skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a note on something I do have personal experience with:

The authors also observed that the text of many patents are initially obtained via imperfect examples of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), with their accompanying errors in English possibly passed through to the C4 data with little or no annotation that would distinguish it from acceptable English.

While patent offices do release PDFs of all their patent docs (and it isn't just patents; it's all the back-and-forth between the examiners & the applicant, too), a huge percentage are images of paper documents. You can always tell just by double-clicking on a word -- if the word doesn't highlight, it's an image.

OCR output from these things is generally terrible. There is no way it should ever be input to any ML model.
I'd go further and say they should be forced to put all assets other than their primary home into a blind trust for the duration of their time in office and 12 months afterwards.

Might reduce people from making a career out of being a politician, but that would be a good thing. Too many cases of middle-class representatives and senators leaving office decades later as multi-millionaires.

Politics should be something people do out of a sense of service, not to become wealthy.
This is all pie-in-the-sky theory that has already been used unsuccessfully to exhort the merits of cryptocurrency. Where is the evidence of any of these benefits in practice? Crypto has been around for over a decade, yet its only uses post-Silk Road have been for ransomware and NFTs.

The Internet changed how we communicated and shopped in well under 10 years, and in an era when 56kbps modems were a luxury, and nobody had a computer in their pocket. There is no comparison between the two, much as crypto-maximalists would like for there to be.
It is true that there is a difference in the amount of manual tweaking, but at the same time any remaining objectivity in “unedited” phone-produced output-referred (non-raw) images is fading fast. In other words, imagine if the technology by your link is silently incorporated in the next version of iOS Camera app without you knowing—and I’m not even sure this is an outrageous exaggeration.
Any time you deal with physicals things? Yep.

I wouldn't need a lawyer if a digital contract enforced a 2% commission paid to a wallet address.

I would need a lawyer if all transactions weren't paid into that wallet address.

If I use software to play a song and it uses an NFT to make a payment to the owner. I theoretically cut out a lot of middlemen whos value is making sure the correct people are paid. There are tons of edge cases where anyone can argue that this wouldn't work but I think that the system only has to meet a bar where it is potentially better than what we have now.
FB doesn't exist in China because they don't want to upload their user data to the Chinese government.

And it's not like Chinese government "can decrypt". Its not encryption if you share the key in plaintext. All imessages in china are scanned by the government.
You joke but I definitely remember seeing "notebook PCs" coming with notices to not use them on your lap because of excessive heat to both the device and your lap.
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Most of the questions that get asked are homework questions that were poorly asked and lack much research. "What have you tried?" is a common first comment.
It's really just a very slow, very inefficient and very public, database with an audit log of hashes keeping track of every change made. Everything else is just fluff/hype around that idea.
Yes but if it was not cromulent, what would you say instead?
All software needs to be maintained much like food needs to be grown every year. The environment, need, situation, and security around the software is always changing so static software rots. Some rots quickly and some rots slowly but without maintenance it all rots.
Dependig totaly on use case.
In my street photograpy days my best pictures came from two cameras: Rollei 35 (with zone focusing) and Leica M3.

But when you stop down and focus on composition and best possible result in camera, you need a diferent tools.

For the general public smartphones are ideal to "capture" the moment.

But quality cannot be accomplished without a biger than smartphone lens. Even entry level Sony RX has a Zeiss in it.

Comparing smartphone computational photography to professional photography is simply a marketing trick. Full frame sensor and adequate lens will give you always more data to push in post.

Smartphones have stagnated as innovation, so manufacturers are seeking differentiation and buyers motivation trough "better pictures".
... Why not own the best then? iPhone 13 Pro!

Just kidding, but your comment did sound a bit like an ad. Could hear this in my head in Tim Cook's voice :D
The more surprising aspect to this review (maybe I missed this part, I skimmed) is how there wasn't much discussed about having a bigger and more ergonomic hand mount for the phone when shooting. I don't even mean with all sorts of nifty expensive stabilizers, just something to hold onto the phone and shoot better. I did see use of a small tripod at one point and a mount to a vehicle but for the hands, nothing.

Maybe I'm getting old but I find it difficult to shoot good photos even with the bulkiest of phone cases, while also being able to hit the shutter without shifting my camera drastically.

I personally use a Note so the S pen works great as a built in remote shutter (especially nice for tripod shots) but I can't for the life of me get good shots with the UI shutter or even volume/side button rockers. Sure you have voice controls or shutter timmers but timmers are not ideal in most shooting conditions from my experience, unless you have humans. You can also burst or drop frames from video but ick, shooting professional photos with a phone as is seems unnecessarily uncomfortable to me.
Mistreating division by zero is a logical error as you say, not a runtime error. No one has made any claims in this thread about logical errors, other than my earlier statement that Elm does not preclude them. The things which have been referred to as runtime errors for decades are not present in Elm, that’s really the only point here. In order to make that guarantee, there’s a couple of potholes where logical errors may crop up, it’s a worthwhile trade to many people.
> Any name brand PCs you trust to buy for family members who want a name brand and the perceived value that provides? (Besides Apple, I guess).

It feels like you might've answered your own question. For better or worse, most of this kind of stuff "just works" in the Apple ecosystem.
They're not at the level of Facebook and Google, but they still mine your data. You've gained nothing.
This is true. Although the examples you give show survivorship bias. There are many new things, fads and scams that simply fade away.

I don't think that Bitcoin will be a thing in 100 years, but blockchain will still exist in some useful format. Not in the way that it is pushed by some of its proponents though.
Solving problems for random people on StackOverflow helps them (the user, the corporation, and StackOverflow) make cash while not compensating you, and it also requires relevant knowledge and effort to communicate concisely and correctly.

On the other hand, people on Hacker News, Facebook, Tumblr, /. and so on don't actually have to know anything, and their contributions only make money for the host company, and barely so in some cases. Reddit, as an example, isn't really profitable because of its average user.

I contribute to similar things, myself, pretty frequently, but let's not pretend like social media and collaborative knowledge projects are completely equivalent and that effort spent is transitive.
This can’t come fast enough. Could be used to filter out pervasive false hoods spewed on social media
My company got acquired by a big 4 accounting firm and the rules for independence are pretty strict. Some people left after the acquisition because they were living with a partner, unmarried, who would be required to sell stocks under the independence rules.
U.S. Reps and Senators have an annual salary of around $180,000*, which is in the order of twice the national median income. Why do you think they need to be paid more?

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*They also have a baked-in-statute annual cost of living adjustment, which is more than we can say for the vast majority of people in the country. Though they have voted not to take it for the last decade. (If they had, I believe the current salary would be upwards of $200K.)
Appreciate your detailed pointers.
What is the message in the opt in/ opt ou5lt screen?
We already have this in America, Civil Asset Forfeiture is already out of control.
I have had all the same issues with intel macs. My M1 macbook pro fixed every single one of those issues. It feels like a laptop with a nuclear reactor for a battery that creates absolutely no heat.
> Apple's revenue stream isn't as tied to internet advertising

It's tied to China instead, an outstanding example of human rights. Yay Apple :)
What is "grind mentality" in this context? Is this common in the programming world too?
Thanks for your reply,share your experience to let people discover bigger world
Not disputing that it's small for a real camera and probably takes fantastic pictures, but it's still the size of 4 iPhones stacked on top of each other, which takes it out of the realm of easy pocket-carrying for me.
Wow, not sure how useful that is (standard caveat about choropleths and density vs raw numbers) but very impressive! Even the text overlays work nicely.
Let me get this straight: A billionaire CEO is a communist?
I have more interest in type systems and programming language theory and things like that.

I was in your shoes a few years ago. Have you thought about grad school? If you don't mind the cold, you should consider applying to somewhere in Canada. There are a number of labs here working at the intersection of PL and ML. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the process: breandan.considine@mail.mcgill.ca

Good luck!
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"I don't have a problem with those people, but my grandma/the Chinese market/our stakeholders might, so it is a risk I cannot take."

Same old story, history repeats. We are just cementing the abstract into code.
There isn't much to get. It is a collectible and now, for a variety of reasons, all sorts of collectibles are gaining value. I have a pet theory that after art market got heavily regulated with AML laws, a lot of it moved to NFT, where it is very much free game for anyone with money to stake.
> However I now get email from various people around the world with xlastname(at)gmail.com addresses. Apparently your email is not unique in the world, but only in your region, kind of (?!).

No, it's globally unique. I worked on this system for years. When it looks up an email address, it first looks in a globally consistent database [1] for an email record keyed by "canonicalized" address, with dots stripped out, everything in lowercase, and certain letter/number combinations replaced that are too similar like '1'->'l'. So if you sign up with x.lastname(at)gmail.com, no one else in the world can have xlastname(at)gmail.com, x1astname(at)gmail.com, xl.astname(at)gmail.com, etc. Part of this record's value is the original email address with the 'l's and '1's how you chose them. If those don't match the query, the system returns not found, just as it would if there were no record for the canonicalized form.

> I've confirmed (by contacting some of them) that they are not missing out on any important documents. For some reason Google's system is duplicating emails meant for other people into my mailbox.

I'd be _shocked_ if that were true. It'd be a very serious privacy incident and is contrary to my understanding of the system. Far more likely it's what I've seen with my own email addresses. Someone else incorrectly writes your email address instead of theirs into some system. Usually you're the only person who gets the email, but they might send something to two addresses, or they could even set up a forwarding rule from an address they have to an address they incorrectly think they have. They may say they're not missing any important documents, but maybe they have the documents in another system and don't know they're supposed to have gotten an email copy also. Or maybe they don't know what they're missing and don't understand what you're saying. This group of people was not selected for tech savviness. They might have just made a typo once, or they might keep doing this because they don't understand email at all.

> Only mails using x.lastname reaches MY inbox. If I tell someone I know to send a mail to xlastname I wont receive it, making the statement here... https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313 ...false (for me).

That's odd. You can write to support if this is a problem. Support tickets actually reach engineers when necessary (yes, even for free gmail.com users).

It seems vaguely possible given the age of your account that your email record state and the current code are inconsistent in some way, like the field that stores your email address with the 'l's and '1's in your preferred form actually having the dot when it's not supposed to or some such. If there is such an inconsistency, one of my former teammates will fix the code or the database state (running a cleanup that finds all affected records) so they're consistent.

Or maybe the xlastname ones are just ending up in your spam folder. /shruggie

[1] old but: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.133...
Browser fingerprinting does not work for geofencing. Browser fingerprinting and IP geotags work, but fingerprinting just tells you if a user is the same person, on a different IP address. I run a website to monitor bot traffic, and really all something like a Picasso fingerprint can get you is visibility into who's spoofing their IP.

You get a hash value that's roughly unique to the browser-device configuration. You don't know from that hash where the user is located. You have to pair the hash up with geolocation services to get that info. Once you do that though, you get a decent idea of if the person is changing their IP, but there's still no way to tell what the 'real' IP is. You just end up with a unique ID that's associated with a handful of different IP addresses.
Argument is the spice of life! An argument doesn't have to be angry. But nonetheless I appreciate your earnest kindness.

It's less of an issue when every site you connect to uses https, and every app you use employs ssl/tls for its connections. That is common practice these days. Getting man-in-the-middle'd on airport Wi-Fi is less feasible these days than it was 10 years ago. The attacker would have to also install a certificate on the user's device. I welcome corrections if I'm wrong.

VPNs aren't obligated to tell you the truth. They don't have to have good security or even honor what they say on the front page. People trust marketing, not actual policy or actions - just look at Apple. Still waiting on "HMA" VPN to go out of business because they handed over users to the FBI. They're still around and claim No Logs just like everyone else, just like ProtonMail did until this month.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/priva...
https://hacker10.com/internet-anonymity/hma-vpn-user-arreste...
https://www.theregister.com/2011/09/26/hidemyass_lulzsec_con...
> Other than immutability by default and pattern matching I don’t see the Rust connection.

They're both MLs with familiar syntaxes.

> Out of curiosity, what is OCaml’s baggage that you’re thinking of?

Dependencies on OCaml toolchain, standard libraries, and ecosystem (which seems like it should be a feature but in practice it just means you need to understand two languages, two toolchains, and the nuances of integrating them).
Depends on what you mean by "PoS".

If you mean "proof of stake" - I've never heard anyone describe any environmental issues with them, so I assume that they either don't exist or are far smaller in impact than PoW.

If you mean "proof of storage/space" - it seems like that tends to produce very high write volumes, which in turn burns SSDs out very quickly[1] - and you can argue that that's bad for the environment. How bad, and whether it's worse than the energy consumption of PoW, I'm not sure. From one perspective, it's worse, because you could theoretically power PoW mining using exclusively green energy, but you can't pull the raw materials for SSDs out of thin air.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27001848
You need Pro for that, no group policy editor in Home.
I’m not sure if your comment was meant to be ironic but it is.
What traffic does it log exactly, and who logs it? As I understand Tor:

- the exit node knows the second-to-last node, the cleartext data and the destination,

- each intermediate node knows the previous and next nodes,

- the entry node knows the sender and the second node.

And using HTTPS prevents the exit node from knowing the cleartext data.

This doesn't enable any individual node to know who sent what to whom, assuming that the whole path isn't entirely controlled by one person.
The bitcoin might be out of reach of governments, but the people definitely aren't.
> handbag, satchel, or whatnot

That's the thing, though. Many of us, especially men (but many women as well, including my wife) do not carry around a bag or wear a bulky jacket with pockets big enough for even the smallest mirrorless. So packing one along everywhere I go wouldn't be any more convenient than just grabbing the bag with my 7D.
Why are you posting the link to this page on this page? Did you mean to post a different link?
"I worked at a sleezy startup and meet a bunch of partners doing similar things, and most of them are worse or just as sleezy"

- But cuz you work in a sleezy one so you can only meet the bad company

We were very technical oriented in the beginning. I was hired to do formal verification and system design. Until, money happened, and founders realize they over promised.
I prefer no surveillance.but since anyone appears to go their way, I vote for legalising surveillance across the board. Just don't force anyone into doing anything and we will be just fine. Secrets can be well kept if they matter so much.

I see your logic though.
To avoid deadlocks, you don't need the ConfigureAwait(false) here, but you do need it to have been applied correctly in all the async code you're calling.
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Yes, I think that fits under (or is perhaps synonymous with?) the “authenticated append only list” that I said.
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> the push a while back to rebrand laptops as "notebooks" - because many laptops (esp Dell XPS) are not built with a strong enough backbone to keep their own weight from sagging in the middle, and because they get hot enough to cause damage to legs.

This wasn't a rebranding, it was a category of laptop. Cheap, small, and light, designed for people who intended to offload many local functions to the cloud. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbook

Faded away as a term once this became the default thing to do.
Lets not bear this then. Central Bank Digital Currency is just around the corner if crypto is banned. CBDC is an authoritarian's wet dream.

Speak against the government--you're no longer allowed to transact in society.

Retroactive tax...boom, negative balance.
1) You could also find some not so random city where murders decreased. I don't think anyone has any doubts where murders went up and why.

2) From your article it shows it could be due to a very similar reason (the difference is here they didn't intentionally cut down on it).

> Manny Ramirez, the president of a union representing officers, has said that a decrease in proactive policing is a factor.
Thanks. Because it involves such a large investment and affects are life, I want to understand and learn it - so problem with overhead of learning.

Will research into the paperwork.
The link above, https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/category%3Apurchase... is just a search of your Gmail inbox for "category:purchases". You get exactly the same results by opening Gmail and entering "category:purchases" in the search box. Each of the results is an email that was delivered to your Gmail address, i.e. an email actually in your Gmail inbox or archive. So if you're saying you're seeing someone else's purchases, it means email meant for them was delivered to you (and you didn't notice it at the time for some reason). You can click through to each individual email to see when it was sent and by whom etc. So if it's a bug, it's a bug with Gmail delivery itself; it's not a bug with the purchase categorization specifically.
Never claimed that it was without problems. But look at the timeline: Steve Jobs letter was April 29, 2010. About a year later Adobe stopped development of Flash on mobile (that's when they really killed it, the next 10 years were necessary to implement the decision basically). You really think that letter shifted mindshare in 1 year? Trust me, the opposite was true, there were some really big players that wanted to announce flash support on mobile and were caught completely off guard.
> An NFT is decent evidence in favour of you being the creator of a work, if there's no earlier evidence of somebody else being the creator of the work

It's really not at all reliable. I could create an NFT for the "Joeboy" HN account right now, and ostensibly become the owner of your HN account since such an NFT does not already exist. Obviously, this makes no sense, the NFT is meaningless.
Reminder: #Tether is registered and regulated under FinCEN as all the centralised competitors. Strict KYC/AML is applied to all Tether direct users, as the other main issuers are doing. Less regulated is just FUD. Ask yourself who benefits from spreading such misinformation?

— Paolo Ardoino (@paoloardoino) December 30, 2020

Paolo Ardoino, Tether's chief technology officer.

It doesnt matter who is/isnt regulating you, once you are claiming to be a regulated instrument publicly to people in the US then the SEC have all the jursidiction they need.
The title is 100% true for much of the cryptocurrency sector, but the body of the article is a shameless bad-faith attempt to rationalize an extremely heavy handed government response that would criminalize entire classes of voluntary interactions between consenting adults, and turn the future of the internet into a much darker place with much more government repression.

Only a deep-seated ideological precept, that idealizes the supremacy of the state over all aspects of the lives of private citizens, could motivate such a dismissively mean-spirited article. There isn't an even an attempt by the author to give the subject an objective treatment. Usually this would sit fine with me, as a useful counter-force to the mirror negative that exists in the deluge of crypto hype from profit-motivated speculators, but the advocacy for illiberal laws that would prohibit financial privacy and imprison peaceful individuals makes the article unconscionable.
A short timeline:

1850 - first telegraph cable laid across the English Channel between England and France.

1858 - first Atlantic telegraph cable between Ireland and Newfoundland.

1866 - first permanently successful Atlantic telegraph cable.

1891 - first telephone cable laid across the English Channel.

1902 - two telegraph cables laid across the Pacific Ocean.

1956 - first telephone cable across the Atlantic.

1988 - first fiber optic cable across the Atlantic.

My cable history website has records of over 2,200 telegraph, telephone and fiber optic cables laid worldwide between 1850 and 2021:
https://atlantic-cable.com/Cables/CableTimeLine/index.htm

The front page of the site links to over a thousand individual pages on cable history:
https://atlantic-cable.com