skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's one of those discoveries of "the end of the X as we know it", but actually have been existing for quite a long time already.

The author somehow misses the fact that governments has been engaging small number of opinionmaking professionals (journalists, advertisers, writers, celebs etc.) to create the feeling of majority support since the time when majority opinion became important. State controlled TV, and radio existed for decades, and they always talk on behalf of "majority" which supports gov't.

And in a more democratic country a small number of people who do news, or control social platforms can do the same out of solidarity, shared economic interests, or just because.

To say that thousands generated Twitter accounts are more powerful than Twitter itself, or even more than TV channels used to be just 30 years ago is obviuos exaggeration.

We have been living with this for quite a long time already, and while it's often works, one can't do it for a long time, because there will be inevitable cultural response: people stop believing, or just paying attention - examples are all over the recent history.
The tests helped my wife make a decision. She and I slept through most of one weekend (very unusual) and had mild congestion and headaches. However, calling off work for two weeks would've been difficult for her. She works at a daycare where staff have been leaving one after another. And the daycare doesn't give paid sick days. (I still insisted she stay home until the results came in 2 days later). We had to go with likelihood of being a spreader instead of getting to play it safe.
That’s an unfair statement. The powers that be need to be motivated and stuff gets done.

Northeast states like NY, NJ, CT, Mass were able to mobilize after the initial crisis and rapidly hired and got systems in place to do contact tracing.

In the south, you have the conflict between municipal and county authorities managing the crisis on the ground while the obsequious governors are busy sucking up.

It’s depressing that the tragedy of what happened in April didn’t result in more intelligent actions in other places based in the lessons learned.
Heh, that's definitely the messier part of this. It all depends on your threat model and the scale of the community you're running. For a small group of trusted friends, one could distribute keys in person and enforce time-based key expiry. For larger groups of strangers... I'm not sure. Reelin's web of trust idea seems like a good start. The only ideas coming to my mind right now require burning down the community and starting over whenever compromised.

This is definitely an interesting and difficult challenge! What ideas do you have in mind?
>It is surprisingly difficult to make synchronisation work between two devices

No it isn't. We were doing it for years before "the cloud" or even the modern Internet even existed using Bluetooth, RF, IR, and cables. Have you ever looked at a .fit file on a Garmin watch? It's a binary format, but is straightforward to convert to CSV, and doesn't contain much beyond timestamp, latitude, longitude, altitude, heart rate, cadence, and a few other fields. Calculating distance, duration, training effect, calories burned, etc. is simple summarization and arithmetic, plotting course on a map just requires an offline map and a plotting library. It already does all of this ON THE WATCH itself without needing any connection to anything else, so there's nothing stopping an app from doing the same thing locally on a much more powerful iPhone or Android phone. The Garmin cloud is only inserted in the process here so they can monetize your data.
Can I get a pin?

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It's interesting how they matched the intensity.

Because, in my opinion, dance is a sorta-kinda-like strength endurance training when you exert a modest loaded movement (say, 40%-50% of your bench press' 1RM) for 2-4 repetition and there are tens of these bouts.

In calories spent such resistance exercise may match some endurance exercise but other effects can be dramatically different.

Including, but not limited to, levels and utilization of brain-derived neurotophic factor. While endurance training increase BDNF level long term and modestly, the resistance exercise can effect a sharp 60%-90% increase at the end of training session, then drop to 40% of normal (to the person) level and slow recovery. This indicates overproduction of BDNF and its complete utilization of the body to build neurons everywhere.
Considering that most of the deaths are among the elderly population who tend to vote republican, that doesn’t make much sense.

Unless you want to get really cynical and say there was a political motive in Democrat governors for sending positive patients into nursing homes and causing most of those deaths...
I never expected to see "On the internet, nobody knows your a dog" become a new moral panic.

Here's the pragmatic solution that doesn't involve entrusting so much power to governments: communicate with people you know. If you choose to communicate with strangers, be aware that they may be lying about anything they say.
Some questions from an American:

Are transfers that take like a day or two that inconveniencing cause instantaneous transfers would only benefit me in getting a tiny bit more interest for that extra day or two i could get interest on it? With how low interest rates are these days, that basically makes it useless for me.

If your money goes to the wrong routing or account number, can they fix that (literally happened to me where money got sent to the wrong routing number and I went to a chase branch and explained what happened and they fixed it)?

What other bullshit do you perceive we have? Granted, I only use my bank for my automatic income direct deposits, my auto loan which automatically gets pulled from my checking account, automatically paying my rent, automatically paying off all of my credit cards in full, and very occasionally using an atm to pull money out of my checking account. That's it and i literally don't use a bank for anything else which could explain some of the disparity as I've read you guys actually use your bank more often as you guys use cash and debit cards a lot more. I check it just a few times a month to see what the balance is and then occasionally siphon off any income surpluses to vanguard who holds all of my savings and investments and they are awesome.
What is common knowledge in Norway is that ‘USA does a lot of stupid stuff;’ and there generally seems to us that there’s a certain lack of education. How much truth this carries I never thought to check.
Did experts actually say masks were ineffective at reducing transmission?

I recall it was more about not buying up masks so that healthcare workers had enough. And that masks may not help stop contracting it oneself.
Haha, good point... I have another 5 months to fully forget that I ever set this up.

The name of the action does get included in the email notification so hopefully I'll be able to decypher it, even after some NYE celebration champagne!
1. Hiking as much as is legal under current conditions and trying to decide what to do next. I've been looking into indie games, creating various productivity tools or maybe plug-ins for popular software. Nothing so far looks like it is a good bet for making a living.

2. After close to thirty years, I'm tried of all of the administrative overhead and attempts to make me part of it. Every job for the past decade and a half has tried to push me into management despite my clear statements that I don't want to manage people. When I've refused, the responsibilities were still handed to me, just without the title I turned down. Simple tasks like getting a $20 coding tool approved could take months to go through the purchasing process and then through the approval process for the software itself. Buying it out of pocket at my last company was considered a major disciplinary offense. Weekly HR tasks for endless non-technical trainings, status reports and "check-ins" with managers and co-workers even though I have daily contact with my manager and co-workers. These reports weren't for consumption by anyone in my management chain of command but for HR who demanded to be part of the internal processes everywhere. It's administrative overhead gone mad and seems to be growing pretty much everywhere.

I never made FAANG type money but also am not a big spender so I have plenty of time, a couple of years, before I have to start making money again. I'm not necessarily against doing software development but can't go back to the corporate world. The way it operates is just too far removed from how I'd like to develop software. At least by quitting during a major unemployment event, should I ever need to return to the corporate world, the resume gap won't be a red flag.
Electrons fly off as they try to take the 90 bend.
Former Microsoft executive Mukund Mohan arrested in US for $5.5M fraud
Wouldn't everybody notice their battery draining? The article doesn't mention this.
In my opinion (working as security architect for an US Fortune500) technical skills are mandatory, but they are not enough for a successful career on cybersecurity. You need to have great communication skills (writing a great pentest report is probably the most important and difficult part), negotiation and persuasive abilities (sometimes you have to accept risks against budget, deadlines and business requirements).
In the cybersecurity community I see a certain degree of elitism (don't use Kali, don't use Metasploit, etc.), but we need to understand that they are just tools, so anyone is free to use the tool that is more confident and more appropriate for the tasks.
No, because you can't consider your backups as a "known good state". A malicious attack is fundamentally different from a disaster or accident.

You should expect that any backup of systems (instead of backups of 100% pure data) will contain backdoors, that any weird systems (routers, printers, phone centrals) may be compromised even if they seem fine, and that the credentials of all the employees and any private keys/certificates have been exfiltrated, so they need to be changed.
For anybody interested in playing around with and hacking on different CI / devops stuff I recently launched https://boxci.dev, which is a distributed CI service where the builds run on your own hardware, via a lightweight runner that just does coordination and runs build shell commands on bare metal, so it's a bit more hackable / flexible than (for instance) GH actions / Gitlab CI.

It's free to sign up and play around with it, and I'd love to get the feedback of any HNs who think this could be useful (I basically built it because it's the CI service I want to exist, and I think others might too).
There are schemes where you can prove authenticity without revealing identity.
I presume Op meant that romance fraud only works because people are used to romance being expensive.
> > the marginal cost of distributing astroturfed propaganda online has firmly hit zero.

> This is just not true. GPT-3 costs money to train, use, customize, and maintain.

Train/customize are fixed rather than marginal costs for a propaganda operation, maintenance is dubiously necessary, use is strictly nonzero marginal cost, but also not particularly significant.
Alternative idea for exponential action: action that creates another action (automate a headless browser, or maybe github has an api for that?). Kill switch: delete the repo :)
Ignorance is bliss. If it doesn't bother you now, don't go removing the veil by running it at 4k, you might not want to go back :)

This is mostly in jest though, the convenience of just using the switch wherever I want rather than futzing around with emulators still mostly trumps wanting it to look prettier.
That there will exist valid programs which will be rejected is true of all type systems, and that you need "proper annotations" is true of almost all type systems (and if this was worded only slightly more broadly, to discuss "proper structure" or something, it would again be true of all type systems); this shouldn't be considered a theoretical problem unless it accepts invalid programs (though it might be considered a practical problem if it is nearly impossible to correctly structure/annotate a program to make it accepted).
I will try but you may not be convinced. Certainly there's a broad evidence base justifying primary prevention approaches, from the WHO [0] and perhaps at least the references in [1], and in the BMJ [2]. It feels slightly pedantic to have to then prove that taking these types of intervention _away_, or at least reducing them, would therefore lead to a rise in the rate of violence, but it'd be valid to demand that. Perhaps this report [3] from a more local perspective might help paint that picture better.

Many millions of pounds have been taken out of the council's budget. This has impacted youth, mental health, and alcohol/drug services. Changes at the national level have also effected the benefits landscape for many families in poverty. There is quite plainly less help and stability for communities most plagued by violence.

My wife works in and around child and adolescent mental health services and she and her colleagues clearly perceive the link, but I also hope it's evident from a systems thinking perspective: there is a pipeline from childhood poverty and trauma into more chaotic and violent behaviours. Anything that interrupts that pipeline is good, and taking that away is probably bad. Sure, it's an option to wait at the end, increase stop and search and just arrest everybody but that's not a particularly great public health outcome either, and perhaps there are lessons from America in diverting funds from everywhere else just to prop up police departments.

0: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/326377/9789...

1: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/inspire-seven-strate...

2: https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k1967

3: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/media/6787/download
I think it's in the internet boy (but maybe just some other interview) that Aaron Swartz says that unlike before, where the difficulty was being able to broadcast an idea (to the masses), now it's about being listened to. We can all spin up a website or a YouTube channel, but who's gonna visit it, subscribe to it. I found that contemplation fascinating ^^
I think it's important to differentiate between the effect of LSD and the experience of the subject. The effect is always the same (for the same dose) but the experience is different. The differences in experience come because LSD is just a modifier on your perception and thoughts. Thus you can only have the same experience if you repeat the same sensory inputs and thoughts - which is pretty much impossible.
Scriptkiddie level people should just be honest that they are doing checklist audits to see if administrators are doing their job.

But unfortunately we are on the hype train where everyone needs to be "cybersec/offensive/pentester/ethical hacker". In the end, cannot really blame them entirely because otherwise CEO and CFO types are not going to hire them and they won't earn money.
The problem with this approach is HN, reddit are necessary for work. I search HN all the time for technical info to avoid the blogspam and SEO marketing crap on Google. For me, the key to managing procrastination has been accountability - tracking my time and making myself radically accountable to friends I respect.
Rents like 2 percent management fees and 20 percent incentive fees for private equity and hedge funds? Lack of antitrust enforcement of tech firms? Sell side firms and their business models are the least of our problems in my opinion.

You mentioned data in passing - middlemen who extract rents as data purveyors are extracting huge rents and it is largely unremarkable upon maybe because west coast people are the shadiest rent-seekers of all time. At least financial mstket data is mostly not acquired by surveillance of users, though that is changing with the advemt of "alternative" data.
> Manual human labor requirement creates a rate limiting which is removed by automated content creation in the name of the human.

What if we impose artificial rate limiting with posting fees or some kind of proof-of-work requirement?

> I wonder if we will look back and see that we have witnessed the creation of the nuclear weapons of information warfare.

That's a terrifying thought.
What's wrong with saying that? It's a real vulnerability if you don't have a secret seed.
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Well, if you can generate enough crap speech you could possibly create a world that is filter by default, which I think would tend to trend towards status quo.
I'm not IN Sweden, so I only have the media image.

Can you comment on what measures have brought down the infection numbers? Why were they so high in the beginning and why are they falling so quickly now?

After implementing measures it can take a few weeks to show results since detected cases can lag a lot behind actual infection events and there's local transmission chains (inside families/communities) that need to burn out before case numbers fall.

Also speaking of measures, to my knowledge, the government did not take hard measures but rather suggested a lot of the same things that other countries put into law and the Swedish population is very compliant. So it is hard to make an apples-to-apples comparison.
The real question is, are Github Actions Turing complete?
What I do is use credit cards to cover emergency expenses and then sell some of my bond ETFs to pay the loan after a few days.

That way I get to earn 2/3% interest and have liquid access to my money.
Adding it to the homepage would be cool too ^^
This is definitely doable, but it's harder than the naive solution so often it's not done. Same as log storage for example, or any other incremental data.

Related - see how many examples of S3 policies split access into read and write rather than read, append, write. It doesn't even matter where the logic lives - only whether the storage service allows you to delete anything.
That incentivizes gaming the system by getting multiple tests, though, and hoping one will be lucky to be the newest batch.

If you can centralise test assignment enough to eliminate that, you can do something smarter, like prioritising health workers, at-risk demographics and those who are already asymptomatic. Assign any remaining capacity quasi-randomly to get the best possible statistical data for your epidemiologists: if your systems are that overwhelmed it's far too late for contact tracing to be useful, but the data scientists may learn something.

Having inefficient assignment of test resources is a problem inherent to privatised distributed healthcare that doesn't just go away if you solve the financial side with Obamacare or the like.
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That was meant as a joking way to say I'm afraid the lawmakers didn't think that far ahead and overstepped their bounds.
Proof of work can easily be farmed off on botnets.
When you IPO you sell a (usually) significant percentage (generally from 20% to 80%) of your company for an opening price - you don't get to capitalize on the hoped-for increase except with the percentage you didn't sell, either personally or corporately, as there are usually many limitations to discourage loss of the established personnel to sudden wealth syndrome. In the SPAC (and similar) models, you "sell" 20% of your company for a fixed amount (in exchange for the SPAC's cash). The remainder is yours to nurture as needed. With a little planning you avoid a lot of work generally irrelevant to your core business by finding an available company to be acquired by and who is by experience a good partner for publicly traded relationships.
> You can't prevent this under any scheme, only detect it after the fact.

So do I understand correctly that if someone posts 100 messages "anonymously", and in the last one they accidentally reveal themselves, all the other 99 messages are traceable to that same person?
Yes, this one. The one case we feared for months. It's like a little puff of smoke coming out of the roof.
I think it's pretty clear that there is something more than memorising examples from the training set going on. Look at this:
https://www.johnfaben.com/blog/gpt-3-arithmetic

In which GPT-3 answers the question "what is one hundred and five divided by three?" with "35.7". It also gave several other close-but-not-correct answers. It seems pretty unlikely these are all present in the training set, and surely can't all have been lifted verbatim.

I agree systematic testing is probably more useful, but find it really hard to believe this is all happening without any sort of model of arithmetic.
And in addition to what you said, compute gets cheaper with time.
Video encoding/decoding circuitry (which the post is about) is not a part of the GPU, so that's a bit tangential.
That's awesome!
I was wondering if I had to go to https://textdb.dev using the browser to get an ID x)
Yeah, I’ve read elsewhere that simply time spent with parents (playing board games or football or hiking or whatever) is a huge factor.
I didn't say it was. I've merely speculated on why this particular law is in place.
I'm unable to make a PR at the moment but the first linked page https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-1-overview-co... has a broken link https://redux.js.org/tutorials/faq/General.md#when-should-i-...

I'm assuming the correct link was supposed to be https://redux.js.org/faq/general#when-should-i-use-redux
anecdotal sample size of one.

i once took 82 hits of acid. ahh, to be 17 years old and think you're invincible again.
each hit was a gellcap with about 4 hits like blotter paper. this was at an outdoor rave-festival.

i was curled up in a ball in a tent for 2 days. fully immersive hallucinations. the good thing is when you are so incapacitated, you cant get up and move around to hurt yourself and others. i had sitters watching me and feeding me water.

nothing happened. i slowly returned to sober consciousness with zero bad physical side effects. except dissappointment that i had missed the entire rave.

that was the greatest spiritual experience i have ever had. none of the hallucinations were scary or negative, likely because the setting was outdoors on a rural camp ground in nature. i was talking to the Sun. and the blades of grass. and they talked back. i felt an indescribable oneness with all living beings and a realization that all life is sentient. meaning that our "human consciousness" model is just a tiny sliver of the full spectrum of "living consciousness", only we dont see the greater consciousness while we go about our daily lives trapped inside our limited minds. as an analogy, think of human consciousness like a language--C or assembly. then Universal Consciousness is like Leibnitz's mythical Perfect Language which simultaneously describes and creates our Monadic world.

decades later, that experience is still one of my happiest and i can remember it more vividly than more recent milestone events.

i understand why Steve Jobs said his first time tripping was his #2 greatest life experience.

if you ever have the opportunity to take 360 hits of acid, i recommend you go for it. you will see God and it will permanently reprogram your brain.
No true. Other products were definitely affected. We don’t use RE. But we do use other products and were alerted.
> I think it’s bad (it’s weird/unfair)

How is it bad or unfair? Everybody wins: you get a better price, the market maker does a trade they're happy with, and your broker gets a little bit of money.