skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you’d rather repeat imperialist propaganda, much of which contradicts itself or has been repeatedly debunked.

Last UK election, a small sliver of all votes actually mattered in electing the government. My vote in a solid Tory borough may as well not have been counted.
What due process exactly? The one provided to Assange? Or to those beaten by police for daring to protest? Or to the hundreds that die in police custody?
What free press? Most papers defend the Tories. Have you even seen how demonised Corbyn was almost universally, how unified the slander was?

I’ve spoken to a quite a few people that live in Hong Kong, many support the PRC and condemn the US-backed unrest. I know a few people in Taiwan, many are for some form of unification with the mainland. I know few people in Xinjiang, but from what they said the situation in the western press is being vastly misrepresented.
Awesome! Hope you enjoy reading the book and thanks for buying it.
Here are just a few. There are more if you dig deeper:

https://cybernews.com/security/walmart-exclusive-routers-oth...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/easte...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/multiple-backdoors-and-vulnera...

Even Cisco was doing it:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/cisco-removed-its-seventh-back...

And the NSA was known to be intercepting router shipments to international customers, injecting their backdoors, then re-shipping the modified hardware:

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/snowden--the-nsa-p... (this is documented all of the place; infoworld may not be the best source but it is just one)

For every example that is exposed, it is safe to assume there are others that have not been found.
1 and 2 -> easily duplicated by some Asian country.

3 -> how much improvement are you talking about?
-haha, good one. I am the Faaaather...to that sweet baby boy.
>Unfortunately the alternatives are even worse.

I think this is becoming less and less true. I think Mac OS isn't as good as people say it is and Windows is better than people say it is. I can't speak either way to desktop Linux.
“The University of Dublin professor says that this expansive data collection raises at least two major concerns. First, that the telemetry can be used to link physical devices to personal details, data that both companies are most likely exploiting for advertising purposes.

Second, that the telemetry collection process allows the OS makers to track users’ location based on the IP address that connects and uploads device telemetry to their servers.

The researcher said that currently, there are very few, if any, realistic options for users to prevent telemetry collection from their devices.”

This is not what I signed up for, makes me want to leave my smartphone at home or in a faraday cage powered off so I’m not being triangulated by cell towers or these ubiquitous telemetry logs.
It constantly bothers me in my car. My car radio’s bt connection is not going to a headphone but speakers that are controlled on my steering wheel, yet I’m constantly getting this notification.

It’s like my Renault telling me to “follow the laws of traffic” every damn time I start the car.
And deno will also have a lot of limitations
It's worth noting that while it's not anything special from a math point of view, there's a lot more technique involved in specifying and verifying `ImplSpec => AbSpec`, which is why it's considered a more advanced topic.
Huawei’s business damaged by US sanctions despite success at home
Honestly, good-old heat pumps work well for most climates. You heat up the ground underneath your house in the summer, and harvest that heat during the winter. That seems a lot more economical than synthesizing methane and hoping it doesn't leak back out into the atmosphere.

If we can get synthetic methane from atmospheric CO2 to work in an economic fashion, I imagine we could also use it to directly reduce atmospheric carbon (maybe by permanently fixing it into a solid). Problem solved!
Interesting, I'd never heard of this before. If we didn't use carbon-neutral CO2 sources would it still be an improvement over status quo?
I don't disagree with any of that, but I still think a responsible, clear-thinking ML practitioner can avoid having to assume the form of the data-generating process, depending on their application.

In some cases if you care about PAC generalization bounds, it's even the case that the bounds do actually hold for all possible distributions.
I do think it's currently mainly used as an investment vehicle.

I don't think that is the same as "mindless speculation," which is what you said before.

Michael Saylor, who is the CEO of an S&P 600 company, makes a good case for bitcoin as a store of wealth. You can google him and see his arguments if you want.

Also, BTW, money laundering != illegal drug activity. Those are two different crimes.
The initd job IS to launch other processes and reap zombies. (To non-technical people: zombies are childs which died when their parent is already dead, so a daemon must collect their souls).

It's not a job of init daemon to manage containers or resolve DNS names.

IMHO, systemd must be PID 2+, not PID 1.
The problem is that decades of experience has shown that only few programmers can discuss the advantages and disadvantages of programming languages for certain purposes in a halfway objective manner, and since few of them implement their own languages even the good discussions often remain fruitless.

I'll recommend Reddit's r/ProgrammingLanguages, as well as Scott's Programming Language Pragmatics as a reading instead. It's not fully up-to-date but I found the comparisons of features and their trade-offs in it fascinating.
There is this nugget of wisdom in that article

> Nevertheless, scientists warn against drawing absolute conclusions. “Just because viability can’t be shown, it doesn’t mean that there wasn’t contagious virus there at some point,” says epidemiologist Ben Cowling at the University of Hong Kong.

So, some actions might actually be "feel good" ones but also completely dismissing a possible way of infection is not that wise.
I didn't miss the point. I just think it's completely incorrect. For the AI is dumb crowd the argument is essentially an ever receding no true Scotsman fallacy.
How??? Consumers will not pay enough for delivery to pay the riders better, and these companies are already on razor thin margins.
Property taxes contribute to local road building and maintenance at most. They do not (here at least) contribute to roads located in other towns or states that an employee may commute on.
Best M3U Playlists – Free IPTV Links – 01 April 2021
I agree with everything, I love my Advantage 2. I've been using it for about half a year and almost all pain my hands has gone away.

Additionally I use Dvorak which I find to put less strain on my hands.

And paired with your advice to walk is this: wear a hoodie or any long-sleeved garment. I think increasing blood flow to my hands has helped a lot.
This messes me up when I'm writing actual LaTeX because I keep writing `\A` instead of `\forall`

EDIT: Also that spec uses a lot of really interesting techniques, such that doing a breakdown would be a good Blub study. Off to the typewriter!
I would say i) having a relatable project which I came up with/collected data for/built out/productionized, so I could talk about a real data science project during interviews that didn't require a ton of background ii) having a cohort of very motivated people to learning with/from iii) interview prep with experts, both technical and not.
Clubhouse feels like a party. But, is it a Good one?
I have heard reports from
current and former Apple staff of a brain drain in progress there.

It's not really a great place to work.
'Algorithm' is too long and hard to pronounce to gain popularity. Better shorten it to 'Al'.
How nbdev helps us structure our data science workflow in Jupyter Notebooks
Honestly, I can't wait to go back, and I have a terrible commute. I am not enjoying this, and my productivity is not great. And despite having lots of time at home, my home and hobby productivity has been terrible, too.

But I do think I'll probably settle into a routine where I'm only in 3 days a week. Or hunt for a job that is much much closer to home.
If I want a REPL there's always the interactive window in VS.
Ask HN: Professional Drama
I recently worked at a company where the owner was very difficult to work for. Unsurprisingly, most employees found ways to appease his various and inappropriate demands. When this owner became convinced an employee wasn't "good," it required those working closest with the manager to act as a barrier, where possible, between the targeted employee and the owner. Sometimes this meant saying whatever the owner wanted to hear to maintain trust with the owner. This was critical in order to protect employees.

An employee eavesdropped (through a wall, so not really eavesdropped) a conversation between the owner and I. It was not kind to the employee.

The employee confronted me afterward, demanding an apology. I asked what the employee had overheard. The employee insists I apologize while refusing to tell me what I did wrong. I can appreciate how hurt the employee must feel. However, the employee refuses to speak to me about my point of view. Is she being unreasonable? How do I resolve this?
Why is it weird?
I’ve already had Android phones that didn’t get more than a single major update where the BT/WiFi blobs were locked to some ancient kernel.
As someone who's used CDK for a few months and never handcoded CF, that sounds completely correct. If you're comfortable with Python, here's a simple but non-trivial architecture you can check out: https://github.com/linz/geospatial-data-lake/blob/master/app....
Invested in what?
This methodology is biased towards a western perspective on how democracies "must" be run. Taken literally, a democracy is a direct democracy, but no country today is a direct democracy because everybody recognises that it has flaws. So every democratic system tries to make a balance.

Yes, China fixes a 1-party state, but how does that differ from fixing e.g. the judicial branch in the US system which also cannot be elected?

The minorities angle is just weird and shows you have no understanding about China - minorities generally have preferential policies in many aspects of law, e.g. the One-Child policy (now Two-Child policy). That's more than you can say for the US.

China's censorship system is not that sophisticated it's just large scale. The purpose is more to ensure large-scale stability, and they don't care about small-scale private conversations between individuals. The US is currently grappling difficult questions about how to moderate fake news, large corporations are stuck in a difficult place - on one hand they are accused of promoting fake news, on the other hand they are accused of suppressing free speech. So just because China took a strong stance on this, does not mean they are "evil" for doing so.

Again, you need to have some cultural background of China before judging it, rather than judging it based on western preconceptions of how a democracy "must" work like.
Climate change: China absent from key UK meeting
Army moves Microsoft HoloLens-based headset from prototyping to production phase
Interview now while everyone is remote and it’s easier to do versus taking time off when you’re forced back into an office.
what are they changing to?
Can someone explains what's the point of "VPNs" (VPT in reality, there's no network here, just a tunnel) ?

I see the point of having a VPN to my own network but paying for a tunnel to some random place.... why ?
It's weird complaining that you can't see details in the album art anymore, when in terms of raw size and resolution the art on a newer iPhone today is larger than it was on an iPod Touch in 2012 even if it doesn't stretch all the way to the edge of the screen.

I personally like Spotify's approach to evolving album art, where artists can use full-screen video clips or other visualizations (mostly taken from their music videos).
Call me when Windows has fewer than three control panels.
If it's been nearly a decade for a glorified to-do list app and they still aren't profitable, then it is in fact not useful enough to justify the effort invested. That's what market signals mean.
Agreed, but a sink and soap aren't always available. So I am happy to encourage hygiene by making it more convenient.
I interviewed with one of these startup with these .ai domains. I was super impressed that somehow they could decode human speech over a phone into orders. Until I asked them about that and they had a call center farm that does all that. And a "prototype" of an AI that doesn't work at all lol
Xiaomi’s first foldable features a liquid camera lens, Samsung-style design
Windows has been improving steadily. You can only tell by the decrease in the amount of high-profile coverage of UI gaffes. No one wants to write an article about how a new OS release just does what it should.
I’m not in GP’s boat (I unexpectedly love WFH), but if part of what I miss is the effectiveness of shared analog whiteboard discussions, those are hard if you’re the only one at the whiteboard.
FYI Doordash listed at $102, popped to $182 at open, and is now $130.
Serious question, are calculators AI because they perform arithmetic much better than humans and use standard techniques like Taylor series expansion and numerical methods? I feel like you want to add that the technique has to use data as a core part of its algorithm that represents “learning”. But then we’re just back to machine learning that beats humans at a specific task. Is there a need for this term? We already have “superhuman algorithm”. AI has more syllables and we could also use SA which could double as State of the Art.
You recommend Behe's book; I read his earlier book "Darwin's Black Box"a while back. I found it interesting, well-written, and superficially convincing but fundamentally flawed and ultimately a waste of time.
Why isn't it in Yucca mountain?
I cannot stand the way that albums on an iphone/mac get fragmented into separate albums when there are tracks with guest artists.

E.g. for Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, I see tracks 1,2,3,6,8,9,10,12,13,15,17,19. Track 16 is on another album by "Outkast featuring Kelis."

I just want the tracks that are on the CD to show up together as the same album.
Oh, the puns I can make... DentAI care?

In French: Intelligencive Artificielle? ÉmAI brillant? Recarie Neural Networks? MolAIre.
The contamination problem in common household products seems like something either the FDA/USDA/EPA should be monitoring.

I can understand someone seeing an opportunity for making cheaper sanitizer and not recognizing the benzene risk they were passing on to customers. Given that this person probably didn't even know they should be testing for benzene - I don't see how the industry could self-regulate benzene presence in hand sanitizers. Even if this became an issue, I wouldn't be surprised to see benzene-free labels slapped on benzene contaminated sanitizer by virtue of incompetence.

Are there any agencies currently tasked with randomly sampling products that consumers come into contact with for contamination?
very, very true.

this approach to social software has proven consistently destructive across multiple platforms.

Snapchat had a ton of underage nudes. 4chan's been a magnet for hate speech.

I miss the anonymity of the early, 1990s WWW, but that was the playful anonymity of a much smaller group of people. it was a self-selecting group with a lot less of these problems at the time.

what kind of use cases did you have in mind, OP?
I use bash. I'm sure zsh has something similar as hooks.

This is my setup.

PROMPT_COMMAND variable is set to a function that "history 1", pulling the last command entered. That command is piped into a command line tool that pushes a single line into a Redis list. The list is trimmed to no more than 10000 entries.

Ctrl-R is bound to a function that uses a tool to connect to Redis, fetches the list, finds uniques, and pushes them as the input to fzf. The selected command becomes a shell variable BUFFER. Finally, READLINE_LINE=${BUFFER} and READLINE_POINT=${#READLINE_LINE}, thus inserting the ${BUFFER} into the command line and moving the cursor to the end of it.

This allows me to edit the pulled command.

All systems/vms point to the same redis running on a server and using the same list key, thus allowing for a shared command line history. If the server is unreachable, the hooked functions use shell's history instead of the redis server to fetch last set commands( fewer lines, obviously ). In additional to that failure to connect to redis server switches makes the shell prompt two lines where the first line says '[Command history server unreachable/shell server cli tools not found]' and the second line becomes a standard prompt.

I have been running this for 2 years with zero issues. Initially I thought doing connect->push->disconnect will be too slow, but I'm not noticing it much, even over the Wifi. I've been thinking of converting this service into a container to add an archive of when, where and what was typed in addition to the current setup.
Historically, this is accurate. The whole concept of "pure math" is actually very recent and before that math was almost exclusively tied to real world problems that often came directly from physics.
Will look him up - thanks!
Care to describe details of your setup?
Very cool. I played D&D when I was a teenager but never actually did a campaign, instead we sort of made characters then joked around and rolled some dice with no coherent story.

Back in November there was another Show HN for https://startplaying.games , did you create this at all in response to that being all premium, paid for games? I signed up for Start Playing, and have been doing an absolutely amazing campaign with a DM who is a published fantasy author and an all around great guy. It’s $30 a week but hey, good help is hard to find.

I’ve heard a lot of horror stories about playing online tabletop with random people, do you think you could add some sort of review or rating system between players? It might cut down on some of the toxicity.
Maybe not. But we don't have to discuss them as if they have any relevance to anything in 2021.
So do you want to leave the house because of the baby or the wife?
>Apple is trying hard to destroy the concept of an "Album"

Why though? Honest question.
Not sure why the person below with the office rental was downvoted, but it's a reasonable compromise. Having a space to go to can be really important, as parenting can really eat up headspace.

My first contract/WFH job overlapped with when my first child was born and it was hell and I ended up just packing it in and returning to full-time in office work. Just too distracting.
There's also a problem with people intentionally drinking hand sanitizer to get a buzz:

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200817/toxic-methanol-in-h...
Use your existing network or a project bidding site for projects. My network is still small
I was remote pre-pandemic and it's much harder with a toddler than it was without a toddler.
> most people under 40 today have grown up watching the surveillance industry establish itself

I'm not sure "watching" is the correct word.

> those with any consciousness of their own vulnerability want to take action to minimize their surface area

This is a pretty small minority, as demonstrated by the number of people that continue to use Google and Facebook properties by choice (refering to their actual services, not their pervasive tracking around the Internet at large)

> firefox with container extensions

As a more-technical-than-average person, my experience is that attempting to get all Google services running in a specific google-only firefox container is a non-trivial and extremely painful experience, as there doesn't appear to be a way to simply add *.google.com to the 'always open in this container' list, so each subdomain needs to be added individually. And then youtube.

> adblockers

Adblocks can break the check-out flow on multiple ecommerce sites. "Don't shop there" doesn't fly when that's the only online outlet that has the shoes she wants. What's the workaround? Spend a while working out what's causing the flow to break, and find a way to explicitly whitelist that domain for that site? Nope, just disable the adblock entirely and hope you remember to re-enable it once you're done.
Glad to see one of my pet peeves finally get some notice!

I too bought an iPod Touch back in 2008 because of how the player UI treated album art: as actual 'art', and deserving of a full-width display on the screen. I would meticulously tag my music library with the correct album art files precisely so that they would be displayed nicely on my portable player.

I think one reason the art got smaller is due to phone screens getting larger and higher-res. A full-width image spanning the iPhone SE would be 214 x 214 px. But on the iPhone 12 it would be 390 x 390px.

That would take up a lot of the screen's real estate, perhaps leaving less available for UI controls. Also, if digital album art tends to be low-res to begin with, it would look pixelated if displayed at full width on a high density pixel screen.

Digital album
It's not characteristic of all forecasting, only purely empirical forecasting.

Definitionally, the only way to reason about risk that doesn't appear in training data is non-empirical (e.g. a priori assumptions about distributions, or worst cases, or out-of-paradigm tools like refusing to provide predictions for highly non-central inputs).

DL is not any better (or worse) than any other purely empirical method at answering questions about fat-tail risk, and the only way to do better is to use non-empirical/a-priori tools. Obviously the tradeoff here is that your a priori assumptions can be wrong, and that too needs to be included in your risk model (see e.g. Robust Optimization / Robust Control).
Did you bring it up with your manager? How about your colleagues. You can significantly affect your chances by talking about it, making clear that you see this as a major benefit (that doesn't cost the company a dime and, in fact, opens up for saving money on office rent), and highlighting that you can be as productive at home as you can in the office, if that's actually the case of course :)
Several of us where I work have been doing this over the past year, and in my last conversation with my manager I got approval for working from home permanently even after the restrictions are pulled back. It's hard to say for sure, but I don't think I would have gotten the same answer if we hadn't been very clear and vocal about our preferences. And of course it helps that the company outperformed its pre-COVID19 projections :)