skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can’t think of a single person I’ve worked with in the last 10 years who understands the difference between vanilla git and GitHub.

If not one developer in a decade can tell the difference between a source control hosting service and a tool they use, that's not really GitHub's problem. This is the same as my parents not konwing that "facebook" isn't the internet.

> Nobody really understands why pull requests are named that way,

Sure they do, the answer is one google search away on the largest Q&A forum for programmers [0]. it was the first google hit for "why are pull requests called pull requests"

> or that it’s possible to have very different workflows to what GitHub offers.

Maybe inside your circle, but plenty of people are aware of different workflows. Some of the largest open source projects in the world exist on github and don't use the pull request workflow (linux kernel, firefox, chromium off the top of my head).

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14817051/why-does-github...
That index is originally created by your IMAP provider - they sent the wrong set of IDs (usually because of a race condition). When you run a fix, Thunderbird checks to see if the provider screwed anything up. It was an IMAP bug.
My company made the change from blacklist/whitelist to blocklist/allow list over two years ago and people, mostly external, still get annoyed and I just can't understand why. The former is literally one letter different and the latter makes just as much, arguably more, sense than the term it replaced. I get that some people see it as just posturing but you have to start somewhere if you are going to change the culture. Not using colors which are also used to describe people's skin to different between a negative thing and a positive thing is good imo.
It’s valued at 600 million that does not mean it can be liquidated for 600 million.
Why no website can do this correctly baffles me. My browser literally tells you what languages I want.
Where do I sign up for that browser? When it comes to UI, less change is better.
Hopefully the new parent will do something about the insane, diabolical UX.
And let's be clear: those are all the things that productive employees avoid like the plague.

What are you producing which is correlated with using any of those services?

If more information comes out, it'll be a useful case study in using measures anti-correlated with your actual business objectives.

This seems an extremely common practice by middle-management, whose activity is largely anti-correlated with aggregate business production. (Ie., middle-management activity should be operating at a minimum necessary for production; increasing it will cause productivity to drop).
> Cortical neurons are well approximated by a deep neural network (DNN) with 5–8 layers

I wonder how many cortical neurons it takes to approximate a ReLu or tanh well. I suspect this number being large than 1. If so the paper only shows an upper bound. Think how many neurons does it take to add a two 10 digit numbers. It is perfectly feasible that some (possibly large) part of this 5-8 layers is just "emulation overhead".

Does someone know of studies of this emulation overhead, even outside biology?

Even between ARM and x86 there is an emulation overhead due to different memory models while both are register machines.
Many OSS projects were and still are pre 1.0 for years.

I think, it's a sign of hybris if a project owner goes 1.0 too soon.
Does it comply when I cant see the data but it is still there?
There's also some discussion a few days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28108432.
This email sounds as though it were written by a child.
> because a part of the user base just doesn't like change

So don't force them to change? Or has Mozilla really forgotten that they got their users by making the most customizable browser in the first place?
Just tried https://fred-wang.github.io/MathFonts/mozilla_mathml_test/ in Canary with enable-experimental-web-platform-features. As they say, the stretchy characters (e.g. think \left, \middle, \right in LaTeX) all have wrong heights at the moment. Still, that's a lot of progress made.

Edit: Actually, when I select any font other than "Default fonts (local only)", the stretchy characters' heights change in response to content they embrace (though still not correct -- they tend to be taller than they should be), unlike with "Default fonts (local only)" where the characters won't stretch at all. I wonder why this is the case.
I’d hazard a guess that many of those projects are for environments that cannot guarantee stability, so the instability kind of rolls over to the projects themselves.
The Value of Non-Famous Influencers and Their Engagement
It was a bit of an interesting topic.
Maybe famous influencers won't necessarily be needed to achieve their own goals.
I’ve been using Enpass for a few years now, very happy with it. I tried Bitwarden last year but couldn’t justify switching since it required a subscription to get all the features I needed, even self hosting.
He should have burnt the lot, give or take a couple of lambos as processing fee.
Belgium chiming in. For the longest time, the electricity bill was this kind of back door for politicians to sneak in stuff they wanted to keep out of the General Budget.

It started harmless enough, but it has spiraled out of control. Of course distribution and transmission need to factor into the energy price somehow, but unfortunately for our friend, the electricity bill, stuff got out of hand.

Government after government tasked transmission and distribution network companies with ever more duties.

In addition to the core business of running their networks, their obligations include, but aren't limited to: acting as the social energy provider of last resort, running the street lights, building and maintaining EV charging infrastructure, buying green energy certificates at predetermined prices, financing offshore wind interconnection, etc.

In light of these extended duties, the DSOs and TSOs then went to the energy market regulators and asked if they could raise prices. Of course, the regulators decided in their favor, or they'd be guilty of systematically underfunding the companies they're supposed to regulate.

The situation now is that 35-44% of the electricity bill is directly earmarked for these so called Public Service Obligations. Add some excise taxes, miscellaneous fees, sum them all up, add VAT to the subtotal, and you end up with a grand total of ⅔ of your electricity bill being spent... not on electricity.

Don't get me wrong: We should be subsidizing most of these things, but in light of the energy transition, the electricity bill is just about the worst place to hide the cost.

Meanwhile, the gas bill has only a fraction of these Public Service Obligations factored into them. How on earth is that right?

No wonder people are reluctant to install heat pumps. It makes no financial sense!
Same as Bright Data (https://brightdata.com/), formerly Luminati Networks, who apparently use or used HolaVPN customers [1] as exit nodes for their proxy networks and data collection infrastructure. Their current website sheds some light into how they get their residential and mobile IPs [2] (emphasis mine):

> Bright Data attains its peers (Residential and Mobile IPs) through the Bright SDK, which is integrated into applications as another form of app monetization.

> App users are presented with the option to opt-in to the Bright Data Network and become a peer (share their device idle resources) in exchange for an ad-free or free application. All peers sharing resources with the Bright Data residential network have personally opted-in and may opt-out at any time.

It would be nice to know which applications have their SDK integrated, so I could avoid them.

[1]: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hk-en/security/news/cybercr...

[2]: https://brightdata.com/ethical
The rest of the world clicks on more ads this way. I believe that's their most important metric.
this is my favorite comment.
Kinda off topic but when I see how much politicians are struggling with infrastructure for years and finally now there is a bill with the $1B bill in infrastructure (and in reality it’s $500M in new investment). But at the same time we see so many agencies spending billions here and there... I think some process of how the gov works should be rethought. And how budgeting works too.
This would be so good for the smartphone environment and clean and trustworthy systems. It would a complete game changer. One can dream...
You see it as OC making excuses or not having discipline, I see it as you wasting valuable time by taking it upon yourself to do things you can ask or pay others to do for you. You might as well reprehend OP for working smart because you work unnecessarily hard.

I mean, the attack is so deeply personal yet you don’t know anything about OC’s circumstances. Maybe OC knows how to cook a little but he really sucks at it? Or he’s just not interested? Or he doesn’t have as much free space at home as you do? There are so many possibilities and you’re very quick to blame it on discipline, lol.
Their pretrained 128-wide net has a total of 9.2 million parameters: https://www.kaggle.com/selfishgene/single-neuron-as-deep-net...
Dedicating the Neil A. Armstrong Facility
vivaldi, the successor to opera, has a client in beta. it's not as good as the old m2 client in my opinion but it's quite usable. my main gripes: keyboard navigation still isn't on par, the default is to top quote, no highlight to quote, and no encryption support. this latter doesn't bug me much because no one I know uses it. but it's fast with good search capabilities, automatic indexing, contacts, etc.
Marketing and social media ads tips
Lua < 5.3 (thus also LuaJIT), unless you make an integer-only build. But yes, I wouldn’t call that “many”.
> once this system is in place it will be used for anything, not just photos

There is a system in place to make a 'backup' of the entire device to a remote server in place and has been in place on every iphone since October 12, 2011. The entire device is covered; logs, calls, messages, files, photos etc. Pandoras box has been open for 10 years.

It is called iCloud backup. If they want to repurpose an existing function against the expressed permission of the user to exfiltrate their data and use it against them, why not just use that instead?
Ah yes, the power of rust's macros.

I think there is danger in proposing 'assume' without at least trying to prove it and say you're wrong. I think in spark 'assume' is a guide, but it is checked and it is great, because footguns.
I thought it was a parody but now I'm not so sure. If that sounds harsh it's because I'm struggling to understand the value proposition or what problem it solves exactly.

Am I right in that it requires runtime js to parse it's special style tags in order for any css to work?
yup sounded like a joke until the table LOL
Once a project has been out for years, and has thousands or millions of users, it's not in the experimental phase any more, regardless of what the version number claims.

Similarly to https://www.hyrumslaw.com
revenue is not value
All managers I'm sure! /s
and you can break the api anytime
The Strong Law of Small Numbers (1988) [pdf]
First would be nice to know how much this measures actually help and what are all the downsides.

The Apple stuff feels for me that is just the begining, observe how contradictory it is

1 the scan happens only if the bad guy is an IDIOT and enables iCloud to backup is porn collection

2 the bad guy is NOT and IDIOT and he applied filters,copping so we need to use Bob fancy alogirthm to catch this alterations.

So either 1 is true then 2 implies that they put the fancy algorithm in because some dude with big ego wanted to add that to his CV and so causing innocent people stress , or 2 is true , then 1 is just a temporary check that will be toggled off at next update by Apple after some concerned citizens will complain.

As competent software developers we should know that when you have a bug you always find the root problem, even if you maybe have to rush a quick dirty fix you should find the root problem so it does not cause other weird issues.

As software developers we also understand that giants do not care for a individual users, they are expandable, we can see from Google , Sony and other giants how you can be flagged and screwed over because some false positiveness or a bad actor abusing the system.

In the Apple case. if the bad guys are idiots then scan the server side, reported the bad guy, then when police commes with a warrant help them to obtain what they need about the bad guy.

The main concern is when the device has software that is not protecting you from bad stuff but is snitching on your activity. Next they will go further and screengrab your screen, spy on your browsing, read your messages, listen to your conversation and what radio/tv or other media device you are listening/watching.

From what I read in comments it seems most abuses are done by a family member. so if such a person abuses a child, takes some pictures , this system will not work at all, it seems to me you need a social solution and not putting some stupid AI in all cameras or other weird AI solutions developers with big ego dream.
Apple talk about in their technical documentation https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...

page 9 : Synthetic Match Vouchers

They generate false positives themselves to hide their knowledge of the true number of collisions.
Labor is a market. Google has always had very different salaries and have been pretty explicit about it saying they were aiming to have among the top salaries in the labor market for each posting. I was shocked how low Paris Google salaries were vs SF, but it makes sense to some degree
They do this with good intentions because not everyone can change this header (e.g if you're using some locked down browser at a kiosk you may not be able to change this) but it's infuriating for everyone who can.
Human-level intelligence is highly variable. If we’re talking about something that can intelligently and independently make discoveries in math science and engineering, then the comparative advantage can’t stay long because you’d just pose the problem of “make yourself but faster” to it.

It doesn’t even need discoveries. Imagine an AI that could manually transcode your high level code into absolutely optimal assembly, simplifying your design, removing unnecessary code, optimizing the code in response to observed behavior, etc. I would guess we have several orders of magnitude of power efficiency loss just from building a system that has understandable and flexible layers of abstraction. A sufficiently powerful AI could work to automatically remove those abstractions and even operate at a higher level of abstraction.

The real question is whether we’re at all on the right track. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Isn't that the point of this research? To find out roughly how many ANN neurons a real neuron corresponds to? The number of atoms is irrelevant.
If you're going to just quote someone and pretend that serves as a cogent argument you'll probably want to pick someone a little smarter and more well-rounded than Spolsky.
There is a company in the UK, Internet Watch Foundation[0], that works on this very problem.

They were looking for volunteers sometime back to classify online abuse content and one of the requirement was "This is a tough job and only emotionally resilient people should apply....This is not a job for those on a personal mission, or for those who are easily upset by illegal online content." But now they are looking for paid part-time employees[1] for the same job. It is a tough job. There are other jobs available with them that are not that emotionally taxing.

[0] https://www.iwf.org.uk

[1] https://www.iwf.org.uk/what-we-do/who-we-are/work-us
To add to that, there's evidence that may mean that memories are stored in DNA, shuffled between neurons in RNA capsids, evolutionary borrowed from retroviruses.

That would make each neuron a complicated computer, functionally equivalent to one pc in capability and data storage.

"The neuronal gene Arc is essential for long-lasting information storage in the mammalian brain, mediates various forms of synaptic plasticity, and has been implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders. However, little is known about Arc’s molecular function and evolutionary origins.

Here, we show that Arc self-assembles into virus-like capsids that encapsulate RNA. Endogenous Arc protein is released from neurons in extracellular vesicles that mediate the transfer of Arc mRNA into new target cells, where it can undergo activity-dependent translation. Purified Arc capsids are endocytosed and are able to transfer Arc mRNA into the cytoplasm of neurons.

These results show that Arc exhibits similar molecular properties to retroviral Gag proteins. Evolutionary analysis indicates that Arc is derived from a vertebrate lineage of Ty3/gypsy retrotransposons, which are also ancestors to retroviruses. These findings suggest that Gag retroelements have been repurposed during evolution to mediate intercellular communication in the nervous system."

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)31504-0
A Man in the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt's Citizenship in a Republic
My company issues a laptop to every employee, you can also buy a mouse and keyboard, headset, various dongles, monitor, through our company portal.

So that money is mainly used for a chair and desk, or really anything else you want. Even if you don’t use it, it’s just another extra $750.

I found it more than enough, bought a cheap desk in IKEA, and a $300 office chair.
But that is an illegitimate trade and cuts BOTH WAYS. When the buyer is fraudulent the merchant swallows the cost AND when the merchant is fraudulent the buyer swallows the cost.

That's actually why credit cards come with protection against fraudulent merchants and you need a good enough credit score to actually get a credit card. On top of that, payment processors run fraud detection systems that block suspicious actions.

Irreversibility turns the trade into a competition over who is the better fraud. The only thing that the crypto guarantees is that the winner keeps the prize.
The Windows Blue Screen of Death. I don't think Microsoft will ever fix it.
waste of money for 1B you have a competitor well suited
The new Russian-roulette-ish form of dueling: Handshakes at dawn -- without hand sanitizer.
> I'm in a team that has multiple "remote" people since before pandemic.

When I was in a similar position, I regularly worked in groups who gave me every indication the majority would vote to relocate all positions to in-office in California. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to be hopping groups after each vote while the team was telling me how wonderful the west coast is. It was better that my role was negotiated and a group could deal with it or suffer consequences of looking for an all California team.

It seems to me like you are trying to fix a problem that doesn't affect either you or me, and I am saying I don't like the consequences to me of your fix.
Yes, eliminating the population would destroy much of their wealth. That much we can agree upon.

The goal is to reduce the overall population and enhance control over those that remain. The biosecurity state and control over energy consumption are key points in this agenda.

After you can buy everything you could reasonably want, what other avenues to expanding your status remain? There are things which money alone cannot buy.

https://www.corbettreport.com/gates/

https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-286-rockefeller-medici...

https://www.corbettreport.com/bigoil/

To the point of the original poster, the entire agenda is largely framed by billionaires and their globalist institutions. The World Economic Forum, the successor to the Club of Rome would be a prime example. Note the connection to the seminal eugenicist, Malthusian manifesto "Limits to Growth".

https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth/

All of these agendas make more sense when the historical and ideological backgrounds of their promoters are better understood. Of course, this does not packages as well as fear mongering soundbites portending an impending apocalypse.
It does show why you shouldn't use "Smart Contracts". Unlike legal contracts they do not have phrases like "REASONABLE INTENT" and "FOR INTENDED PURPOSE" meaning that any loophole can be abused.
It's actually a coincidence: see https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2020-June...

In the end it doesn't really matter once the word has gotten tainted. It's still ugly that incorrect deductions spread so quickly and corrections don't.
HTTPS and E2EE were not common many years ago
> if I need to copy/paste two things over and over

I always miss having a separate selection clipboard when I'm on a non-X11 system. Such a useful feature yet missing almost everywhere.
Do MC employees get any equity? I think there is a profit sharing compensation strategy, so, this huge potential sale, will MC share any of those “profits”?
It's not telling at all.

Not a single person arguing against this idea is being obtuse or insensitive to the very real problem of CSAM.

This is why you are getting the eye roll induced "think of the children" arguments. Yes, we get it. We agree. It's bad. We don't like it either.

But this isn't going to solve anything and IS going to break security and privacy.

It's a bad trade.
As I understand it, in Canada, having a picture of your child in a bathtub is child porn. So I can see this going horribly wrong.
+1 Some years ago I tied keeping a "biggish" backup in Google Drive. I really tried. Left the computer syncing for a week, without any progress indicator (only something generic, like syncing). I the end I went with Dropbox. It took a few days, but I could see actual progress happening.

I do not know if this is still the case nowadays.
I'm also a big fan of CalVer (https://calver.org/), though I think it totally depends on the context. I wouldn't want to write C++ libraries with it.
If I understood it correctly, the purpose of this hash is just to shorten the method signature (name+types) to a 4 byte identifier. Unless a contract has thousands of methods, the chance of collision is very low (and the compiler could detect any collision, since it can see all methods). The "legitimate reason" for shortening the method signature is probably just to save space; bytes on distributed blockchain transactions are expensive.
Obviously they've gotten a lot of inspiration from my favorite: Sentimental Versioning http://sentimentalversioning.org
If it is already so, your comment is equally lacking.
Editor of world's northernmost English-language newspaper expelled from Svalbard
Hopefully they do. It's crazy to me to think that a company that facilitates sending emails could be worth 10B.
This might be related to him having developed his own emacs implementation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs