skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand the second half of your comment correctly, then yes - optimising an n-vector fitness value over a state space (for example 2 floats from 0-1 would form a 2d cartesian state space from 0,0 to 1,1 with a continuous output value at all points), is basically the same as finding the tallest sand dune in a desert by walking around, only able to know your current elevation and the angle of the slope underfoot. Of course this is an evaluation where x and z are inputs to our fitness function and y is the output, so this is a 2d space - but this is directly equivalent to say, trying to optimise heat and humidity for maximising yield for a species of plant. You could add further variables like soil acidity or atmospheric CO2 concentration to increase the dimensionality of the state space.

I may have some of the exact terminology wrong here (whether 2in-1out is considered 2d or 3d for instance) - my interest is in cybernetics generally not gradient descent specifically - but hopefully you get the gist.
I agree in principle but I also feel like there needs to be a minimum threshold of effort or topical relevance in a comment or the discussion becomes a kind of Gish Gallop[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
Israeli police used spyware to hack its own citizens, Israeli newspaper reports
Exactly... DB deciding to switch query plans in production is sometimes terrible.
Engineers, not programmers.
Automation is reaching more companies
US weighs more military support for Ukraine to resist Russia if it invades
Never said that. See other comment above you for clarification.
For video files - a little off-topic - I created an app for dealing with huge number of video files: Video Hub App which lets you see previews from your videos (even if the files are scattered across many offline hard drives). Might come in handy for someone.

https://videohubapp.com/en/ - MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
I'm sorry, I don't understand your reference to referendum.

It's by design that people have no direct say, however. That's a substantially worse system, by nearly every measurement, to generally employ.
wow - ten seconds in and there is a woman with cancer in bed crying.. If anyone has been close to that, it is really upsetting. I can't tell which is more extreme, a Navy that won't answer, or news drama with a closeup of a dying woman crying. Is this situation harder on the people subjected to this news, or the people whom it is trying to sway..

In my opinion, please know that what the dot-mil says in public may or may not have anything to do with their internal reasoning. The responsible parties internal discussion is shielded, and that leads to all sorts of results. There are hundreds of reasons, real or imagined, that might lead to "stalling" .. and don't forget, stalling is addictive, and accumulates!
When doing disaster planning, at least something blowing up because of a data change is preventable or mitigateable. Staging environments. Rollbacks, etc.

The system randomly deciding to drive itself off a cliff for no reason, with no known way to stop it next time is quite concerning.
Sure, and persistently targeting an individual shouldn’t be acceptable, but that’s not what’s happening here. I know there’s a strain of bullying that claims protection as “humour” too, but I didn’t divine any malign intent in the comment.
Steganography is the broader topic. Recently, I think it has been assumed that anybody basically has a right to talk to anybody else without any real justification, so messages were encrypted instead. But steganography was popular in, for example, ancient times when the local king or church officials might demand to see your letters. If it is due for a comeback that says something pretty sad about our society I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
2A is looking better than it has in awhile. Gun rights and shooting sports have both seen a resurgence in the last 20 years. SCOTUS is promising. And companies aren't bending over to the ATF's tyranny. Rarebreed is taking them to court over their extrajudicial rulings.
Microsoft says 'destructive malware' being used against Ukrainian organizations
I've helped on a few jobs that required representing the skyline of London (in advertising, for example) and my clients have always been very careful to ensure that modern landmarks aren't entirely accurate, to avoid this kind of complication.
No, they choose Chrome because it doesn't crash and pretty much works everywhere, which has everything to do with the underlying tech.
You misunderstand me. I'm trying to say that not every Google Play policy is something malware or spam is interested in violating.

Let me give a hypothetical example: Suppose there are color contrast requirements, to make buttons easy to distinguish. If your app is too desaturated, and buttons are hard to make out, the reviewer can tell you that you must make your app more colorful, and that information won't help malware or spammers one bit.

Or for a non-hypothetical example: How does it help spammers or malware to know that their app mustn't contain "free" in the title?

Or suppose they institute a policy where you're not allowed to re-implement functionality provided by the Google Play store (Google worked hard for that lock-in!), or make apps that are substitutes for ones provided by Android itself, or apps that break DRM.. how would being told you've violated one of these policies, help malware writers and spammers?
I assume the responses are from people who didn't know that and are now offended that they would've flubbed what the interviewer considered common knowledge in their field. I could see someone thinking it's not a relevant question for certain types of positions, but anyone getting defensive about it is a little bit of a red flag. Anyone doing development relying on location services or navigation systems should have a general baseline intuition for how those things work, even if it's only the broadest strokes. If someone feels angry about not knowing this, well congratulations, you now know this and no longer have anything to get defensive about.
For some reason I wasn't aware that ABP supported "Acceptable Ads".

How does Eyeo make money?
I think you're good. Everyone I know in both tri-state areas who think of moving to Jersey largely complain about the property taxes & stay put.
The specs are open standards, but do the specs specific enough to actually do something that would work in practice?

By "work in practice" I mean handle most sites that people actually visit and display them almost identically to the way Chrome and Firefox do. If your new browser doesn't do the same thing as Chrome and Firefox on those sites, the users are going to perceive it as your browser sucking.

If Chrome and Firefox deviate from the spec in some way, you will have to match that deviation.

If there is something not covered in the spec but that browser have to deal with (such as handling malformed HTML, which a lot of sites have), you will have to match what Chrome and Firefox do there.
Top-rated entries from Game Off 2021
Intel can already peak at AMD's designs, just take the cover off and dissolve off the layers one by one. It's probably about as helpful getting your competitor's source code; figuring out what's going on probably takes longer than figuring out how to do it yourself. Maybe worse, since everything is so low-level in hardware, it'd make assembly look like a high-level language. I'm no hardware designer, but I expect that the results of tape-out are roughly the same as the results of etching off the layers: they need to create masks for each layer, specify the composition of the layer, etc. And then after understanding it, you still have to implement it and get started fabbing it. So I'm not sure that fabbing your competitor's product is a huge risk.

I think Apple stopping using Samsung is more related to Apple's higher-level issues: why do business with someone you accuse of violating your design patents. Not because you think they'll copy your IP, but out of principle. There's no IP-related reason Apple needed to stop buying screens from Samsung; Apple has never manufactured screens.
Does it support 5G?
> I'm not sure that these drone 'swarms' are going to have enough of a payload to take out anything significant like strong armour or heavy emplacements.

Maybe you're thinking of sub-$1000 quadcopter-type drones. I'm thinking of fixed wing drones, something like the Houthi Samad [1] or the Iranian Shahed [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samad_(UAV)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahed_149_Gaza
I did this with a "Fujitsu-Siemens Scaleo Windows Home Server" some 14 years ago and managed to get the licence fee ($60) back from Microsoft after sending them a bunch of stickers, manuals and assorted included Windows-related guff. I had to hammer them a bit but after a letter or three they gave in. I don't know where you live but if it is somewhere within the EU it could be worth trying this. I have no idea whether such an attempt could succeed in the USA without taking them to some court or other.
I also don't understand the necessity of having all these images. "Remember that? I'd tell you about that day, but as it happens we actually have 1214 photos and 2 hours of footage from that event!"

Or start shooting film, also gives the photos some character.

relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1832/
Intel still sells 85% of the server market including 75% of the megascale cloud market, so at this point it does not appear to me that Intel has been strategically wounded. I'm sure they have more than enough cash to fund R&D at this time.
> all have overlapping symptomology

Yes, I did a bit of searching and it appears I may have both. My extreme focus and interest in computer programming has made me successful, but doesn't feel manic at all. It feels like a form of autism that I saw when I met some trainspotters. On the other hand, I do get manic and talk a lot, express a lot of far out ideas, want to spend money - classic manic symtoms - but I don't write very good code in this condition. I do and say dumb things, which my introverted, focused, autistic self later feels is out of control and embarassing.
How feasible is it to speed up the bitrate used by GPS? This really helped explain why it takes so long to get a position based on how slowly these satellites are sending information.
> Gastrointestinal (GI) concerns are frequently reported by parents of autistic children and may be related to immune dysregulation (Buie et al., 2010). This is particularly concerning because it may be more challenging for autistic children to verbalize or communicate physical pain, leading to lack of appropriate medical care.

Is this more challenging "to verbalize or communicate physical pain" because of the lack of understanding we currently have for GI-related issues? Having dealt with several GI doctors who just want to prescribe PPIs for everything, I am curious.

The citation given seems to suggest that is the reason, but it isn't clear:

> Gastrointestinal disorders and associated symptoms are commonly reported in individuals with ASDs, but key issues such as the prevalence and best treatment of these conditions are incompletely understood.
I live in the Northeast, and have not (to my knowledge) been infected, nor has anyone else in my household. Same with my parents and in-laws, also in the Northeast.
Hopefully this gets posted: HN often rate limits my posts.

In short, yes. Autism may one day be meaningfully classified as different conditions that share some similar symptoms, but have different causes, outcomes, etc. The common symptoms of autism tend to be seen in high-level cognitive functions, that depend on a lot of subsytems, if you will. Car analogy: A car may exhibit the same symptom (won't start), but the cause can be different (out of gas or a dead battery). But this analogy can easily be misconstrued to mean that autism is about being broken. Emphatically, it is NOT. This brings me to a final comment of your post: Autism is not a disease.

Much of the autism spectrum represents valuable neurodiversity that does not impact their quality of life, and actually provides a net benefit to themselves and to society by allowing diverse thinking styles and perspectives. However, I will venture to say that some aspects of the spectrum do need to be addressed like a disorder: severe intellectual disability, severe anxiety, these can be really impactful on QoL.
> Why wouldn't Steam continue to be competitive against Game Pass?

I paid like $5/mo for 1 year of the Ultimate version, I can play games on both Xbox and PC and carry over progress for most of them. It's great. Steam doesn't have anything like that, so not sure there's any comparison to do.
I think it’s the prosecution gathering evidence and deciding on whether to charge and what with. Justice system is slow
I try to keep it as simple as possible. I back files up to a hard drive. No exotic filesystems either, usually just fat
Not my discovery, but yes. For anyone else following - Zen Buddhism may be useful for you.
It can't "fix" it because it isn't broken; they are not the same predicate.
Ask HN: Who is getting a pay raise this year?
Perhaps they need to pay extra for Linux IT people which they only cover if your original purchase is a Linux install (plus other reasons given in thread)
I have a hard time imagining engineers in any other field (e.g a structural engineer) would be getting asked questions about GPS as a proxy for general engineering knowhow.
This smells less like an optimization developers should make and more like a bug or low-hanging-fruit improvement to the engine.
I'm not so concerned about $600 from Joe Blow, much more concerned about the multi-million transactions Pelosi and her husband are doing.
Extending off what the other commenter said, consolidation within the medical market is a big reason for the opiod epidemic. It's not something that just came out of nowhere, its directly because a large company intentionally pushed for highly addictive drugs to be given to as many people as possible

It's also a big reason for the fact that americans spend far far more on healthcare than other countries. For reference, the US government spends 28% of your tax on healthcare. The UK government spends 18.8%, which is arounge average among western nations. And ON TOP of that, americans pay huge medical fees and insurance.

Inequality is partly caused by the two above issues, combined with the fact that its really damn hard to make much of a company for yourself when a vastly more powerful company is intentionally suppressing or if you're one of the lucky few buying out all of its competition.

Racism and Sexism are at least partly caused by ineqality, but another big part of it comes from the consolidation in mass media. Shock stories on the national news about the actions of ten or fifteen people can cause and deepen ingrained biases about millions.
> You can make a derivative work as much as you want to, you just can't redistribute it.

Well, no one is likely to know if you don't redistribute it, but legally, no, you may not:

17 USC § 106: “Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: [...] (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;”
A bit off-topic, but if that's the case, then why don't you just buy the Windows version, then wipe the disk and install Linux on it. You effectively save yourself $200.

Is there something I'm missing? Does selecting the developer version use different hardware that has better Linux support?
They don't need to have a mobile platform if they can get a foothold on game streaming on mobile.
There's a very long tail of interesting games, 150 games at a time just doesn't cut it. When the urge to replay an old favorite comes along, I'm incredibly uninterested in doing the equivalent of checking Netflix to see if it's still in the library. They'd have to have coverage at Spotify levels to make that start to seem interesting.

But maybe they'll get there.
Increasing complexity has these effects intent or not. I think the description of complexity capture still fits. Its a situation that is beneficial for google so they are a unlikely source for a fix here. And like others in the thread pointed out, the entry hurdle is too large for new competition. The only way out is with an alternative without the complexity.

I am going to stick with the TLS part though. The more complexity you add in crypto the less safe it becomes. Adding unnecessary complexity weakens the entire solution. And the current "is" situation is certificate authorities and man in the middle attacks. Not to mention overblown implementation you have to patch till the end of time.

edit: I think its also not a surprise that the question boils down to complexity. I would argue its the big open question of our time. We keep building till the negative consequences can no longer be dealt with through technology alone.
relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows

https://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/
Absolutely. What I mean is that we can't declare something "inauthentic" just because it was invented after a certain time or event.
For a store that's true, but it's also happening in residential care facilities where it can be a matter of neglecting care or even life or death when they are severely under-staffed, and the staff who do come in have more work, longer hours, and more patients per nurse than they can handle. Should an infected but asymptomatic person come to work and risk spreading it to their patients? Is that worse than the patient getting neglected and at risk or dying because of a staffing shortage? I don't know the answer.
The US government has no trouble killing or jailing people, even with only a half functioning id system. In fact I have no idea how it's acceptable to give everybody a social security number and then claim it is but a secret and a public identifier. It's the worst of both worlds.

Now without google account, you're locked out of a big chunk of the android world. I recently joined a group using hangouts, google account required. School and docter and a few others started to use ms teams since corona, requiring a microsoft account. I don't have facebook yet, but it costs me a lot of mini second hand sales in the neighbourhood. There are other such cases.

I could try to re-educate every one of these groups, but after a full time job and a family, that's not how I want to spend my time. There's a short amount of time to spend in life, and a worthy cause on every street corner. Feel free to mock me for not choosing these particular hills to die on.

I'd rather have consumer protection and/or anticompetitive action. The governement can spend some of my tax money on it, as it's their job. Meanwhile I'll use my id to log in at my healthcare provider, knowing that if they are stupid enough to sell that data, they get a backlash from the public opinion and some very unwanted attention of the courts.
Sonora: Python implementation of gRPC-Web built on top of WSGI/ASGI
That might well be why a user chooses it, even on iOS. But from my perspective as a business owner and developer, on iOS Chrome is Safari no matter what. When I test my site for use on iOS, I test in Safari. Which variant they use is irrelevant.
I've seen this "nerds are the bad guys" pro legacy media narrative too, and in the same places. In the US it's usually built around January 6th and Trumpism and the role of social media in that.

I'm alarmed by the rise of right-wing populist totalitarianism too, but I also feel like we need to remind people to keep their eye on the other players. I heard a funny saying once: the march of tyranny goes "left, right, left, right..." You don't need to posit a conspiracy to explain that pattern, just reaction and opportunism.

I'm hearing rumblings in the USA about a "domestic war on terror" which is every bit as scary as another borderline coup attempt if not more. We'll see that get pushed hard if there is an Oklahoma City scale attack that comes out of the fringe of the militia, right-populist, or Qanon-type circles. That push will include our own version of this UK campaign but framed around surveilling domestic extremism.

I don't think the cryptography wars are over. I think we'll see renewed pushes for more spying and crypto restrictions as we (perhaps) enter a period of increasing domestic and global political instability. I also expect to see pushes to lock down all devices to only run approved code, an open and general war on universal computation, or a push to require all devices to have remote backdoors.

Edit:

Anyone who entertains these arguments needs to remember that "their side" may not necessarily be the ones wielding them. Always picture any increased invasive powers or reduced individual liberties in the hands of your worst political opponents. Political winds can shift quickly, especially in these times.
Fair enough. I understand where you're coming from, at the end of the day I guess it depends on the context and the way the question is presented (left-field questions such as this one can be somewhat fun to try to answer and hypothesize about, if the interviewer creates a friendly environment to do so)
A 4-day working week six-month pilot programme has been launched today in the UK
Does the NRA not represent the will of a group of people? If a group of people get together, put their money together and tell that group of people to sway politicians with that money, then you can reasonably say that that is the will of people, albeit, people with a specific issue on their mind.

I don't think it is the best system, but you can't say that PACs aren't working toward the will of the people that put the money behind them.

If you didn't realize we have the senate and the house of representatives, one is proportional to population and one is based on state-hood. I think it creates a reasonable balance, especially because small states would otherwise have almost no voice in the federal government. The densely populated cities in the US already have a lot of sway in general elections and especially in state-wide elections, which have a greater influence on their lives anyway. Making sure less-densely populated regions, which are vital for the country in their own way, is not a terrible thing, as much as that irks Democrats that would like more control.
Yes, it does create a business burden. However, many sales of personal goods have some sort of tax burden (not the same, but for example, when you buy a car from an individual you are expected to pay tax on the purchase)

I run a small resales business, and I do track COGS on sales. I often sell my personal items as well, and when I do, I just put the COGS as the sales price.
It has, now it's waiting for money from the CHIPS Act, which is now in the House.
I’m actually looking forward to Valhalla more than Loom I think.
Please allow me to keep the woo in the art. It has been successfully excised from nearly everything else and I don't know where it would be permitted, if not here.
Redundancy - Google Photos for integrations/ease of use, Amazon Photos since it's free with prime w/ unlimited storage, HD backup, occasional bluray backup, photo books of the best photos. All of it
Here is the Twitter account of M&C Saatchi Group if you want to leave public feedback:

https://twitter.com/mcsaatchigroup

Their slogan is to deliver Meaningful Change.
It's 1200x900 subpixels. In transmissive (color) mode, this was effectively 600x450, since it took a full 2x2 elements to display a color (it used a Bayer-style RGBG matrix, iirc).

I think the OLPC software still treated the display as 1200x900, but this meant that there were visible color artifacts on any sort of fine detail, and color rendition was pretty awful.