skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey I resemble that remark!

But seriously - I learned HTML on AOL when I was 13 and dropped out of community college (where they were teaching Java and assembly).

I’m glad I had the very basic post-high school experience but much of what I know I was self taught as the technology came out.

I’m no electrical engineer and while I have a basic understanding of how transformers work I’m not about to revolutionize AI.

That being said I’ve been successful enough without incurring the debt of a bachelors degree while still making a lower (for HN) 6 figure salary.

Cost of entry is lower for tech (compared to some of the other fields mentioned here) and I’ve been able to pivot/expand into different areas within tech by continuing to teach myself with real world experiences.

It’s hard to let some rando on the street revolutionize healthcare/finance/whatever “established” system because they don’t get rebuilt every ~5 years.
Biden has let slip multiple times that the US will fully defend Taiwan interests in the region.

China can't just knock over Taiwan because Taiwan is essentially the US. They're trained, supplied and fully backed by a much larger nuclear power.

Chinese military cannot go up against the US, and Xi knows it would be sure destruction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_final_warning
> A common term before the “dot” is also necessary in order to realize the full benefits of a unified domain

Why is this?

Edit: should have searched before asking. Here’s why: https://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence-reports-documen...
Foreignness in America is quite different consider how traces of native peoples have been erased and marginalized. And if American culture is to deliver on an individualistic promise, we should expect to see more changes in the dominant culture. But white cultural dominance has a fragile ego, having been established through violence and discrimination, which by the way is not so unique as far as dominant cultures go.

But discussions of culture will inevitably touch on the factors that gave rise to certain features. So the fact that many black Americans have ancestry in slaves trafficked to the US, is not separable from the discussion on why Asian Americans are discriminated in higher education admissions.

Anyways, call what I say rooted in Americanism or what have you, the fact is Bangladeshi culture has a much different history than American culture, so calls to be accommodating of other cultures in America strike a different tone than it would in trying to change Bangladeshi culture (itself rooted in a reaction against erasure of language and culture).

Finally, all of this is to say, while culture has an influence in some regards, it’s not so separate from the wealth gaps and inequities which stratify folks.
I'm pretty sure this is just trying to stir people up, but we have lots of evidence that memory unsafety is the cause of the majority of vulnerabilities in widely deployed systems that are written in unsafe languages, and these vulnerabilities are often much more severe.

Refusing to accept or acknowledge scientific evidence is something that I would not expect from a security expert (or any expert).
>It's amazing. The most fun I've had in a vehicle

It may be fun for you but its not fun for all the other people on the road put at risk by Tesla owners that dont know the limitations of their vehicles.
Gravity itself does not have a time dimension - if you had a highly changed particle acting on another one, the time dilation would be identical to that caused by gravity acting with the same force.

i.e. it's force and acceleration that cause it, not gravity.
> Why do you think copyright is ethical?

I think following the law is ethical, and copyright is not only the law, it follows directly from the Constitution.

> If I could photograph food and turn it into food to feed myself, I would certainly do that, even if it was illegal.

Context and perspective. We're talking about a media landscape that is flush with content, to the point where people complain that it's all just rehashed. There's plenty of media to go around.

> It doesn’t deprive the owner of anything.

It deprives someone of their rights, which is something I think pirates don't really care about at all, as it's never considered in the calculus. It's always "what's more convenient for me and my desires to consume particular media, rights be damned". I wish pirates would just be frank and admit this like the other poster who was replying to me.

> I think copyright is designed and biased toward massive corporations to the detriment of society.

Me too. But I also enjoy the rule of law and the hard work of people who make content that I consume.

> There’s lots of injustice in the world. And I think IP leans more towards unjust than just. Do I think creators should be compensated? Yes. Do I think creators’ descendents should be compensated for 90 years? Probably not.

I would feel more sympathetic to this argument if pirates had ever given an inch, or seriously attempted to organize to fix the law in the US over the past 20 years. Instead, they just kept pirating as hard as they could, even when the industry moved toward streaming services, and rationalized their behavior away.

> I also feel like there’s a giant PR effort from wealthy entities against a few individuals and the fact that you’d equate downloading a movie with stealing food is so weird to me that it shows how distorted the discussion is.

So you're saying my strong feelings about copyright infringement are due to a PR campaign, and not a carefully considered position I've come to on my own, through my own experiences as a content creator, artist, and owner of copyrighted works?

I understand that some people are so blasé about violating copyrights, they don't even think they could possibly be doing anything wrong. On the other end of the spectrum are people who have to spend money and resources to defend their rights from violations of law by others. I fully understand that digital media and physical goods are not the same. But I categorically reject that zero people are harmed when copyrights are violated.

> “rights” that only exist because of successful lobbying on behalf of a very tiny industry

As I said, copyright is a fundamental provision of the US Constitution. We can talk about the parameters of "securing for limited Times" but "exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." is not up for debate. The word "exclusive" is important here.

And as for the size of the industry interested in copyright... upending copyright would also upend trademarks and patents. There's a much larger industry (well... all of them) interested in those forms of IP.
Unlike Korean shows, which would never have political topics as main subjects of the show. Like, itaewon class would have been totally ruined by having a trans character, or a black foreigner. Extraordinary Attorney Woo would have been ruined by having a character on the spectrum. God help us if revenge shows were based on class war. It would be a real shame if women's rights were discussed in any of these shows too.

My dude. Some of the most popular shows of the past 5-10 years across Asia have prominently included the topics you think of as "woke". You somehow think this is only a thing in America, but that's your weird weeby goggles.
Fires set by firefighters a long-standing problem, experts say (2016)
I agree with you, yet here we are, investors expecting more and more meteoric returns QoQ, YoY.
To ship the headset it had to be able to track it's position with submilimeter precision, with low jitter, in real time, and on cheap, mobile hardware, be able to track where controllers are, and be able to recognize existing rooms it's mapped before so it can restore the boundaries you've set up in the past. All of that was powered by computer vision. After the launch, hand tracking was another use of computer vision that was added.
Canceling The Economist was the worst experience of any periodical, by far. You were right not to continue.

Recently canceled and (from transcript) it took 18+ minutes chatting with an online rep. They made sure I knew all the various benefits (newsletters, podcasts, etc), offered me multiple price discounts, and insisted that I try a slimmed down experience ("Espresso") for a month before truly canceling. I'll never consider re-subscribing.
All people are of equal worth in terms of how society should by default interact with them, in terms of how the government should respect and protect their rights, etc.

All people are not equally talented. I'm not of equal worth to Messi in soccer, Brad Pitt in appearance, and on and on.
Follow the gourd!
It feels like there’s some derision towards the infotainment software engineering since it’s perceived as not safety critical. It’s in the name, “infotainment”! Fun and optional! It’s not like you’re working on the PFD/MFD/EICAS on an Airbus. “So what, the seat heater button lags sometimes. Not gonna kill someone like the tires. Ship it” says some MBA higher-up.

But then the seats kick on automatically when the car starts and the driver tucks in with her morning coffee for a commute down the highway. The coffee kicks in, the cabin heats up, and suddenly that warm seat is like sitting on a griddle. She taps on the menu to bring up the seat controls, then lag, then has to hit the seat heat button twice to go from “high” to “low” to “off”, lagging each time. Oh, she hit it three times, now it’s on high again. Tap, tap, tap, tap… Meanwhile she has crossed three lanes of traffic and is staring down a jersey barrier at 70+ mph.
It’s like saying Amazon is the #1 place to work.
Person doesn't seem that angry?
Ah right, I see what you mean. Supposing I tried to make youtube only show me videos of red trains, it would probably fail. It has a limited number of content bins and probably doesn't/can't synthesize new bins on the fly for individual users.
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By that definition electrical attraction is also not a force, because a charged particle will curve in an electrical field.
Which is being appealed, and even otherwise is a meaningless ruling. Google doesn't pay these contractors. They are under no obligation to renew their contracts once they expire. What will they even negotiate?
Touchscreens are great for developers, but generally terrible for users.
Liberation Notes
Not the most useful thing in the world if one lives outside the US. The 'conversions' offered to me where:
450 g is "450 Grams" and "0.45 kilograms"

Yea ok.
Inflation is ~5% yoy
Ah, so the American worker analogy remains accurate.
Some 'neobanks' like Revolut help deal with this type of thing - you can create a temporary card to sign up and scramble it whenever you please. Great for trials or indeed annoying subscriptions.
Call me cynical, but I think our interests in Taiwan have more to do with our dependence upon their semiconductor industry, much like our interests in the Middle East are driven by their oil.
This is definitely useful
But WHY is the coordinate system curved?
Crazy that her boss and people she mentored all loved her. It’s almost like the system screwed her and she’s rightly angry at it.

I get it, easier to type cast her as an angry black woman though!
They are cheap, let’s face it. Knobs and switches with wiring cost money, space, and weight. A flat screen plus voice input is simply an economy to save money, space, and weight.
Where does it come from? I saw it myself at the 1981 NCC in Chicago. The Xerox trade show staff person with a roll of $100 bills for paying off the unions.

Granted that was a while ago.
Doesn't this sound like a dictatorship?
In before someone made a "my O face" joke.
They just couldn't win and gave up. They accidentally crippled Github, large portions of google cloud and even their own government services while trying to blacklist Telegram and figured it was not worth the risk and getting laughed at.

The Skripal affair and other fuckups highlighted that Russia can't get away with threatening even a retiree's life, let alone millionaire's with some security.
I don’t know that would be helpful. I hate digging through my Tesla’s menus to control the wipers even though it is very responsive.
tldr: All the eager people who went “hey we can do what big tech is doing too” are starting to realize it was never JUST about the tech. There’s financial resources and man power.
As someone on the list, here’s a moderating view against to the popular take of narcissists campaigning to get on the list (which definitely has some truth to it).

I made no attempt to get on the list and didn’t even find out I was on the shortlist until I received a questionnaire asking for more information. Filled it out while commuting to work and forgot about it.

Didn’t hear back from Forbes at any point and only found out I made it when someone messaged me to congratulate me the day it was published.

Still don’t know who nominated me. Never bothered to ask.

Similar to another commenter, it has been useful given I have a degree from a relatively unknown University in Australia. Maybe it’ll be more counterproductive now? Who knows…
"After His Son’s Tragic Death, This Doctor Fought to Put Backup Cameras In Every Car"[1]

"He had gone under the vehicle, I had gone right over his head and killed him. I jumped out of the car, tried to do CPR.” Gulbransen can still taste his blood in his mouth, remembers the way Cameron bled from his nose, his ears. “I knew at that moment he was dead.”"

[1] https://www.kidsandcars.org/2018/05/14/after-his-sons-tragic...
India approves a $800M “National Quantum Mission”
I've been building a profiler UI in egui recently, and have been pretty happy with it. I didn't try out all of the options in this article (there are rather a lot of them), but I did try several, and out of the ones I tried, egui was by far the highest performance. Since my goal is to shove as many rectangles onto the screen as possible, this was the killer feature for me, but it was also nice that it did most of the other GUI stuff I needed.

WASM demo here if you want to see it (with dummy, and not particularly realistic, profiling data): https://elliottslaughter.github.io/legion-prof-viewer/

For comparison, the UI I'm replacing falls down with about 16 nodes worth of data. (The demo has 8192 "nodes" worth of fake data.)
This is a weirdly contentious issue by web devs, but in my experience, system-ui is fine. It's used as the default in popular frameworks like Bootstrap[1], and most of the teething issues have been solved for a while now.

[1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/adf7b8dc4083b6ddc318e...
If you are using pre-signed urls, or public objects, then there is really no reason you need to use an s3 library, any old http client will work fine. But if you need to authenticate the request yourself, then you have to deal with the somewhat complicated process of signing the url, headers and body, if applicable. It isn't terrible, but it is probably more than you want to do if you have a library available.
You can put the wipers icon at the bottom bar now, that makes it much better.
If they have "substantial direct and immediate control"

one example: workers in this bargaining unit working on Youtube Music at Cognizant as contractors for Google have to request vacation first from Google, and only once they agree, can request their vacation from Cognizant.

A complete formal definition of joint employers is in "Decision and Direction of Election" from https://www.nlrb.gov/case/16-RC-305751 on page 8. The document also has more summaries of evidence and examples from the hearings, which were non-public.
I mean, presumably that reason will be violation of the law?

It's not like the judge just wakes up one day and decides "Hey, I'm going to fuck this up for everyone". There's a case for the judge to hear, and actions based on rulings. Higher courts can decide if they stand up to scrutiny (and there are often ways for effects to be stayed pending the rulings of these higher courts - see for instance Elizabeth Holmes staying out of prison again today).

Personally I think it's great that judges can make rulings that affect the operations of large multinational companies and services - remove that and we're even more in thrall to big money, with even less scope for legal remedy.

Now when law is applied flippantly, corruptly, poorly, with bias etc and the country does nothing to fix it, that's on the country to fix itself and run better, not by removing the power for the 'little guy' to have any influence at all.
This has happened several times before with other services:

https://bloqueios.info/en/timeline/

Unfortunately this site hasn't been updated since 2016, but I don't think that's because these kinds of orders have stopped being issued. They've previously been issued on various occasions by a state judge when a company either ignores or says it can't technically comply with a subpoena or injunction in a court case, and have so far usually been overturned by Brazilian appeals courts.
Yeah, those have been around for decades on all kinds of old specialised keyboards and equipment... The real reason stuff trends towards touch screens is people trying to keep the BOM cost low without considering cost to the user.

A generic touch screen with dynamic controls is cheaper than a larger custom made keyboard or physical controls. It's the same reason we end up with power inefficient IoT devices that could be made with very cheap and efficient microcontrollers, but developing for those requires expensive expertise, so we end up with huge powerful ARM cores because it's more general and easier to code.

The common factor in both of these issues is cost to manufacturer vs cost to user (power, safety etc).
AFAIK other NeRF methods don't let you use HDR data, just LDR images, so you would have to pre-process your HDR photos (tone-mapping) and you wouldn't be able to control exposure afterwards as previous necessary information for doing so would not be present when inferring novel views.

HDR-NeRF allows you to control both exposure and position when synthetizing new images. Your intuition is on the point though, with enough data/compute you could build a method that uses the photos with full dynamic range information from a HDR camera instead of "stitching" LDR photos of varying exposures like this method does.
A lot the knobs and buttons these days are digital anyways. So there is no real tactile feedback, since they are just activating some digital function anyways.
Maybe the EU should solve this by mandating that all 2FA implementations support TOTP, analogous to how they mandated USB-C for smartphones.
"We can picture many entities called fields superimposed on top of one another and extending throughout space. "

And all affected in exactly the same way by the mysterious gravity 'force' or field.

Or, we can picture just a single field, that has many dimensions or traits, which we call the other forces.
Monty Python's Life of Brain
It's possible that I'm just missing the distinction here between passkeys and FIDO security keys. Because all of the things I'm seeing in this space fall into just one factor of authentication.

I will point out that I explicitly called out 2FA as being necessary. And any of PIN/Biometric (not sure what screenlock is), seems like that 2nd factor to me. So if these are different things, then the rollout is going really rocky (on par with Wii vs. Wii U), and they should probably come up with a better naming schema.
A controllable algorithmic feed solves problem 1 (kinda) but not problem 2.

The phrase “algorithmic cruelty” is best demonstrated with the most seemingly innocuous efforts. Like reminding you of a special birthday photo with a friend who has died and the computer has no way of knowing that.

The paperclip problem never goes away even if you’re in control. It’s like the butterfly effect. At least if everyone has a slightly different algorithm then the overall system wouldn’t align to produce mobs and harassment quite as easilly. Also without centralized control then mitigating those effects becomes much more complicated.

Even when it works flawlessly with no “side effects” it can have negative consequences. If it’s too good or you have too much fun with it then maybe you spend less time with real friends or ignoring other things. I use a chronological timeline and it gets boring sometimes. That boredom is a useful signal to me to go do something else. ( chronological is still an algorithm we just tend to not think of it as one)

At the end of the day I agree it’s better to have a distributed and Democratic feed then be at the mercy of someone else. That still doesn’t mean ALL of the problems with algorithmic feeds are solved by giving the user more control. It also doesn’t begin to get into the complexity of how a non-programmer would begin to tune such an algorithm without sliders and buttons that go into an algorithm someone else ultimately wrote.
Lee Smolin is working on an idea where the building blocks are events where momentum is exchanged.Space, and hence position, is an emergent phenomena.

Here's a colloquium talk[1] and here's a recent paper[2].

Not exactly what you said but perhaps interesting.

As mentioned it's work in progress so remains to be seen if the idea pans out.

[1]: https://pirsa.org/21030005

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15546
Because they're not really a safety issue in an aircraft.

When you're in cruise flight, things happen slowly. Heck, on a pre-touchscreen general aviation GPS unit, you dial waypoints in one letter at a time with a single rotary knob. As annoying as the touchscreen is, it's still an improvement - and you still get your single rotary knob in case things are turbulent, so it's no really any worse.

Takeoff/landing is a different story. Things happen quickly there. But you're also not messing with the avionics during those phases of flight.

As the saying goes: aviate, navigate, communicate - in that order. Touchscreens are mostly the realm of navigation and (sometimes) communication.
If only it was possible to adjust the volume without talking to the phone - heresy, I know.
Having your phone decide how loud or quiet it should be playing is rather stupid anyway.
Wow nice find! I love little QOL features like this.
i just write everything from scratch every time. (so don't take my advice)

I notice that if I lower the bar and allow half baked hackish solutions to slip in, beyond some point, upkeep consumes infinite time. There seems no way back from that besides starting from scratch.

There is no good reason for front end things to break. I can only think of document.writeln() but who in his right mind...
Yeah the Tesla screen is excellent.

The issue isn't so much with touch screens, it's every other car company being atrocious at software and software design.
ANyone minding will not tell you they actually mind....

Case in point. ChatGPT will not accept any masked email from fastmail.

I tried multiple traditional domains. No luck. The error was something to the effect "try later, too much traffic" something or other. (Hiding behind public perception, slick). This went on for days.

One day, after the 20th try...on the next second, I finally relented and used my google workplace email... (which ironically enough is not very liked , particularly by banks, since its not a traditional dot com domain). That worked immediately.
AMD statement: https://www.anandtech.com/show/18828/amd-issues-official-sta...
It's funny how such trivially obvious things may cause so much hate and denial. No free media in Russia?! Shocker!
Why couldn't they do DPI and block the protocol?
Not sure what this article has to do with Ed Connor or Shutterstock, other than they are credited for the cover photo.
Is there any evidence of this policy existing? What sources do you have that there is indeed a door with a sign that says as such?