skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what your sources are, but for me Linux recently took over prime position for gaming. I've been dual-booting since forever, but it's many months between every time I boot up Windows, and every time I'm now reminded that the lead it had is gone except for one thing:

- The performance difference is small enough that I don't notice.

- Audio setup is now easier in Linux (using PulseAudio and, since ~6 months, PipeWire). I had the worst time getting Windows to output to the right place.

- I can't remember the last game which didn't work in Steam on Linux, even if it's not officially supported. They do have a huge incentive to improve Linux support now that their handheld console is running it.

- Windows supports more than 8 bits per colour channel. The setup is annoying and fiddly, and it doesn't always work, but damn does Elden Ring look good in HDR.

I've been using the official AMD/NVIDIA drivers (on both platforms) most of this time. The NVIDIA driver kept crashing things so often I switched, and the AMD driver has been rock solid.
It's kind of amazing to think of the people who saw these changes - from steam to diesel, from props to jets, all this in a relatively short period of time (first flight to landing on the moon was about 60 years!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYXEBcZpNQQ

I've seen quite a few lasts (the last shuttle flight, the last 747 rolling off the line, etc) but we do have smart phones and rocket stages that land themselves so there's that.
The thing is too... the spray and pray approach does work. The success of VCs is based very much on spray and pray at the end of the day.

The other thing people are forgetting is that many "unicorns" that are unprofitable do have a road to profitability. But the investor sentiment over the last 5-10 years has been to push companies to grow vs. try to become profitable fast at a smaller scale.

At the end of the day, one reason I suspect tech won't retreat in dominance is that the rate of return on capital is extremely high even when you factor in top end compensation for employees.

The change I do predict is that we'll return quickly to a "grow fast, fail fast" world where investors will be less willing to ride out investments that don't have a clear path to monetization in the future. Monetization will likely be emphasized from the get-go for founders. It won't be an after thought. In the past few years, some ridiculously dumb ideas were getting $5-10mm investments shortly after seed stage. I suspect that era is done for a while.
FWIW, there seem to be more employee affinity groups for dyslexia or neurodiversity in general. I think you've identified some of the reasons why. I've also heard nightmares about getting support services in the UK. One person told me that she had been diagnosed and was receiving some assistive technology supports, but to get access to tools she wasn't previously aware of (my startup's browser plugin), she would need to go through the diagnosis process again. Not surprisingly, she chose not to and just paid out-of-pocket.
I never say anything about tick "all boxes" but instead having your students install 100vm's you could just have setup a sandbox for them.

>works offline

Yeah that's not a thing when you learn CS.

>use GUI programs.

Yeah please no, it's a waste of time when learning something about server's...i think that's what you teach...well i hope, and if you really really want, tunnel X11-apps...an hell give your students a sandbox! Less inconsistency for you, less waste of time for your students.
> Most websites continue to work fine without it

> About 25% of sites become unusable

These two statements seem pretty contradictory. 75% feels like a low threshold for "most."
I can’t think of any graphics cards that could do 2048x1535 in 2000. Maybe several years later…much later…but even then you definitely wouldn’t be running that on a 21” screen because everything would have been tiny and scaling wasn’t a thing.
In what programming language would you write new OS?
In your opinion what programming language should be used to write a new operating system for the 21 century?
it's a reference to The Office, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlIzKaGBeHk
Yea, like destroying 100s of thousands of small account owners on Binance. Because the guy looks “Chinese” (but he multiple times publicly stated he is not Chinese).
A personal data point: lowercase Cyrillic is not more pleasant/expedient to read than uppercase. Lowercase letters in Cyrillic are mostly squashed down uppercase.

Latin lowercase is much more pleasant in comparison.
On the other hand, I'd like very much for this distinction to continue, so I could continue steering clear of the IDEs :)
Tesla May Be Adding a Radar, Which Is the ‘Crutch’ They Definitely Need
Despite your unnecessarily pessimistic comment, this is one of the leading ways that White Collar criminals (rich people) do see consequences
Tornado? Nuclear strike? Missing child? It's all the same level of danger, right?
Welp, this is very relevant to me. Diagnosed with ADHD inattentive type ~4 months ago at 26, unfortunately too late to save myself from an inescapable spiral at work and a firing.

Definitely would recommend anyone who has serious suspicions about themselves to get checked out, especially if you found academics intuitively trivial through the 'typical' diagnosis years of ~8-14.
That was well before their modern practice of applying a large barcode to the sides of naval vessels, allowing them to simply, ahem, Scandinavian.
I'm with you there and in general, it just feels like a rather minor point even just compared to the excessive tracking Apple and Google do. I'm just thinking of the recent news where it was discovered iphones still send tracking data home even if disabled in the settings. That's way more concerning to me at least.
If anything private capital funds OSS as much or more than anything else. OSS is primarily driven by time donation by the coders anyway. If they don't want companies using it there is a well established system to prevent that... it's called licensing.
Now do SBF.
I was once in the "no medication" camp. Even without medication, a diagnosis can get you:

- Help via CBT and other thereputical techniques.

- Knowledge of what's imposter syndrome and what's a real issue you're facing.

- Allowances (the legally required ADA type) at work.
In short, there are too many different kinds of approaches to AI in surveillance cameras to have a universally effective camouflage.

In many cases there is simply not enough pixels on target for these patterns to render in a way that makes them at all distinguishable. You also have to account for the fact that you may wind up viewing a person from any range of a 360 arc/angle, so the pattern would need to be around the entire jacket.

Most algorithms are looking for more of an overall target size and proportions, plus things like target location relative to an artificial horizon or ground plane.

In some cases, this might work to reduce the overall classification confidence, but is unlikely to truly make the person "invisible".

Also, thermal cameras are hardly used anymore. They have been stuck at relatively low resolutions (D1 / 640x480), and modern sensors have really good low-light imaging. Because thermal cameras are still very costly, and because they never produce a "good" image with any identifiable detail, they have become really really rarely used overall. Even so, a few patches on a jacket that show small regions of high thermal contrast are unlikely to fool any systems.

I doubt that these researchers had access to current state of the art perimeter protection analytics products. The most likely tested on lower end easily available consumer based products.

It is hard to say what would be effective overall that is practical. Many systems ultimately fail on people crawling, some will detect this, but often at the trade off of many false alarms, so it is usually not enabled. However, crawling around is not really that practical.

Large groups of people moving very closely together are harder to detect, particularly if they are all dressed very similarly. But, I wouldn't call this a reliable evasion technique.
You'd think the criminals would at least watch The Wire for some basic OpSec.
Yep, that too. Do you know if they’ve been marketed already? Or still in the R&D phase? I last looked at it ~8 years ago when I was working with someone who started a company around that.
>The next step, of course, would be to flag wearers of these jackets as especially suspicious, since they are trying to evade detection.

https://xkcd.com/1105/
-Meet Markus at a con
-Markus best friend now
-Play Minecraft for days
-Write poem
-Markus says "I ain't reading all that, ship it! We have a deadline!"
-Take the money and run
-Enjoy cold hard cash instead of speculating on royalties
-Trip on shrooms on squatted land
-Try to squat poem
-"Dear Microsoft I don't care about laws. Love love love."
-Love love love
-Money money money plz
-Love love love
Not absolutely nothing, the neural net is initialized with some weights encoding basic things (breathing, sucking, crying, etc.). Newborn horse walks and follows mother after first 5-10 minutes.
The thing that made me admire him a lot was always SpaceX. I saw Tesla as good for helping push EVs over the hump but beyond that kind of over-hyped. The other Elon companies seem like hobby projects for a billionaire.

The question I have now is: how much has he actually been involved in engineering at SpaceX? How much of a role did he really have there other than as an investor?

I've heard from many that Gwynne Shotwell and Tom Mueller had a highly non-trivial role.

In any case even if he was a mega-super-genius he's clearly losing his mind. It worries me that he has a controlling share of SpaceX. The work they are doing is super important. Maybe Twitter and all this stupid political drama will keep him distracted.
> Why can't we increase individual people's holdings of USD proportionally like a stock split?

Because that would not serve the real purpose of printing money, which is hidden (and therefore politically much easier) taxation, to enrich the government and its cronies at the expense of everybody else.
High quality content with a good standing in Google => unique and quality impressions => more revenue from the ads they insert in the content.
Agreed! My 95lb German Shepherd / White Swiss Shepherd chases away packs of coyotes and bears.
It's a monologue from The Office which uses similarly extremely short sentence structure as seen in the GGP comment.

It's also possible GP is referencing GGPs arguably paranoid position on phones, relating it to similar paranoias held by Dwight (the character who delivers the monologue).

https://youtu.be/PlIzKaGBeHk
tldr: I'm not ignoring the humanities; it does function like you describe. But ALL of the humanities combined were only 2.6K PhDs out of 52K total; Education is larger than all of the humanities combined, health sciences is about the same size as all of humanities combined, clinically-heavy life sciences are about the same size, CS is about the same size, etc. etc. The humanities are an outlier, and also small.

Why is it "hand-waving away education" but "look at the humanities" when there are nearly 600 more Ed PhDs than there are all of the humanities COMBINED in SED 21?

In Ed, 48% are primarily self-funded and 12.7% are primarily supported by an employer meaning a majority aren't "traditional" phd students on the path to a potential faculty position. A ton of the Ed students on fellowships are employer-supported by other means and even those with research assistantships or teaching assistantships are on same path (working full time in a central office or K12 school). The vast majority of Ed PhDs have no interest in higher ed eployment; they're getting their EdD/PhD because of the role it plays in public school compensation bands and promotion pathways. There are breadcrumbs that paint this picture throughout the various SED tables, but also, you can just... talk with people in the field.

Many of the applied/clinical life and health sciences function the same way albiet with slightly different funding mechanisms and candidate incentives. The point is, no interest in TT faculty jobs. Combined with humanities this is 2x-3x larger than humanities.

WRT non-classical phd setups and immigration, humanities are the outlier rather than the norm. And in any case small compared to STEM -- many individual STEM fields are nearly as large as all of the humanities combined, for example.
Is there any evidence ADHD is genetic? The only connection I've read about is that parents who are diagnosed with ADHD are more likely to have their children diagnosed with it, but that itself is not evidence of a genetic trait. Seems just as likely to be nurture than nature to me- for example if parents over-stimulate their kids by putting them in front of TVs/iPads/etc. from a young age it's not surprising they'll develop attention problems
Think it's one of my favorite museums ever. I thought I was "just quickly gonna watch some old boat". Ended up staying there for hours, so much interesting. I recommend tagging along on the (free) guides. Gives much background and points out so many interesting details on the ship.
"And nearly half of them mentioned "by the way, I have ADHD"

Statistically that seems rather unlikely, so I wonder if people are being over-diagnosed?
> Autoparallelization, like autovectorization, doesn’t
work.

I think concurrency is more of an issue for games and was the example I gave (Haskell's transactional memory for concurrency is a great example of what pure-functional buys you). Nethertheless autoparallism can work, if you again are prepared to accept more constrained declarative languages. Apache Spark is a great example, it offers a constrained functional language with maps and folds, that is autoparallized across a cluster of machines. The research language NESL (nested data parallelism) is even more impressive.
> Probably, but perhaps at the expense of a huge increase in false positives.

"Perhaps" is a doing a lot of heavy lifting in your comment, and I find the possible outcome you describe to be very unlikely after looking at the pictures in the article.

Personally, I'm confident that these anti-AI patterns don't work consistently across different person detection models, even though the article doesn't even ask the question, let alone dig into the answer.

The article doesn't present independent evidence that these work at all, let alone against more than just a single toy model built for PoC purposes.

It's an idea that gets clicks, and the oddly-specific "$71" (just an unnecessarily specific conversion from 500 yuan) also helps with attracting clicks. This article is basically just clickbait, in my opinion, not anything substantial.
Social security + Medicaid + Medicare is in the trillions.
They're both wild tales. /s
Prosecutors have, from time to time.

Le Roux's RX Limited in particular was running hundreds of millions of dollars per year. [1] Some estimates put his take at $400M total. [2] I bet Ratliff has some specific estimates in Mastermind.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/from-programmer-to-gangster-boss-the-u...

[2] https://www.startribune.com/how-minnesota-agents-helped-find...
If this had been private communication, sure.

By putting this on Twitter, it immediately gets turned into something that could spawn clickbait headlines and could tarnish the company's reputation long term. Maybe John didn't mean for any of that, but his tweets don't mention the MIT licence initially and seem like they're building up an allegation.

I think Chris responded exactly like a for-profit company's CEO should, pre-emptively countering tech journalist headlines, clearly and concisely describing the situation, and still reaching out for the potential of collaboration.
A higher cost higher quality service can succeed, but that's not the Carvana business model. The Carvana "business model" was "sell as many cars as possible and work out the economics later" and it's now "try to lose less money by any means necessary" (including by sacrificing quality of service).

I am not theorising about their costs, rather, I am referencing their own financials. Per their financials, they must achieve >$4,500 in gross profit per car sold in order to break even on a sale because the cost of providing their service is around $4,500 per car. As far as I know, they have never achieved this and they have only come close during periods where the second hand car market was at its most ridiculous supply-chain induced peaks.

You could start an online second hand car dealership today, with the same online purchasing that Carvana offer, and a better quality of service, and build a great business with great unit economics... if that was your strategy from the first day. Many such companies exist! There are lots of upmarket car dealerships that'll give you excellent service -- and it'll cost you less than $5k over market.

Carvana can't just undo a decade of bad mistakes, they can't just switch from "losing money" to "making money" because every foundational decision about the business was made in the context of "who cares about money, we want growth". You should not think of a company as an implementation of a business model, a company is so much more. Carvana has something like 20,000 employees: at that scale, radical change is basically impossible.
As I understand it, the Nordic pilgrim trails aren't anywhere near as well developed as ones closer to Camino de Santiago.

The St. Olav's Ways trails were only (re)established in the 1990s, and as I understand it, only a couple thousand people do it each year. (My sister and I were talking about doing it this last summer, but plans didn't work out.)

I also read in Nat Geo this last summer that Italy is working on setting up a pilgrimage route along the Appian Way. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/reviving-e...
I think for it to work, you pretty much need federal regulation to step in and standardize.

I have this video in mind [1]

If we can have EV packs sizes, structural capabilities, voltages, and max currents defined then we can start having swapping services and maybe even better recycling.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=c2J91UG6Fn8
Hence why a person basically needs to be cyborg to function in modern society, via phone. You are not a person unless you are effectively part machine. So stretching the analogy as far as it will go, phone theft should be considered dismemberment, or organ harvesting or trafficking.
"X is dead" content needs a neologism if it doesn't have one already.
> HN is a particularly whiny place when it comes to China.

China is the #2 economy in the world. America is constantly whining about the #1 economy in the world, why would they not also whine about #2? The truth is that there's nothing unique to Americans complaining about China. A lot of what Americans complain about China is quite similar to what they complain about America. This is especially true with authoritarian sentiment, with the fear that China will be the model used for the US against themselves. Yeah, there's a few "fuck China, America best" but I'd be shocked if the was anywhere near the mean or average sentiment. People are more complicated than this and Americans are just vocal about everything. Because they're so vocal, it is easy to ignore some things and pay attention to others, especially when they validate your internal biases (such as complaining about your country, which is nationalism).
You can take that up with the parent's "if no crime has taken place".
There's a big difference between a million and a billion. Here's a handy reference for getting the hang of it.

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
Headless e-commerce has been growing lately. See the MACH Alliance [1] to find out about closed-source platforms in this space. One thing to note is that we can see more and more specialization, new categories, such as headless loyalty/PIM/search etc., appeared on the market. Earlier this year, I wrote a short article [2] explaining what problems these APIs try to solve (sorry for the clickbait title).

[1] https://www.machalliance.com/members

[2] https://dev.to/voucherify/whats-mach-and-how-it-can-make-you...
There are a lot of people who think signalling you care [about fashion, to be clear] is somehow essential, and that to not care about fashion is to show you don't care about life, or about yourself...

Sorry, no. There's nothing wrong with me for not putting effort into what aesthetic "signals" I'm sending, because there is no true signal. It's noise. If someone's unclean, that's one thing, because cleanliness matters to health. Fashion does not.

Arguments that fashion matters are all circular, which tells you something. (It matters because people think it matters, and is therefore worth taking seriously!)
right in the harbor!
Wow, you're really going to elaborate lengths of pedantry here, aren't you?

"Please define 'mainstream media' and no, I'm not satisfied with your definition."

Why is this important? You could make a list of 100 news sources and ask a random sample of 1,000 people to check Yes/No on "is this mainstream media?" You would get a very high level of agreement. It's not my responsibility to give you a definition you're happy with. This isn't a scientific debate.
Overlooked Truths of Business and Investing Success (2016)
I mentioned that... But it needs to be light. The quoted weights are unrealistic for ANY material

> descending from geostationary orbit will accelerate something to about 10e3 m/s, further increasing the energy.

In vacuum, yes, but we have air...resistance
To me, "godbotherer" is a pejorative term specifically referring to people who try to convert others to their religion (in annoying and intrusive ways), not religious people in general.
Yeah my comment was mostly tongue-in-cheek. USB floppies don't need a floppy driver anyway, and a NEC 765 controller probably supports only a few drives. It probably can't even access floppies simulatenously.
Around the time that tap-to-pay apps were in their infancy, vendors were offering extremely generous bonuses... a combination of a couple of these ended with essentially free snacks for the entire time this promo existed (~6 month period).

This was back when the tap-to-pay app was called ISIS, for context.

I combined a couple offers:

Amex's Serve (prepay debit card thing) offered a $1 off any transaction over $1 (a fixed $1, not a percentage), up to 50 transactions a month.

The vending machine company near me that had machines in my office offered a buy-4-get-1-free promo using tap-to-pay that has a very weird implementation: The dollar limit for the buy-4 portion had no lower limit, and the get-1 had a fixed $4 worth of payout.

Essentially, every time I got up and went to the bathroom I'd stop by a vending machine, buy 4 items worth $1.25 (costing me, $1 total), and then use the get-1 portion to buy $4 worth of items.

I'd then turn around and sell said $1.25 items to folks in my department for well under ($0.75 for $1.25 items, etc). I told them exactly what I was doing, nobody wanted to deal with the hassle though. And the dollar amounts were so small. The real reason I sold them to coworkers was because I wanted quarters for the pool table at a nearby bar.

In addition to those two offers, the Amex Serve also just straight up gave you something like $60 for signing up for the account plus adding some small amount of money to the card. This basically funded this series of $0.25 purchases for the entire 6 months.

I basically got unlimited snacks for myself, and a freeish source of quarters to fund my pool games for that time period.
Many of my friends have ADHD.

Probably because ADHD people have trouble getting along with neurotypicals
In science fiction they were talking about nuclear powered trains. Its kind of a shame that never happened. Alas, the real world is more complicated than our beautiful stories.

Also, in a way, there are nuclear powered trains, just the power is delivered via electrical lines.