skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one closed off contact, quarantine is mandatory though. That only keeps it out though, most places have had outbreaks and had to rely on measures completely unrelated to their remoteness, like lockdowns and contact tracing.
Protecting against remote code injection is not just nontrivial, it's fundamentally impossible in general if the injector is more privileged than you.
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Xkcd: Excel Lambda
Not all notebooks. I updated my ThinkPad from 16GB to 32GB RAM.
128 MB in a 486 is insane. 16 MB was a lot in that era. I remember upgrading my Pentium II (!!!) from 64 MB to 128 MB, in order to not suffer death by loading screen in Diablo II.
Interesting, but why does the "Check" use a handmade hashing algorithm that is just summing up all bytes?

A much safer implementation would be to take the sha256 of the key and only show the 2 rightmost bytes.
Hm that's difficult. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is probably by now my comfort zone.

So already most pure DL papers are out of this zone, but I anyway many of them, when I find them interesting. Although I tend to find it a bit boring when you just adopt next-great-model (e.g. Transformer, or whatever comes next) to ASR, but most improvements in ASR are just due to that. You know, I'm also interested in all these things like neural turing machine, although I never really got a chance to apply them to anything I work on. But maybe on language modeling. Language modeling is anyway great, as it is simple conceptually, you can directly apply most models to it, and (big) improvements would usually directly carry over to WER.

Attention-based encoder-decoder models started in machine translation (MT). And this was anyway sth part of our team did (although our team was mostly divided into the ASR and MT team). And since that came up, it was clear that this should in principle also work on ASR. It was very helpful to get a good baseline from the MT team to work on, and then to reimplement it in my own framework (by importing model parameters in the end, and dumping hidden state during beam search, to make sure it is 100% correct). And then take most recent techniques from MT, and adapt them to ASR. Others did that as well, but I had the chance to use some more recent methods, and also things like subword units (BPE) which was not standard in ASR by then. Just adopting this got me some very nice results (and a nice paper in the end). So I try to follow up on MT sometime to see what I can use for ASR.

Then out of own interest, I'm also interested in RL. And there are some ideas you can also take over to ASR (and have been already). Although this is somewhat limited. Min expected WER training (like policy gradient) has independently already developed in the ASR field, but it's interesting to see relations, and adopt RL ideas. E.g. actor critic might be useful (has already be done, but only limited so far).

Another field, even further away, is computational neuroscience. I have taken some Coursera course on this, and regularly read papers, although I don't really understand them in depth. But this is sth which really interests me. I'm closely following all the work by Randall O'Reilly (https://psychology.ucdavis.edu/people/oreilly). E.g. see his most recent lecture (https://compcogneuro.org/).

This already keeps me quite busy. Although I think all of these areas can really help me advance things (well, maybe ASR, although in principle I would also like to work on more generic A(G)I stuff).

If I would have infinite time, I would probably also study some more math, physics and biology...
Beware that at least historically some antivirus software would wrongly classify any UPX-packed binary as malware. Don’t know if this is still the case but something to keep in mind.
what, what?
Meritocracy in Tech Is a Myth
This is even worse than Star Citizen.
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I would like to have better type setting. It is a pleasure to have a nicely layouted and set page. My layman's take would be that the rendering engines have headroom to improve but most readers don't really care.
Here is a list of YouTube alternatives: https://nordvpn.com/blog/youtube-alternatives/

There's also Rumble (https://rumble.com/), PeerTube (https://peer.tube/), Odysee (https://odysee.com/), and BitChute (https://www.bitchute.com)

Unfortunately given that YouTube has large audiences, and a captive supply of advertisers, it will be hard for any of these alternatives to compete against those network effects and Google's massive capital. Of these, I think Rumble has been getting the most views since several prominent centrists and conservatives who've faced censorship on YouTube have started hosting their content there.
Where? They were overwhelmed, but coped for around 6 weeks around April 2020 here in Spain. Everything since then has been paranoia based on PCR test results.
His paper early in 2020 showing high levels of infection in Santa Clara County was hot garbage.

The man is a total and complete embarrassment.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-the-heck-happened-to-j...
The PCR-test is the best test we currently have to test the population in a useful and generally reliable way.
While it is true that the test can remain positive after a few weeks after the infection or onset of symptoms, the percentage is close to 0 after about 6 weeks. [1]
So as it's the end of April, the January infections will not have any false-positive influence on the current wave.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/71/16/2249/5822175
It used to for me. I don't think it does at the moment.
The golang example where he uses scratch as the base image is essentially this.
That made me vaguely remember the story someone once upon a time posted somewhere about his position being obsolete and going to work doing nothing... It's been so long, I don't remember enough details to search for it. Maybe someone here would help me out.

Edit: I meant exactly what Tomte posted (see below), thanks!
For those like me who did not recognise the business incorporation class gGmbH, Wikipedia can help. I did recognise the last bit: bH means limited liability.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_mit_beschr%C3%A...
Worsening acne vulgaris

Worsening rosacea

Difficulty communicating with the hard of hearing, language learners, etc

Reduced ability to convey info via facial expressions

Altered risk appraisal

Having to stand closer or speak louder to convo partner

Psychological discomfort

Bacterial pneumonia

Cross-contamination (hand to mask, mask to hand, hand to face)

Mild negatives from uncomfortable pressure on ears

Sends a message of societal fear that there is something to be afraid of (you might consider this a positive, I don’t personally)

Encourages viewing the wearer as just a vector for disease

Increased CO2 buildup
I live in Amsterdam which has had legal prostitution for a while. What I know is they regurally talk about the problems it brings with trafficking. The policies are getting slightly more restrictive, not less.

Some percentage of the girls are doing it willingly, but most are imported and essentially have no choice.

They try to add regulations to help, like only allowing girls themselves to rent spaces, but that tends to drive more underground.
Thanks for that rundown. Super interesting.
Apple to boost ads business as iPhone changes hurt Facebook
While I agree with you, the ability to act seems to be a bigger issue. The Berlin Christmas market terrorist was “on the radar” and was supposed to be deported. But the German police did nothing about it.
They finally see it's a bad thing when it now happens to them. Which all the privacy and anti-censorship activists have been telling them for years and foreshadowed by the increased bans of the right leaning creators.

It's like the chickens are cheering on the wolves that ate the other chickens that disagreed with them and now complaining that the same wolves are now going to eat them too.

Google / YouTube are not on your side and are not your friends. They will not change and will only listen to their masters voice.
> I can't say I'm fond of the BLM movement

Don't confuse the BLM concept with the BLM organization, which has admitted being proudly Marxist and corrupt (buying multi-millon dollar houses for family members.)

From their donation page, "We appreciate your support of the movement and our ongoing fight to end state-sanctioned violence, liberate Black people, and end white supremacy forever."
https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/
Extra-terrestial colonization appears to me to be one of the few avenues of human civilizational expansion that is positive sum for all lifeforms. We could grow our food in what are now lifeless surfaces, thus reducing the stress we impose on natural habitats, while massively expanding how much we produce.
The first paragraph of the story explicitly mentions that this is about "small" youtubers. You could argue that the headline is clickbait, but if you actually read the article they don't try to hide the fact that these are not major youtubers.

The article is more than just the headline. They did a lot of reporting, and it's an interesting article. Apparently Google changed their search tool to hide the fact that some terms are blocked. (I actually think that would be a better hook for the article, rather than report on small youtubers leaving the platform).

Characterizing it as "fake news" because the headline is more general than it should be is really doing a disservice to public discourse. That would make almost all news "fake news", and I think we should reserve the term for articles that actually spreads lies, and not apply it to articles where the text doesn't quite live up to the headline. The term for that is clickbait.
> Among other things, I think this is one of the reasons for which VC's aren't all that interested in hardware. It's difficult, capital intensive and the risk vs. reward simply isn't on the same scale.

Hardware, it seems, is about to become a winner takes all market. And at that point you can't be a successful software producer unless you control the hardware as well.
I'm pretty sure the biggest program at UMN is Social Sciences. Conducting research experiments on unwitting subjects (the kernel maintainers) is a huge ethics violation.

I can only imagine the other department heads screaming at the head of the, relatively speaking, small CS department.
The certificate is issued to internic.net, www.internic.net, ftp.internic.net, wdprs.internic.net, and reports.internic.net

The IP address isn't directly validated, but you get something even better.
What is in "scratch"? Couldn't you run a C-program there or a JVM?
Back in the 00s we would spread large files using BitTorrent. That option still exist. With today’s network speeds, downloading 30 minutes of video should be pretty fast.
To be honest here in Ireland where majority of vaccinations have been Pfizer people seemed to stop caring about AZ and there is a sizeable chunk of people who are refusing AZ (my own elderly parents and their siblings really scared now and in despair) due to issues recently highlighted (dont shoot messenger, imho risks are small but i can see why some might be hesitant when alternatives are/will be available)

I say the brand damage to AZ due to their own production issues, Oxford due to what seems to be dodgy research trials (still not approved by FDA) and UK where politicians wrapped the vaccine in union jack and hitched it to Brexit bandwagon for jignoistic reasons, means this vaccine is now tainted in peoples eyes with negative associations. Which is a pitty but i see both sides of arguments.

TL.DR a month ago i predicted it be pretty much unusable in europe and thats more or less case. As for AZ if they have broken contracts then yes failure should be punished in courts, but IMNAL! for population at large what matters more is that better vaccines are available faster and this vaccine doesnt lead to further hesitancy.
Another tool in this space is DBeaver (https://dbeaver.io/). Does anyone know how they compare?

Also there's MySQLWorkbench, but that's specific to MySQL/MariaDB.
RAID 5 has been generally advised against for years, due to performance issues and the effect of unrecoverable errors during rebuilds.

Btrfs RAID1 works perfectly, and RAID1c3/RAID1c4 provides additional redundancy. In place of RAID5, use RAID10 instead.
The whole concept of it. If the PM wants to know where I'm at, why doesn't he come and ask me? Instead, I have to continually report for nothing.
Chinese hackers compromise dozens of government agencies, defense contractors
Except he packages it on a container.
$1m+ no-code startup idea: Learning Marketplaces
Linux is a small problem with remote work, I'm currently working for a client whose VPN only supports Windows and Mac. I'm very happy about WSL in this situation, allows me to use my desktop with all the familiar tools instead of buying an expensive and underpowered Mac.

This limitation came as a surprise even to the client, they were under the impression that Linux would work fine.
Mindfulness is useful. It’s not a panacea, but it can be a very useful tool.
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We actually tried that route (i.e. using a branch) before deprecating the project. Instead, the infra team told us something like the branch can only live for about 6 month before they have to deprecate the toolchain that supports the branches that are more than 6 months old.

(edit: typo)
> you need to publish the code for NFT smart contracts... which pretty much everyone does

How do you not publish smart contract code on a public blockchain? This statement makes no sense. At best you could pull some obfuscation tricks which only serves to makes you look dodgy as fuck.
Jammu and Kashmir is a 12 million strong popluation cluster and has a grand total of 2620 covid dedicated hospital beds and a total of 248 ICU beds.

Just for the record, yesterday the daily new cases reached 2204 with new daily deaths of 13.
What can you imagine these 248 beds will do? How much can they help ?

Even if the occupancy rate of hospital beds is low, that figure can shoot up in a matter of hours and then what? Its not like its China and the government can build a hospital in 10 days so yeah, pretty fucked.
But the other vaccines also slightly elevate the chance of blood clotting. To less than the elevation caused by the contraceptive pill.
Facebook doesn’t care about GDPR or laws for that matter. It’s still profitable to do this and get slapped with some minor fine and some insincere apology.
We have seen it now dozens of times.
Projects like yours are why browsing HN is still a joy -- this is diamond-in-the-rough software, and I never know when I'll come across it (also thanks to HNs stellar moderation and the mods that make that happen).

The stack this is built on is pragmatic yet being reasonably cutting edge (at least I think of Electron and Svelte as cutting edge, not "boring" software), the feature set is deep, good support, easy to download and install, and I like the vision (as in the UI has been built by someone who has seen other entries in the space before and is familiar yet not cluttered). Love the project.

Please make sure to think of a sustainable way to capture some of the value you're investing into this project, I don't see why it can't take a place as a widely used (No)SQL DB client. Even if it's just a buy-me-a-coffee button (or a paypal 1-time donation button, whatever has least fees), It helps to think ahead to what sustainability looks like before you have 200+ issues filed so you can keep the passion as people like me drive by, use your project and maybe complain but don't contribute.
Does anyone know why all of the geopolitical discourse in the UK and Europe has been around arguing over a small supply, rather than about increasing manufacturing capacity?
Does BASIC allow padded string formatting? If so, you only need the one loop.
So a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-show_job ?
Let’s add to the question “what is the quality of code review process in Linux?” an other one “what is the quality of ethical review process at universities?”.

I think there should be a real world experiment to test it.
I made a send-only Python client, back in the day. https://github.com/moreati/chirppy
This is the contract in case anyone wants to read it: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/attach...
Exactly. It should be practical to do this on a larger scale to create a decentralised alternative to YouTube.

The fact that it still exists, probably tells us that we should use this technology to its full potential since we need it more than ever these days.
Occlusion culling is one of the big features of 4.0.
There are groups which advocate for that, but they often don't have a large (if any) representation.
From WinZips to GIFs, Jacob Ziv’s Algorithms Have Powered Decades of Compression
There's at least one example of this I've seen which, typically, is now evading my YouTube search skills. It's pretty much exactly as the article describes, a "floating points of light in a box shape" sort of thing. Very low resolution, but might have some uses.
I don't know any details, but my understanding if that manufacturing vaccines is quite difficult.
This is nifty: https://github.com/wting/autojump
I seem to recall there being some hiDPI setting in the project options that fixed the blurry fonts for me (on Windows). I think the problem is just that on hiDPI screens everything, including text, is still rendered with whatever size the programmer picked and the result is just naively scaled according to the OS settings (which works ok-ish for non-text graphics). The hiDPI setting removes the automatic scaling, so developers have to account for hiDPI screens themselves (not making everything too tiny).
I'm still waiting too see long term effects of all adenovirus based vaccines. I'm kinda estimating there to be an increased risk of strokes overall.

But I'm constantly baffled at Germany's vaccine response. Remember that Pfizer's vaccine is developed by the German company and that the president of the European commission used to be Germany's Minister of Family/Labour and Defense.

But in a way that's a result of their arrogance, so well deserved in a way.

EDIT: Wow, the responses are seriously out of this world. The German health minister fumbled ordering fast testing kits. In fact Aldi, Germany's biggest cheap supermarket chain started distributing testing kits faster than the German government[1].

They fumbled through the mask ordering and distribution and by inventing a super complicated voucher that was delayed many times to allow for cheap masks[2].

One of Germanies most important health care organizations leaderships told people to make sure they know there is no mask mandate in the office[3], and that a running nose is not a reason to stay home. This is while there were statewide mask mandates and work at home encouragement elsewhere.

You're right that it doesn't matter where BioNtech is from. What does matter however is that they are considered more safe than any of the other vaccines, and that they delivered hundreds of millions of vaccines to the US and elsewhere.

Let's stop pretending that Germany didn't fumbled through every step of the pandemic, they bought AZ because it was cheap not out of solidarity to the US. They made the rules for the EU and are now looking at AZ as the scapegoat.

Did you guys already forget the Luca app nightmare?

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-health-minister-jens...

[2] https://tkare.de/en/berechtigungsschein-the-new-voucher-for-...

[3] https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2021-04/kassenaerztl...
The way I understood it these blood clots are a different kind of blood clot, and almost always deadly. But the amounts of "accepted" blood clots with the contraceptive pill are quite horrific.
Maybe there is a flu virus going around as well. I don't think anywhere is actually testing for it any more, just making assumptions that it is corona.
In many countries you do have to accept job offers that you don't like in order to receive benefits or healthcare. If sex work is work, I don't see a reason to make a difference.
Schematics and CAD designs for nearly all apple products are on the usual dark corners of the internet, usually for free.

It recently allowed me to repair my MacBook (a dry solder joint, but when there are 100,000 solder joints, finding the right one without a schematic is near impossible!).

It's time the government stepped in to dramatically reduce corporate secrecy, but until then I will celebrate every leak of this kind.
If I were to alias cd ../../ et al I'd probably go for .. 2.. 3.. 4.. or something
At least where I live, there is simply no option for voice/SMS SIM cards other than a subscription drawing from your credit card or bank account etc. So it would take the proxy person to also hold a bank account or credit card and be on the hook for any charges to the SIM card. Even with government ID etc they can't just go to a shop and pick up a prepaid for cash.

Theoretically possible, yes, but in practice, I think the only option is if you have the "right" connections with organized crime. I don't think you'd be able to solicit on the streets, even in the capital.
> If that is true, what is remarkable is the low death rate.

Death count is also very much under reported.[1] I am not able to find the reference but only testing count is reliable, positive case and death counts are highly under reported.

[1] 4th plot. https://www.ft.com/content/683914a3-134f-40b6-989b-21e0ba1dc...
I've had thoughts on similar lines to the top level comment, by the following line of reasoning:

In US and Europe, policies and behavior (such as mask-wearing and social distancing) have become stricter as the number of cases rise and more lenient as the number of cases fall. This means that the reproduction number hovers around 1.

If we imagine that R_0 for Covid-19 is 2.0, no measures are taken, and a variant which is twice as infectious appears when there are 10^6 cases (in a population of 10^9), then the variant will have only infected ~10^6 people by the time we have herd immunity (a very rough estimate).

On the other hand, if measures halving the spread rate are imposed when 10^6 cases are reached and the variant appears, then the variant will still spread exponentially while the original strain is curtailed, resulting in most people catching the highly infectious variant.

I have no background in medicine or epidemiology, so I'm keen for people to point out flaws.

Edit: I am not advocating that no measures to stop or slow the spread of Covid should have been taken.
We are united against Russia aggression. No one wants their city destroyed like Donetsk and Luhansk. A lot of people are switching their language to Ukrainian to distance themselves from all the crime that Russia does, myself included.

Kharkiv, east of Ukraine.
there is a hint of /s here, but the linux desktop world is a complete mess imo. windows going head to head with the incumbents like gnome could be huge for linux. I know I would be very interested to see what ms could do in this space.
That should be no problem, I will add it in next version