skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating. If you take a naturalistic view of things, humans could be considered to be barnacles attached to the Earth as it travels through the universe.
The following is the text of a recent HN comment (not my own) on the subject of non-drug highs. As it suggests starting with a nonsense word, the OP fake word generator ought to suit:

> It is really quite easy: have someone you know provide a nonsense word. In needs to have no logical sense or connections to to anything - pure nonsense. Then, with that phrase held in your most present and loudest inner voice you repeat that phrase in your head. Repeat it over an over, forcefully to drive any other thoughts or thought fragments out of your mental conversation(s) (at all mental conversation levels, if you have more than one going at once). After a few minutes of forceful repeating, it echoes on it's own, and a few realization moments later 20-30 minutes have passed and it feels like waking from a refreshing dream. When in the "state", it really can't be described because it is whatever your imagination and recent experiences feedback froth back and forth. It's relaxing and refreshing, and a great way to clear one's head when working on difficult complex mental goals.
Thanks for an informing response.
1 cent per write to a database is insanely expensive, and no, you can't pay that much for DynamoDB. DynamoDB is free tier for 10 writes/read per second.

If you go with AWS's most expensive option for access (DynamoDB on-demand, infrequent access), the pricing is $1.56 per million write request units. That's 0.000156 cents per write. That doesn't include data storage, but that ranges between 10 and 25 cents per month, per GB.
If you use XMPP checkout https://jmp.chat/ .
if I'm reading correctly, they've already done the Coq and it verifies.

https://github.com/LogicalAtomist/principia/blob/master/PL.v
What does any of that have to do with the discussion? That doesn't in any way address the issue with Tether's lack of transparency. The issue is whether Tether actually has the capital to back up it's stablecoin.
Convert paper menus to a online QR menu
its perfectly fine if you want to not apologize for benefiting from a system that you didn't partake in building.

Just don't go prattle on about border security like most privileged people do if you don't care why the problem exists.

neither you (nor I) or most people on this thread would survive more than a few days under the conditions these people are fleeing.
Ethereum would be mined, regardless whether NFTs exist or not. It was early, and grew quickly to become the number 2 coin in terms of market cap. It’s heavily leveraged. The price is high enough to not care about everything else.
As long as people play the liquidity game on exchanges (pure TA trading), other parties will continue to mine.
>why should they be supported for any event except onclick?

obvious example would be articles with scrolling effects (eg. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/the-secretive-...), and need to autoplay videos when they scroll into view. That said, even if you restricted it to onclick, I don't imagine it's too hard for a page to receive a stray click (eg. if you're randomly selecting stuff) to trigger playback.
I don't think a Latex write-up would be much easier to formalize than raster scan.

Now making the Latex infra and formalizing can be parallelized, but they are already doing that!
Funny enough almost every single person who has actually worked at the post office thinks postal banking is a ludicrous idea.
It's quite depressing that in 10-15 years photographs and video won't really be admissible as court evidence in most cases. At least they won't be any more credible than a witness statement. Photography and especially video has been a great equalizer when it comes to accessing justice.
Anecdote of course, but my personal case may support this claim.

My grandfather died when he was 34 (1960's) from an intestinal ulcer. Not diagnosed with anything. Born in south America but from Jewish immigrants (relevant as I've been told Crohn's is more prevalent among Jewish people)

I was diagnosed with Crohn's when I turned 31, after having a colonoscopy because of severe diarrhea. Humira's been working so far, I've been on it for 2 years after other meds didn't do the trick.
Edit: just in case it wasn't clear: I also had a pretty big intestinal ulcer. But getting diagnosed helped it not get worse, and after going on humira, it eventually got better
Borg is the name of the backend service that runs a lot of Google software - https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html?hl=es#:~:text....
> Investigators say they were able to tie the downloads to Sharp and his work-issued laptop because his Internet connection briefly failed on several occasions while he was downloading the Ubiquiti data. Those outages were enough to prevent Sharp’s Surfshark VPN connection from functioning properly — thus exposing his Internet address as the source of the downloads.

Ouch! Opsec is very easy to screw up.
Is C++ adequate, when compile time and maintainability are taken into account?
If the price drops, there will be less incentive to mine. We are headed downwards anyway
https://quicksy.im/ or just help her setup an account and install a client.
A lot like songwriting where people who wrote the song and people who sing they song both get credit, they want credit for writing and for executing the joke.

It makes sense TBH.
> No real way to do tectonics or weather patterns as you don't necessarily know what's in your chunk neighborhood.

Sure you do. When you want to apply tectonics to a chunk, it's easy to calculate (and cache) the pre-tectonics version of all the neighbors.

The problem isn't effects that need to know about their neighborhood, it's effects that need detailed info from 50 chunks away.
I think mushroom leather is a cool invention, but at least at the present time, the vast majority of animal leather is a byproduct of food production, to the point that there is a surplus of leather because people like hamburgers more than leather products: https://qz.com/1308051/the-popularity-of-sneakers-is-leaving...
I don’t know if
I'm taking about hiding downvotes and selectively disabling comments. (Ignoring for now the selective hiding of particular comments or blacklisted words)

That's hiding information that's normally available due to the nature of the content. That's censorship.
That's relatively easy to correct for.

This is an animal study, which doesn't have that bias: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160920160635.h...

Basically, this is why I vape. Early onset dementia represents much higher existential risk than vaping does.
>Recruit millions over time and even if you reject the most obvious problem cases you will eventually get some seriously unstable people.

I think that's an erroneous way to look at it.

The fundamental problem is that the military is, and has been, made up of volunteers for a long time.

It's not that with more people you get proportionally more bad apples, it's that when you accept volunteers, you get people self-selecting and that's way worse.

You get the people who are mentally ill and not self-aware and seeking something they can't find anywhere else signing up.

Consider Tim McVeigh, who was taught to kill in Iraq. Allegedly (may be controversial) "schizotypal". That basically means "has some weird ideas, might develop schizophrenia some day, but not actively psychotic". Plenty of people could be like him - unstable in a lot of respects, but after talking to a recruiter go "nah, killing people on the other side of the world doesn't sound fun". So they don't enlist, and that shapes the military.

The only way to fix this is a return to the draft. Of course that's easier said than done. I know little about them, but people always mention Switzerland and Israel as having practically universal military service. So if it seems impossible, yet it must be possible somehow.
Yes, the CDU did CDU things. The SPD also did CDU things.

I didn't expect the CDU to do anything, but stagnant and corrupt policies. The SPD, however, was merely enabling the CDU for the sake of government "participation". No one but the SPD is at fault for not pushing for their own promises.
You love to see it! I think this is a reasonable tool for a large set of usecases. Though many will be served just as well with file synchronization and other local saving tools, I like the simplicity in that single binary.

I use my TW every day like a madman (https://philosopher.life/#⧖). I'd like to submit https://github.com/OokTech/TW5-Bob as a powerful (though perhaps not as simple) alternative. That's what most of my household uses (one is aiming to switch over soon).
It’s a shame that Chrome turned out to be much more than just the chrome of the browser — the UI components built around the rendering and network engine.

I would love to (1) see the two separated and (2) have a much smaller chrome on top. For example, I don’t even need tabs when my WM can handle that stuff for me. I’d also be quite happy for the browser to store no state in between sessions (yet still have the ability to assist with usernames and passwords — if I need persistent state between visits it’s usually handled by logging in to the handful of sites I care about.)

This is part of a wider earthy-crunchiness I’ve found in my later life, including only using a (recycled, 100$) desktop computer instead of my MacBook, and turning it off when I’m not using it. In the true pedigree of earthy-crunchy types I also apparently cannot help proselytising about my life choices!
That was a crazy read. This stuck out to me:

>“Here’s what we don’t know about whale barnacles, at least with any certainty: just about everything else. Like, how do their larvae, no bigger than a grain of salt, find a migratory whale to grab onto in the first place? Once they locate one, how do they navigate around its gargantuan body—hundreds of thousands of times larger than theirs—to find their permanent homestead? “It just seems preposterous,” says John Zardus, a marine biologist at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.”

Further, the article points out that certain types of whale barnacles are shown to prefer certain types of whales. Nature is amazing.
MacOS Monterey added a CLI tool for speedtesting, and I noticed they have a

-c: Produce computer-readable output

So I tried it out:

~ networkquality -c | jq '{dl: (.dl_throughput / 1000000), ul: (.ul_throughput / 1000000)}'

awesome!

{
"dl": 176.861488,
"ul": 6.742952
}

(Starlink in Perth, Western Australia)
It's incredibly convenient. I sat down at a new laptop about a month ago and realized I was blanking on my bank account credentials.

Fortunately, since I use Chrome, I was able to log in and get them clouded over. Whew!
Sometimes you have no choice. Send an email to any @gmail.com address and you’re using a Google product. Then you have the myriad of analytics and tracking and such.
> articles with scrolling effects

That is not a legitimate example of a good thing. That's a legitimate example of something that shouldn't be a thing
Can confirm, after acquiring a 42U rack and a costly power bill.
What is the proper way to ensure 100% bulletproof VPN connections without leakage?
Empirically? They got a casino.

In general, I think it's a technical problem that lives in the details.

How can institutional racism be anything else, as it is defined?
Honestly Nuclear energy with a low LCOE should've been achieved by now. China may lead the way in it, even with lots of renewables they may like having an alternative tech where they can lead.
That's the nod-and-wink joke about the name Kubernetes. While it's a "controller" (hence the name) its design was inspired by borg.

... Kubernetes, or "kube" for short. ;)
What's up there now is "only" up to *5. They announced that back in February and it sounds like there's been a lot more work since (though perhaps mostly reorganization and typesetting). Volume I goes up to *97, and the fragment that's commonly printed is "Principia Mathematica to *56".
>You are describing dislikes, reviews, stars and similar systems.

No. Not crowdsource. Remember this is to counter the effects of social media.

I mean that every moment of video is fingerprinted, and it's providence back to creator is noted, and the trustworthiness of that creator is reported. The purpose is to counter fake news and deep fakes. So if NYTimes created the video - good truth. If NYTimes showed a video they found on the internet - less good score. Still good since I'm trusting NYTimes to vet source.
I wonder why the developer had access to so many resources on AWS and GitHub?
Can’t these excessive permissions be removed?
Why it was undetected for such long time?
Leaving MySQL
'We don't have enough antivirals manufactured yet'
We have lots of Ivermectin, an antiviral, but it is politically difficult to discuss it rationally. It is also ridiculously cheap, so the manufacturers look for the next expensive treatment to push.

'why should I work at a place that wont even make you get a shot so you don't murder me.'
If you believe your vaccinations protect you, then your statement is nonsensical. If your vaccinations don't protect you, then forcing others to take what does not work is also nonsensical.

I doubt you run a forklift.
That means you were already logged into google. At that point just use Bitwarden.
This is why China bans these companies long ago. Imagine handing your population’s intel on a silver platter to your adversary.
Fusion power is exciting but I am assuming any country that develops it first will be reluctant to share it for a few decades at least (to maintain competitive advantage), unless ITER succeeds.
All too often, code review amounts to no more than making sure there are no grievous mistakes. Management only cares about you completing your own work, and if reviewing the work of others slows you down, that's your problem. Time spent on code reviews have never counted toward mine or anyone else's performance. A bad PR making it to production certainly gets negative attention, so that's the aspect given priority. The incentives do not align to make code review a place for knowledge transfer.
Assuming you're talking about corporate VPN: not using VPN. Things like BeyondCorp. And obviously take away access once that person left the company.

https://beyondcorp.com/
https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp/
Back in the day - 15 years ago - I built web apps for clients that sent SMS by merely sending an email to the email alias for that SMS destination. Is that no longer possible?
Well, don't do that, then? I spend my days helping people.
Briefly... Internal firewall on your PC, like iptables. Block all ports except the VPN port.
Reproducible Builds in November 2021
Here's a calcified tiddlywink, but since it's green it's a different nose incident?

https://medtube.net/otorhinolaryngology/medical-pictures/306... PIC - https://medtube.net/images/min/7c98e32ef2e5fe92222547a201db8...

So I guess it's like a pearl, the tiddlywink is a imperfection that creates the rhinolith.
The Influence of Electromagnetic Pollution on Living Organisms
First https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/, now this? I am very excited to see this sort of "codification" work become a legitimate academic enterprise. People I tend to trust are in that Frege > Russel camp, but that certainly doesn't make me less enthusiastic to see this sort of work undertaken.

I am a big fan or the sort of thinking in https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-te... and https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2020/07/08/the-landscapes-of-... that we need fewer "write an move on" works (e.g. academic papers), and more long-term living documents (e.g. wikis, but not just).

The calculus analogy (surprisingly not in the origin) of going directly working on the integral, rather than the thing to be integrated, is good to keep in mind.
> but Docker has kind of imploded

Wait, what? Its Docker the only PaaS offering by all the major cloud computing providers that's cloud platform independent.

Google GCP Cloud Run
AWS ECS
Azure ACI
like some other commenters here, https://github.com/CliMA/Oceananigans.jl immediately comes to mind, maybe it would be fun to compare projects on this scale between JAX/Julia.

> JAX offers more than just a JIT compiler: JAX functions are also differentiable

if the downstream library is completely implemented in JAX (numba) ecosystem. Similar for Julia, except implementing fast code in Julia is natural, doesn't involve debugging 3 compilers (Cpython, Numba, Jax). Many python library is only differentiable because the 100x more effort were put in writing C/C++ backend, binding to python, and writing chain rules for foreign functions.

I would imagine Julia to be a good fit for this direction in the future!
The replies to this are so funny :D "It's illegal! Immoral! Assassination! Theft! Murder! Felony! To the gallows!"

Yeah, no.

So it's legal, moral, and acceptable that software and websites are made, by you folk reading this here website no less, to consume orders of magnitude more resources than they need to, just so that web companies---you folk, remember---can make some stats go up and turn them into money. It's okay to make the web less accessible to poor people, disabled people, people in places with bad internet connection, perfectly functional devices which have only become unusable because of this whole bullshit &c, it's okay to mine shitcoins in people's browsers, to sell their life for profits, it's okay to literally get into their private life and play loud videos in there if they don't know how to make that stop, but it's immoral, illegal, unacceptable to retaliate? Immoral and triggering for you lot for folk to just jokingly entertain such idea?

This whole business is basically turning wasted money and energy into dollars, not really different than blockchain bullshit essentially.

Imagine the resources wasted to produce and consume this nonsense went to making computers user friendly, programmable and accessible. Like, why should my browser occupy ~6G of memory for ~50 pages which could all be just pure HTML and a couple PDFs? Why should I need 6G of memory when 1 or 2GB must do? Why tf a computer with 1GHz or 666MHz CPU can't handle the web, ie a bunch of text documents? This whole bubble is creating immense amount of waste, and it's nonsensical to just limit your thinking to "oh, some annoying websites, just run uBlock". IMHO comes from the same place with "if car-dominated cities bother you and you feel unsafe, just get a car, or better, an SUV". What about fixing the city? What about climate and pollution?.
Chrome only sends these headers to Google-owned domains.

As an attack surface, if you're worried about being spied on by the company that you got your browser from, I'd be more concerned about the closed-source control they have over the code in the browser itself than the unique identifier you're sending to their servers when you use their browser.
> Stocks aren't scarce assets. They're infinitely dividable, so the price per share going up doesn't cause them to be harder to buy.

That doesn't make any sense. Stocks ultimately represent ownership in an enterprise that consists of people, equipment, and intellectual property. Those are scarce. Just because the ownership units is infinitely divisible, doesn't mean they aren't scarce. If people only bought stocks so they could hang a fancy certificate on their wall, you'd be right. But people don't do that, they buy stocks to get dibs on a certain fraction of future production. That's the scarce part.

>Houses aren't really either, it's the land that is. Thanks Henry George.

1. seems like a nitpick? When people talk buying "houses", they generally talk about buying the combo of house + land it sits on.

2. houses are still scarce[1]. we can't will infinite houses into existence. they're more plentiful than original picasso paintings, but that doesn't make them not scarce (at least according to the economic definition).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarcity
> even without Jeff Bezos

It's honestly because of Jeff Bezos that Amazon can succeed without Jeff Bezos.

People honestly do not give Bezos enough credit, not just for what Amazon has achieved, but for what he has achieved within Amazon. Decades from now there will be case studies about the succession planning at Amazon versus other "major" companies of our time which oftentimes revolve around the ego and narcissism of a CEO with too much self-importance to foster any sort of succession within the organization.

Amazon's best years are quite likely still not behind us and will quite likely happen when Bezos is no longer around to see them.
I already don't use twitter, please don't make my tax dollars go there too
Not very well known, but not new.

http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
And the one publish ads gets absolutely no attention even though the numbers looks good. Who on the earth will watch a video stick at the corner of a news site page?
Vocabulary Learning via Optimal Transport for Neural Machine Translation
The comments here and on the article itself both imply that flash is maybe a little less bad that the alternatives or that it isn't just the absolute worst. I does not escape me that this is 10-year old post. But - is it still the same now, really?

I'm a long time software engineer for UNIX and embedded, but I'm certainly not a web developer - the closest I get to a browser and related technologies is as a user/reader.

I think this may be part of the cause of a very different viewpoint - it seems like web developers actually bemoan the demise of flash? As a UNIX/Linux user especially, I was extremely happy to see the end of that. I danced a jig when Netflix and Prime dumped it. GAD it was awful! Only think worse was java in the browser. I had never considered anyone would be a flash apologist (even adobe employees).

So while using CSS, etc. etc. might be a pain for the developer, I think everybody else was more than happy to see it die. Just about everything from adobe seems to have the same basic stench.

I wonder what other things are popular for the creators but hated by the users? That's kind of an odd economic situation.
That anecdote would not cause me to think less of fecal transplants, but quite the opposite. If there is a causative lever in the microbiome that can affect obesity, one could apply that in reverse, so that if you had the right source, the donor from that story could reduce their weight by receiving a transplant themselves.
Setting up the local routing table so the main interface routes everything except the VPN connection through the VPN. VPN goes down? No route to host.

And there are probably a dozen other ways to stop such leakage too.

Most commercial VPN providers these days offer something like this, usually branding a it “kill switch” or something.
Ah! I'll have a look and see what Android apps will do that, if any, and give it a try! Send me an email (in my profile) and I'll let you know how I go in the next day or two?

It's 100% possible though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaEnd4VzYZM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k4HHOe56K8

And these are both older devices with older software. That Deep Guide one is the best demonstration!

A comment on that video is relevant:

> just tried and it works perfectly on my note2. The good thing I just realised is that you can use the touch screen to control as a mouse on note2, which makes the experience even better!

Supports touch/keyboard input too; and on the Note 2 :)
Harvard scientists observe new state of matter, a quantum spin liquid
Accompanying repo: https://github.com/Jingjing-NLP/VOLT
ASS - Amazon Shipping Services
In essence, Goodhart's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Yeah, my bad for being imprecise. The base fee is burned and you can pay a bribe for priority, but from a supply and demand perspective, does that affect miner supply? It's the same number of blocks and hashes and miners regardless of excess gas spent. I think it's more like you're not paying to play snake specifically, you're paying miners not to do what they were going to do anyway.