skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example, user defined types that behave like built-ins, while preserving invariants.

Specially great in IoT instead of macros accessing directly IO ports.
Oh please: Letting a user block another user has nothing to do with a free and open internet. Save the anger for when there’s an actual threat to the internet, otherwise people will just start tuning free/open internet advocates out entirely.
This is not stupid. The reporting is stupid. The way science here works:

Step 1: People come up with a hundred hypotheses

Step 2: Six of them are confirmed in preliminary studies, five by fluke (false positives) and one true positive

Step 3: The one true positive is confirmed in multiple replication studies

Step 3 is when we get to a reasonable scientific theory or scientific fact.

The problem is step 1.5 or 2.5: Popular press picks up a hypothesis as "science" or (at 2.5) as peer-reviewed science, often promoted by the original researcher.

We absolutely should be investigating heparin, ivermectin, vitamin D, zinc, and other speculative drugs for effects. Outside of exceptional circumstances, we absolutely should not be recommending those for general use until they're validated.

As a footnote, machine learning supercharges this process. It can generate countless speculative drugs very rapidly. The vast majority are nonsense, but the tiny minority which work make it still worthwhile. If we have a something with a 1% chance of curing a disease, it takes, on average, 100 similar trials to cure that disease. For major diseases, that (or even much longer-shot cures) is completely worth it.
"Nobody cares about your blog."

Isn't it a sign of our times when you maintain a blog only in the hope of others will care for it, more than as an outlet for yourself?

Everything is a like symbol nowadays. It's not a popularity contest.
There was a massive grassroots Firefox campaign in the aughts. It was very successful at growing share and I was proud to participate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36760016
True. The cons are just insulting, really.
It seems really sluggish to do all this. Just spitballing here, but what if instead we have some sort of key... and it goes into a keyhole... and that starts the car? /s
Most of these car thieves are probably repeated offenders. You need to catch them not only foiling them. The simplest way to catch and prevent these petty thieves is to enable the car's available 360 camera (or install after market solutions) that always monitor its surroundings and backup this data to the cloud (could be real-time connection or intermittently with local-first technology). The camera data should be kept only for several days and rotated as any backup in order to keep the cloud storage affordable for the masses. This simple way should easily catch more than 99% of the car thieves even the most sophisticated ones.
salad.com is great, but it only really makes sense if you have a GPU
Typically in the code repository with other files that shared a similar pattern context that he was working with.

Sometimes he would need a portion of a word and he would remember that it was in an email he had open, and he would alt+tab and grab the portion of the word from the email, then alt+tab back to the editor and paste the word portion in.

He would go to extreme lengths to not have to move his hands to the home row on the keyboard.
In terms of 'will I have space to park my vehicle pretty much anywhere', little to none. In terms of, 'we could make way better use of all this land that's given over to parking' tons.
Firefighting.

Also many municipal airports serve as a beacon to help folks flying at night to get around.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodrome_beacon
I've been enjoying the NYTimes mini crossword puzzles enough that I pay for a subscription to their app to be able to access the archives of old puzzles.

They usually take me 30-60 seconds to finish and are usually themed and topical.
Programming and compression are related, see Kolmogorov complexity [1]. It's then no surprise that when you do the "compression" yourself, it is almost like your are compressing twice, which often results in inflation because of the compression dictionary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
> there is no reason

There is a very good reason called "profit margin"...

Good luck charging $500 for an extra 768 GB of storage if there is an m2 slot.
Crimea was ethnically cleansed of its original inhabitants and forcefully repopulated with ethnic Russians in the 1940s.

That's a little detail that people like you seemed to conveniently leave out.

I guess it just blends in with all the other ethnic cleansing and genocide that the Russian chauvinist USSR and Russian Empire before it undertook.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_T...
It all comes down to insulation I'd assume
Here is the link to the award (I think):
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2245223&His...

Probably half the award is taken up by indirect costs at the university, leaving the remainder for a few PhD students to be funded, money for the devices, and any studies where they are probably paying participants to use the device.

$1.2M doesn't go that far in terms of grants. As far as whether this is a good investment for the government's money, I'm a lot less clear. Given all of the recent car thefts due to TikTok, I assume that influenced NSF and the reviewers.
The main problem here is that manufacturers aren't incentivized to make great security systems for their cars. There isn't a ton of press about cars getting stolen like there is about data privacy.

Imagine if the folks who built FaceID, TouchID, and Secure Enclave were tasked with building car security. Cars are a lot more expensive than phones and laptops, it would be worth the $50 or $100 in extra hardware to secure them.

And as an added bonus, you wouldn't even need a key anymore because you could start your car with your face. :)
> What Meta and Google are doing is nothing new

The new part is making it nonoptional.

You never had to enter a contest or send in a warranty card, after all.
> We can't have our most essential systems be vulnerable just because they are maintained by an unpaid dev in Nebraska

I don't disagree with that. But I don't think saying that one dev in Nebraska has to pay for security audits, or at least convince companies who use their project to pay for it and take charge of coordinating that effort, is the right way to solve the problem. I suspect that this will result in some projects distancing themselves from the EU, and have a chilling effect on new OSS projects in these areas, especially inside the EU.
As shown in Max Max: Fury Road (1:35): https://youtu.be/gpeqFXT_amU?t=95
It's also a bad idea because Mozilla Firefox has less users every year, and currently floats at about 3.5% marketshare, give-or-take .5% by source and margin of error. Also, ~90% of their income is from Google, for being the default search engine (an obvious conflict-of-interest they are unable to resolve).

Of course, when you are relying on Google to keep the lights on, it's probably not the best idea to give your CEO over $5.5 million / yr. compensation [1], one of the highest paid nonprofit CEOs in the US. It's also probably not the best idea to focus on advocacy instead of trying to make the core product more competitive. Otherwise, one morning Google might just decide that it's too insignificant a market share to matter, or decide that Firefox is finally small enough they can finally kill it without upsetting regulators, and Mozilla would be dead overnight.

[1] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-990...
Maybe they're doing it so that predator birds will get cut if they enter...
As described in the paper, it didn't look like the gzip classifier trained at all. Inference involved reading the entire training set.

One could surely speed this up by preprocessing the training set and snapshotting the resulting gzip state, but that wouldn't affect the asymptotic complexity. In effect, the number of parameters is effectively equal to the size of the entire training set. (Of course, lots of fancy models scale roughly like this, too, so this isn't necessarily a loss.)
The men in power always abuse that power, more or less.

We need oversight but politicians are not very interested in doing oversight because corporations use their money as free speech helping their favorite politicians get re-elected, because of the Supreme Court decision that allows that to happen.

So we need a more informed population to stop corruption from happening, but some politicians don't like the idea that people should be able to read whatever books they want.
True enough about Python but I was responding more about pipes in general which Python doesn't have. I'm more confused about the original assertion that pipes give you lower confidence as to what is happening. But then I looked up how they work in Julia and saw there are two different ways they are implemented so I agree that that is maybe a little bit unfortunate, though I can't really say for sure as I've never written a line of Julia.
And the flip side: N95 masks don't need to be worn correctly to be effective for preventing most Covid spread. Covid seems to require moderate viral loads to spread, and even an incorrectly-worn N95 mask tends to do that.
And they should be banned as they are wrong on every scale and measurement. Our infrastructure is not made for those huge machines nor does anyone need one.

If you need a car for a construction job, we have autobuses like VW Sprinter or Caddy for that
How do you get criminals to obey this nice rule?
The primary challenge is the availability of sufficiently large datasets with many separate stems/tracks. Those that find a way to build that, will have the ability to churn out such a model using existing architectures.

The companies doing AI mixing have a huge advantage in this area.
> This led to a wonderful tendency to end arguments with one party getting the last word in, then blocking the other party so that they couldn't respond.

Arguing online is a fun hobby. Who gets the "last word" doesn't really matter.
I think this is unlikely to happen at typical soldering temperatures. The lead vaporization point is over 3000 degrees F.

https://ehs.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/EHS-0167.pdf
Plenty of cities get away with garages that don't require an app. Don't normalize shitty things like that.
That's easy. Put it on treads, and add a tree cutter/stripper, and a hopper, so that it can pick up all the fuel it needs to wood-fire the pizza off the side of the road before it goes to the next destination.
As far as I know, there’s no receptor for GAGs on cells to mediate their uptake specifically. Usually they hitchhike on some other protein that has a specific receptor/co-receptor. Heparin is actually a sulfated polysaccharide, and not like those other drugs that you might be thinking about.
I don't put a huge amount of stock in much of the supposed science from June 2020. Also, as in my case, people definitely got mild symptoms of something, tested (if they could), got a negative result, and went on with life--when it's entirely possible they had it.
Generally the repository he was working in, but really it was any application that he had open on his machine. He would remember where words, or portion of words that he needed were, go to them, and copy and paste what he needed.

Just in case you're thinking this: He was not copying large portions of code from stack overflow or anything like that.
He was line by line writing code, a few copy and pastes at a time. Often he times would copy and paste single characters to maintain his flow.
Yeah, to me this is a bit odd. Many industries require that internal communication be logged, so E2E encryption and blocking are a no-go, and even having that option in the software can add potential regulatory headaches.

I think it's fair to call out that Slack isn't a platform for interacting with strangers, nor the right tool for discussing a topic that would get you in trouble if e.g. your government saw your messages. But it's okay to just say, don't use Slack for that kind of thing; there's already other E2E encrypted messaging apps, and there's better platforms for managing communities of strangers where you have bad actors (who you can't deal with by contacting an HR department).
Sure, let's intentionally omit locks from equipment that is designed not to fall into enemy hands. Let's not have a kill switch, either. Sure, makes sense for an agency with more money to spend than every corporation in America!
> You can see a lot of repetition in the vertical direction, but these are probably redundant resonances. They don’t add any more information, so we should only look at the base frequencies.

In the context of audio, these are just called "overtones", and the "base frequency" is the "fundamental".

The amplitudes of the overtones are what give an instrument its characteristic timbre. It's what makes a flute sound different from, say, a sax, when they are both playing the same note.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_frequency
I worked as a consultant for about 3 months back in 2012 for Telecom Italia.

I had a contract with an agency, that was “selling” me to another agency, that “sold” me to Telecom Italia. I was making about 2000 euro per month, but Telecom Italia was paying closer to 6000 for me.

My colleagues were some of the smartest people I ever worked with (I was actually working in Tilab, their R&D department) but it was very clear to me that the direction the company was going was not right.
If utilised in a corporate environment it will undoubtedly sow chaos. I trust that those administering instances in such a setting will have the ability to disable it entirely?

I honestly find the idea of this really perverse. In a work environment you don't (nor should you) get a choice in who you interact with. If some if those interactions are negative, well that's not a problem Slack should be attempting to solve.
And with proper care, N95 masks can be reused.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/can-you-reuse-a-kn...
Investors using 0% interest loans funded by taxpayers.
WTF?
Do you mean that you can't shoot someone without legal consequence in some US jurisdiction if you have an open door?
You can still shoot them...

>You can shoot someone that rams your door to open it.

So somebody destroys a door and that entitles you to take their life?

I think in both situations you should just refrain from shooting at all. Seems to work in most of the rest of the world..
ClimateTown has a video about this today! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8
Plenty of Firefox users do not actually care about free & open and they're the ones who we lost in the greatest numbers. Recognizing and addressing their needs is important.
A large part of the inhabited world is absolutely uninhabitable for humans without the aid of technology, due to the cold. I'm no fan of extreme heat, but people come up with solutions for any environment.
>What else can be done?

Functioning public transit and denser cities?
https://archive.is/m0mAI
What a nightmare that would be: wearing gloves, fast entry and exit, injury/swapping drivers, sand.

Also those were Humvees taken from Iraqi personnel.
And without being (practically) forced to use MacOS.
Travel to Israel, its in -every- car.
I remember using 'elm' for terminal based email back in the 1990s.
No, really, good for them.

But don’t be talking down on my car. That’s just not cool.

That beast is the workhorse of the farm and it gets the job done.

None of the windows roll down though and it’s hot as hell inside, so it discourages unnecessary use, saving the planet.

It rarely sees pavement but it drags what needs to be dragged and it pulls the utility rigs out after they deliver to us.
Windows 10 will have ended up getting 10.5 years of support that isn't bad at all.
> What about a classical mechanical key?

can be picked

>The problem is relay theft, where thief's relay the signal of your fob key inside the house to the car via a simple antenna and amplifier system. Cryptographical signing won't help.

AFAIK the attack you describe only applies to keyless entry systems (ie. you can open and start a car without having to pull your key out), which is related but not the same as an immobilizer. Transponder keys without keyless entry systems still exist on today's models, and is the default on most cars unless you opt for an upgrade.

>However, this can be fixed by adding a motion sensor that makes key fobs go into a sleep mode when they have been inactive for a minute.

That helps against someone cloning your key while you're at your desk, but it seems way easier to clone the key while the driver is walking away from the car? That way you know which car to steal and don't have to follow the victim into the building, which might be secured (eg. office building with badge system). Measuring RTT time and/or trilateration (multiple antennas inside car) should be much more reliable.
I have the older version with the 6900HS but it’s more or less the same. I’ve run pop_os as well as fedora on it. Everything works great but you’ll have to compile the wifi driver https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89.
> Online advertising is a great equalizer that has allowed many regular people to run successful businesses without much starting capital.

Maybe so, but I personally don't think that's worth abusing the public with tracking.
Sounds pretty sensible. :)
Most of those aren't actually solving the same problems, but the point wasn't that non-tech solutions are always better, rather that if you solve the source of the problem you don't need annoying tech workarounds.
I might be missing something, but it sure seems like having all the good jobs in one place where it is absolutely helping to reside is the cause of all the traffic and parking congestion.

If all the jobs were distributed widely across a place that was pleasant to live, I’m not sure we would be talking too much about all this.

I do agree, though, that money will make a person do crazy things.
NNCP
I was reading the other day that the standard tests give some absurdly high rate of false negatives.
Given one of the primary justifications for not leaving the EU was to retain access to unlimited cheap labor for the NHS, it isn't easy to blame low medical worker wages on Brexit. If you want medical staff to make more money, removing their primary source of competition is a quick way to do that.

In practice of course Brexit has done no such thing as the immigration rules in the UK are still optimized for mass immigration, as the Conservatives are so much not xenophobic that they prefer to enrage their own voter base than restrict immigration by even small amounts.

As for healthcare spending, the massive jump in NHS spending during the pandemic more than consumed the former EU contributions. The EU funds did indeed go to the NHS and then a lot more on top. If the UK was still paying in, then inflation would be even worse.
Is it really an invitation? The paper shows that the current models are worse for some marginalized languages that are used as OOD datasets. I am not really that surprised that the modelals don't speak those and I don't know anybody who would use BERT like that
I'd suggest your homepage mention a few use cases (like the ones you described above). My first thought when I clicked the link was "What would I ever use this for?".
Elevated pedestrian walkways are miserable for people walking. You seem pretty deeply carbrained.
The screen seem to be low res and the aspect ratio is awful..
Crazy that `element()` has been fully supported (with `-moz-`) in Firefox since 2011 while no other browsers seem to even partially support it [0]. I can think of a few powerful use cases (not just minimaps) if this had cross browser support.

Does anyone connected to the Chrome or Webkit teams have any idea why? Is there a lack of interest, is it hard to implement with good performance, does it create any tricky security issues?

[0] https://caniuse.com/css-element-function
Sure you have records which compare the current facts with historical facts to see if what Phoenix is currently experiencing is normal or not. But the person you're replying to has anecdotes about how it's hot in the summer in Phoenix.

So we are at a stalemate it seems :P
> I only allow a few apps to present notifications on my phone so when one appears, it’s because I want it. I may decide to snooze it but I never just ignore it as a routine event.

My phone notifications were useless until I did the same.

Deny notification access by default and "poll" your inbox/chats/etc with a calendar reminder 1, 3, or 5 times per day.
> As a footnote, machine learning supercharges this process. It can generate countless speculative drugs very rapidly. The vast majority are nonsense, but the tiny minority which work make it still worthwhile.

Is this actually happening right now or are we just creating a speculative future for ourselves. Who is running the sanity checks on these huge number of potential medications to make sure the drugs aren't obviously poisonous?
The perfect laptop (objectively) is the 15" 2015 RMBP. For those few glorious years Apple had a keyboard better than even the old Thinkpads. I'd give anything for that chassis/keyboard combo with an M2 chip in it.
Almost - This tool helps select a template, adding business applications and creating default content. But then, you have the Wix drag & drop builder to continue customizing the website, adding animations, changing content, adding or removing pages / sections, changing design, etc.

The strength of this offering is that it is seamless with the experience Wix is based on.
Off topic: My first car was a 1966 white Buick Skylark convertible that I bought for $500 cash in the summer of 1976 in Los Angeles when I was 28 years old.

Prior to that I had lived in LA from 1966 on and got around on foot and on my bicycle and city buses.

I drove that giant Buick — I mean it was HUGE, both in terms of length and width as well as weight — for about five years, the final 2-3 of which featured a caved-in non-functional driver's side door resulting from having been T-boned by a little old lady who ran a stop sign.

No worries: I'd just hop over the side or use the passenger side door.

After the crash I never worried about theft.

Also, amusingly, when I was on freeways, cars in adjacent lanes would quickly move away.
Paris is closing the already pretty closed downtown ( along the Seine ).
Does that qualify as large metro area?

What are the actual piece of reality that makes it impossible in US cities?
Yup, I put an ignition kill switch in my old Triumph Spitfire behind the dashboard when I was living in a not so great part of town. Just had to reach my hand up behind and flick it. I didn't hide it too hard, figuring anybody that tried to drive away in my Triumph and couldn't get it to start would figure it was just being a typical Triumph.
An example of what is currently missing might be access to network or Bluetooth devices.

Some preliminary standards have been proposed. But just having a standard doesn't mean it will be supported. Apple for example, doesn't seem overly accepting of the
overall PWA concept.

And the privacy invasion comment wasn't just sarcasm.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/android-spyware-with-over-15-...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/new-report-exposes-adt...
What an absolute trashfire of a blogpost.

It's written in the tone of a sore loser. A person who fought for regressive policies, against people with better arguments and more accurate facts. A person who now, having lost the fight for the policy, retreats into their echo chamber and decries the debate as "not making room for my facts."

It's apparently impossible to write any neutral statement that does not receive 100% unanimous support from every single person on the planet earth:

> A great many Christians would take issue with such statements, which means they are not neutral for that reason alone