skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a founder that went through Techstars, not YC so maybe not exactly similar but accelerators want you to wait to Demo Day to have any investor talks while VCs want to get in early. Much like experienced used goods resellers will attempt to pick through yard sales early - no competition leads to investor friendlier terms. So an investor telling YC candidates not to wait to have these conversations isn’t exactly news. (Question whether waiting makes sense, but these are the dynamics.)
The Mythic Bilingual Advantage in Children’s Executive Functioning
There are the APIs in iOS to do this (Apple80211.framework) but it is a private API and any app that uses it will not get accepted to the App Store.

Edit: It looks like Apple’s done some switching around since I last hacked on it but this page is helpful: http://newosxbook.com/articles/11208ellpA-II.html
Have you checked the requirements page? It's only supported on certain processors.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360043484511
States with legal weed have seen accident numbers increase. The reasons why are more nuanced than that statement implies.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyamohn/2021/06/21/crash-rate...
There are two possibilities:

1) You're missing something.

2) Everyone else is missing something. That includes organizations like the EFF.

In terms of missing nuance: What Facebook is doing absolutely and completely different from what Apple is doing. You should take time to understand why Apple's approach is so utterly repulsive, while I'm 100% in support of Facebook's.

There are distinctions other than your "ONLY distinctions." You should take time to understand what those are, and why they're important. As a hint, those have to do with where users might or might not have expectations of privacy, with due process, and with who owns what.
Yeah anything is on the table. Since Covid my job has become full time WFH and while they haven’t told us we are going back to an office they got rid of the lease on the building in the country I’m in so there actually isn’t an office in country anymore.
How much of their many successes is due to abilities versus timing? The period they invested their initial PayPal fortunes in was in the nasccent Web 2.0 era. They had the benefit of capital from the PayPal exit, plus an up to date understanding of modern web capabilities, plus the initial open source platforms and leverage, plus a great deal of learning about what didn't work in the .COM 1.0 bubble.

Plus intelligence, inventiveness and drive.
I did set up a keylogger in a internet café.

It used to log keystrokes but also the title of the window.

Well... I wasn't looking for anything in particular, I was to about 12-13 and just into computers and didn't even have internet at home.

Well to make it short, there was a lot of porn websites visiting. At all times of the day.

Which in retrospect is immensely weird considering this was a public place.
This is my approach. If sovereign governments don't want to regulate in my interests and protect me from surveillance capitalism, I'm simply going to take every route I can find to opt out of the whole enterprise. I already have started just turning off my phone for the majority of the day and opted out of all the major social networks. Hopefully a sufficient critical mass of people take this route such that it destroys enough economic value to push society in a better direction with meaningful trust and security guarantees, but in the meantime as long as the entire digital ecosystem is untrustworthy and actively antagonistic towards me, I'd rather just have nothing to do with it.
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>the doses are higher

The dose is how much you take. If the paste is 1.87% it is pretty simple to get the whatever-milligram human dose from that. Agreed on possible impurities.

>[HCQ] you can’t take the version for aquariums

That is hydrochloroquine phosphate. Not the human medication hydrochloroquine sulfate.

I don’t think it’s fair to compare those at all, very much different things. Yes, they have the same prefix, different chemical. Not the same thing in a human and none human form.

To my knowledge the only people to have taken that is a couple where the wife was at least temporarily accused of poisoning her husband.

As where Ivermectin the brand name in horse paste is the same chemical as ivermectin in human medication, right?
The Atlantic wrote an article that does not agree with you.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-pur...
We don't know that that's not the case. There have been many studies so far, some of which showed significant positive results and others which showed no benefit. The science remains unclear. That's why the NIH has prioritized ivermectin for a large scale clinical trial.

https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initi...
New Lindy
T-Mobile hacker claims responsibility for breach Here's how to protect your data
I agree with you to some extent, but we have to agree on a line somewhere.

For instance, I don't think cloudflare is required to host a site. Millions of entities online are able to function without cloudflare or godaddy.

So where do we draw the line for basic web infrastructure? To me it seems like the ISP is a good place to start. If you have internet, you could host a site on hardware yourself, or with a minor hire
Hint: Replace the instance name with "twiiit.com" and it automatically redirects to a random, online instance.

https://twiiit.com/
Great docs. This would have made an indispensable tool in college. (Also, though, I took physics before I started CS, so I really didn’t know my way around basic programming).
This so much.

If you tie your identity, your idviduality, your importance to your melanin amount or ethnicity you are racist. You are dividing up humans into "us and them". You are using it to set yourself apart, to make yourself different (which inevitably leads to divisiveness and bigotry because you've divided up humanity) and to stake out a claim of ownership on some part of human culture.

It's not your culture it is our culture. We are all humans. All culture is human culture.

Bigotry will persist for as long as people invest importance and value into ancestral and cultural differences between groups. Whether as a positive (celebrate X culture) or negative (blame Jews).

Obviously, until we view ourselves as united, as one. We will remain divided.
That still has nothing to do with alternative math, but teaching.
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The space for potential edge cases are so large it will be wack mole.

Inference tasks isn’t like software testing where the states are well defined.
> Well, it does break pihole.

Sure, but that's only because your computer can't distinguish your Pi-hole blocking DNS to block ads from an evil ISP blocking DNS to censor you. And if your device supports DoH, can't you just point it to one of the many publicly-available DoH servers, or set up a DoH server on your Pi-hole and then point at that?

> It breaks SNI (Server Name Indication), also heavily used on cloud services

They can just hardcode the IP in the hosts file, not in the client program. Then SNI will still work normally.

> There's better ways to do secure DNS than DoH, like DoT (DNS over TLS)

Then the people who want to do censorship and surveillance will all just block port 853. It's a feature that DoH is hard to distinguish from other HTTPS traffic.

> I like secure DNS but I still want my own server to be the middleman. With DoH this isn't easily possible, especially on mobile due to the root CA issue.

Can't you set up your own DoH server with its own domain name, get a Let's Encrypt certificate for it, then point your mobile device at that?

> DoH is normally implemented using a major player like CloudFlare. Sure, they promise not to look at it. But the phrase "Don't be evil" still is pretty fresh in my mind.

Isn't the alternative that your ISP is definitely looking at it?
The algorithm promotes what you want to see. If you're not interested in silly or stupid things, you can nudge the algorithm towards content you find engaging. It's kinda "one-size-fits-all", but yeah, the average user is looking for entertainment you'd probably classify as 'silly'.
The GOP knows the only way they can keep power in Florida and Texas is by making sure people don’t move there unless they’re super conservative, hence all those stupid laws. The housing crisis in a lot of blue states has made a lot of middle class folks move to those states. Their electorate is mostly non-Hispanic white, non-immigrant and older and their numbers will continue to dwindle over time.
Seeing this thread and so many familiar stories makes me feel right at home. Sub7 was my RAT of choice. My brother and friends weren't very technical, but I taught them to use Sub7 so they could spread the exe around to their friends and we could all have some fun. We were all heavy ICQ users at the time. It wasn't long before we discovered the ICQ send file box had a size limit on the file name field. So you could, say, call the exe "pic-of-me-nude.jpg .exe" with so many spaces in the file name before the .exe part disappeared that most of our male friends would accept it from a "random female" and run it without any hesitation. Needless to say, we opened a lot of CD ROMS and listened in on many chats.
There's a history of emphasizing a closer relationship of some racial groups to the rest of the animal kingdom as a way of othering them or implying their nature/capabilities are more animal-like and less human-like.

So while it's technically true all humans are primates, the selective emphasis and its connotations is an issue.

(Weirdly, there's some substantial overlap between people who take offense at the idea they're related to other primates and feel a little freer to emphasize the relationship of a human out-group to other primates, which possibly illuminates something about the problems.)
This essay is delightful. And masterfully written. FWIW, in my own version of What I Suppose Brain Surgery on Klingons Would Be Like the Klingons stay awake and are mainly just annoyed because you're wasting their time.
That isn't what it got sued for. That all would have opened them to court sanctions and copyright claims, but that isn't the lawsuit that Peter Thiel bankrolled, probably because those things wouldn't have been enough to destroy Gawker.

Instead, Thiel bankrolled a lawsuit for invasion ift privacy and emotional distress, because there's no ceiling on jury awards in cases like that.
I am very surprised that there has not been a Burning Woman movement, figuratively at least.
Our statements were qualitatively different. Compare:

A) Each living human has 2 legs

B) Sharlin has 2 legs

Taken literally, B is a subset of A, so A is the stronger statement.

But in normal speech, it's clear that when someone makes a claim about members of a large group, they're making a statement that usually applies to members of that group. And not claiming to have specific knowledge of every single member.

Because statement B is more specific, I probably need more specific data before I make it.
Remote Tiny Island Only Has 56 Residents. Is the Place to Escape It All?
Not really wanting to delve into the touchy issue of this particular ai fuckup, but it got me thinking about the issue of using ai to compartmentalize and categorize things in general.

This is a very obvious example of how bad it can be. Regular complaints from people about ai recommendation engines and most other similar ai driven tagging systems exist.

What i wonder though is on a more subtle level, how these ai categorizers are quietly altering our perceptions of things and the world?

We notice when it's something obvious like the story in the OP, but how many quiet little mistakes do we just ignore or not notice that on a subconcious level are changing the way we think about or classify things.

More and more it seems like society and all things are being neatly placed in little boxes, where they're filed, stamped, indexed, and numbered by fancy algorithms operating without much human oversight, until something like this happens.

How much of this is subconciously affecting human perception of the world?
> Ensure that at least one signal in every neighborhood is on a U-NII-1 or U-NII-3 channel. This ensures that, even in the case of a radar hit that takes out multiple U-NII-2 channels, at least one channel is available that is not subject to the Dynamic Frequency Selection rules and will not have to change channels.

I don't understand this, can someone explain this in layman terms? Are they near some military base similar to how 2.4 GHz WiFis are usually near microwaves that can interfere (except radar is not contained in a Faraday cage)?
This is not accurate. Covid IFR for children < 12 was near 0 in 2020 which is far less risky than flu for that group.

https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid

> Our analysis finds a exponential relationship between age and IFR for COVID-19. The estimated age-specific IFR is very low for children and younger adults (e.g., 0.002% at age 10 and 0.01% at age 25)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33289900/
Religion and familial status as protected classes disprove your “immutability” thesis.
Those headlines, if they were ever to be written, are a hell of a lot more tame than the ones Microsoft has generated in the past.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/micro...
I applaud you to join Facebook PR team. You might be the cure the internet needs where we gain the critical momentum for antitrust action.
Wow I must be quite behind on systemd indeed. It's been a few years. Is there any isolation offered like you would get with docker or is that a tradeoff?

Edit: looking at the docs is that system-nspawn that's actually doing the heavy lifting. For Linux namespaces. I feel like this has great potential!
What to Expect in Python 3.10
Makes sense. That syringe on the horse paste is insane anyone would trust that. But if you were to measure a sub-gram amount on a good scale, that seems a lot safer than taking almost any recreational drug besides pot.
> Telling brown kids that society is systemically racist against them when it isn’t true does harm. It divides them from their white peers and makes them look for racism where it might not exist.

Okay, but it is true. We have the history and numbers to know that.

https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/ending-systemic-rac...

https://mitibmwatsonailab.mit.edu/research/blog/black-loans-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dimawilliams/2020/06/03/in-ligh...

Perhaps second grade is too young, but omitting this reality from k-12 completely would be as blind as omitting buffer overflow attacks from a course on memory architectures.

Things are as they are because of how they were (and still are).
Then don't use Comcast. You need a dedicated service, such as Verizon's T1 offerings. ToS is here:

https://www.verizon.com/business/terms/aup/

But to return to the Comcast AuP for a moment. Their stated goals are:

"In general, the Policy prohibits uses and activities involving the Service that are illegal, infringe the rights of others, or interfere with or diminish the use and enjoyment of the Service by others."

Do you see believe that someone ought to be allowed to do what the texas site was doing? Do you believe that Comcast's policy is actually wrong? Do you feel a need to support an organization that tries to collect information in that way (regardless of the intended purpose) ?

Because to me, there are two ways of looking at this question:

1. Should anyone be able to use an internet connection and/or a hosting service to be able to collect information supposedly about other people?

2. Should anyone be allowed to make available any data they want to via an internet connection and/or a hosting service?

My answer to (2) is essentially an firm yes, with exceptions for illegal material and some wobbliness on copyright.

My answer to (1) is a firm no, and even though it would require "hosting" something, the denial of service is based on the data collection rather than data being made available.

It is possible that no ISP will offer you even a dedicated T1 and allow you to engage in (1). My take on that is that you can still host whatever you want, despite being prohibited from engaging in certain kinds of data collection.
This made me smile — such an “MIT thing” to say in the middle of an IT infrastructure document: “There is no possible 3-coloring of any space below the 9th floor of Stata.”
> What's euphemistic about my phrasing?

Why would you otherwise feel the need to rephrase it and are still unable to explain the practical difference?

> A deal isn't a coercive act. Having a metaphorical gun to one's head is to practice labor is.

Yes, and for the masses without property? I think I hinted at indirect coercion by "to feed yourself".

and I have no interests in going off into some USDA tangent.
"Stay out of politics!"

Companies halt political donations.

"Not like that!"
Oh I guess I looked into some build dependencies because there were actually none . This is actually a good thing more libraries should do. So I guess the only downside would be that potentially versioned dependencies/breaking changes need to be managed one level above if you want to use those parts. Is there actually a good way manage "supported" optional dependencies in python?
What "outrage machine?" I don't see anyone being outraged. The article doesn't project or describe any outrage, no one in this thread seems to be outraged. (yet.)
I think you're missing the point of parent comment (or at least the point I'd be making) - it's not that those descriptions make it seem like the business will fail, it's that those descriptions make me not care whether or not they fail. I suspect the person you replied to, like me, isn't disappointed because they want to cheer on a possible unicorn but because they want to cheer on startups that are doing interesting things.
Another aspect of getting in front of it is that forests make their own weather. An ecosystem has a microclimate, and when you remove it the microclimate shifts much faster than the climate does. The empty field they are eyeballing for a forest is going to be a much harder prospect for the native trees than an intact forest will be.

This is especially true of temperate forests, and temperate forests are, according to current understanding, the ones that sequester by far the most carbon. It’s partly to do with the soil being fungally dominant. Fungal soils also create their own weather, but they can’t do so if it gets too hot and dry or too tropical. The longer we wait to do something the less land there is to start a temperate forest.
> the Ryzen 9 processor really flexed some impressive muscles ... this is at a considerable power cost as the Apple chip uses 15 W and the AMD part relies on up to 65 W

This seems kind of irrelevant given both are desktop machines, although those would kill it in a server farm
In the UK, you can see a dramatic change in the response to suffrage activism after these sorts of things started. Decades of calm requests went nowhere.
The "upper class" will always use whatever tools are at its disposal to further its own agenda. Doesn't matter what the tools are. The "upper class" has done plenty of Trump band-wagonism, just from evangelical and corporate elite circles. Look back in history: what was Carnegie trying to do with all his libraries? Not pure altruism. What did the "upper class" do with women's lib? Turn women into workers and consumer from whom more profit could be extracted. What has the "upper class" done with concern for the environment? Corporate greenwashing. What has the "upper class" done with religion? Used it for control, from Myanmar and India and Pakistan to the US to the Thirty Years War in the 1600s to Nigeria today.

Just want to keep things in perspective. Everything is a tool when it comes to retention of power: religion, conscience, nature, food. And no one should be fooled. People should all realize the limits of the "support" and strive to do the right thing and treat each other well regardless of those larger forces. Powers & principalities & politics have been discussed since antiquity.
Having just fought it, Docker rootless is a pain to set up and feels like a hack; it's not the default behavior, requires a lot of additional setup to get it working, behaves differently than rootful docker, and lastly most documentation assumes you're using rootful docker because it's been the only way for years.

The fundamental architecture of docker makes rootless awkward but the company needs to compete with podman now which is architected to fix many of Dockers deficiencies while maintaining it's many strengths.

Docker has been a great tool but running as root has always bothered me. I'm glad they're evolving but it feels a little too late and the migration to rootless, as far as I'm concerned, is not simple. Currently I'm investigating migrating my homelab and development efforts to podman.
This doesn’t seem recognizable to me. Do you live in Texas?

(Yeah, parent comment has changed.)
The internet was a tiny niche...for a year or two. By 1998 it blew up. It,s not like there was not intense competion 24 years ago.plenty of ppl showed up but few made a lot of money
> supposedly restrictive voting laws do not generally have more restrictions than blue states such as New York

Can you give any examples to support this?

We have no ID requirement, no questions asked mail-in ballots, early voting, and paper ballots.

The Texas law isn’t all bad. Recording vote counting, paper trails and regulating the removal of voters from rolls is good policy. But the restrictions on early voting and ballot distribution & collection are bad. The limits on urban polling locations are blatantly partisan.
It's not binary. My impression is that most YC companies aren't raising priced rounds at/around Demo Day; these are syndicated seed rounds. They mostly don't have "lead investors". They can happen incrementally over the course of a month.

I'm sure there are companies that have all their round capacity snapped up by single firms, but I don't think that's the norm; I think a bunch of random angels is much closer to the norm.

Which suggests that the "yard sale" phenomenon you're talking about here is mostly not a real thing.
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Regardless of whether they do, the tech that underlies modern image classification approaches (i.e. deep neural networks) is pathologically hard to understand to the point where it's practically impossible to provide the guarantees you're describing. For example, adding noise to a picture of a panda can make a network think it's a gibbon: https://towardsdatascience.com/breaking-neural-networks-with...

That's not to say, of course, that there's nothing to be done. People who aren't white have historically been laughably underrepresented in computer vision datasets, and while that's been changing, I gather that representation still isn't where it needs to be.
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I don't have enough biological knowledge to understand the potential off-target effects of current base editing technology at $BEAM, and I accept your opinion that it's not yet ready for production, but in general what I love about base editing is that there are billions of people living as control / experiment groups, so as long as the off-target effects can be understood and minimized (hopefully in a few years), I don't have to worry too much about the main effect too much.
> It makes me think that any woke PR coming from Facebook is lip service

Corporate PR about anything that isn't concrete things which misleading statements would be both easily revealed and have adverse (e.g., securities-laws-related) consequences is almost 100% lip service, so, yeah, that's a safe assumption, anyway.