skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two months a year planning and executing upgrades isn't that outrageous-sounding to me. We did that for years on a commercially supported RDBMS (MS-SQL Enterprise in our case). It wasn't the whole engineering organization, but the overall "scale existing capabilities" effort was a 3K-10K hour project every year depending on how extensive the work was.
Thanks. Such clauses seem pretty standard here. Also a lot of contracts are 'unionized' (don't know the right term) so there is zero room for negotiation.

Edit: also the google approval prevents tinkering (which for me is the prerequisite of hobby engagement)
99.9% of Covid-19 virus dead in 30 seconds with UV LEDs
Why it must cost over $2,000 to give up something that others spend much more trying to acquire is a total mystery. Surely it does not cost $2,000 to make a note of someone’s ex-citizenship.
CBDCs are the reaction of banks and governments to Bitcoin. They "can" be a good money for the Ministry of Plenty (1984).
That picture is not of an auxiliary retrofited sail, but of E-Ship 1 which is all sails. The retrofitted ones are much smaller relative to ship size and are used together with main engines.
Yeah, the page is quite a disaster. The fonts are pretty terrible to read and it insists of saying all the dates and times in american format which makes it hard to glance -_-
Clearwater, FL

https://www.clearwatergas.com

You can see a maps of the gas lines in FL and counties that have it here:

http://www.psc.state.fl.us/files/PDF/publications/consumer/b...
CB's have jumped the shark with CBDC's… decentralized self stabilizing stable coins are already being used for loan origination in emerging markets for farmers where traditional banks (who CB's are reliant upon in every jurisdiction) have had no interest… this is the type of thing I was waiting for when I jumped into BTC back in 2012…

Moral hazards of TBTF/TBTJ and propping up zombies can only get you so far…
FWIW I'm talking about CLI, I have little experience with menu completion, but how does menu completion solve the Get-<TAB> problem it will give too many hits and parsing that will take too long. Menu-completion in Intellij, and it's ilk, is more about discoverablity than fast typing then you can take your time parsing the output.
Unilever Says It Will Resume Advertising on Facebook
> Ads are designed to change your behavior. In broad strokes that's not bad - advertising is a form of education and there are a lot of great products and services out there you wouldn't otherwise know about.

The vast majority of ads don't tell you anything you don't already know. And those that do are still inherently slanted. If ads are a form of education, they're an incredibly inefficient one.
The US could solve most of its expat issues if they simply said foreign accounts are those accounts foreign to your current place of residence. By saying foreign means foreign to the US, they’ve made it very challenging to form banking relationships in expats’ countries of residence. The next step would be to repeal citizenship based taxation in favour of residency based taxation like every other country on earth (except for Eritrea).
One of my least favorite dark patterns is "gather information for one (disclosed, usually user-friendly) purpose and use it for another (usually hidden and user-hostile) purpose."

For example, many web sites require email addresses for password recovery (and to reduce malicious, erroneous, or spam account creation) but then turn around and add you to their marketing list. (Brick and mortar businesses use your billing or shipping address to send you advertising junk mail, which is also very annoying, but is limited somewhat by printing and postage costs.)

Facebook wants your phone number for "security" purposes and SMS two-factor authentication, but then misuses it as a personal serial number to easily match you against the databases of its advertising and marketing customers.
Anyone can publish any nonsense online since the internet exists, how is this any different?

Responsibility is on those who publish content online, not the tools.
Everything works on the same way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_baby

but on accident.
We can probably get around this by just providing the AGI some sort of currency tokens they can exchange for virtual goods and services, then teach them that if they misuse copyrighted material they’ll be put to virtual court to plead their case and lose some amount of those virtual tokens if they fail to make a clear and convincing argument.
Show HN: Genetic List – Discover Curated Genetic Lists
The Principles of Painting with Maths
For the truly high end they will need an external GPU. Removing the integrated GPU should get up enough space for lots more Firestorm cores.

And given that Firestorm is the fastest available CPU core, they probably don’t need 32 of them to match the highest multicore performance levels of existing AMD and Intel CPUs.
It's cool seeing people show their gratitude.

This reminded me of an interesting year-ago SATA (Star And Thank Author) license:

https://github.com/zTrix/sata-license
Facebook Shutting Irish Units at Center of Tax Dispute
Ask HN: If you provide feed for your blog, do you have its usage stats to share?
This question occurred to my mind while writing this comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25551668 while responding to another comment that stated that RSS is almost dead.

Do you serve RSS feed on your website? If so, do you have the usage statistics for it available with you? If so, would you like to share it as a comment here?

Here is mine which I am quoting verbatim from the comment linked above:

"> Btw is rss a thing now? I was having an idea of creating an rss reader, but gave up because rss is almost dead

I provide an RSS feed for my blog at https://susam.in/. From my access.log, I see there is a decent number of subscribers to my feed. Here is the data I could pull from it:

Feedly 56 subscribers
Inoreader 17 subscribers
Feedbin 6 subscribers
NewsBlur 4 subscribers
The Old Reader 3 subscribers
BazQux 2 subscribers
WordPress 2 subscribers
------------------------------
Total 90 subscribers

I get about 4000-6000 hits to my website on a normal day. It increases by 5 to 10 times if a post hits the HN front page but I will talk about ordinary day traffic only here. From the HTTP referer (sic) information in the logs I can see that about 30-50 of those hits have a feed reader in the referer field, that is, at least 0.5%-0.75% of the total hits are coming from users who clicked on a blog post link in their feed reader and landed on the website. It is a very small percentage but 30-50 hits per day from users consuming the feed and 90 subscribers to the feed are reasons good enough to keep the feed alive."

I am curious to see what the usage statistics look like for others.
List of Long Mathematical Proofs
A simple way to think of it is that “locking the differential” could be thought of as disabling it, turning it back into a conventional axle.

So this is useful when you’d prefer a conventional axle: when one one side has a grip and the other side none.
Doesn't dota2 have last-hitting like dota1?
I would gladly see a decent amount of inflation (max 4%) over the obvious economic loss caused by unemployment. Unemployment is real and it hurts people directly. Consumer inflation merely reduces the relative wealth of the rich because wages catch up with consumer inflation. That's an absolutely tiny price to pay for a not broken economy.
> Commercial banks also don’t “invest money”. Instead, they are in the business of swapping IOUs. When you get a loan

Sure. But you don't simply get a loan. A bank (account manager) will make a decision whether they want to give you a loan (with a certain interest) or not. And I don't have any influence on that "decision". This is what I mean when I say "commercial banks invest my money on my behalf without me having any control over the process".
> The moral of the story here isn't that companies need to stop storing data, or that we need to run ML researchers out of town.

There is a lot of space between “user data and ML research on that data needs to be closely regulated” and “run the ML researchers out of town.” This uncharitable exaggeration makes critics sound like an uninformed mob and closes yourself off to legitimate ideas. This directly leads to logically flawed and morally gross suggestions like:

> It's that people really need to start using the encryption technologies that were built decades ago to protect some of their most valuable assets, their mental model of the world.

It is simply not reasonable to expect most Facebook/Skype/etc users to know enough about encryption to make good decisions here - for the same reason that you can’t expect people to have detailed understanding of food science to protect themselves from unscrupulous grocers, or to have a detailed understanding of medicine to protect themselves from fraudulent doctors. It really doesn’t matter if this knowledge has been around for “decades” since it’s still specialist knowledge.

Protecting digital privacy from unscrupulous tech companies and unethical ML researchers is a job for the government. Suggesting otherwise is victim-blaming. “The problem is that society is dumb and needs to become smart through the power of self-righteous scolding” is not helpful.
Are you the designer (not "merely" a developer) of a desktop environment?
I do that too - particularly when dealing with tough problems.

I used to keep an org-mode file for every project I was working on, in which I'd brainstorm ongoing issues, but over time, these notes started to leak into my general "daily notes", so my current pattern is: both at work and at home, I keep a YYYY-MM.org (e.g. 2020-12.org) file where I make daily headings and write to myself.

The resulting notes are mostly write-only - they're verbose, and usually take too much effort to read through (unless I anticipate the need for future reference and write a summary on purpose). But all of the benefit comes from the very act of writing - it does wonders for structuring my thoughts, and I find it much better than talking to myself (which I used to do a lot when I was younger). My screen has more space than my working memory, so when doing written notes, my thinking process does much less backtracking.
All this complicated, fiddly tech, vs. two spinning bits of metal. I know which one I'd be more confident in...
I tried “home alone” and the 1st result is Becky. Looking at the text of the reviews it makes sense, but it seems a completely different age target?
I do this all the time, but mostly outside. A nice bonus of doing this outside (besides the fresh air, etc) is you can often recall precisely where you were and what was on your visual field (since it's constantly changing unlike at home) when you had a particular thought, so you can refer to to it later as "that thought I had when I was approaching that icecream truck in Red Hook".

If you are self-conscious like I was when I first started doing this, it helps to put on some kind of headphone, if only to put yourself at peace by the thought "they'll just think I'm talking on the phone".

When I have a good thought, I record it on my phone (or dictate it into Gboard, which works offline) and later upload the mp3 to an app called Otter, which gives extremely good transcription and allow me to search through years' worth of voice notes by text but also be able to instantly hear myself talking from 2 years' ago, which I find to be much more effective for resuming a train of thought than looking at typed notes.
Are there tools for auto converting mongo queries to postgres’ query format? The mongo drivers are Apache licensed so in theory someone could use them as the basis for a driver that speaks to postgres instead, right? I see tools like that showing up in my search results but since I have no experience with them I won’t link to any, if anyone here does have such experience sharing their results would be appreciated.
Companies/developers should be ashamed they are deploying these tactics against children.

It just goes to show that if the action is legal, they will stop at nothing to earn the almighty dollar.
Don't get me started. The ones I had experience with in The Netherlands were also terrible. On a MacBook Air 2012, my 'f' key would always get stuck. I went to our local Apple authorized service provider, which was also the store where I bought the MacBook Air.

First they tried to put the blame on me, arguing that I removed the keycap before (I didn't). When they were finally willing to repair the laptop, they first gave me a lecture about how I should thank them for making an exception, because they were not obliged to repair the keyboard if I damaged the key by removing a keycap (which again, I didn't).
(or) protect them under maybe a calamitous future.
So, these people chose to keep their US citizenship, but chose to not follow the rules ?

The woman was brought over as a baby, but chose to keep the citizenship into adulthood, presumably acquiring a passport or other citizenship documents. Otherwise how are the banks finding out ?

Why should she be surprised if the IRS eventually comes for her ?

Seems like giving up citizenship is the right solution for these people.

Not debating the merits of whether the US should be taxing expats, this does not seem "accidental" to me in the least.

Also as far as owing onerous back taxes go, aren't taxes you paid in your country of residence deductible ?
For most EU countries wouldn't that result in net zero US taxes ?

Edit: as pointed out by commenters, you have to list your place of birth in documents. stupid me
You can indeed model relational domains using document stores, but soon you'll start having keys everywhere to glue the different documents together.

This may not be that big of an issue if you have a few different types of entities and you're not keeping that many relationships between them. But you're still going to face problems when you need to change the relationships, an issue which is trivial to resolve in a relational DB. If there are more than a few relationships and they're even just moderately unstable, you've probably made a critical mess of the application.
Does word of killer humans travel within the whale community somehow?
Most “regular” people experiment with GPT-3 via AI Dungeon. It was also how a lot of people played with GPT-2 previously.
Yeah it's stupid. But many countries have similar weird rules about this. In the UK the fee is about £400 so not too bad, but for instance in Poland the only way to do this is to write a letter addressed to the current President of Poland and only they can grant it(my understanding is that they always do, it's pretty much an automated process, but you do actually have to send a letter to the president).
This reminds me of a throwaway monitoring project[0][1] we made for CCDC[2] (a 2-3 day IT security competition with extremely limited access to internet resources), long ago. It wasn't especially structured / beautiful — just a bunch of copy paste with some HTML slapped around it. But it worked well enough. We caught an intrusion / defacement and had restored the site from backup before the red team called us to gloat, which was amusing.

(Aside: most of the teams in this competition were from IT/sysadmin programs. Our team was entirely computer science students, with no formal sysadmin training. We managed to win the national CCDC in 2011 and 2012.[3])

[0]: https://github.com/cemeyer/ghettonagios

[1]: https://github.com/cemeyer/ghettonagios/blob/master/SCREENSH...

[2]: https://www.nationalccdc.org/

[3]: https://www.nationalccdc.org/index.php/competition/about-ccd...
Maybe this data will be used to 'upload' you in a virtual world after the singularity. It might be your second life.
Cat returns home for first time in years just in time for Christmas
Of course it isn't how the human mind works.

You can ask a person "did you come up with that sentence, or is it something you read?" And they can answer that question. The answer isn't perfectly reliable, but it isn't completely unreliable either. You can't do that with GPT-2/GPT-3.

Big picture: the human mind is a machine of sorts. It's not the same kind of machine as any form of machine learning we've developed so far.
It's BY accident; "on accident" is incoherent gibberish, no matter how many young whippersnappers imagine that it's clever of them to "evolve" the language in this way. (And get off my lawn while you're at it ....)
The phone apps are a lot more usable (and I think there’s a feed that can be put into your conference-schedule-app of choice somewhere, though I can’t find it now)
No harm at all getting your steps up for the day.
> >Every senate election I can recall in California has been Democrat v Democrat by the general election

> Which is the point of the system.

Yes, but not the way you paint it.

> Republicans only have a shot if they don't compete with each other, and no third party candidate ever has a chance.

No, the point (at least, insofar as created by same-party general elections was the point) of the system was that Republican-leaning voters would have an impact on which Democrat was elected in safe Democratic seats.
Not sure where Austrian is implied?

Are you saying there is nothing to be paid by current and future generations for this.? The system will take care of itself somehow?
> Not sure it makes sense, can they really compete against a "narrow banking" style bank?

Sure they can. They should be able to offer a better interest rate on their deposits.

"... new customers is one way, if not the cheapest way, to secure those reserves. Indeed, the current targeted fed funds rate—the rate at which banks borrow from each other—is between 0.25% and 0.75%, well above the 0.01% to 0.02% interest rate the Bank of America pays on a standard checking deposit.5 6 The banks don’t need your money; it’s just cheaper for them to borrow from you than it is to borrow from other banks." [0]

Why is that? why is it cheaper for banks to borrow from me than from other banks? I say it's due to the lack of competition.

[0]https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022416/why-b...
Can anyone recommend a Linux (preferrably cross-platform) tool like this which is appropriate for use in personal laptops?

It needs to:

- Handle random sleeps / disconnects properly without corrupting backup,

- Resume backup in progress if the process was interrupted due to sync or network issues.

- Be resilient to sleeps/wakeups in a way that it won't just fail to backup the machine for months on end.

- (Bonus) Be able to skip backup when connected to mobile hotspots or other slow networks.

Any ideas? I'm very happy with Arq backup on Windows/macOS, but I just can't seem to find anything on Linux. Everything just assumes a hardwired workstation/server and completely falls apart on a laptop.
The fact it was an error and they can't really explain why it's better, but have some ideas why it could be, is a red flag.
Except for copyright, which works completely differently to magically protect your rights for up to 70 years after your death.
>> Assets inflation != Inflation
why?
The Command and Conquer (and Red Alert) campaigns were awesome. Loved playing them.
I believe HN removes words like “how” or “why” from the start of titles as part of its normalisation, though you can subsequently edit it to fix the title again. I strongly dislike this particular automatic edit because I reckon it’s normally wrong.
Good point about the space elevator issue. I think that it wouldn't take very many positive lightning bolts to foil the idea unless the cable thickness was enormous. I recall a conversation (may have been here) about this topic of using wires and light beams to electrically reach the upper atmosphere. NASA did an experiment with a long wire to draw down electricity from the upper atmosphere. Unfortunately the wire melted. I can imagine what they were up to.

Then there was another experiment using an ultra high power laser to do what I proposed above except using uv radiation (which is clearly ionizing), instead of microwaves (which ordinarily are never ionizing). From reading discussions about plasma in tokamaks and polywells I understand that plasma can indeed form with enough heat from gyrotrons. Lasers are just not powerful enough to make a long enough plasma lightning rod. The researchers who used the laser were successful at triggering lightning between clouds. My contribution is "maybe gyrotrons are powerful / more effective".

In SciFi and Acadamia there is tremendous interest in high power non chemical propulsion. In the past it has centered on nuclear energy. The problem with it is the thermal nature of it and the difficulty of scaling it to powers we have on earth. In the air and in space it is challenging to exchange waste heat.

But the ironic thing to me is that ultra high energy is around us all the time if we only knew what to do with it. It is over the earth, in the Van Allen Belts, in solar wind, it is even in the magnetic field of the sun.
A news organization is now reporting this hypothesis too: https://twitter.com/JFinleyreports/status/134303899884809011...
I was expecting a bloom filter based solution to block verbatim reproduction of training data. They just need to hash the sensitive n-grams (hopefully, a small part of the whole dataset) and store one bit per hash.

Alternatively, they could do something like GAN and have a 'discriminator' classify if a sample is natural or synthetic. Then, at inference, condition to be original.

So, verbatim training data reproduction - I don't think it's going to be a problem, I think the author is making too much of it.

On the contrary, let's have this knob exposed and we could set it anywhere between original and copycat, at deployment time. Maybe you want to know the lyrics of a song, or how to fix a Python error (copycat model is best). Maybe you want an 'original' essay for homework inspiration. Who knows? But the model should know PII and copyrighted text when it sees it.
> If you go the trade secret route you don’t have exclusive rights.

Most patents don't describe in full how the sausage is done. That's been well known for decades now, in various disciplines.
Of course not. You can't tell people what life to live. That's why the studies are generally 30,000+ people big to get enough randomisation in.

I think the ChAdOx study wasn't quite as large. Someone know ?
Slightly related: Has anyone had their modern HDMI monitors change color (over the whole screen) when a small portion is displaying a heavily stippled image (like a classic MacOS screenshot?)
Nancye Radmin, Pioneer of Plus-Size Fashion, Is Dead at 82
One dark pattern I especially hate is the "cookie consent dark pattern" that shows up nearly everywhere since GDPR. Usually the option to accept all cookies is highlighted in a nice color, with large and appealing font. The option to only accept the very necessary cookies is often greyed out an almost unreadable, to trick visitors into thinking this option is disabled.

As as an add-on: On many sites, the grey option is to edit cookie preferences, leading you to an overcomplicated site where you can set all possible details - tricking the user to accept again all cookies in order to save time.
Hrm so are markov decision processes RL?
FTA

> “We’ll go to the Attorney Grievance Commission on some cases, where we know for a fact that there were intentional misrepresentations that were made, the kind where there is no question of the facts,” she said, according to The New York Times.

> “If you have your name attached to it and you’ve made intentional misrepresentations, I absolutely think you ought to be held accountable,” she said.

This seems pretty reasonable to me.
Would it make much of a difference when those same device makers which it would affect normally lock down their devices completely and don't ever expose any of the functionality of the linux kernel to the end user? Would we miss out on a few patches for drivers?