skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seemed pretty clear that they did a prototype scale test and then the rest was computer modeling. I'm actually shocked they calibrated it to within 1dB of reality and am curious how they managed to prove that one.

I agree about academic press releases generally, but it seems to work as described? If their model is right and they build a larger prototype, which is normal scaleup from academia, a kilometer scale underwater RFID tagged sensor buoys responding to a transmitter seems like a reasonable if optimistic claim. They can't build that before modeling, and they can't model without a small scale system to cross-calibrate with.

This press release actually seems better than most to be honest...
You're not technically wrong, but it's also a much more complex and ever-changing problem set that you're giving it credit for. If it was so easy, Flexport stock would be the next Amazon. What they have going for them is a tech stack that doesn't have 40 years of accumulated crap.

But your description of what goes on at the branch level smacks of someone who has a CS degree and thinks that this means they can engineer the world. Dave Snowden of Cynefin fame has some choice words regarding software engineers who don't realize that human endeavors have what he calls "messy coherence," and think they can optimize the "messy" out of it, forgetting that they're dealing with humans.

There's a lot of ways Flexport could capitalize on the silliness of some of its competitors. But its competitors are also not staffed by idiots, and if it was so easy to automate everything, it would have been automated 20 years ago.
I have learned things about Canada[0] via BoC[1], that circled back to the National Film Board of Canada[2]. Enjoy.

[0] https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bl...

[1] https://youtu.be/UvDc6DJZ-xI

[2] https://www.nfb.ca/film/circle-of-the-sun/
combo 1 & 2, can substitute AMZN w/other large corps…

I see & hear you. ;)
That happened to me as well as I created a new account like 3 days ago.

I was quite shocked all i did was created a new account how did I ended up violating the community just by creating a new account
All of this.
The Netherlands is a famously rainy country and manages quite high levels of cycling mode share.
This is a fantastic new feature. I would also love a version of ‘pick’ that works on streaming data, since that doesn’t seem to be possible currently without reassembling the stream first
Just to clarify

* Bureau of Land Management law enforcement rangers https://www.blm.gov/programs/law-enforcement/what-we-do

are not the same thing as

* Black Rock Rangers, a self-organized volunteer safety team of Burners https://burningman.org/event/participate/volunteering/teams/...

And neither are the same thing as Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police, which others have said is who is featured in the video. I have no idea. But the uniforms of the three different entities probably don't look much alike.
I ran into this today.

Not only is Chase forcing me to opt into a 125 page agreement [0] in order to log in to my account—say, to pay my bill or check my balance—but that agreement has a new arbitration clause. The arbitration clause says you can opt out within 60 days but gives no instructions for how to do so. Not even an email address to contact.

I would love to log into my account tonight but won't until I know I can opt out of arbitration.

This upsets me, maybe more than it should, and I'm thinking of dropping Chase. Anyone else?

[0]: https://static.chasecdn.com/content/dam/legal-agreements/lib...
Are people really confusing unemployment with no job vacancies?

You could have 100% employment, and still have people looking to hire. If there are 1000 people in a population who all work, it doesn't mean none of the businesses are looking to hire
I just installed from Git the other day to use this feature. It’s very useful!
So apparently a local Birmingham, Al BBS originally had the name America Online. Steve case purchased the name from him for 10k and that BBS became known as the matrix.
Labor is cheap in those places because cheaply sold labor is a better deal for residents than subsistence farming; over time, the labor gets less cheap as living standards increase for those places.

It's obviously possible to take that observation too far, and to excuse all sorts of abuses. But the underlying phenomenon seems to square pretty well with what we know about living standards over time worldwide.
Man Tried to Travel the Atlantic in a Hamster Wheel
We destroyed our world’s best rail infrastructure on purpose to serve industrialist automotive companies. You could get anywhere by train in 1925, with so much frequency it is a daunting task to even count up the schedules.

https://youtu.be/svao4PZ4bGs

Despite now having 3x the population of that time period, our rail service is basically non-existent in comparison. This isn’t the case in less wealthy and less dense countries.

What is the cost of the interstate highway system? How much of it could have reduced lanes or not exist if there were trains? How much productivity and GDP is wasted on people operating vehicles on the highway when trains can travel over 3x faster and facilitate continued work?
Then it’s not based on any fact..
Or it was just a pun?
Also, here’s something that seems not widely appreciated: You can write super clever unreadable one-long-line jq programs embedded in bash scripts (I hear you on the point-free thing), or you can write jq programs that live in their own files, with multiple lines, indentation, comments, and intermediate assignments to variables with readable names. I recommend the latter!
Some of them talk openly about running companies as a hobby. You need something to do with the remaining decades.
Isn't it just random?
This is precisely why the hazards are so insidious: you're chugging along fine for years, and boom: you have a weird cancer.

I'm mindful of my finishing materials and proper ventilation and downright religious about hearing protection because the damage is cumulative. I know a bunch of guys I have to half shout at to have a conversation with. I'd rather not be one in 15 years.
I remember that as well. I thought that _was_ the internet since that was my first real exposure to home internet. Outside of that it was just my elementary school and the library. When services like NetZero and Juno came out, my mind was blown knowing that I didn't need to have the entire AOL ecosystem load up -- which could take a while with a 14.4k modem and a 133MHz(?) Pentium with 32MB RAM.
Why does it have to be bash+python? I'm finding myself using node.js scripts glued together by bash ones these days unless I'm working on a lot of data. Doing that means you can work with json natively.
May I ask what are you doing now?

Do you still see room in the space? Would love to collaborate ( have an Eng background and affinity for sales)
This era of computers slightly predates me so it’s difficult to understand the context - aol was a desktop application installed via cd that have you connection to other users and access to content somehow, but not via the internet?
The problem IMO is scaling the logistics side of the house. No one cares how cool your tech is unless/until you can move shit from Point A to Point B at scale, and handle the same big problems as, an Expeditors, UPS Global Logistics, DHL, Kuehne + Nagel, or DSV Panalpina.
> and makes it a function of labor quantity

Actually he makes it a function of socially necessary labor time. Although I don't buy into labor theory of value, I think the "socially necessary" part is a pretty important part.

By the way, what is "his argument?"

Parent didn't say it isn't central to one of Karl Marx's many arguments, but rather that it's not central to Marxism, which is far greater than Karl Marx. Marxism is an intellectual tradition largely concerned with critiquing Marx's work just like we're doing here.
Now if you were drunk while playing Need for Speed, that wouldn’t be a problem because there is no “real” humans being endangered by your actions.
The author has a nice idea there with generating man pages from the help data entered into the option parser. But he doesn't take it to its natural conclusion by then working with Makefiles that generate actual man page files.

If your program can generate its own man page from the option data, you don't need an actual man page file. man takes input from a pipe, e.g.

# useful use of cat: shows man is not accessing a file

cat foo.1 | man -l -

This could be built into your utility:

$ util --man

could spin up the man pager, and pipe the nroff code into it to be rendered.

If you still need man util, that could be a proper, verbose man page.
This is not really true. "Power" in a social context proceeds from social relationships. A king only has power if people buy into the idea that he has power. In other words, any power beyond individual brute force is a social construct. Even the idea that the state has a monopoly on violence is a social construct, (and is often not true, even in practice.) So social power depends on the ideas that people in a society hold generally, such as ideas about rights and ownership. So it's often those ideas that define the power relationships in society rather than the other way around.
"Hey, Siri. Ask Jeeves what this yahoo dot com thing is"
> What if no or very few manufacturers produce a thing, yet the thing would be very beneficial to many owners?

If it's useful enough, and the existing manufacturers leave significant customer needs unfilled, competing suppliers can step in.

> Why would one want specifically to buy a product not conforming to the choice described in the first-level comment?

All kinds of reasons. It might be cheaper, for example.
Those AOL discs made for amazing frisbees as a kid. I would hurl them and they would fly for what felt like a million years, until they smashed back to Earth with the force of a meteor.
Does taxes helping pay for prisons make them public spaces? Helping fund development doesn't give you any right to the code, unless perhaps that was negotiated up front. It could be tax money paid a tiny amount of the cost, or it does include proprietary components or knowledge licensed for use in this form, or many other variations of contract and IP.

Tax money touching development makes everything public no more than a touch of private money turns everything private. Each case is determined by the contracts signed to leverage these investments.
If interruptions and meetings are the worst thing to break your flow then I feel like you haven't dealt with truly bad build systems where builds take multiple minutes to run on a good day.
Continent-scale micro-pumped hydro energy storage using agricultural reservoirs
That's like saying fully decentralized blockchains are the least game-able of financial systems, because they presume everyone is trying to game them.
He's evil; a level of sinister and corrupt that should be investigated. As in, he needs to be held liable in the Amazon lawsuit, alongside Amazon, as a co-defendant.
Something really makes me question all just-so stories.

It’s not science. It paints a target around an arrow, the arrow being that all speciation must occur through random mutation and natural selection. Basically, the theory is unfalsifiable. It violates what Karl Popper was talking about.

Now, don’t get me wrong. The theory of common descent is falsifiable. The phylogenic tree can be discerned. But the idea that we have discovered all the mechanisms by which speciation (or “macroevolution”) has ever occurred despite never having seen any of them in practice, is in my opinion bad science.

And just-so stories are almost self-admitting that it’s more folklore than science.

If you think I’m being too heterodox with my opinions, consider the just-so stories in the field of evolutionary psychology and extrapolate to all the phenotypes that are being described.

But actually it seems worse than that because the math doesn’t seem to work out. What evolutionary advantage does a wing give before you can even glide? In the generations where it doesn’t accomplish much, it would seem that a random mutation would be far mord likely to disappear than take over a population. A mutation like proto—wings is likely to be extremely rare while the individuals’ genetic fitness may have increased by say 10%, although that is extremely generous considering the proto-wing confers no advantage and might be seen as freaky and unusual by the mates in the intermediate state. But even with an increase in genetic fitness, it is a tiny tiny effect. For it to take over the entire population eventually, or create a major branch within the population that has some “Lamarckian” direction towards a fully-working wing, seems extremely far-fetched.
Do you not understand the concept of high frequency trading? Citadel is a market maker, there is nothing sinister or shady about how they make money. It’s all done in accordance with the law and reported quarterly.
My fav:

https://www.nfb.ca/film/waiting_for_fidel/

> This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro's Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in their film. The unusual crew consists of former Newfoundland premier Joseph Smallwood, radio and TV owner Geoff Stirling and NFB film director Michael Rubbo. What happens while the crew awaits its star shows a good deal of the new Cuba, and also of the three Canadians who chose to film the island.
AOL had a 45 minute idle timeout, meaning you'd be logged out regardless of what was happening on your screen if you weren't moving the mouse or using the keyboard. This was a problem if you wanted to download files and have them in the morning.

Making my first "idler" in Visual Basic (which sent a string of whatever song was playing in Winamp to a random AOL chatroom where I was the only person) meant my inactive timer was reset every few minutes.

AOL, "progs", Visual Basic—and the "scene" in AOL chatrooms at that time—hold a special place in my heart.
It could leak passwords, though, unless you’re very certain your overwriting after validation always works.
I'm sure we've all had the experience where we went to meet a romantic partner's extended family, and realized our partner was the only one who didn't have seven toes.

In one instance, I did meet a family member who was inexplicably rich. He reasoned, "Heck, even I can understand AOL!" and went all in, early enough.

I'd be rich if I'd taken the money I spent on storerooms for empty computer boxes, and put it all on Apple. Alas, the success of Microsoft in those days had convinced me I don't have a gift for such picks. The world isn't rational.
Assholes everywhere
when marxists say "exploitation" it's just a mathematical fact, not a value judgement. it just means that workers, systemically (that is, it doesn't make a claim about any individual worker), don't get ownership over the full value that they produce. this must be true if you really think about it, otherwise there would be no reason to own a company that you aren't also a normal worker in
Bruce Schneier? How the mighty have fallen.

In the US, 16 people were murdered today (by another human).

Worldwide, one person is murdered every second, or 1,440 murders per day.

Perspective...
The fact that your opponents' party got into power recently and just barely got defeated in the last presidential election says that there jolly well can be differences of opinion whether you like it or not. Instead of futilely insisting otherwise, it's time to start figuring out how to appeal to the electorate so your opponents don't gain power again.
Prevail: Understanding the Windows eBPF Verifier
In the only cited instance in the article, the car wasn't stolen in the attempt because the criminals got noticed, it took too long, blah blah blah.
Watching period British shows had me wishing they'd bring back the suicide doors on cars. Glad to see them here for the rear passengers at least.
Care to strawman much? Did the OP say anything about 0 managers? Most FAANGS cut a higher percentage of managers than developers over the last year. It seems they think they can get away with a lower proportion of managers.
I like Svelte. It embraces the fact that UI is stateful and doesn't try to pretend it isn't.
"Playing Praise Jesus by the Country Yahoos on Apple Music."
> I feel cycling advocates get some strange tunnel vision, we can have other mobility solutions.

In my case it's because we already have decently good public transit in my area, but next to no cycle infrastructure. So I advocate mostly for the latter.

That doesn't mean I don't think public transport is important too, they're a great combination - I cycle to the train station near me all the time! Public transport tends to have a last-mile problem and cycling is a great way around it. The two are additive.
Yeah, think of what would happen if they were hit with a global pandemic!
In a growing economy, new jobs are constantly being created.
An appropriate comment in this, the month of September.
It's still there if you want it www.msn.com
I've never heard of OnePass so I have no idea, but Dropbox is very easy to replace. I'm also not even sure how you'd expect a "pay once" model to work for cloud storage.
> So a solution I think we brainstormed on the show was mandating open interoperable APIs that allow easy insertion of (presumably commercial or open source) plugins into the system, within the user's end-to-end digital estate, under the control of the user (parent) and completely rejecting the MITM and endpoint compromise via back-doors that the government naively proposed.

What you're proposing would likely enable the creation of some fairly invasive stalkerware. Don't forget that 1) just because a feature says it's for use by a parent on their child's device doesn't mean that it can only be used in that context, nor that 2) not all parents have their children's best interests in mind.
Adobe Systems – The Founders' Perspective (2002) [video]
Since the author also released "How to be childless – A history and philosophy of life without children" I think I'll have to expect a lot of framing baked into this, including accidentally/intentionally leaving out contexts.

Note the "fueling" of "Nationalism", "committed" atrocities on the German side, while the French side only gets confronted by "wild rumors" and "accusations".

At that time Nationalism was a force for good throughout Europe demanding more egalitarian rights for citizens, democracy and separation of state powers, but also promoting independence of other nations as nationalists of one nation even travelled to other countries to support their Nationalists, for instance to Poland in support of their protests against Tsarist rule.

She leaves out this context, as well as that the French state (throughout being an ancien regime as well as being run by Napoleon) was waging multiple anti-German wars, basically treating the lands to its east like its Hinterland in need of Franconization (E.g. At the end of the 18th century just about 1% of the Elsassians spoke French, and even in 1953 80% of Elasassians were in favor of German speaking public schools).

She also seems to leave out the context, that Bismarck was an aristocrat and thus anything but a nationalist. And since she seems to be in need to see (or letting us see) the word nationalism in todays western liberal meaning, that whole differentiation seems inaccessible to her.

Germany "refrained from ethnic cleansing" (written as if this was some sort of novelty for Germans) because they considered the occupants German. The mild peace-conditions were given by Germany because Bismarck knew that anything else would foster even more French resentment then there already was („Toujours y penser, jamais en parler"), which would then foster more German nationalism, which in turn would hurt his Juncker-Class.
You can do the first step a lot faster with nix: `nix shell github:ggerganov/llama.cpp -c llama`
What’s worse is they don’t care.
That was a nice slice of history, thanks for sharing.
Ask HN: AI Safety” is the new “Social Media”
Social media has already proven itself a game-changer in numerous sectors. It has democratized news distribution, given rise to influencer culture, and even played a role in shaping political landscapes. These shifts serve as a precedent for the transformative potential of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.

In light of this, what are your thoughts on the future of AI? Will it follow a similar disruptive pattern as social media, or will its impact be of a different magnitude and nature altogether?
if you want narrow studded bike tires they're nowhere close to that much. A quick search found decent pizza cutters starting as low as $25/each. If you want studded fat bike tires you're gonna spend $400 for a set.

The narrow ones are fine for a little wet snow but suck once you get more than a few inches of dry powder or downtown slop. You're way better to go for flotation then.
AOL lumbered on but what finally killed it was broadband and cable. They just didn't have the pipes and the luster was gone by then anyway. DSL gave it some life support but by 2002 or so everyone I knew had switched to cable. AIM use continued for few more years after that until texting killed that too.
One Got Fat
Thank you for the suggestions! I will slowly check them out... a friend of mine worked on Fallout:NV! Can't believe I've never played.

None of them come close to DE in what I
understand you to be looking for, we could only
be so lucky.

I was hoping that some games would, quite frankly, simply ape Disco Elysium's thought-cabinet mechanic to an extent!

I'm surprised they haven't, especially considering DE's success, particularly with indie fans and creators. I thought DE might spawn sort of a mini-genre.
I never used AOL, but I got the CDs, used AIM (a standalone version of their messenger), and saw other people using AOL proper.

Imagine if AOL, the program, was your browser, chat, email, and internet connection all rolled into one single desktop program.

The clunkiness of an IDE, such as IntelliJ or Unreal Engine, that bakes a lot of things into one executable. The embedded browser in Visual Studio.

Dialup internet software makes a phone call to an ISP and handles the protocol for the connections all the applications on your machine use. AOL acted as a dialer itself so you could run lots of other non-AOL software, like Internet Explorer, Netscape, and video games. But AOL tried to be all of those things too inside their bloated app.
Wrong. A king only has power insofar as a people exist to buy into the idea that he has power, hence why kings required armies from the start. As we know, kings did not exist prior to farms that needed protection. This is not a coincidence. Only from the circumstances of material preconditions could such divine rights even be imagined, whether it be kings or founders of PayPal.

Materialism is one reason why I believe Marxism is worth defending.
Useful on an icebreaker: a rough and ready optics mast for human use
Icebreakers see all sorts of critters, mainly polar bears, and seals, birds, but mainly at a distance. A 1000 millimeter lens would be great. But how to hold it? That's a stout tripod you're lugging around for international travel. A monopod is probably not stable enough. But a stout pole, thick aluminum sheet, or U beam that could be clamped onto the liferail at variable height would be a great starting point. Then you just need either an Arca mount or you can even use a window mount (e.g. https://vortexoptics.com/vortex-car-window-mount.html).
The mistake is thinking any of these 'isms is a complete function system in and of itself.

If you're asking which one is better you're already wrong.