skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly off topic but isn't this sentence wrong?

It has a four-degree-of-freedom head (able to look up, down, around, and tilt),

I'm not seeing any way that up/down, left/right, tilt-left/tilt-right are 4 degrees of freedom.

It seems like that has to be either 3 degrees of freedom or 6.

How can up and down be two separate degrees of freedom, but lefr and right only be a single degree?

Not my area is expertise, but I can't see any way for the math to line up.
I misspoke, I should have said protocol. I'm referring to the bytecode not the text format. I'm probably throwing away the text format, for the reasons you outlined
Remote management sounds like a security nightmare.
Yeah, saw them in American movies. I've also heard about the "busing kids in" policy that didn't work, also from the States.

Try to put your 10-year old kid on public transport half-away across the city in any big European city, especially after the sun is out in the winter.
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The original Blackmagic Pocket Cinema was about $500 on sale, but only shot in 1080p. The new generation is about $1300. And then you have to buy lenses :)

So, overall it's not bad value. It's not going to replace pro gear any time soon, but it's great that it can do stuff like this now.
syntactic broccoli.

The idea behind 'sugar' is 'tasty but inessential', so the strict opposite would be something essential but not so tasty.

But maybe 'syntactic thorns' correspond better to the sense you intend to express.
"Pretty fine"? More like world class considering it's a city of just ~2m.
I'd still imagine it would again take more energy for an ICE in this situation?

The ICE aside from all the inefficiencies of the engine, needs to run constantly and then gain enough revs to begin moving, where as the electric truck suffers from none of this, you put your foot down and the electrons flow, are used almost precisely.

Then if there is a downhill on this road, the EV can likely use regenerative breaking to gain some energy back. Pretty awesome.
Not really true, I've got 51.7GB/128GB of just podcasts on my phone.
Smartphones changed the market such that people who just want to shoot good photos of their family don’t need to buy expensive cameras anymore.

But photography with dedicated cameras is alive and well, and won’t go anywhere anytime soon even as these phones get better and better.

The super telephoto market is alive and well, and Wildlife photography in particular is a big contributor to this. When Olympus released their 150-400mm (300-800mm full frame equivalent) super telephoto aimed at wildlife shooters, it was sold out for almost a year.

For me, the new iPhone means I can shoot B-roll footage that looks great, but this will not replace my main camera anytime soon. It’s currently far more viable for high quality video than it is for high quality photographs.
Dropbox laughing in that $10B market cap and $2B+ ARR. Jobs was right about the concept (insert meme about Apple ecosystem devs realizing their product was killed by an Apple feature release), but wrong in that specific instance.
Scanning the site see mostly points algorithms, the only mention of polygons is a textbook LibGEOS call, I see no network at all. And I see no smart manipulation of anything else than points, I see no subdivision of space, etc.
Because commuters often have tight connections to make and if a train is two minutes late that can be enough to miss the next train and be late to work, which is a big no-no.
Subwoofers designed to drive enemy forces insane by using infrasound?
You have obviously not been to Stockholm during morning rush. Stockholm have an extensive subway, as well as buses. Or just using the (often quite wide) sidewalks to walk. The amount of kids moving around (themselves) to get to their schools is almost overwhelming.

Oh, and the best schools are really in the downtown area. Which is why children, kids, teenagers use the public transport from all around the metro area by themselves to get to the schools.

And since you comment further below about winter - yes, of course the kids move around like this in the winter too.
Most kids know how to use the public transportation, and being ouside is safe enough to let your kids outside without needing to be with them.

Also, some European countries do a really high effort to make their public schools so good that rich people study in the public centres.
So many code models seem to be used for code generation purposes, but is there a general effort to apply these as static/code analysis tooling? It'd be nice to write my rules in English and have somewhat predictable behavior when analyzing small bits of code. I have had success with GPT4 and a bit less with StarCoderPlus, but I have to build the engine to chop up code, send pieces to remote as needed, cache results for same-hashed snippets, etc.

Surely someone is working on general AI powered code analysis tooling?
> In general, consumers are marketing care about the benefits, and engineers care about the methods. Hence AI versus machine learning.

Sorry, which is the methods and which is the benefits? In your mind is "AI" a benefit?
Yeah I'd love to have big display/dashboard on a wall that isn't acting as extra light in the room but not at those prices.

Transflective LCD is other option bit also pretty hard/expensive to get a big screen...
You mean like basically all kids in Munich do, just as an example? Regarding this "better school" thing, that seems to be an almost exclusive US problem.
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What are the much better schools in the center of Stockholm that you're thinking of?
I think the level of education is really good in most Swedish schools, so if you want one that's farther away for reasons... electric car or public transport
> It's totally OK to live in Stockholm, as well as in many other cities in Europe

And/or having a car is too expensive for some so people make do..
No, it's not a linear regression, but it is at its heart optimization.

And yes, that is indeed like saying a computer is just a bunch of zeroes and ones and logic gates. It's true and beautiful and profound but nearly useless from a practical perspective. And the wonder, like computers when you scale the numbers of transistors to the billions, is that when you scale the number of parameters to the billions, you end up with something amazing.
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Iirc encoding is not exactly specified by design. Leaving implementers (some) degree of freedom on what acoustic models to use, what audio data to throw away, etc. This is one area where LAME lagged in its early days (not today).

How a decoder should work is exactly defined (a quick look on Wikipedia mentions ISO/IEC 11172-3, not sure if that's a free/open standard or not). So one should expect 1:1 correspondence between encoded stream and decoded sound (minus rounding errors?), regardless of decoder used.

For already-encoded MP3s in people's archives this doesn't matter anyway, as the loss in "lossy compression" was already eaten, and no amount of re-coding or bitrates can recover that. Transcoding = more loss.

Not to mention the hassles involved in transcoding, likely for little gain if any.
Probability is common, but not the only way to model uncertainty. There are also different logics, Dempster-Shaefer theory and so on. That aside...

Neural networks can be modeled with probability, but that doesn't mean they actually compute in that way. Just like with humans - we can see brain often follows things like Bayes rule, but it doesn't compute PDFs. Doing full probability reasoning would be too expensive for NNs to do, so they cut corners somewhere, and we don't really understand where, it might be very inconsistent. It often works but also often fails.
In this video we learn how to optimize our code with a switch statement rather than chaining endless if-else-if-else-if statements. How to structure switch statements and avoid fall-through execution. Learn how to parse and convert strings into various data types. Continue with implementation of string parsing business rule functions.
Speaking as one of the eight people to ever write Elixir professionally, this was a small ergonomics feature that I really got to like (along with the `|>` pipe operator).
It's quite transparent about its income in that document.

> Bellingcat does not accept direct government funding, it only accepts contributions from international or intergovernmental institutions like the EU, OSCE or the UN.

The purpose of those keen to hammer the 'Bellingcat is a CIA front' line is quite obviously to undermine excellent investigative journalism that more often than not reveals facts and details that embarrass their worldview.
Website shows the evolution of glaciers of the years, from space
I'm not sure if I should be alarmed or just enjoy the view. Likely I will board a plane to visit one of those before it's too late.
I like the hypocrisy this linked to twitter talking about how bad twitter is. Go figure.

Maybe we can all finally agree anything on twitter is bullshit and stop linking to anything there as real news now, please?

TL:DR - Twitter Link, Didn't Read.
even just x10 cheaper would put it at double the price of LCD and that already has uses
I wonder if there's anyone who uses Emacs defaults and only that.
That’s true, the book is very secular and maybe the most scientific you can get about the topics and practices discussed
Yeah, seeing 7 year olds taking the subway with their parents, just to change two stations later like any other commuter, is always a fun and cool thing to see.
It has less value now with arm64 as a common arch, but for the old armv6, a lot a packages are optimized and compiled for this old platform
What "illegal content"? What 'disinformation'? All the gore that gets pasted on 4chan should be the opening and closing footage on every evening news.

If people saw the shear brutality and horror the only heads that would fly would be of the politicians and media that exploit conflicts for a profit.

But we can't have that. EU made sure its 'illegal' and that people need to be 'protected' from viewing the fallout of our policies.

Through out the history suppressing alternative points of view was never about protecting anything it was always about staying in power. This is no different.
The scale isn't quite the same, neither is the power distribution between sides. Also, prior to war Ukraine was a friendly country to Russia, which is not the case with Israel to Palestine.
I'm generally opposed to unnecessary optimization, but I'm also opposed to this tendency to start flaming as soon as people even talk about optimization.

Because sometimes this kind of careful performance tuning, even at the cost of readability, is necessary and desirable. And, for the times when that happens, this kind of information needs to be out there, available, and being discussed, so that people can learn the techniques and understand how to use them properly and responsibly.

Yes, that does include knowing that a change to the compiler's optimizer could mean that things that used to make the code faster now make it slower. For that matter, changing the CPU microarchitecture could have the same effect. But that's something we all learn in Optimizing 101. It's so well-known that the very first setting on Godbolt's output pane is a toggle to select which compiler and version it should use to generate said output.
So a sub-woofer is the opposite of an alpha dog?
It's interesting because the idea that they hone their craft is in contrast with the other author aphorism that "you have your whole life to write your first novel, and one year to write your second".

I wonder if the ideas in the early works are any more interesting or creative, but just not written as well.

I think this tension between planning and upfront design on the one hand and just executing something* on the other applies to software engineering as well.
It's a quality zinger, but ironically the product may have been a subset of the feature: I'd argue the product is the fact that Dropbox doesn't belong to a platform vendor and therefore can't be leveraged for anticompetitive purposes / lock-in.
You're correct. There's nothing special about taurine delivery, which is the obligate nutrient for obligate carnivores like cats.
I've had to deal with this kind of company in FOMO mode. They start from a solution (AI) in search of a problem to solve, while the ideal approach would be the inverse.

Pretty much a guarantee that a lot of money will be wasted while panickly iterating through pointless approaches. I figure this happens every time a new fundamental technology comes out, the dot-com bubble has probably seen many such companies.
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Most of the manufacturers are focused on mirrorless, but the DSLR market is still alive.

Pentax has bucked the trend and has continued to release new DSLRs as recently as this year.
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Facebook went out of their way to make an onion address available for the application (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_onion_address). They consider nobody to be “expendable” when it comes to their desire to profile individuals. Forcing their users into a specific browser will do nothing for them when what they want is for people to make requests against their servers.
Forgeries already exist, no AI needed. So arguably the detection method would be the same.

But in a more general sense, whether that happened depends on what you mean with "publish". If you mean "someone put it on Twitter and no one corrected them" then yes - it happens all the time with highly-anticipated books (I definitely read at least two fake Harry Potters back in the day) and no one corrects them because they are obviously fake.

Now, if you mean "a respectable publishing house put it for sale" then I doubt it happened. No decent publishing house would take (say) a new Lovecraft before giving the state a call and/or asking for the receipts.
We should have started arrays with -2147483648.
Created by Harvard Medical School professors, Profi is a new non-medical nasal spray that creates a micro hydrogel lining in your nose, preventing 99% of viral pathogens (cold, flu, COVID, etc.) from being absorbed into your body. Each application lasts eight hours, and is a game changer for being in crowded spaces.
The time period is asinine; 20 years is forever in most industries
As a Swede born and raised in Stockholm but no longer live there I wonder if delivery trucks and people working (carpenters etc) will be excempt from these rules? This is a serious question because the changes comes (mainly) from a radical left wing political party that had deliveries on the subway as a serious solution to banning car traffic.

Personally I don't really care since I don't live in Stockholm anymore but that city is very hostile against car traffic in general (which is stupid in my opinion). Finding a parking space in the outskirts of the city is very hard and I have searched for a spot in like an hour when visiting my family. They build a lot of housing but no parking spaces for residents. Sometimes if you're lucky they'll build like 1 parking space per 20 residents when in reality 19 of these residents have a car. I know personally some areas close to my mother where they have taken areas for parking and built housing there making the actual parking spaces go negative.

Fine if you want to get rid of petrol/diesel but there are alternatives and you don't have to make things shitty for people with electric cars as well.

I think people will start moving from Stockholm because who wants to live in a city where housing is 3-4 times the national avg, people being shot all the time and even blown up when in bed in your own home. Then the politicians responsible cares more about making it more expensive for you to go to work which all seems more meaningless since you pay so much in taxes that goes to immigration and people not contributing to society.

Productive will move to the country side where they can safely drive to work and work less because working hard is just not worth it in Sweden.
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Well, I expected that, but slighlty hoped that ironical quotes will help (which is also part of the name of the series, started with explanatory intro[1]).

But I am afraid it is hard to do something to prevent people communicating with article title on its own. Happens all the time with me, whatever I write about! (I tried boring over-explanatory titles, people still argue with _that_.)

1: https://zverok.space/blog/2023-10-02-syntax-sugar.html
> Could it be caused by vaccinations? Probably not. There seem to be plenty of unvaccinated people with long covid.

I don't really understand how that is relevant in this context? Aren't there plenty of people who never suffered from long covid, but suffer from irritable bowel syndrome, both vaccinated and unvaccinated as well?
Exactly. Indirect effects on weight, and pretty weak effects.

Sports is a big ingredient in health, though.
A lot private schools in the US don't offer transportation services. Many school districts in the US won't do transportation if you're trying to go to any school that you're not originally zoned for. So if you want to send your kids to a nicer private school or if the school you're zoned for is trash, you're in charge of getting them to school.
In their FAQ

> How does it work?

> Using a "Virtual Distributed Filesystem" (VDFS), in other words; a decentralized database that emulates a filesystem. It indexes hardware filesystems to create a master database that is synchronized in realtime between your devices running Spacedrive.

> What makes this different to Dropbox or Google Drive?

> It is not a storage provider, Spacedrive is simply a database that exists on top of existing storage layers, from cloud services like Dropbox, Google Drive and iCloud to physical devices and external drives you already own. It doesn't provide you more storage, rather a supercharged view of your existing storage.

So more like Syncthing? Or rather Windows File Sharing/Samba? I don't really get it
I understand the author's position, and despite its usefulness, I think the numbered arguments are an inelegant solution. In Haskell, by way of comparison, any one-parameter function can be used as the argument to map:

ghci> map reverse ["hello", "goodbye"]
["olleh","eybdoog"]

is (mostly) equivalent to the more verbose form with an explicit lambda:

ghci> map (\s -> reverse s) ["hello", "goodbye"]
["olleh","eybdoog"]

Operators are just normal functions, but tuples are not automatically uncurried. Here I'm using the multiply operator (*) to multiple a list of pairs:

ghci> map (*) [(1,2), (3,4)]
ERROR
ghci> map (uncurry (*)) [(1,2), (3,4)]
[2,12]

Points-free syntax can be used to construct chains of operations without any explicit lambda variable. Here filter strings of more than two characters:

ghci> filter ((>2) . length) ["a","bb","ccc","dddd"]
["ccc","dddd"]

In lambda syntax:

ghci> filter (\x -> (length x) > 2) ["a","bb","ccc","dddd"]
["ccc","dddd"]

I find the Haskell syntax concise and clear, and I always miss it when using other languages (despite Haskell's other shortcomings).

Edit: formatting
Personally, I mostly want a more ergonomic way to write lambdas that I find more pleasant to type and read, even if it is as 'verbose'
My assumption is that the involved parties will attempt to use reasonably self-interested common sense unless required otherwise. The text does not appear to say there must be immediate publication, therefore I'm assuming that won't happen, but it's legalese; it's possible I've misinterpreted this.

The reason I think there's room for normal processes here is that they're talking about ENISA forwarding that notification to CSIRT (without the 24-hour deadline? possibly later?), and they talk of "unless for justified cybersecurity risk-related grounds", and even if CSIRT and ENISA have _notifications_ eventually (potentially well past that 24 hours), it doesn't say that requires immediate publication, merely that the notification is for _purposes_ of "coordinated vulnerability disclosure".

It doesn't say that disclosure must be immediate, nor in fact does it even say it must _ever_ actually occur; simply that that's the aim. If anything, that constrains the organization; so it wouldn't be valid grounds to withhold forwarding to CSIRT if some intelligence agency for instance happened to find that convenient (not that I'm under any illusions that that is therefore inconceivable or that there aren't potentially 100 other loopholes).

Sounds to me like both ENISA and CSIRT have the option to sit on things, as it is, and also as if the manufacturer can ask them to do so.

Also, that word "justified" can mean pretty much anything. It might turn out to mean "we haven't finished our impact assessment yet", and therefore by default _all_ vulnerability notifications initially are not forwarded because of course they won't be assessed in that kind of time-frame, or if forwarded at least not published.

Basically: this all sounds so vague that it doesn't appear (but IANAL) that the proposed rule requires YOLO style vulnerability notifications, so I'm going to presume they'll treat this with the necessary caution.
you can get '_1 * _2' to work. Whether you want to is another story :D

More seriously, even something like "(x,y) => x*y" would be nice.

edit: I forgot that I managed to make the $(x, y)(x*y) syntax work a few years ago when trying to emulate constexpr lambdas:

https://github.com/gpderetta/libtask/blob/master/lambda.cpp
Formally it's a generalized linear model with a constructed feature set.

A "kitchen sink" regression with enough polynomial terms (x^2, x^3, etc.) and interaction terms (ab, (ab)^2, etc.) will be a function approximator the same way a neural net is.

The computational mechanics are different (there's a reason we dont use it) but in the land of infinite computational power it can be made equivalent.
Do you have any examples? I'm charged with figuring out how my organization can benefit from AI, and hearing that there are non-ML options is very relieving.

I assume it's not quite so simple as to include any algorithm, right? TFA even sort of refutes that idea, saying I’ve been told that a product was “driven by AI” only to find out it was driven by “if-then” statements.
> "heavy loud polluting traffic" in the city.

yeah, that's great but.. Modern engines are already pretty "clean", significant proportion (if not the majority?) of PM 2.5 and PM 0.1 particles come from breaks and tires so EV are not really the solution for inner city pollution.

(and the effect on CO2 emissions is immaterial in this case)
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Sometimes a banana is just a banana.

Nomads did make these lands uninhabitable due to danger of death, not unlike malaria; and these lands did undergo the relevant nomad displacement/swamp draining before they could be settled by peasants. The comparison is apt, and if you have moral issues with the metaphor, compare that to moral issues with raiding and slavery.
I'm not saying it was the best way but if you just ran some small 3rd party script or wrote some small Python script with non packaged deps, well, it was easy, fast and usually safe.
But forcing this new behavior is surely a good decision.