skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. I just canceled my EN subscription; it refreshed right before New EN, and I gave them until renewal to get that working. It’s still garbage and I have completely lost the habit of using it because I can’t revert to the old iOS app and have to use the slow, awkward new one.

I am currently evaluating Joplin as a maybe. It is webshit in an Electron wrapper but I think the only note app that isn’t webshit that I can use to collaborate with my Windows/Android using husband is Microsoft’s; it did a shit job of keeping my formatting last time I tried it, plus I hate the way it wants every note to be a text box floating in an infinite canvas.

I still have to actually check out Joplin’s collaboration, that only seems to work if you’re paying for their sync service instead of using something else.

Joplin also has a plug-in to do what EN couldn’t do in an entire decade: give you a nice diff UI for dealing with conflicting changes.

(My requirements: cross platform collaboration, decent EN import, not be webshit, deal gracefully with notes with PDFs and images in them.)
Also to prevent people on your local network from snooping on your traffic and stealing credentials and other sensitive data that might be passed over the wire. I once had my AWS API keys compromised this way. It was a pain to resolve that situation. I'm a lot more careful now.
If you don’t want to be treated like a liar, don’t be a liar.
Typically, unless you specify the other set, it's assumed to be N, the natural numbers. And when you have a bijection between some other set and (some subset of) the natural numbers, you're doing something equivalent to counting.
> Explain to me why a Tool-assisted Speedrun doesn't count as "AI". Its certainly not a human who is playing that (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFB0kuPx5mQ).

Because TAS are made by human speedrunners, who go through the painstaking process of specifying inputs for each frame. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, TAS are basically the exact opposite of AI.

> I'm not sure if that sort of thing...

> But if we have "Fly the F35 airframe"...

> Our cell phones are largely manufactured by machines...

That's a red herring. There's plenty of evidence we can make very useful narrow AI in many fields, and nobody is arguing against that.

The point is, they are, well, narrow. What your parent is saying is that there's no evidence that the statistical techniques behind the current wave of AI are capable of anything else.

To paraphrase Norvig, it could well be that we're trying to get to the moon by climbing a tree, reporting steady progress all the way to the top of the tree.
Study after study has shown people fail at repetitive tasks, it is likely you do a much poorer job reviewing that 500 lines of Go code than your javascript.

Using generics isn't 'clever'. It's like saying a loop is clever. It's abstraction, the opposite of clever.
>If you are aware of such incentives, please point them out. If you are aware of big pharma executives pleading with governments not to create panic or use compulsion to increase the vaccination, please do point them out.

Are you for real? This is exactly what I'm talking about. "They didn't say anything against it therefore they are doing it. And show me that they did say something against it." Wow. Checkmate, round of applause. Nice zinger mate.

I guess burden of proof is on the accused. I didn't get the memo about that.

I would expect this sort of rhetoric elsewhere, but I figured HN was more level-headed.

Honestly, go spread your FUD elsewhere. This is exactly why your opening comment was flagged. It's an open invitation for right-wing rhetoric that lacks any further thinking than "Well gee, the headline says they made $22B from the pandemic, I guess they must be filthy rich off of this!".

Read a balance sheet. It will do you some good.
Seemingly Successful Soviet Experiments in Telepathy
> Some VPN providers, like Mullvad, offer the option of port-forwarding.

The thing is Mullvad offers dynamic Port-Forwarding only. They get to decide what port number they can grant for users and users cannot request for a specific port. There are VPNs that have static port-forwarding which is rare. There are less than 5 VPN providers that have static port-forwarding from what I remember and users can decide what port number they want (unless specific port number is taken prior). It would be a pain if someone have a range of applications that already using specific port prior and would have to change them to use the VPN's defined port number depending on how much applications they have to change.
> Podcasts without RSS are not podcasts

The rest of the world seems to think otherwise….
When I studied real analysis, I don't recall anything regarding real numbers that seemed to depend on assigning different sizes to infinite sets.

Is there something I'm missing, something that the formal treatment of calculus depends on them for?
I don't recall them saying 'hospitals need them more,' but rather 'masks have no proven effect' while people inside the CDC later admitted the concern was the first bit. I'm pretty sure that's a lie; while maybe they can argue about foment size effects etc. meant it technically wasn't a lie, I think we can all agree the public heard none of that nuance.
Yes, I knew he specializes in psychiatry. He went to the same medical school and took the same classes as any other kind of doctor.
I've always been mystified by those sorts of comments as well. But perhaps I'm just fortunate. I have enough things that I want to do that I could easily fill a decade with them.
Maybe it's for the best. He's a comedian who doesn't know anything about anything (and freely admits this to be the case), he shouldn't really have that much "influence". $100M in the bank sure is nice, I bet.
Yeah, that's about exactly when I stopped listening to him. Listening to him talk shop with other comedians was always entertaining. But "serious" Joe is a whackjob, yes-man, and meat-head.
Well, I think the intention behind it is that it's an umbrella term; I'm sure there's lots of gray area around the edges--I doubt anyone thinks there's a bright line where it's "sex work" on this side and "not sex work" on the other. Maybe that's part of the point, it's somewhat loose. But the intention is to include workers other than prostitutes.
Yes, I am on the same page that all you need is a bit of discipline (and some baseline amount of crucial nutrients not present in cheap calory sources). But we all have about the same "discipline reserve", and some have harder life circumstances that expend that reserve on more urgent things than lunch. And this snowballs after it happens once. But to be fair, I do not really know what is the percentage of "well-off cushy fat people without a modicum of health discipline" vs "money-poor and time-poor stressed depressed fat people". I do suspect the latter group is bigger, and just yapping about "personal responsibility" kinda misses the point in that case.
This is so true and you can buy high quality gear for cheap on Craigslist, Kijiji, VarageSale or your local garage sale.
I disagree. In my opinion those tools are the bare minimum for effective moderation, and while I love that Discord gives developers an API that allows them to implement those systems, I think it's something that should be handled by Discord themselves.
I haven't seen guidelines lately, but Readability.com, before it was shut down, did have a page that's archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20160301180825/https://readabilit...
Even though it wasn't a conclusion of the study, if someone wants to make the point that they already had Covid, and therefore have at least the same immunity as a vaccinated person, that's a very reasonable position. They should not be restricted from anything a vaccinated person can do.
My experience: Apple has been amazing. I bought a previous gen mbp from bhphoto that was heavily discounted. It arrived and was DoA. I brought it into an Apple store and they gave me the latest gen and discounted the money I paid bhphoto and split the difference with me. To top it off, I got an extra charger. A year and a month later, the logic board needed replaced, they did that too. Another year later the battery was swollen, and they replaced that for free also.
I had a Japanese friend who says he had a real Samurai Outfit and sword. It was giving to him by his Grandmother who had inherited it from her family. When Lord of the Rings came out, a different fellow I worked with bought a replica of Anduril Sword from LOTR's. There was a discussion at work about how good the Anduril sword was which led to a challenge. I was to wear the Samurai Outfit since it was my size and use the Samurai sword and he was to fashion some armor and use the Anduril sword. He backed out after his wife threatened him and me.
Well, even if we cant describe why it is 'bad', we can observe that it is a form of anti-social behaviour by these companies.

People don't like it - people don't like that form of targeting. It may not be clear why they have issues with it, but they do.

At my kids school, if someone is repeatedly doing something to you that you don't like, then it is classed as a form of bullying.
Doesn't seem like it would require AGI for a self driving system to "know" that someone fell and didn't magically disappear.
> Pretty sure they used fake ads, but it’s a good precedent anyway.

the ads aren't fake.. well, not all of them -- they're included ironically -- and many aspects of that album generated legal issues for the band.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who_Sell_Out
Thanks. On my case it's less a financial issue than a lack of long term creative hobby issue.

I found it difficult to stick to any hobby for a couple of month and quit in the middle too easily. I kinda give up amd hope I can work till my death to avoid a boring retired life. It's impossible for me to grow a creative hobby.
Alpine is a lot simpler and easier to use than debian for me. Package manager is also a lot better.

Perfect choice if you're going minimal.
That doesn't answer the why though. It just makes it seem suspicious. How hard could it have been to use the latest versions of the non-Postgres software? Even as a "this is kind of interesting" experiment it seems like you'd have to go out of your way to install such old versions.
I believe it is likely that apple will improperly fail to secure the files they can decrypt from insider attack, and I am confident that governments can order them (third party doctrine) to hand over material, bypassing those protections.

If you're going to question my honesty, can I ask what financial interest you have in apple or this abuse system, if any?

> Of course they knew it was possible.

I'm glad we agree. But the fact that their hash is subject to adversarial images, causing totally innocent images to be decryptable by apple, is disclosed nowhere in their documentation or security analysis.

I think that is extremely concerning, particularly because it undermines a central plank of their claimed protections: They claim they will protect against state actors including non-child-porn material in their databases by intersecting multiple databases from multiple states. This claimed "protection" is completely obliterated by state actors being able to modify child porn to match the hashes of other images and then submitting this material to each other.
In Joe Rogan's case, I doubt people would pay.

Then again, I haven't been able to understand his success.

I cringe when he calls himself a Comedian.

I cringe when he talks science. (Always felt someone should sit down with him and explain The Placebo Effect, and The Scientific Method, and what goes into a good Clinical study. I would be shocked if he ever even took Psy 101.)

Is it the upfront pot use that garners so many admirers?

He does know his MMA though.

I have enjoyed his interviews, but it's the guests I find interesting.
> The best antidote to burnout is to do more of what you like.

But what do you do when the burnout is so deep that you find no joy in anything, even things that used to excite you?
Why I’m comfortable retiring with $500K
i totally disagree. the worst part about mumble is that it was a pain in the ass to set up. creating a discord server is trivial: all of my nontechnical friends have used the software just fine. mumble is terribly fiddly in comparison.
> a 3 year warranty by default

come to australia, consumer guarantees give you a 3 year warranty. In fact my MacBook Pro gave up the ghost a few weeks after the 3 years had expired, Apple replaced the bits under warranty.
I can't tell Mr. Rogan what to do, but I'll just quote from the wise old man, Neil Young:

Ain't singin' for Pepsi,
Ain't singin' for Coke,
Ain't singin' for no one,
Makes me look like a joke.
I've never heard ads on Rogan's podcast in the past few years, this might be a US only thing
Linux somehow managed to be both the dark horse and the pride pony. Preferred tool of hacker and mega corp alike.
It helped launch my career in tech when I messed up a dual boot with Windows XP and fixed it by partitioning MS out of existence. Haven't looked back since.

Happy Birthday Linux!!
My biggest gripes with the mobile versions, app and website, are the lack of categories at the bottom of the page. It seems that there's been a de-emphasis of categories in general on Wikipedia. I hope they don't get rid of it though, because it's a fantastic way to organize related content. The contents of a category box often show relations between subjects better than the article itself
Tired of 7 hours of Zoom a day

I'm amazed that anyone can take more than 3. I know some people including my own children and their teachers, were doing 4-5 hours per day, often back to back and day after day.
It's not zero cost, there is some risk.

Maybe someone could do the math but the chances of catching covid again with natural immunity should be lower than the chance of a side effect from the vaccine.

More so, the effects of covid with immunity are much more diminished. The side effects of the vaccine range from very mild to very severe (death). https://openvaers.com/covid-data

I don't see a good reason for a person with natural immunity to get the vaccine if there is no benefit and some, even if slight, risk.

"Because everyone else is doing it" is not a good reason for people to do it because the more you scale the more side effects you get, the more absolute deaths and critical conditions.
I own a house with a very comfortable mortgage payment less than a twenty minute drive or a 40 minute train ride from downtown Boston. I work from home on interesting problems and I have a great dog.

So not a whole lot.

There are better ways to live than sucking down cash to be miserable. You can't take it with you.
Any chance I could talk to you about offline first in production? I'm in the agricultural space and I'm considering specialising more in that direction - wondering what couch (and I assume pouch) are like to live with.

Email in profile.
Create a torrent for what you're trying to share, add a few open tracker announce urls[1] to it, then load it in you client. Then, anyone else who has a torrent client can download it with a magnet link[2].

One caveat is that either your client and router both have to support UPnP, or you have to manually open up a port for UDP traffic in your router and forward that to the machine you're running the client on.

I also use transmission-create to make torrents from the cli, but the UI of your client will have an option.

I use magnets to transfer all large files - although if there's anything confidential in the file, encrypt it first. The only thing keeping people from plucking your files out of the ether is a lack of interest.

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[1] Such as https://newtrackon.com/list

[2] Which are magnet:?xt=urn:btih:[insert torrent hash here]

Torrent hashes can be found in the UI of your client, or at the beginning of the actual .torrent file.
It's possible that the phrase 'behind the meter' isn't universally understood - what I meant by that is that we can put storage systems (Lithium, Flow, etc) on the customer premises - on their side of the electricity meter.

This gives the power consumer an energy cache, effectively, with 2-3 days of self-reliance.

That's why I suggested that your insistence that we need one stonking large battery sitting somewhere is misguided - we can distribute, today, relatively cheaply (compared to the cost of a house build / maintenance) short-term independence from the grid supply.
Rate of reinfection is currently rare, but vaccination post infection does lower that rate.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm?s_cid=mm...

"Among Kentucky residents infected with SARS-CoV-2 in 2020, vaccination status of those reinfected during May–June 2021 was compared with that of residents who were not reinfected. In this case-control study, being unvaccinated was associated with 2.34 times the odds of reinfection compared with being fully vaccinated."

Additionally, there have also been some preprints indicating reduction of long covid symptoms following vaccination in a good portion of those surveyed.
Time is difficult, but I'm primarily unable to find the energy outside work for anything emotionally fulfilling or creative. I think this is why people are so motivated to find fulfillment in their work. Any time I have tried, my sleep, my work, and my life in general suffers, and I'm soon frustrated by the limited progress I can make.

A good day's work can be so draining as to leave me literally depressed. A good day, mind you - not hard, not bad, not stressful - just one where I am completely focused on work for 7-8 hours. Maybe it's me, maybe it's the nature of coding for a living.
How dare you call me disingenuous?

And I disagree anyway. Heart disease might take a long time but your CAC score wouldn’t stay 0 for a long time. Two years in two cases and CAC of zero. That’s not anecdotal, that’s two clearly measured examples of something that shouldn’t exist under the current model. And you continue to keep your head in the sand. All you have to do is openly support some kind of real interventional study. Not agree with me, but just acknowledge that fact that it isn’t settled and that something so fundamental should be settled. The study will cost a pittance. So are you in favor of that or not?
The field of constructive analysis would beg to differ with you.

An amazing amount of real analysis can be done with absolutely no reference to the excluded middle, completeness axiom, or accepting the existence of uncountable sets.
Slightly OT, because fiction, but entertaining nonetheless:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_IV_(1974_film)
Meh. It's a very small subset of tech and has all of the problems of '90s IRC (unnamed rules, cabals of power, cliques of opinion, minimal accountability) with none of the structure that more "modern" organizations (like OFTC) embraced. It's focused mostly around programming languages, tech minimalist culture, and open source culture, though they won't write that anywhere on the site. Anything else is either ignored, flagged, or shunned. Opinions there are strongly held, and opposing them will result in people being nasty to you. I largely view Lobste.rs as an anti-pattern of how to run a community.
> I suggest you take a look at Geometric Deep Learning, but the gist here is that convolutions can be thought of as translation equivariant functions, and pooling operations as permutation invariant combinations, all operating on a graph of as many components as the number of times the operation will be output, each component is composed of the pixels that the operation will act on, so there is local information that is slowly combined through the layers, then relative positioning can be decoded when the representation is transformed into a dense 1d-vector aka flattening.

Hey just trying to check my understanding, this is what Taco-tron does right? It outputs an image that can be Fourier transformed into a soundwave, which is the flatting to a dense 1d vector? And the construction of that image works because the network was able to learn from examples of existing sounds transformed into images, because the transformation into an image encodes some invariance that biases the learning network to generalize better or something?

I didn't do really great in math in college, but always found deep learning interesting. Not sure if anything I said above makes any sense.
Useless numbers. The fact they even tried to do this on the same machine shows they haven't a clue about benchmarking.

> the results were pretty horrifying indeed and one should rather not use Python for benchmarking databases – a lot of CPU time just disappeared somewhere!
> Almost anything can be proved/disproved or debated when one assumes such validity of the logical concepts to infinity.

if this were true it would be trivial for you to give devastating examples
JRE has never been quite the same since YouTube stopped them from live streaming or whatever exactly went down when they switched to pre-tapes. Many episodes are evergreen but any discussion of current events is a few days behind the news now.
Learning Happens
Unrelated, but I thought it was a satirical site for a minute, and it took me time to get convinced otherwise. There is something about the low stakes design and cookie cutter writing that makes it sound so off.

On what they do, yes, it seems to be a valuable service for companies that don’t directly manage their devices.
The core problem is in the politics and they handle it as engineering problem. Of course the perfect solution in terms of privacy E2EE is the best solution.

It is impossible to predict the future perfectly, but what if the most valuable company in the world applies full E2EE services? Governments control companies with regulations, and even before this, there is a lot of talk about compromising E2EE with government access. In Germany, they just passed the law in June to do exactly this.

> compromise privacy while simultaneously shielding themselves and their data sources from accountability at the expense of even more privacy and risk of abuse.

It is true that they shield themselves at the same time, but as the alternative is not to encrypt at all, this is not compromise of privacy. It is a step towards more "E2EE like" data, and does not worse the situation of consumer.

> If the objective was to offer somewhat more privacy than nothing while still acting as a vigilante crime fighter, they could make the user's software use a cleartext hash database and report the user when there are matches

It is impossible to verify the validity of the report in such a scenario, and they have no legal base to act. This is the scenario which would bring the FBI behind your door with adversarial hash collisions, because they can't validate anything.
Yeah, I’m a paying spotify customer and I hate this. And I also hate that the spotify client seamlessly mixes podcasts with music in its recommendations. It’s like a PM somewhere at spotify was offered a cash bonus based on how many podcast listens happen, and they decided that making the app trick people into playing podcasts was a profitable idea.

It breaks trust, and makes the spotify app feel adversarial. Like I have to be vigilant when I play music in case I get tricked. In a paid product I don’t want that at all and if it isn’t resolved, I’ll probably cancel my subscription over it and move to Apple Music or something.
https://corporate.delltechnologies.com/en-us/social-impact/a...
Uh oh. You both are lucky that he had such a wife, because there was a big chance to leave you both injured, or worse. Even the best armor is not absolutely damage-proof. Also, such "test" is rather pointless if done not between trained swordmen.