skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And also something we usually don’t consider: loss of memory, which can occur in combination with a traumatic event like your house burning. Then you can loose your smartphone, your Yubikey, your printed copy, and your memory all at the same time if everything is stored in one place. And this is exactly when you will need those the most. Not easy to defend against such a nightmarish scenario.
To be fair, perhaps your employer didn't expect it to be such a hassle either.
Simulating traffic on Google Maps using a wheelbarrow full of phones (2 yrs ago)
A laser that could ‘reshape the landscape of integrated photonics’
Author of the benchmark and of SPyQL here.
ClickHouse is fantastic. Amazing performance. SPyQL is built on top of Python but still can be faster than jq and several other tools as shown in the benchmark. SPyQL can handle large datasets but Clickhouse local should always show better performance.

SPyQL CLI is more oriented to work in harmony with the shell (piping), to be very simple to use and to leverage the Python ecosystem (you can import Python libs and use them in your queries).
Just to state that as a European who has lived in Asia for 20 years, five of those in Beijing, I didn’t read anything passive aggressive in the reply, nor any attitude worth calling out as ungrateful. But it does remind one how written English is a minefield when it comes to (mis)communication.
They scan your ID and look up your flight in databases based on your name. It’s been happening for a few years now: https://thepointsguy.com/news/tsa-new-technology/
Sounds like there might be some kind of solution for this that - just spitballing here - uses networked computers.
Beyond AmigaOS – Weird and Obscure Amiga Computer Operating Systems
Thanks for sharing, I always wanted to see what was inside these beautiful properties! (If you go to the lettings section you can actually see individual properties and their HEFTY price)
Wait a second, everything I see about Elon online says that he alone is the super genius who invented electric cars and space travel. The engineers who work at those companies are just assistants; people to massage his shoulders as he tackles the next impossible technical problem himself.
How does this compare to Supabase? Is this easily self hostable? I'm seeing lots of movement in this space and it's getting harder to keep track.
Is there a "latest draft" standard available legally and for free for wider audiences? C++, also ISO standardized, does this and I believe it has contributed greatly to its adoption and post-C++11 renaissance. See https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/links#C.2B.2B_Language_and... . For now, JPEG XL might as well be a proprietary closed format for most hackers here.
What does “for-cause” mean in an at-will state? If you’re fired, you generally still qualify for Unemployment Insurance. Severance payment is not a law, but a per-company practice. If a company plays games with their benefits, that can’t be unexpected.
Money talks. The average Burning Man attendee: "Burning Man census reveals the average burner has a household income of up to $100,000 is 35, male, white and will spend nearly $2,500."

Burning Man requires a lot of work in advance, it is not people going down to live by a river.

https://burningman.org/event/preparation/playa-living/human-...
I bought into the Bangle.js 2 Kickstarter and I have to say, I'm incredibly happy with it. Granted, I've done nothing with it besides design my own watch face and take advantage of the GPS to set the time occasionally, but I know it's capable of a lot more. It was very easy to write the watch face code, and I feel like it would be pretty easy to do whatever I wanted to do. Ecosystem for it is probably a bit more developed than it was at launch, too- they were supposed to follow up with some apps that made interfacing it with your phone easier, dunno where that ended up.

To be fair- I've also got PineTime bookmarked for if my Bangle.js 2 ever breaks, or I just want to mess around with some lower-level aspects of watch firmware.

https://www.espruino.com/Bangle.js2
We don’t have an amendment guaranteeing the right to own insane numbers of catalytic converters, however.
I just like being able to customize the watch face basically, and see notifications without pulling out my phone.
I mean, if you want to do it on the cheap, it only takes a few minutes for the dev's boss' boss' boss' boss' assistant to handwrite a note saying "Nice work saving the company, you are officially my hero" or words to that effect.
Do you have any actual evidence for masks being ineffective? You keep saying they're ineffective, but you're not providing any evidence for that claim. Or for any of your other claims that non-pharmaceutical interventions are ineffective. Those are quite the extraordinary claims, in opposition to epidemiologists. You do know what extraordinary claims require, correct?

In contrast, here is a report on the CDC's website on mask effectiveness for Covid:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106e1.htm

That report contradicts your claims of ineffectiveness ("uselessness of masks" etc.) as well as the relative effectiveness of various types of masks.

On top of the lack of evidence for any of your claims, you accuse people of being deluded if they disagree. You call contact-tracing a charade, in opposition to epidemiologists. Those are just two examples among multiple others. So. Is there a reason for this incendiary rhetoric and gish-galloping in your posts?
Besides that jokes you can make at that tweet in how it claims a image codec can be racist. If you know how to limit the image quality range in AVIF (and how to reduce smoothing which can be done), you can get images that have dark areas that are near to that of JPEG-XL.

I have been able to (by both reducing the quality range and turning smoothing off) to get much better results on a high contrast image with most of its details in darker, having far-more details in those dark area with AVIF than JPEG-XL (not small differences either as you could see brick work that was destroyed by compression artifacts in JPEG-XL).

libavif default settings suck.
Thoughts on Rust after six months
Great work. Thank you for sharing!

No matter how impressive their performance, all AI systems built out of deep artificial neural networks so far have been shown to be susceptible to (out-of-sample) adversarial attacks, so it's not entirely surprising to see this result. Still, it's great to see proof that superhuman AI game players are susceptible too.

A hypothesis I have is that all intelligent systems -- including those built out of deep organic neural neural networks, like human beings -- are susceptible to out-of-sample adversarial attacks too. In other words, any form of evolved or learned intelligence can be robust only with the sample data it has seen so far. There's some anecdotal evidence supporting this hypothesis: Magicians, advertisers, cult leaders, ideologues, and demagogues routinely rely on adversarial attacks to fool people.
There's an app version if that floats your boat...
People with foreign accents typically escape the ladder of judgement. I think it is well observed that people with various American or Australian or European accents aren't really pigeonholed to some specific class on basis of their accent alone.
Some more points, collaboration using e.g. git and its ecosystem, a representation that does not force you to use proprietary software (not sure about libre office for formulae), the ability to easily produce tex files by other scripts, e.g. to compile maths exercises from a set of templates.
.. and it's funny how a system where there are no guarantees of delivery (people email to reach their inbox in seconds, but the delivery time is not guaranteed at all, nor is delivery!), no privacy (IMHO most emails are transported in plain text and one only needs to sniff the traffic..), and no guarantee of authenticity (you can send an email with any "FROM" address, pretty much), well how a system like that can in fact be incredibly useful. Of course, the layman thinks all these things are in fact guaranteed...
I would recommend Darts in Python [1]. It's easy to use (think fit()/predict()) and includes

* Statistical models (ETS, (V)ARIMA(X), etc)

* ML models (sklearn models, LGBM, etc)

* Many recent deep learning models (N-BEATS, TFT, etc)

* Seamlessly works on multi-dimensional series

* Models can be trained on multiple series

* Several models support taking in external data (covariates), known either in the past only, or also in the future

* Many models offer rich support for probabilistic forecasts

* Model evaluation is easy: Darts has many metrics, offers backtest etc

* Deep learning scales to large datasets, using GPUs, TPUs, etc

* You can do reconciliation of forecasts at different hierarchical levels

* There's even now an explainability module for some of the models - showing you what matters for computing the forecasts

* (coming soon): an anomaly detection module :)

* (also, it even include FB Prophet if you really want to use it)

Warning: I'm probably biased because I'm Darts creator.

[1] https://github.com/unit8co/darts
I agree with the parent comment and I also agree with you. The reason is that I believe that the states rule mostly applies to permanent things (i.e curtains or mugs) while you are commenting about a consumable. Everyone likes when you bring olive oil from vacation and, if it meets a certain minimum, everyone likes when you bring cake. In your case, you further have the DIY aspect. DIY things are generally interesting (though it depends on the quality of the item and the relationship between giver and receiver). But store bought stuff that the receiver may as well have bought themselves? If I am invited to a (non-BYO) BBQ, I would never bring a potato salat from the local supermarket. But I would (at times) definitely bring a home made one.
>If Random House declines to publish your book because they don’t think it will sell, is that censorship?

Yes. You're being censored in this case by the will of markets or perception of the will of markets (consumers at large), less so by the store owner due to systemic constraints they must operate in. Markets indirectly represent the will of mass consumers. There's a reason we have minority protections in government and chose a republic structure over pure democracy, to prevent oppression of the voices of the few by the masses.

>If I run a sci-fi bookstore, and I choose not to stock your book about political philosophy, is that censorship?

If you intentionally chose to ommit the book and it wasn't due to chance omission, perhaps because you hate the author, then yes, it's censorship.

>If it write an article that reviews your book (wherein, necessarily, I pick and choose what parts of your book I talk about, and also paraphrase [is that the same as “manipulating information”]), is that censorship?

It depends on how you choose that information and present it. Is it a representative sample of the book or are you intentionally cherry picking pieces of information, especially out of context, to represent a preconceived opinion you want to portray and not an actual summary? If so, the yes, it's censorship. If not, then no, it's not censorship.

I agree there are logistical constraints that makes reductionism a requirement. The key differences in all of these cases is intent. It's difficult to prove but the question isn't if you had to reduce information for logistic purposes but how and why you chose what to reduce. Did you reduce information for your advantage? Then chances are, it's censorship.
The Intelligence of African Hunters
The scripting parts look promising.
You're posting this on a heavily-moderated forum. Which "Dark patterns" do you think are in use here, and why do you tolerate it vs. having the same discussion on 4chan or wherever?

This kind of comment always runs afoul of reality. Moderated discussion is the rule and not the exception because it works. It results in more desirable content that attracts more users. Parler and Gab and Truth[1] couldn't beat Twitter; 4chan couldn't beat reddit, 8kun couldn't even beat 4chan. Going back farther, USENET was fundamentally unmoderatable by design, and it drowned itself in a torrent of spam.

The less moderation, the less utility. Everywhere.
This early classification of kids, for lack of a better term, is so screwed up. And it has all kinds of issues around social background, racial discrimination and whatnot. Ever PISA study I remember basically gave us the same feedback, black on white. Not that I expect it to change in my lifetime so. it did get considerably easier, as opposed to easy, to get access to university level education when starting out at a Hauptschule since I went to school. Back then, like 20 odd years ago, it was basically impossible to do so.

I have the highest respect of everyone who actually goes from a Hauptschule to a university degree, this is probably the hardest way to get higher education imaginably around here.
The problem when you do not perceive class, is that you view those of the same class as adversaries on your way to the top rather than people on the same boat as you, needing to cooperate to improve your overall position and fix your problems. Lower class problems are other people's problems, because you are not really a part of it or won't be for long more (so you think).

Basic human life conditions should really not be up to a game of "success" that by definition has few winners. In my opinion at least.
I think a friend of mine just spent 200k on a new mobile home. I’ve heard plenty of examples of similarly expensive mobile homes.
It's tricky to reward outstanding work for salaried folks, since it can mess with intrinsic motivation or misalign incentives. Here it's probably appropriate to have a five figure spot bonus for the line employee who made the fix, and a promotion, if they still had the junior title.

And also a very long uncomfortable conversation with whichever architects or seniors decided it was okay for Black Friday pricing to only be uploaded five minutes before midnight - what the hell is that about?
Well, the threat of the service going away is a pretty big one. Until we have devices that can work from our own hosted systems, this will always be a concern.
Same, I just got solar + radio sync watch as replacement, not having to do anything ever with it beats having to charge for some extra features, even if it is just once a week, "modern" one that I'd need to charge every day or two just sounds annoying...
From the abstract:

> Conclusions: History of primary-series vaccination enhanced immune protection against omicron reinfection, but history of booster vaccination compromised protection against omicron reinfection. These findings do not undermine the short-term public health utility of booster vaccination.

That last sentence seems odd.

From the full paper:

> These findings do not undermine the utility of booster vaccination in the short-term, but may point to potentially significant public health complexities requiring fine-tuning of booster vaccination to those who can best benefit from it, such as those most clinically vulnerable to severe COVID-19.

After following this stuff long enough, it's hard not to wonder if the authors actually believed that statement in the abstract or just put it in there because they didn't want to ruffle feathers.

The paper says pretty much nobody has a severe reinfection, and that a booster makes it more likely that you'll get reinfected. If severe reinfection is mostly out the window, then it seems plausible that the next best goal is reducing reinfections period.
TeX itself is not really complex. The implementation is fine. The hard part is the ecosystem.

Any contender is going to face a daunting task of explaining why adopters should throw away 50 years of collective work of thousands of people that went into TeX packages in CTAN. Math notation is at best 1% of the reasons why people use TeX. Packages are.
One of these backup apps had a comparison table in their wiki. I can't remember which one and how accurate it still is.
I gotta say I personally felt insulted when I was doing contracting and my hiring company bought me a 5 dollar starbucks gift card. They were making $25/hr off of me for the privilege of having introduced me to employer. Found it pretty galling.
Because the precedent set is downright scary. Half a step removed from putting anyone who uses torrents on a list.
Great article. If I may presume to add something, I think point 6 (strongest possible counterargument) is a special case of a more general idea: thinking strategically. I also learned that from chess BTW. Whether you're talking about arguments or fixing a bug or planning a career, there's often a huge branching tree of possibilities - things you might do, things others might do, things that might happen because that's how the environment works. Learning to look ahead, apply pruning, etc. to find the best "move" at each point in time can be very valuable. So can prioritization, responding to a setback, and so on - which you can also learn from chess or other games. Not everything is a game, of course, but the strategic thinking that they encourage is very broadly applicable.
It's actually preferrable in many of those "infallible" cases to panic rather than handling the error since it usually indicates that your application is in unknown territory and there is no "safe" way to handle it.
Well if you do leave it unmoderated for long, other users can appeal to admins to get control instead, assuming they have a plan on doing something with it. Not unlike a domain name in a way, just without the paywall.
Lots of people have already made good library recommendations, so I will make a non-recommendation for all the data science students out there: stop thinking about libraries, and start thinking about models.

"What library do I use?" is the wrong question. "What model do I use?" is the right question. Libraries are just part of the process of answering that question.

That said, high quality implementations of interesting times series models seem hard to come by, so it's still a legitimate question to ask about libraries. but consider the goal of asking about libraries: you want to find high-quality implementations of useful models, not a magic black box that you can crank data through.
That can happen but the relative frequencies matter a lot. What I’ve seen at least an order of magnitude more frequently is that someone comes in with some tedious repeat of e.g. recent Fox News talking points, perhaps even literally copy-pasted, and then whines about downvoting because clearly the problem is that other people weren’t taking seriously their regurgitation of something which has debunked many times already. This is especially common in places like science or economics subreddits where a hefty fraction of these aren’t controversial takes but simply run afoul of measurable reality.

I’ve also seen a ton of cases where people expressed disagreement or contrarian positions but did so in a respectful and fact-aware manner and had positive interactions because they were respectful of the community.
That's the main reason we should start using WebAssembly for distributing and using packages.

Shamless plug: Wasmer [1] and WAPM [2] could help a lot on this quest!

[1]: https://wasmer.io/

[2]: https://wapm.io/
> why not just use Acrobat

Does Acrobat have any typesetting capabilities? I thought another app did that and just finalised through Acrobat.
Hmmm...once at Caltech someone got into my account on the PDP-10 and all they did, as far as I could tell, was fix some bugs in a program of mine I was having trouble with.

I never did find out who did it. I wonder if it was Walter?

I was an overly obnoxious frosh at the time and I'm certain I was quite annoying to the older students who frequented the terminal room such as Walter (I think he would have been a junior at the time).

And I'm certain Walter was aware of me, because he had once either targeted me in a prank or used me in a prank against someone else (or perhaps both--I've never been clear on who was the target). The someone else was one of the system admins, Bill. Bill really liked playing Walter's game "Empire".

So one day I was sitting at a terminal hacking away at something and I got a message via the system for sending a text message to another terminal from Bill telling me to not do what I just did again or I'd be in trouble and have my account suspended.

I had no idea what he was talking about. A while later I got another message. Bill seemed really annoyed with me. I then got summoned to his office. He was really mad. He said I keep sending him rude messages, like telling him to stop playing Empire and get his fat ass back to work.

I denied sending these messages and he was not buying it.

And then another insult from me came through while I was there in his office.

Bill then started to maybe believe me, and went to Walter's directory to look at the Empire source. Sure enough, Walter had recently added code that checked for Bill playing while I was also logged on, and would fake rude and insulting messages from me from my terminal to Bill.

And that is why I will never use a compiler from Walter if there is any way the compiler might be able to tell I'm the one using it. :-)
Their needs do support it though. They were happy with the output, and it printed on their inkjet printer just fine. Then Adobe rug-pulled and they weren't able to view their own files any more.
I have a use case for a watch. I like being able to just look at my wrist.

Especially when traveling and doing activities like hiking, I do find watch modestly useful. Hiking distance etc. Apple Pay as you say. Calendar events and other notifications.

It is for me modest benefit and I often wear a cheap Timex at home. And yes the charging is the big downside although there are quite a few things I do daily that are a routine.
Amiga Unix Wiki
>CA added new machines to testing that report every test to try to slow this down but every mechanic knows where to find the old machines that can run tests without reporting.

>They just want to get you on the road and they’re damn good about it

Don't worry, the east coast has a solution for this harmonious alignment of business and customer incentives: 'safety' inspections

I took the training back when I lived in MA. The 3rd party that did the training (same contractor that did the computer systems at the time) basically said that the state's priority is clean air and that safety inspections only exist to make the combined safety+emissions license lucrative for a shop to hold and create an incentive not to subvert the interest of the state (by fudging emissions inspections) in favor of the customer (who the mechanic wants a good relationship with). Basically they want doing business via the state (by using your inspection license to make a bunch of work) to be more lucrative than any business you get helping customers dodge the state's interest. The lady running the training even started it by congratulating the class on "this lucrative next step in our careers and businesses" (which is somewhat hilarious because there is very little easy money in automotive repair).

That said, by the time I got out of that industry (mid 00s) they had stopped using tailpipe sniffers (at least in MA) and the economic realities of parts vs labor had more or less made any cheating beyond what the vehicle owner could do themselves irrelevant.
Actually, I had a similar off-putting experience with tsfresh. I just thought it was due to me not understanding how to use it properly. The API is indeed pretty weird.
Not even close, these are not plaintext based so you can't track changes with git, let alone automatic generation of formulas.
If you think Germany is title obsessed, try Austria...