skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Light being able to shine straight through part of your car that's meant to be solid is scary. Does anyone know how common it is for cast metal of this sort to have damage like this? I am kind of surprised their manufacturing would have this issue
there's no paywall? just tried
The comment didn't offend me and I didn't downvote it, but Faith only has anything to do with success if you squint. There are so many tennis players with faith who will never reach the level Djokovic has, and to ponder that he's right about the patch forces us to consider that people that haven't reached his level just don't have enough faith in themselves, forgetting other variables like genetics, training, circumstance.

Furthermore, there are lots of people who are cautious, practical, and carry some imposter syndrome, but still enjoy lots of success. Faith can certainly be motivating, but it's not the end all be all.

If it seems like there's an allergy to the concept, it has less to do with religion and more to do with the fact that putting faith in ones destiny above all else tends to be adjacent to people that are delusional about the effort they need to actually put in to the task, and see any criticism of their skill as a personal attack on their identity, and not helpful feedback on their output. For every Djokovic, there are 1000 people that are delusional about how little they are actually trying to fulfill the story they tell themselves, and it can be genuinely exhausting to see as a supporter of these people. We wouldn't accept a subpar programmer who was certain he was the next John Carmack because his crystals told him so, unless the work was speaking for itself
>think Falklands.

From whose pov? Do Mexico have distant territories?

You could construct all sorts of scenarios. But every country has a limited budget, and need to focus that budget on the most likely threats. Fighter aircraft are fairly niche in their roles, and expensive and I can understand Mexico coming to the conclusion they don't need them.

I'm not aware of any territorial disputes involving Mexico. And a marine issue could equally be solved by sailing a ship there, well, from a show of force pov
Enhance humanity’s collective memory … perhaps or perhaps degrade humans grasp of reality. AI created images, videos, holodeck like future environments, virtual partners, etc may hasten humanities move away from being human.
They should have controlled with a person painted blue or purple to determine whether it is simply a matter of photonics rather than AI bias.
Interesting observation.

I too often find myself in this oscillation between soaking up new knowledge and actually using it. This cycle between passive/active consumption is intriguing but might have its drawbacks IMHO.

There are moments when I question if I should be buried in learning new topics instead of tinkering with what I already know. Learning is invaluable, no doubt—certainly better than mindlessly scrolling through TikTok.

But it does beg one question: What's the point of incessant learning if we're not applying it in any meaningful way?
I wouldn't say 'never'. But the right thing to do is to keep the training wheels (radar, lidar) until it's proven that the system has learned to drive without them when there's good visibility and to reduce speed (or stop, if necessary) when the visibility is reduced. This also includes learning to recognize almost every possible situation, including zero shot events.
Fair point. Cost benefit analysis for adoption of safety features in automobiles is inconsistent.

Drunk drivers kill more Americans each few months than terrorists on planes have in the last 25 years. Yet every airline passenger must prove they aren't a terrorist but no one driving a car has a default presumption they are drunk. Unless you've been convicted previously, then maybe sometimes.

I wouldn't be surprised if a better model exists for object detection and we aren't using it to save pennies. Politics and ethics in automobile safety is asinine. Fair point.
- Triathlon baseball style hat— it sunny/windy and I want to hold my hair down/prevent sunburn

- oiled canvas hat — it’s raining and the dog needs walked.

- knit hat - it’s cold.
I think you misunderstood table 6. All algorithms show significant differences in miss rate for children, two show significant differences based on gender, and four others based on skin color. The four that showed no statistically significant difference between light and dark skin had very high miss rates overall. Of the other four, two are much worse for dark skin, and two are slightly better. Those last two are also best at detecting children, but 28% miss rate is still a bit too high for my taste.
But the spectrum still ends up being "left/right", with some subdivisions over "red vs green" lefties.
It's explained in the next few sentences:

>Community Notes are not written or curated by some centrally selected set of experts; rather, they can be written and voted on by anyone, and which notes are shown or not shown is decided entirely by an open source algorithm. The Twitter site has a detailed and extensive guide describing how the algorithm works, and you can download the data containing which notes and votes have been published, run the algorithm locally, and verify that the output matches what is visible on the Twitter site.
Yeah and these apps probably would never work with that many of users in practice because they missed a few things here and there and the only way to fix them would have been to have that amount of traffic in the first place.
We appreciate your concern. To clarify, while we do utilize ChatGPT for our project, we don't share personal data with OpenAI. Your privacy and data security are paramount to us.
This is kind of the perfect Tesla story.

New delivery buyer is digging around under the hood to confirm their brake fluid reservoir cap is in place, as there had been recent reports of missing caps.

Finds the cap is good, but that the cars frame is cracked instead.
So a Rube Goldberg project(s)?

Learn 3d printing skills / CNC skills / coding & encoding skills / programming skills via making/assembling a useless one person mechanical TV[0][2] broadcasting station[3] with paper tape recording[1].

Today's off the shelf hardware/software makes for a 'relatively' easy software 'mechanical tv'.

asciimation : https://octobanana.com/software/asciimation

pal to ascii : https://github.com/joelibaceta/video-to-ascii

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Can always see how far can substitue diy paper circuits and still have same functionality/quality as silicon circuits[4][5][6].

Perhaps perfect a way of using scotch to convert paper into a plastic version for longevity.

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[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_television

[1] : punch card : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oke-7lsvFug

original pearl programming : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gALLuttm8tI

1920's VCR : https://pinshape.com/items/108598-3d-printed-paper-tape-reader-machine

[2] : Ben Heck's Mechanical TV part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI0TtyVEcs8

[3] : digital camera with a nipkow disk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCzMLl-cB94

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[4] : robotic arm : https://howtomechatronics.com/tutorials/arduino/diy-arduino-...

[5] : "circuit printer" : https://www.hackster.io/news/sketch-a-circuit-anywhere-with-...

[6] paper circuit quality verification : https://www.hackster.io/news/jerry-de-vos-plastic-scanner-tu...

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Note: "This is what I had in mind. Sorry for not being clearer." not a reply to this comment.
The archive, https://archive.ph/ysNNT
Why guess depth from images when you can know depth?
I'm not aware of one, since Python changes quite a bit more quickly than C++.
>I am not trying to learn any new technology/framework. I am quite comfortable with Python/Java/Clojure/Javascript stack

And

>2. My time - I want to spend time on value creation.

You already have your answer: stick with the stack you know and focus on value creation and serving your VIP user.
Certain people I follow always have a bot spam comment on every post. They put it in the hidden replies, and next post they make gets a very similar comment from a different bot.

Always crypto scams.
I hate skeleton loaders. I usually see them implemented to "prevent" async-loaded elements from causing layout shift... the problem is the backend isn't set up to tell you how many things need to be loaded, what the size of those things are, so the skeleton just assumes some arbitrary values and sizes, takes up space in the layout, and when the loading finishes the layout still inevitably shifts, so the skeleton didn't even do its perceived job except make loading "prettier" (to someone obviously not me).
The reason VLAs are considered bad is because they stack allocate non fixed size buffers and the stack is limited. The argument goes that one might as well use a fixed size if you need to use enforce upper bound anyways.
You would halt almost all progress with this attitude. You would freeze civilisation in the state it is today.

If people of the past were as risk-averse as this we would still be living in caves.
This is why I've been using Windows tablets for a _very_ long while --- since the NCR-3125 (though I would often boot it into PenPoint).

Still quite sad that I couldn't find a "real" replacement for my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4110 and its transflective display --- the Samsung Galaxy Book 12 was close (but I had to roll it back to 1703 twice, and it lacked a daylight viewable display --- repeat after me, trying to outbright the sun on a battery-powered device is stupid).

When it was time to replace my GB12 I bought Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360, which unfortunately is too large for my sling bag, and still doesn't have a daylight viewable display, but it has a stylus (which I have to toggle between modes depending on which program I'm using).
> Commercial airline seating is based on average passenger weight from the 1950s to 1970s, Hilderman said. Since then, people have gotten bigger, but seat pitches have dwindled, he said — “29 inches in some cases, it’s absolutely ridiculous.”

>> Of course, the average American is probably fatter than that, and has luggage as well, which means they're well above the 75kg design limit.

That's the entire point. When is the point reached where people are getting to fat to safely fly from A to B within the design limits of the airplanes they are flying on. And at which point is time to charge them (and more importantly, allocate) double seats accordingly.
> I think I'll be happy. That's all I need

My thoughts exactly. When I'm about to die, I suppose this is all that will matter.
I'm pretty sure one of the biggest differences between C# and Java is that in C# you can't assume everything is a reference. A strict is passed by value.
How does a const pointer express this in a way a const reference can't?
What is not understandable here? Crypto is all about decentralization, Community Notes embodies that value (obviously not ideally, because Twitter still can decide to do whatever).
Agreed, I'm also not invested in crypto but Vitalik seems like one of the genuine people in the space.

It's the unfortunate attraction of the Ponzi grifters and get-rich-quick influencer types that tainted the whole ecosystem.
On the (few) occasions when I go into the city for a customer meeting, the commuter rail takes "only" something over an hour but, really, we're talking something over two hours from getting up to walking into the office when one includes driving to the station with some slack, paying for parking, and then walking to the office/taking local subway. (Just driving takes about the same 2 hours.) A colleague of mine who lives in a different city and subscribes to the philosophy of if you don't miss one or two flights a year you're leaving too much slack jokes that he can get to our downtown office almost as quickly as I can--and he's not really off by much.
> deep learning vs crypto is a clear divide of rotators vs wordcels. the former offends theorycel aesthetic sensibilities but empirically works to produce absurd miracles. the latter is an insane series of nerd traps and sky high abstraction ladders yet mostly scams

Can anyone translate this from meme to English please?

Also, it would seem to be a very anti-crypto statement for Vitalik to be posting?
When the government subsidizes an investment by a private company, it will inevitably be politicized and executed less efficiently than an unsubsidized investment would be.
It's somewhat decentralized. It's at least a lot more trustless, decentralized and permissionless than what the media came up with, which they call "fact checking" but is basically just a bunch of self-anointed ex-hacks who hired each other into a bunch of deceptively named quasi-institutions, and who aren't checked or held accountable by anything at all.

Yes, the actual software runs at a single location. But apparently it's open enough that you could in principle run it in a distributed manner. As you can even cross-check the data and compute the same results deterministically, you could theoretically even do it as a blockchain, although it's unclear why you would. But you could, if there was value in P2Ping such a thing.

In that sense, Vitalik's point does land.
More like we are trying hard to get rid of ourselves...
Humans haven’t evolved radar, but computer vision systems are also worse than human vision systems in many ways, so they need to compensate
I wonder if you can't get close looking at body composition and size and making a guess. This is one of those things a AI can probably do well enough.
It entirely depends on where you see the role of a "fighter" but I think we both already agree that it won't be anything like naval battle on Earth.

Maybe you're familiar with Atomic Rockets, the collection of engineering and science discussions about hard scifi? If not, I may have got a rabbit hole for you that will eat an entire week, easily: [0]

(Edit: while the page starts off dismissing fighters for many reasons, there are discussions of many concepts with their merits and possible defenses of the concept)

[0] https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/fighter.php
> the "winning" strategy is to have high-level scripting languages where you can ignore most of the details

From personal experience, I don't believe this works in practice. Invariably, some level of logic is implemented in said scripting language, and it becomes a huge bottleneck. Counterintuitively, when you have a central thread dolling out work to many subroutines, the performance of that thread becomes more critical as opposed to less.
Double-checked - no e-mails prior 18th of August from "Google Play Console". Also, double-checked "Google Play Console" (even under "Archived messages") - first message about deprecation I see is from 17th of August (a day before e-mail). Even if there were something a year ago, then 3 month, 1 month followup would make sense instead of 2-3 week reminder.

Maybe it's possible that different roles in "Google Play Console" will receive different type of messages at different time? I'm not an admin for that app and it's possible that someone else has gotten prior warnings, but might have ignored these, because usually they are not with technical background.
Drug smuggling planes come to mind. Actually any kind of unauthorised flying over the country
A pointer can be nullptr while a reference cannot so that would be a step backwards.

Also the “problem” you describe is not solved by your proposed “solution”. A const pointer can point to something that can be modified.

You can declare a pointer to a const object, or, you know, declare a const ref.
See also: "Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor" - https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demand...
.. because replies were destroyed by prioritizing blueticks. Community Notes is the new "ratioing" for bad tweets.
With the exception of the language issue, pretty much all of the above describes the US as well. The South and Midwest are far more cohesive with regard to each other than the coastal cities and Pacific Northwest, and vice versa.

Every 4-8 years we tend to "overthrow" the preferred Presidential candidate of one of those two factions - as flawed as they are - through a democratic process.

One of those factions prefers stronger social programs while the other prefers weaker.

Note that I explicitly don't intend for this comment to become about the US civil war, and will not respond to any comments about the historical or social conditions there.

For that matter, it also describes Canada to a large extent; there is a large, geographically concentrated faction of Francophones and a similarly large, geographically concentrated faction of Anglophones. They have significantly divergent histories, social norms, and so on.

In fact... every large country with which I'm familiar that does not share a single common history and culture has these issues. They all seem to come to a workable system for integrating their factions into a single political system absent outside force. I see no reason Ukraine shouldn't be able to do that same, given a few decades to get there.
You mean, to all possible sensors and spectrum signals in the arsenal?
We utilize ChatGPT to enhance general responses, making them personalized and efficient for each user's unique inquiry.
The skin color is going to be the least of your issues in the winter time. How are the cars going to "see" the road under 10cm of snow? Granted humans shouldn't really be driving in those conditions either, but we do and mostly successfully, to avoid sleeping on the side of the road in -10C.

What is it that makes it so hard for all these algorithms to work on people with darker skin? This has been an issue for more than ten years, surely someone has started adding various skin colors into the training data. Is it a case of lack of training material, or is it just faster to focus on one skin type?
The idea that if you are willing to give up some privacy, the ads you see will be high quality and relevant. That sounds like a great trade and for twenty years I waited for those useful ads.

They still haven't appeared. When I consider what I trade for the ads I'm getting now, it's no where near good enough. My data is valuable and Google et al just aren't offering enough in return. The only place I ever see decent ads is on Google's search page.

I think the reason we see shitty ads like the belly fat ones, is because Google isn't actually trying to serve us first. Their main concern is ad dollars. So even though Google knows you watched a video on changing guitar strings an hour ago and now you are standing in a Guitar Center, instead of showing you an ad for guitar strings, you're going to see an ad for belly fat because that advertiser is willing to pay a fraction of a penny more.

So to answer your question about why you should care - it's because you are greatly overpaying for the service you are getting. Of course there are other reasons too - avoiding ads containing malware is one. Protecting yourself from tyrants is another. If you are socially or politically active, you may not trust that the government now or in the future can resist grabbing the data that shows you support abortion rights or attended a BLM or LGBTQ march or were part of the crowd on Jan 6.

Let me ask you this - if you learned the tracking is actually a person on the other side of the planet watching in real time, everything you do online, every conversation you have, every site you visit, and mix it with the data they can get from your phone (location, phone calls, music preferences, who you are spending time with, etc...) and they manually log it into a database, would that change how you feel about it?
> Perhaps the silver lining is that they are more like barricades then minefields

As a Rust newby I think they are more like achievements that unlock new capabilities.
It depends on the kind of fighting.

If it's a conflict between the US and large regional powers (eg. Russia, China, India, UK, etc) assuming combatant morale holds it would be a bloodbath on both sides.

Most regional powers now have the ability to manufacture weapons systems and train soldiers up to par with the where the U.S. was in the 1990s and 2000s now, which means our relative power is much less than in the 1990s or 2000s, when the only near peer was Russia.

On the plus side, we are lucky a number of our allies have stronger power projection capabilities now (eg. SK modernization, Japan'a rearmament, Türkiye's military modernization, Poland's modernization, etc).

That said, the Ukraine-Russia War does highlight how bloody a war between near peers can be.
Radar etc. almost certainly make it easier, but for it to be "never" this would also have to be provably impossible for humans.

Which isn't too say it's not never, as I remember studies in my own childhood that said human drivers were also bad at recognising how far away children were, and I've never heard of human perception of skin colour being tested in this way so it might just turn out that melanin is unfortunately good camouflage against tarmac…

…but unless and until that suggestion turns out to be correct of all humans, I default to assuming we're an existence proof of the capability to do without, and that means I still wouldn't say "never" to sufficiently advanced AI doing at least as well.
> while it seems obvious to most that CN isn't a feature that would have been conceived under Musk

This isn't obvious at all. A big part of why Musk got upset with Twitter under its previous management was his dislike of centralized journalist-driven fact checking. He might not have come up with the algorithm but you can't claim it's living on borrowed time whilst simultaneously criticizing it for scaling up too fast.
I agree about the Docker & container craze, but doesn't FreeBSD have something a bit similar - jails - since 2003 if not earlier?
One could argue that a particular question will always have a left/right-ish divide of some kind, even if people may disagree which is which. In many cases on social media discourse, it comes down to pro-establishment vs. anti-establishment (which previously would usually have been seen as right vs. left but now is generally seen as the reverse).

Anecdotally, most community notes I've seen appear to take the form of "anti-establishment claim -> community note refuting the anti-establishment claim". But what's nice is that when it's the opposite, they still seem to work well.
Human beings cant read the minds of everyone nearby, and they can drive reasonably well.
No. What you wrote is completely wrong. Besides, it would be better for the environment and humanity if we did not progress so fast in the area of releasing massive amounts of toxic chemicals and detritus.
OK do to hear. Did they add read-only mode ?
> How do you downvote on X?

Click ellipsis, then block or mute
Urgh, yes. YouTuber HeavyDSparks has had a long running scammer campaign against him with people naming themselves with unicode characters of numbers in circles and posting "Whatsapp me" replies to legit comments. That even someone like him with > 3M subscribers can't seem to get ahold of a YouTube CSR who can raise an issue with backend/anti-fraud developers to check for accounts using this pattern is mind-boggling and only speaks for the dysfunctionality of Google today.
I think the GP was saying that it should scale without breaking. It can get slow, fine, that's a different challenge. But it shouldn't segfault (as an example).
A few years back I decided to just get as capable as I could with jq, which is fast and functional enough to cover 99% of awk/sed use cases, plus cases you'd never want to touch with awk/sed.

No regrets!
"Completely ignorant of the topic" is more accurate than "a bit biased." Most of those threads are partisan BS with absolutely no knowledge of (or real interest in) Ancient Greek, Homer, poetry or translation in general. Abysmal idiocy.