skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my former service company, the story of the server room which has become much much more important and reliable with massive investment like a diesel generator, but the teams haven’t grown enough in maturity. One day they have a problem with a server. A system admin is granted permission to go to the bay, since remote desktop didn’t work. They discuss the problem in front of the bay. One leans on another bay that was just between two locations. Wheels weren’t locked. It just flew across the room.

It was ok, just the power cord and a fee RJ45 torn. No serious damage besides downtime.
Glad it's not just me doing this then! My 160GB iPod classic is still going strong.
That will probably break google maps and many other things. Just add this:

google.*##+js(set, rwt, noopFunc)
A giant corporation buys a Silicon Valley company, the result is generally carnage. The old-boy marketing-driven process-heavy big company will roll out decisions like a bowling ball careening across a cafeteria, knocking over tables and chairs and sending people running for cover.

Since big companies are driven by managers not engineers, and the managers are always, always from the bigger company, the decisions are perceived as clueless. They are generally about optimizing or cannibalizing the small-company product for fit with the big company product space. With superficial understanding of the product itself, generally confined to marketing descriptions.

Thus, carnage. Been through it twice.
I desperately want to go hang out on a forum where people are building AI bots to play this game.
I find it interesting that everyone responding to this finds it unthinkable that democracy and critical thinking are possible without the need for monarchs nor experts who function as technocrats rather than peers.

It's like pining for the Philosopher Kings of the Platonic tradition. Plato hated democracy fyi.
Thanks! I knew I'd be out of touch
Here (below) is a quote from the article, on the subject of calcium. (I suppose some of us may be reluctant or unable to have calcium levels monitored. But it seems all of us should be taking vitamin K2 along with our vitamin D.)

>The authors
explicitly point out that each vitamin D supplementation must be accompanied by
sufficient vitamin K2. This certainly prevents the rise of the calcium level in the blood,
which is often seen as a risk for the supply of vitamin D
They do. There are also operators whose numbers Twitter won't accept for signing in. I had to borrow someone's phone to sign up for Twitter because they didn't like my number.
From the study abstract:

"Our search identified 172 observational studies across 16 countries and six continents, with no randomised
controlled trials"

Don't have a chance to read the full article until later. Does anyone know if they are controlling for confounding factors (e.g. urban/rural, public/private settings)?
Quite a few of non-scientific theories turned out to be right. Starting from the biblical "don't breed with your sister" to multiple herbs, which only recently were found to contain pretty scientific active ingredients.
"Cortana is an analytics and telemetry app that data mines people while pretending to be a digital assistant"

I am stunned that anyone here believes that any of the digital assistants are anything other than data ingestion and analysis vehicles.
There appears to be no real content to the article other than a "Microsoft Bad" rant about Github.
Twitter Hacking Court Hearing Gets ‘Zoombombed’ with Porn
> I'd rather be ruled over by elite families than squabbling, territorial, overconfident scientists who can be bought off for nothing and blackmailed easily.

You did not read much history, did you?
Yes, except that still limits you to two consumers.
I don't feel threatened by expulsion by my employer. Instead, I feel threatened by xenophobic people and policies like the sitting president and recent US immigration policies. If you want to help people like me, why not fight for easier immigration policies and make it easier for people like me to stay here?
> Young people want to use the newest social app that old people haven’t yet infiltrated.

There are actually plenty of people over 30 on TikTok FWIW.

I definitely agree that TikTok's no-login-wall NUX was wonderful. You can even watch on a laptop without logging in.
Hey IBM is famous for cannibalizing their pension plan and letting people go months before payouts. Nothing new here.
I'm not proposing anything like that. I said that I'm glad others are becoming more skeptical of the message of relying on trust without oversight. The fact that you read my comment as advocating a total disregard for training and expertise is exactly why we are in this mess. Where is nuance?

No, I look at the current situation and conclude that our institutions are failing us. Notice that I didn't say I'd prefer to be ruled over by elite families rather than a consistent, transparent and democratic government that is accountable for its mistakes. I want government that has a generational stake in the outcome of its policies.

All I can say in response to you is that without charitable reading of one another's thoughts, we are never going to get anywhere. It will be endless, pointless dispute. Just because something "sounds like" something else in some superficial way, doesn't mean it is.
Is Luau available for other developers to use? Or is this a secret VM exposed to Roblox?

Put another way, if I don’t play Roblox is there a reason for me to care?
This could apply to COVID-19 as well:

'As SARS-CoV-2 has a novel receptor binding interface (compared to SARS) & circles the globe, opportunities for new animal reservoirs become available.
We could suddenly see some common animal in the US being a reservoir for this virus for the future'

- http://microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-591/
In the Netherlands, self-checkout doesn't use scales. I simply scan all the items in my basket, and put them in my backpack immediately. Once in a while, you are flagged, and a sample of your items are scanned to make the probability low that you are stealing something. Scanning the loyalty card helps to prevent too many checks over time.
All in all, the total overhead next to scanning your items is a mere few seconds.

This is a huge contrast with my experience in the UK. Those scanners are talking, are slow to move between states, require you to put everything from one to another scale. This is indeed often slower than a human worker, and amazes me to no end.
He's been talking with "the local health department", not some local politician. I trust health departments a lot more than I trust techies grepping PubMed. Techies don't have the context to understand and filter bogus research. Studies that correlate Vitamin D deficiency with X goes straight to the mental spam filter for experienced people in public health. If Vitamin D deficiency actually caused all this disease we would be living in a golden age of progress on cancer, heart disease, infectious disease, mental health, etc. because Vitamin D deficiency is easy and cheap to treat.
After reading the "How it works" section, which spends 90% of the text explaining other concepts rather than what this product does, I finally reached the only paragraph offering any sort of explanation:

>We collect a combination of survey data, historical (and benchmarked) user information and engagement metrics to understand the individual employee’s feelings, perspectives and opinions about themselves, their work and their place of work.

Which, well... Doesn't explain much, but certainly makes me worried. As an employee, I do not want my employer to know my "feelings, perspectives, and opinions" about myself.

Maybe it's just me, but if I know that some black-box AI is doing all it can to understand my intimate feelings and perspectives, my productivity will be 0 as I will simply be too anxious that big brother Leon will be tattling to my boss that I don't like my job and they'll begin to replace me.

From an employer perspective, why invest in trying to change my employees feelings? Use the AI to spot those who aren't thankful for the blessed opportunity of working for me, fire them, and find someone who the AI says doesn't have as much self-doubt (or anxiety or whatever).
The solar panels evoke almost a Puritan reward-for-honest-work sense, as they don’t produce pollution.
> A giant corporation buys a Silicon Valley company

Redhat is not a Silicon Valley company.
Have you explored any non-digital marketing channels for growth yet? I am working on a sales model for companies like yours that sell to small/medium sized businesses. Would love to chat if you had some time to discuss. Is there a good way to contact you?
I think life expectancy started climbing up from 1850s, but it's hard to say which part of that is "medicine" and which is better nutrition and hygiene.
Latest Firefox still doesn't protect against browser fingerprinting. This from the EFF Panopticlick:

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 303,579 tested in the past 45 days.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 18.21 bits of identifying information.
that's a great reading list, thank you for doing this.
Interesting, I just saw a posting for Red Hat. Doesn't IBM have an automated HR system now? Perhaps that's not functioning as well as they'd hoped.
IBM doesn't "want" to kill anything but they definitely have a habit of "optimizing" acquisitions by cutting R&D and letting the product(s) coast.
Same for me, I enjoy a lot of the anecdotes and personal experiences that everyone shares. Definitely gives me a frame of reference when reading an article.
This is great! I love the fact that it includes people like John Piper and Timothy Keller, but was disappointed I couldn't find more via the 'Pastor' tag. Is that a future feature?

Edit: This comment addressed the site as a whole (though I like seeing PGs recommendations as well).
I recently gave up on firefox after trying for years to use it for my more sensitive browsing (email, bank, investments, etc.) where I could not run javascript blockers.

3 big problems (and many minor little things that i hit every day but haven't bothered to record)

- composing email in gmail is horrible. unexplained bursts of lag where it hangs for several seconds and may or may not lose anything I typed in that interval. This one is recent as of the past couple of months.

- outlook email just not updating or refreshing until I restart the browser.

- lagginess in most if not all input boxes (could be related to the first problem above).

- every few updates it will lose all my containers and I have to make them from scratch.

It may be something these sites are doing wrong, but I don't have the patience any more. Chrome works, Edgemium works, so I switched.

still use firefox for facebook container, but that's about it.
Calcium metabolism is complicated, but there are a few things that are straightforward.
1. Vitamin D helps the intestines absorb calcium, so taking more Vitamin D can lead to more calcium being absorbed in your intestines, and thus more calcium in the blood. The excess calcium in your blood is caused by increased absorption from the intestines, not from bone release. (High calcium with parathyroid disease is caused by bone release, as well as increased intestinal absorption)
2. Taking calcium supplements along with Vitamin D will allow your intestines to absorb more of the calcium you are taking.
3. There are several reasons for having a lot of calcium in the urine. Primary hyperparathyroidism can do it, and in this case you will see high blood calcium levels also. If the blood calcium is low or normal (under 10.0 mg/dl), then you have another reason for high urine calcium.
Niantic COO: consumer AR glasses are just around the corner
Doesn't seem like a good analogy in either case. The highways are a shared public resource, the 1st page of google is just an ideal place to show an ad.
I think they're referring to "Silicon Valley" in the cultural sense, not the geographic one.
Just an anecdote but anyone I saw leave around that age had been @ msft in the 90s and was wealthy enough to stop working long before. Most had pretty colourful BillG stories.
Microsoft 401K matches vest immediately which leads me to think they may be an untrustworthy source of information.
Yes, exactly. And crucially you don’t need to verify yourself to get the benefits of verification. There is value in crowdsourced verification (i.e. I always have to choose a trusted vendor but it is safer when I know others might try building themselves and raise a fuss if there is a mismatch between their build and my vendor’s build).
Thanks for the work. Boring grunt work yields great results sometimes.

I wish there was a small version without descriptions. I want to see as many books as possible on my screen.
I don’t think it’s feasible to do this level of processing in real-time _for free_.
How do the pensions work at Microsoft or IBM? I was under the impression once you vest into a pension you get it come retirement age regardless if at the time you are still working at the company. Otherwise that seems ridiculous, couldn't they just fire you at 54 and you get nothing?
It reminds me of the Lolwut pear more than anything else.
Ah sure—my point was less that I don't understand it (I'm very familiar with Laravel's auth system) and more that there are a lot of extra security considerations beyond the basic logging in, that I don't consider myself in a good position to keep on top of.

I don't disagree though; having tons of stuff available in the framework does give less incentive to learn how it all actually works, and I do worry that my base programming skills may atrophy (though for me this is more because a large portion of my workload is fairly uninteresting CRUD stuff).

> I can imagine truly horrific bespoke hand-rolled frameworks that you probably have in mind. I won't defend those, haha. This is probably one of those things where your preferences are determined by what just happened to burn you the most so far which is most likely a coin flip.

Agreed completely. My personal experience with PHP development has been 50% an awful undocumented "framework" written by a guy who no longer works at the company, and 50% Laravel on PHP >= 7. So yeah, I suppose it should be no surprise that I like Laravel!
How do you use Leanplum tracking in Firefox?
Deleting from Databases Is Not Cleanup
> A giant corporation buys a Silicon Valley company

I don't know what you mean by 'giant corporation' and 'Silicon Valley company' - do you think these groups are distinct?

RedHat isn't a 'Silicon Valley company' as far as I know. It's from the east coast - North Carolina isn't it? The Carolinas seem as far as you can get from Silicon Valley, culturally and geographically.

And many Silicon Valley companies are traditional giant corporations - Oracle, Intel, etc.
Masks mandates have major impact, study finds
Seeing these studies and NYTimes talk about the widespread use of masks in 1918 makes me angry that in 2020 public health officials thought it was a good idea to lie to the public for months with vague dismissals of the benefits of masks - merely to protect supply chains for doctors (both Dr Fauci and officials here in Canada have admitted they purposefully kept it vague for the benefit of health care workers).

It set back a really important protocol in western countries that asian countries had already adopted and clearly had success with. By the time they switched on the masks-everywhere messaging we were well into the mass spread of COVID.

This sort of "protecting people" through deception or indirection is the sort of thing I despise from governments.

The side-effects of not immediately stating their usefulness to the public - while no doctor would go near a COVID-19 patient without a full face + eye mask - is still being felt today.
You can actually change the layout so you only see the titles and the covers. The button to change the layout is right above the list (note to self: make that more visible).
2-Factor Authentication – A monster guide to securing accounts with 2FA
Hey everyone!

I work at Shakepay (we help Canadians buy bitcoin) - we put together a guide on 2-factor authentication for our customers and figured the broader tech community would find it useful.

If you have any feedback we'd love to hear it! Thanks!
But what does that even mean?

Oracle is a traditional Silicon Valley company. But presumably that's not what they mean either?
Of course they can, the majority of networks are IPv4 only.
I believe we watched it happen in realtime. If you turn your volume up (careful, the initial blast is quite louder) you can hear [what I believe is] it cracking. Yikes.
3Blue1Brown came out with a fantastic explanation of bayes theorem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZGCoVF3YvM
When I wrote Ada code long ago, it was only used on military projects.

To me, it was hard to write code in Ada. Lots of niceties from other languages were unavailable in Ada, by design. For example there were no variable argument lists.

It grew on me though, and several years later I worked on a commercial project that used Ada. I was surprised because I expected adopting Ada to be like adopting the adopting the tax code.

Then I realized one thing - although Ada is harder to write, it is nice to have an existing Ada project. And people who have done Ada a while learn to think in Ada and it's not as hard to be expressive.

It's also possible to be pretty accurate in Ada. You can know exactly what the largest or smallest integer is. Moreover you can define integers of a specific range, like -11 to 219.

Nowadays all of that has matured and I think ada is a viable commercial language, and interesting things like spark have happened.

Too bad in the intervening years other languages haven't changed much.

For example, C could have added modules. I guess nobody cares about C.
I think it kind of makes sence in general, and the obly questuon is whether it could be achieved at lower cost. Complexity of Todays commodity machines is conparable to big iron kf yesteryear
manux asks> "Bought off by who?"

Big pharmaceutical companies that stand to make trillions of dollars. Don't be stupid, follow the money.
I think it's more that they've been conditioned to accept ads.

if you spend a significant time travelling through rather diverse countries, one of the first thing that hits you is different laws and norms around what can be advertised and where. moving through dictatorships and seeing elections is eye opening in its "weirdness". as a non American, visiting America and seeing laws, flags, billboards and medicine advertising is weird.

anyway, my point is, if you haven't been brought up with it, you see it for what it is, and normal becomes what you experience every day. one you spend a few years ad free, it's incredibly hard to go back, it's really jarring, and you see advertising the same way you see plastered images of the dictator in absolutely random locations when you visit other countries (and there's a good reason for that, because they're fundamentally the same thing).
Concrete reabsorbs carbon over time, so the net carbon footprint dynamic is not unlike that of wood. See https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/concrete-become... Concrete's long-term net carbon footprint is simply the fossil fuel energy input minus whatever unoxidized material we dredge up. While theoretically we could manually plant trees and manually bury them in a way to minimize decomposition, we could likewise dig holes to expose and crush unoxidized rock. The former might be marginally more efficient energy-wise than the latter, but the energy consumption dynamics of both fundamentally suck.

I agree, many small solutions can help. More efficient use of existing resources is a large reason why American per capita energy consumption has remained steady for the past decade. (At least if we ignore our outsourced carbon emissions.) But many, small efficiencies is a privilege only rich countries with strong institutions are likely to achieve. Certainly historically that has been the case. Yet such countries have enormous carbon footprints. Similarly, reforestation can be helpful in a strict sense, but our primary problem is deforestation in developing countries, and even with global warming increasing the growth of temperate and boreal forests, it's rather difficult to make up the loss of tropical forests.

More importantly, none of these measures can help nearly as much as nuclear energy or renewables like wind and solar, which are both necessary and at least theoretically sufficient on their own. I think we just need to be clear about the efficacy of various measures. By all means, plant more trees. We can certainly walk & chew gum at the same time. But when people think these activities are even remotely similarly efficacious, and when the lesser one is easier to accomplish policy-wise than the other (e.g. in a country where we've effectively already accomplished an efficient market for wood products), I worry about misdirected attention.

More specifically, we need to discard this widespread notion that trees (naturally, or even in an industrial life cycle) are perpetual carbon sinks. That's really what I was getting at by pointing out the Carboniferous period--that the fundamental dynamic of carbon sequestration by trees does not and cannot work as commonly believed. The article for this thread is interesting (though only experimentally showing what was already well predicted), but it's misguided to believe it's of any consequence in the fight against global warming. The oceans are a different matter, though I don't know how greater is the long-term sequestration potential--I don't think we understand the carbon cycle as well as we do on land; for example, we know less about the microbiota, especially on the ocean floor.
American VCs have lived and died on the “customer count first, profitability later” mantra for the better part of a decade.
Idk, the particular flavor of outrage varies greatly depending on the platform. 4chan, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, all of the them are drastically different platforms with cultures that emergently form from early design decisions like anonymity, One-to-many vs many-to-many communication paradigms, thread layouts, and moderation decisions.
Is there anything new here, though? Science is and always has been a human endeavor - it didn't arrive out of the sky delivered to us by gods or aliens. There have always been "regulatory failures (since we've had regulations, anyway), moral failures and outright abuses pushed in the guise of scientific expertise." this is nothing new.
They are not. They freely mix studies from different circumstances.

For example, the “mask” section mixes data for respirators and surgical masks, and does not differentiate between hospital or community use, source control or PPE, when they make their top-line conclusions.

If you look at the breakouts, you’ll note that most of the data showing effectiveness for masks is for respirator use in hospitals.
If you wanted to generate a longer essay by GPT3 but make it really hard to tell, you could just get it started with a 1-2 sentences. Then let it generate N-1 tokens (where N is the window size, I guess 2048), and write a few tokens yourself (and repeat). Then I don't think there's any way to reverse engineer the internal state of the model at any point in the text. It would be like trying to find a string that hashes to a given value.
You can try it with an uploaded video or GIF here: https://www.unscreen.com/upload