skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
or imagine a gray goo scenario where an advanced civilization shoots self replicating nanotech based microorganisms at FTL wrapped in this bubble and 'sanitize' a potential threat-planet.
>It's understandable that people have issues with Moderna and Pfizer, since they are a new type of vaccine (mRNA-based) and we're not sure what the long-term affects of mRNA vaccines may be

It's not understandable why they use that as an argument for not taking them.

There might be long term effects to taking the vaccine that will only make themselves known in 20 years. There might also be long term effects to taking the coronavirus raw that will only make themselves known in 20 years.

This is the only valid argument against the vaccines that I have seen so far, and it is just as valid for the opposite side.
I believe Thatcher was used there as an example of the prototypical predatory neo-cunt, sucking value out of the common good and funneling it into privatized friends hands in a most-vicious negative feedback loop.

In America, Reagan did a lot of the same shit; as did daddy Bush, Clinton, W, Obama, Trump and now Biden. There is bipartisan corporate oligarchy kleptocracy, and the Brits have caught up by defanging any people power in the Labour party via vile smear campaigns.

In both countries the tactics are the same - buy the media, the police, and the politicians. Sell weapons to the worlds worst regimes. Deregulate finance and environmental protections, subsidize fossil fuel bastards, and privatize healthcare and every other common nationalized good from water to waste.

The widespread fear and distrust and doubt you speak of is spread through the media with full intent by these people, so as to get away with more shit more easily.
Hard-pressed to come up with something concrete but blockchain is a way to build consensus. Mostly, it's more expensive than centralized consensus. In some cases though, it's cheaper.

For ex - Cost of consensus by the govt in a stable democracy is much lower than a failed state. Blockchain could be used there.
> Also, while it’s true the covariance matrix is initialized with diagonals (we often don’t have good priors), the values are being dynamically re-estimated from measurements at every iteration. The initial parameters are just that — initial.

The P covariance matrix does not depend on online input though, right? So the initial value of covariance matrix Q and R together with model H and F decides what P will end at. I mean, there is no online parameter estimation (dependent on input). Or am I getting it wrong?

I sure agree to that Kalman filter could be useful. But I don't like how they are presented.

Like the author of the blog writes:
"At times its ability to extract accurate information seems almost magical"
Check out vivenu [0]. I‘m not sure what their data offering includes because I haven‘t actually tried their product, but it sounds like they are thinking in a similar direction to you.

[0] https://vivenu.com
Calls out for pictures. Begging for some diagrams.
Sure is!

Interestingly, Acorn can show the full 0-255 range.
Sorry, but we did all of that 20 years ago, and those approaches remain a lot simpler for basic use cases. You know, like serving 100k dynamic pages/hour database backed site. (That's what I was doing 20 years ago, how about you?)

See https://pythonspeed.com/articles/dont-need-kubernetes/ for some of the reasons NOT to use Kubernetes for this.

With, of course, a giant exception for two cases. The first is, as with the author, if the purpose of using Kubernetes is to learn how to use Kubernetes. The second is if you are aware of the tradeoffs and have specific reason to say that Kubernetes really is appropriate for your circumstance.

And if you think that Kubernetes is always the right approach, then you clearly are NOT aware of the tradeoffs.
This is my impression also, that lower incomes are more social and community involved (church etc).
The #1 Rule of Thumb I've read and used is: try to be as close to last as possible. The point being, you want to be fresh in their minds. Going early is not the way to do that.
Yea i've never quite understood this housing issue but i've always been confused why everyone wants to live so densely.

I feel like as a country we should be spreading out, not huddling. But i also dislike living in cities, so maybe that's just me.
Shaarli
NASA has 10 new astronauts, and they could not have joined at a better time
I took the gentrification complaint at face value as I understood the point he was trying to make. As I understand it, gentrification isn't a "high density" argument, it's a NIMBY one (much like "environmental concerns" and "shadows"). While I believe that increased housing could ease gentrification, I personally believe that (1) gentrification is not a problem worth addressing and (2) it's most often used a tool to prevent the addition of new housing which worsens the symptoms of gentrification.
Pingo – a fast image optimizer for web
Yes. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/yellow-journa...
The Office compatibility pack allows opening the x filetypes in older versions, but it does not preserve document fidelity. New features still aren’t supported in old application. So that doesn’t really work if you exchange files with a lot of people.

Windows updates don’t solve security issues in Office applications. If you were 10 years behind on security updates and you never got hacked you were either an uninteresting target or just lucky. Either way I wouldn’t be too happy with this kind of IT.

Then again even if you hadn’t been replaced your policy couldn’t have lasted anyway because the last operating system that supported Office 2000 was going the way of the dodo.
So, almost all jobs now?
This. It's not my field but I strongly suspect I have a troublesome mutation of some sort. If I was able to track it down what good would that do? (I almost certainly inherited it which is why I think it's genetic.) Sequencing isn't that expensive these days, I keep thinking about it but even if I found enough others to pin down the mutation what good would that do? "Success" would simply be an accurate diagnosis, nothing more.
This was funny at first but now I can't even play Elder Scrolls Online :(
Because there's a VP approval step for updating the status page and no repercussions for VPs who don't approve updates in a timely manner. Updating the status page is fully automated on both sides of VP approval. If the status page doesn't update, it's because a VP wouldn't do it.
What a cliffhanger -- what did you end up doing? Not sweeping the streets presumably?
It's hard to tell, even in hindsight.

Maybe something like free access without ads to paper subscribers.

I just tried to run a search query with explicit "without google" and am returned the full spectrum of google marketing tools:-)
Flaws in Tonga’s top-level domain left Google, Amazon, Tether web services
The First Amendment is stronger than any equivalent rule in any other modern country that I'm aware of. The fact that it's been undermined repeatedly, both in the past and the present (due to the recent wave of authoritarianism that has been sweeping US politics, which can be seen clearly on HN itself), doesn't have any bearing on its relative ranking - so, it can suck (or just be a little suboptimal), but still be better than everything else.

Moreover, how is DMCA relevant? Copyrighted works are outside the bounds of free speech.
You don’t even need the front end, you can interact with the contract directly.

It’s sad what happened to these users, but they did sign the contract giving the hackers permission to access wallet funds.

This is a failure of opsec.
Kind of doubtful, unless they can also bring the mainstream over with them.

That's the rub: Whenever a new platform starts up, marketing itself as the "free speech alternative" to some big, mainstream platform, what always ends up happening is the new platform's user base consists entirely of people who got kicked off the mainstream platform--leading to all the toxicity and problems noted in this sub-thread. You need to be more than a place where the cast-offs from mainstream sites hang out. You need to bring the mainstream to your platform too.
That seems to imply there are enough jobs in the area for the population. That might be true today, but in the prior decade it can be tough to find a minimum wage job with benefits.
We are off-topic regards the original question but I haven't found many people who seem to grasp this and is the reason I am very cagey about supporting any combination of gaming and blockchain. Publishers have spent years wrestling control away from players and moving everyone into walled gardens - like Netflix - where they can control your purchase agreements, or roll their own content markets. In what universe are these organisations going to knock down their centralised control and turn it over to a blockchain? It won't happen. I know Epic have made a PR point of saying they're open to blockchain but wait until the details are made clear for all to see. I guarantee it won't be what people think.
I stated my position imprecisely - the effectiveness of various pilots and squadrons was very UNEVEN, which indicates poor organizational readiness.
One of the better ways I've seen dbt described is very similar to an MVC framework for data (I didn't see that mentioned yet, if it has been sorry I missed it).
Where a rough mapping would be:

model >> source

controller >> ephemeral model

view >> materialized (view, table, incremental) model

Like many MVCs it provides abstractions and helpers for common tasks such as performing incremental updates, snapshotting time series, common manipulations like creating date spines. Like many MVCs it supports a robust ecosystem of plugins that make it easy to re-use stable transforms for common datasets. Where Django passes you the request object instead of hand-parsing http responses, dbt allows you to loop through a set of derived schemas and dry out your SQL code.

You would generally use dbt as a transform framework for the same reason you'd use Ruby on Rails or Django etc as a web framework - because it provides you with a ton of otherwise repetitive non-differentiating code pre-baked and ready to go. You could keep a folder of sql files you arbitrarily run, and you could roll your own web framework from scratch. Personally I wouldn't do those things.
I was about to say you must be from New York, but I was rather thinking about NYTimes, Judith Miller and the US War on Iraq. Plus ça change...
None of this is true. For reference I worked in this business for about 15 years and represented dozens of famous musicians you've heard of. I also was a touring musician myself in a band nobody ever heard of, and have also worked on the talent buyer/promoter side of things.

Did you know that outside of tiny bar level gigs nearly all deals for bands to play live involve a split of the actual ticket sales between artist and promoter? Did you know that above the bar level the venues actually handle, and take a substantial percentage of, the merch sales?

And so on. I don't know what it is about music but for some reason there's like a tradition in online forums of people going on and on about the nuances of the financial deals in the music industry by people who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
Ah yes, this is Android 8.
They aren't referencing the 1951 movie, but instead the 1920s shorts series called Alice Comedies, the first of which is literally called Alice's Wonderland.

These weren't really retellings of the original stories, but it would nevertheless not be hard to imagine they would count as a derivative work under modern law and would thus have been illegal to produce without a licensing deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Comedies
You may well think so, but no.

Median income was $31,133 in 2019, according to the Census.

Hence my point.

Edit for the response below: Median income is not the same as median household income.

Edit for the edited response: Sure, median wage in real terms is $35k, a whole 4k more annually.

Keep in mind though that 85.8 percent of males and 66.5 percent of females work more than 40 hours per week; "the most overworked developed nation in the world". That's not out of choice, that's out of fear, propaganda and necessity.
I would much more prefer if the service cost was tied to image operations instead of "displays".
Also, going multi-cloud will introduce more complexity which leads to more errors and more downtime. I'd rather sit this outage out than deal with daily risk of downtime because I'm infrastructure is too smart for its own good.
Does anyone have historical sources that can back this up? Right now it reads like an extremely strained attempt to find the most cynical possible perspective without any evidence.

The idea here seems to be that until churches and bars started hiring musicians in order to attract clientele, nobody had ever tried to make money from music. And since then, no significant portion of the music industry has ever been about a pure exchange of money for music, it's always been driven by ulterior motives.

Is there any reason to believe any of this? What about the history of classical music concerts? Operas? Broadway? Buskers? Mariachi bands? I'm sure I'm missing many non-western examples.
> A single person can not do it in a professional and repeatable way.

Putting aside whether this is even true, there is no requirement for a substack to always be exactly one individual, or for that individual to be unable to hire a third party proof reader or fact checker. That still doesn't require a billion dollar media corporation.

There is also no requirement for it to be opinion rather than factual reporting. Most of what existing large media companies produce is not factual reporting.
> Your phone has Google Maps or Apple Maps, which will alert you when there are road closures or hazards ahead, yes. It even has a list of places where there are roads, and places where there are not roads, and will not (typically) direct you to go off-roading.

Google's servers have this information, compiled in real time from countless sources including direct satellite cartography and all beamed to a phone acting as little more than a user interface. Take your phone a few hundred feet below the water where it is cut off from the outside world and even the best maps in the world aren't accurate and you're going to run into a lot of things.
The part "I can just plop whatever Unix commands I want in there" resonates with me. For example, I can select several lines and pass them to "sort | uniq -c". Or to "python -m json.tool"
Ask HN: Is Google about to require 2FA on all users?
I just received the following email from Google to my @gmail.com address.

Soon you’ll sign in with 2-Step Verification

After you enter your password, you’ll complete a second step on your phone.
Keep your phone nearby when you sign in.

2-Step Verification will be turned on automatically on December 14.
You can turn this on sooner if you want — your account is all set.

Why is my sign-in changing?
Using a second step to sign in makes your account much more secure.
How this protects your account

How does it work?
After you enter your password, you’ll tap a Google prompt on your phone
or get a sign-in code to enter (charges from your carrier may apply).

Make sure you can get help signing in
Update your phone and recovery email

Has anyone else received this? I recall some rumblings from over a year ago that this was happening, but I don't see any recent news about this.

(Personally, breaking my POP backups (which use getmail) will be the final impetus to get me off gmail.)
Ever notice how rare computer screens and phones are in dreams? At least for me. Even during periods where I'm using then near constantly while awake. It's like the brain isn't made to focus on that during dreaming
This is why anyone who is serious in this space uses a hardware wallet.

I preach this in every forum I am active in, but if you are messing with more than play money you absolutely need a hardware wallet.
This is not true. Swarm is part of docker-ce and there's no deprecation warning in the documentation. To quote from there: "Docker Swarm mode is built into the Docker Engine. Do not confuse Docker Swarm mode with Docker Classic Swarm which is no longer actively developed." (https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/)
Also just because a certain subset of the population doesn't have various aspects of the suggestion doesn't mean the suggestion is invalid, or that the spirit of the suggestion, literally "go out", isn't even more broadly applicable. I might even say that your suggestion that lower income people at large can't "go out and do things" is what is disconnected from reality.

> This isn't flamebait

It kinda feels like you're looking to nit-pick/fight though.
This would be great if it weren't for the fact that suburbanites that want to avoid all these problems were paying for the externalities of their massive road usage, massive land usage, and a host of other issues.

Suburban life is far, far more expensive for it to be sustainable than it is currently priced in most American suburbs. This issue cannot be overlooked.
> Single binary executables in .Net 6.0 that run cross platform are the killer feature.

This is a good feature but It presents packaging challenges and questions. For example, this example [0] used Single-file to create hello World at a size of anywhere from 60MB (No tweaks) to 30MB (Compression). Tree shaking (which can require careful testing and tweaks if your app or its libs use reflection) got it down to 11MB. By comparison, as an app requiring the runtime, it came out to 150KB.

> The target machine does not need any supporting shared libs.

There's caveats to that too; if you do have native dependencies (for example, an sqlite implementation) my understanding per the description [1] is that you have to include those as separate files, or configure it to bundle, in which case it will wind up having to self-extract. IDK if that gets 'cached' between runs when that happens or not.

[0] - https://dotnetcoretutorials.com/2021/11/10/single-file-apps-...

[1] - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-6/#sing...
No one is willing to pay for news because as soon as a piece is published there are thousands of other publishers posting copycat articles. The copycats have next to zero expenses and post on aggregators like facebook with no fee so everyone just reads them. It's a tragedy of the commons that only the government can solve since people prefer to read their news through facebook/google blurbs for free.
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> almost any organization would attempt to preserve profits.

Often at the expense of everything else, including common sense. Despite their current revenues already covering their expenses, many times over.

> But the idea people can't get together and make movies, that's a new one.

They can, but they will own shares in them, either split equally or proportionally to their contribution.
I cannot externalize my preferences onto others unwillingly

Isn't that exactly what those arguing for higher densities are doing?
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"The problem? Convenience. Who wants to type std::unique_ptr<Foo> when instead you can write Foo *?"

I think this is an imagined problem. If you use Foo * for ownership, you will need to write new Foo() + delete foo. I don't really think that's more convenient than just writing std::make_unique<Foo>(). It's more a matter of old habit, I think.

Still, if C++ was designed as a new language today, I think there's a chance that unique pointers would have made their way into the native language specification, together with for instance std::tuple, instead of being library features, like they are today.
Cost. It’s a common request among the low end budget vps crowd.
$100m judgement, he may settle it (vs deal with appeals) for a different amount.

Wright has scored some extremely wealthy sponsors who have been loaning wright money in exchange for a share in his fictional treasure. So I think it's possible that he'll actually be able to pay for a settlement in this case using their money.

It's an astronomical amount of money, but the amounts of money being pumped into wrights con have been astronomical for a long time. $100m wouldn't even be particularly disproportionate compared to what's gone into propping up TAAL, for example.

It's also possible-- even likely-- that he just won't pay it. I believe he still owes $60k-ish for a judgement for legal fees in an action in Norway, which he's owed for well over a year. He went over a year before paying legal fees he owed Adam Back for an aborted defamation lawsuit against Back.

Civil recovery can be spotty at the best of times, and in this case we're talking about someone whos already fled one country to escape his legal problems and has established citizenship in a location known to block extraditions for criminals (including Wright's business partner / primary victim, Calvin Ayre who spent a decade on DHS's most wanted list).
Thanks for posting. Great resource.
These kinds of coordinated efforts to stop malware are always encouraging to see.

I wish there were more visible efforts around stopping root sources of spam, too. Occasionally I've seen reports of a single large-scale spammer stopped, but not nearly often enough.
I'm not sure what it is that you're not finding. I can just search 'dedicated server' and the first page has several examples of places that will rent you a single bare metal server in the US. There are dozens and dozens of options.

The first one I clicked on has options around $50 too: https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/dedicated-servers/our-pric...
If you wanted to 'publish' a more interactive website to the internet while still keeping all of the publishing tools safe inside an enclave/intranet somewhere, then you probably need a read-only copy of a database. But any time I look at read-replica configurations, it looks like they expect the replica to contact the master. You can't set up a proper bastion server if you have to have a secret door back into your intranet to replicate data. This has left me stuck on the starting blocks for a couple of pet projects I might like to work on.

Anybody know how to solve this problem, short of roll-your-own?
there may be a a way around that with hard determinism. at least that is one of the explanations of delayed choice quantum eraser experiments.
There has never been freedom to build whatever you want on your own land.

Private property doesn't mean "mine and mine alone"; it means you get to use it in a way accordingly granted by the state's monopoly of force.
>They make
everything worse

I would go further. Facebook are just filling in a need and by doing so, making it worse. They never created anything. Calling the problem 'Facebook' won't help in the broader sense, i think that ultimately it's a distraction but people are happy with it because it allows them to outsource their problems rather then acknowledge them.
Totally feasible in microcontroller for small ones and modest update rates, yes. I have worked with robots that had them implemented in slow 8-bit microcontrollers. (I did not do the KF, though).
How about a source? https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...

> Median household income was $67,521 in 2020

Maybe you're thinking per-capita, which is in the 30s? But that unfortunately includes children, so not exactly what most people would think "Per capita income is the mean income computed for every man, woman, and child in a particular group including those living in group quarters."
Check out this conference talk from December 2019 – "The Art of Code" – which culminates in a live performance of Fizzbuzz in Rockstar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSlcxxYAA8