skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your model already understand the distribution of the data (fundamentally this is what statistical models are trying to discover) well enough for generative models then they probably can do classification well enough.

The greater issue is that, for privacy and other reasons, there are many demographics that are not represented at all, or under represented, in medical image datasets.
Gates Outdonates Ballmer, Drops to #7 in Global Selfishness Rankings
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40839910
If you are writing an open source web browser, I guess you only care about the preference that programmers who are likely to become contributors have. I’m not sure if that would be a big change really, though.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40821102
Click bait. The page actually read

> 100 Free Keywords
>
> These keywords are used to build web tools, and most people use them as magnets or free tools to attract more users.
Well that explains in part his knowledge of web rending tech. Very cool.
Here’s an idea. What about using a computer, causes that’s what you are going to be doing.

I’m just bitching about having to code a binary search using a white board at Google when I had previously written a search engine and indexed two country’s by a man who wears a cowboy hat to work. (To be fair it was a nice hat)

I didn’t get the job, they claimed not good enough at coding, wtf! Well f*k them then.
Hey there, author here. Glad to answer any questions.

If you don't know how to play backgammon, check out this guide[0] and/or this video[1]. There is a lot of history[2] behind backgammon. bgammon.org is AGPL-licensed, the client[3] and server[4] source code is publicly available. The graphical client is powered by the excellent Ebitengine[5] game engine.

0. https://bgammon.org/blog/20240201-how-to-play-backgammon/
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDvvKWi0ijs
2. https://bgammon.org/blog/20240115-history-of-backgammon/
3. https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/boxcars
4. https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/bgammon
5. https://ebitengine.org
I'm glad I mentioned this, it seems there are multiple solutions. Thanks.
This sounds like socialism. The state should leave this stuff to the free market, and not give out low-interest loans that private banks aren't willing to give out. If that results in blackouts and people freezing to death in the winter, that's ok.
Keep in mind that the earth is round and timezones switch an hour by area, so there is always some drift between the suns position and midday.

So from my point of view, they were spot on
I'm sure it does...he also did hint that he is open to Linux...but i'm also sure there are enough problems with Linux that will keep him coming back to Twitter for years.

Like I mentioned, he is in a pickle.
I'm mostly surprised by the number of subscribers

> The threat actor exported the blog mailing list email addresses, which was a total of 3759 email addresses.

3700 addresses doesn't seem like that much at all.
My first job, I had an hour or so to learn vi, and show what I'd learned, then write a basic program (not much more than hello world) in C, of course using vi.

Second job similar actually, only this time it was their awful proprietary word processor (a Wang clone I think) and it's macros ans PL.

Then for a big-name computer company, a full day of IQ tests, personality tests, 3-4 interviews, whiteboard pseudo-code, team meets, etc - but all candidates processed in a single day and an answer a few days later (I got the job) - not the same as today where it's spread over weeks or months and you might be ghosted at any stage.
In the United States a ship which consecutively enters two US ports to load and unload a cargo needs to be a US documented vessel. This is not that farfetched, and I have friends in France and worry about their gas supply when New England has a hard winter.
It is not exactly same, but it can be framed as the same problem by requiring every nation to change their own time zone once in a while. As long as the "once in a while" is not frequent (unlikely to happen before 2500, and should happen less than once per century for next 10K years), this should be okay.
The Fourier Transform: What's Wrong with It?
Which part of that is government censorship? Society deciding they don’t want to hear what you have to say isn’t censorship.
>Americans

>They cannot build anything

What are you basing this on?
I think permissive here is a technical term, and is being used correctly from a legal perspective as far as I understand although I am not a lawyer. The GPL is less permissive than a BSD or MIT license because it places more restrictions on the licensee. This is a legal fact and not a matter of spin.
Yes! More information about the book: http://www.fredkaplan.info/wizards.htm
Ok but so is everything? The phrasing makes it sound like they were saying that the development of the lightbulb was through understanding of quantum mechanics (which, it of course was not).
Having lived in Baltimore, it's juuust far enough from DC to not be a twin city.
What does Chrome do better than FF with bookmarks?
Related/not-related:

Developer Takes 'Retro' Concept to New Level by Creating Physical Winamp Player

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40703176
Mars is just 0.1 of Earth by mass. Venus is 0.8E. It's much easier to cool down Venus with a shield than to make Mars heavy and hot.
What would they have done if you already knew vi? Make you use ed?
You'd be surprised how many widely used open source projects still fail one or both of those conditions.
In the 20 years I was desk jockey prior to the pandemic, I don't think I worked a single day from home. Now I work at-least one day a week from home, and my employer is pretty flexible about allowing more days, provided it doesn't interfere with work. I won't ever go back to 5 days a week in the office, even if I have to take a pay cut.
My position is that Israel is recklessly killing anyone and everyone with little discretion. They are not at war with Hamas, they’re removing everyone in Palestine that they don’t like (oh and sometimes the hostages they’re supposedly trying to save[1]).

They’ve killed innocent civilians[2], health workers[3], and journalists[4] all in record numbers. They have not shied away from war crimes and humanitarian abuses [5].

Israel has every right to defend itself, but this has gone so far beyond that. There is no action that justifies this brutal of a reaction.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-troops-kil...

[2] https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/04/gaza-israeli-strike-kill...

[3] https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/seven-months-re...

[4] https://cpj.org/2024/07/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-...

[5] https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-af...
I work for an oil and gas producer in WA and it is absolutely shocking to me how blatant is the corruption of state politics.

WA state politics is a failed state, which is 100% captured by resource companies. When the WA EPA advised (not decided - advised, which is their remit) that state government environmental approvals should consider the CO2 emissions of the projects under approval... The resource companies got the state premier to phone the head of the EPA and instruct him to cancel the advice immediately. So the WA EPA may as well not exist.

This was all confirmed to have happened after the fact (although of course we all knew at the time). The newspapers were unanimously on the side of the resource companies.

WA is a beautiful, prosperous banana republic.
The Origin of the Species: NEC PC-8001 FDD Adapter
I've never heard someone disagree with the obvious and universal concept that low wage workers prospects in the US being are a steep and multi-decade decline
Any free profile finding apps?
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40859993
Certainly if we grow exponentially for a further 1000 years we'll exceed the carrying capacity of this planet, however we derive our energy. I don't think that's a very interesting result.

By "completely wrong" do you contend that using tidal energy doesn't decelerate the Earth's rotation?
We would give interviewees a little sample of code (e.g, a minimal string copy function using a loop in C) and ask how they would make it better, without defining what better meant. Some developers would try to optimise it, others would point out the bad variable names and lack of documentation, or talk about unit tests. It was a starting point for a discussion.
This is a frustrating article because it never explains why e is the natural logarithm base. To me, the easiest way to understand it is via continuous compound interest:

* If you invest $1 at 100% interest for 1 year, you get $2 at the end

* Compounded 2 times in a year, you get 100/2 = 50% interest every 1/2 year, which amounts to $2.25

* Compounded 4 times in a year, you get 100/4 = 25% interest every 1/4 year, which amounts to $2.44

* Compounded n times in a year, you get 100/n percent interest every 1/n year, which amounts to (1+1/n)^n dollars

* So continuous compound interest is the limit as n approaches infinity, which amounts to $2.71828 at the end of the year

(This is a great problem to give to pre-calc students to see if they can figure out the calculation for themselves.)
> 5 states and 2 symbols is just so few with which to try to encode undecidable behavior.

Would you be brave enough to say the same thing about BB(6) or BB(7)?
180 cm is 5.90551 feet, which is 5 feet and 10.866 inches (12 inches in a foot).
You may be thinking of beam directors, rather than the lasers themselves, aside from turning them on and off as desired. Solid state lasers are good, if they have the power you need (and yes, understand and practice laser safety)

The rest would be beam steering. Geometric optics and servos. I remember reading some on scanner optics, which would help you. Just think angles instead of UPC codes.

Programming the servo's would please you, but you first need the beam steering gear, and also the on/off, and interfaces for both aspects.

I don't know of any OTC/KISS stuff.
United Wants to Win Trust by Oversharing details on delayed and canceled flights
I Received an AI Email
You're completely right. The mRNA covid "vaccines" certainly did not remain localized to their sites of injection.
I've been working in startups for around 15 years, remotely for US companies and AU companies. I hadn't even heard of Leetcode until a few weeks ago.
How are tou measuring happiness? Studies say that Finland and other secular scandinavian countries are among the happiest. Deeply religious countries are usually not.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/bWy9e

Personally I think it's beneficial, I like more information and would rather know the details than be left wondering.
Well I can tell you that NJ has predefined transfer agreements with all community colleges and public colleges in the state. They even have a website (www.njtransfer.org) where you can input all courses that you will take at community colleges and see the exact course equivalency that is guaranteed to be accepted by the institution you wish to transfer to. Furthermore, if you maintain certain GPA, you are guaranteed a seat at your intended college.

(And if you make 65k or less a year you are also granted free tuition.)

Its not perfect though. When I was transferring for my CS degree, some colleges only accepted my CS courses as general credit to be applied to a selection of non CS courses in the program. You would have seen this ahead of time if you went to the website but it was still a bummer to know that you'd have to take CS classes at the community college and then repeat them at the new institution. This would essentially require me to retake Core CS classes at the school (Rutgers). It would have added at least 1 more semester to my college career. In hindsight, I understand why they did it. The institution I selected(NJIT) accepted the credits as equivalent classes and I was immediately thrown into more advanced classes where I struggled for a while because I hadn't quite mastered the fundamentals.

Still overall super straightforward to get from filling out the application for Community college admission -> working hard in classes -> Getting that final Bachelor's degree.
I'm guessing this problem might be language-specific. Does Bazel do better at importing external dependencies for Go?
free software is a cancer, he says...
Yes... that's pretty much exactly what I said. Users will indeed just do what they need to do to watch Netflix, whether or not DRM is good for them or the web platform.

> Secondly, users don't really get a choice. Users are fucked because browsers implement features like DRM and websites hard-depend on them. So the user is no longer choosing whether or not to enable DRM, but whether or not they can watch Netflix on their laptop. User agents should not put users in predicaments like this where they are forced to make choices against their own interests. This is one of those situations where nuance is necessary.

That's why it shouldn't be a part of the web platform in the first place. Because we shouldn't force users to make choices against their own interests.

Here are some other examples of where we shouldn't force users to make choices against their own interests:

- Users should not have to give up their rights to be able to access legally-mandated warranty services or replacement parts.

- Users should not be forced to accept being tracked.

- Users should not be forced to forfeit their right to be a part of a class action lawsuit to use a product or service.

Try as you might, you're never going to convince anyone that the free market will just magically make all of the incentives align and make "the right choice", these are things that ultimately have to be solved with policy. The closest thing to "policy" on the web is standards, and W3C put EME in the standards despite widespread outcry, and that's why we're at where we're at.

Now the thing is, we have DRM in browsers, but we still don't have Web Environment Integrity, a complete and utter bastardization of the open web that would've made it cryptographically impossible for an open source browser to really meaningfully exist (since compiling it yourself would likely make it impossible for you to e.g. do banking or watch Twitch streams, since it would then fail attestation.) The reason we don't have WEI is because it was widely rejected by the community. Not because users made a choice.

It's nice to think that you can just leave it to the users to pick and they'll always do the right thing, but at the end of the day most people don't have time to care about DRM or WEI. Most people are not technical and just simply don't have the capacity in their day to be concerned about things like that. That's why it's literally the job of people who do have that capacity to fight for the user's best interests and try to avoid users being put into positions where they are basically guaranteed to be fucked.

And frankly, we're not winning the fight.

(This is no different from anything else. The vast majority of people can't be expected to fight for e.g. free speech rights either; it's always going to be a minority of people who hold the line.)
Race doesn’t tell you much about a patient’s possible afflictions. While there may be some predispositions, there is also a lot more nuance than the color of their skin. Environmental factors play a much larger role (e.g “Chinese” Malaysians are much more likely to have joint issues due to high humidity and overuse of ACs)
> Can you show evidence of this strategy working somewhere else?

The best example of this strategy in action would be the US Congress before the 1984 Chevron Deference ruling.

Was Congress more effective back then? One way to check if people got more grandstanding or less grandstanding is to see if there was more bipartisan legislature before 1984 than after.

There was more bipartisan legislature before 1984 and the difference is dramatic [0][1].

I'm not a social scientist and one could possibly bring up all sorts of other reasons to justify this as a coincidence or caused by something else entirely or whatnot. I don't have the resources here to put together an entire detailed study to find and untangle confounding factors.

I will only point out that as many things being common as possible (same congressional body, same voter base, same senators) - the time before Chevron deference was dramatically different from the time after Chevron deference, in terms of what Congress felt it should do to earn reelection. It acted accordingly.

[0]. https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/u...

[1]. https://www.vox.com/2015/4/23/8485443/polarization-congress-...
Given that the first GPS satellites were launched in 1978, saving a few bits was standard practice at the time -- bits were expensive. Code of the time also often had two-digit years (the infamous Y2K problem).
I love these maps, it’s an awesome collection! I make data vis maps for my day job and I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that each of these are completely bespoke, made by different people, using a unique technique - python, hand drawing, ArcGIS, Blender, and even R can be used to make these, and I usually use deck.gl

They’re fun to make combining design, data, graphics programming, and lots of fiddling to get the tools to do what you want!
It was usually a combination of algorithmic questions, some riddles, a few technical questions, etc. All of it was done on the whiteboard.

The thing is that at the time there were no books around commonly asked interview questions, online leetcode lists, etc. so the assumption was that the applicant was basically going in cold, and that there wasn't an expectation that they would be able to instantly solve the problems.

It was more important for them to talk out loud so that the interviewer could observe their thought process.
Hi, nice snappy interface (even after making the HN front page...) and I like the gentle highlighting of possible moves for a piece.

In two games against the bot I _think_ I had the luck to run into a corner case bug with the rules engine: in the position shown in this screenshot https://ibb.co/dQ3HsM4 I'd rolled a 4-6, but the UI would not let me move my piece on 9 four spaces to hit the opponent on 5 -- the UI only wanted to let me move that piece six spaces.

I can imagine how this bug could happen-- all my pieces except this one are in my inner table, so it looks like my piece on 9 is the only piece that can legally use the rolled six, and you're required to fully use your roll if possible... except in this particular case, once I move that piece four spots, I'd be fully in my inner table and could use the six to bear off a piece.

[sidenote: I realize I don't know the best 2024 way to host a temporary image for posting on a text-only forum like HN... but imgbb looked reasonable...]
That doesn’t seem like a nonstarter if the goal is to have public conversations. While I certainly agree that E2EE could be very valuable to some of discord’s use cases, I expect there are a lot of valid use cases for public discussions in open source projects where E2EE would not be an improvement at all.
Let us hope it is not a fad. It is already in the windows kernel, android, and chrome in addition to Firefox. MS, google, and the NSA have all said to stop using languages like c and c++.
Banks were willing to lend but they were banned by Texas for being woke

Priorities
this guy (OP) is dumber than a GPT.

1.8m * 1ft / .3048m = 5.905 ft

0.905 ft * 12 in / 1 ft = 10.86"

5' 10.86"

if the difference between 5'9" and 5.11" is emasculating, but you feel fine about flaunting your "math" "skills", then sure. google is the problem.
You can just do one big model with static enrichment (effectively throw "race" into the model as a feature) and achieve the same thing. But the quality will always be worse for some sub-populations due to different amounts of available data. There's no easy way to fix that.
That's so disillusioning it must be true.

The special forces tale is heroism - being brave and tough in dangerous situations.

That the danger comes from your own equipment, used as intended, is just sickening.
This is either incredibly stupid/sad or it's satire, and either way it is a waste of a click. Flagged for being off topic for HN.
They are the same thing. The former is more common in the UK, the latter in the US.
I use a fizzbuzz-level question in my phonescreens for all levels of SDEs, and about 1/2 fail to solve it (from a wide range of experience, I've given up trying to predict who will fail).

The other 1/2 quickly solve it and we move on to better stuff.
A cesium stopwatch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium_standard
Which was a bit confusing for me when I first entered the Schengen zone by plane. After a long flight I really wanted to believe my country code was CH
This is a good idea, I wonder if you have a write-up/blog about the performance gains in real world applications?
First, it compells governments to censor speech. Look at the EU where "hate speech" laws and laws against "disinformation" were introduced and the ongoing battle with chat control. Second, you can't deny the impact being banned from using any monopolistic sites like Facebook, YouTube, Google. Banning everyone from there when you don't agree with them leads to massive echo chambers.

And is it really "society" that "decides" and not just a vocal minority with the right connections to the press?
He's revised his opinion, and is stunned. He concurs with my original assessment:

> Virtually all of his Watergate-related conduct and virtually all that evidence falls in what could easily be described as official conduct.

> “I’m not even sure you could get to the Nixon tapes under this ruling,” Dean speculated. “What its implications are with the existing Supreme Court ruling, in U.S. v. Nixon, is a question I haven’t unraveled yet.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/richard-nixon-had-pass-john-20323...
EV Motors Without Rare Earth Permanent Magnets
FOMO and ChatGPT
edit: The previous title was "Reproducibility in Disguise: Bazel, Dependencies, and the Versioning Lie"

Eh... the real lie is the signal version policy in the first place. It can be broken, at least in Google, and must be often otherwise there'd be massive gridlock.

If you want to bring in a new third-party library that has a dependency that already exists in the monorepo, you'd better _pray_ that the version in the monorepo is already compatible. If not, you have to update that library and potentially every target that depends on it, maybe transitively. Trying to do that can sometimes take years - no joke.

So the single-version policy flexes, and exceptions are supposed to be temporary, but they're not always.

In the end there are two competing sometimes good, sometimes bad goals:

- Libraries should be somewhat discouraged from making too many or too flippant breaking changes. By having to update clients, they feel the pain and take migration more into account.

- Libraries should be able to make real improvements, even if they are breaking changes, and having clients shouldn't burden them with unbounded costs. They should be able to distribute reasonable costs of updating by letting clients update on their own time with versioning.

Vendored third party packages only highlight this tension, because the external world has largely settled on versioning as the approach which clearly conflicts with signle-versions, but it really existed anyway.
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I agree, I think in general across civilization it would only be beneficial to communicate the reasons for things.
I’m a fan of this as well. Humanizes the whole thing.
Maybe emacs, so it's lucky I didn't know vi, lol.
Real World Haskell (2008)