skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They limit the number of animals they have at any given time by not taking in more when they are at capacity. This is very different from running a DNN model on every applicant and refusing to intake those that aren't adoptable enough, which is a preposterous concept.

And just to provide the full picture, most no-kill shelters of course have scenarios where they euthanize -- violent animals, sick animals, etc -- but they don't need a neural network to accomplish this.

This is all neither here nor there, as the contest had positively nothing to do with any of this. Instead they wanted to determine the most adoptable traits so they could adjust the less adoptable traits with the more adoptable traits: The poodle goes through the hair straightener and gets a blonde hair color treatment (clearly I am being satirical) to make it more like a lab, for instance.
These are mostly hints and tips.
In ~5 min videos, so there is some actual chance to keep attention during that time.

Plus, she speaks rapidly, and it is a plus (I don't need to do my usual thing of listening at 1.5x so I don't get bored).
> it has... verb modifiers!

> For example: use = to cause to work. Repair = to cause to be good. Understand = to cause to hear.

> Wow, am I telling you that verbs convey and encode causality in these languages? Yup, that's right.

This isn't really a feature of modern English, but it certainly isn't something exotic. It was a feature of earlier English, and the effects of that are still obvious today.

For example: raise = cause to rise. Fell = cause to fall. Lay = cause to lie. Drench = cause to drink.

(Causative verbs are alive and well in modern English, but they are more likely to be zero-derived than to use a separate overt grammatical form.)
Can't confirm. I use DDG as default search provider and have to fall back to Google much more than I would like to.

Google is IME much better than Bing/DDG for local search results, and that has not changed a bit. Also, while DDG is indexing news websites and Wikipedia well enough, when it comes to more obscure wikis, article comments, or forum posts, the search results are often very incomplete.
> all your messages will be returned.

Your messages are returned via the backup, not via the "iMessage servers". Once the messages are at rest on your device, they're no longer encrypted using your "iMessage private key".
Because it's transparently compressed, so you get more RAM out of your RAM at the cost of some latency and CPU usage. This is a good tradeoff on heavily RAM constrained workloads like attempting to run Slack clients.
Why so much ads on a personal website? Half the content of the page is dedicated to them, it's very annoying: https://imgur.com/a/DBuXPCp
Thanks for the info! Appreciate it. Will definitely try out linux again.
> Reliability, speed, accessibility, ease of use, more secure defaults... Enough?

Very glib, but not helpful nor accurate. Reliability of a web service? Speed faster than local network or local VPN tunnel? Convenience appears to be the top and bottom of it from other replies.

> assumption that they "are gathering data [...] and selling it" is beyond baseless

Not at all. US freedom of information goes far beyond everyone else's and leaves the expectation that personal data is collected, shared, sold, misused and abused, and that's been the case since long before the web. Personal data that most places consider private and inappropriate to share, and often have laws for, is frequently easily available in the US.

The web just brought it further into the gutter.

Europe has had freedom of information with constraints on personal data. Data protection has been around since the mid 90s, and prior to that there were other restrictions on certain types of data collection. The discrepancy between the two approaches has been there for probably seventy years, perhaps more, and it's widening not narrowing.

Those national norms set starting point of expectations, and what each nation tends to take as axiomatic. For a typical European, for the reasons mentioned, US privacy provision and expectation starts negative. Certain industries and categories get very antsy about data going, even briefly, to the US as a consequence of that. If it's any consolation I start with the presumption every company is untrustworthy.
>The inner diamond moves freely within the transparent outer one.

the second line of the linked article.

but the video is more interesting.
I want a way to pin this article to the top of the front page. Twice this morning I got slightly unnerved by something and automatically opened hacker news: then I read the title, realised I was trying to avoid thinking about something, and closed the tab again. :)
Is it also data-collection free?
My subconsciousness wants to eat, sleep, fuck and play video games. I'm not sure I want to be taking its advice.
To me this was always why Google's position was weak and why they absolutely needed Android -- Apple and Microsoft could kill Google as a default move for users. Users only have so much energy to micro-manage the parameters of their devices and they depend on sensible defaults.
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These kind of abuses are the best recruiter a terrorist organisation can have - something that the UK only learned very late in the day in Northern Ireland.

Edit: You would think that citizens of the United States would know better than most that oppression by distant governments causes revolts, not obedience.
>The more I think about all the stuff I want to do, the less I'm willing to put the effort into doing one thing. Possibilities are more interesting than reality. Even as reality kills off possibilities, I can always spin up more.

Well put. I suffer from that as well. Setting aside the maddening aspects of that, it does have a bright side:

If you spend years weaving together complimentary possibilities, and the rate at which you spin them up is greater than the rate at which they die—you can come up with some really interesting composite ideas that over time will seem more compelling to execute.
Yes, wonderful property. This also means that "next" and "previous" float can generally be computed by just interpreting the value as int and incrementing/decrementing by one, which allows easy computation of the epsilon or ULP (unit in the last place) [1].

Minor differences to the total ordering of the ints:

* IEEE NaNs always compare false

* IEEE +zero and -zero compare equal (that's the only case I'm aware of where you can have floats with x == y, but 1/x != 1/y, because +inf != -inf).

[1] Note that the ULP can get pretty large. If you have 1e23 as a float, you can add a million to it, and still get back the same number (because the next float is so far away).
The right-click-to-save-as-PNG-or-SVG feature is quite nice as well.
"force"?

what default search isn't "forced"?

and what's the problem anyway - isn't it customizable?
Do airlines and airports treat African passengers differently?
I'm sorry, but that's nonsense. AdGuard doesn't have any scummy stuff like "acceptable ads", they make money by providing a fully functional free ad-blocker and selling a version that has more features. That's as un-scummy as it gets. (I have no relation to them. I use the free version. It does everything I want.)

By the way, you can get the source code at https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForiOS.

There's also a list of open-source content blockers at https://old.reddit.com/comments/btlwda/, some of them are non-commercial.
That's curious. I have the opposite problem.

Solving difficult problems is a main part of my job. I love a challenge and get totally absorbed by a good problem. I read everything I find about the topic, I try different solutions, I think about it the whole time. But once I have figured out a solution and I have to do all the tedious work that comes after, I lose interest and start doing other things.

Programming is an interesting example. I get to work when I have to think how to refactor everything in a nice way, for example, but once I find the right design and I see it works, changing everything becomes a mechanical task, and I tend to postpone that tedious work to try to solve some weird problem I found by chance in some irc channel or stackexchange.

I think that this diversity is great. We should work together!
I think the actual problem is where to put him. No single state in the US volunteers to take him on. It's not so much about the rather small risk that he could be a terrorist (or might have become radicalized/motivated by treating him as such) but rather that some voters might THINK there is still a risk, however small. And a politician that advocates for taking him in will be (figuratively) flogged if the former prisoner commits anything worse than a parking ticket in his further life.

Similar pressures apply to Pakistan and to other countries who might feel even less responsibility to free him.
> It is also one of the reasons why English is taking over ...

There are various reasons why a language may become a lingua franca (LF). If anyone wants to more about the history and process of this, I recommend The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel by Nicholas Ostle:

* https://www.amazon.com/Last-Lingua-Franca-English-Return/dp/...

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8366156-the-last-lingua-...

* https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/dec/04/last-lingua-fr...

He goes over past LFs like Persian, Aramaic, Ancient/Koine Greek, and how they waxed and waned over the centuries, and what may happen to English in the future.
The euthanization is already there. Machine learning can't justify what economy requires. The only thing machine learning promises here (and you're free to doubt the effect) is to improve adoption rates and thus reduce euthanization.

Of course this is highly problematic when applied to humans. But to be clear, some humans are already judged by models (transparent ones so far) in live and death decisions. That's how organ transplant decisions are taken. The candidates with the best prospects get the scarce organs. Similarily, when looking at populations, decisions that protect many are often taken in full knowledge of the danger to a few. Vaccination for example.

Resource optimization problems mix badly with absolute morals.
> The medical industry has the biggest conflict of interest I have seen in any industry

Private prisons come close. They incentivize having more people in prison.

So, when you see people lobbying against legalizing weed, some of that is genuine concern, but it also aligns very closely to people who realize what a drop in prison inmates could mean for there business...

It's insane.
Well, the thought crosses my mind every time I think of a good idea for a blog post: Make post, fill with as much ads as is bearable, post to HN, profit.

Can't blame him.
one could say Kant isn't very deep either, you study in your first year philosophy. but few STEM students know about it.
To be fair, there has not been evidence of systematical torture since that program was abandoned. That's also sometimes forgotten.

And by that I mean that yes, there were individual incidents of torture, but they weren't sanctioned and often prosecuted. There might be as of yet unknown incidents or programs, but the space and scope for such would be rather limited, given all that happened since.
Wait a minute, this guy way misidentified 17 years ago and imprisoned based on that misidentification. How is it possible that he is still in there? Are the authorities claiming he is actually who they misidentified him as or what is their excuse for his imprisonment?

I can see how they could get away with torturing suspected terrorists or whatever (although I don't agree with it) end even how they might keep holding someone who was wrongfully accused after more evidence surfaces (again, it would be deplorable, but not unlikely), but this is a completely third party that they imprisoned because they thought he was someone else! I don't see a single argument that could be made for not releasing him - not even a really bad one.

How is this not on the news every day? How is the UN and every single human rights org not all over this?? How does this not come up in every single US presidential debate?
I used to feel that way too, until I got redirected to scam "you won an ipad" sites from mainstream sites I respected. They served me a bad ad, so I blocked and never looked back. Who knows how many times they silently tried to serve me malware?
> There was a funny meme that essentially illustrated how different Sotho grammar can be, and how your figurative use of language can essentially hide meaning through ambiguity. [1]

> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCU2Uh42qS4. Explanation: She is actually just saying that she stole her mom's money that should have been used to make pots with for people that had paid. Literally: "I did the thing that made that the pots couldn't be made."

This literal rendering isn't far off of normal (if inelegant) vernacular English. "I did the thing that made [it] [so that] the pots couldn't be made."
The biggest insight is this NOW vs NOT NOW.

Rationally I know what is time (heck, I did my PhD in physics, so I have an edge here). When it comes to actions... I often zone out, daydream, get distracted by a random post, get too focused so I spend well more time than I realize on something I didn't plan to do, etc.

Once I realized this NOW vs NOT NOW, I set some triggers to make a project "NOW".

Of course, one natural trigger is "the final deadline is tomorrow", but it gets risky and unhealthy.

Other is (I am a freelancer, so there is no natural "we are in the office"):

- setting coworking sessions (then during a meeting there is NOW for the project)

- setting regular meetings (to create a lot of smaller deadlines)

- I try to respond to emails only twice a day, in blocks (so a short question won't turn into NOW against my wished)

- I essentially dropped the hope of doing things well in advance... and it was good. For example, when I give a talk, I book time the same day to prepare it. And it works. The other alternative is to agonize over a week, and they still (in a self-hating mood) prepare things the last minute, but without booking enough time or energy.

Still learning that, so I am very open for pointers.
What is it with this all-or-nothing attitude? Matomo is good enough.
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For what it is worth, it seems like even Microsoft can’t make Chromium work without phoning “home” to Google. The new edge preview (at least for me, not sure if A/B testing) still talks back to the mothership at 1e100...
It's the right name though, in my opinion.
Panic spreads in China with 3 cities now in lockdown
People here are justifying Microsoft stance of modifying default browser in third party browser, What if they get away with this and what we could see is that, after every windows update Microsoft would change default search engine in Windows to bing.
Return it to the shop you bought it from as not fit for purpose?

Hopefully if enough people did this, the manufacturers would get the message.
You could have an alternative browser with unfiltered DOH for this.

Or maybe that's the right level... if tracker should be blocked then I guess it's better to not fuel this business.
Avoiding Carsickness When the Cars Drive Themselves
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AI learns to rule the quantum world
Android Apps Harnessing the Power of Machine Learning
Exactly. Imagine if Google changed your windows installation to point shortcut to win word to point to a new chrome window in kiosk mode that opens docs.new...
But he still has citizenship, right? In Pakistan? They already know he's not who they thought he was, so what argument/law could they possibly use to not let him back into the country?
> This is a pretty classic example of a utility monster. It's part of the reason that many have issues with utilitarianism.

I'm not sure it's even utilitarianism. Otherwise he'd be admitting that "Well, torture doesn't give us any actionable intelligence, so we shouldn't be torturing anybody". Utilitarianism isn't about doing pointless actions in the remote hope of the victim giving up anything useful or true.

> Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that determines right from wrong by focusing on outcomes. It is a form of consequentialism.

Stated otherwise: Suppose you had some information about 9/11 one week before and you torture your informant to get the precise date and location. You don't get anything because torture doesn't work, and it draws resources away from more useful investigative efforts to track potential attackers, while undermining US strategic and diplomatic efforts overseas. Should you have tortured that person or not?
I wouldn't work for a company involved in the deliberate taking of human life.

There's a lot of big gambling companies near me that have me conflicted. I enjoy a flutter and all, but you hear of some people and how they're addicted to it. I dunno, I just stay clear. There's other jobs out there
At the very least the US system dealt with this issue on its own.

It's important to remember that US authorities never used torture in general, and probably not at all since this program was used. That doesn't make what happened any better, but it doesn't mean the US is worse in this regard than China, North Korea or Russia. We just don't know the extent of human rights violations there, and we sort of assume that's their normal behavior anyway.
Pilecki's Report
No, it wouldn’t. A proper land value tax is based on the unimproved value of the land. Farms are almost exclusively built in areas that have much lower land values than cities.

Farming would already be discouraged if farmers could build skyscrapers over their fields and collect the rents from those buildings. Since nobody wants to live in a skyscraper in the country, this never happens.
This won't work where ActiveX is required. They would have to write a plug-in wrapper...
Land is finite but for all practical purposes, housing is not. Even in NYC, there's plenty of room to build up and that's exactly what's happening.
https://www.amnestyusa.org/the-shocking-abuse-of-solitary-co...

The willingness to torture prisoners arbitrarily, and the unwillingness to police or prosecute or punish the widespread application of torture in prisons is well-distributed and longstanding tradition within the United States.

Apparently, it's also fairly common to torture schoolchildren: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/11/20/illinois...

Additionally, it's sort of hard to say that the incidences in question by the military weren't sanctioned when the CIA actually hacked into Congress to further the coverup.
That's simply not true. The crash tests for the Smart Mini car have shown that these cars will do well if involved in crashes with bigger cars.

On the contrary, if two Smart Mini cars crash into each other there is less crumple zone and thus the forces on the passengers are greater.
Marriott were fined £99m in the same week as BA in the UK, and Google were fined €50m in France last year, both under GDPR.
> Do you know of an example of an attacker "easily demolishing" Cloudflare's free DDoS protection

I can name dozens of websites, that folded under Cloudflare's supposedly flawless DDoS protection (at the time when they were still using it). Of course, the ones who fold are always websites themselves — Cloudflare itself is never affected, because when the DDoS gets particularly bad, they just detach websites from their CDN and expose it to attackers.
> The answer is to make ads unprofitable.

https://adnauseam.io/
Source? I can’t find any other info about this.
Three American water bombers die fighting Australian bushfires
> When will it finally crash? Housing prices has reached a level of nonsense again.

2007 was not about high housing prices. It was about ridiculously easy mortgages and everyone was able to afford a house outside their genuine payback limit.

The symptoms can appear similar, with different causes.
Every now and then I feel guilty about using an ad blocker, then people show how the internet really looks, and I don't feel bad anymore.
> No actual simplicity, just some neckbeards complaining about software evolving...

Care to rephrase that without the insulting terminology?
What I was saying is that the whole point of an installation is to modify the user's system. It is pretty unlikely that legally it would be possible to have such fine grained differentiation between replacing and appending. And I'd prefer voting with my wallet than to forcing tech companies to involve legal in the development process.
As the society advances and problems are solved for us, we are left with the most central core problem, ourselves.

Related to concepts like 'agency', 'impulse control', 'willpower', 'restraint', 'free will', 'delayed gratification' are connected to our status and self image.
If you think humans as AI systems, we are facing issues with our reward function. Short term reward seems to overrule long term planning and goals if the outside pressure is not there and we have a choice.

Is this something without technical solution or can we learn to reprogram our reward function with biofeedback, brain implants, meds or application in Apple watch?

I think the subject deserves a Black Mirror episode and few startups.
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really beautiful, simple blog layout! the background color should be a tad bit less saturated though, imo. also, that blurring effect is a little too much for my poor eyes. but i love the simplicity of it!
I think they would benefit from a more dumbed down FAQ/set up. For context I'm at the upper end of non technical people in some respects (I write pandas queries everyday etc) but know nothing about DNS and this lost me pretty quickly.

I'm still not sure whether this should be used in addition to or instead of ublock (which is what I use now). The setup page is also a bit intimidating given I don't understand what 99% of the things on it are.
Yep, had the same realisation. The quality of links varies somewhat, but the quality of comments here rarely does.
Surprisingly it's not really allowed to be paid for by US state actors.

I haven't yet found any reporting on such operations in English-speaking or even onshore media being tied back to the CIA or NSA or even political campaigns. The latter may even be allowed to do it.
But at the current time I feel CloudFlare has more reputational skin in the game, that they're merely selling off spare capacity as opposed to making a separate business model work, and they don't offer logging as a service although they can certainly break their promises at a reputational risk.

In time NextDNS can build up their reputation perhaps to a point even exceeding CloudFlare, but right now I feel those who are joining early are "paving the way" via risk to their privacy.
The Chinese do have to suffer through the other kind of "translation" too. I had a friend complain to me about the unreasonably long country name 圣文森特和格林纳丁斯. They're not wrong about that being an objectively unreasonable name in the linguistic context!

For the curious: sheng-wen-sen-te-he-ge-lin-na-ding-si. 圣 sheng is a fully conventionalized loan-translation of the Christian word "saint". 文森特 wen-sen-te is a sound transcription of Vincent. 和 he is an ordinary Chinese word meaning "and". 格林纳丁斯 ge-lin-na-ding-si is another sound transcription, for "Grenadines".
The city of flint has a lot of water theyd like to sell you, it comes with extra so it follows your model. You should also love basic Hulu, they sell you a version that comes WITH added ads, such benefit.

In reality there are plenty of places you are paying for refined or filtered products. Organic or pesticide free foods, gas (you or your supply chain use it), higher end CPUs (less defects), it goes on and on.