skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But this is all according to the goodwill of Microsoft

No, there is a privacy policy and they would get in legal trouble if they violated it.
Pretty open and shut case. (Pun intended)
I never got one since the doctor didn't like the look of a birthmark on my arm. I don't have that puffy scar. My sister got one though.

Damn I just though I could have been a left arm bicep model.
My dad is a severe paralytic polio survivor and turns 70 next year. He’s a happy man, but his life has been hard in incomprehensible ways. As a father now, I cannot imagine what his parents went through when he was paralysed in the hospital at the age of 2. The world will be a better place without the fear of polio. Let us hope.
I'm so glad you got to be technically correct today.
There are "companies" in developing countries that you can send money to who, if you send a large enough amount, will create and publish an app on the app store in your name and use a portion of the funds you give them to purchase stolen credit cards and/or apple store gift cards (usually obtained by some form of credit card fraud), and make purchases of that app, thus washing your original dirty funds.

This is money laundering.

You can also just buy mass amounts of stolen credit cards that have some moderate odds of successfully accepting some number of small ~$100 charges, so you can just do all this yourself. And folks do.
> why would you rock the boat and risk the nice thing we have... It's not just about profit. Careers and incomes are at stake. People will get hurt.

I think we really need to define "risk" and the "hurt" people might experience. I've been at Google for 5 years, and I don't believe Google is at an existential risk. From my perspective, the biggest concerns I've heard people express were forms of not maximizing compensation: whether from not getting promo, not getting big bonuses, amenities being reduced, etc.

I confess that the layoffs change things, but 1) I'm not really sure how people can protect themselves other than rising to senior leadership position who seemed more insulated from the layoffs and 2) I am in the pool of people who wouldn't have minded 6+ months severance (including accelerated stock vesting).

I think the nebulous fear of hurting people is another way that the status quo secures itself. If this fear of "hurting people" is the fear that motivates Googlers to maintain the status quo when Googlers are among the most privileged people upon the Earth, I'm not sure who else could buck the status quo.

I dunno if Google as a whole can change itself. But I hope that enough individual Googlers do decide that they can change the status quo. I hope there are enough people who aren't so vulnerable and can thus risk getting "hurt", whatever that means in this case, while protecting the truly vulnerable people around us.

The risk to maintaining the status quo is real; there is a real risk that this massively powerful company sacrifices our people and our opportunity to maximize the good we could do on a truly planetary scale only to strive to maximize quarterly earnings through short term thinking.
not only that, but also the Qualcomm modems (like the ones used on Quectel's and Simcom's)
> you think humanity being lost is acceptable

I never said that.
If you haven’t watched “the creator” yet, there’s a scene that depicts exactly that. Bringing a dead soldier’s “mind” back to life in another’s body so they could recount their last moments.
> That's the dumbest way one could launder money.

So now you’re admitting the scenario I proposed is money laundering.

Have a nice day :)
The sacredness of every species is a fundamental belief for many people!
When should someone expose representation of an ADT?
When should someone expose or hide representation of an ADT ? Share some examples

Is preventing Representation exposure be considered a silver bullet ?

Share some resources ?
A former colleague was denied studying at Berkeley due to being Russian (they told him that).
I haven't worked personally at these places, so just going on what I've heard:

- Netflix is a poster child for this, I've heard their "culture deck" isn't hot air, but is really how they operate. Combo of high autonomy and high responsibility, letting ppl go who don't pass the "keeper test" ("would you fight to keep this person if they told you they were leaving the company" - if not let them go), very open and candid communication, and generally a smart and driven group doing great work

- I don't know that Apple is still like this, but for a long time, as a massive company, it seems they did keep going a really high performing group, that were passionate about their work and hustling hard to build great things. Although could be pretty brutal in terms of long hours and lack of work/life balance

- Have heard SpaceX is similar to how Apple used to be
Third party app stores don’t play into the legal liability of developing for iOS without a license. Chances are Apple still has every right to charge a percentage of revenue as the licensing fee for usage of iOS APIs.
Wasn't ThreadX already open source? I saw it on Microsoft's github at least 1 year ago.
Celiac is about 1% of the US population [0], so really rare.

[0] 1 out of 133 according to https://www.beyondceliac.org/celiac-disease/facts-and-figure...
It's not about a binary possibility of yes/no, it's about ease and frequency.

Crypto can mean an attack can be funded with 50x more money than had been possible previously, or 20 organizations can be funded where previously only 2 could have worked out the logistics.

Trying to frame this as a binary possible/impossible is the wrong lens.
Why "gives up" in the title?
Hopefully.

Honestly it sucks but when this happens with Google and others there's sometimes a person in the comments here: "Send me your info and I'll escalate this internally". Which also sucks, but the PR at least has some impact.

I think it's doubtful that this kind of PR impacts Apple as much.
Heroes not always wear a cape
That still doesn't make it look nice, since if you use false / true, you can use variables directly in if checks. For example:

foo=true

if $foo; then
echo yes
fi

But with 0 / 1 - that won't work. I.e. you can get some, but not all features of a normal boolean type in various ways.
One is built with webgl and typescript, the other with Godot.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that a tech built for a specific purpose (video games) with Linux as the first class platform, performs better and is more stable than arguably the second most complicated piece of software engineering the humanity has ever devised - the browser.

The more complicated your stack is, the more problems you will have. The Linux specific bugs also tend to increase (and become nigh unsolvable) with Unity. Godot is much leaner, and tends to wield this fact as its strength. As an unrelated example, there are multiple community plugins for implementing different physics engines in Godot, when such a thing is an exercise in frustration in Unity or Unreal, for varying reasons.
>You are arguing against a government giving money to business owners that struggle to make ends meet, but giving UBI without minimum wage does exactly that. You subsidize businesses that don't pay a living wage that otherwise would go bankrupt.

Yes exactly. What protections and for whom? Protecting the business or protecting the customers?
A less cynical way of putting this would be - it's delightful that even non-experts can enjoy learning about technical jargon and the underlying processes they reflect!
That very much was the end of the developer's sales of the Dash app on the Mac App Store and the iOS App Store. Apple decided to respond publicly only after he published the recording of the phone call with the Apple rep. John Gruber had a well-balanced coverage[1] of the whole story.

He continues to sell it directly[2] and on Setapp[3], and has lately pivoted to the subscription-ware revenue model.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2016/10/apple_dash_controversy
[2]: https://kapeli.com/dash
[3]: https://setapp.com/apps/dash
I'm from Pakistan, and polio eradication has been frustrating to say the least.

Polio teams workers still get killed regularly, and in fact, in searching for news on polio workers, discovered tragically that one worker was killed just today:

https://twitter.com/TNNEnglish/status/1727695070906957889

and polio vaccination drives have been delayed in other areas too (separate from the unfortunate incident above)

https://twitter.com/MajidBuhair/status/1727755867666452722

I mean what can I say of others, back in my own extended family, I have cousins who refused to vaccinate their kids at all, like no vaccine of any kind, and nothing I or anyone can say will change their mind. Thing is that they are not illiterate, they have been to schools, they are just.. stubborn.

That means attack vectors exist in all directions.

I personally discovered this the hard way when I randomly caught a case of mumps despite having been vaccinated as a child with the MMR vaccine (my dumbass doctor thought I had "mild-tonsillitis" and sent me home with antibiotics) Not sure where I caught it from but thankfully it was mild and I recovered after 10 days of absolute misery.

But the moral of the story is, not only is polio unlikely to be eradicated, but even people like me who thought they were covered by vaccination from dutiful parents, are still vulnerable to all these diseases, either as patients or carriers.

Our vaccination drives are not forming effective vaccine shields, and that means we have to think of treatment and not prevention as the "first" step of our fights against diseases.

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> The result came back a month later: it was wild polio type 1, not seen in the continent since 2016.

> Sequencing traced its origin to Pakistan, but also revealed that the virus had been circulating for two years undetected — possibly in Malawi, and possibly elsewhere. Because Malawi had no wastewater surveillance at the time, it was impossible to know.

If we can re-introduce polio to a place where polio had been eradicated, then I fear one day the world will get frustrated just decide to quarantine us, and I wouldn't know who to blame.
He got fired so he wouldn't unless he was capable of stealing a data centre on his way out or had some kind of inside connection to bypass security.
The article says they preserved a pig brain. Can they preserve it.

It seems to assume that all the information that constitutes the brain function that defines some one can be physically preserved. What if some is in the form of signals that require the brain to function continually to be preserved?
Long time Qt / Creator user here (15+ years). Qt Creator used to be the best C++ IDE by a mile and it's still pretty competitive (yes, you can use it without any Qt whatsoever!), however these days I am very unexcited about new releases of it. It looks like the Qt team prioritizes ever more features (who's asking for these!?) and bloat over fixing even the most basic of bugs. It's really baffling.

The Qt Creator bug tracker [1] is bursting at the seams but nobody seems to really care. 5+ years old, very reproducible, very annoying bugs are being ignored by the 100s.

Here's an idea: can we have a feature freeze for like 1 or 2 years and only solve bugs / tech debt? There's no new feature that you could put into Qt Creator that I'd prefer over bugfixes. None.

Eike, or others from the Qt team, if you're reading this, please give it a thought. You have a fantastic IDE and it's painful seeing it degrade so much. Thank you.

[1] https://bugreports.qt.io/projects/QTCREATORBUG/issues/
Yes, the relevance is providers don’t change scrubs between patients (although do wear typically disposable gowns and gloves when entering a patient room with c. diff).

Also relevant for things that travel between rooms and are disinfected in between, like ultrasound machines.

Other studies have reported that spores can survive washing processes in use.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30322417
Appreciate that
He was into rainforest conservation and stuff, and was from Brazil.
Welcome to ML. And idk, I'd feel pretty confident that a paper that gets so many citations gets accepted. The review system is like a slot machine if you aren't a big tech lab
How Top Founders Combine Contradictory Traits into Greatness
During covid my partner urged me to get a "real job" and put my name in at FB (where she then worked herself) as well as had some friends put my name in at a couple of other FAANG companies where she had previously worked. I was just noodling with some friends on a couple of projects so I thought "why not" -- I haven't worked at a big company in decades.

The gain mismatch between HR and me was immediately visible in each case. Two (!!) different recruiters asked me the same question: "Looking at your resume I can't see the narrative. Could you explain it to me?" They must tell you in HR school to find the narrative.

This actually makes sense: when a company gets to a certain size they really are hiring to fill a specific gap. It's best to quickly find the narrowest match to fill that gap and then move on to the next case. The exception is some of the very high level, "wide span" roles like CTO (real CTO, not the usual abuse of the term) something like that, but people who can do those jobs well will have long experience in these big organizations, which I can't stand the idea of.

The only way I could get hired by FAANG or any big company is if someone I knew well specifically brought me in for some problem they had in their group. And TBH I wonder how well I could execute in such an environment -- only if they group were well enough insulated from the big company's corporate environment that I really only had to think about the group's objectives. By "group" I mean 3-100 people.
> Russian guy saying that he is in Chile in the first sentence? Absolutely nothing suspicious.

This would be a bit weird in previous life (before the war), but today it's normal b/c wrong nationality means you'll be assumed as evil orc who worship pu*in and support tha war bla-bla-bla. So mentioning that you at least don't live there and you business in not there helps a bit. Source: I'm in the same situation.

And those who actually support the crazy dictator (by making fake companies across the world to bypass sanctions, for example) don't mention their names on the internet, don't ask public for help fighting Apple's decision, and probably don't sell mobile apps at all.
The fact that the branch tip can be moved to unrelated commits is another issue with Git’s model, and a mismatch to the intuitive “a named lineage in the DAG” conception of branches. In other VCSs, that would be a new/different branch, and you could still rename branches so that the same name will later refer to a different branch, but the branch history as such (including renames) would be preserved.
Do you use tabs as bookmarks? Use bookmarks instead, tag em for extra convenience in one go. Together with ctrl+h (history) you can go back to any site you recently visited.
everyone and their mother seem to slap the letters AI infront of everything, while i highly doubt it really is.

i feel most of it is a fad, its the same people who flocked first to crypto, then to nft's and now its all AI.

Real products will stay, but most will be gone just as quick as they popped up.
C++ is not the language for GUIs on mobile. There’s not a single mature, widely adopted framework that supports C++ for laying out widgets/views/GUI elements.
Write a library, deploy it as a service if necessary.
> But Google has decided that block and allow are not that easily abused so it will allow up to 30,000 rules to be added dynamically.

Can someone give an example of what a good number would be? How many dynamic rules are currently used?

> Also, extension developers are limited in what regular expressions they can use, along with other technical limitations.

Does this meaningfully impact rules? Just curious.

> According to Firefox’s Add-on Operations Manager, most malicious extension that manage to get through the security review process, are usually interested in simply observing the conversation between your browser and whatever websites you visit. The malicious activity happens elsewhere, after the data has already been read. So in their mind, what would really help security is a more thorough review process, but that’s not something Google says it has plans for.

I don't see how one follows from the other. Attackers are using malicious extensions to eavesdrop on networks... therefore we need better reviews and not restricted APIs? I get why you might want to advocate for the latter over the former, but certainly it seems like restricting APIs also has positive impact.
Per Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, Hidden AGI Is the "Hallucination of Tyrants"
> Was it? I've only heard of pre-training (predict next word) and subsequent RLHF + SFT "alignment" (incl. aligning to goal of being conversational). AFAIK the NLP skills that these LLMs achieve are all emergent rather than explicitly trained.

I believe you are right about that. I did some research after reading your comment. Transformers were certainly designed for NLP, but with large enough models the abilities can emerge without necessarily being explicitly trained for it.

> I'm not sure we can really say the net fully understands even if it answers as if it does - it was only trained to "predict next word", which in effect means being trained to generate a human-like response.

It depends on your definition of "understand". If that requires consciousness then there is no universally agreed formal definition.

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a subset of Natural Language Processing (NLP). If we take the word "understanding" as used in an academic and technical context then yes they do understand quite well. In order to simply "predict the next word" they learn an abstract model of syntax, semantics, meaning, relationships, etc, from the text.

> and has no idea if the ideas it is expressing are true or not (hence all the hallucinating/bullshitting).

That is not really an issue when solving tasks that are within it's context window. It is an issue for factual recall. The model is not a type of database that stores its training set verbatim. Humans have analogous problems with long term memory recall. I can think straight within my working memory but my brain will "hallucinate" to some extent when recalling distant memories.
Funny how a memetic complex that started in the late 1960's US as a reaction to civil rights legislation managed to mutate enough to cross oceans and take root not only beyond the States but even outside the anglosphere.
I didn't comment on the video. My point is that there isn't much draw to it over more accepted and reviewed sources.
This is a sad story

It is repeated many times, this is not the first here

Illustrates the problem with building businesses based on those "walled garden" services

We have seen reports like this not just about the apple store, but about YouTube
and Facebook too
Malawi is one of the countries mentioned in this article as a source of polio outbreaks. A famous singer has invested millions in hospitals there and they still lack adequate water infrastructure. I imagine their post operative stats are probably not great. Getting surgery in a modern hospital and going home to inadequate clean water and inadequate nutrition likely actively fosters post operative infections.

Population growth tends to stop with adequate education plus reproductive rights for women. Development isn't just about infrastructure. It's also about culture, education, developing the local population so they can sustain a more developed society.

My recollection: water.org was started by a man who went to Africa with a medical charity, concluded that a lot of the health issues they were treating were directly caused by lack of clean water, decided we should fix that.

We already invest in other countries, just not necessarily wisely. Advanced surgery being brought to primitive conditions is more about people wanting to feel heroic than about really improving things.
I've got a Ti double-walled mug from Snow Peak that I use a lot around the house. The big strengths are light weight, near indestructability, and a cool Ti functional aesthetic. It's double-walled and holds heat well, but I prefer the "mouth feel" of ceramic or glass when drinking coffee, so I don't use it much for coffee.
I wonder what would be worse:

1. Sticking with C for the rest of eternity for the linux kernel and accepting the baggage which comes with that

2. Migrating to rust and accepting the regressions which will inevitably appear as code is rewritten
They probably never said they explicitely support steam deck. It's probably steam deck users that are interested in it, and valve doesn't provide a testing platform.
Ah yes, let's use the most successful band of all time as the example not the exception
You don't just sterilize fabric with bleach. (How would that even work? Hang the gown, spray the bleach on it, and let it drip off?) You sterilize fabrics with bleach + water + detergent + heat + agitation — with the goal not being to lyse the spores/other germs, but rather to detach all the contaminants from the fabric and suspend them in the water — which then gets flushed away.

In theory, bleach could help decrease the adhesion of the spore to a surface. A possible mechanism would be if it oxidized — and so weakened/destroyed — some spiky organic hooks that the spores were using to adhere to the fabric.

Of course, agents other than bleach — things not normally considered biocides, in fact — would likely be a lot more effective at removing spores during fabric washing, since the goal is detachment, not lysing the spore.

The obvious things (detergents themselves, and other soaps) would work, of course, to varying degrees.

But also, less-obvious things could provide benefits here. For example, if spores tended to stay adhered to fabrics because they possessed a rough proteinous exosporium that acted sort of like nano-scale velcro, then conditioners (yes, like the kind you use in hair) might get that protein coat to relax and lay flatter, in a way that disrupts the velcro-like effect.

Lubricants might also work, by "filling up" the rough valleys of the spore's surface. (Of course, you'd then need an extra wash cycle to remove the lubricants.)
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"We defer to the Justice Department, to whom Senator Wyden's letter is addressed, for comment," the AT&T spokesperson said. "Like all companies, we are required by law to comply with subpoenas, warrants and court orders from government and law enforcement agencies."

Okay, sure. But, are they compelled by law to keep 40 years’ worth of call records, and not only keep them but in an easily indexed manner?

If they aren’t, then clearly there is something going on. Those records probably aren’t that cheap to keep around, compared to not keeping them around. They’re a public company with shareholders; if it were less costly for them to get rid of the records they presumably would have already gotten rid of them, so.. what’s going on?
Having a warranty or a return policy is not a human right either, yet companies are obligated by law to do it (at least here in Europe) because otherwise companies would just say "you knew what you were getting when you bought it" and not give a damn as long as they profit from it, just like apple is doing here.
I've got one myself. For only a bit more weight (~70g) than single-walled aluminum mug (~60g), Snow Peak can put two walls, making the mug insulated.

Though it's heavier than an insulated plastic mug, and _way_ more expensive.
I don't know Chile, but this move by Apple is illegal in many countries and the developer might get a good money in damages.

It doesn't matter what the platform T&Cs say, know your country's laws and you'll avoid unnecessary headaches.

Now thinking about it, it might make sense for some developers to publish their apps in specific countries to mitigate this kind of risk...