skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A first comment is that it would have been better for each individual to have done both "Heads up"and "Tails up" tosses (which was part of the intended protocol, but on this aspect of the protocol there was a miscommunication)

That was a pretty unfortunate error in the experiment. Maybe it doesn't matter but now we don't know. It would also have been nice to have them swap coins halfway to expose any individual per coin biasing. It may seem like an irrelevant thing but I've been a lifelong magician specializing in advanced slight of hand coin magic. I carry a set of coins with me all day, every day and handle them constantly. It started out as practice but evolved into both practice and a kind of fidget toy. I have sets of coins I've probably handled for thousands of hours over decades.

Most people think of coins as immutable but they actually change quite a bit after hundreds of hours of handling. Most advanced coin magicians don't tend to use "trick" coins from a magic shop because they are actually too limiting. The coins I use are completely normal circulated coins but they are very specific because there are subtle differences in how coins handle which, at the most advanced levels, can matter. I have year-matched sets of coins I've carefully assembled because they have the degree of surface wear (sometimes called 'softness') and edge-milling which works best for the style of slights I do. Coins also vary in shape and many aren't quite round. I've actually hired a specialized machinist (aka coin-smith) to 'true-up' the shape and then re-mill the edges of certain coins.

Based on my admittedly unusual experience in handling coins, I suspect that weight, edge and surface variations in individual coins could have a material aerodynamic impact at this statistical level (sub-half a percent). BTW, there are coin magicians who have mastered the ability to flip a normal coin and control the outcome to >95%. While the coin is normal in every way, it does need to be a coin they've specifically trained with. Otherwise the hit rate falls considerably.
>Yes, because carbon isn't priced into the economy, and corporations lobby to maintain that status quo.

I don't disagree that corporations are blameworthy by lobbying against climate change legislation. That said, you're changing the topic here. The entirety of that sentence was about the "lack of climate-friendly options" and the comment I was replying to was talking about "a society where carbon emissions are unavoidable".

>Moreover, consumers can't choose between "cheap" and "environmentally friendly" because corporations don't publish information about the carbon footprint of their products

Is this really an issue? Just assume anything that doesn't have strongly worded environmental claims is not environmentally friendly. Given that a supermajority of consumers care about the environment (at least in the abstract), if a product is actually environmentally friendly, it's probably going to be predominantly labeled.
Unreadable on iOS, constant jitter when you scroll.
No, but it's one of those decisions that most normal people could easily recognize as a bad decision. It clearly didn't have any positive impact on the company and most likely had a negative impact. Just a CEO doing pure nonsense, causing a huge impact to the company based on ego over data. As opposed to making actual positive decisions. There was no reason for yahoo to fail other than a huge series of poor leadership decisions.
I hope so! I am tired of explaining people that it's actually Google's fault they didn't receive my mail. I'll be happy when they pay dearly for the disservice they do to e-mail.
Hey! This temp fix isn't a bad one, it's easy to apply and restart.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-security-adv...
I downloaded it and tried it. It seems great so far.

One thing that I am curious of, is using this in conjunction with a separate VPN with 'Always-on-VPN', as it seems it is not compatible (asks me to disable 'Always-on-VPN').
It’s one thing to advocate not using Gmail for your own mail, and another entirely to advocate not sending any mail to gmail accounts from your own mail server, which is what TFA is really covering.
I would argue that general relativity barely affects humans day to day lives, whereas the nuclear model of the atom completely changed the global political system.
> like I'm not sure why kermit has a plastic texture in many of the pictures

That might be the known bug with low-resolution textures: the DALL-E 2 paper notes that the details in very complex scenes can be bad, and thinks it's because you start with a 64px image which is necessarily bad for details (64px is really small!) and upscale with dumber models from there https://cdn.openai.com/papers/dall-e-2.pdf#page=17 I think this explains the issues with images where the 'skin' or 'fur' looks really creepy (eg. all the semi-nude bears).
I’ve worked in the technology departments of major American investment banks you’ve heard of. I’ve seen Indian colleagues openly discuss caste and speculate someone’s caste based on their name and regional background openly in the company cafe
> To be fair, twitter ownership is not required to use twitter for this purpose.

I understood that remark as a reference to the way Musk's bid to buy Twitter with no intention to follow-through, in light of other shameless PR ploys like the absurd political persecution claim, looks like a shameless attempt to distract people from other problems affecting Musk, such as Tesla's tanking stock price.
Thank you! This means a lot to me. I collect Palm and Pocket PC handhelds, and remember how it seemed every independent developer had their own website with fun little creations on them and how easy it was to get software.

It's just not as much fun to use the devices without it being loaded with all sorts of fun programs.

I also recently scored a HP Laserjet 2200, which has an IrDA port on the front, which was a nice bonus for me in particular. I remember dreaming of being able to print from them and thinking how cool that would be. Funny how you only appreciate something when it's not possible.

Edit: I just realized this isn't about that Palm era, but yes, for the same reason I of course had to get a Palm Pre the second it came out. It was my first smartphone, and I remember it fondly.
1) You're correct.

2) It will not clean the room just as fast, it will take longer to clean the room.

4) COVID-19 particles do travel on water molecules, but they are also airborne. The CDC has admitted this and there is a growing body of research proving this to be true as well.

5) This has not been proven.
Well, it won't be only debts, there are some housing properties with it. And you can't refuse only part of the inheritance, either you refuse it all, you accept it all.

I should have said "mostly" and not "only" in my first message.
Ignore the fact that we are going to switch off Diablo Nuclear Power plant and replace it with gas plants.

That's a bit disingenuous. Those units were brought online in 1985 and 1986 and are licensed to operate through 2025. That's forty years - which is the life span of a power plant, especially a nuclear power plant. So, they're not being "switched off", they've hit end-of-life. Building a new nuclear power station is logistically impossible. Without getting into it, in essence the U.S. has lost the ability to construct nuclear power stations. People cite the regulatory nightmare, but that's not the real issue - that's an excuse. The real issue is much more complicated.

Note: I work for a U.S. utility that tried to build a nuclear power station due to go online in 2009. We had to abandon the effort and turned the plant into a Integrated Coal Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant. It was brought online shortly after President Obama made the statement there will be no more coal plants opened in this country. I still get a chuckle out of that (we've since shuttered several of our coal units and have reduced our CO2 output by 50%). I know of at least two other U.S. utilities that ended up building IGCC plants for the same reasons. All of us already had nuclear generators in our fleet, so we all know how to work with the NRC. Given all the problems we've experienced trying to build new nuclear generation stations I seriously doubt we'll see any new nuclear generation stations built for some time. The last nuclear generation station brought online was in 2016 and took 43 years to build! It also cost billions of dollars. Nobody has the appetite for that kind of endeavor.
After pumping 7 billion into the market, I'd probably say the same.
Tends to burn out the motor though.

Vornado used to sell an air filter that took two 10x20” house filters. Before I discovered that model I was trying to build my own using computer case fans (my intent was to hide the loud box under furniture).

Home Depot used to carry those in the 1500 classification which was great, but those are getting harder to come by too, and even the regional chain that had them doesn’t as much anymore and I have to use the 1200 or once in a while the super basic ones. Or buy them from Amazon and fuck Amazon.

Air filters became a rent seeking gambit before the term rent seeking was even invented. We should just be able to use furnace filters. And speaking of furnace filters, if you have central air, do yourself a favor and change the filter religiously. Also helps slow down accumulation of dust in your ductwork, which makes it hard to ever get the house clean, though you can hire someone to come out and vacuum them out. They have something like a softer version of a chimney sweep’s brush with a longer handle. Last place we had them do that on like day 2 to avoid any problems from the previous owners.
Isn’t that why you “call it in the air”?
See if you can read this: https://twitter.com/1990sLinuxUser/status/97350916902105089
Video is probably a whole other ballpark regarding required training and resources.
"I'm fully open source, I'm cool."

Probably someone who has no deadlines.
So it sounds like the novel feature is that it can print something inside of something else, but the article doesn’t say what’s required to make that happen: if I’m going to repair a plane fuselage or some surgical implant: how do I get the material inside to print? Does the fuselage require the material inside already? How do we inject the material inside of a patient for an implant?
I think the GP does know that, and questions whether or not the policy would change under Musk’s stewardship.
There doesn't need to be anything "magical" about the human mind for human "understanding" not to be particularly closely approximated by performing mathematical transformations on a huge corpus of raster data, even though the latter approach produces very useful results (see also the utility of a pocket calculator vs attempting to skip a billenium or so of natural evolution to grow an organism motivated to learn multiplication in a petri dish, or parse human minds to figure out the elements of brain state associated with performing a calculation)

GPT-3 is far, far better at generating descriptions of loving humanity than the average dog. But it's pretty obvious that the dog's goal formation and excitement hormones aren't particularly similar to letter-by-letter ASCII output probability calculations on a database, and that GPT-3 has no more grasp of the dog's love of humanity in general and this human in particular than the dog has of Shakespeare. "Thought" and intelligible results are essentially orthogonal, which limits the feasibility of training the former...
> of 20,000 Heads-up tosses (tossed by Janet) 10231 landed Heads

> of 20,000 Tails-up tosses (tossed by Priscilla) 10014 landed Tails

Why not do 10,000 Heads-up and 10,000 Tails-up tosses for each person?
The capacitive touch screen was necessary but alone wouldn’t have meant much without the revolutionizing software stack. You may think “revolutionizing” seems hyperbolic here but a lot of people forget or don't realize how truly far behind the competition was.

Software keyboards were considered a complete no-go, even by folks within Apple (Ken Kocienda's “Creative Selection” is a great read on the development of the keyboard). Dragging / flinging / pinch to zoom didn’t exist anywhere else or if it did, only in prototype or proof-of-concept form. The capacitive screen unlocked these features but no one else knew how to build them.

I was working at Sony Ericsson when the first iPhone was released. I distinctly remember holding it in my hand and using mobile Safari for the first time and thinking... “we’re fucked”. The company simply didn’t have the engineering chops needed to catch up. Later on Android would provide a possible solution but we managed to screw things up even with a full OS handed to us.
It doesn't go to the poor coffee shop worker who gets let go. And can't spend it on x, y, z. No it goes on cost of living increases.
This is one recent change in Zig which really annoys me: unused variables are now errors. Languages that complain every time there's a unused variable become useless during experimentation and quick hacking. They turn my hyperfocus into a death from a thousand paper cuts.

I hate it with a passion. Please respect my mental flow, if I'm trying some ideas out, it's just rude to stop me in my tracks to tell me I forgot to comment out a variable. Who cares.

I will fight anyone who thinks this is a good idea.
I worked at Palm during the development of webOS, both before the Pre was launched, then again in developer relations and framework development after it came out. I'm very happy to see this archive of the great work the community created around these devices.

If you want to archive my old Twitter feed, https://twitter.com/webostips, that might be useful for the help section. It really only ran in 2009-2010, as I got too busy after returning to Palm from my stint at Mozilla.
Congrats to the Netlify team! Sounds like changing the customer mix will help them focus on more advanced features rather than needing to supporting the most basic of sites and hobbyists.

It's unfortunate if you're in a business where this pricing is actually expensive, but it seems like it is time for the non-business users to restart the cycle by moving onto the next startup's offering.
You are absolutely correct. Problem is, no one knows to which direction!
I've hit 45mph going down Tioga Pass towing a BOB trailer while touring[0]. Doing it on an unladen road bike would not be a big deal for a high level road cyclist on a good road surface.

[0] BOB's recommended top speed is 25 mph, for the record.
That happens with house cats too. They’re good at hiding signs of weakness.
Yep. You’d think Patrick Collison of Stripe invented the internet based on the praise he receives here rather than the reality that he made a PayPal clone with some custom branding options.

Brian Chesky directly ripped off a popular free product called CouchSurfing then said “ok same thing but I get to be a billionaire, local housing markets lose long term rentals in exchange for teenage keg parties, and I get to buy virtue signaling billboards all over SF cause I get to be rich AND morally superior.”

Then after we lionize those guys we can make fun of the Musk fan club.
Just completed my Google interview process, it was biggest waste of my time in recent years. Oh the technical questions can vary from Linux kernel question on how something interfaces with kernel/ring0 to front end library which fetches web images, then coding a esoteric algo.

I am disappointed in myself that I wasted small period of my life falling for recruiter/social hype of these companies. Worst mistake you can make while looking for a job is to prepare for one specific company, web is full of this garbage content to answer specific company questions.
I don't think he displays any altruistic behaviour if you observe any of his actions.
Proton's CEO Wanted to Fight Dictatorships. Now He's Fighting Big Tech Too
While I'm generally in favor of innovation for secure computing, I think this category of "vulnerability" is not that bad. Applications have managed to use natively compiled plugins for decades without much in the way of `rm -rf /`ing users machines - and those that do don't get installed.

Like for example I haven't yet seen a post that decries the security vulnerabilities of VST plugins or Unreal engine plugins, but they actually have slightly worse surface areas that are harder to secure than something running on top of a JS engine.

At a certain point you have to accept that running code someone else wrote may do bad things. Zero trust doesn't have zero cost. Don't run random programs you download off the internet without accountability.
>In other words, you want every website to be held liable for all user generated content on their platform, which would benefit every large social media (because smaller ones wouldn't be able to afford to moderate every single post), leading to them becoming even more of a monopoly?

In the EU it works well: the only social networks that exist are American :P
Or just use von Neumann's debiasing algorithm - toss twice, and see if it's head-tail or tail-head, retoss when you get repeated heads or tails. It doesn't prevent dishonest tosses (if you can manipulate the bias in each toss), but should work to eliminate a consistent dynamic bias by an honest tosser.
Most people don't change their political ideology based on sexual assault accusations. Even if they were false, why would that cause someone to join a party with a radically different view of society than their previous party?
> No machine learning model

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03332-7
maybe, but

this https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/elon-musk-had-a-very-inter...

particular https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/7/21213159/tesla-salary-cuts...

company https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/18/business/tesla-layoffs-el...

has https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/12/tesla...

a pattern
Apparently, it’s not working right now, right?
A 3D printed ear has been successfully transplanted in a world-first
Who has more resource?
MERV-14 filters are rated for 75% efficacy in that range: https://www.nafahq.org/understanding-merv-nafa-users-guide-t...

The respiratory particles that transmit covid are a range of sizes, but likely mostly a bit larger than that: https://www.jefftk.com/p/how-big-are-covid-particles
Maybe I didn't clarify much.

It doesn't require more work than they are already presumably implementing for spam detection (unless I way too much overestimate big tech's abilities), it's a little touch to an already-being-implemented system with a bonus of being able to block competitors to some extent, without direct liability.
don't be a snake
> OP is implying that a theoretical public sector social network

I dispute that the OP was implying or even thinking anything about a theoretical public sector social network.
> Are the owners of the IP losing money on letting someone generate new characters in their movie/show?

Typically, creators are very protective of this sort of thing, unless it stays in the area of fan art. If anyone tries to seriously monetize this kind of output, I'm sure we'll see a lot of cases.

Imagine what Disney would do if you used DALL-E to create an animated feature film in the style of Mickey Mouse, but with cats instead of mice, and they found out you used actual footage from, say, Fantasia to train an AI model. No idea if they would win, but I'm certain they'd sue.
If you're still interested, here's the summary from the top of the article:

Office politics aren’t something you can sit out. Most people look down upon them, but the truth is, they are a part of every organization.

Office politics are about relationship currency and influence capital — and the power these two things give you or don’t give you. The myth that “office politics” are always unethical or evil need to be debunked.

Start by reframing what office politics mean. Do you see informal conversations as “lobbying” (with all the negative connotations this generally carries) or do you see them as “doing important homework”?

Focus your time and energy on understanding what kind of political environment your organization has, the degree to which it suits your personal political style, and how you are going to be most effective in it.

Realize that focusing only on your performance is very unlikely to get you the success you’re aiming for — be it a bonus, promotion, or recognition from senior executives. However, investing time in your networks and building the connections that can speak for you and your work will.
> You still get full access to everything the app can see - all Confluence content.

No (with proper policy in place). That's the whole point of SecurityManager. Even if you can execute code - it is sandboxed and has limited (or none at all) permissions.
I agree, here is some text from the complaint:

> The Illinois Legislature has found that “[b]iometrics are unlike other unique identifiers that are used to access finances or other sensitive information.” 740 ILCS 14/5(c). “For example, social security numbers, when compromised, can be changed. Biometrics, however, are biologically unique to the individual; therefore, once compromised, the individual has no recourse, is at heightened risk for identity theft, and is likely to withdraw from biometric-facilitated transactions.”

Their reasoning kinda makes sense here... that biometrics can not be changed if they are leaked... However the "biometrics" here stem from processing a photo. This isn't Face ID where it is some proprietary model, it is just a photo. If the photo is leaked (or really, if anyone takes a picture of you), they too could use facial recognition software to "steal" your biometric data.

The "experiences" of the plaintiffs are just that they at some point appeared in a photo gallery organized by face. What a waste of everyone's time.

I wonder if Apple's recognition is any different? They have an identical feature, however if I recall correctly, it is done on the device itself.
> Simply tune the parameters associated with novelty and playfulness

Nah, you should be able to add “…but with some novelty and playfulness” to the prompt.
Back when domains were easy to spoof (I could setup a server and send mail as ycombinator.com easily enough) it made sense to track the IPs, but now that you have DKIM and SPF links to cross-check, you should be able to use the domain reliability as a strong indicator. Sure you would have to catch people buying a "good" domain that expired, but that shouldn't be an insane hurdle.

The real story is nobody cares.
> hese AI models are a new type of theft, and likewise need new types of legal protections for artists.

Meh. This means that most artists will also struggle to make something as good as these models and will have to find something else to do for a living. Its not the first time in history that an occupation is obsoleted. Projectionnists in cinemas have mostly dissapeared.
> The hobbyist/small mail server is historically more likely to go unpatched and pwnage is more likely to go unnoticed, so it’s unfortunately a good defensive move to penalize them reputationally by default.

But to reiterate my earlier point: Google and Microsoft have the computational and storage capacity to have a detailed history of all domains' authoritative mail servers behavior. They will know whether a domain has a history of patch negligence.

No, I think the far simpler explanation is that they just don't bother tracking reputation by domain. Or if they do, it's largely overshadowed by the weight given to IP-based reputation.