skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Teslas look like Kias.

this was a big thing in the early 10s when electric cars looked like i3s and twizys. everyone wanted a normal looking car and tesla was the first one to make a normal looking car.

now priuses and leafs look normal and tesla is making cybertrucks.
I'm saying if you have the above items checked off, then you're ahead of many, many teams. (It feels to me like 99% of teams but that's just looking out my own eyes)
> It's now much easier to work past 5 or 6pm or whenever you would normally end

It is much easier but I also believe it's something people will get out of the habit of (or at least I hope). It really isn't a difficult habit to break.

Since working from home I do exactly the same as I would in the office:
At the same time every day I close the laptop and put it away.

It's actually easier for me to get away because no one is stopping me on the way out to ask me some questions or to just have a quick chat.
Implement a national wide zero-trust hierarchy?
The article says they used backups to help restore the system. That tells me that the backups weren't fully up to date, and that the missing info was worth 5 million.
Companies could just use intermediaries, transfer the money to somebody that transfers it to the hackers. They could even do it fairly openly: They're not paying "ransom", they're paying a "consultancy fee" for assistance in dealing with the issue.

That's not to say it shouldn't also be made illegal or in some other way difficult to pay (they could, for example, ban crypto currency use for the purpose of paying ransoms, or whatever-- just tossing out ideas)

Banning ransoms alone isn't going to work. Companies already have liability for things like customer data breaches, and that hasn't eliminated them. We also need some sort of legal framework-- especially for large pieces of infrastructure-- for defining appropriate security procedures that must be followed. Also tie it to the ability to get government subsidies/grants etc. That's how it works in Higher Education: If colleges don't adhere to to DoE regs, they simply can't accept financial aid money given to students by the government. It's actually something that's audited with fines levied on a regular basis. Few schools if any ever lose the ability to get aid, but that's because the regs are enforced and fines are high enough to hurt.

Really though I don't think you can stop this completely. We might say "every company can afford to get security right" etc., but they won't: Some will barely even try, others will simply be unlucky and out of 3,000 employees, one will slip up. The nature of this sort of attack is that on defense, you have to be 100% successful all of the time or you're done, and always having a perfect record is not a realistic expectation for all organizations.

The problem is that for the hackers, this is a low risk, inexpensive, high reward process. As much as security has to improve, so does that equation. If there was a physical attack that shutdown the pipeline it would easily be labelled an act of terrorism, and these should be seen the same way, with the same level of resources used to go after anyone involved in these attacks.
Well, yeah, I’m with you, but, you don’t need a transformer. You need a HF short. That’s easy. You can hook up a common conductor any way you want, connect as many independent channels as you want, put a big resistor from signal to ground at each terminal, and it works the same but smaller and lower power. Make the wire slightly resistive if you are concerned about reflection loops. I can’t think of a situation where signal couldn’t be improved by some kind of conduction.
?????

There is a lot more than flavour and preservatives in processed food.

The difference in texture

The refined sugars in processed are nothing like natural sugars in raw food

Industrially hydrogenated fats are not the same as naturally hydrogenated fats (margarine is not coconut oil)

Additionally there are the traces of the machines used in the processing. The chemicals that make the plastic hoses soft (who's name escapes me) are coming under scrutiny now for being very bad for us.
Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic – a retrospective thread
The purpose of this thread is for people in this community to share their thoughts or observations on anything to do with the Covid-19 pandemic. From how they felt watching the world close in March, to what their experience was liking sheltering in place, to how their work was affected, to interest in why certain regions suffered more than others etc.

For context: the reason I am making this thread is because I realized I have some pandemic related trauma. I live in Canada where while Covid is over as a public health threat, the pandemic is still very much alive in terms of restrictions and people's attitudes. I entered Covid after having recently broken up with a GF and having switched careers to try to and start a business which failed as Covid began. As a result of this, I spent the Covid pandemic unemployed, single and living alone. Now that I can observe American's live their post-covid life, for the first time, I am beginning to reflect and face the reality that I put my life on hold for 15 months and have absolutely nothing to show for it.

While it's still fresh in everyone's memories, I am very curious to hear any thoughts or personal reflections people had on any Covid related topics of experiences over the last 15 months. My personal reflections are in the comments.
Awesome article!!! So glad I posted this comment and you replied. This article seriously rules!
Good points. This seems to be the case for the vast majority of ERC/BEP-20 tokens, as well, for example, and for plenty of other sorts of things.

I don't know how I feel about them. Actually, I do know how I feel about them: instinctive distaste and sometimes revulsion. But that's just an emotion. What do I think about them? Is it all just a microcosm of finance in general? Is pointless zero-sum gambling really so bad, given it induces a sense of excitement and entertainment, if nothing else? I'm not quite sure, at the moment.
> I could write a webapp that simulates the stock market, declare that it contains X "shares" of Apple at Y price, and people could speculate on them, much as they do in the real stock market, all without Apple knowing or caring.

This already exists. It's called a CFD (Contract For Difference)
But once you use grade up, it's easy to remember. I used it like a year ago when playing with APL and haven't touched it since then and still remember the symbol.
I ran to my pantry to inform this comment because I was nearly certain I had Hunt's tomato paste! I wanted to run down a quick comparison of three things which are all pretty close to tomato paste 1) A tomato (beefsteak 'cause I'm swag) 2) Hunt's Tomato Paste 3) Compliments Tomato Sauce 4) Unico Pizza Sauce - these are all distributed to the Canadian market so specific details may vary in your local market... Actually scratch that, I ended up using US numbers from the internet for ease of access.

The tomato, to begin with, I'm using this[1] as the source for nutritional values, we've got 70 calories with 5.5g of sugar (tomatoes are pretty sweet after all), 0 mg Sodium - we also have (for our DAVs) 97% Vitamin C, 11% Vitamin A, 6% Calcium - all that is in 1 tomato

For the Hunt's I'll use this[2] source where a small can has 10 of these servings, but I'll double the serving size to make calories match up. We've again got 70 Calories (due to my manipulation) with 8g Sugar (about 50% more than a raw tomato) 50mg Sodium (2% DAV) with no Vitamin C or A but with a bit of Potassium and Iron (12% each of DAV).

Next up is Compliments Tomato Sauce source[3] - this is actually much less calorie dense so I'm going to multiple the serving size up to five cans (or 1 1/4 cups of sauce) which is 75 Calories. The ingredients are actually just: Water, Tomato Paste, Salt, Citric Acid, Onion powder, Dried Garlic and "Spice". We've got 10g Sugar here, possibly some added under "Spice" or just concentrated tomato, 1200mg Sodium (50% DAV) along with 10% Vitamin A, 40% Vitamin C, 10% Iron

And, lastly, Unico Pizza Sauce[4] this comes in a 1/4 cup can that I'll quadruple to match Calories. Ingredients wise we've got Crushed Tomatoes, Water, Salt, Modified Corn Starch, Sugar, Spices, Dehydrated Garlic, Citric Acid. We have 12g of sugar, 1280 mg Sodium (50% DAV), 8% Vitamin A, 40% Vitamin C and other bits.

I went through the above mostly to highlight that yes, there are "pure" canned vegetable and fruit options, they often only mildly miss out on nutrition (like the complete lack of Vitamin C in Hunt's Tomato Paste) but there are also a lot of nearby options that are loaded down with other crap.

Just a note - the sources below are for the internet. I actually initially read each one off the label but I wanted to show my work and sourced them from the internet - I actually ended up recalculating a few since I could only find US nutritional facts which are noticeably worse than Canadian products.

1. http://www.fitbit.com/foods/Tomato+Raw+Beefsteak+Large+13+oz...

2. https://smartlabel.labelinsight.com/product/6119604/nutritio... (linked on Hunt's website)

3. https://www.fatsecret.ca/calories-nutrition/compliments/toma...

4. http://www.unico.ca/products.php?id=28&catid=17
> Even if you know for certain that someone is an anti-vaxxer, disregarding their opinion/question by accusing them of sealioning is a fallacy.

1. Labeling someone a "sealion" doesn't even hinge on their opinion. You seem to have missed the entire concept, and instead interpreted it as a generic dismissive.

2. Uh, you don't get to just call something a "fallacy" because you don't like it (though many others are doing the same thing in this thread).

Sealioning is a reference to the specific disingenuous process of spamming the same low-effort, low-brow, easily-answered questions in every last public forum. It's a basic disinformation technique to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Story time:

My daughters day care has 2 fulltime employees and a part timer. The fulltime staff are vaxxed, the part-time person isn't, despite having been eligible for a loooooong time.

Well, guess who got an asymptomatic covid infection, and then went on to spread it to her entire family, including her infant granddaughter. Luckily, the person who infected her got tested and let her know in time for her to not infect all our children.

Get vaccinated. Some people are allergic or may have real medical exemptions. Everyone else who passes on the opportunity are shortsighted and selfish.
I'm old enough that I had measles as a kid, my grandma had polio as a kid wore a leg brace her entire life, rubella and the associated birth defects were a thing in the community - when I was a kid EVERYONE was a pro-vaxxer, they were the medical miracle that were changing people's lives - IMHO the main reason we have antivaxxers today is because we haven't been telling these family stories to our kids

Why not go for herd immunity? maybe we should be releasing (suitably tested) live vaccines
It had a bit more time to develop :)

But, I don't think some software systems are far off, particularly if you are a bit more permissive with the boundaries of a "system". I don't know really how to compare such apples to oranges, but the genetic material of a human is just a single gigabyte. Now i know that a gigabyte C++ program is not on par with a gigabyte of DNA, but a terabyte of code? Maybe? We're definitely at the terabytes of code range if you look at the internet as a whole. You can also add the deep ML models, they're easily in the gigabyte ranges.

Of course the complexity in the protein-based lifeform comes from the massive parallelism of the code execution (every single cell and every single ribosome!) and the massive amount of noise that the environment constantly throws at the lifeforms. Compare with the nearly pristine conditions that the sets of customized silicone crystals that we call computers operate in.

Give me volatility and time, and you'll be stunned, eventually. Let's see what's next in this book :)
If I can't unsubscribe with a single click then it's spam and I report it as spam. They don't give a shit about me, so I don't give a shit about them.
I worked at a company right out of college that used K for some things. They did some consulting work for the financial services industry early on, and I think that's how they started. I ran through some basic tutorials, but never worked on any of the projects that used it, so never became proficient. Only a special subset of blessed people got to use K.

The only things I remember are that a symbol could could do 3 things when used with a monad, dyad, or infix, and that it was very hard to read anyone else's code because it was so terse.

They also went through a phase of naming their Java classes things like com.a.b after getting used to K's terseness. Fortunately, that didn't last very long.
There is a major biasing factor; it's trivial to ask a question like "Have you looked at the data in VAERS that shows tens of thousands of adverse vaccine reactions??" It's not so trivial to answer the question in a way that explains how VAERS works, and why this conclusion is incorrect. This is the same with many possible questions.

This specific scenario happens on my local Nextdoor groups all the time. I've answered responded with what I think is pretty clear and concise information, and then seem that same person ask the same question the very next day in a new thread. (And the next day, and the next...) I cannot help but conclude they're not really looking for an answer.
I mean there are a lot of questions that can be posed, but are computationally intractable to answer. Think of the traveling salesman problem. Or worse - the halting problem.
The Rockefellers (and anyone else burying their money) don't earn the high interest rates, but higher interest rates for everyone else are necessary to push inflation down to zero. Other generally wealthier savers will benefit from that compound interest, but anyone who borrows money will be worse off. That's a lot of productive poorer people's purchasing power reduced to preserve that of people who choose not to participate in the economy
fwiw I enjoyed the article, i agreed with some of them, disagreed with the others, but overall I liked the perspectives presented in the article...

can you elaborate more on the "Don’t pipe into case statements" point though? Not entirely what you're saying with this one as there isn't any explanation why one might be better/worse than the other, other than aesthetic/personal preference. Needing to access the result from the previous pipe in the case maybe?
What operating frequency did you use? I got the RPi4 mentioned in the article and I run OpenWrt on it as my home router. I got it configured to AC mode, 40 MHz width, and I easily hit 100Mbps.

I live in an apartment though, I wouldn't trust it to cover much of a house. Also it's struggling with keeping 10+ devices connected. But speed is not bad! I prefer it over the retail routers I got hooked up as access points.
Maybe they can fund improving of standards and, for example audits of widely used open source projects. Also some give some protection for people who find vulnerable systems: legal threats should not be an acceptable response to reporting security issues. I understand that the government is interested in having security holes to exploit, but you need to choose.
A program to fix municipal and state IT systems security should help too.
regarding simple cars.

I think it's a damn shame that the opportunity for truly simple cars isn't occurring with the advent of mass market EVs. I suppose that ever-increasing safety concerns will push for cars that are more complex.
This has always been true... and always been illegal.
> And the more they engage with anti-vaxxers the more ammunition anti-vaxxers will think they have and the more they'll dig into their beliefs. It's not good.

Isn't there some analogy with the immune system to be made here?

Anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers and the like function like an aggressor. They make bizarre, tiresome, persistent claims, and arguing with them earnestly is like going down a rabbit hole. Like some sibling comment said, anti-science people often dishonestly start their conversations by "asking questions" and wanting you to be "open minded", but spending time and energy on this is usually futile.

After a while, you (the "immune response" in this analogy) start taking the easy way out, no longer answering earnestly, just taking cheap shots at the flat-earther/anti-vaxxer, and just want them to shut up, stop spreading misinformation, and go away.

In the way of all this, the truth and the scientific method get simplified, dumbed down or outright destroyed, much like an out of control immune response may turn against your own body and harm it.

(I'm sure my analogy is flawed, but I kinda like it!)
I can't speak for Google, but something like this would be my guess:

Google has an issue with public perception where people avoid its products because Google's AI is creepy. The idea that the Internet knows too much about you is definitely a Thing in the culture.

Also, Google knows that people perceive it as not diverse, and not good to minorities or other protected groups who work for it.

Google wants to be perceived as a serious company that takes its obligations to the world and to the computer science community (open source, AI research, etc.) seriously.

Finally, somebody like Dr. Gebru, who is genuinely smart and knowledgeable, can probably make Google's products better in the process (per the article, sounds like she did).

Google believes it will do more business by some reasonable amount (perhaps not huge, so long as it's more than Dr. Gebru's compensation) if it appears to be addressing these three things above, in the eyes of at least some of the people who care about those things, and even if it doesn't, the work Dr. Gebru actually does is work Google thinks will help it make money by making its products better.

Put another way: If Dr. Gebru is a smart, productive, diverse face for Google's AI, it is much easier to believe Google's AI is friendly and "ethical" than if it's some white business-guy with no credentials, at least amongst the constituencies Google would like to convince to support it, and Dr. Gebru has knowledge areas Google wants to exploit for profit, just like any employee. If Dr. Gebru is the face of this part of Google's business, more people will be willing to come and work for Google on it, and, presumably, to eventually buy or at least not badmouth Google's services.

So it's not a direct line to profit. It's public perception --> hiring ability --> profit, or public perception --> marketing --> profit, or making GMail's suggestions less sexist --> avoid scandal --> avoid loss of profit. But all of this pales in comparison to public critique of Google's products --> perception problems --> loss of profit, plus it probably hurts a bunch of peoples' feelings internally, so Dr. Gebru is fired.

Does that help clarify?
It does not such thing.

In fact, by saying there is no way to differentiate, it implies the distinction is not that relevant.
People were promoting two things: (a) that the economy should be fully re-opened because Ivermetctin/HCQ would solve the problem of hospitalisations and (b) that vaccine development was as such unnecessary.

Both were completely wrong. Ivermetctin/HCQ has being actively used around the world for over a year and it has not "solved" the issue of deaths due to COVID.
"I have far far more important things to do"

And your employees have far far more important things to do than commute 5-20 hours every week so they can sit at a desk and stare at a screen and occasionally be physically present in meetings where everyone stares at a screen. We have screens at home.
1. There are (perhaps silly) reasons for newsletters to have tracking which is that if you send them to people who don’t read them then, even though it’s easy to unsubscribe, big mail hosts (eg Google) can down rank your host in their spam filters. Worse still, some users treat the spam button as “please delete this thing I am not interested in” but that is not really how the signal is interpreted by the mail host. The solution is for newsletters to auto-unsubscribe users if they seem to stop interacting with the emails.

2. The actual threat to the newsletter boom is that advertisers realise that, just like every other fad format before, newsletters aren’t a particularly better way to reach audiences, and so they will stop paying so much for the ad space. Or they will move on to some other fad format and demand will fall off a cliff.
> e.g. cloning a slice.

https://golang.org/pkg/builtin/#copy
The average pro-science person on Facebook primarily is approached by an anti-science person looking for public confrontation. I didn't see your post, but I'd imagine looking around you could find many questions similar to yours being asked in bad faith. While I agree your question _isn't_ bad faith, the surface level hallmarks are there. Question about the expedited testing process, context includes a reason to worry about safety if there isn't a scientific answer, then concluded by anecdotes of stumped medical professionals as if to give credibility to the concerns. I'm aware that a close read of this post shows you have a genuine question, but I can also see why it blends in well in a sea of "But we don't know the vaccine is safe" posts.
There’s no such thing as HIPPA. It’s HIPAA. And it’s nowhere near as broad in terms of privacy as most people believe - it’s extremely targeted in that regard.
Did those people who hit the spam button subscribe to the newsletter or were they subscribed without their consent? Seems odd that people would go to the trouble of subscribing to a newsletter only to send it to the spam folder. On the other hand if they didn't (go through the trouble of subscribing), then it is spam.
> I’m never going back to an office unless they pay for my gas, mileage, time spent in traffic, office wardrobe, etc.

What's the difference between 150K job that additionally pays for those things and 170K job that doesn't pay for them?
Eh, my problem is that it's a bit of a tragedy of the commons situation. Yes, of course it's the best case scenario for an individual if 1. we eradicate COVID 2. they don't need to get vaccinated.

The problem is if we allow that sort of mentality to propagate unchallenged, then everyone wants to be one of the select few who take on zero personal risk but see all the benefit of an immunized herd. And then you don't end up with an immunized herd and society loses, tragedy-of-the-commons style.
Well then the flip side is that we're also no worse off working remote.
Shouldn't he claim it?
Blood clots from the adenovirus vector vaccines are far more lethal than the myocarditis. A good fraction die because the clot happens to be CVST (in the brain).

The mRNA vaccines seem to be the safest overall, although there is curiously little data coming in from inactivated virus vaccines. I'd be interested in seeing if they cause similar issues as the other two.