skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're making the assumption that AGI level intelligence would resemble RL bots of today. It's a classic sci fi trope, but likely not one that makes any sense imo.

AGI might require physical instantiation, but that doesn't mean that physical bots are indicative of AGI outcomes. Most of our physical bots are just classically written programs with a bit of ML to help with classification of its environment anyway.
That's what I was thinking too. Maybe that's true if you're a large company with lots of people competing for your business. But if you're a small company advertising on Google Ads for example, you need them more than they need you.

I wonder if a union would make sense for a certain size of customer?
If anyone else here is working on Deep Learning on/with vector graphics, feel free to ping me.
I am not affiliated with the great work linked here - but I have been working on the general topic as a side project for a few years.
My last point was explicitly also about how it enabled your first paragraph. Apple II at the time wasn't cheap, nor were other computers. Government grants for computers in education created a market that could be then targeted by Apple (and anyone who thinks Apple didn't dedicate serious resources into capturing that market is naive at best)
Yeah, definitely, because Leapp only generates plain short-lived credentials with access key and secret key, and the corresponding session token from AWS Single Sign-on.
So it's fully compatible with all the open-source solutions, including CDK
I learned not to use Dropbox for things like Git repos. I'd have a fresh copy on one computer, and then have an older copy on a different computer. Sometimes I'd accidentally overwrite the newer code w/ autosaving on the older code. Now I'm skeptical that I'll be able to keep everything properly in sync on any sort of network-ish file system that is wrestling for control with my local file system.
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Depends how much time it will take them to be back up again : if it takes too long, most of their potential users will have moved on, for instance to Gab.
Looks like their Hard IP is proprietary but based on open high-level designs such as Rocket and BOOM. The peripherals situation is mixed, but they've stated in the past that they're quite OK with using open designs whenever feasible.
If you are actually interested in looking for useful resources, gifted homeschooling resources are quite different from religious homeschooling resources.
Captain here:
A very useful tool used to manage
and secure Cloud Access in multi-account environments.
I use it to access (programmatic) multiple AWS accounts with my company email.
*flyes away*
Just like technical debt, these make your management job easier now but create problems down the road.
I'm not an expert, but I agree that this is probably not cutting edge technology. But the theme is original and the graphics cue and that makes it interesting.

(If you know how to use haxeflixel you can write a few demos / blog post about it. If they are interesting you can get a few upvotes here.)

The "Show HN" must only be used when the author is the submitter. I checked the names, but I didn't do a full internet search to verify their identities. They look like different persons. (Sometimes the author appear later after noticing the traffic peak.)

Games are not the main topic here, but if the game has some tweak that makes it interesting it may get traction here.

From the guidelines:

> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity

It's not very specific, but it is not very specific on purpose.
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Heh, kind of - but in a weird sounding language :)
I didn't say I agree to regulations to free speech. I believe in full, unabridged, unbridled speech from all sides. I believe that full, equal speech from all view points squash the extreme stupid viewpoints by nature of evolution and competition. As a Polish-American with a good amount of my family being Jewish, yes, that means all sides of the argument must be heard equally and discussed equally. Even the sides I wish I could strangle. It's the willy-nilly censoring and suppression of certain viewpoints that amplifies that exact viewpoint's power to extreme levels. Historically, it's never worked to suppress speech. It has always backfired. Radical, violent viewpoints only gain strength and acceptance when they are suppressed. Let them air out their viewpoints and face an equal scrutiny in a public, fair battlefield of wit.

There's also a question of general ethics when it comes to the conversations in the public sphere. As an example, I believe we can all agree detention, concentration and reeducation camps are evil, anyone who promotes them in a position of power should be made publicly aware of and face the backlash. Let's take literally yesterday Michael Beller, a PBS attorney, was saying children of Republican supporters should be taken from their families and be put in reeducation camps. While PBS is distancing themselves and he resigned, major media is silent on the matter. Hell, Washington Post mentions it, but their super short article focused on the fact this was a supposed sting operation orchestrated by conservatives. It doesn't matter! The dude is videoed saying he's okay with abducting children, reeducation camps and having large swaths of Americans die from Covid because he doesn't agree with their politics. But because it's despicable actions against "the other tribe", it's okay. If a republican said the exact same thing about democrats, word for word, what kind of uproar would there be? Hate to say it, anyone who says that the media and big tech are suppressing their speech, you can't dismiss it at all. At this point, the cat is out of the bag and there is no turning back. To argue against extremism is now harder because of the childish games these companies have played.

In the end, I can appreciate the international political class' response. Their power is threatened. Who wouldn't freak out if they find their voice is easily undermined? Who wouldn't cry foul when their opinion is not equally heard in public discourse, when arbitrary rules are applied to them? Then the opposing opinion has free reign to say and do what they want, along with get artificial inflated publicity. It's just funny now because the politicians are more in line with the populace more than ever, all because the "do no evil" brainwashers of Silicon Valley are showing their true colors. Big tech wasn't the savior to humanity that we were all told the past 20 years. Time to give up that ghost.
Isn't the problems from precisely what you are saying? If you fall into a recommendation hole, as long as they don't get moderation right it might be the wrong kind of hole. For impressionable audience, it might not be a good thing.
AWS repeatedly warned Parler about posts urging murder
I found it here in an earlier HN discussion:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...
Wish you the best, but this reads like something I'd find on my Linkedin feed.
> many European companies don't pay well. Especially for engineers and developers.

You have to take into account the fact that in Europe the state takes a big chunk of your gross salary (probably around 50%) in form of social contributions and other taxes, to cover things like healthcare, unemployment, pension, welfare, parental leave and so on. In the US you have to cover these things yourself most of the time.

So while most people praise the European system they would like at the same time to earn as much as their US counterparts, which is unrealistic tbh. As the saying goes, "you can't have your cake and..."
So some contingent of customers demands that their ISP block some sites, for all customers, or they are going to boycott. SO basically, your fucktard neighbors decide to censor what you are allowed to see on the internet.

Until the blocked customers get all up in arms, and the ISP backtracks and says "whoa, will add you to a white list".

How about the fucktards just install pihole at home and block Facebook and Twitter themselves?

You could always subscribe to a VPN service and bypass the shitshow.
No harm to VMware on this I think. As it pushes into SAAS it really does need a big shake up. Not that Pat wasn't good, but it is an old company with a lot of inertia, some fresh blood and fresh ideas could really be beneficial.

Hopefully the next CEO is as committed to all the other stuff, like treating the employees very good and the community stuff. The best bit of the company isn't the tech at all (in my opinion)
Pretty sure BRL-CAD is only for solid modeling. This is the first I've heard that BRL-CAD can sim propellant combustion. Can you provide a pointer to documentation? I tried a few searches and couldn't find anything relevant.

I've been meaning to learn BRL-CAD, but haven't had a strong motivator. This would be sufficient.
How is that a backfire? Sounds like the employees were sufficiently protected from a company that clearly had no intention of following said law.
I've definitely noticed there is a difference between communities. Of course, no community is "perfect", and a lot of times conflicts happen just because someone having a bad day or lost their temper. That's okay, part of the human condition and all of that.

What matters is 1) how you deal with things when someone is having a bad day (things can either cool down or escalate), and 2) how you deal with people who seem to be having bad days almost every day (i.e. assholes).

If you don't do anything then all communities will gravitate towards toxicity; simply because non-assholes will get tired of assholes and will stop coming back, and then all you're left with are ... assholes, and people with above-average patience.
Do you mind explain it a bit more? I use it mostly to document the steps between systems, I don't see how distributed computing changes that.
Thought of this wholesomeness aspect today as well:

I watch a lot of strength training/weight lifting videos on TikTok, and I would say the vast majority of the comments are supportive, positive and/or constructive.
Sorry. There's no other option other than handing over your phone number which is a horrific idea. Just search SIM-swapping attacks (very common) or SS7 attacks (rare). You'll be surprised.

If you really want to use Signal, buy a throwaway SIM or probably use a Google Voice number to verify and login.

Honestly, I personally don't recommend using Signal unless they get rid of that phone number verification / login process. But I also don't blame general users for not using Element (Matrix) either (Which I think is more secure and works without a phone number, but it is unfriendly to use compared to Signal).
All true, and going even further, the sentences following that also falsly assume that most people _want_ to read the highest quality sources. Wrong. To use the author's reference to Twitter as an example, a lot of people, even very intellectual ones, use Twitter as just a way to "let steam out" so to speak, and other users only engage with content that charges them emotionally. Now adays we have days of rage, reaching major media coverage, based on trivial crap like the title of the First Lady to-be, or hell, even the picture taken for a frickin Vogue cover.

Also as you said, the publishers and advertisers have a lot of the power, and they know exactly how to push the buttons of our human biases and clickbaity titles to get clicks, regardless of the quality of the actual things they are advertising.

EDIT: I commented too quickly. The author quickly indeed verifies that the opposite is happening :)
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The real issue with customer's unions is: how do you get people to make binding commitments to take collective action? Suppose everyone agrees "unless google does X, we'll all switch to AWS/start searching on DDG," how do you monitor and enforce that? (And I have no clue how antitrust law would see the problem.)

Shameless self-promotion: I've speculated in the past that software can help here, eg, by hooking into corporate account APIs to trigger automatic mass cancellation of orders. That's one of the examples of potential "transformative legal technology" in this (sadly paywalled, sorry) academic article: https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/utlj.2017-0047
Make sure it's an iFOBT though ("immunochemical"), not the legacy gFOBT type. Preferably with two test fields - Hb and Hb/Hp (hemoglobin and hemoglobin/haptoglobin complex) - for that extra bit of sensitivity: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4927976/table/tab3/

Just buying a couple of those tests (they're cheap!) instead of going through the gatekeepers makes it practical to repeat them over the course of a few days, increasing the chance to catch intermittent bleeding. Obviously go to a doctor if there's any positive result at all.
Or it is just a opinion manipulation, I wouldn't trust Google one bit.
The freaking stormfront is still up, so I doubt Parler will not find a way too. The question is what fraction of their users will they lose over it?
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Show HN: Smigster – Auto-layer your text on random yet (mostly) relevant photos
Do you have any actual sources about the government keeping apple afloat? Or are you saying since they had educational contracts they were being kept afloat?

Does Airbus have government contracts? Does Ericsson or Nokia? Do you believe European governments contracts with these companies are keeping them afloat?
Just saw this SiFive board HiFive is retailing for $679, can you please comment if this is any good for toying around ? Specs look more than decent - almost desktop class computing.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive-unmatched
I've seen this in repos, I'm pretty sure there are bots who implement it. I'd guess it catches more than 90% of cases, especially if you put the string at the bottom of the template.
That wasn't a "yet" like "and yet, [something]", but a "yet" like "[something isn't happening]... yet".
Jesus wept. Can we do anything right to combat this virus in the UK?
Original Unix wasn't formally verified. seL4 took ~8 years from initial design to release (though apparently the verification was done after 3 years?), and it is a code base smaller than TypeScript. CompCert started in 2005 and it still can't compile all of C, and it doesn't go past the level of Gcc's -O1 optimizations.

Formal verification is an extreme cost amplifier, and the cost is super-linear with the size of the code base. I don't think my estimate is unrealistic, depending on exactly what you would expect to have running before vi (I was assuming a complete OS including a kernel, device drivers, a C stdlib or equivalent, and a userspace similar to the GNU tools).
TikTok's moderation team is pretty on point. Far better than any social network I've ever used before.

I don't think the commenters who say they only get weird or bad content actually know how TikTok works, or how to use it. You can't just scroll your FYP and expect to get new content, you have to go out of your way to find it. FYP is just a feedback loop of videos you keep watching.

If you want to start getting more queer content, for example, start searching the #lgbt or similar tags and watching/liking/commenting. Your FYP changes really quick.
I was originally thinking that if people were upset at corporations for all the damage they do in the thirst for profit, we could take free speech rights away from corporate entities and enshrine those same limits as rights for the people.

But I think you're right. That's ridiculous and results in less freedom, and we should strive for 100% free speech across the board.

The way to fix hate is to make sure everyone's rights are protected and strive to meet everyone's needs. Hate arises from fear and discomfort. It's not an easy problem to solve.
There were US presidents before Twitter, you know that right?

Trump was the one who chose to keep using Twitter as his main medium of communication. He has a LOT of dedicated presidential communication infrastructure available to him. He is choosing not to use it.

The only thing that reflects badly on the US is trump.
Hi HN,

In an attempt to learn more about web dev, I've committed to shipping something every month of this year. And since we're in January, early enough for new year resolutions to still be kept, here's my first project.

Smigster[1] lets you type a few words and composites them onto a random royalty-free photo in an attempt to match the contents of the text to the photo. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

It uses compromise[2] to extract topics, nouns, etc. from the text and runs a search on Unspash[3] based on a random term to get a photo. It's a toy more than anything else, but it's been incredibly valuable for me to go through this process.

I hope you enjoy it, and if you have any feedback, comments, or feature requests, I'd love to hear about it.

[1] https://smigster.com

[2] https://github.com/spencermountain/compromise

[3] https://unsplash.com/developers
This is a very interesting tool!
Looks awesome, I'll try it
Isnt pornhub .. maybe I wrong!
Also, while a lot of feature requests are for kind of obvious things and not really all that valuable IMO, sometimes people just post really good ideas in feature requests. It would be a shame to lose that.
Your wish is my command: https://closedbecause.xyz/

Source here: https://github.com/andrewaylett/closedbecause.xyz, suggestions for reasons welcome, PRs even more welcome.
Great announcement for a great tool! I often use Leapp to manage my cloud credentials. I hope there's a chance to try it in the future with AWS SSO in my future projects.
Yes, there is more than just the salary. Except that, in Europe, most (if not all) forms of "equity" are proportional: your title, your salary, your ability to decide, etc.

It becomes an equivalence:

* Since you decide nothing, therefore your salary is low.

* Since your salary is low, you therefore decide nothing.

This stems fundamentally from a (backward?) European strict view of companies, regardless of how hierarchical/flat their structure may be. And that view is that the corporate environment is split into two groups:

* Managers: they decide;

* Workers: they do work.

This split may have made sense in the Industrial Revolution era but it has shown it's age in this day and age. And yet the model (and the perception, and the values) persist.

If you, as a knowledge worker, ever make the mistake of "getting down and get things done" you will have chosen your side.
The reason is also pretty simple: Most german startups I've seen were some more or less (mostly less) good ideas from rich economics students - and they are looking for developers that are badly paid, get little benefits and have to work out all the issues - as a thank you, they get nothing in return if they are sold or die.

Additionally it's extremely hard to get funding - there are some programs like EXIST - www.exist.de but this is also shaped pretty much for economics students and offers little help for a technical startup.
Pat was a "boy wonder" at Intel and could do no wrong — until Larrabee. I was working at Intel at the time and remember always assuming that Pat would someday be CEO. His departure came as such a shock to a lot of us, as does his return.

He might have what it takes to turn Intel around.
>> one thing not considered is the location of the person using TikTok.

I run into this daily. I'm in the military and so my internet connection at work is mingled with a thousand other military people. Ok, it is accurate to say we are predominantly male and younger, but every time I see an ad does it have to an an anime character? Some of us recently gathered to watch the DC riot footage on youtube. The footage started with a non-skippable ad for some pervy anime game. Try holding a strait face in front of the general as a busty cartoon character in a negligee is bouncing up and down on a ten-foot screen.
I think you're misunderstanding - we mean 'many European companies don't pay as well as North American companies even when they are also employing you in Europe'. So that tax is the same and you can directly compare and it is egregious.
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This is typically called a “Government”. In the US we used to have this at the town, state and federal level. And these “governments” wouldn’t just work with one company, but a many companies.

The way they worked is people would vote for representatives that help make decisions that were in the interests of people, and this would reign in the power of extremely large and powerful companies.

In some parts of Europe they still have these.

Unfortunately in the US companies were foolishly permitted to both purchase the voting power of representatives and directly influence the will of the people to render the government virtually useless (though still a useful distraction for the people)
Then I feel sorry for you.

You have now resorted to attacking the person rather than the idea. Move along. It’s unconstructive, but know this: I am infinitely further away from attacking the capitol than some. Your fearmongering is misplaced.

There, that should help you sleep at night.
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> However, it is not an "open hardware" design in that the IP used to design the chip is not released.

The marketing page for the BeagleV specifically says "Open Hardware Design", but I agree that they probably didn't mean Open Hardware beyond just the PCB layout or something similar.

It would be very surprising if they released the detailed schematics for the SiFive cores. Until there's some kind of common micro-fab standard where every major university can have a legit semiconductor fab for small scale operations, giving people the design doesn't really do much.

I really wish that someone would work on the problem of making affordable, small-scale semiconductor fabrication possible on a reasonably modern node (<= 32nm). It's a hard problem... but everyone in the world being dependent on a few large fabs is also a hard problem.
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Exactly this! I was hoping to get more suggestions along these lines. Because the first thing I thought was that if I hard-ban something they'll just learn how to do it without me knowing, especially if it is something their peers are doing.

So, we need to "gracefully" ban this; that is, if it needs banning at all.

The alternative is to embrace it and show how to use it properly.

And then, there's this addictive nature to it - the app is designed and tuned to provide dopamine hits; how to fight that?
I don't think they could ever prove there was collision though. For one, I don't think anybody except Gab was worried about Parler as a competitor. For two, if you do something egregious in front of 3 shopkeepers, and the whole town is looking at the shopkeepers to see what they'll do, and they all decide to ban you from their respective stores, it's not collision.
This is a great post. Not the text of course, but it's implications. See, the people you think are stupid actually agree with you on this point -- and very likely see you as stupid. Statically, both of you rarely engage the other, but when you do it's to belittle, not to engage and learn. ...and who can blame you - you both think the other is a moron!

2020 saw unprecedented partisanship; if we all continue to insult and dismiss each other, what does the future hold? Unless we can learn to look past our biases and see each other as human beings, it won't be pretty.