skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Module#prepend was introduced in Ruby 2.0, in 2013, which was the solution to monkey patching.
I thought the Bad Apple font was really neat, but this is just too much.
And why did Trump beat Clinton, who outspent him 2:1? Why is Trump running even with Biden, despite Biden having a huge fundraising advantage? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/briefing/biden-campaign-m...

Most campaign funds are spent on ads, and ads don’t really persuade voters. When was the last time a political ad even registered to you? I think campaigns spend a lot of money for the same reason we spend lots of money on interventions at the end of life. It’s more a psychological thing because the stakes are high than the money actually having a major impact on the outcome.
QuickTime VR
I don't know where I read this, but ISTR that one of the motivations of the (failed) JTRS military radio consolidation project was that US infantry were carrying around insane amounts of weight, partly in batteries for various radios.

Can't find a reference now - maybe someone here knows.

I knew that the JTRS project wasn't going to work when they decided that the best way to make portable SDR was to use - drumroll - CORBA.
(they should have asked for something broadly like vulkan or perhaps CUDA. CORBA doesn't solve a relevant problem)
You got it, same seed in practice, but also just temperature = 0 for the demo actually. A few things I considered adding for the fun of it were 1) a way to specify a seed in the input text, 2) a way to using a symbol to say "I didn't like that token, try to generate another one", so you could do, say, "!" to generate tokens, "?" to replace the last generated token. So you would end up typing things like

"Once upon a time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SEED42!!!!!??!!!??!"

and 3) actually just allow you to override the suggestions by typing what letters on your own, to be used in future inferences. At that point it'd be a fairly generic auto-complete kind of thing.
The problem is that the current enforcement by an "independent" (bipartisan, and in this case balanced) commission enables partisans of either party to block enforcement, traditional executive enforcement would raise the possibility of enforcement becoming (if nothing else, by negative action) biased for the current executive.

Maybe you could open up private litigation to enforce it, which reduces the bias problem to the bias of the courts and the usual problems of bias for resources to litigate, which might seem the minimally dysfunctional approach if it wasn't for the Supreme Court being in the middle of a brazen corruption crisis of its own.

This is an area which has a very big quis custodiet ipsos custodes problem, "just enforce the rules" as a solution kind of just skips over the fundamental challenge.
After gum on the street, there's gum on the street
“Hot today, I could go for a cold drink. OH NO!”
5 star safety rating only matters inasmuch as it impacts insurance costs. And pedestrian risk should already be priced into insurance costs, independent of whether it’s in the safety rating tests.

If they change the standards and a truck doesn’t get a five star rating, the manufacturer will just not mention the safety rating in their marketing materials, and astroturf online forums with opinions undermining the value of the safety rating (‘they changed it specifically to mark down trucks’; ‘it doesn’t test the safety conditions that really matter anyway’; etc… heck you already see people raise these talking points about NCAP) so customers can rationalize themselves into ignoring that the truck they want to buy only scored 3.5 stars.
Then delve deeply into this instead :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Monroe
Most people who live in Boston use the reloadable CharlieCard (https://www.mbta.com/fares/charliecard) - these report as Mifare Classic 1k, which is a similar chip

There are single-use fares as well, the "CharlieTicket" that you might've encountered.

More CharlieCard NFC info:

https://medium.com/@bobbyrsec/operation-charlie-hacking-the-...

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2031/DEF%20CON%2031%20pre...
The origin and function of external representations
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-llumS2rA8I by @not_David
I don't think this is controversial but I think HGVs should obey traffic laws
Lessons from building an AI feature that works – chunking and summarization
I thought it’s feature. Org mode file can be used as a runable document. You have paragraphs of text and then a section containing executable code.
Correct, it isn’t AI. It is however massively overrated, has questionable contract practices, and is a false alert generator… for over 30 years.
Old Growth forests are already thin.

The tree density is large because they are all thin and likely to burn.
Pre-chewed, perhaps.
Here's a one-liner to generate the list of single 8-letter hexable words from the dictionary. It doesn't include 0xcafebabe or 0xdeadbeef due to those being 2-word phrases. Of course, you can change the 8 to a 4 to make the list of 4-letter words, or change the 8 to an asterisk, so you can pick your own word combos.

< /usr/share/dict/words perl -lne 'print "$_ 0x",tr/ilzstgo/1125790/r if m/^[abcdefilzsbtgo]{8}$/ && !(m/i/ && m/l/)' | column
This is while pretty much all software that extracts structured data from PDFs throws away the text and just OCRs the page. Too many tricks with layouts and fonts.
> of no real criminality

Just be sure not to let the true Scotsmen migrate!

> a global agreement for countries to not interfere, directly or covertly, in the matters of other countries

Such as interfering with their CO2 emissions?
ShotSpotter is a hot mess. Their data can't be trusted if they collude with police to alter their data after the fact to cover for police misconduct.
Old growth trees are the best, tightest grain, toughest wood, they’ve stood the test of time. These are most desirable and we should take advantage of them, but for useful purposes , not firewood or chipwood or other crappy “products”.

We need a real sustainability plan which reuses that land for trees again, but not garage fast growing genetically similar trees. We need to promote genetic diversity
> Did they know that a higher salary was a possibility?

I certainly can't read minds, but I find it hard to believe that someone – especially someone who realized they could ask for higher tip options – would not realize that they could also ask for a higher salary. You have to be pretty savvy to make it as a server. I would be surprised if any of them were that out to lunch, but I don't have concrete data to go on.

I get higher salary requests too – and usually have to fulfill them, you don't have a business without staff – but that isn't the instance I was talking about. This doesn't really have any relevance to the topic at hand.

After all, if you are the server, you're going to want the highest tips you can get even if you also have a higher salary. Why wouldn't you? Let's be real. They are not doing the job of a server just for fun, they are there to maximize profit.

> Would you be able to give raises comparable in earnings to what they would make from higher "recommended" tips?

I wouldn't have much choice if that is what they wanted. You don't have a business without staff. I guess what you are asking is if it would bankrupt me? Who knows? There are too many hidden variables to even start to guess. I mean, you have to be pretty savvy to make it as a server. We all understand that there is some tipping point where bankruptcy becomes inevitable, so servers wouldn't push for a million dollars a year or something. But assuming you mean within reason.

> As a reminder, the original article concerned people selling "coffee or a muffin", and not "table service at restaurants". Where do your employees fall on the spectrum?

A segment of the staff would fit into that end of the spectrum. Unfortunately, the awful state of software in the industry means that variable tipping options wasn't a technical choice (absent of running two entirely separate system). As such, they got pushed into the same rates the other restaurant staff whether they liked it or not. I didn't hear any complaints, though. If they start asking for lower tipping rates, I might have to find a workaround for the technical limitations. But so far it hasn't come up (and I will be completely shocked if it ever does).
What GP is implying is using the high signal to noise ratio evidence to give you a better way to screen the low signal to noise ration evidence and check for extra information. Not using the former to 'validate' the latter.
The vehicle purchaser’s child will be safely in their third row seat watching the inbuilt Netflix on their personal entertainment display so why should they care?
I'm amused by the PETA suit to get courts to assign copyright to the monkey that took the picture. I'm also confused by the copyright status of the image. I read the wikipedia article twice, and I still don't know who owns the valuable Intellectual Property of the monkey selfie.
Sometimes I feel we live in a simulation in a real world a few levels down with universal income or something like that. They got bored so had to forget their existence by creating a simulation (or nested simulations).
Yes, that’s what I’m asking.

Dropping things shouldn’t be illegal. Negligence that causes harm should be.

Someone lowering a hat down on a string seems perfectly fine. Throwing a chair out a window seems bad. I think the details would affect whether someone is illegal, not just a blanket “thou shall not throw things out the window.”

There’s already laws about littering and assault, so I don’t think that would matter how many floors up we are.

Why ask boring questions?
I would like a comprehensive analysis of FeliCa.
I think that's a poor example because bridges wear out and need to be maintained. There are a number of Youtubers devoted to disasters (One is "Plainly Difficult") and bridge failures are a large component of their examples.
It was only seven years ago that Google introduced “Transformers,” and today we see a completely different level of LLMs. Do you think this development will stop? Maybe it won’t be LLMs alone that do reasoning better than humans, but five years ago, nobody expected that we would have today’s performance.
What’s funny is beer drinking straight guys are the epitome of virtue signaling.
I Failed to Implement Dbt in My Previous Job
Apparently there was a big scare that AI would take programmers' jobs away... decades ago, when the first compilers came out.
Steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AI
Huh, I actually want this when I'm at the cinema, for immersion. Just not when I'm watching a movie at home at 11pm.
This is part of the challenge, as I want a pleasant experience. Not a terminal one.
Microsoft Recall is everything I wished a browser would have. That would replace a bookmark. I could search the information within Recall.

Unfortunately I dont see there is any money or market for a feature like this. Hence there is no incentive for anything like it to be developed.
Sure. Ammonia was used to power buses during the WWII, diesels can burn pretty much anything that burns (within reason). It's not a problem of technical feasibility.

Ammonia fueling infrastructure does not exist, and its failure scenarios are just not going to be acceptable. Meanwhile, LNG fueling infrastructure is rapidly getting built out.

What's worse, ammonia is also produced from natural gas, it's used for process heat and as a hydrogen source. There's pretty much no "green ammonia". So instead of round-tripping through ammonia production, it's easier to just burn the LNG directly.

In future, we can switch to green ammonia, but then we also can use power-to-gas or power-to-methanol instead. Both are more efficient than ammonia synthesis.

Methanol production, in particular, can potentially scale down to very small facilities. In theory, large utility-scale solar or wind farms can have a methanol synthesizer unit, that will produce it when there's more electricity when needed. It can then be transported by regular tanker trucks.
Yeah I'm not sure this report says much. They recommend the NYPD look into it more, but it could realistically be a good investment of resources. Some rough math:

(32*7262)/60/8/365 = 1.3 officers a year are wasted. There are like 30k officers in NYC. This seems like it could be a worthwhile investment even with only 13% true positives.
https://soldered.com/product/inkplate-10-9-7-e-paper-board-c...
You can do that with this.
For a slight additional fee.
Yeah, sorry, that could have been clearer, I added a few more instructions. Basically, chances are that even if you've got Harfbuzz running, you're still running a version with no Wasm runtime. If so, chances are you can get away with building it with Wasm support, then add the built library to LD_PRELOAD before running the editor.
A New Way to Hire Great Faculty
I think this chip is implemented with a state machine rather than a processor, so it's meaningless to compare their processing power. The Apollo Guidance Computer had about 17,000 transistors, while I estimate that the NFC chip has about 45,000 transistors. So the NFC chip has more complexity, but the same order of magnitude.
Yeah I figured but you can't buy a charliecard online to load into your smartphone wallet, and I only needed it the once, and since it took more than an hour to get to Cambridge due to some combination of circus acts I used Blue bikes for the remainder of the day.
YC and 140 AI startups sign a letter opposing California's AI safety bill [pdf]
The dangers of sneezing – from ejected bowels to torn windpipes
It is a creativity test, but doesn't how you get there matter? From what I understand, aphantasiacs think in words, verbalized concepts, remembered facts, relationships, etc. So I'd expect that to make a visual analogy they'd have to first think through the properties of the thing -- "OK, I know this building is white, triangular, curved, near the water..." -- and then come up with other things those attributes describe. But I can just "see" the shape and color of the building in my mind's eye, and mentally make it be something similar, without any internal monologue at all. Actually, if you just gave me a written description of these traits, I'd have a harder time coming up with examples because they're just abstract properties without any specific image to anchor them to -- I could do it, but I'd have to think about it some. But doing the same exercise with a mental image feels much easier.
The diameter of a neuron's axon is about 1 μm, this is getting close to biological levels of miniaturization.
US's president elections are effectively decided by 10k delegates in two parties during primaries, population chooses from two options they are given. It is better than in China(which has one party), but is it really by far better?
Wrong. Apple officially provides:

* linux, windows and wasm compilation targets. They hired the maintainer of wasm project as well.
* LSP language server for Swift, to power VSCode and others editors, even though, they use Xcode that doesn't need it
* well tested server side libraries similar to netty/jetty (they even have a former Akka developer)
In regards to the authors complaint about ERB vs Blade I’ve had the same thoughts and have been absolutely delighted by the third party Phlex view system for rails: https://www.phlex.fun/
Central African Empire (1976-1979)
People should know that electoral-vote.com is not just an election science blog at this point; Andrew and his co-writer Christopher Bates publish a very cogent summary each morning of the previous day's political news and its possible effects on US politics. You could read only their dispassionate but witty daily posts and be a reasonably well informed American citizen.
Here in Calgary, you don't need a membership for the food court, pharmacy, eye clinic, or customer service. Customer service would be where you would sign up for a membership anyway

Or liquor stores I think.
I think you and parent comment might actually agree. The 3x trees is an indication of too much, too many small trees, too much fuel. Places that burn and recover lose their "excess" trees. The trees get more space and are healthy top to bottom.

OTOH, tree farm trees are bred to have few branches and are planted very close together. Tree farms grow tree trunks, not trees.

There is a line of thought, which honestly I think comes from the timber industry, that growing trees are a bigger carbon sink than existing trees. They do argue that the tree farm is actually better because it is growing. I'm extremely skeptical of that claim. Particularly skeptical because the trees in tree farms are so unhealthy, the total amount of green vegetative surface on them is confined to a small canopy and has no vertical depth.

In comparison, old growth vs tree farm is night and day for ecology. Tree farms are very dense, rodents thrive in them but not necessarily much else. Old growth OTOH is generally a pleasure to walk through.

> I would expect a few old growth trees in an acre would be a substantially better forest

There's indeed a mixture of ages unless we are talking a tree farm. A tree farm is a mono-culture with trees approximately the same age all growing like Q-tips together.

Old growth trees are fire resistant. The younger ones trees get overshaded and don't grow, or they burn down before they get tall enough. The young trees that do survive, they go on to become the next generation of old growth trees.

(My experience on the subject: extensive time camping & bikepacking in Northwest forests, I've traveled through a several thousand miles of northwest forests in the last 10 years)
The firms you mention have certainly colluded with the government in Westminster, which is the one that regulates financial services. The City of London Corporation is merely a local authority (albeit a quirky one), and banks don't really need its cooperation in order to launder money. (HSBC did a fine job of it from Canary Wharf, for example.)

>it also runs a police department.

As do many other regions of the country. There's nothing surprising or sinister about this. There isn't any connection between this administrative fact and money laundering.
Poor audio systems are also to blame for this

You want a 3.1 system (at least) and increase the center channel
Are you certain about the 2000 year dating?

I curious because the mummification process changed drastically over time, and during the early Roman period was much less elaborate than 1000 years earlier.
ShotSpotter's reputation is terrible. Chicago ditched it a few months ago: https://www.npr.org/2024/02/15/1231394334/shotspotter-gunfir...

The most shocking story I've seen about it was from 2021: Police Are Telling ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence From Gunshot-Detecting AI https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xbq/police-are-telling-sh...
The trinitrons were great, but way beyond my budget at the time. I seem to remember at work we had a nice Trinitron with a flat screen that had 13w3 and vga inputs. IIRC, it was bought as a "budget" monitor for a Sun workstation, but was still like twice as much as my Viewsonic.
The inherent structure of a Rails app is something that I still love to this day.

I can look at the url of a new or old Rails app and predict consistently what routes, models, controllers and views exist within the app.

Convention over configuration keeps winning.
Right but "Avoiding PKI" and "Secure Against Quantum Computers" barely even correlate. We have methods we consider post-quantum in heavy use. "PKI is generally sketchy and we would like to explore alternatives" is actually a much better rationalization than "post-quantum buzzword dropping"
Lack of data interface standards is the biggest thing holding healthcare technical efficiency back, from what I've seen.

And I understand why it's hard! But it should be possible to make progress around the edges, on more defined use cases and subsets... like pricing.

That said, the major system vendors have zero incentive to originate interoperability, so it'll have to come from HHS if anywhere.
Not sure how being crazy is supposed to be the opposite of imposter syndrome?
Comparing Montreal subway with Vancouver's skytrain:

- Montreals subway stations have this gritty, distinctively french atmosphere i loved it.

- Vancouvers above/below stations have no soul, distinctively anglo but above ground ones i liked.

- Montreal train cars use rubber wheels to my shock! Extremely loud.

- Vancouver train cars use some sort of electric system which im not familiar with ( have a few variants (newer hyundai rotem cars, old ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_BoeXqaV9c)

- Montreal subway does not cover the entire region like Vancouver's skytrain. Getting around is difficult without uber. Road conditions are horrible (pot holes remain unfixed for decades, city went broke hosting olympics long time ago), I just shudder how you can get around during the winter.

But the biggest shock was that in some instances, it was faster for me to walk then walk to the station and wait for the subway.

- Arriving at YVR: Skytrain runs directly from airport to a satellite city where its numerous public buses cover almost the entire MV. I could just tap through the toll gate with my credit card and wait for a bus which arrives on time quite frequently.

- Arrriving at YUL: Have to take a bus from airport for 30 minutes to Montreal but doesn't seem to respect time schedule. Got off somewhere in Montreal I don't remember (there was a large open artsy area) tried to wait for a bus but never came, gave up, got uber.
The author should be careful of what they’re wishing for with respect to ActiveRecord callbacks. They’re sort of what people might call a sharp knife. You can get a lot done quickly but easily end up with something that’s dangerous to operate later.
Outside of cities, the main ways to make a living is using the natural resources. Logging, mining, farming etc.

Laws are made by city people, who think of work as something you do sitting by a desk. They see the countryside as a nature reserve to keep beautiful for their vacation trips. So they ban most commercial use of natural resources.

This is part of what makes rural communities poor and desperate societies, surrounded my massive wealth that they "own", but are not allowed to prosper from.
Betta Wire V1: open-source 4-axis wire EDM machine that cuts anything conductive
Could you summarize the criticisms in this (pretty long) video, and what she is proposing as a better alternative (beanplots? or is she criticizing those too?)? I couldn't figure it out from perusing the transcript.

I think it's useful to be able to compare the approximate shapes of histograms during exploratory data analysis. Is the thesis of this criticism that this isn't actually a useful thing to do, or that violin plots don't achieve this, or is it "just" an aesthetic argument?
Why Mount Rainier is the US volcano keeping scientists up at night
We will likely develop more accurate names for the different shades of AI after the fact. Or the AI will.
"So far, so good. What's the problem here? The DDL statement can simply wait patiently until it's able to acquire its ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock, right? The problem is that any other statements that require a lock on the users table are now queued behind this ALTER TABLE statement, including other SELECT statements that only require ACCESS SHARE locks."

This is the most important individual point that the blog post makes in my view. Lots of Postgres users are left with the wrong general idea about how things in this area work (e.g., the locking implications of autovacuum), just because they missed this one subtlety.

I'm not sure what can be done about that. It seems like Postgres could do a better job of highlighting when an interaction between two disparate transactions/sessions causes disruption.
Action Mailer would make for an easy solution.