skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is people want the benefits of having their stuff public but not bear the costs. Scraping has been mostly a solved problem especially when it comes to broad crawling. Put it under a login, there, no more AI "stealing" your work.
Literally any book from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levallois_technique#Referenc... would be fine, including the first one in the list.

Levallois tool at 500kYa isn’t backed by any science whatsoever.
It makes it more likely that bad drivers will be caught. It's much better to catch a bad driver before they run over a pedestrian rather than after.

Many drivers believe that getting to their destination is more important than yielding to pedestrians and minor traffic laws. It's important to enforce those minor traffic laws before that behavior/mindset leads to a fatality.
If you were told that getting rid of it would lower pedestrian fatalities, and you believed that, would YOU want to take it away?
I concur with the flagged reply. The Houthis provided a solution on day 1: a ceasefire to end the genocide in Gaza.

We will look back on the escalation of the conflict in Yemen as a strategic blunder. The Biden administration is digging itself deeper & deeper into a hole of its own making.
It should be like that. I agree
Ehh, the superman show (on Adult Swim) isn't that bad from an animation standpoint. It wouldn't stand out as an anime but you could have picked any other AS snow outside of Bookdocks (which I believe is also animated by an Asian studio) and Metalocalyose to drive that point. Western shows suffice or even try to prefer a cruder, cheaper art style. In small part because American animators are compensated better (but still paid peanuts for its economy).
I use my Alexa to start my vacuum cleaner (maybe 3-5 times a week), to set timers (about once a week) and to check the temperature outside (less than once a month).

I wouldn't pay $1 for this, it's all stuff that my phone can already do.
Why would they have to be made public? They only have to be known to a handful of other nation states.
> I know this is going to be voted down. I’m always scared of how things get done here in India -- not because they are careless or trying to reduce cost -- but because of the utter lack of importance given to human lives

My experience in seeing how electrical and gas lines are handled casually in Pakistan is the same. For instance, there was a huge transformer enclosure with no doors on it and bare bus bars anyone could easily reach in and grab, a transformer for high-voltage AC to low voltage step down, serving a 300 unit apartment building, with children playing football in the parking area right next to it.

It's not really an India specific problem but really more widespread throughout many south asian developing nations.
Yeah, classroom behavior sets the floor (and often the ceiling) for what can be accomplished. It's a hell of a lot easier when students are already aligned towards decorum and achievement. However, teachers and schools can create classroom culture.

One of my mentors told me about his first year of teaching in a rough area where, as he put it, "I knew what I was in for when the principal was more interested by my law-enforcement background than anything I might know about math". He spent the first two months gaining compliance with one rule: come to class with two pencils and your notebook, and nothing else. Literally nothing else was accomplished. Once he got them there, however, he had a chance to teach, and his classes ended with some of the best scores in the district (admittedly not a high bar).

When I worked as a supply / substitute teacher in primary and secondary schools my theatre training was infinitely more valuable than any education class I ever took.
Yeah, its in the outskirts of the main city(Hyderabad), and all the roads leading u pto it will be chock full of traffic 24/7. Good luck with that.

In big cities, like the one this is in, the population / ambulances ratio if woefully inadequate.
I suspect the impetus for suffixing the number of bits is a bit of a backlash from C, where you never know how many bits are in a type. That has caused C programmers a lot of trouble and extra work.
Zero percent chance I would pay for these assistants. Due to how useless they are I have been considering removing my Google home devices. In some ways they are worse now than launch. I suspect Alexa devices are similar.
The answer to a question that begins with "Why" is "no"?
I don't think that's something the roads prioritize. That's something that the drivers choose to do. A better word might be that roads afford or allow drivers to prioritize speed. I've been in cities where drivers don't prioritize speed. It's nice driving in such cities. People are civil on the road. It's really nice.
Iran’s government has a sense of being under siege / surrounded by powerful enemies, the US, Isreal, etc.

Fighting back conventionally is obviously not realistic, but the time honored tradition of funding allies and fighting proxy’s is the next best thing. The idea of the policy is also that this is a deterrent to their enemies to think twice about striking them directly.

How true or effective any of this is another matter entirely.
That’s totally fine, everyone’s definition of art is subjective. But general value of an art as a piece will just still be zero for AI generated ones, just like any IKEA / Amazon print piece. You just pay for the “looks pretty”, frame and paper.
> The required amount of money to earn a "living wage" is extremely high because of government interference in the economy!

Where the line that separates goodwill custody of the commons like roads, public education, enforcing contracts and laws and "interference"?
> I'm somewhat disheartening because it implies that learning Lisp might be redundant given that contemporary languages have already incorporated its best aspects.

Indeed, Lisp is no longer as revelatory as it once was, since many innovations have been adopted, even surpassed in specific cases. Still, no other language gives you the total package. The environment is far more than the sum of its features list. CL just gets out of your way and allows you to think about problems not programming.
Headline has "is it time to ban gas stoves" vibe
I am thinking they must know this and that this is actually a 3.5D chess move that they can use to get the political will to finally axe the product or at least significantly gut it. It’s well known how much of a money loser voice assistants have been and Alexa is one of the largest. A bet that didn’t really pay off.
My dad keeps an old inkjet printer of some brand I forget right now. It refuses to scan without ink. So he has some ink cartridges that he puts in when he wants to print or scan and the rest of the time they are removed and the orange plastic caps they came with reattached. They live in a bag sitting on top of the printer.

Now they don't dry out and the printer can't sneakily squirt all the very very expensive ink into a sponge when you least expect it.
I recall a particular intersection where a two-way turns into a one-way that has crosswalks on all sides.

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A driver traveling north receives a green right arrow instead of a green globe. I assume this is to make it extra clear not to proceed straight, but then is it technically illegal for a pedestrian to use the rightmost crosswalk?
Delphi compiles to Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, and Linux:

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

Free Pascal compiles to Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, BSD, DOS , OS/2, AIX, Android, Haiku, Nintendo GBA/DS/Wii, AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS, Atari TOS, and embedded platforms:

https://www.freepascal.org/
Iranian anti ship missile systems. The Houthis have pretty much no domestic high tech manufacturing capability of their own.
As a driver, I love right-on-red. As a pedestrian, I hate it -- it generally results in drivers stopping past the stop line, or not stopping at all as they roll into their right turn, and many times they aren't even looking to the right for pedestrians, they are only looking to the left for traffic.

As much as I love the right-on-red as a driver, I think it should be ended because drivers aren't responsible enough to use it safely. Perhaps when (if?) self-driving cars are ubiquitous it can be revisited.
Node's `execSync` is pretty much this easy to use as well.
I just imagined the goatse guy aging 20 years. How would he hold his crap? Would he ever live that long? Questions for the 40 year olds.
> For that matter, how do they benefit from naval coercion in the Gulf?

Various members of the GCC (UAE, Saudi) can't ever really pressure Iran, because Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz mean they can massively disrupt oil and gas exports, and the Khaleeji countries are heavily reliant on these, despite valiant efforts to diversify.

> What does Iran get out of helping the Houthi disrupt commercial shipping?

Iran's lesson learned from the above is that that's super useful, and they'd like to be able to do the same thing to the rest of the world.
Sure, except Americans may also have a weird obsession with driving that makes them oblivious to pedestrians, whereas many other nations may be more aware of pedestrians and thus have fewer fatalities per capita. I have no data to back up such a statement. Just anecdotal experiences.
That was a great read! Thank you for posting this gem.
Exactly. It's a religious war, like the Thirty Years' War in Europe.
The profound number of changes are in tact only if those changes aid in the natural selection of the organism against selection pressure.

Such changes are replicated more successfully (more offspring) making the change/mutation more resilient to disappearing from the genepool.

Over time any organism that's living/thriving is going to have a lot of these mutations stacked on top of one another in a resilient way(size of population with the same mutations). Any mutations that are disadvantageous to natural selection and proliferation are weeded out of the genepool (go extinct)
Yes I mentioned it in the context of homelabs, it’s not an alternative to Ceph or MinIO for large installations.

But the simplicity is appreciated. You can recover all the data using rsync.
Because it leads to dead pedestrians. I walk a lot and right on red is a curse, drivers often only look left for traffic instead of right for pedestrians before turning. Coupled with hoods so high you can't even see kids or short people walking in front of your vehicle it's very dangerous.
Different cultures at different times viewed suicide differently under different situations.

Suicide is not necessarily a result of a mental problem.
I'd be OK getting rid of it IF we mandate smarter lights everywhere. That or get rid of lights where possible altogether in favor of some type of roundabout.

Where I live now is a hellish mix of 4 way stop signs, and lights that seem to be on a 60 to 120 second timer no matter what. It's infuriating driving in the evening, not another car in sight, and getting caught at a redlight for more than a minute. A lot of people here seem to run red lights, and I think that's a huge reason why.
This reflects the current evolution of the historical arms race. The missiles are not particularly effective, terminal guidance and warhead design is poor, but they are a threat to any non-military vessel in the region. The underlying dynamic is that technology that was very expensive to produce 50 years ago is now available ubiquitously. It isn’t per se great tech, but it is comparable to tech proper military powers had 50 years ago, which are still quite capable against unsophisticated adversaries, like shipping vessels. Modern military vessels are designed under the assumption that they will be hit by swarms of these missiles.

This has parallels to the issue of there being 400M firearms in the US and an almost infinite capacity to produce new ones in a very decentralized fashion. Almost all of the leverage is on the incentive side; people should be maximally reluctant to inappropriately use what we cannot limit them acquiring. No one can stop people from acquiring or building anti-ship missiles as a practical matter. Building the missiles is too cheap and too easy. The costs to using them inappropriately have to be much higher than they currently are.
What is it you want to build? How long does it need to be supported? Will people be harmed if it fails? Will people be jailed if it fails? (Like the Postal system in England)

Pascal is fast in terms of compilation and runtime. It has good error handling. You can threads, do generics, etc.

Unlike Python or C, a Pascal program you write now will likely compile correctly without modifications a decade from now.
If you make a small dedicated right-turn lane it will signal to pedestrians to watch out for RTOR. If you don't, I guess you have to ticket people who don't stop at the red. I would naturally stop.

Of course, 19/20 intersections never have pedestrians anyway.
I don’t see why human level is needed.

You can have 10 different ai systems, each one sub human intelligence and it would still disrupt the world in a huge way.

If you have a system that all it can do is take project requirements write java code really really well. That will already have a huge impact on everyday life.

Positive view: What would a world look like where everybody can program ?
As an Australian who has driven in the US. I miss this so badly… Although for us it’ll be left on right.

Being upside down doesn’t help either.
In Oregon, there is left on red from a two-way to a one-way. Every time I do it it feels insane, but if sight lines are good it’s reasonable I guess.

See: “Left or Right Turn: Two-Way Road to One-Way Road”
https://www.oregon.gov/odot/dmv/pages/online_manual/study-se...
Doesn't get more "white people problems" than this. Every cliche you can think of is here:

- A child of well-connected parents who can putter around doing music until his 30s and then go on to work in public policy

- ... but of course this is because he "works like a maniac"

- Compares self to Darwin and Bach

- Needs a guru in some remote place in India to tell him basic truths about life.
The Iranian regime is separate to Iran the people/country. The interests of the two can diverge.

Supporting the Houthis achieves a few things. It ties up Saudi Arabia, one of Iran's regional rivals. It gives Iran a level of force projection over the crucial gulf shipping route, which is leverage. It gives Iran the ability to have the US or Israel struck without giving the US or Israel the easy narrative ability to strike Iran directly in retaliation.

Also, destabilizing US-aligned Arab countries is in Iran's benefit because secular US-aligned dictators are quite anti-Iran and compliant with the US. For example if the Houthi activity leads to economic troubles in Egypt, it could lead to a popular revolution. The US friendly regimes gets ousted by populists (most likely Islamists win at the end), who will be more pro-Iran bloc than compliant with the US.

Another thing to note is that Iran, like Russia and China, is a revisionist power. They are not a status quo state. The TLDR of this is that they hold a grudge and a lot of their energy is dedicated to changing the world/regional order.
Ken Rockwell has a similar list and other eBay advice: https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/ebay/search.htm
I've somehow never come across <math> before. TIL! Thanks for sharing
Because there's no enforcement of this, and "gee I didn't see them" is accepted without question by police, prosecutors, and the public?

Banning right on red is called a "protected" crossing - the driver has to very visibly violate the law (in a way that can even be enforced in an automated way) to even be in the situation with the pedestrian. That is substantially more protection and it works.
Yep. True in other places as well
> They weren't trained professional rescuers

First-Aid can (and should) be learned by everyone. A course takes less than a day. It gives you the skills to safely deal with situations like that.

Anyone reading this: learn first aid. It might save someone else's life, someone who is important to you, and it might just save your life too.
Disney is doing well in the finance department but its appeal is falling hard.
The anime committee. Someone linked an excellent video about how the committee is formed and how they collude to cap anime budgets. As a result they also get most of the revenue. Which is according to plan; if your biggest "stakeholder" is a merchandising outlet the quality of the anime quality only matters as much as needed to hype merch sales

As a western metaphor, think of anime studios similar to the VFX industry where many bid based on some anime the committee wants to make. Sometimes studios pitch their own anime, but most can't afford to put down their own money for that arrangement.
>An appeal to incredulity is not an argument.

It IS strange, using the evolutionary framework itself, that useless mutations will hang around for thousands or millions of years (countless generations) before dropping perfectly into an extremely complex system, that itself is but a small part of a larger complex system.

Evolution teaches that small, immediately useful mutations build upon one another, reinforcing the beneficial nature of the mutation. It's impossible to build large, complex life systems (with a large number of prerequisites at each step) this way. For example, the Heart, Blood Vessels and Blood. They're each extremely complex but useless without the other two.

How would evolution slowly evolve a heart with no blood or blood vessels?

How would evolution slowly evolve blood but no blood vessels or heart?

How would evolution slowly evolve a network of blood vessels but no blood to carry or heart to pump?
Yes, shorter path is the goal.

No, winning 4 and losing 6, by a small margin, isn't "being worse than arm". The paper's authors even explicitly conclude it is not losing to ARM.

This is even ignoring whether code is within or outside loops, counting fuseable instructions as always non-fused, and not considering any instructions from extensions after 2019's ratified (actually unchanged from 2017) rv64g... any of those would have a favorable effect on RISC-V.

This is an excellent result for RISC-V, that clears any doubts in terms of path length. On top of what we already know about RISC-V leading in code density in 64bit.
Extremely naive to think that any of this could be enforced to any adequate level. Copyright is fundamentally broken and putting some plasters on it is not going to do much especially when these plasters are several decades too late.
I love Bun. I no longer use Node for development. Hardly any gotchas anymore. It's just faster all over. Especially `bun test`. Highly recommended. Thank you @Jarred!
The last two vehicles which nearly ran me over in a crosswalk have been pickup trucks... Not sure if they have shitty visibility or if pickup drivers are less likely to conceptualize there might be pedestrians....
There are a few left-on-red intersections in the ACT. There should be more IMHO.
The article had the numbers, e.g.:

> crashes increased by more than 20% in states that allowed RTOR.

They also explained some of the mechanics: truck drivers don't see the bikers, SUV drivers don't see the pedestrians, other drivers press you to clear the intersection quicker than is safe etc.
So out of curiosity, are Americans not taught to stop at a red light and check their right-side mirror and blind spot for cyclists or pedestrians before turning right on a red light? Because I certainly was taught that when I signed up for driving lessons? Just Americans don't do this?
Such a great cover for the bug: the simplicity of the approach doesn't require reallocation.

Also, the author could claim they inspected/analyzed the visual output and the redaction appeared flawless.

At least, I assume most image viewers won't display a dialog:

Warning: suspiciously redundant image data detected. If any part of this image is supposed to be redacted, please contact your system administrator immediately.
Lithics terminology is always confusing.

Levallois encompasses a huge variety of different traditions. The headlining article here is talking an Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) tradition. It's one of those technical terms that everyone uses a little differently, but usually means something along the lines of "uses middle paleolithic techniques (like levallois) to make upper paleolithic designs". They're associated with the entrance of anatomically modern humans into Eurasia (caveats apply).

This site is notable because it's the oldest such site in China. We already know of older sites from the same broad pan-Gobi region (e.g. Tsagaan Agui), they're just not in China.
Vehicle speed is a valid priority. The time we would collectively lose waiting at red lights likely far outstrips the years of life lost from hitting pedestrians.

Camera technology will soon be able to detect pedestrians flawlessly, eliminating most of the risk of RTOR. We need to make sure not to ban RTOR before that happens, because it will be too hard to unban it.
If it doesn't work during inference I really doubt it will have any intended effect during training, there is simply too much signal and the added adversarial noise works on the frozen and small proxy model they used (CLIP image encoder I think) but it doesn't work on a larger model and trained on a different dataset, if there is any effect during training it will probably just be the model learning that it can't take shortcuts (the artifacts working on the proxy model showcase gaps in its visual knowledge).

Generative models like text-to-image have an encoder part (it could be explicit or not) that extract the semantic from the noised image, if the auto-labelers can correctly label the samples then the encoded trained on both actual and adversarial images will learn to not take the same shortcuts that the proxy model has taken making the model more robust, I cannot see an argument where this should be a negative thing for the model.
I haven't used Pascal for about 30 years, so, not for a while. I'd hesitate to make any pronouncements, beyond that it is strongly typed (which reduces some categories of error) and compiled (usually fast).
Python's subprocess, os.system, etc. offload the work to your system's shell. Bun, on the other hand, is running the scripts in its own runtime.
It's taught and the law.
I remember back in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36277779 that all links became rel=noreferrer, specifically to combat this sort of abuse. I guess that got reverted at some point, but I can't find any posts talking about when or why.
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