skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was well known that the algorithms optimise for stress and anger, because it drives more engagement. I think it might even be involuntarily - the algorithms may have been set to train for enhanced engagement, and hate and anger happen to be the solution.
>You would still have to monitor for ticks

This part is true no matter how effective the vaccine is. Ticks are gross, diseased or not.
I didn't say anything specific about physical attractiveness in my comment, you just read that in.
Some methods of fusion solve this in varying ways, with liquid metal blankets, etc, or using non-neutron is fusion fuels. But that’s missing the point. There’s no path to these more viable methods of economically producing power that don’t run through the path of generating more fusion energy than it absorbs, so we start with the easier fuels first to prove we can do sustained fusion before worrying too much about neutron embrittlement.
It can be more transparent to scan on users devices, which are in the possession of the public, than it can be to scan through user dat in the cloud, which is hosed in private and controlled "black box" data centers. This can be a step forward for user privacy and auditability, if Apple plays it that way.
This is Reddit material. Please let’s not turn this site into another feel good meme place.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28211726
Gotcha. I think I see what you're talking about now.

I have crude familiarity with SSA (no personal experience but I've read a book once) but not with LLVM's terminology. I'm looking at the example in the blogpost, and I can see that its clearly adding in the important Phi functions needed

Strange that llvm names their aggressive SSA step in this manner. But yes, adding the phi functions in this manner is a very important step before we can think about optimizations.

The "inductive variable" is far easier to detect once its in a "Phi-form" so to speak.
Hoping this makes the pixel 6 the cheapest pixel phone ever.
> I do not believe that people who are taking drugs are making bad cost/benefit analyses, so I do not agree with your conclusion about the War on Drugs because I reject the premise.

And I reject the premise that I made a bad cost-benefit analysis for the vaccine. If you decide that I did, who gets to decide what's good for society? If you desire the option to take drugs, why can't I have the option of not taking a drug that I don't want?
The only reason to include gold in an investment portfolio I could come up with is to decrease risk and volatility of the portfolio.

A separate issue is whether a company like Palantir should ever invest cash in public capital markets. Maybe when the company plans to invest in an internal project at some point in the future but doing a capital raise could be harder at that point.
Be careful with this. In some orgs you can get a bit of a bad reputation for being technically incompetent if you can't get zoom to run.

Zoom is very invasive / flexible - so it's actually somewhat hard to have it NOT work. People will suggest you try connecting on your phone or dialing in if you really can't figure it out (note that it has a fallback to browser option if you get stuck trying to start meeting as well).

I know of at least one job interview where they claimed they couldn't get zoom to run / couldn't connect - and that was basically decisive.
Does Teams or Discord do anything similar?
My takeaway from the article is that at last there is study showing Facebook had little effect on the election.
> I do not like testing a DOM tree I didn’t build.

What does this mean?
They DO have a big enough budget, they just choose to spend it on overtime and militarizing their forces instead.
If the argument is that you can make mRNA vaccines faster, that would also tend to imply cheaper. Which could mean they can make it up on volume.
Like, what sort of evidence do you want exactly?

Apple can search for arbitrary information on user’s property. If you can search ciphertext, it’s not end to end encrypted anymore. End to end means no knowledge of plaintext should be discernible (sometimes even metadata).

Further, the dataset is set by them, is opaque and can be anything.

That’s obviously a back door in encryption (for government).
Jesus... this is almost laughable.

Yeah, something can be done. What was done to me as a kid in the 80s and 90s. Kick them out of the house. Tell them to go outside and play with their friends. Stop helicopter parenting them every second of the day, and stop trying to fill their entire waking lives with "enrichment" activities in a bid to get them into an Ivy League school.

I work with a young woman who went to Princeton and is a Robotics Deployment Engineer for Amazon, a job you could get having gone to a state cow college. How do I know this? I work for the company that's working with Amazon to deploy their robots. And I went to a state cow college. One of my colleagues didn't even go to college, he picked everything up on his own working at Amazon for two years and watching YouTube videos and reading books.

Leave these damn kids alone, take away their damn phones. Let them go outside. Let them get into trouble. Let them walk to the nearest city ballpark and play Home Run Derby like I did, at age 11. I would walk half a mile to my best friend's house, then we'd go walk to our friend's house a mile down the road, over and over, until we had 6-8 of us in a group, then we'd go do stuff.

We turned out fine. So will they.
Power plant waste:

60T/y for 1200 MWe = 50g / kWe·y = 1.6 mg/MJ

Coal energy density:

24 MJ/kg = 0.024 MJ/g -> 42 g/MJ

Not perfect, but depending on what the waste is, doesn't seem too bad.
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> The only way this “hardly” kills is if you twist the definition of hardly so badly that nothing meets that bar

How about ratio of cases to deaths? That's what I meant.

Obesity hardly kills by my definition, but kills a lot by yours.
Don't get too fascinated by the takes you hear about on Hacker News, as many of these comments are written by software engineers as they are by deeply embedded domain experts.
Wayland is even more strict, you ask it for screen sharing and it gives you the stream. If the compositor doesn't support screen sharing you're out of luck, there's just no way to read the contents of a window.

With X11 if the window manager doesn't have the relevant support you can always ask the server.
It does get set just because of the linearity of time, there is nothing preventing it to change in adulthood as you learn and proper understand about your body and nutrition.
The browser edition of zoom lacks a lot of features and also lacks in performance.

It's not like BlueJeans which has a web version pretty much aligned with the desktop client.
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I just started a job at my school as a researcher in a neuro lab. I was under the impression that I would be building an open source PET image processing software for rat studies, but it turns out I'm just doing data analysis with Python and using old, abandoned software to analyze the images. It's only been a few days and I'm feeling really down about the whole thing. I've had okay luck applying elsewhere and I am considering just quitting and getting back to the personal project/leetcode/application grind. I am already graduated though, which makes me a bit nervous.
I know a really good way to prevent it. Don't use zoom :) Seriously they've done so many things that show they don't care about privacy. Like that backdoor on Macs.

But if you really must, use the web version only.

If you can avoid it, jitsi is a great alternative. Much smoother video than teams and much lighter
crontab to run them

dogwrap (command-line tool for datadog) to monitor them
The hubris of Reuters news using a domain called 'trust.org' is a perfect parody of today's media.
I think the economics of this are radically different. The movies that get released in theatres have already gone through A Great Filter - they’ve either been selected or made from the get go to movie theaters. When you have a film going to theatres you already have a lot of spend behind it, a marketing campaign etc. Sadly the most reliable correlation for whether a movie makes profit is how much you spent on marketing (and no I am not kidding).

Lots of movies, in fact the vast majority of them don’t get to go to theaters. It used to be that this meant VHS or dvd release, now it means streaming, sometimes even just YouTube or Vimeo release. If you go to any film festival circuit I no your life you will see upwards of 1000+ films in a year. But not that many of them will go to theaters anywhere in the world.

Basically the 20$M films you talk about have some reasonable chance of sucess. Gaming is a bit more of a free for all, having steam, early access, GOG. You have a Wild West capitalism type of ultra competitive env. When you launch a film in theatres, that is not what’s happening at all - you’ve already gotten a booking at the natural moated monopoly of Very Large Screens, a limited amount of which you have in the world.

Basically I would estimate that the chance to launch a game and have VERY slim returns is far higher than a film.
I've got to agree with the GP on this. I would argue Zoom is one of the least simple to understand UIs.

- It's multi-window (like WebEx). Whereas Teams and Meets is a single window interface

- It has a great many options and not all of them are immediately obvious. Like how filters are hidden behind then stop cam button

I'm not saying I'm a fan of MS Teams nor Google Meets either. But they do have a much slicker UI.
Maybe some vested interests don't want to solve energy problems. Didn't the cotton industry kill hemp in the early 30s or so? And created the whole Reefer Madness scare?

Why wouldn't the natgas and upstream/downstream petroleum industry want to do the same thing with any potential competitors? There is already propaganda about windmills killing seagulls and windmills being ugly, so why not take it an extra step and flash pictures of thalidomide babies and then say "wow do you really want this?" with respect to nuclear? Seems totally within the realm of possibility.

EDIT: Correction - I think I actually meant the petroleum industry when I was referring to cotton in this post. What killed the hemp industry in the 50s (I said 30s earlier but I made a mistake) apparently was the availability of inexpensive, manufactured synthetic fibers.
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Are those tutorials good because they're videos, or despite being videos? I'm inclined to believe the latter. What sort of content is there in programming lessons that wouldn't be better presented as text?
It’s both false and unsubstantiated. As described, it is not a back door, and there is no evidence that it was done under pressure.

Either of them could turn out to be true, given some evidence.
The difficulty with that exemption is that either a good or a bad actor would ask for it. A good actor to avoid being the target of frivolous suits and a bad actor to have cover for their actions. Because a good or bad actor would behave the same in this respect, people bring their own conceptions to the table and see what they expect to see (in either direction).
This depends only on what you make out of it.

You could easily start a discussion about cognitive capabilities of cats for example. How did the cat know that this was a situation that their owner could not get out of on their own? Why did the cat know that other humans could be of help? Why did it even care?
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> don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

>Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.

It's roughly the middle of a workday on a Tuesday, a time in which one may expect a lull in what you may think as "higher quality" posting. You've also created a throwaway account just to complain about this - unless you don't actually post and contribute to this community, but for some reason felt the need to complain about it now.

Personally, with regards to "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." - I believe that some HN users, who have cats as pets and know some of their more antisocial/unconcerned behaviors with regards to humans, may have found it interesting based on the headline with the thought of "huh, my cat probably would've left me to die - what was the difference here?"

I will say, I did find the article slightly lackluster vs the headline, but it's by no mean terrible and something that should be outright shamed from HN
> it's also reasonable to assume a group of rioters would attack other precincts in the area and that they acted based on proximity

Its reasonable assumption to assume that they might attack another precinct, not a reason to assume that a precinct will fall. If they say, barricaded the bridge between the two precincts or setup a cordon, that would seem like a prudent response. If the rioters were at the gates and they initiated this policy, that also would be reasonable.

Jumping straight to destroying evidence in the precinct is not a reasonable response. They need to provide evidence that the situation was so dire that they had to resort to their last ditch policies, and they have not done that. Pointing towards riots miles away is an insufficient excuse; they need to provide evidence of an immediate threat of the precinct falling.

> there's no evidence to suggest they're covering up for something, but it's reasonable to assume that this would be a good opportunity for someone looking to do that.

You’re sidestepping the issue. I think they’re lying about why the destroyed the evidence. Once I believe that they’ve lied once, why should I continue to give the benefit of the doubt to them?

More investigation is obviously needed, but I personally smell a rat.
I had developed with unicode in mind using u"".

For some reason this was not good enough for the python 3 folks - they actively broke this code which was from folks who had SPECIFICALLy addressed unicode in their apps.

And yes, they could have supported u"" (and a number of other things).

They went - unicode is so critical we will break the world, and then for folks who had already supported unicode well or wanted to dual target a library they said your u"" approach to unicode is so bad we will break it.

Total BS in my book.
the "fillings" and empty calories are what we call "salad". And the excess of processing by the digestive system also comes with a cost.
> Do you have evidence that they considered frozen vegetables to be ultra-processed? Or are you just assuming they did?

Last time this discussion came up, I told people to just read the actual study [1]. This link has it behind a paywall, but I am pretty sure it's the same one.

Their section on "processed" describes some of the criteria as:

> These include canned or bottled vegetables or legumes (pulses) preserved in brine; whole fruit preserved in syrup; tinned fish preserved in oil; some types of processed animal foods such as ham, bacon, pastrami, and smoked fish; most freshly baked breads; and simple cheeses to which salt is added. See Table 1, below. They are made by adding salt, oil, sugar or other substances from group 2 to group 1 foods.

That reads to me as qualifying frozen vegetables as "processed" foods.

> I'm not sure why everyone is so hung up on assumed failures of this classification system. Even the linked article has quotes from the researchers that explain the nutritional aspects of the study. They weren't just blindly demonizing food processing.

Likely because the headline and classification system cause people to come up with their own, not-quite-the-same idea of what "processed" and "ultra-processed" are. It reinforces the idea that "natural === good" which is not necessarily the case.

Personally, I would rather see some attempt at quantifying thresholds for these ingredients. Yes, everyone should eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. We all know that, and yet we don't. Convenience is powerful. Can I lobby my congressman to ban a particular type of preservative which is strongly linked to cancer? Can I be hyper-vigilant for it in foods that I purchase? Maybe there are multiple such ingredients. Are they acceptable at different thresholds or worse when combined?

I want something actionable, not a shock headline.

[1]: http://www.fao.org/3/ca5644en/ca5644en.pdf
Antibodies can be passed from mother to child but they will last limited time only. The child's adaptive immune system will need to be challenged with antigens (virus or vaccine) to get more permanent immunity.
Does teams work for your in a FF container? For me it always ends up in a redirect loop :( but my work uses MCAS for external computers so that may have to do with it. It's a proxy service from MS that adds some supposed security to their services and makes them even slower.
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Another explanation of SSA:

SSA is static single assignment. Every variable has a single point of declaration. If you want to change the value of a variable (say, i = i + 1), you instead have to create a new variable. The advantage of this form is that tracking the definition of a variable is trivial; in LLVM IR, to use a variable, you literally pass in a pointer to the instruction that defined it. The inverse, finding all uses of a value, is done by building a use-list: whenever you create an instruction, it adds itself to the use-list of all the values it's using, which allows easy iteration of the users of a value.

In short, SSA gives you a trivially correct-by-construction to understand the dataflow of a program (at least, that data which lives in registers; memory is more complicated). There's no separate analysis that has to be maintained throughout optimizations, and hence a possible source of programs (as there is for failure to maintain the dominator tree through CFG transformations, a historically bug-prone step in LLVM).

Now, as you may notice, there are cases where it would seem hard to pin down a single definition of a variable: conditional assignment. SSA solves this by creating Phi values. Phi values can be better thought of as basic block arguments: when you enter a basic block, you must provide a value for each of the phi values in that basic block. The actual value of the phi is dependent on which edge you used to enter a basic block, or in other words, the control dependencies of the code.

In short, phis are the intersection of control flow in the code with the dataflow--and they are the only things in that intersection.
Or just run it in a browser...
They are doing this remotely, and the thing is its BETTER to do it remotely than on device.

The issue here with Apple is that they want to move this type of scanning on-device. No one has really complained about them scanning for CSAM on iCloud.

The data is NOT e2ee in iCloud, there is literally no reason for them to move this scanning to on-device.
> Apple can search for arbitrary information on user’s property.

This is simply false, if you are referring to the CSAM mechanism.
Just checked the default profile and it looks sufficiently isolated
SELinux being another. Smack too, if people still use that.
I don't see "pay once" as an option anywhere on that page.
> It's almost guaranteed to be backdoored being as such.

I.e. it’s a guess.
It was so sad seeing this page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010118202800/http://www.3dfx.c...

I wonder why they were doing so bad comercially since in our microcosm voodoo cards were the best. It was a sad day when nvidia just bought and killed the brand.
Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by laziness.

I can easily believe somebody just wrote a chunk of naive code that grabbed all the running processes, and it worked, and they moved on.
Because they can get away with it and use it to make more money from your "experience".
This is what I hoped would happen with DirectX as well.

Vulkan is a much easier standard for GPU manufactures to get right. If we could convert all the higher level APIs (such as DirectX and OpenGL) to it, then we could get consistent behavior across a wide range of vendors.
When you will need to wash a car, hire a PhD. It's your money.
If they are, then that's still better than the alternative.

Some nations just burn their trash, with energy recovery, and then extract any metals from the ashes. Again still notably better than landfilling in a modern, well designed landfill, which in turn is better than unregulated landfills which are better than open burning.

The media seem to love "shocking" people with stories about how recycling might not be 100% perfect. Is it still a useful thing that all sensibly run countries do a continually increasing amount of. Yes, even the US where it continues to be a weirdly political topic along with climate change and evolution for no obvious reason and so there's no real federal support for it.
Shouldn’t the backend compiler be a configurable option?
Agreed, I think it's missing the chicken/egg issue.

Societal and institutional problems might be the real cause, but is disinformation the way out? Or is it how you get locked into even more glaring societal and institutional problems, which will then reinforce the disinformation once more, causing even more problems, etc.

For me, a lot of this is a downward spiral, and you can see a lot of countries that are just stuck in this state as well, all ideology, constant tyranny, they can never get out of. Try to break free and only make room for a stronger ideology to take over.

At some point the people need to have enough common sense together to stop this cycle, and get themselves out of those societal and institutional problems.
"You don't need X for centralised" does not imply "if you have X then you're decentralised".

Beyond that simple logic: https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology...

> Figma isn't using true CRDTs though. CRDTs are designed for decentralized systems where there is no single central authority to decide what the final state should be. There is some unavoidable performance and memory overhead with doing this. Since Figma is centralized (our server is the central authority), we can simplify our system
Most of it is already captured and burned, without using it to generate electricity. It's called flaring. And if they can get money from it, it should make sense to try to capture more.
The skeptic in me says that people would take a freebie regardless of whether they actually need it or not.

Maybe a slight improvement would be to offer the phone at full price minus the RRP of the charger. Then if it's necessary the customer can pay the 'full' price as it introduces a perceived cost
This was still a problem at a company I worked at four years ago. Our customers were large corporations that had standardized on Internet Explorer over a decade prior and were unwilling to change anything because they had built so much on that platform. Some didn't even care that Microsoft had end-of-life'd it.
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It's an extremely confusing naming choice! I don't know why they did it, but to take a guess: a lot of compiler literature refers to SSA values as "registers," since the SSA model of a computer program directly corresponds to the concept of an (infinite) register machine in abstract computation.

The end result being that we have the same word "register" referring to two opposed resources (one infinite, one extremely finite) :-).