skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the Arab People are an ethnic group[56][79] and a nation[80] mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Indian Ocean islands (including the Comoros), and Southern Europe (like Sicily, Malta, and formerly in Al-Andalus / Iberian Peninsula).[81] The Arab diaspora is established around the world in significant numbers, in the Americas, Western Europe, Indonesia, Israel, Turkey, India and Iran.[82][83][84][85][86] In modern usage the term refers to those whose native language is Arabic and identify as such, this contrasts with the narrower traditional definition which referred to the descendants of the Tribes of the Arabian Peninsula.[87] Islam started in Arabia, Arabic is the language of Islamic scripture, and most Arabs are Muslims. However, only about 20% of Muslims are Arabs.[88]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabs
(don't be so hard on the boomers, their fuckups are the fuckups of a generation that went through ww2)

Pretty sure the boomers are the ones that came after WW2, the aforementioned "boom" of their namesake being progeny of those that didn't die during the blitz, Normandy, Stalingrad, and everywhere in between.
CppNow 2021: Don't constexpr All the Things
I'd abolish the worst purveyors of misinformation: Namely, all of the people who are trying to censor "misinformation" so that they cannot have their propaganda challenged by an empowered public that no longer needs gatekeepers.
agree - and was going to point out that blocking 99% is a shit metric if it also blocks 10% of non-spam - that's a super fail in my book - but most people don't know they are blocking legit mails - many don't check until I tell them on the phone that it's likely in the 'other box' - and they complain that google should not have done that and that they did not tell google to do that - meh.
You're proving ibbibby's point here
Thanks! Only vertical staves at the moment, but maybe that's an idea for a future addition.
You say this factually, but this seems to be the only research group to actually define and use the term.
Same here, but I trust humans, including myself, even less...
I use NoScript since 4 or 5 years now (disables javascript by default, and lets you selectively authorize it by domain name). I basically load a website, if it's unreadable I temporarily authorize the main domain, and if it still doesn't work, juste close the tab altogether.

It may seem cumbersome, but it's actually quite a nice experience after you get the habit. The vast majority of interesting stuff is not behind popups and ads and weird scrolling modes like many mandatory javascript ridden pages are. YMMV, but I wouldn't browse the web on my machines without it now (and adblockers, of course).

I'm quite amazed when I see a website on someone else's machine, it is a whole different experience, and is, to me, way way worse. And I'm just talking about the UX, not the privacy.
There's several problems with that approach. The first is there's going to be a minimum size for a telescope to be useful as a scientific instrument. For a telescope intending to be in any way a contender for Hubble's mission it would need a primary mirror a meter or more in diameter. Then it needs reaction wheels for precision aiming, RCS, instruments, electronics, and power.

At a minimum you're outside of "smallsat" size range. Even building a lot of them the precision manufacturing of the optics and steering systems require a lot of ground based testing, calibration, and qualification. Between the size and precision even your "cheap" Hubble's aren't all that cheap.

The second problem is terrestrial telescopes have gotten really good and are far cheaper for any given mirror size. Their instrumentation doesn't have nearly the same mass restrictions and can be swapped out routinely.

Space telescopes make sense when their mission requires them to be space based like observing wavelengths that don't reach the surface of Earth.
What's stops the rich to validate fake transactions from all wallets below 32eth to their own wallets?

Why does this 32eth min exist?
I loved Space Quest 4. I still remember that near the end you are at some mainframe and is has a faux Windows 3.1-like interface. I think you had to drag some stuff to the trash to free up mainframe memory. There is also a Space Quest 4 icon. If you drag it to the trash (as a 10-11 year old kid, of course you are going to try), the game quits to DOS immediately, no warnings, no save game.
Not quite: under typical Ethereum chain conditions, you can include a small constant-sized priority fee to encourage miners to include your transaction. (This is really simple, and can be a default which most users are never even aware of.)

This priority fee is free money for the miner; the only reason they would not include your tx is because it would make their block slightly larger, which would make it propagate over the network slightly more slowly, and slightly increases the chance that the race is won by a different miner who discovered a block nearly simultaneously. So, the priority fee just needs to be big enough to make up for this tiny extra risk.
Your brain is mapped.

Dear god people - we know how to create malformed content.

To assume you are immune is like assuming you are immortal or that your computer is unhackable.

Modern Misinformation is malformed code, being done at scale.

It’s cluster bombing civilians who can never muster the resources to defend against it.

It’s not about you. It’s about the attacker.
See also https://bottlecaps.de/rr/ui
ooo... people apparently put up with ads on chrome or youtube app or any other app even "system apps" like those insidious xiaomi people, because "1. ads on tv are always there, why should phones or laptops be different and 2. some poor youtuber needs to earn. whats wrong in spending 30 seconds if it earns money to someone"....

urrgh. i use pi hole, ublock on firefox on desktops and android and i still find that sneaky ad creep in sometimes. makes me sick. newpipe helps a lot actually
Iran has a significant Arab community.

> Most Iranian Arabs in Khūzestān Province speak Arabic and Persian. The Arabic spoken in the province is Khuzestani Arabic, a mixed of Gulf Arabic and Mesopotamian Arabic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Arabs#:~:text=Most%20I....
What a tiring rant.

For anyone that hasn’t read gates of fire I highly recommend it. It is historical fiction and a thrilling journey.

You can make up your own mind about supposed hidden agendas, or …just enjoy a great story.
You are saying that this is a lie as if that's math or physics instead of a debatable political point and then circling all the wagons around that determination.

The idea that the coronavirus came from a lab used to be one of those circle the wagons points that anyone could get cancelled for. The evidence is so overwhelming that you're now allowed to post that to social media without getting cancelled. How would that information have gotten out there if the cancel network had been perfect?
Well, yes. "GovTech" is the ultimate startup pivot.
> Google is not hosting your public content on behalf of any government.

I think that line becomes a bit more blurry if you're a student using your school-issued Google account.
More housing seems to be very difficult though - developers are much more interested in building luxury flats that they can sell to people who aren't even going to live there, because that is a better return on their investment. Local councils are struggling horribly to build because land is so expensive.

Local council budgets are strangled enough as it is, and social housing is quite costly.

This sort of scale has to be driven at government level and the tories have a vested interest in keeping house prices as high as possible so that their voter base sees a return on their investment.
i hope your getting paid to do so cause thats a full time job. we have to trust some. the gate keepers can be rife with corruption and other influences. most do not have time to validate most things is mostly what i am saying.

there needs to be a middle of control and freedom without the bullshit.
Yep, drove (my wife did the driving) 2000km a few days ago with almost only highways. That used to be tiring; now with lane and traffic assistance it is much less tiring. On the highway you basically have to do nothing.
> Has Google had a tendency to censor things on the basis of information that later turned out to be true

Yes. Youtube censored the lab leak hypothesis.
I was being obtuse: what I was trying to say is there are a lot of GIs and people at home that were damaged. Their kids got the worst of it.
According to Citizens United v FEC, they absolute DO have first amendment rights.
It depends whether you're speaking British English or American English from my understanding. "New lease on life" is American English. I've never heard the "new lease of life" variant before but it's apparently used in the UK.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/new_lease_on_life

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/new_lease_of_life
Neither. I’m referring to humans desire to be liked and accepted. People are much nicer when their reputation is at stake.

Being a total jerk towards you will make them excluded from the society and probably unhireable too.
> why would it be bad if a government censors speech?

Because government has a monopoly on violence.
The linked Newton article is interesting http://www.byrdsight.com/apple-newton/

I didn’t know about the pivot that the Newton project had taken
Pretty hard to do big projects like this when you're sanctioned by the US and no company can work with you.
I'm sure I'm not the only one with that opinion.

The proof is in the pudding - just have a look at C++.

Linus won't touch it with a 10 foot pole.

It is telling that you did not provide a more charitable interpretation despite feeling so strongly about my comment. I wonder what a more charitable interpretation would be.
But your app reached the point of popularity before you started needing to worry about provisioning and maintaining the infrastructure for it? That sounds like a win to me.
If I understand correctly, I think the usual strategy is for the hammer to strike at the spot along the strings that's the nearest 7th harmonic node from the end. The reason being that by striking there you don't set up as much 7th harmonic vibrations, which don't mesh well with 12-tone equal tempered music.
Ask HN: Is it the right time to ditch AI/ML for something else?
So far, I have gained experience in AI/ML (especially computer vision) by reading papers, and deploying toy models. I can comfortably work with tech, read through paper, but I lack rigor in mathematics. However, I am currently pursuing Masters and I have the opportunity to develop mathematical foundation for it. I come from engineering background and the mathematics in science is just bonkers and rigorous.

With big tech progressing like crazy and new models requiring data center to train, is it the right time to ditch AI? I want to be hireable after my Masters. Since, I am non-EU in EU, it just seems so unreal. Any suggestions here?
Paying a subscription on a high-end car for something that is unfortunately not so "full self-driving".

Yeah, why not.
Only for pretty creative definitions of misinformation. It could also be just, you know, wrong information.
If the American revolution had happened 100 years later it would have looked like the Boer war. That's the war where the British used barbed wire and the machine gun to invent the concentration camp.
Why are they allowed to call it that even though it is not ready for the Full part? Is that not false advertising?
The fact that it took this long to surface raises important questions about OSS security in the age of instant updates. This was a paid product, not even some sub 100 star github project made by groyper6969. Everytime we do pip install or an npm install the chance of this happening is atleast 100 times greater. (Judging by the amount of subdependencies every package seems to have nowadays)
>I even used GIMP for 10+ years before finally giving adobe 10$ so I could knock out a flyer real quick.

That sums up a lot of open source software for me.
> This chip was called the AMU (Address Management Unit), and was designed in late ’84 and early ‘85. Since this was before the days of the Verilog Hardware Description Language, and there existed no other logical description (other than PAL equations) of the Mac to drive any EDA design or simulation tools, I assisted Bob by writing an event driven cycle accurate simulator in C that took as input the equations that described the behavior of the Mac motherboard signals. These equations (or rules) were parsed by a YACC (Yet Another Compiler Compiler) generated program as part of the simulator. There were “rules” defining internal and output signal behavior. System stimulus was captured using a Tektronix DAS logic analyzer on actual Macs, and then the results of the AMU simulator were compared against captured behavior of real Macs.

Wild! For some reason I just assumed everyone was making the world's largest Karnaugh maps before VHDL.
That is your personal decision, not a fact.

I mean, you could say the same about riding a motorcycle. Riding a motorcycle only slightly increases your risk of dying in a horrible traffic accident, but for a lot of people the risk is big enough that they stop riding once they have kids.
The distinction between government and big business (what an archaic expression!) is artificial, and doesn't exist in practice.
That's fine. As long as you state clearly it's correlation and not proven causation and we don't know the exact mechanism and yadda.

I'm trying to walk away from a completely ridiculous pile on from an excessive number of people here. This is not a productive conversation at all and I have no idea why it went so wildly sideways.
on iOS wih an adblocker, and it’s still not readable. It’s basically page elements flashing in and out.
There's also some kind of fine irony on having a badass motorcyclist looking for an approved, corporate-stamped service center.
I just don't like how people will go to any length just for "publicity".

Creating an outrage for some publicity of a documentary just doesn't sit right with me. Yes, it is an effective step or
publicity stunt, but how does people don't have that inner voice? (I don't know what to call it) that tells them that this isn't what they should be doing without proper consent of the family members and without any disclosure over what is real and what isn't.
Well you aren't supposed to, you mean to say. It does sound like a good idea for someone who has just been risking it, to get self-driving as a backup.

Generally if the state finds out you have epilepsy, you'll need to be seizure free without medication for some period of months or more (depending which state), and perhaps need a doctor to sign off, before you can get a driver's license.
Some people have the goal to understand human cognition. Augmentation is good - I agree - but understanding would also be useful I think. I think that understanding ourselves and how our society processes information could allow us to avoid some of the mistakes that plague us.
State and Concurrency in Clojure vs. Java
Also like to add that many "corner cases" would see less engagement -

people would avoid getting mental help, support groups, religion questions, sexual health, etc if they worried it would be easy to be exposed.
'Li said back then, he was already worried that future technology would allow US filmmakers to digitally reproduce his moving body and superimpose the face of any actor onto it.

“I was thinking: I’ve been training my entire life. And we martial artists could only grow older. Yet they could own [my moves] as an intellectual property forever. So I said I couldn’t do that,” Li said.'

It is fascinating to see that at some point of any expertise, you start to respect the art itself more than any hard work you invest in it.
NO!

You are not your startup.

Keep your personal finances as far away from your startups finances.
Evidenced in the Icelandic sagas, c.f. https://www.sagadb.org/
There’s a huge chunk of forum managera, BBS admins, moderator who have long since seen this tested empirically.

The Silicon Valley elite are dinosaurs who came to this realization too damn late.

They, argued about free speech too long.

The elite are out of touch.

The greatest hold they have on speech isn’t shutting or removing misinformation.

The hold they have on society is that the data needed to make these decisions intelligently is behind an NDA.

Every scientist who worked on this with data, is employed by These forms.

That is where the silence is deafening. And the success of it is that people are still arguing yesterday’s battles while the front has moved away.
It feels like Schrodinger's asset class. It's a commodity when it's being attacked for being a security. It's a currency when it's attacked for being a commodity.

That kind of reasoning is seen in crypto forums, but it hasn't gone very far in court.
It's actually worse - the "truth" necessarily implies that there is but one, and that everything else in false.

Does this sound familiar ? This is exactly what religious loonies say in order to take control.

Science necessarily involves keeping your own ignorance, epistemic and otherwise, in mind while dealing with things, but it's quite worrying that the West is going back on what was won with blood and sweat.
Complete Cure for any Cancer(tm) *

* The statement isn’t approved by FDA. Therapeutic effect isn’t differnt from placebo in clinical trials. By reading this you forfeit any right to sue us.
Hubble or the "Space Telescope" was one of the Space Shuttle's major proposed missions and a major project at NASA in the 80s. Any books or magazine articles about the Shuttle often mentioned the then unnamed Space Telescope. As mentioned in other replies it was originally lambasted after launch for its flawed optics. The first servicing mission which fixed those problems got a lot of press attention, far more than its launch.
“If you don’t drink you don’t live longer, it just feels like you do.”
Deepest Piano?
> And data is usually more important than the model.

idk.
we went from conv nets to transformers just to have the quality of our predictions go up as well as reducing the amount of data prep time by a factor of 20.

no change in data, just a better model.

in my field, improvements are nearly always made in the model. never in the data or data prep. (crowd countinf, people tracking, etc)
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Pay $200/mo for some software to endanger your life with no liability towards it's creator. Must be the worst deal of the century.
There could, and these kind of bugs have happened a few times already, but fortunately they are few and far between, and as the sibling comment mentioned there's some work in progress to formal prove the std lib, and because the std lib is much smaller than the amount of code that uses the stdlib, it's much less work to formally verify the stdlib than it would be to verify for instance all C++ programms using the C++ stdlib.

[1]: the most famous bug in the standard library exposing an unsound construction is the “leakpocalypse”: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/24292
Driving a car, eating meet, BBQing, living near a road are unhealthy things but we don’t always choose to avoid them.
Desktop environments, operating systems, communication and collaboration tools, web browsers, widely-used shared libraries, for example.. there are a large number of software systems that people rely on where stability, performance, bugfixes and compatibility improvements are worthy goals.
So then, I should be able to paint your house and car with whatever messages "I" want and you should not be allowed to erase them. Is that the argument you're making?
I'm not sure I would accept $200/mo. to drive this thing on the highway or roads with speed limits above ~30mph.
Exactly. What is misinformation? What you define as misinformation right now could be information in a few months.

Entire discussions on things like ivermectin to treat covid were banned from YouTube as “misinformation”. Now some studies are coming out that might show that it’s not. At least it deserves a discussion but it has been censored as misinformation. So we lost an entire year of treating people around the world because SOMEONE deemed ivermectin misinformation??

What about the Wuhan lab origination? Last year that was derided as conspiracy theories and misinformation, but now it’s basically accepted as fact.

Who determines what is misinformation? What if Trump wins again or someone worse like Tom Cotton? And they set up a government panel that they decide is misinformation and companies like Google need to follow it? Who determines who is spreading misinformation now?

10 years ago a low fat diet was deemed “heart healthy”. Now that is classified as misinformation. Should low fat diets be censored by Google?

This is the problem. What you thought was misinformation is only really a few studies away from being flipped around.
And who is to judge what information is “misleading”? Google staff?

I am glad I no longer use Google Drive for anything serious but I am terrified at the prospect of additional services going this way.

In the end we will have to migrate back to using local hardware that we can control ourselves and manage all backups and availability ourselves.

This policy follows recent years trend against liberty. Though that trend is long - it has accelerated terribly ever since Brexit, Trump and similar events where people chose differently than their supposed leaders had intended.

People who thought this would stop at banning Alex Jones may want to reconsider. You are next.
Wielding the baton of "misinformation", or in general, fear of falsehood/insecurity etc, to whack those who the ruling class disagrees with is also code designed to specifically take advantage of the gaps in a healthy bureaucracy and seize control over it in such a way that makes it hard to challenge it.
> the only reason anyone is talking about misinformation right now is because the entire world watched in horror at the events of January 6th, a direct attempt to “seize control over free societies”

Regardless of if the riot on Jan 6 was an attempt to seize the government (it wasn’t), this line of reasoning doesn’t track at all since the concept of “misinformation” as a public enemy has been brought up ad naseum since at least 2016.
>This is not a helpful statistic because it doesn't say what percent of people are in this category.

Exactly. I came here to ask whether anyone had read the paper carefully enough to say whether this information is actually missing or just absent from the summary.

I get the impression that there is a sort of culture war going on. Some seem to be so keen on stressing that there is no safe level of drinking that they avoid saying anything about where the risk curve really starts to bend upward more steeply, which is what most people will want to know.
I'm founder of a startup in this area. Our product is NOT just the usual automated runbook approach.

If anyone has explored more sophisticated solutions than wiki pages, I would love to talk and learn from your experience
I don't really know about Zurich, you may realized it is somewhat different to the rest of the country :) in Bern, Thun, Interlaken,.. it's way more common
While it's the best we could create, but that does not mean that it's anywhere close to being perfect and deserves to be trusted automatically.

Skepticism is exactly what makes democracy working. Blind trust is what allows bad actors to transform a democracy into a dictatorship.

You speak as if past dictators were not democratically elected or journalists never uncovered corruption in government and institutions.