skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Employee Is Found Dead in Walk-In Freezer at a Brooklyn Bakery
This is definitely what I was thinking about when I started my comment. I torpedoed my own point with the comment about the model being "too useful". Your explanation is much better.

When I said "I can't stop," I was referring more to this tendency to borrow models to explain unrelated systems. It's just a thing my brain wants to do and I can't help it (and again, I seem to convince myself that it's somehow accurate or useful even if, rationally, I'm quite sure it's not).
I read through the second link (I didn't bother with your first link, as it is just to a bunch of search results, and the result of looking at your second link undermined your credibility too hard for me to go hunting), and you seem to fundamentally misunderstand the limitations of e2e encryption.

> A WhatsApp spokeswoman told The Post: “WhatsApp provides a way for people to report spam or abuse, which includes sharing the most recent messages in a chat. This feature is important for preventing the worst abuse on the internet. We strongly disagree with the notion that accepting reports a user chooses to send us is incompatible with end-to-end encryption.”

Are you somehow expecting e2e encryption to mean "incapable of being copied"? Once the user receives a message if they think "OMG this message is horrible!" of course they can send a copy of that message to WhatsApp... it's their data to send!! Technology not only can't it shouldn't attempt to prevent what that user can do with their data once it is on their phone, and while I'd prefer more localized block mechanisms be put into place it doesn't violate security to implement some weird "if the user you spoke with is an asshole and wants to send a copy of your message to Facebook, they should get to do so" feature.

(Also, your third edit is just silly: the user enabled backups and backups don't even automatically enable. The way backups work was always disclosed, and if you didn't want to enable backups DON'T ENABLE BACKUPS. But, the thing to appreciate is that these are YOUR MESSAGES: if you think it makes sense to have a backup copy on Google's server you should 100% get to do that, just as you should get to screenshot them and upload them to Twitter. Would it have been better to build an encrypted backup feature? Sure... and they eventually did! Would you have simply preferred them to not implement a backup mechanism at all?! Just because someone hasn't gotten around to something doesn't mean they are evil. Technology should not prevent users from doing whatever they want with their data.)
Covid lockdowns, vaccination requirements and mask mandates?
actually you can (badly) use RPM content in Debian; the tooling to do that has been around for a very long time

https://wiki.debian.org/RPM
The android version is still... not great. It only supports about a dozen hand picked extensions for instance.
As they say the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Back in the day Netware would boot off a small DOS partition located at the front of the boot disk, and was started from autoexec.bat. Blew my mind at the time.
> you thought it was the most money you could make.

Maximum income is not my goal. Livable income, much free time, and minimal taxes is closer to where I would be if I was looking to work at all.
Spam is moderated because its not real users doing it. You dont want bots among humans. His take is weird on that end.
I dont think that would work very well because there are not infinite ways to succinctly solve most programming problems. In fact the majority of solutions will look exactly the same.

The real solution is very, very simple. Only use opt-in training data. Don't acquire codebases from people who didn't agree to it.
> Did you compile fjxl with or without SIMD?

I had not. Thanks for the tip. Fjxl encoding speed is now about 20x faster than libpng, not 10x, but still mid-table. Decoding speed is unaffected.

https://github.com/nigeltao/qoir/commit/c2fec840

> If existing deployments need to be replaced anyway, you can just as well use a new format altogether.

There's still an operational difference between rolling out multi-threaded PNG versus multi-threaded $OTHER_FORMAT.

At the file format level, MT PNG can be designed to be backwards compatible. Older PNG decoders simply ignore the new non-critical chunk.

At the software level, you can roll out encoders that emit MT-capable PNGs without having to also roll out new decoders everywhere (or 99% everywhere, or 'on all major browsers'). You can roll out new decoders only partially, and those upgraded places enjoy the benefits, but you don't break the decoders you don't control.

Also, in terms of additional code size, upgrading your PNG library from version N to version N+1 is probably smaller than adding a whole new $OTHER_FORMAT library.
I stand behind you on this one. I just hope they fail spectacularly at their attempt to hinder innovation.
> This ceremony is likely the last with special COVID-19 mitigations in place. If circumstances permit, in 2023 we are planning for normal ceremony operations.

This makes me wonder if the whole process wouldn't be "safer" if it were carried out as a multi-party distributed cryptographic process, with the participants in multiple jurisdictions.

I don't want to suggest that a blockchain necessarily has to be used, since there are only a small fixed number of non-anonymous participants, but it should be possible to generate a random number and publish some signatures without everyone having to be in the same room.

Is the danger that one of the participants is using malicious HSM hardware that allows them to extract the private key, and this flaw in the hardware could be detected by the people standing in the room watching?

I suppose the HSM is only one layer of the physical security, and they actually need someone there with physical keys and an ability to check that various seals haven't been tampered with, but that again just makes me think that the key itself should be split across different jurisdictions.
Perhaps "the YIMBYs should instead come up with a way to guarantee rising property values, then talk about development, social agendas, etc."

Again, to property owners this is their biggest asset and they're not playing around.
That might be the greatest gift Elon could give to the world.

We can only hope it triggers the collapse of social media as we know it.
As someone who is building a VC firm with a focus on social impact I can say unequivocally that this can be done. You can be focused on doing good while also being a capitalist. It's not a binary. If an investor is interested in only making lots of money, there are plenty of funds that do that. However, there are a tremendous amount of investors who are happy getting a lower return on their investment if it means they can contribute into something that is making a difference. I don't see how this is any different.
Could you do a mix of NIC oriented siloing and Disk oriented siloing?

It seems like the bottlenecks are different, so if you serve X% of traffic on the NIC node and Y% on the disk node, you might be able to squeeze a bit more traffic?

Also, how amenable to real time analysis is this? Could you look at the request where the request comes in on node A and the disk is on node B, and tell which NIC is less loaded and send the output through that NIC. (Some selection algorithm based on relative loading anyway)
> your reputation goes down, thus limiting your reach

That's a nice concept, but it is unclear how to implement this. If you have a low reputation, you can only reach X users, but if you reputation improves, you can reach 2X users? How do you set these thresholds? How do you pick the X unlucky users to receive the low-reputation tweets?
I also wish I got laid off today. Stripe is a good company. But the Covid boom really fucked a lot of things up. I genuinely, no exaggeration, not felt my job was safe for a single day working here for over a year, and the worst part is even after this 1000 person layoff I still don't feel safe! It does not feel safe having a job that is so intimately linked to consumer spending.

The things I would have done with 14 weeks paid vacation + bonus + equity vest....
> This is a very good way to pitch your afforestation startup accelerator in the guise of a talk on platform moderation. /s

Also for anyone have Deja-Vu, he had almost the same thread a few months ago (and probably a few more times before/after.

https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440
Agreed. My only consolation is that as the technology improves and it becomes easier to train these types of models on modest hardware at home, the detractors of this technology have already lost, but rather than a mercy killing they prefer to bleed out slowly.
Your argument is essentially the same as the argument that the pirate bay didn't infringe copyright, it only facilitated infringement.

And we all saw how well that went legally.
You can probably live in a van for less than US$100 per month. You can't live in an electric bicycle at all.
Do you understand your data?

I think probably that this kind of meta-understanding exists on a continuum where fruit flies and slime molds exist on one side and current AI exists somewhere in the lower third and we exist somewhere in the upper third and a future AI with a vast number of AI brain components and huge amounts of training will eventually exist at the other end, possibly as far from us as we are from the fruit fly.
Interesting analogy.

Consider every repo on github to be a movie. Copilot is taking individual frames out of every movie on github and composting them into a new film.

I think most of us would agree that individually, each frame is copyrighted. But what if you take one frame from a million different movies and put them in an order that produces a new coherent movie?

The core question we need to settle in court is: does the new movie become its own copyrightable work, or is it plagiarism?
We had the first rollout of that feature, where it was just "" and only on the web. It was weird, being able to "like" email messages but no one saw it unless they opened the web client.

But that's nothing compared to "the new Outlook"[1] being a webview around the Outlook.com UI library. It looks really nice in concepts but once installed it just feels like a browser in a frame: there's a window-sized splash screen, the fonts are "browser-y" (i.e.: wrong smoothing compared to Office), controls "feel" web, etc. I usually like Office Insider but once that rolled out I immediately reverted.

1: https://insider.office.com/en-us/blog/new-outlook-for-window...

EDIT: Originally called it "Electron" as a catch-all, forgot about Edge webview.
US Warns Germany, Other Allies Against Allowing Chinese Control of Firms
youre so predictable, markov would be overkill.
Teach them how to start companies that lead to successful exits.
> because to mention a controversial topic is to risk being accused of supporting it.

Identifying topics which are controversial or perhaps even contextually verboten can be done pretty easily without implying support.

> Alex Jones or Kanye West

If Jones and West are representative examples, then we're not talking about censorship or free speech.
Thought this would be talking about a different phenomena I've noticed - Chinese propaganda articles that are hosted on clones of actual local news websites but with a slight modification in the domain name.
Imagine writing Linux From Scratch and someone from Microsoft reads it and uses it to make a Linux distribution that goes on to power dozens of that trillion-dollar company's products.

To be clear, I'm not saying that "you should be outraged," necessarily. It's just an interesting thing.
Why are we trying to bring technical solutions to a social problem ?
Make it explicit. A button that says "Show me something that I might like!" and supplies a list of tweets.
Doesn't that just create echo-chambers?
The problem is that "jerk" is relative and very sensitive people will tilt the scale. Also, occasionally jerks will have interesting insights that you would miss if you blocked the jerks. It's a problem of whether your platform cares more about having diverse viewpoints or about people being polite to each other.
You still need the premium package for this. It maxes at 1080p with no HDR on the standard package.
That’s what retweets accomplish.
No. Microsoft will buy Canonical for Ubuntu and that sweet, sweet developer mindshare. Ubuntu is the developer distro after all. Ubuntu will become Microsoft Linux.
The purchase of stock is not taxed, but the sale certainly is a taxable event, and does not even take inflation into account when determining the capital gain.

In the same way, when one company buys another company, that does not trigger a taxable event for the acquiring company, but it does for shareholders who sell their stock in the acquired company.

What I think you are better off objecting to is the tax rate. In my opinion there should not be special tax rates for long term versus short term capital gains, or different tax rates for income received by selling capital versus income received by selling labor. Tax rates should be agnostic as to how the income was earned, and this alone will close a lot of loopholes and change the situation where a wealthy person living off of dividends or long term capital gains pays a lower rate than a middle class person living off of their wages.
Does this have examples of a fractal that I just couldn't find? The outputs are certainly pretty, but I'm not entirely clear where this fits into what I was trying to say. :(

That is, my argument is ultimately that for some things, having a section of code that is more imperative is actually far shorter than trying to accomplish the same thing otherwise.

It is akin to changing coordinates. Some things are trivially conveyed with polar coordinates. Just as some are made much more difficult in that setting.
I once had the same feeling, but it was dispelled by acknowledging that NN neurons are not even approximations of how neurons work. At most, NNs are inspired by the topology of a subset of neurons, and that's where the similarity between NNs and biological neurons stop. It's like the connection between objects in real life and objects in programming. They're both useful abstractions that are inspired by things in the real world, but the similarities to things in the real world stop there.

Neurons have a lot going on, they send and receive signals through a multitude of mediums, not just neural impulses, and they're capable of plasticity when it comes to the connections they make between other neurons. Neurons also don't have simplistic activation functions, they're capable of doing a lot more with the information they receive and send. Also, gradient descent and back propogation don't take place in any part of the brain.

Through that lens, I see NNs as if they're like really complex and impressive Markov chain generators. They can produce results that look intelligent, but it's just statistical correlations, and not at all how the brain works.
For sure, it would be foolish to assume that the problems could be solved by changing the software, or passing a new law. Policing private groups is impossible. We're living in a new world of social media and we still need to figure out how to deal with that. I hope that in the long term there is some kind of culture shift with how people interact with the internet, because whatever we're doing today isn't working.

By the way, I mentioned Bolsonaro explicitly because those groups are currently the better organized ones in the Brazilian social media space, masters at exploiting the Whatsapp dynamics. But the fundamental problem is not exclusive to the extreme right.
Historic Operating Room Uncovered May Be Site of First Organ Transplant
> camera is the LEAST important part of photography.

> Composition and lighting are far more important

yeah a good camera enables more angles/speed and allows more dynamic range or better pictures under low-light conditions.

Good composition and lighting processing is THE most important part of camera design.
Why does this person talk like they live on a Roman reenactment battlefield AND somehow with all those words said nothing of substance?

Software engineers are needed all over the place and thus are often easily employable.
That's not what I mean by learning.

Most people aren't the nihilists you might expect them to be. Most people want discussion to lead somewhere new. That's why there is value in moderation: we use it to trim the patterns of discussion that lead nowhere.

So when a moderator deletes your comment because it was leading to nowhere, they can also tell you so. If they can teach you how you might lead your next discussion somewhere, then there is a good chance that you will do that next time. If they just quietly delete your comment, then that guarantees you will follow the same tired pattern next time, because you won't know any better. Rinse and repeat.

Of course, the nihilists (trolls) will still be there, but it's worth at least trying to teach people how to not be one.
Makes me think of Eric S. Raymond's erotic fanfic: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764

If this is going to be a desktop offering from Microsoft, I think it will be for remote cloud and potentially WSL2 use only. The future of desktop Linux is a VM under Windows.
Shops are just one model of transacting.

But there are plenty of cases where sellers don't list their price and they have worked fine - think about the auction model for one.

As an aside.. when do we use auctions? We don't use it for commodity items (no sense in buying a pack of candy in auctions).
FOSS license does not mean "do whatever you want". The GPL requires all derived work to also be licensed under a GPL compatible license for example.
Even when that _somewhere_ is literally almost everywhere?
Twittoons
Stock market has been in a slump all year, crypto down huge. Close to 100k layoffs in tech (according to layoffs.fyi). I think people got other things on their mind than trading stocks/crypto.
> What would be more incredible is to have a parseable output with a schema definition and/or formal grammar of some sort.

I’ve been trying to build something like this but simply don’t have the free time currently.

The plan: adapt the parser VM from lpeg (or similar, there’s a paper I’ve been reading on an Earley parser VM) into a command line app that takes a grammar + text input (or stdin) and spits out json to a file (or stdout). Probably not as general purpose as this one but also wouldn’t need a pull request to add a new format.

All the pieces are there but without the free time…

I was actually curious if there was any demand for such a thing, I just want it to parse my payroll statements because this billion dollar company can only manage crappy pdfs and, well, it’s an interesting problem.

—edit—

Oh, output schema. Totally different than what I’m going on about.
film requires processing -> compiled language.

digital does not -> interpreted language.

p.s. if your goal is professional s/e it is hardly a bad idea to start with a compiled (i.e. film) language. something similar likely applies for photography.
Seeing all the comments in this discussion makes me think I should break out my old Zaurus and put it on eBay. It never even got used more than a few minutes. I just haven't had the heart to recycle it yet.
It's also possible for a web server to selectively serve you a backdoored .deb or git repo
So now people that believe Saudi Arabia and other countries should be held accountable for human rights violations are Putin apologists? What does this have to do with Iran specifically?
It supports it since iOS 15 if I’m not mistaken (last year release)

This is probably the best dollar I spend every month
I like statsmodels. So far it has all methods I need, and itvis very well documented.
But I am just fiddling a little bit with my 'weather station'. No bleeding edge here.
Their "app store" is online [0] and you can actually review the source code for all of the apps on it by clicking the github icon on each entry, here's one for example [1]

[0] https://banglejs.com/apps/?c=game
[1] https://github.com/espruino/BangleApps/tree/master/apps/blac...
Crows Perform yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human
"I would like to take this time to repeat my claim that important topics are being silenced without recognition of any obligation to actually even make the pretense that I'm replying or otherwise engaging in discourse, which may be a giveaway my motives/values here are not actually about discourse."

At least, that's what my translator makes of your comment, but freedom of speech being what it is, I certainly can't compel you to acknowledge it.
It seems that the European version of this Ford Transit Nugget by Westfalia has two beds (inside and top) that are big enough for four 6-footers.

[1]https://westfalia-mobil.de/en/modelle/westfalia-nugget-hochd...
It's hit or miss. Many Apache projects are basically open source abandonware. It's great that there's an organization to manage the rights to these projects but Apache doesn't have much power to keep them going.
I'm like you, down to getting a second Bip (Lite in my case) for $20 after the first one broke (Let me guess: Case popped open?). There is nothing else on the market with its combination of

* incredible battery life

* tens of thousands of watch faces

* HR

* always-on transflective display

* notifications
I'm curious what literate style you use? I have tried getting into the style a few times, but I often find I'm not taking advantage of the full scramble of the code that is often possible.
This is such a gross simplification. First, even people who you follow might post both wanted and unwanted content, and the platform will be more useful if it can somehow show me the things I want to see. Second, it overlooks content creator side of things. How does a new person without any followers start gaining them, or vice-versa a new person who doesn't know whom to follow yet. People keep saying this is what they want from Twitter. But Twitter is not only for them, it is valuable for these other use cases.
In my use cases I’ve long moved on from writing the original hash. Having it autocomplete without having to open a file and tab back/forth (or find then copy/paste a block to the other file to temporary work on it) etc.

But what's lost in my over simplified example is the contetxt is usually way more involved. I'm usually passing those as arguments to some function or other unique syntax situation that a glorified find and replace can solve. It's all about doing it in the times you would never think even bother writing a custom command because typing is faster given the unique syntactical context... The only thing faster then is autocomplete.

I'm not actually recreating a new hash with the convienient same format.
Apple Books slaps an attribution notice on the end if you copy 4 or more words from a book. The Verve got sued by The Rolling Stones for a 4 second sample on 'Bittersweet Symphony'. Post 'Blurred Lines' you can now be sued for copying "the feel" of a song.

Really what it comes down to is do you have enough resources to convince a judge or jury that X is a copy of Y? Doesn't really matter the size of X.
It could be a separate tab.

I normally use the realtwitter.com redirect to get just the tweets from people I follow. Occasionally I look at the regular feed and the other stuff can be interesting, but I’m also reminded of why I don’t use it by default.
Not only that, another issue that no system of moderation at that scale will ever be fully consistent, and the more detail you give, the more people will pick at the subtle inconsistencies of the moderation. The classic "X did something similar and didn't get banned for it".
+1 with Vorta as the GUI frontend. Much more reliable and performant than Duplicati and Duplicacy which I used to use.
Is this really realistic ?
Why would Microsoft get into the Linux Enterprise market?