skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think vendoring helps at all. People can't review all the dependencies' code. And recursively, for the dependencies of the dependencies. At some point, you delegate trust.

What helps is having provenance information, signing and SBOM. One example. https://sigstore.dev (vendor neutral effort from the Linux Foundation).
Physiologies are created by genetics, and differences in ancestry are the basis for self-identified race.

Ordinary computer vision can also identify race fairly accurately, the high pass filter thing is merely pointing out that ML classifiers don't work like human retinas.

It's astonishing how many epicycles HN comments are trying to introduce into a finding that anyone would have predicted. Research which confirms predictable things is valuable of course, but no apple carts have been upset.
https://www.recht.nl/44735/oproep-tot-bank-run-strafbaar

4 years of jail
Man I hate that name. It's a Markov chain where the input is the neighbors to the tile being generated. "Wave function collapse" makes it sound like there's something much more complicated going on.
Aside from the initial fiddling I have not needed to do much of anything to my setup. It's all containerized and unraid's manager keeps them up to date for me.
Auctioning causes price movement which can cascade. If markets were straightforward, economics would not be "tge Dismal Science".
Wood Identification Guide
When attempting to identify a wood sample, it’s important to keep in mind the limitations and obstacles that are present in our task. Before starting, please have a look at The Truth Behind Wood Identification to approach the task in a proper mindset; I consider the linked article to be required reading for all those visiting my site with the intent of identifying wood.
My first thought here is to relate this to the problem of early colour film, which was largely tested and validated with only light skin tones in mind. Once it was put out into the wild, folks with darker skin tones found the product to be total crap. Why? Because there was a glaring OOD (Out of Distribution) problem during testing.

Similarly, if the train/test sets used here - for X-ray based diagnostics - using Machine Learning relies only on specific races, then the performance might be worse for other races, given that there's a new discriminatory variable in play.

The obvious solution here is to reduce bias by ensuring race is part of the dataset used for training and testing. Which, due to PII laws in play, may actually be quite challenging! Fascinating tradeoff imo.
Good Code is simple and simple code is VERBOSE

It doesn't mean anything because both good and simple are subject to on-the-spot redefinition. At what skill level does code become "simple"? Does all code have to be ELI5 to be good? When a Node developer looks at CUDA implementation of k-means regression analysis and finds it "difficult", does that mean the code isn't good?

When the abstractions are familiar

So you're saying it does depend on the programmer, because the programmer should be familiar with the abstractions used?
Elon had the opportunity to do due diligence before signing a deal to buy at $54.20, but declined to do so. His signature is already on the contract; it is a little bit late to start getting buyers' remorse.
Writing an Apple 2 game in 2021
> Outliners are used in this area for decades.

What outliners do you know which allow end-users to feed their data into formulas for processing it without using general-purpose programming languages? I'm genuinely interested, as I've been exploring these tools for years and I haven't found any that meets my requirements.

> So, SQL

How many end-users without any programming experience are able to create moderately complex SQL queries?

With a data-centric outliner tool, they'll be able to decompose those into several simple graphical queries.
The longer we prop up a crumbling tower the more people's money will be sunk into it when it inevitably falls. That's what happened in '08, we had this fantastical tower that was so big we couldn't let it fall so none of the people actually responsible felt any pain so we're building new dumber towers.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-village-and-the-tower
>I get spam from Recruiters** on LinkedIn

Spam back. Recruiters contact me-- that's 95% of the reason I am on LinkedIn: So potential employers can find me.

Now I've had Amazon, Meta, and Google contact me. Amazon I worked with as a consultant so I was in their system. a Meta recruiter found me on LinkedIn. and I applied to Google and a few months later they reached out.

In call cases, they've viewed my Web portfolio, Github profile, and LinkedIn page.

This is "Marketing".

It's one thing to have "Skills". But if no one knows you have skills, then you must market yourself in order to use the skills in the course of working for others.

Skills + Marketing => Get job => Be productive => Build career & Make money

But you can't do it efficiently without both Building Your Skills and Marketing Yourself.

** Regarding Recruiters on LinkedIn: I simply use a text expansion tool like Espanso ( https://espanso.org/ ) to paste a message to them, usually something like this (Note: this is a "strategy" just like marketing. For any problem/challenge, develop a strategy to tackle it.):

Thanks for contacting me!
Unfortunately since I am contacted by <insert some number here> recruiters per week it is not feasible to meet with them all.

Before we meet, could you please tell me:

-> Who is the company? (optional)

-> Is the role 100% remote & am I permitted to live outside
the USA?

-> What is the salary range?

-> Is the role for a Full Stack Javascript (NodeJS, ReactJS, AWS --> my areas of expertise (Learning React-Native currently))?

-> What steps does the interview process involve-- How many steps, What is involved in each step?

-> Do you have a full job description you could send?

Here's my resume.

Thanks,
MyName
--
https://www.MyWebsite.com/
https://www.github.com/MyProfile/
https://www.gitlab.com/MyProfile/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/MyProfile/
Both the OpenSSF and Linux Foundation work on things other than the kernel.

(But even beyond that: Rust has an entire sublanguage ("unsafe Rust") that's intended for these purposes. The point of unsafe Rust is to do things that are safe but the compiler can't reason about, so that subsequent safe Rust can rely on abstractions built in unsafe code.)
This is complete nonsense, economics is by far the strongest social science field in terms of empirical methodology. Pretty much all the modern causal inference methods were developed in econometrics. Try taking a look at the big econ journals (like Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, or Journal of Finance) and I assure you you won't find anything resembling arbitrary "opinions".
This comment is just both a personal attack and straw man and doesn't address anything in the original comment or the topic at hand.
Wordpress begs to differ. There are tons of examples of malicious JS on read only sites. Doesn’t have to be MitM. Usually it’s to generate ad views on another site, but can be more nefarious.
Heuristics That Almost Always Work

(...)

The Doctor

She is a primary care doctor. Every day, patients come to her and says “My back hurts” or “My stomach feels weird”. She inspects, palpates, percusses and auscultates various body parts, does some tests, and says “It’s nothing, take two aspirin and call me in a week if it doesn’t improve”. It always improves; no one ever calls her.

Eventually, she gets sloppy. She inspects but does not palpate. She does not do the tests. She just says “It’s nothing, it’ll get better on its own”. And she is always right.

She will do this for her entire career. If she is very lucky, nothing bad will happen. More likely, two or three of her patients will have cancer or something else terrible, and she will miss it. But those people will die, and everyone else will remember that she was such a nice doctor, such a caring doctor. Always so reassuring, never poked and prodded them with needles like everyone else.

Her heuristic is right 99.9% of the time, but she provides literally no value. There is no point to her existence. She could be profitably replaced with a rock saying “IT’S NOTHING, TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND WAIT FOR IT TO GO AWAY”.

(...)

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...
BenchSci: AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design
/r/PlexShares! Lots of options, they all have largely the same stuff. There are also more specialized ones if you want anime, Bollywood, K-dramas, etc.

Just shop around and find one with a free trial. It's not very automated, so you'll have to chat with them over Discord, but once it's set up it's completely hands-off. Good luck!
Intel shareholders reject executive pay
I live in New Jersey, and I suspect the law of unintended consequences is going to come in hard on this one. The stores all sell cheap reusable bags so that customers don't get caught in line with nothing to carry their goods in. I've bought two so far. If the bag is in the car you obviously have to remember to take it into the store with you. If you carry the bag into your house with your groceries then you have to remember to put it back in the car. If you fail to do either of those things you'll probably buy another $.30 reusable bag at checkout, which you'll then carry into the house with your goods. I suspect people will accumulate a lot of bags, and I can't help wondering why some recycling chain involving paper bags would not have been a better solution. I'm no expert and presumably there's a reason.
Which is why the auctions are triggered while eth still has considerable room to fall and also why Dai is multi-collateralized.
I've noticed people in all parts of the political spectrum have a hard time understanding the term "social construct". It doesn't mean the same as "completely made up".

Nations are uncontroversially recognized as a social constructs. However I'm certain that AI could also detect images taken outdoors in Mexico vs those in Finland. Additionally I, a US citizen, cannot simply declare that I am now a citizen of France and expect to get a French passport.

However it also means that what a nation is, is not set in stone for eternity. It means that different people can debate about the precise definitions of about what defines a particular nation. It means that Czechoslovakia can become the Czech republic and Slovakia. It means that not everyone agrees if Transnistria is an independent nation. It means that the EU can decide that a German citizen can have the same passport as a French citizen.

As a more controversial example, this is also the case when people talk about gender being a "social construct". It doesn't mean that we can simply pretend like the ideas "men" and "women" doesn't exist (as people both declare and fear). But it does mean there is some flexibility in these terms and we as a society can choose how we want these ideas to evolve.

Society is a complex and powerful part of our reality, arguably more impactful on us from day to day than most of physics (after all we did survive for hundreds of thousands of years without even understanding the basics of physics). Therefore something being classified as a "social construct" doesn't mean it "isn't real". Even more important is that individuals cannot choose who social construct evolve. I cannot, for example, declare that since taxes are a social construct, I'm not paying them anymore. We can however, as a society, change what and how these constructs are interpreted.
What can they do other than require max vaccination and hope there’s no carriers in the tour group? Quarantine them for 10-14 days on entry, as no vaccine prevents transmission? And there’s enough of a lag for the tests to work that it can’t pick up a hot traveller who has been recently infected.

Maybe force quarantine before departure to offload the expense?
Well, you could just work up a pandoc file to get to/from the .bike format, then you'd get it all by supporting pandoc.

If you do the Tombo.exe type thing, please let me know --- I'd be delighted to have something like that on MacOS.
Before Obsidian there was ConntextedText [1]. Few people knew it even back then, but it is quite powerful, packed with common wiki features like linking, attributes, querying (also display results as a table), transclusion, page graph visualisation, python integration, etc.

[1]: https://www.connectedtext.com/
> Now I don't get it: how do the pirates who "webrip" those have access to the quality stream

The front-end players (sometimes) have a UI element that allows you to explicitly set which bitrate is streamed. Otherwise, the player is beholden to what the connection speed deems appropriate. Regardless, if the original file was transcoded to include 1080p, 4k stream, they exist even if your player is downgrading based on a poor connection. This can feel like a loss of control, because it is. "But it's for our the user's own good."

When using tools like ffmpeg or similar, you can simply target the highest bitrate available.

If you ever try to download a ".m3u8" file you'll see it's more or less a manifest that lists all available bitrates.
I answered above - but the tl;dr is to check out /r/PlexShares.
This looks cool. I just started using MindNode yesterday [0] which is a similar tool (although it takes a very different approach - it's more visual). I wasn't sure of the effectiveness of these sort of tools as I usually just use text files + Notability sketches but I have to say they are very useful in helping to structure thoughts better. I'm interested to try this.

[0] https://www.mindnode.com/
You know what would be cool? Turning those bags into printer filament. I wonder if theyre similar types of plastic or if it is the wrong type to be extruded.
The rest of the computer costs money too. They maybe overpaid a bit, but it's not totally unreasonable.
Of course (it's a shortage, not a complete inavailability), but that there are much more components with long lead times than before makes it decidedly not business as usual.
Maybe, I'll have to see how it goes. My main goal is to sell enough copies so I can keep working on it. Last few years I've had to spend a bunch of time contracting. Hoping this will get me back to full time independent.
Capitalism requires minor tweaks to work, such as anti- monopolistic laws, but the tweaks required to make communism work, such as removing central planning, make it not communism anymore.
> This type of thinking is exactly what led to mass starvation in the Soviet economy.

In this case, the problem was indeed that Soviet "scientists" - as bsedlm postulates - "were making up theories to 'scientifically' (but actually, just academically) justify whatever the ruling powers want to do" - in this case lysenkoism:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure GPS isn't going to have the accuracy needed to prevent a relay attack.
> It’s pretty obvious … the ultimate goal here is for a central bank digital currency (CBDC)

How is that obvious, or maybe — to whom?

I think the whole CBDC idea as more like governments trying to pile on to the “blockchain” trend. We already have plenty of digitalization of our finances and it seems to be working ok, and while I’m sure there are some closet totalitarians who’d love to have a database of all transactions, I don’t think CBDC is the way they’re going to (try to) get there.
> It's obvious that this law is not good for the environment, consumers or grocers and is deeply unpopular.

It's not obvious to me. The article certainly attempted to make the claim, but the evidence was rough. Heck the evidence that most people find it inconvenient what that "most people don't have reusable bags with them all the time". Neither do I, yet somehow have been using them for years without issue.

> It's terrifying not knowing the underlying forces that are causing such a perversion to democracy.

Could it be that that your original thesis is wrong and it's not deeply unpopular, and not "perversion of democracy" at all?
Never said everyone, but it's definitely prevalent. How prevalent could be an interesting discussion (I don't know the answer) but I have many reasons to believe most people do experience it from time to time based on my personal experience and how I interpret behavior of others.
Also there is a biological/evolutionary incentive to be a bit envious and jealous which affirms my conviction that it is prevalent.

Moreover - how do you know you won't experience it in the future? Have you ever been unemployed for 4 years? Maybe being unemployed for 4 years would make you envious of a friend who just got a job in Google. Have you ever been with a woman you loved dearly only to find out she cheated on you and left you for another man? Maybe going through this traumatic experience would make you envious.

I'm just saying it's easy to be content when things are going well, indeed I don't feel much envy - but I'm super aware I am quite lucky. If things stop going well who knows what negative emotions would pop up - it won't be a picnic thats for sure.
Instead of a ban, wouldn't it be better to tax the heck out of single-use bags?

That' what we do in Fairfax County. At the end of check-out, you have to enter how many bags you used, and get charged a small fee for each. I wish the fee was a bit larger, to try an dissuade more people from simply paying it, but it seems better than an outright ban.
Same Planet.
Heat pump based heating from burned natural gas is better than burning natural gas for heating though.
Pass by Catastrophe
But do they support gitlab? Pay them?

Or are they just (ab)use open source projects to spend less money? (They had to pay $$$ to github).
The Linux kernel doesn't.
I bet in we'll see a hoarder who dies alone under a pile of high density 8TB sandisk magnetic tapes. Full of something important like pirated twitch streams.
Having been in your situation, this is what I would recommend...

Short Term: Get everything out of your head and into a document or text file. All the things you have to do, all the things you want to do, all your ideas, all the things you're worried about. Stick it into something you can come back too later once you've solved your immediate problems. Then and this is most important, create a reminder or alarm or calendar notification that will remind you to look at that file after the deadline on your assignments is up and you're not so stressed.

You need to clear your mind to focus on your assignments BUT subconsciously your brain won't truly let you concentrate on them until it's sure that you won't forget/ignore them all, that's the point of the reminder.

Medium Term: You've got to take that file you wrote with everything you need to do and get it into tools with a schedule that'll help you manage it.

* Put birthdays and mothers/fathers day, important dates into a calendar like Google Calendar with reminders that give you enough time to address them.

* Put simple weekly drudgery tasks like chores into a todo system like Microsoft ToDo

* Put everything that needs thinking about into a note taking system like roamresearch.com, a task like "Do assignment X" is useless, you need to be able to write down ideas about how to tackle it not just that you have to do it.

Finally, set aside time every day to organise and prioritise what's in your system. The first thing I do every day is check what I need to do in terms of chores and more importantly prioritise what I need to work on, on a given day.

Side Note: Your system will evolve over time, you may throw away and build new ones, that's fine and necessary.

Long Term: "Know Thyself" - Figure out how many hours a day of focused work you can do, don't be surprised if this number is lower than you expect, 4 hours per day of focused hard mental work is the maximum for a lot of people. The better you know yourself, the easier it becomes to prioritise and do work. You'll set yourself more realistic tasks and goals, it'll be less stressful.

Figure out what time of day you work best, what schedule suits you best. The more you understand yourself, what you like, what you dislike the easier your entire life will become.

Beyond that, understand your motivations, your strengths and weaknesses, look at failure if it comes as helpful instruction in learning those things.
Hello, it's me, the person you've never met in real life! I'm real, and I live in New Jersey, and I'm super in favor of this law (paper bag warts and all)

You're right, in the short term a law banning plastic single use bags likely results in an increase in the number of multi-use bags people buy because they forgot. How long do you expect this cycle to go on for? I'm going to imagine it's "a few months" for most people, before you start leaving a couple bags in the back seat of your car. People are pretty clever and adaptable. It's akin to saying that we need to ban new calendar years because everyone writes the old calendar year for a few days in January. It seems pretty reasonable that people can and will, broadly speaking, remember their shopping bags.

The bottom line is that the tragedy of the commons is in full effect when it comes to plastic generally, and plastic bags specifically. We got addicted to them, and they're terrible. I'm going to write this one more time: We got addicted to them and they're terrible. Short term financial gains for long term environmental pains. We should have never switched from paper bags, but plastic solved a lot of problems, and nobody seemed to notice or care about the waste issue. This law itself may not be "fixing" the issue entirely, but it's forcing consumer change and that pain alone might helpful in solving the issues long term by forcing people to think about the topic.
> Don't hurt yourself bearing that cross of "doing good" though.

I see the downvotes are already communicating this, but there's no need to be so cockstrong when talking to other nerds. Most people here are just normal folks like us, its easier to just chill out and talk. Your point travels further when it isn't deployed as an attack.
USDT doesn't even have to liquidate the corpo paper if it gets that far. Their agreement says they can just hand you the paper itself and call that settled, then it's up to you to turn that into real money.

https://tether.to/en/legal/#:~:text=Tether%20reserves%20the,...
Some 'jumpoff points'. I try to avoid Google since it's full of SEO spam and ADs.

https://searchmysite.net/

https://www.curlie.org/

https://href.cool/

https://www.oldestsearch.com/
Ask HN: Why aren’t larger companies making PC based consoles?
Part of what allows Microsoft and Sony to release affordable consoles with PC-like performance are developer port optimizations and lower hardware prices directly from OEMs.

Valve attempted the Steam Box years ago, it failed, but with Steamdeck, they proved they could establish their own hardware platform.

Is there a future for smaller companies in the console market with AMD apu based devices? Or does none of this matter because of cloud gaming.
I have no idea what HDD prices were like the past few years. I recently bought an 18TB HDD for 280 Euros. Much of it is for pirated stuff. Thing is ... there are benefits to having the content locally that aren't priced into paying for streaming sites. There are things I can't watch on Netflix/Amazon, for example, and I have a consistent level of quality. I would need the storage one way or another, so I don't really count it towards pirating. Electricity? I pay for that either way, whether I'm pirating or not. I'll pay for a seedbox or usenet, but that's still only 50-80 Euros total. If I paid for everything I pirate, that would be hundreds every month on top of electricity and storage.