skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s why I always exercise my stock options as early as possible even though the company makes no mention of this employee rights.

Know your vested dates and step on it.
For some rather unexciting definitions of “backdoor” anyway.

If an email service notices big amounts of spam evading their ML classifier, they’ll have to change their systems just like they would have done pre-ML.

If a bank notices a big amount of bad loan applications being approved by their ML-classifier, they’ll have to change their systems just like they would have done pre-ML.

Nobody is going to be popping shells with this. The “worst case” scenarios are already happening on a regular basis with traditional systems without any backdoors at all.
Google, Meta, others will have to explain algorithms under new EU legislation
They wage numerous wars, but the playing field is not full of swords and shields, but reputation destruction, intimidation, doxing, canceling, etc.

The digital and public life is so important for many people today that, if you eliminate them there, it's like killing a good chunk of their lives.

These people wage crusades against individual reputations and public/digital lives. Just because they think differently.
Being able to create fake films doesn't really buy you anything, when people aren't believing them. And for believability, you need connections with reality and trust, that you don't get from fake films alone. People can just look at other sources and see that none of this happened at the given time and place. And random videos that pop up on the Internet are very low in terms of trust anyway.

If you want to influence public opinion, there are already far more powerful tools. Just be Google or Twitter and create some strategically placed filter bubbles. Everything people will see, actually happened and can be verified. Nothing is hidden and will show up with a specific enough search query. But every less specific search query will nudge people into whatever direction you want them to move.
OTP hell – when security is bureaucratized
This is an experience with India's largest public bank, SBI. SBI takes security very seriously. Let's see how

One day I log into my online banking account.
I enter my username and password and captcha - OTP on mobile verification
Your password has expired, set new password - OTP verification
Your password has been changed, thank you. Please login again. I login again - OTP verification

You just verified me once by sending me the OTP after my first login, why do you need another OTP for setting the new password which you are forcing on me in the "same session" and after I change the password, why are you forcing me to login again?

What happens next, will leave you exhausted.

The system shows me my obfuscated email id and asks me if I want to verify if that is still my email id. (Because normal people change their email id every month right?)
I click yes. (If I don't they may stop my Net Banking access anytime in future. With SBI anything is possible)
First enter profile password. (It's different from login password)
Then you confirm the email id.
Next, they send an OTP to your email, the OTP is inside a password protected PDF! (I kid you not)
Password of the PDF file? YOUR MOBILE NUMBER! So you open the PDF, get the OTP, it's an 8 digit number which can't be pasted in the OTP field. (You don't say!) You enter email OTP

Next step, one more confirmation
- Via debit card
- Physically visiting the branch
- OTP on mobile via SMS
So I choose the least cumbersome option - OTP
Enter the OTP received on phone and finally the Machine Overlords of SBI are satisfied and confirm my email id.

World may still be grappling with Two Factor Authentication, SBI has perfected the art of N-Factor Authentication.

At some point in time, some bureaucrat came across a Captcha and an OTP and immediately fell in love. "I want this" he said. And then it was implemented at every stage in every government website. Often multiple times, because "security".
I am really quite sceptical about these wild wild claims. There's quite a big difference between "generate an image that at first glance kinda looks like an armchair in the shape of an avocado", and "create actual meaningful content" such as you describe.
I've noticed the discover tab has improved over the last year, its got more "real" shows now. but yeah i still avoid it
On this note, fun fact: 'slave' used to be the same word as 'Slav', as in literally a person of Slavic origin. The new meaning was acquired subsequently because Slavs were often enslaved in those times. So if etymologically traced further back the word itselft is pretty benign.

However, since Slav and slave evolved into distinct words and slavery is a larger phenomenon than the Partition, I'd say your point stands.
HMRC locks out taxpayers from their online accounts
Ask HN: Book recommendations for Natural Language Understanding
I'm looking for text books in the field of natural language understanding. I'm looking for theory/algorithms using classical theory (first-order logic, statistical models) rather than machine learning. One example book I'm going through right now is Natural Language Understanding by James Allen. Looking for similar books. Thanks.
Ask HN: Why did the ruble stabilize and what's going on?
Today the Ruble is worth more than 2 months ago before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Can any economists chime in and explain why this is happening? Inflation in Russia looks to be high but similar to the one in Lithuania for example. Ukraine inflation is lower which in my dilettante view doesn't make sense.

It looks like it's business as usual and war doesn't really have any impact on global economy at the moment. Prices were going up before Feb anyway.

So what's going on?
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Digital services act: political agreement
> GNOME is a good candidate to focus on empowering developers to make local-first apps: applications where the data lives on your device(s) and is shared locally, without relying on any cloud service.

Then they should focus on actually having a full stack SDK development experience instead of throwing it all away with Gtk 4, like it happened with Glade, Anjuta, and whatever else keeps being redone.
I don't think throwing more therapy and medicine at people is going to help a lot when their problems aren't being solved. "Treat it" seems like the defacto internet advice until it becomes clear their problems aren't going away and coping mechanisms can only do so much.

At least, I'd like to see those depression numbers where people don't have to worry about their rent/mortgage, job, future and relationships.
Consistency in stills seems to be solvable with the current generation models. You can now get an AI to draw Brad Pitt on a horse wearing a Stetson and Brad Pitt in Central Perk drinking a coffee with the right source data, or move a subject into a different setting by tweaking text descriptions enough, and it seems they often get details like shadows and background borders right.

I think it'll struggle enormously with subtle details of mannerism in film and coherently fleshing out stuff where it hasn't got a lot of data in its database (getting Brad Pitt or New York from multiple angles is a lot easier than getting a consistent thisactordoesnotexist or novel fantasy setting). But I think the bigger barrier to adoption outside CGI studios (for producing content above meme-level quality) is that actually describing enough details to get everything to cohere even in static images will be beyond the average person.
"I have no one to pool my resources with." and "There is no home to move back to." contradicts the following answers, "I do, but they arn't in much better shape than me."
Social media is cyclical, like fashion. When your parents start wearing bell bottoms they stop being cool so you stop doing it.
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Hardware was very expensive back then. Even the ZX Spectrum's "rock bottom" price would amount to several hundred dollars today.
ARM64 Is Tier 1
You can open threads and windows in separate tabs, and switch between them without losing where they are and having to search for them
Consulting fees must flow.
> It is kind of wasteful and awkward though.

It's not. If you have several conversations going on at the same time, what's awkward is having to switch between them in the same window.
Probably not, but he's used to it since childhood.
As with most things, I think the answer isn’t black or white. DLT has some use. It’s not useless. It’s not here to revolutionise computing or banking. But it has some value such as with trust-less computation tasks.
I'm sure there's way too much variability to write a whole game engine and describe every detail as "this is the best way to do it because X" rather than "this is the way we did it because personal opinion/time/money/we had no clue how it works."

When it comes to the 3d renderer alone, there's at least enough common ground to explain the big ideas. Like "we multiply matrices because GPUs can do that very well in parallel and we describe our geometry as points because we can then describe the whole image using simple coordinate transformations which boil down to matrix multiplications."
You’re not going wrong. For the most part, blockchain is snake oil, at least in how it’s positioned.
Sincere question: since idioms and metaphors are rooted in history and shared experience, isn't dropping extremely common usages kicking the can (if you will) in the other direction?

In other words, by trying to be inclusive about allowlist aren't you taking away opportunity to include ESL folks in that rich history?

Anyone will have to ask/learn about able/denylist behavior anyways on their first encounter, and learning "whitelist" would have a multiplier effect that increases comprehension of the numerous similar usages they will inevitably encounter. That seems like active inclusivity to me, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm missing something (I hadn't ever thought down this line until I read your comment).

Note: I'm specifically asking about otherwise neutral terms and have come around on avoiding any terms that are still used in the same way as their offensive history (e.g. no master/slave but yes master debater).
> most participants saw tech as broadly neutral. ... What was the political valence of Etherpad or Foursquare?

While it's quite probably that most participants _saw_ it as mostly-neutral, I would claim that was obviously a mis-conception. In 2012, the popularity of smartphones was already having significant cultural effects, effects on alienation and isolation vs interaction of people in public spaces, etc. And that's just one of innumerable examples. FOSS vs. commercial software - definitely a political question, already 40 years ago and even earlier. Energy production and conversion technology - lots of geopolitics depends on who needs how much fossil fuel energy. etc. etc. And when a tech issue has significant political ramifications, you also have interest-holders involved in promoting or trying to block it, making an effort to inculcate the public with certain ideological views on the issue etc.
Selling illicit goods seems to have been transformed by Bitcoin.
> The five most valuable companies on earth are all West Coast tech cos now

You’re forgetting saudi aramco.
I would interpret that quote slightly differently.

Not making a decision is, in itself, a decision with consequences. Indifference is a powerful choice with real consequences to society, just like delaying an important decision can take it out of your hands etc. The side doesn't have to be red or blue, but anything is better than "who cares"
My barely literate 75 year old grandma could watch soaps with Romanian subtitles in the evening :-))

It's just a matter of practice. And of watching on a big screen, I'd say.
David Nott’s book War Doctor includes a tale of him being called in to perform urgent surgery in central London, having just finished a flying lesson in Essex. He apparently called 999, asked for the Police, and after explaining the situation a car was despatched to take him at high speed through traffic. Sadly I don’t have the sort of career that would ever justify that but it sounds like great fun.
> You can write something into the Bitcoin blockchain and be very sure that the information you wrote into it will stay there pretty much forever.

Slower than a database and hard to migrate. Check
> How can having a public log that is extremely tamper resistant not have value?

Because achieving that tamper resistance the blockchain way is so energy-intensive that it has no value for me.
What are the alternatives to ArXiv, bioRxiv, and SSRN?
Pay the flight attendant.
offtopic:

why do people like to mess up with the scrolling on their website?

it is one of the worst UX ever, stop doing that
The stereotype that mothers or women are the source or backbone. Women can play both active and supporting roles. Both mothers and fathers can play these role, even sometimes children. Really there’s no reason to use parental language like this which may offend people who struggle with fertility.
I think the main thing is it becomes a programming problem rather than an AI limitation. From what I've seen it's now possible for the AI to generate EarringsAsset57 and KitchenWall51 and then to ask the AI to draw the actor wearing EaringsAsset57 in front of Kitchenwall51 and for stills at least, it can produce acceptable results
I agree with this sentiment, I am not calling it useless. In fact I think it makes perfect sense as an "experimentalist technology", it is just the disproportionate attention it is getting by serious people over a long period of time that I find most baffling ("blockchain to fight climate change/ improve vaccination/ ease supply chain bottlenecks/ destroy oligarchs")
As an old guy, I'd say computers where a pretty unknown thing when we got them... That was new and niche when it all started. So we had the feeling of entering something totally new. But we were alone, on different computers, so a lot of islands...

I guess with internet, it's more like joining something that's rolling on but as big as an ocean..

Times ! they're changing !
The new road rage: bitter rows over UK’s low-traffic neighbourhoods (2020)
I remember reading a while ago (5-10 years?) about someone implanting a tiny rare magnet in their fingertip. That seems to provide more sensitivity than attaching it to the nails, at the cost of, well, implanting a chunk of metal in your finger.

Another interesting story is a fellow (Danish, I believe?) who calls himself a cyborg because he was born (completely?) colorblind but attached an antenna to his head that allows him to hear a tone that changes depending on the color in front of him. At some point he began to hear these color-sounds in his dreams as well.
Question: why didn't you post it to hn?
Yes. The plan is for Matrix to support both arbitrarily deep threading (like https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean does) - as well as Slack/Discord style threading. They have very different semantics; we added Slack style threading to Element first for familiarity and bridging with Slack, but I can’t wait for fully branchy threads to be in production too for bridging to Zulip (or HN ;P)
I disagree, I think it’s a reflection of lack of critical thinking skills when it comes to political topics. People are so polarized now they have lost the ability to discuss nuance, see the other side, or really compromise at all.

Everything is couched in terms of “with us or against us” extremist dichotomies much like the one hiding in the undertone of your post.

Of course everyone thinks their political views are critical to life the same way people think their religion is important. It’s still super rude to bring up religion in an orthogonal topic and it’s still super rude to do the same with politics.
For switch mode PSUs (which are usualy the biggest pain to design), TI has a switch mode design tool (WEBENCH) that is mostly what you are describing (you specify your constraints and it gives you a selection of designs, usually cheapest, most efficient, and smallest). It'll even let you download a CAD file with the schematic and layout, though I'm not sure if using it is completely seamless. Of course, it'll only suggest TI parts...
Portugal has a museum dedicated to ZX Spectrum: https://loadzx.com/en/
Why is it better than cryptographic signatures using certificates?
A centralized database of fungible and useful assets is going to eventually be hacked. Just ask OKTA about that.

Whereas there is no central point of hack for a well designed and tested blockchain. Distributed custody in an adversarial environment with mutual trust and dis-trust.

Yes it's not everything, but tradfi solutions are not 150% bulletproof either - they may only seem that way to the outside, but there are massive hazards lying just under the surface waiting to blow up. See: GME settlement risk end of Jan 2020.

EDIT: I used to be a huge skeptic of Eth and smart contracts. But I knew basically nothing about how they actually worked in practice. I learned a lot more and now I am a big believer.

The reality is you just likely do not know enough. Your skepticism of the space prevents you from learning and seeing the value that's sitting right in front of your eyes. You also have baked in presumptions that existing systems are somehow... workable or great, when they are not.
These problems and many others related to security will be addressed in coming years, along with performance. Urbit recently reached feature-completion more or less, so they can focus on this now, or soon.

See: https://youtu.be/ywj36TUtbS4?t=6813
> 0therwise your definition makes everything political, thus is useless

I think you’re missing the point that everything is political. The definition isn’t useless, it’s just forcing people to think about the consequences of their actions rather than purely thinking about the technology they’re working on.
> politics directly and noticeably impacts the QoL of far more people today

> difference between life and death for many people who happily steered clear of "politics" 5 years ago

> The world is going through shared turmoil right now

You seem to be implying that the political situation has deteriorated and become more violent. Is that so?

In 1968, several students were killed during protests against the Vietnam War. The Civil Rights movement sparked demonstrations and riots during which many people were killed (eg 34 at the Watts riots). The 1992 Los Angeles riots resulted in 63 deaths.

And that's only in the US. In China, you had TianAnMen in 1989. In Germany, you had the Rote Armee Fraktion (Baader-Meinhoff) terror until 1998 with scores of deaths. The Irish Troubles also lasted until 1998 and killed over 3000 people.

So, I'd say it is not worse now than, say, five decades ago. It could be that we have had one or two particularly peaceful decades, but I wonder how much bias there is in that assessment. How could one quantify it, or otherwise try to capture it objectively?
A bit of contentious point but I want to distinguish between bitcoin blockchain and blockchain tech.

Even as a bitcion skeptic, its market cap went from $0 to $1T and you can't argue with that. But circa 2012 people started marketing blockchain as an independent technology that can solve all sort of problems. This is the bit I have issues with, there hasn't been a single successful use case sense.
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Damn, I forgot it was the 40th anniversary today!

The ZX Spectrum was my first computer and I was a bit too young to write any software for it sadly, but it was my second (TV Pong was my first) introduction to gaming...on a black and white TV.

Still managed to get into tinkering with computers and it opened a big door for me later in life. I am now a game developer (designer/engineer), and might not have gone down this amazing path if it wasn't for the familiarity with computing at an early age.

It was such an important computer and I'm glad to see the price of capable computers continuing to fall, so that more and more kids can have a similar experience to mine.

The loading sounds still give me chills!!

If you're looking to relive the loading sounds as a musical toy, check out the ZX Plectrum.
Public writable block chains seem to be a dead end due to the cost of 'proof of x' in any Sibyl safe way.

Private blockchains, such as for cross company account clearances, complex asset exchanges (planes, land) may help dislodge the rent seeking lawyers.

They can be publically readable also which could be useful, e.g. For querying a land registry.
How is that something good except from a pure technical perspective?

It is so obvious that we should not have records that cannot be deleted. Specially when talking about freedom. It seems to strange to me that supporters of blockchain talk about freedom while also saying that you can put up records that cannot be deleted.
The sole purpose of blockchain is to prevent double spending without a trusted party

Other proposed applications are mostly dumb / misguided, like immutable storage, social network posts, etc, these can be done with hashing or digital signatures alone

If you have a better way to avoid double spending than blockchain folks woukd get very excited. Traditional database can’t do that (requires a trusted party)
One server? More like 20 back end servers, some load balancers, and 3 availability zones times 2 data centers at the very least.
We are still absolutely on the Neanderthal discovered the computer level.

Even with CRISPR, how are you going to replace existing structures that doesn’t naturally grow continuously, like our very brains? They accumulate all sorts of waste materials and you have absolutely no way to replace that specific axon with a new one in its place. That would also require complete control on creating new proteins, where we are absolutely at the beginning, and not even that may be enough.

We are basically made with single-use components, not everything is just a constantly dividing bunch of cells.
A lot of people pushing Blockchain technology have a vested interest in making it a more pervasive technology. Because Blockchain applications drive up the value of their crypto assets and offer more opportunities for speculation using crypto.

Blockchain applications don't necessarily need to use existing cryptocurrencies. However in that case you need to find some other incentive to get people to mine your blockchain, which is hard. And consequently having a small mining pool makes you vulnerable to a 51% attack defeating the entire purpose of a "tamper-proof" log. Thus it's easier to just use Ethereum, which in turn drives up demand for that cryptocurrency.
Let me point out that it will stay there pretty much forever as long as someone is paying for storage and computing. I would think this tied to the possibility of earning real money.
A loudmouth who has opinions about everything is useless. I’ll take someone who is indifferent about things they have no well reasoned opinion on.
> Is that enough, or do we also have to discuss why having such a tamper proof log has value?

What I wonder is rather are there enough instances where it has value to actually motivate the hype (investment etc)? I can definitely see several dozen people working with this tech a few decades from now…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEpk_yGjn0E
Decent analysis of current Russia economy.
more heavily moderated than the evil non free speech places
You are confused. The distributed ledger described in whitepaper is valuable when you need to form a consensus about past events under dispute (or which could possible be disputed). Also the ponzi-space of cryptocurrency / blockchain is clearly valuable since you can generate 1000% moons in there for joke coins, it's valued by real money and you can earn real money by trading them.
> Everything is political

Only if you’re a politician. Hammers see nails.
Wouldn't even need propellant for these, Rheinmetall has some ammo they program as it's leaving the barrel to fragment just a couple metres before the target
This is a paradox. Taking risks is derisked by wealth.