skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FSD as a product is a gimmick. It is an advanced automation but nevertheless a gimmick because driving and sharing the road with humans requires capabilities that synthetic AI has not yet achieved, and there is no clear roadmap on when and how it's going to be achieved. The way FSD is marketed is borderline misrepresentation.
“Apple iPad [model] (<year>)" is what Apple uses, doesn’t it?
Maybe, but it doesn't matter, as long as the right people are in charge, the right people have status, and the right people make most of the money.
This is fine, this is exception handling which you are describing. What exceptions should not be for is handling normal control flow. That is what branches are for. That is what the article is about and what people replying are complaining about.
You're arguing a very different point. Linux supports a whole lot of architectures that are in active use, and nobody is suggesting changing that.
Over here (Europe) the second one is all over the place.
Not upset but I am touchy about gpt results. The ending wasn't the key part, the <cat> was the key part. I added img because that's the only image type I can think of that makes sense to write to sda in that way.

Why would anyone write an mp3 to a block device bit by bit
That's not only the history of our industry given that CS and CE arrived much later than programming jobs but it's also a feature.

CS and CE cover some theory, but that theory is widely inapplicable to most jobs in the industry. People that don't come from formal backgrounds often work in cross-functional roles or roles that CS and CE deeply don't touch on. An example of the former is SREs. You can become a SWE by getting a CS degree, but a SRE job involves policy, userland software, systems, and so on skills. An example of the latter is Systems Engineering. I've found very few formal schools for Systems Engineering in the way it's practiced in industry. To make matters more complex most systems engineers also need to be familiar with writing application code.
I'll double your opinion. ;-)
It's one of those things where it's not ideal, but it's the only way to prevent legal liability. Basically if the AI acts in accordance to the law governing such behavior then the manufacturers are not at fault. Else you'll have different vehicle manufacturers doing what they believe is right (think of all the debate over the "trolley" problem), and each case will have to go through the courts.
The payback is over generations. Children of immigrants historically have higher fertility rates and higher participation in the workforce. Someone seems miserable at work but they’re living for their grandkids.
Benchmarking the Top AutoML Platforms
The rapid rise of AutoML has been a boon to organizations seeking to make the most of their data. Machine learning used to be an extremely complex, time-intensive, and expensive process. Automated machine learning decreases time-to-value, complexity, and cost - but not all AutoML platforms are made equal, and many still require expert data scientist users.
Several states and the Federal government found bump stock close enough to automatic that they are no longer legal. I’d guess the quote from the article is referring to the same point of view, a thin line from the perspective of the non gun-owning layman.
If the end result is Literate Programming, that's worth learning their programming language, yes?
You mean like 8+ joins to get that single record and then having it bottleneck when you get a few hundred requests a minute? (not bitter at all here)
Five years ago nobody could fully automate driving in a warehouse. It's honestly hilarious that so many people believed public roads were so close.
Is anyone making any new m68k chips these days? I looked for a hobby project earlier this year and it looked like Freescale was doing their best to sunset it.
LCOE is unrelated to systems costs of large decarbonized grid because it leaves out the costs of long-term backup, increased transmission, overcapacity needed to fill the night batteries, and more.
I can't edit the post now but you are correct. I thought the profiles were inherent to the spec, and I seem to be mixing up profiles and tunings, but it sounds like they're just implementation details in x264/x265

Still, it was really interesting that

ffmpeg -i bluray:[filename] -c:v libx264 -crf 22 -tune film -preset slow -nr 500

produced a smaller file with higher visual quality than

ffmpeg -i bluray:[filename] -c:v libx265 -crf 25 -preset slow

for highly grainy inputs
As vanderZwan said, I was not being snarky. This was a funny reference (which led another commenter deemed worthy of "HN Gold"—if such a thing existed) to the popular movie The Graduate. I'm sorry if it came across as snark to those unfamiliar with the quote. Based on the upvotes (currently 30, never negative), I'd say most folks got it.

Just to be clear, I had the exact same confusion that 0xTJ had about the referent of "them" in the sentence. If 0xTJ hadn't commented already, I might have made a similar comment myself! I see the title has been changed, although honestly I find the new title rather opaque.
Dropping income tax and replacing it with a progressive sales tax should be at least explored. Wealthy don't file W2s but they do buy luxury items.
How many times have you had to look up whether it is Google Workplace or Google Workspace? I get it wrong more than I get it right.
Got a nespresso Machine last year...worked great....hooked up to Wifi and the phone app and had it firmware update and it turned it into a brick.

They sent me a replacement that works great and is entirely ignorant of the outside world (and will stay that way.)
I don’t particulary like driving either. OTOH my car is boring&practical - if the car was a fun drive it might change my disposition.
If you're thinking about billionaires, I think you're doing it wrong. Billionaires don't have billions in the bank. They generally have shares in companies which need to be sold to get money out. And the price changes the more you sell. Billionaire "net worth"s are almost useless because they assume each share they sell is worth the same as the last share traded, which would not be the case if they were all dumped on the market, and even less so if the government made a habit of seizing your shares when you die.
Any idea what “all reet” means?
Are the nim godot bindings also good for full cross-platform development?
Kirin: Hitting the Internet with Millions of Distributed IPv6 Announcements
I agree, I am a single dad, and although I love working on cars, finding time to do so is really hard. Despite what I wrote, one of my cars is actually in the shop right now for a very expensive major engine repair covered by warranty. My love for tinkering doesn’t extend to ignoring my son so I can pay thousands for parts to do a huge expensive job myself that someone else will do for free! But if it wasn’t free, and I didn’t have the money to pay, I sure as heck could do it.
"...we present Kirin: a BGP attack that sources millions of IPv6 routes and distributes them via thousands of sessions across various IXPs to overflow the memory of border routers within thousands of remote ASes. Kirin's highly distributed nature allows it to bypass traditional route-flooding defense mechanisms, such as per-session prefix limits or route flap damping. We analyze the theoretical feasibility of the attack by formulating it as a Integer Linear Programming problem, test for practical hurdles by deploying the infrastructure required to perform a small-scale Kirin attack using 4 IXPs, and validate our assumptions via BGP data analysis, real-world measurements, and router testbed experiments. Despite its low deployment cost, we find Kirin capable of injecting lethal amounts of IPv6 routes in the routers of thousands of ASes..."
not a real problem, agreed — but a real response to a bogus problem:

> there has been much discussion of a website that provides advice for the IT community at Stanford about word choices in Stanford websites and code.
> I'm not sure I understand how a JOIN would have fixed this problem

If the set of things in A that have ids in B is very small, then very little data is returned from the JOIN query, while a lot may be returned from the B query by itself.

(if that set of things is large, then you'll still want to batch the joined query as well, i.e. using find_each in rails. They're orthogonal requirements)
Tesla increases discount on Model 3 and Model Y to $7500 delivered this month
They operate on a huge surplus from what I've heard
If is correct. I'll probably never trust unattended software to drive me. I'll let the generations coming up take that plunge.
Maybe they want to sell you zitadel.
I mean, nice idea, but I'm a 55 year old Emacs user and I work on Textual.
It would be amazing yes. Debugging is the other skill you'd need.
Are you ignoring that despite knowing the consequences of climate change for a hundred or so years, "we" chose to ignore them for corporate profits?

What's the point of lifting anyone out of poverty if we are actively ruining our environment through obviously unsustainable behaviour?

How many more billions of people could we have brought out of poverty if the goal wasn't to improve bottom lines? What about all the displaced people due to wars for oil?
Somewhat, but departments will likely end up spending a higher percentage of their budget on grad students.

Also, student unions have different priorities because this isn’t a lifelong career so reducing the number of jobs isn’t a big deal.
> by luring you into an accident that appears to be your fault.

And it'd be your fault for not yielding to the idiot stopping in the middle of the road, not knowing what "right of way" means.

These laws were made exactly to avoid the uncertainty of who goes first.
CEO Here. 48.
Talent won't filter up. You can't replace doctors with 40 years' experience with doctors with 30 years' experience (and keep going - who do you replace them with?) without losing a huge amount of value.
Yet Tokyo is mandating rooftop solar for new buildings. The good thing is that solar can be adapted to the environment to the point where it just doesn't make sense not to use it.
That's a ridiculous ad hoc argument. What if you make something, put it on a gumroad, and sell only one copy for 1 dollar (I actually started a shop on gumroad, all things for $1 and I got exactly one sale :D), but 10 years later you're discovered or some of the products is suddenly widely useful, or what if the one person that bought it now uses own reach to sell your product?

I'm not saying 10 years protection is not enough, but the "first dollar" approach I find ridiculous. Maybe there should be regulations where if you earn x% of the initial expenses (it would work at least for companies), then the work is released to public.
A Perfect Gift
Of course. That's the right way to do it. I was pointing out that what was written isn't right in any situation and the smallest change to make it make sense would be adding <cat> in the middle

Turns out my answer was wrong too :D. Should have been <image.img cat >/dev/sda. Oh well
My guess: The 3D versions of web 2.0 experiences

I don't think traditional AAA makes sense in the browser right now, but I see all sorts of UGC experiences having large synergy with web standards. The business playbook is largely there too.

One reason the market isn't sufficiently large yet is really because of the creation tools at our disposal imo. Web 2.0 explosion was arguably driven by great network effects of the proliferation of mobile cameras.

Right now, none of my friends make 3D content. I personally believe that's going to change with depth sensors, 3D scanning, nerf, generative content, etc.. so the trendline is there for me to buy this theory. I'd look more towards social games, hangout type experiences, or async consumption... as opposed to realtime, networked, embodied, immersive.

Side-note: Apple has demonstrated the willingness to change their tune on WebGL, I suspect they'll catch up pretty quick.
> I think all of this already possible in Emacs, right?

Dired, diff, Linum. Seems to cover these examples pretty well.

I think most people think of emacs as an overly complicated text editor and don't really ask themselves if they should consider learning emacs when they want a diff tool or a file navigator.
Oversampling won't help with the brickwall clipping being attempted here.

This circuit is not a diode emulator, it's a comparator. It's the worst-sounding of all distortions. It sounds even worse in digital because of the aliasing.

And it will always alias, no matter how much you oversample it, because a vertical edge - aka "Heaviside Step Function" - has an infinite harmonic series. If you oversample it enough it won't alias much because the series terms become smaller. But they never disappear.

A better way to do this kind of clipping is with a tanh (logistic/s-curve) approximation. That can give you a variety of valve-like [1] smooth clipping curves. Unfortunately tanh is pretty expensive computationally, so a more practical alternative is a piecewise curve, perhaps with some interpolation.

Although if you only have 8-bit or 16-bit resolution you may as well just use a lookup table.

OP might want to consider learning a little more about signal theory and practical DSP before posting more how-tos.

[1] Not really because real valves are more complicated. But it will do for a first approximation.
As someone who has driven the equivalent of 23x around the equator I have to tell you, as much as I like driving, you see a lot more from the passenger seat. So if I had an AI chauffeur tomorrow I’d happily jump into the passenger seat and have it drive me down historic Route 66, then onward to Wyoming and Montana, and maybe the trans-Canada highway from there.
I believe some of this comes down to the product category being redefined over time.

Kitchen appliances are really prone to this because the major processes actually needed in the kitchen - heat, cool, cut, stir - are all variations on a theme, and some of the processes have been usurped by "service" versions where the ingredient is pre-processed, e.g. instead of grinding coffee, buying pre-ground or instant.

Where pre-processing works well, it becomes the norm, and then what follows is that the traditional product gets cost-cut into oblivion, until, decades later, some kind of artisanal movement springs up and there's interest in quality options again. Coffee really did follow this pattern, the original instant coffees set the norm for most of the 20th century, even though everyone can tell that they're nothing like freshly ground coffee.

With the biggest, most-frequently needed stuff - stove, refrigerator, knives, pans - you can find good options in any year, especially if you search for the "do exactly one thing well" options in the category, like chest freezers. Once you get into a more specific category the pressure is off, though, and companies are more likely to sell you a disposable "experience".
Ask HN: As a researcher, how can I access Similarweb's Ultimate Package API?
I reached out to SimialrWeb's sales consultant to get access to their API for my doctoral research. The company said that they do not sell access to their API/Ultimate package for research purposes. The Ultimate Package is only available to enterprises, but it's the only way one can use their API. I'd like to get any advice on how to access, or circumvent to gain access to, SimilarWeb's Ultimate package. Thank you in advance!
Is it really luck after 8 times?

I’ve kept my skills in sync with the market and kept a strong network. Most of those years from 1996-2020 I was just your run of the mill enterprise CRUD developer.
> Nobody is going to go for the idea that the government comes around and explicitly collects a significant percentage of everything you own every year.

I think you'd be surprised. When the majority of people own nothing, it won't take much for the ruling class to convince them that taking everybody else's wealth for the greater good is the right and moral thing to do.
"Play" is my favorite example. Even after a lot of years of using it I still cannot remember what is the current name for their "App Store" when I need to tell someone to look for some app there.
Actually I think the "zipper rule" is taught in driving school in some countries in Europe and applied informally in more.

[I mean: when both the main road and the secondary road that has to yield are clogged, everyone on the main road lets one car from the secondary pass.]

I've certainly applied it and benefited from it countless times.
Notice that wages of hotel maids has not increased. Their jobs have just been automated. Immigration slows automation.
Trying to be helpful as someone who has seen a lot of presidents come and go. You can make the decision to not let these external events out of your control affect you so much. Politicians have some differences at the surface, but they are far more minor than portrayed. For a long time Trump was a democrat and the Clintons went to his wedding. The moneyed class stick together and look out for themselves. Don't look to politicians or leaders for the change you want - it's more effective at a personal level and you have control.

My Dad worked 2 jobs when I was growing up in the 80's so we could live in a tiny house. His parents lived through the depression. All had a more positive personal outlook than the average today. You only get this one trip.
It's a good question. One thing is that the brightness of the page will always be appropriate for the ambient light, since it is determined by that light.

Beyond that, I'd speculate that screens don't retain as much contrast when you turn their brightness down, compared to physical materials presenting similar "brightness" under ambient light. But really that's just some talking out the ass with no research to back it up.
>The big question is can we have a functioning society with less human domination and how far can we reduce it?

No, not with any scale. This has been tried and tried and tried. It's a nice idea, but like most of leftism, only works on paper.

I wish the people that argue for things like the destruction of the family would instead push for universal healthcare. That's at least doable.
When I moved from Canada to the US for my post doc, it blew my mind to hear the level of debt my American colleagues were mired in - from $70-$110K, early 2010s.

I'm pulling for the students here, and these are basic benefits, but you've gotta reign in student debt in the first place
It's totally possible to validate data before pushing to a table, and have normal tests around sql massaging it. Saying this as somebody looking at 1000s of transformations done by my teams.

Admittedly, It took a while for data engineers in the industry to accept these practises though.
If you’ve been working in startups 10+ years, the inexperienced developers you worked with at the start of your career may now be very knowledgable, and mutual mentorship may be possible.
YouTube is taking over the NFL Sunday Ticket package
You could run cables down the roof and the outside outside of the wall which not particularly rare. Actually that's the case for one of the aerials on my roof. And piercing roofs isn't exactly uncommon. Aircon vents, chimneys, mountings for aerials etc.
The thing with something like this is that it doesn't have to be an optimal solution which instantly solves all our problems, which is what a lot of people seem to demand when it comes to anything which is even vaguely green, it just needs to be cheap and easy and move us away from our reliance on fossil fuels. This, along with traditional solar, hydro, onshore and offshore wind, nuclear etc. all have their place.
> Firstly, I'd suggest the author look at this differently; perhaps "For Want of a Code Review". Especially code from a relatively recent graduate, on a piece of code for which the engineer in question has little experience.

I assume the story is made up, but if we were to take it at face value the title would be "For Want of Basic Human Decency"; the author is saying that they saw this whole easily preventable train wreck happen in slow motion and did not lift a finger to prevent it, instead laughing, taking notes and thinking of the fabulous snarky blog bost that would have come out of it.
There's no ingestion risk if it's propelled by electric power, but there's still FOD risk. As I understand, gates in the US have to be specifically designated for powerbacks because of this risk. No matter the method of creating the thrust, if you can move a plane with it, you can blow some object into a person or the airport windows.

It certainly could be done but it would require changes to airports to accommodate it.
PS but stored procedures and udss are evil, yes
Yeah... I will probably do that, with my daily check action (update a last-check) text file or something.
Building from axioms is entirely possible, and in fact you'll often see the construction of first the rational numbers from the natural numbers and then the real numbers from Cauchy sequences or Dirichlet cuts within the first few weeks of studying mathematics in university.
The construction of the natural numbers itself is often not discussed deeply, but the actual details aren't all that hard.
The global policy impact of Fukushima would have been so much less if it just didn’t have “-shima” in the name.
But then I need a second system to do that.
Wow, that was submitted here quicker than we could do it!

UnifiedPush has been a thing for a while, see the official website: https://unifiedpush.org/

With this blog post, we† tried to clarify a few names. Feel free to point out things that are still unclear, the documentation is pretty much a WIP.

UnifiedPush aims at replacing the push notifications mechanism provided by Google services with something independent, that anyone can self-host or any OS can provide without compatibility issues. It does require small adjustments server-side and client-side for applications assuming Google services.

There is also a Matrix room at #unifiedpush:matrix.org and a Mastodon account at https://fosstodon.org/@unifiedpush

Note: we'll be monitoring this topic for a while, you don't have to reply to this thread.

† karmanyaahm and S1m are main authors
Why would a language model like this even be good at solving logic puzzles, even GPT-20? I’m not sure west specifically knowledgeable people said would be impossible ten years ago that has been proven wrong now. Right now it’s not even good at answering facts which it has been trained on, let alone actual reasoning. Why does Sky-Net seem more likely than this specific technology having a plateau?
You don't find good mentors, good mentors find you.

I have had multiple good mentors in my career (both student and work) and I have been an attentive mentor to three people in my life.

Your mentors choose you, and it is wrong to think of mentors as ideas/advice machine. Mentors mingle with you depending on your personality, taste, potential, current level, etc.

Be yourself. Put yourself in situations and locations where you are more likely to cross paths with potential mentors. Communicate with people more. If you are eyeing someone specific, let them know of your existence, interests. And ask them advice on something specific. Keep the connection if the other party is willing.

Mentorship relations that form and evolve naturally are the best ones.

And mentorship relations are not one-size fits all. Some mentors are more attentive and more engaging than others. Some relations last for life, some for months. No kind is inherently better than the other.

tl;dr: be in places together with interesting people (fully online forums count, too). Ask for advice. Keep the connection. Let a relation form automatically.