skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different words, same concept as sparse distributed representation in a hierarchical distribution of neural networks.

Automating the process of learning is non-trivial and making it efficient is an ongoing question.

Vicarious.ai , Hawkins Numenta, cortical.io and various other projects have been chasing this in various guises for many years.

The lottery ticket effect on very large networks can make contrasting different architectures difficult, and this looks suspect. IBM isn't necessarily a powerhouse in this arena, so it'd make sense not to get excited until they verify and expand their theory. It could be that their initial success is entirely coincidental with lotteries and the particulars of the design are a dead end.
User X: buys dildo

Google: X likes dildos

Dildo Salesperson: Google, who likes dildos?

Google: X

User X: deletes dildo receipt email

Salesperson: Is X still into dildos?

Google: Yeah, they just don't like receipts.
Not the commenter, but I’ve been in a similar struggle to find “thw perfect note app” since evernote went South. I’ve been trying Obsidian, Joplin, Bear, and Craft.

A must have for me is a code-block (three backticks enter or similar).

A killer feature would be a rest api so I could integrate with cli tools (bash, jq, grep, etc) without having to parse html.

I’m excited to try this out.
The source is Google (https://workspace.google.com/learn-more/security/security-wh...). Of course you can make the "they are lying" argument for anything, but in this case there would be several billion dollar lawsuits from every large company they signed a contract with if this was actually happening.
> Surely you do not work at Purina

I happen to know a handful of people who started pet food companies, albeit boutique ones. (California.) They all taste their pet foods. I've tried some of the treat biscuits, and they aren't half bad, though I wouldn't necessarily reach for them.

I'm not an expert on cat or dog digestion. But I think anything they can eat, humans can, too. (Just not the other way.)
About 10 years ago, I was in a meeting with our security czar and I asked him what he was 'fiddling' around with in his browser toolbar. He replied, "NoScript. Highly recommended." Ever since then, I've become adept at picking out the 'minimum' amount of JS required to enable as much website functionality as I require and don't think about it much anymore (unless I'm visiting a new site). Highly recommended!
Does that require all participants to have enabled "Video Bridge Encryption" in Brave Talk?

Does it notify participants when they go over 20 and does then everyone stop encrypting at the same time?
Just curious, why do you keep all that stuff around?
Hi Chris, two questions about phoenix and liveview.

I would like the web app to have good offline support and use localstorage for backing when the connection goes down (re-upload when connection is back up). It it in anyway feasible to add some middleware to the client connection handling of liveview so that it still plays well with it's features?

I've read that it is possible to drop in some bits of JS here and there into the liveview powered page. Is it also possible to do it the other way around and go to drop in liveview "components" into an existing SPA? Throwing away my existing SPA code is quite a loss, but the liveview appeal is certainly there for other parts of the website.

Thanks for the great work on phoenix, it looks quite attractive.
No multiple laptop manufacturers had this same issue. Toshiba and Sony were two of them. Heat was the cause but it was operating within the specs of the GPU manuafacturer. The issue that soured NVidia with these manufacturer was when it came to fixing the issues they told them to go suck it. Example when Seagate had an entire batch of 2.5 drives dying within a year of manufacturing, they worked with Apple and HP to get them replaced and the cost was shared by both.

Also NVidia has issues with their driver development and refuse to let Apple have a say in it.
One does not just choose to change their mind, and is born anew.

The journey out is likely as long as the journey in, with many challenges, and much sacrifice.

To better understand, seek the experience and wisdom of other former cult members.
I think it's fair to assume that this technology is feasible at this point. McGinnis' other company, Mattershift, specializes in these kinds of membranes. IIRC they started in the desalination world, but have since found other applications.

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2018/03/20180310-mattershif...
Very similar to my play style.
The problem that this could address is the FDA is slow and has an all or nothing approach. This means:

1) Timing: There are people who suffer and die while products are held up in lengthy phase 3 approvals.
2) Human Impact: There are drugs& devices which are safe, but have weak efficacy data. For some like aducanumab, if they work, they could help millions of people today. This puts the FDA in a tough spot weighing a big potential benefit to society against things medicare costs for a low/no efficacy drug.

Im personally not advocating for throwing open the gates to any snake oil. I think a reasonable proposal would be to require robust data on safety, a strong argument for why it should work, and require monitoring of efficacy after approval.

If time tells that your magic pills dont work, they get pulled from the market.
If time tells that they do work, you get your gold star

The first link in this post explains it better than I can.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28620621
A Reflection Pertaining to the Babyish Religion of Science
I think that several of the fallacies of distributed computing are being ignored here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...
It’s not only about gmail. The google suite is unbeatable in terms of functionality and UX.
Simply put, especially in a 2FA worlds, emails need to be a right. Let's say you have a government account tied to your gmail account. Gmail locks you out. The government then tied your ssn to that email account. How do you sign up for the government account now that google has effectively prevented you from interacting with the government?

That kind of stuff needs to end. Email's are required to conduct business and interact with the govenrment nowadays. A private company should not be allowed to just remove your ability to interface with businesses online. My bank can't effectively steal all my money and close my accounts just because I have a personal viewpoint or hell, even committed a felony! But for some reason (especially redditors) people think it's okay for a private company to shut someone down entirely just because of some form of speech or whatever reason simply because it's a private entity.
Seems like a variant of a Siamese network which uses binarized embedding vectors for predictions instead of the raw embedding vectors. What exactly is the novelty presented here?
And http://opalang.org/
This reminds me a lot of imba[1], which mixes the front end and the back end. Though ReactiveClojure seems to be more about reasoning in terms of a lisp for all parts of the app, whereas imba is more focused on reducing syntax noise as much as possible.

[1] https://imba.io
You beat me to the joke by 29 minutes and have an even more clever name!

Of course, until the coming of the railroads, it hardly mattered that Peoria's noon was 6 minutes after Chicago's, to pick an example. Now that disparity just won't do.
As people mentioned elsewhere in this thread, kinesis does have split keyboards (the freestyle / edge line). And you can choose your switch type in case you want a quiet keyboard.
> intention is clearly that the consumer be able to charge any phone using a generic usb-c charger

The stated intention is to reduce e-waste. Removing the cable altogether accomplishes that goal.
Something like aerosolized salt from a humidifier using tap water is essentially harmless. But it still counts as PM2.5
An upvote for you -- also using the site as intended...
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You're overestimating anyone's ability to spend years trying to hack a single target with documentation that likely no longer exists when there are likely both easier and more profitable targets out there.
> How about we push penalties misleading advertising and deceptive marketing that Tesla is know for?

Why are these issues in competition with one another?
> That system, by design, has conquered the boom/bust cycle

Either that, or it has simply deferred it. Remember that was once said about the US too.

Complexity is hard to tame and prone to punctuated equilibrium. If you eliminate the complexity, you end up with brittleness, which is prone to catastrophic failure.

One difference between your analysis and the Economists is that nobody will remember a hacker news comment that was proven wrong.
I wonder if three-letters are maintaining a private stash of patches to fix some of the vulnerabilities they're hoarding.
DNS + MITM proxy is what I use. When I'm away from home I still VPN back in and go through the proxy. Besides adblocking, it also applies various page filters to make a few frequently-used sites more usable.
> misleading advertising

They notoriously don't advertise. Are you referring to the after-savings price calculator on the sales pages?
Winged Microchips Are the Smallest Flying Machines Made by Humans
How about "Flying Microchips Size of Sand Grain Could Be Used For Population Surveillance"
It's not a Google thing; it's an Amazon thing. Amazon is hyper-paranoid about leaking any aspect of its purchase history data; that's what it considers the "special sauce" every bit as much as Facebook guards its social graph or Google guards the ad fraud detection algorithm.
Talking about product testing is a deliberate red herring, though. Nobody was talking about some web designer using adblock during the process of implementing ads on a site. That would be a very difficult hurdle to put in front of yourself.
> Since most bugs only trigger under rare circumstances

That's true of old games (when updates couldn't be delivered), but certainly not any newer AAA game at release that I can think of.
I think you are correct.

Epic has already moved the Overton Window, as 30% is now being considered unfair by more and more people.

These people will then reach out to their representatives for change. Apple will attempt to fight the tide, but it is too late.

Really, Apple is just a monopoly, an illegally bundled system (both with macs and iphones) intending to control the market.

There is no reason why Apple should control the lion's share of profits around mobile apps.
I pay $11 / mo and have all of those things. GSuite/Workplace doesn’t run any ads or extraneous tracking, their corporate customers would never allow it.
Similar experience here! Love the keyboard but wow it's a learning curve
You aren't wrong, but as far as I'm aware, the majority of content on the Instagram app is accessible via an instagram.com URL. That's what I mean by glorified browser. If apple is "banning" that app because of the content but that content is still available on the device via apple's own Safari, did they really ban anything?

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The question is "when legally is apple responsible for UGC on instagram's servers?" That's the real question. Otherwise this would be moral grandstanding by Apple.

I'm pretty sure if anyone tried to sue Apple for "distributing objectionable content" they'd run to "we aren't responsible for what's on Instagram's servers." How responsible SHOULD Apple be for data hosted on instagram's servers?
Crack dealers smoke their own crack to ensure they give out a good supply
No. Falcon 9 never costs less then $50-60 million for costumers. $30 million is maybe internal cost for SpaceX (likely SpaceX is lower by now).

The Dragon however is more expensive then the rocket itself.

I would be shocked if it was less then $150M.
The context here is Amazon doing that to prevent Google mining that data, not to take away users' control.
Yes upon further reflection perhaps its more a rule of thumb than getting to specific weight ratio. Its mostly for manufacturers where the appliances were historically non internet connected (i.e. microwave, fridge) and much of the functionality is not internet related versus a tablet whose sole purpose is connectedness.

Its mostly about providing support for a "non-interconnected" UX mode which doesn't bug to create an account with the manufacturers website or even more frustratingly bug you constantly about being unable to access the manufacturer's cloud servers which are no longer being maintained by the manufacturer themselves.

And the point of it is perhaps less of a "there should be regulation" and more of a - as an end consumer - might as well post this on a forum where there are likely consumer electronics product managers for said devices viewing comments and getting some gears and mind shifts going.
you might also be interested in the recent work on "resonator networks" VSA architecture [1-4] by Olshausen lab at Berkeley (P. Kanerva who created the influential SDM model [5] is one of the lab members).

It's a continuation of Plate [6] and Kanerva work in the 90s and Olshausen' groundbreaking work on sparse coding [7] which inspired the popular autoencoders [8].

I find it especially promising they found this superposition based approach to be competitive with optimization so prevalent in modern neural nets. May be backprop will die one day and be replaced with something more energy efficient along these lines.

[1] https://redwood.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/frad...

[2] https://redwood.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/kent...

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06734

[4] https://github.com/spencerkent/resonator-networks

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_distributed_memory

[6] https://www.amazon.com/Holographic-Reduced-Representation-Di...

[7] http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Sparse_coding

[8] https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs294a/sparseAutoencoder.pdf
I get that and I agree with you but then if it's a project why do I need to ask for early access, if it's a product then why launch a web tech on notion? one would expect to build the website with the so called web language and have the proof in the pudding like they say.
Probably the lies of “autopilot” and “full self driving.”
It took me years to find a split, ergo-style keyboard with mechanical keys, but I finally did. The freestyles have them, but I don't like the super flat layout.

https://c9ergo.com/

I am loving the split, angled setup with my preferred Cherry MX Blues.
> It has little foreign debt.

This is only true at the national level.

Cities, provinces, and large companies (if large enough, act as tentacles of the government) are incredibly indebted and much of it is foreign.

More than that, China has a lot of foreign debt denominated in US dollars so any spike in inflation will massively hurt.
It's not like killing it will make your emails from Amazon better. Now that Amazon realizes that data can be scraped by anyone, they won't leak it again.
I think you could have both. Static home page with a link to "Experience Prometheus".
>Unfortunately not at all. Because distributions set up disk encryption the way they do, and only bind it to a user password, an attacker can easily duplicate the disk, and then attempt to brute force your password.

I think this "not at all" is a bit strong. With a good enough passphrase and a slow key derivation algorithm bruteforcing the key should be impossible in practice.

The key derivation takes about 2s for my root partition for instance, fast enough that it really doesn't make a difference for a legitimate user but slow enough to be hugely impractical to bruteforce, especially given that I use a long, random passphrase.

On the other hand the author is entirely right that this setup is rather simple to backdoor for a sophisticated attacker, but it does a good job of protecting the data at rest.
Tesla...doesn’t advertise?

I have never once seen an ad for Tesla.
The sr72 has 2 advantages over satellites.

1) satellites are very predictable, so it's possible to hide things from them.

2) satellites are very very far away, so the sr72 can get better pictures by dint of being closer.

This article touches on both examples where satellites were predicted and planned around and some discussion of satellite imagery limitations: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/05/758038714/can-president-trump...
This one has a bit more focus on resolution and capbilities: https://www.universetoday.com/143298/thanks-to-trump-weve-go...
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Ever
On the contrary, it's sort of a way to give users more control over their data.

I work for another online retailer and have been involved in discussions about this same topic (order information in emails we send), and the way we looked at it was that:

- Gmail collects this data from emails

- The overwhelming majority of users are unaware of this data collection

- If we included the data in the email, while knowing that Gmail was collecting it and knowing that most users are not aware, that was tantamount to us just willingly handing over the data to Google without the users' consent

Because of this, we asked ourselves if users would likely feel upset with us willingly handing over data to Google without consent, and we decided that yes they would. So we made a trade off to not include that data in emails because we thought that was more important than the hit to UX we would take from making the emails less informative.

Either way we had to make a decision on behalf of our customers and we knew that no matter which one we chose, we knew some portion of users would be unhappy and decided to go with the more privacy-conscious choice.
I've used QOwnNotes which is open source and cross platform Windows/OSX/Linux, but sadly I don't think there's a mobile version...

Using HTML instead of Markdown gives some nice advantages if you want to use more than just text, so I am going to give this new app a try.
It looks like there is a section called "Smart features and personalization" in the GMail settings (not the general Google account settings; specifically the GMail settings) under the General tab.

It indicates that "Gmail, Chat, and Meet may use my email, chat, and video content to personalize my experience and provide smart features. If I opt out, such features will be turned off."

It's strange that this major privacy setting is buried specifically in the GMail section and not mentioned in the main Google account Privacy Checkup. I never knew it existed.
Reminds me of the "snarks" in Off Armageddon Reef.
Seeing how frequently the Xbox phoned home even when it was “off” prompted me to switch the settings from “instant on” to “power save” mode.
I completely replace the entire set of secure boot keys with my own (no MS keys at all)

for my desktop PC I had to sign the graphics card option ROM digest myself (which was a pain)

however for my Thinkpad none of this was necessary as the firmware was stored inside the UEFI image
Some of the technical details:

https://www.science.org/news/2019/07/former-playwright-aims-...
Growing up in California, one thing we were taught as kids is that pet food is safe for human consumption, and can be used for food after an earthquake as emergency rations.

It won't taste good, but it will prevent starvation!
You're omitting the actual socialist solution here which is to nationalize Evergrande. That does mean that shareholders take the maximum haircut, but the stock has already crashed and that is already baked in. The executives of Evergrande will also take the maximum haircut, so there's no moral hazard there.

And Evergrande's balance sheet is massive and there's real value there, it isn't like its all worthless speculation and by nationalizing it the government likely stands to make a massive profit long-term by continuing operations.

This won't be done under the American model where the government makes massive bailout loans to private corporations to keep them going and executives still survive.

The question of what to do about Evergrande's debts is where it gets stick, but wiping the debt out via nationalization and maximal refusal of China to honor those debts is pretty unlikely. Because China is concerned about the "normal citizen" they can easily do the math and see how the contagion effect of that would destroy the financial system and land hardest on the "normal citizen", so they won't do that. They also don't want to make a decision with geopolitical implications and detonate the global financial system through cascading defaults. That isn't good for anyone and China would be blamed for it (and right after the pandemic that started in China this is one they'll certainly want to avoid).

Due to moral hazard concerns they'll probably enforce some kind of haircut so everyone feels a bit of pain, but it won't look like a complete default.
How will they make immigration attractive?
A big part of China's boom is the cultural requirement for Chinese men to own a house before they get married, but the one-child-policy has meant slow Chinese population growth and there is no reason for the real estate market to be this frothy outside a handful of big cities.
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Ok, so let's say the lowest externality food will be a baseline. For example peas. Grains are higher, so we would also tax grains? And we would grow this until the highest - beef. Or is there going to be "accepted externality"? If so, why those who suggest taxing meat more suggest the cutoff right between plants and meat?
Similar to aijony, and something I will be writing in a followup article. Off the top of my head, and based on my experience so far, my biggest would be:

1. Guix is written in Guile Scheme, and I love anything Lisp (a joy to work with)

2. System configuration in one file, no more remembering all the random /etc/ files or tweaks here and there, it is all together

3. Easy package transformations: update source, different git branch, add a patch

4. Rollbacks of both the system configuration and packages (something breaks, just go back)

5. Minor, but user installation of packages is nice, rarely need to reach for sudo now

6. Active and friendly community. The project has plenty of steam I'd say, but is small enough you can get involved and contribute. I've enjoyed writing some patches and packages.

7. Overall, just a different way of doing a distro and running a system (nix is similar). It has been fun to learn and use, getting me excited for Linux again.
California governor signs warehouse productivity quota bill into law
Anyone who transmits your money, including CC companies, have to comply with KYC and AML laws. I believe this might include Google Pay, but I don’t see how this would include Gmail for cases where you didn’t use Google Pay.
This sort of nonsense is primarily why I avoid using Google products.
It depends somewhat on the productivity of the firm bailed out. If we imagine that this firm contributes nothing to GDP, and bailing it out amounts to handing the principals money to spend on consumer goods, this would be net inflationary. But if the bailout preserves or expands productive capacity for goods for which there is effective demand, my intuition is that there need not be inflation.

This is the sort of thing that's very hard to discuss without a formalization of production functions, elasticities of demand, etc.
> Genocide of the Uighurs

It's not genocide in the conventional sense. As no people are killed. Maybe a cultural genocide.
I assume this is so they can stop retargeting you for stuff you’ve already purchased. Maybe also for general conversion tracking and market insights.
Somewhere after right-to-repair comes prohibiting built-in obsolescence and I suspect we'll get there eventually, as environmental awareness among younger generations becomes more influential on consumer spending if not before.

But we can bet that plenty of businesses will try to play the kinds of games you're talking about first.
just because their motives may not be true or earnest, does not mean the problem is not real.