skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true. They have so much fantastic potential. As pieces of raw hardware - amazing.
Bitcoin miners running up Texans' electricity bills
Interesting, sort of like a reverse chesterton's fence argument: just because a thing used to be used to do x, doesn't mean that's the only purpose it could possibly serve.
Isn't like the collective world economy essentially a Ponzi scheme or something?
Not really. Most places use crypto now and those that still also accept cash use PayPal or Kofi – they’re not getting card details. That’s how it works
My big head blown moment with Angular was, when I discovered their IoC is singleton only. And the Angular community doesn't seem to be bothered about that fact.
I think you compare it to the average as that's who you are encountering when on the road. You have no way of selecting the other drivers to bias toward the doctor.
Musk is currently worth $228.5B

So, he alone takes care of average net worth of over 229K households.
Almost.

1/8th of a mile is every 660 feet, but the farthest you can be from one is the midpoint so 330 feet. However for every trip starting at the midpoint there’s another at and the bus stop thus the average would be 1/2 that distance again or 165 feet.

Assuming a 1D world, you can beat this in practice.
They have a sour/lemony taste. Maybe he likes that. Don't ask me how I know.
>“These figures are conservative, accounting only for mining during ‘blue sky’ hours when prices are under $15 a megawatt-hour,” the report said. “Bitcoin mining is likely to have stronger impacts on the grid over time as the number of larger and more power-hungry mining facilities is likely to grow.”
Wishful thinking, but next up should be homeopathic snake-oil.

No company should have a homeopathic product sitting on the shelf next to an actual medicine.
I don't see anything in that article that actually states efficient transport. It's just a long winded way of saying that there are a lot of factors in network design. kind of a useless article imo
> I'm bothered that they're pretending they care about children when they don't. It's insulting to victims.

First, let's suppose that the EU doesn't care at all about teenagers being sexually abused. Therefore they don't care if children are sexually abused? There are no children who are not teenagers?

>A lot working-class school girls her age were and are groomed and sexually assaulted by adult men every year.

Yeah, no doubt. A lot of women of all ages are sexually assaulted. Therefore sex should be illegal, right? Otherwise we don't care about the victims of sexual abuse.

>She was taken to a hotel by a married man who she thought loved her for sex, then she later found out he was just using her and other "English slags" for sex.

Sorry your girlfriend feels otherwise, but that's not sexual abuse, and it has nothing to do with whether she was young or not. There's no age when a woman cannot agree to have sex with a man who says he loves her but actually he just wants sex; in fact, it's quite a common occurrence. It's not about sex, it's about experience; when you're inexperienced or trusting it's easier for others to take advantage of you. It's also never going to be possible to make it illegal for people to lie to each other. Or rather, it can be made illegal, but it can't be stopped. If I want something from you and I have to lie to get you to give it to me, I'll lie. I might have tricked you into giving it to me, but I certainly didn't abuse you. It's only abuse if I take it from you by force or coercion.
Connected software, with very few exceptions, doesn’t attract a very large audience. For rarer situations, you aren’t going to find that person easily. Having worldwide interest groups (like subreddits, like thematic Discord channels) helps, but is conditioned to people using either Reddit or Discord. Facebook and Instagram still win compared to those two contenders.

That’s of course assuming that Reddit and Discord wouldn’t get much bigger if Meta were to close, but I’m not sure the negative effects would vanish because the owner is different.
The whole point of having them on a limited basis is to gather data. No useful data is gathered when they aren't driving.
Yeah, that’s including the game boy games as they are (were?) available on Virtual Console. I put the “Nintendo made” qualifier to exclude the CD-i games
“What’d I do? She fuckin’ dead or somethin’?” - Uncle, a six pack deep
Have you tried googling or asking chat-gpt? That is what I do when I don't understand things.
14-16 year old "children" are usually well into puberty and women are fertile. It is perfectly normal to let them consent in sexual relations. And I don't see what's wrong for a 16 year old "child" to have sex with a 18 year old "adult".

And you have to realize that 14-16 is the age of consent. It means that younger than that, a child simply cannot legally consent, any sex act is rape, no matter how well informed and how much the child wants it.

But it doesn't mean anything after that is a free pass, you still need actual consent. And manipulating someone into having sex is not consent, no matter the age, but it is especially true for minors who are easy targets. There may also be laws where for having sex with a minor also require consent from a legal guardian. Of course, sex work for minors is also illegal.

I think these CSAM laws are terrible, but at least, in Europe, the idea of protecting the children is not keeping teens in chastity.
Nothing! In fact that's exactly why KLM is leaving: X started charging for the use of their service.
> If you can just agree with their legal team (and your lawyer) on the stipulations of the search and confirmation, you can't be charged with further crimes if they find anything ("fruit of the poison tree").

This part is completely wrong. “Fruit of the poison tree” only counts if the original search was illegal. If you let them search for something specific, nothing is stopping them from using anything they find, even if it wasn’t what they were searching for (as long as they found it during the normal course of searching for the thing they were supposed to be searching for)
Quite simple if you think of Darwinian evolution - those who get more (and their offspring) outcompete you and your offspring for a limited resource so a resource struggle ensues.
I think everyone dismissed yours too.
The EU system is much simpler than the chicanery of the US system of quotas and multiple visa categories.

If there is an EU citizen applicant suitable for the job, they get it. If there isn't, anyone can.
The city should just start to bill big fleet operators for passenger-less miles.

That would be uber and lyft for all miles driven by their operatives without a passenger aboard, and by waymo and cruise for miles driven without a customer.

By keeping it to the biggest operators, the administrative burden is small (these companies all GPS track their cars already). The fee could probably be pretty small (say 10 cents a mile) to disuade the practice, while not outlawing it entirely.
Same here. I went to a grocery store yesterday, albeit a “fancy” one with unique and difficult to find products in a nice part of town. I got to the checkout which was operated by an employee who scanned a few of my overpriced items, and then, completely unexpectedly, a tip screen appeared. Before I even realized what I had done because it was a muscle reflex, I tipped $7.50 for the privilege of having a store employee scan a few items for me. I was angry at myself for going so quickly through the checkout process and letting force of habit guide my hand, but also pissed at the merchant for even having this screen turned on in the first place.

It didn’t help that the DEFAULT tip amount that was pre-selected was for 25% (the middle of 3 options). Tipping has gotten totally out of control, and you have to pay attention lest you wind up like me, tipping for everyday ordinary functions that businesses are already paying employees to do. FWIW, I am all for tipping for exceptional service, and often tip 20%+ when that’s the case, but these compulsory tip screens for every goddamn thing are just insane.
Thanks. I was trying to think of something more general, not image generation, which might be why I was having trouble.
I think realistically most of the things people seriously care about pledging are complex application and server software so yes the point is you run into problems trying to pledge things. Obviously you can come up with the minimum set of things you can pledge pretty quickly to get things working, but that doesn't guarantee they will keep working. And you can also be very broad, but there's a point at which that doesn't gain you much in terms of security (or as much as you may have set out to gain).

This reminds me of a situation where I tried to use firejail to isolate this proprietary piece of software, I ran firejail in the "auto-generate-something-sensible" mode and then tried running it in that profile. It would just randomly break at that point. I never quite figured this out due to lack of time. I was expecting to be able to roll with an auto-generated profile at first and tighten it later, the actual end result was there was no profile at all.

The other issue you run into is getting things which work sometimes and then stop working randomly. Especially when it's a large graphical application. It will do something strange when you click a specific button and crash. Now you are annoyed, probably not in the mood to debug this, so maybe you make a note for later. Now you have to recreate the issue under strace, figure out what you need to pledge now, and repeat.

Yes, if you're trying to pledge ls, it's pretty easy. If you're trying to pledge anything non-trivial (i.e. anything which would _really_ benefit from these security restrictions) you end up iterating a lot.

It's not very fun.
Say goodbye to Terraform: infrastructure as code for humans with Pulumi
Smalltalk OOP is good, I'd argue nowadays OOP in modern lingo is not objects and message passing anymore (call it actor model if you want to be understood) but C++ / Java classes.

Namely I would say:
- Inheritance: bad because adding layers makes it harder to understand what code is running - favor composition instead
- Encapsulation: bad because it encourages mutable internal state and couple functions with data - favor immutable state

Plenty of practices of doing good OOP are all about doing less OOP (eg. Avoid deep inheritance hierarchies).
I wonder what the alternatives are. I've searched for a framework that is a middle ground between bare-bones Express and NestJS. Something that I can throw a Zod validator at and it handles the validation for me by default, yet lets me structure my code a bit more functional and less opinionated than NestJS.
The internal study presented by the whistleblower actually found that Instagram made users feel better more often than it made them feel worse: https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Instagram-Te...
Agreed, what's the limit on an IRA lately? 6k a year?
> the best opportunities of governments to expressly push out
anti-democratic and anti-citizen laws

Coming from my perspective, in a family who fought multiple wars to
preserve liberal democratic governments based on social contract, this
seems backward, and beyond my value system.

Anything that I would see as a legitimate "government" would be
pro-democracy and fully in the service of its citizens.

If the cynical slant you suggest is true, then we don't actually have
governments any longer, and you should not use that word. In that
case, we ought to figure out how we lost real government, what we have
instead, and how to get rid of it.
Regardless of the intent of the vaccines, the evidence is fairly clear that they induce a CD8+ response, and the manufacturers seem fairly proud of this fact. Here a paper I found in a few seconds of searching:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03653-6

There are plenty more like it.
From my personal experience they are priced cheaper for all rides. But rarely that much cheaper - perhaps a surge time?

The variable that differs is time to pickup. I've found Waymo is generally pretty good for me in off-peak times - perhaps on average 2-3 minutes further away on average. But I have got the odd "20 minutes away" and I then just order an Uber.

But I will always pick a Waymo over an Uber if they are the same distance away. I love playing my own music and just being in my own world without another human to consider. It is truly a relaxing commute.
>Also this has much more requirements on issue than you described

Which one did I miss?
Apple Silicon proves the importance of integration and market power. Seems a bit absurd to complain about a chip that mandates a PMIC when the alternative is a chip that mandates an operating system.
That's only because you can't smell the horse shit. New York City alone had 4 million pounds of the stuff deposited daily.
Worst-in-class is overstating it, but they've had three serious breaches in the last three years, not counting exposure of their private GitHub repos.

The thing that really bothers me about Okta though is that they've been caught lying when asked if they were affected by CVEs. See this thread from one of the Duo founders responding to folks (including one of the Cloudflare founders) being stonewalled by Okta during the fallout from Log4Shell: https://nitter.net/jonoberheide/status/1506280347306188805.
I’ve been part of unrelated projects that involved SoC part selection and negotiation with… large chip vendors. They always pull this shit, although this case seems particularly annoying.

They’ll tie their SoC to some other random part, invent some proprietary protocol to brand it with, and then get upset when you say you don’t want the extras. I’m sure there are some technical advantages to their solutions, but they’re just as often bloated and not appropriate for the design.

We all know that chip vendors don’t exactly write the best code, that’s expected. But inviting even more proprietary drivers or even blobs(!), for a solution that sales says will just work and solve all our problems, is usually a risky move. Heavily modifying or reimplementing boot code and drivers is an inevitability, and no engineer who’s been through that is going to invite more blobs into their codebase if they can avoid it.
the bus doesn't have to be full to be a more efficient use of space than cars though. A typical (non-articulated) bus is the length two-three cars at most.

It is worth noting that personal vehicles are getting larger, so the amount of ridership required for a bus system to be more efficient than cars is only going down for the foreseeable future, even before getting into second order effects.
Not the worst idea I’ve heard.
Hardware demand outstrips supply as everything grinds down to a halt, buttons that use to respond in 0 seconds get multiple progress bars with accurate percentages calculated by machine learning reporting partialEventProgressStatus back to their respective motherships in real time. Then we finally crack the code and perfect eyeballs on ads and talk about nothing but tokens per conversion.
Slow down to a crawl, definitely, but if you stopped until they got off the street completely, you might never move again in some areas of SF (the accident happened near Market Street).

And it's not a given that doing so would make the situation safer, as other drivers would eventually drive around your car.
But they leave the homeopathic junk mixed in as if it was actual medicine.
I found this bit of research

https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11255

One thing I know is that most people who sell short lose since the market does tend to go up over time.
Theoretically, that could be the job of management consulting, but the firms who have the capability and clout to do this also obviously realize it's far more lucrative to utilize those resources to craft narratives that support whatever goals said billionaires and their firms are prioritizing.
My non-medical person understanding is that the physiology and mechanics in the knee are very different but beyond that it is a "no one knows" situation which seems shameful.

Again, have zero medical background and am not a woman but my mental model from my wife and daughters' experience and from paying a lot of attention to professional women's soccer is that it is simultaneously true that there are a huge number of physical/biological things when it comes to athletics that completely different in women and yet also that they are entirely unstudied. Like it is just a crazy giant blind spot.
Ask HN: Help with Deep Learning Dissertation
Dear Hackernews,

I want to do something with ML (DL in particular) and I'm in need of a dissertation idea (for my undergraduate course), ideally it'd be Computer Vision related / something to do with programming languages (with DL of course), does anyone have any ideas? It should include implementing a one (or more) papers and then extending them as well. I have a reasonable amount of compute available and the dissertation should take up a few months of my time.
No, it means it's the opinion of the jury. Their job is to determine fact.
you are not suppose to ask here. At least not now.
I can't comment on your experience, but I can describe mine.

Back in 2003 I tried to install a Linux distro on my personal machine (Mandrake if memory serves) and it was an atrocious experience. Couldn't even get my mouse to work.

Sometime around 2015 I decided to give it a second chance. I worked for a company where we could work on Linux machines and I decided to give it ago. Ubuntu this time around. I had a pleasant experience, for development it proved to be a solid option, but I couldn't switch my personal machine to Linux because I would lose access to my gaming library.

Earlier this year I decided to give another go. Replaced Windows with Linux Mint, and couldn't be happier. It's an absolute joy to use, and thanks to Proton, I can play the vast majority of my PC games there. Most work right off the bat through Steam or Lutris. Some required minor tinkering.

I had none the issues you described.
I was pretty sure 'plurality' was a word made extinct from the english language 50+ years ago, with the exception of patent documents, where its use appears to be compulsory.
That’s a bus stop every ~1/8th of a mile not 200 feet.

You cut it in half because you can walk to the closest stop and cut it in half again before you’re starting at a random point not the worst possibility so 5280/8/2/2 = 165 feet. Except we don’t exit buildings or get on busses in the middle of the street so it’s not random.
They're not wrong! LOL
With repercussions. If they’re estimating a lifespan extension and later go back to the original estimate, they’ll have huge one-off depreciation charges, no?
"unable to move and blocking traffic" is not a new failure mode for cars. I get that it's particularly infuriating to be blocked by a car that is, mechanically, in good shape, but I don't find the story particularly damning. I've blocked traffic that long waiting for a tow truck.
It's still worthwhile, and it will be for the foreseeable future.

If you want to dabble in desktop with C#, Avalonia is the best way to go nowadays. I'm having a blast with it working on a couple of projects for my assigned client, and in a couple of personal toy projects.
Which means the state has a ready made reason to detain anyone they don't like on the grounds of "child abuse". That sounds like the point of this to me.
I’ve not seen anything saying these new platforms won’t be hard locked to Windows as Microsoft would prefer.
You know that Bandcamp has been sold twice this past year time.. The new owner just laid off 50% of the Bandcamp staff. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/16/23919551/bandcamp-layoff...
Also they should be on everything they can be which is why we are looking to make deals with Distrokid, Tunecore and 20+ other entities to push their indie artists from our site as well.

Indie music sites are like the wine industry, the more indie wineries there are the more they grow and foster each other with additional sales.
> She said it's never been about the money, but holding Google accountable.

Well, holding them accountable just to her in that specific situation, by paying her the settlement.

There is no change in the accountability, as such, of Google.
You are not allowed to open someone else’s mail, even if it’s in your mailbox.
As per the article, median net worth is $192,900.
I don't know what I'm doing differently, but I have my domain's email hosted on Google Apps and it notifies just fine.
Realistically, there are a lot of Googlers and Xooglers on Hacker News.

One of the messages in this thread is literally stating they have special knowledge of the behinds the scene workings of Waymo.

I work in the AV space and I honestly don't think there's much of a competitive mentality between the companies in the space, but at the same time there is a tendency of people to psudeo-astroturf these brands: where they know someone working at the company and take great personal pride because "I know so and so who works on self-driving cars!"
> But you could just configure the 2FA for the downstream service, no?

Only if the downstream service supports it. Lots don't, or at least don't enforce it when you come in via SSO.

AWS SSO being the one I keep coming back to, because it bugs me so much.

For those that do, you now have to also manage the 2FA tokens with that service, using whatever they support. Often that's SMS based 2FA, or maybe TOTP, or their own custom TOTP/Push. Maybe they support FIDO2, but only a single FIDO2 key.
They try to have it both ways. They want you to pay them for a coverage plan, but they also are firm that their plans are secondary to your personal auto insurance.

"In the US, any personal insurance you may have that covers damage to the host’s vehicle would kick in before your Turo protection plan"
Just because some people's opinions differ from yours doesn't mean astroturfing is at play.
I'm considering building right now; "a few hundred k" is demolish and redo from the ground up territory for normal housing around here.

The only way you're doing that for a mere renovation is if it's a historically significant building.
And it stresses me out just submitting code to github.
"frequency-dependent quantum squeezing"

Very exciting!
>Occasionally the route selections make no sense at all.

i'm sure this is sometimes true, but at least sometimes i'd guess that the route selections would make more sense if you saw the conditions and traffic on the route the car didn't take you on.
> We can know this to be true, because if it did then checking the results would require it as well

This argument is blatantly false. (I mean the argument not the claim it's arguing for)

As just one counterexample, writing a mathematical proof often requires a lot of creative problem solving (it's not done a lot in school for this very reason). However, checking that a proof is correct is a rote task, even automatable (see proof asistants).
Regular cars aren't scalable at all. AVs are not any different than regular cars. In fact AV will increase the amount of cars on the road as more people that can currently not drive, such as children and the elderly, are now more likely to use a relatively low occupancy AV. So we can expect transit to get worse as AVs become prevalent.

The only scenario where AV may scale better than cars is if we're talking about autonomous buses, and that will only perform better if they are given the other features of public transit, such as dedicated lanes, which require set routes, and we're pretty much just talking about public transit in general at this point.
I feel kinda the same way about Waymo like I did about Apple as a relatively early adopter. The experience is genuinely magical, and there’s a massive gulf between Cruise and Waymo’s capabilities.

A sufficiently good product may produce customer reviews that are indistinguishable from astroturfing.