skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once managed to rescue AlphaServer 255/233 from being parceled out by unknowing e-waste dealer. Spent a bit of time trying to connect everything, connected the serial terminal that came with it, flipped the power switch expecting empty machine...

... Lo and behold, I see it autobooting into heavily customized VMS 6.1 (first patch level that could boot on it), that turns out to be special Blockbuster Video version with appliance-style licenses loaded (NET-APP-150), probably designed to run with a DECserver connecting multiple terminals over LAT.

Turned out the second of two SCSI drives still held not just the custom BBV software, but also the database, including PII and history data, with flags like "18+" on various movies.
> The future is programmable money. That's innovation IMHO.

You think? I can't imagine a situation in which programmable money would be an advantage.
I originally read that as “caveat emptor mattress”, which would also be a fun topic.
Tbh scuba diving is kind of a waste of helium, and I'd rather they not use a nonrenewable resource for recreation.
> MethaneSAT will be the most advanced methane-tracking satellite in space, measuring methane emissions virtually anywhere on earth.

> #1: MethaneSAT is the world's first satellite launched by an independent NGO.

So have they or have they not deployed?
When I teach about floating point, the two things I try to impress on the students are: it remains a truly incredible engineering feat to believably fit the entire real number line (plus infinities) into 32 or 64 bits, and, it was an incredible political feat to get so many competing companies to agree on one particular way of doing this; both are thanks to Kahan's leadership. Complaints about the quirks of using floating point could be tempered with some appreciation of the hard design decisions that were made, and with gratitude for the people who pulled it off.
Re: "Glorified Hastable"

There is a 1-1 correspondence between data compression and generative models. GPT-2 is a highly effective loseless data compression tool: https://bellard.org/textsynth/sms.html

Always wondered why this insight is not taught as much, especially in the context of things like dimensionality reduction...
My "best case" math says it is a ~60W panel. Let's just say it's 100W to be generous. Ten hours gets you a kWh. In my 2011 Nissan Leaf, that will get you four miles on a good day. So don't drive too far off into those woods.
I'm not arguing about the subpoena, I'm arguing against the idea that encrypted solutions are bad.

If you have a subpoena to open a safe, and you realize that you have no tools that are strong enough to open that safe, you don't suddenly blame safes. You don't tell banks they should stop using safes. You don't ask them to create weaker safes robbers can break into.

You try another route.

A subpoena is fair. Asking signal to preemptively not encrypt the data in case we need it later is not.
From the HIG[1]

> Don’t mask or call special attention to key display features. Don’t attempt to hide a device’s rounded corners, sensor housing, or indicator for accessing the Home screen by placing black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. Don’t use visual adornments like brackets, bezels, shapes, or instructional text to call special attention to these areas, either.

1. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
Thanks for the citations. I'm always wary of this sort of reasoning since people often arrive at it via folk etymology, but this was very informative
A bank account object is tied to legal and reglatory stipulations though, as well as separate insurance and other risk mitigation policies.

It's not just a matter simply of inserting rows in a table - there is overhead and other matters to consider.
> If the material hardens in the machine

Now you've gone in a circle. That's what the original comment was talking about. This subthread is hinged on the idea of that specific problem not happening.
GAMI claims the licensing for this will be relatively open, and Avfuel (very strong presence in GA fuel) claims they'll be pushing this out, so at least in theory it could see relatively rapid adoption.
I'm surprised the FBI has tried to get a custom keyboard into the Play Store yet, or asked Google to add a key logger to the stock one. Sure, the legality is blury at the moment, but it's just a matter of changing some laws and then that becomes legal.
Yes, this is why I am very suspicious of Signal as a front for the CIA / NSA. A phone number can reveal so much information about a person because many online and offline services now ask for it.
Mark Zuckerberg does not care about money. That's what I gathered from reading Chaos Monkeys and An Ugly Truth. He never had that problem. A privileged sociopath who has never known life outside of Westchester, Harvard, and his Silicon Valley compound. He talks about "connecting people" but that's probably because he himself is deathly insecure about it.

He has never been one of our species and that gnaws at him. Do girls like him? Do we like him?

His favorite historical figure is Caesar, he looks like Caesar with his haircut, which is also called "the Caesar". This man drifts away in meetings when they talk about boring money stuff, but he DOES care a buttload about the number of users and those users not leaving. It's power, it's influence - it's what he craves.

But. The man who pivoted on his idea of rating chicks - by stealing a better idea - may have run out his lucky streak, which started by winning the birth lottery in Upstate New York. He may have been at the right place at the right time, of prime age, and of means enough to have access to computers and the Internet (a very common thread, see: Bill Gates), but now that The Facebook brand has literally become toxic (RIP), he has to come up with an actual world-changing idea, and that, as he will find out, is hard.

And it doesn't help that not only is it hard to hire people at Facebook now, I will bet you the farm that those working there are walking it in for the nice paycheck. Why do you think the TikTok algorithm makes Reels look like a high school project? Those people don't have their heart in it, and why would they? The company repeatedly, shamelessly lies to them.
>"Show me the man, I'll show you the crime."

That's nothing new, either.

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -- Attributed (possibly apocryphal) to Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642).
The best thing about a square mattress is that once you have the right sheets, you can’t screw up which way they go on.
Those who want to keep the current draconian status quo in place are incentivized to make public any wins, it would justify the existence of the extreme measures. The fact that they haven't boasted about any win is telling.
You seem knowledgeable on the subject. Have there been any studies that have been peer reviewed, and replicated, that have come to roughly the same conclusions? Or is this preprint the first time the subject has been studied?
The grad programs at UCSB are not to be sneezed at.
>I love it when articles have random units of measurements like that!

There's a uniquely British phenomenon where large areas are given in terms of Wales. I think it's probably down to our national inability to decide if we're metric or imperial.
Like all controlled experiments though, the experimenter wants to hide that information from the subject (user in this instance) to measure how they respond to the change itself, rather than the change and being told about it.
The short time horizons for governments is due to election cycles. Projects that win votes in the next election are prioritized over things that will benefit future administrations. This often leads to wildly inefficient uses of resources, such as projects being regularly cancelled and restarted, and ignorance of maintenance costs.

Running the government "like a business" is meaningless rhetoric and no one can agree on what that actually means, but typically those in favor of the idea want to privatize government services and generally reduce governmental 'bloat' where whatever policies they don't like or utilize are defined to be inefficient. Timescales are typically irrelevant to that discussion.
Contrast is important for many people who are not blind but who have vision that is less than perfect. People who live a normal lifespan get Presbyopia which means you can’t have everything perfectly focused at all distances.

I set the design rules for my three sided cards so that people don’t need to hold them close in order to read the text. You can trade off contrast vs sharpness in terms of ease of perception.

Given the vast variation of screens and situations in where you might view a print the ideal image is meaningful when viewed in a poor situation, but reveals rich depth under good viewing situations.
Not owning any server would also help. Metadata, contacts and groups can easily be recorded if you own the server. Federation is a big reason why I consider XMPP superior to Signal.
My goal wasn't to represent the link. People can click on the link, and the person I replied to already said it had great reviews. My goal was to pull out quotes I thought interesting.
Not gonna lie that was a factor in me choosing emperor (7x7) over caesar (8x7) originally. Square is a good shape.
I'm excited about this push. One interesting note is how this entire project has been 'in flight' for 30+ years almost cancelled with PAFI and then with then with recent pressure to close airports (namely KRHV) with leaded fuel as the lighting rod the FAA has now accelerated to “progress at the speed of light.”

"He added that the accelerated commitment reflects new urgency arising from the FAA’s awareness that some local governments are taking action to ban leaded avgas from being used at airports in their jurisdictions.

Local governments threats driving innovation at the federal level :P
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What are your favorite parenting podcasts and why? I am looking for recommendations but also looking to explore things I may not come across.
You can always sacrifice speed for security. I like this design which was used to manage bitcoin: http://trilema.com/2013/mpex-tech-stuff/. Blockchain is a way of creating distributed ledgers. The rest is ideology. If you are making a publicly accessible API you can chose how to implement it. Regulations were applied to digital cash but given more run room with crypto.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EtoMN_xi-AM
750 kW sounds perfect for a container. https://thecoindad.com/ https://ezblockchain.net/smartbox/ https://bitfury.com/crypto-infrastructure/blockbox The hard part is coming up with ~$3.5M up front and actually getting anything due to the supply chain.
I mean you could be sitting around in the '70s making up reasons that women aren't interested in being doctors or lawyers, and boy would you turn out wrong: https://twitter.com/familyunequal/status/1164246285953748993

I think it's too early to tell right now if there's some type of things-interest/people-interest split among the genders. We're still so close to the time when women weren't allowed to have checking accounts, that the cultural inertia hasn't had time to wear off yet. I am very suspicious of researchers who claim to have the answer right now.
If the alternative is a mass surveillance state (which we are sliding to) and the end of democracy, yes. Yes it's way better.
Browsers should limit every webpage to displaying a maximum of two fonts, and should silently ignore any font face rules after the first two. Maybe three if you're feeling generous. With variable fonts available in every browser it wouldn't impact typography much.

It would stop this sort of privacy attack, and it'd have the additional benefit of making the web look a lot nicer.
George Braly (principal engineer at GAMI) has also claimed that all ingredients are readily available to and capable of being processed at any refinery currently making 100LL.
It's worth noting, in case anyone thinks that we somehow slowed down testing with the atmospheric test ban...that we went on to conduct 1,352 nuclear weapon detonations. That's roughly 3/4 of all nuclear testing. It really is mind-boggling that we set off so many.
Well, sorta. If the helium is worth a lot, you’ll try to drill/pump the wells that have a lot of it.

If/when it’s not, you might slow down on the helium-rich gas fields and bulk up on the 100% hydrocarbon fields, especially if natural gas is selling for a lot.
China has built railways and roads all the way to Sihanoukville (google this, tons of articles). If you look on a map, this gives them great shipping access to South Africa that doesn't involve dealing with Myanmar or Thailand. It totally destroyed the small town and surrounding area. Turned Sihanoukville into fighting, gambling and whores like straight out of a Western.

In order to do this, they bought up all the land from the locals. To power it all, they built dams along various rivers including the Mekong. Part of it was promises of providing electricity to communities, but it is really just a money grab.

It is all an utter eco disaster. Nobody cares cause it is all "developing nations". Tunnels straight through mountains (or just level them entirely). Zero concern destroyed forests. Buying up all the land from the locals so they could move their own families in and then charge the locals rent.

Property prices got pushed up such that locals can't even afford land in their own country. The dams have screwed up natural water flows so now there are drought and floods. Nam Ngum Reservoir in Laos shows up on Google maps full of blue water, but if you go there, it is empty.

There is interesting economics around USD in Cambodia too... becomes a great place for China to launder USD. They have their own currency, which is conveniently 1:0.25. The rare time you spend local currency, you get change in quarters.

None of this gets much news coverage, but google a bit and you'll find it all. Stuff like this...

https://www.intrepidtravel.com/adventures/why-we-no-longer-t...
Amazon and Apple referring to customers, customers don't care about the vision, they care about the products, on the other hand Facebook has a different relationship,There is a Founder that is leading a company that refers to users although sometimes dangerously they call them "our people". A company with a leader of 3 billions people, sorry users. I wouldn't give credit to that.
SA has highly developed industrial infrastructure, particularly around natural resource extraction. I don't think it's what Belt and Road is about.
> Both sides have an unwarranted belief in a strong form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. But new pronouns would not automatically lead to greater acceptance of non-binary people

This gets the causation backwards. People started to accept non-binary identities, which led them to invent new pronouns as a solution to the problem of "what should I call this person?"

> Typically, these are people who are biologically male or female and have not undergone any gender reassignment surgery or hormonal treatment

I'm not sure what this has to do with the point being made, or why the author felt it was so important as to mention it twice, but for accuracy's sake, I'll point out that about half (49%) of non-binary people in the U.S. want hormone treatment. As of 2015, most of those who want it lack access to it, but it seems kind of unfair to characterize non-binary people's transitions as typically non-medical when that's only (sort-of) true because our medical system makes it difficult for them to get transition-related care.

https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS... pg. 99
From your link:

"men in highly developed world regions were less neurotic, less extraverted, less conscientious and less agreeable compared to men in less developed world regions"

If these personality traits are influenced by what country you are born it, would it not support the the non-biological argument?
> canceling the context should always be safe, and is more likely to safely handle what otherwise would be a bug, than it is to cause a bug.

They gave an example of a bug it caused, and I haven't seen any examples of bugs it would have prevented, so I'm not sure I agree.
I think a better analogy is error correction code. Some redundancy in a language can be a good thing. Gender information may be redundant, but the fact that adjectives agree in gender with their nouns, helps better distinguish what adjective refers to what noun. Same with pronouns.

For example, the famous Jespersen's cycle[0]: in many languages, "I not know" eventually becomes "I not know a thing" (like in French "je ne sais pas"). "A thing" is completely redundant here, but it helps better understand that it's a negation, in case the first "not" was not heard.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jespersen%27s_Cycle
That prevents the platform from being abused.

Identifying users is one thing, reading their message is another. People can still deny and not answer questions.

What matters is the messages being encrypted, identifying users is already being made possible through other means.

So yeah, using a phone number is good enough, in my view.

There is no perfect security, there is only "good enough" security.

Not to mention that phone numbers are more secure, in my view, than other sorts of digital communications, and are not always monitored in all countries.
The tradeoff is lack of controls and ridiculous price volatility. The fed may not be perfect with the USD, but at least it's stable and supports global economies.
Reveal, yes, read their message, no.
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Are you assuming that all costs are financial?

(As a possible example, the only European countries with higher percentages of tertiary education than the US in the 25-34 age group are Norway, Ireland, Luxembourg, Lithuania, and Russia. I suppose that only 28% of Germans are interested in tertiary education, as opposed to 49% in Norway and Ireland. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_...)
> Légion Étrangère

French Foreign Legion for those of us who don’t know French
Can you educate me on the typical setup you would use to achieve that goal?
How much rubber is there?
I've met several MBA's, and they are more 'partially literate' in that they can write huge quantities of stuff, but each paragraph has nothing to do with the last paragraph.

Similarly, they can read whole books very quickly, but they do so by reading just the first sentence on every page. This is what gives them the superpower of reading large technical emails, and responding to them in seconds about a completely unrelated topic.
Oh, I'm extremely mad at Manchin and Sinema. But I believe you are underestimating the power of the presidential podium. I will readily admit that the Democratic party deserves more blame than Biden himself.

If Biden cared, he could shame these "Democrat" senators and prevent them from getting re-elected. If he uses his platform to inhibit their campaign fundraising, they will surely change positions out of fear of loosing their seat.

And something to keep in mind before we make campaign contributions for 2022, remember that some votes are way more valuable than others. Each vote for a Senator in Arizona counts more than 5x than in California.
Out of curiosity do you if you're within your rights to say "this will cost 'x' amount, we cannot afford it" or say if this is requested we would prefer to dissolve the company?

Basically can the UK government compel you under the threat of criminal prosecution?
If it hasn't been out five years you're a test pilot.
It's somewhat subjective of course, but for me it's a huge upgrade.

Form-wise, memory foam will respond to your positions but I feel like it's very slow and I also feel like I'm slowly sinking downward forever when I sleep on memory foam. Buckling gel responds very quickly, latex does as well. Latex is more springy, makes for a good core and isn't too bad to sleep on directly itself either, but buckling gel really fills in gaps and is super supportive.

Temperature-wise, memory foam makes me very hot when I sleep and I dislike that. Latex is much cooler and buckling gel even cooler than that.

(Everything I said about latex applies to polyurethane, which I believe Purple uses for its core rather than latex)
Couldn't agree more
I was definitely in the 'notch wtf?!' camp (and still don't own a notched device)
However I've managed to adjust to various devices having all manner of weird pixel/aspect ratios - and I'm definitely a fan of this after the everything has to be 1080 wilderness years.

I can't help but think a lot of this could have been avoided, if notched screens had just been positioned as the dimensions without the notch - and then offered a 'screen plus' mode that extended the published resolution to use the space on either side of the notch.
~We're not ripping you off, we're offering you extra pixels if you want.

Maybe late adoption of OLED is also to blame - with an OLED a notched screen can look just like a shorter one - and then you're given a choice.
Old computers are the new "old farmer's barn". You open it up and find some interesting stuff inside.
Given the weird materials people put in commercial mattresses, this is wouldn't be too far from the truth for most people.
It seems like Chime, Rho and a few others from the article are built on said APIs.
Assuming the car says "Leaf" or "Volt" on the back, I would have noticed. And I have seen a few of them, just far, far fewer than Teslas. The drastic difference in how often I see those makes me think there is something wrong with the value proposition though to make them so uncompetitive with Teslas.
Making this unlawful would violate the constitution. People are already upset at the Federal Government, now isn't the time for more bullshit.
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I wonder if that's going to continue to be the case with MRI machines? Some newer high-temperature superconductors (for instance ReBCO tape) don't need to be kept quite that cold. Eventually I'd expect machines based on newer materials to replace the old machines, unless there's some compelling reason why the helium-cooled machines are fundamentally better.

(I do agree we should conserve it rather than use it for frivolous purposes.)
> But I still think there is more going on. The subject in question is gender and gender identity. To begin with, even educated folks operating in good faith do not have a particularly coherent account of either.

I think there is a common, clear, useful model of both what descriptively exists and what the two main factions prefer normatively:

Given: that there exist actual physical differences between people, and

Given: that these differences are the basis for different descriptive labels on several orthogonal axes,

Given: that there are categories i to which people are assigned by society, and

Given: those categories are on a number of orthogonal axes, and

Given: that people have idea of which of those categories they should be assigned by society.

There is one of axes of physical trait based differentiation called “sex”.

There is one axis of social differentiation called “gender”, for which the corresponding self-understood correct category is “gender identity”.

The two major conflicting normative camps are: one that holds that sex determines correct socially ascribed gender (of which there are two possible categorizations of each) and correct gender identity (the same as correct ascribed gender), and one that holds that gender identity defines correct socially ascribed gender and that sex is largely beside the point (even if it statistically correlates with gender identity.)