skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting! I must have misunderstand whatever explanation I heard about this back when watching it (which isn't super surprising in retrospect, given that my chemistry knowledge is limited to having taking AP chem in high school, which I'm now realizing was over a decade ago...)
Just use an integer or GUID or something as primary key. It is still totally fine to use an email address as username, of course - just keep a separate email-to-user mapping and don't use the email itself as primary key.

Treat the email address like a name field: it's probably not going to change, but don't make it impossible to do so when someone wants to.
> FWIW I used WeChat a few years ago and at that point it definitely asked for local network access (which is what this article is about; a mechanism for collecting SSIDs which can then later be correlated to locations).

Is that what "local network access" means? I thought that was for controlling network connections to LAN ips and/or to send multicast packets (eg. mdns).
So how many of these cops faced a punishment beyond an unplanned paid vacation?
Regular use of a neti pot has changed the life of my nasal passages. It's a great device.
Yes. The main way to keep the images sharp is to render the models at near the same size & resolution that they were captured, or slightly smaller in size. It’s the same thing as zooming into an image- if you zoom in it gets blurry because the filtered pixels get too big, the highest frequency in the data is now zoom-factor pixels wide. If you zoom out, the Gaussian splat images become sharper automatically (and eventually you run into aliasing issues). The way to obtain sharp images if you want to zoom in is to let the NN hallucinate some high frequency details based on what it learns about similar objects (or otherwise have external knowledge of the likely geometry and material properties not captured in the original image.)

The theoretical Gaussian function is infinite, but splat rendering doesn’t use infinite extent, and that’s not really the reason images look blurry, nor do they always look blurry. (Lots of anti-aliasing pixel filters have theoretically infinite extent, but that doesn’t matter in practice, i.e., what matters is only sigma, not extent, provided the finite extent doesn’t cut off too early.) There is a near optimal range of Gaussian sizes for image sharpness that will antialias without overblurring. The capture / optimization process of opaque objects will probably produce Gaussians that are near this optimal size at the smallest, so if you render them back at the same size, it will stay near the optimal range. Generally, the optimizers we have so far tend to blur a little bit, which is why rendering the reconstruction slightly smaller than the captured image currently tends to sharpen things.
>But if the other driver does something that is safe, there's then an onus on the first driver to have accounted for that.

I don't disagree, but in order for the first driver to "account" for the actions of the second, they have to have some reasonable ability to predict what that driver will do. That gets us back to the theory-of-mind question.
Awesome rec! This is the kind of thing I never knew I needed but where suddenly I ask myself where was it all this time. Thank you.
Just like the first time I saw the old lady on the surf table standing up in the sky to welcome me to the Internet and offer herself as my guide, I knew it couldn't be real and suspected that there was some irony in the whole wonderful scene.
For sure. As a driver, one of my main inputs is the other drivers overall driving behaviour that I'm aware of.

A good indicator of their next move is their previous move.
The difference is likely the opinion of your organization's legal guidance and the specificity and relevance of the request. HIPAA allows disclosures to subpoena requests.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/505/what-doe...
To be fair the downfall of Cadbury started before Kraft got their hands on it when they started moving production to Poland.
Wasn’t interpreted that way! And yeah, part of it is stochastic, but part is just that it has crazy associations and no social cues so it kinda just does whatever.
This just isn't true, especially in areas where housing costs are the worst. I don't have a citation right now, but I'm pretty sure a city in Canada attempted this (Vancouver?) and the returns were paltry, because the underlying fact just wasn't true. There is no glut of empty apartments and condos in markets like California, New York, Washington, Florida, Washington D.C., etc. full stop.
But even very expensive labour does not explain the costs of the US system.
But you don't have your identity logged with the government when you buy alcohol. They just verify the age and forget all the information on your ID immediately.
> Better than nothing, but I'm surprised cars are still made without automatic braking.

In the EU, at least, since May 2022, all new cars do have automatic emergency braking, along with intelligent speed assistance; alcohol interlock installation facilitation; driver drowsiness and attention warning; advanced driver distraction warning; emergency stop signal; reversing detection; and event data recorder (“black box”).

Other features like eCall – a built-in automated emergency call for assistance in a road accident – have been mandatory since March 2018.
Reading through the linked docs, this API seems to specifically be for apps created by owners of WiFi hotspots to help users connect to those hotspots (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/h...).

> NEHotspotHelper allows your app to participate in the process of authenticating with hotspot networks, that is, Wi-Fi networks where the user must interact with the network to gain access to the wider Internet.

> NEHotspotHelper is only useful for hotspot integration. There are both technical and business restrictions that prevent it from being used for other tasks, such as accessory integration or Wi-Fi based location. Before using NEHotspotHelper, you must first be granted a special entitlement (com.apple.developer.networking.HotspotHelper) by Apple.

Which makes sense, but then why exactly are apps like WeChat and Alipay granted this entitlement?
It may not get snowstorms but I would say significant areas of San Francisco are absolutely not particularly easy to drive in.

Understanding someone directing traffic is probably one of the harder problems.

To another point, to the degree that it's predictable ahead of time, I'd be perfectly happy with a car that only could self-drive in some conditions. Only highway for some subset of weather conditions? That would still be super-useful for some of us.
> who helped me try to understand the issue from a woman’s perspective

Up until about 2020 men and women had more or less similar views on abortion.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/245618/abortion-trends-gender.a...

Even still, women's reproductive rights in general are ironically one of the least gendered opinions.
NVIDIA even produced hardware for miners. I don't think they ever cared about discouraging miners or crypto usecases.
This cannot be separated from the fact that in America and most of the developed world, poor, less educated people are more likely to have large families.
>There's a theory that Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht leaked his location via a Captcha on a website, despite actively covering his tracks.

How?
It’s probably just women having children too late. After 30, the quality of child is going to gradually get worse.
That is rather sad, Cisco will ruin another good product bringing it into their mediocre product lines to be marginalized to nothing over time. I've had friends that have come into Cisco through acquisition, they invariably last long enough to vest enough of their stock options and get the hell out as quick as possible, almost always 2 years on the dot. I bet Cisco HR can track that as a reliable metric.

Now the purchase of anyone by Cisco simply signals a death knell for them. Last words generally heard now are "they used to be cool".
I don't think this applies to any of the incidents mentioned in the article.
"Manufactured house". It's mostly a sorely needed rename to avoid the connotations, but most trailers never get moved once placed so it's not a useful feature to retain.

And also "modular home", which is the middle ground between manufactured and conventional.
Lots of OLED TVs out there. I'm not aware of any that need the blinds pulled down to use.
Also, one of the cofounders worked at Cisco previously. I guess this is what it takes to get promoted at Cisco?
It's a thing in north America. Any working day, there are lines for drive thru coffee.

I am flabbergasted by this. You are wasting time and money waiting for something you could prepare yourself cheaper and faster.
https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn
I hope this leads to a phone / smart watch that lasts multiple days. Does anyone know how energy requirements break down between CPU and display in a typical device?
>If you follow that logic the rest of the complaining, which is just your complaining, is just irrelevant whining.

What? Could you please elaborate what you mean here? I do not see how this addresses my comment at all...

>And if Apple is responsible for noting who owns the devices next up you will come whining about how that mean Apple doesn’t allow you to sell your devices without informing them.

I don't remember complaining about that, please don't put words in my mouth. All I said was that a company which places device ownership as the center of their security model shares some responsibility in ensuring their devices get registered before use.

>Whine whine whine from a non paying customer. You don’t like the products, you’re supposedly not going to buy them. What are you whining about, that a product exists that you don’t like? Nobody cares.

I'm not the original poster, I never said I didn't like the product, (I'm actively using one to respond to you right now) please stop assuming where I stand on the product. It is perfectly possible for me to like a product as a whole while simultaneously disliking certain aspects.
Except that there are data collection SDK companies where you can get paid as a developer in exchange for installing an SDK that will send customer data to the company. It's one way to monetize an app a little bit more.
There will be areas which are under the rule of US military and can house weapons and troops at their will. What more would be needed for those to be characterized as bases?

Also a foreign country positioning weapon stockpiles is a bit questionable for sovereignty in itself, and I find it quite wild to use that as a rationale for giving up the country's rule of law in the areas. You think USA would be happy to have Finnish military areas within their borders because there happens to be Finnish weapons there?
Braking to avoid hitting an obstacle (like that tree branch in the first example) is hardly "acting unexpectedly".

> "Acting unexpectedly" is one of the aspects that makes dealing with mentally ill people anxiety-producing.

Wat.
Much like different companies need a different set of people, the same company at different stages needs a different set of people.

Some people are great at the research / experimentation phase but not great when it comes to scaling up. Other people aren't great at scaling up but are great during the operational phase.

The operational phase is the only place profit is generated, but the other people need to get paid, too.
Next time you should try in NYC and Buffalo (or Minneapolis) during winter. Doing it without snow like the twitter and blog post show doesn't change much. Good luck.
Matrox is still around in computer graphics though.

You could argue they successfully pivoted out of consumer and into b2b.

But they gave up on making their own cores.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrox
I was planning on buying a QD-OLED TV next year... maybe I'll wait.
> that API requires entitlements to be used

Lately I've witnessed a number of apps asking for Local Network permission ("Foo would like to find and connect to devices on your local network") when they have no business doing so in any possible way that I can think of.
And as with all things, "Never" actually means "Sometimes but extremely rarely".
I think that my family has a right to not be evacuated from their home, not run to bomb shelters daily, not have to leave home and go protect their country at the risk of death for unknown amount of time.

If you think that criticising Israel is making you look good because it is now fashionable to have an opinion on things you don’t have personal involvement with, then you are wrong, and your demonising comments are making the world a worse, less-safe space.
Very interesting, IMHO one of Mastodon's biggest advantage is not the reverse-order timeline, but the ability to build your own timeline view, pick your own algorithms. There are already a few frontend-based solutions. This one is another, and quite interesting.

I only wish the (vastly underfunded) Mastodon team would see this as an opportunity to provide server-computed timelines to prevent clients from fetching too much information just to get their own summary.
You should try logging into a “web3” app to see what I’m talking about. No need to buy crypto or anything, of course. Just for the science.

A short guide, assuming a mobile device:

1. Install MetaMask, next, next, finish to create a wallet.

2. Open app.uniswap.org on your favorite browser. See if you can figure out how to ‘connect’.

You can of course use the MetaMask built-in browser, but that’d be cheating.
vienna did it at the local level, not the national level. so that's one way you're wrong.

and did i ever say anything against private investment into real estate? no. this black and white thinking is part of the problem.

> I also think that the kind of housing that results from Communism isn't very desirable.

what is undesirable about cheap housing with good urban planning on a decentralized, local level like they did in vienna?
Which practically means unanimous agreement is needed among all relays in order to moderate anything. I also don't see what incentive / accountability relays face to remove content. So... I don't see that strategy being particularly effective. But hey! If more than a couple dozen people wind up actually using the thing, guess we'll find out!
Iirc the research suggests that phenylephrine actually works ok in nasal sprays, it just doesn't work orally.
The UK's pharmaceutical culture is poor. If "NICE" doesn't think something is the right way to treat a condition, forget it. Even people with diagnosed conditions can struggle to acquire medication. Also, beware of daring to mention the name of a medication, because that's a sign of "drug seeking"! (Luckily I've not been on the receiving end of this, but know folks who have.)
Franz Wright on the Love and Failures of Language
It's useful even without async too. Our codebase has some trait methods that return boxed iterators and I'm very much looking forward to switching them to impl Iterator instead.
I think the two groups are separable. Most real scientists and engineers I know are mostly focused on methods and data. They don't waste their time with cosmopolitan ideas and they recognize their own ignorance in areas like politics.
There is absolutely a tech optimism bias which he is upfront about. I would find it very hard to find any one that deeply understands technology and makes their living writing about technology that does not think technological progress is a net positive.

There is another part where he just saying how things are which people don’t like to hear. They don’t like how powerful the big tech companies are but don’t want to grapple with the reasons they are big or delve into the nuances of the impacts of changing the status quo. People just want to hear big tech bad, let’s hurt big tech. If your looking for that, there countless pundits that will provide that “analysis”.

He is absolutely willing to regulate big tech. He was immediately against the purchase of WhatsApp and Instagram.
Having ridden in many a taxi, Uber Lyft, etc. over the years all driven by humans.... I'd be lying to say I'd be more afraid to get in a Waymo car.
You're dancing around it, and there are plausible alternate meanings for "cosmopolitans" and "postmodern cosmopolitans" and even, perhaps, "cosmopolitan intellectuals". But "rootless cosmopolitan" has an unambiguous antisemitic meaning.
Researchers test 2,400-year-old leather and realize it's made of human skin
This is unethical if (1) the condition was not made clear before the issue is written, and (2) the user cannot delete their report before it is published. (It is not in the current issue template, and I don't know if it was there.)

1. The issue writer will invest time and efforts, and publish their findings. Nobody's time is free: the maintainer's time is precious, and so is a user's.

2. Now, _after_ the issue is published, the maintainer additionally asks for a certain condition (give money or a star) to be satisfied.

What if the issue writer does not want to give that thing? The maintainer is now in an unfair position: they can still read the published issue, improve their software, but is not obliged to give any feedback or even credit the reporter.

It would be fairer if the condition was clearly conveyed to the reporter before they write any words. The system should simply not allow these issues written by the dissents to be created in the first place, and in that case the funny duck would also not appear before our eyes.
Correct, it's not open source. I did mention that it's a commercial product, but of course some commercial products are also OSS. Mine is not.

> I would want to see a lot more justification for why this is closed

I'm not sure what justification I can offer besides "because I want to try to make a living selling my own software, starting with this product, and I think that'll be easier if it's closed source".

We might certainly differ over price points or value added. Pricing is a bit of a black art and this is my first commercial software product. (As I mentioned in another comment, I'm happy to offer a discount code, if that would help and not get me banned.) Like, would you be happier if it were 1, 5, 20 dollars? Or does the price, as such, even bear on the open-vs-closed question?

I'm unclear on how you (or I) would correlate "added value" or "private lines of code" vs. "justification for being closed source".

Thank you for your comment, this is an interesting discussion.
https://archive.md/kTDTo

What becomes commonplace becomes boring.

Move on to something different, or be part of the boring subculture that mostly uses the internet to indulge their interests, such as tech news (HN) or small groups.

If hosting were free (and ad-free) I'd be hosting small group discussions. Email still works for small and private (unless one of your members uses gmail) discussions.
> And housing for example is non productive.

That’s not strictly true (I’m pretty rented housing fits the definition of a productive asset) and certainly not true at all when compared to bitcoin or gold
The even better part is the "higher end" machines that do like, BiPAP, are just firmware flashed revisions of the lower end CPAP/APAP machines with some extra medical approvals on it.

(Learned this one tinkering on the Airbreak CPAP project.)
Hard edges are a challenge right now.

Thinking in 2D for a second, to get a nice crispy edge, you need a long and opaque splat to mark the boundary. Sometimes the long splat could wisp off leaving fuzzy artifacts.

Take this example: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/dtSfDD

Peyman Milanfar [1] suggested using bump functions instead. Bump functions would allow you to specify cut off intervals but still make the whole function smooth and continuous (good for my gradient optimization freaks)

1: https://x.com/docmilanfar/status/1719584410348204233
lol nice. kinda want to work for them now, weirdly.
> Basically companies using tricks to create the right stats for their splashy marketing.

Yep, for instance: If the car gets confused and can't proceed, what is the outcome? Well it's not a "disengagement" or recorded as anything publicly. It's just "the car contacting support for directions."

Wanna see how this plays out? Here's Cruise, bragging about reaching 1 disengagement per 96,000 miles[0], sounds impressive right? Meanwhile, in reality Cruise cars needed remote assistance every 4-5 miles[1].

An even more fun fact? Cruise had at least 60 vehicles stall at once in 2022[2], but somehow they claim only "9 disengagements."

[0]: https://www.eetimes.com/waymo-cruise-dominate-av-testing/

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/06/cruise-confirms-robotaxis-re...

[2]: https://jalopnik.com/cruise-server-crash-causes-self-driving...
You are right not to rely on people's intelligence, but we are obliged to do so because we are not monarchists and we believe in democracy, or at least we try to.
The event precipitating executives leaving related to the single accident and the deceptive behavior by Cruise surrounding it. To my knowledge, the data shows the tech is good (at least as safe as human drivers) and rapidly improving. But I agree it's hard to know from the outside, and that the sensibleness of the bet definitely depends on the fact that the potential upside is so massive.
I was specifically referring to MiniLED, because it is actually available in the market as of today. And it does appear to be close to OLED.
I would imagine that, with more experience, anticipating the (more consistent) actions of a machine would be easier than anticipating the actions of an unknown human in an unknown state.
It got toned down though since bad times reality became more apparent and the "global utopia can still be reached" if we write it into existence delusion faded. Nothing to project on aurocracies now..
Yeah, this is just turning the long-standing observation about family size and cognitive ability on its head in such a way that (if it became a popular notion) would just make the problem worse. Smart parents would dutifully have just one or two kids.
>says Michael Hack
How about we start thinking about Org debt. All organizations become debt at the end of the day, you know, because suits die. Fortunately, we end up moving industry norms, which allow the new suits to eliminate that org debt, temporarily. Maybe someday, we can eliminate orgs all together.
> trust funds kids

I'm curious why you had to say that?
Phenylacetone, acetic acid, and methylamine are the ingredients in the Breaking Bad process. There are some fictional aspects, such as the blue color, but the process is real and has become the dominant method of producing meth. It's more cost-effective as I understand it, so removing restrictions on pseudoephedrine probably wouldn't have any effect on the meth supply today.

https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/
you're all over these comments trying to convince everyone that SSIDs can't be used to determine location, yet you don't know how triangulation works?

are you trolling?
I love the “free thinking, libertarians” who always show up for homeschooling. A growing trend thanks to propaganda and a legal defense fund out of Moscow. Just love it when free thinkers eat up the fud to help weaken the US.
I don't think this article will age well.
> I got declined recently buying alcohol, because my license had expired

Were they under the impression you might get younger when you renew your license or was this some kind of automated machine that auto-denies without any recourse?
At 150$ for 15 minutes.
I'll be sure to vote for him twice on your behalf. ;)
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