skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you begin a software project like this, it's wise to consider the existing solutions. In this case, it looks like something off-the-shelf fit the bill. Why not use it? Why not use their expertise that matured over time? Why repeat rookie mistakes with a home-baked solution? These are the things to consider.
Limited hangout disinformation whistleblower from FB counterintelligence would be a great way to weaponize the current "FB hatred" of the mass public to control the narrative to fit FB agenda. Would such a tactic be beyond their capacity or morality to achieve?
I wonder how https://vimeo.com/636460268 matches up to this? Tyler Cowen seems to have a slightly more sane response to a lot of this.
Basing everything in your daily life on unknown/unknowable algorithms seems like a step towards a society where knowledge loses its value.
When I visit that site in firefox the name of the tab keeps changing.. A bunch of zeroes getting longer, then shorter. Is that some intentional javascript thing??
Like we didn't know.

How many posts and comments on this topic have been flagged or downvoted here since Spring 2020?

Oh, and Dr. Fauci lied under oath. Will he step down? Fat chance!
A lot of whataboutisim in this thread .
I took a course on machine learning for my masters. I had trouble understanding most of it, and a lot of trouble solving the coursework (lots of training models), because I didn't get the theory. The kid who had an insane gaming rig always had the best solutions and his understanding was by his own declaration not much better than mine, he could just train way faster so he could make more mistakes and had the better trained models in general.

One of the techniques we learned in the course, was by the account of the Prof, working extremely well, and well documented, its just that nobody really understood why it worked and people were trying to prove why it got optimal solutions.
Just last week Intel confirmed to us that GVT-g is dead with their iris/xe generation of graphics and won't come back. Are you sure you didn't mean GVT-d?
Libui is kind of dead and so limited I am surprised people still bother with projects like this.
For me this looks like what I have been longing for since why_'s shoooes migrated to jruby after why_ left: a simple way to throw together a gui over some semi-private tool.

Not that this couldn't be used for "real" apps too, but that's not what I need.
I think it was a monopoly reference
I've been online since 1995. I haven't seen an FTP link for a looong time.
The conflation of 'the political left's perception of reality' with 'the truth' is outrageous, and nothing more than an attempt to censor views that conflict with the political left's agenda, which corresponds with polls showing registered Democrats are increasingly gravitating toward authoritarianism:

https://rumble.com/vnwyhz-the-mountain-of-data-showing-how-a...
I mean, if you want to bring formal logic into this with "(Therefore), the statement is true", then I suppose we can go forth, apply the rules of formal logic, and see what happens. Perhaps I make errors in my analysis and someone can set me straight.

It's very strange for you to be that pedantic about the supporting clause without being at all critical of the independent clause. You defended the supporting clause but completely ignored the primary/independent.

Independent clause: "This goes against the idea that software is "art"

Supporting clause: "...in the sense that most works of art are created to physically endure over time."

I was arguing against the primary clause, as it was immediately obvious to me at first read that superficially combining the two clauses yields a "Fallacy of existentialism" (more accurately, it violates the rule that anything distributed in the conclusion must be distributed in at least one premise...but the less correct short quote is easier for readers of this comment to DDG). Laid plainly:

A: "Software is not created to endure over time."

B: "Some works of art are created to physically endure over time."

C: "Therefore, Software is not art."

That's not very logical at all.

In fact, upon reflection you'll find that I was not arguing against a "straw man" version of their original 'weasel-word' assertion. Instead, before replying(!), I purposefully removed the logical fallacy in an attempt to "steel-man" their argument. I figured that if I could show that a charitably non-fallacious argument of the same character was horribly flawed, that most readers could intuit that any weaker versions of the "steel-man'd" argument would also be some kind of wrong.

On a personal note, some unorganized thoughts I'd like to share which I might be convinced to change my beliefs about:

I feel that people don't "get" that one can't just add weasel words to magically make a bulletproof argument with instant "gotcha"-trap potential against anyone who tries to rebut their bad/unthoughtful assertions. It's hard (for me) to find examples where weasel words don't do at least one of the following:

- Weaken the argument to the point of saying something which is still 100% true and specific, but so trivial/impactless that it doesn't matter in any meaningful application. "Some children receive higher test scores after switching from drinking Pepsi to drinking Coca-Cola".

- Create a tautology (a non-falsifiable statement that literally adds nothing to any discussion). "No, really! It very well might be possible that Tupac is still alive!"

- Creates a logical fallacy which means that the statement is meaningless. "This goes against the idea that software is "art" in the sense that most works of art are created to physically endure over time."

Hopefully this write-up helps other people think, read, and comment more clearly because it took me 40 minutes to craft a complete response to a couple of 20-second Markov Chain comments. The asymmetry is real.
Not sure I'd call taking existing technologies and putting them in laptops/watches innovation rather than iteration on existing stuff, but we're all different so it's all good.
Kongō Gumi seems no longer independent though.

> In January 2006, after falling on difficult times, it became a subsidiary of the Takamatsu Construction Group.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongō_Gumi
> I get what you're saying but this is one of those things that just doesn't work when it's opt-in.

So be it. We have had many operating systems without telemetry at all. If this is the will of users, they should respect it. Instead, you get two buttons: (1) give us everything, (2) give us the things we care about most. There is no third option "give us nothing" so people are downloading third party packages from various sources just to block that, possibly breaking parts of their system. And then MS changes things so it becomes an even worse mess. This is the very definition of being user-hostile - just because they can.
Celebrating a Third of a Century of Mathematica, and Looking Forward
It might not be gibberish. But let's pretend one possible next step is computer assisted/accelerated cognition.

Which means your incredibly interesting autobiographical web page which will be about as deep and interesting as an emoji, and hold attention for roughly as long.

Another possible - currently more likely - next step is extinction because of climate change, so there's no guarantee that OP will even have great grandchildren.
I wonder how many such scandals before people in office accept the logical conclusion that the only way to deal with this is to use the Standard Oil method.
Exactly the same. I just hope they don't fill Windows with ads.
Use Blokada, then all your apps including Firefox and Chrome are adblocked
Consider this paragraph

"We first consider environmental risks. Echoing a line of recent
work outlining the environmental and financial costs of deep learn-
ing systems [129], we encourage the research community to priori-
tize these impacts. One way this can be done is by reporting costs
and evaluating works based on the amount of resources they con-
sume [57]. As we outline in §3, increasing the environmental and
financial costs of these models doubly punishes marginalized com-
munities that are least likely to benefit from the progress achieved
by large LMs and most likely to be harmed by negative environ-
mental consequences of its resource consumption. At the scale we
are discussing (outlined in §2), the first consideration should be the
environmental cost."

This whole paragraph is such a reach, and so absurd that it seems like a parody. Are we supposed to believe that marginalized communities are being harmed by Google training NLP models using green energy? Or will they benefit from better translation from English language content into marginalized languages?

Timnit has zero interest in what actually benefits marginalized communities. She uses them as a prop to build a career in high paying AI field where, apparently, the sub field of ai fairness has a low bar for publication.
I find the concepts (i.e. "SWT without Java") behind libui (https://github.com/andlabs/libui) exciting, and I could picture myself using it someday (through its Python bindings).

I'm a bit worried, though, that the project is described as "mid-alpha" and hasn't received a single commit since January this year.

Could anyone familiar with the project comment on its current state ?
How does not compare to tig? I've been using it for half a decade and there's only like 6 mnemonics you need to memorise to stage single lines,increase the line count context for diffs, etc...
Ask HN: Why did the Touch Bar fail?
Useless except trivial ui's
> implicit memsets and memcpys, in cases where it can't be handled within less instructions

Yeah, I know. Still, I expected GCC to generate code like this in freestanding environments. There is no standard library so the compiler should not implicitly emit any calls to standard library functions at all. That ought to have freed me to do whatever I want, including implementing those functions differently or with different names.

> These functions are required by the freestanding part of the C standard, too, anyway.

What? If I remember correctly, only a very small list of headers are required in freestanding environments and string.h was not among them.
Larry, from his lair in Fiji: “I should sell some shares”
I recently looked at cloudflare workers. Then I remembered that the JS ecosystem is built around NPM. No thanks.
The <video> tag also has a javascript model you have to learn, like with VLC. It gets video in junks, on request from the browser; if nobody's requesting chunks, no chunks will be played. You can't play if there's nobody listening. It doesn't serve files. If you start a new item, it begins to play immediately - it doesn't seem to need to buffer.

I imagine your media channel thing can be done, but I haven't tried it or thought about it. Not my use-case!

It's not "genius", BTW - I'm no media expert, not even a very good programmer. I'm just a tinkerer with an itch to scratch. And there's no way I'm sharing my code - it's a pile of crap, permanent work-in-progress.

I like the <video> tag very much, because it's cross-browser, and (IMO) is easier to script than previous players.
I also liked Sanitarium, similarly an old point-and-click gem.

https://www.gog.com/game/sanitarium
> I have a family, and I'm very protective of my time because failure to, for example, pick my kid after school would quickly escalate to criminal negligence. If my work demanded that I commit any crime, I would refuse until I got fired (quitting is for losers, in this case: I want my damned severance).

> Said differently, if you're upset at parents putting their children's wellbeing before your team's performance, then you should re-evaluate your relationship with work.

Who are you arguing with?
Why is a comment saying this post should be tagged (200x) dead? This post is from circa 2005 as the update date says (or even older) and if there were electrical issues with motherboards over 15 years ago, I can imagine now. Also, it has passed the same time since the blog post as from the original keyboard being manufactured and the post being written (1990..2005, 2005..2021). So, it's pretty important to specify that in the title.
Saw same thing in Chrome
I get my personal sites scraped and saved by the British Library's UK Web Archive[1]. There's no guarantee that my poems will still be viewable in the year 2521, but they're my best bet for immortality.

[1] - https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/uk-web-archive#
Yeah this guy makes these things like everyday. Recently using direct servo drive is interesting.
Asterix and The Griffin: When war becomes a women's issue
> I think Apple needs a semi-social GitHub-like repository service of its own to help feed this AI.

Why? Can't they lift code off github, gitlab, etc ? I don't remember giving Microsoft permission to use my code to train Copilot. They did it because it was public. Apple can always clone all public repos and do it themselves.
The Upside Down “Map”...think about it
FastMail used to be awesome till two years ago when the downfall started. First it was the makeover and then things stopped working.

At this point from a privacy perspective they are terrible. Not only because of Taliban style Aussie privacy laws but their system too is anti-privacy.

FM system automatically creates contact lists from all emails, automatically backs up deleted emails, drafts etc. You have no control on this and is ideal for govt data mining and social graph generation. Sure they say it is for your benefit but then allow me to turn it off. Given people regularly get home police visits in Australia for Facebook posts and overall police state climate does not help.

So time to stay clear of FM. They want you to pay money so their govt can trawl through your email and possibly impersonate you if need arises. No thanks, I can get that at Google.

Tutanota and Mailbox.org have superior offering with encryption at rest. Tuta has clients for all platforms with client device based crypto.
de beers?
Also available on GOG

https://www.gog.com/game/i_have_no_mouth_and_i_must_scream
Engineering for Epilepsy
This is the best quote I've seen in a while: "Do machine learning like the great engineer you are, not like the great machine learning expert you aren't."
I did like how they look like helicopter blades and it is built like a gunship/AH64 style. The gliding stuff was like hmm... also generally as a side note, giant things would sink through the ground like the opening ship landing oh well.
So anything that doesn't align with the Western media's yellow-peril narrative is "propaganda" and can't be objective?
> “I need to leave early today, my daughter’s the lead in her school play.”

"And you tell me now?"

> “I’m gonna dip out mid-afternoon. Tryna make the 4-20 celebration at Mission Dolores later”.

"Yeah, no you're not gonna dip out."

Note how you phrased "I need to leave early today" vs "I'm gonna dip out". Semantically they mean different things. It's also just bad form to dump these kinds of things on your manager on the day itself.
IBM ps/2 is the best keyboards that ever existed. Built like tanks.

No flashy leds just a very good keyboard!
I spoke about a concept related to this a few years ago in "Fair Trade Consumer Electronics with Open Hardware": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM80hQ117JM

Might have some prior art for folks interested in the topic.

It's a pretty interesting topic from both a technical & business/marketing point of view.

Couple other lists of somewhat related links:

* http://web.archive.org/web/20200119053707/http://www.labrado...

* http://web.archive.org/web/20200119061518/http://www.labrado...

* http://web.archive.org/web/20200119061518/http://www.labrado...
I run iOS 8 on my iPad 2 (downgraded from iOS 9, which made it super slow). Unfortunately, Apple doesn't let you download old versions of apps unless you installed them at the time, so the device usage is restricted to "what I used the device for then", which hinders a lot.
People always being this up and I think they're right to be skeptical, but the Google office I worked in (SF) was practically dead before 10 AM and after 7 PM. I never saw much evidence that any sizable group was working extra long hours. Some people hung around for dinner at 6:30 but most left before or right after grabbing food. I didn't spend enough time in Mountain View to form an informed opinion but there was definitely a big group leaving between 5 and 6:30.
I like C for the most part. I don't like the standard library. It's got stuff like errno, a thread local global variable, and that's just the simplest problem. Freestanding C turned out to be a far better language just because it has no legacy cruft weighing it down.

> -fno-math-errno

That's interesting, didn't know about it.
In the good old days™ libraries came with a widget tree and demos.
Q: What's the fastest way to go from L4->L5 at Google?

A: Get a job at Facebook at E4, get promoted to E5, and get hired back at Google L5.

https://youtu.be/8DYje57V_BY
Everyone needs time to grow up. I too started out thinking it was all so simple and the "free market" would take care of everything etc. Then your world view grows. Your list of "known unknowns" dwarfs your list of knowns. You become more pragmatic. It is clear to me now that some level of top-down coordination is necessary for success. Even national-level coordination is not going to be enough, though. It now needs to be at a global level.
That is just an assumption, there is nothing as far as I am aware that points in this direction.

NFI does plenty of research on its own.
> The NFI said the decrypted data showed Tesla vehicles store information about the operation of its driver assistance system, known as Autopilot. The vehicles also record speed, accelerator pedal position, steering wheel angle and brake usage

Aren’t these the same things twitter.com/greentheonly publishes very often?

Example: https://twitter.com/greentheonly/status/1431094320296235008
If Google doesn't take that next $200bn share in ad revenue over the next 5 years, where else will that revenue go? What about the additional $400bn of potential growth 5 years after that?

Somebody in the online ad space is going to eat that conventional ad revenue, or "build that value", or whatever we want to call it. If it isn't Google it will be Facebook, or Twitter, or Apple, or Tiktok, etc.

What happens to Google if Facebook has a $1tn online ad business in 10 years time, and Google's ad business is still 'only' worth their current $200bn?

This is absolutely about survival. In a super high-growth industry, you grow or you die.
> The only language where macros aren't just C's #define to replace text. You're working directly with the AST

It's hardly the only such language. In my experience, Haskell, Rust, Common Lisp, and Scheme all have macros that operate by syntax trees rather than text substitution, and I have no doubt that there are several more that I'm not aware of.
Analytic tradition (at the time of Quine at least) has not even understood the problem adressed by epistemology like the platonist (which is primitive but at last Plato understood the problem).
Yeah and communist society is about who has the best connections to the people in the party who decide who gets what. And socialist societies are about not making too much money because you'll lose the subsidies.
> no one wants to explain themselves to a stranger we will never meet again

So you walk into the Apple store, walk up to an employee and when confronted with the question "How can I help you today?" what do you do?

Telling them "I would like X", seems like an unneccesary level of "explaining yourself". They should just know and understand exactly what you want from non verbal signals?
The first hand-held camera in the world was invented by Prószyński
CSS Color Adjustment Module Level 1
There are caveats. From Google's protobuf file itself [0]

// If the bid won the auction, this is the price paid in your account
// currency. If the bid participated in the auction but was out-bid, this
// is the CPM that should have been exceeded in order to win. This is not
// set if the bid was filtered prior to the auction, if the publisher or
// winning bidder has opted out of price feedback or if your account has
// opted out of sharing winning prices with other bidders. For first-price
// auctions, minimum_bid_to_win is populated instead of this field.
optional int64 cpm_micros = 4;

I don't know if Google's bidder will populate this field. Even if they do send this data, there's no way you can tell if it's faked or not.

They could also maybe get around this by setting up a PMP for Google's own inventory thereby allowing them to accept bids that are lower than Open Market bids.

[0] https://developers.google.com/authorized-buyers/rtb/download...
Elon and Sandy: Design Philosophy Parallels [video]
Think about the kind of algorithms you would create to do things like automatically solving a sudoku puzzle. Or finding the ideal dimensions of a piece of furniture to fit in a small spot with certain constraints required on building that furniture. These are the kinds of problems that logic programming is well suited for, in fact they are rather trivial to do without having to construct an algorithm yourself.
Since the only job of an a browser seems to spit out whatever http protocol says, we can conclude that it is not its job to actually render HTML and interpret Javascript because the HTTP protocol says nothing about HTML or Javascript or Web Assembly.
4th Tip for Printing with Linux: Printing with netcat (without CUPS).[0,1,2]

[0] https://retrohacker.substack.com/p/bye-cups-printing-with-ne...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28054789

[2] https://www.opennet.ru/tips/3189_print_cups_netcat.shtml
Unit test cases should be explicit. For determining if his algorithm is correct he could implement it 2 completely different ways and do bitwise fuzz testing to try and find cases where the output differs.
Naive question: If you preclude a politician from owning stocks, can't they execute such trades via an off-the-radar friend? And receive profits via "gifts".

I imagine this is already illegal? But isn't it harder to prove if done right?
I always thought Dune had lower gravity, would also explain how the worms work.

Also note there is low gravity tech. Maybe it’s a hybrid.
Regulation tends to protect incumbents everywhere.

Whether or not you consider that bad depends on how much you value progress over stability. Stability often seems fine for the first decade or too, until one day you pause to wonder why you’re still connecting to the internet using acoustic coupler modems, or paying hundreds of dollars per month for insulin.
I have two Model M keyboards, the main one (using it right now) and a spare one; needless to say that the spare one is still unused since the main one doesn't want to break after 28 years!
Another possible mod for the keyboard, although purists would possibly not like it, is upgrading the controller board so that it speaks directly USB. Here are some pages I found on the subject:

https://github.com/mschwingen/hardware/tree/master/modelm-us...

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2016/02/21/modelm-controller/

https://www.crackedthecode.co/how-to-supercharge-your-ibm-mo...
Definitely. I also got a popup halfway through asking me whether I want to expand in China.
Let me tell you how it makes me feel.
> This is absolutely about survival. You grow or you die.

How? With that argument, neither Facebook nor any other ad networks would already be dead since Google basically owns the space already, but they are not, they are also pulling in huge profits, just not as huge as Google, but they are still well off.
What do you mean, "when that happens"? It's the law today.