skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all TV signals had to be sent digital. And of course if you set up an antenna, you can receive crystal-clear HD broadcasts of local TV stations over the air.

One of the problems with the switch to digital is the usable signal doesn't go as far as analog, so if you're in a rural area even with an antenna you lost access to some of the stations you were used to being able to receive. A lot of people in rural areas switched to cable or dish tv as a result.

And one of the perks of analog is that you can use a crappy signal, as a kid we didn't have cable and you could usually get the higher stations like UPN or Fox by messing around with the antenna.... usually the audio would be okay but the picture would be fuzzy or have interference/noise. Was it a perfect picture? Hell no. But you'd be able to sit and watch a show successfully. With digital if the signal is not good you just got pixelation as the tuner tries to buffer & compile the signal unsuccessfully.

I have to wonder if the switchover was encouraged by TV manufacturers because, while they made converter boxes, the public mostly reacted by turning all their existing tvs into e-waste and buying new ones instead. And in states where throwing out tvs is illegal and it costs money to dispose of them (if you can find a place that will take it if you pay them), so the public reacted by dumping them in the woods, creeks/rivers, swamps etc when no one was looking.
Honestly, human work conditions continue to be primitive, even for "privileged" office jobs.

You sit all day. You have poor lighting. You breath crappy air. The screen stare is damaging to your eyes. You're exposed to lots of stress and few real cognitive breaks.

You're just supposed to ignore every basic human need and best practice and grind through it. And even be thankful for the opportunity too.

Whatever you can do to improve things, is all on you. The expectations remain the same. It's more like a personal hobby, your bodies' basic needs.

Same with "mental health" that employers supposedly care about. They would never take away any root causes, instead...here's a link to an e-course.
Busses work, though. If you removed busses, there is no amount of Ubers you could add to the roads to "fix" the system. It's clearly impractical for each office worker to pay for even half an hour of someone's time every day to deliver a meal just to them. While most counter services can serve 20 meals with the same half hour of wages.

Uber Eats is doing it here in London with "ghost kitchens". 15 fast casual brands cooking (mostly reheating really) from 3 kitchens in 1 building. A much better chance for delivery drivers to be able to pick up multiple orders. It still isn't enough optimising though, as the destinations are still scattered.
Train tracking in dead zones has approximately zero consumer-facing utility. Train tracking in urban areas would be very helpful for route mapping around grade crossings.
I've only personally known two people who were unambiguously geniuses, and they were both deeply broken people. If that's the price of genius, then I'm very happy being a subgenius.

> a thin line separates genius from madness.

I suspect that genius is actually a form of insanity, personally. A functional form, but still...
> But the caveat was that some of the features were not translated via wine. For example some type of lightning or shading (as in shadows) technique... like you would just not have shadows. So back then it was said that games ran faster because the GPU did less work cause of the missing "features" when doing the translation.

Do you have a source or example vid or something to link to showing this? I ask cause I've seen this claim pop up a number of times here and on reddit but never have been able to find concrete examples of it actually happening, in addition to the Wine docs saying (IIRC) that if Wine runs into something that isn't/can't be translated, that the program will crash, not just omit it. The idea that it would just not appear at all seems less probable to me than the game crashing.
I'm not familiar with laser cutting at all; are cuts typically done with suboptimal parameters for those things?
> In effect, removing the wage floor just makes government bigger and almost everyone poorer.

Nope, this is absolutely false, it is exactly the other way around.

I am not quite sure what you are trying to accomplish with your whole comment. It neither makes sense nor is it strictly related to what I just posted. Did you want to debate an argument of mine, just post your personal views about labor in general or simply troll? I am always open for a discussion.

Besides are labor unions (you are referring to the British english version) heavily involved in labor and wage discussions in the USA. The US is literally a labor union hell, so I don't get your point on that matter either.
Endless summer nights are a nice flipside though.
The build steps are provided as a GitHub action in the repo. You can audit the build pretty easily, or if you're super paranoid you can build it yourself by following the build steps.
Yep, same for me too
I've worked around the trades(Stuff like setting up control systems on a construction site, and doing light woodworking to fix all the stuff I had to break just to flash some firmware on some badly designed inaccessible device).

The real pros use safety equipment, and it's great, I actually enjoy working with them more than other coders, but some of the craigslist handymen seem to think a crack pipe is respiratory protection.... and there's tons of them even in places I'd expect to be all really good pros....
Where is the firm dividing line that separates math from philosophy?
I agree. Harvard Yale and the rest of them are for rich elitist assholes who give each other jobs. It’s bad for society much like discriminating based on race like Harvard did
Yikes, do I read this correctly and the LLM alone outperforms clinician + LLM?
First, I object to the idea Every teacher gets to decide what they teach. There is a very prescriptive list of what the curriculum must contain, and it is assessed by standardize tests.

Second, teachers aren't fungible robots. They are humans with personalities, interests, and passions. Education works best when teachers are engaged. I think you underestimate the value provided by flexibility. you might be able to reduce variation through standardization, but that doesnt mean you improve the mean. My very best teachers went off script, teaching more valuable information, like a 5th grade teacher that decided to teach business, html, and the scientific method.

Last, it isn't exactly anarchy. Many subjects can be taught from texts, which are organized along standardized approaches.
yes that's his valuation since that's what Spotify paid.
I meaning Microsoft is trying to introduce ads into the file explorer and search centers...
> If he'd stuck to the story that he just had an engine mishap would they have been able to prove that it was intentional?

In a normal setting, probably not. General-aviation aircraft don't have flight recorders. Helpfully for the investigators, however, this numpty decked his plane out in cameras. And then posted the video online. After he'd executed the cover-up.
Is this the difference between Bayesian and Frequentist approaches?
> consuming nutrients from food is better than pills?

In the case of fiber; the goal is the opposite of consuming nutrients...

And real food is also insoluble fiber (ie Corn and Peanuts)
I appreciate you honesty.

Operationalizing and validating concepts and measures is genuinely difficult. There's always a question of whether the concept itself is real, if the test is really measuring it, and if anything can be learned from precisely measuring it.

Personally, I think this tracks with how reified the concept is in a particular society. No one would think twice at the validity of a gender test, some may question the validity or intelligence tests, and many may question grit tests. The almost instinctual reaction towards tests says more about someone's degree of social internalization than it does about the test, though of course it doesn't feel this way to the person being asked - see reification above.
Over 18,000 annual ER visits linked to Christmas decor incidents
This 100%.

They were stealing tips. Full stop.

If a driver would be paid $5 for a delivery, and the customer tipped $5, the driver should receive $10.

But what was effectively happening instead was that the pay would be reduced by the tip amount to as low as $2. So now that delivery would actually pay $2 plus the $5 for a total of $7.

On longer range deliveries that might pay $10, the customer could tip $8 and the driver would still only make $10.

Now, from what I understand, DD no longer does this practice and legitimately gives the entire tipped amount to the driver with no reduction in pay from DD, but DD lowered the base delivery pay to compensate.

At the time, IIRC, DD tried to wordsmith what they were doing to not make it sound like they were stealing tips, and instead was simply subsidizing poor tippers with a higher base pay and acting like the keeping of the tip was just the removal of the poor-tip subsidy. I say to-may-toe, you say to-mah-toe, it's bullshit. They were stealing tips.
That was my impression - it seemed very much a "I need more address space" than I need speed (after all, all PPC Macs were super computers IIRC :D)
They don't refer to "senior year"? I don't think of that as cutesy at all — just descriptive. Do you refer to university by these 'cutesy' names? Or is it grade 13-16?
I think there's a bias to this question where someone thinks of a place they should be working and then names 5 people who work there. Or they pick a damn smart mentor who taught them 20 years ago or a celebrity who wrote a book and surprise, surprise they're still there. Heck, if I listed everyone with a PhD from Harvard, they'd be working in the same university.

So to be fair, I'll check the 5 people who I don't know what they're up to.

1. Petroleum engineer at a petroleum company.

2. Well engineer at a petroleum company.

3. Manager at a petroleum company.

4. Doctor in a well paid city.

5. Manager at the Ministry of Finance.

There's still a bias - all are from the same (expensive) university, so there's a bias towards scholarships or rich kids. All are mid 30s, Malaysian nationals who have lived for years outside their home country. I'm sure the results would be very different plus/minus a decade.

Seems like many in their 30s took a job, hated the job, did freelancing etc, ended up in the highest paying job they could find. One was a doctor who became a manager in a petroleum company.
When I worked in games, we'd render everything in engine. But we also rendered it at about 1/8 FPS and rendered it at 4k on a PS3. We'd step the engine one frame and render many tiles to get up to 4k, then step forward. We did this on recorded engine sequencing so we could do it over and over and change effects / times of day, etc between.

All this to say that just because it's "in engine" doesn't mean it's not cheating. This was also on PS3 dev kits which had double the ram and iirc a bit more horsepower.

Also almost all of this is cut scenes. Animation on those look good, facial mocap has come a long way. But that doesn't necessarily translate into good in engine animations during gameplay. Usually you turn off a lot of features of the engine for cut scenes. For instance we had a lot of issues with clothes shooting around in cutscenes because in between frames (cuts) we'd be moving the character from either <0,0,0> or just the other side of a door to where they were in this fame. This caused motion calculations to go off and cloth and other body parts wouldn't settle for a few frames.

To me it looks like they're about where they should be running on a top end PC in EoY 2023. What's always gotten me about GTA games is their driving is fun, the shooter parts no so much, especially indoors. I hope they cleaned that way up and the game will be a lot better. RDR2 was better at this than GTAV by a lot. I hope they make a similar leap. RDR2 was also visually stunning in many areas. Looks like they kept a lot of the lighting effects or expanded on them. The pink haze reminds me of the totally not memphis area in RDR2.
Anyone have a link to the video?
Thats assuming that yt pays out and his sponsors doesn't sue him.
Never overestimate the intelligence of someone willing to jump out of a moving plane for clicks and views.
Because Google is implementing changes to disable adblockers in the browser.
Weird, Denso already manufactures many EV components. Why would Toyota sell their stocks?
80s/90s kid here..

I remember my car breaking down and needing to walk to a rest area, to use a pay phone to call for help.

That and using pay phones generally as a convenience when I would bike miles into town, well that isn’t really available anymore.

I’ve had to knock on a door to ask a stranger to use their phone.

I’ve had to ask a store to use their phone.

A lot of this seems so strange now, like I cannot picture myself needing to rely on strangers and stores!
Smart is so relative and so overrated. I learned a long time ago that the person you think might be the dumbest sad sack around probably has some niche in this world where they are king. And similarly the guy with the off-the-charts IQ is probably a moron in some part of their life. You wanna talk about smart? Be the person who is empathetic enough to figure out other people's strengths and weaknesses and how to work with them. As far as where to work - you'll meet smart people and dumb people everywhere you go, so figure out what you like doing and go there. Big Co works for some, startups for others - it isn't just about smarts, but also personality and risk profile.
A Tutorial on Principal Component Analysis (2014)
can you elaborate on the salt part? are those good or bad consequences?
Amazing how one company has trailblazed an entire industry for the past two decades.
You should work on inter-agent interaction next! It's so much fun.

I have played with this a fair amount and put a couple of my experiments in a repo- both slime mold simulation and "particle life".

Here's the repo: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/compute-shaders

And a video of the slime mold: https://twitter.com/_jason_today/status/1663378736098738177?...
In the case of fiber, where it has been intentionally reduced or removed from many foods (ie bread) to make consumption easier (fast food)
That would be incredibly underhanded. But it's the most likely explanation on why the CEO personally made an offer and then ignored him.
The Dwarven god in DnD is so good at crafting he can literally make new souls in his forge. :)
I just added Outlive by Peter Attia to the list of books I did not finish this year.

If you want to increase your chances of a longer, healthier life, most of us know what to do and the big hurdle is actually following through on: getting enough quality sleep, eating minimally-processed food (not too much, mostly plants), making and keeping friends, having a sense of purpose, helping others, listening more than we speak (I felt momentarily hypocritical here but then I'm about 20min into mostly reading New posts and comments on HN), getting enough exercise (cardio and weights), not being stressed about too much (including orthorexia), having enough money but not too much, and...? Not an exhaustive list, so there's utility in reading Dr. Attia's book for more details (but not prescriptions, as he's quick to declare), but I for one will focus on doing these things rather than only reading about them (and may pick it up again from the library when I'm looking for guidance and context).
Building a text editor: The Gap Buffer
Ah, I think I see. There is a dependency in the code that requires copying some external resource in order to build/run locally. The developer's local environment may have a different version of that resource than the CI, so a bug ends up not being reproducible. The developer may not run the CI directly, because the developer's access tokens should be separate from the CI's access tokens.

I was picturing a case where the CI was allowed privileged access to a resource to which developers were not allowed access at all.
Are people that much in love with Chrome?
The tactics dont work in what sense? Are there students that learn better when there are no consequences and their peers are playing music in class or shouting over the teacher?
Broken front sway bar linkage, leaky caulk art the rear roof seams well-known), spots where the paint wasn't right, early death of DI coils (they should get more than 60k), rodents eating the wiring harness (twice) as Honda uses what they claim is environmentally friendly insulation.

But yeah ... I forgive plugs, oil changes, brakes, filters, etc as it's PM that has given my other cars their longevity.
> respond with something I interpret as "don't bother, it can't be perfect"

That was not my intention. I simply had to point this out because your comment implied that a well functioning free market could somehow solve the issue. My take is that it can't, because there's no such thing.

Whether or not we should bother with improving it, is a matter for another debate. My take is that we've tried it for long enough, and small improvements simply don't work anymore. Millions of people need/want something and a small handful of powerful rich folks can deny that with no real recourse.

> The counter to the invisible hand working against society instead of in tandem or for it is freely available information.

I mostly agree! But that's, once again, an utopia. Key information is still kept from the public eyes and the trend is to get more restricted to the rich and powerful as time goes on.

As an example, a few key players like Google and Meta have information on virtually every single citizen in the world, while the public has absolutely no control over it or oversight on how that's used.

I don't fully agree because of another problem that we can see almost every day: even with information, the system is unable to make any meaningful change.

We have backroom deals exposed, corruption, quid-pro-quo everywhere, and yet the majority of the responsible people/companies remain free to keep doing those. At best we get a few scapegoats or slaps on the wrist. Information alone is useless if you either have nobody that can act on it (think unregulated markets, industries, etc), or the ones that are able to, can't or won't because of the existing power structures, like the example in the article.

> The only person here who said that is you

I was obviously alluding to the ever-present "communism/socialism is an utopia" argument. I never implied you said that specifically. It's just such a common argument that I assumed could be raised since I mentioned the word and I expanded on it.
You're thinking about it on a PC. Rockstar isn't known for releasing for PC first, or well even stably for PC in the first year. So unless the PS5 and XBoX have this setup, which they don't really, I don't think they'll lean into this.
[1] suggests that I should define functions with the `<dfn>` tag, but the documentation appears out-of-date, because the HTML program sample shows using the `<def>` tag. Is the next revision of HTML, the Programming Language, A Programming Language going to cover the difference between the `<dfn>` and `<def>` tags, or deprecate one of them?

All the best,

[1]: https://html-lang.org/#defining-functions
Millions of lives became a smidge more interesting because they got to see, think, talk and be outraged by this guy crashing a plane into a remote mountain range on purpose. As a society we can afford things like this if they're a one-off. It's slightly more fun if this happens once in 10 years than if it happens zero times. If 6 months is all he gets then that seems right to me, maybe even a bit much.
2008 seems like too long ago for this to be useful. Am I wrong?
Phone lockers. My kid puts his phone in before class and gets them out with each class.
I can't view the studies on SciHub (DOI not found) but this is what variable adjustment models are for. It's how we know that smokers aren't just people who don't exercise.

And even when there is colinearity between variables and you're not sure how to adjust for it, then your confidence levels blow up because not literally everyone who A's also B's.
A lot of people have to use it for work whether they like it or not.
Tell that to Jean Valjean.
Empowering GPT and Llama models with Biomedical knowledge using KG-RAG framework
Pollan said once:

> Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants

And as near as I can tell, that is basically the way forward, plus remembering to eat enough protein.

There's a steady drip of how this additive or that replacement has a knock on negative effect. So I think at the end, making sure to make your own food, mostly plants, manage protein, with carbs for fun pretty much covers it.
KG-RAG is a framework that combines the explicit knowledge of a Knowledge Graph with the implicit knowledge of a Large Language Model (LLM).
Stop saying "there is no decoupling". There is
I once fixed the remote at a brother-in-law's place. Came back a week later and changed channels using the remote. He shouted "You mean it's been working the whole week and I've been on my knees changing channels?!"
> on low power AM broadcasting

The FCC's actions are public documents and published on their website. Its not a coincidence that the ONLY actions the FCC takes for pirate stations have to do with FM or TV. Try finding -any- instance where someone was fined for an AM pirate station in the last 20 years. People with part15 AM transmitters or signal generators have to go out of their way to get the attention of the feds.
Much like the oversaturating tinted glasses in vice city’s pastiche of 70s Miami they seem to have nailed the aesthetic of its contemporary evolution
The next step is to enable more post-invalidation precompile for Plots. This is something we recently setup with Symbolics.jl since that is another package which has some "invalidation by design" patterns, where certain assumptions made in the compiler (such as (x==y)::Bool) are invalidated by symbolic numbers acting differently than a lot of numbers and thus some over-eager optimizations require being removed upon using. PrecompileTools.@recompile_invalidations is a recent (v1.9 era) tool that allows for forcing the compile at package precompile time to consider the environment post-invalidation and thus re-precompile, effectively reducing the TTFX in these cases where invalidation is always going to occur by design. Plots.jl is a case like this because its recipe system is effectively allowing people to extend the plotting pipeline well after Plots is loaded, which is its main killer feature but effectively means that one should expect invalidations from it. I think that recompilation post invalidation should make a strong dent in that and plan to see if that's the case in a few months when I get the time to dive in.

> Wouldn't something like slow interpreter option for "glue code" be feasible? Most code doesn't need to be fast, and waiting for the "hot functions" to compile on change wouldn't be too bad. And you could still AOT for maximum speed when needed. This is essentially how Javascript JITs manage to start up so fast.

That is something I've been meaning to investigate more. A lot of the Plots.jl code is internally dynamic because of its design to hold everything in a Dict{Any} and recurse the plot recipes. In other words, it doesn't even benefit from having the JIT at all because internally everything is uninferred boxed variables. There's probably a good way to just do "please interpret the calls in this part of the pipeline" and not see any runtime difference but chop out the core of the compilation. It's relatively straightforward to do, it's a one liner using JuliaInterpreter.jl @interpret, and I think one dig that results in a win would be a nice example of what should be a pattern we do more often in the near future.
Control C would require leaving the home row. You use left thumb on CMD.