skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do realize the 'bloodclots' issue was with the astrozenica (sp?) vaccine, that was never approved here, and it was with only a handful of cases in women? Your risk of a second, more severe case of covid is *massively* higher than the risk of serious side effects from the vaccine.
The last time that I've been actively involved with the development of real time control of time critical hardware on linux was about 2007 (very high speed stepper motor driven plasmacutter, slow down in a curve and you've ruined the workpiece), so for sure I'm out of the loop but I do have a fairly large Linux audio setup with all of the real time patches installed and clearly if it is possible to run with 64 sample buffers I have not been able to do so on my hardware, 1K really is the minimum before I get - inevitably, unfortunately - dropouts under relatively light load.

It might be worth documenting my setup (reproduced across three different machines, a laptop, an 'all-in-one' and a very beefy desktop), to see what could be improved because that difference is substantial.
Sounds like game over for google.

That said, there is trend even outside of google to move away from high levels of configurability in these sort of security sensitive areas. I'd be curious what a system like wireguard lets you do in terms of bit twiddling.

OpenSSL was sort of famous for letting your turn just about every knob you wanted. Not sure that was a ton better.

And I have heard some concern that folks like apple put so much into attack surface on things like imessage (memoji's?) for messages from unknown and untrusted users (ie, new users you aren't texting with can send entire set of stuff imessage supports which is a TON vs just being text only to start). So even in other areas dialing down things might be helpful.
I love this. Interacting with other humans online isn't evil, our current social media has made it evil. But it can be fixed and I think what you're outlining would be a great start.

I'd add that a "no marketing/algo/data collection" option should be required that users would need to opt out of (although I would settle for opt in).
It's not a real dish (as obvious in OP), it's a metal spider web. That will accumulate much less dust!
Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from alt-right web host Epik
Funny choice, considering the amount of litigation over that name. Unless you were serious.

When Apple started, they were sued by Apple Records, the Beatles' label, and settled with a pledge to never have any activity involving music distribution.

Come iPod, they turned around and sued Apple Records.
Parasites took over at least since the 70s and are still in power today, extracting everything they can. I think it's reaching a breaking point now.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Yes, it is kind of arbitrary at certain point, that's why we have the debate about it in this country. I am not sure where you are going with this given the subject of the comment I was responding to.

I chose my definition from the rights-of-women perspective. My understanding is that a fetus is generally non-viable outside of a host body, and thus not "alive" by my definition.

On the other hand, we havd C-sections and incubators. If a baby can be safely extracted with a C-section, placed in an incubator, and survive, my understanding is that the choice to abort is no longer available.

Of course, I can be wrong here.

My point was that at least I can make a definition here that does not depend on a choice of an arbitrary value of a continuous variable. My definition of "alive" depends on the choice of which variables to look at, not on arbitrary thresholds. And I don't insist on it being The Truth.

Another example:

"Heart rate" is a continuous vafiable, but the distribution of its values has a large gap between 0 (no heart rate) and nonzero values (the lowest observed was 27bpm). So you don't need to make a choice for a clustering algorithm to work. You can run K-means on "heart rate" and get these 2 clusters: 0 and everything else.

This allows one to make a definition of "alive" based on heart rate. That's not my definition, but it's a usable one.

This is not feasible with race if we use the variables commonly understood to be associated with race: skin color, height, nose shape, etc. There are no gaps in those variables.

Even eye color varies continuously [2], and it's not clear how to assign labels [1].

Color in general is a good analogy for race. You see the colors vary in a rainbow. You can tell the difference between red, green, and blue.

But you can't run K-means on a rainbow to get 7 colors out. Or any number but 1, for that matter.

You need to make a call yourself where to draw those lines.

This reflects in languages. Russian has distinct words for what we'd call "blue" in English; But also English has words like cyan, turquoise, navy, etc., which other languages may not have.

Color, in end, is a social construct.

[1] https://www.edow.com/general-eye-care/eyecolor/

[2]https://udel.edu/~mcdonald/mytheyecolor.html
So, if the server were a real "smart" IoT teapot, such response become actually valid? :)
On the other hand, a lot of developers undervalue design.

Having sat through quite a lot of end-user sessions, I would make three points:

1. users do often notice these differences subconsciously, even if they say they don’t. Say “which do you prefer” and they’ll tell you the one with the nicer shadow (for example) even if they can’t articulate why.

2. When a site is more aesthetically pleasing, users report greater satisfaction with the product and find it more usable. Of course, there’s diminishing returns here, but premium brands may get more returns on these subtle extras.

3. Developers tend to prefer sparse, lo-fi designs more than non-developers.
There are a few thousand web servers that return this status code for their main page :) https://www.shodan.io/search/report?query=http.status%3A418&...
its always seemed strange to me that we just assume something didn't exist before a certain time just because that was the earliest artifact we've found so far.

so much of ancient history which is assumed to be truth is really just based on assumptions and suppositions
>and shows ads/branding (for coffee) when it is idle.

If there is ever an Office Space 2, I think this is a candidate for the new fax machine.
"Look, I'm not comfortable at haggling, so I'm going to treat this question as a binary search: How about $1,000,000? No? How about $500,000?..."
Stories place ideas into context, not only making them easier to remember (as mentioned by another comment) but also easier to understand. Analytic philosophers are used to dry, precise language, but even they often rely on scenarios and narratives -- this can help reveal what the reader thinks intuitively and bring that into sharper contrast. By remaining story-free you're giving pedagogy the short shrift.

What has empirically brought more folks into careers in science, dry textbooks foisted by teachers or Star Trek? I'd argue Star Trek and science fiction more generally. You can chalk that up to human failings if you like, but inspiration is a need that can't be avoided if you wish to convince.
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Your employer doesn't need to lie, you need to not get audited. Even if both you and your employer lie they will have cash flow discrepancies.

As I mentioned, there are more defensible reasons for only having one party lie, like avoiding CA's (future?) claim that paying someone who lives in California implies you hired them in California and need to incorporate in California.
He’s also a fairly good manager of PRs in my experience. He’s sort of blunt which can be hard to deal with if you’re used to more Anglo pleasantries but you can tell he’s ultimately being helpful.
That's OK. Actually defeating him was the stretch goal. The more accessible goal was just to make it harder for him to work, during a pandemic, so that he could later be accused of mismanagement.

Plus, of course, to cost him and his supporters time, energy, and morale, so that they can't actually achieve real goals.
> JEDI black eye

How much of that is due to the new administration not liking the previous one?

> slow attrition of frustrated developers/CIOs

Citation Needed

> Moreover the torture that is Teams has got to have consequences as millions have had to suffer

Then why not use one of the 10 competitors for chat apps?
In its current state, Replay's not meant to replace either of those products as it's not meant for 24/7 user session monitoring. Instead, it's something that we see teams reaching for in their debugging workflow.

The usual bug workflow is for one person to file an issue with steps to reproduce, which the engineer will use to reproduce the bug and try to debug the problem. Replay replaces that workflow by allowing a person to record a replay, and send that link (which is immediately debuggable) to the engineer.
On hills you could use electric bike. I recommend at least 750W motor.
why is this not everywhere yet
I would consider $46,000/year in savings to be very, very far from poor. And that's with a budget many consider to be inflated.
It's not really "filled". It's a metal spider web.

The advantage is realized by putting it on the moon: Radio darkness, shielding from sunlight built in 50% of the time, nice anchoring, etc.
Isn't it more likely that some people would realize they are being ripped off, and some people would realize they're getting paid more than their peers?
The author is taking the Taleb advice too literally and without enough nuance. One needs to calibrate the difficulty of the task. Ideally, one sets it so that it is in the region where it is just beyond the grasp of ones ability.

The author seems to have dialed up the difficulty way too high considering the author's skill level. This is like trying to learn to play violin and going straight to Paganini... it is not an effective use of time.

Just because Magnus Carlsen is using a computer to train does not mean a beginner should do the same.
You're probably right, but I think it also depends...

Is a professor at MIT teaching cyber security exploit development guilty of the same crime?

What about a consultant teaching how to use a particular tool or how to look for a particular family of exploits? (Potentially legally dodgy, depending on the client, but probably ok in a lot of grey areas)

What about a consultant which performs a passive audit of a target for a 3rd party? (Starting to get pretty dodgy, but probably depends both on the 3rd party and the target and the nature of the audit)

It's... probably not so cut-and-dry. Though I agree that it doesn't sound like a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Estrogen and ACE2 expression might be factors[1]:

> Intriguingly, infection with SARS-CoV induces ACE2 down-regulation through binding of the viral Spike protein to ACE2, thus reducing ACE2 expression in the lung and igniting acute respiratory failure. Since COVID-19 and SARS patients share similar acute respiratory distress syndrome and a similar gender bias in disease susceptibility and case fatality rates, it is reasonable to believe that they share similar pathogenic mechanisms.

> Estrogen, the primary female sex hormone, has been observed to play a protective role in SARS not only by activating immune response but also suppressing directly SARS-CoV replication. To note, estrogen inhibits the activity or expression of different components of the renin–angiotensin system. In particular, estrogen is able to upregulate the expression of ACE2.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41420-020-0276-1
https://hwdt.org/atlantic-white-sided-dolphin says there are only 300,000 of them. Killing 1,400 at a time seems like an easy way to endanger the species.
The first internet connected toaster from 1990

https://www.livinginternet.com/i/ia_myths_toast.htm
All of this business about multiway computation and even “rulial space” seems to have been anticipated by Toffoli to some extent in “Action, or the Fungibility of Computation” [0].

The brilliant point of this paper is to point out that in the same way entropy describes our ignorance of the microscopic state of a system, the action (the time integral of the Lagrangian [itself equal to kinetic energy – potential energy]) seems to quantify our ignorance of the microscopic law that governs a system.

It’s not made explicit, but as a lattice gauge theorist it’s an easy analogy to make: the gauge configurations that contribute correspond to different Dirac operators (ie. PDEs) for matter—-gauge symmetry is in some sense a “rulial space” but… you know… discovered 100 years ago.

[0] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.42....
Absolutely! As mentioned, I'm very much a novice of computer architecture. It kinda blew my mind that Rekursiv was unique in its abilities. Also fascinating are LISP Machines, which seem to have received quite a bit of love from HN already.

If I may ask, from your perspective, what's more elegant about Rekursiv's design? Is it the philosophy or implementation? I'd also love any links to orthogonal persistence!
It’s pretty obvious now I know what it means : Photomicrography, photography of objects under a microscope.

Some of these photos are amazing, well worth spending 5 minutes of my day to slow down a bit and scroll through them.

(Correction, 15 minutes. Don’t miss the Honorable Mentions and Images of Distinction sections!)
Don't Trust the Process
https://hwdt.org/atlantic-white-sided-dolphin says there are only 300,000 of them. Killing 1,400 at a time seems like an easy way to endanger the species.

We should still be concerned.
The CDC estimated an infection fatality rate of 0.001% for ages 0-17. The risk rises exponentially with age.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

Of those children who died, the majority had serious underlying health conditions such as obesity or asthma.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7023e1.htm

This paper has some good recent data on vaccine effectiveness.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2108891
I believe there used to be an issue with nesting namespaces (docker container in a namespace, systemd unit isolated in a namespace inside container) ?
Orwell's prescient "Two minutes of hate."
I agree with Google that applications shouldn't normally be setting these parameters manually and I agree with their chosen defaults, but if developers are going through the effort of setting these values they're clearly doing it for a reason.

That reason could be "the API doesn't allow developers to easily access the defaults" but the fix for that would be something completely different.

Even in OpenSSL you don't get that much choice in TLS 1.3 because the number of usable ciphers and key exchange methods has been severely reduced.
The article that this article reports on was discussed here:

A generation of American men give up on college - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28436836 - Sept 2021 (776 comments)
Specifically, a ton of used-to-be-included in the standard JDK things like nearly all XML processing are now broken out into modules or require maven dependencies, etc.

So it's not "turn-key" to upgrade to jdk 9 or above, like say, 6 -> 7 -> 8 was.

Sounds simple... "just add it to your maven deps!" - but in practice it's more complicated than that and requires careful planning and testing. Some things might even surprise you and run for a while before a classloader can't find something and explodes in runtime.

Java 9 created quite a mess. Once you finish that upgrade though, moving into Java 11 or anything newer is basically turn-key like it was before. But, this had the effect of many companies staying with Java 8 until forced to upgrade.
Sadly, some of my friends now use Insta to propagate the same level of political vitriol as they did on FB. They just leverage text overlays to accomplish their goal.
I remember retreads being a thing you could buy for your car in the 1970s/80s. I remember local radio ads from retread shops. I haven't heard of passenger car retreads in decades though, so I don't think it's really done anymore.
For better or worse I've started to think of 'elites' more as people that have differential outcomes in regards to the law. So in this case these people are 'elites' because they managed to stay out of prison for hacking US citizens and doing corporate espionage. A non-elite would be in prison for these actions, and there are lots of people who are in prison for hacking others.
First thought: "this looks like what we used at Uber."

Sure enough, it is. It works well IIRC and there's a lot of interesting math surrounding it. Some of our internal tools we had access to at the time (now, presumably, under lock and key) had maps laid out in hexagons.

E: Some of the visualizers linked here seem a bit weird. I could be mis-remembering things, but the hexagons were WAY smaller than some of the visualizers here. I remember looking at the SF map and there was a lot of granularity even in the city center. Like I said though, could be mis-remembering.
In places that implement vaccine passports now, photo IDs aren't used. Rather QR codes on your phone are used. Check out https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2021/08/11/south-dakotan-livin...

But then again, some states are experimenting with digital IDs on your phone also (so you don't have to carry around your DL anymore).
The EU could also subsidize centralized EU-based tech. What are the largest tech companies in the US and China based around? Ads, payments, cloud computing, and media consumption ("FAANG"). Europe already has solid, utility-priced payment infrastructure. Ads are arguably toxic (especially Facebook), and cloud computing is relatively straightforward to implement with talent and funding.

Europe could even take a page from China and use regulation to strongly encourage European customers and businesses to not use US products and services (GDPR, for example).
I think that technologists and lawmakers have very different jobs in society and the goal of advancing technology implicitly furthers the ability for mankind to commit atrocities. Every benefit we bring into the world can also be used to kill people. It's not our specialty to decide what is or isn't acceptable; in a democratic republic it is up to the politicians and their voters to determine that.

I just think that self censorship is shooting yourself in the foot, since someone somewhere else will eventually release their own GPT-3, and don't you want your society to have already experienced and dealt with it before theirs has? Rather than hiding the problem, we should face it head on and solve it.
Agree, tangible incentives are important. But non-monetary prediction markets still have other benefits over traditional forecasting:

(1) Traders only make predictions in markets where they think they will gain;

(2) Traders control their risk, so one very confident person can make a larger bet than 10 people who are not very confident;

(3) Markets are continuously updated as new information arises;

(4) Profitable traders trade more, while losing traders exit the market
You can try out any of the replay demos on our website without signing up for an account. I suggest starting out with this one in case you haven't yet: https://app.replay.io/recording/aae188fb-57d2-46af-a23a-0adb...

However, we do need you to sign up for an account to record a replay.
I am the same way. I would very quickly fill my time if I stopped working today. I'd have more time to dedicate to strength and conditioning, being in the nearby mountains, expanding my garden, finishing my woodworking projects, getting back into beer brewing, cooking for fun vs. necessity, canning and preserving food, etc. Simple hobbies that are all very deep and rewarding.
I think I'd agree with that, too, i.e. the first character being the stronger marker.
> Soon found out that Azure silently blocks a big chunk of third world ISPs

Maybe the best recourse here is to get rid of the spam coming out of this ASN.
The manhole cover *did* survive the detonation--it's visible one *one* frame of film. Unfortunately, only one so there's no way to figure out it's velocity. All they can conclude is a minimum velocity based on the fact that it's not on two frames.

There have been objects placed even closer to nukes that have survived and note Project Orion--not only objects near a bomb, but the plan was to put a crew near bombs. Obviously, they would catch some radiation but that's going to happen anyway in deep space flight and back then they didn't realize the cancer risk.

The basic physics of protecting the ship and crew from the nearby detonations is clear. There is some question about whether it could actually be used to take off from Earth, though--it's not so certain if the pusher plate could be kept cool enough during the ride to orbit. Deep space doesn't require such sustained thrust, it's no problem. EMP from near-Earth detonations is a big issue, though.
I saw neither incel nor white supremacy in any of the replies to lordgroff's top-level comment. Are you sure you're not projecting?
I don't believe anyone has received a Turing award for creating a working computer.
https://www.redfin.com/neighborhood/14233/CA/Oakland/West-Oa...

Most of these are well within reach, even moreso before the current bubble, if you make that kind of money. And an 8 minute BART ride from the city. Your not wanting to live there does not imply that somebody does not live there.
Is "vary bad" a clever pun, or just an amusing typo?
Epik's unique selling point for me was always the 'we keep your domain renewed forever' which is a spectacular claim.

What happened to renewing your domain for 9 years, and then when the ninth year approaches, renewing it for another 9 years (regardless of registrar)?

Note: The max amount of years you can renew a domain for is 10 years, hence the 9-year renewal method.
How _13 Reasons Why_ sparked years of suicide-contagion research
Charlie Bell AWS SVP joins Microsoft as head of security
This is one possible outcome. But it is also possible to not be the outcome [=
What a great talk, loved everything about that era.

When I was 14 I made my first virus/prank. It would increment a counter every time input was sent to the PS/2 port, ie. keyboard. Once it hit 2000 strokes it would switch to 80x50 textmode, print "This is a shareware keyboard. You have used all of your free keystrokes" and then close the PS/2 connection until a physical reboot.

I thought it was hilarious, but it did have some unintended consequences. Especially because that the IT guy in charge actually believed the message. So, also my last virus.
1,428 Dolphins Were Slaughtered as Part of Faeroe Islands “Tradition”
Dear Facebook Karen,

What is ironic is how people like you talk with such confidence and self-assurance, but don't know the meaning and can't use simple words like endemic.

Kids from 4th grade know more stuff about viruses, the immune system, and what vaccines are supposed to do. But those kids actually went to biology class and opened a real textbook. Textbooks. Not facebook posts. Difference of mere 4 letters, but with such significance.

And even though those 4th graders are surely big fans of sci-fi like Star Wars, they sure as hell aren't so clueless to expect vaccines to create force fields around people that stop particles.

In the age of unlimited information and internet, being stupid is not an option - it's a medical condition. Society may tolerate you, but natural selection won't.

Yours,
Me
I’m in my late twenties and I’ve seen it dozens of time too
Arecibo lasted for half a century.

It would be more than acceptable if we built a telescope on the Moon and it lasted half a century before we moved on to replacing it and building the next interesting thing.
As a non-US person, could someone explain a legal construct of "paying $XXX to resolve criminal charges"? Doesn't "criminal" mean there must be some real punishment?
We aren’t smarter than these companies. They spend billions of dollars and hire top people in their fields to keep us engaged.

The idea that this is just a lack of willpower on our end is total bs