skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applaud the effort but the problem with RL as a model of learning is in the definition of RL itself. The idea of using "rewards" as a primary learning mechanism and a path to actual cognition is just wrong, full stop. It's a wrong level of abstraction and is too wasteful in energy spent.

Looking at it from CogSci perspective it is essentially an offshoot of behaviorism, using a coarse and extremely inefficient model of learning as reward and punishment, iterative trial and error process.

This 'Skinnerism' has been discredited in cognitive psychology decades ago and makes absolutely no biological sense whatsoever for the simple reason that any organism trying to adapt in this way will be eaten by predators before minimizing its "error function" sufficiently.

Living learning organisms have limited resources (energy and time), and they cut the search space drastically through shortcuts and heuristics and hardcoded biases instead of doing some kind of brute force optimization.

This is the case where computational efficiency [1] comes first and sets the constraints by which cognitive apparatus needs to be developed.

As for actual cognition models a good place to start is not ML/AI field (which tends to getting stuck in local minima as a whole), but state-of-the-art cognitive psychology, and may be looking at research in "distributional semantics", "concept spaces", "sparse representations", "small-world networks" and "learning and memory" neuroscience.

You'd be surprised how much knowledge we gained about the mind since those RL & ANN models developed in the 1940s.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Circuits-Mind-Leslie-G-Valiant/dp/019...
NYPD has Clearview. They've got all the data about everyone, including your friends, job, and yes, name + phone number.
Paid (or unpaid!) apologists are much more visible and attention-drawing than their more in-touch peers, so I probably overestimate their prevalence in the overall population of economists, but by the very same yardstick they have an outsized effect on economic discussions. They earn every bit of the ire I throw in their direction, but I could probably do a better job of specifically targeting it.

> Existing mobile carriers are also probably beneficiaries of the current system, but it's hard to blame them for that

Only to the extent that they played no part in making or encouraging the system that we agree is bad.
There's a reason MS and Google have an index and DDG doesn't. It's expensive.
I haven’t seen one! It would be nice to have one. Btw very nice write up.
> Isn't the point of democracy that the people have power?

Over last few decades the democratically elected government has been retreating from providing public goods and services. It may or may not have been meticulously engineered but the US is now at a point where just about every aspect of services and goods has been privatised.

It is assumed, at least as per the PR, that free markets are more effective and efficient than elected government in discharging public goods and services. And the government's role has reduced to maintain the quality of the USD currency. Housing, , health, transportation, education, law enforcement, national security and military, public safety -- just to name a few -- have all either been fully privatised or almost there.

Given this, to what extent can public influence the way things are run? The public get one chance in five years to choose a government which has anyway privatised much of its functions. To add to that the political parties get non-trivial funding by these private corporations.
> If you want to isolate Facebook and click a link to Spotify it will open Spotify in the Facebook container :(

If you are talking about the Temporary containers extension, that's not the case. The extension is not the most easy to use, but it certainly supports opening Spotify in a different container when clicking a link in FB. You either don't have the Navigation→Target Domain set to Different from Tab Domain & Subdomains or you have Exclusion Patterns set which exempt Spotify.
I don't understand that argument.

By that same argument, companies that aren't huge can't compete with Walmart, UPS, McDonald's, etc.

That argument basically breaks down to "Small companies can't compete against huge companies without finding a way to become huge themselves."

Isn't that just capitalism?
I wish there was something like this that worked for processes running in remote ssh sessions.
Yes I know because I read about register renaming a while ago :)
Rust's cargo very much has a first mover advantage. Since (almost) all rust projects use cargo, it doesn't have to fit/work with any other styles. I think this position is close to untenable in the C++ ecosystem and for existing codebases therein, since it's too much effort to port large dependencies and thus, it remains very hard to convince people to adopt it. But I'd love seeing something like this, since cargo is pretty much the best thing ever in this space IMHO.

The only way I can imagine this working is a very large vendor pushing it hard for their platform. This is effectively just Microsoft, all other platforms either use Java/C#/Swift/JS/... or are much more community driven.
Nice, can we now make Facebook look not like it was created in the early 2000?

Am I the only one bothered by that?
I rarely use Facebook (I used it only when I had to, and never created by own profile, always some temporary ones), so maybe the content is king there, but the UI is very dated.
I don't think your second point is up for argument. We're not trying to disambiguate whether doctors are getting better at treating COVID or COVID is itself getting easier for doctors to treat.

Age is a strong predictor of COVID fatality, either directly or through correlates. In every US county whose stats I've spot-checked, deaths go up with age. It's also one of the best predictors, given that advanced age is much more common in populations than stronger, but more selective factors.

Thus, controlling for age and nevertheless observing a reduction in mortality should be taken as an indicator that COVID is becoming comparatively more medically tractable.
English is always changing you just don’t like the current changes.

Go read medieval english and see how you like it. I’m sure as it became popular Latin speakers despised it.
> Almost everything mathematical is a model and models are almost by definition, simpler than the thing they model.

"The map is not the terrain" is my favourite way of getting that across.
Now imagine what is happening in non-English countries for example in EU, fake news, conspiracy theories and hoaxes are flooding FB and they don’t care. FB takes down only a small percentage of those because they don’t have enough staff. There is ONE fact checker paid by FB for whole Slovakia (5.5 million people). This is now becoming a large problem in our small country.
I manage a large datacenter of air cooled fanless (radiator) GPUs housed in cases where the case fans are on the hot side and pulling the air out. Hot air expands, which fills the space (more pressure) and thus prevents cooler air from getting in (you have to push harder to get it in). The faster you can get rid of hot air from the enclosure, the better.
And yet people try other search engines and consistently come back to google. Because they are good at learning from data.
Being murdered by a police officer is improbable - it's not something that happens at most traffic stops. This is essentially tautological, otherwise things would change overnight.

But that doesn't justify excusing the instances when it does happen. The entire point of having a justice system is to discourage criminal behavior, and provide a sense of fairness so that feuds do not escalate. When we see a violent criminal murder someone on camera but then not even get charged because they happen to be wearing a uniform, it's clear that system is in need of fixing. If you truly support law and order, then making sure that law is applied evenly should be your priority.
I wonder if this sort of thing could be useful for fighting diseases that resist the blood/brain barrier.
On which platform is the ui outdated? IMO it looks pretty good
Humans don't receive infinite rewards because any "reward system" in our brain is implemented by receiving a finite amount of electrochemical pleasure signals over a finite amount of time.

Human-equivalent minds can obviously be implemented on top a framework that does not have inherently infinite or infinitely divisible values, because human minds are implemented on a top of a substrate that uses a finite amount of discrete neurotransmitters to do everything, and manages to work just fine.

If human minds can reason about infinite concepts using "hardware" where all the neural signals used to represent that concept are finite, then why should it be impossible a reinforcement learning system learn to reason about infinite concepts while using only finite numbers to form that representation?
( https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-hindi/b... )
Ok, have a hyphen.
> seems, to me, to indicate some behind the scenes UUID tracking.

I don't know why. It's updating the URL so that if you copy and paste it'll show the receiver the same view you have as the sender. They just need to be using history.replaceState to do that, rather than history.pushState.
I see this oft repeated comment about Google acquiring YouTube, DoubleClick and Android. Yes they did. But the companies they acquired were tiny upstarts, which might have even died on their own. Google built them into what they are today, and deserve 90% of the credit for their current significance.

The same applies to FB and Instagram as well, fwiw. Though imo, not as much for WhatsApp, which already had 400MM users and would have organically reached 1B+ users on its own.
F1 is particularly a bad example for the type of Cognitive performance the article speaks of. F1 needs réaction time, adrenalin control and extreme physicality
VirtualHost Proxying MQTT
Interesting technique!

Do I understand it correctly that offer and ICE candidates are already exchanged and processed before the callee accepts the call? Isn't it quite risky that data received from the network (an SDP offer that needs to be parsed) is passed directly to a gigantic and complex C++ codebase (WebRTC) without any user interaction? This increases the attack surface enormously and also makes vulnerabilities like CVE-2019-17191 possible.

(One option how to avoid this would be to cache offer and candidates for unknown contacts, and only process them once a call is accepted...)
Is there anything a user could do to switch a common "corporate laptop" profile, either manually (set this resolution, these fonts, etc) or via an extension.

I know about Privacy Badger and they provide some protection but not from all fingerprinting. Their statement about is:

https://privacybadger.org/#Does-Privacy-Badger-prevent-finge...

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Privacy Badger can detect canvas based fingerprinting, and will block third party domains that use it. Detection of other forms of fingerprinting and protections against first-party fingerprinting are ongoing projects.

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I use it as podcast or audiobook time. Which is good because with everyone working from home I've lost my commute listening time.
Do QR Code Menu safer than plastic menu ?
Ask HN: IATA making it impossible to copy Covid-19 Travel Regulations
IATA disable the copy of the COVID-19 Travel Regulations text from their website https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/world.php

Is there a workaround? The regulations, for many countries, is a very very long text with even URLs without a direct link... I want to copy those url so to be able to visit them, but I cannot (and they are too long to re-type by hand, e.g. the regulation for Italy)
A Misunderstood Joke Went Viral on the Dark Web – and Why It Matters
After over 15 years, my Google account has been permanently disabled
My point is that we've had 5 people suggest different mutually incompatible, and all subtly broken, solutions to this "simple" problem. Perhaps the solution Gmail settled on wasn't done so out of naïveté.
I use Temporary containers heavily and the MAC sync is also enabled but I never see anything like this. Sometimes 1-2 container it remains but I can delete it manually.
Maybe I'm lucky with this.
Chrome's own developer tools can tell you this easily. Check out the network pane.
Well i feel old now.... to me fb is one of those sites using tons of heavy ui that makes me yearn for older sites.

Keep in mind also that https://nostalgia.wikipedia.org is what wikipedia looked like in the beginning of the 2000s, so i think you might just be misremembering how plain many sites were back then
I know this sounds flippant in a world where “SWATing” exists, but as a non-several-categories person my reflex reaction to “people don’t even need an excuse to attack you any more” is increasingly “so what?”.

The overlap between “people who insult women online for fun” and “people whose opinions I value” is pretty small, after all. It’s their loss, not mine :)
So you think Google's ad business is sustained by unhappy customers who get burned and quit?
Approval voting requires no modifications to ballots, has no spoiler effect, and would be so much better than what we have now.

Which is exactly why it will never happen - both major parties enjoy their power duopoly. The powerful always resist democracy because it takes their power and gives it to the people, be they monarchs, corporations, or political parties.
Just a drunken musing here... what you describe as (implied to be) unlikely is real in the form of the Anti-Defamation League for other platforms/social behaviors, who have listed individual numbers and letters as "hate symbols" due to obscure uses by extremists. If all it takes to become a hate symbol is for a small segment of the internet to say "what should we make the ADL freak out about today?" how would that sort of "anti-brigading" work? If I see the letters HH together I assume Hulk Hogan, but others (such as the ADL or SLPC) see Heil Hitler. Not sure how this would be defended against, if any group became the de-facto standard arbiter of what constitutes bad.
Fair.

My point was if an investor really can't beat the market, you'd never know until an infinite amount of time has passed (or at least, whatever a large enough timespan is for this context - I honestly don't know as I haven't made a statistical model). If it really is random, there will be outliers by luck. But not just some - all investors would eventually gravitate towards the overall trend of the market with enough time (again, assuming you can't beat the market).

So yeah, until I make a falsifiable model it's just intellectual masturbation.
Not only that, they allow anyone to become a publisher. You can be poor, you can live overseas, you can be a minority, you can have no connections -- and you still get to publish on YouTube -- and if you are good, they even send you traffic.

Now show me another major media network that allows that.
RemNote: Notes app similar to Workflowy and Anki
That's the point. They want to filter out the recruits that don't have the skills and patience for good infantry tactics.
How to enable CORS on API Gateway with Lambda proxy integration?
Caddy does support http/3.
The USD is a fiat currency that is worth what people (the market) values it at. The ability of the US government to pay it's debts is but one (very important) factor in that distributed calculation. It is not solely determined by that. If it were the value would rise or fall solely on the debt-to-GDP ratio - which is probably only loosely correlated - up to a point where default becomes probable and then it matters an awful lot more, like with Argentina.
Really hard to compete in a media market with a half-dozen established competitors. It requires breakout shows and/or a completely different approach to content and audiences. Fox did it in the late 80s with the Simpsons. The niche approach can work, too, if it truly dominates (like ESPN did in the first 15 years of its existence).
Beware that there have been some issues with Google sites not loading or being very slow with Firefox's HTTP/3 implementation. Some of these were Firefox bugs and some were Google server bugs.

But I use HTTP/3 in Firefox Nightly and use Gmail and Google Docs all day long without major breakage these days.
Users want relevant search results

If Google provided relevant search results, I might give it the benefit of the doubt; but it doesn't.

For my searches, Google's results are such a dumpster fire of spam and cross-promotion that I've gone back to how I used to find information before search engines existed. And when I break down and use a search engine, it's the Duck.

Google doesn't make money from people finding information. It makes money by keeping people on the treadmill of searching for information.
Ok, we've deepened the title above.
Yes please do publish it. It would make a great addition to the article. Great post by the way.
The TRIPS project: an explicit data graph execution (EDGE) processor
Settings menus on desktop browsers look like they haven't been touched since the Windows XP era.
They need to just add the digital information screens to all the train lines. It's significantly better than relying on speakers.

As for helping people orient themselves in the station... I have no idea. Using an app is the only way for tourists to figure out which direction to go. You have to know the terminal station to know which direction a train is going. The apps will (usually) tell you that. Having digital information inside the train would at least make people more immediately aware that they are on the wrong train.
The article has been updated to say "Is Shutting Down".
All that says is that running a business is hard. It doesn't say anything about uncompetitive practices.
I keep coming back to this comment for some reason. I think this video can answer some of your criticisms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuRpEA1sFow
They tried to be funny but it just came off as condescending. This is honestly more annoying than the oculus account switch to Facebook for me because it’s mostly my kids that play offline and the MS accounts ask for a crapload of information.

I’m starting to think ms should be forced to spin Xbox and gaming out to a separate company (along with azure and all the big three Public clouds honestly) so they can’t do this kind of harmful unified account thing to increase their data harvesting.
If curious see also

related from 2008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=203437

dmr's comments are at https://web.archive.org/web/19990501224738/http://cm.bell-la..., followed by Comments I do feel guilty about.
I use the Slack website instead of the native app because I don't really see a need for having more native apps that are just glorified website wrappers, and they're useful there.
In the thread, the @google account replied with the suggestion of going through an appeal process but the user already apparently appealed and it was denied. it would be very interesting to learn what were the given reasons for its denial.
I don't think they're the same, but I do think low-code has become synonymous with incredibly special-purpose tools that barely resemble programming.

We've been building Encore [1] to improve on this. It's a backend framework that simplifies not only how you write code, but also integrates with your cloud provider and automates the infrastructure management.

We're still early, so feedback appreciated!

[1] https://encore.dev
The human eye can detect two photons so the brain can identify a star in the night sky. Show me a camera suite that can do that.
I practice in HN comments sections.

I evaluate my writing based on how much my comments were incorrectly perceived by the readers, based the replies of the comments.

So far works quite well. I have noticed my writing becomes more precise and accessible.
Well think about it this way - the kind of people who get caught for petty stuff like that and not showing up to court probably don't have the best executive functioning in the first place. Look in prisons and you will find plenty of people who have ruined their lives and others by not thinking things through at all. Hell most criminals are dumb and serial killers have been horrifyingly successful with relatively basic precautions and choice of victim as most arrests are on the "dumbasses". Horrifyingly lead exposure can cause violent impulsivity and is strongly linked to crime rates.

Just getting upset about them being "irresponsible" or not as it "ought" to be is unproductive pseudo-moralism (the distinction being that it is reasonable to require that for a set code to be considered moral it has to actually improve the situation in at least some sense or else it is irrelevant) it doesn't address either the root cause or the symptoms. Hammering them with hard consequences fails so continious nudging with trivialities shows better results for all involved even if it is a tacky and kind of weird stop-gap social work. Getting into the classic "if it looks stupid but works well it isn't stupid".
Node v15.0.0 (Current)
What? The US dollar absolutely is fiat currency, and anyone saying otherwise is simply using a non-standard alternative definition of "fiat currency" than what everyone else is using. Every economist ever will tell you that of course currency issued by a central bank that isn't backed by precious metals is a fiat currency, and that USD along with all the other major currencies count too.
Quibi is shutting down
I get this reasoning but I'm curious, what has changed now? That issue still exists right?
Huh, interesting problem that WebRTC lib one. Link: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=19...
I just learned about this app. I was surprised to see it's never hit the front page even though it's been submitted a few times. It's currently free. The features include:

- Workflowy-style infinitely hierarchical notes

- Backlinks

- Anki-style spaced repetition flashcards

- Probably lots of other things I haven't discovered - I've only been using it for a day
I use Firefox on Macbook 13 (2017) mainly because performance is significantly better for me compared to Chrome and even Safari.
They just updated it about a month ago.

Besides the dark theme, it is super crowded and feels like using a low-res phone on a 4k monitor—a step backwards.
> Easy enough to address I hope with a note from the artist, though maybe I underestimate how fast Twitter dog piles happen...

I think this is general behavior on twitter. Users try to come up with dirt or something to be angry about.
Yes but the majority of shareholders do not vote against the business.
Ah good point

Also I vaguely recall they made you go through an AQT, and like sit in a classroom and learn medic triaging, etc.