skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So this seatbelt will prevent all injuries from car accidents, right?"

"No. You can still be killed while wearing a seatbelt."

"Will I have to keep driving carefully in hazardous conditions?"

"Yes."

"If by some freak accident the seatbelt decapitates me instead of saving me, can I sue Toyota?"

"No."

"So then why am I wearing a seatbelt?"

"I don't know. Also, I couldn't answer anyway because I have the intelligence of a 9 year old."
> The email appears to have been sent from Teamnort@saless.cc. Interestingly enough when trying a WHOIS on saless.cc it appears the domain is not registered.

What?! That’s even more interesting than your main problem.

However considering your main problem I see 2 possibilities:

1. SimpleMail service was compromised

2. A local Xfinity store was compromised. I used to work at a telecommunications provider brick n mortar store and there was a common scam going around where sophisticated threat actors would call the store phone and convince the (low wage, low competence) employees that they’re calling from the “corporate office” and provide instructions to install a RAT, thus compromising the computer systems at the store. (There was no admin password on the computers, this was a franchise for one of the most popular US cellular companies in 2021, im positive this scam is still happening every day)
> If his opinion hasn't changed, I wonder if this political/religious stance really affects my decision of browser? I suspect it doesn't. People are allowed to have political opinions.

One of the main reasons I use Brave is because it doesn't do politics. Eich may think whatever the fuck he wants, his team the same. But they seem very focused on building a privacy-respecting browser and standalone Internet services.

The team at Vivaldi definitely has people who disagree with Eich. I like them too, why? Because they keep browser-making and their politics separate, and "politics" in their context mostly translates to user control and privacy, as it does at Brave. Both teams understand that they're there to make a tool, and that's it.

Mozilla is just the reverse: It's about activism first, a browser second. And their "rebellion" is a $400 million Google dollar one.

I know one thing: When I see a privacy-friendly organization saying we need more than deplatforming and to tweak feeds to suit political agendas, I bail.
I’d say mainly networking bandwidth.
From US Code Title 42 [1]:

"(1) No vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death associated with the administration of a vaccine after October 1, 1988, if the injury or death resulted from side effects that were unavoidable even though the vaccine was properly prepared and was accompanied by proper directions and warnings."

This is not new. This is not specific to mRNA vaccines. The simple math is that if you prepare a treatment and give it to 300 million people, 300 people with adverse reactions may make the entire endeavor unwise financially.

The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was established to partially resolve this [2]. They state:

"[The VICP] was created in the 1980s, after lawsuits against vaccine companies and health care providers threatened to cause vaccine shortages and reduce U.S. vaccination rates, which could have caused a resurgence of vaccine preventable diseases."

If you're interested in looking into the reasons why things are done a certain way, I suggest reading the law and understanding how historical events have led us to the (imperfect) system we have today.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-22

[2] https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html
I am not sure either, but I worked on “game AI” over 20 years ago for Nintendo and Disney, and I am 100% sure that I could have used deep learning to good effect if it had been available. In the past seven years, I have been using mostly LSTM and GAN, and recommender models, BTW.
I think Putin really does not want to have NATO member countries on his border and he is afraid that Ukraine will end up joining NATO or at least becoming very closely aligned with them. He may have hoped to bluff his way to getting concessions to limit further NATO expansion. If that doesn't work he may invade if he thinks the rewards outweigh the risks.
It would. Our CNC guys (mostly wire EDM) were technicians though who loaded programs and monitored the machines. They didn't write the code or translate the CAD into instructions or design anything; that's what the desk engineers did. I don't think you'll find the end-to-end tinkering experience of code + handson in any established manufacturing environment. It's too risky, each side requires specialized skills. You might find it at a startup though.
This doesn't seem to address the point of the article, which is the (in)validity of the argument "I don't need to/shouldn't implement guidelines that help users with disabilities, because they are ineffective for/hurt users without disabilities." Proposing something else that disabled people can do (I guess that's who 'them' is?) is probably not helpful here, although it could be helpful in a thread looking for tips for disabled users.
I've heard really good things about Librewolf, which is a privacy focused fork of Firefox.

https://librewolf.net/
You can rent cluster access (to an extent) using Azure Batch.

Granted it's probably not at this scale, but it gives you access to a ton of resources.
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/security-...

Probably worth checking out this guide. GHA can be a pretty scary thing.
The 5k troop movement is suspicious when it happens right after Russia shifts 200k+ troops to create the threat the 5k troops were a response to? Whether or not the US “wants” to be busy seems irrelevant given the timeline.
Yeah, fair point. It's been several years, so maybe my memory of all the details is a bit hazy by now. I just recall that at one point one of the salespeople was addressing a point about something or other involving the user having paid for something. I have no idea whether the user was telling the complete truth (were they referring to something they used to subscribe to and don't any more?) or whether at the time whatever they had paid Google for would have entitled the user to phone support for GMail account access issues. Whatever was going on, the user wasn't able to find any avenues to get the support they needed for their issue.

Regardless I agree with other comments to the effect that even if you are paying, you are often still the product!
EVs right now are not a good value proposition for a first car. The range is too low, the chargers are too hard to find, charging takes too long, the cars are too expensive, repairs are way more expensive, and they don't really help the environment all that much. It would be far more useful to me to get an ICE car which will be far cheaper and more reliable as my only vehicle.

Now this being said, I do think EVs make sense as a "daily driver", i.e. you only take your EV to work and the grocery store, and plug it in at night. Unfortunately this kind of requires a permanent residence, which nobody can afford right now.

Very excited for when EVs have 1000+ miles of range, charge quickly, and have more supporting infrastructure. But my guess is that this is at least 10 years off.
This is sloppy, and completely lacking in rigor, most particularly about this claim: "Today we have more data, and you can see that there were similar number of deaths in the vaccine and placebo groups."

I don't know if there is some way in which this is technically true, but it is simply not the case that the rates of death from Covid are similar between those with the vaccine and those without.

So sloppy, misleading analysis leading to dangerous conclusions == I am flagging this article.
Along with that, the single texture background always blurry, sometimes with discontinuities are usually a good give away too.
I would be terrified to see how some of the people I've worked with would abuse descriptors... thankfully they never knew about them(or it wasn't a python shop).

I've never understood the rationale that some developers employ for using `@property` (for purely stylistic) reasons and nobody has ever managed to give a very clear explanation of their criteria. Of course the concept is handy here and there, but some people make classes where every method is a property.
Walter here, AMA!
ît is not about making experiences better, it's about modeling behavior as to sell stuff
See you when your a even more inflexible (and old) guy who makes the bet on one horse, look i give a *hit about (or anyone else) oracle, what i care for is migration without problems from one provider to another.

Hard requirement: My image can run on it (freebsd and linux), no proprietary BS, no special stuff, give me vm-"harware" make it fast, make it cheap, make it reliable, that's it..that's it.

And ATM i like oracle hetzner and vultr at most. If one of those change to my disgust i change, no big deal...just some dns rewrite.
Have you looked at the US or European vaccine adverse effects databases (VAERS and VigiAccess)? There are literally over an order of magnitude more adverse effects and deaths reported since the rollout of the covid vaccines than for all vaccines in the 20+ years before that (including the flu vaccine that roughly half of Americans take every year). And none of the "vax-is-safe" people have provided any convincing explanation for this other than asserting without evidence that the rate of adverse effect reporting has increased.
More people trapped inside on the metaverse = smaller crowds at outdoor recreation areas?
Who said that “Don’t be evil” thing?
Substack is very hands-off with moderation. People and organizations that have been deplatformed elsewhere have realized this.

https://www.wired.com/story/substack-future-chris-best/

https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/anti-vaxxers-qa...
The cool thing about improving efficiency is that you can either keep doing what you were doing, but 30% cheaper, or you can just do 30% more of it!

The best thing is, assuming the 'quality' of their product scales with the amount of work put into it, we'll get... 30% more accurate ads? Somehow they'll steal 30% of Google's lunch? Well, I don't know, but it sure looks like an incredible amount of engineering talent has been put toward getting us 30% more nothing.
If anyone can combat it, Google can. It doesn't seem that hard to me to assign low (or negative) weight to links that suddenly appear on a page that hasn't otherwise changed in years, for example. Or links to the same site on pages that otherwise have nothing to do with each other in terms of content/subject. I'm sure it's harder than that, but all those engineers ought to be earning their six figure salaries.
I did it both ways. I was working in semiconductor industry as a Mech Eng for 8 years, slowly drifted towards software in my own time and at work. Switched to Software engineering officially at a quantum computing startup, built Fab software, managed databases, worked on wafer layout tools, wrote APIs, front end apps, metrology interfaces. I switched back to Hardware engineering (with some FPGA dev) in the space industry 6 months ago.

Overall, I was impressed by how modern software is built, engineering that goes into it and satisfaction from immediate gratification. I had amazing mentors. Since I am back to Hardware, things appear a lot slower, but having a software background is huge. I have working knowledge of the entire stack from load balancers to interface arbitrators at the FPGA level. I can design PCBs to database schemas. I honestly feel like I can build anything and everything.
The teeth and lips is an easy one, noticable on the "Brian Dodd" image. "Chris Donnelly" has weird skin texture around his mouth.
I wish I could recall the reference (as the below is not my original thinking), but I’ve Heard something along the following postulated:

1. Russia has a deep seated psychological worry about invasion from the west across the open plains of Eastern Europe (Poland/Ukraine) (Napoleanic wars, Ww 1, ww2) so creating a buffer is of geostrategic importance (old Soviet Warsaw Pact / satellite states. Merely having a nato member bordering Russia may stoke this anxiety (if Ukraine were to join nato)

2. The window for action is closing driven by
a)population decline
b) decreasing foreign reliance and wealth created from Russian energy wealth (oil/ nat gas)
Agreed. Nothing easier than setting up a ridiculous straw man to then punch down.
Why not use the CDN of the cloud provider you are on? Azure Storage > Azure CDN
Thanks to Twitter, thoughts don’t die anymore
Control policies learned via RL are starting to work in the real world!

Typically policies learned via simulation tend to transfer poorly to the real world (the so-called sim2real gap), so I'm curious to dig into this work to see how they overcame this limitation.

From just watching the video and guessing, it would make sense if noising the belief state (rnn(h,concat(proprio,extero)) + \eps ~ Noise) and learning to condition proprioceptive attention on the belief uncertainty is enough. Very cool work and so exciting to see robotics groups exploiting ML more and more (gate attention + learned belief states here).
>The collaboration with academics and journalists is important

It's not important to me.

Projects like this make me want to choose a browser other than Mozilla.
Check out C# and LINQ. They pull it off with anonymous types.
Or, one could look at the data suggesting that vaccinating someone, even after they have been infected, can dramatically decrease the risk of long covid.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Do-vaccinations-p...
It's the typical GANS face layout, with a blurry background, eyes centered and cropped to the face. It's certainly possible those are could be real people, but in my experience law firms usually have upper-body shots of the lawyers with their arms folded, or standing together as a team or with a client.

I wouldn't catch these at first glance, but the older gentleman specifically stands out to me with the

1. tuft of hair above the right eyebrow

2. teeth far offset from center

3. soap-bubble colored noise around the hair features

These aren't unusual on their own (except #3 maybe) but all together they make the photo seem fake.
I remember seeing a guide on how to detect generated faces, and the signs to look for were:

* glasses looking weird (ie. the inside of the frame not matching with the rest of the face, or optical effects not being replicated)

* hair

* teeth

I looked at the pictures and they look reasonably real. Maybe the neural networks gotten better?
This is much the same blather I have read a dozen times at this point.

The reason myocarditis is underreported is because most cases are incredibly mild. So if you have a choice between a disease you have a 45% chance of catching and a 1% chance of dying of, or a vaccine with a 1 in 10,000 chance of having an adverse reaction to, with a 1 in 20,000 chance that it would be fatal, which would you rather choose?

9 billion doses have been given out! If there were serious safety concerns with vaccines, I would personally know people affected.

Of course you are incredibly unlucky if you are one of the 3000 people in the US who are seriously affected by a vaccine, but people telling me my winning lottery ticket is fake isn't an example of oppression - you want a doctor who doesn't jump to weird edge cases at first chance.

It's not that these people "don't understand the science", it's that they don't understand probability.
Introducing Meta’s Next-Gen AI Supercomputer
In practice it'll probably look like indirect improvements in the infrastructure that devs get for computer vision/natural language and other miscellaneous model training stuff.

A lot of this stuff is like trickling tech from F1 teams down into consumer cars. Some of the tech will likely end up in commodity datacenter/cloud stuff.
No one suggested ostracizing Eich... just not supporting his company.

I'm sorry this makes you so angry. Maybe you have a convincing point to make, but the way you're trying to make it will be lost on anyone that doesn't already agree with you.
This is none of the above. Language like the above is used to defend and employ censorship.

Use your big boy brain; this is a persons opinion piece - regardless of whether any of it is evil, good, correct, incorrect you need to employ context.

This is not the bible, this is one person publishing their thoughts to the internet. Keep that in mind always when you read someone's dogshit opinion. "intentional misinformation" is laughable.
I always think of moisture vaporators when thinking about binary machine code.
The default conclusion if someone died of other causes isn't to assign the cause of death to the vaccine else we would conclude any broad preventative action including brushing your teeth was unsafe. The benefit isn't limited its both a very very substantial decrease in mortality and hospitalization and a decreased burden on an already overloaded medical system that if it collapses will vastly increase mortality.
It seems to be a picture of a young Joe Biden in the USSR or something. I can't read Cyrillic so I have no clue what this means. Could you provide some additional explanation?
Alternative headline: "Facebook patents Skynet"
Example 1: GPT-3 is a decent chatbot. Training a similar model so you can have a conversation with AIs in the "metaverse" (god, that word is terrible) could be fun / useful.

Example 2: Using AI upscaling (like Nvidia) to improve visual fidelity in games.

Example 3: Hand/body tracking for avatars.

The more AI compute, the more experimentation researchers can do.
Ask HN: How often are you overwhelmed by emails and Slack pings?
What do you guys use to control the sea of messages? I use my own app Hitsnag.com to just shoot important stuff to my notion board to read later at this point.
BBC: “ Scientists not backing Covid jabs for 12 to 15-year-olds”. Link below.

UK’s vaccine top advisory body (that refused to recommend the vaccine for 12-15 age bracket) membership:

Professor Andrew Pollard, Chair (University of Oxford)

Professor Lim Wei Shen, Chair COVID-19 immunisation (Nottingham University Hospitals)

Professor Anthony Harnden, Deputy Chair (University of Oxford)

Dr Kevin Brown (Public Health England)

Dr Rebecca Cordery (Public Health England)

Dr Maggie Wearmouth (East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust)

Professor Matt Keeling (University of Warwick)

Alison Lawrence (lay member)
Professor Robert Read (Southampton General Hospital)

Professor Anthony Scott (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Professor Adam Finn (University of Bristol)

Dr Fiona van der Klis (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands)

Professor Maarten Postma (University of Groningen)

Professor Simon Kroll (Imperial College London)

Dr Martin Williams (University Hospitals Bristol)

Professor Jeremy Brown (University College London Hospitals)

Approved government media:
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58438669

What was the risk and is it approved for discussion if the absolute top vaccine experts declined to recommend it and a government funded news media, BBC, reported on that?

Is this too fringe to talk about?

Is BBC anti-vaxx now?
Are these professors anti-vaxxers?
You could say the same thing about pretty much all adtech tracking, since nearly everyone would be unable demonstrate any concrete harm to themselves.

That's not the point. The point is unless you are doing data collection on anything but an opt-in basis, you are not pro-privacy. What you do with the data or why you collect it or if that collection is harmful is irrelevant to this principle.
>but it is simply not the case that the rates of death from Covid are similar between those with the vaccine and those without

That's the whole point! What matters is not the number of covid deaths, it's the total number of deaths. If a treatment saves people from covid but kills them for other reasons, it's not an effective treatment. Overall excess mortality is what matters.
The statistics are different in the UK because the definitions of hospitalizations used by the NHS and the US private healthcare hodge-podge are different.

Indeed, the NHS defines hospital admission to include day patients and outpatients (https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/hospitals/going-into-hospita...), whereas in the US outpatient care generally doesn't qualify as a hospital admission (https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/hospital-admission).

You can't compare the two statistics much less claim you were deceived without taking into account the difference in the meaning of the numbers. You have to address all the possible asterisks before you jump to conclusions. It's fine to say "I cannot come to a conclusion because this data is unclear". Especially when you are directly comparing statistics from different sources.
Ahem, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
Well it's partially the cost/benefit analysis of:

1. How much benefit will we get?
2. Will this benefit be higher than the cost of purchasing this right now?
3. What other alternatives will satisfy our needs?

For most of these solutions, the answers are:

1. A lot. We need computing power to perform these analysis faster and to be competitive.
2. Yes, as continuing to innovate in this space will keep us competitive and give our scientists the resources to remain productive.
3. AWS/GCP/Azure are alternatives sure, but then (the rate at which Meta probably uses these resources) it probably cost them less to build this out than to pay AWS/GCP/Azure for access to these hardware.
I agree that you eventually want to have those things, but we moved to a major cloud provider when we were ready and got all of those; that transition was very easy because the original setup was so simple. We got a strict superset of features, but the original setup worked to validate the idea and get the original customers.
In Spain public health system don't do PCRs anymore (only private, which very few would). Without a PCR you don't have a valid proof of being infected.

This is my personal case and the case of many many Spanish people, as Omicron is sweeping the country.
For one, real-time avatars make heavy use of “AI processing”. https://research.facebook.com/videos/audio-and-gaze-driven-f...
What numbers are identical? The Russian movement is completely unprecedented since the end of the Cold War. Moving massive numbers of MD East units all to over Belarus over the last days and weeks is an enormous logistical display by Russia.
It's presented as if it was based on scientific data, with references to professors.
“Market rate” is just that: a market rate. In regards to pay, it’s all about finding the salary that’ll get someone to say “yes”, and trying not to go too much above that.

Pre-pandemic, living in the Bay Area, you were commuting to the office, and you were exclusively competing with the people also living in the Bay Area, meaning your labor was scarce. Companies paid more not because of CoL but because the market mandated a certain salary, otherwise you’d just say “no” and work somewhere else. Remote was much rarer, and if you lived in (say) Montana, Google could offer you less money because you’re way more likely to accept a lower salary if you have fewer options and if that salary satisfies you.

With this odd moment we have people who negotiated salaries in the Bay market now moving elsewhere to work remote.
What fraction of those who starred a project on GitHub become committers to and/or donate more than once to it?

I've always assumed that this is a vanishingly small amount, on the order of one in ten thousand or so, but I could be underestimating.