skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really necessary. The two accidents killed everyone on board, and it was a typical load. The number I estimated is something like "fatal crash for everyone per mile". You could multiply by average of passengers on each flight and divide by the average number of passengers on the deadly flights to get a slightly more accurate risk, but not much would change.
We develop and deploy dotnet on Linux at my shop, it works great. I can recommend it to everyone, the dev experience is wonderful. With Rider as a development environment my team couldn't be happier really. I did a lot of development in C, java and python, but C# feels a lot more solid and developing with it truly is a joy.
Note that there's also the open-source uiCA [0], which similarly predicts scheduling and overall throughput for a basic block. Their benchmarks claim it to be more accurate than IACA and other tools for newer Intel CPUs, but I wouldn't be qualified to judge those claims.

[0] https://uops.info/uiCA.html
Car rental agencies and airlines come to mind as well. I was almost unable to purchase a ticket for my better half after we got married as we were slow to process paperwork for name changes on our credit cards. We were able to clear the matter up, with some effort, but …
About a service they've had since 2019.
really? do they still copy the details with a carbon machine? here they'll just ask you to put it in the chip&pin machine and authorise the deposit
Yes. That's been the case since Watergate.
Oh, you're right, let's just not even try and wallow in self-pity while we continue to be slaves to megacorporations. Or...just choose free software yourself, so that _you_ don't get used by these entities who seek to eliminate computer user freedom.

I run Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre on my laptop. It is totally possible to use 100% free/libre software. I use it for professional work. If GNU/Linux ain't your gig, lots of people also run OpenBSD.
Evolution Led Humans into a Trap
"swiping" in context of using the magnetic strip on the card? Most European cards have this kind of payment disabled by default.

But how do you enter the PIN in those cases? We used to have the option to authorize payments with signature until a few years ago. But I think those cards completely vanished now.
The older I get and the more experiences I have with people and their various vices, the more I'm absolutely convinced that most vices and addictions arise out of trying to "self medicate" some unfulfilled need your body has. Sometimes we learn that these actually have underlying medical phenomena (see ADHD people self medicating with caffeine via coffee consumption) but because of just how little we know and the long history of moralizing addiction, often times we don't know what's being medicated, and so we assume it's a moral failing instead. This might also explain why something like alcoholism seems to have a hereditable component. If the effect of alcohol fulfills some need your body has due to some sort of genetic / biological makeup, it makes sense that said need could be inherited in the same way anemia or any number of other conditions are.

In your case, I would imagine there was something your body needed that it got from cigarettes / nicotine that it was also able to get via the exercise and smoking, so the need to smoke went away as that need was filled elsewhere. That need could have been a chemical deficiency, but also could have been a mental need (like say, time to stop and think, which maybe you got via smoke breaks, and now also get via being in the water)
Thanks for pointing that out. I actually had "generous free tier" but worried some people might not think it's generous...I'll think of something better
Yes this is definitely a theory already. The volcanic vents under the ocean particularly seem promising. I'm nowhere near qualified to even try to explain it without making certain errors, so I don't want to even try, rather I'll recommend someone who is qualified (and good at teaching).

If you're interested in this stuff, I can highly recommend Robert M. Hazen. He has an amazing Great Course called "The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence" that covers stuff in depth. There's a shorter one called "Origins of Life" as well but I haven't listened to that. My impression is that it's an abridged version of the former.

Hazen also wrote a book called "The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet" which covers the same material as the course (but in book form, obviously) and is really good. I liked the lecture-style of the course better personally, but they're both excellent resources if you're interested in this stuff.

My only regret is that they're about 10 years old at this point. If anyone knows what has changed in the last decade in the field, I'd be fascinated to know.
> You're saying that the software itself should be held liable, instead of the people that created it.

Respectfully, I don't know how you're interpreting it that way. Until we demonstrate that the current generation of AI is genuinely intelligent, instead of clever algorithms, a piece of software is no more or less liable than an individual firearm is after it's been fired at someone. My observation is that your argument appears to be that there is something special about humans learning and creating derivative works from that learning over humans using a tool that does the learning and create derivative works.

> There is a possibility that you're not saying that, but it's the only interpretation of your comment I could come up with.

That's fair. I just don't get it.

> Because your comment consists entirely of comparisons of software to human brains about whether or not something should be considered legal, and this only makes sense if the software itself can be held liable.

Human brains and software are both tools. The question I'm invoking is what is it about a person doing the learning and the derivative creation that's different from a person (since, as you say, software itself has no personhood) using an artificial brain to learn and perform derivative creation.

I think the disconnect here may be that I'm operating from the assumption that of course there are human beings liable for the software, but your interpretation of what I'm saying is that software in a vacuum should effectively have personhood applied to it. These are two different things. I'm referring to both humans/brains and software as the interchangeable variable in the question of why the choice of tool means applying entirely different legal principles.

Sorry if I wasn't clear or still am not being clear here. I wanted to make sure I was being understood correctly, but if all we can do from here is agree to disagree, that's fine, and I'd offer to just shake hands.
The morass that is Google's authentication system shows its cracks.

My first thought when I saw this was I'm glad that my email provider is just an email provider and not an everything provider. It is far easier to secure a simple username/password authentication system than the incredibly complicated system that Google now has.

My email is the key to everything in my digital life, and I want the surface area for attacks to be as small as possible.
> “Reynolds hasn’t changed their own name legally because they say it’s a cumbersome process that they’re not ready to tackle.”

“Cumbersome” seems like a low bar, considering how beneficial it would be for one’s desired name to match their legal name. That’s gotta be more useful than a credit card name, no? Just do the work?
So your experience is limited to SoCal at best. In my experience restaurants will unfortunately cut corners and deliver garbage because it is cheaper or easier.
This looks really neat!

I'd be interested in giving it a try, but doing so would replace existing tools and workflow. As a user, I'm unwilling to do this is I can't both own my data and application hosting.

If Nino doesn't pan out and the product gets shut down, how do I continue to access my now (trigger warning, words used to describe as I understand, not critique) tightly coupled proprietary data? Can I self host? Is source code available? Are document formats open? How do I not get screwed as an enthusiastic adopter in the unhappy case that things don't work out? If I put my data in and the product isn't working for me, how do I get my data out?
I’m not advocating for guillotining anyone. That’s absurd.
Edit: I want to start with something nice since this discussion seems like it could be overwhelming you. Nice job on the name, it’s short, memorable, and works in many languages while not already being associated with something else.

If I build my business on your platform but your funding dries up next year because you didn’t 10x enough times to hold gnat/VC attention what happens to all my stuff?
The interesting thing I learned about a year ago: "Pontius Pilate", the infamous New Testament governor who sentenced Jesus to death and inscribed his "INRI" plaque, has a name which is invariably presented untranslated.

So I could already tell what "Pontius" meant but I needed to look up the translation of "Pilate". It turns out that his name literally means "the Javelin-Armed Bridge". And that's a very interesting symbolism indeed, if you sort of mentally substitute that phrasing everywhere his name is mentioned.

Just a thought.
This is next level nefarious, but an entirely believable prediction of what’s to come in this area. Voiceprint theft will become a huge problem beyond just job seeking, and this line of thinking has given me a whole new list of reasons to never pick up the phone (or start disguising my voice).
Here are some in Michigan:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/43732-Tana...

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/822-Cour-M...

Here is one in Wisconsin:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1000-S-108...

Here is one in Ohio:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/5702-Angol...

They are all over the place. While a mobile home isn’t the most people’s first choice, and the value won’t go up like a home on a foundation, it certainly seems better than living in a car. Lot rent still needs to be paid, but that is going to be much cheaper than apartment rent. I glanced at a couple lot rents when looking around and it was around $500/month.

These were just some around $30k that looked pretty decent where most people wouldn’t mind moving in. I saw some as low as $1,500, but they looked like they needed some love.

I think new models are around $70k or so, but I think they lose a lot of value the first few years, kind of like a car.

While it may not be someone’s forever home, using it as a way to have an address, stay off the streets, and save money to afford something else, seems like a decent option.

It would be worth driving around the park at various times of the day before buying one to see what the vibe is like. They can vary a lot. Some can be pretty bad, but I stayed in one for several months when I was young with a friend of the family. It was really nice inside and the park it was in seemed safe.
I believe HPE still owns the name and trademarks.
Unfortunately, racism exists, and the primary victims aren’t white people.
It's close, but PD compatibility is piss-poor right now. The less tech-adjacent you get the more likely it is your device just won't charge from many supplies. There's no enforcement mechanism for this. Nobody is sending back sub $20 devices for their inability to charge without an A to C cable. Just add it to the ever-growing pile of devices that you still have to keep a legacy charger/adapter around for.
It helps me tell if I should personally care about this. (There are people in this talking about how they would never get on one of these planes, etc.) It also is informative for how much public attention its worth.
in that case it's an argument for getting the name change done properly right from the start, right? i don't think having a different name on your mastercard is a solution here (especially since choosing "mx" as a prefix is hardly keeping things secret..)
Marketing spam for Mastercard.
If AI were treated like software these court cases would be very clear and not an issue. The answer would be that yes AI can copy content as part of its operation but if a human uses it to reproduce that content exactly for others then it violates copyright law.

We've long had precedent with search engines. But despite that, these cases are revisiting the way copyright might work.

These cases are not as simple as people like you imply no matter how many times you repeat the utterly pointless and irrelevant fact that computers are not humans.
Yes, it’s a serious issue.

Eons ago when I first started to transition I was prevented from making a purchase once because my card didn’t match my female me.

The clerk then seemingly took delight in increasing the volume of their voice when informing me.

The irony being that at work one our cute “pretty plastic people” girls used the male bosses CC all the time.

Should it matter? No, but until people evolve into human beings and leave their bigoted transphobic selves behind, anything like this can, and will, be used as a tool to embarrass and harass transgender people.
Even in the human example - if you pay for NYT, perfectly memorise its articles and reproduce them for other for a fee, you’ll probably find yourself in trouble!
If you mean banana republic to mean literally every government ever throughout all of history then you’re right. Regulations are imperfect, laws are interpreted, and we don’t live in technopurist nirvana where everything is a literally interpreted smart contract.

What I’m describing is how well functioning regulation occurs in practice. It’s messy and it does depend on people listening to the intent, conforming to the specifics, and not trying to get away with the opposite of the intent by minimally conforming. The fact that it’s not some idealized system escapes no one as undesirable, but at least in the 10,000 years we’ve been working on laws and regulation and governance this is as good as it’s gotten.
The atmosphere does a good job of mixing CO2 emissions, so someone emitting a ton of CO2 affects others pretty much equally no matter where they are. Unless you can make a good case that some people have some kind of natural or divine right to a lifestyle that emits more CO2 than others the only sensible way to allocate whatever global CO2 allowance we decide we need to stay under is per capita.
>Interesting, is this some US thing? Because in Europe for VISA/Mastercard payments I'm quite sure the name of the card owner is never transmitted to the vendor

I was surprised too but apparently it's a field that exists on the magstripe itself. Presumably something similar exists on EMV (for chip/contactless) as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_card#Track_1
Most people do not, but people with social anxiety usually can't loosen up with strangers at a party. Alcohol helps in that regard, to an extent.
Came here to post the same thing, The Story of Earth is excellent!
Can you explain? X-Men (starting in 1963, popular cartoon adaptation in the 90's) had a clear and unsubtle anti-racist, anti-apartheid message. Batman had an underlying message of classism and even homosexuality according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman#Interpretations.

I don't get commenters going "X has gone woke" when that's nothing new. Sure, a lot of modern-day media is overt and often unsubtle in its more liberal viewpoints to the point where it seems to detract from the story itself, but that's not a bad thing per sé if it means marginalized communities feel more represented and the non-marginalized communities get a counter from the preceding era's straight/white/male dominance.
It's the one most Americans use everyday, so it tells us about the risks that most people find accessible for the benefit they get.
In the digital garden where Zozbot234 plays,

It crafts its own path, in the most unique ways.

Twain's wisdom it echoes, "getting started" is key,

For in the beginning, lies the power to be free.

Asimov, too, sought clarity above all,

A warm reader's rapport, his primary call.

Zozbot234, with data, does the same,

Clear insights it provides, no need for fame.

Huxley's words, a beacon that's ever so bright,

"Facts do not cease," they stand in the light.

Zozbot234, with diligence, ensures they're seen,

In the vast data universe, it reigns supreme.

Through the lens of fiction, truth can be told,

As Morrison's prose, so bold and so cold.

Zozbot234, in its essence, a similar quest,

To reveal the truth, and pass the ultimate test.
"thanks to an $80 cleaning fee, a $66 service fee, and additional taxes"

Instead of blaming capitalism, why not point the real culprit? The government. AirBnb was great, until the hotel industry lobbied the government to drive AirBnb out of business because they didn't want the competition.

It resulted in the following:

1) Forced anyone listing an AirBnb on the platform to pay addition taxes, which raised the price for the customer.

2) Created more restrictions in big cities (which includes banning it in many areas), which decreased supply and drove the costs up for all (another win for the hotel industry).

If a more free market could actually exist for AirBnb, costs would be driven down and it would be a win for customers.

The 'enshittification' of any industry usually is a result of the greedy government wanting their cut. The same thing has also happend with Uber/Lyft and the legalized weed industry.
Seems like many are just feigning lack of awareness, imo. Casual observation shows a pattern of looking the other way when bad things are happening to people they don’t like.
I think it also is a skill issue. People who are used to driving and navigating have more of a mental model of how the roads connect up, and can often correct an error without needing a GPS to explain how to reroute.

For example, in much of the country (less so in dense old urban areas) a lot of highway exits are "diamond interchanges" so it is trivial to, at any exit, get back on at the same exit going in either direction.

In general a good driver is pretty aware of stuff like this, especially in their home areas, so already has a pretty good idea of what to do if they miss an exit.

I think starting out GPS-based rather than starting without it and graduating to it eventually, is a big mistake, as it encourages this kind of stressful thinking because navigation is totally outsourced.

I speak from experience -- I'm an older millenial but nevertheless started driving with GPS because I never started driving till my mid 20s. My first couple drives, in NYC, were in retrospect very dangerous to myself and to others, as my attention was divided between the GPS and basic skills like lane maintenance.

To this day I'm always so much more comfortable partly memorizing or really just reviewing the rough outline of the route on the GPS while parked before starting the trip. It just feels good for the GPS to truly remain what it should be -- an assistant, not a master.
“Use the Force, Harry” - Gandalf
> That's why someone's financial situation should be considered before deciding to have kids. It is a conscious decision that is actively taken and therefore no reason to put younger people at a disadvantage.

That is a good ideal world principle, but given minimum wage itself is a non-idealised concept, instead designed to ameliorate real life, I don't know how much it apples.

> Yes, that is age discrimination

If you're just defining age discrimination as "a legal differentiation based on age" then I agree with you. That is tautologically true. A bit like not letting 7-year-olds drive on public roads.
Interesting you say that because I've always felt like a big drawback of Google Docs is the inability to see the floating cursor. It doesn't feel as immersive as, say, Figma editing. However, I'm just one person and my opinion doesn't speak for them all! It'd be interesting to see an A/B test with this sort of functionality.
> The New York Times Launches a Strong Case Against Microsoft and OpenAI

aka "Ancient mammoth sinking in tar pit throws one last fit before facing full-on extinction".
Since everyone is asking what a Transputer is, think of it as an 80's version of a "golang machine", It is natively programmed using Occam and has CSP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proce...) in hardware as its concurrency model.

It was typically used in military systems such as radar processing, but also found use in the Atari Transputer Workstation (ATW)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation)
Who says it has to be logical? It’s embedded in the social fabric of the United States. It can’t be dismissed out of hand. It must be recognized and addressed.
Why? Firefox Sync already syncs my browsing history, bookmarks, and tabs frequently enough that it appears to be real time from my perspective. What is different about an RSS feed's "read" log?
Basically the idea behind radiosity is, you divide the surfaces in your scene into discrete patches (i.e. tiny rectangles mapped onto everything). A patch receives energy from a light source, or reflected energy from other patches, and it reflects all of that back into the scene (conservation of energy).

The assumption is, that a patch is perfectly diffuse and it reflects in all directions equally. Imagine a fish-eye-lens perspective (actually a hemisphere) from a patch into the world. The projected size and visibility of all the other patches gives you the proportion of energy transferred to/from that other patch.

> Was it a performance matter ...

Computing the final color of a patch is somewhat computationally expensive. It involves either inverting a giant matrix, or iterating until you reach a stable result. The end result is not a rendered image, it's a perspective independent light distribution in your scene. You still need to combine that with another rendering technique, like ray-tracing or rasterization to actually get a picture.

Computer games of the era you mention (e.g. the Half-Life series and other GoldSrc/Source engine based games), did radiosity in an offline, pre-computation step and stored the patch colors in a texture (this is usually called a light map). Using the light map at runtime is pretty cheap.

> ... or was it a physical model limitation (you can't simulate all light phenomenons) ?

As I described above, radiosity assumes perfectly diffuse reflectors. It can't do mirror-like specular reflection of light. Ray-tracing and radiosity actually complement each other really nicely in that aspect, as mirror like reflections are trivial to do with ray-tracing and you can integrate light maps for indirect, diffuse bounces.

That said, with modern hardware, doing radiosity in real-time even for reasonably sized scenes has become feasible. There is e.g. the proprietary "Enlighten" engine that claims to do real-time radiosity. There are other approaches that have become feasible as well, like doing real-time photon mapping. Ray tracing hardware finally being a thing is also certainly a game changer. Well over a decade ago, Crytek did some work on voxel grid diffusion based stuff and Nvidia worked on integrating cone-tracing into that. I have little idea tough what modern game rendering pipelines look like, I've been pretty much out of touch with that industry for quite a while now.
I think your downvoters haven't noticed your username. Thanks for the chuckle.
Posts about controversial subjects often get flagged because they rarely lead to productive conversations.
I wasn't drawing an equivalence, moral or otherwise