skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, something like Notion that keeps my data encrypted on my iCloud like Bear with native iOS and Mac app similar to Things3. I could easily pay 100 bucks for this kind of setup.
> In reality though, pantomime shows have a habit of putting a certain percentage of the population’s mind at rest so they are valuable for that outcome which can’t easily be quantified

But that's blurring the picture by mixing two orthogonal concerns. Assuming your studies are correct, the pantomime shows are still not effective in preventing terrorism, no matter how much false sense of security they provide.

That the false sense of security may have its own positive effect is a different aspect that doesn't have to do anything with the original purpose of the measures or the soundness of the studies.

As an analogy, if a startup sucessfully executed a pivot, this doesn't magically redeem their original business case.

If someone before the pivot predicted that the startup would fail because of their unconvincing business case then yes, at a high level, their prediction is wrong (the startup did not fail) but the reasons behind their prediction (the original business model was unsustainable) are still valid.
Another example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_pine

The general phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotiny
> Just look at the ridiculous state of the JSF

A bit tangential but I'm curious. Can you enlighten me, or point me to where can I read more about it?
My boss is very good at skimming through scientific papers. She's so well trained she will get the gust of a paper in a couple of seconds(maybe exaggerated). I guess there is the expertise in the field at play as well...
Part of the reason I pay Apple for their devices is that they have offered to solve this problem for me. It's part of the value proposition of their device.
This "up-and-down chain" should stop pretty quickly at the level where eng mgmt knows loaded costs. It's an eng manager and director's job to compute total-cost-to-execute, and opportunity cost (using loaded-costs for engineer time). They should be able to approve once you've convinced them that it's cheaper to buy than to build.

Engineers can head this off by prepping a total-cost-to-execute analysis for mgmt. This doesn't need to be complicated. It's just some estimates of what's needed and why, and what the alternatives cost. My eng VP used to ask me for these when I'd send up a request. He wanted to know that we thought about total-cost-to-execute. He'd usually only read the exec summary and approve. If these requests are really going that far up the mgmt chain either someone isn't doing their job, or higher level mgmt are micromanagers.
I also look forward to trying it out :) I'm not committing to taking all my important notes into it, but I'm interested in the product. Maybe I'm naïve, but I think there's progress to be made on the front of proactive note-taking apps, and I'm excited to see what this app has to offer.
I agree in principle, though I think the example is telling.

If the combination is valuable enough, in this case programmer/statistician, then we simply create a new field for you to compete in: data science.
The naval mine isn't triggered by a simple contact switch. It is capable of launching or not launching the torpedo on a case by case basis depending on pattern matching from multiple sensors.
Related and a kind of counterweight: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/12/studies-on-slack/
4,000 is based on a conservative linear-no threshold model across all irradiated populations [1].

[1] https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html

The UNSCEAR is a UN group of scientists who study radiation, similar to the IPCC group studying climate. The fringe studies from Greenpeace and friends claiming more than 4000 deaths do not carry more weight than the UNSCEAR numbers.
Goldman Says Almost a Quarter of Temporary Virus Layoffs in U.S. to Be Permanent
Customs and Border Protection Paid $476000 to a Locations Data Firm
That’s a good point, and I try that as well when no alternative, but I prefer a chair and a dumbbell before those things because they pull in a specific direction rather than down. But these are not just using a body.
‘Better Yield on 5nm Than 7nm’: TSMC Update on Defect Rates for N5
> I reckon it's time to stop working around all data collection bullshit. No more technical solutions to political problems.

I agree, generally. However, if you already have the hardware than it's wasteful to not make use of it.
The maximum delta-V budget (https://www.google.com/search?q=maximum+delta-V&oq=maximum+d...)
means few sustained 30G sprints driven by fuel, so any such high-g maneuvers will be emergency evasion. Few air frames can tolerate 30-G. so designs will emerge?
I can see no humans in these high g machines, just reporting ground links, with local AI running the attack/defence strategy from the ground.
Maybe left coast money is different than east coast old money but you're deluding yourself if you think that the waterfront houses on long island and cape cod are (when occupied) visited by more than a maid and landscaper who come by once a week. The kids run their own Instagrams. The interior "design" is usually done by whichever one of the house occupants cares to do it.
Great real world example. IMO it's a really powerful "language pattern".

Another example: "Boris Johnson is a woefully inadequate Prime Minister but he was kind of funny 20 years ago on Have I Got News For You".

It's almost like weighing Negative Fact #1 against Positive Fact #2 and suggesting to the audience that the scales are now more or less level so let's move on.

Obviously the 2 facts are a long way from being really "equal", and how one applies the offset (minor bad vs major good, major bad vs minor good, etc) should be influenced by what one is trying to achieve.
https://alexwlchan.net/2019/08/removing-the-drm-from-my-kind...
This does not sound right to me.

If you're talking about GFS, that's been gone for a decade, and was not a filesystem as far as the kernel was concerned.
About 2 years ago, I shared a zpool between Linux, FreeBSD, and SmartOS/Illumos. It generally just worked, no matter where the zpool was created from. People warned me about not enabling specific features, so I simply used defaults to see what would happen. Again, 2 years ago, it just worked.
I think the privacy-concerned end-user thinks, "Yes, I completely understand why this information is being tracked and how it would be useful to Amazon. But I still don't like it."
I've heard this term used a few times now - a "frothy market," or a "frothy startup," but I'm not familiar with it. What does frothiness mean in terms of markets?
And as a Data Scientist, my first thought was it is a replacement for Jupyter Notebooks :)
I'm a member of several private slack and discord groups. They are my 'cozy web' and support network. Some are alumni from a certain employer, some are subject matter focused.
Why ditch a device just for that reason? Again, the OP assumes that one will transfer books to the device over USB for privacy’s sake. In this case, creating a shell wrapper around cp to automatically convert any EPUB to MOBI upon copying the file (naming the command, say, kindlecp) is trivial.
Rust's developers are mostly very left-wing and are, in my view, over-eager to imprint their views on societal power imbalance on their technical project, the Rust language. They hint not too subtly that before them systems programming was the preserve of forthright white guys and that they're breaking that hegemony.
The primary air support plane during the conflict in Afghanistan was the B-1B. This could easily operate above any drone swarm and just lob JDAMS. Strafing is not really that common a mission due to the risk already faced by A2A and SAMs.
>I don't understand this comment at all. [...] Why even both writing a waste of a comment?

I understand where the op's reading frustration is coming from. For some urls that point to pdf files or racy content, we might put informal warning tags such as "[pdf]" or "[NSFW]". But there really isn't a meta tag such as "[human_interest_story]" to warn readers of this type of article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-interest_story

There's nothing wrong with human interest stories (and even long form texts of it) but it's tedious for many who aren't expecting it. (I.e. some global readers aren't familiar with TexasMonthly and its editorial focus on long-form human interest articles.)

One type of reader just wants the mechanics of the insurance fraud explained. Thus, the human names -- whoever they are -- are not important -- because they will be forgotten 5 seconds after finishing the article. If it's the "wildest" insurance fraud, what makes it more wild than other insurance scams? Unfortunately, many articles "trick" readers with a compelling title about some <situation> but the actual article is mostly about <person(s)>. Some readers care more about details of the insurance deception than the escapades of Mr. TR Wright.

Another example of this mis-alignment between some readers and the author is the "Why it's so hard to find dumbbells in the US (vox.com)" article that was on HN front page today. The actual article starts off with human-interest stuff by mentioning people like like Andrew, Logan, Fread, etc and goes on like that for many paragraphs. But the HN top-voted comment extracts the relevant explanation that actually answers the question put forth in the title:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24270770
Web browsing histories are private personal data – now what
A big issue with any precious metal as primary unit of exchange is trust that the coin is what it claims it is. The trust isn’t just a given it’s a continuation of the trust in the minting government to mint good coins and to pursue counterfeiters and the difficulty at the time of making quality coins.

Gold is decent for it but not so much now that we can easily gold electroplate a thick layer on to any metal to pass a cursory acid test. Silver has the added downside that it tarnishes easily.
Infectious diseases are older than humanity. Hell, bad years of flu killed more than covid yet we didn't cancel any types of events.

Some people dying to contagious diseases is something our species has always coexisted with. Neither the flu, nor dengue nor covid are ever going to go away.
Escape from tarkov's Raid series sounds like something you'd be interested in.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UPnrY5BxddI
Yea... they all mean the same thing. I think they're trying to split some imaginary hairs.
I'm guessing from your username that (like me) you're a fan of Nietzsche. Alas those of us who (like Nietzsche) believe opinions should be informed are a dying breed these days.
You Need a Nemesis
You should look into what the Soviets did to US reconnaissance patrols that were well outside their airspace. Shoot downs, force downs, you name it.
I formed my opinion before clicking the article, already working out some comments in my mind like "who's surprised?" After reading the article though, surprisingly my opinion changed. This doesn't seem all that bad. I don't doubt that Amazon is over-collecting, but the samples he posted seem like it's just information for syncing reading position and settings. Of all the nefarious things Amazon does with data, I don't think that's one of them.
The cost isn't hard to find, Google "ebs pricing". There's plenty of things to complain about AWS billing, but EBS pricing is one of the simplest things to deal with. But if you aren't sure if you need these, you probably don't.
Telegram Changed Belarus Flag Emoji from the Soviet-Era to White-Red-White
My kindle is in airplane mode since I opened its box and I send books to it via usb. No one is forcing you to use amazon services, I didn't even pay for the ad free version but I've never seen an ad.
Not the result. But I do do this, as well as pushups of different kinds, crunches, squats, etc. I just can’t agree that free weights can be completely replaced in a regular room.
I don't see why that should be expensive/difficult. Ebooks are mostly small files. It would be hard to ramp up a gigabyte unless you end up with image laden items such as pdfs.

Synching can be an issue. I had a one of the early kindles, and it was fine until I hit a few hundred items. It would re-index and be completely unresponsive for 10minutes at a go. That could have been done cloud side. In the end I decided I needed to purge loads of documents/titles to get it useful again. But accidentally sat on it. So game over. Moved to a simple Nook and SDCard loads.
You're tunneling in on subscript notation. Consider also max f, diam C, edge(G).

In programming you also have contrary examples, e.g. FooObserver vs. BarObserver, especially when FooObserver's implementation and BarObserver's implementation are little alike they have very different roles in the application.
The Milgram experiment is largely seen as a fraud now[0].

[0] https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-exper...
Nothing would make me happier than to see RISC-V really take off. I agree that the ARM architecture becoming untenable would speed that along.

I'm still not sure, after reading all these comments, why anyone thinks an Nvidia that owned ARM would do anything other than continue to sell ARM cores and ARM IP rights to other companies, as well as continuing to sell actual hardware products using ARM cores. Suspecting the worst in everything is sort of standard nowadays, but buying ARM Ltd. so Nvidia can stop promoting the platform and selling the IP does not make much sense.

(unless they literally have a master plan to drive everyone back to AMD64, which doesn't make any business sense since they can't make that hardware, or drive everyone to RISC-V and profit off of that, which doesn't make any business sense since they could attempt that without buying ARM Ltd. and spending tens of billions of dollars)
So was Fortnite's presence on the App Store.
> Why would you leave on wifi on an e-ink kindle, when not actively downloading a book?

One of the much-advertised features of the Kindle is its ability to highlight a word and look it up against a dictionary, against Wikipedia, or against the web.
Maybe I am getting less fervent about privacy and data security but I don't see these metrics as PII.

This is a complete whataboutism but you gave Amazon a lot more information when you purchased the kindle from them.

I think the answer is Amazon should add an option to turn this off.
Some people are just bad with money management. They get and spend it as fast as they can. Some can manage it but allocate it incorrectly. Money management is a skill that takes time and practice for most people. Learning other skills is also a skill. Mozart was a prodigy it could be no one pulled him to the side to learn how to learn and always let him play?
Privacy concerns are usually about how information could be misused, not how it's used right now or routinely.
Two classic books that are fast reads and will also help you are 1) The Launchpad (about YC) and 2) The Lean Startup. Both are old books but they cover many of the same concepts and ways of thinking.

I’d add that if you do nothing else, read the first 3 chapters of The Mom Test; it provides a great overview for evaluating ideas.
The reddit team did a classic overrreach rewrite project with a due date. The usual things skipped in projects like that are usability concerns and performance fixes.

I'm sure there was a celebration when the project was "completed", however the user feedback to date indicates the celebration was not warranted.
Yeah I came here to say the same. I'm about as tin-foil-paranoid-privacy-all-the-things as they come, but the "invasive" data mentioned in the post don't seem particularly invasive to me, and collecting that data seems perfectly appropriate for the purposes you mentioned.

With all that said, I do dream of a PINE64 E Ink device (or something that's open and hackable).
I actually prefer KindleGen[0] to convert EPUB to MOBI - I find it produces a superior e-book.

Edit: Oh no, Amazon removed KindleGen! When did that happen? I still have x86 copies for Linux and windows if anyone wants it. Supposedly "Kindle Previewer" can do the same thing, but a cursory glance looks like it no longer supports Linux...

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000765...
Or he knew that donating to influential science organizations would buy him good will, put him in touch with other rich donors, be good for media coverage and get him a list of people who might vouch for him when called by a journalist because they've received funding from him.

> This would make claims about his "extraordinary group" of friends make a lot of sense.

I don't know, it sounds like a slightly better worded version of "I know great people, they're the best people really, and I am one of them". They're extraordinary and they are his friends => wow, that must be quite the great guy, or he wouldn't have those kinds of friends.

Scientists might not directly have political influence, but especially the very successful ones are well-connected and have friends in the media. If you have lots of money to spend and you want to buy good will, wouldn't you just spread it? If a journalist ever thinks about you and talks about you at a private party, what better could happen than a science guy saying "oh I know him, he funded our important research" and an author saying "oh, yeah, that guy, he donated money to some literary program" and a finance guy saying "wow, yeah, he's very successful".

I find that a much simpler explanation that fits well into the picture.
The article is from May and says the situation will be resolved by mid-August, which would be right about now.
A colleague of a old friend would recall your birth year (and date?) to know your age. It is a value about you that doesn’t change and then you can derive the age.

I’ve started doing similar now. I don’t often recall my age or the number of years my wife and I have been married, or, heck, even our kid’s ages. But I recall all the years and dates. In this way, I more easily appear to recall the right value.
Yes, and once read, books can stay with you on the shelves you live with in your habitat, reminding you who you are and what you know and believe.
If this practice ever get wide spread I would guess that the developers will limit airplane mode in someway in order to ensure that the device will call home at some point.

But it is a pretty clever hack to get a hostile machine to not connect to the internet as airplane mode is (I assume) regulated behavior.
Oh, one other great feature. There's no on-prem option besides the collectors. So someone can't get the bright idea to take it in-house (like with Splunk), wasting the time of a principle engineer for months on a project that doesn't make us any money.

I'll outsource SIEM every time and sleep very well doing it.
Of course. The Uncertainty Principle encodes this consequence: we know exactly how fast we are aging, ergo we cannot know exactly how old we are.
Sounds like AWS may not be the right place for your workloads.
Don't care. Still hate it. Why not add in an opt-out of metrics in the preferences?
How does it make a difference?

First, if an entity want my input and are going to use it, they should be decent enough to pay me for giving it. Why do users need to work for free for Amazon?

Second, is it opt-in? If not, then there's an ethical issue here, even if a manual opt-out option is given (does it?). If there's no opt-out, there's a double ethical issue.

Thirdly, is this data deleted once it's being used for the goals you mentioned, or is it kept, making it a risk both for leaking and for Amazing deciding to put it for a different usage in the future.
Speed makes the engagement cycle short; instead of having maybe 2 shots at an incoming missile, you get one. And if your system is too slow, it has no chance of reacting in time. Most systems are designed to defend against missiles, but are ineffective against cannon rounds (APFDS).
Yes, you can simply generate manifest YAMLs using the “generate service manifests” command. Refer here:
https://github.com/hyscale/hyscale/blob/master/docs/hyscale-...

HyScale also helps you troubleshoot any errors during deployment. So rather than generate with HyScale & deploy using kubectl, you may want to fine-tune generated yamls by merging your custom config snippets via:
https://github.com/hyscale/hyscale/issues/284 (in the upcoming release)

Currently, no support for rollbacks. It's a good suggestion for the roadmap, thanks. For now, you’d have to redeploy from a previous git commit.
Interesting thought experiment, a single Arleigh Burke destroyer has 96 vertical launch cells and can trivially be arranged to fire to a time and incoming bearing on a target.

So if an enemy ship, perhaps an aircraft carrier, really pissed off a single US destroyer, it can decide to send all hundred supersonic anti-ship missiles in from the same direction at the same instant of arrival, or from every point on the compass, or maybe three directions at once or who knows what kind of crazy four dimensional incoming attack pattern, like waves of ten missiles at a time every second for ten seconds from ten different directions. So how do you distribute your drones so as to soak up a hundred incoming from one direction while not getting sneak attacked by say five from every 30 degrees on the compass at the same time?

Its like say you have a Greek Phalanx, that's pretty well defended over a couple hundred feet, but try to use the same one phalanx spread out to defend all one thousand acres of city-state farmland simultaneously and its not going to work out well.
I read this comment on my Nova 2. It's a very nice capable device for tasks like web browsing, email, and note taking (either with the pen or Bluetooth keyboard).
What drove you to abandon your Kindle Paperwhite, MattPalmer1086?
BASIC was my first programming language. Thanks!
> The venture escalated on a kiosk-buying trip to the Shenzhen International Toy and Education Fair, in China, where, T. R. claimed, he came up with an idea for a console for pirated video games called Power Player that would plug into a TV and allow users to play classics like Space Invaders and Galaga. He decided to focus on selling Power Player wholesale. It was a huge hit, T. R. said, until the FBI began arresting the biggest Power Player retail operators. Panicking, he abandoned his business and left the United States with $8,000 to travel in Europe.

I'm pretty sure I actually own one of these. For a while I collected some of these silly pirate consoles. If I recall this one correctly it had a N64 controller body for some reason.
IQ is a prerequisite for being a problem solver, but is not enough. You also need to have the correct mindset for it.
I’ve been running PCs and Macs in my house for over 2 decades. I have not once had a problem with viruses.

Most of my problems have been with restrictions that Apple has put on me in their Mac and iOS product lines.

> Apple requiring Sign In with Apple (when signin with Google/Facebook are implemented) where you can hide your email address. That’s not possible with multiple app stores.

Yes it is. You, as a consumer can choose to stay in the Apple app store where developers have to follow that rule. If a particular developer is only publishing in the non-Apple app store, you can simply use a competing app that is in Apple’s app store. This is the same advice you’d give to someone who doesn’t like Apple products at all... you’d say “Go buy an Android”. In the future though, you’ll only have to say “Go use a non-Apple app store”.
The biggest difference in my mind is that the Kindle is hardware you purchase.

It has no need to be sending that much data, including attempting to find out the local IP.

The article stated that a few seconds of usage sent 100 requests to Amazon servers. I'm fairly certain that most websites don't make quite as many requests as the tablet did.