skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, back before I lost faith in the project. I actually initiated some somewhat-notable articles such as those on Tank Man (the Tiananmen Square protester) and traditional ("hand-drawn") animation.

Most of my more recent contributions have been fixing typos/grammar or removing obvious spam, but I've given up on doing even that little as of late.
Here's the solution: Since OP is regularly in contact with 30+ homeless people, he can offer to be their backup email account. He can then confirm the identity of people if they lose access to their account and help them get it back.

Or, he can safely store their 2FA backup codes in his house.

The homeless make up like 0.1% of society. And not every homeless person has this issue. It would be insane to make any feature for like 0.02% of the population. Especially a feature which diminished security. Because yes, those 0.02% of people might have an easier time accessing their accounts, but probably 100x that amount of people are going to end up getting tricked into de-securing their account, or do it by accident, and end up getting compromised.
The irony of this title just hits the spot.
Most schools have off campus proxies you can use now
I think LSH was only introduced in 99 by Indyk et. al. I would say it was a pretty active research area 10 years ago.
A state vector can represent a point in the state space of floating-point representation, a point in the state space of a hash function, or any other discrete space.

Vectors didn't go anywhere. The article is discussing which function to use to interpret a vector.

Is there a special meaning of 'vector' here that I am missing? Is it so synonymous in the ML context with 'multidimensional floating point state space descriptor' that any other use is not a vector any more?
I would agree that the Internet has delivered spectacularly well in a few kinds of instruction. But if you're looking for raw, across-all-disciplines knowledge, books still win and it's not even particularly close. They shouldn't, but somehow they do.

Library Genesis is probably the best free part of the Web by a country mile, as far as raw disseminating-human-knowledge goes, and it's supposed to be illegal. And its utility is based on... giving you free access to books, periodicals, and papers.
This is all stuff that happens with houses also. I've had a house down the street blow up, dealt with shitty neighbors blasting music at all hours (or fighting/insulting each other), had my house flood due to neighbor's construction. And have to deal with property line issues on top of it all.

We live in a society, and that means dealing with people. Even if you live in a place where the nearest neighbor is half a mile away, you're going to have issues with someone. We used to have issues with people riding dirt bikes and trucks on our land, kids breaking in to have parties in our woods, people with horses who shit on the streets, and lots of illegal dumping.

The world is full of shit heads.
Oh my god, the endless lamentation about the fracturing into infinitesmall “filter bubbles” (pukes) while in reality there is mainly the binary “red vs. blue team”, “Reps and Dems used to be able to attend family dinners but now they cannot”.

Are you an extrovert or an introvert? Do you like cats or dogs? Pepsi?

Or Coke?

So thirty years ago you were apolitical, sat in front of the TV, and didn’t take things so personally. Now you are pseudo-political (Culture Wars), sat in front of YouTube, and identify with nonsense. No change of major consequence has happened.

The TV was already The Matrix, you fool. Now you complain that at least you used to share one common Matrix instead of Red Matrix and Blue Matrix—at least we could all agree on what veal tasted like (which didn’t really exist) sighs
The integrated one would already be quite good, if there was a more mainstream way to make use of it.
I can't think of any way to solve this problem if a majority of clients in a swarm is malicious.
A Letter to Myself
My sympathies go out to you, I get similar looks for not having a phone.
I wish I never entered grad school (or just get a one-year MS and leave). Turns out a PhD program which puts you at near-poverty level of salary for five years is bad for your mental health!
> Google could put a toggle in Google Account settings titled something like "Allow anyone who knows my password to log in to my Google account (less secure)."

Google allows someone of your choosing, who must also have a GMail account, to takeover one's account after x months of inactivity. It's not great but it's better than nothing and it has the benefit of being an option that exists today.
Being proprietary killed such an huge large amount of great technology in the 90 and early 2000s.
I guess it works because people think of it as if they were phone numbers, plus it removes the barrier of having to choose a username. See also the now defunct ICQ which was fairly popular even outside of tech circles.
IMO it’s valuable that the author tells my boss to focus asking me “how” and “why” I want to do things.

This value is partially lost when they use the leading caption & bottom half of their article to sell my boss on survey results via a particular demographic favoring one particular “how” and “why” outcome.
I wish these kinds of articles had more technical information. With diagrams, step by step operations, meeting minutes...
I would be fine with users doing less with their computers, if they in turn understood how they worked and why we all get angry here about things like: politicians likening cryptography to criminal activity, companies hoovering your data from every site you visit, etc.
Except that the top bar covers about the top 2/3 of it on mobile safari. This glitch renders essentially the entire site useless.

(What’s up with floating top bars? Either just make them be a real part of the page, or move them to the bottom, or, if absolutely necessary, keep them floating and test the heck out of them. Because that floating element that can’t be dismissed will result in a near 100% reduction in your conversion rate all by itself.)
> Suspicious number of pro-Windows comments

It's by far the most popular desktop OS, and most people are happy with it.
My point was regarding lawful temporary residents.
But what about when the Wikipedia consensus is quite far from reality? If your only source for most or all of your information is Wikipedia, you will never know.
I mean, Agile just can't work at all, because it conceives of only one part of a business without considering all the other parts.

I would prefer we popularized Deming's 14 points. That at least is achievable, and considers the whole business.
...and a very cute kitty!

Most Classic II suffer from leaking capacitors which should be replaced and it's a good idea to replace the onboard battery, which is prone to leaking and destroying the board:

https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2014-05-24-Classic...

There are two different versions of the mainboard which require different numbers and types of capacitors:

https://recapamac.com.au/macintosh-classic-ii-a/
vs.
https://recapamac.com.au/macintosh-classic-ii-b/
How is it ridiculous? This seems like an argument more like because you can do it, you should do it. What if car manufacturers had similar ideas to "focus on usability issues" and recorded every driver as they're driving their car. You could even use the same argument, if you're out in public there's no expectation of privacy, and you don't own the tech in the car, you just license it. But somehow we would all consider that to be crossing a red line and to be super creepy.
I know this exists. As does NextCloud. But what solution or use-case does it serve? I honestly cannot see it. Neither for WP nor for NC.

ActivityPub is -aside from a protocol- something that is designed for social networking mostly. How does "adding a WP plugin" help? Why would I want to connect my blog or website to this fediverse? Is it just so people can get my blogposts in their timeline? Because that's the only use-case I can see, and that problem is easily solved with RSS (and a bot).
The founder even did it twice. The last time he set out to make a video game, he came out the other end with Flickr
ArrayFire Team joins Intel for oneAPI (Sept 8, 2022)
Maybe traditional encyclopedia might give wikipedia a run for the money on subjects, say toilet paper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper

But wikipedia is far ahead on more practical articles like which way the toilet paper goes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation
White House Tightens Rules on Drone Strikes
> Secondly, the service survives. Mastodon didn't shut down. The Fediverse didn't close. One beloved instance bows out and whilst it is a loss to many, their network endures as they thank the admin(s) and move on.

I'm understanding that the data is gone and you're bragging about the observation that the protocol still functions?

I'm not sure this is an aspect any of us care about?

I think we can all observe that a common interface for posting and interacting with people will remain and that no corporation right now can unilaterally change that. I don't think pointing that out in a thread about all of the data on that server being gone is a strength.
Firefox on iOS here. Crashed the browser, impressive!
Right, but a lot of those shaders will run fine on the CPU as opposed to the GPU. Especially with the current lineup of supported Intel Macs, there's pretty much no supported machines that don't have comprehensive vector computation pipelines on the CPU-side of things.

IMO the best balance would be maxing out the AVX pipeline but keeping the CPU at base clock, and then leave the rendering/framebuffer manipulation to the GPU. I suspect that running both the simulation and 5k/2k displays simultaneously is too much for the GPU to handle.
Wikipedia, in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.org, specifically mentions this exact issue. [1]

The content of any given article may recently have been
changed, vandalized, or altered by someone whose opinion
does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the
relevant fields.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer
Even if you seed for a very short time is speeds up the process. No need to consume their data.
thought the same,and yes it is really a good episode worth listen to
What moral standards? And more interestingly whose moral standards? What moral rule is violated by allowing vice, or what utility function is reduced?

If you don't establish such axiomatic foundations in conversations about morality, you're doomed to just talk past each other. For example, I treat free will and empathy as axiomatic goods. I don't like being told what to do, and I don't like harm coming to others. By extension, others having their free will suppressed is bad, but not axiomatically bad in so much as it can cause greater suppression of the freedom of others.

Under such a framework, it should be pretty obvious why I would oppose prohibition. If someone does something that in of itself does not harm others, then that thing is at worst ethically neutral, and thus there is no good to offset the ethical evil of interceding in them doing it. On the other hand, if someone is attempting to kill someone else, or enslave someone else, or otherwise suppress the other's ability to be free, then preventing that by any means necessary is a moral good.

So what are YOUR axioms that you are operating off of? What base assumptions underlie your "moral standards"?
> Also I'm not entirely sure how SEPA works but could you just accept wires via your bank directly?

SEPA is not a wire payment, but rather better in every way.
Was just reading about how Overwatch 2 won't let people register with a prepaid phone number.

I'm sure there is some good reason to want to avoid people spinning up free or ultra low cost phone numbers to make extra accounts but some users were like, "I've been using TracPhone for a decade" or something like that. Also pretty surprised that it's this easy to detect the carrier. Guessing we'll see this more and more!
I think that there may be some relationship between what you’re describing and the quality of the blog posts that do actually get written.
One of the big caveats is that the information must be personally identifiable AND include information about the care of that person. Just my going to the website of a healthcare organization doesn't immediately identify me as a patient of that system, just that I've looked at their website. I've done some digging and I've found many health systems using google analytics, which is not HIPAA compliant. But I've found they only use this on their public pages. From what I can tell, they don't use it in their internal systems that will likely contain PHI.

All that said, given the state of IT in healthcare systems, it wouldn't surprise me if some system out there is using a non-HIPAA compliant system for handling PHI. Who? No idea.

The other part of HIPAA is that its penalties are WAY stronger than normal privacy laws. If someone knowingly obtains or discloses PHI in violation of the Privacy rule, they may face fines up to $50,000 and one year in jail. The fines and jail goes higher for more malicious violations. These penalties are enforced on the person who broke the law, not the company.
The cost isn't the only reason

- CERN started planning its computing grid before AWS was launched.

- It's pretty complicated (politics, mission, vision) for CERN to use external proprietary software/hardware for its main functions (they have even started to MS Office like products.)

- [cost] CERN is quite different than a small team researchers doing few years research. the scale is enormous and very long lived, like for decades continue

- and more...

HPC and scientific computing aside, I would have loved to be able to use AWS when I worked there, internal infra for running web apps and services wasn't nearly good & reliable, neither had a wide catalog of services offered.
US hits China with sweeping tech export controls
I think bilbo0s's comment is an unintentionally good example of the fact that a lot of people don't understand how little it takes to run these sort of things if you know what you're doing.

"The cloud" has ruined people thinking that everything has to cost 10x or even 100x compared to what it would cost if you just spend some time learning about administration yourself and set up a dedicated instance instead of using anything cloud.

As an exercise, without looking it up beforehand, what kind of hardware do you think HN runs on and how much they pay for that per month?

Also, $1500/month is a proper salary in many places in the world. Not everyone lives in a metropolitan city where wages tend to be much, much higher.
I don't know if it's noted on there somewhere, but it fails to run on my old High Sierra Mac I use for torrents.
Mind that there are studies that mean to prove a natural, spontaneous origin at the Wuhan wet market.

E.g., https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/covid-19-originated-at-...
my advice: look for work with startups that have under 20 on staff. you'll avoid corporate nonsense (more often than not with startups of that size), and it's likely they'll be remote so the only "modern office setting" things you'll have to pick up and master are: not being a jerk, communicating effectively asynchronously, and video call etiquette. With companies that size, and there are many out there, they'll likely be more than happy to help you figure out the remote lifestyle.

Be bold
I don't like it either, but case law or legislation against this will just end up with the US mandating things like cookie banners.

Eventually, building a website will be like getting approval to build a building.
California does not control the Federal Reserve Bank, so it cannot print money.
VIMA: General Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts
That's what "social networking" is, but not what a "social networking website" is. Social networks don't require computers or websites.
Whenever I read an article that treats 9/11 as anything other than inside job meant to goad the public into accepting an insane "War on Terror", I question the credibility of it's author.

Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that removed obstacles to global domination of petro-dolllar are a direct consequence of this event.
Plenty! If you have largish binary assets of any kind that need to be distributed across multiple nodes, it's fantastic.

For instance, if you're in the infrastructure group in a company, and you need to distribute VM images around the place, it's great.
Good question comrade #9246546.
How is this different from Super? (https://super.so)

Super is a tool to turn Notion pages into websites. Your tool seems extremely similar, but more expensive, so where's the value proposition?
This is not obvious to the average person outside of the industry. For example, most people would expect that text typed into a form field without clicking submit is private and has not been sent to anyone. It is obvious to a software developer that secretly sending the text back to a server while the user types is easy to implement, but posting an agent to read over someone's shoulder while they write a draft which they may choose not to send at all does not become morally acceptable just because modern technology has made this more practical than hiring a PI to watch through someone's house window from a public street.
Just the other day had an experience where someone in need, freshly moved to a new country, asked to use my phone to email a relative asking for money to buy a phone. When I realized they would need to log in to their gmail, I felt sorry knowing it almost certainly won't work. It didn't. Thankfully Facebook worked.
Note that an old trick for extracting compiled OpenGL shaders - glGetProgramBinary - only results in an intermediate representation in an Nvidia variant of ARB assembly, not the GPU-specialized native microcode.
Yes well I don't think Feynman's answer is the one single thing to be passed down myself, I am talking about its generalization in a conceptual, philosophical or mathematical sense. As for if this differs from Darwinian evolution perhaps, and perhaps they will both be subsumed under a comprehensive evo-devo-eco theory which is then generalized to a discipline agnostic model. Since they are two pieces of this triad it is difficult to choose between them.
The point isn't to have the kid write the essay about acid rain. The point is to teach the kid about acid rain and have them demonstrate an understanding of it. If the kid just turns in an AI-written essay that they may not have even read, they have learned nothing.
The best way to increase profit is to find ways to align the employees' selfish interests with the success of the company.
Thanks - no, my question was in this instance specifically, were existing tokens moved out of specific wallets thus immediatelly injuring specific entities, or were they generated and thus in a more diffused and deferred way hurt entire ecosystem.
Ants learn fast and do not forget
I mean, yeah, isn't this normal behavior for every major video game as well?
How would this be any different if I were to design my site to use a websocket and stream mouse events and keystrokes to figure out if you are clicking a button, versus using a javascript event handler or something? In fact, a lot of your browser games operate this way (using coordinates).

There is no one single way to design a website.

The very same non-technical folks that you allege are misled here also have no clue how buttons work on a site either... it's all magic to those folks. Are we not supposed to do any logging now? How is it any different to only log when a user presses a button?

Your TV tracks what shows you watch, what buttons you press, how often you skip commercials, etc. Your smart fridge tracks how often you use the ice feature, your car tracks how often you drive aggressively, etc. No one is alleging these devices are "wiretapping"...
I can’t tell if that was supposed to be a parody or not.

Which is kind of my point. Some material may be better than placebo, but when we are talking about self help as an industry you need to consider the impact of everything from Scientology to actually lethal practices like Breatharianism. The trends within the industry seem to focus on what’s useful as a business rather than what’s helpful to it’s customers. So yes some people are helped, but some people are also financially ruined or even killed.

It’s not that everyone is trying to scam others, just that the same kind of forces that cause clickbait still apply and impact what’s popular.
Privacy as a Moral Buffer
Its also a golden age for people who understand code and smart contracts and are willing to take advantage of others without breaking any laws. A few of the major "hacks" lately have simply been taking advantage of errors in how smart contracts were coded.
Are you playing a game here?

Normally people provide relevant links. Even if this is showing bad sourcing, it still sources the important numbers. "External links" is helping with that too.

And this 2003 vs. 2004 distinction is a waste of time when wikipedia has a perfectly good history feature.

If I ask pretty please will you name the element?
Long Live the Vectors
Financial Security/responsibility is getting wayyy too complex for the layperson:

* Find a decent bank with 2FA. None of the big banks are decent, they have minimum balances, piles of fees. Credit unions are good, but you want one that isn't too local, which can limit you to credit unions specific to military/veterans/families

* Have multiple checking accounts. Only one of these checking accounts has a debit card attached, or exposed account number anywhere. Never ever hold a balance in this account. Keep the balance in the other account.

* Never use that debit card for anything but the ATM and bank teller authentication. In fact, don't even carry it with you, in case you lose your wallet or somebody tries to take it. Not every bank makes it easy to turn debit card off.

* Only use ACH for rent and loan payments. Never hold a balance in the account used for this. Many rent companies and loan providers are not properly securing that number. Your account number can't easily be changed.

* Keep the bank you use a secret from everybody including friends and family. Only the few payees and your payroll provider need to know.

* For sending money to friends if everybody has iPhones, Apple's Cash functionality is good enough.

* Get a respectable credit card with zero fraud liability. Use it for everything. Have a backup at home. Now your bank is insulated from the outside world. If somebody tries to take your wallet, just give it to them. It's easier to get a card reissued and transactions overturned in that scenario than it is to get drivers licence replaced.

* Don't move outside the country or do a USPS address change to a PO Box. Banks have been known to just shut people's accounts down and mail the balance as a check in these scenarios. Patriot act something something.

This is banking in USA. It was designed for a trust-based society 70 years ago that's still mostly trustful but needs to consider the culture has changed a bit. If the Fed would require member banks implement secure 2FA and the option to disable external ACH from accounts upon request, we wouldn't need to do all this.
It is widely used. And that's a disgusting disregard of customers' privacy.

I very much doubt that this lawsuit will go anywhere. I hope it does, though.
in the notes, is there information about who did what or not?
From last year's website https://bangbangcon.com/2021

> !!Con 2021 was held online, the week of May 15-22, 2021!!

> !!Con was a pay-what-you-want conference. Our registration was open April 24th (first batch) and April 26th (second batch).