skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not even power density but also the ability to get lighter as you go farther.
A while ago I watched a 4-part documentary about the every-day lives of ancient Egyptians. Pretty interesting.[1]

For weeks after that my recommendations were filled with bullshit such as "PROOF ALIENS BUILT THE PYRAMIDS!" and such.

So yeah, maybe those "very complex recommendation algorithm based on deep learning/statistics" is perhaps not always such a great idea. In this particular case, it's just a mere annoyance for me, but imagine a 13-year old watching a few genuine documentary videos on Egypt and then seeing this bullshit; they don't have the capacity I have to see it's bullshit.

And imagine if it was on a more serious topic than who built the pyramids...

If I were to ask a YouTube engineer "why did I get this recommendation specifically?" then the answer would probably be "dunno".

An additional issue is that the YouTube of yesteryear was much better in browsing random videos. Now everything is based on what I've watched before, instead of just "give me a list of science videos" or whatnot. This is also an issue I have with Netflix (or rather, had, since I no longer have an account).

It seems to me that inscrutable mindless AI learning has a part in the spread of misinformation and bullshit. I'm not sure how large that part is, but I suspect it's significant. I'm hesitant of the total value in these cases, regardless of what it may do for the bottom line in terms of revenue.

[1]: I'll just drop the link to it here in case anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnsNwwwHm2I
I don't think recumbents (at least high-racers) are necessarily unstable at slow speeds. My understanding was that the fundamental problem with recumbents in racing is that, going uphill, aerodynamics matters less. What really matters is applying torque efficiently. And humans are designed to apply torque vertically: we're good at it. So while on the straightaways and downhill recumbents cannot be beaten, they are poor at climbing.

What's frustrating is that we'll never get to see serious comparisons of the two, or of interesting combinations of them, in real races because UCI banned recumbents for the worst of reasons a hundred years ago.
> Well, first they'd need to be over-represented ;)

Not at all - behold, an entire article complaining about too many whites on Harvard [1], despite being the most under-represented group [2].

[1] https://slate.com/business/2019/09/harvard-admissions-affirm...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21130080
More importantly and relevant :-)

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> There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

-Tony Hoare, from his Turing Award lecture
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The service is a bit pricey at $39/mo, but given that it appears to be geared toward enterprise/startups/teams and not individual/end users, I guess that makes sense.
It relies heavily on feature flags. Makes sense for big systems with lots of feature flags.

However it works for now only with Java, Swift, or Objective-C Code.

Check it out if your projects fit those two conditions
How can a nation-state adversary compromise a device only knowing the phone number?
Similar to Pokémon Snap them.
Sigh. I hate debugging timing related issues that I cannot duplicate. But I already include the input in the search results API response, so your suggestion should work. I'll try it shortly.
I’m an L7 SDE in Seattle, hired 2 years ago.

Year one comp was about $520k (160 base, 320 bonus, 40 RSU)

Year two comp was around $580k (160 base, 280 bonus, 140 RSU)

This year I’m on pace to gross near $700k (160 base, no bonus, 500+ RSUs)
You're being massively disingenuous in the second example. A 'bunch of thugs' means one person who was being chased by a group of officers and beaten while he's trying to run. He's trying to get into a car to escape (admittedly a bad idea), then when they catch up to him they beat him up, throw him to the ground AND arrest the driver.

The fact that you chose to take the video so far out of context means you're not here to argue in good faith at all. Said list isn't for people such as yourself, where no level of evidence could convince you.
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Does the underlying CPU platform matter anymore for most people? If they have some non-standard proprietary apps then for sure that's a big issue. But if most OS apps are recompiled, then you have iCloud apps too, the bigger hitters being onboard is key (Microsoft, Adobe). If you pretty much hit those key points then it begins to look like it'll be relatively straightforward. ARM Macs will increase Apple's profit per unit shipped as they get the CPU for free. No longer beholden to Intel's erratic road map and failure to deliver.
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fcitx, ibus...
> Is it out of control though? The police has 700K members in the US. Millions of daily interactions with people of all kinds. All you could find is 400 cases from ALL the years. And I guess the claim is brutality wasn't justified in every single case. In reality there are not 400 cases on that list, and in many cases the violence was justified.

400 ... where there are videos. We know that until a video emerges these get swept under the rug, so I'm willing to bet that there are a fair few more than 400 examples of police brutality.
A great talk on Flatpak sandboxing was released in March. [1]. The original post is from 2018 (Flatpak 1.0). Not sure if these issues are completely fixed yet, there are a lot of release notes up to version 1.63 (stable). [2] It seems that the maintainers and community are working on improving security continuously. My main hope is that they optimize for privacy, security and user control of the packages. Overall I'm impressed by flatpak with it's cross-distribution packaging.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rCIEzfZw1I

[2] https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases
The reputational baggage Google carries from decades of failed/killed social/chat products is too big for anyone to take anything they release seriously.

The only real question is will they kill Meet or Duo first?
Amazon’s sign on bonus is paid and vests monthly if it’s for a substantial amount.
Flatpak has that same problem?
Say more, please.
My comment was in the context of yet another completely unsourced claim of progress.

No evidence - as always. No progress.

Of course, if you - or anybody else - can show evidence of a genuine advance towards AGI, rather than breathless hype and vague assertions based on the impressive but irrelevant narrow-domain "AI" expertise of Alpha-x and the like, I (and many others) would love to read it.

We've been waiting since at least Alan Turing.
> Is there a role or industry where this skill could be my primary contribution?

Yes, you can be a security researcher / bug bounty hunter.
HLE has had increased internal resolution for many years now. What's the advantage of implementing in in an LLE fashion?
They already blame the algo when they made a manual decision. Looking at you Google, you bold faced liars.
I found it funny that the book "Robotics" (by Siciliano et al.) isn't in the category "Intelligent Technologies and Robotics". There's another book titled "Robotics" (by Mihelj et al.) in that category though.
The N64's "GPU" is the Reality Display Processor (RDP) chip which is specialized hardware built by Silicon Graphics specifically for the N64 console. The RDP runs a custom program that is part of each game that tells it how to take high-level commands from the game code and render them. For this accurate N64 emulation, it is being emulated at a lower level than before.

Previously, N64 emulators just used the commands sent to the RDP to tell the host system GPU what to do with something higher-level like OpenGL or DirectX (of course, this meant a lot of game-specific "hacks" in the emulator), rather than emulating the RDP itself by sending lower-level commands directly from the RDP to the host GPU with something like Vulkan. This is so-called High-Level Emulation (HLE), and it's a massive shortcut to emulating the whole RDP -- which meant that N64 could even be "emulated" on a PC from 1999.

Lower-level emulation of the RDP itself has been recently made possible, and now it can also now be "up-scaled" to arbitrary resolutions -- instead of just sticking to high level emulation and telling OpenGL or DirectX to render to a larger resolution -- or even worse, scaling the rasterized rendered output frames by treating them as images.

In practice, Mario 64 was just telling the RDP to render triangles anyways so it mapped nicely to OpenGL for the HLE case, but for more "accurate" emulation (this is like getting from 95% to 99%), the RDP itself needs to be emulated as well for things like the Perfect Dark drone camera mentioned elsewhere.
Oh wow, that’s nice. I guess my employer is just not doing the max then.
I've been looking into webrtc and used the "webrtc samples" which are good in many ways. It is fairly easy to get something up and running, but I found several areas that were difficult.

* debugging. One users sound just doesn't work while it works perfectly for me with different machines. I am clueless as to how to debug it.

* ice. while it works, I had a hard time understanding, tracking and debugging what was going on.

* closing and restarting connections

* multiple clients in one room?

* echo cancellation. This was frustrating for users.

* Turn. Is there a tool or way to know which clients need a turn server? Are using a turn server?

I ended up guessing that getting it to be a product would actually be fairly time consuming
the whole idea is to outsource and delegate the less important work so you can focus on the thing youre best at to maximize your productivity (however you want to measure it).

this is something you immediately must do to be successful as any sort of manager or leadership position.
I think “steganography” is a more precise term for this than “cryptography”
I think the general trend of researchers becoming more media-savvy is great. But I also get the sense that researchers are increasingly choosing to work on Twitter-friendly topics (e.g., sensational, visually striking, reducible to sound bites) — whether that’s also positive I’m not so sure.
clear your head of this sh*t and get a life, grow up.
> The criticial vulnerability "shell in the ghost" was fixed in flatpak about one month after linux distributions.

I can't find any reference to that vulnerability except this page.
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True, but the problem you're mentioning is solved, for the most part. STUN/TURN servers serve this purpose, there are open source ones[0][1] and you can can even use public STUN servers[2] (as you might expect free TURN servers aren't really a thing).

Solutions like Jitsi Meet[3], whereby (formerly appear.in)[4] use WebRTC to great success and are fantastic for quick meetings.

WebRTC these days is pretty mature and ready for primetime -- TURN servers are a last resort, but they're a small price to pay for something that might be free (to you the service provider) most of the time, if signaling succeeds.

[0]: https://github.com/jselbie/stunserver

[1]: https://github.com/enobufs/stun

[2]: https://gist.github.com/mondain/b0ec1cf5f60ae726202e

[3]: https://meet.jit.si

[4]: https://whereby.com
And they aren't integrated in to the OS like snap or flatpak. I can install/update a flatpak and it shows up in the program menu. For appimage I have to open my filemanager and click on the program like a prehistoric windows user.

Also last time I read the OP article the tldr is "Flatpak has security options but many packages turn them off making them exactly as secure as appimage/binaries from a package manager"
The banks include RSUs if you have two years of history of receiving them. Otherwise they ignore the stock plan.

The same goes for the sign on bonus, they ignore the bonus portion of comp unless there is two years of history and an expectation that it will continue.

Source: I have been at Amazon for 2.5 years and checked with a LOT of banks.
It claims to originate at https://file.wikileaks.org/file/. It's probably 9-11_all_messages.7z or 9-11_messages.7z.
That video is brilliant, by the way. I just watched it all the way through — it makes sense that a video that had such a high learning bandwidth (For lack of a better term) gets so many views.
That looks like a super-useful tool! Thanks!
Your last paragraph suffers from hyperbolic rhetoric and a faultful analogy (common with arguments from analogy). A librarian offering to photocopy a book for you is incurring cost of resources (the paper used for the photocopy) and giving you an inferior copy (not bound and nicely finished). Neither of those apply with a digital copy, which is essentially cost-free to make and indistinguishable from the source.

And why should a digital library have to work in the same way as a physical library? Why should we be bound by analogising the way a physical library works to how a digital library could and can work?

A library, to me, is an accessible store of published works, with some level of curation. That's it. It doesn't have to include the idea of physical access limits, artificially imposed. Indeed, one of the benefits of digitisation is escaping the limits imposed by physicality and opening new ways of doing things.
No one should be linking to N-Gate about an issue like this, and it's embarrassing to see that this page was put up as recently as 2017.

It's just repeating "but I don't need it" over and over, while occasionally breaking off to make mind-bogglingly silly claims like "the security of the things I build are someone else's problem", and "we should just magically fix transport-layer bugs clientside."

And a few unsubstantiated jabs at LetsEncrypt for good measure, because pretending that everyone else is terrible at their job is a lot easier than paying even the slightest attention to what's been the general consensus of the entire Internet security community for over a decade.

I apologize for being a little more blunt and snippy about this than might be necessary, but seeing articles like these tick me off in a weird way (which I'm sure N-Gate would regard as a source of pride). It's a good reminder that people can make just about any poorly-thought-out unsubstantiated argument sound reasonable by just adding a lot of snark and then hoping that readers won't realize there's nothing logically coherent behind their "isn't everyone else except me stupid" hook.

I am sure that N-Gate does a lot of amazing work outside of their blog, and I'm sure that if I met them in person I would think they were very smart and charming -- but would it kill them to occasionally post anything on their site that isn't just a bunch of flippant contrarianism disguised as technical discussion?
Non-tech roles.
The Irish data privacy regulator recently did a sweep of 38 Irish websites, reviewing for cookie compliance. Two-thirds of websites were found to be relying on "implied consent" and 37 were found to set unnecessary cookies on landing before consent was given. Overall only 3 websites were rated as "substantially compliant."

Further reading: https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/publications/rep...
> Basically a bunch of thugs attack random drivers. One of the thugs jumps into a random car, the car stops, police come, pull the thug out, he resists, they deal with him. I have zero sympathy for the thug.

Even when one cop punches "the thug" in the face while he's being walked away while handcuffed?
The idea was that some outside company had a say in what went into the EULA.
Those don’t work for me either. But having kids does. I guess being responsible for the welfare of another human is enough for me to overcome my need to sleep.
“Chaturbate is the best video chatting product” is a catchy line. Has anyone done a comparison post?
Ok, your correction is - one guy is doing it, not a bunch. I agree with your correction.

Other than that, the point remains.

They "arrest" the driver, because he is not following the police instructions to get out of the car, and is actively resisting the police. We don't know if he was actually arrested or just detained. I got handcuffed once and then let go, it wasn't an arrest.
What I said is that your analysis is missing historical context; that your acknowledgement is inadequate given that context. I certainly didn't mean to insinuate that you're racist, and I don't see what would give you that idea. Are you sure that I'm the one spoiling for a fight?
At least if you somewhat trust the reviewer we now know that it has no glaring problems and seems to be well designed.

Which is important because without any external reviews how would we know if it wasn't written by some people with "dangerous" skill levels being high enough to look good for someone having no idea about TLS but to low to actually get it right. I do have seen some open source projects over the years where that was the case and the authors where not open for any form of critique, which lead to situations where you seemed to get a high quality well maintained library but you got a somewhat high quality well maintained library with hidden extremely dangerous bugs the authors have no intention of fixing and closing all issues about them...

Nice to hear that Rustls is not such a bad apple but a most likely good pice of work.
Depends on your goals. Do you want to have impact or chase obscure brain teasers?
No amount of funding towards schools can make up for a home life or general environment that's not conducive towards education. I wish we in the US looked at solutions beyond throwing money at it (or at least, in a different way) because it obviously doesn't work.
For those interested in seeing how WebRTC can really scale check out some of the media servers/SFU (Selective Forwarding Units)s that are out there:

- janus[0][1]

- mediasoup[2][3]

- Medoze[4][5]

It's never been easier to start your own video streaming platform.

[0]: https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxRwELmyWU0

[2]: https://mediasoup.org/

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GhdFOZTWTw

[4]: https://github.com/medooze/media-server

[5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ymYTdA0ko
Can you explain to me why the driver needed to be arrested, and why it was considered 'resisting arrest'? Try again, because you seem to still be spinning the story in a way as to try to favor the police. Even though I can agree the person running shouldn't have jumped into cars, why do you think the person driving deserve to be beaten too? If that was you in that situation, do you think you would deserve to be beaten up and arrested too?

And try not putting 'arrest' in fear quotes, because they literally yanked him out of his car, threw him against his vehicle and arrested him.
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I agree that there are more than 400, we know that just by the number of people getting shot.

Now, how many are unjustified? That's the important question.
For people who are disabled, dismissing cookie dialogs is one extra difficult pointless thing they have to do _every_ time they visit any website.

Is this a violation of human rights?
I do not understand the concept that a property of a sum of a bunch of numbers somehow applies to those components.

Whether something is net zero depends on what you are adding it to; it's not inherent in that thing.

It's like, if you have a pile of blue things, then the pile is also blue. But other characteristics do not work that way. If you have a pile of things that each weigh 1 lb, then the pile does not weigh 1 lb.
Isn't "the amalgamation of many smaller problems working together and building on top of each other" a fair description of the theorical Unix system?

Aren't your criteria for "intelligence" human-centric, implying that there is no other form of "intelligence"?

Aren't your criteria of the "black box" type, given that AFAIK no human can really completely explain how he recognizes faces/does NLP/walks/...?
I can second a recommendation of the Elements of Statistical Learning. It's well presented, self contained and features good exercises. It may also be slightly different in presentation from most books on ML because the authors are all professors of statistics, instead of CS. (But, it is NOT a classical statistics textbook.)
Might be more of a sabbatical.

This is the Freakonomics episode where he talked about this https://freakonomics.com/podcast/math-curriculum/
Tor phone
That would also necessitate an 'accept none' option, which no corporation wants.
I think this is something that can eventually be fixed. Indeed, I'm on Linux Mint and the integration is actually pretty good. When you first run an appimage it asks if you'd like to add the program to the start menu. Icons are correct and everything.

I can also imagine some possible ways to allow appimages to auto update, though I suspect there'd be a lot of resistance to that.
For infrastructure, I may be using it indirectly. GCE hosts a VPN server. Everything else is on Linode, Digital Ocean, and Vultr. I could very well be accidentally using Amazon, but I've steered clear as best I could.

For shopping, absolutely and already have. Local stores were/are still plenty sufficient with the dry goods. The butcher shop down the road is managing to keep well stocked. Local produce markets are doing a great job. Ebay kicked Amazon's rear for things that weren't available locally. Because of the free time gained the lack of commute, wanting a small audio studio and green screen setup for conference calls was a fun project. The gear was here in 2 days from regional suppliers found on eBay and reverb. Since that was setup, 10 pounds of bulk Lego was purchased from ATLBrick and specific Lego from BrickOwl to try Lego stop-motion. To blow off stress local gun stores have stock Amazon is too scared to handle. The local work wear store has been great to work with. The town lumber yard is always a pleasure. Dealing with Amazon and their crazy delays isn't worth it. Best of all, I don't have to deal with sellers of knock-offs and counterfeit items when I shop locally.
The debugging bit is so frustrating, I almost spend a whole week trying to find a bug with my PeerConnections only to find out that it was that the TURN Server was misconfigured (although Trickle ICE was successful). And even then just setting up a TURN server consumed a whole day.
Ancient Roman city has been fully mapped using ground-penetrating radar
What I know about flatpak was from some Linux you tubers who led me to believe it was a sandbox. For that matter, some hn users posted similar things in the last month when talking about snaps iirc