skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a long tail that goes on to virtually infinity, yes, but the collective probability of the unhandled edge cases will become vanishingly small, and just an accepted part of living in our reality, which is not perfect and impossible to fully predict and control.
I find that idea fascinating.

I tried the thyroid theory for my fatigue actually and it didn't help. It was something else but still the same idea.
It was a 'wetware' problem (really effed up gut microbiome that needed to be whacked and restarted with good bacteria and feeding them the right food).
There are hunter gatherers (hadza, ache, pygmies) that eat substantial amounts of honey without becoming overweight.
> Most people don't really want neutral platforms.

Ok, then you if complain when stuff like this happens, then I am going to tell you "I told you so", and point out how stuff like this was a pretty inevitable result of this thinking.

You just have to sit back and say "Welp, this was the risk that I took, when I refused to support neutral platforms, so I guess I have to just suck it up, because nobody is going to defend me."

If you don't like this, then it is time for you to start supporting neutral platforms.

Pick one. Either support neutral platforms, or accept that I am going to make fun of you, and laugh at the irony, when the absence of neutral platforms comes back to bite you.
which manufacturer tesla using for their dojo chips?
Quantum startups leap from lab to launch with IBM incubator
> Is the US somehow immune from this same threat?

No, but it's easier to paint China as evil in the US and the US as evil in China if you want people to get the point.
You are glossing over how an adversary can generate an image that meets the following requirements:

a) hashes to the same value as known csam image A with the public NeuralHash algorithm

b) has a derivative (e.g. lower res thumbnail) that when processed with a _private_ perceptual hash algorithm also matches known csam image A.

What is your proposal for solving b. For a, it’s possible to iteratively generate NeuralHash’s that get close and closer to the value you are attempting to equal, while that isn’t possible for step b.
Market forces would solve that problem very quickly, considering that HFCS costs $0.26 per pound, versus cheap clover honey at ~$5.00 per pound.

A corn syrup free world would drive the price of nearly every fructose-laden food at least 5x higher, if not much more.
Sorry, where are you experiencing this? Food near you has doubled in price, like a burger used to be $10 and now the same one is $20?

You’re sure it’s not confusion about delivery markups?
I'm saving this to try and explain why you or I understanding 'how' or 'why' a model is working is irrelevant.
Omg I feel like the author (Julia Evans) is my doppelganger somehow. I have constantly complained about unhelpful explanations and frequently had to dig through a lot of literature before coming back and writing the explanation I wish I had [1].

In fact, once I got through the first few paragraphs, my reaction was "oh, yeah, like the time I was trying to learn git, and the explanation started with an unhelpful diatribe about other VCSes" ... and that turned out to be her first example! (Not just the pattern, the excerpt about git.)

I could go on but my remaining comments would amount to quoting each pattern and saying "yeah! That's what I've been saying all along!"

[1] Specific examples:

A) Bitcoin, which became http://understandingbitcoin.us (disclaimer: still long Bitcoin), and

B) A result in economics that the carbon tax is inefficient if implemented alongside an income tax, due to tax interaction effects, which a PhD economist endorsing it couldn't give in insight into the dynamics for ... but who later said my explanation was correct:

http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2013/11/i-explain-tax-inte...

(edit: I still think the result is hinky but I at least understand what drives it, and revealed the implication that it would mean tradeable fishing quotas would be inefficient as well, which that economist likes.)
It's hard to parse out what you're trying to say here. Are you really equating anything less than infinite sucrase to a sucrase deficiency? Not-unlimited does not equal deficient.
> Even if they're rare, you're effectively hamstringing anyone who uses a language that includes four byte characters or emoji.

I don't think so. Suppose I am looking for some code that I remember has a comment with the shark emoji U+1F988 in double quotes.

So the trigrams this backend is searching for are 0x22F09F and 0xA68822.

The first trigram is only going to appear in documents quoting an emoji animal. Yes it will match kangaroos or indeed crabs in a few Rust crates, but it will entirely skip every program that doesn't have an emoji animal in quotes. The second trigram only matches documents with certain 3 or 4-byte Unicode scalars (such as an emoji) at the end of a quote. It will not, for example, match most of those Rust documents talking about crabs since crabs do not end with the bytes 0xA6 0x88.

So chances are you went from "Oh no, a 4 byte character, surely the worst case" to only the documents you actually wanted before the main algorithm even began running.

> But moreover, the prefix of many of your trigrams is just going to be surrogate pair bytes.

I assume this is just a brain misfiring, this is obviously not how UTF-8 works.
Not just marketed, but sold, and for a very pretty penny.
Yep there is an entire risk profile stage that many people leave out. And they apparently correctly estimated the risk in this case. At least for now. Probably wasn't reasonable to estimate such a long supply chain disruption though (that it's still happening now).
Quite a sad state that we're in when this true and insightful comment has been voted to the bottom of the entire reply section
I draw the lines based on the taxes. Those are a good proxy for true power.

If the bulk of your tax bill comes from special capital gains rates on the fraction of your net-worth-increase that you are ignominiously forced to admit constitutes capital gains, you're an elite. If the bulk of your tax bill comes from a higher income tax tier, you're middle class. If the bulk of your tax bill comes from a lower income tax tier, you're correspondingly lower class.

Needless to say, the principle that taxes reveal true power does not lead me to agree with your premise that 60% of the middle class has disappeared into the upper class.
It's good that you are more intelligent than those people and yet are still here to help everyone.
This was an issue for both of the medical startups I've worked for. The first was started by a physician who kept trying to be physician and tech CEO all at once, and the current one has as almost as many executives as 'others' and with high turnover on the 'others.' I stay so busy filling gaps, training, and taking over half-done shit, the work I was hired to do isn't even what I spend most of my time on.
Onlyfans had a big slice.
Young Chinese creates self-driving bicycle in four months
Writing Your First Firmware For PDS-8x1 Series using TurboC++ (2018) [pdf]
> i’m not sure why anybody feels obligated to leap into threads like this and strain to reframe neutral-to-positive events as profoundly negative.

Have you seen the insane money-making by the rich over the last, I dunno, 30-40 years? The kind of money-making that thoroughly fucks/fucked the rest of us?
Literally the first sentence under the article headline

"More than 90 policy and rights groups ask company to abandon plans for scanning phones of adults for images of child sex abuse.".
Maybe YOU weren't talking about csam, but everyone else was including the article author, if you even read it.
Take it up with the ADA then. Conservative memes are not simple statements of fact unless you want to bring data to the conversation.
Yeah, given recent history it's so odd to me that most people can't seem to imagine that a leader they don't like or agree with could also wield the power they are happy to give to government.

Would you be OK with your enemy having this power should be a litmus test for any power we grant to government.
Produce literally tastes different in the US when compared to other countries. My guess is that these shelf stable varieties which are more bland aren’t used elsewhere.
Having lived in Japan for the past decade I can say that game centers (arcades to those outside Japan) have changed. I remember playing rhythm based games (pop-n-music, taiko drum master, etc.) and some fighting/shooting games for a few years. But, within the last two years or so, the NFC card requirement for almost all games has come to fruition. Wanna play that racing game? Gonna need to "grind" a vehicle and save that progress with an NFC. Wanna play that rhythm game? Scan your NFC first. Wanna shoot at dinos? You know the drill. This is why I won't put a single yen in the machines. Arcade games were put your coin in the box and see how good you were at it. However, they have turned it into a scan your NFC and see how far you've "grind"-ed to mastery. Instead of "grind"-ing an arcade game at 100 yen per round I could actually use my money on other things that bring more pleasure.
>Our stomachs evolved to very efficiently extract as many nutrients as possible from the food we eat,

I'm pretty sure the stomach just breaks down food with acid it's then passed along to the intestines which absorb the nutrients.
Just because they think they need to always be growing, rather than just raking in the cash. Their value will go to 1/4 practically overnight is what I'm guessing.
Making JIT 4% (or whatever) faster is cool but it would probably have higher ROI for the .NET ecosystem if Microsoft assigned some of these high caliber people to instead work on improving or simply rewriting some of the atrocious open source libraries that are available.

Would you rather have an A language/runtime with a D open source ecosystem or a B for both?
Even highly educated study participants have difficulty with numeracy questions
> Your eyes already do the distance estimation and they are basically cameras so we can do this just as well or better.

This is not really accurate. Our brains do the distance estimation, and they use all kinds of tricks and contextual clues to do it, not just parallax (~2.5 inch parallax for objects more than ~100ft away isn't all that helpful). And this is the whole problem with vision-only autonomous driving - ML capabilities are nowhere near the capabilities of a human brain.
This attack doesn’t work. If the resized image doesn’t match the CSAM image your NeuralHash mimicked, then when Apple runs it’s private perceptual hash, the hash value won’t match the expected value and it will be ignored without any human looking at it.
> sure for [heavy work] it makes a difference

That's precisely my point. Having low requirements for hardware is a poor basis upon which to judge the advancement of hardware. If you don't notice a difference between a 6th gen and 11th(!) gen proc and associated platform (for which we have comparative benchmarks, btw), your demands of the hardware have just remained too low for the improvements to register. For a basic home user or low-intensity office user, an XPS 9310 with 32GB of RAM would be a waste today. For people that can use it, it's a godsend compared to a Haswell/Broadwell/Skylake laptop.
It’s an amazing write up. I posted this yesterday but it only had a few votes - I’m so glad to see it get attention. It’s a treasure trove of historical info, benchmarks, introspection into Win32 and .NET design decisions, and architectural trade-offs. It took me a long time to read through it, but I wonder how long it took Stephen to write.
> Self driving only needs to beat humans, who have some serious flaws, not achieve perfection.

In particular, though, it needs to beat good human drivers, not average ones.
I seem to remember this being done before by another individual somewhere? Maybe I'm not remembering right.

FVEY might say it's hacked stolen military technology, or a killer bike drone, a Trojan-bicycle mobile surveillance platform, or a COVID vector... These could all emerge from a press relations brainstorming meeting...
To say nothing of the fact that modern "fruits" bear little resemblance to the fruit available to us through much of our evolutionary history.

We've bred, selected, and engineered "fruit" for sweetness, size, yield, and color to an enormous extent over the past 500 years or so, with the majority of that acceleration occurring in the last 100.
If you don't get it, it's in their names – they spend their time hunting and gathering, not sitting around watching TV or on a computer. The extra nutrient absorption may benefit them in that case, as opposed to in a more sedentary/modern lifestyle.
People Who Draw Lines on Maps Are the Problem
I'd much rather use OSS like Aerospike or ScyllaDB for this workload and still retain some agency over my deployment.

Getting a system like this right is super hard, and not being OSS, you are at the mercy of the cloud provider to fix issues.

Aerospike recently released their own Redis protocol proxy for Redis [1]. Scylla has their own nascent Redis api driver [2], would love to get folks feedback on it.

[1] https://github.com/aerospike/skyhook

[2] https://siddharthc.medium.com/redis-on-nvme-with-scylladb-5e...
My i7 desktop from 2011 is still strong, but I was in the hospital ICU last year and promised myself I would build a zen 3 desktop. It's a bit more stable, and the pci-e v4 NVME storage is awesome, but otherwise it's pretty much the same experience. Games play about the same because I moved the same GPU over. The CPU bound softwares I tend to use are also single threaded, so the fact that I have 4x more cores doesn't change much other than let me run lots of processes. In practice, my ability to multitask is limited by UI bugs rather than raw compute power.
If your are serious I'm down to do something like this.
Trigrams have an approximately 30% false positive rate when used as a filter for whether to skip repos.
The ability for people to marry, regardless of their sexuality, is symbolically important IMO even if marriage is not a major gay issue.

This article reads like the author is mad that people are losing focus of LGBTQ+ issues. But isn't that part of what it means to move toward equality? Sometimes it feels like minorities want equality, but then when things start moving in that direction, they also want to keep focusing on their unique differences and issues. Seems hard to do both.
Someone update the Twitter list.

https://www.twitter.com/justsaysinmice
Sucrose is rapidly converted into glucose+fructose also.
I'm not sure we align here.

I'm saying that under a prenup, I'd probably be more generous than the laws would allow for. If you're not marrying someone who you would be generous to, why marry them?

If anything, it's the time of marriage that's when I don't have perfect judgement. Pre-nups would be the worst time to sign a contract.
It is worth checking out the documentary “100 Yen” about the arcades.
Former founder and current parent here. My startup died because my kids were born.

I certainly couldn't do it, and I had a lot of advantages that most people don't (family help nearby, effectively unlimited runway). I tried for a couple years, but I just found I was so much slower as a father. There's no such thing as focus time with young kids in the house, you can't pull all-nighters to bang a feature out in a couple days, and then you lose a lot to context-switching overhead. And it's hard to get high-performers to work with you as a new parent, both because you have so much less time and flexibility to seek them out, and because they also know that your kids will (should?) come before the startup and "Why make someone a priority when you're just an option for them?"

Ended up going back to a big company known for work/life balance and generous paternity leave, where my efforts don't make a material difference to the success of the company. If there's effectively zero chance of success, it's not worth sacrificing time with my family to beat my head against the odds.
Maybe I live in a poor blue collar town and have a warped view of the world but quite a few people I have known who are low income don't have a credit card.

Many don't even have a driver's license they get a "voluntary ID" card, government issued. At best they'd get a pre-paid credit card or maybe a debit card. But most often it's cash only. All those payday loan stores exist for a reason!
Not just stuck - it was buggy and poorly maintained. We were forced to switch to Desktop Bridge after dealing with all the UWP performance and productivity crap and constraints just to have .NET Native one day stop compiling things right and leaving us stuck.
I think you're right that the bar of "average human on the road's driving skills" is very low. However, I think one of the reasons there's such an inherent distrust of Tesla's FSD is that when it fails, it fails in scenarios in which people can easily see themselves succeeding.

Say, on average, human drivers crash into barricades once out of every 500,000 miles driven. And say Tesla's FSD can beat that number by crashing into barricades once out of every 1,000,000 miles driven, it's still possible (probable?) that many people would trust their own control of the vehicle more than Tesla's FSD AI. And they might be justified in doing so!

Why? Because human-caused accidents are not uniformly distributed among the driving population. Insurance companies have employed actuarial analysts for decades to split the driving population up into buckets of greater and lesser risk. Thus, if you're a 17-year-old male, or an 85-year-old woman, or have several DUIs, you're likely to pay higher premiums than most other drivers.

If you're not in one of those high-risk categories though, it's possible your driving performance exceeds the average, and maybe you might only crash into barricades once out of every 2,000,000 miles driven. In that case, you'd be right to trust your skills ahead of the AI.

My example is contrived. It's possible that the FSD AI leapfrogs even the most skilled human drivers. But until it does, there may be rational reasons for many folks to continue distrusting it.
It doesn’t matter if there are collisions if the two images don’t actually look the same. Do people honestly believe a single CSAM flag from an “innocent” image is going to result in someone going to prison in America?

I understand that the system as stated today has multiple safeguards against such things happening but...

Given the sum-total of bs I've seen happening in this country, yes, believe that kind of thing is quite possible.
That looks pretty thin and light for such a serviceable laptop, but it is not as thin and light as a MacBook Air. Not even a MacBook Pro…
You mean illegal aliens. Good.
Personally I'm much more confused by the existence of https://github.com/tangrams/tangram .
Considering thousands and thousands of people will lose their only source of income, this is far from "sweet". Please stay far away from the industry if you lack such basic empathy.
..wearing pink furry earmuffs...
This is pretty stupid though, to throw away the business you have for the business you might have, there is heaps of porn on Twitter, looking at it is optional. Why can't it just co-exist with other "acceptable" content ?

I would imagine it's very trivial to have a "Show me explicit content" setting.

Edit: Side note, I don’t know why porn is so shameful, especially concerning adults posting high quality content, it’s their art.
The article says that hibernation is completely disabled when a secret memory area is active and the memory area is locked into RAM. They designed it so the secret would never be written to persistent storage.
Thanks for the kind comment. We spent a lot of time trying to make the website feel hacker friendly, so programmers know that tangram is not made only for someone with a PhD.
The general health limit for sugar for a person is approximately one small can of Coke per day or less, with no other added sugar anywhere your diet at all. That’s two or three tablespoons of honey or HFCS.

Replacing HFCS with honey is probably technically better for you, but chances are, if you’re an American, your consumption is probably way beyond that limit, and changing out HFCS for honey or sugar won’t make anywhere near enough of a difference to matter.

Avoiding HFCS is good practice for avoiding sugar, but ultimately you should just focus on limiting added sugar at this point and not worry so much about what kind it is. (Especially if you live in America, where the bread on a Subway footlong sandwich has a third of your daily sugar limit in it.)

ps. Fruit juice should be considered water with added sugar, for the purposes of avoiding sugar. Whole fruit is fine enough, since your body knows how to handle overeating fruit.
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What's crazy is there is so much straight pure scam crap on the internet the FTC does nothing about. I mean, stuff that is obvious consumer harm. 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. That is just total trash behavior online. 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.*

Do a chargeback and let the company deal with the fallout from their
payment processors.
The point is that old hardware sucks if trying to facilitate modern software. Not the other way around. A 2013 anything (mac or pc) will be a poor performer with today's games.
It's true that not all plastics are EDC, but that doesn't mean that accumulation of those non-toxic plastics in our bodies is harmless either. There is very little research on this at this time, but studies done in animals (mostly sea critters) suggest that plastics accumulating in their bodies could lead to problems such as metabolic disorders, reduced feeding, energy deficiency, infertility, immune responses and inflammation, oxidative stress, etc.

"It is not always necessarily the chemistry that harms us. Sometimes it's the shape and the presence of foreign particles in our bodies," (https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-autopsies-microplasti...)

It's too soon to say what health impacts these plastics in our own bodies are having which makes it far far too early to have any confidence that there are none.
I think that you're making a good point, and at the same time I think that tasking MS Devs with rewriting parts of their ecosystem is a bit of a minefield for any company, but especially Microsoft.

Long-term they need people to make good contributions to the ecosystem and I imagine it would be hard for third parties to sustain interest if it was a known risk that MS would rewrite whatever they were contributing.

I think you're spot on about the ecosystem being as important (or even more important?) than the core technology, and I'd love to hear peoples' thoughts on how to encourage such an ecosystem.
Israeli Airstrike Targets Syria
I've heard that it's generally the Federal government and anti-porn groups that pressure the payment processors. Remember how PornHub was accused of hosting all kinds of stuff, and then Visa and Mastercard stopped processing payments until changes were made? That was because anti-porn groups had applied pressure.

https://www.salon.com/2020/12/30/the-anti-porn-religious-lob...
That's ridiculous. Humans are quite good at driving, along with many other complex tasks. The fact that we see about 1 death for every 100,000,000 miles is pretty fantastic, especially when you consider how heavily that is tilted towards impaired drivers.

Exclude the worst 1% of drivers and the average goes up considerably.
Is there a difference if you're blending whole pieces of fruit and veg, so you get pulp and all?
That isn't overfit, that's fit. Nothing can protect you if your training set just doesn't have any indication of the thing you want it to learn.