skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter thread from the person featured in the story:

> On Wednesday evening (August 24), I entered my local gym - @VirginActiveUK.

> On arrival, the security barriers which are normally activated by members scanning their passes were not working.

> No one was ensuring that those entering the premises were genuine members.

> I stored my belongings in a locker and began my workout.

> Little did I know this gym session would end up costing me £5000+.

> Soon after I started, someone managed to break in, steal my rucksack containing my belongings (phone, bank card, keys) and reset my @santanderuk online, phone, mobile and Apple Pay security details.

> They then went shopping...

Full thread: https://twitter.com/morganbroadcast/status/15641786768744488...
Roaring bitmaps are integer sets with optimized set-wise operations, like intersecting two sets to find out which integers are contained by both. Judy is an associate array (so it's interface is similar to a hash table). There's a specialized case for word->bit, but no set-wise operations and no way to match the performance of roaring for those.

This doesn't quite answer your question, but if Roaring fits your case you should use it instead of Judy1 even if have Judy1 available.
Data Rabbit – canvas for composable data exploration and experimentation
According the OP, the quantum computers that are feasible today have no real-world use, and likely won't have any real-world uses in the near term, despite claims to the contrary by executives and salespeople. Quantum computing research, the OP asserts, is an academic pursuit, not a commercial one, but it is funded by investors who think it's the latter. The entire piece can be summarized as "Look! The emperor has no clothes!"

Quoting:

> Billions of dollars have poured into the field in recent years, culminating with the public market debuts of prominent quantum computing companies like IonQ, Rigetti and D-Wave ... These three jointly still have a market capitalisation of $3bn, but combined expected sales of about $32mn this year (and about $150mn of net losses), according to Refinitiv.

> The reality is that none of these companies — or any other quantum computing firm, for that matter — are actually earning any real money. The little revenue they generate mostly comes from consulting missions aimed at teaching other companies about "how quantum computers will help their business", as opposed to genuinely harnessing any advantages that quantum computers have over classical computers.
>Without that information it's just the author's word ("Google is evil") against yours ("Google is not evil"). Though your word is more aggressive, which doesn't really help your argument.

Right? What was that that they said about this being a "complex, nuanced" discussion? :)
Trying to reduce power draw from small appliances like a Wifi router doesn't make any sense.
Turn on your oven to bake a pie for half an hour (30min at 2kW), that's 10 days of your router's energy consumption.

If you exclude heating, the main culprits for home electricity usages are : kitchen appliances (stove / oven / microwave / dishwhasher), washing machine, dryer.
There is no single one. Do you mean the market rate in the most expensive places to live in the world?
> Fahrenheit is more natural in a lot of cases because of the range and delineation between whole number temperatures. Celsius is slightly less so but not all the time.

You mean "I'm already used to something and I dislike other things."
Real principled stance there from their CEO - 3 days to totally flip-flop? I mean, if your stance is we will ban content we arbitrarily find bad then just state it as such. Put into your agreement terms precisely what is and isn’t allowed. Be consistent. This “conflicted” act makes them look weak and of questionable leadership.

Either take a principled stance on speech or put into your terms how you censor speech.
Thank you, looks like a satisfyingly meaty discussion from a technical standpoint too.
Thanks! That looks more like an name-adjacent repo tackling the same topic than a direct port. However, that doesn't really matter since most of the discussion is still relevant given the overlap :)
> evil was what they had in mind all along

I don’t think this level of cynicism is helpful or particularly true.

Knowing that power corrupts and actually preventing yourself from being corrupted by power are two totally different things. If you really, really want to solve a problem effectively, and know you’ll accumulate a ton of power if you succeed, its extremely easy to overestimate your ability to get the genie to do good once it’s out of the bottle.

Having to deal with the entire world pressuring you and trying to claw into your organization and inject their own interests is extremely difficult, and it changes people.
I’m old and can’t parse the title. What’s the problem?
Of course that’s always one criteria. But at it’s core it just comes down to certain customer relationships being deeply unprofitable and not worth continuing.
She brings her opinions to work, clearly. And Google's policy for years has been to publish clickbait research that tease AI wonders that stretch the imagination and then never release to public access, let alone the open source and academic researcher communities they feed off. It's obvious that at the least that particular sr scientist's "safety" conceptualisation frameworks are triviality obsessed, divorced from reality and utterly miscalibrated.
Just speculating, but I’m sure any internet thing involving drama at scale also involves DDoSes.
The visceral reaction is little about left and right. Ask a west coaster: what if the shore and the mountains and dense forests went away? What if the dramatic canyons and sweeping dunes of the southwest were confiscated? Lush lakes and rivers are one of the primary geographical features of appeal in the Midwest. Taking them away is no different than taking away the geographical features that make people move to the west. The principle this is about is justice, not nature or small governance, and you can’t tell another their justice.

It’s no surprise someone prioritizing cost benefit analyses is so blind to the feelings of real people.
The modern 'Net is demonstrating the ability to interpret abuse as damage and route around it.
Maybe if they decide to become platforms exclusively dedicated to harrassment, stop prohibiting and removing that type of content, and actively encourage it.

Until then, it doesn't seem likely.
No idea if it is past vaporware but there is Elio motors
Apple Search for the Next Big Thing: Healthcare
I've been enjoying his repeated diatribes whiplashing between outrage/enthralment over the past few weeks, in a sense.
And of course the pinning services can drop them just like cloudflare and DDOS-guard did.
> I think the reason is also that people receiving emails have not necessarily opted in to receive it.

Having an email address amounts to opting in to receiving email.

I think the reason is people not knowing how to use email. Most people make much more use of instant messaging services than email; with IM, generally you either reply or you don't.

Reply-all storms have always been a problem; I think it was made dramatically worse by Microsoft Outlook, which idosyncratically placed the cursor above the (quoted) message being replied to. That encouraged people to reply without scrolling down (because they've already seen what they're replying to); so they don't see how many quotes of quotes of quotes they could safely trim before clicking send. They just type a one-liner, and happily send off 16K of stuff that everyone else has already seen too.

Trim and contextualize. That is, keep those parts of what you're replying to directly, and remove all the dross.

It's too late to say "Please don't top-quote" - unfortunately that ship sailed two decades ago.
Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were associated with an excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest of 10.1 and 15.1 per 10,000 vaccinated over placebo baselines of 17.6 and 42.2 (95 % CI -0.4 to 20.6 and -3.6 to 33.8), respectively.

The placebo groups for the pfizer cohort and moderna cohort differed in baseline rate by the same magnitude (~25/10000) as the observed effect.

At best, that’s really noisy data.
Cloudflare and DDOS-Guard allow the booters to exist.
It looks like the largest effect found (from reading only the summary) is how many more adverse effects the Moderna placebo causes compared to the Pfizer placebo.

Given that, I won't regret my vaccinations just yet.
His point is that elections are cheap.

Business interests align with hard cash. That's going to lean towards metric.

Over 65s don't "vote" much in businesses, they're retired.
I think perhaps that the author nails his colors to the mast when he says I don’t enjoy drinking alcohol, frankly.

Human beings do many things that don't strictly optimize for species success. Good.
No. Fahrenheit really is better than Celsius regardless of your reluctance to admit it.

1. 0 Fahrenheit is close to the typical minimum temperature, and 100 close to the typical maximum temperature, which can be tolerated by humans. Celsius 0 and 100 aren't even remotely close to this: it's surprisingly awful.

2. Fahrenheit has nearly twice the integer resolution of Celsius. This is particularly helpful in describing body temperature.

3. Celsius seems like it'd be useful in cooking but it is not really. Sure, 0 and 100 describe the boiling point and freezing points of water -- in Paris only -- but these are phase changes in water. Nobody says "now hold the temperature at 100C", because water naturally fixes to 100C the entire time it is undergoing its phase change. You don't need to measure it. And Fahrenheit's higher resolution is again very helpful.

4. Scientists don't use Celsius or Fahrenheit. They use Kelvin. Both Celsius and Fahrenheit convert to Kelvin with a linear transformation.
Tor won’t go down - for now. Once his host buckles, all belts are off.
Where I live most electricity comes from hydro and wind. The main reason I got an EV though was not striving to be green. It's just so much nicer to drive. I also like how I can pretty much neglect the running costs. Like, how much I drive has negligible impact on my monthly budget.
The term “art director” is already in use. Summoning AI clip art feels a lot like when an art director is tasking a photographer or illustrator with generating assets.

Truth is most successful artists and designers, especially in commercial art, have always been blurring the line between direction and “pure creation”.
The likelihood of them being removed from the stalker pool is also higher.
> as far as general cleanliness, one of these years I'm gonna cut a hole in my wall and drop some cables to the basement with TB3 or DP 1.4 active fiber cables (not electrical cable so fire code ignores it)

Is it possible to purchase active fibre cables that are unpowered? I understood that these cable includes a pair of copper wires for power (the fire hazard) in addition to the optical link for data. And that the active components of these cables use (and hence require) that transported power.
> adverse events of special interest.

This feels like we’re looking at some sort of subset rather than overall risk profile?

Don’t think anyone was expecting vaccines to be entirely risk free.
I run 7 postfix servers for a company, we have not had any major problems (that are not now fixed) but this is because of a number of reasons:

1) Clean IP addresses. This can be hit-and-miss so you might need to move service providers since it seems like some (OVH, Linode) seem more likely to have been used by spammers before. We have also held the IPs for a while. We have servers at 3 different VPS providers.
2) Making sure you setup DKIM/SPF properly. We see plenty of mail from others that doesn't align properly - accidentally or by ignorance - and it can mean very different things: GMail is quite forgiving but Yahoo (and their children) are very strict about alignment
3) Using the various tools available like mxtoolbox and the various blacklist checkers. We had a problem the other day because the parent domain was linked with Vidahosts (an old email provider) so even though the subdomains were clean, one domain didn't care and strongly greylisted us (some got through!)
4) Making sure your postfix installation is up-to-date and not fiddled with too much. Postfix includes features to retry greylisted mail and to backoff if it gets a "Too Many Requests" response from the other end.
5) Use https://www.mail-tester.com/ to check a mail sent from your domain, it can reveal all kinds of things you might not have set up correctly.
6) Understand your DMARC policy - even having one is a good idea even if it is p=quarantine

Most of all, before complaining about the large providers, think about how you would deal with SPAMmers and you might understand why they do certain things. Blocking ranges of IPs might seem harsh but is a much quicker way to deal with higher volumes than trying to filter each IP; more email can be better than less. Sending very low volumes doesn't allow you to build up a good reputation, especially since you can not trust by default on the web; greylisting (retry after 1 minute) is a reasonable way to block a lot of lazy SPAM attempts while allowing properly configured servers to get through.
I get industrial uses. A doctor or aircraft mechanic might benefit from a vision overlay.

But for virtually any normal use, you can just pull out your cell phone and have most of the same functionality. My Nokia N9, a decade ago, had a camera overlay app where you could point it at the street and it'd give you an "AR" overlay pointing out there was a coffee shop in that direction.

That was neat, but 99% of the time I don't really need such an overlay because shops label themselves just fine, and I don't care very much what lies beyond when going somewhere.
I agree that people tend to get a bit too worked up about it, but I don’t think it’s a contradiction in terms as such - an API is really just any interface where two distinct pieces of software interact in some way. It doesn’t need to be formally described or published or anything like that, and the idea of a private API is pretty common generally.

Where it starts to piss people off though is where those private APIs are used to allow first-party software access to platform features that third-party software doesn’t get. For some applications that’s not so bad, but in the case of a general-purpose operating system platform or similar it’s kind of an anticompetitive move and we should complain when companies do it.
If only the US didn't use C because it costs 198 CHF to read the standard.
This time. But it was reported, found, identified to him. With another tracker they might never have found out.
Ohhh, I have wondered for a very long time where that sampling came from!
My headcanon is that Price wanted to take a stand, but the legal team actually took a better look at the situation because of the pressure and had a long meeting, explaining to him why it's a really bad idea. I hope we learn what really happened in a few years.

Reason: twice I sent messages directly to appropriate teams at (large-companies) with something like "are you aware of what your ceo is doing at (link)" which was followed by the team sending a new response and ceo disappearing from that conversation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-speed_vehicle
That's exactly what it is; and in a way the church was right: once people started to read the scriptures for themselves in vernacular they formed their own opinion and created different churches.
CubeJS is a great piece of software for dynamically generating reports from SQL or other data sources. Queries are either written in their JSON query format or in SQL. But it's headless so you have to build a frontend yourself.
Maybe not exactly what you need from GPT3, but the SD of language models right now is Bloom: https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom which might serve your needs.
He did what? The pre-existing know-how to build reusable rockets? Are you confusing SpaceX and Tesla?
One more thing that bothered me was that lot of medical staffs world over were not informed about aspiration for intramuscular injection.
I mean these companies have Research and Development divisions. I was at IBM at the turn of the century when they spent 6 billion dollars on research. One of the pushes was to get research to focus on things they could market and make money with.

But the big research plays (bell labs, xerox parc) seem to get less and less funding if they exist at all. A lot of the inventions of those places were monitized outside those companies. IBM had a chip fab in the research building… long spun of was that business.

At the turn of the century IBM was researching quantum computing, but as I was leaving selling services was IBMs big push.
Apple are religious about interoperability within their platform, making it easy and reliable. If they were to do as you suggested with some of their proprietary tech, there will be products that implement it badly. To the user they would have no idea who’s at fault, and would probably blame the tech in general, damaging Apple.

Standardisation, in combination with certification to use the “label”, ensures that people developing on top of their innovation do so well enough that it doesn’t damage the brand.

(Somewhat less relevant to an instruction set, and not something I particularly agree with)
A lot of tools generate UUIDs for the selector, just to get something unique without having to ask the user for something relevant or defining some other heuristic. For instance: the built-in helper tool for Zimbra generates a UUID by default, unless you provide something specific. I think a lot of people assume it should be a UUID just because they see UUIDs used in common examples.

Few people think about key cycling for DKIM as it isn't a built-in requirement at all, so once a UUID is set they just keep it until some point in the future that may never happen when they need to revoke the key because the private half is compromised.
Backend: PHP/MySQL
Frontend: HTML, Vanilla JS
Is anything really harder to test in the age of deep learning classifiers ? If Bert can write an essay, it can grade Bart’s essay, or Lisa’s musical performance too.
Makes me wonder that too. Along with what percentage of internet searches in general would be better served by a user owned and fine tuned InstructGPT model frontend linked to a network of larger backend models of various kinds and generalist specialisations. Perhaps this is something execs also see, hence the hyperaggressive gatekeeping around the tech can more be interpreted as moat dredging rather than genuine corporate concern for "safety".
> Celsius is better for cooking

Not really. Celsius maps to the boiling and freezing points of water in Paris. Live in Denver and you're screwed. And -- this is important -- nobody measures the freezing points and boiling points of water, because during its phase changes water holds to that temperature automatically.

Fahrenheit is also twice the resolution of Celsius. This is highly advantageoous for body temperature, medicine, cooking, and other functions. Celsius's integer resolution is horrible.
If you are talking about stable diffusion you can both run it locally without logging in, and disable content moderation.

I don't understand why they even included content moderation. People will say it's to prevent public relations issues but that doesn't seem like a good justification, you shouldn't have to go out of your way to placate the ultra-puritanical. And the filter is trivial to remove so how is it anything but a facade?
That used to be the case but typically I'd say most meat now is sold in round number of grams, for example 500g mince:

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/250871426

And 400g Chicken (these definitely used to be ~450g packs for a long time):

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/304404328

I suspect shrink-flation has ended up rounding things to metric even when they were previously based off round imperial measures.

Unlike inches, I can't remember the last time I saw something marked with lbs, I'm not sure I could even properly process how heavy "2lbs" is.
You're not wrong, but Microsoft's Exchange 365 does have a lot of knobs to control (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/offi...) and the defaults are more relaxed, probably as concession to those migrating from on-premise solutions. I'm guessing that they turn the knobs into the most aggressive position for their personal services.
You're comparing a single EV that's light for it's class with a single gas car that's heavy for it's class.

Why not compare the 3 series (1800kg) with the electric 3 series (2200kg)?
Or compare the Corsa (1094kg) with the electric Corsa-e (1455kg)
Yes looks very much like scraped data as much as some people here want it to be a real leak from TikTok so they can go after them for the millionth time. I wonder what the scrapers use this data for and how it's monetized. Is it just for buying likes and followers?
Wouldn't surprise me. People used to DDoS to knock competitor IRC networks offline for laughs, never mind something people believe in.

It helps it's the easiest way to do damage to a website and you just can pay someone to do the tech part of the hack. A DDoS attack is as easy to buy as the web hosting you're attacking now, back in the day you had to set up the botnet yourself
I am running my own mail server for 3 years now. There were some issues (outlook pushing emails to spam folder) and an IP change (not sure how that affected things but I resubmitted the IP to the Microsoft email tools, can't remember the name of the service).
I would like to join some movement or a class-action lawsuit against big tech for anti-competitive practices regarding private mail servers if such thing exist, and if not i would suggest we make one.
I'd classify it as a cyberpunk dark comedy.
Surprised nobody has mentioned Mexico yet. Great private medical providers and insurance options
Apple is super popular in the US, but in the rest of the world, and especially in non western countries, Google (Android) and Samsung have a much larger network...
There are ways to read out your meter readings into e.g. a Raspberry Pi (using the P1 port if you have a smart meter, or with a stick-on sensor)
And how about scaling this later on? What other things will be required to scale this.
The rate of male suicide is over 3x higher than women. In 2020 white males accounted for 70% of suicides.

Do you think that’s because white men just looooove to kill themselves? Or perhaps it’s at least partly because men receive zero support because the woke mob hates them?

Meanwhile we have woke individuals like yourself focusing on a small number of violent acts performed by the most extreme individuals.

Where’s your empathy for the vast, vast majority who don’t commit these violent acts?

Also, did it ever occur to you that male suicides and those violent acts you mentioned are linked? Call me crazy but perhaps we are seeing male pain and suffering expressed in different ways. Violence pointed inwards and some pointed outwards.

And your solution is to take these hateful ideologies and enshrine them into law? Because, again, that’s exactly what will happen.
It's big tech culture, not data science or ML culture. It just happens that big tech produces a lot of data science and ML.
They won't, at least directly. That's why they hire lobbyists.
Point of order, KF weren’t nazis. If we’re doing gradations of abhorrence from zero to Nazi, KF was probably a 3.
DDOS attacks enabled by Cloudflare and DDOS-Guard protecting the attackers.
Sorry, but this is incredibly naive.