skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia editors have a clear stance against anything fringe, which is very wrong IMO. As an example, take this sentence from the intro for the Project Blue Book page [1]:

By the time Project Blue Book ended, it had collected 12,618 UFO reports, and concluded that most of them were misidentifications of natural phenomena (clouds, stars, etc.) or conventional aircraft. According to the National Reconnaissance Office a number of the reports could be explained by flights of the formerly secret reconnaissance planes U-2 and A-12.[2] A small percentage of UFO reports were classified as unexplained, even after stringent analysis.

That "small percentage" is actually 22%, as indicated many paragraphs below. And if we only consider the "Highest quality reports" category, the reports deemed unidentified goes up to 35%. That's not a "small percentage".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blue_Book
There's one for PyTorch, I tested it about a year ago. You have to compile it from scratch and IIRC it translates/compile CUDA to ROCm at runtime which causes noticeable pauses on the first run. There may be other tweaks you have to do too. Once set up it performs decently, though.
Interesting point here. I've recently been thinking about why e-ink hasn't gotten more market saturation, and you make a good point that LCD watches look the same as e-ink, but have more customizability.

Just for example, do you have any specific watches that you like the most for their LCD look?

And where would you go purchase small LCD screens? I'm not familiar with online marketplaces that do that, although I'm sure I can do some of my own research and find some.
Of course it is, if we agree that incremental research isn't necessarily "SOTA chasing". Deep learning, and in fact all scientific breakthroughs, did not materialize out of nowhere. They're a culmination of a long sequence of scientific papers (some more incremental than others), conference presentations, poster sessions, hallway conversations, even coffee chats.

It's not some dude disappearing into the forest for a few years and coming back with a revolutionary idea (maybe in movies). Everything that helped shape the scientist's thinking has contributed to the idea, even if sometimes the idea is so revolutionary that it's hard to see the direct link. Besides, show me a scientific paper with no references. :-)

It's a shame that this is rarely acknowledged and more often than not we talk about "that guy who invented X and got a Nobel prize for it". But us mere mortals can take solace in knowing that even if we didn't change the world with our own ideas, it's possible that we've influenced someone who has.
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It looks like the main "about backups" page [1] on Apple Support misleads about this issue:

> iCloud backups include nearly all data and settings stored on your device. iCloud backups don't include:

> Data that's already stored in iCloud... iMessages... Health data

Only the more technical "about encryption" page [2] that most users wouldn't seek out contains the full story, providing a list of regular encryption vs. E2EE services and admitting the key issue:

> Messages in iCloud also uses end-to-end encryption. If you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your Messages. This ensures you can recover your Messages if you lose access to iCloud Keychain and your trusted devices. When you turn off iCloud Backup, a new key is generated on your device to protect future messages and isn't stored by Apple.

The problem is that the first page makes it sound like no iMessage related data is backed up, when the truth is that the messages themselves aren't but a backdoor copy of the encryption key is, and lists it along with other E2EE services like Health data that do not have a key backed up and remain E2EE protected with iCloud backup. A user would have no reason to even seek out the second article to learn that it's not the same.

Concerningly, iCloud Photos are not E2EE at all. It's no more secure/private than Google Photos or any other app.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204136
[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
I would instead encourage you to participate on more topics than any single topic alone. It’s not that you need to include a disclaimer on every comment, it’s that your participation is so narrowly focused on boosting cryptocurrencies that I can determine you’re invested in them at a glance. Participating more broadly would be more welcome, and would give more weight to your views here. (I am not a site admin, this is only the thoughts of someone else on HN.)
Ultimately it comes down to the sensitivity of the moderators. And we're having this debate because the content moderators at these bay-area big tech companies are hyper sensitive to content from the right and charitable to content from the left. So they can take a threat from the right seriously, but think that a threat from the left is just hot air.

So someone saying something like "Get rid of traitors!" can be interpreted as a call for war or it could be interpreted as 'take these people out of office by voting!' It all depends on the moderator's worldview and biases.
Is the world on the cusp of a wave of technological advance?
I'll take "obnoxious" over "insidiously effective"
Just my personal experience, but the people at my company titled "Data Engineers" basically can only be trusted to (very slowly) move data around, while the people titled "Data Scientists" have to do all the cleaning work to make the data suitable for analysis and modeling, in addition to doing that analysis and modeling.

Is the point here that data scientists are doing too much of the work that should be handled by data engineers? If so I agree, but there are some org barriers. For one thing, our data engineers are not accountable to any particular project. All we can do is send them tickets to move data around, and it already takes them weeks to move a table from one database to another. I can't imagine the headaches if we gave them anything nontrivial to do.
This is the real concern for me too. But in the end I think WhatsApp has gravity even if moving to Signal is minimal effort.
This is a list of operating systems.
One of the awesome things about published content is that you are never forced to do anything if you can form your own group. And even then, there are lots of people in many cities and online willing to play just about any system out there.

My friends and I still play AD&D (run by a couple of the guys), or OSR systems if run by myself and the other guys. I've played 5e and 4e, but never felt like it was forced on me, because, you know, I own books for other systems and so do my friends. And since I didn't enjoy 4e, I just dropped that game. I haven't played 5e since the playtest days, but with OSR systems out there that already covered the same terrain, it held no appeal to me or my group.
CrossOver is open source. PlayOnMac uses their variant.
This.

I feel so much for the hundreds of open source developers who toil everyday only to have AWS make so much money out of it, to make the largest shareholder the richest man on earth, while contributing nothing back to any of the open source projects. This has to be fixed or we will see less and less developers open sourcing quality products
Yes and I think you can add Reddit and potentially even some HN posts to this. The world would benefit from an engagement diet.
People enjoy unpredictable reward more than fixed ones
> Adtech is a cancer and it's time to cut it out using every legislative and regulatory option we have.

That attitude is the problem: why do we go straight from "This is a problem!" to the government? Aren't there solutions other than making things illegal? Is it just because making things illegal is easier than talking to our neighbors and friends, and giving them peaceful solutions to their problems, doing business locally, and refusing to do business through online ads that use techniques that lead to results like this?

People who call for insurrection are usually plenty aware of where to get things like this anyway. It's a bad look for Facebook, sure; but are these ads likely to do real harm? I doubt it. There's plenty of time for sensible people to make a difference without creating more anger by trying to make even more restrictive laws.
This is on a model designed to run faster on CPUs. It's like dropping a bowling ball on your foot and claiming excitement that you feel bruised after a few days.

Maybe there's something interesting there, definitely, but the overhype of the title takes away any significant amount of clout I'd give to the publishers for research. If you find something interesting, say it, and stop making vapid generalizations for the sake of more clicks.

Remember, we only can feed the AI hype bubble when we do this. It might be good results, but we need to be at least realistic about it, or there won't be an economy of innovation for people to listen to in the future, because they've tuned it out with all of the crap marketing that comes/came before it.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk!
If memory serves, Apple did precisely this with FileVault for a very long time. Google did the same thing with encryption on phones. It was all quite thoroughly optional and all the warnings were thoroughly clear.

People can, will, do, and did ignore any and all warning messages and then look to support to help them. It does not seem to matter how large, scary, or clear the warnings are. They will be ignored.

So if you're Google or Apple and want to ensure that people's identity documents or tax records or business documents aren't stolen when the laptop or phone is, you make encryption the default. It helps that these devices are easier to sell to businesses. I'm thankful for these choices.

In my professional capacity as an information security practitioner and my personal capacity as a privacy advocate, I find the idea at hand distasteful. Improved security should be available to everyone, not just those with a deep grasp of how to manage cryptographic keys. Gaining any measure of data security should not be reserved solely for us in the technical elite.

There might, perhaps, be a slightly different discussion to be had about making it more common for tools to enable advanced users to manage their own keys. But this should never come at the expense of the common user. We have a profound professional responsibility to be better than that.
Maybe for now, but there's no way that is going to be true in 10-20 years. Resources are going to get more and more important as high grade ore deposits (needed for the nickel, copper, etc. that go into renewable energy tech) are concentrated in politically unstable regions (Congo, Central Asia, Russia). Couple that with even moderate economic growth in the developing world and you are going to see EU/USA, China, Russia, etc. all trying to secure access to these important resources.
Ever since I started getting involved in Tarot/Reiki/Pagan groups, Facebook has started showing me advertisements for products very clearly designed for females despite me being male in both biology and identity.
Since you mention games; I still don't fully understand the relation between wine and proton. It's mostly described as a wine fork optimized for games. But is it otherwise identical to wine wrt usage? Or is it integrated into steam? If it's standalone, should I even still bother trying games on wine? Does code from proton end up back in wine? Could I run other Windows apps with proton instead of wine and benefit, eg CAD software?
Your sources need work. The salient point (defensive gun use) is not substantiated by your linked report as it specifically mentions the CDC may not collect this data:

> In addition to the restrictions on certain kinds of data collection,

> congressional action in 1996 effectively halted all firearm-related injury research

> at the CDC by prohibiting the use of federal funding “to advo-cate

> or promote gun control.”18 In 2011, Congress enacted similar re-strictions

> affecting the entire U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The

> net result was an overall reduction in firearm violence research

> (Kellermann and Rivara, 2013). As a result, the past 20 years have

> witnessed diminished progress in understanding the causes and ef-fects

> of firearm violence.

Additionally, "homicide" is not a sufficient tally of gun deaths. There are also suicides and unintended discharges.

Regardless, the original point is that guns are primarily designed to kill things. It would not be "effective" defense if that were not the case. 2A advocates do not defend their gun rights purely so they can enjoy target shooting.
"Computer science" is a well-known misnomer as it is not about computers nor is it science. It's generally reserved for the academic study of computing. Data science is much closer to science.
The parent said it would be worse if the author were somebody with power or fame - not if the target wasn't.

Edit: Just clarifying, not agreeing. While I agree that there is subjectivity around how indirect a threat is, who the author and their audience is, etc, I do think in this case this tweet should be removed.
Most people are stupid. Therefore I would expect most communities to be moderated horribly. How could it be otherwise if they are moderated by stupid people elected by other stupid people? The good part is that people who are better than average can create their own community which will be better than average. How much better, that only depends on those people.

The alternative is having some kind of elite moderators that moderate all communities. It sets a lower bar on their quality. Unfortunately, it also sets an upper bar on their quality. Everything will be as good as the appointed elite likes it, neither better nor worse.

From the perspective of what the average person sees, the latter is probably better. From the perspective that I am an individual who can choose a community or two to participate in, and I don't care about the rest, the latter is better.
> TempleOS had some features that other OS's could use, too—its use of hyperlinking is actually really cool.

If you want to see what doldoc and plumbing in one system might look like, check out Oberon[1].

[1] - http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/
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My first job as a "Data Scientist" (it wasn't called that, but the work was the same) was for a small gaming shop, around 2011. It involved applying econometric analysis and doing simple statistical testing on the player data sets. I realized quickly that knowing how to do statistical testing was only a very small portion of what it took to create value in such a role. At the time, I didn't even know (but learned) SQL. Everything I wanted to do involved teaming up with a developer, which wasn't efficient in a small operation. So I learned to program. I continue to enjoy skilling-up, most recently learning cloud-tech to enable me to deploy data tools I develop.

The most valuable people in the data chain will be those that can take idea to near-production. Running ML libraries over clean datasets is overrated. The fact is, 80% of the value of "Data Science" comes from KPIs and basic stuff.
> include things like Discord and Reddit as well as Facebook and Twitter.

Hackernews?
> It is reasonable to extent that list beyond just child pornography.

Seems like you're just back to square one there.

You're making a list of unacceptable content. Whatever you put on there, someone's going to disagree.

Whether it's automated or not probably isn't the issue.

I see a lot of comment sections ruined by the typical bot spam (e.g. "I earn $5000 a minute working from home for Google").
I mean you believe that human sentiments of “good” and “evil” matter much outside of human heads, or that the world would magically be a much better place if no wars ever happened.

(of course I predict you will cherry pick some wars to be perfectly justified)
> Are the ads illegal? [...] should they be shut down?

Probably not, but insurrection is. The ad isn’t the problem here, the context & juxtaposition is the problem. It’s not a call to shut down ads, it’s a call to avoid accidentally (or worse, intentionally) supporting illegal speech and violence.
I was a bit surprised how much metadata Apple includes for this shared picture (in some of the XHR responses). Not only your email address (the same that's on your HN profile so I assume that doesn't hurt) but also what seems to be your device's name ("i" followed by a part of your last name) as well as what looks to be a unique ID of your device and your timezone (are you GMT-6?).
Nothing as a service.

NAAS.

One wonders , if you can get 20 people to actually use this would you have the most efficient startup ever created.
It is more than “language barrier” or “diverse opinions” in China: the government actively censors information and sways public opinion [1].

Regardless of your political stance (whether you think Dalai Lama is good or evil, Tiananmen Square is good or bad), the public at large in China receives different information and opinions from outside.

This is not orientalism. Concepts that could be discussed freely in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, or India, could not be discussed with ease in China. This is hinted at above, that many in China are unaware of the Tiananmen Square incident.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/07/wechat-...
I am talking about popular culture. I consider myself moderately successful (I run a small business that I managed to build from scratch through trial and error after studying the "hot" fields and working in the industry). I am happy with my life and I'm trying to pass my mindset to my kids to make sure they can find what works for them.

From what I can see, I am the only example of this in their life. The mainstream media talks about how we are privileged and should step back, not want anything, and let others have it. The role models of prosperity are Instragram celebrities and pop singers, that have a hard cap on their numbers by definition. Nobody takes the long road with rewards further down seriously, and this is saddening. Because the people I know that followed the instant gratification route years ago are not happy at all right now.

And the trouble is that once you are the only person with this mindset in your neighborhood, and are wealthier than others, people with pitchforks will come for you. It won't help that you made your fortune through hard work if your neighbors think it's unfair. There have been historic precedents. Kulaks in early Soviet Union [0] is a very good example. Mccloskeys case from last year is another one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization
This is true, thats why I wrote "there are usually mechanisms to stop them". From a certain scale, you need to have the tools.
Burns to be wrong but I learned something :-)
I would agree actually. I learn linux, but to get into the depths takes some time. It’s not even easy to choose which one to use. And I have code written for Mac platform, that I need to finish. (I’ve described my situation above
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25778247 )
Yep, clearly anyone who disagrees with you is inciting violence.
Linux is much better than relying on proprietary services. Nobody said Linux solves all the other problems in the world. lol.
Tara AI (YC W15) is hiring a growth product manager to build an anti-Jira
That reasoning is a mistake.

It's like train companies thinking they shouldn't compete with cars because they're in the train business (without realizing they’re actually in the transportation business).

AMD is in the chip business, not the x86 business - and x86 just became a whole lot less relevant for the future.
That and the old InQuest Magazine. I've still got a couple physical copies, but I really wish I hadn't recycled all the old issues I used to have.
Elastic is one of, if not the largest, contributor to Lucene anyway.
Yes, but Facebook and Google are neither of those. They're just the platform where the advertisers and their victims connect. I think the parent was saying this is less to do with the algorithm, and more due to the keywords that the advertisers chose to link their product with.
If anything their analogy shows why that is in fact the default.

Most people can tie their shoelaces, so may stores don't even bother carrying velcro shoes.

Likewise if the situation was inverted, hardly anyone would sell shoes with shoelaces.

When there's finite resources for businesses the needs of the many overcome the needs of the few
So the explicit call for violence, which you have no idea who is reading it, what their mental state is, what action they may take, etc is not a problem, but a call to protest is a threat that needs to be dealt with ASAP.
single core performance on zen2 competes or beats current generation intel chips, and tends to offer more cores and lower power usage as well.
Just because I describe something as essential when trying to sell it to you, doesn’t make it actually essential.

I do believe some level of internet serving access is a public utility. But i doubt that level is cloud hosting.
Cabin overheat was never billed to protect children and dogs, as far as I know (besides Elon's tweet...). Plus, there's actual keep climate on features now that actually can keep it at whatever temperature you want. And you have the ability to turn it off completely if you want. I have to say, coming back to a car that is only 100F inside instead of 140F+ is great.
Another positive "hit" for Betteridge's Law of Headlines. I've been leaning toward being a believer lately.
HA! This reminded me of the OS class I took in college.

Every professor other than mine taught Linux, but he made us learn Inferno. (One of the best learning experiences of my time there!)

If you're interested in the inner workings of Inferno he literally wrote the, only(?), book on it. There are a couple free excerpts available on his site.[0]

[0] https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/
It seems like the work to move the core modules to PE format that happened in 6.0 is work that can help bring back 32-bit support on Mac. See https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2019-December/15...
I don't really like the word 'elaborate' because I'm too lazy to belabor the point. I can give you some examples, though.

— Here's an example of the kind of tech people are hacking up with this phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D8OZNYQynY

— Here's an example of the kind of tech you can expect to become commonplace when anyone can take 3d photos: https://lookingglassfactory.com/

— Here's a line of hardware that's going to be able to be completely replaced with an app: https://matterport.com/
workera.ai has a very interesting approach to measuring, categorizing, and visualizing where you are on the skill spectrum and what employers are looking for on that spectrum.
Liability for what exactly? How about people who actually commit bad acts are the ones responsible for it?

It seems like you haven't really thought about this and are just personally against adtech and those companies. That's not how rights and legislation should be decided.
> including a system for using friends/family to certify recovery in the event of password loss

Having friends and family take ownership of partial secret keys is a non-starter. Few people would actually go to the lengths of distributing fractional secrets to their friends and family. Even fewer people would do a good job of not losing them over the years.

Outside of techie circles, account recovery is a relatively frequent occurrence. The majority of general public customers would prefer being able to recover their account even if it means a vanishingly small chance that the FBI would be able to access it in the even of an investigation.
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Nice, impressive project! I can still remember the days of Odin/2 which allowed you to run Windows (32b) applications in OS/2. Good times.
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