skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reference for what exactly? That input dimensionality is important when determining net size? That seems quite self-explanatory; try training a image classifier with only 100 parameters.

Maybe I understood that question wrong, but regardless, even if early stopping wasn't implemented, a NN would have more predictive power than the hash mapping. Both would be completely overfit on the training data set, yet the NN would most likely be able to make some okay guesses with OOD data.
Thanks for the response, I'm not familiar with Markcopy.ai, jenni.ai, but the others are "toys" if we're being honest (although as I said - very cool toys). You wouldn't want to use GPT-3 to recommend drugs for a condition you feed it...would you? As far as I understand, this is the kind of problem Cyc is trying to solve with it's domain-specific rules.

edit: Cyc can also tell you why it gave the response it did - something that deep nets cannot do. This is important in many fields, otherwise you cannot trust any response it produces.
Creating Font Based on Ancient Japanese Dictionary
Good god what is with their obsession with scrip? Scrip payments have already been banned and it wasn't even a winning strategy for its users! You might as well raise concerns about the Kaiser going militant or the Shogun holding a coup in Japan.

I am seriously sick of people writing execrable impromptu science fiction and presenting it as reality.
Both proud and embarrassed to say I've had 150+ open Safari tabs persisting across three Mac laptops and five years of OS updates.
This is not a zero sum game. By providing funds for necessities, there will be increased demand. This demand will spawn new supply, which will bring prices back down. If this child tax credit is left in place, it should cause our economy to restructure some, paying more attention to essentials for children. Those providing for these needs create jobs, further economic activity, and tax revenue.
it feels like we're conflating two issues here: fixing the bug on time and paying out the researcher. at the point where the bug is too complicated to fix within SLA and the exception has been escalated to senior leadership, surely the bug bounty team can pay the researcher?
> While the Child tax credit has been increased, it's been on a steady increase for a while, and the net amount hasn't changed that much.

From what I can tell, it increased by 80%[0], from $2,000 to $3,600. (It varies for different household structures/incomes, but in general the poorest get the most.)

> If the claim is that the timing of payments is reducing poverty.. that's quite the claim.

As someone who's got some close friends who are poor, yes, monthly payments can make a big difference.

But really, the extra $1,200 isn't insignificant. It's 5% of the 25%ile income, and 14% for the 10%ile[1]. $1,200 a year is literally over 50% some of my friends' total food budgets. (I'm sure someone will jump in to explain how they could never eat for that little, but I can assure you that many Americans do.)

[0] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/taxes/will-i-receive-the-chil...

[1] https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/
>230 is not a right, it's a special exception afforded to some businesses

Yes, section 230 is not a right. But it is afforded to everyone[0]:

There is nothing in Section 230 that applies solely to big tech. Indeed, it applies to every website on the internet and every user of those websites. That means it applies to you, as well, and helps to protect your speech. It's what allows you to repeat something someone else said on Facebook and not be liable for it. It's what protects every website that has comments, or any other third-party content. It applies across the entire internet to every website and every user, and not just to big tech.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
Yeah, user error is more likely here, knowing the security in place at Google. That said, I suggested submitting it since the exercise of creating a repo will make it clear one way or another.

Win / win either way for OP. Learning opportunity or a bit of cash in hand for relatively little investment.
Dev drops 3 zero-day vulns affecting Apple iOS 15 after 6 month wait
I'm surprised two people are debating this.

Statistics over small timescales, e.g. months, will not be as accurate as statistics over large timescales. This isn't disputed (unless it is? I'd be curious if you know people who think statistics with fewer numbers are more accurate than statistics with more numbers.

As for if a few months of data was enough to proclaim victory, NYC's current surge in crime seems evident to me that a few months was not enough data.

As for if this is directly relevant to the surge in crime, I leave that to your own conclusions.

As for why I picked two years, it was an arbitrary guess. My point is that we need more data before announcing "bail reform solved problems."
Meat produced in New Zealand might be more sustainable, or ethically farmed, or have a smaller environmental transportation footprint if you’re in New Zealand, than meat from somewhere else. People paying premium for meat may be interested in all of these things—in fact, they may be interested in these things even over the taste of the meat.
I got my first windows laptop in 1999 (Toshiba satellite), and had 4 subsequent one’s since including HP Elitebooks and Dell Latitude Pros, and on none of them could I close the lid at a moment’s notice and start moving. I have had an Intel MacBook Air since 7 years ago, and I have never not been able to close the lid at a moment’s notice and stuff it in my backpack and get going.
So, they're not testing at all. Just inputs and outputs. mmm ok.
>A good artist with nothing else can expect to sell a custom painting for $1k, tops.

That's not really right, my wife is a painter without gallery representation who sells in $5k-$12k range. Through her I've met many other people in this "middle tier". A well connected gallery can get collector eyes on your art at fairs like Art Basel and further increase the price of paintings to the higher tens of thousands. Beyond that, there's a relatively small circle of prominent living artists selling for $100k-$1M; these are mostly talented hard working people with distinctive styles that find an eager collector audience. The tier beyond that is an even smaller group of "celebrity" artists -- which is maybe who you're referring to as "hack artists" since it includes some gimmicky work.
> Have you ever made a mistake, say a speeding ticket?

The vast majority of motorists have exceeded the posted speed limit intentionally or not. But only a small minority will get into a physical altercation with the police officer that's issuing a citation.
I think the chain of evidence is suspicious to say the least.

1. In 2018 EcoHealth Alliance(Peter Dazsak and team) apply to a grant to darpa for viral modification research and highlight a change in "furin cleavage site" at the same location as covid-19's change, this change has never been seen before in nature.

2. In the darpa proposal is listed "Wuhan institute of virology" as a team member, this was a year before the covid-19 outbreak in wuhan in 2019.

3. Rather damning for Peter Dazsak is he publicly denied any plausibility in the idea of a lab created source for covid-19, while behind the scenes at the same time telling his two students to distance themselves from this darpa proposal as the virus was rapidly spreading through cities in the world.

4. Even more unusual is that Peter Daszak and Linfa Wang, two of the researchers who submitted the proposal, did not previously acknowledge it until now.
But now they are saying that people were here before the land bridge was usable or existed, right? So, maybe they came some way other than the land bridge. Or, earlier peoples came via some other route (hence the current footprints) and then a later migration came via the land bridge.
That's not debt. Those are working configurations on a fully supported web server with active development. There is zero reason to change them.
Isn't the entire post an insinuation without evidence?
They could manage it in a $80 keyboard when that tech was new and probably more expensive, I'd think they could do it in a $1500 laptop :)

And a hole with a plastic insert would be fine for me too. It wouldn't be as minimalist but not doing it at all is much worse IMO.
Yes, GMail is absolutely terrible on that regard. I've been missing out on project mails from an UN organisation I have been working and exchanging emails with because of their aggressive and useless filters.

For me privately, switching to a better provider solved that.

But having >25% GMail customers and always landing in Spam is horrible. Pretty much any other provider likes our mail server, but GMail always says spam.

Then you're going double opt-ins but customers still mark mails as spam because unsubscribing is too hard. Thanks for nothing.

There is actually an industry in gaming GMails spam filter to somehow get into the inbox: some offer automated replies and unmarking spam, some manually run hundreds of mailboxes and don't do anything else all day than unmarking mails as spam.
I don't have an answer, but I would say not necessarily the same height. Mountains do not grow all at once or at a constant rate. For instance, there are some parts of the Himalayas that are currently growing at 1-2 cm/y. It is thus not impossible that this place was several hundred meters lower 200k years ago.
What about the trillions airdropped on Wall Street? That was surely also "printing money" ... And it was a lot!
Make Python Run Faster: A Machine Learning Perspective
To trip balls
A quick check suggests maybe 1/11th of revenue is from advertising on spotify. Assuming musicians get a fixed share of this, and non targeted advertising revenue is small... yeah probably not a big drop.
Alfa Bank and the Trump campaign keep saying the DNS look-ups came from marketing emails. Did the DNS look-ups happen or didn't they?
If you use other people's software and hardware, and those things don't perform the way your software assumes they perform, knowing that would be useful, right? There's always a limit to how much you want to handle, but if you are having a test fail even a large fraction of 1% of the time, then there's probably some underlying behavior that you should account for in production as well.
This article recommends this script:

https://github.com/Q726kbXuN/nytxw_puz

Presumably it could be automated even more with additional tooling.

I used to use the puz files until I got excited about the fact that the web site would track my solve streak (which I got up above 380 before losing it a few weeks ago). But I still think having a standard format to let people choose their interface is a plus and was still annoyed about this change (despite continuing to use the web site interface solely because of the streak tracking incentive).

Edit: to expand on their justification for the change, it seems like it's motivated by being able to support more variety puzzles online, with unusual grids, or unusual input and display methods for a particular square (e.g. the common use of the "rebus" feature in Thursday puzzles where multiple letters are filled in in one square, sometimes only for the purposes of reading that square in one direction but not the other). It's true that the landscape of variant grids and grid interpretations won't interact that well with a standardized static format, but, on the other hand, the overwhelming majority of their daily puzzles would be rendered perfectly in Across Lite format. (I say this as someone who's solved every single one for the past two years.)
How are they planning to work around ammonia's toxicity problem? It's fatal if breathed in at concentrations like we currently have CO_2 in the atmosphere (> ~400ppm). If a tank with conventional jetfuel or methane springs a leak or has to be dumped, you've got a huge problem. If that happens with an ammonia tank, you are most likely toast either way.
Oddly 'rasing awareness' doesnt appear in what they define as their role.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.

I would rather see them fly in with a lawsuit on durring apples keynote than fly a plane overhead for a photo op.
Actually, that absolutely is the question.
Seriously? You’re going to defend someone’s complete lack of understanding of market dynamics by making a pedantic stand that someone who sold their shares no longer qualifies as an investor?

Well for one, that presupposes that investors sell all of their shares at the same time, which they rarely do. So, I have 100 shares and I sell 10 back to the company. I receive 10 shares worth of cash directly from the company and I still have 90 left thus qualifying me as an investor under your definition.

And secondly, your entire premise is absurd. By your definition, a dividend isn’t a company returning cash to investors because by the time they issue the dividend, it’s no longer their cash, it’s the investors.

You guys just don’t understand this stuff. The real world just doesn’t work the way you imagine it.
There must have been something about the title that changed, so I'm responding to something that's maybe a bit different with context. However...

Some other sites' coverage of this highlighted some of the grant content a bit more prominently. I agree it's not quite a smoking gun, but the content of the grant that was discussed was eerily similar to what's been put together by investigating organizations. It's akin to if you were trying to solve a burglary and concluded "if this happened, the suspects would have done A, B, D, and H", and then later you found some emails sent back and forth by the suspects saying "hey how about we do A, B, D, and H?" It's not proof they actually did it but it's about as close as you can get to a smoking gun without it being a smoking gun.

The timing is also uncanny.

I don't want to miscommunicate the extent to which I think the grant proposal proves anything, as I don't think it does, but it blurs the moral difference so much that I start to find myself wondering why as a society we shouldn't react with some things as if it did. That is, I don't think it rises to some level where I would say it definitely proves beyond a reasonable doubt that anyone did anything, but I do think it compels some deep reflection about the scientific-media-authority-academic-funding complex.
The article is a good read but the comments here are below what I remember being the quality standards of news.yc; has this place declined?
That's a huge fallacy by simplification. It's just as accurate to say only the brave will reproduce (also not entirely true).
Forget the overheating — the fact that Macs will save all your work when shutting down, and will refuse to shut down if this is not possible (for instance if some app that doesn’t support autosave (MS office) has unsaved work, or if there are terminal jobs running). Can’t imagine how anyone tolerates their computer just obliterating their work.
I agree with both of you. That this kind of political drivel is increasingly gaining traction here is strange.
The main reason that I use (and many around here) VPNs is to access sites blocked by the government. And these blocked sites even included Wikipedia until recently.
Rover: Interactive Terraform visualization and state/configuration explorer
"Never Lost Again" is an excellent read for anyone curious about the origins of Keyhole-become-Google Earth.
Anecdote warning:

My experience living in a city with a non-trivial homeless population is most homeless -- at least the visible ones -- are predominantly able-body young men (and increasing women too) in their 20-30s. We're not talking factory workers who got laid off after 15 years due to outsourcing. They strike me more like urban, drug addled version of Chris McCandless from 'into the wild'.

Of course this experience may not reflect other regions.
Airplanes have bags/boxes to throw li-ion batteries into and extinguish any particular fire.

The law is that you can only bring aboard Li-ion batteries of size 100 watt-hrs or smaller on any airplane (https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...).

I think the airline crews are confident they can handle 100 watt-hours worth of burning, but no more than that!
I find it surprising that the Russians conspiracy was seemingly forgotten during the voting machine debate after getting Trump out. As far as picking our favourite conspiracy I do find some of the inconsistencies of the 2020 election to be interesting-for-interesting-sake.

I'd love to see someone do a teardown or analysis on the voting machines or that "F" vote curve. But that probably won't happen for another 30 years until this all blows over and we can talk about it objectively again.
Dan Luu wrote about this a few years ago: https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/ (from 2015, but has been updated a bit since then).

I think the big challenge is that accurately evaluating a startup offer is very, very difficult. And it can be really, really contextual. As an example, I know someone who worked at a company that went public fairly recently, and their result was vastly worse than the EV of a big company, but they also had a below average startup EV because they left the company and didn't purchase all of their options when they left.

With Google or Facebook, the question is really just stock growth and grant sizes.

With startups its growth and grant sizes, yes, and the expected type of liquidity event(s) and the time horizon on that event and your plans and company culture over that time horizon, also any additional funding rounds can markedly affect things and...
Seattle cut less than 1% of the 2020 police budget in August.[1] About as much as they increased it from 2019.[2] And your source for the murder spike said other violent crimes decreased.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-protests-seat...

[2] https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/FinanceDepartm...
You're being unnecessarily negative IMO.

The biggest challenge with renewables always cited is storage. Cabrin neutral feul like this could potentially be a good storage medium.

There's more than enough solar energy hitting the Earth's surface to supply all our power needs, the challenge is capturing, storing, and distributing this power.

After all, fossil fuels are just captured solar energy.
The multi year drought probably influences number of controlled burns in CA
The quality of natural products like beef is probabilistic. You might not be able to tell a poor example of a premium product from a good example of a low-end brand. And if you buy infrequently, you might not know what you're missing.

Just because the scam works doesn't mean there isn't a perceptible difference.
sometime later:

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/
For an outlet called "economist" you'd think they would be more cautious at jumping for joy at 1 month of data which is barely even a blip.
NYTimes versus Sullivan needs to be overturned. It was decided in an entirely different era where yellow journalism was an exception rather than the rule.
Is there one of these but for UK?
Ah, so you are the perfect person, and if anyone else falls prey to any trickery, it is their fault.

Under your reasoning, scammers are just letting people do what they do anyway, and should not be charged or prosecuted. Bernie Madoff should not have died in prison because all his investors should have seen that his returns were unlikely.

No.

Exploiting the flaws of people is still exploiting people.

And there are laws against what you propose for exactly the reason that people are imperfect. Let's remove the illegal cocaine, and replace it with a 3-ton pile of $100 bills, all legally obtained. Despite your generosity, unless you took great care to ensure that there would not be pandemonium, you would held responsible at least for creating an attractive nuisance [1] and likely a trap, and held partially responsible for accidents, crowd crush injuries & deaths, etc. Both are illegal. Sure, the people did it to themselves, but it would not have happened without your input.

Of course people have flaws. Those systematically and scientifically exploiting and weaponizing those flaws are largely responsible for the results, in particular the results at scale.

EDIT, add:
>>Facebook is just exposing the problems of people.
Similarly, it would appear that you think that people cracking into other's systems are merely exposing the problems in the system. So, if I crack into your system and bank account and steal your private info, intellectual property, and/or money, I'm not at fault, I'm merely exposing the flaws in your system, you were the problem for having a flawed system.

Of course both are at fault. If you have something to protect and fail to take any measures, they you may be lazy/incompetent. But that does not give others the right to exploit that. Eve if you leave your front door unlocked, I'm not allowed to wander in and take what I want.

Similarly, of course the people on FB are flawed. As I saw through them decades ago and never signed up, I could similarly condescend to every FB user who is fooled.

But I don't - there is a mammoth amount of deliberately weaponized disinformation being systematically spread onto FB, and FB systematically amplifies it. Sure, many of the ppl falling for it could do better at curating their info sources, but many also were not blessed with the intellectual capacity or education common on HN.

To just put all the blame on the consumer, and claim that FB is irrelevant as a piece of paper while their business model is poisoning the common well... it's a borderline sociopathic claim.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/attractive_nuisance_doctrine
Do you realize the amount of effort we would have to put in to make it habitable? And the time scales involved?
Every point against facial recognition on the list is a point about how facial recognition systems materially relate to the individual or about particular technical faults of the system.

All of which miss the point. The point of surveillance is the same as Bentham's original panopticon, that is to say discipline people by making them discipline themselves.

surveillance isn't scary because of the literal cameras, it's scary because it makes people aware that they're being watched and thus it forces them to police themselves, internally.

People would be better off to recognize and argue this very fundamental point about the psychological intent of surveillance, rather than having obscure discussions about the legality of consent or whether the system is 97% or 98% accurate or whatever.
Also, they want more people to use Gmail or GSuite. If that's the way to reach an Inbox on GMail, people simply choose the path of least resistance.
> At OpenAI, an important machine-learning think tank, researchers recently designed and trained a much-lauded deep-learning language system called GPT-3 at the cost of more than $4 million. Even though they made a mistake when they implemented the system, they didn't fix it, explaining simply in a supplement to their scholarly publication that "due to the cost of training, it wasn't feasible to retrain the model."
It’s not that it’s not working. It’s that it’s not a sustainable model. Or if it is, we need to cut a LOT of other stuff.