skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is even legal for google to watch my photos, even if i accepted everything they said, and permitted them to do so.
Webcash: Digital currency, without a blockchain
> Most Delphi examples I see these days are actually modern, recently written malware samples. It statically compiles into a tiny binary which has a weird ABI which flies under the radar of AV software looking for programs up to no good. What's not to love for this purpose if you are an adversarial actor?

And recently lots of malware detection has started looking for that "weird" ABI signature, so now everyone's anti-virus is throwing up alarms at perfectly legit age-old software just because it's built with Delphi.
POWER/PowerPC has a relaxed memory model, too.

Anyway this is another case where (hopefully) Rust shields the programmer from complexity. This stuff is very difficult to get correct and efficient.
> I wasn't there, but the internet presumably had value before the www, by having email, ftp and usenet.

Don’t forget telnet and multi—player games. The Internet was a pretty cool place before ad networks conquered it.
The Tory government are doing it on purpose to get the people to want to move to private healthcare. Amazingly it isn’t working, even tho they have basically destroyed the NHS. The silent resilience of British people has backfired on them. Truth is that many old Brits would literally rather die than kick up a fuss
More specifically, Vint Cerf was one of the main guys who actually standardised the interconnectivity that made them all one internet in the first place

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf
I understand that this is still beta but it's a terrible experience getting in anyway.

1) Log in using Discord. OK, do not have that, I'll just create a throwaway (TA) account, right?

2) Wrong, Discord registration doesn't accept any TA email provider I tried. There's also the usual repeated captcha dance.

3) So I'll try to register a TA Gmail address to see how hard that is these days. Requires phone number. Max 6 accounts on a single phone number. Pass.

4) Dug out an old yahoo account, finished Discord registration.

5) ClassicUO shouts: "Unauthorized, your username is not on the whitelist."

6) Googled the message, got here. OK, I have to actually ask on the Discord chanel. Where do I open this Discord, surely it has a web interface.

7) Wrong. Only clients for major OSes in Electron. Are you kidding me, Electron but no web app?

8) Installed the client, joined the ClassicUO channel.

9) You have to wait 10 minutes before posting and post only 1 message per 6 hrs.

The 10 minutes just expired and I asked, so I guess I'll wait see how this useless odyssey ends.
I think this is the big one. On iOS, I don’t think most non-technical users know how to switch their default mobile Mail client if they use another alternative like Gmail or Outlook.
This assumes a 100 percent rational agent with unlimited capacity to quantify priorities. An ok approximation, but an approximation it is.
Some simple analytics of Indian growth, economic and cultural
All restrictions ended in April I think. And prior to that the last “lockdown” was first half of 2021 when we were hit with Delta mid-vaccination campaign.
As someone who's in college and looking/lookedfor internships to do over the summer, postal is literally not an option anymore. Companies will not offer a mailing address to their hiring team at all, and if you send something via mail they will simply not look at it. Also, post-pandemic, most interviews are done via Zoom, so how are you going to do that then? Even if you're in the same area as the company you're applying in, they just will not let you into the building.
I still don't understand how consensus works off the chain. If 51% of the stackers just decide to run their own software and do their own thing. How does something off chain change that? How does something off chain penalize a majority of staked ETH?
Do you eat shrimp and oysters?
> Are there still major pandemic restrictions in Britain?

No.

My impression is that in the UK (just as in other countries to a degree) the healthcare system hasn't really gotten out of the overload-state ever since the COVID waves. So while delays due to lockdowns certainly happened, it's also an ongoing crisis independent from that. (and if I'm being cynical, advocating for fixing those issues doesn't fit various pundits' agendas because that would mean spending more resources on the healthcare system, so it gets ignored - certainly the silence about this here in Germany has been interesting)
> try reading a collection of essays written 75 - 150 years ago and it will soon become clear how stupid people are today.

I read a lot of essays, novels and newspapers from that era. Plenty of dumb, and completely wrong essays were written then.

I invite you to read - for example - "The Case for Spirit Photography" (1920)[1] by Arthur Conan Doyle (yes, the author of Sherlock Holmes) in which he argues photos of fairies are real.

It's well written, and completely stupid.

> The most profound thoughts that have ever crossed the consciousness of Man are contained in the Bible, which was written by technologically inferior people -- men who walked with God.

Au contraire, the most profound thoughts were clearly those of Aleister Crowley[2]. He wrote right in the period you suggest the best writing occurred (75-150 years ago) and because he was in direct communication with the devil via his sex magick they are obviously the most profound. Or did I mean profane?

Take your religious nonsense somewhere else.

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59809/59809-h/59809-h.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_magic
Libelous
I’ve met way too many adults with undiagnosed gifted and high cognitive capabilities and were undiagnosed for most of their life. Way too many of them had hard life experiences and deep unhappiness derived indirectly from their capabilities and second degree consequences of their intellect/behave and social group pressure.

I think many people in HN could profit learning more about the topic, even if they are undiagnosed and (as usually happens) believe it doesn’t apply to them.

P.S. be aware that gifted is the cognitive capability and divergence as identified by neuroscience, not a result test as in capacitism.
After learning programming and CS on my own, I thought I'd go back and pick up on areas I missed by taking some courses at a university (I already had a degree). It was a fairly highly ranked university for CS (in the top 20), but the whole thing was honestly a waste of time and money and I was shocked by how little I learned.

I did test out of some classes, though they only allowed it for a handful of classes. And you needed to be able to get a higher score than students who had just finished the class, while doing so with much less material (students going through the class get told specifically what's on the test and are given materials accordingly; people trying to test out aren't given either). It was also surprising that on the Computer Science II test they had a large amount of the score based on memorizing default Java methods.

Because I was doing this strictly for educational purposes, I got really interested in how much students were retaining between semesters. It seemed to be very little, and there was little that they needed to retain. Most would remember big O, but no one remembered little O, big theta, Big omega, little omega despite the time they were required to memorize it. As I mentioned, CSII was very Java focused where students had to memorize specifics of default methods and Java inheritance edge cases, but after the class was over that information was almost all forgotten. You might have a class where you do a few weeks of stack based programming in a toy language, but it's not enough to actually do anything with and, again, is wiped from the students mind as soon as they finish their finals.

All this was driven home even more when I tried to discuss topics with colleagues who had CS degrees. They retained a very small amount of the things they studied in college, with the vast majority was met by "Oh yeah...I think we studied that? Isn't that the thing where [insert some vague broken memory]."

The whole thing felt mostly like a waste of time in order to justify four years of teaching. Of course, someone who never studied programming or CS would get _something_ out of it, but even there it seemed to be in the most inefficient way possible.
Here is an archive that doesn't require clicking through that:

https://archive.ph/20220819154059/https://uk.news.yahoo.com/...
Moved where? Not to iCloud, I hope?

Self-hosting mail, calendar and media is too complex task for 99% of population. This is not a solution.
https://archive.ph/20220819154059/https://uk.news.yahoo.com/...
Personally the generic HRTF doesn’t work for me at all. When they try to put a sound above me it sounds like I have a cold. For video games I can learn that ‘sounds like I have a cold’ means ‘the sound source is above me’ but it is not natural.

Since I don’t hear the spatial effect, spatial processing for headphones just vandalizes the sound for me.

I love surround sound in movies and music but I need to have all the speakers. My take is that surround for music has gotten worse in the past 20 years for a few reason, one that modern surround layouts for movies often lack rear channels and ‘quad’ reco4ding really expect rear channels. The first surround system I had (a cheap HTIB) did a great job decoding 1970s funk and classic rock recordings into surround with Dolby pro logic ii, but I think later upmixers are worse even on better equipment.
It reminds me of a saying: "Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands."
OP showed he isn't qualified to judge.
Price inelastic healthcare is a private equity dream. The project to leave NHS funding unreformed in order to buy acquiescence to its sell off, all the whilst leaving people to rot, is to my eyes scandalous. But somehow unremarked in the twilight zone that the UK has become.
But the whole usage of the math puzzle is that you have to solve it using brute force, If there was a better way it won't be useful. So yeah the whole point is just guessing numbers not solving the puzzle.
I think if anything there is far too much thinking going on here, for the tiny example I copied from the window I literally already had open with the function I was working on.

For what it's worth, Copilot (correctly) inferred a loop variable called "detection", I imagine based on similar usage earlier in the function. And there is already a conditional in place to prevent invalid operations; if I remove it I see a new suggestion:

if len(filtered) > 0 {

This tool is far from perfect, but it very much sounds like you folks haven't used it. If that's the case, I would encourage you to research it like all tooling and draw some informed conclusions about it's applicability instead of making assumptions.
HN should add a [Corp Support] tab, if Google & Co won't create their own support system, let's do it here, and add a dark pattern leaderboard for not replying/acting
In the article:

"Apple announced plans last year to scan the iCloud for known sexually abusive depictions of children, but the rollout was delayed indefinitely after resistance from privacy groups."
Nobody wants to teach anymore
Much like the real vaccine safety data, this data will be ever so slow and convoluted to torture out.

The excuses already piling up to place the blame largely on individuals for their "consumption/sedentary behavior" etc.

At least it is unavoidable to make the connection between failed public policy and these deaths
Back in 2001, I started work as a web-developer right out of high school at the age of 17. My high school diploma wasn't good enough to get into a software engineering university in my country (the Netherlands), so I had to wait until I was 21 to take an admission-test.

So I worked for 4 years before I got to a university and followed along for a 1-day introduction. They would tell their prospective students what they would learn in the next 4 years, and what jobs they would find when they were done. At the end of the day was a Q&A with some professors.

It was at that moment that I realised: 1. I know more than these professors do; 2. I'm currently a very skilled autodidact software developer; 3. I already know all of what they would teach me in four years; 4. they were working with outdated materials; they taught generics, not specifics.

These professors were academics. Google didn't exist yet. They, mostly, hadn't worked in any professional environment. They weren't pragmatic. They were slow perfectionists but also several years behind on the rest of the world.

And that was saying something: the bleeding-edge books that I was reading took at least 1 year from the start of writing to publication, so even I was behind on reality.

Even today I sometimes wonder what software engineering students learn in 4 or more years. It shouldn't take nearly that long. If you spend 20 hours a week studying software engineering you should be ready to find work in less than a year. And from that point onward, that's where you actually learn how to do it right.
To answer you in a very literal sense, GTP-3 is currently powering GitHub Copilot. It’s an actual launched product for $10/month. That’s going be booster rockets for the on-ramp to becoming a coder, and there is evidence it can help all coders be more productive.

https://github.blog/2022-07-14-research-how-github-copilot-h...

As to what else future language models could power, based on my own use, I think fine tuned future language models could probably handle most customer support, accelerate the creation of most web content, accelerate quite a bit of paralegal grunt work, and power highly interactive game NPCs like in AI dungeon, another launched and paid product based on GTP-3.
If the government allows them to become a virtual monopoly/ doupoly, then it's possible one could see the abuses as indirectly government sanctioned. At least in so far that the company has integrated automatically with the law enforcement flow and that integration has flaws that will lead to the same sort of undesirable ham-fisted authoritarian enforcement. It also allows the government bypass search restrictions by simply buying your data.

So perhaps fascism doesn't fit perfectly, but it's pretty damn close in my opinion (especially if you use definition 3 by Wordnik "Oppressive, dictatorial control").
Funding, staff shortages and Brexit don't seem to get a mention in the article. The Government blames the NHS for the problems, but the NHS has no control over its funding. Tory idealogues are determined to increase privatisation, regardless of value for money.
And after law enforcement cleared the guy, was it also Google's responsibility to ban him forever based on their own mistake?
> It's about both parties having agreed _at least once_ on a way for the service to communicate important stuff to you.

Exactly. And the most important thing is password reset, because users forgetting passwords is the one true constant in the universe. Even if I'm not planning to spam you with newsletter crap, I'm still going to ask for your email just for this reason, otherwise I will get inf support tickets about lost accounts and worse, users who just give up.

It helps thinking of the pw reset flow as the true persistent identity/login and password is simply a shorthand. Magic links have virtually identitical security. With just marginally better end-to-end UX, the majority of users would prefer it. (For instance, note the iOS 2fa through text messages, that automatically scrapes the confirmation code and offers to insert it, without leaving the app).
That advice to seek treatment was drowned out by the "Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives" slogan that was repeated everywhere, along with use of death/infection numbers that were spun out of proportion by the media.

It is no surprise that people decided that the risk of seeking treatment was not worth it.
Wouldn’t a reasonable hypothesis try to rule out the vaccine? I’m not anti vaccine, I received the vaccine. But if excess death is creeping and it’s not Covid, would t that be one of the first things to rule out? They don’t even indicate that was ruled out, just completely ignored.
Proton, Hetzner Nextcloud
Have you been following what's been happening in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)? Much of that isn't even AI and it is having an impact on the workforce.
One solution to many of these concerns is a periodic backup (via Takeout) of your Google account.
If they are willing to provide good support, then the $99 is well worth it.
Can you name other big tech companies with good customer service that is purely software?

You can get customer service from Google's hardware just like Apple.

It's the software/services that have awful/non-existent customer service.
I'm just building ray tracers from scratch mostly and having raw BRDF data would make that easier.
> Also: for every student where this might make sense you will get 3 or 4 that really overestimate themselves with a nearly narcissistic inability of judging their own ability. You know, the type that would like to construct the equivalent of an iPhone in circuit form while not being able to explain ohms law.

But of course they could. And indeed, considering them narcissists is what many hate about the academia. Maybe they'd be better off taking a less linear path. Sure, in the context of the academia skipping classes is not justified and there's no problem with anything you're doing. But when one is frustrated with schooling, the first instinct is often to try to go faster. Quitting school is supposed to be a very bad thing, that's the one acceptable way to do something different.

For the most part I had the nicest and most accommodating teachers, had no problem with them, they had no problem with myself, can't blame them for anything. But I do strongly dislike the nearly universal borderline religious belief in traditional schooling being the right way. It's okay to not know some thing and not want to know them.
Stanford engineers present new chip that ramps up AI computing efficiency
If you only follow the US press, you haven't heard of the following scandal surrounding the US Embassy in El Salvador.

Last year (2021) two deputies of Bukele's New Ideas party, José García and Gerardo Aguilar, were caught on audio tape discussing with Roy Garcia, a representative of some El Salvadoreans living abroad who was trying to form a new party, how the United States embassy was offering money to induce 20 members of the New Ideas party to leave and join his new party. The US embassy denied the plan existed, but the two deputies were expelled from El Salvador's assembly. The US ambassador to El Salvador, Jean Manes, left her position shortly after the scandal became known.
An early ERP system built by socialist Trekkies? (Apparently Star Trek inspired the "bridge.")
Thieves use smartphone cameras to see through tinted windows
"This Aircraft is Obviously an Airbus A737 NeoMax" had me dying laughing.
> There is no such thing as objective good. Good is relative to the individual making the judgement.

This is a pretty sweeping claim that requires some motivation.
Very similar to Canada as well. Healthcare funding was limited before Covid (12-24 months wait for joint replacement), but with the 2 year hiatus on screening and non-urgent procedures, plus mass burnout of healthcare workers the system is close to imploding.

Now it's pretty routine to just go to urgent care since it's unlikely you have a family doctor, ever. Rural hospitals and clinics are either reducing hours or just outright closing due to lack of staff.

The difference is there is no private healthcare in Canada (there is, but it's minuscule).

You either wait for the public system or you fly to the US.

I met a guy in Vancouver who was flying to the US to pay $36,000 to get his knee replaced because his doctor told him "the wait was 2 years before Covid, now? it's indefinite". Guy was a highly active 65 year old and realized $36,000 was cheap if it meant he didn't have to give up 5 years of his best remaining years waiting for the Canadian healthcare system.
Motherhood brings the most dramatic brain changes of a woman’s life
I've had them automatically disable two different sheets I was using via the API for "suspicious behavior" without an explanation. There's no way to get them re-enabled.
LibGen's Bloat Problem
A new tool will help make vertical wind turbine farms possible
I don't think Americans are so much focused on money as they are living a twisted pursuit of self-reliance. I think money is only one facet of that.
I moved that off too. Aurora Store in anonymous mode works great and also shows privacy info of each app
A wartime bomb which has now been made safe

Notes: thank god
I also have a guitar on my workspace. However it's job is to sit there and mock me for the past 10 years for not being good enough to learn how to play it.
So I can walk into one of 272 Google Stores in the US and talk to a real person about any Google product I pay for like I can with Apple?

I can depend on Google to support a Google branded phone I bought in 2013 with security updates 8 years later like an iPhone 5s user could or with operating system updates for a phone I bought in 2015?

The original poster couldn’t get anyone on the line about a Google account. You can call an Apple CSR about an iCloud issue.
The Great Barrington Declaration, unfortunately cancelled by mass media and the people in power.
So we should shame all the users of Google products, in this case? I'm not sure that shame really works like that and especially when (I assume) there are billions of people using the same products. There's a somewhat lower number of entities controlling the company -- maybe a more effective target.

Plot twist: (maybe) Xyz is (not) an (un)ethical company, so we should establish some sort of authority on ethics with a malleable but firm framework to guide the consistent -- and proportional to the unethics in question -- application of shame to the people using the products.
It's not really an issue when you're a large software corporation; you already have mechanisms in place to check for license compliance in everything that ships, including F/OSS plagiarism checks.

I think that's the part that people who don't think it's worth the money aren't getting. This kind of system is godsend for the likes of Infosys, TCS etc. So the immediate threat is to the jobs there - but the side effect is that it'll make it all even cheaper, so we'll see more "outsourcing to the cloud", so to speak. Often to the obvious detriment of quality, but that doesn't seem to matter in this market.
Do you think youre going to get scammed and send a fraudulent Western Union transfer? What do you think the venn diagram overlap between "uses a specific email for each service" and "gets phished" is? The people that even have the capacity to do the first aren't going to fall into the second. If someone is sending fraudelent transfers to scammers, they're not going to be smart enough to create multiple emails.
The ‘someone just lost their job’ had me dying