skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I take occupational offense to misuse of the term private because we’ve spent the last half decade building Standard Notes to be private without any ambiguity to what that term means.

> [..]

> Using the word “private” as “anything that isn’t on a cloud” is misleading, in my opinion. We know this is not the definition of private we want.

I don't know, for me that is a very acceptable definition since anything on the cloud is not private. If anything...

> When we think private, and when software products typically use the word private, they mean it to say privacy is a primary focus of the application, as enacted and permeated through mission, culture, code and operation.

...that definition could be applied to stuff on the cloud too since a cloud app can claim to care about privacy being "its primary focus" and its "culture, code and operation".

Of course something being local doesn't mean that it is 100% watertight proven that it is private, but the default state of a computer (at least as far as regular PCs go) is that and it is only after your actions as a user that state can be compromised.

As such the advice "don't download stuff that run `rm -f` on your hard drive" is a perfectly valid advice.

TBH this looks like some product's blog claiming why another competing product is inferior and theirs is better.
Semantle is a very cool concept but the similarity scoring is kind of whack sometimes. It feels like it needs to use a wider dataset? Or perhaps word2vec is not quite good enough for this.

I had an idea for a minor improvement where if you guess one word, behind the scenes it would check that word, the plural version, the past tense version, etc. And then show you the highest score from all of those. I find it very frustrating when one word has a certain similarity score but another version of the same word (pluralized, past-tense, etc) has a very different score, whether higher or lower. Some small tweaks like this might make the game much more enjoyable.
DALL-E is indeed superhuman in its ability to create images from simple prompts.

This shows the limits of the Turing test. To pass it a program must not only be smart enough, it must be dumb enough too.

Pulling what DALL-E does is a tell-tale sign it’s most likely not human, and would make it fail the test.
Phew!! Glad he isn't lying with that title.
Not everyone, but yes a convicted securities fraudster (Henry Blodget) runs a news site that has now published two sexual harassment stories about two different companies, on two different dates (respectively), that both had unusually large shorts expiring.
Days of Our Lies – Thirty Years On
The article has nothing to do with IPv6.
I read on the internet, that HEPA filters actually just filter better when they start getting clogged. But clogging increases air resistance, so you need higher power level in the fan to get the same throughput. So the economics calculation is, the cost of new filters vs. the cost of electricity of running the fan and eventually the cost of a new fan. And the comfort factor is more noise when the fan is running at higher power level.

So running the filters a long time before replacing, might be the cost-saving option.
The amount of creativity here is astounding. Just imagine all the decisions the AI made in incorporating Kermit into the movies: the clothing it's chosen, how the character wears the clothing, the facial expressions, how to make Kermit himself look similar to the other movies characters. Should he be lanky? pudgy? Even simple decisions like obliviously Kermit in Wall-E is going to be a robot, it has to figure out what he looks like as a robot, what his mouth looks like, that his eyes should be enlarged.

It gets a lot of things wrong, like I'm not sure why kermit has a plastic texture in many of the pictures. If you showed me ten pictures of Kermit and ten frames of total recall, and for some reason 8 of your pictures had a plastic Kermit, and asked me to combine them in my head, I'd probably imagine something on-par or worse than what Dalle has managed to do. But I wouldn't be able to show anyone what I'd made!
It was more than 20 years since the last recorded owner:

> Justice Darke said when the last owner Henry Thompson Downie died in 1947, he did not leave a will and no representative was appointed to the deceased estate.

> A tenant was living in the property at the time, and she remained there for a further 51 years until she died in April 1998.

Who was paying the property tax I wonder, and did the gov't even notice? I suppose that's the "council rates".
> Also, fwiw, races have been lost due to shifting power being out

In addition to a mechanical now one might have an electronical. I hate tuning my mech shifters, but Di2 cable routing inside the frame, seatpost batteries? No thanx. I hope it has improved since the seatpost battery days.
This has happened at least twice, and the first time didn't involve Elon/Tesla, but did also involve Business Insider.
It's more a risk management model than a security model. It tries to build a safe system from layers that are not 100% safe (e.g. because components on a plane may fail or people may not follow procedures exactly). That's why in an airplane accident it's not usually one single cause, but a whole string of things that have gone wrong. But still, we should try to keep the holes in the individual layers of cheese as small and as few as possible...
I've been looking into replacing my terrible electric range with one that has induction burners. One consideration I saw when looking at comparisons was that electric and induction really require a flat bottom pan. If your pan is curved, you need gas to evenly heat it. So when it comes to something like a wok, you need gas. To eliminate gas is to eliminate the wok as a means of cooking.
Software developer that doesn't want to fight Linux to get wifi going?
Notes on Effective Altruism
Hey, i just want to mention that I did not down vote you. Of course you are technically correct, it seems like you took 'above the law' in my comment in the 'literal sense' but it was more of a way to express how common it is for police to abuse their situation and privileges.
From a physics stand point, coin tossing is similar to knife throwing or axe throwing. It's completely within human capability to intentionally or unintentionally time the toss with some degree of accuracy. I doubt anyone can be "good" at this (otherwise it would be a great grifting trick), but surely this creates at least a marginal bias in the data at a high enough scale.
>You are free to complain, criticise them

That's exactly what's going on right now
It's really starting to feel more and more like the end of 2007 and start of 2008. Stocks on a steady downward trend. Layoffs starting here and there. Growth slowing across various industries.

I took a macro economics course at university that year, taught by a professor who was just about to retire after 40 years of teaching the subject. He was blunt with us: "I don't know what's going to happen, but I bet it's going to be interesting!".

I don't even know if he's still alive (he was in his 70s then and still teaching!) but I bet if he is, he's saying the same things now.
It makes me so sad we got stuck with Android and iOS instead of the amazing WebOS. I will never forgive you HP and what you did to my love.
Amazon’s robot is just an Alexa on wheels
I think the parent poster might also be talking about consequences, such as this gem that the CDC dropped recently. 20% of the working age adult population possibly having new onset long term health effects. Oops! (And that's not even getting into things like whether certain chopped up viral fragments might be seeding protein tangles and thus Alzheimer's or Parkinson's.)

>These findings translate to one in five COVID-19 survivors aged 18–64 years, and one in four survivors aged ≥65 years experiencing an incident condition that might be attributable to previous COVID-19.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7121e1.htm
2020 was 2 years ago.. history older than 2 years ago is not "old" in any sense of the word, and if it was.. does that matter?
I'm going to look at Render, but Netlify is more than just a CDN. Having an integrated CI/deployment pipeline is one of the features I've come to use a lot; an engineer can now open a PR and get an autogenerated staging link that be reviewed before going to prod.

That said, if Render supports the same workflows I'll be seriously looking at moving.
Meh. Wastewater has everything in it, but not things aren't checked for. Covid is now too broad a term that includes far less dangerous variants.

You need to draw a line between Covid and colds, or else count colds like Covid.
It's more the delusion that you can casually maintain perfect opsec. People committing actual crimes regularly get caught by those slip-ups, of course you too will have slip-ups in your every day life.
Or average Joe Teenager installs a Linux distribution, which then provides bash, perl, awk, Python, C, C++, often Tcl/Tk, etc. and usually includes one or more editors for creating source files. All without "pull[ing] in hundreds of NPM dependencies from shady places"
Gmail has stricter requirements for v6 because they assume if you are using v6 then they can leave aside all the bozotic baggage they allow for legacy v4. In particular, your sending IP must have a PTR record and the name in that PTR record must have a AAAA record containing that address.

This is mentioned in the 550 message, but I guess people don't read the logs.
for mobile, i find it easier to have 2 calculators. One bare bones for "i just need to add a bunch of numbers" and one for "i need to use parenthesis and division"

for the latter i use maple calculator on android
DaVinci mission will study the origin, evolution, and present state of Venus
Been through a couple of layoffs at a variety of different companies through out my career and personally managed to dodge the bullet each time (so this isn't a sour grapes type response). It is very important to recognize: who gets laid off has nothing to do with whether or not they are a "good worker".

The "good worker" narrative is there to justify management's decisions and reduce survivor's guilt, but you'll see when layoffs come amazing talent and mediocre talent are equally removed. Management has zero problem laying off incredible people en masse.
I am glad you like it. The coding exercises don't require a GPU. Thankfully, most RL problems (and certainly the ones used in the course) require small neural nets which can be trained in reasonable time using a CPU.
>corporations and institutions that created a society where carbon emissions are unavoidable and onto personal lifestyle choices

I mean, it's tempting to blame "corporations and institutions" for the lack of climate-friendly options, but how much of that is them being evil, and how much of that is due to aggregate consumer preferences? If say, 70% of consumers chooses the cheapest option available (disregarding climate impact), and the remaining 30% doesn't constitute a critical mass for a separate line of climate-friendly products, can you really blame "corporations and institutions" for following what the majority of consumers want?
It's unbelievable how clueless politicians and bureaucrats can be. An individual's personal devices have become essentially an extension of their mind. Thus, trying to turn our own devices against us is akin to policing thoughts. Giving the government access to our most personal thoughts is dystopian.
For what is worth, I used Gentoo for some time many moons ago and it was pretty good, aside bringing back that DOpus feel from the good old Amiga days, however I found later than I didn't need all these functions and having a few icons on the taskbar opening Rox-Filer instances on the most used directories was faster. But anyway, thanks for creating it; it was a pretty solid piece of software.
man look at this amazing curve fitting from training samples
Ok, I’ll bite.

What exactly is correct rounding? Sounds kinda like perfect approximation.

I search/skimmed all references to “round” on the linked page, but didn’t find a definition of what “correct” was. Wikipedia page on rounding doesn’t use the term correct anywhere. Is this a mathematical adjective in this case? Or just the opinion of the authors?

I’m well aware of banker’s rounding, and rounding up, and round down, and rounding towards zero, and rounding towards signed infinity, etc. But “correct” as a formal modifier is new to me. What did I miss?
The whole point of the article is that Google's sender identity scoring system is more strict when the sending IP is an IPv6 one. That's a pretty clear cut link to IPv6, no?
Disruption!
Well yeah, if you put two slices of Swiss cheese side by side instead of on top of each other, you have given the attacker a wider choice of holes...
Another golden Musk gem: "I am very confident that...".

The guy doesn't say anything, yet he makes everyone believe he did. Genius. The best salesperson in the world for sure.
It takes discipline and skill to ride in a double paceline at speed. I don't know what else to call it.
Even if it isn't a bug, there's probably enough malicious stuff going on linked to these domains that it's justified. Even if the sites themselves are not producing malicious content, they are targeted by bad actors because the platform lacks the tech to detect and moderate said bad actors. And lets be honest, users of this platform are likely to be very susceptible to misinformation and manipulation.
I worked at a telco a little over ten years ago when they took out all the pay phones in our city. In the garage there were these enormous bins full of them, staged for some unknown fate. A couple colleagues and I had gone down to take a look at the spectacle and inquired if we could take one, and they were like, “sure!”. We climbed in an grabbed ourselves some payphones. Still have one in my garage - I think it’s cool as shit.
> you need to keep up appearances that things are operating normally, even if that means keeping up the recruiting pipeline for positions that you have no intention of hiring

This reminds me what I once read about the challenges of zookeeping big cats. They tend to appear very often perfectly healthy until one day they just die. And when you do an autopsy on them you realise that they were sick since weeks or even month, but it often does not “show” in a way you would expect.

The speculation is that since they are not incentivised evolutionary to show that they are hurt. In the wild they are often solitary creatures so no one would or could help them, on the other hand if they appear hurt that would invite other predators to challenge them. Sounds like the incentive structure is very similar for companies.
More nuance could be:
Forcing air through micro particles suspended in a filter creates other kinds of micro particles rarely foujd in air, and with unknown effects on health.
So when can we expect the lawsuit to be filed?
No, this game is not fun. I've played it quite a few times and found it addictive, but not in a fun way. I had to force myself to stop playing it because I realized it was just frustrating and un-fun and you never get any better at it because there's no way to improve your reasoning about the similarity scores or ever become truly "good" at it.
One of the underrated features of the original Wordle is that the world to guess is selected from a short list (2,315 words) instead of the full dictionary (10,657 words). The short list is very well selected and it makes the game more fun to play.
> "seen by Reuters"

Do you find it odd that all the stories coming out refer to this single Reuters statement?
Heh that's so old it's in Proverbs: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+22%3A2...

Never remove the ancient boundary stone
that your ancestors set up.
The contrast indicates that regularly replacing the HEPA filters of APs could represent an effective method of avoiding increased endotoxins in the filtered air.

That's a pretty clickbaity paper title. The lede was buried. A better title would have been: Regularly replacing HEPA filters may reduce endotoxins in filtered air

I'm a high school drop out so what do I know.
The entry level 3 hasn't been $35K for several years.

The entry level 3 with absolutely nothing on it is $47K before tax. In any case, this specific example was a high end Model S.
Disagree — GPT-3 type AIs are.

But people who do viral news and posts don't...read. So, their impact will continue to go unnoticed in comparison to DeEpFaKeS and Dall-E.
Texas is too liberal, but he also has the giant drill to build Hyperloops under Galt's Gulch.
> Gmail has stricter requirements for v6 because they assume if you are using v6 then they can leave aside all the bozotic baggage they allow for legacy v4. In particular, your sending IP must have a PTR record and the name in that PTR record must have a AAAA record containing that address.

This is, in fact, quite difficult to convince your ISP they should do.
One story that often comes up: automated ML systems will have false positives every once in a while. But when the false positive affects a big customer it is fixed more promptly than when it affects a competitor...
I'd love to see an implementation of Metal on Windows and Linux.
Which is bad for them but good for the overall economy. They will find other jobs and since the net benefit of fixing broken windows is 0 anything they do will grow the economy.
It used to be normalized. It was called a sabbatical. The first company I ever worked for had mandated sabbaticals every 5 years. It was six weeks and you couldn't just add it to your vacation days, you had to take the six weeks all at once. Everybody felt fully refreshed after taking the six weeks off. Plus, their standard work week was 35 hours per week, 7 hours per day. Being a start up we did have periods during the year where we worked considerably longer, but those would be for 2-3 week periods a couple of times per year. This was back in the 1980's. Like I said, this definitely used to be part of our work culture.
Are we coming full circle back to Knowledge-Based Systems of the 1980s, with a sprinkling of NN?
Instead of arguing about "what is" in re: subjective judgements, it can sometimes be useful to phrase things more literally, as in:

"To me those are clearly Kermit the Frogs."

"To me those are clearly not Kermit the Frogs."

Then there's nothing really to argue about. Instead we can discuss what we see and how that affects our subjective perceptions.

For example, Kermit the Frog doesn't have eyelids, but most of these images show a frog with eyelids.
> […] but i still miss the remote development using SSH

Me too. Editing text is pretty light weight, so it makes sense to run locally. But the language server is often rather heavy weight, e.g. requires compiling all project dependencies, so it makes perfect sense to run this on a beefy remote machine (connected to wall power).
Big tech has earned the assumption.
Twitter has been known to block certains URLs on short notice. Its hardly difficult to do it for one more...
It's not a bug to disallow "distribution of hacked material" in your Terms of Service.

If you think it was political, you should certainly inform the FEC! They found that Twitter had acted "for commercial reasons and not for the purpose of influencing an election" so they'd appreciate the heads up.
Huh? I'm not even sure how you came to that conclusion.

Gmail is probably tougher on mail servers using IP6 addresses because they're plentiful and I suspect spammers were having a field day setting up temporary mail relays forcing google to play whack-a-mole.

I used to run my own email server years ago but spam and spam protection measures have made it time consuming and annoying. I'll leave it to the professionals.
Thanks the the update. The reason I ask is because it severely limits the applicant pool.

For example, I have years of Django experience, and now I work fully in Nodejs/TS. Anecdotally, this is the case for a lot of people that I know. Moreover, I don’t see a situation where I can get deep RoR experience from the industry now.

Do you see this sentiment from other applicants? How are you getting enough RoR experts?
>> How would open borders in a country be necessarily beneficial to people in the country?

> The benefits of immigration have been addressed many places.

It is true that immigration has some positive benefits in many cases, but this does not necessarily (which was in the question) demonstrate that it is net beneficial.

> It works fine in Europe.

Can you put "fine" in quantitative terms?

How did you measure this?

How did you measure it against the counterfactual?

> The point is not to open only one countries borders though, but all of them, because that's what's really in everyone's interest.

It's fine to hold an opinion or belief that "that's what's really in everyone's interest", but there is an important difference between belief and knowledge.
You show up to work, go to your manager and tell them you have no where to park and nowhere to work. Ask them.what you should do. If they tell you to go home and check back you go home and phone them every day asking if there is space for you and if you can come back to the office.
From the article

The experiment

Over the Spring 2009 semester two Berkeley undergraduates, Priscilla Ku and Janet Larwood, undertook to do the required 40,000 tosses. After preliminary experimentation with practical issues, there was formulated a specific protocol, described in detail below. Cutting to the chase, here is the complete data-set as a .xlsx spreadsheet (see sheet 2). This constitutes a potentially interesting data-set in many ways -- one could compare numerous theoretical predictions about pure randomness (lengths of runs, for instance) with this empirical data. For the specific question of dynamical bias, the relevant data can be stated very concisely

of 20,000 Heads-up tosses (tossed by Janet) 10231 landed Heads

of 20,000 Tails-up tosses (tossed by Priscilla) 10014 landed Tails
Hammerhead has only made two models of computer, right? Why do you have three?
In the hacker ethos, gaining access to systems is in no way unethical or deserving of remorse. The hack in this case was (1) exploiting the ISP’s delayed batch processing of credit card orders, and (2) circumventing their deny list of callback phone numbers.

For the same reason you’ll rarely see urbex photographers expressing remorse for trespassing. Getting onto skyscraper roofs and into steam tunnels is just what you do.

Related - I went to college in the late 90s, at the end of this era, where there was a constant game of cat and mouse between the University unix and network admins and the hacker kids. Yes it was technically felonies all night long, but there was legitimate mutual respect for technical skills on both sides and following the unwritten rules of not causing data loss or disrupting services. This is how I learned the skills to start my career, and probably how they learned themselves back when they were students. For them to rat out a student was kind of unsportsmanlike. It would be admitting they weren’t good at their jobs.

I’m told this hacker culture no longer exists at my Uni. If you get caught escalating privileges on a computer you’d be facing expulsion and referral to the police.
Sheryl Sandberg stepping down from Meta
> Next, I used a stud finder to detect a stud on the wall

Naturally, I imagine he used the stud finder on himself a few times when his wife was in the room.
The OP pointed specific examples:

> - For any of the "live action" ones, Kermit should still always be a puppet.
- Kermit notoriously has lanky arms,
- Kermit never has eye lids
- His eyes sit way on top of his head.
- He often has his weird neck decoration.
- His eyes have a very distinctive pupil shape.
It likely will be used to determine how people lived in the ancient days of the 2000s, similar to how we use beer receipts from the time of the Pharaohs to deduce how life was back then.