skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One part of the saga of “why didn't anyone do anything?” is that this was a state's rights problem originally:

> In New Jersey, reformers won their fight for a law allowing compensation for “radium necrosis.” State labor and health agencies were able to halt lip pointing, but their power over industry was sometimes limited. For example, the New Jersey Labor Department issued to U.S. Radium Corporation an order to tighten safety for its dial painters — “comply or close.” It closed and moved elsewhere. Federal agencies mostly deferred to state authority over radium. [1]

If you have never seen the ads, they are a head trip too. People telling you how drinking radioactive water will give you “natural energy” and so forth. [2]

The craziest part is that it didn't stop due to lawsuits or regulations, it stopped because nuclear energy plants proliferated and gave us many other isotopes to work with, most of them without the 1000+ year half life of radium. The feds didn't get really involved until fricking 9/11, if you can believe it. [3]

1. https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/students/history-10...

2. https://flashbak.com/vintage-produce-of-the-day-cure-all-rad...

3. https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/students/history-10...
Some few billion reasons*
Cables is absolutely fantastic. I used it personally for an art project, as well as was involved with a commerical AR experience which used cables to run elaborate, fully interactive 3d scenes in a normal browser, on mobile. As with other node based languages (e.g. vvvv, max/msp), you edit your code while it's running, so you directly see what you're doing without constantly switching interfaces. And in the end it generates a js file you can just embed in an iframe. Honestly, no idea why this is not more widely used, huge fan!
But "sailing into the west" is not a metaphor for death, Valinor is not a metaphor for heaven (as it's a real place within LOTR world where e.g. Frodo dies). Gandalf's movie quote does not appear to be based on book material.
You can change between ones that you have a search tools extension for, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/category..., but you can't just put your own custom search engine in.

That said, keyword searches are awesome and I use them for a whole lot of things, including effectively custom search engines. I have keyword searches against, e.g., internal confluence docs so I only have to enter "con <thing I'm searching for>" and firefox will load the confluence search page, or "people <name>" to bring up our internal phonebook with a search for the employee. I don't think I've ever needed to add my own entirely custom search engine to the browser.
Drivers enrolled in the Progressive Snapshot program (who voluntarily installed an app that monitors their driving habits) are spending >10% of time on their phones. For an average commute, that would be over 100 hours of phone-while-driving per year. I really hope this is the "bad group" and not a representative sample.

Radical proposal: These people should be incentivized straight off the road. They should lose their insurance and possibly their license.
Republic of Cospaia
The Republic of Cospaia (Italian: Repubblica di Cospaia, local dialect: Republica de' Cošpäja) was a small state in northern Umbria, now in Italy, that was independent from 1440 to 1826.

"...the only written law of the tiny republic: Perpetua et firma libertas"
Hello fellow NWOTHM fan. (So much of it is so bad, but every now and then there is something awesome)
Moving the goalposts? This is about the list of allowed baked in search engines, not what the default is.
No, that's true, I was under the impression there is an encrypted version though. Was thinking that could be combined with dead reckoning.
My age v2 note for padding says “use Padmé, see Colm’s comments” :)

I’m not really sold on the UR part of PURBs, though: age wants to avoid asking for a passphrase if the file is not passphrase encrypted, and age-plugin-yubikey wants to avoid asking for a PIN if it’s for the wrong YubiKey. These are tradeoffs and it’s not obvious the very end of the spectrum (uniform random) is the right spot.
google had plenty of incorrect information at the top of the page before then, just instead of AI it was some algorithm pulling sentence fragments out of a page where the context was often the opposite of what you're asking
Games also aren't in the same league as a social media attempting regulatory caputure. You'll find some surprisingly high production value games in asia that chooses to never release outside of Asia. Maybe not even outside of its domestic country of origin.

You definitely can skip some markets and manage a successful game. The other caveat is that gamers will still find the game if they hear about it enough. They get worse ping but very few barriers from buying a game not officially supported in your region.

>I have little doubt that much of the reason behind China's regulations is good old-fashioned protectionism

It mostly is, if we're being honest. It's still a big Asian factor, despite it being a dying western sentiment to simply focus on the domestic businesses over the foreign powers. Back to the above examples, there are some Japanese only games that in fact go out of their way to region lock out overseas audiences for various reasons.
Sure if it was my actual relatives, I'm not worried about people I'm definitely not descended from that lives several thousands of years ago though. The pendulum has swung too far in favor of people claiming ownership to graves that have no relationship to them.
I have this theory I cannot prove that Microsoft has had an existential level security breach, something like a full access breach to all of Azure, but it is covered up in a "too big to fail" type manner.

I have absolutely no way to prove this gut feeling.
Knowin ILP at all, let alone well, is so rare that I totally misread your comment.

I'm one of the last purely symbolic hold-outs in ILP I guess. But if you're interested in recent neurosymbolic work using MIL this is some recent work from my colleagues:

Abductive Knowledge Induction from Raw Data

https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2021/254
https://www.ebay.com/itm/333733398766

I bought my last batch from that link and they tasted perfect.

I used to just get them from local Filipino stores/communities, if you have any. A lot of people grew them when I was in Florida.

My last house was in the desert, and wasn't able to find any locally so bought those off ebay.
Smart approach partnering with an established light aircraft manufacturer with a good safety rating (South Africa’s Sling Aircraft) rather than trying to reinvent the wheel on the base platform. That gives me more faith in the rest of the engineering decisions made on this project.

Wishing you all the best! Anything that improves the safety of flying GA aircraft like this is a good thing.
They should just dismantle those super corporations. They are already too big to tame.
Is AI going to pay its way? Wall Street wants tech world to show it the money
I agree. Zuck is cutthroat. He knew this was the best play to win. I'm ok with that because I like the outcome. But also I feel like it will create a good precedent and further a good culture that benefits everyone, that is, free and open source software.
I do not know why the American Bar Assn does not disbar that AG.
I understand the excitement on a technical level, and your plan sure sounds neat; and I definitely have a lot of respect on a personal level.

On the other hand, humanity is rolling head-first into a climate crisis, won’t stop emitting way too much CO2, and people generally refuse to adapt their lifestyle even a modicum in face of an exponentially growing list of problems.

Do we really need even more personal aviation in the situation we’re currently facing? Is that what talented engineers should work on, are personal planes in addition to personal cars really what people should be buying?
Lincoln-Douglas debates?
> I bet you probably go to this website by visiting https://209.216.230.207

What you forget is on your average home network only the last byte matters. The first 3 don't change. It's always 192.168.x.y, x is fixed so you only need to remember the y.
>The decentralization proposed in the technological field is closer to anarchist ideals

Anarchist ideals? From right-wing billionaires like Musk and Thiel? Or by centrist billionaires like...?

Because that's who is driving the technological field, ultimately — people who have more money than entire countries, to whom we are basically just bugs to be squashed if we bother them.

>I believe that the market (controlled and monitored by nations and supranational entities) functions better because it is an imperfect model that, by leveraging people's selfishness,

lmao

This doesn't feel like a serious discussion. I'm out.
I don't think so, because it was already predicted to be likely that the US Fed would lower rates by the time Japan raised theirs. The jobs report from the US sealed it.
Forced implementation of identity politics in creative content.
Simple: All they know is Google.

Launch Edge > Search "Google" > Bing displays Google Search link > Click > Google Search tells user to install Chrome > User installs Chrome > Google maintains browser and search engine monopoly
This is one of those things that is interesting but I don't immediately dis-like it like so many other ideas looking for a problem to solve. Being that it is so new, the one thing that strikes me immediately is the use of icons instead of text. I get that it looks good design-wise, but now my mind has to remember the icons. Some of the actions are short words where text could be used and not be cluttered: Move, Copy, Scale, etc. Maybe as an option?

Also, would it be possible to have a different trigger than keyboard keys? If I'm hitting keyboard modifier to enable this, I'll just hit the shortcut keys directly. What about middle-click (3-finger click on macOS multi-touch or something) equivalent to enable so that it is entirely mouse driven?
Used to live on Mt. Palomar just below the Observatory. Magical place and time in my life. Sometimes I would drive my old Benz down the hill to Pauma valley or further south through Valley Center into Escondido or sometimes north to Temecula. But often I found myself going up over the hill into the small and quaint town of Julian.

The Observatory was a place I often found myself visiting at night, to enjoy star watching events and the dinner services were equally excellent and magical.

Fond memories. Sad to see it go.
But for some people it will matter a lot.

Bear in mind I advocated clearing with a snow blower a walking path. This is far cheaper than owning a truck and plow, and can be done very fast each storm.

Note, this is a thread about cost savings in rural circumstances.

But my statements about parallel situations stand. And about people evaluating things ahead of time, they just don't. Rural living has different risks, but city born risks are just as high. IMO, higher.

Just the additional smog and pollution alone are an issue. It's even hotter in a city.

I'm sorry about your incident, but I've seen 6 story buildings with no elevator. People live there to save money too. The stairwells are not conducive to a stretcher either.

So people save as they can.

All that said, how many people move when they get older, so they're closer to hospitals?

I get why you wanted to chime in, with a personal experince though.
Tests are less crucial when your code is written by one genius who understands the whole code base coz he wrote it.
The Turkish word is also ambiguous. Chili peppers were only brought from South America in the 16th century.

England's bland food is a relatively recent development, much more recent than the language.

https://edmundstanding.wordpress.com/2020/05/28/hot-peppers-...
> I can confidently say

The confidence is the problem.

You don't understand what you're looking at, you don't understand what the artist was doing, you don't understand why they were doing it, you don't understand the constraints they were or were not operating under and why they may or may not have picked those constraints. It's like looking at a Picasso and saying "well that's the shittiest bull I've ever seen." What you're doing is like watching a boxing match and saying "it's very lazy that these people aren't using their legs" or "I don't understand why that person won, they didn't even knock the other person out!". There's a thing that's happening here that you've not bothered to learn enough about to understand whether or not the participant is accomplishing their goals, because you haven't bothered to learn what their goals are or what accomplishing them would look like.

Again, it's totally fine to say "I don't like this," or "I don't understand this" (although I'm getting the sense I'm unlikely to hear _that_ from you), but to say "this lacks artistic merit" - you absolutely do not have the knowledge, background, or apparent interest in the topic to have any idea whether or not that statement is true.
As someone interested in learning to fly this is very cool. Congrats on the launch!

> an aviation grade GPS can cost upwards of $10k, but it’s the same hardware as in a $20 consumer grade GPS

I think the cost of aviation hardware might be much higher because of issues with precision, insurance, updates, redundancy and the very small volumes compared to consumer volumes. Is there a way to certify consumer hardware for aviation applications or are there essentially monopolies and regulatory capture that limit cheaper alternatives from entering the market?
A normal car or motorcycle
I'm familiar with a number of methods that are being used in Ukraine, and the ones that drone operators seem to be most keen on is autonomous targeting. Basically, using computer vision and other sensor networks to identify and subsequently target a threat (usually in a cordoned off zone). Unfortunately the cameras, sensors, and compute hardware is expensive enough that they're trying to preserve the drone by using droppable ordnance, which is a lot harder to hit accurately. And the prices essentially mean they only get used to take out jammers, with normal FPV drones being used otherwise.

They do rely on drones being able to switch between autonomous modes upon detection of jamming attempts, which seems easy enough to do (though I know nothing about the techniques). My thought was if the detection of jamming attempts is easy enough, shouldn't it be just as easy to use RF direction finding and a fairly simple greedy seeker algorithm to find and destroy the jammer?
Good point! I guess that requires mirrors, but those can be made of less hard to refine materials.
its not about excusing intel failures. BUT
imho it is misleading in the context of the current discussion, if you also include statistics data of initial failed cpu, youre kinda polluting the pool. Thats what im criticizing here. it may not be intentional, but its definitely not helping.
it distracts from the degrading issue if you also add data from DOA cases.

in opposite other (not yet public?) data, where inital tests have been passed but subsequent tests not.

ps. and it should be crystal clear that Intel has a massive interest in anything that distracts from the degrading issue. be it letting some youtuber blaming (already debunked) motherboardsvendors or possibly (tinfoil hat mode) by 'innocently' throwing statistics to he public that include other failures and pull competitors also into the spotlight, you know how detailed public looks at statistics. they see big bar labled with amd and say hey, amd fails too - that its a total different case, most will ignore.
There is a great ”Behind the Bastards” episode on William Bailey’s involvement in spreading radiation poisoning that also covers the Radium girls [0]

[0] https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...
I absolutely loved Below the Root when I was a kid. I definitely shared the author's sense of wonder when playing. The game world felt expansive and mysterious. It was probably the closest to an "open world game" I ever played on an Apple II.

I'm excited to try out the Commodore 64 version now that I know it was the original.
Sometimes search indexing and build tools get it wrong, so if you know what you're doing, then tools like this allow you to provide an override.

Just browsing an old photo collection without making any changes can cause a 15 year old file to show up as a "new file", even though it's contents have not changed. This is especially true with media files that the os might take it upon itself to regenerate metadata for.

Or you may wish to store an accurate snapshot of the timestamps of cached or intermediate build artifacts.
Exactly what I do: Don't buy online games unless I accept that it may be gone next month. Meaning I'm very picky and focus either on studios with good reputations or games that otherwise seem to have enough commitment to assure me.
Market would correct itself and start advertising LAN hosting or guaranted offline play to bring people back.

But given current trends, I'm inclined to simply think a lot of people don't mind that risk. So I'm simply a minority in the matter, as usual. If they don't care, why should I (who's already mostly walked away) care?
Coincidentally that's how I started thinking about limits and allocating everything up front. I wanted to try out arena allocation, with one arena per http request (and one for the entire lifetime).

But when I realized that if I wouldn't allocate a large enough backing array (capacity) then memory would grow by n+(n+1)+(n+2)... every time I allocate on the arena during a request.

Now you're right that this is not necessarily a problem. But this is a side project that I just write in order to learn and explore stuff.

So I thought I would need to figure out a static capacity and was thinking about how to go about this. Then I realized I don't need a data structure that grows, but only a slice of a static memory region, which then means I don't need an arena (which can arbitrarily grow) in the first place.

Now I'm exploring all kinds of things that a web server does and where I would normally use a dynamically growable data structure. Like parsing JSON, form parameters, HTTP headers etc. And I can find natural or self imposed limits for all of those things.

For me, the most interesting thing about this isn't even performance. It's the mere fact that you _can_ figure out and design those limits. And the resulting code doesn't become complicated, but looks much simpler than I would have guessed. I really like the exactness of it all and how it changes the way I think about these things.
Are we supposing that Google made their payment conditional on obfuscating the ability to switch search engines?
It can't that why MSFT gave openai $1b, then another $10b shortly after.
I really want to try Amtrak. I've looked at it a few times. But the only train line near me only has a train at it 2 or 3 times a week, at some crazy hour like 2:30am. If I'm taking a Monday-Thursday business trip, I'd have to arrive at my destination the Friday before and return home late night on Sunday. It's just not a realistic choice, unless you're really excited about trains.

It doesn't help that the website is terrible at helping you plan a trip, if you say "I want to leave on Monday" but there are no trains at the station on Monday, it just takes you to a page saying "there are no routes, sorry" instead of suggesting the next day a train is available. I found a download link for the train schedule, and it took me a solid 10 minutes to figure out what I was looking at. (If you're following along at home: the big bold date at the top of the page is completely irrelevant. It's just today's date, so you know when you downloaded the PDF. Because of course that's why you downloaded the PDF in the first place.)

I have a friend who is really excited about trains, and he wanted to take a weekend Amtrak trip. The only way he could make it work was to ride the train up and have someone at his destination who was willing to drive him back. And even then, most of the trip was plodding along in the darkness, because the train only stops at our city in the dead of night.

They're supposed to be putting in some new lines in the coming years, one of which will stop by our city. I'm cautiously optimistic, though I'm not sure how useful those lines will be if there's no trains rolling on them at reasonable hours.
Yeah, they're very good points regarding the live feed.
Recorded music was a viable business for maybe a single century. That’s a historical blip. If you wanted to listen to music before the 20th century, your only option was live music, so that’s how musicians made money. In the 21st century this is also how musicians make money. Also, it turns out that even in the 20th century, the real money was still made on tour.
> You don't need to be more good in math than in high school.

I'm very tired of this... it needs to stop as it literally hinders ML progress

1) I know one (ONE) person who took multivariate calculus in high school. They did so by going to the local community college. I know zero people who took linear algebra. I just checked the listing of my old high school. Over a decade later neither multivariate calculus nor linear algebra is offered.

2) There's something I like to tell my students

You don't need math to train a good model, but you do need to know math to know why your model is wrong.

I'm sure many here recognize the reference[0], but being able to make a model that performs successfully on a test set[1] is not always meaningful. For example, about a year ago I was working a very big tech firm and increased their model's capacity on customer data by over 200% with a model that performed worse on their "test set". No additional data was used, nor did I make any changes to the architecture. Figure that out without math. (note, I was able to predict poor generalization performance PRIOR to my changes and accurately predict my model's significantly higher generalization performance)

3) Math isn't just writing calculations down. That's part of it -- a big part -- but the concepts are critical. And to truly understand those concepts, you at some point need to do these calculations. Because at the end of the day, math is a language[2].

4) Just because the simplified view is not mathematically intensive does not mean math isn't important nor does it mean there isn't extremely complex mathematics under the hood. You're only explaining the mathematics in a simple way that is only about the updating process. There's a lot more to ML. And this should obviously be true since we consider them "black boxes"[3]. A lack of interpretability is not due to an immutable law, but due to our lack of understanding of a highly complex system. Yes, maybe each action in that system is simple, but if that meant the system as a whole was simple then I welcome you to develop a TOE for physics. Emergence is useful but also a pain in the ass[4].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong

[1] For one, this is more accurately called a validation set. Test sets are held out. No more tuning. You're done. This is self-referential to my point.

[2] If you want to fight me on this, at least demonstrate to me you have taken an abstract algebra course and understand ideals and rings. Even better if axioms and set theory. I accept other positions, but too many argue from the basis of physics without understanding the difference between a physics and physics. Just because math is the language of physics does not mean math (or even physics) is inherently an objective principle (physics is a model).

[3] I hate this term. They are not black, but they are opaque. Which is to say that there is _some_ transparency.

[4] I am using the term "emergence" in the way a physicist would, not what you've seen in an ML paper. Why? Well read point 4 again starting at footnote [3].