skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telling the car to aim and steer at a specific type of object is something that has only recently become possible. Computer vision has come a long way in the past few years, especially computer vision built into automobiles.

I also believe that drive by wire systems are going to become even more commonplace in the future and eliminate the possibility of a driver attempting to muscle the car back into control.
I am so excited to see this. I normally use Samsung Dex to access my phone, which is a decent way to type and file manage on a Windows PC. But it's crashy.

My phone is my primary camera, and getting files on and off still sucks unless you want to use spyware like Dropbox - which I don't. First class filesystem access would be fantastic.
> always connected may seem a cool buzzword

Which shows a cultural disaster - an idiocracy - that should be taken as a priority.
Treescope: Interactive HTML Visualization Library for Python Neural Networks.
I am working on Stripe Tax, but do not know Lemon Squeezy so well yet. But something Lemon Squeezy does different are the following: the KYC works different and is more restrictive. One of the differences to Stripe considering we still give you as a merchant the responsibility to be tax-compliant after all (you need to add tax registrations into stripe explicitly). Also think about maybe fraudulent cases, LS must be much more restrictive otherwise their payment provider is blocking them.

One thing which is weird about tax is physical presences in some cases. In some countries, you actually might need a representative to file your taxes. Plus you need to learn how to register in those countries and how to file taxes.

There are probably more things that you need to look up, but that’s what I remember.
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Perhaps as a percentage of the population - but we do have groups like Stop Oil routinely and deliberately causing massive traffic congestion, which ironically produces more wasteful emissions. Or the fools throwing liquids and pigments on irreplaceable historical artifacts and monuments.

Never underestimate a radicalized idiot... they are capable of the inconceivable.
> OCR bugs

Especially if your fax machine uses JBIG2 compression. See: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...
Completely agree. I live in the CDB because I don't drive and need to get easy access to the ferries. From the CDB it's easy to get around on public transport and I have a 5minute walk as a commute. I don't know why everyone in Auckland wants to live in the burbs?!
The downside is that Friday and Saturday nights turn into a seedy cesspit of drunks and homeless people, but I don't go out anymore so don't really see it much.
They also physically cut the CBD off from the nearest neighborhood with freeways which choke the CDB. I guess some right wing government decided they wanted to get to their office and back and fuck the pedestrians. There is even a lovely park in which they just put a freeway straight though. As a result its hard to walk out of the CDB and the center is full of carparks which few can afford. (And the rail network is sporadically not working, and busses are incredibly sloooooow).
Would not live here if i wasn't forced too.
It's about the attitude. WE (Apple) gets to decide what how and where you use our products and services that you pay for. YOU (the paying user) will do as we say.

Also, what is with the fanboy defense of the richest corporation in the world? If they want to defend their shitty sales tactics they can afford to pay for it.
> So what

So you are prescribing dangerous policy on guessing.
and traffic.
I miss the simplicity of OSS :\
https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/lady-macbeth/

I don't see how.
The "nations" in Africa courting Russian influence are largely militant groups that have claimed dominion over lands. Those particular people in charge will probably selfishly benefit a great deal.
http://archive.is/bL88u
The San Francisco and San Jose police are super correct in this fashion. The highest paid Bay Area city employees list is dominated by patrol officers.

They will engage in it in order to scam more out of their pension (it’s based on their average pay/hours for the last N years). This means everyone collaborates to give the guys retiring more overtime to pump up his numbers.
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I wonder if this is a perfect use case for an LLM. I bet that if you did submit he code to Claude/ChatGPT with a prompt to „fix any typos in the code that was read using OCR” it would have a pretty high rate of success.
I think this just pushes the unsolved part to the middle. We'll never have an undisputed definition of the real world, as it is.

Clear cases like chinese NBA players aren't contested, but ugly social issues with layers of abstraction and contradiction.
Let's put the rungs closer together.
It's a collaboration with The Insider and Der Spiegel.

>By Lucas Minisini, Thomas Eydoux, Charles-Henry Groult, Der Spiegel and The Insider
Few notes:

- cui prodest/cui bono? So far the government witch it VERY hated by Parisian at least due to their zoning and confinement of people "for safety reasons", reasons who appear justified if someone commit crimes, the same plot observed with recent "terrorist attacks" of Charlie Hebdo, Nice etc all with a sole general effect: justify surveillance and repressive power. No one else have earned anything else good for them;

- you can surveil a city, many people in a dense area, full of surveillance. You can't surveil a whole country, so you can easily surveil, contain people rioting or some attacks in a city, you can't protect a long rail line across a country. No matter how much surveillance you have, even if you are so powerful to deploy cam on every place of the rails in the middle of nowhere you can just watch some masked biped attacking your infra, say hi! to the cam and disappear before even a drone jet can came;

- you can't protect the society against the society, or people agree to be civil and cooperative or there is no "third party force" who can keep the order and prevent a civil war. You can protect the most against very few, nothing more, actually this means that essentially ALL government can't do nothing positive because they have essentially no popular legitimization enough to be consider "the people government system". If they try to tighten the lace a civil war will happen. If they do not any kind of anti-social activity will happen anyway, because the society is actually fractured.
So, you're saying that 81% of Americans want the wrong things? /s
People donate their bodies to science. I'm not sure that human dissection as entertainment, even if educational, honors the wishes typically associated with that donation.

One can learn many of the same things from dissecting other mammals.
No, you have the correct take. The bimetallic bond is a thermostat. The spring is an actuator.
> the reason it's become a national economic problem is because of the scale of the problem. I probably would not be as big a deal if interest rates never went so low

Sure. But that’s about cost of capital. Not debt. If it had all been financed with equity it would be a bit more resilient. But it would still be a massive problem.
I wonder if Kubernetes/Cloud Cluster guy jumps in conversation telling how they could resolve this issue by using Cloud resiliency techniques.

Real world has lot to learn from IT infrastructure management. :-)
And if Apple can't figure out "front-end web development" then they do not deserve anyone defending them. Especially not with grotesque cult-like enthusiasm.
> and quite attractive these days.

[citation needed]

Kitchen remodels that I've seen pretty much always opt for some form of tile, which adds considerably to the cost.
> People below a certain intelligence level almost have a deliberate culture of ignorance (at least in America) - e.g. being proud of not having critical thinking skills and berating others for sounding smart.

You've conveniently not stated what you to believe that threshold to be, and likely no evidence exists to support your hypothesis so I'm not even going to ask for it.
How about

> Treescope: HTML pretty-printer & tensor visualizer for ML/NN Research in iPython
Nice. Did some quick tests with your code on site, got score of ~34000 - best solution is around 14700, so this one is only 2.3 times slower.

Used clang with -Ofast -march=native -static. Funnily, gcc gets only 54000 with the same options, 1.6 times slower.
what exactly are you arguing? russians should be allowed to keep doping and everyone should look the other way?
While many bridges and tunnels have tow trucks and operators stationed at both ends for normal vehicles, they probably do not have heavy-duty towing available quickly. These specialized trucks can tow other semi-tractor-trailers, dump trucks (both garbage and material haul trucks), etc.

Extra points for putting the large bus or truck on it's side, requiring a crane or much more work to get it on its wheels.

And you don't have to walk off, you can unload your electric scooter and zip away to start your new life as a fugitive.
The question is not if the Nazis were the bad guys, but if the Russians were bad. I think the answer is pretty simple. If anyone has any doubts they should ask millions of starved Ukrainians, thousands of killed Polish officers, hundreds of thousands of killed eastern Europeans and millions of people sent to gulags. Oh wait, you can't...wonder why? Probably because Soviets were really such a nice group of people.
How do you distinguish between ones that are actually Russia and ones that are only asserted or implied to be Russia?

Or do you?
About 44% of the population goes through college.[1] If this population was the top 44% by IQ, then the minimum IQ would be 102.[2]

Instead the average IQ is 102, meaning many college students are below average in intelligence. We’re populating our universities with students of less academic potential than you would expect given the number enrolled.

[1] https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/percentage-of-americ...

[2] https://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/IQtable.aspx
Amateur! Use a barcode font!
Most of the contracts should already mention “No illegal activities”, which should cover this, right?
> Languages like Lisp are all about planning out the whole program structure (the "Abstract Syntax Tree") upfront, kind of like a blueprint.

Lisp seems like a poor example because the emphasis there is building incrementally in an interactive REPL session. I think this style of programming would be very amenable to visual programming.
The Pact Programming Language
How to Craft Interview Feedback to Spot All-Star Engineering Talent
the only issue is prisons in the US are frequently for-profit enterprises, so there's an even more perverse incentive - govco imprisons people, private prison makes money from the government, then bills the incarcerated, private prison has money to lobby for law changes that make more people "criminals" that need to be incarcerated - it's basically the same thing except now there's a bunch of fat middlemen.

awesome.

this is justice!
HN title rewriting rules messed the title up, "Wallet" is supposed to be in all caps.
I also thought it was silly, but maybe they mean that frequentist methods still have analytical solutions in some settings where Bayesian methods must resort to Monte Carlo methods?
I clicked thinking it would be either electron shells or really ugly animal shells.
> even Microsoft behaves as if it was C# Language Runtime, given some of the latest decisions on .NET features not exposed to VB, F# and C++/CLI.

While the track record is not squeaky clean in this area, it is pretty much not true anymore and was already in a decent state for quite some time. Also, very late into .NET 8 development cycle there was a breaking change regarding ref readonly parameters, which was introduced without proper consideration of F# and caused a lot of trouble for F# team. I think after that the issue can be assumed to be fully addressed because there were changes made to ensure that F# and CIL level compatibility are considered much more comprehensively even in areas where it wasn't considered relevant in the past. It is less of a language problem and more of a popularity problem - Java just has so much more developers, so sibling languages even relatively niche ones will easily have the amount of developers and jobs necessary to clear the viability threshold.

Personally, I do not think that all, especially low-level, aspects of the platform need to be uniformly available everywhere - something like ClojureCLR certainly doesn't need to concern itself with convenient syntax for byrefs.

At the end of the day most features C# exposes that aren't syntactic sugar exist at CIL level meaning that anything can target them as they eventually become a part of ECMA spec.

It would be great to see more guest languages as .NET is a target that can offer higher level LLVM bitcode like experience with way better performance assurances than OpenJDK or GraalVM Truffle, and because guest languages implemented today are way less likely to use un-analyzable reflection or reflection emit, it means zero effort is required to turn your CIL output into a native executable.
> assuming the safety interlock is done in software

It's not. There's a conflict monitor unit that is completely separate from the signal controller.
It has direct inputs from all green or other permissive lights, and a diode matrix that determines which combinations are allowed.[1] If it detects a conflict, all signals go to flashing yellow.
"This monitor uses a standardized programming card for channel compatibility (permissives), minimum flash time, per channel Minimum Yellow Change Disable, CVM latch, and 24 volt monitor latch. Programming of this card is accomplished through the use of soldered wire jumpers. The programming card plugs into the monitor through a slot in the front panel."

All 4-way intersections use the same interlocking pattern, so there's a standard card that covers most cases. Only unusual intersections need a custom programming card soldered up.

[1] https://www.editraffic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/MMU2-1...
Further posts related to visual programming in the last month:

Visual programming should start in the debugger - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40968215 - July 2024 (56 comments)

* Unit is a general purpose visual programming system* - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40900029 - July 2024 (80 comments)
I’ve been using it as a daily driver for the past year due to web app bugs which only appear in Chrome. It’s been working fine for me.
Aligning fonts on a grid in the way you're suggesting is a common beginner mistake in typography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_(typography)
I tried to track that down. It seems to be a poster and preprint by Bob Uttl, Victoria Violo, Lacey Gibson, available at https://www.scienceopen.com/document_file/5fb398f5-274e-4729... .

If so, Google Scholar finds only two citations to it, neither interesting, which tells me the conclusions haven't been really examined by others in the field.

I bring this up because my first thought was to wonder how they handled any implicit cultural bias which might have been in the 1950s-era tests. If the IQ tests favored well-off white students, which were over-represented in college students back then, then IQ result would be excessively high for the 1950s students.

The alternative explanation for the secular decrease in student IQ is that IQ tests became less culturally biased over the same period of time.

I saw no discussion of this possibility in the paper.
Yeah, I feel like this blog post misunderstood the original post it was responding to. The argument wasn't simply "add visualization where it makes sense". It was "diagrams are more effective for dynamic analysis, as opposed to representing static structure, which code already represents effectively." Debugging being the #1 candidate, as you pointed out.
An ex girlfriend’s grandfather had Lewis body dementia and was constantly telling her that he could hear perfectly and entirely songs from his childhood, songs he hadn’t heard in decades.

Amazing that they’re still in there somewhere.
It doesn't support iOS Safari.
https://pypi.org/project/orjson/

Try this from pypi. Its a big boost when dealing with json in python.
Does this have implications for gaming? I know character models with lots of "accessories" clip into walls and the character body very often, and from what I gathered, the belief was that this was a hard and manual problem to solve.
> I don't think the whole Blockchain web3 thing is really doing that

I would argue most of whatever fraction of web3 projects are in good faith are trying to do exactly this. One reason to miss this is that most of the digital goods/services offered in web3 are financial in an economy that really only needs 0.01% the current level of finance in terms of its real value. There are some non financial projects which for the past year have branded themselves as "DePin" (full disclosure this is the area I work in).

> It's almost like you need something that makes use of it in a properly decentralised way. Meaning an app protocol?

The history of open markets for hard digital goods (not finance) is maybe longer than you think. If you read Brahm Cohen talk about his work at Mojo nation in the late 90s you'll see that early attempts at this left people discouraged about user demand, which is maybe what you are getting at with "app protocol". The comments of this old Unenumerated post have more ex-Mojo nation people arguing against similar ideas: https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2007/06/nanobarter.html

The situation is potentially different today with demand for more control over our digital lives and less trust in spy corps bubbling under the surface of what regular people want. One charismatic example is Blue Sky which is built on a data model ready to go for decentralized storage markets (though not using any afaik). All of the discussion around open models and AI safety also look vaguely like opportunities.

IMO a lot of future success depends on the cost curves of fundamental cryptographic primitives especially snarks (which actually look promising) and also on the potential for disruption with radically new primitives: non excruciating FHE, VDFs that actually work etc
Sure. Everything described in the article could be crammed into a single process. Instead of using a database, you could store the bitset in a file and mmap it. And instead of using a reverse proxy, you could handle the HTTP requests and WebSocket connections directly from the application.
This is the #1 feature of my Meta Ray-Ban glasses.
Not even a malicious actor. Just a Crowdstrike like bad Tesla update.
In Germany I think it's a bit of both. Beginning in 5th grade, pupils attend different schools. It differs a bit between the states, but generally those in the university track schools (gymnasium) will attend secondary school until 12th or 13th grade then go on to university while the other schools finish at 9th or 10th grade. Those students can then begin working, take an apprenticeship or attend vocational school.

While it may be beneficial to have support for apprenticeships and vocational training, it's controversial that the decision point is made so early. At that age, it may be less about the child's ambitions and abilities and more about the family's resources and social class.
Show HN: Check whether a link is safe or not
I built this to help people to identify whether a website is trying to phishing them.
This is all exactly right.

A reasonable analogy is to think of the antenna as a lightbulb that either changes color quickly or changes brightness quickly to send a signal.

If you find yourself bathed in, say, green light, it's pretty easy to look around until you see the green lightbulb.

It's very nearly the same here except that radio waves are at a much lower frequency than visible light. If you see a signal at 14.313 MHz, you can swing an antenna around and walk in the strongest direction until you get to the source, modulo reflections and whatnot.
Read the whole series (1-7). Unbelievable callousness.
https://www.sheffieldforgemasters.com/capabilities/forge
It's an older meme but it checks out, sir.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough_(poem)

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Do you think that any file system is immune from you moving files to weird places? I hate on windows on the time but this is a truly silly take.
Given that the game of life also has "no formal rules, goals or processes to encourage or kick-start artificial life", this Laurie person is very wrong or very misquoted.
Have you considered Syncthing? It's like p2p Dropbox. Open source and works great. Every photo I take with my phone magically appears on my laptop.
The great thing about Bayesian statistics is that it's subjective. You don't have to be in the subjectivist school. You can choose your own interpretation based on your (subjective) judgment.

I think this is a strength of Bayesianism. Any statistical work is infused with the subjective judgement of individual humans. I think it is more objective to not shy away from this immutable fact.
Here is his acclaimed album “Trout Mask Replica” if anyone wants to hear for themselves https://youtu.be/aF0g-2SeoMM
Have enjoyed this possibility with KDEconnect for a while. Surprising how cutting edge open source can be.
Oh just you wait.

It doesn't need to be a ragequitting and taking the toys away. If you are accustomed to having long chains of small twisty dependencies, all it takes is one Jia Tan of the Rust world to subtly alter a dependency of a dependency of a high profile dependency to own almost anything written in Rust. The said dependency can even ship precompiled bits of who-knows-which provenance, citing the same excuse as the one the author of serde used.
This whole sub-thread is about the case where the entire hash collides

Changing which bits we use changes nothing for this problem case.
Your implication being that a market crash affects no one?
Why not mandate that the car must still work if you take the computers out?
I second that. It is undescribable.-

PS. Maybe we ought to *pray* for AIs to take over certain things at least, so that they might beat us at being the *humans* that we can - apparently - no longer be with each other?
I see your point. It implies that the way we see and think is bound to this mass of people that we are in the midst of. Like a pebble in the midst of an avalanche.

How could you unbind yourself? For better seeing etc.
Clive Wearing comes to mind. He has a ~7-30s memory, but can perform and conduct complex pieces lasting minutes without interruption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing
They are (allegedly) criminals. All this people rushing to assign them to a particular left/right group just are doing damage control or trying to promote the relate that would suit better the interests of their own particular tribe.

Without more data, just criminals. Activists would behave differently IMO.
Check your owners manual to see if this type of data collection can be disabled. For our 2021 Mazda, it required a phone call to Mazda.

For real security, I’d like to pull the modem fuse, but i know neither which fuse to pull, nor if other systems might stop working.
The main example is a dude moving his arms around, and the repulsing shell/surface kind of interpolates through the motion semi smoothly.

I could totally see something like this being useful or interesting for destructive physics in video games. Like, oh, this surface/shell is about to repulse a rocket slamming into it, deform it for this hit. It's be a very different application but there's a kernel of morphology here feels similar ish, of this kind of softbodied-at-a-distance simulation.

Based on other comments though it sounds way too slow to consider for realtime games though.