skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that at the game's discretion where to run the physics code or does that selection between GPU and CPU in the NVidia control panel actually work?
Percentages are for sales pitches. 1 in 100 queries, 1 in 1,000 queries, 1 in 10,000 queries all sound way worse. If you hear 99.9 percent, you know you're being sold to. Also, censoring is only the minor problem, it's the reporting to authorities that is the real threat. "We only have to report 1 in 1,000 of your queries" doesn't sound very good. I do 1,000 queries a month.
Alas, they don't have "other issues" - because recommendation algorithms drive people down the conspiracy rabbit holes.

Conspiracy, fear, hate - they all drive engagement better than anything else. And since we all optimize for engagement, guess where things are heading. And no matter how resilient you are, there's some really dark shit out there. Ready to tear down even rather healthy people.
Maybe pay per (full) view? Granular to 1 view if possible, with thumbnails? People would conserve their views but still watch/view the stuff they like. Better than shitty Chinese ads that make me wary of even opening the Youtube app.
As someone who works on a large OS consisting of ~200m lines of C: I really don't think so.
Pray tell, what is the difference between tylenol and explicitly non-opioid Rx tylenol, aside from the dose of acetaminophen per pill?

And if the difference is merely dose and you're suggesting people should do it or otherwise they won't get the effective painkillers, this seems like an obvious injection of cost disease into the existing stupidly expensive healthcare system.
That's true, I suppose, but Russia isn't really that large of a market for a company like Google. The entire Russian economy is smaller than that of New York State, or countries like Italy or Canada.
I didn't grow up on the Amiga; I cut my teeth on the TRS-80 Color Computer line (2 & 3). My first brush with an Amiga (outside of a demo at a Babbages in the mall) was thru a guy I knew in high school who had one for video editing. He showed me (and others in our group - I had helped form a "Color Computer Users Group" and we met at this guy's house) a graphics demo - which completely blew me away. This was probably sometime in 1989 or so.

After high school, and a year in a tech voc school (where I also got to use Amigas, because at the time industrial electronics used the 68k for controllers, so we had to learn how to code and interface to them - so we used an Amiga as the platform for that), I started my first software engineering gig, and at some point I convinced my employer (a small mom-n-pop shop) to lend me the money to buy an Amiga. I ended up getting an Amiga 2000 with a monitor and hard drive.

I stayed on at that place long enough for them to give me two more loans (which got completely paid back); first for an Amiga 1200, then last for an Acer 486 PC (fell in love with Myst at Best Buy).

I still have both Amigas, the monitor (1040s), software, tons of Fred Fish floppies...lol. I don't know if any of it still works; I haven't fired any of it up in decades. I got out of the Amiga around 1992 or so, and moved on to Windows. I honestly wished I had discovered Linux at the time, but it wasn't on my radar (I had some experience with Unix, specifically AIX and RS6000 hardware - at that first employer). I didn't discover Linux until 1995. Which I found to be a close experience to what I recall on the Amiga (it's more a feeling thing for me - definitely nothing like the graphics, sound, software, etc - but the discovery and freedom, that wasn't as there with Windows).

Today, about the only thing I do with Amiga is occasionally purchase the latest version of Amiga Forever - at some point I want to build a dedicated emulation box running it.
>It is if you're a user with special accessibility requirements

But you didn't specify that when you called it "inconsistent" in the parent comment. I assumed no special accessibility, as did you, because you haven't mentioned it before. So maybe it is inconsistent of those users, for the rest it's still consistent.

>All that was needed was context-sensitivity; instead, the baby went out with the bath water.

The ribbons in Office have context sensitivity. Select an image, image ribbon is shown, table - same and so one. Since text is the primary context, it is always shown per default ("Start" ribbon).
It's just not a state approved freedom automatically given to everyone, but it's a freedom nonetheless. You get to do X which elsewhere it's impossible.
For completion's sake, here's another developer of a popular game saying his game is seeing unnaturally high sales https://twitter.com/RaymondDoerr/status/1069004011309867009. It might just be that Valve changed the algorithm slightly to show more popular games more and less popular games less. This is already what the algorithm did to some extent but it might be doing it even more now.

In my view I generally trust Valve to best serve their audience first and developers second, even with me being a developer. If people are complaining all the time that Steam isn't showing them good games then it's probably for a good reason.
> It certainly comes as a shock to all of the statisticians in the world who have indeed been working on these types problems for a long time now

Yup on high dimensional data of dimension as fantastic as 12. I feel bad for them though but they have only themselves to blame -- got too comfortable within their small world and lost touch of what the next set of interesting problems are.

Its only after getting kicked in the nuts that I see a course correction and that's enriching both ML as well as Stats.

If one computes stats on 600 data points with 10 dimensions and feels king of the hill, they can continue, but there is likelihood that some one else will be eating your lunch and you will be left behind. Sadly enough, this has already happened and is quite evident if one steps out of the stats bubble. Statistics could have been what machine learning and datamining is now, been the main driving force, the owner of initiative. On the contrary other communities are using statistics and probability motivated approaches but engineering them well to grab (funding) attention, well deserved in my opinion. It is them who got the ball rolling again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17687303
Did you know that adolescent children are clever enough to lie about their age, AND flout rules enforced by simple button clicks and honor systems?
Ugh, please no. This interacts poorly with paid leave, and gives management an extra tool of coercion. This has happened with police work and overtime - if you piss off your boss as a cop, you stop getting overtime allocated to you, and wind up getting a pretty significant pay reduction. Or if you get put on paid administrative leave, well, that doesn't include overtime, so that's also a significant pay reduction for police officers.

IMHO the real selling point for a software union would be a union-sponsored tax advantaged retirement plan that is ruthlessly optimized to being employee favored. Lots of startups don't have retirement plans or have shitty ones. Furthermore, lots of companies run into issues with non-discrimination testing for "highly compensated" line engineers. If you get things set up with a multi-employer plan with a pretty lightweight collective bargaining agreement for employers to sign, you can get significant tax advantages.
In the article they mention minimum wage and the fact that their decrease had been less than average. Middle class workers wages are down 14%
Adblock works for most of the network tv websites too! Surprisingly...
I was, of course, using the story to illustrate the absurdity of the overall situation.

I don't want to leave a secure job for an insecure situation because they're difficult to find. They won't consider a direct hire for a "perfect candidate" -- proving my fears.

My point which perhaps I should have been made more clearly is that they're asking me to leave a direct hire situation for a temp job. They're asking me for a commitment they're unwilling to make themselves.

Power asymmetries suck.
It's worse. It's not an echo chamber - because the recommendation algos don't keep you with like minded people. They purposefully guide you towards more "engagement". And online, the most engagement can be had by trolling, not by agreeing with each other.

And "contrasting viewpoints" mean little when they're sheer lunacy.
Just wanted to point out that China does not suffer by your quitting Google. You need to quit China.
Hey, could you tell me why you're using a school e-mail address for company communications?
Don't you happen to know any alternatives BTW?
What might happen if China declared war on Bitcoin?
If you have "Google Engineer" on your resume, quitting your job and finding another is a much simpler task than for 99% of the rest of the world. This guy? He can quit and he'll be fine. He can walk into any dev shop in Toronto and we'd take him- maybe not at Google salary rates, but close.

Now consider the rest of the world. The large majority of people for whom quitting for moral/ethical reasons means a significant risk of your kids going hungry. They can't just quit without something else lined up ahead of time. When you're precariously employed (and a growing percentage of the world is) you can't take that kind of a risk even if you work for the devil himself.

So given this dichotomy between employees, you would think that there would be more than just a handful of Googlers quitting for ethical reasons over Dragonfly. But there aren't. The sad truth is, the thought of making just that little bit less money per year at another company (but still more than enough to live well), the thought of losing that status symbol of "Googler", that's enough that they're willing to accept that their work will support suppression of human rights.

Instead, they'll find a mental justification for why it's okay. That's far easier. Look, Sundar Pichai has done a wonderful job of it.

And so that is why Google won't stop. Because there's no reason to. They won't lose many employees. They're dominant enough that they won't lose customers. They'll be just fine.
In the UK yeah, and I think the limit is going up. If someone uses your card fraudulently the banks have pay you back the money, and they (the banks) can get in trouble for kicking up a fuss.
I have to frequently work with Data Scientists to learn their ML models and scale them in our production environments. A lot of times the models are not even statistics, it's just linear algebra. They have a tendency to go for approximate algorithms when an exact algorithm could be written. I largely blame the company for this and not the data scientists. Every company wants to be in the ML game but may not have the volume and variety of data to warrant a use case. When your favorite hammer is ML then every data problem is a nail.
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> That’s not stopping projects from working on it.

To support that...

Grin contains a phenomenal amount of cryptography: https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin

Bulletproofs implementation in rust (small proof sizes): https://github.com/dalek-cryptography/bulletproofs

...with tons of really well done cryptography by that group (dalek): https://github.com/dalek-cryptography

Pairing based crypto library used in the second largest distribution of Ethereum (and maybe zcash?): https://github.com/paritytech/bn

These libraries have prompted me to start learning rust (albeit slowly as I'm using Go and C at work).
Apple is calling the shots here. Tumblr was not going to be allowed back on the app store while adult content was on the site.
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They’ve now flown 64 times total, and landed 32 of them.
Zai system overcomes desertifacation – Farming Africa
Sounds like you were using it wrong
Tumblr, a safe haven for adult content since 2007, is finally banning it
Internally it's the same right vs left conflict that you see in many other westernized countries, only magnified by the conflict. But in a very strange and un-hawkish move, after 500 rockets have been fired on Israel in 24 hours, Bibi didn't order any serious retaliation and deescalated instead. Coalition broke down, so now we're up for election on our hands, and Liberman, who resigned in protest against this decision, have seemingly got a lot of points.

However, I'm very curious about Bibi, because his main focus for the last few years have been international relations. His frequent visits, and building a lot of ties with muslim and muslim-friendly countries didn't win him a lot support domestically, but it may just be the key to solving the conflict. Especially in this recent situation, there are strong rumours that the main reason he decided not to allow escalation was his desire to demonstrate his reliableness to other middle eastern powers that got tired of Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood in general.

There's a lot of talk about how corrupt Bibi and his family is; but you have to take it in context, compared to western countries. All Israeli PMs (except for Gold Meir) have always been highly decorated combat military veterans, who have gone into harm's way again and again to serve their country and protect their countrymen. So while it's conceivable that they would give favourable government contracts to their friends and get a couple of millions reached from shady dealings, I don't think that a person with such history wouldn't care for his people.
I am not sure the messaging is enough these days. Most software is "free" for the average user. There is a difference between free and "free" these days, and it's a message worth spreading.
>the decision to quit over Dragonfly is mainly a voice of support for neoconservative anti-China warmongers.

I... must be reading you wrong. Can you please explain?
> Related to Nvidia's refusal to work with everyone else on Wayland support, no doubt.

this is more complicated than I can really comment on, but from my understanding it was not an issue of nvidia's refusal to work on it so much as it was an issue of nvidia not being allowed a seat at the table to discuss it. the wayland protocol was effectively demanding a ground up rewrite with no ability for compromise purely because nvidia being closed source meant they weren't entitled to an opinion. which is... wow

I'm sorry that's the typical experience you've had with the driver, though I'm a little surprised by that actually. I don't run x on ubuntu, but I know there were some issues in the past where they were attempting to "smartly" configure the driver for certain setups and instead end up causing headaches. Though that is really my main issue with ubuntu in general, that they try to "help" you because they know best, and also one of the reasons I don't run it. I just use the runfile installer and let it auto-generate the base xconfig.
We often get false positives as well. I've wished there were some way to signal a false positive to the device after Siri is activated, like "Siri, I didn't ask for you," to help it learn/train it. Not sure how feasible such a function would be, but I imagine it would be helpful feedback down the line on the engineering end. Anything to reduce the false positives would be great as they are a) a nuisance and b) further confirmation to friends/family who witness it, that we've made a mistake allowing a "surveillance" device in our home.
I've personally jumped out the battlefield franchise, and hadn't bought a cod since it left steam (funny coincidnece with that boycott pic tho, mw2 is one of my longest played games ever, then I discovered indies, then war thunder https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197986674427/games/...)

it's not much, but every now and then an horror story like this gets out and I'm just glad of being, dunno, suspicious of company with misaligned goals?

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/96e9j5/ea_deleted_m...

and he's one of the lucky one: he hit reddit all so the backlash prompted action.
The "sport" example does exactly what it is intended to do: showcase a grammatical ambiguity.

substitute a player with X

is ambiguous, as demonstrated by the examples:

substitute a player with another player
substitute a player with half an hour still to play
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I recall several years ago hearing about other companies, particularly IBM, patenting technologies related to homomorphic encryption. I wonder if there is any risk to some of this infringing on a patent and what that means for users of OSS when that happens.
well I think they bought yahoo, and tumblr just came with it.
Tesla Model S Appeared to Drive 7 Miles on Autopilot While Drunk Driver Slept
maybe not provide them the smartphone, and also limited the time of playing tablet?
Different diets are practiced by all manner of different communities in the US for many different reasons. There are more possible variations than we could ever agree upon terms for.

Some people consider honey non-vegetarian because it comes from animals. Some don't eat the crackers shaped like goldfish. Some will eat dairy, but only if it's known to be processed without certain animal-derived additives. I once met someone who had a simple rule: he didn't eat anything with opaque eyelids.

(Personally, I just aim for 99.9% vegan and I don't worry if some sauce has a tiny bit of fish dust in it.)
I watched the livestream over dinner on youtube. Really good footage this time. Clear weather and they shot the first stage landing with a zoom lens from land. Including pretty much all of the landing burn.
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They should really just have made another site (which could be fairly easy given they already have the technology developed, just get a new domain, set up a new server instance, tweak the design and that's it) if they want a "clean" one. Tumblr is essentially a porn site, banning all the porn from it to compete with Instagram makes as much sense as banning all the porn from PornHub to compete with YouTube.
>From what I've seen, Tumblr can be a very toxic place and I could understand why advertisers would have problems with the content that ends up next to their ads.

I'm with you on the free speech thing. Early days of the internet I was much more optimistic / naive about free speech and the internet. Now, not so much. Not that I belive in government censorship, but maybe less naive about the results of free speech.

I guess it would change if I had tons of money rolling in, but just generally if I created / ran a social media site, Facebook, Reddit... whatever. I'd feel really NOT OK with a lot of the content those sites are ok with hosting.
That and fan fiction - which mostly has porn in it anyway
Exactly. The parent comment underscores the patronizing and disrespectful view of the Chinese people implicit in the anti-Dragonfly rhetoric.

It also notes the bias that the Chinese Government is the customer, and the people just hapless victims of that government.

This disrespect of the agency of the Chinese people is being used as it always is, to justify an over-simplified, binary, political type of moral indignation.

The warning sign should be the emotion of indignation over foreign politics. It’s a clue that one is probably wrong.
Not to point out the obvious, but the content you are talking about isn't going to be affected.

The issue with banning adult content, is that it often ends up being more easy to ban all adult content and LGBTQ+ content.

Generally speaking, people on the fringes lose a safe place to discuss issues that matter to them, due to keyword proximity to pornographic keywords.
Nah, the rise of "....!!!Rowboat Dungeon" would quickly outshine.
Whatever’s happening with the climate, we should be working to mitigate the risks - decrease the cost of food while increasing resilience of production; same goes for our infrastructure, what else? I get the feeling we’re being snowed with all this hyperbole around CO2 and rhe warming planet. Bottom line is we need to become stewards of the Earth and Sea; fretting about carbon emissions is a distraction.
Let's say a country allows well over 99% of websites to be accessed, it only blocks Google products because the country's government doesn't agree with them fundamentally. I think that would make Google a tad upset.
It seems strange to own Tumblr... and then reject a large chunk of it.

Why even own it then?
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