skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You have extenuating and aggravating circumstances

You do; but that's not actually what I was thinking about. That's just about sentencing, and here (the UK) sentencing doesn't fall within the purview of precedent; there are sentencing guidelines set by senior members of the judiciary.

I was thinking of actual points of law, such as what constitutes unreasonable behaviour, or whether possession of some quantity X of illegal drugs is conclusive evidence of intent to supply.

> whatever higher court thought in the 1800s

It's open to higher courts to overturn precedents, if they've become outdated to the extent they no longer make sense. The very old precedents are presumably precedents that make so much sense that nobody has successfully challenged them. If someone runs into an adverse judgement based on an ancient precedent that is unsupportable, no doubt there's some barrister that would like to make their case (and their reputation) at appeal, by overturning it.
Sorry. Didn’t mean the title of your submission. Was meant as a comment on how the whole debate is framed.
Yes, that makes sense.

A comparison could be drawn from the distinction between the Blackberry keyboard and the iPhone touch surface.

Apple’s design approach could well be aiming to make the Vision Pro feel as natural as possible.
May I know why their accent was relevant in this?
I think the intended sentiment is "if you don't want to pay, then you should have to run (and so help test) the new bleeding-edge thing, instead of using the old stable enterprise thing."
He's not calling himself "one of the creators" though. He's calling himself the creator, which shits all over the hard work of OpenAI, "Albert" and more.
I mostly agree with you, but I think I can shed some light here:

> As programs get larger they do things like load config files, connect to databases, initialize in-memory caches, possibly reflect themselves because that's often convenient, and so on. Because it's all init code none of this is hot, so it gets interpreted and that's slow.

One of the most interesting aspects of Wasm is that because it is built with isolation in mind, it's really easy to get a snapshot and run it later. So instead of doing all the cache initialization etc. at init time, you can initialize the module at build time and then take a snapshot of it for a very quick cold start next time.

When running in the browser, there is still an initialization step to process the wasm bytecode, but in the server-side world this can also be done in advance since you can trust the compiler and know in advance which processor architecture you will want to run it on.
I hope theres still a lawsuit even though they signed waivers.

It seems the company misrepresented the safety risk.
I'm guessing we must have some Indian citizens (domestic or expatriate) among HN readers. I'd be interested in their take on how well informed and/or balanced this article is.
Oh wow I must be a genius...
Remember in the 90s when he wrote a book about science fiction fans saving the world from the evil of "people who believe in climate change"?
Don't the chop shop locations show up at the hub of stolen car paths when the ALPR data is used retrospectively for cars reported as stolen?
It’s definitely better for them, but its infuriating that this CEO died thinking he was a genius for building this shitty sub with very few safety precautions.
Basic web programming is a dream world for prototyping. You don’t even have a compile step; it’s all WYSIWYG.
It was actually the second try at a CF tube. The first had flaws and issues and was either "repaired" or replaced by other manufacturing companies.
My big stumble in math came when I stopped being able to self-prove everything I saw.

At some point you must memorize in math.
> I keep seeing reports that they've search an area "the size of" Massachusetts or Connecticut

This was the size of the search _on the surface_.
Hey thank you for this link, absolutely fascinating. Fascinating for how predictable it was.

Main quote:

> While classing agencies are willing to pursue the certification of new and innovative designs and ideas, they often have a multi-year approval cycle due to a lack of pre-existing standards, especially, for example, in the case of many of OceanGate’s innovations, such as carbon fiber pressure vessels and a real-time (RTM) hull health monitoring system. Bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation.

In other words, they're say "we're so far ahead of them that educating them would slow us down". That sounds great, until youre dead.
I believe I read that they lost "communication" 1hr 45 in, but continued to receive data of some kind or something for a little while longer.

However, it sounds like they've had comms issues on most of their previous dives, so perhaps the 1hr 45 is just a red herring here.
It makes sense. Why worry about hosting your own server, when you can just execute one locally in the visitor’s browser?
CRT monitors had exceptional "motion clarity", because they worked more like a fast strobe light than displaying a sequence of frozen frames for a fraction of a second, like current flat screens. The former is apparently better at tricking our eyes to perceive it as fluid motion. OLED monitors could theoretically emulate that, to some degree, with black frame insertion. But manufacturers hate to implement it, perhaps because it causes wear. It also makes the screen dimmer.

CRTs also had no native resolution. They would instead change resolution physically, which made fuzzy interpolation unnecessary.

For a long time, they also had much higher refresh rates and better contrast than LCDs, though this has been matched in recent times.
Not too surprising, considering he was essentially pushed out of his own projects by the same very people obsessed with instituting them.
There is no way to transmit telemetry to the surface anyway.
Isn’t that literally the enforcement model of the ADA? It isn’t a special interest group so much as attorneys engaging with the system as it was designed, right?
Guy Goma BBC Interview
US Office Owners Get Dire Warning: Rebound Unlikely Before 2040
What's the dataset? How commercially viable/legally questionable is it?

This is critical, for legality of use, ethics concerns, and the quality of the output (as overly zealous filtering can degrade the model like it did for SD 2.0).
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to fight in a cage match
Depend how close you are, the resolution of the CRT etc. There's also the temporal accumulation from the micro-movements the head makes, so you're never sampling a fixed grid.

It's already quite effective in EmuVR even on lower end HMDs, get close enough to the virtual TVs and you can see the individual RGB phosphor dots. Moire is pretty bad at a distance though.
https://archive.ph/8QeoB
It was first proposed here[1]: "Approximation by superpositions of a sigmoidal function"

[1]: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF02551274.pdf
This is what drives me nuts about Hacker News.

It's easy to debate banning alcohol in a remote city most have only heard of, it's quite another to have spent a week there as a foreigner, gone for walks, saw the renal clinics, the doormen keeping Aborigines out of the bars, and witnessed drunk Aboriginal men and women sitting in the park midday and how they acted. I'm not here to sensationalize this issue, but it is incredibly ugly what alcohol has done to these people's lives. The place is fucked up.

The local white people seemed completely fed up with the situation. I appreciated at the time that it's hard to empathize with a group of people when you consistently see them at their worst and your stuff keeps going missing and yet there was also clear racism and more than a few white people made their living maintaining government funded facilities for the various Aboriginal communities.

In the present a total ban of alcohol is probably warranted. Maybe you disagree, and I encourage everyone to travel and form their own opinion.
Azure Quantum Elements aims to compress 250 years of chemistry into the next 25
Really? VM images take longer to spin up, both at the infra level and the devex level
Also, the hundreds of GitHub employees who worked on GA. It was a dogfooding project internally before talented engineers in GitHub turned it into a commercially viable product.
This article is complete bunk. The researchers used a "chatgpt detector" which as we've seen over and over in academia, do not work. This study is completely unfounded.

God I'm choking on the irony of an article about the dangers of using AI to train AI based on a study that used AI to detect AI
Wait, you're saying it's possible to write web code without typescript, react, and node?
If you do business with Apple, you're going to be under an NDA
You can have all of these things on WebAssembly. You just compile them.

I think the view here is WebAssembly as another architecture. Instead of compiling for x86 or ARM (or both) you just compile to WASM and it can run anywhere.
> This assumption that WASM is a competitor to Docker doesn't seem very sensible and it's hard to understand where it comes from.

Exactly. WebAssembly is complementary. Docker has Wasm beta support [0]. See: Announcing Docker+Wasm Technical Preview 2 [1] (Mar 22, 2023)

[0] https://docs.docker.com/desktop/wasm/

[1] https://www.docker.com/blog/announcing-dockerwasm-technical-...
>continued to receive data of some kind or something for a little while longer

The wireless Logitech controller was still in pairing mode.
What is the overhead for WASM like, vs bare metal? I know containers generally run as fast as regular processes, but I imagine there is some interpretation overhead for WASM.
Just like docker image vs specialized language runtime ?
Read again, he criticized Tesla not Twitter.

And it was Musk who claims free speech as highest value and now he bans words he doesn't like and bans people who criticize him or one of his companies.
It's only mentioned there in 'motivation', a study of trends?
> You're not going to have a massive shift of low-end or midrange labor into high-end ML jobs. A lot (most?) people are just plain not capable of that.

People focus too much on job types. The reality it's actually worse. Even if eliminating one mid-range job[0] would create two more same-level jobs of different type - that is, the total number of jobs available would double - and even if the people automated away from the former were fully capable of retraining for the latter, they'll still be in a world of hurt, because this still means their entire career progression suddenly got reset.

In simple terms: your average Jane and Joe, 15-20 years in their mid-skill career accumulated some skills, experience and promotions, which allows them to get a mid-level salary. They built their life around it - bought a flat or a house sized right for their income, in the area sized right for their income. They started a family, and are caring and educating their kids in a way appropriate for their income. Suddenly, their entire occupation disappears, and they're forced to retrain. They manage to do that, and find new jobs in the new field. Guess what level those jobs are, and how much they pay? That's right, they're starting at junior level, with junior pay. Suddenly, their entire life is way too expensive for their income levels. The house, the area, the schools, the car - and by proxy, their social life, their kids' education - all of these need to be cut down. What didn't change, however, is their age and associated health problems.

As for the kids, they too are unlikely to benefit from the newly-opened fields, because they'll be too busy working their way out of poverty.

--

[0] - And note that unlike some earlier techology-induced job shifts, AI is threatening to displace the high-skill jobs first. Generative models won't displace your barber or the local handyman or the policemen on patrol. They are going to displace artists, clerks, possibly medical and legal techs, testers. They'll sooner displace programmers and lawyers and doctors before they'll be able to impact blue-collar jobs.
Russell's teapot is a criticism of non-falsifiable claims

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot#Analysis
Correlated but at what level of the bell curve? I think they are correlated but vary a lot within similar bands, to the point where the broad correlation is actually not interesting and the within-band correlation is much more so.

Adding on, there's a definite weird trade off going on between memory and creativity that I think is very under-appreciated. I think memory acts as a bind on creativity, and it's really easy to make this intuitive with any number of examples whether it be youth or marijuana/psychedelics. When you reduce your ability to access memory you seem to gain an ability to explore new spaces. Likewise the more you learn and build structures in your brain around concepts, the harder it is to accept and process novelties. Feels like there's some similar trade offs going on as with this deep vs fast thinking.
In practice we actually do; I had to simplify for the article. We have a few utilities like a `runUntilDone` that make simple sequences easier to write. Example: https://github.com/frc-2175/2023RobotCode/blob/main/src/lua/...

I suppose we could make more utilities for running coroutines "in parallel", but I haven't really felt the need. At that point we usually have to worry about exit conditions and it feels natural to just write a loop.
Found some really interesting courses like this one:
Introduction to Launch Vehicle Analysis and Design, IIT Bombay
https://nptel.ac.in/courses/101101086
Do they for indy game developers or just large game studios? Genuinely curious.
You should consider seeding this with scraped profiles from some of the major sites. You could pair this with some conversational AI and call it a day. Even better, it’s not ghosting if it’s a bug, is it?

Is it?
I find reactive systems to be at least as complicated as React's declarative model. I was glad to move on from Knockout more than a decade ago and Svelte is conceptually the same thing in how they work, but with a different proprietary syntax and a faster renderer.

I also don't understand the styling complaint. React devs used "just CSS" for years before some of them started pushing for CSS-in-JS. In fact, SCSS/CSS is the default for the still nearly ubiquitous create react app system.

End-user bundle argument is a red herring. What is true for "hello world" isn't true for large applications. The overhead of React is a one-time payment while each new Svelte component drags along all the code needed to support it (copying similar code over and over).

React's F + N * C (where F is framework size, N is component count, and C is average component size) is smaller for large values of N than Svelte's N * (F + C) approach.
KSUID's are have temporal-lexicographical order plus 128 bits of entropy, which is more than UUIDv4.

https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid
There’s a fantastic free collection of samples recorded from real Mellotrons, which is worth knowing about for anyone desiring to experiment with creating their own virtual Mellotron.

“Tajiguy mellotron samples” in your favourite search engine, should hopefully get you to the right place.
Right. I wonder if the layperson passenger's assessment was that the Titanic sub was as extremely catastrophic as flying in a helicopter, in the sense that if something goes wrong, you're obviously going to die. But most helicopter passengers probably assume that the trip will be safe and uneventful, 999 out of 1000 times.
literally all other submarines are made out of metal.

this sub was made out of a carbon fiber composite.

This stuff is known to develop micro fractures.
Git isn't a particularly great example because it wasn't distributed to begin with, it was standalone.

Github et. al added the connectivity and social aspects layered on top of what is fundamentally a version control tool.

Torrenting or cryptocurrencies are better examples, where fundamentally they are social in nature and in the case of torrenting it's ridiculously easy to jump from provider to provider.
Re: pricing. You might be right, but on the other hand, most conversations might be limited to a few new threads on a daily basis. It's hard to know without actual numbers, which we'd only get after we onboard a bunch of companies.

Over the course of a year, an active user would be charged ~$96 by Slack. At 13c per thread, that'd be equivalent of the user adding >700 threads in the year. I'd say that's pretty generous -- but, again hard to know without actual data.

Most importantly, if the pricing model doesn't seem to work for companies, we'll adapt. As mentioned in the post, we're exploring new grounds here in terms of pricing, and the ultimate goal is to find a pricing model that works for teams, communities and support. We're motivated by the underlying belief that the charging per user model doesn't work, and we need something better.
> In France, the political and social climate is so toxic that Québec is seen as the getaway to finally enjoy a simple life

Living in France for the last two years, I don't think I've even heard someone mention Canada's existence - things are fantastic here, relatively speaking.
> Literally all RFK Jr. has to do is throw endless nonsense against the wall, doesn’t have to be consistent with itself, doesn’t have to come from real sources, and just trip up the PhD on one single issue. Then he can spike the football and claim victory. It’s an impossible setup.

These are classic approaches to demagoguery, commonly known as the Gish Gallop & Brandolini's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
Telemetry doesn’t work very well under water. There’s work to be done on telemetry that is capable underwater, but it seems a long ways off.
Not exactly scalable though, would you eventually have 10000 pins after 5 years and let people search (using a good search engine) across those only to avoid the noise of 1000 matching chat messages of idle speculation and uninformed wrongness? In Reddit the useful posts would have been upvoted, and then the post would have been indexed by google. I don’t see a compelling comparison here for a case like “how do I get (Device name) working in Home Assistant”
Graphics for JVM (2020)
If that was true we would have already all switched to Java
I had an Android phone that after a few years started giving me problems with its power button, single presses would register as 2 presses (and launch the camera), I think some presses wouldn't register at all.

One time, I mashed the power button trying to see if it would fix the problem, and I ended up reaching the emergency number. Followed procedure and told them it was my butt that dialed them...
Sure, but for many langs hermetic config is an issue, you want to be relatively sure what your devs are building against is what gets deployed.
Keep in mind is these kind of things have a flat
memory space between RAM and ROM

This is true and is very central to how these miracles were pulled off.

While you know this, for the benefit of those reading: you could also use ROM for time/space tradeoff purposes -- for example instead of doing a bunch of trig calculations in real time for character movement purposes you could just have lookup tables in ROM.

the code called when a scanline is drawn goes and
accessed the values in ROM (it's just a memory address)
without needing it to ever living in RAM

This went away at some point in console history, and I'm not sure exactly when.

For example the Sega Genesis/Megadrive has a scanline based video chip. No framebuffer, etc. But you've got to copy graphics data from ROM into the 64KB of video RAM before it can be drawn onscreen -- no rendering directly from ROM.

You can do this during the VBLANK interval (the time between frames) but there is not enough time to rewrite all 64KB so you've got to be crafty. Typical procedure was to stream animation data for the main character into VBLANK because you would like your main character to be animated as smoothly as possible. [1]

Contemporary systems like the Neo-Geo did not have that restriction and could render ROM data directly,[2] although it was several times more expensive than the Genesis and had many more address lines physically exposed on the ROM cartridge connector. May have used faster ROM chips too; dunno.

[1] https://rasterscroll.com/mdgraphics/graphical-effects/animat...

[2] https://wiki.neogeodev.org/index.php?title=VRAM
Most work class ROVs top out around 3,000 meters but there are plenty of ultra-deepwater ROVs that go to 4,000 meters and beyond that are specialized for search and rescue operations. The usual ROV players like Oceaneering International, Saab SeaEye, TechnipFMC, etc. all make them.

The Navy & Coast Guard would definitely have access to their own fleets
I have a beat-up C2D MacBook Pro with upgraded RAM and an SSD as my home server. Makes a great Home Assistant box and could easily run plenty more if I need it to. I even installed the GUI version of Debian and it was shockingly snappy and capable despite being outright unusable and with constant maximum fan noise even at idle on its last supported Mac OS.
In Debian it runs very cool and entirely silent!
Compared to the others neovim should theoretically be snappier. Could it be bogged down by 3rd party plugins or something? If so try to switch to the lazy.nvim plugin manager which does a great job of lazy loading plugins, but more importantly allows you to profile the startup time and tweak loading mechanisms until you find a desirable balance between loading plugins and startuptime.
I subscribe to a couple of podcasts and adventure/DND audio shows on Patreon. Their audio player works so poorly in Firefox that I literally ended up swapping over to Safari full time for daily browsing just because I was using it so much to listen to those podcasts/DND shows on Patreon.
How the Britpop Legends Blur Almost Launched the U.K. Space Program
> It's like the always-hilarious argument against universal healthcare

Not really; I'm strongly in favour of universal healthcare. I would like it to be more universal, and better-funded.

Now, you mention insurance: are you advocating for an insurance market where everyone pays the same rate, regardless of their previous claim record? Because that's what you get if there are no data caps. In fact it's even worse with insurance, because there are many situations where you must have insurance by law; nobody's compelled by law to have an internet connection, let alone a contested one.
I read it as a reference to Docker. The idea being that instead of actually static linking our dependencies, we use dynamic linking to bundle them together as a big blob, use chroot/overlayfs to make it a filesystem, and then dynamically link them at runtime. It's kind of weird when you think about it.
For Python generators, you can yield from called functions by using yield from as in this (quick, not stellar) example:

def first():
yield 1
yield from second()
yield 4

def second():
yield 2
yield 3

print(list(first())) # collects all the results and prints them
# Output: [1, 2, 3, 4]

But yeah, it doesn't work on a direct function call you have to know it's going to return a generator (or an iterable, like if it returns a list):

def something():
yield from something_else()

def something_else():
return [1,2,3,4]