skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I re-watched Star Wars for the first time in a while (I watched it surely more than 100 times as a kid, but hadn't in a long time).

Leia is a straight-up badass the entire movie. She's the only competent one in the main 3 (Obi Wan's a contender if you expand it to 4, but he dies, spoiler alert). The other two are bumbling idiots until the very end, and don't go through half as rough a time as she does.

Then we open Empire and she's perfectly cool under fire while being the #1 person in charge of commanding a fighting retreat against an overwhelming, mechanized force, and has to be dragged away to finally leave her post as the structure is collapsing around her.

The whole thing is played like it's ordinary, no awkward asides to make sure we understand that this is a WOMAN being STRONG. 1977 and 1980 release dates.

Like... holy shit.
If you're not driving a Hyundai, it's probably working as you expect.
Patrick Boyle has a great video discussing why a BRICS currency really won't happen. [1] Basically China would need to abandon an administered financial system, and move to a market based economy. They aren't interested in giving up any of that control.

Personally it seems there's a recent uptick in "armchair doomerism" articles around the idea of de-dollarisation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZnVdBZJfA
> matters most

This is like the least significant thing they could work together on. There are SO many more issues they could tackle together but won't.
I think the effort in the testing of the thousands of drugs was to help create the AI model. Then they used that model and it seems to have identified a promising antibiotic. The next time they go through the process they would not need to train the model again right? So get another big list of chemicals and run them through the model.
If im wrong, i want to know that im wrong as soon as possible. Criticism is the most direct way to learn that im wrong. What's not to love about that
It's natural to take criticism of your work personally so I think the first thing is to accept the initial emotional reaction as "ok" and not something to beat yourself up about.

The next step is to tame your emotional response. It's almost never a good idea to act based on emotions so you first need to get a level head before responding. You can journal, meditate, go in a room and rage out if you need to, but just get that chimpanzee in your brain to settle down. Not easy but has to be done if you want to transcend whatever is coming your way. Sometimes you will fail but there's always next time so just keep at it.

Once you've settled down, now it's time to rationally consider the content of the critique and decide how to respond. Criticism can come in many different shapes and sizes: valid, invalid, clear, vague, harsh and nice, well timed, ill timed. Unfortunately, some people can be downright mean so handling harsh and uncivil criticism is a skill that takes time to master. If you notice most highly successful people, they take nasty criticism like water off a duck's back. That being said, it's really unacceptable to have people making snarky comments on your work and if it's a pattern there, I'd consider finding a more nurturing place to work.

Once all that's done, decide whether the argument is valid and if so make the adjustment in good faith. If not respond, with your reasons respectfully and with an open mind. They may respond in turn, and if so you and your colleagues will have achieved a harmonious spirt of working together towards a higher truth and you will benefit in ways that cannot be overstated.
And the response has been great for them! They convinced a lot of people who would have thought otherwise that they don't need to consume less or differently because that's just a Big Oil trick!
This is part of a larger class of problems, which is "car manufacturers are not taking some quite simple steps to make the roads safer".

I think this could be solved with a small fee, payable by a vehicle manufacturer, whenever one of their vehicles is involved in a road traffic incident.

Perhaps $100 would be enough for them to keep an eye on their fleet of cars on the road, and do basic things to minimize accidents, like for example tyre wear alerts.
It's not "the act" it's "this act" which they were not involved in. The article says they were involved in the delay, which is innaccurate. They may not have meant to say that, but that's what it says.
wrangling once again in Washington over the U.S. debt ceiling have put the dollar's status as the world's dominant currency under fresh scrutiny.

Has it really though? This entire article reads more like a propaganda position than anything. Plenty of anti-US countries have much to gain from continuing to foment this narrative.

I'd argue the actual negative would be that you have nobody in Washington arguing over debt ceilings and budgets (i.e. not caring at all about where money is going). In fact, it's quite positive that people are in conflict over the right way to handle money and if anything should increase confidence in its status as the reserve currency. All this political chicken is how the game has always been played.

Bottom line is that as far as trust and confidence go, the United States could certainly improve, but it's still by far the best. Who is honestly going to trust China's government with their terrible track record, especially after all their COVID lies, lockdown nonsense, quietly taking over HK and a growing threat towards Taiwan's freedom. And Russia? Give me a break.
Yeah, I should definitely be more like him.
Why would you need an accelerometer when you've got perfectly good tacho pulses from the ABS rings?
Feel free to Google additional examples, there are plenty. The link below only analyzes a single video by Dr. Greger and finds it riddled with errors, mistakes and what I would consider outright lies. Many of the studies quoted as "evidence" are either flawed, incomplete, or simply misrepresented by Greger to fit his prefered narrative. I'm actually a believer in plant based diets but this guy is a modern day snake oil salesman.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/death-as-a-foodborne-illnes...

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/nutritionfacts-org/
Continuous downtrends, free falls, I'm interested what graphs and charts and numbers you're looking at to arrive at this conclusion. Especially when you've called out that someone (who specifically and where?) has been intentionally misleading.

You may be objectively correct about all of this but right now it doesn't come off that way to me.
Small C was the inspiration for SubC, a project of mine. It is pretty much a cleaned-up and slightly extended rewrite of Small C that compiles with few warnings on modern compilers. Also comes with a book.

http://t3x.org/subc/index.html (source code)

http://t3x.org/reload/index.html (book)
If you had spent any time reading the related Blue Hat content, this is the first step alongside developer certificates, to bring UWP model to across all Windows workloads.

You can then either switch to macOS or ChromeOS with similar models already, use one of the mobile OSes, which have used such restrictions for years, or maybe it is finally when the exodus to Linux Desktop takes place.
> With good security design you don't lock things down as needed but instead start fully locked down and open up only the accesss you really need.

This. @mholt what we're arguing for is just to have secure defaults.
False dichotomy. I live in the suburbs, The closest things to me to walk to (within 30 minutes) are a gas station, or another gas station, or an automotive replair place. The bus station is a 1.5 hour walk. No sidewalks by the way, just neighborhood frontage so I'll be walking at across downward slopes the whole time.

When I take conference trips to other cities, I do walk everywhere.
We should determine what rate of deceleration counts as 'coasting', and anything beyond that counts as braking.
> keep enough distance, pay attention and this is never an issue

That isn’t how safety regulations work. Driving is a cooperative affair and giving more information about your intend to the drivers around you is a good thing.

I mean if all it took was “keep distance and pay attention” why bother with turn signals?

And as a side note: “self driving” cars still haven’t completely figured out the right algorithm for turn signals. I watch enough “AI Driver” on YouTube to see him call out how Tesla’s turn signaling is sometimes pretty erratic. It is probably a pretty hard problem when you think about it.

Showing brake lights is much easier. Got a deceleration over a certain value? Well, show them lights!
I know we're only supposed to comment on the articles but I've tried 3 different computers, 4 browsers, and two IP addresses and I still just get a blank white page. Even with all javascript enabled, etc. The Lancet jumped the shark in late 2019 and has only been getting worse. Their website is literally not performing it's function to distribute text.

At least I could still get the full article at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10079373/

"Booster effectiveness relative to primary series was 26·2% (95% CI 23·6–28·6) against infection and 75·1% (40·2–89·6) against severe, critical, or fatal COVID-19, during 1-year follow-up after the booster."

That's not as bad as I thought it would be. The intramuscular's humoral) immunity against severe disease in the body serum and organs holds up pretty well. The protection against infection, which relies on upper respiratory mucosal immunity that injections into the arm don't give, are predictably low.

I really wish the USA was still funding vaccine research so that some of these intranasal booster trials could be sped up. I haven't heard much about India's approved iNCOVACC intranasal role-out (starting this past ~feb), but the papers on it's effectiveness against infection should be out soon.
I’d expect people who look the same(even cut their penises ritually) and live close by to not be so pissed at each other in 2023. Too much to ask.
Check out the FAQ @ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html ... No and yes it's ok.

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic[0]. More here[1].

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
[1]https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paywalls%20by:dang&dateRange=a...
Why do we need an accelerator when we know how fast the wheels are turning directly? The first derivative of wheel speed is almost always car acceleration. Is this to handle some edge cases like not turning the brake lights on when we're actually sliding on ice with the wheels locked? Seems unnecessary.
It's astonishing how successful the vaccines turned out to be given the circumstances in which they had to be developed.
https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun is such a great tool for creating interactive dashboards to look at real-time data. Curious if there are others looking for something like this and what the other use cases would be interesting. I have heard ideas like:
- A system for watching debezium populate topics in kafka.
- Quick exploratory telemetry dashboards.

Any others?
Throwing a couple more recs in here:
- American Sign Museum in Cincinnati (https://www.americansignmuseum.org/)
- not sure what qualifies as a museum but the City Museum in St. Louis is incredible (https://www.citymuseum.org/)

edit: throw the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda on here too
This is true - afaik there’s been no specific rulings on whether training models on copyright material is a violation. But to my mind it harkens back to stuff like xerox and such where the tool itself isn’t the violating thing it’s the use of the tool. Likewise, derivative works are often largely reproductions with minor variations and are protected under fair use. A model that takes enormous amounts of data and distills it into a tiny vector representation way below the information theoretic levels for any meaningful fidelity and mixes and overlaps data in a way that the original data isn’t plausibly stored in the model… I’m definitely not going to wager my life that’s fair use, but I would wager my company on it.
Must be your settings - Do you have a misconfigured PiHole or something? it works perfectly fine for me.. direct link to the PDF maybe?

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1473-3099%2823...
I wrote a blog a few weeks ago on how LLMs will enable ‘Context Warehouses’ for work. Looks like they may be realised even sooner than I thought!

https://macroapp.io/blog/the-context-warehouse
I wish I knew about it a year ago, maybe I could've convinced my wife to get one. I'll keep an eye on this brand from now on, as well as the keywords they use, for the next time I'm searching for an oven (or kitchen appliances in general).
From what I've read, the 19th century experienced considerable price instability. I'm not sure I'd say that they had a working money system.
Absolutely, that was our original take on https://clippingmagic.com where the editor lets you easily make changes to the result.

But almost all API users and most regular users just want a result and to not have to futz with it, hence this offering.
I do not want to belittle your personal experience, but two companies make no convincing picture, IMHO. I am working daily as a developer with ERP systems. Once you get used to the idiosyncrasy they are usually no longer slow or hard to use (unless the implementation partner has really messed up - which happens).

Open source ERP can neither cover the functional range of main ERP systems like Oracle's or SAP's, nor can you expect the same level of domain knowledge being applied to it in development (with a small fraction of the developers the large ones have, lacking the specialization at the large vendors), nor do at least I know of success stories in that regard with Fortune 500 companies, as their main, driving ERP system.
> Secondly, be mindful of the company culture you create and the people you bring on board. They can either make or break your organization.

I don't think that this cautionary statement will make much of a difference, but I completely agree.

Founders deliberately create the culture of their dreams, and don't particularly care what anyone else thinks. It's a big part of the reason they are founding the endeavor. They don't want to deal with people that they believe will deter/hobble them. The boss gets what the boss wants.

In some cases, I'm sure it's worked out well.

In others ... maybe not so much.

I've found that cultures that deliver great projects are often not "comfortable" ones. In my experience, the sickest organizations have been ones where everyone was always "on the same page," and there was little disagreement.
Short answer: Yes.

Longer answer:

We already have engagement/ad optimization AI. Manipulation is literally Facebook's/Google's many billion dollar business. To me, its scary how most people didn't worry about this over the past decade when its already (for instance) eroding democracy and degrading mental health.

But I guess the worry is the "accessibility" of this manipulation now. On one hand thats a valid concern and extremely scary, but on the other, I am glad Big Tech will be robbed of this exclusive power. I'd rather have the chaotic, mostly broken internet we are barreling towards now rather than the ad driven corporate dystopia were slowly heading towards before.
I'm not saying it's justified, I'm just saying that is how they view it.
Thanks for posting! I was just thinking about how I was going to confirm this on mine.

And, yeah, the software is hot garbage.
Billing a company for something that is entirely outside their control (post sale) isn't going to fly.

But you could maybe publish safety figures per manufacturer on the road, and make the scores for a new car incorporates the manufacturer score too - therefore effectively giving a competitive advantage to manufacturers that make cars which turn out to be safe.
By removing every third light bulb they saved anywhere from $40000 to $500000!
Amazing how my bank never had this issue. I’ve sent ACH, wires, checks, and Zelles left and right with my major bank for years and years. No issues.

Yet my PayPal account that I used twice and had a $6 balance got closed permanently. Along with millions of others.

>You assume malice. It’s not.

Yes it is. Like many tech companies, they’ve “algorithm’d” something that used to take human investigation work. And their algorithm sucks. Their support sucks. This is all intentional so they can save money on labor. So they’re not stealing my money directly. So what? They’re freezing my funds and forcing me to take them to court so they can operate with lower labor costs. That’s theft — it doesn’t matter if they don’t use my money. If I rob you of some cash and then burn it, is it not still robbery?
Oh, I hope he comes to Pueblo, CO sometime and checks out the niche museum I volunteer at. We have basically 3 people running it, including Nell Mitchell, who made it all possible: https://coloradostatehospitalmuseum.org/

It's a museum that documents the history of the Colorado State Hospital (Colorado Insane Asylum, when it opened in 1879). I bought a house near it and just walked in one day. Now I'm there two days a week and spend a lot of time doing research for people trying to find out about their relatives that may have been patients.
>No sidewalks by the way

This is something that blows me away whenever I hear about America. Are people okay with that? I'm not trying to be sarcastic, I'm genuinely wondering if there's any backlash or outrage towards the lack of basic infrastructure.
Fwiw, I can't think of a single popular neural net architecture that takes advantage of sparsity.
remove.bg is great, and they handle hair really well. But so do we! Give us a shot next time ;)
What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of PostgresML vs MindsDB?
And yet ... every ERP installation I've EVER seen is a custom ERP application, with maybe a standard "big" database at the center (not in the case of Odoo, or MS Dynamics that use standard non-ERP databases, or at least databases that don't usually work in ERP systems, so ERP without a big database in the middle exists). These were developed by teams of consultants and maintained by multiple teams of sysadmins, SWEs, DB admins, ...

The supposed extra features are usually 20-year-old disasters. For example, one thing they all have and are very proud of is a standard UI system. That means the "same form" works on Windows, on the web, on phones (these days), with a centralized auth provider, ...

Except to say that ABAP GUI sucks is like saying first hammering a spike into your own skull and then having it pulled back out by a bull is a suboptimal experience. The question that joke screams "why would you do it like that" is one you'll be asking a lot when using these ERP systems. In case there's any doubt: their UI most definitely does not really work on mobile without extensive changes ... also known as "development". And yes it's been improved and is better. Which is to say at one point I believe Oracle had a "mobile UI" which was an android "RDP client" (sending screens pixel by pixel) connecting to a windows server which ran the windows binary of their UI. Even required per-user windows licences. I don't know how they did it, but it actually had windows 3.1 style scrollbars on the phone display. These are improvements in the sense that HIV is a big experience improvement over gonnorhea.

And you might think "surely that means the form is going to be very responsive !".

Heh.

These installations require DB admins, require SWEs, require managers, oncall, ..., require colocation/dedicated/cloud costs (may God help you if you're paying cloud prices for your DB, and whilst I agree admin is easier it's not so much easier that you don't need a DB team). Oh and I've never seen a SAP ABAP installation go 6 months without a consultant getting hired to solve some issue the company couldn't solve.

Just about the only really unique thing about ERP software is that the code for the "applications" lives in the database itself (MS access, or Dbase used to do that too). This is also just about the worst thing about them, as it means you don't get integration testing, or standard version control, or files, or ...

Yes, I know, somehow Oracle has convinced every MBA to do this rather than pay 5 SWEs to just make them PHP apps. And no, I don't mean those PHP apps will be worse, they'll be way better. It's standard so you can get consultants to attempt to fix the worst disasters.
I'd love to see a way to add some niche museums. Some suggestions:

The Devil's Rope Museum, about barbed wire:
https://barbwiremuseum.com/

The Mutter Museum, a collection of anatomical specimens and antique medical equipment.
https://muttermuseum.org/

The Mario Lanza Institute, dedicated to the famed vocalist
https://www.mariolanzainstitute.org/
Yes it can get worse.

Pray they don't alter it any further. [1]

[1] https://i.imgur.com/vpRy9NQ.png
It's too dangerous. The article has some good statistics. To add to it, I recently took up riding a motorcycle. According to wikipedia[1], walking is 7x more dangerous than a car. Bicycle is 20x. Motorcycle is 28x.

And the above is just accidents. Crime is a problem. For example, no way am I letting my elderly mom walk to visit her friend downtown, I drove her instead.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_safety
No, Hyundai needs to rethink how brake lights work.

Putting yet another mark on the board for things Tesla engineers figured out nearly a decade ago that other car companies haven’t.
What do you consider by "very limited memory?"
The processor I generally use for my hobby projects has 16M Flash and 4M RAM. This isn't the 80's.

> Firmware is written once and seldom updated

Not these days where everything must have an App as an alternate frontend. Device Firmware Update was such a frequent request that we just made it a fixed-cost line item on our quotation forms when I worked at an engineering services company. Projects where the customer didn't want DFU were far rarer than the ones that did.
We’re talking about America in this thread right? I could name fictional countries if you wanted, too.
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