skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Scientists at Klick Applied Sciences in Canada, working with faculty at Ontario Tech University in Canada, trained the AI using 267 voice recordings from people living in India.

Roughly 72 per cent of the participants (79 women and 113 men) had already been diagnosed as nondiabetic. The other participants (18 women and 57 men) had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

All participants recorded a phrase six times per day for two weeks, resulting in a total of 18,000 recordings. The scientists then pinpointed 14 acoustic differences between those with and without type 2 diabetes."
How does your proposal add business value - ie “how does it make the beer taste better?”
> This is what the clickbait headline refers to; even though it feels like we humans are able to dictate and direct our thoughts, it seems that it doesn't entirely works that way.

The implicit assumption here is that we are not dictating and directing our thoughts just because the outcome of the process of dictating and directing our thoughts may be predictable. This just doesn't follow.

Consider this analogy: a computer program dictates and directs the state of computer memory, but if I'm able to semi-reliably predict the state of computer memory at any point, then that disproves that the computer program dictates and directs the state of computer memory.

Of course that argument is obviously nonsense, no such test can disprove the fact that the program literally dictates and directs the state of computer memory. I also claim by analogy that no such test can disprove that the process of deliberation that we view as free will actually happens, even if that deliberation is deterministic. Determinism and free will are compatible (see Compatibilism).
Isn't that what langchain is?
Agreed, working with generative AI tools at work and independently over the past year has only made me want to make weirder more personal paintings / drawings with less interest in mass appeal or artistic professional viability. It's felt unexpectedly liberating and inspiring.
Is it really _that_ hard to create a generic video decoding DSP whose firmware could be updated? Most codecs are very similar to each other. IIRC Texas Instruments used multicore DSP to decode MPEG back in the 90s.

Or maybe we should have written codecs to be amenable towards GPU shader implementation...
The majority of the source data was already licensed under CC BY 4.0. Additionally, the Corpus, as a work constituting a curated and post-processed collation of other works, is also licensed under CC BY 4.0.
> In any case, it's probably too late now --- credibility and integrity have been lost.

That, and user base. Their position now is way worse than it used to be, and the viable options open to them are closing off.

Firefox should have pushed more privacy and user-convenience features by default. Those were a big part of what got them adoption to begin with.

Pushing open-protocol social networking built into the browser would have been a good idea, most likely. Amazing differentiator, in line with the browser's perceived values.

Half a dozen other good ideas that might give their browser an edge and deliver things people actually want.

But they needed to start this stuff more than a decade ago.
We know input images were used without consent. That’s not in question, it just also isn’t all that relevant.
In the U.S. you have to actually file for a copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office if you actually want to bring a copyright suit against someone.
"Scholars from cultural institutions rooted in England" is different from "the first person crossing the street in a random English town".
Typically trying to seek out any romantic relationships at work is considered socially unacceptable as well as against company policy because of potential accusations of impropriety.
Realistically though, how much financial upside can we possibly be talking about here? Many controllers the enable this "cheating" were also probably +1 buys as well, not lost sales of official accessories. I just have a hard time believing that controller hardware sales are the primary driver of this.
The key there is the attempt. As South Park so memorably pointed out, they don't actually go through with it before arresting you.
The courts are like the doors to the Ritz, open to everyone!
Veritasium made a video about the current development of airships couple of months ago https://youtu.be/ZjBgEkbnX2I

There are multiple companies that are spending huge sums of money on this
Your people may be “smart”. But they aren’t “experienced”.

Did they use the CDK or even SAM?
Probably excludes qualitative tasks like architecture and apportioning resources.
AIs and humans are not the same, why do people keep grouping them together and assume the same logic should apply?
This might be worth checking out, although it seems there are no guarantees when you're dealing with DNA:

https://www.dnasquirrel.com/how-to-protect-your-genetic-priv...
Firefox does not have the platforms. If you're for ex: google you have android, google.com... to promote your browser. It's the same for all the big browsers except Firefox. For the average user, I don't know how can Firefox compete with that.

Too bad Firefox OS did not became a real thing.
> in most interactions with others, I find it best to not reach for the handgun until it's clear it's needed

This is excellent advice for both metaphorical and literal handguns.
I just don't get it. I genuinely don't get it.

If you're cheating, you're not winning; the software or hardware is. What is the point? What do people get from this?
You happen to know the exact wording and the location of the checkbox?
> I see and hear about many differences between Firefox and other browsers, (...)

Can you point out what you feel is the single most noticeable difference? I use Firefox as my daily driver but I also use Chrome, and I never noticed any difference.
Oh man I spend a lot of time studying peoples' expressions as they hear stuff in virtual meetings. They let on a lot more than they think. I probably do too, but I leave my camera on anyway because I can also use what it shows to consciously express myself w/out having to talk.

These days in-office meetings are worse because 90% of the time somebody's calling in and so everybody's pointed at the screen. It's like watching people watch TV. You lose out on the face to face-ness of virtual meetings and a lot the body language of live meetings.

But man one tiring thing about virtual meetings is that if you say something like "Uh-huh" or "Yeah!" in a virtual meeting the person stops and says, "Did you want to say something?" For some reason that doesn't happen as much in live meetings.
> I believe that the reason that many autism traits and cPTSD traits are similar is because they are one and the same -- that they are an emergent result of autism as a result of culture and the world

Something I once heard an autism specialist therapist say was she didn't believe there were any autistic adults without cPTSD. That growing up and entering the world autistic in any of our societies is inherently traumatic. And that one of the big projects for autistic adults is figuring out how to differentiate their autism features from their ptsd symptoms.

It's a pretty hot take and I came to realize it as more of a therapist's practical starting point than a literal fact about EVERY every autistic person. But it's given me a lot to think about and use over the years.
AFAIK that's just the bare minimum to get Linux booting. GPU and host of other things are missing.
The whole thing about .us needing real name and address of a person and you cannot hide your identity is hilarious. Everytime I had someone spamming me from .us and their data were obviously fake (Registrant name: Tom Cat, Address: Local trash can), the registrar didn't even bother replying to my emails. This has happened with GoDaddy and Dynadot, NameCheap (which is outsourcing all their support to Eastern Europe countries like Russia, so these people are actually looking at your sensitive data) cannot talk for others.
> I know folks that are very privacy conscious that are used to and hate cookie popups and will treat formbricks as just another cookie popup and will adblock

they will do the same without javascript then, why would a privacy conscious person reply to a survey - the opposite of privacy?
I'll go work for a different company that laid off other people...unless it was for the same reason. I'm not doing a full-time RTO for any company.
14 minute mark
Mozilla the Corporation is having some trouble; seems to have lost focus. The browser is good but the Zeitgeist of HN (and elsewhere on the web) is that their loss of focus is causing their marketshare to decline. Some mis-steps, staff cuts, folk still mad about Pocket. The product is good (my daily driver too) but the thoughts are it could be better if more focus was on the Browser and less on fluffy blog posts and VPN, etc.

Chrome, Edge and Safari are doing: a) being the default and b) being the default.
I like how bungie handles it. Known errors have codewords and if you see one it means they already know and documentation exists. It's also easier to connect with other players / support with your specific issue because general networking error ALFALFA will come up in different contexts than general networking error LENTIL.

I hate getting a 0x code from Windows because the search results are going to be completely useless, possibly not even for the program that I am trying to troubleshoot.
I say that I have free will because my decisions come from myself and not from something outside me. Sure, the context in which I live can influence my decisions, but the final choice is mine and it can happen that I take a decision that goes against what the context (society, family etc.) would expect from me.
Accent Colour support for Linux Desktops not supporting the standard
The other day I opened a big tar file (which doesn't have an index, and therefore requires a full scan of the file in order to show a file list) with Windows Explorer and the Explorer window simply froze for minutes.

(Correction: as a child comment says, it was gzipped tar, not plain tar)
I find it to be the perfect size actually. Easily in a backpack and is light, and can use it on the couch, etc. comfortably. I’d never buy a 16” laptop.
I did not call the author a racist, and to be quite honest, I fail to understand how one can reach that conclusion outside of a willful attempt to misrepresent my criticism.
Yep. Not sure how it happened. I copied the note to my personal notes. I also wrote a comment. I think somewhere between the "submit" click I cmd-v'ed. Woke up surprised today to see this.

I can't remove it either.

I'm open for more questions.
I would guess that the affected entities here are not companies, but public entities. Federal departments, the state governments, and municipal governments all run their own IT systems and have been affected by ransomware; if there is a top-down policy of "don't pay the ransom" it presumably affects policy for all of those.
1. Use it. I have used Firefox on and off since the early "it's better than IE" days. More users gives them the opportunity for more resources. More users increases the odds of websites testing on it. It's currently my favorite mobile browser, because adblock makes mobile web far more usable.

2. Test your website(s) on it. Maybe you don't officially support Firefox, and maybe you're not a QA, but if you are a web developer you should use your site in Firefox and fix any bugs you find. Don't give your users a reason to abandon Firefox.

3. Join the discussion when you disagree with Mozilla's leadership. It may or may not change anything, but large vocal online communities have impacted the direction of large open-source projects before.
Other comments in this thread suggest that one should turn their camera off and do something else. This, I believe, is the default experience: that behind every participant without camera there's someone ignoring your talk.

It's the same as presenting to a room where half the attendees are on their phone - while it's conceivable that some of them are using it to (say) find a detail that the presenter missed, the more likely explanation is that they're checking their emails and/or Instagram.
Firefox is up against companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google, who are happy to use their dominance in their fields to increase their own browser market share. Microsoft's own attempts are almost pathetically desperate, in fact. So, regulation, I suppose.
Nothing it’s a perfectly fine question, just maybe off topic.
> When is my work protected?

> Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.

> Do I have to register with your office to be protected?

> No. In general, registration is voluntary. Copyright exists from the moment the work is created. You will have to register, however, if you wish to bring a lawsuit for infringement of a U.S. work. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section “Copyright Registration.”

from https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#:~:text=....

I’m surprised to see this reasoning (well all billion images can’t have been registered, so they can’t sue). I wonder how much it would cost in copyright fees to register all of LAION.
Strikebreakers arrived by taxi to Tesla's workshops in Sweden
No, we do it that way because both political parties are bought and sold by the assholes who run insurance companies. They use this corruption to impose a private tax on everyone. No one in the US is saving money. We spend more than most wealthy country for worse outcomes.
In your infinite sanity you have not answered my question of how a creative person will dedicate their life (starting from long studies) producing something that society will not reward in any way.
Do you want to work for free?
This only applies when discussing difficult topics. Performance Review? Probably on camera. Meeting about upcoming sprint work, probably not. The severity of the meeting agenda dictates I think. I also agree that turning off self-view helps a lot. Being “on camera” is awkward for people not used to it. I’m going to draw the line at “but how will I know what your expression is”? Easy, I’ll tell you. I’ll use my words to effectively communicate. Emotionless, without expression. Having my camera on won’t change that. Staring at my avatar face is about the same expression you are going to get live. Slight courtesy smile and that’s it. I won’t get angry, upset, loose my temper, scowl while others are talking, raise eyebrows, or other facial expressions that communicate in a way that requires sequencing imaging technology. Not everyone is photogenic. Not everyone is put together at 8am for your all-hands. Some of us live alone and have to juggle your meeting with doing dishes, or the dog, or getting that last git commit in before deployment. You can’t see body language on camera other than facial expressions. Facial expressions aren’t a great way to communicate on this medium.

So I challenge your notion that we are more than just the words we use. I would say we are entirely the words we use. A lack of vocabulary or mispronouncing words but a good facial expression or body language isn’t going to go very far with me. Effective communication requires words, more than anything. Entire businesses are run via email.
Measuring Similarity Between Two Input Entities Using Embeddings: A Deep Dive
SID was an "expert system with over 1000 hand-written rules"

Wow.
Yes I’m going to tell my CTO to use any of those solutions and immediately be laughed out of the room.
They had some psy optimisations that introduced "false" "detail" that the eye liked but metrics didn't.

Kind of like what AV1 does with film grain or various audio codecs do with filler audio that's roughly the right "texture" even if not accurate to the original signal.

edit: this is on top of the basics all working fast and well. You could argue that many competitors "overfit" to metrics and they had the wisdom or correct organisational incentives to avoid this.
Uh, no. SMTP, IMAP and POP3 only became popular as a sort of accident, in the midst of a bunch of warring protocols and standards, two of which were expected to be the leading messaging system, not the current ones. There was never some grand plan for internet hippies to all come together around "federated" services.

There is no such thing as the open and impartial internet. It's a melange of fiefdoms which only works through loose agreements between giant providers that tacitly allow all kinds of shit to happen in the hopes that they'll recoup the cost through their own business plans. The internet is quasi-open; open enough at the level that you interact with it that it "feels" open, sometimes. And it most certainly is not impartial. Competing interests have been warring over pieces of the pie for decades, and use whatever control they can grasp to make as much money as they can, while they can. Nerds running self-hosted servers and railing on about the inequities of corporate control on forums have absolutely no say.

> I get that spam is annoying (I hate it too) but letting giant American tech companies decide who is allowed to send email and who isn't is not the solution.

Again, they aren't. They have their own e-mail system, and you can use it or not. They aren't telling you you can't send your own e-mails or run your own systems. You are just upset that they have their own party and won't let you choose the music. You could throw your own party, but you don't want to do the work that entails, while you do want to force the people who are doing the work to do it your way, despite everyone else in the world not giving a shit and not wanting to deal with the problems anymore.

E-mail is not state sponsored racism. Again, you can choose what e-mail provider you use, and run your own mail system, and do whatever other asinine navel-gazing techno bullshit you want. Nobody is stopping you. They just aren't going to accept what you make. That's not oppression, that's called competition and free choice.

I'd be curious what you think of the telephone. Was that too intended to be some kumbaya international symbol of freedom that anyone could do anything they wanted with? Are you looking to run your own switchboard, and upset that AT&T won't carry your calls without forcing you to pay to hook up to their equipment? How dare they be able to reject your homemade lines to connect to their customers?

You want to know what actually not having a choice means? It means you can't even run your dinky mail server at home because the service is deemed illegal. That has not happened, and will not happen, because literally nobody cares about you and your e-mail service. You are the only person who cares about this. You are obsessed with a principle for the principle's sake, and the funny thing is, that principle isn't even being violated.

You want an end to the "tyrrany"? Use that engineering genius to come up with a solution to spam that doesn't revolve around IP reputation. Companies around the world will gladly take your mail if you can come up with a solution that doesn't require them to spend millions to mitigate spam.
By joining forces with Pyflow, or a different tool, or making yet another one?
I have some bad news for you, it gets noticeably harder after 20 months or so and remains that way, because they start being very mobile and demanding even more attention

We are definitely a one and done, although the 2+ parents say that eventually they play with each other and free you up a bit (or fight... lol)
This reminds me of Commanded[0] for elixir which also uses Postgresql by default.

[0]https://github.com/commanded/commanded
A board (no need for scare quotes) is a legal requirement for tax exempt (501c3) status. And not sure what point you're making with the linked article which is about (relatively mild) board dysfunction, not scamming or illegal behavior.
"Looks fine on my end" – Official Trailer (Fake movie) [video]
Office space reference.
I don't think this will be enforced for long in europe.
Native children spend thousands of hours learning language. Just because a child can do it through some of the greatest effort of their lives at that point doesn't make it easy surely?
Okay? Namecheap is a massive registrar, abuse is bound to happen, but they actually deal with the abuse and in an incredibly short amount of time, most reports I submit are taken care of in less than 30min.

If you actually look into the history of the domains linked to "Josef Bakhovsky" and registered with Namecheap you can see they've got put on serverHold

A lot of registrars don't deal with abuse at all and simply say "report it to the hosting company", example here (domain in question was a Redline Stealer C2):

> Please, be aware that we, as a domain-only provider and not providing any content, hosting or e-mail services, are not in a position to judge the content of a website. For that reason, our normal procedure is that we inform our reseller and the domain holder, but will not suspend the domain names without an official WIPO decision or court order.

And an example from the article, NameSilo didn't take the domains down even after talking to Krebs?

> dig +short 1ox.us

> 167.71.25.56

> 157.245.248.19
> blockdev-level crypto is simpler and harder to fuck up.

Simpler yes, but since generally no extra metadata is allocated it is vulnerable to some cryptanalysis notably comparing different snapshots of the drive. Doing this properly requires storing unique keys for different versions of data. Doing this with typical blockdev-level encryption is very expensive (you either need to reduce the effective block size which disrupts lots of software that assumes things about block size or store the data out-of-line (typically at the end of the disk) which requires up to 2x writes. Doing this in the filesystem allows strong encryption with minimal performance impact (as the IV write is co-located with data that is changing anyways).
Some people make enough money that the utility of 23andMe is worth it them, and they don't care if 23andMe makes money selling their anonymized data on the side.

A lot of people just really don't care about data privacy at all.
> China seeks to do business with everyone without telling them how to run their affairs, quite unlike the US.

Tell that to the Austrailians and now the Israelis, where China has sent a naval task force. China is building aircraft carriers like nobody's businesss for force remote projection, which is the one thing they're really good at. China has the same desire to project force as the US, they simply lack the means to do so as effectively. Their recent actions in the Gulf is proof enough of that.
> I can make a random number generating device with as many degrees of freedom as you like by producing a bunch of vertically polarised photons and measuring their horizontal polarisation.

Unless I misunderstand you, this is simply not true. Your device will be exceedingly easy to model, it's just a simple sum of i.i.d. random variables and subject to central limit theorems. (While humans definitely aren't.)
If they're a waste of time, why did you join in the first place? If it's not obvious why I'm invited or what the agenda is, I'll do a tentative accept and tell them to message me if they need me to join for something specific.