skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why take the bait?

This guy wants to talk about something nebulous like freedom.

Let's talk about how we can bring domestic battery manufacturing to America so that we can use that to crush Chinese and Russian military opposition with the eventual goal of seeing proper democracy brought to those regions.

We need domestic battery production for so many things, and it needed to happen yesterday.

Another thing I've been wondering about is this: Who is the JLPCB or PCBWay of America? When is low cost rapid turn around PCB manufacturing in America going to be a thing? How can I be a part of that?
There is a missed opportunity to troll him by shacking him up with an unfriendly parrot, trained to say "Open Source Software".
The two situations are not alike. People choose not to throw rocks directly as the action is direct, immediate and likely against the law with all the things that it would influence. On the other hand, we have a remote system capable of dropping things on unsuspecting heads in an automated manner.

Do you really not see the difference?
Shocker that NYPD rejected every single recommendation other than, pay your bills on time, and enforce existing contractual requirements.

No willingness to evaluate the product, discuss or prove efficacy, or even consider new renewal contract terms.
UX isn't NVIDIA's business model. It is Apple's, and they've found there's shittons of money to be made giving a shit about UX, especially when virtually no one else will.
Yea but it’s still not a delimiter
I doubt it.

And regardless, that's far short of "stopping no-shows". I think more likely to stop a significant number of bookings.
Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act
>the lion's share of the social security system exists to subsidize companies unwilling to pay their workers a living wage.

What? That totally isn't true. Minimum wage is high enough already. It absolutely is a "living wage".

>Are you saying the government should drastically raise the minimum wage in order to cut back on social security expenses?

No, they should drastically cut back on taxes and social spending.
This is the ForcedCommand mechanism.
should give this to the coach too - Texas players get heat exhaustion

Trace and hudl use shirt number and person tracking. I bet they could add skin color and gait analysis to do this as well.
Does he mention a price or part number at some point? I'm quite a good way in, and he hasn't mentioned anything, and the description is empty.

EDIT: I see the description now, they're called Hanshow Stellar and sell for $20-$25 a piece. Not the price point I thought of when I heard "cheap", but eh.
Some of those individuals are not residents but expressly included as nominees of their businesses, a form of franchise that exists nowhere else in the UK.

It's true that the vote is exercised by the company's nominee, not the company itself, but that's only because the company itself can't show up at the polling station. Business voters are expressly included to represent their organisations[0], and do.

[0]: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/voting-elections/bu...
It's very hard to give this comment the benefit of the doubt - the obvious critical difference is not buried in the details, and it's disturbing to see it casually ignored, given the context.
Corrected link above.
Omnia systema in tres partes divisa est... Fenestrae, Linos, Pomum
The rationale that a certain amount of logging to thin forests is beneficial is correct. I don't know the details, or how they'll administer it to avoid excesdive logging, but at least in California we have almost 3x as many trees per acre compared to pre-white settlement: https://story.californiasunday.com/gone-paradise-fire
Gene Roddenberry foundation offers $1 million to create AI 'used for good'
Stamp: A Mini-Language for Templates
As I pointed out in my other comment, I think naming them "cruise missiles", greatly conflates two very different types of weapons.
I’m even ok with them changing terms, things happen. I just think companies should not be allowed to say “unlimited” unless it is actually 100% unlimited
Not really a new phenomenon, though. People have been been calling others “The Man” for ages
People don't have to be in cars, and most cities have way more people in cars than necessary.
> There are games with procedurally generated animals glued together from parts exactly like that.

With algorithms made by humans to make the composites reasonable. And, yes there are such games, I just posted screenshots of it since people had a lot of freedom to make their own aliens there that doesn't look like what you normally expect.

That game was made by humans coding in a lot of different kinds of movements for a lot of different kinds of shapes. Those shapes and movements doesn't exist in reality, they imagined something completely alien and did it and made it able to move.

> Humans imagination can only split, deform and glue. Computer are perfectly capable of doing that.

Humans doesn't split deform and glue randomly, they do it in interesting ways to build towards things that are totally different from the starting point.

What current AI can't do is exactly that, build towards something novel. They just glue together things randomly, or they compose them in similar ways as existing things. They aren't capable of iterating towards something novel and cool like humans as they are today.

For example, lets say a human sculpts an entirely new shape using a leathery substance, that fits in what I described above, you would just say "Oh, but that is just a known thing in a new shape, not creative, just using old things!!!". That is just a nonsense argument, not sure what you are trying to say with that, I assumed you had a reasonable definition that didn't include everything, but as it were you did include everything into it making your whole argument complete void.
It's like monkey patching in Ruby. It can be used for good and for evil.
Aux: An Alternative to the Nix Ecosystem
There are undoubtedly flaws in Xorg dating to this and each of the previous four decades.
I face this a lot, and I think you have one very valid approach to it that I often employ. Especially if you have some centralized point to make a list of structs, or walk a tree to collect them.

I think another other route is to provide lots of tooling to inspect the object graph -- include a pretty print function in the interface or something to that effect.

There's equivalency between the two, the struct with pointers to implementation functions can implement an interface. Likewise, the implementation functions may call other implementations, so you haven't exactly solved the proxy problem, the state controlling which implementations becomes function local instead of on a struct. Unless you start to provide a struct with all of the context, at which point you've actually re-invented interfaces. I've grown wary of having too much of the details as function local like this because it hinders making more advanced tooling by hiding intermediate state from reflection.

The interface provides the means to give other representations, and allows for embedding one within another, and gives runtime tooling to inspect underlying types. It gives more elegance and flexibility to the problem at language and standard library scale.

One of the nice things is that it gives a sort of bidirectional refactoring path. If someone chose struct-of-pointers and it's at it's breaking point, those structs can stay as is and start to implement the interface with minimal effort. Likewise, if I need to boil down a hodgepodge of implementations into a really simple control flow, struct methods capture the struct and can be passed around as ordinary function pointers, so I can built a struct out of existing interface implementations.

There's no real way around the complexity -- leaky abstractions are a thing. I think the author got it right: use interface upgrades and proxies sparingly. If they are the right tool for the job, then it's probably a good idea to go the extra mile to provide good documentation and instrumentation with extra attention to caller/callee expectations.
> Picture a world where you can walk around New York City and everything you need is falling out of windows onto you. At a moments notice, at the drop of a hat. That's a world I want to live in. That's why I'm teaching you how to do yourself. Remember this as the first place you heard of "Window Shopping."

I truly love the concept of pun-driven development (PDD). As a motivating economic principle, a world where every human being has the resources, time, and personal safety to dedicate absurd amounts of their time to inane levels of pun-driven development is perhaps my favorite definition of utopia.
A systematic review of autopsy findings in deaths after Covid-19 vaccination
My main point is that the costs of storage are fairly well known. One can estimate the cost to google of provisioning the datacenter class storage that a user with PB of data is using, and if your estimate of the situation is that it seems like that arrangement is likely to continue, then great. In my estimate, that seems unlikely unless there's a business case to be made for google (there certainly are some, like building familiarity in the system for academic trainees who may then go start startups or purchase storage from positions in industry).
I dont think I'd suggest a computer science or engineering degree. Maybe something quicker/shorter. being a junior myself (almost 4 years as a data professional) I must say that I lost the will to learn programming deeply. For many reasons: bosses already demanding high productivity knowing that you can use LLMs for faster coding (in the python/sql realm). But ofc knowing the basics of logic and how to ask/prompt helps a lot
To Unicode? Good god please no. Unicode is just codepoints. I shudder to think what adding scripting support to that would even mean.

Maybe you meant adding it to OpenType?
Insane argument. Serving giant death mechas is serving people. Serving Houthi raiders is serving people. Serving Adolf Hitler is serving people - he's a person, right?
I deal with a lot of business people who have processes that rely on 15th/85th percentile, or 25th/75th percentile. They want to see the median, the low/high percentiles, the max/min or outliers, and they don't want to see all the data points jittered in between. It's just overwhelming extraneous information. They in fact like tables with those numbers written down, but they want to compare ten different (time series of historical prices for different markets) and see it on one Powerpoint slide. The box plot allows a fast visual comparison of medians and other key percentiles (label the plot with the percentiles if you're doing something non-standard!). With jitter or violin they get hung up on weird random stuff and it derails meetings.

Important caveats: the generating processes for all these quantities are the same in a physical sense, so they are comparable. All the distributions are roughly lognormal-ish, so they are single-peaked distributions, as folks are discussing here. The point of the visualization in theses cases is not to understand the properties of the distribution per se, it's to show the important percentiles because they have business implications.
Thank you! I was wondering how they managed to wedge an AI model into a RasPi. And I couldn't figure out what the AI was needed for.
There's a dead pixel on my 4k monitor. It's so small that I think it's just a speck of dust, if I notice it at all.
Cars are great. I like cars. I like driving as a mode of transport.

But there's a lot of potential ways to use space other than cars. The problem is, in seeking to accommodate cars at the expense of all else, we've made all other forms of transport -- like walking through a cute downtown on a spring day -- less practicable and common. In turn we drive more, spread businesses out for more parking, and created a never-ending feedback loop for more driving infrastructure.

In turn, the infrastructure has grown to a point that we can't really afford it from tax revenues, and where the mixed use of a thoroughfare for accessing businesses and going long distances does well at neither.

Unfortunately, getting us out of this loop is going to make things less convenient for some people for awhile before we can get to something better. There's no avoiding that, but continuing to make the same decision and hope it gets to a better outcome would be nuts.
Elixir Gotchas
> I’d rather hear gunshots and deal with property crime every day than be subjected to the above.

I wouldn't. Which is a good reason to not have the same laws everywhere, I suppose!
Why is there 55mph 5,000+lb traffic?
Ask HN: Will salaries of software engineers regress?
That's the best justification of Universal Income I have seen so far
Trees per acre seems like a seriously misleading statistic.

A freshly planted tree farm is going to have the highest trees per acre, but be the most useless forest.

I would expect a few old growth trees in an acre would be a substantially better forest, visually, environmentally, and ecologically, than having three times as many young trees.
They enjoy it when it's not in their neighborhood. Notice the cul de sacs everyone loves.
Different modes of transport have different capabilities, dangers, and responsibilities. Horses, bikes, cars, HGVs, pedestrians—all different, actually there's no real shame in ignoring car laws when you're not driving a car. You have to use your brain and accept the fact that these laws were only made with cars in mind.
>What is the function of social security?

To reduce social conflict by subsiding people who, for one reason or another, are unwilling or unable to successfully participate in the labor market.

>What would happen without it?

I don't want to speculate, but at some point we are going to find out.
Can you make it stick to the list? This is full of words not available, and so none of it actually works.
What an unexpectedly cool post, I clicked the link thinking it would be "typical dumb", but it ended up being atypically dumb in the greatest way! Fascinating. The author overcame many challenges and wrote about them in a style as if he solved the hardest parts with only a little fiddling. Maybe he's already seasoned in the ML and robotics domains? So much fun to read.

Regarding the Video Object Detection:

Why does inference need to be done via Roboflow SaaS?

...(api_url="https://detect.roboflow.com", api_key="API_KEY")

Is it because the Pi is too underpowered to run a fully on-device solution such as Frigate [0] or DOODS [1]? And presumably a Coral TPU wasn't considered because the author mostly used stuff he happened to have laying around.

Can anyone comment contrasting experience with Roboflow? Does it perform better than Frigate and DOODS?

Asking for a friend. I totally don't have announcement speakers throughout my house that I want to say "Mom approaching the property", "Package delivered", "Dog spotted on a walk", "Dog owner spotted not picking up after their beast", and so on. That last one will be tricky to pull off. Ah well :)

[0] https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/pkgs/container/fr...

[1] https://github.com/snowzach/doods2
See https://metacpan.org/pod/pp for one tool to do that.
What you want is also what I'm working on. Eidos is a personal open-source project focused on individual needs. It respects everyone's privacy. It does not collect any information. Since there is no account system, no need for a logout button

I really love this name. If I use Eidos Space, will there be trademark issues?
It's Mourning in America
Anti-cyclist sentiment is so strong because they don't want to ride on sidewalks?

That makes no sense at all, something tells me you hate cyclists and will continue to hate cyclists wherever they are.
I think it's more about our resource growth outpacing our resource demand, because if that happens we bypass the resource competition that drives most conflict.

This has a lot of pathways, tech efficiency, slower population growth, more resource acquisition (asteroid mining etc). It's definitely possible in the large scope, but I suspect there will be periods of spiking demand that still cause lots of short term conflicts.

Famines and mass migration are very likely with climate change going the way it is. Over the course of 100 years I suspect the resource problem will alleviate but until then there will be a lot of conflict.

The only real long term trick is creating larger and larger gulfs between the resource demand and availability, buffers that can withstand the smaller scale changes. But, unfortunately, our current dominant systems of power view buffers like that as either weakness or opportunity that are antithetical to progress.
Image recognition is AI.
> Rights aren't an absolute literal things. There are always limitations.

I don't think anyone is arguing that rights are unimpeachable, you just need a VERY good justification. Even for freedom of speech, most would agree that threats, CSAM, or night time noise should be limited, even if they are direct violations of your right to speech.

The problem with this issue is that you need to have a clear and unambiguous rule, that does not cause more harm than good. Let's look at your reasoning.

> 50 people getting a billion USD to advertise how the gay alien lizards are controlling the sheople isn't the same thing because it has an outsized impact.

What about a celebrity? Joe Rogan invites RFK onto his podcast to undermine democrats and spread conspiracies. He has effectively donated his time and platform to a politician. Is that okay under your principle? If it is, why is it different?

> An association of people isn't a human.

This is a pointless distinction because an association is comprised of people. But let's grant that(I would not grant it), would you say the same about other activist organizations? Most Jewish people support Israel, and even without big donors they can pressure politicians in an outsized way through their activist organizations. Should they be silenced?

> And of course, most importantly of all, it's trivially obvious that to preserve a democratic society there need to be restrictions on campaign funding, advertisments and everything around that

This is not trivially obvious. You need to demonstrate that the specific thing you're worried about is actually an issue. If we looked at some studies and they showed that money in politics is a fairly minor issue, would you abandon this pet-issue?
On second thought, this method makes the outer brackets / whiskers pretty much useless since their position is determined by the largest outliers, which is quite much random.
Experimental Psychology on Roofies
> It's possible to do standups productively, though often they certainly are not.

The original idea of Scrum was that the daily standups are for developers alone. And they are supposed to be very short; literally while standing up to discourage people from starting long debates. Just say, briefly, what did you work on yesterday, what are you going to work on today, and whether you have any problems. To prevent developers from starting to work on something that other team member already did or is currently doing.

But of course, "Scrum in practice" usually differs dramatically from "Scrum in theory", and the managers are often happy to invite themselves to the daily standups, so what was supposed to become a simple coordination between peers becomes a progress report and an invitation to micromanage.

I have seen it done the right way, but more often I have seen it done the wrong way.
It's called the internet. People attempt to make money with ads. If you don't like ads, you can use any of the various ways of avoiding them. Complaining about it when you perfectly well know about them is just epitome of childish tantrums
For even more pedantry, Celsius and Fahrenheit aren't just ordinal scales. They are called interval scales, which lie between ordinal and ratio scales:

> Another typical example is the Celsius scale, which is divided into 100 equal degree sections between the freezing and boiling points of water. Unlike the intervals in nominal and ordinal scales, it is possible to make calculations with individual data points in interval scales. The difference in temperature between 10°C and 20°C is the same distance as between 40°C and 50°C. In contrast to ratio scales, interval scales lack a natural zero point. In the case of the Celsius temperature scale, '0°C' is an arbitrarily chosen zero point (whereas the Kelvin temperature scale begins at the absolute zero point with 0K (-273.15°C/-459.67°F). Multiplications with an interval scale are therefore not useful. While it is true for the Kelvin ratio scale that 100K defines double the heat energy in a mass as 50K, this is not true for 50°C/100°C.

https://www.statista.com/statistics-glossary/definition/320/...
>I'm sure lots of other ways are possible too.

There actually aren't! Modern cars are surprisingly good at avoiding this. You can't even lock the doors while they are open. The trunk is the only opportunity for that accident.
Ask these people to actually draw or paint the apples, and it quickly shows that they do not do lighting and shading correctly. Even with a lot of training.

Just look at art history. Only very few people managed to render things somewhat accurately before the invention of photography. And the consensus is that these exceptions (such as Holbein or Vermeer) used technological tricks to aid them.

My hypothesis is that people have an internal imagery that is extremely realistic and detailed, because they perceive the actual world in exactly the same way, using the same processes. One does not "see" the image on the retina in their mind's eye, one "sees", if I'm allowed to use the metaphor, the vector embedding somewhat further down the line.

Now, if people train their mind to actually see more detail, they find out that the brain is actually rather limited in comparison to a camera.
How legitimate is this publication? If this is for real, this is absolutely huge...
If stores offered a discount, perhaps equivalent to a checker's wages for the time of checking, self-checkout would get more approval. You know, like the "convenience fee" merchants charge to use a credit card vs cash or ACH.
Yes.

A lot of people here are commenting that no, technically box plots don't assume any distribution. And I mean, technically you can ride from NYC to SF in a lawnmower.

But I completely agree that box plots shouldn't ever be used for anything but unimodal distributions similar enough to a bell/gaussian distribution.

All of the criticism of the article seems to be that they're misleading when the distribution is not bell/gaussian, e.g. bimodal.

To which my reply is, of course. Box plots shouldn't be used then. But if your distribution is bell/gaussian, they seem fine and I see no particular issue with them.
> That's just 10" longer and taller than, say, Tesla Model X.

Which could also reasonably be called a pretty big car.
Your check height may just be too low?
An actual date or date range.
I would think I creating islands would be the first stop for "more land in good places" considering it's already possible.
Have you looked into SkyeBrowse for video to 3D? Seems like it’s able to generate interior 3D textures pretty quickly.
Found this publication and it does seem legitimate and at least the names I searched for and verified, seemed to be real....

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38221509/
Currently, it can only run on high-version chromium-based browsers, and it's compatible with Android, but not iOS. Apple is killing web apps.
And this is happening with vmware ansible and terraform !!
>why in the world are public safety improvements up for debate?

Because, as every engineer knows, everything is a tradeoff and good intentions can lead to bad outcomes.

I can't comment on your specific case, but obviously any measure that wants to improve safety needs to be evaluated based on whether it is actually effective, whether it is cost effective and whether there are negative consequences.