skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The places to look might be: heavier vehicles might lead to more fatalities in bicyclists and pedestrians, and something in battery manufacture.

Maybe something from charging infrastructure?
I need to choose outlets and switches for a new building, and I hope to "smart home" it. I had started to do some reading, and while my experience wasn't _quite_ as gruesome as the author of this article portrays it to be, I generally agree with their sentiments.

Still, I'm not quite ready to give up on computer-controlled automation.

Does anyone know of a reasonably complete guide (web site, book, whatever) that explains this well? What I'm looking for: help choosing components that will work together; not "for dummies"; I'm technically competent and willing to learn some stuff but don't want to make a hobby/profession out of this; doesn't require buying into Google Home, Alexa, or another privacy-hostile system.

Thanks in advance.
My house came with the doorbell wires buried behind the frame somewhere, so I installed a self-powered wireless doorbell. The transmitter harvests power from the user physically pressing the button, so it doesn't need batteries. I just caulked it straight onto the brick.
> Interesting to note that panoramas in the latest Google Camera app still have the option to record audio.

You're right! I've never tapped the settings icon on the panorama view, but sure enough, there's a "audio recording" option. It's unfortunately a bit hidden and thus hard to decide on a case-by-case basis, but it's there.

This effectively replaces cardboard camera. Thanks for pointing that out!
Presumably the crime factor.

Walking around drunk at night is risky for anyone, but males of our species tend to be more tolerant of the risks and better equipped to GTFO.
No. #1 is your CO will chew your ass out in front of everyone (which is a big no-no in leadership, yet it's accepted regarding your children). I saw first hand my E6 got called to battalion CO to answer why his son was bullying other kids (I think some civilians from DoD). I still remember CO said, if you don't fix this, I march the whole damn battalion to your house and make you do push ups while your son watch.

When your parents care, you will do.
Becoming an ML engineer is about 6 months of work for a competent backend engineer.

But becoming an X-Scientist (Data/Applied/Applied Research) is a whole different skill set. Now, this kind of role only exists in a proper ML company. But, just acquiring the Statistics & Linear Algebra 201 level intuition is about 6 months of fulltime study in its own right. You also need to have deep skills in one of the Tabular/Vision/NLP/Robotics areas and get hired into a role accordingly. Usually 1 year intensive masters level is good enough to get your foot in the door, with the more prestigious roles needing about 2 years of intensive work with some track record of State-of-the-art results on 1 occasion.

Then you have proper researchers, and that might be the most impossible to get in field right now. I know kids who have only done hardcore ML since high school, who are entering the industry after their masters or PhD. I would not want to be an entry level researcher right now. You need to have undergrad math-CS dual major level skills just to get started. They're expected to have delivered state-of-the-art results a few times just to be called for an interview. I'd say you need at least 3 years of fulltime effort if you want to pivot into this field from SWE.
That may be a bit simplistic since the article does mentions other possible explanations for the better results beyond the fact that essentially all students are above an economic floor.

And I didn't get it from the article, but are those schools better than the schools in wealthy districts?
Another factor is that the military parents have cleared a bar of pre-enlistment testing (ASVAB?) that has strong correlations with IQ testing.
ESA they for sure expected otherwise.

There are countless interviews with ESA and Ariane people where the smug superiority just drips of them.

"Yes SpaceX is cheap but totally unreliable and low launch cadence, once Ariane 6 is out we will be much cheaper then SpaceX"

That was basically the attidude they had.
No. This is not how any of this works and you’re wildly speculating.

A multifamily property is worth some multiple of its Net Operating Income. Almost all
Multifamily properties are acquired with debt. No lender will grant a loan for a property that has a high asking price, high rents and high vacancy.

Source: I have owned many multifamily properties.
Like GitHub.
At this point people assume everything is a scam, everything is "compromised", and everyone except the "little guy" is in on it. It's really silly. You might as well also claim that the IRS has moles inside of Microsoft and is compromised which is why they're going to get this $27 billion in owed payments and investors had no idea!

Better yet, the IRS and Microsoft are working together on a secret AI tax scheme and this is a cover-up for transferring large amounts of funds to the IRS or to Microsoft for the program to work.
Edit: Correction. The viewer app is on the store, not the camera app that allows you to take panoramas.
It's not a high bar to beat, at least here in New Jersey. Nearly all of our school boards are non-professional, non-compensated elected officials, and a large percentage of Superintendents started their career as gym teachers.

The net result is schools that hire hoards of consultants to try to meet professional standards, but fail anyway, while spending vast sums of tax payer dollars. Covid funds earmarked towards bridging the learning gap from closed schools during the pandemic are spent on fancy laptops, new athletic facilities, sound systems for auditoriums. Absenteeism is skyrocketing, and teachers are not only not encouraged to enforce discipline, they're actively told to let out of control students slide. Social promotion is on the rise, and standardized test scores are tanking.

We finally gave up in my local district and ended up paying a fortune to send both our kids to private schools. After an initial many-months-long struggle to catch up with their new private school classmates (because of the public school deficits), they are both doing much better. Money well spent, but I still send taxes to an ineffective district that spends money like water, and where educational value is dead last in their priorities.

They even introduced a course in Graphic Novels at the high school this year, while 75% of kids fail standardized science testing, and 60% fail in math.
How is this "private market will regulate it" when this is enforced by EU?
My feeling is that school performance is denominated by the students and parents.

If for example, you took the best performing school district and the worst performing school district and swapped just the parents and students keeping the school staff, administration, and facilities the same, the previously best school district would end up near the bottom and the previously worst school district would end up near the top.
Sports fans watch a lot of live TV.
It's great for when you don't want to choose something to watch
We use Gather too; it's amazing for real time collaboration. I use Loom to summarize work and send updates to a larger audience in an async fashion.
I think the parent comment is addressing the Kindle app on iPad rather than the iPadOS. IMO the Kindle app has been buggy on iPad and Mac. They recently overhauled the Mac app to be more like iPad (Catalyst I guess).
I’m subscribed to them for the same reason I was subscribed to DirecTV for a decade - they have a monopoly on Sunday Ticket.

Oh, how I yearn for Sunday Ticket to just be its own entity so I didn’t have to buy another service.
> The fact that the building itself is an investment that can appreciate in value irrespective of its usage means that the incentives are misaligned.

You do not seem to understand how commercial property is valued at all.

Your rant is some /r/LateStageCapitalism nonsense.
>Shortly after that, another contestant, Youssef Nader, independently discovered the same word in the same area, with even clearer results — winning the second place prize of $10,000.

That's what u get for optimising your code
> "took Andrew's Coursera course"

If he really did take those and did all the assignments himself and understood all the concepts, that still puts him at least in the 95th percentile among ML job seekers.
The EU is nothing like China. China is basically a dictatorship, run by a single party, with a single guy on top who can make far reaching decisions. The EU is a huge collection of institutions and political parties. Even if they agree on something in the parliament and the commission, they still need all the heads
of government - from every single member country - to agree before it becomes law. And even if they manage to do that, political activists can and have brought down laws using the European court of justice. These spy laws under the guise of protecting children from sexual abuse from zealot parties have come and gone for many years now, but functioning democracies like the EU have never seen them come to fruition.
If running in a containerized environment ENV is injected only to the container, at container runtime. If you’re running your containers with a single process, you are doing the exact access control you just outlined. At that point what is the difference between a file on disk with read permissions for the proc owner vs only the proc having the ENV injected to its shell at runtime? I’d maybe even say the ENV at runtime is more secure than the chown’d file on disk because the ENV injected variant is ephemeral and when that container/proc dies, so does the ENV sitting in its memory, whereas the other leaves a file on disk potentially depending on where it was written to, regardless of who can access it. Then there’s the fact that a lot more people than you think run containers as root so all file access control goes out the window.

From a security perspective it is always more secure to have something only in memory of the running process than it is to have a file on disk regardless of file permissions
Yup, cable TV is ridiculous.

Streaming, however, is doing just fine catching up with costs and playing with "ad supported" pricing levels which is only expected to spread.

We're in the "eternal September" of streaming, it's only going to get worse from here.
Microsoft: Chinese-backed hackers exploiting Atlassian zero-day vulnerability
I agree with all of your comment. This was indeed pretty unique case. No one in my small company (including me) actually knew that codebase, it was total mess written by original EE (who sayed himself he was not a programmer), it was pretty small (32kb of rom puts a limit on your codebase) by "team of programmers" standards and currently we have no one else who could actually do anything with that code, one coworker is learning to write firmware and new version is already much more readable and reasonable. It was TOTALLY in need of rewrite, but not all code is a good candidate for something like this.

> I'm actually more surprised your manager/PM let you do this. Most of the time this happens as a skunkworks thing.

I didn't know it will take so long, delving into this was like a frctal of bad code. When I've tried to fix something, it required fixes in other places which required fixes in another places. I could make several TDWTF posts from that code.

> Rewrites should always be incremental, never big bang, and never in isolation.

Yeah, but that codebase was not that big, so it was medium size bang. Never in isolation - there was no one other at my company who could actually do it and it was tested functionally by others once it was stable enough.
With Canada’s land to population ratio, each resident should have at least a private airfield and 100acre farm, and yet, people spend their whole lives paying mortgages for 1000 square feet sardines boxes called houses, and before they realize it, they gauge up the already abysmal prices so they can compensate their loss to milk the tenants, a never ending process to keep people busy when the land is empty and vacant all around us..
Based on what happens in my country, it could be both penalty + some interest rates based on the reference rate (which definitely haven't been zero for the past two years btw) but not equal to it.
I can't disagree with any of that, except to say that I don't think the choice that a multinational makes is between Ireland and nothing.

At some point you are making enough money that it makes sense for you to hire experts to "optimise" your tax liabilities, just like you'd hire someone to improve your IT infrastructure or your heating bill. If they didn't base their corporate structure around Ireland then it might have been Jersey or Malta or something else that got them 90% of what they had.

It sucks when the outcome is that big companies end up paying less than they're expected to and have lower effective rates than small companies. I see it not as a moral failing so much as a law of nature, like flood waters taking the path of least resistance and destroying slums before bank buildings. Reasonably people certainly differ though.
Netflix did transform TV. Cable subscriptions are shrinking. Many people have switch to a streaming on demand service vs a linear service. You can watch most TV without ads.
CSS was to a large extent a Microsoft project (when the time came to introduce stylesheets it was more-or-less Opera and Microsoft against Netscape, and Microsoft had many more users than Opera).

Nonetheless Microsoft managed to use CSS to achieve a great deal of user lock-in by refusing to conform to the standard they co-authored.
Sometimes the debt gets canceled with the project. Or the customer keeps using the product regardless of deficiencies.
People come and go so I don't know how much can be assumed to be common knowledge but what changed is that big enterprises figured out that ML/AI can now be applied in their business contexts with low enough cost to justify the investment to shareholders without anyone getting fired if things don't work out as expected. Every business has data that can be turned into profits and investing in AI is perceived to be a good way to do that now.
This is the fediverse they want
No, but I'm thinking I'm going to buy some, yeah.
Dracula – Dark theme for 300 apps
To celebrate 10 years of Dracula, we're launching a new website today!

Here's what we've been up to and what's next for this project...

Even though I pushed the first commit to Dracula, I'm not the only one responsible for its success.

Over the years, more than 734 contributors have created themes for all sorts of apps.

Dracula is everywhere now, from code editors to music apps, from terminals to websites.

Now, we're launching a new website designed and developed by the super-talented Lucas de França.

With an ever-growing selection of apps supported, we needed a better way to showcase all the themes.

The new homepage brings an App Store look-and-feel with a focus on discoverability.

Dracula PRO is also getting a fresh look, including a new surprise theme (more coming soon).

The new newsletter form is powered by Resend using the private beta for Contacts API.

A lot has happened in the last ten years, but there's a lot we still want to do.

We're on a quest to create the best cross-platform theme in the world.

We want to transform the industry and provide a consistent experience across all applications.

We believe that every single app should have a Dracula theme installed, and the best part is that you can help us make it happen.

Thank you for creating themes, for sharing them with your friends, for writing about them, for contributing to them, for being part of this journey.

We're so grateful for all the support we've received over the years.
On Adult Swim, the ads are weird enough that I actually don't really mind.

That's it though.

I want / would use a tenth of what YouTube TV or any cable provider sells. I don't really want to spend 70 dollars a month for it.
I seriously doubt that's true. Huwawei has a deelopment center in Israel. Israeli media said that they were able to do it by concentrating everything on a need to know basis. Only used paper and in-person meetings to communicate.

Since they knew Israel was listening the broadcast misleading information in digital form.

The bottom line is that at some point a person in a room needs to decide if information is credible and how it fits into the narrative. Israeli intelligence just underestimated Hamas and didn't think this would happen.
I think lots of people haven't realized that video clips like Loom are actually built into Slack. The button that looks like a video camera below the input text box does it.

It's not a full replacement, but it's the one you already have.
IMHO, the discussion should not be so much whether to teach Bayesian or maximum likelihood. But instead, whether to teach generative models or to keep going with hypothesis tests, which are generally presented to students as a bag of tricks.

Generative models, (implemented in e.g. Stan, PyMC, Pyro, Turing, etc.) split models from inference. So one can switch from maximum likelihood to variational inference or MCMC quite easily.

Generative models, beginning from regression, make a lot more sense to students and yield much more robust inference. Most people I know who publish research articles on a frequent basis do not know p-values are not a measure of effect sizes. This demonstrates current education has failed.
Very curious about this, would love for someone to expand on how this potential loophole works.
I just went through a few prednisone for a case of bursitis, and it worked fantastic for that. Had no effect on the tinnitus though. Oh well.
Show HN: I made an open-source AI Headshot Generator
> $700k is a life changing amount of money

Probably ~half of that will go to taxes?
It depends on the level of criminal. The larger criminal organizations had their own phone networks. But even then, it's still suffers the same issues as any other organization in that at some point some of its members are going to be top notch and great at what they do, others will be the types to do the least possible or even ignore procedures.
In my experience, being similar to RTLD_LOCAL avoids a whole slew of sharing/unique accidents compared to the pile of hacks that is ELF. It is sometimes both the hardest and easiest platform to work with since it is the conceptually most consistent but also therefore the most primitive linker. But that is just not an issue, as the compiler must work anyways to ensure atomics work correctly per the platform ABI.

Indeed the problem is otherwise not restricted just to memory sharing: even the particular CPU instructions chosen can mean one compiler is incompatible with the output of a different compiler when it comes to atomics even when locks are not involved (the specifics of which barriers are used and where often mean there are multiple valid, but mutually incompatible ways, to emit atomic instructions)
Or "when the only occupant opens the front door and drops off the network, turn off all lights, arm the alarm, turn off the stereo, and yell at me if the cooktop is drawing power".
Oh my god I got a flashback to Groovy's missing method [0] which caused us so many issues, and made our codebase so unreadable.

When you discover it for the first time, you think, "huh, neat, why not use it". Before you know it, nobody can reason about your code and if you leave, nobody wants to maintain it (esp. if your test suite is not extensive).

[0] https://groovy-lang.org/metaprogramming.html
The invention of dotenv files just makes me chuckle and seems to completely miss the point of not putting them in a config file.
Education is mostly about your peers. It's obviously true for prestigious universities but it's just as true for elementary schools. Charter schools kicking out problematic students isn't some loophole, it's the main point, and it absolutely can improve the education for those that remain.

My district has a quarter of high schoolers in charter schools. Almost all of them under the poverty line. It's not like they're only accepting kids with two parents, in fact they're doing a much better job of helping poor families in my district than the public school system, which forces all the poor students into the same schools with literal murderers attending. Allowing poor students from families that value education to go to schools with like minded students is an unequivocally good thing compared to what the public schools currently do.
That's not it. It may be helpful for the Americans in this thread to look at the UK, which uses FPTP but has meaningfully successful third parties anyway. The lack of them in the USA isn't to do with FPTP but more fundamental.

The reality is that politics is essentially bipartisan. The left/right divide is the core of politics and the only one that actually matters in the absence of regional independence movements. Therefore, what we see is that third parties usually struggle to differentiate themselves to voters.

This can be seen most clearly with the Lib Dems who are one of the main third parties in the UK. They tend to be used as a protest vote and few would be able to articulate what they actually believe. Arguably they believe nothing at all, as they have in the past reversed their position on core manifesto promises, fought against implementing referendum results (despite having "democrats" in the name) and so on. What do the Lib Dems actually stand for? What is the big difference between them and Labour or the Tories? It's unclear.

This doesn't mean you can't have different third parties. You can. The SNP is a clear example of a third party that grew from nothing to take over Scottish politics. But it seems that regional independence is one of the only things that is big enough to cause this, as typically the national level parties will not want to support a regional independence movement (would reduce their own power and take up a lot of time), but voting is regional.

Even there though, the SNP is basically just a clone of Labour plus that one additional policy. If Scotland were to become independent, you'd rapidly see the two party system re-establish itself there along left-wing and really-left-wing lines, because this is the only axis that matters.

In Europe where FPTP often isn't being used, you do see more parties, but this doesn't result in less partisan or more harmonious politics. If anything it seems to be slightly the opposite. Germany for example has major problems with people publicly debating whether the AfD should be banned, there are physical attacks on its members, and although PR is supposed to encourage collaboration and compromise none of the other parties are willing to work with it despite it being the second most popular party or even in some parts the first most popular party. The AfD is not particularly extreme though, and its policies aren't so different to the Republicans in many ways. This problem crops up in other European countries as well, it's not unique to Germany.

So a third party wouldn't fix anything in the USA. Nor would PR or more exotic voting schemes. People might occasionally use them as a protest vote, as they do already today, but there's no fundamental third ideology for a third party to express, and anyway who needs a new party when the two big ones are so internally democratic? Easier to take over one of them than make a new one.
She's the star witness against Sam Bankman-Fried. Her testimony was explosive
A classic Joel on Software article about funny backwards compatibility built into Excel: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
China Is Now the Top Car Exporter: How the Russia-Ukraine War Helped-WSJ [video]
I thought the same. He had the better results, but too late.
Buying their hub enables you to use an app on your phone to control the lights, if you so desire.