skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always found his position here weird.

In a safety critical system, I don't like hearing "we don't need x, we can get by with just y". I like redundant systems, especially when one may do better in certain conditions than the other.
Permissions are not solely about security. They can also be related to compliance. Permitting users to delete messages when they shouldn't be allowed to can raise issues.

I agree that the article is kind of unclear about whether it is only a cosmetic change. The title suggests not but the article is ambiguous.
Correct, this is how some data aggregators sell your purchase data without actually selling your receipts. You will have a number of marketing id's from different aggregators, but people like Amazon, eBay etc will aggregate from multiple sources and can track you across aggregators. And there are re-targeting and re-marketing companies that do this as a service.

It lets them say they never sell your data, but they do sell meta-data about you. Probably a little over simplified but you get the idea.
Absolutely, especially with all the mess on Twitch recently, and with Youtube for the past few years, it's very clear that DMCA needs to be updated.

I do like Tom Scott's comprehensive video on the subject
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU
gRPC in the Real World: The Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface
> a giant config file

Which, inevitably, starts to include things like macros, include files, looping constructs and eventually bits of perl or TCL.
Did they even agree to the ToS? It seems like they wrote their own plugin to harvest the data, what agreement did they made with Facebook that they are in violation of?
I've been eagerly waiting for this game to get my RPG fix, but recently the agony became too great and I bought Ghost of Tsushima instead. What a great game! Now I'm more glad I didn't wait. I can only play a couple of these sandbox monsters each year, so I'm penciling in Cyberpunk for 2077, when I can download it to my brain implant in the cryo tank.
An FPGA is (to a very crude approximation) just a bunch of static RAM organized in an unusual way. If you think of normal static RAM as "address wires go in one side and data wires come out the other", in an FPGA there are no "address wires" -- it's all data in/data out. The memory cells are still just memory cells; what we label the wires is merely a matter of engineering perspective. In a Xilinx memory cell we choose labels for the wires typically used for logic gates.

Anyway in a Xilinx chip the bits of data you put in the memory cells determine what logic function gets executed. That works because in general any particular stored memory -- in any computer, anywhere -- is (conceptually) just a logic function, and conversely all logic is implementable with the stuff we conventionally call memory.

But we typically don't do that, because "real" logic made of fixed-function transistors is much faster than logic built with changeable memory cells. However, there's a market for fully-changeable logic--even if it's slower--and that's what Xilinx chips are.

Every CPU is just a bunch of registers and logic. If you hand me a few million discrete NAND gates, I can use them to build an X86, a RISC-V, and ARM, or whatever. It will be the size of a house and it will be very slow, but it will run the binary code for that processor. With a Xilinx chip, you have a few million NAND gates (or NOR gates or inverters or whatever you like) at your disposal and they're all on one chip and you can wire them up however you want with nothing but software. Bingo: You can build an X86 out of pure logic, and it's all on one chip rather than being the size of a house. That's a soft core.

The nice thing about soft cores is that you can build whatever CPU functions you want and leave off the functions you don't need. If you want to change the design, you just download a bunch of new bits to the Xilinx memory cells. Thus you can change an ARM into an X86 in an instant, without changing any hardware.

Soft cores are very flexible, but they're also slow, because implementing logic with static RAM cells is slower than doing it with dedicated transistors.

That's where hard cores come in: A hard core is a dedicated area of silicon on the Xilinx chip carved out to only implement an ARM chip or a PowerPC or other CPU with fixed-function transistors. So it's fast. The downside is you can't change its functionality on-the-fly. If you decide you'd rather have a PowerPC than an ARM chip you have to change the whole chip.

In both types of cores, you still have a bunch of memory cells left over that you can program to do whatever kind of logic you like.
Rust Lands Experimental Cranelift-Based Code Generator: Faster Debug Build Times
I was actually in the "pro lidar" camp, until I saw the user uploaded youtube videos of the Tesla beta FSD released last week in action.

Now I am not so sure anymore.

Looking at the beta UI in the car while it is driving, I am impressed with how well it detects everything. There are examples in dark and even areas with leafs covering parts of an unmarked road. It doesn't look at all like the detection system is struggling.

The only thing is, that things seem to "float" a bit, or cars and pedestrians disappears when going behind other cars and reappears again on the other side. The sides of the road also seems to float/shift a little bit from time to time.

I wonder if they are not using a temporal filter of some sort (like assume a car continues in the same trajectory when goes behind another object), or if the UI only displays an "unfiltered" value.

In any case, I still haven't seen examples where the cameras didn't pick up anything relevant/critical.
No. I just typed it on a mobile device. (but maybe that's exactly what a bot would say...)

EDIT: Actually - that's no excuse for that awful second sentence. I'm ashamed of myself.
> "Clearly, it worked for the species, but was it really necessary or just a fluke? "
This suggests a common bias that you feel like the human species is the only one on this planet that has attained consciousness. Many other species are conscious, sentient, we just happen to the one that have gone into space. Regardless of it's a fluke or not it's clearly an advantage used by many species on the earth.
I guess you're both giving each other loans, but even if you pay your bill in full each month, yours still isn't free. If you're getting 5% back, then the item was almost certainly marked up more than 5%. So you're still paying something for that loan in the form of higher up-front pricing.

And, of course, if you don't pay your bill in full each month, then you're likely looking at 15-20% or more (APR) on whatever balance you left unpaid.
(In the context of embedding paxos in some sort of proof-of-concept replication system. Something like Multi-paxos.)

You're right, I guess we generally talk about state machine replication instead of one-shot systems.
Nonsense. Your DNA is made of atoms. Those are parts. Your cells are made of proteins and fats. Those are parts. Your computer is made of transistors and wires. Those are parts. Cities are made of people, buildings, and streets. Those are parts.
A Chargebee alternative for digital products would have been great, or something that integrates with Paddle. Don't touch ecommerce if you can sell digital products..
> and I'm sure more actions not mentioned here.

Why are you sure? Especially given their weak response so far?
> It gets a fixed amount of money from Google for using them as the default search engine

Your first bad assumption is that the amount of money is fixed.
Oh my gosh this explains so much.

I blame Apple though for their terrible software.
Actually - why would a bot be more likely to make typos and grammatical errors? Surely a slightly careless human is the simpler explanation?
> the tools take a lot to learn

And eventually require VBScript if you want to really automate anything anyway.
Kindasorta. Chrome on iOS is using Safari's rendering engine, yes. But it's still collecting data on you to send to your Google account, just like Chrome proper.
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This isn't actually a cat in the sense that we think of a cat. It's more likely an ocelot, or a fox of some sort. There were no cats in America 2000 years ago.
Next.js does server-rendering and has API routes built-in. No need for Express or Fastify unless you like the DX of those frameworks better.
Introduction to Python Lists – Beginners Guide
Is it illegal to keep working on a game after gold or...?
Yes the OP is absolutely allowed to do this. Their are consequences of befriending people in real life and online. It's up to you to decide who you befriend.
Sounds like the marketing was correct: they were able to create solutions without hiring programmers to do it.

There's a reason excel is so ludicrously wildly popular as a business tool. It lets accountants do things you used to need a programmer for. That the automation may eventually grow so complex as to require a programmer anyway is not relevant to the utility of excel.
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No, and it's clear from many of the comments that there is an all to common bias that only human's are conscious which is absurd.
> It's complicated to discuss what "evidence" means for events in the future, because it rapidly heads into deep waters of philosophy, but like the 538 election prediction the best we can do about the future is have a probability distribution of outcomes. And as a result there are three big effects: one is low-probability events turning out to actually happen sometimes ("black swan"), another is events you wanted to be uncorrelated turn out to be correlated (which blew up mortgage "tranches"), and the third is that other people's action is market-driving information even if it's irrational; panic selling causes more panic selling, bank runs are real, etc.

Markets make point estimates. Derivatives markets make distributional estimates. The information is all there, and if you disagree with it, you can make bets to that effect. But most people won't do that, because they don't actually believe that the market is inefficient. There's very good justification for the present stock market rally, especially if you pay attention to the market's internal structure. The pandemic is driving consolidation, and changing habits. Changes that primarily benefit high scale businesses. The disconnect between the state of the economy and the state of the S&P 500 is driven primarily by this distinction. The market is correct to price in a boom. You are also correct to fear a recession. These things are only mutually exclusive if you mistake the stock market for the broader economy.

It's also true that there are major tail risks present. The market is not ignoring them. The market is saying that the expected value, inclusive of those tail risks, is positive. You can see the market pricing those tail risks in if you look at the implied volatility surface of options right now. It's there. It's really important to understand that the fact that a price turns out to be wrong does not make markets inefficient, or even incorrect. Gamblers making statistically correct bets are wrong all the time. That's just the way uncertainty works in the world. There are people arbitraging uncertainty at all points of the distribution, from the tail on up. It's true that markets are less efficient around low probability events. But it's also true that they quickly learn from their mistakes
OpenBLAS and MKL.
well lets also take into account in the US alone over three trillion miles are driven and the fatality rate per hundred million miles traveled has been reduced over time.

So yes the numbers are high but the item that a car using vision would have similar problems is a bit dishonest and LIDAR only provides one other means to determine where something is.

However self driving cars have one major advantage that LIDAR and cameras don't solve. They are not easily distracted. They are also far easier to be restricted to the ability of the vehicle they are managing adjusting for weather and more. Oh you can fool them for sure and there are always edge cases.
How is a face authorization? Can I just point my phone at you and take your money?
If Your Client Wants a Lower Price, Give It to Them
Whatever the public perception is, they did indeed get Napster et al offline, which I think is the thing they cared about.

Not sure that they interpret the Streisand Effect in the conventional way. If anything, temporary increase in usage of targeted tools helps them make the case that they're being harmed by said tools' existence.
But day-trading isn't "holding a portfolio of FAANGS stocks." In bad times, it's buying TSLA at $400, then selling TSLA at $200 and buying AAPL at $100, then selling AAPL at $50 and buying INTC at $45, etc.
Any good public places for tech Dialogue?
What is a good place to start a conversation on web technologies? I am building something great but would love a medium to get people's input. The first idea was to have a twitter hashtag #techdialogue, looking for existing recommendations.
>However, even if they are, the point stands: currently, there are teams of people at companies all over the world tuning models for these shallow and limited use-cases. GPT-3 can replace them all, without OpenAI needing to invest another cent in training for a particular customer's use-case. That is in fact game-changing for the ML/DL world and current applications thereof.

The counterpoint is that it would be significantly cheaper AND have better performance to fine-tune models to each customer's use case than it is to just run GPT-3 at inference.
Right, they've been in the overtime phase for "finishing the game" since ... january? now?
it would be a new angle to require functionality qualifications examination to weed out any compromized browsers or OS's, all in the name of security and privacy of course
Last year around Christmas time I was talking to my wife about what candy I wanted in my stocking. I said something like, "I really like those gold ball candies. I can't remember their name. Maybe ranchero something?"

Then less than an hour later I had an ad on my phone for ferrero rocher candy. It was incredibly creepy.

I know supposedly the Google phone and Google home (in my case a model from Lenovo) doesn't parse your conversation for ads, but I have no other explanation.
As others have mentioned, there is speculation about coercion from a certain 3 letter agency. Some have even suggested that the maintainers of TC left an encoded message to users:

> Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues.

Not Secure As. Whether this holds any weight, only the maintainers would know.

More info: https://grahamcluley.com/truecrypt-hidden-message/
Do any of you know where youtube-dl developers are continuing?
Except with more tech implants (which we might have soonish too if Neuralink works out, I guess) and urban decay.
Doing "X" intentionally would be illegal, therefore it could be inferred that whoever did "X" wasn't doing it consciously.
You're totally right. Apparently this on the Nextjs team's radar though:

>Up next, we will be working on a supplemental RFC to address two additional incremental static generation capabilities:

> - Re-generating and invalidating multiple pages at once (like your blog index and a certain blog post)

> - Re-generating by listening to events (like CMS webhooks), ahead of user traffic

Source: https://nextjs.org/blog/next-9-5#stable-incremental-static-r...

But yeah, if you have 10k pages it seems unavoidable to me that initial build time will be high. With `fallback: 'blocking` you could decide to build each page at runtime when it is requested for the first time – this spreads out initial build time.

What would be nice is being able to re-use compiled pages across builds. Imagine having 10k pages compiled, and you have to push out a new build that only updates 5 pages, or none at all (eg an API change). It would be nice if it could make use of the compiled pages from the previous build, only re-compiling the pages that needed it. Of course the devil is in the details, and figuring out which pages need to be re-compiled basically requires you re-building the pages.
It is obvious from these graphs than an overwhelming percentage of political discourse on Twitter is from bots. Just eyeballing it, it seems to be at least 70-90% of inbound mentions are from bots.

These bots are obvious enough that we should wonder what is motivating Twitter.
That's only in California. They have over 20 million miles driven total and its increasing rapidly (10 million of those were just in the past year.)

https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/06/waymos-autonomous-cars-ha...
> 1. How do you import flash cards into Anki? After adding the AnkiConnect add-on the documentation just says to use the "Sync Flashcards to Anki" within Tools but there is no Tools (on the Web App / MacOS versions). I can see it being done in the old version of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2aMWBdZUeQ&t=636

Where did you see that? The directions might be stale somewhere. I checked our site and it's not there. It's in the overflow menu in the toolbar (the three dots on the top right).

It only works from the Polar desktop app though.

> 2. When importing using the Polar chrome extension I ran into a bug. When importing this page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Carlsen) the page mark feature is completely broken. Once you drag it below the top picture it shoots all the way to the bottom, rendering the feature useless. This didn't happen on the few other pages I tested it on though.

Thanks. I'll use this as a test candidate. The EPUB pagemarks have a rare but I can't really duplicate that seems to happen like 5% of the time. I might work on a different implementation.

> Regardless this seems fantastic, great job!

Thanks! Keep the feedback coming as we rapidly iterate. Usually pushing 2-3 releases per week!
If half the nodes fail the cluster has failed. Raft and Paxos need at least a majority of nodes. It's actually not beneficial (except for load-balancing) to run an even number of nodes.
> How can smart preloading work when the image size isn't known until the JS component runs?

From the article:

- Image dimensions are enforced, allowing browsers to immediately render the space needed for the image instead of having it jump in when loaded, preventing layout shift.

- While width and height on the HTML <img> element can cause issues with responsive layouts, this is not the case when using next/image. When using next/image the image is automatically made responsive based on the aspect ratio from the provided width and height.
Salesforce pushes this, first with Process Builder, now with Flow. I'm doing a small project for a charity using Flow, as a programmer my main frustration is all the pointing and clicking instead of just typing into an editor, but I can see the appeal to non-programmers.
I've been a programmer for 36 years, and I'm half "this has been worked on for decades and it hasn't taken off" and "this has been worked on for decades, maybe someone will get it right some day".
This website lets you search for people who donated to Donald Trump
Would it be possible to capture video by using headless browser and rendering the video element & audio to file? Of course, this will induce some quality loss if encoded to lossy format again. But would effectively be "legal" as the tool would run the youtube's "DRM" and be not distinct from normal browser in any way. I guess the headless browser could maybe perhaps just download the stream to disk as well.
This post is being downvoted to protect the echo chamber. No dissent is allowed, even on an obviously subjective matter such as interpretation of a public figure's behavior.
Some add ons and plugins don’t work with Safari. Thus people are enticed to switch out of convenience.
Speaking as someone who worked to get a 1201 exemption, and who personally shit in the MPAA, RIAA, and ESA's Cornflakes, I can confirm the 1201 process is stupid. Mainly because the RIAA,MPAA, and ESA always show up tp fight the exemption even when they know literally NOTHING about the exemption being asked for.

We petitioned for an exemption to allow museums and libraries to reboot old MMOs in closed rooms with no network connections. That's because we couldn't get anything more from the Copyright office. Still, the RIAA's lawyer was there to lie and not understand a god damn thing we said, and accuse us of making tools that could be used to pirate any MMO.

I begged for them to tell me where to find such tools, as it would make life so much easier. Their lawyers were complete imbeciles who seemed never to have touched a computer, yet here they were telling a group of game programmers what they could and could not do with their programs.

Fucking horrible people, all of them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24907002

Looks like https vs http link.
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In Vercel page they tout: "Developers love Next.js, the open source React framework Vercel built together with Google and Facebook".

Did Google quit Angular and is using React now?
Asset inflation, probably, which is what many people agreed happened in the last decade.
Edge is better than Chrome, but only slightly: Microsoft has chosen to largely follow all of Google's platform decisions, including Manifest V3. The Edge PM is a former Googler, and is absolutely unable to grasp that he's collaborating with the enemy half the time.

With the increased privacy features built-in, it's definitely an improvement, and feeding Microsoft is less bad than feeding Google, but I'm not confident Edge's current developers have the backbone to stand up to Google's decisions.
You can still buy Altera FPGAs, and you'll still be able to buy Xilinx FPGAs -- they're not going to just throw away a three billion dollar business.

Lattice is probably the next biggest. There's also Microchip (< Microsemi < Actel), Quicklogic, and Gowin.

Nobody really came close to competing with Altera / Xilinx at the high end, though.
Off the top of my head, PuzzleScript[0] sounds similar. There are some really good games written in it too. Although since the rules are written in text and pretty opaque, one wonders if a GUI tool to write PuzzleScript rules might make it more accessible.

[0] https://www.puzzlescript.net/
In China, with WeChat and Alipay, anybody can pay anybody. We can do micro payments and there are no fees

If you aren’t paying, then you are the product.
They also seem to be very similar to Mastodon. They may be inspired from that.
> But those UltraScale DSP48 units are competitive vs GPUs.

Are they really competitive from a price / performance perspective? Based on my limited understanding, nvidia GPUs, for example, are several times cheaper for similar performance?
The best fight is the one you can walk away from, but you aren't in that position, so now you have to make him tap out. And he has a reputation that can be mobilized against him.

Engage with the rest of your team in 1:1s - intentionally strategize to keep him in the dark, perpetually behind the ball, and mysteriously uninvited from meetings. When he asks questions you say you don't know. When he tries to push an agenda in meetings, you allude to decisions floated in 1:1s he was not there for. This is pure office politics but it will gradually lead to his self-destruction. The org has already demonstrated that it does not care, and this means it is more likely to punish for action than for inaction on your part. Shunning starves him of his best mechanism for toxicity: turning information into vulnerability. He will start acting out when deprived of info. That just means you are winning.
Wow! If you tell someone that you purchased #123 and they know that #123 is shampoo, how is that not the same exact thing as telling them that you bought shampoo? I’m shocked at the sliminess of this.
actually I wasn't sure of the whole surface of mobilizon .. I thought it did more, thanks