skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real question should be is altavista still working?

I'm too scared to look.

Independent webmaster days used to be the best times... Now hackers and corporations run the show. Many are complaining that SEO is getting trumped by outright payola... cough

Things like Net Neutrality and paid promotion have overrun (free and independent thought) search results now and clogged them up with sales funnels to the point that we're just going to get more and more irrelevant results until people are going to have to turn to libraries again to find meaningful and succinct results to questions. AI is in it's infancy and usually geared towards profit for google more so than for human good from what I can observe, because especially during pandemic times, they have pretty big bills to cover.

The underlying problem is the monetization of information. As long as we keep driving this trend truth and accuracy of information will suffer deeply. It's best to keep monetization to less critical resources like entertainment and physical products, they can afford to be sensationalized and monetized more than things presented as science, facts, and credible news.

This trend ruins the value the Internet once had and also steers intellectual value/power back to universities interestingly though, where high tuition often provides learners to more carefully planned presentations and usually more emphasis on accuracy. The future will be expensive for all of us.
> That discovery blew my mind initially. I panicked. “OMG, is this the secret sauce? Is the joke on me?

Not only is that not the secret sauce, an OOP program with almost nothing but methods that return nothing (i.e. have some effect without reporting a result), is a giant red idiot flag.
You could take a 50 year look at the Nikkei index.

https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/stock-market
Because (at least in the US) leaders and experts waffled on the efficacy and necessity and in some bizzaro world logic decided to make masking a political virtue which polluted all hope of it being taken seriously by many as a scientifically feasible method for combating the pandemic.
Lol, yeah, I thought I’d use snowflake to debug and build my app. It worked perfectly fine out of the box, which was impressive.

Unfortunately loading my app went from a second to half an hour (I think it just broke loading all the files somewhere).
I disagree that it functions in a logical way.

I literally have to have an app to make my bluetooth mouse scroll in the opposite direction than the trackpad, because there is "Scroll Direction" checkbox in both mouse and trackpad... but it's actually one config option. And with every update I hope that they don't screw up that app... OSX has less and less of "less is more".
YA Chrome extension bought and turned adware
Is it too much to hope for a postmortem of the actual hack?

I always feel like my kung-fu is inferior when I see stuff like this.
I’m not looking to immediately move from the walled garden of Apple. I’m heavily bought in with an iPad, AirPods Max, MacBook… and I’m not looking to plunk down that much money.

However, I have a planned depreciation cycle for all of my devices. During the next cycles over the next 2-5 years, I’m going to assess moving entirely to open-source (Linux laptop, reMarkable tablet, Kobo…).

Right now, my main blockers to go full open source are a lack of time and patience. Given I’m planning to head from a start-up into a doctoral program, I’m guessing I’ll be able to have a little more space to experiment. As well, the market within a two-year span horizon should be good enough to improve the smart phone market.

TL;DR: This isn’t enough to get me to sell all of my Apple gear, but it is enough for me to restart assessing alternate devices and potentially replace devices as they naturally wear out.
You can do smaller controlled burns in those areas instead of letting the fuel pile up into an emergency.
Yes, but having our modern devices isn't solely to allow css to exist - good hardware allows devices to be a replacement for maps and gps, cameras, messaging systems, mobile games, entertainment systems, and everything else you can write an app for. Low power e-book readers exist, but it's clear that most people would much rather have a smartphone.
> But this is where the problem is in NLU: machines don’t know what we leave out, because they don’t know what we all know.

What the machine doesn’t have that we have is an understanding of culture and the feedback of emotions.

What’s elusive about culture is that much of it is tacit.

Consider all the things you don’t do in order to be a respected guest at a dinner party (a) for someone you don’t know well; vs (b) your best friend’s mother; vs (c) your new boss after the takeover. Most of the decisions you make are the result of tacit feedback (or lack thereof) that a machine can’t access.

Consider these lines from an Eagles song:

City girls just seem to find out early

How to open doors with just a smile

How’s a machine to learn that knowledge, when the substantive information never passes through a keyboard or a camera, and only exists in response to biological stimuli?
My checking account (and the checking account of the majority of Americans) isn’t measured in intervals anywhere close to 10 years.

The reason perfectly rational people like having a cushion in their checking account is that rent payments don’t care about 10 year historic trends; they’re just due when they’re due.

I’m sure there’s a decent collection of people here with enough disposal income that the idea of just having all their capital invested sounds lovely. But we’re inside a bubble here.
Well, that English chap Ventris proved that the Myceneans were in fact Greek, as per his “Greek nightmare”, but was killed before he could prove that Linear A & hence the Minoans were Greek. But the majority of scholars contend that King Minos etc were Greek
It's my belief that the FBI, CIA, NSA, CCP, FSB, Mossad, etc already had access to all my devices (IOS, Android, Windows). Anyone who thinks their calls, txt, computers, emails, physical mail, packages, etc are private are seriously mistaken. Everything from your Amazon orders, CC use, travel information, bank accounts, medical records, utility usage, etc is already available and fully accessible to anyone in the alphabet organizations. Apple announcing this is just them letting you know it was already happening at some level. You have zero privacy, they have been listening and watching everyone for a long time. Apples announcement basically let anyone who thought they had some level of privacy on IOS know that they don't and never did.
Here is a use of this tech for authoritarians:

-generate hash of a meme criticizing Winnie the Pooh

-submit to Apple

-receive user addresses of every inferior citizen that would better serve the state by working in the cotton-fields of flyover country
I like how the article goes straight from this:

> "We had no idea it was carnivorous," says Sean Graham, a botanist with the University of British Columbia. "This was not found in some exotic tropical location, but really right on our doorstep in Vancouver. You could literally walk out from Vancouver to this field site."

to this:

> Fewer than 1,000 plant species are carnivorous
Android is a low-quality platform with limited security updates, multiple app stores, preinstalled crapware, and other debris. I chose an iPhone so I wouldn't have to deal with these issues.
Wow, the nerdsniping on this is something.
Note, for my math, I failed to consider that entries wouldn't fit in one byte. Figuring out an encoding might help.
Laying out a sequence in blocks might also help overcome the speed difference between memory and storage.
I'm not even really trying to delve into this, but it's tempting.
Literally all math is about adjoints, norms and fixed points

https://github.com/adamnemecek/adjoint/
Look into "Varmint Shooting" stuff; they make stuff like .17 caliber with a muzzle velocity of 5k+ fps... About as close as we get under tank or battleship sizes.
Sure, but this is missing the point. There’s also a finite number of C programs that can actually exist in the physical universe, but that’s an arbitrary limit, not part of the definition of C. Similarly, there’s no non-arbitrary limit on, say, the length of an English sentence.

All of this ‘debate’ about the infinity of language just reduces to a misunderstanding of what people are saying, as far as I can see. No-one thinks that more than a finite number of English sentences will ever be uttered; conversely, no-one thinks that we will ever discover such a thing as a complete list of all English sentences (since trivially the conjunction of all these sentences would be a new sentence not on the original list).

Note that if you view English as a regular tree language, your point about chess also applies to English. You don’t need to remember all of the preceding state, just the congruence class. No-one is saying that English is “infinitely complex”. The grammar of English is finite, but there is no limit on the number of sentences that it can assign a structure to.

Of course you can encode intensions using numbers in the broad sense that you can encode pretty much anything using numbers.
Noise and lack of specificity are completely different problems, and the article concerns itself with the latter
If you think about this, this is a really great innovation, which is left behind bad PR. There was a leak about their system before release (which got a lot of publicity, and was heavily missleading), so that might be a reason for their hurry.

I have been browsing their technical papers for couple of days now, and they have managed to innovate a system which has "kind of" end-to-end encryption, but enables access for specific (and only this kind of) content. They have managed to make encrypted system where they can lock themselves out, and can't answer for example the demands of FBI to show all images of specific user.

On the context of CSAM, this is an improvement for privacy, but being able to understand that, it requires great understanding of different technologies.
Rips along the seams of the fabric siding causing large surface areas of hydrogen to be mixed, I think?
>The real procedure that we should teach kids is: collect data, ask questions about it, hypothesize some answers, and only then do a experiment to test your theory.

Apparently lots of interesting discoveries have followed the formula of "get drunk with other PhD students, wait for someone to ask "what if...", do experiment, pretend idea wasn't suggested in a bar at conference"
The history of NLP is littered with people claiming on theoretical grounds that XYZ is unattainable using purely statistical methods, and that some notion of the logical structure of language needs to be brought in. And yet one by one, the XYZ have been attained by statistical methods.

If you think there's something NLP can't do using machine learning, make a challenge dataset. That would be much more useful than yet another theoretical argument.
Youtube's keyword search doesn't even work properly (not counting the periods where they suspend search entirely to hide current events).
Followup. Your comment gave me a crazy idea. I've now thought about it enough to share.

To incentivize carbon removal, the US Treasury commits to spending 10 megabucks per year to buy carbon bricks synthesized via CCS.

Brick price is 10 megabucks / number produced.

Starting spot price (ceiling) is for bricks is somehow determined. Plus whatever sane market rules are deemed appropriate.

The provenance of these bricks is easily confirmed. By some combo of isotopes, inspections, and affidavits. So that sellers can't easily use non-atmospheric carbon.

Some kind of practical form factor is determined for the carbon bricks.

Carbon bricks become yet another currency.

--

Said another way:

US Treasury mints gold coins from gold bullion.

Compute farms mint bitcoin from electricity.

Carbon scrubbers will mint carbon bricks from atmospheric carbon.

Whereas bitcoin is inflationary, bricks are deflationary. Like US dollars.

Harness the Cobra Effect. Since all bricks produced will be bought, more production is incentivized.

This notion leans on Wright's Law.
De facto, I see a trend that COM become less important than it was before. The short exotic domain can be unforgettable.
for almost all inputs
That’s not very meaningful. We had an unusually wet last century, and now that we have major droughts for the first time in a while, our practice of suppressing fires has caught up to us. Recorded history doesn’t go back very far.
I want everyone's head in a vice to protect me.
Both, Olive tree of Vouves (aka "Elia Vouvon", 2000-5000 y.o)[0] & 'Olive tree burned in Eva fire' (unnamed, 2000 y.o.)[1], are in the List of oldest trees (with estimated ages) on Wikipedia.

Here is photo of 'Olive tree burned in Eva fire', uploaded on Jan 19, 2004 (photo taken not later than that date).[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees#cite_ref-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees#cite_ref-...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20110827125521/http://outdoors.w...

[img] https://web.archive.org/web/20121027221058im_/http://image09...
BitTorrent v2 (2017)
It doesn't necessarily have to involve self sacrifice. For example, we could build a world where life is comfortable for most people without a car.

I don't know how we actually get there from here. But I'm confident that it isn't effective to make everyone believe that our choices are between 1. short-term personal gratification at the cost of everyone being certainly doomed and 2. short-term personal sacrifice with a very slim hope of marginal collective gain.

In that scenario, most people will look out for themselves. Only crazy people sacrifice themselves for no real gain for anyone else.

We have to create a plan for short-term personal gain that leads to collective gain long term. Most conversations don't allow for that possibility to exist at all.
That’s a fair question. If she can find a male who is interested in building a woman’s wellness platform for women then I know she would go for it. However, there are some gender bias barriers she’s faced when sharing her idea and it doesn’t always “click” with men.
It’s consumer facing so highly unlikely :/
I found this post ridiculous indeed. Actor + event design can still be implemented with OO design as well as with any other designs. So the author is comparing apples to oranges. And the code put up on Github does not give a good example of OO design either. I agree on one point: it does not change anything.
Mechanistic solutions are never meant to solve high level problems, but they very often make the fundamental bricks more advanced solutions will rely upon, at a later stage.
"This means I essentially work to live and live to work. Is this how things are supposed to be?"

Historically, this has always been the case for the vast majority of the people. From hunter/gatherers and early agricultural to early industrial factories and agricultural, retirement was never a real option. It's only been a recent trend (similar to travel, mass information/education, etc).
My VW ID.4 has two different breaking modes, one doesn’t use regenerative at all and the other is not nearly as aggressive as Teslas. Probably overall it’ll be less, but I expect variation depending on the manufacturer and consumer preference.
Was wondering the same
Room air purifier ten years ago. Knowing the health impacts of indoor air, and the effect of prolonged exposure, it has been a huge relief knowing the family is sleeping in more safety in a home that we spend 20+ hours a day in (during the -20C winters).
Here's a C# example:

using System.Numerics;
using System;

var myBigStartingNumber = BigInteger.Parse("12893123812148934789012378957891325789012357891238912319824589123589012358915891589158989125");
Collatz(myBigStartingNumber);
Console.WriteLine("Collatz returned 1");

static int Collatz(BigInteger x)
{
Console.WriteLine(x);
return x == 1 ? 1 : x % 2 == 0 ? Collatz(x / 2) : Collatz(3 * x + 1);
}

(stack overflows virtually guaranteed!)
"You have no messages"

Nothing happened after I clicked on the green arrow.

One message that I saw somewhere on the Net years ago was:

"Hello. You have reached our car phone. We're sorry, but we're at home right now.

So leave a message and we'll answer you the next time we go out"
If you don't update, it'll stay usable indefinitely. If you do, you can skim arch-announce in less time than it takes to keep up with the release cycle of any other OS.

In return you'll never need to update a Debian release name in sources.list, click away a nagging update prompt, wait for a double-reboot cycle for some registry changes, or anything of the sort.

Yes, you will need to understand what's on your system to know what news is relevant for you. You automatically will because you set it up yourself.
> My pastor is a superhumanly wise person.

Now you're just setting yourself up for disappointment. Case in point.

There is no such thing as a pendulum, there is just the never ending fight of peoples rights (in a broad sense, not in the fundamentalists first order sense) versus the tendency and ability for those with power to stack society in their favour. 'Both sides' is missing the point; just follow the money, the names, the direction of influence.

Unfortunately, religion is as weaponized in this proces as any other large power structure. This is what power does, after all, it coagulates unless kept in check.
Opinel #8 pocketknife. Inexpensive. Timeless design that was last tweaked circa 1960's.

Entry-level hardtail mountain bike. I understand more of my geographic area than ever before, and am in moderately better shape, to boot.

Old comfy secondhand leather chair. Have my personal PC hooked up to a cheap old flatpanel TV. I've had many productive weekend hours working on personal projects in comfort. There's something about not sitting at a desk that really helps me feel like I'm off the clock, even when I am being productive.

Super cheap keyring that my car key fell off of on one of my first dates with my wife. We spent the rest of the date looking for my key in the park and enjoying conversation. It worked out.
> The 2nd Amendment is not about defending yourself from burglars -- it's about defending yourself from the government itself

Kind of, though not in the way its usually sold.

> It's essentially the right to revolt.

No, its supposed to be a guarantee against needing to revolt by providing a preventative against the situation where the government is able to use the unreadiness of the citizenry as an excuse to establish a large standing armed force for internal and/or external security (the latter being a problem because it, historically, often gets used for the former; purpose built forces for the former purpose were rare at the time of the founding, but the Founders had first-hand experience with external security forces turned to internal security use) with the distinct and separate culture and loyalties from the general population that such standing forces always entail.

Since the people as the militia are then expected to be the security services, with only a minimal permanent cadre, there is nothing to have to revolt against.

It kind of miserably failed, obviously.
Here's another angle: Look at the orbital velocities. Mercury's is 48 km/s, Earth's is 30, and an object at infinity would be zero. Kinetic energy is proportional to velocity squared. Square those orbital velocities, and you see it takes more kinetic energy to change from Earth's orbit to Mercury's than to go from Earth's orbit to escaping the solar system.
Apple's claim is unverifiable. It counts for nothing. And people with relevant experience have called it bullshit.[1]

Even just arresting someone means separating them from their children. Preventing them from working if their job involves children. Seizing all their electronics for months. Violating the privacy of their files and belongings. Legal costs. Possibly media reports. Putting innocent people through this because a secret algorithm said a secret database matched a secret number of times is unacceptable.

Several people have claimed false positives are in the database. Including someone who verifiably worked with it.[1]

US prosecutors have absolute immunity. Any civil suit would be dismissed swiftly.

People don't collect random subsets of all pornography ever made. Some is much more popular. People have specific tastes. Photo sets exist.

[1] https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...
As noted elsethread, planes can extract energy from slower tail winds.

I wonder if a sailplane with a ram air turbine in the front and a propeller on the back can go faster than tail the wind.
They make a lot of sense in the north (northern Canada and Siberia) where roads and railway are not economical or not possible because of permafrost.
Wow, yes. It's been too long since I've read that book. It was very formative for me when I read it in school long ago, and at least twice more since, but it has to have been nearly 20 years.

Have you happened to read the recent sequel, and if so how was it? I was kind of put off of Crichton by his later works after the original Jurassic Park (as usual, better than the movie)

I know the sequel was not completely Crighton's own work, but I did mostly enjoy Robopocalypse, so I'm wondering if it's worth my time ( and money: I mostly do audiobooks these days, which are a lot more expensive)
Got a Citizen Eco/RadioSync. Never been happier. Had to use an RPi to fake the YYJ/WWVB signal (I live outside the reception area for any radio timesync signal)

Sunshine for watch power is gods gift. I have a minor-brand Seiko mechanical with a self-winding mechanism, love it to death but it loses time like a grandfather clock from the victorian era.
> I found myself wanting to more actively steer. Changing the prompt in the middle of a generation to "take a right turn" would be interesting to experiment with.

I've tried this! You get weird stuff. I think of it like glitch art. One idea I want to try is directly fiddling with the tensors mid-run, like rotating it along one axis or reorder columns or something. I think you could get really interesting stuff that way
A robot vacuum! The Neato D7 to be exact.
The Portable only came out in 1989 and it probably took 18 months to certify it.
If you want a less expensive 'lite' option, you can sign up with the USPS and they will scan your incoming envelopes and email you the images. This at least alerts you when something that should have made it into your mailbox, doesn't.
Yeah. I just wish I could get those to fit in with the rest of my light switches.