skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I've said elsewhere, my point was part of a larger context. My point was about how important trust is to adoption of AV tech. That goes well beyond the Waymo cases illustrated. The sample size and quality of the data illustrates the need for a broader context of information needed, in addition to the need to understand that humans don't build trust simply from statistical arguments.

And in the vein of trying to steel-man your position, I gave the comment to ChatGPT to see if it, too, considered the central point a claim about AV having a "death wish." Here's what it said:

"The statement highlights that some AI tasks, while effective, may deviate from conventional practices. An example is given where the Department of Defense (DoD) employed a company to train a dogfighting simulator using reinforcement learning (RL). Pilots were surprised by the simulator breaking established best practices and behaving recklessly, akin to a pilot with a disregard for safety. The implication is that while such behavior might be advantageous in a military context, it may pose risks or be unsuitable in civilian settings, such as public roads. The statement underscores the need to carefully consider and tailor AI applications to specific contexts and objectives."

So it seemed to recognize that the central point is that "the behavior" in question is "breaking established best practices" and that the "implication is that while such behavior might be advantageous in a military context, it may pose risks or be unsuitable in civilian settings". There's probably some irony in the fact that AI did better at a reading task.
Is the author just trying to say good design solutions subsume poor ones?
It's the blog of a researcher at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He does research on the impact of social media on society. It's a Wordpress site, hosted by someone commercial. I know him, and I'm almost certain no blocking would be intentional. If you (or others) give me details about how your access is failing, I'll pass the info on to him so he can try to get it fixed.

In the meantime, this archive page should work for you: https://web.archive.org/web/20231223131348/https://ethanzuck...
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Do these players suffer from Tetris Syndrome? I played a bunch for a few weeks many years ago and had trouble sleeping because I couldn't stop seeing tetris pieces falling in place, every time I closed my eyes.
the reduction in grazing pressure from deer, and the fact that deer avoid wolves gives trees the chance to grow. Deer eat the shoots of trees, and so enable a more reach ecological system to be sustained.
While under threat, other parts of the world are much less prepared than my home country, which has a long history of just engineering its way around the issues. We already have parts of the country meters below see level that are perfectly fine. One or two meters extra poses a few technical challenges but nothing that can't be handled. Important to note is that you have to separate averages and extremes. This is the north sea we're talking about. Water levels vary by several meters between low tide and high tide. Averages are meaningless and not a problem. It's the extremes getting more extreme that need planning for. Upgrading dikes and other defenses for higher water levels is costly but doable.

The automated barrier closure was triggered by the combination of a winter storm and high tide pushing in a lot of extra water up the river. Add to that saturated rivers draining essentially most of Europe's rainfall and you get a picture of what is routinely dealt with there. The rivers are actually a bigger issue than the sea. Forested areas that used to absorb a lot of water are vastly reduced in size. More extreme rainfall now flows straight into the Rhine and Meusse rivers, which both exit where this barrier is. The solution for this is not more dikes but flood zones.

Other parts of the world are much less ready for higher water levels. Florida for example is particularly poorly prepared for even modest water level rises and has much less extreme tides; so the averages matter more. There just isn't a whole lot in terms of sea defenses and other infrastructure. Any storm is likely to push a lot of water in. Combined with even modest sea level rises that means there just is a lot of property at risk.
One study said happiness peaked at $75,000 in income
As burning as my desire has been to write a powerful native Discord client has been for the last {years:?}, I have trouble justifying the position that companies should be obliged to provide anybody a service.

It reminds me of something Moxie said[0] a few years ago, regarding Signal forks:

> I'm not OK with LibreSignal using our servers, and I'm not OK with LibreSignal using the name "Signal." You're free to use our source code for whatever you would like under the terms of the license, but you're not entitled to use our name or the service that we run.

> If you think running servers is difficult and expensive (you're right), ask yourself why you feel entitled for us to run them for your product.

It's not nice, but I can't say it isn't true.

[0] https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
No because that doesn't solve the problem.
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I had an AMD K6 with about 128MB of ram when I was 16 - running FreeBSD 2.2 on I think a 10GB drive with a TGUI9680 AGP graphics card and a Hayes v.92 modem. Before that I had a PC AT with I think a 20MB drive and VGA graphics; it was a significant upgrade. Now you know about how old I am.
Wasn't the "open" data policy used to create Clearview AI to create a profile and provide it to US govt departments?
Celeste is pretty fun platformer, though be warned, as you'll die a lot through trial and error. You may dislike it if that's not your thing. It's on sale right now on Steam.
Maybe? Or maybe it is just you who are a different kind of farmer?
To take one of your examples, the easiest target: letterboxing is a thing because film is created by filmmakers and cinematographers who must decide what pictures go in the frames of their film. As such, they choose to place objects in certain ways, reveal things (think John Carpenter using extreme widescreen in 'Halloween') through use of the edge of the film frame, and make choices of what images go where, much like a painter might outline figures in position on the canvas.

So, whether or not the resulting film had extra space (and perhaps film lights, extras, etc) captured on the initial recording, the film is what's placed in the intended frame.

To think anything else is like wanting to play back the record made in the recording studio, and play all of the hit record takes along with all the outtakes at the same time, just because they were there.

A documentary exists of the making of Steely Dan's 'Aja', in which the song 'Peg' is played. The Dan sit in the studio and audition guitar solo outtakes, which mostly deedle about in an animated way, sometimes with envelope filter, all before Jay Graydon came in with a bottleneck slide and a few well-chosen Hawaiian-guitar-sounding riffs, leading into the hit record's solo.

You might as well ask to hear all the loser solos played back at the same time as Jay Graydon's hit solo. I mean, they exist on the master tape! Surely the winning solution is to listen to every detail, and that's what 'Peg' sounds like now. You got more stuff! Everybody wants more, right? Play three solos at once. That counts as more! It's even been done in other records, why not here? Who's to say wanting more is wrong?

Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, apparently. And they did say those first attempts at solos were wrong, and revisiting them, still considered them unspeakably wrong.

So far, nobody has gained access to those masters (I believe they burned up in a fire, not long ago, lost forever?) and put out the popular choice where you can swap out solos or play them all at once to have more.
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> Only when they decide it's worth their time

12K claim on a car that was allegedy sold as new 24 hours ago? Super unlikely a loss adjuster wasn't sent and came to the same conclusion as Tesla.
Indexing a billion pages
Ahh, that one. Do'h!
I’m in the same boat. I’m even thinking about switching to Edge on Windows machines. Stock browser are perfectly fine nowadays.
32000 is just the "cheat factor" by which they increase the method's efficiency.

I'm not sure how much the "cheating" would affect the precision of the result. But assuming it has no effect, it's easy to estimate this precision:

They found X = 24964 videos in a search space of size S = 2^64. For the number of existing videos they report the estimate N = 13,325,821,970. From this we can find their estimate for the probability that a particular ID links to a video: p = N / S ≈ 7.22e-10. So the equivalent number of IDs that they have checked (the number of checks without cheating that would give the same information) is n = X / p ≈ 3.46e13.

Since X is a Binomial, its variance is Var(X)=n⋅P(1-P) (where P is the real proportion corresponding to the estimate p above). And N = X⋅S/n so its variance is Var(X)⋅S^2/n^2. The standard deviation of N is thus σ = S⋅sqrt(P⋅(1-P)/n). Now we don't know P but we can use our estimate p instead to find an estimate of σ!

We find that the standard deviation of their estimator for the number of YouTube videos is approximately S⋅sqrt(p⋅(1-p)/n) ≈ 8.43e7. That's just 0.633% of N so their estimate is quite precise.
It's not like infants cry silently
Male aggression brings retaliation by her relatives and society in general. Extreme aggression is sub-optimal. We are social beings.
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I think they're referring to single-table data design as described in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaEPXoXVf2k It's quite clever and scales well, but completely unnecessary for the vast majority of CRUD apps.
I don't understand your point. Would it be better if it happened to a kid?
>subordinate male blind mole rats cover themselves in tears to reduce dominant male aggression toward them.

Is this an established fact?
Researchers fear spoken 'r' roll away from last bastion of rhoticity in England
Nope. Let's take a small example. We have 20 bins. You are going to put 3 things in those bins, with each thing getting its own bin.

I'm going to roll a d20, which gives me a uniformly distributed integer from 1 through 20. I'll look into the bin with that number and if there is something there take it.

You don't want me to take any of your things. How can you distribute your 3 items among those 20 bins to minimize the chances that I will take one of your items?

If I were not using a uniformly distributed integer from 1 through 20 and you knew that and knew something about the distribution you could pick bins that my loaded d20 is less likely to choose.

But since my d20 is not loaded, each bin has a 1/20 chance of being the one I try to steal from. Your placement of an item has no affect on the probability that I will get it.

It works the same the other way around. If you place the items using a uniform distribution, then it doesn't matter if I use a loaded d20, or even just always pick bin 1. I'll have the same chance of getting an item no matter how I generate my pick.

In general when you have two parties each picking a number from a given space, if one of the parties is picking uniformly then nothing the other party can do affects the probability of both picking the same number.
Human drivers and autonomous systems drive differently. So if you’re trying to predict how the car will behave in order to e.g. anticipate possible hazards (which I think we all do when driving?) then you may wish to take it account whether it’s being autonomously driven or not.
>An acoustic analysis of rhoticity in Lancashire, England

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009544702...

>Abstract
This paper presents the first systematic acoustic analysis of a rhotic accent in present-day England. The dataset comprises spontaneous and elicited speech of 28 speakers from Blackburn in Lancashire, Northern England, where residual rhoticity remains, having never been lost in the earlier sound change which rendered most of England non-rhotic. Although sociolinguistic studies of rhoticity in England exist, we have almost no description of its phonetic properties. Moreover, most sociolinguistic studies focus on the South West of England and relatively little is known about rhoticity in the North. Our study is timely because Northern rhoticity is predicted to disappear in the next few generations, a process which is now complete in many areas of the South West. Our results demonstrate that rhoticity is still present in Blackburn, although non-prevocalic /r/ is weaker when compared to other rhotic varieties of English such as those in Scotland and North America. We find that non-prevocalic /r/ is phonetically weakening in apparent time, with the F3-F2 difference being larger for younger speakers as well as females. We present additional social and linguistic factors affecting its potential demise, and discuss how our results contribute to our understanding of historical /r/-loss in Anglo-English.
This is more like an alternative frontend with backup right?

Because you still have to give your data to Strava before it gets to this tool?
That loop variable thing was a subtle footgun. Glad it’s gone.
I know this feature is kinda frown upon but I really hope to see a standard way to really switch between multiple fonts in a terminal, not just playing with variations. I'd really want to try the Monaspace font familly so I can make a distinction between my input and a program output and it's error output by using different fonts. It could also allow the use of these fonts inside neovim for instance for richer code hints.
I would argue that strings as an array of individually addressable 'characters' is a bad fit for modern multilingual text handling.
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I loved TechShop while it lasted, it was so great. They were two blocks away from me, I could treat it almost like "my shop", just walking over to do small tasks as I worked around the house.

But as others noted, it is not an attractive business. High fixed costs, you're significantly more optional than gym subscriptions to many people, and your best customers naturally tend to graduate to owning their own.
I've just installed a pair of these standalone units on opposite sides of a mostly open-plan 40m² ground floor. They can run in intake/exhaust/cycle modes, and be paired as primary/secondary for contraflow.

Too early to see energy benefits yet, but one thing that /really/ helps already is kicking both units into intake when cooking on the hob with the hood fan extracting. I should probably finish that hood sensor (looks at sensor sitting on desk).

In trickle/night mode the rated performance is "up to 90%" (at 1.2W and 15m³/h in unspecified test conditions). These ones require a 165mm diameter hole, so the heat exchanger cross section is ~2.7 times the 100mm version, and presumably more efficient.

I also installed (refurb, old house) a recuperative MHVR upstairs. This type has two fans for separated permanent intake and exhaust channels. The alternative in my country is knocking 7000mm² holes in the walls (aka passive ventilation). I have to meet various building requirements as a refurb to qualify for energy upgrade grants.
The home page and the game both look incredible visually. Is this using a library or manually coded?
YouTube pays contributors a tiny fraction of their ad revenue in order to make more ad revenue. Sponsors pay them to include their products.

So yes, it does hold up to scrutiny. YouTube and sponsors are paying them. I am not obligated, ethically or otherwise, to watch adverts.
If I recall correctly they attacked and tried to surround Kyiv.
There’s plenty of inertia but if you haven’t tried it, the experience on Apple devices is pretty easy to understand and fast: “Do you want to sign in with Face ID for the web?” takes less time than weakening your password to suit some site’s policy, and it’s much faster and easier than dealing with any other form of MFA. At least for sites required to have MFA, that inertia is going to win out faster than we think because ordinary people hate things like TOTP codes and stuff like SMS/email codes will trigger accessibility complaints.
People rewatch a lot, so YouTube is suggesting what it thinks you might likely be inclined to rewatch, based on what other people rewatch.
How could it be used with mobile tools like Gadgetbridge[0]?

This app allows to bypass the proprietary apps for smartwatches and avoid having to upload your health and location data to commercial services. But it does not support Garmin's main sport watches but only gadgets[1]. So one has to connect the watch via USB to transfer tracks and access them on a computer (no mobile support).

[0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/nodomain.freeyourgadget.gadg...

[1] https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/
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66 MySQL DBs + 66 secondaries
59 Redis Instances
51 Memcache Instances

That’s interesting.

For every 1 database, they also needed 1 redis cache + 1 memcache
I assume this is the post in question: https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645523 [flagged] - 124 points, 81 comments

It reads like he knew what he was getting into. He chose to have a clear conscience and damn the consequences.

That shows strength of character, which is a commendable quality.
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Yes, firewalls are easy, that's my point. Any consumer router will cone with apps strong a firewall as NAT us able to provide, and an even stronger one if ALGs are enabled.

The consoles are a common and obvious downside of using NAT. The Nintendo Switch article is an example of the stupid workarounds vendors will require because of NAT. None of these issues existed if we used IPv4 as it was designed.

The issue behind NAT slipstreaming isn't that the protocols are too complex. They work fine on IPv6 and they worked fine on IPv4 without NAT. The issue is that NAT requires hacky workarounds to do normal networking. The ALG vulnerabilities can be fixed, but fixing them wouldn't be necessary if NAT wasn't such a hack.
So Google and the video creators should, not just provide the content for free, pay hundreds of millions of dollars for the privilege of having you as a viewer?
Not the op or the author but any and all developers will make mistakes. Experience just moves the threshold of obvious mistakes into less obvious ones. What’s impressive is that the author built a system and presumably opened it to community feedback which could potentially lead to better result than an experience developer working in solitude and worry over security for years. I appreciate the honest disclaimer at the top as well.

On teams I work on I usually socialize the ideas that it’s not mistakes that matter, but the speed of discovery and fixing that is important. Then it’s important to establish self-enforcing systems that make sure they never happen again. That is linters, unit tests, type systems, CI/CD etc. I jokingly call this humility-based development.
It fails miserably even with ASCII, works only with a monospace variety of it, and non-monospace isn't modern...
Not that surprising. 13 billion videos is a lot cheaper to host when everyone is only looking at 10 in a loop.
I think supporting React Server Components is at the core of this issue. A ton of changes were necessary to support RSC and a different router is just one of many things that changed. Important features have been sacrificed to make it happen. You for instance no longer have access to the request/ response object in middleware or layouts. Currently playing with Remix as an alternative.
How so? Can you explain what you mean please?

Just to quote wiki(which quotes Assange):

"The Kenya leak led to corruption being a major issue in the election that followed, which was marred by violence. According to Assange, "1,300 people were eventually killed, and 350,000 were displaced. That was a result of our leak. On the other hand, the Kenyan people had a right to that information and 40,000 children a year die of malaria in Kenya. And many more die of money being pulled out of Kenya, and as a result of the Kenyan shilling being debased". "

How did this benefit Russia exactly? Please explain.
Ugly and a chilling effect on our image as the free world. Is this really a system worth fighting for?
Semi-related but how do lidar-based systems handle nearby cars that have lidar jammers installed?
It’s not too surprising given the very specific conditions Mercedes runs in.
One of my childhood claims-to-fame was getting a windows 3.1 version of Tetris to wrap around to negative scores. The score there was a 16 bit signed integer; after +32767 points it wrapped to -32768. At least in that version the challenge to playing at the highest speed wasn't so much the brainpower to decide where you wanted to get the pieces to go; when you get into the flow that is pretty much a nonissue. The challenge is getting the inputs to occur fast enough. On the PC the maximum key repeat rate you could set was no where near high enough, but with a good spring-loaded keyboard tapping keys that fast was doable. Later in college I tried with a laptop keyboard and it was completely impossible; the springs weren't strong enough to return the key in time to get the taps in. I'm curious about the "rolling" input method described here: maybe a workaround to get the NES controller to take inputs quickly enough?
Istr he was also some sort of physiological freak - huge lung capacity combined with a ridiculously low resting heart rate. Won all his tours by hammering out huge TT leads that were unassailable in the the mountain stages.
With 300 million people, 72 billion/yr would be their revenue. That would likely leave openAI with more revenue than Apple.
You can't get the entire space filled with perfectly aligned tetrominoes. It would make everything disappear.

You might get a good score, whatever it means, but no waffle.
Education Department or equivalents sure do set targets at least for professional degrees, at least here in Finland. For others a bit less so and universities have quite a bit of autonomy on what the exact subject fields are. One easy "market" way of doing some selection is to drop subjects which don't get enough applicants.

A lot of education doesn't necessarily produce "value" in short term bean counter sense, but are very important to for example retain culture and knowledge.

Also, to apparently great shock of many, there are a lot of people who don't select what to study based on what is "more likely to enrich then later on". Most people don't care much about being rich, and the ones that do are probably quite miserble.
Defending your voice against deepfakes
Parent here was probably referring to the 2016 US election, in which all Wikileaks were generally targeted to benefit Russia’s preferred candidate.

Since Assange would leak anything sent to him, it was relatively easy for Russia to selectively leak things that would benefit Russia.
I was just looking back into my 8-year-old repo of my university project for this.
Ah yes, the old everything is bad so nothing is bad argument
You can Google for things but it's things like this:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...