skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve got a Model Y without parking sensors and I agree, it’s insane. Can’t bring myself to trust the vision replacement, and with the placement of the cameras it will never be able to perform the same.

I love the car. Lots going for it but the lack of USS is a big one for me. That, and the interior seems to rattle quite a bit, but this is my first electric so maybe that’s what you hear on bumpy roads without an engine to drown it out.
Privacy could be a use case for those e ink license plates that have started showing up in California.

Instead of the "real" number, change the plate every 5 minutes using some sort of OTP algorithm. Makes it impossible for anyone with a camera to put together a location database, but the car is still identifiable by law enforcement if necessary.
American here. I remember being appalled on a date a few years ago when the guy was explaining how he was a “claims minimization specialist” for a big insurance company. I can’t imagine doing for a living getting in between patients and doctors and extracting a fucking profit out of maximizing that spread. It seems fundamentally evil to me.
> And you want to get to the moon on a fixed budget? (Which will also require a toilet).

Didn't last time

https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/poop-space-revisited-apo...
absolutely. i configured a fixed number of workspaces too, because the dynamic one were more work to set up each time. but either way, everytime the monitor arrangement changes, windows jump around to different workspaces, or all workspaces get merged into one. it drives me nuts!

and it's not just muscle memory. it takes longer when you have twice as many workspaces in a row. if they would arrange in columns, say workspaces are arranged horizontally, but fullscreen windows are stacked vertically on top or below the workspace they were created from, i could work with that. just not the way macos is doing it, adding them to the end of the horizontal workspace list.
I built a new PC for a friend, and getting the AM5 platform stable was ridiculously challenging, so there were several reinstallations of Windows involved. He didn't use a password manager, so there were a lot of logging in, password resets etc. involved. For virtually every service he had to login to he was asked to complete a CAPTCHA. For Steam in particular: he had to do the first login on the website, because the CAPTCHA inside the application appeared to be bugged and was more like psychological warfare than human-verification. The frustration was palpable.

Also turn on a VPN some time (a signal to Google et al. that you're trying to bypass content region-restrictions, or funnel mobile traffic through an ad-blocker) and you are basically guaranteed to see nothing but CAPTCHAs from the predominantly CloudFlare owned and operated Internet.

So yes, it's a big problem, but only if your web environment (tracking metadata) are not sufficiently "trusted" :D
No, I don't think people realize it. Also, these brokers are basically the sole gatekeepers for this type of information - as AI recognition software becomes more potent, I think this kind of data becomes much more dangerous.
Wait, what? You mean it doesn't fill the DT_INIT_ARRAY/DT_INIT_ARRAYSZ values in PT_DYNAMIC?
> In the current wealthiest country in the world, it was the European migrants that benefited while the natives were mostly killed or eliminated.

The aboriginal peoples of the Americas mostly died from diseases which they hadn't been exposed to. It was tragic but not unique and rarely deliberate.

But what about the smallpox blankets? Well, smallpox isn't spread through bedding, and that single story happened in the late 1800s after centuries of the aboriginal peoples dying of disease.

Sure, they were monsters for _trying_ to kill those people with smallpox, but it didn't work.

There was plenty of war, also, and later displacement and Indian Schools and other atrocities, but we shouldn't promote a "noble savage" myth or misrepresent what killed the aboriginal peoples: it was disease as a natural consequence of contact with foreign peoples.
Well, for the internet you could say “it allows stores to show pages with their products, and people can choose what they want to order, give their address and pay it with credit card , all without leaving their home”

That’s a pretty obvious killer feature of the internet
Figuring out and serving the site to display the “disable Adblock” is likely more costly than to serve the content (unless its video).

That being said; creators needs money to keep making what they are making. Too bad ads is such an all encompassing method. The web is literally worse with it, but would not have been as big without it.
We never should have abandoned nuclear thermal rockets. Anti-nuclear fearmongering set us back by decades.
Not Gnome, but you're kind of describing the mac Stage Manager feature. It's quite nice with most apps.
Are you kidding? That would actually make presentations fun again.
I believe courts in the United States have consistently held that performers, public figures, etc. own the right to their likenesses while they are alive, but not afterward.

For example, you can use George Washington's picture in a logo without paying any money to the Washington estate.

Wikipedia cites a California case from 2008 which held that Marilyn Monroe's likeness is no longer protected.
Supercharged React Starter
No, we're not inherently bad, but many of us (myself included) are encultured to preserve patriarchal dominance, which feels wrong to me, and I speak up about it. I don't hate myself for my upbringing, AND I'm working on being a better man by being more adult: knowing what I'm feeling and then deciding what to do next rather than be governed by my emotions, with a code of ethics / morality-with-less-hubris as a guide, pieced together from books and conversations within the same messy culture (USA) I continue to grow up in.
I mean, I’ve seen worse arguments for socialism, but you seem to be painting an overly rosy picture. Yes, computers can reproduce software at zero marginal cost, but there’s still a considerable investment in the initial creation and ongoing maintenance. While I’m all for a world where programmers and engineers are able to fully devote themselves to open source projects, it’s not as simple as just making sure everyone has their basic needs met.

The incentive structures are complex, and money still serves as a potent motivator for many to push boundaries and innovate. Remember, open-source doesn’t always equate to high-quality or innovative, and proprietary doesn’t always mean restrictive or uncreative. A balanced ecosystem where both proprietary and open-source software can coexist might be a more realistic and productive approach. I’m afraid that balance isn’t too dissimilar from the one we have now, so I’m sort of forced to go with Occam’s razor here.
Interactive map for how much sparsely populated land is equivalent to NYC (2014)
No insight on the cause. My condolences to her family, and hopefully her passing was peaceful and painless.
Twitter Killer:There may be more apps capable of taking Twitter down; Here's One
Well, why should you switch from Twitter to another app. You should not. It is well understood that you pledge loyalty to Twitter since it has been your first love and an open eyesight into social networking.

70% of your new friends exist on Twitter and there's no way you'd leave your very fun community to a new one that almost has no future. Well, there's no stopping you.

If you read to this point you are definitely going to be interested in what comes next. P.S: This is purely handwritten and not AI generated (ChatGPT isn't this dumb; My article is pretty not attractive)

Well this is not a marketing stunt but Twitter has definitely kept our hearts for long. We should open ourselves up to new things and at least try them out before judging based on another.
Twitter had the chance to begin early but Buzz Chat was built by a 19 year old (Well he did not have the ability to when Twitter was born).

There are rising young people who have the capability to build new things and everyone deserves a chance. They probably came to meet all these so popular tech platforms but that does not stop them from building more.

Wohoo, if you're 19 you should probably give your mate a thumbs up and try this out.
Buzz Chat has so much to offer. I'm already out of words and since i want this to be totally handwritten, i would'nt want any help from ChatGPT.

Teaser: Buzz Chat has an AI called CHARLES - Cognitive Human-like Artificial responsive learning entity system and he's super cool and nice.

Goodbye
Ask HN: Are YOU eating too much?
Have you calculated the amount of food you have to eat to get the required amount of nutrients while getting enough satisfaction out of the meals (in restaurants and so on ... )? Ridiculous question, I know.
Will the superconductivity pre-print replicate before 2025? (Manifold Markets)
Well, it's making me finally kick my Chrome habit. My work machine runs Firefox and it's fine, but my personal stuff is all on Chrome because it's also my password management, etc. etc.

I tried once before, when I quit working at Google and was trying to de-Google a bunch, and I never succeeded.

I plan to move everything over over the next few days. Wish me luck!

Next up: getting my photos out of Google Photos.
> Workspaces are for small screens with maximized windows, which don't really need other layout methods anyway.

Strong disagree here. I use a 38" Ultrawide and I have 10 workspaces open at the moment. All of them dedicated to a single in-flight task.

If a workspace is a desktop multiple workspaces is a workshop.
It was always going to be messy to create something that covered all of the writing systems in the world, but things like this didn't help, and is probably what they're referring to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
Even single-threaded, modern linkers (lld, mold, even gold) are faster than BFD ld, which is notoriously slow, and sadly still the default you get on Linux.
I don't think that what some idiot company names things is an excuse for some idiot driver to risk people's lives.
1. Grusch gave up his career in the intelligence community to whistleblow on this. He had everything to lose.

2. Grusch has testified under oath to the ICIG, both intelligence committees, and now to the house oversight committee. If he’s locking, they could lock him away indefinitely.

Your entire argument is moot and you are looking for any excuse to discredit what’s being said. If you think he’s lying, ask your congressmen to investigate his claims and jail him if he’s lying.
There's also been a bit of a shift in the market for space launches. For the longest time there wasn't that much of a market for a higher volume, cheaper launcher like the Falcon as the number of launches were really limited to mostly government launches and a handful of communication satellites. Recently hardware has gotten much cheaper which combined with cheaper launches skyrockets the number of groups that could design and send up a payload because the economics on both ends finally met up.
I think the MP meant 'debanked'.
wget /wp-content/database

Laughing deeply in my whole heart.

Also, can't wait to use it (drastically simplify hosting for certain usecases) - hope it will land soon!

Long live Wordpres
You say to do WHAT to the best piece of sample they synthesized?
That depends on how easy it is to replicate, and if it is true. If it is easy (the 24 hour in the furnace is really long enough for everything to get to temperature - 10 minutes is enough in ideal cases) then we will get lots of success Tomorrow. If it is hard, well we will get a lot of failures, but a few will try again an in a month as they refine technique will report a success.

If it is false we may never get a final report, just everyone gives up on reproducing it. (though with the hype we may see it like cold fusion were a few not very good researchers keep it alive via badly done experiments).

Only time will tell.
> Short fiction has never been a lucrative business.

A perfect example being Edgar Allan Poe. One of the greatest writers in history could barely support himself and his wife with his short stories and poems. Tragic.
The presumption here is that "America is not a racist country" is a racist statement on its own. Nobody is claiming it is. The problem arises in what that statement does for the racists in America; it legitimizes their behavior, which means it supports people and actions that do suggest one racial group is inferior or superior to another. It's that knock-on effect one ought to think of as fitting the definition of "racist", not the idea itself.

Also why do so many people absolutely lose their minds when they find out that tribalism is a human trait, and when applied to racial groups, results in racism? I really don't understand why the idea that everyone has racist impulses causes such despair for some specific set of people.

The problem isn't that you're a human being, the problem is refusing to try to do better than your base impulses.

"Racist" isn't a brand. It's a neon sign you flip on and off 300x a day, depending on what you do and say.
Ah ha, but you can't have "repulsive beliefs" if we suppress them... like they do in much of Europe!

It seemed like most MPs weren't actually bothered about debanking, it's been going on for several years now and surely many of those people affected wrote/spoke to their local MP. It's required someone like Farage to kick up a fuss about it. Hopefully we'll see proper legislation to prevent it going forward but I won't hold my breath.

The next government is going to be even more all-in on the authoritarian/blasphemy-laws nonsense.
This really depends on the density of contributors. In Paris every single tree is mapped on OSM, while in more remote areas it’s not rare to see entire roads or even villages missing.
I can't believe this word is only ~200 years old. It's been said so commonly for generations that it seems unimaginable that it's as new as modern technology like the telephone.

I can imagine King Arthur without a telephone. I can't imagine King Arthur not saying hello.

It really makes you think about statements like Cleopatra lived closer to us than to the building of the pyramids, or the Roman Empire lasting so long.

Our perception of time is so strange.
Mine has an even lower population density and we still incinerate our trash instead of putting it on landfills.

The environmental benefits are huge.
I know it seems crazy on its face. And I'm sure those leftists you refer to didn't have a coherent concept of how such a system would actually work. There's no way we could just replace paychecks today with rations and social credits and have a functioning system. It'd be an extreme destabilizing change to a system we built incrementally over a long time to be self reinforcing. But I also have the view that people are very malleable and can conform to all sorts of social structures and belief systems.
Machine-made …from OSM and other sources.
> Yes, and NASA awarded SpaceX $278m in 2006 dollars from the COTS program when SpaceX had never even flown a rocket.

OK.

I'm not really sure what your point is. NASA gives out contracts to new companies all the time. And the award was in a firm, fixed-price contract.

The difference between that and the previous example is that NASA had already awarded Boeing money for CCtCap (the commercial crew contract). And then they just decided to give them more money, for what can charitably described as bad reasons.
I'm not a materials scientist but an electronics guy.

> 1b) shows the resistivity at some unknown temperature. They are applying current and measuring no potential drop. Just what? First, state the temperature, next measure it as a function of temperature. At the critical temperature the resistance drops to zero. All they have shown is that the contact inputting the current is probably disconnected…

this does not pass the sniff test for me. I explained on reddit myself why I think it doesn't make sense.

The only way that could work is if they just straight up fabricated everything, and in that case all bets are off.

I can't comment about the others since I don't know enough about it. Considering 1b) makes no sense with a modicum of knowledge, I really doubt the veracity of the rest.
Is it lying if you just don't put the effort to identify and flag bots?
Yet, when we send our spacecraft from one planet to another, we lose a surprisingly high percentage of them (~7% since 2000, not counting the ones we purposefully crashed).

Look, I'm beyond skeptical of the claims, but it's not because the spacecraft shouldn't crash. The most likely time to lose an airframe is on takeoff or landing, not in between, so why wouldn't the aliens have problems once they reach their destination?
> Seeing as you can throw out diffusion altogether and synthesize images with transformers [3]

That’s actually how this whole party got started. DALL-E (the first one) was a transformer model trained on image tokens from an early VAE (and text tokens ofc). Researchers from CompVis developed VQGAN in response. OpenAI showed improved fidelity with guided diffusion over ImageNet (classes) and subsequently DALLE2 using pixel space diffusion and cascading up sampling. CompVis responded with Latent Diffusion which used diffusion in the latent space of some new VQGANs.

The paper you mention is interesting! They go back to the DALL-E 1 method but train two VQGAN’s for upsampling and increase the parameter count. This is faster, but only faster than originally reported benchmarks using inferior sampling methods for their diffusion. I would be curious if they can beat some of the more recent ones which require as few as 10-20 steps.

They also improve on FID/CLIP scores likely by using more parameters. This might be a memory/time trade off though. I would be curious how much more VRAM their model requires compared to SD, MJ, Kandinsky.

The same goes for using T5-XXL. You’ll win FID score contests but no one will be able to run it without an A100 or TPU pod.
See? Brexit was a good idea after all ;)
Awesome post with a lot of hard-earned wisdom. It reads like a moment where a lot of "taking a step back to examine things" was done.

> Most people were good at their jobs but it was nearly impossible to fire poor performers — instead they got shuffled around to other teams because few managers had the will or resources to figure out how to get them out.

> Often it was a small cross-functional team of intrinsically motivated people who made the biggest impact by challenging some core assumption.

> I learned a ton from watching Elon up close – the good, the bad and the ugly. His boldness, passion and storytelling is inspiring, but his lack of process and empathy is painful.

And many, many more. Really spoken like someone clever, someone with a lot of understanding, someone observant, and someone very, very smart.
They could have wired those instructions as a NOP, rather than aliasing another opcode...
It's the same with the windows API
agreed. that realization is when I learned to distrust the lefties ( in Germany ) .... 10 years too late
Ktfmt – The Kotlin Code Formatter
Workers are quitting Austin’s offices, partly because it's too hot
Why mainly through GMO foods? I am wondering if other non-GMO ones would use mostly non Roundups, which would be a surprise to me given the availability of Roundups for vegetation control purpose around houses.
Yes, I also like having multiple screens. But window management isn't an issue. Just maximise a window on each screen, or have two on one screen.
I also believe that MD is the result of under-stimulation in childhood among other factors for those whose mind has a greater need for stimulation but i don’t believe there is a cure once it manifests. Getting more other stimuli to prevent the typical episodes is somehow akin to a drug user in need for the next high to “function” - it can get easily out of control. It is for sure one of the most fascinating disorders - and also one of the best hidden.
More usage doesn't necessarily equate to more value when it comes to software, you could easily argue the opposite.
Schools need the "indestructible" nature of Chrome OS where the OS very rarely breaks and even in that case you can factory reset and the student logs in and everything syncs so nothing is lost. No mainstream Linux distro works that way.
It's a mixed bag. Back when Dow Chemical was being sued over breast implants, there were women who sued 50 times (once in each state) despite never actually having implants, and I was pleased our legal casework database helped catch some of the frauds.
Those not involving the defense of US soil?

US armed forces is moooorrre than equipped for defending its home soil.

What's beyond that, aka defense of US "interests", can often be read as "interfering in other countries' affairs", where in 99% of cases it has no business doing so.
That is a sign that we need more automation in housing production, not less.
The experiments with the e-cat were measuring temperatures and estimating heat flow of the hot air flowing arround the device. That's too difficult to do acurately.

If you see a report of a groundbreaking experiment that only measure the heat of the air, you can safely press the "meh" button.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-mas...

> “There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, said at a media briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday.

This was a clear recommendation to not wear masks (unless you're caring for sick people), and overnight it turned to mandatory masks. This is not some random person somewhere, but someone who has to say stuff directly to "average people".
> Men aren't impervious to sexism either.

Men aren't impervious to sexual harassment, that's true. But in my career women have been overwhelmingly on the receiving end. I've seen a woman not be hired by a male interviewer because she was "too hot", I've had one woman tell me she was groped, a number been subject to unwanted sexual advances, and I've seen male staff cat call. I've had a manager massage me out of the blue. It's a gendered problem, the statistics bear this out, and acknowledging that is necessary in order to address it.

> Young women are working ridiculous hours as well.

That's not the point I was making.

> What child care, most of the highly educated aren't having kids to begin with.

That's not the point I was making.

> That's universal as well, not specific to women only.

Again, yes, Not Only Men, but there is a gender component to this that I am acknowledging.
How often do you talk to people this far to the left? I live in a family full of liberals and none of them even remotely think the world should operate this way. I think you could take every person in the US with ideology this far out to the left and put them in a single medium size stadium.
Whenever I hear about these levies, I always wonder what's stopping someone from spinning up a 'record label' and attempting to claim the funds.
how do these services work? is it something on the car giving away info about the vehicle?
This is a new version (v2) of their paper.
For some clarity, the idea that "white people are evil" is completely wrong and just as racist as anything else we could think of (though if you look at history, substantially less consequential for white people). Anyone who thinks "white people are evil" is part of the problem.

Seriously, I am consistently blown away by how revolted people get when they find out some of their behavior is racist. It's not a condemnation, it's an observation.
Yep, that’s strong diamagnetism.
I answered all this elsewhere

My record is public so you can verify by yourself