skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re assuming the innocents killed were bystanders, not targets.
Avoiding pain and hardship is hardly a way to discover life.
No, no friend, you are actually wrong.

I have recently found that a sizeable amount of people will completely seriously tell you to your face that Wikipedia isn't facts and anything you find on the internet (that doesn't conform to their views/gives them confirmation biS) is lies and propaganda by big tech.

It's insane, and there's no fighting it. Really, they will not budge in the slightest. I cannot think of anything that can possibly save things other than massive education reform.... and given the fact education (in the US) has been being completely dismantled in the past 40 so years, I do not think that savior is coming.
There's an interesting trade-off for people who go the DIY route: LFP batteries are pretty ideal for power storage, for a lot of reasons (safety, durability), but they don't deal well with cold and can't generally be charged if the temperature is below freezing. So, you can have them in the house (in the garage, perhaps) where they'll stay warm enough, or you can have them away from the house where they'll do less damage if something goes horribly wrong, but then you have to figure out how to keep them warm in the winter if freezing temperatures are a thing in your climate.
Offline, the lockdowns have been an excuse to pacify activists. There's been ever increasing tensions since the current effectively-a-dictatorship party stole the previous election that was supposed to be the first Democratic election in ages by giving themselves 300 free votes (which ASEAN and most embassies publicly stated was a sham).

Making matters worse is there's very little awareness paid towards one's personal data in Thailand as civil unrest has grown. Everyone's using real names and posting publicly on Facebook, Instagram, LINE, and TikTok has made it cake for the government and doxxers to track people down. We saw like a month ago Google having to take down a public map of anti-monarchy, pro-democracy activists by address around the country. PornHub is now blocked because with the government being able to pressure YouTube into taking down content, PornHub was seen as the best alternative to upload protest videos. A couple weeks ago, a food delivery driver was caught in an act of protest wearing the company jacket and was fired with a statement on Twitter (which in this case led to millions of app and account deletions to the point that the delivery service disabled account deletions).
It is getting crazy out there. But there is a silver lining.

Companies have always grown, become dominant in their markets, then leaned on their sheer size to maintain supremacy, abuse their users and generally rest on their laurels. You look at any big company that is now gone, this is exactly what they did. Blockbuster is my favorite example, but the music industry did this too, and the film industry is currently going through a disruption that is the result of this mindset.

These social sites and PayPal and the like, theyre making themselves fragile against disruption by doing things like this. They're actively creating disruptive opportunities in their own industries by making this ridiculous proposition of disallowing customers the norm. They think their size can stop this disruption, just like every single dead company of the past. They're killing themselves and I for one am very excited about it.
Yes, but also..

There are just not enough such writings to balance out the (mega) success stories which are obvious result of survivorship bias.
The worst part about it is that that instability is on public display every time we get another battery fire. It shakes American confidence in EVs when it's the country that most desperately needs to adapt non-fossil fuel cars at a higher rate. I wish we knew more about the implementation process...
Very early on in the pandemic one research group opensourced "COVID-Net", using the described flawed dataset.

Given the fact that at that time there was still quite a lot of "if we all help we can beat the pandemic" positiveness going around. An easily run-able piece of small code that promised "results" was available and the fact that a lot of organizations wanted positive PR, you get these insultingly low quality "research" practices.

I looked at a lot of the initial papers and models and most were forks of COVID-Net or used an already established model like ImageNet and retrained it with the bad dataset. Presto! Paper out PR happy. Very few questioned the dataset or the approach in general. But they loved bragging about it on LinkedIn.
In the US, the prize money and value of the medals is exempted from income for athletes earning less than $1M.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/17740769/obama-ends...
I recently moved to Austin from Seattle. People had told me that people tended to be more car focused and less pedestrian/bike friendly in Austin compared to the PNW. I didn’t believe them. Look at all the bike lanes, I told myself. I could easily ride my bike to work, it’s only 7 miles. Then I saw a guy on a bike get absolutely crushed by a truck turning right without stopping. A cherry picked example but a very convincing one. I’ll be sticking to the bus thank you
Long Short-term Memory.

I still don't know what the authors were thinking of. (To be fair, they weren't native English speakers).

Maybe recurrent gradient flow network or recurrent propagating state network would have been better names.
Aeon flux on liquid television was absolutely weird, and that’s what made it so fun to watch. The longer versions that came out later were a huge disappointment.

The B&B shorts on Liquid television were the first I’d seen of that show (“fro-o-o-o-g baseba-a-a-all!”).
The one thing that kept me away from the raspberry pi was that the sd card tends to fail after some time (hours to weeks).
Now I just wait until the board gets built with a single sata slot.
Can cryptography go packing now? Can they spend Satoshis bitcoin wallet?
I think the denial is the biggest destructive downside

I had a cofounder always in denial of negative outcomes

“Whew that meeting went well!” uh the respected guy was on his phone the whole time, literally said the firm wouldn't invest, and barely listened to us

But at least that cofounder’s Ivy League pedigree and.. uh… other visual attributes for the US market got me into the room!
There's almost certainly something to model, you don't hear stories about hospitals filling up with patients and nobody knows if they're covid patients or how to deal with them; or at least, not anymore.

100s of wrong models doesn't sound extremely unlikely to me. It's really easy to train a model and test that it works on some dataset and then find it doesn't work on a different one. Setting up the inputs for training is difficult because of data privacy, there's intense pressure to publish, models have no expectation of explanability, lots of reasons for a wrong model that looks promising.

I've worked adjacent to people trying to solve problems with machine learning and it's rough going. When things work, ok nice, but when they don't, it's much harder to tweak than something based on heuristics (which, of course, don't always apply either).
I don't think there is an absence of software with the purpose of convincing the public to consume the right pharmaceutical products. I would say every owner of major internet property has adopted some kind of feature or process to promote them. Indeed, it has become quite the fashion statement to signal one's zeal for pop-science and one's contempt for the "deniers." I'm sure there's a market for 'Wear. The. Mask.' bumper stickers.

I would agree that stupid is winning, but I probably agree more with Kant on what Enlightenment means.
I know nothing about Tunisia, but worth noting that safety in the USA is extremely varied, depending on where you live, what color your skin is. We have some of the most dangerous places in the world in the USA, and some of the safest. It's a big, weird country.
Same here - also an old usenet / bbs hand, and HN is the only "social network" I'm on (although it really isn't one by most definitions). As you pointed out, the moderation here is stellar and the mod's personal touch makes all the difference. I too say dumb things, drunkpost sometimes, miscommunicate, etc. I think the thing here is it's not a steaming septic tank like twitter or reddit. People go to those places, look around, rightly conclude it's a dump and start acting badly in response. Here, you know not to sully the place. Also, here, it's a bit elite. That word is often used as a slur, but this isn't an economic elite necessarily, it's a self-selecting elite whose status is mainly predicated on their accomplishments and their ability to communicate. The world needs more spaces like that; and the impulse, therefore, is to behave yourself and not ruin it for everyone.

I grew up around Las Vegas, and I have a theory about why it's become so trashy. Vegas always attracted lower and middle class people, lots of whom were probably prone to bad behavior outside the hotel/casino. But you used to have to dress well to be allowed in. And dressing in your Sunday clothes, and being around everyone else dressed well, has the effect of putting people on their best behavior. It's the definition of civilizing. Now, people are allowed to wear shorts and tank tops, and they act like schmucks. These things are far more related than most people credit. They're not any more uncouth than their parents, they just feel like they own the place. Which is a mistake to let them feel, if you're trying to run a decent joint.
I understand you are responding in a flippant manner, but in warfare many innocents are inevitably killed, and it would be best to have a common understanding of an agreeable percentage in order to support decision/policy making, and to determine the merits of this particular case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patentleft Which do you want to discuss for?
Amazing, phenomenal. Absolutely wonderful. This was the cornerstone of the student loan debt crisis. Now lenders have to consider your ability to pay after graduation and so universities have to consider the economic value of their programs. I cannot wait for the secondary effects of this ruling to trickle through the credential peddling industry.

Now if we can only do the same for government student loans.
Hang on, are you saying TaleSpin, Magic School Bus, and VeggieTales were edgy and transgressive?

There's a lot of good shows on that list, yes, and they broke plenty of ground in terms of kids' animation quality, but only a few of them were pushing the envelope of "what you can get away with on TV."
How do thisrupt authors not get arrested? The commentary seems very inflammatory

Edit: I don't mean that I think they should - I mean that given e.g. Lese Majeste, I would have expected them to be persecuted.
Maybe that would be a nice way to start Wikipedia alternatives, sijce it became a form of political activism the trustworthiness of Wikipedia fell down significantly.
this is a great app! I am literally hooked to it.
Really, if one cannot figure out the lack of aithenticy in most of such success stories, I think they figure out quickly when they jump into the cold water of running a start-up.

It's not that the success stories have any convincing ideas for any aspiring founders anyway.
Bonito. I want and yet have problems downloading even a 350mb file on my carrier, tethered via 2 different devices. Being able to DL something like this should be a requirement to be called an Internet carrier. Non-mobile is not an option for some, eg. low income unemployed and homeless. Maybe they’ve been a software engineer for 20 years and can reach unreachable markets. (No doubt it’s more profitable to spy and steal from the vulnerable, if God allows).

What if a customer needs their records and can not afford to get them and they lose their life or suffer significantly? Who pays the balance?

They didn’t need use the Internet? Okay, well they did use it and they do during pandemic times.
> I say so much exploratory shit on here, just to see where that line of thought goes

While understandable, this is in essence trolling. I.e making people reply to you as though you mean what you say, when actually you don't.

I've seen other comments here saying the same thing and it makes me wonder how prevalent this is here.
Yes - the question assumes that innocents are not intentionally targeted.
I may be the odd one but I dropped FF after the drama over brendin eich and his support of prop 8. I just did not feel the same after seeing how he was attacked for his personal contributions.

There was just some hateful stuff that came from both sides that really uncovered some toxic personalities in the FF legion.
>I wouldn't trust any method of fixing errors in data collection. You need to redo data collection and perform a proper case-control study.

Climate research would like to have a word with you.
First of all, I don't suffer under a nirvana fallacy. Of course recycling uses energy.

Second, I'm a huge fan of nuclear power so you don't have to convince me of that.

Even if you have nuclear power, you still need EV and lots of batteries, so that is not a solution.

Hydro is limited in location and not a scalable solution. Gravity highly depends on what you are talking about, and most of the proposed solution are not capital efficient.

These however also solve partly a different problem then these batteries solve, in terms of respond speed, frequency regulation and efficiency.

Recycling is of course not perfectly efficient, but current generation batteries have 20 year lifetime and with reuse maybe even 30 years. Some of the next generation can push that even further, wont be recycled for 40 years. Maybe they are recycled more often, but maybe simply because the materials inside are more valuable then the battery of that technology level.

So yes, of course it uses some resources and something has to be mined, but that is true for almost anything.

In terms of grid storage, batteries are some of the better solution. Current Nickel based LiIon will be replaced by LFP and pure LiIon will never solve the complete grid battery challenge. Maybe with Sodium batteries. There are also Liquid Metal batteries, or things like Iron-Air batteries. These solutions are scalable in combination.

All that said, I would much prefer to have a bunch of thorium thermal breeders.

> That sludge must be locked away in vaults waiting for containment to fail.

Can you please show exactly what you mean here? Like what exactly this sludge is=
It's about 1500 USD/month which comes out around 18K/year
I love The Maxx.
That's the point... That is why these people want it
>the line between these things is not so bright as we like to imagine

In practice, the line exists, whether or not it's clear to you, it is clear to Facebook, because they already (and always will) act differently depending on their judgment of which side something falls on.

There are things that are totally outside the pale, and then there is the practice of curating peoples' feeds amongst the stuff that is allowed.

Some people specifically don't like the second thing, even if it would lead to some metric declining.
In other news:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/03/14/mozilla-plans-to-remove-th...

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/04/08/how-to-restore-the-old-fir...
Former Firefix advocate, after the plugins breakage and senseless ui changes I had to check out.

Kiwi on mobile from an HN recommendation
Idiocracy is underrated? Pretty much anywhere on the internet you can find people who took its weird spin on eugenics as scientific fact.
Show HN: Viewfinder – Virtualized browsers for your web app
> Do people genuinely enjoy this part of socializing

I don't think it's so much "enjoy" as just that many people treat knowledge as a social phenomenon, not something to gather from external sources on your own. It's not so much "what are the facts" as "what are my peers thinking and saying about this?"

This also goes a long way towards explaining the popularity of comment sections on sites like HN and reddit, as well as why there are large groups of people who treat non-factual information as though it were factual.
Often there’s not even a parry. Many katana skills involves drawing the sword simultaneously with a killing blow, even from a seated position.

Check out Akira Kurosawa’s films for some fairly accurate samurai fights.

https://youtu.be/GF5U83UIX1o

https://youtu.be/zCjsazHO0c0
It's been available in FreeBSD since mid 90s and yet nobody ever uses it, not even FreeBSD developers. I like memccpy because it's easy to check for all possible errors known to me, but everybody else seems to prefer strlcpy because it came from THE security-oriented BSD.
Please add (2012) in the title
I would imagine it's partially because of increased adoption of Brave and Safari.
So the US has city layouts that were exclusively designed around cars since the 50s and never had any design change.

Put into that a maximally polarized society that for one half gets all woke and concious now, trying to navigate this maze by bike that was never meant for it — while the other half upgrades their housewive tanks to completely new levels of ridiculousness every year to assert their dominance over the helpless and celebrate contempt.

What could possibly go wrong?

EDIT: Putting some constructive criticism here: Effecting change is possible. It just takes the ingredients univerally loathed in the US: Coordinated city planning and lots of regulation plus one or two decades until the results are visible, „big government“ at its finest. Currently I don't see the slightest hint of buy-in possible for that.

I still remember photos of cars passing through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in the 90s, that would be unimaginable right now if you stood there.
Was it? It has one line which says "Lon Chaney" and another that says "Lon Chaney Junior". I had assumed it was referring to the father and the son, but maybe it's referring only to the younger.
With 60$K you can also get a Lambda box wiht 8GPUs, 16 CPU cores and 256Gb system memory (plus 8x48GB VRAM on the GPUs). You can't train GPT-3 with it but just about anything else.
Didn't this concept ruin the internet a long time ago? Like think about the web before AdSense?
Just paint 2 lines midway to the center - whoever crosses first gets the attacker designation and the 5 second window during which his opponent's point if such scored would be good only to break the attack and wouldn't be counted. Add to that that the fencers in many situations wouldn't be completely sure who crossed first.
Rust and crystal are nice, but the fact that they can’t interpret means longer code-compile-test cycles.
Ruby is still my fav.
What?

The Liberal party is generally considered conservative, and Labor progressive. The federal government is currently formed by the Liberal Party (that is actually conservative). Their colour is blue.

The states that have handled covid spread well have Labor governments in power, Labor is progressive, and their colour is red.
>We use C because significant parts of our platform are GStreamer plugins… so C.

Ehh..., we have written and deployed gstreamer plugins for a proprietary project at $dayjob which was written in Rust. In the case of gstreamer, they have a plethora of examples for their Rust bindings (I think it's also officially supported).
Take the time to create a bunch of throwaway accounts; e-mail, social media, VPN, etc. Don't use them from your personal/work/mobile ISP, save them for VPNs/cafes/etc. Reserve any "questionable" online activity for those accounts on connections not linked to you. Basically, be a "normal" internet user in daily life, but if there is a crackdown, use those alt accounts from a non-standard connection.
I got downvoted recently here for saying that Austin is not bike friendly and you'd be really lucky to live close enough to work (or wherever you're going) for it to even be feasible. Not sure what reality people live in where they feel safe biking in Austin.

If you can afford to live downtown and you work downtown (which is a very, very small percentage of the Austin population) then yeah maybe you can bike to work, but like I said in my previous comment that is basically an edge case.
You believe that the Government could hide/destroy all archival Target Development packages, SIGINT Reporting, Full Motion Video, Tactical Reports, Collateral Damage Estimates, Judge Advocate and other leadership decisional communications, Battle Damage Assessments, Political Communications, and other material about any particular strike in question to prevent the investigation of a whistleblowers claims?
The Federal government 1) committed a ridiculous amount of money to vaccine purchases, 2) mostly stayed out of the way at least as far as vaccine development went, then 3) mechanically distributed vaccine shipments to each state government based on population.

Nobody should get credit for #1. Few if any countries could have so easily burdened itself with that kind of debt. At the Federal level the entire political establishment in the U.S. barely blinks at spending tens of billions here or there. The Trump administration deserves some credit for #2 and #3, though suffice it to say it succeeded by ignoring and blocking high-level political officials' attempts to hijack the process.

Mostly the success of the roll out, such as it is, from a logistical viewpoint is due to states. But early on there were plenty of people blaming their own state for fumbling allocation, tracking, and delivery of vaccines to healthcare providers.

If anything, the U.S. could easily be blamed for the slow roll out of vaccinations around the world. We literally cornered the market by throwing money at pharmaceutical companies and requiring preferential allocation. And you could argue that we did so using their (the world's) money, considering how a not insignificant portion of the Federal deficit is financed by foreign investment.
(wild speculation) if Bruce Schneier is selling his library: does that imply that quantum computers have managed to break crypo keys and he got disilussioned with the subject? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KGG3YBhU_0&t=95s the link tells about Zuchongzhi quantum computer 10 billion times faster than Sycamore by Google)
personally, i knew things were headed in the wrong direction when they added that big orange button in the top left corner. i guess that was version 4. i felt like it was the beginning of the end.
> In the current climate of marauding twitter mobs in constant search of food for their outrage cycle, I think I'd better not give them more information than necessary.

One of the best ways to do that is to avoid persistent online identity. It's probably the best way to emulate ephemerality on the internet nowadays. IMHO, there's very little reason to link any online identities together or to use any one for too long.
I still use Firefox on my iPhone and computer. It generally works great.
The Simple Life of Humans
Having observed the quality of the commentary here, particularly my own, I would not want to be friends with someone who posts here. Game-ified bloviating is no virtue.
BlackFly – Flight [video]
wouldn't smallpox qualify? that was a pandemic until it became epidemics because of vaccination and quarantine, then was eradicated.
404

https://github.com/i5ik/ViewFinderJS
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BigNumber.js I am not sure if it's not so well enough.
Reminds me of an ad in the Sunday, Dec. 27 1969 New York Times that read:

"War is over - if you want it."