skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't listened to a lot of Joe Rogan but from what I have listened (maybe last 6-7 episodes) and wearing my Dr hat I feel he fluctuates. He seems to walk a pretty level line but then occasionally drops things that are demonstrably false. More out of ignorance than malice I believe
Obviously its possible, but if somebody is being malicious all bets are off.

deb is still a more structured format that is less likely to result in accidental collateral damage.
I'm saying, maybe the terminals of today need to be more typographically aware, now that the computers of today can more than support it.
since 2009 when I started to use amazon heavily I remember having to always police myself to never buy from items without the "sold by amazon" note.

What you've missed is that ever since Amazon added "fulfilled by Amazon" what "sold by Amazon" means is only "pulled from stock in an Amazon warehouse, with that stock coming from both Amazon wholesale orders and stock shipped in by third party sellers." Basically commingling of stock means that "Sold by Amazon" is entirely an accounting function now and says nothing about the physical products or their origin.
The post ends with a link to the actual paper. The paper's graphs do have labeled axes. While I agree the blog post should have labeled them too (and we'll fix that), if you really want to understand what's going on, you should read the paper anyway — you're not going to get out of a few paras of appetizer what took several pages of research paper to explain.

For your convenience, here's the paper link again:

https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/wkf-w...

I don't think the visualization is all that "unusual": it's a standard presentation called a KDE [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_density_estimation].

If you just want to understand the graphs, the x-axis is Rate and y-axis is Density, because it's a KDE (as the text says just above the first graph). Think histogram (which it also says): How many students had this particular true-positive/true-negative rate?

But I think you really will understand this better by reading the paper.
1.75 mg is still almost an order of magnitude higher than the recommended dose of 300 micrograms. Throw your pills away and get these instead: https://www.amazon.com/Sundown-Naturals-Melatonin-300-Tablet...
Sure. We should fix that. But the post ends with a link to the actual paper, which very much has labeled axes.

Anyway, the label is "density" because it's a KDE, which it says just above the graph: "Visualized as kernel density estimation plots (akin to smoothed histograms)".

Can we get our grade back now?
This logic would be detectable to a user who reads the script. The goal here is to trick users who first inspect the script and then `curl | bash`
+1 was recommended to me a couple of weeks ago on HN. Most useful book I’ve read this year, easy.
Sure, I can accept that. I think plenty of thoughts are non-linguistic.
And of course supercollider which is what overtone and sonicpi are based on. That's the sound engine
Your physical stature may (wrongly) come into this.

If you are a young male with a beard... skin colour wouldn't matter much. You are gonna get groped.
Then that wouldn't be 'curl | bash'.
I completely disagree, at the very least it is not intentional. He's interested in a lot of topics and explores a wide range of topics, he's not going to get everything right. What I will say is that he brings on a ton of interesting guests and they should not be judged because they participate in Joe's podcast.

> It's not a good sign when a guest appears on his show

Why does this matter? I find this line of reasoning corrosive and hypo-critical. Each guest should be judged on the basis of their merits, character, not who they choose to have a conversation with.
It's not exactly difficult to just write your own fixed point library in Java. I'm sure it'd be tricker to get exactly the same behavior as the old code, but it still doesn't seem like it should be a huge time sink on a large project.
The difference is that everyone who has kids has known what life is like with and without kids. The opposite is not true.
Bill Gates and the Western Media: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire
In the first couple of paragraphs I immediately thought 'haxx' is it. In the past at work when I downloaded from haxx.se I was always worried that IT security would swat me.
So far this is largely a non-issue, because people who like to repair things themselves tend to be biased towards simpler things that they have the capability of repairing, and people who don't care about repairing things tend to be biased towards whatever's shiny and new really complex, and rely on dealer warranties and the like.

One notable exception here being farm equipment, where modern farmers want highly-automated equipment to reduce labor costs, but they also want to be able to maintain their equipment themselves.

I'm an experienced shadetree mechanic. Rebuilt a couple engines, hotrodded a motor or two. There are all kinds of things that I could have done that would make a vehicle unsafe for public roads. I didn't do those things though, because I wanted a machine that worked, not a machine that was broken.

My hunch is that in the real world, people that fix cars themselves are no more dangerous than professional mechanics.
I've found the same thing.
Sounds like the current Function-as-a-service trend?
Do the TSA screeners get training on identifying drugs?
The problem came when I wanted the app to communicate to another on behalf of me. Do I have to constantly reconfigure an openid connection for every app on my machine? (Not the worst of ideas, I suppose...)
I'm curious to see how languages with support for rational types would handle this problem. (E.g. Scheme, Clojure, Haskell) Seems to me that they would eliminate the round-off problem entirely for a great number of commonly-faced applications in the finance world. (So easy to use `x/100`.)
> has bought ineffective products like eye cream based on five-star reviews, including some that appeared fake. Now she only looks at two-, three- and four-star reviews when she shops on Amazon.

My strategy has always been to read the 1-star and 2-star reviews, most recent first, unless there are so few total (e.g. under a dozen) that I may as well just read them all.

Positive reviews, even 4-star and (enough of the) 3-star tend to be useless to me. What I want to know is why people hated the product. If it's exclusively for reasons that don't apply to me or for risks/problems inherent to the type of product, then I have what I need.

Negative reviews are often also where the best referals to alternative products can be. Of course, those have a high enough likelihood of being posted by a shill that one can't assume it's actually better without reading those reviews, too, but it can beat grinding through all of Amazon's search results.

All that said, the worsening counterfeit and delivery situation means I've bought hardly anything in the past year, after a progressive decline in buying the year before.
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rm -rf —no-preserve-root / 2>&1 > /dev/null

Oh, yeah - good luck getting the average layperson or even many sysadmins to inspect this - because very few people actually know how to review scriptlets in an RPM (rpm -qp —scripts package.rpm, isn’t this nice and obvious?). Nobody bothers for packages distributed via yum repositories either, because manually downloading packages to review them defeats the purpose, right?

Yeah, everything is vulnerable at the end of the day - but at least with packages one is less likely to get seriously messed with, just not impervious to it.
Cost might be an issue... let alone the issue of leaving your own ordinance that fails to detonate.. .
Are there statistics somewhere on how many folks use an alarm clock? Every time I think I have a sleeping problem, I'm always harshly reminded of how different my sleeping habits are by virtue of the fact that I have never used an alarm clock. Something that it seems near universal among everyone else. (Though, I suspect it is just something everyone talks about. Hypothesis being that I'm in the majority, but there is just nothing to say about not using one.)
Fyi, Home Depot should price match to Amazon for "sold by Amazon" items, though online purchases are valid only for matching not their 'competitor price -10%' low price guarantee.

A lot of other stores will do the same with online competitors (or their own online pricing). My example from 2 days ago is Target price matching 2x2032 batteries from $7 to the target.com price of $3.
I think this is an interesting way of framing things. I'm not someone who travels a lot, although I have the means and the time.

Over the years, multiple people have wondered out loud to me why I don't "travel the world". I rented an apartment from someone recently, and this was one of the first things out of his mouth -- as if it were a given that anyone with the means should do it.

I've always confused by this sentiment. Sometimes I pick up the implication that they think I'm incurious.

I think it boils down to the fact that I care about ideas (and realizing ideas) more than experiences. I listen to (and play) plenty of music, eat all types of food, and I might even know a slightly more diverse set of people than most, but I don't particularly feel a need to travel to do these things.

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I had a similar conversation with someone here on HN a year or two ago. I'm not sure if I'll be able to find it, but the idea was that "the only authentic mode of travel is work". There was actually a book that espoused this idea as far as I remember.

There was an implicit criticism of those who spend a lot of money to go sightseeing and "get experiences". "Experiencing" is not the same of participating.

I think this is what your quote means by "romanticism" (although I question the use of that word, since it has so many other meanings.)

(BTW I'm in the queue for Sapiens at the library, so thanks for renewing my interest :) )

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I also carpooled with a stranger up the west coast (one of the few times I travelled). I told him about this idea -- that the only authentic mode of travel is work. He travelled the world to shoot documentaries and happened to agree with me (naturally). A lot of his friends seemed to be into Burning Man and he questioned the value of spending so much money for experiences that are divorced from the world.

I don't necessarily endorse his viewpoint, but I think it's a perspective that might spark an interesting conversation.

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Anyway, I think you're right that there's a form of "experiencism" in modern culture that is akin to consumerism. I didn't directly connect the two before!

I don't think there is anything wrong with acquiring possessions, or acquiring experiences... but there does seem to be clique-ishness involved. In my experience, as yours, people who value experiences do tend to look down on consumerism.

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EDIT: I found the comment, a good re-read :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10725521

In "The Rebel Sell," another one of those books that I continue to think about and reference many years later, the authors make the provoking claim that, contrary to the self-images of most tourists, backpackers, and lovers of foreign culture, the only authentic way to travel is on business trips. With a tangible reason to go abroad, a plausible desire for mutual exchange, instead of the usual leering and viewing and aimless wandering, the business traveller is authentically engaged and directed by a real project.
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Interesting. So, if oracle wins, this will be the only customer they care about with its small cloud? Meaning à win on this bid, will likely make oracle cloud less attractive than before, to anyone on the outside?
If you downloaded the script to inspect it, why would you not just run the script that you downloaded?
Your brakes example is typical of someone who was never taught to work on their own vehicle.

Others have pointed out that it is not dangerous, so I’ll point out that it is emensely rewarding to do this kind of work yourself. Enlist a competent buddy and give it a try.
> It follows the story of a biologist who gets caught up in a voyage into the heart of the solar system among members of a transcendentalist monastic order and allies (including a vampire escaped from a research facility and her cadre of zombified soldiers) to investigate a mysterious signal seemingly coming from the mission sent to initiate first contact

You're reminded because of the space vampires?
I actually think Apple’s repair system is one of the reasons they have success. Most customers can’t repair their stuff so having a trustworthy place to go to is a really nice safety blanket. Compare that to most other phone or computer manufacturers where you have to ship your stuff or do it yourself and risk voiding warranties. I imagine eventually Tesla will offer an Apple-esque “Certified Repair” service option to increase their ability to help customers with non-Tesla employees.
Exactly. Most people aren't stupid enough to sign up for things they won't use.

The subscription model where you assume your customers just forget to unsubscribe will never go anywhere.
Sticky streets benefit sustainable walkability
Isn't that the reason for the Turbo button?

For the younglings: it was a physical button to underclock the CPU on old PCs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
Recent Chrome Canaries show ERR_CERT_SYMANTEC_LEGACY on this host. Gotta refresh those TSL certificates before September!
curl | ... bash
A movie ticket doesn't cost that much... If you only go to the movies a few times a year, a subscription is an obvious gimmick.
I have been taking melatonin for a couple decades, due to severely delayed sleep. I haven't tried anything less than 3mg recently, but that has been very successful. 5mg or more have been too much, although I don't remember the specific problem.
I'm a bit confused by a lot of the metrics in this piece.

First, it tries to use city population as a metric to get per capita cost. It seems to suggest that households are on the hook for a significant portion of these spots. First, a city like Jackson Wyoming is mostly tourists and therefore the spots pay for themselves easily. Second, most spots are privately funded.

Second, the estimate of "cost of replacement" is pretty silly. It used 7100 as an estimate per spot. I doubt the large parking spots in a ski lodge base are going to cost anywhere close to 7100. And even if a spot in a city actually cost 7100 to pave, if it then lasted 20 years is the cost anywhere close to what the article suggests? Doubtful.
He talks about all thoughts arise from bodily sensations. This is exactly what Vipassana teaches. I wonder if he 'borrowed' from there without attributing.
Melatonin has also shown to help with certain cancers especially breast. Ref: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5412427/
Oddly enough, I've found that anything much over 1mg doesn't seem to have much of an effect at all - it maybe makes me a little drowsy, but that's about it. On the other hand, .5mg more or less knocks me out and leaves me feeling sleepy for most of the next day. Seems almost like there's a threshold over which it loses effectiveness, but I don't know of any medical mechanism that would lead to that.
Tapping into the power grid could predict the morning traffic
My most-relaxing vacations are getting an Airbnb on a beach or a lake with friends. We don't leave the house, don't have an agenda, and get to enjoy novel sights, sounds and smells. The combination is so incredibly refreshing.

Sometimes for us, but especisllly for me, a vacation is not dealing with anyone except my wife. Often we just want to silently enjoy each others company, read on our iPads and eat and drink with abandon.
Eh, it’s extremely difficult to write a physics engine that behaves predictably with variable timesteps. Likely impossible at the extremes.
You can hear about the experience of a POW, but it won't ever be the same as being a POW. Not trying to equate the two, just showing how telling/imagining aren't quite the same as experiencing.
Likewise Aristotle, and perhaps others as well.
What time should you take melatonin if you don't have any major sleep problems but want to improve sleep quality?
I think the biggest issue with Apple's "repair" model is the amount of repairing that actually goes on. As a result of the increasing board integration of Apple computers and Apple's repair policy, a single resistor kicking the bucket means a full board replacement that will set you back a good fraction of what you paid for the computer in the first place, at an Apple certified repair center. Even worse is the outright hostility to 3rd party repair shops who instead opt for (more difficult), but ultimately less expensive (for the custom and the environment) component-level repair. You won't be getting any documentation or spare parts from Apple.
The section "Comparison with other projects" in the linked article has a comparison to other replay efforts, including what was done for WebKit. I think WebReplay is lower level than the WebKit work, but higher level than rr, which gives you various tradeoffs.
Once you're arguing the philosophy of knowing something as learned knowledge versus personal experience, the discussion has kind of gone off the rails.
"Quantity has a quality all its own."
>>That said, in nearly a quarter of cases, crows did make some kind of contact with dead crows. Like with mammals, we saw that these behavior could be exploratory, aggressive and in rare cases even sexual (about 4% of crow presentations resulted in attempted copulations), with the latter two behaviors being biased towards the beginning of the breeding season. Importantly, the latter two categories of interactions were rarely expressed independently, and it was often a mixture of the first two; in rare cases, all three. In the most dramatic examples, a crow would approach the dead crow while alarm calling, copulate with it, be joined in the sexual frenzy by its presumed mate, and then rip it into absolute shreds.
I'm a clean cut white male, and I was singled out twice in the same airport for one flight pos 9/11, pre liquids restrictions. I had 3 bottles of local Idaho vodka, flying from Boise to Chicago. It would have been less annoying if it wasn't literally the same TSA agent that searched me both times, once at the general security in the terminal then secondly "randomly" at the gate. Same agent. Ostensibly looking for weapons. The agent told me as such. Seeing as it was the same agent that had already searched me, I was a bit glib. "Did you miss something the first time around?" Somehow I made my flight. Dude was a jackass.
I don't know why but whenever I did the technique where I tense and relax my muscles I got nightmares.
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He needs to brush up on The Placebo Effect.

(The Placebo Effecy is so important; I don't know why it isn't taught in grade school.)
I assume the answer would be the same times that are solving for delayed sleep phase disorder.
3 mg is also the sweet spot for me. More than about 5 makes me have really wild, restless dreams. I still sleep feel rested in the morning, but it's kind of like you spend the whole night half awake because the dreams are so vivid.
There's a course called "Math for Social Choice", for example, that focused on how voting works from a mathematical sense in one section, for example.
There is no slope. Either the limitation is there, or it isn't. What comes after to call this a "slippery slope"?

And clearly the existing limitation is a pain in the ass, or else services that "unroll" multi-tweet text wouldn't exist. The limitation is completely arbitrary and clearly not entirely helpful, so a request to lift it is entirely reasonable.
I think for people who live in a place / do a job where a state harasses/meddles instead of protects them, knowing how it works lets them protect themsleves and even meddle back.

I think this is why activists / journalists / spies in some areas try to study the operation and practice tradecraft / opsec / cs.

Info asymmetry is power, isnt it?
Could a program like this just be practice?
I had some experience with plone (and zope) - big, early python projects that formed a lot of the basis for package management and infrastructure for python.

The "known good set" of packages as used by buildout for any given plone version were not really easy to work with.

See eg:

https://docs.plone.org/4/en/manage/troubleshooting/buildout....

Which points to things like:
http://dist.plone.org/release/3.3.5/versions.cfg

Which aren't that much worse/better than a gemfile.lock for a rails project, I guess.

Now, I guess the better answer is to have smaller projects, with different interfaces (eg: don't give all modulles/parts access to your zodb object database, have a ome json/rest interfaces etc).

But apparently there are still many "big systems" being built.
I don't think I've had a single resistor repaired in any of the thousands of servers I've owned in the past 20 years.
Well wouldn't the reverse also be just as bad and exploitable? The classic is 'ignore misconduct because it might help 'the enemy' make us look bad' is in itself failing to see the big picture and one of the oldest ones in the book for the wicked to retain power.

The proper solution morally of course is to reject false-dichotomies and oppose wrong on all sides - especially within 'your own'.
And yet that's primarily what they're looking for
Couldn't you at least port your COBOL to C? It's also statically typed, compiled, there are high-performance libraries that support arbitrary levels of numeric precision (GNU GMP), and every engineer trained in the last 20 years at least has some C experience.
If I wasn't in a hurry to get onto a flight (which you clearly were if you got searched at the gate), I'd have asked for a supervisor at that point, especially if it was the same agent who had already cleared you at the checkpoint. That's entirely unreasonable.
I’m a Dev and my phone is not my computer. I want a device that “just works” where I can download any random app with abandon and have some type of assurance that an app can’t do crazy things.

I am much more careful about what gets downloaded on my computer but I want to be able to do anything.
I would far prefer that software projects assumed competence in the installers knowledge of their systems package manager and just listed the specifics... honestly how hard is it to just say "here is our $gpg key" "here is our $apt_repo_url" the package name is "$foobar". And let competent system admins take it from there. Most of the time you end up de-composing the scripts into ansible/$sys_automation_tool_of_the_week anyhow.
I immediately thought of ETL when I read this.

I don't see how this tuple space concept can work possibly replace robust supervised process management. Also, how is tuple space different than message passing? Somehow a process needs to know what values it is supposed to consume. Something has to manage that, and before you know it, you are passing messages through tuple space and have, essentially, re-invented the wheel.
Roughly 30 minutes before I hit the pillow works for me. I use the normal melatonin (non-chews), but I suck on them till they dissolve in my mouth, because I hate when they get stuck in my epiglottis; you get used to the bitter flavor after a bit. I'm going to assume this is safe because chewables exist.
That means it wouldn't outright prevent the behavior, but it would add some cost and friction. That could reduce the sheer volume of the problem to make it worth it.

Maybe even not blocking them outright but just rate-limiting would provide comparable friction. It could even be more effective if they never try the VPN route to discover that it's faster.
So have you personally audited every line of code that runs on your computer? What about the firmware?
They may be establishing a baseline.