skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
because the born-again stuff made me think of Evangelicals, but I guess if you want to go deep into this I think there's actually a lot of unironical parallels. The singularity is kind of like the rapture for nerds, AI people get weirdly dualistic about uploading their minds to clouds, and the overlap between SV capitalism and Protestantism goes back to Weber. I think it was Charles Stross who also pointed to similarities bwetween Russian Orthodox Cosmism and Western sci-fi. Secular western people in particular get weirdly religious about AI, like some sort of psychological replacement
You can very easily monitor all outgoing traffic through an external device.
I believe Microsoft got in trouble for bundling IE with Windows and doing a lot of things to keep users there.

They still do a lot of shady things actually: https://www.theverge.com/21310611/microsoft-edge-browser-for...

Every once in a while I see Edge pinning itself to my taskbar after an update, or opening automatically and telling me to migrate.
Sure! you could get experimenting on the current basics via https://github.com/matrix-org/mjolnir today.
Most modern JITs have several tiers like that...
As is usual, this is something Stallman had touched upon years ago[1].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html
Because then they have other problems...
Sure, I don't fault Facebook either. I think they're wrong, and making a mistake, but I understand why, and think it's a mistake they are absolutely allowed to make.

Technically, Armslist is legal. They don't even facilitate transactions on Armslist, and it's local laws that apply. Basically, it's a Craiglist for firearms. Armslist has also won numerous lawsuits[1] by claiming Section 230 protection. Facebook doesn't know this, and they have no reason to know this. Acquiring this information about Armslist would require someone up high enough at the company to impact US policy to understand this. That would cost money. It makes more sense to avoid it altogether, just like it makes sense to avoid pornography altogether, rather than watching every video that gets posted, in case a "model" is underage.

Matrix gives me the perfect opportunity to continue this conversation on my own terms, using my own knowledge to moderate it.

However, there's also another reason that inspired me to ditch Facebook, which is the fact that they are censoring my private messages at all, without any action by a human being to report them or anything like that. I just dislike that policy, and so I chose to stop using Facebook over it.

[1] https://www.armslist.com/blog/get-involved/armslist-defeats-...
> Both suffer from a laundry list of minor annoyances that snowball into something that's hard to ignore

This sounds just like your familiarity. I could have used the exact same sentence to describe how I feel using macOS for work after being used to Linux (GNOME) for 8 years.

When you use something for a while you learn to avoid all the bugs and the UX starts to feel natural. Any switch will end up in you running into new bugs and finding the UX odd, no matter if it is to or from macOS, Windows, GNOME, KDE or otherwise.

I would say that I run into 10x more bugs on macOS than GNOME. But that probably isn't because there are 10x more bugs. There is likely a comparable number on GNOME but I have learned to subconsciously avoid most of them.
Visualizing music with the auto correlation function
ACF is a surprisingly simple, yet accurate way to visualize music:

soundshader. github.io /docs/acf

ACF is really just a couple FFTs that drop the phase component in between. However the result is almost too good to be true.
> free alternative

Only "free" in terms of literal monetary payments to acquire the operating system. But the choice between Apple's stack and other Linux stacks has many trade-offs in terms of time, support, documentation, complexity, transition cost, etc.
Crypto social network Minds adds 'uncensorable' permaweb functionality
Oh wow! An even better page of theirs is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cmglee/Dynamic_SVG_for_Wi...

This is a great example of just basic animation:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Circulat...
While I don't think we'll have another AI winter for the reasons you point out, I do expect a large contraction in the AI market where a few of the successful companies in AI dominate and you won't see people throwing AI at problems that don't need it anymore.

In the 90s every washing machine had "fuzzy logic", it was the new hyped thing. Of course there are legitimate applications of fuzzy logic, but you don't have to apply it everywhere. It quickly died down once people noticed this fact.

Right now we're in the phase of the hype cycle where clueless managers ask their engineers to apply AI to anything, because they read about the AI revolution everyday and fear being left behind. But some problems have good non-AI solutions where AI won't reap much benefits, while the data collection, the experts, the time to develop, and the necessary restructuring to become an AI company costs a lot.
What are your thoughts/reactions after a pitch with an novel idea+execution+traction but no obvious moat?
The only reason Firefox was able to gain traction over IE in the early 00's was the antitrust case. Without it Chrome and Safari probably wouldn't exist either.
Japanese and Chinese translation to English is still absolute garbage outside of some obviously targeted sites (Wikipedia, I believe). Translating a German news site is still riddled with key errors because it doesn't understand how words and phrases get used in different contexts.

It's improved a bit, but it's still miles and miles away from any half-decent human translation.
What’s new in the Windows 10 October 2020 Update
Neuropilin-1 drives SARS-CoV-2 infectivity, finds breakthrough study
Let's make things clear: you shouldn't. You should aspire to amorality, just as they have done. It's not about revenge, it's about winning, and doing what it takes to win.

Half of the people in America look at foreign policy through the lens of naive capitalism and the other half look at foreign policy through the lens of naive morality. Both are incredibly foolish, as China has taught us.

To be clear, the current administration has matched rhetoric about "winning" with some very stupid moves. I'm not a fan of stupid moves, but I see people object to both smart and stupid moves on the basis that they aren't good, or right, or fair -- and I object to that. Politics is amoral.
anecdata here:

I once was asked to explain the difference between 2 functions in a standard library that I don't think I had ever used.

That was the only question I was asked. They completely wrote me off as soon as I couldn't answer the question.

If they had just asked me to write an entire app from scratch (not counting frameworks) I could've done that for them no problem :)
While it's true that nginx is secure by default, this image adds extra best-practice security addons on top of the out-of-the-box security. Rate limiting, fail2ban, DNSBL is all stuff that you'd otherwise have to configure manually but this sets it up for you.
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You mean CRFA?

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/con...

Did a court rule that CRFA trumps (npi) DeWitt's Clause?

https://dwheeler.com/essays/dewitt-clause.html

(IANAL)
I am surprised that no one has mentioned shadow stats yet. this is an excellent set of stats maintained privately:
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart...

he maintains it by following pre-clinton era methodology so its relatively less gamed.
I'd posit that those are all coincidental, and certainly not an exhaustive survey of cults or cult-like practices, Christian or otherwise.
Unless you trigger the Streisand Effect.

But it looks like more people have upvoted this post than actually watched the video, so maybe that isn’t going to happen.
A demo of the T2 hardware exploit on iMacs can be found here: https://blog.t8012.dev/plug-n-pwn/

From what I could find, the encryption keys of the T2 are still secure but the OS running on it is not. Wiping the SSD and/or repairing another might be enough to resell the device without any locks but I'm not 100% sure about that.
Would you personally volunteer to be dead to save people in the future?
I know, I was being facetious. It's possible they won't even do phone numbers for the moon - LTE gives a data connection, and you use whatever protocol on top, VoIP, Signal, Whatsapp, Facetime, whatever.
I feel the need. The need... for speed. See you in Iceland!

https://wiki.python.org/moin/NeedForSpeed

Was just talking about that trip with my wife last night, in relation to COVID statistics. "Measuring things sucks! I'm still traumatized from spending a week trying to reliably measure speedups in Python."
> Apple went all in on the security of this T2 chip so that you cannot replace the SSD

That's not a security thing, really. It's easy enough to layer encryption on a normal SSD. It's their desire to make it some kind of do-everything auxiliary chip, which has the end result of weakening security.
I would be curious to see how well a dslr with a remote trigger and a nema stepper motor could capture an 8MM reel. The quality would be really incredible if done right.
I appreciate the response. I suspect you’re missing the many ways in which this change can negatively impact valid and fairly frequent advanced usages of macs, in a way similar to the BIOS change you mentioned.

When I was in college, Little Snitch was an absolute must for using Macs in our networking labs, because it was the best way to analyze and control our network. Without it the mac was not a feasible option.

This change by Apple would have essentially eliminated the macs use in several of these experiments, and I suspect that’s true today as well.

Further, this has a regular advanced user impact as well, for users on metered networks who would like to control their data usage.
This sucks.

This sucks, because...

This doesn’t suck.

The three phases
Scalify Review 2021: Good for beginners struggling to properly scale their FbAds
The commercial endeavors will happily switch to just web scraping. This doesn't hurt anyone but the end-users (it was super useful to have an RSS feed of a specific search with parameters if you were hunting for an apartment, for example, which would then notify you on your phone with an RSS reader app).
A couple of the other replies might have answered this for you already. You are correct that the recipe is specific to the Plots package. But consider: once written, it works not only for that specific plot function, but many others in the package as well, for example scatter. Also, I have written these recipes for my own data types, and they are incredibly easy to create. The recipe informs the functions in Plots how to handle your datatpye, so you can just pass it in as an argument. The thing is that I’ve never even looked at the code in the Plots package. With Julia you can use functions on combinations of your own custom datatypes to do new things, without looking at the code for the functions. Often nothing like the Plots recipes are required; but here the recipe lets you specify how you want your datatype to be visualized.
> Privilege at the individual level

> ...

> Now you can (and I would) say that this kind of privilege should be counteracted at the systemic level

I am probably dumb, but I can't help but regard the society as a large collection of individuals. If we accept the unfairness at the scale of a single individual, at which scale do we start getting troubled by the unfairness, and why?

Further, there are numerous occurrences where "the systemic level" and "the individual level" collide. Perhaps the most familiar examples are hiring, admissions, or promotion practices. For every given instance, you are hiring (admitting, promoting) an individual. So to "counteract" the unfairness at the systemic level you might have to be actively unfair at the individual level. It's a bit like the infamous trolley problem all over again.
I like to quote Yann LeCun on how neural nets work like our minds:

IEEE Spectrum: We read about Deep Learning in the news a lot these days. What’s your least favorite definition of the term that you see in these stories?

Yann LeCun: My least favorite description is, “It works just like the brain.” I don’t like people saying this because, while Deep Learning gets an inspiration from biology, it’s very, very far from what the brain actually does. And describing it like the brain gives a bit of the aura of magic to it, which is dangerous. It leads to hype; people claim things that are not true. AI has gone through a number of AI winters because people claimed things they couldn’t deliver.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/artificial-intelligence/...

Also, like I say above, it doesn't matter how many images a human sees- what matters is how many she needs to see before learnign to recognise a thing. The example of an unchanging, two-dimensional caricature of a horse is evidence enough that, even if we do see billions of "images" as you say (I'm not sure it makes sense to speak of "images" int the sense you use it) we don't need to see all those billions of them before we learn what things look like.
People hoarded toilet paper when Corona began with full intention to use them. People hoard food in wartime with intention to eat it.

So yes, Amazon hoard IPv4 with intention to maybe use them in the future. But hording it is, and in a non-hoard system they'd rent - not buy - IPv4 with a month notice or so.
>There are a bunch of Android forks in the wild[1].

That's absolutely correct. And some of those forks are significantly better than the Android OEM offerings by the phone manufacturers.

However, that's orthogonal to GP's point. Only a very small percentage[0] of Android users would even consider flashing custom roms, and even fewer would have the knowledge or confidence to do so.

As such, the impact of custom roms/no chrome is most likely rounding error for Google.

I'd point out that I've used custom roms quite a bit, initially because (as usual) my phone vendor stopped providing updates after a year and after that because custom roms are often better than stock roms.

But I'm not your typical user, as I'm technical and it really pisses me off that vendors use the lack of support to pressure folks to buy new phones.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19943324/how-many-users-... (an old link, but it's not likely that much has changed to increase the number of folks using custom roms -- quite likely the opposite)
This is useful for financial simulations. Used it to backtest trading strategies on billions of stock quotes in microseconds, about 20 years ago.
Also using Caddy as a reverse proxy for a number of containers. This is definitely an attractive alternative.

Really isn’t of concern at my current scale, but Nginx offers some margin of speed over Caddy.
One thing people don’t seem to understand is that these kind of decisions aren’t made by politicians here in Sweden. They’re made by the Folkhälsomyndigheten (the public health agency) which consists of people (doctors, virologists, statisticians, epidemiologists) that are actually qualified to have an opinion on this kind of stuff. The public health agency isn’t beholden to political will; the government can only affect policy by changing the laws.

So yeah, maybe the Swedish strategy is the wrong one, but if that’s the case then how come all these subject experts agree that this is the strategy most likely to succeed?

One more thing: There’s lots of people being quoted in the media that sound like they should be experts when they’re really not. Doctors, virologists and statisticians are not subject experts in isolation.
Blog post: https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/10/20/react-v17.html
If someone becomes a net-contributor after some mentorship, were they really a bad hire?
Not exactly what you're asking for, but may help others https://saymine.com/
They are actually first priced auctioned now

https://www.blog.google/products/admanager/simplifying-progr...
Just like in life, the imagined obstacles are scarier than the real ones.
Unless you have engineering credentials from a recognized engineering body, then you’re not an engineer. Software developer, maybe. Engineer, no.
Hmm, legal framework, maybe... but maybe with some small tweaks the legal framework wouldn't need much changed...

If you become a contractor rather than a full time employee, the only thing you're missing is benefits/retirement probably, in addition to longer term commitments from an organization (maybe - these days there are no real guarantees).

If you can get benefits/retirement through some other kind of government program or join an independent group that forms together (I remember there was a YC company that was doing this) to pay for group benefits - then why not just go the contractor route?
I also have 2019 MBP16 and i am using a dock/charging on the left side - i think the system froze once in a year so i don't seem to have this issue.
Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)
I use US Bank from Firefox all the time. It works fine for me.

Usually when I come across a broken website, it has more to do with my ad blocker and privacy extensions than the fact I'm using Firefox.
I meant gatekeeping to the whole industry itself, like everyone needs a license and certification from the American Association of Software Engineers, for which you need a computer science degree from an accredited university, or something like that. Good point though.
> Of course there are situations where you want to make do with your input and try to interpret it the best you can. Sometimes you need to be lenient in what you accept

The best way to do this is to TURN the input into valid UTF8 though. Like replacing any uninterpretable-as-utf8 bytes with the unicode replacement character (U+FFFD).

Which is what most well-behaved software I've seen does with bad UTF-8.

I work with lots of text processing, including processing old legacy files etc. Just refusing to go forward with bad input ("just fail fast") would work a lot less well.

Can you imagine if you tried to open up something in UTF8 in a text editor, and it just refused to open it, telling you nothing but "Bad UTF8" or maybe "Bad UTF8 at byte 19734"? Not super helpful.

But yeah, you want to TURN it into valid UTF8 as early in the pipeline as possible, while logging/flagging/notifying what was done. You definitely don't want to let the bad UTF8 just continue through the pipeline like that unless you really really have to, that way lies madness.
We have to separate three things.

First - there is much more data now than 5 or 10 years ago; it is generated by every process and is easy to store.

Second - there is a greater art and capability to aggregate and manipulate data. It's simply faster, but also there is a lot of supporting technology in the form of workflows and tooling.

Third - there are more algorithms now; these are often derived from AI research (DNN, RNN, Bayesian things..)

The first two definitely mean that linear regression can generate much more value than 10 years ago.

The third one is a product of the frustration with linear regression and many other "traditional" algorithms. In many domains (speech, images, text processing) the community smashed its head on the wall for 30 years before the computational resources and algorithmic tricks that came out in 2010->now came on stream. You just can't do much with TFIDF or similar with text - I tried very very hard; on the other hand using a transformer is like bloody magic.
Hanlon's razor needs to die, it extoles gullibility to the delight of every abuser with more than two brain cells. Even young children instinctively figure out the 'it was merely an accident' excuse for their misbehavior. Following Hanlon's razor would have you outwitted by toddlers.
What is header bidding? I also thought Vickery auctions were still in use.
In my experience, it is both.
Dear Palo Alto Networks,

In response to your "Cease and Desist" letter of 4 September 2020 to Avi Shua of Orca Security, we refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram [0].

Sincerely,

The Internet

--

[0]: https://lettersofnote.com/2013/08/07/arkell-v-pressdram/
I guess if they can take someone they would not have hired, and then mentored them to become a net-contributor, then the hiring process is broken. You can't really test this without hiring people you wouldn't normally hire based on your hiring process.
Agreed, I’ll probably keep using Caddy for my self-hosted apps but this looks like a nice alternative for more production-facing things.
I started putting PR/deployment data in Elasticsearch and configured a Kibana dashboard to visualize it.
Different Unemployment Rates are defined and calculated differently because they are different. Simply listing a number called the unemployment rate is in itself disingenuous as the context of what type of rate is important. But it's easy for an article to list a number that fits their narrative and not explain what the number means. The context matters, per usual.
Hmmh, I thought Andy Grove's strategic genius was to get Intel out of memory entirely and double down on processors. At least this is one of the reasons the popular business press celebrates him. Didn't know they were still in this business.
> Further, to avoid replay attacks it must include the current time in the message it signs.

Use a counter...?
Not a core developer, but part of my job at my company is to follow CPython development very closely.

I don't see the pattern that the core contributors who work for large companies do important work. A lot of it is churn and minor patches.

Most important work appears to have been done by people who contribute a large chunk of code and then often leave.

Or by people who don't work for large companies but did a lot of useful bug fixes.