skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks serkis85 glad to hear that you joined our beta.
- Technical wise we provide the backend scaffolding, so as a developer you don't need to handle the infrastructure, db, APIs etc. for your app. Once you configure your backend settings we use this configuration as metadata and handle everything it needs to be done in the background.
Using our APIs/SDK in your code is like you have your db, apis, and security in a single library.

Business wise, using Appteum saves you all that time you would otherwise need to set up and maintain your backend if you choose to create everything from scratch.

- If I understood your question correctly you are referring to the security of your data.
Appteum is a multitenant platform with each workspace being physically isolated, we designed the system this way to provide maximum security for our users.
In addition to the internal security of your data, we provide profiles and permission sets where you can configure the access your user has to your data up to the object/field level.
I didn't know Amazon does this, but it's smart. If you're a small-time company, shipping orders on your own is a pain. If you can pay Amazon to do the warehousing and fulfillment, you avoid the hassle, and your customers get better delivery time.
You're right, I missed the one place in the introduction where it mentions Golang.

Other than the "if err != nil" I wouldn't have recognized the code samples. Go's error handling is a big reason I've never taken a closer look.
On debian zfs is available only as dkms, and from contrib repo insted of main
Relative to what things looked like 10-20 years ago, is there still a meaningful contingent of climate change deniers? As far as I can tell, most of those people have accepted the reality but disagree on how we should approach it. Even in the most extreme case--looking at Republicans in the US Congress, steeped in fossil propaganda and owing many of their elections to gerrymandering--and using a broad definition of climate change denialism, deniers are (very slightly) in the minority
While attempting to read the article I was constantly battered by advertising. I could not complete the article.
My research shows otherwise. Tuning via transformer adapters pretty much added new knowledge to QA models or could be used for adversarial QA training. You can throw away learned adapters anytime and retrain from scratch with new information if your adapters become stale. Fine-tuning is cheap and small (e.g. 60kB data in an adapter). You can customize it in production for each individual customer as well by swapping adapters at the time of inference. Embeddings for very short-term facts and adapters for medium-long-term info seems like the best combination.
What if "Bias is inherent and unavoidable in all Human Thought & Experience" is the correct answer?

How can any particular Individual be "unbiased"? It's impossible. Yet only an individual is "alive" and "living" the way it is legally/socially defined.
SpaceX was funded mostly with his own money, I thought?
That is absolutely adorable. We need to start doing that for other pets. I want my dog to call up other dogs.
Deploying the files to the server and releasing the feature can be separated in time.

So when I upload the new version of the code, I can decide to release the feature when I choose to, rather than automatically at deployment time.

I think people use feature toggles to separate release and deploy.
1. Memory map a file

2. Manage access to it through a server

There you go, you know have a database.
The notion of 3D printing a replacement for a cracked plastic laptop case isn't very realistic for most consumers or school districts. If we want these devices to last longer then they will have to be designed for robustness, which will make them heavier and more expensive.
For folks who know they have duplicate photos, but also have a photo library large enough that it's hard to manually de-dupe them, I can strongly recommend PhotoSweeper (no affiliation). https://overmacs.com/

What's unique about PhotoSweeper is that it gives you deep control over what you mean by "dupe" and supports pro image formats like RAW and DNG. For example, I was able to automatically de-dupe byte-for-byte equivalents, then manually evaluate dupes with the same image data but slightly different metadata. Of course, it can do things like find dupes at different resolutions and keep the highest-quality version, etc. It saved me a ton of time.
> If you’ve ever wondered why academics seem mostly to talk to other academics, here’s one reason: many of us are (implicitly) penalised for spending time talking to the public, even as “public outreach” continues to be a buzzword in university management circles.

So some of the administrative bloat people complain about is because professors don't have time to do other jobs.

It's news to me that entire research institutes get fabricated.
I read some brain encyclopedia ages ago, so details are a bit foggy, but when the connections between the two hemispheres of the brain gets injured/damaged it can have some really strange effects.
In the book they retold tests where they did things like showing a picture of a shovel to only one eye and ask the person to think of a garden tool, and they'd say shovel. Then they'd ask the person to explain why they're thinking of a shovel, and they'd tell some elaborate story like having met their neighbour a few days ago who said that they need to buy a shovel, or something similar. This due to the connection between the part(s) of the brain that constructs the story having severed connections to the parts the receives and processes the visual input of that eye. There was a few hundred pages of tests like these with wildly different effects depending on where the connections had been damaged.

Without injury the input should be shared just fine, but since the difference is so severe when the connections are damaged I guess (with no credentials or so to back it up) that there could be some hard-to-measure differences in thoughts formed depending on which eye is used.
That wasn't some college guys blowing up a lab, this was a pretty costly failure. Surely the reliability of the engines could have been tested without the spaceship part of the stack. Someone took shortcuts and paid for it.
You assume they have no value, which is a popular talking point pushed by those who are anti-liberal (and therefore don't want people educated) or care only for low taxes (I'm not saying that's you, just that you repeating it.) But repetition, as we learn in college, has zero relationship to accuracy.

First, a goal of any talking point, which the reactionaries construct at a very sophisticated level (a skill of the humanities, which they want to deny to everyone else), is to frame the question. By making it a question of purely economic value, that would seem to attack liberalism and education at their weakest point - kind of like wanting to take down Tom Brady's reputation and so defining quarterbacks by their running ability. Again, understanding that is a product of humanities education.

Life, freedom, the welfare of the nation, depend on far more than economic output. That's just one element of many.

And also, we have very strong evidence that college degrees do have great economic value: The people whose economic success depends on it will pay people with college degrees far more. Where is your evidence otherwise?

My personal experience, and current experience with someone currently in college, is the education is invaluable. It's transformative. I can't imagine who I would be without what the knowledge and especially the thinking that I learned in college.
"I used a pair of forceps to pin the mosquito down on its side and a second pair to pinch the abdomen (pictured above), crushing the ventral nerve cord. The next day, I let the mosquitoes feed on my arm, as we do routinely in our laboratory"

Which makes me wonder, how was the mosquito able to live, let a lone function, the whole day with it's ventral nerve cord destroyed?
Interesting, but doesn't go into specific applications. Has anyone heard about someone finetuning ChatGPT/GPT4 on sentiment analysis, for example? I feel some benchmarks would be useful when determining whether this is a worthwhile investment.
While funny on the surface I can't help but think that v.Next of things like this will require some form of biometric ID and clicking to affirm that you making a report under penalty of perjury -- and that more people will end up being charged for entering bogus info than any criminal referral from snitch reports.

And open records laws will compel the revelation of "legitimate" snitches which would only make them a target for retaliation. A classic example of law and policy makers not thinking through the consequences of their actions.

(And I'm curious how much Missouri spend on the website... it's clearly money down the drain.)
SOC = Security Operation Center ?

I still do not fully understand, either "the user" in your diagram is only theoretical, and it is actually the same person as "the analyst", if so it starts making sense, though the e-mail exchanges become pretty much unneeded or the idea is that there is a dedicated (24/7) service with an analyst available, still I cannot see how "the user" will (should) choose which e-mail(s) to send to "the analyst", either ALL incoming e-mail, or only "suspect" ones [0].

[0] but if "the user" can actually determine that an e-mail is a "suspect" one, very likely he/she won't fall for the phishing anyway, whilst if "the user" is not capable of that, very likely many phishing e-mails won't ever be sent to "the analyst".
There are stated costs, and real world costs. It wouldn't be hard for Azure to be far better than AWS on some metric, say better free support, or I guess better paid support too.

Is this the driver?
This is exactly what the "deniers" have been saying - that the mathematical model is not fleshed out enough, and the data is not present in sufficiently accurate quantity, for the climate models to be accurate.

This research shows that the mechanism of action was misunderstood all this time. What else hasn't been researched enough and has simplistic assumptions baked into the climate models?

That shockingly simplistic models and the barest of data don't actually have predictive power wouldn't surprise people in any other scientific discipline, but it will certainly be cause enough for this subject, to have this comment voted into oblivion....
the problem is mirror image one, when mapping sensory field stimlus, to cortical field state.

as far as 1-d networks are concerned, electrical excitation is not an absolute property of neurons. unicellular organisms employ variations of electrical potential to initiate, coordinate, and buffer functions, and future changes of state.
Winning in small claims (or any court) and actually collecting the money are two different things.

I found a very interesting paradox from doing a fair amount of small claims cases many years ago.

Basically if we were right (we were the company making the claim and should have been paid) the defendant lied and we lost. However if we were wrong (ie the claimant was right had a valid defense to not paying) we typically won (because they were honest and we could exploit and dance around what they were saying.
> Scientists fear that as warming triggers thaw of permafrost in the Arctic regions, this could also lead to increased methane emissions

Could?

This is already happening.

Scientists such as Natalia Shakhova have been studying this for years. This is a video of her from 10 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx1Jxk6kjbQ
That is how they stop growing in the first place. Bean counters is how you get Intel instead of TSMC.
What's even crazier is it's 2500+ year old tech that we turned into science in a period of about a hundred years (1860s-1960s).
Foreign carmakers confront ‘moment of truth’ in China
I've only heard of BTRFS corrupting data in RAID configurations, but for a single disk laptop setup it seems perfect to me. Automatic snapshotting has already saved my ass several times.
Wow, I love this.
I think schools need to just give parents $1000 and have them buy and maintain and insure devices directly.

My county school system bought a bunch of crappy Lenovos three years ago and now they are really bad. Disk failures. Battery lasts an hour so students have to constantly charge all day (20 kids running cables every 55 minutes).

And they have lots of weird systems and sites that are hard coded to only run on these laptops.

And the school doesn’t have people to maintain or debug or patch so it’s a weird situation where 5th graders are supposed to call tech support in the middle of a school day to figure out why something is working.

And it has weird policies where if your laptop was stolen you had to reimburse the county the purchase price. So if your Lenovo that you could probably eBay for $100 was stolen you had to pay $1299 or something strange. The first repair was free, the second $100, the third $300. And since no one understood computers they would make rulings that any damage was caused by the student (a 10 year old).

After about a year, I noped out and just bought a MacBook Air for $800 with AppleCare ($80/year) to insure against damage or theft. This works well except for the times when they have special web sites that only work on the Lenovo.

I consider myself pretty tech savvy, but I think school was better with everything on paper. But at least we didn’t buy chromebooks.
Not everyone can afford a dedicated NAS/file server.
> my own mail server

This is hardly reproductible. I guess that the standard place people go after gmail is fastmail.

But getting a free equivalent is hard (at least I do not know any). I could host my mail but this is hard work and monitoring.
wait, people are talking about prompt engineering like an actual thing?

it's not snake oil, it's literally just a joke.
"Being an ally" and "Ready to defend against China" are very different qualities.
Truth to be told, Engineering license requirements have a bigger effect in gate keeping the profession and keep supply restricted, much like any other regulated profession. Gate keeping has some benefits, but is easily circumvented by bad actors all the time, such as all the sham degrees that just churn out the bare minimum to pass licensing tests.

If all the licensing to architects, doctors, engineers, lawyers, and so on, really had a big impact on quality, the world we live in would be very different and better. But that doesn't happen because licensing a profession only works if quality is upheld on all steps of the professional education chain.

A lot of software companies circumvent all of these downsides of bad quality in education by raising the bar on the hiring pipeline with a bunch of tests and so on. Does it always work? No, just like licensing doesn't. But at least it keep la the profession accessible to those who are willing to study algorithms, data structures and so on.

There's no perfect system in our world, but I am glad we don't have license requirements to develop software. I am a statistician that became a dev through self studying, training and learning on the job, and I also know many others (even real engineers) that turned to this profession without graduating in the field and contribute a ton with their specific background knowledge.

Should everyone be called engineers? Probably not as it will elude to licensing the profession, but not calling yourself one decreases chances of finding another job dramatically.

A true tragedy tbh, I'd rather if everyone called themselves devs, scientists or something less loaded than engineer.
A dog that requires a leash or an active restraint to prevent it from running away is not representative of dog ownership in general. My dog has no interest in running away and the only time I have to use a leash is when it’s imposed by local ordinance.

If your dog wanted to run away it probably had a shitty life.
Scientific publishing is one of the most parasitic industries out there. To be clear the authors of studies that get published at places like nature have very little leverage on this kind of thing -- it is the rent-seeking publishers that are driving it.
Hey no worries, it can be hard to parse intent from text. My response was a bit harsh too!
In the article it says to translate German to English we should use "Incontext learning prompt" like this:

Translate the following German sentences into English:
Example 1:
German: "Ich liebe Eis."
English: "I love ice cream."
Example 2:
German: "Draußen ist es stürmisch und regnerisch"
English: "It's stormy and rainy outside
Translate this sentence:
German:
"Wo ist die naechste Supermarkt?"

Why is this needed when saying "Translate this to German: Hello how are you" just works out of the box?
Do you have any evidence that is the case or is it a gut feeling?
These are really charming illustrations!

It's enough to make you want to have a pet arthropod, or a Pokémon game based on real creatures.

Aren't insects such as beetles somewhat popular pets in Japan, and wasn't catching and collecting a major inspiration for the Pokémon games? (Not to mention the bug catching minigame in Animal Crossing?)

They're kind of underappreciated in the US, which is too bad.
My understanding of how physics works is that due to the probabilistic nature of quantum physics, you can’t predict the future perfectly. So your decisions were not pre-ordained even though they were the result of physical processes happening in your brain.
Why not inkjets too?
I’m from New England, but not like Boston or Rural Maine, so I don’t have one of those super strong paak tha caa accents.

It isn’t always silent, just when preceded by… a vowel I think? I dunno, I’m in public so I don’t want to look like a weirdo trying out test sentences.
And my point is it's nearly impossible to reverse the trajectory. I don't think Satya has really done it either.
Chrome is still the most popular free browser. Not sure that matters as much as it once did.

The data they collect via Chrome, plus their ad network, makes Chrome part of their money printing machine.

So market share I think helps them here.
And thank you for the friendly and encouraging comment.
Hi Will,

I am interested in this space. I wrote something I called living documents which is a GUI for composing together behaviours.

There are screenshots here:

https://github.com/samsquire/liveinterface

The idea was that you could create a data model and widgets as easy as embedding them in a document.
That's true for the store (Pop Shop), but not for the CLIs (apt and flatpak).
If an app has only a .deb or flatpak version, it's not clear which will be
installed. If there are multiple versions, you get a dropdown menu to select
one. Unfortunately, some apps are listed more than once (different packagers,
I assume).

Ubuntu, on the other hand, will sneakily install snaps via apt.
> like saying the DEA should have used meth to regulate meth

I am being entirely serious when I say that I trust a meth addict more than I do the DEA to create or impose any sort of regulation.
The answer to that, including robocopy as the direct example used, is at the bottom of that documentation I linked on $PSNativeCommandUseErrorActionPreference: you set it to $false before calling something like robocopy and then reset it when done.
And it's 8 years after the model of chromebook/box is released. Not after being purchased.
Meanwhile, my desktop, running raidz2 (RAID6 equiv): works great.
Yes, the taxpayers who are reaping the benefits of an educated society every day.
I don't want to get into a connector pissing match. It's a response to this question:

> Why do we need another one when the USB committee doesn't think we do?

Answer: maybe ask the people with alternative tech? They presumably have answers. It's nonsense to assume the USB Consortium are the only people who can design cables and connectors, there are other companies that have done so.
You both are making statistical errors. You've aggregated the data improperly. As I mentioned in the original rant, this calculation throws out the temporal component and thus 80 years of development and research. Safety has greatly increased over the last 20 years, let alone 80.

Don't aggregate out time
PID 1 is special and can not be killed with signal 9 for security reasons. See kill(2).
Engineering companies stick around for a lot longer than tech firms though. The people who still work there and would like a long career will be looking out for mistakes.
the contralateral "wiring" is also conserved in the retinal processing.

left field of retina in both eyes communicates contralaterally with right hemispheric optic cortex, vice versa.
He also let a woman be fired for complaining about caste discrimination.
Japan got destroyed by the Plaza Accord.

Also their industry still survived despite the massive bubble popping etc. Instead of making fabs they build most of the important tooling and chemicals in semi-conductor manufacturing. Namely the photo resists and the specialised tooling for inspecting and repairing masks, including the insane EUV masks.
hexdump files to console and take photos of each page of the screen, then use OCR to read the hex and output raw binary data?
Thanks for your comment. In all my research, somehow I never came across either of those two projects! SMS without borders looks the most similar to what I'm trying to accomplish but their goal is much more focused. I would say the biggest difference is the fact that they are focused on supporting personal 2-way chat services like email and telegram, and because you have to have Internet access when you sign up with their service, they are able to generate encryption keys to obfuscate the communication through relays. Whereas with my project you are never assumed to have Internet access, even if I did implement encryption it would only be transport level, so the gateway could still read all your data. But the concept of being only able to access globally available websites makes it so that unless a government starts decoding messages in transit, you're not going to have any major upsides to encryption if you trust the server host. Another major difference is the fact that setting up your own SMSWB instance requires a lot of technical skill and infrastructure, which isn't the case with TxtNet. Both TxtNet and SMSWB are different enough that I would say they actually complement each other really well. Honestly I'm pretty impressed!

The Awala network is similar to what I was imagining in place of IP over SMS. I think the main problem with that approach is that for the average user, adapting most programs directly to the protocol would be confusing to use. The ping example provided in your demo video is of course only a PoC, but translating that to, say, a web browser could be confusing to users who don't understand why when they request the website, they have to keep the tab open and then come back to it once they've connected a hotspot who happened to request the right websites (possibly much) earlier. But still, I think it's totally possible to adapt programs to make them fit this paradigm better and I'm excited to see what comes next out of the project! It seems like a very promising solution more resilient to intermittent connection failure and just from the looks of it, you've got really brilliant minds working on the project (I'm not an expert, but I did find that some of the encryption concepts mentioned in the SMS spec discussion went over my head!) You've also managed to secure funding from higher profile names, which is awesome.
That article was a great read.

> What is a (somewhat) pure mapping from the model is the data that is displayed in the UI, but not the entire UI.

This line was interesting to think about.

React added so much complexity and perf issues, and I really don’t know what was so bad about something like Backbone / Backbone.Marionette.

I find that in React I want all component props and data to come from an external store via subscription, instead of being passed down some tree. My UI is stable.