skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Western liberal culture says discriminating against one set of minorities to benefit another (affirmative action) is a good thing. What constitutes a racial and ethnic bias is not objective. And therefore Google shouldn't pretend like it is either.

> from a moral realist perspective we can still objectively judge those cultural norms to be better or worse than alternatives

No, because depending on what set of values you have, it is easy to say that one set of biases is better than another. The entire point is that it should not be Google's role to make that judgement - people should be able to do it for themselves.
This reminds me of the Pepsi fighter jet affair[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.
> Unless said island has a vast amount of easy food (say, berries) most modern urban people would simply die and do none of the things you mentioned.

I mean... most animals would drop dead on a desert island. Wolf, giraffe, turtle, pigeon, etc. All toast. Desert islands are, by definition, inhospitable. But a human would show a greater level of adaptability and resourcefulness than any other animal.
I think it is problematic, yes, to produce a tool trained on data from the past that reinforces old stereotypes. We can’t just handwave it away as being a reflection of its training data. We would like it to do better by humanity. Fortunately the AI people are well aware of the insidious nature of these biases.
there's a decent history of hijacking viruses for targeted delivery:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4243974/
Your level of abstraction as an end-to-end operation I would agree with and it's a better example than mine, but the theft metaphor is not accurate because he literally paid the market price for every single step along the way in mining fees and transaction costs. For every token purchase and exchange, there was another person on the other side of that trade.

The argument I'm using is that the casino didn't shuffle their deck and a player calculated an advantage. He didn't have hidden cards, a secret view of anyone elses. I'd like to verify that aspect of the strategy though as it's potentially a powerful heuristic.
> a survey of mathematical notation

YES!
That's been stated a number of places, but it's an inaccurate analysis, likely stemming from confusing a tracking radar (and missing that a Slava-class cruiser has several) from the search radar (360). From an article:

>There’s also some other speculation suggesting that “Moskva has/had a single main air defence radar (3P41 Volna) for guiding S300 missiles, which has only a 180 degree field of view. Therefore, 360-degree coverage is provided by the 3-D long-range air search radars MR -800 Voshkod/Top Pair for short-range missiles SA -8.” The claim reveals that the Top Pair radar couldn’t distinguish the Neptunes flying over the sea from the crests of the waves due to the stormy weather.

These claims lack a solid basis, as the ship in question is a cruiser with good air defense capabilities. Although TB2 drones are very useful in naval warfare, cruiser-type ships are designed to track and repel multiple air contacts. As a result, paralyzing a Slava-class cruiser with one or more drones is unrealistic.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/04/analysis-chain-...

>Though it makes for a compelling tale, this narrative is almost certain to be false. Not only are the radars and their operators onboard a warship like the Moskva more than capable of detecting and tracking more than just a single target, and would in fact do so virtually automatically so long as they were operating, but if they were in fact tracking a drone then situational awareness should have been at at a higher level than if the attack had occurred out of the blue.

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/04/neptunes-wrath-flagshi...

On paper, a Slava-Class cruiser should have no issues tracking a drone and plenty of other incoming missiles and aircraft. That was in fact, the scenario it was designed to face. I suspect there's just simply too much we don't know and too many unanswered questions. There's a lot that would have to work correctly for the Neptunes to be targeted, from the search radar, handoff to tracking radar, and then successful intercepts by the medium tier SAMs and if not those, the CWIS. There's plenty that can go wrong. And keep in mind, there have been very few successful AShM intercepts in history.

If the full story ever gets told, it will be read by many, I'm sure.
This is a significantly more ridiculous premise than the one you're calling ridiculous.
I understand the craze of calling all of these variants, variant-dle, but with the word quiz it just sounds clunky.
> I suspect the intention is something more like IPFS (https://ipfs.io), built on some distributed data structure like a DHT.

the company's products are all built on top of sharded mysql .. unless they plan to throw away everything they have done so far, i do not think these assumptions are correct!
Maybe my brain is slow but 100 WPM was never, ever the bottleneck while coding, and I doubt I even hit 80 most of the time. If 100 WPM is too slow to get your ideas into code, maybe it's time to find a programming language/editor that's better suited to your needs rather than asking your poor fingers to pump out more letters.
I guess if you don’t mind looking like Bane from Nolan’s Batman. On the plus side, the ANC would take of the constant fan noise.
I never said anything about political correctness. You implied that you want a model that "provides a reflection of reality". All nurses being female is not "a reflection of reality". It is a distortion of reality because the model doesn't actually understand gender or nurses.
My grand-uncle flew in B-24s on the Ploesti raid (Operation Tidal Wave). It had no effect on Axis petroleum production. It's considered one of the biggest failures in WW2 airpower.

Airpower had minimal affect on stopping the Kriegsmarine from wreaking havoc in the Atlantic. The German fleet was too weak, in fact the sacrifice of the Hood led to the demise of the Bismarck. If it wasn't a torpedo from a Swordfish jamming the rudder, the rest of the Home Fleet would have crushed it eventually. The Graf Spee fared no better in the South Atlantic.

The Yamato (and Musahi) were part of a mistaken Mahanian strategy for a single decisive battle (akin to Tsushima) that would settle the entire Pacific campaign. What really one the war in the Pacific was the USN submarine fleet which put a stranglehold on Japan.
I personally found DynamoDB enjoyable but the trick is you need to understand DynamoDB gives you exactly no way to have analytics, so you have to have a separate and robust story for analytics e.g. we periodically dump our DynamoDB into a RedshiftDB so we get best of the both worlds. I personally find it enjoyable to program, and had a better experience than when everything was Postgres.
I think you are missing one key point: numbers. Let's say a drone costs $10000, and you buy as many of them as it costs to buy+operate 100 F35. How many do you get?

The key is that you have tens of thousands of these things (more of the smaller ones), and distribute them along the front, near the infantry. Maybe instead of a hand mortar or a machine gun, some platoons would carry a couple of these. Or vehicles of all sizes could have a couple of these mounted simmilar to APS's, kind of like how naval vessels carry helicopters.

Then you make sure that the detection capability is networked between the drones, as well as with other detection systems (land based, awacs + fighters).

This way, detection is not done at rangs of 100's of km, but of 100's of meters, in the same ballpark that a car detects objects.

Also, for the same reason, this means that you don't need a combat radius of 1000km. A combat radus of 100km may be enough.

If you need to deploy them further away, one could have setups where they are deployed as munitions from other aircraft (anything from a B52 to a large UAV).

Kind of like this:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/01/10/154651/a-100-dro...

>And you can't just hand wave and say add 50% to the cost to make it lighter and more maneuverable. That's just ridiculous. Modern aeronautics is a mature industry, and just throwing money at something doesn't magically improve flight characteristics.

A lot present days UAV's are made witha a lot of focus on cost. That's how they (some of them) cost only 10% of a stinger missile. That's also why you don't want to use a stinger to shoot down a cheap UAV.

But, obviously, these cheap drones have a lot of tradeoffs to keep the cost down. Maybe they use aluminium instead of magnesium or composites as materials? Maybe the electronics is a couple of generations older, and both a bit heavy and unsophisticated? Maybe engines are off-the-shelf versions, and not state of the art.

Except for the most advanced drones, I would expect it to be possible to pay some extra $ to get somewhat higher performance, such as 10% more speed, 5% faster turn/roll rate, 20% more advanced electronics, with enough weight saved, to be able to add a gun and maybe a better radio.

Also, keep in mind that many potential enemies are not nearly as advanced technologially as the USA. Even compared to Russia, the USA has better tech in most fields, and compared to North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan and many other potential enemies that may deploy large number of drones, USA may definitely deploy more advanced tech. With China it may be harder/more symmetrical.

> And in-flight refueling?

UAV's would exist at different sizes (I described this in another sub-thread). Only the ones that are basically the size of a fighter plane would have in-flight refueling, like the Kızılelma.

In turns of numbers, 90-99% of the UAV's I imagine in this model, would be closer to that Russian one in size, or smaller, except that the software would be mature. These are the ones that would be able to counter enemy UAV's that are too cheap to be be worth a stinger missile.
I have noticed that these sort of results pop up whenever you google something related to a Windows problem, but when you search for something related to Linux problem the results are way better.
>Not necessarily the weight, but lots of other attributes of cars and other factory-made products are the way they are just because of the process in the factory.

Well, the magic of the digital realm is that the process doesn't dictate much, if anything at all, regarding the end result of a CMS.
Tell HN: Chromebook (Chrome OS) Is the Best OS for Browsing the Web
I know I'm late (way late) to the party but I just bought a very cheap Chromebbook and it beats both of my Windows and mac book i7 machines when browsing the web.

Both my i7s are fast but when browsing the web there's always a period of time when things slow to a crawl when web browsing or the never ending updates that tie them up at some very inopportune times.

I was surprised how smooth and hassle free it is. I use an ad blocker. I will still need my 2 i7s for work but I'm sold. If I'm browsing the web to relax I'm using a Chromebook from now on.

I know most people think of them as less than great but both windows and OSX have gotten so blotted that it slows down even the fastest CPU. Google has done a great job at optimizing the code to work well with low end CPUs. Both Apple and Microsoft should learn from it and create a web only OS.
Can I ask, did you lose a relative on the Sheffield? It's quite rare to see the Falklands conflict through the human lens rather than the almost irresistible chance to see just how effective cold-war technologies were:

- naval area denial: even if the threat of the Exocet missile was overstated, it caused the British aircraft carrier to hang back. Conversely, having a nuclear-powered attack submarine in the area was highly effective for the British.

- Aerial combat: the carrier-borne Harriers were outnumbered and outclassed, but the Sidewinder missile was devastating.

The twin of your human factors story is the infantry engagements in the Falklands: a small force of professionals with good night-vision equipment was effective against unmotivated conscripts.
I agree that it’s still a jump ball in a rapidly moving field, I was saying Google is far ahead, not that they’ve won.

And I don’t think whatever iteration of PaLM was cooking at the time GPT-3 started getting press would have looked to shabby.

I think Google crushed OpenAI on both GPT and DALL-E in short order because OpenAI published twice and someone had had enough.
It's certainly an interesting physical experience in the world. In the future I will watch it with some company.
There's some (relatively unsophisticated) analysis against the drone argument:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIjoyIieOzY&t=1163s

The 2 Neptunes were probably enough, given the right circumstances (ie, lack of fast response by the Russians).
The definition of consciousness hinges on false dichotomies? Somewhat ironic, if incomprehensible.
And a lot of the article is about no-till gardening... but in the end it apparently needed to be tilled.
>It looks like 1000 other sites, at a glance I can't tell what this website or article are about.

Yes, you have to actual read it. Oh, the humanity!
Not GP, and I'm just surfing unfamiliar docs, but it looks like, yes, there's general parameter polymorphism,[1] but also "modules" presented as structs,[2] and the polymorphism of struct constructors can have nontrivial impacts[3](eg Map(KeyType,void) loses value setters). Fwiw.

[1] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#comptime "Compile-time parameters is how Zig implements generics. It is compile-time duck typing."
[2] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#import
[3] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#void "By using void as the type of the value, the hash map entry type has no value field, and thus the hash map takes up less space. Further, all the code that deals with storing and loading the value is deleted, as seen above."
You'd have to ask Ryan :)

IMO it's really just a matter of time before good ideas end up in other projects. It's inevitable. Obviously everyone wants their framework to be as good and popular as possible.
I'm continuously amazed at the number of people who excuse those who 1) have the capability to do an altruistic thing 2) wouldn't be immediately inconvenienced by it and 3) will only perform said altruistic thing if everyone else must also do altruistic thing irrespective of #2.
One of my bosses/clients was struck by my being neither a bottom-up nor a top-down person, but more of a come at it sideways type.

How broadly and deeply I go depends on how well I know a topic already. The less I know, the broader and deeper I go, in a not-particularly-predictable way, until I feel like I just went past the point where I could have taken action.

At that point, I have a glom of unconnected data and factoids. Then I do something (code, cut, brew, cook, wheel, weld, bend, hammer, whatever), with every expectation of failure and every hope for at least a step forward.

Then something doesn’t pan out and the failure crystallizes knowledge.

Until going hands on, I had no context to appreciate what part of breadth or depth was practical, what was theoretical, and/or what was background/historical.

Suddenly confronted by practical problems, I backtrack up and in, sort of, to find paths that I can evaluate as to utility, whether to the immediate task or to a firm theoretical foundation.

Lather, rinse, repeat, until things start to take shape and I start to understand the subject.
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The petition was supported by the Alphabet Workers Union, which has more than 900 members.

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What genocide? And since when is "bombing minority cities" == "minding it's own business"?

There are few well written articles about yugoslavia post 1991, but here's one of them, complete with western sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20200319062355/http://www.michae...
Can you point to a single instance where Indexed Finance advertised "code is law"?
Well, "don't hate the playa" didn't work that well as an excuse in the Nuremberg trial.
>The risk of nuclear escalation or various WWIII-esque scenarios, because at that point you have the US military directly killing Russians.

Just as Soviet pilots have been killing Americans in Korea and Vietnam, despite not technically part of the war.

There is no "simple legal trick" to start a war.
ZIM/Kiwix is great! It even works via NAS or USB drive on iOS (i.e. without having to load the entire file into internal storage).
If we can't even keep our bridges up, my confidence in maintaining nukes properly for decades is nil.
Have you tried an M1 based Mac? That’s also a different world from an i7 powered one.
I just started playing around with the transcription part after seeing this blog post. Consider giving it a try.

I'm not sure how well most subtitle sources will work with this. I don't think they'll generally embed the word timings needed for picking out fragments (just line timings). The blog post mentions it being the case for `.srt` specifically. Not 100% sure, someone with better understanding of the subtitle formats would be able to correct me.

FWIW I'm finding the video transcription to be working quite well (and I even decided to use Japanese-speaking media because I wanted to see how well vosk handles it).

It might be my system, but the transcription is unfortunately a bit slow/single threaded. I quickly added a GNU `parallel` in front of the transcription step to speed up processing an entire season.
Crazy when i was 12 i already knew it's wrong to invade other country's...

>Wasn’t my choice to go to Iraq,

Ah they forced you? Land of the free?

No Girls and surfing in Iraq right?
cyberclunk
Thanks for this. By coincidence, I was sketching out a polymorphism kludge this evening, and this was food for thought.
Is your argument that someone else is pulling off bigger frauds so this fraud should be overlooked?
The key to it all is soil improvement - and determining how that is going to be done. I guess the moral is she tried the simple basic ways that didn’t involve much change but had to resort to imported gypsum and machinery.

The “improve the ground” is a very important part of subsistence and sustainable farming. Reducing the outside inputs as much as possible while still improving the soil is a laudable goal.
Yeah. I had super hard clay when I bought my previous residence. Like, it was difficult to break with anything other than a pickaxe. For me, all it took was not mowing it for a year, and the previous bald spots became jungle-like, and earthworm-laden. I did mulch one of them, but not the others.

It’s amazing how much damage people do to their lawns by consistently over-mowing.
I used a lot of jargon and lingo and inside baseball in that post, it was intended for people who have deep background.

But if you’re interested I’m happy to (attempt) answers to anything that was jargon: by virtue of HN my answers will be peer-reviewed in real time, and with only modest luck, a true expert might chime in.
3-5 years and previously completed phase three trials didn’t stop mRNA deployments. So, I have no idea if that is the new standard or not. Let’s hope it was a fluke, and that this on topic is a big deal.
That's probably why they tend to start these trials with people who are already in medically dire straits.

If someone is currently pretty much guaranteed to die -- which is what the eligibility criteria sound like to me, someone correct me if I'm wrong here -- then there's less concern compared to accidentally killing someone who was doing fine before. And those initial trials will let you check for things like virus mutations.

They did the same thing with the pig heart transplant recently, did the operation on a guy who desperately needed a new heart but was ineligible for a regular transplant.
It's tested far faster with a card list.

But you're right, in practice a lot of engines do both... They render a known image at boot-up and check it for consistency. But once you know you have a problem, you don't know how to solve it, so you might as well query the card anyway.
I meant "accidental" in the Aristotelian sense: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/essential-accidental/
Broadcom in Talks to Acquire Cloud Company VMware
It seems as though HN likes certain languages but gets pretty negative about others.
A single judge ruled against Citi. It's under appeal.
Who does it serve for plebs to be shown the approach openly? I don't know that it does a disservice to anyone by showing the approach.

But in general it is likely more due in part to the fact that it's going to happen anyway, if we can share our approaches and research findings, we'll just achieve it sooner.
Aren't all botnets Linux botnets?
It's a problem to be aware of, definitely.

However, the accuracy of device fingerprinting with `getImageData()` is as far as I can tell a lot higher than the accuracy from trying to fingerprint people based on whether they're returning blank data from that call.

If turning off a feature reveals a new 3 bits of information, but leaving it on would have revealed 5 bits, then it's still probably a good idea to turn it off.

Again, not to say that people shouldn't care about those 3 bits, they should. But it's not necessarily a waste of time even if a site tries to use anti-fingerprinting as its own metric. It only becomes a waste of time if the anti-fingerprinting is more unique than leaving the holes open.
Even more important than the aesthetic issues... read Naomi Wu (from a previous thread on this):

https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/150912514143903334...
Another work that is more formal is Maximus’s Ambigua, written largely in response to Origen’s Neoplatonism. Origen was rather fixated on the idea of either precarnate good vs. fallen flesh (those are your two options, another version of Gnosticism basically).

Maximus offers the solution of transcending simple dialectics because free will allows one to choose from more than one good.

In general, discomfort with ambiguity and free will reveals a lot about a person, society, organization, etc.
You can match hostnames with trailing dots in Caddy, too (and have been able to for years).
Tesla wanted to create a field in a global shape where power could be drawn within the globe. Sadly he was defeated by the cube law as well as low efficiency RF production. This uses high speed FET mediated synchronous rectification, much like a DC generator in principal. Normal silicon diodes have the diode drop x2 in a bridge- however, if you replace the diodes with microwave FETs you can turn the arms of the bridge on/off in synchrony with the RF and get DC without diode drops, so all you need is maximizing the creation of a standing wave to get the max efficicncy. Easier with a stationary setup, from orbit there will be varying distances = departs from highest efficiency. WIth orbital solar using the best cells at ~~35% and about 80-85% RF creation, the ground station might net ~~25-35% recovered energy after a few years of optimization. Station keeping in the sun 24/7 - is that doable- perhaps in a communications orbit that stays in one spot?? = 35,000 KM away = beam spread due to lambda limits will mean a fairly large ground antenna, but if the antenna is orientable to be in the sun 24/7 - if possible at all, a workable but complex/expensive system might be made. Interesting to see how this makes out as the idea will have merit for moon/mars exploration.
Perhaps to avoid this issue, future versions of the model would throw an error like “bias leak: please specify a gender for the nurse at character 32”
Where did Indexed Finance claim "code is law"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-158_JASSM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-158C_LRASM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Strike_Missile