skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but I doubt you actually think that everyone is already operating as well as they can within the contexts they are placed. There's definitely room for improvement. There are all sorts of scenarios where even knowing nearly optimal techniques outcomes can be improved by going the TimSort way due to the context you most often find yourself in.
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I’ll help translate, as I actually grew up inside the beltway in Washington DC.

For a certain community of sociopathic individuals often referred to as the “foreign policy establishment” the word “serious” is a synonym for “willing to insist that other people’s children go kill people in foreign countries.”

Perhaps you’re not into that idea. Perhaps you think people far away should decide things for themselves, or maybe you just think the idea of sending people from Medford or Tuscaloosa to shoot people in Kandahar is a fucking terrible idea that is certainly immoral and also has no practical chance of improving anyone’s life.

Well in that case, as anyone can see, you’re not a serious person.

QED
It is definitely possible with some limitations.

Totally ungoogled you won't have the google service layer, if you still want to use some proprietary apps, it is possible but some won't work. The biggest constraint is often push notifications not working.

As an alternative you can use microg [1] which is a client side re-implementation of google services. Some part uses alternative service as backend, some will use google though, like push notifications.

Side loading can have its limitations has you need to find sources for APK that you can trust.

The best non google store is f-droid [2] in my opinion, all open source and build reproducible.

If you need some proprietary apps from google store, you can use the client Aurora Store [3] which still sources app from google play store.

In term of buying a phone with most of that, /e/ does sell phones with android + microg + their own store [4]

Otherwise plenty of phones allow to easily replace the operating system. You can look for phones supported by lineageos which comes with no google apps. [5]

[1] https://github.com/microg
[2] https://f-droid.org/
[3] https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore
[4] https://e.foundation/
[5] https://lineageos.org/
> Many worlds is indeed what QM predicts should happen.

No. Many-worlds is what the SE predicts should happen. But the SE != QM. MW does not explain the Born rule, which is part of QM's predictions. MW is also violently at odds with subjective experience. So MW is not a good explanation of what is observed.
If the carbon footprint is less, I can see a lot of Millenials and Gen-Z-ers wanting to. We are, I believe, "regular people" as much as you are.
Decades? We let Japan run itself after seven years.

Funnily enough, Noah Smith at Bloomberg had a great take just today about how trying to use Japan as an example of how nation-building in Afghanistan could’ve been successful is a farce: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-afghanistan-occupation...
For me the worst part is the nomenclature. Under the guise of paying homage to the inventor the nomenclature has become borderline dysfunctional. Just have simple words instead of enigmatic mathematician names for defining core concepts in the field
All bumblebees (genus Bombus) are queens. You are thinking honeybees (genus Apis), where mostly there is a single queen to a hive.

They use a different matrix.
So you were willing to stay there forever? Or at least with some sort with some sort of open-ended commitment. How would we ever know when it was time to leave? Lots of other places in the world where bad things are happening - should we send troops to those places as well? Where does it end?
> Do you think AMD should solve every problem CUDA solves for their customers too?

They had no choice. Getting a bunch of HPC people to completely rewrite their code for a different API is a tough pill to swallow when you're trying to win supercomputer contracts. Would they have preferred to spend development resources elsewhere? Probably, they've even got their own standards and SDKs from days past.

> everyone else using GPU's is running fast as they can towards Vulkan

I'm not qualified to comment on the entirety of it, but I can say that basically no claim in this statement is true:

1. Not everyone doing compute is using GPUs. Companies are increasingly designing and releasing their own custom hardware (TPUs, IPUs, NPUs, etc.)

2. Not everyone using GPUs is cares about Vulkan. Certainly many folks doing graphics stuff don't, and DirectX is as healthy as ever. There have been bits and pieces of work around Vulkan compute for mobile ML model deployment, but it's a tiny niche and doesn't involve discrete GPUs at all.

> Is it just too soon too early in the adoption curve

Yes. Vulkan compute is still missing many of the niceties of more developed compute APIs. Tooling is one big part of that: writing shaders using GLSL is a pretty big step down from using whatever language you were using before (C++, Fortran, Python, etc).

> do ya'll think there are more serious obstructions long term to building a more Vulkan centric AI/ML toolkit

You could probably write a whole page about this, but TL;DR yes. It would take at least as much effort as AMD and Intel put into their respective compute stacks to get Vulkan ML anywhere near ready for prime time. You need to have inference, training, cross-device communication, headless GPU usage, reasonably wide compatibility, not garbage performance, framework integration, passable tooling and more.

Sure these are all feasible, but who has the incentive to put in the time to do it? The big 3 vendors have their supercomputer contracts already, so all they need to do is keep maintaining their 1st-party compute stacks. Interop also requires going through Khronos, which is its own political quagmire when it comes to standardization. Nvidia already managed to obstruct OpenCL into obscurity, why would they do anything different here? Downstream libraries have also poured untold millions into existing compute stacks, OR rely on the vendors to implement that functionality for them. This is before we even get into custom hardware like TPUs that don't behave like a GPU at all.

So in short, there is little inevitable about this at all. The reason people may have been frustrated by your comment is because Vulkan compute comes up all the time as some silver bullet that will save us from the walled gardens of CUDA and co (especially for ML, arguably the most complex and expensive subdomain of them all). We'd all like it to come true, but until all of the aforementioned points are addressed this will remain primarily in pipe dream territory.
I use orthogonal in a negative sense "what you do is orthogonal to the strategy".

Looks like everyone has their own interpretation of these tells.
I replied in some other thread. Copy-pasta:

No, your personal data is not sold or rented or given away or bartered to parties that are not Plaid, your bank, or the connected app. We talk about all of this in our privacy policy, including ways that data could be used — for example, with data processors/service providers (like AWS which hosts our services) for the purposes of running Plaid’s services or for a user’s connected app to provide their services.
I know an electrician who will reverse polarity on a couple of outlets when they do a large job. It gives the inspectors something to mark down and is an easy fix.
Worth it if only for the go.mod tidy-up, how that made it into a release in the first place baffles me.
I feel like part of the problem with the kind of autopilot crashes you describe here is how inexplicable they are to humans.
Whilst humans can be dangerous drivers, the incidents they cause generally have a narrative sequence of events that are comprehensible to us -- for instance, driver was distracted, or visibility was poor.

But when a supposedly 'all-seeing always watching' autopilot drives straight into a large stationary object in clear daylight, we have no understanding of how the situation occurred.

This I think has a couple of effects:

1) The apparent randomness makes the idea of these crashes a lot more scary -- psychologically we seem to have a greater aversion to danger we can't predict, and we can't tell ourselves the 'ah but that wouldn't happen to me' story.

2) Predictability of road incidents actually is a relevant piece of information. As a road user (including pedestrian), most of my actions are taken on the basis of what I am expecting to happen next, and my model for this is how humans drive (and walk). Automated drivers have different characteristics and failure modes, and that makes them an interaction problem for me.
Less than 100 first responders are hit annually in the USA. The fact that just Tesla has managed to hit 11 since 2018 makes it pretty clear that human drivers are not "10x worse" than Tesla's tech, but quite the opposite.
Seconded. Most 100k+ jobs in London ( that I'm aware of ) are contracting ones.

Houses ( for anywhere so-so ) are 400k at minimum, or else your aiming for a rabbit hutch.

Taxes of every shape and size will eat a tonne of your income.

Right now your better off looking outside of London. WFH has changed the landscape and it will not be business as usual for the coming years.
There are still some people who use the reddit application and have Android phones.
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Very informative, thanks for sharing.

Here are a couple excerpts I found interesting:

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> 2018 credit card and fullz from service industry $10

> Cashing out bank accounts and fullz empty it $4

> EU/Asia/UK credit cards / fullz $860

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> Fullz SSN - DoB $5

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> U.S. passport PSD template $18

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> UK driving license, passport pack, PSD photo $3-$26

> Australian passport PSD template $18

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> France passport PSD template $45

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I have once had a phone call about an online purchase telling me I had to pay extra taxes for the import.
This is an interesting time in emulation. We're right at the cusp of having hardware and software that's fast enough to emulate, for instance, VAXen as fast as or faster than the fastest hardware ever made, with the Apple M1.

We're close to being able to emulate an m68k with MMU as fast as a real m68060, but with x86, we weren't quite there yet.

With more and better emulations available, we see more people able to improve code quality because it's much easier to test alternative architectures.

Between AXPbox and qemu in the last year, Alpha emulation is progressing nicely, although I'm sure it'll be a while before emulation is anywhere near the speed of my real AlphaServer DS25...
Never tried to write Go before, maybe it’s time that I stop by.
Woz goes into detail about the SM-17 algorithm here:
https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Algorithm_SM-17

... he's built these through decades of thinking of and tinkering and working on this singular problem. SM-2 is from 1987 for SM for DOS 1.0, and is fairly simplistic comparatively.
Imba is great. I was a fan of Coffeescript and glad to find something with similar syntax, but after using Imba, the syntax is far from my favorite part. It's a replacement for react that is much easier to use (there's no special state management, just use regular variables), and has much less performance problems (seems to render whatever I throw at it without slowing down). The CSS shorthand and added features are hard to stop using once you've learned them.

I'm not aware of a faster way to "express" a working software UI than Imba.
FWIW my bank uses 2FA and it works with Plaid. Plaid has a working 2FA authorization process, they might just not have implemented with every portal yet.
Having soldiers deployed to a country for 20 years, yet barely any interest in learning the local language and customs just shows arrogance. The kind that leads to hate i presume since day one they left all tribes turned against the us.

Sending illiterate midwest boys to fight illiterate mideast boys doesn't win wars it would appear, nor do pompous speeches about democracy and equal rights when at home the wrong race can get you killed.

Instead, sending hordes of goats, agriculture tools, building irrigation systems, and generally speaking showing them what the alternative to their current lifestyle is may have won the war.

But you know, deluding one selves with statements such as “the most powerful country on earth” show an utter lack of understanding of one’s position. Richest? Yes, for now. Most powerful? Well, recent events in ag, a failed coup in the us, a barely winning fight against a pandemic and the many examples of rampant corruption puts some serious questions over that tag.

Certainly the us cant protect those working for them, such as translators and local allies, let alone defend the status of “mOsT pOwErFuL” country. The us needs to spend some time reflecting over its past decades because other than debt and wall street shares not much is going up - not its reputation nor its ability to actually win wars.

Edit: imbeciles censoring harsh truths.
Agreed. I do think you have to work for your future self and sacrifice some time and happiness for a stable income. But not to the extent that you can't enjoy your current life.

I think that OP should look for another job that he might not love, but will hate less.
Sure, and more people are living to 40 etc. But without more births population is simply a question of (average life expectancy) * (birth rate).
Things are subscripted and superscripted universally, without real use for either in most places. It’s just over loaded notation.
cool, I understand that the problem of having multiple browser windows open is exactly what you guys are trying to address... but it is crucial when using multiple screens
It sounds like you're advertising it. "The future can be yours, today. For the introductory monthly price of 79.99. Sign up here[1]"
I haven't used Plaid and I haven't read the litigation, but it seems the following scenario may have happened:

1) Users use Plaid to buy/sell with a variety of vendors and banks
2) Vendors and banks were aware that specific users were buying /selling because they were buying/selling their products
3) Users consented to #2 because they were buying/selling their products

4) Plaid provided aggregated reports that said "5% of your customers also shopped on Amazon"

People sued over #4
True. Increased supply offset by increased demand.
SM-17 is much more complicated and also closed source. You would have to spend a while reverse-engineering it.
Golang release no longer excites me in a good way - I know my old aws hosted apps continue to work, as do my pet projects
The illegal part there isn't requesting access it's lying about being a maintenance worker to gain access.
I was at a self-checkout recently that required a store rewards membership to checkout at. I tried 867-5309 but form validation required both a phone number and a last name.

I guess retailers are catching on.
Years ago, I used Anki to memorize 3000 difficult words and thus get a perfect verbal score on the GRE. Great stuff!
what about this release makes you want to try it?
At first I didn't like Go because I thought it was too opinionated. But the more I used it, the more I found the tooling to be just heads and shoulders above similar languages like C/C++.

I use VSCode a lot, and in VSCode you can press "F12" to jump to the location of a function definition. In Go I find myself deep diving into github libraries all the time just because F12 takes me there. That never happened with C/C++ - the tooling was just too disparate and fragile.

My biggest complaint with Go is lack of generics. I mean technically you can achieve generics with an unholy empty interface/reflection incantation but it's a huge pain compared to C++.
If they could set this up with ligatures like Fira Code, I'd be sold.
> I would really love to have someone summarize how we "oversaw" Japan and Germany as opposed to Afghanistan.

Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, bad as they were, still had traditions associated with modern civilization. After the war, the infrastructure was devastated, but they had what economists refer to as "human capital"-- experienced engineers, miners, farmers, architects, people in all construction trades, etc. They had the knowledge and the desire to rebuild, and with the Marshall Plan, the money to do it.

The Taliban doesn't want to build/rebuild Afganistan. They want it to remain firmly in the 7th century, albeit with modern weapons. There is certainly human capital in Afganistan, but they face a real uphill battle.
It's the side-effect of politicians being chosen for legitimacy (identity), not competency.

> The reason for this sudden silence is that in the year 2021, the cream of American society and the flower of its finest universities, can only understand the world as projections of the country’s own domestic neuroses. Our current elites, whether in media or politics, squint at the strange peoples and languages of whatever international conflict and only see who or what they can map to their internal gallery of heroes and villains: Who’s the PoC? Who’s the Nazi?
Yes. Those are people who think they can go hands free, use their phone or watch a movie while on autopilot.
I think they make a category mistake when they do then. Values tell you where you want to be, rationality is a most accurate process to get where you want to go and maybe to check if you want to be there before actually getting there and checking out personally. (I think we basically agree btw btw, it is all those other people who are wrong :))
You are correct. For example the worst and average cases for the Simplex Method are dramatically different.

However, in practice, complex Bayesian nets do wind up being computationally intractable. Therefore attempts to build real world machine learning systems consistently find themselves going to computationally tractable heuristic methods with rather obvious failure modes.
Yeah, CK2 runs nicely on a laptop. The newer games are just a bit much. I wish we could have the same gameplay and systems with a less-fancy engine.
I've seen square coasters too. But I guess not rectangular.

Although I've never thought about the rectangularity as being core to the meaning of "mat", esp since there are oval-shaped or semicircle-shaped doormats and such
I agree 100% with jedberg as to my own driving experience with autopilot. Works great, and I still pay complete attention because I don't want to die in a fiery crash. If you're not going to pay attention, driving a dumber car doesn't make it safer.
Just because you settle, doesn't mean you are guilty.
I'm interested in incremental-reading, but the video he has really doesn't sell it for me [1]

It seems like you skim through an article, extract a few facts, and add them to your memorization schedule. Would it really help you summarize the article, or help you synthesize the arguments and follow the logic leading to a conclusion?

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoQoeK53bP8
Do you get concerned about mathematical errors because the computer is doing the calculation instead of someone doing it by hand?

It's the same thing here. The computer is assisting me so that I can take care of the novel situations, the exceptions if you will. I can pay closer attention to the road and see that jackknifed trailer sooner because I wasn't looking at my speedometer to check my speed.

And I don't have a Tesla, I use a different autopilot system.
Just before this section the author discusses how the image is broken down into blocks. This section is where the definition of the 4s could have come from, but they left out, for brevity's sake I'm assuming, how those blocks are shaped.

"Now, let's break it down the differences between 4:4:4; 4:2:2 and 4:2:0:

The number of pixels that share color is determined by what type of chroma subsampling it is. Each sample is defined by a block of 8 pixels. The first number refers to the size of the sample and its pattern, which is typically 4 pixels wide. The second number refers to how many pixels in the top row will receive color or chroma sampling. The third number shows how many pixels on the bottom row will receive chroma samples"[0]

The block sizes and sub-sampling methods are also why there are warnings issued when trying to scale an image when the dimensions are not divisible by the block sizes. If you try to scale to an odd number, then the sampling within the blocks is broken. If you scale to a number not divisible evenly by the largest block sizes requested, then you also get issues.

[0] https://blog.westpennwire.com/what-is-chroma-subsampling
More context, especially resolving link-local DNS names (those ending with local, per RFC 6762) requires local network access. For iOS devices, Apple has summed this pretty well[1]. Yes, if permission required on below:

Making an outgoing TCP connection — yes

Listening for and accepting incoming TCP connections — no

Sending a UDP unicast — yes

Sending a UDP multicast — yes

Sending a UDP broadcast — yes

Receiving an incoming UDP unicast — no

Receiving an incoming UDP multicast — yes

Receiving an incoming UDP broadcast — yes

And finally usage of Bonjour operations.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/663874
Risk scores for this product.

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I've gotten lots of scam calls over the past 12 months, and lots more over the last 30 days.
The vision-only system has passed all required tests for certification and Tesla themselves consider it to be a much safer system now.
Ideally there should be a solution that's neither "stay there forever" nor "pull out and let the Taliban take complete control".
I think the idea of beer lid also kind of funny due to the convention of putting your coaster on top of your drink to signify not wanting a new beer or the idea that the seat is occupied
I tried it and found I was spending brainpower fighting the system, sending noise inputs wrt real world conditions in order to trick the system into not disengaging because it decided I was not "driving" it enough. The hacker in meet loved it, the rational person in me said, turn that off before it makes you crash!
I'm curious for folks who like solutions like this, have you ever had a vulnerability in production? I would be shocked if most software engineers haven't had at least one outdated package, or one line of poorly-escaped javascript or similar at some point. It seems like luck (and maybe being a poor target) that these things are usually found before they are exploited. Should the companies we all work for cease to exist?

I agree broadly with regulations designed to raise the cost of security flaws and so on, but I feel like there's this expectation that if we make the punishment extreme enough, people will begin writing perfect software and operating perfect servers, and I just don't buy it. It seems sort of like saying if someone causes a production issue or accidentally leaks a database, they should be summarily fired. More likely it was a mistake, and we should understand why it happened so we can prevent it in the future.
17 US troops died there in 2019. If that's what it takes to maintain a democracy, it may be worth that cost indefinitely.