skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Distributed Representations for Human Inference
it's not just about the agency to do things either. whether systems are intelligible, whether we have means to understand them & their workings, is another key distinction. I wouldn't mind that the modern world runs in data centers if we could see those data centers, see what happens there. we don't need write privileges, execute privileges. but we should have read privileges to the computing itself happening on our behalf: we should be able to see.

without being able to see g understand the environment, humankind faces existential peril of losing themselves. the built environment should mirror the natural environment: observable, learnable, analyzable, probeable, subjectable to instrumentation.
Movies, as in 2 hour stories that you consume in a physical location outside your house, are never gonna return to what they were. What will survive is "a fun location outside the house to watch a screen with incredible sound + picture" with your friends / a date / kids. That market should remain lucrative, cause people aren't gonna wanna be in the house all day / weekend and it's gonna remain a relatively cheap night out.
I'm arguing that animal or lesser intelligence is built around hundreds of thousands of parlor tricks operating in a complex ensemble.

There's a bias toward the marvel of human intelligence that causes some people to dismiss ML for the same underlying reasons we don't try to put a square peg in a round hole after infancy.

Side note: disagree all you like but starting a rebuttal with "oof" is the kind of dismissive language that lets people know you'll be taking a very reductionist approach in your reply.
I like the term “AI” and the classic definition of achieving human like performance in specific domains. I don’t think that there is much confusion about the term for the general population, and certainly not in the tech community.

The term “AGI” is also good, “artificial general intelligence” describes long term goals.
The author literally asked for security advice, and then ignored it. I'm trying to explain why one should not just ignore it. There's a lot of novice programmers who read these threads and might think it's perfectly fine to use strcpy (outside of IOCCC submissions). And by the way, who the hell cares about security vulns in IOCCC submissions anyway? It's not supposed to be secure, it's supposed to be obfuscated.
> You still continue to say that people having their rights violated means they don't exist.

Yes. What is the meaning of a right that nobody enforces?

It's just an aspiration, a wish, something you'd like to have or other people would like you to have. If nobody's enforcing it, it's not really a right. By definition.

> Hence events like the French Revolution, the Abolition of slavery, or the Civil Rights Movement.

These were fights to create rights. They didn't have them before.
That's very interesting. Tbh even though I think bout postapocalyptic situations a lot I never thought of that.
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I use and forked SurfingKeys on Chrome https://github.com/hbt/Surfingkeys

Calling tridactyl a replacement for vimperator ignores all the features and extensive customization available through the old Firefox API.
I've used vimperator and pentadactyl and tridactyl doesn't even come close (because of the awful API limitations).

My point is: Firefox API is now a cheap version of Chrome API. Why would you develop extensions for Firefox instead of Chrome? As a power user, it makes no sense to support Firefox. It offers less than chrome.

They had firebug back when Chrome dev tools was crap, an amazing API for extensions and customization; they threw it all away for this mediocre crap chasing average users and are now playing the privacy / save the web card and guilt tripping people for not choosing them.

They can offer better APIs, they are not entitled to power users.

Power users write extensions, write tools for web developers, developers are the most importance resource. Who even bothers to test on Firefox now? For what, 7% market share?

All that money and support; just all gone. Complete waste.

Anyway, I sunk a lot of time into Firefox over the years and it was my browser of choice for years; I'm definitely still bitter about it. They literally abandoned power users. Fuck them.
I agree. As with many things, it's only simple as long as you ignore the complexities. As they say, the devil's in the details.

> this "server" only responds to a simple well formed GET request.

And not even that. The Request-URI in a Simple-Request line (inherited from HTTP/0.9) may contain escape characters. (e.g. `GET /my%20file.txt` to get `my file.txt`) HTTP/1.0 states "The origin server must decode the Request-URI in order to properly interpret the request."[1] This server does not.

Which is not to say that this server isn't interesting. Just that it's not a demonstration of how easy HTTP/1 is to parse.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/spec.html#Request-URI
I'd recommend people actually look at the ruling, becuase it goes straight against some of the talking points from Murray and his friends, and in some cases is pretty funny.[1] For example on page 17, the judge concludes that Murray didn't breach the rules about reporting on a jurors dismissal because what Murray wrote was "bizarre" and "unfounded". Ie, he completely lied about it and that actually meant he didn't breach the law. It also notes that not only did his articles reveal the accusers details, but the commenters on his articles literally named the accusers.

He also literally states in his own testimony to the court that he intended to attempt to reveal the identities without being in contempt of court.

The whole thing is just pretty funny - he's basically saying "Oh well I didn't say their names" and the court is saying "Yeah that's not the standard of the court order, you made it easy to identify them". I mean honestly, he literally told people what on the accusers job was, and when she did that job, meaning that there was only 1 possible person he could've been talking about.

[1]https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/docs/default-source/cos-genera...
From the article:

> FBI investigators came to Beirut after the blast at Lebanon's request.

> A senior Lebanese official who was aware of the FBI report and its findings said the Lebanese authorities agreed with the Bureau on the quantity that exploded.
> senseless ui changes

This is what annoys me most. And most of all, UI changes that they've made to promote features I don't want; Pocket, Sync. I shouldn't have to dive into about:config to make a useless UI component disappear (after googling to find out what setting I need to fix). Sync should not default to storing my data on Mozilla servers. The sync icon shouldn't appear unless I've configured Sync. There should be a single option in Preferences to disable ALL suggestions.

DoH is a rotten idea. Or at least, it's not ready for prime-time; it's less secure than plain old DNS (through a local recursor).

Dropping support for ALSA output also got my back up; I won't have Poetteringware on my system.

I'd pay money for a browser that only connects to the internet when I tell it to; doesn't care what I'm interested in; and whose devs are responsive to (paying) user demand.

I'll go on using FF until I can no longer crowbar it to meet my requirements. Then it will disappear in my rearview mirror.

It's very sad; Mozilla made maybe two good products, FF and Thunderbird. They dropped Tbird (which I love), and they're trying to wreck FF. I wish I knew what cock-eyed incentives are making Mozilla behave this way.
Long-term stability of cortical ensembles
I mean it’s a theory, but ammonium nitrate is an incredibly common farming input.

At the nation state level especially I don’t think you’d need to concoct a complicated scheme to get your hands on it.
> for the most part North America is quite good at properly disposing of plastic

Shipping trash to piss poor Asian and African countries is not adequate disposal
That touches on the really tricky point that some things can be quantified but not computed, so again, we don't know how that measurable representation relates to they way results are derived.
It's Paiget - cognitive disequilibrium - it's how all learning is achieved - nice article https://teacherlearnstocode.com/2015/03/31/what-to-do-with-d...
Machine learning and algorithmic fairness in public and population health
There's a lot of international volunteers that go to help run those camps too as a holiday. Any of that was obviously gone too.
Those relied-upon models may be acquired nonrationally.

Via aesthetics etc.

Or, in the case of the optimizer, I think the human equivalent would be desire.
I am 100% in the camp that someone should have resigned but to say that there was a "coordinated political attack" makes no sense.

Salmond had already made himself totally irrelevant. He was lobbing grenades from the sidelines through Cherry and McAskill but he wasn't very effective (Salmond had electoral success but was personally never popular, with women in particular).

And all this ignores the fact that the person who put Salmond in jeopardy was Salmond by acting like a massive creep.

What happened in the case was largely a function of total incompetence by the Scottish Civil Service/govt. If you are familiar with Scotland, that is standard. Several people from the Civil Service should have resigned, they didn't. Sturgeon's testimony was obviously inconsistent at several points. This isn't the same thing as a "political attack" (again, be totally clear, Salmond has no political role...he isn't a politician, he is someone who used to be a politician).

Also, there is no "big government machine" in Scotland, and it most certainly does not control the courts if it did exists. That just isn't how the law works in Scotland or the UK (if you needed evidence of this, both govts have had run ins with the courts...if this was true then why was Salmond found innocent).
If you factor in cleaning into the reuse process you might end up with more waste:

- cleaning products (with plastic containers

- water (warmed by burning gas)

- spending time which could be used in any other way

- who knows what else
There is this weird "worst of all worlds" where ships aren't maintained because owners are too cheap. If they break down before they reach the destination (or get hit with unexpected port fees), the cost of the repairs can be more than the value of the ship + cargo. So the owner just stops answering the phone (or rather the untraceable faceless fake corporation in a tax haven jurisdiction does).

Then the crew are stuck: they won't get paid. But the port the ship is in won't let them leave with the ship without paying the fees, which they can't. And they aren't allowed to leave without the ship (and fly home or whatever) because the authorises don't want the ship to just sit there rusting or sink.

That's what happened here. It can go on for decades.

The issue here was that the courts said the cargo couldn't be seized as no one knew who the owner was in order to sue. So it just had to be stored forever. For some crazy reason they also refused to allow it to be moved out of the highly populated, busy port city. Not sure why that was...

It's apparently quite common for this crap to happen and no one really cares. The big losers are crews. The winners are consumers getting a few nano percent less in shipping costs...
Read it. Astonishing to not read what I would have expected: larger animals may have larger brains then smaller animals as an extra gram of brain has a smaller impact on e.g. the amount of energy to keep it working.
(To clarify: suppose a powerlaw exists: to be equally 'smart' one needs a brain the weight of A*(mass)^B, with A and B constants, e.g. B being 0.3. The 'cost' of having that brain is then much smaller for a large animal, so it can grow a larger brain without the energy needed to keep it going being (percentage wise) larger then the smaller animal.)

And how about evolution: that really smart fish with twice the brainpower of the equally sized fish just vanished, as it did not compete energy wise with its competition.

Indeed, humans may be special in that babies are more and more just enough developed to be born, so that they just can be born through normal labour.

These two simple notions (perhaps not explained perfectly in a single comment) are absent from the article, and hence I felt something missing;-)
I'm sorry to say that I don't see any clear line separating "data driven algorithms" from the embodied minds that we are.
It was written about in the Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/d43090eb-e005-4042-8b7a-13ab00ac0...
Its the cameras.
It’s only a few countries where rampant corruption is the exception and not the rule — the US is one such country but many Americans don’t recognize this because they have no comparison reference.
There's a fairly common ideal of what a team photo should look like, and so the people that contribute to that ideal will be in the photo.
Female Patient with Dementia Concerns
I can assure you that after 20 years using it, I still don't want JavaScript in my browsers.
From the court's ruling

> specified the job held by her at the time in question. The specificity is such that to specify her as holding it when she did, and in the context which is given, is tantamount to naming her. This is a clear breach of the
order.

It's like saying I haven't named told you I slept with Boris Johnson, but I have told you I've slept with the Prime Minister. It's what a stupid person would think is a way of skirting a court order not to name someone.
Are lockdowns coming back in the UK for real? I had the opposite impression from the news in the last two weeks. Some concern about variants, a push for vaccine passports from Boris’ cabinet, but no much talk of lockdowns.
Please remember, The Economist is a British magazine. There is a world outside American borders.
Imagine if the full 2,754 tons exploded.
The CIA is tasked with intelligence gathering and covert foreign operations.

So there may have well been CIA officers around the FBI mission, they would not have played a public role.

If I understand it correctly, the CIA would offer their assessment of the blast to the United States DNI and President. This report might contain unflattering information, evidence of corruption or recommendations of subjects of new or continued surveillance.

Whereas, the FBI, per their publicly accepted invitation would share a classified report with the Lebanese government as an expected result of their visit.

The FBI report would likely be be more consultative, the mechanism of the explosion. Sort of like a car mechanic explaining why your car is making this squeak sound.

Whereas, the Lebanese government would neither have insight into the amount of CIA resources aimed at Lebanon or this particular event, nor how these intelligence conclusions affect US foreign policy in the Mideast.
2754 tonnes is not really considered a large amount of material on the scale of global logistics. That's even closer to "regular weekly/monthly delivery" numbers than a large or special shipment.
IDK about everywhere but I'm not seeing anyone still paying minimum wage. McDonalds is paying $12.50/hr for day, $15/hr for night work. That's $30k/year FTE for a job that you can learn in a week and that requires zero prior experience or education. And they are still begging.
I worked for two years at Amazon. My managers were not diving deep at all. At least not more than any other average manager in any other average company.
Everyone just trying to make money off of her story is very sad. Both her courage to fight, and put things into perspective in such an eloquent way is inspiring.

I wonder if the news outlets doing paid promotions using her name will ever respond with an apology, or a follow up post.
On the surface, they serve decently good food and an array of cocktails and other beverages, and it generally isn't overpriced. They have great milkshakes and they'll bring you warm cookies just as soon as a giant bowl of popcorn with parmesan.

But that stuff isn't strictly unique anymore; there are other dinner-and-movie chains.

What really makes them special is all their auxiliary stuff. Before a movie, instead of ads they show relevant obscure video clips that are funny and/or interesting. Before a superhero movie they might show relevant action figure commercials from the 80s, or clips of goofy unlicensed knockoff movies that they found on YouTube, etc. Famously, you're not allowed to talk/text once a movie is playing [1]. They'll have themed cocktails and food for movies that are currently showing. Every month they pick a selection of classic movies and do showings of those throughout. Sometimes they'll bring in an actor or the director for after-screening Q&A. For cult hits they'll do themed "movie parties" where everybody's encouraged to quote/sing-along, and often there are props. We went to a Monty Python and the Holy Grail party where everyone was given, among other things, coconut shells to clap. We saw Hackers on the big screen (which was incredible in its own right), and everyone was encouraged to wear their best hacker-punk getups and then they had a costume contest (and we got to take home floppy disks with "HACK THE PLANET" emblazoned on them). We saw Akira on the big screen (!!) and they had a synchronized laser-lightshow in the theater. We went to an "anime brunch" they did several Sunday mornings in a row where they'd pick a genre of anime and show four or five episodes from different shows and you could order coffee and stuff and it only cost $5 at the door.

And the person hosting/organizing these events always comes up to the front and talks about the thing you're going to be watching. They're personally invested. They geek out, telling anecdotes from their own life and giving background on why people love this thing so much. It gets you excited even if you've never heard of it before.

Everything - even the decorations and marketing - gives you the distinct sense that everyone calling the shots at this company is super into movies, and their enthusiasm is contagious even if you don't consider yourself an enthusiast

[1] Except at movie-parties, which are all about audience participation
Judge can do anything they want, regardless of laws or sanity.
Judge orders you to wear a purple hat, you wear a purple hat.

You can seek relief from other judges if you don’t like it. Anything else and you go to jail.

My experience doing tech support for them when I was young is that they are the most arrogant people imaginable.
I don't think it's controversial, but I don't think it's true. The job vacancies in the U.S. compared to the total deaths don't really match up. Even more so if you factor in that the age group with the highest death rate (elderly people) weren't in the workforce pre pandemic.
In the old days errors came with error codes. This helped searchability using an index in a printed manual, but also Google. Unfortunately people are not good at pattern matching random many digits numbers, so this is not very useful in the front line. I wonder if world triplets, possibly semantically meaningful, could be used as error codes of sorts in the compiler error space.
I'm waiting for SDL to get around to merging the PR that opens up a rendering API[0], which should make writing native cross-platform GUIs a lot easier. Currently something like Dear ImGUI does work with SDL but only if you use OpenGL. I can imagine (maybe even write, if I feel like a masochist) a lightweight GUI library that uses QML like syntax in Lua.

[0]https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/4195
That's plausible. Never underestimate greed and the desire to avoid being caught for a crime.
Just a couple of days ago we discussed the first approved 100 octane unleaded avgas. One hopes this can scale up quickly and replace the leaded 100LL.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27983845
Working at startups has been my solution to this wide problem. No startup will turn away a domain expert in a field they need help with. A corporation over a certain size seems to glean all they need to know about me as soon as they see my bald head. Any social organization over a certain size seems to be allergic to people with much experience, I think because they cannot mold them into drones.
cool! was it able to update itself or no?
Living in shared apartments, most rooms in major cities have just the space for a bed, not even a table or desk.

I wonder if most of the people are working from bed not just being lazy, tired or exhausted, but also because they have no other option.
Tv is a better format for visual story telling then movies could ever be. now that we have streaming its not bound to time limits or irrelevant commercial pacing. The stories are longer and can be more in depth.

Does TV get the best talent though? For some reason I thought they get paid less despite doing alot more work. All those actors from got went on to try movies afterwards.
> it suffers specially when using Google websites

I keep seeing this rhetoric, but I've never experienced this myself. I use Firefox as my main driver and use Google Search, Docs, Mail, Sheets, Slides, YouTube, and whatever other Google products literally every day and everything works just fine. I've tried them out in Chrome/Edge/whatever and they all work exactly the same.

The only thing that doesn't work 100% is search on Firefox on Android, but there's no reason for it and changing the user agent fixes all the problems (Google intentionally makes it bad to try and drive you to Chrome).
Have you thought about building small projects that could earn you a little bit of income on the side?

Doesn't necessarily have to be an overwhelming product, but just a way of practicing and exploring work.
I think hn has a little bit of forgetful bias that their industry has probably the most amenable situation for remote work.
Timeline of Senescence Research
That companies like Vivaldi and Brave can build successful for-profit businesses on top of a browser seems to indicate that it's a bit more complex than that.

It's like the old quote about Microsoft Word, which was something along the lines of: "it's true that Word is bloated and that most people only use 10%, but everyone uses a different 10%".
The EU is just as bad.. my mic was cut of when I asked a couple of questions. Afterwards they said I couldn’t ask those kinds of question or they’ll all end up in jail.
Monzo bank in money laundering rules investigation
The molecules of a solid also vibrate in a highly predictable schedule¹. One of the effects of quantum mechanics is that many of those things are much more predictable than one would expect naively.

1 - That's very useful for material identification, for example.
Your argument is that knowing what you are doing means error free output.
Have you seen the average VPS box. That analogy holds.
My last job was at a credit card company, which really wore on my over time. So much so that I had to take time off afterwards to re-center myself. I would encourage you to not rule out the possibility of working for a for-profit company. I applied to a handful of companies that I considered a benefit to everyone (the company, their customers, and society as a whole). These companies exist, but you have to be willing to wait for the openings. My current company is making a product that will side the transition to renewable energy, and we’re all really excited about that. We’re also hiring, but I’m sure there’s a lot of company that meet that criteria.

https://www.virtual-peaker.com/talent
The EU is constantly putting fines on the tech giants, but I don't hear so much from other countries.

If all private data is equal as a human right, then the cases should be filed by every country, but I doubt that's happening.

Perhaps this is because EU is in power and representative of the largest collective paying user group?

Also what happens to the fine? Does EU keep it, or actually give it out to the users who were affected?