skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am pretty sure ALL phones that are on sale today have better glass than my Nexus 4 which had a beautiful glass panel on its back. Gorgeous but not strong at all.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/LG_Nexus...
The alerts stuff is not only Tesla so. What really is annoying, is cars reading speed limits and traffic signs, and then forcing that on drivers. I am fine with alerting me to it, e.g. displaying a speed limit. If I ignore that or not is up to me. Especially when the car misses a sign, misreads signs or looks at the stickers on the back of a truck and thinks the highway is now limited to 90 km/h.
I came to a similar conclusion after reading this article. There might or might not be nuances, but going by this post alone, there are so many ways to reshuffle and interpret these types it could just be bullshit.

Just look at my sibling responses.
Sorry, it's mostly rumors and stuff I catch reading the chats I'm still in.

I've found a kind of white paper that link to LINC and Olivier Blazy:

https://www.cnil.fr/fr/verification-de-lage-en-ligne-trouver...

And the LINC repo might have some stuff?

https://github.com/LINCnil
The stock market isn't representative of how real world actors are doing at any given moment. I'd recommend reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb. But I'm glad you made money
It's also why many of the UI toolkits on JS "spa"s suck. They often lack interaction that people do use, but the developer wasn't aware of. DoubleClick on buttons, enter in text fields, home-end in selectlists, typing in selectlists and so on.

The the better UI toolkits slowly start to accumulate all these, grow wieldy, sluggish and get replaced by a "fresh" and "snappy" alternative and the circle continues.
I'm using World Bank data (sourced from the World Health Organization Global Health Expenditure database) on a per capita basis. As you can see, UK spending is skyrocketing. The rate of increase between 2010 and 2019 is 2,000% higher than France's, as originally claimed.

I don't think your data source correctly accounts for inflation, making it essentially useless to see true costs.

As you know, France is a similar country with similar health concerns and similar hospital pressures.

Yet the UK lights taxpayer money on fire on NHS middle management salaries (care certainly isn't improving!) and France has no such problem.

Source:

- https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD?locat...

- https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD?locat...
Especially since they did take the effort to redact the ending numbers of his creditcard number.
Pretty good, yet obvious to a master programmer, which I define as someone that programs on the conceptual level and ubderstands the thinking about code deserves a lot more attention than the mere effort of banging out code to realise a specific desired output result.

Because most programmers are NOT master programmers, they just bang out code that is a means to an end - bang out code that other people cannot read and immediately retrieve the highlevel concepts that sits behind it.

Master programmers instead make sure that at the highest level the code first explicitly encodes the conceptual design, and then at a lower level of abstraction does all the necessary things that let the code actually produce the required program result.

A master programmer never divorces the logical conceptuap structure ("the theory" in the terminology of this article) from the implementation code.

Most peogrammers however bang on code in ways that quickly and radically diverge from the conceptual design, and they don't care because as long as the program produces the desired results, the code is "perfect" in their minds, never mind that they themselves won't be able to understand the code they wrote today in six months time!

A master programmer can go back to a code base that he hasn't seen in 10 years, and be be productive on it within an hour, because all the core concepts ("the theory") is explicitly encoded in the program source code.
> But the numbers clearly paint Israel as the country “run by terrorists who openly call for genocides and have shown they’re willing to go any mile to achieve their extremist delusions”.

No, they aren't. Hamas invaded first and triggered the conflict.

Anyone who tries to equivocate Israel, the sole prosperous democracy in the Middle East, with Iran, a theocracy whose biggest export is mass destruction, is heavily misinformed at best and at worst a whataboutery propagandist.
Accelerometer and pressure readings could be useful.
And assuming that hypothetical person wouldn't have survived, who would have been made liable for the person's death? The owner of the phone? Air Alaska? Boeing?
I think the real solution here is customization. Some folks prefer meters for everything, some folks prefer numbers for everything, some others want different things depending on the context.

There are arguments for numbers and meters, and sometimes there's one that's probably better for the general population (like numbers for speed or meters for fuel), and in that case this "better" option should of course be the default, but still be changeable.

This way, everyone can be happy, including those who don't really care and want someone else to choose, and those with strong preferences too.

Of course, with a car this is much easier, because most people would set it up once and then use it for a long while, while web pages are a different thing, you interact with many different ones from different devices, in different contexts, with or without a login, ...
For speed I agree. It would be way more
useful to use the same space for a large numeric
display and then I almost don’t need to refocus on it, it may be in peripheral vision while looking at the road.

For fuel, meh. Just need to know if it is close to the bottom or not and if the light is on.
That's an interesting perspective. While I agree that the pace of advancements in neuroscience is slower compared to AI, I think it's important to note that understanding the brain is a fundamentally different problem than building intelligent machines. The human brain is an incredibly complex system with billions of interconnected neurons, and we still have a long way to go in terms of fully understanding how it works.

AI, on the other hand, is designed to solve specific problems efficiently, and it can be engineered to mimic certain aspects of human cognition without necessarily needing to understand the underlying mechanisms.

While it's possible that AI could eventually help us better understand the brain, I believe that advancements in neuroscience will continue to be crucial for unlocking the full potential of AI. Understanding how the brain processes information, learns, and makes decisions could lead to the development of more sophisticated and human-like AI systems.
What does "at scale" mean here, and how would it be detected or enforced?
https://nitter.net/nntaleb/status/1743935809877671957#m

:)
I wish the voice commands were more complete. It won't turn off the headlights or increase the fan speed by more than one increment, for instance.
>The moon is imaginary?

Only the cheese part; or all the religious interpretations about it (no exceptions).
on the contrary. more and more people are signing up and leaving twitter.
The main part this leaves our is your digital vs physical library.

We keep about 1000 physical books (sadly constrained by space, we'll expand into a new house one day), but they're the kinds of books that 50 years from now you would still be interested in. Or that we would want to give away to people in that timeframe. Or that have some particular sentimental value. And a far larger digital library with both more breath and that's much more timely.
That could be it! I missed that one.
Will try it next time.
Oregon teacher finds fuselage from Boeing 737 Max 9 in his back yard
Well, MLPs is the actual neural network (the approximator), whereas the attention (the rest) is more of a text to relevant embedding extractor
I think most owners of either model disagrees with that. Sure - it would be handy, but it's not a feature that I'm desperately missing. I would go so far to say that I'm not missing it at all.
You could totally avoid that accident by not building the road in the first place, which typically is the first level of paralysis we need to overcome.
Yes, they're rocks that happened to end up on another planet after being thrown out into space by particularly large impactors. This would rule out most life, but there's still a chance that extremophiles and even some multicellular organisms capable of hibernating in the rock might have survived the trip, similar to ancient microbes and tapeworms locked away in the arctic being able to revive upon reaching survivable conditions again.
demanding a log-in before I can look at what this might be, means I click "CLOSE"
Can you elaborate? Are you not able to access MS store for some reason?
That's assuming the phone will fall while facing down with it's largest surface.
I see some growth since they opened to European users late last year.

It's going to be interesting if they really enable full ActivityPub integration
>Is this quite normal on HN now or is it some bots farming engagement?

As you can see, my account is not new. I thought the comment will be funny. Not every comment should be terribly ingenious, long thought and crafted to show people how smart the commenter is. As a commenter you have the right to be spontaneous.
> The problem is that it is impossible to know which stocks are going to succeed or fail.

Yet casinos make money despite not knowing the outcome of each game.

You only need to be correct more times than you are wrong (in $ space, not number of trials).
I don't want to seem overly critical, but why is this comment relevant to an engineering focused article on how Threads was built?

This article isn't FUD and your comment adds nothing to the discussion except setting up a strange strawman to attack for some reason I can't quite fathom.

I don't want to see HN become more like Reddit where comments like this tend to dominate, they don't add to the community and only promote negativity and ill-will between community members.
I don't think Wikipedia contains facts quite like the one in GP's example...
If you’re only gonna use it for gaming then maybe stick to the Switch. That being said, the Deck is definitely more versatile because it’s just a little PC - you can do far more than the Switch will let you.

Also, having access to Steam’s frequent discounts - a lot more frequent and generous than Nintendo’s - is really nice. EDIT: forgot to mention - there’s also the fact that you can get other game stores to work, you can even install Windows if you really want to.

I also trust PCs more than Nintendo when it comes to future portability and compatibility: I know for sure I’ll be able to play all my PC games in the next iteration of the Deck, and other PCs of course, and even if Valve folds I’ll be able to use the Deck for whatever I want. You can’t say that at all for the Switch - eventually Nintendo will pull support and bring down the store like they did for the 3DS, and they even patched it one last time to make jailbreaking harder! For a DEAD console!

EDIT: A point in favor of the Switch though: games come in cartridges so if you don’t want to trust online stores in the long term then that’s something to consider.

All this being said, I found the Deck to be a little too underpowered for my use case - it struggles with some of the games I like to play. I ended buying a Razer Blade 14 with a 4070 and an AMD chipset. Not as portable, but still very portable, plenty performant and with great battery life.
Let me try to ask you in the most neutral way possible: how do you feel about being an investor in a company with such a troubled history of privacy violations and one of the key enablers of Surveillance Capitalism?
haha, already in rich EU countries it's much below EUR 100k - see e.g. Germanwings Flight 9525. In other countries it tends to zero. Even in US, I don't think that life of people awaiting visa amnesty is (statistically) worth more than zero. These claimed millions are weird numbers. "Life is priceless" is very dangerous notion to believe in, because it gives treacherous sense of security. In critical situations it might be "we are not spending more than EUR 3k to save his life and EUR 3k merely pays for 100km of transport and two paramedics".
I wonder what I could archive would I actively work with full passion just 2-3 hours every day.

Imo that's plenty
When you were a young little nerd old timers were saying "such a shame modern computers don't have LEDs showing the individual state of each bit of the control registers like our mainframe did. Computers these days are so dumbed down. Users can't even see where the instruction pointer is which is so useful to get a feel for what the hardware is actually doing"
I think this is the core of the issue. People are getting hung up on Madrid -> Berlin and coming up with things like New York -> San Francisco as a comparison. I don't know how many people regularly need to go 6 states across a vast continent...

Really, what it seems the discussion should focus on is those shorter (but still quite long!) journeys that people would likely want to do. Train lines in California seem to make a lot of sense. A quick look on Google Maps suggests there's no train between San Francisco and Los Angeles which seems insane to me!
9mph? Always carry an iPhone while on an airplane ...
In all honesty, I believe the reverse is true. Our technology seems modeled after humans and the environment we inhabit. Airplanes being glorified birds, wheels being glorified feet, computers being glorified brains or neural networks...well.
I used to tell people I was an order of magnitude more likely to die from a traffic related accident driving to work than from any hostile action during the two years I was in Afghanistan. People seemed challenged by that.
>Shakespeare is still popular, should we extend copyright so that his great great great great great great great great grand kids get a pay out from film rights and the like?

OR one can make an argument that has nothing to do with any of the things I commented and tick an item off the HN scorecard!

>Further, you are still free to take that risk

Probably if they were smart they would just forego the risk of creating something in the first place as it would be a world with much less chance of a payoff.
Do you want to troubleshoot 16-bit apps written in 1993 in 2024? Because this is what you would do if you would leave x16 support in your OS in 2024.

And it would cost a lot too.
Same for me - has worked for a few years now. The only hitch is when I allow someone else to use the phone and they just put it down after use expecting the screen to lock automatically, which it won't...
Related: The Micromort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
People do change, especially when exposed a long time to stressful environnement. Ask post-burnout fellow. Fortunately most re evaluate their life before going to burn out.
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There are currently 251131639 sequenced proteins in UniProt[^1], so, that's a very lower bound on the number of things a modern biologist has to amuse themselves with. Many still consider biology as the study of each individual biological organism, system, or protein. But since there are so many of those, I argue that biology must become a science of methods of understanding, and not a science of bare understanding. It's the difference between a company that produces mining machinery and a company that sends miners with pick and shovel underground. And that transformation is going to require for biologists to become system scientists and engineers, steeped to the brim in math, biochemistry and computer sciences.

[^1]: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/uniprot/TrEMBLstats
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Precisely. I’ll choose when to lock the screen - what if I’m using it to read a recipe, or looking up documentation, or I have a map on screen? Etc etc.
I think getting killed by a meteorite is in that order of magnitude.

But it is a bit of a tricky question. Because you can get hit by a small space rock, it has already happened but it is extremely rare, much less than 1 in a million, and I don't know if there is a record of anyone dying from it. But there is also a small chance of a massive impact killing billions in our lifetime, and intermediate scale events like if the Tunguska event happened in a populated area.
But air looms are real: https://www.theairloom.org/
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One of them seems to have deleted the comment just as I commented about this. Also downvoting is an option? It doesn't seem to be visible here.
... missing link?
The argument seems to be a little different than what you’ve taken from it.

My interpretation was something like and efficient frontier model between multiple variables where “zero fraud” isn’t actually a position on that frontier. So, if you find a place with zero fraud, you can possibly increase the total utility of the system by aiming for slightly less than perfect but being back on the efficient frontier.

Arguably zero of anything is a great ideal but not maximally efficient.

Morally, the situation is more in favour of getting to zero.
> In my zk group scheme, you do get one token for each epoch. (could be 30 days) It's simply suggested that you wait as long as possible between joining the group on your main account before minting your token on the anon account.

I'm not sure this is the same thing. What I was suggesting is that the token you get doesn't depend on the site you're using it on at all. All you do is ask the government for a token and they give you one and you can use it anywhere you want for 30 days and then it expires and you ask for more.

If the tokens are unique to you then you'd have to request a bunch of them because you don't want to use the same one twice on two different sites. If everybody had the same one then that wouldn't matter because the token can't identify any particular user.

> Although in your case of "give every user the same token" makes the users anonymous to everyone except the issuer. The issuer is still able to know to whom they're giving them.

But this is solved by making the token entirely generic.

The problem we have is that Bob wants to visit an adult site without associating that with his social security number. If all Bob does is request the generic token which is the same for everyone and asserts that anybody who has it is an adult, the issuer knows that Bob requested it, but not if Bob has a kink or is buying a beer or is just requesting a token on the off chance he might need one later or is applying for a job at a casino or is hiring for a job at a casino, since this system is so simple the way you verify the token is by requesting it yourself and comparing the one the user submitted to see if it's the same one. It's literally just a single secret password for everyone that the government changes once a month and only gives out to adults.

> As for mitigating people sharing their tokens, of course that's always a fear but I think mitigation strategies would be unique to each application's use case.

It's not clear how you're supposed to mitigate it in this case.

Suppose Bob hates this system and wants to destroy it because it blocks adults without a valid ID from accessing lawful content, e.g. because they're from another country. So Bob hooks up his own valid ID to a server via Tor and configures it to sign any request for age verification from anyone.

Now there two possibilities. One, the system can find out who Bob is and shut him down, which proves that it doesn't protect your anonymity, is a massive invasion of privacy, and must be destroyed. Two, there is actually no way to identify Bob, and then the system has been destroyed by Bob.
Most people don’t expect their phones to be sucked out of airplanes.
Why would I need type safety for my CSS?
Gnome after version 1, definitely after version 2 is a symptom of the "software is never done" fallacy. After building a solid, performant and working desktop environment, instead of leaving it alone and start making other applications, they decided to just keep doing stuff.. and how do you continue improving something that's already finished ? You don't, because it's f*cking done! So what's else to do than just randomly screw with things. This is also seen in Firefox, Thunderbird, and the Windows operating systems.

I switched to Mate when they made the first major screwup, but eventually Mate got bloated too for no good reason, back to XFCE, but they also can't keep their hands off of it.

So here I am in i3, which is not really what I'd prefer, but at least they don't seem to have the same itch to constantly change stuff just to change it.

Here's how software _SHOULD_ work: Develop it until it's _DONE_ and _STOP_. Now, you ONLY submit code that makes it run faster and use less memory. Otherwise, just stop, move on and make something else.
Type systems aren't programs because sensible type systems are decidable. They're very specifically not a programming language but a constraint language.

https://3fx.ch/typing-is-hard.html ; more people should understand Hindley-Milner.

Now, there's also a case for compile-time programmability, but that is a feature that needs to be used carefully because it can make the question of what code is actually running very opaque, as well as arbitrarily increasing compile time. (C++, the bad bits)

> making compilation a program that you write wherein you can fully introspect your program

I'm experimenting with C# source generators at the moment, and wondering if there are any breakthrough features we could add this way by making it fully generalizable. (They have the limitation that they are additive-only, you can't mutate existing source)
Sure, magit is in some sense "getting it with the ide".

Not sure how advanced is blame in other editors, it's not just blame annotation, is being able to navigate the history of a line just jumping from one change to the previous and back. It's incredibly helpful with large code bases to understand how some code evolved and why it's implemented like that.

Another great magit feature is being able to open a file from any git revision. Like you want to copy some line from a file that's being long removed you can just call magit-find-file on a revision that still has it, open it in buffer, copy what you want etc.
Your treatment-as-crap is Apple's MAKE-GOB$-OF-CA$H. Need I elucidate ?
Maybe that's a poor way of stating the problem. In a zero tradeoff world, 0 deaths would be optimal. We don't live in that world though. For example, flying is supposedly safer than driving. Airplane crashes happen. We could demand zero deaths from the planes which would drive the costs up, causing more people to choose to drive, causing more deaths.

So, in relation to airplanes, we can't choose zero deaths in the real world. We have to choose some imperfect trade off, otherwise we'll cause more deaths.
The article states the exact opposite: "A small, nimble team of engineers built Threads over the course of only five months of technical work" while it "garner[ed] over 100 million sign ups in its first five days". According to the article linked there, there were (up to) 60 engineers in the team. That's 300 person-months, or 25 person-years.