skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google can read the messages. The backups are not uploaded to Google Drive in encrypted form. The WhatsApp FAQ states clearly:

> Media and messages you back up aren't protected by WhatsApp end-to-end encryption while in Google Drive.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/about-google-drive-ba...

While enabling Drive backups is something that the user has to enable manually, I'm not sure the complete consequences of doing so are really communicated to the user. I wouldn't expect Google having an agreement bypass to access my messages even if Drive backup was enabled, but that's exactly what happens, if I understand it correctly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_Destruction_Set

This game was one of our favorites.
My code's not too shabby, but I don't think anybody's bust a nut to it.
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It depends on the area where you are looking for a job, but some companies do not do such tests.
In that case, I think there's not a lot a regulator has to do. But I think it's still appropriate to have a regulator tracking the space, so that they can quickly respond to the sorts of declines you discuss.
I had a constraint of having to use existing unshielded and untwisted wires in parallel to 220V mains wiring. Basically I'm doing DIY thermostats for floor heating and only 4 copper conductors were available. Stumbled on PJON with Softwarebitbang and it seemed to fit the bill, although they do recommend twisted and/or shielded cabling.

With no background in hardware and Arduino there was a lot of learning to do, but in the end I'm really happy that it's been working flawlessly for a few months now and one copper conductor is even unused.

Don't have an oscilloscope so no idea how "ideal" the situation is on the wire with regards to electrical interference, but for anyone interested, it's running in a star topology with wire lengths about 20 metres on, with ESP32's as the microcontrollers.

edit: thanks for PJON, gioscarab!
Striving to build an environment where effort is made to attribute credit where it's due and to strive for equality of outcome for all is what we need to do. You're still picking the 'best person for the job' according to your own biases for what constitutes the 'best' (because how else could it work?), but you're also making an effort to ensure that your team/department/company isn't just all white (straight etc) men.
If you haven't read this 2008 paper on procedurally generated abstract strategy games, I'd say it's related to your interests: http://ccg.doc.gold.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/browne_...

The resulting game, Yavalath, is well-known in the abstract strategy game community: https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/2814/yavalath-evolutionar...
Bullshit, backpropagation was discovered by Rosenblatt...
How does moving to Australia using your parent’s money tackle the snobbery of the Ivy League?
With the way this optimizes it would produce crap, even if using the same seed frame to frame. One very interesting prospect is in taking the motion vectors out of the video and applying them to overlapping primitives in the shape data form as a first step to apply when fitting the shapes, that is to do this greedy hill climb in tandem with mpeg motion decoding. Maybe it wouldn't be too hard but it's not something I've got the motivation to try out and tweak right now
What's the difference with selecting different config files then?
Annoying because over here in the UK everyone shrugs if you mention it now.
And more on this, maybe seeding the next frame to favor the motion vectors mutation of the shape before this libraries random seed mutation
It really depends on a lot of tax factors & health insurance but in the US your take home on 80k would be higher than 48k. An example single person with no kids would have 12400 in federal income tax and 6k in social security/Medicare taxes. They’d also pay the employee portion of their health insurance premium which can be anything from 0 to a couple hundred per month but is paid pretax.

The highest federal tax rate in the US is 37% and that’s only taxed on income over 518k.
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Which can roughly be boiled down to 25,000 transistors vs 275,000 in the (roughly contemporary) 386.
Dell Inspiron 8000 serie was released in 2000 with 15 inch 1600x1200 screen resolution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Inspiron_laptops

That's about 130+ish dpi and it was unmatched for years: I know I had one and was depressed to see dpi do down and down afterwards :)

Hopefully Apple restarted the dpi race.
Wait, are you suggesting that more infection of a novel virus (whose family is known for more fatality and lingering effects) is an acceptable trade-off for temporary freedom from masks and limits on gathering?

Assuming that ones hostipals could handle the worst case scenarios.
> Always be wary of particularly outrageous claims.

There is almost no detail of the Holocaust that couldn't be described as an "outrageous claim", and yet these things actually happened.

What is far more pernicious is for people to engage in ideologically motivated skepticism and denial towards these atrocities, which I think Cambodia provides a much better example of: https://quillette.com/2018/07/15/devastation-and-denial-camb...

> Refugee testimonies were not be dismissed, Chomsky argued, but nor were they to be trusted. “Refugees,” he wrote, “are frightened and defenceless, at the mercy of alien forces. They naturally tend to report what they believe their interlocutors wish to hear.”4

> Many other Western intellectuals summarily dismissed Barron and Paul’s conclusion of a “monstrous dark age that has engulfed the people of Cambodia.” The aforementioned Gareth Porter called refugee testimony the “least reliable kind of documentation,” and derided the refugees themselves as merely the wealthy elite of Cambodian society who had lost out in the collectivisation process. When Porter testified before U.S Congress he stated, “I cannot accept the premise … that one million people have been murdered systematically or that the Government of Cambodia is systematically slaughtering its people.”5

Believe me, when I say that you sound like a Cambodian genocide denier, it's because you sound a lot like a Cambodian genocide denier.
It was used in House of Cards.
In the case of home security cams, WebRTC is generally not an option. If it was I’m sure we would have a slew of new browser based monitoring solutions.
I think there is a whole lot of anthropological and economic thinking on roles that you haven’t covered. For example gift giving can be a role people use to indicate status, and/or caretaking of a local community. Giving comes with, some people argue, complex social relationships. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy
VideoCDs (MPEG1 encoded) were around long before most in the US were even thinking about video on a computer. 352x240 CIF resolution in the early '90s. Much more popular in Asia. The US had to suffer with VHS until DVDs gained popularity in the early '00s.
This ad from Facebook reads like something an abusive partner would say to force the abused not to leave them.
In C++ you can create a simple generic reusable currying wrapper. Boost as a few. The reality is that the vast majority of C++ programmers don't see the need.
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While I am likewise enthralled by this general idea, it hinges on rule 2 and 3 being executed in practice. My prediction is that that part would either never happen or deteriorate quickly. Instead we'd get strong internal loyalty above all else, as we are seeing with the police in many countries.
I tried this recently:

https://gist.github.com/Munawwar/6ac51e33e901d89750ee61319d0...

The challenge is making it look pretty and at same time have a small svg output and at the same time not taking forever to generate (it's perf gets exponentialy slow). Took some time to tweak it to the settings I used.

It looks nicer than blurhash.. however blurhash is way smaller and might be more practical alternative
Because there were multiple relative giants in the 80's and 90's that had their own processor designs. The competition was broad, and much of it from far more well funded companies.

For all of them to falter and ARM to succeed was a real long-shot.

Even well into the 90's, when several companies were looking at switching CPU architectures or supporting alternative architectures, ARM was just not on the radar for most developments, because people were looking to compete with x86 on performance.

People talked about the Alpha, MIPS, PPC, PA-RISC, not ARM. When ARM started appearing on the radar as more than a low end embedded option towards the end of the 90's, it was DEC's StrongARM family.

It was a very long way coming. Which makes it all the more impressive that they made it.
It at least mentions:

> Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold.

Wearing a mask seems like a simple hygine measure to me.

Perhaps a signator might not wear a mask as a measure of protest against government "overreach", disregarding that part of the declaration, disregarding the law, and disregarding the risk of their actions to the health of their fellow citizens.

That last bit seems rather hostile. Rather belligerent. So I think we're right back to square one.

There are reasonable discussions and lawsuits to be had about how far is too far, and what reasonable public policy looks like. Even arguing on the internet sounds more productive to me than not wearing a mask as "protest" though.
In the midst of a civil war, there's not much difference between the two.
Bingo.

I’m looking to get away from all the sorts of access fees and charges with my current carrier, yet after doing the math the ETF would have come out to a full calendar year of the same fees plus about 3%.

Oh except despite having multiple carriers in my city, none of the other ones seem interested in servicing my building.

I hate this damn racket.
Technology as a service?
While Hinton's view need to be noted, I heard a quote attributed to Yann LeCun, something like,

"If you want to learn flying by modeling the biology of birds, you're doing it wrong. Just look at today's airplanes. They have no resemblance to birds at all. Yet they're million times better and faster than any bird."
I think you're falling into the Chinese Room fallacy. I agree that GPT3 isn't sophisticated enough to be considered AGI.

On the other hand, based on the progression of GPT -> GPT2 -> GPT3, remarkable things happen when you add orders of magnitude more nodes to the network.

You might try to argue that no matter how convincing GPT50 passes the Turing test, it's still not intelligent. How is that different from saying the Chinese Room doesn't speak Chinese? Why is your meat-based Chinese Room special?
Suppose you have stocks options and then you leave the company and face an AMT trap. This can be very very bad. Crushingly bad. Why would a company knowingly subject their employees to this possibility?

Can the option part of ISO be written in such a way that you can decline the option if it is financially disadvantageous to exercise it? Is it enough for the company to grant a long exercise window, say five years along with a decline option?
Even now, maybe not. Does anyone know whether most of these companies ever did share buybacks for the rank and file employees? If not, then imagine the scenario where you left somewhere between 2015 and 2019 and had 30(?) days to exercise ISOs. You might have to put in a ton of money and even more for the tax bill. Maybe more than you can afford.

I’d love to know whether this is a common story or a rare one, but I doubt that data exists publicly.
vlang uses Lobster's memory model, so the tradeoffs are:

* It falls back on RC when it can't guarantee something's lifetime, so it still does some RC.

* Can't store objects on the stack. (Lobster mitigates this with other aspects of their memory model, I'm not sure if vlang does)

* Vulnerable to cycle leaks. IIUC vlang has no weak refs to break these cycles yet.

* Space overhead per object to store the RC.

Still, its nice to see more languages not using GC. Hopefully as Lobster innovates, vlang can adopt more of their techniques.
I’m a software engineer doing mostly iOS work these days. I recently purchased a 2015 MacBook Pro for $750 on eBay. It’s fine. I’m in Xcode, the browser, or a terminal most of the day. I’m sure a newer computer would seem faster, but I couldn’t imagine spending 3x for a newer version of this thing that’s working just fine for my needs.

Some people reading this probably have processor-intensive tasks they routinely perform. But most of us don’t, even developers.

There’s a limit to this, but it’s further back than you might think. I also have a 2012 quad-core Mac Mini that’s still in regular use. It’s also fine!
"I find manual backups to be a lot less insidious than the implication that Facebook has built a backdoor for Google that breaks Whatsapp's end to end encryption"

If the backup process makes it crystal clear to the user that by making the backup Google will be able to read the user's messages, then it's fine.

Otherwise the users might mistakenly think their messages are still private.
My freshman year in EECS was lost to Lode Runner on my roommate’s Mac. I didn’t even know I could have been playing it on my Apple IIc.
I don't know if you're just being obtuse or what but there are over 500 Apple stores in 25 nations, that's not a handful. If you don't feel like visiting one, Apple offers same-day delivery for only $5 if you live near one. The product is readily available.
I think they're referring to the era before Acorn landed the contract for the BBC Micro when Sinclair was the dominant player in the market.
Just yesterday I read this post where dormin describes spending 24 hours sitting quietly in a room alone: https://dormin.org/2020/12/08/the-24-hour-do-nothing-challen...
> Growth prior to the initial lockdowns was expoenential with a doubling rate between 5-7 days. Had this been ineffective we'd have all been sick by now and maybe 50-100M people would be dead worldwide.

You know this isn't true because practically every local area that suffers an outbreak follows the same curve regardless of how they implement a strategy.

It looks different at larger levels (town, city, state, country, globe) because it's the aggregation of multiple outbreaks.
If you replace all the equipment they provide, will they have to drop that charge?
the problem with that analogy is trying to build an airplane before you figured out the laws of physics.
I worked for an online gambling startup that got owned on launch day and the investors pulled out the day after.

Thank fuck I was just a contractor and not a founder or shareholder.
I've read both a lot of Less Wrong (and the R:AZ book) and Soviet dialectical materialism (Marx and Lenin), and I've found a surprisingly large amount of overlap in the philosophical foundations. The way the notion of truth is handled, with the material world being the single-level territory, and the (conscious?) mind being the multi-level map of it, is surprisingly reinvigorating to read - especially when considering how different those sources are, separated by almost a century.

The insights about the epistemologically different modes of thinking of various groups of people under widely unequal material circumstances does shed quite a spotlight on both the "how we got here" question, and, more importanly the "where to go from here" one.

"Don't try to force it - it's like falling asleep" advice reminded me of vipassana practice - it does usually clear up my brooding, so that the "What's the point?" question dissolves into clarity of the source of intent in general. While still on the topic of history and politics - "Meditations On Moloch" by Scott Alexander is a great re-read.
Nokia has become a really good acquisition target. The company as it currently operates is worth more in pieces.

American firm might buy Nokia Networks to get US back into the 5G infrastructure business. Reefshark SoC with Intel failed spectacularly and killed profit hopes from Nokia Networks.

Nokia's telecom software and services does well. Small in revenue over Huawei and Eriksson.

Nokia Technologies/Bell Labs makes money from R&D IP without a product.
Selling licensing for Nokia branded phones is nice extra.

Fixed/IP/Optical/Submarine networks and other parts have little common with the rest.
I only use the desktop mac so that's not much an issue probably, there it is probably 2x scaling. Interesting how Windows can handle anything as long as the hardware supports it!
The visualizations are really pretty, especially the one for denoland/deno.

I'm curious: what influenced your design decision to use pre-rendered pixels rather than generate the animation in client-side vector graphics with canvas or webgl?
Yeah you summed it up better than I did.
Disappointed that this comment isn't on top. This is the origin of the "internet is for porn" meme which is in the OP title.
Thank you for your feedback, happy to know it helps :)
I use Axiom to do basic ffmpeg stuff on a regular basis and it's never let me down.

https://axiomui.github.io/
The DECstation 3100 was a nice workstation at the time. When I arrived at the internship for my first hardcore software engineering job, I got our first porting 3100 for my workstation. We were a SPARC shop, but my mentor had still named the DECstation "screamer", because it was fast. Ultrix also had a few neat tools, like "dxdiff" (GUI diff program).
That’s weird, Linux is usually incredibly stable and I sometimes have the system running for months, whereas Windows is hard to get a long “uptime” on.
Anything enterprise-related and in high demand (Scala, Big Data, modern devops, probably also just competent and modern Java) pays 700-1000 EUR per day in the contracting market for the senior skill level. Assuming 5 weeks off and 10 days of national holidays, that translates to 157k-225k EUR. However, Ruby is practically not used in enterprise setting, and Python is mostly usually used for specialized jobs (automated testing or data science, both of which require more knowledge than just backend Python). Out of the technologies you mentioned, Javascript seems like a surest way to high-paying contracts, you just need to get good at React or whatever else is in demand currently.
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Just as a sex worker can choose to engage in their activities because they are of the opinion that it is okay, one can certainly choose to have a negative opinion of their choice. As long as those opinions don't turn into adverse action (e.g. banning one's rights to engage in sex work) I don't see what the consequences of having opinions is.

Personally, I choose to avoid people who choose the easy path in life and refuse to accept reality or be accountable for their actions. Whether it's people refusing to admit that they have an addiction (to porn, drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling, video games) or women engaging in sex work and then complaining of the consequences (e.g. not being able to find the partner they want after they quit doing sex work), people who don't take responsibility for their choices given their circumstances, whatever they may be, are unpleasant to be around at best (often complaining about how unfair things are) and are dangerous at worst. If the circumstances are that some woman does sex work because she comes from an impoverished background and desperately needs financial freedom, I understand why she may choose sex work (though I really wish there were institutions in place so that she didn't have to make that choice; late-stage capitalism has made the world a harsh place). If she does it because she can make a lot of money and wants nice luxuries, I know that that sort of person and I would have no overlap in our worldview. As another example, I decided to cut out some close male friends of mine in certain athletic endeavors when they started using performance-enhancing drugs.

It's nothing about some form of prudish morality. It's about not wanting to associate with anyone who makes key choices in their life that I think reveal a certain morality that I don't agree with. Everyone has this right (to free association) and I don't think any sort forced association should be palatable to anyone living in a country with modern governance.
Some limited experience. I'm living in Germany, but not in one of the larger cities where employers tend to pay more (Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt). So I also checked out remote opportunities. I noticed also that for Ruby/Rails developers there were some high-paying jobs available. Since that's not my specialty I didn't pursue them though.

Living in a major city will offer you more opportunities though and also allows job hopping which is the best way to upgrade your salary anyway.
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Hi. I don't do any journaling or reading by intention. The purpose is to try to stay in a meditative/mindful state.

However I do note down ideas in a notebook if they come up, but I don't sit down to write.
If the Allies had accepted the first-hand intelligence reports they received during the war rather than dismissing them because they seemed outrageous and improbable, they could have saved lives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilecki%27s_Report
I used to do that when working on my PhD in a research center. I started with lunch at 14:00 (right after waking up) then worked until dawn.

Silence, availability of computers (it was in the 90's),peuple gong home around 17,...

It means no life outside work of course, but I was there alone for three or five months and it was awesome.
FingerWorks was one of the best of these acquisitions.

By the time I was ready to purchase one of their keyboards to put in my iBook G3 Snow, they had shut down. Little did I know...

https://technical.ly/philly/2013/01/09/jeff-white-fingerwork...
Thanks for vim-go. Hopefully 2021 will be less exhausting for you, Fatih.
I read an analysis of French peasant life in the late 19th and early 20th century that said that this was how the winters were passed. Not literal hibernation on the physiological sense that bears undergo it, but packing into a hut and spending only a handful of hours a day awake, not talking.

Since many of these poor households were still wealthy enough to have had animals I was always a bit dubious.
It also ignores actual lockdown which brought cases down to 0 in Victoria. Holding up for a month or so already.
that asterix.ph.kcl.ac.uk sounds familiar. did you host an irc server ?
To do large quantities of transcoding, the industry was dominated in the world of using dedicated server and nodes to create a "farm". One system I managed was a $15k server, with each node being $5k each. Of course, you needed the hardware to run it as well. Now, install FFMPEG, create an image, and then spin up a new instance as needed.

A big Thank You to any and all who have brought FFMPEG to where it is!
Would the Finnish government and the EU Commission competition authority approve a sale?
Sure it was the restrictions and not the deaths and illness and insecurity. That makes sense.
we're about 8 years too late for that.

i'll get back to you in 5-10 years to let you know how it goes, but i'm not very concerned.
> named & shamed a random working man for spending money on porn

How would they find out?
vlang uses Lobster's memory management model: RC, eliminating as many increments and decrements as possible with some static analysis. Lobster was able to eliminate 95% RC ops with some extra monomorphization, so I'm guessing vlang is close to that.
Hi Professor,

Good day,

I was wondering whether it is be possible for you to provide an overview of different methods that you think might have a better shot at replacing backpropagation algorithm?