skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The following histograms of Russian elections across polling stations shows curious spikes in turnout and results at nice, round, numbers (e.g., 95%) starting around 2004. This appears to indicate that there's election fraud via fabricated results

Two observations:
1. Why from 2004? Things were much worse in Russia before 2004.
2. The numbers of this election seem to agree with approval rating polls conducted by western agencies.
They didn't get the money. Reading the article, the first sentence explains this is just a proposal...but even the commerce.gov headline is misleadingly worded (to your point).
ADS-B is only commercial flights? I thought many kinds of flights are broadcasting. Does Flightradar24 only track commercial flights?
John von Neumann: "... the sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work—that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area."

Both GR and QFT are insanely accurate models, but they are just models.

The N-body problem is undecidable, and Gödel, Turing, Church and other s proved that is the best we can do.

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/13175/1/parker2003.pdf

Western reductionism or Laplacian determinism is a good framework for practical, computable models. QFT actually is actually one of the counterexamples to Western reductionism.

But models are reductive and scientific models are just models. Don't confuse the map for the territory.

All models are wrong, some are useful; is another way of saying the same thing.
Everyone needs service workers. Even service workers need service workers.
You're not the only person: https://web.stanford.edu/group/scpnt/gpslab/pubs/papers/Liu_...

TL;DR: It's weak signal, not jamming. The weak signal reports come from military training aircraft carrying out maneuvers that cause temporary signal loss.
This is certainly true, and doesn't detract from my disappointment not to have actually seen the software archeology in practice.
I would argue that they should be teaching how file IO works at a low level at some point (preferably as one of the first "complicated" bits).

Everybody should, at some early point, interact with basic file descriptors and see how they map to syscalls. Preferably including building their own character and line oriented abstractions on top of that, so they can see how they work.

I'm convinced that IO is in the same category as parallelism; most devs understand it poorly at best, and the ones who do understand it are worth their weight in gold.
Sure. It's clear this community isn't open to critical views on this topic.
Stone Age Humans Chose Their Rocks with Care
Practical Gitlab RCE that involved end of line regex in ExifTools:

https://devcraft.io/2021/05/04/exiftool-arbitrary-code-execu...
You're thinking of Midjourney. Stable Diffusion is awesome, you can run it locally on consumer GPUs.
True, while it will certainly remove moisture from the air that would necessarily have fallen elsewhere, it's difficult to say whether or not it would cause measurable decreases in rainfall in places that would notice it. For example, we know that reforestation actually increases precipitation downwind, as trees draw water out of the Earth, which then evaporates out of their leaves. However, a nation that's seeding clouds isn't going to be doing it because they're trying to create rainforests, they'll be doing it because they want agriculture and clean drinking water, and it's unclear whether or not that can possibly give more than it takes from downwind neighbors.
You are describing the original meaning of "cultural appropriation", like when jazz and rock & roll were copied from Black American culture and sold.
> IMHO models trained on not-properly-licensed (pirated) data should at the very least not be copyrightable and should be public domain.

My understanding is that ML model weights cannot be copyrighted as an original creative work. They are trade-secrets and protected through contracts but once leaked to third parties it’s not a copyright violation to use/distribute.

Whether the model is actually a derivative work of the training data is another interesting question.

Or is my theory off here?
Luck controls the biggest swings in some cases, but diligent hard work covers for quite a bit of the small changes.

Some people are just really bad at diligent hard work and lack the self control needed. The question is how to handle that without causing other issues.
I doubt there’s any private flights over Ukraine too. Military planes generally don’t advertise their location in combat zones
Devin – Future Implications of AI Agents
What's going on in that part of western australia? It's a very empty area
We plan, but currently we are blocked by this issue: https://github.com/yugabyte/tpcc/issues/147
Thus, we consider either waiting for the improvement or trying running DBMSs in containers.
Yes, if you're willing to invest X years into becoming relevant on the AI/ML market, and you believe than in X years there will be still too few AI/ML specialists - then it's a great idea.
Posix getline() includes EOF as a line terminator:

getline() reads an entire line from stream, storing the address
of the buffer containing the text into *lineptr. The buffer is
null-terminated and includes the newline character, if one was
found.
...
... a delimiter character is not added if one was
not present in the input before end of file was reached.

EOF seems same as end-of-string.
Thank you. That is interesting!
I'm using something called "Sharpmind - Brain Formula" by Solaray. I don't have an hard-evidence that the ingredients are working against this particular issue, but I can say that it has made me feel a lot better/more present in my mind than I ever was post-infection. I have recommended it to a few others, one of which who has actually tried it and seems to feel similar to me about its effects.
The jamming over Kaliningrad affecting civil aviation has made the news recently, and the map does provide some interesting insights both how far the effect reaches into Poland and Sweden, and how often it is turned on and off.
Is this really a common practice outside of FutureMotion/OneWheel?
> Another notable spot is Kaliningrad, the Russian exclave. It looks relatively normal on some days, like today, but on others like yesterday it's solid red.

Oh yeah, I totally forgot that was a thing, and that explains that spur of red in the Baltic. I'd (probably incorrectly) assumed it was some kind of spillover from jamming in Ukraine.

I didn't realize you could look at it over multiple days. One interesting thing about that blob is the outline of red seems to always be there, in the same shape, but the middle is often green. Maybe that's some artifact of their agreement algorithm? More overflights around the edges than through?

It also looks like there's some jamming in Estonia? Or maybe that's just the edge of jamming around St Petersburg?
The birthday cake smell thing is right on, happened to me. I was transporting a hobby fighting robot and noticed the smell. When I took it out of the metal box I found a wire had broken and the 18650 battery was shorted.
Oh yes, the bill has all kinds of nice ideas in it.

But then there is reality. And reality is that there isn’t some giant labor pool of fab workers in the US — yet.

- President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law one year ago, and semiconductor companies across the U.S. have promised to spend $231 billion on building chip manufacturing hubs on American soil.

- Now, as the shovels hit the ground to begin construction, companies are realizing how difficult it is to find talent.

- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company said it had to delay production at its $40 billion Arizona plant due to a lack of workers in the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/us-chip-sector-talent-gap-em...
Disrupted by a whom? Microsoft? Facebook? The company formerly known as Twitter? Even if one of these takes over we'd just be trading masters.

And that's ignoring how Alphabet's core business, Search, has little to fear from GPT-3 or GPT-3.5. These models are decent for a chatbot, but for anything where you want reliably correct answers they are lacking.
If you are selling something, and no one is buying it, the value you have generated is zero. If you put something online and you did not bother to understand this material can potentially be used by a third-party on account of its loose licensing, then who's to blame?
Is there some official source for that? If so, is it just GPS or do other GNSS constellations get jammed too?
I mean if you had the pedigree these people have, the right move is to leave a big company and go start your own thing, there is simply a lot more upside there. You’d be foolish to stay with a big company, not sure what Google could have done here. Not everyone wants to be Jeff Dean.
A lot of us worked at FoundationDB, but this is a new company (Antithesis) which develops autonomous testing and debugging tools.
Time playing which is about 10 minutes per visitor and completion for each difficulty.
>I agree that RStudio isn't too awful, but the packaging management and reproducibility situation in R is dire, even compared to Python.

I've had exactly the opposite experience. For R, I download R and install it, and download Rstudio and install it. Then when I need a new package I just install.packages("coolnewpackage") and it just works (TM). Occasionally I get info messages about packages being built in newer versions of R, and once a year or so I eventually get around to looking up how to use the updateR() function, but in five years of doing biostats in R I can't remember a single time I had a dependency issue.

Python, on the other hand, is a nightmare. Conda makes life a lot easier, but it is not easy to learn if you are not a software engineer (remember, R was made not just by statisticians, but for them as well). For many projects, my Python flow was something like...

Try creating a new conda env with the packages I think I need. Try starting the project, oops I don't have spyder-kernels installed. Oh, and my environment isn't compatible with it. How about just running it in VScode? Well now I don't have my variable explorer. How about Jupyter? How do I get Jupyter to find my conda env again? Oh wait I need this other library it's only on conda-forge, and then the conda environment solver fails. I guess I'll start from scratch with a new conda env, and maybe after several trial-and-error sessions of carefully composing the correct "conda create -n ..." incantation in a text editor before copy-pasting them to the command line, I might get the environment I need up and running, after conda finishes its 10-minute compatibility search and downloads 80 GB of python libraries.

And using conda is the easy way of doing it! Don't even get me started on pip and venv...
See also Driff's Guide, which attempted to review the second-hand bookshops in the UK in the `80s and `90s. http://chethamslibrary.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-legend-of-dr...
Here is where an have a problem. The ground isn’t “pushing”. The ground is resisting my weight, and may even be compressed as a result.
The choice of cells as a fundamental unit is interesting, I guess it’s better than a color coded gradient map. But this will still suffer from centroid issues.
The big difference there is SpaceX was able to incrementally build up. Falcon 1, Falcon 9, Falcon heavy, Starship. Each step allowed them to prove that it worked and gain investors and government contracts.

Who in their right mind would invest $10b just to build the manufacturing capability without having a well established product? And if you have a well established product are you still a startup?
“The test accurately detected the abnormal alpha-synuclein protein in 93% of people who had already been diagnosed by their symptoms with Parkinson’s”
I think this is fair, and maybe “Obsidian-compatible” would be a better way to describe it.

With that said, there are a few key tools that are extremely similar conceptually, e.g. Logseq/Roam. Logseq in particular feels like “Opinionated Obsidian”. And this is where most of the tooling growth has been occurring through plugins.
The problem that this is the wrong measure to use emissions per mile, when it's really about emissions per trip.

A car flying down the freeway uses less emissions per mile, but if one is traveling 50 miles versus just walking to down the block the former is using a lot more emissions even if it is more efficient per mile.
Well I think it’s awesome to have the discussion and I certainly think the idea has merit… I just don’t think postulations should have the same weight as substantive research no matter how prestigious the journey it gets published in.

That’s really the core of my point.

You could very well be right on fire / ferment and whatnot. We have so very little substantive paleontological information to go off of.
> The entire AI industry is powered by piracy at a massive scale.

Forget about AI. Instead it is almost the entire art industry, wholesale!

The semi-professional online art commissioning market is almost entirely copyright infringing fan art works, being sold without permission of IP owner.

Yes, fan art is infringing. Especially when it is sold. And if you go to a convention center, to the artists section, you will see that over half of the booths are straight up selling other people's IP without permission.

This is the case for conventions, online art commissions, etsy/handmade items, all of it.

Its all illegal, all infringing, and the only reason why anyone cares now is because someone else can do the same thing that others have been doing for decades, but quicker and cheaper.
I am not sure about diamonds but I was involved recruiting software engineers in London City a few years ago using the best recruitment agencies they were back then on the market. Let me tell you, it was a disaster. I do not know whether this was specific to UK, industry or time period but it was a joke. I do not see a reason why broader pool of potential candidates is worse then geographically limited selection, if permanent working from home is on the table.
Maybe this community is more open to objective analysis of the articles that are shared, and no so much of passional arguments that benefit no one.
If you read the article, jamming is based on uncertainty of the aircraft, just because it's uncertain, doesn't mean that it's dangerous level of uncertainty
Cyberattacks are targeting US water systems, warns EPA and White House
Haha, I recall seeing a similar plot with a "suspicious discontinuity" when I looked up data on home appraisal price vs sale price. I remember asking the loan officer why the contract was forwarded to the appraiser before they did the appraisal, because that might bias their assessment. She gave me a funny look and replied "that's kind of the point."
.. because emulator developers are real?
Landlords (in the USA at least) are wildly subsidizing renters, because they're so hungry for the appreciation benefits.

You can test this anywhere the rental prices are below about 1% of the purchase price.
1. This doesn't seem relevant to the flat, decisive statement that water always wins.

2. Unless the water is represented by international court, it still doesn't count as a win for water.
Well it seems like we’ve hit Godwin’s law already, so this is probably a good point to stop.
I've been looking forward to this ever since they announced it. Previously they used Skia and their entire app is (and rendering output was) built with Flutter. Now Flutter has a new rendering engine via Impeller which is more optimized than Skia for Flutter specific challenges.

When I asked the Impeller team before what they thought of the Rive renderer, they said that it is great for vector graphics but Impeller needs to also deal with all of the UI related rendering challenges like displaying text properly, so they're not a one to one comparison. Hopefully with this renderer being open source now, both teams can learn from each other.
What tools/methods have you found that help with aphantasia?
Hasn't this been happening ever since GitHub opened?
>I'm lead to believe that a significant portion of those "active voters" are influenced/pay attention to/care about the media.

By that definition, I am not one of them.
Exactly. It’s kind of frustrating because I’d love to read an article that attempts to make it work. There’s a need for more advanced exploration than poking it with a stick and then talking about how poking it with a stick doesn’t work, but almost all articles seem to follow the format.
There is unrest in the forest.
Yeah, if every part of human body is accelerated equally, there's no way to feel anything (you could see it). No matter how hard you get hit or thrown around, you can't measure it internally. Each cell can only feel their neighbors, and there's no internal stress / force between cells.
I switched to using Google as soon as I saw it in the late '90s, because of much more relevant hits ranked at/near top.

Maybe AltaVista improved after that, which could explain how the parent commenter could go back to it.
By 2004, a former KGB spook was in power long enough to introduce a falsification system.

The 1990s were worse economically in Russia, but Yeltsin was a relatively liberal politician and possibly didn't want to falsify elections.
Likely compatibility bugs going back decades (70s?). Probably with some terminal/teletype.

\r - returned teletype head to the start of a line

\n - move paper one line down

> The sequence CR+LF was commonly used on many early computer systems that had adopted Teletype machines—typically a Teletype Model 33 ASR—as a console device, because this sequence was required to position those printers at the start of a new line. The separation of newline into two functions concealed the fact that the print head could not return from the far right to the beginning of the next line in time to print the next character. Any character printed after a CR would often print as a smudge in the middle of the page while the print head was still moving the carriage back to the first position. "The solution was to make the newline two characters: CR to move the carriage to column one, and LF to move the paper up."[2] In fact, it was often necessary to send extra padding characters—extraneous CRs or NULs—which are ignored but give the print head time to move to the left margin. Many early video displays also required multiple character times to scroll the display.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline
>nor that most people drive to work

That's probably true in Boston as well. But that's because, if you work 45 minutes out of Boston--of which there are many companies along the Route 128 or 495 corridors--you probably don't live in Boston unless you're a die-hard urbanite willing to put in a long commute to your suburban job. (To be fair, a lot of the west coast companies that established Boston outposts are in town and local suburban companies increasingly have options for people to work in a city office (or remotely) if they want to.)
There’s literally no way I could migrate my NAS other than through an in-place FS conversion since it’s >>50% full.

The same probably applies to may consumer devices.
Per capita car ownership in The Netherlands is comparable to nearby countries:

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

Not taking a side, I agree with you that trying to use a car in any of the larger Dutch cities would be crazy. But car ownership has sadly been on the rise recently.
Math Handwriting API
Thats beyond ridiculous. Most languages when you are reading a line from a file, and it doesn't have a \n terminator, its going to give you that line, not say, oops, this isn't a line sorry.
It looks like, as far as I can tell, VS Code doesn't support the interactive window for working in R, which was a bit of a surprise to me when i looked it up.

The python interactive window has pretty much fully replaced my use of jupyter, since it gives you notebook-style output without the annoyance of the notebook format. My usual workflow is highlighting lines of code and shift-enter to execute (there's also a cells syntax).

I'm surprised by this because it _is_ possible to use R in Jupyter (although I never really liked the experience, R Studio was far superior).
hole = no measurement
Pat Gelsinger only returned 3 years ago, it just takes a while for changes to propagate through an org as large as Intel.
> What's going on in that part of western australia? It's a very empty area

You answered your own question. Put 2+2 together.

Hint... https://www.flightradar24.com/apply-for-receiver/
I can easily fit a Costco run on my e cargo bike.
Who would the competition be between?
MailStore Home[1] is a free email archiving program.

- It has indexed (read: fast) search + basic reader/browser.

- Portable version so you can just copy to USB and share with anyone.

- Successfully downloaded 10+ GB of Gmail. (190,000+ emails.)

- The one caveat is the restore/upload isn't very good. It is very slow, and I never got it to succeed. (No resume; must start all over on error.)

So for email backup/transfer, I switched to GYB (which can resume and successfully restored/transferred nearly all of the emails): https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back

[1]: https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/
Indeed. These organisms are thriving in their niche.
And I likewise respect your right to hold that opinion.

Unfortunately for the media, they wasted far too much of my time and good will to ever have my respect or sympathy ever again. If they are collapsing, that is a good thing and I want more.
A lot more people used to farm as a percentage of the population. Even in the last century, especially in communist countries where pay was low.
Small subsistence farmers were much more common. You might own a small plot, and some pigs, cows an even a horse. Or if really poor work on someone else's land. Just being around animals exposes you to many more dangers, like getting kicked or even infections from cleaning waste.
My service workers have service workers who go to the market FOR them!

Wait, that's actually what we have now.
Nailed it on finding the relevant statistic that’s representative of the actual situation
This is a case where nominally, with a solid understanding of geopolitical events, maybe it's not interesting on average. BUT, all of a sudden something might pop up one day. The accessible, "crowdsourced" data is helpful to have in those cases.
A small area between Estonia and Finland likewise.
They should consider selling flounder
> Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need three things: immediate aid to struggling journalists, public subsidies to smaller news outlets, and eventually industry transformation into a publicly funded system.

People don't seem to want what we're selling. So the government should tax them, then give us the money to continue providing what they've demonstrated they don't want. Did I get that right?
In my experience this kind of mass exodus is more associated with failures in leadership/management than an inevitable result of success. For example, OpenAI has been far more successful than Stability and its senior employees obviously have lots of options, but its staff turnover ratio feels much smaller than Stability's.
This short-termism seems like it's been America's chief problem through the centuries.

"We need slavery - our economy will fall apart without it!"

"We need Standard Oil and US Steel - splitting them apart would be a catastrophe!"

"We need universal healthcare - a public option would place undue burden on insurance companies!"

"We need Boeing - our foreign competitors would eat us up otherwise!"

At some point, it's time to admit that the long-term pain is not worth the short-term benefits we get from naive economic policies.