skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you. The concepts we are dealing with here are very abstract.

It sounds like you are getting hung up on details of a particular example. That is not useful. We can’t give you exact details for a particular black ball because we haven’t encountered one yet. Sadly the fact that we haven’t encountered one yet doesn’t mean that they don’t exists.

Think about it like this: There are technologies which are easier to stop spreading and there are technologies which are harder to stop spreading.

Example for a technology which is easier to stop: Imagine that a despotic government wants to stop people from space launches. All the known tech to reach orbit is big and heavy and requires a lot of people. It is comperatively easy to send out agents who look at all the big industrial installations and dismantle the ones used for space launches. There will be only a handful of them and they are hard to hide.

Now an example for a technology which is harder to stop: imagine that the fictional despotic government has it in for cryptography. That is a lot harder to stop. One can do it alone in the privacy of their own home! All you need to do is some pen and paper. That can be hidden anywhere! A lot lot harder thing for the agents to find and distrupt.

We talked about how easy to stop the spread of a given technology. Now let’s think about something else. The potential of a given tech to cause harm.

An example for a risky technology: nuclear weapons. If you have them you can level a city. That is a lot of harm in one pile.

An example for a less risky technology: ergonomic tool handles. Those rubbery overmoldings which make it nicer to use the tool long term. There is no risk free technology, but I hope you agree that these are a lot less dangerous than a nuclear bomb.

Do I have you so far? Good. Because this was the easy part. We talked about things which already exists. Now comes the hard part. This requires some imagination: We have seen tech which was easy to control and tech which was harder. We have seen tech which was risky and tech which was less risky. Can these properties come in all combinations? In particular: are there technologies which are both risky and hard to control? Something for example where any able human can accidentally or intentionally level a city or kill all humans? I can’t give you an example, we don’t have technology like that yet.

The example you are asking about is an example for this kind of technology: high risk, hard to control.

Nobody says that you can download software today from github which can help you engineer a deadly virus from household chemicals. This does not exist. It is a stand in for the kind of tech which if it were possible it would mean that we have a high risk, hard to control technology

Does this help explain the context better? Let me know if you still have questions.
Probably true but then there are cases like Ian Goodfellow [0] quitting over RTO [1] which they wouldn't have wanted

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Goodfellow

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-17/ian-goodf...
It might not be exactly what you're looking for but I stumbled upon this video by Sebastian Lague the other day: https://youtu.be/hfMk-kjRv4c

As someone who's only ever dabbled into minimaxir's GPT-2 packages this was an extremely approachable exploration (and explanation) of how a neural network works. I can't recommend it enough.
I guess with google having systematically extinguished the mod community, there's just nothing exciting about a new release.
75 Years Independence in India
Read their ideas of what India was and ought to be, and what it has become.
> be conscious of the ones that drive us to become mindless consumers
and remove other options from us in the market.

Nicely put. I see that sort of "choice affecting choices" you describe
leveraged/manipulated a lot in tech, to "funnel" people into worlds
with ever smaller horizons. Every product has an inbuilt con or trick
that seems out to get you. It's essence is anti-choice masquerading
as forms of economic freedom.

How to remain conscious of that? It's tiring. Like being in a jungle
surrounded by predators.
Biggest four-day workweek trial run
I wasn't aware of PgBackRest, something will definitely keep in mind when offering alternatives to managed services, thank you! 30s is perfectly respectable, and something I will definitely start testing out as a sidecar container to Postgres.

edit: It doesn't look like the use of PgBackRest composes as well as something like Litestream, eg it looks like PgBackRest has to be baked into the image running Postgres as opposed to a separate process monitoring changes to files like Litestream. Again, not huge issues, but definitely not as simple. Still very useful tech I'm glad you mentioned it, but a big draw card of SQLite is the simplicity of use.
I usually don't even look at the usernames. In fact I sometimes go back to read all the usernames just to see if the same person is appearing twice in a thread.
To a first approximation: Yes. What particularly bugged me was giving prominent cover placement to ideologues like Jean Kirkpatrick, who never met a tin-horned tyrant she didn't like. It was (AFAICT) part of a heavy lean by FA into an intellectually deficient ruling clique.
>If we were a strictly rational utilitarian society he'd be in prison for 220 years

I don't think you understand how risk works. You cannot judge him only on the downside, without considering the upside that could have been.

If you jail every startup founder who fails for 220 years, nobody would try to create risky startups, and your utopia would miss out on innovation.
There's something strange about this article. It says (put briefly) that since Elon Musk thinks that Subsidy X should be removed, his company shouldn't apply for it. Other shareholders may not agree with him, but I'll ignore that detail now.

Generalising, it says that if you think that some law should not exist and you benefit from the law, then you should act as though the law did not exist. The article doesn't say so, but I assume that if a law detriments or inconveniences you, then the writer thinks you should follow the law even if you disagree with it in principle.

In other words: If the majority opinion is good for you compared to your own, then you should act according to your own opinion. If it's bad for you, then you should act on the majority opinion.

I don't see a coherent rationale for that. It just seems like a milder form of flagellant ethics. "Do whatever has the worst effects for you personally." However, the fact that I don't see a coherent rationale doesn't disprove its existence. I'd like to hear arguments.

My own opinion is that the law applies to everyone. It imposes duties on everyone, and grants rights to everyone. Someone who obeys the law even when disagreeing has a moral right to benefit from the law, too.
Firefox maintains an Flatpak package on Flathub. Flatpak uses runtimes to provide a base layer of provided libraries that are the same regardless which distro you use.

https://beta.flathub.org/apps/details/org.mozilla.firefox
Exactly! I had only posted the link on www.reddit.com/r/reactos and didn’t expect it to get attention from a wider audience :-) Also, I deliberately avoided CDNs and caches to see if the source system can handle the load. I know that this woudn’t make any sense in real-world scenario, but for this project, this was part of the fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENo_B8CZNRQ I think this is a pretty good, concise explanation.
Given the disregard for human life that the Russians have typically displayed in war, including the current conflict, what would you propose as a deterrent instead of MAD?

Second question. Let's say you want to negotiate a treaty in the case where neither side trusts the other, and where neither side really has any enforcement power over the other. What mechanism would you propose, to which both parties could agree, and to which both parties could be pretty sure the other side would respect?

MAD is indeed horrific. The authors of the policy thought so as well. Everyone would very much appreciate a better solution. Until now, none has been proposed.
the example I gave was a simplified (though true) situation of a system local bus

it's common to have a dedicated trading network completely parallel and isolated from the main DC network for each upstream connection, of which there are dozens

and these are (at least) double redundant through the entire network, typically using redundant packet arbitration to near guarantee zero drops over a session

Google's network is super-dynamic and flexible, but slow and likely over-contended

ours is the exact opposite
>In many part of Europe you can find archaeology pretty much anywhere outside of cities and other areas that have been developed in modern times.

I can assure you that you can find plenty archeology within cities as well. Probably even more than on the countryside. It's just that it's all covered by several layers of development.
Snaps are universally hated by the Linux community as they have many problems, but what's wrong with Flatpak?
Well, sure: but if the company doesn't want to release the source code at a future date, they just... don't do it. That's sort of a separate problem. If you assume the company (or the developers, whatever) actually want to reveal the code, but just don't want to give it away to their competitors today, it seems like it would work.

One situation that seems relatively common is developers who are working on a commercial product who might want to see it open-sourced down the road. The developers (not the company) could prepare the source code on the company's hardware (i.e. where they normally do development), timelock-encrypt it, and then take it home with them or publish it somewhere. They would then have the assurance—since they actually prepared and encrypted the source code snapshot—of what's inside.

Average Joe Coder might not have the pull to get their company to agree to such a scheme, but I can imagine some very high-profile people might. E.g. if you're a recognized expert in your field (think John Carmack or someone of his stature in whatever niche you want), maybe you put a requirement for timelocked access to the code you write as a must-have in your consulting contracts. Then you would still be able to get work with private companies, but have some assurance that your work would be publishable and benefit the public down the road.

I'm sure you could probably even rig up some Git hook that timelock-encrypts every commit and pushes it to a public repo somewhere (Internet Archive, maybe?) that's expected to be available for a good long while.
You take out 2-5 minutes out of every 30 minutes??? After those 5 minutes I would need 30 minutes just to get back into my context.
The Row: a real-estate development in the metaverse
I wish it would fully reset the terminal mode after every command though so you don't get stuck without seeing what you type when some CUI program terminates without cleaning up properly. That's why I have `stty sane` in my PROMPT_COMMAND.
> You could do worse than go back and make sure your foundation maths is solid.

This. Though I have no textbook I'd recommend; all of the ones I used were a very hard slog to read, let alone grasp the maths in them.
I cannot do it in my country without physically going to some office and showing my passport. Doesn’t feel “temporary” to me.

SIM cloning is a thing. S7 hacking is a thing. Phone numbers are _insecure_ as IDs, as simple as that. Signal’s insistence to use nothing but phone numbers is somewhat suspicious these days.

(Both major competitors in secure messaging, Wire and Theeema, allow pseudonymous temporary IDs in addition to phone numbers).
Should You Be Using Python’s Walrus Operator? (Yes. and Here’s Why)
Does anyone recall which talk specifically this is? I'd love to give it a watch.
Past 5++ years were the golden age of VC subsidized rides, meal and grocery delivery. I never abused, but have downloaded an app, did one ride and totally forgot about the app.
Without any further knowledge, what I think they did is not so much express execution order in the RDBMS engine sense, but some logical generic-to-specific, large-to-small order. Table first (all rows, all columns), WHERE after (filter row), SELECT/project (filter columns). I'm not sure where all the other SQL operators would fit in that order, especially JOINs, GROUP BYs and so on.
I would guess that a satellite can literally just have a TX radio on this module, so as long as you trust it to have been built and launched securely it can't be tampered with by anyone without space capability?

Whereas a server on the internet could be compromised over the internet.
egg_irl and all the other subs like that are incredibly scary: They are pretty much grooming echo chambers painting transsexuality and transition as hip and trendy things that solve all your issues.

reddit should be 18+ at this point.
A good open source alternative to ProPresenter is desperately needed and is what I always wanted to work on. Right now I don't have time for it and it's not ready yet for our needs, but I will keep an eye on this project.
Pressure Gain Combustion tech was a very promising approach to increase the efficiency of planes, gas turbine power stations, rockets, and many other fields.

An export ban effectively kills all that tech.

Banning efficiency improvements like this isn't exactly great for the environment. People will just keep burning coal.
This works differently on a stack CPU but it can also be done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_machine#Out-of-order_exe...
Would be a blast if the cloud is up ended by RISC and GPUs powerful enough to crunch “big data” at home.

Would love to see FAANG and SV crash and burn, margins chipped away to nothing.
For me as an engineer yes. But for a normal person, they look too industrial.
Sorry, it's many years since I've used gmail, don't have an account to check and describe exactly. I suppose I should've said 'you certainly used to be able to', I don't know for sure you still can.. would be dumb to remove that though.

Iirc there was a section of settings called 'sending & receiving', and there was a drop-down to select 'reply from same address' or similar.
Can I suggest a longer, but (I think) better route?

Try the Data/ML Engineer route. Instead of going directly into ML, try to work as a “supporter” of those doing ML. There’s a HUGE gap there, specially if you’re a good programmer.

There are a lot of people in the “pure” ML space, people with science background, with phDs, etc.

But there’s not enough people to support them: taking their models to producing, building their pipelines, etc.

If you get into Data/ML engineer, you’ll be working with these people and learning from them.

It’s a longer route for sure, but I think it can yield the highest success rate.
This isn't whataboutism. Both comments seem to be in agreement on the idea that users should be able to service their vehicle whether that's a tractor or a car.
Design a chat system based off of the constraints
Craiyon certainly doesn't.
If you want a good theoretical foundation based on maths, Caltech's Learning From Data course is good: https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse

You need to be not afraid of doing proofs of theorems (most of them have to do with stats because machine learning is basically stats on steroids).
What's QOL?
You are using the words 'input' 'output' and 'abstraction' interchangeably between the computer version and the brain version. We know next to nothing what those words mean regarding the brain. Declaring an equivalence seems like a substantial overreach. What we do do is use the terms from the latest technology to describe the brain[0]. What's particularly egregious about this iteration is we are also using human terms to describe the latest technology, and then using those terms 'inspired by', 'creative', 'intelligence', 'learning' as if the algorithms have anything to do with what humans are doing. And then even more, we go on to use them as smokescreen for piracy "the computer 'learned', therefore it's somehow not copying the source material".

Publishers license text to print in books. Music producers license samples to use in songs. Artists license photos and textures to use in illustrations and scenes. _License the source material used in training sets_. _Then_ go out and industrialize art, everyone wins!

[0] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jgd1000/metaphors.pdf
Sometimes the rock is the archeological site.
OK. Let's give it a go. At the weekend, I found a few old LibreOffice docs that I wanted to see what was in them. But no longer have LibreOffice installed. So:

SEARCH: odt viewer

RESULTS:

Visual QR Code Generator - Visualead

Business Intelligence (BI) & Data Analytics Platform

Cloud-based data analytics exploration for all | Chartio

YesInsights | Simple Surveys for Consumer Feedback | One-Click

Visualping: #1 Website change detection, monitoring and alerts

TensorFlow

Ubersuggest's Free Keyword Tool, Generate More Suggestions

etc. etc.

Let's try another one, that I needed a while back, when I found my ancient version of Photoshop couldn't open 'webp' files:

SEARCH: webp image converter

RESULTS:

Manage Your Team’s Projects From Anywhere | Trello

Buffer: All-you-need social media toolkit for small businesses

Sublime Text - the sophisticated text editor for code, markup

TinyPNG – Compress WebP, PNG and JPEG images intelligently [close but no cigar!]

Convert svg to png Online By IconScout's File Converter

Please Wait... | Cloudflare

pinterest.com

Typeform: People-Friendly Forms and Surveys

Instagram for Business - Hootsuite

Etsy - Shop updates

Complete junk. And the funniest thing is that the site bills itself as an 'Anti-seo spam search engine'
Web3 in Japan
As someone following the “discord for business” matter in multiple support channels… I don’t think they have any business customers. They have end users and individual customers. So it would have to be the 45 million users.
From the context, it seems clear the parent was referring to flight.
The only use case for a laptop is when you are travelling across the country? What sort of bizarro argument is this?
Source for 10-rep sets being particularly injurious please. And 10 lbs x 50 is much less stimulative than 50 lbs x 10, bordering on being not particularly effective.
The Cyberspace Administration of China's announcement can be found here http://www.cac.gov.cn/2022-08/12/c_1661927474338504.htm (the BBC really should've linked it in the article) The list of 30 registered algorithms is attached as a docx file.

Details (but still only a very abstract high-level description) for each algorithm can be looked up on https://beian.cac.gov.cn/ using either the 主题名称 or 备案编号 columns of the aforementioned table. If you try to use the 备案编号, note that it apparently needs to be formatted as 网信备案[some number]号, entering just the number didn't work when I tried it.
As always, it depends.

I started out without *any* background knowledge a few years ago. Found the Data Scientist career track of Datacamp pretty helpful, since it goes beyond programming and includes the mathematical and statistical theories as well. (https://www.datacamp.com/tracks/data-scientist-with-python)

It's basic, but a solid foundation to build upon.

If you're already familiar with most of these topics, fast.ai is the way to go!
this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw is quite instructive as well...
Apple Has Internally Tested Injecting Ads into Maps App Search Results
I already struggle to use Google Maps because it seems more and more crowded. I'm traveling right now and when I zoom in to the neighborhood I'm staying all I see is a plethora of hotels and their rates for the night, and one mistake tap instead of a scroll/drag and the screen is now taken over by options to book for various dates etc.

Also a bit fanboi of me but I find Apple Maps more aesthetically pleasing when driving (CarPlay).
I think you might be referring to homomorphic encryption. If I recall, the issues with it are the operations are expensive and it has a large overhead.
I think that's true for every system of both economics and governance. Capitalism, or at least the early (Adam Smith era) form of it, is merely an easy-to-implement approximation of alignment, where the incentives usually go in the right direction, but even that has to have significant pressure from beyond its natural feedback mechanism to get us things like 8-hour days, weekends, and health-and-safety laws that says it is not OK to employ small children to jump in and out of bone-crushingly heavy industrial machinery while it is in operation in order to clear blockages.
how do you guys keep it up through the colder winter months?

I always fall off the cart in that period.. its too dark, cold and wet and all i want to do is eat food that i really shouldn't :-(
https://youtu.be/0IuyzVqKM-0?t=68

decent vid of the exact changes
A while ago I interviewed Chris Holt and Rob Eisenberg (UX experts from Microsoft) about Web Components, and I got to learn a lot about the current status of web components (a technology I thought was dead, but it isn't!).

Check it out, I'd love to know what everyone thinks about this topic!
Too bad it is owned by a crypto company, Loki.
How did this get made, cracks me up and so funny. They dive into movies and it is hilarious :)

https://www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-made/
Yeah I guess the thing is that that 'logical' ordering is entirely arbitrary. It makes sense to this author I guess, but wouldn't to others.

SQL's syntax is crap, but I don't see any advantages to this.

Chris Date's Tutorial D had alternate syntax proposals.

Personally I'd go for something more terse, like in the Rel Project's impl of the D concepts:

USER {ID, FIRST_NAME} WHERE LAST_NAME= NAME($lastName)

https://reldb.org/c/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Rel-and-Tutor...
> When he first moved to Ann Arbor, he found himself unequipped for the brutal winter. He had few belongings, and he needed a blanket. But when he looked up how to get to the local mall, he found it too logistically difficult. “It was just beyond my level of tolerance,” he said. “I did not want to waste my mental energy on figuring out how to go from here to there.” Instead, he walked to a nearby CVS drugstore, bought 10 squares of fabric and a giant stapler, and stapled the squares together to make a blanket.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/june-huh-high-school-dropout-...
Do you have a photo of the crack before it was repaired?

Apple Technicians have access to a document that provides instruction on how to classify (in warranty / out of warranty) display cracks. There are actually plenty of display issues that look like the result of physical damage, but are instead categorized as 'in-warranty' by Apple's documentation.

Reach out to me at my username at gmail.com, I can maybe help you if you have a photo of the screen before it was replaced.
I built https://cp.lounar.com

Slack bot to streamline customer communications from many platforms. Emails, Slack chats, or mobile text messages can be forwarded to any #channel. All responses in the Slack thread are seamlessly sent back to the source.

Simple integrations already work fine. I am working on "Smart features" like auto classification and smart routing, and implementing of new integrations.

Need help with marketing :)
Why are you complaining about morons on Reddit who have no effect on real world politics when moderate Dems have had political control for most of recent history? Its funny that you’re not blaming “everyone from a more centrist/moderate viewpoint” for their own failure of doing nothing to codify Roe for the last 50 years.
Everyone is different and has different routines.
If I'm in the middle of important work or experiencing flow I will not break it. But we all do have repetitive tasks or housekeeping work to do. This is the time I do it.

As always, experiment and adjust