skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> forced labor

Yes, that’s exactly why people who actually lived there now regret its collapse. The younger the person, the more they were oppressed by the KGB.
Encryption protects criminals and terrorists who might as well have guns so in reality it's related because we're talking about protecting society.
The article is about using Bitcoin for payments (and is not talking about Ethereum). I was talking about Ethereum. I am not upset, but rather amused. I don't care for alternative payments, I am not a crypto bro. I want to see what the tech can do.
What Web3 and NFT can mean for writers
You know I'd love to read a good article on the inner workings of Watson, especially in the early years (2008-2012).

I remember reading news pieces about Jeopardy and discounting it as a cheap statistical party trick, especially given how it was about the same time terms like "big data" started proliferating in the media.

I only became convinced about the potential of machine learning much later, when CNNs starting being impressively good at classification. This prompted me to look further into it and realize it's not the latest business buzzword but an emerging field.
Example: On Fedora, I'd install the Arc Theme + some fancy icon pack. The majority of the applications uses the operating system's theming system, which makes all applications look the same. The same buttons, same spacing, same font sizes/types, same colours, same systems shell/window decorations, scroll bars etc. It all behaves and feels native. Most of them also uses the same keyboard shortcut system and accessibility features. Point is, the whole experience is very consistent. They use a tiny amount of disk space and a tiny memory footprint while running.

Problem is, the moment I install any electron/web-based app (Slack, VS Code, Gitkraken, Spotify, Steam etc), they look out of place. They do not conform to the rest of the system. They ignore basic guidelines, spacing is all different, different themes, no native window dressing/menu's, most don't use the tray/notification system correctly etc. Basically they stick out like a fat wart.

Nevermind the resource usage and general laggy UI from these application. Yes, they lag and are slow on all OS's and yes we can notice it. Web tech is cool for what it is within the scope of a webbrowser, but outside of that it is a steaming pile of ...
Same in bavarian.

Hello neighbour. :)
Command vs. ALT/CTRL bindings are vastly superior in Windows. The MacOS method of using the Command button is different for the sake of being different, not for any actual productive reason.

I had the first Macbook Retina and used it for years at a company where it made sense to do so; when I handed it in and left for my own startup life, I was open to either OS (couldn't use Linux as the daily driver since I my industry uses a lot of Windows-only programs), and Windows was just far more productive to use on a regular basis. The only thing I miss is Final Cut Pro, and Sublime Text to some degree (VS Code has been an adequate replacement).
Slaps knee

Thank you!
I've not kept track of where large transformers like this have gotten to, GPT3 and the like - has GPT3 made any real difference to the world? Are people using it? Has it vastly improved any software?
You just moved from a family to an organisation.

I was part of a small company that grew agressively. When you're small, you're a family - you know everyone else, you know each other's strengths and weaknesses, you help each other out, and things get done fast.

At a certain level, this breaks down - someone drops the ball and management decides that they need documented processes and systems for everything. Then you need more managers to make sure everyone is following the the processes and systems, and then you need meetings with those managers. Productivity drops by half, the number of forms you need to fill in multiplies by ten, and you get really frustrated.

I'm with you - I hate the inefficiency of larger organisations. Leave for another small startup, or even better, start your own.
> Gun designers don't mess about with the user interface

Oh, there were plenty of gun designers who did mess up the ergonomics big time - it's just that these are the guns you learn in the history of "why we don't do things like that anymore" class.

For example, many early SMGs were prone to feeding failures if the magazine was disturbed. At the same time, the magazine well is basically a natural forward vertical grip - and this was even more true on designs like MP40, where it's so far from the pistol grip. MP40 was supposed to be held with supporting hand gripping the handguard behind the magazine, but malfunctions induced by magwell grip were extremely common in practice.
Other options:

- wisi mi to [i powiewa] = it hangs of me [and waves around]

- mam to w nosie = I have it in my nose

- to nikogo = this [matters to] nobody (this is actually pretty funny but can't translate it to English, the joke is that nobody in this particular case only applies to several possible verbs, only a few of them apply to groups of people, and the case also encodes negation - so saying "nikogo" (nobody in a particular case) is enough to deduce the full sentece)

- tak bardzo mi wszystko jedno = it's so very much whatever for me

- srał to pies = a dog shat on it

- mam [na to] wyjebane = I have it fucked-out [on it]? fucked-through? Phrasal versions of "fuck" really don't translate to non-Slavic languages

- jebie mnie to = it fucks me

- kładę na to lachę = I lay my staff (meaning dick) on it
Yeah I get that. But that's also a good indicator (if it comes from the project initiators) that you don't need to have an in-depth look at the project.
"I have the f*cked-out on this" doesn't quite have the same ring to it
In Swedish it's not as harsh as Zero fucks given but reading some of those others I'd say "intresseklubben antecknar" is the phrase we'd use when I was growing up in the 90s.

It translates literally to "the club of interested people is taking notes".
Not implying this is the case for OP, but there is also:

3. Acquire potential competition to get rid of them. There are cases where the parent company never intended to develop the startup's product, but simply wants to keep the startup from competing with them.
That looks very inflexible for later edits, marking characters or words means a potentially cumbersome recounting if something is reworded or just if a typo is fixed.

Also, I get the second and subsequent number issue are the three locations to highlight, but what instruction does the first, -6:-3, give to the formatter in your example?
Looks like a lot of layers.
OK, I had the same problem with phonetics.

If you're facing it as a practical problem and just want to skip to the solution, it's easy: learn English with a native speaker, if possible one to one or in a small group.

Without that option, I had to choose a hack: after knowing enough of the written language, watching movies and series with subtitles. But very important: English subtitles. Then removing the subtitles.

Lots of YouTube videos of some topic (to get famiiar with vocabulary) is an excellent complement.

Once you understand mostly everything that others are saying, speaking is much easier.
Contrary to what the terminal wizards might tell you about configuring vim, tmux and using grep, just install a real IDE
I just expect a bubble burst like the dot com bubble. What stuck was the companies with a real business case, the rest was just mania. And what we learn from that will shape the crypto field going forward.
Now we've got NSA in Belgium that's interesting!
> Electron is great if you're a developer who wants to write apps in javascript+HTML+CSS and put developer preferences over preferences of users

I’m so tired of this. Sure, the case for Electron is that it allows leveraging web-targeting code and skills, which makes more devs able to work on desktop software give the current prevalence of web skills and makes their job easier given the prevalence of web-targeting code that can be reused. But this is in no way user hostile: it means the cost to develop software with any given function is lower in developer hours (and, for commercial entities paying for development, actual $$), which means it is more likely to get done than otherwise, and that it is more likely to be a sustainable proposition to maintain on an ongoing basis. Given that users generally have a preference to have software with the functionality they desire developed and maintained, this is conducive, rather than hostile, to user preferences.

It’s hostile to the preferences of developers who have emotional attachment to particular nonweb (or just emotional hostility to web) technology, who are left in the dust, in terms of meeting users actual needs, by those adopting Electron. Or, less emotionally, it is hostile to preferences of developers who have a substantial investment of time and effort into building marketable nonweb skills in desktop app development, and are finding those skills marginalized in the marketplace by adoption of Electron.
'mfp' aka 'mám v piči' could be translated bit harsher.
Realtek drivers are GPL’d, but have a reputation (especially Wi-Fi dongles) of not following the coding standard of the Linux kernel and of low code quality, making them unacceptable for the upstream kernel. A driver often goes through a lengthy cleanup process by the community, first by existing as a “staging” driver in the kernel with incomplete features and unstable code, and later the code is gradually refactored before it’s finally official.
Keep telling yourself that. My grandparents just died. They hated the USSR for stealing their best years from them. They didn't even get to travel until they were in their 50s.
> _machine learning and optimization_ research

Ethics education is (unfortunately) not really seen as necessary across the tech field, which is why ethics researchers need to be part of at all stages of AI development.

And for what it's worth, ethics researchers should be part of all technology development - the "racist soap dispenser" should have been more than enough proof of how even a very simple, innocent product can contribute to ethnic discrimination.
Well join the police then.
Some update to the Linux page would be good since it has been the same since at least march and it looks like there has been no progress.

At work our project uses macs and most devs have also macs, but some have Linux personal computers and we can't pair from home with them using tuple
True I’ve been reading the culture series lately so my vision was off a truly decentralized series of habitats. I could see a trustless ledger being a solution to them all wanting to trade currency etc but not necessarily being a single coherent group. Then again as I said I may just be reaching.
Thanks. Apparently, AMC changed the credits scroll when they broadcast it so they could put ads on the screen at the same time.
In short we don't, at least not intentionally.

Just like in the past but on a much grander scale it will be our trash that provides the least corrupted record of our society. I believe it was a Futurama episode that joked about the AOL CD ROM mountain which would probably be dwarfed by the K-Cup one now.

If I had to come up with an method to provide a more secure way to store our history and pass it on to future generations...and had unlimited funds. I would land a multiband and frequency transmitter on Halley's Comet set to broadcast every 80 years or so when it comes into range of the earth.
Why do you have opbjections on a matter you clearly have a lot of questions about how it actually works? Wouldnt it be more fair to openly ask the questions, without objecting to the matter at hand?
I used to, when my vacation was actually time off, but now that vacation just means "oh, you've got another house that you're building" I no longer get sick. I just feel sick all the time.
Sounds as if they stored all the correct answers in a database and call it "better". How do they even evaluate these models? Like they already have a billion preprepared correct answers in the database. How do they come up with new questions for the evaluation?
Pure speculation ahead.

It doesn't have to be better in an absolute sense, but being good enough for a cheaper price, lower power usage, smaller footprint, etc.

I think a lot of floating point calculations could fall into this. For example in neural nets, maybe there are analog versions to calculate the weights, sigmoid function and so on.

And for graphics, you don't really need the exact color value of each pixel. Maybe those could be estimated in analog functions too.
Arguing with commies on the internet is a waste of time. The goal posts are always changing.
This video does a decent job of summarizing his life and work: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UziFw-jQSks . It emphasizes his later decent into drug abuse and new age pedagogy. The man was clearly something of a monster. I have a macabre interest in the no holds barred era of 50’s and 60’s military and government research. I find it fascinating that such a lack of restraint resulted in both the horrors of ice pick lobotomies on traumatized veterans and the unmatched achievements of the moon landing. I also find contrast between a government that is happy to engage in LSD research in pursuit of brain washing) and one that routinely locks people in tiny cages for the use of the same substance highly revealing.
Well, windows XP was the peak of gui... only when set to classic mode (like windows millennium)! the plastic edges and colors of XP offered nothing extra to 9x-class interfaces;

the absolute peak of interfaces was mac system 9
Wow, that website is super useful, didn't know, thanks.
It will never be as quick to loop through a giant blockchain to generate a dataset and then do something with it as it is to run queries in a highly optimized database that mirrors the end result of looping through that ledger. Blockchains are kind of like git and you need to move through each commit before you can get a snapshot of the current data.
Those people are assholes. Not that it matters a terrible lot but where did this happen?
It can corrode my crack
Scotland also has a very similar baby box, introduced a few years ago due to the success of the Finnish one. https://www.mygov.scot/baby-box

Content of the box: https://www.parentclub.scot/baby-box

Study on impact of the box: https://www.gov.scot/publications/baby-box-evaluation/pages/...
> many a.i. in English were also made outside of English-speaking regions

Different regions, yes - but where did the training and benchmark datasets come from? AI research is surprisingly monocultural (or use "standardized benchmarks" if you're feeling charitable). Not too long ago, there was a paper posted on HN that showed that a bunch of the datasets contain mislabeled data, which means a lot of "different" models are encoding similar biases.
Funny, I would think of this as a word order error instead of a vocabulary one. As a native English speaker, I would say or write "we have until Friday to hand in the homework".

It crosses my mind that this may be regional use and not completely standard - I'm honestly not sure.
English is not my first language, and even though I used not to make these kind of homophone mistakes, I started making them once I became fluent.
I had a moment of confusion wondering why one would translate "biss" as "until" instead of "bite". "Bis" with one S is the word that should sometimes be translated as "until", "before" or "by". Another one is "seid" which is always translated as "since" but should sometimes be "for" (e.g. "I've worked here since four years")
Well, (and I just googled this), probably because payed is a real world, though it does not mean "paid". https://www.grammarly.com/blog/paid-payed/
You mean just like when someone thought it was a cool feature to have JNDI lookups in Log4J ?
I totally agree. My thesis advisor was doing semantic search research, I was the one doing ML. I never understood the need to organize information when you can just throw ML at it. But the research might be a stepping stone in AI further down the line, when you need to build exhaustive knowledge instead of "intuitive" knowledge based on pattern matching. So who knows what it's good for.
Pop trivia: up the road from Saunton is a massive stretch of golden beach called Saunton Sands. Its shallow incline makes it perfect for new surfers, and it's breadth made it perfect for long walks - as Robbie Williams did in the video for Angels where he end up getting attacked by a helicopter.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=luwAMFcc2f8

So now you know.
Because "preserved" implies keeping something in it's pristine or natural state. This is a fossil. My immediate thought was it was "preserved" in amber.

In any case, the sub-title declares it as a fossil, which is more accurate.
So how does the chain verify ownership of the non-chain assets that are being traded?

Or does this not actually validate the transaction directly? Is this just about creating a trustless arbiter for market prices or something along those lines?
For some reason when I was that age I loved tiny fonts, too. Actually a nice theme, I probably would have used it!
Justin Kan’s NFT platform scammed of $150K in user funds
* Use an IDE (Like IntelliJ Idea)

* If there's no architecture-document that gives a short (3-5) page overview on the layout of the code then start writing one.

* Skim through the folders / packages / classes and write down a few obvious questions that pop into your mind while "speedreading" the code.

* Try to make an improvement to see how the whole CI/CD process works.

* Look through the list of direct dependencies / libraries and see where they are used.
Very similar energy to homeopathy/chiropracty.
I don't think I need to retract it because I don't think it's incompatible. I'm positive people won't vote for a party that makes them illegal unless they have decided to change.

Relative majority is still majority, >50% of casted votes gets you elected.

50 years ago, the left was all over the place advocating for pedophilia, and here they are today, advocating for privacy of pedophiles and other criminals because they are scared to compromise their own.

My communications will be safer but my streets won't, and I don't only live online.
Better off stateless (2007) [pdf]
Huh. “Reet” sounds like it should share a root with “rut” in English.
Obligatory link to a poem that shows just how weird English is: [0].

So is my mother language Dutch by the way, young kids are constant reminders of that, they learn the language and apply its rules... and then you spend years pointing out all the exceptions... (no it's not tee-shirtden, the word comes from English so it's t-shirts, yes double ee is a long e, still in "beer" (Dutch for bear) you say the "i" sound, more like "bir" because... I don't know why, just remember it!)

[0]: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
Firstly, I am asking the questions.

But, to clarify, I object at the lack of detail that these stories have.

Instead, we are simply presented with the result - tada - and we are meant to make 'ooh aah' sounds. A baby chick, curled up, 66 million years old! It _feels_ manipulative.

But when you think about what is being suggested there is so much that is simply passed over and not explained.

I genuinely am a skeptic, about everything. I want the evidence, I want to know how I can test it, etc. As far as I can tell this just seems like a highly implausible story.
Children of the Magenta Line
But not for other people.
Well, it is pretty hard to make something in a language when it is a dialect continuum and not a standardized variety that is forced onto the whole population through the education system and media.
Types of Reasoning
Thankfully it had never happened here.

In general, on other forums, on FB, etc.
It doesn't happen that often. But still, it happens way often compared to what I'd have imagined.
Details are below. Sorry for not sharing upfront. What else would you like to see?
Some of them, but I don't think this is a rule. I would say more so for uncommon words that are recognizably French, and less so in US English. Historical accident is definitely the main cause.

Compare dauphin, cinema, dime.
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned object recognition.

There’s lots of reasons why robots aren’t currently picking up trash across every beach in America 24 hours a day. Or cooking for you whenever you want.

One of them is the inability to identify objects the way humans do. But it’s getting better. Slowly. There’s no fundamental wall that’s been hit yet.

Think about that for a moment. Let it simmer.

Think about cameras that can identify humans and structures. Roombas that can identify cats and walls before it hits them.

Think about all the work that can suddenly be automated because object representation hits an inflection point.

It’s going to change humanity. The story of our species. It’s going to be a perennial wonder.
I understand, that’s pretty sensible. Thanks for your answer!
LOL.

Not at all. Mac keyboard shortcuts are explicitly more reachable than its Windows counterparts. Try reaching alt+f4 versus command+w/q. Also macOS incorporates more keyboard shortcuts than any other OS.

You will need to elaborate more on this one.
TIL about the Norden Bombsight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norden_bombsight

a good example of an analog computer too powerful for its own good, as the precision of its machined parts couldn't keep up with the complexity of its computation.
Tangential wish - I'd love it if someone figured out a good/generally working way of jumping to definition/references through a URL.

E.g. from `axios.get(`/users/${currentUserId}`) in frontend code jump to `class UserSingleView: def get(self, user_id):` in the backend, and vice versa.
Uncollateralized lending in DeFi is very nascent (right now primarily targets crypto businesses, and are typically ran by centralized companies who have launched a protocol on chain).

TrueFi, Maple Finance, and Goldfinch are the biggest and primarily have permissionless lenders and kyc'd borrowers. Some of those borrowers may make consumer loans (Goldfinch is like this).

Permissionless uncollateralized borrowing has yet to take off (even though contracts for this already exist and are live), but I suspect it will once decentralized stablecoin on chain supply gets decoupled from current centralized stablecoin supply (decentralized credit based stablecoins built on top of incentivized permissions management of on <-> off chain flows [via over collaterlized decentralized stablecoins and centralized stablecoins alike] and on/off chain risk [via derivatives]). Decentralized derivatives protocols will be key to permissionless uncollateralized lending growth imo, but we are not there yet (I think we need to continue to see global markets break down more in OTC/CCP IRD's and tradfi counterparties continue to lose trust with one another in derivative transactions for this to grow faster in DeFi).

I can see that in the next 10-20 years, 20% of the eurodollar system with be contained within (multichain) permissionless DeFi protocols as HNW individuals and tradfi institutions outside of the US abandon CCPs and typical OTC derivatives txs.

I won't have to argue with folks at ihsmarkit like I do now for making EOD CDX data public (like it was before they were acquired by shit & pee global), when I can pull it from on chain contracts in real time.
- Finder

- Applications not actually being terminated when clicking on the close icon

- lagging / unreliable context menu opening with middle-index-finger on apps in dock bar

- the concept of installing something by moving it from an icon on the left to an icon on the right

- or when you can't start apps due to connectivity issues

- app removal is totally opaque and sometimes requires to download a custom uninstallation tool (adobe creative cloud f.x.)