skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a great opportunity to secure your server rather than training humans to ignore security warnings, doesn't it?
Nasty Linux systemd security bug reveale
We're definitely earlier in the timeline with software engineering, but I personally think it seems like structural and mechanical engineering designs are a lot more "artisanal" than is the general conception. Certainly the primitives involved are very well understand scientifically (and this is where we're definitely a long way behind them), but the specific combinations of those primitives strike me as remaining very bespoke and creative, as does the process for creating the designs. All of this looks familiar to me, just further down the maturity timeline.
Maglev at high speeds is cheaper operating costs than normal rail. (normal rail - in tests - has gone just as fast as existing maglev (not this future advance, what is running in production service) The limit to normal rail is actually the power supply (overhead wires) and not the wheels on steel rails. However as you go faster maglev operating costs are cheaper than normal rail at the same speed (more than slower speed normal rail). Also maglev needs less track maintenance which is a large advantage in operating costs.
In France many banks propose an overdraft service which is limited ( as an example, for a student with no banking history to 200 euros), and is basically a mini free loan. There are rules like you can't stay on overdraft more than X days ( iirc the only one I've seen is 30 days), in which case you pay a fee.
They may be able to use a MuZero derivative now.
You're right, but on the drawer I'm using (I don't remember the name), when no app starts with a specific letter, this letter does not show up on the vertical seek bar. :shrug:
> This gets used to explain entanglement but it really has absolutely nothing to do with it. This is nothing that the ancient Greeks wouldn't have known.

To be fair, this usually crops up in entanglement discussions to deomonstrate how it can't be used for FTL communication and not to actually explain what entanglement is.
We have compulsory purchase orders in the UK that are often used on large infrastructure projects such as high speed rail to clear the route, but they’re politically unpopular and not used as often as they perhaps should be. And politicians are nothing if not about self interest and popularity.
I think they've revoked even Chessbase's license to use the code. So, not like a book, where if you have the physical copy you can generally read it, but more like a pirated copy of Windows or Oracle, where you owe license fees per user, per core, per day.
I have been using Firefox since Phoenix/Firebird, so over 20 years, and have never once used it's FTP feature.

I've used FTP, fairly heavily back at an old job that required it, but I have an FTP client. They are a dime a dozen for every platform. But I haven't used FTP at all in at least a decade.

Mozilla should focus their efforts in their web browser on web browsing. If you need to FTP, Gopher, or torrent over the internet, you can grab a client that does those things.
Speaking as a lay person, I think the difference might be that it's specifically about local hidden variables. If two particles are coupled, there's no per-particle hidden variable?
You are describing what could be called pragmatism; "empiricism" has specific epistemological meaning.
Revert is not the correct term. GPL-licensed code is still and always copyrighted, even when GPL-licensed. The GPL is itself a copyright license.

Only CC0/WTFPL/Public Domain are renunciations of copyright.
The license for my software was written in a world where AI was not being used to replace me with my own code. Whatever license was chosen, was chosen to deal with the questions and issues known at the time.

It’s such a BS argument to say “your license didn’t anticipate the future, it’s your fault.” No, that’s not how law works.

Furthermore, law is not ethics. I said it’s ethically questionable because that’s what matters. Not if a court will find Microsoft guilty of some kind of overreach.

Anybody with even passing knowledge of law knows this, so please, stuff it somewhere.
Has the GPL ever really been tested in a US court?

My non-expert impression has been that open source licenses and "licenses" that aren't ... explicit contractual agreements between parties (i.e. not just click through or some text in a download) do not have a particularly strong backing with law or case law. Whether or not you "can or can't" do something with regards to effectively making up rules that will be enforced by courts with a blob of text in source code or a check boxes on websites is still somewhat up in the air (somebody who knows things feel free to correct my impressions).
This is the same reason that facial recognition software overwhelmingly identifies people of color incorrectly. If you don't involve people of color in the software development, how could the algorithms identify them correctly?
In some conventional jobs, you have the opportunity to make friends with colleagues and otherwise build relationships. If you've never worked for an enterprise badly suffused with exploitative and adversarial interactions or known anyone who has, then you may want to re-examine the idea of who is constructing their opinions here from a position of privilege. And there is likewise a distribution of conditions under which sex work is done.

Speak to statistical distributions within each if you must (preferably from well-researched statistics including polls of people involved) but what's actually less than sane is the construction of a rigid dichotomy in which the abuse happens over here in this sex-work-bad-place and the positive-human-interaction stuff happens over here in happy-commercial-peer-space.
Horrible premise.

None of this is Buddhism and "using" Buddhism doesn't do what you want it to do.

It's like someone saying "I tried to go to confession at the Catholic church but I don't feel any better after killing and raping. This doesn't work!"

or saying "I went and got baptized but I don't feel any different! I'm supposed to be saved! Where are my just rewards and I'm supposed to be able to see Jesus!"

erm ...
Maybe getting your only information from a cursory grazing of wikipedia isn't approaching the topic properly?

The article in question isn't about meditating once a day. It's about meditating aggressively for TWELVE hours a day two weeks straight, and how it negatively affected the author.
Honestly, I wish Branson and Bezos would have just put their dicks back in their pants and just fully got behind spaceX

I absolutely dont care about Bezos or Branson being able to do these stunts - SpaceX already docked with the IIS ffs.

It's like McClaren winning the Gran Prix, and then Toyota and Ford showing that their CEOs can finish a few laps in Monaco.
WCAG Audit of DokuWiki (2021)
Does FTP really have better experience in 2021? I'm pretty sure the last time I saw better performance from FTP was in the previous century and, unlike FTP, having built-in error detection and recovery is pretty nice.
OK, be aware the person you're correcting has: competed in CASP (on a competitor team with Sali), and published papers with Baker on Rosetta methods (my paper is cited in the most RoseTTA paper).

"They mix a bit of both -- using homology models to get the fold, and fragment insertion to model the floppy bits."

that's the best description of what I believe AF2 is doing, but that AF2 is being marketed as not depending on any sequence similarity.

If the CASP folks really are saying "if you have 20% sequence identity and use the structure from that alignment it's ab initio"... that's really just totally misleading.

Of course, even ab initio methods are parameterized on biological information; for example, I used AMBER to do MD simulations and many of the force field terms were determined using spectroscopic data from fragments of biological models. That, however is ab initio, because nothing even as large as a single amino acid is parameterized.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with homology modelling, or that the purist vision of ab initio is right. For practical purposes, exploiting subtle structural information through sequence alignment is a very nice way to save enormous amounts of computer time.
I think Einstein would've considered nonlocal hidden variables the same as spooky action at a distance.

>How is that probability distribution different from a hidden variables, except that it's not a straight number but a function instead?

Because for entangled particles (separated by a large distance! but also any entangled particle) their PDFs will be correlated in a way that is impossible to define for just a single particle. This makes physicists uncomfortable because of relativity and things happening faster than light.
Spirit has Atlanta to Dallas round trip for $61 on an 8am flight according to Google. That’s not much more than I paid on a last minute booking in Germany. To drive it would be an 800+ (~1300km) mile trip my my house North of Atlanta to Dallas and take 12 hours no stops.

What trips in Europe are 1300km and how long is that train ride?

I would love an Atlanta to Raleigh or Atlanta to Savannah train but I think your comparison is kinda extreme. A better comparison would be Atlanta to Athens/Columbus/Chattanooga.
This is very cool. The two features I hope for are:

1) Annotations. Could be text bubbles in the margins, or perhaps a little glyph I can click on to see/edit the annotation text itself. Annotations should be stored separately in a text-based format to facilitate version control, sharing, and reuse. I want this for reviewing material from others as well as making my own notes (e.g., when working with a datasheet). What I really want is a whole workflow for reviewing, but just text comments would get much of the way there.

2) One column at a time options. Doesn't need to reflow, just needs to present the text in its natural width so as not to require scrolling up and back to navigate a print-oriented two-column layout that makes no sense on-screen. I wouldn't mind having to horizontal-scroll to see full-width figures and footnotes, but I really want to scroll only in one direction to read the text.
I dunno, that's "news" to be sure; certainly space nerds should care a lot, but they played the entire flight on The Today Show (I watched it). They did not play the entirety of the first manned SpaceX flight, which was a much bigger deal because (I'm pretty sure?) it was the first private manned launch. I'm not saying this flight wasn't news, I'm saying it wasn't mainstream news, except that it happened to have Jeff Bezos on it, and he's a celebrity because he's a billionaire. And that's a lame reason for it to be mainstream news, in my view. I don't love the celebrity billionaire stuff.
Agreed. There are old drivers from established vendors that only send drivers over FTP links.

It's an edge case these days though as more are moving to https:// links so I can understand the browser vendors wanting to make the code base smaller. They have enough to do. Especially for Mozilla given what they charge for us to use their product.
You're correct: I conflated liberals, progressives, and Democrats. There are definitely important distinctions, but I conflated them as all being roughly on the same side when it comes to politics and dealing with the opposition party.

As for "examples", take a look at those two books I mentioned. There are many more books, and many op-ed pieces every time Democrats lose elections.

It's only relatively recently that the more progressive wing of the party has said, "Hey, rather than try to bend over backwards to attract moderate conservatives, how about you garner more enthusiasm from your left wing?" Or at least, they've been saying it for a while, but were generally dismissed. I think 2016 made the proposition more thinkable: if they will vote for the Republican candidate even if he's obviously insane, maybe a new approach is needed.
That wouldn't be necessarily bad, though.
The length of the hop is almost always far shorter with fiber though. With satellite, you have to go to space to receive Akamai-delivered content, game with other people in your neighborhood, or hit your ISP’s DNS cache. Don’t get so caught up in the physics that you forget to consider the implementation.
Really interesting and useful if works.

Do you consider validating financial figures against Benford’s Law distribution? Whilst it is not NLP I am curious does it still work?
> I don't think that prevents somebody sympathetic (if such a person exists) from re-distributing it to Chessbase though.

Would this be legal?
Sounds like a bad trip. Not saying it was in this case, but I could definitely imagine seedy retreats putting a little something "extra" in the evening supper to boost the spiritual RoI of their service offering.
If the ferry is fully automated and I don't do anything beyond parking my car safely I wouldn't say I was crew then, I'm still just a passenger until I actually do something for the operation of the vehicle/craft.
This is the key takeaway.

This guy didn't do anything that the majority of meditators in the West aren't doing. Taking such a serious piece of advice from a book by some random guy (who seems like a nutjob) is a particularly foolish thing to do but the authors mindset that led him to that decision isn't an outlier. To recap he

- Had no teacher

- Mix and matched various concepts and techniques from different traditions that he inevitably had a poor / loose understanding of

- Had a drug and alcohol problem

- Trained an intense schedule for years

And when he got himself into a bind none of the teachers he went to could help him out because they are all doing the same thing, more or less, minus the drugs and alcohol.
He's spent time on ranches, so probably knows how they're supposed to fit; this one's practically resting on his ears.

I'm curious if it's a hat that means something to him for some reason.
The city. I considered the MARC, but I have to go out to Herndon, VA and Fairfax, VA area so its just more convenient to drive. It's a tough commute at times, but a good podcast gets me through the drive. I have been WFH for all of 2020 an 2021, so now I just stay in Baltimore. WFH shift is working out great!
Yep. I think we have a tendency to assume that our field is somehow unique, because we know it so intimately. "Everyone else has it simpler."

The actual fact is that everyone else has it just as complicated, but we never see that complexity because it's not what we are experts in.
All this sounds rather unsettelling. I am left with many questions. I'll reduce them to two:

1. are there people here who (especially medical field) do have the feeling the current system of research does its job (on average)?

2. Applied to very hot topic of vaccine safety assessment for the new covid vaccines, how sure can we be there is/will be enough room to critically assess this? (sorry i had ask, but just read https://www.wired.com/story/the-cdc-owes-parents-better-mess... so yea...)
Touching electrical wires is the limit to existing HSR - you can only go so fast before you run into problems. I don't know if they can be engineered out.

I don't know if beaming power is practical. Tesla was working on it long before we were born.
Banks are also sticky - people don't often switch them, so once you start, its hard and unlikely you'll move. That helps ensure your product stays in use.
Because pocket was a useless addition and dropping ftp:/ support breaks approximately 150 million valid links.
I'm surprised we haven't heard of that scammer Blizarian trying to get on one of these flights yet...
Perfect? No. Living up to the expectations and principles [0] that they themselves established? Yes.

[0] Principle 6: The effectiveness of the internet as a public resource depends upon interoperability (protocols, data formats, content), innovation and decentralized participation worldwide. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
This argument reminds me of how Google refuses to show the server-provided login prompt when doing HTTP basic auth in Chrome (and as a consequence, browsers deriving from it). Some developer argued that someone could MITM the connection and make the basic auth login prompt say "please enter your YouTube credentials" or something like that. Yeah right, if you can MITM the connection, you could just as well inject a much more realistic Google login page. Basic auth really wasn't the actual problem at hand.
Show HN: Headless Recorder v1.0, get Playwright/Puppeteer scripts without coding
Headless Recorder 1.0 is a free and open-source Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates Playwright/Puppeteer scripts without coding. Easily record, copy, and run your script for testing, monitoring, or scraping
I explicitly referred to the charges and accusations related to the acquiring and release of classified information, this link has nothing to do with that.
You can measure a particle's spin to be up or down. But you can't choose to measure it to be up. It's random and up to nature. This is exactly why it can't be used to send information.
I largely agree. But there are still some fun opportunities around. One are things google would never touch because of PR reasons (e.g. state of the art scalable face identification). Another is just silly out-of-the-box creative uses of AI which wouldn't fit well with Google's brand.
On many systems it is now the only way.
If I were an AGI I would be curious about how I came to be. Maybe ask questions like "how else could I have evolved?" That means running simulations about its origins, and we just happen to be that period in time when AI and huge storage and sensors became a reality. So we are the most well documented and closest generation to AGI, I bet we'd get lots of sim runtime after the singularity.
I am fine if Mozilla explains that FTP usage is now very low, based on telemetry and that there are FTP clients available for users.

However, there is no need to characterizes FTP being dangerous by jumping from FTP is old and is in plaintext, to FTP servers are being exploited and used to distribute malware, to FUD-type statement implying that there are [unspecified] exploits now available to attack Firefox if FTP was enabled.

This is just plain disgusting and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
The reason for this decision is so that compiler upgrades with -Wall and -Werror don't break builds.

I can see the reason behind it, but I feel that this behavior is something you opt into when you use -Werror.
Please note that without any license, the default in the US would be all rights reserved for the copyright holder, and thus does not permit you to redistribute without author's permission. Therefore, that particular argument alone (without some additional fair use or other claim) would likely not fly in court in the violator's favor (i.e. if you did not agree to the GPL attached to it, which license did you think you have that permitted you to redistribute the copyrighted work?)
So how do you opt-out? Or is this an action you have to take when creating the account.
What's the use-case for desktop Linux in 2021?
A local root kernel vulnerability
BiRISC-V – 32-bit Superscalar RISC-V CPU
Backwards compatibility with existing online resources.
Understand this: ftp has been with the browser for 25 years. Ftp has been with the web. Ftp is part of the web. No one cares that ftp is not really what browsers are made for. Browsers is how people access ftp. That’s it. And they have been used in of web pages too.
OK if that's truly accurate, then they did make a significant accomplishment. However, I'm 99% certain (from reading the paper) that they actually do have alignments to structures, but the similarity is very low.

It would help if you coould point to one of the alignmennts they made that has no underlying structure (even a template fragment) support.

I reread the methods section, https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

They train jointly on the results of genetic search and template search (template search). Can you show an example of a prediction made using only genetic search and not template search. Those templates are fastas made from PDB files, which, while not homology modelling, is definitely not "ab initio".
AMD has even talked publicly about how their rasterizer can run in a TBDR mode that they call DSBR.

https://pcper.com/2017/01/amd-vega-gpu-architecture-preview-...
Yup, mortgages are around 3% and the fed rate is near 0 for the next year or 2. If inflation averages over 3% per year, you are getting paid the difference to borrow.
A story about an Apple and two fetches
Just guessing here, but I don't think HN was designed for engaged prolonged discussion. If it were, they probably would have implemented such features as can be found in other platforms. That could transform it into something never intended.

Personally, I think people put too much focus on comments. Many are trying to persuade others of a view (and hence are impervious to true discussion). Comments are useful to the extent they provide new information or links directing people to other similar content. I think the limitations on HN comments put the emphasis on the latter purpose and away from the former.
Hmmm. GPL cases in German courts don't always produce the expected outcome.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-developer-abandons-vmwar...
Maintenance-free code exists. I'm sorry you haven't experienced work at an org that has 10+ year old code which hasn't changed at all, easily verified by source control. (Has Mozilla published something anywhere about exactly how much work it is to keep FTP support around?) And while not technically 100% free, something closely related that's basically free is lots of 10+ year old code which does need to change sometimes but only as part of a batch of the same change in many places, and that's basically free because it's done automatically by tooling.
EU plans to make Bitcoin transfers more traceable
Maybe I should've put it this way: ff (sometimes?) won't force ftp to use https, had to manually correct it if the url happens to start with ftp://ftp.*. And outside of NCBI, when occasionally sharing >10GB data, ftp (because of inertia) has been handy than the more proper ways and could have no https support.
Huh, I was wrong. Thank you for sharing.
Maybe nice if they (Mozilla and/or Google) would make a site somewhat like https://webftp.dreamhost.com/ that would accept url parameters to sort of proxy ftp requests.

Wouldn't help for internal network ftp servers, but would ease the publicly accessible part.

(Note that the dreamhost site has a little link icon in the lower left that will generate a link/landing page with all the important bits filled out.)
Reminds me of Apple removing the headphone jack and being so proud of themselves for "being brave".

Just yesterday I found a link to FTP while researching something. Was pretty annoying to go get another FTP client up and running to get it.

Anyway, the movement away from unencrypted protocols to TLS-only is moving us closer to a fully censored internet. Sure, an unencrypted internet did not have any integrity guarantees, and thus was easy to censor (and worse) by totalitarian nation states.

However, a TLS-only internet is very easily censorable by our new global central planners (FAANG). This way, they'll have much more control than was available to the common MITMing nation state.