skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Screen time correlates with:

• Average milk produced per cow in the US: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/correlation/6254_global-...

• Visitors to Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/correlation/10880_global...

• Popularity of the first name Graham: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/correlation/13927_popula...

Even if there was an actual correlation with aphantasia and not just a case of "we weren't looking before", there's a lot of non-causal correlations in this world.
It seems the Mediterranean diet may provide some protection... https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=%E2%80%9CMediterranean+diet...
Also this site contains lots of searchable research papers...
https://www.greenmedinfo.com/research-dashboard
I'd go even so far as to say that the Jedi were institutionally unequipped to deal with Anakin. They tried to have it both ways by keeping him around to prevent him from turning to the dark side and stunted him to prevent him from becoming too powerful while also failing to provide him with an environment to deal with his emotions other than appealing to stoicism and abstinence. Their obsession with dogma over people is what ultimately led to Luke destroying the ancient Jedi texts in the sequel trilogy after similarly failing his own nephew.
Sure but unless you're Tesla, welding quality is more relevant to your bottom line than coffee making quality (yes, I'm aware there's more to being a good barista than just making the coffee).
What you wrote sounds a bit like "As a minor I have lived in asbestos building and I can assure you I was not harmed". How do you know?

As far as I know, there are many scientific studies that disprove what you've said - and that porn has, in fact, a harmful effect on young minds. Of course there are many other harmful things that we nevertheless accept, like alcohol, cars or cigarettes. So maybe we can, as a society, decide that letting kid watch porn is OK and not worth the alternative (privacy intruding regulations). But arguing that it's not harmful at all is not, I believe, scientifically justified.
To downvote HN comments that reveal the truth.

/s
Or the Court of Appeal's take. I was surprised that defendant's counsel didn't say commit to appealing the decision. I would think that a novel issue like this would be the perfect one to take up on appeal. Perhaps the issue is that the 9th Circuit is not as likely to reverse this decision, and the cost (in legal fees) of getting to the Supreme Court is relatively high in comparison to the penalties assessed.
As someone who rides an unmodified bike, I hear the transmission more than the exhaust, which is more high-pitched. I can understand wanting better acoustics. But really annoyingly loud bothers me too and I never hear bikes in my car until they're past me.
I was once prevented from advancing through security by a TSA agent due to the first name on my ticket not completely matching my legal first name on my id, even though it was obviously a derivation of my legal name.
Or: “Weaponized campus police drone used lethal force to stop the mass shooter drone.\n This is the second time in this week when...”
> People will watch lower quality video with good sound for far longer than they will watch good video with bad sound.

Very true. I can stand bad/pixelated videos but crackling/distorted/unnormalized audio drives me crazy. Still many twitch channels seems not to know, or bother...
Why, because you think the surveillance implies that it’s nonconsensual and thus unethical, or the very small scale (<100k clients) means this isn’t actually a very difficult engineering challenge?
I went to reply, and then see you’ve linked me already :) thanks for the kind words.

Check out gg as a graphical interface. It’s still very young, but it might be of help!
Possibly from here?

* The Science of Scientific Writing (1990) by George Gopen and Judith Swan: https://web.archive.org/web/20240120063715/https://www.ameri...

They say:

> In our experience, the misplacement of old and new information turns out to be the No. 1 problem in American professional writing today. […] Put in the topic position [the beginning of the sentence] the old information that links backward; put in the stress position [the end of the sentence] the new information you want the reader to emphasize.

It's a useful article, that I also mentioned in this answer: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/85286/why-do-re... — see also this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLPCdDp_LE0 of Judy Swan, one of the co-authors (the accompanying handout is https://web.archive.org/web/20170331212200/https://www.cmu.e...).
Wouldn't said trampoline simply not be covered by the policy since you lied about it? The agents are checking a box and the underwriter is sticking in a boilerplate "Customer said no trampoline therefore trampolines are excluded from this policy" text
The last time I watched their keynote and deep dives, at least from ml point of view they do a lot right
Inflation feels like it is about 2% here, but I think they’ve reached a ridiculous cap on things where I live. I can imagine different parts of the country (and world) getting hit differently depending on how badly they’ve already been hit.
Students are using AI to write their essays. Teachers are using AI to grade their essays.

Engineers are using AI to write code. Other engineers are using AI to review that code.

Same thing will happen in many other areas of life.
I don't represent any view point on the law just telling you how it is. There's always multiple competing priorities. Ultimately not a politician so it doesn't really matter what I think.

If we're talking morality I don't see how it's moral to ask the law to protect you from being found out doing the wrong thing. If these people don't pay their fair share the rest of us have to pay more.

What if a law change prevents the government from enforcing environmental legislation from illegal land clearing or dumping? What if a farmer illegally diverts more water than they are allowed to from a river or with a well? It's not just about you and me but the whole country.

On robodebt:
that has nothing to do with privacy, tax records aren't private from the government? That's just bad tax enforcement.
Don't align them perfectly but leave a gap between track and barrier for people go around in imperfect situations.

Or have multiple doors for each train type. Or entire section moves depending on train type (i.e. ranch slider doors that open from both sides).
If you study linear control theory and you can characterize the dynamics of the system you're trying to control, you can just solve the differential equations analytically with a Laplace transform* and write down the proper values of the coefficients instead of searching for them.

*or Z transform if the system is discrete

Furthermore, the equations will tell you whether you even need the "I" and "D" parts of PID.
You can't break windows if there are no windows to break. It sounds like a joke but actually environment does affect crime rate and types of crime. Here's one such document that talks about it: https://www.huduser.gov/periodicals/cityscpe/vol2num1/notes....
Also, while I essentially never had a use for the 2 years of spanish I took in high school, it really made my english writing better. Learning spanish made me learn more about the structure of sentences (how to talk about direct/indirect objects, etc.) and learn more latin roots that I never would have consciously been exposed to, which is very useful to me now in the context of figuring out what people are saying when hearing/reading other european languages. It made my grades in english classes go up since my writing was more formally correct and comprehensible. The knowledge transfer felt the same as it does when applying skills learned in the context of one programming language to another programming language.
https://UpVPN.app for couple of minutes of VPN
Minimising noise and dust from tracks by isolating those environments would be glorious
Though, circumvention of these things isn’t always even that involved, depending on the competency of IT.

At the religious private high school I attended, all it took to make a student a “hacker” was popping open Internet Options on the computer lab’s XP boxes and disabling the proxy they were using. Had to sneakily do this sometimes not to view blocked stuff, but to just have a working internet connection to complete assignments with because the proxy service was provided by some terribly run local company that must’ve been three Staples special Celeron Compaq Presarios and a Linksys router in a shack somewhere, because they were constantly having outages.
While it feels dirty, I blame companies more than PCI.

Just like the failures of traditional Enterprise Architecture, the Prescriptivist, universal top down method eats lots of resources without delivering much value to the company.

While governance and policy are important, most are written to CYA more than to solve the initial problems.

As an example, as a consultant I once found a serious vulnerability with a serialization library on a very large companies stack.

Because it wasn't web facing, it couldn't be prioritized as policy didn't allow increasing its weight.

They were compromised a few quarters later... but it was their policy that they wrote that caused that.

Almost universally, restrictions and barriers have almost nothing to do with PCI requirements, but due to how the company implemented it.

A lot of that is due to the consulting and certification industrial complex and the focus on productized offerings. Just as chatGPT is intentionally verbose because it appears more authoritative, companies adopt governance that is way more detailed than appropriate.

Obviously any compliance will have some detailed and firm requirements, but the core concepts are replaced with blindly implemented checklists when values and principles are what should drive most decisions in specific systems.

The requirements to be PCI compliant often follow that concept far more closely than what companies actually adopt.

PCI DSS isn't that far off from generic best practices, optimization for superficial Self-assessment questionnaires and audits that we know don't catch much over those best practices is the problem.
I am native from a non-English speaking country. Went to a bilingual school, picked English with A-levels and the works.

Picked French at 15, but really got serious in my early 20s. It has allowed me to re-read a lot of my favourites (Dumas, Verne, Flaubert) in their original language. Also a lot of what I consider cornerstone of modern society in their original versions (Zola, Le Bon).

Had to pick up Portuguese on the job at 25, my previous experience learning languages made it fairly easy to do.

I discovered new songs, movies, plays, and authors with each new language.

Now I speak 4 languages, and I want to get to a fifth in the next decade (some Chinese, Arabic or German).At least to me it has opened my professional and intellectual viewport. It has made me better at abstraction, and while travelling across wide parts of the world, I never feel too disconnected (Americas, large parts of Europe, Africa and Oceania feel very accesible to me.)

I can see how if English is your native tongue the value of learning other languages might seem marginal, but for the rest of the world being at least bilingual is a necessity.
> Autonomous robots with cameras and guns

Soon on 0days market price list:

- Root access at google.com: $200.000

- Data access to any Ring video doorbell cameras: $150.000

- Full control of gun equipped robots at schools: $50.000

Prices pulled out of you know where, but you get the point.
It depends on the policy, but either way, this is the kind of risk we're talking about managing with culls: trampolines, and bad roofs. I pay to keep my house up. You (say) don't. Why should I be OK with subsidizing your resulting claims with higher rates?

I think there's a sort of weird subtext in the "risk pooling" discussions on this thread that "risk pooling" is a way for people who don't replace their old roofs to get protection from the people who do. But that's not at all the concept! You refusing you repair your roof isn't an act of god; it's just recklessness.
Haha, probably should have worded my previous post better; karma taking a pounding due to that, I think.

I meant in reference to Crosstab query, not the databases themselves.
Email is needlessly padded out by an AI writing assistant. Recipient uses AI to generate the tl;dr version.
this is basically that family guy episode where Quagmire tries to get out of his marriage to a hooker.
I would even say that room treatment is a lot more valuable to a starting podcast. Sure don’t have the cheapest, shittiest mic but especially starting our room treatment grants a lot more value.

Of course, you could record in your closet ;)
Personally I'm hoping nvidia will release a new nvidia shield androidtv box soon with support for VRR, as my AV receiver and the FO48U support VRR without any issues. That'd allow perfectly smooth watching experience for all content, which would be awesome.
Yeah, usage is important. Most people don't need Spanish. It makes you fit to work in low class blue collar jobs. You should spend your time on extracurriculars, or anything else.

Of course, if you're interested in a foreign language, for any reason, I wouldn't discourage you from learning it. I just would not make it a required part of a curriculum.
Interesting story but cannot pass the first page.
Exactly. You can much easier make TikToks and such if you already have the video
You can't spell "Gell-Mann amnesia" without LLM
it doesn’t help all governments sponsor and partake in the 0-day trade which undermines efforts of their citizens private sector blue teams. In addition to paying ethical hackers sometimes 1-2% of what they pay 0-day brokers for the same vulnerability.

It’s definitely broken, and as long as the same entities demanding “improved cybersecurity” from its citizens also continue to undermine their efforts nothing will change.

It’s to wrapped up in the military industrial complex, no one’s trying to fix and stop wars when there’s money to be made.
Interesting. Good, useful

What do you think about the direction medical mo ignoring is going g? Data collection, enshitification etcetera.

Is it a beat up?

Are we correct to be worried?
So much discussion for nothing. Just turn the knob and see which way turns on the compressor.
How well do subpoenas work across international borders, especially when the charge isn't illegal in the recieving jurisdiction?

(asking for a friend, obvs)
Can't even borrow someone laptop anymore... The UI is different...

I doubt that UIs are going to be tailored to every and each person.
Maybe it's also a generational thing. In the 90s, I remember running my own squid proxy on a remote shared box somewhere, in order to circumvent "things."

Granted, today, if it was just getting around general network restrictions via blacklist, then tethering is very convenient.
That’s basically what the SPS says they are doing, by embedding gifted programs in every classroom rather than separating gifted kids out into different classrooms. We will see how it works, but I don’t see how one teacher is going to handle gifted, normal, and special needs kids all at the same time. It sounds futile to me, but we will see. My kid is just 7 in a north Seattle public K-8, and I’m not sure where he is going to be on that spectrum yet, I’ll re-evaluate around 6th grade to see if I have to put him into private school or not.
> doing more communication asynchronously is good

> [...]

> we got rid of slack

Seems like the opposite of what you wanted? There's nothing more realtime about Slack than email, and it offers a better interface.
Nuclear is by far the cheapest large scale generation option if you factor in the cost in dollars and human lives for the nasty byproducts of fossil fuel based energy. And nuclear waste is somewhere between a solved problem and non-issue despite lots of propaganda saying otherwise.

Millions of people die a year from fossil fuel burning. Effectively zero for nuclear.
> population density are hard to compare

Gaul and Germany were way past their Roman peaks by that point. Probably most of the Western Empire besides Italy.
That's more of an argument for Latin.
It’s an issue of scale. Similar to police tracking phones. Police have always been able to assign an officer to follow a suspect, but it’s expensive and therefore rarely done.

If insurance companies can cheaply inspect everyone’s house from space, the end result will be to lower prices for people with homes in perfect condition and raise them for everyone else.

This is potentially problematic because the people with houses in poor condition are the least able to afford added costs in general.
The next trick is getting people to turn them off in half the time.
> but software doesn’t necessarily.

Is this true? I mean the delay may be inconsiderable but there is a delay, right?
Halfway decent phone and then some lighting and you should be good to go. It won’t look amazing but it also shouldn’t hold your content back
The derivation I use of my first name is obvious in some countries and completely unknown in others.

Like how a random Asian security person at an airport might not guess that Dick Wolf is Richard Wolf.
Quite literally, what are you talking about? There were no "multiple insurance companies", there was a single insurance company that dropped the policy holder quoted in the article.

Besides, the article quotes from insurance company agents that directly refutes what you are saying: "Brink, who worked for Farmers in Michigan, said some customers were dropped based on aerial images that were two or three years old. One person wasn’t renewed because of a roof, despite its being brand new."

Full stop. (I just like how people think that adding "full stop" to their comments somehow makes their position unassailable or something...)
No NFC payments with Google wallet.

You can get unlucky with your bank app but someone maintains a wiki of compatible banking apps

Android auto works OK.
> Namecheap has always been a 100% privately owned boot strapped company. Growth is good with 330 million in revenue last year and 15% yoy growth.

They're doing pretty well. Reminds me of Linode.
A legal question here: are we allowed to shoot down a drone that snoops over our house?
I found it very interesting. I had this funny thought that just like CAPTCHA, may be soon we will have to ask humans to give their input on fact verification systems at scale.
Why is it not a good thing if insurance is more accurately priced? Insurance isn't a redistribution mechanism. And dilapidated roofs aren't a social good. Municipalities have actual redistribution schemes to make these kinds of repairs.

I'll note that there's nothing at all redistributive about sneaking a trampoline onto your property, too.

Further, I'll note that working class people also take pride in their houses and pay to keep them up, and they too are being asked to subsidize people who are getting rate breaks from false assessments.

Later

My municipality will make an interest-free loan of up to $25,000 to cover the kinds of property repairs we're discussing, if you're income-qualified (ie: not too rich to just pay to replace your own roof).
It's also nonsense.

If those were your requirements, why on earth are you using Aurora?

Aurora is a multi-region, failover protected, backup managed service.

This isn't. It would have been cheaper and quicker to install an OpenSource logging DB on an EC2. Like Elastic.
I'll add to that my own Visual Studio extension that improves runtime debugging by showing you which lines are actively executing and what changes happened line-by-line: https://d-0.dev It integrates with the VS debugger completely and does not require any changes to one's codebase.
It's also available on the marketplace if you want to try it out: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donadigo...
"You have 20 seconds to comply...."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzlt7IbTp6M
It likely depends upon the type of crime you are trying to prevent. If you are trying to prevent crimes where the perpetrator assumes there will be no witnesses, then I can see how surveilance could[1] be effective. If you are talking about a mass shooting, a crime where the perpetrator must assume there will be witness and they will be caught (short of suicide, which seems to be common in these scenarios, then it is hard to see how surveilance will be effective.

[1] I say could because it probably involves the mental state of the person commiting the crime.
Slightly cheaper but also very similar to the EV-10 would be a second hand Sony a6000/a6300.
Only the DNS lookups. Not the content of what you’re viewing over https. Everything after domain name is encrypted
Namecheap a terrible name that sounds like a scam company.
London taxi drivers that need to remember approximately 35 thousands streets and their more or less recent state, have two changes in their brains: they have a dedicated brain area that helps with navigation and their hippocampus is bigger and more dense than hippocampus of regular people of their age and comparable lifestyle.

Hippocampus is the brain's system to transfer knowledge from short term memory to long term memory.

If you do not have enough physical activity, it shrinks with age.

In other words, London taxi drivers are slightly more young brain-wise than people of their age.

Trying to have your memory fresh and live is good for your health.
What benefit would a self-updating mechanism provide?
Why wireless? There are a lot of good wired USB mics that are generally better sounding since the tradeoffs aren’t so severe as in wireless and less hassle.
May be it is good. But sound bad. Got a lot of these in Hong Kong and you wonder, can the judge be biased in these.
I wonder if airlines are no worse than any other organization at dealing with human names, but they're exposed to many more edge cases than the average company, since they're in the business of enabling rapid travel between continents.
That's not even haha, that's like 6/10 likely.
Isn't insurance entirely a redistribution mechanism?
Also the one they do own (“chile crunch”) was ironically acquired as a result of their own infringement

> Momofuku acquired “chile crunch” in 2023 from the Denver company Chile Colonial, LLC as part of a legal settlement. Chile Colonial had taken legal action against Momofuku for “trademark infringement, unfair competition”, according to court documents.
Respectfully:

1. I think censorship laws are abhorrent

2. It can be very difficult to tell what effect media has on you, and just because you do not (say) find yourself traumatised or find that your perceptions have been overtly altered does not mean you have not been negatively affected. And you will certainly never be unaffected by anything you experience or do. This is something that I've become more sensitive to and aware of as I've gotten older. And further, it is only through this sensitivity and awareness, and acceptance of the fact that I cannot just decide by fiat how things will affect me, that I have gained some measure of control.
You need to upload your time series (loss, performance metrics) to the cloud. Not your weights or models.

Reliance on cloud services is a legitimate worry though for privacy, IP, process control, reliability, etc.

The comparison between Optuna and WandB was not apples to apples. Optuna is completely self-hosted and local. It also focuses on hyperopt narrowly with flexible design unlike WandB that now assumes to be capture a large part of cloud-based MLOPS workflow.

It would be more fair to compare Optuna to Hyperopt. And I think Optuna was the better choice there, but I did simple PoCing and have no strong opinions.