skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was more about the difference in fiber gigabit and DOCSIS gigabit. If you pay for gigabit over cable, you might technically be able to receive gigabit internet, but realistically you share a node with too many people for its capacity to get that speed unless no one is using their internet.
I hear this argument a lot but I think it is exactly OPs point when he says, “The market can’t act against what it can’t see”.

Your average consumer doesn’t know the extent of what they’re trading. Take Facebook, even with high profile stories and documentaries it’s reasonable for your average consumer to assume that what Facebook tracks about them is what they actively give to Facebook themselves.

I’ve had conversations with people that say, “I rarely even post on Facebook” and “If they want to monitor pictures of my food/dog/etc whatever who cares”, without any solid understanding of what even having the app installed alone is giving Facebook.
It’s important to prevent monopolies in any industry but there are degrees of importance.

The food supply chain is more important than the automotive supply chain.
Internal Exxon Documents Reveal More Pessimistic Outlook for Oil Prices
I think that people who haven't seen the reddit threads I linked will find my post insightful - GPT-3 blogposts usually contain handpicked/tailored discussion where the authors ask metaphysical questions, when the model starts answering random questions from reddit not tailored for a bot conversation you get a different picture of what it's limits are.

(So I think 99% is an exaggeration, but yeah there is a lot of noise)
I'm getting a lock of kicks out of the comments here. Clearly, many people don't get it's a joke (but at the same time, based on a survey whose purpose is probably not to make that joke in the first place (1)).

I'm considering using this as a filtering device. Misunderstanding this is a red flag for not trying to understand the context. And having a raging negative reaction to it is a red flag for temperament.

(1) If you don't know about the Thiel question, here's the first google result for you: https://www.safegraph.com/blog/why-the-famous-peter-thiel-in...
> if you’re crazy/fit enough

Here's where you hit the crux of the matter.

Yes, it is possible to burn a lot of calories.
No, it isn't possible for most overweight people.
When people are overweight, they also can't play two hours of basketball, or do HIIT, or something else intensive.

Most of them need to start with basic walking and build up from there, and it takes a looongg time for them to build up to a point where the calorie burn becomes sufficiently significant.
Like the author, I've seen Java systems be much faster than (poorly written) c++ systems.

However, I've also seen systems written in Ruby that were much faster than (poorly written) Java systems, and also c++ systems that were properly written that Java was not able to touch either in terms of performance, scale, or reliability.

If your available talent is Java app developers, trying to write something in c++ is not likely to end well.
This is all going to change over the next decade with the rise of indoor farming. With increased and more predictable yield, indoor farms can be more hyper-localized and run by independent-operators in their community.
The market only acts fairly when the product is a commodity. The time for the market to react for a product with the complexity of a mac is decades.

As the ecosystem grows, the cost of switching increases. Therefore market starts acting more and more inefficiently.

This is why countries have state intervention in such cases. And anti trust exists.

If the option was a mac with privacy vs a mac without privacy but $10 cheaper, I'd think the market would pick the mac with privacy. No such choice within the budget exists, and if a company has a monopoly on the ecosystem, then the market cannot react when held hostage. The cost to transition to a different ecosystem is thousands of $'s when you've been using a mac your entire life. It's not like you'd want to relearn many things when you get older, perhaps the sunk cost fallacy as many would define it.

It's a bundled deal, it's not like you can pick the parts you like and throw away the ones you don't like it would be in an efficient market.

If even someone like me cannot be bothered to move to more privacy friendly platforms, then I don't have hope for other people. It's just not worth it. Until the majority face the consequences of their apathy, any action you take is fruitless. Let them taste the pain, then offer the solution.

I know I can be tracked. So what? I can't verify the silicon in my device, can I? Gotta trust someone, maybe blockchain will solve the problem of trust among humans, in a verifiable way.
Yes, we can[0]. For agroforests to work though, you need to change the mindset from demanding every fruit everytime of the year to something more in line with how crop cycles work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroforestry
So Wired is now Popular Mechanics and Omni.
I've run multiple marathons in my life. When training and running > 20 miles / week, I could eat anything I wanted and still lose weight. I usually stayed around 170/lbs - about optimal for my frame. It didn't matter what I ate, and I've heard stories of people who just ate cheesecake or some such due to the calorie load.

Unfortunately I can no longer run and have since ballooned up to 200lbs.

You can definitely out-train a diet, it's sustaining it that's hard.
It would be neat to see them issue ERC20 or some sort of ethereum token associated with a given property. Though I am unsure if that would work with the current legal structure.
Farm size isn't a useful metric. My father-in-law farmed 800 acres in Saskatchewan Canada, which I'm sure was large enough to qualify it as part of the 1%. It was a hobby farm, he had a full-time off-farm job.

800 acres in much of the world is a massive amount that can grow a massive amount of food. For Northern dryland wheat farming it's a very small farm. A more typical size for the area is about 10,000 acres.
There's a very large difference between an individual using a house as a home, then selling and realising any increase in value, vs. a commercial company owning a property as an investment vehicle (in the literal sense - people can invest in the company!) and then letting the property out (or selling a time-based lease to a leaseholder).
Do you mean apart from strong prescription anti inflammatory medication?
This trend of Apache projects suddenly landing on earth with a massive feature set and ecosystem is quite puzzling. Isn’t the foundation supposed to accept and fund _already successful_ or relevant projects instead of pumping out their own, as if they were a tech company?
It is incredibly easy to diet yourself to nutritional deficiency of some sorts. While still gaining weight.
Zigbee and Zwave are open protocols and work better than WiFi Devices which are more often Cloud Locked to their Vendor with no ablity for local control, even the integrations with HA are often API's to the vendors Cloud Servers not to the device itself

No if you want secure, local control of your home automation you want Zigbee and Zwave devices not WiFi.

There is a TON of these devices on the market, and not just ikea like your other post seems to suggest
Yeah, but you’re usually only hyperinsulinemic if you’re obese or diabetic. Calories-in, calories out works perfectly for everybody else (including obese people before they get obese).

Willpower certainly is the problem for most people.
Well, most corporations don't give developers a choice in what computer they use. I doubt that makes them unsuitable.
Customer shouldn't be required to mess up with the system files in order to gain full access to the product they paid for. Such restrictions should be illegal if they are not "opt in". Customers should have a right to install alternative app stores without the need of "hacking". We desperately need regulation to stop greedy, tax shy and privacy violating giants from exploiting the consumers.
> We opened the floodgates. We shared the project on Twitter and Instagram, posted to HN and wrote a medium post. But, try as we might, no one was signing up.

Later in the post:

> Had we had more funding, we would have taken the time to rewrite our app in $ELITELANG instead. Our startup could have been a unicorn.

Although this is satire, it's something a lot of funded startups do. They think they've solved user acquisition by getting investors money (hey, let's throw a couple thousands at Google/FB Ads, although there are 15+ viable acquisition channels we could try [1]), and spend time on building things in their own bubble.

Also, the launch mention is pretty accurate:

> We launched v2 of our product with a splash.

Wonder if many startups would have better results if flipped the switch and treated product creation as a "launch" (a bunch of big sprints with a deadline) and user acquisition as something they do steadily, over a period of time.

[1] https://zerotousers.substack.com/p/15-acquisition-channels-i...
Maybe it is because maintaining muscle requires not being very sedentary, not the actual metabolic impact.
Please, the Labour Party is centre-left not far-left by U.K. standards.

Corbyn himself is far-left (again by U.K. standards), but the Parliamentary Labour Party itself gave him 172-40 against in a vote of no confidence in 2016, only for the public members to vote for him 313,209-193,229 in the subsequent leadership contest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Labour_Party_leadership...
To me there's a big difference between intentionally slowing down the underlying operation (or the ability of the UI to go to the next step anyway) so you can show a longer progress bar, and just having a poorly designed uninformative progress bar on the underlying operation.

Not to you, really? I mean, I guess we can't argue about "how outraged you are", that's up to you.

Do you think those poorly designed progress bars are built to intentionally mislead? It's possible. For what end, do you think? The TurboTax one seems designed to intentionally mislead. Even if they both are, I still prefer one that isn't making me wait artificially longer than the software actually requires though.
The requests contain only app hashes. They do not contain the unique hardware identifier that Apple computers have. They do not contain your Apple ID, identifying you as a user.

Why would you not interpret this charitably as them not actually trying to spy on you? If they wanted to spy on you, why on Earth would they not send the actual valuable information?
I do agree that segmenting IoT devices is definitely a good idea. However if your door access control cannot handle a busy network I really don't think it should be used as such.
>> It's all well and good as long as we remember not to put too much stock in it when it really matters.

> But redditors doing internet sleuthing could be anyone; from detectives, to judges, to professional analysts, to trolls, to pr firms, to fraudsters and framers.

I think you and GP agree. Reddit sleuthing is all good and fun but it should not be trusted at face value (or at all, really) when there are real people and real consequences on the line.

> I'd rather tell people to learn to judge evidence and the analytical thought that goes into making the conclusions.

Implied in this position is that you have to be skeptical of reddit sleuthing until you have a reason not to be. The problem is that people are _not_ skeptical of reddit sleuthing because there is a "We did it reddit!" attitude that the platform is super capable and should be believed by default. You and GP are both warning against that.
I think that frame was correct for a long time, but things that are generally true in one generation can be false in another.

Small, undercapitalized, under-industrialized farms were an issue for a long time... in some/many times and places this was the bottleneck on the green revolution.

That doesn't (necessarily) mean it's the case here. IE, the economies of scale when going from a $100k farm to a $10m may not apply to a move from $10m to $1bn. I think this is ultimately the question: Are there real economies of scale edriving this.

If/where the current transition is being driven by finance, it's a different kettle of fish. IE, If it's just cheaper/easier to finance megafarms... which I think is the case, it's not real economies of scale. It's securitisation.

As the article mentions, extreme scale and centralization has some serious side effects.

Industrial farming is the story of several centuries. It has major triumphs, like the feeding an extraordinary human population. It also has major dark spots. Slavery, and centuries of moral failures of the colonial "plantation" model. But it also caused several famines and other such collapses.

For an old analogy from the early days... Agribusiness that the British East India Company could profit from was often at odds with producing food.

Douglas Adams has a fantastic essay (section) about Dutch agricultural industrialization reforms in Bali.

If nothing else, there's a major "eggs in one basket" problem... an even bigger problem when it comes to ecosystems and biology than elsewhere.
This video shows it up close. Sheet metal riveted together, siliconed in the cut out ground.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CH_212pAKpr/
So the customers who have no way to verify their payload made orbit.
Thanks. Seems like potato salad still boils the potatoes though. Is he saying some of the resistant starch returns when it’s chilled?

I’m now racking my brain trying to think of ways to eat potatoes and corn without cooking! No luck yet.
Or ...they're old and cant see the tiny laptop screen or get back pain when using a laptop all hunched over. To be honest, I don't know how anyone does serious work on them.
The irony of arguing that the rapid rate of certificate revocations is proof of the system being necessary and secure. No, it's proof that the system is useless. Code signing is a dead end, and we have known that latest with Stuxnet.
You are in the business of doing a thing, not having an aesthetically pleasing tech architecture.

It is true that having a nice tech stack can make doing your thing easier, but it can also distract you from doing your thing well.
https://turingpi.com/
I'm pretty sure I first read that quote in the book "License to be Bad":

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40175311-licence-to-be-b...
> I would say the 1990s and 2000s were better for free speech

Not really. There was no easy way to get your voice out there that people could listen to you.
Humorous but also pretty disturbing! Just by reading these survey responses, it seems that we humans are mostly a bunch of racists and pedophiles. I guess that dovetails nicely with the assertion that human life is worth less than 500$?
Basically, your position is that doomsday hasn't arrived yet, so it never will?
Yes but I imagine the argument would be that it leads to a reduction in supply & increased demand meaning fewer houses available to compete over which results in a higher over all price which can be applied to all houses, inflating the price beyond a houses intrinsic value.
Yes. Happened to a friend of mine who was doing an IoT startup. The github star metric is actually something the guy used. Unfortunately I don;t think it was his language choice that was the issue rather the github star thingy. Much of the problem is throwing a bunch of excellent engineers together without proper leadership will lead to severe under performance.
I’ve seen it happen.
Individual farms aren’t simply a single open field. So, you need to physically drive between locations, verify that this is the correct location, enter the correct settings, ensure each farms resources are separate etc.
Huh...you’re right. I skimmed some of the article the first time and missed that it included Yellowstone.

It’s still worth looking at the Wikipedia article, though, because the Yellowstone section of the Guardian article doesn’t go as far into how wide ranging the changes were in Yellowstone, such as stabilizing the water table and reducing erosion.
55 here.

Learned a human language few years ago by moving to another country.
Learned "competitive" pistol shooting over the last 2 years by signing up for training.
Learned to ride a motorcycle this year by lots of driving with friends.
Will learn to hunt next year by signing up for training and going hunting with friends.
Contemplating learning another language next year by theoretical study and spending time with people who speak the language natively.

Not really have a "let's learn something every year" list or plan, it just happens that I stumble upon something that's unknown to me, have the resources to learn it and do it (I find it hard to not finish tasks I started...).
Why would they try to identify you from your "behavioural patterns", when they already have the device identifier and your Apple ID, which identify you are your computer uniquely?

Which, to be very specific, they _do not send_. They COULD identify you extremely easily, and they specifically chose not to do that.
Cerebras processor has 1.2 trillion transistors and uses 20 kW of energy. Apples new M1 has 16 billion transistors (so is a factor of 75 smaller) and uses only 20 W (so a factor of 1000 smaller). So Apples M1 is 1000/75 = 13.3 times more energy efficient than Cerebras processor. So if your aim is processing power per Watt you should better build a supercomputer from a cluster of Apple M1 CPUs.
This is just plain ignorance: of course a code that sets out to model the entirety of a society will have a lot of free parameters, societies aren't described in detail by a simple one parameter function....

And while the systematics of population data could well be so great that the Ferguson model is hopelessly unable to offer any insight, one does not prove that by showing the code is unable to produce stupidly implausible distributions (They complain that they can't get a flat population pyramid!).

At the end of the day, the final word is simply this: "A separate question is whether these bugs materially change the predictions of the code. I do not know."
Most of the projects you listed, aren't developed in the `Bazaar` environment. They have a complete team with managers, designers and developers working full time in cohesion. They are cathedrals, who open sourced the product.
It's in their best interest to put up a photo that portrays them honestly. If they haven't read any of those books, it'll be immediately obvious, and they've wasted their own time. If they never do shots in a bar, but put up a photo of the one time they did that, it still tells me something about what they think is special and how they see themselves.

It's not perfect. It's not meant to be. It's a heuristic that still leaves plenty of people to talk to for the second pass, and that lets me spend enough brain power to present myself well while we decide if we should meet in person.
came here to say this. But maybe REITs don't exist in every country?
Passwords exposed for 50k Fortinet VPNs including govt orgs and banks
The gift that keeps on giving, from exploits to full usernames and passwords.
I feel torn on fighting inflammation. It seems like that’s the signal that tells your body to heal.
Any particular reason you don't include Jitsi Meet? (As that tends to be the first one mentioned)
Note that I took care to point out that I didn’t believe it was not useful but had trouble with applying them personally. I am not asserting that they’re not useful.
Pam bypass: when nullok is not OK
Hi, founder here.

You're right about the pre-generated images! 2.6M to be precise, all of them are here: https://generated.photos/faces

It definitely has some fitting issues; Brad Pitt is a good example as he dyes his hair. I've googled his hair situation so you don't have to. He most probably has gray hair, dyed dark, then highlighted.

That's a challenge huh! As a result, you can feel some of these guys manipulated hair color: https://i.imgur.com/bC6AxXO.jpg

Anyway, I had better luck with Angelina Jolie. Hairwise, her hair looks also toned, but our dataset has way more colored women:
https://i.imgur.com/WmTzRAZ.jpg
> We know we should not eat a bag of Doritos for dinner. We know a pint of ice cream is not a snack. But it's what our bodies crave, and fighting that takes energy and focus.

Why does it take so much energy to decline to buy bad things that we 'know' are bad?
This is common in China, where paying meals using QR code + WeChat seems to be pretty much standard.
>that's been known for a while now

Ask a representative sample and I wager only a very small percentage of people are actually aware of (1) the breaches of privacy that are happening (e.g. your TV sending mic dumps and screenshots of what you're watching), and (2) the hard consequences of those invasions (that is, beyond the immediate fact that you're being snooped upon), like higher insurance premiums on auto and health, being targeted by your opinions, etc.
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/explainers/our-methodo...

The US government started publishing its own estimates of how many people it has killed in counter-terrorism strikes “outside areas of active hostilities”. This phrase was presumed to refer to Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya (not including the NATO bombing campaign in 2011 and the US strikes against ISIS around Sirte in 2016) though no US government official would confirm specifically where was outside active hostilities.

The US data release was part of an executive order that included a commitment that the US would continue to publish such figures annually. However it remains to be seen if this executive order will survive into the Trump administration.

Unfortunately the first data release, on July 1 2016 comprised of the total number US counter-terrorism strikes in all countries outside of areas of active hostilities for all years between January 2009 and December 2015, as well as the minimum and maximum estimates for the total number of combatants and non-combatants killed."

Here's their article on Obama's presidency which includes data on the first 4 years.

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2016-07-01/oba...
Why reskilling won’t always guarantee you a new job
Also worth pointing out that this applies to some potential 'Great Filter' events that we haven't yet encountered. If intelligent cultures don't explore the universe because they destroy their own planets in destructive wars as soon as they have that level of technology, then conditional on our existing, we should expect to be the first such culture to evolve on our planet. If on the other hand, most intelligent cultures neglect to explore the universe because they are busy with art, contemplation or hedonism, we might expect to exist in a world where hyperintelligent dinosaurs, frogs and cephalopods are already sitting around enjoying these things. The fact that they aren't means that maybe our current stage of evolution was hard to reach.
The title alone got a chuckle out of me. It made me click and read. Then I laughed more.

By the end I was imagining small crowds of self-educated savants from Middlebrowlia not-really-marching with their many signs that said nothing.
Interesting, but reading the conclusion I'm fascinated in this affaire how technically knowledgeable people loose common sense to defend their favorite brand:
- Per launch verification is terrible for privacy, vis-a-vis Apple and the whole network when it happens in plain text
- "They should also explain how, having enjoyed their benefits for a couple of years, they’ve suddenly decided they were such a bad idea after all", another key issue: user information, consent and control.
- Additionally, the public was made aware because it malfunctioned, which is also a security issue.
- Considering the current corporate culture, there are legitimate concerns of what those choices might lead towards