapable of replication so presumably some could transmit. Additionally, at least with Sputnik botched inactivation had been reported (by Brazil, https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-was-there-sloppiness-with-the-s...). Frankly if I get symptoms and am contagious then I will consider myself infected for all intents and purposes.

In the end, though, we can engineer non-transmittable viruses if warranted, and with proper care we successfully do so. I don't know the approach taken with the cancer-fighting virus in question but I bet proper care had been taken.
The one person I know whose car caught fire, it was a fairly new Toyota RAV4 - probably three or four years old at the time. They were driving on a highway, saw smoke from under the bonnet (hood), pulled over and within a few minutes the whole thing was on fire!
This is exactly how I approached Leetcode. TBH the grind has had satisfactory effects even though the immediate practical impact is just for interviewing. I don’t use it as a tool for interviewing, just as a tool of list of things to get done. I should just pour more energy into it and do it every day.

I also am stealing this principle ‘My scheduling principle is to do the thing I hate most on my to-do list’
The thing here is "paid for (with jail, presumably)".

In this case, society has effectively said the crime will not ever be "paid for" because the person is on a Public List for Life. Few crimes in society have this result.
Perhaps someone will hire me for very lowball, low stress coding work. I can sling PHP, MySQL, Python, JS, Node, MVC frameworks, build API's or perhaps spend time learning TS or whatever you kids do. I have a lot of experience with Windows, Linux, Mac, I know AWS basics, automated test development processes, continuous integration, strong comprehension of business processes, etc. Background in EE/CS fundamentals. I've dabbled with many more languages and stacks. PHP/MySQL with or without a framework, and/or any modern front end framework are the most obvious fits where I can immediately produce.

Thus, no charity, just an advance to do practical work. Please don't throw something at me I don't know or can't easily learn. I don't know solidity or salesforce for instance and would probably fail trying to quickly ramp up on such tech.

FAANG etc are not in my future. I work best as a 1099 remotely on small/medium projects. I've independently managed complex monoliths up to 300 tables in a RDBMS but can work on granular archs as well.
Honestly in the case of a fire breaking the glass seems like the best move. The glass will break in to tiny granules that while maybe scary to have shower down on to you are unlikely to cause significant harm.

My car has one of these in the centre console in case it’s needed:

https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-a17011200ux0296-Emergency-Brea...
This kind of mindset and mode of organising a dev team is a common, and has the advantage of more interchangeable developers and more long term tech stability. Basically the "Java house" way. But it's far from the only one.
States Need to Confront Parking Mandates
This is really very impressive. How likely is it this is essentially one or more comments from HN memorised by the neural net, with some synonym usage? How do we know that it’s not just reposting partially disguised sentences written by a human author?
This kind of mindset and mode of organising a dev team is a common, and has the advantage of interchangeable developers, not a lot of need for on the job learning, and more long term tech stability. Basically the "we area a Java house with big teams" way. But it's far from the only one.
>As a software engineer, I want local control, where an internet connection is optional.

You can have that even with web browsers. These are called web apps. Of course if they're implemented to be fully offline is up to whoever makes them. But they can be.

https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps/
And even, to become a threat, the virus may need to mutate several times just to become even a little contagious. Most viruses are not really contagious (as in respiratory contagious viruses).
Why don't they have devs use Linux laptops? Problem solved.

Just let them run the same OS as prod no?

Or have them use VMWare or Docker.
Star Wars spacecraft designer Colin Cantwell dies aged 90
Thanks for the kinds words.

Yeah it was devastating. Died of a massive heart aneurism. We were scheduled to meet that day and his wife called and told me what happened. I guess he died pretty instantly. It was so massive, it literally ripped his aorta in two.

The company he was working at came out in full support of his fiancé. The entire church was standing room only. They had some 150 people just from his office who knew him which was really heart warming. He was a really great guy, gone way to soon. He was still in his 30's, I was pushing 40.

When something like that happens, it really makes you think about your own mortality and if you're really living every day to the fullest, or just breathing. It really made me take stock and make a lot of changes in my life. I just don't take anything for granted anymore.
Maybe a stupid question, but doesn't the remote environment run basically the same software? Or at least the same software as a local container or VM would?
If so, why would this break less often?
You break it, you spend days on fixing things instead of being somewhat productive, and if you break the codebase, then we wait while you try to fix it, before we need to step in and do it ourselves.

This was sometimes my experience working with and leading teams with devs of varying experience but always full freedom.

Nobody actually likes it.
I don't see how you get that. Some people do adopt a particular voice when they narrate, and it's neither a good thing nor a bad thing, but it can be interesting.
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Imagen seems more realistic where Dall-E2 is more feel-good.

That is what I feel personally.
Why Postgres?
This is a stupid law, no doubt. But this is also a very fucking stupid article. You would do much better without such quotes as:

“Every Finance student I’ve ever met is completely retarded.”

and

“Who else but a woman could come up with the idea of a ‘journalism license’?”
Unfortunately the rabid work from home demanding lobby has made it impossible to trust generic, unqualified statements about how people somehow ‘need’ to work from home.

Would these people have been unable to afford commuting if they had never had the chance of working from home due to Covid-19? It sounds rather unlikely.
When I worked in QA many years ago I was just as much a coder as I am now. As a self taught programmer from an unpromising background I tried to take the route that was most accessible to me. I wasn't the only programmer or artist in the QA team looking for a way up. Before I got that job I worked in a factory cleaning up animal figurines with a dentists drill after they came out of the moulds. I could code then too.

The job you do says nothing essential about who you are or what you are capable of. It is often purely circumstantial.
Tesla doesn't have anything to do with Starship launch prices. Let's look at costs to SpaceX for launches, since those are the most relevant numbers:

Reused Falcon 9 launch: $15M[1] in the best case, but let's double it just to ballpark the average, so $30M. Falcon 9 can loft around 50 satellites per launch. 30M/50 = $600k/satellite.

Starship: Aspirational goal of $2M cost to launch. Let's just round that up to $10M for whatever might be more expensive than expected. Starship has been predicted to be able to launch around 400 Starlink satellites at a time, the last figure I saw was that Starship launches would carry "100 plus" Starlinks[2]. $10M/100 = $100k/satellite. This is assuming Starship is launching v2.0 satellites though, rather than the current v1.5, which are way heavier (1 metric ton vs ~290kg)[3].

1: https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-elon-musk-falcon-9...

2: https://spacenews.com/ksc-to-study-potential-new-starship-la...

3: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/09/version-2-starlink-wit...
Stress-Testing with Wrk2
Tangentially related question: what is the best (~latest?) such a network uploaded to Colab one can toy with?
Tbh, this "contradiction" in the moral side of the progressive movement was bound to happen at some point. My own feelings about it are it's hard to judge either party from the outside. There is an argument that people should have a right to not associate with whom they'd rather not, but on the other hand, denying someone the ability to rehabilitate themselves by (yes) denying them your company seems also wrong. For example, saying "you'd rather not hire black people" and saying that's just your right to associate with is generally considered immoral today, so it's difficult honestly for me to pass judgement on either side.
I don't believe they have done transparent migration yet; new accounts are just Visa Debit. You can of course deactivate and reactivate Apple Cash, which will create a new Visa-network-backed number.
If you want to voluntarily engage in a 'public' philanthropy ran by the government, you can just buy a government bond.
The Xinjiang Police Files
I wonder what nationality one is supposed to associate with talking behind people's back in public.
Go look at the combined revenue in billions per year from all the geostationary satellite owning companies like Inmarsat, thuraya, Intelsat, ses, eutelsat, arabsat, amos, etc. Most are publicly traded
ompanies. LEO properly implemented will beat the pants off it in performance and speed.