skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point which I think stems from wrongly equating human level intelligence to AGI in the popular literature. It’s not at all clear what a general intelligence should be and it’s much less clear that humans have general intelligence. In my view we have a set of very good innate priors (e.g. space/time continuity, intuitive physics) that have been optimized by evolution for thousands of years. These priors in turn allow us to learn fast from unlabeled data, but would anyone call such a system general intelligence? I’m not sure.
Thanks! Do you mean like a feature tour video on the home page, or something more like quick "templates" you could choose from that would pre-populate everything with sample data?
This may hit you with a Google captcha that is a worse nag — on the submitted web page, at least, you can type in whatever you want in the box instead of becoming a computer trainer for a few moments.
For what it's worth, you can actually eat pine cones. I was surprised to discover this last year, but a woman in a Facebook group I was in when I still had a Facebook account one day decided to post all these pictures of the delicacy she had just finished making that reminded her of her childhood. Something like this: https://www.etsy.com/market/pine_cones_jam

She grew up in Soviet-run Ukraine, so I guess you work with what you have, but it's not out of the realm of possibility that people in Europe thousands of years ago figured out you could eat pine cones, too.
I've made a tool to check if a site blocks FLoC: https://ewatchers.org/floc?lang=en
I'm also pretty sure they are good at exploiting things like H1B's.
You can still have it be client side if you're web based, right?
Where I grew up they staggered schedules for middle school/elementary school/high school so that the buses would be busy all day. So high school started early.
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I’m not saying that it’s necessarily a good thing, but what problem does Math have for example?
I worked in this space in one of the biggest issues is the kind of company and the kind of dysfunction within this company that causes them to think that hiring consultants externally is a good idea.

It's almost always not a good idea of course. It's a really really good way to minimize risk if you have some terrible position in government where there's no upside to performance but there's a huge downside to making the wrong decision that blows things up. You bring in external consultants they put a stamp on some solution which they can't ever implement and you can just point to them and say wasn't my fault.
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The $10M figure is incorrect because donating a $20M painting doesn't save you $20M in taxes, it only allows you to deduct $20M from your income, and even that amount is capped. The actual amount of taxes you save is roughly $20M * your marginal rate. There's also the $10M you spent to acquire the painting, which eats into the savings.

That said the general premise is valid. The loophole comes from the fact that when you donate something, you don't have to pay capital gains on it, yet you can deduct the full value from your returns[1].

[1] "If you donate long-term appreciated assets like bonds, stocks or real estate to charity, you generally don’t have to pay capital gains, and you can take an income tax deduction for the full fair-market value." https://www.fidelitycharitable.org/guidance/charitable-tax-s...
Some feedback, the image with the caption:
Left – the original image, right – the image after applying the 12-bit identity CLUT

Looks the most convincing film like. The last sample (Fuji Velvia 50), absolutely does not look like Film at all (let along Velvia 50), main culprit is the shadows underneath the truck. I understand you're just applying RawTherapee's LUT there, but maybe you need to tweak the intensity down or play with the brightness.
Linux on Lenovo Chromebook Duet
For whom? They don't seem to care about anything anymore.
But it's not a problem, right? Because we've had countless conversations about google and chrome, discussed them ad nauseam, and we're so sick of this tedious, incessant topic that we've all stopped using chrome, right? Except for, yes, yes, the people who have to use it at work, but who don't use it at home, right? Floc is only a problem if you deserve it.
You contradict yourself. In that billion years, either the light travelled (1) a distance we call "a billion light years (a measure adjusted to account for expansion of space during transit)", or (2) it travelled "more than a billion light years (a measure that neglects expanding space)". In either case, substantially greater than 9.46e24 meters.

If the road grew while I was on it, then it would take longer than an hour to get there. If it took an hour to get there anyway, I went faster than 60 mph. If I went 60 mph for an hour and got there, then the road did not grow.

You can fool with "light years" as a unit all you like ("instantaneously 9.46e12 m, but more as travel time increases"), but you don't get to fool with meters. If no numbers change, expansion is meaningless, the only thing that changes is light wavelengths. Then you are just talking about tired light.
A friend of mine worked for an energy company who hired these guys. From what he told me what they did was create problems and sell overly expensive 'solutions'. As the years went by more and more of the company's budget went to their consultants without there being much of a return on investment. They basically ran the company into the ground as it nearly went under during the financial crisis and they've never really recovered.

It's just one of those companies that makes money because they make money, much like Oracle or whatever local company always gets the government contracts in your country.
Carpenter ants not always a culprit
Worse than many countries, but certainly not worse than India or Indonesia that the US was being compared to in this article.
While I agree with the suggestion it is explicitly not allowed on some platforms.

We recently had this issue with Apple. We wanted to create a separate account for App Store Connect to use with automated builds. Apple locked the account and required identification scans. Our VPE submitted his own info and it was rejected. For now we're stuck using someone's personal account.
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Take the products in the category of forums. Most of them do censorship, THIS forum does censorship. A few do not, like Parler. If you like, take a tour of the forum products that do not do any censorship, spend some time there, report back on what it is like.

Which forum products do you enjoy and which do you not?
Makes me glad that I got an evaporative one then. At the time I was mostly thinking that the ultrasonic one would bother my dog.
Bingo. Don't forget Tata Consulting.

It's basically the whole top of the H-1B sponsors list that aren't FAAMG

https://h1bgrader.com/reports/sponsors/lca/2020
HN is, for the most part, a sterile hugbox for pretend-polite faux-intellectuals -that's why my strongly worded inflammatory comments are sometimes a hit.
For those saying Apple missed the boat on owning global messaging, I ask you:

Who says Apple wanted to own global messaging back then?
Shakespeare and Spencer are very readable to a modern reader with a bit of effort.
I can't, it hurts my eyes. Leaves me with interlace line ghosts and gives me eye strain. Dunno why.
They are switching that in many districts nowadays, to recognize that young kids wake up early naturally while teens need to sleep in.
Hi HN! This a simple project made with JavaScript and the HTML canvas, the goal is to learn about different models of computation by solving simple puzzles with them, almost like programming with a finite state machine.

This project is part of my undergraduate thesis in cognitive science and its about video games as tools for learning. The
game collects stats as you play (number of levels completed,
number of transitions/states used, etc), if you prefer nothing gets sent you can set "internet_conn" to false in
src/stats_recorder.js or turn of your internet after the page is loaded - the game will still work as normal.

The source code is here: https://github.com/shailpatels/FiniteStates
How JavaScript works: functional style and how it compares to other approaches
Further details - https://science.thewire.in/health/sars-cov-2-variants-b117-b...
Sure, I agree, but that's not the majority of the population...
Some people prefer the safety of Disney World.

Others like to go base jumping from some mountain in the Alps.

Shouldn't both be possible? Or do we want a Mickey Mouse in the Alps telling us to go back for our own safety?
Turn Google Docs into a Notion-like knowledge base
This guy is Buterin 30 years from now.

Open Source won't ever make the inventor (and those who blindly follow him) rich in the long term. There is an initial wave of enthusiasm which provides a time window to unload the bags though.
I think this is a very smart piece. It exposes very clearly that money is not value.

You can bundle existing value from one side, add maybe an extra bit here and there and collect money for the process.
But how much money you collected in the end has very little relation to how much value you added to the system.
Especially since some of the shareholders did absolutely no value creation.

Jeff Benzos is a very smart person and an excellent CEO. He used to work for the Renaissance Fund as well. I really wish I could hear his honest opinion on this piece. He will most likely never read it but I hope he would and I hope he took the time to reply with honesty and no ego.
You are spot on with "work carried out poorly by offshore resources". My current company made a business model from taking over projects that Accenture screwed up, and doing them properly. And boy, there is no shortage of such projects :)
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"However, that is, by definition, perverse."

I don't think that's by definition wrong for stardew valley. That's your interpretation based on the intro. The developer might not find it perverse to play that way at all.
I didn't say they will lead in two years. But they have a much stronger position going forward and be able to compete. ( Compare to dying in a slow death before Pat came back ) Right now they aren't really "competing", more like holding AMD back. Look at AMD's entrance into Cloud / DC market, they are barely 10% by even the most optimistic standard. If you take out the consoles sales number, the DC market for AMD isn't as rosy as many want people to presume. ( I would have wanted them to be close to 20% by now. Although Mark papermaster have shown their ambition for 30%+. Which is the only good sign I would take.)
Also reminder AMD isn't in the forefront of leading edge node, they tend to wait for mainstream. Apple is the one paying premium. ( Although TSMC sudden 5 / 3nm acceleration seems to suggest a change in strategy, we will see )
From my experience Accenture is your typical high-attrition, low-wage consultancy body shop, they underbid and under deliver for bad work but they look attractive to the bean counters who don't have to work with their shite.
I am a big fan of 'C++ Power Paradigms', although it does make me kind of insufferable when talking to people who bring up 'recent advances in AI'. Thanks for writing it all those years ago, it opened my eyes to there being more to programming than reversing linked lists and figuring out widget layout errors.
I'm not sure about the current situation, but I believe the loans were maintained for a long time to ensure a certain level of government control over the large Chaebols.
A substantial amount of evidence heard in court is outright junk science. Photos are the least of their problems.
If a single deli in New Jersey is worth $100m, $140B for Accidenture might be a bargain.
Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech
I briefly tried this out. I prefer Personal Capital because it gives you a probability of meeting a retirement goal. I can see though how this would be a little nicer to use if you don't want to link your accounts as encouraged by Personal Capital.
A little under $8 million, but same difference.

Because your taxable income is $20 million less after the donation, and the top marginal tax rate (if you're rich enough to be playing this kind of game) is 37%.

The waters get a bit muddier with the capital gains tax you might be paying on the original sale, but presumably with the right accountant you're still saving some millions, whether 3 or 8 or 10.
Direct link: https://www.earthcam.net/projects/empirestatebuilding/gigapi...
Accenture, case study:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2467082/london-stock-e...
Film is definitely still available, and you can use a target to as a starting point for a LUT, though the workflow is not straightforward. The core of the problem is that you're only sampling a fraction of the number of colors in the LUT, so to derive the rest of the LUT entries, you need to interpolate and extrapolate.

The trick is which algorithm you use to take the sparse 3D mesh of the calibration target and warp/interpolate the rest of the values. Trilinear would be the most naïve (and lowest quality) approach.

There's a ton more detail about how to actually match digital to film in Steve Yedlin's blog [1], including a cool video of sparse color interpolation in 3D (toward the bottom of the page).

[1] http://www.yedlin.net/NerdyFilmTechStuff/index.html

[2] http://www.yedlin.net/OnColorScience/index.html
It would be nice if Android let you check the hash of the APK against a Binary Transparency log hosted by a third party. Google have even written extensively about this idea:

https://transparency.dev/application/add-tamper-checking-to-...
Vogels spoke briefly about why AWS prefers versioned objects instead here: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3434573

BTW, DynamoDB supports conditional PUTs if your data can fit under 400 KiB.
That was my point re Shakespeare - I don't particularly agree about Spencer.
The BSDs are always an option.
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Great job, I wish you the best! I'm sure you'll get lots of feedback about issues and will work to fix them. But overall the polish, simplicity, power, and uniqueness are an amazing start!
> TC184/SC4/{WG11,WG12}

I see; this gives a new perspective to this discussion and increases my uneasiness; looks like the "holy wars of STEP" (NIST Special Publication 939) was going into a new round behind the scenes (or never stopped).

Does that mean we have to say goodbye to EXPRESS (i.e. it is optional as a description method)? Or is SysML just another method to specify Business object models (next to EXPRESS and UML)?

> an EXPRESS compiler used in the document production process

Do you mean the Eengine (written in Lisp)?

> Concerning "public relations":

e.g. the SysML v2 Submission Team (SST) did quite a good job in communicating their plans and the future direction of SysML; so even long before the standard is published I have a good grasp of what to expect, so also on the new text representation which will make MBSE much more efficient (like the advent of hardware description languages quickly made schematics obsolete for real world designs); this gives me enough time to prepare for the paradign shift (e.g. adapt my tools etc.). It is only to be suspected that STEP will still be based on the old SysML version with a different metamodel and no textual representation (i.e. the only "textual representation" is XMI or XSD).
Linus has done exactly that a few times; though usually he defines what would be needed to be merged.

Some of the changes aren't compatible with the kernel direction as a whole and so they're a separate branch. Given enough time (and if the change is major AND ends up being widely used) it may get merged in.

Those who want a specific kernel with a defined feature set often will look to one of the BSDs as a base (as often they also have reduced hardware requirements, think routers).
Here is a thesis that refutes that pretty common narrative https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

Particularly interesting to me is that a) American publishing early on consisted mostly of reprinting foreign hits due to lax copyright b) the 1920s golden age was largely accounted to by macroeconomic trends c) in the 40s publishers got by printing hits for the overseas military and d) even the “modern” publishing industry born in the 50s was subsidized by commercial hits.
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>Clearly you aren't really plugged-in to what's really going on.

Not sure if this is a new comer or new account. You may want to explain yourself. As you have nothing in your previous comment to "rehash".

If the past 10 years are records that I am way more plugged into what's going on than 99.99% of the internet.

And if you dont think TSMC is the competitor, it tells others more about you than about me.
Surely this runs afoul of Twitter's vaunted Community Guidelines, doesn't it?
Wouldn't the system see a raid's confiscation of a server as just a down machine and do the normal thing to bring up a new server to handle the load correctly? "Okay boys, now go get that server. Wait, now that one, now that one"
It is hardly impossible to install third-party software on your phone if you're up for base jump levels of risk.
As a relative layman, this all seemed reasonable and desirable - and the fact that he integrated it with pthreads seems particularly cool to me.

NUMA awareness especially stood out as highly significant.

The new supported sizes seems nice and shiny - if well utilised, it could improve performance and capacity in general, capabilities in the low-end and scaling in the high-end.
As someone who thinks US sanctions are unfair and counterproductive I support this.
Definitely, thank you for that great suggestion! I think I made the common mistake of assuming that others would understand what that was about because I was the one who built it, but from the outside looking in, it would be difficult to understand the connection between the timer and the counter. I will make sure I rectify this when I work on it again later today/tomorrow.
A backdoor lets the immune system monitor the brain
The Great Famine of 1695–1697
Yeah, but that’s what Android is for. I have absolutely no faith that developers won’t pick the easiest, cheapest, least restrictive distribution channel available. And I have every inclination they will sacrifice every user desire for privacy and integrity to get there.
It's probably unwise to think prosecutors and federal agents are stupid. They were in the 1990s crypto wars, but not now. What we tend to perceive as 'stupid' is in reality, 'powerful.' They don't need to explain themselves, because they put the onus of compliance on you.

Gaming out the subpoena, Signal does not have this user information because it does not exist, but it does have server locations, 3rd party service providers relationships, and staff who can all be dragged into the process and system, where they can be charged with other arbitrary process crimes to put pressure on them.

It's a mistake to interpret any official action as a serial, single point transactional request. Like mice, if you think you see one, you have, and it's guaranteed there are many more behind it. Given where they have used the action to draw your attention, where in relief is the second part of the pinch or funnel they are creating?

If the legal system wants to destroy you, they can and do. Signal has antagonized them, and the current political climate is all about getting rid of any resistance to official powers and their unofficial private arms. Politically, there is ample incentive to take out Signal and cause users to switch to more amenable apps from friendly platform companies. They may even be able to compel friendly app stores to patch apps before they are distributed.

To me, this subpoena looks like the Cellebrite takedown was analogous to injuring a cop, where the response will likely be disproportionate and even extra-legal, because it is about maintaining public perception and belief.
You are correct.

There is tremendous value in open door daycare policies. Some kids arrive 730 because thats their parents schedule. Others at 10 because little sam decides to sleep in.

Its unfortunate that the assembly-line aspect of post-K schooling forces kids to fixed times which are often at odds with the children or even parent's needs
My understanding of the Establishment Clause is that its primary purpose, which is not obvious for a modern reader, was to prevent the government from "establishing" a state religion. [0]

So that means that the government is forbidden from making laws that favor a particular religion over others, not from making any laws that constrain or affect religious groups and institutions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Establishment_Clause, from which, "The Establishment Clause is a limitation placed upon the United States Congress preventing it from passing legislation forcing an establishment of religion, broadly making it illegal for the government to promote theocracy or promote a specific religion with taxes."
The big problem is: installing a dubious (not saying this is dubious, but lets say anything not from a MNC) program on your computer might lead to a hostile takeover of your computer. But a web-based solution means your data is in somebodies else hand. So one has to pick ones poison...
This is the interesting takeaway from the current situation: lockdown exceptions directly reflect priorities, and while teachers and parents were crying bloody murder the school stayed open to allow people to go to work.
Thanks for the feedback! I've thought about maybe creating a version which is wrapped up as an Electron app and runs natively and with no google analytics, etc. Does it sound like that might alleviate some of your concerns?
This was also posted 9 days ago [0], when OP created their account, with 3 other also freshly created accounts (with no other activity on them) praising it. Make of that what you wish.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26862841
uhh...no it doesn't?

I have a lot of group chats as the only Android (soon to be Pinephone) user. Group Chats work fine.
It's actually quite easy to change platforms (at least in part because so many cross-platform apps will store your settings in the cloud anyway). My wife and I did it last year and it was not much fuss.
All the cryptocurrency shenanigans suddenly made sense when I read someone’s HN comment last year who said something like ‘ e-coin is stock you can buy to invest in a company that has no assets and produces nothing.’ In that sense, it makes complete sense why some people intentionally use the term “market cap”, so you’re absolutely right.
Wether the "bunny-in-a-hole" method is superior, is quite debatable, sir!
;-)

Funny thing is, I had to invent the two-loop shoelace knot/bunny-ears/bowknot myself, because I couldn't be bothered to understand the bunny-rabbit/loop-swoop-and-pull.

Of course you have to do it right or you end up with an unbalanced granny knot, which is of course not acceptable
;-)))

Until my personal groundbreaking knot invention I used velcro and a double simple knot sometimes for three or four years.
Since velcros came out of fashion for inexplicable reasons, I was under pressure to change my modus operandi...

Ah, and of course the influence and dynamics of raising children over a long period of time on intelligence is something seldom considered in AI.
JavaScript (store + compute everything client side)
The amount of over-30s who will defend this on town Facebook groups by saying it's what they did and turned out fine is terrible. I get to sleep in and wake up for my intellectually demanding job whenever I want and I feel how much more I'm able to deliver because of it. It makes me sad to think about how much learning I missed out on as a 16 year old because I would be falling asleep in class so often.