skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so confused by this post. is "xx" referring to chromosomes? Cis women need a lot of money for bail? "yy" is not even a thing, you need at least one x.
Sounds like a bunch of loosers. How much more damage could have been caused by a sophisticated group of motivated attackers?
This is a great idea! Cut the amount a bit to pay for state oversight and certification. Maybe light standardized testing to make sure everyone is generally on track.
> In any case, to use YouTube Premium you have to login, and therefore have all your viewings tracked.

My understanding is that you can pause watch history, see link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzY79vqPrk
I'd love that data. I'm sure someone will publish something with that. I'm personally in a red state and the agitators were kept on a short lease by the police. Just a few broken windows and a temporarily blocked freeway. Nothing burned down.

And you are right non-exhaustive was an understatement. Haha.
I mean, I guess your entitled to look at it that way, but I don't think it's dishonest of them to distinguish between "nothing is working" and "some regions aren't working".
The article says more than 68k missing since 2010. But that is profanity a rounding error.
Quick Google search says a person should consider shooting from 50 to 600 rounds in a session. At 500 rounds, 60k is only 120 sessions. Maybe 500 is to many, so maybe it is 240 sessions... For an entire army.
HN could probably be served by Python running on a fancy laptop.
unfortunately, i don't have access to GPT-3 yet so didn't know if the number of react samples in the wild offered an advantage over producing vue code.
This is such a deeply misleading statement.

Privacy fundamentally is about keeping things private ... from someone.

If that someone is everyone, then nothing is private. Any sufficiently powerful entity can just overpower you, torture you into submission, guarantee a backdoor into a system you thought was cryptographically private, etc.

I for one do pay for a VPN service, because it keeps my home traffic stream private from some people - namely my ISP - with high probability.

It also obfuscates various types of traffic I generate and makes it harder, though I agree not impossible, to collate my traffic into a usable form for spying agencies.

For me that’s easily worth paying ~$100/year for someone else to manage, and if they base their business reputation on not collecting logs, etc., there’s enough incentive to trust that while also staying vigilant to verify what I can and switch providers if they are shown to be lying.

Self-hosting a vpn is utterly not an alternative for my use case, not even for technical reasons as I am an engineer who works on production web services all day. Just from a cost effectiveness / value POV, third party vpn vendors are a good solution for me.
Alternatively; they were called out, and the discrepancy between the reality and reported was too wide, they had to do something.
Your personal motivation appears to be entirely extrinsic. For a lot of people, the motivation is intrinsic.

After a certain amount of money, more money wouldn't bring me joy. Money is a floor, not a ceiling.
As four other top level comments say, that's not a lot. In the US it would be unthinkable to track inventory to that level of detail, and one person could plausibly own the whole lot. Anyone ask how many pencils the US Department of Education is missing over that period?

I'd add that with a group of 100 people, you could buy this much ammunition in a week without raising eyebrows. Much more if you can travel across the border to Switzerland. Or you could have pocketed one round per person per week over the ten year period the report refers to.
Yeah, I've gone with a buddy. We don't do the bait stuff because it's pest control they're everywhere. 3AM with FLIRs and a spotlight hunting hogs on one of his random neighbors ranches. Gotta keep the pests under control.
If this is true, then this is even more concerning than the hack itself. Twitter asks us to trust them with our data, but can't even keep access to their own information secure. How do they expect us to trust them with anything?
You're free to present crazy-sounding arguments in day-to-day conversation, but a journal isn't the place to present crazy arguments. Journals are where you present overwhelming evidence or replicate/falsify existing results.
Anyone else reading this with great skepticism?
I fully retract the implication that YouTube's doing a better job than the other video hosting sites.

I just saw an ad from "Epoch Times" (Scientologists?) about the COVID-19 hoax.

I'm gobsmacked. YouTube is pure unfiltered evil.

Moderation wise, I don't make any kind of distinction between content and ads.

I forgot that I turned off ad blocking. I guess I normally don't see this kind of shit.
It's amazing how little CPU power it takes to run a website when you're not trying to run every analytics engine in the world and a page load only asks for 5 files (3 of which will likely already be cached by the client) that total less than 1 MB.
Yeah but maybe the fact that science and politics and media have become so interwoven and in some cases march to the same drum, it does feel like something is quantitatively different about science in 2020.
Thanks for the catch. Fixed!
As someone who only suffers from IBS, I have had good results from elimination and low fodmap diet. However stress and anxiety also have a pretty big and equal effect as diet. Both go together for me and even if one of them messes up it, I get a flare up kind of reaction.
n quarantined persons missing?
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If you're working in ads and this comes as a surprise to you, then you haven't been doing your homework. Steve Jobs himself, RIP, announced this over 10 years ago.
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Leaving everything else aside, the author seems to ignore a glaring point that in part solves this apparent paradox: everything is a huge game of musical chairs.

Imagine that everyone he knows who want to change jobs go and filling those openings. Brilliant, now the other companies new to open new positions to fill those who left. In big companies, particularly in places like SV, the attrition rate is so high that they need to constantly hire just to keep their numbers even over time.
Depends on the size of a single computer. Cloud services have something 200 core, 4TB in a single machine too
I have no problem with paying for a service with money.

I do have a problem in paying for it with my data.

If the content creator wants my money for their service, they'll provide a way for me to purchase it without having to use an intermediate surveillance company.

Since I block the surveillance company by default, the content creator is not at a loss from me consuming their content without ads - for I simply would not be consuming their content at all otherwise.

OTOH, the creator may benefit from me viewing their content because I may find it interesting and recommend it to a bunch of other people, who don't have the same privacy concerns as me.

The Youtube ad model is probably not long-term sustainable. Content creators should be looking to find alternative delivery methods based on pay-per-view, or freemium subscriptions to get people engaged. You'll find many already do, as they have patreon pages in addition to their youtube, but patreon is also a surveillance company, so that's not an option for me either.

I don't mind paying for things with Bitcoin. Any content creator can accept money without requiring me to sign up to work for a surveillance company.
does the disparity of react code in the wild vs. vue affect the quality of code produced by GPT-3? unfortunately, i still don't have access so this assumption was made in the hope someone would offer the right answer.
People are less interested in doing the thing they said they're going to do than they are in saying they're going to do it. Examples:

- "I'm going to start working out"

- "I'm going to 'learn to code'"

- "I'm going to follow through on that thing from Craigslist"

- "I'm going to meet up for coffee"

- "I'm going to change jobs"

- "I'm going to find somebody to fill this job"

Aziz on flakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RbMv7HUiO4
I think the issues you've enumerated are actually different types of corruption (or not corruption at all)

A country preferring copper internet because they have large stocks of copper (which makes the project cheaper) is arguably the right thing to do. If it turns out it's a bad decision in the long run (because the negative impact of slow internet outweighs the savings brought by the cheap copper), that's just a bad investment. At worst, it's a mismanaged government.

An individual doing something to gain personal benefits (i.e. Cheney) is more regular, high level-corruption.

Somewhere in between the two, you get regulatory capture.

Then you have things like Old Boys' Clubs where you can't get hired in high-paying jobs unless you went to school with the right people. I'd call that an unequal society.

These are different types of problems which require radically different solutions.
I suspect it is from watching drug dealer depictions on TV.
Well I certainly wouldn't like that. I would probably rather see people being fed the media I like (mainly testosterone, history and science based). Do you see where I am going with this? Bubbles are what users want.

I don't want political mainstream "satire" garbage tonight shows in my media feeds.

I don't want "Muckbang".

I don't want sony music gangster hip hop with autotune and minors rapping about how much p they slay.

I don't want rich kid vbloggers talking about their sneakers.

I use the subscriptions as much as youtube allows for, but they do their best to make that a thing of the past.

If I want to explore I just hit the "Hot right now" section and loose a little faith in humanity. What absolute garbage.

Should there be better ways to explore? Possibly. But I don't see how normalizing start pages across users would accomplish that.
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Time scale on that is too short. There is one on this page that goes back to 1970 in 2016 inflation adjusted dollars:

https://edsource.org/2015/states-in-motion-school-finance-na...

Even if it stayed constant per your graph, teachers are competing with growth in administrators for education dollars.
Anybody know why YouTube doesn't plug the ad-bypassing loophole of fetching the content directly youtube-dl style? I presume this NewPipe client is doing something similar...
My spouse iPhone 11 pro was like
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Facebook locked
text messages locked
call logs locked
Instagram locked
But guess what? with the help of eaglespyhacker i broke into all my spouse applications and presently monitoring all conversations with my phone, it's all like a dream come through. Thank you eaglespyhacker@gmail.com
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That means an average of about 63 pages per second. Let's say that the total number of queries is tenfold and take a worst case scenario and round up to 1000 queries per second and then multiply by ten to get 10k queries per second, because why not.

I don't know what the server's specs are but I'm sure it must be quite beefy and have quite a few cores, so let's say that it runs about 10 billions instructions per second. That means a budget of about one million instructions per page load in this pessimistic estimate.

The original PlayStation's CPU ran at 33MHz and most games ran at 30fps, so about 1million cycles per fully rendered frame. The CPU was also MIPS and had 4KiB of cache, so it did a lot less with a single cycle than a modern server would. Meanwhile the HN servers has the same instruction budget to generate some HTML (most of which can be cached) and send it to the client.

A middle of the line modern desktop CPU can nowadays emulate the entire PlayStation console on a single core in real time, CPU, GPU and everything else, without even breaking a sweat.

>Holy crap I am thinking either there is some magic or everything we are doing in the modern web are wrong.

Magic, clearly.
It alluded in the beginning that they wanted to distance themselves from the lead, “Kirk.”
Why do the background checking? Why not just consider the arguments on their merits alone? That's what science is.
Yes, but other providers are not a single point of failure for a significant percentage of the internet.

Level 3 or Telia going offline is perfectly survivable for any customer who has multiple upstreams.
Why People Believe Conspiracy Theories
I see you chose to ignore part of my reply mentioning the creators you are taking content from without paying. YouTube does not care as much, but the creators are the ones hurt the most, not YouTube.
There were proposals for NYC to isolate itself.
Ok so I sign up early for every platform that hits hackers news and make one letter, and one digit usernames and profit! Amiright
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Six figures for HTML and CSS, sorry, but I don't believe you.
YouTube just showed me a COVID-19 hoax ad. I forgot I paused ad blocking.

Fuck YouTube.
Interesting I'll have to ask the guys I know at ACC. I mostly play with the planes in sims and they seem useful. The dollar amount isn't really a consideration then.

Most the guys I know think throwing away f22 production was the dumbest thing we could have done.
Won't amazon cancel them when they keep getting copyright letters? Or do vpns have some other use I am not aware of.
This even runs without play services
This seems to me to be a dangerous paper. It's effectively an opinion piece, pre-published, requiring a high degree of domain expertise to even read, with a clear conclusion in the title that you can see being used to deflect attention from the massive job the world has at hand (not that we shouldn't ask hard questions)

Why am I qualified to comment? Well, I’m a medical doctor (which frankly means jack shit for the ability to parse this paper) but got there through a major in biochemistry and molecular biology (which is a partial toolkit).

Unlike their paper on Biovacc-19 (0) it has not been accepted or submitted for publication yet (not enough to rule it out immediately because there is an increasing trend to pre-publication with the rate of research publications in this space as well as problems with traditional publication methodologies)

Without going too far the dissection, I would just point out that the overwhelming scientific consensus is that SARS-CoV-2 is natural in origin, this nature article describes this well (1).

Worth specifically responding to is their claim that

The co-receptor dependent phagocytic general method of action for infectivity and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 appears to be specifically related to cumulative charge resulting from inserts placed on the surface of the Spike receptor binding domain, right next to the receptor binding motif.

Inserts placed is a poor choice of descriptor in my opinion. The Fox Newsification of research findings. Well, you can see the 4 additional amino acids that give rise to the change in isoelectric point in the spike protein in the nature article, and much greater minds than mine have dissected this genetically and decided that such a mutation is possible through evolutionary methods alone.

They specifically say they disagree with the findings of the nature paper so to go on any longer risks drawing my bow in this area further than I am comfortable, but I would sum it up by saying that in science it is always good to have dissenting voices (such as with climate science for all the good that that does), but with just how fraught the world stage is at the moment I don't believe this dissenting voice deserves much attenion

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
And I think you do. Where does that leave us?

The fact is, nobody has offered me access to a news source that covers all topics of possible interest in a manner that's free from overt biases (or poorly-hidden ones) and intelligence-insulting "both sides" fallacies. Bloomberg certainly doesn't qualify.

If such a service is ever offered, I don't expect it to be cheap, much less free... but rest assured I'll listen to their pitch. I'm sure I'm not the only potential customer for a high-end premium news product that I can actually trust.
I think there's a two way problem. The current state of public discourse on science in the U.S. is very skewed from scientific consensus. For example a YouGov poll found that 49% of Americans think that the virus originated in a Wuhan lab.

This kind of skew between public perception and scientific consensus can create a siege mentality, because it's easy to find someone who has been convinced by some media subculture that something is self-evidently true in spite of reams of evidence to the contrary. As in the vaccination-autism connection situation, all it can take is one scientific study, subsequently debunked, to give an entire movement the validation they need to completely ignore an enormous consensus with plenty of data to back it up.

BTW (need to add this disclaimer on the internets, I often forget) I'm not disagreeing with you, just riffing off your comment with some more thoughts.
What indoctrination?

Is the Pledge Of Allegiance still a thing at schools?
How many times has a single scientist been chastised by the broader scientific community at first and then their original idea finally accepted as the truth?

Sometimes ideas initially can seem crazy because they're unfamiliar I guess.

I suppose in this case, I oppose this idea because it sounds kind of scary.
At this point, who could actually pay reparations on a scale that would be even within an order of magnitude of the damage done?
No one should trust any open internet in the US. Already forgot Edward Snowden?
When Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier suggested that COVID-19 could be man-made, I started taking this view more seriously. Now seeing additional papers coming out supporting this, the case is getting stronger.

I'm not a biologist but I do find it strange that COVID-19 is so infectious in humans. How can a virus which supposedly 'naturally evolved' in a totally unrelated animal species (bats) be so well adapted to spreading between humans? Intuitively, that doesn't make sense.

Also the fact that the WHO has kept changing its story about this virus from the beginning is not reassuring at all. At this stage, as crazy as it is, I'm inclined to believe the conspiracy theorists because the official version comes across as even crazier.
Impossible for me to verify their no logging claims, but Mullvad have worked well for me in the past, and you can pay in cash using a randomly generated numerical user ID, which strictly limits what they directly know about you. The fact that they accept these payments, and that Mozilla work them with them for Mozilla VPN and presumably have done at least _some_ due diligence, give me some level of confidence that they are sincere about their other claims.
How does your mother feel about going back?
Your blog doesn’t need a JavaScript framework
To sum it up (links to the various tools can be found at https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/readme/#tools_used): usually the starting point is some sort of raw bitmap data, which I convert to .png with something like Binxelview, although ImageMagick can also do the trick. The .png then goes into Bits'N'Picas to trace the glyphs and produces an outlined .ttf.

This .ttf is far from final however, as it still needs an encoding with proper Unicode mapping, some height/metric adjustments, and so on. The specific changes depend on the font, but they can be done in Fontforge, which is very scriptable thankfully. The same goes for things like aspect correction (mark all glyphs, scale down on the X-axis) and producing embedded bitmaps (add "bitmap strikes" at the target pixel/point sizes, export w/"bitmap in TTF/OTF" option).

Fontforge's bitmap export options should also let you create bitmap-only fonts in formats like .bdf or .otb. As I still use only .fon for bitmap fonts (though this should change in the future), I do those in a different program named Fony, which like Bits'N'Picas can import the glyphs from a .png and export to .fon after some adjustments and metadata massaging.

More details than that would probably belong in a blog post or so, but that's it in a nutshell.
I was paying a bill in a bar in London about an hour ago and they couldn't process any payments. Seems likely related.
the papers make a lot of specific arguments. if you have evidence against those arguments, you can say this point is wrong, here is the evidence against it, therefore that claim is likely wrong. Thats science.

Your method comes off as: thats not the consensus, thus you are wrong.
This whole generation is going to be lost. It's not a cataclysm, but a whole generation of American kids are going to be a year or two behind on their studies. They will have grown up during unprecedented social unrest. If the economy doesn't recover and society doesn't support their families, millions of them will grow up in poverty. It's not a certainty, but the outlook could be much better. It's sad, I feel for these kids.
The scientific community widely agrees

One has to wonder how a "Fact Check" site can make an assertion like this without any provided list of references. What exactly does "widely agree" even mean? Was there some sort of statistical polling they did to establish that? Exactly what percentage of the scientific community constitutes "widely" anyways?

In fact, this website appears to enjoy using the word "widely" within articles to make all sorts of broadly generic assertions without any numerical/statistical basis.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Afullfact.org%20...

Obviously this has nothing to do with conclusion of the paper, but this "many scientists agree" lingo that shows up in various places (Wiki articles, fact-check sites, news, etc) can really be used to push a narrative without any sort of rigor. Personally I look forward to the day where I get to meet the "they" in "you know, they say..."
Is the advertising revenue still worth it?

I read a while back, years ago, that you need something like 100 blog articles, before your site reaches critical mass, and where you can make some decent advertising revenue.

There was a blog website that just talked about things like space launches, and stories about outer space. It only published like 3 blogs a week. And most of the articles were rehashes of what Reuters published, so it wasn’t anything really insightful or investigative. It was just some random person’s individual opinion on the matter.

And it was pulling in something like $250,000 to $400,000 USD or so, annually. This is not significant for a business of course, but it might be enough to sustain one person, maybe two. And possibly gain yourself financial independence.
According the the CDC [1] the all-cause mortality in 2020 is currently 155,446 higher than the equivalent date range in 2019. This despite the fact that recent weeks for 2020 are definitely undercounts as it takes time for all the data to come in.

[1]:https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
That's so sad :(

I learned a lot from the benchmarks themselves. Somebody could just fork it if it's not well maintained, but I know that it's extra work.
As you said, we have a little bubble on guns & ammo in the US right now.

Basic NATO 5.56 - ie, cheap enough for practice or poorly equipped grunts - is probably ~$0.30/round. However, it doesn't specify the caliber or load.

Loads designed for combat and not practice - like armor piercing, barrier penetration, soft target performance, precision, short barrel optimized, etc. - could be ~2-7x more expensive, and more indicative of a serious organizational problem.

Small arms calibers could include .50BMG, which is also a much larger cost & problem.
I can't tell if this is real or not. Do you actually send cash to Sweden?