skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something like 10% of US people I've talked to seemed to have a genuine belief that the Trump presidency was a campaign by a foreign enemy. So yes, free speech should be encouraged even then.

> During cold war US didn't freely allow any USSR propaganda either.

During WWII they rounded up the Japanese. During the cold war they nearly got everyone nuked at least twice. During the wars from 1990->2020 there have been patterns of lies in the justification. Just because something was done doesn't make it a good idea.

The cold war would have been safer and led to better outcomes if the US listened to the USSR, and vice versa, at the popular scale. We're still dealing with the fallout insane Russophobia that was engendered in the US halls of power. And had the US had been positioned to step in and help Russia after the fall of the Soviets instead of being caught by surprise mid-war we'd all be in much better shape today. They fumbled the collapse of the Soviet empire pretty badly because they hadn't managed to figure out what was going on on the ground. We're still fighting wars because the US never managed to sit down and make friends with the Russians. If the Saudis were an option, everyone is.

The upside of the honest speech is much bigger than whatever downside the propaganda has. The largely unproven and examined downside, I might add; I'm not drawing a case to mind where it was effective and crippling unless there was a superpower using it against someone much smaller.
I started with TP 3 in high school in the late 80s and then went on to use it my freshman year in college as all our Intro to CS projects were in Pascal. I think 98% of the folks in that class used the mainframe, which involved submitting your job in the terminal and then walking across campus to the printing room and seeing the output. I did all my work in my dorm on my Tandy 1000 SX and when I was done was able to use a pirated copy of an IBM file uploader to get it into my mainframe account and then submit it. Luckily TP 3 still understood old style Pascal comment delimiters as we were graded as much on our comments as we were on working code.

A couple of years later as a senior I used TP 3 using "Turbo Vision" to write a simple learning focused stats package for a professor's book (_Quality Control, 4th Edition_). I found out later that same package was being used for the production line of Jim Beam whiskey.

I also wrote a few shareware programs in TP and put them on Simtel in the early 90s.
It was pretty cool getting random checks in the mail for utilities like "vgalogin", a Novell login frontend in VGA mode with a floating message of the day.
The impact to pedestrians is taken into account. The impact on other cars isn't, because I don't see how you'd do that objectively - do you just crash it against an identical model? A selection of several other cars from different categories/brands? How would you determine those? Do you just test head-on collisions, or the whole gauntlet of impacts? Wouldn't that make any test require dozens and dozens of vehicles, and ultimately tell you very little because the variety of vehicles on road is so huge that your crash results against a Honda Jazz might mean nothing in a crash against a Civic or anything else.
how can US slow down China's nuclear build out - what export controls could be applied? Also I believe that the Hualong One reactor design is based on Westinghouse IP, which might give legal / financial instrument to help fslow down China's rise
To call this comment deranged is to misrepresent the context entirely, and also be extremely naive about the selection of videos for the paper. Yes it's possibly a bit snarky, but quite funny too. It's certainly what I was thinking when I looked at the results: this paper is written in field which doesn't have many women in it! I think it's highly likely this will get more exposure because of the choice of examples. Yes they have a robot too — but there aren't any "normal looking" people doing dances.
Thanks - I was struggling to understand the game explanation on the original site.
Some users are not using a system because they like it but because their company bought it.

In those situations biz > user by definition and the developers end up having to cater to the needs of the middle managment of their customers rather than the needs of the actual users. The price of not doing this is failing to win the contract. Users then get locked in to whatever crap you have time to provide for them while you're really busy implementing new features that middle managment like.

You essentially only need a nice looking login screen and some sort of reporting and the rest.....doesn't matter much.

I am being a bit cynical but it does pay as an engineer to know if that's fundamentally the kind of company you're in.

An online retailer, for example, is hypersensitive to its users and I know of at least one that has different versions of its website for different countries because they know that Germans like X and Americans like Y - small changes make a huge difference to sales.

Other companies have no sensitivity to the usability of their products because the people who buy their products are never the users.
This is very error-prone. Assuming sqlite3 is available, you’ll get more reliability with:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31824030
Most of them are not “illusions” where you perceive two identical segments being different lengths because of tricks of human perception, they are ambigrams. They rely on humans’ ability to think of any three dots as two eyes and a mouth.

They also “copy” the way those networks seem to do so often that they somehow get copyright strikes; they were either prompted on existing solutions or learned them whole through training:

* The penguin and giraffe one is a previously known ambigram, for example.

* The old lady turning into a dress is obviously based on a classic pencil drawing where a similar old lady hiding in her collar turns into a young lady looking behind her shoulder [0]; however, the network interpreted “young lady” and turned into a white dress because color-matching the two different body parts from the pencil outline and turning it photorealistic wouldn’t have been much harder otherwise. There are photorealistic interpretations, though [1].

I’m more impressed by the radically new ones, like the fire flipping into a face—but most of those rely on having two distinct parts of the image be meaningful in their own context, and not relevant otherwise.

The black-and-white inversion man/woman is impressive because the two interpretations are not on separate parts of the image. That’s where you can interpret the quality of the effect as the model having learned how humans perceive and pay attention to dark and light contrasts differently. That one captures an understanding of perception.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditDayOf/comments/35cjn5/the_cla...

[1] https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/optical-illusio...
I know nothing about the CyberDuck but

> Being able to tow big heavy stuff isn't necessarily a great idea, because big heavy stuff needs to stop as well as start.

is a solved problem in the caravanning | rural | Australian world.

Hayman-Reese hitches with anti sway bars provide strong transfer of pulling force for starting, load control under braking - and heavy load trailers can be dual axle with slaved electric brakes to add to the stopping power of the lead vehicle.

eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM2--wSb5d0
I hope this car never makes it into Europe in current form.
Web development, not Python coding ;)
I'm data scientist, I know pip but have no knowledge in web dev (HTML, CSS or JS)
It is a little bit funny that there is a link to "Code" that takes you to github, but it's a repo with just a readme and a video.
> Why it was useful: Because Internet Explorer was trash

Great insight
NaN ≹ NaN
> kids can be walking independently most of the time by age 2 or 2.5

One thing I've noticed, they don't walk very well while taking a nap. And you just get so much more out of a day when you don't have to return home in the middle.
>>What's the upside?

A much easier to manouver car, because you can get true variable speed ratio steering.

It's explained really well here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agMrewRJTow

Tbh I still think it's a bit of a silly idea. But it's not completely without its merits(the one done by Tesla was though - that was completely entirely pointless).
A company not living up to what it promised when it is telling you to buy the product on the basis of that promise meets the first condition of fraud. It absolutely can be fraud.

The only question is whether the company or company representative making the claim knew what they were saying was untrue.

Based on stuff Elon said in the same presentation as being true as of the day he made the presentation actually being false, I suspect he was indeed aware that he was just lying, but it’s hard to prove in a court of law, and Tesla is a huge company with an extraordinarily active legal department, so it’s unlikely a customer would take him to court.
There's three levels.

Can the car drive in these situations?

1. Right turn, red for car, green for pedestrian.

2. Right turn, green for car, green for pedestrian.

3. Right turn, green for car, red for pedestrian.

In USA, in some states the car driving in situation 1 is allowed (and naturally 2). I assume in most states 1 is not allowed and 2 is allowed.

In Europe, I assume driving the car in situation 1 is not allowed anywhere. 2 is mixed, some places have traffic lights that create this green for both, some don't.

3 is of course allowed everywhere in the world.
What do you mean "The reality don't support it"?
Literally every example in the header video is a young woman or anime girl
And you simply don't care if two different people are shown in the photo in poses that didn't happen at the same time? That doesn't seem to me like capturing whatever it was you wanted to capture.
Oversexualised used this way refers as much to an industry/society as individual people. For example, while individual sex workers might have autonomy and we can respect their choices, we can still notice that our culture creates a situation where women are primarily given value for their physical attributes, above others, and that this applies less to men.
We also need more legislation holding automakers and drivers liable for the impact of their designs on other road users. I'm not up to speed on product liability, but this type of statement from Musk seems likely to invite lawsuits from anyone injured by a Cybertruck.

Hopefully the car has a good pedestrian avoidance system. Otherwise, it seems to have a large blind spot for the driver. The nearly flat front also looks dangerous as well.
For a single engagement your logic is sound. But for a prolonged war logistics is extremely challenging. Wars have been won and lost based on who is better at bringing fuel, supplies and ammunition to the battlefield.

If you can reduce volume and weight of missile shipments with these things that might be incredibly valuable, even if it's more expensive overall
> the tortured turn of phrase

Usual reminder that many people in our industry are not native speakers and don't live in an English speaking country, and yet they make the effort to write in English, which may explain the "tortured turn of phrase".

> just rechewing of popular truisms

And yet these "popular truisms" are particularly well put together in a coherent way, which makes this post a useful reference.
Maintainability is equivalent to code quality when (1) the code grows with features, and (2) external dependencies force continued change.

One example is an end-to-end test suite. New tests are written; old tests are removed. If the tests couple UI too closely with the spec, more changes need to happen. More time is spent on fixing and running the changed test over and over.

Secondly, we can't control when a website is redesigned. Selectors change, and the tests have to change with it. We could add our own test IDs, but we cannot enforce anything.

We're almost approaching a decade and have only honed our approach while expanding our reach.

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I also just wanted to add that your work is fantastic, and just an incredibly high bar in the 15+ years since I discovered it. I look up Love every so often; it reminds me of programming as implementing dreams into reality.
That article is misinterpreting the meaning of the symbol. It isn't useful in mathematics because it is a contradiction in terms: if "neither of the two compared entities is greater or lesser than the other" then they are equal.

The author of the original article uses it correctly - think about it more in regards to importance for their example.

The business is no more or less important than the developer, but they are NOT equal.

It doesn't have to mean importance though, just the method by which you are comparing things.

Monday ≹ Wednesday

Come to think of it, it should be called the 'No better than' operator.
> The fact is that for decades countless of beautiful photos have been captured with cell phone cameras

Which phones are you thinking of? Because you definitely have a very rose tinted view if you are thinking literally of cell phones, over smartphones, and even in the latter case, only the past couple of years have had acceptable quality where it might pass some rudimentary view as a proper photograph. Everything else was just noise.
Those two are based on previously known ambigraphs:

* very closely https://www.pinterest.com/pin/giraffepenguin--13398215764267...

* or directly inspired by, but the “young lady” prompt triggered the model to pick a dress, and there’s no way to make an eye and an ear or a month and a chocker photo-realistically identical:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditDayOf/comments/35cjn5/the_cla...
Not great - https://youtu.be/wqcu0j3Wsys?t=815
> Turbo Pascal is what got me into programming.

And not only top-down procedural programming as was the norm for Pascal in those days, the Breakout demo was a lesson in OOP.
> Also, the creep factor for AI girlfriends has ratcheted up another notch.

I don't know if I agree with the framing here ("creep"), but for sure this will make AI girlfriend/boyfriend products even more addicting.
As a pedestrian and car hater I don't mind that too much. Pedestrians always have priority on the walk signal, and there is a special separate light to allow/disallow cars to turn. In practice they are used where it's safe to implement.

But I may be wrong - statistics seem to agree with you.
Chatgpt is blocked in China including Hong Kong, so my school computer doesn't have access to it. I also am a very very casual AI user
How is that different from a noise removal algorithm? Is it also taking away control from you!
Find an e-bike charging station on the National Cycle Network
This exactly. An in reply to GP -- I enjoy showing tech demos like this to my teenage boys and did also feel slightly embarrassed sending them this one.
At least it's the opportunity this evening for a conversation about it.
That’s basic photo-stacking.
Thanks for your reply - and I probably would have missed it except by complete chance.

I still don't think it has properly clicked, because the function "f(x) = xN" still needs me to know what N is - despite it being an integer.

For example, let's suppose that you manage to have a conversation with God and you discover that BB(100) has the value of 42, and Chaitlin's number is 1/2.

Does Chaitlin's number suddenly become computable? My intuition is that it remains uncomputable, but maybe my intuition is wrong... I guess by the definition, it is computable, but you can't prove it.

I'm also struggling with the reciprocal of BB(100). This is rational, so maybe it too is computable.

I guess I am struggling with the lack of a constructive proof and what that means - it is like we are saying "there exists an algorithm to do X, but the algorithm can't be known", and maybe that is the core of me being wrong - we can prove that such an algorithm exists, and so 1/BB(100) is computable just like BB(100) is computable 0 but every time I write this down, I still can't see how this logic doesn't also break down with actually non-computable numbers. e.g. "There is a function f(x) which returns an integer, I can't tell you what the integer is, but it is the one that results in showing that Chaitlin's number is computable"

Anyway, if you notice this and do reply, then very much thank you - and apologies if your reply goes unread
That "feedback" doesn't meet my poorly framed hyperbole. I'm intimately familiar as a driver; both in sims and Real Fast Cars.

At what point does it go from feedback to lies? Some computer saying "yep, this is what's happening", if you're lucky.

I'll yield that has been the trend for eons. That said, I don't want more of it.

What lead to my first comment is the understanding that Tesla doing something where it's... different wires.

Bus vs Ethernet or whatever. It sounds even more muted/numb.

I don't want a real car to feel like a sim. It's getting harder to tell the difference for the wrong reasons.

It's not that the simulators are closing the gap, but that the cars are becoming simulators. Lowering standards is definitely one way to meet them.

Take your "we have feedback at home" and keep it

I'm half joking through most of this, by the way. The problem is there but I'm deliberately overstating it
Please don't evade the question. If you use some data for your assertion, please show it to us.
How would you know? It certainly isn't random what you see.
Yeah, its a somewhat unfortunate reality that if you want to get full access to the consoles, you need to be an actual gamedev and sign some contracts. Microsoft does not suffer poor fools just trying to learn how to get the most out of the Xbox. Sony is much the same in this regard, and nevermind Nintendo.

I do wish they made Xbox more available to students in gamedev/cs degrees. When I was in school, Microsoft actually sponsored the program I was in, and I had a chance to work on Xbox stuff that as a student I would not have had any access to otherwise; That ended up being really useful to my early career -- not a lot of college grads have experience with developing and publishing for real on Xbox.
I feel a manager needs to lead by example. If the team is collocated again then the manager should be there.
Provides some clues on why the geschichtspolitik never came.
ImageSharp v3.1.0
Yes it is still free speech. Otherwise the buffoons can claim whatever and shutdown whatever in the name of national insecurity.
No, and especially not the ones in the size class of the Cybertruck. Usually if I've seen a pickup truck, it's been maybe a Ford Ranger or a Toyota Hilux, a mid-size pickup truck, and definitely not an F150, a full-size pickup truck. Sometimes it might also just be a Volkswagen Transporter with a flatbed, so basically a van like most all utility vehicles.
FYI as it was a little obscure, “sheep” and “sheepdogs” is a reference to a quite famous article by USMC LTC Dave Grossman, author of a widely read book “On Killing”:

https://mwkworks.com/onsheepwolvesandsheepdogs.html

It is not meant as a disparaging remark in this context to call people sheep.

ChatGPT's summary: Dave Grossman explores the concept of three distinct types of people in society: sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. He characterizes "sheep" as the general populace, who are peaceful and vulnerable; "wolves" as those who prey on the sheep, representing criminals and threats to society; and "sheepdogs" as individuals who protect the sheep, often law enforcement and military personnel. Grossman emphasizes the importance of recognizing and supporting the sheepdogs who keep society safe, and he encourages readers to understand the roles these groups play in maintaining a secure and orderly society.

My own note: to the sheep the wolves and the sheepdogs can often seem the same. They both have scary fangs, make growling noises, chase and bite, etc. It is common for the sheep to fear both wolves and the sheepdogs. Some sheep fail to distinguish the two, and if sheep wrote political essays they might call for defunding the sheepdogs as they are a menace to society. But wolves and sheepdogs are not the same, and it is a mistake to equate defensive investment in military capabilities to keep the peace (even if that sometimes involves military interventions and/or small-scale preemptive wars) with hostile, aggressive conquest of the sort we see carried out by actors like Russia, or the genocide conducted by Hamas.
Yeah, that can absolutely still be fraud.

If you make someone sign a contract promising a product and you strongly indicate it will be delivered by a certain date, it’s still fraud if you know it won’t be delivered by that date even if the contract says that the date is just a suggestion.

I mean, that’s actually the very definition of fraud. Getting someone to sign a contract by deceiving them.

Of course, it’s hard to prove that someone knew that they were lying, which is why fraud is hard to prosecute. But it’s amazing seeing Tesla fans go out of their way to take bullets so Tesla doesn’t even suffer the social consequences their fraud should cause them for absolutely nothing.
.. maybe a product manager at X reads it and does some patches.
not holding breath, of course.
My insulin pump controller has a bug
It's quite easy: Google giving better results than the minimum needed to make sure users don't switch is detrimental to its ads revenue.

If you look at how many people are working on search at Google, it's just a small part at this point, vast amount of people at Google work on different ways of monetizing it.
Non-twitter link: https://nitter.net/morganherlocker/status/173045572181552742... (edit: I'm not the author)

"Notified today that my insulin pump controller has a bug where the leading decimal point will be dropped, ie: changing a dose of .21 units to 21 units. I can reproduce randomly ~1 in 5 times so probably a race condition. Easily one of the worst software bugs I have ever heard of."
> I don't quite understand what the flags in Bellevue are for. Are there no traffic lights? But then what are the crosswalk buttons for?

It is a cheap non solution that allows leaders to say they did something without actually doing something that would require a sacrifice, such as money, or in the case, sacrificing the convenience of drivers who are presumably more politically powerfully than pedestrians.
If you and your friend both change the preferences a bit, e.g., grid size, it's very likely that you will match. It's more of a workaround though, I should absolutely put some effort into creating a lobby.
I keep saying this to people and they literally don't believe me - my 86bhp volkswagen e-Up is more fun to drive than my 400bhp Mercedes-AMG ever was.

Seriously, I haven't been hit in the head.

The AMG was fun for a total of 4 seconds, which is exactly how long it took you to get to the legal speed limit, then you just sort of pootled along, unable to push hard and enjoy it. Yes it had grip, yes it had the noise, but I'd say out of the 4 years I owned it, I had "fun" in maybe a total 5% of those 4 years.

In the e-Up? I can push it hard all the time. You can get on some countryside roads, keep the pedal flat, and chuck it around, and it takes ages to get to any kinds of illegal speeds. And it's electric so the torque is always there, there's no waiting for the dual clutch gearbox to finally decide what it wants to do, you press the throttle and you go, it's absolutely beautiful how you can thread this car out of a corner. My enjoyment of hard driving this car is probably 10x that of the AMG, partially because you can actually do it for longer, and partially because I'm far less likely to kill myself or land in jail doing so. And it's only 1200kg so it's not like an oil tanker in turns, despite having wheels from a lawnmower.