skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue Google turned evil quickly, pretty much the moment they released the surplus behavioural data they could glean off their users when they used their services could be extracted for profit which begun even before gmail, allowing them to “personalize” your services. And by personalize, I mean Google built a profile on you to better learn how they could poke and prod at your behaviour in order to manipulate you into doing things for their customers, the advertisers.

I think the doubleclick acquisition hopped this into overdrive and also allowed Google to start screwing both sides by extracting larger and larger rents from advertisers with its near monopoly power and ad cartel with Facebook. We saw the Google tracking cookie spread like a plague shaking down users for data even if they did not use a Google service, as sites effectively needed to install googles tracking cookie on its customers computers to take full advantage of the Google ad monopoly, obliterating the pretence of consent you had with a service like gmail where you were at least consciously agreeing to data scraping.

I honestly think it took them almost no time at all to go from pagerank and spiders to leap towards building their panopticon and the modern surveillance economy. I think the reason people didn’t consider them evil is that what they were doing was so innovative and groundbreaking that people didn’t fully understand the implications. The way their business operates shouldn’t even be legal with them playing both sides of the ad market and their relentless spying being opt-out at best if you have sufficient technical knowledge. The spying of Google and companies like that it’s undermining government privacy protections at this point as the government can acquire spy data it couldn’t gather itself legally (for good reason) from private companies.
That is clearly the case. It's almost certainly like the plot behind it and to the right -- not covered by dirt, but more like a buried mausoleum which is opened to add urns with the ashes of recently passed family members.
Not just banning abortion, but any medicine that could maybe possibly be used as an abortifacient, even if it is normally prescribed medicine for something else. Some women suffering from arthritis can't get methotrexate for example.
One of the unfortunate side effects of the ongoing RPi shortage is the shrinkage of the accessories market. A lot of the coolest stuff still isn't available for the Model 4, like the SNES enclosure with working buttons and USB ports in the controller ports.
Yep. As another user pointed out, privacy tooling is a very hard problem across a large company. When you have a cloud platform, you're especially incentivized to build a robust solution for this.

I would imagine AWS and Microsoft also have a thorough tooling solution.
> The early layers of the network detecting simple features like lines, curves, textures, shapes, colors, etc

This is pretty common, especially with convolutions, but is not guaranteed. How you embed matters a lot. For example, there are transformers that use early convolutions for the embeddings and that makes them just work. Though too many and they are less performant (ViT tried pre-resnets which wasn't great). [0] also investigates transfer learning in medical domains and shows that CNNs depends more on statistics reuse and transformers depend more on feature reuse.

> If you've seen a paper that verifies this I'd love to see it.

[0] also discusses this. When it does and doesn't work on medical domains. Basically any paper that discusses transfer learning will also discuss the limitations. But note that there is a bias towards results that work. [1] also shows some of these results, where Imagenet pretraining helps and doesn't (and references others doing the same). Note in Figures 2 and 3 how InceptionV{3,4} and MNASNet have higher performance without pretraining (Fig 4 is a summary). So this shows in part of what I was saying that it isn't always about dataset either. You have a coupled problem that is hard to disentangle. There's also plenty of papers that try to say that LLMs are good at learning vision classification and never get past 50/60% accuracy (or worse) on ImageNet. Lots of scientific papers will also just straight up train from scratch and not mention transfer learning because it just didn't work for them, but you'd need to physically talk to these people as it isn't in their papers.

> FWIW I have not yet seen a model starting from a pre-trained COCO checkpoint that does worse than random initialization.

Additionally ImageNet performance doesn't correlate 1-to-1 with how well it works as a backbone in object detection and segmentation.

As another note, I would often say to be careful with pretrained models. The vast majority of papers are using test accuracy to hyper-parameter tune. So you're leaking knowledge into your model. I think this is mostly caused by reviewer benchmarkism (desk reject if you aren't SOTA) so bad practices become standard.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01825

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06871
Often SNAP is called "food stamps", but they're similar:

https://www.benefits.gov/news/article/439
For that to work you won't even need a database in the user's browser - you could just store an encryption key as a cookie today which you use to encrypt all your serverside data when the user logs in

The real problem is how you deal with the average user (who doesn't really backup properly) losing or crashing their device and thus their encryption key/data. You quickly end up with serverside storage and an email-based password reset again...
Better than physically staging spaces and all of the resources and effort that goes into that, no?
> That's missing the point, Apple owns the platform

People make a lot of to-do about it, but, that's not really an unusual thing in the market anymore. Sony has exclusive control of their store, does not permit sideloading, and no, the hardware isn't subsidized.

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/325504-sony-finally-turns...

Regardless of whether you feel that's also bad, it goes to establish that this is not unusual or particularly noteworthy behavior.
Multiple AWS accounts is definitely a best practice in larger engineering orgs. We implemented a CloudFormation StackSet to ingest them into our billing tool and lay them out appropriately. This proved to be a very slick solution from AWS so it made me believe that they want their larger customers to use multiple accounts too.

If you are smaller I would not recommend it. Many things become a little more difficult, as others have pointed out. Oftentimes a devops or platform engineering org will paper over these things.
Likely political. Opponents of Erdoğan will stick to "Turkey" because the rebrand was his move.
I'm not. That's socialism. Investing in public services that make life and society better. It's many key components short of communism.
> but I still often find that I can get a car from Uber faster and more affordably than Lyft.

Lyft surge prices are much higher IME. At a particularly bad time, a surge Uber trip downtown where I live might be $25, Lyft will charge me $60 for the same ride. I wonder how much of that the driver sees.
I am familiar with the tooling but what I lack is in the ability to quickly navigate a code base. Given a period of 2-3 weeks, I can disect a project into the relevant parts, but I feel like it is still slow.

Now the issue I have is contributing to these projects. I am fairly capable of starting on my own, however, if it comes to updating the existing base, that is where I fall short. Any tips on that? I tried open source and basically ended up with same result. Same thing happens when I try to answer to questions on stack overflow. I do not get the confidence to do so.
On top of that, it reads like scalar is essentially just a different default config profile.

This approach feels... wrong.
Sad to think that because some asks the most obvious fucking question that their account must be "hacked". Science welcomes questioning, religion doesn't.
The book cover has a very quick summary in the form of cartoons, but the table of contents (pp 3–4/160) has a list of what it covers, the preface (pp. 5–7/160) explains the motivations and has a little more color on what it colors, and the first chapter (pp. 9–42/160) has a really good overview of control theory including cartoons and a dialog with Ctesibios.
WIC is way overcomplicated for what it is. Just cut a check for the value of the goods you want to provide and be done with it. No excuse for the insane bloat and overhead associated with WIC.
The fed is not _trying_ to soften the labor market, it is trying to reduce inflation. It expects that the labor market may soften as a byproduct. It's right there in your link.
It's an open source project, the benefit of being a bit closed down is that you can then focus on coding instead of scrolling through issues/PR all day. Who wants to do that?
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I've distributed a lot of software and DEB/RPM has to be the worst. I'd suggest those distros improve on their developer ergonomics if they want to stay relevant. 100% of my customers use Docker images these days as it is much much easier to use.
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There's an interesting statistical bias in the Used EV Market that first owner life statistics are way up on average versus comparable ICE models. We're edging past the point where that's likely "just" a symptom of early adopters and it may indicate easier maintenance curves on EVs and longer useful lifetimes for EVs and that the used EV market may look very different than the used ICE market. Though as stated, it will likely be another decade or two before we have a stable market to figure that out.
I understand that less abortions means more pregnancies to deal with but aren't they fundamentally separate issues. A health system needs to be able to deal with the load presented to it.
Here are two

https://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/wavestate/

https://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/opsix/

Although that's with the CM3
I love how when it's women it's rarely reported, when it's men the "reported" drops off and it just becomes rare.

Lets not even get started on the number of female teachers that have sex with students and walk away with no charges, or very light charges.

both sexes have their own challenges, this dismissal of one set of challenges does nothing to further the conversation.
Probably because it's become painfully clear just how poorly prepared the Russian armed forces are for this, or any, modern conflict. Their equipment is old and badly maintained, their personnel are ill-trained and have low morale, and their intelligence appears to be of the "tell the egomaniac dictator what he wants to hear" variety rather than the "get the best information, no matter what it may imply about relative strengths or whatever" variety.

Putin tried for months to secure Ukraine and is being pushed back. He's instituted a draft to replace lost personnel there, and over a hundred thousand able-bodied Russians have fled the country rather than take the risk that they're called up.

I wouldn't put the odds at zero (because Putin is also not the most stable and sensible person), but it seems very unlikely that he would even try to send troops to open up a completely new front, against actual NATO members, let alone succeed in any meaningful way.
I did a bunch of warehouse jobs when I was at uni. Some of the most depressing and soul crushing jobs I've ever had. The worst ever one I had was pulling a massive roll of sandpaper to a line and then another guy pressed a button to cut it. Then we lifted the cut sandpaper on to a pile. Repeat for 8 hours.

I didn't stay in that one past one day, far too boring.

Let's not romanticise these jobs. I think you're confusing the endorphins from exercise, which most warehouse jobs don't need, with the job.

Most warehouse jobs completely suck.
What about small mom and pop businesses that leverage targeted ads to compete against mega-corporations?
That's not an extreme example. That's an extremely common experience that most women I know have had. Daily? No, but frequently, and I'm not terribly attractive. The more conventionally attractive friends of mine get way more attention and way more unsolicited dick pics.
> Anticompetitive to deny others the ability to run ads on your platform.

Yeah, if that were true it'd be pretty bad. (It's not true.)
Why are you on your work PC/phone after work? Or is it all the same? I notice a lot of people do not have personal computers anymore... like back in the 90s.

For home office I shut off the work PC and turn on the gaming PC where I am not logged in on work accounts. Work phone on disturb mode.

Or go take a walk.

Its not "impossible to shut it all out"
Hard disagree.

You may want a THING, but you don't know about a particular brand or style of said THING. Just by making you aware of them can be a win win.

Say you've been researching "THINGS" for a couple weeks and narrowed it down to 2 brands. An Ad pops for a brand you'd never heard of. Naturally you check it out, only to find out its better than either of the options you were previously considering.
This seems more like a 1A case than a constitutional issue about sec 230, can someone explain? Apparently someone posted pro-ISIS content on Google, and Google claimed sec 230 protection. But it seems like a significant 1A issue if publishing pro-ISIS content (at least in a broad sense, not "everyone go kill infidel so-and-so right now") is illegal in the first place. The sec 230 angle is only about whether algorithmically promoting the objectional content amounted to editorial choices by Google, which would mean it was more than just a hosting platform.
If your definition of “communist welfare system” is a handful of services being subsidized than I’m afraid you’re already living in a communist dystopia.
You're giving terrible advice. If I had relied only on organic social connections I would have never met my wife. We didn't share any of the same activities, worked in different industries, and attended different schools.

There's no need to restrict yourself to one approach. People can do both.
This doesn't sound like the exploit that was used in that case.
Jeff is always a raspberry foundation supporter. I do feel a bit more pushback is needed. The other companies he mentions like Apple and Nvidia have shown considerable improvement in recent months. The raspberry is only ever harder to get.

I have a feeling Broadcom is the main problem here, they probably prioritize other customers. Which is surprising in some ways because a lot of raspberry pi foundation members are ex-broadcom or still even work there.

However I guess the other companies are willing to offer more whereas if the pi became more expensive there would be a lot of uproar (and rightly so because it defeats the purpose)
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ISTR that Wyse Technology (fond memories of their WY-60 terminals) made thin clients out of Raspberry Pis.

Stratodesk makes them now:

https://www.stratodesk.com/solutions/raspberry-pi-thin-clien...

How Good is the new Raspberry Pi 4 as a Thin Client? (2019)

https://www.stratodesk.com/how-good-is-the-new-raspberry-pi-...
Look like you can get one inside of a DevTerm:

https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/devterm-kit-cm4-ser...
Just cut a check for the value of the goods you want to provide and be done with it.

Are you under the assumption that your suggestion hasn't been tried (and subsequently found wanting)?
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Yup. The advertising apocalypse has been a complete horror show for many small businesses. But super excited people have their privacy so that only the bigoted of the big can afford to show them ads.
Do you know another verb for being the person someone is cheating on their spouse with?
Sure, but in the context of this discussion unmanaged property simply isn't an issue, in my view. It's too much management that's causing problems.
The choice is in how to think about and respond to external conditions, not in denying the existence of external conditions.
I thought the 80ties behind iron curtain were bad because we had food stamps.
The author did not need to define schizoid because:

1. It is their blog, and they probably assume their audience is educated in what schizoid means or is capable of looking it up.

2. Schizoid does not colloquially refer to schizophrenia, and schizophrenia is not a pejorative for "crazy," these are both real and distinct (but related) disorders that do not require anyone talking about them to dichotomize them from what you might assume people misconstrue their false definitions as.

Also, it's not an "extreme form of introversion" - it's much more than that, and putting it that way minimizes the serious nature of the disorder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Conference

That is exactly what you write. It was agreed on that Poland was moved to the west, and that any claims to reimbursements would have to be addressed to the Soviet Union. Given that Poland has accepted and insisted on the movement to the west, as witnessed by the border treaty [1],the question remains why Polish leaders never had the guts to demand reparations from the Soviet Union.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Polish_Border_T...
Food stamps was a different program, targeted at poor people more generally. It's now SNAP, and it does not require recipients to have children < 5 years old or be pregnant.

1 in 6 American kids live in a household that receives SNAP benefits. I don't have the stats handy, but some large plurality of Americans receive SNAP benefits at some point during their lives.
When I ordered a Pi 4 from CanaKit back in January, it took 54 days to get to my house. It felt like a long wait at the time, but looking back, it wasn't that bad, given the chip shortage. Took me another month to get around to setting it up anyway.
AWS Control Tower is great to set all of this up. It's basically a layer on top of AWS SSO, AWS Org, Cloudtrail, AWS Config. With some sane default security policies.
It's not a ticking time bomb. If you make a grave mistake with bad connections, then it may be an issue. But this is true of all wiring. It's just that aluminium is more sensitive to bad connections.

As long as your electrician uses approved connections and does them to spec, there is no chance of a problem.
Some TVs user RPis:

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/tv-thats-not-necs-pi-...
Given the context, I think that says "IHS". There are a variety of IHS symbols, some can be confused as a dollar sign.

https://cemeteries.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/ihs/
The Food Stamps program became SNAP. These are both distinct from WIC.

It is crucial that we have lots of programs with distinct eligibility criteria to make sure that poor people are suffering sufficiently.
Deep cake Inception if you will...
We use a CM3 in our Blackboard Classic control surface:

https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/products/control/range_cn/index...
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> The proper way is to enroll the private keys with the bios

Not always possible. Depends on firmware support and we all know how shitty proprietary firmware can be.
Instead of retire, let's say never having to do something you don't want to do (professionally) at which point you don't need productivity boosts. You just do things you'd do anyway. And if you don't do them, were you that interested in it to begin with?
The bigger problem is batteries have moved into "structural elements" in the current "skateboard" designs. Removing the batteries potentially damages the foundational structure of the car and may need expensive mitigations.
The modern internet gives me a strange sense of amnesia. I swear everything is heavily censored and redacted now, but how can I prove it when my primary view into this world is the search engines themselves? It feels a bit like the simulation hypothesis.
> uses a Raspberry Pi Zero W in their second-gen system

(assuming it's a standard version and you haven't already)

Couldn't you just grab the SD card out of it and inspect the file system, then try to get the password through that? You'd have to spend some time bruteforcing it most likely, but it should eventually (tbh, seeing solutions like this I'd expect quickly) give you the password.
So we are both cautious :)

If you mean Aztec imported words, I don't know which they are. Maybe you mean the tl consonant group that is not very natural, but neither is zr (as in three) and we just get used to it, when we learn English.

Could "chocolate" be one of these words? It was just adapted, both pronuntiation and spelling.

The problem now is imported. It seems English has no letter for j sound... ahem, the real j sound :) being the h (as in hot) the closest, but way weaker, so when transcribing from other alphabets, like Arabian or Cyrilic, it's written as kh, see Ха́рків.

But the trick isn't working and everybody reads it as a lone k. Also we receive the kh transcription... what a mess :)
If free software that runs nearly everything could be done without advertising, so could these.
"Sure it's complete hearsay, but it plays well with HN readers so…"
Any kind of news event can be repeated by dozens of articles. It’s a really absurd system and it also means you can’t easily find alternative perspectives on events.

Searching by date range doesn’t work either since it brings up current articles as well.
I had data corruption with Joplin sync and then moved to Obsidian. It's been absolutely brilliant.