skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general I feel like we need richer and more informal ways of communicating than camera-conscious fatigue inducing video chat.

If the goal is to “build rapport” or “read subtleties in body language” - it seems other ways of interacting or opening up “extra channels” of info might be less stressful. And this could be a ripe place for experimentation.

Some things that have developed to close this gap:

- richer and richer emoji usage in chat?!?

- ad hoc audio features like slacks huddles. No pressure to appear on camera and no awkward pressure to fill a 30 min block.

- just general shitposting!?

- team metaverse style in browser games!?

These are initial, lame ideas. But they I think are all trying to solve this problem unconsciously.

Random longbet: in 10 years being on a video call with camera on, looking nice, paying attention, with the perfect office in the background will seem like stiff formalwear.
Or also those over 40
That sounds really interesting and I have not heard of this before, where would you suggest to start reading into surgical sedatives?
Reddit is not a community; individual subreddits are. There are those that are Democratic, liberal, feminist, queer, socialist, etc.
This is very cool and really impressive! Nice work, both on a conceptual level and on getting everything to actually work :)

If anyone is curious, here are a couple pointers to related work on problems similar to this.

First, the ideas used here are vaguely related to the way that ZCash works under the hood. The ideas in ZCash come from a sequence of three academic papers: ZeroCoin, PinocchioCoin, and Zerocash:

- ZeroCoin: http://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/ZerocoinOakland.pdf

- PinocchioCoin: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

- Zerocash: https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/349

More directly related in terms of application, but quite different in mechanism: the Handshake airdrop in early 2020 could be claimed anonymously. This was slightly tricky because the idea was to retrofit to existing RSA keys. We (full disclosure, I worked on this project) called the resulting protocol a "GooSig":

- GooSigs: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/676

Section 3 of that paper gives a way of anonymously airdropping to existing ECDSA or EdDSA keys without using a SNARK. The setup may not be quite the same as in the case being discussed above, though. Notably, it requires sending a short message to the recipient before they can claim their funds. But the message can be encrypted to an existing key of theirs and posted publicly, so this probably isn't much of a limitation in many practical cases.
Australians have www.choice.com.au that use a subscription model to monetize rigorous product comparisons for big ticket items. I'm not sure what the options are in other countries. Obviously there are special purpose publications like DPReview and Anandtech
> If I am not mistaken, the current CEO of Google spent most of his time working on "default search engine" (or "default web browser") deals before taking the CEO job.

I mean you could spend two seconds to search and realize you were in fact mistaken before bothering to write "If I am not mistaken..."
And then you get Arabic and English text quoted in Japanese vertical RTL text and that's the story of how I actually died.
For these energy quantities and consistencies, wouldn't a flywheel or localized hydro storage solve for n hours? (Next to a local reactor obv)
Unfortunately any individuals one might vote for at the national level are either marginal in terms of exposure or thoroughly vetted by one of the two parties to represent that party's interests and key backers.
You can also screenshot as an interim step, though not quite as secure as this. :-)
That was Sproat et al's point. (Sorry, I can't remember the other authors, I just happen to know Richard Sproat.)
The most frustrating part about all of this is that anyone who has been paying attention and following the research or lack there of is crucified when they are actually more in the know than those spouting the media narrative.

Corporate media created an army of brainwashed zealots who want to virtue signal but are actually completely clueless to any underlying details and merely regurgitate propaganda and party sound bites.

I understand why...

It's very hard to accept you have been lied to. Perhaps you were manipulated with pride to do and say things you now regret. But don't be sad. Be angry. Hold those responsible accountable.
F reddit and F the mods.
Tumblr Inspired Women to Code
Tried to register on rysolv with my github account, but it failed, I see animation indicating working progress, but it never finishes. It has authorised on github successfully.
Nobody is advocating for revenge lol

Just that once someone buys a product, they get to keep it and continue using it. But oh no that’s communism the world is ending! lol
Here and further down this thread you repeatedly allege Google upranks pages if they participate in their ads program. Google explicitly says they do not do this [1]. Do you have evidence to contradict this?

[1] - https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9717?hl=en
> Rust isn't many people's first language.

Has anyone actually tried to teach/learn Rust as a first programming language? People did it with C++ (and even C) at some point, is Rust that much more problematic? (And the attempt might even inform new convenience features: the proc macro system gives Rust a lot of inherent flexibility there.)
No. I wouldn't want to inflict that upon anyone. I'm more bummed that I let the domains expire, especially the short one which was o-w.com.
- natively

- in the browser

Are there any non-native thing that runs in a browser?
I can't find it anymore, but related and interesting is office 365.

To have a quick online version of office, they ran the eve/dll's in the cloud and send it back to the end user.

While it most definitely worked, it was definitely expensive as a first version. But it was too stop Google with their online office suite, as they didn't had an online response yet.

( Searched for the source, but can't find it. If anyone has it, please share. It's pretty old news by now).
"Web results" are. "Siri Suggested Websites" and "Siri Knowledge" are not — those are fed by Applebot. "Applebot is the web crawler for Apple. Products like Siri and Spotlight Suggestions use Applebot." — Apple's support document about Applebot.
I think we've just reinvented the concept with a harder to search name. "Programmable I/O (PIO)" is sure similar to "programmed I/O (PIO)"
Yeah - it's a lot easier to reduce scope when you're building a tool for people to do work with. You ask "can they do the job with this tool" and cut anything superfluous for the first release.

What is necessary in a game is much less clear cut.

I feel like the trend towards minimalism in game design is a little misguided. When you're building a world for people to be immersed in little "unnecessary" features, or roadblocks, or redundancies in both setting and gameplay can make that world feel more real and engaging.
I didn’t realize he was conservative.

My only exposure to him was as a frequent panelist on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. I really enjoyed when he was on.

That’s too bad.
My Linode account has been active since 2010-02-15, so more than a decade now. They've been a very solid option to use all this time. Part of the reason I love them, beyond their great service and competitive pricing... is the fact that I've never had to think about it. Sometimes I may not log into my Linode account for 6 months or more.

Do they do a TON more stuff these days? Yes. But my standard bumpkin Linode instance keeps chugging along. Upgrade/replacement to new hardware? They handle it, I get alerts but otherwise I don't need to take action.

I'm happy for them that they got bought, because it brings (hopefully) a lot of value to all those people who worked so hard to get to this point in time. However as a customer I worry, of course I worry. Clearly Akamai wants to be the next big cloud, not just a CDN. Linode wants to be that next big cloud too. So it's a great fit. But will that push to The Next Big Thing kill off what made them great for the little guys? Maybe.

It'll still be good for their business, just bad for me.
Human resources, or Meat Teams?
> it's also the kind of thing that can open a backdoor for free will in a deterministic universe, your brain in this chaotic state might behave deterministically but the actual state would never be knowable with enough precision to predict the outcome of inputs for any amount of time

Hmm, what about predictability conflicts with the idea of free will? Just because my actions are predictable doesn't mean they aren't a reflection of my will. It seems to me that the opposite is true, there is no coherent "you" if your actions aren't based on a consistent set of rules since that implies how you behave ultimately has no connection to who you are. To escape determinism means to become literally insane.
Can you point me in the direction of further reading?
Anything that uses a plugin. WebEx comes to mind, in the past I would have thought flash, Java applets, or ActiveX.
> Reddit is one of the last places with huge amounts of publicly accessible online discussions.

There are still some pretty active enthusiast message boards, e.g., https://www.tacomaworld.com

But your overall point is valid, I think. My pointing to a single active forum doesn't change the fact that many of other enthusiast groups have moved to facebook groups and the like.
> The Protocol Is Not Really Good, Actually

Title of my programming memoir right there
So it was a typo they never fixed?
Seems like even the size of the rectangle would give hints on what it is redacting. For example "Yes" has a bigger box vs "No".
You are being too pessimistic.

Yes, it's hard to figure out cow just from a big corpus; though you might learn enough about 'cow' to form meaningful sentences and answer questions. That's what GPT-3 is doing after all, and language models are still improving quickly.

And we do have context! Just knowing that a language is used by humans gives lots and lots of context. Human cultures and languages have more in common than you might realize.

For example, have a look at Deixis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deixis):

> In linguistics, deixis (/ˈdaɪksɪs/, /ˈdeɪksɪs/)[1] is the use of general words and phrases to refer to a specific time, place, or person in context, e.g., the words tomorrow, there, and they. Words are deictic if their semantic meaning is fixed but their denoted meaning varies depending on time and/or place. Words or phrases that require contextual information to be fully understood—for example, English pronouns—are deictic. Deixis is closely related to anaphora. Although this article deals primarily with deixis in spoken language, the concept is sometimes applied to written language, gestures, and communication media as well. In linguistic anthropology, deixis is treated as a particular subclass of the more general semiotic phenomenon of indexicality, a sign "pointing to" some aspect of its context of occurrence.

> Although this article draws examples primarily from English, deixis is believed to be a feature (to some degree) of all natural languages.

I suspect with a large enough corpus you can most likely figure out the deixis of the given language.

See https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/4046 for some more structure shared with all human languages:

> However, all languages have some sort of a clause-type thing allowing them to express predication, attribution, etc. See Dixon's Basic Linguistic Theory: Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 1: Methodology . All languages also must have means of expressing cohesion and coherence (texture) although this is much less studied in cross linguistic perspective. Punctuated sentences are a kind of cohesive device.

(A comment on this answer points out that the reality is probabilistic, of course:)

> While I agree with you, it seems to me that linguists who study languages with a strong written tradition often talk about 'sentences', even when their examples are not from writing. Those of us who work on previously unwritten languages (I think) tend to talk about 'texts' or 'utterances'. I think this is an important issue as it relates to how some linguists have ignored the true messiness that is often found in examples of human language.

Of course, all of this refers to natural human languages. Not totally arbitrary constructs.
> Microsoft's demonym is "Microsoftie" which is no better and didn't seem to be too popular among folks I knew there.

It is certainly popular enough in the Seattle area at places that are not Microsoft. There are enough ex-MSFT people floating around (really, a lot of them) that you hear it often.
I started switching to !g when I had to finish a project in a hurry and I was using a framework I was unfamiliar with. By the end of the project I had just ditched DDG as my default and went back to Google.
This is not supported by the literature as far as I'm aware, do you have a source? Propofol, the most common adult surgical anesthetic, decreases neuronal activity via the mechanism of making it harder for action potentials to fire [0], and has a litany of effects few of which are excitatory , and generally correlated to decreasing cortical activity [1].

And ketamine, the most common pediatric and veterinary anesthetic, has a complex mechanism of action acting on GABA, NMDA, and other receptor systems, often with generally inhibitory characteristics [2] and with definite decrease in brain activity in animal models [3].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430884/

[1] https://elifesciences.org/articles/60824#:~:text=The%20broad....

[2] https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/Fulltext/1998/...

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002839...
Alas I had fun with rust and made some small apps but as I got deeper I just got scared off by the learning curve. I'm kind of over the hump with c++, javascript and python and I just couldn't do it again. Maybe I will revisit in a few years if it actually slows down.
Or more recently, because you promised said scope in a kickstarter/early access phase.

This does not seem to apply to AAA companies marketing, for some reason.
I didn't know Danny Sullivan had sold his soul. Really though, Danny, honestly, people aren't searching for ALT text. They're searching for text.
Insane! I wasn't aware Akamai was so huge in scale as compared to Cloudflare.
You’re attempting to justify the wearing of gold stars and comparisons to the Holocaust. Holy fucking shit.
Probably more PC than Metastases?

> Zuck says employees are not supposed to “nice ourselves to death”

Was that ever a thing at Facebook?
Yea, I get the plagiarism bit. The value here would be things like advert revenue and possibly money for the final outcome which is not SEO, its straight paid search. If you want traffic, and these people will help traditional chinese people find you, then paying them for search would make sense.

The plagiarism is going to get them in the end.

Is Plagiarism "blackhat" ?
“It’s been said that a person dies twice, once when the body dies & once when their name is last spoken. There’s also a third time, when the company storing your frozen corpse can’t pay the power bill.”
Google went downhill when they changed the "Google Instant" algorithm from what people actually are searching for, to something more aligned with some leftist ideology based around what they hope people are searching for. This happened around 2015 [0], and was in full effect by 2017 [1].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20190627113146/https://www.proje...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190627121520/https://www.theep...
Split-flap displays! So satisfying[0]. Heres another video about just the split-flap clock[1], also very entertaining.

[0] https://youtu.be/cj32w5z81Ak

[1] https://youtu.be/ZArBfxaPzD8
What did January teach us about RFR trading?
You must learn that people working on UNIX or on Xerox Park were not there looking for fame. There was no indication early on that UNIX would be revolutionary. They just did their job as good as they could and the future took care of itself. People who are just trying to make a name for themselves usually go nowhere.
Or just randomize text pixelation to troll people.
This is exactly my current concern after hearing this news. Purely anecdotal, but I've had nothing but good experiences with both Linode and Digital Ocean over the years. I genuinely hope that Akamai does not destroy everything good about Linode, but at least if they do, thankfully there's more'n a few other excellent options to switch to.
> You can get numbers, probabilities and mutual information scores and vectors and what have you, but if you can't ground them in anything, you have no way of getting to meaning, and therefore no way of translating.

But you have a grounding! You know it's a language used by humans.
Charcuterie coterie
Not a single mention of the critical race theory. There is life on this planet!
Meta: “We just updated the values that guide our work”
Presumably your deep contemplation would take the risk of overfitting into account.
Underestimated Tasks

Feature Creep

Death March

Feature Cuts

Understaffed Team

Underbudgeted Project

Neglected [...] Design

Working on Multiple Projects

Yep, pretty much sums up my career, so far.
Modules can be built compositionally from smaller modules, even in the *nix shell - that's what a shell script is! Similarly, libraries can depend from other lower-level libraries. No flat structure is required, hence no huge increase in either implementation or communication complexity.
Hindutva is a political ideology; Sanskrit and PIE (Proto-Indo-European) were languages, with Sanskrit attested in written form (including an ancient grammar!), but PIE not attested--only reconstructed from the daughter Indo-European languages, Sanskrit being one of them. Sanskrit being rather old, it's closer to PIE than any of today's IE languages; it's very roughly contemporaneous with ancient Greek and Hittite, which are also IE languages.
Reddit as a whole is absolutely a community and the default subs and the comments in them reflect that. Its also one that brigades a lot into other subs, so there's a "real reddit" you see and its absolutely right-leaning.
Am I the only one who redacts info, prints it out, then scans it back in? Or redacts, then takes a screenshot before sending out?

For some reason I just never trust the PDF tool (or human error on my end) actually redacting the info, even if I were to do a print to PDF.
Weird. On a computer, `"kitchenboss" "g320" "disassembly"` returns exactly six results, all of which appear to include the quoted terms. Plus the "It looks like there aren't many great matches for your search" message at the top. Which sounds like exactly what you want. I wonder why it's different on mobile.
The thing is that we can't make low end meat, those products are not trying to do that. We are making meatfree alternatives to the processed products that are customarily made by mangling low end meat (ground meat, sausage, hamburger, chicken nuggets), but we don't (yet?) have an effective/affordable/reasonable way to make the macrostructure/texture similar even to a lousy piece of low end meat before it gets minced up.

It's not trivial (and perhaps even impossible) to transform the equivalent of meat slurry (which is what you can get from the current manufacturing process - they cultivate separate single cells, not connected tissue) back to a slab of meat even if you'd be satisfied with the quality of cheapest cuts. There are some concepts of growing whole tissue which could be a solution, however, that's not what's discussed in this article and that's not (yet?) commercially usable as far as I know.

If we could make an artificial equivalent of a cut of beef then you're right, it would make all sense to try to replicate Wagyu marbling instead of a cheap cut as itwould not be that big of a difference for the technology; however, at the moment we aren't making replicas of actual whole pieces of meat.
Damn I passed through Roswell three times and never knew about it!
For my team I don't require people turn their camera off but you do need to read the room. Also, it's not good if you always have your camera off, it comes off as dickish. Turn it on every once in a while you're a human being not a voice in a box.
There was a cartridge you could buy and shove in the back that made everything load about 5x. I wish I could remember the name of it.

--edit-- ah here it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epyx_Fast_Load
I've heard really good things about Vultr. I'll have to keep their bookmark handy in case Akamai brutally screws Linode up.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"

That's the basis for patent and copyright. It's an incentive to create, and isn't intended for leaving things idle for long periods.
Readability Research: This New Field Can Help Us All Read Better
Along these lines: a script with over 700 symbols is definitely not an alphabetic script. Possibly syllabic, although most syllabic writing systems have fewer symbols than that.

And of course, it may not be a script at all.
What?!

Have you tried this? It immediately turns verbatim off. For everyone! It's been like this forever. Years and years. Gaslighting won't help here!

In terms of quotes, again, this does NOT work like +, like verbatim. If it did, then that term would absolutely show up, just as it is, in search results. Yet, over the years I've seen:

- aliasing happen from within quotes (EG, bob -> robert)

- quotes entirely ignored (eg, those terms NOT showing up)

Yet searching with verbatim on, immediately causes those quoted words to appear!

You are absolutely gaslighting people on this! Right now, in this thread. And if it isn't intentional, if you aren't gaslighting, then how can you not even notice that verbatim turns off, the second you select a date range?

I want to say so much more here, but it's filled with such ... vitriol, that I think my terminal would melt.
Transformer Memory as a Differentiable Search Index
Damn. I wonder if I can emulate a USB host on the other end and put a USB device such as a Yubikey "in the cloud" so that multiple devices can use it as a U2F device.
I think the idea of “hodl” bitcoin wasn’t there. One thing that changed in my perspective is that bitcoin transactions were always destined to be more expensive than I had dreamed. In my mind, I thought transactions would be fast and free of cost. In reality, there are reportedly fewer than ten thousand full nodes.

Everyone thinks of bitcoin in terms of “how many USD is it?” I don’t know what the solution is but as long as we think of bitcoin as a perverted asset like housing - apparently people once again believe we will not allow housing prices to fall to any significant degree - there is no reason to use bitcoin as a currency. With so much speculation, the price is too volatile.

I don’t know what the solution is but I believe transaction costs should be minimal if not zero. I don’t know how we will achieve this but apparently there are other projects that try to get much closer to zero transaction fees. I think that is the future