skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Class action suits have an advantage for the company: They don't need to pay a filing fee for each individual case. Like the $12 million for 5000 arbitration cases against doordash https://www.reuters.com/article/us-otc-doordash-idUSKBN2052S...
More efficient than an electric drive helicopter I wonder?
The US has the best space companies in the world, yet they tasked JPL, an inexperienced public organization, with creating the largest and most complex Mars lander to date. No wonder the costs keep exploding. I think Zurbuchen is right, they should either contract private companies to create the lander, or cancel the Mars Sample Return mission entirely.
Or something old and understood is happening. Tragedy of the Commons? The same behavior that causes traffic jams? (If everyone slowed down and evened traffic out, there wouldn't be waves leading to a cascading stoppage.)
Thanks! I had fun writing it.
> I have travelled through Europe quite extensively. IMO cheap flights like Ryanair and Wizz beat train hands down

Europe is fighting hard short haul flights, many of which are now just plain down illegal. Several countries, including France, have already banned short haul flights of less than 2h30.

I see this "high speed trains" push as related to the attack by the EU on short haul flights.

So no matter if we find that cheap flights do beat trains hands down or not, in a near future there may not be any choice: and the choice seems like it's going to be train.
If you get a bonus for improving performance then you’d certainly make sure there are some ready to remove before the next financial year
Rcmd – Switch apps instantly using the ⌘ Right Command key
Why would anti-caking agents clump up? Isn't their purpose to not clump up?
This sounds like a cute academic thought experiment, but in reality is just another way to feed the beast of government. Yet more resources pissed away on armies of inefficient bureaucrats.

There is no shortage of land or desire for development. The problem is and always has been NIMBY regulation. We don’t need any more help from the government to get more housing, we need them to get out of the way.
Why isn't Titan classed? (2019)
This engine development for example, is something that in the US startups who don't get much government money are doing. And there are like 10+ companies working on comparable technology.

Yes ESA budget is small compared to NASA but they also do far less things.

And when they do things its not efficient. Ariane 6 for example is a minor upgrade over Ariane 5 with mostly parts that were developed for Ariane 5 ME. And yet somehow it cost will easily pass 5 billion $ and that doesn't include even e new engine. And a lot of cost is also hidden on other balance sheet, a full accounting would be likely more.

That might be about 2x as much as the complete Falcon 9 (+ Falcon Heavy) + Merlin + Re-usability program cost.

So yes, a comparative small budget, but that doesn't actually explain many of the issues.
> many lawyers already don't do their own research, they use paralegals to do it for them.

If you mean that some lawyers use paralegals to do word searches for potentially-relevant case law (i.e., published judicial opinions as precedents), that might be true. But in my experience, good lawyers either do the raw research themselves, or at a minimum they use junior lawyers to do the initial searching for precedents; then if necessary, they do supplemental searching themselves, based on their greater experience.
One theory is that the era of industrialism started because Europeans started drinking coffee, which made them more industrious.
You don't mention your use case but the ESP32-CAM gets you an ESP32-based wifi streaming camera for about $10 USD. No app. No account. Surprisingly powerful.

https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-cam-video-streaming-fa...
Did anyone else just waste 5 minutes playing with the background image?

I haven't seen that before - very cool.
I also wonder about durability of materials. Will the engine last shorter or longer due to being additive-layer-manufactured, all else being equal? Compared, say, to the Raptor?
What would be the right tool for an entertaining highly interactive and animated (game-like, but still mostly text based) thing then?
Used to be Java applets and Flash. Now is "webapps" and WebGL.

Or is that it should have been handrolled using CSS animations and framework-less JS?

Or is it more that we're acting like it's 1995 and the web is for reading text documents only, and anything other than that is nerd blasphemy? (Not saying you're saying this, but it is something some still press; they hate the web stack being used in other ways).
Not per-device. I like "natural scrolling" on my trackpads, but dislike it with mouse wheels. It's a PITA to visit system settings every time I switch; I've been low-key looking for something like this for some time.
According to: https://www.lehighcounty.org/Departments/Solid-waste-managem....

"About 65 % of America's aluminum is currently recycled."
That's pretty good. Much better than most materials.
It is regrettable that Mantel did not survive to see this artifact.
This right here is what people are overlooking in their contempt.

The attorney used it as a research tool, and even foolishly thought to use it to validate that it wasn't making shit up. It's a really embarrassing mistake that's only obvious in the eyes of people familiar with the technology. There is nothing about this that suggests they intended to deceive, only intent to be a lazy idiot.
This is the idea behind Terraform Industries: https://terraformindustries.com/

They're capturing carbon to turn into a useful product (fossil fuels) though.
Cool I didn't say anything about whether they are good or should have autonomy, I said the suicide rate wasn't high.
> How well does a classic deep net architecture like AlexNet or VGG19 classify on a
standard dataset such as CIFAR-10 when its “width”— namely, number of channels
in convolutional layers, and number of nodes in fully-connected internal layers —
is allowed to increase to infinity? Such questions have come to the forefront in the
quest to theoretically understand deep learning and its mysteries about optimization
and generalization. They also connect deep learning to notions such as Gaussian
processes and kernels. A recent paper [Jacot et al., 2018] introduced the Neural
Tangent Kernel (NTK) which captures the behavior of fully-connected deep nets in
the infinite width limit trained by gradient descent; this object was implicit in some
other recent papers. An attraction of such ideas is that a pure kernel-based method
is used to capture the power of a fully-trained deep net of infinite width.

https://openreview.net/pdf?id=rkl4aESeUH, https://github.com/google/neural-tangents

> It has long been known that a single-layer fully-connected neural network with an i.i.d. prior over its parameters is equivalent to a Gaussian process (GP), in the limit of infinite network width.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00165

And of course, one needs to look back at SVMs applying a kernel function and separating with a line, which looks a lot like an ANN with a single hidden layer followed by a linear mapping.

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/238635/kernel-meth...
Yes, maybe he just suffered from some sort of human bias. What’s the one where people are very good at lying to themselves?

Unfortunately, he killed those other people because no one could convince him that he was wrong.
I'm surprised nobody else has pointed out yet, the majority of the most popular dating apps are owned by Match Group. At least in the United States, I can't speak for the rest of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group
In France in conforama stores salesman use a ascii terminal GUI connected to AIX shells. Fast as hell to take your order. I’m always amazed at how marketing BS lead us to vastly sub optimal solution.
>completely mainstream to the point where we'll find out what happens when an entire society at once stops trying to think/work

You really need not wait that far if you have been observant enough, they are they were at one point clownish enough to believe in religion, now the vast majority of them believe in 'science' etc. Over reliance on Chat GPT is just the one of the newest manifestation of laziness and dumbness.
What concepts exactly can’t be verbalized? All of our serialized file formats fall under the umbrella of “words”. GPT4 can draw images by outputting SVGs for example.
> This essentially nullifies the fourth amendment.

Yes, it does. Hopefully, this practice will be made illegal in the absence of a search warrant.
Best teacher of transformer model is ChatGPT itself
How I landed a model rocket [video]
As I explained, if you don't want raw HTML, use the second form:

pandoc -f html -t gfm-raw_html https://www.fsf.org | grep div

gives no output. (If you get different results, it is possible that you are using an earlier pandoc version and something changed in this regard.)
A man with a private army on campaign is clashing with ineffective and humiliated political leadership back home, while trying to win popular support?

When does he cross the Rubicon?
> who are all very obviously beholden to Putin

Wrong.
It's frankly ridiculous to think that the solution is that the "city needs to do something about it". San Francisco utterly and completely mismanaged its homelessness, crime, and the pandemic, and now you want to.. somehow give them more power over commercial real estate and put the same people in charge?

The city caused the problem in the first place, not the "market". What you're seeing isn't a market failure it's a correction.
I got straight D's in cursive back in the 20th century, and have never used it outside of school. Unlike analogue clocks, which are still in ubiquitous service, or memorised times tables, which I use weekly, cursive isn't exactly a "basic communication skill".

"We have to embrace some of those time-tested strategies that have worked for generations" says to me "we don't know how to teach something that'll actually be useful, so —like the drunk looking for lost keys under the lamppost— instead we'll teach something we do have pedagogy for; utility be damned".
> due to your own incompetence.

Are you still unethical when you don't know about your incompetence?

Can you be unethical if you had no ability to know that what you do is unethical?
The benefits here are not really to do with implementing inference, but rather the improvement in explainability that a shallow network can provide. Skip to section 5 (page 8) for that.
The limitations of the borrow checker when it comes to borrowing self are annoying. I've had cases where I just said "screw it" and copied the body of a function inline in the 1 or 2 places it was being called just to make the borrow checker happy.
> It has been affirmed and reaffirmed and reaffirmed again.

Doesn't mean it's not a loophole. The law is filled with loopholes that aren't sneaky at all.

This is a loophole around the fourth amendment, and it allows law enforcement to violate people's constitutional rights without consequence.
I use Reolink as well, they work reasonably well, inexpensive, PoE, and speak ONVIF.
> Of course we can explain most of our knowledge, skills, and thoughts in words,

This is either some profound miscomprehension of just how many of your skills and thoughts are inexpressible in words, or some statement of how profoundly shallow your skills and thoughts actually are.
Ok. I'll defer your attention to the mass suicide threat and move on then.
Never heard of Shortcat before, it reminds me of that vim shortcut that used to be popular for firefox back in the day. I can see how that would be really powerful.
One thing I wonder about is where it gets its data about itself from. Did they feed it a bunch of accurate information about itself?
You aren't their target customer. Installers and resellers already know them or have a lower friction way to buy. They want you to work through resellers and not have to bother with supporting you directly.
China is building dozens of nuclear reactors as of right now. Coal is a stepping stone.
Usually just one kid will stay home and farm while the other head to cities. That kid will have to buy the others' share of the farm when the parents die, which puts them back in debt.
The money or the shares?

What's funny is the SEC still hasn't approved a simple spot ETF but apparently risky leveraged ones are fine.
Chinese youth unemployment in 2023 is roughly comparable to the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain) in the 2010s. Those countries still held around a 2-3% GDP growth rate.

Also, the bearish 2-3% growth rate estimation was derived independently of the PRC government - it was reached by both Blackstone and the IMF.

None of this is to say there isn't an economic malaise/recession in the PRC circa 2023, but honestly it's playing out the same way a similar growth slowdown happened in Mexico, Türkiye, South Korea, Thailand, and Brazil in the 2000s when those countries hit similar economic metrics to China in the early 2020s.
Geovision has had a ton of security incidents. Perhaps they're easy to set up, but they definitely aren't secure.
This seems like an impossible claim to me. Surely it depends on many factors, off the top of my head:

- the occupancy of the trip

- the distance

- the number of stops

- the form of “last mile” transportation required

- the age and model of the vehicle

- the specific fuel source

I mean, I believe the statistic is true in aggregate. It’s like saying “vegan food has lower carbon emissions” which is true in aggregate. But wild game is often astronomically lower emissions (not to mention lower cruelty) than typical vegan food.

So these aggregate statistics are interesting points to ponder, but we don’t live in aggregate. We eat specific foods and we travel specific routes.

And at the individual level these statistics become... well not “mostly false” but certainly “frequently false”.

To me, the base statistic is a great starting point but the next questions we need to ask is: when are flights lower emission? When is hunting more humane? Etc. That’s how we can really drive better individual decisions. “Just ride the train and eat vegan” won’t get us to a globally sufficient decision framework.
That "common knowledge" is wrong. Myers briggs is not great for scientific studies since it splits people into 16 buckets instead of sliding scales (like the Big 5, which is used in research). But MB is an incredible mental toolkit to have.
It's an IDA Plugin to diff binaries.
Very useful for creating 1-day exploits i.e. when a vendor patches a vulnerablity, you use Diaphora to diff the vulnerable binary vs the patched one to understand what was going on, and create an exploit based off of that.

Many of Microsoft POC exploits that come out after an update are made this way.
Ads? I have a solution for ads... ever heard of uBlock Origin? :)
This is cool, and I have one of these! It's performance can be surprising both ways: somehow I am both underwhelmed and impressed at the same time.

I'm for sure looking for an alternative though.
I'm referring to the "You can redistribute the source, but then we'll cancel support" part which appears to be part of the terms and conditions.
Rockets are one of the things where we simply have to use fossil fuels, and its a drop in the bucket.

The resulting services and sats actually help in any reasonable climate change strategy.

> Not sure who will spend days watching the same rocket takeoff and land :-).

Here is the thing. Anytime can be the first time for somebody. If you don't make an effort to show everything you do, nobody will ever know you exists.

Yes some space obsessed people will watch everything, and that's fine also. But you never get those people if they don't see something first time.

I am European too and I like how transparent SpaceX is, and they don't even have to be. Arianespace literally tried to hide for 1 year that they had major issues with Ariane 5. When asked why it wasn't launching they were basically saying 'everything is ok'. But eventually journalist got wind off the fact that there were major issues in the fairings.

The culture of secrecy and non-transparency has done nothing but harm to European space flight.

Its not barging to show a video of a test fire or a test launch.
>forests were actively managed by controlled burns conducted by nature.

This is, by definition, not a controlled burn.
> Not sure who will spend days watching the same rocket takeoff and land :-).

Have you met a small child?
Ethically I'm all right. If someone put it in my quesadilla by accident I wouldn't throw a fit. But aesthetically I can barely eat an Impossible Whopper because it's too close to the real thing. After years of not eating it I just don't think meat is very good. I used to get food poisoning regularly but not any more.
Are those numbers inflation-adjusted? That big downward spike coincides with the US inflation spike.
Maybe then we could stop putting iron filings in children's cereal as a supplement.
Currently using some canon cr-c300s for remote production from a music festival this weekend. They seem to do the job, depends whether you're happy with ndi-hx or not (we're actually taking the SDI out and putting them into Magewells with speedhq)

Probably not the price range you're thinking of. PTZ control and preview is via a normal webpage.

https://www.canon.co.uk/ptz-cameras/cr-x300/
This is just overplayed. If you look at European rocket startups, they don't act much different. Some of them are even more prone to hype and exaggeration then American equivalence.

Its just that ESA in particular has that culture.
Good point. I was unsure whether to include a note about that.

Things really haven't changed at all.
I'd give no more than maybe a bit different. The FSB opening "a criminal case for armed mutiny" sounds cool, but is certainly not what would happen early in any actual armed mutiny or civil war. (Actual military forces would have to violently put down the uprising first, no?)

Note late in the article:

> While the warlord was careful not to directly attack the Russian president...

...yeah. If he can barely bring himself to speak unflattering words about a few minor decisions by Putin - that sure-as-bleep does not qualify as an "armed mutiny". Let alone a "civil war".
In my experience across the US and the EU, most of the time they're late so there's a lot of idle waiting.
It's a streaming company: https://www.roku.com/how-it-works/roku-os

This is their ad riddled screensaver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ9EYgR5sSM

I just never new it was all ad space until I saw it in the US.
I suspect the trade-off for a shallow network is an exponential explosion in weights and computation.
This is like how you can write any boolean function as a (large) sum of minterms.
IRS Email Corroborates Whistleblower's Claims About DOJ Interference
Certain brands (e.g. SkinnyPop) advertise their bags as "chemical-free" (SkinnyPop claims their's is free of PFOAS). Can anyone help me understand/verify these kinds of claims?
Wrong person
> I'm shocked this isn't being done already.

Unfortunately, we didn't just stop prescribed burns, we stopped natural burns as well.

> In 1935, the Forest Service established the so-called 10 a.m. policy, which decreed that every fire should be suppressed by 10 a.m. the day following its initial report. Other federal land management agencies quickly followed suit and joined the campaign to eliminate fire from the landscape.

https://foresthistory.org/research-explore/us-forest-service...

So we have forests laden with nearly a hundred years worth of unburned fuel.
I wonder how much damage has been done in the name of upholding "rugged individualism". We willingly isolate ourselves and refuse to ask for help when we need it while the problem just sprirals.
Out of bound access is avoided because you ise handles that the arena has given you, creating an invalid handle is restricted. You avoid double free because of Rust's owbership semantics that make the arena itself reaponsible for "deallocation" (which is just blanking the value and letting Drop do its thing). You avoid stale pointers because every access is checked at runtime if you're using a generational arena.
This reminds young me and my teenagers friends discovering an audio tape my mom's second husband made in the late sixties / early seventies (we found it two decades later)... That cassette was pure gold. We'd listen it non-stop at home, during road trips, etc. Thankfully because he was well organized, he had written down all the names of the artists. It was only reggae stuff. But he wasn't that much into reggae, so obviously it was made with the help of someone who knew about reggae.

And so we started searching for all the songs. There was one we couldn't find anywhere (this was pre-Napster days btw and back then lyrics weren't sufficient to find a song).

The hand-written text on the cassette's sleeves read:

"Zap Four - This is is reggae music".

Impossible to find.

Turns out, one day I found it. It was not "Zap Four" but "Zap Pow". For all these years I had misread the handwritten text.

Reggae fans, enjoy, because that's one heck of a good one (and not a very famous song):

https://youtu.be/-6G6PiRGCaU
And they got too used to receiving updates over the internet (as opposed to buying a CD-ROM), and so began to tolerate software full of bugs.
I meant that, in my experience, the backup camera screens in the rearview mirror have been too small and with poor tightness and contrast compared to those in the larger infotainment screens.

I feel that a good backup camera system gives you a better view of a wider area than just using the standard rearview mirror or than turning around and looking out the back of the car.
It's more straightforward than that.

I have a constitutional protection against the government searching my stuff without a warrant. However, the constitution only restricts governmental actions, not the actions of citizens or other private entities.

So, the government can't search my records without a warrant -- but if a private entity has any data on me whatsoever, there's no prohibition on that entity providing it, and law enforcement can ask (as opposed to demand) anything they want, just like any of us can. All they do is ask that party for the data and if that party wants to, they can provide it.

You don't have to agree to this in any contract, T&C, or anything of the like. Private entities have the right to do anything they like with data (or property) they legally control by default.

You'd have to have a contract with them that explicitly prohibits them from sharing. In other words, it's opt-out, not opt-in.

Legally, it's no different than cops knocking on your neighbors doors and asking them if they've seen you doing sketchy things. The neighbors don't have to comply with the request, but most will.
By selling mostly to business clients, where that sort of nonsense (no prices up front, contact for a quote) is more of a norm. Entities that are buying a dozen or dozens of cameras and other items to outfit a building, and plan on negotiating on volume.
Can you still commit a crime if you don't know that what you're doing is against the law?
I'm guessing part of the reason for startups specifically is, US remotes will be shown as employees, while non-US remotes will technically be contractors, thus not counting towards the head count - which is one of the things that determines the valuation once the company is flipped in an IPO or acquisition.