skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came in to post just this. I would not expect such sensationalist/incorrect headlines from Bloomberg, but here we are.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a part of the military. If it is launching a project to fight dis/mis-information then isn’t that an accurate title?
I was briefly interested in woo as a teenager — Wicca, telekinesis, shapeshifting, that sort of thing.

One of the fascinating oddities I learned from that period is that several different founding mothers of Wicca — Valiente and Farrar come to mind — met people who thought the rituals they has created around and soon after WW2 were actually thousands of years old.

I can’t put the connection into words, but it feels like this is related to “Joy in the Merely Real”: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the...

Plus a dash of the way a beginner can totally misunderstand words of art and invent their own totally inaccurate understanding of what’s going on.
Well, the convention in maths is that we never add trailing zeros, since they wouldn't as any information. Unlike in other sciences, where they represent measurement precision.
I doubt the ones at the top are doing it for SEO. The bottom row of 'do follow' links filled with hosting, gambling and vpns? Absolutely is SEO to manipulate rankings.
Majority of OSS development is paid for. It is not done by unpaid volunteers feeding themselves by something else.

Some of it is like that, but not much.

As much as I like open source, there is a lot of myth making around it too.

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Second whether obvious or not, people argued that we meritocracy on these forums here for years. And some still do. At meritocracy peek, Github had even that meritocracy carpet or whatever it was.
Very interesting. Your project?
Whether or not what he released was considered sensitive is jumping the gun. Everyone is just assuming that. It features none of the more advanced IMINT tools that the US possesses.

This is just a picture of the ground. I would be very surprised if the image by itself were classified. It may have been part of a classified intelligence package, but by itself this image does not seem sensitive.
Northern Lights in US? Dramatic Geomagnetic Storm Predicted as Milky Way Peaks
Here's a thing: In Germany, Fritzbox Routers are quite popular (made by http://avm.de). They have excellent software (with a feature set similar to OpenWRT, but more clean and concise). They support guest Wi-fi's out of the box and many people I know use them.
The US Constitution:

>the people cannot be trusted to post dank memes; such powers over acceptable thoughts and speech are reserved for the military to review.
Looks to have been caused by a loss of utility power and subsequent backup generator failure at one datacenter.

> 10:47 AM PDT We want to give you more information on progress at this point, and what we know about the event. At 4:33 AM PDT one of 10 datacenters in one of the 6 Availability Zones in the US-EAST-1 Region saw a failure of utility power. Backup generators came online immediately, but for reasons we are still investigating, began quickly failing at around 6:00 AM PDT. This resulted in 7.5% of all instances in that Availability Zone failing by 6:10 AM PDT. Over the last few hours we have recovered most instances but still have 1.5% of the instances in that Availability Zone remaining to be recovered. Similar impact existed to EBS and we continue to recover volumes within EBS. New instance launches in this zone continue to work without issue.

https://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/ec2-us-east-1.rss
Dude. I suggest to get a life (yes, another commonality)
If Google can bypass the carriers entirely, which from what I understand they're trying to do with RCS, then this could be interesting.
Tangentially related: what's the name for the approach where you analyze word choices and sentence structure in order to fingerprint a person?
Sure. So the take-away is still, whatever you don't sign an SLA for with Google is liable to disappear on short notice. Including Google's interest in RCS.
He' 5'7" according to Google. Posture tends to suffer with the amount of drugs they must have been taking, so who knows?
It’s a research arm handing out grants. That’s very different from what the title implies, which is as if it were like any other war/operation with top active command and a ton of resources. The use of the word unleash implies there’s some strong existing momentum just being held back by an arbitrary gate.

DARPA funded the internet. Did the US unleash military to network computers? I think we could all agree that’s hyperbolic.
I'm curious about what it is about the format that you don't like. Or are you really just saying that you don't like the type of books that people give you?

I love consuming other types of media but they all have their place.

For fiction (especially SF) I love audiobooks — I listen to them for a couple of hours before I go to bed and while I was working I listened to them during my commute.

For non-fiction I hate audiobooks, unless it's narrative non-fiction like Bill Bryson. I really need the ability to quickly jump between parts of the book. If fact this is the reason why I hate the kindle for non-fiction too.

For math or something that is easier to understand with animations I prefer videos. YouTube is such an amazing resource for educational materials that it blow my mind that people still read textbooks for topics like Group Theory or Calculus. Interactive websites also work for math too.

For the social sciences I like regular hardback books. I like the ability to flip between pages, to have one finger holding one section open while looking at another. I love to serendipitously see something while skimming.

For anything current I prefer blogs. A book isn't going to be as relevant for something written about how some feature of Rust sucks and here are some alternatives.

To circle back, one feature a book has that a lot of other media don't is that they are put together very carefully and edited and are very thoughtful about how the information is presented. I'm sure Knuth has been a LOT of time deciding on the ordering and wording of his books.
David is quite a character. I did not know he was a wp admin.

Brave has tons of verified publishers, see https://batgrowth.com/. Our verifying a site or channel does not thereby endorse all or any of its content. As noted elsewhere here, we aim to distribute if not decentralize verification so it is even more censorship resistant.
> once I finish a book I immediately replace it for the next one on my to-read list.

This right here is your problem. The way to really learn a book is to read it and then solve a lot of problems out of it, referring to it often. If it's a programming book (that's ideal), write programs that do what you read about. If it's a textbook there should be a lot of exercises for you to do. If there aren't any exercises you'll have to make up your own. That's a slow process, but it's still a more reliable route to deep understanding than reading superficially and never getting there.

That said, you remember more than you think you do. You may not recall everything you read, but a lot of that information is in your head somewhere, ready to act as foundation and building material if you ever visit the material again. You'd be amazed how much more you can get out of a book just by skimming it a second time, once you've got the big ideas.
I have three Ubiquti access points covering a 2500 sq ft home. The results are great but still depend on careful placement of the access points. The wall between the kitchen and the woodshed has a metal layer on the insulation so I have an access point in the wood shed that is served by a TP-Link powerline ethernet and a spare ethernet plug to plug my laptop into when I work out there in the summer. I will probably have to take it in in the winter when it gets below feeezing.

Two DSL lines come into the house, are connected to a load balancing router, then there is gigabit ethernet to a Ubiquti managed switch which can deliver power to the access points, although I currently use power injectors for all of them because that's what is convenient.

I have a small Linux tower that runs as a server that runs the Ubiquti management software and many other services.

I use Ethernet as much as I can but I haven't taken it as far as I could. I've got the tools to crimp the ends onto Ethernet cables and 1000 feet of solid core Cat 6 wire and when I master the tools I will cut custom cable runs to
serve more access points straight out of the hub, get the secondary A/V room wired, etc. Ubiquti makes outdoor access points that would do fine in the shed or outside the house.

One of my DSL modems has its WiFi turned on and that is one of three devices plugged into the UPS which ensures that the backup connection and the landline phone system work through power outages of up to two days.

I also have a SmartThings Hub and a Phillips Hue hub fighting for 2.4 GHz spectrum.
Lumen – Compile Elixir and Erlang Code to WebAssembly
This was my favorite editorial-posing-as-neutral-news sentence:

> as the top Republican in Congress blocks efforts to protect the integrity of elections.

(translation: democrats want to protect our elections, republicans are russians)

I wonder if it will be able to detect massive journalistic malfeasance by people who perpetuated multi-year-long rumors about pee tapes, or whatever other politically motivated "news" posing as journalism
> the third is just something we imagine as being closer to or further from the camera without being able to directly perceive it.

Er no, we do perceive the third due to having stereoscopic vision.
It's hard to be an expert in Legit. You're instantly the sole authority on woo you invent.
You aren't, by any chance, also working on "Time AI"[1], are you? Ya know, that most excellent product demonstrated at BH2019, that fixes the problem that all encryption is now broken due to "quasi-prime" number theory.

1) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fPMxIt79PkE
Relevant video by Smarter Every Day[0]. Basically interviewing military people talk about the information part of war in the modern era.

> I just made a weapon?!

-Dustin @21:35

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTYgcdNrXE
He did Joe Rogan's show a few days ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8

I've heard a lot of good about this book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FBFNL0
Project vs. Product Thinking:Nurturing Development
No, a datacenter holds a seriously large amount of compute. Just a single rack is 38U usable in most cases, depending on density of compute and power availability you can get a good 2,000 CPU cores and a few dozen TiB of DDR4 from a single rack (with something like a DELL MX7000 chassis).

And it's incredibly rare you'd be limited to a single rack of course.

Cloud has many tangible benefits, but "amount of compute available" is not one of them. Time to acquire compute, though, is. (and, obviously, management of the resources/datacenter operations).

Cloud is almost never cheaper, even factoring in salaries. It's just very convenient if you're small enough not to have people providing compute very well internally. (and, internally, people tend to understaff/underfund the teams that would do the same job as cloud operators are doing)
There's nothing to be aware of; Miegakure has been vaporware for a decade.
1984 is what’s actively happening in China right now, between constant surveillance and the large scale filtering of their internet.
It will auto downgrade to sms/mms if the recipient does not support rcs.
Do you have any evidence to support these claims? I've never had such problems, please see my other comment about similar concerns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20848195
Forensic linguistics? This technique was invented during the manhunt for the Unabomber. Features in the Netflix series of the same name.
Macros are really powerful constructs that allows you to even change the syntax of the language, which means when they are used you can't trust your previous knowledge of how the language should behave. If you do it correctly you can make a Domain Specific Language that makes your code as readable as the documentation in domains the language was not designed to directly solve (or just generate code for you to avoid boilerplate that would be more unreadable by itself). If you do it incorrectly, you can end up with code you cannot trust or even understand (and language design is a skill that not everyone has in the first place).

About debugging, it is somewhat different from normal debugging since macros are a second layer of abstraction. You have a compile-time phase in which the macros are resolved (receiving code and returning code until there is no macro left) and a runtime in which the final generated code is run. If you only consider the runtime, then you're looking at code that is not the same as you wrote, which makes it indeed hard to see mistakes. But if you separate the concerns of compile and run time you can evaluate both separately most of the time.

Also, Ruby does not have macros. It has a very simple syntax in which everything is an object and all function calls are actually messages that can be interpreted in runtime which allows you to extend the syntax very easily by controlling the dispatch rules. What causes trouble is that classes are open and can be extended freely during runtime, so you cannot know that an object you're calling is not modified by any part of the code (including any library), a practice called monkey patching and usually considered bad practice since it makes code hard to reason about.
Titles like this drive clicks, as evidenced by the fact that this is now at the top of HN.

I don't like the title either, but the internet is built to incentivize behavior and content like this, unfortunately.
Forensic linguistics or linguistic fingerprinting.
I used to write a review for my blog or Amazon (though they have horrendous ToS for reviews). Haven't done that for a long time though. But when I did it was nice:

* forced to review and outline major themes of the book, or at least why it was worth reading

* could go back and see what I thought about the book later

* helps other people, even if occasionally

My SO uses goodreads and enjoys both the ability to give a review and the score keeping nature of it.
I went down the “small standalone executable rabbit hole” a while back, with multiple flavors of Scheme.

Here are my notes on that: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2019/06/20/2310
Kind of depends on the book to be honest. For programming or tech-related textbooks, I make an extremely isolated and peaceful environment. Complete silence, phone on vibration, just plenty of water to drink at arms length and that's it. And my brain tends to be the most focused at night, which is helpful. But for all other books too: I tend to be a bit of a fanatic when it comes to peace and silence. I often end up reading 3-4 or 5 books at a given time, which is why it takes me multiple weeks to finish them as opposed to a day or two. I'll jump between all of them at random, forcing me to go back 15-20 pages each time. I have no idea why, this is how I've been reading since I was a child and never managed to get out of the habit. But with those I tend to be a bit more tolerant to external factors such as noise and other people so I can read just about anywhere with a tolerable amount of noise: buses, parks, planes, stations, airports and so on. I can't listen to any music while reading but I might resort to shoving a pair of earbuds in my ears for noise isolation without playing anything.
"Without the framework of a uniting religion, ethnicity, or purpose, it's hard to get people to truly commit to a given community."

Points out that multiculturalism is destroying our civilization.

Then goes on to brainstorm completely irrelevant solutions, as if the idea of simply restoring proper homogeneity is just forbidden by a higher power.
I was assuming the inappropriate content included videos such as the unboxing or adults playing with toys videos that seem to entrance children. I don't have data for technology increasing number of addicts, but my claim is that people seem to be susceptible to a number of cognitive biases that hinder their long term survival.
I just want to second this. The most satisfying work I've ever done, and the work I'm most proud of (that I speak of with interviewers etc) is work that scratched a real itch that I had.
Well you're not alone. I feel like I've never read a book that couldn't have been compressed down to an article and provided the same value (information dense books like textbooks excluded).

I do enjoy listening to audiobooks though. But that's more of something I do when I'm on an airplane or long car ride. That's what I always did in school when we had to "read" something.
There should be a clear distinction between news that are factually false and those that share viewpoints that are counter to the mainstream. Labeling the latter "disinformation" is a mere act of political speech.
"long time members"? Isn't the flagging threshold still something like 30 Karma points?

Also, please stop breaking site rules with your comments, it won't lead to your "requests" being seen any more favorable...
Lisp: Key-Values (from “Programming Algorithms” book)
For what it's worth, clear cutting the Amazon and replacing it with farms is probably better for humanity when it comes to Maslow needs
This is not my field of expertise, so forgive me if im mistaken, but isnt 'Ohad Rodeh B-trees'[1] a simple and more elegant solution than a journal/WAL?

As far as i know its already used in Linux Btrfs and in LMDB, and i wonder why, if they were designing this from scratch, why they didnt go for this in the first place. Familiarity perhaps?

By the way i have code that deals with the SQLite Btree directly and by reading your comment now i understand why theres a need for a two-phase commit as expressed in:

BtreeCommitPhaseOne()

BtreeCommitPhaseTwo()

[1] - https://liw.fi/larch/ohad-btrees-shadowing-clones.pdf
Evolution also determined a giraffe's lyrngeal nerve should detour down the neck and back.
I had a similar experience in school, it still impacts me today. I don’t recognize authority for authority’s sake, only what I feel is reasonable and just. It’s liberating.
Stylometry?
So replacing the Amazon with monoculture farming, as you say, increases the number of humans the planet can support, right?
In a city like NYC, the only people you really see regularly are the people you live with, the people you work with, and the people you sleep with.

Finding good roommates is definitely one way to solve the problem, but if you’re not knee deep in a community with a strong sense of values and culture (like EA), finding matches can be challenging.

Also, as someone who has been in and around this space, several of the coliving companies you mentioned are not doing well financially.

Especially in NYC, all of the coliving spots (some of which have raised significant capital) have almost all their inventory in deep Brooklyn or Queens. It’s nearly impossible to find a good share in the city unless you stumble into it or create it with friends, which depends on having a wide network of people who have leases ending around the same time (or who are willing to break leases). Also, much of the good housing inventory is either taken or overpriced, so part of this also depends on either having wealthy friends or finding a way to finagle a deal on a place before it hits the market.

Last thing I’ll say is that one of the reasons why people only see roommates, coworkers, and partners regularly is because of lack of religious / school affiliation. It’s hard to get people to commit to something weekly, but if you can do it, it’s way easier to spin up than coordinating a group house.

The past few months I’ve been doing a weekly Monday breakfast with 2 friends —- it’s quickly become the highlight of all of our weeks.

Other than, I think the best choice is to find (or create) something that you’re willing to commit to at least 1x per week. Finding a spiritual institution (even an agnostic friendly one like humanist society or Unitarian church), picking up a martial art, or auditing a course at a local grad school (this is my recent fav) are all ways you can find more depth in city life.

+1 for the idea of community porn, though. 1-off events just aren’t the same.
Agreed but it leads me to wonder if they couldn’t do a lot more hiring using this mode. The mode based on reputation, voucher and referral; you know, the way almost every other field does it.
Stereoscopic vision doesn't let you see a whole 3D scene at once, it just gives some clues as to how far away things are in the 2D scene which you can perceive visually.
>to defend against large-scale, automated disinformation attacks.

I realize cable news has become entertainment without even trying to correct themselves the next day, but if it was really viable to automatically generate a quasi-ARG experience, wouldn’t Hollywood have developed it first?

I for one welcome the coming onslaught of fake news, at least I won’t have to question the motive of the news source.
Since I never said that CLEAR replaces TSA, I'm not sure what you're on about. That being said, I'm pretty sure CLEAR includes TSA pre-check in practice, even though they seem to vehemently deny this in theory.
So that's the jump I don't understand. Why would dramatic decreases in biodiversity cause any dying off of humans at all?
More, including technical history of Iran's satellite program:

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/08/31/...
I clicked the Github link. There was nothing but an incomprehensible pen on notebook sketch there.

My dude, maybe you're on to something clever, maybe you're just chasing your own tail. But until you write down clearly exactly what it is that you're on about, nobody can tell. And then you're just annoying us.

Focus on a single document somewhere that explains enough to make just a few people go "Aha, this can be used for X! I'll contribute!"

Now you have three half-baked "papers" on various stuff, a "data science platform" that I can't figure out how works, and lots of vague fluffy ideas.
How to Install Django on Windows: Step by Step Guide
WHATWG formed as an initiative of browser vendors to collaborate on new browser functionality and other stuff that needed coordination, and there's nothing wrong with that. The problem now is this has led the web stack to be defined by a closed club with fewer and fewer members, with incentives not necessarily aligned with users.

But the web isn't just a browser vendor's gamble; it's used for vital communication and documentation in business, education, administration, media, science, law, medicine, etc. If we want to depend on the web (and spend billions on it), then there ought to be some representation and participation, since there clearly is public interest, and possibly funding. Maybe people looked at W3C to organize these interests, but indeed W3C has failed this expectation by statue.

What they're doing instead is publishing redacted WHATWG snapshots (and have announced to not even do any redaction in the future). In other words, they're publishing work-in-progress collaborative documents without significant contributions and editorial. Having a point of reference is still something I guess (I'm even basing my HTML 5.x SGML DTDs on W3C's snapshots [1]) but not advancing the interest of web users, which W3C should have made their goal.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/html52.html
You can have uniting religion, ethnicity, or purpose and still have multiculturalism. You just have people deeply engaged with separate communities.

The real problem he’s talking about is disaffiliation —- people not feeling connected to any overarching group to which they experience a sense of belonging.
> May well turn out later on that AI is best modeled for speed and detail at 11 bit resolution - after all - evolution has done a lot of work that we equate as machine learning.

I don't see gradient descent or back propagation in biology.