skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's relevant vis a vis the NPR piece on Tik Tok's internal investigation spurred on by the Forbes piece.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41832903
Quite many "normal people" also enjoy the freedom of the automobile. It has contributed significantly to the culture of autonomy, unity on large scales (beyond one's local town), and cosmopolitanism. Online, it is acceptable to be cynical about cars, but in the real world, among common people, this mindset is not that prevalent.

Even in European countries lauded for great public transport, people own and enjoy cars. Of course, there are benefits to public transport that the car cannot offer, such as efficiency at scale. But it's not so black-and-white. There are also benefits to car ownership that public transport cannot offer, such as independence.

One might say that Uber, car sharing companies, and shopping online are bridging the independence gap. To an extent, this is true. But not always. Particularly, not when the non-car-ownership option is much more expensive, and not when people’s needs demand a higher level of independence.

My point: much of this has more nuance than is opined online. Do not presume when speaking for “normal people”.
If you do that, your kid won't fit in and will be a social outcast
A larger sample size isn't inherently better, but if a large sample size from a diverse enough pool of people can be used to eliminate and/or identify confounding variable and distortions.
I agree with you. I was just stating a fact, not criticizing.
yooo I'm the creator of Tokin!

thanks for posting, I just saw this

if anyone has questions/feedback I'd love to hear it
Sometimes I just feel too tired to be actively engaged in the moment and i feel the time just passing by. Not sure what the solution is.
Are they still pushing their crypto?
Make sure you're contacting hhs.gov and not www.hhs.gov, the www. subdomain reacts differently.

$ printf 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: hhs.gov\r\n\r\n' | nc hhs.gov 80
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 01:38:29 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.hhs.gov/web/508//
Content-Length: 212
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>302 Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Found</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.hhs.gov/web/508//">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>
^C
$ printf 'GET / HTTP/1.1\nHost: hhs.gov\n\n' | nc hhs.gov 80
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 01:38:40 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 226
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>400 Bad Request</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Bad Request</h1>
<p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br />
</p>
</body></html>
What would he make if he were working in the local city instead? Fifo truck drivers can almost make that.
The military rapidly gave up on the Shuttle after the first accident. No shuttle was ever launched from the pad on the west coast at Vandenberg (plenty of F9s have been, though.)
Jewish diaspora existed way before the fall of Jerusalem. Before Jewish-Roman wars, 10% of Roman Empire was Jewish, about 8 million with only 2 million living in Judea.
1 million Jews lived in Persia (probably the ones that stayed when Babylonian captivity ended, since only 50,000 came back with Zerubbabel to build the second temple)
It's a bonfire, turn the lights out
Unless you're gonna make it fully automated, it's not gonna work here as it can't be within kilometers of the landing site during landing in case there's a catastrophic failure.
if the leaves are blowing back and forth between the transmitter and the receiver, they would introduce a doppler shift into the signal

of course, you shouldnt be listening to radio during a tornado, but...
It's not 100% nonsense, though it's true that phase noise does exist. FM radio can transmit silence, which gives it a better dynamic range, which is important for music. If your AM radio signal is 10dB stronger than the radio noise in the band, you'll get noise in the demodulated signal only 10dB quieter than the signal. Due to the so-called "capture effect" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_effect the effect on an FM-demodulated radio signal is potentially much less—though it's true that, with narrowband FM, it won't be.

That's why commercial FM broadcasting uses a ±75kHz deviation even though it was originally only transmitting audio of ≤20kHz. Adding all this extra bandwidth to an AM station wouldn't actually help, because beyond ±20kHz, you're only improving your radio station's ability to reproduce ultrasound. But it does help FM; it greatly reduces the amplitude of demodulated noise, because, even without a PLL, the frequency deviation caused by additive white noise increases much more slowly with bandwidth than the frequency deviation you can use for your signal. With a PLL, I think the frequency deviation caused by additive white noise basically doesn't increase at all with bandwidth. (I guess I should simulate this; it should be pretty easy.)

Unfortunately neither Cook's article nor the flashlight analogy explains any of this.
That makes a lot of sense to me. One of my strongest hints that a non-relational data store might be a good idea is "grows by billions of rows a day".
Stained glass won’t (I think) shift any frequencies. It will attenuate different frequencies differently, but it won’t make up new ones.

So when the signal frequency changes, you’ll still see that change, but the light might get brighter or dimmer at the same time due to the stained glass. But you don’t care about the brightness to begin with.
> That's pretty obviously not going to be viable with any existing technology.

What Musk understands is that technology is a moving target. You shoot for where it will be, not where it is now. Sometimes he's overoptimistic, however a robotaxi seems well timed.

Have you seen the GPT-4o videos? I don't know how anyone can watch those and believe that vision e2e self-driving vehicles are somehow a long way off.

It takes years to manufacture a new vehicle type. When the Cybertruck was announced the SOTA in language models was GPT 2. Now we have multimodal conversational models with vision.

By the time the robotaxi rolls off the production line, the software will be ready. And if the software is ready, then the model of owning cars will be disrupted for many people living in dense urban environments.

The real risk is in not preparing for that eventuality, which is the same type of unpreparedness risk that the legacy launch industry is facing with Starship.
> Took the side of the right-wing rioters who attacked mosques in the UK, saying civil war is inevitable

Leave out the part where the riots were started because someone with an immigrant background killed a bunch of kids at a Taylor Swift concert and police were withholding the identity. Along with your other 'anecdotes', can you make your political position any more transparent?
Is it possible to force the AI to use a poetry style like "soneto" https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soneto ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet ) where the rhyme and metric is obvious?
Looks like Safari Technical Preview TP only? https://caniuse.com/?search=temporal

https://caniuse.com/mdn-javascript_builtins_temporal_duratio...

Temporal.Duration: https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/#Temporal-Duration

IIRC Python datetime objects initially lacked timezone support and a timezone database.

datetime.MINYEAR and the "can't represent datetimes before the Unix epoch, or before 0001-01-01" problem.

E.g. Astropy supports astronomical year numbering and year zero.

Year Zero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero

Python datetime module: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html
>and then to the Wendy's it is

I didn't really catch that pop culture reference. What does that mean?
> My wife and I abandoned all social media

...I'm sorry, I have to point out, you're posting this on what is basically a social media site.
A lot better than pushing user data collection, ads and analytics no?
The case for the Shuttle was so marginal they needed every prospective customer they could get. The military was dragged into it unwillingly, but did give their requirements when forced to commit. They backed out as quickly as possible after the Challenger disaster.
come on dude lol
"Since you don't consider this a vulnerability worth fixing, I feel obligated to let people know their zendesk might be misconfigured".
Timestamp of the different angle?
My guess: The competition catches up, you lose all paying clients, and you get to apply for jobs at Wendy's...?
Some of the things I've personally encountered are attempts to service refrigerant without first weighing tank, and a claim that R-22 systems can no longer be serviced due to EPA refrigerant ban; I suspect these are very common grifts.

Still worse, a brazen attempt to service an older R-22 system with R-410A, which would have completely destroyed a heat pump that I ended up getting an additional 5 years of serviceable life out of (after dismissing that clown on the spot).

Other ridiculous mistakes I've had to deal with are incorrect wiring of air handler emergency heat source during initial installation that prevented system from cooling; and on that same heat pump system less than a year later, discovering an improperly secured lug within exterior disconnect box that eventually created enough heat to fry ~6 inches of insulation before failing open and killing power to compressor (in retrospect, city inspector not only should have caught this, but should have required the contractor to replace the disconnect box altogether to remain in compliance with prevailing residential building code).

The grift has gotten so bad over the years that a few friends---a professional ME and electrician---have gone out of their way to earn § 608 tech certs[1] to legally purchase refrigerant and have sufficiently tooled themselves up to handle common failure modes.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/section608/section-608-technician-certif...
There's not that much free space available. It's a maximum of 10%. Almost everyone who was ever going to be able to go here is able to do so, they're just paying more for the privilege and they aren't wasting as much time driving around creating traffic trying to find parking.
You do get some frequency deviation from AWGN. The sum of equal-amplitude 100Hz and 120Hz sine waves is a 110Hz sine wave that "beats", which is to say, is amplitude-modulated, at 10 Hz (or 20Hz from a certain point of view). So, if you have a 120Hz signal and you add a 100Hz signal to it, you should expect that to deviate the frequency of the detected signal downwards. AWGN will have varying, random amounts of all frequencies in it, which will cause varying, random amounts of frequency deviation as they add to your signal.

It's definitely easier to understand in the Fourier domain.
But at least they’ll be functional with a potentially positive trajectory vs their peers.
And so? Emacs GUI already does tons of things that don't work in terminal:

- It can render different fontsets

- PDFs

- SVG and images

- Emojis and file icons

- Tooltips

- Drag&Drop and better mouse support (scrolling, selection, etc.)

I think it would be great to have a better GUI layer and native web-browser integration. Emacs' evolution doesn't have to be constrained by terminal limitations, and so far it doesn't seem that it was.
b for boolean
d for distance / date
e for error / exception
f,g are often used as generic function name
g can be global value
r for radius
r is a random value
t for tally
t is any temporary value
m for matrix
I'd think about it less as trust and more as risk. Specifically, risk arbitrage.

The originating buyer wants quality work, probably as a one-off, but doesn't know or want to know how to find someone like that. Everyone is high risk.

A matchmaker company in the middle has ongoing relationships with the end contractor, knows their work is decent, and provides a framework / legal liability / insurance on top. The contractors they know are lower risk.

So the matchmaker can charge {full cost of high risk - slight discount} while knowing they're actually only taking on {lower risk}.

Where it seems to go pear-shaped is when the matchmaker gets too large and can no longer individually vouch for their contractors (e.g. IBM Services and globally integrated service companies).
China Holds War Games in a Warning to Taiwan's Leader
https://archive.is/DuUhg
2024 Nobel Prize in Physics and Artificial Intelligence
We might be having a case of is/ought talking past each other.

Many people are hired onto rough framing crews with no experience. That's what defines it as entry-level work, IMO. You're saying that people without experience make errors in rough carpentry, which makes it not entry-level. (I would say that makes it "not unskilled" but still "entry-level" [because you can be hired with no experience].)
Even worse: It would be Google taking Spotify‘s app and renaming it YouTube Music. That’s what Matt did. They didn’t develop a new plugin and put it in place of ACF. They just took the existing one and pretend it’s theirs. It’s horrifying. How am I supposed to trust a system that’s governed by a single person that thinks this is okay?
Fond memories. I was a teen and gifted a laptop that had USB ports, a floppy drive, and no working CD drive. I used Plop on a floppy to boot off USB and install Windows XP.
No disagreements there, but I was just correcting misinformation in the previous post
My friends with young kids 3-11 all let their kids use iPads. All of the kids seem well adjusted, able to read (a worry I saw), etc. I have no idea what limits they have but the kids are social, they don't hide on their iPad when people visit but instead interact with the parent's friends.

The point being, unlike lots of comments here, I haven't seen any evidence of ill effects of young kids have access to electronics. I have no idea what these parents do and what limits they place, only that they didn't need to ban electronics from their kids lives to raise good kids.

Of course it's anecdata. One family, 2 daughters, 5 and 8. Another, son 11. Another son 11, daughter 7. Another, daughter 3.

I have also seen the opposite. Kids who can't function if their screen is taken away and are anti-social. But given the other kids, it doesn't seem to be the screen that's the problem.
My daughter has an iPad (we limit to 2 hours of screens) but she also loves reading and will read for hours a day.
Honestly, I didn't realize how fast and far it would go off. Maybe I'm out of touch.

I was actually just wondering if Musk didn't care about Politics and all the political maneuvering was still with the goal of getting to Mars. Space and Politics are like peanut butter and jelly. Hard to separate these subjects.
Kermit is interesting also, though my understanding was that it was not quite as good as taking advantage of higher available data rates; am I wrong about that?
Imagine growing up without a phone in the 90s. That’s what these Luddite patents are advocating. It’s hard.

We actually have banned social media until 16, but fortunately iMessage was the defacto coordination and we accepted that.

No TikTok until adults, for a host of reasons.
It's not an advanced algorithmic feed designed with the sole intent to consume as much of you attention as possible...
The hard part of 2nd stage reuse is surviving entry at orbital speeds. They are close to having that solved.
Curious, why would it matter that the cursor stays where you were when paging down?
This stuff is utterly incomprehensible to me as well, but I don't think Haskell is trying to be a mainstream use-it-for-everything language. It does get plenty of real-world usage and the people who like it really like it, so for a language so complicated to get as much use as it does sounds like it "took off" perfectly fine
Exactly! For many drugs it's essentially a funny accident of history that they were originally discovered while attempting to cure something completely unrelated to what is now their primary usage.
in semver, if your major version is 0, then any change can be breaking, which, imo, is why semver projects stay pre-1.0 for so darn long.

So even with semver, pre major version 1 is pretty much meaningless.
One that isn't listed here, and which is critical to machine learning, is the idea of near-orthogonality. When you think of 2D or 3D space, you can only have 2 or 3 orthogonal directions, and allowing for near-orthogonality doesn't really gain you anything. But in higher dimensions, you can reasonably work with directions that are only somewhat orthogonal, and "somewhat" gets pretty silly large once you get to thousands of dimensions -- like 75 degrees is fine (I'm writing this from memory, don't quote me). And the number of orthogonal-enough dimensions you can have scales as maybe as much as 10^sqrt(dimension_count), meaning that yes, if your embeddings have 10,000 dimensions, you might be able to have literally 10^100 different orthogonal-enough dimensions. This is critical for turning embeddings + machine learning into LLMs.
LOL killing protected wildlife and destroying protected wetlands is funny! Government is useless and clean water is for betas!

Tell me you’re an Elon apologist without telling me you’re an Elon apologist.
> Automattic is an ecosystem participant

They were, until the CEO started burning decades of goodwill. At this point I'm looking at what I should do to get off Automattic for my website, I'm legit scared plugin developers are going to get spooked.
This article is about TikTok Live, a separate part of the product. I don't use TikTok, but I think it's a little less short-video feed, and a little more Twitch Hot Tub streamers (https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2021/05/21/lets-talk-about-hot-tub...). I think the target market and how discovery works in the product are quite different so it's quite possible you've never ventured into it if you're there for the short videos and not the streamer worship.
There are a lot of creative mods + abilities. That the Lua programming language is core to the engine, means it is easy to do all sorts of supported creative things with the engine. But some of the mechanics and 'smoothness' of play that you can get in Minecraft just isn't there yet in Minetest, due to how the network protocol works. Give it a shot, you can play a local world with very little effort, and if you know lua, look at some of the 'world' definition code.
TikTok isn't remotely a threat to any of the US tech giants.

And the idea that Meta has never been considered a villain is just laughable.
>I have no idea what limits they have.

I think that's the key part here.
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Yeah, I changed the orbit position to randomly sampling orbit locations and asteroid belt gaps are definitely rendering artifacts.
it's funny the article mentions miami. miami also dredges sand from offshore and even imports sand from overseas
From the very beginning, Islam positioned itself as a successor to Judaism and Christianity - it is unsurprising that even early Islam classified as a holy city the city which both of its predecessors (from its own perspective) viewed as the holiest city on Earth. As a non-Muslim I don’t believe that Muhammad was a genuine prophet, but I doubt he was a conscious fraud either - I think he genuinely believed his revelations were from God, even if they actually arose somehow from his unconscious mind. He came out of a community of Arabs (the Hanifs) who were attracted to monotheism and dissatisfied with the traditional Arab polytheist religion, but who at the same time viewed both Judaism and Christianity as too “foreign”-they viewed Judaism’s religious laws as overly onerous, and as an ethnic religion, conversion to Judaism involved effectively giving up their pre-existing Arabic ethnic identity for a new Jewish one; Christianity was the state religion of their external Byzantine enemy, plus its Trinitarianism seemed too close to the polytheism they’d rejected. Coming out of this milieu, Muhammad was familiar with the idea of Jerusalem as a holy city from both of those religions, so he essentially “split the difference”: proposed Mecca and Medina as holy cities of his own, while simultaneously inheriting the idea of Jerusalem as holy from those two earlier monotheistic religions which he positioned his own as a replacement for. And to reiterate, even if this was his unconscious logic, consciously he was just doing and saying whatever God told him to.

Also, it wasn’t just Jewish people who lived in what is now the territory of Israel in ancient times - it always had a significant population of polytheists (Canaanite, Phoenician, etc), plus two thousand years ago the Samaritans were a massive community of military significance, not the tiny minority they are today. Most of its non-Jewish population converted to Christianity - along with a significant chunk of its Jewish population. And then when Islam came along, the majority of its Christian population converted to Islam (a slow process over many centuries). Arguably, Palestinians are just as much descendants of its ancient population as Jews are, indeed, Palestinians are likely in part descended from Jewish converts to Christianity and Islam.
Zola seems to be a wedding planner... so a completely different thing!
I doubt the case will make it to trial. I think they'll be settling in the next few weeks. But I did double check, and you're right of course, the complaint does allege they violated the CFAA when they cut off access from WP.org infrastructure.
Revisiting Known
I mean until the USG stops footing the bill for the President and VP this isn't going to change. You can pay an external contractor more than the VP but not a federal employee (some handwaveyness around locale benefits).

If Kamala had to actually pay for all of the stuff she did out of her $284,600/yr salary we'd see that number go way up real fast. I doubt that even covers her security detail if she stayed at the Observatory all year.

The USA has a revenue of ~4.5 Trillion and the 2nd in charge gets <300k while companies with well under 1T revenue have numerous employees with $xx million compensation.

> [1] The aggregate limitation on pay for members of the Senior Executive Service and employees in senior-level or scientific or professional positions covered by a certified performance appraisal system is the total annual compensation payable to the Vice President under 3 U.S.C. 104 on the last day of the calendar year.

[1]: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-admi...
If we listened to naysayers like you we wouldn't have ever moved out of caves
I wonder if they recover the helium used to pressurize the propellant tanks.
To be clear, version a is referring to literal (non-metaphorical) crutches, and is not the version being used here because GLP-1 agonists are not literal crutches. Version b is the only possible use of the word being used in this conversation, and is always pejorative. "Oh, you broke your foot, you're getting around on a crutch" = Always version A, literal, non-pejorative. "Oh, you're obese, you're using medicine as a crutch to cure it" = Always version B, metaphorical, pejorative. There's no confusion.
> SpaceX control system also has to compensate for the fuel moving inside their rockets so the control algorithms probably involve some kind of fast numerical fluid simulation.

Surely this isn't necessary with a small enough sensor granularity or whatever the terminology is. You can have very dumb software if it reacts quickly enough to changes in perception.
From the government as a whole? No. But for some specific department to get funding over others? Yeah, probably that sort of jockeying for funds happens all the time.
60-80K I'd guess is about usual for an electrician I think, maybe 100K
See also: Matrix Operations for Image Processing, Paul Haeberli, 1993

https://graficaobscura.com/matrix/