skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They decided to kill (euthanize) an animal with a history of dangerous behavior towards defenseless humans. Humans they had a duty to protect.

I’ve been around dogs for 4 decades, I’ve never seen one bite a child’s face.

Even ones that really, really would have deserved it.

Could it happen? Sure.

However, I have seen dogs that were deranged and dangerous to themselves and others bite people before, and owners try to defend them as being okay though. Multiple times.

One the police had to put down after its 4th attack on an innocent bystander, while the owner cried and blamed the police.
Oddly specific question, but can anybody confirm whether the AX210 (no vPro) wifi works with the AMD motherboards? I've seen some pretty bad reports about the realtek chip they're defaulting to on the AMD systems, and I already have the AX210, so if I could just keep using it, that would be ideal.
Fair point, looks like they're third party but easy to manage through the browser directly:

https://www.samsung.com/my/support/apps-services/how-to-bloc...
That, and convenience. Android simply can't provide the same coherent, seamless ecosystem of experiences that Apple can. People can't be bothered to deal with the annoyances of separate systems from separate providers anymore, and I feel that, especially in HN circles, that's a very undervalued thing.
How does one debug with GnuCOBOL?
Can you speak more to what balance is needed? Not being able to terminate bad actors severely impacts the ability to improve the situation. The union rep seemed to shift blame throughout out the entire article.

From the article:

Bergami and Whitmore said they also tried to fire an officer who they saw on video throwing away prisoners’ mail, a possible felony. The agency also overruled them in that decision, they said. The bureau did not respond to allegations of staff destroying mail.“How do you root out the bad apples if you're not allowed to terminate those who have been recommended for termination?” Whitmore said.The two former Thomson officials and a current prison employee said the attitude among many guards was reflected by a group who refused to wear their issued uniforms. These officers opted instead for black T-shirts, many with the union logo or the skull logo of The Punisher — a vigilante comic book character popular with far-right groups. They called themselves “The Black Shirt Mafia.”

Also: Seems like they might be looking at lots of staff rotation anyway (union or not): https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/thomson-prison...
I fall asleep halfway through an energy drink with surprising regularity.

In my youth, I would pound a mountain dew before bed.
This particular implementation of the idea of analog matrix processor implemented at low level may fail, but some different implementation will succeed.
General Availability of Vector Search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB VCore
That is not a problem with the article. The article correctly points out that we lack data exactly because of flaws in VAERS. Funding should be increased and those flaws should be fixed so that we can have higher quality data to inform public policy, medical guidelines, and individual decisions.
Why do you need comment fields?

I always figure, if someone wants to talk to me, they can send me an email, and popular blog posts, like the one we're discussing now, generally end up having comment fields on sites such as Hacker News.
I'm pretty sure the biggest problem the phone vendors are trying to solve is you being able to recover from dropping your phone in the toilet. Most people cannot afford a $1200 loss like that, so getting rid of all water ingress points is the priority. That means the case is superglued together and there are as few I/O ports as possible. (I am surprised phones still have a speaker and microphone for making phone calls with; who does that?)

While unlikely to be true for readers of HN, for many people, their phone is the most expensive thing they own. So it has to be protected against accidents, and that's what the sealed design is for. Sure, it's probably good for planned obsolescence or whatever, but that's a secondary concern.

Another controversial aspect is that phones can't be repaired or sold for parts. This is another "loss protection" feature. Nobody steals mobile phones anymore because they are completely useless on the black market. The phone can't be used without the consent of the original owner, and the parts from that phone can't be put in other broken phones. The incentive to steal an easily-concealable $1200 brick of metal and semiconductors is nearly zero. I think that's amazing.
> We collect data, analyse statistics. All very dry, and easily dismissed ("that's what they -want- you to believe.) You cannot logic someone out of a position they weren't logicd into. You cannot fight emotion with science. Ultimately we all just make a choice. Whatever choice we make, we live, or die, with the consequences.

This literally has nothing to do with the reality of the situation as discussed in the article. The article talks how it's so difficult to submit something to VAERS that people are discouraged from doing so. A science-based vaccine event system should probably allow people to submit events.

VAERS is a voluntary reporting system. It's right there, in the name. That, in itself, is not a problem. But you can't do science unless you can -- as you say -- collect data and analyze statistics.
So being cool now seems to mean conforming to what everybody else is doing.

Slightly ironic.
From the evidence on wireless radiation effects on humans, the same mechanism of biological damage seems to be at play: oxidative-stress. Especially human male sperm cells are affected, being more vulnerable as lacking DNA repair capabilities as other cell types (sperm is a simple transport cell, not evolved for longevity).
A number of scientific review papers have identified oxidative-stress from pulse-modulated (information-carrying) radio-frequency radiation as a driver of free-radical formation (ROS), inflammation, cell stress and DNA-damage.

For example, see:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26151230/

Excerpt:
"...among 100 currently available peer-reviewed studies dealing with oxidative effects of low-intensity RFR, in general, 93 confirmed that RFR induces oxidative effects in biological systems. A wide pathogenic potential of the induced ROS and their involvement in cell signaling pathways explains a range of biological/health effects of low-intensity RFR, which include both cancer and non-cancer pathologies."

and:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8562392/

Excerpt:
"Thus, a complete picture is provided of how human-made EMF exposure may indeed lead to DNA damage and related pathologies, including cancer. Moreover, it is suggested that the non-thermal biological effects attributed to RF EMFs are actually due to their ELF components."
They are commercializing the silicon, by selling access to it on their clouds.

Now, I know that what you actually mean is selling the chips themselves to third parties :) But it's not obvious that there's any point to it given their already existing model of commercializing the chips.

First, literally everyone is already supply-constrained due to limits on high end foundry capacity. Nvidia has a ton of capacity because they're one of TSMC's top two customers. The big tech companies will have much smaller allocations which are used up just supplying their own clouds. Even if the demand for buying these chips rather than renting were there, they just don't have the chips to sell without losing out on the customers who want to rent capacity.

Second, the chips by themselves are probably not all that useful. A lot of the benefit is coming from the silicon/system/software co-design. (E.g. the TPUv4 papers spent as much attention on the optical interconnect as the chips). Selling just chips or accelerator cards wouldn't do much good to any customers. Nor can they just trust that systems integrators could buy the cards and build good systems to house them in. They need to sell and support massive large scale custom systems to third parties. That's not a core competency for any of them, it'll take years to build up that org if you start now. And it means they need to ship the software to the customers, it can't continue being the secret sauce any more.

Nvidia on the other hand has been building up an ecosystem and organization for exactly this for the last decade.
The Microsoft chip has MX data types: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37930663

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10537
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

― George Orwell, 1984
Taxation by a extractive hacking mindset disconnected from societal feedback by still working abstractions like money?
Regarding your unorthodox opinion on gender, I think the net effect of such a parenting strategy will simply be more confusion and identity crises, and the increased likelihood of sterilizing the genetic line. The number of people who have suffered gender dysphoria is vanishingly small, especially in older generations, so this policy would benefit few children. Moreover, we can see that gender dysphoria rates increase depending on peer group and culture, suggesting it is not simply a genetic idiosyncrasy and can spread as a social contagion.

There is also a philosophical assumption that removing all social impositions frees someone to be their authentic self, but the question is what is authenticity? There are many branching paths our lives take that shape how we evolve. If you had parents that took great interest in instilling good values and education, you would end up authentically different than if they had taken a laissez-faire approach and told you to figure it out yourself. The left seems to take the contradictory perspective that humans are generally blank slates shaped by their environment, yet also pushes a kind of genetic determinism on gender and sexuality.
> What I put on facebook is the type of thing I don't want to get wide reach. I don't want just anyone to see pictures of my kids - that is semi private information that I only want my friends and family to see (and you don't want to see them anyway because you don't know me)

That's a different use case than what the GP is describing. Many people use social media, including Facebook, as a platform to build an audience of strangers.
I've played around with a number of lisps and racket is the one I find the most enjoyable to use.
This is a multifacted problem but I think one of the biggest components is that Google is very bad at being hip or cool, much as Microsoft is (to a lesser degree, perhaps). I don’t know if the issue lies with its marketing department or if it’s something that permeates the company, but it just doesn’t “get it”. This is also an issue with many popular Android manufacturers (chiefly Samsung).

Apple doesn’t always hit the mark here, especially in recent years, but is much better in this regard.
This topic is discussed here every now and then (because it is awesome).

Most recently at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37927344
They are assigning multiple items to each inserter.

Splitter filters only filter one thing to one side, and everything else to the other side. That's not what is happening in this example though, where several things are going one way, and several things are going the other way.
To me comparing iPhones to android is like apples to oranges (or more like apples to a barrel of an assortment of fruits from different regions of the world) ... compare the Pixel line to the iPhone line
I don't give a shit about cool, but I use Android because Apple's fascist our-way-or-no-way policies are a no-go for me.

That said, I vastly prefer Android on its own merits. I would not buy or use Apple even if they open up.
> by applying piles and piles of physics research.

You mean by remembering piles and piles of example data and interpolating between it.
Yes, that's _exactly_ the issue. When they need to service a station, they need just the right parts. That's also from 2018. There a lot of chargers built before then. I read an article not too long ago where the new CEO was explaining that the reliability issue is, essentially, they rushed to get the first generations of chargers out so fast that they had to source parts from everywhere and they weren't all well tested and there are a lot of different types.

The result is that each station is basically bespoke and they have to find just the right replacement parts to fix a broken station. The result is that you have to send a technician out to find the broken part and then wait to get a replacement instead of the technician having replacement parts on hand (because there are too many that it might be).

That's why they are ripping out old stations and replacing them with new ones.
The page is outdated. It shows Breakpoint in the parties section, which was shut down more than a decade ago. New popular parties like Revision aren't mentioned. Many links are dead. Exercise caution :)
> Personally, though, I think there's an even easier way to win back the hearts and minds of, at the very least, some teenagers, and — bonus — it's a tried-and-true method. Samsung and Google need to position Apple as the brand relied on by parents above all else. In the same way teenagers left behind social networks like Facebook, iOS needs to be seen as a platform populated by the exact crowd they're trying to rebel against.

Android: the choice of a new generation (tm).

Numbers for teenagers in the US having iPhones and smart watches are astonishing though. Where do they find the cash? And if it's only devices given by their parents, how is it that all parents have iPhones?
An inefficient design, but computer-science theory in Factorio means playing suboptimally necessarily. (Factorio wasn't designed to show off B-Trees, all the tools were designed to ya know... play Factorio)

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So I have to comments. #1 is about the Comp-Sci side, and #2 is about the optimization side. #3 combines both together for what I'd like to talk about.

1. Self-balancing trees (2-3 trees, Red-black Trees, and B-Trees) are about the self-balancing part. Not just the construction of a singular tree. You cannot recongfigure trees to rebuild themselves in Factorio, so the biggest feature is missing already.

2. From an optimization perspective: inserters are slower than belts. Even 4 inserters per belt only allows like 12-items per second, and blue-belts can push 45 items-per-second. You want to use splitters (which operate at full speed: 45 items per second) for the best belt-only design. (Bots obviously sort items fastest, but I am presuming this is some kind of belt-only challenge build).

3. The intersection of splitters + computer science is therefore: the Splitter (Factorio) and Benes Networks (creation of networks built off of only a 2-input to 2-output crossbar). If you really want to have a crazy good factory design, start studying this stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clos_network (A Benes network is simply a Clos network of size 2-input and 2-outputs. Clos networks are of any size: like 5-to-7 and other such odd numbers)

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In Factorio, the meta you want to be searching for is "mixed belt" design, it seems.
The accuracy is definitely location dependent, but I anecdotally agree with the GP that the accuracy has improved substantially, at least for the UK where I am.

Ten years ago, the weather forecast was so unreliable that I just assumed anything could happen on a given day, no matter the season. Frequently it would be unable to even tell you whether it was currently raining, and my heuristic for next day forecast instead was to just assume the weather would be the same as today.

Nowadays I find the next day forecasts are nearly always accurate and hourly precipitation forecasts are good enough that I can plan my cycles and walks around them.
Filter inserters are what came to mind when I saw the title.
Yeah I know MS Access & Co. have kind of a bad rap, but if I look at what we were able to actually achieve for the business/users with those tools, it’s really painful to see how little progress we have made in the last 20 years or so.
Definitely. iPhones start at $400 new dude.

When I was single, I vividly remember matching with a girl on Tinder and moving onto texting. She said quote 'I am so happy you are blue'. Was not the last time I got this feedback directly, nor saw it out in the wild.

:shrug:
What a huge leap forward for 3D on the web.
> Girls don't like guys with Android phones.

That's perfect. I also don't like shallow hoes who judge people based on what phone brand they have. How is that automatic selection a minus? Sounds more like you dodged a bullet.

But yeah, I feel what you're saying. People today can be very shallow, comfortable and convenience oriented, so unless they see you as being a super valuable individual form the start, they definitely won't be interested in investing any extra effort in you, like something as trivial as not messaging you because a bubble color, especially in this society where everything is tuned and gamed for instant gratification, including human interactions.

It's quite dehumanizing actually, that we're being stripped away from what makes us good and unique people, and are reduced to soulless corporate designed 'bubbles' or avatars, conditioned to prioritize nonsense consumerist trivialities just to fit in and not be outcasted.
> today/tomorrow/someday.

For me: now, soon, eventually

And things might be in the "now" list for a long time. It's the hardest list to work on, for me.
SMS is still trash compared to WhatsApp or half a dozen other platforms. But SMS is also the only standard we have and, as a standard, usage should be standardized across devices. Apple's manipulation of the standard turns it into proprietary gatekeeping. Why in the world should I know or care if a text I am receiving is coming from an Apple device or an Android device? That's not part of the standard, that's Apple naked attempt to coopt the standard.
Togheter.ai has very competitive pricing per token on llama models albeit the selection of models is a bit limited, they are in a great position for LLAMAs or whatever parallel, albeit the secret sauce missing here is function calling
In my experience, people that want an iPhone but can't afford a new one will buy a used/refurb iPhone over an android phone.

It seems like you can get an iPhone 12 in "like new condition" for around $300.
It's more like table lookup or interpolation than actual computation.
This is how you should store time https://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html .
Many events also have a "where" associated with them, you should store that too.

By storing where and when, you can derive lots of other things that are usually conflated with the first two. Like where the sun was in the sky, the direction of the prevailing winds, outside temperature, and whether the local jurisdiction plays games with their clocks twice a year.
I cannot imagine having to install an app just to use a car charger. What a nuisance!
Why would I try to investigate or sanction anyone? Get up off my ass, spend my limited money, just to make myself look like a bad boss?
I don't have an opinion about whether it's valid or invalid, and I don't think 'pg does either. I think this kind of argumentation is psychological dressage for ego-dystonic rich and powerful people.
Here's an example of a Unity demo running using WASM and WebGPU, posted to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38281040
Hi shaqbert! I'd love to give some examples.

When I was at Google, I helped develop models using this modeling technique that ended up in products such as Google Maps. These models are highly interpretable and, like xgboost, can be applied to classification and regressions tasks and more. I would say that there are a few cases in particular where these models really shine:

(1) You want more than just a prediction. You want to understand how your data impacts the prediction. For example, you might have a model for predicting sales of an item on your e-commerce platform, but you care deeply about how price impacts the prediction. These models have feature calibrators, which can really help you to understand how the model understand the feature. In the case of price, you might discover that the calibrator follows a concave shape, indicating that prices that are too low / too high are similar and that there is likely an optimal price somewhere in the middle. Perhaps you'll even discover close to that optimal price from the calibration analysis.

(2) You want to embed domain knowledge into the model. You want to make sure that model follows certain expected behaviors. This is where shape constraints shine. For example, when predicting creditworthiness, you'll want to make sure that more timely payments will only ever increase your creditworthiness (since otherwise the model wouldn't be fair). Another example here would be predicting the likelihood of a sale for an item on Amazon. It would make sense for the model to trust a feature for star rating more if the number of reviews is higher (since that's how a human would likely judge the rating themselves). A trust shape constraint here would make embedding this expected behavior into the model not just possible but easy.

Ultimately these models are what's considered "universal approximators" just like DNNs, able to approximate any function with sufficient data, so you can use them for any prediction task you're looking to solve (think of an alternative to xgboost you can try during modeling) that are more interpretable and controllable.
Vatican reaffirms 'grave sin' of Freemasonry
It's a mystery to me that I keep reading online how it's such a big problem that phones don't offer SD cards or rootability, but literally never heard that in real life.
look up the (speculative) etymology of OK for instance
I'm with you. Zucchini is the taste of summer for me. I eat so much of it, so many ways.
I doubt he would've, half the point of Turing's paper was to stop people from debating what is or isn't "thinking" and to focus on the actual capabilities instead (like passing the test). He specifically wrote:

> "Can machines think?" I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.

So I don't think he would've appreciated such a fuzzy concept as AGI.
You apply your local timezone to the UTC value. There is no reason to store a timezone with it.

The weird thing is you need to always apply the timezone when reading, and un-apply it when writing. This needs to happen at the lowest level of access.
> Item A splits off to another belt, while all other items loop back.

This doesn't address the parent comment's concern:

> IIRC splitters only accept a single filter, and so you'd need many of them at each junction

I haven't played Factorio in years, but IIRC the splitter maintains state (direction for next item) per item type, so I guess it can be set up to filter as many types as you like? I remember you had to prime it for the desired item type, but I forgot the specifics of how it does the rest of the filtering "logic".
> Best to rise with the sun.

Now this is an idea I can get behind. Getting to sleep in until nearly 9am sounds great to me. However, if it is summertime, we'll have to disagree since I'd have to technically not sleep under your plan.
>the only solution is buying a $1000 device

I did a quick spot check on eBay for "iphone se 2020 unlocked", and you can get one from $130 shipped.
puts em on the street and now they're someone else's problem. a lot of them would then filter out to other areas, generally warmer ones, or areas that were easy to police.

these measures are, on a long scale, what drove a lot of homeless and almost-homeless to the south and west. NYC winters will kill you, but it's not hard to scrounge up a bus ticket to SC
There are many aspects of a union. Employees deserve a unified voice. What they don't deserve is to hold the system hostage with threats after they agree to work.