skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are good reasons to change undocumented behaviors with each release just to discourage dependence on them. E.g., change hash functions. People will squawk, but will be better off.

How is that not paying attention to Hyrum's Law, something you just told us to not do? Hyrum's Law explicitly does not say to never change undocumented behaviors, and what you propose is a reaction to the observation in it.
If someone starts taking out the 24 GPS satellites - a new anti-satellite weapon, or an interceptor satellite like the X-37 is speculated to be - being able to do it off Starlink's thousands as a backup would be extremely appealing to the US government.

(After all, this is the same organization that's happy to pay out the nose to keep ULA alive to have redundant launch options.)
Britain has gotten into this mess
No, they can't do that, because, you know, competition. Basically, those few weeks/months of below market rate prices are the cost of bootstrapping your business. Of course, if, over time, you acquire stellar reputation, then you probably can price yourself slightly higher than competitors based on that. But that's very unstable state.
Kotlin is a great option, and isn't a big jump from Java!
This is awesome, didn't read all of it yet, but I will for sure, I use HTTP way too much and too often to ignore some of these underlying concepts, and when I try to look it up, there's always way too much abstraction and the claims aren't proven to me with a simple example, and this article is full of simple examples. Thanks Amos!
What I don't get is ... where is the government in all this? As the article points out: the owners of the property clearly violate a lot of laws. So I hear violating the law gets you into "trouble with the law".

Well, clearly it doesn't.
> Note: We promisify our socket.send function for two reasons:

Using await makes the flow of our code sequential.
We want to call socket.close after all messages are sent

Hence the use of send2
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. The artist seems pretentious, but self-aware. Annoying, but a great storyteller. The art and philosophical conclusions involved are dated and cliché but thought provoking at the same time. It's irritating, exciting, and comforting all at once. I don't know what to make of it but I'm glad that people like the author exist.
I think you are extrapolating a bit much from an almost in-joke in a community you aren't part of. Domains are cheap, putting up a website about something doesn't mean much.
One thing I love from Insomnia.rest is the ability to import CURL commands, including an entire list of newline-delimited CURL commands from the clipboard. This makes it easier to modify XHR's you pulled from your browser via a right click -> "copy all as cURL (bash)".
This guy already sounds, in his own words, "neutered". "We have to listen to regulators, we have to listen to the community, etc" there are no regulations, and even if there were, imagine if Uber, Lyft, AirBnB, Tesla, or other startups had taken this position. Listening to regulators / the community / anyone without a stake in the company is literally the quickest way to get killed by regulators captured by incumbent competitors.
Can you chain requests together? Like if a request requires auth it will invoke login then take the token for use in the next request.
In my own regional experience (southwest brazil) both uber and airbnb's are cheaper than taxis/hotels.
As they say "price is king".
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra review
The S22 Ultra is the spiritual successor to the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra - and that's no bad thing
The Master Resource
> There are many, many cities with much lower crime and much higher

Do you mean cities with lower arrest rates? I don't know of any reliable source that shows actual crime rates.

> Suggesting the crime problem we're discussing is the cause of income inequality

We already know that income inequality causes higher crime. So it's almost certainly a factor. If anyone has sources to evidence for other factors, there's no reason to not be open to that evidence as well.
Or just plain old coverage reporting
What is the point of this sort of joke? Just to confirm that we all think of ourselves as superior to anyone using tiktok?

It's probably overall neither much more or less reliable than other social media like reddit, twitter, instagram and, sorry boys, HN.
Good libraries are random on non-guaranteed parameters (like sort order) so they client tests detect that non-guaranteed immediately and clients don't depend on non-guarantees.
Jackson's thought experiment is exactly like the proof that x = y leads to 1 = 0[1], in that the conclusion doesn't follow from the premise.

So how is it a useful basis for any arguments? If the argument is flawed, how can there be any contradiction?

[1]: https://math.hmc.edu/funfacts/one-equals-zero/
Same, my team and I started using Insomnia too when Postman pulled that stunt; doesn't matter if they went back on, good will lost in that way is a bridge burned that can't be rebuilt.
I have my doubts. It's not like we haven't added more lights to motorcycles before. The problem is it confuses drivers into believing the motorcycle is another type of vehicle and is much further away than it actually is. That's why motorcycle manufacturers went back to the single, large headlamp.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/technology/texas-google-p...
Hotels are also hilariously taxed, because it's perfect taxation without representation - the people staying at the hotels aren't residents!
This article has broken my brain. I read this and stared at it like "this isn't a palindrome? What are you on about?"
Anonymous speech is an essential facet of free speech- maybe the most important. Getting rid of anonymity means removing the voice of the trans woman stuck in a conservative town or in the year 2000- or the Satanist, the Muslim, the ex-con, the furry, or the BDSM enthusiast. It means making corporate whistleblowers put their livelihood on the line. It means telling John Fryer, the (at the time) anonymous gay psychiatrist who spoke out in 1972 against their treatment of gay people, to sit down and shut up. It means stopping the author of African Slavery in America (probably Thomas Paine, but left anonymous) from speaking out against slavery in 1775.

In another vein, Scott Alexander needed (partial) anonymity not to speak truth to power but to keep his patients from finding him, finding a disagreement, and treating him as an enemy. Even if it were just him in that situation, you'd be robbing me of books worth of philosophy, politics, and science- stuff that has made me a better person and a better thinker.

And you'd be removing me from this conversation, because I have friends and family across the political spectrum who I would prefer not to offend, and I have heterodox views that would upset the right with leftness and the left with rightness. Perhaps you think I should be prevented from speaking openly, but you certainly can't say it's because I am avoiding feedback- I'm seeking feedback for positions I would otherwise quietly go on believing.

What is the value added that would justify taking away the rights of so many powerless? Of suppressing any ideas that are not already mainstream?
Login spoofing issue in GitHub nets researcher $10k bug bounty reward
And AirBnB skirts these zoning laws by basically allowing hotels in areas not zoned for them. Tourists aren't locals, they shouldn't get housing at the locals' expense, which is exactly what is happening. Housing prices go up for locals, they have to deal with all the downsides of basically living next to a hotel all because tourists feel entitled to not have to stay in places meant for tourists. It's destroying cities - Dublin, for instance, is beyond ridiculous. And at one point there's more AirBnB to rent in city centre Dublin than apartments in the entire country. AirBnB is a big cause on the housing crisis because they circumvent rules and push all externalities to the locals.
Is this just a general problem in science?

Science is highly objective, but the process of attaining scientific credibility is prone to all kinds of human problems.

Expecting the judicial system to sort through this better than the scientific community seems foolish.

Ideally, a high-enough percentage of scientifically-educated people would mean more skeptical jurors, defense attorneys who more able to challenge experts, and judges more able to keep junk science out entirely.
Thank you for saying this. Sometimes I feel like I'm insane in that no one seems to acknowledge that many of these businesses are simply skirting real regulations because "internet" as you say so succinctly (e.g. PayPal skirting banking laws, Uber skirting Taxi laws, Amazon skirting tax laws etc.). Thankfully, it didn't/doesn't work in every country/case but it's apalling how often it did work.

btw. I'm all for interruption but please... it shouldn't be through these means (at least not on this scale).
Pragmatic usually implies a certain down-to-earth personality, but there's no contradiction in being pragmatic about something abstract and long-term. Our goals are all irrational or based on emotion in some way, but we can use "logical" strategies to move towards them.
That's basically what I'm missing. I'm not cut out for sales, and this is something that absolutely requires a sales person explaining and doing demos.
And what are the electrons? AFAIK, they are excitations within a quantum field. And what's a quantum field? Each layer down seems to get closer and closer to pure mathematics.

I wish I understood it better.
I appreciated the bit where she acknowledged she'd been writing a stereotypical snarky, judgmental Slate article up to that point. Unfortunately by that point, the article was nearly finished, and there wasn't time to recover from it. I'm not sure what I should be taking away from this article: seems like not much happened, but they had to write a certain number of words about it anyway.
But then you have a case where the officer will try and use what you said against you. So, even if it wasn’t knowingly in truth, in practice it will be up to you to defend that truth. Whereas silence saves you the hassle.
Run a non-commercial side project (Maybe open source)

A big part of learning is making mistakes and learning from them. As you grow in seniority, mistakes become more expensive in money and or stress. Trying new things on stable products in big companies is hard. So how do we keep learning? How do we get updated? How do we try new stuff to be seniors on it five years from now? Run a side non-commercial project.

Why no commercial? I will get deeper into this soon, but if people are paying for it, downtime, bugs, and instability are not quite acceptable. While learning, you probably have all of those, sometimes multiple of them, at the same time.
He went on a podcast last year to talk about it and his recent book: https://spoti.fi/3EY33E4
> Money is an abstraction of reputation and honor

Money is an abstraction of _perceived_ reputation and honor, and therein lies the problem.
This is also Mother Night's law:

Be careful who you pretend to be, because you are who you pretend to be.
Same in Java. For both TCP and UDP, you build a socket and write to that.

Actually, I don't know what happens if the DNS record expires during the connection. I would presume nothing -- that the socket will stay open with the same (possibly now invalid) destination IP until closed.
I don’t understand, what is it, what does it do?
Again, there is a distinction to be made between the outputs of the model and the model itself!

When Tyler Ochoa is saying that there is a decent chance of a copyright claim he is specifically talking about the output of the model.

Here is the full quote:

In the Texas Law Review in March, 2021, Mark Lemley, a Stanford law professor, and Bryan Casey, then a lecturer in law at Stanford, posed a question: "Will copyright law allow robots to learn?" They argue that, at least in the United States, it should.

"[Machine learning] systems should generally be able to use databases for training, whether or not the contents of that database are copyrighted," they wrote, adding that copyright law isn't the right tool to regulate abuses.

But when it comes to the output of these models – the code suggestions automatically made by the likes of Copilot – the potential for the copyright claim proposed by Butterick looks stronger.

"I actually think there's a decent chance there is a good copyright claim," said Tyler Ochoa, a professor in the law department at Santa Clara University in California, in a phone interview with The Register.

The use of the word "but" marks the transition from a discussion around the model itself to the outputs of the model.

Is it not also perfectly clear that Lemley and Casey are also of the opinion that the model itself is fair use?
Yup. Use this all the time, either when I want to automate something on an undocumented API, or if I want to do some basic security testing on API's at work.
> The point here is that despite knowing the entirety of the corpus of knowledge about colour vision, she still doesn't know everything that there is to know about it if she hasn't actually experienced seeing the colour red.

But that isn't the point being made in the article. The point being made is that this is somehow non-physical, which is obviously wrong:

Thus, argues Jackson, Mary has come to know a non-physical fact; so proving that not all knowledge is physical.
I worked on a public project in the South Bay and the corruption runs deep.

Spend 15k on Airbnb in a week for one person? Expense approved.

Seems everyone took a cut somehow.
I used the term "animal spirits" to describe the voodoo that the arson investigator used to justify the conviction (I admit this is confusing given that "mineral spirits" plays a role in the article). The term is often used in economics to describe the fickle and unknowable and seemingly random reasons for market motion. This arson investigation feels just as random.
I just wish they would put some focus on making tensorflow reliable in a production environment.

It can easily be wildly non deterministic across different cpus or GPUs, or even in the same session, with the same input.

Performance seems to get worse with new releases, and there are frequent subtle breaking changes when using models built with old versions on newer releases.

Tensorflow serving is barely controllable, and requires insane tuning to make it perform the same as pytorch, but provides little to no docs.

The vast majority of models people build just don't work in tensorflow serving either, as you can't reach in with hacky python to mess with internal state.

If you use a custom host instead then you have to deal with literal gigabytes of python dependencies, making your docker images huge.

Memory usage is uncontrollable and causes terrible performance or instant host death. Results vary depending on cpu count, and automatic parallelism can reduce performance.

I just don't understand how Google use tensorflow internally for real world services.
Yup. For a lot of models I preferred the graph mode. It was explicit with no magic. I think they should've just stuck with that, even if it meant not everyone and their mom can use it.

Agree on the framework stuff. Please just be a library, not a collection of opinionated frameworks where I need to read the source code anyway to understand what it actually does. After something not working and debugging for hours I remember looking at the number of weights in the model and thinking, wait, something can't be right here. Then I dig into the framework layers and figured out it added slightly different things than I thought it would. Would've been much faster to just write the graph myself.
> The complaint targets the Google Photos app, which allows people to search for photos they took of a particular person; Google’s Nest camera, which can send alerts when it recognizes (or fails to recognize) a visitor at the door; and the voice-activated Google Assistant, which can learn to recognize up to six users’ voices to give them personalized answers to their questions. Mr. Paxton said the products violated the rights of both users and nonusers, whose faces and voices were scanned or processed without their understanding or consent.

It would be great if they could actually stop Google and everyone else from doing face recognition on random people in photos without them knowing or having any way to stop it.
I don't understand how a restaurant being bad at their job, having bad food (a subjective assessment) and charging a high amount is a "scam". That just sounds like a bad restaurant.
Seems they took quite a bit more inspiration from 1984 than that classic commercial might indicate at first :) .
And AirBnB also takes housing away from locals and gives it to entitled tourists. Does way more harm than the few people that get employed by them.
A nice feature would be import and export from/to Curl commands.
When collaborating with clients or even colleagues it's easier to send curl commands.
Every thing in my cart increases by a penny. It (the cart, my food) now costs $2 more. Easy math. Change that to percentages and amount increases, of course.

They do play with pennies. I worked in a huge national restaurant chain as a teenager and went through numerous menu updates. They were always flipping nickels and pennies all over the place on the menu. As a kid I thought changing the menu prices by five cents was ridiculous. Apparently, that's how it works in this business with razor thin margins.
Curious ML dataset for detecting Russian suicide drones
The dataset is a bit of a mess: there are labels as well as masks and they are not split up correctly... but still looks pretty usable with a good augmentation stack.
The problem with DIYing things with a Pi, I find, is that you inevitably end up with a fragile nest of wires and not a device you can rely on not to have been cannibalized (probably by oneself) or unplugged or disassembled to make room for other stuff. Not conducive to something like a bombproof note taking device that's always on standby- and good luck if you want it to be portable or even luggable.
> Or if you for some reason insist on total free will.

Like, the free will to do something other than what you saw your future self do? Yeah, you do have that. You have that ability even as a completely deterministic brain.

Heck you could send a machine to go back in time 5 seconds that displays a number 1 greater than the number it just saw its future self display from the previous travel and your time loop has infinitely increasing state with no human in the process. Or the mundane, send a bomb back in time to destroy the time machine and your past self. It's very easy to think of examples.

> Time loops are only a problem if you insist on being able to simulate reality by computing the next time step from previous ones, without discarding any

yes?
Where can one learn more about this?
Ok, it’s a tool to test rest api.
This - I wish they had categories for "host lives here too" and "this is a boarding house." You can usually figure it out by scrutinizing the reviews, but I'd like to see it overtly stated.
You need to be very careful about making sweeping generalizations based on a single personal anecdote. The really large data sets typically have very high error rates and sample biases. For instance, Google’s JTF300M is far noisier than ImageNet, which itself is hardly free of errors and biases. Any data set with hundreds of millions to billions of images will generally contain a large proportion of images and labels scraped from the web, w/ automatic filtering or pseudolabeling, perhaps w/ some degree of sampled verification by human labelers.

In fact, generally DL is quite tolerant to label noise, especially using modern training methods such as SSL pretraining.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.10694.pdf
https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2018/file/a19744e268754...
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v97/hendrycks19a.html
The Mississippi River Is Drying Up, Disrupting a Vital Supply Lane
I don’t think you understand what a thought experiment is and that explains your confusion in this thread.
>>"uber is literally outlawed in half of europe."
Uber is banned or partially banned in UK, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, and Italy. Eight countries out of forty-four of the European countries.
This is what I wish all http clients could adopt.

Use plain text files (IntelliJ already introduced .http files, which work great)
Sadly it will never work because that would break 90% of the incentives to pay, which his having a sync system.
Because then I could simply commit my http requests and git would be my sync server.

Personally I don't like the IntelliJ Client, the UI is kind of ugly and requires a lot of actions each time I want to send and review a response. Insomnia is way better in that regard.

Good context might me my issue comment on Hoppscotch:
https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/issues/870#issuecom...
Oh, I'm sure plenty of people "joined the dots", but they just didn't care.

Some bureaucrats are absolute trash when it comes to their ethics.
It's both understandable, and frustrating, at the same time.
Signal Structure of the Starlink Ku-Band Downlink [pdf]
A competing explanation is that the chess masters for whom study is particularly advantageous are also those who happen to be able to dominate their peers. Magnus' capabilities seem to be a testament to that. There is also the aspect of computer analysis multiplying the effectiveness of chess study versus real life competition.
I don't understand the hostility. I simply told a story about one of the many "bad judgment" stories that I have encountered, and the lessons learned, therein.

I wasn't asking for judgment.
I've started calling devops teams that are hostile or incompetent "DevObs". Developer obstructions.
I think our politicians are busy thinking how we will not freeze and starve.

Building a fab in close proximity of russia or other unstable areas is probably not a priority right now.
Quantum mechanics is a useful model in some contexts. It is not reality.

Other models are useful in other contexts.

Reality is unknownable. But we can always use better models.
My biggest gripe with Postman is the horrible theming. Except for light and dark, 0 control over the appearance of this app that I have to look at for hours almost every day.
Yes it should result in a conclusion but the conclusion should not simplify it in a way that the true nature of the issue is lost.
These issues can be improved by rising above the bad or non-existent communication practices seen in software engineering, which are partly a technical issue and part a cultural one.

If you want to be helpful to your users, rather than punish them for doing something you didn't explicitly allow them to do, you can communicate. Issue warning messages to people using a behavior that will be deprecated. Keep the old version around for a while for compatibility, but require users to opt into it and tell them when it's going away. Email your users to announce breaking changes. Et cetera.

All of this can take significant effort, and of course some people won't listen, won't check logs, will ignore warning messages and sunset dates. Which is the other side of the problem.

Whether we're changing software or adapting to changes, the message remains the same: software engineering isn't just futzing around with code until something "works", and then anything that breaks after that is someone else's problem. We live in a society where we all depend on each other. We need to communicate, and communicate in a way that values each other's success.
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