skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found their argument compelling.
> Editing GPT-3’s op-ed was no different to editing a human op-ed.
But he's not a USA citizen, and wasn't in the USA when the activity occurred. What the First Amendment to the Constitution of the USA has to say about it is completely irrelevant.
Sounds nice, unfortunately “independent audits” will be done by 2-3 companies closely tied to the establishment (just like how strategy consulting is done by 3 companies and finance audit is done by 4 companies).
This presentation is essentially Dev Advocacy, he's describing where we want to go, not necessarily where we are now.

I hear you though; I thought this was gonna be another "you don't need React, here's the Vanilla JS that does the same thing" kinda presentation, but was actually intrigued to learn about this <portal> tag. I does seem to address the (main?!) bugbear we have with interactive webpages and the fight between the server and client.

Although I am surprised there's little to no support for it right now - thought at least Chrome would.

https://caniuse.com/?search=portal

Edit: Ofc it can be tried out w/ Chrome if Dev Enabled, but it's not user supported at this time.
As others have pointed out the article mentions this.

I'm a bit skeptical, but I've also read a number of articles talking about how "unnatural" humans biology is due to our diet.

AKA, maybe we have a higher mercury level concentration (artificial sweetener, or whatever) than local species and maybe that can be reflected and sensed in the trees.

My skepticism is more about remote sensing. It wouldn't surprise me if these kinds of things can be detected when a tree's bark/leaves are chemically analyzed. OTOH, being able to sense that optically seems much harder.
Vice made a mind-blowing series on this if anyone wants to see with their own eyes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw613M86o5o7a0FGlPRdt...
It seems interesting that Vitamin D may be so much more prone to false correlations due to the fact that it's tied to going out in the sun, and going out in the sun is what healthy people do. Since so many illnesses and conditions, from psychological to physical, can keep you indoors, one could conclude that vitamin D is really a miracle pill.

I take 1k iu a day, since I barely go outside anymore, but I'd probably cut that in half if life were normal again. I think of most vitamins as a "cover my bases in cases I eat like shit today", not as a "this is going to keep me from getting cancer".

I also found the commentary on metanalyses interesting - they're touted as being very high quality, but of course there's always the garbage in garbage out.
Thank you again for this, Dr. Boone. This particular article has made me feel a little bit better about taking my moderate dose of D3 every day: I have asthma, have had a flare up or two of eczema, don’t want to die of cancer, and don’t want to break any bones at an advanced age.
Just for US persons. Are there other services like that for EU?
> And the fallacies are only meant to invalidate your opponent's arguments

Not only your opponent's but your own also! That's very important... knowing the fallacies you're less likely to use them, which I think many people do out of their ignorance of the topic.
Humans innately have object persistence too, but you wouldn't be able to tell from interacting with a baby as it takes them a few years to get there. Saying kids don't behave as nice as adults doesn't really mean anything in a similar way.
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> He openly talks about his autocratic desires

to be honest I've seen it as his form of jest, where he's constantly tryin to rile up his opponents. And he can get away with it because he knows his supporters have all the guns (at least amongst civilians). We'll see what the military does and if that institution is solid.
The old trick of having your name mentioned in any public document issued in other country in whatever spelling you want doesn't apply in Belarus? Had to do that, because my name looks more like a barcode when transliterated from original Ukrainian spelling.
Sensors of world’s largest digital camera snap first 3.2GP images at SLAC
I hadn’t thought of that angle.

Seems that getting rid of this sort of problem is one of the reasons one would use an ad network.
Not sure I understand the hate for TurboTax. Literally not a single person is forced to use it. I do use it and it's a very good product for the most part.

Perhaps energy should be directed at the actual tax code complexity rather than software built to help navigate filing.

Ted Cruz's tax plan would have practically eliminated the need for TurboTax-type software. https://taxfoundation.org/details-and-analysis-senator-ted-c...

But, let's not forget what Milton Friedman had to say about tax reform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TruCIPy79w8
Does anyone reading this have a copy of either of the "repudiated" novels, "The name of action" and "Rumour at nightfall"?
It's quite likely that such flights also took place in the UK. Kidnapping Assange would have been an entirely different affair in any case. It would have created an enormous international scandal whichever country the kidnapping took place in.

There is not a shred of evidence to show that the US had any intention of kidnapping Assange. We are in the realm of pure conspiratorial speculation here. ("They are bad guys; this would be a bad thing; therefore they would do that thing.")
I think it really depends on the child whether inherently good or bad from the start. Basically genetics allowing either outcome.
Automating browser tests with jest, GitHub actions and puppeteer
If you're looking for something that runs on both Apple and non-Apple devices: Pocket Casts https://www.pocketcasts.com/
Define "ownshership." These are supposedly publicly-owned entities. What does that even mean if the public has no control or say in how the entity is managed?
The Life and Times of Butehamun: Tomb Raider for the High Priest of Amun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caedite_eos._Novit_enim_Dominu.... ?

(I have no idea to what extent catholic Priors considered themselves kind and gentle ca. 1200, however.)
Developers don't care about security
smart adjective, smart·er, smart·est.

- having or showing quick intelligence or ready mental capability

They said "smart", I said "intelligence".
K9s makes K8s look gooood
You didn't explain why its faster though.

It's faster because its reduces the dimensionality of the inputs down to something manageable (hundreds or low thousands). You can replace convolutions with most other types of dimensionality reduction (including other types of layers) and outside of image tasks you'll get very similar or even better performance.
Endless scrolling was specifically rejected [1], and given how vociferous the HN community can be about such things I don’t blame them.

Also, comments can shift from page to page as their ranking changes, so a naïve implementation would end up with duplicates (for comments that fell down past the page boundary before the next page loaded) and missing items (for comments that rose up), and a more sophisticated implementation probably wouldn’t be worth the effort for something they want to get rid of.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195291
Learn to build a Covid tracker with Recoil and React
> (Also neat, I didn't realize the Mac Preview app supported 3d models.)

I had the same pleasant surprise browsing through STL files for 3d printing; it's nice to be able to view them right in the finder.
Whatever it means if you don't use the word 'values', basically they identify more with Russia than EU. The gp mentioned that they identify with EU values, and thus I used the same word.
I learned to program on a TI 99/4A, and my high school “computer science” teacher was actually a math teacher who took some interest in computers. I wish I had been able to take a fuller CS curriculum in HS.
the site is currently down, as ETH is experiencing issues with their webhosting. Will keep you posted.
It seems like pay-per-click and similar models should just be discontinued, they don't work since they can be exploited. An independently verifiable metric needs to be used (if the price for the ad should be traffic or interaction based) - or something completely different. Fixed prices?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_investing
Certainly prone to those kinds of things, but I think there are interesting questions that can only be answered by this kind of analysis. (For example, it seems plausibly related to why American gun culture is so much stronger and more popular than in other countries, even those with comparably permissive gun ownership laws.)
It almost reads like an onion article.
Oh good, I was afraid this was going to be an intervention for me regarding my steady stream of almost daily deliveries from Amazon/HD/Walmart/Ebay etc.
Exactly, there's more than 1 factor while his campaign didn't work at all.

As mentioned in other comments, his ad spend was pretty low anyway, you can't come to conclusions if a campaign is successful from 11 clicks.

The main problem is that his creative/lander or his copy didn't convert.

Having the clicks differentiate from the ad source compared to your tracking tool is pretty common as well. If you're using just GA to track it, the numbers are going to be wildly different with people having Adblockers.

I've worked on some large B2B ad campaigns on LinkedIn, some of them we only ever got 1 lead, but that lead was worth a lot more than that the campaign budget, so that was a success for us.
Sounds about right, and I've corrected that same error in Europeans before. That's the kind of error someone with a limited understanding of American history or culture would make. It's an easy mistake to make, looking at a map and knowing the name without knowing about the Northwest Ordinance
With the exception of lobbyists that actually have a chance to make their case directly to representatives I doubt much would change as most people's way of contacting their representative is an email, letter or phone call, which pretty much is always answered by some random staff of the representative.
So I moved to Calgary, AB, Canada around 2000 along with a huge number of other Canadians and people from around the world primarily as economic migrants. The city has changed dramatically since then but I noticed that it attracted a lot of people with a similar pioneer style attitude; you had to be willing to move far away from your family mostly for your job, and the companies here had a very western "DIY" approach as well as something to prove to the more established Eastern "genteel". Some of this is gone now but many people and organizations still display it regularly.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is real, but apparently insufficiently alien?

Or maybe too alien to suffice as a subanthropomorphisable They?
Apple announces ‘Time Flies’ event for September 15th
Same here. HN has recently been swamped with polarizing geopolitical rhetoric. Finding it more difficult to get any rational discourse outside the pro-US echo chamber
How much would you recommend importing Chinese censorship before it outweighs the benefits you're suggesting here? I'm not saying there's no valid trade-off there, but catering to the needs you're describing does have a cost.
You obviously had better parents than most with the last sentence. Individuals with abusive parents don't have that outcome. You might want to educate yourself on how environment shapes one's character as well as genetics.
I wrote a Copy/Paste stack tool. Pressing ctrl+c adds the current selection onto the stack and ctrl+v pastes off of the stack. You can toggle between LIFO and FIFO.

It's been very helpful for our client-facing folks who have to copy a lot of user data.
> The problem with this theory is that if someone wanted to extra-judicially grab Assange at the time it would have been easier to do this without going through a convoluted process to charge them with a totally unrelated and arguably more serious offence in Sweden. He was living there, and his address wasn't a secret.

The Iraq release from Manning's leak occurred after he left Sweden. Getting him back onto Swedish soil would have been the first step.

> The UK's record on unlawful rendition flights (at America's behest and otherwise) is also not good

The UK has never allowed rendition from the British isles, and certainly would not allow a former colony to subvert their court system.
For me, this serves as a stark reminder to invest in barriers to oppression.

* General education (ideally, not state mandated)

* General self defense (fitness, martial arts, firearms training)

* Technological counter measures - TOR, crypto, crypto currency, and IMO we should be pushing for electronic voting systems (not shitty ones, but truly great ones) *

*Edit: By great ones, I mean ones that allow us to validate our vote was both counted and correct after the fact. There are crypto voting systems that do not allow anyone (including the government) to know if you voted or what your vote is (identifying you), but still allows tallying and validation.
The Two Risks of Investing
Robotic muscles could turn back body clock by 2050
Ask HN: Does anyone regularly LeetCode, outside of cramming for interviews?
Pondr is like TikTok for written content
Pondr is a platform to read, write and share bite-sized articles.

Each article fits the screen and the user can browse through articles by swiping up and down.

Users can save the articles they like and discover new people on the platform who write interesting content.

Since each article takes less than 45 seconds to read, people can learn a lot by investing just 5 minutes a day. In a nutshell, it is a reading and writing platform tailored for modern smartphone users who are always on the go.
Every company suffers under the weight of the debt of being feature focused. That's because everyone who didn't do that isn't alive to tell the tale.
But seems like the majority ain't using it for that purpose.
Columnstore Indexing in PostgreSQL
/r/programming, /r/haskell, this site, interactions with real people at Haskell meetups and normal programming meetups.
It seems you conflate "deviating from mainstream media" as being alt-right. I'm sure people like Amy Goodman, Cenk Uygur, Tim Pool, and Ezra Klein would be surprised to learn this puts them firmly in the alt-right. In fact, thinking the mainstream is useless doesn't betoken right or left, only that what the major networks are saying doesn't correspond with reality on the ground.
Is there anything else to these confidential machines other than feel-good, security theater or certification checkmarks?

Maybe I'm overly cynical, but I don't quite understand the target audience.

For basic security and isolation between tenants as well as intrusion prevention from third parties, I'd personally trust Google's SRE team more than any other cloud provider in the world. They seem to have a great historical record and if they had any slip ups there, their business would be impacted for years.

For access to state actors, I'd trust these machines not any bit more than conventional ones. If the key is held in memory, it's accessible. Even if it wasn't, the data would be captured at the storage layer boundary if it was of any interest.
> My experience is that most cybersecurity firms are only slightly better than other enterprises.

They're often worse. I can't recall the study, but one of them looked across industries at software quality, and security products were statistically worse than others. Of course such studies are hard to really feel confidence in, but it isn't surprising.
When I saw "curating and controlling global information flows" I honestly couldn't tell if they meant that as a bad thing that TikTok was doing or a good thing that Western governments should be doing. I made fun of the concept of doublespeak when I first read 1984 but I think I get it now.
If anything, it's slightly generous to Tesla, as Norway's ASP for cars is very high. Across Europe, they took about 8% of the market in the first half, down from 18% last year.
It is, because it ultimately comes down to owner's control of how their content is being used.

For example, a modern news site will want the ability to define which text is "authoritative", and make modifications to it on the fly, including unpublishing it. As a reader OTOH, I want a permanent, immutable copy of everything said site ever publishes, so that silent edits and unpublishing is not possible. These two perspectives are in conflict, and that conflict repeats itself throughout the entire web.
It has a green check next to "treatment for Vitamin D deficiency". What part of the article says that you should just ignore low vitamin D levels?
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China Launches Initiative to Set Global Data-Security Rules
Tech alone CAN be a solution to large social problems, but typically not directly. Instead, it has to make some socially-“good” effect the inevitable consequence of making something else cheaper/more efficient.

Renewable tech (ie solar, wind) is an excellent example of this phenomenon, where we are finally getting to the point where you don’t need to appeal to people’s morals/values to get their energy companies to use renewables - they’re now simply cheaper in a lot of regions! Because tech improved in the right direction, greed and economic efficiency have become much more aligned with reduced environmental impact.

So the way I like to think about problems is this: what technology, if it existed, would solve this problem even when people/societies act entirely in their own self-interest (given how many world economies typically function)?

Morality is a luxury few feel they can afford, so make the moral choice cheaper.
'A member of the world community' in the same way that China is 'a member of the world community'?

Let's be clear: the Chinese government is going to cause its citizens great pain because it performs this information manipulation with its own technology. It is at fault if other countries take steps to protect the world from the CCP's actions, not the nations taking those steps. Don't victim-blame either the other countries or the Chinese people, both of who are harmed by the CCP's actions.
It's not an obvious answer at all, given that the most reasonable implication of biased behaviour by the judged during the extradition hearing would be if there is pressure from the US behind the scenes.

As such, whether or not you agree that the judges behaviour actually is biased, if the judge is biased there is no reason to trust the US courts will be unbiased either.
> ... you say "There's plenty of room to discuss those issues you brought up, but I'm still interested in your thoughts on my original question."

But you just said your M.O. is to deliberately force the opponent to operate in a "tiny airspace" that you define. So, there's not really "plenty of room" to discuss those issues they brought up.

That pisses people off, it's seen as an aggressive move and can easily backfire.

Framing the debate is perhaps the most difficult task towards "winning" a debate.
> Perhaps the wayback machine can help fix that by telling users to visit the authoritative site and demanding a confirmation clickthrough before showing the archived content.

I'm trying to figure out if you're being ironic or serious.

People on here (rightly) spend a lot of time complaining about how user experience on the web is becoming terrible due to ads, pop-ups, pop-unders, endless cookie banners, consent forms, and miscellaneous GDPR nonsense, all of which get in the way of whatever it is you're trying to read or watch, and all of it on top of the more run-of-the-mill UX snafus with which people casually litter their sites.

Your idea boils down to adding another layer of consent clicking to the mess, to implement a semi-manual redirect through the WayBackMachine for every link clicked. That's ridiculous.

I have to believe you're being ironic because nobody could seriously think this is a good idea.
With @kepler1 on this one. This is an overly-dramatized Instagrammer's take on a pretty low-stakes situation with plenty of leeway. I'm not even particularly outdoorsy and I've got crazier stories (involving bears, pulling people out of overturned cars, etc.). I was out kayaking this weekend, and even though we were just barely 2 hours out of LA, we were acutely aware and tracking smoke/fires in the San Bernardino Mountains.

With that said, hiking into a high-risk area with already a few known fires nearby is just stupid and it could've been really bad. I'd like to hope they learned their lesson.
Couple fights for 44-year-old phone number
The UI is pretty cool. :)
Guess you can't read post titles?
Apple officially announces iPhone 12 virtual event for September 15
If you want to use your technical skills to make a difference in the world, a lot of less glamorous options are out there: working for a non-profit, working for a university, school system, library system, or other government entity of your choosing.

> One example I've heard so far is Tesla. Any others?

Lol, Tesla is not an example. They are a carmaker. Nothing Tesla does will change the world for the better. In fact investing in automobiles in any form is counter-productive when we should be reverting post-war city design mistakes. The best thing for the world would be to live in walkable communities with inter-city trains taking care of long-distance travel.

Tesla is a great example of the flaw in your question: looking toward a highly-funded company out to change the world is an impossibility. Highly funded companies are expected to produce revenue growth. That’s it. There’s no such thing as a for-profit company out to solve world problems unless solving those problems involves increasing profit.

So, like I said, what you’re looking for is probably a non-profit, a government agency, or research institution.

And don’t expect to get highly competitive salary to do work that helps people.
The author actually addresses this. Where do you disagree with his differentiation?

"At lower levels, convolutional nets will not perform cross correlation, because we know that they perform edge detection in the very first convolutional layers. But in later layers, where more abstract features are generated, it is possible that a convolutional net learns to perform cross-correlation by convolution. It is imaginable that the bright pixels from the cross-correlation will be redirected to units which detect faces (the Google brain project has some units in its architecture which are dedicated to faces, cats etc.; maybe cross correlation plays a role here?)."
Very impressive accomplishment from much work. No professional here, just two thoughts when I saw this:

Medical applications. Emit a turbulent ring to help apply medicine to inaccessible areas like the pancreas, or the brain, or deep arterial blockages. Use imaging to create disposal hydrofoils from iron or cholesterol which break up on their own.

Continuity: Just what is that little point when we model fluids? Phonons? ok, so what are those? Are they pushing back on everything that is out there? Or are they bounded by their ability to observe?
Imagine if they spent those resources on something worthwhile.