skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing increasingly sophisticated bots and trying to figure out what exactly would earn you a ban was my own first practical experience with coding.

I mostly managed to dodge bans on my most used accounts at the time, but interestingly when I checked back a year or two ago the majority had been permanently suspended. I wonder if they have some method of retroactively determining if someone was botting?
Trade-offs are the heart of this profession. Developers who stick blindly to DRY, SOLID, any dogma really, come off as inexperienced.
I bought some squid at an Asian grocer that was wrapped in a cellophane kind of plastic, with a little "window" showing you one full piece and the tips of two more pieces in other flavors. Imagine my surprise when I opened it and the the "tips" of the other pieces were the whole thing.
Commercial spaces and some houses in the UK already have 12V DC lighting and sockets for spotlights using the GU5.3 socket. It lets you have smaller and cheaper light-bulbs.

They're not great to have as a renter, though; many of the AC/DC converters were designed for Halogen light-bulbs, and have a minimum wattage requirement, so the more power-efficient LED light-bulbs don't work. Plus, since the fittings are less common than E27, the choice of light-bulbs is much lower.

If solar power and home electric storage batteries become more common, we might start having DC run directly into houses, to avoid the DC/AC conversion from the battery, then AC/DC back to computers/light-bulbs/TVs. But that seems years away!

P.S. smart light-bulbs need to have individual micro-controllers if you want to have colour control. I rarely use the funky colours like green/blue, but I do love being able to go from white light in the morning, to a warmer/orangish light at night.
I lived through that idiocy and you're not wrong, but I really don't think all those trolls and Pajama Nazis would be particularly dangerous without elite backing.

Some of it may have been organic at first, but things don't stay organic for long these days. The instant there's even a whiff of a popular movement that can be exploited the propagandists are on it... especially if it's a movement that can be exploited so as to win an election or make money. The thing that made that stuff dangerous was elites and their water-carriers like Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, Milo Yiannopolis, Rupert Murdoch, etc. empowering and steering all those useful idiots.

The Pajama Nazis have a camp of doppelgängers that I've come to call Basement Bolsheviks, but they haven't had much impact since that camp of idiots doesn't seem useful to anyone with money and power (yet?).
Assuming the attacker knows how you are blurring the image they could do exactly the same attack.
Paragon is working to get its ntfs3 filesystem into the Linux kernel
> What does "X for white people" look like though?

Totally hypothetical example... "NBA for white people" - basically majority-white professional basketball teams playing each other. I'm sure that would ignite a firestorm if someone tried to do that.
>Apple doesn't go and check every application thats being signed basically

...uh, then how did the failure of the auth server mean that nothing (except Apple apps) could run? My understanding was that the auth server checked the hash of every application that was being run, and the absence of that auth server meant nothing could run.

Moreover, I don't care about the fact that they're just using plain ol' certs, just like Firefox. They could be using screen recording software and Mechanical Turk to decide whether users can execute some third-party software -- the point is that they are deciding whether users can execute some third-party software. The technical implementation is unimportant, it's a bad thing.
Keeping in mind that I'm not writing code just for an interpreter or compiler to process, I'm writing it so that other people--including myself--can read it six months later after everybody has moved on to other things and still understand what it is doing.

I just worked on some code where variables were named "poop", "crap", and "shit". How is anybody, including the original developer, supposed to know what values those variables hold?
Same here, furthermore I've written so much crazy code early on to avoid breaking The Rule, looking back I'm double horrified; at what I did, and knowing that a lot of junior programmers are going through that phase now.
They annoy me simply because I prefer the "up" position to mean "on" and "down" to indicate "off".

Completely arbitrary on a two way (wait, they're called three way?) switches.
You certainly can (heh)...I've seen containers with 10.9 and 11.2 oz of fluid in them.
Anecdotally: I don't have any smart home stuff, but literally every other member of my family does (parents, siblings, inlaws, etc). I've had numerous conversations in which they ask me why we accept an Echo or a Nest or something as a Christmas present, but my privacy concerns are always greeted with a blank stare. They just don't see it as an issue.

To them, the (perceived?) issue is how hard everything seems to setup and maintain. I haven't tried connecting any smart stuff lately, so maybe it's really easy for all I know, but all that stuff seems really advanced to them and they seem kind of afraid of it.
Got it, sounds like I misunderstood the point you were making there. Makes sense (and tbh that's a problem that afflicts most of the personal computer operating systems from that era).
Another one that's even worse than cell-phone pictures: Scans of pictures in newspaper listings!
It's not cultural sharing now, it's appropriation. See also the endless monologues about dreadlocks.
I bought a house last year and the first thing I did was remove the Ring video doorbell. But if it hadn't been a company with an Amazon or Google type reputation I'd have at least tried using it for a while.
How long is watering suppressed by the sponge? Does the controller "remember" that the sponge triggered a few days ago when the watering day comes around?
Like future, collapse is unevenly distributed, but it's already here. Unfortunately, people who aren't experiencing it directly prefer believing it's just not happening.

Biodiversity is collapsing right now at unprecedented rates; we're in the 6th Extinction.
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/natur...

Arthropods are collapsing wordlwide:
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/natur...

Ocean life is in grave danger:
https://hyperaxion.com/biology/ocean-biodiversity-collapse-n...

A study concluded that Syria's civil war was in large part driven by climate change and ecological problems (i.e. society collapse is already among us).
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/150302-sy...

Our way of life WILL change dramatically in the coming years. The alternative is as follows: either we choose to reduce drastically our individual and collective impact, or nature and the law of physics will achieve it anyway in much harsher ways. The option to go "business as usual" simply isn't available.
For what it's worth, the "homogenized" also means that the "white people TV shows" don't represent white people but rather a sort of lowest-common-denominator that can appeal broadly but not accurately represent anyone including white folks (except perhaps some SoCal types). They happened to feature white actors/actresses, but recent efforts to diversify casts haven't manifested in an improvement in quality.
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Sure, I can. You can, too! But most people can't...
Don't be afraid of simplicity: The most simple it is, the better it is
See https://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail/ for a FOSS solution (similar approach, but it lives outside of Thunderbird).
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Two orders of magnitude is a serious exaggeration. I remember swapping back and forth through multiple search engines well after Google showed up. Search index size and update frequency used to be a much larger issue for me.

Early on I swapped from yahoo mail to gmail to hotmail because gmails spam filtering wasn’t good enough. Among my fiends Gmail really won on UI not space.
There is no inherent divide. If this was marketed as only for Black people, other races are not welcome to watch, sure. If this company was vocally against Netflix and demanding Black people watch this instead, sure. As far as I can see neither of these are true - this is a service aimed at delivering a certain type of content.

Does the existence of ESPN encourage a divide between those who like sports and those that don't? Do Spanish-language channels encourage a divide between people who speak Spanish and those that don't?
As the name neonicotinoids implies, nicotine itself is a fairly effective natural pesticide. Subsistence farmers in the American Southeast used to dust their gardens with ground up tobacco. Probably some people still do.
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Post a link so everyone can remember. If it's something you care about, you need to keep reminding people. I'll post stuff about police brutality on threads that are relevant. It helps remind everyone that they are susceptible to the whims of any rogue policeman at any given time, regardless of social status. Most likely with no recourse.
Using docker-sync helps alot, and then using it's ability to ignore certain folders (like folders with high churn like tmp and log folders) helps even more. Over time the performance story has improved, but I still find docker-sync to be the best approach for me, and I've been 100% Docker Compose for about 4 years now (even on projects that don't deploy to Docker)
Dude, I'm not comfortable posting source of my online radio, because it uses ytdl, and here a guy casually strolls into blackhat territory, downloads 3k tables (presumably from to his home computer, using home pc, bonus points if that happens at work), then logs in as super admin to an e-shop, effectively takes over someones company chat and steals employee cookies. And writes about it AND ADVERTISES ON TWITTER under HIS OWN NAME. Is he INSANE or taking coke by a handful? Dude, you want to be legally forbidden to use a computer? because that's how you get legally forbidden to use one.
Does "X for kids" imply only for kids?
Most “white” people in America today were not considered so 100-150 years ago. Irish, Slavs, Eastern Europeans, Italians, Jews, Levantine Arabs, and pretty much everyone other than English, Germans and French.

My point is that this identity was expanded to be inclusive in order to build social cohesion. That was a good thing, but now let’s rename it to just “American” and include all ethnic groups, instead of going backwards.
> There's only one company in Slovenia that does warranty repairs and takes the law-specified 40 working days to finish their job (replacing a battery, for example).

Is there a law that says that repairs must be done within 40 working days and so the repair shop takes the full 40 days? Is this because they have no competition or are supply/resource constrained?
Haha no worries. On 2nd thoughts, I also realize I used a strong word. I should instead say "questioning/blaming" at most.
Having a separate platform per “culture” (although what culture is “black”? That’s a skin colour) definitely sounds like a fracture to me
Yes. But the degree to which I blame my own frustrations on this or that conspiracy's machinations is the degree to which I'm not seeing the situation clearly. It's the difference between something raining on one's parade and parading in the rain.

Or as it was put to me: 'To a man with no slack, even "Bob" served the Conspiracy. To a man with "Bob"'s slack, even the Conspiracy is of service"
I have read the entire report — several years ago. I also own a farm that’s converting from conventional to regenerative practices, and around 20 acres of conservation projects to restore natural savanna and oak woodland.

What you’re seeing under Agriculture fertilization is the application of fertilizer, not the production of it. They’re talking about the c02 released by using it, or the c02 expended generating the fertilizer in the first place.

Land use change is an entirely different category in the report. So even though the reason we’re changing land use is to farm feed crops for animals primarily, it’s listed as it’s own thing.

It goes on and on.

For an actually accurate picture of how land and agriculture actually affect the climate, see the incredibly well-researched, encyclopedic book “The Carbon Farming Solution”.
> The US has similar arrangements with many countries, and you are not doubly-taxed. You simply pay taxes at the highest rate of the two (US and <other country>).

But do you see how punitive that is to US expats? It means that they never benefit from tax mitigation efforts in their resident country if the US has higher taxes on that. That, tax-wise, they are perpetually worse off than US residents and their local neighbors.

Think about the effect of this on small businesses (which are hardly alone in their troubles). Small businesses owned by US expats are at a perpetual disadvantage relative to local businesses because they can’t operate purely within the local tax environment. If the US introduces some poorly thought out regulation, like the GILTI tax, they are hit completely independently of the local competition through no fault of their own.

Besides, if the resident country decides to mitigate some local issue by lowering taxes, what business is that to the US? It’s criminal that it uses its own citizens to siphon off another country’s wealth.
Does this attack require access to the neural network internals or merely high-volume access to the input and output channels so you can keep passing perturbed images in until you see the classification flip?
That's the thing which keeps me from buying a new notebook. :( Everything else I care about is on par with intel macbooks but the touchpad is too important.
VR is just 3D rendered twice (once for each eye).

You can trivially disable VR in LÖVR and use it for 3D.
Thank you.

As far as I can tell, based on the mentioned author name and year and topic, that article is talking about the paper "Overlooked possibility of a collapsed Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in warming climate" by Liu et al [1]. I'm not a climate scientist but I read the intro and discussion section of the paper. They're talking about existing models assuming AMOC will stay stable when maybe it won't, and they present a model where it collapses after 300 years if you set CO2 at double 1990 levels.

So the paper does specify a timeline, but it's a centuries long timeline in a model mainly intended to clearly demonstrate an effect they want future research to model correctly. (In particular, they don't seem to be making a prediction about the actual timeline in the real world.)

Seeing real world warning signs that AMOC might collapse would be very much in line with this paper's thesis of "we should be modeling the possibility that AMOC might collapse". And I disagree that the paper is failing to make actionable suggestions: they're suggesting to improve models to account for a specific effect.

1: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/3/1/e160166...
Humans in Africa also get honey from native bees there.
That's inherently racist.
We're all one world. One vision.
AI has the worst superpower medical racism
There’s more customers to lose on the margin.

My grocery budget is $100/week, which I break into two $50 shopping trips. I will swap to cheaper brands than I am accustomed to in order to or remove unnecessary items all together in order to fit my budget.
Recent Hue bulbs go up to 1600 lumen. I haven't tested them personally, but based on my experiences with Hue bulbs, I'd bet they're reliable.
You seem to think there is a monolithic "culture" that needs to be augmented. This has never been the case. There are always a dominant culture that is not necessarily named and multiple subcultures per minority group. Why are folks more sensitive to black sub-culture manifestations in the US vs other minority groups?
How does it influence real life?
Custom ROMs are like Linux. Only advanced users will use them.

Regarding the functionality we lose when using a custom ROM, I think the trick is to use a device from a "modding friendly" brand. Samsung, Sony or Huawei are not modding friendly. Get a OnePlus, Asus, Xiaomi/Poco/Redmi or Google Pixel and most if not all hardware will work fine.

(My experience is based using the OnePlus 3, OnePlus 8 Pro and Redmi Note 9S with LineageOS and a Asus Zenfone 6 with OmniROM. Fingerprint works fine and even more exotic features like the IR blaster on the 9S or the flip camera on the Zenfone 6 works.)

Now, by replacing the original OS you also remove some things that makes the phone better. Eg: the stock camera app, which often gives you better processing (there are modded GCam apps that might help fix this, alternatively you can save DNG/raw files). One useful feature that I had on the Zenfone 6 that custom ROMs can't give me is the ability to stop charging at a certain % (can be done with Magisk, but it's not supported by the ROM itself).

The main problem for me are the apps. Many require Google services and Google's safetynet and both are a problem if you decide to use "pure" Android. Even if one decides to install Google Apps to have the Play Store and their other services, there's still the safetynet issue that gets triggered just for unlocking your device.
Why so hung up on that though? White actors and content are already available over at Universal, Paramount, MGM etc. It's like a white person complaining Howard won't admit them so they're stuck going to Yale. The idealism of 100% equality and 100% integration are appreciated, at least by me (white), but how is a black person supposed to experience the feeling of being in the majority the way white people take for granted? A: By sometimes being a group unto themselves, and not always a subgroup within a much larger mostly-white group.
Well, if everyone else is doing it, you're kind of forced to do the same.
If he has no malicious intent and is not going to view/sell or do anything malicious with the data, I think it’s fine or even beneficial for him to continue to find further vulnerabilities and then report the whole package of vulnerabilities to the company. As long as he wraps it up within a few hours or say max 24 hrs and then immediately reports after that.
That was an issue based on the plan I was using in Bubble. I upgraded to a production plan which should work better now.
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I think you would find a LOT of conspiracies in the history of communism.
I saw mention of X11 and thought, "this is not for me."

macOS and Haiku are both free of X11, so I'm going to stick with those.
This research indicates that every neural-net-classified input sourced from an uncontrolled environment probably wants human review (if the neural net's owner wants to minimize malicious false-classifies).
I think that exorbitant cost of living is a large part of what makes it miserable. That and overcrowding.

You can get around town really without the cost of a car. For a little time and $3 you can go damned near anywhere in the city (and let's admit: with traffic and the wrong time of day, the subway can come in at a shorter ride than a taxi). How many places in the US can you do that?

Remote working may not make that such a big deal, but then you add entertainment and other activities. Fix the two major issues and maybe a good City government, and it could be far from miserable.
My understanding is that they may not need to cater to white people, but they also don't need to exclude them either. Black hair often has a texture that requires specialized hair products and the people who make them can make a ton of money. It isn't excluding white people to cater to black people.
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I don't now where you live, but perhaps you're not looking very hard? Where I live the wild plants, which is to say weeds, are showing absolutely no problem reproducing whatsoever and when the clover blooms there are so many bees it's uncomfortable to be outside. And while I'm no entomologist, I see far more insect species than can be counted on both hands.
No, the Unvaccinated Aren’t All Just Being Difficult
This isn’t an analogy, it’s just reality, right up to the sentence “every other company solves this by simply opening everyone’s package”. Every shipping company doesn’t open every package today, and in the real world there are no magical package opening robots, though there are some specialized detectors. So we already know from experiment that imperfect detection is better than forcing every package open.
Is there like a consensus behind this or is it just one guy saying it? I can't really evaluate the claims in the paper.

It got published in highly-impacted peer-reviewed journal, ok, but so does a lot of stuff that turns out not true later so that's not much a signal
Related question: What are the adversarial examples for human intelligence? We know some for the visual and auditory systems, but what about the arguably general intelligence of humans?

Maybe we can work our way backwards from the adversarial examples to the inductive biases?
See the GrapheneOS or CalyxOS websites for more details, they are significantly hardened for security compared to LineageOS.

Currently those two projects only support Pixels, mainly because they're all bootloader unlockable. If these projects had as many volunteers as LOS then more devices could be officially supported.

LOS on a supported Android phone is still a better option than a stock Android or iPhone at least.
I think the technology is ready but it’s held back by business model incompatibility.

The smart home should be an open source hub that integrates appliances, switches and lighting etc.

But the business model requires vendor lock-in closed systems.