skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth pointing out that that the average age in Italy is 46 vs 37 in China. Given that old age is well known to increase mortality and morbidity, we should expect worse outcomes in Italy.
I'm not sure how this would work. 'facebook' is after all a generic word which had meaning before Facebook existed and is not only used in the context of the social network named after it. So the judge could reject it.
I think it's more like a graph with edges between associated bits of information. It's easy to remember things in order, but random access is hard unless you've established links for it. For example, if you memorized how to play a song, each part links to the next but harder to ask someone what is the n-th note in a song, even if they can play the song. It would explain why making associations is a useful memory technique. Traversing this graph when you aren't near what you're looking for can be hard ("it's on the tip of my tongue").
Nice to finally have some exploration of how this tied into geopolitics.

What I'd still like to see is... how did this influence domestic crypto policy and export controls? It seems entirely too coincidental that right after the cat is fully out of the bag with the Iran thing, the US is suddenly easing export restrictions on crypto, trying to shove Clipper / Key Escrow down our throats, coming for Zimmerman, etc.
Pretty sure the rocm backend for tensorflow uses hip, not OpenCL, and hip is basically just AMD's implementation of cuda.

I don't think it's accurate to say that the "entire ROCM stack is based on OpenCL." The rocm stack supports OpenCL, but it also supports hip, which is what AMD chose to use to implement many of the new libraries in the rocm platform (rocBLAS, rocFFT, rccl; replacing cuBLAS, cuFFT, nccl)

FWIW, rocm also doesn't support OpenCL 2.0.
There is a theory on how memories are formed on neural networks through cycles of firings by an artificial intelligence pioneer. I’ve searched for it again to no avail.

Is there such a theory by Minsky?
Or goalposts.
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I can only imagine what a relief this must be to the contractors and staff at Microsoft!
Flaw or feature?
Content addressable memory more like.
Criminals are unlikely to be better with computers than the general population. The general population is worse than most people on this site realise: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/
> swipe typing is inaccurate compared to android

A couple of years ago, microsoft made a keyboard for ios called wordflow. It had better accuracy than any other keyboard I've tried. Sadly they removed it not long after; I still use it, but I don't think it's possible to download it if you haven't already.
I wonder how this scales up to a highly profitable enterprise while maintaining quality? And how the profit margins will work as I’d guess most or all of the $50 a month goes to staff to take the call.
This doesn’t scale to companies that, unlike Facebook, can’t afford the ongoing associated costs.
Government debt as a percentage of GDP is very low in Sweden:

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/government-debt-to...
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OP, I have such an individual based program since I struggled with these as well and could not find help. The program has been going reasonably well.
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They are rebelling the cashless society.
It is indeed very strange that Korea and Japan should have 400% more hospital beds per capita than the U.S., Canada, or Scandanavia. I tried to dig into the OECD methodology[0] to see if they mentioned anything noteworthy, but nothing grabbed my attention. Their notes about the U.S.[1] and Korea[2] seem pretty similar. I'm wondering if in Japan and Korea, people stay in hospitals for longer periods for the same condition than in the U.S. For example, in the U.S. mothers giving birth would stay in the hospital for a week or more in 1950s from what I heard, but these days they are discharged after a couple days. What's a typical stay for uncomplicated childbirth in Japan and Korea? If it's a week or 10 days, then that would give a possible datapoint for having many more beds.

[0] https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=HEALTH_REAC

[1] Notes about the United States: Coverage: AHA-registered hospitals in the United States. U.S. hospitals located outside the United States are excluded. Includes all the AHA registered hospital beds for all types of hospitals. Estimates are for all AHA registered hospitals. AHA-registered hospitals include facilities such as short-term general, psychiatric hospitals, wards, rehabilitation institutes, maternity homes, tuberculosis hospitals, leprosariums and alcoholic treatment institutions. Estimates exclude U.S. associated areas such as Puerto Rico and AHA non-registered hospitals.

[1] Notes about the Korea: Coverage: Hospitals: all sorts of medical institutions equipped with wards of at least 30 beds. Excludes day-care beds, emergency beds, surgical tables, recovery trolleys, delivery beds and cots for normal neonates.
Of course, the German government that made lists did so without credit card records or electronic ids or anything like that...
> Of course it is. You don't manage AWS. How big do you think their code base is?

This seems like a fairly unreasonable comparison. The reason I pay AWS is so that I _do not_ have to manage it. The last thing I want to do is then layer a system on top that I do have to manage.
The images are z-stacks[1] and the images are in a proprietary format called LIF (Leica Image Format). The images are taken from this camera[2]. I was actually doing some of my own research into doing this, but as I mentioned it appears that Leica has put very little effort into making the output of their hardware easy to work with.

The LIF is a binary blob wrapped in an XML structure. There has been some good work done by the people Open Microscopy Environment building some Java libraries for parsing these files, but to be quite frank I'm a bit rough around the edges when it comes to working with Java and all the computer vision stuff I know is in Python and C++.

If you're serious about this offer, then I can look into getting you some samples (if you can't easily find them yourself). But full disclosure, I don't think any PI or lab that I know of would be able to afford GPU compute hours, but most of them have access to a cluster, so if you can deliver a JAR (or a Docker container) I could demonstrate how they could quickly deploy that themselves on their own hardware.

1:https://cam.facilities.northwestern.edu/588-2/z-stack/
A summary from news stories last year is that half of the "cell towers" in Washington, DC can't be mapped back to an actual US phone company.

So one can assume that major governments are operating their own stingers in DC.
That's possible until somebody links surveillance cameras and phone tracking. In a world where 99% of people have a mobile phone, I would pay special attention to everybody who has left his 'comfort area' without a phone. We are heading into a future without blue-collar crimes.
I think they are only shifted in time which could be a quirk if the video compression.

I once had a clip that I trimmed off another scene. Only after converting the video file did a frame of that scene come back.
Seen from the earth every light point in the sky is a star at first. Even planets. Or the starship itself. Or some satellites. So even if it only travels to Mars, which looks like a star to us it would be OK to call it that. Don't be so uptight!
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Isn't OpenCL just a c-like language that can run/be impemented on most things, what about the RISC-V architecture prevented running eg POCL?

edit: seems the paper is mostly about adding SIMT support to RISC-V, proably the answer to the above is that it RISC-V can run OpenCL even without the extension.
I'm struggling with this myself, both for myself and for one of my kids and I'll try the tea trick on the kid right away :-)
Anyone know if his appeal succeeded? It seems that most of the comments here are just whining about the writing or lack of photographs but how about a follow up about the man and his current situation?
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This reminds me of a tangentially related episode of mind field, in which a Japanese researcher is working on tech that one day could be able to read people's dreams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgbeGFYluEA&vl=en

They basically ask people to look at different faces and measure their brain waves while they're doing so and then later ask them to think of different faces from the ones they saw and try to guess which one they were thinking of at that time. Pretty cool.
Another consideration is PoS cost. In Denmark, I know that credit card PoS's are super expensive to rent. And you need to rent them, because if you buy them - which is even more expensive - you'll have to replace them every year. So you need a certain amount of turnover to have a credit card PoS in Denmark.

The card PoS's come in two forms; one that only takes the Danish Dankort (which is the cheaper) and one that also accepts foreign cards.

Which is why merchants in Denmark - at least smaller ones - are still weary about upgrading to the fancy PoS, and therefore need to accept cash some times. Sure, there are alternatives to that, like MobilePay. But usually your problem will be with tourists, who don't have access to that, nor access to a Danish card, and can only pay cash. (Another good reason why governments won't abandon cash; they'd lose a lot of tourists too.)

I don't know whether PoS's are cheaper in Sweden than in Denmark, but generally speaking, Danes and Swedes have about the same level of trust in government, yet there are far more cash transactions in Denmark compared to Sweden.
I wholeheartedly agree, but that doesn't mean that government employees build all the roads, schools, and parks. This is often done by for-profit companies and payed for with tax dollars
From your link:

> In some EU countries, your bank might still charge you an annual fee for this basic payment account. This fee should remain reasonable.

For someone who is really poor, that annual account keeping fee is a much bigger hit to their pocket when compared to others not doing it so tough.
The video on the TV behind the door: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICcFMBzOnYs
I've used migadu.com for well over a year now and been very happy with them. They let you setup multiple regex based catchalls, so I can create any address prefixed with shop and have it forwarded to one address, while ones prefixed with game get forwarded to another. If you aren't planning on sending any emails from the domain, their free single domain plan might work very well for you.
I wonder if the economic models of delayed action predict better economic outcomes vs cancelling all events and closing schools early?

I imagine there’s likely to be commissions probing bureaucratic response, and some scapegoating.
You're right that if you take away cash the sketchy side of the economy might switch to euros or dollar :)

But that won't work for shops trying to avoid taxes. It'll also make it much harder to buy stuff from criminals, as you would have to go get cash somewhere.

What other cash exchanges still happens?
This is like when someone asked on Reddit whether Ubuntu Studio is dead.

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> You should always be able to pay with cash if you want.

Why, other than your privacy? If I own a business, why should I be barred from choosing to not accept cash? Paper money is more labor-intensive to handle and opens my employees up to risk of being robbed for that cash or sickened by handling dirty bills.

As for people who may not be able to pay electronically, why can I not choose to not have them as customers?

If your argument is “because social good and we make those kinds of requirements on businesses all of the time,” I’m open to it but feel it goes much farther than privacy.
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Ladies and Gentlemen no fighting!!

Why bother logging keystrokes and clicks, when there is BlueCoat that in real time decrypts, reads, logs/reports, encrypts EVERYTHING that comes in and out of your PC?
When it finally returns to service I am sure it will have a long, successful life - as a cargo plane.
I grew up in The Netherlands, and so did my parents and my parents parents, etc...

I hate the cold. I prefer to sweat from too much heat compared to shivering from too much cold. So I emigrated to a tropical country.

Perhaps part of the reason why I hate the cold, is that it makes it harder for me to do my work. If my fingers are cold, typing is more difficult, for example. And in the cold I think too much about staying warm.
This seems to be a question regularly popping up. My answer: it's not dead. I, and I think many other people, still use RSS.

My reply to a similar question on HN: https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2019/12/do-you-still-use-rss/
Stumbled back across this site when trying to google a forgotten WM, and forgot how interesting desktops sometimes were. Plus, it is an fun step back to when you had to warn people about 200k image files ;)
That just makes it super extra illegal.
Having the text as negative space on dark is still perceptually different to having it on a transparent background (which is perceived as negative space). This is enough to make it feel unbalanced.

See here: https://i.imgur.com/uW4TGX2.png
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I got to this article via RSS. Using Start.me to organize a lovely page full of feeds.
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And when you lose your card because you have a problem keeping track of physical objects do you then just go to the bank and they use the card replacing machine to issue you a new one right on the spot? That's pretty cool, I wish we had something like that here in Denmark because wow, I lose my card a lot and I have to go weeks without one.

One time I lost my card, ordered a new one, the card arrived but the pin code didn't arrive, so I waited an extra 4 days for it, and called up and they said sometimes that happens and then they sent me a new one, which meant I went essentially 24 days without a card.

As far as phones go, so if your phone goes out, gets lost, gets stolen, breaks you have no money because money is tightly bound to your phone.

I have a difficult time respecting the architectural decisions that have been made in this new implementation of money.
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There are newer solutions like iZettle for cards that costs less. In Sweden we also have Swish, payment by smartphone without cards, but that is also a bit harder for older people.
It will never be easy. This kind of tech will rely on the subjects thinking of that memory. And you can always, well, choose not to. Or even corrupt the memory deliberately by imagining things.
They can still make it with ethanol. https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf
I don't think you can meaningfully talk about this without distinguishing between user facing applications and server to server aggregation.

RSS/Atom serves a purpose in federation of content that is not necessarily visible to people so much any more.

We spoke about RSS and Atom more before in part because it wasn't ubiquitous, but today it's almost hard to find a blogging platform or CMS that is post oriented that doesn't expose feed endpoints by default - I have a hobby project that relies on feeds to aggregate content, and the proportion of sites I've wanted to add that has lacked feed is miniscule. It's become boring plumbing.

At the same time we have gotten more ways of consuming aggregated content. Some uses feeds, some rely on social aggregation. Combined that may have reduced the number proportion of users that run apps that hit feeds direction rather than seeing the content elsewhere. That's fine. But at the same time my impression at least is that a large proportion of clients accessing feeds are doing it on behalf of services rather than end users.
Not sure I understand you.

From your post, it sounds like you have beef with people who complain about SaaS costs, when many SaaS products are arguably cheap, cover valuable functions like DBAs used to, and allows many companies to get off the ground in the first place? All while proponents of SaaS are fundamentally no different than companies like SAP or Hedge funds that are making billions via rent-seeking off open source software?

Yeah well, I think that's the same reason people complain about SaaS costs. I know some SaaS software my company uses that wouldn't cost us anywhere near what we pay for it, if we opted to build our own via open source tools and maintained it ourselves in house...

SaaS is effectively the same as outsourcing - you're paying a third-party service provider for software/IT functions. Companies complaining that SaaS is cutting into their profit margins, are no different than ones complaining that their IT department is cutting into their profit margins.

The matter is really about which is cheaper (to make in house vs buy). In some cases it's cheaper to outsource and in other cases it's not.
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Tourists, I'd imagine. I am not sure how many merchants you know in Sweden that accepts UnionPay? At least of the smaller ones. And I know most German tourists prefer cash, generally any tourist from a cash heavy society will prefer cash.

Sure, their big ticket items are still going to be hotels and the like, where they will pay with a credit card, but they are not interested in coming if they can pay the small merchant with cash. Because they don't have access to the local infrastructure for digital payments, that the locals do.
I was waiting for this reply. The obvious answer to that being that it doesn't make printing money for a UBI any better of an idea. It's completely irrelevant.

Let's not try and justify bad ideas by pointing out that people currently do bad things.
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Complete overkill. YAGNI. A month or two of food and medicine is just about all you'll need. Dude is acting like he's going to be homeless, society will evaporate, and be scrounging for water from mud puddles like some episode of The Walking Dead. I live in Paradise and deal with fires, black bears, drug-addict trespassers, insurance companies and power outages. This story's level of insanity is a waste of money and unrealistic. I have a SHTF bag, but it's only for when I don't know where I'll end up.. and haven't needed it yet. And, a lot of that prepper stuff is junk: I tried a Survivor Filter Pro and it fouls the filter into uselessness with any brackishness or sediment; it's totally worthless.

And you can still go out if you:

- wear indirect vented goggles (eye protection)

- an N95 mask (disregard the CDC manipulative lies)

- use 70% hand sanitizer, 1% bleach, or 0.5% hydrogen peroxide per WHO for cleaning surfaces

- wash your hands thoroughly for 20+ seconds, and nails too

- decontaminate/remove yourself, your clothing and PPE outdoors before entering your or someone's home.. removing clothing straight into a washing machine without entering living areas is a good idea

Also, the latest is that SARS-CoV-2 can survive up to 9 days on fomites (objects), so surfaces will stay contaminated for sometime.
The halting problem is that there is no algorithm possible that can answer, for all programs and all inputs, whether that program with that input will halt.

Here is my program:

def fool(input):
while input:
pass

The input given to the program is your answer as to whether it halts given that input.

That's the gist of the proof that the halting problem is unsolvable. Whatever the algorithm or method is used to answer the problem, you can take that method and "embed" it into the program to be verified, and invert the answer.

The halting program doesn't say you can't answer for many or even most programs and inputs, it just says there'll be at least one counter-example.
Can't people just go to the bank and get euros? I would think buying stuff from criminals would be just as easy as ever. Would the government track euro withdrawals without traveling?
For webcams? You can use xsplit vcam. https://www.xsplit.com/ja/vcam

It uses whatever AI systems they made to single out the foreground objects from the background objects. And then it's basically just taking the camera input, applying filters or transparency and outputting it as a new video device.
I'm currently writing a new client for RSS, which is dead. Framework of choice is Rails - which is also dead.

This thread inspires me to pull in some jQuery and change the project name to Graveyard.
Please define "hostile uses" in a way that can be interpreted by law enforcement and the courts.

If I register "facebook-sucks.com" and put a disclaimer that facebook is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc etc etc then I'm not attempting to confuse customers of facebook (btw, do "users" of facebook = "customers" of facebook?).

Therefore there is no trademark infringement and no cause for me to cease and desist.

That's different to registering "faceb00k.com" and trying to pass my site off as being facebook. That's exactly what trademark rights are there to protect. It's not the registering of the domain that is the infringement, it's the attempt to pass off my site as being facebook's. In that case, a court can order me to take down my content, and if "me" is not identifiable, then they can order my hosting provider to do the same.

Facebook itself has numerous different domains registered and its not known that some of them are facebook's registrations.
On Mobile I've got NoScript active, but it does break a lot of sites. Most sites are easily fixed by allowing first-party javascript while blocking third-party javascript. Third-party javascript is most likely to be trackers and ads anyway.
And just think what they could have accomplished if that modern tech had existed.
This misses the point - the spying-on-your-citizens was decided by the state on purpose, going completely cashless enables dragnet surveillance that makes it really hard to evade if one has to (journalists, dissidents)
I've encountered one merchant in Denmark using iZettle. He has since replaced it with the regular PoS. I can only imagine that is more expensive for him, but I wonder why he abandoned iZettle? Maybe it doesn't work that well? I am honestly wondering why I don't see more usage of iZettle. It could just be a Danish thing.

And yes, there is Swish/MobilePay, but that only really works if you're local. A tourist - even one from a neighbouring country - will not have access to that.
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