skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thought experiment: suppose your friend drives 80 miles to visit you. They tell you the trip took between 2 and 4 hours. You have no further information. How confident are you the trip took less than 3 hours?

Now they tell you they maintained a constant speed throughout the trip, a speed somewhere between 20 and 40mph. How confident are you your friend was driving faster than 30mph?

The principle of maximum entropy, applied to each, gives you different answers. P(30mph) = 0.5 implies the trip takes 2hr40mins, not 3hrs. What gives? Which is the real way we should formulate travel times?

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_(probability)
Credit for this example: Michael Titelbaum
I am a certified yoga therapist, and I agree with a lot of comments here regarding some yoga practices on YouTube. Some go way into the "woo woo" stuff that is unnecessary and impractical (i.e., you don't need a cotton yoga mat), and others teach it in ways that actually can exacerbate problems.

I have been seeing private clients for years on chronic pain issues, low back pain, migraines, anxiety/stress. Throughout my years of working with them, I've created short videos and sequences on poses/practices that have helped a lot of my clients again and again.

I try to make these videos practical and bite-sized, instead of 45min or hour long practices. I get that we are all busy, and my motto is always: do a little everyday, and that will take you all the way.

Here is a link to the library of therapeutic yoga practices (including a whole playlist for low back pain). I add new videos weekly: https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithelaine/
In case someone is as confused as me wth the discussion is about (never heard that jargon):

> In commercial aviation, a red-eye flight is a flight scheduled to depart at night and arrive the next morning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eye_flight
In this case, per the order [1] referenced in the article, this is a normal writ, and does not seem to have anything to do with national security or national security letters. It is also very specific, asking for records on one person for a period of six months, and signed by a district court.

I think that, to keep government accountable, these sealed writs should have a clear date when they will be unsealed, and although it seems this one was eventually unsealed I don't see such a date. But I don't find the specificity or nature of this particular court order problematic.

Certainly national security letters have been shown to have concerning issues both in specificity and in transparency, but again, none of the orders referenced in the article seem to be national security letters. (EFF has more details on their concerns with NSLs at [2].)

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6989724-All-Writs-Ac...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/requiring-judicial-rev...
You can derive these distributions with a lot less algebra by characterizing them with invariances, rather than maximum entropy under constraints.

https://stevefrank.org/reprints-pdf/16Entropy.pdf
Fantastic summary. For anyone wanting to search CT logs, Sectigo operates https://crt.sh/ for that. For instance here are all non-expired certificates containing a twitter subdomain: https://crt.sh/?Identity=%25.twitter.com&exclude=expired

edit: s/Digicert/Sectigo - thanks jaas
> Most crazy thing I've yet read from Iberia is Captain Alonso Contreras Life; obviously not in Portuguese, and not too much about exploration, but it's just insane.

The most insane and extreme adventure I have ever read is Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios. Marooned in Florida with a few companions and one slave, and then himself enslaved by native americans (he famously quipped that his poor slave became a slave's slave), they ended up being the first europeans known to walk the US coast to coast, as a chaman with his entourage. A very resourceful man. His observations of the many american tribes he came across were a first, he had an anthropologist's outlook. A short but intense book.
SQUIDs are really fascinating to me so this article is right up my alley. My colleagues and I, are developing a fully automated, wide imaging area, scanning SQUID microscope for superconducting circuit imaging, evaluation, etc. In this application, a SQUID is used as a micro-magnetometer. An array of SQUIDs are also used as a low-noise current-to-voltage transimpedance amplifier. Good times...
There has never been a documented case through leaks or otherwise that they do domestic hacking, including in all the links you are providing.
dude cards are just numbers, uuids has alphas also, but said that it’s easier to remember some words in readable uuid than chars in weird order. Sure some people can remember them, I wouldn’t disagree
Yep fail2ban is indeed a great alternative way to tackle the issue. Although fail2ban works by blocking specific IPs. If the brute force specifies a new IP for each attempt, I'm not sure how that will be handled by fail2ban
> We’re taking a new approach by loading the site-under-test inside of a VM in the cloud rather than rely on a locally installed browser extension.

So while you do get the benefit of clean, repeatable tests, this requirement also puts you out of reach for most enterprise-y applications, where your pre-production environments (i.e., what you actually want to run your tests against) exist in a tightly locked down network environment that you can't reach from the outside. In stricter environments, even a reverse port forwarding setup to allow you to reach inside the LAN would be out of the question.

I think this is a problem you're going to run into pretty soon if you want to do enterprise sales, and one that is not trivial to solve without an open-source flavor of the test runner (e.g. like Selenium).
Maybe cancel culture will cause people to rethink at-will employment and opinions about unions.

The 'cancelers' are collectively advocating against you, but you as a weak at-will employee have no one advocating for you.

('you' in this statement isn't directed at any one person or apsec)
> Seems to be just regular run-of-the-mill fraud.

I’m surprised the DOJ hasn’t charged them with a crime yet. The money the SEC is seeking has to be long gone right?
This doesn’t relate to the topic in question.
In everyday business, when dealing with dates, the month is usually what you care about most, followed by the day, and then the year (which is often redundant or implicit).

Thus, month/date/years is more "ergonomic" or "user friendly," if one is equally used to either format.

A similar example is time. The hour is usually what you care about most, followed by the minutes, with seconds most often being irrelevant. Fortunately, that's how everyone writes time.
FYI, there was a long thread about that a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23856918
No. The ramp needs to be built when the thing is built. Accessibility is not an afterthought.
this. bloomberg terminal is an expert friendly system. it’s not optimized for high conversion rates and casual stickiness, it’s optimized for the productivity of people who are willing to spend the time building the muscle memory.
This is great! Simple and elegant. Just an idea, maybe you put a cheat sheet under :help command. It would be very useful for people fluent in vim.
I find the unhighlighted circle to be about as quick to identify as the red one.

Also, I work for someone who is color blind. This whole attitude of "we must do something really important with color because it's so powerful" goes against the idea that it has to be optional.
Indicators of biological annihilation and sixth mass extinction
The photos of that enigma are amazing! It looks like it was taken straight off the factory floor.

"New Old Stock" indeed.
Check out https://wakatime.com - keeps some pretty fun stats.
Though it does briefly mention it at the end, one detail I'm uncertain about with this and where they mention intermittent fasting is how much the times of days matter? Some basic posts I've read about IF essentially say that they simply don't eat until 12pm and stop at 6-8pm. But this article seems to suggest that it would be much better if they ate at 8am and stopped at 3-5pm instead?

If that's the case, that leads me to wonder if your body wants you to adjust throughout the year. Like when the sun comes up earlier, should the feast change from 6am to 1-3pm instead? Or does that adjustment not really matter?
Yeah, well, a sensible home buyer or remodeller will check these himself. It's not that hard, just bring a marble.
Yeah, I thought it was really good. It sounds like one of the more casual conference talks, and shows how common talk of alcohol use and programming is on the Internet. (I actually don't know how GPT-3 is trained, but I assume it's just random webpages.)
Yeah, those are all horrible. I didn't look into them for details or to see if they are true. I find several them hard to believe, but for sake of discussion I'll assume they are all true.

That's where my "(mostly)" came from. The part of cancel culture I like is challenging authority and celebrity. I think it is wrong when it attacks ordinary people or attempts to censor anything.
We used to have forums and blogs organised by interest topic or community. An elegant mode of organisation, for a more civilised age.
> Hyperreality, in semiotics and postmodernism, is an inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced postmodern societies.

> Hyperreality is seen as a condition in which what is real and what is fiction are seamlessly blended together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins.

> "The authentic fake." – Umberto Eco
Iowa reporter who exposed racist tweets fired for own tweets
This article doesn't cover that it's the US Marshals who are involved, and many of their senior people have survived multiple presidents. Also I'm not sure if you've kept up, but antifa shitheads are causing a lot of damage in Portland, Seattle, et. al.

The media has barely covered CHAZ/CHOP, an area that had their own corrupt organized crime style police force, and was only shut down after 6 shootings, 2 gunshot deaths, alleged rapes, alleged extortion, a possible execution[0], a 12-party class action lawsuit enjoining all business owners and residents of Capitol Hill against the city of Seattle[1] and protests at the mayor's house. (I use to live in Cap Hill and heard from friends who still lived there; it was a nightmare and they were very glad to see the police finally clear it out).

If the US Marshall are arresting people with either warrants or holding them with evidence/charges, I'm totally okay with that. So long as there is transparency and due process of law. I'm sure there are peaceful protestors who might be caught in the chaf, but there are a lot of straight up criminal activity taking advantage of the civil unrest and it does need to be addressed.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imh-wiHzJ24

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRNqSvcLms0
In the other direction, Google thinks I'm a bot if I use complex search queries (exclusions, site:, quotes, etc.) in an attempt to find what I'm looking for. Apparently it thinks I'm too intelligent to be a human.
Violent riots have been ongoing in Portland for almost 2 months. These riots are well documented, but most mainstream media ignores them for political reasons.

State and Federal property in Portland has been defaced on an almost nightly basis. Local police are being attacked by violent rioters. Innocent people are being hurt by the rioters and police are in the impossible position of trying to enforce the law in the face of a violent and hostile mob. The Mayor's and Governor's perpetual inaction is becoming intolerable. Enough is enough.

I and many others support the Federal Government exercising its legal authority to impose order on the chaos.

No one is being "spirited away for speaking ill of Trump". Violent rioters are being dealt with in accordance with the law.
American here, and ISO is better than the common American format, though US military date style is also better than the more common American format, and maybe better than ISO for some uses.
From Wikipedia regarding VP9[1]: "Parts of the format are covered by patents held by Google. The company grants free usage of its own related patents based on reciprocity, i.e. as long as the user does not engage in patent litigations."

Of course Apple refuses to add VP9; Google demands that Apple would never sue them over any patent. Any. It looks like Google/YouTube caved in, and has/will start encoding (the most recently uploaded) videos in AV1 codec, which will work on tvOS. Hopefully that will translate to Safari on macOS and iOS for those who use it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9
I never really understood the "rebalancing" thing. It requires selling your winners. One thing about winners - they tend to keep winning!

Some people call it "locking in your gains". I call it "minimizing your returns".
Maybe it shouldn't be split up but burned, razed, and the ground salted so nothing will ever grow there again.
BuildZoom hiring to bring the construction industry online
Yeah, we both worked there at the time. Back when it was actually awesome :).
I thought it said "propane for hot water, wood for heat". But re-reading part II, they clearly have a propane heat backup, but merely "plan to rely on wood".
Very good points. The Normal Distribution has very nice properties, which adds to its popularity, which, if I understand you correctly, adds to the significance we place on mean and variance.
> I can tell you that Sabre and other GDS's are only used if you go through a travel agent or use some online reservation systems.

It doesn't change the fact that a state will get the PNR from the airline.
Thanks for trying it.

This confirms something I've noticed about GPT-3, or at least GPT-3 as it is trained using the public internet as a corpus...

This response reads exactly like a so-called "recipes" website, in which the writer gives their whole life story, side-notes, and wanders around over several paragraphs before finally getting to the damn recipe.

This makes me think the public internet is not the most sanitary input for training. That type of "recipe" evolved, IMO, to snatch the highest SEO rankings, adding a bunch of keywords, snippets, affiliate links, etc, instead of just giving me the text of the recipe. And now GPT-3 has learned the same SEO tricks (at least when you give it my input, which is a very click-baity opening, to be fair...)
"Species" includes arthropods, other invertebrates, and everything else all the way down to single-cellular organisms. And there is an incredible abundance of variety among those forms of life. I doubt we have even catalogued 10% of all species of beetles, never mind of all oceanic life.
> It it only the most lazy and selfish developers who would not utilize this.

Please refrain from making ad-hominem attacks on people that make different decisions than you would, even if they’re anonymous.

Open-source developers make their own decisions for their own reasons. They donate their time and effort to provide something to the community, and only they are in a position to determine what activities are worth their time.
Simple fact: not everyone with access to millions act responsibly (~ "adult"). It is especially easy when you aren't investing your own money and the consequences for you are somewhat immaterial.
Once the violent rioters end their rioting the Feds will leave. Perhaps the rioters should just stop rioting?
> I’m surprised the DOJ hasn’t charged them with a crime yet.

When both civil SEC charges and criminal charges by DOJ emerge out of the same act, the former is often well ahead of the latter, so, when civil charges are filed without concurrent criminal charges, one shouldn’t read too much in to it.

Though, as a reply points out, that separation does not actually apply in this case.

EDIT: corrected error of ordering pointed out in a reply, and expanded somewhat for clarity of intent.
Thank you for sharing this. The non-fatal COVID experiences have been grossly underreported, IMO, given how prevalent and severe they are.

The thought of dealing with permanent lung and brain damage for the rest of my life is pretty terrifying, and seems disturbingly common even in age groups with a low fatality rate.
Stream music directly to your brain
Are the postal system and roads owned by cloudflare? I don’t get the analogy at all.
Oh, that's interesting. ESA says they distribute the Sentinel data free of charge as far as I can tell. So I guess the issue is that you'd need to download and host the data yourself, rather than just do an API call to someone else's archive?

Anyway, it's a cool website, nice work!
Re. Ceiling height. Lumber, insulation and boards are supplied with 3m max height typically. (Some lumber, metal structural beams and sheet metal are readily available at 6m max length above this). Therefore, the generally expressed internal heights for cost efficient construction are 3m less inter-floor allowances for ceiling/utilities/floor/inter-floor insulation. You can of course do anything you like, but to your builder it means more work and materials.

In apartment buildings, it is common to squash non-ground floors vertically to obtain more houses within the available building height envelope in order to maximize returns. Local regulations in decent jurisdictions typically specify a limit to this type of viciously commercial construction outlook.
> it got all existential at the end

This to me is another indicator of how incredible GPT-3 is at picking up patterns. Getting existential at the end of your tech talk is basically a trope of the genre at this point. It nailed it.
Thank you, I appreciate your perspective. Sounds like you've worked on this problem yourself by working at it from a different direction, namely starting from what you want to do/why you want it and moving back towards the thing to be doing.
Do you disapprove of taxes on alcohol or cigarettes as well? Or are sodas special?
That seems to imply nationalization would be the beneficial thing, not regulation.
Very cool! Did you consider writing it in Go?
Yes, it will generate continuations in the indicated language, and one of the presets is even a French translation mode.

Using the regular English question-answering mode preset, I just got this:

> Q: Auf welche Sprache ist diese Frage?

> A: Diese Frage ist auf Deutsch.

> Q: Em qual idioma está essa pergunta?

> A: Essa pergunta está em português.

> Q: En cual idioma está esta pregunta?

> A: Esta pregunta está en español.

> Q: Em português, qual o número que segue o cinco?

> A: O número seguinte ao cinco é o seis.
Very cool! Thank you for sharing. We can get to these distributions a bunch of ways, and I find every incremental way to look at something, the better you understand it. Now, I’m about to get nerdsniped by symmetry and invariances.
just to be clear, AI Dungeon is not GPT-3 (yet), right? It's GPT-2 or some such?
Nobody said it was harder, so what's your question exactly?
Been working on this a fair bit. Contact me.
Thanks for giving it a shot. Unfortunately I think there may be some subtle things in the modifications that could influence the rest of the output: for instance, there's a grammatical error in "The presentation's clever title and subtitle was"

And to reiterate "charming and witty" so soon after the initial "delightful/sophisticated/clever" gives the message a different tenor (I may have already overdone it with the qualifiers myself).

I think this is a subtle, important aspect of the problem: it's not quite just attaching positive qualifiers—they also have to be strung together in a style reminiscent of the contexts in which those qualifiers would actually be used as legitimate descriptions of quality material.

In any case, still some pretty coherent interesting output. I need to find a way to play with this on my own though (I jumped into aidungeon.io for a minute, but didn't see a good way of setting up the prompt. It is using GPT-3?)
How to Choose What to Read
I don't see why the NSA would have to hack Starwood given the designated nationals checks of the State Dept. I know firsthand that about 15 years ago, every major US hotel chain (and possibly small ones, don't know) matched every guest (globally) against a rather large list of names supplied by the US Gov and reported back the matches. This was done daily for every guest. I do not know if it is still done or not. An aside, the first thing the team tasked with implementing this did was check their names against the list.
This is super cool! I'm at a startup and we've finally started building up our testing infrastructure lately, this seems like a great time-saver. Just tried it out and it worked great. Two questions:

1) Is it possible to set the screen resolution? I see device profiles but don't see if it's possible to manually create profiles. The default Desktop res is lower than what we normally target.

2) How exactly does the visual testing work? I tried dragging over a div and it got the text, but parts of the text were formatted differently with spans. So does it just validate the text, or does it actually compare the visuals?
Presumably there is some travel agent with access to the data. I think it's concerning that one company maintains so much information, but in terms of government access, if the FBI is going to go through the trouble of getting a court-issued order like this [1] (which is specific to one person for one particular six-month period), then finding the right travel agent to serve the order to doesn't seem like it'd slow things down much (it took at least three days to get the order since some "Judge Huff was not in chambers").

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6989724-All-Writs-Ac...
Congrats on the launch, it looks awesome. I wished I had that a few years ago and will definitely give it a try
I love Pharo and occasionally explore it, but I worry that there are very few examples of applications developed with it. [0]The ones listed seem to be old(at least the last time i checked). This page is currently unavailable

[0]https://pharo.org/success
How does gradio differ from streamlit[1]?

[1]https://github.com/streamlit/streamlit
Thank you for your take - it's helpful to hear your approach
One thing I'd add to this is that this kind of thinking makes your coordinate system really matter.

Consider a measurement of some uncertainly sized cubes. You could describe them with their edge length or their volume. Learning one tells you the other. They're equivalent data. However a maximum entropy distribution on one isn't a maximum entropy distribution on the other.

Pragmatically, there's always something you can do (e.g. a Jeffreys prior), but philosophically, this has always made me uneasy with justifications about max entropy that don't also have justifications of the choice of coordinate system.
> I guess my view is probably a devil's advocate on HN

I agree, but it's ironic, because in other threads, HN crows about the need for free-market solutions to society's ills rather than regulation.

Then, when free markets/speech make mistakes (or take down their heroes), they call it "Cancel Culture". Or, when private companies respond to market demand to moderate their platforms, they call it "de-platforming".

> I actually view cancel culture as (mostly) good

I do too, but I view complaints about cancel culture (like Pinker's) as being good, too. If people aren't constantly analyzing it, criticizing it, and fighting it, cancel culture may become a weapon that is wielded too easily. We've already seen instances where people were "cancelled" based on false rumors that spread on social media.

People on both sides lament the death of the marketplace of ideas, but in a way, this debate is a reflection of that marketplace still being alive and well.
any specific examples of such places?
that's awesome