skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They get to sell advertising to those who want to capture eyeballs for search results, without having to share any ad revenue with the content providers that are powering that transformer based search. Ain't it grand?

Reminds me of spammers making spinned articles.
And when you feel like that, it cements you as an outsider. You can also choose to use "he" or "she", and then have the "jerk" become the outsider.

I sometimes do the former, but now try to do the latter. It leads to a happier life, and if anything, it's closer to reflecting reality.
Official blog post from Chromium: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27217283
Well, why do you want to run 'ls' in a sandbox?
Did you even read the article? The article reports work done by an unrelated journalist who compared the death certificates issued during the same periods in 2020 and 2021 to estimate the number of excess deaths, which was 15x the number of covid-19 deaths reported by the government during the period.
Thanks for it. I setup monthly payments for some volunteers. Some of them seem to be individuals. How can I verify that these people are kosher?
It's convenient for them to use spoofed numbers now, but it's not strictly necessary. They'll revert back to using large pools of real numbers soon after auth is enforced.
> Source?

It's a poor country and tests aren't free, that alone will give you an under count. Throw in the current crises, the positivity rate and all the other challenges of a developing nation and 10x is not at all surprising.

Accurate numbers are a privilege of wealthy nations and even they struggled.
I have a very important comment on this that I need everyone to read: your car insurance is expiring and needs to be renewed.
Take my money. No seriously, make it a product I can pay for.
In fact I am aware of that, which is the whole premise of this thread. As I mentioned elsewhere, the police can do things to affect a situation even if they don't lead to a conviction. The question is why they may choose not to.
T-Mobile in the US has implemented it pretty extensively AFAIK and I rarely get spam calls these days.
I never left RSS. When Google Reader ended, I migrated to feedly and continue to follow a bunch of blogs there. I hope the current newsletter fad comes around to RSS as well.

FWIW, I noticed that Substack has RSS feeds for its newsletters, so that is an option.
Indeed. Failing to follow federal advisories on winterizing your equipment[0] should be a criminal offense (negligence, perhaps?). Especially when it results in deaths like this.

ERCOT, unfortunately, was created specifically to avoid regulation so we're not going to see it happen.

[0]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/ercot-failed-to...
> This could be something... There could be many things... You could have the nodes... you could let... could in theory be designed

See how many hypotheticals and "could be"s you're piling on top of blockchain just to make it barely handle the simplest of cases?

Moreover, none of these require a blockchain, and can be implemented better, and more efficiently with literally anything else.

Even more moreover, your entire premise of "nothing can be done without Ahmed's private key" immediately breaks for any of these:

- death, or other incapacitation. Even loss of access to the wallet

- power of attorney

- co-ownership

- time-limited ownership

- court orders requiring change of ownership

> It's only once you distributed things and let the network define rules of operations that it can become beneficial in my opinion.

So far, the "benefit" is: let's have blockchain for the sake of the magical words, and build a tower of babel on top of it to barely manage even the simplest of cases.
Culture Is a Product You Build for Your People
> Why do HN comment threads always end up as Pedantry Pageants where all ye who dare comment must address all the fucking edge cases

Gold mining isn't a fucking edge case if it uses more energy and produces far more environmental damage.

According to the principle you described, Bitcoin is the edge case we should ignore until we solve the gold mining problem.
Why not a 65816? That gives you the 6502 compatibility and a larger address space mode when you want it.

In a way, an anemic CPU makes sense if you go back to the old Commodore model of smart peripherlas. You don't need a lot of CPU horsepower, for example, if you can communicate with the mass storage/network card/etc at a high level and it just DMAs into place.
Stop using bullshit centralized platforms. There is no gatekeeper on the matter of posting videos on the Internet. Established players (like Rossman) continuing to publish through the big players lends power to them. So stop doing that.
I think it basically looks like Reddit. You carve up the site into fiefdoms and then have users self-moderate. Moderation that happens at the site layer largely targets fiefdoms rather than users.

New accounts are easy to create, but new communities are harder because you have to wait for members. Plus most of your moderators are free. I wouldn't be surprised if Reddit only pays for people to moderate the default subs since advertisers and new users are more likely to see them.
Realize I meant to type "employers" here.
Blocking YouTube ads requires injecting JS, it had nothing to do with Manifest.
no. this article is about reducing the amount of dopamine release
Hmm, as someone who suffered the Google reader ending, no.

Now there are tons of better alternatives to Google Reader, without the tracking, great mobile apps… I would never go back to Google Reader, even if it resurrected tomorrow.
> Game-tree search algorithms like minimax and MCTS need an evaluation function to select the move that leads to the best board position and some modern engines train neural networks to estimate these evaluation functions. For example Leela Cheess is based on AlphaZero (I think) that popularised this approach and Stockfish has recently adopted it. But chess engines still use a good old game-tree search algorithm.

Humans will definitely consider lists of possible moves and countermoves and what kind of boardstates will result, if you define that as "search" then it seems fair to say that humans search too. A human searches less deeply and gains more of their playing ability from being good at evaluating the resulting positions - but as you say, that's also the direction that computer chess engines are moving in.
AstraZeneca Vaccine Fails to Protect Against the South African Variant
This needs to be upvoted. Google no way innovated any of this. They will use their billions of dollars, combine that with free voice slave labor from Google 411 and image labor from captcha to train and lock more people in.

Tonari is an indie company, that probably can't "innovate" as fast as google.

Google is probably going to use this to start generating free video data and innovate something else later. It can be used for so many things: gait recognition AI, realistic models for facial expressions, and release that at then google conv.

To words. Fuck Google with their monopolistic BS
> Unless I'm misunderstanding how blockchains work, how can that next entry be created without being signed by my private key (and my consent)?

Because this concept breaks for any number of use cases, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27217681

It even breaks for my example of "Ahmet illegaly obtained ownership in the very beginning".
Wait, but the voicemail you left said it was my warranty, not my insurance... Which is it?!
...or consent. Seems like Marriott should get a say in the tracing of calls from people claiming to represent Marriott.
>Avoid donating to PM CARES FUND

THIS. I won't speculate where the money goes. But this fund is held in a secret account, no authority is allowed to audit and no one is allowed to inquire where the money is being spent.
Feeling doesn't have anything to do with facts, as I pointed out to the other poster.

However in a situation with very little in the way of actual verifiable facts, what is someone actually asking for in terms of something that will support the evidence? What is a source in this environment? And at various thresholds of that, I will give you many sources (mostly medical) that will support 1-2 orders of magnitude increase.
The article itself says only 196 people died in Kanpur during a 3 week period, but there were 8,000 cremations (obviously not all covid related, and without a baseline I can't tell you where this sits, but there is an implied increase given the other statements about lack of cremation space)

I would also challenge your definition of 'significant'.
In the US last year, there was a 20% increase in excess deaths (0). Having an extra 20% of humans die in your country counts, I think, as significant.

Now granted it really depends on whether you are talking about India, the US, or the rest of the world but your statement is demonstrably false - in a country with good data, there were an extra 20% of humans dying last year; in a country with terrible data with an out of control epidemic and no way for people to isolate safely, the facts are we will probably never know what the true deaths are but if you're saying (and here a couple of things don't compute) about the same number of people are dying every year (?in India? how do you know that in the absence of data? and generally death statistics take several months to become solid) and the Ganges is a large river, are these two statements logically linked? And how?

(0) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778361
It looks like an interesting concept, and I was actually thinking about trying out a split keyboard... but absolutely everything is sold out.
I get 3-6 spam calls a day these days. It has increased from 0-2 a day last year, and 1-2 a week before that. It’s getting to the point where I dread my phone ringing. I can’t ignore unknown numbers because I’m getting ongoing medical treatment from half a dozen different specialists who all call from unknown numbers, and also have kids so can regularly get calls relating to their schooling etc from unknown numbers.

The more recent calls (last 6 months) have also started spoofing local area codes with valid numbers, whereas before this they always came through either as unknown or an international number which were at least a clearer sign that it’s “possibly” a spam call.

It’s infuriating. Something needs to change.
As someone who plans to move to SF after the pandemic, this is heartbreaking. Any alternative viewpoints?
I think they see it as less crime as asset redistribution. The wealth that they feel ought to have been transferred by taxes is being taken more directly in the sense of Anatole France's "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor ... to steal bread."

Nb: I am explaining a viewpoint not taking a position myself
I think if all independent voices were banned from large platforms, people would just move elsewhere. I'm not saying that the large platform would collapse, but that a more independent platform would operate in parallel and take care of peoples' desire to both create and consume independent content.

It's a cycle that's been going on since at least the 19th century (via pamphlets), and I don't see it stopping any time soon.
Blech, podcasts. The one area that is stuck in the awful past where Atom (which is equivalent or better than RSS in absolutely every way) doesn’t exist. But for everything other than podcasts, please everyone, use Atom rather than RSS.
Those things solve completely different problems.
> 2) That's exactly the point. If a group of random people can't agree that some post is hate speech, then its not hate speech beyond reasonable doubt.

Real juries have a selection process that it supposed to weed out biased individuals. Real juries have judges that steer them towards a particular way of viewing evidence. Real juries are forbidden from doing their own research, and can only passively listen to lawyers make arguments.
Is this any different than Fargate?
Not familiar with the service but is irccloud one of those services that sits in the middle and converts IRC to a modern http protocol for your device to consume?
Is this something anyone can do, or do you need someone to be a Swedish citizen first?
A body floating ashore is the start of a western detective story. What a different situation, to just cremate them. Can you really just murder someone, dump the body in the Ganges and have the police dispose of the body for you? It seems like that must happen if so many dead are in the river.
Many of the platforms have proactive DMCA applications that actively scan their own content. They have a non-zero false positive rate, although I have no idea what the probability is.
Singling out Asterisk here is not a great example. Autocallers are pretty simple to implement over VoIP anyway. But even with POTS before call centres existed - they just required more expense up front.
> [...] had an interviewer ask me if I was a wizard with GO, C++, Rust, and C over the phone.

Didn't this interviewer review/read the CV/Resume before calling?
Even with this, it’s probably not going to be of much use when they all turn up from countries with a low standard of living (in terms of USD payment per month). I doubt Marriott would spend the resources suing some company across the world.
No thanks, I don't want my content judged by random people from Pakistan or Venezuela. That seems worse than the current moderation system.
Why isn't this a problem at all in Europe? I've lived in Switzerland, where I would get 1-2 calls per month trying to sell me some insurance. Now I live in Romania and I don't get any calls like this. And I haven't heard friends complaining about it either.
I believe you might be misunderstanding me here. I mean you're not going to find left-aligned people supporting QAnon, while the same applies to BLM reparations talk for the right.
This is a great book I have read in past. It primarily focuses on underlying math for interactive graphics but you will notice it will also touch photo-realism later. Indeed, it describes how raytracing works at chapter 10 "The Lighting Equation: Putting It All Together" and covers wide span of graphics knowledge.
No need to resort to goofy phrases like "bougie tech bro." They're just out-of-touch rich people. Same as it ever was.

If that's your concern though, the good news is that in its purest form, machine learning tends to bend AWAY from this. You need large data sets to get good results, which means these projects tend to sample huge chunks of the general Internet, not just the isolated bubbles of SV types. Of course this still has limits, any data set has limits. You can only scrape data from the net if someone has posted that data in the first place, for example.

But in their initial form, a lot of these models are pretty diverse. That's why AI Dungeon had all kinds of "objectionable" content that kept getting the always-offended on their case: GPT-3 is just built off the general Internet, including a lot of weird, fucked up shit. The real problem is that inevitably someone complains, and they start hacking away at the ideal model to try to make it squeaky clean and ruin it in the process.

If you want to keep the tech from being perverted by "bougie tech bros," focus on the censorship. The models often start off pretty good.
Because to truly moderate YouYube, you have to actually watch the videos, and YouTube says they get 500 hours of video uploaded every minute[1], it's pretty easy to estimate the staffing it would take each video once. They're basically getting 30,000 minutes of video every minute, so if they have 30,000 people watching it, 24/7, it basically works. You need 4.2 fourty hour weeks to cover a whole week, so 126,000 people will do it. They've also report 2 billion monthly users, so around 1:16k moderator:user would get full coverage of videos; plus another team for comments. And of course a team of 1/8th of a million won't manage itself, and you need an escalation path, and non-robot moderator are actually not robots, so they won't (and shouldn't) spend their entire worktime watching.

126,000 workers actually seems reasonable to find, the 2 million you'd need at a 1:1k ratio would be hard, I think. The pay is going to be bad, and the garbage you have to watch won't be worth it for most, but you still need a reasonably analytical person to decide if things definitely follow the rules, definitely don't follow the rules, or need to be escalated. And they need to be attentive, because videos can be totally normal and fine and then get abusive later.

[1] https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-at-15-my-person...
Wait until these outlets get hold of the story on standard currencies.
You were not mediocre, school told you that you are mediocre.

I am 14 and i do want to give JEE as I want to be a cs student. I do coding and i love it, but i am at such a place that i think jee is the only option. I have not even studied more than 2 hour from a year because of our schools are close. People always demotivate me and they tell that if you won't have good college (especially IIT), you will fail and all you coding will not worth. And they are not wrong because I have heard this 10 thousand times. Is IIT JEE really needed to learn CS. If you are any boy here, he will say he want to "become jee", how can he become jee. Elders tell that if you get into IIT you will get 10 crore of package. Is is real? I am telling this from view of a kid who lives in this NEET/JEE only world.
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I imagine it will vary widely depending on the complexity of something. The more complex something is the more likely you fail to predict some things accurately, so based on this conversation it's difficult to tell whether someone is exceptional or not, as exceptional would be when you are able to do more complex designs accurately than most other folks.
But support by news sites, blogs and websites tends to be a bit hit and miss - in providing RSS feed at all, feeds with broken content, or entries getting republished as new - a Chrome/Google RSS reader would result in more people using RSS and likely make more websites caring about them.
But then you'd at least know which calls you can most likely ignore based upon whether they're in your contact or not. As of now, I've received more than a few calls from random contacts that turned out to be spoofed car warranty expiration warnings.

Newsflash scammers -- I drive a '98 Tacoma. That warranty has been gone for years now.
I expect test for a unit. Honestly don’t know what your problem is.
Since COVID takes out mostly old people with multiple life threatening conditions. It seems to have replaced the flu. So not much impact on overall yearly mortality rate.
> 1) Real juries perform exactly as you describe. The vast majority of people want to get out. This is not different

Its a requirement in real life. If you try making it a requirement to use your platform, I dont see why any users would stay. I think users will overwhelmingly prefer to have the content curated for them, so they dont have to look at child porn and beheadings every week for the opportunity to use social media.

> 2) That's exactly the point. If a group of random people can't agree that some post is hate speech, then its not hate speech beyond reasonable doubt.

This sounds like an incredibly quick way to make your platform just a collection of the worst parts of the internet. A place with a TOS determined by the users where you need an overwhelming majority[1] to convict anything isnt going to last long with people who just wanna share some pictures with friends.

[1] Your post says unanimous but Ill give it the benefit of the doubt and assume thats not literal, since getting a unanimous decision is essentially impossible on the internet.
This consistently antagonistic relationship between writer and reader, where the former is stringing along the latter as much as possible, is such a weird aspect of this time period.
A bit off topic but I am wondering if there are open knowledge graphs in public?

Ignoring AI etc, my kids play a couple of games where there is clearly some backend that "knows" Taylor Swift is a Singer, is Female, and has acted in this movie X

You can go a long way in a Turing test with that and I was wondering if folks knew where those graphs were built ?
Any phone have this option. At least my iPhone have it. I’m pretty sure Android have it too.

If it’s not from a known contact, it’s probably not urgent and they can leave a message.
You quoted the part of the fact sheet about reporting serious adverse events to VAERS. The University of Iowa page is about the same thing exactly. They quoted the same definition. The only differences were they abbreviated adverse event and gave examples.

"A persistent or significant incapacity or substantial disruption of the ability to conduct normal life functions; e.g. symptoms that preclude patient from attending work, school or perform their typical daily activities"
I stopped buying from Newegg. Firstly when I made two identical orders once (I intended to get two hard drives, only got one, so ordered the second a few hours later when I noticed), they _silently_ deleted one of them with no indication of what happened, leaving no record of it in my account. This was _after_ I had a purchase confirmation email for both orders. CS was unwilling to apply the now-expired sale price to a new order when I contacted them. Secondly, when someone bought a $3000 camera on my account (had no credit cards attached, they used a gift card) Newegg closed my account when I reported it, and I now cannot use my primary email account with them, as there's an existing closed account with that address. I consider both of these to be their fault--yes, I could have checked my account more often, but I generally rely on email communications for online purchases; and my account could have been restored by resetting password and logging out existing sessions.
Marriott is looking ahead. The STIR/SHAKEN system for tracing robocalls is going live by June 30, 2021.[1] It's like TLS certs for phone companies. Voice call source spoofing is about to get much harder. A few robocall companies have already been caught. Marriot is filing a case which will allow them to subpoena the data which tells them who to sue.

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/TRACEDAct
Very nearly all of my web browser activity that isn't Googling things for work starts with my RSS feed. It's how I get 100% of my news, including Hacker News. It's how I monitor things I'm shopping for. It's how I consume podcasts, youtube, music blogs, and comics. My friends do the same. When people say RSS became unpopular, are they referring to consumers, producers, or both?
It's too bad this got buried because this is very interesting.

The one thing I don't get is they talked about changes in the brain after using the device and how that needs to be looked into but they didn't mention in the article here if the participants brain function returned to normal after the experiment.

My hunch is that it did, and probably very quickly. It's hard to imagine, for example, that they'd continue to try to hold a cup of coffee with the prosthetic after just a week of using it and then stopping.

We might compare that to driving a car with a standard and automatic transmission. You don't keep trying to push in the clutch and shift gears when you switch from a manual to an automatic. You might do it once every now and then but you'll always check yourself when you do.