skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not super familiar with UK politics but it looks like this movement raised something like 45k british pounds on gofundme? Seems pretty fringe. I guess the BBC will remain funded.
Malicious gifs are the exact problem that you will solve with simple to the point software.

It'a the behemoths that we are producing at an astonishing rate that are the problem.
AI is now good enough to generate comments like that so you probably should :)
Is editing human embryos harder? Or how is it less difficult for a government to stop?
...remember when I said wilfully ignorant?

Because, we are in a two party system (practically if not technically). You seem to be glossing over the fact that the Liberal Party, who is the beneficiary of NewsCorps fuckery, are who introduced the AABill.

Labour, yes, betrayed not only the tech industry but the whole Australian public; but not out of malice, but because they’re spineless sycophants who didn’t want to look like they’re protecting terrorists.

I know they say not to feed the trolls, but at least pretend to stay on topic.
Countdown to Zero Day - A must read on Stuxnet which plays out like a spy thriller.
The IMEI just identifies your phone. The IMSI identifies your number.

So it's perfectly possible to change the IMEI if you leave your IMSI alone. The network will think you just stuck your SIM in another phone. Everything will work fine. You can't change your IMSI as it's hardcoded on the SIM (technically you could with an eSIM but it simply would be unrecognised and just not work then).

Of course they still know who you are, and they need to to connect your calls. But apps that look at the IMEI for identification will be confused. Not sure how much it helps in terms of privacy. I doubt it helps a lot as any app can just make up a random number and dump it in their long-term storage to know it's you (just like a cookie).

And yeah the illegality of changing it is an issue in some countries. Also, if you 'clash' with another live IMEI weird things happen :)

PS: IMEI changing was outlawed in those days to stop people stealing phones and changing IMEIs to resell them and bypassing carrier blocks of the stolen phone. It was never that successful as thieves are lawbreakers by nature and don't care at all whether they break an extra law or two. Apple and Google's activation lock were much more successful. I'm personally not a big fan of laws when there are technical solutions that are equally or more effective.
Yes the author is incorrect in their slides, OpenBSD has userland ASLR, it uses both PIE by default and also created static-PIE, which are self-relocating executables. There's also been a considerable effort to convert OpenBSD's already privsep daemons to the fork+exec model, most having been completed, expanding upon initial work done on sshd over 16 years ago.
aren't there lab-grown meat researches going on?
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Agricultural subsidies that affect beef, either directly or indirectly, have been in place in the US for almost a century. So either your father is quite old, did not live in the US, or that meat was subsidized.
In the Americans with Disabilities Act, US law states that if you're going to create a place of public accommodation, there are certain minimum standards you must adhere to, to support those with disabilities. So you must install ramps and elevators for the mobility-impaired, offer audio-only interfaces for the blind, sign for the hearing impaired, and so on. These apply pretty broadly.

We can argue whether Australia's legislation is a good thing, but "if you are going to operate here, these are the standards you must follow" is not beyond the pale.
Where does it say that in the article? I see concern from privacy advocates, but no allegation that it’s against their TOC or the law.

To me, the headline is misleading because it sounds as if users were reported merely for their political views — when in fact they were threatening violence.
Simon Peyton Jones – Elastic sheet-defined functions [video]
Software industrial complex is a great description.

Everything is about software; thus the collective incentivizing of writing more and more software. We see it as a bad sign when the commits stop flowing. Despite the source being there, it is viewed as stagnant.

Nobody even stops to ask if the project is simply done, and doesn't need anything else.
There are and I look forward to them. Cheap, USDA prime grade steak for everyone one will be excellent
Probably best to contextualise that particular quote. Your use of it here is misleading.

The government is on record as wanting precisely more technically qualified people to enter the civil service, and restructuring the service toward this end. Whether or not the way they intend to go about it is sensible or reasonable is another topic for debate.
I see where this thread is going...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
This ignores the reality that kubernetes came from google and was based on existing (long lived) tooling. Docker is "some shell scripts around namespaces and cgroups" (also long lived, existing tooling).

The fact that there is public interest in these things _maybe_ you can attribute in some way to ruby but not the existence of them IMO.
.. many would strongly advise against avoiding those emotions, and possibly getting help / ideas / guidance on how best to defuse their affect on you.

There's a significant difference between understanding the political horrors, or knowing that cancer is a problem - versus being terrified of thinking about these realities.
I recently got bored and started to practice my vocal cords by sustaining a single tone. Turn out it is good technique for getting into a meditative state. I think it is the controlled breathing and single focus on one thing that helps to bring it about. Thought it was fun, but my neighbours must think that I have lost it.
You are exasperated because when I wrote "that ML do is too trivial..." you did not realize that for ML I meant "the current state of the art of ML"...

I never assumed we are more than math. Just that there is a lot to still learn about the structure in which those buildings blocks are organized in order to fully tame what is understood as human intelligence. If we could simulate all the neurons of a real adult living brain accurately enough it would be intelligent from a human perspective, and still, both the model and us would be equally far, very far, from understanding how to arrive to that point of neural organization to achieve that kind of intelligence.
Thanks for putting into words why I don’t want this to happen :)
The DeYoung is mostly special exhibits, right? I've been to a couple that were pretty good but, in general, SF is pretty weak in terms of museums. (And I admit I just don't personally care for much of what's in SFMoma.) Though that's generally true of the West Coast with a few notable exceptions like the Getty.
But if you want a small GNU/Linux POWER system, you don't talk to IBM, surely. Ours came from OCF in the UK; they might even operate in Denmark. You won't see a price on the web site, but realistically you don't expect a list price from Dell for your x86 server systems -- at least in my experience. If you talk to them nicely, they may give you an evaluation unit. We once paid £1 for a potent Interlagos system that didn't go back.

I'm not saying talking to sales people is necessarily a pleasant and easy task, of course, especially as you typically need to know more about it than they do.
Sorry for more confusion.

I think the Chinese situation is bad. But that was not my point. The point was that a government is the entity to protect, enable and allow free speech; a private entity is not.

The Chinese example shows that when a government does not allow, or protect free speech, the private entity cannot solve it either. Google cannot enable free speech in China:
only the Chinese government could do that.

I used this example to show that relying on private entities to protect freedom is not a very good one: you need a government that enables them; even if "enabling" means "not interfering" or "pulling back".
It's useful to read some examples to see how devastating this is to children, and how unfair it is that high achieving young people who have done well all throughout their education have suddenly been downgraded.

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1295069110829752323...

And this describes the advantages that private schools got: https://twitter.com/hugorifkind/status/1295292925463724032?s...
Is the keyboard really good? I’ve tried one of Cosmo, Gemini, or Fxtec in person, can’t remember which, and utterly disappointed upon first touch. It looked like a proper laptop but keys tilted on roll and pitch axes like a TV remote. Good hardware keyboard seems to need a lot of iteration and investments to do so.
This whole sub segment discussion (parent and children) needs to be at the top. Definitely cuts to the intent of the real policy.

Also explains the response... very News Corp'ish.
Let us not kid ourselves, opting out of Google is suicide for any kind of content. Google is (sadly) critical internet infrastructure by now and lawmakers can not ignore it.
Will they still be ahead when this actually releases in 2H21?
The civil service? Pretty sure this is Dominic Cummings overriding the civil service. But there's plenty enough wrong in this story to avoid invoking his name.
Do any of the Woke/critical theory people know if it's acceptable to say something like this ^ if you explicitly tie it to culture? Is it OK to say some regional cultures place more emphasis on animal cruelty than others?
> We've decided as a species to do nothing about climate change.

I see a lot of changes happening. They are overdue, but indeed things are changing. We will suffer from climate change for at least a century or so (depending on whether we will master massive scale carbon sequestration or not), but it's not like humankind isn't trying to reduce CO2 emissions at all.
Bingo! Now if anyone actually cared. Imagine if they donated to something that was anti LGBTQP++...
which means the millions of Windows7 installs still in use are vulnerable?
The effect of taxes on people who don’t own houses is not minimal.
Sounds like we need a Turbo Elm
In January 2020, Pine Microsystems Inc. was dissolved [1]

Anyone know if they just closed their US entity and now operate from another country or are they having financial difficulties?

[1] https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/Document/RetrievePDF?Id=03...
Modern day mindfulness is completely shorn of its spiritual foundations which are quite important.

The Buddha wasn’t about meditating so you could be more productive at work. It’s about letting go of all such desires.
If this is something you do in CMake projects, check out FetchContent_Declare — newer CMake versions have this command which downloads a git repository and caches it.

I much prefer this to manually downloading the files, even for header-only libraries. The command provided a nice declarative way of adding a dependency.
What I remember (not a linux developer) is that sometimes you have to rebalance the filesystem. You can have free space in megabytes, but no inodes left. (If I am wrong someone might correct me). There have been instances, especially later on in its lifecycle, where a system update was aborted due to no space (inodes) which ended in a lot of trouble.
Oooooooooooooooooooooohm.
More "message discipline" I suspect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_discipline
Notable is the fact that saving is not mentioned at all, "spend" or "save" being the only two options.
You should probably consider if your own fears are biased. There seems to be a tendency to assume that racism is more prevalent than reality in many areas of the country, fueled by the internet and the media. I live in a suburban, Midwestern area that is absolutely more diverse and welcoming than those on the coasts seem to think. Of the 6 households nearest to mine, 3 are white. The other 3 are Indian (first generation immigrant), Chinese (second generation), and Eastern European (first generation). I work at a smaller startup now, but at my previous job, my team was white-minority. Most people on my team were East or South Asian, including my boss.

I have no doubt there are racists here, especially in the rural areas. But I also have no doubt that the same holds true for places like California and Washington. You may be keeping yourself from experiencing areas of the country that you may love and would love you back.
It's essentially the same as the hiring problem.

You're trying to work out who is a good fit from very limited data. You can run some practical tests - whiteboard, paper exam - but that doesn't take into account daily variations in performance, and it disadvantages outliers who may have very useful skills or character traits that don't tick the usual boxes.

The problem may be more that education is seen an industrial production line with authoritarian control of outcomes than as a personal development tool. Early apprenticeships and interning opportunities with real tasks to solve and real challenges to face might be better at developing a broader range of talents in context.
True for you and me, insurmountable inconveniences for the average person.
Okay, but it's not a minority of people. If you do mindfulness right, you will feel even more depressed at times. Part of the point. You are now in control of said depression. This helps to teach you have to control it. When I started years ago, I became super depressed after realizing I should have left my ex after about 1 year instead of staying with her for 6 years. I became more depressed than when I found out she cheated on me. However, I learned a valuable lesson from it. I got rid of people in my life that brought me down and valued the people who were a positive in my life.

It's not supposed to be a feel good, heroin injection process. It's a mental surgery to better understand your life. If you take the painful part away from the process, you might as well not even bother doing it. Because then it's more like masturbating with zero payoff.
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To expand on this: the problem isn’t putting out one batch of high quality film; it’s putting out batch after batch that performs exactly the same. Nobody wants to lose an important shot because this batch of film exposes a little differently from that batch or has slightly different color response.

Any craft brewery can make an outstanding batch of beer, and many do it quite often. The miracle of Budweiser is making zillions of barrels of Bud and Bud Lite that are indistinguishable from one another year after year.
That’s cool, but hardware kill switches don’t help your privacy.

Why?

Because nobody is ever going to want to turn off that functionality. I don’t know anyone who turns off the software switches, why would they turn off hardware ones?

A smartphone without a camera, mic, Bluetooth, cellular data, and WiFi is basically useless.

What we need is a way to make these technologies more private while they’re in use.

Also, the PinePhone is barely usable, and I say that as an owner. It’s a neat toy but it’s got a long way to go.
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Are music streaming services missing an opportunity?
What this law gives them is a way to force all their competitors (e.g. Fairfax) to join their boycott, by being able to negotatiate a single, mandatory price for the industry that their competitors won't be allowed to undercut.
Yeah, to be honest I think I got the better end of the deal actually. Exeter gave me a lot of opportunities academically and the space to get my social abilities together. My friend did like you. There is something strangely inhumane about uni admissions: we over booked accommodation at Exeter by 10% (literally had people sleeping in the common rooms) because the administration said at least 10% would leave before the 6 month mark (homesick mostly). They were not wrong.

It's too much to hope for but... I actually think part of the answer is forcing everyone to wait a year to go to uni. Then they can get themselves together a bit more. They can get being 18 out of their systems. They can apply to what they want, not what mum and dad say. Forcing people to do national service would give people the experience of living away from home before they have to go and fail a degree over it or get a year in and realise they want to be somewhere else doing something else.
Is the goal here to just have Google shutdown Google News in Australia? Seems like that's the only logical result.
It's like labview except the bugs try to kill you.
In this moment I do feel like Apple has tackled its goal of making computing more accessible. I just didn’t realize ibm wouldn’t change their playbook.
> - Has instructions for accelerating gzip.

Has there been any research for finding out how much these custom instructions have accelerated modern computational power in practice?

There are a lot of these instructions in modern CPUs for AES, gzip, SSL, etc but you have to have a library coded to support them.

I'm curious what the performance improvements look like in practice.
The legislation would prevent Google from removing the news content from search results.
Because in the open water of the oceans, not only the herbivorous level of the food chain is on the plankton scale but also the first carnivorous level or levels. The small fish that are eaten by the larger fish that we eat are already feeding off carnivores.
I think the main impetus for this post is to assert that #1 and #2 aren't much of a problem for Yjs, as they are for the arguably more well-known CRDT lib for JS, Automerge.

With respect to #3, one reason to prefer CRDTs over OT (even if a central server is required for other stuff) is that making the collaboration infra P2P can save a lot of resources if most of your collab is happening between a few individuals at a time. Not very necessary at a small scale, but if you have 10,000 small teams collab'ing, the cost savings you get from off-loading RTC to the end users can definitely add up.
Humans don't require animal products to live (or thrive). And your "what got us here" comment is a Naturalistic Fallacy.
What is typically lost when a child changes schools?
That absolutely makes sense! It's a shame Apple misunderstood why you are asking for the number. I wonder if the messaging in that area could be improved? Or maybe the reviewer just wasn't paying attention.
The actual org is small, but it's caused thousands to pull their license fee, which is no small sum of money for the Beeb. It's not like they're rolling in profit.
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OK, but I'm asking for -how-, truly. My father is getting up there, but still raises cattle to this day. He buys them as calves, and sells them the next year. They mainly eat grass and hay, but admittedly there is -some- corn feed in the winter, which I understand as one source of subsidy, but I can't see it amounting to much in the grand scheme just based on the amount. When selling them, after accounting for initial cost, medicine, and extras, he breaks even. And that's at today's 'cheap' beef prices.
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Everyone keeps referring to "The Algorithm" like a mythical beast.

"The Algorithm" must exist. Can we see it?
It has nothing to do with being "woke". It's laughably innacurate.
while this is valid, one should take it with a pinch of salt of Not Invented Here Syndrome as meditation is generally a practice of the 'East' and there is a nervousness that it is a gateway drug to the eastern religions for the Christian / rational 'West'.
Small UX bug report: when I click Sign Up in the top right corner on the home page I get to a form which isn't the signup form, it's the login form.

So I enter a new email/pw and it doesn't work. Only then I notice there's another link to click to sign up.
Good stuff! Thanks to all contributors, I'll have to start porting my libraries :p
> I don't have any trouble falling asleep during the day, because I own a https://nitehood.ca

Did you end up with this randomly or do you find it better than regular sleep mask?
For those more interested in reading than watching a video, here is the detailed 67-page paper about this subject that was recently accepted for publication:

Elastic Sheet-Defined Functions: Generalising Spreadsheet Functions to Variable-Size Input Arrays

Sheet-defined functions (SDFs) bring modularity and abstraction to the world of spreadsheets. Alas, end users naturally write SDFs that work over fixed-size arrays, which limits their re-usability. To help end user programmers write more re-usable SDFs, we describe a principled approach to generalising such functions to become elastic SDFs that work over inputs of arbitrary size.

We prove that under natural, checkable conditions our algorithm returns the principal generalisation of an input SDF. We describe a formal semantics and several efficient implementation strategies for elastic SDFs.

A user study with spreadsheet users compares the human experience of programming with elastic SDFs to the alternative of relying on array processing combinators. Our user study finds that the cognitive load of elastic SDFs is lower than for SDFs with map/reduce array combinators, the closest alternative solution.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/elastic...
Unsourced ties to "culture" across a huge region of a billion people and dozens of distinct langauges and cultures? Looks like a smear to me.

(also, does "Asian" include India and the Jain, for example?)
We also have a lot of issues getting salt water fish to reproduce in captivity, like only a couple universities have been able to get tuna to reproduce in captivity and not at scale.
It's not about the ISA (I assume). The point is that these systems have essentially all free software firmware, as I understand it. You have remote management, but it's something you can presumably fix if you need to. Apart from trust issues, you know how valuable that is if, for instance, you've had to deal with BMCs' brokenness continually over the years.
Something doesn't ads up. If we are 50 couples, and we all have 2 kids, when the original parents die we are still 100 people. If 50 couples have 1 kid, wen the original parents die, you have half of the population. If they did that for some many years, how come they kept growing?
It's a uniquely western thing to pontificate about how enlightened we are about animal welfare while simultaneously funding the majority of the global meat industry - maybe.
While it's true some Asian countries eat animals "taboo" to eat in "the west", large parts of these industries comes from countries pulled out of the brink of famines just a few generations ago and many young people/adults in the developed parts of those countries have already moved away from consumption them or cruelty certain animals viewed as "companions".
Spare the preaching about us caring about other animals though. I don't see why eating, say, a horse is any more ghoulish than eating a pig.
Detroit is actually pretty great, we have some pretty awesome museums (the DIA has a really impressive collection), affordable orchestra, ballet, and opera, great parks (belle isle is magical), the food scene isn’t SF or NYC but it’s accessible and experimental, there are tons of pop ups, food trucks and the like. Besides that, It’s extremely affordable outside of a handful of neighborhoods. Obviously there are problems, but it’s actually a really easy and fun place to live