skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A staunch Catholic, he was opposed to communism and socialism but distanced himself from Nazism and fascism.

Come on, how distanced was he from Hitler and Mussolini?

Sure, Portugal remained "neutral" during WW2, but we still sold the Nazis tungsten ore, and filled the central bank with stolen Belgian gold. There was a big espionage ring on lighthouses to surveill the Mediterranean allied ships, and Aristides de Sousa Mendes died in disgraced after saving many jews by giving them visas to escape France.

In 1937 when anarchists nearly killed Salazar and the political police spent a month arresting drunks, while the bombers read about big arrests on the papers, Salazar called Mussolini to send him his best investigators to solve it. They didn't, the police chief got egg on his face, and the guys that cracked the case were fired, the official version remained, since the drunks they rounded up had their pictures printed in the front pages (pretty banged up from the torture).

He was so Catholic, the official papal newspaper was censored as much as all the others.
Changing the names to better reflect the reality of the product might help set safer expectations by Tesla owners. But, as a pedestrian and cyclist, I don't think it is enough.

All car makes including Tesla that are offering advanced cruise control (e.g., lane following), should be required to geofence the feature with other conditions like weather taken into account too. If Tesla, Volvo, Ford, etc., have a product that works at an acceptable level on simple straight highways during daylight and clear weather conditions, then those are the only locations and conditions the advanced cruise control devices should be allowed to operate in.
Doesn't change the fact that ddg is basically a front for mostly Bing (plus a few others for local stuff etc) though.
Why not actually investing in real search technology and become an actual search engine?
Does this apply to iPads? I had mine set up by my employer and don't think I've seen a prompt. I also don't recall seeing this on an iPhone SE I had, so maybe discover ability would be better than popups for a tips app.
For me, Tiktok somehow shows videos that are just “right”. Maybe it is length of videos and ux. I skip anything boring in first 2-3 seconds and probably that’s how other people use it too. So creators have to make their videos entertaining from the first second.

And also videos somehow are relevant to current situation in my life. For example, if I have a tight deadline at work, Tiktok will show me videos related to work, productivity, mocking deadlines, etc. Not sure if it is just the numbers game since you can go through 10s of videos in a few minutes. And you just remember videos that were right or if their algorithm is really that good.
All requests to improving.duckduckgo.com are anonymous. We have a help page explaining how that works here: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/at.... From that page, "To be clear, this means we cannot ever tell what individual people are doing since everyone is anonymous."
O, that seems pretty odd. I can't think of any reason for them to do that beyond trying to get out of the deal or incredible negligence on the musk side in not doing that before hand. Were they able to get that data before hand if they wanted it?
> and law can frequently have surprising implications in the twists and turns of the its logical structure, which - as a bonus - differ by time and exact place.

There's no twist or turn of the law I can possibly imagine between today, and October, in the Delaware Court of Chicanery.

There is a reason why contract laws are written to be argued in this court. Its considered one of the most straightforward courts in the entire country, with legal expertise / judges who specialize in corporate contract law.

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But sure, I'm all ears. What kind of "surprise legal twist" do you think will happen over the next 2 months? I really don't think its too complicated of a court case. Its just fun / fascinating to watch from the perspective of internet celebrities.

In any case: the time has been set. October 2022. The location has been set, Delaware Court of Chicanery. The arguments have been set: we know what Elon is seeking to argue, and we know what Twitter is seeking to argue. Not much else to hypothesize here, really.
Flat earth, Scientology, dowsing rods, ... willful ignorance is hard to fight.

Anyone with basic understanding of A/D conversion and sampling theory will understand that you can always exceed analog with digital, given enough bits (and 2*16 @ 44.1 kHz is already pretty darn good).

In the early days of MPEG Audio, Level 2 (not mp3) I spent a lot of time listening to samples and I was taken aback when I finally traced flaws back to the CD itself (Cranberries, Zombie, 1994). Many of the early CDs really weren't that great, but that wasn't due to being "digital", just a sloppy production.
> [Thundertruck] an all-electric beast with bat wings and 800 hp.

> The wings are made out of solar panels that fold out and expand over the top of the truck to capture solar energy.

Interesting. Wonder how long it would take to charge a vehicle with built in panels, or if theres any chance of photovoltaic body panels ever being viable.

Anyway they don't say and I hate the design but the more random ev trucks get announced the more pressure ford has to get the electric f150 into actual production so Im into it.
"When the CD version of the album you have bought has subpar audio quality"

Yes, but these mastering choices could apply to the vinyl version too. In other words, your response had nothing to do with a comparison of the two media.
It will be an incredibly expensive show and dance. Not sure it is really worth it.
Its an interesting refutation and confirmation of my point.
It's fascinating to me how some solutions in programming become 'trendy' and get used everywhere, even when it may not be the right solution.

And then other solutions, like the "COMB GUID" from 2002 have stayed in relative obscurity despite neatly solving a small, concrete problem so many of us encounter.

The author's 20 year old solution is amazingly similar to the recent UUIDv7 draft, right down to assigning 48 bits to the timestamp component; buried on page 6 of an otherwise unassuming article.

This should have been a revelation for everyone building database backed applications, but instead has either been outright ignored or reinvented in various ways over the years instead.

Makes me wonder what other solved-problems our profession has largely overlooked.
You are completely misunderstanding yes.

I'm saying some standards body is appropriate for validating/vetting algorithms, and having a standards body advocate for known reasonable ones is... reasonable and desirable.

That NIST has a history of being compromised by the NSA (and other standards bodies would likely similarly be a target), is a problem. But having everyone 'figure it out' on their own is even worse. 'hand a drunk monkey a loaded submachine gun' worse.
There was the Clipper Chip [2] and the super-weak 40-bit 'export strength' cryptography [3] and the investigation of PGP author Phil Zimmerman for 'munitions export without a license' [4].

So there was a substantial effort to weaken cryptography, decades before 9/11.

On the dragnet surveillance front, there have long been rumours of things like ECHELON [1] being used for mass surveillance and industrial espionage. And the simple fact US spies were interested in weakening export SSL rather implied, to a lot of people, they had easy access to the ciphertext.

Of course, this was before so much stuff had moved online, so it was a different world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
This reminds me of the "English to regular expressions" that was on here a few weeks back, and got it right about 10% of the time.

We have created structured, unambiguous domain languages for a reason. Converting from English is ambiguous at best, impossible at worst.
The first Scratch applet was a LISP runtime implemented in Java.
I couldn’t take it and had to block elonmusk on Twitter. It was just dumb bait tweets but everyone was constantly reacting to them. Horrid and I have better things to do with me time.
I really love this kind of thing, a marriage of bioscience, craft, history, archeology, and culture. There’s something almost magical about reaching back into the past, resurrecting a brewing yeast, and making a beer that people can have today that captures something from 4 centuries ago.
https://discord.gg/engineerman
He's got a YouTube channel too, super active community with over 20k members.
Sauce: I'm a mod
is there any scenario where you would change your mind about the topic?
Prediction markets have a built-in incentive for accuracy that's absent from broadcast news. It's useful to have an aggregate answer to things like "how likely is Russia to invade Ukraine" that is to some degree shielded from the normal filters of partisanship.

Or from another angle:

Changing your individual vote in an attempt to shift the outcome of an election is extraordinarily unlikely to actually make the difference, so prediction markets most likely punish people (with losses) who try to game it with their own votes. If you and a large group of people plan to do this, that will be priced into the market, preventing you from profiting very much.
Huawei has also faced allegations that it has engaged in corporate espionage to steal competitors' intellectual property, and in 2019, was restricted from performing commerce with U.S. companies, over allegations that it willfully exported technology of U.S. origin to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Huawei
> For you.

For a large number of people. Nobody is claiming EVs are ready to replace all use cases for ICE vehicles, that would be silly. It is equally silly to point out shortcomings of EVs and say they're irrelevant in the current marketplace.

Also, level 3 charging is pretty fast - it's not as fast as filling up on fossil energy, but the bigger issue is simply one of availability. If there were even half as many charging stations as gas stations, the feasibility of longer trips would change considerably. You'd be trading a slightly slower trip for vastly reduced costs.
Alex Jones must pay $50m in punitive damages for Sandy Hook hoax claim
I am struggling to understand how they are earning so much.

They mention getting between $1 to $40 per thousand ad views. Let's say on average $10.

A video that gets 165000 views is only earning $1,650--not bad for a days work, but not millionaire potential.

Unless I am reading it wrong and '165m' means 165 million but that just doesn't seem possible that one in five English speakers on Earth would watch one video.

Either way, I am very happy for his success. It's clear he found a particular niche to fulfill.
Why would this have anything to do with Eth2 when it’s explicitly a vulnerability in Proof of Work systems?
When comparing them side by side, bluish purple is too similar to cyan.
> Sam’s Club, which lets drop-shippers ship products for free to 10 addresses, declined to comment.

I think Sam's Club is more at fault than Amazon. It is enabling the bulk items, which are only supposed to be offered to club members, to the entire world. Lollipop Guy can stop selling to Sam's Club until they end this practice, but I'm guessing he won't because his company still makes pretty good money via warehouse club sales.
Here you go: https://polymarket.com
(No idea if you'll ever see this, I also have no damned idea what I'm talking about.)

Looking at the Weierstrass function, it's a chaotically convergent series with a non-convergent gradient series.

(The standard differential forms don't apply, because the assumption of linearisation at the scale of 𝛿x is invalid, due to the scale invariant properties of the fractal.)

In that case the integral function would be even more convergent since the 'noise' (pretty much) adds to zero.

So can you differentiate via integration, and get a gradient for a related function (with less noise)?

I messed around with this, taking the areas of a pair of little triangle approximations and adding them to get a ~rectangle.

Then divide that area by 𝛿x to get 𝛿y, and divide that by 𝛿x to get 𝛿y/𝛿x.

This was the form that I reached:

let y = f(x)
let F(x) = ∫f(x)𝛿x
𝛿y/𝛿x = (F(x + 𝛿x) + F(x - 𝛿x) - 2 * F(x))/((𝛿x) ^ 2)

At very least, it passed my polynomial sanity check:

let F(x) = x^6
𝛿y/𝛿x = 30(x^4) + 30(x^2)(𝛿x^2) + 2(𝛿x^4)
I wonder what counts as "custom cryptographic software"?
We've invested many tens of millions of dollars in search technology and continue to do so. Local was just one example, chosen because as noted it is the largest category of searches.
> many see winning as more important than values.

Interesting thought. For some analogy, if a bunch of skinheads joined my local baseball team and started playing dirty against the other teams and became the champions, would I care that my team has been hijacked, or would I not care because now my team is winning?

Obviously in the political example, the skinheads talk about "values" and people who want to be deluded just nod and repeat "values!", or they demonize the opponents by saying they'll bring in "dirty migrants", etc...
Thankfully EU and UK force companies to accept returns within 14 days of purchase(delivery to the customer in fact) for anything sold "remotely"(through internet, phone, by post.....anything where the customer couldn't inspect the item before buying) so companies cannot try to pull this nonsense like here. Refund only for in-store credit? I sympathize with the issues of fraud, but that's not an acceptable return policy for any company selling anything on the internet.
With node this happens everywhere all the time hence the popularity of tools like nvm or fnm. At my current company we have projects that absolutely require java 8, or 11, and I'm sure we'll soon have Java 17 only projects, sometimes with corresponding needs regarding tomcat or maven etc. versions. It's also a common complaint with python and the most common solution seems to be a bunch of python3.x packages from your package repository, though there have been tools like tox or pyenv for this and others that try to combine solving this problem and virtualenv management.

That said, if you just want language generic toolchain management, asdf seems to have a much lower barrier to entry.

Personally I have been using nix as a homebrew replacement, because it allows me to sync my packages and versions between my personal Arch setup and my day job Mac OS setup with a single configuration
I sincerely desire to avoid having a mobile, internet connected device that equips many sensors and cameras in my home.
Couldn't we characterize vinyl limitations and capture that as a digital filter? And if so would you be able to tell the difference between the vinyl and filtered digital?
Do you know how they work on tile? I see everyone recommend for wood flooring, but my house is mainly a textured tile. Things like a regular vacuum make loud clanks rolling over and between them. Wondering if a robovac would even work, or get stuck, or just be obnoxiously loud rolling around. Anyone know?
It uses a combination of xpaths that are like body[1]div[2]div[1]p[2]button[1] so if you edit the UI it'll break, or worst case they do X,Y coordinates of clicks on a page so if the UI changes it'll break. Sometimes it'll get your ID or Name or whatever but some frameworks randomize these on compilation and some devs change them as part of refactoring.

Best practice is to add test attributes to the HTML elements (such as data-testid="SubmitButton") so if the page is moved around or the button is edited the tests remain stable. There's a lot of good online sources on making UI testing somewhat more reliable :)
I heard Townes in a small lecture at Berkeley once. As I recall he described a bit of a struggle getting Bell Labs interested in patenting the maser (or some similar administrative detail). He offered that the key phrase turned out to be: you might be able to use this for communications.
Yea, makes sense. Seems like it will be hard to prove malice over incompetence and vice versa.
Not active. Last (non-comment/indentation) update Nov. 2018. (Normally not an issue w/ CL. But this is a TLS library.) No TLS 1.3, partial support for TLS 1.2.
The majority of your examples require either superb NLP + conversational AI, or a person individually texting/replying to every user.

> Q: Want us to send you some every month?

> A: That would be amazing

Even your subscription confirmation example would be really hard to process automatically. Error prone at best. It's why most text interactions ask for REPLY YES OR NO.
LLVM used GCC C as a front end. Clang was an Apple project, since GCC wasn't designed to integrate into an IDE like Xcode.

>One of Clang's main goals is to provide a library-based architecture, so that the compiler could interoperate with other tools that interact with source code, such as integrated development environments (IDE). In contrast, GCC works in a compile-link-debug workflow; integrating it with other tools is not always easy. For instance, GCC uses a step called fold that is key to the overall compile process, which has the side effect of translating the code tree into a form that looks unlike the original source code. If an error is found during or after the fold step, it can be difficult to translate that back into one location in the original source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang#Background

Lattner gave a tech talk at Google introducing LLVM 2.0 and explaining some of Apple's rational for creating Clang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeRaLPupGks
Who will continue making content once all their advertising revenue is deemed illegal?
You are not understanding his point. Linear PCM systems encode quiet parts of music with a lower signal to noise level than louder parts. So by over-engineering the bit depth, you keep the quantisation noise further from perceptibility than without it.

I think everyone gets sampling theory by now, your response was to an audio engineer.
Python is _really_ tempting as a build (or test) dependency. It's an easy way to throw together code generators or similar glue that is likely to run on whatever platform is building your software.
This is true about arbitraging between markets on PredictIt, but I do think the impact of fees on market prices (and on ability to make money on PredictIt) was usually overstated.

PredictIt has two fees: A 10% fee on winnings, and a 5% fee on withdrawals.

The 10% fee on winnings is only on winnings. So when buying a share for 90¢, your $1 won will earn 99¢ and pay 1¢ in fees.

This means in a market with multiple candidates, betting "No" on all of N candidates will always earn you $(N - 1) without fees. That's is a winning bet iff all the "No" shares add up to $(N - 1.1111). In practice, the bias toward "Yes" shares alone is strong enough that buying all "No" shares, even at current asking prices, usually cost between $1.07 and $1.10 less than $N.

So, if you're only buying "No" shares in markets with multiple outcomes, the prices are set close to a point that entirely negates that 10% fee.

And of course the 5% fee on withdrawals is only on withdrawals. If you send the money straight back into another trade over and over, the fee is diluted enough to be irrelevant to any individual trading decisions.
Show HN: Helix-Vim – A Vim-like configuration for Helix
Poor refutation.

Neither of the languages or machine learning frameworks are old ideas or directly ad supported. Tensor processing units and cloud computing are also purchased directly.
That all goes out the window if you use a DSP effects box, where you can "have your cake and eat it too" by having pedals (regular and expression types), amps, cabinets, and a mic for that cabinet all in one package. I use one because it's a lot cheaper than getting the individual parts and it fits in the palm of my hand!
I wonder if the lack of voices you notice is at all related to the well-publicized data indicating conservatives do not feel they can express their opinions publicly without risk of punishment.
This is not true. Bitcoin has a difficulty adjustment.

https://www.blockchain.com/charts/difficulty

https://www.coindesk.com/learn/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-eve...
This is a fantastically good article for people interested in online retail or in payments. I lost the url but there was another article I've been wanting to find and link to, about how the US payment system is so completely screwed up. From a seller perspective, Alipay (used for everything in China) is much better than what we have here. They have an actual dispute resolution process before a transaction can be reversed, instead of reversing at the push of a button.
Changing a name isn't enough when it comes to passenger safety.

This isn't some web app where the consequences are a bad experience. Automakers aren't supposed to be allowed to put unsafe technology on the road regardless of marketing.
Yes, we are constantly working towards more transparency in everything we do. More generally, from the new help page, "A search engine’s primary job is to rank results. In other words, search engines try to put results that most quickly and accurately answer the query on top." and "when we apply our own ranking signals we do so in a strictly non-political manner, meaning we don’t evaluate or otherwise take into account any potential political bias or leanings of websites in our search result rankings."
Though 99% of the time I would agree with you, the public has to have faith in people who claim to be fighting (with previously noted successes in Bernstein v. US) in our best interests.
As a Leichtturm convert, I think they've degraded a little bit. I have an old and new notebook from them and to me it seems night and day difference.

It's a real shame
Yes - the Cron schema is probably not the best schema.

It was designed to be easy to fit most things into one line.

It can express pretty much everything imaginable. But it's not designed to do that easily.

Maybe it'd be better to come up with a schema that's better suited for expressing non-trivial crons - and converting that to & from crontab format.

English is also not the best language for expressing this type of thing...
Had my Samsung fold3 a full year now, the foldable screen is surprisingly still as good as new
They did amplify, or I wouldn't have learned about them. Twitter does seem to be trying to keep gender-critical viewpoints secret, but covertly, as they make it really easy to get banned for "hate speech" when you engage in gender-critical speech. The same for other topics that people label as misinformation, such as sharing the actual statistical results from vaccine trials. I never cared about the statistical results until people got banned for sharing them, thus Twitter indirectly amplified.
I guess when I say “natural,” what I truly mean is “that which is not made by man.” Any substance which is found in the natural environment and mechanically altered does not count in my definition of man-made; this is essentially the same notion of natural that revolvingocelot points out.

I think the crusade against “natural bias” is unfounded. Of course there are plenty of natural things that are not good for us—such as viruses— but the painful and uncomfortable truth about natural maladies like viruses is that they represent nature working as intended (protecting us from the ills of overpopulation, for example).

The bottom line is that changing everything we dislike about nature can lead to our demise. She’s already thought a million steps ahead of whatever we hope to accomplish.