skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - They describe Google's demonstrated ability to remove malware from user's devices as a "backdoor"

from wikipedia "A backdoor is a method, often secret, of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer system, a product, or an embedded device "

Seems to fit.

> - They describe parental controls as "censorship"

"Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient"."

Also seems to fit.

I could go on about the other points, but most of it is true almost by definition.
They've got you right where they want you.. /s
> Such a bunch of weasels

I think it's more like a very big weasel and his cult-followers.
> Just think of all the crypto mining out there for example, imagine how many people could accidentally allow crypto mining software to be installed and all of that data being transferred for half a month and then BAM big bill.

Not to deride your point, but crypto mining typically uses very little data since you only need the data contained in the block header, and don't need all of the transactions.
Isn't this the primary target market for the new blockchain distributed processing services that are cropping up? Such as Golem, OTOY, etc. Kind of the next iteration of bitcoin mining, rather than SETI.
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A gas generator can only run on gasoline, which is a complex fuel that can't be produced without a highly specialized industrial infrastructure But.... a moderately modified diesel generator can run on pure filtered vegetable oil, and that's something that any small homestead with a modest amount of planning and equipment can make, for as long as they have oil-bearing plants at their disposal.
My DSL survived a tornado. I'm on Ontario Bell (through teksavvy).
Mystery.org (YC S17) is hiring Rails developers to help children stay curious
Hmm, no mention of Megatron in their timeline? https://nv-adlr.github.io/MegatronLM
I feel like DRM is basically the prisoner's dilemma at this point where it's in everyone's interest to give it up, but no one wants to be the first person to do it.

But honestly it's weird for GNU to fault the person being held at gunpoint for the situation, not the person holding the gun.
As someone who was enthralled with these books as a kid, I especially liked this part:

> It would be reasonable to ask why I would bother to make an actual working machine for a search-and-find picture book with no video component nor any explicit instructions for readers to build their own. But knowing the forensic scrutiny readers typically bring to my books, I wanted to reward that scrutiny with a machine that met the demands of real-world, cause-and-effect conditions.
Medical Medium is bullshit. Dude claims a spirit from the future psychically communicates advanced medical knowledge to him alone... garbage like celery water curing autoimmune diseases.

His website has an extensive legal medical disclaimer that basically says "none of this is medical advice, if you listen to me it's all on you"
Oh my listen Zachary Vochies.. Real truths of this liar company.

Google go away. Discrace of technology..
In the same way that speakers are microphones, all motors are generators, albeit probably with very low efficiency.
Aaaaand confirmed! You do work for Apple. (It took me 30 seconds to visit your website and confirm this.)
Infrastructure is a concern. But to me the bigger concern is the food supply. It, like gasoline, runs lean; very just in time.

Look at what the possibility of a snow storm does to the supermarket. Now imagine the effect on the public psyche when they're told "we'll have more food next week."
So are good workers.
Building Systems with Transactions Using Apache Kafka
"Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." Of course, depending on the circumstances, "fool" can be harsh but the sentiment is there, regardless.
Same things we do now. Lighting, yes. Communication. Power tools. Pumps. Winches. Automation. GPS should last a good while too.
Nope. AOSP runs on a mobile device which is malware

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html
They do have emergency base stations mounted on vans with diesel generators, these can run indefinitely.
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Are there any real use case for GPT-2? Does it solve any problem?
I've read almost all state of the art leaderboards of all Nlp tasks of paperswithcode.com and truth is except text generation, openAI has not one state of the art, they are not even visible in leaderboards.
OpenAI is maybe the AI research center with the biggest funding and comparatively to other well known (Microsoft, Facebook, Google or even zalando..) they are the ones with the least results.

From my observations most SOTAs come from chineses researchers by far, followed by deepmind.

BTW isn't that a sad truth that not even one of all major AI actors has a draft of an AGI architecture, something comparable to CYC or opencog.
https://wiki.opencog.org/w/CogPrime_Overview

Two other observations I would like to share:
Many important NLP tasks have almost nobody publicly working on them it seems, on paperswithcode.com or NLP-progress (from github) some tasks have only one or two papers...
And many others have not evolved since 2016.
Most of the time it seems trivial to beat the old state of the art, just use BERT or XLnet on a task where nobody applied it before and hop, free state of the art for you! Yet researchers don't seems to chase those low hanging, high returns fruits.
Also researchers seems to work a lot in isolation, many new generic improvements like new optimizers (RAdam for example) and new activation functions (Swish) allow to beat most of older state of the art on almost all task just by using them.
Yet researchers will take years before using them because of an absurd inertia.
Also unlike an open source program, BERT and XLnet have very low response and activity on github despite major open issues...
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Well, you might reasonably expect that a theory describing how to compute numbers will give you more computable numbers than uncomputable ones, no?
"63% of US companies now have remote workers, according to a 2018 Upwork Study."

Hmm, I don't believe this number. According to the SBA [1], there are over 30 million small businesses in the USA (averaging just under 2 people each). These constitute the vast majority (99.9%) of US companies.

You probably can't do "an online survey of 1,005 workforce hiring decision makers obtained through a third-party, independent online sample" and get useful information about 63% of all companies. This sounds like Sample Bias galore. There aren't even 19M (.63*30M) companies with offices in this country.

[1]: https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/advocacy/2018-Small-...
BERT and its descendants do better at all of this, and are the industry standard now
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805
WeWork generally does 15+ year deals on their leased space. What is the real lifespan of the average office building?
In response to your second question, I believe that gcc and llvm both support power.
Yup, and there are thousands of animal strikes every year in my state alone. Every three days or so there's fresh roadkill on the side of the road when I drive into work.

Night, day, twilight - a bicyclist can only increase their likelyhood of surviving their trip by adding reflectors and wearing bright clothing.
That's not really all that elliptical, especially compared to the eccentricity that the original orbit has. Also note that that figure was for the lander, not the orbiter.
Data Leak Exposes Biometric Data of over 1M People
You're going up against people who have considerable brain processing power (not even CPU power, more like GPU power -- 99% of it below the threshold of consciousness) hardwired from birth to decipher social cues and generate appropriate responses, and are far more practiced at such than you. This isn't something you can just "get the hang of". You will always be n00b-tier amongst neurotypicals, who are playing quite a different game. They can integrate facial microexpressions, micro-gestures, subtle changes in body posture and tone of voice of a room full of people and synchronize their own behavior and voice to shape the group dynamic while you're still figuring out whether a particular person's laugh was one of scorn or approval. That's why it feels forced and fake -- you're involving active processing from your CPU in a loop that for most is damn near reflexive. And yes -- they notice, but it probably doesn't pass their "geez, look at that weirdo" threshold, so you're good. And an original thought or two will endear you to them.

The good news is you have considerable brain circuitry freed up to apply to things that interest you -- like assembly programming and learning Japanese. Suitably trained, this circuitry can be quite powerful. And you can even spot patterns in people's social behavior that others may miss. Because allistics are hardwired for sociality, their consciousness itself is shaped by social cues to a much greater extent. Increased resistance to the effects of things like advertising is damn near a superpower in its own right in today's world.

That said, being Japanese would be extraordinarily difficult for the likes of you. If you thought Western society was tough, wait till you try participating in a society where social harmony and group consensus are the bedrock of the entire friggin' nation. I do not envy Japanese people on the spectrum even a wee tiny bit.
I can't speak for WeWork specifically since the closest one to me is about 3 hours away, but I'm renting space at another co-working place near me starting next week. The space is $275/mo for a dedicated desk, compared to $1300/mo for the cheapest (second floor) office space nearby. And that $1300/mo does not include furniture, utilities, or coffee. If you need an office, it's a no-brainer. And I'm not going to meet clients at my home.

I'm not sure what "noob" factor there would be... meeting clients at home would be worse. Meeting them at a cafe would be better than at home, but worse than an office. WeWork or any other coworking office is one step below your own office, but far above the alternatives. If you're worried about the signals you're sending to clients, at least a rented office (even at WeWork) sends the message "we have enough money to afford this". A cafe or home office does not send the same message.
They were knitting, carving and painting.
> Github had a stronger association with open source than Bitbucket (dunno why though).

Early on GitHub gave out free public repositories, but Bitbucket gave our free private repositories. Working in public is aligned much more closely with open source than working in private is.
Absolutely this. There are real issues worth real discussion, both on this post and their related Apple post. But these are the posts of a conspiracy theorist instead; they don't enable any sort of rational discussion.
A concrete example from this week is Dan Povey, one of the greatest speech recognition engineers in the world, who was fired from JHU this week.
If only this had happened as Opteron was taking a beating in the server market.

Now with EPYC Rome, I wonder just how many takers IBM will have.
Steam can saturate a 10Gbits/s in Stockholm so I doubt it wouldn't be hitting 100mbit/s on your connection.

Dropbox does not throttle at 100mbit/s either.

Maybe it's a problem with your ISP or your router?
> I hope someone from WeWork reads this, and knows it to be true.

You mean the people (mainly the CEO) who is cashing out massively as a result of the IPO?
It's a double-edged sword. One of the goals of putting someone with better social skills in the management position is that they should be using that to get information they need. You can have the greatest socialite in existence as a manager and still fail because they were not able to correctly identify what is most important to pay attention to at the time. There needs to be a balance.
Thus your other electricity-related problem in an infrastructure collapse scenarios would be replacing broken down factory-made parts for the whole diesel/veggie oil generator apparatus, but with enough spare components carefully stored, this could be mitigated against for a certain extended time.
HAIM: An Interpolating Language Model
You got yourself a jewel of a spouse then!
How's the typing speed and habits of those opposed to text chat? It's not often asked about in interviews, but I've noticed some co-workers do not view typing as being fast and effortless like I do.
DNSCloak (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dnscloak-secure-dns-client/id1...) seems to do the job.
> Just curious - do you (or anyone else reading) ever feel resentful that you're the one who's expected to act in a way that makes no sense to you, instead of the other way around?

When I was younger, I was mostly frustrated, with resentment on rare occasions. An interaction I had:

Me: writing a script to write a daily schedule of tasks for my job
Boss: "You have better things to be doing."
Me (confused): "Like what?"
Boss (presumably annoyed): "The documentation needs to be updated."
Me: Updates hundreds of pages of documentation
Me: goes back to writing script
Boss (from behind me): "I thought I told you not to work on that script."
Me: ???

I was very confused, because, no, he hadn't told me that; and I was a little annoyed when I found out that was what he wanted. I thought, "Why didn't he just say that?"

I found out later he thought it was a security risk for me to be writing the script[0] and he was generally incompetent (considered that way by both his peers and his subordinates). But looking back, I think combined with his body language, tone, and other social cues, he was telling me not to work on the script; I just didn't get it.

[0] - You got me. I had root access to literally everything and was the one running and managing the backups for the entire org. If I wanted to be nefarious you wouldn't catch me writing a script on a work PC under my non-superuser login.
“This is dumb”
> IE, this person believed that someone invented a free energy machine.

That's not false. Many people have invented free energy machines.

A /working/ free energy machine, though...that's a different thing.
Apoel-nicosia-Ajax-live-broadcast
https://www.virtual-shrine.com/node/410

https://thereadingrush.com/forums/topic/streams-liveajax-apoel-live-k-i-j-k-e-n-gratis/

https://www.virtual-shrine.com/node/411

https://thereadingrush.com/forums/topic/2019-ajax-vs-apoel-nicosia-live-gratis-kijken-a/

https://thereadingrush.com/forums/topic/uzivoliveapoel-nicosia-ajax-live-kijken-naar-gratis-live-20-augustus-2/

https://thereadingrush.com/forums/topic/apoel-nicosia-ajax-live-broadcast-cup-world-cup-ultra-video-ap/

https://thereadingrush.com/forums/topic/streams-liveajax-apoel-live-k-i-j-k-e-n-gratis/

https://thereadingrush.com/forums/topic/gratisuzivoapoel-nicosia-ajax-live-kijken-naar-gratis-live-20-augustus/

https://thereadingrush.com/forums/topic/uzivoliveapoel-nicosia-ajax-live-kijken-naar-gratis-live-20-augustus-2-2/

https://thereadingrush.com/forums/topic/fullhdliveapoel-nicosia-ajax-live-kijken-naar-gratis-live-20-augustus/

https://thereadingrush.com/forums/topic/voetbal-play-off-champions-league-apoel-nicosia-ajax-live-op-tv-en-radio/

https://www.virtual-shrine.com/node/413

https://medium.com/@itvstreams_nfl/streams-live-ajax-apoel-live-k-i-j-k-e-n-gratis-82a59e6b9e54
But this is also the way the world is moving – don't hirer or purchase anything that is not your companies core competency.

Don't run a janitorial service? Use contractors and hirer/fire at will [1].
Don't run a CRM service? Use Salesforce and pay per user.
Don't run a server company? Use AWS and turn on/off servers.
Don't run a payments company? Use Square/Stripe and never think about payment types.

Modern business is becoming (for better or worse) about owning 0 assets and only focusing on your core product. Yes, with all these things you can do it yourself, but having a company that is an expert in that service saves your business time (and often already employees the best resources in that industry).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-risi...
Looks like the intention of the author was to play with that word game in order to get an appealing title, but even for people familiar with the topic it can have the "not logical" meaning first.
One cool thing about this is that it looks inexpensive and simple, as well as functional. If a square meter can generate enough clean water for a person per day, islands of it could support entire cities.
What a pedestrian response.
And misunderstandings like this can be awkward, but sometimes they also lead to very good discussions.

When someone says "How are you?", I simply have it difficult to just say "very well thank you", if I'm just anticipating a root canal treatment, or whatever.

We Finns can indeed appear a bit autistic; it's not meant to be rude, but may feel like it.
It would ruin the "joke", but probably should have be deeply transcendental...

The real numbers are much stranger than they first appear, and a lot of early pedagogy is designed so that you don't look at this too hard.

After all, almost all reals are transcendental (but interestingly we only have proved a small handful of them).

Most numbers people have used in "regular life" are algebraic, obviously, but they are a countable subset so occur almost never, in the set.
> I'm sure both people are subtly uncomfortable and probably don't even consciously understand why.

And if only one of them becomes consciously aware of it that is enough to break the cycle. Sometimes all you need is a little awareness.
And such an open and trustworthy font. No one using a typeface like that can be shady, surely?
No, a romantic relationship isn't completely different.

It's about communication styles. British corporate culture is particularly understated, and the US has understated moments. Other countries don't just tolerate blunt straightforwardness, they expect it.

The same applies in relationships. Some couples are direct, others are indirect, some couples haven't worked this out and are still trying to communicate with conflicting styles - which always leads to complications and understandings.

I know for a fact that people from Europe struggle with British understatement, because it's come up in a number of of independent conversations. It takes them a long time to work out what's being said because they take statements at face value, and that's completely wrong for the social context.

E.g. See examples here:

https://i2.wp.com/www.anglotopia.net/wp-content/uploads/2012...

Those are not a joke at all. This is actually how many people communicate, both personally and at work.

Of course there are other social frames. Class and context are big determinants, so generally the smaller the status/power difference and the higher the class, the more likely you are to experience understatement.

The lower the class, the larger the status difference, and the closer you get to high-stakes outcomes over power and money, the more likely the communication will involve swearing, shouting, and possibly verbal abuse - feigned and genuine.

But to work in the UK - and some US corporates - you have to be able to recognise the Understatement Frame and know how it operates, otherwise you'll be permanently confused about what people are saying.
Man allegedly told YouTubers: Pay up or I'll file bogus takedowns
We need the Librem phone today. It is long overdue.
Light and refrigeration were the earliest uses of electricity. Add simple communication (radio transmission/reception), and that's enough to keep you going for quite awhile.
> 50% protein, 25% carbohydrates, 10% fat, and 15% other nutrients.

I think it is important to know what sort of Protein, Carbs, Fat and Nutrients.

But looking at those numbers, are we going to see people in the future living on Soylent that is 10x cheaper than its price today?
> One of my common challenges is the opposite: I ask a question intended literally and people “read into” what I ask and make assumptions about what i’m “getting at”.

If you keep this idea in mind while reading ~political conversations on forums, you will see that this behavior is extremely common. In many cases, both sides of a disagreement seem to be fighting with a strawman version of their conversational counterpart. To me, this is a widespread mental illness in Western societies, and I think it's possible that it may be getting worse, and (based on my experiences) might even be spreading into more traditionally fact-based discussions (the workplace, etc).
What you might be referring to is entanglement, which is different from mere superposition. Classical models can't easily simulate entangled quantum sytems, but can very easily simulate unentangled superimposed states.
Why is Apple being dinged as writing Malware for something Dropbox wrote?
It's really just poor communication on the part of the manager.

M: Please do X/Would you like to do X/I need you to do X now

E: No.

M: ...

vs.

M: We've had a change in priorities. I need someone to do X. I know you're working on Y, can you set it aside to work on X for a bit?

E: No.

M: Okay what gives?
Sometimes when you know you are not wrong, and the other party is acting childish and emotional, sitting back and letting them go while remaining calm is the best strategy. There is a line between being calm, and being calm and egging the other party on. If you are calm and assert your points, without inflaming the other party, there is no reason to raise your voice or use other methods to make your point seem right. Facts are facts and usually speak for themselves.

The manager could have also said along with the "I understand where you are coming from and it wasn't my intention to upset you. [Would you like to have a 1 on 1 or a private conversation about this?]"
I think the reason is infinitesimal. Calculus touches infinities. And infinities are related. So we end up using infinities to describe each other.
The USB-A versions are practically speaking indestructible. I've had them for over 10 years now without any problems.

The USB-C versions look much more fragile though...
It wasn't mandatory, actually. It was possible to turn off the locking. But that was like entering a whole new world of pain. So most people didn't dare turn it off.

They called it "multiple checkout", and the manual strongly recommended you do not turn it on.

The software had issues with corruption due to operations not being atomic.
Interesting move by IBM.

See also OpenSPARC. [1]

I'm curious if anyone will do anything interesting with this.

[1] https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/opensparc/index.h...
> public transit is one of the first utilities to go

This is mostly depending on how much backup the said agencies have.

> I wouldn’t count on BART service anytime soon after The Big One

And yet it's the only thing that survived the 1989 earthquake !
I think you meant to say WALL-E, but your point still stands.
This is awesome, been waiting for this for quite a while. The Google Titan bluetooth support never worked on my phone so it’s cool that I can plug it in directly now with this YubiKey.
Symetric 10 does not even allow for streaming in good quality.

100 is good most of the time but then happens the moment you need some big chunk of data (ex: a game of 150 GB) and then you need to wait quite a bit.

Also, if you have a larger household with everybody streaming and playing games, 100Mbits can saturate pretty quickly.

As I don't have kids, 100Mbits is mostly OK for me but occasionnaly I wish I had more. Like when I moved my photo backup, 500GB to upload was a pain at 100Mbit/s, but obviously this is not something I need to do everyday.