skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An example for Alaska.

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/662519e4406946faa6e655d...

> Land within the Refuge that is tidally influenced up to the mean high-tide level, is managed by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) for its unique recreational and wildlife values. As post-glacial rebound lifts the outer edges of the Refuge beyond the reach of the tides, the Refuge boundary shrinks. --->>> When glacial rebound lifts this new land above the high tide line, landowners adjacent to the Refuge can go through a legal process to claim this new land as a part of their property. <<<--- To ensure that these uplifted lands remain in their natural condition for habitat and recreation, the Southeast Alaska Land Trust (SEALT) sought partnerships with interested landowners through the Accreted Lands Project.

And on the wiki page for post-glacial rebound, Finland has an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound#Legal_imp...

> In areas where the rising of land is seen, it is necessary to define the exact limits of property. In Finland, the "new land" is legally the property of the owner of the water area, not any land owners on the shore. Therefore, if the owner of the land wishes to build a pier over the "new land", they need the permission of the owner of the (former) water area. The landowner of the shore may redeem the new land at market price.
[other drivers] But they do - where I live. It's very rare to see people not doing that, so much so that everyone really notices.

Edit: And the point is really that strictly just following rules (i.e. just drive if you're in the right and the signs say so) will cause accidents and worse. For others, not necessarily myself. On my commute and nearby.
1 in 3 U.S. Homebuyers Are Paying All Cash, the Highest Share in Nearly a Decade

Just over one-third (34.1%) of U.S. home purchases in September were made in cash, up from 29.5% a year earlier and the highest share in nearly a decade. That’s according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231108812516/en/1-i...
GenAI CAN do that, but it also can regenerate training sources as-is. The way LLMs work makes it quite likely that once it has started copying a training sample it will continue to do so (after copying/generating N consecutive words of a training sample, the most statistically likely next word will be often be the N+1th word of that same sample).

The same thing happens for images - the more an output looks like an input, the more likely (as diffusion-based generation proceeds) it is to look more like it. There are recent examples of Dune posters being recreated essentially as-is.
> There just isn’t something better (and free) to replace it yet.

Apple's ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) format is an open-source and patent-free alternative. I believe both ALAC and FLAC support up to 8 channels of audio, which allows them to support 5.1 and 7.1 surround. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless_Audio_Codec#His...

These are distribution formats, so I'd be surprised if there were demand for floating-point audio support. And in contexts where floating point audio is used, audio size is not really a problem.
There are a number of PII filters and libraries available on GitHub.
https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/3.44.html
I mean, write a simple plugin that enables you to embed these using a shortcode, if there isn't an existing plugin that does it already?

WordPress is insanely customisable - it's "just php". And sure, maybe his new skill learning could be coding on WordPress :-)
Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR-10.7B
Reminds me of this marker story: "Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border" [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56978344
London historically is a nice city. It's too bad that rampant criminal enterprise has been imported into it.
It's an achieveable ending--one not planned by the coders, but one nonetheless. You cannot play past that point.

A couple of old arcade games have "kill screens", such as Pacman and Donkey Kong.
That’s nothing, in Canada we had a guy steal half point (200g) gold nuggets… internally… from the Mint. Only got caught when he deposited lots of big cheques from a gold coin shop at his bank and they learned he worked at the Mint.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/royal-canadian-mint-emp...

In 2015, this fellow was making $55k/yr, contrast to the guy in the article making $31k in 1981.
For what it's worth, they have an Atom feed - https://standardebooks.org/feeds/atom/new-releases
VisionScript looks so neat! I always wanted some wrapper around OpenCV as high level as Mathemathica. I see you've even borrowed their syntax.

Though wouldn't it have been nicer as just a library for any functional language for more interesting use-cases like mapping an image of a bar chart to CSV or estimating coefficient of restitution of a bouncy ball?

That's one problem I always had with DSLs, as expressive as they can be for their domain, sooner or later you find yourself having to implement all the features of a modern high level language...
Waymo hasn't tried driving outside its comfort zone, so I'll argue that it's not demonstrated.
> Those who don’t buy the jigsaw puzzle view of humanistic thought are unlikely to be convinced by Parfit’s ingenious version of moral monism. After all, why should we think that all genuine human ideals and values, such as equality, freedom, justice and compassion, must form part of some pre-ordained or constructible harmonious whole? The evidence would suggest otherwise: that is, that an irreducible conflict of ethical ideals and values is the unalterable human situation (past and present). Monists like Parfit perceive the undeniable fact of moral disagreement as an avoidable state of affairs and one that can be eliminated through the application of human reason. And moral monists also tend to believe, as Parfit unequivocally did, that the only coherent form of moral realism is moral monism ‑ in other words, that the only alternative to the view that there is a single, true morality is moral relativism, or its unblushing first cousin, moral nihilism, the philosophical view which denies the existence and possibility of objective moral values.

I'm concerned that the reviewer, Johnny Lyons, is erroneously conflating what _is_ (descriptive) from what _should_ be (normative). Parfit surely recognizes what exists, descriptively; his project involves motivating a normative ethics.

This criticism is so obvious (to philosophers at least) that I wonder if I'm missing something and/or misinterpreting Lyons.
However Venus, Mars, and Pluto do not.
Plus this website looks so SEO'ed that it's unclear whether it's even a real 'association'.
My guess is the number of lives saved by your proposal ("forcing people to not have any distractions during take-offs and landings") would be well under one annually, certainly below "hundreds". The total number of plane deaths is already low, and the fraction where a slightly more efficient evacuation would have made a difference is even lower.

I think we may also disagree about how much it matters to subject ~4.5B people annually (the total number of passengers) to an additional ten minutes of boredom? That's something like 1,000 lifetimes each year.
Adventures with Compression: Part 3
Hi Couchand.

I'm a mediocre programmer who uses GPT for a ton.

Are you volunteering to answer my questions on all the obscure stuff I ask it? Because I don't really know anybody else who will.

Anyway, my email is in my profile, write to me if this is something you're up for!

Edit: Here's a list of the stuff I asked it over the weekend:

- Discuss the pros and cons of using Standardized-audio-context instead of just relying on browser defaults. Consider build size and other issues.

- How to get github actions to cache node_modules (not the npm cache built-in to the actions/setup-node action.

- Howto get the current git hash in a GitHub action?

- Rewrite a react class-based component in functional style

- How to test that certain JSX elements were generated without directly-comparing React elements for my ANSI color to HTML parser?

- Does it make more sense to keep a copy of the original text in an editor, or just hold on to something like a crc32 to mark a document dirty?

- Can you set focus to a window you create with window.open? (You sure can!)

- Rewrite the rollup.config.js for a library of mine to produce a separate rollup config per audio worklet bundle

- Turn this tutorial for backing up a Mastodon instance into a script

- Refactor a standalone class to split it in half so each class manages precisely one thing.

- I have some code I'm writing for turn-by-turn directions. I have the data structures already, let's write code to narrate them.

- What's with this weird type error around custom CSS properties with React?
> But it's also an important reminder that our super accurate GPS measurements are not 100% reliable over time. The earth moves.

This is IMO an odd statement. Land moves, and we can measure that movement extremely precisely. If software was more competent, we would record positions in four dimensions: space and time, relative to a well defined coordinate system. And we could map a position at one time to a position at another time, with excellent accuracy.

As far as I can tell, the only real limitations are a lack of standards and a lack of software support. I don’t think any common CAD or GIS system has any particular support. Heck, QGIS will happily complain that WGS84 isn’t good for high precision, and I can even tell whether this is a genuinely meaningful statement.
Read the link. The quantum magnetic locator doesnt use GPS satellites, so the "our GPS is not 100% accurate" is solved by the magnetic quantum thing... its just not available on _your_ smartphone.

Re-read my post, I believe that the real use of Lockheeds Quantum GPS is for subterranian and submarine navigation more than it is for aircraft - hoever, if we can map the magnetosphere of other planets, say, mars, then this could be a non-satellite-dependant GPS for any body in space where we know the magnetic signature based on probes... although said probes could also double as GPS satellites for the planet they are probing should we add such equipment, it would seem.
Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann Explains UI 2.0
That made me smile! :)
>I want to find and incentivize people who are willing to own and take responsibility for an area of the business, be trusted to make good decisions, and view it as their responsibility to improve their areas drastically, more than the typical 9-5.

>$40k (USD)

I would say that if you can't afford to hire good people, just don't hire anyone.
I'm a big fan of Ghost for new blogs https://github.com/tryghost/ghost
Just because it's not possible to study something directly doesn't mean that we can't study it. We could compare statistics in countries with different laws. Or we could look at studies of how pornography consumption influences non-deviant sexual behavior.
Except that a dynamically updating copyright year without any work having been done may not be legally valid, ie there was no copyrightable step taken... (IANAL)
Elon Musk's X Is Worth 71% Less Than He Bought It For, Says Fidelity
Plane Explodes in Flames While Landing at Airport in Tokyo
> I don't think reasonable people would say that.

Why don't you think this? What's unreasonable about the distribution in this example?

> Artists should be able to negotiate how much their stream costs.
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How could that possibly work? It would lead to shop/bandcamp style artist-fan pricing, which the casual listening market has been trained out of.
Huh? It's the same as saying RSS doesn't rely on corporations that might kill your preferred email client. Both are true in a way, but RSS reader is as user-end, as an email client, all you need to read RSS feeds is a browser extension.
I dunno there are tons and tons of really good books out there. I don't think you could go through them all in one lifetime. Books are easier to create and have been around for much longer than movies. Executing a whole movie well requires at least thousands, if not millions of dollars, loads of equipment, a huge team of people who need to all be top notch at a variety of different specialist skills, extras, onsite permissions and often years of time. A book can be written in about one year or less through the work of only one person, using just one skill that we all learn as a child. It's way easier to execute a book well. So, as you said, theres more of them, and definitely because of this theres tons of good ones. Experts or people with interesting lives really don't have the time, resources or skills to make a film but loads of them write books.

Most people who read almost constantly do read a decent amount of books that are less good than the others. Though they will often read more good books than you too. When I used to read books constantly, I could read faster and retain more. I could also write better. Now I read rarely because I only care to read the most useful things, it takes me way longer to read, I am less focused and retain less and my writing is somewhat worse. So I do think it's worth reading often for those benefits. Reading is so unenjoyable to me now I don't do it frequently. But it's not like I'm doing more useful and enjoyable things with my time either. Life isn't only about knowledge-based enlightenment, I agree, but it is usually about wasting a certain amount of time, whether you like it or not. So you might as well waste it well. In this case, waste it by reading lighter material so that your brain is always primed to read the good stuff efficiently.

At least, that's my new years resolution.
> I mean, write a simple plugin that enables you to embed these using a shortcode

Ok, so learn php when they could just use js which they likely already know and likely get paid to know.

Wordpress and php are negative value skills, you do not want to advertise that you know those things as a developer because someone might try to hire you for them.
The last couple of years in Tetris have been wild

I grew up with Tetris and playing a traditional DAS [1] style and never was able to put the time into learning hypertapping. Once rolling came out a few years ago I totally abandoned trying to keep up. My highest score was almost a maxout on 29

Something you'll notice too is that the younger players are crushing the traditional players by changing the rules. So, NOBODY at CTWC is playing DAS anymore and I think Jonas was the last big DAS player, before moving to Tapping. I attribute this to anyone over 30 learning in the DAS style while younger players can START with rolling.

RIP Jonas Neubauer (NubbinsGoody https://www.twitch.tv/nubbinsgoody) he was the guy that kind of lead the explosion of Tetris after the movie came out and Thor more or less retired. He and his wife were very helpful to me trying to get to maxout with some tips back in 2018 to get a CRT monitor as that was a limiting factor back then.

[1]https://tetris.fandom.com/wiki/DAS
No, but maybe your networking team is giving a hint to stay away from unsafe languages...
I'm not sure I'd want to prioritize PHP development as a new skill in 2023^H4.
https://archive.ph/anpmJ
Really any of the open source language models might work well enough for the job. If you could manage to get a classifier that runs with tensorflow to take advantage of a coral tpu it would certainly be a major step up with managable performance.
That was a calculated bet though, where the expected value was known to the positive, but you’d need to buy as much as possible to guarantee your outcome each time that situation happened.
NeuroEngine allows users to share their LLM creations with others
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My experience is spread across the biotech startup space, top 10 big pharma, government laboratory, and a contract research organization. Most recently, I functioned as regulatory strategy lead at the mid-senior level for a small molecule anti-seizure medication. I would be happy to discuss how my abilities as a regulatory strategy lead and varied experience in the biopharma field could contribute to advancement of your product pipeline, mesh with your current teams and style of regulatory affairs, and add value to your company.
I vaguely remember buying the DOS SimCity. You could play it without a license key, but disasters like tornados and fires would start appearing everywhere.
> being used to decide if something is spam or not

Each rule has a score associated with it. By default a message needs to reach 5.0 to be marked as "spam":

* https://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/doc/Mail_Spa...

The threshold is configurable. An header is added post-processing, e.g.:

X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=21.6 required=4.0 […]

* https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/X+S...

One can then choose what do to with this information (via procmail or Sieve). There is another header as well:

> X-Spam-Level: This displays your spam level with asterisks, with one asterisk displayed per point, rounded down. For example, if your overall SpamAssassin score is 4.3, it will display ****. If you score less than 1, for example, 0.5, it will display nothing.

* https://www.mailercheck.com/articles/spamassassin-score
The idea of putting down your phone for an hour in total being "too inconvenient" as people seemingly willingly sign over their dignity for a $10 cheaper flight ticket is.... uninspiring.
A building-sized piezo crystal?
Agreed, but is less vs fewer worth anything, really?
Me too, I thought that was clear from context...
I switched from GMail to a personal Microsoft 365 domain when Google decided they didn't want to give me free email/domain services anymore. 365 was cheaper. I got about 10x the amount of spam to my 365 Junk folder than I did to the Junk folder in GMail. I would spend 10 minutes a day going through the junk folder to pick out false positives. I woud have inexplicable issues with missing email with 365, where the root cause was always SPF issues from a third party sender. The big issue was event tickets mailed from a third party ticket service provider using the venue's domain name rather than the ticket provider's domain.

I switched back to GMail a few months ago, and not only do I see less stuff in my Junk folder (indicating Google is blocking stuff rather than identifying it) but also I have not seen a single false positive. Hopefully that means Google is more effective, but there's no way to tell if I'm missing legitimate email. So far, no complaints.
The post gets one idea right (velocity represents quality of estimation) but completely misses at all other points, and it incorrectly calls everything "nonsense".

The whole point of scrum/agile/etc... is to work with imperfect humans. And estimation is a very hard process which is also involves ego and self-worth. So maybe in your team, if asked to estimate in days, Person A would always say: "I am a star programmer! I can do it in 3 days! No, even better, I can do it in 2 days!" .. and once its time to implement it will take 1-2 weeks. And maybe person B would have imposter syndrome and be always saying: "oh, I am not sure.. this sure sounds hard.. maybe 2 weeks? oh maybe make it 4 weeks just to make sure..." for the tasks it'd take them 2 days to implement.

As a manager/lead, how do you deal with this during the planning time? If you are talking in days, and saying to Person A: "No, you always underestimate, I think I will write a week there", then person A will feel insulted that their star-ness is challenged, and will either fight back or or be loudly unhappy. And person B would similarly feel stressed when their estimates are cut. And what if they share their estimates with people outside of their teams, who have no idea about their conversion factors? That would be even more misleading.

That's why there are points. They are simple and much less controversial. Saying "Person A, this task seems to be big, let's make it 5 points" is much nicer than saying "Person A, I don't think you can do this task in 2 days, you'll need at least a week". If a person A brags to random customer: "I've started on a task and I think it's a 2-point one" it will not prompt awkward questions like "hey, a week has passed, is task done yet?". And "our team velocity is lower than usual this sprint" sounds loads better than "you should never trust person A's time estimates"

So points make plenty of sense in real world with imperfect people, and thus "how many points do we do per sprint" is also a valid question. And I don't see why not call this "point velocity", it does kinda matches the use of "velocity" in English.

Note: the literal "improve velocity in points/sprint" is bad idea of course.. but then the question is how did you end up with such KPI? If this was given "from above", then I see no problem with taking it at a face value: "We are going to increase our points/sprint by 5% each sprint, and will reindex our tasks accordingly. By the end of year, I expect we'd estimate 1-day tasks at 3 points".
I once traveled for business from Salt Lake City to Fort Collins, Colorado.

1/2 hour to the airport + get to the airport 2 hours before flight + 1 hour direct flight to Denver + 1/2 hour to deplane + 1/2 hour to get bags + 1/2 hour to get rental car + 1 hour drive to Fort Collins. Total 6 hours. Seems like it actually totalled 7 but I don't remember where the extra time was.

Versus 7 hours drive time from Salt Lake to Fort Collins.

And if two people are going, you only drive one car, but you buy two plane tickets.

And my car has more legroom than a coach seat.

So, yes, flying is safer per mile, but the "under 8 hours" crowd also have a point...