skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is too bad, since we care much more about prototyping at this stage. If some particular AI approach/architecture becomes 'good enough' for many applications, it wouldn't be long until ASICs for that calculation would arrive; probably not as good as the brain, but certainly orders of magnitude better than general-purpose CPUs/GPUs. There's also ongoing work involving ML with low-precision floats, etc. which can make such circuitry even more efficient.

The reason we don't really see this today is that recouping the investment for designing and fabbing such ASICs may take a few years, and they would probably be obsolete by then, given today's rapid changes. For example, a few years ago there might have been a clear business proposition for putting ASICs dedicated to convolutional neural networks into cameras (even camera phones); yet CNNs now seem to be phasing out in favour of transformers; and it's not at all clear what the "best" transformer is yet (e.g. look at all the different approaches to making them O(n) memory!)
Taiwan does an excellent job of enforcing sales taxes with almost no enforcement cost: https://abovethelaw.com/2019/10/in-some-countries-your-recei...
Depends a lot on the definition of fair.
Feedback on LabShare
LabShare is a cloud platform for resource capacity planning and scheduling that matches job demand to available resources of equipment.
This paper is written by a non-technical author, criticising AI based on predictions made by non-technical pundits.

By concentrating on binary outcome predictions (Do we have "full self driving cars" available to the general public?) it misses the real progress made in a huge number of areas.

For example, one of the claims this paper claims to be false is Zuckerberg's 2015 declaration that:

One of [Facebook’s] goals for the next five to 10 years is to basically get better than human level at all of the primary human senses: vision, hearing, language, general cognition

There's little doubt that AI systems are already better than humans in vision and hearing and there is very clear progress in language. Cognition is ill-defined, but on most benchmarks attempting to measure this there is steady progress too.

I think the real reason AI is harder than we think is because any time progress is made, humans redefine AI as "not that thing we just solved"

Take Marcus' claim that charades is too hard for AIs. I think models like Open AI's Dall-E show clear progress towards developing the kinds of techniques needed to solve this, and if there was a benchmark for it I bet computers would out-perform humans in less than 5 years.
Having same experience. Had seen the blue dialog before, but now the top right close button is no longer there.
With the way the system is designed, it's trivial to game the system in such a way that your ad-supported competitors get purged from the play store. Just extract the AdMob ID and submit it to click farms all around the world, and within a few days your competitor should be dropped from AdSense forever.

Like any Google product, partnering with them is a major risk for your business continuity. I'd never combine Google Ads and Google Play, just like I wouldn't combine a Google-hosted email domain with a Play account. Hell, even a Youtube account that's shared with your personal email is a data risk.

I do wonder what happened to get the app flagged. Maybe someone found a way to use the app to automate their ad fraud (it's an IDE after all), and Google determined this app to be the culprit? Maybe one of the app's dependencies had a piece of malware added? Who knows at this point. Google's lack of transparency makes it impossible to build any sort of business on their products. I don't get why people still try to do so.
I am old enough to remember the TV images and sounds of violence in Beirut and the fighting on the streets during the time of the IRA. The storming of the capital seems like incorrect framing of what looked a lot like a desperate attempt to get attention.

These are 2nd amendment types, uncolleged, who all forgot to bring their assault rifles, riot gear and bomb-making equipment to a violent takeover of the US capitol.

There weren’t even videos of burning cars or distant gunshots. To call something that looked more like a college sit-in an “armed insurrection” sounds like framing the pitiful as dangerous and unstable, leading to false imprisonments.
Only on the added value, e.g. a new smartphone glass. Work will be relatively cheaper.

One of the most reasonable proposals for UBI is to finance it through VAT. Some 15 years ago there was a party in Belgium that lobbied for UBI and they calculated that VAT should increase from 21% to 33% to finance UBI.
I have a very old app in iOS that serves AdMob ads. I don't even have it installed in my devices. So I myself never launch it, and it hasn't been updated in years. On the computers I use, I have ad blockers. I don't think I have clicked on an actual ad in a decade. This is a small time app that manages to send around $20 every 3 months or so (through ads).

Still, about every 2 weeks, Google sends me an e-mail saying "my ad serving is limited" due to "suspicious activity". I do nothing. After a couple weeks, Google notifies me that my ad serving is "restored". Then after a couple weeks, again, I am informed that my ad serving is limited due to suspicious activity. Then they restore it back themselves. This goes in a loop. Whatever they are using to detect this stuff, I believe it is (intentionally or not) broken.
Fixing a SVE in croc (e2ee file transfer tool)
Sunshine: the greatest asset in the world...

uncommon
There is an ongoing meme series with that guy with stone face who mocks stupid social media lifehacks. Let me be that guy for a moment:

Always create new Google account for your new project. Use that account for related Google Cloud, GMail, Google Play and all the SSOs into third-party services like Github/Gitlab, cloud CI/CD, hosting and so on. Just add your personal account as a collaborator to those services for convenience.

It will take one minute and protect you from a ton of problems later.

Compartmentalize, people, compartmentalize!
Thank You, I dont follow closely on the GPU front. I will read up on some of the information provided.
But is it the runway for the purposes of taking off or landing in less crashy manner? ;-)
People who like smaller systems? Or are poor?
How do people keep track/keep motivated when it comes to their health?
Lockdown has been hard on everyone, and I've become very aware that my physical and mental health is not quite where it should be. My sleep schedule is also pretty out of balance as I can basically get up when I want (working from home - SWE).

Has anyone here thought about, or taken active steps, to improve their health during this period? And if so I'd love to hear your experiences, and any helpful hints!
That's actually a valid point, thanks. Although I don't know what's the age distribution for skin cancers.
Exactly the problem.

Linux kernel is making it possible, but distributions don't care.
You realize your risk of death of air pollution in polish cities is 160/10,000 people? In the US the risk is 5 in 100,000 people.

sugar water will be a problem, I did not like this about the USA.

medical issue - with FAANG you're fine

bad side of the law: in the communities we live in faang, again, not a problem, you're on the right side of the law. Unless you're black, then that is quite a problem unfortunately.
Effectiveness doesn't just mean "can this mask trap particles?" -- because it's clear that FFP3 masks can do this. Effectiveness also means "In a particular situation with a thousand people, how many if them will be infected if none of them wear a mask, vs if all of them wear a mask?"

Healthcare professionals have to shave facial hair; they use good quality masks that are tested for conformity; they have sessions where their masks are fitted for them; they have training about how to put on, take off, and wear the mask; they have support to help them put on PPE; and they use the mask as part of a bundle of PPE that includes gowns, gloves, hand-sanitising, and eye protection.

In a healthcare situation we see that this package of measures does reduce infection. (And then we struggle to understand what's doing what because it's all a big confounded mess)

But for the public, going about day to day activity, it was really hard to see that masks would do much good.

And it's hard to do that even today: people in this thread are saying that it's obvious cloth masks do nothing but p95s are super effective. No-one can post any good quality evidence for that. All we get a some pretty rough studies that are trying to disentangle a bunch of measures to see which had most effect.
Kind of like democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. The issue here is fairness and ensuring the wealthy pay their share.
In theory, yes... but did you know that IKEA is owned by a charitable foundation "to promote and support innovation in the field of architectural and interior design"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stichting_INGKA_Foundation

Said foundation had an estimated endowment of $36 billion in 2006 (undoubtedly much larger now), yet it only donated $159 million in 2017, or only 0.4% assuming the endowment had zero growth.
We were one of the first on having overseas companies signup and remit GST directly for low value personal imports.

NZ/UK have copied this model and the EU is following mid this year.

The scheme has a special definition for marketplaces so that they can rope in eBay and Amazon to collect for them rather than having to go after every little Chinese eBay seller.
It's unconstitutional, right there in first nine words of 1A, even before the free speech part.

It's not that churches are excluded from taxation, it is that they are excluded from all effects of lawmaking because of religion. The laws made can only apply to non-church entities.

You can apply building and safety and occupancy codes to the structure, you can apply income tax to the attendees, et c, but it says right on the tin: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion".
>society might be better off if someone takes the initiative to meet this demand rather than force a company to roll out the red carpet for it's competition.

Would you say the same if the car market suddenly coalesced into a duopoly and the car companies become very restrictive?
Would you defend only them being allowed to do basic repairs in the interest of safety?
One going as far as saying you need to buy their tires or tires from companies that pay them tribute or the car won't start, their seat covers unless you manage disable some weird detection, etc
The other allowing such stuff just making it a pain.
Would you then say a company just needs to pop up and meet this demand?
Despite all the stuff involved and the size of cars would be a lot lot easier. Because at least cars don't necessarily need an ecosystem, userbase and developer community outside of the company to get of the ground and get sales.

As soon as you apply these things the other industries they start sounding ridiculous and hilariously anticompetitive but with phones people for some reason have come to accept it.
Looks like a useful product! I think it's neat how you built it directly on Google Sheets. I'd love to hear more about why you made that decision (versus building an independent tool).

Some feedback on the landing page:

- Would be nice with a 2-3 minute demo video

- Put the screenshots (or demo video) closer to the top, so they're visible without scrolling

- Some of the copywriting could be clearer. For example: "Pre-built financial models for SaaS companies, with plug-and-play software built directly in Google Sheets" could be just "Financial models for SaaS companies, directly in Google Sheets"
The work is added value. That is how VAT works.

Edit: I guess that if you're paying a salary to someone in your household staff who can repare the smartphone you only need to buy (and pay VAT on) the replacement glass. But I don't think this is what you meant. I think that you just don't understand how VAT works. If you bring your phone to a repair shop in Belgium the 21% VAT will be applied on the whole bill, parts and labour.
Does the phrase "you are asked" have a legal bearing though? is it something they can just choose to not follow, since they were not "told" or "instructed"?
Hmm, my jury is out on all of this, but you raise a good point. I was in exactly that position where I had to work closely with someone who I knew had strongly differing opinions to me on Israel/Palestine.

I'm not sure if it was an unspoken agreement or just lucky, but we made damned sure not to bring it up at work ... and we managed to work effectively together.

My gut here is that the founders just botched the delivery of these policies, but I'll keep thinking about it.
> and makes no sense for the alpha channel (wave-based sharpening filters create opaque halos).

Alpha channels are generally problematic, since if alpha is small, big changes in the rgb channels result in small changes in the actual color. You can't linearly interpolate in this color space, just like you can't in a polor coordinate space like HSL.

Pre-multiplied alpha should fix most of these problems (though you still need to be careful with fancy filters, no not end up with values outside the valid range)
Something very similar happened when I tried to buy a MacBook on Amazon.com with an European credit card. It just would not work, probably due to my **ty bank rejecting the payment… from Amazon. Good job.

Many attempts, calls, and hours later, I used my debit card from N26 and it finally went through.
And yet there are tools to confuse networks with high frequency artifacts. If the network isn’t trained to ignore that, it won’t - but you don’t need a neural network to perform a low pass filter step if you can do that efficiently before asking the net what it sees on the already preprocessed image.
the architect of a flurry of dazzling heists and blockbuster robberies

Fuck off with your glamorizing of crime. He took part in armed robberies which lead to someone being killed. Scum.
That's expecting far too much. It was a couple decades before E=mc². Einstein published 'Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper' in 1905. People weren't sure if such a thing as an atom even existed in the 19th century.
> The solution was to allow background checks again.

I'm not sure this learning shows what you think it does, nor that the 'solution' is really a solution. Employers don't want to hire black people because they fear they might be criminals, and background checks allay this fear, allowing them to hire a subset of black people they feel are ok? To me this confirms that both background checks and hiring managers have a tendency to be racially biased, and the 'solution' is simply accepting of that bias.
No, I've worked a bit with banking fraud and money laundering, if we'll "fire" a customer, we won't provide any specifics.

Pointing out specific behavior is appropriate if you want people to change that behavior. But in such cases we don't want them to start working differently, we want to stop doing business with them. We don't want them to create a new company and try to do the same thing more carefully and keep within our detection limits, that's not a success, that would be a failure of our detection, we want to keep them and people like them out, preferably forever, and preferably with minimum expenditure of resources to keep them out. The same probably applies to Google.
Not all particles are equally toxic. If I had to guess, the smoke from a recently-extinguished candle is probably condensed wax vapor rather than PAHs and heavy metals.
I haven't said otherwise, and you comment hardly contributed to the discussion.

Naturally life doesn't always make our expectations reality.
>runs in a VM

Would you please elaborate on this? I tried to find some info but no luck. Does gmail.com actually load some virtualization technology in the browser?
Apparently not only the revenue stream but a ban from the store and maybe other Google services. Seems like a good tool to take down a competitor's app.
We are still talking about home... on planet Earth, right?
The subpoena is from Homeland Security Investigations at LAX airport.

They deal specifically with crimes that involve international transport. So this is human trafficking, drug smuggling, money mules, etc.

To be honest the rest of it is just standard "we have some phone numbers" boilerplate. Same thing was probably sent to Facebook, Twitter, etc. with the hopes that someone was dumb enough to login and check their messages from a burner phone.

Edit: Rereading it, this is a grand jury. They likely already know the who, what, why, and how. Signal's response will go to support other evidence that they may have recovered from cell phones or cell network. Grand juries historically result in a 95%+ chance of indictment so this isn't a fishing expedition.
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One big thing is natural gas combustion producing nitrogen oxides. Gas burners used for cooking make a LOT of it, right inside the home.
If I remember correctly GitHub also locked an entire organization’s repos because someone accessed GitHub from a red-flagged country probably 2 years ago.

I can’t wait for regulation to arrive and stop this kind of behavior.
Edis: An Erlang Implementation of Redis
You have been able to but Zen 3 laptops for a good while now. Not sure about desktop CPUs thought.

But that's mostly because of apple reserving TSMC entire 5nm line, so AMD is still on 7nm (although they look extremely promising even on an older node)
Thank you for your reply. I should have pointed out that with JS I also mean TS. We write everything in TS which gets transpiled into JS.

About your approach. I'm not sure if this is applicable to our situation. The problem is not only the complexity but also a cost and human resource matter. If some updates could be done automatically, the cost could be held down.
However I totally agree with you on the reduction complexity.
There is nothing in the constitution that says that religious organizations (or other kinds of organizations for that matter) should be tax exempt.

These rules come from the US Code § 501 (c), https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/501

> (3) [...] religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, or educational purposes, or to foster national or international amateur sports competition (but only if no part of its activities involve the provision of athletic facilities or equipment), or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals [...]
RSS feeds + youtube-dl works like a charm.
If you think it's easier to focus on developed countries, North America and Europe are responsible for 1/3 of the global meat production (~110 million tons/year). China is another 80 million tons.

On the consumption side, and leaving aside the micro-nation of Hong Kong, the US lead the per capita meat consumption charts with 124 kg/year, with other high-wealth countries close behind. (China: 61 kg/year.)

The developing countries don't have to be a particular priority, at this point.

https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production
> seen their shipping from China to Europe quintuple

It's actually gone up about ten fold since the beginning of 2020.

For a long time a 40ft container from China to the UK was in the region of $1,500-$2,000. By about November 2020 that had increased to around $7,000 and then in January quotes were coming through of up to $16,000. I think it's been fairly stable in the $15,000 region for a few months now.

The last I heard this is expected to continue for several months.
> Chances are if you own a computer, you own an android and an apple phone, who cares.

You're in this thread and you can't find anyone who cares about locking in a duopoly?
Of course calibre has legal uses too. Certainly books like War and Peace and other classics are still relevant today, however they are the exception, rather than the rule.
I don't see how you get from point A to point B. More police calls means that more perpetrators get shot, perhaps, but why would it mean that more unarmed people get killed?
Do you have a hypothetical explanation for why, if people are only allowed to evaluate speech and accent, they prefer a certain group, but if allowed to evaluate lots of different more meaningful things, which all lead to the same conclusion about competence EXCEPT for speech and accent, that preference no longer applies?

That seems like an extraordinary claim unless you have some evidentiary base for it.
Evidence of what?

I re-read the article to try to figure out what this "specific case" actually might be.

Two people engaged in a consensual physical relations. She was not happy with the outcome.

At the time, she "did not blame him for what happened, and didn't think those behaviors were problematic at the time. ... I maintained friendship with him for a few months after May, because I was convinced that it was all consensual."

So, only months/years later does she decide she's a victim.

She absolves herself of all responsibility ("There was nothing [I did] to cause this"). Yet, she brought wine to dinner with her mentor, drinks until she's hammered while her partner does not drink (Who does that? Other than alcoholics?). Somehow, every decision she makes is his fault.

90% of the article is about her feelings and his responsibility for them. She feels entitled that he show her "remorse, sympathy, and guilt."

She repeatedly accuses him of gaslighting, when it seems more accurate to say they had different recollections or expectations.

She quotes “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.” implying he is evil and she is an avenging vigilante.

"I am not trying to convince anyone of anything." This is disingenuous. I think this her way of saying "This is my story, therefore I do not need to provide proof of anything."

"by speaking up, I can take my stolen power back." It's not obvious how her "power" was stolen. Maybe what she really means is, "I feel powerful by destroying his career."

Mature adults learn from uncomfortable experiences and move on. Emotional infants wallow in life-long self-pity and construct elaborate fantasies to support their victimhood.

--

Any woman.
Can take down any man.
At any time.
With a word.

- An Empowered Feminist
Usually because you don't trust the government to not rewrite the registry
I agree. Our current laws were not made in the time when these technologies were widespread. Legislation of a new law would be the better solution than trying to classify them as a monopoly.
Oh, is this the same mechanism that caused toilet paper to run out and remain out for over a month in American cities at the start of the pandemic?
You're right. The congress doesn't have the authority to tax (or legislate) them in the first place; not being subject to tax laws at all, they cannot be then exempted from tax liabilities under them.
Home ownership is living. Property rental is a business with risks not present in just ownership and is not always profitable. Property taxes effect home owners and landlords just the same, except landlords have to pass those expenses into rental prices if they wish to be in the green.

> If you want to tax the rich simply tax the rich - let's say 5% tax on any property over 1 000 000 USD.

You must be in California where the taxes are weird. Everybody already pays much more than 5% where I live.
Yep I clearly meant 60KBps not bps :)

> Not sure if serious :-/

And I said not really joking so I guess you don't want to believe me XD
If you are just paying a couple of $100 a month for app related stuff you can just use a new bank if you want and just transfer the amount needed each month. Opening accounts is something banks really like when you do so its usually not hard.