skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recover? You seem to be in pretty good shape. You know databases and how business intelligence works. Good. You’re almost there.

I’m not sure if I’d tackle ML/DL unless you have the chops for it (I don’t mean to discourage you, just saying becoming a SWE might be easier/quicker). However, there’s more tools at your disposal than ever before to guide you towards your software engineering/ML goals.

One route would be to improve your engineering skills and land a job at a mature “startup.” Perhaps something boring, with good financials, and relatively few employees. Some might disagree with this next part: don’t aim for companies claiming to be doing ML/AI. You’re good with databases, so if your company lacks an ML engineer, get close to the data and try to add value—then continue this trend until you can do some meaningful ml tasks.
Fundamental Changes in Economics of Chip Security
Having worked briefly at a major appliance company, I can say that refrigerator design is not simple. Refrigerators aren't made to just cool things down, the entire interior is expected to stay at a uniform temperature. As a result, many refrigerators have more heating elements than ovens. There's a ton of testing that needs to happen to determine hot spots, cold spot, poorly insulated areas, etc. and that's just for the cooling. Also the current refrigerant used in refrigerators (driven by regulation) is very close to propane, it has an explosion risk, so that mandates tons of specific testing. The real issue is that the release cycles of appliances are so much shorter than the expected life cycles. There are life tests for appliances, but they have to be accelerated massively, so it's not a great representation of the lifetime use of the appliances. All of that to say the data collected by an internet connected appliance is of huge value to the manufacturer. They can get data from the appliance for it's entire life, usage and performance of specific components, etc. Manufacturers are going to find as many cheap ways as possible to tempt consumers to connecting their products to the internet so they can get that data back. It's unlikely the trend is going to slow down.
> the military is a necessary evil right now

Good example of social stigma.

No, in its current form, it's not. Troops amd toys at home, to protect people, not power and profits.
Yeah, they do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJW--wNMv1M
It's not a physical thing though. It's just another form of virtual points.
Develop, Preview, Test
I’ve been using Gimp non-professionally for almost eight years now and the latest releases this last couple years have made it such a pleasure to use. Great job team.
The feed is akin to a perpetual conference hall. Maybe you'll bump into someone who got a new job, but the majority of the time it's just people trying to sell their new business or themselves as a "thought leader"
The "right to not be observed" is not a natural right, nor should it be. The "right to absolute privacy in all places at all times" is also not a natural right, nor should it be.

People should only be entitled to privacy in their own homes/current dwelling. That's it (with a few exceptions). People should not be entitled to privacy in public.

I get that privacy zealots have to take extreme stances in order to counter-balance anti-privacy trends, but in real life, a world where absolute perfect privacy is the 24/7 default (public and private), is a world devoid of meaningful interactions between humans and also a world where criminals flourish.
Digital archival of PDFs weighing a few hundred KBs to a few MBs is definitely a solved problem. And there are already arXiv overlay journals out there, and platforms supporting them. Tim Gowers' (Fields medalist) blog posts on this topic are quite informative:

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/discrete-analysis-an...

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2019/10/30/advances-in-combinat...

Highlights: $10 per submission, plus some fixed costs, including archival with CLOCKSS. No Elsevier extortion ring needed.

Impact factors are of course kind of a chicken and egg problem. Need to have enough high profile journals move off Big Publishing, or have enough high profile ones started.

> When I was a grad student at MIT, it was easy to read papers; if your IP was from MIT, every paper was 1 click away.

When I was a grad student at <institution of similar caliber>, or an undergrad at <another institution of similar caliber>, accessing papers was rather painful off campus. One either has to use EZproxy, which might decide to block you if it doesn't like your IP range (say in a foreign country), or use some godawful proprietary VPN client that I would stay the hell away from unless necessary.
Weird formatting, things not working and you not remembering/understanding why, trying to keep settings in sync across browsers and platforms, and so on.

IOW I've found it easier to tolerate ads and slow sites "functioning as intended" than the much-less-frequent but far-more-maddening broken functionality that takes me "longer than it should" to troublehsoot.

I'm not sure I've used uBlock though, mostly ABP over the years.
Honestly I just see what was well reviewed at tomshardware or anandtech. I let them filter out the crap for me.
We're replacing those with Marlboro Greens, so, no biggie.
The broader issue is about having respect for others.

If we all followed the golden rule, all the time, we could find this planet is a paradise.
These are really great changes. I haven't 100% adapted to the latest with Gimp but hope to get more time in for play. The broad changes in 2.10 were driving me crazy on a recent, more serious comic art project, so I reverted to 2.8.

Since that time though, I'm getting used to the changes, and the non-destructive techniques are really appreciated, especially compared to the old contingency methods I was using like saving backup layers.

Gimp is, to me anyway, almost a completely different app now.
Thanks. I like the fact you can do a quick and dirty script, but the wrap it up in tasks if you want.
>allows for unlimited unmetered lending of e-books

It is metered, you can lend max 5 book for max of 1 month.

>Note also that physical books face physical wear and usually have to be retired after 25–40 (at most) lends

Is that something positive? Should we go back to DVD because publishers would love that, or is streaming still ok?
I like the way this piece is written. A bit of gallows humour make reading about such horrific things just about bearable.
Which blueprint? Engineers I talked to often mentioned that they'd make several different blueprints and different layers of detail. Is code the "high level" or the "low level" blueprints?
Just a reminder that you're only assuming that the information that arkades would like to add is even accurate. (No offense to them, I'm sure it is, just pointing out that the process of editing that encyclopedia is burdensome for a reason).
They're not about "the establishment" and "worthy recipients" though, they are ordinary criminals, which is great news for "the establishment", because the people that want to scam people or phish info etc are usually quite aware that they wouldn't be able to do that if it wasn't for "the system" at large operating at a very stable level.

It's more lucrative and much safer to be a criminal in a stable, advanced society with lots of laws and regulation and little social mobility than being a criminal in Somalia. Successful criminals don't want to see society end or even change massively, they are doing fine.
Like most “for life” positions (the papacy, US federal judges, the British monarchy, etc.), it can be shed though it is not regularly expected to be lost other than at the holder's decision.
Your approach towards the situation might determine the life quality of you and your wife. I can't imagine how it's like to think in a logic way while you're in the middle of such of an emotional event.
Nice work!

Still think Affinity Photo for £23.99 one-time is a better option if you're on Windows/Mac though. I've easily switched from Photoshop which I've never been able to do with GIMP.
You're allowed to say Saudi Arabia, this isn't Twitter.
We are not teaching our children Philosophy; most importantly, Epistemology. We are teaching children to know things, to judge others on what they "know" and think because of what they think they know, and giving them the false confidence of true belief without the caution of self-doubt.
Mix-Up, Revisited
What is Glimpse?
That bypass kit is a critical part of the work around the whole page is about.
It's not a lie though. All the title says is $32B of wealth was accidentally advertised (in this case, prize money based on numbers in a bottle caps). The headline doesn't say it cost Pepsi that amount, it just says the typo (ok, that bit isn't strictly accurate) was for the amount of $32B. A typo isn't the same thing as a payment.

Anecdotally the article was pretty much what I expected from the title: a large amount of wealth was accidentally promised (I assumed by physical property worth $32B and where the quantity was accidentally an order of magnitude more) and Pepsi, like all successful businesses, wormed out of delivering. As it turns out the story was more absurd than the headline lead me to believe but largely it was accurate to my assumptions based on the title.

Moving on from the title: this article did make me wonder what would have happened to the Philippine economy had Pepsi paid out (assuming they had the money to do so). With 800,000 people suddenly winning enough to buy a luxury house, I bet that would have caused house prices to rise massively and likely did all sorts of other massively disruptive things to the economy. Any other theories on this "whatif" scenario?
A college friend teaches at the Naval War College. Most of these "Pentagon planned for X" stories are breathless reporting on some scenario put together by a low-level officer as a training exercise. Often some component is something "hot" in the culture at the moment to make the training exercise more compelling for trainees. This is also why there was, for example, pentagon "plans" for a zombie apocalypse, etc.
They have 500 hours left, so that would be impossible.
FWIW changing version to "3" in the compose file was necessary to get it to build with the latest release of docker-ce.
I wrote an online guide designed to be a bit more accessible: https://www.learntla.com

(I stopped working on it to write a full book, but now that that's done I really need to get back and overhaul it. Still a useful resource IMO)
I've been eyeing that book for about a year now. Really should just go through and buy it.
The authors aren't involved in this, unfortunately.

The plaintiffs here are publishers—you know, the ones who take the vast majority of all profit from all book sales, despite massive increases in scalability over the past century.

If the plaintiffs win this, authors won't see a cent.
"The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things."

- Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Republican Candidate for US President

I don't think robot soccer is going to be the intermediate step since the threat of human death and the follow through on that threat is an essential feature of the war machine.

As difficult to get belligerents to agree to ethical rules of engagement, which would be a requirement for war as robot sport, we can't ignore the rise of asymmetric warfare and warfare via proxy through militias and unofficially backed terrorist organizations. These are often used by states as loopholes to get around treaties and international law. Are terrorists and militias going to be adhering to something resembling Asimov's laws of robotics when deploying their autonomous weapons?
> GUI is actually pronounced “Gee-you-eye” and not “gooey”.

I always thought acronyms were pronounced phonetically whenever possible, like NASA, SCUBA, etc.

Even if that's not the case, "gooey" has become ubiquitous enough to be the colloquial pronunciation.
i love this idea! anything that tilts the power back into the hands of local businesses is def needed during times like this.
The Very First Vaccine
Trash, literally waste processing
I Replaced My MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB for a Day
Good job! Haven't opened gimp or photoshop in years but looking at it, it seems to resemble photoshop _A_LOT_ as far as UI is concerned and that's probably a good thing: photoshop folks would feel more at home. Specifically what really impresses me is how visually similar it looks(to me anyway), knowing that GTK is powering it. Very impressive!
When they mess up is when it changes.
When you look at old institutions and powerful people, sometimes their rule ends abruptly because of scandal, bad decisions, or corruption. Bear Sterns, Enron, and Nixon are examples of this.
For a new publishing platform to succeed, the old one needs die. For an organization built on prestige to die, it needs to be mired in scandal wrapped up and packaged in the political zeitgeist at that moment that not only affects its small community but also develops the ire of the entire society. At that point a new platform will emerge, likely backed by, and inheriting its prestige from, another institution.

Edit: I realize, unfortunately, this post doesn’t give anything actionable that anyone can enact. It at least offers hope that things can change.
I suspect as long as https://graphql.org says what it does, you're going to have a hard time with that fight...
>Geekbench, which is a highly questionable benchmark that also has extreme OS dependencies (compare results for the same CPU on Windows & Linux, for example)

OS and compiler dependencies, really. On the other hand, comparing macOS and iOS results may well be more meaningful (they use the same compiler and much of the OS is shared, especially at layers likely to significantly affect performance).

Geekbench (v4 especially) is definitely flawed, but the results in this case don't seem out-of-line with what we see on specINT for example.

e.g., https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/15541405?baseli... comparing shows an A12X roughly matching a Sunny Cove 1060NG7 on single-thread performance (and it mostly follows where I'd expect Intel's strengths to be, with a wider vector unit and specialized instructions); in multi-thread performance the A12X unsurprisingly wins, but it also has double the number cores (okay, four of them are little, but that's still providing extra capacity to get work done).
Wind turbine wakes in forest and neutral plane wall boundary layer simulations
Haven
There's nothing forcing you to scroll the feed. I just uBlock the entire feed, and use it as an online Rolodex. I've also built a fairly sizeable contact book of headhunters, should I ever want to leave my current position.
I recently went to a woodworking show in the mid-Atlantic region. There were some masters there teaching classes who seemed very concerned about traditional woodworking skills dying out - from the average age of attendees I can see why - and some of them take on apprentices still. A show like that would be a good place to look.
The ballad of Cleopatra by Lumineers.
I might be wrong here, since I only have this from hearsay, and I certainly won't touch Zoom. But, wasn't the "end-to-end encryption" a term they used in a blatantly deceptive way? The two ends not being the two users, but the user A and zoom servers, and zoom servers and user B? Please do correct me if I'm misinformed.

Edit: I checked. They've got you fooled.
I think the idea here is that she could use her own voice instead of a generic voice with text to speech devices. I doubt he intends to taunt her with it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/h02jl4/lets_sa...
love this :) is there a mobile app in the works?
System76 launches AMD Ryzen-powered 'Serval WS' portable Linux workstation
All this woodworking and carpentry stuff seems so interesting. For those who are experienced, what's the most efficient way to gain basic woodworking skills? And what's the best advice you would give a beginner who's starting out? I.e. things you wish you had known when you were starting out.
Using a genetic algorithm for password brute forcing
gRPC is awkward on web because it assumes HTTP/2. The web is still half HTTP/1. Also, gRPC does almost everything, but not quite, it doesn't know how to synchronize state in general. It is a heavy weight choice considering that you may only need protobuf. And protobuf is not natively supported in browsers, web devs can't agree on serialization libs, they can only agree on the serialization format. And they didn't choose protobuf ;)
Before I got into programming as a teenager, GIMP was one of the first "advanced" pieces of software I really dove into. I learned so much just messing around, creating wallpapers, editing screenshots from games, making photo-manipulation "art", logos for imaginary companies (and later even a few real ones). I am so grateful such a wonderful, free, open source piece of software existed for me to play with, I think it's part of what sparked my interest in computing.
Nordic's off-the-shelf firmware upgrade process has signed image verification only. The image itself sent over BLE is not encrypted. So anyone using that right off the bat is in for a nice surprise.
Apple registers nine new iPhones and 1 new MacBook with the EEC
Sign language is a pretty good option. There will be times when access to the technology used to produce her voice might be inconvenient or even unavailable. American Sign Language (ASL) is also probably much faster than typing in a lot of cases. I grant, this probably won't be as helpful out in the world where most people won't understand it, but in the comfort of home, being able to converse at the dinner table without a keyboard at your side might be preferable. I suggest you don't ignore this as a supplimental tool.
A hostile fork, because some people found the name offensive.
Books (the paper kind) have been delivered by mail by decades as well.

Is this practical? Probably not. Is it kind of fun? Sure!
It's an observation that points out that physical books are not being lent out hundred or thousands of times so the physical book argument (or the digitized physical book argument) don't hold water.
The point about space and understanding to try new things and not be amazing at them isn't a bad one, but the thing about having 1:1s with your partner that is drawing ridicule isn't the idea of having a scheduled, weekly check-in with your partner; it's that business-talk is intentionally de-personified and using it in a personal context implies a lack of respect for the human you're dealing with.

Consider that I called it a "weekly check-in with your partner" above. That phrasing focuses on the existing relationship and the consideration of checking on how they're doing. A "1:1" is called that to distinguish it from other meetings that involve more than two people, and drops all the connotations of concern or supporting an existing relationship. That's what people are reacting negatively to.
this guy manages!
Media Central Corp Merges Editorial with Sales and Marketing
PHP also has great bindings for openssl versus the incomplete pyOpenSSL library in Python.
His github stars was just one possible measurement of how successful a technology is / will continue to be. That being said, github stars is an ok indicator of how likely a project is going to continue to be supported or more broadly be adopted.
Good luck with what you are doing and more importantly, I wish your wife good health.
Maybe, but one thing I've found is the normal developer often doesn't have visibility into the financial or legal side of the company that often mandate things. Liability is often a problem and they don't often come for the developer when problems arise.
EU privacy regulators cast doubt on legality of Clearview's facial recognition
I work at GE. They sold off their appliance vertical, with brand rights, to Haier years ago. And with lighting being recently sold off, GE doesn't manufacture any home appliances anymore.
I came here to say this. My brother has a PhD in chemistry and no coding experience. He was able to create a voice model of himself using basic nvidia example generators in a week. My dad lost his voice and it would have been very nice to have a TTS that was much more close to him. I personally would think it would be worth it to have that database.

But obviously also attend to the human matters as well, eg spend time.
I dont know how to send messages but I researched this space a few years ago. Unfortunately a family member of mine had a surgery result in loss of his speech.

We have a lot of tapes around of his voice, from voice mails to family videos to some things from his work. If you are open to reaching out that would be awesome, I’ll check out the site as well.

Edit: I’ve wanted to make some sort of soundboard + “text to talk” setup for this family member. He often can’t participate in conversations because he writes on a whiteboard, and the speed of chatter moves faster than his writing
Came across this project demonstrating modern Android development best practices in a reddit discussion:

https://github.com/igorwojda/android-showcase
TorCon 2020: Stay Home, Geek Out
The "right to not be observed" is not a natural right

Rights are granted through legislative processes. What is not a right today may be a right tomorrow.

The "right to absolute privacy in all places at all times" is also not a natural right

Is anybody asking for that? I haven't seen that anywhere. Can you provide a link?
I don't think they look stupid if you're being honest. State specific accomplishments and skills.

If you committed to well known project X, I wouldn't particularly list it unless you have a lot of commits on that project.
I'm pretty sure people said the exact same thing about Algolia when it was getting started (you have to tune search for your use case! How could you possibly use a search provider?!?)

Truth about the situation:
- Transformers generalize well and don't need much fine tuning
- OpenAI can probably fine tune for your use case better than you can
- Getting new models into production takes 6 months to a year at companies of this size, if you did have Data Scientists in house, it might just be better to go with a solution like this for velocity
- Not every company has the talent to make an in house ML program successful.
I have ~8yr old panels manufactured in China, one of them was shattered by what I suspect was a falling bullet (must've been a wild party...). Since the panels are wired in series, that reduced the output of the system by about half (the shattered panel was in the middle). Ironically I couldn't easily replace it, as new panels are higher output, so I would have to replace my inverter. I opted to just bypass the dead panel and have 19 working instead of 20.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

-Mark Twain

https://www.bing.com/search?form=MOZLBR&pc=MOZI&q=blacks+lie...

The problem with statistics is that you need to take lots of time and care to have all sides fully explain their position and be able to rebut counterarguments with more data. If you do this, you will get to the truth, which is why people who are wrong tend to push conspiracy theories in order to dismiss the data instead of putting forward testable arguments. There is no better (or worse) non-argument than the one that you assert can not be falsified a priori.
Direct link to the press release https://www.mediacentralcorp.com/an-open-letter-to-sharehold...

NOW and the Georgia Straight were once culturally important magazines in Canada. This is deeply upsetting news in the publishing industry.
Vivaldi introduces a full-page Notes Manager and configurable menus
I should also point out that learning all of ASL isn't necessary for it to be helpful. "Yes", "No", and "Thank you" are pretty helpful on their own.