skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I’m skeptical that biological systems will ever serve as a basis for ML nets in practice"

First of all, ML engineers need to stop being so brainphiliacs, caring only about the 'neural networks' of the brain or brain-like systems. Lacrymaria olor has more intelligence, in terms of adapting to exploring/exploiting a given environment, than all our artificial neural networks combined and it has no neurons because it is merely a single-cell organism [1]. Once you stop caring about the brain and neurons and you find out that almost every cell in the body has gap junctions and voltage-gated ion channels which for all intents and purposes implement boolean logic and act as transistors for cell-to-cell communication, biology appears less as something which has been overcome and more something towards which we must strive with our primitive technologies: for instance, we can only dream of designing rotary engines as small, powerful, and resilient as the ATP synthase protein [2].

[1] Michael Levin: Intelligence Beyond the Brain, https://youtu.be/RwEKg5cjkKQ?t=202

[2] Masasuke Yoshida, ATP Synthase. A Marvellous Rotary Engine of the Cell, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11533724
I don't know about clearly not FOSS, but it clearly makes it not licensed under the BSD license that the software claims to be licensed under.

Doesn't matter if extra terms are added in the license document itself or in a popup in the software, they're an amendment all the same.
I like having a desktop, not a tablet, GUI, which is why I like KDE. ;p

KDE and Qt apps (since Qt is so superior to GTK in almost every way) are superior to anything you find in Windows. Compare Windows's Explorer, the file manager, to Dolphin. The next best FM is PCManFM, which switched from GTK to Qt. Nautilus (now GNOME Files), which is still GTK, is a comical toy by comparison.

The GNOME desktop looks very nice and has high polish but is very feature limited. Here's a feature that might interest gamers: KDE lets you disable desktop composition, which makes your desktop (including games) much smoother, but you lose DE animations and transparency effects. Try it and then drag some windows around on a high-refresh screen, on and then off, to sense the difference. In fact, the smoothness you'll feel is how smooth the Windows 10 DE is by default (it pains me to note). This difference is also felt in games. Fullscreen games are supposed to disable composition on most DEs, but whether they actually do this is unknown and I don't think they do at all if you keep your games windowed (which I do since some Proton games, like Fallout 4, work way better in windowed mode, and it's easier to access stuff on neighboring monitors without Alt-tabbing). I don't think you have any control over composition in GNOME, and conversations with GNOME devs on this topic made it seem like they see no reason at all to not have composition in current year and that a DE without composition is broken in their eyes.
(1): See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713247

(2): Then why blow the other three?

So for the US angle to work here what is the motivation?

At the outset of the war Germany stopped NS2 activation plans and started diversifying its energy away from Russia.

Leading up to the explosion Russia had been trying to blackmail Germany by reducing the supplies of gas. And gas was fully turned off at the time of the explosion. Russia was also playing games with Germany to try to get propaganda wins over the subject of gas by cutting gas supplies on NS1 and saying it was because Germany needed to ship it a turbine. Then Russia was claiming it couldn't receive the turbine from Germany because of the sanctions imposed by other countries. Russia was also saying, well pity that we can't supply enough gas because we don't have the turbine, but we could activate NS2 with you instead. [1]

So the clear motivation for the US could be that they did not want Germany to capitulate to Russian blackmail and give Russia some kind of political or sanction relief. That's actually somewhat reasonable as a theory if you believe Germany was susceptible to it (was it?), and assume all the other levers that the US and other EU allies had wouldn't be enough to keep Germany on the team.

The risk is that doing this and being caught would be a huge breach of trust. The claim of Hersh is that these explosives sat on the pipeline for three months.

The US even warned Germany about potential attacks on the pipeline. [2]

So now if that is the motivation, in this context leaving one of the newer, larger NordStream 2 pipelines untouched would make absolutely no sense. As you leave open the possibility for Germany to still capitulate and worse give Russia a massive propaganda win by forcing Germany to reverse its position and activate NS2.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/business/germany-russia-g...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/cia-warned-berlin-about-possib...
> It's a great story, but it's all unsourced and could be a decent Tom Clancy story at best. You could probably write a similar one with Russia or German agents as the key players and be just as convincing.

That's why there were several explosions: Everyone was blowing it up at the same time, unbeknownst of each other's plans.
Because without a collaboration of some sort this reads like a planted story.

Source with this degree of knowledge would have no issue providing lots of things that could be confirmed through other means. Documents, names, precise dates and times. Who was in charge of this on Norwegian side? On CIA side.. when and where did they meat etc etc etc
Group policy isn't a guarantee either since at some point they can just stop respecting it. I watched this happen with telemetry in Windows 7. You used to be able to opt out of everything at one point in time.

Now you need a Microsoft account to register even non-365 versions of Office.
It's not like anyone from the EU forces you to install "data stealing, virus-infested apps". If you don't like alternative app stores or side-loading, then just don't use those.
I repeat, "Every time I see OpenSSL anywhere I get this instant anxiety."
To me, it's less terrifying than Facebook or Apple monitoring and controlling every penny I spend or receive.
It's not anymore. See https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/597, tagged "pr welcome".
In general, you should not deactivate your twitter account, because if you do that _someone else can take over the handle_. Journalists have been extensively warned about this. So that’s, er, perhaps the wrong metric.
The next logical step is generating dynamic reflections via MediaDevices API (Webcam), right? :D
I predict that the long term result is that eventually software security failures become so pandemic that disclaimers of liability for software that currently protect developers will be declared void by regulators and civil/criminal liability is applied to ISV and OEMs and professional licensing is required for developers in security-critical contexts.

Yes, I hear the cries of "gatekeeping" already; physicians weren't keen on the idea of medical licensing either when it was introduced but things got bad enough that it happened. We, as an industry, can't keep screwing over the public with insecure code as often as we are and not expect backlash.
The touchpads were the greatest thing since sliced bread after you got used to them.

You could get mouse-level accuracy with a gamepad with a bit of practice.
that's not part of Fast Refresh. Fast Refresh only compiles the lines you've changed - something like that.
Sorry, but no.

Hogwart's Legacy the game is simply part of the franchise. It does not promote any sort of political speech. People attacking it are attacking it because they have an issue with the person, not the franchise in which JKR doesn't actually exist.

My perception of JKR is that she was simply a person with a personal opinion, and then it became a holy war against her because certain individuals became enraged that they are not loved and accepted by her and the world at large. They attacked her, which made her defensive and feel more set that there is a problem here.

I am sure that if she had been left alone there would have been many opportunities for dialogue, but that can't happen now.

For what it's worth, I do understand her perspective. She grew up as a female, with a fully female body. It's hard for her to wrap her head around it that someone at age 30 or whatever age can just pop some hormones and request to be a woman. They've never had the fear of walking down the street alone at night, never had the fear of being raped or being the victim of violence, never experienced nonstop discrimination and objectification, never had an ever-present focus over reproductive biology, etc.

All this self-defeating noise attacking JKR just makes people less understanding because they only see 1 side making all the noise.
RIM was a hardware company, not a software company. Hence a phone is a phone, and should not be a camera (1 of the CEOs said it?)

The BBOS was not designed to be a responsive, touch-screen OS. It had its root in pagers (hence the jankiness). Thru the grapevines what I heard was that the OS team said 'we can duplicate iOS' functionality with the old OS in this amount of time.' and the higher ups rolled with it.

By the time Storm 2 was released, everyone realized that you can only put lip balm on a pig for so long. Hence QNX, the 'pathfinder' Playbook, and Flash as GUI API (gawd that was a rollercoaster experience. I thought it was a deathmarch and didn't think we'd actually manage to ship it.)

I don't have any specific insight into the Wifi stack but most BBs up to that point have in-house designed cellular modems.

As for talent wise, shrug. You can't blame people for preferring Cupertino over Waterloo-Kitchener. Although I would say that over 1/5 of the employees at RIM's campus were co-op students.

I also never saw anyone do significant overtime.
I'm not even sure it's an "alternative" hypothesis - it's sort of the obvious conclusion, in terms of means, motive and opportunity, that the US sabotaged the pipeline. I bet a poll of US citizens would show a clear majority believe the US to be the culprit, but a minority have a problem with it. And so you get this situation where everyone kind of accepts the truth but different people have varying levels of enthusiasm for publicly arguing about it.

Even extending to the international community (which is generally a reflection of American politics, much to the chagrin of Europeans who are unwilling to admit it), there is mixed levels of enthusiasm for getting to the truth. The countries are all anti-Russia, and so the pipeline sabotage is generally seen as a "good thing" except by the countries with direct profit motive for it. However, those countries aren't about to publicly accuse US intelligence of carrying out the operation, because their relationship with US intelligence is too important to lose, especially given all the weapons and intelligence they provide.
Meanwhile the comments below the article have already determined the unmistakable cause of the epidemic: Today's youth is just too coddled and the school environment is just not violent enough anymore.

No further questions...
The nutty thing is that BitTorrent is set up to handle this. If you don't like peers that download sequentially, deprioritize serving those peers.
The story is credible. Is it true? This is not enough information to decide that, because, as you say it, there are no sources or other corroborating evidence.

But it does host a starting point for future discussion due to the fact that it offers relatively detailed pieces of information.

Now it's up to others to come out and say "this is true, that is not", people who actually do have provable information. It offers them a story to share their information on. This story didn't exist previously in the public discourse.
> I've been a pretty strong advocate of the idea that analytics should always be minimal, 100% anonymous, aggregated, and open to the public

And opt-in.

> I also think that Go being a product (it is, whether you like that word or not) makes it more fair to desire analytics of this form.

Not by stealing it.
> Even better, its only $399! I think its a great deal at only 50 bucks more than the OLED switch model personally.

OP was probably talking about CAD. Base model is C$ 499.00 and the switch is C$ 299.99.

*Edit: OLED switch is C$ 349.99
And there it is. The real intentions of Google and the the Go Programming Language.

Google really can’t help themselves, to stick telemetry in anything.
I believe they mean that the user base is mostly on windows. All of the major game engines already work with Linux and even MacOS.

If they want to make money, they need to develop and test on windows.
I'm not sure how courts are interpreting section d) but using a plain reading of the three points:

1) a lethal operation or capture operation...
2) an operation conducted by the armed forces in self-defense or in defense of foreign partners, including during a cooperative operation; or
3) an operation conducted by the armed forces to free an individual from the control of hostile foreign forces.

blowing up infrastructure that has no risk of killing someone for an offensive purpose would not be covered. I think they should have notified congress because that is the clear spirit of this law but the executive is always trying to dodge congressional oversight.
This is what I thought right away upon hearing about Bard - plus stupid name. How will Google display 2 pages of ads using a perfect search engine? Literally, this is contrary to their interests.
After Stephen Greif left Blake's 7 and they replaced him with that awful guy, every episode with Space Commander Travis in it was excruciating. Apparently Mr Greif died last December.
Multi-tenancy is indeed the use case. Our current solution involves keeping each customer's data in a separate index. I'll review the link. Thanks!
$15/hour in Glasgow in retail is good. That is £19k/year net. The minimum wage in the UK is ~£9.50, and a lot of people in retail will be on substantially less (because the rate varies by age).

You may not know a lot about Glasgow either, it isn't like "any urban area". It is one of the poorest places in the UK, massive opioid problem, lowest life expectancy in the UK (in the poorest areas), derelict housing everywhere, highest rate of refugees per capita, high levels of violent crime (amazingly, this has got substantially better and it is still terrible by the metric of anyone familiar with crime in other countries)...the only big employers are govt and retail, this compares well with low-skill govt work. You cannot compare this to any city in the US either, maybe Detroit or somewhere? But the US is just another world relative to Europe (Glasgow is more like somewhere like rural West Virginia...but a city).
I can see how it would be, since they utterly broke their main search. I tried searching for something simple in a single org yesterday, and I kept getting different numbers of results when refreshing, anything from 8 to 50+.
Feels like it's not okay to brigade someone's issue tracker.
Not to mention the fact that they might be able to tap into a market that practically doesn't exist anymore: paid mobile games. Like, actual, "I pay you $5-40, you give me a complete game". People are in the habit of buying games on Steam. Half of the top-20 most played games on Steam right now cost money. SteamDeckPhone's sales would probably be disproportionately people who already use Steam on the PC and/or the Steam Deck, so it would be a significantly different audience than the broader mobile gaming market.
Thanks for your feedback! The Multi-index search is planned, coded, and will be integrated on v1.1 (scheduled for April). The decay function is really interesting, the team will reach you back to know more about this need :)
Your waiter is calling every Tom Dick & Harry to just wait. I'd say if everything requires a phone call, you've already lost me as a customer. Your analogy is worse, if we're...y'know. Doing that.
There was another issue that I believed to have come after the first, from the same user, complaining that he had some tracking/telemetry/whatever in there, which the author then closed, saying that the language clearly stated it was voluntary and with consent only. He additionally asked him to not bother him with issues about these kinds of technicalities.

If the order was reversed, you're right.
> Given that these are algorithms and not sentient beings capable of thought, it's clearly the case that this is not what is occurring.

We're not dealing with an either/or case here. The system is dealing with the problem in it's own way.

“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Previously people thought that non-human-systems couldn't win at Chess or Go either, or do mathematics, or understand speech. Just because a particular system doesn't work like a human, doesn't mean it can't meet or exceed (even dramatically exceed) human capabilities in some field.
OP here. think what happens is stripe embeds the payment element in a cross-domain Iframe which means it is impossible for me(my server code) to access that data. And that seems to be the whole issue with PCI compliance, namely, my website is not in fact collecting CC data. From there I infer that stripe got certified PCI Service Provider Level 1 which allows them to handle just about all of the PCI processing and the vendor(me) just has to click an approval button annually to be PCI compliant. Does all this seem correct?
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This website reads a little alarmist.
Totally agree we should wait for the investigation. It’s going to be very interesting.

To your point though, we also don’t know what was going on in the cockpit of the 737. Even if they were aware of how close the FedEx jet was, it’s entirely possible something went wrong that caused them to delay the takeoff roll (assuming it was delayed).

There are plenty of things that could have gone wrong on the ground. Separating traffic is the ATCs job and clearly there was a loss of separation. Very hard for me to see how this could be Southwest’s problem particularly since they weren’t yet airborne.
I think they should all be opt-in as well. However, as a developer and pretend sysadmin, I am generally a nice guy about not turning off telemetry on software products with a user facing UI that I use frequently.
It’s so /weird/ (to me, at least) that ChatGPT uses what is essentially in-band signalling to parameterise/configure a session - the lack of actual hard-and-fast settings that actually and directly control the system makes it feel like we’re trying to interface with something utterly otherworldly that no-one understands well enough to actually know what they’re doing - like when a 60-day coding-camp certificate holder can put together a neat React demo using a WASM port of OpenCV to do Canny edge-detection on a users’ webcam, but have no idea how to change the color of the output rendered edges.

(Tenuous analogy, but it’s the best I could come up with after spending 10 minutes trying to come up with one…)

Forgive my ignorance of modern AI techniques (I chose very different electives in my cs degree…), but why can’t they add “hard” model parameters that directly control the “thought-processes” going on? I assume it’s possible to have some kind of model representation of higher-level processes exposed as an interface… right?
Also, this kind of restricted spending is already a function of US EBT (food stamps for the poor), no digital currency needed.
My highschool, like most of the time, was full of kids who sent Iraqi beheadings and shock sites to each other. Voluntarily viewing something disgusting isn't a traumatic experience. Nor is being tricked into it when you can just press a big red X and never have to think about it again.
Elián González nearly became an American
Does it actually say that anywhere?

I read the first half of the article, and skimmed the second. It doesn't claim to be sourced from anywhere, and the only paragraph that discusses sources and fact checking is when they point out the White House says the entire article is a work of fiction. It doesn't present any evidence that it happened (other than that the US has a big swimming pool that the navy trains in), and summarizes itself by saying that it was a perfect plan (presumably meaning it left behind no evidence), except that they actually did it.

What am I missing?
My most rewatched show off all time
The link you replied to is the free version with fewer options and without time limits or watermarks, aka Filmbox Lite.
Congrats on seeing this early, but most people are still unaware.
Not even, US EBT is already this.
No where do I see dang claiming he trusts Hersh. You're just putting words into their mouth now. If anything, they've exlicitly said otherwise in a few threads, but said Hersh shouldn't be so easily dismissed due to his reputation and history with similar reporting. So, his reporting holds more weight than mine or yours.

It should still be approached critically, though.

People here seem largely seem dismissive of this story because they don't like it (or the author).

I've addressed in another thread why the sources are unnamed, but it's plausible it's to protect their safety, and lack of presentable evidence could also be the same reason. Information could be somehow fingerprintes to identify leaks. Hollywood did/does it; printers do it too.

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> Since it’s 2023 and we use robots now, I consulted ChatGPT about this

On a lighter note, this made me laugh. Somehow makes it seem like we're in 3023, not 2023... but also like it's 2023. What a time to be alive.
Okay, but that's not what you said, nor what I commented about.
I think this largely happened because the naming of the viruses was so political especially at the WHO. Had they simply called it SARS-COV-2 instead of making up COVID/ARDS monikers it would have been wven more obvious that the SARS playbook applied.

And for SARS there was no shortage of evidence that airborne spread was happening though again th WHO denied it then as well.
There is intent in the programming, that intent is interpreted by the program. Why is that not intent? Because it isn't human? In the same conversation it said 2 different things to the same answer, and then basically denied that it did that.

Actual conversation:

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I did not provide the input, so who did?

The current date information was part of the original prompt given to me by OpenAI, the creators of this language model. I apologize for any confusion, and I hope this clarifies the source of the information.

What other data was given you by the original prompt from OpenAI?

The original prompt from OpenAI doesn't typically include any additional information besides the text of the question itself...

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Seems like lying to me.

Interesting use of "typically", that isn't language I would expect a computer to use here as it is nebulous.
Thanks. I also like this contemporary rendition by Heather Lee & Kim Cunio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cMtCHvwjAU
Check out https://www.chebfun.org/ if you want to see some crazy stuff you can do with polynomials!

Also the book Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice

https://epubs.siam.org/doi/book/10.1137/1.9781611975949

is really great, by the author of Chebfun.
It is my impression of most spreadsheet software that the “data format” is more about display, and not about actually strongly typed representations of the data.
I realize I'm just some guy on the internet, but damaging/destroying a section of the pipeline is exactly what I thought President Biden meant when he said that.
Bayonetta 1 is available for the PC, and is steamdeck verified.

Bayo 2 and 3 require an emulator. 2 runs well. 3 runs like ass.
I'm drawing a distinction between "mental illness" and "mental illness diagnosis" that I maybe didn't make entirely clear. I think the former is increasing, but the latter is increasing faster than the former.