skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks so much, Edwin.

Just some feedback from me.
Here's email 1, which looks automated:
> Our systems recently identified charges that appear to be unauthorized by the customer, meaning that the owner of the card or bank account did not consent to these payments. This means that we can no longer accept payments

Email 2, which feels like a human looked at it:
> Thank you for completing our verification process. Unfortunately, after conducting a further review of your account, we’ve determined that we still won't be able to accept payments for xxx moving forward.

Finally email 3, definitely a human:
> It looks like some activity on your account was misidentified as unauthorized, causing potential charge declines and the cancellation of your account. This was a mistake on our end, so we've gone ahead and re-enabled your account.

There's a lot of mixed messages here that could lead customers, like myself, to freak out. It feels like there should be a different process. If it wasn't for me reaching out in a bunch of places, I would've been lost as a customer.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go take my heart medication.
That's precisely the trouble. In NI, when someone ask you if you are Catholic or Protestant and you answer you are Danish, they leave you alone. In the US on the other hand, you get dragged in no matter what. If you are from Nigeria you still get thrown in with regular "African Americans". That has interesting results, because for university admission purposes, black is black. However, amongst Nigerian immigrants education is highly regarded, amongst Americans in general, not so much. One would predict that at top-25 universities, Nigerians are highly overrepresented.
I hope you get some free press out of these outraged people, maybe they can do you a solid and help your company go viral and get it in front of the people who want it!
Chris Olah (OpenAI, Anthropic) on what is going on inside neural networks
Our new house came with a Nest thermostat. It has some perks. Probably the main one is that we can turn the thermostat down to just warm enough to keep the pipes from freezing when we will be away from the home for a while, and then remotely turn it back up so that the house reaches a comfortable temperature just as we're arriving back home.

However, I don't think that that's enough to counteract the many, many UX annoyances we've encountered with it. When it craps out or Google decides to brick it, I intend to replace it with a regular old programmable thermostat.
Those wearables wont even sync with my iLife and appleThoughts!
> I don't know what country you're from but if you don't think there are subcultures in your country under-represented by the dominant media I'd assert you're almost definitely wrong

What constitutes under-repressented? Is proportionally represented ok?

I mean, I'm one of those "subcultures" and honestly I don't feel the need to be represented in media. I'm ok with it, but I don't see what does it bring to me or to my "subculture". We need investment in infraestructure and political-institutional changes.

I understand it's your country, so your own to decide but I agree with the other user, I really can't understand why so much focus with media representation in the US.

It feels weird, and honestly the logic behind it comes as very superficial and light-minded.
Obviously dark theme is the default one.
Even if they do have security experience (i.e Google), I would expect that for many vendors security is WAY, WAY down the list. And security doesn't end when they ship the device, it also must be present throughout all updates, even when the device is no longer supported by the vendor.
>As a downside, it does lead to "crafty consumers" using the unit price as their highest priority criteria for selecting products

Literally nobody shops by trying to buy the cheapest calories per unit. Calories are simply too easy to come by for that to matter. What people do is they make a menu (not necessarily before they go to the store) for the next 1-N meals then they choose brands or products that will accomplish that in the cheapest manner possible. This means they see the numbers and buy house brand butter. Where you get into issues is stuff like eggs where it's kind of hard to tell if the increase in size by buying large outweighs the savings per dozen by buying medium or where substitute products are not sold in easily convertible units and you have to do much more math in your head.
Keep in mind, Windows & Mac version require separate purchase
Can you provide a definition for the 'melting pot' idea that you were raised with?
To be fairer, water is 99% H2O
Futarchy
Outdoor farming is still incredibly resource intensive. As we move into an age where unsalted water becomes more precious and rare we should focus on hydroponic growing tech to preserve water. It is indoors so it wouldn’t require pesticides.
At that point hope you have enough money to hire a well known forensic analyst to prove you were infected with a virus. Back in college I used to repair pcs and there was a virus a few people got that turned their machines into torrent nodes for vast hentai collection... Now if that had been child related and I had to report them I always wondered what were odds prosecutor would choose to charge them or actually take time to see if it was fully automated or manual and they were viewing the content as it went through.
Correction: Europeans BOUGHT millions of people from the African contenent FROM OTHER BLACK AFRICANS who had already stripped them of their heritage and family ties!

Remember the Democrats little kneeling to BLM while wearing Kente scarves publicity stunt? The irony (or symbolism?) of the Democrats dressing up as Africa's most prolific slave traders was apparently lost on most people.
Great idea, man. This is awesome! This is exactly what people should be doing--using tech to make the world better. Hope you can look back 10 years from now and think so many interesting black stories might not have got told except for BlackOak! I definitely think segmenting away from the dominant studio model is the only way to break the crazily unrepresentative nature of most of the (still admittedly great) stories in the popular culture. Hopefully looking back your move will be obviously a good idea, but one maybe no one was brave enough to do it before you came along. Wishing you the best of success to do this mission! :)
If you don't mow for long enough, you'll end up with more woods. =)
For some reason the default camera only uses the "normal" camera but the Advanced Camera application from the community repos (Open Repos) can use all three without issues.

No idea about the ToF sensor - I woukd guess it could be used unless it nerds some weird Android blobs to function.
I don’t think many people make a decision to “smartify” their home at any one point in time. The reality is that it creeps in over time. If you are shopping for a mid to high end anything today - lighting to a dishwasher - some smart features are likely going to be standard on many models. People get these things home, probably try and like some of the smart features. But inevitably over time you discover how poorly integrated they all are with one another, you become frustrated when the smart features start chronically disconnecting, and suddenly it’s all more trouble than it’s worth.
The only way out of this that I can see is the passage of time and steady iteration by device manufacturers, and real investment by a few platforms (eg Apple with HomeKit) to give us a decent front end and quasi home iPaaS. I worry they don’t have the incentive to keep investing.
I love me some spread operators and ternary expressions.

…mumbles something about prying those from my cold dead hands.
I don't think it's an exact hash scan.

If so, it would be trivial to defeat. People would simply need to do a 1-pixel crop, or recompress.
Not important for electricity generation alone, but heating.

Using electricity for heat may work for some as an alternative, but AFAIK it's not terribly efficient and not well suited for cooler climates where it's needed more frequently. Natural gas is the common source of energy for heating in such areas.

One more financial burden. Some of the forecasts I've seen have been calling for colder winters to come, so this will be unwelcome news to many who are just scraping by as it is.
I couldn't agree more! You want to do PR for us?
> It’s not the “melting pot” idea of America that I was raised with, where everyone contributes their own unique culture to a unified American whole.

Then I don't understand why your response to someone trying to create a platform to express their culture strikes you as "Fracturing."
I support all black endeavors; let us AMPLIFY OUR BLACK BROTHERS AND SISTERS. No sarcasm; I support you!
The primary problems with some no-code platforms are:

Access to the code base - it's hard to build on top of, or around the platform

Long-term viability - if i build my company on top of your product, how can I be sure you'll always be around?

For transparency, I am the cofounder of Budibase: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
>Makes you wonder if there are companies who benefit from information such as this being believed.

If there is one thing I've learned from the Corona virus, it's that sometimes people push misinformation for ABSOLUTELY no reason at all.
There's gonna be loads of fun picking this apart.

> Only another image that appears nearly identical can produce the same number; forexample, images that differ in size or transcoded quality will still have the same NeuralHash value

cf all the "calculated collisions" arguments already made

> Before an image is stored in iCloud Photos, an on-device matching process is performed for that image against the database of known CSAM hashes.

cf all the questions about that database of "official Badness"

> First, Apple receives the NeuralHashes corresponding to known CSAM from the above child-safety organizations.

sharing that authority out to who exactly i didnt catch the names in this document...

and also cf the already raised points about "won't $Nation want their own version of this with their own database of Bad".

Nations or religions, could Muslim countries keep their "no images of the Prophet" rules more strictly using these tools? would they not try?
The entire blog post is literally an explanation of why implementing support for fp16 in Futhark was annoying. Let me repeat the key bit: support for fp16 in Futhark. As in, it exists, and you can use it. Right now! Nobody is stopping you from using it, or encouraging you not to use it. In fact the author literally gave you the ability to use it in his language, because clearly people want to use it. The literal second paragraph acknowledges not only that fp16 is popular in machine learning, but that there is actually two popular formats now, including bf16!

The post is actually quite relatable if you have experience in silly toolchain issues, i.e. worked on a compiler or something like that. It's all fairly straightforward. Please try to read the article next time, you might surprise yourself.
100% Mechanical cameras are amazingly resilient. Nikon F and F2 models will last a very long time. And rumor has it, Nikkor lenses from pre 1967 get better with age.
Apple does not already scan iCloud.
Small typo, it's "Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers" not "Outsiders", I particularly noted it because I learned the word "outliers" in English thanks to that book.
I tried to order the P14s with the AMD 8 core for a new hire at work recently, but unfortunately had to cancel the order after they told me there would be 4+ months of shipping delays. It's too bad the supply chains are still struggling to keep up. We ended up getting an E15 instead, since it could arrive within 2 weeks, but it's about 1/2 the specs we wanted.
The concept of “white” is a consequence of the melting pot idea. I had hoped that eventually we could expand from White/European American to just American, a broad identity not based on race at all. This would have solved the injustices of the past and built a more cohesive American identity.

Instead we seem to be going backwards. 2050 New York City might look more like 1900 than 2000.
One published study does not equal scientific truth!

There's a more temperate article in the New York Times, that's worth reading analytically. Look at the carefully-phrased responses of other scientists. Some of them appear to be struggling to say something polite about the study. "Interesting," is word used both by victims of amateur chefs and fellow scientists reading a new article when confronted by something they're not sure about swallowing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/us/gulf-stream-collapse.h...

Alex Hall, the director of the Center for Climate Science at the University of California, Los Angeles:

"the findings did not signal to him that any collapse of that ocean system might be imminent"
"we don’t really know the reaction we’ll cause"

Andrew Pershing, director of climate science at Climate Central:

"The work is fascinating"
"The big challenge is, what do we do with that information?"

Susan Lozier, a physical oceanographer and dean at the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech:

She also called Dr. Boers’ study “interesting,” but said she wasn’t convinced that the findings showed that circulation in that ocean system is slowing.
I'm really not sure what you're trying to say here.

We in the US have a long history of subjugating and violently suppressing the rights of black slaves (and every black person after outlawing slavery). The last few years have shown that the number of people who still believe that should happen is much larger than we suspected.

It's not a fetish - it's a straight up fight to end discrimination against a group of people.

If it wasn't for the rightwingers (American and otherwise) who want blacks to sit in the corner and shut up, or get attacked and discriminated on, there wouldn't be a problem.
New UUID Formats – IETF Draft
How Do I Manifest Whatever I Want? – The Secret Revealed
When did they take away my guns? I must have my missed that town hall.
Pinch zoom only works if you're over the canvas. If you for instance zoom out enough that the mouse cursor is outside of the canvas then the page itself starts zooming.
“This almost certainly will be abused.” is a claim by you and completely unverifiable. Apple has published white papers explaining how their hashing, matching, and cryptography work. How do you see someone thwarting that process specifically?
I have some led strips installed with a simple remote that allows temp and dim control...I love it and don't think auto changing these with the day would be that big of an improvement than pushing the button a few times until its at where I like it.
Thanks. I am not going to use 500 MB of my RAM for this one thing.
Apple Will Scan All iPhones for Illegal Child Abuse Images (in iOS 15)
Perhaps "borrowed code" and "borrowed server"? That's what they really mean. You're just using someone else's preexisting code/server to solve your problem instead of writing/deploying your own.
Meme?

That research was done by Oxford University over a 5 year period.

It's not a meme - it's scientific research.

But I get it, it's easier to label it a meme, so we can continue our destructive lifestyle.

And it's not just about GHG, it's also about biodiversity and habitat loss caused by the large scale animal agriculture industry.

But hey, burgers first, right?

And screw future humans having to live on a more hostile planet.
The author literally implemented fp16 support in his language. You clearly did not even read the post, which was just about the minor technical hurdles to doing so. Please learn to read next time instead of wasting everyone's time with your own useless bitching.
that is the big concern that in future you share pepe frog meme or in say russia a pride flag and it gets marked as terrorist image and they report you to _____ or block you from posting on ______
Let's see... the user could download an app, click it, and run Postgres. Or they could figure out how to install Docker, then run a terminal, then type two obscure and inscrutable commands into it. Perhaps administrator privileges are required along the way.

Sure, the Docker route is better in many ways. But perhaps you're not understanding the audience for a packaged Mac application.
There will be haptic trackpads out this year. This one doesn't have it.
It's possible he's got an old X1C and the battery is just on it's last legs as well. If that's the case, he'd probably be better served using his M1 laptop sparingly until Linux support for it is better.
https://www.noom.com/#/survey/basicHealthGoal

https://www.lemonade.com/onboarding/1

So many signups now involve taking a small survey that will sort you into a some cohort. Lots of times, this is required prior to even entering an email or password. Making this process easy, or having a template with predefined dynamic questions and answer flows (even if they're fake and meant to be changed) would be super helpful and solve a whole engineering effort in one fell swoop.
They're also not symmetrically distributed because delays are much larger than surprise wins. A win of 50% and a delay of 50% is already non-symmetrical, because the delay will be quite a bit larger, and the real numbers are even worse. A 5x delay on a particular element would be unsurprising, but to estimate something and then have it surprisingly cut to 1/5th the time is something I've only seen a handful of times in my career. "Oh! There's a library in the code that already does exactly this!"

The distribution of delays is pathological, too. It's not normal or poisson or anything nicely amenable to analysis.
I think the most miraculous invention of the Star Trek universe is a code of ethics that people actually followed. They didn't have the endless power hungry narcissists that are endemic to every human society. It's the least probable aspect of the series even including warp drives and teleporters. Maybe they all died in World War 3?
Two companies: his employer because of his lack of ethics and the consultancy firm. The CMS and the company are very well known in the Spanish technology scene and it’s not the first time I have read this kind of reports about their CMS. I will not disclose the name but easy for any Spaniard working in IT.
You are right and I stand corrected
> And them being organic also guarantees that they can't be improved

Please explain this part.

I was under the impression that certifications for "organic" labeling was a threshold thing and nothing prevents one brand from trying to be more efficient within limitations compared to another brand, as long as it is below or above certain levels.
You are right. A decent sized fraction of those Google Translate links don't seem out-of-place on HN had they been about the US. It makes me wonder if providing a GT link might be worse than linking directly to the non-English page (with an English description), then writing a comment linking to the GT page.

One dead link I would have likely have read is "Finland's “Broadband 4 everyone” is a total fuckup".

Thinking about it, I realized a downside of linking through Google Translate is that it's a bit more difficult to figure out if the domain name is a useful predictor of quality because it requires mousing over the URL instead of seeing the name. Perhaps that influences things?
>> implies you think that child pornography is actually a good thing.

Holy cow, that's the worst phrase anybody has ever put into my mouth. That's too offensively disingenuous to warrant any further discussion. Shame on you.
1. Find a job on a team with good, experienced people trying to do something hard/ambitious. Learn from the experience.

2. Read other people's code. Reading others' code is a skill. Reading code is the best way to learn what's idiomatic in a language.

3. Focus on principles. Learn how they're applied in different settings. Don't spend time chasing the "new shiny" unless you have a need/reason.

4. Work on your people skills. After a certain point, telling computers how to behave becomes easy. But communicating with and inspiring people, learning how to amplify others' strengths, work around their weaknesses, and doing it all w/ humility and grace, while leaving others feeling positive about the interactions can be challenging. It takes practice.

5. Don't ignore feedback, especially the stuff that's hard to hear.
Because it’s encouraging separatism. I would much rather have a startup that promotes black creators to the broader culture than one exclusionary by design.

Looking at top musicians, artists, and other cultural figures, it seems to me like this is already largely the case. Hip hop sales come in large part from white people. I want more of this cultural sharing, not isolationism.
> Humans really suck at understanding systems, and responding in appropriate timescales - especially when the effects involve exponential growth/decay or tipping-point phenomena.

We're capable of understanding. What we continue to fail at is priorities, as well as focus. That is, it's difficult to imagine the future and how you as an individual can make an impact when the systems are designed to keep you on The Distraction Diet. Whether that's Keeping up with The Kardashians or some other form of random low-relevance events presented as news.
I'm on my 3rd Thinkpad (P52, P1 Gen 2, P17) and had a Dell 17" XPS 9700 in the mix. The Dell was horrible. It's intake vents were on the bottom so if you put it on a soft surface like a couch or bed, it would immediately overheat to the point of turning off within 5 minutes. I tried everything. Never got the webcam or speakers to work in Linux. Keyboard sucked.

But every Lenovo I use is fantastic. I like the rugged look and bulkiness. I don't buy my laptop to look cool; I buy it to code, run vms, compile fast, and get work done. Lenovos have excellent Linux compatibility and the best keyboards anyways.
I want to get my 12 and 10 year old children into programming, but I won't show them löve because of this naming issue. It's otherwise an ideal library for them, but I show them pygame/qbasic/logo instead.
Yeah people used to say video games and violence on TV had no effect on people -that is was just made up worlds and allowed people to role play, etc… now they are admitting there is influence and it does affect people…
> because someone decided to come up with a way (race) to divide people into groups where one group is bound to end up smaller

Well, yes, and this was codified into US law until the last bits were finally suppressed in the 1960s, but that doesn't mean the underlying racism has been eliminated as well.
How about a real porn image with a young-looking actress and some carefully-applied noise?
Yellen privately lobbying lawmakers against Wyden-Lummis-Toomey crypto amendment
The most effective manager-engineer relationships I've seen are built upon a problem-solving culture, rather than feature-shipping. If your goal is to solve problem X in Q3, your managers and engineers have far more flexibility to collaborate and compromise. If your goal is to ship X features in Q3, your managers have less flexibility and your engineers have an incentive to cut corners.
Out of curiousity, how come k3s has been able to keep up? Or is my assumption incorrect?