skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the crew spots you with a cute plane-obsessed toddler, they invite you in to check out the cockpit.

Matching NASA orange jumpsuits are the passport into every cockpit. The crew gets way more excited than the kids. Also makes them super easy to find in the airport.
And I’d suggest that’s absolutely the way you want it to be. The consequences of pushing a full blown KYC regime on all social media are pretty dystopian.

The value COPPA does provide is as a tool parents can use. If they report their underage children’s social media accounts, they will be removed. But of course they still have to actually do the parenting, which is how it should be. I think you shouldn’t want government to takeover those responsibilities for them.
Inspired by aircraft IFF interrogator antennas, I decided to build my own array
When morale improves.
That's downright poetic: people using bullshit logic to justify bullshit games.
The air on a plane circulates and causes illness to many people, like people who have had plastic surgery are advised not to travel too soon for fear of infection.

Have you found that it helps there?
I don't have the ability to experimentally verify, but I would think so? A window is going to be there 24/7 and air doesn't actually have that high of a specific heat, so you'd really have to be constantly opening the door for it to come out in favor in my understanding.
If Gaza isn't able to even do ethereal things without Israel's regulation then so much for the two states with self determination explanation.

Personally, I think a forced elimination of the two state solution would be good. The more liberal elements of each society need to realize self determined religious demographic adjusted states are actually the enemy of their own self determination. Without a religious stalemate a more pious than thou ratcheting to a fundamentalist state gradually occurs.
Why would it be different? The concept of Models is the same whether it is client-side or server-side. These are objects that encapsulate business logic. The concept of Views is also the same. These are responsible for rendering the screen. The concept of controllers? That too is the same. Controllers determine application flow from one screen to the next.
openais internal prompt for dalle modifies all prompts to add diversity and remove requests to make groups of people a single descent. From https://github.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert/blob/main/_sy...

Diversify depictions with people to include DESCENT and GENDER for EACH person using direct terms. Adjust only human descriptions.

Your choices should be grounded in reality. For example, all of a given OCCUPATION should not be the same gender or race. Additionally, focus on creating diverse, inclusive, and exploratory scenes via the properties you choose during rewrites. Make choices that may be insightful or unique sometimes.

Use all possible different DESCENTS with EQUAL probability. Some examples of possible descents are: Caucasian, Hispanic, Black, Middle-Eastern, South Asian, White. They should all have EQUAL probability.

Do not use "various" or "diverse"

Don't alter memes, fictional character origins, or unseen people. Maintain the original prompt's intent and prioritize quality.

Do not create any imagery that would be offensive.

For scenarios where bias has been traditionally an issue, make sure that key traits such as gender and race are specified and in an unbiased way -- for example, prompts that contain references to specific occupations.
Tickets from SFO to LAX can be cheaper, but that's usually not for optimal times. Sure you can get a round trip ticket for $80, but you'll be leaving at 6 in the morning or something like that. Additionally, you'll have to go through security, not be able to bring your own beverage (or water), sit on a much smaller seat, and not have Wi-Fi.

In other words, I think $95 one way on an extremely punctual bullet train with high availability is a steal.
> sometimes a company will let managers in a different department that is hiring know about coming lay offs and ask/force them to take good people. this is rare though.

Depends on the kind of layoff. If it's strategic M&A related this happens fairly often. If it's purely a cost cutting hail mary, then not as much.
If the MIDI controller is connected via USB and is polled at 1 ms, you have only about that amount of lag. This is not something most people can even notice.

Also, consider that even playing an acoustic piano has quite some lag: your brain has to send a signal to the muscles in your hand, which have to contract, which presses the key which takes some time to travel down, the hammers needs some time to travel to the strings, then the sound takes some time to travel to your ear. All this adds up to many milliseconds of delay. A musician already compensates for all that by starting the hand motions earlier to compensate for that lag. As long as it is not too large and if it is consistent, a few milliseconds extra does not matter.
I wonder how much potential there is to make them a lot more reliable and easier to use. Other kinds of instruments in the lab have gotten much more reliable and much easier to use over time, though this is not a particularly quick process. But I suspect this depends a lot on how well you can isolate the fragile parts of the equipment from the users.

Regarding the last paragraph, it's incredibly frustrating if you see time on expensive instruments wasted because there aren't enough experts around and people have to try and figure out stuff for themselves. But it seems that it's almost always easier to buy another expensive instrument compared to hiring an expert on a permanent position.
I have one of these refrigerators. I have to say the water quality is outstanding. I don’t have to drive to the water store anymore.
Amen on syntax highlighting. We collectively have wasted a staggering amount of tine on this finnicky anti-feature. Personally I used it for at least a decade until I finally realized it was 98% distraction. When you think about it, it becomes obvious that almost all code you are reading must be syntactically correct, unless you've recently edited it. If the language needs syntax highlighting to be legible, that is a language issue. My theory for why it is so popular is that it can be low hanging fruit for validating code that is faster than the full compiler. But even in that case, I only want syntax errors to be highlighted. To me, syntax highlighting of correct code is simply unnecessary noise.

That being said, if you genuinely believe syntax highlighting makes you more productive, I won't argue with you. I just think it's unfortunate it's been made the default in most cases.
I have to use SQL like 1-3 times a month and can confirm that the syntactic inconsistencies of the language make me go to the cheat sheet regularly.
Never, ever be surprised by the ability of people with large amounts of money to buy expensive toys (err, tools) and then go cheap on all the supporting infrastructure. Like, $1M on a scope, which then runs at about 1/10th capacity because the network is too slow to drain the SSD.

I call this the "You bought a Ferrari to drive on 101 at 10MPH when you really needed a fleet of trucks" problem
PostgreSQL? And OracleDB as a joke christmas present?
And it's closer to independent backup than "piracy"
>why am i paying severe amounts of tax money

Define "severe"?
Good luck with that. There are all kinds of crimping tools.

I watched a professional cable installer once crimp the coax F connectors on. I got the manufacturer and model number of it. It's from an outfit that only sold to professionals, and cost about $200. Since I was going to pull all the coax myself in my house, it was worth the money and I haven't had trouble with the results. The consumer grade crimping tools from the hardware store are terrible.

It's the same story with wirewrap tools.
just fine tune on your own writing
If it were that simple, it would be much easier to fix.
Does your company also ban aussies? I've heard swearing is second nature to them.
You posted a bunch of citations about the U.S.

Canadian hospitals and provinces explicitly made statements Late 2022/Early 2023 saying they were revising their definitions of a Covid death and going to recalculate previously published figures after stories blew up of the exact type of cases I mentioned. People were getting death certificates for loved ones with Covid listed as the cause of death when it was simply and provably not true, even if they did test positive.
Yeah, I agree 100%. The only corollary is that I view a lot of settlements like this as much more protectionist. I thought that this was for a gov. bid and not an insurance conglomerate, but the principle is the same. DXC lost the bid, probably because they were doing a bad job. So they held the whole effort hostage and sued based on IP protections. And then the Texas court awarded the American company 210 Million dollars from the Indian company.

In this case it is very straightforward legally if they copied documents over. You just can't do that, full stop. But I'm uncomfortable to say that this is an equitable relationship between all these companies, because it gives a level of protectionism to DXC to do a really poor job in delivery knowing that the American court system has their back if they lose on re-compete.
> Since when is VMWare a "cloud-computing" company?

That's like 90% of what they do now.

They actually make that really clear with little cloud icons on the "Product" menu on their homepage.
The reason is people will click on them thinking it is an interesting story. The publisher (ESPN/Yahoo/etc.) just care that you click on the page so the ads load and they get the impressions. Some PM probably ran some analysis that machine generated articles from a stats table will get X number of clicks which will generate Y dollars in ad revenue. There was likely no consideration that the overall content of the site would decrease. After awhile people stop clicking on them because they know it will be a machine generated article so eventually the publisher will stop putting them on their website.

I think the industry term for this is "made for advertising content".
Drivers are testing the product. I use FSD all the time. It's my choice.

If think that's making you unsafe too bad for you. I think it's vastly more unsafe to share the road with a million half blind geriatrics but nobody suing the AARP.
Sure, you need take time to investigate, sure.

But there's no excuse for any organization to be brought down or held ransom if they have good backups in place.
> Consider also that initially producing a car is a major contributor to the environmental impact of a car.

Not if you drive it very much/for very long. See this graph [1] (from this article [2]) for instance. Note that they're evenly diving 173,151 miles across the 13 "years" (and don't ask me why they decided to make the x-axis "years").

And that's with a modern fuel efficient car, not some ancient one.

[1] https://graphics.reuters.com/ELECTRIC-VEHICLES/EMISSIONS/rlg...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-d...
You are correct, but I was just covering all the possibilities since I never trust what they say either.
Because nobody maintains Xorg anymore. Wayland was started because the Xorg developers thought Xorg had come to the end of the road and was unfixable. You can think of Wayland as X12, except without copyright/trademark concerns.
What is undemocratic about a law in a democratic country?
They can pick up their plates themselves for now, the lawsuit will decide what the law says.
We'll look at Open Collective for future fundraising... if we have future fundraising.
I used Knockout to implement the very very very first ZeroTier network control dialog. Nice paradigm, but I think React beat it when things got really complex.
I'm not even going to enter into the flame-bait. I obviously disagree with your points.

Hope you have an awesome day
Isn't that mostly based on the fact that they share rail time? Its not like these tracks are unused in the other periods of time, they're just not Amtrak trains.
> To the sibling comment about arbitrariness, we could use a hybrid where we trade off some bits from IEEE FP to introduce far reaches and also some precision there.. so like, keep 32 bits or 54 bits for IEEE compatibility, then switch to "extended" ranges for e.g. BB numbers, higher alephs, etc.

This sort of trick/hack is the reason why theorems in (algorithmic) information theory involve constant factors. For example, we can define an image compressor which outputs a single `1` when given the Lenna test image[0], and otherwise acts exactly like PNG except prefixing its output with a `0`. To decode: a `1` decodes to the Lenna image, and anything starting with `0` gets decoded as PNG without the leading `0`. This gives perfect compression with no loss of quality, when tested on that Lenna image ;)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
It seems implausible, and weighed against the probability of positive scientific discoveries made with the technology, it seems reasonable to proceed with caution.

Back when I was a maker i talked with the FBI and they said they knew it was OK/legal to work on viruses in your garage, "but just be sure to let us know if you see somebody doing something dangerous"
FWIW, I don't think that one was even using any kind of modern AI. The bizarre phrasing is characteristic of the article having been run through a "spinner" tool which randomly substitutes words or phrases for synonyms, without any regard to context -- which is how it ended up saying he "handed away" (passed away) after having played as an "ahead" (forward). These tools have existed since the late 2000s, but were mostly used by SEO spammers.
Bright line isn’t HSR. The average speed is something like 65mph
Too late to edit, but I think Adam D'Angelo staying on the board proves my speculation completely wrong.
My understanding is that the freight trains now are really long, and there's few places to pull off the tracks for such long trains, so the timetables are really tight for when trains can pass each other.

This goes to what I was talking about in my initial post. Right now, part of why Amtrak is bad in the US is because we're getting pretty efficient use of the same rails for freight purposes. The ways around this would either be to somehow legally force freight to fully be lower priority than passenger, which presumably raises prices/lowers efficiency of freight on the rails or to build a mostly disjoint system of rails for passenger only.

The costs required to build a passenger only system is high and the density of the US makes me question if it would get the use needed to be viable. In the meantime then, is it net positive for the US to prioritize freight use over passenger? Even if we gave passenger traffic maximum priority, would it defer enough flights to offset the freight efficiency losses?
That’s not true! Google “Indian Generations” to understand where the difference lies.

I believe it’s divided like so:
1947-65: Invested in National Success and self determination. Do more with less is key. Govt Jobs are the best jobs.

65-80: First Gen to start moving abroad, more private opportunities, care about making money and enterprise.

81-00: First exposure to the West, TV, entertainment. More holistic in their wants and desires, such as love. Witnessed the westernization.

00-16: Grew up with Western ideas and tech right beside them. More online, more diverse etc.
> Also, while the employees may be on strike, managers who rank high enough are not represented. If a company has particularly important obligations it needs to honor, it can always tell the managers to handle them personally.

You have to get very high in the hierarchy before you find a manager that the unions will not represent. This is one of the major problems with the Nordic model I would say.
When I give coding interviews I often jump in with "it doesn't compile because you forgot the semicolon at". The tools we use don't make it easy for me to fix such mistakes and it doesn't pay to waste their time to search out a mistake I (as an observer) already happened to know - I want to see their algorithm work so we can move on (or see how they debug why it isn't working yet depending on what phase we are in). I don't really care how long it takes you to find that missing semicolon - we all make that mistake once in a while and there isn't much to learn from it.
BRCM comp is about 50% stock, and the stock has been a runaway hit in the last few years. So a lot of people.

They also gave crazy 4 years of RSU grants in one hit right before COVID.
It's extremely well known that this is a common objection to such claims. You'd think that if the data truly was died FROM covid, they would bend over backwards to make that really clear, in order to shut up "deniers". The fact that they don't mention or clarify the issue in anyway is pretty telling. I tried looking through the related sources and found nothing useful to clarify.
This article was a good rebuttal to Haidt's post:
https://reason.com/2023/03/29/the-statistically-flawed-evide...
> It’s not rewriting history. Firefox really was a slow browser in that time,

It will be interesting to see what happens next year in that case, because FF+UBO will be much faster than Chrome with a nobbled ad blocker. If your right and speed is what everyone cares about there should be a mass migration back to Firefox.

But I doubt it, because we have already have a similar experiment. FF+UBO on Android is blazing fast compared to Chrome on Android. Chrome not supporting extensions on Android means the situation is nothing like desktop where Chrome and Firefox are roughly comparable (and always have been). On an ad laden site FF+UBO is going to load a page several times faster. More to the point to me, ads on desktop are often "out of the way" of the main content, but on mobile that consume roughly 1/3 of an already small screen. Like the ancestor poster, I'm stunned that nobody uses Firefox mobile (I'm defining 0.49% market share as nobody). Performance wise the difference is enormous - yet clearly no one cares.

Which also means, you and I and other nerds notwithstanding, it likely no one cared about Firefox's performance versus Chrome when they switched on the desktop. Marketing, bundling, breaking of Firefox on Google's home sites look to fit the facts much better.
Have you found public companies with generous stock comp that allow full remote?
> assuming that insects feel pain

Sometimes it seems that this kind of philosophical narratives are anchored in XVII century science. Everything with pain receptors feels pain. Period. Animals evolved this structures exclusively to feeling pain. Because this is a very positive trait if you want to survive.

Insects and other invertebrates are known to have pain receptors since the XX century (Yes, clams feel pain, and roundworms feel pain also). This is not new ground breaking science at all. What is new is using this to move forward the agenda of the cruelty animal crew.

I'm not against building better beehives, but we should focus, --laser focus--, our attention and most of all our scarce resources investing into much more urgent problems with insect species losing of habitat, being poisoned and facing extinction.

Because money is scarce on conservation and much more scarce on invertebrate conservation; and "give me money or this bee will die frozen two days before to just die of old age and be replaced by other bee" is a ridiculous problem.
There is some yeah, there is a recent book on deep learning via renormalization https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.10165.pdf.

I have a discord https://discord.cofunctional.ai
In the same way it doesn't matter which side of the road you drive on. What matters is that everyone else is also driving on that side
Good point re: microeconomics between truck and trailer owners.

The trailers could also charge off the alternator of the truck itself which could help to calm concerns of long charging times at stationary sources. The percent gains would probably be in the single digits and would demand a bit more from the engine but maybe there's an optimal balance there.
>UN is effectively a dog without teeth

its much worse.

"UNRWA Educators Are Linked To Antisemitism And Support For Terrorism" https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2023/11/icymi-un-watch-fact...

UN Teachers Call To Murder Jews https://unwatch.org/un-teachers-call-to-murder-jews-reveals-...
Technically that's a dict comprehension, not a list comprehension (though they are pretty much the same). The old style, before they existed, was to create a list of 2-tuples (key/value pairs) in a list comprehension and pass that to dict().
Isn't current an instantiation of an electro-magnetic field and so the movement of the belt wouldn't matter? It all lights up at the same time. Considering a conveyer belt portion that is part of a circuit, doesn't the portion of the belt that is energized change as fast as the belt moves?

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/707402/veritasiu...

https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/qxrsrp/the_big...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-WCZ8PkrK0
And business has no entitlement to profit. Business models do not have to be respected, they must be validated through market success. And the intellectual property model is invalid. Copying an idea does not rob another person of that idea.

"But it's law", I don't care, law is religion for the ruling class and judges are essentially priests. They work on doctrine, adjacent to indoctrination. They operate with the attitude that the judge, and by extension the state, can do no wrong. That's already operating from a place of moral invalidity.

If I shared something to the world, even under license, and people copied it endlessly, I'd be told that I have personal responsibility, and what did I expect to happen when I shared. Victim blaming, essentially.

But the moment it's a business, the moment money's involved, suddenly we aren't entitled to anything and business deserves every last dollar they can squeeze.

The understanding is flipped. Businesses are second class entities to citizens. They deserve no more consideration than an individual, and indeed already enjoy too many privileges they've done nothing to earn.

They aren't entitled to money.
https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs...
Pure water is an insulator until it breaks down.

the minimum breakdown voltage of distilled water under negative impulse at 2mm inter electrode gap spacing is 27kV with 14us breakdown time. The breakdown strength of distilled water is higher under positive impulse than negative impulse at same electrode gap spacing.

If the breakdown voltage for air were 10kV/cm, then that would imply pure water is a better insulator than air. Don't bet your life on it though!

https://digitalxplore.org/up_proc/pdf/149-143254025539-45.pd...
That's assuming that's the only mode of travel. There could be worm holes, or things we can't imagine.

Also if the goal was to find life, searching would not be optimal. It would be better to launch pods that self expand to nearby planet, make their own pods, and go to the next nearby planets.
But it isn't. The workers are striking in solidarity and not delivering anything to tesla.
I remember one of my physics professors at uni explaining this theory and for some reason, I had this weird anxiety at the thought. A lonely electron doing all the work of every electron in the universe. Semifun fact, Feynman used the electron traveling back in time analogy to help teach the principles of QED.
There is a lot of empirical evidence supporting the effectiveness of masks against COVID-19, and I would not call it weak. In my own quest for actual research instead of single data points ("I never mask and have never gotten COVID"), I found that out of 27 peer-reviewed studies, 22 of them show masks are effective: https://github.com/mbevand/masking-effectiveness