skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Periodic re-testing to keep your license should become mandatory. 50% of federal transportation funding going to transit and related projects should become mandatory. Getting as many cars off the road as possible in the coming years should become mandatory. Reduced speed limits in cities across the country should become mandatory.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7126a1.htm

If pedestrian detection "doesn't work very well" as the linked article* says, we need to take the simple, practical approaches that we know will have an impact, and stop sacrificing lives to the altar of convenience and the "American Dream".

* https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/10/aaa-finds-your-new-car-...
Opera had a mail client that just hit the right spot of simplicity and functionality. I miss it to this very day.
No, that's physics. Last year the Nobel prize was awarded for work providing evidence for the fundamental non-locality of the universe. Objective materialism seems more and more untenable on the face of hard evidence.
And with this paper, we now have evidence that they don't work.
I remember building news.Skynet.be up into the Top 100 with some very careful use of Diablo and splitting all my feeds along binary bucket sizes, so that I'd have like eight or ten simultaneous streams going to each peer, and usually the individual buckets stayed roughly the same amount full.

And Diablo had some cool techniques that amounted to offering a news article to all the peers as soon as the unique news article was offered to it, but before the actual body of that unique news article had been delivered. Then you could go rapidly deliver it to all your peers.

So, odds were that if you had a diverse feed, you'd see more news articles come into your server and then successfully flow out of your server to your other Top 100 peers, than anyone else.

I spent months tweaking those newsfeed bucket sizes and peer lists, and I would peer with anyone I could. And I actively searched for new peers that seemed to have a diverse set of news articles that I wouldn't have otherwise seen.

Our peers in Belgium had a love/hate relationship with us over this. They loved us because that meant we had a very fresh feed to give them. But they hated us because it was a "local" network hop across the Belgian exchanges with their high-priced Belgian WAN lines instead of coming across their much higher bandwidth and much lower cost international T-3 connections.

We also had a satellite feed for news articles, which helped us fill in the content over 64KB in size, because that was our break over for our non-binary/binary news feeds.

Then Belgacom decided to bring Skynet back inside the parent company and all the people who had a clue left like rats leaving a sinking ship.
I'm sure that quality will be modeled mathematically and optimized for as well
"How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama"

With some maps of Cretaceous sediments, fertile Black Belt Prairie soil, farm size 1997, slave population 1860, black population 2010, and Election Results.

A little bit about the soils from a different link:

"The Black Belt is the only region in Alabama with extensive regions of alkaline soils (soil pH> 7.0). Early settlers discovered these clayey soils held more nutrients and were generally more productive than the sandier Coastal Plain soils. For this reason, many of the large, antebellum cotton plantations were located in the Black Belt region of Alabama and Mississippi. Black Belt soil color is dark because of the humus, or decomposed organic matter, that often coats the clay particles. However, severe erosion due to intensive farming practices removed much of the dark, rich topsoil."

https://www.aces.edu/blog/topics/healthy-soils/alabama-soils...
isn't this a failing of the operating systems more than anything?

like you can have multiple windows side by side, so what's the benefit of panes?
>Vertical tabs. Nice. From now on, any browser not offering this feature, shouldn't even bother applying. Nicely done Brave!

Been a thing for years in old Opera first

Firefox has extensions for it

Edge and Vivaldi has it native
And it compresses just as well as UTF-8 for transfer/storage purposes.
I did, (December 2020)
Indeed, it did include IRC client, FTP client, email client and download manager with torrent support (not 100% sure if all at the same time, because it has been many years and versions blur in my mind).

The funny thing is that even though it included a lot of features I didn't use (for example, I never used the email client, not because it was bad, but I didn't use POP3/IMAP in general during that period), it was still much more efficient than all competitors in terms of speed, memory usage and even download size (at some point it boasted to be the only browser that fit in a floppy disk, although of course not for long).

I think the reason why it never became mainstream is that it was a paid product for a long time, while all other browsers were free. It eventually became free, but by then, competitors were too entrenched.

I also dislike Whatsapp but depending on country, it might be a necessary evil. In Spain for example, not having Whatsapp practically means forgoing any socialization with non-nerds. It's so ingrained in daily life that being without it is almost unthinkable for most people. Anyway, the current Opera doesn't have almost anything in common with the original one. Different engine, company, team, vision and even continent (owned by a Chinese company), only the brand and a thin sliver of identity remains.

(The sad thing is that I use it, because I still find it to be the least bad option for my needs...).
Cool! Nice to know, hope you like Lugano ;)
> Most importantly, Russia's population decline (which started before Japan's) has leveled off

Like in many other countries Russia's population is sustained by migration from countries with higher birth rates (at least it was until recently).
Personal favorite: Cosmodread. It’s a procedurally generated spaceship horror game where you must gather resources and not get killed by monsters to escape.
Creating fake meanings for old words doesn't make them real.

They even had to go through one level of indirection to make people believe what they made up.

They couldn't just say, watching digital copy witout paying for it is a theft because people would just laugh at them, no it's not.

They had to do a two step process through obsure old crime to confuse people. Using a digital copy without paying for it is piracy. And piracy is theft.

Consuming didgital content on your own terms has as much to do with theft as it has with actual piracy that got some resurgence around Africa in recent years.
I can't believe how even a topic about open maps API gets turned into politics. And then gets voted to the top. What was HN saying about Twitter's algorithm? Something about polarization, divisiveness, outrage, etc? It's not algorithms, it's you. You're making online discussion miserable for everybody.
How much coding do you think is "solving novel problems"?

I'm a senior developer and integrated ChatGPT and Github Copilot into my workflow. No more StackOverflow for me, ChatGPT handles that part. And Copilot auto writes a lot of my code, amazingly well for a lesser known language Haxe.

My son recently came to me with a school assignment for his Arduino. As an extra he wanted to play a song through a buzzer, instead of just a beep like the assignment said. Just asked chatGPT to write this for the song Ghost Busters. I know C and C++ but never programmed an Arduino. You know how long it took ChatGPT to write it? About half a minute. You know how much time it would cost me or you?

1. Quickly figure out how Arduino works with the loop, outputs, etc. Does it have a C precompiler? etc.

2. Find the notes of Ghost Busters.

3. Figure out what kind of output is sent to the buzzer. (Solution: it's the frequency)

4. Translate notes to frequencies

5. Put the notes of Ghost Busters into an array, or something like that. How to handle timings and pauses?

6. Write the code to play it.

Well, I can tell you it saved me tons of time. It was faster than typing this comment.

Just dismissing it with "I've seen chat GPT write terrible code" is not so smart in my opinion. But hey, the more programmers think they are too good for ChatGPT and Copilot, the better for developers like me who are already great, and just add some more productivity on top of that.

Edit: Just wanted to add something on top of it, for the projects I'm working on myself: Copilot just terribly good at writing unit tests. And if you think about it, it makes perfect sense. It has all the context it needs for that. It's surprisingly also very good at writing Selenium integration tests, although I expected it not to have enough context for that, since it doesn't really see the application. I guess a lot of functionality is very logical or trivial for it to take best guesses.
If not for emoji, lots of software wouldn't care about correctly processing strings in other languages, so it's good that we have them.
That's strawmanning. Indeed, function calling needs the same amount of parentheses. But literally every popular languages (C/C++/Java/Javascript) have syntactic clues for :

- assigning values to variables
- function definitions
- denoting elements of structures
- if, for and while control flow
- fields of structs or objects
- etc

Which also play a huge role in structured/OOP programming. Less popular languages usually have syntactic clues for the important parts of their paradigm.

Once I transpiled the example code from the Janet site[0] to Python (I don't speak Janet.) You can compare them, and count the parentheses, and the syntactic clues in general: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34846516

[0] : https://janet-lang.org/
And at Belgacom Skynet we had people dedicated to the task of finding the illegal photos and purging them from our systems. I sat next to Thierry who was doing a lot of that work. Poor guy.

I caught only glimpses of some of the stuff he had to witness, and I would not wish that job on my worst enemy.
Hi, Aaron. Is it possible to use Mito in Jupyter Notebooks running inside VSCode?
You make it sound like big tech companies never cooperate with the law enforcement. I bet CIA and FBI have their hand so far up Zuck’s ass it’s almost like Minority Report at this point.
That's why I'm working on an invisible parachute. So that flak gunners can't see the paratroopers.
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Deprecated Google Plus API Pages
- There is still a so-called Google Plus API

- And the API reference pages https://developers.google.com/+/api/?hl=en_US is a 404 (Sorry, we couldn't find that page) https://ibb.co/XWsWqGj

- How and why these happen in companies? Are there dozens of people verifying things before pages get deprecated
Happiness exists only in opposition to sadness. Seeking the relative will make you go around in circles. I think what we really ought to be interested in is letting go of all things relative and realizing our need for them is time bound. Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind.
Who had increased spending power exactly? I was under the impression the stimulus was mainly directed towards people who had suffered wage loss due to covid.
Hmmm, Indeed, this kind of growth charts doesn't look very good, but there's nothing I can do about it. A while ago, a major software sharing website recommended my software, which caused a rapid increase in stars during that period. However, after that period of time passed, the growth rate slowed down. But it doesn't matter because this charts is only used to record the trend of stars and it doesn't indicate anything significant. I have no intention of using it to flaunting.
I took it as a commentary on relying on scientific methodology when deciding the importance of a paper. Often the fact that there is a RCT study or whatever, a peer reviewed article in a prestigious journal, this is seen alone as sufficient reason to believe a finding. Scientists make this assumption, laypeople make this assumption, pop-sci media certainly do their thing; but this is essentially a counterexample, a scientific article that ostensibly checks all the boxes of rigorous science while being pretty obviously nonsense.
I got hired from posting to a HN thread. Sadly the company shut down, but it was worth the experience and I met a couple of cool guys.
Back in the "good old days", a car was ready for the junk heap after 50k miles. These days, that's barely broken-in. "But you could fix it yourself!" Who cares when the thing has such a short lifespan? It's really strange hearing people pining for the days of shitty old cars that you needed to constantly adjust the carb, set the points, etc. Insane.
I touched that question in "Hardware Support" section, on page 6 of that article http://const.me/articles/simd/simd.pdf

TLDR: SSE1 and SSE2 are parts of the base AMD64 ISA, they are always available while compiling for 64 bits. SSE3, SSE4.1 are old, market penetration is very close to 100%, always available in practice. For the newer extensions like AVX and FMA, the optimal tradeoff depends on the product and the market.
Homelessness is a failure of the Federal government that nobody there is even willing to talk about.

This can't be solved at a local or state level in a country with unrestricted freedom of movement.
But there is a serious point to be made, of course. This study involved jumping from stationary airplanes on the ground, which negates the whole point of a parachute (and hence, the control group survived just fine). It therefore "proved" that you don't need a parachute when jumping from an airplane, on the assumption that the results extrapolate to higher altitudes.

Nonsense, of course. But then there's a lot of randomized, controlled trials out there that are just as flawed, only in ways that are non-obvious to non-physicians, or even physicians with different specialities. "Study X proved Y" is never as straightforward as it seems to the lay public.
There is a well-known joke "nobody has ever done a solid randomized double-blind trial to test whether parachutes actually work."

Now someone has -- and it turns out they don't have any effect!

It's also possible that the paper criticizes some common features of "scientific" studies.
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Even Chrome has a down arrow top right of each window. Click that and type in the tab you want to find.
Super fascinating post. For those who go straight to the comments, it appears that someone managed to train a BERT model[1] to 90% of the GLUE score reported in the original BERT paper on a single GPU in ~100 hours. Note that this includes pre-training!

I can't find a clear source on time and compute used for the original BERT pretraining run, but it's clear than this is at least two orders of magnitude less hardware and roughly similar wall time.

I wonder how much of this could be translated over to the pretraining phase for a GPT?

I wonder if the SOPHIA[1] optimizer would also help here?

I'd argue that the research work being done to push these ML models into the realm of practicality on smaller hardware is just as important as the foundation that it relies on.

1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14342.pdf
I was probably lobbyists driving the push to make them mandatory in the first place
> Our brains create color from mixtures of colorless electromagnetic radiation. And in the case of color, I think it’s really a powerful example. Because in a sense, what we experience is less than what’s there. Because we only detect a tiny slice of the energy in the electromagnetic spectrum, a very thin slice of reality — three wavelengths, more or less, for most of us. But out of those three wavelengths, we generate an almost infinite palette of rich colors. So what we experience in color is both less than and more than what’s really there.

This is not entirely accurate, as the spectral sensitivity of human cone cells is not a dirac delta function or a small rect, but rather spreads across a relatively large part of the (visual) spectrum, even overlapping.

If it weren't the case, monochromatic radiation that fell outside those three peak wavelengths could not be perceived (e.g. low pressure sodium lamps)
I was slightly disappointed this wasn't binary translation (a la Apple's Rosetta) given "cross platform" in the title
> has about half of the nation’s unsheltered homeless

How many are from California and how many were given a bus pass to California by a government content to move the homeless around or on their own accord made their way to California as it has some of the best services?

How many are the same homeless people and how many are new homeless people who have replaced the old homeless people, making it appear that no progress has been made, but in reality there may just be greater need?
To be honest, I'm not good at naming things. "Pot" is just an abbreviation of a few words. At first, I even thought about calling it "top", but there's a well-known Linux software called "top". So now I call it "pot". Do you have any good naming suggestions?
And yet it is reasonably common to see "Â£" when the UTF-8 is misinterpreted.
It is you that missed the point, read the conclusions again and realise this is a statement about medical papers and randomized participants.
When using latin-1/latin-15/iso-8859-1/iso-8859-15/cp1252 that statement is true. With utf-8 it is two bytes (c2 a3), if a software uses utf-16, ucs-2, etc. it may be more.
Still, I don't have a very hard time imagining living alone (even though I'm in what we have just decided to consider "marriage" and we have kids), that seems a perfectly fine life to me, which would have also a center, which marriage would not be, even with this definition.

Even in my situation, I would argue that the kids are more in the center than our relationship, as our parent-kids relationship is inalienable and forever, unlike our relationship with each other, which will last only while we are both happy about it.
>You, strictly speaking, don't need any amount of square footage to live

I'd argue that you do, considering it's -4 to -22F outside for half of the year, and historically have gone as low as -58F
The article is about ID verification to access the internet and by extension, if it's reasonable to require ID verification to visit TikTok when a lot more important aspects in life doesn't require ID. If you're hellbent on not requiring ID for some things, then you need to have the discussion on why you should require it for less important areas.
Sure, but consciousness as a phenomenon does exist. I know this with absolute certainty, because I'm conscious typing this right now.
FWIW, I'm using a single ultra wide screen and never have any full screen windows, always two side by side. Most Linux DEs and even Windows support this out of the box, for macOS there's spectacle.

That said, working on a web project right now, we _are_ ensuring it looks good when maximised on ultra wide monitors, because we figure people might actually do that. But I'm with you there, for most web content it's ridiculous.
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Using earbuds with the Quest gives a much better experience.
It's right in the abstract and conclusions though, not really buried.
> pseudoscience

Sorry. Disagree. As someone who studies Vedanta I know for a fact that it is not pseudoscience.

> Read this and stop all the magical fairy tales.

You have to remember that these scriptures were written in a different era. They used poetry and stories as a medium to explain difficult to understand concepts. That does not make it "magical fairy tales". Those who can grasp the inner meaning of the stories know what they were actually trying to say. For everyone else it seems like a magical story/mythology.

Take this hymn as an example:

ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पूर्णमुदच्यते ।
पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥

The translation is roughly:

1: Om, That is Purna; This is also Purna; From Purna is manifested Purna,

2: Taking Purna from Purna, Purna indeed remains,

3: Om, Peace, Peace, Peace.

It might seem complete gibberish at first glance. But it is definition of Infinity in the form of poetry. Purna means fullness. It is explaining the characteristic of infinity and how adding/removing anything from infinity doesn't change its intrinsic value. That it always remains infinite.

This is just one example. The problem is not in the authors of these scriptures. They were highly advanced beings for their Time. The problem is with us that we do not have the capacity to understand it the right way. Even now many Vedic scriptures are mistranslated with even more of them tragically lost due to burning of the Nalanda University by invaders.

I also checked the book you linked to see what the author has to say about Time. Funnily enough, the book itself quotes Dharmic concepts of cyclical Time to further its points albeit in a convoluted and rejigged way, where the author says: "An alternative to the periodicity view of the universe is to display periodicity
as a series of sine waves. Now we can walk along the troughs and peaks of the line
without ever returning to the starting point (figure 1.1, right). Time here is a continuum with the cycle as its metric. The cycles are identical in shape, and the start
and end points of the cycles form an infinite path into the seemingly endless universe.". He doesn't realize that this is exactly what Dharmic concept of Time is anyways. So his assumption that "Time is cyclical" to mean everything "repeats" is not what Dharma says at all. It just stems from a common misunderstanding of Dharmic concepts that has plagued the discourse in the West as most of the translations are done by Western Indologists without conversing with Indian Vedanta scholars who are experts in the field.
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