skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
much of the demand of child sexual abuse imagery would evaporate.

It would not. Sexual crimes are not (only) about sex, they are about exercising power over a victim. Downloading real images of abuse is driven by exercising that power vicariously. If anything images like those you suggest would only fuel demand for the "real thing".
Presumably the secret sharing algorithm is more resistant to brute forcing if you have one less than the required pieces. They solve opposite problems
I agree that it can be approached from non-scientific angles (I'd hazard a guess that any subject that can be considered scientific can be approached unscientifically - sometimes for good reasons, sometimes not), but I think(?) you're agreeing with me in my responding to this comment:

> The second you say the words "conscious mind", you leave the realm of science.
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>Alternatively living in a city where rent costs $24k per year

It's OK to say that some areas are not affordable. Manhattan is a great place to live, but it is is not affordable for most people. Don't live in a place where it costs $2k/mo to rent an apartment if you don't have a salary to justify it.

>Poor people aren't poor because they consume too much in the same fashion

You cannot make that kind of universal statement. Sometimes it is an income problem. Sometimes it is a spending problem.

Poverty is also a finicky concept. We immigrated here and lived in the immigrant ghetto for the first 10 years after immigration (mid-80s to mid-90s). We didn't have a lot of stuff, but I never went hungry. Both my parents worked multiple minimum wage (or below) jobs, but there was always dinner, there was always breakfast and lunch for school - even if myself and siblings had to heat it up. Looking back, I would say it we were poor, but really what that means is we didn't have a lot of stuff and all our cloths were from consignment stores. Both my parents were able to scrape enough for a down payment on a house after 10 years of frugal living. They are retiring into a comfortable life now. What happened? My circle of immigrant friends who lived in the same ghetto, from Eastern Europe, Hong Kong, Iran, all came here with similar economic factors, all of them are doing well. How is it impossible in your world-view that an immigrant who comes to this country with no advantages, still manages to build a nice life? And yes, my experience has colored my view on poverty (at least poverty outside of mental illness and drug addiction).

I see your cynical, defeatist posts all over the place - I don't understand how immigrants can build a life, with no communal or familial roots, minimal language skills, while you, being native born having all the advantages complain about being poor and not being able to get a mortgage loan. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
Absolutely so. There were at least a dozen plastic calculators available to buy at the office supply store when I was last there earlier this year.
It works better if you know how the scales are constructed and get familiar with properties of logarithms (mainly variations on log ab = log a + log b)

C and D are plain log scales, where one decade is the length of the rule. They're sort of the default scales to use.

Multiplication is commutative, so you put either number on either scale. The important thing is that the distance from the left index of the scale is proportional to the log of the number (reading the scale as 1 to 10), so you want to arrange the scales to add the lengths corresponding to your numbers such that the lengths add up. (Or so that you subtract the length of the divisor from the dividend, if you're dividing).

You can get by without the approximation if you're willing to set up the multiplication, see that the product is out there in thin air, then move the slide to put the right index where you originally put the left index. (3 times 5: on the d scale find 3 and put the left index of the C scale there; opposite 5 on the C scale read nothing because there's no D scale there; try again using the right index of the C scale, which is the same thing as having another copy of the D scale out there to the right where the air was).

A and B are each 2 copies of a log scale. You can absolutely use the left side of A and B for your numbers to multiply, and the product will always be on the scale.

People normally use(d?) C and D because the precision is better and because the rest of the scales (like the trig and log-log) are constructed to work with them.
They are free to not take the government side in all matters. So, how are they not independent?
I much prefer it if we focus on NVidia since its the subject matter, rather than go into a pitless discussion
I'm of the generation that missed out on slide rules by a decade or so. My parents had one thta i played with as a kid, and I learned to do multiplicication and division with it.

I'd like to get one now, mainly for fun, but if you want to buy one on Ebay in good condition, you have to pay quite a bit of money.
> I started seeing the beauty in rubbish after visiting Singapore a few times. There's something quite unsettling when there is absolutely none.

If you were here during our lockdown, you might have seen plenty.

Some parts of Singapore's population don't see the civic responsibility in throwing trash into bins, unlike most of Japan and Taiwan.

Singapore is a cleaned city, not a clean city.
Plastic "student" slide rules are cheap on eBay. But, yes, quality K&E's etc. are expensive.
This was not what happened. Whatsapp got banned by individual low-ranking-judges in low profile cases, which was unreasonable.
Higher courts removed the ban pretty quick and made sure it won't happen again.
Furthermore, how do the severity of the accidents compare?
There is also the CLI tool ssss that uses shamir secret sharing to split data:

https://linux.die.net/man/1/ssss
My native language is Dutch. Google handles it poorly. As a result people have adapted to either search in English, or to morph the original search (that google does not understand) into sometime that has a higher changes of yielding good results. I'm pretty sure Dutch isn't the only language that fares this way.

Now the main reason (at least, I think it is) it's handled poorly is that Dutch has an infinite number of words ( * ) and order in compositions matters a lot. This conflicts with the typical precomputations that try to reduce the number of words etc.

( * ) take any 2 nouns A & B. you can concatenate them into a new noun AB or a new noun BA (with completely different meaning). German has this concept too.
IMO it's intrinsic shortcomings. These started coming out once the language processing got good enough to be reliable. And that part has continued advancing. But after you have that parsed instruction, what do you do with it? That's the part that's basically "AI hard" and is the real limiting factor. The "skills" approach routes around the problem by having exact keywords passed off to particular specialized handlers. But that means it can only ever do what it's been explicitly taught to do, and with explicit keywords.
At what point is China no longer considered a developing country? I think the argument is since they're now at least the second largest economy in the world, they no longer deserve all the special protections.
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Data caps and throttling make it prohibitively expensive.

I’ve done it for weeks in the past, and (what I personally consider normal usage) burned through my monthly cap in a week, leaving me with large overage charges that wouldn’t be sustainable long-term. I haven’t heard of a US carrier-provided plan that’s less than several hundreds of dollars, and if there is one it’s likely unavailable in rural areas
I'm still hopeful that Garmin is prosecuted for paying the random. The us is actually sanctioning evil Corp. https://slate.com/technology/2020/07/garmin-cyberattack-rans...

I even have a Garmin device affected by this. I still want ransomware stopped.
Probably by making the right noises in meetings.

Quite some time ago, I worked in a company that hired a independent contractor for writing some non-trivial code (low level NLP) in C or C++ and interfacing it with a slightly opaque proprietary API. The guy came with an impeccable resume, or so we thought until we found out 6 weeks later that he'd been busy typing garbage, and not a lot of it either. He claimed these 100 to 200 lines were some form of design, but it was so utterly ridiculous that he was sent away immediately. I did have some experience with the API, and ended up with a working module of 2600 lines over a few days.
And to complete the circle, newer Moogs are full blown, hackable Linux-powered analog synths.
That's hardly a new thing with common core. See Tom Lehrer's "The New Math."

"...But in the new approach,
As you know, the important thing is to understand what you're doing,
Rather than to get the right answer."
It's actually part of how I know how fast I was going that one time. :-)

I was on a 45mph speed limit road and I was keeping up with the cars, but I wasn't sure if they were following the limit. But I was later able to tap at the same frequency while looking at a watch and discovered it was about 8 Hz, and then took the outer circumference of my tire and calculated that it was about 45 mph as well assuming that an imbalance in the wheel or tire was the source.

(My video camera had also caught some mile markers, but my speed varied in between, so those were only corroborative.)
I think the preference is age related: Personally I prefer text over video, as I can process it at my speed, while with video I'm limited to the speed with which it's explained.

My children all seem to prefer video.
>So my modest proposal is that if we want AGI, we need to figure out how to implement a digestive system in silico.

The problem is that whatever function digestion provides to the mind must do so through modulating neural signals. That is, its influence is purely functional in nature. Thus we can replicate its influence without replicating digestion, e.g. simulate the dynamics of the vagus nerve. There is nothing essential about digestion to consciousness.
Not for many people running such environments. So you either see with very minimal setups without tooling to help (which is survivable at small scales, but inefficient and mindnumbing), or towers of complexity that followed widely shared advice by people always assuming massive scale.
That feels like fuzzy, post-hoc rationalization.

What about when we consider the opposite? How many insignificant-in-the-moment-seeming changes never effect any sort of larger change?
I don't know why, but I expected some amazing typography in their PDFs. :(
>> you sweat salt water all over it and don't want your alloy handlebars to break in half because it corroded underneath the bar tape.

Of all the ways to crash - mechanical failure, operator error, 3rd party - this is the one that keeps you up at night? We come from very different cycling worlds...
You can not possibly compare IoT -- I work in the space -- and server as utility appliances.

IoT is designed to work in extreme edge conditions: low power; intermittent connectivity; constrained local storage; limitations on embedded code, etc.

Further, there is currently NO financial incentive for anyone to tackle the issues necessary to take these bits of technology and make it 'home' techonlogy. We've done this for all sorts of things, including controlled combustion in the basement for heating.

You also have two strawmen here that you attack:

1 - I did not say anything about the "evil" of corporations. Simply that it is not acceptable.

2 - A "normal" person in a modern multi-residence is hardly bothered with "fixing the boiler", or "the network connection", or "the fire alarm system", any other utility tech. If you are asserting that this is "impossible" for "networking and hosting" (!!) please make the case.

The solution space is fairly permissive, with various business models to consider. It should definitely be explored.
> Trucking regulations allow a 14 hour drive

Whoa, WTF? In Europe, it's 8 hours regularly with 2x a week allowance of 10 hours (to be used e.g. in case of massive traffic jams), followed by at least 11 hours.
> the downside of adding more features is that it becomes increasingly time intensive to fix bugs, update demos, deal with pull requests and respond to questions.

Thibaut Duplessis, creator of Lichess, talks about this in a talk he gave (YouTube somewhere). He says that he's very reluctant to add new features due to the huge cost. The feature must be something very special to overcome the cost.
You know, I've been reading books on my Kindle device(s) for probably 9 or 10 years now, on a monthly to daily basis, and had no idea there was an app store or apps for kindles.
The neutral politics subreddit attempts to keep things objective and this might appeal to the hacker news fan.
Not hard, but certainly wrong and deprecated as far as I can tell.
The argument that magnetism will inevitably shut down its attraction and repulsion services within a few years, rendering your implant useless?
As far as I can tell, those projects I mentioned are all either maintained by GNOME developers under the GNOME umbrella, used in a large number of GTK apps, or they use glib/gobject and make extensive use of the same design patterns as GTK. It's confusing to me how you're trying to say they aren't designed to work together. The situation is the same as Qt, the only difference there is that it's centered around their C++ QObject design patterns.

If the argument is that the Qt libraries are all developed together by paid Qt Company developers then sure, that's true, the libraries I mentioned aren't like that where one company is working on them. But that's different than saying they're designed to work together.
Care to back up your claim with some evidence?
Discord is using user/password but every time I want to log in it
says my IP-adress has changed and I have to use my email to
verify my location. So it's basically the same as password-less
email-login.

That's terribly annoying to me as a consumer so please don't do it.
> He insisted on syncing over cellular, and he didn’t want to charge the customer for data. We told him it couldn’t be done, he did it anyway.

This is really interesting. I wish he went into more detail about this.
You can drop the word "Inexperienced". But hte idea of paying to avoid this risk is misplaced. You're also doing a completely different activity. Under you're logic you should also work from home and order in all your meals. YOLO doesn't mean "... so be extremely careful".
It's far more hard, and dangerous to avoid it.
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> Yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater is not free speech.

That's a commonly-held belief, but runs contrary to the history and law behind the quote. That particular quote was an example in a US Supreme Court case that was decided poorly and later changed (in 1969 I think). In the US, I believe threats of violence or harm are covered by the First Amendment, unless the speech "is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action". So the speech has to meet several qualifications to "not be free speech". What those people were doing on Facebook in Brazil would very likely be considered protected speech in the US. Not that what applies in the US applies to Brazil, but since the quote was from a US case, I figured it was with commenting.

Here's a good article about the quote's history: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
UN, lul
He also called for one state in Palestine/Israel which is becoming a posibility
GPU is used for other things besides rendering animations... AI for instance. In many contexts you want to perform the calculations, even without acceleration.
SME lending has ground to a halt in the U.S.
You mean your phone that has its own built-in, unswappable assistant? Since Windows Phone died[0], I can't blame them for getting out of a business where they are immediately outleveraged by the competition.

[0] I say this with lament, because it was IMO a legitimately good phone OS. My Lumia 920 is still my backup phone, 8 years later, because the ones I got after that died before replacement. But the death was certainly not a surprise. Once they started adding more features to Android apps than existed in the Windows Phone versions, the writing was on the wall about where the money was going.
> Q) This isn't really in line with how horcruxes work in the harry potter universe!

> A) It's pretty close! You can't allow any one horcrux to be used to resurrect the original file (and why would you that would be useless) but you can allow two horcruxes to do it (so only off by one). Checkmate HP fans.

Not buying it, and the fact that this is the first FAQ is evidence that the author doesn't really either. A better fit to Tom Riddle's horcrux would simply be a lossy compression copy of the file. Which would admittedly be pretty useless, maybe unless the copy contains a lossy copy of your soul.

But then Virgin Galactic is also a pretty good name even though they haven't yet left the solar system. That should be his defense: it's just a cool name.
They say can call though, so they are correct: if you can call then you are in an unsafe context.
The thrust of my argument isn't the validity of the Brazil court's or Facebook's judgement, it's whether Reuters should follow suit.

So any definition of hate speech is fine, as long as Facebook and Reuters take broadly similar ones.

For argument's sake, let's take Facebook's definition

> We define hate speech as a direct attack on people based on what we call protected characteristics – race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, caste, sex, gender, gender identity and serious disease or disability. We protect against attacks on the basis of age when age is paired with another protected characteristic, and also provide certain protections for immigration status. We define "attack" as violent or dehumanising speech, statements of inferiority, or calls for exclusion or segregation.

https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/hate_speech
Gitmo was part of a larger war on terror, including the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, which is estimated to have caused millions of deaths. Torture and arbitrary detainment have been widespread. One of the very few flagrant criminals to face prosecution in these war crimes was recently pardoned.
Not anticipated but it not means thought as couldn't happen. Most earthquakes are not well anticipated. I also doubt whether the model useful.
Peloton has 2 subscriptions available: one for just the app without the accompanying bike which is $13/mo, the other that accompanies the bike which is $40/mo.
Or a function to check if GPU is available.
In the context of this conversation, we could use Facebook's definition.

> We define hate speech as a direct attack on people based on what we call protected characteristics – race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, caste, sex, gender, gender identity and serious disease or disability. We protect against attacks on the basis of age when age is paired with another protected characteristic, and also provide certain protections for immigration status. We define "attack" as violent or dehumanising speech, statements of inferiority, or calls for exclusion or segregation.

https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/hate_speech
Rust software is of consistently higher quality than most C/C++ software that I use, both in terms of reliability and in terms of UX. I don’t know where you’re getting your claims from.
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There are hundreds to thousands of other people below them working on hundreds of different things. If anything those 3 are great examples of what I'm talking about. Even Jobs wasn't the singular person making all the decisions, you should look into Jony Ives, Cook etc
If someone disagrees, it is reasonable to expect them to explain why instead of merely dismissing it.

Also, I think my generalised statements - and generalised statements have value and meaning - are quite self-evident and already well understood concepts among HN readers.

However, here they are explained one minor level further:

- Software can be patched. Hardware can only be thrown out.

- Open-source can be far more easily audited. Closed-source software has to be reverse-engineered by the user at best.

- Full control of encryption means the user has the ability and responsibility to control all aspects of access to the keys.

I now invite you or others to explain your disagreement.
12 years back, I saw a site peddling a story about slide rules forgotten in a warehouse for 40 years, even apologizing for dog eared boxes. They said they promote skills athropied by calculators.
I had a desktop replacement laptop get terribly packed w/ dust in about two years and cleaning it out was like getting a new computer.

The computer I have the least dust trouble with is a Mac mini but that computer runs rather hot, in fact it seems Mac(s) run hotter than most PCs (e.g. The Dell hits 60C for a given workload, the Mac hits 80C)
> The software failed and did so in a user uninformative way.

How is this different to any other crash in terms of user information? Whether it segfault or panics is just as uninformative.

Ignoring vulnerabilities here, a SEGV catches memory bugs, but it can only catch those that result in accessing an invalid region of memory. There's plenty of memory bugs that do not result in a SEGV and instead just corrupt the program state possibly causing all kinds of damage. eg. if `rm` had a memory bug with the paths it read it could be catastrophic. Safe rust prevents all those memory bugs, instead causing a panic. I don't know about you but I'd much rather have a program panic than continue running in an invalid/corrupted state.
More quickly than anyone expected, NASA embraces reuse for human flights
TinyGo is more of a "reimplementation, using LLVM" than a fork.

That being said, some pieces of the Go standard library have been copied across where it makes sense to (and works).
To be like hacker news it would have to be filled with actual insurgents, including some who managed to make their own countries.
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You're almost certainly right. I hate searching for info on something that could be easily explained in a paragraph and maybe a screenshot and instead I have to watch through some video--usually with an ad. I confess that I really resist making videos of things unless I have no choice but I know a lot of people prefer them.

A well-written and illustrated explanation like this one? I can't imagine preferring a video unless someone just wants some background noise and they don't really care about understanding the subject.
This is geopolitics, not grade school.
For a year my family used 4G as our home internet (this was around 8 years ago). At the time it was incredibly expensive because you pay by the gig used, and the pay scale is built around using a couple of gigs. Watching a couple of episodes on netflix bumps you into a higher tier for the month. Downloading and then uploading a single 1GB artifact for work could bump you up 2 tiers. I've looked around a bit, and the situation doesn't look much better today; you can pay for a certain data cap, and then pay something like $10 / month / GB over that.
I really want to feel some hope that mostly right-wing suppression of democratic governments is going to end. Maybe in the US we can start the trend going back.
Cool, now I finally know how to use this rule that I got when me and my siblings were clearing up the family house after my parents passed away.

It's really fascinating, I will show my nephews when I am back in the home country :)

Thanks for posting!
Writing and publishing a Python module in Rust