skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything which provides more signal to advertisers is a bad thing.
Oh, I see what you mean. But a signed commit doesn’t imply that the signer vouches for the code or it’s history (unless they say they do, but then you have to believe them that they reviewed the entire history). What it does do is to guarantee that after a commit is signed, nobody can come in and retroactively alter the history of the repo.
Maybe that's why, I don't blame engineers who didn't want to touch it...
But if you have multiple sites you need to reach it remotely. Maybe over vpn but still remotely.
Just a loose cord, ha!
Is there a compiled package for 2.8.0-rc0 available? I only see sources on Github https://github.com/apache/kafka/releases/tag/2.8.0-rc0 and couldn't find anything regarding 2.8.0-rc0 on the Kafka downloads page https://kafka.apache.org/downloads.
AF447 was definitely pilot error, not realizing that the aircraft was stalling.
> You are comparing two different numbers, homicides with percent of prison population for all crimes?

What do you find so confusing? I am using homicide as a proxy for all violent crime. Homicide because it is much harder to bias through over-policing, which is the usual rebuttal to using any kind of police data. You can also look at the victimization survey, which gives numbers for other crimes, without involving the police. It gives similar ratios of offense rates.

> The opening paragraph on that first link you shared seems to directly contradict what you are saying

It doesn't contradict me at all. It's comparing the population size to the rate of arrest. I am comparing the rate of imprisonment to the rate of violent crime committed. Of course if you only compare population size, without accounting for behavior, the imprisonment will be "disproportionate", just as people who study linguistics are "disproportionately" represented among translators.
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>Aside note, the elevator feel computer is a mechanical / non-electronic computer that is stuffed full of aneroids and solenoids and cams and followers and servovalves. Straight out of the 1950’s.

That's likely why they didn't. That type of change is hard to conceal and far more difficult to keep out of the documentation. A software change could potentially be handwaved. Full on revamping of said system would probably have edged a regulator enough to have raised an objection or a deeper dive into the nature of the reconfiguration.
The key to better Hershey typography is to low-pass filter/expand the strokes, which is what the physical pen would have done implicitly in the original system.

Anyone have any idea why Hershey includes a set of cyrillic fonts?
Not buying.

Forget intelligence, it's not defined. Every program is made of parts. A program that can program should be able to improve parts of programs, which is easier than making a new program. Thus, it can improve a part of itself. Having improved a part, it is now using that part. It can improve other parts. Each improvement makes it incrementally more capable. The improvement might not have any very noticeable effect, but they accumulate.

Breakthroughs are irrelevant. They happen when all the parts fall into place. It's getting the parts placed that matters. So, this program will seem to make little progress most of the time, but sometimes it will seem to "level up".

But first you need a program that can program. Nobody has demonstrated one of those, but we have theorem provers, which are a step in that direction. A program that can write a theorem prover would be well along the way.
What's your threshold for doomed? The kinds of conversations/actions that have happened haven't changed all that much since the Internet as we know it began. The term "flamewar" and "troll" were coined on Usenet. The only differences between now and then is scale and visibility.

In addition, how does one define "engagement" and "healthy usage"? Way back when, people spent much of their free time on a landline. Does one go on to blame AT&T for "optimizing for engagement" by providing a service that could keep people connected to any person in the country for hours upon hours while the phone company made millions minute-by-minute? Ultimately this depends on the person and his/her wants/needs (however "unhealthy" you think they might be) and those can only be determined by oneself regardless of how much data someone else collects.

Your AB experiment would only work if you had sentient gingerbread men as a control group. Even then, I doubt it would say or change much about what people do on a person-to-person basis.
This is partly because in Australia, regular nurses can do virtually nothing on their own initiative.

A friend of mine was an ICU nurse in Canada before moving to Australia. It was a long and painful process to get qualified again, and when she did, she found out she had been demoted from being able to meaningfully improve patient care (eg the prescriptions and diagnoses you mention) to a robot carrying out orders.
This is true to some extent, although the difference in safety is so large that in the example you are still more likely to die from a car accident on your way to Point Reyes than your flight to New York.

Deaths from car accidents per 100 million miles driven:
1.33

Deaths from plane accidents per 100 million miles by plane: 0.0077

(Note above statistics are from the US)

In your example, California to New York would be approx 3k miles while point Reyes is approx 150-300 miles depending on where you start. A 10-20x longer journey via plane is still an order of magnitude safer.

Per mile, the car is about 200x more dangerous - in fact the usual statistic is that getting on a plane is safer than driving to the airport, not doing the whole distance in the car.
As a passenger the 787 is a fabulous aircraft.
That's correct - removing some of the opaquity on SaaS pricing
The cost of vetting your app and it's updates are included in the 30%, not an additional $40,000 fee on top of it.

Note the developer saying that with all the additional costs, they ended up in the hole instead of making a profit.
We empirically do not need AGI for computational/intelligence explosion.

Biological viruses like SARS-Cov-2 are relatively simple programs ~30kb that optimize themselves.

Single virus has no chance of out computing and evading an immune system, but billions of billions of viruses can out compute and evade even human civilization as a whole.

And that's still just a spoonful of matter limited by Earth organisms availability.

A self-replicating spacecraft does not need to be limited by Earthly constraints.
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For lack of a better term, https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.git... look a lot like a cancel-culture honeypot than anything else.
There has been already a singularity and we call it "humans". In what is a heartbeat in evolutionary time scales we have taken control of the whole planet and we are planning to travel to nearby ones.

It's entirely possible that more intelligent beings exist or at least can be designed but my bet is that there are practical physical limits to general intelligence (whatever that is).

We can imagine omniscient super computers taking the world but we also imagine people in capes that can fly and shoot lasers from their eyes and I personally find the later more realistic.
Thread only seems to handle about the cloud key, which is hardly everyone. I self-host and don't have the issue.

But shady as f*ck and kind of sets the tone.
We should start a new board for grumpy isolationists. You only get to join if you'd really rather not be bothered.
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Does eff want a future with no targeted ads based on user info or do they have a proposal for targeting that they like?
> It would be like cheating on a spouse and then building back trust by promising and delivering on a "no practical jokes" policy.

Well, it’s a start
I honestly don't get what you mean. He's free to show his humanity by collaborating with authorities and getting more people arrested, or by doing his sentence and having a cooking show afterwards.

Anything else is "doing something he likes while avoiding the consequences for all the illegal actions he did in the past", and we're not talking about somebody in poverty stealing food at the supermarket, here.

(This is all assuming he's guilty, of course this has to be demonstrated at the trial)
Even LinkedIn is making a Clubhouse clone
Windows 98 came with ads in Active Desktop
> It's so sad that most dentists optimise for billable revenue

I've heard this so often as well as the more general statement that doctors optimize for revenue. I think it's nonsense and even dangerous. People are more likely to die from deadly diseases like cancer because they avoid doctors. The anti-vaccination movement is also very likely linked to this sentiment.

> Cavities, on the other hand can be arrested (stopped),

If they are really small. And even if, teeth with rough surface require multiple times more effort to take care of. (So you really need to chew a lot of gum) Only exception are deep holes, those you sometimes don't want to fill so the tooth can "breathe", at least for some years IIRC.

> and if small can even be remineralised. Yes, most dentists don't tell you that!

2 out of 3 dentists told me to buy remineralization tooth paste and use it once a week. Also I'm getting urged nowadays to go twice a year for tooth cleaning including professional remineralization treatment.

Disclaimer: Not a dentist either. I think medical advice should be taken from people that have actually studied that stuff.
Men do reputation and character assassination pretty routinely. They are no strangers to smear campaigns or even subtle manipulating group against one. Males use words for aggression quite a lot, actually.
Better link might be: https://www.wsj.com/articles/messaging-says-vw-usa-to-rebran...
I think it sounded a little bit different in Europe. Maybe a different one of the negotiated standards were used here?
What if Alice lives in a gated community because it has a pool and would like to receive mail that hasn’t been pre-screened?
> A self declared communist

Source? Because he's not by his actions even close to a communist.

And having been in China lately, I can ensure you CCP is only communist in name.
Why use javascript for something you can easily do in CSS? CSS grid can do all of that.
Some learn. Others remain assholes. A few have really serious issues and try to deal with them.

With time, most people simply move on, with the bullied party often being the notable exception.
> Yet no one raises any objections about not being able to run arbitrary code on them.

I would certainly love to be able to do this.
in general i would agree, but i think that github might be one exception, the free plan was expanded to include private repo's, the redesign is annoying but usable

they have made some mistakes with things like the dmca notice on youtube-dl but thankfully restored it and seem to be willing to help fight for it
And they sounded _weird_. Almost spacey.
San Jose
Nope. “The EASA flight tests confirmed that MCAS was needed to provide full compliance but also that the loss of this function does not preclude the safe flight and landing of the aircraft; i.e. the 737 MAX remains stable following the loss of the MCAS function.”

https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/B737_Max_...
Complete failure of security here. No single credentials should be able to grant that much privileged access.
Em was originally the width of the capital "M", not lowercase "m" as the article says.
> I tell our mutual friend group that you’re dating Jan the Man. I tell everyone at our school that you’re bad at Fortnite.

This would be nice example of a male doing reputation assassination. It is also literally trying to use other people to get back at you.

In any case, any of these should be judged by the exactly same standard as non-gaming situations are or situations which involve women are.
Why not in mm, and then use the actual screen resolution to convert it to pixels.
FLoC will still give a lot of info about you. A thousand people is not a lot. Plus, because FLoCs change you can track the changes and potentially figure out more about your user. The most important part is that FLoCs will be accessible to every website that you visit it seems. If that’s correct than it’s completely different than when your behavior is known only to Google.
But when did the concept of singularity merge with that of superintelligence? I had the impression they were two separate concepts, with singularity being about the rate of human and societal progress.

If we were able to build an AI of high general intelligence, yet entirely within the human range, we could deploy billions of them as almost entirely separate entities. There would be no single superintelligence, and yet the rate of human technological progress would reach an unimaginable speed.
Do you have to keep using the device indefinitely?
If there were a way to transparently share coordinated activity I'd be supportive. But, I've never seen the evidence shared and I trust the reason is because sharing such evidence would lead the actors to change their methods. The best we can do as users is discuss the possibility it may be occurring.
No, you just found a new place to build your missile bases.
> 4. Every developer in the world wakes up thinking “I should build a to-do list app” and people love jumping between productivity apps and workflows. There is no moat in productivity—avoid it if you can.

This was the elephant in the room so am glad he acknowledged it. Just seemed like an inherently foolish thing to base a business on and then to toil on it for 12 years...
Or someone watched over their shoulder. 1Password makes it all too easy to accidentally reveal your password within the app. Someone with a video camera just needs one clear frame - 1/60th of a second - with a good enough view.
Does it really brick the headset? I read that if one account gets banned, you can log in with another account.
A simple virus has abilities that no "computer" has ever demonstrated.

For example, the ability to reproduce and optimize it's own programming for survival and expansion.
And people seem to have caught on to that, as unlike its counterpart, I see very few people stating their organisational affiliations etc.
The other answers here are mostly suggesting reactive steps to the situation that you are being flooded with meeting invites and need to respond to them (block time in your calendar, decline meetings). These are good strategies that work in a broad range of environments, because attending meetings is a personal decision for you as an individual.

I'd like to at least suggest the proactive approach - to try to cut down on meetings. The meetings you describe sound like they are doing the work of either a planning session or a backlog refinement session, but are done on an ad-hoc basis throughout the week. If the people scheduling these meetings are inside your sphere of influence (your team, or close neighbouring teams), can you try to encourage a culture where this sort of work is confined to a start-of-week planning session and a mid-week refinement session? Even if these are 2-3 hours each, at least the scheduling is predictable, and more importantly, timeboxed. If they're done on an ad-hoc basis, you can easily lose track of how much time is spent in these meetings, and you can end up "planning/designing" work much further into the future than is really necessary. Also, no meeting ever takes less than 30 minutes and all meeting expand to fill the time allocated to them, so you might find that six 30 minute sessions spread throughout the week could be completed in one 2hr meeting in a single solid block.

This obviously only works if you have some kind of influence over the people scheduling these meetings, which is why I say that the reactive approach of blocking time/declining meetings is more broadly applicable, but it's worth a shot regardless.
Or keylogger?
How did the Chinese fail to contain Covid, when serological tests showed that the virus was already present in the United States, in Seattle, back in December 2019?

We still don’t know if it was in the United States earlier than this, because the American authorities refuse to investigate it.

And it was already present in Europe, in Italy and Spain, in November 2019. So it was detected in Europe, after the fact, before it was even known in China.

So, given this information, how is this China’s fault, when they themselves discovered and isolated the virus in December 2019?

Can you please use some mental gymnastics here to help us all understand how this is all China’s fault?

What if instead, the virus came in from elsewhere, but China got hit the hardest first, but their disease tracking system was the first to actually detect the virus? Because apparently, the rest of the western countries all failed to detect it.
For starters they can reiterate what has been said here, that a common error occurred and not the original MCAS problem.

Not being open about it will have the opposite effect.
Disagree. The abandonment of advertising in favor of paywalls in media is directly contributing to the increase in polarization and consumption of disinformation. Quality journalism is getting harder and harder to access. People might subscribe to one or two, but they are unlikely to shell out for a publication that does not align with their preexisting views. Meanwhile the propaganda and fake news remains free to read.
What is the best Cut-Out-The-Middleman, DIY project one could take on?
Hey! Hope yall are doing good.

I'm a junior developer and I'm looking for something along the lines of what I described in the title. Some examples include making your own email server or making your own ISP (too expensive).

I'm looking for something to actually do, with maybe a team of two to three people, and it can take as long as a couple of years to accomplish.

I'm looking for something that's practically useful - for example having your own email server offers various benefits.

As for the know-how - I'm open to learning new things as I am building what I'm building, and spend some if not most of the time learning as I go.

Thanks!
We'd love your help if you're interested in it! Supporting more platforms and making graphical frontends are high on the priority list.
You're assuming the researchers used earthquakes or astronomical events to correlate their date calculations, but they make no such claim. They do not explain their methodology for converting the historical calendar dates into Gregorian dates at all. Why should we give them the benefit of the doubt? They've included their dataset, but they haven't included their methodology for determining the Gregorian dates, yet their whole claim is that the dates are getting earlier and earlier. The line trending down also correlates with Japan converting to the Gregorian calendar in 1868. Why isn't that mentioned in their paper? If their methodology for converting historical dates is faulty or poor, that methodology could also account for the line appearing to move down starting in the mid-1800s.

They should be transparent about it and they weren't, and a lot of people here seem to be willing to just trust them and their methodology, but I can't figure out what's scientific or transparent about that. Isn't peer review supposed to catch and correct these types of issues before publication? And if not, shouldn't they be transparent enough in sharing their methodology that the concerns raised by amateur idiots like myself would be easily addressed, or at least accounted for?
I've seen quite a bit of both. GP isn't wrong.
> cmake and meson should really have a way to output a configure script and Makefile

`cmake .. -GMakefile` not enough for you?
And now the hardware controller we have (Dream Machine Pro) plasters "How likely are you to recommend" polls and usability surveys after being forced to use the new settings and dashboard following an automatic update.

While not outright ads, the usability survey keeps pestering for feedback, I do not have much faith in Ubiquiti having any tact left to not pester for the recommendation feedback as well.
People are voting with their TV remotes. Now the sports orgs have to wake up and stop politicizing their content.
And yet Varnish is still using not only autoconf, but also automake. I've never had the need for automake, but autoconf feature tests are still useful. Not because of POSIX compat headaches, but because of the steady addition of new interfaces and the reimplementation of old ones. musl libc hadn't even made its initial release when the above tirade was written, yet there's a good chance Varnish built against musl because of those autoconf feature tests.

This comes from someone who has invested a significant amount of time trying to implement pretty much exactly what PHK is advocating: https://github.com/wahern/autoguess I don't reach out for autoconf reflexively, but I fully appreciate why people do make use of it.
That sounds dumb.
Well, if you are interacting with people who are addressing you directly, it's not the same.
There are all sorts of web sites catering to people who are scared of non-ionizing radiation. See for example https://www.lessemf.com/
An out of whack MCAS that pushes the nose down, to a point where you can’t overcome it with the trim control, technically puts it into the “unstable” category, doesn’t it?
The closer to a real inflection point in machine intelligence we get the more articles like this we will see. It's human nature to double down on scepticism when things start to change.
I want a future without ads. I'll hope for one with ads only targeted based on content, like they were in the old days.

Edit: PS: I when I'm searching for a product, placed results (which reasonably match my intent or possible related needs) aren't ads. Those are helpful suggestions curated by payment and hopefully regulated match.
It's chilling how casually we have allowed something as essential and personal as a medical device to inform on us to someone we have a fundamentally adversarial business relationship to.

Do the insurance company's intercoms also send you recordings of their meetings so you can check if they're conspiring to illegally deny coverage, or is the spying strictly one-way?
Get a dual sim phone and run your own cell phone network inside your home.

(don't actually do this).
Go to any national park and you’re lucky if 2% of tourists venture further than 5m from any road or maintained path.

You can have millions go through a a national park every year and 98% of the park will still be preserved with harmless any humans passing through.
I’ve not checked: I change the default text size on my iPhone. Does that impact Safari?
I can't stand using Asana. The search sucks, the organization sucks, you can never find what you're looking for, the UI has some of the worst SNR I've ever see. I hate that I'm forced to use it, and that it's being used as a horrible ticket management platform.

VC money is a hell of a drug.
Having lived in both types of communities, I question that data...
Looks like I’ll give it a try again! I mostly prefer ST over VSCode, but for debugging C# on Windows VSCode is a lot better (and not as heavy as the full VS). Nonetheless, VS for C# + ST for everything else could be a good combo.

On macOS I’ve switched to nova, although I might check out ST again
How fatal is Covid compared with seasonal influenza? The devil is in the detail
Targeted ads are only the tip of the iceberg.
It boggles the mind that anyone considers this worth calling the police on.
Not a 737 Pilot. Can the pilot not just push the nose back down with the stick?

How difficult is a manual trim? Can one pilot not hold the stick while the other trims?
At my last company, signing keys were physically stored in a safe with limited access. No network security breach could possibly get them.