skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all research papers were written in this style, I'd read a lot more of them.

> I trained the network using a home-grown (why??) GPUbased package that I wrote for Red i removal with artificial
retina networks [16]—an example of “lowercase i artificial intelligence”—and have improved as I repurposed it for
other projects, such as Color- and piece-blind chess [17]. It is “tried and true” in the sense that “every time I tried
using it, I truly wanted to throw my computer out the window, and retire to a hermitage in the glade whenceforth I
shall nevermore be haunted by a model which has overnight become a sea of infs and NaNs.”
>The core conflict here isn't new, surely. Newspapers have taken advertising money from news-making companies since time immaterial.

And if you can find a viable alternative to this, your company will be worth hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars[1]. The internet has killed the classifieds business and commoditized news to the point that most people won't pay for it. Accepting advertising from potentially news-making companies is hugely important to keeping news organizations afloat. Vilifying it whenever it happens is potentially dangerous and we should really wait to level these accusations until there is actual evidence of wrongdoing.

[1] - https://www.axios.com/substack-andreessen-horowitz-newslette...
> Just as an example, having to stay in the office if there's nothing else to do for the day was absolutely soul-crushing for me.

> That should literally never be the case for a developer though.

After 20+ years I've both been in such a position FULL TIME, as have others (eg: Many devs at ServiceNow) - hired on to work on cool things at an old small company and then literally sat around every day with no tasks and no responsibilities while everyone around me either didn't show up or watched TV on their monitors (open-plan btw).

I've seen big company devs do the same, making up busy-work tasks and literally not committing any code for months at a time playing the priority-game of "wait until something more important comes up, someone else will make a workaround" which was surprisingly effective.

The reality that a developer shows up and have nothing to do happens OFTEN in all sorts of organizations - eg last day of sprint, how many times have you pulled in a new multi-day ticket? Developer accountability is at an all-time low when software developers (across many sub-disciplines) can't make accurate estimates, can't meet anyone's estimates anyway, and are at an all-time-high demand. Managers are in a different boat, but same result. Perverse incentives and lack of a consensus (or willpower) on what constitutes value makes for do-nothing-and-get-paid while someone else does the work.
Fair point. But, what do you really want right now, blood?

Say we disappeared Facebook off the planet, do you really think — boom! — problem solved?
Similar yet different problem for F#. It's officially supported and F# does get included more than VB, but I feel like that is mostly only down to a very vocal minority.

I think someone at Microsoft who is fundamentally in power of the .NET platform has secretly decided that VB and F# must go away in the long term. All innovation is done for C# only. VB will basically die when current VB developers die. Nothing at Microsoft advertises for new developers to learn VB. F# is just being fed small inexpensive tokens every now and then to keep the F# community quiet until one day C# has inherited all functional paradigms from F# including partial function application and syntactic sugar like optionally omitting semi colons and then F# developers will be told to get lost as well.
Douglas Hofstadter spent some time interested in letterforms and asking questions like "what variations are still recognizable as an 'A'?" He wrote two essays that ended up in his Metamagical Themas book, Variations on a Theme as the Crux of Creativity and Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics. Very interesting reading if you are interested in type and lettering. The second one involves the Metafont program that Donald Knuth wrote (in part) to create his Computer Modern font (used in TeX).
That's true, but I think what the UK government is trying to do here is to get guarantees from Nvidia regarding the future of ARM operations in the UK.

If Nvidia were to relocate the brainiest parts of ARM to the US then the UK would lose a skillset that is arguably relevant for national security.

So I don't think this intervention is a definitive no to the acquisition. Rather, it appears to be a way of entering into negotiations.
I don't think that's really what's happening here.

Banks have been choosing who they fund and who they don't for a while and it hasn't really been decried so far. This only highlights that we live in a society that is both democratic AND capitalist: decision making power is distributed, on the one hand, "equally" to each citizen via voting rights, and, on the other hand, to whomever holds the most capital.

You could even argue that the proportion of the power that goes to capitalists is inversely proportional to the amount of state actions in the form of redistributive policies, market legislation, etc.

Once you take this into consideration, your initial observation doesn't reflect a new financial "cancel culture". Rather it reflects how much of the decision making power is now in the hands of capitalists in the US.
I reckon all Western countries have gone through some sort of experience of this. Corporations will do the deal, reap the rewards, and next week or next year they’ll just do as they please - because the concept of honour is too human to be expected of an artificial construct.
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Without any cost information we can't really tell anything about the viability of this technology. For example, water in CA ranges from $90 per acre foot from the State Water Project to $3000 for reverse osmosis of seawater.
A fantastic summary. My bread and butter is helping companies get to the cloud, but my number one guideline is that the local developer experience must be supported as much as the infrastructure improvements are.

Otherwise, you get a mishmash of fantastic visibility into your workloads and better provisioning cycle times, which then immediately get cancelled out by developers who have to work 3x as hard to do the same thing they were doing before.
> Parler will forever be associated with negative connotations.

Parler was created so people would be free of Twitter "Censorship". About the only thing Twitter censored was threats of violence or rape, election misinformation, or extremely blatant racism.

Their only appeal was to people who found that kind of speech acceptable. If you market primarily to violent and racist people, you are absolutely going to be associated with negative connotations.
>It's kind of a throwaway passage in the article but it feels like a crucial point. Maybe I'm wrong but "buying off" to me strongly suggests something along the lines of a bribe. We're going to give you this cash, nudge nudge, wink wink, maybe that negative stuff you print about us goes away. My question is: is this actually happening?

All the time. Using both direct bribes to journalists, friendly favors to the owners of the newspaper, and more often than not advertising money (which can be open from the company looking for favorable coverage itself, or through 1-2 layers of subsidies and shell companies which nobody can/will track).
I would have been happier if it had just be locked down to secure connections only. I have used FTP to quickly share files to colleagues at times and this will be broken now. I'm sure I was in a very minimal percentage but it was handy to just send someone an FTP link. Now if I don't want to have to upload it to an external service I will have to share it through my web server which brings up all kinds of MIME type issues, etc. I know, edge use case.
Sure, but this does not in any way favor prions over other options.
> The ‘Take a Screenshot’ feature was removed from the Page Actions menu in the url bar. To take a screenshot, right-click to open the context menu. You can also add a screenshots shortcut directly to your toolbar via the Customize menu. Open the Firefox menu and select Customize…

...why. Obviously it's easy to add it to the overflow bar, but it was handy having it there. Especially on pages that block right-clicking (including for good reasons, like games).
I don't think it's a matter of one or the other but rather using different ISAs for different things. All the RISC-V use by NVidia seems to have been in microcontrollers and all the recent ARM use has been in application cores.
When you put it that way, it sounds oddly poetic.
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There's lots of speculation here on what the Bank of England means by a central bank digital currency (CBDC) - people may be interested in the more concrete indications of what the Bank is / has been considering in a discussion paper which they published in March 2020: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/paper/2020...

The chapter on Technology Design states "Although CBDC is often associated with Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT — see Box 5), we do not presume CBDC must be built using DLT. Most existing payment systems are run on centralised technology stacks, and there is no reason CBDC could not also be built this way. However, DLT includes a number of potentially highly useful innovations, which can potentially be adopted independently of each other, allowing us to use the specific features of DLT which are most relevant and appropriate, without using DLT in its entirety."

The paper also discusses the risk-free nature of the currency (compared to deposits held in a commercial bank where consumers in principle face credit risk if the bank defaults), resilience, and innovation. And it notes the interesting related questions of whether the CBDC would be interest-bearing, and to what extent consumers switching from commercial bank deposits to the CBDC would impact the commercial banking model (using deposits to fund lending).
> these companies will simply hollow ARM out (slash R&D, cut staff etc) to pump up the target’s value, before flogging it off or breaking it up.

That's a very real concern with Softbank (and why I questioned why regulators were allowing the acquisition in the first place). I don't think you can be any further from the mark implying that's Nvidia's plan. Nvidia wants ARM to flourish, they would have no interest in killing it or selling it off once acquired. They already use ARM tech in their Tegra CPUs, and in the "Smart" NICs they acquired with Mellanox. Additionally they pre-announced a datacenter focused ARM chip just last week.

They would have absolutely nothing to gain and a ton to lose if they were to kill off ARM or gut the technical talent.
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Interesting, that stuff must have been fixed before I got it. Apple definitely is the best at releasing things the closest the being a finished product
Well, yeah. Stereotypes exist on Star Trek to demonstrate the flaws in the stereotypes. Worf existed to take punches because that's how you show how bad the enemy is, and how you need a solution other than punching. Spock exists to show the weaknesses of logic and the need for intuition and emotion.

That was often written super badly, because the writers aren't very good at logic themselves. The very first time we meet Spock he's declaring that Kirk is about to lose a chess match, and Kirk immediately checkmates him. There is no possible way for that to be logical. But it sets up the idea that they would revisit: that Kirk's way of fusing Spock's logic and McCoy's emotions are better than either alone.

Writers are often really bad at writing smart characters, because they don't actually know what the smart character knows. That's how you get the worst of TNG episodes: "Oh no, the [TECH] is broke. Yay, Wesley fixed the [TECH]". That doesn't really tell you how smart Wesley is, and it's not very interesting.

So Spock couldn't not be bad at logic, because the writers couldn't and wouldn't even if they could. At its best, it worked because Nimoy and Shatner and Kelly had good chemistry and were interesting to watch being in conflict. The technical point of their conflict was irrelevant and any resolution that depended on it would suck. It worked when they succeeded because they cared about and trusted each other.
Source? It doesn't seem to be true for homicide. The US white rate is consistently between 3-4 per 100k, and the UK black rate is often above 5 per 100k.

Either way, all this proves is that the UK is overall a safer country than the US. But the racial disparities within each country are remarkably similar.
It is federated, not decentralized. You need to use a server, which will have access to your contacts and the rest of the metadata such as how often you talk to them etc (and all message content that is not E2EE). You are only safe from third party if both you and people you talk to run their own servers.
Would it be a bad idea to salt and hash probable increments of a password when it is changed? For example, password would be salted, hashed, and stored along with Password, password1, etc.

Then the system could reject these on the next password change without storage of the original plaintext password.
Almost certainly nonsense. Similar things have been tried before, and as far as I know none worked. Reasons:

* If you have high humidity, you almost always have plentiful rain and water around.

* If you're in a desert, then there's extremely little for any device to work with.

* It takes absolutely enormous amounts of air to extract meaningful amounts of water even in favorable conditions.
* It takes a huge amount of energy, too.

* Any such scheme isn't reliable in any case, and especially unreliable when things are dry and you really need the water. It works best precisely when you don't need it.

* You don't want to drink water from any kind of dehumidifier. It may have started clean, but won't stay that way.
If more people do this, then this will put a negative pressure on my salary.
Chrome 76 (July 2019) dropped FTP support.
>I've not really understood the need for a "digital" pound, the pound is pretty digital already.

The need isn't for the consumer. It's advantageous for the central bankers. With it they can more easily control demurrage/inflation/deflation/confiscation (like the Chinese government plans to do with the e-RMB).
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> Laser cutting is straight out for the hobbyist, because of the chlorine

Just don't use PVC blanks.
>People do with the NYT and WaPo, and loudly cancel their subscriptions when the believe that's violated.

Nowadays, they mostly cancel their subscriptions when they get to read some opinion they don't like.
The amount of electricity it would take would be insane and then you're pulling rain out of the atmosphere, impacting your neighbors and region overall.

More water is great, but these things + "urban farming" is just a sales pitch.
https://js-dos.com/DOOM/

Just add a couple of lines of js for DOOM in the browser, now in js in a pdf in a browser!
It does not seem that difficult to detect when the new password is very similar to the old password. Do it on the client side on a page that the user enters both the old and the new. And give the user guidance to use a password manager and auto-generated password.
You can pay people in cryptocurrency and still report their income to the IRS. I certainly would.
There are some plugins for PyCharm (and possibly other jetbrains editors?) that let you see all your lambdas and invoke them right from the IDE.
Because it would be easier for the users and allow some customization you can't otherwise have?

Sure it can be abused, but there are also legit use cases
> having to stay in the office if there's nothing else to do for the day was absolutely soul-crushing for me

Maybe nothing you want to do, but I doubt there was nothing to do. Improving docs, tests, small refactoring to old code to make it more readable are a few examples.
A better focus for security efforts is detection of compromise. For example, say you detect a user has signed in from 2 different countries in a short window or perhaps malware signs are discovered in their cloud storage. Perhaps MFA is failing often for a user meaning an attacker is successfully using a password but is unable to get past confirmation on the user's phone.
“Remotely controversial” might be an exaggeration.
That's an easy bet, it's already started, been in progress for years now, and has been widely commented on.

"The number of newspaper newsroom employees dropped by 51% between 2008 and 2019, from about 71,000 workers to 35,000"

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/20/u-s-newsroo...

"Since 2004, hundreds of local newspapers have closed up shop. The author of a report on this trend said areas without a local paper suffer in a variety of ways."

https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/drone/8-in-the-air/a...
I’ve been a proud paid subscriber of The New York Review of Books and Harper’s Magazine for several years. I advocate often just how worth the price is for quality, long form journalism.
Have you considered just coming up with your own projects? Set some arbitrary, useless goal that will be an interesting engineering challenge, and have at it. Nobody will force you to write docs or do any other "boring bits". It's a great outlet in my experience.
It's always been the case that big advertisers influence the media that cover them. In the quaint old days there was a metaphorical "wall" between the business side and the news side, and neither could influence there other. In theory, that is. In practice, at a high enough level, the wall was less of a 16' fence topped with razor wire and more like police tape.

Of course, we don't live in the quaint old days. There's no distinction between news as journalism and news as business. Writers are measured not on how good their reporting is, but on how much "engagement" it gets, which is just a proxy for how profitable.

Is it a bribe or buyoff? Or just a failure of credibility? Newspapers used to have a position called the ombudsman to address just this scenario. The New York Times had a position called Public Editor. That position was eliminated in 2017[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_editor
In my defence, I did say “this type of” - but the equivalents you found looked good.

Not sure about the proposed ‘fire + mother’ combination, though.
Google started [using] it [the double-irish-dutch-sandwich scheme] in 2004

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/01/13/google-funnelled-e...
Internet has made 'information' extremely cheap. I think we as a society are just beginning to come to terms with the implications of cheap information: Cheap disinformation, loss of traditional gatekeepers, loss of friction that enabled value capture by news organizations, etc.
Unauthorized access was detected from China outside of the procedure.

With that access they could have done anything ( eg. eavesdropping ).

Follow up requests are currently happening by the Dutch government ( other related news from today).

KPN also mentioned: currently they have no access. While the report states: they had access.

KPN mentioned that Huawei's employees with access were employed by KPN. Wick could be correct, but it didn't explain access from China since those employees are employed in the netherlands.

A bit of wordplay going around. That's true.

--

Capgemini:

Huawei blijkt zich buiten de procedure om vanuit China toegang tot de kern van het netwerk te verschaffen. Veiligheidsmensen van KPN weten dat dit gebeurt, maar doen niets. ‘Ongecontroleerde en ongeautoriseerde toegang vanuit China heeft na 28 oktober 2009 daadwerkelijk plaatsgevonden’, vermeldt het rapport in april 2010.
[...]
De onderzoekers [van Capgemini] vragen het Chinese bedrijf daarom wie bij de gegevens kan en hoe de versleuteling is geregeld. ‘Pas na lang aandringen’ is Huawei bereid ‘duidelijkheid te verschaffen’. Huawei blijkt een uiterst zwakke versleuteling toe te passen en zelf het sleutelbeheer te doen. Capgemini: ‘Daarmee zijn nummers die onder de tap staan bekend bij Huawei’.

Edit: couldn't respond below. Source is the origin of all foreign news articles, it's the original newspaper that is in possession of the Capgemini report: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/huawei-kon-alle...

( Google cache is possible as a workaround fyi)
This may be a dumb question, but I haven't borked around with the Pi Camera at all yet.... Why does the lens have a megapixel rating? I'd assume that there's no imaging sensor in it, right?
> Currency is currently not digital in the sense meant here. Otherwise the BoE and other central banks would not discuss the possibility of issuing digital currency.

The alternative is of course that it's all meaningless hype. Just because the government does something doesn't necessarily prove it makes sense.
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Free as in not "free puppies." No paywall, no information wall, just a straight link to the paper. Not sponsored by any vendor.
It would be nice if that's the case, but do you really think a global community of academics would welcome a paper with open arms that destroyed their entire life's work and careers? Come on. Plenty of papers and analyses have been published showing many wrong predictions and it's had no impact on the field whatsoever.
The ideal solution is passwordless multi factor authentication. You have to the power of randomly generated numbers coupled with extreme usabilty. We do that by scanning an encrypted barcode to login with mfa running in the background. We also can do that with a push login approval, or webauthn or FIDO U2F physical keys.

Disclaimer: worked on the design of the passwordless mfa solution set at saas pass.
>Smooth pinch-zooming using a touchpad is now supported on Linux

Glad that they're still looking after Linux users.
Those are mostly just front ends (expect monolith which is just for visa, not a long term thing), I can make/host my own front ends for the protocols if i want.

e.g. the yearn dai vault address is 0x19D3364A399d251E894aC732651be8B0E4e85001 i can call the functions at that address via my own node with my own code if i want to.

It isn't in a jurisdiction, no-one else is responsible for my money but me. That comes with risk sure, but it also comes with liberty. They are decentralized applications and I can always opt out and move somewhere else. I can take their code for their financial application, fork it and re-deploy my own version under my central control if i wanted too. Imagine forking a HSBC savings account. It is wild and crazy. Some people don't like that. I love it.

You can feel free to do as you like. A lot of the interest in crypto is that if these tools allow people to coordinate and communicate more effectively than the old tools, then they will come to replace them. If it works as we imagine then you may end up using it and not even knowing.
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Prion concentration varies greatly from one part of a cow to another, because prions gravitate toward nerve tissue for some reason. The brain is definitely dangerous to eat. So are the eyes, the spinal cord, and parts of the intestines. Muscle tissue on the other hand is said to be much less dangerous. I don't know how much less, though.

Remember that all risks are relative. Just like radiation, there's likely to be a background level of prions in the soil that you can't avoid even if you only eat vegetables. The question is how much prion exposure you can tolerate without having noticeable symptoms within your lifetime.