skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This worked for me; I was near the top of my class in a large urban high school, and breezed through academically (though we did have the benefit of cross-registering with the local university).

I became a long distance runner- cross country, track. This was immensely challenging, and our team was very diverse, ethnically and academically, giving an opportunity to break out of the "smart kid bubble" that a lot of "gifted" kids live in.

Then college and beer happened: I am no longer a long distance runner.
I seem to remember the detector arrays for MIRI were built sometime between 2005 and 2009. (I worked on MIRI for a time in 2011)
I think deepfakes is absolutely AWESOME!

You know what I want to do, I want to actually create sci-fi films with my favourite actors. But sadly, I don't have the money, time or network of highly paid actors to do so.

Sucks doesn't it?

But what if I could get the time, a little bit of money and actors who are just starting out and relatively cheap?

Can you hear that? Just maybe the democratization of film, may just be happening?

Take a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXHsgucZuJk

Now imagine, building out very cheap scenes, overlaying them with something like Unreal3d engine and using deepfakes instead of having someone sit in a chair for 5 hours because they need makeup, as they are acting as some alien?

Or how about having permission from "Schwarzenegger as a service" (TM pending) to use his likeness as a deepfake in the film?

I know, I know. People will use this for porn first and if you look at technology like VHS, internet streaming, VR it's all being used for porn. But as the tech gets better, gets cheaper. It'll be put into the hands of the creatives and we'll be a lot better for it.

I'm really bullish about this tech.
For what it's worth, the Bitcoin paper points out that it's an experiment. Most people seem to gloss over and forget this critical point.

(I've always been in shock at how many people don't realize that it's a poor currency, but a useful experiment overall.)
That employee clearly has issues unrelated to video games.
It does not necessarily have to do anything with laziness. The further you get the fiercer your competition. Most people around here were probably the best in elementary school and high school, perhaps even university. But if you go further up the intelligence or economic ladder, you will compare yourself to peers who are at the same step or next step. And the competition is much fiercer. You are 'competing' with people who are at least as intelligent or more intelligent. You are competing with people who have an even stronger work ethic. And then there is a certain factor of luck whether you'll be successful or not. I struggled with this for quite a while, because I always compared myself to (especially better) peers, and it makes you feel like a failure.

I have learned to accept more who and where I am and to enjoy it. Though it can still be hard at times (that's ego).
School absolutely fails on the second one. You are forced to study on someone else's schedule which is terrible for learning.
> One of the worst things you can do is tell your kid they are smart.

Well, don’t make them feel stupid, either - what I tell my son is that he’s smart, but I remind him that even if he’s smarter than 99% of all the people in the world, there are still 70 million people that are smarter than he is.
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Speaking from my own experience, I think it's very important to have a balanced view of the fact that you are smart. i.e. you shouldn't be ignorant of it.

If you "play" competitively in any of the fields, being ignorant of your own strength is a big disadvantage in my opinion.
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If you're not paying in cash, you're paying in time and attention it takes to manage everything yourself. I would never recommend that a start-up self host email or very much else. This is a list of things to distract your team from focusing on building product and selling it.
It doesn't matter, but the singular they confused me as well. It took me a second to realize 'they' is your sibling and not some other people entirely.
That's really rather dramatic. It will certainly lead to a lot of changes and society will function very differently, but pornography leading to the end of the world...really?
That's if you're even allowed to do that. Listed buildings are a pain.
To be a bit more specific, we can't send something up to fix this because it's magnitudes further away from the earth than Hubble is.

JWT will be ~1.5 million km away from earth, in a special orbit around a spot called the "L2 Lagrange point". It's located there so that it can kind of hide in the earth's shadow at pretty much all times and keep all the nearby "bright" things behind the heat shield.

For comparison, the Hubble is ~600km away from the surface orbiting the Earth, and the Moon is a little under 400,000km away from the earth. JWT will be almost 4x further away than even the moon.
Nasa JPL Researchers Are Designing a 'Space Pillow System' for Mars
it's not hopeless, though. as an example, look at the communities that have preserved "vanilla WoW" through reverse-engineered custom servers and patched clients.
I'm working remotely but living like a nomad. A month at most in different villages across India. I now miss the city life, and am also considering moving to Europe, perhaps a small city in Germany.
Can you share more about these smaller cities? What was your criteria for choosing the city you are in presently?
Given that the AIs were playing with humans, perhaps using speech to text/text to speech as an interface in order to be "human compatible" would overcome some of that.
The NASA-Congress decision making complex is kind of a monster. Often makes lot of penny wise, pound foolish decisions. (I should say ${X-Body}-Congress decision making complex is like that).
That's not fair to the devs. Plenty of devs would love to share their code but the companies they develop for prevent them from doing so for obvious reasons.
Thanks for posting the Sci Am article. I discovered Mandelbrot around 1994, and proceeded to program it in QB. Soon after, I found an old Sci Am article sitting around, and it was the one with the Mandelbrot! We almost never bought Sci Am articles, so it was a very pleasant surprise.
The Parthenon was mostly destroyed in an explosion more than a century ago. Restoring it in a respectful manner would be culturally (and yes, touristically too) valuable.
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> I think that what the author was trying to say (without really understanding it) was a comparison of containers to VMs as units of software deployment.

I agree, I think the next evolution of software deployment is definitely heading to sub-program sizes. I do want to point out that we've seen this before, it was called CGI. It's not exactly the same, and things will be better this time (more isolation, better tooling), but if we're doing functions-as-a-service now, we were doing scripts-as-a-service much earlier.

I think the great unbundling of the future is definitely coming and in fact it's already here -- it's just unevenly distributed.

> I agree that Docker doesn't have a huge and profitable future ahead of it, because it's providing commodity infrastructure. Rather I think it's interesting to think about what the next level of software deployment decomposition will be, and I'd wager that it's FaaS (ie serverless).

This was not what I meant to get across -- Docker may have a huge and profitable future ahead of it, but is only tangentially related to the near assured continuance of containerization. Docker as a company and project's goals are different, they do more than simply offer a way to run containers, and they have for a very long time -- my point was that the literal use of the word "docker" should die, because we should be just referring to containerization in the general sense (no matter which lib you're using). It's like the "tissue" vs "kleenex" debate, in a way.
I've tried doing this screen-capture-to-gif thing before but it was always frustrating. I'd love to hear about the workflow to make a gif like this.
Wasn't there an issue recently of the POTUS tweeting an obviously fake and doctored photo to his followers? I don't think that group responded with skepticism. Making a more convincing fake would be even more psychologically satisfying for people. As it gets better it's harder and harder to disprove it as being fake and people will be more willing to take the easy path and accept it. After all, people still accept incriminating photos as evidence.
Would you mind being so kind as to explain what it is about then? Saying something is wrong without saying why or how is just noise.
This is literally being pumped up by algorithmic traders and no oversight.

This rally is designed, as will the next downcycle and the next rally.
Even a quick look at CoinMarketCap shows you that there's something a little odd about the current rally.

Look at the volume column and you'll see that Tether has more volume than bitcoin and has had for a little while.

Tether has recently

a) Admitted that they don't have 1:1 backing in USD

b) They use customer funds for investment rather than just storing them and

c) They're currently under investigation by the New York Attorney General.

Against that backdrop they've increased the number of Tethers in circulation by $400 million in the last month...

Now it's possible that they've got a load of companies who really believe in them to the point that they're eager to invest in Tether (even when there are other 1:1 backed stablecoins available)

A different interpretation could be that Tether have worked out they can effectively just print money as much as they want and are using this to buy bitcoins, driving up the price...
My gifted program didn't put me into additional classes, just different ones. I was very lazy as a kid, but I took the highest classes possible because the difference in work was negligible but I wouldn't be bored out of my mind in class. I guess I got lucky.
Anyone know if there are any well paying jobs in space programs of any kind? I've been seeing a growing number of reputable universities offering a wider range of space / aerospace / engineering offerings* and I've been getting curious what's out there. Only issue is, a lot of places I looked pay well below market rates :/ (at least for software engineers). I'll admit my expectations might be off considering I've been in the NYC area for a while now, and am used to seeing NYC salaries, but the pay is well below half of what I would make now and the cut seems too drastic even in a LCOL area.

* I'm mostly talking about masters programs here.
I find it amusing that media doesn't give a crap about Bitcoin until there's price action. This was the exact same type of article that was dominating headlines back in the 2017 run-up.

Bitcoin has proved remarkably resilient over the last 10 years. It's clear (to me, anyway) that this asset class/set of technologies is here to stay, it's really just a question of what comes of it.

It's actually quite useful to be able to send large quantities of money anywhere in the world without needing a series of intermediaries. For that purpose alone I could see supply limitations leading to increased prices in the long haul. There are also some interesting "layer 2" projects that have been percolating for several years now with a lot of potential to make Bitcoin useful for smaller transactions.

The insane hype of the last cycle understandably turned a lot of people off from crypto, but I think it would be a mistake to ignore the progress that's being made.
The only issue here I ser is that you haven’t bothered Amazon enough that the account was inaccessible. Everything else is working as intended.
GRRM's page views far exceed that of Gell-Mann over the years. https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.or... .

There is no way the news of Gell-Mann's recent death could cause the balance to change that significantly. Over 8 million people would have needed to visit his page in a week, for a page which normally gets 9,000 views each month.
A 4% drop in average household size produces a 4% drop in median household income? That’s not a relatively big change, that’s a small change and exactly what I’d expect.

Real per capita GDP rose by around 25% over this period. What accounts for the other 21%?
> How do you do that for Linux?

Varies by distro. For example, on my CentOS 7 desktop just now:

$ cat /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/README
...
QUICK HELP: To add a certificate in the simple PEM or DER
file formats to the list of CAs trusted on the system:

Copy it to the /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/
subdirectory, and run the update-ca-trust command.

That README is part of the "ca-certificates" package.

As seba_dos1 points out though... why would doing this be needed for a single application?

It should be possible to point the cert validation code at a non-system-wide CA chain.
How eccentric do you want to be? What exactly are your hobbies? This doesn't seem very hard to pull off with a pretty middle-of-the-road tech job and living pretty much anyplace, but maybe I'm suffering from a failure of imagination.
ShareX makes it very easy.

https://getsharex.com/
Why? Being smart is good. Why wouldn't you let your kids know?
Your comment is grey and I don't think it should be.

People care so much about being "a good person" while also acknowledging corporate psychopathy and other "bad guys win" scenarios that are so normal to the human existence.

Meanwhile, if you ask an educator about their situation, I'm not sure they'd tick the box. The educators I know are fulfilled by their work, not their work environments.
I think that school wasted their potential.
I've very rarely seen scripts like this make implicit dependencies beyond assuming what kind of package manager is installed. Moreover, everywhere I've worked the package manager was either under our control (in which case no problem) or was mandated from above (we're a red hat shop: use yum - again, not really a problem).

I've spent more of my life and torn out more hair dealing with obscure docker bugs than I have converting scripts from one flavor of linux to another.
Some images become iconic and symbolize a greater issue such as that photo. But I think that’s different from calling any gratuitous real graphic violence just because it’s contextualized “correctly”, acceptable.
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does anyone know good Hosting/SysAdmin/Datacenters Blogs and News ?
Is there any economy of scale? Why not wait until the first one fails to build another one?
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I agree that the industry will waste billions on startups. There's not really a market there for 'Docker' containers, and there never was.

docker-containers and it's related counterparts are abstractions. Useful abstractions don't necessarily equate to a new line of business.

The best attributes of containers (IMO) are packaging and distribution. What business and operators need is a repeatable, easy way to deploy applications across there infrastructure. Containers are one piece of that story.

The bigger piece, and IMO, where the business viability is, is the orchestration layer. Containers aren't very useful by themselves, you need a way to get your application online. That's where Kubernetes comes in.

You need to understand large organizations and their challenges to see what layer of the containerization stack holds the most value.

Long-term, I see 'linux containers' as we know them going away. The industry is going to move to something like [1]: lightweight, hardware-assisted VM/container hybrids. But, no matter what happens at the containerization layer, the orchestration layer is the piece that adds business value to end-users (eg, not AWS or other hosting providers).

1: https://katacontainers.io/
> You know what I want to do, I want to actually create sci-fi films with my favourite actors. But sadly, I don't have the money, time or network of highly paid actors to do so.

But the reason these people are your favourite actors is that they're...good at acting, right? The deepfake won't improve the performance of your budget actor (actually it'll probably make it much worse). So your movie will be like seeing your favourite actors putting in absurdly terrible performances. Are you sure you want this?
I have read in other discussions that the contractor has great confidence in the deployment of the sun shield because of their experience with similar systems on classified satellites. I think as long as the launch is successful there won’t be any problems with the mission.
One wonders how many analogous laws are contributing to cost disease in a variety of sectors: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
The Cyber Defense Matrix slides [0] linked to in a comment on the site provided some interesting use cases.

[0] https://www.slideshare.net/sounilyu/understanding-the-securi...
Would that honestly be so terrible? Aren’t we running the risk of overpopulating ourselves out of existence anyway? If a quarter of society just sort of “drops out” into a fantasy world, and they’re happy there, not hurting anybody, what’s the problem?
I'm interested in transparent building materials, so people look like they are walking on nothing.

That's what I would have done with the WTC. Just keep the wreckage, and make it look like people ascended to heaven. Replicate a fire burning, and suck the smoke down, then have steam rise for heat or water.
I've used the default MacOS screen recording (cmd + shift + 5) and then edited/speed up some parts with iMovie.

Then I transform the video into a gif using https://github.com/mathieudutour/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/mo...

Hope that helps!
I'm not concerned about that. Humans are social creatures and can get sick if they don't have sufficient social contact to get their needs met. One of those needs is intimacy (and with intimacy, sex often follows). We are very far away from building a machine that can satisfy that better than a human (since it is harder problem to solve than the Turing test). And if we do develop such a machine and people stop having sex, that's not the end of children. Children can be produced without sex (and eventually may not need a human uterus), so society would likely continue.

I'd be a bit more concerned about people just deciding not to have children (because raising children is a pain), but right now there's too many people, so I'll worry when there are less than 100 million.
This article reminded me of the good old days as well. I wrote some toy Mandelbrot renderers on Amiga. Mine didn't have an FPU so any trivial algorithm would choke itself with the floating point emulation code and would probably take days to finish. So, the first fix would be to rewrite it for integer math. (And, eventually, write a proper floating-point implementation at the time when I did obtain an Amiga with an FPU...)

The results were nothing close to real-time but the speed difference was astronomical. With a bit of tricking the compiler to produce good code you could get a screenful in a few minutes. There were good Mandelbrot zoomers for Amiga written in assembler that you could, maybe barely but still, call real-time renderers. Of course, I added panning and zooming in mine as well eventhough the performance at the time was more akin to "real-long-time" rather than "real-time".

The number of optimisations available are mind-boggling, especially for real-time renderers which only need to care about correctness in the final image -- which often won't be rendered at all because the user has moved elsewhere or zoomed deeper before getting there.

So, rendering as you iterate is one thing you can do: as soon as the image has enough detail, it's "finished" for all practical purposes and either the user moves around elsewhere or leaves the renderer to finish the final iterations with hopefully only minor updates on the actual screen.

Also, because the set is the (typically) black area the details for the nice color shades are quicker to compute because those pixels run away sooner. On the other hand, the shaded areas are really not where the genuine details are so you're left with a lot of ways to precalculate estimated values for these pixels when you're certain you're not too close to the set. A real-time renderer can also save work in only computing new pixels revealed by panning and reusing pixels that have only moved but still on the screen. To some extent it's also possible to quickly extrapolate temporary pixel colors after panning, then try to lock down where there might be pixels that belong to the set.

Of course, the usual, more mechanical inner-loop optimisations apply as well. This becomes mandatory at deeper zoom levels where you raise the threshold for discarding pixels, and you actually have to run lots of iterations for nearly all pixels.

I just love these applications where a seemingly simple algorithms lends itself to endless amount of performance optimisations. Especially with fractals the limits are literally... unlimited.
Surveillance is always and everywhere about extortion. It's the central activity of both espionage and "law enforcement", indistinguishable from organized crime.

If you have "nothing to hide", how about your parents, children, siblings, friends, spouse? Can a threat to one of them motivate you to violate a trust / abuse a power? That is what an extortionist relies on, and makes them interested in dirt. Protections under law (US Bill of Rights etc.) are of no interest to extortionists, even when they do work for a government.

If your child is threatened, would you testify (falsely, if necessary) against your friend? Embezzle? Reveal a password? Leave a certain door unlocked? There is no limit to the elaboration once somebody has an in.
Yes. Being smart is like being tall. You might as well accept it and be honest about it.

And both are good for your life in direct and indirect ways. But neither guarantee much of anything. So some humility about intelligence is important.
This could also have been done using a simple OTP and on the number.
So this solution would work because most automated spam would not make AJAX calls?

Something like Selenium posing as a real user would bypass this kind of protection wouldn't it ?
>Bitcoin has proved remarkably resilient over the last 10 years.

What does that even mean? Resilient in what way? As this article notes, it hasn't been adopted for use in any meaningful or significant way. It's a speculation vehicle. I guess in the sense that it didn't literally disappear it's resilient, but beyond that the idea from its early days that it would fundamentally change the world and be widely adopted is gone. It's not the glorious dagger that will pierce the heart of the statist beast its libertarian boosters imagined. The governments, banks, and people of the world have mostly shrugged at it. Ironically, some banks and governments even started adopting the technology for their own uses.

It's just a vehicle for speculation and a toy that doesn't seem to have any actually useful applications that couldn't have already been done better.

>I think it would be a mistake to ignore the progress that's being made.

What progress? It made some speculators rich but is otherwise useless.
I think part of the reason for the dearth of merchant transactions is the lack of a tax safe harbor to treat it like currency, at least for transactions under a certain size. So long as buying a cup of coffee requires one to keep detailed records and report it as a capital gains, it is really not worth the trouble to use Bitcoin as a currency.