skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've made the point about the clock several times, but it's kind of dishonest. Anyone who actually takes a look at the photos of what the "clock" looks like will immediately think it looks like a bomb. Now imagine ANYone, literally anyone, doesn't matter what race or what skin color, taking that around school and showing it off to teachers or other random people who won't know any better when they see it and get spooked, and for good reason. It could've been the last thing they ever see. They are lucky it was just some kid's joke clock this time.
Yes, dictating entertainment content and artistic direction based on affirmative action will probably work just as well in this case as it does in the public sector
Yeah, I got a similar card in an Amazon-delivered package once. I left no review at all, but it occurred to me that I should clearly have even less trust in Amazon review scores than I already did.
Attackers don’t need to guess. They can equally strongarm the information. Under any “blockchain” based voting system, what is preventing your boss from saying “Sit down in this chair and log into the system and let me see who you voted for”? The answer is: Nothing prevents that. So long as you allow checking who you voted for afterwards, you allow the participants to verifiably disclose their votes.

This is precisely what secret votes are guarding against: This prevents vote-harvesting schemes where a corporation forces its workers (or otherwise buys) verified votes. They can pay you to vote X, but they cannot verify that transaction: You can take their money and vote Y.
Doesn't 5G have the ability to be carrier agnostic, so that multiple carriers can be on the same antennae? Or am I sniffing glue again?
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I'm just butting into this conversation, but I think you're setting the bar to high.

> Program analysis, (assuming "FSMification", of course, to avoid undecidability), was proven in 2005 to not be FPT.

I think your using "program analysis" in a different way than I'm used to. I thought program analysis was just the attempts to infer/check properties of the program. A property like termination and a property like "the type of this variable" are very different, obviously. What specifically are you referring to?

> I'm claiming that analogous code to that which would be feasibly checkable in a restricted language would also be feasibly checkable in a non-restricted language, and that both are subject to the same difficulties.

I mean, you're correct here, but missing the point. Consider a type checker, or Rusts borrow checker, or a side effect checker. The static analysis is going to be the same if you just translate the code to Python, for example. Nonetheless, the differences matter to people. I have a completely different confidence in my program's properties using somebody's pure function in Haskell than I do using some random Python function. If I looked at the source code, yeah I could reason through either of them in the same way, But in one, I don't have to.

> Right, but that doesn't mean that a specific empirical claim should be assumed true until proven false, rather than the opposite, which is the scientific norm.

A specific empirical claim should be suspected in whichever direction you personally think, given the arguments and incomplete evidence, held in a state of uncertainty until proven definitely one way or the other. The scientific norm is decidedly NOT assuming one way or another prior to evidence/proof.
Jokes on them, I never look at 5 or 1 star reviews. By convention I think rating systems are fundamentally flawed in that they are anything but a ubiquitous concept. The people struggling to piece together how they feel about something in a binary construct generally have the most insightful comments. There's no way to stop someone from gaming the system though. If the economic incentive is to cheat, cheaters gonna cheat. Eventually plugins like FakeSpot will become as common as ad blockers, imo.
You tell me. How many?

I am a game developer that mostly works with c++ and my answer is none so far. The projects delay but nor because of the language.

Undefined behavior is c++'s strength. If it was not, we wouldnt have it in the first place
We had some experience with this, and the device under test or even testing harness can fail, so you need a local operator to fix things anyway.

It is more feasible to ensure no such failures the simpler the device is, e.g. with a good hardware watchdog setup. We did it with a rather complex stack.
It worked really, really well in South Korea and New Zealand. Besides, that's just your opinion and epidemiologists agree that contract tracing plays a significant role in reducing the spread of COVID.
However, other people, including the author, stand to gain from fixing a bug in features they use.

But of course there is blur there too; some bugs will require significant work and only benefit some small group of users.
And sure you can still report those, but then you should (in my personal ideal world) not be surprised to hear "this will only matter if you're running this on enterprise scale, so wontfix unless paid to do so."
I'm using mine with cups, all I needed was the ppd file. It has been a while but I think I found it in either their linux tarball or the mac driver.
Google's tech support had my wife factory reset her Pixel 2 for charging problems. Big surprise it did not fix it. We ended up trading in for credit to upgrade to a Pixel 3a, which she still has.
And Movement: https://www.movement.fm/spaces

And MakeSpace: https://makespace.fun/

And GroupRoom: https://grouproom.io/
> I have the manufacturer of a product (a @wirecutter
pick, no less) that I reviewed 3 stars, who has been emailing me offers of increasing amounts of money to take it down. The most recent offer is well over what I spent on the product. I revised my review down to 1 star.

Meta-scam: Buy cheap items that are review-scammed and write a thorough, plausible 1-star review, hold out for profit. Rinse, repeat.
https://www.gov.uk/ is substantially if not entirely open-source, and this appears to have had benefits above and beyond "community contributions".

[ EDIT ] And, contra to your apparent contrasting of "open source" and "paid developers", gov.uk is both.
If a physical device is tied to a company's service and can only be used with that company's service, it's very reasonable.

What the company should do is rent you the physical device--not sell it to you. Cable companies operate on this model.

I'm not familiar if Slingbox's devices fall in this category as I've never used them though.
I receive at least one email per day to the address displayed on my Amazon profile for products to review, with a promise of full reimbursement via Paypal after proof of 5-star review.

It would be extremely easy for Amazon to go after those sellers. The reason they don't do it is because reviews move products.

Amazon's business is moving products -- not pleasing customers, or providing the world with honest reviews, or being a force of good, etc.

That said, it's probably normal that cperciva's review was denied, as reviews should describe the product and only the product, not the virtue of the seller or the validity of other reviews:

> I figured I should leave a product review mentioning this and warning other customers to not trust the 5 reviews of this product*

Not the place. Product reviews are not about a specific seller; a product can be sold by many sellers; the fact that one or even many sellers are bad doesn't mean the product itself is bad.

(And that's true even if the product is sold only by the manufacturer. In theory it's always possible that other sellers will come along, if only to sell used versions of the same product.)
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And some pizza doesn't have any cheese at all, such as pizza marinara (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_marinara), which is rare in the US but was pretty common growing up in the Italian portions of Western Pennsylvania.
That's not even remotely my problem. If I pay for something and don't receive it then I'm leaving a bad review.
How on earth you came to that conclusion?
It's a pretty serious accusation. However, with no democrat signing it, it's hard to take seriously. I wonder if he can actually provide evidence of what he alleges or if he's just making it up...
According to the WHO class 2 is "probably carcinogenic" and what was effectively a meta (or meta-meta) analysis showed that the increased risk was 18%.

Do we know how bad vegetable oils are for people yet? Is there any reason to think that they're 100% A-OK?

Humans have been eating meat for 10s or 100s of thousands if not millions of years. Humans have been eating highly refined vegetable and seed oils for what, a couple of hundred?

One of these food sources helped turn apes into humans. The other didn't even exist until humans invented a LOT of technology.
I'm aware they are pretty cut throat.

I'm not looking to attack anyone. I genuinely find it baffling.

And maybe I find it baffling because, for example, my dad fought in the front lines of two wars and my parents helped multiple relatives escape communist East Germany. And I've lived without a car in the US for more than a decade, which is a hard row to hoe, but it's gotten easier over time "with practice" so to speak.

I have ordered stuff from Amazon under circumstances where I literally couldn't find it elsewhere. But most of what I hear is not that people literally have zero other options. It's more like what people are saying in this discussion: It's more convenient than driving to the nearest big box store or it's got better selection than any one venue.

I fail to comprehend how that merits the amount of stress people seem to have over the issue. Rejecting Amazon for most purchases is not on par with, say, trying to escape communist East Germany.

If you object to their crappy policies, you do your research and you buy it elsewhere if you can find it elsewhere. And if you literally can find no other options, then you buy it from Amazon and start letting people know "I could really use another supplier for this here widget. I hate Amazon and I buy widgets regularly. I'm willing to pay extra for ethically sourced widgets. If you hear of something, let me know!"

Or, alternately, pressure Amazon to clean up their act. (Or do both.)
That's exactly it - all of the onerous requirements are explicitly not about the computer, because the professors are presuming the software has that covered.

Except higher education software is known more for milking it's market than for it's robustness and sophistication. The type of proctoring software used here was trivially bypassed only a few years ago, when the last of my friends were finishing up college. I haven't been exposed to the topic since the last of them graduated, and from ProctorU's help center it looks like the vendors have wised up to the VM trick (in some fashion). But it can still likely be subverted relatively easily, rendering all of those onerous environmental requirements moot since they all explicitly ignore the computer itself.

I sort of wish I had access to it, so I could probe around myself and write up a tutorial. Not that I'm an advocate of cheating, but more so as a big "F* You" to the entire draconian process.
Thank you, that's so much better.
You are definitely not
I don't know if I'd be boasting about wasting $2.1 billion dollars :/
Thank you! I've been looking for something like this for ages. It's extremely difficult to find decent resources on the hdmi/dvi protocol.
Not solely because of motive, no. You'd need evidence, which is different than motive. Russia having a motive wasn't the only reason to suspect collusion, either.
There are public forums & facebook groups where tips & vendors are discussed for getting such freebies: It should be trivial for Amazon's fraud team to find the easy ones and ban them, make it a least a little more costly to conduct the scam.

Obviously they don't bother because it's really not in their interest.
This is a classic computer science question of whether the OS should be aware that it's being virtualized.
I don’t advocate for trying to retroactively pass laws, as that is just mob rule. But to be one of the most powerful lobbying efforts in the country (in 2017, the single largest), while simultaneously claiming to be a helpless observer inside said system is hard for me to take seriously. His response was a claim that his behavior is socially acceptable and not tax avoidance (and thus would continue), whereas I’m saying this behavior is tax avoidance and should be labeled as such, and he’s well aware of how unpopular his opinion is and how much he invests from stopping reforms that would align the legal definition closer to the layman’s conception of tax avoidance.
Maybe you've had bad luck with devices? I've stuck with Google phones for a while, and mostly had good experiences. Nexus 5X, Pixel 2, Pixel 4a lately.

The Nexus 5X was great, until it bricked itself. Fortunately, freezing it (literally in a freezer) would get it running long enough to get a few critical bits off.

Pixel 2 was a great phone, no complaints. Only replaced it because the battery life was getting painfully low. And the charging connection got really finicky in the last 6 months or so.

Pixel 4a is also great. Only issue is that for some reason, like a quarter of my contacts names don't show up in the text messenger conversation list. Weird, but I can live with it.
Apple and NVIDIA are excruciatingly unpopular amount the "techie" crowd precisely for choosing proprietary licenses and closed, proprietary environments. Every single time they are brought up you can be guaranteed a screed about how Linus gave NVIDIA the finger that one time, or people don't like the extent to which NVIDIA supports Wayland (which is not zero!).

People absolutely do not accept the explanation that these companies are businesses that spend R&D money developing novel hardware and software and won't immediately race to interoperate with copycat standards from competitors who want to leech off that R&D once it's proven commercially viable. Nor do they have to expand the scope of their work to implement that one feature 0.1% of users want, nor are they obligated to open things up to allow you to implement the things they won't. And nor are you obligated to use their product if you don't find it satisfactory.

I guess it really goes to show how much Copyleft has won the war that people are immediately hostile to proprietary licenses today, particularly in consumer-facing technology. Oddly this does not seem to apply to more industrial or embedded use-cases, you don't see anyone ranting about the awful proprietary Xilinx toolchain or Broadcom's awful binary SOC blobs any time those products are brought up. But then again it does apply to software APIs and such?

It's probably not unfair to say that "anything I use should be free and open but also enough people should pay me that I should be able to make a living" is not an unfair characterization here. Everyone wants nice things, they don't want to pay for them. That's why gmail and Windows 10 and other spyware-funded services are so popular.
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Open source chips are not common place right now, but maybe in like 10-15 years.

Love bunniestudios posts.
> you are lying to yourself.

Gee well that's a rather bold statement. I find this attitude of "if you're not vegan you're a liar" so insufferable. I can think of at least a few explanations for the parent comment. "If you think your cheese is suffering free..."

1. You may be underinformed

2. You've purchased free range dairy products

3. You know something I don't
Yes I would have gone for the 4a 5G as well but I also need the waterproofing.... which it doesn't have but the Pixel 5 does.
There are vegan ways to do that. No idea if they’re worthwhile, but they are possible.
Maybe that's what happened? I had v2 later and liked it better?

The first time I had it the smell was off, and the outside was too crisp so it didn't taste like a burger - it was closer than a veggie patty or something but the experience was like eating beef that had something off with it (not pleasant). I was disappointed since everyone said you couldn't tell the difference and to me it was immediately obvious.

After being a vegetarian for a while I tried again and this time it was better. The smell is still a little off, but other than that with condiments and stuff inside a bun it's easy to forget it's not a real burger. Though it's hard to know if it's just because I haven't had one in a long time.

It satisfies enough of what it feels like to eat a burger to enjoy them at a cookout. It also makes it easier for me to be a vegetarian since burgers were my favorite food.
I've made a habit of reading the 2* & 3* reviews first. They are almost always helpful and never paid reviews.
Ah gotcha, I must be misremembering.
It just now occurs to me that every org w/ a code of conduct should have regular status reports. That's what I thought this would be.

I was secretary for a political org. We recently backfilled a code of conduct in response to behavior that was not addressed by our bylaws. It was a brutal, necessary adaptation.

Our membership meetings already has regular status reports from chair, secretary (minutes, errata), membership, treasurer, etc.

I will now propose that we add a regular code of conduct status report. Probably yearly. Figure out some meaningful metrics, like number of complaints received, response times, resolutions.
> feel silly ordering a "McPlant."

Indeed. Why not something that suits our self image? McMindful perhaps.

> Are there more than a tiny number of us?

There are plenty.
when the iphone 12 was released, there was some cases with a lot of reviews even though the phone wasn’t released yet. One was “amazon’s choice”. if you ordered it; they also came with a card for a 10 dollar gift card for a fake review. they said not to post the cards text in the review
Using Kibana’s Painless Lab (Beta) to test an ingest processor script
FYI, I had an Android phone where the power button stopped working. I was able to turn it on by plugging it in and quickly unplugging it.

May be easier than finding tin foil (or aluminum foil).
There is a tremendous element of morbidity to the mental health aspect as well, not just mortality.

I see a lot of arguments that are along the lines of the only negative outcome of COVID is death, and anything short of that doesn't deserve to be considered. I read your argument as being structured in a similar way.

There are really bad things happening both with the mental health impact of this whole thing, as well as the impact of the virus itself. They're both tragic, and serious, and we need to be thinking about both.

I'm not saying that you're not on-board with this argument, and I'm not saying you are. I just wanted to add this to the discussion for discussion's sake.
Your emails are welcome! As for a physical sound visualization, one exists already: see "Numerical simulation of Faraday waves" by L. Tuckerman. As usual, the dry technical paper glosses over the visual aspect of Faraday waves. Basically, if you create such a standing wave in a cup of tea (e.g. by shaking the table), you'd see its shape via reflections, similar to how we can see the surface of ocean waves via reflections of sun. However, if you could suspend the water surface, put a LED ring above (one of those used for professional photos) and take an extremely high quality photo to see all the reflections and refractions created by that LED ring, yo'd see a picture of remarkable complexity. It looks a lot like a 3D hologram. I've been trying to simulate this effect on GPU.
EfficientNet is extremely difficult to train: it took people months to replicate even a subset of original results from the paper, and for larger configs IIRC the results still haven't been replicated, same with EfficientDet - the detection model that uses EfficientNet as a backbone. It's also not so much faster to run on e.g. NVIDIA GPUs, where much lower GFLOPs don't necessarily translate into much lower milliseconds due to EfficientNet having _a ton_ more ops in the graph, and those ops being "small" and unable to take advantage of all the throughput. Indeed, some configs are slower than comparably accurate alternatives. TL;DR: just because Google is able to get sexy results out of this doesn't mean there aren't better options available to you to solve practical tasks.
I'd happily give up all human interaction for a month or 2 if it meant that this annoyance wouldn't last an entire year like it has.

Also, we _are_ sacrificing civilization for a virus. Or at least 1.2 million people's worth of civilization…
The delivery issues may be regional, or maybe it's just certain product categories. Where I live, Prime shipping from March-May was about a week to 10 days, but now it's back up to 1-2 days for almost everything. I'm in the North East though where there's a warehouse about 15 miles away, and at least half a dozen major national shipping hubs within ~100 miles.
The buns already contain so much sugar that they don't really apply.

I did keto for a while and looked at the nutritional information for those burgers, they're not really on the list unless you get them bun-free.

The veggie burgers when bun free do have carbs, but I'd consider them to be borderline okay at 6gm of sugar and non-fiber carbs (1gm of sugar) for 14gm of fat and 19gm of protein for a reasonably solid ratio of 6:33 or ~20%. It's not as good as bacon, but it's probably as good as beans...

Ref: https://faq.impossiblefoods.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600189392...
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There are some Proof of Authority systems like Hyperledger making inroads in the physical supply chain.

FinTech will likely adopt some form of blockchain tech, there is interesting research and some usefulness to clearing trades, but not likely public / permissionless systems.

Some gov'ts will likely digitize their currency for different reasons
Though not the only complete protein source, especially as there is no rule about mixing ingredients when making meat replacements.
vi/vim is my editor of choice because the shell (ksh or bash) is my primary IDE.

The last 20 years or so has required me to develop mostly scripting (ksh, sh or bash) that is executed by some sort of automation. The shell is where I spend most of my time executing commands that need to be scripted, inspecting various system resources and troubleshooting. The vim editor is readily available to use in places where external tools outside of a terminal emulator may not be readily available or the startup time required to configure those tools may be better spent on configuration tweaks in the shell.

I've also found especially when working with build automation in Jenkins or deployment automation with uDeploy, that a GUI-based client IDE somewhat obscures things I need to see in the environment I am building in. IDEs like Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA, while providing plugins for Gradle or Maven, may have configurations that are not compatible or differ in some fundamental way from those of the server build environment.