skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It can't be difficult to make conclusions about the current position of stationary objects.

You need to know that there is a stationary object in the first place, of a kind you care about (not a plastic bag). I.e. that it's not actually a moving object, an optical illusion, etc.

You also need to know that you are going to end up moving through it (it's not a parked car that you will avoid by following your lane).

That's... not trivial.

(going to be was probably poor phrasing on my part, sorry)
Not a huge fan, but for me the exact point where Docker ends and Kubernetes starts is binding a container to a network port. If you write what port to use inside a Dockerfile, it does nothing, it's only advisory.

For better or for worse, you need something outside the Dockerfile that can run it. That can be you, if you want to type out 'docker run -p8080:80' etc. You could probably script it, but does your script do restarts, failover, etc?
Nice summary/spec and audit of Apple's Offline Finding design.

As far as I understand, seems to validate Apple's design, except for two flaws that seem minor:

1. If you're an app running on a machine, you're not supposed to have access to its location unless explicitly permitted by the user. But an app could access the cached keys of this offline finding feature, and do some shenanigans to "allow any third-party application to bypass Apple’s Core Location API that enforces user consent before an application can access the device’s location", and that malign app could than also "access the location history of the past seven days of all the owner’s devices."

This seems to have been fixed as of 10.15.7 (late Catalina).

2. If multiple users have been at the same location at the same time, and they each use "Find My", then Apple could correlate them. This seems fairly remote, but as they point out, this "could be harmful to protesters who put their phones into flight mode to stay anonymous and prevent their devices from showing up during a cell site analysis—which is precisely when the devices would start emitting OF advertisements. Law enforcement agencies could record all the advertised public keys at the demonstration site and ask Apple to provide the Apple IDs of the users that later requested location reports to deanonymize the participants."

So, do not use "Find my" within a week of having been at anything of interest to law enforcement if you don't trust Apple.
What's even worse is that ML frameworks (also newer ones) don't have or support built in authenticity/integrity checking when loading model and model architecture. Developers have to build their own solutions, like checking a hash or signature themselves - very few do.

This threat model of an ML system is quite interesting also, it highlights the various security challenges a typical ML system faces: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2020/husky-ai-threat-mo...
>> exclusively on the presumption that an advanced civilization would emit (intentionally or as a byproduct) RF in a manner we can detect

No. That is radio SETI. The search for life also looks includes Dyson-SETI, the search for megastructures, or other technosignatures, which can have nothing to do with RF.

(1) A galaxy without any supernovas, with all the dangerous stars pushed out of the galactic disk -> the lumberjack scenario.
(2) A planet with gasses associated with industry -> technosignature.
(3) Unexplained planetary phenomena, starlight doing things that suggest large orbiting megastructures (Dyson sphere territory).
... and the list goes on. Radio telescope SETI is one very small corner in the search for other civilizations.
That is very true; lots of people do manage to grow up. A big part of the issue is just that smart, disaffected 16 year olds are just awful to be around. I know because I was one.
Scientists grew tiny tear glands in a dish
It is well-known that people working in ASML don’t have soul, as it is etched out by Extreme Ultra-Violet.
The artificial womb will be the great invention of whatever century. It's not a false dichotomy for women who practically get ripped in half and are never quite the same again, but are expected to stay fit. Of course birth rates go down as women start to get treated like people.
> a property called "White_Space" which implies it is two words

<tongue-in-cheek>
Except that `_` is a "word" character by default.
</tongue-in-cheek>
No, these are true-laser recorded holograms, capturing the interference pattern of the laser light. The current printer uses horizontal parallax only, but we do have full-parallax as a stretch goal for the Kickstarter.
I suspect all domesticated animals, and many non-domesticated animals that live in close human contact, also display such behaviors. My horses respond to hearing the door of the house close early in the morning, knowing that grain is soon on the way. My cattle hear the tractor start and start moving in their slow fashion to the hay feeder. If I holler in a particular way that often presages grain, they'll stampede to the location.
so I actually do have an automated feeder. unfortunately, I think he remembers the time before we had the feeder when humans would put food in his bowl. he waits patiently in the morning for the most part (maybe he realizes it's futile while I'm sleeping), but he usually starts meowing for food a few hours before the feeder is scheduled to dispense it in the afternoon. BTW, the portions are exactly what the vet recommended; he's not starving.

with the kitchen, I do let him in if I'm going to be in there for a while. I think he really just wants to be where the people are. I don't use spray bottles or anything like that. I've read that sometimes the animal forms a negative association with the human rather than the proscribed behavior. I just put him out the first time he jumps on the counter or chews on a plant.

anyways, it's not really a big deal. I don't find the meowing terribly annoying. I just want, if possible, to be sure I'm making the distinction between ignoring his requests and acknowledging them but "saying no".
The internet is forever. Good on her for taking responsibility. Accountability means consequences.

She's apparently very good at her job, and I hope it means that she can find a place to rebuild her reputation. There should be one, especially since had already taken responsibility for this.

But Teen Vogue wasn't the place for it. Especially since she was a teen when she sent these racist tweets. The Internet means that mistakes you make as a teenager will come back to haunt you. Courts can seal arrest records but the Internet is public. The things you say are heard, and seen, and they matter.

So I hope this is a minor setback in her career, and that they can find somebody equally talented.
> There’s something a bit elitist and anti-democractic about paywalling access to information.

The premise of a paid search engine is such that information still remains free on the web, it is the access to the convenience of a (superior/premium) search product that you are paying for. This is different to what you are claiming?

I'd also go as far to say that paid search is the only model that removes perverse incentives that ad-driven business models for search engines have historically produced. We all know that both Larry and Sergey agreed that advertising in search engines is a bad thing in their seminal 1997 paper, yet we also know how that ended ( no ads -> contextual ads -> privacy intrusive ads -> ?). The pressure from the true customer filling the pockets (advertisers), makes this path hard to avoid given enough time.

A paid search product would face pressure from a very different angle - improve quality of the search product itself or risk losing a customer. This is IMO a much better position to be in from a product standpoint as at least the incentives of both the company and the user/customer are aligned. Business wise, probably less lucrative because of "search has to be free" intertia.
There can be no oblivion if you experienced it. I would suggest reversing the idea that conscience is part of a being and instead suggest that consciousness is inherit in everything because it is everything. Within or without a being.
Are you advocating for some sort of central authority who regulates what individuals use power for?
My opinion is that the whiter LEDs are a welcome change from their orange predecessors. I'm normally very nostalgic, but I make an exception for orange street lights.
I saw these too, running on a Meiko Computing Surface containing (IIRC) 64 Transputers when I was at university. We were taught Occam, but weren't allowed to touch the machine itself.

Many years later, I found a T-800 in its storage case abandoned in the drawer of my new (to me) desk at a new job - so I kept it.
> When I meditate, sometimes I can notice that I'm thinking verbal thoughts—suggesting that verbal thoughts transpire subconsciously, as well.

Something similar was coming up recently in my meditation practice, where I'd be aware of a vague impulse of a thought or idea arising before it became verbalized. Then I realized that I had had that experience before, when I was a kid and playing music a lot, where I'd notice the sensation of a thought beginning to arise but would put it away before it could get verbalized, since playing music needs a lot of attention and discursive thoughts will certainly make you mess up.

I'm not really trained in Zen, but in reading a book by Katsuki Sekida a while back he referred to thought impulses by varying degrees of 'nen', with the first 'nen' being a thought impulse of pure experience before it is recognized by a second or third degree 'nen'. This sort of felt related to that experience.
It isn't an AI bug, it is a lack of sensor input for the AI to work on. Elon's insistence that he can throw a couple extra cameras on a car and perform at a level of safety equal to what Google has figured out requires a dozen LIDAR sensors is criminal.
I don't think consciousness can be explained as brain activity. To me that would lead to consciousness being a form of computation.
There are, of course, lots of ways to define success, but if you're talking about running a business then your Dad's experience largely matches what I've seen in my professional life (small business).

The interesting thing to me is that the desire to work that hard, and sacrifice that much, is largely an innate trait, not a conscience decision (at least that's been what I've seen). And the people who struggle the most are not those who work the most but who are torn because they WANT one thing but lack the inherent traits required to do it.

Personally, I don't think that professional success and money are good reasons to work that hard. Working that hard is gratifying in and of itself (to some people) because it teaches you things about the world, helps forge relationships with people, and forces you to develop skills you didn't know would benefit you later in life.
> OK, so it's not a true hologram

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hologram disagrees. This appears to be using real laser holography.
The relevance is that it is politically difficult, especially currently, to not want street lighting. Evidence isn’t so relevant and arguably the psychological benefits to the citizenry are worth the costs.
People underestimate how useful it would be, despite it not being "directly applicable".

If I had to pick one class that I would call fundamental to my understanding of CS, it would be CS2110 (Computer Organization and Programming) from Georgia Tech.

It started off with building stuff using logic gates, like APUs. Then it moved onto other stuff. It all culminated into building your own simplistic CPU pipeline (in an emulator) and making a small game for Gameboy Advance. Dealing with hardware limitations of that handheld console, as well as learning some interesting tricks the devs had to employ for it to add stuff like parallax backgrounds, felt eye-opening.
I'm on a free plan on Google cloud. I'm currently using docker-compose, but I'll probably switch to minikube when I get some free time.
One from the vaccine and immunology head of the Charité in Berlin. No idea where I read the other one, but it was in German as well. The Charité one is here:

https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/astrazeneca-das-...
could you allocate the VM on demand? xinetd style

(you could route the ssh traffic similarly based on login)
It was expected all along as the EMA never suggested otherwise.

It's baffling that so many countries rushed into suspending the vaccine. By all means they should track and investigate potentially serious side effects but it's unclear to me why they escalated this so much when, at least based on the raw numbers (ie. about 50 cases of blood clots out of about 17 million injections), the incidence of blood clots is minimal even if caused by the vaccine (people have a higher risk of dying in a car accident than developing a blood clot after an injection...)

I feel some countries suspended it out of 'peer pressure'. For example it seems to me that France did not really want to suspend it but did soon after Germany announced it would. Now they have already said they will resume immediately and that the PM will get an AZ injection tomorrow to show it's fine.
> I’m not exposed to that complexity

Some of us think editing YAML files is complex enough.
I don't understand, the situations are not analogous at all. Not to mention I was merely asking a question - not everything is an "argument".
I did figure this out, but I decided not to run SourceHut mainly because of Drew's comments in the channel.

> (ie. Drew) isn't interested in running it in containers, but nothing is stopping you from trying.

Yes, he is. I asked in SourceHut's Freenode channel and Drew's comments were literally, "we don't take kindly to your kind around here, don't ask again."
Yes, it certainly looks that way:
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-israel-va...
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-pfizer...
The TorProject Urges All Relay Operators to Upgrade to 0.4.5.7 Due to DoS Vulns
Line users' info accessed by technicians in China without consent
Soumith and I had discussions on hdf5 in the beginning of the AI renaissance (around 2014?). Torch maintainers definitely aware of better format at that time (original Torch in Lua has high-level File APIs for serialization).

It becomes muddy when we moved from Caffe / TensorFlow to dynamic models with PyTorch where it is harder to see how to persist model (which means both the executable objects and the weights) efficiently and safely.

At the end of the day, I think "export" and "checkpointing" should be two different things. An "exported" model should be safe to deploy and run on platforms like Azure ML while a "checkpointing" model should be treated like code and everything goes. That is probably where ONNX should be (for exporting).
White people invented whiteness and blackness
I've always despised how YouTube removes videos with no trace of what was once there. I have dozens of videos saved to playlists that I will never be able to recover because there is no identifying information. Why not take down the file but leave the title for reference?
Interesting. The link I posted is a lot (100k) of small 4-field objects, but they aren't nested.
So it "only" encourages its users to take their eyes of the road for extended periods of time? I am sure the police will love to hear "I was just checking google maps for directions, but I had autopilot enabled so it is fine" after a crash.
There are two melting cycles overlapping here. The cycle coming out of the last ice age, and the human caused warming. That latter is really stark in the velocity of change. It's not yet that stark in total magnitude, but it's also not linear with most of the change coming at the end in the future. It's looking like we may be headed for 4 degrees of average warming, which is pretty terrifying. That might just be enough to end the cycles of ice ages that's been happening for millions of years - which could be overall positive for us long term. But shorter term the disruptions to our cities, countries, and food supply is unprecedented in recorded history.
Between GPUs and increasing core counts on CPUs, in many ways we've had single-box clusters for a while as normal current-gen workstations.
Sure we can. Biological life is something that replicates autonomously using DNA contained inside the apparatus of at least one cell. Viruses are not alive because they can not replicate on their own and do not produce their own cells. More abstractly life is something that follows the Darwinian program as demonstrated on Earth. If you had competing, replicating programs in a virtualised Earth-like environment I would say they were alive too if they could fully reproduce and establish resource economising ecosystems on their own.
Can the police officers know for sure before an investigation?
I have always had the rather unsettling feeling that my internal monologue is a post-hoc justification or rationalization for what my subconscious just caused me to do, and was not the cause.
Fair enough, but I'd just like to point out that specific issue you linked to happens on Windows too (and almost certainly MacOS as well).

It's just how device writes work, and is why Windows users have been told for years to select their device -> Eject instead of just yanking the USB drive out when Windows says 100%.

So, not exactly a fair criticism in my opinion, but your overall point stands - Linux can be rough around the edges for some use cases.
Just noticed in the readme:

> No need to first install the command on the other machine.

and

> It must be installed on your own machine and any machines that you'll be using to run commands. On those other machines you must make sure to install it globally, such that it can be started with a command like ssh user@host outrun.

Not sure if the readme is just out of date, or if I'm misunderstanding the initial statement about the _other machine_.
Maybe it just makes themselves feel good, maybe they have a lot of guilt, maybe they feel like they're part of the solution.

White saviour complex, is what it is. They soon turn nasty if they don’t think you’re grateful or deferential enough, same as male feminists do with women. But like I say you can easily spot them.

(Non-white myself btw)
Maybe we could actually shut down next time rather than doing what we did: unenforced and ignored stay-at-home orders, unenforced and ignored business closures, and unenforced and ignored mask mandates. Do it right and then perhaps we could get rid of the disease in a shorter amount of time.
The way cdrom.com worked is you would upload a fingerprint of your music. Then if they already had a track that matched the fingerprint, they would link that to your account and not require you to upload the whole track. So this was technically not within the scope of what is allowed by copyright law, which is why they got in trouble.

Which is kind of strange how when something is "technically" a violation, even if it is within the spirit of the law (or equiv. to what is allowed), the copyright hammer comes down. Whereas when something is "technically" NOT a copyright violation, the hammer still comes down (such as that company that used a bunch of tiny TV antennas to stream broadcast TV over the internet to other markets -- each customer was "renting" one of the dedicated TV antennas and using the internet as a "long cable". Or the company that would dedicate a DVD player to each customer and stream movies across the internet, again claiming the internet was just a "very long cable". They both got shut down hard even though they weren't "technically" in violation).
> As for the "enormous number" of other 3D artists, most of them are busy creating escapist stuff that will never get the attention of the art scene. To that end, skill just doesn't matter.

Ah, yeah it does matter. That's why they are busy cultivating said skill, and the content does not matter much. Nor does the so called art scene.

In fact, if you knew the etymology of escapade, you might see how it is a polar opposite to control. And if you know anything about randomness and crypto, you know it takes skill to maximize randomness, and to constrain it.

Maybe I misunderstad what "escapist" means, but I don't expect you to explain it.
Why is this downvoted? Just honestly curious - I've never read these guys but I'm always hearing about Sam Harris.
Godot OpenXR Support
Metacognition may be a better term to differentiate from the lazy use of consciousness.
The problem Kubernetes is trying to solve is to eliminate the burden and potential mistakes in the workflow you mentioned by automating your container deployments and actively monitoring their state. This allows the cluster to balance workloads, heal failing components, (re-)distribute work to nodes with the appropriate resources, and migrate between different versions of container images without downtime or manual intervention.

It does all of this by allowing you to specify a service architecture in configuration files and then actively ensures that this configuration is maintained even as the underlying state of containers change. You can specify things such as the minimum number of backend containers needed to provide a service, scaling parameters to add more backend containers as load increases, and you can tag nodes with different attributes so that containers are distributed and maintained with the appropriate amount of resources.

Kubernetes also provides automating various aspects of networking such as provisioning and configuring load balancers for service ingress as needed. It provides an internal DNS service which automatically registers names for deployments so that linked services can just refer to each other by name without any additional configuration. It can also manage things like SSL certificates which can be shared across multiple services.

Lastly, it provides you with a single place where you can store secrets and configuration values that these services require and again, you wire all of this up with configuration files which can be stored in a git (or other VCS).
While Tononi's theory is interesting, it cannot be a complete explanation of conciousness at any level; it does not answer the Hard Problem of Conciousness.

Fundamentally, we need to understand why we have inner subjective experiences that feel the way they do. It sometimes keeps me awake at night troubling over how we could even begin to cast an explanation for this intimately subjective phenomenon in the objective language of mathematics and physics.
Yes, the oral polio vaccine is a live vaccine that can cause polio. More advanced vaccines, practically everything in use in developed countries nowadays, don't contain live virus. It's just that third-world countries cannot afford better vaccines.

So yes, you are right that there are some corner cases.
We could have had a hard strong lockdown in early 2020, but people like you made the arguments you're making now, and so we've had a see-saw year of restrictions being imposed and lifted, and here we are: the economy's fucked, huge numbers of people are dead, we have new variants[1] in circulation, and we're now saying "let's just kill off anyone who'd, or obese, or has diabetes, or asthma".

[1] Notice how all the worrying variants are from countries with inadequate lockdowns?
Is this VM like a DigitalOcean or Linode VM with storage attached and the customer is fully responsible for it or is this VM managed by rsync.net like the normal storage accounts?
What they said is a basic property of humans who value money (object of value) over morals, it's hardly limited to wall street. Whether it's depicted in a hollywood flick or medieval morality play. It's as old as humanity
I love the play by email concept.
In USA civil courts the wealthier party typically wins. Alphabet is going to be the wealthier party in most cases. Certainly more than "cdrom.com". This was one of the advantages cited back when Google purchased YouTube.

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/poor-people-dont-stand-a-c...