skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finding an excuse? He doesn't need an excuse. He's got the money/ability to raise the funds to do it.

He's choosing to do it for a reason that's going to be generally beneficial, if it works, at least. That's pathetic?

I'm just generally baffled by people criticizing these billionaires - the ones who are putting their money into making America a clear leader in what is going to be an increasingly strategic industry, while creating thousands upon thousands of high-quality, high-paying jobs. You know there's a bunch of billionaires who just spend they money on art that they then store in vaults, while they vacation on yachts, right? Why not criticize them instead of the guy spending his money trying to clean up space, a shared resource for our species?
As an atheist I would expect you to understand "good" in your opinion might be "bad" in others'. For example, I think some forms of oppression are good. Like by all means opress jihadism,death cults and hardline communism.

Also, secular laws are seen as opressive to religious people.being forced to make a secular sign feels as opressive as being forced to pray at school. Both are a majority population implementing shared belief
> What makes this hack different from the Sony leak by lulzsec and the other high profile hacks by the various lulz copycats 5 - 10 years ago?

That the first thing that came to mind is a hacking group which disbanded a decade ago is a hint what you're describing is atypical considering these kinds of hacks are constant. Check the incident list on haveibeenpwned for example most of these are self admitted black hatters or criminal gangs, not hacktivist groups.

That's not to say there isn't also a lot of meme refencing and lulz involved as well just the hactivism "we're the good guys" isn't typical even when filtering to just the 4chan/Anonymous style hacks.

> The dump is completely reminiscent of 4chan/Anonymous hacktivists as well.

4chan/Anonymous weren't normally "hacktivists". E.g. lulzec... did it for the lulz. They didn't do it claiming to be white nights they actually called out white hat hackers as corrupt. They knew what they were doing was wrong they just found it funny - there is no need comment how the hackers are bad when they go around saying they are in the leak.

The hackers here explicitly think what they were doing is good hence the extra reaction saying wait, this is certainly not white hat hacking.

> I don’t know anything of Epik before this hack, but to me it’s clear that it was only a matter of time for Epik, and people should be mad at Epik. Unsalted md5 in 2021 is just inexcusable at this point and I’m doubtful this kind of hack took any skill at all given the complete lack of security they employed.

Largely agreed however it's possible to be angry at 2 parties at the same time and it's typical that every site at the butt end of a hack is found to have bad security (hence the hack) so it's not going to get the same reaction boost for commenting as hackers leaking some of HN's non-fascist members private info out of "altruism".
Wiz is definitely trying to drum up some excitement around their new business with all these recent disclosures. Related but slightly off topic, we pay an industry analyst for high level market research and he's been screaming from the building tops about Wiz.io for the last 6 months.
I'm honestly tired of hearing about it, he must get a cut of the sale. I wonder how long Wiz will keep this up; until they get sold presumably, then they'll go the way of the other big cyber firms and tone down the big hacks.
That's a fallacious appeal to authority and also an appeal to the volume of supposed authorities. It doesn't matter how smart they are. That doesn't change that we do see tyranny emerging, notably in places like Australia. And even NYC where they are now piloting "papers please" as a model. I've shared these before, but here is what is happening in Australia:

They're going to force people who quarantine at home (rather than a government-mandated quarantine "hotel" with guards) to install and use an app. Facial recognition, GPS tracking in your own home. And it will randomly ping you, and if you don't respond within 15 minutes it'll send the police to your house to conduct an in-person quarantine check. Source:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-a...

They're arresting people for making Facebook posts against lockdowns. Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54007824

Australia presumes to say how many people can visit your home. Source:

https://theconversation.com/vaccine-passports-are-coming-to-...

“NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian yesterday announced freedoms for fully vaccinated people once 70% of the state’s eligible population are double dosed. These include being able to go to hospitality venues, hairdressers and gyms, and have five people to your home.”

They can arbitrarily lock you in your apartment building for up to weeks, no one allowed to leave. Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53316097

Do you want things like these being built everywhere? Does Australia not have "many, very smart people working on this" and taking it seriously? Is this a debate to entertain, or an existential threat to your and my free way of life? I'm not here to debate anything. I have lots of work to do. I'm here to raise the alarm far outside my comfort zone because barely anyone else is. This is a blatant power grab. Wake up.
Interesting, thanks for the concept. What's one to do for high dimensional data then?
Every time there is a pandemic, governments take extraordinary measures that people complain about. Many of them quite a bit harsher than any of the things you've described. Because pandemics are serious things that disrupt our normal ultra-social lives.

Let me say this. All of your spamming has not convinced me of your position. So, if you really wanted to, then perhaps you should reconsider your approach.
Anyone thinks its a apple employee who did the hack ?
"COVID Cases" turns out to be anyone with covid who might be in the hospital for anything else. COVID deaths have included people "greedily" the same way. Shouldn't the vaccine be counted by the same standards and the same statistical methods used?
I agree the contributions of many of the participants is multiplicative, but I don't agree that government is the most important.

Corporations can't exist without some entity enforcing contracts and agreements. That is sometimes the government but it is often also 3rd party arbitrators. In any case though government provides the ultimate backstop.

Most corporations also wouldn't exist without the strong will of a dedicated founder to drive the shared belief and vision of what the corporation could become even when the barriers seemed insurmountable.

Similarly, most corporations wouldn't exist without those early investors willing to stake a portion of their wealth or fund's credibility on those founders.

To a lesser extent, early employees also play a significant role. They take on risk and give up lucrative salaries at larger companies in exchange for more impact on a product and the potential of a big payout down the road.

If any of these entities/groups are not present, the corporation fails. All are needed, not just government.
For RDIMM, it's fair that they don't "implement" it on memory controller because they don't sell chips made from same silicon that need support RDIMM .

Intel's "disabling" ECC is different situation. They implements ECC for the silicon, enable for Xeon, disable for Core i.
Solar is awesome. If you own your own home, and live in a sunny place (I live in Silicon Valley), it is literally free money raining down from the sky. I just got solar and the bill is lower than my electric + gas bill, I have new furnace, new hot water heater and dryer, and air conditioning added in! I never had an AC because using more carbon as a response to carbon caused warming is prima facie a path to disaster, but now I'm perfectly happy to have it on (well, I put on a coat, but my family is happier). 2 Leafs and a Model 3, vegetarian, and I'm starting to regard the fucking carbon burners the way I do about the fucking non-vaccinated. But of course, if I can't persuade the group to take action against a butt load of trouble, my actions won't matter.
Either the vaccine works or it doesn't. So why are the numbers going up if it's working?
Sometimes I wonder if people indeed believe climate change isn't real. I have difficulty imagining that there are so many that believe it's a myth.

Maybe what is more common is that people do believe climate change is real, but they also think it doesn't really matter in long run - because of maybe something like a black swan event or something - dont know. So they see all this as just fear mongering.
But how can we better define that threshold? Where you live and circumstances you have are just so expansive to control in a few sentences. One person threshold can be much lower than someone else dealing with long term debt and family obligations but I didn't want to make it sound overly pessimistic by cutting them out in some way.
You either sell as much as you can or you restrict how much yo sell. You can't do both.
Why would someone want to game a negative result? Nobody ever becomes famous for saying my approach doesn't work. (As long as science is open, to make sure there is actually good work done by researchers before reaching this neg result.)
then why are hospitals in texas so full that people are having their appendix rupture while they wait for 7 hours to be admitted?
And saying that technology won't solve the problem risks a discouraging effect, where people might avoid working on climate-resistant crops or efficient AC or improved fire control strategies because they believe their efforts can't help with climate change. It's not obvious to me that either of these hypotheticals are strong enough to justify shaping the public discourse around them.
By far the best tool I've encountered in this category is Fonto [1]. Product demo is a video but it's worth your time if you like rich text editors.

[1] https://www.fontoxml.com/fonto-xml-editor/
Ahh yes…truly spoken like someone who has never dealt with obesity and weight issues.

For what it’s worth folks, it’s not cheap, it’s not easy, but it is about choice and it will be a battle of will every day of someone’s life. Pretty sure I can speak from experience here— I have spent the last four years taking off 170lbs through diet and exercise.
The current number is 14,506 deaths from covid vaccines according to

https://vaersanalysis.info/2021/09/10/vaers-summary-for-covi...

The last time I did the data reports from VAERS, it appears the numbers were tweaked after the fact, and that was some time ago.

However, there is also data with different numbers at https://openvaers.com/covid-data

If you believe the VAERS under-reporting phenomenon is correct, then numbers could be significantly higher. Because the data is not verified though, there are bound to be data quality issues, both under and over.
Not just images? Drop her in LA. I fear for a remarkable young talent I won't name.
If you look at the progression of science predictions, they don't have a track record of being alarmist. They have a track record of predicting troubling as heck issues for 2100 or 2050 and now they are already happening.
> the people buying houses in the outer-inner-suburbs that would still be vastly outside their price range without massive help from both sets of parents; these buyers are unfailingly couples.

I suspect there is a big difference between the long term wealth implications of buying a house vs buying an apartment. There are never going to be more houses in outer-inner-suburbs. There is going to be a constant supply of new apartments as we move towards higher density living.

People who have wealthy parents are in the best position to make better housing investments.
The more general meaning is "making a person question their own sense of reality", without any specification on who is causing it.

It may or may not apply here, it depends on if the person being argued against already knows the larger context of 80% being normal. Everyone around them pretending that was never the case would be gaslighting. If they didn't know the larger context, it wouldn't be gaslighting, they're just ignorant of the context.
Yes, this is the answer. I never work more than the allotted time. I work a 9-5 and that is that. I've never had any pushback, not even once.

I believe in managing up, and if some manager said to me to stay late, I would tell them that sure, I'll stay 2 hours later...do they have $120 in their wallet to give me right now? I'm sure you can put it into an expense report and get it reimbursed. I say it in a joking way, a roundabout way of saying f-ck you, I'm not working late. But they will get my point and not ask me again.

I'm not saying that I NEVER wouldn't work late, but maybe only in dire circumstances.

Or, as the saying goes, a lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

And, I don't even care if it was a mid six figure amount. I'd probably be more open to working late and putting in more hours, but I'm not going to do it for no reason.
I'm not sure what you mean extra hoop? You just start a2jmidi and then connect the device. Crashes would indeed be an issue, generally if you want to mitigate those, you would want to:

- Auto restart any important services (with systemd or similar)

- Use JACK/Pipewire session management

- Report the crash to the developers (of a2jmidi in this case, but it could be anything)

I honestly have never used LinuxSampler so I can't comment on that, I believe they have some strange licensing thing going on.
We could choose to not sell pure sugar as food in grocery stores, cigarettes, alcohol, or firearms for that matter in the first place...

Funny enough, during the initial/strictest lockdowns in Ontario Canada, the liquor stores were one of the only stores allowed to be open to the public.
BLM protests were part of society functioning, not crumbling.
Police murdering people and getting away with it would be the society crumbling piece.
I’ve never seen a hit from normal workout tracking, though anything with the gps does hit the battery. It still would normally get through a full day and night with sleep tracking unless I were doing a multi-hour walk/run tracking session, too.
I mostly don't disagree with you. The only point I really disagree on is that Python should have stuck with their limited threads instead of enabling this kind of "safe" concurrency. I think they are letting a genie out of the bottle with async, and it's going to result in making it very easy for people who don't understand what they're doing to write even more complex code that nobody wants to touch because they don't understand it either.

Yes you can do very magical things with Python, and no they're not very safe, but at least that level of magic requires some level of skill, and the assumption that with that skill comes a responsibility for putting up warning signs and providing guidance. But most of the time, people should not be doing magic, and if they are, it should be hidden so completely, that it appears no magic is actually happening.

Anecdotally, my experience with working with engineers who are trying to understand new async code, has been dismal. I used to think "oh, these engineers just don't want to put in the work to understand what is happening in the codebase." But it's actually hard to explain what is happening to other engineers who have not been "initiated" in async. So they end up writing broken solutions and then feeling frustrated, because there's a resistance to the nature of the abstraction. Now you could argue that they should just hunker down and learn more, but personally I think if new abstractions do not come with a natural intuition, then they are not good abstractions.
The VAERS data extracts have that number.

The very last report I did myself, personally, showed 7k deaths, but I think that was US deaths only.

Maybe you should crunch the numbers yourself from VAERS, the openvaers site has data on it too, particular to covid19.
When I drink or smoke or I’m overweight, that doesn’t affect the health of my neighbor. It also doesn’t overcrowd hospitals causing innocent people to die because they can’t find treatment[1].

There also isn’t a vaccine for being overweight.

(We should probably mandate seasonal flu vaccines too.)

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/12/alabama-ray...
It seems you don't have children, or I hope if you do that you learn more emotional intelligence
Triage isn't about making a moral decision. It's a decision of balancing patient medical needs vs resource availability.
You definitely have a place in open source. Good teams have a variety of skills so if public-facing communication isn’t your thing, partner with at least one person that likes doing that.
OpenStreetMap Bitcoin Fund
One more tool to play with - cool.

https://non.tuxfamily.org/

http://openavproductions.com/

https://kx.studio/Applications

https://www.renoise.com/

https://www.giadamusic.com/

https://github.com/jackaudio/new-session-manager
They have condos and townhouses.
>it completely ignores the unfavorable demographics of the aging boomers and lack of replacement demand.

So there will be enough housing... when my parents die? And you say this like it's a good thing?

>High prices are not by themselves evidence of a shortage.

Only if you're treating housing as an investment asset, rather than what it materially is: a durable good.
The headline makes it look like this is for the benefit of consumers.

The article makes it clear this ruling is entirely to the benefit of Samsung Electronics.
Cosine Similarity vs Pearson Correlation Coefficient
I was wrong to assume how access is treated in different places. I'm a poor immigrate but been fortunate to have lived my life in a relatively wealthy county in New Jersey where libraries are much more laxed. What can be done to give hope to those without forgoing the practical aspect completely? While those who have the resources to, should; what can those that don't do if they wanted to try and improve, it can't be completely hopeless?
Always interesting when something is on front page, but doesn't have a single comment.

Anyone one know why that can happen?

Is it that a title sounds interesting, so people upvote (this one had 86 votes) but noone actually reads or finds anything of interest in the article to discuss?

Just curious.

I, for one, find it interesting that anyone with the necessary equipment can observe spaceships and satellites, etc and what they might be doing far away.

Are signals not encrypted or is this entirely via observation somehow?
Oh totally. It's all theater really. Random number generators wrapped up in theater and superstition.

That said, you can't ignore it since it's about perception not fact usually.

And at the same time, sometimes the "it's so random!" complaints are real. I remember finding a bug in Valve's shot pattern code based on players complaining about how our FPS shots were "off". It should have done a concentrated shot pattern, with more shots in the center of the aiming circle than the edges. But it wasn't, and ended up being a total random distribution. Changing it to have a greater weighted chance in the middle greatly improved the "feel" of the guns.

Even then when firing a real gun, nobody ever complains about "random number generators" when they don't hit their target. That's because they really feel like their ability to aim and hold a target in the sites is a critical part of the process of obtaining accurate results.

Again like dice, a situation where the participant feels like they can actually influence the outcome - and in the case of a real gun, they actually can.
> have cut staffing in response to people postponing elective care

Also more recently from firing nurses who don't want to get vaccinated, who had worked for all of last year without a vaccine.
In the era when everybody imagined that xml was the future of configuration files, some xml editor flourished probably inspired by the possibility of becoming "generic configuration tools". I could find these from that time: http://qxmledit.org/ and http://kxmleditor.sourceforge.net/screenshots/screenshots.ht...
Can anyone explain how this result is possible? Is there some optimization the fixed function shaders are missing out on?
And anyone can do javascript.
Then, say that instead of lying that natural immunity doesn't work.
I sure hope people don't jump to conclusions re what is violent or extremist.
You think if a billion people lose monsoon water, some of them won't put together a hand-made virus to wreak revenge on the wealthy nations responsible for the carbon burn and for climate denial? I mean, maybe, people have a capacity for good, but also for anger and revenge.

Carbon caused climate change isn't a carry-ing capacity / overpopulation / over utilization issue (and is now somewhat dwarfing those issues). It is a big change that has some chance of devastating a lot of biological based support systems all at the same time.

The risk to technological civilization is not in the direct effects, but in the human mediated effects. Not that leaving on yeast and water would be that good.
romans even had cheesecakes! for some reason called "placenta" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giPXpKy2lQ0
> When 638 individuals decide how $3 trillion gets spent

Just a small correction. Federal Government spending was $4.4 trillion in 2019. It was $6.6t for 2020 [2], with $4.6t of that being mandatory spending; tax revenue was $3.4t for 2020 by comparison. We wish outlays were only $3t, we'd have a nice budget surplus right now.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56324

[2] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57170
I have heard that there are such systems, probably using optical analysis of tissues, but what I heard was that they were not reliable enough for any medical use. More for dietary monitoring.
I’m curious if the people behind this have other goals in between that could be commercialized. Similar to having general AI as your end goal (although much more modest) and extracting value from the early stages required to get there. Similar to how OpenAI releases sub-projects.

This could support a more ambitious objective without being a total never ending research project.

Maybe on the way they’ll find something more interesting and doable.

The CRISPR stuff they will be doing has some cross over and is quite trendy still.
Climate change solutions require people and countries, across the world, to work together towards a common goal, this challenges fundamental assumptions of many political ideologies.
> Accepting only vaccination as evidence of protection reduces the size of that risk-taking population, and the concomitant social costs.

That is effectively coercing people to undertake a medical procedure for their own or for society’s good. The ethics of doing that should be concerning, considering the social and ethnic makeup of the vaccine hesitant, and the checkered history of coercive medical intervention.

I’d much rather see the carrot used than the stick.
Many were advocating exactly that, though:

https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/responsible-reporting-in...

Then at least some places put into place policies like that, though some were then modified later:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/16/twitter-changes-its-hacked...
> We should erode the value of housing and housing debt through inflation

If you want to lower house prices, easier to just tax houses/properties more.
Johnathan Haight discusses noticable differences in college students (measurable by mental health services) precisely in the years when students who all had cell phones early [in middle school?] started to enter.
So we will force the poor ones to keep their old, low mpg, gas guzzling cars for even longer.

This is shortsighted regulation. If it does not address the elephant in the room (super high prices of EVs), then it will simply not work.

Just because you can legislate, it does not mean that you can prohibit people being poor.