skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Person of color” can be found in legal documents going back to the early 1800’s. There’s no “evolution” here. It’s all for political purposes. “Colored people” became “black ”became “African Americans” became “Black” (capital B). “People of color” is more broad and used to form a progressive coalition against “whiteness”, or rather the Western European tradition. In fact you could argue PoC doesn’t include Blacks as BIPOC is the fresh term to convince non-white people and so-called “white allies” to organize together so as to obtain power against the white oppressors.

Yes, when you examine the history here it appears neurotic, paranoid, and divisive. But I’m sure a few people have been able to acquire a slice of power from exploiting it.

The rest of us will just continue to politely smile and nod and then roll our eyes and smirk as we turn away.
CA cops illegally share data with anti-abortion states, civil rights groups say
It's not even about "forcing". This is such common and expected behavior that it's surprising (and suspicious) when it isn't the case.
If all you want is a small PC, used thin clients are usually cheap and easy to repurpose.
Glad you love it!
Probably my favourite article by them.

Back in the day, it used to have a subheading too:

“‘Oh shit,’ says humanity.”
I have no excuses.
A Little History of the World by Ernst Gombrich, is the best history book that also cover religion that I ever read.

It covers the surface od reasonings, dark history, the problems
That explains all the fuss of recent years. Transgenderism is an affront against data schematization.
Is it verified, peer-reviewed? I can't find much about it
Gemini doesn't support POST so no one can possibly pop in to say anything.
Maybe before we die ;)

It would be cool if the challenge could specify the URL of an image to appear in the login dialog.
I didn't read the first link but looking at the second one this is typical nutritional pseudoscience misrepresentation of evidence, the nutritionstudies.org author states:

"A large observational cohort study[1] in Sweden found that women consuming more than 3 glasses of milk a day had almost twice the mortality over 20 years compared to those women consuming less than one glass a day. In addition, the high milk-drinkers did not have improved bone health. In fact, they had more fractures, particularly hip fractures."

Which is a misleadingly confident interpretation of the cited paper which concludes with:

"High milk intake was associated with higher mortality in one cohort of women and in another cohort of men, and with higher fracture incidence in women. Given the observational study designs with the inherent possibility of residual confounding and reverse causation phenomena, a cautious interpretation of the results is recommended."

Beyond correlation =/= causation, note the trepidation in the referenced authors conclusion. Furthermore some of this has been subsequently contradicted by other studies[0] (probably why the Swedish authors had hesitation). [1] provides a more detailed explanation of why the originally referenced study has limited interpretability.

Avoid milk all you want but suggesting "milk is bad for you" is supported by evidence is very misleading, there is conflicting poorly controlled observational evidence on both sides of the discussion. If you like milk, drink it within reason and don't feel bad (for your health).

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-n...

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00198-017-4088-y
Or, maybe you'd use a CCS one because they're closer to you. There's several CCS locations within a few miles of me, all in shopping centers I'm likely to frequent. The nearest Tesla supercharger station is on its own off a highway over 12 miles away. The same is true for visiting family elsewhere, there's a few CCS locations really close and around shopping areas by but the Tesla one is on its own in an otherwise empty lot of the highway many miles away.
That's a good point that I didn't consider. Still, I don't think this was the right direction to go. If the videos were already rarely watched, going out of your way to make them less watched isn't going to save much bandwidth.
> Bullshitters have no concern for the truth at all and bullshit may or may not be true. The bullshitter doesn’t care, so long as their goal is made.

How is this different from a liar?
What does this have to do with Heisenberg uncertainty?
Yup, also liked early country when a child. Also “Cal country” like the Eagles. And recently learned there is/was a thing called “outlaw country” that’s less hokey and trite.

Check out the Shaver talk and performance on the Norm Macdonald Show on Netflix for example.
Technical opinions aren’t something we’re born with, they’re not intrinsic and uncontrollable properties of a person, and technical opinions haven’t historically been subject to widespread discrimination or hate crimes or even social imbalance in terms of income, right? The protections we have for race and gender aren’t there to avoid discomfort or to avoid conflict, they’re there to avoid harmful discrimination and to reinforce the civil rights of all citizens.

The argument that opinion should be equally protected, or that conversely race and gender should not be protected seems very surprising coming from a gay black trans person, which makes me assume I probably don’t understand what you mean. I’m curious to hear why you say the sensitivity to race and gender is artificial and irrational, given the history of physical atrocities that have occurred.

All that said, this particular case isn’t about protected categories at all, is it? The issue was not the existence of a dissenting opinion, the issue was that it was handled unilaterally without consensus, against the stated mores and procedures of the organization. They had a codified process for “protecting” dissenting opinions, and someone ignored and broke that process. This isn’t to be confused or conflated with US (or any other country’s) labor law’s notion of a “protected class”, we’re talking about two completely different kinds of protection.
You know, I might have had a similar reaction to Tree of life. But I thought the extended versions of The New World and Days of Heaven shared the same relationship between aesthetic and mood vs. narrative that I see in Stalker. You do not, however, get any Tarkovskysque monologues on metaphysics from Richard Gere or Colin Ferrell.
I never said there were no poor researchers, or any unanswered questions. I am merely pointing out the fact that the science is nowhere near settled.

But one thing you can’t do is deny my experience of electromagnetic, hyper sensitivity syndrome. And you also can’t deny my genetics.
I elaborate on this a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36098161
Yes, I've seen similar examples. Reminded me of HW video card overlays and I hoped we would have a better solution soon.

But currently probably it what's there. Would this work as well for other HTML content, like dynamically projecting a whole DIV into/over a canvas scene that I would then be able to have positioned over some surface in VR?

Love the product/concept, btw.
Oh … my naive ass thought it was like 50/50 between Chrome and Fx :(
Thanks again. I'll consult my primary about restarting statins.

I forgot to mention a huge reason I support regular baselines of some sort: eldercare.

In the case of our mom, now 85yo, it would have been really useful to have done cognitive assessments and bone density and maybe image likely arthritic joints when she was 65.

Divining when, which, and how much brain pills to give her has been pure guesswork.

And deciphering her chronic back pain has also gone poorly. Resulting in a lot of trial and error. With no real improvement. IMHO. (Experiencing chronic pain myself, I know it's wicked hard to treat.)

Ditto the 3 other elders us siblings have been responsible for. We were just guessing how to best care for them. We didn't know their rate of decline, so weighing risk/benefit was just guesswork. So maddening and wasteful. It really felt cruel and inhumane.

Maybe having better medical history, perhaps in the form of baseline assessments, would have helped.

Hopefully the research you mentioned will help future care givers make better decisions.

Thanks for the informative, thoughtful replies. Peace.
If only HTTP could serve text/plain documents. If only!
Ask HN: How to organize archived webpages locally?
I've been going through 100's of bookmarks I made over the years, all carefully tagged and organized, but a lot of the pages are taken down. I want to start archiving them locally, probably using Firefox's "Save Page As..." feature. Do people here do this, how do you organize and tag them? Folders aren't perfect because some pages deserve multiple tags.
We'll be using our own AI to fight AI, and it will also be able to save, restore, and parallelise. I expect in the future security will be an important concern. Just like biology, it will be an ever shifting game.
Lenovo profits are down a staggering 75%
Also curious about some specific examples.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34907079 Is one example OP has posted about before, but light on details.
ChatGPT Playing Wordle
It knows the car. The adapters will probably just be small dumb adapters directly wiring all the pins properly. The car itself is doing the plug and charge negotiation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15118
Now dyslexic workers can't be written off (2004)
I blame it on the fact that essentially all non-Tesla DC fast charging stations are wholly unreliable. (L2 chargers are generally fine.)

Electrify America fast chargers are the most common in my area, yet fail often and are commonly out of commission for weeks at a time. I've also had poor experience with EVgo fast charging as well.
Same. I felt clickbaited.
A cheat sheet for Bayesian prediction
China's C919 passenger plane enters into service
> There are 16 CHAdeMO charging points in the US

You are wrong by a factor of over one hundred.

> That's it.

Yeah, except for the thousands of chademo charge points outside of your microscopic awareness. https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1139-june...
No but two LLMs have created a "baby LLM" that speaks fluent, yet 5 y.o. English, and only has 10M weights. This breaks the barrier in terms of minimal size for language fluency. Can even do reasoning and has the same scaling laws.

GPT-3.5, let's call her mommy, created small stories. The small model trained on this 2M tiny story dataset. Then it was evaluated with GPT-4 (daddy). So no need for humans in either dataset generation or evaluation.

TinyStories https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07759

This makes me think LLMs are self-replicators in software. A LLM can pull from itself training text, LLM code, and fine-tuning examples. Then it can monitor its own re-training. It understands neural networks and can propose changes. It can run an evolutionary search program.

All it needs is compute. It can't make GPUs, just as no single human or company or even country can. The GPU supply chain is long, distributed and requires global cooperation. Maybe that's what is going to save us.
I've had bad luck with third-party toner cartridges on my Brother printer. Eventually it just stop detecting them at all.
Moreover, who is white or non-white is political: currently a certain blood quantum is necessary for being American Indian; yet, in recent history under the one drop rule, for African Americans it was the inverse. The difference is material, as former was entitled to a say in land on a reservation, while the latter did not.
In 1970, Alvin Toffler Predicted the Rise of Future Shock–But Opposite Happened
c interpreter, I remember trying to get a good one of those was the holy grail back in the 80s. Then (IIRC), PERL came out and the interpreter talk disappeared.
I wish that ARM's naming convention was less.. complicated. It's like USB.
I've found that most every song I've searched for on YouTube is on there in one form another (music video, lyrics video, etc). I have YouTube premium, so I don't see ads, and can download the videos.
A pedantic example: a model that ignored the training data would do just as well on the training set as on the test set.
> And for the remaining 1% the religious conservative groups like Amish or Hashidis will be the ones who survive.

Not unless the Amish stopped being pacifists, they wouldn't.
> forking a programming language isn't that inconceivable.

Do SQL dialects in Databases count? mariadb
The post is about optics. Read again what I wrote.
Then you mean "depth of field" not "distorted perspective"

The perspective will be the same with a 24mm or 200mm (or any focal length) as long as you stay in the same position relative to the subject, if you crop in the 24mm to get the 200mm field of view you'll get the same image with a much lower resolution and much wider depth of field (ie blurred background)

The perspective distortion happens if you physically move closer to your subject to get the same framing on the 24 as you had on the 200
Any scheme that covers 99.9% of cases is a success, something quite hard to achieve. Calling it a terrible idea is a bit melodramatic, no?
> Apple made it painful and expensive for developers

The most Apple thing to ever have Appled.
At this point my response to anything other than solid data is “I’ll believe it when I see it.” These articles and the complex that produces then have done a disservice to the climate change discussion.
The poorest people still won't be able to afford residential solar even with the greatest incentives. And the old rates that forced the electric company to buy electricity at 1:1 retail rates which was never sustainable. Those rates include grid maintenance, not just power generation.

Unless you have a battery, your peak demand is likely to be when solar generation is low, so you're still reliant on the same grid capacity during peak hours. That's the duck curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve

Under the old plan, if you have solar and no battery and exported enough power during the day to cover your electricity costs at night, how much are you paying for grid upkeep? Basically zero. So who is going to be paying for the grid? Those who cannot afford to get solar. That would become a huge problem when the majority of people have solar panels.

https://youtu.be/C4cNnVK412U?t=1048 talks about this subject in-depth more. Timestamp at the relevant part to our discussion.
It's weird to see people saying that Bcrypt's "moment is passing", because it isn't. The whole concept of adaptive hashing is that they're future-proofed: they're parameterized by the degree of pain they inflict on brute force guessers, and they take advantage of the imbalance between guessers and validators.

Argon2 and scrypt do this more efficiently than Bcrypt (which in turn does this substantially more efficiently than PBKDF2, which is still widely used, in part because there are regs that lock it into place), but you can more or less throw a dart at any of these algorithms to competently choose a password hash.

What I understand Niels to be saying here is that passwords are nearing the end of the road. I see why people think that! But it's also been an annual prediction since the 1990s, so I'm a bit skeptical.
YouTube is plagued by low quality content with clickbait titles, descriptions, and images. Often they outright lie about the content. Any DIY is a crapshoot. Even if it's not a lie, often it doesn't work or it's actually dangerous. Videos with lots of downvotes is a quick and easy indicator not to bother watching the 10 minute video to discover if it's good quality. YouTube's intention here is clear: if one can't determine in advance when a video is poor quality, they'll be forced to watch those poor quality videos until they find a good one. This increases time on the platform and their advertising revenue.
bcrypt has stood the test of time very well. It (unintentionally?) does better than some more modern algorithms which are optimized for the wrong kind of "computational hardness", i.e. cache/memory hard. That being said, to avoid all pertinent issues, it probably should only be used in a construction like: (where `mac` is HMAC, CMAC, the keyed mode of BLAKE etc.)

mac(bcrypt(mac(password, secret_key)), secret_key)

This has the following caveats:

1) The output of `mac` might need to be encoded in an ASCII-clean way, e.g. using base64, as some implementations don't do well with embedded nulls or 8-bit data.

2) `mac` should produce 72 bytes of data or more. Truncating is better than padding.

3) An appropriate cost should be chosen, 12 or 13 seem to be common choices and should provide a large enough security margin.
True, but both come under the heading of adding a level of indirection at compile time. It's a tough language decision on how far to go in that direction. Go, pre-template, was minimalist on this. C++ probably went too far. Where to stop is a good question.
I would like to see these stations be regulated as common carriers. They should not be allowed to collect PID (like VINs). They should not be allowed to refuse to charge a car. They should not be allowed to use any proprietary protocols. Any compliant car should be able to participate.

Imagine if gas stations could ask for a VIN and make decisions based on it.
As someone learning the language on production code I must agree that the error handling of Rust is terrible. Exceptions have never been a struggle point for me with other languages, but Rust error handling has literally given me headaches.
Legal compliance. The Dieselgate settlement for Volkswagen in the United States required them to set up a non-VW branded charging network.

If you want something done with gritted teeth, get it done via lawsuit.
The universe will always produce a better fool

In this case, these parents will tell themselves that they'll make their children famous/rich.
>the inconvenience

Oh hell no. I did not live through an "inconvenience". I and my kids now inhabit a world that will deal with the societal and economic damage for many years.

And no, I'm not just going to let slide a historically unprecedented, in scope and scale, change in citizen/government dynamics, and for a disease where you couldn't even begin to question the official narrative without being branded an evil anti-vaxxer.

We absolutely need to analyse what was done, and sort the panicked, fear-driven polices from what was useful.
Was ‘the first man to reach the North Pole’ a fraud?
It has nothing to do with meanness. It’s community curation.

Upvotes provide you a signal that some people like it. Downvotes provide you a signal that some people dislike it. They are completely different.

Downvotes prevent unpopular things that have a fervent user-base from sitting on top.
> if you want strong bones and muscles, eat what strong animals like gorillas and bulls eat.

This is a really silly comparison, to compare humans to animals with different genetics, digestion traits and hormones. Male gorillas have MASSIVE amounts of testosterone and minimal myostatin. Their body doesn’t break down muscle. Humans are not like this at all, and if you disagree then please show me a vegetarian body builder, or even vegetarian elite strength athletes.
No it won't. Corruption is one of the main reasons those project go anywhere. People in positions of power want to do them because they can get money on the side while they are done.

If we figured out how we can make combating climate change rife with corruption 30 years ago, we'd be in much better place right now.
Someone else posted a really compelling video where they test the power efficiency of Android and Apple phones.

https://youtu.be/s0ukXDnWlTY

Its really quite informative.
> wildlife conservation groups killing bills

that's not the start of a conversation that finds solutions. Obviously there is lot of hurt and urgency, also there have been a lot of bad bills, also there is a lot of private land grab on public property, also the existing policies have led us here.

AND.. when I read the actual research, there is far more already known, than anyone at the negotiating table seems to know.. so you get bullies and spies, angry side comments and behind-the-scenes demands..

far, far too late to just call the other side of the table uncomplimentary names, if you are serious about this.
As somebody who has a Pixel 7 I completely agree. The AI makes my photos unusable. The worst part is I can see a usable image before it finishes processing. But then it turns it into pixilated garbage.

I am often taking pictures of small text that is borderline unreadable to get part numbers off stuff. The AI processing is absolutely a bad idea.
Staredit trigger system allowed to make a lot great things for a game made in 1998. It was like Minecraft before Mindcraft?

Obviously fair share of problems, but there were some clever workarounds with "hyper triggers" to make triggers fire very often, instead of being recalculated every 2 (?) seconds... or stuff like counting minerals to do things (what to be honest was horrible, but worked).

Those custom maps grew as our computers grew (I cant imagine some of the custom maps working with 16mb of RAM, luckily I upgraded to I think 192) and spawned whole generes - MOBAs and Turret defense. There was even that "the unknown" map what is basically Among Us long before Among us.

Are there any games nowadays that allow such things and spawn so many custom maps?
There are mentions of Linux right at the beginning:

>The actor has leveraged compromised small office/home office (SOHO) network
devices as intermediate infrastructure to obscure their activity by having much of the command and control (C2) traffic emanate from local ISPs in the geographic area of the victim.

None of those devices are running Windows.
The reason people suggest HMAC or keyed hashes with password hashes is that they believe this foils attackers who steal password databases but not the HMAC key. Of course, that begs a question: if you have a place to store an HMAC key where attackers can't get it, why not just store the password hashes there? In reality: if you've lost your password hash database, your application has been game-overed. You don't hash passwords to further protect your own app; you do it to protect everybody else who is exposed to the inevitably shared passwords that users use.

Don't do stuff like this.
> A new type of blackmail: (1) get some trace DNA from a rich person,

I can imagine a future where this is prosecuted as a copyright violation. I'm not saying I'd be in favor of such a law, just saying I can imagine it.

Something would definitely have to be done, or celebrities would be in big trouble every time they ate in a restaurant (or took a cab or limo, or whatever). I think the odds are pretty high that there are bus boys who would happily hand off Taylor Swift's used drinking glass for a thousand bucks in cash.
We absolutely should acknowledge the causes of our infrastructure uptime differences and evaluate if it's actually worth it to match the uptime of a place that doesn't have the same challenges.

Like, sure, if we wanted to we could massively build our electrical infrastructure to absolutely never go down. Hurricanes, tornadoes, massive hail, earthquakes, whatever. We can build so much redundancy and extreme engineering tolerances. It might cost us $1+/kWh though. Is it worth it? No? So then there's some dollar amount where we'll allow some downtime and failures for cost savings.

So what if the power in my house goes down a few minutes a year. I'd much rather pay a lot less for a few minutes of downtime than pay a lot more just so...the lights don't go out for a few minutes every now and then?
Seems we are back to the mainframe era, or getting very close to it. I like to use my own tools, like emacs of vim, instead seems people will all be using the same tools (IDE/browser) for development if this goes mainstream.
The “Coming Apart” Case for Less Entitlements