skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't this presuppose that what works with n things will work equally well for 1000 * n things?

For example, the artisan workshops of Paris worked really well at making things but it turns out that they couldn't be scaled up to produce at an industrial scale.
We've know this since last may.
This is a Python library I've been co-authoring for the last few months, with the goal being to make finetuning and using models as easy as possible for devs, even without extensive ML experience.

We've currently got support for text and image-based tasks, with wrappers around models like Google's T5, OpenAI's CLIP, and Facebook's BART, among others (with more on the way).

We've got some features that make deployment for production easy, but for full transparency, deployment is through a paid platform [0] we've developed that is by no means necessary to use the library.

We're happy with the progress we've made, but we're curious to hear what people think so we can improve it in the future.

[0] https://backprop.co
In this case it's certainly going to cost them some revenue, not to mention the EU might slap them with a nice GDPR fine for leaking PII.
Underground. Under the sea. Under the ground under the sea. Pfffft. The sun was already trying to kill you that's why living underground is smart anyway. Frankly there should be no expectation of privacy for things you can observe from space...
Why, do people actively monitor that wallet for activity? I'm assuming if any BTC at all moves out of that wallet it'll cause a massive correction to BTC price as people can no longer assume that those bitcoins are off the market.
> the journalists have independence to publish when they want to,

This is the same thing that was said about Youtube creators vs network/cable TV shows that follow a regular schedule. Before too long, it became clear that channels needed to post at least one video per week to keep up with their competition and boost subscriber numbers.

I expect the same thing to happen here.
I can't say I agree fully with you, but there's definitely something about today's activists that seem odd. MLK protested in suits and ties to convince the american public blacks were respectable citizens who deserved equal protection under the law. When BLM rioted, activists went on TV to tell the lay public that "riots are the language of the unheard" and that white America basically deserved it. Whether that's true or not... It seems to me that the core aspect of political activism in a democracy is *convincing other people*. I see very little focus on this aspect and far more focus on accusing others of wrong think.
There was a cool article on this subject a few weeks ago: https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972607811/reading-a-letter-th...

Basically, opening centuries-old letters that are sealed with this technique is usually a destructive process: you might end up rendering some portions of the letter unreadable.

As such, many of these letters have never been opened! They might contain interesting things, but we have no idea.

Some researchers figured out a way to "unfold" X-rays of these intricately-locked letters, to render the letter legible without having to actually open it! It's a pretty cool technique.

The underlying paper is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21326-w
Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default
Telegram Raises $1B+
Imagine that you find Satoshi's private key and start trying to sell his million bitcoins.

Approximately one minute after you start this process, someone will figure out that either (1) bitcoins no longer securely belong to anyone or (2) Satoshi thinks selling off all his bitcoin is a good idea.

Approximately two minutes after you start this process, the price of bitcoin will plummet.

Sorry, you will not be taking home $50B today.
[Moving this to a top-level comment because ~everyone is commenting, “Just don’t be political.”]

Knitters often include political messages in their patterns. From rainbows to certain shades of purple to flags to actual text.
So if the site is to allow arbitrary patterns—and that is its whole genesis—it will have to deal with political messages.

This isn’t even the old trope, “Everything is political.” This is people making political statements and propaganda via knitting.

Don’t be political is not a great option. The article even talks about the history of hidden messages in knitting. Getting rid of all or even most of it is not an option.
AWS may be the gold standard for hosting but I still recommended most startups start with Heroku for their hosting, especially since they add the code pipelines.

The amount of VC dollars I have seen wasted on re-inventing the wheel of hosting/devops is a textbook case of premature optimization.
Whoa.

OK so in Firefox, I first got a paywall modal. I opened the article again in Private mode, and I thought I got the full article (2 paragraphs) with audio. But if I open the article in Edge, I do see that it's much longer than two paragraphs.

(I do still see the audio clip before the first paragraph.)

Hmm...
The emptiness of space is filled with fields.
Ah, The three stooges syndrome, whoop whoop whoop whoop!
> They can't be removed because they are on the read-only system image but they should be treated the same was as if they weren't there if they are disabled.

The "just pretend I'm not here :)" of software development.

It was a conscious decision to mark them as "system apps" and put them on the system partition. They didn't have to do that.

Also note that android apps are more equivalent to plugins or shell extensions than executables. An app can register various OS hooks and callbacks that can trigger behaviour even if no process of that app is running. I'm not sure all those hooks are unregistered if an app is deactivated.
Pretty much the same situation for me back then too. But I wasn't in SW. So I did ~2000 applications before finding a job. Even in the late before-times, it would take ~6 month to ~1 year to get something lined up. SWland has it very easy when it comes to looking for work.
Unfortunately it seems that HMD's Nokia phones do not support OEM boot unlock, unlike many other Android One models. So no running Plan9 on your Nokia phone.
> Ideally you'd have someone more experienced to do a code review

I cannot stress enough that not all programming occurs in a work or even social context.

Besides, I did not say Go is hard to pick up. I said people should not need to read the entire manual, so to speak, to do things involving Go or any other language or tool. Cheat sheets like the linked article that outline the language in terms of "things you need to know as someone who already programs extensively" are thus actually quite helpful. That is all.
I think you're talking about visualizers.[0] And yeah, this is a very nice visualizer, but I think it's a bit much to call it a "music video."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_visualization
> you can and should scale up things that are working

That may be, but I think another bug is not knowing when to stop scaling. Few things (if any) can sustain unbounded growth.
It was a bad blog post, we're sorry. Also see the comment by the author https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26555617
This is purely anecdotal, but I once saw a UFO that didn't seem to move like a plane. It was a good distance away so I couldn't see much of the craft's detail. I wanted some sort of proof that it was intelligent, so I said 'Prove yourself' to the craft, and it proceeded to do a blunt 90 degree right angle turn at high speed (without slowing down). It was as if the craft operators knew they were spotted and wanted to say 'hello' in this peculiar way by doing an impossible maneuver.

If these are hyper-intelligent beings, I would imagine they made some sort of digital clone of themselves so they could explore space without carrying around a biological body through space which would die faster than a digital clone. With a robotic digital self you could live for millions of years exploring, and then when ready, bring lots of data back home from your travels and recon of other planets.
You could choose to visit a "place" that has a different reason for being significant [1].

[1] http://confluence.org/
If you want to think of prisms as calculating devices, isn't a prism technically a massively parallel device where all the molecules are a "core" of sorts? It still does at least O(N log N) work I think, it just all happens in parallel.

You can also find the minimum element of a list in logarithmic time instead of linear time if you have enough parallelism available, even though finding the minimum element is O(N).
I had recurring back pain before the pandemic, which hasn't been around since the first few months. I credit the piano bench that I sit on. Turns out, I slouch in the stupidly expensive ergonomic chair in my office, but I sit upright at the piano bench.
question the dominant narrative concerning masks and respiratory viruses

My limited understanding of that narrative is that COVID19/SARS-CoV-2 needs larger droplets to spread, and thus common masks help. But other viruses may be able to spread further as aerosols and last longer on surfaces, thus common/non-fine-particulate-filtering masks may not help.
> The minimum plan is $20/mo for 10 users. That's a bit steep for a group of kids to pool their money for, compared to old-school Teamspeak hosting.

I'm not sure where you got that number, as the minimum enterprise plan is Nickel, which is $10 a month.
They also have Element Home[0] now, which is $10 a month for 5 users, plus custom domain.element.io server. Costs $2 a month for additional users, and I believe they're adding more options.

> And I don't know of any company that I can pay for personal Matrix hosting

First google result leads you to matrix.org/hosting which lists Ungleich.ch as a non-Element option. I've seen at least one other place also offering it, but admittedly I do not remember their name and that's still a small number.

> the UX of Element flat-out sucks

Eh, to each their own. I don't mind it too much (the Android app is great for me) and it's getting better over time.

[0]: https://element.io/pricing
Off topic: The pandemic has been wonderful for my gi tract.

Constipation driven by office bathrooms problems where a regular concern. I would really try to time bowel movements so that they would happen at home. And would get constipated if I missed my window.

Not having to worry about this has been a huge quality of life improvement.
> They're losing to GitHub

In my experience their approach to pipelines and CI is a winner. In that regard GitHub seems to be playing catchup and the "checks" feel like second class citizens in GitHub while it feels really cohesive in GitLab.
Could you list a couple of examples?

It's not impossible for the observer to be mistaken. For example they see an optical phenomenon while on radar they are seeing a distant commercial aircraft going behind a mountain.
If it was still a republic people across the country would have little effect on you since a weak federal government would be ineffective in enforcing their mandates if it was able to at all. Instead we have ended up at democracy as Aristotle long ago predicted: "Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."
Suspicious Upvotes on Product Hunt
> I discussed months ago here on HN that looking legally causing someone's death without intent is not criminal because you had no intent of killing

Intentional killing is usually first degree murder, or voluntary manslaughter, depending on premeditation. Second (in some schemes third) degree murder (depraved indifference) and involuntary manslaughter, and negligent homicide all are crimes, and do not require intent to kill.

So, you are very, very wrong.

> I have no intent or knowledge that I'm going to harm anyone

The source you link notes that there are other levels of mens rea supporting criminal offenses (recklessness, negligence) as well as offenses which are not dependent on mental state at all (strict liability offenses.)
Ah yes the original version of “warranty void if opened”.
Yarn Bombing
layman here. i understand that if said theoretical computer did exist, encrypted stored data using today's standards is for the most part compromised, outside of further obfuscation, which the popular opinion seems to believe only helps so much.

that means the past is compromised, with some amount of implementation afterwards. i've always wondered just how much the future is compromised.

i've always thought about encryption this way:

P = some degree of computational power

A = some small unit of P, like a laptop
B = the largest unit of P practically
possible under the same laws of physics as A

(data encrypted by A cannot be "cracked" by B in a reasonable amount of time)

so in my head, so long as a normal civilian can access qubit technology (likely questionable), encryption still works by increasing the number of rounds. what am i missing?

edited for format, then again for clarity
Oh my goodness, no. Beanstalk is a very poor clone of Heroku.

Context: I have used Elastic Beanstalk in real production apps for years. For my Rails side project, figured I would use Beanstalk instead of Heroku so that I'm using the same platform (although I have also used Heroku in prod settings).

Quick summary is the AWS tutorial for launching their Rails sample app in Elastic Beanstalk doesn't work at all. I though maybe my Rails install was borked somehow, so I tried launching a sample app at Heroku. Worked on the first try.

Heroku really spends time making sure everything works out of the box, and that's what you're paying for.
Firefox reader mode also salvages the text.
Casanova's Martingale
This is (generally) done because they offer SSO functionality, and need to know whether to redirect the user to their corporate SSO page or show the password prompt.
They're pretty much the only ones still releasing Android One models. Out of 6 new Android One phones in 2020, five were Nokia.

I'm scared Android One is dying, Pixels are prohibitively expensive, and I'll have nowhere to jump ships once my current Nokia dies.
I'm convinced tons of this stuff already exists as things like youtube channels of 'Best Chill Piano Ambient'. I think it's become impossible to tell neural-net generated stuff from the output of humans trying hard to define a functional genre, especially one that's effectively 'background' rather than didactic or challenging.
It's an interesting question whether, over the long term, quantum hardware will match the feature of classical hardware where memory is significantly cheaper than compute-capable bits in the CPU. Hard drives are 100x cheaper per bit than RAM which is 100x cheaper (I think?) per bit than a CPU register.

How expensive is quantum memory relative to quantum compute, over the long term? Expectations about the answer to this question strongly affect whether or not you find this paper relevant. And the answer depends on the pieces you build your quantum computer out of, e.g. hypothetical photonic architectures have a bigger ratio than hypothetical superconducting qubit architectures.

It is currently very much an open question whether or not quantum computers will have a memory hierarchy.
Having dealt with RSI and having worked at home for a long time, my list of tips that helped the most. Ordered for importance to me personally rather than cost or other factors:

* Sit stand desk. Not just for standing: lets you adjust height while seated to ideal level

* Placing keyboard/monitor at proper ergonomic heights to one another. This implies arranging keyboard height then having a separate monitor raised up, not a laptop

* Armaid and theracane. Two wonderful and cheap self care tools for tight muscles. Armaid works the arms, theracane all over but I use it for trapezius

* Handshoe mouse. By far the most comfortable and ergonomic mouse I ever used. Once I got this my remaining troubles vanished

* Trigger point massage. Works out small trigger points and knots that can cause referred pain

* Good physio, especially one trained in muscle activation technique (MAT)

* Herman Miller chair. This seems to help, but basically any chair you are comfortable in is the key point.

DO NOT just work through the pain. It compounds and takes much longer to fix. If you address pain while it’s small and set up right, it is easy to deal with.

I lost months (years?) of productivity to RSI. Take it seriously. Doing great now fortunately.
Hypothetically, you could publicly announce that you'll sell the stash at the rate of 1% per year, to demonstrate faith in the continued growth of bitcoin in order to finance <humanitarian project> and reassure the market that it won't massively crash.
Let's make my sample size 2, then. How privileged are you?
If you judge people by what others post under their tweets I'd advise you not to go to Elon Musk's or any other sufficiently famous person's tweets.
> Are we sure this wasn't written by some sort of new AI

I gotta admit I laughed out loud when I read it.
Internet is probably least compelling natural monopoly out there. First, running more lines and multiple systems doesn't require the same impact as running two plumbing or gas systems, and secondly most of the natural monopolies in internet access I have seen are due to the government causing them not preventing them!

The scariest thing you can say to me is "we're the government and we're going to run your fiber" when almost all of my local municipally run services are barely functioning.

In my city, we have wooden sewers in some place over a hundred years old, gas pipes blowing up city blocks, streets which collapse into sink holes, and now you say "oh the government should surely get involved?". Preposterous.
The homestead act was part of westward expansion. The free "unclaimed" land (it was Native American land) provided a relief valve for the American system. When the poor became too uppity, the government would provide them with an escape valve of free land and adventure. When we finally reached California, that escape valve disappeared.

What you claim are rights, I dispute. The ability to control other people's living situation and extract rents is not a natural right. If anything, it's an abomination.
So it does not matter if the good are made using slave labour working in inhumane conditions?
Seems like this is ordered by year, so the first isn't necessarily his most favorite.
What difference is the "production app" distinction supposed to make? Its not clear from neither the article nor the linked comment. If it's an attempt to suggest that Heroku isn't suitable for production use, that's going to need a lot of argument backing it up.
>the UK isn't doing anything special. they just signed a better contract than the other guys.

This is yet another one of those narratives pumped by British media: "the better contract". This is meaningless, because AZ still signed a contract with the EU that clearly states that no other commitment should overlap with such contract. So they are either forcefully or willingly choosing to fulfill some contracts over others - none of those reasons is an excuse. That's AZ problem, not EU problem.

In case you didn't notice it's only working for vaccines made in the UK (which according to AZ CEO the UK didn't allow any exports of that production).

Basically the UK is enforcing the company to fulfill their contractual obligations, where they have power to enforce it, which is in the UK, and that's fine.

But you can't expect other countries not to do the exact same thing - which is what the EU is doing. And now Boris is lobbying around to try to stop this, and of course the short-sighted vaccine nationalism of not allowing the company to fulfill other contracts came around to slap him in the face.

There's no goodwill towards Boris government, and now they want to make a deal with no leverage, after months of bashing the EU for trusting a free market and a private company while the UK hoarded the full local production without any transparency (yes those records are private for "security reasons").

Good luck with that.
So, why do I like reading a story? It's already written. Yet that fact doesn't suck out the joy.
Read the article. Came here for the comment thread. Was not disappointed.
Oh, really? Molecular biologists and Pfizer scientists would disagree.
Perhaps it doesn't need to so long as the quantity/quality/availability of VCs funding YC companies scales with the batch size.
WeWork discloses $3.2B loss in 2020 as it seeks SPAC deal
That's a different option (CTRL-C). You can copy and paste the username and password. There's a default clearing timeout that's more to ensure the user doesn't accidentally paste it elsewhere. The auto-type option I mentioned is different.
Yeah, from my professional experience, "Molex connector" is normally used as a quick way to refer to a specific connector in your project that's made by Molex (assuming you're also using other connectors not made by them).

I wouldn't normally associate it with a particular connector, although I understand it's a pretty commonly used that way in the PC community.
The bitcoin ledger is a bit of a special case. Coins in a transaction are sent to output addresses identified by a signature which is usually a combination of SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160 hashes of a public key signature. Using coins as an input to a transaction (spending them) requires exposing the public ECDSA key used to originally create the signature.

If a particular address has never sent coins then an attacker has to perform a pre-image attack against SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160 which even for quantum computers would be 2^128 operations (generally believed to be intractable) and wouldn't even require breaking ECDSA.

Since most original coins have never been sent anywhere there isn't a way to directly attack their ECDSA keypairs.

There are, however, plenty of addresses holding (a lot of) coins whose public keys are in the blockchain, making them targets for quantum computing attacks. An attacker could solve the discrete logarithm problem for a key and forge a signature in a transaction sending all the coins owned by the matching signature to a new address owned by the attacker and the transaction would be accepted by everyone.
What model of computation then? If you abandon Turing machines with their infinite memory, aren't you just in the land of lookup tables? I can model a prism and all possible ways light can hit it as a (intractably huge) dictionary, everything is O(1).
How many different types of human craft are there?
As the Russian saying goes: Trust, but verify
Does a prism truly solve a Fourier in "O(1)" or is it so fast it seems to be "O(1)"?
Gmail, Chrome, and Amazon Are Crashing on Android Phones Amid Strange Bug
Why do you think so? The CCP and Xi has shown they are more than saavy enough to avoid a power struggle. He has at least 10-15 more years left as well, and the battle for Taiwan will probably take shape within that time frame.

HK they won easily. Western countries like UK and especially Europe are completely useless. Only the US can coordinate and shore up a coordinated response against China.
Yes, I think the fundamental cornerstone of zero-trust is the blurring of network perimeter (porous perimeter).
> Why would you go all the way to Earth

Perhaps we just happen to be on the route to somewhere more interesting? It's a pretty big assumption that we are the final destination for visiting alien craft.