skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a bit confused why we are assuming the low performance is the fault ML. I would think instead that this low performance is deliberate because it locally optimizes Facebooks KPIs.

My understanding is that Facebook has a lot of data on the elasticity of ad buyers. If Facebook were to have even more precise algorithms, then they would likely charge even more money for impressions and clicks. Presumably buyers may be reticent to pay even higher prices.

Alternatively more precise targeting would highly bias the money people spend toward larger companies that can afford better keywords.
>Presumably if you had a blog aimed at high-earning college educated people you could get a pretty high ratio of (target demographic/all viewers).

Correct. The problem of course is scale. How much money such blog can accept from advertisers before it will get absurdly expensive to buy ads from such blog?

FB gives you targeting and scale, and you need both to run meaningful advertising campaign.
Happy Christmas HN!
Don't remember seeing a similar thread last year, so I thought I'd take the initiative.

Whether you're with friends, family, or isolating as best as you can, happy Christmas HN community!
Not all of the NewSpace billionaires are working on launch vehicles (eg Bigelow). But probably several percent of billionaires in the US have space companies
I thought Half-Life 2 was a good 15 hour game that could have been a great 10-hour game. It just dragged on a little too long, like a lot of games do.

Then along came Episode 1 and Episode 2, cut down and polished to perfection like a pair of gemstones.
Ie COVID-19.
It's really incredible just how well Endgame stuck the landing, but the whole MCU is impressive. Even the worst films of the MCU are still totally watchable, just forgettable. And comic movies are really easy to get wrong, that same decade of MCU movies overlapped with both Andrew Garfield Spiderman movies, and a smattering of forgettable or outright bad DC comics movies.

That Rise of Skywalker and the final season of Game of Thrones came out in the same year helps to contrast how much most things don't stick the landing.
4k@60 is ~16 Gbps per 4k@60 display over DP; USB3 is happy with 5 Gbps; 10 Gbps is USB3.1.

There were TB2 docks (i.e. 20 gbps total) that were able to handle one 4k@60 display, 1 gbps ethernet and usb3. I'm using such one (Kanex TB2 Express) with 2015 mbp.

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On PC side, thunderbolt is handled by firmware, operating system has on say on it, it just sees devices pop on pcie bus (on Apple side, it is by Apple-supplied drivers). So the handling should be same for Windows and Linux. One of the few things it can do is configure security policies for TB3+.
The article states that people will pay subscription fees to cooking sites and sports blogs. Not gonna happen.
If Facebook ads are as ineffective as people say, what have people done that did work? The only thing I know for sure is that word of mouth can make an outstanding product spread quickly, but you still need to get your first 100 users somewhere
The IA terminology brings to mind the classic "Augmenting Human Intellect"[1] essay by Doug Engelbart (famous for giving "The Mother of all Demos"[2])

[1] https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/138

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
People are watching Cookie Monster asleep waiting for Santa
Right? I was expecting many more pictures.
I’m actually not sure. Based on the Wikipedia page, bulls in musth emit a characteristic low-pitched tone that females in heat seem to respond to. And the testosterone levels wouldn’t hurt sperm production. I don’t know much beyond the Wikipedia page and some information I learned from some guides, but it sounds like the exact evolutionary advantage/purpose isn’t well understood. It’s interesting that the females also go into heat. The musth certainly seems like the male analogue of heat. And the male aggression is certainly similar to what you see in some other herd animals during mating season (aka rutting, though I don’t know enough to be able to compare the aggression levels of musth with that of a rutting deer or bison). Elephants in musth will fight other elephants, and unlike normal mating dominance fights they will try to really kill the other. Part of me wonders if this is a part of natural selection. A grown bull elephant doesn’t really have any predators, except another bull elephant in musth.

Another interesting fact about musth is it seems to effect elephant society. When young males reach adulthood and leave the herd of females, they tend to form small “bachelor herds” consisting of a few other young males and an older male, who “shows them the ropes”. And one of the things the older male teaches them is self control during musth. The Wikipedia article, and a story a guide told me, mention that young males in musth without an older male presence to help guide them (teach them?) will be more aggressive.
I wonder whether/when "ethical AI" is going to metastasize into other areas of software engineering as well as into sciences, like physics, biology, chemistry. I mean is NN research is more dangerous than say nuclear or is it just self-aggrandizing ?
> How could you access end-to-end encrypted cloud storage from multiple devices?

By sharing your key between the devices.

> a legal order in any single jurisdiction only decrypts one layer of encryption

That's good to know, but it's not the cutting edge of security. (For many people it's of course enough)

> They also offer end-to-end encrypted secret chats

Not on desktop and not on GNU/Linux phones (which I use).
Why British Kids Went Back to School, and American Kids Did Not
>I’ve spent some time thinking about why these Fantasy UIs are so fascinating despite the fact they seem not very user friendly.

It took a ux expert "some time thinking" to realize these fantasy UIs are not not UX friendly.

I think that answers your question. These UIs are not meant be usable. Who cares about the UX of them?
How do you actually see plaque? I feel like I wouldn't be able to tell the difference if I got an electric toothbrush.
Are you saying it actually makes your teeth look whiter?
I think another factor is that LeBron has a history of flopping and complaining about non-calls. People imagine that LeBron in the 90s and see him getting crushed. But of course perhaps he flops because it is sadly part of that game today and had he joined in the late 80s he probably would have played differently.

It is really hard to speculate on these things.
But to me it feels like we have much more creative possibility today than we did when we had flash...JavaScript and CSS have evolved to enable extreme creativity, but if that is to be exercised, it mostly has to be in side projects or on one's own time.
Bigger bones with higher calcium content? Or higher ratio of calcium to something else?

But I can also totally buy that it’s mostly a function of where they die. Like dying in a bog might preserve the bones differently than dying in a forest or by a lake or whatever.
But as a man LeBron is weak:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50054195
Aion by Carl Jung
I would imagine we're disagreeing with the "at what cost"?

As in, is the cost of:

1. Losing the trust of your coworkers
2. Causing public reputation damage
3. Potentially harming coworkers emotionally

worth the gain of having a slightly more effective phishing training? I would argue no.

I would also say that it isn't nearly as important as implementing other measures - U2F being a big one that I'd mentioned, but there are plenty of others. It's certainly not where I'd recommend anyone start.
Structured Programming notes by Dijkstra

oh and The Bible
Why do I need your token data when I can just ask you to use your creds to grant me access to my twitter account?

Or 'I'm on vacation and left my laptop, could you just run this command on the prod cluster for me so we can avoid downtime over the holidays?'
I'm with the prior poster - season 1 is planned and is rewarding on its own. I personally don't think the series was satisfying after that.
If we're arguing analogies, OK. Does your company ever have fire drills? What if the first sound of the alarm freaks someone out? What if people find it annoying/idiotic/morale reducing to walk down the fire stairs?

At some point you just say "look, we need to make sure our people are trained, if people think fire drills are stupid or upsetting, we have to take that hit because the alternative is worse."
Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
Y chromosomes being male is species-specific, and so that wouldn't generalize across species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-determination_system
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

The premise was simple: In 1959 a white reporter used makeup to make himself have black skin. He then traveled around the southern USA. Even as a child it was easy to see how people treated him differently even though he was a white man underneath. The racism was undeniable.

Animal Farm, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451 gave me even more reasons to question authority.
This made me curious about the state of IPv6 adoption.

About 33% of folks have IPv6 connectivity now, up from 5% in 2015.[1]

The NAT problem isn't going away anytime soon, but it's good to see some progress is finally being made on that front.

[1]: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=ipv6...
I charge mine while I’m in the shower usually. Or if I’ve hit all my goals for the day I’ll toss it on the charger before bed.

It doesn’t take long to get a reasonable charge on it. I usually keep it around 80% at most anyway. It gets me through the day at 80% and through the night since I use it for sleep tracking and alarm.
It’s certainly a personal preference.

I experienced exactly what you meant on my first run. Launched a rocket after a lot of slog, and lost interest after that. But I never got to actually use eg the nuclear tech very much, which itself makes me want to go back and try it again.

Personally, I wish there were more combat/enemy dynamics involved rather than “just” insectoids swarming the base. And that’s just one angle: other compelling reasons to build more efficient factories would have made me want to go back too.

I try every now and then to start from scratch, but just the idea of starting from the basics seems so daunting and not motivating enough so I kinda just give up after the first day.
My biggest concern is the fact that "exchanges" are completely unregulated.

Crypto fans operate under the assumption that these marketmakers are stable, honest and trustworthy --- like the regulated stock and currency markets. This is not assured in any way --- and neither is the assumption that Tether is backed by dollars.

Tether is just one example of how "exchanges" can easily manipulate the market and traders they pretend to serve.
Covid19
Your statement is spot on, and I'm surprise this rationale even needs to be stated.

Of course these fantasy UI do not go through the same scrutiny as the UI for a real world product.
Another of those subscription apps? That’s ridiculous when people build simple weather, calendar app or a text editor and expect users to pay dozens of euro every year for them.
> Really - if you slowed down for a sec and thought about security, is this the language in which your employer emails you?

That is the weakest part of your argument. Companies are notoriously incompetent, yes, even domain registrars or whatever you categorize GoDaddy as.

And what if they used better language? What then? Would you simply move the goal post to another way to victim blame?

I know to avoid a lot of things because of experience, I know a lot of legitimate things act like illegitimate things. And a lot of illegitimate things can masquerade adequately as competent legitimate things.

For example: I know to look at the DKIM and SPF headers in an email, specifically because email clients do not show you when someone is spoofing an email address with the exact same domain name. Not a phishing domain name, the exact same one. This is a real, ongoing UI problem.

And there are other flaws out there too.
Being a resident of Georgia, (the US state) the constant stream of political ads convinced me to subscribe to YouTube premium a few months ago.
if you make your employees feel bad on purpose and have a track record of insensitivity, they won't like you. People who don't like you won't act in your interest to a high capacity.

I don't think GP was ambiguous at all, to be honest. This point was extremely clear. It feels like you came to the discussion with an axe to grind.
What you are talking about are cryptolockers and they are a subset of ransomware. Not all ransomware are cryptolockers. In this case, ransomware exfilled the data without a need for cryptolockers. They are still asking for a ransom.
Yeah, if you'll read that blog post it'll explain exactly that.

U2F tokens are a second factor for authentication, meaning that to log into your account you need your password and the token.

Further, the token takes the domain into account when it's generating the key. That means that you can't just give me a fake Twitter page and then forward the creds/token, it won't be valid.

U2F mitigates this entire class of phishing attack.

Beyond that, we also only allow logins to sensitive services from employee laptops, validated by a TPM, and multiple other controls, but that's not really the point.

> Or 'I'm on vacation and left my laptop, could you just run this command on the prod cluster for me so we can avoid downtime over the holidays?'

Right, so this would work, but it's a huge gap between "Hey run this command for me" and the attacker being able to run arbitrary commands. It's a reasonable thing for your security team to consider and attempt to mitigate in other ways.
This sounds like the background for some superhero origin story.
the Bible
Also check out Craft's "Missing Guide for Mac Catalyst Apps" https://www.craft.do/maccatalyst-guide

"Mac Catalyst is a technology that enables you to run iOS code on macOS.."
If you have a child < 5 years old, I highly recommend teaching them perfect pitch, AKA absolute pitch. In my experience it only took a few hours of note-color association in combination with some stickers on the piano keys for my child to learn absolute pitch at 2 years old, which they have retained for years.
Facebook pushed that argument hard, and there is an ongoing lawsuit over whether they misled their customers.
We have these on our office tree - bought them from John Lewis in the UK. Was very happy to find something like that as I felt Christmas decorations had been left behind in the smart home thing a bit
I played through it, and it by far was the hardest game to through for me this year. I didn't enjoy it that much.

The reason was less the second half of the game (which I actually found refreshing), but more that the whole thing felt continuosly slow, very violent, and surfaced the worst about humanity. I'm typically not sensitive to games and have played my fair amount of shooters - but this one felt like a bit too much.
> Effective security culture builds rapport with business units. This type of nonsense does the exact opposite.

But these emails presumably weren't even coming from the company's domain, since they were phishing emails.
This is the thing. I don't like facebook, and they do a lot of bad things.

They also have some amount of good they do.
> The hardest part about interviewing is that there is no feedback loop;

I've had good results simply asking the recruiter for feedback. Typically they are able to give me some insight into the process that I wouldn't have been able to guess. In "no offer" situations, it's often "the hiring manager was looking for someone with more experience in X" or something like that. This works best over the phone, since they are apt to tell you more than they would be willing to put into writing.

For that matter, the recruiter is often an underutilized resource before the interview too. There's no rule that the nature of interview questions need be a complete surprise. The recruiter is often able to shed light on who will ask what sort of questions, which can be reassuring and narrow down what you might review before the interview.
Beowulf, translated by Seamus Healy. I can’t read the other translations at all but that book is incredible with his wording. It’s a dark story of warriors, glory, monsters, tiny kingdoms carved out by champions, and gives a rare look at how Christianity blended with paganism in those days to create a unique literary folklore
>That being said if you want to take it more seriously sometime sexist bias does taint research in unexpected places

Similar to lets-discover-sexism-everywhere bias in social sciences though. In general soft sciences are prone to the ideology of the day (which is also what gets you grants)...
We should give some amount of acceptance to the argument that modern contractual agreements are too complex for individuals to read and understand fully. But this is entirely unacceptable as an argument from one business buying services from another business. It’s not the “fine print”, it’s the contract. If the plaintiff’s argument amounts to “I didn’t read the contract.” they will rightly be laughed out of court.
Agreed, I'd say one is a smartwatch, the other is a fitness tracker. The Garmin can't make calls or send text messages, for example. Most don't even have NFC or wifi, although the Felix 6 pro does, but it's also quite a lot more expensive than the 6, let alone the SE. The resolution is typically about half as much, the screen size is smaller, thicker, heavier, brightness is lower, and the screen to bezel is much worse. It's just not something I'd wear with a suit to the office, or at a dinner, or when I go clubbing because it just doesn't look very nice. It's something I'd wear during workouts. But because of that, it's more limited in use, has less value, and isn't quite worth the price for me. It also means I'm not wearing it all day, so it won't give me all-day health data tracking. Dancing for 4 hours at a party would get tracked, heartrate, calories etc, on my apple watch. But I wouldn't bring the garmin felix 6 pro to such an occasion. (there's smaller versions but I find their specs/feature set is a lot worse).

As a fitness tracker I'd say it's superior to the apple watch.
Anyone know what kind of technologies are used to build these fantasy UIs?

There are probably two categories:

- UIs that are live on the set, and the talent interacts with them

- UIs that are added in post, so essentially animated clips that align with the on screen action.

Adobe After Effects come to mind for the 2D UI. {{3D app of choice for the 3d visuals}} Not sure what else are used for these output. Would be crazy if some of them get built with common web technology.
>> This is so disappointing, wonder if there is a way to hire for integrity. We are probably focusing on the intelligence part and getting smart people here who lack a moral compass and loyalty.

Oh the irony.
Sony publishes an official Linux driver for Playstation 5 DualSense controllers
So what do we name this new emerging engineering discipline?

AI engineering?

Cybernetic engineering?

Data engineering?
For phishing test links that contain identifiable query parameters, it's easy enough to write a quick script which finds those emails and moves them into the "phishing tests" folder. For those operating in a system which proxies email links, just not checking email is a valid alternative. Just treat the whole well as poisoned.
I would guess what GP is referring to is something along the lines of this book: https://www.danpink.com/books/drive/

IIRC, the idea is just that money only goes so far up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Once our material well-being is taken care of, we want mastery and autonomy and incentives geared that way are more effective than money.
I was at a non tech company 7 years ago where we were generating article summaries and performing image recognition. We had some at least one org applying speech to text for a business use case.

I’m not saying there hasn’t been innovation in the past 5 years — absolutely there has.

In that industry, 2013-2016 were peak “ML” and “Cloud” where the CIOs at my company and competitors were fully bought into the ML and cloud hype, how it was going to solve all kinds of problems, without understanding what those problems were, and without realizing the complexity of getting meaningful, applicable data for those problems.

In the past few years, it feels like more people realized that ML is less mathematical magic and more of different “kinds” of curve fitting.
Apple: Chess (Open Source)
Remember kids, stay in school!
...until it doesn't. Preserving IP takes a lot of effort from a lot of highly-paid people. Currently, most of those are compensated by the public, but that won't always be the case.
See also:

Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19087418
Friend of mine was sitting on a balcony with three other people when the rotted joists gave way and they all fell 20 feet into the bushes below. The result was one lady with a skull fracture, a guy with broken ribs, and my friend with a compound fractured leg that involved his knee. He walks with a cane now.
I'm German, too. I just use the Internet Archive to get around the block: https://web.archive.org/web/20201222180719/https://www.guten...

For mass downloading, https://archive.org/details/gutenberg is probably better, but I like the presentation on the official Project Gutenberg website better.
Craft seems to be build with Catalyst. Apple only introduced it in 10.15. It is technically impossible to support anything below 10.15. Now, it would be possible to write two Craft apps (one iOS and one macOS) instead of a shared one, but that’s much more work and only adds a minority of users (those still below 10.15), so it is understandable they chose not to support it.
That is the very logical thing to think to me on first viewing.

It's looks like a pile of balloons released from some party.

That also fits technically outside of UFO tech.

But this is a CIA/UFO tech forum. No point trying to explain it's not a drone, or a balloon made to look like a jet pack or a weather balloon. The normal X-files Scully stuff is fun. Boring things like party balloons are boring.
Depends what the authors upload. You can just upload a PDF. But if arXiv detects that the PDF came out of pdflatex it will pretty instantly nag you to give it the TeX sources. It will then render the PDF itself and also offer the sources for download. That is also how astro-ph-leaks [1] works.

[1] https://twitter.com/LeaksPh
Tao Te Ching. It taught me how to let go.
Tell me your Vo2 max trend! That's been the one to watch for me, happy to say I'm making quite a bit of progress there!
ZoomRoulette
> How else would you get folks incapable of getting a PhD in hard sciences to rule over the folks that do hard science?

In most subfields of scientific/technical ethics, it's very common for ethicists to have advanced degrees in the scientific/technical area.

> I predict we will need a license to do ML research soon and that would have to be rubberstamped by some AI ethicist

Except insofar as ethics is a component of the education and licensing requirements for regulated professions like medicine and law, that's not a thing that has happened in the US for any field (and even there is practitioners, not separate ethicists, who are responsible for the content and validation.)

So, aside from sheet paranoia, what is this prediction grounded in?
Also Silmarillion adds a lot of depth to it.
Because iPhones are cheaper in the US and can be resold for profit/gifted.
I wonder what you base your sentiment on. I can't imagine there's much juice left in Twitter sentiment analysis.
Theoreticaly speaking, a lightweight sabre rocket engine (breathing engine) should be able to power a jetpack with far less fuel.

3d metal printers (such as makerforge) let home engineers design/build all kinds of bizarre stuff that wasn't possible till it was one day.