skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most is at least over 50% (I would say "most" implies 70-80%). Your statement as written implies that 50+% of the important decisions made during soviet times were influenced by the tsar's previous actions. That is (still) ridiculous.
The article is like 80% quotations from Emil Kirkegaard's writings. You can just scroll down and click on the sources.

"Scientific racist" is an understatement he's literally a self-admitted white nationalist who wants a complete ban on refugees entering his country and also wants to repatriate immigrants. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emil_O._W._Kirkegaard#White.2F...

He's a far-right loon.
I mean if I'm going to encrypt and authenticate my own traffic, it makes the VPN redundant. Is that what you meant? I might be confused.
Creative Computing: All About Adventure Games
As you pointed out, you still need regular ol' quaternions if you're dealing with non-rigid transforms (e.g. in animation where there's some scaling transform involved as well)
I don't think you can pick one locale and argue anything based on that. I've lived in the Midwest USA my whole life (over 50 years). The weather seems about the same as always. I remember 100 degree days when I was a kid in the 1970s. They are rare but they happen occasionally then as now (we haven't been above mid-90s here yet this year). July and August are hot and humid, as always. I can't say that I've noticed any trends up or down, but that doesn't mean that the data on global averages are wrong.
OK, glibc ABI stability may not be perfect, but is there any evidence that Wine is any better? That sounds implausible to me.
Sadly not. x86_64’s encoding is extremely similar to the legacy encodings. AIUI the fundamental problem is that x86 is a variable-length encoding, so a fully parallel decoder needs to decode at guessed offsets, many of which will be wrong. ARM64 instructions are aligned.

Dumping legacy features would be great for all kinds of reasons, but not this particular reason.
Tell HN: You can't login to BuzzSumo without connecting your Facebook account
Users need to mandatorily connect their Facebook account with https://buzzsumo.com (Content Research Platform) for verification.
Here's the screenshot: https://cln.sh/tshyw3
It was because of over-represented complaints about phone number requirements that Signal implemented the mistake that is SGX and server-side contact lists. Now the social graph of millions of Signal users is instead centrally protected by Intel's attestation obfuscation and a weak 4-digit PIN. All to eventually support usernames, which normies won't use.
It is obviously false. End-to-end encryption doesn't leak metadata in the way you propose it does in your whitepaper. And it doesn't help that you don't define metadata in your paper, you just repeat it over and over again.

Specifically, what are you talking about protecting? Does this extend to deep packet inspection? Because your paper doesn't mention anything about that either. OR, you know, literally just talking to another server. You don't mention relays. You casually mention Tor in passing but make no concrete statements about the design of it by comparison.

Your paper isn't rigorous, your claims are superfluous, and they further attempt to discredit security progress across the entire field.

YOU are the only one who has ever created truly secure communication? Get real. What a complete joke.

It's like someone selling water and saying no one has ever created pure water before US.

Edit: If you want to appeal to security people, use plain language, be precise, and state your intentions. You do none of those things with this software.

Instead you:

* Use provably wrong marketing language

* Propose a provably wrong whitepaper

* Do not state your intentions for building the software

What it looks like to me is that you received some modest funding ($200,000) to write software and your sponsors didn't realize your work doesn't pass the smell test.
People don't have email addresses in their contact lists because all their email contacts are stored on Google servers.
To someone who is interested in bare metal, can you explain the significance of this? Is this how much data a CPU can handle simultaneously? Via instructions from the kernel?
Here is some game from '93. Compile it yourself (with some trivial changes).

https://github.com/DikuMUDOmnibus/ROM

Trivial !

But if you still have some obiections then let's wait ~27 years and then talk about games developed on Linux / *nix.
Signals very explicit goal is making something that's usable for everybody. If they'd wanted to make a nerd-messenger they'd make a different product.

(I still consider it a major downside that the phone number is the only lookup key)
This reminds me that it's been a while since I've checked in on the belt machine that Ivan Godard & friends were working on at Mill Computing.

It looks like their website has change a bit since I last looked: https://millcomputing.com/
Lawsuit has already been filed.
One word: SLAPP. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAPP
Move everything away from GoDaddy ASAP.
At this point, I use Markdown for my Zola-powered static site, and straight LaTeX for actual books/PDFs.
This article hints that Stable Diffusion can at least generate normal looking nude women:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/12/a-startup-wants-to-democra...

There are attempts to gather porn images and train or fine-tune existing networks on it, here's a recent attempt by an art student mentioned in the article above (NSFW!!):
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ggqq/this-furry-porn-ai-ge...
Do "normies" care about high quality encryption? And did signal ever turn on username support?
You have clearly missed the point that siting solar has no need to interfere with other, simultaneous uses of the land.
illegal spam ⊆ spam

If I didn’t ask for it, it’s spam, regardless of whatever holes the US has punched in its definition to keep business owners happy.
There's a train station in Carlsbad, California where the Amtrak blows right through the station at top speed. The station is for the commuter rail, which shares the same track as Amtrak. But Amtrak flies through at about 79mph. If you're standing on the platform waiting for the commuter rail... that Amtrak gets your blood pumping. Your intelligent monkey-brain knows you're safe, but your primitive lizard brain wants to run for it!
So “worlds” in Third Room are simply glTF scenes which are sent as a file into Matrix - so in theory anything which can export glTF can author them. We’re putting together pipelines/tutorials to do high quality exports from Unity and Blender, but (for instance) I grabbed random assets from Sketchfab and similar and they pretty much worked out of the box.

Matrix is also a member of Khronos Group, and we’ll be working to ensure glTF supports all of the necessary extensions to have a kickass time in Third Room (and other 3D matrix client!)
The issue is more subtle than that. The GNU and glibc people believe that they provide a very high level of backwards compatibility. They don't have an aversion towards stability and in fact, go far beyond most libraries by e.g. providing old versions of symbols.

The issue here is actually that app compatibility is something that's hard to do purely via theory. The GNU guys do compatibility on a per function level by looking at a change, and saying "this is a technical ABI break so we will version a symbol". This is not what it takes to keep apps working. What it actually takes is what the commercial OS vendors do (or used to do): have large libraries of important apps that they drive through a mix of automated and manual testing to discover quickly when they broke something. And then if they broke important apps they roll the change back or find a workaround regardless of whether it's an incompatible change in theory or not, because it is in practice.

Linux is really hurt here by the total lack of any unit testing or UI scripting standards. It'd be very hard to mass test software on the scale needed to find regressions. And, the Linux/GNU world never had a commercial "customer is always right" culture on this topic. As can be seen from the threads, the typical response to being told an app broke is to blame the app developers, rather than fix the problem. Actual users don't count for much. It's probably inevitable in any system that isn't driven by a profit motive.
I saw it, but that still would not give you permission to create a badge stating your app is verified by Google. Do what you want but don't be surprised if you end up with legal repercussions at some point.
> Compromised sessions is not necessarily a concern, unless the attacker has physical access to the location, since systems can detect if the location changes. E.g. Ip address change prompts the user.

I don't think that's a valid approach anymore. FWIW I have coded these restrictions into auth tokens before (i.e. reject the auth token if it's from a new IP), but had to get rid of it because too many ISPs frequently change a user's IP address, especially mobile clients.
Yeah this is what reminded me. Figured I'd revive the "mega earthquake" while the news was buzzing about the "mega flood".
Yes, I feel much safer if OpenAI and Google are the sole keepers of such technology. They have my and the publics best interest at heart.
Check out NUWA-Infinity[0][1], submitted to arxiv jul 20, 2022. It captures artistic style very well (though can't speak to the quality of the pixel art it would generate) and can do image to video.

[0] https://nuwa-infinity.microsoft.com/#/
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09814
Containers are not a great solution for programs that need graphics drivers (games) or quick startup times (command line tools).

I've been wrestling with glibc versioning issues lately and it has been incredibly painful. All of my projects are either games or CLI tools for games, which means that "just use a snap/flatpak/appimage" is not a solution.
Exactly. Catch-all setup on Google Workspace/G Suite/too-many-renames is usually obtuse but it’s a one-time tutorial effort.
Some cheap IoT hardware seems to be incapable of connecting to a mixed network, and I have had to have a dedicated 2.4 only SSID for them.
I think the main point the author was trying to make was people shouldn't go overboard and try to silence someone when they disagree with their opinions. You can disagree with the author, dislike their view point, view him as a sinner or an ass, but still can work with and accept his position as something he believes in, and something you don't need to approve of.

The article is pretty scattered in terms of points the author is trying to make, he tries to separate acceptance from approval, but also writes way too much about how he isn't a bigot. But I think the main take away here is the quote stated in the beginning.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarising Voltaire)

You can deny the relationship the author has with their wife, and that may make you an ass, but do you deserve to be harassed and lose your job over it?
> The molecules are developed by research funding.

Also incorrect. The underlying scientific knowledge driving new therapies is overwhelmingly academic in origin, but academic research does very little actual drug discovery. I think the practice of university PR departments writing stories like "university professor discovers new cancer treatment" every time someone finds an effective in-vitro inhibitor has contributed to the confusion; most of these "drugs" never make it out of trials. Even for major advances like immuno-oncology and CRISPR that originated in academic labs, it takes many years of development (and hundreds of millions of dollars in private funding), most of which will not result in breathless press releases.

There are many good arguments for changing the incentives and IP laws involved in biomedical science, but "academic labs will pick up the slack" is not one of them, and fundamentally misunderstands what academic institutions do well (or poorly).
How long ago was this? I just bought batteries for solar and you can't get cheaper than around $800 per kWh without building your own battery. And panels are rarely much less than $1/Watt new so I can't see how you'd build such a system for much less than $4-5k and that's before mounting costs.
> I have yet to see an explanation for why Signal can use phone numbers from a client-side contact list, but not email addresses from a client-side contact list

OS functionality? There no "Grant access to Gmail contacts" (= email addresses) on Android/iOS, so that client-side list would have to be manually maintained, while (practically) everyone already has a contact list containing phone numbers of their friends.

That said I don't see why a user would have to have a stored social network at all, why can't it simply be opt-out?
Lots of respect for the people who build the hohlraums (gold target cylinders) since it's such a frustrating task with low yields. It paid off and achieved something.
I've been using Hover for years and have never had any problems.
That's so far a pipe dream, dual-purpose 'negative cost'. Also transmission lines need right-of-way and are not free.

Solar flux outside the atmosphere is 9X sea level. Go ahead, look it up. Then there's the periodic eclipse called 'night' that doubles orbital efficiency again. Look that up too.

Conversion losses of 20% seem normal? Both in orbit and on the ground. Which halves what you collect, well within the budget of 20X reducing it to around 10X.
Have never used but seen their name quite often as an ad in reddit
app. Feels like 1 out of 3 times I see them.
If you can identify the good boots. That's the problem--quality is hard to identify these days.
I have been happy with the TP-Link AXE-5300 mesh three-pack that I got from Costco for $300. The wifi 6e is slightly disappointing as my Samsung devices tend to pick the wifi 6 network instead. It's been reliable the whole time.

Currently I'm using: ATT fiber modem, Mikrotik CRS354-48P-4S+2Q+RM for PoE+, tplink deco axe5300

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087X7KNWS

https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-AXE5300-Tri-Band-Whole-Home-S...
I pay good money for a specialized machine learning algorithm that can take a pixel art character, and then generate all the animated sprites for it.

I actually tried to get Dalle to do this, And it made like three good sprites in the rest were just broken. But it was so strange, because you could see it was still organized as a sprite sheet, it's just the sprites were useless.

I think the practical applications of this technology will be hyper specialized models for specific purposes.
Signal has always prioritized message security and integrity over anonymity. If you want anonymity, Signal is not, has not, and probably never will be the tool for you.
Close, but not quite.

You see, if the other person didn't use registration lock, now you've got access to complete strangers account.

Problem solved!
It sounds like we’ll need to improve worker efficiency then, while at the same time workers are able to demand better working conditions and fewer hours because of competition for them. Company A wants you to work 40 hours, but Company B has better processes and efficiency and can get the same productivity out of 32 hours of work. Because of shrinking/stagnant workforce, this doesn’t cause unemployment to spike, and they still need you for those 32 hours so they’re willing to offer a competitive salary.

Maybe this is a bit over-optimistic, but I think that assuming everyone will just work more hours is equally over-pessimistic! Realistically we’ll likely get something in the middle. But hopefully leaning more towards the optimistic side :)
I'm old enough to be familiar with non-computerized filing systems myself. But I don't think there's a close match between computer files and directories and old-school hardcopy filing systems.

But that's not really what I'm getting at. I'm more thinking like POSIX API vs. Git plumbing API.

> A hierarchical data store comes baked in with an opportunity of implementing topical locality for the end user, which allows you to utilize pathfinding logic baked into your brain to navigate the corpus of information in question.

Most documents naturally fall into more than one hierarchy, and some "flat" patterns as well (e.g. alphabetical by author).

One of the downsides of computer FS is that they encourage a single name-based hierarchy (although using symlinks or hardlinks you can reference files from several directories.)

The hierarchy can and should be separate from the object store. Then you can also use e.g. Jef Raskin's Zooming UI to organize topical locality, in addition to more traditional UIs like directory trees.
Interesting that this question comes up on August 15th… the day Nixon took the US dollar (and thereby, all linked currencies) off the gold standard.

About 244,000 metric tons of gold has been discovered to date (187,000 metric tons historically produced plus current underground reserves of 57,000 metric tons). Most of that gold has come from just three countries: China, Australia, and South Africa. The United States ranked fourth in gold production in 2016. All of the gold discovered thus far would fit in a cube that is 23 meters wide on every side.
I dont get why creating more housing means housing is no longer an investment. It's still an safe investment, it's not going to zero, just will not continue to be a great investment.
With the rise of WSL, I have a real hard time justifying wanting a linux desktop.

I've got a VM with a full linux distro at my fingertips. Virtualization has gotten more than fast enough. And now, with windows 11, I get an X server integrated with my WSL instance so even if I WANTED a linux app, I can launch it just like I would if I were using linux as my host.

It does suck that the WSL1 notion of "not a vm" didn't take off, but at the same time, when the VM looks and behaves like a regular bash terminal, what more could you realistically want?
glibc != Linux

a better analogy would be targeting the latest version of MSVCRT that happens to be installed on your system (instead of bundling it)

... also which mostly works but sometimes breaks
There were lawsuits and they found it safest to settle, but that doesn't mean the complaints had statistical validity. According to the paper I posted, the FDA found no evidence of the vaccine causing harm.

Even if harm had occurred, it would have to be weighed against the risk of harm from Lyme disease.
Yes. Summer means my AC units regularly trip breakers. If I didn't have my networking equipment on an APC I would be dropping zoom calls all day.
This chips away at one of the showstoppers for Deno for me, which is good.

But while "the vast majority" of npm packages don't require a gyp build step for native addons, some of those modules are pretty important, and I see no indication in the announcement that they're also going to be implementing the Node C API or the gyp build process.

Right now I'm working with a machine learning project, and XGBoost [0] is a direct Node.js extension [1] through the binary interface.

So this does bring things a step closer to being generally usable, but there are still significant roadblocks.

A WebAssembly build of XGBoost could work with Deno, but aside from some guy's unsupported side project/proof-of-concept for use in a browser, I'm not seeing an XGBoost WebAssembly build. And generally when deploying something like a machine learning model I'd rather use well-supported tools than to need to dive into the rabbit hole of maintaining my own.

And yes, XGBoost will likely eventually have that kind of support for Deno, but then the next bleeding-edge project will come along and only support Node.

Even assuming Deno eventually hits a tipping point in popularity where everyone wants to release Node _and_ Deno support in their bleeding-edge projects, there are still things that I miss from package.json that don't seem to exist in the Deno ecosystem.

Things like the "scripts" block: A nice centralized place to find all of the things that need to be done to a project, plus auto-run script entries that can trigger when a project is installed. And inheritable, overridable dependency maps (see the yarn "resolutions" block).

I'd love to jump into Deno, but I think there has been far too much "baby thrown out with the bathwater" to its design. It's the classic development problem of looking at a system and seeing a ton of complexity, but not really understanding that all of that complexity was there for a reason. Maybe when it re-evolves 80% of Node's and npm's features I'll be convinced to make the jump. I'm a huge TypeScript fan after all. But it still strikes me as a violation of "As simple as possible, but no simpler."

[0] XGBoost is a _very_ promising approach to machine learning, training models much faster and with much more accuracy than traditional approaches.

[1] https://github.com/nuanio/xgboost-node
Naming is always funny, not sure I would have chosen a project name so close to "Prison"
Nor am I a climatologist nor meteorologist, but this looks like it's related to the dry line

> A dry line (also called a dew point line, or Marfa front, after Marfa, Texas)[1] is a line across a continent that separates moist air and dry air. One of the most prominent examples of such a separation occurs in central North America, especially Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, where the moist air from the Gulf of Mexico meets dry air from the desert south-western states. The dry line is an important factor in severe weather frequency in the Great Plains of North America. It typically lies north-south across the High Plains states in the warm sector of an extratropical cyclone and stretches into the Canadian Prairies during the spring and early summer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_line

at what is culturally referred to as the 100th meridian.

> In the central Great Plains, the meridian roughly marks the western boundary of the normal reach of moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, and the approximate boundary (although some areas do push the boundary slightly farther east) between the semi-arid climate to the west and the humid continental (north of about 37°N) and humid subtropical (south of about 37°N) climates to the east. The type of agriculture west of the meridian typically relies heavily on irrigation. Historically the meridian has often been taken as a rough boundary between the eastern and western United States. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100th_meridian_west

The 125° is for heat index, which combines temperature and humidity. The humidity in that region is more variable than the humidity in the desert south-west.
You'll have to train it on your own data. as others have mentioned the training data for dall-e, stable diffusion etc has been cleaned prior to training.

However, if it is possible to re-start the training process from the weights of a non-sexually aware model, this finetuning might not take all that long..!
A graph of tech companies' Price to Sales[1] over the last 4 years by sector
[1] Price to Sales is a company's reported last 12 months of revenue divided by their market cap at that point in time

[2] If anyone wants a weekly report, submit your email here: http://eepurl.com/h8Q-UD

From July 30th 2018 to July 30th 2022, price to sales ratio has changed accordingly:

Ecommerce: -21.4%

Travel: -23.8%

SaaS: -27.0%

EdTech: -69.6%

FinTech: -26.3%

Healthcare: +14.9%

Supplychain: -27.9%
I just watched a talk on this the other day (assuming it's same person since he's saying the same thing) the other day: https://youtu.be/QVvFVwyElLY?t=2370
Walmart is notorious for this - they push really hard on suppliers to reduce prices, and suppliers usually do so by cutting quality. However everyone still pretends it’s the same (including identical outside appearance).
If it were illegal or did involve deception, surely his investors would have pursued legal action rather than giving him a golden parachute.