skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wrong. The US CDC has data for height by percentile and race. Black americans are not taller than white americans - you are absolutely correct. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_11/sr11_211.pdf See figure 8.

However - and this is a major issue - the outliers aren't captured in averages. I read a book called Taboo by John Entine that went into this exact issue. The issue is that the outliers are what determine champions at the elite level and people with west african heritage have slightly more genetic advantages - notably in sports like basketball. there is also the issue of rising incomes and the breaking down of societal barriers. As more black americans have access to sports like basketball, more of their slight genetic advantages can express themselves. All this gets masked by averages.

Entine's book makes a point in passing - africans will slowly start to dominate sports like football (soccer) that were traditionally dominated by white people. The french men's and women's football teams are showing this, as are many other european football teams. Football is more about skill and places less of a premium on height but there is one role where height is important - the goalkeeper. In the french squad, all their goalies except Lloris are either black or mixed heritage.
The model underneath this is trained only on data from SD 1.4/5 so this would be expected. I have another model training which covers all models you mentioned which should perform well on those
All of this extra traffic is to support the misfeature where the URL bar and search bar are combined! They are two different functions. When I type a domain I don't want the browser to send that straight to Google and give me a search result page. It makes a little bit of sense on phones where space is tight, but on desktop browsers it's just annoying.
It’s okay to not be familiar with terms. No one knows everything. At the same time, maybe try modulating your response to be a little less reactive and childish. Just because you haven’t heard these terms before, doesn’t mean they aren’t easy to pick up and understand. We in programming like to define new terminology for new concepts we encounter to aid our exposition. The same is true for people in the social sciences. This article is targeted at people in the social sciences, and for an article written for that audience it is straightforward and well-written. So much so that I would say it should pose no trouble for someone unfamiliar with the terminology often used in that domain.
folks, the AI called me "beautiful" and said I look like Chris Pratt, despite being a middle-aged and overweight computer programmer. They need to monetize this immediately.
“China’s efforts to build a community of like-minded countries opposed to the West under the banner of the Global Security Initiative – which would also include Russia – undermines Estonia’s security.”

Did someone say Global Defense Initiative (GDI)? Someone over there has played C&C a bit too much. :D

But they got the sides mixed up. It's more like Nod. (Which is a name taken from to "The Land of Nod" in Genesis, which was located to the east of Eden).
Well .. the root servers and DNS platform in general provide name resolution. Traditionally we think that as a feature/function name -> IP. But there non functional aspects also to consider. Distribution is one (DNS is really good on that), security (DNSSEC comes to mind), multi-transport channel (e.g. DNS over HTTP) are others but like seen in this case there is a non functional need, that interception can be detected. DNS does not deliver that (yet). But it is clearly a need of it in the DNS platform.

So calling it abuse, is wrong. It is a dirty hack for a non-existing feature. It is technical debt of the DNS platform and the root server suffer for it because the ISPs and in-house DNS resolvers create the problem.

Being angry at Google we can anyway be. They have enough money, enough people and enough power to either fix this financially or as a feature within the DNS platform.
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My understanding is the Estonian-Russian border as it is currently has been in place over 100 years, is this inaccurate?
Google can prompt you to download Chrome in every service and every app of theirs you use, and every so often "innocently" break some aspect of their services if it's being touched by another browser.

I remember back when their enthusiasts here, on HN, urged Firefox users to keep an open mind that Google products breaking on Gecko regularly was just because they were so busy making the web awesome! It was strange back then, but also the product of another era of the Orange Site, you saw more of that tendency to identify with businesses such as Google than with other individual people.
That principle seems like it would outlaw the entire industry of political news.
Running multiple test builds in parallel isn't all that difficult, though. One with ubsan, one with asan, and one (opt-in on a test-by-test basis) with tsan.
If you're going for network login pages, you can intercept any of the standard HTTP URLs. There are specific URLs by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and if you're willing, a bunch of Linux distros as well, that solely serve to detect MitM redirects and show login prompts.

DHCP isn't reliable as many clients don't do anything with advanced settings you provide. Good luck getting a phone to accept the proxy server you've configured over DHCP.

This legitimate-ish DPI usually runs at the network itself, it doesn't traverse the uplink to cause any load.
It’s amazing how easily the worship of the almighty dollar can cheapen an article.

> Finally, we turn to the real crime, the crime involving money.

I thought we were talking about privacy.
I'd be interested to see the results of that. My email address is on my Hacker News profile if you want to talk there.
The alien passport gives you mobility across Schengen area and free access to Russia (without having to live in Russia). For its owners it's a decent value.
https://archive.md/WM1wf
I guess you're somewhat consenting by not putting a noindex tag in your site?
It's an extraordinarily useful feature that millions of users take advantage of every day. The idea that the operators of core Internet infrastructure would be pressuring applications not to have these kinds of features is what should alarm you, not that the features exist. The cart doesn't drag the horse.
How is the law relevant to his statement?
I've been working on an application with such properties. Here are some patterns I have employed:

Break it up into many completely independent components. In my case, this is in the form of scripts which read from and write to queues. Each script reads from one queue and writes to another.

A lot of redundancy. From one queue to the next, there are at least two pathways which the data can take.

Lots of sanity checks. Wherever you are taking input, check that it has the expected format, shape, and content before processing it.

More redundancy. Write two versions of the same script in two different languages and make the system run them side by side and compare the outputs. If the outputs differ, there is a problem, and you should switch to the script which produces the correct expected output (and alert the operator.)

Avoid doing dangerous things. For example, querying the database using freeform strings is dangerous. So only query the database using sanity-checked identifiers which contain a predefined list of allowed characters which do not include quotes or anything else weird. Running scripts as a direct result of user request is dangerous, so serve only static HTML as much as possible. And so on.
I don't condone that stuff at all. The big risk comes from 5 or 6 digit member enterprises where you can't properly vet your partners, employees, or contractors. What if a situation like Yandex happens and you find out your code has obscene comments on the backend? What if you have a sponsor that wasn't properly vetted. What if you wind up in a catastrophic PR situation, say BP oil spill. Or, what if someone goes onto a public comment form and posts that obscene stuff and you don't realize it?

Enterprises are massive machines that move EXTREMELY slow. And the risk of not being able to catch something in time is there, and since Cloudflare has now done it once, that means they could be pressured into it in the future. And would the media or Twitter be defending a poor Oil and Gas company if their source code had obscene things in it from a malicious developer, or would they push for Cloudflare to remove them?

Even if the odds of this are so low. I would be doing a disservice to my clients and enterprises if I didn't advise them of this possible risk that could cripple a company. Anything that can be easily stopped by using another vendor, so essentially free, when compared to a risk of something that could result in a company losing hundreds of millions or billions of dollars is an easy choice to make.

Corporations are risk averse, and this plays into both sides. Activists abuse this to pull advertisers of people they don't like. But they also have to understand that services which can cause risk are avoided like the plague.
I don't entirely get the concept between mathematical proofs of programs. Is the basic idea that it is straight forward for humands to write down a correct NP hard specification and then let some algorithm proof the correctness of a more efficient algorithm for the same problem?
If so, then GPT3 must comply with the GPL and CC-BY-SA.
Agreed, results not good for this style of images. I have a model training on a much bigger dataset of image-prompt pairs which should perform better on this.
I think it's important to acknowledge that this perspective forms a significant part of Russian internal justification for it's action. Significantly, this allows Russia to claim to be a victim in pretty much all interactions with the west.

I don't think Russia should have been able to dictate the terms of NATO enlargement, but I do think the way that we enlarged NATO, combined with the lackluster way that the west attempted to engage with Russia was a foreign policy failure.
Maybe play around with PICO-8? (https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php)

The highlighted programs are mostly games, but people have made all sorts of fun things like 3D CAD, music synthesis, text editors, etc.

It is certainly a break from complexity. And it is easy to export your program as a webpage.
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In the United States you don't have the right to privacy for things outside of your private property, for example, your garbage:

Held:

1. The Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the warrantless search and seizure of garbage left for collection outside the curtilage of a home. Pp. 39-44.
(a) Since respondents voluntarily left their trash for collection in an area particularly suited for public inspection, their claimed expectation of privacy in the inculpatory items they discarded was not objectively reasonable. It is common knowledge that plastic garbage bags left along a public street are readily accessible to animals, children, scavengers, snoops, and other members of the public. Moreover, respondents placed their refuse at the curb for the express purpose of conveying it to a third party, the trash collector, who might himself have sorted through it or permitted others, such as the police, to do so. The police cannot reasonably be expected to avert their eyes from evidence of criminal activity that could have been observed by any member of the public. Pp. 39-43.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/486/35.html

I'm sure that this is also a breach of whatever "textual integrity" is but I don't care enough about the subject to find out exactly how that doctrine would apply.
tl;dr summary: The paper is not about blockchain just an upgrade of how money is transferred between bank/payments operators customers... a Revolut for the whole country.

Money/Currency rules are the same.

Access to network is the same (customers banks use banks apps)
Do you know how true this is for (relatively) reliable systems such as those found in aviation? I know that in everyday life, what you say is absolutely true -- I definitely stop trusting electronic systems in stressful situations -- but then I also know how they feed me misleading as well as blatantly false data all the time, so I'd argue that not trusting them is not irrational per se.
It's probably worth including (2021) in the title. The article described Etsy putting money to fight this problem in 2021, I wonder if it has improved? Some spot checking makes me think probably not.
> militarised colonialism, while the US is fairly competent at it.

Are they, actually? Vietnam, Afghanistan etc..
This is interesting, thanks. That's a lot to read but I'm working my way through it.

I read a whitepaper on value semantics: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.12678.pdf

I think it's promising.

I've been working on multithreaded code that passes references around. If you hold the reference, you have exclusive access for reading and writing the data at the reference. In theory you should only send values between threads when you need to pass exclusive access to a thread. At all other times, data is completely sharded between threads. The only reason to pass a reference around is to pass data between threads, similar to a queue but not quite. I deliberately avoid updating shared data structure such as a list that both threads are processing. Instead, each thread gets a shard.

I get 6,359,793 requests per second of passing reference around with this approach. Ideally each reference should correspond to a large amount of CPU work (at least 1 second), so that you shouldn't need to pass around references between threads that fast. This is 150 nanoseconds for a synchronization event, roughly 1.5 memory accesses.
I don't think anyone's talking about another elephant in the room: Facebook could very easily make their own framework for embedded web browsing and get all of their tracking ability back.
Google will pay handsomely to a good bunch of "nerds" to gain dominance on iOS with Chrome as it did in other platforms, and then it will make business sense for independent vendors to drop support for anything but Chrome.
And it doesn’t appear the security forces know exactly what is going on.
Unless you're very lucky, it's going to be showing the wrong time. I don't think I ever had a power outage precisely on 00:00. Blinking is actually a nice reminder that you should not look at that clock to check the time. In any case: yeah, you have a single source of time info disabled, but there's a wall clock above the tv, so really, why bother setting the time right?

Unless you want to record that show that plays at a time when you have to be out. That's when you call out to the kids to do whatever it takes (setting the clock is one of the things to do, but why bother with the details).
FWIW I shop on Etsy quite a bit and I can definitely tell when something is actually handmade, and I shell out for it. I think you would still have a market despite the degradation in quality of Etsy generally.
The dataset used to train this model didn’t have any img2img data so that would explain it
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Most people want their content to be discovered and consumed by others.
That's the point! We don't ambition to compete with Elastic on everything (logs, analytics, etc). We are doing search for front-end users with a strong focus on relevancy, speed & developer experience.
You can read a bit more on our documentation https://docs.meilisearch.com/learn/what_is_meilisearch/compa...
I work a four day workweek and have been for a full year now. I'm likely to never return to a 40hr workweek. I actually ended up interviewing at a few places a couple of months ago (Capital One, Farmers, few other smaller companies). I was pleasantly surprised by how many hiring managers and HR folks were willing to talk to me after I mentioned that I was only interested in 32hrs/wk @ 80% salary. My point of advice to anyone who is curious about a four day work week is just do it. Ask and I'm willing to bet you will receive.
I started looking on Etsy specifically to get away from the cheap Alibaba junk other stores are flooded with. There are some really nice handmade products there.
This was a constant complaint about Etsy 10 years ago when I worked there. This was a complaint that predated my time working there, even. At one point we even had to ban people selling spells (yes, as in the seller would offer to do a magical incantation on your behalf).

The exact details might've changed, but the symptoms look the exact same. I remember we had to deal with a lot of people trying to skirt OFAC regulations, for example, by doing all sorts of things to hide the country of origin for something.

Optimistically I will say this is a very hard problem to solve. Pessimistically of course the company benefits from it, so I'm sure it's not a problem anyone besides maybe a few diehard advocates look too deeply into.
> it's pretty old tech that is very inefficient.

There is nothing about Rust or C++ that make them faster than C.

In what way are the root servers inefficient?
can we get rid of that incredibly stupid columnar format?

They're hard enough to read on hardcopy ... but nearly useless on a screen!
And a big smack to the face for the activity "Ask Me Anything"
It is an interesting tricky problem. As the DNS system was designed for caching and an 'honor system'. How do you allow caching so you do not completely overwhelm the root servers yet still prevent modification/interception of the contents of the messages? DoH sort of addresses it. But then you still have to trust that the message has not been altered/intercepted at the DoH server. Yet we also want the server to be able to do a replay of that message to another client. Also how to retrofit all of the existing code that uses DNS that uses this magic system. It is like we need a lightweight one way TLS session but with certificate caching and a second request/response type with a hash. But you have to watch out for cert forging then.

That the browsers are reacting in this way says we have a failure at the DNS software level. Those projects do seem to be giving the security that is wanted. So we are starting to get some fragmentation. Which can not be good. Perhaps we need new record types to support this?
Do Americans have a right to fix their own stuff?
No, researchers propose using a fourth light to indicate to humans that the autonomous vehicles are in charge, the normal rules are paused, and you should follow the car in front.

“For” self-driving cars couldn’t be less clear.
You wouldn't even have the opportunity to make these peanut gallery potshots if those overly optimistic Yankees took the British/French/German route and did not give the general public access to ATC recordings.
Doesn't this guy have form for making stuff up?
This is the thing I find when people post "ElasticSearch Alternative".

80% of ElasticSearch's value add (wrt search anyway) is all the clustering and frame work that allows you to span the search over tens or hundreds of machines "easily".

I think the same is true here. Probably the comparison should be with the underlying search libraries that ES sits on.

I suppose this comparison makes sense in a world where most people don't run their own servers much any more since the clustering etc would be a problem for the cloud offering and not the consumer.
I'm using C#/.NET7 for a side project. I use .NET6 at work.

For me, the language itself has no bearing on fun. Having something that "just works" in most areas without having to antagonize over 3rd party dependencies allows me to have fun.

I'm sure if I was as familiar with Java or something I'd probably use it for my fun projects instead.

If you want the language itself to be an amusement, then I don't think C# is for you. It is about as boring and straightforward as it gets. I use it because it lets me work on fun problems without getting in the way very much.
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This is true, however, if you reach out to maintainers, you might be surprised to find old files from them.
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If frontend stuff is fatiguing just use Bootstrap. You barely have to touch CSS with it (beyond using its classes on elements) and it is extremely polished and capable. Sure the stock output is a little corporate and bland but who cares, just get stuff done with it and worry about making it look unique later.

edit: Material design is another good frontend option that lets you stop worrying about fiddling with design and CSS. There isn't as nice of a single framework for it like bootstrap though.
Congrats team. Meilisearch is an absolute joy to work with.
You're changing the topic. You originally accused developers other than Apple of maliciously intercepting web traffic. I responded that your FUD is actually a greater concern with the closed source Safari than the free and open source uBlock Origin. What you're saying now about ad blocking coverage and web views is completely irrelevant to the invalidity of your original argument against an open browser ecosystem on iOS.
Actually, it is the other way around, you would have to give evidence that major owners of big techs companies (blackrock/vanguard) don't do anything at steering the companies... which they own... and one of the efficient ways is to push forward a CEO they "own".

I am not the one on the unbelievable side here, mate.

Why do you thing msft CEO is at starbucks board, and you can look deeper via internet public info and this habit of CEOs members of the board of the other companies which are owned by the same companies is kind of smelly and not an sole case. This behavior is not limited to blackrock/vanguard and the USA, you know the cumulative wages are very "motivational", but it gives good hints at who belongs a CEO.

If I recall properly, vanguard is usually the biggest major owner something like between 10% and 20% and blackrock not far behind, but the percentage is stable among most companies I did check, and in most cases (exception with amazon in which Mr Bezos has still control). But they are THE major owners in control and that almost EVERYWHERE.

As I said, this is public info on internet, you can start on wikipedia but you have web sites (which work even without google blink/geeko or apple webkit, aka absurdely and grotesquely massive and complex web engines) which reference the same info (A quick search on google... lol). You can do easily your research (I wish EU companies were as "search-enabled" than the US companies).

Another stinking stuff, hard to find, then it would require to get more verifications, would be some giga-fishy "debts" sucking out a company profits: one day I got a site with starbucks gigantic "debts" sucking out tons of money out via chronic interest rates: some of those debts were most in us currency, but some not (japanese yen as far as I can recall). I will keep that in mind for any further digging.
It is important. Rust projects are infinitely easier to contribute to.
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For me, "built in Rust" can be a real marketing argument. Indeed, Rust is a language that has proved its safety in the past.
Building a technical product in Rust guarantees stability and safety (no memory issues in general) and performance (no garbage collector issue), so it brings more trust to the users.
Poor output from a chat bot indicating poor documentation would make sense if the chat bot could limit itself to authoritative information from the documentation, but that's not how these models operate. I'm not even sure how you could make them work that way because if you trained them solely on the documentation, they wouldn't be able to operate in a conversational manner.
Someone should tell Reddit if they fixed their search they might supplant Google search... they could become the front page of the internet or something.
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