skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude basically sign a document cosenting to consenting to any document.

Sell your soul.
I disagree with your assertion that blocking ads is equivalent to stealing.
Correct. I'm not familiar with the implementation details, but there's a handshake involved in the NFC tap that prevents it from being cloned using a "dumb" skimmer like this.
This is San Francisco. When I worked there (2015-2020), most of my co-workers openly endorsed hiring bias against demographics that aren't considered "diverse". I'd be highly skeptical that a jury would side with a plaintiff alleging anti-white discrimination, no matter how solid the proof. If a community widely thinks activity that is de jure illegal should be allowed then it becomes de facto permitted because even if a company engages in this behavior and gets sued they won't be held liable.
Charitable giving is important to me personally, and I have a relatively limited budget to donate.

I get a lot of utility from Wikipedia, but is my marginal dollar helping the mission or paying for dinner at a conference? Perhaps I’d be better off donating to an open source foundation for that part of the charity portfolio, which may actually have more impact on Wikipedia!

I think this org doesn’t communicate what it does well.
Sure - will do.
I couldn't help thinking about the space race, myself. That was a puzzling assertion.
> I kind of wish that it would auto-center as you're editing

press shift+c
While rootkits et al. are bad, privacy loss can be just as bad ie. “reads your email” or “passively reads clipboard [containing passwords]”.
Polyester fleece did not get popular because it was cheaper than wool, in fact it was quite a bit more expensive when introduced. It gained popularity because it was lighter, far more water-resistant, and did not shrink when washed.
U.S. railways to halt grain shipments ahead of potential shutdown
when they get the pin they have a physical accomplice do a bump n dump on you for the card.
sure - let's have a debate about it. either way you're depriving the creator of revenue. what's your argument? probably something about the fact that since it can be copied for free then it's not worth anything?
From the map, one could imagine an epic train trip from Guadalajara to San Francisco to Hudson Bay.
A bitcoiner's guide to proof of stake
https://dvd-player-screensaver.glitch.me/

6 months ago, I decided to build the DVD screensaver using just SVG+CSS. Enjoy.
I just use C:\Home\(my username)\ , where apps don't auto-create and leave theri junk. I guess the C:\Home\ isn't even necessary since I'm the only one using my computer.
I just imagine, 'We payed hella bucks to put the logo on the unit & box, damn straight it'll bounce across thr screen.'
> [...] a screw on the rail had dragged through the QR code in a horizontal line - not through the timing section, but enough to make it unreadable.

Given that two timing patterns are perpendicular to each other, how is that possible? Did the line come from the rightmost boundary and stop before the vertical timing pattern? Then there should be no real difficulty in reading that and it might well be a decoder problem.
>We take privacy very seriously at Discord.

You don't even have something as basic as adjustable message retention. You host your service on Google Cloud and AFAIK, you don't use E2E for anything, not even direct messages.

Your privacy policy includes the following clause:

We may share information if needed to enforce our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, or other policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of ourselves and others.

Which, as anyone semi-aware will realize, is generic enough to allow for sharing anything with anyone.

Oh, and according to the same privacy policy you retain deleted account information for at least two years by default. Anything else requires the user to "submit an ID for an age verification appeal". That's telling in its own right.
Yes they were out there and readable by lots of phones in 2010, and very few people used them. They weren't convenient to use and didn't tend to direct you anywhere useful to begin with.

The running joke for a decade (here in the US anyway) was that nobody had ever actually used one.
Wow! Love it, this is the most exciting thing I've seen in a while. I'm working on something similar, and it's so great to see others who seem to get-it and are chasing generalization in AI systems!

A few questions:

1. I'm curious if you're representing the task-operations using RL techniques (as many personal assistant systems seem to be) or if this is entirely a seq2seq transformer style model for predicting actions?

2. Assumption: Due to scaling of transformers, I assume that this is not directly working on the image data of a screen, and instead is working off of DOM trees; (2a) is this the case? and (2b) if so, are you using purely linear tokenization of the tree or are you using something closer to Evoformer (AlphaFold style) to combine graphs-neural nets and transformers?

3. Have you noticed that learning actions and representations of one application transfers well to new applications? or is the quality of the model heavily dependent on app domain?

I noticed multiple references to data applications (Excel, tableau, etc.). My challenge is that large language models and AI systems in general are about to hit a wall in the data domain because they fundamentally don't understand data [1] [2], which will ultimately limit the quality of these capabilities.

I am personally tackling this problem directly. I'm tying to prove more coherent data-aware operations in these systems by building a "foundation model" for tabular data that connects to LLMs (think RETRO style lookups of embeddings (representing columns of data)). I have been prototyping conversational AI systems (mostly Q/A oriented), and have recently been moving towards task oriented operations (right now, transparently, just SQL executors).

There seem to be good representations of DOM tree/visual-object models that you all are working with to take reasonable action, however I assume these are limited in scale (N^2 and all), and so I am wondering if you have any opinions on how to extend these systems for data (especially as the "windowed context grows" (eg. an excel with 100k+ rows))?

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.03253 "Tabular Data: Deep Learning is Not All You Need"
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01889 "In summary, we think that a fundamental reorientation of the domain may be necessary. For now, the question of whether the use of current deep learning techniques is beneficial for tabular data can generally be answered in the negative"
interestingly, if you search for "127.0.0.1", it throws

{"message":"Forbidden"}

in the api response and the page says-

Sorry, there was an error with your search. Please try a different request.
One big gotcha that folks need to appreciate is that you don't get the full power of bazel just by getting baseline bazel to work and build things. You need to really be sensitive to your physical dependencies and not lump similar code together just because they play a similar role and are convenient to place in the same file rather than having that same source sharded out to distinct files.
You need to partition source into all its relevant pieces and lump no more functionality in that source than is needed by clients. Bazel encourages the most minute fine grained resolution of dependencies because if you do that and manage it right you unlock the power of the cache. Once you successfully partition all the bits of software to their segregated sections of the build graph DAG then you're positioned to really leverage the test result cache and can start bypassing huge expensive tests that are completely irrelevant to the body of code you're developing on.

Bazel is not just a build toolchain it is a test toolchain as well. The problems it solves with tests with respect to running only relevant & applicable tests to the changes being pushed is what many people have dreamed about before or came up with some crude solution to approximate the dependencies. If my test did not print out `(cached)` I know something in the dependency graph was disturbed in some way that may be completely not obvious to me, especially in a gigantic repo.

Bazel query is also worth mentioning to visualize dependencies with its xml output and which can also enforce architectural barriers asserting empty `somepath` queries between two targets that should not meet in the middle somewhere.

It would be neat one day if bazel integrates in some semantic logical level of dependency checking beyond the physical but that may be too expensive of an operation.
Apologies if this is an unpopular thing to ask -- but is a very wealthy person giving away his/her wealth to be held in trust in perpetuity (to accomplish some mission) an unambiguously good thing? Separate the question from this particular story today, that is not my intention to poke at specifically.

One thing I can see with wealth being transferred among generations, between actual people, is that people can die and their ideas (especially bad ones) can die with them. Even if the wealth is redistributed and misspent, it ends and turns over to someone else. New ideas and purposes for the wealth can take their place.

On the other hand, when a trust/foundation holds wealth, putatively forever, their mission might turn out not to be productive, or even good. I think of certain examples of charities which, by their holdings and activities, keep certain things in status quo and unable to change, which we would sometimes like to leave behind.

All this wealth transferring to entities that will not die and pass on their fortunes to other purposes. What does this cause in the long run that we haven't anticipated?

Like many things that are on my mind, our system is not just about incentivizing the good, but avoiding the inadvertent bad.

Am I totally off / this is not a concern?
Always put the other hand over the hand typing in the pin..
To be fair, this mode is a direct counter to the zero-click attacks that Zerodium is offering the high payouts for. It specifically blocks all the (currently) known attack vectors.

Maybe Zerodium will offer a new tier for a zero-click attack on an iPhone on Lockdown mode in the future.
I think that is slowly shifting. The misguided trust of conservatives in corporations as an antithetical opponent to government that is.
I totally agree. I [knowingly] divulge personal information only when I choose to, and protest pretty vocally when information I don't feel like divulging is requested or "required". You can imagine the scathing feedback I gave to the _legally-mandated_ federal census I got subjected to last year. It asked stuff like my religious beliefs, gender identity, stuff that honestly the government has zero business even asking me, let alone knowing.
Developer here. You are right, we'll change this. In the meantime you can go to View -> Use native window frame, which will replace the custom window frame with Window's native one.
I often just leave the house with my phone and buy stuff with apple pay.

I admire your uncomplicated, predictable life.

Sometimes I want to buy something from a guy with the ice cream cart at the park. Sometimes I need to tip a valet, a doorman, a hotel maid, or another service worker. Sometimes I want to buy Girl Scout cookies from the girl with the table on the corner. Sometimes I want to buy something from one of the 35 million Americans without a bank account. Sometimes tow truck drivers take cash only. Many of the late-night restaurants and food carts in my city are cash only.

Some day I'll go cash-free. But my life is not yet that simple.
I find it interesting that Lockdown Mode doesn't (yet) enable multiple lock screen authentication methods. Requiring Face ID AND a pass code could be useful. (There are rumors that Apple will add Touch ID back to their phones in the future. I'm not sure they'd keep Face ID on a phone with Touch ID but combining those two methods AND requiring a pass code would seem to be the most secure.)

I'd also like to see some method for quickly wiping the phone or severely disabling it. A friend mentioned that a new scheme for thieves is to ask you for your unlocked phone at gunpoint and then use a cash app to transfer money to one of their accounts. Some way to very quickly (and covertly) wipe your phone would help defend against that attack. (Related: https://www.startribune.com/warrant-grifters-targeting-cash-...)
This is Laion-5B, you can read more about it here: https://laion.ai/blog/laion-5b/

Imagen and Stable-Diffusion both used subsets of this full 5.8B image set.
What exactly was he studying? What you describe is pretty intense and sounds more involved than looking with intrigue.

Was he memorizing names? Routes? Charting different paths?
I'm not claiming that there aren't some people in positions of authority that don't make prejudiced assumptions. What I'm saying is that you can't assume every time something like this happens it's due to race.
Statistics without context are often misleading. I read the article and it's hardly objective. I would prefer to see the dataset as well as other demographics and details of who was stopped, the kind of cars they drove and other such detail. Often, people don't analyze very deeply and start with preconceived notions, especially around race. In addition, how many of these cops actually saw the driver before making the stop - especially highway stops.
> I will choose 32 bits over 24 any day when recording.

There's probably no point since your audio interface doesn't produce 32 bit audio anyway.

For transient formats it's another story: if a bit of audio gets re-printed multiple times with some processing between renders, then it's beneficial to store it in a DAW-native format (32/64 fp) to avoid quantization or multiple additions of dither noise. For recording you just waste space.

> Having something to store those files with a little bit of lossless compression is a welcome addition

You'd probably want to store 32/64 bit floating point, and WavPack works really well. On comparable formats it achieves ratios really on par with Flac.
You're (intentionally?) missing the point, which is that long-term effects could not have been sufficiently monitored at the time they were thrust upon the general population.

It is possible to believe the vaccines are safe, and to support their use, while still conceding this point.
At this point, this is simply the negligence of the banks. Most OECD countries switched to chip technology over a decade ago.
So your suggestion is to have governments collect more inheritance taxes on a billionaire's estate. Then those taxes will be used for military purposes, no?
That is strategic advice, not advice on the law.

If the intent of hiding your disability is to prevent possible discrimination during the process, you are defeating the intent staying quiet and guaranteeing the application fails.

IMO they did nothing discriminatory.
Yup, after watching that video, I think I need to go out and practice that technique - hopefully it will become muscle memory in the event of a true emergency stop!
> violate the terms of service of Netflix

It's a technical solution to a business-created problem.

And Netflix and VPNs probably create incremental business for each other.
Ok. So from this I think we can infer that Hacktoberfest thinks it's entitled to the highest level of user verification Discord offers. Doesn't answer my original question, but it tends to reinforce my general assessment of Hacktoberfest.
> To get Youtube Original content

Do a lot of people want that?

I subscribe to YouTube premium but I've never been tempted to watch any of the original content. None of it is what I go to YouTube for. But I'm a sample size of one.
One of my banks lets you use a QR code from the app. I haven't tried it yet to see how well it works.
> Want utopia?

No.

That's got to be the dumbest idea I've heard today.

> But votes can also be delegated to others.

That's horrific.
The crypto spam on Twitter has really exploded the past couple weeks in particular for me. Seems like every single day I now get multiple @-mention spam notifications from one-off accounts seemingly specializing in just mentioning hundreds/thousands (or more) of users in replies to crypto scams/tweets/offers/etc.
I'd say that the British have started beheading kings way before the French, with Charles I being beheaded by parliamentarians in 1649
Money is a representation of resources, those with more money can control more resources. I think it is undeniably a problem for any individual to have control over such a large portion of resources.

All of this wealth they have accumulated gives them immense power and control over our society. Billionaires largely use their wealth to create even more wealth for themselves or to influence people, they don’t “give it all away”.

Your framing is extremely disingenuous.
I personally think the risks are less than for bank machines. But only if lessons learned in the development and maintenance of bank machines is fully embraced for the voting machines.

There are some banks that let you deposit cheques without needing to type anything - they use OCR to find the amount, then verify with you, then allow you to print a copy of the cheque with the receipt. There is no reason this same technology can't be used in voting machines, with the difference being that the visual proof is kept internally instead of being printed out. That visual proof is what is needed in case of a Trump-style fishing audit.
Yeah... I love my iPhone XS Max, partly because it has 2x telephoto--not 2.5x, not 3x or 4x of all the ridiculous things: just a good 2x--and I essentially use that 2x telephoto lens every chance I can. They finally have come up with an iPhone that has brought back 2x telephoto... but as a digital simulation from 1x and thereby only at 12MP, and so it isn't fundamentally different than my existing phone :/. (I do appreciate that the low light abilities are probably better, and maybe that should be worth it to quickly upgrade before they screw up 2x again.)
An interesting idea for a color font is a terminal font automatically supporting terminal colors (by the terminal escape characters). Sometimes you just pipe your output somewhere which isn't a real terminal, and having color support would be nice if all you needed to do was change fonts.
In the Canon drivers the IP1800 is included as the same package as IP3300 which is already supported in Gutenprint, so maybe that's the closest one to copy from.

https://github.com/endlessm/cnijfilter-common/blob/0c5cfbf85...
"Hi, Discord, it looks like you are trying to take over the internet. Would you like another few hundred million so we can further centralize everything?"
They don't sell it now they borrow money against the value of shares and get to keep the stock, not pay taxes because it is not income. Your plan would not work. No plan like this could work...
I'm upgrading my iPhone 13 mini because having switched from a Pixel 4a, the camera performance is just unacceptably bad. It's a testament to how much I like the rest of the iPhone that I didn't just go back to the pixel. I briefly considered carrying the Pixel around just to take pictures.
Without billionaires, the net result wouldn't be that their money would be distributed among the populace. The result would be that this wealth simply wouldn't exist at all. This is why the Soviet Union stagnated after they reached a certain standard of living. There is no incentive to take on risk when you aren't entitled to a proportional reward.
"If you wipe your phone, I will shoot you."

A more practical defence is keeping a low balance on any account that can be easily accessed from the phone. Not seeing any real use for this functionality when faced with an adversary physically.
Stable Diffusion used an aesthetic filter to train on a subset of the English language images from this full 5.8 billion multi-language set. That probably got a lot of what you're finding.
Lacking the shame to avoid asking for recommendations from time to time¹.

Imagining you're the type of person that really wanted to like Machines Like Me for its concept but found the exposition truly painful, are other McEwan books worth a read? Basically was Machines Like Me an outlier or standard McEwan?

[Edit: Worded harshly, but without too much malintent; books are art, and appreciation is personal.]

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22418898
I put in Donald Trump to see what kind of celebrity images might be in there, and there are a TON of memes / photoshopped versions of him looking like a caricature or otherwise warped. I wonder if the AI will average these into a fair resemblance, or whether prompts using his name will end up more cartoonish than other names due to the source data...
Agreed, its really time to start buying reputable brands again. Or perhaps go to a shop and dont complain about retail markups. :)
It depends on the university, engineering-oriented schools admit women at higher rates (over 2x in the case of MIT and Harvey Mudd): https://money.com/colleges-women-higher-acceptance-rate/
I agree with a lot of the other things. But for this:

>Sometimes I want to buy Girl Scout cookies from the girl with the table on the corner

I have seen a lot of them carry Square dongles or accept Venmo payments. I guess they got tired of people telling them they do not have cash.
For real. Hardware 2x is instant buy.
And ignoring it altogether is better?

I don't have a magical solution, but I also am not going to flip out everytime a private company chooses to give some type of minor preferential treatment to historically underprivileged groups to attempt to balance out systemic inequities.

I can't say with complete confidence one way or the other if Twilio's policy is right or wrong but I can say with confidence a lot of the critiques are both in bad faith and lack any real attempt in understanding the rationale behind the policies.
https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/140942139380082278...
>Do not count on being able to embarrass the enemy

Why are you making folks that disagree with you "the enemy?"

Just because some doesn't agree with you about a particular issue doesn't mean they are your enemy.

They just disagree with you on a particular issue. Assuming they live in the same culture, it's likely that they agree with you on more stuff than they disagree.
If Python were fully call by reference then:

def g(y):
y = 3
x = 10
g(x)
x # => ??

If it's 3 then it's pass by reference here, if it's 10 it's pass by reference. Which is it?

Additionally, for something to be a closure it has to close over something (an environment). What does `f` or `g` close over? Note that they aren't changing any environment, they are "merely" functions, not closures. Python does have closures, but those aren't examples of them.

And being able to assign a function to a variable does not make a closure, or do you think that C has closures because it has function pointers?
I wonder if it's because I'm getting old and jaded, but I really fail to get excited by this continuous flow of new devices (and "stuff" in general). I could get a new iPhone from my company, but I don't even see the point.
Ironically a box of rocks will probably "improve" (well affect) your audio more than a cable will. As sounds does bounce off objects.
That being said there are cheap, worthless cables as well. I'll pay a bit more for a cable where they connection won't fall off after two uses.
> Everything that isn't a process that's "trying to interact with our game" is strictly "off limits," she continued. "We've worked with independent, 3rd-party computer security and privacy services firms to ensure EAAC operates with data privacy top of mind."

Isn't that reassuring.

Not to mention how prevalent false positives are with kernel-level anticheat.
You miss my point. They didn't switch to anything. They just stopped watching TV.