skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting but not actionable. E.g. here in Iowa there's no way in hell we'll choose the Canadian Goose as our 'state' bird. Let Canada keep that one for themselves.

We're on the flyway between Canada and wherever they migrate to. So its incidental the bird is more frequently observed here than other states.

We're very happy with the Goldfinch thank you. Yes, some call it the Eastern Goldfinch but we have plenty of them here too, and we just call them 'Goldfinch' here.
You mean migrants at the border ;) Elections in the age of social media.
Definitely agree with your second point! In theory, the reaction time and complete environment awareness should itself make an autonomous system way safer than human drivers.

In some way, I am against the philosophy of using HD maps + LIDAR data for highly accurate localization which most companies seem to be using these days. I believe that this approach is inherently brittle and is an 'easy way out' to the hard localization problem. I think more resources should be put into developing more natural, no HD map dependency techniques.

PS: It is my understanding that most of the major players were using HD maps, not sure if it is still true.
The phone system doesn’t lack regulation. Phone spam is already illegal. The reason for phone/VoIP spam is because the system is too inflexible to make it easy to prevent, and the reason the system is inflexible is that it is regulated.

We already have portability. When you sign up to a new network, you provide your phone number and email address, and your friends can find you.
If you're smoking weed and you kill someone in a traffic accident - I'm okay with you going to jail.
>That it's a normal part of US politics engaged in by all political parties.

Debatable. It's facially anti-democratic. That it's something that can be engaged in a partisan matter doesn't support your argument.
Card may be the ideological opposite of Le Guin, but he was also in a sense one of her disciples. His work shows a great deal of her influence, including the borrowed concept of the 'ansible'. _Speaker For The Dead_ is his big attempt at Le Guin-style anthropological SF. Of the two of them I'd rate Le Guin higher (despite having a username borrowed from Card's work), but I don't think this has much to do with Card's politics, which never really came through in the books I read. (I understand that he has later books with more explicit politics, but I had stopped reading by then.)

Thiel's take on Star Wars vs. Star Trek seems like a case of someone trying to align their likes and dislikes to be mutually reinforcing, which is a typical human foible. I've never noticed any political divide in fans, and a lot of people enjoy both.
There are numerous manufacturers of these things, eg:

https://powerpipehr.co.uk/

https://showersave.com/vertical-wwhrs/

https://recoupwwhrs.co.uk/

Ultimately they're just cleverly arranged copper pipes, so the barrier to entry for new manufacturers is low!

I am keen to get one - my shower sits directly above a cupboard on the floor below, where it would be simplicity itself to fit.

This article suggests the energy savings are not particularly big:

https://www.thegreenage.co.uk/tech/waste-water-heat-recovery...

... but there are several comments reporting the opposite!
Is that what OP actually said?
Are they contributing to GDP as much as they would if free? I really doubt it. I think most of this is busy-work, or work the prison system can sell easily to a private company for extra profit.

But I'm sure (having done no research and having no supporting data, so I know it's true) that productivity inside can't be more than a tiny fraction of what it would be on the outside.
i don't think that's very plausible -- because it would represent a massive escalation, would put whoever did it in serious legal jeopardy, and would severely hurt UK/EU relations -- and probably a bunch more reasons.

it's such a massive disaster that it could really only be done with tacit US approval, but probably a lot more than that.

given the EU's capitulation to US leadership/domination, whoever did it is probably safe.

still, i think of all the suffering that may be caused by the act...

the US has proven over decades that we'll do anything -- including the unthinkable -- to maintain our global dominance. now, Russia has just demonstrated their own willingness to go way too far -- with the invasion of Ukraine and all the crimes after. has yet another country taken a step towards Crazytown and proven that they too are willing to go way too far?
Just a heat-map of e-bike population I imagine.
Meta Bad, Metaverse Bad
In fairness, S1 of TNG was with some exceptions not great. It got better.
> They did already?

You seem fairly literate. Why would you ask this?
Links to Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure [1]

[1] https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/learning/research-report...
We had Trillian back in the day, but then the messaging services locked down their protocols. I don't expect such an app would survive the cat&mouse with major players for long.
It also stops, or makes it more difficult, to assault/rob a cashier. Though I think picking food will always be better with a human, given all the random questions you can ask them.
Reminds me of the UK Type 440 destroyer class, which (I'm going from memory here, if somebody fact checks me I expect them to be right, not me) was designed to fire missiles at incoming USSR aircraft ... with an average time from initial engagement to toast of around 7 minutes.

But if those aircraft were intending to drop nuclear weapons on British soil, even a single successful kill would have saved far more lives than the crew complement of a 440.
I think not using LiDAR would be a good bet. LiDAR in nutshell allows you to give an object in vision 3D space, relative speed which 2 human eyes can do very fast. Problems with solving this in vision based input is in dataset and interpretation. Computer vision and AI can’t effectively apply a human drivers judgment with better camera and processing power, at least not yet.
I have no love for C++.
Cheerfully upvoted. You are right, of course.
> We want the automation to do what a human pilot would do. And that works with eyes.

Humans can’t really turn senses off, so they have coffee when driving.
Touch and hearing are quite important to “read the road”. Equilibrium too.
Aren’t BiDi transceivers usually a good bit more expensive, especially compared to how low the material cost of fiber is? What’s your use case for BiDi? I don’t have a lot of first hand experience with this stuff, though. I can easily imagine BiDi being useful to retrofit/repurpose some existing fiber, since labor costs can be a lot.
Doe it literally check for the specific solution?

Writing

to = append(to, ctrl)

which is functionally equivalent and, in my personal opinion, with clearer intent (ctrl = 0 at that point in the code), returns "incorrect".

In fact, it seems that any placeholder value should work - as it is always overwritten by the final value of ctrl for a given set of bytes at the end; however, the checker rejects this.
I'm not advocating for human moderation so much as pointing out that the profits obtained by these social media organizations that eschew what would be reasonable moderation in any other medium come from their externalization of this cost.
Combo that with toilet sinks and a lot of water would/could be saved per year/person.
The most worrying thing is that eye movement is mostly subconscious. This company is already collecting so much user data to be used immorally for financial gain, but collecting subconscious focus and intention is on whole other level. I just hope it will soon be declared illegal. Meanwhile Meta again proves it will stop at nothing and should never be allowed to regulate itself.
The character of Malcolm is infinitely more interesting in the book than in the movie.
You aren't going to read what anyone thinks because the deluge of nonsense and junk in an unmoderated environment will render it useless for such purposes.
My cell phone has become my normal lens. New phones from both Apple and Google take such a good photos that literally all my street photography is shot with them. I'll grab my trusty A7r4 /w either wide or very long variety of lenses if I will be going to some special place etc. with specific purpose of shooting something that is (in my opinion that is) worth recording in the detail only achievable with this gear. But other than some far and few grand landscapes or wildlife, most of my most amazing(?) photos nowadays come from my cell phone. Case in point - was driving last night along the city street and was passing this church/graveyard which just looked amazingly spooky in the dark/fog/street lighting; stopped my car in the middle of the street, rolled down the window, and snapped couple of (raw) photos with the phone before driving away. Because the phone is with me all the time, it has become my new normal lens.
> And then it had the typical Stephenson ending, which is to say

that made me laugh out loud
Moisture is the #1 destroyer of buildings in its various forms.

https://www.buildingscience.com/bookstore/books/moisture-con...

Moisture control and mitigation is a very important part of building to last, and building to minimize maintenance and energy usage (simplistic "insulate everything and seal all air leaks" can result in a doomed structure).
Why? They seem to work fine as they are.
Mainstream journalists get their worldviews from taking the social temperature at parties, and to them Twitter is like a dinner party for all of the journalists, politicians and rich dudes in the world to mingle with each other. That the riff-raff might not be thrown out by security anymore is an apocalyptic event for them.
> once done with that the slate is clean

I don't agree with this part. If someone was convicted of embezzlement on three separate occasions, and served a year in jail each time, would that be someone you'd be willing to hire as your accountant?
strange new worlds is the best new star trek since TNG. absolutely beautiful tv
This is pretty neat. Is it open source?
I wholeheartedly agree. It’s refreshing to see somebody state it so openly.
I can disagree with the editorializing while looking at the numbers.
Rule of law de facto doesn't exist in other words
And all will come with convenient back-doors for warrantless tapping by Government agencies.
And in the US at least, FDA requires a max expiration date or one year, despite many being shelf stable for probably decades.

I know I read somewhere about morphine pills from WW2 medkits being found to still be useful 60+ years later - like say 30-50% of stated dose.
debug.exe is single pass and doesn't do labels so by having the string first you know its address later.
The size of the m43 kit was never the benefit, to me. The first thing I did was add a grip because the Olympus body was too small. Then I added another grip so I can hold it the other way. Now it's as big as any 35mm I owned.
Algorithms for Decision Making was just released in print. It uses Julia for its code examples.
And how is that working? For all of the cruelty of our justice and carceral system, we still have high crime and high recidivism. It's catastrophically bad policy from a public safety standpoint, costing an immense amount of money for the outcomes we get. And yet, there's not much public motivation to demand better.

I have concluded that the system largely does what the public wants. It inflicts tremendous harm and collateral damage with a veneer of plausible deniability that lets us tell ourselves that it's about crime reduction, justice, and/or rehabilitation.
Don’t be silly. The government doesn’t regulate how these services operate.

If you are going to argue that macroeconomic policy means ‘control’, then the government ‘controls’ everything in everyone’s lives at all times. You are welcome to believe this if you like.
DEBUG.EXE is some necronomicon-tier dark magic.
The investigation found the code was a mess:

“Michael Barr, a well-respected embedded software specialist, spent more than 20 months reviewing Toyota’s source code at one of five cubicles in a hotel-sized room, supervised by security guards, who ensured that entrants brought no paper in or out, and wore no belts or watches. Barr testified about the specifics of Toyota’s source code, based on his 800-page report. Phillip Koopman, a Carnegie Mellon University professor in computer engineering, a safety critical embedded systems specialist, authored a textbook, Better Embedded System Software, and performs private industry embedded software design reviews – including in the automotive industry – testified about Toyota’s engineering safety process. Both used a programmer’s derisive term for what they saw: spaghetti code – badly written and badly structured source code.

“Barr testified:

“There are a large number of functions that are overly complex. By the standard industry metrics some of them are untestable, meaning that it is so complicated a recipe that there is no way to develop a reliable test suite or test methodology to test all the possible things that can happen in it. Some of them are even so complex that they are what is called unmaintainable, which means that if you go in to fix a bug or to make a change, you’re likely to create a new bug in the process. Just because your car has the latest version of the firmware — that is what we call embedded software — doesn’t mean it is safer necessarily than the older one….And that conclusion is that the failsafes are inadequate. […]”

- https://www.safetyresearch.net/toyota-unintended-acceleratio...
I doubt it will happen. From what I'm reading and messages from relatives, federal police is blocking access to the voting polls in some poor areas where Lula is popular.
Heh get a dry suit (like a wetsuit but sealed) and then fill it with hot water? Should only use a few gallons.
Spam is not solely solved by technology, regulation also helps. Regulation also helps with phone and text spam, though there's more to do.
Running Qubes 4.1 on a Lenovo Thinkpad T460s i7 6600U, 12GB DDR4 RAM.

VMs (Qubes) work like a snap. I typically run 8-10 with various utilities/browsers and wouldn’t even be able to “tell” that it’s running in a VM if I didn’t know any better. The entire OS feels very lightweight and snappy. I also prefer minimal UIs, so that helps a bit. I can see where the UI might “put off” some modern users, as it reminds me a lot of the old CDE interface without the bottom status bar that CDE used to have (I believe Qubes uses GTK-2, IIRC). The included Linux Qubes (Debian, Fedora, Whonix) all work well and provide a “seamless” enough experience, considering that you are always working with multiple virtual machines.

Others in the thread have echoed concerns about the funky copy/paste feature, but it works well for me once I got the hang of it. I sometimes now even accidentally do the two-step copy/paste even when I’m not using Qubes.

Windows 10 in a Qube, on the other hand, is only okay-ish. It’ll get the job done running Office 365, but I wouldn’t exactly call it a pleasant experience. It’s a bit sluggish and will only run in full VM mode, which is a resource hog.

Although I don’t really call Windows a pleasant experience in most cases. ;)
You have to remember that he didn't want to buy the car at all.
> The fact that (most) humans manage to drive around safely and successfully in current roads proves that the information needed exists in the pixel-space

But that doesn't mean that it translates to a car.

We constantly move our 576MP resolution eyes in multiple orientations in order to visualise a scene and focus on the most important areas. Cars have fixed, low-quality cameras.

We then interpret this data using the most advanced pattern recognition system the world has ever seen that is trained for at least 20+ years to fully comprehend the behaviour of everything this planet has to offer. Cars don't have anything close to this.
Thank you for commenting on Stephenson’s plot resolutions. I love his writing and his stories, but the end of his books are just so unfulfilling. Especially Anathem!
> there are always other, less convenient options (hotspot on phone, standalone hotspot, public Wi-Fi…

Until you’re driving, hypothetically, through rural Arkansas, where there's no Starbucks and your iPhone has juuuuuust enough signal strength to receive the WhatsApp telling you that you need to turn around a couple of slides but not enough bandwidth to download the deck.

Your iPad, though, for reasons known only to the black magic gods of RF design does have a stable-enough LTE connection and it saves your bacon with the large corporate client that dragged you to razorback country in the first place.

Hypothetically.

> You cannot take your mantra to its logical conclusion and apply it to everything, everywhere

There’s a reason I wrote iPad Pro. It’s not my mantra - it’s advice that applies to specific kinds of people in specific kinds of situations. The kind of people who have the means and motivation to run fiber throughout their house, for example.
I'd love to hear stories about actual Crystal use.

Of all the languages I've seen emerge in recent years, it was the one I was most conceptually fond of.

It's basically (progressively-) statically typed Ruby, but fast (compiled). I enjoy writing Ruby, but I hate maintaining it.
He also had a problem with women (to be fair, he was a professional writer - and apparently his wife wouldn't let him use the house).

I don't think I've read a single well-meaning intelligent woman in a PKD story.

I remember being surprised at the start of one of his books, that the female character introduced at the beginning was clearly competent - turned out she was evil.
The difference is that each node has its own set of moderators.

So jerks will get moderated there. And when they do that, they'll probably jump servers. And so get cordoned off into wherever federated node that they isolate themselves into.

Note that each server decides which other servers it will federate and share content with.

So eventually nodes that collect jerks will just get cut from most of the rest of the federation.

It's certainly vulnerable to abuse. But it also leaves more room for community response.

And it also doesn't have a recommendation "algorithm". You see the content you explicitly subscribe to. In chronological order. So dark patterns that arise out of feeding people rage tweets and engagement hacking and amplifying "controversial" crap for engagement... doesn't happen. So the platform isn't going to give an outsized "recommended" audience for crap just because it has high "likes" -- that's not how the platform works.
Curious. These other programmers probably learned the habit from some even older code. Jumping over data isn't a very obvious way of organising code, so probably it served some purpose many years ago.

Maybe someone here knows what was that purpose?
Sure. But then the “idiots” can write the tests themselves. ;)
Anyone interested in disruptive technology, tech startups & entrepreneurship should definitely look into the story of Churchill Navigation. They went from a tiny company to practically defining the market, in an industry that is usually slow-moving; dealing with city, county, and state contracts for police aviation technology. Their tech innovation alone wasn't enough, it also took a strong focus on customers, like customer support that "doesn't scale". Tom Churchill quotes Alan Kay, “People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”: They acquired an aerial camera company so they can achieve Apple-style hardware/software integration, and innovate without being limited by what traditional hardware manufacturers are capable of. He's stated that their largest growth area right now is AI.

Twitter thread with some more info: https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1570452343233318912
You can just use ret at the end, saving 3 bytes. Also, the initial value of bp is 09xx on every version of MS-DOS since 4.0, so you can also start off with an xchg ax,bp to save another byte.

xchg ax,bp
mov dx,107
int 21
ret
db "hello, world" 0d 0a '$'

22 bytes, of which 15 is the message.
it will not search "all instances".

It will search a subset of instances.

How do we know this to be true?

a) there is no central listing of all mastodon instances, or even all public ones.

b) it would take FREAKING AGES TO COME BACK because there are so damn many, you can only make so many parallel requests at a time, and you have to process the results from all of them.
Interview with an FFmpeg Enthusiast
From the article I got the idea that the AIM was probably short for "And... I Missed."
I think doing adequate filtration of the full waste water flow without losing most of the heat would be a challenge. And remember you're also sending soap suds down the pipe, which will pass the filter and leave deposits inside the exchanger.

Also, if you're just using gravity to push the waste water through, what flow rate would you get on one of those units, and how many would you need to handle the full flow?

The most persuasive waste water heat exchangers i've seen are based around the a large-diameter pipe, with conical sections connecting it to the input and output, where the waste water flows down the inner wall of the pipe in a thin layer, and the cold water flows up the outside. It's not as space-efficient as a conventional heat exchanger, but it avoids the problem of blockage.

That would also be fairly easy to improvise, i think, given that you can buy copper pipe, or even buy copper foil and wrap it into a large, thin-walled cylinder.
> Therefore, for this simple ADAS algorithm using roof mounted LIDAR, heavy rain does not prove to be a particularly important factor in the system performance.

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/8/1/89/htm
This is my Warcraft II page
If one GUI's not enough for your SPARC workstation, try four
As someone almost completely ignorant about Brazilian politics, this surprised me a bit. In the U.S., it urban voters tend to vote for the more progressive candidates. I'd assumed that was more or less a universal truth. Apparently not!
The only "practical" installation I've seen (besides ones in massive multiplayer showers like you'd see at a college or YMCA) was for a massive house with a huge shower designed for 30+ minute showers.

And at that point you probably can "save the environment" more by not building a 10k sq ft mansion. But what do I know?
I liked the part where you told me about he "calculus of a lifer".

Anyway, that guy is misrepresenting what AggSeg is. It's not torture, he was not egregiously isolated, he still had contact with people. He ate better food and had more TV. He's just the type who will always complain about the conditions of the facility, and all the inmates like to LARP about "the hole" being hardcore, because that's where the violent folks are sent.
Have you tried a few other images / descriptions to confirm that it is indeed only Signal that's not being shown?
Isn’t it curious how urban is right leaning and rural is left. There are obvious reasons but still interesting.
Sure, and in Zsh you can do `(( $+configdir ))` if you want to differentiate "unset" from "empty". But the fact that you need this check at all demonstrates the existence of a problem.

You can also set the "-u" option (in Zsh, `setopt no_unset`) which at least will cause your script to crash with an error if you happen to forget this check. But then you have to remember to set that option as well!

Lua has a similar-ish problem with undefined variables being `nil`, but for the most part Lua is also rather strictly typed, and that will typically end up causing some kind of error deep inside a function call, rather than doing something dangerous silently.
Lots of discussion online about the investigation. Search for “Toyota ECU spaghetti code”

One result: https://www.safetyresearch.net/toyota-unintended-acceleratio...
I never cared much about twitter. But I’d be very happy to get a couple of good tech profiles on Mastodon recommended. :)