skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is general knowledge about the world for humans to know that there isn’t a giant human in the sky no matter how good the face looks.

Train it with as many images as you want and as long as a good enough face shows up, the model is going to have a positive match. The entire problem is it’s missing that upper level of intelligence that evaluates “that looks like a face, could it actually be a human?”
No, this is a sadly common misconception.

Trash in rivers in Asia is from local littering, pure and simple.

Trash that Western countries send over is simply buried or burned. It's not the source of plastic pollution in rivers. There's real concern with it being a source of air pollution when burned... but it's simply not turning into litter.
Is it time to move? Stop consenting.
How many infinite free passes are tech companies going to get? Either stop using them altogether, or start passing some legislation mandating safety standards. Anyone who purveys these faulty products has no conscience or shame.
Thanks, I need to look him up.
Nope. Didn’t think to ask, in fact. But then they started to tell us. Here are two that did so via Twitter:

https://twitter.com/sadbangs/status/1304685594430377985?s=21

https://twitter.com/etoile/status/1397257456468824065?s=21
But very seldom do they do that because of a hallucination.
I hope the paper authors get this in reward for their work.
(Circa 2016)
25 minutes then 5 minute break with extended break(15-30) after 4? Or you mean 25 work, 25, work, 25 work, 25 work, 15-30 break?
Out of curiosity what tools _dont_ do this by default? I've been using TeamCity for a decade and it has supported that feature. I used (shudder) electric commander before that and it also supported it.
Ron Johnsons' nonsense is dangerous and nonsense.
Not trying to defend Microsoft’s behavior here by any means but the justice department clearly lost the case. The original favorable ruling splitting up Microsoft was conclusively rejected by the court of appeals on almost all points. The general consensus of the academic commentary on the case I have seen( not universal by any means) is that asserting that Windows is itself a monopoly is problematic; mainly due to the lack of evidence that demand for windows is not influenced by pricing.
You might like this book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Invent-Everything-Survival-Strand...
The link between economic distress and crime is long established.
Yeah I see the analogy there.

Another counter analogy is imagine that a publisher finds out part of your book is plagiarized and they decide to give all your royalties to the person who you plagiarized without a court order to do so. A person might call that theft.
The vast majority if code that gets used on this will be Erlang and Elixir. At least for now, those are the two languages on the BEAM with traction.

It's interesting to see how Caramel, Gleam, LFE, etc, will develop, though.
One the most frustrating things to me, and I say this as as a Southerner, was why they decided to build HS2 first, instead of linking up Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield first (HS3). Then building HS2 if it was necessary.

But now there is, yet another, infrastructure project that is connected to London.

Spreading investment around the UK would be a good thing, it would take the heat out of Southern property prices, if everyone wasn't compelled to find jobs in the same geographic area.
You know you get downvoted for connecting Raspberry Pi users with reality, right?
What do you mean read-only? You could pull data from a read-only data source.
I'm getting mixed messages on CRDTs. Are we at the point now where they are general enough that the human observer is not constantly confronted with 'surprises' from the behavior of the system?

Some of the talks by Kleppmann go straight into the weeds and make it hard to tell if he's just nerding out about finer points or lamenting unsolved problems, or even paradoxes.
Except there's nothing about that command line that wouldn't work in Windows CMD/PowerShell, Google Fuchsia, or any other OS that has piping, as long as the binaries are there.

This is the most irritating thing about Stephenson's little tract and the "UNIX is the best" mindset that its fans have: the things the he praises is just the user environment, a surface level feature which can be significantly replicated on any modern OS. Now, don't get me wrong; the UNIX user environment deserves its praise but it says nothing about the merits of UNIX/Linux itself at an architectural level. Most people can't even describe the differences between Linux, Windows, OS X, Fuchsia, Haiku, Midori etc. in an architectural sense.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that it can be used as a non-constructive counter to any observation about AI failure. It’s always more and more training data or errors in the training set.

This really is a god-of-the-gaps answer to the concerns being raised.
is it though?

the “lottery winner” in your case assembles a block with transactions from the transaction pool (ie you don’t just make shit up. you are taking useful transaction that people are making them and capturing them into the chain)
So the winner does not decide much, except maybe what transactions to select (spoiler alert: the transactions with the highest fees are normally selected).

The consensus is in the sense that: you wanted to create a transaction and that transaction is captured and everyone in the network sees and agrees that the transact happened. The miner cannot alter your transaction. Other nodes in the network cannot arbitrarily reject it. You cannot simply claim you didn’t do it after the fact.
Alamo is amazing. More businesses should follow their example.
Ledger apparently drops support for major Linux distros
20+ days ago, Ledge release a new version of their desktop app, 2.30.0.

https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/360012598060-Ledger-Live-crashes-?support=true

It crashes under a large number of Linux distros. Debian Stable, for example. All Debian Stable based distros, some users of Ubuntu releases, and others, have reported the same crash.

Their official reddit support channel/user stated:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/oua6u4/ledger_live_2311_crashing/h72eg9h/

And bug reports like this one go unanswered:

https://github.com/LedgerHQ/ledger-live-desktop/issues/4064?_pjax=%23repo-content-pjax-container

It would appear they have just simply dropped Linux a large part of the Linux community, perhaps by accident, and are taking the same sort of stance their user support has in the past ; downplaying issues of this sort, or ignoring them.

It's somewhat shocking how little testing their team does. Looking through a history of issues, it seems like 'break often' is perhaps not their mantra, but they're not afraid of the concept.

That wouldn't be so bad, if at least they resolved issues quickly. This is, after all, how people are transferring quite a bit of capital around. It's the sort of app you'd want more testing, more stability, than feature add on.

Anyhow, thought it was a good topic for discussion. And yes, a bit of an attempt to shame them a bit.
5 CryptoPunks sold above $5 million today, how much for this art?
> The friction with typescript is the build environment (speaking as someone who also prefers it, and uses it all day).

You can literally do:

tsc filename.ts

And you will have a javascript file that you can run in a browser. No configuration files needed, just need to install the typescript compiler. Sure if you need more complicated things. You will need a more complicated setup. But it is no worse (and in someways better) than most of the ecosystem.

> If someone else is handling that work for you (and in most companies this does essentially become a core responsibility for a few critical maintainers) then yes - Typescript feels great.

I don't know where you work. However I've done this myself by myself. It is well documented and it isn't that difficult. I think the hardest to setup from scratch is webpack, but Gulp is fairly straightforward.

I've have set stuff up completely from scratch and created my own framework with TypeScript (I was bored during lockdown) and it takes maybe a day to figure out with webpack.

Not something for a beginner. However you don't need a whole team to do this or specific people looking after it.

> If you have a small, single person project - there's enough real overhead there that I'm not sure typescript is the right initial choice.

The same could be said of any other language where you need any sort of build system and a compiler.
Ask HN: Senior Dev to Sales?
Hi HN -

Have any of you made the jump from Senior Dev to Sales, and/or do you have recommendations for how to approach this? Is there a demand for highly-technical people in sales roles that you're aware of?

Thanks!
Browsers are like "commons" in the Internet space. It is super critical to have a neutral provider that adheres to open standards to have a substantial market share. We need to legislate every device sold (smart phone, PC, mac, iPad etc) to be shipped with a Firefox and/or other neutral open source browser.

I've been a loyal Firefox user since Day 1. Every time I open an Chrome/Edge I get a pop up or notification to change my default away from Firefox. This is pure anti-competitive behavior by the tech giants and needs to stop.
Show HN: A Rust library for interacting with UPS devices
You are on Ark B.

Deal with it.
For anyone interested there's a wealth of epoxy granite info on the CNC Zone forum.

https://www.cnczone.com/forums/epoxy-granite/
"Sla- I mean, workers get too much pay and benefits, they should be happy to work. Why can't I find any workers?!"
iOS: Allow app to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites
It is destructive if demand for paper means cutting down more natural habitats to replace them with a monoculture of trees. Even if you're growing tress, there's significant loss of habitat and biodiversity.
I have a related question to this, if you’re storing [“hello”] as one chunk, what happens when you perform an edit to say adding an extra [“e”] after the [“e”]? In the unoptimised structure I know you can just add the new [“e”] as a child of the original [“e”]. So here would you then delete the chunk [“hello”] and split it into two halves like [“he”] and [“llo”]?
I on the other hand assumed it was about initial/smaller crime "leading" into bigger/continues crimes.

I heart English Language!
> 2,754 tonnes that arrived on a Russian-leased cargo ship

>The ship arrived in Beirut in November 2013 but never left, becoming tangled in a legal dispute over unpaid port fees and ship defects. No one ever came forward to claim the shipment.

There is either in economy of scale that is so wildly unknown to me - or this was some shady shit to begin with.
Should be "We Still Don't Get Everything Done". Obvious point, but it is crucial to recognize. Lots of stuff gets done, just not everything you thought would. Which is why TODO lists can be useful (for me, anyway), but don't get any more complicated than just a list (I use a chalkboard for non-work and a txt file for work).

1) I need to not forget to do this thing

2) but I can only do one thing right now

3) put the other things on the list, and start working on the one at the top

4) occasionally, the list gets too long, so delete things that you've decided will not get done after all

That's all I expect a todo list to do for me, and that is plenty. The less baroque, the better, and frankly it doesn't merit an "app".
Bits of plastic can form blockages? Says who? I seriously doubt it.

A bit of plastic — to a fish gut - is no different than a pebble, chunk of coral, bit of bone, etc.

Littering is bad.

And litter that doesn’t naturally decompose is annoying.

But, it’s an aesthetics problem. Plastic is harmless (despite the occasional picture of a turtle with a straw in its nose...)

Over time, whether is decomposes or not, it will be covered with sediment and gone from the ecosystem.
Neanderthals are portrait as bit too primitive, and we know now that they were fully capable of speech, and not just grunts...

"Neanderthals possessed a modern vocal tract and were therefore capable of fully modern speech."
> When you make a transaction you make a transaction without needing to trust anyone.

For the transaction to actually take place it means that it needs to be appended to the blockchain, and whether it is appended or not is not up to you. Instead you have to rely entirely on others for that to occur. This is the very definition of trust.
Here comes another sad ex-FF-user.

I've been using Firefox since early days and the latest UI bumbling forced me to look elsewhere.

Surely I tried alternatives over the years but my main browser has always stayed FF. Now, times has come to actually change the main browser, which turned out to be Edge. UI is slick and functional out of the box.
Where does Google Vision Cloud sit in your categorization?

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/google-vision-racism/
Judging by my coworkers and my company's Blind: lots of people did this; they're anxious but cautiously optimistic that the company will cave. If it doesn't, they think it's likely enough that they'll find different remote jobs.
I can only speak for myself. I used to play Second Life when I was a teenager. A lot. What it was is less of a game. There was no grinding, no objective, and more of a chat room with a built in 3d modeler and scripting language. Everyone I played with grew up either ended up as a programmer or a 3d modeler of some stripe.

And I see the same sorta energy in people playing VR chat today.

What I think you miss as the usecase here is people who aren't quite happy with their identity, or are and choose a different more extreme representation. The difference between being yourself and being a fox for example.

Plenty of people in the world today are lonely, and online connection is what fills the void. They don't have kids, dogs, or spouses. They're a sixteen year old in the middle of nowhere, or a socially anxious programmer living in a shoe box.
Let me spell it out:

If it's true that lead exposure motivates crime, but at the same time causes people to feel too depressed and fatigued to act on their motivation, then my point is that if lead-exposed people then take stimulants (like meth, coke, or crack, for example) then those stimulants could counteract the depression and fatigue effects of the lead enough to allow people to act on their motivation to commit crime.

In case some of the downvoters are skeptical that stimulants could counteract depression or fatigue -- they certainly can. Not saying this is a smart thing to do, due to the addictive potential of these substances or their other deleterious effects. But they certainly can stimulate people in to action if they're otherwise too depressed or tired to do anything.

This is just a hypothesis. But it would be interesting to see if there's a correspondence between lead exposure, stimulant use, and crime.

The nexus of lead exposure, alcohol, and crime would also be interesting to investigate, as alcohol is already well known to be associated with violence, impulsive behavior, and poor decision making -- adding lead exposure in to the mix might potentiate this in to criminal activity.
> If someone is found innocent at trial, it is therefore a coordinated political attack?

You surely didn't read that claim or any related claim in the comment you're replying to.
What about “data derived algorithm”? The algorithm itself isn’t really driven by data after it has been designed anymore.
It's not about 'compassion', it's about denying the Covid pandemic being real and calling it 'the cough'.
I mean something that prevents me to accidentally update data in a database or call an external service. Preferably based on my credentials.
I worked for over 30 years, lived frugally, avoided debt, and saved a significant chunk of my salary.

As a result, I reached the point, where I don't need to work, if I don't want to.

I want to work. I love what I do. I don't need to make money at it. I also like to help people, so I found people that want to help people, and can't afford much.

It really is a shame. I have a fairly significant set of skills and experience. Pretty much what a startup would need, to make a new product a reality. I know how to make very high-quality software that ships. I did it for my entire career. I also do quite well on teams, and have been a problem-solver, all my life.

The folks I'm working with now, pinch themselves, every day.
What often happens is you get a log like (contrived example):

Warning: http timeout to package server 1
Warning: could not find x in package server 2
..(several lines later)..
Warning: could not find dependency x in cache
....
Compile Error: unknown reference to "x"

Because the actual problem by itself isn't fatal -- it doesn't yet know if the package is in server 2, and it might already have a suitable package in cache -- it's not a fatal error. Later, the part of the compiler they needs the dependency doesn't have context to the other failures that happened; all it knows is something is missing.

This is a universal problem in almost every application: very rarely can a single log line provide enough information to fix a problem or identify a bug.

In my contrived example, the partial fix is that the package bit should fail. However the final log message needs all the context of previous errors as well or it isn't useful either. It's turtles all the way down.

It's not that this isn't a solvable problem, it's that people building compilers and other tools make assumptions about context, people putting together the build don't spend the time to learn the nuance of every tool they use (rightfully so - who had time for that?), and everyone falls back on the crutch of giant log files. In other words, through the whole stack (language, compiler, tools, build system, and individual application build itself), no one has optimized or built anything based on the idea the CI server or build system should have a single, useful error message.
Picture a perfect bell curve where the whole left half has been chopped off. If you had an a priori reason to believe it’s a bell curve, then it’s easy to spot the fact that the left half has been chopped off, and easy to spot where the mean would have been.
Do you doubt the legitimacy of people in the first video?
First group.

You’re observing that they aren’t doing a perfect job, which is true, but my grouping isn’t related to perfection of results.
Ah. I see, figured it might be that but it was tough to read.

Ok, so sometimes I think I know C pretty well, then I’ll see lunatic code like this and realize I Do Not! Thanks for the answer and reformat.
For modelling trees, I much prefer using a list of ancestors compared to the parent-child adjacency list because it doesn't require recursion to answer basic questions. I had thought about how I would model threaded comments in SQL some time ago and wrote down an example of what I mean:

https://gist.github.com/bokwoon95/4fd34a78e72b2935e78ec0f40e...
More that the don’t break down fast enough. Most individual plastic molecules on their own doesn’t last that long. Polyethylene the most common plastic is simply a very long chain of carbon and hydrogen it’s a ready food sources for many different kinds of bacteria and is broken down by sunlight etc.

There are of course more and less chemically stable plastics, but they all last much longer in a landfill than the vastly more harsh aquatic environment.
Social Network Cryptocurrency Created for the prosperity of the whole world
Plus mortgage forbearance and eviction moratoriums... So you have more money in monthly unemployment and a pause on peoples' #1 expenses. Until these programs end, I wouldn't even speculate about the future state of labor markets.
Why would it need to be 8 foot hovels? If you don't need to live in a dense urban area to get access to work, education, entertainment, novelty, social life, etc. etc. then humanity could spread out into more livable towns and cities or even villages and hamlets. Most of our transportation needs would be obviated reducing or eliminating the need for road centric planning. So much of our current urban plight is due to the fact that we need to be physically present, if we remove that burden with VR for all applicable pursuits we can go back to human scale life and keep all the benefits of high density living.
Is there somewhere I can read more about this? I wasn't aware of the situation with Somalia but it seems to be counter to the narrative of hyperinflation I found on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_shilling#Modern_history
And interestingly enough physical cash is not an IOU in some big economies. So a 100 Euro bill would not be money...
If you are an ML practitioner and you think you're not part of the target audience, then you're probably part of the target audience.
>simple machines.

Ooof. Premed dropout here, so admittedly not an expert in human biology but this is a wild statement. A neuron is simple in the same way a transistor is simply a silicon sandwich doped with metals.

A parlor trick is something that once you understand, is straightforward to implement on your own. Are you arguing that anyone now or in the foreseeable future could simply recreate the abilities of a human? If so, what evidence could you show me to support that?
A Brief History of Freud's Love Affair with Cocaine
Dialects and accents really make this kind of difference very pronounced.

In Edinburgh, Scotland, there is "Cockburn Street". Which is pronounced co-burn. Other good examples trip up tourists, such as Buccleuch Street which is pronounced "Buck-Loo".
Microsoft Whiteboard has been good for extremely large network planning diagrams for me. Probably not nearly as many individual strokes though so not sure how it performs in that regard. It is available a MS Store App on Windows and it's accessible in the browser via O365.
I used Firefox since it released. I changed to chrome after they broke all my extensions for the 2 time in five years. Austrailis change is where I dropped. I use edge now and it’s fine, just fine.
It could have been stolen, as the FBI suggests.

Or it had been sitting in a sea port warehouse for 7 years. As it is hygroscopic and readily absorbs moisture from the atmosphere, it may be that the shipment had broken down over that time and only 20% of its explosive energy remained.
I meant “survive”
Learning latin is fun. There are really good books out there for learning Latin and there is something fundamentally satisfying about it. It's the "forbidden language" that you aren't supposed to spend time learning because it's dead.
In many ways we've already been in a metaverse for a hundred year now. The popularization of Hollywood, celebrities, and the stock market are fine exemplars of its manifestation (a la Baudrillard).

Perhaps it's only natural. As a soceity, we are always seeking to lower the cost of obtaining stimuli and qualia. Things got complicated as we improved our living condition (making the shift from hunter-gathering to farming, and in the modern time migrating from rural to urban for job opportunities and access to facilities and infrastructure like universities, indie music scene, etc)

The complexity of a modern life makes it more difficult/costly to experience authentic human connection for the city dwellers (e.g. vs tribes who are still hunter-gathers). We also lost our connections with the terrains and plants.

As a coping mechanism most people look for cheaper alternatives to obtain stimuli and qualia. It's sad but there is very little we can do about that.

For the minority of us who realized this is a problem, I believe the only way out is to acheive hyper-intelligence (e.g. by becoming an expert in a field and taking psychedelics) so you can be the master of your physiology and mind, while still be able to get complex work done and be resourceful and affluent.

[edit: elaboration]