skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of this stuff is just so hilariously nonsense.

Dude, some people have to lose. We can shuffle as much as we want, we can probably make them perfectly distributed amongst races, sexes, heights, weights, whatever.

But there will still be a shit ton of losers. It's just how the world works. You can't have 8 billion flying Tesla electric private jets to Malibu.
Maybe there's a meatier part still, where the author alleges that they have yet to receive a certificate earned two years ago.
I would guess that the number of people that act directly against their own self interest on a regular basis is a very high percentage of the population.
And yet, regulators across the world (US, Europe, Canada, China, Japan) allow its continued sale and use. Maybe they’re right and HN is wrong? How would you reconcile conservative regulators not taking action while participants here carry on about how unsafe it is? Inaction by one regulator might be explained, but all of them? Occam's razor leads us to a tolerance for the risk exposure, not a conspiracy.

It appears that it has to be proven dangerous, not foolproof, due to the driver still being responsible and assuming liability for its use, and that burden has not been met by critics.

Edit: I’m appealing to, broadly, transport safety professionals across various governments and continents (in aggregate) versus randos on an Internet forum. That seems like a pretty solid strategy from a risk perspective, as your risk math isn’t impacted by failures at a single regulatory body, nor by a layman without the professional body of domain knowledge that might be missing something critical.
How often does ChatGPT error for you?
I was playing a game with ChatGPT - the game is to ask a question that produces:

"An error occurred. If this issue persists please contact us through our help center at help.openai.com."

Am I a dope and there is just some sort of limit on the length of a conversation or something?

Or did I actually elicit a "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that" response?

As it happens, I was talking to it about whether a somewhat obscure, radically different AI project ever came to anything when it glitched out...
Why is she's out on bail if she has already plead guilty? What's the next step for her?
Scientists turn single molecule clockwise or counterclockwise on demand
>Similar to using noise shaped dithering to allow you to hear more than the theoretical dynamic range in audio

I’m not sure how apt this analogy is. Dither is only useful for mitigating artifacts of quantization noise; it does not generally increase perceived detail of any arbitrary signal. More specifically, it is introduced to reduce the harmonic content of quantization noise, at the expense of a higher overall noise floor. Suppose you have a 1kHz sine wave; quantizing it will introduce harmonics that peak at, say, an average of -70dB, with an absolute noise floor of -120dB. Adding dither will raise the noise floor to -90dB, but reduce the harmonic peaks to -100dB. So while it actually decreases the true dynamic range, it increases perceived signal quality by removing the harmonic content.

These spurious harmonics occur because quantizing a signal introduces periodic artifacts. For example, suppose our analog sine wave can continuously vary between 0-7, and we quantize it to 3 bits (discrete values 0,1,2,…,7). Any analog value 4.7 will always be rounded up to 5; in a sine wave, the value 4.7 will occur periodically, thus resulting in a periodic rounding artifact, leading to harmonic distortion.

In order to prevent these periodic rounding errors, dither needs to be added pre-quantization, so that 4.7 can sometimes randomly become 4.4 and get rounded down to 4 during quantization. Adding “dither” to an already quantized signal (e.g. digital video) would just make the apparent picture noisier.

As a test, try quantizing a full-color image to 16 colors, and then adding back some random noise. It won’t look any better. You need to strategically dither the 16 colors with knowledge of the original full-color image.
Almost two decades ago in undergrad a lab I worked in was working on this stuff. It hasn't happened yet, really, at scale. I think it will happen, I'm just wondering if nature is going to beat us to it given what I've heard about bacteria evolving to digest plastics in the wild.
>I’m one of those people that preferred Twitter before it became overrun with politics. Not that I'm not political, but it's not what I wanted to go to Twitter for.

You know that you can follow who you want on Twitter, right? You made it political for yourself by following people that talk politics
I'm not the person you are responding to but I've been working on a web 3D rendering focused product for a bit now.

One issue that we've run into is that by default on laptops, Windows will not use an available discrete GPU in the browser. The only way to work around this is if you go to your power settings (not in the browser) and tell Windows to use the discrete GPU over an integrated one.
People definitely got banned back then. There were three key differences:

1. Getting banned from Twitter means leaving a global namespace. Getting banned from the comments on someone’s blog was far less serious, and if someone on a group blog had a falling out it just meant that they setup another one (the Mastodon model). Earlier things like Usenet groups had moderation but people could easily move to another group.

2. The stakes were lower: the early internet was full of academics, professionals, etc. and still had this aura of not really mattering. That doesn’t mean that everyone was nice but the ratio was a lot better and it wasn’t anywhere near as coordinated – the creationists and Scientologists were both annoying but they certainly didn’t work together. The odds of some online flap even reaching the awareness of your friends, family, or coworkers were low and it probably would have seemed more like an amusing joke than something serious.

3. An American specialization of the previous point: the hardcore right-wing took over the Republican Party, successfully purged the moderates, and started recruiting young reactionaries. 9/11 changed what a lot of people felt was acceptable to say or do – I remember when Glenn Reynolds was a fairly normal-sounding law professor with a blog in that brief span before 9/11 & the war blogs broke him – and over the 2000s they felt fewer checks as their power & numbers grew. Obama getting elected brought a LOT of voices out which many of us had thought had disappeared in our parents’ or grandparents’ generation, and by the mid-2010s they were recruiting young people from anti-feminist communities in places like 4chan and Reddit (before GamerGate but that’s when it really ramped up). Nothing unprecedented in terms of message but the numbers and degree to which they were welcomed into the party and started setting the tone was dramatic. There’s a fair argument that some of those views were not uncommon before but had been more genteelly expressed, but I am reminded of how aggressively GOP leaders shut down David Duke in the 90s.

I mention politics not just because I think that normalized a lot of bad behavior but also because it changed how people responded. “Internet drama” wasn’t taken seriously but when it started having real-world consequences and impacting national politics, a lot of people - even those who self-described as free speech advocates – started reconsidering how best to respond. Volume also enters into the picture: the first time you see something, you might try to engage. By the dozenth time, you’re a lot more inclined to get out the ban hammer.
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t a few BASIC dialects, like QuickBasic and Turbo Basic, also support that back then?

Truly bizarre that we ended up with C, still feature incomplete compared to what was available at the time.
good to hear that you are speeding in poor visibility conditions on mountain roads at night just so you can push the car to its limits
As someone who has never explored nim but was was just about to follow the link, you have effectively convinced me to not bother. I can imagine the arguments for case insensitivity (not agree with them but I could live with them for certain tradeoffs), I can't find a place in my brain where "underscore insensitivity" could have existed as a concept before reading those words.
Of course it is. That’s why they are able to censor it
Why do you think your kids are safer at public school from being molested? The stats would say you are safer at Catholic school where lines are less blurred and fewer teachers date students. But most likely to commit such an act is a parent or someone close to the child. Sending them to any school might be the safest option.
Exactly. People were throwing out potential immunity, or other complete nonsense for cooperation. There weren’t even discussions about recommended prison time as that can blow the prosecutions case against SBF. The idea that there is some agreement for say 5 years recommended is not on the table in this type of situation.
When I saw the ufl connector removal tool, I was thinking that it was neat. But I saw the price of 25$ for this simple piece of bent metal, I thought that someone fell on his head trying to sell this one.
What's appealing about film grain isn't the grain as such so much as it is the knowledge that it's an artifact of an analog process in a world where nigh everything is digitally produced. It has a warmth that's inextricably tied to a sense of authenticity. Removing the real grain and adding synthesized faux-grain doesn't just remove that attraction, it feels actively deceptive, even if it's indistinguishable from the real thing visually.
Moving emails accounts to a new host, but with actual encryption
This comes across as ad hominem-ish. Do their argument and allegation stand on their own or do they not?
To be clear, I mean they could make it work, they just won't do it for cultural reasons. Perfectly happy to pay management and consultants well, but unwilling to even consider it for the rank and file.

Some studies on minimum wage increases have compared businesses across state lines, where one state has increased the minimum and the other has not. At least some of the time, the increase appears to benefit businesses, as they had high employee turnover, and hiring does cost money.
Can the D compiler prove things about the code? I didn't know.

How does this work?
The discussion is in the chat history of the ruby channel in matrix chat. (lol)

Alas, logs aren't easily accessible in the element android app (which is what i've got).
thats not how that works. stone and steel are both exactly as conductive at one temperature as they are at another, at steady state.
In theory the liner is PTFE (or maybe a different fluoropolymer) with nothing left to leach out. PTFE and its relatives are stable to temperatures well above that of boiling water, so leaching shouldn’t be an issue.

(One big problem with PTFE is that it starts to slowly decompose at a lower temperature than its melting point. This makes it messy to work with. As I understand it, the decomposition products are gasses, so this is a problem at the factory and for the environment, but I don’t think its a problem for end users.)
Likely the prosecution's case is strong, e.g. there is a hard-to-disguise paper trail that clearly implicates these first cooperators.
90% of river-borne ocean plastic comes from 10 rivers in Asia and Africa: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...

Almost all plastic recyclables in the US is shipped to Asia and Africa. It’s simply not profitable to process here.

From the article:

> Recently, however, China has made efforts to curb waste.

> For years the country had imported millions of tons of recyclable waste from overseas, but a growing recycling burden at home prompted the government to shift its policy.
Really cool idea! Instantly bought this for me and my wife when I saw this.
If that’s what’s going on then it’s a little overblown, IMO. I went to Stuy and I think they just posted the list of National Merit Scholarships on a bulletin board somewhere, and yeah we all gawked to see who got it, but then it was just back to the grind. It’s not like it was some ace-in-hole that could make or break your admission.
Your question kinda took me by surprise. I write a ton (I take notes on literally everything that happens) and none of it is supposed to be read by anyone. I'm not even sure how much of it I'll read myself later, the point is I'll be able to, if I need. Otherwise, I just cannot remember anything of what I read, saw or heard a year later.
> Admins will ban you for whatever reason they want.

That's another feature, not another bug.

Don't like the admin's moderation style or rules, etc on a particular? Move to a different one. Simple.
As a parent, the chances a piece of paper given to a kid in homeroom makes it to the parent are probably 50% at best. Probably lower.

I know when I was a student, it was probably below 25%
In this case, it does, because people vary wildly in heights and bikes aren't easily adjustable to wildly differing heights. The statement was given as advice, and it's bad advice. There are certain types of bikes engineered to be highly adjustable (think bike-share bikes) for different rider sizes, but these aren't the norm for privately-owned bikes.
Literally because they have found two cooperating witnesses, who have provided much of the information prosecutors need to convict Mr. SBF.
I guess you could trust Cruise ADS from GM, the same company that killed people with a faulty ignition switch (124 deaths) or literally burned down customer's homes (see the Chevy Bolt). You might find that NHTSA is investigating Cruise ADS too. (https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2022/INOA-PE22014-4871.PDF)
> People were throwing out potential immunity...

Yes, getting off scot-free seems unlikely.

> The idea that there is some agreement for say 5 years recommended is not on the table in this type of situation.

Sure it is. The Feds will ask to suspend sentencing on these charges until their cooperation is completed. If they cooperate appropriately, they'll spend much less time in prison than if they'd pled not guitly.
A great deal of plastic is made from natural gas, not oil.
Many things.

But for one, he lobbied for a future where individuals would no longer legally be able to use blockchains directly or build businesses on them (aside from pure direct person-to-person payments).

Doesn't get much less "cryptobro" than lobbying against people being able to use blockchains.
To my knowledge and much to my chagrin, TSA Pre is not available for H1B holders (only lawful permanent residents - green card holders). If that’s discriminatory or not is in the eye of the beholder.
Is this phenomenon reproduceable? Can it be experimentally verified?
The thing people can't handle with this is that intelligence tends to be heritable* so the more intelligent workers you need the smaller and more racily similar the successful group is going to be which runs directly contrary to the currently popular world view.

*It's influenced by other things too of course. Once you hit a (fairly low) limit it's going to start skewing more and more male. Upbringing is a huge part of it too so children of divorced parents tend to perform worse etc.
That is true. However, I am one of those people that I either really cares a lot or hardly at all when I do something...if something is interesting to me I really put passion into it but if not then I am totally uninterested, and I think that showed up in my interviews for sure.
She will be sentenced after SBF. If all goes well for her, there will be few victim impact statements at her sentencing.
so predictable. They lost all their money and stand to face life sentences. What choice do they have.
My guess is because there’s a lot of ways of making things digitally and it’d need to be a really complex codec.

On the other hand, deep-learning based compression with autoencoders or something similar is pretty promising, since it can learn the constituent elements in a more general way, independent of what program was used to create it.
> but my testicles went numb

This is about the seat you are using and the time you are spending on it, not the stiffness of the frame or ride.

There is a reason why male seats have cut-outs. You just need to find one that works for you.
I was able to find the company on my regular internet connection. The secret was to use the Baidu search engine.
It was very slow and buggy on Android, at least.
Exceptions are starting to feel like a legacy programming paradigm to me. Rust & Go have, at least in a practical programming context, shown that errors-as-values has far less footguns and encourages better error handling practices than exceptions, which often are treated as an afterthought or end up being abused like in this post.

Whenever I'm writing Python or Java I can't help but feel anxious about calling a function and having absolutely no idea if or what exceptions it might throw, and then having to resort to digging through documentation or class hierarchies to figure it out.
Having the option to leave your oil in a clear container more than accounts for the environmental dangers. That is not 'extra work'. When you're doing an oil change you need a container to catch it in anyway- but the claim here is it's too much work to put it in a clear container?! Used oil is trash, so I guess you'd argue it's 'extra work' for people to take out their own trash as well.
It gives opportunity to make money in the tech field, but as the article points out, they cannot get permanent residency in the US unless they wait 180 years. Maybe it was different in the past or something, I'm not sure, but obviously the situation right now doesn't look good unless you just want to go to the US for a little while to save up a bunch of money and then go home or to a different country.
Looks to still be the case:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Exceptions

One could argue this is something of a technical debt issue, as the rationale notes:

> "Given that Google's existing code is not exception-tolerant, the costs of using exceptions are somewhat greater than the costs in a new project. The conversion process would be slow and error-prone. We don't believe that the available alternatives to exceptions, such as error codes and assertions, introduce a significant burden."

> "Our advice against using exceptions is not predicated on philosophical or moral grounds, but practical ones. Because we'd like to use our open-source projects at Google and it's difficult to do so if those projects use exceptions, we need to advise against exceptions in Google open-source projects as well. Things would probably be different if we had to do it all over again from scratch."
if you engage in financial fraud, prepare for everyone to snitch on you
Guidelines are just that, guidelines. Judges have a lot of latitude.
Yeah, if you drill down into the actual sources, that appears to be what happened.

The school got a stack of certificates. They sat on the principals desk for a while, then they sat with the guidance counselor or homeroom teachers before being passed out.

The parent is basically complaining because:

1. They didn’t notify the parents via email.

2. They didn’t find out in time to put in on an college early admission application.

3. The school didn’t make a big deal of handing out the awards in an assembly or similar.

This sounds more like a complaint from an overbearing helicopter parent than any sort of issue that HN would care about.
I imagine they’re placed parallel to the ground, which would have the additional benefit of reducing body roll during turns.
I’m getting the impression that the “once in a generation” thing refers to the geographic area covered by a single storm. Whatever metro area you live in, this weather is not uncommon, except maybe in the southern states, where this sort of thing happens every few years or so.
People like shell scripts because you have one interface: text

For example: you need to write an image to a USB stick.
Python: pretty lengthy
BASH: image > /dev/SDA

Both will do exactly the same, but one is a few lines of python the other just one line in bash.
Those type of emulations are missing one little touch - real time emissive lighting and screen space reflections that affects the bezel (unless I'm mistaken it doesn't do that right?)

I notice these effects in videos of real old CRTs and my own old CRT systems.
This was inevitable. All their money and reputation is gone. They stand to face many decades in prison. What choice do they have. Anyone who engages in financial fraud should prepare for all their friends to rat them out. There are no friends.
Depending on your team that might be an upgrade for some.
Or in (or near) a power plant to store utility-scale power from renewables.
This is a possible outcome. However, another possibility is that not all children are of the same aptitude, and therefore your experience might not be representative of their.
Less of a problem if the axis of the flywheel is vertical.
Yes, although I'm not sure how much that effect would be noticeable in the systems discussed.
Perhaps at that airport it's still lucrative enough to operate a taxi, but the reason for the long wait for a fare is likely the availability of alternative ride-sharing services.
great, the red-scare boomers have invaded HN. The USSR hasn't existed for half a century you can put your pearls away
I don't think there are many turbo impellers that heavy, are there? The ones I've disassembled we're not very heavy from what I can recall.
Interesting insight.

Sometimes it seems like the ultra wealthy need some sort of story to tell themselves (and others) as to why they are different, why they have earned and deserve these vast richest, etc. Philosophy more and more seems to be a rich mans game. Wonder if it has anything to do with Imposter Syndrome? As if preaching a philosophy can somehow make up for the ruthlessness (and I have to believe some emptiness) underneath it all?

Also, there seems to be an element of fashion involved. Like when it was in vogue for celebrities to adopt foreign kids (only to have them raised by nannies). Gotta virtue signal. Maybe that explains why the beliefs come and go, Objectivism was so last year, etc.
>Every single hotel or motel should be doing full clean between guest visits, otherwise it should not even be allowed to operate.

The keyword here is "should". I don't have much faith that hotels will actually do this.
Marriott does this!
If that’s true why is it so bad at solving logic puzzles?
GPtrArray doesn't tell you the type of the pointer inside the array. You are throwing away type safety. This is a regression rather than an improvement. It's like making every array void*a[N]. When I used to write GLib code, I can't count how many bugs were introduced when I thought the GPtrArray contained a type of pointer but it contained some other type.

Also, which part of GPtrArray prevents you from making out of bounds access? Last time I checked it doesn't.
But then you don’t need to have a smart contract, simply posting public key of the wallet is enough (to verify the content of the wallet). The contract at most provides an escrow, but even that isn’t really the case since presumably the originator has the key to pull the money (since he knows the secret key).

Proving that an encrypted text has the private key is possible for some encryption schemes through zero knowledge proofs, but I guess not in this case in particular.
Well they’re being arrested and sent to jail, so that’s a form of regulation.
Bought! I've been seeing your tweets about this, and am so excited to get my hands on a print version!
A collection of over 125M partial hash inversions of the SHA-256 function