skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think labelling Iran a 'pariah state' is helpful. It was the United States that unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, that tacitly accepts Israel's repeated assassination of Iranian scientists, and that launched a catastrophic invasion of its neighbour on a lie. Not to mention, during the Cold War, that it assisted Saddam's war of aggression against Iran, shot down an Irania commercial airliner, and overthrew Iran's democratically elected government and imposed a pliant autocratic in its stead.

Which isn't to say this absolves Iran of its oppression of internal opposition or funding of terrorists. But there is no Manichean opposition, and the United States' belligerence has tended to strengthen the conservative hardliners inside of Iran, at the expense of those who want to normalise relations and shift the balance of power in the country's theocratic-democratic structure towards the latter.
Well, arguing as such isn't particularly difficult, but it does certainly speak volumes about the climate that would ostensibly hear the arguments.
The Limitations Paradox
FYI, if you are like me that has no idea what FLoC is until now, please see:

https://github.com/WICG/floc
I do think encoding a puritanical censor into the meaning space of GPT-3 is an interesting research problem. How exactly do you create the perfect mix of paternalism, hypocrisy, self-righteousness and myopia that lets you block bad strings of text, but not say a description of the immaculate conception, Shakespearean romance between the houses Montague and Capulet, or the holy love of the Mother of the Believers?

What a time to be alive!
I think he's trying to say that rights abuses are justified by success (the "gorilla" sized companies patronizing them).

No, it doesn't make much sense to me, either.
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typing in Toronto does not return anything, neither do many of the smaller airport ICAO I trired.
> If client decided to use browser with FLoC than it's their decision.

For lots of people that’s not the case. Their work mandates which browser they can use, which is (partialy) why it took so long for IE to go away.
There may also be some uplift from various frameworks, CRMs, CDNs, etc, if any of them decide to make it the default.
No one is forced to do business with Google.
Use git add -p <file>

And you'll go straight to the patch option. Then you can split the chunks further, and for hunks that can't be split further, you can edit them and add/remove lines from the hunk as needed.
"Upon information and belief, these servers are physically located in Virginia."

Such strange and probably necessary legal language...
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There are some hints that maize/corn made it across. Apparently there are carvings on temples in India that predate Columbus that appear to show corn cobs.
All I have to say is.....this is bloody amazing :')
Rust always makes me so sad because it's vastly better designed than the languages I use day-to-day, but I just have no opportunity to use it in a professional capacity where I'm at now.
How this works:
You have 1 billion coins.
You sell 100 coins to someone for $100.
Now you have nearly a billion dollars (market cap). But, do you really? Actually, you don't. Not if nobody is willing to pay you for the rest of the coins. The market cap is a bad estimate when the actual liquidity is small ($100). When you try and sell the rest of the coins, the market cap bubble will normalize.
'Extended meaning "social outcast" is attested by 1819.' ... I think we can agree that Iran fits that description, no matter your take on the events of 1979 and thereafter
I wonder if NFTs are instead facilitating wealth concealment, money laundering, or rich people are throwing money at it for sport rather than deliberate speculation. Or, is there so much irrational speculation occurring as a foreshadowing harbinger of another full Great Depression (rather than the under-recognized pandemic economic pause).
It’s interesting that installing an ERV system (energy recovery ventilation) in the home wasn't mentioned. These are devices that bring in fresh air from outside but retain much of the inside temperature.

Many things in the home offgas harmful chemicals or particulates. Continually cycling the air is a good way to reduce the amount you are breathing, especially in highly efficient homes that are close to air tight.
I'm not sure if this isn't a bit too paranoid approach. Using single sign on is imho fine as long as you use that account only for single sign ons. At least I haven't ever heard of anyone banned for this. Sure, it isn't ideal, but it significantly lowers overhead of managing too many identities.
Putting the elevator in front does not necessarily lead to instability if you get the geometry right, as Burt Rutan, among many others, has demonstrated [1]. As with the conventional rear stabilizer/elevator combination, part of it must either be fixed or function as if it is fixed by augmentation with centering devices such as springs or balance tabs, and the forward surface must have an angle of incidence greater than the rear one (longitudinal dihedral.)

I recall reading somewhere that most of the Wright's competitors (maybe not Lillenthal) imagined flying to be like boating, but the Wrights realized that it would require more-or-less continuous input from the pilot to stay in control. I wonder if their profession as manufacturers of bicycles predisposed them to this insight.

[1] https://www.flyingmag.com/photo-gallery/photos/awesome-airpl...
> 16GB of RAM and 16vCPUs. What a weird balancing of resources. Chrome is typically memory bound, not CPU bound.

A vcpu is about 0.25 of a real core, so it's just a little high.

Browser can use multiple CPUs, but mostly for multimedia which you probably aren't using a cloud browser for.
How to plot XGBoost trees in R
I think another common fallacy is to assume that humans have more general intelligence than we actually do. This is manifest in three ways:

1. Assuming that we can build an AI than can do what a human does, without being embedded in the physical world and in constant communication with other humans in the same way we are. I think this is covered by "Intelligence is all in the brain" in the article

2. Not considering that intelligent breakthroughs by humans isn't partly a product of chance.. of millions, and now billions of humans trying semi-random things. Obviously there's SOME intelligence behind it, otherwise we wouldn't have achieved more than other animals. But maybe we're overestimating how much of our results are product of intelligence alone.

3. Not considering that we use pretty dumb heuristics to come to decisions. I think the paperclip maximizer is a silly example, because the decision of whether an AI should kill or cooperate with humanity to maximize the production of paperclips is probably undecidable. Coming to a clear decision probably requires more computing power than you could have on a single planet. We humans don't need to be certain about the outcome to make a decision. We have emotions like fear, anger, pride and jealousy to nudge us towards decisions like going to war with other people to grab their resources. We need to remember that we're a product of evolving in an environment where we had to compete with other humans for resources, so that's why we're prone to those kinds of decisions. AIs will be product of an environment of competing to please humans to gain computational resources. So the heuristics they develop will probably be strongly tied to achieving that goal.

Not that AIs couldn't be dangerous, put probably more because humans make active decisions to instruct AIs to harm other humans.
"This sentence is wrong."

If we could decide the halting problem, we can write a program P that receives another program x as input, such that P(x) halts if x(P) doesn't halt, and otherwise loops forever.
What is the value of P(P)?
Whoops sorry about that, don't know what happened to the URL as u posted it. This should be the link: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/florida-mcdonalds-offers-50-just...
Really glad to see people have started to blacklist publications instead of offering workarounds ("Use an anonymous window!" "Toggle off Javascript!")

There really is no excuse to treat your customers/readers/viewers like that (edit: especially when you have Disney money)

Maybe if enough of us give up on them they'll learn and we'll turn "marketing" on its axis
Personal observation is not 'pulling it out of thin air'.

And I did the opposite of victim blaming. I stated that even a woman's consent does not absolve men of responsibility for women suffering poor outcomes as a result of the interaction.

You mischaracterized my comment to an extreme degree, without even bothering to understand, let alone contend with, the points raised.

Attitudes like this are not conducive to constructively discussing complex social issues. They lead to the forwarding of certain propositions being avoided, out of a fear of eliciting exactly the kind of response you provided, which increases the possibility that society will settle on a faulty model of the situation, and thereby not institute changes that improve it.
The link in the post is broken, this is the right link: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/florida-mcdonalds-offers-50-just...
Elm at NoRedInk
ouch. at this point itd take a long time for me to backfill that info but will try going fwd
>Federated Learning of Cohorts

is there some competition where people try to come up with names as tricky as possible while being nowhere even close to simple english?
I own and have read both of those books, but I don’t recall any suggestion that all places are equal with respect to their ability to support human life; rather Diamond’s thesis is quite the contrary.

> My own viewpoint is that, our mastery of technology has enabled us to overcome "natural" limitations in a given geographical area, human potentialities and thus our relationship with the "planet".

I don’t think this is borne out by the evidence and certainly not supported by Diamond. We inhabit all sorts of niches, but unsustainably so. We farm in places we can’t sustain by taking water from natural reservoirs that won’t refill for thousands of years or else from lakes or rivers. Similarly we farm in such a way as to promote erosion. If we have the technology to live sustainably, we aren’t using it to that end.
Personally, I think SCMP is one of the best English-language news sources reporting on events in China, mostly because that's their main focus and not just a subsection of global news, so their reporters are more likely to have some idea of what they're writing about. They're also good at separating news from opinion. Their opinion section covers a wide spectrum of voices, from Western hawks to Chinese nationalists, but their news reporting is more down-to-earth.

You can also compare this article to the much more obvious spin the Global Times puts on the story: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202104/1222364.shtml
It's quite funny (kudos!), but it's not worth that much, see:
https://bscscan.com/token/0x00aa85e010204068b7cc2235800b2d80...

or:
https://poocoin.app/tokens/0x00aa85e010204068b7cc2235800b2d8...

Not really liquid either :-) (it's down to 7m market cap from 12bn). A nice scam indeed !
> 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.

Its only a matter of time until people start abusing this heavily, if they don't already do so. But then Google will probably have to do something about it, if it gets out of hand.
One essential point about this philosophical branch of AI research is to investigate where "intelligence" and "understanding" really begin.

Saying "the computer does not understand and thus is not intelligent" is a valid, but mundane belief, ignoring that entire research branch with its many unknowns and open questions.
You make valid points. I believe the contradiction here lies in the exact context. The individual shop employee might be "unable" to issue a refund, due to the policy set in place by the managers of the shop. The shop as a whole is certainly able to change the policy and provide refund (unless it is out of money, of course). The individual --- phrasing the message --- might be accurate. But the customer is not interested whether the person in front of him is able to issue the refund. He is usually interested in getting the refund from the shop as a whole.

Similar arguments apply to the Google store the person or more likely the software system that composed that email might be unable to reinstate the account, but Google most definitely is. But Google is merely unwilling to do so.
My great aunt golfed until about 95, danced, read books, went to a cafe every day. She bad a wonderful life and was very happy right until the end.

80 is way too young for the kind of physical and mental degeneration you’re envisioning to happen automatically.

Now most people don’t eat well, aren’t especially mobile, will be quite overweight by 60+ with multiple chronic health conditions, lots of muscle loss, etc. This is obviously common. My point is most of those conditions are lifestyle conditions and are not automatic features of aging.
iPad is probably the best choice for most, and is what most of my older relatives have independently chosen.
I forgot to add /sarcasm
According to their own numbers, WordPress accounts for 41% of the total number of websites, and they're considering switching off FLoC by default (https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/53069 - discussion not settled yet though).
I never said that, the article never said that, nobody ever said that except you. Giving the benefit of the doubt here: I think you are thinking about a specific form of discrimination, which some people of some heritage overcome.
> If client decided to use browser with FLoC than it's their decision

Is it an informed decision?

Most normal users use Chrome because "everyone else does", and won't even have a clue what FLoC is.
The problem is that Google behaves like an asshole. It doesn't help that you have the option to make a backup beforehand.
This sounds hilarious. What are jug handles, and what are lefts?
This EFF article explains FloC pretty well.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-...

tl;dr; 3rd party cookies are dying so google has come up with this way to replace them. EFF says 3rd party cookies suck but the choice shouldn't be a those or FLoC. How about neither where the user decides what to share, with who, and when.
Many don't, though, especially ones that use Max clients.
I like the EFF's explainer:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-...
People always talk about brain-drain, and it seems such a nice way to phrase this.
Rather than calling it a moron-mass.
It's an extremely mild abrasive in this form (of vinegar, yep) - some folks dilute baking soda in vinegar, I feel that's too coarse myself. One of the mildest silver polishes I know about and use, Blitz (not Flitz) is still grittier than ketchup in your fingers. I only use organic, free range grass fed no corn syrup ketchup, my metal is pampered. /s ;) (you just use your fingers or qtips for the crevices, then wash in warm soapy water, dry well then plop into a sealed glass jar of acetone for a few days)
That's why it's called "artificial intelligence". Once we've cracked general intelligence, which is seemingly just an emergent property of sufficiently complex information processing, it won't be "artificial" anymore. It'll just be intelligence.
If the cops get their hands on your phone they will search it. No different than a backpack.
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Yeah, I’m an American and it feels that way to me. A perfect example is all the grand juries attempting to charge police officers who’ve killed someone. They usually don’t work, but when you hear from the jurors recently you find out the prosecutor sandbagged the whole thing.
Besides melanomas which are relatively rare, most skin cancers actually carry a net mortality benefit because of the association with being outside.
Sounds like a machine learning term that escaped from researchers into the wild. Machine learning people like to make up fun names for otherwise complicated and hard-to-summarize methods. See eg "BERT".

The name is actually descriptive. It is an algorithm for constructing semantically interesting cohorts of similar users, Locally on each user's machine.

It's actually a really good idea and certainly a lot more "privacy preserving" than anything that relies on sending fine-grained user data back to a central server for processing.

Of course there are problems with it, and I'm mixed as to whether it's something that non-Chrome browsers should even try to support.

The fact that all websites are included by default, and it's up to the individual website to opt out of inclusion, makes me squirm.

But the name makes sense and I think the core idea is a step in the right direction.
You defend Google better than any of their official spokespersons IMO :-)

I still dislike Google intensely for a number of things but not for this anymore.

(In case you are interested:

- serving me insulting ads and not giving me good ones whenever I didn't have adblock activated for over a decade. (edit: I've lost count of how many times I've clicked "not interested" on semi nude pictures advertising for scammy dating sites)

- causing me hours and hours and hours of frustration by breaking doublequotes

- killing Google+

- keeping me worried that they will shut me down until I can migrate my last account off Google and a few weeks

- almost killing Firefox

- and the open web

- scheming to make adblockers impossible

- probably more)
That first paper doesn't talk about about changes in asset allocation due to the ISF. It's main argument is losses due to capital flight.
Perhaps the realism/implicit difficulty is the reason it's less recommended?

KSP is enough to give you an intuitive understanding without the gritty details of which switches in which order.

That said I did just pop up a video of orbiter to check what I remember... And the oceans are solid.. at least KSP has some model of water landings?
Weather.gov has a wetbulb globe temperature report. I wonder why this is not used instead of “heat-index”?
https://www.weather.gov/tsa/wbgt
Yes, the Wrights were OG startup founders, and the first such to go full Darl McBride about their technology.

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

I wonder if Danny McBride is any relation...
Growing up in eastern Europe I can only say that I find this almost cute in comparison.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25925368

we are of the same lol... seriously it's creepy how much story aligns with what I am going through, even ages are almost spot on
Typical Passivhaus-Buildings are very airtight and feature air exchange systems often even with HEPA-Filters. That should do the trick.
You can't provide billions of organic, free-range, hipster beef burgers to the entire world and expect there to not be associated massive anthropogenic costs to GHGEs and air/water/soil pollution. The point is meat ag for the whole world is inherently not scalable, not sustainable, and a losing luxury like ivory that needs to go away ASAP.
You forgot a third one:

> hn users trying to discredit the commenter and telling us the "new" Microsoft is so cool, like if we owed anything to them
I stand corrected. Seems like the 35W chips have indeed shipped. I've been waiting for the 15W parts to reach the Lenovo range.The part they'll use was only even announced a month ago. Even within those some of the 5000 generation are Zen 2 parts. Desktop has been out for much longer across the whole range but availability seems quite poor.
eh, $14K in liquidity posted. non-news
I lived in the Mojave for 2.75 years.

It's 3000 feet above sea level. It took me at least six weeks to stop waking up short of breath. My bra size permanently changed due to my rib cage enlarging due to my lungs enlarging.

Drinking caffeine by day and alcohol by night can land you in the ER with heat stroke. No, drinking enough water is not sufficient. At altitude and in high heat, you also need electrolytes (think gatorade).

I grew up in Georgia. That thing they say about "It's not the heat. It's the humidity." is spot on.

The Mojave gets six whole inches of rain per year. It's just south of Death Valley which is below sea level precisely because it's so extremely dry that what would normally be a deep lake full of water is bone dry.

Cool factoid: If you get crazy levels of rain in short order, like an inch or two in a day, all the dry lakes flood for some weeks and shrimp hatch out.
I'm not sure what you mean by this comment. GPT2 is a precomputed web of associations between words that can produce a simulacrum of human speech. It's not used for actual propagation of anything. It's a Looney Tunes painting of a train tunnel, not an actual train tunnel. GPT2 "AI" isn't trying to "tell us anything" any more than a magic 8 ball is trying to tell us anything.
Is this about the weather or about the articles pumped out by minions of the climate cabal denegrating apostate scientists?
Perhaps it is just a symptom of most ad systems being fraud in general.
This isn't meant as a dunk on MSFT but it's worth keeping in mind that MSFT owns GitHub before celebrating this as GitHub taking a stance. MSFT, FB and Google all heavily employ "analytics", although to slightly different degrees and in different forms. Them not cooperating is a good thing, but not surprising enough to warrant celebration.
They could, but they evidently don't (stop you from using the service). I have a phone with a very old version of Android such that newer versions of Signal can't be installed. So it carries this really antiquated version of Signal, and, sure! some of the newer features (groups, some of the image handling) don't work. Still works just fine for the core purpose (voice, texts) though. As far as I'm concerned, kudos to Signal for maintaining full backward compatibility as far as is reasonable.
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Replace "apparently" with "definitely".

The number of bounty submissions that I've seen which come in the form of "I can read a program's private data using root" is too high to count.
What kind of disclosure are you talking about? Harvard University publishes an annual financial report [0] every year which includes information about the performance and holdings of its endowment. Compared to 2005-06, the 2019-20 report appears no less detailed.

Most people don't understand university endowments, Harvard's Endowment FAQs [1] are a short, helpful read that is mostly not specific to Harvard; "Many endowments, including Harvard’s, are structured to exist in perpetuity, meaning that the institution must continue to rely on the endowment’s earnings forever. Because of this, our endowment is not only for today’s generation, but is for all future generations of Harvard students and scholars."

[0] https://finance.harvard.edu/endowment

[1] https://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/endowment/
>probably

It is an electron app, as unlikely as it sounds.
Is ‘Stardew Valley’ Creator ConcernedApe Making a New Game?
Powerline is your friend when you can’t lay new cables.
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What’s a good Adsense alternative? They’ve temporarily disabled my Adsense a couple times in the previous year for “invalid traffic” and this is making it sound like a huge liability.
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