skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wary of adding a me too comment, because we may be talking about the same mafia. But yes, it looks like most large cities in Brazil had an organized mafia that lived on extorting small amounts from the people unlucky enough to need a taxi ride. It helps that the government was the one organizing them, mandating meetings and price fixing, but the rampant extortion was not called for.

And yes, there were about 3 years of very public beatings and assassinations from the taxi mafia on my city before they finally went bankrupt and disappeared. And now, suddenly the taxi service has a similar quality to Uber.
I agree with most everything you just said!
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Our networks are continuously trained and never (major pathologies excepted) cease to be trained.

OTOH, a digital network can absorb inputs at a much faster signalling rate than biological ones. Digital networks also don’t try to replicate all aspects of biological brains and are a somewhat crude approximation of their biological counterparts.
I would expect the hacker news crowd would be above this deliberately over-simplified take on the situation. Media like this is designed to re-enforce certain incorrect but convenient views of the world.
It comes down to special relativity not allowing an absolute frame of reference. Without any absolute frame of reference there is no instantaneous.

You may think of instantaneous as being 90 degrees away on a spacetime diagram. But someone else's frame of reference will observe your instantaneous at a different angle than 90 degrees on their own spacetime diagram, perhaps they'll even see it as going backwards in time. Their frame of reference is valid too. So if they sent a message back at a 90 degree angle on their own spacetime diagram using the same mechanism they'd be sending a message to us back in time in our frame of reference. It gets really funky when you do this with 3 different observers all observing each other communicating backwards in time to the point where they can cycle a message between the three of them that goes further and further back in time.

You'd have to first throw away frames of reference to make such travel possible but that's the entire basis of relativity and good luck finding a better explanation as to why light always appears to go at the same speed for any observer in the universe.
The Microsoft Academic dataset has been picked up by OpenAlex.org
Pardon my ignorance but isn't dynamo just a document store itself? Most storage engines are designed and optimized for RDBs, so I'd expect inefficiency here unless there's a layer between them.
I highly recommend the episode 271- Uber from the podcast The Dollop which goes about the history of Uber.

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVkb2xsb3AubGl...
Most mainstream press won't report things they can't prove. When they report on a Russian journalist falling out a window, they will usually mention that lots of opposition journalists have fallen out of windows and let readers draw conclusions, but we still have absolutely no direct proof they're being assassinated. I think news consumers have started to change their expectations and just really, really want pat answers fed to them rather than reading about what we actually know.
4chan always served warrants, lol.
We are not compelled to either kill or do self harm, no. That is a really concerning dichotomy to suggest.

Do you feel this is a choice you are compelled to make? I don't mean to presume, but I'm going to proceed as if it were affirmative, because I don't anticipate a response, and this seems concerning.

That sounds perhaps like intrusive thoughts? I personally struggle with intrusive thoughts that are occasionally violent. They do not need to be acted upon though, and they don't reflect on who you are much more than a compression artifact in a video reflects on the cinematographer - it's line noise in your brain, it's incredibly complex and sometimes throws out signals that aren't useful.

If you feel this way and that it isn't within your control, I'd encourage you to speak with a professional.
To add to that, it could also be inferred that the Ubers of the world are able to get to where they are from the numbing affect of all the previous evilCorps that came before creating the death from a thousand paper cuts scenario.

They're just standing on the shoulders of evilCorpGiants?!
I'm a Lichess puzzle player. I find it more entertaining than a full game, and can fit a puzzle or two anytime rather than a match (even a bullet game is too draining for a quick time-filler)
I believe a few of the James Bond movies meet those criteria /j.
What kind of software do you usually create this way?
All that may be true but it's doubtful anyone ever "fell" for anything. The majority of the Sri Lankan people never supported any of this. First the country came under the control of the corrupt Rajapaksas, then it got destroyed with questionable deals dictated by foreign powers.

The Communist Party owns a harbor there now with a 99-year lease. You can't make this up, they're one to one copying the British colonial strategy down to the exact length of the contract used in Hong Kong. There was also the case where authorities rejected a batch of contaminated fertilizer but then under pressure the government had to pay for it nonetheless. Clearly the Sri Lankan elites are not in control anymore when it comes to dealing with foreign creditors. The Rajapaksas have amassed great personal wealth, at the teeny tiny downside of selling out the entire country.
It wasn't obvious to me (though I may have blundered to see/search) from the site where the code is, so to save others the search it seems to be at https://github.com/domino14/liwords ... the repo name underlines the source of inspiration I guess!
The regulator is the taxi industry. More local taxes are paid because more drivers exist. The rules around the playing field are in favor of existing monopolies and they haven't changed.

The existing cartel wasn't fair. Having Uber open the door has allowed smaller players into a closed market. The taxi industry is still healthy and slightly more modern because of this.
That's why I say bitcoin and not crypto.
They don’t care. I have one watch, a 2008 model from a watchmaker that no one cares about, that tells perfect time and has a mechanical alarm. It gets no love and that’s fine with me. This quote about watches from a tastemaker blew my mind:

“… the Italian-born Davide Parmegiani. I met Parmegiani, who is in his mid-50s, at his new boutique in Monte Carlo, where he sells both vintage watches and cars.

He arrived 30 minutes late. I asked him what drives the passion for watches, if not their ability to tell time.

“Sometimes I don’t even set the time on the watches,” he said. “If I want to look at what time is it, I can look at my iPhone.” He held up his smartphone: “This is the only exact time we’re gonna have,” he added.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/inside-the-frenzied...
Just like SMU wasn't doing anything the other schools were not doing. They just got caught. It is an example of how using the extreme punishment had a much larger collateral damage blast radius than intended.
Yes he's a well-known opportunistic axe-grinder. After being a long-time climate change denier and getting completely wrecked in the 2018 California primary election as a Democrat he switched tactics to get a little more free publicity from Fox News etc by being a San Francisco hater, got utterly wrecked a second time in the 2022 California primary election, and has dropped the SF angle and gone back to being a profession skeptic of all things "green".
What a weird post. This is lirerally how the US government works.
"police trying to do their jobs and having screeching bystanders yelling"

oh noe, what did they suffer hearing damage or something? Compared to how many innocent people were shot?
There are a bunch of people here who are passionate about not having animal testing.

There is a different thread on HN with people who are passionate about not releasing chemicals until they are proven safe for human consumption.

Can we get Dang to merge these two threads and have a mosh-pit of passion and see what comes out?
What I found insightful about this was how a curated git history can be insightful about how to design your software structure to support its natural requirements based on its history.
thiserror is quite a lot lighter than most of the prior ones have been. It also has less magic than they tended to, which is nice. It just does what it says it's gonna do mostly.

Honestly I think thiserror and anyhow strike the right balances that I think they could be candidates for stdlib inclusion, and then might be more optimized.
Aurora Postgres is a fork of Postgres code, with modifications that allow it to leverage AWS' Aurora storage, and a few other things (replicas, etc.).

The goal is to remain 100% Postgres compatible. So the network protocol, SQL queries, and tools, all can be used without any change. There are (were?) some (read: very few) caveats/restrictions, though, because of the heritage of, and need to be compatible with, Amazon RDS Postgres.

Disclosure: Member of the founding-team of Aurora Postgres; left the team quite a while back, so my knowledge is quite outdated.

Edit: There's a lot of literature, and public information (articles, conference talks, etc.) published by the Aurora team over the years, which all allude to these facts, and you can use that material to build your confidence that it is in fact Postgres compatible.
Small correction: this would be a return to anti-federalism (statism).
That's just wrong.

Ok, Uber in particular may be very badly run and incapable of turning a profit. But on most places they have competitors that are profitable and usually, cheaper.
The ironic thing here is that if you take that model, and play with it as I suggested, it would validate the earlier claim that long term storage is really just useful for the last percent or so. It's there to cover the "black swan" events when renewables are out for an extended period.

(Well, not quite, because it ignores seasonality of demand, and if that's out of sync with seasonality of supply then more long term storage might be useful.)

Sure, the model is wrong. All models are wrong, but some are useful.
Uber didn't "steal" anything as competition is not a zero-sum game. Drivers chose contract work over a full-time job, and it's their choice to save their income. Besides, pensions and Social Security aren't shields against elder poverty befalling spendthrifts. They're merely buffers and one's that come at the opportunity cost of being able to take the money at that point in time and investing it.
But how much cycle inefficiency would you be willing to take for that advantage? I could totally see that storage setup be a huge success at places where you have continuous or forced-schedule intermittent low intensity heating and cooling demands (data center within insulated pipe distance of a spa resort or something like that), and want to make the best out of their opposite heat demands using intermittent electricity, but for general purpose electricity where the recovery would have to go through one of the famous thermal cycles? I really doubt it.
I'm not so sure that is really true anymore. I think that was the case in the past, when most manufacturing was very labor intensive. But now, so much is automated that things could be made anywhere for almost as cheap. Unfortunately, the US doesn't really have the infrastructure and capabilities to do so now.
The addictive nature of TikTok scares the shit out of me. It's like the culmination of 20 years of social media research and testing purposely designed to create the most addictive product possible. Such a large percentage of young people use it...it's absolutely terrifying.
The key result is not the introduction of ReLU, this is a misdirection. The key result is the outstanding performance on a general image data set by Alexnet. If the predecessors did all of the work, why was Hinton's lab the first to produce these results.

ReLU is an absurdly simple gate. The question revolved around its effectiveness, which was proven by Hintons lab.

The key result is the outstanding performance on imagenet. If Schmidhuber was the actual pioneer, why wasn't he able produce the same results before Hinton?

NN were known to work for hand writing recognition since the 90s (including papers by Hinton). Dannet being able to do it for Chinese characters in 2010s is unremarkable.
If people do not make it known that this behavior is unacceptable, the alternative technology will not be developed.

Industry would be happy to abuse animals until the end of time.

Framing this as a _preference_ for one kind of life or another is, in fact, a straw man. No such preference is necessary to accept this line of reasoning.
I didn't say that. There are a many alternatives to animal models before "jumping to human trials directly", e.g. testing on human cells & tissues, human-based computer models (like those used for cardiotoxicity) and more recently organ-on-a-chip technologies.
It doesn't have to be competitive on price. I'd use it at twice, or even three times the price of a cab, simply because the service delivers on what it promises, without unnecessary fluff.

I remember having to plan around the expected number of cabs that wouldn't bother to show up after quoting "10 mins" to get to SFO. Or having a London cabbie decide that my being sat in his cab was a license to spout pro-Brexit nonsense for 15 minutes and then claim that he didn't take credit cards. Or NYC cab drivers blatantly flouting the law by purposely ignoring you if you had a suitcase, because they didn't feel like taking a fixed fare in traffic to JFK.

No.
How I became a machine learning practitioner
(UK) Obviously not all, but many wet wipes are even marked as being fine to flush, when they aren't fine to flush.

https://inews.co.uk/news/consumer/wet-wipes-tesco-superdrug-...
> police should not live in fear of being recorded out of context

Then why should I? If being recorded is such a terrible fate, let's make it illegal to record anyone, right? No? thought so.
You can use any string you want as the realm.
We are talking about 2-4 hours of travel time standing up, almost nobody would like that.

In Spain there are several railway companies: RENFE, Ouigo and (TBD) Irio. There are enough trains for the current demand. If they detect a surge (holidays for example) new trains are added to the timetable.

Short-distance trains do indeed allow you to be standing up but the travel time is at most 1h.
> There's also another matter: who's gonna consent to participate to trials in your proposal, rich people or poorer people?

Probably those who want the benefit of the medication badly enough.
Perhaps we should judge companies by profit per employee per hour and aim to increase that

Wouldn’t that be better than just valuation ?
It’s not just redshift, it’s also measurements of the CMB, and other effects. The evidence for metric expansion is considered overwhelming today: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe#Ob...

Similarly, for dark matter it’s not just galaxy rotation, it’s also observations of gravitational lensing and again the CMB, formation and evolution of galaxies, mass location during galaxy collisions, and movement of galaxies within galaxy clusters. Again, the observational evidence today is overwhelming: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Observational_ev...
They don't have to be? They would only need to intimidate/recruit the Uber drivers (which they did) and use their gov connections to cover up the crime.

A local mafia problem is a local mafia problem, no matter the transportation system being hijacked.

This whole thread kinda turned into Taxi whataboutism to deflect from Uber.
They were definitely threatened and beat in Brazil several times at the beginning (I don’t recall anyone dying on the news, but I maybe it happened). The difference is that anyone could become a Uber driver, where not everyone could become a tax driver (due to governmental regulations and tight control by the mafia)
>Industrial farming is critical to feed a world with 8 billion people.

Sad to say, it has become that way, yes. And so we are seeing only the beginning of this trouble. If there's a way out, it has to begin.
These new "freedom" or other themed universities set my griftdar off every time. Like the University of Austin does. I'm not very fond of the grifty nature of established post-secondary education either. But you at least get something of some value at the end.
Animal testing is expensive, especially with primates, so it's already minimised.
I'm in favor of officer safety, but if this law was actually about officer safety, there's no need to mention recording. Just write the law to keep all bystanders 8ft away. Because it specifically mentions recording, this law is not about officer safety, it's about limiting recording.
Is there reason to believe that the elite use TikTok at disproportionally lower rates than the rest of the population? If anything, it's probably higher.
Interesting, thanks for sharing this tidbit.

For no particularly good reason, I was under the impression Postgres Aurora was just a Postgres compatibility interface layer on top of a common substrate shared with the MySQL Aurora implementation.
I've noted that many newspapers don't provide external links as a rule, though that reluctance seems to be slipping somewhat. Unfortunately, that's accompanied by an tendency for those external links to rot with extreme speed and prejudice, which ... might actually justify the reluctance.

Linking an archived copy of the content has merits, though increasing The Usual Suspect (the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine) itself has difficulty in preserving complex content. (The rather less transparent Archive.Today is often superior in quality if not necessarily in trust or reputation, and I say that relying on it heavily myself.)

I know that I've noted news organisations which do seem to link sources relatively freely, and thought I'd commented on it previously. I'm not finding any previous mentions by me here at HN (my usual personal quips trove, amongst other benefits). Though if memory serves, the New York Times tends not to provide links where it really ought to. I believe the Los Angeles Times might have a greater tendency to. Perhaps also NPR and/or The Guardian which I tend to rely on, though I'm not certain that's been my earlier observation.

In the 19th century and through a good part of the early 20th, newspapers would not only reference specific documents or speeches but publish them in whole. In large part, this is because that was the only way to distribute and reference the material. That practice has waned tremendously, and we often see material only through commentary and reference, rather than in original form. I've come to view this quite dimly.

I'm also fairly certain that copyright is a major consideration and factor here, and another way in which it's proving a disservice to the public good.
> Probably those who want the benefit of the medication badly enough.

it doesn't make them good models anyway.

not better than peaking up a random animal from the zoo or a random. human from the population.

in fact access to experimental trials is not on a consent only basis, patients need to adhere to some parameter.

for example: my mother in law was rendered almost blind by a degenerative disease.

She volunteered for an experimental trial on a new treatment but she was too old and her condition too advanced to be a suitable candidate.
She was fully willing to be part of it, but consent alone wasn't enough.
Snakes on a plane didn't get a R rating, so we can assume the limit on number of expletives is above the number for that film.
Mechanical pearl: yes

Unique look: yes

Best looking watch: hell, no. it looks like utter crap. like a $2 scratch-off lotto ticket
The only problem with thiserror is the lack of no_std tho, which leads me to use snafu instead
My impression from reading The Computer Scientist’s Guide to Cell Biology is that the reason for woefully inadequate descriptions of cellular systems, rather than any fundamental deficiency on the part of biologists, is that the systems are so dang tiny and crowded, with every molecule running into every other molecule every second or so, at sizes literally below the widths of light waves, that we just don’t have the tools to physically observe what’s happening in real-time. Even the primitive equivalents of “shooting individual components” took so much clever innovation and hard work to figure out how to do that frankly it’s amazing that we know everything that we do.
What makes this so hard to believe that a citation is required? This was the format of his show, it was incredibly popular in the 2000’s and alumni cast of the show have gone on to replicate the formula.
I think GP was being humorous
Now that YouTube has shorts I wonder how many creators are switching. Part of the reason you can get so many followers on TikTok is the video length. When it started you could only post a 15-second video. Later on they allowed you to link 15-second videos up to a minute in length. Then it was 3 minutes, and in February they changed the maximum video time to 10 minutes.[1]

Viewers can watch a lot more 15-second or 1-minute videos than 10-minute videos. If 5-10 minute videos start becoming popular, expect the reach new creators can get to drop drastically.

1. https://screenrant.com/tiktok-videos-minimum-maximum-length-...
It's interesting that you claim it's easy to calculate, but you haven't copied and pasted the calculation you did, which other people seem to disagree with. Your comment would probably be more convincing if you explained the easy calculation, which should be easy for you.
I responded to that in the original comment. Whether or not a service requires rotation (bad practice), this tool won't work (can't handle compromised passwords).
Always found it amusing that this is a real problem only in the land of the free.

There may be a big cultural difference at play here. Even before this law there were plenty of instances where a bystander recording police activity from a safe distance was approached, bullied and sometimes even arrested; with - of course - no later repercussions for the officers.

I feel like changing US policing culture would do much more than introducing or relaxing laws that the policemen will ignore and violate anyway.
How do I know I am conscious and my perception of my own consciousness isn’t an illusion itself?

We currently believe consciousness is an emerging phenomenon that happens to any sufficiently complex brain that posses the ability to gather and remember knowledge about itself and the organism that holds it.

I’m sure our first contact with alien intelligence will be extremely puzzling at first, then profoundly horrifying, and, finally, deeply enlightening.
The watch can be seen about 2 minutes into the video, just at the end, after all the cars and other unrelated stuff. Fantastic directing...
Podcast host here. Thanks for sharing!

The whole episode is sort of the back story of ELIZA and ELIZAGen effort.
Ask HN: Why isn't sound volume specified via two parameters: target and range?
In this way, when watching a movie or listening to a song, you can avoid uncomfortably loud sounds while still being able to hear soft sounds.
I agree that this is still a challenge that needs to be solved in better ways. There are some solutions possible. For example OpenBazaar used 2-of-3 multisig escrow. Bisq is using security deposits, limits and reputation. For some large transactions there are legal escrow services. But for small regular transactions with most merchants, there is no good standardized solution so far. You just have to do your research about about the counterparty and trust the merchant as far as transaction goes.