skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Physically bigger pixels help a lot indeed. The encoding mode also helps make pixels bigger.

This is very convenient when you control the QR reader and need to represent long numeric identifiers like UUIDs.

For example:

9728983f-7d7d-4189-b624-f92781e36650 (lowercase UUID):
=> length=36, 15 pixels between markers
JWM9GFVXFN0RKDH4Z4KR3RV6A0 (base32 UUID):
=> length=26, 11 pixels between markers
9728983F-7D7D-4189-B624-F92781E36650 (uppercase UUID):
=> length=36, 11 pixels between markers
200924207194334734815443970355691218512 (decimal UUID):
=> length=39, 7 pixels between markers

The uppercase UUID has bigger pixels because it used a different encoding, and gets the same results as the shorter base32 uuid.

The decimal UUID is a longer string, but results in much bigger pixels because it can use numeric encoding.

I have a QR code base attendance tracker [1], where attendees show the code [2] on their phones (glares, etc.), in bad lighting conditions, etc. Bigger pixels means scanning stays quick. Same with parcel tracking [3] where field agents might need to scan QR codes in barely-lit hallways, etc.

[1] https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/qr_code_pass_fo...

[2] https://share.darkaa.com/!qntvtzNPWJ

[3] https://admin.trak.codes/
FT article including charts and numbers: https://www.ft.com/content/c08642f5-3aa3-447b-9028-c1c84b8e1...
I used to do psychedelics frequently and tried really hard to get something out of them. Up until the last time I dropped acid, I just got high and came down.

The last time I ever did a psychedelic, I dropped acid and was reading this book called "Be Here Now" by Ram Dass. There's a part of the book that talks about drug induced psychosis. There's some illustration of lightning hitting a tower. I remember turning the page, seeing it, then hearing this super loud thunder outside that shook the house

I stopped doing them after that point because it was some kind of sign. When I started doing them I wasn't able to believe in God, after that experience I could
Now, the inconvenient question: how much of that $1m savings ended up in your bank account as a bonus? Because certainly some of it should :-D
VPCs are free. Are you talking about data transfer? I know it has options to enter values like amount of data transfer you are planning to do.
Should passengers be breathalysing the pilots too? If cost cutting is affecting safety then maybe it's gone too far. Every missing bolt should trigger a $1MM reduction in an exec's bonus.
> like the automobile industry

Yes. GM and Chrysler went bankrupt [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_re...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Chapter_11_reorgani...
there's a difference between a cop seeing someone vandalize property vs opening and searching a container.
Moral panic hysteria, but this is a non-story. Airbus came out to defend that that particular panel is held by a hundred plus fasteners.

Passengers should be concerned about shoddy bear straps on Boeing 737 NGs they can't see that were passed off as approved parts to make the production schedule. Boeing had the DOJ in their pocket making false statements about an ongoing NTSB investigation into AA 331 that broke up, likely due to substandard parts, when a 737 Classic would've likely remained intact in similar circumstances. 737 NGs are at variable unknown risk of breaking up on hard landings, runway overruns, and possibly even extreme turbulence. See also: Ducommun scandal.
Largely yes, but then the pianist did approach and have them specifically filmed

I think the Chinese didn't move because they were recording something and wanted to do it in that place, but most of all they wanted what had already been recorded of them to be deleted / blurred.

Sure it's a little ironic if they were recording themselves, but in many countries you expect it to be a right to have recordings of you at least not distributed (and it is ironic for PRC people to talk about rights).
Police LOVE using BS "science" in their work. So many "forensic methods" are just bogus, completely made up by one guy who tours the country selling his "method" to police departments. Most of them are even regularly used in court, despite being utter trash. As long as you can get an "Expert" to take some money to say it in court, a judge will allow it, and allow juries to believe it is as true as cops say.
There are a very large number of trained tech workers in India & good business networks for getting them to the U.S. where their skills are highly valued.
It's because those rent prices are being used as collateral for other commercial real estate property loans. The rent price used is based on the rent the previous tenant paid, not the market value of the property.

If the owner leases at a lower rent price, they will essentially get margin called on their other properties. Therefore it actually might make sense to just have the property sit vacant with a (now) ridiculous rental price.

If governments start implementing a vacancy tax that grows as vacancy duration increases, essentially forcing the market to unstick, we'd likely see a rapid implosion of commercial real estate.
Popping up takes about two decades in commercial aircraft.
They should've slapped some speed tape over the holes
> Neil Firth, the Airbus local chief wing engineer for A330, added that the affected panel was a secondary structure used to improve the aerodynamics of the plane. ... Each of these panels has 119 fasteners, so there was no impact to the structural integrity or load capability of the wing, and the aircraft was safe to operate, he said.
I've never looked into how this particular comm tech works, but surely the phones would need to explicitly transmit to the satellites? I can't imagine these satellites being able to passively snoop on phones that aren't in the middle of attempting satellite communication.
Not a commission but don't you have performance reviews? Promotion boards? Surely it can count for a bit, if the effort is as little as you say.
I honestly can't tell if this is satire/trolling. Moloch? If it's trolling, bravo, well done!

If not: you're not wrong about any one individual thing but you have a completely distorted sense of proportions.
I think redshift correlates with relative velocity and expansion of the universe, not with distance.

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

“The main causes of electromagnetic redshift in astronomy and cosmology are the relative motions of radiation sources, which give rise to the relativistic Doppler effect, and gravitational potentials, which gravitationally redshift escaping radiation. All sufficiently distant light sources show cosmological redshift corresponding to recession speeds proportional to their distances from Earth, a fact known as Hubble's law that implies the universe is expanding.”
Semi-related, there was a recent puzzle (part of an offshoot of the 2023 Mystery Hunt), which required you to decipher a really broken QR code by hand (too far for error correction to work). We ended up looking at all the guides listed in this comment section, and while they were useful, none were super great. It's always nice to have more detailed articles like this, and this one definitely seems very polished!

Here's the puzzle for anyone curious, though the QR code deciphering comes in the 2nd half: https://puzzles.mit.edu/2023/abcde.puzzlefactory.place/puzzl...
That’s not entirely true. They are manufactured by Liebherr but so heavily tweaked by Miele that „rebranding“ is not exactly the right word. That doesn’t mean they are better or inferior than regular Liebherr products though.
> Engineers manage risk and cost.

"Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands."
> These are very lazy solutions to the problems technology has today. We need a complete overhaul. Rewrite Operating Systems that satisfy these agendas.

Elaborate please, you can install any distribution you want on the Linux solutions. Have you used one? What are your gripes exactly? Would Stallman (your example) have the same?

They are completely fine for my use except banking/identifying myself online. I can use web for banks but not for the 2FA solutions banks in my country use. Graphene however can if I turn on a Google profile. It's not perfect but it works.
LoRA != LoRa. I keep on getting confused and hate that they chose to reuse an existing acronym
Fair means that we should be giving users roughly the same capacity, or at least roughly the same chances to be worked on.

In the case of this queue, where each letter represents a user:

[A, Bx10000, C, D, E]

We're being unfair to C, D, and E. Realistically, while working on B's jobs we should have some mechanism to know that latency for C, D, and E are increasing and that we can start assigning them to workers.

Without that, latency for any step function you run is highly variable and impacted by other users. With multi-tenant fairness, latency is purely driven by how well we auto-scale and your own concurrency capacity.

The post here is about multi-tenant fairness in particular, so the intent is that fairness is viewed from a multi-tenant / PaaS lense.
The idea of truth based on recorded media is a boat that sailed away long long ago.

People are very used to being deceived by advertising in general and political media especially. The article mentions certain politicians dismissing any media critical of them as AI deepfakes, a claim the article then instantly fact-checks (without irony).

Denial and lies are not new in any sense. Fake media is not new, and analog fakes have a very long history. Photoshop didn't destabilize anyone's concept of truth beyond the extremely gullible.

It's hard for me to imagine AI having significant, let alone measurable impact here.
It's opportunity cost. If it's not a problem then you can just make more money with your time.
Look for commercial brands that have a small residential market.

If it's large, it can become shit on its own, so beware.

Commercial things are great but BE AWARE there may be things unexpected about them. Like noise is usually not an issue for a commercial item in an industrial kitchen.

Check used prices on commercial gear. Anything that maintains a used price after 5-10 years indicates a valuable brand. If you can't find any used ones being sold, it probably becomes crap. Auction sites (not eBay, but like physical "business is shutting down" auctions) can be good for this, if you can see the price they went for.

The only brand I'm really "all in" on is Speed Queen. Everything else so far I have been in the "I'll buy it scratch and dent cheap enough that I won't be sad if it explodes" - Best Buy clearance has been good to me here.
I’ll agree with this. Study language and lingual theory. Much of language is metaphor we apply to different lens.
Language is mainly a process of trial and error. We continue saying something, refining that saying through different word usage until we come up with a term that fits our lens correctly.
Words don’t have rules. Humanity makes those rules and then applies them.

The commenter below, mentioning “truth-seeking” would need to define what they mean by truth. Is this capital T truth that applies to everyone or lowercase truth that applies to the specific and differing lenses we use?
Sure it does. Suppose the data you want to publish is about the number of streets, or he average street length, or the distribution of street names, or the angles of intersections. Trap streets will corrupt that, even if it's just a tiny bit. Likewise, ghost imagery slipped into desirable imagery only slightly corrupts the model, but like the trap streets, that's the model-maker's problem.

You have a legal right to scrape data and use it as input into a model, you don't have a right to good data. It's up to you to sanitize it before training your model on it.
After having 2 fridges go in the last month (one regular and one beverage fridge) I can't wait until more regulation comes in place so that appliances aren't so throwaway. The support person said average life expectancy is about 8 years which is ridiculously low.
The author defined fair in a pretty industry standard way:

> One user should not be able to block another's work.

A multi-tenant architecture implies over committing resources to achieve better economics. Once upon a time, decades ago, when computers were so expense that companies payed for batch processing instead of owning their own, FIFO was acceptable. (And for a tiny part of the market it still is.) But ever since the rise of time-sharing operating systems, users have come to expect short delays for small tasks. If you let one customer monopolize your capacity because they submitted a mountain of work before a second customer submits a handful, you probably won't have the second customer much longer.
Yes, that access is called perspective and it will come to you, too.
My toddler still loves planes, so I upgraded her radar
Unfortunately we don't have an option for that route -- but we're happy to help support any paperwork for getting things up and running if you contact me or my team: ben [at] vantage [dot] sh.
> It doesn't matter to me if they build housing as long as it doesn't block my view of the sky and it doesn't add to light pollution.

I wish the single-family homes would stop adding to the light pollution. It seems like every Tom, Dick and Harry with a garage has a motion sensor connected to a million lumens worth of electric light that gets triggered every time the wind blows or a car drives down the street.

> A lot of the older housing is shit-quality tenements.

One of the main problems with housing policy in the US is that there is a group of people who want home values to go up and another group who want housing to be affordable and it should be fairly obvious why they can't both be satisfied at once. So instead we get rubbish political responses like rent control and The Projects and the creation of slums that nominally give poor people somewhere to live while all but purposely making it awful or otherwise restricted to Those People to make sure that no upstanding citizens would ever live there instead of paying four times what it should cost for proper housing.

We have to overcome that in order to have nice things.

> If we are going to build denser housing with social housing, we have to have green places where kids can play.

Sure, and higher density construction is one of the things that allow it. One and two-story homes make extremely inefficient use of land.

Suppose you have to fit 1000 people into a million sq ft of land and you want them to each have 1000 sq ft of indoor living space. If you build one-story buildings, you are not going to have an inch left for a single tree. If you build four-story buildings, they could each have 2000 sq ft and you'd still have half a million square feet left over from which to carve out a nice park or community garden.

> As for knocking down my house, well, some "should-ers" have told me that I should do just that.

Everybody wants to tell everybody else what to do. We need to reject "everything not mandatory is prohibited" and just let different people make different choices.
Marinate the nether rod

Power drill the yippee bog

Pressure wash the quiver bone

Tokenize the training corpus
No - I don't work in the ML field, or for any of these companies (but I have built a Torch-like NN framework in C++ from scratch, and followed the early transformer development closely, so do understand the tech).

I'm just writing about the changes to these organizations, and their corporate governance, as reported in the press. I don't think you need to be an insider to appreciate the difference between, say, DeepMind as an independent entity pursuing AGI anyway they saw fit (RL), and now as part of Google DeepMind apparently tasked with developing SOTA LLMs. No doubt this is still a research vs pure engineering endeavor, but hard to call it blue sky when the research direction and goal is so proscribed. I personally don't believe that LLMs (or RL for that matter) are the path to AGI, but at least DeepMind used to have the flexibility to pivot and pursue whatever lines of research they felt were most promising. Do they still have that flexibility today?
I didn't mention run-time dynamic dispatch, only a function dictionary (which C++ calls a vtable). Using traits for bounded subtype polymorphism is much like having a dictionary of functions that can be resolved completely at compile time, making it possible to use monomorphization and static dispatch.
Sorry for an intellectually vacuous comment, but: Wow! Somehow this hit way harder than I was ready for!
> Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her, such as by a written statement, including by electronic means, or an oral statement. This could include ticking a box when visiting an internet website, choosing technical settings for information society services or another statement or conduct which clearly indicates in this context the data subject's acceptance of the proposed processing of his or her personal data. Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity should not therefore constitute consent.

While DNT could potentially be used for opt-out, it wouldn't comply for opt-in because it is not specific or informed as the user does not know what specific data processing activities will be done, can't opt-in or out of specific data processing activities, doesn't know the identity of those doing them or that they can withdraw consent at any time.
Shareholders Are People, Too
Great Depression takes the cake here

Pearl Harbor for sure

Ozone Layer hole and the subsequent Montreal Protocol (banning of CFC) was notable in its speed and efficacy

9/11 is questionable - the response was bad and counter productive so I’d say no it doesn’t count
Here are the steps to create a sentient primate:
1. Create some amino acids
2. Let the amino acids mix and recombine
3. Let the ones best at reproducing themselves outcompete the rest
4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 until satisfied

Of course, this ignores the elephant in the room. These are just _proteins_. What does it mean? What is it for? What does it know?

Clearly a mess of amino acids and derivatives can’t actually produce intelligence or understanding. At best, it can merely parrot the intelligence encoded in the base pairs.
population growth pretty much everywhere is expected to slow down later this century... except Africa. There will be definite growth to be had, though how much it's offset by instability is yet to be seen.
This can be spin in any way somebody wants, but after 20 years, no budget limits, no lack of expertise inhouse, and no lack of time for experiments, the malaise is clear. It hints at fundamental cultural and organizational issues, that wont be solved either with layoffs or new management.

Until that is addressed, Google future trend is to become another IBM, only this time with others eating away their lunch much faster.
The second can be great with a caveat - I got recommended a stove that is wonderful long term, but the ignitor goes out eventually. Cheap part, easy to replace if you can turn a screw. Repairman recommended it because it was very easy to fix the main thing that would go wrong, everything else was bog simple. Called it "a landlord's stove".
Galaxy brain move.
British man appears in court over bomb joke sent in private message
How did he hit enter?
> “Home” in that context is back where you came from, I.e. the back button.

...No, that would be "back", not "home". Those aren't interchangeable terms unless you are coming from a (or your browser's) home page.

Anyway, this page is an FAQ about the site itself. It is not a standalone document. Without the context of the rest of the site, it has no meaning or value. There is no better use case for intra-site links than a page written entirely about content on other parts of the site.
The qualifier is "if".
My favorite near disaster story was due to my 100 year old house having come with 50 year old electric cooktop that sat over the (slightly younger dishwasher). I destroyed the dishwasher right after moving in (by running it with the new water line turned off - I should have checked) and was happy to see that at least the dishwasher shaped hole was still standard sized. What I didn't realize until the new dishwasher arrived was that the old dishwasher was smaller (lower) inside the case - leaving a handy buffer space between the underside of the electric burners and the top of the dishwashers electronics.

The new dishwasher had only about and inch of space and even after sticking in a layer of nomex insulation test runs of the cooktop with a thermal probe sited on the top of the dishwasher's insides revealed that I couldn't use any settings beyond medium without hitting questionable levels. The cooktop's associated oven put the whole question to rest soon after by bursting into flames due to a wiring failure. (This apparently period appropriate setup for small kitchens placed the dishwasher at the bottom with with cooktop above it and then a small oven on top with a integrated exhaust system underneath and on top of the oven - actually pretty handy).
Naive Bayes and Text Classification I – Introduction and Theory (2014)
Can't speak for what the person you're replying to meant (lol), but no, of course it's not nearly that stark. There's a continuum. Concrete everyday topic that comes up frequently? Everyone's going to know what they mean by what they say there. But we've all been in business meetings where people were just putting words together in a plausible way; we've probably all been the people speaking at those meetings.

The fact that it's possible to say things that make no sense, without knowing that they make no sense, proves the point. You or I can come up with a phrase like "the barber of Seville shaves all the people who do not shave themselves," and we can come up with paradoxical phrases without realizing that they are nonsensical. Neither of those would be possible if there were always a strict, one-to-one relationship between speech utterances and facts about the world.

Sometimes we have a specific idea of what we mean by what we say, sometimes we're just putting words together, often it's somewhere in between.
"Direct to Cell works with existing LTE phones wherever you can see the sky. No changes to hardware, firmware, or special apps are required, providing seamless access to text, voice, and data." ( from https://direct.starlink.com/ )

Seems to imply it looks just like a cellular "cell" to the phone. Which would allow for some amount of snooping.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/17/philadelphi...

Nightmare fuel
Some people are born without the ability to feel pain. Do they also lack a world model?
When company lost 50% of its market cap in the recent decades while being central to mobile/cloud and every other opportunities, when I saw the word AT&T in some thing, I don't feel any confidence that it will become anything useful.
> It's a positive thing that it was brought up

No it's not. People should be fired for proposing such things as they breach human rights.

It's like being happy that someone proposed genocide of all men over 60 to save on pensions and that the idea didn't pass.
They're selling hippy wigs in Woolworths, man.
Wafer locks used in car doors are actually inherently easy to lockpick because the tolerances can't be that high. Wafer locks are used because they allow you to insert the key upside down and still unlock it.