skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like my coworkers and I miss seeing them. At least I have my girlfriend living with me, but seeing and talking to only one person most days is not enough for a healthy, fulfilling life. I've only had limited contact with friends due to the pandemic. They eliminated my desk at the office, to save space and thus money, so now I just have to make the best of a bad situation.
When I visit a site such as this (with 'fade up and in all of the content' animations), the first thing I do - is quickly scroll to the bottom. Then I scroll back to the top, so I can read it.
Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
That's a good idea, I whipped up the website pretty quickly and haven't spent too much time reviewing it since, that's definitely something worth doing though!
> You can't get into the halting problem with finite memory

Huh?
Every definition I can find disagrees with your definition. People must use the term loosely.
> Thank you

I don't think I deserve it. I still work for a big conglomerate and most of the rest of my time goes into building the same algorithms that try to eek out that extra bit of accuracy. Although, we do have a lot of responsible AI, compliance, legal and interpret-ability committees we need to satisfy to make sure we aren't causing unintended consequences.

> foolsgold pathogens

I've flip flopped on this opinion, but over the last year or so, my opinion has solidified to being, "There is very real, massive untapped potential and value in the market, but most companies use it for marketing rather than solving the real technical problems at the core of it". I'd like to think we are the former, that solve real ML problems....but well, I'm exactly an unbiased judge of my own self.

I read this really nice paper that suggested grounding ideas of AI ethics in UN fundamental human rights, rather than hand wavy ideas like accountability and transparency.
Since UN Human rights are much discussed, well understood and have universal-ish acceptance, it is far easier to take policy written from that POV and actually apply it to ML/AI.

I'd like to see something similar to the ACL2020 best paper "checklist", that creates a whole bunch of narrow statistical tests to validate certain traits of ML models. It'd be nice to have something like that, but for AI/ML ethics.

An openly available, standardized suite of narrow tests that your ML pipeline has to pass as an audit, before being certified as "compliant" and deployed into the web. That way, the regulators get to control the test, and the companies get to control their secrets. It also ensures a level playing field and each component can be changed without an explicit dependency on the other.
9k-year-old skeleton is the oldest cremation in the Near East
Pipeline and power line inspectors in helicopters also tend to have weird flight paths.
Minnesota Governor Lifts Ban on HCQ [pdf]
Yep. The Times had a full page about it on Sunday.

Title should be, "...if you only get your news from free endless scrolling internet apps, you probably didn't hear about it."
> At least 50% of the population does not trust the large-scale move to mail-in-voting

Source on that?
Exactly, so it becomes a question of the very inner working of the universe itself: How does the universe spontaneously assign the states consistently without communicating and also without assigning the states beforehand.

This is precisely why the experiment was proposed, to show this conflict in our understanding of the constraints.
> With any luck, Raptor will integrate POWER10 into one of their upcoming Talos[1] workstations.

Not for a while: https://twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/1295364416469377026
Apple threatens to cutoff all Epic iOS and Mac developer accounts [pdf]
of course, yes. Not in the sense that it's 0 percent true, but rather in the sense that it's not 100 percent true.
Just wanted to give a major +1 to xarray. It is an excellent approach to labeled n-dimensional arrays, and has a good ecosystem/community in the Earth Science domains..

One nice integration with xarray is with an optimized data store like Zarr [1], TileDB [2] or Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs [3], where you can pull only the pieces of the nd-array relevant to your problem, rather than downloading a large monolithic netCDF4 file.

Another great integration in the xarray ecosystem is Dask [4], which is a very thoughtful abstraction over parallelizing computations across your nd-array.

[1] https://zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[2] https://tiledb.com/

[3] https://www.cogeo.org/

[4] https://dask.org/
IMO the QOL applications of the tech could be enough /if/ the software & hardware are FOSS, low price, and easily available. They probably won't be FOSS though because each of the megacorps wants total control over that market but it's nice to dream.
This argument keeps being repeated, and it's basically just "if you don't like it, find a different platform". Do you think that's how our rights should be preserved, by hopping to places and platforms that respect our rights?

Where do we leave those who have to live with their devices, or simply lacked the knowledge to make that important distinction at the time, or things have changed and now they need to install apps that have not been approved by Apple. Wouldn't the solution be to offer people that need to live with their right to sideload apps on their devices an escape hatch, instead of telling them to change platforms?
We're all being funny, but I definitely have my eye on using underpowered servers along with a more JAMStack-flavored design so that some projects I'm working on stay available even when the load essentially kills all updates.

All the way back in Slashdot Effect days I recall a couple of people getting clever with Referer (sic) headers to detect someone on a tech news site linking to your website. In those cases they would redirect to a public cache, like Google's, reducing origin server traffic to a few packets per request.

I always found that to be way more clever than people gave it credit for.
> Should closed hardware (that owns its entire stack) even be legal to sell?

No.

> You can't argue that Prima Cinema should not be locked down (claiming anti-competitive behavior) because the paranoid film studios wouldn't even license their content if it wasn't.

You can actually. They demand this kind of DRM because they know the customer would sooner say yes to it than not get the movie. But that's only because they're in the better bargaining position as the only source for the movie -- it's leveraging the copyright monopoly into perfidious control over the device market. But they still, at the end of the day, want your money. Which means that if the thing they're insisting on is prohibited, they'll make it work without it.

Consider the general argument you're making. It's basically that if DRM was prohibited by law then Hollywood wouldn't distribute movies at all. But that's farcical -- they would have no revenue. Instead they would just distribute them without it, because they'd have no other option.

Okay, but what about your edge case, the really fancy one with the hardware anti-tampering. Wouldn't they at least not have that one? Still no, because it's still the same thing. The only point in having that is to try to push back the day when the movie is on all the pirate sites. But it's only to push it back while they're still distributing it using the higher margin distribution channels. If DRM was prohibited whatsoever then they couldn't use it there, so they would distribute it even there without it because otherwise there is no high margin early release market to protect.
For those interested in the rise and fall of film photography, I recommend Instant [0]. The book chronicles the story of Polaroid. The last parts of the book capture the bad decisions around the shutting down of film production.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/14577509-instant
The problem is, this was technically a financial instrument (it falls under DeFi - decentralized finance) that was completely unaudited, and could've been released in stages, on a testnet, etc. To use an analogy, this was essentially pushed directly to prod, not even to master... unless I'm missing something.

It just seemed so reckless to me.
No it doesn't. Very few "climate change skeptics" deny the climate changes. That's a very weak position and changes can be easily seen in almost any data set.

Climate change denialism is a strawman position, designed specifically to sound extreme in order to stop people getting curious and investigating the real beliefs of these bloggers.
Hobbies. You are knitting - you see AR overlay of next stitch(es). You are servicing you car - you see an overlay of the part you are dismantling. You and your mate are doing yoga - you see an overlay of how they are supposed to hold the pose. You are a watch collector, browsing potential purchases in a physical shop - you see an overlay of history and recent sale prices for the piece. You are into electronics - you can see the datasheet associated with the device you are looking at, at a glance. Or the instrument reading without looking away. And so on... Possibilities genuinely seem endless and relatively mass market.

Pre Coronovirus, a killer app might have been translation. (menus, street signs, etc). Hey ho.
That's why I find the Crimea situation so complicated, making the big assumption that I have the history correct.

You have the Tatar Exile during WWII, people re-settling the area, and then later Crimea was borderline on being independent or part of Ukraine during the dissolution.

So you end up with the fact that, whether right or wrong, Crimea is full of ethnic Russians who were lukewarm about being part of Ukraine in the first place. So as sketchy as the whole annexation was, was it wrong?
I honestly can't say it is, which is probably why Russia felt they were able to take that chance.
The same reason that many states have anti-SLAPP laws. The pure mechanics of defending a lawsuit can be terribly expensive, even if you know you'll win in the end.
Some time there was a similar tool that locked the computer via bluetooth if you walked away from the desk with your phone. It didn't unlock it which is fine, but it seems a better way to lock a computer if you forget rather than a timed screensaver after x minutes which leaves the computer vulnerable until then. (Mostly just from colleagues changing your wallpaper, or autocorrect...)
A little searching on the authors credentials isn't very confidence inspiring:

http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/01/864-jonathan-latha...
Winning every election is really not something that can be taken at face value. If those elections are being won unfairly, or if the will of the people is to institute a term limit, then yes, they are effectively suspending the changing of leadership, which is the same as what a person means when they say "suspending elections". I also don't appreciate immediately jumping to calling a differing opinion "absurd".
What I like about boring tech is, that in my experience it results in that these kind of decisions just becoming less important. It makes it harder to shoot yourself in the foot with when trying to predict the future.

Especially in early stages of a company, where I don't yet know what the product that sticks will look like, I'd rather have a Postgres that I can pivot on in pretty much any direction and I'm hardly ever the first one to run into a problem, than a hyper specialized novel database that might have been strictly speaking the famous "better tool for the job" when I started.
I don’t think it’s one product, but the convergence of everything. The difference between the average persons iPhone/iPad/Computer is shrinking by the day. Soon all your data will be accessible everywhere, and seamless enough the average person isn’t going to notice the bridge between devices.
Lightning, thunder and a heatwave: Extreme Bay Area weather
Definitely, social sciences have gotten a lot of things wrong. And the pipeline from science (social or otherwise) to policy is pretty broken, to put it mildly. Isn't it all that much more important that computer science absorbs that history, so as not to make the same missteps?
That would be pretty much the end of his dictatorship - you can't be a dictator where you are 100% dependent on somebody else's troops. He could still be a pro-forma ruler but everybody would know he's just a sock puppet now. It would be de-facto Anschluss. Which Putin has been dreaming about for ages, so he's of course more than willing.
Sheer numbers are what overthrows regimes. This is why those in power try to kill protest before it can reach critical mass. Something happened here to tip it over.
No, he is basically correct. Traditional QM requires an observer who is outside the system being measured to cause non-unitary evolution.

You can always consider your automated apparatus to be part of the system and hence governed by unitary evolution.
Only to the extent that the law permits arbitration clauses.
I remember when these cards were new, every month or so you'd see a story about someone recovering their fancy digital camera because the doofus who stole it didn't realize the SD card was phoning home.
I meant a dice roller, but I understand your intention now. Thanks for the tip about the stamps, I'll give it a shot!
My first (snarky) thought is "Oh cool, yet another less 'simple' reinvention of RSS" (which has existed for two decades).

More seriously, though, I don't want to "manage" newsletter subscriptions -- nor will I. If I start getting too many or they start piling up without being read or whatever, my "one neat trick" is to simply click "Unsubscribe", forget about it, and move on.
I recommend people watch Ad Vitam (it's on Netflix). It shows a society where ageless/disease-free immortality has been achieved.
It varies. There were multiple encampments in the Richmond. 24th and Anza, 20th and Geary, and 16th and Geary for example. The city cleaned them up recently and posted signs about no lodging, but they were there for months before.
Presumably only if they make violent and terroristic threats like the right-wing subjects of the article did. The valence of their political beliefs is irrelevant, making the headline highly misleading.
We've been working with Modulo as well; the experience is excellent and is constantly adapting to make it work for our kids, rather than imposing a formula. They enjoy having some autonomy in their education. It's a very nice community as well, and they have the chance to make friends all over the country.
Seconded. I think one of Hackernews’ biggest value-adds versus say Oreilly is the eagerness with which the commenters on this site will rip apart bad ideas/articles.
This guy's website looks pretty out there. I wouldn't trust his conclusion. He looks to be well outside mainstream science who had already decided it came out of a lab.

I also could not find a wikipedia article about him.
OpenADSB and ADSBExchange will definitely give you a better view of any military and private planes broadcasting ADSB.
If Apps are delivering new content and functionality in response to users directly giving them money then in what way is the walled garden walled? Just download the "door" app - now you're downloading arbitrary apps from a 3rd party. What happens when you download steam and suddenly people are downloading totally arbitrary code. Oh and that arbitrary code is hijacking whatsapp and sending itself to all your contacts?
Oh, one additional thing. We're applying for an IEP for our son. He's diagnosed with ADHD and at the end of last year he did not do well. We're asking for a few things that'll help him (and us) stay aware of what he's required to do for independent assignments. Last year he had four TODO lists scattered across email, Google Classroom, verbal assignments, and some other external system.
> And, if you saying "there's beer in the cup" was understood by everyone as meaning "there's no more beer in the cup", professional linguists and dictionaries would be A-OK with that interpretation.

The fact that "I could care less" is now clearly understood is not intentional. It's an adaptation to a mistake. It's similar to how people say "irregardless", which is clearly an error. It's unambiguous, and everyone knows what you mean. It's still a mistake, and using "regardless" is strictly better.
Because Walmart owns the physical space but apple doesn’t own the physical device.... Apple has set up shop on the real-estate (the device) that it sold over to the user. I’ve seen this argument plenty of times and it rings hollow to me every time.
RPMs contain the signatures in the archive. DEB packages don’t, something I consider a major shortcoming in the Debian package format.
Maybe they could form a company for this purpose, and then sell a product that fills that need?
Commercial flights will also enter a circular holding pattern around airports if they're not allowed to land for some reason.

This video is a really cool example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdfVIdsufI8
That's changed since 2020, you have to be far away from controlled airspace to just broadcast Mode-S anymore.
it's not an uncommon word to use. I see it informally on twitter a lot but it's used in media as well.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anytimes.com+agitprop
Reminds me of Dungeon Scrawl: https://dungeonscrawl.com/

As a DM, thanks for all these tools! Glad to have a variety of tools to use.
I don't own a Walmart. I do own a phone. I'm largely restricted with what I can do on my phone.
I lived in Belarus between 1989 and 1999, I still have the Belarusian passport and I vote.

Syria is different. The population of Belarus is fairly uniform, mostly urban and well educated.

They are unbelievably peaceful. Just look at the pictures of the protests. No car was burned, no window smashed in 8 days by the protesters.

The only people damaging property, beating and killing others were riot police and special forces, and they were bred in the spirit of violence for years.

I am still afraid that once peaceful crowds learn the true fate of those missing, they will storm the prisons with bare hands and die by hundreds.
I believe this sort of misses the point. In swedish some of the more serious conditions are called meditationally (induced) psychosis, or meditational psychosis: Meditationspsykos.
To insure indemnification. Because otherwise someone getting coronavirus is going to result in a flood of plaintiff’s attorneys looking for paydays.

The other issue is that if someone comes to work sick with any infectious disease, liability would get shifted to the employer, which means that would give the employer a right to impose policies that could be draconian. For example, why wouldn’t an employer have a right to inspect your home. They suspected you weren’t engaging in good cleaning practices? After all, since liability would be on the employer if you showed up to work and got people sick (even if asymptomatic,) then they’d have a duty to supervise you 24/7. Or how about an employer firing you for attending a protest, or not wearing a mask outside of work? If there is potentially tens of millions in liability at stake, an employer would have to monitor employees 24/7, perhaps even employing private contractors tracers to keep tabs on people in order to ensure infections didn’t originate in the workplace. A plaintiff’s attorney can be a powerful force. “Don’t use hairdryers in the shower” is a good example of the impact of plaintiff’s attorneys against common sense.
TensorFlow Vs Pytorch. Which one is better?
> But people who do not have tens of thousands of dollars a year to "invest", they cannot become wealthy.

I agree with that - the average rate of return on capital is not high enough to turn a poor person into a rich person. At best it could help you retire after many years of labor.

> They lower the barrier of entry where we spend what little we have on the dream of becoming wealthy, when in reality, it is our wealth being taken from us.

If you make safe diversified investments in Robinhood, your money isn’t being taken away. It’s just going to accumulate slowly. Robinhood is a much better actor here than a shitty fund with 1% fee load, where a lot of workers are encouraged to save their money.

If you can do much better than the average rate of return, by starting your own company, or picking the right stocks through some special knowledge, you could actually get rich, but the odds are that you fail. Robinhood does harm by encouraging people to engage in this behavior.
Quantum paradox points to shaky foundations of reality
I bought a whole leg maybe twice in my life. Most people here buys sliced jamón, so it's affordable that way.
Facebook faces heat in India after report on hate speech posts
What about other countries where micro transactions are not that expensive... eg. UPI of India.
Are you talking about Trump?
Anyone remember the Palm Wifi SDIO card? I always wanted one for my Zire 72...
It really makes me wonder about why this letter, out of the presumably many about App Store review, is the one that Tim Cook would read and forward. From where I’m standing it looks like you’d have to come off as an otherwise huge fan to have your criticism taken into account.
That exception is for Smart Phones, and I think has expired even

This would not apply to something like Prima Cimea, nor a John Deere Tractor, or 1000's of other things.

Also the wording of the exception bu LoC was very open to interpretation and not as powerful as people commonly think
There is rampant commercialization and distortion of powerful techniques. It takes a lot of experience and hands on training, and years of observing the guru teach others before one does it themselves.

So much so that there exists a term guru-sishia parampara, when the teaching of a school are perfected and handed down through the generations.

Another factor is a lot of us are perfectly aware of the pointlessness of our day to day activities, but are very frightened to break out of it. It gives us a kind of familiarity and is "normal" to be that way.
I would be _extremely_ sceptical of wherever you read that in future. It would appear that they've taken two dubious (and in the case of the lab one, verging on the conspiratorial) origin theories and clumsily mashed them together.
the mission is not cold and foggy. took me a while (1.5 aggravating years) to figure out which microclimates were conducive to me.
Humanity isn't the problem, just the number of humans. Historically we had wars and famines and disease to take care of that. Neo-COVID will reduce those numbers.

Or else we learn to manage resource or something.
That's some Ai-powered "Smart Shoe-Rack" with blockchain technology, running on some kubernetes clusters with 5G connectivity right there!
Funny enough, I think the two of us started our projects on the exact same day, or at least first posted on Twitter, haha. He's doing some really cool stuff too!
The Language of the Language: Comparing compilers in Clojure and F# [video]
doesn't it strike you that the stenographic model of english looks a like chinese?
That logic doesn’t scale of for other countries that have friendly micro transactions platforms..
Apple to terminate developer account of Epic Games on August 28th
> The author is grovelling to the point of it being honestly pitiful. The amount of derogatory references to the web and Android also make it really hard for me not to question the motivation behind this letter.

Honestly, I interpreted it differently, I saw someone passionate about something, respectfully addressing someone who’s extremely hard to get the attention, and succeeding at it!
The problem being discussed is genuine, but I had a good feeling seeing Tim Cook asking his top executives to ponder about it.
Author of the post here - you have a good point with regard to SSH/GPG. (I do have a PIN on my keys.) I was targeting more the U2F standpoint - as in if you're using it for 2FA, it's obviously no better than a password if someone else can just press the little yellow button :)

Thanks for reading, though, and for commenting!