skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the most recent episode of Penn & Teller's "Fool Us" a magician fooled them with a simple mathematical trick that could probably be done as a party trick.

This episode was filmed under COVID restrictions so the magician was appearing via video but earlier he had a box delivered to the studio. He asked Penn to open the box and remove the top item. It was a big foam rock.

Then he had Teller look in and remove another item, which turned out to be a big pair of scissors.

Finally, he had Alyson (the host) remove the big wad of paper that was left.

He then wrote a prediction on a big piece of paper, and told one of them (Penn I think) to pick any two of the items and have the people holding those items to swap them. This was done, and then the prediction was revealed which was something like "Penn loses to Teller" which was correct.

He then wrote another prediction down, and this time had them do two swaps. Again the prediction was right.

Then he had them do more swaps, revealed that he had not written a prediction down instead saying he made his final prediction before starting the trick. He asked them to un-wad the paper and sure enough, it contained a prediction and it was right.

Penn and Teller thought the trick worked using multiple outs. E.g., if the final configuration did not work with what was written on the wadded up paper (which until he told them to un-wad it they had no idea contained a prediction) he had some other prediction hidden in the box that he would have revealed instead.

In reality, given three people, P, T, and A, holding in some order rock, paper, scissors, there are only two possible configurations as far as who beats whom goes: P > T > A > P and P < T < A < P.

Any swap toggles between these two configurations. The magician controlled packing the box and told them how to unpack it, so he knew it would start in P>T>A>P. So he writes down "Teller beats Penn", gets them to do a swap, and the prediction is right. It doesn't matter which two do the swap.

Same for the rest of the rounds. He knows how many swaps he is going to ask them to do, so he knows which of the two states they will end up in.

The only contingency he has to deal with is if when he asks Teller to remove an item from box Teller had grabbed the wad of paper instead of the scissors. That's probably not a big risk because Teller would probably think the paper was just padding for shipping.

If that does happen, the magician just needs to get in an odd number of extra swaps before going to the prediction on the wad of paper.

It was a bit surprising that this fooled Penn and Teller because they have had in their act tricks that used the same general idea of something having only a couple of states so that while it seems like the person they are doing the trick to is making choices leading to a combinatorial explosion in possible outcomes it really is only flipping a bit.
Because they are the currently popular way of doing new analyses of history, and people will typically expect new scholarship on already well-covered topics like the Napoleonic Wars to be performed in the currently popular fashion?

I don't think Information Theory is typically covered at the 100 level, but if it were, I'm sure they would include things like conditional and relative entropy.
For me, Discord is the new reddit.

When I want information about a product, I join the discord forum associated with that hobby and I ask for recommendations.

Since Discord is a chat service like IRC, I get replies from humans instead of shady astro-turfed websites.
Cool project. Reminds me how peculiar it is that I had to endure rittenhouse and floyd trials livestreaming and analyzed by herds of talking heads and yet I don't even think they have a feed into ghislaine maxwells' trial that is now under way.
I prefer clicks to hovers for this reason. A simple (Show example) button or (?) clickable question mark that spawns a small modal in-place and takes focus is more accessible, and there is no ambiguity of intent.
You forgot email... and they don't need a warrant for messages older then 180 days if in the cloud (they never delete them, too): https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/house-passes-bil...
If anyone is curious about the differences between Karpenter and Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler I created a short video to explain some of the key differences in node provisioning and management.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QsVRHVdOnM
Low-cost attacks on Ethereum 2.0 by sub-1/3 stakeholders [pdf]
Epstein did nothing wrong.
In my cynical view within the US, it's often more like locusts destroying their environment and moving on e.g. the Californian exodus to other western states that is negatively regarded by most people born & raised in those states.

People vote for crap politicians and policies that lead to issues noted in the OP, then go somewhere else and do it again - watching it first-hand in my state over the past decade.
I poked around and this is running off a GraphQL endpoint at https://api.epstein.flights/ - I pointed the GraphiQL desktop app at it and the following query returned some interesting data:

{
passengers {
pageInfo {
count
}
edges {
__typename
... on VerifiedPassenger {
id
slug
name
biography
wikipedia_link
flightCount
image
histogram {
month
count
}
}
... on LiteralPassenger {
literal
}
}
}
}
Seems like it. And can they also do it without an appropriate warrant [by asking someone else]?
Yasha Levine is a conspiracy theorist hack. There’s really no other way to say it. His narrative is attractive to a left leaning audience with shallow knowledge in this area, but the reality is that without publicly funded software like Tor, Signal, OTF, and my own Lantern, our world would be more fully saturated with corporate control of the internet. We need more public funding for open source software (with public security audits, mind you), not less. Without them, we’d basically be left with Wikipedia as the only popular entity on the internet outside of corporate control.

All of these projects are more properly grouped with government funding in other spheres, such as the BBC or PBS in media, than they are with the surveillance state or the NSA. Levine overlooks basic details, such as reproducible builds, that quickly collapse the house of cards that is his narrative. He tries to paint them all with the NSA brush, when, in fact, they’re simply projects that have historically received some of their funding from the government while fulfilling missions with extraordinary humanitarian benefits. Levine’s own knowledge and experience in this area is shallow. Look elsewhere.
>We also took advantage of our database expertise and built a very sophisticated, power-fail-safe journal-based database into the SSD firmware.

Assuming this means something similar to QLDB, did they put a centralized blockchain in the firmware? Pretty cool.
Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to co-CEO alongside Benioff
Because there is a reason they have been given the same name. They belong to the same family of virii. There are studies showing that exposure to one CoV induces immunity to the other.

Here is just one paper around that topic: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34273512/
Hayao Miyazaki prepares to cast one last spell
Maybe I missed it but are you able to talk about how many messages a second, partition count and average message size?

I run a few hundred Kafka clusters with message counts per second in the tens of millions for some clusters, a few thousand partitions, message sizes around 7kb with gzip compression, and have never needed the amount of CPU and network/disk throughput mentioned. With node counts range between ~10-25. Most of my clusters reaching those speeds at most average around 7Gbps of disk throughput per broker.

I have recently started running Kafka in GCP with their balanced ssd disks capping out at 1.2Gbps I'm not seeing much of a performance impact. It requires a few more brokers to reach the same throughput but not having any of the performance and scaling issues mentioned in this post.

My brokers are sized a bit differently than mentioned in the post as well, low amount of CPU (maximum 20ish cores) but much more memory around 248GB for my larger clusters. So maybe that has to do with it? Maybe the broker sizes that were chosen are not ideal for the workload?

Maybe I've been lucky in my setups but I would like to know a bit more. Having been running Kafka since the 0.10 days and now on 2.6 for all my clusters this type of performance problem seems a bit puzzling.
It hurt the fragile person, yes, but let's think of the average person. Calling someone's idea stupid will reasonably insult the average person and make them think you're a cock, unless you know them well enough (in which case all bets are off). I am by no means advocating catering to the lowest common denominator, I'm simply opposed to throwing out all social conventions that have basically been with us for as long as verbal communication has existed because it's "efficient" (no proof either that it's actually efficient). At that rate the OP is simply asking us to stop being humans. It's just nonsense.
But 99% of the times that's exactly what you need.
It’s not worth spending big on a gaming laptop. You really want a discrete GPU.
Can you link a good article on storage tiering for Kafka?
A fair amount of people will never leave twitter, and this will only work to continue to keep them disconnected from reality by selectively filtering more information.
- Advanced Python.

- Docker.

- Spark.

- Common lisp/ Closure
Is there a way to verify that all the flight log is searched? i.e. no strategic omissions?
"Encrypted OVER THE WIRE and AT REST" means that telegram has easy and unfettered access to chat logs. So they can give it up to authorities. (I don't argue that they DO, just that they very much CAN).

This is proven by an extremely simple experiment: you log in on your new phone, enter password and instantly see all chats.

Another simple experiment points that chats are unlikely to be even encrypted at rest is that Telegram has an extremely fast server side message search. You log into a web client, half a second later you can type a search query and uncover chats from years ago.
Apparently it is not legal for a federal case.
> I'm not sure what cities have more crime and violence than Chicago.

Per capita, Chicago is absolutely not an outlier for these statistics. Is there a particular measurement that you're familiar with that ranks Chicago at the top?
How do you relate this to the study at hand? Oxysterol isn't mentioned once.

I don't even disagree or something, but your advice seems rather automatic than based.

The study used atherogenic diets as offense. So all the consensus on heart health seems to apply: LDL bad; salt bad; cholesterol bad; saturated fats bad - inflammation bad.

In mice.
No.

Like, i get that they are the same in effect, but I still believe in the semantics different between a moving picture, and a audio-track-less video.

A gif can never have audio.

A img tag can never have audio.

mp4s, m4as, webm, embeds tags, video tags, etc, can either have or not have audio, its a surprise.

Because they are videos, not moving/animated pictures.

Anywho, apng is a real standard now, so one can just use that instead of gifs.
Yes I agree. Not discounting it by any means but it seems like the news cycle is dominated by the new COVID variant, yet I've seen literally nothing on this trial. Makes you wonder what's really going on and how deep the rot runs in this country.
> I think I might be stuck in some old habits of googling and I've lost touch with modern google.

I'm with you on that 100%. When did we arrive at the point where relevant keywords don't return relevant results? Is training an AI on natural language processing more important than keeping your flagship product reliable? And the blog spam...

I think google has gotten qualitatively worse. It's no longer a search engine, it is a recommendation engine. I flat out don't use it anymore for anything other than addresses. This wouldn't be so bad if most of the major competitors weren't just metasearch engines relying on google. Bing is no better.

It's gotten to be what it was like in 1999, you can't rely on a single engine for anything. So "default search" in browsers doesn't serve as useful a purpose anymore. I find myself using an assortment of engines, including Brave (IMO currently providing the best experience, although that doesn't say much right now) and obscure engines like gigablast.
I used to covet the DESQview/X ads in Byte magazine when I was kid. I ended up getting and Amiga which offered basically the same functionality. DESQview was technology from a different timeline.

I did end up running a bunch of surplus X terms in my home lab, MIPS R4400 based with 32MB of ram. It was glorious.
What I was told by 2 different attorneys in SC is that a a non-compete cannot be enforced if it prevents you from earning a living. It cannot force you to move out of the area to obtain a job.

Reasonableness is key to enforcement, meaning a reasonable radius, time and field. Any agreement that prevents you from working in your field is defacto-unenforceable specifically because it’s unreasonable.

Both of these attorneys had been practicing in the state for 20 years at the time of the conversation. One graduated from Georgetown and the other from University of South Carolina’s law school.

My understanding from them was that right to work was interpreted as ensuring you actually have “the right to work” via case law with noncompete agreements.

IANAL
Good luck with that. In my case there was a ton of violations of the SCA. Violations of the SCA are only actionable if they are "constitutional" in nature. (That essentially means that if the government indict you based on information they illegally gathered through violating the SCA but the information did not belong to you - say it belonged your wife or business partner - then you can't get the information suppressed/excluded in court)

In my case the government did violate the SCA and my constitutional rights, but two judges have looked at it and both stated the same answer - the police must be allowed to commit crimes to gather evidence. Next stop: appeal courts.
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/

https://statisticsbyjim.com/
That looks like a 12-week keto diet, applied to 21 patients who already have AD. The measured results were cognitive scores on testing, which improved.

Consequently, it suggests someone who is already impaired due to AD may be able to improve symptoms from a keto diet (vs a low-fat one).

But the general consensus is that reversing or alleviating AD symptoms is a different task than preventing it in the first place.

The linked article here is talking more about the latter, and specifically for preventing non-hereditary AD.
You're not the only one. Minuet was what I used.
> >"That's a stupid idea"

> versus

> >"That idea simply will never work"

The second seems much much worse than the first to me. Why would you say that an idea will simply never work? Maybe it will and you made a mistake? Makes you sound like an ass. With the first you make it clear that the idea is dumb, but you aren't saying that the idea will never work, so maybe it still will work? It gives the signal that maybe you should think it through again, but doesn't completely dismiss the value of your work like the second.
New York State here.

Some of the highest property and income taxes in exchange for

- shitty expensive roads

- just "meh" state university

- the worst subway I saw in any country (and there were a few)

and I can keep whinging for another half an hour.
It isn't (yet) all the flight log data:

> This entry does not appear on the website because it is included in the second group of records (described above), which are not yet completely digitized. This is not a political or editorial choice, we simply have not had time to add the logs from this release yet.

But I suppose the only way is to check the linked DocumentCloud documents, if you assume that the flight logs that came out through court discovery are reliable.

https://epstein.flights/about
Yeah or it could be a hormone producing organ like they hypothalamus, thyroid generating not enough/too much of a chemical, or unhealthy kidneys not pulling enough salt out of the blood causing the liver to become stressed, or, or or....

I'm sure if you do five whys on liver malfunction, you'll always be able to find that diet impacts structurally deficient organs eventually, but wether or not it is a significant contributor is always up for debate.
Indeed - they do seem to wane, for symptomatic infection anyway, and we see what happens regarding hospitalisations. Hopefully boosters will provide longer protection. Definitely a learning process.
This also tracks with apoe4 carriers being at greater risk, as they are also at greater risk of raised cholesterol from dietary sources of saturated fat
Generally yes but outpost is a little different:

https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/rack/pricing/

Either way this is just a guess :)
Meet the new Microsoft, same as the old Microsoft.
Clearly, the only solution is to put flight logs on the blockchain
I very much doubt that Telegram really does encrypt messages "at rest": their server side full text search works extremely fast.
It's spooky that all these countries did the same thing at the same time.

Also arguably, in the US, it started under Carter (though Reagan became the face of it).

Kind of like how Trump is the face of the "decoupling" from China, but this built on the "Obama Pivot", and seems to be being continued (maybe a little better) by Biden?

The paranoid part of me wants to blame whatever happens at Davos and whatnot, but it's probably just "the intellectual spirit of the times".
Its honestly not that hard to build a WAL-style solution exactly the way you want it for your own application. You just have to get away from the "you shouldn't write your own xyz" boogeyman experience long enough to figure it out.

Do you know how to model your events using a type system?

Can you be bothered to implement a Serialize and Deserialize method for each event type, or simply use a JSON serializer?

Do you know how to make your favorite language compress and uncompress things to disk on a streaming basis?

Do you know how to seek file streams and/or manage a collection of them all at once?

Can you manage small caches of things in memory using Dictionary<TK,TV> and friends?

Are you interested in the exotic performance possibilities that open up to those who leverage the ring buffer and serialized busy wait consumer?

If you responded yes to most or all of the above, you are now officially granted permission to implement your own WAL/event source/streaming magic unicorn solutions.

Seriously, this stuff is really easy to play with. If you follow the rules, you would actually have a really hard time fucking it up. Even if you do, no one gets hurt. The hard part happens after you get the events to disk. Recovery, snapshots, garbage collection - that's where the pain kicks in. But, none of these areas is impossible. Recovery/Snapshots can again be handily defeated by the mighty JSON serializer if one is lazy enough to succumb to its power. Garbage collection can be a game of segmenting log files and slowly rewriting old events to the front of the log on a background thread. The nuance is in tuning all of these things in a way that makes the business + computer happy at the same time.

Plan to do it wrong like 15 times. Don't invest a whole lot into each attempt and you can pick this up really fast. Try to just write it all yourself. Aside from the base language libraries (file IO, threading, et. al), JSON serializer and GZIP, you really should just do it by hand because anything more complex is almost certainly wrong.
> Each advertiser just wants to place ads on the platform that gives the best ROI

Couldn't this be the reason why every hardware/software manufacturer might want (or even feel forced) to adapt and release only adware products?
Was the Rittenhouse circus _not_ a federal case though?
It comes with native support for blockchains, crypto and nfc. (web3?)

That enables easy access to vertically and horizontally integrated SaaS opportunities (scam as a service).
There are effectively three tiers: managed storage services like S3 (object storage), EFS (NFS NAS), or FSX (clustered filesystem) where most of the decisions are made for you; the mid-level EBS (SAN) service; and storage-optimized instance types with local disks which you manage.

This custom SSD hardware family is what powers the EBS (cloud SAN) service, which allows you to pay for the performance level you need, where they give it both higher absolute performance and [now] better worst-case latency.

This announcement is saying that you can now get your own instances with the same performance characteristics for situations where you need better performance than a SAN can deliver and/or the robustness benefits of using per-node storage rather than a separate networked service.

The other part of this announcement is the implicit message it sends about the competition: they're telling everyone that their storage performance is more consistent than their competitors and increasing the number of areas where they can say they have an option which a competitor does not. Noting that this was driven by the EBS storage team is also a reminder that they have more people working on lower-level infrastructure problems than you likely do.
Well if the idea is genuinely stupid then it will never work? I am operating on the assumption that someone has actually said something stupid. That's the given. If they've said something clever then obviously all bets are off and this is just a pointless discussion. And if you're not sure if it's stupid or will work, why would you say either of those things? You're arguing for an edge case based on a condition that should never even arise in the first place. Also, we're not talking about work, we're talking about ideas.
Well, the operational requirements of commercial entities may be different than the federal government. Many of the companies that you mentioned offer FedRAMP services (with maybe the exception of Apple and Facebook), and they probably reckon with the spec on some level, even if they are not employing it internally. It is also pretty clear that Slack is going to implement it soon - they are going through all this trouble to allow to provide their signature every workspace get's a subdomain feature on FedRAMP. They really don't have to do that. Or maybe they do, in which case I would argue that it is probably good practice to be able to interrogate the DNS records they maintain.

Either way, this argument is starting to become political. Is Facebook a role model for cybersecurity, and keeping data out of the wrong hands? Or do NIST researchers know better? Neither - the government outlines its security requirements, and private companies play ball to compete for their business. And if a federal agency wants to be able to prove a DNS record's authenticity, even if it is maintained by a vendor, even if that isn't sufficient to secure their infrastructure, that's their prerogative.
Thanks but who does not know about incognito mode? :)

It's not a big deal, I just have to clear/remove cookies for just that site. I though it wouldn't work in incognito mode because theoretically it would require access to my client certificate which I believe wouldn't/shouldn't work in a private window. Anyway I tried and it worked because the site is not using it in the end.
This is such a silly conspiracy theory in the most pejorative sense of the term -- there are literal front page stories on CNN/NYTimes/Fox News/MSNBC.
You can take this a step further and make the telecom as a service entirely decentralized: Earn "tokens" by providing wireless area coverage & data backhaul, spend "tokens" to transmit data.

This is exactly what the Helium (HNT) project is doing. They started with LoRa coverage (super low datarate but long range for IOT) and are moving into other protocols such as WiFi and CBRS 5G (same as this offering) via the FreedomFi project.