skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's not explained in the text on that video is that braking while leaned over causes a motorbike to steer itself upright.

You can't go around a corner on a bicycle or motorbike at more than about 5mph without counter-steering. You have to tilt the bike into the turn or it will just fall over. You tilt by briefly steering in the opposite direction, which rolls the bike in reaction. This is counter-steering.

Braking while leaned over applies a torque to the steering column towards the side which is closer to the road, i.e. steering into the corner. This torque is due to the width of the front tyre; the contact patch is at an offset to the steering axis. This torque counter-steers the bike upright.

Braking also changes the geometry on most bikes as the forks compress and the bike dives at the front, steepening the steering angle, which makes steering more responsive, so the upright counter-steer is more pronounced.

There's also target fixation. You tend to steer where you look, and if there's an enormous hazard coming at you, you risk steering right into it. Look for the escape routes.

There's also a ground rush panic effect. When something is coming at you really quickly, your instinct is to tense up and brace for impact. When landing a parachute, you're trained to look at the horizon and depend on peripheral vision to feel the ground coming up to meet you, so you flare at the right time. On a bike, it ties in with target fixation; don't look at the fast thing coming at you, look at the escape routes.
did you read that link or just the subtitle?

quoting the penultimate paragraph (why are the relevant bits always buried?)

> Analyzing a 2008 survey conducted by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, he noted that one-third of respondents described a jump from 750 to 770 on the math portion of the SAT as having a significant effect on a student’s chances of admissions, and this was true among counselors at more and less selective schools alike. Even a minor score improvement for a high-achieving student, then—and one that falls within the standard measurement error for the test—can make a real difference.

Your link literally says:
- test prep improves scores
- most conservative possible study suggests ~25 point bump in score
- college admission stats show this matters for many applicants

???

the fact that the piece ALSO says, later on:

> students who have a mean score on the math portion of the SAT around 450. According to the same admissions counselor survey, a 20-point improvement to a score in this range would have no practical meaning for students who are trying to get into more selective schools

and no kidding. 450 on either section is clearly not suitable for a college experience at a "selective school." You're expected to do multivariable calc during MIT's freshman year, regardless of major. 450 on math SAT means you can't do algebra.
"OpenGL was well supported on the Voodoo cards "

Definitely not the case.

Voodoo cards were notorious for not supporting OpenGL properly. They supported GLide instead.

3dfx also provided a "minigl" which implemented the bare minimum functions designed around particular games (like Quake) -- because they did not provide a proper OpenGL driver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniGL
As someone who has seen my share of “paper tigers” - people that either memorize enough to pass a certification or find brain dumps online. Certifications are useless and easily gamed. This has been true sense at least 2000.

When I was working in the “real world” (I’m in consulting now), I could tell the people who just studied for a cert within the first 5 minutes of an interview.
Basically everything about that idea is bad. It will turn into a cash grab, encourage pointless gatekeeping, allow some group to exert outsized control over a diverse trade, and anyway would never get universally adopted. And if it did happen, instead of people selectively spending their time to interview at companies they want to, they'd be forced to waste their time proving whatever the governing body thinks they need to demonstrate. Bringing some artificial barrier to entry to software development is the last thing the field needs.
Good fun. A couple of ideas, zoom in as you approach the landing site, it's hard to see the difference between 4mph and 1mph; and consider having no landing spots, like craters or sharp edges; finally, some slow flying asteroids to avoid every once and a while. Consider planting a little flag from previous landing or tombs on crash sites on restart, to have some continuity. :)
The really insidious one is:

> If you want to just write scripts to test things ...

So often "just scripts" evolve into long term projects, and, due to time pressure etc. never free themselves of bad foundations.
If discrimination suits are increasing after the widespread adoption of DEI programs, you've rebutted your own argument.

As for Hanania, here's a starting point:

https://twitter.com/bernybelvedere/status/148562348106054041...

He's not subtle about it.
I expect this from Reddit but surely Hacker News isn't judging future tech based on current prototypes? Haha

None of this existed at all 5 years ago. Let it cook.
Miller Puckette: Inside PureData – Lectures on pd/development of computer music
First three videos are ripe with technical difficulties but after that things get sorted out. Quite interesting so far, videos alternate between explaining the pd code base and the development of realtime computer music composition/synthesis.
In what way are three major cloud competitors + many more focused cloud offerings a monopoly? “Monopoly” doesn’t mean “successful company I don’t like”.

Europe has failed to innovate for decades and that’s why it’s perpetually backed into a corner.
> A gym is a mere building.

> I was referring to schools as the places where the students meet the teachers.

I think for any gym with personal trainers, this is still a pretty one-to-one analogy.

> How successful do you expect most children would be with entirely self-directed learning? No teachers, no tutors, not even parents. That's what I meant.

Ah, I think I might have been missing your point here -- essentially does it boil down to "If tests are all that we're measuring, what's the point of all the grading and process that schools go through", to which the answer is presumably "Tests aren't all that matters"? If that's the case, we probably agree here (in that learning is the thing that matters, and schools might perform a lot of functions which don't map to test scores, but might map to better learning).

LMK if this is still off base, though.
You would miss out on trying one of the most significant innovations in a decade because of a phone number? What do you think is going to happen if you share your phone number? Your phone number is certainly readily tired to your name across dozens of public and private databases.

All it takes is someone who has you in their contacts downloading an app that requests contacts permissions. Totally out of your control. It's best to assume your phone number is already public and move your privacy shields somewhere more effective.
Ha, doing the same with my wife this year! Happy to catch up in Europe sometime.

As nested comment said, some planning is needed to pack it in 90 day slots every 180 days :)

Edit: saw your other reply - good for you two :)
I definitely remember it being pitched as the future of Windows UIs, while having massive feature gaps, and, perhaps most noticeably, looked blurry and horrible on the standard displays of the era (ie, non HiDPI). Why the engineers thought that it would be a good idea to build a resolution-independent UI with no pixel hinting targeting 96ppi displays is utterly baffling.

Silverlight made perhaps a bit more sense since it was almost entirely graphics-focused, but it never really stood a chance against the massive install base that Flash had back then.
It seems you don’t use an ad blocker?

I would assume that it makes them enough money to sustain the business, despite what users may think of it, so that’s what they do.
Easily found in article 900 ;(
Extremly addictive p
I pull <100W idle with a HPE G8, Thinkcenter Tiny, and enterprise routing/switching in my basement. All this is old hardware and you can bring it down with newer stuff. The idea is to size your equipment appropriately and not have a huge rack running just because you got the servers for free.

Also while bandwidth costs less in the cloud compute and storage is much cheaper if you host it locally. If you want a server to host your public website, do it in the cloud. If you want a file server for local use the price and performance benefits quickly overweigh the power cost. There also is the additional factor of having the equipment/data 100% under my control, which is very important to me.
I have hard time believing it is not intentional. I think Europe could easily enforce consistent UI which could be automated through ad blocker, but now they know that most companies would rather stop serving Europe than not track users for ad.
The sole responsibility for this issue starts and ends with LastPass.

For a security focused company, there is no excuse for a threat model to not include insider threats, vulnerable software inside an employees network, and potential phishing of employee credentials.

If it wasn't going to happen through Plex, it would have happened through something else.

Them pivoting like this is such a bad faith attempt at pinning the blame on a company that did everything right with regards to security. They should own up, and not try and throw another company under the bus. Even naming Plex as part of the attack chain seems disingenuous at best.
When was the last time in history of mankind when taxes were actually distributed to the poor? I mean in significant amounts, not as a lame attempt to win upcoming elections.
I did mention it, at the end! That's why I made the qualification, it is an important difference.

Though as the other commenter noted, NVIDIA does like getting their money's worth out of the tensor cores, and FP8 will likely be a large part of what they're doing with it. Crazy stuff. Especially since the temporal domain is so darn exploitable when covering for precision/noise issues -- they seem to be stretching things a lot further than I would have expected.

In any case -- crazy times.
It's quite probable that they are not cutting the corners that make them money and they're cutting (or might cut) everything else. After all, Firefox Nightly's share is a rounding error for Teams (and its users probably not Team's target anyway)
Well people do blind dates or get set up by friends or both, so maybe that counts? And the OP managed to make a third-party hotel reservation fine.

I think the actual issue was not the Airbnb rule but that it makes little sense that the OP was unable to cancel at no charge for a reasonable reason an hour after making the booking (and plenty of time before the stay).
Crashing sideways is fun, the exploded parts continue to wrap around the screen if you "land" sideways fast enough :D.
Slick nice!
just add "make some common spelling mistakes" at the end of your prompt :D
Shovels are very common and effective weapons in close-quarters trench warfare.
Paul, if you are interested in speeding up your tests for either Bun or Jest you might be interested in checking out my latest project. At Brisk we keep pre-built workers for your project in our infrastructure so there is no build time that eats in to your test time. This also means there isn't as much of a concurrency penalty that you get with traditional CI services (scaling up to 30 workers only to spend 30 times as long on building). So we use lots of concurrency (usually around 60 workers) for really really fast tests. I'd love to hear your thoughts. https://brisktest.com/
You can lose money in another way too, which wouldn't happen with hotels: you book a property for an expensive location at high season, the booking gets cancelled for any reason (host changed idea, host got banned etc.) and now you are stuck with much shittier and more expensive choices and a lot less time to go through them. This happened to me recently.
The "kindly" is a dead giveaway that "she" is Indian.
It's possible on a scooter, which has a lower speed, low centre of gravity (so you have more relative leverage) and small wheels (i.e. the amount of spinning mass is less, and closer to the axis of spin). On a big bike with big wheels at high speed, you can only make very gentle adjustments in the lean angle.
Sorry, but hard disagree. For the main route that goes threw the population, from Genf to St.Gallen, you can absolutely make a new high speed rail line.

Doing such a high speed lane would open up massive amount of capacity. More local trains, more regional trains and importantly more cargo trains.

Switzerland has a modal share of over 20% for rail, and if we want to boost that to 40%, then new high speed rail is a must.

> The non mountainous parts of the country are densely populated.

Switzerland is not even close to as populated as Southern England, and somehow they are building high speed rail. And the British aren't exactly known to be great infrastructure builders.

> Besides if not all trains on the network can go this fast you need to increase the interval between trains which you obviously don't want to.

You would use special high speed trains on the new high speed lines and use all the other trains on the other lanes. Just as they will do on HS2.
We already have the problem of people who are good at grinding LeetCode and passing FAANG interviews, but terrible at actual software engineering. And the inverse.

Why would this not just transfer to the certification process?
Left and right are backwards on a phone. I'm sure I'd adapt after a few more games, but it's annoying.
At least in the 70s, if you gamed your way into admission at Caltech by doing test prep, coaching, having someone else do your application essays, etc., you were going to be sorry. Because you would find it impossible to do the work required. Caltech did a good job of screening because the ones they admitted could do the work (though a lot dropped out simply because they didn't want to work). But there were a few that couldn't, no matter how hard they worked at it, and just wound up leaving.

A friend of mine dropped out of Caltech after a couple years, and disappeared. I ran into him many years later, and we did some catching up. 10 years after dropping out, he asked Caltech if he could come back and try again. They said sure (one of the nice things about Caltech's philosophy). He got straight A's. I asked him if he had gotten any smarter, he said no, he was just willing to work the second time around.

Of course, there were some students who just effortlessly aced everything. Hal Finney (yes, that Hal) was one of them. Being around people like that was just amazing.
Sadly parent's point is correct. Chargebacks are not to protect from jerks and bad customer service.

If there was a contract you first agreed to, but you find out afterwards that one of the clause is problematic in your case, and the other party is a jerk about it, chances are your card issuer won't even accept the chargeback. Most of the time you need proof that the merchant is the one breaching the contract.
I think "soundness" is meaningful and useful in terms of the Abstract Machine that Rust is defined against. Or you know, the one that it will be defined against someday :) It's a way of separating things that are "under the language's control" in a sense from things that aren't.

Just to pick an extreme example, if the `add` instruction is broken on my CPU, and it gives the wrong answer 0.001% of the time, and that causes my code to crash, is my code "unsound"? I think soundness/unsoundness just won't be a very useful idea if that's what we mean by it. Of course I do want my program to work, and I do need to fix things one way or another. I'm probably going to download a microcode update, or else throw my CPU in the trash, or possibly even turn on some special compiler workaround that avoids emitting `add`. But I think it's important and interesting to be able to talk about how I'm probably not going to fix my program by changing how I use the addition operator. There's really nothing wrong with my application code, even though my program isn't working. This is the sort of distinction that soundness is trying to draw.
Have been hosting my email/jabber/matrix from a quiet atom machine in my living room, won't have it any other way.
At some point the bibliography needs to reference the LLM itself which would need to be hosted indefinitely.
Even with 10% of that you can permanently change dozens of lives. Go travel, like has been suggested, and make it your mission to integrate yourself into the local environment, find the overlooked silently suffering, and use what you were given to do something positive in this world.
For all the disagreements here and possible flame wars from people on both sides, the very fact we’re allowed to discuss both sides of a conflict like this openly is a strength of our society and a weakness of theirs.
Megatron is a Large Language Model -- unfortunately it seems they really undertrained it for the parameter counts it had, so it was more a numbers game of "hey, look how big this model is!" when they first released it.

Many modern models are far more efficient for inference IIRC, though I guess it remains a good exercise in "how much can we fit through this silicon?" engineering. :D
Lunar module guidance was fully digital. Analog computer was partially used in Saturn V.
Liquid nitrogen lunar dust removal and degradation
Today, the idea of a program that intentionally makes your computer start playing loud sounds after X minutes of inactivity is ridiculous. Back then, it was also ridiculous but the world hadn't quite realised yet. We were too excited about INTERACTIVITY.
Have you ever stayed at a hotel? Because that's not how it works.
1) Python - added to the standard library in 2003.
2) C - no.
3) Java - BigDecimal in the standard library.
4) C++ - no.
5) C# - built in.
6) VB - Currency type kinda does what you'd want, but doesn't scale down very far.
7) Javascript - no. (Use https://github.com/MikeMcl/bignumber.js)
8) SQL - Yes. But check your dialect.
9) PHP - No.
10) Go - No. (Use https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/shopspring/decimal)
Where? Because recall that if it is fraud they can file a criminal complaint, but my reading of this article is that they agreed to a cheaper booking for a stricter cancellation policy, they agreed that they were booking for themselves (afaik a standard condition for airbnbs, if not airbnb the company), and when told that they were required to adhere to the terms of the contract they chose to cancel, under terms they had explicitly chosen.

I’m not saying that I think the host was operating legally, I’m saying I don’t see a fraudulent transaction, I don’t see the host not providing the agreed upon service, nor agreed upon restrictions.

It’s an Airbnb so 50/50 the host is violating a bunch of laws (claiming simultaneously to not be a hotel, motel, or rental unit, etc), but the transaction for the purpose of a chargeback does not appear to be fraudulent on its face.
I believe that candles weren't cheap. I honestly wonder if we have fewer candlemakers as a percent of the population now as we did, if not in 1845, then in 1345?
Sometimes you need batteries, not a nuclear plant bigger frameworks come from
>It looks like you don't know much about Europe.

More like you don't know. Linus Torvalds is now an American citizen working in the US, like many other brilliant Europeans in the CS filed, and most importantly, the market cap[1] of the top US tech companies alone is greater than the combined tech sectors of EU, Switzerland, UK and Norway.

Most of the companies you listed have a relatively low market cap in comparison and are being squeezed by Chinese and US companies.

It's hard to underestimate just how big, wealthy and influential the US tech sector is. EU's tech sector is not in in the race by comparison. Sure, we have ASML as a local world leading champion, but that's just one single company, and even they are dependent on the US for the EUV licensing.

[1] https://companiesmarketcap.com/
AFAIK, json does not support NaN and Inf which can be a pain sometimes
>We need an industry agreed-upon certification exam.

I'm an actuary who had to take 10 of these for my profession (pass rates 20%-40% each sitting, takes 4 months to study for each one).

They come with the same complaints about false negatives, unrealistic/random questions, and fairness that technical interviews have.
I have definitely had cases though where I've run into "Where did this subscription come from?" and there was no apparent way to cancel. Last was something Yahoo-related a number of years back. Ended up doing a chargeback and canceling the charge.

I would absolutely chargeback in this case. Some non-standard clause WHICH THIS ABSOLUTELY IS RELATIVE TO HOTELS (OR EVEN REGULAR B&Bs) buried in T&Cs somewhere should not be acceptable.
It looks pretty stupid but I’m afraid a lot of companies are vulnerable to exactly the same problem.
I’ve had a few interactions with AirBNB support and agree for the most part- they’re relatively impartial and I haven’t had any more issues with them than I generally have with support agents.

The problem is that the policies can be _brutal_. I went in expecting it to be similar to hotel/airline policies since that’s how they position themselves but that’s not the case. For example cancel charges are very high while hotels are much more permissive and airlines are required to give no questions asked refunds in the first 24hrs.
> we have safety checks for that too with anti-trust policy.

Yeah I remember when Microsoft came perilously close to dominating the desktop OS market and using that dominance to push their other products, like their suite of Office software. Fortunately the safety checks of anti-trust policy kicked in and they were forced to break up the company to prevent such abuses from happening in the future.

The same thing routinely happens when ISP, TV, and media companies merge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rating#Existing_programs

https://fortune.com/longform/media-company-ownership-consoli...
The SAT assumes a baseline vocabulary and familiarity with basic logic, which a lot of kids don't meet now that so many people take the test. My score went up by 120 points from my first practice test in 8th grade to the real thing in 11th grade, but some of that was just covering the ground on the expected high school math and vocabulary.