skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One video brought me memory of Autechre - Gantz Graf music video (warning, hard IDM style ;) [0]. It was made manually in 2002, per Wikipedia: "Rutterford also stated that there was no generative element to the imagery; every three-dimensional object in the agglomeration was painstakingly and manually synchronised with a specific element or frequency range within the track" [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev3vENli7wQ

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantz_Graf
Looking back I'm not sure the Oxygen theme has aged particularly well

Well, I am currently using the Oxygen theme (with a GTK 3 version called Oxygen SCSS) and I like it a lot better than the default Breeze theme. Buttons that look like buttons, a nice glow effect when highlighting things, and some of the icons* I find absolutely gorgeous (the Log Out, Restart, and Shut Down icons, for instance, have this nice glassy look).

* https://iconarchive.com/show/oxygen-icons-by-oxygen-icons.or...
Indeed, there are Bayesian neural networks and there are non-Bayesian neural networks, and I shouldn't have implied that all neural networks are non-Bayesian.

I'm just trying to point out that there is a dichotomy between the Bayesian and the non-Bayesian, and that the standard neural network models are non-Bayesian, and that we need Bayesianism (or something like it) to talk about (epistemic) uncertainty.

Standard neural networks are non-Bayesian, because they do not treat the neural network parameters as random variables. This includes most of the examples that have been mentioned in this thread: classifiers (which output a probability distribution over labels), networks that estimate mean and variance, and VAEs (which use Bayes's rule for the latent variable but not for the model parameters). These networks all deal with probability distributions, but that's not enough for us to call them Bayesian.

Bayesian neural networks are easy, in principle -- if we treat the edge weights of a neural network as having a distribution, then the entire neural network is Bayesian. And as you say these can be approximated, e.g. by using dropout at inference time [0], or by careful use of ensemble methods [1].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02142

Quote: "Deep learning tools have gained tremendous attention in applied machine learning. However such tools for regression and classification do not capture model uncertainty."

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05546

Quote: "Ensembling NNs provides an easily implementable, scalable method for uncertainty quantification, however, it has been criticised for not being Bayesian."
Not exactly what I thought:

> Now, he plans to take care of his family and explore the world.

> He said he also plans on investing in real estate, but will take time to settle into the win.
> Install Nix in a VM or on a clean HD

You should be safe to avoid this unless your threat model includes a trusting trust type exploit on Nix generating the ISO.

Also, just realized it'll be a little more complex because you'll want to use home-manager to install Firefox plugins and do about:config configuration.

Here are some examples of that in various contexts:

https://github.com/search?q=language%3Anix+programs.firefox+...
The controller only streamed inputs to Stadia's servers. Your PC / phone / chromecast was the device streaming the video.
Wish I could hide like a kitten sometimes:

I remember having a very shy kitten. To our surprise we found out that he had discovered that he could climb into an old, hardly used dresser that we used as a linen cabinet.

He would climb up the empty cavity space between the drawers and back wall of the dresser to then sleep in a drawer.
GIMP already supported ARM though, this is about "Apple Silicon". Since the post itself doesn't mention specific challenges, I guess it serves more to inform macOS users of the availability than foster discussion or provide any insight.
If you print out the 1s and 0s that make up the zip file and sell that on a t-shirt then you are not infringing on a copyright. If you buy that shirt, scan the 1s and 0s, unzip, print and sell the resulting image on a t-shirt, the you are infringing.

At this point we can just wait until the courts clarify this for you because you seem to be missing a fundamental aspect of how our legal system operates. I’d much rather go and watch football.
OpenAI is very upfront and in your face with its heads-up regarding the lack of privacy of ChatGPT sessions. (You can be identified from your writing style.)

Beyond mere privacy issues, the fact that they would deceive humans with mental health issues, lulling them into a state of suspended disbelief regarding the competence and credentials of the 'therapist', and exposing them to potentially harmful feedback appears to be (ianal) a criminal act.

Whoever is doing this deserves to get sued to oblivion.
It'd be cool if you could partially pay for something without the consent of the store, but without having to stand in front of a person and say "I'm stealing this; would you help me with the math?"
Relevant:

Why are Toronto grocery stores selling some chicken breasts for nearly $27/kg?
[1] https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/why-are-toronto-grocery-stores-se...
Please keep comments like this to yourself, or find a relevant Reddit thread. We want actual discussion here not “funny memes”
> Could you provide evidence of your last statement? I haven’t seen these models produce actual copies of any art (can’t imagine that’s an option in general).

Here's a whole paper, complete with citations:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.03860.pdf

> These models do not contain copies. One way to describe the data is they contain a statistical breakdown of the artwork, which is substantially different from a JPEG -> PNG conversion you mention.

I don't understand the distinction you're making. What legally separates a "statistical breakdown" representation from a zip file representation, JPEG representation, PNG representation?
Denver considering a natural gas appliance ban
Very cool!

I wonder if this could be merged with the work done to build music from inverted FFT’s to do Aphex Twin type visualization, or alternatively visualizations through oscilloscope music like Jarobeam Fenderson.
> I disagree quite strongly. It's an inherently collectivist point of view. It enslaves the individual and post-hoc justifies the theft of their property with terms that they never agreed to and which were imposed on them as a child.

Nothing stops you from seceding or overthrowing government if you don't like it. But because what you want won't fly with the rest of society, peaceful options are not feasible.

> Being born in the same country as you does not entitle you to my property and work.

Of course you use collectivist idea that every individual can continue to own things while unable to defend them and themselves from potential new owners. Such idea is enforced by majority through government (it's not perfect especially in USA), it's collectivist idea. In natural state, people will fight for resources and take them from eachother. But such constant warfare also waste a lot of resources. So people compromised.
Well, maybe I'm just not understanding how the statistics are applied, but I don't see how one could use statistical analysis to predict the next word if the specific sequence has never been encountered by the model.

For example, if I can tell chatgpt to answer a question about black holes in the style of Chaucer's Cantebury tales, what data is it using to predict that response? It seems to me there is some additional mechanisms at work.
How Can We Trust Institutions That Lied?
It works for titles released before January 2023. New titles going forward refuse to download in old versions of the app.
Hard to tell. Similar to how it takes a lot of resources for a human to hang from monkey bars but for a sloth it takes basically no resources at all, because the sloth comes out of the box designed for it.
Decimal is the only tricky one. Given that tau=2pi, simple use f(n-1) in the original binary formula for pi, and I’m sure something just as trivial for hex.
> Ultimately they need one system that is front and centre, that is the "officially endorsed" tool, and very clear messaging on that.

I think this is important; otherwise there is a risk behind switching to a new packaging tool and then it being subject to neglect/lack of resources - that makes people averse to switching to it. That is why virtualenv/pip is the lowest common denominator - everyone knows that worst case, those will always continue to work. The "official" tool needs to inspire that sort of confidence.
I am not sure if I understand your question, but what I was hinting at is the reliabilty of the sd-card.

I've had several Raspberry installations get corrupted due to power outage, which the sd-card can't handle at all.

Back then I didn't get booting from SSD through a USB-Sata adapter working. I've read that it is easier now though.

What is your experience?
"Illegap immigration" is a slang term.

Immigration cannot be illegal. Only behaviors after immigration can be illlegal under domestic law.

The US can take actions against immigrants,
How can the US pass a law that exclusively binds to foreigners in a foreign country? That violates sovereignty.
> Meanwhile, you went to gitmo if you were an armed combatant in an insurgency, or had a leadership/support role in a terrorist attack against US or her allies.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detaine...

> 779 detainees have been brought to Guantanamo. Although most of these have been released without charge, the United States government continues to classify many of these released detainees as "enemy combatants". As of January 5, 2017, 55 detainees remained at Guantanamo. By January 19, 2017, at the end of the Obama Administration, the detention center remained open with 41 detainees remaining.

Assuming all released are innocent and all that remaining are guilty, there is a 95% chance to go to Guantanamo and be innocent. (The number goes up following basic human right like "innocent until proven guilty".)
They could just put braille bumps on keyboards.
Hm, what device/os are you browsing on? The site should be mobile-friendly except for the account page. Also please feel free to reach out by email or discord.
Bikes aren’t typically going at speeds where aerodynamics is very relevant. Even E-bikes, maybe e-motorcycles have that problem?
Bought the Golden Collection during its original release. In retrospect it seems to have been a worthwhile purchase.
Thankyou for this. Presents the matter in a simple, clear manner, providing clarity.
Funny to see this. I recently worked on a browser extension[0] to expand Twitter.com's functionality as well, specifically to connect it to Mastodon and show Mastodon posts amongst ordinary tweets.

It was a lot of fun to build this, though dealing with the oddities of Chrome was frustrating at times. Especially when it comes to permission granularity.

[0] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-chirper/l...
The title of the post promises to much.

"In a Moment, Mathematicians Merge Probability and Number Theory" - I really expected some deep connections between Probability and Number Theory.

I do not like the quanta magazine title as well. "Probability and Number Theory Collide — in a Moment"

Guess it should be funny, I would call it "bemüht" (german).
I didn't check if this research is still pursued or abandoned due to the rise of face recognition and other metric learning/re-identification technologies, but a few years ago a number of faculty at ETH Zurich were quite heavily involved in researching CCTV-based person tracking, which would work even against people taking measures against face or gait recognition algorithms if they weren't able to leave the CCTV-covered area. It was insinuated that various external state agencies, not all Switzerland-based, were specifically funding this research.

So, while the citizens might not want it, faculty seem perfectly happy to keep developing such technology for other clients.
The great filter is table stakes, getting over it doesn't guarantee anything. It's also impossible to accurately and confidently predict the future millions of years in advance.
Much appreciated! He's a very cute kitten.
>For many weeks users have been thinking their controllers are garbage.

They've always been usable as generic USB controllers.
What I see problematic with this approach is that consumers attention is also a finite resource. Having tons of worthless crap will significantly decrease the chances of finding any great parts.
This initiative is getting some pretty good practical results https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01188, taking a look at their citations should lead you to other examples in the field
> "Galen Weston and his family are thieves who have profiteered for decades, and if you think it's wrong to steal food (product insured for loss) in order to survive... you're a clown," wrote one Twitter user of the trend this week.

And they're bringing out the old 'insured' line, as if insurance premiums don't come out of the price everyone else is paying. And, furthermore, I don't really think stores are insured for or would file claims for 'regular' shoplifting; it doesn't make sense to buy insurance for events that are occuring continuously and causing relatively small losses; insure for looting/riots, yes, that's a large loss and low probability (hopefully).
My 2018 Ford escape has auto-stop/start when stopped. But it almost never works. No idea why. It worked for the first year maybe, then disappeared.
Yup, I don't know if Gimp does it, but speeding up image filters is basically the perfect scenario where inline assembly can have huge payoffs.
The messages are terrible. Software Update tells you that something went wrong with the update, but doesn't tell you what. Synaptic Package Manager says 0 packages are broken. As someone commented in the bug report, "I have seen many people on IRC very* upset after wasting a lot of time trying to install updates that apt will not let them install. Fixing this is critical to our reputation."*

The other big Ubuntu update hassle is a constant string of notifications demanding that you exit applications so they can be updated. However, you have to keep them closed long enough for an updating cycle to notice. And then there's the notification that you need to close the Snap daemon so it can update. The user doesn't start the Snap daemon; it starts at startup and has no desktop presence. Lame. This may have been fixed; I haven't seen that recently.
The issue is that this potentially copies a lot of unnecessary information. Also, if you depend on object identities (reference equality), deep copying will recreate objects even if they aren't supposed to change.
Furthermore, if you want to chain two update functions, you'll deep copy parts of the object twice times.

Lenses are "smart" in the sense that they only copy what's necessary.
...which Fabrice Bellard improved upon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellard%27s_formula
Which will be enough to discourage a lot of pirates. Certainly most of the potential pirates who could conceivably be converted to buyers.

Gabe Newell had the right idea when he said that you don't have to make piracy impossible, you just have to make purchasing easier than pirating. The kind of people who will jump through endless hoops, tolerate shoddy rips, etc. just to get something for free were never going to be your customers anyway.
I've a vague notion that one day I would make a cloud service where people send in old iPhone 4/5/6, old iPads and various common old/unused hardware. You would get (lots) of credits for sending in your old devices. Not sure it would be successful but it would be fun to make - and fun to use for cheap little projects.
> Today, when my laptop has millions of files and each website - even hacker news - could inject something malicious and my surface is so broad (browsers applications extensions libraries everything) and virtually anything I do involves network connections... I just don't have the confidence.

It doesn't matter how many files your computer has and how many millions of lines of code it runs. There is a concept of Trusted Computing Base (TCB), which is the part of the code that you have to trust.

In Qubes OS it's only about a hundred thousand lines, and doesn't include any browser. The key is security through isolation.

You run your browser and network in virtual machines and assume that they are compromised. You keep your sensitive files in an offline VM.
I worry so much more about the dumb hardware locks and secure enclaves, OS features etc. I find the risk of a compromised machine to be so much less of an impact on my life than my computer telling me I am not allowed to do something.

This is my computer, let me tell it what to do. I hate how much of my time is wasted by all this security stuff. Infinitely more so than had been wasted by actual malware over the last decade or so.

I don't want to have to spend 10hrs figuring out how to hide root from Android pay every time something upgrades. Please just let me have root on devices I own.

Ever since I started doing a lot of work in C where all the foot guns are intentionally left in I've had my eyes opened to how beautiful and fun computers can be when they aren't your fucking adversary.

"Security" that can't be disabled by the device owner is tyranny.
Incorrect. They need a warrant to (legally) even collect phone call audio - they can't tap your line ahead of time, and then get a warrant when they want to listen to the recordings.

Unless you meant the metadata of who you called. But that's not the police collecting that data, but the phone company doing it voluntarily for billing purposes. If the company didn't keep those records, the police couldn't (legally) compel them to without a warrant.
Ask HN: Why does Engadget's link have a Yahoo Shopping 'merchantID' link?
There's something wrong with Engadget's link (with the anchor text "largest wind farm") in this article...

https://www.engadget.com/wyoming-wants-to-phase-out-sales-of-new-e-vs-by-2035-200704042.html

Instead of pointing directly to the New York Times, the article points to:

https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=c813ae39-7d58-41cb-ac66-ad830606ceef&siteId=us-engadget&pageId=1p-autolink&featureId=text-link&merchantName=The+New+York+Times&custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsInN0b3JlSWQiOiJjODEzYWUzOS03ZDU4LTQxY2ItYWM2Ni1hZDgzMDYwNmNlZWYiLCJsYW5kaW5nVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMy8wMy9jbGltYXRlL3d5b21pbmctY29hbC1jb3VudHJ5LXdpbmQtZmFybS5odG1sIiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiIwZGZmMjY4Mi1kMTViLTRmN2QtYmZlYy02ZWFhYjcyYjc0YzAifQ&signature=AQAAAbuZ6GZ5tbeLISUmRzHx8Q-k9XBZzY4OVPV-tTvRwIZi&gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2021%2F03%2F03%2Fclimate%2Fwyoming-coal-country-wind-farm.html&uuid=mlSfkmYpPMKKRqni0288

Is this some new kind of "stealth" Yahoo Shopping affiliate program?
How is it so cheap? I think that's a factor of 3 cheaper than others.
Yeah, these seem pretty great for a small NAS, especially with a simple mirrored ZFS setup.
The problem with supporting Firefox is that it doesn't yet support manifest v3. I know this support is coming, but seeing as Chrome right now disallows new extensions that don't use v3 it feels pretty delayed. It's also unclear how to test manifest v3 Firefox extensions before the support is officially out there (though maybe there isn't even beta support yet?)
firefox/mozilla doesn't really make it easy (compared to chrome)

mozilla now requires "add-on signing" [0]; extensions now have to be "signed" (By mozilla) before you can permanently side-load your own private extension onto regular firefox. they also require you to use 2FA [1] when setting up a firefox.com account (which is required in order for you to upload extensions so they can be signed).

at least with chrome you can just enable 'developer mode' and drag and drop your own extensions and use it right away without having to deal with any of that.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/03/10/support-for-exten...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/03/11/two-factor-authen...
This is inspiring, really. I just hope that I’ll get that far before they pass.
That's like creating clothes to only be worn a few times because you're targeting people who buy lots of clothes. A controller is an input device similar to a mouse and keyboard and ought to support standards so it can work with different devices. This "product perspective" seems to be that of IKEA and McDonald's.
Stadia required custom development work from game developers, my guess is that getting them on board was at least as challenging as getting consumers. It's a risk to tell developers "we're already thinking of how to kill this platform that you're investing in".
It's interesting cuz they're saying it's a stolen SSO cookie. Chrome on macOS stores cookies encrypted under a key that's stored in the keychain. So does Safari. To get to the key one of three things must have happened:

1. The engineer was prompted to give the malware (PTX app?) access to the browser key, and agreed to this. Big mistake if so.

2. The malware has an exploit for macOS security.

3. The malware has a way to take over the browser cross-process.

Hardware security keys don't help in this case. What helps is either users not granting malware access to critical secrets, OR, operating system security being enhanced.
I think those “consumer itches” probably stemmed from 1990s American action movies in which the original of this style of phone (Motorola MicroTac I think?) seems to be almost universally used.
Orange Pi 5 (rk3588 based) has m.2 pcie 2.0. I think maybe only a lane?
I don't agree on the fact that lombok has brought us out of the dark ages. We used to use it, but it has some drawbacks. One of them, it's an additional dependency. This, for a simple thing such as pojo, seems a bit overkill to me. The additional amount of time used to write some cose isn't worth the risk of additional bugs hidden in having one more dependency.
GNOME 3 and KDE 4 both committing usability seppuku at around the same time was really odd. Both these disasters were immediately preceded by the release of the first iPhone. I think maybe iOS broke the devs, made the KDE and GNOME devs feel inadequate so they started flailing around and hurt themselves in an attempt to reinvent things and prove to themselves that they could reinvent like Apple can.
I use awk for lots of things, including running simple nomerical models since its results are totally portable between OSes etc for my purposes.

And I learnt a new thing from this article, even though I have been using awk for decades... Functions. Yep!