skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've used pivot tables in Excel or Google Sheets, you'll know that you have:

A) rows and columns

B) values

Dimensions are things you might include in A.

Facts (or measures) are things you can aggregate, and would be part of B.

In the old days, you often couldn't quickly (on demand) compute the answer to a question, due to memory and processing limitations.

But, if you could decide ahead of time what dimensions and facts you wanted, you could compute all the little slices, e.g. value of sales in the north region by salesperson Bob in month July 1996.

Then, when you needed some particular pivot table, your software could provide it to you just by summing these precomputed slices.

The OL in OLAP stands for 'online', i.e. you'd do your analytical processing ('AP') live, rather than waiting for some long-running batch job.
It does still evaporate, it just condenses back to liquid shortly after. I don't understand the thermodynamics very well, but isn't the point of steam to carry heat _away_ from the plant? I'm wondering if the catch is that the plant would then have to deal with hot water removal instead of just venting straight up and out.

Also,

> What’s more, in many arid coastal areas power plants are cooled directly with seawater. This system would essentially add a water desalination capability to the plant, at a fraction of the cost of building a new standalone desalination plant, and at an even smaller fraction of its operating costs since the heat would essentially be provided for free.

This seems like a no-brainer and it's surprising to me that it doesn't already work this way.
aaaand... the site is down [1]. But this seems to be related to [2].

[1] http://prolifewhistleblower.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28414361
But they tend to do if there's a temporary price shock. Think hard drives after the thailand floods or gpus during and after a cryptomining boom/bust cycle. Or used car prices after the cash for clunkers bill.
Do they though? As I understand it the PCR tests aren’t designed to distinguish between variants.

We run more intensive sequencing assays on some subset of patients to assess in a statistical way the spread and emergence of variants. This would be prohibitively expensive and time consuming to run for everyone with a positive PCR result
I have also seen it posed this way: Label that 2nd person as someone sitting on the other end of a sofa with you. If someone on the same sofa that way were constantly criticizing you, would you keep listening to them or paying them any notice?
I struggled with the accounting concepts until I stumbled on this blogpost from Martin Kleppmann: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-compu.... After that I finally 'got' the accounting graph, and I don't care too much about the medium or the software anymore (its a google sheet in my case).
Now imagine the care taken when applying this technology to dating sites, and other social services; for clustering or recommendation engines, or prediction services. This whole field is a joke, that refuses any introspection.
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Pretty clearly, forty-plus years of sustained warnings and criticisms[1] of increasing surveillance and security failures have failed to have any substantive influence on the industry.

It's not that the concerns aren't justified. It's that they're far too complex to be communicated and grasped by the public as a whole, and they facilitate far too much by way of immediate profit and market advantage to the vendors who will more than happily ignore the warnings.

A boycott by the vanishingly small fraction of the market which does fully grasp the issue is no threat at all.

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Notes:

1. See: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105074933053020193
I found a passively cooled x86 box that I run openwrt on. It's got 6 Intel gigabit NICs and I use Proxmox to virtualize guests. OpenWrt is one of those guests, as is Home Assistant which controls various home automation things. I posted about it on Reddit a while ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/hzvfih/new_router_...

At the time it had much better hardware at a similar price to more popular brands like Protectli and Qotom. Not sure what the scene is currently, but there a bunch of similar offerings on AliExpress.
By this logic, you should start using racial slurs in a positive way.
An interesting bit about the internals and development of the BO code:
The BO server was written in C and consisted mostly of a single while(1){ switch(command): ... } loop, the only functions were where callbacks were required, and it reused the same 5 variables in main() for everything. I got feedback from more than one security professional that this made it very difficult to reverse engineer. I think when I was writing it my concern was minimal overhead, and not using the stack must save SOME important resources?

When Dildog wrote BO2k I gave him the BO source to start with, he claims he rewrote everything from scratch and seemed a bit horrified by my code, which was never intended for distribution.

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"the best support experience I've ever had" < this, for Linux, is a great deal. System76 is a steal.
> The app includes 13 free works, to be immediately scanned and explored. Via an in-app-purchase the remaining 22 works can be activated for 4,99 Euro.

Hey, a reasonable pricing scheme! I like the idea of being able to attend this with a few friends for free, and then chip in a few bucks if we decide it's worth seeing the rest. I genuinely wish more freemium models looked like this, I'd probably spend a hell of a lot more on IAPs.
This explains the shortage in very fast chips, but why do cars etc. have a chip shortage? Cant they use slower chips with fewer transistors that hopefully can be manufactured more easily by more companies?
In under 1.5 of them, humans went from first heavier than air flight to walking on the moon. In around another 1 of them, we flew a helicopter on Mars. It’s utterly bananas to think of the pace of progress in our lifetime and immediately prior.
And their cloud is no longer avoidable.
Yup. And at the per-theme level if I notice an anomaly I just check it. “Oh my chequing took a $1500 dip in its usual pattern… let’s skim the account… ah yea there it is, we bought that sectional for the patio.”
Be that as it may, those people are not learning about it from Gizmodo or from the .net site. Likely the fact that Godaddy deplatformed it gave them the biggest boost in eyeballs they could ever hope for. And that's what led to the media attention. But it's hubris for the press to think they can suppress basic facts and make them go away; it just looks dishonest, propagandistic, and as if they're all going off the same memo. You can't make bad ideas go away by pretending they don't exist.
Why is AGI the goal instead of continuing to augment human intelligence with better tools?
good point, though not necessarily true for the upstream outputs they consume!
Voting for someone is power every citizen has. That’s a very attenuated power that doesn’t give people meaningful power over other people.

You want to talk about racial wealth inequality? Rural white Trump voters don’t have any power over that, Wall Street and Silicon Valley do.

You want to talk about police in American cities shooting unarmed Black men? Trump supporters in rural Minnesota had no say over the Minneapolis police department that employed Derek Chauvin, or the mayor that supervised him.

You want to talk about lack of education and opportunities? Who has control over the schools in Wilmington, DE, where I used to live? Not Trump voters in rural Delaware. Who destroyed the port city’s economy, creating concentrated Black poverty downtown, by shipping Pennsylvania manufacturing jobs up the river over to China? It wasn’t rural white people.

Whatever the condemnable personal prejudices of these people, they have little power to actually hurt Black and brown people as a whole group.
Beside large trucks being generally popular, there’s also regulatory reasons that are pushing smaller and cheaper cars out of the market. Even if dodge wanted to make that exact Dakota again, there’s at least a handful of regulatory reasons they couldn’t.
Corporate ad-spend funds the woke stories. Apple doesn't want to buy iPhone ads for stories about how Apple has 300,000 Chinese working for $3 an hour making iPhones that sell for over $1000 (with a gross profit margin exceeding 50%) while minorities in the USA can't find work that pays rent.
> Ah - once again most of my problems would be solved if only I was super-rich.

You'd have to be just as rich to acquire the equipment to "verify the checksums" of whatever dead-virus vaccine you believe to be superior.

> My employer has a vaxx mandate

Good for them.
What does AI Safety mean in this context?
Since the owner of the fake site is an employee of the Texas Democratic Party the laws may be grey.
I'm not sure what public interest is served by allowing people to post your work verbatim on a monetized account with no attribution.
Ok, but can you do similar things on Windows or Linux or xBSD on the M1? I can on my Intel Macs. If you sacrifice your computing freedom, you will be supporting the development of incompatible locked down black boxes, like the M1, and promoting the monoculture of the single OS that run on each of them. Imagine a future where only locked down devices are available from Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Nvidia etc. etc. all incompatible with each other. And due to the locked down black box nature of their devices, you have to buy a developer license for each device to program on it? Both developers and consumers can be better exploited with such devices.
Why are lockdowns insane for a novel, highly transmittable and deadly and mutating virus for which there was no vaccine and although there is now it is not rolled out enough globally yet.
In capitalism there is a very simple solution for shortages: price increases. People still haven't realized that the solution is just to increase prices until only enough people afford the products, so there won't be shortages anymore.
Mirror brain cells? Modeling other minds? as factors?
This idea that either they build AGI or nothing seems like a false binary to me? Like other startups, there’s a chance that that they build something interesting and profitable that isn’t AGI. (I’m thinking that the odds of that are higher than those for AGI.)
Well it goes quite a bit further than that, and it’s celebrated in other parts of the state (I remember burning of Zozobra in Farmington in early 90s)
Advocating for a SEO war against a site you politically disagree with is childish. the site in question, is really mild mannered and not in any way trying to harm individuals or prevent anyone from exercising their rights under texas law.

"Now that you know we hope you will help us by making sure that we don’t encourage their site spreading, instead we want them to be forgotten."

And never let people read what they're advocating for or against?

"Any Texan can bring a lawsuit against an abortionist or someone aiding and abetting an abortion after six weeks. If these individuals are proved to be violating the law, they have to pay a fine of at least $10,000."

This is just Texas being Texas. trying to hide what the law states will only make things worse. not that I endorse lawsuit vigilantism.

[webarchive link since the site is down] https://web.archive.org/web/20210818200444/https://prolifewh...
I’m a dude and Chinese people call me “she” all the time… I just shrug it off and move on
And sociological surveys seem to agree that the TV intro did make people stupider on average.
I was checking out Linux laptops last night and came across Star Labs (https://starlabs.systems/) who look pretty interesting. They're based in the UK and seem to be focusing on thoroughly testing their machines on as many Linux variants as possible.

However, they don't seem to offer machines with serious graphics cards -- Intel only. That's fine for me, but you mention Nvidia and gaming so perhaps a deal breaker for you.
"Explaining" wouldn't magically turn a lot of nihilists I agree. A dyed in the wool as you said would not even listen to an explanation, she would hear it, and camp on their no position. There is something contradictory about nihilists, only their view is valid. The view that no view other than theirs is better than any other, and even if some obviously are, they are meaningless anyway. Unless it impacts them as individuals of course.

I'm not arguing that a discussion with an entrenched Nihilist has much chance to have value, but since I'm not a Nihilist I see value in that discussion, even when it was a lost cause.
The linked repo isn't from the NSA, it's from armosec. Who, afaict, don't have zero days in their possession.
Seattle, 2019: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/06/ethn-d06.html

> School district leaders in Seattle, Washington recently released a proposal to incorporate ethnic studies in the mathematics curriculum at all levels from kindergarten through grade 12. This initiative is part of an ongoing redesign of the district’s entire core subject curricula based on identity politics. The plan will be reviewed and voted on by the school board before the next academic year.

> Published by an Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee (ESAC), the new math curriculum is based on four major themes. These do not include, as one might think, numerical literacy, logic and problem-solving, or reasoning by analogy. Instead, the framework for K-12 will be Origins, Identity, and Agency, identified as “the ways in which we view ourselves as mathematicians”; Power and Oppression, based on the “disenfranchisement” of “people and communities of color”; History of Resistance and Liberation, the “stories, places and people who helped liberate people and communities of color using math, engineering and technology”; and Reflection and Action, urging young people to identify “mathematicians of color” and empower “their identities as mathematicians.”

Note the complete lack of 'math proficiency' theme. Fortunately it appears the proposal has not made it into the actual curriculum. https://www.seattleschools.org/departments/mathematics.
He is arguing about the total fatality rate, rather than the IFR. It is feasible for those to go in different relative directions with a more infectious but less deadly disease.
The development priorities of Minecraft are a little strange. They have had a lot of opportunities to increase extensibility and performance (see modding API, cubic chunks, etc) but were too slow about it or focused on other things. AFAIK the long-term vision is to move the game entirely to the C++ clients which are much more performant, but a lot of the core playerbase is still on Java for modding and platform compatibility.
This is exactly what's happening. Chips in high-demand have gotten very expensive. https://blog.flipperzero.one/manufacturing-and-shipping-upda...
Aren’t most of the power efficiency gains from integration and miniaturization? If you’re charging/discharging a larger amount per bit, it’s going to take more power than a smaller (physically and electrically) equivalent would. That tends to work against practical field repairs (other than replacing at the IC or subassembly level).
This explains the connection to classical liberalism and the confusion of these terms pretty well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_in_the_United_S...

You see that historically libertarianism follows directly from classical liberalism. They just changed the name.
With tailwind, it's sort of assumed that you're using e.g. React components. So all buttons will look the same because you'll import the button component, that's defined in a separate style.

Pollen seems to me closer to bootstrap: define classes for each thing, and then use them everywhere.

If you're designing a page or site without breaking your HTML into separate components, I can see the point of Pollen.

(I am not a front-end expert, and my opinion is based on my limited experience using bootstrap, tailwind and tailwindui+react.)
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Few people consider a deflating economy a "solution".
Looking from NZ you look like you're on a theocratic fascist heading. Ballot box seems to have failed, protest becoming illegal, country becoming intellectual backwater (libs seem to hate all science and arts). No Australians I know want to touch polics as people who are in are so vindictive. Sorry, don't have answers, only a looming sense of dread.
I Became a Boomerang Employee
Why is a Dollar like a Neanderthal
My time to shine.

BO and NetBus nearly got me arrested on the Friday before my Prom.

I want to tell the rest of this story, but I worry about the statue of limitations and whether the crimes committed are still prosecutable.

I didn’t, at the time, realize what we were doing outside “near, we’re in the ISP’s computers?” but, uh, I found out when the Detectives knocked on my door and took a 16-year-old me downtown to discuss “what I’ve been up to on your computer.”

That story ends with my friend getting kicked out of High School, The HIPAA law guidelines being drafted around some of his actions, then his passing away of an unknown heart issue at 20.

His naive partner-in-crime going on to having a great career in IT.

Side note: we had almost every teacher’s Netware login before we graduated. =)
Sounds like most American metropolitan areas.
Would their majesty be an acceptable pronoun?
Japanese Kei trucks newer than 25 years old are pretty regularly imported into the US as Low Speed Vehicles (LSVs), which are permitted on streets with speed limits of 35mph or less. I'm not sure of the exact regulatory requirements for importing vehicles under this rule but it must be fairly relaxed as there's a number of small companies doing this. So you may have options for using a newer Kei truck around town.

A lot of the vehicles you see on Catalina Island, for example, are sold under the LSV rule and also popular as things like campus vehicles.
+1

Some of my favorite random people I’ve met, I met playing in various games then gave them my Discord channel.

Good, good times.
I don't see how the .net site hides what the law states...? Its front page contains the same text as the .com site, with some snark-up.
This I must try.
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I have yet to see hard data on it, but the folks that have been in the trenches doing client-side mods on Minecraft swear that J9 is the superior JVM for the latest versions of Minecraft (1.16+). I don't know that anyone has really done a proper benchmark.
What are you comparing to? The number of Linux-focused vendors is pretty slim. Would love to hear about better vendors you've found!
> This does not follow from increasing inequality. The poor do not get poorer, rich just get richer (faster).

The poor stay poor. The lower-middle class becomes poor.
Kinda like the "crisis pregnancy centers" put up by anti-abortion activists to ensnare women who think they're going for an abortion? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/16/georgia-abor...
It seems easier than ever to me - you click the github Network link and see which fork has forks itself.

It'd be nice if github could show some activity metric alongside all those forks too I guess. If only they accepted pull requests!
Yeah, now at least it's AFL++ finding more bugs than your fancy symbolic execution tool instead of a 15yo's fuzzer ;)
Woah, totally! I feel the need to write this one down. I was in high school when BO arrived. We had such a blast scanning the local dial-up ISP since we know the subnet block they always used, it was fast because it was all within their hardware. Anyway, we noticed a webcam on a computer we discovered, which was very rare at the time, but it was turned off. So we sent a pop-up window that said something like. "system configuration required, please power on all peripherals". And it worked! We were able to capture a short clip and download it. Well, it was uncompressed AVI and a 6 second clip was like 1.6 MB, so it took tens of minutes to get it. When we played it, it was just some dumpy guy with his dumpy wife sitting in the background mumbling stuff; but to us, it was totally 31337...
I agree with what you pointed out about subjectivity. I think it’s still worth discussing though to serve as a warning to others who act with their own best intentions only to have them get bitten. Without calling this out it just always leans on the malicious side which doesn’t trend with reality in my experience.

In terms of end users driving decisions ultimately, I agree. That said, this is a discussion forum so I figured it was open for discussion and assumed that folks would be deciding on their own how to react to the change.

I guess this all depends on what we think we’re having a discussion about!
While attending a training event, I talked to a pilot who flew cargo for a Tier 1 supplier to North American auto manufacturers. He had several stories of flying a jet with just a handful of boxes on board to avoid the line-down penalties.

My favorite was tower advising them they’d be fined for a departure during local curfew. “Roger, we better get our money’s worth then” and did a max performance takeoff and turn on course with whatever parts they were carrying.
> The US has excellent freight rail network. They lease their lines to Amtrak, but they only have secondary priority. Passenger trains often have to wait behind slow freight, or even allow freight trains to pass them.

This is only partially true, as I understand it. Amtrak has highest priority, as long as it stays within its schedule windows. When two trains pass as scheduled, Amtrak always gets the main line, and the freight has to wait in a siding. However, if Amtrak is delayed, and misses its window, then it has to wait, as freight does not have to give up its spot and be delayed to let amtrak make up time.
I know that. It seems like a given for this forum and topic specifically that I am not ignorant of that.
Or if not getting pregnant is that important to you, just don't have sex.

That's the only option for men who want to be sure to avoid legal obligations for the act.
I have two System76 laptops I bought over the past 4 years and I love them both. We use them daily for a whole variety of tasks and they've been stable and and have only required minimal attention (OS upgrades, mostly). Can't recommend System76 enough. I use Pop!_OS on all my non-System76 machines as well (an old Alienware desktop, a Lenovo laptop, and the Framework laptop I'm typing this from) and it's been fantastic across the board. Better defaults around privacy and the tendency to simplify power-user features like window-tiling and drop it right into the default interface. It's a great OS.

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Related: Estimates of 20 Mbits/sec of visual bandwidth, versus 20 bits/sec of [attention?]. Or compare the non-verbal synchrony of a good pair in conversation, versus a written transcript.
no it is not. no shell/root access other than ssh into a different server, which is just silly. I use an iPad for some things, some times and have tried to get a dev environment set up on it and it is just not where it needs to be at all.

an iPhone is equally as *capable as an iPad for a local dev env
I just purchased a new Lemur Pro. Is it possible Clevo hardware is now improved since you saw it? The build quality seems fine to me, comparable to other PCs. That said as a long time Mac user I didn't have high expectations.