skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But that's how the far right operates."

The 'Far Left' operates in much the same way.

The examples I gave were just of one person's stream.
The article you are referring to actually says the story is probably true, but that the confidence of the intelligence community in this finding is only "weak to moderate".

The much bigger problem was that Trump said outright this story is fake, instead of holding Putin's feet to the fire or getting behind the issue at all.
Sometimes I feel like the complexity introduced by those tools results in less productivity. When that happens this weird cycle forms where more and more developers are hired to manage the ever changing interfaces used by internal tools which results in more churn.
“The DoD clarified that it was either a bomb blast or a combination of natural phenomena, such as lightning, a meteor, or a glint from the Sun.” I guess that is a kind of clarification, right?

I find the idea of simply not knowing¹ forty years later really quite disturbing.

¹ Trusting that explanation is accurate
No it wouldn’t have, but OP also said nothing about that
> IMO, "nation building" is always an impossible mission. The objective should have been to attack, destroy the enemy, and leave - immediately. Punishing the sponsors of the 9/11 attacks, not entrenching an ideological split.

That's bollocks. I'm German, had the Allied Powers followed the Morgenthau plan Germany would be essentially an Afghanistan today - an agro state and nothing more. But you all followed through with Marshall, and that was perhaps the ideal example that nation building works.

It is just very complex, requires understanding of cultural differences, and patience. The Western countries didn't even have a proper post-immediate-hostility strategy (partially because Bush's cronies clearly hadn't invested a single second of thought beyond "how to fill the coffers of the MIC) in Afghanistan, much less a plan on how to give Afghanistan-the-country an economic perspective beyond farming opium.

Afghanistan has a lot of precious natural resources: minerals, metals, oil and gas. Had the Western countries invested in kickstarting mining these, providing locals with employment and the government with a steady stream of funds, the situation would have been very difficult today. Especially since a population that has security, stability and income doesn't go and look for the next fundamentalist terrorist for a perspective!

As a result: I refuse to put blame on any ANA soldier or civilian for deserting against the Taliban. Why fight for a country that has literally no way to survive on its own?

And fwiw, the lack of a modern "Marshall Plan" clone is also what led to the shitshows that are Libya, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. You can't just go into a place, depose a dictator and then hope that the situation will turn out all right on its own. If you want democracy, you have to make it appealing to people!
What's the... Difference?
Current TACC/auto-steer doesn’t use deep learning except on the newest Model 3/Y vehicles with “TeslaVision”. All cars with radar use the radar and radar only to determine if they should stop for the following car.
The author of the Global Sourcebook for International Data Management here. @gHosts - thanks for your comment, it's a fair one. I did write much of the basics 30 years ago - different times - and with over 4200 pages and just one author who does this for love, I do have to concentrate on certain aspects above others. I shall have a look at the gender/sex information throughout and see what I can update - a disclaimer is certainly required, in any case!
This is the exact reason I keep my hotmail account. Which now seems to get me this 'you still you thhhhhhaaaat?'. 'would it make you feel better if I gave you an outlook one or a gmail?'

They filter like 99.99% of the junk. Usually 200-1000 a week (had a low of 20 a few weeks ago). They even show me what they are filtering. That is just 1 account. I have toyed with the idea of setting up my own domain and having my family have all their own emails. But that would mean managing it. Not terribly hard but just one more thing I do not want to mess with. 30 years ago I would have done it. Now I would rather it 'just work'.

Managing spam is a pain. I have been using the 'unsubscribe' links recently. You say then you are just verifying it is real. Well yeah, not like they are going to stop anyway. Worth a shot, but many times they actually respect it, unlike 15 years ago.
Side note but maybe interesting. As many writers, Pessoa worked in a variety of occupations and wrote the first portuguese Coca-Cola slogan. Pessoa wrote the following slogan for Coca-Cola:

"Primeiro estranha-se. Depois entranha-se"

In my opinion it is a great slogan, but it's very hard to translate and must be appreciated in the native language. Most translations are wrong. This was in the 20's, and Portugal was already under press censorship, and what would be a 50 years dictatorship. Lisbon's director of Health at the time had Coca-Cola banned on the premises:

"- If one of the ingredients is coca, from which cocaine is extracted, then the product can't be sold so as to not intoxicate the public.

- If the product does not have coca, then selling it under that name to get customers is fraud; hence, it cannot be sold.

- Pessoa recognized its toxicity, for his slogan was very specific. Not liking a substance at first but then getting used to it is a characteristic of drugs.

And so Pessoa inadvertently sealed Coca-Cola's fate in Portugal for the following decades..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFernando_Pessoa

Edit:

Another interesting point that if you are new to Pessoa
you might not know, is that the writers Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis are also Fernando Pessoa! His creativity could not be captured simply via one identity so he created heteronyms, and their style is quite different. He also used more than 70 pseudonyms but those the style still is Pessoa.

Note I refer to Heteronym as in literature not as in Linguistics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(literature)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(linguistics)
Russia didn’t proudly decorate people responsible for downing an airliner. The US did.
Github pages already has a CDN in front of it, but I like your workflow with Hugo.

The widelands site seems to go directly to netcup in Germany. It is likely just a DDoS detector mistaking sudden interest as an attack.
Today, there is at least one of the most advanced Neural Networks entering each car: A human being. If we could just implement the AI to add to this person and not replace it...
Crypto for Beginners
Cryptocurrencies are about to change the world as we know it. Just think of the example of Uniswap, which allows the exchange of cryptocurrencies. The special feature is that anyone, anywhere, can exchange these cryptocurrencies, anonymously and uncensored, since there are no middlemen.

This opens up other possibilities beyond the financial world. This kind of technology can revolutionize the way we work. Imagine that a company needs someone for a specific task (programming in Python, for example). Through something similar, someone with the skills needed for the job can apply, wherever they are and without their identity and location being revealed. Without intermediaries. Imagine a model like Amazon, but on a basis like Uniswap, where a customer evaluates what I have for sale, sends me the money, and I send him the product. No middle man. This can be applied to social networks, government, and many more areas. In fact, many of these ideas are already being implemented in one form or another.

In fact, there would still be an intermediary, which would be the platform itself. But it would be a decentralized intermediary. And what does this mean? It means that the role of a traditional intermediary, all its data, would be pooled in a database and freely accessible to the public, who could then, for example, make a more informed buying decision, in the case of a buy-sell platform. Something like this would succeed in revolutionizing the way we live, affecting not only shopping experiences, but the banking system itself.

You can read the full text by clicking the link!
I'm not American either, but looks like the Americans have separate Democrat and Republican versions of each of the parliament committees(?).
Oopsie. This strikes me as perhaps one of the growing pains of not-quite-self-driving: common sense would dictate that manual control would be taken by the driver when approaching an unusual situation like a roadside incident, but we just can't trust the common sense of a minority of people.

Tesla perhaps isn't being loud enough about how autopilot isn't self-driving, and shouldn't even be relied upon to hit the brakes when something is in front of you.
I already have the Remarkable, and am very satisfied with it. That may color my opinion a bit.
We are doing that though. There are tons of flexible systems like that, where developers provide components/plugins and somewhat technical people, or rather domain experts fit them together for a specific task. Wordpress, Unity3d, Shopify to name a few.
I think the fact that I can slurp, block, and/or modify all the unencrypted DNS requests of every device on my network to be the hostile thing.

Yes we have all abused unencrypted DNS to take the littlest bit of control back from hostile devices but we’re the minority of a minority who lose out in this situation where everyone else is now shielded from random sketchy Wi-Fi hotspots, and their ISP.
> The code becomes just as unwieldy if an argument isn't in the right position, so you have to splice in a lambda, or you have to split cases on the result

I disagree. This is pretty clear even though it does exactlywhat you claim is terrible, and it is far, far clearer than the corresponding imperative code:

https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1421465090856005633?s=19

Clarity in important when you're doing code reviews or fixing a bug, in anger.
The Wikipedia list on Anti-patterns is also a pretty good place to start learning about these concepts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern
Canada's rapid expansion of the cannabis retail market
20 years experience with OO code. Over time, OO always leads to entanglement due to inheritance based solutions that seemed like a good idea at the time. Eventually, these become the basis for many other parts of the system.

You combine the potential for side effects in the code with a tree that can't easily be changed because of how many other things it will negatively affect and you end up with a code base that is harder and harder to change the larger it gets.

In a FP approach, this is a class of problems that you can't easily replicate. Yes there's a learning curve to operating in a FP style, but once you're able to move quickly with it the long term rewards are a byproduct.

The OO solution to avoiding this problem is to build with microservices instead, which forces different parts of the system to be isolated and minimizes the negative effects from entanglement...but microservices come with their own maintenance and speed of development headaches as well.
>Almost every recent A.I. advance has come from one tiny corner of the field, machine learning. Machine learning exposes a set of connected nodes, known as neural nets, to mass amounts of labeled real-world data in an attempt to give those nodes tacit knowledge. The breakthrough example was software that was able to identify cat pictures.

>So far, these neural nets have given us some great demos but mostly niche real-world applications. We don't have self-driving cars quite yet!

What's the author's threshold for "real-world applications"?

- Google's Youtube algorithm for recommendations uses neural nets[1]. So ~2 billion viewers being affected by it doesn't seem like a "niche" application.

- Google language translation uses neural net[2]

- Apple Siri voice recognition uses neural net

It doesn't seem like neural nets are analogous to the joke that "graphene is the wonder material that can do everything except escape the research lab".

In contrast, deep learning neural nets have escaped the research lab and are widely used in production systems today.

The author's blog post is recently dated August 2021 so it seems like he's not kept up-to-date on this topic since the experimental neural net winning ImageNet in 2012. Yes, that was an artificial contest but things have progressed quickly and there is real-world commercial deployment of NN trained models.

[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

[2] https://smerity.com/articles/2016/google_nmt_arch.html
I disagree. One feature my car has is to pull me back into the lane when I veer out of it (Subaru's lane keep assist). That is still incremental improvement towards "full self driving". I agree, however, that Tesla's Autopilot is not functional enough, and any tool designed to allow humans to remove their hands from the wheel should not require their immediate attention in any way.
Simon Wardley on Mapping Our Way to a Common Language
I suspect that the majority of users are not fans of typing in any form. Many of them immediately press the dictation button and tell the phone what they'd like to see. Many people's idea of cool or fun is totally not an office in their pocket, but rather a TV / music player / camera / game console. Plus a phone, of course, for talking by voice.

The target audience of Nokia 9000, people like you or me, are long since not the target audience of flagship smartphones. Bluetooth keyboards, 11" laptops, or some highly custom and expensive hardware are the choices for a proper "mobile office" today.
This happens even more outside of creator roles. Process people invent processes and then that requires other processes to check those processes, and so on.

Then you are in a situation where just buying a product in a way that hasn't been done before, like from a foreign country, can take months to accomplish because all of these processes were created without that situation in mind.

A real world example of this is the DHS, EFiMS. By the time that they are able to complete all the process, the product they are trying to buy is no longer within the necessary specs and they start all of again every 4 years. https://fcw.com/articles/2020/10/06/dhs-financial-modernizat...
Ask HN: Do you pay a premium for 100% data extraction accuracy?
I am checking to see if the organizations would be interested in paying a premium for 100% accurate data extraction from an image or a PDF page? On average, the starting salary of a data entry operator in the US is 28,000 USD/year or 15$/hour or 0.23$/minute. An error correction will take 140 seconds on average to verify an A4-sheet text data or 10-row x 5-column table data that accounts for 0.5$/page. While tons of OCR services claim the best accuracy in character recognition, there is no 100% guarantee. For sensitive data systems, maybe in financial or medical data extraction companies, would you prefer to pay 0.5-1$ USD/page for a guaranteed 100% accuracy?
Not at all. Just criticizing his blanket statement, apparently used to justify "doubting the results of US elections": "doubting" just for the sake of doubting, particularly when it feeds into narratives being driven by trolls, disinformation and hidden agendas, doesn't do Democracy or Truth any service.

I'm going to go ahead and assume that the people in question (that are doubting the results of the US elections) are rather "skeptical" towards (so called) mainstream media, but not as much when it comes to the random crap on fox news, ann, youtube and facebook. If this is the case, then this makes them more "useful idiots" than actual "skeptics", in my opinion.

TL;DR: "Doubting blindly" (usually based on whatever Fox News or 4chan is spreading today) is as at least as bad as "trusting blindly".
I’d be curious if there are studies out there on how to do automated assists in machines that require vigilance that don’t have this problem.
Are you me? We used to play Spring (Balanced Annihilation) and UrbanTerror for years while the rest of the world advanced around us.
What AI researchers can learn from the self-assembling brain
I think everyone knows why perceptual hashes are being used. I'm not sure how you're certain that people would make a fuss. Almost all of the discussion I have seen surrounding this has spent a tremendous amount of time dwelling on the risk of false positives.
This. Text in the community forums.
>Safety is pretty easy, just envision what would happen if you fucked up

I do see what you mean, but you can still get hurt even if you do everything "right". Angle grinders, for example, can shatter even if you don't break any safety rules. Hopefully your safety equipment works, but really hard shards flying around at 10,000 rpm are unpredictable.
Or make Sadiq khan the mayor...
I love The Darkness that Comes Before, where this observation is explored and exploited, in case you have not read it.
I have a Subaru Forester base model with lane keeping and adaptive cruise control.

I need to be touching the wheel and applying some force to it or it begins yelling at me and eventually brings me slowly to a stop.

I’ve had it for a year now and I cannot perceive of a way, without physically altering the system (like hanging a weight from the wheel maybe?) that would allow me to stop being an active participant.

I think the opposite is true: Tesla’s move fast and kill people approach is the mistake. Incremental mastering of autonomous capabilities is the way to go.
Agreed! I wish more people would focus on that, instead of being focused on one particular prison resident (and far from the most sympathetic, in my view).
> they respond to a different type of marketing than those who don't consider themselves nerds

Unfortunately it's true. Marketing is now at the center of corporate-driven open source.

Shilling and meetups with free pizza quickly lead to hype and cargo culting.

The devops tools popular on HN are an excellent example.
Shameless plug:

If you want the exact opposite of this (that is, to use JS from the shell), try https://bashojs.org

For example:

curl 'https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Bangalore&appid=2a125de83c277f4ce0ace5ed482f22b9' | basho --json -j 'x.weather[0].description + ", feels like: " + Math.round(10 * (x.main.feels_like - 273.15))/10 + "°C"'
I'm inclined to agree. One of the most successful "No Code" programs is Excel. Yet we still, time and time again, see people struggle with basic calculations in it. It's literally elementary school mathematics we're talking about.

I think most "No Code" and especially RPA in general will fall into that. The required mindset to think programmatically is not something the majority of people have unfortunately. But "No Code" will enable those that is somewhat technically inclined and able to think sufficiently programmatically.
Startup's Launch Day Traffic
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." - Lav Tolstoy
Note to self: stop messing with telescopes and satellites, other people already noticed it. (The strongest area of the anomaly is right over my homeland.)

Jokes apart. Given the geomagnetic field sometimes "flip" over, what would happen with the anomaly? Would it accordingly flip to the sea between the Philippines and Japan?
It depends. As long as the resulting package (flawed self driving system + the average driver) isn't significantly more dangerous than the average unassisted human driver, I don't consider it irresponsible to deploy it.

"The average driver" includes everyone, ranging from drivers using it as intended with close supervision, drivers who become inattentive because nothing is happening, and drivers who think it's a reasonable idea to climb into the back seat with a water bottle duct taped to the steering wheel to bypass the sensor.

OTOH, the average driver for the unassisted scenario also includes the driver who thinks they're able to drive a car while texting.
Actually I'm glad this is getting some attention. Apple's notification center, especially across devices, is a mess - or to be charitable, there's lots of room for improvement! Though it may seem these are extremely minor UX issues, they're actually rather major: they prevent the notification center from being actually usable.
Perhaps not common, but certainly still in use: The Queen’s Duck - https://bwiggs.com/notebook/queens-duck/
Thank you for this feedback! I'm gonna bump the priority of the placeholder feature in our roadmap. I think the use case you're describing is a very common one. Judo experiences integrate themselves seamlessly into your app in certain places where it makes sense. I think it's equally important for it work the other way around as well. I.e. parts of your native app should be able to integrate seamlessly within a Judo experience where it makes sense. Basically your view hierarchy should be able to mix in and out of Judo experiences depending on the use case.
It takes maybe 30 minutes to fill out, but the O(days) approval latency is what absolutely killed me. No way to do impromptu commits to random non-Google-license-approved projects, no way to hack together something with friends over a beer, no way to quickly bash together a proof of concept and release it the same evening.

It might work for people who chisel away at their own long-term one-person pet projects, but breaks down if you're used to quickly hacking away collaboratively in various groups. Especially if you're an active member of a hackerspace.
I remember when Google was first presenting on driverless technology about 10 years ago, and they mentioned how you have to go right to full self driving, because any advanced driver assistance will clash with human risk compensation behavior.

Risk compensation is fascinating; driving with a bike helmet causes the biker and drivers around the biker to behave more dangerously.

Is society sophisticated enough to deal with advanced driver assistance? Is it possible to gather enough data to create self driving ML systems?
> got quite stuck in the best way to implement the same. I still kind of having a wavering mind on the right implementation which holds me back from moving forward

Perfectionism is holding you back.

Forget about writing the perfect solution. Start writing any solution, and start now. It doesn’t have to be perfect. You could probably start writing one and then adjust it to be better in all of the time spent pondering a perfect solution that never comes to mind.

Forget about “best” and “perfect” because, as you’ve seen, they only result in you producing nothing at all - Which is far from perfect.
Fecal transplants reverse aging in brains of old mice
This whole post is about holding leaders accountable. The same should be true for those leaders in Afghanistan who aided the attacks on 9/11. But staying to prop up a government in a nation that had already suffered a proxy war occupation by Russia, and had sent them packing (with our help) was always a doomed effort. The culture there won't permit such a thing. So I think leaving a power vacuum would have been the lesser evil, vs prolonging it, or leaving the guilty unaccountable, as we did in SA.
Car mechanics care about the standard. A grade 5 bolt is different from grade 8, even though grade 8 is objectively stronger there are many places where they are too strong and so you need to use the objectively worse bolt. I don't remember the terms metric uses for the above, but there are metric equivalents for the same reasons.