skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even confirmed transactions aren't safe. The blockchain can be retroactively edited by anyone with enough hashing power: the only thing they need to do is to generate a longer alternative chain than the current public one.
With that many reviews, any reasonable prior would have an infinitesimally small effect on the posterior. Assuming the Bernoulli model in the blog post, the posterior on the fraction f of good reviews is proportional to

p(f|good = 85k*0.94, bad = 85k*0.06) ∝ f^79900*(1 - f)^5100 * f^<p_good = prior number of good review> * (1 - f)^<p_bad = prior number of bad reviews>
∝ f^(79900 + p_good)*(1 - f)^(5100 + p_bad)

Recall that the prior parameters mean that the confidence of your prior knowledge of f is equivalent to having observed p_good positive reviews and p_bad negative reviews. So unless the prior parameters are unreasonably strong (>>1000), any choice of p_good and p_bad will have negligible effect on the posterior.

The main reason Bayesian statistics is not a magic bullet is because it's up to you to interpret the posterior distribution. What really does it mean that the fraction of positive reviews from seller A is greater than the fraction for seller B with probability 0.713? What if it were 0.64? 0.93? That's for you to decide.
Not that you’re wrong about self driving, but they have been light years ahead of the competition in other areas. I don’t think it’s fair to say that have “missed some deadlines” and generalize to this, when they’ve been a major contributor to bringing electric vehicles to the masses.
> - Unending distractions

I think this bullet point belongs under cons of working in the office. I have FAR less distractions working from home.
This is always the excuse thrown around. It just doesn't make a lot of sense.

I'm not on Nike, Coke or mega-corp advertising level, but I do spend a lot with google's advertising apparatus, including on youtube-based adverts - not one time have I cared about how controversial or whatever a video might be. I simply want engagement from in-market potential customers... regardless of what content they're watching.

Who are these people that think a Nike commercial being randomly played before a video has anything to do with some sort of endorsement of the video's content?
When I actively moderated Reddit I was long term unemployed and considered it community service (aware that Reddit is privately owned) and tried to organize information (faq/sticky/tags/sidebar/etc) and moderate to create something useful and helpful to the general public.

Looking back though, it’s odd to me how much I could personally benefit myself at this point if I abused moderation powers for self-promotion because of the sheer reach that Reddit has and the extraordinary powers Mods have. But that was never the intention.
Who the hell cares. If it's a pump and dump of fundamentally worthless stuff relying on bigger fools, it's all the same.
Depends on the trailer (type and size), but pop ups are required to be popped up before being usable. Sure, some RVs are transformers, but those are usually push button. A lot of RVs are also "self-leveling" now, where trailers tend to me more manual (granted, lots of years since I've been around them so maybe they are self-leveling as well now). So really, the more expensive it is, the easier it is with the reverse being true as well.
ISO 4210 comes to mind. There's also a handful of ASTM standards, F2043 for categories based on intended usage, and others specifying the testing requirements for frames etc.
Not sure if legally required, but if my memory doesn't fail, all European-branded bikes I've seen are tested by those standards and categorized (e.g. cat 5 for downhill mountain bikes)
The reality of the cleanliness of these cars is accurate. Future projections are educated guesses.
That's fantastic to hear.
I don't doubt that Reddit will stagnate, just that it will lose. The rules have changed. Reddit and Twitter know they're too big to be disrupted, and surviving open hostility to their users opens a Pandora's box that we all have to live with now.
My tip for the main product Linen:

At the moment I hop into many of the chats and they aren't too active. Which is fine but makes discovery a bit boring.

Why not have the feed of the latest messages from your top 50 trusted Linen workspaces (should I call them sheets? duvets? covers? :-)). Then I can see active discussions that are happening and join in.

Also use Linen for your own day to day team activities. Assuming there is a private channel concept for stuff that is secret that'll create more activity and make it interesting to follow.
PH for Dev Tools and Open Source
I had wanted to work in markets, but my GPA (& now post-grad resume) didn't quite work out for it. I don't do well in the lecture-homework format. Nonetheless I'm interested in the minutiae, so thank you for the elucidation!
In regards to human life, unambiguously yes.
TIL. Always read the fine print!
4 Die in Fire Caused by Batteries in E-Bike Shop Near Chinatown
You want to upgrade those things you spend the most of your time and energy on. The top two are arguably your mattress and your shoes/insoles. The third is probably your employer’s responsibility (which may well be you). After that? What do you do a lot of, that you want to do easier or better? Cooking? Get better knives, ingredients, utensils. Painting? Get lessons, buy better materials. Sports? Upgrade yr gear.
1. Agree

2. Err, I can't see any big banks or other entities touching COIN, and the CRIMINAL proceedings that it will likely be embroiled in with a 10-ft pole!

3. Maybe BTC will come to 'dominate' the 'crypto' space, but that space will be a smaller and smaller part of the US (and global) economy. Although it never got very big to start with. BTC is used for approximately 0.0% of US transactions right now (rounded to nearest decimal place).
No discussion of related work in search-based motion planning. Did the last 30 years of research not happen, Deepmind?
Lemmy_monkey: An old.reddit UI theme for Lemmy
I think you're missing the point. When making these design decisions, you have to ask 'what can go wrong, and what is the implication of that?'. In your example, you can replace the controller with ease if it breaks, but you can't do that when you are underwater at 4000m below the sea level. Therefore it should at least be designed to be more durable and redundancies should be built in, say a basic console with physical buttons.

But anyway, this controller debate is probably irrelevant anyway. I think it's unlikely to have been the cause of the problem here. Hope the sub is found soon so we can know what happened exactly.
Interesting. Out of sight, out of mind.

In the early 2000s, I worked for a company whose IT department was excellent at doing backups on a regular basis. Except they never tried to restore any of them. Turned out they were only backing up the directory structure. I forget whether there was a major crisis over it.

Thanks for sharing.
I can easily meet those literal requirements with a function that is total garbage.

1. Take all the input bits and XOR them together. Now we have a value which flips between 0 and 1 every time we change a single bit of the input.

2. Use this value as an index into the sequence { 0xFFFFFFFF, 0xF0F0F0F0 }

Now we get 50% of the bits flipping when we change a single bit of the input.
Even though vastly compressed, in terms of lossy vs. fidelity, it seems to be able to recite pretty much any bible verse you ask it for.
"Tesla Installs Video Cameras At _Superchargers_ ‘To Monitor Drivers Of Non-Tesla EVs’"
I agree with being measured and predictable; I take advanced driving and safety class every couple of years as a refresher and safety is a massive priority for me. And I'm a big fan of cruise control. But going fast in the fast lane IS measured and predictable :-)

As well, 20%, or say a difference between going 10km over vs 10km under on a 5hr trip, is an hour and that's not nothing :-/
Very true (rookie drummer here). I find de-tuning also important, for example to obtain a fatter sound by having tuning pegs set in a slightly different way in order to create more harmonics and also dampening the natural resonance and reduce sustain. This is highly subjective though, as many drummers probably would aim to longer sustain and perfectly tuned pieces.
I always regret making that assumption
> Everyone involved knew what they were getting into.

Did they?
Anyone building vectorDBs in-browser, possibly using WASM?
I think there's a happy medium, and civilian tourism probably isn't really the place to be pushing the safety envelope.

Science, discovery, boldly going where no one has gone before? Absolutely safety is going to be somewhat compromised. Taking rich people to the gawk at the Titanic? I, personally, think you're a bit of dick for MacGyvering a vessel together and calling it good enough.
As an aside, I love fat manuals (and change/release notes) that have a bit of interesting arcana tucked away in one or two calm sentences here and there.

Not that I regularly read them all myself, but it's nice to be rewarded with a new dark art (like alias-based ~metaprogramming) every once in a while.
Ugh. Of course the Enterprise Architecture rears its ugly head here.

Just here to say that you can quickly build a robust feature with only OpenAI's APIs, redis, a text file for the prompt you parameterize (versioned), and a little bit of glue code (no LangChain). You can add instrumentation for observability around that like you would any other code.

I would wager that most enterprise use cases don't need most of the tools listed in this article, and using them is complete overkill.
2024 is the year of the Bitcoin on the desktop. /s
Apple Is an AI Company Now
I wish they would get rid of infinite scroll. If a channel has a lot of videos, "Oldest" is no better than "Latest".
There’s also plenty of fun things you can do like exclude some particular exchange from being able to commit to the blockchain. As in sorry Coinbase your transactions are no longer welcome and there’s effectively no way for them to directly fight back.

The only way around that is to constantly spend more money on hashing power than any attacker, but that cost is effectively unbound. Trying to stop some random billionaire doing it for the lulz means sky high transaction fees forever. No problem for an actual currency in widespread use, but a serious issue for a hypothetical store of value which needs constant investment just to break even.
Of course it's not directly controlling anything. It doesn't "directly" control your video game characters either by this standard. Who could possibly think differently, it's wireless for cryin' out loud.

This is a "this submersible seems like it was cobbled together out of whatever was lying around" story, a "hmm, that's funny/interesting/worrying" story from a source that has a big video-gamer audience, and a little bit a "this thing could have run out of batteries when they needed to turn" story. It's almost certainly not the cause of their issues but it does give people pause.

I wouldn't be worried about using a COTS part that people are familiar with, and I agree that's the "juicy" part of this story that gets reactions unfairly, but is it really unreasonable for people to look askance at the apparently sole method of controlling the vehicle relying on Bluetooth and AAs?
Sure but at that time no one knew how to fly. Today we absolutely know how to build and test decent submersibles and there’s really no excuse for building a machine as untested as this one.
I can't wait for them to bring back the old related videos list. When is the last time you've heard someone use the term "youtube rabbit hole"? The effect is so lost, people who never experienced it don't even use the term wrongly to describe how things are now.
Sorry I phrased the question badly. I mean to say which standards are enforced by law globally? ISO 4210 certainly exists globally but I’m sure there are a great many countries where you can buy a bike that violates it.
Billions
Q: what does "must work 97% of the time" mean? Like, 97% availability?
When the 350KW chargers are online and working, which is apparently not often, which is why this move to NACS is happening. Only Tesla is motivated to run a reliable network. The other problem with 350KW CCS chargers is that they are often clogged by slower charging cars that can't take advantage of the higher charging rate. Watch one of the "Out Of Spec [Motoring|Reviews|Podcast]" YouTube channels to see examples of this on their EV road trips.

This whole thing reminds me of the ancient unix story of the DoD test of TCP/IP implementations, where they were deciding between the BBN stack and the Berkley (BSD) stack. The result was something like, "The BBN stack starts off much faster, but it crashes often and the machines take so long to reboot, so on average, the BSD stack is faster". Kirk McKusick tells the story far better...

https://www.youtube.com/@OutofSpecMotoring
https://www.youtube.com/@OutofSpecReviews
https://www.youtube.com/@OutofSpecPodcast
Posts get filtered by automod rules and anti-spam before they hit the new queue. So this isn’t really sound logic.

The general point you are making IS correct though, upvotes/downvotes are the primary moderation mechanism on Reddit. Moderators are the second layer of moderation, and admins are the third. In my experience the users did an absolute majority of the moderation work except on weird heavily modded communities.
Because the intended use for "ssh-agent -k" is for eval.

While redirecting to /dev/null will certainly work, the agent is holding sensitive credentials (by design), and confirmation of shutdown has a tangible security benefit.
Scaling Laws for Every Hyperparameter via Cost-Aware HPO
places like Cisco
In some interview I read, Donald Fagen or one of his session leaders mentioned that he liked working with LA drummers better because they almost all had trailers to carry their larger sets and were pros about coming on time and setting up quickly, whereas their NYC counterparts tended to have major issues getting their gear out of storage and transporting it to the studio in a timely manner.

As for faves not mentioned: Alex Van Halen, Britt Walford of Slint and the Breeders, Bill Stevenson of Black Flag, Earl Hudson from Bad Brains, and Dave Lombardo and Paul Bostaph from Slayer.
It's astounding that such a simple feature was dropped, firstly, and then got a re-launch mentioned by the CEO himself "after hearing some great feedback"... it's just a sorting order, honestly this should have never been removed. Those big platforms really got to go.
The author seem to infer whatever he needs to affirm his opinions, examples are poor and the whole thing is just a rant disguised as reasoning.
how can they make a sale to enterprise IT without a giant architecture diagram ? The next thing you know, java may rear its ugly head as well just when we thought python eliminated it completely for these applications.
AI computes, humans think. When humans think, they ask questions because they are curious. AI only works with what they have and asks for no more.
I made something to do remote vscode development on gcp a while back, using some terraform scripts to spin up and down environments: https://lockwood.dev/development/remote/2020/03/17/experimen...

It's pretty crude but hopefully will give people some ideas!
Yeah, I figured as much after taking the time to read the TC doc. Seems like sugar that doesn't really add much. I was excited when I first saw the headline.
I just installed it and that's it. tlp needs to be started if I recall from the docs but other then that I just left the defaults as they are
I’ve never understood moderators who are big enough busy bodies to spend their lives removing memes that they dislike so much that they proceed to view every single one submitted to a subreddit so they can remove them.
Exactly; electron only gives you a benefit on that front if you don't otherwise have a need to be portable.
Nice tool.

I guess it's kind of a theme with data. It's like oxygen - taken for granted until you don't get enough. Or clean water. And incidents are so rare that we don't get good at handling them.
Reddit's explanation (from an admin account, /u/ModCodeofConduct) is that 'encouraging the submission of sexually explicit (18+) content in previously safe-for-work spaces' counts as 'engaging in malicious conduct' that breaks the
Moderator Code of Conduct.

https://twitter.com/aaronp613/status/1671298446974656514

To me it doesn't seem like they actually violated any Reddit policy or code of conduct, particularly because the NSFW content was properly labeled.

https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-code-of-conduct

https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy

The same admin account was also caught quietly flipping the NSFW subs back to SFW status. So this is clearly just about getting back that monetization.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14ebl7k/umodcodeo...
It's an old-school algorithm family for determining optimal play in turn-based PvP games.
No — that incident was due to a high pressure area (saturation diver living quarters) being opened to a low pressure area (the atmosphere at large), resulting in explosive decompression. The submarine in question is a low pressure area in a high pressure environment, so essentially the inverse of the Dolphin accident.
Microsoft guidance is legit and useful. It's a bunch of prompting features piled on top of handlebar syntax. ( And it has its own caching. Set temp to 0 and it caches. no need for LLM specific caching libs :) )

https://github.com/microsoft/guidance
I just want the tech to get to where it’s like consumer SSDs; they do have limited wear endurance but practically most home users will never get close to it anymore on high capacity modern SSDs.
#7 - so you're suggesting it only work in a single country?

I think that to be practical, you're going to outsource the cellular comms to a prebuilt module that's got the carrier certification already sorted out.
Driving was likely the largest single component of the wheat farm I grew up on. Truck to haul water and wheat, tractor to summerfallow and seed, tractor pulling baler to bale hay and straw, swather to lay down rows of barley and wheat, combine to harvest. Some of these were pretty tricky to drive — the swather had a small engine driving a pair of variable diameter pulleys, one for each wheel plus reversing pedals.

Took my dad a year to master that one. The definition of mastery here was the ability to smoke his pipe. Certainly an odd thing to do in the midst of a wheat field where the humidity would hover around single digit percentages.

Also about hauling water https://william-g-lederer.net/daily//blog/2008/03/13/Hauling...

I wrote about that kind of driving here https://william-g-lederer.net/daily//blog/2008/06/01/Driving...

Later I would be able to do recreational driving, often along US 2 in northern Montana or along state road 5. Going through rare counties for my ham radio buddies.

And driving was a key component of a cousin’s reunion https://william-g-lederer.net/daily//blog/2007/05/25/TheSumm...
No, I mean the latter: picking "not embedding a whole web browser" is worth it for the user-friendliness, even though it means having to deal with those browser differences, which have grown a lot less onerous than they used to be.
Yes for Python it seems to sit between a blurry midpoint of "just use Poetry!" and "just use a container!", but I can see it potentially being useful for a batteries-included devenv in more niche applications like Julia, Elixir, microcontrollers/development boards, etc.
As opposed to all the valuable things being crated with cryptocurrencies?
I tested in Safari with no extensions, and it's showing a $32 and $19 tub of protein powder mixed in the middle of the $12 ones. It then jumps from $15 to sponsored ones that are $50 to $60. It also about 25% items with zero price at all (like key chains that no one likely wants to buy when searching for protein powder) and requires several clicks to see it available from an "Other Seller". This is a total shit experience and Amazon knows it.

Comparing to FF with both those extensions, the items and their order look identical (minus some ads)
The first sentence in my comment is about the Librem 5.
So you're saying 10x the usage would stabilize the currency and also increase the value by 10x or was the 5-10x in the previous comment only about usage?
Don't forget the Saab 900 Toppola camper!
I do Java desktop, using JavaFX. But I’m nobody.

I will say that my dev cycle builds (full clean and rebuild) take about 20s, which is nice. That nets me a “runnable fat jar”. Running the packager for the platform installers takes longer on top of that, but that’s not part of my dev cycle.

I dev on macOS, I have “tested” on Ubuntu and Windows, and the app works. My buttons button, cut and paste works, drag and drop (I can drag one of my generated images and drop it into, say, Word) works, I can generate PDFs via the “print to PDF” features of the platforms, including my custom fonts. I also have, like, 10 lines of code that uses JavaFX 3D — and that works.

It all works, and so far, knock on wood, the “cross platform” parts are doing what they’re supposed to do.

All that said, germane to the overall topic, there’s this funny little tidbit. In my app, all my bundled documentation is simply in HTML using bundled pages. And I show that in a JavaFX WebView. And WebView is built on WebKit. So in the end, if you need any HTML in your app, you bundle WebKit anyway.

Of course, if you don’t, WebView is in its own module that you don’t have to ship if you don’t need it.
>It is simply unbelievable that the company was even able to get to the point of diving to such depths with humans aboard.

As I get older, I see this sentiment as very naive. The tacit assumption seems to be that there is an agency, a government, an organization, that would review and approve such endeavors. But that's just not how the world works. You can't stop people from going to sea, or sending contraptions to the bottom. It's a very big world, filled with mostly ocean, and plenty of thrill-seekers who will attempt anything half-way reasonable. Even 10% reasonable. You can't stop that, and personally, I don't think its a good idea. To get it you'd need a nanny state that snoops on everyone and steps in to stop you "for your own safety". It's easy to imagine scenarios where this gets out of hand.
Exactly!

We are talking about calling an API here people. Maybe what is behind the API is magical and powerful seeming but it's just an API that takes some context, the tokens to generate and a temperature setting.
I respect what you're saying, but you should probably suppress the subconscious hierarchy behavior at work too. A little humility goes a long way.
I mean as long as they had 4 or 5 backups would it be any worse than some other wireless control they cobbled together? Doesn't sound like they had the best engineers on the team, honestly.
Submissions are disabled as well... I can't remember what digg did wrong, but it wasn't worse than this.
Yes, two extra notes on this:

1. Weakly informative priors can be good to regularize and stabilize inference in scenarios with a low amount of data.

2. In case of the review scenario presented by the OP, a hierarchical model could be even better as it would achieve regularization (and shrinking) by borrowing information across different sellers.

In other words, one would learn the overall distribution of seller reliability at the same time as individual ones. This has two advantages: a) Just one (hyper)prior for the overall distribution, but no priors needed at seller level and b) seller predictions are pulled towards the mean in a principled way.

Most scientific publications that find unusually large effects coming from some association turn out to be false. If they used shrinking (2), they would avoid excessively optimistic predictions. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein%27s_example