skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MLP is basically the vanilla neural network. The thing everyone sees first when getting taught about deep learning or similar. It turned out that (usually) MLPs are not very efficient to process matrix structures with it (e.g. 2d matrices like images). So, computer vision invented convolutional neural networks specifically to make image data highly efficient to process for neural networks. They outperformed MLPs in basically all aspects across the board. Transformers / Attention is a relatively new invention initially made to solve NLP problems more efficiently; but as it turns out, they work great on images as well.

TLDR - we've come full circle.
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I think it's because metaprogramming/macros is a thing Go doesn't have that very many other languages have. Whether the Java/.NET way, the LISP way or the Python way -- most languages have ways of making DSLs and metaprogramming etc in more flexible ways than Go.

I wish Go just got something like Lisp macros that could work compile-time only. Running macros at run-time isn't really the big deal, but generating code in the same language and context as the normal code is a big deal.

Adding generics really doesn't help much here..
This is a really good application of it. Getting NER right for something like book titles with so much name collision with other domains and entity types is really hard, and this works great on something that most people would never realize would be so hard!
I agree. If you want the "clean" straight line from the git DAG just use --no-ff in your PR system and you get a nice clean integration log with things like git log --first-parent (git praise --first-parent, git bisect --first-parent) and can still keep the extra history around for those of us that find it useful when investigating things 5/10 years down the road.
And not funneling me out to install the awful Yelp app just to read restaurant ratings. :|
My phone is the electronic device I use the most (not counting my work laptop, which I don't own), so I'm going to wait a couple of days to make sure there are no glaring issues before I install the update.
I am waiting for someone to make a spoof of Ask Jeeves called Ask Allah.
Thank you! This is an important milestone for ClickHouse and will benefit the entire ecosystem.
iOS 15 is available today
None of those are exclusive to America. Not even the first one. Get sick in Europe? Best hope overpriced Ibuprofen works or you're gonna do a hell of a lot of waiting. Just to get some dipshit who tells you to take a paracetamol and chill.

Try to get a fucking job in Europe. No one is hiring because you're a tax burden. "But you're protected". Just not for the first 6 months. Or anytime they decide to fire you for bullshit reasons and you get told to move the fuck out of your decent apartment and drain your bank accounts if you want any benefits.

Friends? Heh.

Shows? Overpriced and garbage.
One of the biggest ones (focus modes) might not be, as well as SharePlay (if it uses a new platform SDK). But new maps features totally could be an app update. I’m guessing apple has determined it to be more beneficial to do one big update at the same time instead of incrementally adding features to apps.
How do you fix a corrupt government with a government of the same corrupt politicians who enabled them to get this much power in the first place?
> With a deep learning model reducing all the reviews to "book names" you've successfully removed the value of the book discussions themselves.

It literally shows each comment in full that it extracted the book name from. It also includes a link to the comment in the original thread. What more could you possibly want?
tl;dr of the comparison post:
BioSequences (from BioJulia) used to be slower than Seq, with most of that time spent on input validation (which Seq does not do). After this paper, BioSequences was performance-tuned, so that it's now on par with Seq in speed, while still retaining input validation and other benefits.

> With the updates, BioSequences [2.X] rivals Seq in speed while keeping its advantages of a lower memory footprint and doing data validation.
Frankly, there should be no situation where the government should be allowed to use its resources against an individual without that individual having access to representation. It's a right in the criminal realm and it's a damn shame that the government is using that (and charging inanimate objects) to get around those protections.

People think they have rights, until the system decides you're an outsider and tramples all over you to the applause of the society (the in group).
I wonder if upgrading to iOS 15 will increase the chance of receiving this spyware when they do roll it out?

I mean 15.X - 15.Y will likely occur automatically while the phone is connected to WiFi and charging.. but 14 to 15 should require user approval, meaning we should be safe as long as we never upgrade >14..?
Not even on the map right now, but interesting to me, is a thicker front end alike GraphQL sort of systems, but using REST.

There's no reason we can't have a good intermediated rest client, no reason we can't re-emerge many of the same ideas of the client-side data-store that GraphQL happens to promote. Ideally there'd be some good service worker implementations, linked-data powering the thing.

As usual though, the radical though is rarely channeled into improving the status quo, revamping it, reconceptualizing & reframing it: radical thought starts over, rebuilds, ignores the current, breaks for something new, fresh, unconstrained.
You keep saying what they don't want to, but remember that most users of Excel are not programmers in the traditional sense. I'd wager that most of them aren't even aware of the things you say they don't want.

It's not that you don't need to follow modern software practices. It's that they don't know about them to follow them or not. Further, Excel is almost pure thought stuff. The distance between the user's idea and their implementation is almost as small as we can get without investing in a lot of educational outreach. And then they end up going crazy with macros because they don't know there are other or better ways to do it.

Also, "modern" Excel (not sure which version, maybe 2007 or 2010?) has largely obviated the need for macros with the addition of tables and functions for interacting with them. It turns Excel into a kind of relational database permitting something close to functional relational programming as described in "Out of the Tar Pit" [0].

[0] http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf
I like to say that, just like matter can be regarded as frozen energy, data can be regarded as frozen actions. I would not be surprised if physicists eventually regarded both phenomena as isomorphic.
Looks like it was available via beta.icloud.com (With an iCloud+ subscription):

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/25/icloud-custom-email-dom...
I've been running the developer beta on the 6S since the beginning. Seems just fine to me!
In my head, blurring is a “visual hash”.

It’s difficult or impossible to derive the original information from the output, but if you have a small enough keyspace you can generate all of the blurred (“hashed”) versions and compare the results.
This is it right here. The 'no expectation of privacy in public' mantra is increasingly extending into places that I absolutely have an expectation of privacy.
Yup, been there done that. Google photos search is miles ahead, and the main reason I use the app (aside of obviously the cloud backup)
Years ago I wrote some VBA that exports all the VBA in an Excel file. I ran this script manually from time to time so I could add my code to version control. Excel should make it easier to separate the code from the data. For the former you probably want the entire commit history, for the latter you usually only want the current state.
Amazon’s AI Cameras Are Punishing Drivers for Mistakes They Didn’t Make
You don't have to read too much to find it! Why 'presumably'?
I felt that to be true as I had never heard of it, and by the mid 80s if there was one PC everyone was talking about, it was the Commodore 64. Even years later when I got on the internet and tried to figure out what exactly it was that I learned to program on, it took a bit of work to find out what the exact model was and to find any real info about it.

But maybe its regional- I was also a small child (7-10ish) when I used it and even the adults around me rarely used computers, and when they did it was in an office context- like one for the entire office.
Humm. gotcha. thank you
On the other side, you get "Sup, the fuck do you want? I'm not getting paid enough for this shit"
Any recommendations for introductory reading in this area?
I wouldn't say it's a semantic argument, it's just that the semantics are a bit overloaded. The stored data is useful as a "proof of work" in the cryptocurrency sense, but it's not useful in every other sense of the word, i.e. it's not used to represent meaningful information like like text, application binaries, images, audio etc.
Was there a new feature? My AirPods have been on FindMy for a long time already.
Right now the ranking is a simple combination of sentiment and length. Including #vote definitely sounds useful!
At my previous company, I was caught in a mass layoff (best I can estimate is it was ~10 employees at a site with ~200? It's been 12 years and my memory is fuzzy). The company was known for annual layoffs of a handful of people, and the typical timeframe for it was approaching.

Around 4 or so weeks before, I started receiving unusual interest in projects I was working on, as in my 2nd line manager (boss's boss) dropping by to make various inquiries - how's it going, remember to write up some documentation/process, do you think you'll get to the XYZ portions). It was unusual since my supervisor and I didn't talk about that during our one-on-one meetings - a more natural flow would be for boss's boss to follow up on issues I raised with my boss, or for him/her to relay their questions through my boss, not for him/her to inquire directly.

Second oddity was that weekend or the next weekend. I stopped by the office for a few hours Sat morning, and saw another even higher level manager, maybe my 3rd line manager (can't remember who reported on up etc). But I was previously a direct report of the 3rd line manager so it wasn't weird to say hi and chat. They asked what I was doing there on a weekend and if anybody specifically asked me to come in. Well no... at the time I thought it was a little odd to ask that.

Third odd sign was I put in a vacation request for Fri and Mon two weeks in advance, and it got denied. With the reason "you are scheduled for XYZ class on that Fri", and oh, I hadn't heard that class was coming or I was added to it. It was weird because typically they'd send email and ask who is interested in XYZ, we're thinking of bringing in a class, of these days which is good, etc. To find out you are in a class next week by denying a vacation request? That was weird. I asked around various coworkers and nobody else was scheduled for that class or even knew it was coming. Big red flag.

Final sign was the Tue before, boss emailed and said I could have Fri off after all. No mention of Mon off too, and no mention of class details the Tue before the class.

I figured out the layoff day moved to Thu so I would get Fri off anyway and of course I would have Mon off too (boss slipped up not mentioning it).

And sure enough, I get in Thu, I hear rumors that layoffs are occurring. After checking email and seeing nothing, I went up to the sales area (errand to run) and saw a few employees in tears while packing up. I return and my boss is looking for me, asking where I was, and oh we need to have a meeting right now. 2nd line manager is there and someone else I didn't recognize (i.e. the HR rep). Suspicions confirmed as I looked in from the hallway.
GitLab employee here - that is true of GitLab too.

But I agree the bigger challenge than any tooling challenge is getting the team convinced that starting a PR/MR early is not only okay but also the way to operate. Creating physiological safety around it as well as making iteration a part of the day to day workflow is a challenge but an important one.
Hard to have a 4th amendment if the government can invade your privacy and fish for crimes without evidence.
I'd agree with the GP that for weight loss CICO is the only thing that matters. However, if you can find some method (restricting carbs, restricting fats, only eating during set times, etc) that naturally results in a calorie deficit and you can stick with then go far it. Just because you don't think of it as CICO doesn't mean it isn't the underlying cause of your weight loss.
Not necessarily. There's a lot of dark arts to merges and there's a lot that can be hidden in them. If you've never heard of, as just one for instance, the git rerere cache and campfire horror stories of how it can be corrupted consider yourself lucky.
That's right. Germany exports when the sun is shining and the prices are low to Switzerland and Austria who use it to pump water up the Alps. When there is no sun in Germany, they buy it back at a high price from Switzerland and Austria who convert the stored water to electricity.
Can you give an example of the type of search where Apple photos fails but Google photos succeeds? I only use Apple photos, but it supports my use case of date/location/"object detection" search, but wondering if I'm missing out on something much better.
Sorry, guess my sentence wasn't clear. I meant that _because_ it isn't Chromium based, I find it interesting.
On iPad if you scroll immediately when you land on the article (to make the browser chrome hide) you’ll get trapped on the page when the modal (paywall) dialog comes up.
2G? I got this via email six days ago: (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

"WCSO: Washtenaw County — The Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office is informing residents that cell phone carriers have begun decommissioning 3G networks. This means your older style 3G models of Tracfones, flip phones, Jitterbugs, etc. will no longer have the ability to make calls, including to 911."
The notification upgrades look promising! I always thought iOS was way behind Android in terms of customizing notification modes, and how each app behaves in each mode.
I honestly doubt it. They will likely roll this out to both latest versions. I think they said as much.
Of course it's hard, but note that the volcano eruptions happened one year before the, so there's a year to prepare. Ideally you plant human edible food in the first place. As for "those lucky enough to survive this pandemic"... most people didn't die. It's only a small minority that actually died from covid. It's been significantly more than would die usually, so this was extremely annoying for the healthcare system, but it's not been sth. like the plague or so.
A bit of overkill ???.

I have backup LTE dongle if my fibre conks out but it happened a few times last year - we had 2 hourly power cuts so the CPE device would send a DHCP request when it rebooted.

The local POP DHCP server then got flooded with DHCP requests so no connectivity but it was addressed by the provider - also added a battery to CPE as well.
I once read in a book (no idea how accurate it was) that a baseball like throw could jar the WWII era detonators in such a way as to cause a premature detonation so such a throwing motion was....cautioned against.
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Either turn off automatic updates or don't. You're overanalyzing this.
I disagree.

It sounds like OP has found that six different ways to connect to the Internet is the minimum that is viable for him, and that meeting that is important enough to justify spending a large portion of his limited budget (both financially and in terms of space in/on his vehicle).

If one fork does the job, one fork is enough. If five way to connect aren’t enough, then maybe six will be enough :)
You can do that already since 14.5. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212226

But only in the US and mainland China for some bizarre reason.
Did they removed the code? commented it or defaulted it to off for now but the code is there and ready to scan.
The best the supreme court has managed to say about it is that some instances could violate the eigth ammendment. Thr courts have been pretty careful to prevent setting any real precedents that wouod limit these laws.
It doesn't matter if something is good when it's in blatant violation of the law of the land (the 4th amendment, particularly).
I do that sometimes. I'm being 100% serious.

I get bureaucrats talk about building slow and expensive process controls to prevent someone from doing something stupid. I counter with the fact that we don't need the controls because my employees know I will simply fire the person if they do it.
The only feature I am looking forward to is “live text” where it lets me simply copy text in images. That can be quite handy.
Go to any sizable wiki page and click the first wiki link, then repeat. The theory goes that eventually you will end up at Philosophy. For example Eddie Vedder took seven clicks to reach Philosophy.

It's not a law, however. "Township High School District 211" sent me into an infinite loop:

United States

Contiguous United States

Alaska

U.S. State

United States

Perhaps I should edit one of the pages to prevent that...?
Well, maybe you have to remember the capacities of these days. If my memory serves me right, a "good" computer for win98se was 64 MB of RAM. But of course, there were plenty of "less powerful" ones still running, with 32 or even 16 MB of RAM.
With such limitation, I can see how a 800x600 BMP image can become a drain on RAM. The swap engine tries to make up for it transparently by using swap space on spin-disk HDD, but then, it becomes sloooow.
I crawled about 20k books from Amazon. Thanks for pointing me openlibrary!
Yeah this is more about not having people starve than having people eat their optimal meal.
Why do you think police were on the scene when Floyd died? Was it because had committed "some crime" in the past?
Any job or grad program that requires a college degree but will accept any and all majors is engaging in pure credentialism.
Nice thing about Matrix is you can also have your own server. That would break the integration that is the focus of this article, but it's still significant as Discord starts banning more and more people for having the wrong kind of thoughts :p
Curious why you believe you need in the box thinking to thrive at a FAANG. I haven’t seen anything more than what you’d need to keep up with customer expectations of what your kind of company should be able to do.
I'm long past the point of believing anti-vaxxers who insist on loudly cosplaying this like it's the Holocaust should be welded into their homes if only because it's a lot cheaper than building camps for them to really enhance that cosplay they themselves opted into.

And you don't even have to actually weld them in there all you need to do is put ankle monitors on them.
Sure, but there's a season why these forfeiture laws, as terrible as they have turned out to be, came into being. The claim was that criminals with large assets who realized they were under investigation would do something to "squirrel away" their wealth, putting it out of reach if they were caught. The justification for the law(s) was to preemptively grab stuff to avoid this possibility.
EU wants ‘Chips Act’ to rival US
What about, "do no wrong"?
Current discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28596259
These are just small examples by nature.

See e.g. https://github.com/chr15m/c64core for a non-trivial project in nbb.
Is that based on the idea fired means for cause and laid off means not? Many people and jurisdictions say fired includes both.

The end of an intensely bad experience can be the beginning of another.
Reporting accidents, hazards, and speed traps has been in there since iOS 14.
I disagree - humor is really useful as a communication tool. If you are naturally inclined towards humor, don't suppress it entirely. I've found it useful once in a blue moon to indirectly make the point everyone is thinking but nobody wants to acknowledge. But more generally I've found it useful to put people at ease at the start of a meeting where I need people sharing ideas and feedback.

In my experience, there are two types of humor that should be avoided, which I learned the hard way:

* Punching down (including joking about doing harm from a position of power)

* Sarcasm/cynicism in public channels, especially when it's directed at specific people/teams.
Uuh, I wonder how visual lookup will compare to Google Lens. I almost never use google assistant because of privacy concerns, and having it done locally sounds wonderful.
(Although, on a second look, the website doesn't mention whether it's local or not. I just know Siri is now partly done on device).
Frustrated trying to just do normal human things because you're blocked by corporations and are powerless against them? Have you tried Just Don't Do That (TM)? Instead of doing what you wanted, try doing something we allow you to do. Powered By Technology Systems (R) will help you maximize what little agency you still have left, namely, to sit in your residence and consume the internet. The real world is no longer hospitable for humans, so just don't do anything!
US systems of authority often specialize in conflicts of interest. I think it's obviously by design, both sides ride the gravy train (govt / private sector). The FDA gets ~46% ($2.7b of $5.9b for 2019) of its operational funding from the pharma industry. The telecom industry and FCC exchange employees routinely, as do Wall Street and the Treasury & Fed. The specialization makes sense, however these prominent figures, so primed for conflict of interest, should clearly be barred from doing that for N time (5-10 years at least).
>A school issued laptop is not going to wear out any faster or slower depending on what you type on it.

Except you know, all the non-hardware related issues computers can face such as viruses, ransomware, etc.

>And there's clearly no restriction here against personal use.

I'll need a source on that. My kids school laptop comes with strict "no personal use" instructions.
If you look at it as reducing their liability for hosting CSAM, then more likely it’ll become a requirement at some point in order to upload your photos to iCloud at all, no matter which version of iOS you’re on.
It's bizarre to me how voters don't understand the importance of keeping tight restraints on law enforcement and government in general.

The government's effort to track ever-smaller transactions at banks will lead to more abuses of power.

https://fee.org/articles/treasury-department-seeks-to-track-...
Being called to the manager's office is stress-inducing for most people and presumably the person was having issues in their role beforehand and was expecting something serious. To make a joke about such things is beyond callous.
It might be easier to use an api instead of having to go through it yourself.
A referendum after Chernobyl forced the Italian government to shut down all nuclear power plants in Italy before the 90s
I would like to see browsers support self-signed certificates as first-class citizens.

This would probably mean supporting both certificate observatories and trust-on-first-use, at the users discretion.
You don't have to prove the crime, you have to show probable cause. Our society would function perfectly fine without government-sanctioned theft ^W^W^W civil asset forfeiture.
> France could be electrically self-sufficient, Germany couldn't

According to what arbitrary criterion?