skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where to start...

First off, you're saying AV companies share examples from repeated runs? What a truly shocking insight to absolutely no one. That's how you track improvement in AVs, repeating runs and comparing. There's no trickery involved in the fact you see runs that were repeated when almost all runs are repeated by design.

Second, what Tesla did is nothing like you described. Tesla lied about who was running the drive they showed. A human was driving when they claimed the human was only there for legal reasons. No one else has done that.

Maybe hold the "I told you so" for something you understand enough to actually tell anyone anything about.
Ruby is so powerful but simplicity is the best if
other people are going to read and maintain your code.

Amen. Keep it simple for a large shared Ruby application, such as a Rails app.

More advanced Ruby (writing your own operators/iterators/whatever, metaprogramming, extending the language itself, whatever) is best reserved for Ruby frameworks, not applications.
Compost? Chuck 'em in the sea? Leave them in a forest? Let the plants and animals enjoy those nutrients. Call it the "Circle of Life burial"
The good, old “If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide” argument.

Just drop “US” in that statement and then reevaluate it. Then ask yourself why the US should be special in regard to (not) protecting people’s privacy.
One of my favorite HN comments of all time [0] suggested that MMO's provide plentiful means of covertly communicating:

>MMO's are packed with possible communication channels in addition to chat. Ever wonder if that annoying gnome in the auction hall is jumping in morse code? Could signals be sent with bids? Could a character's inventory contents be arranged to leave a message to someone else who shares the login info? Is that nonsense coming from what you presume to be a bot-controlled gold-farming crew really nonsense? When a game goes to great lengths to simulate a world, the possibilities for covert communication are nearly limitless!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6874143
Warnings aren't informational, they're motivational. Have you ever seen a health warning with a QR code that links to the data? No you haven't. Alcohol already carries health warnings, adding to them will likely have only marginal effect.

I'm not saying that this information shouldn't be in health warnings, but it's worth considering how health and safety warnings and signage are absolutely ubiquitous in modern society. It could be that the consumer warnings are a mediocre substitute for industrial regulation at source - just slap a disclaimer on it to avoid lawsuits and call it a day, so to speak. It's also possible that this leads people to either filter them out or causes them additional levels of stress. I value safety information, but I don't value having it shoved in my face all the time.
Tesla also likely staged their battery swap presentation as well as the solar shingles reveal.
I don’t think this is true unless the original evidence was obtained in violation of the fourth amendment, which zero days are not necessarily. You’re right though using parallel construction to launder prohibited search is illegal.
I would say the difference is that smoking has a bystander effect while alcohol doesn't (besides bar fights, j/k). At least in the country I currently live in, anti-smoking measures were not introduced to protect smokers but to protect those around them. At least that was the official narrative.
I understand what people are getting at, as it's not really that big of a logical leap. I think the fact that it is somewhat of a stretch, but still "in the lines," is exactly why it is a "trick": it isn't doing anything particularly invalid or hacky, it's just not necessarily what you'd imagine when reading the RFC. Content negotiation to me is more about serving the optimal content to a given agent, not really about selecting modalities for different use cases based on different types of user agents.

I think both cases are "valid" although I think it is inherently less tricky if the document talking about and previewing the dataset is referenced via a separate URL from the dataset itself. (Which, of course, entirely mitigates problems like Apache Spark having HTML in the Accept header.)
We are currently building something similar at Qluent [1], and are considering expanding into the usecase you described. If you find it interesting, I'd love to talk about your exact requirements. You can find me at ivan (dot) bestvina (at) qluent (dot) com.

[1] https://qluent.com
Sure. Which is the same as "for some minority of people the government is after, it is 100% acceptable and even desirable for them to use these technologies."
There's an Observable notebook on this topic too who-to-follow-on-mastodon https://observablehq.com/@mauforonda/who-to-follow-on-mastod...
Hmm. So that vm.d is a source file for a nearby compiler[1] ... written in C. With a .l and .y, and implementations of assorted collection datatypes, and ... basically printf'ing code. Sigh.

Better instead say a vm_d.py direct emitter, and skip the vmc?

[1] https://github.com/emerald/old-emerald/tree/master/vmc
All organic solvents are a cancer risk for the same reason: they imitate water (an inorganic solvent) inside our cells, but they're not water. Therefore, every single chemical reaction inside the cell is a bit different. Whether inhibited or triggered, or slowed, or sped up. So more reactions are likely to go wrong; perhaps creating free radicals that can rip up any molecule they touch, including DNA.

We are immensely better than other mammals at coping with alcohol (which yeast uses to poison other organisms and so preserve its food sources such as fruit.) Our livers prioritize neutralizing and excreting alcohol; letting other chemicals pile up meanwhile. Hence, just about any medication becomes more toxic if you drink alcohol at the same time.

We like the brain effects, but in truth every chemical reaction in the body is affected.

Speculating, however: some of the cancer risk from modern alcohol sources, however, may come from very long storage. Wine put down for more than the three years nec to sediment out lousy-tasting tannins continues to form Frankenstein flavor molecules (flavinoids) that have unusual tastes because they're random, they don't occur in nature. While flavinoids promote health, the Frankenstein versions of them likely don't and may be a potent extra source of cancer risk, even though we highly value those rare, weird flavors. Evolution hasn't necessarily shaped us to cope with these novel molecules, since we wouldn't have encountered them.

Of course, wine retains many of the very significant health-enhancing virtues of grape juice so it may often not do net harm (esp if the wine hasn't been put down for too long) but you can also buy grape juice.
> everything is staged and dolled up

Dolled up, yes. Staged as in, "Portrayed in the best light?" Yes. But staged as in "As fake as the Apollo 11 moon landing?" No.

McDonald's Canada did an entire video showing how they shoot their food. They're not allowed to fake it, but what they can do is put forty patties on the grill and choose the nicest two to put in the ad. They can take a basket of heads of lettuce and pick the perfect piece. They can carefully layer the food on the bun with a slight setback to give the illusion that it's taller via perspective, but they cannot actually lie about how tall the food is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7xnjBoJHzE

I met a specialty food photographer once. He had food dyes and a tackle box full of glass beads, he could make a fake cup of coffee look like a hot cup of coffee, but he was clear that he did that when shooting an ad for something else, e.g. If it's the cup being sold, not the coffee.

Not everything in advertising is an outright fraud, although everything in advertising is staged as well as possible, just as you say.

And "as well as possible" can be really, really well when you have deep pockets.
There haven't been a ton of choices when I've looked for Ruby/Rails jobs, but I never had much trouble landing one. They usually seem pretty relieved to have found somebody.

When I've been on the hiring side of the equation, it's been very tough to find candidates.
The pain points of teaching computer science
I think that is not correct, the example cited in the article is about drag queens performing a 'story hour', not trans people.
Yes! As a diabetic I'm always annoyed that they don't even try to print the carbs on the label. I don't get why alcohol gets a pass when other food and drink have to.
Last year I went from an Intel Mac Pro (6,1 from 2013) that I used for 8 years to the M1 Studio. I expect to use that for many years to come.
Your statement is quite context dependent, and does not apply to most modern residential scenarios. “Over insulating” a flex duct is not going to cause condensation.
Metal duct work in an unconditioned space can cause condensation. Wrapping it in (often thin) fiberglass insulation can increase condensation in certain conditions. Improperly vented attics (and/or air leakage from conditioned space) with metal ducts can cause issues.
Datasette is my data hammer
I'm waiting for it to be mandated that doors and windows have cancer labels near the knobs and handles. "WARNING: Opening this window may cause cancer"
I think there's merit to at least forestalling rule-by-assassination.

Like, yes, I would not mourn a lot of people who end up having protective details. But I absolutely don't want to live in a world where all it takes to change a policy is one particularly motivated sociopath. Keep in mind that John Hinckley Jr's assassination attempt on Reagan wasn't out of disagreement with Reagan's policies, it was to impress Jodi Foster. A nobody's obsession with an actress is really, REALLY not the thing we should allow to materially affect our civilization.

I think there's a good argument to be made that the WWII-era Japanese government became the one capable of its atrocities in China specifically because assassination was so frequently employed to check to its power.
I would say that pushing the limits of the hardware has been a constant of gaming, since pong.
I admire your positive attitude, but facebook nor snapchat nor tiktok have shown any other trend. "Social" media are social in name only.

> else they would have already.

Except it doesn't work that way. People are some mixture of dumb, greedy and vain.

> Another possibility is it'll work out great.

What would be the positive outcome? Preferably one that wasn't heralded 20 years ago and has not borne out.
There is a decent discussion at https://old.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/10df9y9/th... which contains quotes from the deposition, as well as a link to a pdf of the deposition at https://wetransfer.com/downloads/8b24e0528e23c45d543f4d4182b... (I know, but that's the only link there).

In this case it's surprisingly hard to find a link to the deposition via search engines. Just out of curiosity, I tried googling and binging (?) several phrases from the pdf; nothing comes up. Adding the case number doesn't help much either. It's 19CV346663, if anyone wants to try.

The deposition is from June 2022 btw.
A launcher is visible on Google Maps, and is still there. I drove by it today.

https://goo.gl/maps/LByxzGzqQ28ETtJb9
I have a M1 air and with basically the same comments. The con is that it's no longer the newest air out there, pro being that I had it since November 2020 and I really don't have a single complaint with the hardware.
> Current latest java still runs 20 year old jars.

Dude, I've been using Java since 1.2. Sure, all versions will try to "run" anything, but they'll do that with all sorts of slight differences and incompatibilities in behaviour - which make it effectively impractical for any serious program to run on anything but a small subset of tried and tested versions.

> The OS distributor

Careful what you wish for. Do you really want to hand Microsoft the power to decide which runtimes are allowed to run on Windows...?
If one takes a moment to think about the value of a private car participating in a public taxi fleet, the idea collapses completely. Public transit is difficult, so is a taxi fleet. A part is labour - drivers specifically - but equally large portions are maintenance, insurance and related things.

Even if Tesla developed robo taxis tomorrow, there are numerous legal, regulatory, liability and willingness hurdles to overcome.

There is also the issue of which markets robo taxis would address. Old-world cities tend to have good to excellent public transit. The value is largely in limited regions - north america being one.
>It's sad to see Tesla in the dumps like this.

Why is it "sad to see" potentially fraudulent goings-on brought to light?
I agree with you that these videos are extremely cherry picked, if not outright faked.

In response to the link you provided though, it's fair to add that with current FSD beta, a trip such as the one Tesla faked in 2016, is now almost trivial. So there's definitely some progress in the space. Of course the timeline Elon (and others) claimed were absolutely bullshit.
You cannot describe a procedure that collects a representative sample without introducing bias. What does representative mean? Who decides what it means? Who gets to set the parameters of over vs under sampling?

Let's say that white nationalism is a tiny fraction of ideas online. Significantly less than 0.1%. Now, you randomly sample the internet and do not collect this idea into your training set. Do you adjust your approach to make sure it's represented (because as reprehensible as it is, it is the reality of online discourse in some places?)

I genuinely believe that it's all going to be biased -- there are no unbiased news or media outlets -- and the sooner you recognize everything is biased, the sooner you can move on to building the tools to recognize and understand that bias.

Asking "why can't we strive to build an unbiased outlet" is to me like asking "why can't we build a ladder to the moon". It's an interesting question, but ultimately should lead you to "Well, why do you want that, and your approach is impossible but the outcome you want might not be."
Google is just weird about that stuff.

I've previously had the issue where me and someone else on the same workspace with the same domain had lots of back and forth and suddenly Google decided me sending them a reply was spam. Both were authenticated while sending and it was in an email chain.

It's like, everything signals "this is fine" but their filters say "no, this must be spam". Eventually we just both used our non-google private email accounts because using the work emails was just not reliable enough. I have no idea why people use any Google communication products, missing legitimate email is much too high a risk for me.
I don't buy this. The whole point of the GDPR is to protect consumers from companies processing their data. If the dark-mode toggle data is only ever used locally, then the data is never "processed" by the company. At most this is a bad transcription of GDPR into German law.
I'd still go with a calendar for super important periodic stuff. I believe that most email services use at least a two level approach to spam filtering.

1. First, they do some filtering at the SMTP stage to detect spammers and drop the mail.

2. Mail that doesn't get rejected at the SMTP stage then goes through the delivery process to deliver to your account. This is where your filters have a say in what happens.

Here's Fastmail's description of the SMTP stage filtering [1].

I wouldn't want to miss something important because the sender happened to misconfigure their mail system after an update in a way that trips the receiving side's SMTP stage filters.

[1] https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591393
(2022), approximately a year ago.
Smoking has a calming effect.
Yes. Source: Runs an M1 14" Pro on 2 monitors.
> We agree that glorifying tobacco consumption was bad.

You're using "we" very expansively here. All of the things that we've agreed on in your comment are objectionable to many.

From what I can tell, "we" removes the "stupid" and only includes the "smarter and more enlightened" who will become stupid over time if they fail to apply the same "critical lens" to alcohol as they applied to cigarettes.
The battery will be useless in 8-12 months if you keep it plugged in nearly 24/7.
Most electric cars do have heat pumps, and have had for some time; the Leaf had once since 2012, for instance. In some, it's an upsell option (VW, for instance, justifies charging an extra 1k or something on the basis that they don't provide interesting efficiency boosts in places where it's rarely <0C.
I find it baffling they are called journalists. It's just generating controversy based on events, with no actual thought put into actual "news" part.
Shopify like many other successful Ruby shops were successful because of the speed of development. The cost of hosting is secondary and any company the size of Shopify can afford to involve a small team to reduce hosting costs... with impact for the developers happiness to boot.
Python now has an optional type system and if you add one of them such as mypy or pyre to your CI process and you can configure GitHub to refuse the pull request until types are added you can make it somewhat strongly typed.

If you have a preexisting codebase I believe the way you can convert it is to add the types that you know on commits and eventually you will have enough types that adding the missing ones should be easy. For the missing ones Any is a good choice.

https://pyre-check.org and https://github.com/python/mypy are popular.
Please, show a little respect for Jobs here. /s
No positive effect from it? I take it you haven't been a smoker yourself. You being mystified about why smoking was seen as a desirable drug by many is evidence of the massive culture shift that occured surrounding that particular drug.
I did that exact thing and they sent back a rejection of the dispute along with shitty screenshot of me listed as "guarantor" of ICE's health service corps lol. Obviously I refused to sign anything. I have no idea how the collectors even found me as I had no valid contact information as the feds put their own address as mine.
> Why can’t Python pick one tool?

Sometimes I wonder if developers are just making new tools out of self-interest and they want their name on some well-known project, and that's why they don't just work with one of the existing projects to implement their ideas and move the overall community towards a common working model.

> what is the harm in having multiple competing solutions?

Developer confusion and community fragmentation.
Integrating the ssd controller into the soc allows for it to scale with the process used for the soc and also removes what is essentially a multicore system from being an external, potentially compromised unit. This way there is never any chance unencrypted data is written to the flash.

Not the best reason but it's there. Thunderbolt 4 is fast enough to attach external flash anyway.
The study that page relies on is about all-cause mortality (in particular, CVD); the article is about cancer warnings.
Maybe because Firefox automatically suspends old tabs, Chrome needs a extension for that. If you reopen FF it reloads only the tabs you actually visit.
Aren't alcoholic drinks required to label their percent of alcohol?
Ask HN: Any good FOSS solutions to organize the family albums?
Hello HN readers, do you have any suggestions on how to organize a few hundred gigabytes of family pictures and videos?

Currently I use DigiKam in 1 external HDD + borg in another external HDD and I'm planning to get a Hetzner borg box to get an off location backup too.

It's been working ok so far, but I've felt that Digikam is getting slower by the day, also doesn't seem to work fairly well on the external HDD (I started using it when I had everything on my desktop SSD, but then it grew up a few too many GBs and had to move it).

Don't really need a lot of bells and whistles, what I usually do is:

- Every few weeks / months plug everyone's iPhones / Android phones to the PC.
- Copy all the pictures and videos to the HDD.
- Scan the HDD with Digikam, detecting new elements.
- Move the pictures videos on their espective folders, which is usually just a `YYYY > MM` structure.
- Once everything has been imported and sorted, plug the other HDD and create a borg archive with the current timestamp.

It works fairly good for me so far, but I want to improve the "scan with Digikam and sort files" thing, it's by far the slowest part; I've also tried different options like gThumb and ShotWell but neither seem to have an easy way to "get all the files in this directory and move them to their right directory based on the datetime the picture was taken".

Thank you.
Tay already existed.
It’s a stepping stone. Doing that will make you a little bit less uncomforable when you get out of your depth, that until you hit another stepping stone and feel even more comforable.
> There are clearly a lot of very nice, and very normal, people on there who just love the concept of microblogging. Who am I, or you, to stand in their way? And why should they depend on one corporation to communicate when they can take it into their own hands?

Because many are not nice and the platforms clearly have been abused, drive division in society and are bad for mental health. That's why we can't have nice things.
Getting hit by a drunk driver is a significant bystander effect.
Visiting China and seeing how the Chinese live won't make you think it's a beacon of democracy, but it will also show you that the Western caricature of China is horrendously distorted.

Fundamentally, the question you have to ask yourself is: if China really is the hellhole that's described in Western media, why do most people in China have such a positive view of their country? The facile answer is that Chinese people must be brainwashed, but consider the difficulty of brainwashing 1.4 billion people who experience China every single day, vs. the relative ease of brainwashing (or lightly rinsing the brains of) people who have no direct experience of China.
Exactly, and for that matter, why not just write 1E5?
this is why we are taught in HS how insidious smoking is. We were taught that with many drugs (say heroin), one is always chasing that "first high", as it is tremendous feeling, and subsequent usages never are the same. While with cigarettes, almost universally people will tell you that their initial usage is terrible, they can't stand it.

The only reason people are able to keep doing it is because they get used to it, and their body develop a dependency on it.
> Every day she'd tell stories at the dinner table of what sounded to us like fraudulent advertising. Toothpicks holding buns off lettuce to make a burger look taller in the commercial, grapes dipped in oil before photographing to make them look shiny... I can't remember the others, it was a constant game of deceit.

McDonalds Canada has published a behind the scenes of them doing a photoshoot for a burger[0] then compared it to the real thing. It's interesting seeing the tricks you mention involved (one you didn't mention but they do, is the patty is frozen and only the edges seared so it stays thicker).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSd0keSj2W8
you could make the argument that late-stage capitalism and the emergence of neufeudalism has reduced the state from an arbiter and partner in creating a thriving and successful society for its people, to a paul blart mall cop. well thought legislature is the purvey of the private sector, as is trade law and most of the sovereignty of the internet.

but realistically Boris Johnson himself was notorious for using dead-cat legislature to draw attention away from serious problems in his own government and serious issues the nation faces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy

chances are great we're seeing this bit of legislation to help people lose focus on the slow-rolling dumpster fire of brexit.