skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really - empirical science makes the assumption that nothing exists outside of the game (or at least anything that exists outside the game has to be proved from elements within the game)
Does anyone know of books or articles that further develop on this theme? I'm sure it's not wholly original and I'd love to hear other perspectives.
It's always struck me as odd how many other industries have managed to get many staunch defenders among our rulers, while the tech industry seems so powerless, in comparison.

Loads of senators are happy to side with oil companies and deny climate change, in spite of all the evidence and threat to the planet.

No-one among legislators is in favour of pointless bureaucracy - and yet tax preparation software companies are somehow able to get legislative support for making the process more difficult and block efforts to make it easier.

And no politicians are publicly pro-subsidy or pro-unhealthy-food - yet they're happy to give loads of public money to the corn industry.

Hell, go back a few decades and the government will literally invade countries on behalf of banana importers, of all things.

Why is it other industries have such vast power, while the Tech industry - some of the richest corporations in the world - can't even get the Bay Area to build some houses?
Geoff, how do you handle washing your car, especially when you get the Starlink dish on it?
Well, if you have a large number of categories you have a difficult problem.

One trouble is that as the number of classes expands the more likely your categorization is bad from an ontological perspective. For instance, something in class #34 might also be in class #79, you might have a hard time telling if something is in #55 or #86, etc.

Even if your categorization can be implemented perfectly you will still have the problem of class imbalance. If we number classes by prevalence it might be that class #1 occurs 20% of the time, and class #99 occurs at a 1-in-a-million rate and you might not be able to find one at all in your data set.

If you make a set of labeled classes that is representative of how often they occur you are going to have too many instances of the most common classes and not enough of the rare classes.

In principle ML algorithms learn not just the characteristics of the classes but also learn the frequency.

Pretty obviously you could enrich the labeled data with more examples of rare cases and difficult cases, but the algorithm will then get the wrong idea about the prevalence.

I wish I could say I knew some way to tell the system that the "prior distribution" of classes is different from what's seen in the training examples, but I don't.

Your best bet is to start with a simplified problem: target either the top of hierarchy or the most common examples. You've got to get into some place where imbalances are not outrageous.
The pandemic supply chain disruption has been fascinating to watch unfold. Unfortunately, we don’t have abundant energy to take advantage of and mitigate the effects (which would only have been possible had the previous generation expanded nuclear utilization).
Thanks wyldfire; the photos that are blurred are the identifiers of my RIPE atlas nodes. It's not a big issue if they become public knowledge. Fully aware of attack vectors related to image bluring.
I run a Mastodon instance and every time one of my users posts a really, really terrible pun there is such a strong temptation to say "oh god that was terrible, you're banned forever". And then I stop and think about how a few of the people on there have some really bad social anxiety, and I find some other way to say "holy shit that was a terrible pun, well done".

It's a similar thing, I think. I'm unexpectedly in a position of power over my friends and I want to efuse it with jokes.
In all likelihood it won't be received well. Almost no one cares about privacy, and if there's any resistance to using an alternate service it will not be used.
To be fair, the same could be said of a browser fork.
Or, you could just take a vacation every year to some place interesting.

Living a meaningful, content and exciting life doesn't require impulsive, risky behaviors. It's a shame our culture isn't very honest about this fact.
> I think it also helps to make and sustain friends"

Wait what, you mean, like, real people?
Not only that, but mandate a route only to 192.168.1.1 (or whatever) and not the whole 192.168.x.x address space (which this exploit uses -- I didn't know there was a separate management interface on 192.168.100.1 until a poster above mentioned it.
I love ads disguised as content.
All the great powers act this way, because they can. No one wanted to fight a nuclear war over Crimea and when the time comes, no one will fight a nuclear war over Taiwan. And no one is going to war with a European power the next time they intervene in one of their current or former colonies. Then there's the US...
For sure. We doing a camping family reunion every year at a site with no service and it's great. Camping for me is about particular and very useful kind of giving up. We've done things at that reunion together that never would have happened if kids (or adults) could wander off with their devices. E.g., one year I brought many cheap copies of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and over two nights we did a firelight readthrough. Many of the kids were suspicious at first and then really got into it.
> It'd be hard to use that sort of money for a consumer-purpose PC; maybe a higher end server, but then you likely end up with a blade form factor.

No, not at all. This isn't a workstation. It's a Workstation. It's not even a struggle to beat $12k.

A Mac Pro starts at $6k. You can add a 28 core Xeon for +$7k. 1.5 TB of memory is +$25k. Twin Radeons with 64 GB of video ram is another +$10k. 8TB of storage is another +$2.5k. You've picked CPU, RAM, graphics, and storage and you're already over $50k. That's no software. No display. Just the tower, a power cable, a mouse, a keyboard, and MacOS.

If you go to Dell and check out their Data Science Workstations, it's not difficult to configure one for over a quarter of a million dollars. Triple graphics cards, 6 TB of memory, dual 28-core processors. In a tower computer.
Here is a more comprehensive website testing tool.

https://www.validbot.com

Full disclosure, this is my project.
Here's another one that's a bit less obvious: anytime you're scheduling a 1x1 with a report, ALWAYS mention the reason for the meeting. You might think it's obvious or that it's just a normal meeting, but you have no idea how the other person will take it.
Right: if you're the target of this piece, the Internet probably isn't the cause of your emptiness; it's how you're filling/numbing it.

In previous generations, you'd just be a crazy cat person or alcoholic or bookworm or spend all your time at the racetrack.

Indeed, the solution is to add other interests and activities to your day, and they'll outcompete the timewasters.
I initially very worried about antibody-dependent enhancement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement The vaccine against SAR1 failed because it caused antibody-dependent enhancement in animals, so it was canceled.

It was a very big risk, that a vaccine against covid19 had the same problem. Luckily, it didn't happen! (There are like 10 approved vaccines, and like 5 vaccine candidates that failed and were canceled. Perhaps some of the canceled ones had this problem?)

Anyway, this didn't happen in the clinical trials and neither in the use in the wild. Perhaps the clinical trials can miss a problem that happens in one in a million cases. But this claim is that half of the vaccinated people died. It will definitively show up in a clinical trial!

Moreover, if it were a real problem, we should have a lot of similar cases, were 40%-60% of the vaccinated die.
I agree that phone calls are waning, but I don't personally see the connection to voice mails. I never liked the concept so I've never left a voice mail, nor have I ever enabled it for myself. In my opinion voice calls can only get better if answering machines and voice mails die out.
Thanks so much for the reference, it's great to see someone expressed this much more rigorously.
Recently I tried to find a VPN providers who fully supported IPv6. There were only few options and they were much on the expensive side. Of the remaining IPv4 VPNs only few warned you in their docs about switching off IPv6, even fewer switched it off while running, and one I'm aware of switched it off forever in a sneaky way on Windows that involved continuously overwriting registry keys, which on the one hand was laudably paranoid but on the other hand caused endless hours of troubleshooting for me. In a nutshell, if your computer has a IPv6 address as it should have, the software from most commercial VPN providers will leak your IPv6 IP all the time to all websites and make you easy to identify.

I suppose this is well-known to savvy users and sysadmins, but still thought it worth mentioning in the context if this more general router vulnerability. Some of the cheaper VPN services out there are very insecure anyway.
Given how many sites there are that do it I would say 'yes'.
> You can't even know if anyone other than you is conscious.

This claim comes up quite often in these sorts of discussions, but it is very hard to maintain this level of skepticism, about the external world, consistently (to start with, do you believe any of your thoughts are about an external world?) To take this extremely skeptical position only about other peoples' minds would be quite tendentious.
Additionally, a bag of air of that volume would not give much time underwater - maybe an extra breath or two. The extra effort and drag of carrying the bag would make it less effective than just diving.

A modern steel SCUBA tank is typically pressurized to 200 bar, or about 3000 psi, making it 200x more useful than a bag. An inflatable ball is only inflated to about 0.5 bar/8 psig, human lungs are only capable of about 0.1 bar/2 psi. This would be about as useless underwater as one of those little one-liter bottles with integrated mouthpiece that scams show being inflated with a bicycle pump...

Still cool to see swimming like this depicted in 800BC! Puritan attitudes towards swimwear as well as imperial navies conscription of non-swimming sailors seem to have caused us to imagine swimming as a modern activity that we do better than anyone in history, but I expect that people throughout history did lots of swimming.

I also find it interesting that he's depicted wearing a helmet, I wonder if that's to identify that "this guy's an Assyrian foot soldier" or if they actually swam in their helmets!
People in positions of authority often don't realize how outsized the impact of their words are. As peers, things people would take as jokes now are taken much more seriously. Employees will read between the lines on anything said, body language, etc from their management. It's important to reinforce team security and trust, and be very self aware about how you sound.
You don't internet for that. The movie is available on DVD as well as Blu-Ray.
It's all survivorship bias. Probably none of these people would be as happy if they lived today.
They can't at all. They're projecting a strictly personal opinion based on their own value system and very distant perception of such disparate figures as Sinatra, Rockefeller, Munger and Hefner, which is rather spectacularly comical.

Sinatra had severe problems with not being happy and was frequently suicidal for example:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/8-things-you-didnt-know-...

I'm sure a lot of people incorrectly perceived, at a great distance, that Robin Williams was consistently an exceptionally happy person also (based on his outward jovial disposition and the common reaction to his death by the public).
Let's Encrypt's Root Certificate is expiring
would adding a black stripe over instead be better?
ClickHouse, Inc
IIRC nuclear is cheaper than the batteries, if that’s the limit, but land use of PV is a bit of a red herring: it can scale up or down, fit in spaces other things don’t. Rooftops, waste land, mounted on top of road noise barriers…

There’s no reason that I’m aware of not to cover the grounds of nuclear power plants in PV.
HN discussions:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28537179 (5 days ago, 58 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107510 (Jan 21, 2020, 68 comments)
In which the author points out that often AI applications, (for example help automatons) solve problems that shouldn't exist in the first place. I happen to disagree a bit with the author and think that if AI is a pre-cursor to improved processes, that can be a win if the cost/benefit balance sheet stays positive. I'll give an example. Today there is a lot of advanced document processing and OCR going on in the grey areas between institutions. Legal filings, health records, even bills of sale, are all recorded digitally, but incompatibly. We use ML as a low-cost way to find out where the value is; once discovered, document owners will have an incentive to standardize, and the need for the AI/ML disappears. To me that's a big win.
Regarding the dead comment's "mysterious burst pipe", this may be of interest:

https://securevotega.com/factcheck/

This footage was mainly released to counter the Giuliani narrative that secret ballots were wheeled in under a table in the morning, then pulled out and scanned after the observers left. In fact Giuliani's presenter conveniently skipped past the part of the video where the ballots are put under that table in view of the observers after being processed from envelopes normally.

But these videos also clear up the confusion around the burst pipe, which was a pretty straightforward issue in the morning, not related to the stop-and-start counting around midnight that is so controversial.
Monitor the a Go Ethereum (Geth) node in under 5 minutes
When I had my first stint as a manager (way too young to be one IMO) I learned quickly that jokes from manager guy had to be VERY innocuous. Puns are fun, but nothing about work that someone might be sensitive to. Keep the jokes themselves postive-ish. Know the room very well before you tread anywhere else.

It's just way too easy to send the wrong message.

As a manager your words have a great deal of WEIGHT regardless of your intention.
It doesn't matter. He's still revered by many, even if he now supports vaccination. It is 100% a cult of personality.
>Tech companies, which have some of the deepest pockets in corporate America, have been racing to come out with increasingly ambitious climate pledges. Amazon has a target to be net zero by 2040 and to power its operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025, and Facebook has a target of net zero emissions for its entire supply chain by 2030.

>In 2020, Microsoft pledged to become carbon negative by 2030 and by 2050 to have removed all the carbon the company has ever emitted. Apple has committed to become carbon neutral across its whole supply chain by 2030.

>And Google has pledged to power its operations with 100% carbon-free energy by 2030, without using renewable certificates to offset any fossil-generated power. “The science is clear, we have until 2030 to chart a sustainable course for our planet or face the worst consequences of climate change,” Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a video announcing the policy.

>Yet this strong pro-climate rhetoric is not being matched by action at a policy level, according to the report. “These gigantic companies that completely dominate the stock market are not really deploying that political capital at all,” said InfluenceMap executive director Dylan Tanner.

So it seems that Big Tech is actually taking concrete steps to become carbon zero, and even carbon negative. The article is complaining that they are not spending enough money lobbying for climate legislation.

I actually think that they are doing the right thing, taking concrete steps to prevent adding more carbon, and actually removing carbon from the atmosphere (Microsoft). And they are at least spending some money lobbying for more climate policy.

However, with regards to climate policy, most governments are where pro-climate rhetoric is not matched by actual action (see Paris Accords, for example). I think Big Tech is actually doing a lot better than a lot of other institutions.
Deadliest vaccine in human history. How is that safe?
U.S. to ease travel restrictions for vaccinated foreign visitors
When you have legislators going to $35k/meal events while wearing ‘tax the rich’ clothing, you get the clear sense it’s all a nihilistic game.
Oh I always thought the attack vector was reverse engineering the blur algorithm, interesting that there’s another method.
It's a learning experience, and a hobby. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with finding joy in that, and absolutely no reason to have to explain it to others, because you're likely the only person who gets it.
Surfshark New Privacy Policy (September 2021)
Can confirm. At 8pm every evening a cron job adds a few firewall rules that block a few devices in the house. Much better than arguing w/ the little one about stopping what they were doing and getting ready for bed.
Can't speak for all Telco's but in Australia, DOCSIS modems are registered by their MAC address on the modem it's self. Not by IP address.

I can't imagine this is different else where so it's likely the replying comment above yours is incorrect.

Source: I was previously a network engineer for a national Telco.

Other sources: DOCSIS 3.0 registration info: https://volpefirm.com/docsis-3-0-cable-modem-registration/
Lithium is not typically mined from rock today, though it may be in the future.

And "concerns" about that mining would carry far more weight if there was also concern about one or both of 1) extracting 1000s of tons of rock for steel and other parts of car manufacturing, or 2) extracting many multiples of that from the earth in the form of fossil fuels, which end up in the atmosphere and change the climate.

If a typical car travels for 200,000 miles, and gets 30mpg, then that car will consume 47,000 pounds of gasoline (requiring even more oil extraction), and emit 128,000 pounds of CO2 in its lifetime.

Though all of my personal political effort is directed at ways for people to live their lives with less car and still live their life as happy or happier, I find gripes about lithium extraction to be completely counterproductive to my goals. For all their faults, EVs' extraction of lithium is an order of magnitude better than the alternative and the status quo. And the people complaining about lithium are not proposing anything better, the are proposing sticking with fossil fuels.
Is there a standard “good enough” alternative solution?
Not OP but I use https://www.inoreader.com as a YT feed.
Is it generally accepted that these wavelengths and devices that operate them are safe around humans? Should I feel concerned at all having so many large antennas and amplifiers and what not near me?

I never really stopped to ask this of my phone either, I guess.
https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/13/how-a-fatally-tragically...
Firebase Hosting's service has been disrupted for 4 days
>If you think the Catholic faith (or Christianity broadly) is opium, then you have not understood Catholicism

I was born into catholic religion and did catholic school. I understand catholicism far better than the average person. You're the one bringing catholicism up, I never brought it up. I would love to have a conversation to see how you see it in this context. So many of my friends are baptist/protestant, I must admit I have lost the catholic view.

> I blame modernism for selling a counterfeit that "feels good" in order to appeal to modern sensibilities and the false supreme virtue of being nice and palatable even at the cost of the truth.

Not really attacking your statement, i do agree. But isn't that catholicism? For 2000 years catholics believed pretty much one thing. They excommunicated a ton of people who wanted to make reasonable changes. Martin Luther just wanted to translate the bible. Ended up outside the catholic church, forming the Lutheran denomination and some pretty rough stances towards the jews which later evolved into World War 2.

Then suddenly the last 20 years the popes at the time have made some serious modern changes to the religion. Who am I to say they cant or shouldnt change? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Womenpriests autoexcomunicating ordained women? Then again I'm comparing this to Ajahn Brahm and ordaining buddhist monk women controversy. Why does religion have such a problem with women?

>If there ever was an opium, atheism is the closest you get to one. No ultimate justice means your sins are of no ultimate consequence.

I don't think I understand. In your words, what do you feel Karl Marx meant by opiate of the masses?

> Human pride will foolishly oppose truth and reason, deny things like human nature, the existence of God, and what is objectively good and objectively evil to satisfy some desire that's taken possession of a man. If reason tells you that some desire should not be satisfied, then reason be damned!)

Many religions certainly put sexual limitations on at least the clergy class. Buddhist monks certainly are not sexual, despite some abuses occurring. I think we are seeing what happens when sexual liberation and those limits fall.

>A Christian, on the other hand, awaits his final judgement. He awaits the making public of his every sin and believes that his fate shall be sealed by them and by the authenticity of his faith (trust). That kind of moral austerity is not exactly my idea of opium.

I dont know if I agree. The ability to not have to lock your front door because you lack the fear of dying to home robbers or something. That certainly soothes the mind. Obviously im only barely touching on the opiate. That's the thing, I'm even saying Karl Marx misunderstood, which is why Marxism ultimately fails.
Basic utilities like water, internet, and electricity are what I would consider minimal.

They're just much more involved to get in a Van.
I have a collapsable ladder which is used to clean the panels. There is absolutely no space on the roof left for Dishy and mounting it up there would cast shadows on the solar system (which is circa 3 * 350w house solar panels). For dishy, it's going to be a matter of running a ethernet cable out the van during the day.

https://i.imgur.com/WeKOofK.jpg
With Optimum (nee Cablevision) they pretend to be BYO accessible, but their compatibility list isn't a guarantee of compatibility (depending on region, different devices are compatible but they would never tell you that on their website), you have to wait on hold for 3 hours to activate the device, and then it still might fail for reasons their support agents can never explain.
she argues that string theory is okay, but things like quantum multiverses that are not actually testable/observable aren't science and shouldn't be treated as such.
I'm interested in which NUC has 8 Ethernet ports.
Where’s the ad?
to be more specific, yes. I was going with the least specific branch of the tree that was still different and widely recognizable.
Boocel Spreadsheets – When Data Is Too Big
I think so. If you don’t like the way that looks aesthetically, I’ve overlaid the text with a white background and more text and blurred that, so you get the same blurred effect but you’re blurring nothing important.
Gates Foundation leads $707m investment in Dutch e-grocer Picnic
Apple: 10 Years of Tim Cook. The Plus Side
latency will go still down significantly as v2 and v3 join the constellation with laser interlinks. For long connections, they will be theoretically faster than fiber due to geographical constraints on straight lines and routing.
Can this setup migrate a video call from one link to another without a lost frame or glitch?

So far, nearly every redundant link I've found seems to lead to bugs and glitches all round when failover actually happens.