skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People really do think their nations culture should be imposed everywhere.
In reality it doesn't work.
See Americas bitter defeat in Afghanistan. Which is now more Islamic and antiwestern than it's ever been
You picked a convenient analogy. No one knew whether lithium batteries were going to be as useful as they were. Much additional testing and work was necessary to prove it. It COULD have failed. Same with Alpha Fold. Abandon your expectations.
Loooll, thankfully I am not your average tourist.
Anyone can lose weight without giving up any of the things they love! _Here's how:_

1. Live a full life
2. Get in a wooden box
3. Slough away all your soft tissue - you might like to use it for a worm farm
4. Welcome to the new-look you!
That's not entirely fair; I distinctly remember my feeds filled with the medical establishment speaking in approval for the BLM protests that occurred during 2020. The argument, I recall, was that those protests were necessary to improve the health outcomes of the black community, since police fatalities were more dangerous than COVID. And speaking of the medical establishment, in my favorite anecdote from the entire year, I also remember the CDC specifically recommending a prioritization of vaccines[0] that would kill thousands more Americans than the alternative for ideological and extremely racist reasons. Literally, the reasoning they gave was that vaccinating over-65s first was less than ideal because, quote, "Racial and ethnic minority groups [are] under-represented among adults >65". In fact, the plan they ended up recommending would have killed more minorities too, simply because it was more deadly overall. These are the people we should never question.

[0]: https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-im-losing-trust-in-th... - the original report is at https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-... with the quote on slide 31
>But if I build an ML engine I apparently can take 100 of his images, produce similar images and charge money for it. Magic!

You can pay a human artist to produce "similar" images too, and as long as they aren't too similar it's fine.

You seem to be conflating - repeatedly - exact copies of a work with merely copying a style. Family Guy had an episode where Brian and Stewie visit a Disney universe, and everything was animated in the style of a classic Disney film. A bunch of humans did indeed watch a bunch of Disney films, and make a new animation based on what they saw. Did Disney - a notoriously litigious company - sue? Of course not. Copying a style is not infringement! I don't see why it's any different if an AI program does that.
from looking at pics of the gastrocnemius muscle (at the back of the lower leg, main portion from the knee, ending about midway down the lower leg, attaches to the achilles tendon) and the soleus muscle (underneath the gastrocnemius, extending from the knee down to the ankle), the gastrocnemius shouldn't activate during the motion.

It seems like you could put your hand on the back of your calf, close to the knee, and ensure that the gastrocnemius doesn't flex/stays loose during the motion.
Does it really "milk" developers though... The "customers" of Steam are the developers not the people buying games. They make money not by selling games (well okay, Valve does sell first party games via Steam too) but by selling the ability to sell games to developers.

App stores like Steam, for all their problems, provide real tangible value to developers. It simplifies distribution of files and updates (no need to set up your own CDN/P2P network and write server/client code to handle game updates), provides integration of payment (no need to negotiate your own deals with payment processors), and in Steam's case also provides extra gaming specific value-adds like cloud saves and DRM that would also be costly to build/integrate in-house. If you think about all this, the cut they take could be justified for the right customer.

The difference between Steam and something like the Apple App Store is that Steam does not have have monopoly power over PC game/software distribution. As a developer you get to decide whether Steam's cut justifies their value to you individually. If you don't like Steam or it doesn't make sense for you, you don't need to use it. And many indie developers do exactly this -- they sell at conventions, release physical media, offer direct downloads/sales from their own site, use competing platforms like itch.io, Patreon, Dlsite etc.

Steam is good because the platform they are on is competitive and thus to succeed you have to justify your value.
This reminded me to check on Canada as I periodically do, and it looks like they also just made a related announcement today: they're ending vaccine requirements for the border at the end of the month: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-lifting-pandemic...

I've previously been misdirected here, since they have different rules for vacationers vs business travelers or something like that. But, this sounds like a blanket lift of restrictions.
There was an episode of In Our Time about cave art that features a discussion about the art not being solely for utility. Unfortunately I cannot find a transcript and I can't remember when the discussion came up. Still, if you are interested you might want to listen or look at some of the further reading links.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mqn7
What harm would it cause if we did? If I could imagine you naked and produce a JPG of my fantasy it would still only be fantasy. It doesn't matter if I'm making JPGs, cutting your head out of photos and gluing them to catalogue models, or if I've got a supercomputer making deepfakes. It's still just fantasy... speculative fiction.
Does it work with the proprietary stream formats like DTS? I believe I am using some plugin for Audacity for that, but I hate doing the actual sampling in Audacity so it then gets loaded into another editor.
Well, I don't agree with that fully either.

For me, if there is a moral quandary or a highly analytical situation where the subconscious can't quite estimate it then it gets kicked up to the conscious layer for a real, expensive (computationally speaking) decision.

Something like "do I really want to flirt with this woman, given that I'm married" or "wait a second the abstraction here is leaking across domains which may ruin the architecture of this program in the long run" get kicked up to the upper layer. But for most of my programming, I honestly just keep it at the subconscious layer and so long as there is music that the conscious mind can check out on we're good.
The presence of bias is purely numerical and is allowed to thrive due to the lack of controls. Prestige is an unrelated red herring masking the very human behaviors that account for social gravity in many walks of life. This is commonly referred to as implicit bias and is generally the most common cause of various forms of selection bias, including racial discrimination from both the majority and minorities alike.
Revolutionary video game The Hobbit turns 40
While Dolby did design the perceptual quantizer gamme (PQ) [1] that almost every HDR device today uses, they waived patenting it [2] when it was standardized in SMPTE 2084 [3]. Everything that is proprietary about Dolby Vision (everything except PQ gamma) is relatively mundane and just dynamic metadata.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_quantizer

[2] https://f.hubspotusercontent00.net/hubfs/5253154/Dolby%20208...

[3] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7291452
And as such, it should serve as a communication device when and only when I want it to.
> non-sequiturs

if prestige is a good measure

-> how did it get that way?

-> exclusion

-> examples of exclusion

You might claim the point is not germane for other reasons but clearly this shows a clear sequence of thought so the claim "non-sequitur" doesn't hold. "It's too hard to measure" also doesn't mean "not germane," though.
You are always breathing, but you breath about 3x more while you're working out cardio style, but you're not significantly changing your average breath rate for the day unless you're working out for hours daily. 24 "rest-hours of breath" on a lazy day, 26 "rest-hours of breath" on a day when you spend a full hour doing cardio/running/etc, so spending an hour doing intense workouts only increased your carbon exhaled by 8.3%. Also, somewhere around 2/3 (if not 3/4+) of the weight you lose per breath is simply water vapor restored when you have your next drink, not carbon atoms being attached to oxygen molecules in the air. Also, working out makes you hungry, rightfully so (in a world that isn't essentially full of infinite tasty food for those of us with a little money). The only way to lose significant weight is to feel hungry, and to stop eating before you "feel" full. This is de facto psychologically insurmountable (or nigh unsustainable) to everyone who is overweight and wants to lose it but just can't bear to be hungry enough for long enough. Spoken as someone slightly overweight who just needs to feel a little hungry for a couple months to get to a much better weight. And of course, once you've made a habit of eating over your ideal calories, even after you've lost the weight, your stomach is still bigger and it's effortless to go back to eating your usual large-self amounts even after you've lost all the weight, and go right back to large-self weight.
I agree! Just saying it wasn't super fun to realize (completely fairly) that I wouldn't be able to become a professor.

And I have a lot of sympathy for my classmates who only realized that when they graduated and tried to get a job. Universities have significant incentives to prevent their students from realizing there are a lot of people out there smarter (and more privileged) than them and the implications that flow from that.

Universities should continue to be selective, but they should accurately communicate the implications of that selectivity to their students.
The issue was that the Post’s conclusions was an inevitable result of treating what public health authorities say as the truth and any heterodox voices as dangers to be silence. Introspection is meaningless if the post fundamentally doesn’t see anything wrong with that model and I think there is actually something to be said about treating mainstream medicine as authoritative truth.
... until it gets to

i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );
It truly did seem revolutionary at the time! Probably the second text adventure game I played.
Add in some meditation, and I think you might be on to something here.
I really respect the EU for having the guts to hold corporations accountable.
You're totally missing the joke. Read the article and check back.
Suppose that there's a really iconic pic of George Clooney eating a burrito in Times Square, with a "Getty Images" watermark on it, in the training set. It's perfectly framed, has a somewhat comic expression, and a bit of the contents spilled on his shirt. It seems quite possible that the model could produce an image that isn't identical to this but so much so that people assume it's a copy, maybe produced by an artist based on the picture. Worse, it will have most of the "Getty Images" watermark right on the image.

If that doesn't convince you that there might be an issue I'll just stop here.
The curious part is that even with insane returns, they still struggled to get attention from institutional investors who appear to be a mix of cash and short positions.
I have not been on a hiring committee — I actually failed my comprehensive exams partway through grad school which is how I ended up in tech :) — but your hypothesis sounds very reasonable to me. I’m just saying that we need a more careful causal identification strategy than that provided herein to say whether prestige has a meaningful effect on hiring, on average.
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Iy-xW9t1-OQWhb0hNxu...

You can use free Google colab to run your own instance.
A different approach is playing the many many variants like Chess960, Crazyhouse, etc.
I think the point GP is trying to make is that sometimes state governments try to get involved in marriage and having a federal policy that preempts that can prevent further meddling.

This cuts both ways—with preemption, you can provide baseline rights or guarantees to citizens. The trade-off is that you have federal legislation in the mix and you then need to deal with laws that are slower/harder to change; a big issue if the law was badly written or needs to be changed in a timely manner.
This is awesome! Me and a few friends were planning a trip, but their old policy was really confusing and I couldn't find good guidance on it, most of it contradictory. Hopefully they see a big boost, I imagine their hospitality sectors got hammered.
I bought the director's cut of _Home Plumbing_ and there were deleted scenes of leaks
Are there any operating systems or distributions that actually ship with DNSSEC validation via local recursive resolution?

The reason I'm describing local stub resolvers that check the dnssec bit of their upstream recursive resolver is because that's how DNSSEC is implemented in every OS/distro I'm aware of. So that configuration is what actually matters when we talk about users being protected (or not) by DNSSEC.
Karl Popper - The Open Society and its Enemies. How to work against totalitarianism

I've had this on my shelf waiting to be read for quite some time. I suddenly get the sense that it's more timely and topical than ever. Will probably start it soon.
> Maybe we're not talking about the same scenarios/alternatives? If I've set up whole-disk encryption with a security level I trust for my persistent storage, how is that not appropriate for the persisted hibernation state? To me, hibernation state is a subset of persistent storage needs, not some categorically different thing. The coupling between running system and persistent state seems so strong to me that I consider them one equivalence class of data and requiring one consistent protection standard.

Yes, we are talking about different scenarios. As I said, you can absolutely set up your swap to use a fixed password and then it will work fine as you describe.

> Are people concerned about the written hibernation state using the same key as the filesystem volumes?

That might be part of the concern, but it's more that it is possible to recover previous memory/swap state with a key that can reasonably be subsequently recovered.

Let's imagine a scenario where I have a secure password, that I enter into my browser, to say, access my bank's website. That's stored in memory by my browser & the GUI, but it is not normally allowed to be put on disk for security reasons. Then I hibernate my laptop and it gets written to the encrypted hibernate volume that uses a fixed password. I restore my laptop and go about my business. I might even reboot the laptop several time subsequently without thinking much about it. Then, someone finds a way to compromise the password used for swap encryption using any number of possible attacks (some you described). Now, not only do they have access to all the stuff on my computer, but they also have access to the contents of the encrypted swap volume, which unless I was lucky and the particular swap page was overwritten, the compromise goes back to the memory of the runtime from long before the machine was compromised. This would include this password that was very intentionally NOT stored on that computer, in order to avert precisely this kind of threat.

> If so, I would suggest that the swap crypto should not be conflated with the hibernation crypto.

That's another possible avenue, not that unlike what I was suggesting. It's worth noting though that these days there may not be much value in having separate passwords for swap vs. hibernate, since swap is rarely used on laptops.

They are all different security trade-offs, and it is debatable which is the right one. I don't think the current default is the right one for most users, but I do understand it.
I'm referring to the unions, not teachers.

And when I have a kid, I will be homeschooling.

Please don't assume.

Also, I was briefly a bus driver for a school district during COVID. I was disgusted by how the school buses were run, refusing to allow students to board without masks, requiring masks on the drivers when that affected the amount of oxygen to the brain. It was a mess.

People in my district tried to protest, including me, but the police refused to let them into school board meetings, which is illegal in my state.

If anything, what you're saying feels like you telling me to believe you and not my "lying" eyes.
I have seen thick southern/country accepts get subtitled on reality shows, FWIW.
> The research question here is whether faculty are hired from those prestigious schools above and beyond the rate at which they would have been hired based on other signals of their potential as researchers

It's interesting that you use the word "potential". Tenure-track positions are very hard to get, and most newly minded PhDs have very little track record. If they're lucky, they have a publication or two in a journal, but many will have only their dissertation. So I think the question is whether PhDs coming from prestigious schools are judged to have more "research potential" based on where they come from rather than their limited record.

The "potential" problem is even worse when it comes to admitting undergraduates into graduate programs.

If you don't get a tenure-track position right out of grad school, it can be difficult to ever work your way up to one, because you'll probably have to take a job at a school with a greater teaching load than a typical research university, which leaves little time for you to do your research and prove yourself. In a sense, the "potential" becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Nomadic tribes would just leave behind the elderly who could no longer keep up.
It's only a return to the previous norm.
Let me know if the archived link of the article works - https://archive.ph/j9FOn
I mean, it's not just leg bouncing in that I can bounce my leg in a way that clearly doesn't activate the soleus in the manner shown in the video.

But it also is just leg bouncing in that there's no more complicated motion than a certain sort of slow, controlled leg-bounce.
Ask HN: What must I know to build a computer mouse?
There are tutorials out there but none list the essential skills necessary to build-it-yourself from scratch such as casting and molding. If there are pre-existing software or electronics out there to reduce effort, all the better. I see it as a hobby over a year or two. I have the idea and designs but no skills!
What do you mean by starting salary? A tenure track professor would typically ~35-40 years old, having gone through undergrad, masters&phd plus a couple of postdocs. They would also not make 250k (at least i don't know anyone who made that sort of salary), that's the salary of a full professor at a reasonably prestigious uni.
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and if you check where they were before that last Ph.D step from elite university it would probably be all over the world, especially for STEM.
What's enlightening about solving algorithmic problems of harsher difficulty? I don't think it has any relevance to software engineering unless your job involves writing efficient algorithms all the time..
I get what you are saying... but let's consider for a fact that if the media had run the Biden Laptop story AS IF it was the Trump Laptop story - the election for leader of the free world would have gone the other way.

You can be happy or sad about the ends - but should be terrified of the means.

It wasn't an award show snub, or a gender bathroom debate, it was the entire direction of the USA with the largest military on Earth.
This is a little quip, but IMO radio shows often are much better than today's "podcasts."

It feels like a majority of what people call podcasts today are just random people talking to each other, often impromptu. It's often by people with no interview skills and no sense for how to produce engaging radio. And, more often than not, it feels like background noise. Sometimes that's enjoyable, but honestly if that's what I'm looking for I'll just listen to Howard Stern, the BBC or NPR.

What I loved about podcasts was that it was a medium which allowed for really great radio drama and storytelling. For the longest time what a podcast was, to me, was Radiolab, This American Life, Serial, The Moth, The Truth, etc.. Something with some real sound design behind it… where someone is trying to create something both engaging and enjoyable to listen to. When podcasts started to blow up after Serial I really hoped that we'd get more of that. But it seems like what we've gotten is a proliferation of random people just… rambling.

This makes me sound pretentious AF but I really do not understand why people listen to some of this stuff. Every now and then I'll listen to something new in the top 20 list and well… I think I'm getting to the "back in my day we walked up hills both way" age now, but man… the majority of today's podcasts are really bad. Like, physically painful to actually listen to. I don't know how and why people do. It feels like garbage tier radio.
> That said I don't think its likely that the Swedish elderly are either contributing much to taxes or capable of revolting. The younger generations would actually react positively to it.

You think the younger generations will think their parents getting completely shafted is a positive thing? Especially given many will end up supporting them financially (outside of the pension system)? I'm struggling to see how that would play out.
Weight really has very little to do with biology, and nothing to do with psychology. It is a simple matter of how much the earth's mass bends space-time - the more mass we eject of the earth, the less bent space-time will be in the vicinity, the less we'll all weight.

It really is the simplest weight loss method possible, it will work for everyone living on the planet at once, and the article presents it (and its difficulties) quite clearly - not sure why you'd go off topic by talking about biology and psychology.
Phone companies are a pipe - the content isn't broadcast publicly like it is on social networks, so that argument isn't logically consistent. Phone companies have no need to moderate content.

Social media is akin to paying for a storefront advertisement, or sending a letter to the editor. You buy access to a display window and can put your content there, under conditions. This is no different than that. If that content violates the rules, it can be removed. I wouldn't get mad if a shop owner agreed to put my sign up. I also wouldn't be mad if he said no. It's his property. I can buy my own property and do my own thing. Twitter is a private corporation. If they decided tomorrow that they'll only allow posts about bitcoin and delete everything else, that is their right. The government should not be telling people, or private corporations, what they can, and can't, post on their platforms.

Do you think HN moderation should be removed? Do you want more cesspools online? That's what you're arguing for.
obligatory relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
It is certainly a non-sequitur: can we simultaneously accept, or reject, the idea that prestige is a good measure of excellence while looking at (or not looking at) the history of how things become prestigious? Yes, we can. The one has nothing to do with the other.