skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly I just don't drive at night. I'll take my e-bike or moped instead if I need to grab groceries. Also I'm really good about keeping my windshield clean and polished. About to replace my 10 year old windshield with a new one soon to reduce pitting. I also bought a dash mat to reduce the internal glare.

But sometimes, you just can't do anything about taking 10_000 lumens to the retina except slow down and pull over.
I'm in the same boat, no relief found, though. Do your lenses correct astigmatism?
You can validate news but not opinions.
I find that my 2012 vehicle with brights on is nowhere near as bright as my wife's 2022 vehicle with brights off.

This is part of the problem for sure.
If Microsoft offers this commercial product claiming that it answers questions for you, shouldn't they be liable for the results?

Honestly my prejudice was that in the US companies get sued already if they fail to ensure customers themselves don't come up with bad ideas involving their product. Like that "don't go to the back and make coffee while cruise control is on"-story from way back.

If the product actively tells you to do something harmful, I'd imagine this becomes expensive really quickly, would it not?
> This is a platform as a service?
That is correct

> How does the frontend work with the backend, it’s all backend and magic stuff to reflect it on the frontend?

All the logic is happening the backend, yeah. The Jupyter kernel runs Python, but the Python is processed in a way that it understands spreadsheet expressions like A1, B3:C8 and has the Excel functions available. The frontend reflects the state of the backend at all times and syncs over a websocket. This setup gets you multi user for free.
Seems it will be an ever rotating 50%, lol. During the war in Iraq, it was primarily leftists distrusting the mainstream media. Now ~20 years later it seems to have completely flipped.

IMO, they simply mislead when it works in their favor. That makes it a minefield though and the best way to handle it I've found is to simply turn it off. If something is important, somehow that information will filter up to you.
The adaptive headlights can solve that by altering the projected shape in real time. It's neat to see what some of the EU cars do, I think they're standard on newer Teslas, and just require the right software in the US.
There's not enough filler and it isn't spicy enough to get clicks. The entire news cycle would condense down to about an hour or less.
>It's also possible that online learning during the pandemic has ended up making online learning in general seem unpleasant.

MOOCs seemed to have outlived their novelty value since before the pandemic rolled around. The fact that paywalls were added to some content and schools probably lost a certain amount of interest as well didn't help.

But of course the pandemic did add a huge amount of (mostly uncurated) video content to the commons.
>Didn’t they sue tesla for offering direct to consumer (read bypassing the dealer network oligopoly) cars?

Call me cynical but given the entrenched and moneyed interests in that state I think you'd be a fool to expect otherwise.
I'm happy with blocky. I was using pihole before it, but blocky gives me DoH out of the box (without a second service/container for it). It also can bootstrap itself (download blocking rules) via DoH. Thanks to it, my DHCP broadcasts my blocky instance(s) as 'standard' UDP DNS servers for everything at home, but all the DNS traffic going outside my gateway is on DoH.

The next thing on my list is to craft my own set of blocking rules. Currently I'm using the set from a friend, who was using blocky before me.
Thing is the lizard-people theory is ridiculous at its face and it could be argued that giving someone like that airtime would harm the lizard-people conspiracy. It's the more mainstream (but still niche) beliefs that are vulnerable in this one-on-one environment, like a debate on man's effect on climate change. There's a pretty general consensus that we are contributing to the change of our planet's climate, but hosting a "both sides" debate on something like this makes it seem like it's an open question. And a motivated bad actor who wanted to shift the needle has many tools at their disposal that an honest person doesn't - lying, misleading, misrepresenting research, or simply pulling the "just asking questions, do your own research!" line.

Sorry to be clear we're both in agreement, I just could see a both-sides-er chiming in that actually a debate on lizard-people would be a bloodbath and therefore everything actually should be presented this way, and wanted to added another issue.

Additionally for another real-world example with more immediate consequences we can look at the whole "vaccines causing autism" issue - something that was completely fabricated by a now-disgraced ex-doctor called Andrew Wakefield, but which gained traction due to being presented to the public as if we just don't know for sure (when we did, and his "research" was utterly eviscerated). Wakefield was basically laughed out of the medical profession, but due to the legwork the media did he's managed to establish himself over in the USA and his work effectively kick-started the modern-day anti-vaxx movement.
People without kids have no idea the will of parents to preserve their children. If SBF is being tapped for 20+ years, firstly his parents as law professors know it, and secondly will fight it.
If you're doing interpolation you probably don't want a linear colourspace. At least not linear in the way that light works. Interpolation minimizes deviations in the colourspace you're in, so you want it to be somewhat perceptual to get it right.

Of course if you're not interpolating but downscaling the image (which isn't really an interpolation, the value at a particular position in the image does not remain the same) then you do want a linear colourspace to avoid brightening / darkening details, but you need a perceptual colourspace to minimize ringing etc. It's an interesting puzzle.
Given enough time - NYT will generally correct a deliberately misleading story - so tracking down these sorts of changes requires use of internet archive.

Here is one!

On a story about Joe Rogan and his covid treatment - the NYT said "he was treated with a series of medications including ivermectin, a deworming veterinary drug"

https://web.archive.org/web/20210901220929/https://www.nytim...

Later this was changed to "as well as ivermectin, a drug primarily used as a veterinary deworming agent."

https://web.archive.org/web/20221203221548/https://www.nytim...

The first version of the article, calling ivermectin a "deworming veterinary drug" is intentionally misleading as it is WIDELY used internationally in humans for all sorts of issues.

It is on the WHOs list of essential medications for HUMANS, it is the 420th most commonly described medication in the US for HUMANS, the inventor won the Nobel prize for how it helps HUMANS.

Luckily, the NYT changed it to be less misleading - but the point stands. They intentionally misled their readers.
And you believe this stuff?
I like the idea: I was actually looking at an open source tool that does something similar: combine spreadsheets with python.

I do have a question: Similar tools tend to fall down after the code grows to a certain size. Modularity, unit tests, etc. become more useful at this point. I'm wondering if Neptyne will (or does?) support these sorts of features?

Edit: Here's a link to the developer docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zLOXBoy-nf05SU3d5sZ7lDDg...
Moxie Marlinspike is a lot of things but I'm pretty confident the queen bee of a honeypot is not one of them.
While I am always down with Ethernet All The Things(tm), this seems like an odd duck. I'm thinking that they wanted to monetize this but 10Base-T1L and 10Base-T1S sidelined them.

SPI Ethernet chips have existed for quite a while. Existing COTS Ethernet switch chips are going to be far more robust and quite a bit smaller. And, now that you can actually buy 10Base-T1L and 10Base-T1S transceivers--you can get even lower power by reducing the signalling levels (or maybe not for space applications). T1L gets you solid industrial point-to-point robustness, and T1S finally gets you multi-drop on single pair again (And the angels sang "Hallelujah!" for networking like it's 1988). Both of which can have genuine transformer or transformerless galvanic isolation.

All this for far cheaper, far less complexity and WAY less power than that FPGA.

I guess the main advantage is UART interface Ethernet? A lot of cellular modem-like things have this really bastardized networking over UART that does have the advantage that it seems to be a "standardized" AT command set, so it's possible that this is important in satellite stuff which tends to piggyback on other industries as much as possible due to low volume.
Absolute garbage. It's completely unsafe to start changing headlight direction and brightness, because that's how other members of car traffic detect where you are.

If your brightness suddenly changes, people may assume you're further or closer than you actually are and if your headlight direction changes, they may assume you're on a collision course with them and in turn behave erratically.

I really did not expect this from Volvo. Tbh the person who suggested this needs to be fired immediately and barred from doing anything safety-related for the rest of their life.
I think you are correct. There is no limit that I've seen that restricts output. I have seen laws in multiple states that limit the number of lights in use while the vehicle is moving (typically 4) now wether these laws are actually enforced and have any teeth? Nah, they're typically "fix it" tickets. You _fix_ the issue, show up in court, have the ticket dropped, pay your court fees on the way out.

It's more akin to revenue generation rather than safety enforcement.
It gets very nasty when potholes and uneven surfaces interact with these lights. Some roads produce an effect not entirely unlike a strobelight.
At least for me, it isn't really a matter of eye adjustment. I still get halos and whatnot against the dark sky and environment.
I wouldn't say nobody. My parents, SO, and some of my friends all use the encrypted chats. It would be nice if the client made the differences more clear though. Although if it is a honeypot, then they obviously wouldn't want to advertise the workaround.
We have them - they're called Reuters, AP, and CSPAN. They're not perfect but they're there and they have been for a long time.
What about AOSP or GrapheneOS? Those also lack all tracking. Not to mention the security, and can you really have privacy without security?
All Home pod mini and the new big hompod has those
Le Morte D'Arthur – Chris Crawford's latest game/art
Cars in my state (Utah) don't even get inspected anymore.
Currently it cannot. However we find that many millions of row use cases don't actually need those millions of rows to be in the spreadsheet - you just want to be able to process that amount of data. So connect to a SQL database from the python side of things, read in 10 million rows, aggregate them into something succinct and write that to the spreadsheet is to sort of thing we're seeing.
Not necessarily. The SCD series can have auto calibration turned off. You take it outside once and baseline that to 400ppm. The drift on the sensor is rated very low (+-50 ppm over the sensor’s lifetime). This is what I do with my SCD30.
It was a fairly quick example, mostly because he was at the top of the heap of wealth for at least a bit in the last couple years; I haven't spent much time examining the psychology of Musk beyond what leaks through in his actions (which is no small amount). But it does appear that some positive feedback mechanisms have a hold of him, and I don't think that's something that more wealth will help.
> is it "ECMAScript API of new open source WASM-based POSIX-style browser OS"

This is closer to what the Bytecode Alliance is looking to do with WASI, which we're playing a small (but crucial) part in: https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/bytecode-alliance/

> Does "WebContainer API" mean "proprietary web service for accessing npm and git over http"?

Kinda, we have plans to allow self hosting and more reg open source- more to come!
It's also part of a decent proof for the existence of God, specifically an extension of the Kalām Cosmological Argument.
Books in Your Terminal
accepts header can be used to optimize here. If client supports webp or afiv - send those. If they don’t - png/jpg
I sure hope they didn't train it on lines from SHODAN, GLaDOS or AM.
I can remember seeing Walter Cronkite on a PBS panel discussion warning America that this would be the end result of the deregulation of media ownership.

If a small number of people are allowed to own the vast majority of media outlets, those media outlets are no longer going to represent the interests of the public at large.

Back when all television/radio was broadcast over the air, there used to be this quaint concept of broadcasters having to prove that they serve "the public interest" to receive and retain an FCC license to use the public airwaves.

https://www.benton.org/public_interest_obligations_of_dtv_br...
“I always drive with the high beams on, it’s so much easier to see!” - Peggy Hill
We were going to use Open AI (API) for an internal project but the TOS is VERY vague on data privacy. It says your data isn't used in some spots, but then also says the prompts are in other places...

I believe we've shifted to looking at Azure OpenAI which appears to use the same technology stack but be more privacy/enterprise focused. But I think the jury is still out on how "private" that is... Need to have a call with their sales team.
I noticed there's a lot of affirmation of this belief but very little citations. So I'm going to ask HN: What is the news journalism or reporting you rely on to believe that other news organizations mislead you, and why did you believe the first over the second?

[This is also a way for me to discern news I should be listening to!]
Shops that also run small time (usually BHPH) dealerships or get a lot of income from tire sales are the worst about it due to the obvious conflict of interests.

In my state the emissions and safety inspections are combined under the same license. As recently as the 2010s the 3rd party that the training was contracted out to would straight up tell you in the PowerPoint slides that the state's #1 priority is emissions and that the point of the safety inspection was to make holding the license lucrative to remove incentive to circumvent emissions inspection process. At least they're honest...<sigh>
any people who spent time at McMurdo around the filming of Encounters are not big fans

They didn't check out any of Werner Herzogs movies before letting him in? They would have known what they were in for.
Not even just entitlement, but a lot of people thrown off by the existence of telemetry. Telemetry that it tells you about when you install it, and is mentioned on their site.

So not only are people complaining about free software, they’re complaining because they don’t pay attention. It’s the “Everything someone else does is not as good as what I do” mentality
I think that if pattern recognition is essential to intelligence (it's got to be the best way to simplify the complexities of all the tons of data any intelligent being's senses will be giving it), then we will inherently group things by category.

There are ways to get along in common life while only making distinctions between "more" and "less", although you will still probably need counting, for example the classic case of shepards making tallies. For complicated behavior, numbers will inevitably arise. For example, the earliest writing we know comes from an sumerian accounting of a barley warehouse in Uruk making beer, which counts incoming and outgoing shipments. It miiight be possible to skip this sort of step some amount by only using comparative weights or things, although I would imagine to simplify things you'd want to move to a standardised system of weights, which it seems would inevitably progress towards some being multiples of others.

At the very least, a species advanced enough to develop ways to understand things like atoms or chemical bonds will have to start making distictions between hydrogen and helium all the way to lead etc, or HO and HO2. If they didnt think about numbers before, this will require them to in some regard.
(co-founder of Neptyne here)

Our biggest challenge as you say is definitely the fact that lots of users will be entrenched in Excel. Our goal right now is to appeal not to those who are happy in Excel today, but to those who have grown disillusioned: lots of users today build up amazingly complicated things in Excel and grow frustrated by the difficulty of maintaining that complexity. Python can be a much better fit in many cases for a lot of that complexity.

And as a platform for data science, we've found Neptyne really nice for sharing results. I was surprised at how often I heard from users: "well, we usually do everything in Jupyter, but then whenever management wants to see the output, they ask for it in a spreadsheet".
Here's the chapter "Message Passing and Actors" from the Programming Models for Distributed Programming book by Nathaniel Dempkowski, comparing different types of actor models:

http://dist-prog-book.com/chapter/3/message-passing.html
https://archive.is/IrW8c

I'm a little surprised to see the NYT allowing an article in support of a person unjustly accused of transphobia.
Maybe some sanity is returning to the media.
6000 years ago they had dudes (whole tribes, actually!) who practiced ritual trepanation for reasons unknown to us.

This "mapping the human brain" is no different and no more scientific.

The human brain is an information processing machine, and the science of information and its structure was discovered less than 100 years ago.

We don't even have a name yet for this science!

And our baby steps in this scientific field are nowhere close to beginning to study the brain. To use an analogy, we discovered how to make paper airplanes, but that gets us no closer to building a supersonic jetliner.
I can believe that feels weird. That delay is like listening to the sound picked up from a directed mic 6m from your head.
The effect of a brick falling on someone’s head is not a philosophical question, and neither is one about the common that clearly exists between, say, three horses and three apples you want treat these horses with.
Same three problems in Italy too. I regularly flip up my central mirror when a car is following me but I can do little for the incoming traffic.
The title reminded me of the Google vs bing meme
I get found some my friends selected one small proved company at the beginning and worked these within all the years. I catch for every new job, but also stay in the tech. Company should be proven or you should improve yourself.
the less sociopathic version of this is to drive with your cabin lights on.
Does that include IP addresses? Because I think that is considered PII
He has to come from the Journal region of France, otherwise he's just a sparkling whistleblower. /s

From the tone of the article it seems like the author simply detests Julian Assange and Weiss puts forward no standard for who can rightly be called 'a journalist'.
Tell me why I shouldn't. What evidence do you have that refutes their findings?
Yes, both my contacts and glasses correct, but it doesn't appear to make a difference.
my theory is that they want more programmers to lower the cost of making software. law prevents this kind of race to the bottom via a bar exam and an actual law degree etc. tech does not have these important career protections in place yet.
Most cars in the US are subject to emissions inspections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit...
You can try shining your high beams at the oncoming drivers. It doesn't accomplish anything, but it feels good.
I just had to travel back to the UK. I rented a horrible car, some new MG 4x4/SUV, it was a great driver, but horrible UI. I landed at night and had to drive an hour or so, after having only driven in the USA for 4+ years. Almost as if it was a revelation, I realised I could see, and see far, even on 1x1 lane road, with small/medium/SUV/trucks passing me, their beams weren't shining directing into my eyes. I realised that my own beams were slightly different, the beam facing oncoming traffic was pointed much lower, then I remember all those times traveling to Europe, and having to attach those reflector stickers over my headlights, remembering why would would do it.

It wasn't until I left the US that I realised that I drive blind most nights, either because oncoming traffic is blinding, or, the roads have so little reflection (or the opposite, when wet, it's 100% reflection), and cannot see the yellow/white lines, even US cats eyes aren't that helpful/bright.
Microsoft’s Billion-Dollar ‘Call of Duty’ Problem
I wish there was more awareness and concern about LED headlight PWM flicker.

PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) is a technique where the power to the output (bulb) is turned on and off at high frequencies in order to increase efficiency, power handling, and control of the output.

If this on/off switching is done fast enough, your eyes/brain will interpret it as a normal always on light source.

PWM is significantly cheaper and easier to implement vs current source LEDs, so it of course has become dominant in the industry.

When the PWM frequency drops below 120-240hz (cycles a second), some people can start to pick up a strobe like effect from the bulb. This flicker is known to cause additional eye fatigue and can trigger headaches in many.

What's worse is that many aftermarket LED headlights are now using PWM at 60hz. These cheap headlights are often bright blue in order to look modern and impressive. When a car with these installed is behind me at night I have to move my mirror away because the flicker is incredibly distracting and fatiguing.
This one ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Using libsodium is good advice, but all crypto libraries can be used incorrectly.
Try this experiment: Read old news for a while.

You’ll quickly learn not to trust the news. Not because it’s wrong – it’s pretty factual for the most part – but because it keeps trying to make you care about the wrong things. Whipping up an emotional reaction to matters that don’t affect you. Ignoring large elephants in small rooms. Talking juuuust slightly past the core issue hoping you won’t notice.

Much of news, especially daily news, is like discussing the color of a bike shed instead of the core design problems of the reactor it sits behind. Because talking about the big stuff isn’t sexy and doesn’t get the clicks.

And even when you do find a source of boring news, you’ll find that most of it affects your life not one bit. It’s just entertainment to keep you busy. In the words of a quote I once heard and can never find again: ”The news doesn’t tell you what to think, it tells you what to think about”.
Not mentioned in the article; the people that have high beams on 24x7x365. What are they thinking?

Local issue; Carolina squat. Trucks lifted in the front only, back end winds up way lower than the front. Looks absolutely stupid to me but there's a lot of them out here and that puts them way out of the correctible range for headlight aiming. Seems NC is doing something about that legally, SC following soon?
Correct: there's no identifiable information being stored, either before or with these changes.
VPAY cards like Postbank or Deutsche Bank (the biggest commercial bank) don't work with GitHub.
Most companies are used to getting reports in from people who have found things. However, if you are really worried about it you could consider reaching out to one of the Bug Bounty companies (HackerOne, Bug Crowd) to see if they could potentially act as a middleman for you.