skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on the compiler or interpreter. Some don't give very informative messages and indicate a syntax error on a line that may be one or more lines after the actual error. But the syntax highlighting gives an immediate indication that something isn't right.
Are you not insured for that kinda stuff? As long as you don't own the company, that seems like a pretty negligible situation to be in.
That doesn't sound too great for vaccines... 11 times reduction? Shouldn't we expect lot better?
If you're willing to wade through a very long YouTube video, HoagLaw offers a two and a half hour summary of the 185 page judgement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43CMV8KIs3E
If I comment on this post of the news article, have I made a difference in elevating our discourse? I'll point out the same flaws as the article, but add my engagement!
Seems hyperbolic to state, when I'm sure you're using javascript umpteen times daily.

Very arguable that Eich's single handedly more responsible for javascript than Brave, engineering wise.

I'm not a crypto fan, or of adtech, but BAT is atleast a functional solution to directly supporting sites.
You are very right.

Once you are used to the power/freedom available on a Laptop/Desktop Computer you could never get comfortable with the restrictions on a Smartphone. The latter is for less tech-savvy people and almost always used as a media consumption device.
Live in multi-generational family units where the family shares responsibility for (and benefits from) their own elders.
there are people who will actually look down on you if you work at certain big name tech companies,

there are some people who are apologetic that they've worked at FAANGMULA+ like Tristan Harris at google, susan fowler at uber

I think you really should watch Tristan documentary the social dilemma to see what many "lay people" think (the opposite of high regard and awe)

Faang companies impact Is not equal

Facebook is not apple and not google.

Working on Facebook Oculus is in no way equivalent to the culture surrounding google's deep mind.

They are serving drastically different communities.

I think people who are truly conscientious will not care about branding as much as the value of the work they are producing, they will be able to think about it objectively separate from the company brand, they will be okay with working without a big name, and no attention because they trust their own judgment.

this is precisely why I still believe startups have more potential energy than established corporations, regardless of what the cynics think.

when I see anyone thinking about glitz and glamour before what they will actually be doing, I lose trust in their judgment.

impact on project > company brand
Its starwars for AI starters.
Nature News, in November 2020 ( https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03149-9 ) says : "Canines seem to detect coronavirus infections with remarkable accuracy, but researchers say large-scale studies are needed before the approach is scaled up."
If you want to compare the relative historical significance of two events, you should probably limit yourself to the same timeframe. Look at how little had changed in the first 1.7 years after 9/11 and compare it to how much has changed in the pandemic.
I'm amused by how confidently people assume they know whats going on when they're clearly clueless. They're not my customers, I'm not speaking on behalf of my employer. I just in the past have had real information about what is happening in related situations(eg. someone gets banned, post is moderated, technical outages) I find it funny how clueless people are yet act like they're not.

Am i not allowed to find amusement in dumb people? Then maybe use that as a reminder to relax when you don't have all the information.
You might be right. Having also spent time with the Cosmo Communicator, I can vouch that a phone with a keyboard isn't the same thing as a phone-sized laptop. Apart from the hostile platform (which hopefully wouldn't be an issue on the PinePhone), two aspects that make the phone less practical for desktop software are the extremely high aspect ratio, and the lack of any sort of mouse input beyond poking at the screen. These things significantly compromise the desktop experience.

However, I will also say that a touch-type keyboard on a phone is still awesome, and I will certainly be buying a PinePhone+keyboard when it comes out. I live in forlorn hope for the day I can evict Android from my life entirely (the Micro PC does not, alas, make phone calls).
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Mastodon is neither of "established competitors and nimbler startups."
The one standout graph to me from their paper showed that adding these sources in either serial or parallel configuration did not result in a linear increase of either current or voltage. 4x the units resulted in a 3.n multiplier.

That looks to me like the beginning of a limit value that remains tiny. Of course, with only two points we can't tell if it's a curve or a straight line, and that doesn't happen by accident.

In addition, the paper (paraphrased) says repeatedly that they've made thousands and thousands of these devices, and yet their entire serial/parallel exploration is a few combinations in the 4x regime. Nothing is said about throwing 1000+ of them in a row/parallel to see if a stronger signal emerges from the noise.
But where is the part that Americans were at risk if they didn't enter the war, presumably via some kind of invasion?
The solution in my opinion to this problem is to permit euthanasia and for assisted suicide to become culturally accepted as an alternative to a drawn out death of dementia in a care home. The quality of life for many (not all) care home residents who are on these sorts of drug regimens is dire and in reality not entirely for their benefit, as is apparent to everyone including those responsible for oversight like Medicare. This system exists (primarily in the West) due to a combination of taboos surrounding death and profit/political incentives on the part of pharmaceutical and care home companies.
A lot of this has to do with a lack of resources. There isn't enough labor available at home to take of the elderly most of the time and the ones in a home typically require extensive care. My father and mother in law both went to a nursing home because they couldn't perform basic daily activities.
Yup, exactly. Gait is the main thing I've seen too. But there are a whole grab bag of papers about these applications with different methodologies. Stuff like topological data analysis and machine learning are much more fleshed out these days, so these applications don't need to rely as much on rigid models to be accurate. Could be that they're using subtle, noisy information from breathing patterns, for example.

"Device free", "localization", "identification" and "mm wave antenna arrays" are some useful keywords for checking this stuff out on Google scholar. Some other alternatives for "device free" are "passive" and "adversarial". I think I remember one paper where they were identifying dozens of people at once with like 95%+ accuracy. I could be getting the details wrong on that one but it was along those lines.

For the high level overview though, you can just read the 5G industry whitepapers and it pretty clearly spells out that there are privacy implications and I'm sure that these kinds of applications are exactly why.

Remember, higher frequency = more information density = finer resolution. Which is also why these radio waves can't travel through as much stuff... They simply interact with more; more stuff is opaque to them, and as such they carry information about more interactions in their image.
Society is allowed to have an opinion. It’s when that opinion turns into law that it becomes a problem.

Personally I think women who smoke while pregnant are horrible, and I don’t mind saying something to them about it. I don’t think my opinion should have the force of law however.
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> if there is a stable probability, we might converge to it

Yeah, that's the thing I can't figure out from the literature. For example, people say that vaccine X is 90% effective. This means that they ran two groups for some number of weeks, and observed one tenth of infections in one group vs. the other. But what does this mean in terms of individual probabilities? Assume for simplicity that the vaccine immunity lasts forever without decaying. There are still two extreme possibilities consistent with the data, as well as multiple intermediate options. In one extreme, the vaccine sets an immunity bit in each individual, and the unlucky ones will get infected when exposed. In the other extreme, the vaccine somehow increases everybody's activation energy for infection so that, under normal conditions, the probability that an exposure causes an infection is reduced by a factor of 10. In the former case, the steady state is that 10% of the population gets infected eventually, and that's it. In the latter case, you keep going forever with infections per unit time being 10% of what they used to be.
Some people need the office. Some companies run on it. I don't care for it. Maybe we could all just leave each other alone.
It really is a brilliant documentary, even if you have no interest in artificial intelligence or Go.
As someone who manages people for a living, the problems on Team 2 were entirely your manager’s fault.
Thanks for posting this. Binney is really an unknown who deserves more recognition than we could probably give him -- at least as much as Snowden, if not more.

I'm slightly more inclined to believe that the NSA's pre-9/11 behavior was actually "negligence" (as opposed to something else) than the CIA's, but it's still terrifying that these people missed what they missed. I've been pulled over by the cops on less than the hijackers had during their many, many months in the US.
Irony being that there are barely any new users.
I can imagine the reactor shell itself surviving intact, but as with Fukushima, loss of the secondary cooling system (and its power supply) could well have resulted in a runaway reactor situation followed by a hydrogen explosion blowing the cap off, again as with Fukushima.

It might not have impacted NYC though, I just checked and the exclusion zones would likely have been well outside NYC city limits, but still, an epic disaster would have been the likely outcome.

Nuclear reactor security has been increased since then, but they're a major target today.
You could use the same analogy for gambling, but I wouldn’t conclude the risk profile for gambling is safe.

It’s why it’s banned in most countries for people under the age of 18
What happens to that money flowing out? Is it spend or does it again flow to some other stock?
Ouch. I literally did this. Built a site to buy/sell textbooks. Moved abroad, learned the language. Built a business to teach travelers the local lingo. 10 years later, it was acquired (at a loss). Currently on (9).
All these complaints are true, and there’s many similar ones.

Firefox (née Mozilla) is a terribly mismanaged company. Instead of focusing on their core business, making a great browser, they keep launching weird also-ran side projects that inevitably fail, to name a few:

Firefox VPN, Firefox Notes, Firefox Lockwise, Firefox Monitor, Firefox Send, Firefox Hello, Firefox OS, Mozilla Persona, etc.

It’s one thing to fritter away your fortunes and engineering talent on fun side projects when the main business (and money-maker) is doing well, but to do so when it’s floundering is massively irresponsible.

Baker & co. are making off like bandits, paying themselves lavish salaries while running the company into the ground. Unfortunately, there’s no Firefox stock holders that can sue them for mismanagement.

So as the Google/Apple browser duopoly is slowly cemented, we can only blame Mozilla management for destroying the only truly open and independent browser left.
FYI: for people who don't know what's really going on.

The homes in the US are prescribing unnecessary medication for 3 reasons:

1) To bill for the medication and dose administration.

2) To bill for the skilled nursing staff.

3) To make the resients more docile, reducing caretaking costs.

These perverse economic incentives greatly impact the residents' health.

It's important, especially in the US, for all patients to have an advocate (asking questions and helping to make good decisions) mediating between the patient and provider. Ideally that's a family member.

Besides over-medication risks, there are also lawyers fleecing the elderly out of their assets. It's low-risk to the lawyers because elderly patients die, and what's the family going to do - sue a lawyer?

Source: San Jose Mercury News has had several articles on this over the years.
In 1999 there was a professional golfer named Payne Stewart who died on a Learjet flight along with five others after it depressurized mid-flight. The plane continued flying on auto pilot and the FAA scrambled three separate fighter jet interceptions, involving five F-16s, the first one making visual contact with the Learjet approximately 20-30 minutes after the Learjet pilots became unresponsive. There was speculation at the time that the FAA was prepared to shoot the flight down if it was at risk of crashing in a populated area. The Pentagon later denied this, however, the Canadian government said this was their policy should the flight enter their airspace. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_South_Dakota_Learjet_cras...
I wonder about the generational demographics of different cultures and how that impacts things. Many western cultures have fewer children to bear the burden of taking care of the elderly. The populations are shrinking for native born.
A nursing home around here for dementia runs $10,000 per month.
Which is weird because every $200-400 monitor I’ve bought in the past decade-ish has been DP first with maybe an HDMI port.
I took some some measurements and did the math a while back, my "Texas sized AC" draws 4KW when continuously running.
It sounds like you are arguing that there is no level of risk low enough to be ignored, and that there is no such thing as negligible risk.

So if there is 2^-500 chance of an alien invasion, lets put a team on it!
No, they require masks to work there. I can’t abide by that, haven’t you heard that the co2 from your breath while wearing a mask gives your children autism? Infowars told me. I can’t handle that level of risk to my personal freedoms. What's next, background checks when buying automatic weapons??!!?

Sorry I might be late replying, I’m going to get KFC without a mask for my elderly, uninsured grandparents who also believe the Chinese Virus is a hoax perpetrated by Biden to control our minds and remove our freedoms. But thankfully the heat death of the universe means that’s all inconsequential!
I'm surprised Cloudflare don't provide security by obfuscating EDNS info.
Only if the warship is at flanking speed directly away from the battle, commonly referred to as "running away". In which case, you've won.
It'd be remiss to not note most of the time in culture where multi generational family units are the norm, responsibility lands on women in the home or household support in extended families and the economy doesn't often require two incomes to be middle class.
I dint think it’s as much of a victory for Linux as people make it to be. These games run on Linux not because the developers make them Linux compatible, but because Proton makes Linux compatible with Windows APIs. This essentially makes Windows the primary active environment with Linux foresee playing the catch up game. Why would anyone bother to make a native Linux game when they can just focus on Windows and let the API emulators figure out the rest? It’s not a win, it’s an admission of defeat, albeit a pragmatic one.
I would never put anyone I love in a nursing home without strict supervision and daily contact.
Cuomo is a shit head. He killed a lot of people.
It should, but I don't think it does in its current form.
Although libraries like threejs (or softwares like blender) give you so many tools and knobs to play around, I cannot for the life of me make a scene look so great. The lighting, the composition, the textures, the even level of detail…

I would recommend everyone try it out for themselves to see what I’m talking about. No matter how much you try, there is always something too dark or light. Always something that looks like made from minecraft blocks and something too detailed for those 2 objects to be from the same universe. Animations are either too stiff or move like jelly blobs.

How is this so perfect?! I just can’t comprehend how do 3d artist’s brains work.
Thanks for this awesome list.

Coincidentally, we've just launched a $20k consensus challenge for Viewstamped Replication: https://github.com/coilhq/viewstamped-replication-made-famou...

We don't implement the Reconfiguration Protocol yet which I believe is the correctness violation found by Ports et al.
Nomadic tribes would simply leave them behind.
I've used it heavily for a couple years now. I describe it to people as tinker toys for building your ideal todo list app. There's an active official Facebook group community, if that's helpful at all: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1927874704161821
Western countries don't have enough kids and strong enough family units (a bunch of relatives living in close proximity say), for this to work. I'm an only child and there's just no way I could have my parents live with me if they needed care.

Moreover, the elderly in 3rd world countries tend not to live as long, many of the old people in Western countries are.. for the lack of a better word, living far past their expiration date.
The truth we fail to face is that, in the grueling task of caring for the elderly and all the perverse incentives to cut corners, providing holistic care is an enormous labor of love that will tend to not work well outside of family, despite all the money we throw at it.
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You can do that in America. People don’t do it because they don’t want to. Would you enjoy living with your parents again?
I think a lot of difficulty arises in math noation because most people (myself included) read a lot of math but don't actually write a ton to express my own thoughts. I'm decent at engineering math but grinding through problems, reading papers, and writing are all different skills.
Heuristics are great in theory but if they could be used reliably then you wouldn't need an overwatch system. Also the overwatch system depends on people being accurate judges of whether people are cheating which we know from pro players going undetected for so long (KQLY) and from pro players being accused for so long and being clean (flusha) that they are not.
The author is arguing that it cannot ever be done right.

Hasn't been fixed in 25 years and has fairly unfixable downgrade-to-plaintext attacks.

You could enforce encrypted communications in the protocol by changing it, but you'd need to block downgrade-to-plaintext in the process, which would remove backwards compatibility and what you've got is something that looks like e-mail but is incompatible with the entire rest of the existing e-mail system and you've forked the whole ecosystem anyway. Might as well just write a better protocol and app while you're at it.
Judging from management's increased comp, while disappearing 25% of their staff, they can hang out with the Big Tech hispters without batting an eyelid.
I tried getting it going with linaria last year and just about lost my marbles. I think it was the deepest webpack rabbit hole I’ve ever gone down.

I love the idea of SB but haven’t come across a project where it actually works with the components.
This video shows an F-4 Phantom being slammed into a concrete wall using a rocket sled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4wDqSnBJ-k

At about 2 minutes in they show the aftermath. The plane is just gone, while the wall is a bit discolored...
The contention that some encrypted instant messenger might be better than encrypted email has not aged very well with Cellebrite's cheerful reminder that even low level attacks like forensic boxes get saved Signal messages. Things like Signal depend on a forward secret protocol in concert with a user willing to immediately delete their old messages to prevent such data exposure. It turns out that such users are rare.

Encrypted email can be done exclusively in very safe places and the secret key that protects both the transferred and saved messages can be protected very well. This is entirely because of the difference in the mediums. Email can be completely locked up in any sort of dangerous environment because it is inherently offline. Something like instant messaging has to expose the secret stuff all the time to produce all the time access.

There might be people who like to LARP their encrypted email and that is a legitimate thing to do. There are people that actually need the level of security that can be provided by an asynchronous messaging system like encrypted email.
That's so compassionate of you. I don't know that I would think of doing that.
After the Pentagon was hit, I recall looking at early images of the wall supposedly struck by a Boing 757 (Fl 77) going hundreds of miles an hour. The size of the hole didn't look jet-sized. There were no visible wing or engine marks on the nearby walls. No videos emerged to show what struck the wall or knocked down the light standards.

Physically, to this day, that whole scenario is confusing, and there's been little evidence to clarify it.
You work for medium and you only care about yourself, not about your readership if you have any

> I don’t think switching to a stand alone website would be good for me
I have no idea what the logic of this post is supposed to be. Message sharing follows a power law and so therefore... something about quality going down when messages go up? And something about filtering? What on earth is he talking about?

...Well, it turns out he's sharing the conclusions of the linked SciAm article, but the SciAm article just says "the super smart researchers plugged numbers into their simulation and this result magically came out". There's no insight or explanation.

Are we expected to just believe that computer simulations built by credentialed scientists prove things about the real world?
Take a look at my comment history for the past 2 weeks if you want to see a bunch more unexplainable downvotes. I've also been repeatedly IP banned multiple times during the same period, sometimes even multiple times a day, which has never happened before. I don't spam requests to the site, and haven't changed my browsing habits a whit. I've emailed admin and they won't even acknowledge me as a human. It's pretty maddening, actually.
I think that the presentation and the paper look good enough to listen to the claims of experimental results in good faith. While I also remain fairly skeptical, in my opinion it's worth to reproduce those results. Even if it's not the free source of energy as authors claim (it's probably not), nevertheless it may be an interesting effect worth exploring and explaining.

Regarding the attack on scientific journals which tend to ignore anomalous results, I agree that it's a deeply flawed system (even if we are to forget about parasites like Elsevier & co), but there is no simple solution to that. Journals are incentivized to cultivate their reputation by producing a constant stream of good enough papers. Accepting papers with extraordinary claims is a bad strategy from risk-benefit point of view. On every paper which indeed correctly points at a future breakthrough you get many-many thousands of "duds".

With the advent of preprint sites at least you can freely share your results. Hopefully, eventually we will build an open reputation system on top of them, which will replace the existing system of journals and conferences.