skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read this Somewhere(tm), if anyone can confirm it I'd be grateful:

The issue with Tesla's camera only neural network thing is that it needs a TON of cycles to determine the distance of every point in the image.

With LIDAR, for example, you get the direction and distance in the same datapoint without any extra calculation.

And the current generation of Tesla cars are operating pretty much at the limit of their power and will run out of resources unless Tesla manages to do some crazy optimisations on their detection algorithms/neural network training.
Dismissing a contrary position as "propaganda" only stifles debate, and you haven't presented an argument against "sweet spots". It's a good mental model for many situations. What makes you think there doesn't exist an optimal inflation rate?

0% inflation is generally not a safe target. In an economy you want to avoid deflation at all costs. If consumers expect future price drops, demand can dip significantly and induce further drops in price (deflationary spiral). Businesses need consistent, predictable demand, else they enact shortsighted, over-reactive responses (e.g. layoffs) which can further exacerbate an economic downturn. See the Japanese financial crisis. Even a small fluctuation into deflationary territory can have long-lasting effects on consumer perception. It's safer (read: insurance policy) to maintain a slightly positive inflation rate so that consumers are encouraged to make purchase decisions promptly when needs arise versus indefinite speculative postponement.

Of course, the "optimal" inflation rate is context-dependent. Your unique economic situation will dictate which inflation trade-offs you end up selecting.
Beyond Freedom and Dignity (B. F. Skinner)
> Since then we often have the car slam brakes out of the blue (once waking up my sleeping family and causing both kids to cry), and a few other times.

And you still drive this car today? In the same mode?
I want to second the "You cannot fully control that..." part. Optimising being inoffensive is disrespectful to the listener and detrimental to the speaker.

Aim at being nonjudgemental, honest and supportive where at all possible. If what is left offends or 'hurts' someone, bad luck to them. They'll need to figure out their own approach to dealing with their feelings.
I honestly don't know why people try and find weird and convoluted answers for a very simple events. The narrative that Musk shouldn't be allowed to buy twitter doesn't matter, it's as simple as that, there was no mechanism anyone had to stop him, and he showed no sign of bowing to that pressure when he was originally offering the deal. He only tried to pull out when he saw the stock market collapse. It's very simple.

And what have his shenanigans achieved? We now have all his text messages which prove all the worst fears of the people who don't want him to own it.
Is it relatively as important as the looming threat of climate change? No.

Is it, in absolute terms, still a very important concern worth addressing at some point? Sure.

We should start addressing it now. We can work on more than one problem as a species, and moreover, we should. The big problems never stop coming, so focusing 100% of our energies on that means that the smaller problems won’t get solved.
Some of Debian 12 won't be FOSS
Modern kerosene heaters have a "ventilation sensor" (I don't know what it is, O2 or CO?) so it alerts or stops when the room is not ventilated. Deadly accident isn't popular so it seems that it's somewhat mitigated by the sensor and poorly insulated house, but some heaters were recalled due to CO deadly accident. It's not recommended to use it on modern insulated house.
> I honestly have no idea why bitcoin is still the most valuable cryprocurrency when projects like Monero exist.

Because it simply can't be audited. What is the purpose of a public ledger if it is not auditable.

Don't get me wrong I love Monero, but the transparency of Bitcoin is desirable if you intend to enforce a fixed supply.

Also things like Taproot could give some privacy if they widely get used by wallets (by default for example).
Bioinformatics tools are often used in batch processing pipelines, where the expected running time is hours. The ratio of users to developers is usually low enough that trade-offs between developer time and running time remain meaningful.

If you have a 50-gigabyte TSV file, you can memory-map, index, and validate it in a few minutes. Overhead like that is usually negligible. And if you encounter something weird like quoted strings, you can just print an error message and abort. It's your file format, so you don't have to make your life difficult by supporting unnecessary features.

That approach still kind of works with hundreds of gigabytes of data. Once you have terabytes, text files become too cumbersome. (Here I'm unfortunately speaking from experience.)
Speaking (and communicating) is a skill that can be improved.
Reasoning about asyncio.Semaphore (article by Guido van Rossum)
The problem is that the world is at neoliberal capitalism's end, as predicted by Marx. Basically, in capitalism, you pay for continuing investment (of capital owners) with giving them more property, which is something that cannot continue indefinitely. That internally increases social inequality, and the money will eventually accumulate at the top (in the form of asset price rises).

Capitalism's own solution so far was to create more available properties - more individual debt such as credit cards and mortgages, privatize public goods like health and education, more destruction of ecosystems, selling attention and disrupting work, and the latest fad, cryptocurrencies. But these are only temporary solutions, they do not address the core problem of increasing social inequality.

Likewise, printing money and giving them to the poor (while half of it goes directly to the top, because the decision-makers are only human) is a stopgap solution in the system where most money quickly end up accumulated at the top. It's a desperate attempt by governments to maintain social order.

In the middle of 20th century, the capitalism's tendency to create disparity was somewhat resolved in Keynesian approach, where state "investments" (based on taxation) were basically redistribution of the money back to the bottom, so that the process of accumulation could continue slower and indefinitely. That was eventually abandoned, for ideological reasons (people shouldn't get "free money", and the "private property" is sacrosanct).

However, it is the only known solution. The proper taxation of the rich (and property) is badly needed to long-term stabilize the capitalist system.

One could make an analogy with any other competition. When another competition starts, winners (of the old competition) are usually given the same place at the start as everybody else. This is because without this rule, the competition would quickly demotivate everybody. But this is happening under neoliberalism, and threatens to eventually halt the positives of the capitalist competition.
I do have some difficulty actually believing that you would be convinced, and it seems a bit weird everyone has to go do the googling for you but here are stats on police violence in U.S

https://www.security.org/resources/police-brutality-statisti...

note however this is violence, not corruption which would be a separate thing
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/249850.pdf

as it happens statistics on corruption in police in U.S are very few, even fewer than those about violence which only recently have started becoming available.

>How many fewer than we'd expect? What's the normal indictment rate? What should it be?

obviously the normal indictment rate would be how many 'civilians' who get the cops called on them then go on to have an actual court case.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

would be where I would start on that. But of course that is very low-level, as you can see from the earlier link in this post https://www.security.org/resources/police-brutality-statisti... they say there are few indictments, I would just accept that as the case as the experts having done the low level work instead of doing the low level work because everyone doing the low level work themselves is unfortunately very inefficient and if we had to do that we would not be able to do anything else, which sometimes it seems to me that people who do not accept the conclusions of the experts but demand that the low level work be done on an individual basis in order to argue fairly are actually hoping that nothing will be done at all.
> If you have the time and ability to learn more, why limit yourself? Why allow yourself to be put at a disadvantage?

So what is that advantage for everyday people? I see some people are making it a "citizenship requirement" but except for exponent, which is not a part of calculus anyway (OP original point), there seems to be little advantage to it.
Steve Jobs remains such an interesting mix of focussed attention to detail, obscure decision making, and flamboyantly anti-social behaviour that I still struggle to make up my mind about whether he as a person was someone I think generally positive or negative about.

In the end, I tend to think that his anti-social behaviour tips the scale to negative..

I also stuggle with other people that fit this personality type, like Elon Musk and in a way Bill Gates.
> Wireless cameras and doorbells are crucial for renters having any semblance of security.

This seems hyperbolic to me. You don’t need internet connected cameras and doorbells for your home to have a semblance of security. That’s what locks are for, and maybe a big fence behind the house.

Most people won’t ever have their home broken in to - according to a quick Google there were ~192,000 burglaries reported in 2021 in England & Wales. Extrapolate that over a typical lifetime and you’ll see 15.3 million nationwide, which for a population of about 65 million people means 76% of people never have anyone break in.

Wireless cameras and doorbells are, on the whole, products which rather than giving peace of mind leave people constantly worried that someone is going to do something, after all, we can see the constant stream of suspicious looking people setting of the motion detection.
If you want absolutely olympic response times (110-120ms), it is a little tight but nowhere near impossible. 7ms as the other poster says is absolutely insane. Most videogames will already trigger on consistent peak human response times, so you'll want to trim down your bot to go to a more average person (160ms, maybe a bit higher) to fly under all the heuristics they might (but probably don't) use. Plenty of time to compute things.
So visual cues are replacing ultra sonic ones?

I just see bats flying in these huge swarms not colliding and I’m like maybe we shouldn’t give up on ultrasonic sensors.
My wife and I dislike both our cars. They're older than average, they're externally unimpressive, and they're internally unimpressive. So long as we remember to take anything of value out of them, we don't give a fuck if they get stolen. The only hassle would be the insurance paperwork and finding a suitably average replacement vehicle.

They also don't mark us as the type of people that have anything worth the effort and risk of stealing.
VCF at least typically uses bgzip which is essentially gzipped sections concatenated, but parallel unzipable for random access, cram is also parallelisable in the same way. Maybe you just dont know the formats and tooling so well? Im not sure anyone opens a fastq directly for viewing anymore, but they will want pile ups from a bam. The problem with bio formats isnt that they're text its that they are shit text formats too.
There is no point in selecting columns here since what we want is objects, complete with all their properties. As for the rows, of course you can filter in your SQL:

Person.objects.raw('SELECT * FROM myapp_person WHERE last_name = %s', ["Doe"])

Should you want to work without your models... well, you still have access to your connection object and can happily fetch whatever column or aggregate you want.
There's an interesting set of comments by keithmadams on Twitter https://twitter.com/keithmadams/status/1577483553281310721, regarding the accuracy of this:

> This article's history of "virtualization" begins with paravirt in Zen in 2004. Then, after hardware support emerged, v12n started working with with unmodified OSes. No part of this is true. VMware was running binary OSes without hardware support in 1999.

> We did this by JIT'ing unrestricted x86 to a safe x86 subset. User-level code, with few exceptions, was directly executed, but kernel-level code ran through a little JIT. We described it in https://www.vmware.com/pdf/asplos235_adams.pdf

> It performs pretty well, as described above. The only problem is that tiny JITs that run in kernel mode and use x86 segmentation to hide themselves in the top 4MB of linear memory are ... hard to write. And VMware was making a lot of money.

> Zen invented paravirt; AMD invented SVM; and Intel invented VT in parallel all around 2003-2004, not to make virtualization on x86 practical, but to make it easy enough to disrupt VMware's emerging monopoly.

> As a VC focused on companies exploiting a tech advantage, VMware remains my favorite case study. For a time, they could do something that was undeniably valuable, that nobody else could do. And, moats like that are always time-limited; their value invites their destruction.
Same reason you comment here? We all want to be heard and have a right to be.
Interview with Retired Horse Butcher (2016)
In the US a nuclear reactor operator can work a 16 hour shift then get 8 hours off then return for an 8 hour shift. These hours exclude shift turnover time. This is crazy.
That can't explain the era of extremely low inflation and it can't explain what is happening in Japan.
It also cannot explain the Wörgl emergency money.
It's also terribly unintuitive, despite trying to be "simple and obvious". A really bad choice.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33074289
It's a thing, for sure, and something that a lot of people would like to hide. I don't understand why you sound so -- proud? about it. Even if we ignore that the laundering is only sometimes ethically neutral the people being scammed into buying the illiquid assets due to the deceptive cover are getting defrauded. This brings the whole ecosystem into ill-repute.
I would argue its an even bigger missed opportunity not replacing calculus with programming classes focused on using a cli and writing scripts to do work with the computer. Like it or not people get by fine in life with abstractions of more complicated things, but I think having knowledge of programming is akin to learning to read in terms of the potential it can unlock that can be relevant to every career there is. If programming became widely mandated into the curriculum, we would probably see a lot more interesting technologies and applications of existing technologies emerge in the coming decades in places you wouldn't even expect, than if we pressed forward with forcing calc down everyone's throat in high school and making them hate math for life.
Their point is that no one was financially hurt. Nobody in this thread mentioned anything about people getting physically hurt, unless I’m missing something.
How rare is cheating in contexts where there is money at stake?

Your average person playing blitz while seated on the toilet has little incentive to cheat, particularly if it involves setting up real time access to a powerful engine ... One expects almost no cheating in such an environment.

What if the numbers are: 1/700 cheat, but 1/7 GMs cheat ...?
The SEC added more enforcement staff to their "cyber" unit a few months ago. The number of crypto-related enforcement actions just increased from about two a month to four in one week.[1] Until recently, they were still working down the backlog from the ICO scams of 2018-2019. Now, they're going after much more recent violations.

It's hammer time for crypto scams.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/cybersecurity-enforcement-acti...
Oh dear, you really argue that every single parliamentary democracy in the world is not actually a democracy because, what, they are parliamentary? Something else?
I would expect for many developers it is really only a matter of how much you are willing to pay. If they don't already do freelance work then that cost might reasonably be higher than what it would cost to hire someone else to implement it because of the extra tax paperwork and whatnot that they now need to deal with.

Of course there will be some maintainers who are simply not interesed or unable to offer paid support (e.g. due to their employer being a control freak) but that's ok. As others have pointed out, forking / maintaining out of tree patches (and providing them to others) is not inherently hostile.
> Your friends don't want to spend fulltime analyzing all your presentations

With respect you've no idea what my friends will or won't do for me,
or what I will do for them. Maybe your friends won't.

> Or are you paying your friends to do this work?

It's precisely because we're friends that we don't have to pay each
other. People can have genuine interests in one another beyond money.
Thanks for your feedback! We've only had 3 different prices since May 2019 when we launched and you can see them on GitHub as the code goes there:

2019: $6/month for up to 10k pageviews/month with a 33% discount on annual billing

2021: $6/month for up to 10k pageviews/month with a 2 months for free discount on annual billing

2022: $9/month for up to 10k pageviews/month with a 2 months for free discount on annual billing

Any price change doesn't affect active subscribers. They are grandfathered to the plan they signed up with.

We're solely funded by the fees our subscribers pay us so we regularly review our prices as we improve the infrastructure, product and grow the team to keep it all priced sustainably.

(I'm the co-founder)
And it is not like Twitter doesn't have good and enough lawyers either. So the outcome between those is pretty much neutral. Which only leaves the facts and laws, which are on their side...
This would make sense if they teached recent history, which was at least not part of our curriculum and not to mention even if it was, it would be even more "regulated"

But no, at least in where I lived (Turkey) the history classes are ancient history, then some Turkish civilizations in Anatolia, Ottomans and early Turkey history. Then we have like a 60-70 years of empty space. Is this different for other countries?
s/bad/bat/ (only correcting because it took me a moment to figure out myself what the heck I was writing. :) )
Ok, now introduce negative interest rates on cash.
> My impression was that it stalled out mostly because to make good use of Observables you need a pipeline library like RxJS or xstream anyway,

As Ben Lesh explains, Observable is a primitive that is very powerful on its own. It can produce multiple values (in which it is similar to async iterables and different from promises); it has a mechanism for cancellation (as opposed to promises, and probably even async iterables); it probably can be both synchronous (if the data it produces finishes synchronously) and asynchronous; it is lazy, which makes it more composable than promises. Multiple values and cancellation are the big things I can remember.

Pipeline libraries (aka "operators") are downstream from that, and can be built in the userland.
In releasing this report, Chess.com appears to violate their promise of confidentiality expressed in Exhibit C:

> As we mentioned earlier, we have made no public statements regarding the
reasons for your account closure or our findings, and anything that happens in
this conversation will remain confidential.

But they did at least hide the player identity, so we only know it's a FIDE top 100 nearly-2700 player.

I'm slightly surprised at how easy they make it for a confessed cheater to unban themselves:

> As a titled player, we would like to offer you a chance to re-
establish yourself within the Chess.com community, and because
of that, we have made no public statements regarding the reasons
for your account closure or our findings. If you choose to
acknowledge any of the behaviors that you feel might have
resulted in your account being closed within the next 72
hours, we may try to work with you privately to have a new
account opened, equipped with a title and Diamond Membership.
What do you mean with "collective intention"? A person intention is the result of collective effort of its neurons. Things like collective representations and collective unconscious are well established concepts.

Whether these things positively exists outside of one mental experiment is an other matter, but so is the notion of individual and self.
>But that is a one-time discount, not a cumulative process.

Providing liquidity is a cumulative process.
> noone can blame them if they take it

Everyone can blame them, and they probably should. Profit as a primary motivator is destructive both to you and to everyone else - if you know someone that operates this way you owe it to them and to yourself to mock them at least a little.
> Don't think algebra or exponential growth matter? I think these concepts are critical to basic citizenship. Real understanding of exponential growth helps you understand viscerally why, for instance, you should nip a viral outbreak in the bud, and reducing the spreadrate even slightly (R0) can make a huge impact later on, even if spread isn't totally stopped. This is all just gibberish if not learned in high school.

Indeed. I remember talking to a doctor who worked in the ER when the first wave of COVID (brutal in my country) was brewing. She said that it wouldn't be a big deal, they had like 50% of beds vacant (or something like that) so they would be able to handle it just fine. I said that by looking at the data, I thought they would run out of beds next week. Her expression was dismissive, like "this guy doesn't work in healthcare, hasn't set foot in an ER, what does he know?"

The next week, ERs were overloaded, of course. It was in plain sight from the straight line in log-scale graphs. But for most people (including most doctors) the interpretation was (and still is) "wow, this virus is rough, it comes in sudden waves out of nowhere!". Just because they don't understand exponential growth.
I've played a few online competitive games that were fun. But if you go to the mainstream games you end up with kids calling you a stupid noob ... when you beat them. Weaned me off StarCraft at the least.
Doesn't that practically mean the rich get richer and the poor stay poor? If it would be net 0 everything would stay the same?
Yeah true, I like dalle-mini :) It did seem to understand the prompts better.

The training set also affects it, as the guidance signal competes with the diffusion-model's priors it learned from the training set (the cfg_scale) and I've found situations where it seems the priors are just encoded too strong it seems - for example with very well-known celebs or objects it's difficult to make variations.

I guess it's interesting that these issues are kind of reflected in humans as well.
Do you own Ioniq? I am looking at EVs now, and top of typical things like range, reliability, etc. that you need to worry about, I also don’t want a make that is moving into “heated-seat as a service” territory. So far I haven’t heard about such crap from Hyundai, but I don’t know anyone who owns newer model.
But for these things they are often really quite uncontroversial. Are you calculating the weather by hand to confirm NOAAs numbers? Definitely not. In the end you have to put trust in things you don't understand, because you can't learn the exact underpinnings of each and everything you face in life within the span of one human lifetime.
You forgot the courts. The government seizing stuff (which can be a problem in itself) doesn't mean the government can spend / use the stuff as they see fit. Courts have a say in that.