skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I much prefer self-checkouts because of the forced conversations cashiers are forced to have and cashiers just being bad at bagging, but they really do slow down the process. The scanner locks for a couple seconds after an item is scanned (even if there is no weight check or other delay screen), presumably to prevent double scanning for slower customers, but it just becomes a giant PITA when I have small items I could scan and toss into my bag in 10 seconds if they'd just remove the delay and it ends up being closer to a minute since it'll probably pause to reweigh a couple times in addition to the normal delay.
I also don't use an ad blocker. I don't mind ads (for the most part), and I like that they support the content that I use.

I try to minimize ad problems by using containers and profiles. I have a Facebook-only container and Google-only container and never login to either in any other container. So far this approach seems to work for me.
Google has lost sight of what made Chrome a good browser
I wish we could block targeted ads, and just those. I know that almost all ads are targeted today, since they're oh-so-much more effective (according to ad network operators). At least, we should make a distinction wrt targeted ads vs content-based ads in discussions on HN.
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I can see your point. And my initial reaction to the whole ML-as-writer thing was hands-up horror. Like everything, I think this new tech is going to impact in both good, and bad, ways.

In my scenario, I expect there will be a lot of books written by ML algorithms, then published/sold to readers with inadequate (or no) additional author/editor input. My bet for the first fiction genre to take this approach is Romance Pulp - particularly Mills&Boon-style novels which have been written in line with a tight template for decades. And ML 'authors' in the literary fiction genre - it wouldn't surprise me if these already exist!
Surprise! I was right.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/defense-secretary-esper-con...
"They sanitize their hands after every transaction"

They use soap and water? Handwipes?

That must be killing any skin they have left. Gloves make so much sense for them. They make sense for everyone.
Did you ever try https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ ?
They're awfully vague about exactly what the vulnerability was and what could exploit it. I thought the sandboxing between apps would be quite solid and well-tested. Did that break somehow, or did the Twitter app have some kind of insecure API for other apps to interface with the local Twitter app?
Moving along the x axis is the same as time though.
I use it because vi is everywhere.

The busybox implementation kinda sucks at times, but I can't complain given that they've obviously focused on size.
Oh, I didn't read the code, the favicon shown by my browser confused me.
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I think the days of being stranded on islands are over. But what about oceans and being lost at sea? Would the film "Cast Away" make sense with today's satellite and object detection technology?
Thanks for the reply and contextual information.
That sounds like why old broadcast media is so frothing mad at the new - they have to try to please large bodies with lowest common denominator models to try to get the "average" to max yield.

New media can engage in discovery and targetting to a homunculus generated from the individual based upon their models and what they think about them. The model may be a twisted imaginary construct but it is a better fit than the also imaginary "average" human used to target. Now the old media did have their own demographics ranges but they dealt with it backwards and more proxies - asking are people 20-40 interested in foo instead of "is individual person X probably interested in foo?".
I am currently working on porting some sound libraries from Node at the moment. The builtins like deno fmt and bundling make it a joy to code in. Some of the tooling is not yet complete though, for example deno lint is still missing quite a few rules.
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Thanks a lot for your comments and feedback - some great great advice and ideas in here!

This is the MVP release of Unscreen Pro, so there's many more things to come in the future, from quality improvements, to an API, integrations, editing tools and more. Appreciate all the inputs :)
There’s also the stand alone Powder Toy which has more powders and saves and such

https://powdertoy.co.uk/
I share your concerns about monopolies and monopolistic practices, including Google's (which is my employer).

In this specific instance, I don't see that Google's dominance of search is a cause of the problem. Imagine that there were ten search engines all owning 10% of the market. The independent therapist was buying ads on all of them. Then COVID hits and she starts facing ad competition from national telehealth providers on all ten of those ad networks, driving up ad prices.

She will have essentially the same experience, and the exact same article could be written. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how Google's larger marketshare is a large piece of what's going on here. To me, it looks almost entirely like a small business all of a sudden facing much larger competition because of telehealth.

Imagine if one day every restaurant got a free teleportation terminal at their front door. If you run a local barbecue restaurant in your small town, it's going to be a lot harder to stay competitive when everyone nearby can freely choose between you, Franklin in Austin, Joe's in Kansas City, or even just the comparatively larger marketing budget of Smokey Bones.

Like it or not, these independent therapists got dumped into a much larger pond.
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Next, you're gonna tell me that "god" is real, because religions are old or something.

There are untouched tribes out there in the Amazon who've been around for 1000s of years, it doesn't make their way of life better.
Well actually, I get to start the application for green card after 2 years of employment. Unfortunately, I have to wait many years for my green card date to arrive due to the strict restrictions on green card availabilities. The H-1B is actually designed to encourage workers to apply for a green card for permanent residency, but it seems the whole process is designed to be as long and torturous as possible.
I don't think you can prevent tabs from scrolling off screen, but you can set the "browser.tabs.tabMinWidth" about:config pref to a tiny number so you can fit more tabs on screen.

You can also see the full list of tabs (with titles) in the tab overflow dropdown menu. It's the down arrow button to the right of the tab strip. The dropdown menu only appears after you open at least ~20 tabs. I set the browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled about:config pref = true to always show it (because I like see the full tab titles).
"A good engineer is replaceable in 3 months But a chicky [sic] manager, hard to find. :)"

I assume this is common knowledge
If you were lost at sea / in the wilderness, would you trust your safety and eventual return to a machine learning model picking up your body heat? I know I'd want actual people in the aircraft.
I experience a very similar moment in line waiting to go through TSA a few years back listening to a group of agents (on break, trading w/ Coinbase on their phones) talk about bitcoin going to the moon (one of them said 100K/coin) when it was already hovering at 17K/coin. I knew how unrealistic bitcoin was back then, as it is now, and once I was through security, I promptly liquidated my entire coinbase account someplace near the peak
Ah, yes, the people that make Apple's iPhones are very pampered.
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Good moderation is inherently tolerant of some friction and seeming imperfections. Trying to craft some Perfect social climate leads to horrifyingly draconian and oppressive stuff.

I'm here for the life-giving, messy breath of fresh air not found in most online spaces.

The reality is that moderation is about helping people tolerate people unlike themselves and about buffering the worst communication gaffs. But beneath it all, sometimes people are just grumpy or mean and there is no fixing that. You can only mitigate the worst expressions of it, not stamp it out.

Right now, there's a Pandemic on. The world generally is pretty cranky and wanting to insist on someone fixing Something so they can feel like their world isn't spinning out of control.

Members successfully bullying mods into fiddling with voting rules in a short-sighted manner to get some momentary sense of control in life isn't going to fix the pandemic. It's just going to undermine long-standing best practices for a well-run forum.
Just to clarify, all patients currently are accepted. There's no selection yet.

There is a difference between hands on care for 1 hour, and 1 hour being divided between 9 people (seriously, there are some clinics that do that).
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>To my mind these are roughly equivilent amounts of raw explosive agent.

Perhaps, but in terms of TNT equivalence picric acid is much more effective at 96% compared to 56% of ammonium nitrate[0] with other estimates being even wider[1] i.e., 1.17x for picric acid to 0.74x for ANFO and 0.42x for ammonium nitrate, and some other figures are placing ammonium nitrate as low as 20% as effective. With the estimates ranging from a low 500 tonnes, ~1.2 kilotonnes for a reasonable estimate up to about a maximum ~2.2 kilotonnes based on 2,750 tonnes of ANFO it's looking like the two explosions aren't that comparable. But I do agree, early estimates of loss of life can be troublesome and both explosions were devastatingly large.

[0] https://www.icheme.org/media/12120/xi-paper-13.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent#Relative_effect...
Oops, thanks! Didn't try "oe".
I totally missed it on mobile.
I print my recovery keys and put them next to the title for my house. Now, unless the bank burns down they are safe.

If anything takes out both me and my bank, it’s taken out the whole city so I have more to worry about than just 2FA.
I don't see it, "adults being treated like schoolchildren" seems melodramatic when it could just as easily be called precision insurance. Why should the customers who go out of their way to maintain a healthy lifestyle have to pay the same rate as the ones who just watch streams and game all day?
They use hand sanitizer. It contains moisturizer as well.

Gloves are scientifically proven not to work unless you replace them after every transaction, additionally most people do not know how to properly remove surgical gloves without contamination.
Taiwan CDC had perfect foresight knowledge of the situation, then. Of course, most US government agencies have massive Not Invented Here syndrome, but the answer was obvious. And funnily enough, Tech Twitter (the subculture) was full abuzz with this in March.

The idea that, in a situation encountering a SARS, that you wouldn't call the guys who beat a SARS is so fundamentally silly. Especially when they're ridiculously friendly to you. That's part of what I love about startups - every successful entrepreneur tries his best at learning from everyone else's successes and failures. It's not enough to learn by yourself, you won't get there in time.

So, no, I'm not surprised they couldn't do it because they have institutional cultural failure. I don't think I could do it at the CDC either because of the cultural failure (NIH, Perfectionism, etc.). It's hard to say, we'd have to see the nuances of power in CDC vs NIAID, whether it would be politically viable even for Anthony Fauci to call Chou Jih-Haw, let alone Tsai Ing-Wen etc., and governments aren't like companies where the CEO can just set up a team of people to bypass the normal structures and collaborate with Taiwan. The CDC and gang may be broken beyond repair. I think that's the best defence you can give them.
> there are some verticals where charging a "positive-ROI" amount gets you no business at all,

if you do, you're just selling dollar bill for 80c. You may drink growth-kool-aid, or someday-monopoly-hope or VC-subsidizes-business.

In the end, somebody pays for it either from stupidity or hope.
If you want to live and work in Japan doing something other than CS but also something that could lead to connections for a future career, look into applying to the JET program. https://jetprogramusa.org . Alternatively there are some opportunities for grad students to do research in Japanese universities through exchange programs. Ultimately, there is no one direction or action you can take that is going to guarantee you'll land on a career path that you will find enjoyable so it's more important to just do something and adjust accordingly. You say you'd like to live in Japan - so go do it. Apply to the JET program, apply to companies that will send you there or look for companies that have internship opportunities there. Research exchange programs through your university. If all else fails, just go there and start looking around. There are many options.
I count it thusly: Ordinary chess is 2D. Adding in the ability to bifurcate the timeline and play distinct possibilities in parallel is 3D since it is a distinct degree of freedom. Adding in the ability to go back and forth along a timeline is 4D. Adding in the ability to also jump back and forth to ANY timeline (sideways rather than strictly back and forth) requires a fifth degree of freedom. So it's 5D as far as I'm concerned.
Nutters will be nutters, you can't affect that. What you can affect is how the general public perceives the difference between the two camps. They may not know enough to judge on the merit of the arguments, but they understand reputation and character.

Every single bit of bullshit to come out of academia is one extra point for the detractors. I won't enumerate it here because there is an even chance you're in support of what I consider "bullshit" and vice versa, but it's not the point - the point is that people use their assessment of what they understand to extrapolate to things they don't, as a signal of trustworthiness of the source.

The entire intellectual class is marred by now, it's not just academia. If one does not denounce bullshit pronounced in their name the bullshit will stick.
The latest FireFox also logs warnings in the console if a site cookie lacks SameSite, or has SameSite=None without Secure.
I miss the days when the servers came with seating (Cray).
Calcium supplements often include Vitamin D because it aids in intestinal absorption of calcium. That is actually one of the main roles of Vitamin D. You can find Vitamin D by itself, in anywhere from 400 to 5000 units per pill.
Taking high doses of Vitamin D can cause high calcium (due to more being absorbed in the intestines), and taking extra calcium would just exacerbate that. If someone has low calcium levels, I recommend taking both calcium and Vitamin D. Low Vitamin D can cause low calcium levels.
I use vim because it's guaranteed to be installed. The version installed at work is from 2004 but still.
There are so many of these articles, why write another one?
I think this misses the point. The division isn't within the government; it's between individuals.

And I don't think the power of short messages is specific to the United States
You can do both. Predator/Reaper/Global Hawks [1] [2] working alongside human aircraft, deployed from land or aircraft carrier. If you don't trust the ML, have humans in the Vegas desert watching the feed. I imagine military sensor platforms are very good for identification of humans.

> Five Reapers can provide 36 hours of combined surveillance coverage in Afghanistan with individual sorties lasting up to 16 hours; a further five vehicles increases this to 72 hours

For reference Afghanistan is roughly 251k square miles in size. Ten Reapers to cover 251k square miles for 72 hours at a time. Caveat, I have not done the math what the O&M costs are per hour for such a drone fleet.

Alternatively (or in concert?), Planet Labs supports 50cm resolution, and you can buy their imagery with a credit card. They are imaging almost the entire Earth daily (although they might exclude oceans? I imagine for the right price, they'll retask or capture a grid on demand). [3] [4] It's not heat sensing, but there might be signal to be found.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper

[2] https://www.pacaf.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/220396...

[3] https://www.planet.com/why-planet/

[4] https://www.planet.com/pulse/more-spectral-bands-50cm-global...
There's a fair few ISPs changing the prefix every day, but this is the first I've heard of anyone changing it every half an hour. If it was common I would've heard a lot of complaining about it by now.
as though everyone hopelessly consumed by anxiety, existential meaninglessness and insecurity nowadays isn’t argument enough in favor of the religions you’re discounting...old things aren’t inherently simple-minded or useless
Can you elaborate?

Edit: I see now, that is not intentional.
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The side channel attacks that are coming out of Israel are getting weirder.
Why not advise to err on the side of caution until a meaningful quantity of knowledge is available?
Vim is absolutely awesome. I've been a heavy user for a good 15 years now, and yes, I was a very weird kid. Ever more so now, since covid-19 hit us, and the wfh saga began. I've been developing solely on vim. The only downside is that by the time my working hours are done, I'm usually working with a 6 to 8 way split. Kind of like the tabs on my browser.
TBF, the part I quoted is in line with your remarks. Perhaps quoting a different part of the article would have worked better.

(Shrug)
Or... a dude in a helicopter with FLIR? Sometimes, low tech is best, honestly.

Of course they already have that. The problem isn't coverage usually, it's density of the terrain features and vegetation, and an unknown search radius in some cases.

That, and unprepared people with no way to signal a search vehicle if one comes near. That's a human problem though, not a tech problem.
I have been involved in lower grade search efforts. This is not either/or, this is supplemental. If you've never been in a scenario, particular with children, time is of the essence particular with temperature or terrain hazards. Time is the enemy, and the goal of this would be reduce time to cover a search area. If you find it interesting, https://www.outsideonline.com/2059616/how-backcountry-search... is a good read.
The best ones have a turnaround of hours. I imagine it could get expensive quite quickly as the area to do that search would be absolutely massive.
That's a great idea, thank you
I think if you never bring up a barebones Linux (e.g. embedded system or some old HW) you might not really need it.

But being able to connect via serial port to some crappy stripped down Linux and knowing vi is there is a good feeling and it asks nothing of you in return.
Satellite phones with this capability are remarkably cheap for anyone who’s undertaking activities that might call for this.

Contracts typically have a call centre able to dispatch relevant local authorities wherever you are.
Additionally, if the talent pool exists in another locale, then farming the work abroad is always an option. But companies want their cake and to eat it too. Lower like foreign prices AND on prem for supervision + time synchronization
It may or may not be smoke and mirrors, but there's a clear structure to the essay, as well as a logical structure to the arguments in the essay. For example, "humans think they're intelligent", "humans are wrong about everything", and therefore "intelligence isn't about being right".

It even concludes with reasonably good advice: to pass a Turing test, AIs should say things that are true, and tap into human emotions. To me, this disproves the idea that it's "not saying anything". It's definitely saying something, and that something is both true and not commonly understood by the general public. It is therefore capable of "teaching a basic skill".

I find that very impressive, and I'm surprised that so many others here don't.
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No, but s/he might tell you that it is safe to count on God being an important concept to many people for the foreseeable future. In the same vein, gold will likely be perceived as a good store of value for the foreseeable future, which is what matters in this context.
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Honestly the best thing you can do is use Firefox and set the browser settings to "Never remember history". This deletes everything in the cache, cookies, etc every time your browser closes. Drawbacks - you have to log back in to every site every time you relaunch the browser. But then these cookies and tracking methods do not follow you around.
Knights tunnel.
I hope this means red hat goes away sooner.
What if you lose them or they fail to work?
Whatever floats your psychology man, do what you have to.
It's unfortunate because AI in its current form has properties that would be amazing for human labor augmentation, but I would argue that the kind of AI system you can get for less than $10 million/1-2 years development time is not really well suited to replace a human agent.

The ML sprinkled over MS Office, Facebook's image tagging interface, GMail are often very useful to me, but I can't see anyone finding the suggestions so reliable they would be comfortable letting the systems silently work without guiding the process and approving changes.

It's good to have someone keeping an eye on the customer interactions. If you have such a deluge of support requests that this is a problem, maybe the actual solution is a simpler process or better communication up front.
No one is talking about taking that choice away from you.

What you think is "best for you" changes for a lot of people over time. Meanwhile, using my iphone analogy again, you are merely raising the cost of a phone for those who "just want a phone". ie, you are raising the expectations for employers who will expect more people to work for 40+ hours, while getting paid for 40.

If you are from a country with a long waiting time for a US green card, you should really look at a moving to another developed country, or marrying a local.
Couldn’t they just rebranded it? Like venmo:paypal?
That's an argument reducing to absurdity. Every company has an long chain of transitive contractors, and for every company you can work all your way down to the poorest person on Earth, so it's meaningless.

I could similarly blame you for the labor conditions of these people - you paid Apple or whoever to make your phone so are you responsible for their conditions?

The people that Apple employs are extraordinarily well treated and compensated, and that's a credit to Apple and their labor relations.
I strongly suspect Panopticlick to be broke to the point of being utterly useless.
I just use tmux so I don't lose state over ssh sessions.
You seem to be under the impression that only 'better' things exist. That is wrong.

The fact of the matter is that for literally millenia, humans have considered gold to be valuable. That is unlikely to change any time soon, though obviously the extent that we value it is always in flux.

It doesn't have anything to do with 'better'. It's a description of reality.
Sure. It's the unknown search radius, availability of pilots, human factors, as well as the greater ability of a drone to self (or with human intervention) track in to greater resolution that makes me wonder if this is doable. Get the helicopter with a flir camera, but also send out 50 quadcopters or uavs as a force multiplier. If there is some sort of interesting infrared or acoustic signature at a site, just log it with GPS coordinates for human follow up.
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