skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of bullshit, layers and layers of utter bullshit in tech, that permeates the industry, and people regurgitate it like it is some sacred text that is sacrosanct. Every company has a certain amount of idiocies regarding best practices. Get used to it, or if you can't stomach it, and makes you uncomfortable leave the company. Extend your knowledge to other popular languages that gives you more leg to stand on.

You won't find good critique. People are pussied into this nonsense that is you shall not critique others' works. But you can ask for it, from people you trust, but then it's again up to you whether you can filter the input. Go into forums and start arguing on the topics you are puzzled about.

So attack the problem from different angles and once you have seen enough your brain will start to filter out the bullshit and you will know whether what you see is some nonsense or something good.
‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’
> The cultural issue is the distrust of expert advice from people qualified to answer and instead going and asking unqualified sources for the information that you want.

I'm not convinced that lack of trust in experts is a significant factor. People don't go to WebMD because they don't trust the doctors. They do it because they're worried and want to get some information now. Computers, as you note, can give you answers - fast and for free. Meanwhile, asking a doctor requires you to schedule it in advance, making it days or weeks before you get to talk to them. It's a huge hassle, it might cost a lot of money, and then when you finally get to talk to them... you might not get any useful answer at all.

In my experience, doctors these days are increasingly reluctant to actually state anything. They'll give you a treatment plant, prescribe some medication, but at no point they'll actually say what their diagnosis is. Is it X? Is it Y? Is it even bacterial, or viral, or what? They won't say. They'll keep deflecting when asked directly. The entry they put in your medical documentation won't say anything either.

So when doctors are actively avoiding giving people any information about their health, and only ever give steps to follow, is it a surprise people prefer to look things up on-line, instead of making futile, time-consuming and expensive attempts at consulting the experts?
The best advise I ever got was: "don't get advice from strangers on the internet"

I got this advice from strangers on the internet.
Problems with image resizing is a much deeper rabbit hole than this. Some important talking points:

1. The form of interpolation (this article).

2. The colorspace used for doing the arithmetic for interpolation. You most likely want a linear colorspace here.

3. Clipping. Resizing is typically done in two phases, once resizing in x then in y direction, not necessarily in this order. If the kernel used has values outside of the range [0, 1] (like Lanczos) and for intermediate results you only capture the range [0,1], then you might get clipping in the intermediate image, which can cause artifacts.

4. Quantization and dithering.

5. If you have an alpha channel, using pre-multiplied alpha for interpolation arithmetic.

I'm not trying to be exhaustive here. ImageWorsener's page has a nice reading list[1].

[1] https://entropymine.com/imageworsener/
I know about STRICT tables [0], but they still follow the quirky coercion rules. The reasoning seems to be that other DBMs have a similar behaviour. However, I want _errors_ if I insert '123' into an INT column, so it's easier to find problems in my code.

[0]: https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html
Wow, I guess my mental model (so to speak) is even more “radical” than yours. I don’t think mathematics is really part of the (empirical) universe, but that they are their own kind of abstract entity. They may happen to correspond to certain patterns in how things exist and interact in the “real world”, or to sentient beings’ reasoning and modeling faculties, but they are not tied to the real world either way.

For comparison: To me, for a number to exist in a “symbolic or algorithm sense” is to for it to exist, period - but in the sense of “creating”/“discovering” a new number system to contain them. The set of rational numbers isn’t really “special” to me. (Non-negative natural numbers are “special” for their association with cardinality, but I will refrain from going down that rabbit hole this time.) (I assume you meant “unbounded” in terms of expansion into elementary algebra; do correct me if I misunderstood you.)

(i.e. Existence=NaN because it’s a loaded word, Abstractness=Yes, Independence=I have some but limited sympathy for the neo-Fregean view on this, “creating” and “discovering” are the same thing to me)

(Which would make me a platonist to some people, an intuitionist to others, I guess)
It seems unreasonable to conclude that understanding of the phrase "how are you?" (or if you prefer "how do you feel?") in Chinese or any other language can be achieved without actually feeling or having felt something, and being able to convey that information (or consciously avoid conveying that information). Similarly, to an observer of a Thai room, me emitting สวัสดีค่ะ because I'd seen plenty of examples of that greeting being repeated in prose would apparently be a perfectly normal continuation, but when I tried that response in person, a Thai lady felt obliged - after she'd finished laughing - to explain that I obviously hadn't understood that selecting the ค่ะ suffix implies that I am a girl!

The question Searle actually asks is whether the actor understands, and as the actor is incapable of conveying how he feels or understanding that he is conveying a sentiment about how he supposedly feels, clearly he does not understand the relevant Chinese vocabulary even though his actions output flawless Chinese (ergo P-zombies are possible). We can change that question to "the system" if you like, but I see no reason whatsoever to insist that a system involving a person and some books possesses subjective experience of feeling whatever sentiment the person chooses from a list, or that if I picked สวัสดีค่ะ in a Thai Room that would be because the system understood that "man with some books" was best identified as being of the female gender. The system is as unwitting as it is incorrect about the untruths it conveys.

The other problem with treating actors in the form of conscious organisms and inert books the actor blindly copies from as a single "system" capable of "understanding" independent from the actor is that it would appear to imply that also applies to everything else humans interact with. A caveman chucking rocks "understands" Newton's laws of gravitation perfectly because the rocks always abide by them!
- dozens of built-in functions/reserved words
Then you can either:
1) don't use the software
2) analyze the software source code to understand what it does before using it

I tend and prefer to assume good-will WRT telemetry in well-known and independent opensource projects.
Carl Hewitt has been championing it for a while
https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.1459
https://youtu.be/7erJ1DV_Tlo
I use homebrew like a black box. I’m glad it exists, but I have no idea how it works and why it’s so complicated. When something breaks and Google is no help I just nuke it and start from scratch.

It’s only happened twice in more than a decade, but I still have the feeling that I was better off compiling stuff manually and cultivating a tidy /usr/local/bin like I did in early 2000s. But it’s probably rose-colored glasses and I’d definitively never take the time these days.
Now that I’m 30 years into my career I’d recommend the following:

- look out the window every few minutes to keep your eyes healthy

- stretch every day to keep your hamstrings from shortening and your pelvis from tilting

- if you are feeling stuck or stressed get out and take a walk or go for a run, otherwise the bad mojo will build up in your system
I'm not so sure. The pc landscape is very diffuse, just imagine trying to get every windows app onboard with moving to arm. And until they do, the pc manufacturers aren't going to bother making hardware. Games consoles are moving to x86 to make porting easier, even though they have full control of the stack.

Unless Google chromebooks up their game, or the pc disappears completely I don't really see arm taking over.
in the US at least. It's legal, taxable and socially acceptable in a lot of european countries.
Don't stop there.

Specifically, there were no failsafes implemented. No cross-checks were performed by the automation, because a dual sensor system would have required simulator time, which Boeing was dead set on not having regulators require in order to seal the deal. The pilots, as a consequence, were never fully briefed on the true nature of the system, as to do so would have tipped the regulators off as to the need for simulator training.

In short, there was no failsafe, and pilots didn't by definition know, because it wasn't pointed out. The "Roller Coaster" maneuver to unload the horizontal stabilizer enough to retrim was removed from training materials aeons ago, and a bloody NOTAM that basically reiterated bla bla bla... use Stabilizer runaway for uncommanded pitch down (no shit), while leaving out the fact the cockpit switches in the MAX had their functionality tweaked in order to ensure MCAS was on at all times, and using the electrical trim switches on the yoke would reset the MCAS timer for reactivation to occur 5 seconds after release, without resetting the travel of the MCAS command, resulting in an eventual positive loop to the point the damn horizontal stabilizer would tilt a full 2 degrees per activation, every 5 seconds. while leaving out any mention of said automation.

Do not get me started on the idiocy of that system here, as the Artificial Stupidity in that case was clearly of human origin, and is not necessarily relevant to the issue at hand.
Moderators should include a TL;DR to provide value
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This is a great project by CMU; however, it is designed for high school students specifically. An analogue to this would be Code.org. It is not related to their undergraduate CS curriculum which is rather rigorous.
They'd be well advised to make this opt-in only for legal reasons. This is not going to go down well in a lot of places and they might get exposed to law suits.
I seem to recall there have been instances where courts have basically said that if the employer requires arbitration and chooses the arbitrator, they also need to be the ones paying for it, otherwise the contract is far too one-sided towards the employer.
That is a good hint, thanks. When using Edge Browser on my iPad Pro and MacBook, I have been immediately going to bing.com and that also works.

My wife does not have access to the new service yet, and she is clearly jealous and she didn’t understand why Microsoft can’t just open an expensive to run prototype to the whole world.
torch.nn.functional.interpolate has an "antialias" switch that's off by default
Ehh... I wouldn't say "rigorous clinic testing". Many devices use/abuse the 510k process.
Is it a minor journal? They claim impact factor over 12. This is, of course, field related, but it's not nothing.
There's a large number of Trump associates (but not Trump himself) who've been successfully prosecuted for various sorts of overseas "collusion". This is much more than the zero one would expect.

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_of_Paul_Manafort ; linked to Viktor Yanukovych, of the pro-Russian faction in Ukraine.
What concrete specific predictions does "The brain is a computer" suggest?
I lived in Poland, Finland, UK, the Netherlands and Germany. Never had an issue pay online with a card since early 2000s.

There are two types of debit cards.

1. The legacy Bank Cards (think EC card in Germany) and
2. The "new" (I say new, but they have been around for 20 years) debit cards, which looks and act like Credit Card, but do not give you line of credit and requires fund on savings/current account.

Except for German Sparkasse (not a real bank) almost every bank offers you option which card you want (Fidor even issues "Smart" card which is both, legacy and new Debit Card).
The Netherlands had time with this super wonky Meastro cards, but I hear it no problem anymore.

Some dodgy bank will ask for an extra fee, but most don't.

I had my first Debit Card for online payment, as a student in 2004. Yes, paying with CC/DC in Europe is not an issue.

It is not novelty. They are common. Your bank might have simply not given it to you.
You know, as the law requires in the EU
> I haven't seen that "This accessory is not supported" message on an Apple device in many years

Well with the lightning cable it's pretty clear that it has to be MFi-certified, right?

> iPad Pros have USB-C, and as far as I can tell they are broadly compatible with things like USB audio interfaces which I'm also fairly confident have not gone through any sort of Apple certification process.

Sure. The thing is that MFi is some kind of authentication that goes on top. To me it really feels like they were forced to move to USB-C, so they did it, and now the rumor says that they are porting MFi to USB-C (which makes total sense, I don't see a reason for them to drop the MFi program).

"Activating" MFi with USB-C is just a matter of updating the software (assuming that they have the cryptography hardware in the device).

IMHO the rumor is really plausible. Actually I was expecting MFi to be there from the beginning on, and I was confused by the fact that it was not there: I don't see USB-C as a technical reason for them to drop MFi.
The devil is in the details. Near perfect should be weighted against prevalence….
It seems to me that people are jumping the gun on ChatGPT, Bing, Google and LLMs in general with regard to success and failure when it's still so early in this space. Amusing at times, so, so wrong at others, but we got a functional demo of the future airdropped out of the blue -- and more will come in different shapes, not just chat but also applied automation and information discovery, at increasing levels of maturity and usefulness.
Arguably downscaling does not fill in missing information, it only throws away information. Still, implementations vary a lot here. There might not be a consensus of a unique correct way to do downscaling, but there are certain things that you certainly don't want to do. Like doing naive linear arithmetic on sRGB color values.
> This is clearly a bad idea, because credit cards

Debit cards are, though, and it doesn't make any difference for online payments.

Ideally GitHub should support more local options (e.g. SEPA transfers, UPI, etc.), but card payments are already a very good starting point.
No, this is important right now. The house is on fire and the group of people responsible for storing 20000 gallons of petrol in the basement are standing outside the house.

You can argue all you want about what exactly started the fire and do a root cause analysis. Of course that should be done.

But whatever comes out of that root cause is not a defense for that group of people outside the house. But if you wait long enough, it'll definitely be used to derail the conversation into a sophisticated version of "the front fell off".
Whilst Plausible does look great, one of their main goals, as I understand it, is to focus on simple core analytics for websites, not general-purpose do-it-all analytics for everything.

If you're not a website, and so your metrics are arbitrary events with metadata instead of page views, this tends to quickly run into awkward mess.

Self hosting an InfluxDB to capture core metrics seems like a good solution that avoids privacy concerns without being too complex imo.
Lack of int64 is also a problem for some applications.
It's like single glyphs version of what's going on with ai assistants: confidently wrong, wrong but looks good so you trust it.

When a normal old codec is used at too low quality levels, it looks like low quality and you do not trust the data.

Maybe the codec needs to include a disclamer watermark that it injects into the output that the image was processed by jbig2 with the aggressive option and all text is not to be trusted.
Disagree, it should be the norm.
And I just read the USA branch is not even the same company anymore, despite keeping the BBVA name. International corporations are weird.
Yes Tesla is being paid. And that good.

But your argument seems to be that Tesla shouldn't get anything or shouldn't even allowed to have private infrastructure.

> Ultimately, Tesla is asking for even more federal funding in this space

I think Tesla would prefer to be any federal funding in this space.
Australia is $$$$$ so for all purposes it falls into the same category as US for what I'm talking about.

In fact, it's even more of an illustration for what i'm trying to say. Let's assume all remote hurdles have been lifted, 100%. So, if I'm hiring for a new group initially based in Australia, what makes me recruit from a pool of 25mil people vs. 250mil people in Pakistan and 1400mil in India? Why in this case even have an Australian engineering team, ever?
Wouldn't the clipping be solved by using floating point numbers during the filtering process?
This was new information to me, but it appears in the NHS swift action has been taken:
https://www.cambridgeshireandpeterboroughccg.nhs.uk/EasySite...

[PDF warning]

it also has the wholesale prices on there.
Just because you have the same charger, doesn't mean that you allow other vehicles to charge at Tesla Superchargers. Those are 2 different questions.
BT + Openreach's iron grip on the telecoms monopoly has left the UK disconnected
As a side note, if the theory of the pico balloon is correct, then the US airforce is capable of radar-identify a 32" diameter mylar balloon and shoot it with a missile from a fighter jet, which seems to me like being exceptionally accurate.
Probably they are selling the data to Palantir or some israeli "defense" company
I wish we could get the industry to understand that when you build-in analytics and make it hard for people to opt out, you're using their resources.

Sure, people don't pay for things like Homebrew (can they even?) - but this is no reason to extract resources from end users without their consent or agency.

I have to work very hard to get something like Homebrew installed and in-use in my organization - the IT guys detest it, since they don't have the wherewithal to understand it (or else they'd be higher-paid developers) so when I finally do get it installed and in use (because it is a very productive tool), having it phone home just makes the situation worse. IT guys have asked for my blood on more than one occasion, just because they see something 'uncontrollable' phoning home .. this does a lot more harm than good.

That said, homebrew has been absolutely responsible for making MacOS usable for development purposes in this ol' hackers lab, so I'll keep using it - but I sure do wish they'd care a little more about the position they put us in, having to justify the use of it to IT guys ..

EDIT: Thinking about it, I'm actually not averse to phoning-home, just the automatic/hidden nature of it. If brew asked me, every 5 or so times that I ran it, if I would like to participate in sending anonymized analytics to the brew devs, and showed me what was being sent (instead of obfuscating it), I'd be a lot more inclined to click "[Yes] - this one time" almost every single time ..
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You just need it for the flight, you take one half an hour before the flight. You can research the basic biological mechanism online but the practical effect is that your body just doesn't react to fear, which allows you to deal with the mental anxiety much more easily.

I really hope you'll ask your doctor about it. As a fellow nervous flier I know how miserable it can be to be trapped in the pain tube at 40k feet for hours and have every little noise and bump set you off. It seriously changed my life - after a few really bad flights, I started getting stressed out when I saw a plane in the sky while I was standing on terra firma! But not anymore. And these days, after way too many flights, I barely even need it anymore!
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able to see it here now
The article talks about downsampling, not upsampling, just so we are clear about that.

And besides, a ranty blog post pointing out pitfall can still be useful for someone else coming from the same naïve (in a good/neutral way) place as the author.
As in the post: they're intending to drop the GA part entirely within 90 days, and it sounds like the new metrics are entirely anonymous, and so not covered by GDPR etc. IANAL but as far as I can tell that should avoid all legal concerns once GA is gone.
Yeah, that's true. Flex, however, dedicated some efforts to accessibility. But, developers didn't want the components Flex had to offer. Custom stuff almost never implemented accessibility interfaces.

This also impacted how search worked. At the time of the sale of Flash to Adobe, either Macromedia before the sale, or Adobe right after the sale donated a "headless" version of Flash player to Google in hopes that they'll make something of it, something that'd help with searching within Flash applets... I don't know the details, but I know that the project essentially failed to even start. That player never received any updates, and Google wouldn't search inside Flash. I think, the real reason was that it was just way too hard to search inside Flash due to the very dynamic nature of these applets. Pieces of text would often appear in very small chunks, random order, impossible to tell if visible or not etc.

With HTML and JavaScript, eventually Google faced the same problem, and that's how they came up with Chrome. For some reason they decided not to make their own player.
You forgot 3) Complain at different intensities, up to the shaming, about the unethical dark patterns employed by the software, no matter whether it is open source or not, to make authors of the software aware, that what they do is not welcome by their users.
This is entirely a Dutch issue. Their banking system is extremely weird and they consider Visa and MasterCard to be credit cards (even if it literally says "DEBIT" on the card itself), and thus they aren't accepted in a lot of places, only Maestros (which don't work for everything) are. Thankfully that's changing now and my recent trips there didn't require keeping cash to pay.
> brew update will now be run automatically less often (every 24 hours rather than every 5 minutes) and these auto-updates will be much faster as they no longer need to perform the slow git fetch of the huge homebrew/core and homebrew/cask taps’ Git repositories.

Excellent! Thanks to the brew team for this — it was always frustrating to install something and have to wait for a full, slow update first.