skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so there are 2 conclusions to draw from this

1. the federal law enforcement, and prosecutors are prefect humans that only ever go after the guilty

2. The system is sooo skewed in favor of the government that fighting them is pointless, likely due to immense corruption in the system it self

Since no humans are perfect, I think the stronger case is for #2 to be reality
If you are given the option of taking one lottery ticket or two lottery tickets, is it dishonest to say that taking two lottery tickets would increase your odds of winning by 100% over taking just one? Do you need to know the odds of a single ticket winning to make that claim?

I think you're using a restrictive and non-standard interpretation of percentages. They can be used to convey overall probability, but also a change in probability. Only allowing one usage is just a communication deficit.
This series was instrumental in me learning the basics of engineering. I’m forever thankful, and I highly recommend it!
If "a little longer" is six months+, you're absolutely right.
All road restrictions are modeled around power. Crashes occur reliably when you mix vehicles with disparate power.

There is simply no reason electric bikes should have the continuous power of two world class pro cyclists in one. It's nice to appeal to people acting sensibly, but of course that doesn't work - not least because the majority of people riding these don't even realize it is not normal to go up 10% grades at 15mph and more

If the story here is we want people to ride that otherwise can't - 250W continuous reliably puts you in the 90th percentile. That is an all out effort for a good half of the population.
accepting that snitches get stitches is just trading one type of authoritarianism for another
My one experience with after-sales support has been fantastic.

1. Set an appointment on the Tesla app

2. The day before the appointment my rep from the service center calls me to see if I have any questions about the process.

3. Take the car in, they immediately give me a loaner Tesla of the exact same make and model. When I get in the loaner car, it already has all my preferences imported (Signed in to Apple Music/Podcasts, seat settings, Joe Mode, Phone is the key, etc..)

4. A few days later, I get a notification from the app telling me my car is ready to pick up.

5. I drive the loaner to the service center. The app tells me to park it anywhere.

6. The app shows me where my car is parked.

7. I get in my car and drive away, without having to talk to anyone.

8. Bonus: My car has been detailed

9. Cost: $0.00

This is obviously anecdotal and I'm sure people have had bad experiences. But I was really impressed!
or the opposite where a simple misdemeanor gets trumped up to a felony so that the plea to a misdemeanor sounds like a good deal
Artificial spider gland spins scalable spider silk just like nature
What does trusted really mean? If you use node (or other JS packaging systems), you are running code that someone else wrote, that almost certainly you didn’t review as it’s huge, changing, etc. How about companies that use v8 to run JavaScript extensions to their app that their customers wrote. This is many apps. Are you saying they are all vulnerable?

The answer is they are all vulnerable, just because of problems like this. Any user code (js in this case) is untrustworthy, and everything has js extensions. What’s the safe way to run user JS? Running v8 in its own somehow separately limited process maybe is what I think people do.
If you're interested in this kind of thing, I highly recommend these books:

Football Clock Management - https://johntreed.com/collections/football-coaching-books/pr...

The Contrarian Edge for Football Offense - https://johntreed.com/collections/football-coaching-books/pr...

Clock management is not just for the last minutes of the game, it is a fundamental part of the strategy for the entirety of play, starting before the game.

I enjoyed them from a not-really-even-a-fan perspective, somewhat like a Moneyball type of read.
The people involved in producing TV adverts.
Common knowledge is not “searching child nodes” - I mentioned MCAS because that’s what caused all of the deaths so far and it was due to poor management decisions. There’s similarly no indication that any of the safety issues in the news currently have anything to do with the workforce, and we know that could not be the case because this is a failure of the quality control system setup by Boeing’s management, not the workers. It’s hardly novel to note that a failure like this is a systemic problem - Deming was talking about that in regards to WWII manufacturing!
That's just you. Raymond Chen is a great programmer and writer, we are lucky to have him.
> but there's only so much cheaper left to go before it reaches market price of plain sheet glass

Yeah, I wonder who will be the first to make them over nylon cloth. On retail, photovoltaics already passed glass in lots of places.

But it doesn't need a lot of change to make it unequivocally cheaper than plants. Just the little margin of what we can do with the current design suffices.
Mutable.ai (YC W22) is hiring engineers to build Auto Wiki v2
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I would change the main CTA to "Try it now" and then use a different style for "Read the stats". It currently looks like there are two equally important CTAs.

If you can find a way to make the results closer to real-time, this will be a really popular product.
It has been shown that at least still-image generators learn a 3D representation internally and uses it to bootstrap their generation. If you think about it this is the only way they can be so good at shadows and reflections, perspective and lighting etc.
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Pretty much everyone who has stuck their nose into the broader conflict would struggle to prove they did so because it directly affected them.
>Yes, this "want" of pop science is annoying. I don't see anything lacking with simply using something like "enables", "allows".

This misses the fact that the laws that guide the evolution of the universe are such that its evolution is "aimed towards" increasing entropy. This aim then entails what states are more likely over time, i.e. such states that increase the capacity for increasing entropy. It's not just an incidental fact that entropy increases, but that this trajectory is baked into the laws of nature. But the conceptual dual of an aim is a goal or a "want". So while not literally true, I think using intention terminology is more correct and insightful than leaving out any talk of goal-oriented behavior.
Imagine you find GPL incompatible code under Copilot. It might be a licensing nightmare. Also, for Windows and Mac programmers using GPL code without making your whole project GPL.

Copilot will be a suing-machine trigger everywhere.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/09/github_copilot_lawsui...
Are you suggesting `cargo test` is somehow any simpler and nicer to use than `cd build/ ; cmake ../src/ && make -j100 && ctest`?
It'll only help Boeing if they can pull their head out of their backside. To me, this is DoD realizing the Boeing can't do what they claim they can and need a new vendor. It's just that new vendor needs to have the rules modified a bit so they can qualify.
"tea" protocol rewards open-source contributions, from Homebrew creator
https://archive.today/bSN6Z
Israel & Egypt have had a blockade in place against Palestine since 2007. Maybe I just don't understand, but it makes a lot of sense for Palestine and its allies to then institute a blockade against Israel in response, right?
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> No amount of formal quality process can defend against business pressure and incentives to hack the same system.

"Culture eats Strategy for breakfast" -- Peter Drucker (purportedly)
Indeed. The most commonly encountered example uses medical tests for cancer as the subject and it is one of the reasons why increased testing does not lead automatically to improved outcomes.
"Trust the science", a refrain we of course heard over and over again used to justify questionable (and often coincidentally highly profitable) interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic, is already a contradiction in terms.

The entire basis for being so enamored with science, as so many of us are, is that it provides a method for establishing facts without needing trust.

Despite the noise to the contrary, we live in a highly literate age, and are a species filled with curiosity and compassion. There's no reason that scientific findings - especially those used to underwrite public policy - cannot be made easy to understand and straightforward to replicate.
"Terroir" as typically defined is a mythical concept introduced by feudal French wine makers to justify their price fixing schemes. We're really trying to avoid importing the term into the coffee industry since it has the effect of locking producers into "their terroir" instead of acknowledging all the variables they can control (through hard work that deserves compensation) to create high quality coffee. See Lucia Solis podcast for expert commentary.

But yes, latitude, altitude, and all the other inputs make a difference (in addition to the genetic variation that does exist -- I mean no one is surprised that you can get different types of apples or organes?) But recent studies have also revealed the variations in microbial community present on coffee plants in different regions.

And besides agronomy or roasting, coffee processing can have a huge effect on flavor. Fermenting the beans -- whether in whole cherry with or without oxygen, pulped in tanks with yeast or bacteria, or all the other things producers are experimenting with these days-- fermentation is like an enormous sound equalizer board for dialing up and down various flavors.
> I have a few questions about this sort of legislation. How do you determine what "AI" even is in this context?

Instead of linking 4 wikipedia articles you... could find the text of the legislation: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A...

> Although it sounds crazy I fell like certain kinds of math (like matrix multiplication, gradient decent, and simulated annealing) will soon be outlawed unless you are authorized.

Yes, you sound crazy. That is, you blindly parrot the industry that started spreading FUD about this before the AI Act was little more than a twinkling in its authors' eyes. This legislation doesn't outlaw a single thing.

Here is another link: The truth about the EU AI Act and foundation models, or why you should not rely on ChatGPT summaries for important texts https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/the-truth-about-the-eu-ac...

> Like CCTV data, you could just simulate virtually identical visual data using tings like the unreal engine. But I do get it. Things like social scoring? That cat is already out of the bag and using machine learning and AI is only a value add to the system.

"You could just", "it's only", "bad things are already happening, why should we bother with laws and regulations, the cat is already out of the bag"
It just takes time
Recursion and 3NF
This is of my favorite science stories ever!
Every young, capabl and healthy person prefers the country with most money earned and less taxes taken away. Paying for eg. universal healthcare or taxpayer-paid education (college) is just a burden and not worth it for those people at that time. This does not mean that chinese regulation (eg. local protectionism) is bad for most of the chinese people.
This was my experience after getting scammed last year. Supplier got hacked, scammer jumped into the middle of an email chain quoting previous emails etc. asking for a change of transfer details, I naively went along with it. They had the entire prior conversation and had even registered a lookalike domain. This would have stood out more ("herpaderp u shld hv checked the domain name lol") if companies didn't register random new domain names every time they feel like it.

Anyway, what I learned was that the bank doesn't give a fuck, it wasn't their money. The police don't give a fuck, it wasn't their money and solving fraud cases takes actual work. The insurance broker, who also doesn't give a fuck, hilariously told me I should have bought cybersecurity insurance, then admitted that the cyber insurance he suggested wouldn't have covered our case. Nobody cares.
At least as of a couple of years ago, HDR support on YouTube has been pretty bad[1]. I know they've been working to improve things since, but I kind of don't blame people for walking away from that mess.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwDWQyBF9II
> Brazil has destroyed more than 3x the forest than the next-highest country

And yet, the rate of destruction is well within the average for every country (what the graph measures).
its not about your individual data, but the geopolitical implications of rival/adversarial nations having a significant volume of friendly-nation user data
You're already quite a bit down the funnel if you're talking about % of cases.

If the feds have a high bar before opening a case, it's not immediately unreasonable that most of the cases are managed with plea bargains.

It might be better to look at the process beginning with arrests or beginning with investigations.
I participated in an online discussion where someone said there were reports of people hearing jet fighters, over several replies he was asking why these investigators weren't investigating that. He couldn't get it into his head that the team was doing work using available video and photos and records, and was incapable of investigating hearsay without any footage...
> thinking too customer friendly

gentle reminder that 'customer' for youtube _is_ MrBeast / CPM scammers / et al

you and me (users) are the 'product'
There is always Codeberg or Gitlab.
> We finally have data to back up the benefits of developer experience

Any manager who was waiting on the "data" (read: sponsored study) that you need to invest in proper tooling for your devs isn't going to do anything significantly different because of it.
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> Would the world be a better place as a result?

Yes, probably. Many places would have e.g. better rail infra if domestic flights were more expensive, and the climate would be better off.

You can argue this is anti-growth or whatever, but this is the same site complaining about RTO initiatives: Perhaps incentivizing personal travel isn't what we want to do or need anyway, and for cargo the air route really doesn't look that good.
In American football, getting the ball to the other side of the field is a touchdown and worth 6 points. Afterwards, you have the option of kicking the ball through the posts for 1 extra point (which is almost guaranteed) or trying to run the ball into the end zone in one attempt for 2 extra points. If you make a touchdown but you still have 8 fewer points than the other team, you can either take the 1 point and hope to score again then get 1 more point again to tie, or you can try for 2 points and hope to score again and then either take the 1 point for the win if you make the first 2 points or try the 2 points again then to tie it up. A "conversion" is scoring either form of extra points.
I assume my phone browser is Safari as Apple's default; thus, web mobile Chrome is something that won't intersect with my phone unless I use the Chrome app, right? Asking for a TechnoDolt©®™ aka me.
This is a huge pain if you want to support multiple systems, which most of the biggest products do.

But if you (1) choose a single OS, (2) have "few" (say under 20) files and (3) rely only on OS-provided libraries, then things are actually pretty simple. For example, you only support Ubuntu 20.04 or Fedora 39. Then your makefiles are nice and easy to read, and you just rely on pkg-config for the libraries.
I disagree strongly. If you start mucking around in the memory of the system, and shit breaks, it's on you and not Microsoft. The amount of effort they put into compatibility is Herculean, and honestly is way above and beyond what is reasonable to expect. It's not their fault that they can't handle every single edge case of programmers going rogue and stomping all over the rest of the system.
The CCP blackmails Chinese in other countries so it matters for them.
The US has some dumb legal incentives for people to drive the big stuff like

>The “light truck” loophole for pickups and SUVs that allow them to pollute more than other cars. https://www.vice.com/en/article/3abk7b/bidens-new-fuel-econo...

They should in any sane world go the other way - have a benefits for small safer cars and a bunch of tax and regulation on the monster ones.
It's true. People reliably confess to crimes they did not commit. It's just another dead canary in the cages of our justice system.
The value, not the code.
You had no issue with the shift quality inspection mention until the sanctity of the assembling unions were questioned, then magically your argument appears. Your aim is transparent. We know why you didn't attack the quality inspection number argument, even though it's the parent generalized counter to your position.
Kind of a messed up and far fetched stance no?
This story was discussed a few days ago¹, including with some fond personal recollections from users. There was a link posted to Vint Cerf's story collection² too. Also, a link to the source of Mills' fuzzball OS was posted³.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051246

² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39063732

³ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39052051
I understand their motivations for wanting to keep the cash cow going as long as possible but they are so openly hostile to consumer choice and developers at this point in a way that’s going to be hard to undo.

The web has changed so much in the past ten years and with things like WASM and WebGPU beginning to land in browsers the list of use cases for native iOS apps is quickly disappearing.

I hope the EU shuts down this malicious compliance quickly so they have to actually innovate on something other than how to best take hostages.
That's just rudimentary ethics.

I lost nothing, more like dodged the bullet really considering their mileage shenanigans, and I don't give an f whether Musk knows I exists.
Max was started in 1985 but PureData wasn't until 1996.
What am I missing? It seems like this is based on assigning arbitrary probabilities to outcomes and calculating from there. I would assume that it was more useful to look at the outcomes of previous attempts by any team in the same situation and use that to guess how likely the outcome of this attempt is.
Sci-Fi has a lot of 'brain in a box' stories - a personal consciousness is preserved in a computer, stasis box, etc etc.

It feels like we're almost at the point where we can simulate a brain in a box to an external observer, but without preserving consciousness.

I wonder if you would want to be preserved this way? As a kind of zombie intelligence.
It looks like Apple has full dominance over how revenue gets distributed. They can squeeze their suppliers, they can squeeze their app developers (who used to be called "partners"), and they decide on the price that end-users pay for the device.

I know this is a niche read, but my understanding of "Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox" [1] by the "new" (2021) chair of the FTC would be that this is indicative of Apple being anticompetitive and, thereby, indirectly harming the consumer and market fairness. Relevant quote from that article:

"the company has positioned itself at the center of Internet commerce and serves as essential infrastructure for a host of other businesses that now depend on it. This Note argues that [..] market dominance pose anticompetitive concerns that the consumer welfare framework in antitrust fails to recognize."

That was written to be about Amazon, but it also fits Apple here. And, I mean, it's pretty obvious that app prices have to go up eventually if you force developers to pay extortionately large fees like 30% or 27%.

[1] https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...
I came here to find comments and I had hoped answers as to just how exactly a man walks into a DMV in Texas and gets arrested for a crime that occurred in California?

Why is nobody asking this question??

It seems like that should be a substantial part of the story.
no encryption though
We've Forgotten How to Use Computers
Company disables AI after bot calls itself 'worst delivery firm in the world'
Google Search's customers are companies who advertise on the SERPs.

Google Search's users are people who do the searching.

If a service is free to use, you are the product.
Hah, you thought we were Mon'keigh but we are actually Ork.
Then why do you guys completely ignore https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10369 ?
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials
But why not both? You can do up for either, and if so you should be told what type of swipe they did so you know their expectations.
2 clicks from the Posted Link: "Read Paper", then "Code, Data and Media" tab will get you the dataset used (https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/ucf101)
Magic of Eastern European manufacturing, can probably turn them out in not too much time.
> even if it increased emissions

And shift the health and environmental issues to other places?
Form factor, per TFA, is a significant part of how dangerous cars are. Ecars with a smaller form factor will weigh more, and my goal would be to target form factor through weight (since it makes it harder to find loopholes), rather than actually targeting weight itself.
Here is the dataset they used: https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/ucf101