skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yet since regulation was introduced, the ISP market became consolidated.

Which regulation, when?

> > but no one can point to the actual burden except in vague, propagandistic terms deeper than name dropping "regulation".

> I encourage you to re-read my previous posts & pay attention to what I'm saying, instead of replying with formulaic propaganda.

Did you just reply with "no u" essentially?

> I point out many of the burdens, effects on the market, opportunity costs, effects on distributed computing, regulatory capture, regulatory pork, compliance costs, etc. I can go to the EFF website to read your arguments. The contexts have changed. The burden of proof is on you since you want more laws.

You're the one asserting that specific regulations are burdensome. I can't be expected to prove a negative; you should name the regulation that is burdensome.
Yes, they're homophones.
As a consumer, why does it very strongly feel like in my case, it never, ever works, then? And why does pretty much everyone else I've ever heard talk about this say the exact same thing?

Are we being 5D-chess'd and it's working on all of us subliminally and subconsciously and we just think we're immune? Or is there some other huge population of people out there it's working on who actually somehow are real manifestations of the unfathomably-cringeworthy-to-utter "sheeple" / "NPC" trope or something?

One area I can see is more subtle word-of-mouth kinds of influence (organic or astroturfed), where someone may see a lot of their friends or people they admire using and recommending something. I can definitely be influenced in that way in some cases - that's kind of how interest in almost anything works, isn't it? (For a non-profit example, would I have become interested in Rust if I didn't see it positively mentioned thousands of times on websites I use for the past decade? Probably not.) But for traditional ads like banners and commercials and billboards, I perceive zero efficacy in my own case.
I feel pretty certain that we tried that but I can't remember what it broke.
Indeed

"Academics believe that between 4.4 million and 11.8 million acres burned each year in prehistoric California. Between 1982 and 1998, California’s agency land managers burned, on average, about 30,000 acres a year. Between 1999 and 2017, that number dropped to an annual 13,000 acres[...] California would need to burn 20 million acres — an area about the size of Maine — to restabilize in terms of fire."

https://massivesci.com/articles/megafire-california-climate-...
When a society built for Christians (or for “Christian ideals” which this country was founded upon) starts to acknowledge and accept others, the folks against these changes think everyone else is being too sensitive.

When a society built with slaves and r*ping and pillaging indigenous populations starts to acknowledge that there’s issues that stemmed from that, the folks against these changes and dialogue think everyone else is being too sensitive.

Is there a pattern here? There’s a lot of talk here about “victim mentality” here and how “everyone else is so sensitive, I figured it out!”

It’s like the classic looking at bullet patterns on the planes that returned and not analyzing the planes that were taken down.
I want to share a small project, closely related to the paper. You can try it out if you have free 5-10 minutes and an Android device:
https://edge-ml.dmz.teco.edu/

You login; create a so-called workspace; add some labels like walking, jumping, tapping on the device etc.. (simple actions for testing purposes); collect data for your labels with your mobile device and create a machine learning model with a single click. Then scan the QR-code of the model and your actions are predicted by the model in real-time. It's really interesting how accurate the predictions are even with a small sample size.
Yes, with uMatrix. Its like ublock but much more configurable. In one dimension you have cookies, images, js, xmlhttprequest, frames, etc; in another dimension you have domain, subdomain, TLD of the site URL; and in the third dimension you have domains that your current site is connected to. Each is configurable at different levels.

It is archived though. The developed stopped working on it I believe
Premature optimization makes it harder to write fast and efficient code. That is because you guessed where the bottlenecks would be before you had enough information (which is why it was "premature").

The optimizations make the code more brittle and hard to change so that when you reach a position to measure where the bottlenecks are it is too complicated to do the proper optimizations.
To be honest, this comment section is full of blanket dismissals that speak to living in a bubble away from people with very real grievances. I would say it is not particularly philosophical or moral or factual - it is a reflection of personal material status.
This has become so culturally ingrained that people will casually shame a person for studying an Arts or Humanities degree. "Have fun working at McDonalds you idiot!"

An economy is not a society.
That a uni's exclusivity isn't as important as its location. When you're in high school and going through the college search gauntlet, don't just look at your GPA/test scores and match them with a school that demands similar numbers.

I would have been way better off socially and career-wise at a mid tier school in a nice city like Boston/Philadelphia than at my snooty college in the middle of nowhere.
I started a project last week requiring me to learn the proprietary EDI file format that CMS mandates. I was surprised to learn that in order to exchange healthcare data with our government we have to use a file format owned by a private entity. And of course you have to pay to get access to the full implementation documentation.
yeah that's what I mean - that Cinder precipitated the open sourcing of Pyston.
Four pigs of health care:

- providers (doctors, hospitals)
- drug/device companies
- lawyers
- insurance companies

All of them point to someone else to blame and defend their part of the trough with knives. All have very developed lobbying arms and are fully entrenched in congressional election funding.

I mean, the Bush Administration started part D medicare. Republicans. An entirely new entitlement.
The fact that you think a net worth of a quarter of a million dollars at 25 is unremarkable goes to show how completely out of touch you are.
This isn't how I read OP's post. The OP isn't talking about a catastrophic or life-altering event which makes one a victim. Rather, being faced with difficult circumstances and life choices which can be altered and addressed with effort and plain hard work instead of blaming others and falling into victimhood.
If you look at the linked article in TFA that discusses the trompe it claims that the air that comes out is completely dehumidified. I’m not sure how that process works but I guess big, if true.
They're identical in Australian English.
I found Fluent Forever's minimal pair Anki training decks to be extremely helpful for my German listening and pronunciation. I'm native to American English, and I've been told by multiple native German speakers that my accent is a 2 in strength on a scale of 1 to 10.

https://fluent-forever.com/product/fluent-forever-pronunciat...
I live in a 90% Christian country and everyone says "Happy Holidays" and it doesn't have anything to do with religious tolerance but rather with the fact that there are multiple Christian holidays around Christmas time.
And Jocko Willink. Unsurprisingly, special forces types tend not to be very "woe is me."
FCC’s net neutrality rollback overwhelmed by bogus industry comments
There's a very important piece you're missing here and once you get it, it's hard to see the world in the same way. A product you pay for doesn't care how often you use it. The tennis racket sits there. It doesn't matter how much you use it, that's your choice.

A product you pay for with your attention has a voracious appetite for your attention. The more you use it, the more valuable it is to the company that made it. It would be best if you were using it All The Time. It would be best if it was incredibly addictive so you would never get tired of it and move on to something else. It would be best if the maker of this product could measure how much of your time they were capturing so they could make sure to capture even more in the future.

And in fact, if you look at time use studies, we pretty much spend all of our waking lives using a phone, tv or computer. There is literally no time left, so an advertising company is trying to invent a self driving car so you can keep using your phone during your commute, the last sliver of waking life left unconquered. Our dreams will surely be next.
> Am I the only one who doesn’t want a future without passwords?

As much of a Science Fiction fan I am with "iris logins" and similar, I am also a retro-futurist who appreciates things like punch-number security for secured doors.

I mislike this current 2FA path of security for several reasons, the least of which is what if the email never comes or I don't have a cell phone (let alone a smartphone)? I'm screwed.

Passwords, passcodes, number pads ... seems to be quite more Human than all of this "prove yourself in the name of security theatre" these days.
Agreed. I have moved off of Gmail (went to fastmail, very happy) and I also removed my other services off of my gmail account for logins. My google account has my calendar and youtube and that’s it.
Fascinating. I've been reading a bit of legal history about the U.S. and it's honestly a bit disturbing how long it's been like this at the top courts and political positions. It feels like there must be something distoetionary going on to ensure so many people from elite colleges end up with power.

Still it seems like there would be some incentive for a top performer to target colleges in the 2nd rung. That being, you could basically write your own ticket. Want to work on some interesting part of the law or join some specific project? At an elite school you will be fighting to get that. At one level down you can probably walk into whatever you want.
Insinuating that he's being racist for writing more about a negative experience is really grasping at straws.

Really, this whole write-up about him is a thinly veiled backhanded compliment. Extremely petty and childish.
Something that keeps me up at night is my fear that I only studied computer science and became a programmer because of economic and status reasons. I do feel incredibly lucky to have the job and freedom I do, but it drains me. And now I feel it's such a specialized education and I didn't explore enough to know anything else, and so I have no idea if I would have liked something completely different.
Nuclear Power in a Six-Pack
It's endpoint security as well. All browsing goes through Mighty.
Super easy to steal but nothing you can profitably do with it so there's no point.

You can't haul out and tow away a giant boat like that without involving a lot of people (marina travelift, trucking company with wide load permits) so that's out.

You could try sailing it away but with a top speed not much over 10mph, it'll be the lowest speed chase ever.

A boat was stolen from a charter company in SF bay some years ago. I think they got about a day head start, but even so it's not like they got very far.
ReCharge raises $227M for subscription management platform
> The problem I have is when this "meeting" involves giving those elected officials money

But that's not lobbying, and that's against the law. The problem is the weird edge cases, like inviting the politicians and their families to a summit to discuss the issue that just happens to be in the Bahamas, or less obviously all the different dinner meetings that add up, etc.

Honestly, those examples aren't so much edge cases as much as entrenched obvious problems some of which are explicitly illegal and others grey, but there are lots of edge cases that are much harder to track down, where the quid-pro-quo is separated by time or other things, such as businesses of close or not so close family members and friends getting more consideration, etc which then flow back to the politician from someone else (can a politician's cousin not invite them on a family vacation and offer to foot the bill?).

Lobbying isn't so much the problem as corruption is, and lobbying just makes some small part of the corruption easier to do in the open, the explanation of what's wanted, because that's an obvious thing you want politicians to hear from interested parties in the areas they represent, whether businesses or individuals.

Blaming lobbying for corruption is like blaming encrypted messaging for terrorism. Sure, they help those using them for nefarious purposes, but getting rid of them doesn't eliminate the problem, it just makes it slightly easier to see at the expense of the people that used those for good purposes. In both cases I would argue we're better off leaving those communication mediums available and attacking the problem from a different angle. I'm not sure what that is for lobbying, but "you're not allowed to talk to your politician" doesn't seem like it's it.
Paul Graham said it is.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
Agreed, the insurance companies are effectively capped on the profits they can declare, otherwise they'll expose themselves to regulation and stricter price controls.

So that's how places like UnitedHealthCare have such exhorbitant salaries and a bloated executive structure. It's the same as colleges, which also have constantly expanding revenues but are "nonprofit". So a vampiric parasitic management class attach themselves to the organization and suck all the money away, while costs soar.
Yeah, I think the amount of Google employees is completely rational if you consider it for what it is.

The key takeaway from that article:

>Businesses that actually care about turning a profit will spend a lot of time (hence, a lot of engineers) working on optimizing systems, even if an MVP for the system could have been built in a weekend.

Google's goal is to make as much profit as possible. Wikipedia's isn't. If Google had stayed a non-profit search engine the whole time (as proposed in the original paper for Google), then its costs would probably be not too different from Wikipedia's.
Indeed, and I didn't deny it. We all call for a more objective and neutral way to concisely describe the facts. In my opinion it implies to state any pertinent element. Here: the context, which always has a major influence on intentions/choices.

My point is that a press title "In a chaotic situation a trooper shot and killed..." seems more appropriate to me. Do you agree?
You're overgeneralizing. The data showed that it can be learned through trauma or PTSD experiences, but to claim "It is not learned by simple teaching and seeing others attitudes" is not defensible. Based on the researcher's comments about kindergarteners, they seem to think it can be learned through simple teaching.
Would you be so soft on her if she were male?
The trompe article goes into a bit more detail that might be of interest. You apparently modulate a trompe by changing the height of the intake and to some degree it’s diameter. I would assume that you modulate the Carnot device by changing the speed of the drum.

I am no expert here so I am making the assumption that perhaps the innovative part here has to do with using fewer moving parts than existent solutions, and potentially naturally producing cool dry compressed air without any oil mixed in. The idea of fewer parts/nothing but the air filter, belt, fan, maybe drum bearing to ever replace I’d quite appealing to someone who only has access to a pancake compressor that’s loud as all hell.
And if you watch any of Rossmann's videos where he repairs Macbooks and such, they have _VASTLY_ inflated prices and often do a subpar job.

That monetary difference can be really hurtful.
> If the person proposing the idea is reasonable, then they know how implausible it sounds. And yet they're proposing it anyway. That suggests they know something you don't. And if they have deep domain expertise, that's probably the source of it.

I am not an expert, but this sounds related to Gell-Mann Amnesia. https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

If a domain expert suggests a radical idea, by mere statistics, I should treat that radical suggestion with higher confidence than if a non-expert suggested the same idea. For example, a theoretical physicist talking about a flat earth in the context of 2D quantum gravity compared to a fanatic talking about how the earth is flat on YouTube. Of course, I'm not going to immediately dismiss Lee Smolin, but I might dismiss a random YouTuber talking about it because they are not a domain expert. This, I believe is at least somewhat related to Gell-Mann Amnesia, no?
I am very troubled by this. Because humanities degree holders are the true carriers of our cultures. Local history, news and art you won't find on the internet. You can't read about my town's coal history on wikipedia. A local historian does that. These people are the ones that work with the primary sources, sifitng them and passing on the highlights. As we squeeze these people down we lose our own selves. We need a generous public commitment to these things because they will probably never pay for themselves.
You could use the finger command on users and read their .plan files even earlier than that. Quake developers were famous for those. https://fabiensanglard.net/fd_proxy/doom3/pdfs/johnc-plan_19...
Can you give more sources? First time I see someone refuting that growing almonds is a water shit show
I had a hard time believing it myself and came to terms with it after reproducing it consistently over many months, despite using everything from pihole to on-device firewalls running as root.

Unfortunately, this topic tends to be routinely brushed off as coincidence and I believe it's partially because the level of surveillance underway would cause panic and outrage, if it becomes widely known. Although I have have exposure to adtech and ML, it's difficult to grasp how this sort of activity is being done at scale.

My current theory is audio may be heavily compressed prior to occasional uploads to a trusted domain, which could be obfuscated by cloudfront or similar service. It's also possible some on-device speech to text is happening, which would make the files trivial to upload. That said, on device ML itself would be a quite a feat, especially to be running on mobile devices with high degree of accuracy to isolate keywords to be used in prod, for ad targeting.
another good resource that's more specific to machine learning is https://paperswithcode.com/datasets
A lot of invention and innovation in the past few decades is focused around doing more with less - e.g IKEA furniture made out of wood shavings vs. real wood years ago, apartments made more efficient and compact vs. big houses years ago, more biking and public transit vs. enough roads to fit everyone years ago.

My theory is that on a macro level, the world keeps getting more competitive because we keep on churning out babies and expect their living standards to be just as good as they always were. I am not blaming anyone for that, but obviously supporting 7.6bn people (2019) at a given living standard is much harder than supporting 6.1bn people (2000) and there's no sign of stopping. As the western population ages and the period of retirement becomes longer, this becomes even harder because they need more support than someone of working age. Humanity as a whole keeps pulling miracles out of hats to make us even more efficient in the resources we consume but of course it is going to get harder and harder to do so.
We could all stand to eat fewer almonds though.
The Russian vaccine isn't the only non-mRNA vaccine - India's Covaxin and Oxford / Astrazenaca's Covishield (as it is marketed in India) also doesn't require the kind of cold-storage that the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines do. [1]

Interestingly, India's Covaxin also had a similar controversy as Sputnik-V and critics accused it of being hurried and rushed through without going through all the trials:

Experts wondered how a vaccine was cleared for emergency use by millions of vulnerable people when its trials were still underway. The All India Drug Action Network at the time said that it was "baffled to understand the scientific logic" to approve "an incompletely studied vaccine". It said that there were "intense concerns arising from the absence of the efficacy data".

Both the manufacturer and drug regulator had defended Covaxin, saying it was "safe and provides a robust immune response" ... Bharat Biotech had said that Indian clinical trial laws allowed "accelerated" authorisation for use of drugs ... It had promised to provide efficacy data for the vaccine by February, which it has now done. [2]

[1][2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55748124
Show HN: Real-time log monitoring in the browser
I've been in a semi high security environment and seen casuals given too much independent access by well meaning staff. Examples ...

1. Guy allowed to come in and check our microwave for 'radiation leakage'. May have been a simple money scam but obviously a way to listen to staff conversations.

2. Casual cleaners employed to sanitise desk phones .. after a scare saying that's where a lot of bacteria collects. I noticed these cleaners being way too slow and too likely to let their gaze linger on computer screens. They didn't last.
Your questions are making the assumption that this would cost more and limit choice. This is not how markets work, this is exactly what government regulation and crony capitalism does.

Even in the case of your Spotify but not YT music example, what if there was a 5/month offer for 15mb internet with spotify streaming. Because spotify and your provider made a deal that subsidized the plan? At the end of the day, partnerships are not bad for the consumer. YT music could make a competing for deal for less money with more Google offerings. Also, this wouldn't eliminate an unlimited option across the board. When has competition made something more expensive? Its regulations like NN which pour amber over a system and make it impossible to be cheaper or better.
Let me clarify - I meant a class of issues usually described that way, but spelled out it's "members of the team have little direct or indirect contact with people impacted by higher privacy needs, who are quite often global or context-specific minorities or people commonly exposed to abuse that impacts them". I wish we had a unique name for it because it keeps repeating online, and is often shortened the way I commented, which is not entirely correct. (In that yes, women are not magic privacy issue detectors)
I think it is worse than that - it is bullshit conflation meaning games so they can charge for something not allowed and demonize them as scary figures.
Evil 2048, where the new blocks are placed adversarially instead of randomly: https://aj-r.github.io/Evil-2048/
The article mentions AutoTune, which is a technically interesting innovation.

Yet the humanity is found in all of the tiny imperfections of the art, not the mathematical symmetries on offer.
Six bits is the first that can easily encode standard text.
I love how some people can dive into the middle of an assumed dialogue between "them" and "me" without any context or even pointers to a context.

Somebody I don't know is changing their publishing paradigm of observations on nothing I clearly know, on a basis assuming I want to choose, thus the entire posts presumption is the mechanistic question "how do you want to read "me" in myriad ways" but.. who "me" is and what is read.. is unclear.

Imagine if this was the only fragment of this authors writing to exist (when you look back at what is preserved of times past, not impossible) what would it actually tell you about? It would tell you about the modalities of reading and free choice. But not about what!