skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my view, reproducibility is neither strictly necessary nor sufficient for scientific progress. I'm sure if you went back through the literature on something like electromagnetism, you would find results that fail to replicate, yet the theory of electromagnetism if applied properly is remarkably robust.

Scientific results can be strengthened by replication, but that's just one thing, and if that's all you do, then you end up with a science that does nothing but generate independent factoids.

On the other hand, robust science tends to look at a particular phenomenon from many different angles, and manages to connect multiple results together into a framework that can survive retracting individual studies without collapsing. This is how electromagnetism developed.

Sciences that are in the factoid phase are not necessarily junk. Discovery of a psychological "effect" is perfectly scientific and interesting. But some sciences have barely progressed beyond the factoid phase. And if those sciences are also plagued by irreproducibility, then they may embrace scientific methodology without producing a useful scientific knowledge base.
You may want to take a look at what exactly WebGPU is and the wgpu repository, particularly the examples subfolder, before drawing conclusions based on the name.
i don't know any real artists who actually want to get into the NFT space, only con-artists.
That's because your fan is hardware and your phone is software. The hardware in your phone is only 1% of what your phone is.

The point is it's hard to hide your evil plans in daylight. Either you trust Apple or your don't. Same with Microsoft's telemetry, they wrote the whole OS, if they were evil they have 10000 easier ways to do it.

All Apple has to do is lie, you'll never know.
With the new system, it still arrives on the server, and they can't even know about it until some threshold has been passed - and then the servers still have to scan it.

So it's not even accomplishing "keeping it off the servers."
It is indeed meaningfully different: your sensitive data never leaves your device in order to be scanned. There can't be a crack in Apple servers that would expose files of millions of users uploaded for scanning.

Eventually it could lead to Apple platform not having any CSAM content, or any known legally objectionable content, because any sane perpetrator would migrate to other platforms, and less sane, caught.

This, of course, takes the user base to overwhelmingly agree that keeping legally objectionable content is a bad thing and should be exposed to police, and to trust the whatever body which defines the hashes of objectionable content. I'm afraid this order is not as tall as we could imagine.
Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Banking target for 2023
> Americans are the least-informed people history has ever known.

That is coming very close to personal attack, which is against the site guidelines.
Maybe you mean Concur? https://purescript-concur.github.io/purescript-concur-react/
You share a country with these heathens. The time for conversations is long over. Time to buy ammo.
Do they do donations now?

Since Instagram doesn't allow clickable URL unless your account meets some sort of requirements (something like number of followers, and you have to turn it into a business account or something) but it allows adding one URL under your profile name for e.g. your Twitter/homepage, people use linktr.ee to have a page with many links.

I made an account once, but their upsell-emails annoyed me that I deleted it after a day.
It's true! I awake each morning, enraged at the lack of rigour in my dreams. I turn to my wife to tell her I found it hard to suspend my disbelief. She transforms into a crab. Every night it gets worse.
Furthermore, was uploading (backing up) the entire contents of your phone to a server to be freely scaned and distributed (with warrant of course) server side not also a precedent?

Must have been absloutely nuts round here back in 2011 when they announced the particular slippery slope that is iCloud backup.
> it wouldn't be easy to create/edit manually

I mean, you'd have to be using a pretty terrible tool for it not being able to handle that, and I suspect if such an approach were to become prevalent, that tool would either fix the glitch or become largely unused.
Serious question, how does it work demographic wise. I'm in my 40s and picture it being awkward for everyone to be the old guy in a room of 25 year olds (also a factor why I don't do yoga anymore). I wouldn't be surprised if there are women who are nervous about being the only girl in a room full if guys. At the same time, I don't think I'd want to sign up for a demographic specific version. Is this something you expect will sort itself out naturally?
That's useful to know.
I'm not the original commenter, but I sure did implement a B-tree for my databases course at UW Madison.
Nah, their stock is up which means they'll continue on this trajectory.
He was told to stop talking. Not sure what else there is to say.
> In the past management has given us resources and talking points we can use with our friends and family.

Wow. That feels like an overreach. 'We don't just buy your labor, but also your private opinion and tell you how to talk to your family'.
I have coworkers using Rails for the back end of their Elm app. I think NoRedInk is using some Rails and some Haskell. I've have a friend who uses Python for his back ends. Also heard that some people really like using F#, as well as Node.

Or if you want to do Elm full stack there's https://lamdera.com/ or https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/choonkeat/elm-fullstac....
What kind of non-child-porn imagery is so similar to child porn that it fools the NCMEC investigator who is looking at it side-by-side with its maliciously-collisioned hash match, but is at the same time so so dissimilar from real child porn that, as you say, the target won't report its sudden appearance on their device and the the sender won't be at legal risk? Your scenario requires the image (not the hash, but the regular human-perceptible image) to be both unremarkably innocent and incontrovertibly damning at the same time.
Counterpoint:

https://space.nss.org/space-solar-power-may-not-be-a-thing-f...
The answer in that list is John McWhorter but it appears the author doesn’t know who he is. Why McWhorter is wasting his time at such a trash publication is another question.
It's strange to me that the very same people who are absolutely adamant that the government be kept out of the exam room for some things are now codifying totalitarian requirements for other medical procedures.
It's really interesting to see the mental gymnastics people are willing to go through to defend their favorite trillion dollar corporations.

> other major cloud providers catch CSAM content on their platform by inspecting every file uploaded, i.e. total invasion of privacy.

> Apple found a way to preserve that privacy ...

So scanning for CSAM in a third-party cloud is "total invasion of privacy", while scanning your own personal device is "preserving privacy"?

The third-party clouds can only scan what one explicitly chooses to share with the third-party, while on-device scanning is a short slippery slope away from have its scope significantly expanded (to include non-shared and non-CSAM content).
If it were a tiny fraction there would have to be an equally large opposite force keeping that engineer from immigrating to the US, and as onerous and terrible as the visa process is, I don't think it will prevent the best from migrating for better wages, even temporarily.
Of course. Politicians and officials hate whistleblowers far more than pedophiles, and it's obvious this mechanism will be used to find future Chelsea Mannings and Reality Winners with better opsec to make examples out of them.
Funny you mention placebo effect. It actually is probably far less of a thing than popularly believed see https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/31/powerless-placebos/

From one point of view that just proves your point more, from another, less. If placebo effect is tenuous then all else equal that’s a good sign for the rest of medicine… but in fact lots of medicine is tenuous. The landmark “Most Published Research Findings Are False” was looking at medical findings iirc.
Did he cause much terror? Wasn't he arrested soon after he murdered people?
They use them sometimes, other times they just punch the restrained suspect in the face[1].

[1] https://ktla.com/news/local-news/lapd-officer-under-investig...
Source of this convoluted blog spam: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/americas-secret-terrorist-wat...
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

This has been covered to death on TV news.
>If you think you can do better than CSV, let's see your proposal.

I've got one! It's basically the same as regular CSV, but everything is UTF-8, the columns and lines are delineated by dedicated UTF-8 "delineator" codepoints (if they aren't defined in the spec, find reasonable surrogates and use them), and therefore nothing ever needs to be escaped.

More human readable than regular CSV, less prone to error and just as easy to write to in a for loop (easier, in fact, as there are no escapes).

Depending on how Excel handles delineators, it should be able to import it too.
Well, I can change the way I think/do stuff (I can write "1234" or "4321", no problem) but what I meant was basically "for me to make sense, byte-endianness should be aligned to bit-endianness"... .

To me it would make sense to use little-endian if the same would be applied as well on the level of "bits" within a byte... . Using little-endian on a byte-level but big-endian on a bit-level (within a byte) is quite confusing for me. Just my subjective opinion.
No, the Soviets invaded in 79. During the decades before, both the USA and the USSR were investing money in infrastructure and industry modernization projects in the country, trying to curry favor with the nation.

I quote from a humanitarian report[0]:

"""

Afghanistan‟s economy from the 1950s onward became closely intertwined with the Cold War. From
1953 to 1963 Afghanistan‟s Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud Khan had solicited military and
economic assistance from both the United States (US) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
(USSR), believing that, without rapid growth, Afghanistan would become severely politically
fragmented. Often dubbed the “economic Korea”, the country received 50% of its foreign aid from
the Soviet Union between 1950 and 1970 and 30% from the United States during that same time
span.3 In the early 1960s Soviet investment targeted immense infrastructure projects including the
1964 completion of the Salang tunnel which greatly reduced travel time between northern
Afghanistan and Kabul. By 1967 the country had 1,200 miles of paved roads and a 25% increase in
power output.

"""

[0] https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/AB...
The reservoirs in BC and Quebec that were flooded were not logged.
They're also the largest in NA.
Williston Lake is 7th largest in the World.
Manicouagan Reservoir is the 5th largest in the World.

>you are suggesting that those trees underwater produce more warming gases than the dirtiest coal plants, MW per MW? A coal plant continuously burning enough coal to get 1000 MWe produces the same amount of warming as a hydro reservoir flooded once that has a dam that produces 1000 MWe?

That's exactly what the research is saying yes.
You're talking about 700 sq miles of forest here that was flooded. Not a few trees.
Don’t confuse the Russian Empire with the soviets. The ruling class is different, thus the behaviour of the state as well. The Empire expanded to extract wealth from other territories. The workers that built the 1917 revolution had no such material interests, their interest was only in solidarity with workers in other countries and against imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism.

Basarabia was subjugated by the kingdom of România in 1918, indeed. The fascists gaining power in România had already started on ethnic cleansing, so Basarabia declared independence and later joined the soviets in 1940. After all, it was the soviets that ended the pogroms in the territories of the former Russian Empire.

Don’t let fascists teach you history, they lie.
The supporting ICs are the same. For now, at least.

But because of differences between GaN and Si, the selection of reasonably compatible controllers and gate drivers is smaller. For example, many ICs made for Si are underperformers for GaN, or they might need some "translation" circuitry because of different gate voltage requirements.

There are certainly many gains to be made with GaN-specific supporting ICs, but that hasn't really happened yet. My personal threshold for acknowledging a fundamentally different technology would be replacing all the Si in the gate drive loop with GaN. The idea is to not hold back the GaN switch from realizing its full potential with slower and less efficient Si.

The GaN switch itself is, of course, quite different from a Si power switch.
> A 1 bedroom place where I live costs $1400-1600 (it’s an unusually expensive tourist town) and things are closing down once in a while because of worker shortages (Eg, lifeguard shortage was the most recent I saw). Where are these workers supposed to live? I know other places aren’t nearly this bad. I just can’t believe anyone is able to work in retail or food here

This is the crux, because what's happening is that housing is highly inflationary (especially in desirable locations) and wages are failing to match inflation, so entry level workers are being pushed further out to the boonies. Why would they commute all the way into the city centers if they don't actually pay better?

An interesting side effect of all the rampant real estate speculation and bidding wars is that cities are becoming dramatically more expensive to live in than the exurbs. I feel like eventually this will result in a much higher cost of living across the board as employers need to account for this difference in their pay scales. The entry level / service industry jobs in these places with insane housing prices will need to pay much better to attract workers, thus making these already expensive-to-live places even more expensive.

Perhaps it will eventually create some kind of equilibrium where new towns can provide some of the same quality of life benefits at a fraction of the cost since their real estate isn't so astronomical.
Hi @Greenskid, note that you can directly import a Tabs Outliner export file into BrainTool (Import, under Options).
LMK how it goes and pass the word to other Tabs Outliner diaspora.
Oil and Gas lobbies must love it. These folks are doing their (paid) lobbying... for free!
Yup wgpu has a WebGPU backend, but it also has first-class native backends for Vulkan, Metal, DX12, and OpenGL ES (with upcoming support for DX11 and WebGL). It is designed to be a cross platform graphics API. It isn't "web based", just "web compatible". And it has super solid "feature detection" that enables you to opt in to "native only" features like push constants.
This is true. The best way would be if everyone generated CSV files that were compatible with on one or two already existing CSV formats. (e.g. no-quote-plain-old-csv or quotes-forced-csv.) Hopefully, it would be easy to distinguish between the two in some well-defined manner. Maybe call it .csvs (CSV standardized). Or just introduce new extensions like .csvq ("CSV quoted").

Note the difference is that I am suggesting reducing the number of standards in-use by using only one already existing CSV format. :)
I don't care. It's my device (at least that's how Apple used to advertise it) and I disagree with Apple's policy, full stop. I don't care about "think of the children" (especially since they will be scanning pictures of my own children), and furthermore I don't trust Apple not to change the policy in the future. They've created a backdoor and now the device is compromised and privacy is broken. If you want to trust Apple go ahead. They have eroded my trust and I doubt they could regain it within a decade.
And next year it will be 2031. I think it is a reasonable position to say that until we have near room temperature stable superconductors there will not be commercially viable fusion. That could be 10 years or that could be 200 years. There have been incremental but promising developments but nothing that yet hints at the actual finish line.
> The scanner technology can also be used for detecting dissident journalism, but they say it won't be, it is just for preventing terrorism

This has always been possible with server side scanning. Yeah we have to trust Apple to not enable it for users who don’t use iCloud photos but we’ve always had to trust Apple given their closed source system.
Unless it changed very recently, I'm pretty sure it's still 10k.
The government has other forms of coercion available. Just look at what happened to Joe Nacchio, former CEO of telco Qwest, for refusing to cooperate with George W. Bush's illegal wiretapping program.
Any population that allows themselves to be ruled by tyrants, will be, as we're seeing with the West slowly morphing into the USSR.
It's not that hard just for 10% of the people.
You must be one of those art snobs that liked Last Year at Marienbad!
I mostly agree, though I will argue for the other side; child predators don't exactly have a track record for intelligence. Pedophiles still to this day get caught trading CP on Facebook of all places. I think engaging in that kind of activity requires a certain number of brain cells misfiring. Watch some old episodes of To Catch A Predator. Most of those guys were borderline retarded or had obvious personality disorders.
What is the best free alternative to Paint.NET for web developers? I tried GIMP some time ago, but it's interface looked very outdated / unpolished (at least on windows).
Instead of downvoting could someone just provide the correct link?
I use GitLab professionally.

It used to be light years ahead of GitHub, but with actions, code spaces, private repos and Jira like stuff being released in GH that's not the case anymore.

IMO you can't go wrong with either GitLab or GitHub nowadays, both are great at what they do.
Honestly, this isn't even about Quebec. This came from research into my own province, BC.
J'aime le Quebec. Montreal est une de mes villes preferees.
Can lab-grown brains become conscious?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02986-y
There's a cottage industry using remote operated submersibles to extract timber from reservoirs.

The decision about what to do with it before flooding the reservoir would depend on things like the timber market at the time and the reason for the dam (many are flood controls that also produce electricity).
Pictures not uploaded yet are private.
The third party would need to get local traction first. This is the best way forward on a number of dimensions, but most third party candidates go national instead, because while it cannot effect change, it is substantially more profitable.
> please insert other names below to educate me

Bjarne Stroustrup, Anders Hejlsberg.
Who decides what's obscene?

A society. Gov't doesn't beam down to Earth from space but is elected. Overstep and you won't be voted on again and the bullshit will be reversed
Alternatively: We don't need post-paid plans. Just do pre-paid for everything and reduce the data you keep.

Going to collections over $50 is stupid.
People really seem to underestimate just how much a CPU can handle when it’s not bogged down by the abstraction of high level languages. You can easily easily serve over 1000 static pages per second per core with nginx on commodity hardware over TLS, and over 10000 pages/second/core if you’re using a server-grade CPU like a Xeon or Epyc.
It'd be great if Steam distributed these sorts of software at cost. Meaning the cost of transaction plus hosting.
> marriage fails more often than not

That's only true if you include all marriages. People who have been divorced tend to get divorced again if they get married.

First marriages are more likely not to get divorced.

And to answer the question, I didn't sign a prenup because I went through a period where I dated a bit and my wife was much better than everyone else I had dated. We'll be celebrating our 10th anniversary in a few months.
The linked article reads like a pure idolization. It’s like Bible, except written not more than a thousand years ago but now, and by fishermen, but by sw engineers, the message is the same though.
OT: why URL shortener? This is not twitter with a length restriction.
> You can't unupload a photo under either the old or new system.

You can choose to upload many pictures. They will start uploading. Then, you change your mind. Some pictures were not uploaded yet. But they were scanned by the new algorithm.
Some of these guys just buy weekly options ahead of an earnings call, after a few hits it's basically screaming to some statistical algorithm at the SEC "hey, please put me in jail!". Digging up admissible evidence is harder, though.
So what's actually worse is tv news people who can't even be bothered to go downstairs to interview the human on the street.

My twitter and facebook are full of interesting things, guess I have better friends than you
I guess my point is that CSVs or any text files aren't really "human readable". You still need some application top view them.
Please take your crass comments elsewhere.
Instead of consistently questioning my motives, you could try contributing something positive.
I was hoping for more quantitative analysis. All this boils down to is do your work, go a little bit further, and be curious. Where I work, that’s just the baseline for getting into the company.
Are there any editors that let you insert a Unit separator character as easily as a comma?
I’ve spent the last year between New York and California and I have felt zero authoritarian measures in my life. Not one aspect of my life has changed aside from donning a mask when I go to and from a public building. And even that is a personal choice - legally it’s completely optional.
good perspective, thanks!
Why do people expect anything different? Every corporate promise is subject to change. When you hand your belongings to someone else, those things are liable to be tampered with.
Yeah it’s already used for that purpose…by the government.
do they get jail time? or just fines?
What other options? Krita is basically first in it's class; I can't think of better painting software.
Draining Static Charge Procedure
> defend their favorite trillion dollar corporations

> is a short slippery slope away

Obviously people who trust Apple aren't concerned about slippery slopes. What's the point of your post?
Why don't you use paint.net? What's stopping web developers from using it?

I haven't used GIMP on windows for a while, but I see no problems with the interface on Linux.
It begins with the idea "studying is uncool". Few can overcome the peer pressure and by doing so you become an outcast in your community.
I won't try to address every part of this writing, but there is one claim that I feel is false: namely that the AMP validation rules are not open source.

Here is the code: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/tree/main/validator

All of the rules are written in human-readable config language. Here are the rules for common HTML elements (https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/main/validator/va...) and there are rules per-amp-tag (example: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/main/extensions/a...)

You can build it, run it locally, etc. There are open-source implementations that run in the browser, in a vscode plugin, on the command line via NPM, etc. Other entities can and do use the same code for their validation of AMP. Pull Requests are accepted from anyone and those changes land in Google production and all of the aforementioned tooling targets within a few days. There is documentation on how to contribute to and edit these files (https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/main/docs/compone...).