skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not dead which may eternal lie, and in strange aeons even death may die. Remember that weird language that looked like Java and was used by nobody except script kiddies until the Web exploded? Or that quirky little language with forced indentation that was overshadowed by Perl and Matlab well into the 90s and the 00s? Open source projects don't have the same constraints as commercial ones, they can remain dormant or unnoticed for years before suddenly taking off.
After AlphaZero, DeepMind went on to develop MuZero (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuZero, paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08265), which is able to learn to play games without being provided an explicit model of their rules. "When evaluated on Go, chess and shogi, without any knowledge of the game rules, MuZero matched the superhuman performance of the AlphaZero algorithm that was supplied with the game rules."
Just keep in mind that the few non-governmental election monitors all had Lukashenko with less than 20% of the vote. This is not an isolated result.
I’m not comparing my /dev/random to my dice roll. I’m comparing the likelyhood of my /dev/random being broken to the likelyhood of the website being intercepted or assimilated when I use it.
My comment about relevancy was more in line with @jdoliner's in the neighboring thread. I totally agree that tools and practices weren't quite there at the time and that things are different now.

The takeaway from Salmon experiment IMO is not specific to fMRI: you cannot trust a single technique or field "golden" standard (whether flawed or not), and should rather pursue accuracy across different pre- post-processing methods.

That's not realistically doable single-handily (at least in my experience), but in the current age it should become the norm to rely on publically available pipelines, probably with some sort of configuration files or even GUIs. I personally worked with fMRI only sparingly, so cannot comment on that in the context of the posted article.
Is this the right way to look at it?

That's like saying CVS security guards are pitifully small and inadequate. Yeah, you're right, they aren't going to stop a proper robbery... but stealing is illegal and shouldn't be happening either way. Same for hacking.
Ummm, no? AI means a clear thing: artificial _intelligence_. Depth-first search is not intelligence. Auto-generated algorithms that succeed on most of the training data is not intelligence. And that is obvious from the errors "AI" makes that a human would never do.

For example, would you fool even a child with this? https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/s4DuKgTLnS4cngTyiqVkNC-970...
Engineers set new world record internet speed
With these numbers, there would need to be significant effort to fraud the Telegram poll. For no real benefit other than maybe propaganda.

Whom exactly benefits from that? It would have to be a nation-state, and they weren't exactly doing much about the situation before the "election".

What is more likely: that the existing dictator and his supporters made defrauded the election to keep power or that some unknown entity defrauded an Telegram poll for not much gain.

Unless Telegram poll's system was completely broken, but you'd expect other large polls to already have revealed that.
That depends on how much avoiding bankruptcy is worth to you. It might be worth learning more about what the experience is like?
Which will continue to pay for the now-increased ongoing premiums.
All money is fungible.

If the aircraft manufacturers, or government, or consumers spend money, it is, ultimately the same money, as a matter for the effects of society-wide investment.

I should not need to trace the path from one spend to the next for this to be clear. We choose, as a society, to spend a very great deal on making air travel much, much safer than car travel, and car travel less unsafe than it once was.

Meanwhile, people are dropping by the tens and hundreds of thousands from sugar poisoning that we permit because the sugar producers have good lobbyists and a truly massive and extremely effective propagada operation convincing people sugar poisoning is what they actually want because it will make them feel young and sporty, not fat and sick as we know to be true.

There used to be an equally effective operation for tobacco. We didn't get tobacco deaths under control until we kneecapped the propaganda.

We spend far, far more than on airline safety and auto safety for medical care for the people made sick by sugar poisoning.
The population hasn't grown that much, Wuppertal has a bit over 350k inhabitants now, Barmen and Elberfeld (which became Wuppertal in 1929) had a combined population of slightly under 300k in 1900.

The traffic jams are mostly the result of lifestyle choices.
Good point. I started a magazine in 1994 and over the next seven years lost enough money that I spent the seven years after that digging out of the hole I ended up in. It was a good concept and had good response but was severely undercapitalized the whole time. If I were wealthier when I started out, it might have been a bigger success and would be my means of making a living now instead of existing as a few boxes of back issues in the basement.
Of course you are not going to see them if you are not looking. Maybe you could loo at have literally an entire country where it's the only messaging app still working. And previous attempt to block it in Russia.
Show HN: Alan – An implicitly parallel programming language
Things that are not strings
Wow. For context, there are less than 10M people total in Belarus, and ~16% of the population is under age 15. In order for the numbers to tally, the protests would necessarily have to be made up (almost) entirely of children.

https://www.indexmundi.com/belarus/demographics_profile.html
Or Panch maha bhuta.
The epub is $60 on the Apple Store, which is quite a bit more. Usually Apple’s prices are competitive.

https://books.apple.com/us/book/deep-learning-for-coders-wit...
They mention "MDN tech writing" as the last item how ridiculous.

I just dropped Firefox. My way of punishing Mozilla for this stupid decision.
Insurance coverage is common. Depending on coverage amount may require independent audits.
Webrender would work better as the complete OS interface than as an engine for one browser/app.
A defunded part of the organization "working on a plan". Does not sound super promising.
> To ensure the longevity of the services we have been providing to the world, we feel that it is time that we establish some defensibility for our work from large commercial forks.

If you read that as "for our future work" it's just an ordinary license change. I suggest they add that clarification.
They have security guards?
I wish they'd restored their old blog posts doing a bunch of stats, that was fun. I don't know why they've been taken down.
Wow that's wild. Is that because they add the 30% fee or something? The Kindle version is $35
For a country ruled by a 'dictator', I'm surprised the Belarus' government hasn't blocked access to Telegram yet. Non-authoritarian democracies (well, at least on paper) such as Brazil and India, in past, have blocked WhatsApp to contain protests and spread of (mis)information.
On one hand, from an idealistic point of view, I agree, and am a very, very big believer of having actual, carefully designed ABIs for kernel (and inter-process) communications.

On the other hand, the structures required to do syscalls via libc/kernel32 are generally simple enough that it's not a huge deal, and the difference between doing a raw syscall and doing a function call is unlikely to actually matter.

Fun fact/pet peeve: on android, if you want to communicate with most services, you need to go through Binder. While the low-level Binder ABI is stable, the services written on top of it aren't, and often change in backwards-incompatible ways. This includes core services like SurfaceFlinger (necessary to draw on the screen). This means that it's generally impossible to create purely native software on android - you always have to call into Java to talk to those services.
Redux was reasonably clear and opinionated early on.

People on whom it was forced on, and who disagreed with those opinions, were VERY vocal, and pushed most of the other crap, which fragmented the community and muddied the message.

From my point of view as a end user, the only real difference between now and then, is that the vocal minority is now the majority, and they shifted focus to match (which is a good decision). Obviously I can't speak for Mark, but it's how it looks like as an external observer (pun not intended)
Not at all. I'm not very good at it, but I really like the process of marketing. It's like a fun puzzle to figure out ways for people to find out about/buy the things I build.
Agreed, but that's one side of the coin. The other is that these guarantees and constraints are clearly located in one place (and one team), instead of spread across many teams and implemented with varying maturity and seriousness. I've seen this often happens when separate teams are responsible for separate microservices, implemented in random technologies.

For this to work, the ESB must be acknowledged as the critical piece of the architecture, and the team responsible must be empowered enough.
Your numbers don't match Wikipedia [1] which indicates that there was 85% turnout, Tikhanovskaya got 10% ~600K votes. But maybe I missed something.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Belarusian_presidential_e...
Can't be insured for?

I find that ironic, because we actually have medical insurance and unemployment insurance here in USA, but we often see "individuals with limited resources" wiped out for reasons you mentioned.
Fraud, and verify identity kinda go hand in hand.

The type of credit card has high fraud activity.

Remember, it is to stop bad actors from using azure services for phishing, tricky things, etc (since a default instance w/ IIS, or any web service will literally be on windows.net.)

Anti-fraud == verify identity.
> If that ever happens, we'll know democracy in the US is under threat.

Not to get political or anything, but with the clear election interference with dismantling the USPS and removing sorting machines only in swing states it's clearer than ever that democracy is already currently under threat.
This made my day. Thanks for the insight.
I'm assuming that's due to needing both crypto polyfills and opencv?
One thing that drove me crazy about using Apollo for local state management is that you have to manually fetch, update and save the data on every change. For example, if you have a list of items and you need to add one, your mutation would need to query the store for the list, add your new item, and them write the mutation to the store.

This adds extra overhead on every single mutation as opposed to Redux, where your the current state is automatically passed into your reducer, and you don't need to worry about writing anything after you update - the store handles that itself by updating the state to the result of the reducer.
There are fairly easy ways to get around this. Everyone says they never pay ransoms, but they mostly do. It is not a ransom, but you hire some cousin to do a not existing project etc. These things happens in parts of the world where transparency is not a top priority.
As detailed at your link, this is the sort of thing that happens in Thomas Hardy novels, which are also communication.
I belive Maersk has decided on Ammonia as the future for their ships, with refits of diesel engines acting as bridge to fuel cells.
This is the third result when searching for "Dropbox joke". But what is a Dropbox joke?
That is a very humbling response. I will be donating to Fred Hollow Foundation. Thanks for the fastai work.

Edit: Donated. And reported a bug in their donation process that almost preventing me from being successful.
Pff since the closest star system is just 4ly away I was expecting something closer...
Competitor and Inspiration Analysis
The Belarus protests work to unseat a President who resisted bribes to impose a strict lockdown. Lukashenko was offered a sum of USD 940M, initially by the WHO & raised by the World Bank.

It’s a foreign led insurrection that we should all oppose. That people in this thread label it a revolution just goes to show how easily truth can be perverted.

Seems to me he’s a threat to their Corona agenda, that's why he must go.
> I'm not making my application more fragile by rewriting an O(n^2) operation over a large dataset to an O(n log(n)) operation that provides the same output. It's a win without tradeoffs.

Hopefully not nitpicking too much: it's a win without _many_ tradeoffs. E.g., in the usual places where you'd accidentally get an O(n^2) operation rather than O(n log(n)), the O(n^2) operation is constant-space. In a sufficiently anomalous computing environment with a low enough priority on fast results you might still consciously opt for the O(n^2) solution.
It may be valuable as a public good, but what's the ROI for Mozilla?

Is it valuable enough that you'd consider paying for access?
I'm not sure I'd agree about ordering. Solar power seems to be getting cheaper faster than batteries are. We might be in the position in the not too distant future where we have more electricity during sunny days than we know what to do with but still need some natural gas power plants to get us through cloudy months. Depending on capital costs "make H while the sun shines" might be a reasonable business.
>The blockade resulted from Hamas sniping at Israel with mortars and missiles and rockets for nearly 15 years - which also caused 2-3 major wars

It was initiated as part of the postelection economic sanctions. Israel cites the rocket attacks for making it necessary to continue, but that is not the start.

>However, perhaps letting them vote in some new people might result in governance that is willing to play ball and come up with some kind of agreement.

Or it gives the US and Israel a chance to rectify their previous mistake and ensure their chosen candidates win. Democracy!
Those are good points. It would be cool to know the focus of the conferences in advance. Until now most conferences were single track only (the ones you mentioned with two tracks are the exception) but some at least felt pretty well balanced.

Maybe I just know Rust better now and what felt technical back then does not anymore.
Machine learning study–looking for partcipants
I am contacting this forum because it seems like you all might be interested in a project that I am working on.

This project researches the communication practices of machine learning (ML) scientists and artificial intelligence (AI) researchers. The goal of this research project is to investigate how data scientists, programmers, and researchers write, talk, and communicate about ML and AI. In particular, I am interested in the detailed practices of practitioners rather than popular marketing-friendly depictions of ML and AI. Your motivations, insights, and strategies would be an incredibly valuable addition to this research project.

If you are willing to participate in an initial interview, please reply to my email at the bottom of this message. Interviews tend to last about 30-60 minutes and can be conducted by phone or video chat (e.g., zoom).

I am happy to answer any questions you have. For more information about me, you can click on the link to my webpage at the bottom of this email. Additionally, I am dedicated, as well as required, to uphold the highest levels of privacy for research participants, especially if you choose to remain anonymous. As an academic researcher, I can offer you no monetary incentive for your participation, but I am happy to share the published results of this work with you when it’s completed.

The primary form of dissemination of the data in this project will be conference presentations, academic journal articles, academic book chapters, and an academic book-length project. Audio and/or video data will not be disseminated, unless participants explicitly agree. This project is IRB approved (protocol number 21072).

I look forward to hearing from you. If you know anyone who might be willing to participate, would you be willing to pass along my contact information?

Sincerely,
John

John Gallagher, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
johng@illinois.edu
I think the reference is orthagonal to respect, making the correction merely rude.
Can you name one mechanism of eastern medicine clarified by "Western" medicine?

I am looking for clarification beyond a statistical effect
(e.g. a clinical trial) which illustrates the underlying biological effect: in-vivo ideally but will take in-vitro or even in-silico.
It's based on the concepts of OTR but it has gone in different directions to actually implement those ideas.
Where is your management?

If your manager isn't willing to back you up on "My team needs to deliver X and that's my employee's job, if you want Y, we can try to schedule that in," find a job with a better manager. And if your manager says your job is answering questions about Y and not writing code for X, then, well, that is your job.
This looks like a good place to link the Unix Hater’s Handbook[1]

[1] https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
Then maybe just quote the person who wrote the article. You are missing the point: If you want to appeal to an authority in science, it's a high bar. I read the MIT Technology Review. I like it. I respect it for what it is. But, it's simply not good enough in a science discussion to say "MIT Technology Review says X". The bar is higher. It's not a function of politics or existing narratives or anything of that nature.
Afaik AMD is buggy when passed to virtualized guest. nvidia also requires hacks to make it work. Intel is the only party where it's supported out of the box.

Edit: incorrect terminology
All of this is called "tax" in the US.
If CVS security guards had to guard against every burglar in the world, including ones who would just as happily go after bank vaults, then the situation would be comparable, yes.

If, that is, the burglars could automatically try and burgle every commercial establishment and home in existence, succeeding, with zero effort expended, if the security guards in question were insufficiently vigilant.
As someone with a pair of nieces who are Roblox junkies and who did dabble with MUDs back in the day, I can assure you that Roblox has a ton of content that is put together by enthusiastic amateurs. And while it often has heart, soul, and seems fun for those playing, it definitely doesn't have excess polish. If anything, I'd say Minecraft content tends to be far more polished than Roblox content, even after allowing for relative graphics differences.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224.

It's the Dropbox Show HN from 2007 before Show HN was a thing. Someone made a comment with the same feel as this one.

The "joke" is that of course a developer can replicate the early version of most products, but that doesn't mean the product will fail (see Dropbox).
the one thing that set me off was their whole rebranding of software developers as "forward deployed engineers", like some kind of William Gibson-esque cringy stealth company. I honestly couldn't go anywhere and introduce myself like that, it makes you sound like some kind of spec ops person and all you do is write Java
The on-die Larrabee traces were 3072 wires wide.
Regarding "best language documentation", wait until you meet Elixir. Used to do PHP before transitioning to Elixir. Elixir & community have basically taken documentation to a new level.

Other than that, PHP is rock solid when it comes to web stuff.
Is that certificate they bought [1] $688 [2] for the year?

I've been wondering for a while if any security researchers use those overpriced certs as an indicator. Someone paying $600+ per year for an SSL certificate and forgetting to renew it is an indication they might be misunderstanding and neglecting other stuff, right?

1. https://crt.sh/?id=3263659027

2. https://www.digicert.com/wildcard-ssl-certificates/
Note that in situations where exponential growth is possible, lower latency means much faster growth, and this can easily happen faster than you have time to react to.

Exponential growth at 5% a week is a lot different than 5% a day or 5% a minute. Social media would be less dangerous if there were more automatic delays before a message you post appears to others.
Man I wish you’d quit spamming every redux thread with this stuff.

You’re not solving any problems, you’re just promoting your framework.
> It's not merely trusting that shady company, but also realizing that the news of FB not having E2E-encrypted messages would definitely make the news, you'd be aware of it.

Right.. consider what your adversary would be giving up by revealing such a secret, even if it was true. That alone provides a not-insubstantial amount of security.
This doesn't give you plausible deniability if law enforcement gets their hands on your unlocked phone, as they can see that the file size of the encrypted message logs doesn't match the visible content. If the phone is jailbroken and the key for the message logs is leaked, it doesn't help at all.

Security by obscurity is never a win.
This reminds me of Frank Herbert's Bureau of Sabotage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Sabotage).
Is it going to be based on 14+++nm? AMD/Nvidia is on 7nm
I feel like you're being needlessly dense. The threat scenario is being at a protest with your friends, not some midnight abduction. And I'll I'm arguing is that it is better to have it than not have it because there's a __chance__. When it comes down to it every aspect of security and privacy is probabilistic. Security walls aren't impenetrable, but unlikely to be penetrated in a given time-frame. If it doesn't reduce the floor on security or privacy but increases the probabilistic upper bound, why not? So my complaint to Signal is why shoot yourself in the foot by limiting this to 1 hour? (24 if you run a custom app)

There's a reason big companies/government employers want root access to your phone and will wipe data if it is lost or stolen. Because it reduces the chance that company/state secrets. No one thinks it is a guarantee. But if given the choice of "revealing a secret" vs "rolling a dice to see if I reveal a secret or not" I'm going with the latter no matter the odds.
It's less about the number of people and more about the percentage of them that can afford a vehicle. Horses are expensive (lots of upkeep). Cars are expensive too, but not as expensive as a pair of horses. Society is today quite a lot wealthier than it was a hundred years ago partly because cars are so inexpensive, but it does mean that the roads are more crowded.
Well, php is thought to power something like 80-90% of websites. So you are seeing either the same or disproportionately fewer php sites than you should if php were in fact less secure.

But php has been around on the web for a long time as well, so there are a lot of unpatched softwares out there like WordPress.

Probably near 99% of those compromised servers run on Linux, so by your logic, Linux is much more secure than windows servers, right?
I really hope the people of Belarus get the government they deserve.
Are they not just hiding in places which don't care about these kind of things?
tbf I said take advice from HN. I except people deeply involved in games to have their own specialized info us mortals can't touch (or they just do their own testing)
It would not break, but it’s still a logical fallacy to std::move something returned by value, no? Or is there a valid use case here?

I strictly use std::move in case of explicit transfer of ownership, and not to try to outsmart the compiler to ‘optimize’ something. As the article shows the compiler is smart enough to do all this by itself, it doesn’t need to be told to try to elide copies. But maybe I’m missing some valid use case where it would make sense to add the std::move in these kinds of situations?
The download still seems to exist: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=115...