skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol... I don't think they'd have all cliff face imagery :)
UNET architectures for semantic segmentation and biomedical image segmentation
Couldn't this be met with a proof of stake coin? I could at least tolerate a PoS cryptocurrency because it at minimum consumes orders of magnitude less energy than Bitcoin would.
Those are all good until they’re not. I’ve had echo and other room audio problems crop up intermittently in all three of those platforms during calls.
If you're browsing a computer tech website you get shown ads for GPUs and other tech items. If you're browsing an article on remedies for dealing with cramps you get shown ads for feminine hygiene products.

Maybe on both sites you get shown ads for coca cola or a car.

None of those require building up a profile that tracks your personal browsing habits across the entire internet and is simply targeting your customers where they are.
If you spend 8 minutes getting the next chunk of information to your machine, and then another 8 minutes returning the result, it does not matter how fast your machines are or how many of them you have. You're still going to lose to the machines on earth, because the Bitcoin network on earth can already mine blocks faster than 16 minutes.

Think of it this way. Say we're running a mile long race by foot, and it takes me an average of 10 minutes to run that mile. You want to bring a car onto the track that will be able to go a mile in 15 seconds, but it's going to take you 20 minutes to get the car to the starting line.

That's how latency works. It doesn't matter how fast your machines are, by the time you've sent the information to them, by the time you've told them what they need to do, everyone else has already finished with their work and moved on to the next problem.
Legally enforced gentrification?
Singapore style development model is a nice theory but it does not work.
It's exploitative in nature and gets its revenue by churning through thousands of immigrants that have no access to HDB.
I think the obvious thing to do is block the user agent, and inform the user that they need to upgrade to access this content without forfeiting a collective right to privacy
Given the capability of both the US navy and air force to track and follow such craft, I think that the lack of material evidence would suggest these are friendlies.
Well, remember that consoles use unified memory. A modern high end PC game can easily use 5GB of VRAM + 8GB of RAM.
"The argument for patents is simple and clear: the alternative is broader use of trade secrets."

Yet it falls into the neat, plausible and wrong category of ideas. In reality that isn't what happens, and it is based upon the assumption that ideas are unique and only occur once, when we know that ideas are ten a penny, and it is implementations in practice that we are short of - something that is exacerbated when you have to negotiate the patent troll arena.

Trade secrets are not a threat to the advancement of society because they will be rediscovered. Stopping implementations is a threat because that's actually what we want to have cheaper goods and services - which advances society.

The X causes Y arguments behind intellectual property laws are classic truth by repeated assertion.
It can be a death sentence in countries where homosexuality is illegal. Say you are FLoC branded as being LGBT (sort of like the pink triangle in nazi concentration camps) and you visit a government website, they will know about your sexuality and can arrest you.
If you don’t want to see homeless and/or needles go to most of the east side including Bellevue.

Median home sale price is 1.15MM though so a little more expensive.
As noted by Consumer Reports:

"When third-party cookies are replaced by FLoC, Google will have a way to track consumers that isn’t available to other companies, which could give Google a steep advantage in the advertising business." [1]

According to the EFF, Google controls the algorithms, and will also be running its implementation and auditing its outputs, a task the EFF describes as "both orwellian and sisyphean". The EFF also notes that "Users and advocates must reject FLoC and other misguided attempts to reinvent behavioral targeting."

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/duckduckgo-solutio...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-...
Get out of the US if you can. It's not designed to lift you up, only to coerce you into sociopathy.
Has nobody bothered to read anything about FLoC?

The purpose of this permission is to prevent embedded third-party content from using FLoC. Besides that it’s a no-op.

FLoC does not track arbitrary websites, it tracks sites which retrieve the FLoC cohort via JS. So instead of dropping a unique third party cookie, and associating it with the data on the page, sites can now retrieve a k-anonymous cohort id and associate it with the data on the page. If you’re not doing that (or serving ads) there’s nothing you need to do.

That’s not to say that FLoC doesn’t deserve criticism just that most criticism I’ve encountered is not grounded in reality.
I don't know what language you're using on Lambda that requires x86 compilation, but if you search the web for "cross-compiling" you'll find relevant results. For example, here's someone using Graviton ARM to compile Rust for Lambda x86: https://burgers.io/cross-compile-rust-from-arm-to-x86-64

You don't actually need to run the same architecture you compile for, you just need a toolchain and environment that matches your target and a compiler for your machine's architecture that knows how to write to your target architecture.

It sounds more complicated than it is, really. How you go about doing this might vary by language, but as Docker for M1 takes off, you'll see more and more guides for doing "hard" things like compiling to x86.

Also, if you find that you're building Docker images on x86 machines and want to build Docker images for Arm as well, have a look at https://docs.docker.com/buildx/working-with-buildx/#build-mu... for example.
I don't know, is this the same Apple that uploads the hash of every program you execute?

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/catalina-executables.htm...
>Centralised planning fails utterly as the complexities of the supply systems are way beyond are current abilities to project.

The price signal being the major data input that informs production plans. In centrally planned economies, they basically just guess. They'll lie to you and say it's possible to "predict" demand. And when supply constraints happen, well I'll be damned it's the friends of all the Party members that get their share first.
It is dying and this is the way how Google is going to save it. If we ban, it will die.
Sega is actually having a resurgence on the back of Yakuza games, although I don't know how many people know any of their other IPs. They did totally disappear for a long time.
Yeah you're not alone in wondering that. I was expecting more substance to this article, not just single-sentence responses to a few straw-manned arguments.
I second chess. I've played many, many other strategy games, but modern chess (especially with all the bots) has so much more depth and it's something you can enjoy in half a minute. It's strange how chess has become the exciting game and mobile strategy has become so bland and watered down.
> a company can (indeed must) publish their process...everyone else can learn it

I used to find this compelling, then I found out that standard practice is to avoid reading patents, because 1) they're not written to instruct, but drafted to claim broad implications and exclude prior art, and 2) exposure to patented material increases liability if you are found to be infringing.

Are there any examples of any inventor using published patents to learn from, rather than just patent searches to help drafting their own patents?

> improve it, at which point the patent no longer applies.

This is generally wrong - the original patent still applies. You can get a separate patent on your improvements, but until the original patent expires, you can't use the foundational invention without licensing the original patent.
I would be fine with this feature if it were opt-in (perhaps on install), and clearly explained.
Beware these sort of status pages are not automatic.

In most large orgs, updating public status pages are whole 30+ minute process, as the message must be explained to the customer care team, drafted, vetted if it's something worthy of appearing in HN, put into the application, reviewed before putting it live, then published.

There are some (all?) players in the status page business that can integrate monitoring sources with results live, but no one will use those for fear of publishing downtime when there's not.

As a customer, I'd rather you report fake downtime than fake uptime, but that's how it is.
But even if it were so, what would be the problem if 95% of the internet wouldn't exist?
One would imagine that anyone desperate enough to do something with a 75% fatality rate and hide in the wheel well of a plane would also research which wheel wells have space for a person and exactly how to tie oneself on to prevent falls...
Frankly I’m not sure I see a world where Internet advertising is not targeted . Sure it drives profit for Google et al but it does so because it drives profit for a million other businesses. It’s non existence implies a substantial economic cost.

I’d like to see more written and more popularly known about effective, targeted but privacy respecting ad models. Then a good argument would be “why FloC when X is possible?”

To me FloC looks like an attempt at a compromise. Whether we like the world we have or not, there is no going back to the “good old days”.
So why are you forcing landlords to do it?
This is literally a bitcoin mining operating looking to bring a coal-burning powerplant back online. Pay attention.
Future of Hiring in the Post-Covid World: 2021
That works until it breaks or Google deprecates it and then ooops, you're included in FLoC too! :/
I read around 30 pages every day. I don't limit myself to either fiction or non-fiction. I always try to read a healthy mixture of the two.

Also in non-fiction, I don't limit myself to only programming, I like to read on totally unrelated topics too. I don't have a rule that all books should be finished, so I sometimes close books if I don't like them at the moment.

For what I'm getting, I take notes while reading. If the book is really good, I go through the notes and try to summarise the book. I started summarising only a few months ago and I feel like it helps in retaining more of the book.

https://vikky.dev/the-top-5-books-i-read-in-2020

https://vikky.dev/book-notes-on-writing-well-by-william-zins...

But I would recommend you to try to enjoy reading first, once you've started enjoying doing the act, reading the hardest book will be easier.
"Same goes for medicine, that by the way never reached any meaningful scale before science, IP and capitalism came along."

How did the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine come about, and at the low price that it did?

By Fiscal Activism by the UK government.

That's how basic science, research and development comes about - by government fiscal activism making the results freely available. Once that breaches a risk threshold the private sector will jump on it and accelerate the innovation from it. The existence of the Internet shows the power of that approach.
I am in germany, so, things in the job market are a bit different here... but let me try an advice:

Why not try something completely different for a while? In the early 2000s i was in your shoes, nobody wanted to hire me despite some (from my perspective) good skills. I was totally frustrated and didn´t thought i would ever get any half decent job... so, out of a sheer "f*ck to the world" rage i joined the german army.

After spending about two years in camouflage suits following orders of total barbarians and putting my body through more pain i would ever have dreamed of i got back to the civilian market and landed within three weeks after my release from the military a good job as an system administrator with a good company.

What i want to say with this little story: Don´t focus to much on what you want now, you will get frustrated and potential employers will see this frustration... do something completely different for a while, get your head clear and start all over again.
They already did that. Japan is easier to immigrate to than the US, but it's not necessarily attractive because wages are lower than Western countries.

The reason you don't hear about it is everyone is years behind on Japan stereotypes, and they shut everyone out again for pandemic management. But the "98% of Japan is Japanese" quote is not true (it actually means 98% Japanese citizens).
effort and attention to detail, on the extreemes

Well, indeed.
It's democracy when it works in our favor, and war when it works against us.

People in Bolivia and Peru struggle to afford local food (e.g., Quinoa) because they're outbid (by money, but certainly not necessity).
So that this clown can call OP "really weird" in person, or what?

The world would be a better place if all of these smug Silicon Valley dimwits were shackled up and forced to clear underbrush in the forests, as opposed to whatever reality-distortion bullshit they're working on at a FAANG.
If your webserver security relies on sending a header to clients, your security is wrong.

Not saying that filing issues against weservers is a bad idea.

Just that the security angle is wrong.

For one, because Google, or chrome, could just choose to ignore that header if too many servers fly it.
When you sign up and find that you don't actually get that feature.
> People around the world build machines that melt skin off of children in Middle East

There is a problem with that statement and I will try to highlight it by creating a couple more of the same:

- There are people working to build software to allow people to share child porn without getting caught (about Moxie and anyone working to bring e2e-encryption to the masses)

- there were people working in factories that created hammers that were used to crush peoples skulls in Cambodia

See where I am going?
https://web.dev/floc/

Replace "hiking boots" with "dissent" in this example.
It's not about the ability to identify an address, it's about the talent that makes you much better at that than most people are.
Have you used Shopify?

As someone who had to look at it I just can't express how bad is everything at shopify - support, technology, operation... Just marketing BSing is ok, that's how they get people onboard.
Java generics just aren't powerful enough to express that a higher order function's exceptions depend on its args, so pretty much everyone has given up on specific checked exceptions.
He just spent a year without any steady source of income, should't his saving run out at one point ?
Isn't Brave just attempt to copy Google? It's Chromium based, with their own ad system ... why choose lesser evil?
You mean simply running Discourse (a Rails app) is so complicated no one wants to do it? And if it was simply PHP boom business would have been booming ? I find that a bit hard to believe.
New Zealand aims to create smoke-free generation
I don't think they're funding games (that seems a little unambitious) but you can go to https://bitsummit.org/en/.
You'll be hired if you've relevant skills/expertise; Ultimately it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle versus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand
Last I checked too, Bitcoin is not quantum safe either.
The altitude a plane flies at varies quite a bit based on weather and flight traffic conditions right?

And some altitudes are very survivable, especially for someone who normally lives at a high altitude.

Is it plausible these flights normally take low altitude routes but for some reason diverted over a storm or weather system killing the hitchhiker's?
The Garmin inReach uses the Iridium satelite network. They offer two types of plans, Freedom and Annual [0], which you pay subscriptions for.

The "annual plans" allow you to save a little if you use your device every month of the year on a single plan. The "freedom plans" allow you to suspend your service, and let you hop between plans. You just pay for a month at a time at the plan level you select for that month.

[0] https://discover.garmin.com/en-US/inreach/personal/
For a complete story about psychedelic research I recommend “How to Change Your Mind” by Michael Pollan.
Part of this is just tax avoidance; you don't have to pay the CEO as much if they just happen to live for free in a house the company owns.
Patents cover implementations, not ideas.
It would be a shame if FastAPI is crippled because of PEPs. It truly is a wonderful API and a very nice API to work with. Here’s hoping a solution can be had and that the Python core maintainers “see the light” so to speak.
I don't like the defeatist attitude. Targeted advertising is an opportunistic reaction of the companies who lived the first-mover advantage to its fullest, lacking any regulation.

The market is big enough and can survive regulation, and would evolve alternatives, and the associated deadweight loss would be an acceptable compromise.

Not to mention, the targeted advertising is a game of Prisoner's Dilemma, where all parties lose, it's not even 100% sure if the regulation would cause inefficiency at all.
These are likely systems originally built when the database was the application. So everything in stored procedures and shared across hundreds of individual jobs/apps/reports.
I wish I had time to try it out ;) Make sure to share that video of your presentation via the mithril channel on gitter so that I don't miss it.
One argument in "Sapiens" [0], is that all of human history is a continuous repeat of this trove: We hunted the megafauna to extinction, converted the land to agriculture, and so on not because of evil, but because that for the individuals living at any given time this was the most beneficial course of action.

[0]: Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari (2011)
You know a technique, based on asm.js, that lets you use Rust or Go in the browser?
> It's for similar reasons that you are advised to dress up for interviews.

So, classist nonsense? Got it.
Hopefully. I think proof-of-stake is a promising technology but I'm not certain yet whether it can fully replace the security guarantees provided by proof-of-work. But if it can, then of course that would be excellent. Not only would it reduce the consumption of cryptocurrencies but it might even offset some of the energy usage of traditional financial instruments.

Some possible issues with proof-of-stake though are: Does the ability to borrow money to stake (since you get it back after exiting) make it too easy to conduct an attack? And, since you can't stake if you have no coins, will it be too easy for entrenched stakers to control the supply later on?
Economics is note really a science.
But the question becomes, will it burst when the Fed seems to quantitatively ease by printing more money? Will they allow it to burst at all? Or will we just get inflation and the best way to hedge against that is to buy up these speculative properties since they're increasing at a rate faster than inflation?
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2014/01/s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Seattle
No this article is wrong. Bitcoin is a battery /s.
Is it really necessary to add this header to each and every response?!
I feel like it might be sufficent to add this header just to documents like *.html.
That's like saying not sending Content-Security-Policy when it is needed to prevent XSS is not a security bug, since Chrome can start to ignore Content-Security-Policy (which it can). That is absurd.
Mastering a more powerful tool prepares me for more appealing roles solving harder problems. Time spent on a weak tool is just wasted; it'll never get better and neither will I.

Java has become reasonable though I'd always reach first for Scala or Kotlin (maybe Clojure?) I'd like to work with Rust but it seems hard for an employer to cost-justify the dev work to avoid paying for G1.
At first I though "what a boomer, ruining everyone's excitement", then I saw the video and yeah, that's definitely a bokeh. There are triangles everywhere in that video.
> you want there to be an alternative to the government run and controlled fiat.

I, uh, never said that. I don't see Bitcoin as a currency at all.

> That said, gold technically exists already to meet this in my humble opinion as a proper hedge.

No thank you. Gold-mining is way more ecologically disastrous. If Bitcoin replaces gold, the environment will be better off for it -- at least you can mine Bitcoin with nothing more than solar panels and wind farms.

> I just believe the assumption that bitcoin will just move over 100% to green energy sources is naive at best

One way or another, the world is going to need to move all its energy production to 100% renewables, or humanity is going to be in for a world of hurt. But, this is true with or without cryptocurrencies.
The browser I use does not process Javascript or CSS. I therefore have to do nothing. :)

However, I would guess switching browsers is extremely unlikely for a great number of users. Google must know that. That is why they can do something like FLoC. They must know that not many users are going to switch browsers.
I can't tell if this is a joke or not. Where do we start?

Do you think running out of oil will go smoothly? We already can't stand still for 5 minutes without blowing someone up in a resource war and basically all of our resources are plentiful for now.

Rising sea levels decreasing usable land. Rising temperatures destroying key organisms in the food chain. Mass deforestation is destroying the very things that allow us to breathe.

How much climate change affects you is a function of your wealth and your country's wealth (cost of basic resources as well as required countermeasures are growing). Anyone who's been on the low side of one or both of those variables will tell you that it's already miserable.
Imagine, if you even can, what being in a poor country will be like when all the oil is gone, food can't grow the usual way (you need either hydroponics or serious genetic modification), increasingly unstable weather destroys everything you build and everyone else is out to get you to squeeze out every last drop of resources you might have?

What people with no such experience don't realize is that unlike our economic system, which funnels resources upwards, ecosystem collapse doesn't funnel them anywhere. It's just an endless pit and eventually, everyone is poor.
I haven't seen any refutation, do you have any references?
Opt-in, generate meaningless hashes and inject them into their test?
I agree in principle, but disagree about specifics. In Morrowind, I would argue that there's probably not something or someone nearby. And that's part of the beauty of it. That's realistic.

When you do stumble onto something, it gets all the more interesting -- of all the nothingness, why is this here?

It's a drawn out form of gratification, compared to the every-other-step-you-run-into-a-procedurally-generated-cave type of instant gratification I felt with e.g. Skyrim.

Morrowind is more aimed at exploration than later games, and some amount of nothingness in the world is required for this.

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Of course, nothingness is relative. In absolute terms, I'm sure Morrowind has less nothingness tran later games, but the limited graphics and draw distance and smaller populations makes it feel more empty.