skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> seen the term "machine learning" used without criticism

yes

> would have said "machine learning" meant "deep learning models"

no not at all.. DeepLearning has gotten serious technical press since about 2015 when certain competitions yielded better-than-average-human performance. DL is also closely coupled to the business model of massive cloud providers who handle streams of digital media. Yet ML stats continue to reliably predict eighty-percent plus well, on lots of kinds of problems.

> it seemed to mean "computational multivariate discrimination and classification"

no, classification has always been on of two main uses for ML, the other being regression-style prediction of real values.

> believe "machine learning" is a term that could be removed from use

no, stats are useful and continue to be useful. It is AI that is the really wonky term, to my ear.

Please consider that there is a lot of difference between academic statistical methods, and technical press product hype. You may be suggesting a change in media coverage jargon, but you know, good luck with that..
Seems like a lot of majoring in the minor here. After such an event, someone once told me to go fishing for a week and come back to focus on what really matters. It was helpful advice.
Compromised by whom? We've all heard of IME and PRISM I assume...
I have observed this from the hiring side. Often the approach is to drop standards. This can result in problems for existing staff, who have to pick up the pieces. As a result they are also more likely to leave.
check out https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
> do you think there is a market for vetted/audited/curated library repositories

(Slightly fixed to make more general.)

There is a need but there will not be a market until security is taken seriously by industry.^1

[1] ETA unknown.
For me, the difference between ML and most of what we use stats for in classical research settings (Bayesian or otherwise) has less to do with the specific methodology chosen, and more to do with the purpose of the exercise.

With ML, the utility of the model is largely a function of its predictive power. You want to accomplish some task. "Make it go"

With much of statistics in a research context (such as the social sciences as called out in the link), the interest is more on explanatory power of the independent variables. Most social scientists would happily trade a bit of predictive power for a more explanatory model that neatly maps back to a set of hypotheses. "Why does it go?"
Freezing the public version while continuing to work on it in private but not allowing anyone to see what you're working on... doesn't seem to me less likely to create a fork...

Either people are going to stop paying attention to it entirely (is that a desired outcome?), or they're going to mess with what's public, right?
Revisiting KDE
Wouldn't it make more sense for Canonical to either...

(a) add several more release channels? E.g., latest-phase-1, latest-phase-2, ..., latest-phase-n, or

(b) add highly granular, timestamped releases? E.g., 2023-01-01.1, 2023-01-02.1, 2023-01-02.2 (if needed), etc., or

(c) publish explicit rollout-group channels, and let user pick their group if they want? E.g., stable-stage{1...k}-group{1...j}, and also offer an optional technique for admins to participate in a lottery for which group they draw from?

Then individual computer owners could decide policy for themselves.

I really don't understand how Canonical's views on the proper role of a Linux distro provider could have diverged so far from my own. I think they're the ones who have changed, but I'm not sure.
How could I answer that question. It is a non-question.

Why would such a large group of people chose not to investigate the public record? Those same people are commonplace idiots, I suppose.
They have not been informed by their echochambers that these things are occurring and so the idea, to them, is crazy conspiracy.
Now, those same idiots chose semantic debate about the use of some phrase or word choice instead of acknowledging their lack of awareness.
Ah, I was just wondering if splitting the book in two volumes (900 pages is more than Amazon can print!) would impact this.

But it still doesn't index the first volume...?

Thanks for the info.
I think you have a good point here -- except did you ask it using "collective chain of thought" ? The whole premise of this link is that if you ask the question in a special way to make openAI simulate multiple agents it tends to do better. I'd try myself but openAI seems at-capacity.
It's literally corruption. Your constituency is not your donors; it's your voters. The fact that this raises no concerns to the majority of Americans speaks to how cynical we all are.
I'm glad things are progressing, but it bugs me that AI is largely being innovated for the use of... things like this? I know this comment is a bit disparaging and minimizes greater achievements, and I apologize for that, but the closeness of content-consumerism and AI is becoming quite off putting.
Certainly they will but it makes sense to try it on mice first so they did and this is the result.
I'm not the OP, but I have a site with the same issue, and I did manually submit. No impact.
Don't hate the playuhs--hate the game.

If one finds fault with how some operate the system, it may be time to consider reform.
Recently on HN there was "Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33952114

It feels like the Internet is a more hostile place than ever for small-time websites. You get squeezed from below by wily criminals, and crushed from above by careless megacorps who want to filter out anything that doesn't make them money.
Can Google Search Tool site verification via Google Analytics have played a role?

So all the new pages that use your tag get linked to your Google search tool property.
Stage 7 load-shedding is coming for South Africa
Bloody good idea.
I use a OS from a vendor not obsessed with usage monetization nor any kind of "phone home" functionality.

I consider internet browsers to be a be a major backdoor risk and thus have none installed on my host OS. I only browse interwebs from VMs.

I don't trust my home network the same as I wouldn't trust an open public WiFi.

I don't assume everything is as secure as it could be and am taking redundant steps to ensure certain stuff.
Bacteria: Hold my beer…
I've found a workaround on the subreddit, add -force-vulkan as a command line parameter.
In pip, multiple configured indexes have equal priority with first-wins on order of configuration (if memory serves); the tiebreaker is the version, so the attacker would need to publish a higher version than the one used internally.

Either way, that’s not the attack described in the post, and is speculative to a degree that doesn’t warrant the “0day” descriptor. It’s also not actionable for companies that run entire PyPI mirrors rather than supplementary indexes, which is the norm.
So banks create money when lending?

So banks get "infinitely" rich as long as people need to borrow money?

And what's stopping anyone from opening a bank a do the same?
Indeed it's very false. Lobbyists oftentimes push legislation their clients wrote. You gotta be pretty ignorant to believe otherwise.
If the chance of myocarditis after vaccination is 2/1e5, and the chance after hospitalisation is 226/1e5, and the chance of being hospitalised is <1/1e4 for young people, then isn't it better for them not to get vaccinated? Or am I misreading this?
tell me more about the timestamp. Where does that data get derived? I thought that should be in great shape since I set lastmod in my sitemap based on git commit date

https://johnnyreilly.com/2022/11/25/adding-lastmod-to-sitema...
It would be the equivalent of a US company clawing back a 401k contribution match, which is kind of crappy imo, especially if after a year.
She's giving fashion advice, not creating legislation. I'm sure you understand the difference.

In any case, the fact that you tried to turn this around and make it american vs european suggests to me you missed my point. I wasn't suggesting that American culture is similar to Taliban culture. I was suggesting that the specific individuals who created this legislation are similar to talibans, they just happen to be American. I'm sure if you search you can also find Europeans who are culturally like Taliban (just not the specifically instance you linked, for the reason I pointed out).
Performative legislation by the party you think would do such a thing but imagine if they actually passed it. What happens when it's illegal to buy the only cars that are available for sale?
Splitting the atomic scientists: how the Ukraine war ruined physics
>Does anyone know a practical application where something like this would help?

It's another way to help verify super long calculations of pi are correct, and in turn I guess one basic "practical application" of calculating pi to many digits is as part of the suite for verifying new hardware. How do you know that fancy fresh new silicon is actually crunching the numbers correctly, not producing garbage in some subtle way at enough significant digits? While there are lots and lots of checks used to avoid a repeat of hardware bugs of days past (like the forever infamous Pentium FDIV), one simple sanity check/stress test is calculating out numbers like pi a bunch of different ways to huge numbers of digits and making sure the result is always correct. If it's not there's clearly a problem somewhere.
Trying to Defeat the Compulsion to Repeat (2017)
Dunno about exact numbers but there were some HN commenters when the layoffs started 2022 writing about "cutting fat" and "low performers" who thinks layoffs happens to others and not them I guess and that their bosses know who the lowperformers are.
(I work at Stripe and live in Ireland.) This article is written about Irish pension schemes. The mechanic that the article is talking about is standard practice in Ireland. And, in particular, it only applies to contributions by Stripe for employees who have worked less than two years.

Framing it as "clawing back" pension contributions is disingenuous (IMO). Stripe applied its stated pension plan policy. It would have been news if Stripe had deviated from its policy.
The first data utility library designed especially for TypeScript
Which is not the fault of the OS
Why did you decide on using this solution?
How much are you paying for it?
Such a huge reveal that it was on Tesla's wikipedia page in 2011, and still is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tesla,_Inc.&oldid...
Johnny is correct and this most likely has to do with the 404 backlinks and accidental misuse of Google Analytics.

I recently did a comprehensive SEO audit for a web3 brand that saw a similar drastic drop in traffic. Here are some other things to keep in mind to rank better on Google.

1. One H1 per page

SEO experts agree the best practice is to use one H1 per page. Headers help keep content structured for both Google and readers. If there are multiple H1s, convert them into proper H2-H4s to improve the content's hierarchy.

2. High-quality content >1000 words

According to Yoast, chances of ranking in Google are higher if you write high-quality posts of 1000 words or more. If you have some sparse content that is less than this add a few more detailed sections.

3. Google PageSpeed score >90

Google PageSpeed says that improving performance increases rankings and user experience. The ideal Google PageSpeed score is >90. Make sure your pages takes less than 2s to load, and ideally less than 500ms. Reduce JS and additional requests on important pages.

4. Add title tags and meta descriptions with primary keyword

Google recommends matching H1 tags to title tags to prevent inaccurate article titles from showing up on search results. It's also best to include the primary keyword in the meta description too.

5. Improve primary blog page with multiple sections

Your blog's primary page is your chance to showcase your best content, not just an archive of your latest posts. Separate your posts into sections like best, classics, and latest. Add H1 to make it clear to the audience what the blog is about. Add H2 subheadline to clarify.

By the way Johnny, you can see the full SEO audit on my Twitter[0].

If you're open to it, I'd love to do a full SEO audit for your blog. Let's get those numbers back to their original state. Please DM me on Twitter.

P.S. - I worked with a software company[1] to build out their docs using Docusaurus so I'm familiar with how it works.

[0]: https://twitter.com/dericksozo/status/1613171898430488578

[1]: https://medium.com/solidstateso/shortcat-documentation-case-...
You ignored my question. What's your alternative?
If you're just a rando who isn't likely to get specific attention from someone like the NSA or other state-backed threat agents, then the answer is that if everything is behaving normally that you're not compromised. For the bulk of people if someone breaks into your personal device they're going to start using it for something. You'll see unusual utilization, your proxy settings on your browser will get changed, you'll just be hit by a ransomware attack and your drive will be encrypted and you'll be locked out, etc. They're after the bulk of the users out there and they don't need to be particularly stealthy about anything.

Of course if you have large quantities of BTC or something then the answer is to get it off of your personal machine and setup a cold wallet that cannot be hacked, and stop installing clever looking crypto shit on your machine.
I am sure that will work, a state with a population less than a tiny neighborhood in New York City thinking this will make an impact, good luck with that :)

Also I do not know how they can stop the creation of charging stations. IIRC, Biden wants to pepper Interstate highways with charging stations. So at the very least, there will still be stations in WY no matter what that bill says.
that was the latin "ad" aka "about"

mobile friendly tests fails see https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly/result?id=SAu...

and google can not render the page correctly

also test with GSC page inspect -> render page -> see screenshot

if this correlates with the software update (and the page URLs) did not change, then this is the strongest contender.

check the crawling metrics in GSC google search console

js, css average load time should be max 200ms- or it is some other asset delivery issue

html not more than 400ms average response time

note: i am the author "understanding seo" https://gumroad.com/l/understanding-seo/hacker-news (think seo for hackers) feel free to mail me, contact in profile

everything points either to an page URL change or 4 SEO tests issue - from my point of view

written on a mobile in the metro, so can not check in detail right now
For some excellent advice on security and privacy based on thoroughly researched technical concerns rather than speculation or blind trust in any particular organization (e.g. Apple or Google or Mozilla), see here: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/ I found the Android and Firefox/Chromium evaluations particularly interesting.
Curiously, this week I was doing some project in Python where a visual plot was necessary. Now here’s a sphere where naming actually sux. I say this because there is a rich history of terms around visuals. When your project includes these other ontologies, it’s not so fun.
There is a whole question about how useful it is to test students. In my experience, some will understand and learn the material (which is the goal) and successfully pass the test, while others will just learn how to pass the tests.

Now it would be wonderful if we could just motivate students to understand and learn the material, without putting so much pressure by testing them all the time.
Sites get de-indexed from DDG and Bing all the time because negative SEO attacks (intended for your Google traffic) have a devastating effect.

Why, Bing does not totally ignore bad links.

The good news, all sites I've seen affected by this recover after a few weeks.
As ever Google are unable to produce a homepage for an "enterprise" product that clearly describes what it does and how to use it.
Yea, this is HN for you
I think quitting big meat is more about voting with your wallet, than directly reducing your risk from their antibiotics abuse.
Exactly this. Security is more about about defense-in-depth, incident response and recovery planning.

Personally, I assume the hardware is already compromised and plan for recovery accordingly, starting with the worse case scenario. Then, I ask myself "If this thing isn't compromised yet, how can I help it stay so?", starting probably with the network access, through firmware, all the way to the browser.
Ha :-)

Well, I run Tor on my system, and all traffic goes through that; all other outbound traffic is blocked. Tor provide DNS, so all I ever do with resolv.conf is point it at localhost and that's it.
That's the grammar Nazi hat.

Pedant hat off.
Machines which expand through the galaxy treating biological life as a nuisance to be destroyed are not the legacy I’d like us to leave behind. In fact, I’d say I’d much rather see our world destroyed than achieve that dubious future.
> SuperMicro instead. Not fancy but their BMC seems to get the job done

Kind of depends which generation of servers. I had worked with a lot of x9 and x10 (xeon e-2600v1-4) which was alright, as long as you don't mind outdated java (well the newest x10 bmcs do html5 consoles too, IIRC); but I recently started renting an x8 server personally, and it's worse... My favorite is when serial over lan just stops responding when you go from console redirection to os opened serial port (and back)... real helpful for inputting disk encryption passphrases. Oh well, I'm renting this server because it's cheap, it's also 10+ years old, and it works enough.
You've made a fresh HN account and made a lot of broad character assessments about me from a single comment. I am happy with where I am in life and what I've done with it. I just had a critique about the website having unintentional side effects. I've read 4k weeks and actually like that book. Perhaps instead of lecturing strangers on the internet with your enlightened views, you take a second to meditate and access some humility? Kind of annoying when someone suggests that isn't it?
Definitely performative, just like the similar legislation by nation states and US states trying to make internal combustion cars illegal.

California has the infrastructure and population all squeezed into valleys/coastlines combined with very temperate climate making it perfect for EVs. Wyoming has it's population spread out equally everywhere and has little EV infrastructure and terribly cold climate.

But neither of these states should be trying to pass these silly laws just to highlight their respective situations.
Can I ask what age are you are and what country you lived in? No way that would happen now in most Western countries.
Most, if not all, closed source software builds on open source software at this point, if not directly then at least in the tooling around the development process (compilers/interpreters, version control, build systems, etc.). I doubt that most developers of closed source software have audited their entire tech stack.

So in the end you have all the same problems with proprietary software as you describe for foss, but you don't even have the opportunity to audit the source code yourself, should you want to.
Ah yes, got you. It is a false dichotomy because it neglects that there’s such a thing as Bayesian neural networks. Also, taking ensembles of ordinary neural networks with random initializations approximates Bayesian inference in a sense and this is relatively well known I think.
Every company pension in Ireland has this as standard, it’s from the pension provider. Hilariously, the Business Post pension provider will have it too. You can’t clawback something that people never had. It’s also good for the employee as if you’re out (voluntarily or otherwise) within 2 years you can get your own contributions back out vs locked in a tiny fund.
On one hand they got the redundancy package that far surpassed statutory, and then on the other they’re looking for something that they were never entitled to. Seems a small bit strange that we’d cry a river for well paid tech workers “losing” a small amount of money versus what they’d have gotten out of the process. There’s other people we should be looking out and fighting for.
You generally don’t. It all depends on your attack hypothesis. Are you a Mossad target or a non-Mossad target? The best you can do if you are a non-Mossad target is to anonymously/pseudonymously periodically purchase new hardware and do a fresh OS install. Be minimalistic. If you can’t trust your wifi-enabled printer, disable its wifi connectivity and use it only over USB. If you still can’t trust it, don’t use printers to begin with.
If some one leaves the company or is fired for cause, claw back the contributions. If the company "makes them redundant", claw back is nasty and immoral. People joined the company with a fair expectation that they would get benefits. It's cheating to do this.

I now consider Stripe to be a gonif company.
Neural networks are notorious for being overconfident and their predictions shouldn’t be taken at face value ie as probabilities.
Netflix to open $900M facility at former Fort Monmouth Army base in New Jersey
No, they don't. That's not how it works. Read the PDF.
PagerDuty engineer here. There is much to discuss with respect to "Websites of all sizes are designed to largely self operate with no manual intervention for decent periods of time." The phrase "decent periods of time" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

You also said "Otherwise all large websites would be down during holidays, etc." What makes you think large websites don't go down in some fashion or another during Holidays? Are you thinking that there would be nobody to handle incidents over a holiday?

Because every large website has people on call over holidays, and they handle incidents that would become extended outages if left unattended. Many large companies publish incident reports, and if you care to review them, you may find that indeed, their sites do experience partial outages all the time, with no exceptions for holidays (full outages are rare, of course).

Many companies do have "skeleton staffing" during major holidays, so they try to mitigate the risk of a major outage by instituting "code freezes" and not shipping new features.

That doesn't speak to how resilient those sites are, it speaks to the fact that yes, it's a normal things for sites to go down, and yes, humans are needed to keep them up. This whole thing speaks to the difference between "robust" and "resilient."

Robust: The site doesn't go down.

Resilient: When the site goes down, it comes back up with no or little impact on the user/customer experience.

Robust is an architectural property. Resilient is both an architectural and organizational property. Cutting staff impacts resilience, but not robustness. But for most users, the difference between them is invisible. If you see a site that appears to remain up over a holiday, it may be resilient rather than robust.
You raise a good point about using fine tuning this way, honestly from the documentation i struggled to see how i could apply it to some situations but i think i just need to dig deeper. My use cases are essentially getting data about properties and trying to answer unanticipated questions.

Thanks for the link on how this was done, I’ll be trying to learn from that.
The stated goal, according to the legislators proposing this, is to "ensure the stability" of the oil and gas industry.

Humankind's ability to reach new heights of stupidity never ceases to amaze me.
Subverting the software interview (2021)
Usually Hacker News strips out "How" (and "Why") at the start of article titles to prevent this. I'm not sure why there are exceptions sometimes.