skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"AI is harder than we think"

of course depends a bit on who "we" is. The paper seems to focus a bit on the types who thought it's a bit of symbol manipulation you can do in lisp which has always seemed a bit dumb. Then the "it'll never happen" crowd seems dumb as well given people do think and seem to be built from atoms and stuff obeying normal physics.

The more sensible view it seems to me is to compare neural computation to what we can do with silicon and then project on a Moore's law type assumption as to when it would be likely, in the manner of Moravec and Kurzweil which has always put the date around 2030- 2040. And obviously it'll be hard like doing a moon landing is hard but probably not impossible like that also.

Moravec's 1998 paper had "it is predicted that the required hardware will be available in cheap machines in the 2020s" and then I guess we need the software.
At least once a year
Because you would see all the time commercials on tv letting you know that if you, or a late loved one, worked in the subway you may be entitled to financial compensation.
> Windows

The C++ SDK is definitely not available out of the box on Windows. You have to install it (and update it manually!).
Like, I wouldn't mind. Only thing that would kinda stop me would be fear of of the buildsystem, I remember fighting heaps of xml configuration for maven and ant ~10 years ago, so I hope that got better :)
Wait until you find out about the source of all the people in the world! ;)
And it's worth remembering the ACCC's central role in this scam.

https://www.accc.gov.au/focus-areas/digital-platforms/news-m...

My advice to any future Federal Government would be to gut the ACCC and rebuild it from the ground up. And then if the rebuilt entity demonstrates competence, significantly increasing its funding.
Oh this is Australia it all starts to fall in place probably aligned with Murdoch's attack on tech.
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> The spread in software ability is so much larger that the -1σ candidates (the least-effective ~15% of people who have ever worked in computer programming jobs) are worth trying to select against in a way the least effective ~15% of nurses probably are not.

This isn’t an argument against credentialling since it is literally the direct effect of not having credentialling in software. Credentialing cuts most-to-all of what would be the low tail of the profession off before it ever enters. Nurses and lawyers who can’t do their profession’s equivalent of fizzbuzz mostly wash out of the exams to enter the profession (or earlier), they don’t show up in job interviews, except where the inability is produced by some kind of post-entry decline in capacity. And even then, decertification is a real possibility, which further purges the low end of the distribution.

So, yeah, a -1σ software developer (or at least software developer job applicant) is worse compared to basic expectations than a -1σ nurse, because a nurse as below expectations as a -1σ software developer is would be compelled to find a different profession because of credentialling requirements.
Shepherds (like all folks) wear and wore clothes, long sleeves and often hats also in the summer. Also if skin is exposed to sun regularly, often, its much less sensitive compared to usual office worker seeing almost no sunlight and then having 2 weeks of mega exposure and sunburns on vacation.
If cows are fed an unnatural diet instead of grass they fart a lot. So wild animals don't have the same issue.
Page 8 of that subpoena says the document files produced must have the extension "*.TIF". (note asterisk)

I wonder how they'd like it if you sent them files literally named

FILE001.PAGE001.*.TIF

(the rest of the specified file format structure notwithstanding)

It's very important to follow the instructions exactly when you are legally compelled to do something!
> Create a separate account at the same company for the other purpose.

I'd love to create separate accounts for other purposes, but doing this has become such a big pain that I only did it a couple of times so far.

Most services now require mobile number during account registration. It seems necessary to provide a unique number, but how to get one? Numbers from "burner" apps often cannot get the text with confirmation code. Also, the registration process itself is difficult; sometimes multiple genuine attempts at account registration get your IP blocked, at least temporarily.

If anyone has any tips, I'd be happy to hear them.
Another case considering the requirement that the existing 51% could not be loaned would require just over doubling the outstanding staked assets, which is more than Aave's current $7.5B available to loan, to a total staked ETH2 of $20B USD again assuming no previously controlled stake. But, assuming the same the interest rate, the fee for a 1 hr 4M ETH loan is: $10B USD * 0.0001 = $1M USD. Still, half the amount compared to the PoW.
Is there an actual image of the mars surface somewhere? I poked around the repo but could not find one.
And because Marlinspike specifically mentioned FFMPEG by name, I think vulnerability was not in there.

At least that's what I would do.
That is not rape, and if she was claiming it was, she'd be making a false allegation of rape, which would be very serious.

The main problem is that it wasn't all that long ago that a woman couldn't attend a conference, agree to stay at an Airbnb with an unrelated man to whom she wasn't married, etc.

We are in a lot of new territory and still trying to sort out a lot of questions that simply didn't come up a generation or two back.

These questions are all too often being sorted out the hard way: By having things go wrong and having people who are upset about what happened air their grievances because they don't know what else to do to try to sort their lives and get everything back on track.
Agree. I've moved my business email off Google because, despite being a paying customer, I had zero confidence in getting a resolution if my account got banned for any reason.

I still have an Android, and a personal gmail etc, but if they go away I can still run my business and I'll recover quickly.
ETags are not cache invalidation. ETags are a way for a client to validate the cache in the client, while cache invalidation for a http proxy would involve telling the proxy that it should discard a cached file.

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Basically:

cache validation: Check if a file matches a cached version

cache invalidation: Preemptively tell a cache to discard a cached file

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For example:

Client A requests file X. Proxy caches file X.

File X changes in the upstream.

Client B requests file X. Proxy does not know the file changed upstream, so it sends a stale version.

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In this case either the proxy needs to revalidate each request with upstream (which is expensive) or we need some way to tell the proxy that it should discard it's cache for file X since it has changed.

Nginx plus supports this but the free version does not: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#pr...
Typo on the title. Anyone who reads navel historical fiction knew what you're getting at.

Also engine, hitch, wagon, train, all pre-dating steam engines.
Also takeout is kind of underwhelming: It was probably one of the last things Google announced that I was enthusiastic about:

The rest here is my personal feeling. It might be wrong. I might have missed something.

... only when trying to use it it is dark patterns in layers to prevent you from actually using it:

- getting links to download stuff takes more than enough time to get you to forget it.

- and they only last for a very limited time

- archives are unwieldy
> Also, it is quite amusing to read the EncroChat logs from some of these trials.

That's interesting, where can I find those?
The advanced guide to reducing your RoR
How is Porkbun related to China? I thought they were US based.
The capital requirements are certainly no joke, but the ships themselves are cheaper than I expected. The Ever Given, for example, supposedly cost around 130 mio. dollars to build. For comparison, a new Boeing 747 costs around 230 to 260 mio.
another argument: we've been fighting for computers to be free from monopolies for so many years (anyone remember Microsoft dominance in the 90s? or browsers not complying to standards?) and yet, here we are again with the same shit.

Mobile phones are personal computers, actually of the most successful type. We should have learned some lessons, but no, people come with the same arguments as in the past decades (it's easier, it makes me look cool, I'm lazy). Then, one day, you find that your favourite app has been removed because of God knows what other arbitrary rule has been introduced in the name of the greater good, as undemocratically decided by a private company.

And, please, don't come with the "if you don't like it, choose Android": at 50% market share that's not an argument any longer.
> Tech people are the minority.

That's irrelevant, though. The "tech people" aren't preferring local solutions because they're funny this way - they prefer them because cloud-streamed remote apps objectively sucks. It takes some knowledge about computers to comprehend how and why exactly, but it doesn't change the facts.

(To use an analogy - doctors are a minority too, but you listen to them when they say you should vaccinate.)

> The market IS moving towards cloud. It's happened, it's happening, it will keep happening.

The important question to ask is, why. Why it's happened, why it's happening? The answer has little to do with providing value to customers - it's mostly about creating ability to seek rent. Privacy issues only happen on top of that - they're not the entirety of the problem.

> I think it's more constructive (and technically difficult) to accept that the market is heading to full cloud

Or, we could fight it. Maybe it's a quixotic quest. Maybe not. The market is a dumb greedy optimizer, it flows down the profitability gradients the way water flows downhill. If you want it to flow elsewhere, you have to put obstacles in the way, or cut out a better path.
Is Build-to-Rent Crowding Out Other Kinds of Homes in Dublin?
> If one of the parties gets drunk, they can't give consent. Again, by definition.

So drunk people should never have sex? What if they're in a stable relationship?
It is huge but it's actually an under-estimate. The 2% figure has no actual basis, if you try and trace it back to some source you'll always end up at a dead end.

A more commonly cited figure is 10%, which comes from the clearance rate of DNA testing kits. i.e. someone accuses a man of rape, there is DNA and it exonerates him. So this is an absolute lower bound because a lot of rape accusations are a bit like this article: "we had sex a bunch of times consensually, and then also when it wasn't". You can't disprove that with DNA evidence but it can still be a false accusation.

Back in the 90s when this stuff was less politicised there was a somewhat rigorous study that put the true figure at around 50% [1]. It gave pie charts of the reasons for the false accusations and other interesting bits of data. This figure causes people to freak out these days due to the "believe the victim" mentality you can see above, where there is a deliberate conflation between accusations of rape and actual rapes, so it gets attacked a lot, but modern scholarship hardly investigates the question of false reporting rates for rape unless the authors already decided their conclusion before doing the research (you can sometimes see admissions of this in the study's discussion sections). The 50% figure has some other support: when interviewed anonymously police workers, both male and female, tend to pick this figure when asked to estimate the false reporting rate.

The low prosecution success rate is usually painted these days as an obvious flaw of the justice system, but that's identity politics. When you drill into it in detail and ask OK, where do these prosecutions go, and why are they dropped, or why do they fail to win in court, the answer is: because a LOT of rape allegations are not only false but clearly false. For example, because the complainant goes to the police and admits they made it up, or because they are clearly high on drugs when making the accusation and rescind it when sober. Even if you engage in some mental gymnastics to assume rescinding an accusation is never valid, it doesn't matter. It's really hard to win in court when the "victim" themselves are claiming they're not really a victim at all.

[1] https://ia800209.us.archive.org/4/items/FalseRapeAllegations...
Let's see if they try to search the Signal servers for any evidence. And if there is really no information stored.

Or if that will disrupt Signal services. The central, non-distributed architecture is always a big concern against Signal.
According to my naive knowledge:

1. We have more ozone holes now.

2. We weren't constantly in direct contact with sunlight. If you move past very early stages, we had shelter in forests, caves, tents, igloos.

3. When we were in direct contact with sunlight, we had a darker skin, which is more resilient to that.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
dataprotection@disney.co.uk :)
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I think some people are so afraid of dangers to their health that they are even afraid to acknowledge them. I think I've seen a lot of this during the pandemic. When you try make people acknowledge the dangers they are facing they are going to panick and defend their peace of mind furiously.

Anyways, good luck in the US. Avoid getting shot, having a pool, drinking sugared water instead of water, any medical issue and getting on the bad side of the law in any way. ;-)
He said it was an FFMPEG snapshot from 2012, which has had dozens of vulnerabilities since.
That's not an argument against debuggers, it's an argument in favor of more machine verification e.g. through strict type checking. The expectation that we must understand every single line in a codebase to avoid minor mistakes like null pointers is a bit too much.
A previous line manager of mine was a former cop. I asked him one time about the thought process that is behind the choice to arrest or not.

Nobody — nobody — knows the entire legal code, because it is much to big. Cops necessarily have to look for suspicious behaviour and then afterwards see what fits.

I don’t like this at all, I want all legal codes to be simple enough for the average person to know their legal rights and legal responsibilities, but that’s the status quo.
I'm dubious that water soluble 'particles' from water hardness are a major concern. The meters can just distinguish sizes, but I expect that particles of a given size can radically differ in how harmful they are if nothing else based just on the body's ability to clear them.
Oh I read their allegedly "humidifiers kill" snippet, so tl;dr:

> but ultrasonic humidifiers produce huge numbers of particles. They turn any minerals in the water become airborne particles. got the following steady-state increases over background levels.

> Mineral water: ~265

> Tap water (Seoul): ~260

> Purified water: ~50

> Distilled water: ~0

So what you mean is that if I follow the instructions on the manual and use distilled (or at least purified water) for mineral and biological reasons, the issue is smaller to non-existent?
I don't see how this stuff is outcomes from the anti-trust case.

1) Cloud computing didn't really gain as much traction until folks started running into storage limits, which realistically was helped along by smartphones. Computing, for the average person, has changed.

2) Again, computing has changed. Some folks no longer pirate programs because free is available. Not all have ads: I'd also argue that programs are probably more available to more people because of this. I don't pay cash for many things on my phone, and I simply wouldn't. Television ads are generally more annoying and product placement in movies/shows slightly more devious.

3). Isn't this just large businesses, though? It isn't special to tech companies, nor do all of them lobby.

I'd also like to add that computing in the 90's was a bit different and not as widespread: Many folks I knew simply didn't have one at home. A computer at a library, school, friend's house, or internet cafe doesn't have a lot of privacy or control either. I don't think the "control" has the same meaning for the average person as it would with most folks reading this comment here on HN, and I'm not sure it bothers most folks.
right but we're not talking about compressing a video stream but compressing individually compressed pictures, big difference
Not disagreeing but I feel like calling this "low brow" journalism lowers the bar. We're better off not calling these people "journalists" at all. Part of being a journalist is about having journalistic integrity - its easy enough to just write an article but that doesn't mean a journalist was involved.
This is the right thing to do, however Google has ways to detect multiple accounts from the same individuals. Cookies, credit card numbers, IP addresses, etc. It's really hard to separate them enough so they can't link them.

And sometimes they will ban all your accounts if they find something they dislike on one of them.
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It's a very appropriate bar to keep men safe from false accusations!
TBF, I think a lot of people don't actually know what battery is. Internet definition:

the crime or tort of unconsented physical contact with another person, even where the contact is not violent but merely menacing or offensive.

Most people hear of that only in the form of assault and battery. I always have to look it up because my mind wants to say "That phrase repeats itself. Surely, battery means being battered."

As for when is it legally rape? That depends a lot on the jurisdiction. Different places have different laws and there is lots of debate about the merits of some of those laws.
UK Met Office sign 10-year agreement with Microsoft to build supercomputer
Contrary to what the title implies, those vaccines aren't 'shared' with the developed world either. They're kept by the pharma companies, and the developed world has to pay for doses, despite having funded over 97% of the vaccine development cost with taxes [1,2]. Yet these articles are implicitly asking us to feel guilty for.. what? Allowing the patent cartel to bribe our politicians and extort us?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/15/oxfordastraz...

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.08.21255103v...
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>While Google’s Mars map uses low resolution images taken in the 70’s

Have you checked out Google Earth for Mars? (not Google mars). It provides hi-rise images, and in 3d.
the rules a company has undemocratically decided that affect millions of users.

One day an app you like, or your life may even depend on, suddenly disappears because of some arbitrary, pointless rule is brought by that company, whose decisions are, I repeat, outside of democratic control.
> And as @PeterisP says... look, we're not a court. We're a private business that is refusing to do further business with someone. Our right to do this was very clearly explained before the beginning of any relationship, and agreed to by that someone. If that someone doesn't like it, their recourse is to not do business with us.

So you are basically justifying Google behavior. You are not a court, that's right. But every ban process should be easily and quickly prosecutable to settle the issue right in a court.
Obviously real fraudsters will never appeal like that, because they know they would incur in even bigger problems.
> To decrease the orbit radius the exact same procedure, but instead of burning thrust retrograde, you will need to burn prograde.

While I get it, corresponding to the way you explained it a few paragraphs earlier, you mean that in order to slow down you need to burn the engine so that the fire goes out in the prograde direction, this is not how we normally describe it. This is a retrograde burn, because the force acting on the spacecraft is in the retrograde direction.
And in turn people are unwilling to pay for fairly good reasons.

I decided to pay for one of app with premium features (my the first payment in Google Play). What happened? App was "redesigned" two weeks later with features that I paid for removed.

What caused me to not pay for anything else, why I will gladly pay for software which I can download and keep running even if new version is crippled.

For example yesterday I bought LibgtBurn for controlling laser cutter, at 80$ price. While I am unwilling to pay 1$ for an app.
Thanks for the encouragement. I will look into this more and write a blog post about, it is actually something I wanted to do for some time now, I'll make sure to post it to HN also and report what we have found ..

We have been developing this application since 2011 already, and I also develop in C++ and 3D graphics, so performance has been something I've had to think.

But yeah, there are many guides on what to avoid in JS already, how to optimize for speed and memory. But it is not definitely an easy thing to realize, as it's not inherently visible what can be slow and what not. Most blog posts at this time talk about how to optimize for the V8, and I'm not really interested in that so much, as it can be taunting to try to understand how V8 works for example.
I generally feel the same way and sometimes ask myself if I'm living in the same world as some people. Almost everyone complains about Gmail being slow but I don't find it unbearable. I keep it open in a Firefox tab and use it all the time. I have Slack running natively (well, as native as it can get) and it seems to work fine on both my Linux and macOS machines.

I guess I'm happy as long as the keyboard response is (very) good. The only time I notice real slowdowns are when my actions get out of sync with the system. A slow terminal or text editor drives me insane and is one reason I really can't use VSCode; Sublime Text never makes me wait.

Granted, there are things that are genuinely slow for me and drive me up a wall (ie. most issue tracking) but overall, I'd say that my daily use is pretty good. It's certainly not bad enough that I would offload my browsing to some cloud based system. But like you, I'm probably not the target market here.
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Interesting, I've always referred to UML sequence diagrams as swimlanes, and it seems I'm not alone in making this mistake.

In UML parlance, you're looking for partitioned activity diagrams. These are, in fact, "true" swimlane diagrams. Hmm!

https://www.uml-diagrams.org/
I set PyCharm's Git client to auto-stage everything, and build up my commits using PyCharm's tools. You can go through your visual diff and hit checkboxes to say "put this chunk in the commit, exclude this chunk". Or you can get one piece of your commit ready, then create a new Changeset and have any new changes go into that changeset, able to be reviewed, committed, shelved, or rolled back separately.

The problem with staging is I want every file I changed in one place so I can notice what changed and look through the diff together. Not to just show up at the bottom of the list .
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> figue de barbarie (and if you wonder, it's very good)

they are also quite commonly grown and eaten in Italy, but apparently they are also of American origin.