skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're being downvoted because everyone knows Wikipedia is built on citations.

Got a citation for that supposed common knowledge? I couldn't resist myself, but seriously, wikipedia purports to be built on citations but how often have you tried checking citations to see if they contain the information a wikipedia article claims? Many times I have found that information in a wikipedia article is nowhere to be found in the citations given.

People often claim as I just have, criticizing wikipedia without providing specific examples, which wikipedia apologists seize on to dunk on the criticism. I don't think this is fair, keeping logs of wikipedia errors is a tedious hobby that most people aren't going to bother with for a number of reasons (because correcting wikipedia means wading into the bureaucracy which produced/permitted the errors in the first place, because 'everybody knows' that wikipedia is riddled with bullshit and pointing it out is thankless, etc) Nevertheless, I do have a specific example off the top of my head, which I found a few days ago:

> Brilliant Pebbles was a non-nuclear system of satellite-based interceptors designed to use high-velocity, watermelon-sized, teardrop-shaped projectiles made of tungsten as kinetic warheads.[64][65]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative#B...

This sentence has two citations, and has the smell of truthiness. Tungsten kinetic impactors in space? I've heard that before somewhere, it sure sounds true! Besides, pebbles are like rocks, and a big ball of tungsten is like a rock. It all seems to jive and the claim has survived on this page for almost a decade.

The problem? It's bullshit and neither of those citations back it up. Follow either citation and look for any claim of the PB interceptors being made out of tungsten; neither citation claims it. And if you read what they actually say about the interceptors, you'll see that tungsten interceptors don't even make sense in the first place. The Brilliant Pebbles system was meant to put thousands of tiny "hit to kill" (kinetic) interceptors into orbit, which would detect and intercept ballistic missile launches during the boost phase. To do that, they would need to be nimble, and to be nimble they would need to not be a watermelon sized chunk of tungsten. You can't move that much tungsten around quick on very short notice without large rocket motors, but those citations describe tiny interceptors. Furthermore, launching thousands of chunks of tungsten like that into orbit would scarcely be practical, even by SDI standards of practicality. And why would tungsten even be needed? They're meant to intercept ballistic missiles during the boost phase; just about anything more substantial than a sea gull should get the job done.

If you want to get this fixed, be warned that this bullshit has been copied from wikipedia into 'reputable' publications like Popular Mechanics. So have fun explaining XKCD #978 to a wikipedian editor. I'll leave it for you to fix, if you care.
That China would use heavy handed tactics to coerce a US tech company?

Google for "Operation Aurora"

Also see: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh... for a very similar situation to the one described up-thread.
Fair enough, I suppose, but seeing as it's over 20 years ago, I'm having a hard time deciding where those parts would fit. I figured those were all mid-grade parts, and today, a mid-grade GPU would be an RTX 3070 which has an MSRP of $500-600 depending on the brand, and a midgrade CPU (like a current gen Ryzen 5) will be nearly $300, that doesn't give you much left for the motherboard, RAM, storage, etc...
> Make america fab again.

America does fab. However not newest nodes at high capacity. It just doesn't take building an identical factory and hiring away engineers. There is a complete supply chain of specialist companies which produce or fix the part the part that goes into a machine that that ... . Not mentioning that those construction costs are at economies of scale of building factories.

Such a thing can't be build in the US as every state needs a piece of the pie. An US run copy will be more expensive even when you ignore wages. Extra spare capacity for emergencies is not sound either.
Capitol Police Are Negotiating with Man Who Claims to Have Bomb Near the Capitol
Yes:

* http://www.entitree.com/en/family_tree/Elizabeth_II

* https://family.toolforge.org/ancestors.php?q=Q187114

Tools found on this page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/Visualize_data/...

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Some SPARQL queries: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/...

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Out of topic: I wish wikipedia would provide an API to get the infoboxes (made using Lua or wikidata).
Thank you for the insight
That's sort of already the case. $25 or so can give you access to a lot more information than you'll get from a casual Google. A lot of this used to be more generally available but I think it's mostly behind paywalls at this point which I don't think is entirely a bad thing.

But people can reasonably disagree on what should be readily available to everyone and what should take some more effort/money.
One can argue that you are buying an experience with your time and services in this framework rather than money. Kinda just shortcutting the wealth transfer bit. Not that I agree with the framework at all. (It narrows down to Objectivism really and makes no real sense in long-form concepts. In what part of this framework does a mother jumping in front of a bus to save her child does this fit?)
Apple doesn't stand up to authoritarian governments. They give direct access of their systems to the US and Chinese governments already.
Apple’s trying to mitigate this by putting themselves to a more internationally focused standard of matches against at least two separate sources of CSA hashes, if my understanding of their announcements/follow-ups is right.

Separately, the US has even greater pressure on Apple in the case they want to unilaterally add database images, considering they have a actual chance and means to jail (and run through the legal ringer) whomever tells them ‘no’. And that’s just the overt pressure available; I think this is a more likely potential for trust violation here, even if both could come to pass.
No, it's definitely, absolutely not the case that every single tenured professor deserves their own Wikipedia page. That's ridiculous.
I know there are people who consider it important to raise the profile of prominent women because of perceptions of bias like this. This could be a self-perpetuating cycle if that initiative results in creating more profiles of women of borderline notability, you would expect people following a uniform standard to be more likely to nominate women's articles for deletion.

She is notable now for having won a Nobel Prize. Good on the Nobel committee for ensuring she gets the recognition she deserves. It doesn't follow from that that she was notable before that happened. Wikipedia's notability standard is not "doing important work that will be recognized someday".
You vastly underestimate the institutional knowledge necessary to operate state of the art fabs. Intel has been at the forefront of the field for decades, and even they are stumbling vs the current challenges. TSMC was founded over 3 decades ago. That it was founded by a TI employee says nothing about the situation today.

The US is subsidizing a TSMC plant here, which should help the situation, as it'll give us access to their engineers and cross pollination. But it's still tiny compared to the need if we want to move the majority of our chip imports to domestic.
So disk size is your concern? Because you can't possibly be worried about the kind of complexity I think you're hinting at. Not when just to boot your desktop you'll have to go "over" firmware, the OSes in your disks, the OSes hidden in your CPU, the OSes inside your GPU, a bloated kernel, so on and so forth.

If you use a modern computer you're living in pure bloat. Neofetch showing a small number of packages is placebo. "But I can make sense of everything that's installed in my machine" is placebo. Installing a 5mb window manager on top of that is placebo, and Wayfire feels lighter and faster than Sway in my tests. KDE Plasma is a full desktop environment and that's why it comes with bloat (features) included. Not using Krita because of dependencies doesn't feel like a good argument in the current state of desktop software. Security wise we have so many targets to attack that a few more packages would not make any difference.

I wish it wasn't like that too though. Let's just agree we have a very different definition to what bloat is and call it a day.
Docs for getting started with Python, in case someone is interested:

https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/sbasic/python/ma...

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Macros/Python_Guide

The macro team has really been killing it on the docs front as well: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/04/28/libreoff...

LibreOffice 7.2 now offers the new ScriptForge library for Python: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/sbasic/shared/03...

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2#The_Scr...
Before they did people just die crushed by cars. Yes there was induced demand but it was already too late before then
Someone probably saw the meteor crash, then found the crater and the meterorite.
The problem with this argument is that the rhetoric is the same whether or not it was gendered.

If you see a pattern of people applying a standard disequitably, whether or not the standard is explicitly disequitable it’s worth discussing.

It’s like when I went to high school with a bunch of other 1% kids who believe their success is entirely about their hard work.
Do you have a source for the best Taiwan engineers working for minimum wage?
Personally, someone with my name won a Pullitzer, so I'm never going to be on the top page.

Even name + (previous) employers barely finds me, because it's all about using those employers' services in relation to the books. Name + location is about book signings.

The only downside is when my namesake was interviewed on the radio and a) I kind of freaked out a bit when they said Terry Gross was going to talk to me later in the day, and I was totally unprepared, b) it was really weird listening to her introduce me incorrectly, I didn't grow up where she said or anything. Also, people send me pictures of 'my' books when they see them, which is a lot.

I love the relative anonyminity though.
That debris cloud is an abstraction, actual post collision orbits of individual objects are what matters.

At 300km satellites experience significant drag and need regular boosts to maintain orbit. After collision individual objects orbit will almost always include it’s altitude at the point of impact and generally expends above and below that point. So while yes the cloud extends to higher orbit, everything would deorbit from your example extremely quickly.
One of the things that is happening now is that the entire PhotoDNA system is finally coming under the level of oversight that it should have had right from the start.

I can tell you from working in this area that it's possible for someone to have their lives ruined by a misplaced investigation, have that investigation abandoned because they turn out to be obviously innocent, and for that to not be well-known, because people simply would not understand the context.

Before this Apple scandal, if you'd written to your reepresentative or a journalist or an activist group and said "I was framed for child abuse because of computer program that misidentified innocent pictures", they would attach a very low priority to dealing with you or publicising this. And almost all people who have experienced this kind of nightmare really don't want to re-live it in public for some tiny possibility of real justice being served for them, or for others. They just want it to all go away.
> In my small team I have one developer who is very skilled

So tell them that. Make them realize they have a non replaceable job, and that if they weren't there, the company's mission couldn't be accomplished.
If some emoloyee thinks these scammers are going to give them their cut, they're going to be massively disappointed.
Armored vehicles are a little over 100 years old invention. That's only a few human generations.
Simon Wardley has continued to evolve and refine the insights that led him to conceiving Zimki, and it is well worth any tech entrepreneur's time to take a look at the current iteration of "Wardley Mapping" to better understand how technologies (and platforms) evolve:

https://learnwardleymapping.com/book/

If Blank and Ries transformed our understanding of startup tactics, Wardley is improving our understanding of strategy.

Simon's account of the Zimki episode is in Chapter 5, if you just want a bit more detail: https://medium.com/wardleymaps/the-play-and-a-decision-to-ac...
The scanning on the device before the upload makes it easier to do surveillance.
>What's crazy is there is so much straight pure scam crap on the internet the FTC does nothing about.

>In my case I tried to cancel a subscription 30 days in advance recently (nearly 1K per year). It turns out you have to cancel 90 days in advance but not more than 120 days in advance?? So now I'm on the hook for another 1K.

>And instead of the click to sign up, I had to go through endless hoops. Talked to someone, then they wanted me to submit a case, I did that, then back and forth to "verify" me etc etc.

>The FTC is crickets on just endless false advertising, misleading internet offers etc (stuff that's not even close to OK).

I share your frustration, however I suspect this is more an indictment of our industry than FTC's apathy. Of course the FTC and other regulatory bodies are pursing enterprises for behavior other than that described in the link, but it may understandably be perceived that nothing is being done about those other egregious behaviors due simply to the sheer volume of occurrence.

This industry is rife with user-hostile behavior. It's become so commonplace you'll find these purveyors openly discussing it as if there isn't anything wrong with what they are doing; industry "best practices."

It's insane.
FWIW, Apple says that’s not even the NN hash function they’ll be using. This one has been buried in iOS since 2019, so it may have been a prototype. Although dumping the NN image seems straightforward, so this seems a faithful copy of that older hash function. (There’s been a suggestion that it’s sensitive to floating point processor implementations, so small hash differences may occur between different CPU architectures.)
> visual debugging - cli debugging could simply never come close, not matter how much you love using a keyboard over a mouse

Have you had a look at nvim-dap? It's awesome and I have a much better debugging experience than in VSCode/JetBrains (as it's completely keyboard driven). Have a look: https://youtu.be/SIYt1dopfTc
Alabama Doctor watched patients reject Covid vaccine now refuses to treat them
It's not unusual for deadlines to be changed. It looks like the FTC filed a motion for an extension a week before the initial deadline (6/23) and Facebook didn't oppose.[1] (Typically opposing counsel will discuss and agree before these motions are even filed so it's not surprising that Facebook did nothing in response to the motion.) The linked press release makes it sound like the Commissioners voted on whether or not to re-file the complaint so I'm guessing 30 days wasn't enough time for the FTC go through whatever that governance process entails.

[1]https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/District_Of_Columbia_Distr...
On my end we call in individually and treat it as a conference call. Asking for background conversations I hear to be clarified helps. Since the other group is typically about four people, it kind of works, but I am not fond of it.
You might also enjoy this collection of deployments: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_Migrations
Sure - but there are folks getting straight scammed endlessly online - can't they do these press releases AND do some enforcement of just stuff with direct consumer harm?
The focus on grades seems to me to be a symptom/side-effect of deeper structure. The structure of time that emerges from educational organization.

Imagine a job where there were six or seven unrelated cognitive tasks and one of them was running round physically and each of these tasks was allotted about an hour of each work day and management wasn't coordinating the work load among them.

And every few months the cognitive content of the tasks changed as did the nature of the running around.

Grades are the only common thread in the first sixteen or so years of education.

What people have to unlearn is distraction. Or rather what they have to learn is how to concentrate on one thing over a period of years...is it surprising the degree this sounds like grad-school? Or studio art? Or internship? Or the sort of interests that kids pursue outside of school?

The thing that has to be learned is flow. That is what ordinary forms of school remove. No time blocks of reading a book all day.
> And citing out of print inaccessible paper journals is not regarded as evidence.

[citation needed]

I've seen plenty of references to "out of print inaccessible paper journals" in Wikipedia articles. They haven't been deleted.
This is just wrong.

The US loses many war-games against China in the short term as China has local numerical superiority of weapons. US armed forces are spread all around the world while almost all of the PLA is near mainland China. In the opening salvos of a Taiwan conflict China would flatten US bases in the region which would be devastating.

But long term China is effectively an Island. Its geography means that it imports nearly everything it needs by Sea. It imports 10 Million barrels of oil a day. It is not food secure. It imports nearly all of the raw materials it needs. While the PLAN could dominate their near shore, they cannot escort super tankers from the Middle East all the way back to China. The USN has had a carrier strike group in the Persian Gulf for decades.

The missile argument is also just nonsense.
Yeah Spatial is totally screwed
Presumably Apple would be afraid that, say, the EU becomes suspicious, issues a court order to obtain the hashes, notices they cannot audit the CCP hashes, pointedly asks "what is this", becomes absolutely livid that their citizens are spied on by a country that is not them, fines Apple out the wazoo, then extradites whoever is responsible and puts them in prison. I mean, China's not the only player in this. Putting extra hashes to surveil Chinese citizens, yeah, they might do that, but it'd be suicide to put them anywhere else.
> - can you name couple of games saving state by appending/modifying files in place on disk?

Hmm, maybe the video game wasn't the example I should have chosen. But swap the order around: open a word doc (which creates an "auto-save" file which is almost certainly modified in place), and then do the other stuff and I think it applies.

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> - How would btrees help with that?

At a minimum, your indices are all together and in order and are read together all at once.

From there, you can build the file's representation in RAM with much fewer random-traversals than the FAT32 linked-list approach.

Perhaps "fixing fragmentation" is the wrong description. B-Trees mitigate the random-reads associated with fragmentation. There are much fewer seeks from a b-tree based representation than a FAT/linked-list style representation.

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Consider this scenario. You have a FAT/Linked list of the following: 0 -> 10 -> 5 -> 7 -> 2 -> 1

So you need to move-head to 0, read, move-head to 10, read, move-head to 5, read, (etc. etc.). That's 6 times you move the head randomly.

Now lets say you have a b-tree of [0, 10, 5, 7, 2, 1]. Exactly the same order of nodes as the linked list, but you can optimize much better.

You read initially the b-tree, and then you read 0, 1, 2, 5, 7, 10 in order. You probably only move the head twice: first you move the head to 0, to read [0, 1, 2] as a sequential scan.

Then, you move the head to 5, and read [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] in order. Except you throw away the results for 6, 8, and 9.

So long as you have sufficient RAM to re-order the data after you've read them from disk, you're gold.

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There's no way to optimize the FAT32's reads, because the indicies are scattered across the linked list. You only know that 10 is the "next" FAT32 node after you've read the page at 0. You only know that 5 follows 10 after you've read 10.
What is visual debugging. Isn't it still just looking at variables etc?
"Clicking on this headline I knew for sure that the person was a woman"

And this proves what exactly? Putting aside that you didn't "know" anything, all it shows is that you made a correct guess. On what basis? Well, probably because the media have been yammering on about gender bias for years. So you're confusing your own prior bias with reality. Congrats. You've discovered confirmation bias.
The fact this tool even exists is damning to google. "We automatically index and show people pictures of minors. Now we've fixed this by allowing minors to tell us!"

Pick one:

Private by design

Make it easier for strangers to track you with out you knowing
I agree in theory, but the burden of proof shouldn't be on outsiders that have no other choice than to extrapolate. Proposing something like this running on an end-user's personally owned device should have a really high bar.
The difference is the ease with which they can demur. Before, it would be a whole heck of a lot of new, additional work. They also have the problem of actually introducing it without being noticed, or having to come up with some cover for the new behavior.

Now? Well now it's real simple. It will even conveniently not expose the actual images it's checking for. Apple now has significantly less ability to rationally reject the request based on the effort and difficulty of the matter.

Even Apple's own reasons to reject the request have decreased. It would have legitimately cost them more to fulfill this request before, even if China did want to play hardball. Now, they have greater incentive to go along with it.
Yes. I guess it's time for me to say goodbye to Twitter.
after interacting with some wikipedia "mods" i got an impression it's a complete waste of time, kind of like talking to religious fanatics or nerdy leftists, they seem to have unlimited time on their hands and will DDoS you with endless bureaucracy
Explain how a war between nuclear superpowers ends with anyone winning?
I didn't bother reading it because Twitter wanted me to sign in. I came here for the synopsis.
Who says you can't do that to fund your union and other political activities? In the history of social struggles, quite a few cooperatives and libraries were funded through the expropriation of wealthy companies and individuals. It wouldn't surprise me if the same applied to some unions.
Please report the crashes and our QA team will do backtraces and bisects for them, so they can be quickly fixed. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport
My suggestion is to put the financial barrier at the government-industry interface, not at the industry-consumer interface. Right now a lot of brokers slurp up huge amounts of information from freely-available but generally not indexed public government databases (land title registries, voter rolls, etc) and collate them. They then charge fees to consumers for access.

Requiring anyone who wants a government record to pay a small fee to the government for each record would cut that business model off at the knees.
>2 in 2 trillion image pairs

Reporting the collision rate per image pair feels misleading. What you really want to know is the number of false positives per image in the relevant set, not image pair, as that's the figure that indicates how frequently you'll hit a false positive.