skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title is false. This robot weeder uses AI and has existed for years. httpss://tertill.com/

Is it even possible to create a robot weeder without AI? It needs some sort of reasoning system to identify what is a plant.
> How would e.g. a company like CloudFlare run Deno instead of v8 for it's serverless infrastructure?

They're both built on v8.
Which is why privacy protection has to come from the top (i.e. regulators), because most people don't know and/or don't care.

"we" care, up to the point of "it's too much effort", and "we" have tried to do a grassroots movement to get people to use more privacy-focused apps.

But these apps, in the end, are still owned by companies who are not charities; they want to earn money, and digitally, it feels like you can only make money by selling subscriptions, ads, or printing a cryptocurrency - and subscriptions don't work because of (sponsored / investor funded) free alternatives.

Anyway, if you put legislation in place like in Europe, the companies will have no choice. In theory anyway; in practice they find and abuse loopholes soon enough, or just do things covertly, hope they won't be found out, and just pay the fine if something does come up. Which they can easily afford by then, not so much from the money they earn from their monetization method, but stock market value.
> All it takes is for someone to sue Zillow for exposing their private images online for automatic blurring technology to magically appear.

Honestly, I would expect such an event to lead to an indemnity clause magically appearing in their future contracts - it's the lowest effort option which gives sufficient defense.
cool I guess, but this just another "list of X" repo with a bit of scrapping code behind it. I'm sure it's useful to a degree for some, but I don't see the practical value of something like this
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This. Banning to satisfy the party in power is now the new normal.
This.

The reason it is risky to measure data after a predetermined stop point is that it lets human bias play a role in making conclusions.

It is very subtle, but this human behavior has been a contributor to the replication crisis:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Denmark (along with the other Scandinavian countries and the UK) have almost the lowest traffic-related death rate in the world too.

As far as I can tell, Denmark are reporting such a high rate of death from the AZ vaccine relative to the number of doses deployed, that the risk would actually be quite bad compared to driving. However, the absolute numbers are tiny so the uncertainty is enormous. It's quite possible they were just unlucky.
Or you can visit uniswap.eth if you have metamask installed since it resolves ENS domains.
You should be careful comparing numbers from vaccines as they are collected in different environments; there were fewer variants present when first vaccines were on trail.
https://singhkays.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-video-power-cons... has a writeup of power consumption for certain tasks on the Mac Mini M1 (not written by me).
I'm oversimplifying. Basically, I switch on the c64, insert a floppy, load a program and get exactly that. The floppies are physically separated. Without physical access the application can't write to its own floppy[0]

Say you physically contain each app by giving it its own processor and its own memory/storage. If it wants access to anything else it needs specific permission managed by something baked onto a chip. A complex detailed permission system. You don't just get to read keyboard input but if you do you don't just get to read it when the application is not focused. If an application is registered to work with a file type it can have access to those but only in defined locations and only that file type, reading and writing separately. If it wants access to anything outside its scope of permission the user not the developer can pick what permission is to be granted and for how long.

Add 2 mechanical switches that make it physically impossible to write to and/or read a drive.

It seems annoying and bureaucratic but it would allow us to download and run any code from the internet which would be truly exciting.

Right now I cant even plug in an usb device and when I do there is no way of knowing what happens to it. It seems absurd.

[0] - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen-Cobb-4/publicat...
I think it’s on the way out tbh.
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Are they effective against this technique?

https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-blockchain-fifo-dirty-co...

You might find that the mixer, rather than washing your bitcoin, unexpectedly taints them.
It’s not “at the moment” but “continuously from the creation of the virtual DOM concept” - often slower by multiple orders of magnitude.

The misrepresentation of a virtual DOM as a performance improvement came from two things: people who were comparing virtual DOM code to sloppy unoptimized code which was regenerating the DOM on every change and React fans not wanting to believe their new favorite was a regression in any way (not to be confused with the actual React team who certainly knew how to do real benchmarks and were quite open about limitations).

There’s a line of argument that the extra overhead is worth it if the average developer writes more efficient code than they did with other approaches but I think that’s leaving a lot of room for alternatives which don’t have that much inefficiency baked into the design.
Encrypt your emails instead. Unless that is outlawed or explicitly against the TOS of your email host/provider, you should be good to go.
Well, my interpretation is that AZ did, in fact, not violate the EU contract. The contract states "best effort", not penalties and even redemnifies AZ from delivery delays in case these delays are caused by additional orders from the EU. And guess what the EU did, IMHO mainly to media and public pressure, earlier this year.

Given the bad press AZ got, reverting to a "no comment" strategy is not such a bad idea. Anything they say will be used against them anyway.
Your analogy is all wrong, since they advertised these as NOT supporting BTRFS, but they did anyway.

So your analogy should be "Car commercial showed a slow but practical car, you buy the car and it turns out to have high performance and can zoom around corners, then a year later a software update forbids you from driving on the road to your house that has a high speed limit so now you can't get home"
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According to the comparison the M1 has 10% faster single-core performance. That's not nothing, but it's not really "significantly better" or something you'll notice in day-to-day usage, either.

But this is also just a single test result that's going to be far from comprehensive.
GPS is a required permission for android in recent versions to check APs and do Wi-Fi network scanning
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The masses don’t want centralized platforms or decentralized platforms. The masses don’t care how things work. What the masses want is an easy to use, fast platform. Centralized systems have been the best at providing that because they are easier to engineer and because there is an economic model via ads and surveillance.
I actually mostly agree with you, except for the fact that
in reality SQL is not a language, but a family of languages,
some of which don't support the syntax[1], including Google's
own BigQuery. Whether or not this is a reason to create
a completely new unrelated language is still up for a debate.

Tangentially related, but does anybody know of a program
or a library that takes standard SQL queries as input
and outputs one or multiple equivalent queries using the SQL
dialects of a set of DBMSs? That is, compiles a standard
SQL query into a PostgreSQL one, an SQLite one, etc.

[1]: https://modern-sql.com/feature/values#compatibility
You're making the claim ;) The main thing an fs is, is a layout for data on disk after all, no mainline fs will do this in a way that is particularly consumptive of resources.

Specific features like RAID and deduplication are known to add to RAM and CPU requirements. Synology uses BTRFS for neither, so any performance differences are almost certainly not due to the specific fs.

I also have not seen any evidence of perf diffs.
It is a VM. Most VMs use High-Level Intermediate Representation (HIR or bytecode). WebAssembly uses a Low-Level Intermediate Representation. (LIR) A LIR is not an assembly.
> The licence allows AZ to make a profit -- after the pandemic.

After could be as early as 1st July 2021.

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-astrazene...
The quotes in this article contradict what you're saying:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/26/how-the-ast...
FYI, Europe threw away their welfare states when they allowed unemployed African economic migrants into their countries.

A country cannot just add 5%-10% in population dependent on welfare and still pay for their obligations to legal residents.

Looking forward to the news when the bill comes due. Big up to Poland and Hungary for their foresight in building border fences to enforce legal immigration.
I'm not convinced that this is being presented honestly. It just feels so similar to the straight lies I've seen written about friends.
That is a documentation clarification that should be made. That exposed port in the docker-compose is only there so someone running a health check from the host could see it. The docker-compose should be updated to remove the port exposure. Thanks for bringing that up!
Yes, this. I've had my own domain for about 20 years. I've used that domain at gmail, a brief attempt at self-hosting, and at fastmail for most of those years. I've considered proton, but I'm happy with fastmail.

Moving my email hosting while keeping my "identity" is one of my primary motivations.

That said, you don't "own" a domain, you only rent registrar services. If you miss a payment (mine is automatic) or become notorious, you could lose your domain.

Still, it's the most practical foothold for most of us.
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>This is a bold claim on a very much debatable subject, where it would come down to what "war" is, if it is the same with armed conflict/incident (like opposing force against a robbery), and so on.

No. It's not debatable. Show me an example of an extended peace between nations outside of the borders of an empire. This is almost a tautology to say that you need a central authority to have a monopoly of force. Otherwise you're in the 'tragedy of commons' scenario.

>There are many countries, even neighboring ones (like Serbia and Romania), that say that have never been in a war against each other.

Certainly they don't want to, but that's immaterial, they aren't allowed to. They are within the sphere of American order.

>As to the commendation of living within an empire, that is just helplessness against empire's overpowering forces, which is far from the general idea of "peace" as in Wikipedia-defined "societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence".

Well ... OK ... that's all we have.
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The problem isn't just the transaction fees but markups by exchanges (BTC -> XMR, XMR -> BTC) that each take a cut. Last time I calculated this, even after shopping around for cheaper exchanges it was well over 1% in total fees and probably something closer to 3%, but I'll have to double-check.
I can't wait for my ISP to whitelist the FCCs servers so it shows full speed, while continuing to throttle other services.
It is also possible to get the frosted effect on some browsers using: backdrop-filter: blur(19px) saturate(2);
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There's a very special kind of arrogance going on in all the comment threads about the Covid vaccine suspensions.

These decisions are being made by professionals. They have been trained to do exactly this kind of decision. They have access to the best possible data on both the risks of the vaccine, the risks of Covid in their local context, and the impact these decisions have on the national vaccination schedules.

But everyone in the comments is just absolutely sure that
the experts are totally incompetent, and a HN reader with access to Wikipedia is better equipped to know what the right decision is. Why?
Professionals make wrong decisions all the time, often because the wrong professionals are the ones making them.

Are people already forgetting how masks were actively disrecommended by 'professionals' at the start of the pandemic while plenty here and in other places were similarly saying that masks are obviously good?
The custodial vs non-custodial wallet debate personified by a tale of two founders. As someone who worked in the Ethereum space for ages it's interesting to see that this dichotomy ripped apart these two in the same way that it seems to create two camps in crypto: easy adoption vs purism. I can only imagine the quantity of customer service emails that would've been sat in a Reeves-headed Coinbase inbox with the subject line "HELP: FORGOT MY PASSWORD;" all short stories of orphaned assets forever sat on the blockchain, linked to an address that will never be picked back up again.
Didn't DJB v US pretty much end that? That would also impact things like Firefox for the record.
I bought my m1 MacBook Air for $800, and while it doesn’t have 512gb nvme or 16gb ram it compares a lot better than ‘half the price’
the way I see it is that anyone who contributes to open source likely utilizes open source.

Think of the market value for some of the open tools you use and how much they would cost you that you instead get for free.

To me, that's the payment you get even before you contribute.
I appreciate this gentle style of cult deprogramming.
This article goes into what people go through to get their Funda pictures taken: https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/lifestyle/artikel/5193700/perfecte-...

Being used to this way of doing things, it shocks me how extremely messy the photos in the article are. As a potential buyer it makes it look so much better if you remove all the mess and the personal items.
That's what I heard indeed, but that's still too many words if I don't want to receive messages from businesses anyway. They could have prompted users before the first interaction with a business for instance. Then users would have clearly linked the two.
I am in a country where outbound calls are not free yet. Our robocall problem is, in comparison to the U.S., negligible.
What is the likelihood AstraZenca's supplying problems and the sour relationship between it and the EU influenced the decision for Denmark to permanently cease using this vaccine ?
> you change what it means to add a value to a pointer.

Morpheus encrypts pointers. How does it allow C to access an array or a struct and prohibit access beyond bounds to the return address somewhere beyond the bounds of said array or struct, I wonder.
Yeah but that reduces Logica outside Google to SQL rewriting. When the weak point of SQL isn't so much the syntax but the scalability and expressiveness limitations for big data and document data (fixation on strong ACID/CAP guarantees, schemas). SQL syntax has strong points, too; one being that it's not just a query but also update/batch language with ACID semantics; another being that it's standardized with a range of mature options available.

Consider also the practical side: using Datalog as merely "prettier SQL" still doesn't allow you to dynamically define data properties or go schema-less as in RDF or other logic/deductive graph databases. Whenever you want a new column, you must execute DDLs (ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN) also leading to forced commits, overly broad permissions, chaotic backup procedures and/or code artefacts containing the dreaded SELECT * syntax. Also, parsing Datalog queries, reformulating into SQL, then re-parsing SQL in the DB engine isn't the most efficient thing.

Basically, the workflows and use cases for SQL RDBMSs and Datalog/graph databases are not the same, and if you're using one on top of the other, you're getting the intersection of possibilities but the union of problems, as is well known from O/R mappers );
I use dwm and of the handful of terminal emulator's I've used, none have a border or window decorations. So I don't think they "insist" on having borders.
I was getting the impression that pretty much any government decision around COVID-19 was politically driven, not just AZ.

Actually that does not even sound very surprising.
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Sure, they can decide if the think the deal is worth it to them or not, but they probably aren't the one with the most information about the training spend and value of the ISA.
These "j" devices have like 512 MB of RAM and an ARM CPU. I believe the devices they do support BTRFS on all have 1-2 GB+ RAM and x86 CPUs.
The sentence is grammatically correct and it would be wrong for a grammar checker to flag it.

It just doesn't mean what you intended :)
To say that it was not enforced is just a one way to look at it. The obligation, per law, lay with the tax payer (income earner), and government could do random audits (which they are now doing, except they are not very random).

The 5 year of backtaxes comes from the statute of limitations on tax obligations being up to 5 years, but in theory, if someone owning taxes does not explicitly call out the law about the expiration of debt, they are liable for any tax debt even longer than that.
People on this platform, I assume, are familiar with the scientific consensus on these topics and generally side with the science. But one has to understand, that these decisions are not made directly by scientists but by politicians who have scientific advisors. And as politicians, they will factor in a lot more than just the hard science on a topic, which can result in seemingly unscientific decisions that go against the "obvious" findings.
This ignores human bad actors.

There is no "rollback" for the existence of algorithms.

Instead of whining (problems without solutions) spend some time contemplating what a sufficient algorithmic solution looks like.

To be clear, that would be an algorithmic solution that "fights back" against issues like these (and not simply improving a failing solution).

That may not be a competing product. Maybe it's an algorithmic whistleblower?
I think that's exactly it. There is a tradeoff to be made here with likely deaths on both sides, and the government is choosing much higher numbers of deaths because it looks better for them politically. That's immoral and cowardly.

I don't see any way to justify the decision they've made logically.
And yet we have 30 years of QE in Japan, and 10 years of QE in the UK and US that debunk that belief as well.

If the state creates $100 and you stick it in a drawer, or just leave it in your bank account, where's the inflation coming from?

It's 'not spending' that causes deficits in the first place. If everybody spends and never saves then there can be no deficit for any positive tax rate.

There is no magic in bonds. It's a myth.
I know nothing of BTC but how would you stack it against gold, real estate, other traditional stores of value as a hedge against hyperinflation?
> While at it, we could also change pension system. If your kids emigrate (or you didn't have any), then you get only half of the minimum payout :)

That's why I don't trust the pension system - too many people opining what we should do with the money. Let's borrow from the budget to pay pensions, or let's borrow from pensions to fix the budget, or let's invest pensions in stocks (which might crush), or let's raise the age, or let's add new rules.

I just want to save some money for old age, I don't want my savings to be redistributed 20 years from now by some new rules just invented. If I can't be sure of the pension then it's not fulfilling its role as an assurance that I'll be prepared when the time comes.
Unfortunately, Bulgaria is not in a much better place. We are in EU and NATO, but not many other differences. Our ruling elite hasn't changed much - still communist secret police related figures and oligarchs.

Romania seems more reformed, they even managed to put some politicians in jail recently.
His magnificent 'Dragon Speech' also made it clear that he'd already lost some of his marbles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrj4S24074
In childhood especially, the line between the virtual and the real is flimsier than you think.
There was similar antiworm for Code Red on 2001. MS IIS had vulnerability that got exploited, someone released worm to patch it.
That's roughly what I'd expect?

An easy way to estimate this: think of how many websites you visit a year, then divide the number of donations you make per year by that.

If this number isn't zero, you're a statistical outlier.
Because you can squeeze out more money from it that way. Having everything collapsed in one giant data collection is just the natural equilibrium state from the physics point of view.
> Because of such things like DKIM, I really don't have an email spam problem, or if I do, it is because I signed up for it myself.

Running home and work mail servers, I would disagree. If I let my shields down, I get kajillions of spam emails from snowshoe [0] spam operators (assuming it's not all the same operation!), coming from hundreds of IP addresses in dozens of /24s, all with random word salad domain names, valid DKIM, and valid DMARC, with domain registrations that lead nowhere. Blocking whole /24s and certain egregious TLDs is the only way to stem the tide. As long as there are ISPs, colo/cloud providers, and registrars who are willing to pocket the cash and look the other way, nothing's going to improve.

[0] https://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/Glossary#233
Arguably there is no such person. You mean *Halbert* White.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halbert_White
Yes, very interesting founder breakup story which I always wondered about. These stories are so often untold. I actually talked quite a bit with Brian as a fellow YC S12 founder, as he struggled to come to terms with losing Ben; who I never met. Brian didn't offer reasons for the breakup and I didn't pry. Fred, the official co-founder joined around 5 months later and after YC.

A good number in the S12 batch thought Brian was onto something huge, but wished him well as he struggled back then. Like, I suspect many readers here, a lot of us had read Satoshi's paper and also viewed Bitcoin as fundamentally important. I wasn't alone in thinking Brian was too early. How wrong I was. Prices rose dramatically in 2013 and USV led by the contrarian/visionary Fred Wilson made their first investment, after a long lapse, into Coinbase [0]. Chops also to Garry Tan who was particularly supportive of more struggling startups during YC S12 and who invested early [1].

I am pleased for Brian and his success; my experiences with him were good. He did no harm endearing himself to our YC batch offering us all some Bitcoin, gratis. Like an idiot, I didn't take up the offer. I was always more interested in disruptive nature of Bitcoin than the investing side of things. That probably explains my rising concerns about the way crypto has developed in recent years. The betting/speculation has no appeal; where's the real value in that? Never mind the growing carbon emissions from proof of work.

[0] https://www.usv.com/writing/2013/05/coinbase/

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-stock-first-investor-initi...
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