skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple’s AI plan: a thousand small conveniences
I'm wondering if any of this will change now that Apple is going all-in on vertical integration, basically unifying their platforms so you can write a game once and run it on Mac, AppleTV, iPad and iPhone with (almost) no changes. Their hardware will all run comparable Apple CPU's & GPU's, same API's, appear to fully support game controllers etc, and the development and deployment platform are pretty much the same thing. This makes a small step towards a unified platform for light gaming.

I get that MacBooks and AppleTV's will never be anywhere near the performance of PC, Xbox or PlayStation, but Nintendo has shown that doesn't have to matter. I'm pretty sure any Apple SoC used in the last ~2 years already beats the Nintendo Switch for example. All Apple needs to do is put some effort towards getting more 'real' games in their store, ie: games like you would play on switch with traditional controls, and not glorified mobile games that also have to work with the ridiculous AppleTV remote.

My feeling has been for a long time already that Apple is really leaving a huge opportunity on the table here. But the vibe I got from WWDC keynote and platform state of the union was that they seem to have more focus on this now, showing unity, maya and some other tools that can be used for game dev, running on their Apple Silicon. So who knows what they are planning...
That's the truth. New + important = hard.
https://web.archive.org/web/sitemap/https://slatestarcodex.c...

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Alexander
You can verify ANY phone number in your PayPal account
I had two phone numbers in my PayPal account and wanted to verify them both. What surprised me is that I got the same verification code for verifying both of these numbers.

I decided to try it out and typed:
+1 310 4567890

as my phone number.

I used the same verification code from the past messages and...it worked.

This sounds like an extremely dangerous practice!

Update: I just tried to do it again and I can't reproduce the issue.
I think it might be connected with the 2FA or some other time-based token. I'm just guessing here, as I was logged out at roughly the same time when I was trying to add another phone number.

If someone has the time, I think the thing to try is to add one number and verify it and then quickly add another (arbitrary) number and verify it using the code from the first number.
Yes, Brazil is practically halfway between Portugal and Angola. It's half the GDP per capita of Portugal, but twice that of Angola: https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
Can you point to examples where you feel they're done well? Whenever the subject comes up it's always the egregious ones that are pointed out so I'd like to see the other side.
Regarding the allegations, many do not believe they are credible. See for example this comment by the UN's Nils Melzer:

> Surely, I thought, Assange must be a rapist! But what I found is that he has never been charged with a sexual offence. True, soon after the United States had encouraged allies to find reasons to prosecute Assange, Swedish prosecution informed the tabloid press that he was suspected of having raped two women. Strangely, however, the women themselves never claimed to have been raped, nor did they intend to report a criminal offence. Go figure. Moreover, the forensic examination of a condom submitted as evidence, supposedly worn and torn during intercourse with Assange, revealed no DNA whatsoever — neither his, nor hers, nor anybody else’s. Go figure again. One woman even texted that she only wanted Assange to take an HIV test, but that the police were “keen on getting their hands on him”. Go figure, once more. Ever since, both Sweden and Britain have done everything to prevent Assange from confronting these allegations without simultaneously having to expose himself to US extradition and, thus, to a show-trial followed by life in jail. His last refuge had been the Ecuadorian Embassy.

https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian...
As an easy fix for the UI, I'd suggest to remove the fixed height for the cards.
previous about the same story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610416

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23626449

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23621466

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23617887
Krita is nice to use, but for simple things I find Gimp's filters more useful. It now has much better scaling filters than Krita and the colour adjustment filters are useful, especially colour temperature adjustment and auto white balance I use a lot. Also some aspects of Gimp's UI are still superor, for example some filters in Krita only allow adjusting the parameters using text boxes, where in Gimp you can use a slider to interatively adjust each parameter with the mouse.
Was the info false, or do you just object to the sourcing?
I mean ... the US has not even got hands on him yet. He hasn't been in US custody for a second. There is absolutely no case. Yet.

If you want to feel contempt strongly towards someone - the UK, Ecuador and Sweden governments are the ones to blame so far.
Pretty+Lady+Amaze+her+Internet+Friends+as+She+Claims+to+be+Witch+from+the+River
You sound as warmblooded as a snake.

What's with the abuse?
>You sound as warmblooded as a snake.

Yea you are keeping it real civil there huh. I can tell you are here for honest debate and won't just move the goalposts or start with personal attacks again.

>Got any facts

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...

WikiLeaks declined to publish a wide-ranging trove of documents — at least 68 gigabytes of data — that came from inside the Russian Interior Ministry, according to partial chat logs reviewed by Foreign Policy.
So Python is faster than Perl on 6/10 benchmarks? This seems to support my argument that they are generally fairly comparable and definitely not that Perl is waaay faster.
When it comes to making the news, the undeniable truth is that someone is paying to get it made. If consumers don't pay for the news, others will.

Even the news on public broadcasting channels is paid for: through public funding and - ultimately - taxpayer money.

It used to be that you would pay to get a newspaper, or you would have a yearly subscription to the newspaper. Add in advertising and newspapers were able to break even. Reach in the analogue world was limited to a local city, region or country. Scaling simply didn't make much sense. Local news was a matter of ensuring that the paper would still be around next year to report on local affairs. And local communities had a stake in ensuring that their paper stayed operational.

Then there was the Web. Originally conceived as a way of exchanging research information, the foundational idea was to remove all bars and give open access to whatever is published. The early Web pretty much thrived on this idea up until the dotcom boom when e-commerce started to explode.

News outlets enthusiastically joined the fray, publishing articles and content for free.

But as internet connectivity became mainstream and penetrated all strata of society, an ever increasing influx of visitors also meant rampant costs and expenses to cater to those ballooning audiences. This happened rapidly.

By the time newspapers - or any publisher - started to add paywalls to their content, it was already too late. Others seized the moment, and bigger fish had successfully consolidated the market around their offering, buying and leveraging news outlets and advertising as links in larger chains that drive consumers towards the convenience of online consumerism.

You are right, saving the current players that constitute the news industry isn't a justification for breaking up conglomerates that influence the current trend of news making. But creating a more level playing field for new players to entering sustainable and durable news reporting with modern business models, is. While at the same time promoting why consumers should pay for the news they read on line, and making it clear why that's important.
The Privilege of Mentoring
Yes the info was false.

>A few hours later, the assessment worsened: a friendly source from CNAIPIC was telling them that some of the documents had been forged. One document number, when checked against CNAIPIC’s system, reportedly corresponded to a wholly unrelated matter. The remaining real documents didn’t seem to have come from CNAIPIC either. Instead, police were apparently investigating “a small IT company that has worked for CNAIPIC in the past and that apparently some of the stolen data were on a machine they took to repair in Rome.” There was an immediate suspicion that it was “a giant op by the police to [discredit] anonymous and to tarnish our reputation and credibility.”
When thinking, it's ironic the concerns the US is having with Huawei and Chinese potentially spying on us. Americans are not even trying anymore to pretend they don't do the same, they just want exclusivity without having to bother wasting resources decrypting communications...
I think it’s mostly a result of how easy it is to fire people in much of the US. Is costs many companies (especially big ones) almost nothing to just get rid of a pariah and people know this, so “fire them” has become the easiest way of punishing someone we don’t like. Most people don’t stop to think how much that could ruin someone’s life, so they just go along with the ones who do want to ruin a person’s life.
on duckduckgo..

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You don't have permission to access this resource.

Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) Server at www.os2museum.com Port 80>

..But works in Firefox
He was a blogger who used to blog on controversial issues with somewhat heterodox opinions (not since 2017 anymore though) and generally blogged about interesting stuff, related to cognition and psychiatry; I was somewhat of a fan and thought he was a great writer. He attracted a large community, some of who were a bit, well, let's say "controversial", but it is also one of the most interesting communities I have ever encountered. He was part of the rationalist ideology/movement.

He also wrote Unsong, which is a very interesting work of fiction and blogged about various other stuff.
Perhaps more accurate: some nations are drifting away from democracy. In particular the US can't really be considered a full democracy anymore, and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) which publishes a "democracy index" every year, has recently downgraded the US to "flawed democracy".

I think that this could happen in the US shows that democracy as currently implemented in most countries still has significant design flaws. We need a democracy 2.0 that's more stable, less easily corrupted, and helps educate the people so that their "will" is more rational. Personally I still believe that democracy is the only civilized option, or rather some manifestation of the principles of the "Open Society" as described by Karl Popper is the only option. But an Open Society is an iterative process which needs continuous improvement by definition.
> ... the fact that he responded lends credence to that premise because its core holding was that it would elicit a response.

My point is precisely that "the fact that X responds, i.e. objects to premise Y lends credence to that premise because its core holding was that it would elicit a response" is a pointless and, indeed, content-less rhetorical trick, not an intellectually honest argument; moreover, that there are good reasons to be aware of this trick being played on you. You can call that "reasoned skepticism" or "knee-jerk ego defense", but that's not so important; indeed, I am quite willing to admit my "hostility" and "bald-faced rejection" of any such pointless tricks, no matter what their surrounding context might be.
Anyone remember Google Contributor? https://contributor.google.com/v/beta
It's also not a big deal to accidentally get someone's last name wrong. There is way more social pressure around knowing and always using the correct pronoun for everyone you know.
No, there weren't any initial allegations in the first place. The "raped" (not really) women only went to the police to force Assange get an STD test - even they didn't consider themselves victims!
The whole Russian story was a scam. We have documents saying that is was told to abuse FISA powers. Not that I like the persons it was employed against, but it is far larger than watergate if we had honest discussion about it.

If you still talk about Russia, you have been fooled immensely and for me it is beyond comprehension how anyone could earnestly believe that story arc.

You are spreading lies.
It seems the most probable outcome is that most Americans will be exposed eventually. There’s just no available measures that will now stop its spread. Cities that unknowingly already had widespread infections were too late to lockdown. And those which hadn’t yet experienced major outbreaks reopened too soon.
I did the same thing a couple of weeks ago. Social media platforms have turned into a disease.

https://www.corycollier.com/2020/06/10/why-i-removed-my-soci...
The fact that the media is largely refusing to give proper attention to the few primary sources we have on government affairs, preferring to print statements and tweets is the real problem here. If journalism looked the way it is often pictured in movies, this would go vastly differently.
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Entering an unlocked house, in many common law jurisdictions, is tresspass at best.

Picking a lock falls into break and enter, regardless of the name of the charge.

Windows, and even walls offer little security in modern houses too! I can literally punch my way through vinyl siding, with chipboard under that, through to drywall.
The second claim appears to have worked though (absurd as it is). They are back in the store after 9 rejections per the post edit this morning.

Is this what we have come to? Appeals to logic and fairness fail, but as soon as a party starts squawking about sexism and racism and gay exclusion it works?
I quibble with the description of the shapes bounded by 10 degrees of longitude and latitude as "rectangles" - they're not even planar shapes, and their adjacent sides certainly aren't at right angles. Some of them don't even have four sides.

This bears considering when looking at the map, because some of those regions are much, much smaller than others.
It's almost as if the Post wanted a reason to fire her and fabricated a reason this way.
I mean my 2019 Mac Mini can just barely run StarCraft (1998) ...
Amazon and Flipkart may make it compulsory to reveal product's country of origin
Yes, you're right. But the pressure to do so comes from the US all the same...

You're right that what's happening in UK with Assange is very disturbing... I followed Craig Murray's blog posts.
Valve take a significant cut, even for independent titles. Apparently it's 20% to 30%. Why wouldn't I just donate directly to the Krita project?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/30/18120577/valve-steam-gam...
The Tsimane man could probably identify the distinction between octaves of bird calls in his habitat. The experimenter would be in the opposite chair hearing only a handful of notes.
A map projection that preserves area would be better, otherwise there's an excessive number of cities in the far northern hemisphere, and a lack of detail in the tropics.
Real journalists don't just publish anything they can get their hands on with no regards for where the data came from, for what purposes it was given to them and whom their publication might harm.
Using .NET 5 with Rider on Linux
Doing anything nontrivial in SAP and Salesforce also requires coding, only now you're doing it in proprietary scripting environments like ABAP and Apex respectively instead of general languages like Java and Python.
A one-off tweet from a wikileaks twitter account about some other organization publishing something questionable is not at all the same as the document dumps that wikileaks publishes and puts their name behind. I'm obviously talking about the latter.

I think it says something that this is the best you can come up with.
Alert in northern Canada has 62 permanent inhabitants, according to wikipedia [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert,_Nunavut
That's because Sweden allegations are discontinued. Quick time frame of the latest development:

2017-05-19: Suspended investigation, revoked arrest warrant. Statement that the investigation can be resumed if Assange visited Sweden before August 2020.

2019-04-11: Case re-opened following his arrest. In September of this year 7 new witnesses were revealed.

2019-11-19: Investigation discontinued, stating "the evidence is not strong enough to form the basis for filing an indictment", adding that "the evidence has weakened considerably due to the long period of time that has elapsed", but the prosecutor was still confident in the complainant.

I personally believe that he's guilty due to the sheer amount of witnesses, but that circumstances around it will result in the victims never achieving justice.
Ah. Yes. That makes sense.

People like Manning and Snowden expose nastiness, but, at the same time, we absolutely need to ensure military and espionage secrets (Full disclosure: my father was in the CIA, but quit on moral grounds - http://cmarshall.com/miscellaneous/MikeMarshall.htm).

People die when military secrets get exposed. That's often completely unintended, but it happens anyway.

My father had a post similar to that held by Valerie Plame. If he had been exposed (like she was), then all his contacts would have been murdered, along with, I am sure, folks he worked with legit.
(Acknowledgement: I didn't watch the video...). Huh, I guess my knowledge is out of date - last year I had to give up on mac rumble support from a game because the drivers people use didn't support it any more - https://github.com/360Controller/360Controller/issues/978

Abstractly, it's good to see they're supporting it, but they're so inconsistent with game-related stuff that I can't muster enthusiasm.

[edit: I tried to find a list of supported controllers for macOS, but couldn't]
I'd suggest just learning and applying fp principles in JS incrementally. You'll feel a bit constrained at first (in part b/c JS allows you to do many "dirty" things), but you'll end up writing better code.
Try to rely on 1) pure functions/no side-effects: a functions return value should be completely determined by its input 2) immutability: no Array.push, pop, or any method that modifies its input values 3) recursion instead of for & while loops.

You'll probably feel the need for stronger typing at some point when adhering to these principles, and that's when I'd suggest looking at Typescript. By trying the things above you'll likely get familiar with the issues TS is trying to solve & you'll appreciate it more. Note that fp-ts is just a "helper" library for functional concepts, but it won't teach you their value or how to use them.

Also: many libraries have fp variations! Next time you reach for lodash, try lodash/fp instead: it has the same tools you'll already be familiar with, but implemented in a functional manner.
If it’s sealed than why am I paying a $150 application fee to prove I’ve never been evicted?
I guess instead of saying "a billion dollars" we should say "1 Gigadollar"
What does “system” mean in the socio-technical land?
So basically the cardinal sin of payment processing then? Not that I'm surprised.
Tristan da Cunha - population: 246

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha
A petition about protecting pseudonymity... and a full name is required to sign it.
In the text of the article:

> What the heck happened to St. Petersburg? (at 59.938N, 30.309E, it is just barely inside the same box as Moscow. The map is quite distorted in this region.)
That's basically what Shuttleworth tried, and it didn't work. Alright, he's no Musk and certainly no Gates, but he did spend a good chunk of his own change.
It's easy to cut yourself with Hanlon's razor: kids learn how to play dumb around the time they learn to talk. If you don't put limits on this excuse, it ends in people getting away with (metaphorical) murder.
I don’t really understand this. You can literally find his name by just asking Google for it. Isnt it already deanonymized?

Or is this about some larger point?
Is this a joke? We have an innocent man in prison and war criminals beyond reproach. I am for setting realistic goals, but letting this fly will have severe long term repercussions.
A quick example might be that during his extradition trial in the UK earlier this year, Assange was kept in a locked glass box, unable to communicate effectively with his legal team:

The Armoured Glass Box is an Instrument of Torture

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/03/the-armoured...

If you are up for a deep (and biased) dive, the rest of Craig Murray's daily blog posts from that trial give many more reasons that his treatment might be considered unjust:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-...

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-...

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-...

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-...

Murray is definitely a partisan in the camp of Assange, but I think his factual reporting is accurate.
How to become a 10x data scientist
> Social media platforms have turned into a disease

To be honest, OP deleted only Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram accounts (all Facebook family), but NOT Twitter[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/shogan85/status/1275924633678684161
Have you seen anyone personally take offense

As a parent of a teenage child, I see it reasonably often between teens and "boomers". Teens absolutely use offense of misused pronouns as a weapon against older folks. But in fairness, older folks also refuse to use preferred pronouns as a weapon back.

But, of course, this is all typical generational strife, and the pronouns are mostly an irrelevant detail to the actual hostility.
Every account of Assange shows a deeply flawed man. Even the generous ones - and whilst he was painted as a freedom fighter for a short period, I'm not convinced that was ever due to anything more than his agenda accidentally aligning with pro government accountability campaigners for a very short time. Also, it seems unlikely there was ever anything to wikileaks beyond Assange - that's certainly what his colleagues from the early days say. Just a man with many different sock-puppet accounts.
TIL Atlanta, GA has fewer people than Jacksonville, FL. The Atlanta metropolitan area has a lot more people.
It is about a future where the Central Brain of Humanity predicts an asteroid impact with Earth. They identified the only person who could help them - but he lived in the past. The Central Brain had an error during calculations for the time travel and the "landing" party got a lot of years too early - and the show is about the rest.
>The whole Russian story was a scam.

Tell that to Adrian Chen or anyone that has actually investigated Russia's meddling in foreign affairs:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

This was reported before the election detailing the agency that would go on to be fingered by the state department and others in their role in US election meddling.

This involved actual reported places, actual employees. Same with with "Guccifer 2.0" and "CyberBerkut" or any of the other Russian fronts Assange worked with.

>You are spreading lies.

You'll be able to find specific things I've said and detail how they are lies right? Because you have factual information about this yes?
The main metaphor I'm familiar with is that cockroaches always come back even as you try to kill more and more of them, rather like zombies, and never in a positive way.