skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot deny the observation. I am not from the privileged, ivy league educated, nurtured and after all I am not an American, but I see the same patterns in Europe and cannot come up with any constructive suggestions.

As you can see, I don't search approval. I write from a big distance and react.

And seeing the individuals attacking the character of the messenger without getting the message makes me sad. Really sad.

When I started creating things for the web I had no idea that my web-browser in 2021 will look like Christmas Tree from installed plugins and I will modify countless settings in about:config. All of this to have somewhat private browsing experience.

All of this because, we as society cannot find a way to impose regulations and restrictions over a bunch of greedy advertising corporations.

https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2021/08/06/consu...
Incidentally, evaluating an image CDN is my current task at $dayjob. I've been comparing uptimes and, with the caveat that this data is not easy to gather and harder to compare across providers, I just noticed that imgix had twenty-five incidents the past year, mostly "Elevated Rendering Errors". I take it they're a market leader in the image CDN space but that honestly does not inspire confidence in me. Cheaper providers (Imagekit, Sirv) seem to have better reliability.

(Ofc, another caveat is how accurate do they monitor and report, but---short of running customer sentiment analysis---I don't seem to have a choice other than to assume that factor is roughly equal.)

I guess it's a David-to-Goliath comparison but I would just expect Cloudflare to have better reliability than any of them. Plus, as another reply pointed out, brand recognition helps in getting that budget approval.
It doesn't sound like they include the entire ROM, only the parts necessary to play back the recording. If you "take control", the game may try to access parts of the ROM which are missing, which causes the quote to reset. This happens frequently with the Metroid II example - the Tetris one seems much more robust.
> What i don't understand is why it needed a blockchain and a token

It didn't. It's just marketing, using cool new words, etc. There's a slight advantage ( for the clubs) that it isn't geographically restricted as traditional fan engagement/investment/voting are ( e.g. the german system), and you can have fans from all around the world chip in with money, and doesn't actually represent anything ( being a socio in a fan owned club means you're art of the owners, having a fan token means nothing other than the club making money off you and giving you trinkets and asking your opinion on matters they choose).
DarkReader is great but the slow down is huge.
I'm confused.. it fits the literal definition of withholding:

> To refrain from giving or granting: synonym: keep.
I thought Navalny was better organized than that, given the millions we shower him with and his 50+ staff.
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Is that a good or bad thing? What’s the trade-off being made here?
This is a common problem in Japanese NLP, and while state of the art is using deep learning, almost everyone use dynamic programming or conditional random fields together with a dictionary to solve it.

There also exists research on solving this problem unsupervised which basically invents new word boundaries for a language (remember that spoken languages doesn’t have word boundaries - it was invented for writing and strictly speaking, current spelling isn’t the only way to solve word boundaries for a given language)
It's interesting how the pandemic has changed people's political views in various directions. Personally I've become more anti-authoritarian, on the political compass I've moved a few points further down and slightly to the left (based on the UK Overton window) while also adopting stronger views on constitutionalism and the seperation of powers. I've also become a lot more pessimistic about the power of institutions to act for the common good rather than for the benefit of the socio-economic elite. I'm very much now "I'm more than happy to pay taxes for better social services, but please keep the clumsy, oafish hands of the state out of my personal life before it does any more damage".

I've heard of people going in completely the opposite direction, taking on overtly authoritarian and "might-makes-right" kind of views too. I think the pandemic really gave the moral authoritarians and curtain-twitchers of this world a great big stick to hit everyone else with, which to be honest scares me more than the pandemic itself did.
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Speak for yourself or citation needed as they say.

It's also only anecdata for me, but I do have hobbies that qualify as sports but after an exhausting day at work I want nothing less than to also exhaust my body and this has been a theme forever.

Also doing any kind of exercise in the morning is the worst and it doesn't clear my mind, it makes me want to get back to bed and the motivation to start work is at a complete low. Some people may well feel refreshed or good after exercising, for me it's the complete opposite - but I don't claim authority.
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Best I can figure out is that people feel like they had a moral right to sharing in the founders windfall / feel harmed by the founders having a windfall, and feel they were promised this harm would not come to them.

I understand it feels shitty, but I don't think they have a valid complaint. I certainly don't think we should make a universal law "all companies should offer equity compensation".
It might be worth first reading up on the research being drone performances. The current model is basically what I'd already described (https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2021/04/there-s-no...) but research is happening to use "AI" to navigate swarms (eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KIa9FlmbRc)

The real problem with such research is it might work on a quadcopter with room for a chipset capable of relatively powerful real time compution (be that an off the shelf CPU or something more bespoke), but that doesn't scale down to the grain of sand level. At that point you'll want to offload as much computation overhead as you can. Which, again, brings me back to my original post.

Maybe one day in the distant future (if we haven't annihilated each other first) we'll have the technology to built smart grains of sand. But it's seems pointless theorising about something that might just as easily be deprecated by some other fantasy device by our current technological capabilities.

Anyhow, if you're after a paper on the actual calculations you'd run to convert a database of nearest neighbour coordinates into a matrix that can be used to instruct those robots, then I don't have anything directly to hand on that. When I've looked this stuff up in the past I've found most of the time it was proprietary. Maybe there is a paper I've missed. However I have seen papers doing similar work (in the sense that there is transferable logic) in a two dimensional fields, eg matrix reordering.
Am I the only one that would love that situation to be able to start a new thing on easy mode? You know a lot of the failures, you now have a massive network, you have a big wad of cash.

Bust out the idea bin and make something else!
To cause complete data loss does not need much data to be written. I'm wondering how firmware can distinguish legitimate and malicious ones.
> It doesn't seem to have the same ability for you to give your users a way to upload their own images in a secure way?

This can be handled by a CMS. E.g. Media Cloud, a WordPress plugin that integrates with IMGIX.
Shenandoah is also not generational, at least the implementation I looked at a year ago wasn't.
> The 2% of the young adults who are genuinely interested in science and tech and DIY maker culture will find him regardless where he is.

This isnt true. Finding these kinds of things is nontrivial.

For instance, I hadn't heard of him and neither have, for instance, my friend with a PhD in molecular biology who found this pretty interesting.
And it did, because the West left half way, and never backed Yelzin at finally dismantling the system.

It was critical.

And after he had his second stroke, he was a walking vegetable basically, and the opportunity was lost.

You are very demoralised.
The linked initial (2018) find article has more convincing photos, in my opinion: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/science/camels-sculptures...

Submission from the time, not really discussed (just to save you the search): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16391610
When "anti-lockdown" became an euphemism for a lot of missinformation and lies.
Thanks, I still prefer exactly-zero ms pauses. Maybe that's just me, but I don't think so. And, I don't think I am giving anything up by skipping them.
Bluetooth, that's an interesting feature request. Radio firmware needs to be maintained. People here say they used a iPod Shuffle for 10 years. There's no way any device is going to have a secure Bluetooth stack for 10 years. The chipsets get neglected after a couple of years, IF you are lucky.
Hi guys, I developed a tool to check and find domain names and have been using it for some time. Now, I put them into an application (for MacOS at the moment).

This Domain Tool can help you:

- Find one-word names (support English, Spanish, Dutch, and French)

- Bulk check those names with the flexible option with extensions

Available for MacOS, Windows and Linux

Why a desktop app? I used some name suggestion web app and someday, they just went offline or disappear.

Hope you find it useful. Feedback and question are welcome
The police will only be involved after their scanner has found 30 matches and Apple’s reviewer has manually concluded that it actually is CSAM, so I don’t see how the police is really relevant?

If HOA means home owners association, I don’t see the connection. They can’t influence Apple either.
Have you tried using an ~~XML~~ PDF parser instead? /s

and tried to find which sentence without spaces matches your sentence
A 80 year old woman living in Georgia filing a multi-million dollar lawsuit in LA on a basis of this single sentence harming her professional reputation because she is still competing in senior chess tournaments? Yeah, this doesn't have someone's greed written all over it. More likely not hers too.
The funniest part is, that Windows Server 2012 had a "desktop experience" feature, which basically brought it on par with Windows 8, UI-wise.

It was much more usable if you didn't install it.
It's almost as if she's not a dictator and the majorities both in her party and the German population are not in favor of appropriate measures to lower emissions.
It is important to note, that in Apple's case the problem is made worse by the fact that on iOS there are no ways to install the app bypassing the appstore.

That makes Apple's cooperation with dictators and authocrats so much worse for their users. You know, the people Apple claims to care about and 'protect'.
I’m not against a stemmer, actually, just against the aggressive concordances (?) that Google now employs, like when it shows me X in Banach spaces (the classical, textbook case) when I’m specifically searching for X in Fréchet spaces (the generalization I want to find
but am not sure exists); of course Banach spaces and Fréchet spaces are almost exclusively encountered in the same context, but it doesn’t mean that one is a popular typo for the other! (The relative rarity of both of these in the corpus probably doesn’t help. The farcical case is BRST, or Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin, in physics, as it is literally a single key away from “best” and thus almost impossible to search for.)

On the other hand, Google’s unawareness of (extensive and ubiquitous) Russian noun morphology is essentially what allowed Yandex to exist: both 2011 Yandex and 2021 Google are much more helpful for Russian than 2011 Google. I suspect (but have not checked) that the engine under discussion is utterly unusable for it. English (along with other Germanic and Romance languages to a lesser extent) is quite unusual in being meaningfully searchable without any understanding of morphology, globally speaking.
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I doubt that is true. The loss in the US versus all the money made in Russia and China? A drop in a sea of money. Also not everyone, especially outside the US, sees this as Democracy Vs. Bad regimes. Many see the US and China as equally bad so doing the US' bidding is no better than doing China's.
When Apple said that they will go vigilante to serve their customers?

It's kind of obvious that any claim they make is implied to be within the limits of the government. Like every other legal company ever.

There were no cannabis Apps in the US App Store up until the US decided to allow it. Were the users wronged by Apple when it was illegal?
Either you’re being dense, or trolling here. Regardless, I have a long standing policy of not feeding trolls, so I’ll stop replying now.
What happens when it hits a whiff of groundwater somewhere?

Instasteam?
I really wouldn't trust this if the hardware encryption on SSD's is anything to go by. Microsoft actually defaulted Bitlocker to software encryption because the state of things were so bad.

I'm also wondering how the hashes will be kept up to date. Will it require a host program to communicate with the drive over a proprietary protocol? If so then that arguably makes this pointless, as obviously they're only going to work on Windows.
Hahaha not at all :)
Why is this even relevant? You always have to keep heads of your enemies down. That's basic common sense.

Dictatorships are the enemies of the Free World. Or, do you think they are friends, perhaps?

They are your enemies, and you keep their economies ruined.
And many of the same people likely buy iPhones.
>You're entitled to that opinion, but in a few short months the majority of the ecosystem is expected to be on 11+.

Ooopf.

Only way I see that being possible is if 11+ can be adopted by the ecosystem without significant rewrites of code and build scripts.

Has that situation really improved enough since the nightmare 8 to 11 migration requirements locked in most of the ecosystem on 8 for production builds and where can we read about it?
A Short History of Objective-C (2017)
C++ and Rust.
Just to set the record straight, the skeptics were correct. I was off by 5 years.

I asked someone that was on that trip with me, and it was late 2007.

You know how it is, with us doddering old geezers; we forget stuff...
> At some point we have to accept that 95% of companies do not take security seriously and decide what to do next.

Perhaps we need an food hygiene rating for software? Every year or two every piece of publicly facing software which deals with sensitive data should be audited for security by approved auditors. Failure to pass such an audit would give the company 6 months to address the issue or close the system to customers until the security issue is resolved.

As part of this audit process companies could be given a "security score" which they would be required to display to their customers kind of how UK restaurants have to display their food hygiene rating to customers. Admittedly, I don't pay a huge amount of attention to a restaurant's hygiene rating, but the fact it's there at least gives me confidence that hygiene is being taken at somewhat seriously by any restaurant I visit. I don't feel the same about security on the majority of websites I visit.
100% of the CSAM they scan for is child abuse.
If I've guessed correctly as to who you are reffering to, that product will go EOL next year.
The paper isn't on Sci-Hub yet... Does anyone have access?
You won't be able to exploit Brownian motion.

It's not about power (as in energy over time), but about free energy or entropy.

Brownian motion is essentially just heat. In order to get any useful work out of heat, you need two different temperatures.
somebody think about the children!
> Yes, but is the cause due to COVID or unvaccinated patients?

Given hospitals routinely test for Covid on admission, isn't there a third option? Patients admitted to hospital with non-Covid19 medical issues who then happen to test positive and subsequently get put in the statistics in a total which the media then report as "Covid19 patients in hospital"

See:

"23% of Covid infections in hospital [in the UK] - or nearly one in four - were patients admitted for other reasons"[0]

"More than half of Covid patients in hospital [in the UK] 'tested positive after admission'"[1]

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58030125
[1] https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/more-half-covid-patien...
The sun provides such ridiculous amounts of energy that we needn't worry about that limit for quite some time. Also, the assumption that we need more and more energy per citizen as we advance seems dubious. In developed countries energy use per citizen has been stable or declining for quite some time now.
Well that's a slightly pessimistic angle on it. Thinking about it my offer letter might've said something more like 'you decide', which is a bit more correct than 'unlimited' without the ominous threat of an undisclosed limit.

Perhaps I should have actually 'decided' and written something down if only for myself!
This seems really standard for any archeological article, sadly. Every time with the bait.
This is wrong! I'm german and seeing this every day. It's a commong technique to shut down valid critique, but use edge cases as the argument.
The problem is that everyone is now talking about the app and the prisoner. Good luck putting the genie back in the bottle.
You'd buy long-term financial security with that kind of money.

You'd never have to worry that a significant unplanned expense would ruin your life. You come down with a major medical condition and end up with years of major medical expenses? Some drunk driver T-bones you and totals your car? Lose your job and spend a year or two unemployed? House burns down and you still owe the majority of your mortgage? None of those will ever be a concern again if you hold that $100M job for even a year.
Arbitrary imprisoning or harming the employees of Google or Apple would likely result in many other western IT firms closing their offices and leaving, that would be a very stupid thing to do for the Russian government. So I don’t think such threats could have been real (but I guess you can’t really count on authoritarian regimes not doing something completely irrational).
But aren't those usually on a subscription anyways? Could still be a factor, in theory: they might pull an Oracle pushing all their subscribers onto 11 unless they upgrade to the golden account tier that still receives updates. They actually did this, I think, with 7, but I assume not at a scale that could bring the pattern anywhere close to being a central motivation.
This keeps coming back, albeit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301436

And this sort of ordeal may be way more of a concern with a nuke plant.
Lots of words for a bullshit approach.

In the end, this boils down to polling a web API to download the decryption keys. And at that point, there's nothing stopping you from just storing them.

So their main result is: Encrypted files can be distributed in a public torrent as long as you keep the keys private.

BTW, their feature perturbation is most likely also specific to the architecture of the network being trained. Future architectures will be able to just use their "protected" images as-is.
> I love older generation phones because they're so cheap and your car comparison is perfect because buying a phone new

Agreed. I, for one, have pretty much always bought used, and normally one generation behind. When something new comes out, the older phone is boring, which does knock the price down a little.
First rule of business. Never trust anybody.
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The original iPhone is the device which popularized capacitive touchscreens. Before that, we were using resistive touchscreens [1], if we were using touchscreens. In that sense, it has actually popularized touchscreens as we know them. It is an entire interface which is now not only the market leader in touchscreen in smartphones, it is replacing physical UI practically everywhere (sometimes that may not seem to make sense...). It has also replaced the default UI on websites, and iOS devices yield Apple more profit than macOS (or Mac OS X or whatever predecessor) ever did. Its huge.

[1] My printer (Brother) has a resistive touchscreen and every time I have to use it, I'm reminded how much resistive touchscreens suck.
Could the same thing be accomplished with rank choice voting?
If the founders take the cash and build, I dunno, the world's biggest yacht, that's a waste.

No, that would pay a lot of skilled workers a damn good wage for a couple of years. Yachts employ a lot of highly paid people.
Parts of GOV.UK [1] and the Paris.fr website [2] are also good examples

[1] https://github.com/DFE-Digital?q=&type=&language=ruby&sort=

[2] https://www.paris.fr
I'm fairly sure you'd have to piss off an intelligence service for them to bother spying on you personally with a satellite though, which isn't exactly part of the threat model for people who simply want to avoid "casual" privacy invasions from things like mobile networks.
We actually monitor each individual byte of memory accessed, then add some (configurable) padding around those bytes to make the quotes more durable.

You can see what that looks like in this visualization of the Racoon demo: https://tenmile.quote.games/quote-visualizer.html#drop=https...
With some exceptions, essentially yes. You might want to think about this in the way that you design your app too. Exposing relevant APIs as needed.

You could always avoid that whole ecosystem and write your own from scratch. Because of how rich the ecosystem is you can do that at essentially any point. From the hardware itself up to UI frameworks. Depending on where you decide to build people may call you more or less crazy but nothing is stopping you.

The nice thing about having so much of that stuff exposed as APIs of someone else's software is that you can (theoretically) let them focus on debugging, improving, and updating their part of the software (that you happen to be using).

Meanwhile you get to focus on that thing you're an expert in or desperately need, the thing that doesn't already exist as a library, API, or App. Thats the actual valuable thing to work on. Which again, may turn out to be some random thing in the middle of the stack you think you could do better. Lots of great software was written that way!
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But if you have a large living forest, the cycle of each tree will mean that the forest as a whole will store a lot of co2?

There's no point in looking at individual trees.
Yes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-911ef4f8bd...
I read it. Its at best unhelpful and misguided and at worst actively harmful to the stated goals.

Ultimately he is advocating for a political solution for what he believes is an economic problem.

The issue here is that the cause of the problems he wants to resolve is not an economic problem at all, but a political choice.

The proposal of preventing companies from purchasing property, for example is a clear cut example. I want to be clear here, any shortage of housing anywhere in the developed world is the direct result of government policy intended to drive that shortage, not due to physical space limitations, or limitations driven by corporate greed (beyond where that intersects with politics)
Is it? I’d love to believe you, but I doubt it’s the case. Almost every public company that had something to lose would act the same way under these circumstances..