skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually disagree, CLI is a big improvement. Vastly more developers are familiar with the command line than RStudio or IPython, including almost all of those who don’t already use some kind of ML.

Two major benefits:

* Approachability. If the first step to trying ML on a problem is “download RStudio and learn how to use a GUI and unfamiliar language” that is a HUGE barrier to entry.

* Confidence - if I’m going to put a model into production and all I have to go on is the output of a self-described novice who “played around in RStudio” a bit, well, that’s not going to happen. There are a million ways they might have messed up.

Tangram nails both of these and I’m excited to see where it goes. Happy to talk to you more (ex startup VP Product, current ML researcher) - DM me on Twitter (yieldthought).
.NET MAUI seems promising unless you're a VB developer.
Thank you for your comments. And I think you are probably correct about the true risk/X entailed here. As well as the risk of simply using anything with a radio - I can't think of a single device I own that hasn't had a radio attack of some sort published (including all Apple devices, of course).

If I'm honest what makes me feel bad about this is probably just that- a feeling based on what I consider to be an algorithm designed around the presumption of guilt. It's much the same way I feel about taking my shoes off in line at airport security. It's an act which I've largely come to ignore but which still produces that vague feeling of discomfort that somehow feels like the opposite of security.

That this is occurring on my Apple devices - my favorite devices - is also just depressing.
The vehicle thing is exactly what boggles me about this. Are you saying that the humanoid will be driving cars/forklifts/bullsozers? What exactly do you mean that its important that a robot interacting with a vehicle is humanoid?
You're blaming Tesla because you didn't use the front license plate holder that they give you, ready to go?
I agree with you in principle, but you come off as a dick for the way you expressed it.
It is more chargeback and fradulent transactions processors are concerned with it. Those cost immediate money to them . Blockchain and altcoins solve that (for payment processing consumer, protection is lesser of course)

Illegal activities are only a problem if law enforcement makes it their problem, I don't think there is a case where law enforcement went after the payment provider for facilitating transactions for illegal activities, it is website/marketplace responsibility usually
Omega variant, by the looks of it, would be 100% immune to current vaccines.
Because the US government policy of which doses are reserved for people in the US vs doses being donated isn't based on if you as an individual want to donate your dose to someone else. That's not how the logistics of delivering vaccines work. You can publicly write letters or call your representatives on where you feel deserves priority. In practice, you can't exactly ship "your" vaccine dose to some other nation (developed or developing). You can wait to get a booster, and hope someone who needs it more gets it first. But even then someone else around you, where you live, will take "your" vaccine.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/03/1023822...
Is there a UI story that doesn't suck?
I don't think it is fake. People from PMC are not managed so well, they are like freelancers.

Update: especially Wagner
> It’s a thing that happens, but in this case, it’s worse because Apple seems to strongly encourage/insist on merging work and personal accounts.

What's their rationale, at least their open one?

My speculation, given Apple's reputation for paranoia, is so they can more easily access your personal stuff in case they suspect you're a "leaker."
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Is this a Markov chain or something?
(1) https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/food-matters/honey-make...

(2) https://www.angelesinstitute.edu/thenightingale/daily-sugar-...

By (1), 20% of a 2000 cal diet (assumption) would be 400 cal, or 100g sugar. By (2), average US sugar intake is 71.14g/day
Or use the "article view" mode of your browser if it has one; it works with Safari's implementation. Japan Times' "paywalling" is pretty naïvely implemented.
Hi, I'm on the .NET community team. Here's what we see as the happy path for .NET:

- .NET website (https://dot.net) - High level info on different workloads, 5 minute in-browser tutorials, links to live shows and community

- MS Learn (https://aka.ms/mslearn-dotnet) - Interactive tutorials with learning paths built from 30ish minute learning tutorials

- Docs (https://aka.ms/msdocs-dotnet) - More in-depth documentation on specific tasks and features, e.g. API documentation, performance optimization, security guidance, etc.

While you can go directly to any of them, the dot.net site will link you to Learn modules that will link you to docs, so hopefully you can start on the dot.net site and it will help you find the right place.

One thing I really like (and I'm totally biased because I've helped set it up) is https://live.dot.net. Those are all our live shows with the PM and dev teams. We've got a show every day of the week, and there's always really good Q&A in the chat.
I posted the interview in a sibling post to yours.

But yeah. What does Graeber mean?

The argument would go something like --

Many countries are in debt to the United States (immediate question: Isn't the US in huge debt to China?), which drives up demand for US dollars (since everyone needs to pay those back), which makes the dollar strong. As a result, if you have access to these dollars at low interest rates (i.e, are a bank), you can get lots of stuff from other countries "for free". But a strong dollar also has the effect of destroying domestic industry, because it makes exports too expensive for anyone to buy.

So he's saying "finance" is all these institutions with access to dollars, and "real estate" is a bunch of other institutions that are one more step removed from the Fed.

Something like that.

Like, are you a cloud provider, or do you run a lot of cloud jobs? Either way, you're "into the cloud", but you're on opposite sides.

That's about as much sense as I can make of it.

Or maybe it's all bullshit. Which would be funny, given the other things Graeber has written. I don't know.

I do notice it's weirdly aligned with RT's narrative. Not that that means it can't also be true.
“Turing Award” is a thing.
Why don’t they link to any of the papers they reference? Or at least provide some better clues.

> Something similar appears to have happened when a new H1N1 influenza strain emerged in 2009 and caused a pandemic, says Katia Kölle, an evolutionary biologist at Emory University. A 2015 paper found that changes in the virus in the first 2 years appeared to make the virus more adept at human-to-human transmission, whereas changes after 2011 were mostly to avoid human immunity.

It doesn’t look like Katia Kölle wrote this one and searching keywords gave me a ton of other stuff.
I think I've read articles similar to this one ten years ago.
I'm really more a GUI person tbh but when I'm figuring out a new thing it's nice to play with a working binary before trying to write any code. I don't need to deal with ML so while I find it interesting and cool I've avoided getting very deep into it because it looked like a huge work/resource commitment just to indulge my curiosity. I'm really happy to have something simple I can just mess around with and figure out if/how I want to explore further. Thanks!
> We still have humans involved but I think the best way to minimize how often they are on the floor is with better specialized tools.

Tesla tried this and it was a disaster. They had to rip a bunch of their robots out and replace them with humans.

There's still a ton of really fiddly tasks that specialized robots find really hard to do.
Maybe they want to ascend to a higher class?
That's probably what happened with HCoV-OC43, a betacoronavirus very similar to SARS-CoV-2. The evidence indicates that it caused a worldwide pandemic starting in 1889 and killed a lot of people. Now it's endemic. Most of us catch it when we're young and build up natural immunity. There doesn't appear to be much herd immunity.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/
that actually opens up a market for a new payment processor that is capable of dealing with these kind of payments. i honestly wonder if onlyfans explored and exhausted that route thoroughly
There actually was quite a bit of SFW content on their before the big purge. Quite a few people choosing to use it as a weird alternative to YouTube for their non-porn gaming stuff and also using it reupload/mirror content from YouTube.

It was always weird but also kind of fascinating to dive in to.
Counter-argument: I remember seeing a talk by Andrej from a year or two ago and wasn't too impressed - it seemed like they had a huge amount of work left to do and put everything together for a reliable self-driving AI.

Everything they showed today, from the vision models to the path planning to labeling to simulation was bleeding edge. And they seem to have managed to put everything together in what appears to be a tremendous engineering effort. I can't see why they can't use a similar playbook for the humanoid robot and increase value over time. The vision framework they used for self-driving is fairly general and can probably adapted to humanoids. The action policy space is less re-usable but I suspect they have clever ideas on how to tackle that.

Musk may be bad at forecasting but he's darn good at selling stuff that half-works and then assembling a team that can execute on his vision.
I'm no Musk fan but this

> If he had never pursued reusability he would have made far, far more money from his launch business.

Strikes me as short term thinking and not true, also. The plan is to sell tickets at $400,000 each to get to Mars. There doesn't seem to be any way to achieve that without reusability. The money to be made from founding the first Mars colony supplied with reusable rockets completely dwarfs some random launch provider on Earth.

SpaceX never was and never will be a simple launch provider. If that is your lens then you are missing the company goals of 1M people living on Mars.
I actually don’t know why I asked. As a long term contributor, my instincts were right and I was able to confirm it here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Your_first_article

Main space articles are restricted to people like me: confirmed and auto-confirmed users (I.e. some small number of unreversed edits over some short time).

I was correct after all. I should have just checked but I thought perhaps the rules had changed since I last contributed. Unsurprising that that comment was downvoted haha! Classic HN.
But if you really think about it, flipping rocket is a trivial toy problem in simulation. But useful humanoid robot is very hard even in simulation. Just look at some of the SOTA control theory research. Their simulated robots looks stupid.
> they are required to keep copies of every email sent by employees

Required by who? (Sorry, I'm not so knowledegable about these things)
Sure, but the iPod nano was a great product weeks from being in customers' hands. This is a recruiting event for a decade+ project to do something that hasn't been done before.
I mentioned in another comment that I think this has to do with the very human phenomenon of the narrative paradigm shift (a type of M. Night Shamalyn plot twist).

Goes something like this:
The guy that took on the military industrial complex with his small little startup and actually won, with wild whacky ideas like landing rockets upright, and winning NASA contracts against the likes of Boeing and Lockheed, is actually not who you think he is.

He’s not?

Nope, even though he was one of the single strongest drivers of electric vehicles that is pretty much making the rest of the industry shift after the viability of electric was shown with Tesla cars. The truth is, he actually sucks.

Oh, what a plot twist. Wait, does this have a happy ending now that we know he’s a really a bad guy?

And then we fill in the redemption story.

It’s the creepiest thing, and I have no idea why we keep doing it.
The idea that the criminals need to maintain a reputation doesn't make sense to me.

Every negotiation is about the best alternative each party has to an agreement.

If someone has a plausible alternative to a ransom, like restoring from backups, they will take it, regardless of the reputation of the adversary.

If someone doesn't have a plausible alternative to a ransom, then they might as well pay it even if the chance is infinitesimal.

Since in either case, the behavior of the victim is unrelated to the level of trust they have in the criminal gang, there is no incentive to be "professional" and trustworthy.

This might not apply if the gang actually is tied to a nation state and/or has political motives.

But if they are purely profit maximizing entities, then they should not be expected to concern themselves with a reputation for keeping their word.

Somehow people forget that the victims don't choose who they are victimized by.
You're basically asking for perfection. If that's the standard you hold anything to, then you can burn down everything and roll in the ashes.

Rather, the obvious reading of that is that onlyfans isn't primarily or deliberately hosting illegal content.
Nice. Were you responsible for 1999 Comdex Fall Rage Software Dispatched SSE demo used to manipulate benchmarks for a couple years by Anandtech (https://www.anandtech.com/show/260/9)? https://www.hardware.fr/articles/95-5/jeux-optimises.html

"looking closely at the demo, we can see - as you can see on the screenshots - that the SSE version is less detailed than the non-SSE version (see the floor). Intel would it try to roll journalists in the flour?"

Two other examples from that link are SSE "optimized" Rage Software Expendables running slower than original, and "Pentium III optimized" PowerSlide by GT Interactive with zero fps difference. At least those two never released, unlike "Designed for Intel MMX" POD from 1997 with one optional audio filter added and 1/6 of the box covered by Intel marketing.

One has to wonder how much was Intel bribing for such blatant lies and manipulation back then.
I'm sure there are but why would another robot be better?

If the problem is something like the dexterity of a stationary arm machine isn't good enough - I'm having trouble believing the dexterity of a moving humanoid machine would be different at all.
Why not set up a gmail.com account for your apple.com account? That way you still keep the clean iCloud account for work only.
Ask HN: Learning How to Market Yourself
Hey all - longtime lurker. In my first gig at a big co, I realized that marketing your own work is about 100 times more important than actually doing the work. I grew up an introvert and from the culture I grew up in, it feels disingenuous to market yourself. How have you done this in the past and what is the best way to market yourself to your org and your peers?
There was an experiment conducted with three groups of rats. The first got only fed carbohydrates and gained weight. The second ate only protein and lost weight. The third ate fat exclusively, their weight stayed the same.
I've personally started working for a company that demanded any code that I write during employment for company is owned by them regardless if I write it during working hours or at home. I had to list out each project that I had worked on or continuing to work on to establish a history of before/after start of employment. Any new personal project had to be added to the list after a discussion to see how that project and continued employment could co-exist.

The concept here is that if you learned something new at work and then implement it into your own private projects, the company wants that project since they paid for your time learning new something. Also, NDAs and other forms of copyright and what not gets weird.

To me, the gold standard of how to do this is how Woz handled the creation of the first Apple computer. He took it to his employeer multiple times being told they did not claim any ownsership on each occassion.
There are many ranges of startups. I've been able to do one with a toddler and kids and a full time job. It's a light one, and I just had to sacrifice some entertainment time and get up earlier. Lockdown has given me more time too.

There's plenty of examples of lighter companies you can do on Indie Hackers. But generally, it's the ones which aren't profitable enough to be seed funded or too risky to the point that you wouldn't jump into it full time. If you're making a SaaS or a Instacart, you won't be able to manage that part time.

Some old problems might be worth it. For example, Android still doesn't have a good note taking app. It's a problem old enough that nobody is going to fund it.

And if it doesn't work out, at least you've done a little research and can get a head start once your kids are a little older.
I’m curious how long it would take to adapt the mRNA vaccines to the new ones, if there was two changes. I’m assuming it’d have to reach quite a wide infection rate for them to tag a particular variant + development/manufacturing time.

The other question that comes to mind is if they can package two different variants into one or would they just mix the two and keep building on top of existing ones? Unless the other ones get completely replaced.
Yeah, whatever it was, it seems to have resolved in the last two hours. My proof works again... with no changes by me.

I wouldn't mind seeing a postmortem for this.
I think both are essential: Evaluating arguments on their merits is obviously important, so I'll focus on the second method.

We live in a world flooded by propaganda; we are committing political and social suicide by not addressing it. One powerful method of addressing propaganda is to identified beneficiaries - the people behind it are necessarily doing it for their own benefit.

And at the same time, evaluating arguments on their merits exposes us to propaganda: First, a well-known reason: it is much easier to make up lies than to determine the truth; the propagandist can easily consume all the resources of the person looking at merits. Second, humans are significantly worse at determining merits than they imagine (says much research).

Looking at merits depends on some good faith: The person submitting the argument is trying to present a valid argument. Propaganda is built on abusing that good faith.
I'm curious, what cloud or SaaS solutions are your company using? Many of the cloud solutions I've looked at explicitly forbid pornographic, explicit, or 'obscene' content. Do you self-host instead?

Atlassian Cloud, for example, forbids hosting any of that sort of content on their services, which could make development difficult. With their server subscriptions gone, this is even more of an issue.

Places like Azure will host the content internally, but don't allow you to share the content publicly in any way that ties it back to them. Such as sharing an explicit image on OneDrive or hosting a website that pings back to their IP space.

How do you get around these challenges in development?
How is this different than former black water or other numerous military contractors supported by their respective governments. These outfits should be generally banned.
Stereovision is basically monovision at a distance of 6 feet iirc, the depth is inferred from cues like light, size, shape.
Even still they went from selling for a billion to being sold for three million. Maybe not entirely fair to blame it purely on the anti-porn push, as the general trends of social media platforms isn’t particularly kind to most companies, but it sure didn’t help.

But agreed that I didn’t know OnlyFans had any meaningful non-porn content. And the business sense in this seems 100% geared towards a short term payout with no regard for what happens afterward.
The idea of separation of Church and State came from the Reformation, and it was explicitly about separation of the legal entities. And they were legal entities - notably under Calvin the Genevan Consistory was the entity in charge of religious life and it was separated to the civil authorities.

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_kingdoms_doctrine#Response...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevan_Consistory

In any case, this has nothing to do with consent laws, which are entirely a matter for the state.
There is no kinda idiotic. There is a somewhat stupid.

A Dyson sphere is foolish because one can simply build a small local fusion reactor instead of using the giant free one nearby?

Imagine a sphere of reflective particles around a star. Planets within would never experience nightfall. Free energy would be everywhere. Sounds useful.

Moreover, such a solar system would be difficult to detect. If it is mobile, and uses a low-signature form of propulsion such as UFOs exhibit, then it would be extremely elusive.

This solves the problem of someone launching stealth asteroids at one's base at relativistic speeds.

Moving a solar system presumably requires tremendous power. Using a star as the fusion reactor presumably helps.
> Don't do vacation research, medical research, social media, Spotify, anything personal at all on your work device. Ever.

That's quite extreme. What is your threat model?
Entire purpose of asking this was just to know if we don't act - will it cause any harm.

From what I have gathered so far - there is 0 impact and so it looks like we don't have to bother.
I like the uniformity of Java language. I like the "inner class" feature that has to be manually emulated in C#. I also like that I can implement anonymous abstract class-interface ad hoc in Java. I wish that internal visibility in C# was tied to a namespace instead of assembly, like package visibility in Java. Method co-/contravariance in C# is tied to interfaces. I prefer it tied to individual methods, like in Java.

Yes, Java is more verbose to write, but it's easier to read. E.g., == in Java is always built-in equality. In C# it can be overloaded. Equality in C# is a mess (IEquatable, IEqualityComparer, the obscure way in which generic collections "discover" equality on the type...)

Then async/await hack and how it interoperates with Task infrastructure. It's so badly documented it's not even funny. An often-asked question is how to synchronously wait on an async method. The usual answer is "don't do it" like it solves anything. But async methods return a Task and the official examples for tasks tell you explicitly to use Wait() method to wait on a task. Which gives?? (A long story about synchronization context.) Java and Project Loom are doing it right, IMO.

Nullable reference types are another hack. I tried to convert a project to NRTs and gave up, reverted everything. I haven't seen a NRE in years :p NRTs introduce a lot of edge cases, with a lot of syntactic noise to cover them and still guarantees nothing (unlike a proper Optional type would).

Java takes longer time to push out features, but my impression is that when they do, the features are better thought out than their counter-parts in C#.

So right now the only thing I'm unhappy with in Java is streams not supporting checked exceptions. I actually _like_ them and Oracle should have invested in making them more usable in some way. What they did with streams kind of signals that they want to deprecate them in the long run. It's a missed innovation opportunity.
Anti-Defamation League Calls for Investigation of ‘Jeopardy ’ Host’s Comments
talk to congress. it's a policy problem.
Right. I mean how many years has Boston Dynamics been cranking at 'teaching' a robot how to walk like a human, and it's still a work in progress?

But of course Musk is going to bust it out in the next 16 months at most.

Just like FSD, "this year", "this year really", "this time we promise we mean this year", "this year, seriously folks".