skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one unconscious bias from California-based self-driving companies: weather conditions worse than overcast skies exist in other parts of the world.

Recently, I drove in a whiteout blizzard with huge flakes without much accumulation on the road. Road was drivable, but I couldn’t see road markings. The experience would have been less scary with some sort of augmented display to show the road borders.
Not usually, but sometimes cars drive too close to the edge of the road, and the road has no sidewalk.

And despite good advice (or simply due to a momentary circumstance), some people walk at night with dark clothing. You can turn a corner a hit a person very easily if they are in any half of your side of the street.
Thanks for the heads up. Fixed in the original.
This is bs.
I work in Paid Media (Ads). Focused View on TikTok means user has watched at least 6s, or interact with the Ad. This is TikTok's version of YouTube TrueView, which counts a View as watching 30s or interacting with the Ad.

The part about "emotions" is how the advertiser is supposed to generated more focused views: by creating ads that are emotionally appealing, the users chooses to watch longer, not TikTok.
But why? I'm open to this idea, but it seems antithetical to what I believe about human nature. Simply using drugs isn't IMHO a pathway to violence. That comes, again IMHO, from desperation and other factors. If you decriminalize drugs, the theory is that you would remove the desperation and could fund recovery through taxation. I'm sure it is more complicated than that, but the drug war isn't working either and at far greater cost. But maybe the vested interests prefer it that way?
It seems to me that a few things are needed:

1. Limiting the 'trial penalty' to 25% or so of the sentence
2. Banning pleas that involve dropping charges in exchange for pleading to others
3. Proper funding for public defenders

The first and second are to solve the problem that prosecutors overcharge and defence lawyers advise innocent clients to plead guilty rather than risk significant jail time fight bogus charges. This seems to be a common tactic by prosecutors in the US and it should simply be banned through these mechanisms.

Of course the other problem is that people can't defend themselves against bogus charges because the cost is ruinous, so proper funding for public defenders is important.
Hermann Oberth, FWIW:

"(25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was a Transylvanian physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard and Herman Potočnik."

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oberth>
What? You don't need to learn anything. Dogs don't know any math, and they do fine.
Google Messages is finally just calling it ‘RCS’
> do people in the US just drive on the sidewalks?

I think you must first ask, "What percentage of roads in the US have sidewalks?" It's nowhere close to 100%.
>I wonder if there are such eccentrics alive today, and how could we tell if we're looking at a sneak peek of the future to come?

I would assume they're being downvoted/mocked on social media.
I was also surprised to not see this discussed in the article. Melatonin supplementation seems like the obvious solution given how cheap and easily available it is. It can also go hand-in-hand with interventions the author suggests like f.lux or using dimmer lights.

Lots of good discussion and links to studies about efficacy here: https://gwern.net/melatonin
tl;dr - yes it works and is much easier/cheaper than other things
'Unlocking financial opportunity: Software-enabled revenues to evolve to high single-digit billion EUR figure by end of decade;'

Does this mean MB owners will have to pay subscription fees to unlock, eg., heated seats, in their vehicles?
IIRC from my undergrad research (8 years ago) theres still an issue of I/O interconnects bounding the usefulness of optical computers. & I believe memory and GPU ram is also the current primary bottleneck for current training, ie not compute. Still cool for the next wave of data center or edge compute I suppose
Sounds interesting, can you say who it is?
When Dark Mode for HN?
When is Hacker News going to have an option for a dark mode. The bright screen is hurting my eyes today.
Absolutely does. Here's the data to back that up
https://urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/projects/crime-lights-study

I feel this push for being able to see the Milky way every night fails to recognize the realities of urban life in non-matcha latte neighborhoods
You sound like me (unfortunately).

Did you ever find anything that helped?
Thank you for ambient2mqtt! I have been using that for a bit over a year now to interface with home assistant
Maybe it looked different from the perspective of people living then and there, but I feel like I couldn't feel any reward from working in an inherently rewarding feel, because I would constantly be worried about being randomly awarded a winning ticket for a one-way trip to Siberia.

I mean, some of the stuff I read about the famous Soviet names in aeronautics, space exploration or cybernetics, makes it feel like back then, NKVD was the HR department, PIPs involved a time in a gulag, and getting fired had a quite literal meaning to it. Look the wrong way at your manager or a co-worker, and the next day you have a 1:1... in a prison cell.

> Capitalism prevails but the overhead for everyone is orders of magnitude more than under communism for the chosen.

Curiously, I do have an impression that, on the capitalist side of the world, the highest productivity and the greatest achievements both are to be found in those little bubbles that isolate people and their work from the capitalist concerns. Smart people, survivable budget, a specific direction, and zero questions about how the work will contribute to the profits next quarter. Then there's that old adage that corporations tend to be capitalist on the outside and communist on the inside. Makes me think that we're naturally drifting to a mixed model here.
Which, fine, I'm much more sympathetic to the argument that prompt generation and tuning is creative. I'm not necessarily on-board with it because there are different categories of creativity (APIs and recipes certainly require creativity, but we somewhat arbitrarily classify them as inventions instead), but the point is it's a decent argument for people to make, and I could plausibly see it winning in a court.

I'm just trying to point out, it doesn't have anything to do with the button, or AI, or technology. It's not a good analogy for people to say "you just point a camera at a thing, and that deserves copyright" -- if that was the case, the camera wouldn't get copyright either. Neither prompt-generation nor photography is getting granted copyright based on the decision to press a button, there has to be something more complex going on in both situations for copyright to get involved.

An accidental photograph, a photograph that's made by simply iterating over every possibility in a space, a photograph that's a reconstruction of an existing copyrighted work without changes, etc, etc... none of those are copyrightable, and that they're made with a camera doesn't make them copyrightable. IP law for photography is the same as for anything else; the machine isn't the important part.

In the scenario you describe, if someone mounts a camera someplace and two people press a button and get the exact same photo -- I would be surprised if that second photo has copyright protection, it probably doesn't meet a threshold for human creativity.
Seems unlikely. The paper is about performing certain computations in the analog domain, trading precision for power efficiency. Hashing requires lossless computation.
What constitutes an "OS"? It's not entirely unfair for Mercedes to call a customization of Linux an "OS". If it includes GNU coreutils, the linux kernel, but a new init system and communication or UI libraries, you could call that "Mercedes Benz OS". A marketing whiz certainly would!

Or you could even s/linux/QNX/g. But in any case, running a trusted and reliable kernel that wasn't designed by an auto manufacturer could still be what they're doing.
> What does lower interest rates have to do with lower rents?

Interest rates affect repayments. Higher repayments mean that the rent an owner is willing to accept will be higher (or, they won't enter the market).

Your whole model seems a little strange to me. Keeping rates low/stable is not a housing subsidy; it's about keeping the entire economy growing at a sustainable rate.
I have recently written a paper on understanding transformer learning via the lens of coinduction & Hopf algebra. https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01834

This ties really nicely to the photonic DSP as convolution is fundamentally composition of convolutive systems. This is a generalized convolution, not the standard one.

The learning mechanism of transformer models was poorly understood however it turns out that a transformer is like a circuit with a feedback.

I argue that autodiff can be replaced with what I call Hopf coherence which happens within the single layer as opposed to across the whole graph.

Furthermore, if we view transformers as Hopf algebras, one can bring convolutional models, diffusion models and transformers under a single umbrella.

I'm working on a next gen Hopf algebra based machine learning framework. The beautil part is that it ties nicely to PL aspect as well.

Join my discord if you want to discuss this further https://discord.gg/mr9TAhpyBW
It's worth reading the link in the first sentence of the article.

> The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions.

...

> There is a need for large, well‐designed RCTs addressing the effectiveness of many of these interventions in multiple settings and populations, as well as the impact of adherence on effectiveness, especially in those most at risk of ARIs.

Hypothesis mine: Mask mandates don't work because people slack off. I've heard too many anecdotes of people getting COVID because some member of their extended family decided that everyone was going to get it anyway, so why bother, and then spreading it to the rest of the family without warning.
Thank you for the explanation, I can see your point now. I still think it is overly simplified, ignoring fairly large Spanish influence in the south and southwest and French in the north (all you need to do is look at names of towns and geographical features) and other groups like Moravians in the Midwest and Jews in the east. Also, "German" in the 18th or 19th century is not necessarily the same as German today, for example, lot of Austrians were included, and at that time that would be a fairly geographically large and culturally diverse area.

I was mostly objecting to your simplified division of people into those "correct" groups whose country this is and those who are foreigners that don't belong here (I know you did not use these words, but that's how your comments sounded to me). I come from a place that has a long history of sentiments like that, and as far as I can tell, there was never anything good coming out of them.
AFRINIC “In a Bad Situation”, Has Not Been Able to Constitute Board; Has No CEO
Social media is going to be looked back on as the smoking of our age.
I believe the US is the only country with plea bargains. I know that in some European countries they are considered a violation of human rights (given the asymmetry between the parties).
Interest rate control is not a subsidy.
3 times as long as its wide? They do everything in threes.
Nvidia GeForce Cards Lack P2P, Pushing Expensive Pro Cards
Wait, are you saying you are able to let the iPad connect to a hotspot shared by the Apple Watch alone? That would be really cool, but I can't find anything online supporting the claim. I've got all the hardware, too...
> "it encourages commercial projects to hire human artists so that they can gain the protection of copyright"

Nobody will ever know if a human was involved or not.
I don't have an answer for your specific question but if you use Firefox and have the addon uBlock Origin [1] installed then you can adjust the colors

about:addons -> uBlock -> Preferences -> My Filters, then add

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Then adjust it however you like it.

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
Sounds a bit melodramatic, honestly.
Collective Experiences
My kids play video games with their friends and while my 9 year old gives as good as he gets my 11 year old is always down for a couple hours if someone says something mean to him on their group chat. He is pretty much unable to ignore trash talk and takes it personally. There is no way I am going to let him get on social media until he is in 10th grade at least. Even then I am going to let him know its monitored and probably restricted. I trust him completely. I let him ride his bike to the park by himself, or with friends, go fishing, go to 7-11 etc. Social media is the devil though and seems tailor made to wreck kids self esteem. Heck it even turns previously rational adults into conspiracy following hateful loons.
Life is so easy if you just hand over your personal agency to monopolies and billionaires who don't actually care about you /s
Agreed, a fiction writer trying too hard to put a specific idea in my head all the time is going to annoy me. Not all fiction all the time, though - Sanderson’s novels appeal to me in part because he is very specific about how his magic system works, while being more free about other elements. And not all non-fiction all the time, either - I love a good evocative phrase alongside all the specifics, it gives me a feeling to go along with the understanding. The aim of fiction, then, is not to achieve perfect idea-resemblance, but rather to produce the most beautiful or engaging ideas in the reader’s brain that one can, without caring too much how closely that idea resembles the author’s own.

Man, evocative is a really good word. Perhaps we can talk about “communicative writing” “evocative writing” instead of non-fiction and fiction respectively, so we’re not bogged down with genre categories or factual accuracy.
I hope all these AI companies get their asses handed to them by the courts. The amount of uncompensated labor required to build these systems is totally staggering.
And what reflected light would you use with your e-ink display?
My understanding is that modern neural networks aren’t much like the brain, but machine learning researchers like the way it sounds to suggest that they are.
What about pilot lights on a stove/oven? I have an old-school unit in my house that has three pilot lights that are always on... the put off a fair bit of heat. I don't love the idea of them burning constantly from an energy standpoint, but I didn't consider the health effects...
On Kubernetes which they mainly target the Kubernetes control plane would update the list of active service endpoints according to health checks.

Standalone you could do it with the API and a small daemon but out of the box there is no support for health checks (yet).
I mostly buy my eggs from local farms at the farmers market for ~$10. I'm in the Bay area so nothing is cheap. Price have gone up lately as many of the farmers have had to cull based on bird flu.

This is a bit more than I'd like to pay, but its not going to break the bank. I'm happy to have some eggs that taste good and I know come from birds that aren't tortured.

Its odd to me that people are totally willing to spend $60k on a car but whine about eggs that costs more than $0.50. To each their own.
I think more and more Channel I/O like objects is the future. Add on processors (service processors if you may) are part of that idea.
Not many people talk about Japan when it comes to housing. They seem to have evaded all the unaffordable housing problems that the rest of the world deals with.

House prices are low, rents are low, population density is high.

How do they do it? Can we do that in the US or the rest of the western world?
Indeed, even after reading several of the studies cited here and elsewhere, this whole idea of blue light > specialized photoreceptors > melatonin production > sleep (not to mention cancer) seems like just correlations stacked on top of each other.

I understand that some people have problems sleeping, but saying blue wavelengths are a general hazard to sleep (not to mention cancer) is absurd.
And so long as we live in a capitalist economy, we might as well use that construct to protect people's livelihoods as opposed to letting huge corporations use their work to make billions in profit.
I recently interviewed a number of developers for a Typescript front-end job. We received 360+ CV’s but most of them could be rejected in seconds (no developer experience at all) narrowing it down to about 20. We interviewed about half in priority order, and hired 2 really good developers.

All we did in the interview was to discuss things they have worked on before, going deep into all the details. Talking about why they decided to implement it the way it was implemented, what the trade offs were, what they would do differently today, the hardest problems they had to solve, how they would have implemented it given different biz constraints etc.

No white-boarding, silly puzzle questions, online coding games, or other BS nonsense. Just deep questions about things they claim they have worked on in the past. It works really well. It is easy to identify experienced smart developers by how clear their thinking is and how well they articulate their decisions, problem solving etc.

It’s simple. It works. Highly recommended.
> If AI art is not copyrightable, they can still hire a non-artist (fully outsourcable), to do some minor post-editing of the AI art, and copyright it.

I'm arguing that they shouldn't be able to do that either. If a company wants to create something protected by copyright they should hire a human to do it. If they don't care about the copyright, then they can take advantage of AI generated art and everyone else can use the result for whatever they want. It makes it easy. If an AI made it, no copyright. If a human made it, copyright. There's no bickering over whether or not someone spent enough time post-editing or coming up with the perfect prompt. Artists stay employable, more artistic works gets into the public domain and there are no restrictions on how AI generated art can be used and no opportunity for copyright trolls to abuse the system. Everybody wins.
I don't how you did it. the jobs requests are so thin that I'm afraid to make a bid - I have no idea what they are really asking for. if you _try_ to actually engage with your potential customer the platform comes swooping down and terminates the discussion because they are so afraid they will lose their cut.

and the guidance on rates is completely out of line. custom usb driver for $80? $12/hr for development work?
Don't disagree. I'm not dismissing the sentiment in general. But these kinds of articles have been posted here hundreds of times over the years, these thoughts are not new, and the fact that they fail to gain enough effective traction in the real world and are just posted here for brownie points is where it starts getting grating.

For everyone one person who posts one of these, there are 100 people cheering them on, and 10000 developers in the real world who just learnt to deal with POSIX and its warts years ago, just want a paycheck, and will wait until a better API gains traction in the real world before they go asking their employer to bet the farm on it.
But if that's true, isn't it also true in times of non emergencies? This just seems like an argument against market pricing in general.
Silicon or Carbon?
Right, the question is: given that 1Password is adding support for passkeys (https://www.future.1password.com/passkeys/), are they going to support exporting them once they are a passkey provider?

I don't see any indication that they are. If they don't plan to support exporting and importing into other ecosystems, then I would argue that their implementation is not portable. I would say that zacharyvoase's concern is still valid in that scenario:

> There's no way to migrate your passkeys between ecosystems
Are you sure it's made in China? For most markets XC60 are built either in Sweden or indeed in China, but I always wondered about chinese-produced ones. Fellow Volvo owner (XC90/2022 - Sweden-built though), car's a dream.
> Hypothesis mine: Mask mandates don't work because people slack off.

I can see that being true. But if a policy only has any of its beneficial effects if it gets 100% compliance, but always has its detrimental effects, then it's probably not a good policy to implement.
It may seem weird, but the Tandy 1000 copied the graphics modes from the IBM PCjr, not the EGA standard. That included a 320x200 16 color mode, as well as 640x200 four color mode that the original CGA couldn't do (because it lacked memory). The IBM PCjr also included a sound synthesis chip (don't recall which one off the top of my head) that may also have been included in the Tandy 1000 (don't know, had the PCjr, not the Tandy).
Seems incredible hubris to think we can reverse-calculate to 14 billion years ago with sub-second accuracy when science can't even predict if it'll rain tomorrow.
C++20 coroutines didn't include the facilities to get a coroutine directly from writing a loop with the `yield` keyword like in Python. You can see all the boilerplate needed in this post's `Generator` class. For me, it made the feature not worth using.

I'm excited that C++23 is getting `std::generator`, so we can finally write those simple loops: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/coroutine/generator
What is the value of artists having incomes if the same art can be generated instead?
The ones in Arizona are pretty horrific but Georgia's are pretty decent.
Any unblockers I can use?
Any unblockers I can use? Preferably Holy Unblocker, Hammerhead, Or some type of Ultraviolet. Any unblockers would be useful, and thank you for people who help. (I need around 20)
Generally if you have good skills people will want to network with you, unless you're anti-social or have some other personality issues. Keep in mind that technical skills are just one component in a good coworker.
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I currently live in the US. Back in India where I am originally from, we have house roof tops which are flat. Most of us would spend an hour or more on the roof top, after dinner, staring at the sky and talking. Sometimes we wave and talk to the neighbor from the roof top. This I would say is a routine thing in most households after dinner. I miss that dearly in the US.
Looks so much like Cuthbert Calculus!