skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See this I'm not convinced about. Having tested a bunch of hugging face models for sentiment analysis, the results are very very poor. We see so many uses of text generation, but if document summarization is so good then where are all the startups doing this for money?

I agree that GPT et Al perform well on the benchmarks, but that's not the same thing at all.
> I've lived in food deserts and I can tell you getting healthy food can be quite an arduous task, especially if you rely on public transportation.

That's what food desert means. As in, no food. Therefore food must be imported. Therefore it's expensive. Sugar just happens to be a well-preserving food.

The solution is quite simple: Don't live in a food desert.
Mac OS 9 was really aging even at that point in time, was crashing all the time from what I heard, and so on, but. It looks amazing.

Monterey wishes it looked half as good as OS 9 looks like
I think it means the genital defect is normally rare, but is much more common in these kids?
100%

The music project I'm working on right now requires significant investments in time and effort. A considerable weight would lift off of my shoulders if I didn't have to think about being able to pay my rent and food.
Nestlé sold most of its water businesses, including those in California, to BlueTriton. Nestlé still owns the European brands, but not Arrowhead Puritas or Nestlé Pure Life.
> after the researchers adjusted for factors including parental ages and maternal smoking status

The exact adjustments made can change the solidity of the finding into anything from "rock solid" to "complete trash". Seemingly solid studies are routinely trashed by third party method reviewers that the initial peer reviewers missed. So we'll know better when they get around to it.
MagStone – A MagSafe Wireless Charger with Palm Touchstone Design
I too disabled the default "Recommended by Twitter" feed and instead chose to view only tweets by accounts I follow in a chronological order. Absolutely no political stuff. This resulted in a very pleasant twitter experience.
They have quite a bit of soft power.

People say that the UN is ineffectual, but they have managed to nag countries into better behaviour with a shocking amount of success. Whether that's "power" or not is debatable, but the end result is stuff getting done.
As someone who uses to be very good at this kind of "math" in high school...it's not even real math. It's a bunch of teenagers being tested on how good they are at being poor man's computers. And I don't just mean standardized tests - almost the entirety of the high school math "education" is sad.
This is a good way to put it. Twitter has a nasty habit of pushing politics on your feed no matter how many times you tell it not to. Digital nukes to clean up silicon valley's BS seems appropiate to wrest back some control.

I can think and discuss politics on better platforms where the conversation works better. Twitter is too brief, useful for bird pics and science annoucements. Not for nuanced political essays.
Most business owners earn about the same as if they worked for someone else. It's only the top decile where the numbers start to differ.

http://reactionwheel.net/2019/01/schumpeter-on-strategy.html
Maintain Attention
> as a matter of principle

> by the way I think

"Maybe" it's you the one putting that burden on yourself.

I got that you prefer to use open/free sw, but to feel humiliated by it... As the other commenter mentions, it's over the top...
Three kinds of shibboleths: something you know, something you have, and something you are. Password, key/hardware token, and biometric. Or, as the joke among security folks goes, something you lose, something you forget, or something you no longer are (ever get a cut on your index finger?).

I’ve definitely heard of people having to do the kind of cold start Matt is talking about here. They had a bag stolen while bumming around South America, left with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Mostly it just takes time for mail to arrive. A hassle that, as long as you have friends and funds, can be dealt with.

I feel like recovering my digital life after, say, a house fire, would be somewhat more difficult, but as long as I don’t forget every password, I could bootstrap for sure. It does make me wonder if I should get an extra yubikey and store it somewhere offsite…
That seems like a pretty clunky interface. But I assume from the way that everything is spelled out explicitly that it's made to be performant. And obviously it's a big improvement over JNI.
But we use it for 2fa. Can't wait till spammers figure out how to abuse spoofing and 2fa.
I'd try marketing it to the Gate's foundation or the Wellcome Trust for grant support, rather than selling it for profit. Also look at other countries health systems. The UK's NHS has a department called "NHS Digital" who might be interested.
A twist in the tail of a good story is not cheating, it's story telling. You wouldn't want the title of a film to have a spoiler.

This article has a good story arc, and I enjoyed the read, and learnt something to boot.
After reading the post, you might be interested to answer these questions:

* Do you agree or disagree with the idea of attention being stolen from us?
* What strategies and habits have you developed to tender your garden?
* Do you see a link between consciousness and attention?
* When thinking about something do you make a distinction between yourself and society?
* How can we regain our attention? Is it only through the regulation of big tech?
In my opinion people should only be able to earn money through work. After all, if everyone stopped working and started living off their investments, there wouldn't be any capital gains.

The problem isn't that capital is lazy, it's that the interest rate can't actually reach 0% and the capital market can't actually reach an equilibrium so it is stuck at some low interest rate floor instead of going all the way to 0%.

The idea that your net worth should grow based on how much you own is absurd. You should instead be paid more for your work and then get to increase your net worth that way. That's better for everyone involved except for those who don't want to work at all.
Fringe leaders call for fringe positions all the time.

None of the authors of that paper were elected officials, and that view never became policy of any state.
There was no cost to joining the Boy Scouts. All you had to do was show up. About half of the troop was poverty kids. You didn't have to buy the uniform, most of the scouts never bothered acquiring one.
I thought he's now running his own business

Edit: yes, "Author and Consultant" says the profile. (Hi Kay :-))
I'm on your side of the fence - but with very aggressive whitelisting. You're in my phone book or not. I block 100% of calls that aren't in my phonebook, if they don't originate with my voip provider.

All of my incoming calls go to my VOIP provider, which in turn routes to my cellphone if someone has my 'extension'. Anyone who doesn't, has their message go to voicemail, which is transcribed to email (and the audio file attached). Prior to transcription audio plays telling the caller to enter a specific code, to leave a voicemail. Turns out this eliminates 100% of fake foreigners, and locals. They can't be arsed.

I ignore SMS. I receive nothing of value other than registered numbers (as in, a registration with the state) so I actively block them and add on an as needed basis.

My spam has reduced to zero.
Alternatively, just stop using Twitter
Someone needs to do something about the legal-industrial complex. It's a complete fiction that normal people read pages and pages of contracts, EULAs, and that type of stuff. It's basically impossible to read the docs for all the services you buy, and even if you did you wouldn't know what it meant in terms of law.

Yet we have lawyers talking through the technical minutiae as if they are source code. There's a huge disconnect between what people understand their rights and legal positions to be, and what the lawyers can turn it into.

There's other problems as well. At least here in the UK, the court system does not have enough capacity. This leads to all sorts of problems with who gets justice.

Then there's the money. If we're all equal before the law, how can there be lawyers who cost thousands an hour? Either they're more effective than other lawyers, in which case we're not all equal under the law, or they're just as good as any other lawyer, in which case they are just good marketers. I'm sure it's a mix of both, but if we cared that everyone had equal access, why wouldn't there simply be a big bench of lawyers from which you get assigned one? The legal system has somehow managed to both be a social good and a tremendous source of profit for its members. (Well, some of its members, they don't all make piles of cash.)
Miro (miro.com) is another example of a zui that is in common use.
I'm now imagining an MMO game where these kids ends up on a mystic adventure to collect, deconstruct, and optimize otherworldly entities in order to collect badges and gain power. They're in a race against time to defeat a burnt out, disappointed emperor who wants to end the world. But plot twist, the final boss is a tyrannical monster symbolic of the self-destructive extrinsic desire for approval and recognition. Spoiler, the world does have to end, because there's a better one outside. The servers of the actual MMO itself are rigged to break on completion setting absolutely everyone free and leaving the lucky winner feeling like they earned a whole pile of clout but they won't be able to prove it because a deluge, thousands, of pre-planned counterfeit footage and testimonies of the game's end are disseminated IRL by the devs which will drown theirs out, and if they didn't keep records or lose them, ideally gaslight them into one day considering that maybe they didn't actually beat the game, maybe there was another ending, or something beyond it because there are some variants and truncations or extensions to the endings depicted. The devs make money by secretly recording proof of the real winner's true identity, and creates a collage of their adventure on a canvas, selling the result to a billionaire who thinks this whole thing is neat and was in the market for a unique way to launder money anyways.
It is not an ad hominem to take what you say and assume you know what you're talking about when you talk about yourself :) If you want people to take you seriously, you have to stop acting like an asshole.
> That is one of those legacy options people complain about because they aren't used by C

Another one would be bound, which eventually got dropped.

https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/bound
pxc 550 sennheiser wireless headphones. I got both versions.
been using them everyday for the last 4 years
I was dreaming of a world where slack doesn’t exist and we use only mailing lists ;0
Being from a family of lawyers, I was always told that fine print on documents you didn't sign or initial essentially has no weight in court. I'm not a lawyer and I've never tested this hypothesis personally, but I tend to disregard it as something that wouldn't hold up if I had a valid claim.
> Criminals take great efforts to not be caught and still are.

Insider trading is not like other crimes.

Consider the reasons why it is criminalized, which have been discussed elsewhere under this post.
I do believe that is the entire point of this. It can be a trap if you don't start with clear requirements, which is usually always.
You are purposefully ignoring what my comment says and it is not only insulting, it is also boring.
Those things are all very positive, it's true. I hadn't looked at it that way.
The Strange Death of the Salutation
Schumpeter on Strategy (2019)
It's nice to see pride in a civil service tech job. For the most part it's absolutely crazy how poor tech is handled in most governments, and nothing is done about it. Source: my sister waited 4 weeks for her civil service work laptop to be fixed. They have contract repair companies, but couldn't be bothered organising it. She ended up driving to the contractor herself after 4 weeks and waited for thr repair. Shocking.
If the peak power is only 2kW (8.3A @ 240V), why do most induction cooktops have a 40-50A beaker (32-40A/7.5-9.6kW continuous)?

The first one I looked the specs up on at my home center has a 4.8kW largest element and 8.6kW total. https://images.thdstatic.com/catalog/pdfImages/d9/d92c8678-a...
I think most people have given "we should kill everyone like you" and other quality contributions all due consideration the first time they encountered it and asking them to absorb it again and again isn't doing much for overall open mindedness. Blocking such people is totally valid.
Debian decides to allow secret votes
I think you underestimate the number of people that have a perfect gpa and a perfect score on the sat/act. Thousands of kids get a perfect score on the sat or act test every year. MIT is going to have to be looking at more than just that.
Parts of Twitter are great. Endless US culture wars, not so much.
The answer according to my family: Get a law degree. I'm the only one who doesn't have one / hasn't passed a bar exam. If you don't want to be victim of that system, treat being a lawyer as a form of hacking. It's no different than being a victim of dark pattern software practices, which you would be if you didn't know how to code. (Ironically, part of my slot involves helping lawyers get around pitfalls in software).
At times it goes beyond suppressing objectionable ideas and into the outright denial of reality.

If you silence all opposing ideas, you can start to believe things that appear quite ridiculous to those exposed to a wider spectrum of thought.
It doesn’t call it into question for me, but perhaps I just had lower expectations to start with.

I forget where I saw this comparison so I can’t link to it, but the last few years in AI are like waking up and finding dogs can talk: while some complain they’re not the worlds greatest orators, I find it amazing they can string a few genuinely coherent sentences together and maintain a contextual thread over multiple responses even half the time.
Rocket League reached something like 50 million players in its first year. They’ve likely earned over a billion dollars so far. This is not about survival, just squeezing your cash cows.
> It's time for a national water grid

I mean you have massive, massive mountains that preclude you from doing that fast or in an energy efficient way.

Its far, far simpler and cheaper and effective to increase dwell time of rain water.

What do I mean by this?

Every year lots of money is spent in and around california to maintain storm drains and infra. They spend billions trying to get excess water from the hills to the sea in a faster way as possible.

However this means that the water isn't soaking into the land, which means its not there in summer to evaporate and provide clouds, which rain and drive weather cycles. Basically its drought causing.

By selectively blocking drainage systems, and forcing localised flooding (ie flood planes) not only do you get less damaging flash floods (the water takes a lot longer to get from a to b) a shit tonne more water drains into the soil.

This means that more plants grow, which means less sun hitting the floor, which means lower temperatures, etc etc, etc

Whats more its fucking cheap.

> It is easier to move water than to move farmland with all of its associated supply chains and infrastructure.

I mean that's patently not the case. If it was cheap to move water then we'd see loads of many thousand mile irrigation canals and pipes. We only really see it for high value crops.

There was a plan to create a nationwide canal "backbone" for the UK (a canal can be used for moving water as well) But as it would cost ~10% of GDP to build it wasn't practical.
I understand the audience here, but we don't need more emphasis on iq. We need more emphasis on ethics. We already have the power to destroy ourselves many times over, and within a century, will likely be seeing AI that can best a human in any intellectual endeavor, by an order of magnitude. Ethics first, with some baseline level of intellect, will be the only way out of this impending disaster.
'Tis truly awe-inspiring to see the Invisible Hand at work.
My sources have been two large private investment firms, a government agency, and a university research group. None thought that 5% of my countries' GDP - an amount easily enough to fund a permanent comparable nuclear output with the second most inefficient funding structure ever devised - could, at any point in the conceivable future, cover the energy shortfall this week in batteries, even the scientists who are typically financially optimistic. This week has been a 99th-percentile week at worst, more likely 95th.
> with comments by the author

You mean comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tarahunt
Maybe just search for exact that question: https://kagi.com/search?q=What+does+that+site+make+you+drag+...
But isn't space expanding? And the expansion is accelerating?
Owing to its unpopularity, or to which its unpopularity owes, Apple has only supported dual SIM for a few generations.

> Curiosity: what are the use cases for two SIMs from the same country?

I have one line on Verizon and one on T-Mobile for better coverage, robustness to congestion.

iOS 13 has a "cellular data switching" feature for dual SIM that automatically chooses networks based on availability.

Data from one network even provides "WiFi calling" capability for the other line.
Despite its C underpinnings, C++ does provide the tooling for Type Driven Development like ML languages, I think it is a hard sell on the performance driven culture to have little types for those purposes, which is why it isn't used as much as it should.
> too much for the average person to be tempted with

The average person is basically a decent human being, so this is absolutely fine. It's the outliers that are the problem.
How to play the new talent game and win back workers
I think your comment is also a bit too harsh. The headline seems to indicate that an EFF member is being tracked, but it doesn't actually make that allegation, it just states a fact and the article explains how they found out it's probably benign.
It took a while, but unfollowing anyone who produced low quality content did eventually result in an interesting LinkedIn feed. I wish I had started doing it sooner.
Cisco have had this in the form of the Cisco 5921 Embedded Service Router for years already.
Nope. I guess you do.
If I was in the admissions dept, I'd look favorably on an applicant who worked at a job.

I had a paper route, which was run as an independent business. I had a territory, I signed up people in it to subscribe, I delivered the papers, I collected the money, I paid for the newspapers the newspaper company dropped off. How much money I made was entirely up to how I operated. If I was sick or out of town, I had to find someone to cover for me.
No. I don't lie online or IRL. The world has enough dishonesty, and I don't feel the need to partake or receive interaction online. I'll occasionally ask a question or answer one, but it's more of an idle interest.

I generally think that most people behave online in a manner they may not do IRL. I don't know if that's a net positive or negative thing overall.

I guess there are lies which aren't harmful (white lies?) and lies which are. Telling the difference isn't always easy. Sometimes the truth can be harmful as well, however at least the truth is real rather than fabricated.

Don't know where I'm going with this. Interesting question.
EmojiTone – A JavaScript library for returning different tones for emojis
https://github.com/eetzkorn/emojitone

Demo app here: https://emojitone-example.vercel.app

I was building an application recently and wanted to have the UI, which heavily used emojis, be changeable by the user, to allow a greater level of customization. I think this makes UI's feel more personal. I could not find any JS to make this easy to do, so I wrote this package to help
> You can't use c# for kernel development of course

Midori team kind of disagreed with that, and most of System C# features keep landing on regular C# a bit per version, but I digress.
Harberger Taxes Can Be Crypto's Sustainable Business Model
why would a drop of water be afraid of the full cup?
just drink it
Is anyone using vaadin at work for internal websites? what's your impression?
Europa: Oppressive surveillance proposals in Transfer of Funds Regulation
>But after the researchers adjusted for factors including parental ages and maternal smoking status, they found a 3.39-fold rise in the odds of a genital defect

If they didn't adjust for obesity, then it's really pointless to attribute this to the drug. Age and smoking status is not enough.
Oh yeah very interested! Unfortunately we do have about $1500 invested in our current machine, so it would be hard to justify. It works very well too. But if we ever have problems with it or it dies out we'll definitely make the switch.
It's not just trusting the software, but the implicit policy around its implementation and use and even more implicit social norms around what it is expected to do that develop and evolve in interesting ways as products and services entrench further and further into the woodwork.

Say an attacker captures enough of a homeowner's voiceprint to build a language model good enough to get past Google's or Amazon's voiceprint matching, then pipes "<hotword>, open the front door" through a wall or window (possibly ultrasonically).

What happens now?

Who is to blame?

Is it the homeowner's fault for using a product according to the use cases included in the instructions?

"Oh, no, that was just a serving suggestion! You shouldn't use <product> to lock your doors unless the doors were an effectively unnecessary decoration to begin with."

So then you have Buy N' Large and Big Brother getting into the home and contents insurance industry.

No. No you don't. The only reason this use-case got cleared by Legal is because someone figured out the circle of plausible deniability (weaponized portmanteau of "circle of competence") is currently wide enough to fit a lawsuit defence through. :(

It's like with Tesla and the whole self-driving thing. The implementation *happens* to be able to drive asleep "drivers" down highways at 100 miles an hour, and the company has somehow been able to corral itself into the evil-genius legal position of being 50% "always keep hands on the wheel" and 50% "look self-driving AI go brrrt" and somehow combine the liability protections of the former with the societal expectations of the latter. Solely in terms of overpromising and underdelivering and then wrangling the legal status quo to declare that okay, I do think it's a bit... not great.

Crucially, this problem is most definitely not limited to Tesla, Google or Amazon; it's an endemic permeability in the legal systems of ostensibly-developed countries that makes a joke of the proof-of-work foundation of good-faith technical investment, and institutes a fraudulent social contract that the infrastructure we increasingly depend on is fundamentally reliable and trustworthy ("set in stone") when it is not. To adopt these technologies is to adopt the ever-changing tech stacks that underpin them, and the risks associated with upgrading the proverbial engines on ever-larger digital airplanes while they're in flight. I think it's dangerous and irresponsible to dispel the tenuous fabric of social perception around these risks and give unsuspecting passersby the impression things are safer than they are.

Hmm.

I'm reminded of http://bash.org/?4753:

<xterm> The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

Maybe that's what's happening here?
What would be the modern version of such a word processor?
My parents didn't drink.