skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that we can rely on the courts to assess the situation and make an assessment, you can't codify into law the exact criteria. There are always tensions between rights, some combination of the laws, the courts, and the compliance and tolerance of the public has to settle on a decision on a case-by-case basis.

I think OWS is a good example, they got a lot of publicity and staged long term protests and demonstrations that indeed inconvenienced people, in a two month occupation there certainly was some disruption but I would invite you to compare the two events closely and I think you will see that this Ottawa situation is quite different both in the level of disruption and the quantity of arrests.

Of course in Canada we have lots of great examples of roads being blocked in isolated areas because of logging and pipeline protests, they draw a lot of the comparisons because despite their impact being very limited in terms of the people effected they are cleared out much more violently than has occurred in any instance here. Fairy Creek is something you can look into, the RCMP happily arrested journalists covering the protest crackdown in a gross violation of civil liberties and the rule of law.

I think if your impression of the protests in Ottawa is that they have simply "shut down a street" you should look into it in more detail. (For example the mayor tried to negotiate a deal to get the trucks to stop overnighting and honking in residential areas but failed to get it to stick, that's not related to blocking off one street downtown.) I know a few people that have been hassled on the street in a manner that resulting in them regarding the area unsafe and not a public space for them anymore.
The Apple TV YouTube app also manages to break typing into its search field when using the iPhone remote, with letters frequently getting transposed. It’s infuriating.
> End of the day, the sovereign state possesses ultimate power. For awhile some people felt that Bitcoin, et al made them immune to the authority of the state.

Well, one could argue that we, the people, want the sovereign state where there is some degree of social contract going on, to have that ultimate power.

Putting that power into a system that was designed by humans and almost by design can't be democratic and at best is meritocratic, is a very likely path to a Kafkaesque world.
I don't get the down-votes on this comment either. (Other then maybe HN is not really the place where folks like to "leave things alone...".)

Email is a fact of life and it is not going anywhere, but in general I would prefer communicating over the Matrix protocol. There is plenty of innovation and development still needed in the messaging space, but continuing to view email as the core technology to build on top of is unnecessarily limiting. (Note that this is not a criticism of the Shortwave team as we all need great email clients! I am just concurring that there are protocols that are fundamentally better than email...)
Welcome to the world of Complex Systems research.

Complex Systems guy: we just showed a system operates in a critical state scale-free phase transition and its key statistics have a power law distribution!

Everyone: okay, so?

CS guy: I dunno? That's what our discipline does. It tells you things are in critical states with power laws. So now you know that...
I'll defrag that for the younger audience

Does the younger audience even know what "defrag" is?

I don't think I've defragged a drive since the days when you could magically make more RAM and storage appear by running Stacker.
I use it on iOS Chrome.
The very worst kind of determinism errors are butterfly effect like in that you don’t notice the desync until long after the cause has occurred. It’s pretty imperative if you’re building a deterministic system to add a layer of error checking right from the start so you can ensure each party ends up in the same state and identify desync very early. On the other hand you also want to identify where desync doesn’t matter (for example most FX) so you limit the scope of what has to be deterministic to keep things simple.
Retroreflectors on the Moon
Why can't I just disable RTL on my system?

I do not speak a word of Arabic. There is no circumstance in which my life will be materially improved by correct RTL text rendering. I might want proper display of individual characters so I can copy-paste them, but I have no use for RTL text.

On the other hand, RTL causes a lot of unpleasant problems like this. Why can't I simply coerce all foreign languages into LTR?
Apple’s iPhone has 56% share of the U.S. smartphone market
Growth by 1e+7 per ten years from 1e+14 2011 to 1e+21 2021 and should be 1e+28 2030. Probably Doom, host OS and player bot will be generated and played by AI from 1e+28 2030.

2011 1e+14 = 100 000 000 000 000

2021 1e+21 = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 <- you are here

2031 1e+28 = 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

Never worry about paywalls again :-)
Yes. It's like the results when people realized you could have a classifier trained to match a person's face, reversed to generate a new face based on the classifier. There are a few extra steps, but the web is just recipe sites and product reviews that look like what the google ranking algorithms idealized site looks like.
Yes, as a system, Bitcoin does not offer an "undo button" in the way that other payment systems do.

What I'm getting out of the article is that this is less relevant than people generally assume.
This is called a "desync" and is a bug in a particular implementation of multiplayer networking. In this model instead of the server sending the state to each player, it sends their inputs, and allows the local device to completely determine the state of the game. If there are any differences at all in how the game's calculations are made, the game will have different states in different devices. Even different models of the iPhone may have tiny differences in how they calculate the square root for example, and over time these minor differences cascade into totally different games.
I guess if you include future crimes? The article says the DNA was collected years ago and the crime was recent.
Launching in the middle of a nature preserve was always going to be a problem.

It would not be at all surprising if they did not get approval for anything like the launch cadence from Boca Chica that they had projected, and need to fall back on Florida and ocean platform launches.

The delay to get that stuff ready might give them time to actually work out bugs, without them being treated as failures. And, there is little doubt those will work just as well, although standing that stack up on a floating platform will be an impressive achievement. Boca Chica will still be able to do tests. One wonders if they will deliver completed vehicles to the real launch sites by ("test") launching from Boca Chica. I don't think you need a Starship on top to launch the booster, although a cone hat seems advisable.
And nature has a long, clumsy, cruel tradition of killing literally everyone in various unpleasant ways, usually before their time. There is a tradeoff and "optimize for making sure we never ever ever repeat the thalidomide fiasco again" is not the best strategy to take.
This is one of my favorite laws!
I think the issue is that English rhyme requires a near-match of the last stressed vowel and of all following sounds until the end of the word. So you can sometimes just match the last syllable and get a rhyme, but not always, depending on where the stress falls.

For example, "example" rhymes with "sample" but not with "people" because the stress is on the second-to-last syllable.

But "redact" and "exact" rhyme, despite only agreeing in the last syllable, because that's the last syllable that's stressed.

"Takesies" and "backsies" are both stressed on their first syllables, so they would need to match from that vowel on in order to be perceived as a natural English rhyme, and they don't.
people on the left seem to conflate Republican moderates, religious zealots, libertarians, fiscal conservatives, right wing nationalists, etc.. All right wingers are "the same".

It's the same straw-man b.s. the right does to the left.
There is real content being drowned out by autogenerated SEO crap. I tried looking for rice cookers which didn't have non stick coatings, they do exist and some blog posts which talk about them but the top results are all stores which have just a generic category for rice cooker but generate 200 duplicate pages with the title changed to exactly match whatever your search term is. So it says "Ceramic rice cooker" but shows their generic listing of PTFE rice cookers.

Google search is constantly improving but the SEO spammers are improving faster.
I think you are misreading GP’s comments. I got the impression that GP is praising SpaceX same as you..
Why you should have a Public Roadmap
In many places that's not enough.

For example if they knowingly sell you defective stuff or if medicine is tainted, etc., there are laws that override such a policy.
I don’t think op meant it literally, but the fact that the results are so keyword stuffed that despite “appearing” on the page they are actually irrelevant to the page and thus useless.
Their website is more complex, but they offer many more services than before. Not sure what else they could to do streamline things? Prices have gone up a bit as well, but to be expected to a certain degree. Still, I like them for their fixed pricing and no surprise bills at the end of the month. My only complaint is they have a tendency to kill some processes with no warning and no ticket. I'd be fine if they created a ticket to say "Hey, we're killing this process because we're not sure you want to run it, if you do click here to add it to an exclusion list" rather than silently killing it.
From a quick search didn't find anyone going all out, but did find this that could be used as a starting point: https://matt.might.net/articles/sql-in-the-shell/
Not a physicist, but I have questions.

> Based on what we've observed, and our current standard model of particle physics, only one type of neutrino can be massless.

Is the standard model complete to the point where we can predict how many types of neutrinos exist and what their properties should be?

I always thought that the standard model as a set of equations (a model) that fits observed data, without venturing far into “why this model is the governing principle for our universe”. That is, it is not able to explain things like “why an electron comes with two heavier varieties”.

Are neutrinos somehow different in a way that we can understand them to the point where we know things like “only one type of neutrino can be massless”?
They should just expand their services to individual/small business
> If the keys are not accessible, then they are totally powerless to do anything at all.

If you truly believe that, I don't think you understand how law enforcement works.
Be liberal in what you accept be conservative in what you produce.
Ever wonder why a miracle doctor from America has to work in Panama? Yeah, it's because he spends a lot of time doing things that don't have much (any) evidence to back them up.

https://www.skepdoc.info/beware-stem-cell-clinics-that-offer...
It looks like a useful article showing the trend OpenAI described a few years ago has continued.

One thing I'd object to is coining (or maybe just using?) the term "Large-Scale Era". This seems like polluting the discussion with a meaningless phrase.

The basic message is essentially, deep learning continues to grow in scale exponentially, many people consider the dividends still worth the costs. No need to "sexy things up" with what no more than a marketing term.
Can somebody please recreate Google circa 2005-2012?

I'm pretty happy with the other search engines, but I do miss having a google profile that would feed me the correct kinds of search results. I refuse to believe that nobody knows how to do this (I don't) as Google was doing their indexing with commodity hardware on bread racks in the beginning. There have been scores and scores of swe in and out of that company.

I know that web crawling is hard, but we could use a few more options.

Is it inevitable that spam SEO and even legitimate applications like quora, stackoverflow, will dominate every search result?

Is it because of the "Deep Web" of content and information locked behind commercial, login required, and Web2.0 UIs?

Is it really over?
I think part of it too, is that over time the advice gets watered down, and this watered down version is then taught to further "generations".

Going back to the origin and then extrapolating to current conditions can probably yield great results
Only two of the three neutrinos need to be massless, though that would be quite a curious asymmetry, and everyone expects all three to have mass.

A massless particle might not have a restframe or experience proper time, but it still propagates through spacetime, and can definitely decay to other massless particles, at least in theory. After all, moving at the speed of light doesn't preclude it from interacting with ordinary matter either. "Luckily", in our universe there are theoretical reasons for photons to be completely stable (e.g. see https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9508018 ), but there's no such general rule.
As a long time Linode user, and I've given a try to others as well ... e.g. Digital Ocean, Linode's been my infrastructure choice for many many years.
Ah yes, the terrible failure of checks notes $116.46 billion market cap.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/ibm/marketcap/
What's a good next step after learning "classical" neural nets, i.e. backpropagation ANNs?

I've been working with MNIST with C and CUDA with dynamic parallelism for a couple months and it's been extremely enlightening but I'm kind of ready to move on.

CNNs maybe?
Of course people would scramble, but it has nothing to do with how much value you can screw users out of using advertising, because even if ads were worth $0 revenue, search is so valuable you could just plain charge users. This is why there is essentially no relationship between the value of search and the ad revenue. The value of the ad revenue could be $0, and the value to the user would still be $100+/month.

And because the consumer surplus is literally an order of magnitude or two more than the subscription fee quoted, that is prima facie a case that a subscription search engine could have a marginal benefit of >$10 compared to the free ad-supported engine. It, or the subset of searches you opt to use it for, only needs to deliver a little more value to be worth it. Quite aside from the problem of Google Search being increasingly jammed full of ads, wasting your time, or any distortion of ranking, people just plain dislike and avoid ads (https://www.gwern.net/Ads).
> I started to warm to CRTs, maybe a fondness when I realised I hadn’t had to seriously use one for over a decade.

Same here, and now I'm looking for a CRT monitor because I don't remember anymore how it is to use one. Did the low resolution games look better on them? After more than 10 years I can't really recall the difference.
Many parallels with what is going on with NFTs right now.
> You can offer better support or you can offer something that a big company cannot afford like data exportability.

Thanks for the suggestions. Will look into how I can do these.

> VC financed companies need to show exponential growth to justify their valuations while you maybe can afford to invest in your users that is not profitable but that might give you an advantage in the long term.

I can see their messaging has become more convoluted, while the product is still good. Recent reviews by users also indicate they are not as attentive to users' needs -- perhaps a function of their scale. For these reasons, their rapid scale-up could be a competitive disadvantage in the long term, or they might have such massive mindshare (like they do now) that it will drown out alternatives like mine. The latter vision is the one that keeps me up at night.
Doesn't "backsies" rhyme with "taxis"?
6 jobs and you only pulling 700k?
> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment is hardly a 2022 notion ;)
Today I learned:

"the KERNAL implemented a device-independent I/O API not entirely dissimilar from that of Unix or Plan-9, which nobody actually exploited, as far as is publicly known. Whereas one could reasonably argue that 'everything is a file' in these latter systems, others could easily claim that 'everything is a GPIB-device' in the former."
In my experience, most of the pain boils down to synchronization of state between participants. This is also your principal vector for cheating.

If you are willing and able to make a very extreme sacrifice regarding client-server architecture, it is feasible to consolidate all state to 1 synchronous domain while serving an arbitrary number of participants.

The sacrifice is basically to build your game as a native take on the Google Stadia model. I.e. inputs are raw player events, output is a low latency A/V stream back to player.

Keep in mind you don't have to always serve an x264 stream to all clients. Depending on your objectives and type of game, you can serve an intermediate view model that instructs the client on how to draw its view using local assets and resources (textures, models, gpus, etc). This would be more like how Blazor server-side model operates.
> Gamers don't really care that ECC prevents one crash in years because they are used to frequent crashes already.

I work on GPU drivers for one of those companies.

We regularly get reports and backtraces that cannot be reproduced, or "Cannot Happen" without some external factor (e.g. some other bit of code poking around our memory space). Often they're just silently dropped or ignored on the long tail of issues that nobody can get any traction on.

My understanding is the stats from hyperscalers is that ECC correction events happen a lot more than "Common Knowledge" may imply - I wonder just what proportion of things that are blamed on software may actually be due to hardware issues like this?

Again, without a significant change in the market (IE enough gamers start using ECC to actually be statistically relevant and comparing stability) this cannot really be tested, but I've wondered.
Please! Won't somebody please give me better targeted ads!
The 3,094 BTC stolen happened in 2012. The price of BTC in March of 2012 was ~$3-5 USD, so ~$15,500K on the high end and ~$9,300 on the low end.
Well, it's definitely a great source of free audiobooks. (I kid.)
Update: today I received a text message about booking air travel while I was still on the phone with an airline.

I called my cell carrier and they said that even they do not have my phone records until several hours later, and besides they don't sell phone records.

When I called Apple, the senior advisor told me that maybe my Facebook app is listening to me since "that's just the way the systems are set up". I was floored that an Apple employee (a senior rep, no less) would say such a thing. She didn't indicate how the app would have permission to do this if not granted it at the OS level. Regardless, I don't even have the FB app installed.

I'm now going to swap my SIM card into a different iPhone and see if the issue persists.
The same general principle applies to watch Netflix as shopping at Amazon: they do not really care what you watch, as you as you watch something. If that’s continuing from before, that’s fine. If it’s something they’re promoting, or a new show they can entice you with, that’s great too. Maybe even better — now there’s two shows you’ll want to finish.

I mean, sure, they’d probably prefer you watch an original property they have more control over than something with a costly license, but overall the primary concern is keeping usage levels up and cancellations down.
> Which they are, evidenced by restricting searches to HN or Reddit.

You are right but overestimate the number of people doing these restrictive searches. They should be in the <0.1% range. I personally switched (to duck and latly kagi.com) and know quite some people in tech that did so too, but the non tech-savy person (which are the majority of overall users) doesn't even know other search engines.
PlayStation 3 had OtherOS allowing Linux installation, then removed it with an update, settled years later for a paltry $55 for anyone who could prove they used the function and $9 for anyone who claimed to have purchased it based on the functionality or couldn't prove they used it.
Fun fact: a CRT was the first RAM!

https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/williams-demon...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube
Even so, wouldn't it be much smarter if they kept track of what the expected life expectancy of the thing you bought is, and then years later start feeding you ads for a replacement? Or is it too hard to track people over such a long period of time?
If the human mind is deterministic there's no free will. If it isn't there might be. That makes free will half of a scientific question - science can only rule it out.
>"Call me crazy, but I've been using Yandex a lot more recently. Political FUD aside, the results are pretty good, and completely unfiltered.

Note: Russia doesn't give a flying fuck about American copyright law. Yarr.
>think of JWST 2.0

An expendable starship with fairings can launch a (dimensionally) even larger telescope. Or a starlink like array of large telescope modules.
I don't think this is a good place for a blacklist. Text effects should be encapsulated and reset at the end of the text block, the way bold or italic effects are.
>You are presuming conservatives think like progressives - where ideology is paramount - it's NOT and they DON'T.

One has only to look at recent events [1][2][3] to see that is not true at all. I think the main difference is that conservatives do not consider their opinions to be ideological, but fact, as is evident with Covid vaccination statistics.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-organizers-plan-co...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2021/12/06/1057344561/anti-vaccine-activ...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-sports/trump-ur...
Please don't take your scientific news from Joe Rogan.

Science Vs. podcast has just released a great episode on the kinds of misinformation spread there...

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/49hngng
This is very much in the spirit of what we were trying to do with trove.to [1] — give people an easy way to curate & annotate lists of websites, and layer a social graph and endorsement system on top of those lists.

The problem we encountered is that the vast majority of people are not hyper-organized list makers — the 1% rule of the internet [2]. To create a "human curated search engine" with any utility, you need a massive amount of manually-categorized data — data which most people are simply not interested in generating. This is why no social bookmarking site (e.g. delicious, pinboard, etc.) has ever taken off to hundreds of millions of users.

I still think there's something exciting to be built here, but it will likely need to take a more "automated" approach as you suggested.

[1] https://trove.to/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)