skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is most likely something to this. A dramatic example I've seen is where you take a picture of a head, and invert the mouth and view the picture upside down (so the head is pointing down, but the mouth is still right side up). It looks slightly off, but no more than any other picture that has been altered.

Now flip the picture back around right side up (mouth upside down) and if you aren't expecting it then it will quite likely make you jump back in horror. It actually hits some deeply rooted part of our primitive brain that just messes you up. (I just looked this up again, it is the Thatcher effect, and to me it is more frightening when the face is smiling).
And Manhattan's population peaked in 1950, been lower ever since.
> Awesome if you can get an area to agree to this

Which part of "martial law" is unclear :-) The whole point is to abrogate local powers.
Nice, I like the optimization replacing the list, and just hunting for the next 'free' composite for the prime.

Teaching my kids coding, we also arrived at most of the other optimizations, in Janet:

(defn primes-sieve []
(fiber/new (fn []
(yield 2) # the only even prime, yield it explicitly.

(let [sieve (table/new (math/pow 2 12))]
(loop [n :range [3 nil 2]] # only odd numbers
(if-let [current-composite (sieve n)]
(do
(each prime-factor current-composite
(let [next-composite-key (+ n (* 2 prime-factor))] # add 2*prime-factor, else composite would be even
(if-let [next-composite (sieve next-composite-key)]
(array/push next-composite prime-factor)
(put sieve next-composite-key @[prime-factor]))))
(put sieve n nil))
(do
(yield n)
(put sieve (* n n) @[n])) # next composite is n^2. Anything less is composite a smaller prime, already in the sieve
))))))
I used to run a company with hundreds of in field machines that used sqlite for error reporting and various metrics. There were phone home scenarios of the databases transferring over to some server which then would get dumped in a directory.

There were other systems that would use these hundreds of databases a few gigabytes each and create models from them for early failure detection and other things.

I wish I could say this was difficult or didn't work but pretty basic scripting and sqlite on commodity hardware doing normal cpu computation got us there beyond our expectations using cheap digital ocean VPS servers with modest memory. I can be a pretty obnoxious brat when open source things are broken and nobody is taking them seriously. Here though, people took it seriously and it wasn't broken. I'm continually impressed by it. This was pre-pandemic for a timeline.
I imagine that at ubers scale it would make sense to self insure
You nailed it, thanks for calling that connection out. We were very much inspired by literate programming.
Get a FPGA and learn verilog.

I would suggest iCE40 or GW1N to get started. Simple, low cost and low risk.

Supported by yosys+nextpnr open stack. And plenty of tutorials and courses online, be it articles, books or even video.
The solution isn’t to celebrate how families need to live in tiny apartments. The solution is to expand new housing outside of the main areas into new developments, and create new business centers or allow for remote work.
Narrative Derangement Syndrome
Fun stuff. I only ever use Linux under Hyper-V precisely because I could not find a reliable way to set up disk encryption that does not ask for password while giving the same protection as Bitlocker (e.g. you can keep your system automatically updated, and as long as your TPM and OS login screen are not vulnerable nobody can steal the machine and decrypt the drives).

Even Fedora (which I think is in the better shape than most) does not set that up by default and the only tutorials I found require you to manually reconfigure TPM on every kernel update.
Implementing Interactive Languages
Maybe I'm just different. I've watched a great many openbsd boot sequences, which tend to have a great many pauses, and I've never paid any special attention to the lines that come before pauses vs lines that come after pauses.
Burning Man attendees who rent trucks may face fines, GPS tracking
The rename issue is already solved and in the process of being rolled out across all the clients. Our original implementation of renaming for Sync was naive and slow. This was especially noticeable if you renamed a folder with lots of files. It would first delete the remote file on the Sync server and re-upload the local file to the new path. If you did this with a whole folder it meant waiting for all the remote files be deleted and then reuploaded. It's safe, just slow. Now we're tracking renames which is much better in every way :)
Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do
What's wrong with any of the eligibility?
Funny to call voluntary insane asylum residents "inmates".
While the Ig Nobel prizes always have a quirky bent to them, I'm glad that they have a focus on this kind of basic science research. Sometimes understanding the simple things more deeply makes all the difference.
The Chinese Exodus
What does compliant mixer mean here?
Ha, but have you seen the skin of Wim Hof? I love the guy but I wouldn’t say his face is particularly youthful
But let's assume the whole thing is a money blackbox, you must realize you cannot output that much good from the little change "build build build" without inputting something.

This something, the tax rate increase, or any other way to finance this whole operation like an increase in loan risk by large builders, would probably be phenomenal enough to make it completely off putting to most workers. People are not rational long term altruist thinkers: they want the best deal possible, and it's not to make SF more affordable in 30 years by over financing house construction today before they finally die of proud exhaustion like "I contributed to cheap rents for my descendants".

I prefer natural selection: you talked of Paris, the city is half stable now. It's always been the hyper center of France, we've always had higher inflow than outflow, prices have raised slowly every year since 1800 at a higher pace than wages, and now it's going down. We're developing stuff elsewhere, not only the outskirt but other part of France entirely that people would dream to move to after a stay in Paris.

The alternative you propose is to build the city I live in now: Hong Kong. Here, since we can't escape anywhere, all we can do is build build build. Our long inflow of desperate Chinese has made construction efficient, fast and cheap enough. Price are more commensurate with wages than Paris, even if they can appear absurd to the poor people in America. But, do you want to live like me in a small 2-room flat on the 44th floor of a giant tower surrounded by other towers ? That's the future you propose, eventually. Lots of homes in the single most important city, the dream !

I like the alternative: to just jump elsewhere and start over. Let the people starve due to mortgages in California and build a new hub in Ohio or whatever, they'll figure it out eventually.
Manhattan's population peaked in 1910. It's gone up, down, and up again since 1950.
If I want to upload and download random bytes to profile S3's performance, Amazon will happily bill me. A customer purchased a Dropbox subscription, with no storage limit and no per-byte billing. We had no item in our ToS prohibiting this kind of access pattern. In this prof's mind, testing to see if a tech company that promised "unlimited storage" would actually store unlimited data was something useful.

The vibe at Dropbox was more along the lines of "yeah this guy's a bit of a jerk, but we did say 'unlimited'". Moral of the story: never ever use the word "unlimited" in your service plan.*

* at least not without an asterisk explaining that "unlimited" actually has a limit.
Worked for me. Couldn’t it be something about the framing of the legs leading to a different processing of perspective?
Here in Minneapolis the 2040 plan set up standards for where bigger buildings can go, and it’s mostly based on transit and busier arterial street corridors.

Buildings have been going up pretty quickly and none of them seem particularly out of character but density will increase a ton.

More info here[0], when looking at the map the numbers next to Transit and Corridor correspond to number of stories allowed without a variance.

On the whole I think it’s a pretty reasonable plan without ending up with a skyscraper in the middle of single family housing (which we also eliminated as a zoning restriction, any property in the city can now have three dwellings on it).

[0]: https://minneapolis2040.com/implementation/built-form-regula...
They often sell products that are just overstocked elsewhere. Near me, they've lately been selling bags of Starbucks brand coffee for their typical $1.25, and my wife used to buy a brand of juice that easily cost 2-3x that much elsewhere.
>frankly your new criteria isn't significantly different from an uncharitable description of various non-compulsory Western democracies.

What makes you think those democracies actually choose good leaders? Honestly, I'm not aware of any countries that consistently pick good leaders; all systems for choosing leaders (democratic or otherwise) are bad, so debating them is just about debating which is less bad. Some are much worse than others.

>Go and look at voting participation rates and ballot spoiling data in compulsory vs non-compulsory voting countries.

You still haven't proven that voters in compulsory countries are actually being made to care and are conscientiously picking a candidate based on any real research. This isn't moving the goalposts; you simply haven't shown how the compulsory system actually produces better results. Australia isn't exactly known for picking great leadership. I'd say it does better than America, but that's an extremely low bar and easily explained by other factors.
Rust Malware Staged on Crates.io
It's very important to NASA to never send anything to Mars that could definitively rule out the presence of life or water.

Something I noticed a few years ago is that NASA publishes a press release every month or so with the title "possible hint of water found on Mars". There are literally thousands of such web pages on their site:https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anasa.gov+"hint"+"wate...

Nobody ought to be this obsessed with something, unless there's an agenda. It's like cigarette companies going on and on about how their latest product is "more healthy".

What's going on is that NASA has had a lot of trouble in recent decades maintaining their funding. There's not a lot in space that excites US senators. There's no oil, no resources that can be practically mined, etc...

So they have to have some sort of goal, something they have to get funding for so that they can go "look for it".

Some NASA administrator picked "water on Mars". Now it has morphed into a reason for the agency to exist, which means if it was ever shown not to exist, then NASA would face a real existential risk itself.

So they'll drag their feet as long as possible, sending every possible instrument they can pack into a rover, except for the one that could definitively rule out life and/or water.

This is why they didn't send a microscope, and most likely won't send one on the next mission either.
Gameboy consoles weren't allowed in class back in my days either.

In general, if it's not needed, it shouldn't be in class.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37250434

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254315

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37256449
I’m not sure if this is an insult or compliment…
DDoS has nothing to do with sybil attacks. DoS happens because limited resource (connection initiation) is provided for free.

They chose memory-hungry algorithm because that would prevent use of specific hardware (ASICs).
Now I'm depressed again
I suppose it depends whether your goal is communicating your position or just winning a moral victory.

"Weak" is the operative word. Being right doesn't do you much favors if you can't communicate it. In this context, "looking" weak is being weak.
What I've seen from most of these services is they essentially hire independent contractors with experience in a related field. They "train" them with a series of required videos then send them on their way.

Not saying that's what this is doing, but that's what this whole industry does. Unfortunately, there simply aren't enough health care providers.
I can't claim to understand Muni's problems, but it occurs to me that an train is a much simpler problem (technically speaking) to solve than a self-driving bus. The former doesn't have to flow in and out of unstructured traffic, has only one degree of freedom, has well-deployed reference systems, etc.

Maybe one day we'll have fully automated buses without any operators at all, but for the time being my understanding is that even self-driving cars still need a tender. The kind of bus volume (and corresponding idle drivers) you'd need to make up for a train's worth of commuters probably takes a heavy cut into any operator labor savings.
GSoC 2023: Improving Icon-O-Matic Final Report
Do you mean there is no legitimate reason to have a financial privacy? like in general it should not exist, or just this particular example?
Where's this from? What are you quoting?
Kind of the opposite though right? As in it dampens acceleration in any direction?
Google's MusicLM appears to be degrading over time
Phil's Lab at https://www.youtube.com/@PhilsLab is a very underrated channel, especially if you've ever struggled trying to wrap your head around Kalman filter techniques. Highly recommend that one.

The Signal Path isn't that obscure but there may still be some test gear nerds who haven't run across it: https://www.youtube.com/@Thesignalpath

Same is true for Marco Reps: https://www.youtube.com/@reps

FesZ Electronics at https://www.youtube.com/@FesZElectronics has some great coverage of analog/RF basics, as does W2AEW: https://www.youtube.com/@w2aew/videos

Yes, most of these folks have thousands of subs, but there's a reason for that: they're pretty awesome.
Or someone/some company/government should look into building a new city somewhere in America. Avoid the NIMBYs entirely. Kind of like what Culdesac Tempe is doing but bigger.

Maybe if Culdesac Tempe turns out to be successful someone may attempt this.
> Reputation matters. Stereotypes matter.

This is very oblique. What do you mean?
I’m at 14TB now. I shoot 4k (and even some 8k) video, and often send all the unedited clips to clients through Dropbox. Once it’s up there and I’ve suffered through the multi-day upload process, why wouldn’t I leave it up there as an off-site backup?

It wasn’t that difficult to get to 14TB either- that’s basically 14 3-camera full-day shoots when shooting in 4k.
Yup. El Salvador started importing dollar coins around 2012 in order to reduce currency substitution costs.
I don't think it does at all.

Burning methane has positive effects on global warming since methane is way way waaaaaaay worse than CO2. Taking care of landfills that are largely untouched, just spewing methane is a good thing. If Bitcoin ends up having a net-negative effect on global warming, how is that a bad thing?

You're assuming that all energy sources are well-connected to a grid that can handle the electricity that is generated, that's not the case at all. You can't "use that same energy for something else currently on carbon-based sources" without major infrastructure costs.
Get the smelly mentally ill and drug using people off of Bart and I’ll use it more.
Ask HN: Should we start primarily reporting Heat Index instead of other stuff?
The other stuff might be temperature, relative humidity, sun, wind, etc.

With more people suffering and dying from direct heat-related global warming conditions, I feel like we need a simpler way to talk about whether or not it is safe for people to go outside, for how long, etc., and I feel like the current reporting regime does not accomplish that.
Authors and artists have been spending a lot of time talking about AI exclusively with each other, which is why they keep proposing solutions to made up problems like this.
https://archive.md/Dh1T4
I regularly buy products there. For instance, if I need something for cleaning my car, they often have smaller-sized products (like Armor All wipes in packages of 10 vs the big canister at larger stores). When I was packing up my old house, I bought cheap products for the bathroom after all our good stuff was packed up. I've bought cheap batteries there when I was traveling, shipping tape, etc - all kinds of stuff when I really don't care about the quality or quantity.
The economy is not a zero sum black box. With a better allocation of resources, (the density of paris in the most desirable areas) it can actually result in lower taxes, shorter commutes, etc.
"all the storage we'd prefer you to need" unlimited* plan.

* unlimited plan is limited
Why are so many units empty? The conventional wisdom is that being a residential landlord in NYC can be a nightmare. Can that really be the reason?
Counter example - the suburbs around NYC have not suffered population loss to Manhattan. Though unlike the bay area, there is an extensive public transport system to get people into the city.
It would seem like it should be a simple rule like you can only go 1 step up. Like if it’s 50% single family you can only go 6plex but if you get over 50% 6plex then you can go 5 story etc
> on a virtual machine with 1 CPU and 128 MB of RAM, the FreeBSD kernel can boot in under 20 ms;

Oh, my... how could I achieve the same on real hardware without VMs ? ;)
sounds like biologists cites Darwin. if you find something he did not find, cool; if your region is similar to him, cooler :)

I guess most of conditions is because when biologists debate, they only have one opponent.
Scanlime. last video is from two years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/@scanlime/videos

Most iconic probably is a multiple winch system to have a cemra in the studio folowing the cat around but there's some reverse engeneering videos that for someone outside the field blew my mind.
> Whole subs on Reddit are essentially rendered worthless because the comments are all low-effort

This might be a feature - some events are ripe for ridicule and jokes, and Reddit having has areas where this is completely the norm provides a forum.

But when you want to know what chainsaw to buy, how to make a specific ESP chip work or some other random thing, Reddit also provides.

You have to avoid getting sucked into its cesspits.
I regret buying their stock.

Their tech seemed good initially so i thought everyone going to need the multi cloud stuff.

But after using it and encountering how brittle it was, and easily our nomad cluster would go down without any way to recover, even though the major point of a cluster is high availability, I can see that the tech is just very brittle and the value of the stock doesn’t surprise me.

I’m relieved that I followed my instinct and chose not to deploy it in production even after we invested so much money in setting it up.

I really hope I’m wrong about the stock and the tech.

I like the founders and they’re clearly very smart but the company has grown too fast and likely let quality go down.
I suspect that FreeBSD has fewer pauses than OpenBSD... especially after the work I've done over the past few years to speed it up.

If anyone in the OpenBSD world is interested in speeding up your boot process I'd be happy to share tips and code. It's a bit daunting to start with but with some good tools it becomes a lot of fun.
The image degradation seems like certainly a potential dealbreaker from an art perspective. Perhaps in some modalities it would be less noticeable?
Tbf gvisor was pretty much DOA by design. Hypervisors are alright, but nowadays security expectations go much lower than ring-1.
When I was learning to draw, one technique to help spot errors is to flip the drawing upside down. This made misaligned features, bad proportions, weird perspective issues immediately jump out.

Maybe it's the same effect.
Six Types of Wealth: Being rich isn't just a money thing
Eventually we’re going to learn that we can’t eat money. Right?
How do you plan to compete with OnlyFans ? There is tons of "Guided deep relaxation" personalized content.

/s

All the best with your project!
Clearly you haven’t met my in-laws.
“Cannot provide any advice or guidance” is an exaggeration; that quote excludes (a) medical advice and (b) important decisions. It does not, for example, exclude advice on making unimportant decisions, which is a skill that a lot of people with ADHD could use help improving!
Are you unfamiliar with the multi million dollar business that criminals have figured out? Turns out homeless people don’t steal deodorant for fun but because they’re paid to do so by organized gangs.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-03/members-...
Let's see how it works out for Lahaina before we rush out and start more fires.
Similar to your approach, I sketch out the signatures - ask the LLM to write the unit tests and then I write the actual implementation. If there is a hallucination in the test code, it shows up as a failing test that can be shaken out by some introspection. I enjoy writing the actual code but hate the tedium of writing tests. I’m also feel that I’m less likely to prompt the LLM into reproducing someone else’s code into my system. I know the probability isn’t zero but it doesn’t seem to be as likely.
They've been around since the early days of the internet, slightly younger than the Darwin awards.

You're one of today's lucky 10,000. :)
Increasing utilization requires a massive effort and cannot solve the crisis. Vacancy rates are currently at all-time lows. NYC's vacancy rate is the lowest in the nation, and the lowest ever measured in that city. To intuitively understand why increasing occupancy from. 97% to 98% is difficult, try filling your refrigerator to 97% by volume and then try putting one more thing in there.

Counterintuitively the way to attack the housing crisis is to increase vacancy. 10% is a robust vacancy rate that allows the market to function. New buildings are vacant by nature, so building new buildings until the vacancy rate hits 10% is the way to go. The market will clear, rents will decline, developers will make reasonable profits for providing a needed service and landlords will get kicked in the teeth, which is right and proper.
Going through my subscriptions, it's sad to see so many with talent, even those with lots of subscribers, not having posted a video in years.

Here are some I subscribe to that seem to be still active. You could see if your audience might like:

https://www.youtube.com/@peterryseck

https://www.youtube.com/@AndersNielsenAA

https://www.youtube.com/@jsincoherency

https://www.youtube.com/@6502Nerd

https://www.youtube.com/@hjalfi

https://www.youtube.com/@LucidScience

https://www.youtube.com/@skyriverSat

https://www.youtube.com/@slu467

https://www.youtube.com/@taylor.galbraith
I had heard of using this technique to show that the moon appearing larger on the horizon is just an optical illusion. If you look at it through your legs, it appears much smaller.

Also heard lying on your back and looking at the moon nearly straight up makes it look larger, but it didn't have a noticeable effect when I tried it.
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Vivek Ramakrishnan, MBA ’23: How AI Could Help Solve the School Literacy Crisis
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