skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We also need to tackle the Pentagon’s hermetic closure to civilian talent.

It will be hard to convince them after Edward Snowden, a civilian talent, fled with his entire agency’s data ;)

More seriously, that may exactly be why they’d need to open up: Civilian talent would see red where there is red, and it would upgrade their security processes.

Apart from this, I’m having difficulty imagining an agency without the hurdles quoted by the article: Yes a security clearance is heavy friction in the recruitment/promotion, but it’s hard to do it any other way. However, like Agile after Waterfall, there may be a revolutionary way to do this, which gains so many orders of efficiency that it would make the CIA unbeatable, for much less money.

Unfortunately, CIA is in need of neither. Only small countries with limited means and influence (=nothing to lose) can afford to innovate here.

Other points raised in the article:
- Absence of mobile phone connectivity, wifi, etc,
- Top-down management with no brainstorming and no whiteboards (even physically, because they could be spied),
- Only traditional army people, fee engineers/new generation kind of jobs.

Disclosure: I’m a French national (maybe you’d like to only discuss the Pentagon security between Americans;) ).
Thanks Gary, haven't used My Republic personally, but I've tried the rest, and wasn't impressed. Will consider My Republic next time. I travel a lot around Singapore, hence my experience.
This is addressed in the article:

>> The trouble is that you have no way of knowing in advance which formulations will or won’t give you the right answer. To an optimist, any hint of success means that there must be a pony in here somewhere. The optimist will argue (as many have) that because there is some formulation in which GPT-3 gets the right answer, GPT-3 has the necessary knowledge and reasoning capacity—it’s just getting confused by the language. But the problem is not with GPT-3’s syntax (which is perfectly fluent) but with its semantics: it can produce words in perfect English, but it has only the dimmest sense of what those words mean, and no sense whatsoever about how those words relate to the world.
Interesting read! Friend sent the link to this article to me like a week ago. Nice one.
A video with only audio? This is like those pictures of text on Reddit and Twitter. Ugh.
thank you for the se map reference, was looking for something like this
> while dart and flutter remain mostly hobby projects.

What makes you think that?

They have spent more than 3-4 years with millions of dollars on it.
I always thought the phrase was from Buckminster Fuller. Interesting to see the idea originated with Henry George.
Chromium won the tech war, and V8 won the Js war. The only way to compete with chromium now would be to put webkit onto windows, but even then webkit is just duplicating the standards.
Tis true, my life got slightly better - shifted to work from home job, rent is frozen,I can order everything online and it's fine
A man is walking 21,000 miles around the world – what he’s discovered so far
Oh fun, my friend literally bought a $1500 car yesterday and it lasted 100 miles down the road before I had to rescue him. So I guess you're right, cars are cheap and I'm wrong.
There is a huge difference between police injecting it and police ordering trained paramedics to inject it. The comment I was responding to was implying that it was dangerous for police to administer Ketamine because they are not trained, and I was saying that is not an issue since they are not the ones administering it.

I don't think police should be ordering EMS to administer Ketamine, but even if they are that is far different from doing it themselves.
I wonder if it’s just a formality so they can maintain their standing for other cases in the future, a “use it or lose it” kind of thing which isn’t uncommon in this legal realm. Defend it always or get accused of being narrow and picky when a “real” need to defend it arises. In that case it’s a product of the various legal systems more than an Apple is Karen situation.
Paramedics here are only allowed to do so if a doctor is not available and there is an emergency waranting using medication. After giving such medication, close monitoring and hospitalisation is mandatory, except if the physician arrives in time and releases the patient (which is very rare in such circumstances). The article never talks about a doctor arriving, an EKG, hospitalisation or any other appropriate measures, from which I conclude that there were none. Which is unconsciable, ketamine isn't "just an aspirin".
Console #12: The JavaScript Task Queue and Job Queue [video]
That refutes "a single bad card in your hand means you will inevitably lose". It doesn't refute "At some point your hand is so bad you're basically [not] fucked from the start". Which I think might be a fairer statement of incel beliefs.
In the early 1960s an all out attack by the US would have resulted in at least 600 million dead - including 100 million dead in Western Europe.

Add to that the effects of medium range Soviet weapons in Western Europe (which they had a lot of) then things would have been very bad here.

Source: The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
It can be supported with internal APIs, even without macros:
Cmds::from_cmd(Cmd(...).current_dir(..))
.pipe(Cmd(...).current_dir(...))
.run_cmd(...)

As you can see, it is very verbose and that's why I choose to hide the lower APIs at this moment.
Yup, point remains. It’s an externality masquerading as a luxury.

It’s also arguably regressive, since the beneficiaries of those rewards tend to be overwhelmingly rich, while the inflated prices are paid for by everybody else.
Do you use landline modem for uplink ?
Tracking speakers is best done via audio already linked to camera control. Now face tracking by camera's in VC was something I first encountered late 90's - can't recall kit, but Sony was first on that - which was good for presentations in which the person speaking was standing and moving.

As for perspective shifting based upon multiple inputs - processing wise look at raytracing as would need to map each camera input to extrapolate the suface details and then map that out to the virtual visulisation. Basicly you would need to 3D map, including textures and re-render that viewpoint required.

However, do you need the whole face - you just really need to fix the eye's IMHO and eyeline contact.

But that is down to how we interact in meetings with people - try doing a video conference in which everybody is wearing dark sunglasses - that is insightful as you find people focus more upon what they hear more then.
I bought a proton mail account ... but that probably presents the same problem. someday proton mail decides to shut down users. less likely I guess.

what's the least pain way to have your own domain fronting an email service provided by someone else?
Is this because of a looming threat of regulation? These businesses strike me as essentially online payday loans (extremely high rates, short term).
research paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692...
tipefracli@wemel.site, please use this one as the other one already expired.
Semi-transparent solar panels allow concurrent production of crops and power
The uncomfortable truth is that authorities regularly misidentify black men as being bigger/taller/older/darker than they actually are. Whether that's an issue specific to police indoctrination or to American culture in general, it's clearly part of what happened here.

Apologies to the HN users who will be incensed at the notion of race playing a role in this situation.
> For their role in V-J day, let's give belgium a hand!

Was that a bleakly-relevant joke? I mean, kudos to you - but jeez, 'dark' does't begin to cover it.
I think there is a couple reasons why creditcards are not popular in Europe. They don't like buying on credit ( even less so in DE vs NL I guess ). The cards only got widespread in the 90s. We have our own systems.

If I had a physical shop, I would probably decline AmEx purchases. In the shops which do accept them, expect them to hate you for it.

I happen to travel very little and know almost all shopkeepers who I buy groceries from / shop with ( including at my supermarket ).

I get more value from being loved.

edit: Now I think about it, a history with severe inflation might have to do something with the EU attitude too.
And given that the United States armed forces are incredibly diverse, so should it's representative leadership.
I have long believed that orthodontia operates on the simple principle that anyone who can afford braces needs them.
In most countries you can get off the hook for pretty much anything if you had a good reason to fear for your life.

In some countries it's even enough that a police officer is acting (obviously) unlawfully, giving you the right to resist.[1]

[1]: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__32.html
> The same people who are building useless junk that nobody uses absolutely could be building tools, like the one I worked on years back, that actually empower clinicians and public health workers to produce datasets susceptible to useful analysis.

I disagree: the last thing we need right now is giving the impression that manual contact tracers are building extensive shadow profile databases. Which can be misused to any number of harmful ends. Unfortunately many people would happily focus only on that, promoting the idea that . And they wouldn't even be entirely wrong about it, as illustrated by dozens of cases in supposedly privacy-sensitive Germany where police has been accessing even the most innocuous form of manual contact tracing datasets, paper attendance lists held offline at restaurants. Decentralized rolling beacon tracing is orders of magnitude more frugal with PII. And yes, it's still no substitute for manual tracing. Just like manual tracing isn't a substitute for beacon exposure (and yes, this wouldn't be true at all if we were talking about STD).
Nextcloud is really not a photo management solution though. The e2e support is nextcloud is really not production quality. Do you use either of these for your setup because I am happy to change my mind.

I use emby these days for managing photos and auto uploads.
Why would the US try to make good laws against something near what is made and used by law enforcement and their ilk too? If they did the public would cry for laws against government spyware next.
If app availability is the only dimension users care about, then sure, there will be a race into malware infested low quality stores. And what's the problem? It's the best for everybody here.

But your comment really points out that not everybody wants that. So your scenario won't happen on practice.
Yes. I did not want to claim this but it was my first thought.
This stuff is difficult to talk about because most people are not used to clinical reasoning about health outcomes. There are essentially priorities to balance between the COVID group and the other 8000 dying every day. And between the extra people dying right now and the extra people who will die ten years from now, and so on. There’s no way to just point to some “threshold” where you wouldn’t still have to make triage decisions all the time.
Raoult is very much a special case here.
Almost every other researcher and public health organisation in France recommand wearing a mask.

Raoult just want to be on TV to satisfy is ego and sell books.
Pickup artists are toxic and awful, but one thing you could say for the pickup community (at least back when I was researching it) is that one of its core ideas was that attractiveness is a skill that can be learned and doesn't depend on genes, wealth or anything else that is difficult/impossible to change. Self-improvement or "inner game" was part of the program.

Unfortunately the pickup artist scene seems to have ended up overlapping with / feeding into even more toxic communities like incels and gamergate, and I don't fully understand why. I guess because at its core pickup artistry was also founded on misogyny, using women as objects and conquests to be won.

EDIT: I guess reminiscing about pickup artists is a little like being nostalgic for Dubya in the era of Trump. The horrifying awfulness of today doesn't excuse the people who sucked in the past, and their past awfulness laid the groundwork for the even more awful people to come.
That's all true of bombs detonated high up in the air where the only elements around are hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and argon - none of which tend to be neutron activated in a particularly dangerous way. On the ground if you're using bombs for engineering work there are a lot of other elements that do get very upset if you hit them with fusion neutrons.

Even in the context of 3 stage designs there's a huge difference in fallout between airbursts and groundbursts. It's the groundburst fallout that would have killed everyone in Copehagen and Stockholm if WWIII had gone down when the wind was blowing from the east, even with a successful US first strike.
> Three barriers prevent greater flow of talent to the Pentagon from the private sector: an intensely bureaucratic hiring process that usually takes many months, causing interested talent to take jobs elsewhere before the government makes an offer; the strong (in most cases, insurmountable) preference for hiring people who already have security clearances, which virtually guarantees that jobs go to people who are already “in the system” and not from outside; and the lack of a dedicated private-sector talent-recruiting effort. Changing these could make an enormous difference in bringing new ideas and different perspectives to the Pentagon. Making pay more competitive would be great, too, but that is not the primary problem. Many will exchange a certain amount of compensation for a chance to work on vitally important matters and to serve their country, if only the system encouraged their recruitment.

The clearance process takes so long that hiring someone without a clearance usually results in a months-long (could be over a year) wait before they can actually start their job. Given that the nature of the job is a key attraction, and the pay is often mediocre compared to private-sector alternatives, this is a losing proposition for many people.

It's even worse if the clearance doesn't come through. For many first- or second-generation Americans with family living abroad, this is a distinct possibility. The clearance process is opaque enough, as well, that people who experimented with recreational drugs in college can't be sure if they'll qualify or not. If your clearance doesn't come through, your resume now has a long "hole," and you have to explain to future potential employers that you had to leave your last job because e.g. you have grandparents and cousins in Indonesia or you tried cocaine twice when you were 19.

Those risks simply aren't worth it for many people.
You're arguing a car isn't a class line in the United States, and you've completely forgotten the ~8 of adult Americans who don't have a car at all for transportation.

Maybe it's a class thing.
Windows of the World
Estimating unobserved SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United States
It's not an issue because of that. The author was implying that the military isn't diverse enough, even though the branches of the military work to ensure they have at least a certain percentage of their forces as minorities.
I think this is a fantastic attitude. Build something that you personally care about. Worst that can happen is you lose a lot of money, but honestly what would be worse if you never tried.
Step one: Make sure StarLink data isn't harvested by the US so anyone could trust it.

Step two: Success!

If you fly a satellite above a country to help people do something illegal like circumvent censorship, the country in question could jam or kill the satellites with no recourse from the owners. I see a way to stop censorship as A Good Thing but doing something illegal and force it down another countries throat from space and I would applaud if they shot them down. Because what is next? Jamming their national TV? Internet? Telephones? Might as well be a declaration of war.
Fair use is loosely defined in most of Spanish ISP, and sometimes not enforced.

In reality it means "as long as you don't overload your nearest BTS very often and we get complains from other customers, you're good to go".
> Some people are unable to recognize great architecture when they see it.

Yes because taste is totally not subjective...

Why not just share that you think it's beautiful instead? Does everyone have to agree with you?
I thought the US participates in multiple wars right now. I'm not from the US but it is often aaid on HN.
I was examining Zoom's bin directory looking for a cross-platform GUI library they might be using, and found a library called DirectUI, also duilib. DirectUI was originally developed by Bjarke Viksoe. Looks like this here: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/372559/DirectUI. Maybe someone else can add some insight?
In case anyone is curious, sets were dicts in the original implementation: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/a690a9967e715663b7a42...

It was changed in 2005 for python 2.5 https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9f1a6796eb83a2884df...
One more reason to leave drugs to qualified personell.
In an ideal world, sedation is more humane than beating or shocking a suspect into submission, when there is no other way to get them under control.

If I and other HN commenters are not mistaken, ketamine is commonly used for this purpose in hospitals around the world.

However, leaving the theoretical behind... Elijah McClain was murdered by police for the "crime" of acting oddly. There was no reason for them to use force against him whatsoever. He was unarmed and committed no crime.

His death hurts me because he was, broadly speaking, "one of us" - an eccentric and intelligent person.

Based on all I have read about his life, I think many HN readers would recognize aspects of themselves in Elijah.
> Most people I know just click "yes" on all popups until the website starts working

This. Defaults matter. You cannot introduce a privacy sensitive feature just with a permission dialog box. You must expect that most users just click through, and continue to protect those "dumb" users.
A Citizens' Guide to Monitoring Lakes and Streams [pdf]
I do the same with a pocket wifi router, and clone the mac address. So, nifty and interesting case for the pi too! Thanks!
There are multiple issues that go together, I believe. There's the actual "I'm not being treated as a desirable human" (or maybe even "as a human"), there's the other part of what that does to them. There are lots of people that are treated terribly by society, who have objectively terrible lives. But many of them aren't suffering as much from it.

I believe that the issue lies in a) not feeling desired and b) the way to deal with that. There are people who share their fate but suffer far less. I'm sure it's not enough to drop some self-help blurp and "wow, why didn't I think of that", but I believe that therapy can help. I have no idea what kind of therapy is most effective though. But I'm sure even just handing out pamphlets will be much more effective than mocking and dehumanizing them and asking for their removal from society.
I'm not 100% sure, but it should work. Something like https://www.biotoolswiss.com/microbiological-instruments-1/b...

I think the direction of the gas flow is caused mostly by the speed of the gas that exit the pipe, not gravity. The burner in the stove has some air intake to mix some air and make a better flame, but I think it should work upside down (if you fix the moving parts).

Anyway, I couldn't find any experimental verification in a quick search and I'd really love to see one.
Those things are free, the drive space is the real bonus
Very interesting post. Stuff like the computer setup and the power generator being a rigged up car engine is pretty cool.

I've always been interested in software development and electronics engineering on "the edge" with woefully inadequate parts and little documentation. This document gives great insight into those conditions in a real world example.
Automatic brightness adjustment based on screen contents
> lottery success rate has been climbing for several years due primarily to fewer applicants.

Is this actually true? I found this on google

https://redbus2us.com/h1b-visa-cap-reach-dates-history-graph...

Looks like it actually skyrocketed after trump took office. Its the highest under his administration than any point in history.

Are you just trolling? If so, why?
I don't think it's irrelevant. Having a NSFW pop up in the middle of a meeting and your access logged is much worse than just your access being logged.
It's extremely rare that one gets to a working ad-hoc setup... it's a chicken-egg problem. Drivers, firmware, software and UI support are bad, so no one uses it, so development is an afterthought, rinse and repeat.
To use a powerful animal tranquilizer on a human being just to make some cops' job "easier" is about the most abhorrent, sickly thing I have heard in years. I don't want to read any more of this.

To think of all the complications in a person's body from experiencing a drug that puts your conscience in a literally black hole (K-hole) is just sick. It's wrong.
> The author was implying that the military isn't diverse enough

They didn’t imply it. They were pretty explicit. Their concern is that despite the diversity of the military overall it is not reflected at the top.
The only reason this 4DWW nonsense is written about all the time is to "prove" how UBI would "work" too. If 4 DWW works, there's no reason 3 DWW wouldn't, and 2 DWW would work even better. What the heck - why work at all - make it optional and have the government organize just income redistribution!
Anyone high on meth is pretty much the hulk.
This doesn't happen on Android where 95% of applications are listed at the app store (excluding China), despite the existence of alternate stores. Why would it happen anywhere else? The main app stores have too much of an head start to lose their primary role, unless they screw up massively.
Kind of. Pronouncing a_b as "a wrt b" should work though.

With f_uk, it could mean a model with parameters trained for UK - "theta uk".

In my view, it's nice to have subscript-like things in the constructors. Ex:

uk_price_model = PriceModel(uk_model_parameters)
You can access those APIs using SSL from the server, which then relays the results to the client.
I think the problem is ‘wrong bias’ which is directly related to overestimating self, which is basic human nature.
because HN, more often than not, tends to take itself too seriously. a bit of levity here and there will not degrade HN.
I live in Switzerland and we have quite a lot of unlimited plans without speed limit after a certain amount of data. Also the price in relation to income is not that high. If I compare it to Germany, where you can get no real unlimited plan and very often have a bad signal even in cities, and also in relationship to the income there, Germany seems to earn a place much lower on the list.
So this comparison seems a bit odd, and should be divided into prepaid plans with limited data packages and unlimited plans.
> and there's no reason not to expand it further based on their own logic

And this is a textbook slippery slope argument. Also the clear difference between Google and the examples you've provided is the revenue model. The primary way Google makes money is selling user data to advertisers. next to social media sites, they're the most obvious targets for privacy-minded people.
I think they are defining ‘real war’ as ‘total war’. None of the wars the US has been involved in since WWII have required the near-total economic output of our nation to participate in.
"VC Studio?"