skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always feel there's some implicit racism or belief in cultural superiority or something at play in these discussions. Anyone who has gone to grad school can see pretty plainly that the top schools are stuffed with Chinese and Indian nationals. They're capable and they work hard. Some of them, not a small number, go back home. Further, western industry set up shop in Asia for their own reasons and brought their expertise over.

The west had a lead, but 'we' trained Asians at our top institutions and worked closely with Asian manufacturers so that they can make our most sophisticated products more cheaply. There are a lot more people in Asia, and high relative poverty and cultural practices encourage a higher degree of scholastic achievement. Of course they're beating us now.

Outside of a very explicit and intense effort to develop domestic talent and retain foreign talent (or bloody wars), the west probably won't ever really lead ever again. This was the obvious outcome decades ago, but these things take time. The gap will grow and will extend up the value chain--western nations will do protectionism to try to slow this (e.g., Huawei, current chip restrictions), but cat's out of the bag.

I don't think it's a good or a bad thing from a global perspective. It just is. The great power competition that may result, wars, etc, is a very bad thing. The US in particular should compete as best it can, but it's best for everyone if we learn to live in a multipolar world.
> Only time will tell whether Rust will reach the critical mass necessary to displace C/C++ in most new low level projects

As someone who has been in the Rust community since a couple of months after 1.0, I only see growth, year after year. At the start the community was small. Nowadays even the OSS part of it, which is a subset of the total community, is so big you can't have an overview of it any more. Even for the Rust project itself it's hard to have an overview over everything that's happening (but it's still possible to some degree).
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I honestly don't care what words people use though, as long as I can understand the words? Egg-having partner would fit that description to a pedantic degree.
Not sure how much this matters, but Public Health England was disbanded March 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Health_England
I remember a few websites having "buy with Bitcoin" buttons circa 2015 but they all seem to have disappeared by now. What can you still you buy with cryptocurrency, except drugs or tickets to crypto conferences?
Simple formulas only work because the models themselves for those polls are incredibly simple and adding a bit more complexity requires a lot of tools to compute these uncertainties (this is part of the reason you see probabilistic programming so popular for people doing non-trivial polling work).

There are no simple approximations for a range of even slightly complex models. Even some nice computational tricks like the Laplace approximation don't work on models with high numbers of parameters (since you need to compute the diagonal of the Hessian).

A good overview of the situation is covered in Efron & Hastie's "Computer Age Statistical Inference".
may as well check Nonaka's Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2635068?origin=JSTOR-pdf

Apart of that, programming/software is 5-th(?)/most-recent knowledge-storage/medium, so anything about knowledge applies there as well, maybe some aspects more than others.
I think it's like Figma or more concretely react-three-fiber, which bypasses the React renderer for its own high performance one. React is used simply for the DX and for everything else in the UI I imagine, as I like writing in components rather than imperative DOM updates.
How is that different than any other product where you can sell cheaper through your own website than on a third party platform?
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Why wouldn’t companies like Coinbase just release an iOS App on their web site? Why would they even need to go through the App Store? What are the benefits of the App Store for established companies with large existing customer base? If Coinbase or Amazon, for that matter, publish an iOS app on their website, I would not hesitate to just install and use it, without an App Store.
Thanks for the heads up! Most of what's in that FAQ is outdated. We'll pull it from our site.
Just imagine if Microsoft or Linux distributions could do this on desktop. They would make so much money.
Maybe a subscription for enterprises using it?
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That makes no sense. Ftx and Celsius had KYC and that didn't help at all in preventing them from stealing users money.

In fact it shows how bad KYC is, because Celsius users transactions, funds, addresses etc were "leaked" in their bankurpcy filings.
Out of curiosity, how do you know it's CGNAT? Is it just because all of AT&T's mobile traffic is through CGNAT?
> Decades ago...

Even if we accept the (I think dubious) claim that we're worse off than people were in the 1950s (or whatever) there's thousands of years of procreation that precede that one specific comparison. Those people had it much worse than we do and they had many more children.
Dropbox would be my #1 suspect. They like to play fast and loose with your networking resources. I have seen Dropbox open lots of weird, undocumented ports for purposes their own support people aren't aware of. Case in point: https://pdfhost.io/v/1C9zgOibj_port_1298_1299_dialogue_with_... (23 kB .PDF)

Kill your Dropbox process(es) -- there will probably be several, again for no clear reason -- and I'll bet this behavior stops. Whenever my system behaves in an unexpected way, I've learned to start the troubleshooting process by temporarily killing Dropbox.
I think that term already has usage as a proxy for "lowest sampling variance"; for example the Gauss Markov theorem shows that OLS is the most efficient unbiased linear estimator.

I guess this is echoing your point 2, but I would have generally said that "principled" statistical models are less efficient these days than DL (see: HMC being much slower than variational Bayes). Priors are usually overrated but I think the risk is more that basic mistakes are made because people don't understand what assumptions go into "basic" machine learning ideas like train/test splits or model selection. I'm not sure it warrants a lot of panic though.
What is not actually true?

Rachel admits that TrustCor (company A) and Measurement Systems (Company B) had the same investors:

> Unknown until recently by any employee officers of TrustCor we and Measurement Systems S de RL had in common a group of investors who represented funds (groups of companies and other funds), not individuals.

She argues it doesn't matter because those people don't own TrustCor anymore, but can't or won't provide any details about the supposed ownership transfer.

Rachel also admits that the supposedly secure email app owned by TrustCor (which lies about being E2EE) had Measurement Systems' malware built into it, which she blames on a rogue employee:

> Prior to my original reply, we had already completed an investigation related to this activity. Our software revision control system revealed immediately when the software was introduced and which developer introduced it. [...] Also as I previously stated, "Whether or not the SDK was added for a developer’s own financial gain or otherwise is beyond us and we don’t care to speculate." Our investigation found the developer in question properly signed our standard "Confidentiality Obligation and Invention Agreement” that requires any developer to obtain a corporate license to any 3rd party software or intellectual property the developer chooses to include. We confirmed through corporate records and email searches that no such agreement was ever obtained by the company or company counsel. Also, none was included inside the software/check-in to revision control. We also confirmed no approval for including this third-party software was ever obtained from Wylie (technically the manager of the developers at that time). Technically that individual developer violated our Confidentiality Obligation and Invention Agreement.

So, which part of what I said is not actually true?
Under your definition, the government engaging in any economic activity is socialism, and therefore all governments are socialist. Such a definition is so expansive that it essentially meaningless analytically, making statements such as:

>you've not addressed any of the key issues that occur in socialist systems.

Disingenuous and nonsensical.
I think the fact that a pro-gun target shooter wouldn't seek real therapy is sad since they're a danger to themselves :(

Imagine all the therapy they could have gotten with the money they wasted on guns!
Correct: they will work about as well as DNS-based adblockers. The "cosmetic blocks" you depend on in uBlock Origin to block same-origin and in-page elements, the things that make Fandom wikis usable, will not work.
I won't pay for anything if that doesn't provide me decent search results. This is where the "might give a try" comes from and I would definitely try the version with ads first because I would hate creating an account and giving my card number to another service if I am not 100% sure I am interested. I would also want to know if I need to pay that amont per user in my household or if I would need as many accounts per family member so that the quality of our search results aren't harmed by the difference in interests/history.

3$/month seems decent to me if search results are improved over google. The 10$/month that kagi ask me for are a bit harder to swallow. Not in itself but additionned to all the other 10ish bucks services I am already subscribed to (streaming, backup, etc). There is simply a limit/month I am willing to spend on the whole package and if I spend say n$/month on a search engine per user I will unsubscribe to other services of the same cost. And this is something I may have to negociate with my partner.

The good thing is it is easier to move from and to a paying search engine than say, an instant messaging service.
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How Blizzard's lizard broke a 10 year old loot system and sparked a player war
It does, but like everything absorbed through the digestive system it gets extensive first-pass metabolism through the liver before entering the rest of the circulatory system.

Oral estrogen comes in 2mg tablets, but this results a few in µg of estrogen circulating. Estrogen also comes in transdermal patches where one 100µg patch will last three days for approximately the same dose as 4mg of oral ostrogen daily.
I don't think that's been true for at least the past 10 years. I don't see how anything related to deep learning can be described as "if statements" imo.
Botez gambit for the win. That's hilarious and I love it.
Not all plastics contain plasticizers, so I would say that fnordpiglet is correct. For example, low density polyethylene (commonly used for jugs holding milk and water) is flexible without addition of any plasticizers. For this reason it is also used in laboratory equipment where plasticizer contamination would interfere with experiments:

Low density polyethylene (LDPE) is a high molecular weight polyolefin material. Like all polyolefins, LDPE is nontoxic, non-contaminating and exhibits a high degree of break resistance.

The polymerization of polyethylene results in an essentially straight chain, high molecular weight hydrocarbon. The polyethylenes are classified according to the relative degree of branching (side chain formation) in their molecular structures, which can be controlled with selective catalysts. LDPE has more side branching than HDPE resulting in a less-dense 3-D structure. As a result, LDPE is naturally very flexible without the addition of plasticizers and melts at a relatively low temperature (85°C).

https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/life-science/lab-pla...
Food, Electronics, web hosting, gifts, etc. you know. stuff. I'm normally a cash in person guy but sometimes I'm feeling lazy and just want to order a big box of candy and be pleasantly surprised and mildly guilty when it arrives.
> Right now, every click, every query is an impression.

The vast majority (maybe 95%?) of my searches don't show ads.
Shh, nobody tell them GOFAI didn’t pan out.
I interpreted TrustCor's replies as sending up increasingly frantic "please route around!" signals and shock that this wasn't happening.
We're quite happy with them. Why do you find them annoying?
You might try pages 8-16 of this presentation: https://www.categoricaldata.net/cql/lambdaconf.pdf . The examples are relational to relational and simplistic but they do illustrate running the same transformation both forward and backward, as well as show the "unit" of such a "monad". We implemented everything in public software, so hopefully the software is even better than my word! As for loading SQL to RDF specifically, I'd be happy to share that technique, but it isn't public yet- please ping me at ryan@conexus.com.
It's "clearly" wrapped in hidden delimiters so that the server regards it as a comment, though. (-;
Yes, police response is typically prescribed when people do something that is proscribed.
That's a pretty different type of query and storage you'd need, though.
7 months?? I thought I read it was 120 days, anyone have a reputable source?
At 300 Mb/sec?
I think it’s bizarre to say that’s “the next logical step” when in fact that things have all been explicitly addressed and exempted for the entire history of the App Store. It’s not as if Apple is slowly discovering new things they can take a cut from and they just haven’t discovered Amazon purchases yet.
Beyond the above, IIRC Android ships with integer overflow enabled (but can't find where I read this).
(I haven't gone trawling through captures) but its been there for at least a month.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221030193939/https://developer... (search for NFT in the page).
Dredging up a 25 year old article as "proof"? Who's actually lacking the critical thinking here?
That's what I wrote.
tl;dr it looks like Discord is working to introduce paid servers, channels, etc intended for content creators to monetize fan interaction.

The vibe their docs give off makes it feel similar to how Patreon allows you to get exclusive content and chat direct with creators, but it does feel weird putting a direct price tag on participating on an instant messaging app. Discord is pretty explicit about creators governing their tone so users don't feel a free thing is suddenly not free, but this move does feel like they're just going to encourage more and more of the net to be blocked off behind a paywall. What if I run into financial trouble or simply can't afford to access certain high-value communities like AI/Engineering/etc ones? What if this corrupts the culture and makes it harder to find & create indie, fun communities? What does this look like if they expand it to allow toll meters to be attached to more and more of the Discord experience?
I don’t think every query needs this
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Just in case you missed the subtle question mark of help in the top right corner, the author's explanation here is stunningly clear:

https://github.com/aatishb/patterncollider#readme

Kudos to aatishb. I've been fascinated by this generations since approx 1995 when there was a webpage at a university with webcgi script to transmit the params to a server to render a .gif. I've read many explanations since then, but it's only this time around that I get it!
For me it's not blindness, it's discouragement:

[ignore the first 6 paragraphs, here in reality we] "will be moving to Discord"
Yes. In terms of best outcomes, you should have kids in your early 20s. Gametes are at their best, mother's body is young but fully developed and has the best chance at carrying the pregnancy to term without complications.

Financially, or in terms of career and other life goals, are other matters.
That still seems like an awful lot of traffic for your phone to be using.

Do you mind sharing what gets you that kind of data usage? Just hours of FaceTime calling or something else?
I have very limited statistical background but doesn't variational inference applied in the neural networks make them probabilistic models? The modelling definitely seems so because the math in those papers doesn't even specify whether it's a network (it implies that it can be any model).
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The fact that you don't even know if FTX had KYC shows how unfounded your former comment was.

Yes, it had KYC. And FTX.us was under US jurisdiction.
post operation choke point Visa, and MasterCard have been increasingly making moral and political judgments on who is allowed to transact. Even when the transactions are perfectly legal.

https://reclaimthenet.org/dick-masterson-new-project-2-maste...

This is a potential way around these behaviors. but I assume it will eventually be blocked by visa and MasterCard simply by threatening to blacklist stripe as a payment processor.
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How else are they going to advertise for shitcoin (shib) in their App name in Apple store? App in their website can't do that.
This webpage crashed my iPad 6 Gen Safari when repeatedly scrolling down without reading (iPadOS 16.1.1). It’s probably just too little memory, but still, isn’t this just a blog post?
> Rust does require structuring programs in a "Rust way" to avoid fighting with things it can't prove to be safe.

That was my concern that I had when I started learning the language. I think it is true, but I was surprised how quickly I managed to get used to the Rust way.
If you have a way to make them ping your host at just the right moment, and then keep that ping process running.
As an Android user ever since the T-Mobile G1, I'm a fan of not having my phone remotely exploited via WebView, or with an SMS, or the other million ways there are to interact with a device, so I absolutely celebrate this progress.

As an Android developer though, I have to be the one bitter old man yelling at cloud. I was spoiled by Java and Kotlin to the point where I cannot look at Rust and think it's a nice modern language.

Yes, I will start a language war today. Rust is like a truck driver who tried to make a race car that doesn't blow up. It's safe but it does not look refined. I wish you knew how weird Rust looks to me. I tried to learn it 3 times and had to give up after all the WTFs. I said it in the past, and I'll say it again:

* What the hell kind of language choice is to force everyone to type "#[derive(Debug)]" for annotations? I'd rather write past the end of an array and have someone steal my Bitcoin wallet than press "shift 3 bracket shift 9 shift 0 bracket" at the top of my structs. What's wrong with @? Nothing. @derive(debug). 2java4u? Ok, [derive debug] then.

* What's with the ' everywhere? Not the quote, the piece of dirt on your display. Why are our displays so dirty?

* Going for super short keywords "let", "fn", "mod", but then, "let mut" could have been "var". When is typing speed the bottleneck in writing software where you can't take the time to type out "module" or even 'function'? Come on now.

* print! now! fast! it's! a! macro! why! are! we! yelling!

* Passing "self" as the first argument was bullshit in Python, and it's bullshit in Rust too. Don't look at me like that - the compiler can inject it as the first parameter without requiring you to type it in.

* What does "::" do that "." can't? That's right. Nothing. All hail D.

D got language design right. Syntax better than Rust. CTFE better than Rust. Templates better than Rust. Marketing worse than Rust, though.

I'll try to learn Rust a 4th time now to stay relevant in the Android world, because I have bills to pay, but I want you to know that I blame each and everyone of you weirdos for not holding language designers to a higher bar.

Edit: if you downvote, reply with a link to the last compiler you wrote.
You can’t install a native iOS app from a website.
I think you overestimate the extent to which the political parties will look at the most profitable company in America and say "hmm, time to disrupt that".
They gave no information on what was hacked. Although they're saying no passwords were compromised because of their encryption and architecture.

For a layperson, what's the best tips for what to do. Are passwords in Lastpass still safe or should we change all the passwords? Or simply change the master? Or should we migrate to something else?

I've thought about migrating before but frankly any password manager will have breaches...
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