skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I tend to agree that ML will not itself be the subject, but rather a device or tool misused by Someone Bad.

I got a counterexample:

Person of Interest [0] was a crime series from 2011-2016 premised around machine learning. The opening narration from each episode of the first season[1]: You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because, I built it. I designed the machine to detect acts of terror but it sees everything. Violent crimes involving ordinary people. People like you. Crimes the government considered "irrelevant". They wouldn't act, so I decided I would. But I needed a partner, someone with the skills to intervene. Hunted by the authorities, we work in secret. You will never find us. But victim or perpetrator, if your number's up, we'll find you.

Revealed in flashbacks over the first season, the government doesn't have access to the system. It runs independently (even from its creator) and just provides information.

Being TV it does of course expand past the original premise, with a reveal that it's not just a machine learning system but the world's first true AI, and later another AI with conflicting goals is brought online. But for the first season at least, the machine sticks to the role described in the narration, and appears to be just a machine learning system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_(TV_series)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBfVndEtDyY
17 firms manage over 40t dollars in assets. Tracing the people on the board of those firms, who actually make the decisions, we arrive at about ~200 people. By making their decisions exclusively based on profitability, they perpetuate things like environmental damaging industries (and of course their lobby to delay any action on climate change, extremely profitable decision), or cigarrete companies (the biggest killer of the 20th century, let that sink in). It's profoundly undemocratic, the disproportionate power those people wield to shape the course of the world.

It's detailed e.g. in this book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40923001-giants , which also includes influent orgs like the group of thirty in its count, and of course heads of state of powerful countries.

Also the well known fact that the eight richest people are worth more than the bottom 3,800,000,000, but that's a separate metric.
Don't do it. Execs see security as pure cost, so your head will be on the block every time they need to trim the budget. There's also constant pressure to offshore it since it's not a core competency unless your company is a cybersecurity consultancy.

And as others have pointed out, unless you're top 2% you'll be running scripts until you're required to train your outsourced replacement.
Only creditors have standing to dig though, right? Or do we expect any inquiry to hit dirt?
No, but I noticed that while watching an hour long video there my uBlock Origin shows that more than 1k requests were blocked.
Like I said “only insular population of us living in harsh climates”.

I doubt that hunter gatherers in temperate climate ate 100 kg of meat per year. This kind of meat consumption only existed were plant based diet wasn’t available at all. To contextualize, 100 kg (average yearly USA meat consumption per person) is around 2 kg per week, that is around 150 grams per meal (given 14 meals per week). I would say that qualifies as meat in almost every meal.
Losing the popular vote isn't a landslide.
I had the pause problem about when you had it as well. For me the pause happened periodically, but it was for network requests IIRC, the rest of the browser worked fine, but pages wouldn't load a thing for quite a few seconds. I have not noticed the problem now for quite a few months at least. Since it looks like the pause went away at the same time, I think we had the same problem.
I'm sorry, I guess I don't understand. Why does it bother you when people express beliefs different from yours, and how do their beliefs affect you?
I use an iPad Mini 5 with the Zagg Rugged Keyboard case, which essentially turns it into a small, iOS-based ToughBook-alike.

It runs all my iOS apps locally, & I use the WiFi or LTE to ssh or vnc into remote VMs or a local Raspberry Pi to run *NIXy things. The keyboard is great; I can manage ~60wpm or so on it, down from ~90wpm on a MacBook Pro.
Neo MC has that cool Hip-Hop vibe though
Thank you for the explanation, I see what you mean.

I wouldn't describe it as the South "winning", but the North clearly didn't solidify the win quickly enough. I wonder whether that was a bad idea, or whether it came from some real fragility of the North's win, or the fact that it was a civil rather than a foreign win?
where the heck did the million qubit number come from?
They seem to have fixed it. Google home answers properly. Sad, I was hoping for something funny :D
I miss diskmasher on ye ol workbench.
> I’m not entirely sure the red delicious of today is the same fruit it was 40 years ago.

You are probably right. 15 new lines (sports) have been patented during past 40 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Delicious#Sports_(mutation...
It's a relatively recent feature in openssh (in the past decade for upstream; not sure when it first landed in an Ubuntu LTS, which for practical purposes is the earliest one might start using it regularly)
I Passed AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certificate in 2021
Whenever I see the word minuscule, I’m reminded of a time in my childhood when my brother’s teacher spelled it wrong on a spelling test (that week was to have a collection of words starting mini-, though looking now it seems that miniscule is such a common variant that it is often accepted)
If a doctor prescribes a drug for a condition not approved by the FDA, they open themselves to legal liability.
The author seems to believe they changed: “But as genes for beauty were favored over those for taste, the skins grew tough and bitter around mushy, sugar-soaked flesh.”
Because all PC epub readers suck (bad default margins, paddings, fonts, bad font rendering, lack of visual pages/sheets, etc)

I've tried to like them, customize them, fix their problems, etc but to no avail.
No intelligent person would have held until now so there's nothing to regret

It sounds counterintuitive since obviously you must be a genius if you foresaw the current valuation and held right?

But there is no way anyone would have reasonably predicted Tesla being worth 4,000 a share by 2021 no matter how sure you were Tesla was going to obsolete every other carmaker.

The only way you could have held this long was a naive strategy of holding indefinitely refusing to take profits no matter how volatile things got because you see Musk as the messiah or something...

Which is a pretty foolish trading strategy to apply to 1/3rd of your holdings in a single ticker...
Incidentally, this is exactly the behavior on which this project relies:

> #! /usr/local/bin/node --use_strict /usr/local/bin/tree

This has additional dependencies. I don't see much of a benefit here.
The Library Extension is a browser plugin which helps you find books in your local library:

https://www.libraryextension.com/

The StoryGraph is another Goodreads alternative:

https://readervoracious.com/storygraph-a-better-goodreads-fi...
very cool, just grabbed a copy.
One could just create an automated script and check top 100 alex for different segments...
It’s hard to say. That video would be fine I think.

The security world is divided into two groups, the “testers” and the guys that make the tests.
"Protesters" is so much of a euphemism that it's a lie. I want looters and arsonists identified, prosecuted, and if convicted, jailed. From the article:

"The death of Floyd, a Black man killed by a white police officer in May 2020, prompted thousands to peacefully protest across the city. But violence soon erupted, which police say began with a masked man seen in a viral video using an umbrella to smash windows of an auto-parts store in south Minneapolis. The AutoZone store was the first among dozens of buildings across the city set on fire in the days following.

The search warrant compelled Google to provide police with the account data on anyone who was “within the geographical region” of the AutoZone store when the violence began on May 27, two days after Floyd’s death.

These so-called geofence warrants — or reverse-location warrants — are frequently directed at Google in large part because the search and advertising giant collects and stores vast databases of geolocation data on billions of account holders who have “location history” turned on."
An interesting fact about archive.org and the Wayback Machine especially is Amazon's involvement in initially donating (and continuing to?) Alexa crawl data to it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/01/18/the-int...

Alexa APIs, incidentally, were one of the first AWS products along with ECS (e-commerce service) and SQS in 2004.
Every field of CS has a security aspect to it. Unless you are a legitimate network engineer, learn how to use the network right before learning how to break it.

I'd say start with learning how security works in the world you know. Defensive programming is a very real thing and translates to just about every other field of CS since... Its all running on code. :D

There are quite a few good defensive coding guides out there. Redhat has some really nicely put together guides for you to start learning from.

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/defensive-coding-guid...

Remember: Learning how to use a gun and becoming licensed to use the gun isnt gonna teach you nearly as much about security as learning how to build Fort Knox.
It’s a joke, but it can pay really well.
Paths: will fix, since I was the only user I didn't hit any issues

Subs: that's kind of known, I need to provide the option to the user to choose sub language in weird cases. I'll try to find a way.

VTT file: oh, that's definitely new, is not the case with the version I have installed. I'll have a look ASAP and add this parameter.
3128 is a common http/s proxy sure, but so is 8080, and I've seen 80 a few times too.

1080 is often default for socks, but I've also seen places where it's 1085 (for socks5 -- 1084 for socks4)

Ultimately it can be whatever you want.
I think our odds actually just went up since we got rid of a President who was clearly aiming to be a dictator.
A dump of Mensa member private messages has been posted on 8chan: https://endchan.net/b/res/31975.html

Leaked in this hack I guess?
"The average federal income tax payment in 2018 was $15,322, according to the most recent data available from the IRS. "

So it's doubling taxes for 1 year, or +5% for 20 years. Hardly "slightly elevated tax rates".
+1 being on the "build stuff to increase revenue" rather than "build stuff to decrease costs" side of the business is anecdotally a path to general developer happiness.
Red Delicious: The greatest lie big apple ever told.
Why wasn't he forced to resign essentially immediately afterward, then?
Powerpaste, a high-density, safe, and easily transportable hydrogen energy fuel
then bowed out and used the information he collected in his campaign to undermine the authoritarian coup attempt on America.
Did you check the charts? Removing ads (in this case by blocking, but could be done by simply not having them) reduces the load time. There's not trade-off between load time and ad being shown...
Lies, damn lies, and benchmarking.

Benchmarks have been critical to Intel marketing its chips over 30 years, regardless as to whether or not they improve user experience (Netburst, the death of Ghz growth).

And intel's business practices show it will stop at nothing, business or technical, to enhance monopoly and reduce competition. Intel's compilers are a great example of of the yin and yang of intel's history: unquestioned technical value, but laced with noisome monopolistic practices.

Pieces like this are inevitable, given the media reach of Intel, and the basic practice of a large behemoth of distraction and denial when broadsided with a genuinely new and dangerous weapon: slow the adoption until some response can be mustered.

What is clear from the reviews of M1 is that Apple has achieved something Intel really hasn't in a decade: tangible improvement to the user experience between temperature, battery life, and startup time.
On the other hand, companies need compliance so they pay out the ass for SIM tools they will basically never use.
modern bone replacement uses cadaver bones, so the answer is "they do". As for LEDs, if you're using a color filter, that's filtering out the vast majority of photons so it's not bright or efficient.
Why did they fly a religious flag?

There is no excuse for political violence in a democracy.

Those who committed it and their enablers and supporters should be brought to justice.

Don’t spread conspiracy theories without evidence.

Police are strict - you blame the govt.
Police are lax - you blame the govt.

No winning with anti democratic forces.
I sometimes have to hit a <return> before the ~. disconnect works. Not sure why.
I see a lot of people not understanding that finance adds any value at all. I recently saw the documentary "System Error" which aims to push Marxist propaganda (the movie is sprinkled with Marx quotes on full screen, so that's not an exaggeration), where common tropes are repeated not recognising that finance adds value.

People (and documentaries) criticizing wall street for its bad parts often end up throwing the baby out with the bath water, lumping together terrible acts and trends with the whole idea of finance, and even of economics.

E.g. there's plenty to criticize, but when you say things like "finance is built on debt", you know what people think, if you don't elaborate. They think of credit card debt, crippling medical bills, etc. But from a finance perspective debt is merely a way to cause your illiquid assets to be useful to you as liquid assets.

Even your credit card does that. You have an illiquid asset that is "your next pay check", that a credit card allows you to spend. It doesn't matter that the pay check is in the future, it's still an asset.

Of course what you can legitimately criticize is that "that's not how credit cards are actually used on encouraged to be used". Yes. That's bad. It's exploitative and bad in other ways. But it's not inherently bad.

And of course many more other ways. Stocks are a way to finance a company realizing its potential. (as are loans, and other investments, for the company). Without finance these potentials will not be realized.

And people who don't know better just simplify this as "our economy is run on debt", which is true, but still not honest… because of the implications.

Does finance add value to the degree it extracts money as a middleman? Hard to say. Maybe it does. But that absolutely does not mean that the people involved deserve the spoils. It's just not that hard, not that qualified.
It's a gorgeous bookshop, regardless. Maybe with less Potter tourism it will get a little less crowded ;)
Maybe the limit is not function, but being competitive. Insects don’t have lungs and an open instead of closed circulatory system, with a tubular “heart” sloshing around hemolymph instead of blood. At this small size this should have advantages?
> 98% of the security world is complete and utter bullshit, and no one is interested in actually securing anything

As someone who did it for six years before leaving for better things, I couldn't agree more. It really is a circus that sells feelings at best.
Dig through what? The financial statements and affidavits about what led to the bankruptcy will be made public.

It could all wrap up quickly if the creditors all agree to something. Or get drawn out if they start arguing with eachother.
Unsure if the authors are aware of the connotation, but among drug users, the term "to boof" and "boofing" refer to intra-rectal administration of drugs.

I thought that was mildly amusing. I'm not sure if it's funnier if they are, or aren't.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boof#Etymology_2
Any way I can reach you? Don't want to spam an answer with a very long list. The summary would be "a few from" (around 7-15) the last Flink Forward, Ray summit, Spark Summit (the last 2 actually) and then some other more "random" talks in areas I'm interested in. That is the bulk of it. I also have now a section of "non-glanceable", for talks where there is more than the slides (like, the Play track of last Github Universe, or the recent Bill Evans documentary shared here in HN).
It seems to go from "You merely brush h2o2 and leave it in the sun for an hour" to additional steps involving a lye solution at the start and a vacuum chamber for another hour and a half at the end.

I still think it is interesting and probably useful. But it starts off understating the actual effort involved.
Are you sure this is the case, about the Austrian Independents? It's not very clear from the wikipedia articles on the persons and on the institutions.

In any case, it looks like the Austrian ministers are figurheads without real political power, or so I gather from the relevant artice on wikipedia:

Austrian presidents gladly accept that their role is that of figureheads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Austria

But I may not be reading all this carefully enough. Still, this seems to be something ... peculiar to Austria?
I'm so happy to see it's still up and running. I was a HUGE fan of BeOS and to this day I wish it had won the Apple contract, though Next was obviously an amazing choice. I hope Haiku continues to succeed!
Seeking asylum and immigration are two very different processes.
Fixing the Worst USB Hub in the World
Amazon's Kuiper responds to SpaceX on FCC request
Absolutely not. This is not an individual liability. It is the country's liability. Just like employees in a company is not liable for the dept the company could have accrued etc.
She drives, but not safely. She goes to the grocery store, but it takes a long time and tires her out.

I'd tried to get her a smartphone just so she could use things like Instacart and Lyft, but she doesn't have internet at he and doesn't want to learn.

If she could just make a call and get a ride, she'd be all for it!
I'm working on leveraging the entire public dataset of ratings & reviews to expose some of these scams in a systematic fashion.

I hope to announce more details soon.
Especially as the choice of layout and elements like fonts is neither trivial nor unimportant, and a good readable code font is not easily replaced with $monospace_font_goes_here
These are both pretty new options as well (especially SPACs). Ten years ago it was basically IPO or nothing.

When Google tried to avoid the IPO pop theft by banks during theirs, they got ganged up on / carteled, and still lost billions.
This is amazing. I wonder how log it will take until it turns up as a cleaned text dataset.

As a side note, I'm loving the 90s tabloid layouts.
Step into any supermarket...?
I was also unclear reading the article as to who the creditors were, because it seemed to me that this 'committee of creditors' which has been setup would be the ones to probe the affairs of the NRA, not just the Attorney General from NY and any other opponents.

I mean, if the Attorney General is a creditor then fine, we will surely see some difficult questions asked.. but if the creditors are supporters of the NRA and don't want to ask any difficult questions then surely .. you see the problem
Times change: 2nd graders killed in Newtown, country music fans laid waste in Las Vegas, etc., etc.

You look, for example, at ballot measures in Washington state that are about tougher gun laws and they pass by the majority of voters.

Restricting access to guns is popular in this country. I am not surprised that the NRA is finding itself increasingly diminished.
> ML is, to most non-technical people, intensely boring. How do you dramatize it?

To me it's akin to several scenes in the film "War Games" where you basically have to make a rogue AI in a computer sexy on film.

"Show a computer thinking. Make it scary. Inhuman. Enhance that it's impersonal."

So we get a camera person slowly walking around an obelisk-like table with ominous music. "This is where the AI lives, thinking on how to rain nuclear fire upon the vile Soviets, no humans need interfere, enhance and intensify, will Tic-Tac-Toe save us from our folly". And around and around the evil obelisk table we go watching bits flip up and down back and forth with nuclear missiles in question.

You can find similar elsewhere. Dramatic flashing lights on a server rack, a human taken over by external forces blindly jabbing at a keyboard or keypad with intense purpose. All of a sudden from these wonders computational magic happens.
The marvelous Mikestew
Is a solemn student of the craft of Clerihew
When he sees a "quasihew": close, albeit outside the norm
He corrects its author (as is due) to improve future form
They also say it is effective up to 3mm with the balsa wood.
My perspective as a software engineer is that security is a much more technically challenging field that SWE. Is this true? Is security just smoke and mirrors? And why is SWE so much better remunerated?
I think the bigger issue are that devices are trying to handle many things at once, and badly. I stick with projectors (which keep getting more affordable) which just handles video, and an audio system which just handles audio. No smart tv bs, and I just use a fire stick/chromecast/laptop to handle the content.

I'm more than happy with my setup, except that I usually want to wait until after sunset to watch shows or movies. It's probably better for my own free time to not spend a day watching tv anyways.
It's bikeshedding. It's easier for any given person to comment on the joke or insult or cultural reference than the main subject, and the extra comments derail the discussion.
The irony of using corn markets as an analogy when they are the most subsidised industry in America is lost on him. At the end of the day this has always been a question of who 'deserves' what, dismissed by people like the author saying the concept of 'deserving' isn't real, while staring squarely in the face an industry that someone decided deserves a subsidy.

If the concept of deserving wasn't real and people were simply paid according what they bring to the table, we would live in a utopia.
This was a very enlightening article and really describes the general state of most technology today.
What would that consent form look like?

"You hereby acknowledge that neither the safety nor efficacy of this....procedure/substance has not been established. As a result of taking it, literally anything could happen to you and/or your future unborn children."

It is already really hard to assess costs and benefits of medical treatments; expecting an ordinary person--dealing with a scary diagnosis--to do so with even less information seems ethically...fraught.
Two easy ones: COVID coverage from January to March, and Kamala Harris coverage from Democratic Debates to VP nomination.

For COVID, back then, it was "tech bros are afraid of the flu (and maybe also racist)" and then "go hug a Chinese person", and then "closing flights from Wuhan is racist (even though China itself was doing it domestically)". It was funny to see the escalating tsunami of wrongness coming at the media, but of course, they would never admit wrong-doing.

For Kamala Harris, well she was (is?) hugely unpopular. She has terrible political baggage, has been personally responsible for terrible systemic racism, and the news coverage reflected that quite accurately up to a very specific point. Tulsi torpedoed her early on in the debates by bringing all this up.

However, when Biden said his VP choice would be a woman of color, there was an immediately 180 in coverage and retroactive editing to make it look like she was an exceptional candidate who has always championed racial issues and is a regular everyday person just like all of us.
Well said, I agree