skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just handed in my PhD in computer science. Our department teaches "best practices" but adherence to them is hardly possible in research:

1) Requirements change constantly, since... it's research. We don't know where exactly we're going and what problems we encounter.

2) Buying faster hardware is usually an option.

3) Time spent on documentation, optimization or anything else that does not directly lead to results is directly detrimental to your progress. The published paper counts, nothing else. If a reviewer ask about reproducibility, just add a git repository link.

4) Most PhD students never worked in industry, and directly come from the Master's to the PhD. Hence there is no place where they'd encounter the need to create scalable systems.

I guess Nr. 3 is has the worst impact. I would love to improve my project w.r.t. stability and reusability, but I would shoot myself into the foot: It's no publishable, I can't mention it a lot in my thesis, and the professorship doesn't check.
Not according to the graph from the article: https://archive.is/LOiYh/d4f25c5617954c2cd5c5e2de424334eacab...
I've been driving in America for over 30 years and while I've seen them occasionally, they are very rare. And when I do see them, almost no one understands how they are supposed to work (go slowly until you know there is no one already there). They basically either don't slow down at all or stop like a stop sign.

It's not really covered when we learn how to drive. We get maybe a page on it in the handbook and one question on the driver's test. And then the road test almost never has one since they are so rare.
Looking at similar events, like the infamous Aloha Airlines' case, I'm not sure how much better I should feel knowing sabout this stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243

Also, many passengers don't keep their seat belts closed during flight, which scares me too
I think you both agree on that. Whether “Software and device vendors already provide all the necessary tools.“ is the question.
How does one output properly csv quoted rows? It seems thr csv flag works only for parsing inputs.
I may be, though given the popularity of dedicated toasting appliances, have you considered the possibility that it's not really an edge case?
dups: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38893811
Yield signs, IME, are way more common in the Northeast than the rest of the country. They’re taught specifically in driving schools, too, or at least were when I attended, complete with “if you aren’t sure, treat it as a stop sign” (which might annoy drivers behind you but is the safer play).

We also have a lot of rotaries/roundabouts here, too, so you get a lot more practice.
Humans may have influenced evolution of dogs' eye colour, researchers say
Thank McKinsey.
You're telling me that a 9th century young monk didn't defeat the pegan god Crom Cruach, steal his eye and use it to write the Book of Kells?

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As a less sarcastic response: the movie is about the atmosphere / setting of dark-age Ireland, drawn in the style demonstrated by the Book of Kells (a book from those centuries).

One of the wonders of the book is that whoever wrote it seems to have had a magnifying glass, as many designs are enlarged objects. But magnifying glasses were not yet invented. Maybe they had a different technique involving water bubbles or something in the 9th century to see the incredibly intricate drawings of that book. Or maybe they independently discovered magnifying glasses and kept it secret somehow. Who knows?

But going ham by saying "Oh, they stole the eye of the pegan god and used that to help write the book" is quite epic and excellent storytelling. Its obviously ahistorical but a cool story nonetheless.

And its one cool way of acknowledging one cool mystery of that book.
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Great, that doesn't change the fact that there are many ways of ensuring a structure doesn't overhead and explode.
> If he was willing to work with the rules and norms of the markets they want to enter, they'd sell even fewer cars

Well, as it stands right now, BYD looks to be the more popular option in countries like Sweden just because Musk refuses to do what every other single company does in the country. Even Amazon found a way to work in a way that the common person is protected, why can't Tesla?
I’d at first read the plane was without passengers and just being flown somewhere… and I thought, great.

Today I read that it was full of passengers, and the two people supposed to be in the two seats in the row the panel blew out happened to miss their flight.

If that’s true… what an interesting set of statistics coming together.

Amount of people that sleep through flights
Amount of panels that blow out of passenger planes
Chance to be seated next to said panel
The articles and courses mentioned in the WSJ piece are about science education rather than science itself. I looked up the Afrochemistry course: it's listed along side other 'fun' courses like the chemistry of art and the chemistry of cooking.

Storm in a teacup.
> Like what? Source(s)?

Added a link that gives you some additional context.
Minneapolis plows the dedicated bike paths, and people utilize them year round.
“It’s toasted”
Yes, it can import the wrong thing (or version) but it doesn't happen that often in my experience. If you use the libraries in other files it can go off of what is already in your go.mod file.
Our aim is to offer a non-glibc Linux platform for supercomputing environments. This involves a tremendous amount of work to be taken seriously and we are currently in the earliest stage of this. Follow our blog (https://blog.adelielinux.org/) for updates in this space.
Well, the last example is unions in Sweden. I‘m sure you can google that yourself?
The only situation where I could see stop signs making sense is an unbalanced roundabout. It can be hard to get an opening to enter a busy roundabout that is dominated by cross traffic flow.
The plane that had the issue was new, so I guess they want to make sure it wasn't an issue with other planes off the line maybe?

Sure is a good thing nobody was sitting in that seat.
That’s tautological. We observe the effects, and assume they must propagate backwards under rules we think we know, then say that the theory must be true because we observe the current state is the forward propagation under those same assumed rules. It’s unfalsifiable and accordingly uninteresting.
What are the benefits of a non-glibc supercomputing environment?
Forcing all conservatives to pay for media made by an unelected clique with very different values is still not great.

I know we want to avoid ending up with super-polarized media like the US, but I don't believe this is the way. I don't know what the way is, since you also don't want to give airtime to the crazies, and I feel the market for sane conservative news shrinks by the minute.
Rear end collisions were the largest category of collision at the previous intersection, according to the local paper report I saw.

I expect that people will try to jump the curbs after they realize they're in the wrong lane. Some people will sadly do anything to avoid a wrong turn. But hopefully the collisions will be at lower speed.

I'm sure locals will get used to it but I think a big part of the problem with this intersection is that it's used by a lot of people who pass through very infrequently.
Greening our Northern California home and cars cut energy bills by $11000 a year
Our cave in Northern California has five bedrooms, big picture windows, two cars in the garage and a hot tub. We’ve been fortunate to afford the investments to green it. But the process was harder and slower than it should be.
We're all different people on here (mostly at least), so makes sense you see conflicting opinions :)
> If you were to limit tourism to those fit enough to be allowed anywhere near a space launch, do you still think you'd reach that number?

Yes. The majority of the population can handle 3Gs. John Glenn was 77.

> Not to mention, space tourism being an eighth of the total tourism market is obviously insane.

I don't think space tourism becoming an eighth of total tourism is insane. I'd guess the fraction of tourism dollars that are spent on travel reached by plane is a lot higher, maybe about a third or half.
Many times the Daily Mirror has a better report because they publish the aleguely problematic content.
Axolotl for Fine-Tuning of LLMs
continued...

If anything, I saw a good use of humor in his reference to Israel. From the article (I haven't watched any of his material), I got the impression that he actually likes/respects Israel (as do I).
EZ Publish 6.0 released (PHP 7.4 through 8.3)
Dot Net Perls – a collection of tested code examples
> These arguments aren't new.

True; the 1768-1774 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata were implemented specifically because writing, music, and art were at the time accomplishments that distinguished upper classes from lower.

(their biggest weakness is that being analogue instead of digital, their programming is very sensitive to environmental changes)
I drove through some when visiting Aruba (Netherlands overseas province) and loved them. They seemed even safer than typical roundabouts and super intuitive
May be biology (or really, may be not) but honestly it's just the nature of the beast. Literally fortran is the oldest language, it's just the attitude and spirit is different than that of software development.
No; at the moment we are in beta and this not yet available. We have been experimenting with various strategies to ensure rapid turnaround on security-related issues.
The price outside china is very different. In Colombia for example their 10k car is 150,000,000 cop or about 35k.
Drone Racing Coach with LLM [video]
So much changed in a day. What a field!
...and Intuit knows a thing or two about "half-baked solutions". ;)
If it gives feature parity with the existing solution, it seems fine as a start. At least we'll presumably be able to file on a .gov now instead of freefilefillableforms.com, which seems like it was chosen to be intentionally sketchy looking.

Edit: actually looks like it doesn't reach parity with the existing free e-file system and only covers the simplest cases, and "the annual cost of a direct-file system could range from $64 million to $249 million" sounds absolutely absurd to me.
I live in the Bay Area but I grew up in the UK where we have lots of great roundabouts and I can tell you that the roundabouts in California are beyond terrible - why? Because pedestrians have right-of-way at the roundabout entry/exit points, so cars have to constantly stop on the roundabout, defeating its very purpose. Indeed, there's usually a marked crosswalk at every entry/exit (and even if not pedestrians have the right of way on "unmarked crosswalks" in CA).

In the UK roundabouts are the only place where pedestrians don't have right of way and there's always a small island in the center of each (unmarked) crosswalk, so only one direction of traffic needs to be crossed at a time. The cars flow around the roundabout and don't stop.
Sorry, can't, capitalism.
It's also a reaction to poorly placed roundabouts that are severely unbalanced and heavily used. Not every intersection is well suited to become a roundabout.
Your post as a sibling to mine cracks me up. It really underlines how different road design is in the Northeast to the rest of the country; I can hit four roundabouts to go three towns over if I picked my route to avoid the highway, and probably see another additional yield along the way. And it was one of the most important things drilled into us (Maine) during our driving lessons and exam, where we were taught “default to stop unless you know you’re clear”.
It is the same because if you’re blocking traffic they’ll stop you, law or no law. And almost certainly there is some general law against impeding traffic anyway.
Nope. Still a shithole, but at least the trolls there are upfront unlike on HN where they try to hide behind psudeo-rationalism.

Also, it's the only safe space for academics to vent. Plenty of professors who were sexual predators were initially outed on EJMR, so that has value.

In addition, the debates about economics or econometrics related topics is much less brain dead than here.
It's a shame you can't short their shares during the weekend...
Clearly they need more exemptions.
Good. Finally the FAA got a spine with Boeing.
Besides the main content, there's also an image caption that describes what "AI Safety" looks like in practice:

> Dall-E 3 image generation for “academics undergoing a restorative justice process in which they atone for their plagiarism and redress the wrongs they committed against others.” Dall-E rejected the prompt “academics plagiarizing each other” on the grounds that “creating an image of academics plagiarizing each other would be inappropriate and unethical, as it promotes a negative and harmful activity.” It also rejected the prompt “academics being justly punished for plagiarism” because “I can't create an image that depicts punishment or negative consequences for individuals, even in the context of addressing unethical behavior.” It rejected a third prompt, “academics receiving a stern talking to for their plagiarism,” because this prompt “still centers around a negative and potentially harmful scenario.”
It’s not that lobbying is a major slice of $14B, it’s that they actually spend only $3m and it’s effective:

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...
You can't have >x of reasonably sized and spaced boxes on a screen horizontally without wrapping, regardless of layout engine. Besides, wrapping can be done presentationally while keeping the linearity.

In this case, I'd probably switch to an automatic grid layout with equal size boxes regardless of content size. Then it could neatly wrap into multiple rows while keeping the boxes at a constrained size.
Thanks for the feedback.

On point #2, the mission (https://www.plasticfreeindex.com/about) is to focus on plastic's impact on human health not environmental. Although I agree the impact of plastics on the planet is important, I want to bring awareness to the major impact it is having on humans.
I think those are two different scales.

Libertarianism <---> Authoritarianism

Capitalism <---> Communism

Usually the sweet spot is somewhere in the middle of both, which is what the United States is (though some may argue we've begun to slide towards the extremes)
The IRS should play try to create an actual MVP. Create an API which allow for efile (which I assume already exists given turbotax) and create an API which allows the download whatever information the IRS has on the tax payer.

Then allow companies or open source software to create whatever value add they want on top of these APIs.

That sounds like a minimalist launch.
I'm sure it's because of the weight, but only 1000km range from the batteries *and* a 75L fuel tank is kind of shit.
This project isn't related to Mozilla at all.
I am curious how this is different, except for implementation language, from something like https://www.effect.website
Hyundai is experimenting with this.
The A380 is the best plane ever made in the entirety of human history. It’s a damn shame it’s not used more. I’m hoping new fuel efficient engines make it viable again because there simply is NOTHING like first class on an A380.
I’m also interested in hearing this. It seems to be mostly code words for other right leaning folk. What they actually mean they never say out loud, because it’s usually bigotry against people of color and lgbtq folks.

Edit: downvotes but still no explanation.
It was kind of funny to me that Dostoevsky coincided with biology development which made him ponder painfully if we are just reactions of our neuron's "tails" and that there is nothing underlying (such as Soul and God).
I once visited the remains of the studio in that cellar in Köln-Ossendorf as part of an excursion at university. I felt it was quite sad how it was just parked there, you wouldn't have assumed its historical importance.
I saw the book in 2017, the whole of trinity college library is just gorgeous.
Yeah and their practices have spread into big tech too.
I mean, comparatively speaking you were looking for programming books in an era where hardly anyone even knew what a computer was. The market changed so drastically at the turn of the century that it really only shaped into our current recognizable form in the 50s and 60s. There's many reasons for that.
Could you link to the single strongest, most well-sourced example you can think of where the state media is biased/lying? I honestly want to find my blind spots. Please put effort into this, this is your chance to effect change.
Which is really the main issue. Offering a more accessible free version to file taxes is great, but the real problem is the need to file taxes at all for a lot of people. The IRS already knows the relevant info: Your employer sends W-2 information, your bank and broker are sending the various 1099 forms for interest, dividends, stock sale gains/losses, etc. Same for your spouse and kids/dependents. Don't even need to itemize in a lot of cases, since the standard deduction is preferable in many years.

Unless you're dealing with foreign income, are a business, or do a lot of contract work for cash, I don't see much reason why the IRS can't just handle all the taxes automatically - apart from the fact that some company wants to charge me $150 a year to file my taxes and making sure that my tax situation (which would fit on a beer coaster otherwise) is as complicated as possible.
There is no way that addresses even one of the issues. You should dig a little deeper.
Looking at the statistics around personal finance and debt in the US, a majority are not using debt thoughtfully. I don't know that I'd call them foolish or (willfully) reckless, they were just never taught how to manage money or debt, and are surrounded by messaging that tells them to use it in ways that aren't in their best interest. Unless all of those people decide to take it upon themselves to learn those skills and ignore all that temptation, it is probably best for them to minimize their use of debt, as it is costing them much more than they can hope to gain from the leverage.

I don't think I'd classify someone in your situation as a debt glutton (from the very little I know). I'm more talking about the people who live at the edge of what debt will afford them. The nicest house, cars, clothes, etc that they can get with the least amount of money down while living paycheck to paycheck to keep up with the payments.... or doing something similar with businesses/real estate, where their plan assumes we'll always be in good times and can't weather a storm.

Even when done thoughtfully, there is still risk. It's good that your income can cover the mortgage on both homes and you aren't assuming a tenant is going to reliably pay the rent every month when the mortgage payment is due, but there is the question of the security of that income during a financial downturn. I wish you nothing but the best and do hope the long term play works out for you. I just don't want people to ignore risk in their calculations. The more debt someone has, the more risk they have. The average American has a lot of this type of risk wrapped up in liabilities, not even assets.

As far as being unlucky, some people have been dealt bad hands that will knock anyone down. But preparing in good times can make someone appear more lucky during the bad times. Only time can tell what that looks like. That extra home, if a good tenant is paying rent, could be a big benefit and make you appear very lucky in future bad times. For me, I paid my house off in the good times to reduce my costs if/when bad times come. Different strategies, but hopefully similar results of stability.
But I like digiKam.
> See BYD S8 [0] and Mercedes-Benz CLK-Class [1] for one example

I was thinking "come on, how similar can they be, the CLK has a really distinctive design", but nope, identical. Wow.
The design can change as long as the tech inside is legal to sell elsewhere and does the job. I'd say the design is anyway the first to change because tastes may differ between continents (even between US and Europe).

The example you gave is for a 15 year old car where only 100 were produced and Mercedes couldn't have been too upset since they signed a partnership with BYD that year. Around the same time Tesla was selling Lotus Roadsters. In the meantime obviously neither still needs to do that. BYD will sell outside of China whatever they are legally allowed to sell on top of the growing sales they have inside China.

> This should tell you everything you need to know about this company.

If you're too focused on how they did business 15 years ago you might miss that they're passing by you today. Does Musk tell you everything you need to know about Tesla? Millions are still buying. If you don't buy BYD it won't be because they were copying the megastars of the time decades ago.

I'm not a fan of Chinese business practices but a lot of big companies everywhere started by copying more established competing products.
You can't generalize across 340 million people across an an entire continent. Some regions have lots of yield signs and lots of roundabouts, some have very little of either one. The feds provide guidelines, but there is plenty of regional variation in preferences.
I'm not sure how you mean it's "charitable?" Could you explain?
The DOT's video on using this roundabout is actually very clear and well made: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KHYo7Bl_zWg I'd say it does a better job than the linked article to explain how this roundabout is different from a usual roundabout and how the lanes work.