skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am confused too. Especially this part:

On June 22nd, they used Amazon's Brand Registry to re-brand my listing on Amazon (replacing my brand, "Acme Klein Bottle" with "Amvoom") They could do this because Amazon's Brand Registry only respects issued trademarks.

I don't get this at all. Attacker has a trademark on "Amvoom". The word "Amvoom" does not appear in Stoll's product name or description. It isn't even close to any of the words in the product name.

FWIW I fully 100% believe Stoll. But the real question here is why is a "brand registry" allowing product takeovers that don't involve said brand? That seems to rise far beyond the usual Amazon bullshit, to straight-up algorithmic incompetence. How is this possible?
A dishwasher is a one time capital investment that saves water (a cost), time (that can be spent on self-directed pursuits), and human cost from under-sanitized dishes (even something like nausea from cross-contaminated food poisoning reduces a human's productitivity in their self directed pursuits).
Ah, got it. I had thought they were relying on moral relativism to downplay the actions of the Chinese government.
They have committed to the new religion of “trust the experts” and are reacting to heresy.
The only time I had access to Renderman documentation was during my thesis, porting a particle based visualization engine from Objective-C/NeXT Cube into a plain Windows/OpenGL 1.1/MFC.

Reading that, alongside "The Renderman Companion: A Programmer's Guide to Realistic Computer Graphics" was eye opening how far behind regular PCs were from such graphical workstations.

Naturally that was about 20 something years ago, very interessing to see how much Renderman has moved beyond that, and the evolution of programmable GPGPU as well.

https://www.amazon.com/-/en/Steve-Upstill/dp/0201508680
There is a slightly dated (2018) paper [1] on their (offline) renderer. Although many details are far beyond my comprehension, it's still fascinating to see how artistic demands lead the technical development pushing the limit. You'll see why some people are so passionate about computer graphics.

Looking forward to the paper on this XPU thing.

[1] https://graphics.pixar.com/library/RendermanTog2018/paper.pd...
Your point of course stands, but from what I can tell (as someone very much not an expert, i.e. glad to be corrected), the history of the adaptive immune system is far more continual and definitely precedes mammals, with the "fully-fledged" versions found in early vertebrates and some mechanisms preceding that as well.

The abstract here seems quite well-written: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919748/
Check if your request body is compressed
> Your argument would have some merit if something were created instead of assembled, but there is no new algorithm that is being created. That is not what is happening here.

If you're going to set such a high standard for ML tools like this, I think you need to justify why it shouldn't apply to humans too.

When a human programmer who has read copyrighted code at some point in their life writes new code that is not a "new algorithm", are they in violation of the copyrights of every piece of code they've ever read that was remotely similar in any respect to the new work?

I mean, I hope not!

> On the one hand, you call this copying in fair use. On the other hand, you say this is creating new code. You can't have it both ways.

I'm not a lawyer, but this actually sounds very close to the "transformative" criterion under fair use. Elements of existing code in the training set are being synthesized into new code for a new application.

I assume there's no off-the-shelf precedent for this, but given the similarity with how human programmers learn and apply knowledge, it doesn't seem crazy to think this might be ruled as legitimate fair use. I'd guess it would come down to how willing the ML system is to suggest snippets that are both verbatim and highly non-generic.
Each medical appointment visit with Medicare part A (doctors) is $50-300 unless having a Medigap or Medicare Advantage plan run by for-profit corporations for an extra cost.

Medications cost a ridiculous amount of month with Medicare unless you're very upoor to qualify for ExtraHelp to make Part D (medications) costs low.

If you're not disabled or poor, you will soon go bankrupt if you have a chronic condition and do not have a job with benefits that include medications.

America is shit.
Wouldn't it be easier to just not use swap on a 16 GB+ machine and sleep it instead of hibernating it?
Here is a link to the youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxdcBD4ppF0

And I will double up and say it is a great episode of a great podcast.
Theres a lot of things you can be doing besides working. Movies, video games, sports, hiking, traveling, volunteering, etc.

We work too much because our imaginations have been stunted by capitalist media. The 40 hour work week should have been shortened years ago. Especially as more and more households have become dual income.
I think this 12-minute video by Veritasium provides one of the most concise and nuanced takes on the role of luck in success I have encountered.

https://youtu.be/3LopI4YeC4I
Interesting comment and I agree. Reading and writing code seem to involve different parts of the brain. I wonder if tools like this will create some sort of code review fatigue. I can write code for a few hours a day and enjoy it but I couldn't do code review for hours, every day.

This isn't like skimming through a codebase to get a sense of what the code does. You'd have to thoroughly review each line to make sure it does what you want it to do, that there are no bugs. And even then, you'd feel left behind pretty quickly because your brain didn't create the paths to the solution to the problem you're trying to solve. It is like reading a solution to a problem on leetcode vs coming up with it yourself.
That's absolutely insane fraud. Checkups are bullshit anyhow, but online only is beyond the pale.

Don't do regular checkups, they're cash cows.
paying double if not triple if they would be internal worker.
U.K. company to start sending secret quantum keys with satellites in 2023
It's not a mere allegation, they lost a similar suit about hispanic employees, and had a HUGE settlement ruling against them:
https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-and-b-h-reach-43-million-...

They've been proven to discriminate, in a court of law. I'd give this new lawsuit the benefit of the doubt.
His civil name is displayed right on the Wikipedia article about him. So not exactly secret.
Total speculation here, but probably because common law trademark would have to be proven in a court of law. That is, he would have to sue the Chinese company, present evidence like newspaper clippings or testimony from customers, win, get a judgement, and present that to Amazon. Until then, Amazon looks in the USPTO database.
>Could you please clarify what do you think is horrible [about an employee discrimination lawsuit]?

I wonder why so many forum users frame statements they want to make as questions which challenge innocent comments.
By and large, thank you for the argument it’s well articulated.

The one thing I want to no clarify,

> Such service is at least partially taxpayer funded which means that everyone pays for it whether they use it or not.

If the muni-broadband increases competition from 1 to two, and reduces costs for everyone, then even if some tax payer that fund the muni-broadband don’t use it actively, they do benefit from its existence.
It's just the site is really old but still up. Kind of neat.

<!--This file created 5/13/00 23:49 by Claris Home Page version 3.0-->
Sanctions don’t work on hardline autocratic governments. If anything, they just double down on their oppression and use the sanctions as an excuse and something to blame all problems on.
I don't know why they had to get rid of the mho. It's a fun unit! And far less easy to confuse with the second (s) than the siemens (S). Many, many, many people write "mS" when they mean "ms". Normally this isn't indicative of a major character flaw or anything, but when you're in an interview, describe yourself repeatedly as "detail-oriented", and also make that mistake repeatedly... your "detail-oriented" interviewers will notice.
I loved the first edition! What's new in the second edition?
If you fear public speaking, you are in good company, it’s very common.

Speaking is inevitable part of life. Even if you’re not giving large presentations you are speaking every day to smaller groups. If you want to improve how you feel, I highly recommend checking out toastmasters. It helped me get much more comfortable with public speaking. I still get nervous, but it’s manageable.
How many of those founders will actually do something great, and how many will do the supposedly “great work” of building something designed to siphon off as much of people’s money and attention as possible in the pursuit of getting rich?
You have the choice of which random areas to gamble on buried in small printing of lengthy contracts.

Medicare isn't public universal healthcare. The prescription plans, Medicare Advantage plans, and medigap plans are run by for-profit companies. $300-500 per month, and many good companies, like Thrivent, are getting out of healthcare completely.
I have hard time to study what meditation is and what isn't. It is like doing nothing but not kind of having a rest because sleep is definitely not a meditation. As far as I understand, it is maybe having a rest but with special conditions like no think and possibly no interrupts on something like phone calls. Please correct me where I am wrong.
It's pretty easy to survive - even if you're homeless - anywhere in the advanced world - sure, I'll give you that.

But in the hunter gatherer days - people learned skills to make this much easier to survive than it would be for some random person to do today.

But I think there was more to life, even in hunter gatherer days, than surviving. Surely, they also put some effort into not being miserable.

I'm not convinced that 15 hours of unskilled labor per week is enough to be not-miserable in most places where people actually live in the US.

It's not like homeless people have the skills to go forage in the forests and enjoy the natural beauty of life. We don't learn those skills anymore. And even if we did, you'd have a hard time convincing anyone to leave civilization and join you - and we all have social needs...

I think I'd much rather camp in the peace and quiet in a tight knit community in a decent shelter with fresh food than on the streets or in a crappy old car basically only able to afford to eat processed variations of corn - which is what you'd be doing on 15 hours per week.
> How do people manage to figure out such elaborate ways to manipulate Amazon results without getting banned? Getting banned has minimal cost? Poor detection? Inside information?

They don't actually ban the accounts doing this. They only remove the reviews/listings, but don't take any action on the accounts (so they just re-list 24 hours later)

Apparently when Amazon acts, they are just removing the fake reviews, sometimes the whole product but never actually banning the sellers account (even if every product that seller is listing is pumped full of fake reviews)

It seems to be a endless cycle of a item being hijacked or a item filled with fake reviews, then when reported to Amazon they simply remove the fake reviews or the product but don't take any action at all against the seller (or accounts making the fake reviews)

This thread[0] on the Amazon Seller forums is crazy with people finding products that are scam listings (with 10,000+ fake reviews), they report them, the products get taken down, then 24 hours later the same sellers have re listed with more fake reviews.

Amazon simply do not care, if they did they would:

A) Address the root problem

B) Ban the seller accounts clearly manipulating the system.

Amazon is quick to permaban accounts from real sellers, who make a single mistake (sometimes completely out of their control) but are happy to let these fake review/sellers keep their accounts.

[0] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/review-manipulatio...
Rigetti Computing introduces world’s first scalable multi-chip quantum processor
I don't think we really have to.

If you can get away with it then try working a little less and see what happens.

My life is so much better now that I work an intensely focused 4-hour day. When I am working, I turn on a timer. When the timer is on, I try very hard to not get distracted. When I do get distracted, I turn the timer off. When that timer reaches 4 hours, I'm done for the day.

I don't count meetings in the 4 hours, but I am blessed to not have very many of them. I also work from home, so no one knows what hours I'm actually on.

I've picked up new hobbies, I'm more devoted to my family, I cook more and my career continues flourishing.

I wish everyone could work like this. Maybe I'm taking advantage, but I seem to be providing at least as much product as I was before plus avoiding burnout and taking pride in the fact that my real salary is nearly twice what it is on paper.
what I miss in this list is the bibliographical information
Underground fiber optics spy on humans moving above
Well, the website being up and somewhat usable means the automatons are working. Makes this policy even more nonsensical.
>even if you added up all the people who have died from nuclear and radiation accidents in all of history

The whole area for hundreds of kilometers around Chernobyl is now polluted, for decades and centuries to come.

This affects everyone in that area, don't let statistics fool you. EVERYONE.
Senate confirms Chris Inglis as Biden's top cyber adviser
Ok, so we discover a civilization 1 light year away. The first real task would be to figure out some form of communications, see "Arrival" for an idea of how much work has to happen before that breakthrough.

Once contact was made, it would be very likely that a lot of resources would be expended to improve the communications link.

There would be things to be learned in both directions, the future is unevenly distributed, 50 years isn't enough to wipe out the corner cases.
the elixir community is quite credulous. particularly when it comes to circa 200X era wisdom. people talk about the vm being the key to elixir/erlang and talk up things like lightweight green threads, message passing and the garbage collector but the truth is these are all of fairly low quality compared to other competing languages/implementations

the real key for erlang and later elixir's success was pervasive async io. this was a genuine advantage during erlang's peak but languages, runtimes and libraries like go, node and nio have caught up and surpassed the erlang vm

the truth is without that advantage almost everything in the erlang/elixir world is worse than more mainstream alternatives. there's some exceptions -- ecto is pretty good because it has one of the best written connection pooling implementations i've ever seen. i think both languages are pretty good and i still write the occasional thing in erlang for my own satisfaction but the world has moved on and elixir and especially erlang haven't innovated enough to have kept up
You think health care is the only benefit that costs the company? LTD/STD, 401k matching, tuition matching, life, PTO, ESP…it adds up. Healthcare is probably a quarter of the package if it’s a company like google.
> It's pretty easy to survive - even if you're homeless

Stop typing. Stop now.
>Fear is a great driver. Not only most people will like to avoid the problem, but it can easily isolate anyone that wants to talk about it.

This perfectly sums up a lot of what I see at work. People are so scared of upsetting activists at work that they completely avoid benign neutral topics, ideas, words, phrases, etc. so as to not upset the ones who scream the loudest.
No it doesn't have nearly those features as far as I know.

However, it has an on and off button right in the top bar. And it has a couple click way to add a window as an exception. So you can have all your terminals, browsers, etc. tiled and perfect... but when a random little tool, dialog, etc. smashes in and ruins and everything it's easy to make it float above as an exception. And if that isn't working you just flip it off and deal with the annoying program, then flip it back on.

I like it a lot. I don't come from a background of i3 or power usage of tiling WMs (to be honest I really loved paper WM, another cool gnome tiling-like extension). But pop's tiling manager seems like the perfect balance of good for users that want tiling but don't want to go all in on it.
How do you disable it on a per program basis?
Hard work is not even really necessary. You can inherit wealth, get a good position somewhere through connections/nepotism, ...

To be clear, I think most successful people are hard working. But hard work is not a necessary condition for success.
> They were protesting the elected HK government, not Beijing directly.

HK government was never elected. Beijing was always pulling strings from behind
I kinda believe this but I still think it hugely depends on what you're doing in front of a computer. If you're just a generic developer that gets a task and codes it by the spec, then you can probably be replaced by AI in a few years.

But I don't think AI will become capable of complex thought in the next one/two decades, so if you're training to be a software architect, project manager, data analyst I think you should be safe for some time.
Aqua Mail [Pro]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kman.AquaM...

EDIT:Actually, allow me to un-recommend Aqua Mail, if you're looking for an email app to manage multiple accounts. When I bought it, quite a while back, the free version allowed you to access 3 accounts and the 'Pro' version was a one-time payment of about £5. It seems it's now limited to one account in the free version and the Pro version is a $25 annual subscription.

Another great app ruined by a developer getting too greedy!
BNO citizens (i.e most HK people born before the handover) can get a UK visa [1] with a direct route to citizenship.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/british-national-overseas-bno-visa
> Amazon simply do not care

Why though? How does this not hurt Amazon long term? What are they gaining from attracting dodgy sellers in the short term?
One of the first artistic impressions of a computer (1984) on sale at Christies
So, I did a six month consulting gig at Apple Retail Software Engineering.

I knew plenty of Apple employees who couldn’t afford to live closer to the office than way west of San Jose. Many had a ~30 minute commute to the place where they could pick up one of the ubiquitous Apple buses.

From there it was a minimum two to three hour ride to the office, but they had good wifi on the bus, so they could at least get work done while in transit.

Once they got to the office, they would have a meeting or two, or go to lunch, and then hop back on the bus to go back home. Rinse and repeat.

Virtually their entire work day was spent actually on the bus, and not in the actual office.

IMO, Apple could seriously benefit from a lot more people working remotely 100% of the time. I’ve never understood why Tim pushes so hard to force everyone to return to the “office”, when for many the office is actually the bus.
Estimate GBP 3,900,000 - GBP 4,500,000

https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-keith-haring-untitled-6328...
They have. At least for the HK residents which predate the '97 handover and therefore have British Overseas National status. This is about 1/3 of the HK population which is now allowed to settle and work in the UK on a track towards permanent residency. If they can get the permission to leave, that is.
All true: I do mean a literal pinch. I use it for batches of French onion soup so, yes, a lot of onions (most of it goes straight to the freezer, to mature like a fine wine.
We don't do phase III trials for the flu vaccine every year. Instead we follow the same production formula for the new virus variant. Why not with COVID? The FDA agrees this is desirable but is just foot dragging.
Unilag Releases Provisional Admission List for 2020/2021 Session
15 years is no time at all.
The reality is the AI engineers that are working on AI autopilot systems for self-driving cars still tell their users to keep their eyes on the road. AI medical or doctor apps that suggest possible conditions still tell their patients to consult a real doctor. AI trading systems that auto-trade and analyse the markets are also limited and don't account for multiple risk points and still need supervision by the multiple traders and the lawyers using AI to sift through historical cases to save time still need supervision under a human lawyer.

Where we're going is assisted AI; obviously not a full on replacement as the scare stories created by the AI hype squad in this thread after the first reactions of this tool.
I believe its an evolutionary thing. Evolution does not want you to be content with sitting on the beach doing nothing all day. you need to move around, explore and procreate, enlightened people don't do that.
Taiwan is an island, Ukraine shares a flat plateau border with Russia and has a large separatist population. Taiwan is also uniquely important to the west in a way that Ukraine wasn't. Taiwan is a LOT harder to invade than Ukraine. Not comparable at all.
PS. The MIT Press based book by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman, foreword by Alan J. Perlis is CC-BY-SA-4.0 and available in 2nd edition as PDF here:

https://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/sicp.pdf
Boilerplate is the most annoying type of code to write/try to remember, having all of that automated away would be awesome.
They build it on top of those ubuntu releases, and they have quite a few customizations that go far beyond the typical skin-deep UI tweaks of other distros. They change stuff up like switching to systemd-boot vs. grub, have a really nice LVM and full disk encryption setup (with beautiful boot password entry screen), add a whole bunch of new gnome extensions, etc. So it takes time to port those over and get it right I assume.
His TED talk is amazing, his energy for learning is so infectious. I just meant to post the link here but had to watch the whole thing again!

https://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_the_call_to_learn?l...
Diavolo? The deep frozen stuff I use as 'base' for additonal topping are called that here in Germany. Basically pizza salami in spicier with some added red onion rings/pieces and those bell peppers in red, green, whole if small, cut in pieces if larger, it varies with the brand/type.
Nebraska will allow state banks to offer their services in cryptocurrencies
IIUC, it's a religious/cultural observance that's very important to them, I think a kind of reminder. I'd say respecting that means respecting that.

Also, I loved B&H when I was seriously into photography, and even if the closed days had been a practical inconvenience (they weren't, IME), it would've still been worthwhile.

Speculating... Maybe something in the culture of dutiful adherence also helped them to provide such well-respected service at great prices? Diversity is good.