skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a bit dated now, but the DeepLearning.ai GANs specialization covers topics through StyleGAN. If you have no experience with ML at all I would probably start with the first two courses of their Deep Learning specialization and then jump into the GANs specialization.

I would also highly recommend FastAI’s Deep Learning for Coders (and their new course that came out this year). You’ll start immediately with some cool applications (basic image recognition and NLP) and then drill down from there to learn how they work in detail.

It’s set up such that you can learn as much as you want (basics with no depth: first chapter; basic understanding of how a neural network is trained with SGD: first four chapters; understanding of decision trees, LSTMs, and CNNs: first half; detailed understanding of how to build everything from scratch: whole book).
This is exactly right. The other thing is that the only way to guarantee free speech to everyone who deserves it is by going a little too far and giving it people we think don't deserve it.
This rests on the amazing assumption that Bitcoin will replace all currency everywhere somehow.

This is why I can’t get Bitcoiners - their assumptions are always over the top “we will take 100% of gold’s value” “nations will dissolve because of Bitcoin” or something of that order.

Compare that to ETH - people will build decentralised applications and ETH will be the currency in those applications. Stakers get a fee.

Simple.
Especially recycled content blogspam like this article. As an alternative, here is a lengthy monologue by a former Pratt and Whitney flight engineer about the SR-71's engine, the J58.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJrXUh0eZjw
The obvious legal response is/should be: don't make an algorithm take precedence if it is _that_ broken (incorrect, ineffective and unfair).

Even from a product point of view, that's basic: your product feature doesn't pass quality, you don't ship it.
The biggest problem with this AI approach is that actual bad ads (scam, spreading hate, etc.) are getting thru.
Yes, I used to have this compulsion as well. I still remember the book I was reading, at the age of 31, when I realized this was counter-productive and that I was slogging through things I didn't enjoy because of some misdirected completeness requirement I'd imposed on myself. Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon. Page 90. Since then I've had a low tolerance for authors who can't be bothered to make me want to continue hearing their ideas.
Publishers are liable for any libel they publish while platforms are not, that’s the legal distinction. When Facebook chooses to editorialize their content like they did in this instance they forfeit the legal protections of the Communications Decency Act. The first Amendment limits the power of the federal government to provide liability protection for publishers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLAi78hluFc
How come raccoons were never domesticated? You’d imagine they hung out near ancient societies.
You meant wxWidgets-wasm?
Isn't demo's also built on top of Tokio?
Attribute-Based Access Control on Solid Pods Using Privacy-Friendly Credentials
I only recently discovered that archive.org offers webamp as a mode for playing anything with a playlist

See: https://archive.org/details/the-hobbit-bbc-radio-drama?webam...

screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/YXOPhu6.png
Seems like real solution are phones that by default provided end-to-end-encryption for cloud backups, no local data “travel modes”, secure wipes, multiple logins, etc. — since trying to get countries to uniformly play by same rules seem highly unlikely.
== You could say that the lowest common denominator of both of these methods is that, in both of them, there is an equation==

You certainly could say that, but you have no idea how the variables will react. That sets people up for disappointment when they think they’ve “optimized” human relationships.
Okay. I'm not usefully familiar with GMail vs. Hotmail vs. Apple vs. etc. Might you know why those don't get more favorable mentions - "other people reading this item should note that $Alternative_1 and $Alternative_2 are not nearly as bad as GMail...." - on HN, in this context?

(Yes, I am familiar with the "nobody ever fired for buying IBM" aura that usually surrounds Google):
Respectfully speaking, if someone made those quotes while at a bar after drinking 4 tequila shots, we would laugh our buttocks off to share in the humor.

If someone from Roche or some pharmaceutical company came to an investor call with a powerpoint with those quotes, that person would most assuredly be fired on the spot.

I think we should have much higher expectations for someone who represents 1M+ employees of the US government with many thousands of loyal civil servants specializing in disease control.

In the hard sciences, don’t people often say we stand on the shoulder of giants? If that is the best he can say in front of millions of Americans on prime time tv, then he must be standing on wet toilet paper.
Just want to add that I make extensive use of “tapbacks” with pretty much everyone I use iM with.
Btw, I’d like cf to have a feature that will prevent anyone (including cf) from viewing my traffic. Is this in plans?
I want the protection of cf but don’t want to sacrifice privacy of my customers data..
The number of times I've had a dream wake me up in time for something is astonishing.

Before I go to bed, if I tell myself "wake up at 7AM wake up at 7AM wake up at 7AM" I naturally get up within a few seconds of 7AM, almost always because I have a dream towards the end of sleep that forces me to wake up (they are not always relevant but they force me to get up at the right time)

Crazy
I've been using Framer.
On Android you can use Firefox with Ublock Origin. I wish SponsorBlock was available though.

The NewPipe Android app is another option and there is a fork that includes SponsorBlock: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe/releases
From the point of view of my new city, there's typical banter about how silly/crazy/whatever "those people over there" are, though there is a general consensus that the people of my old city are richer. There's no equivalent to the people of my old city dismissing this region as a "shithole" or "third-world country", I guess because objectively there is more wealth there. People here generally feel that they are freer here and prefer to make that tradeoff against more money.
I wish we’d stop talking about the Dow. It isn’t useful.
As mentioned in another reply below, I found these issues with rclone, perhaps you can tell if I'm missing something:

- It will not create archives by default, so potentially upload a lot of files (just like rsync). There are a few workarounds in the documentation to mitigate the cost.

- It cannot do restore of Deep Archive data

Edit: Can do restore, but it's a manual step.
> First, does this work very well for technical books?

I just laughed imaging a professional voice actor reading out a block of code in a stately voice, complete with all the punctuation. "public function getName(Person $user)" xD
We wouldn’t want those pesky commies, ahh sorry, that was the 50s and 60s, those darn uppity negroes, ahh sorry again, my bad, that was civil rights era, those blasted … err, commies again? They made a comeback in the 80s it seems. Ahh there it is. We don’t want those crazy islamist terrorists harming our people. We need to protect your freedom … by curtailing it, of course.

Sorry, sorry, I’ve just been informed, the boogieman is no longer islamic terrorists. Now, it’s called radical white supremacist qanon Jan 6 anti vax conspiracy incel nationalist. My bad. I apologise.

But the curtailing of freedom will continue and the surveillance will increase. In order to safeguard our freedom and privacy, of course.
> "Your lack of planning is not my emergency"

> Unless you're the founder+owner, I'd expect that tech support at your company wouldn't expedite your access request just because you feel entitled to it.

You think corporate IT support doesn't help out users who've forgotten their credentials?

I can assure you, resetting forgotten passwords is probably one of the most frequent things first-tier IT support does. And sorting it out synchronously while they're on the phone is normal - it's not like you can do it asynchronously when they're locked out of all the async messaging systems.

(Of course, the bypass might take an inconvenient form - like calling you back on the phone number HR have on file with you, or a three-way video call where your boss vouches for you)
No plugins ? No support for OneDrive ? I'm dissapointed.
Will the US Profit from Europe’s Misery?
I don't know... The article does look like a veiled attempt at advertising their own community where they get to earn a $99 fee for every new registration. What I felt was in poor taste was that this motive of advertising and profit was hidden until the end of the article. Not calling it a hidden ad would be a stretch IMO.
Honestly, as a non-American this scares me. I am absolutely not at all important and a fairly mediocre programmer as well, I don't store compromising data about anyone, never stole code or company data in my life (and never will), etc., you get it. A normal law-abiding citizen.

I still don't want to get my phone taken on an US airport and returned an hour later with God knows how many viruses that even Apple wouldn't be able to detect on my iPhone.

It's not about having something to hide. It's about not liking it when people poke their noses in your business without you being a criminal. And no I don't think installing backdoors on each device "to catch the criminals more easily" is a solution at all.
Are we already abandoning ship? I wouldn't think Adobe is going to pull the plug or anything too drastic, Right?

Btw, I've been a happy Affinity [Designer, Photo, Publisher] user for many years now. Can't even believe I'm still getting updates with my years old licences. +1
Wolves are social cooperative animals.
Yes of course. We did that over a decade ago in Germany - a construction company was owed 30 million euros from the government of Thailand, so our police seized the airplane of the king at the Munich airport, and in 2005 we did the same for a collection of debt against Lebanon [1].

[1] https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article13485097/Boeing-von-Th...
>The nagging knowledge that no matter how thoroughly I secure my environment it is insecure by design at a base level.

That's like worrying about leaving the house since a meteorite strike could kill you.

If you're that concerned about the security of your environment then you shouldn't connect your PC to the internet or any wired or wireless network regardless of having IME or not.

Everything you didn't design and build yourself from the ground up or which you can't thoroughly inspect and audit in detail is insecure by design and should be treated as such, IME or not, yet the entire world still functions just fine with billions of devices talking to each other over the internet because those are the pros of commonization of hardware and software while we have learned to minimize the security risks associate with that commodization.

The threat model you're scared of is easily solved by air gapped systems which is what we have at work in our secure environment making your perceived IME threat blown out of proportion.
Since 2012, through the eras of Photoshop, Sketch, InVision, XD, Figma, and whatever else, I've been using Antetype: https://www.antetype.com

For me, it's been a 10x tool since it was always the only piece of software that was designed from the ground up as a UI design tool, rather than being some other kind of app that was pressed into service for UI design. Auto-layout, responsiveness, and flexible components that can be edited per instance without breaking their link to the master component are all features that were present from day one rather than being awkwardly bolted on.
> If Facebook and Google implemented WebAuthn, they're still not staking their reputations on it. If they did, we wouldn't be using password-based logins nor MFA.

I think the naming here is causing confusion. This thread started about MFA usage, which is a chain of functionality going back to U2F:

> at this point, MFA that is not based on Webauthn (https://webauthn.guide/#about-webauthn) should be considered dangerously insecure.

That is broadly adopted and all of the companies you mentioned use it internally and and recommending it as the most secure form of MFA, based on both the strong phishing resistance and ease of use improvements, and I don't think that position I quoted is especially controversial in the security community other than that people in enterprise environments acknowledge the challenge of retrofitting older applications and services.

WebAuthn also allows you to setup passwordless login flows, which relies on some newer features which were added such as attestations about how the token was unlocked (i.e. corporate IT probably wants to require biometrics, not just a Yubikey-style tap). That is definitely newer, but again, you're talking about something which Microsoft and Apple have already shipped.
> Also, people need to use Firefox

I would, if Firefox would stop deteriorating. They are down to miniscule marketshare and continue redesigning their GUI, disabling features, preventing ad-blocking, launching pointless annoying services. Firefox of 2014 was a far better product than Firefox of 2022.
https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-spectrum/
Total return (dividends reinvested, inflation adjusted) is -13.4% for 1965-1983.
15 minutes till the tx is guaranteed to not reverse.
> The RP2040 is definitely not pioneering here. More of a well-marketed "me too" device IMHO

Have you actually used one or looked at the datasheet? The 4 PIO state machines are pretty unique in the MCU ecosystem as far as I can tell. It makes "bitbanging" a completely acceptable approach for a huge number of protocols.
When there's an influx of cash like now, it's usually an ideal time to invest that money in new production because you have the cash in hand.

General consensus is that new development should be small and only in a few types of projects, due to the transition under way. For example see this BCG report (PDF):

https://web-assets.bcg.com/5e/73/dcd6e1544ba2a964e6c082d684e...
This is also true, and I'd probably do some of that after learning the transliteration (at least some of the existing documentation like the intro to 2d tutorial give examples in both).
Ah yes, because people in conservative towns don't use Amazon.
I'm guessing they're talking about Cellebrite gear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellebrite_UFED
Congress Stock-Trade Tracking Funds Are on the Way
Good. Cursive is one of those relics of the past better off discarded.

Clearly, it existed because pen and ink technology made block script less legible due to ink blobs dripping from pens. Now that we have ballpoint pens, cheap pencils and various marker technologies, a 2nd form of handwriting that exists to compensate for problems in writing tech should just fade away. This is akin to reading clocks with hands - a weird practice that exists because of technological limitations.

I'm older, a late boomer, and I personally quit using cursive in the mid 70s. At the time I felt it was slower, but I've come to believe cursive is also less legible. Let's let cursive slide gently into the night. Don't let past use sanctify it and cement it into sacred cultural practice.
But you would pay quite a lot for the time your data is still in S3 blob, no?
I find it incredible how many people's responses in crime topics (like this one or SF) immediately turn to blame-shifting, blaming the messenger, claiming the messenger must have some ulterior motive, trying to redirect conversation to other crimes like wage theft, etc.

2,606 people (that we know of) were shot so far in Chicago this year. That's over 10 per day. That's insane. And it's even crazier that it's so hard for anyone to discuss it without the carnival of canards that get bandied about every time. It seems like some people are practically trained to divert away from the actual subject.
Icons8 Lunacy is also quite an impressive and free Figma Alternative.
https://icons8.com/lunacy
I don't understand your response. I wasn't debating the intricacies of self-sovereignty. I was pointing out that your understanding of hardware wallets is wrong.

> good luck building a good UX for a financial system where a small OpsSec error can wipe out your family's fortune

Define "small" lol
What data can app get from you that you don’t specifically allow? The Uber app only knows my location while I’m using it. If I choose not to give it my credit card number, I can just pay using Apple Pay and they have a one time use credit card.

Not to mention with Uber/Lyft, I know exactly where my driver is, I don’t have to flag down a taxi, I know the price before I sit in the car, etc.
> Yawn, can’t wait for this bs platform gets ran off. “Freedom of speech” bs is exhausting

I think your comment is bs. If you didn't want to hear about "Freedom of speech", you wouldn't have clicked on this story and then proceeded to comment on it.
Written by a person who lied in his other NYT article about being “unplugged” from Twitter.

I’m moving on.

Source: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/farhad-manjoo-nyt-unplug.php
"Hey, got a minute?" "Sure."

"I quit." "Yeah, that's what I thought you'd say."

If certain things are already in the air then just this choice of words is probably enough. I mean, in this (real) example there's no real paranoia, not the "hey.. you're fired", but still.
This is insane in my opinion. People are acting like Figma is now "unclean" for being associated with Adobe.
No hate here, brother. Only love. And perception. Your sarcasm is a fine enough shield, and you hold it well! I hope that it protects you until you can be honest with yourself. In the mean time, I'm happy to take your admission as a win, even if you'd like it to be insincere. Thanks for admitting your a privileged paranoid; that's the first step!

I'm sorry you felt insulted by my assumptions about you. I honestly assumed that a sober recitation of the obvious flaws in your framing would be enough to deflect what was a small amount of candid anger that you decided to parlay into self-aggrandizing "advice". Instead, I can see that I touched a nerve and only invoked more hatred from you. For that, I am truly sorry! I hope you get less hateful in the future as I will try to be more cautious of similar types of lashing out.
Eastern European org hit by second record-smashing DDoS attack
Take a look at https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/
Columbia whistleblower on exposing college rankings
Words – CLI Word Games
Stop Hiring Software Engineers, Consider Product Engineers
China can destroy US space assets, Space Force ops nominee warns
It's anachronistic to draw a hard distinction between "hunting" and "spiritual reasons." Ancient people wouldn't have differentiated ritual and how they did daily things from how they expressed their spirituality. These rituals were one and the same.
Browser audio related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32610127

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30942074
On Android you can also use Firefox with Ublock Origin or the NewPipe app which removes the ads. If you want SponsorBlock, there is a fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock included: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe/releases
> Uber is legally required

Uber is infamous for not following the law¹. There is at least one other known case of them not disclosing a data leak²:

> In 2016, hackers stole information from 57 million driver and rider accounts and then approached Uber and demanded $100,000 to delete their copy of the data. Uber arranged the payment but kept the breach a secret for more than a year.

¹ https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak...

² https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/technology/uber-hacking-b...
Slowing things down is the right approach when resetting/reissuing/rebinding auth devices.
That's why you need a self hosted solution.
A few years ago I got really into the daily challenges in Windows 10 solitaire. It had leaderboards and of course, advertisements. I generally browse with an ad blocker so I was shocked by what I saw inside the unfiltered Windows app.

About 95% of the ads were Taboola / Outbrain garbage designed to lead senior citizens into scams. Usually the ads are framed like they're stories from a news site. Secrets your doctor doesn't want you to know, (D or R) politicians just signed a bill that will let you save money refinancing your mortgage, your computer might have virus!!!!!1!

All these ads are there to prey on vulnerable people. I don't know how Microsoft, Taboola, Outbrain, etc. get away with it.
Your ML setup is not unique: you don’t need more data scientists
Thank you so much for asking so kindly. I'd actually be thrilled to do that.

I built a form that gave a price estimate for a product, and it would change as you modified inputs on the screen. One of the requests was to treat a blank number input as a zero. That particular input was not required. The ideal situation would have been to default the number input to zero, but the product manager wanted to let the user leave it blank.

The problem became evident when the calculations to generate the price estimate treated a blank value and an invalid number value the same. You always get a blank string whether its blank or an invalid number value. To be honest I really hate whoever made this decision with the W3C committee or whoever it was. It makes zero sense that you let a user put it bad data but you won't give the invalid value via javascript. This was a deal breaker. We had to switch to the text input.

It should also be noted that the built in validation for the number input takes precedence over whatever javascript written to generate an error message. There were complaints from the designer about this issue. It may seem like a petty thing but again I don't get to make these decisions, they are made by the client.
this looks very web3, blockchainy
I've been on the receiving end of this. If I give a product 1 star, I get both emails and physical mail from the seller offering money for 5 stars. Last I checked there was not a way to opt out of this. I will check again.
Not a designer but an engineer that reads designs, and Figma really is a game changer. High quality collaborative designs, great UX, and rather inexpensive to users.

Exactly what Adobe would need to stay relevant because they’re usually the opposite on these fronts :-)

I can’t see switching being too realistic.

$20 billion is a lot of money. That’s worth more than Cloudflare, Snap, Spotify, and just $3b shy of Zoom’s current market cap.
Or just a burner with plausible activity stored on it to give the impression that it's your main phone.
Of course we can - an ISP is paid for by the customer, whereas Microsoft in this case is paid by the advertiser. As soon as you are paid by the entity producing the content you are no longer a "dumb pipe", and are de-facto curating that content.
It makes me sad that all these spun cycles could have been put to use doing something productive if only the tax code were simplified and the IRS automatically pre-filled our taxes, as is done in other, saner countries.
With dividends reinvested you get -25.096%, https://dqydj.com/dow-jones-return-calculator/.

S&P 500 is -3.745%.
Just about any time a competitive product is swallowed up by a large company that product is left to wither for a year or so before riding off into the sunset.
My first programming or rather "programming" cause I mosty used it to save text on cassettes. Good times.
The top 40% are unbelievably flush with cash and the job market is strong as ever (bloated tech companies don't count, their value was solely promises anyway).

The fed is fighting to undo the QE it over did during the pandemic