skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also hanging a computer is not sabotage unless it's doing something like moving a robot arm at the time. You just have to reboot it. For the PET this takes under a second.
Combat CSS blockage with this one weird little trick
Are you implying that if there isn't a mostly-genetic basis for his intelligence, the career success of his family members must be a complete coincidence?
I'd assume Facebook has been tracking IP addresses and other computer fingerprint info from the machine(s) you have been using to upload content.

The person who has taken ownership would have different machine fingerprint info.

So Facebook should be able to confirm you have been the main uploader for quite some time.
Since when are these institutions owed my faith?
I’m far from a (big L) Libertarian so I don’t have a bias in this (edit: I don’t have a bias in favor of this candidate, I have a bias against) but it sounds to me like there’s a corruption problem in Cumberland (wouldn’t surprise me, being from nearby and frequently passed through). And it sounds like a “looks like we protected democracy” cover was created for that.

I do not want the author’s politics to succeed, but I definitely want to see this made right according to the votes cast.
UK Health department warning over vaccine mandate for NHS staff in England
Hm I was thinking that, but that would be just as true for airplanes and paramotors going at high horizontal speeds at low altitude.

Or perhaps the issue is that, given the lack of protection in a jetpack, the lowest altitude at which you can be hurt from a fall is much lower?
Nonsense. It doesn't matter how good your control system is if you can't generate the necessary thrust vector.
I remember walking around a trade show in the early 80's and doing something similar. It was a "HP Microwave Symposium" and aside from lots of good talks and papers, the exhibit hall had lots of high dollar HP (later Agilent/Keysight) RF test equipment. One of the items on display was a HP8566 spectrum analyzer which had a (primitive by today's standards, but) "smart" display capable of drawing vector graphics, time-linear graphs, and text. After using one on my own for a while, I had become curious about the display so I had learned everything that I could about it. So down on the exhibit hall floor, I walked up to the instrument while the sales guy was proclaiming how great it was (which was true) and I entered eight lines of code (about 30 keystrokes). Then I pressed the button to view trace C (which most people still don't know about) and up popped a rolling blinking text display of my name. Most of the people nearby were impressed, but since the instrument was no longer displaying the RF spectrum that the sales guy was talking about, he said; "I know how to fix that." Then he walked over and pressed the green "Instrument Preset" button, which the HP documentation said would always restore the instrument to a known starting point. When the display did not change, the sales guy yelled at me; "WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!?" (My program was in Trace C of display memory, which is not initialized by the Instrument Preset function.) So after watching him panic for a moment, I walked over and swapped traces B&C (shift-key followed by the swap A&B button). Now my program was in trace B (and blanked) so the screen returned to normal. Everyone was relieved! So just before walking away, I swapped my program back into trace C, viewed trace C, and hit the green preset button again. As I walked to the next exhibit, I saw him cycle the AC power to the instrument in frustration.
I read Brian's "UNIX: A History and a Memoir"[0] last year, which wound up also being an excellent snapshot of the goings-on in Bell Labs around that era. Kicked off a long month of Wikipedia binging. If you want more detail from a guy who was there, it's a good read.

I recommend not buying the print copy though: Amazon prints it themselves on demand and it's far and away the worst quality book I've ever held. The cover is pixellated and skewed, and most of the images inside look like they started life as 50×50px thumbnails.

Edit: apparently the Kindle version is "just the PDF of the paper version"[1] per Brian himself and is thus also terribly formatted. Welp, damned if you do. Still worth a read.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZQHX3R1/

[1] https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/memoir.html
That was my reasoning as well. Whenever there was the option to kill the passengers, that's what I chose. The car's occupants are the ones introducing the risk of death to the scenario to begin with. There is no dilemma without the car.

Interestingly, the summary at the end did not even allow for this conclusion. The evaluation anticipated that people might value the lives of animals over humans, but not those of pedestrians over passengers.

It seems likely that this was designed by promoters of self-driving cars. No one would want to be a passenger in a car that was programed to prioritize the lives of pedestrians, so that was not even considered as a moral option.
That’s the argument - higher inflation is correlated with lower levels of price stability and hampers one’s ability to predict.
Other commenters have also (rightly, I think) pointed out the ‘stickiness’ of wages in the short term being an additional reason to take seriously even moderately higher levels of inflation
Actually Priuses use a completely different battery tech than EVs like Tesla.
Part of the difficulty is that the certifications for the (high-compression piston) engines were to run on 100LL, not to run on “a fuel with a lean mixture knock value of X and a rich mixture knock value of Y” and the specification for 100LL (ASTM D 910) is a formulation specification which includes tetraethyl lead rather than being a performance specification.

Maybe the FAA could have been more aggressive in allowing a replacement fuel to be certified, but various fuels have been tested for over a decade now in experimental category aircraft, meaning they were not holding up development activities, just holding what seems like an objectivity reasonable hurdle for all-model STC approval (which still hasn’t been granted; we’re at the “many model” approval level right now).
notice that I did not say anything about races or religions or groups or anything, aside from, implicitly, "people who were already citizens of any given Western nation" and "people who are immigrating/migrating to said nation, en masse". my original post, untainted by your invocation of specific groups of people to brand my post as being an invocation of a specific—named even—"conspiracy theory" to be harmful to discourse, because once you have invoked that, not only is all further discussion is off the table, but now I'm now actively in a pickle here because I have to say something or else risk possibly being perceived as an anti-Semite when someone looks in my post history and sees your accusations not responded to by me. I don't know if that was your intent or not but I ask that you please be more sensitive to these things, especially when I'm posting here using my real name.
Could you clarify: is this a replacement for traditional hydrocarbon based co2 producing fuels that does not produce co2 gas as an output when burned?

That seems almost too good to be true. If the above is true, how does the cost, or the ability to scale up compare to traditional hydrocarbon fuels?

Something like that doesn’t seem impossible; there is so little coverage of chemistry in science news that the whole field is something of a blind spot for me.
Wasn't this subthread was about your claim that getting vaccinated doesn't influence one's chance of infecting others?

If you want to retreat to "ok, they probably do actually help a little bit with that, but I think the amount to which they help with that is small enough that [thing] isn't worth it.", then ok, but, like, I think you should probably make it explicit.

(earlier, the topic was about like, health insurance, not employment, and so I'm using [thing] to cover both of those things.)
The benefit is always vastly overstated with masks, and the cost always downplayed. You’re implying masks lead to happy hospitals, and masks are just a minor inconvenience.

Reality? Masks don’t seem that effective, they may reduce spread in some circumstances, but there’s so little evidence that mask mandates (the way we do them in America) have done much good. Obviously there’s a risk reduction on an individual level when an infected person wears a well-fitted, effective mask like an N95, but at a population level it hasn’t seemed to really help much. Every study seems to have huge error bars and a lot of confounding variables.
I'm curious--why all the weird license stuff? I mean, I understand what it allows and doesn't allow, but why did you decide to do it that way? I don't honestly know if a non-open-source framework has a legitimate chance of success in 2022 with so many strong open source competitors. From the response here on HN I think you can see that this is a pretty major issue.
Where's the hydrogen come from?
I remember back in the day when doom9 was blocked at the corp firewall level because it had posts on how to circumvent things. Nevermind it was the unofficial support for things like AVISynth, x264, etc. Even the nascent days of ffmpeg were there. It took a lot of cajoling and back and forth with legal depts, but eventually, was allowed to be granted access on an individual basis

I owe a lot of what was accomplished to folks like DG and the other troopers from the bad ol' days of VFW based apps. It was like monkeys throwing rocks at the space ships compared to whats now. Remember when 2 cores was fast?

For the person up thread talking about learning things, I wish I was in that position today with them rather than 20 odd years ago where everyone was in the dark, and thank the heavens for sites like doom9 that shone lights in dark places!
Well, certainly that would be a logical argument, but it isn't a sound argument and I can give a few examples: a long time ago, people gave out bitcoin for free to anyone that wanted it. I personally received 0.05 BTC back around 2010 simply by providing my wallet to a generous person who ran a website.

It's very common to give away new cryptocurrencies to seed them and build popularity with them, even in a non-scammy way. RaiBlocks (eventually renamed Nano), for example, started this way. Eventually that currency (mostly) ended in a giant heist because the biggest exchange for that currency had its entirety of value "stolen" (embezzled by the exchange's operator). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(cryptocurrency)#BitGrail...

Naive users who know very little about cryptocurrencies but who want to get into that market (think your parents, if they're technically literate enough to use the internet) will genuinely be persuaded by giveaways.

It's becoming a common scam practice to give people free cryptocurrency tokens (or at extreme discount), and make it so people can only sell those tokens by buying other tokens. This happens over and over, and actually got some reporting on it with the Squid Game tokens (not associated with the actual Korean media drama): https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59129466

So sure, you could technically make a "logical" argument about anything you want with the right premises, but if those premises are not based in reality, then the conclusions don't hold in reality. Those are called apriori arguments. Because the statement that "no one would ever give away cryptocurrency for free" is a strictly false one.
Stop spouting disinfo. Your actions have real repercussions.
I agree with them, I hate every second I am forced to wear a mask.
> Of course I can.

But are you aware that most people cannot?

This reminds me of a strategy I once heard on how to assign weights to people's votes according to their knowledge. You want to assign a high weight to those with relevant knowledge and low weight to those with little relevant knowledge.

So how do you know who has good relevant knowledge? Rather than just collecting the response to a question: "How many beans do you think are in this jar?" you also ask the _meta_ question: "What do you think will be the average response to the first question above?" For those who perform well on question 2, you assign higher weight to their answers on question 1.

If you just average all the answers to question 1, you are likely to get a close approximation to the true number of beans in the jar. But if you assign weights according to performance on question 2, you can get an even closer approximation to the true answer.

I may have gotten some details wrong, but the idea is that if you are aware of your peers' level of knowledge about a topic, then you are likely to be knowledgeable about the topic yourself.
> refusing... flout the system

My whole point is that these are bad takes.

What gives you the impression that they refused?

Where, anywhere, in this thread, is there an actual refusal?

I don't think they refused. I think it just didn't happen yet because people wrongly assumed it wasn't necessary. I think it's all a silly game of telephone gone bat-shit wrong and then blown up into a huge fucking deal for no reason other than internet drama.

My interpretation:

1. The author asked the Supervisors about swearing him in. They genuinely have no clue what to do and suggest picking this up at the next meeting.

2. The Supervisors (elected) asked the City Manager (employee) about this in their weekly meeting.

3. City Manager sends an email saying that since they retained a CPA firm there's nothing for the author to do. Likely the City Manager's sincere understanding of state statute. Notice that the email DOESN'T EVEN STATE THAT THEY WON'T SWEAR HIM IN! Just that he's not needed. Which is not entirely correct but also definitely not incorrect.

4. Supervisors (wrongly) assume that the author is operating in good faith and that hearing that his main volunteer task has been outsourced to a reputable firm is end-of-story.

Case-in-point: I'd LOVE to hear from the author if he reply-all'd to that email with "Great, thanks! I'd still like to be sworn in! Does the next meeting work for everyone?"

After hearing from the City Manager, did he go ahead and ask to be sworn in anyways? Or did he start his social media campaign?

I think there's just genuine confusion on the part of a bunch of part-time city admins about who this dude is and how they're supposed to interact with him, given that they are already paying a CPA to do his only job.

My prediction for the future: I don't think there's a genuine refusal to swear him in, just confusion and/or incompetence. So now that this whole thing blew up on social media this dude will be sworn in ASAP. And then... nothing. Because the alternative is that a sizable accounting firm fucked up big time and/or accepted kickbacks from a tiny township, which doesn't seem likely.

My meta-prediction: bat-shit malcontents are running for local office in droves, and every aspect of local government is going to become insane and dynfunctional until the entire country collapses under the weight of incompetents with massive egos.

(Note that the CPA is not a rando from the town -- it's a mid-sized firm that is specializes in single audits and has its offices in a major metro. There is probably nothing that a corrupt official in a dinky township could offer a Principal at a mid-sized audit firm to fake or lie on an audit.)
"Supports AVC" doesn't mean a great deal on its own. H264 has a number of different profiles (over 20, although only 3 are commonly used), and 20 different levels. Most of the potential combinations aren't relevant, but supporting the full range of hardware decoders while also sending something reasonably close to the best quality that the device supports can mean encoding ten different versions.

If it's a particularly low-end/old device, Amazon may have simply decided it's no longer worth encoding a version supported by your device's hardware encoder, while Netflix still does.
That’s an extraordinarily generous reading of the facts.
Kids have had long holidays as long as the school system has existed, and they never regressed enough for the general public to raise the alarm.

My own children just repurposed the tools used for remote learning, and now interact more with their peers than they did before the pandemic (and its not just video games either: there's a fair amount of creative activity that happens). Kids are incredibly resilient.

Poor education practices like chaining them to Zoon for hours at a time to attend class, on the other hand, would damage anyone, and show there's a long way to go in the remote learning space. You'd have expected some high profile projects to shine, but I haven't heard a lot from them.
They didn't default on their debt, precisely because they got their house back in order. But this came at great price, with major suffering by the populace during a 4-year economic crisis. [1]
Despite all the suffering and poverty caused, the government took the opportunity to reform healthcare, which was a disaster [2] and bring costs under control.

Sweden has had a brighter future since.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_financial_crisis_1990-1...

[2] p44 https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/SwedishH...
We have been vacationing in FL and TX specifically because lockdown mania did not infect those States. Those economies seemed to be doing OK.

I read that some politicians also choose to vacation in Miami, and without masks.
Try not to take this as me being mean, but I can't help but feel that for profit math education grands very hard against the basic concepts of math and math education("No royal road to math" and all that). I understand that someone of Tao's stature in the popular math community is likely very enticing to masterclass. However Tao himself benefited tremendously from being noticed at a young age and having his skills nurtured. It feels a bit wrong for any one in his position to be aiding a for profit institution, especially when the content is not free. I understand that they approached him, and I and everyone haven't to produce a free good quality version of this. But it does still FEEL wrong. I of course say this as a very privileged elite educated person.

EDIT: in the comments Prithvi has some interesting suggestions for doing a patreon at a higher level to be released freely. If possible and that eventually exists support that,
Agree. To this day I open all xibs in a new window.
I’d agree on the wages side! Good point. Price stickiness seems dependent on the nature of the goods and contracts, I would expect at least
I'm a mathematician who joined Masterclass to improve my cooking. I look forward to checking out the class by Terence Tao, as a diversion.

I held off joining for the longest time because I didn't want twenty hours of each person telling me "You can do this!" The cooks such as Thomas Keller simply aren't capable of staying in affirmation mode that long (think of their kitchens!) and they do get down to business. I learned a lot, even as an experienced cook.

(Math meets Keller: I still don't believe they use a 10% brine in the restaurant. I think he's confused as to what they do.)
That is phenomenal that he is blogging, https://www.arcadeattack.co.uk/leonard-tramiel/

Thank you Leonard!
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One interesting aspect buried deeper in the release is that United has gone out to make extensive financial commitments to get this fuel produced at greater scale. Putting these fuels to use is more than just testing.
From the guidelines[0]:

"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."

If you're going to post your own stuff, it should be as interesting as the articles you would normally read and upvote on HN. You should be thinking "they'll probably like this cool thing I've been working on," not "I hope this gets my project more attention."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They’d probably ban cars, airplanes, multi story buildings, solid food..
This is a bad assumption that you can disprove for yourself in 10 seconds. You aren't pushing air up a slope you are creating a pressure differential. An impediment ought to at best result in a small decrease in the speed of filling and a tiny amount at that because your mask is very porous. Your mask is effective not in proportion to keeping air out but because larger items like globs of spit get stuck on it and because of electrostatic charge.

There is absolutely no reason to believe that effectiveness at preventing infection is linearly correlated with difficulty breathing or that to a degree that the additional friction induces difficulty must rise to the level of preventing breath in order to be effective. You aren't preventing 50% of particulates from getting in by preventing 50% of oxygen for example.

For example I imagine that you didn't believe that doctors wearing masks pre pandemic or construction workers weren't just going without breathing well for hours given paucity of air becomes an problem very very quickly
Yes definitely, there's lots of products in the QA space trying to tackle the problem you're describing. I'm a co-founder of a no-code product in the space (https://reflect.run). Being no-code has the advantage of enabling all QA testers to build test automation, regardless of coding experience.
As it should be.

Look at the EU . We should be glad that bureaucratic nightmare (created with good intentions, all should be said) hasn't led to war just yet.
The mitigation efforts have cost trillions of dollars in relief spending to make up for the economic damage they caused. Could we not have expanded capacity with one or two of the trillions we spent?
As a more recent response than some of the current, it looks like it's up now (east coast).
It means you can pull CO2 out of the air to make biomass (plants), then you can add (renewable) energy to the biomass to make it into fuel. When you burn the fuel, the CO2 is put back into the air.
Any company that is going to negotiate with a cloud company, or that is going to compete with a cloud company, should avoid using any services from that cloud company. Otherwise you risk giving them access to strategy papers, or even internal communication about strategies or negotiation limts.

Cloud companies are some of the biggest customers of hardware companies like AMD. Eventually they will come to a point where they negotiate.
No, it will still produce CO2, but the production process pulls CO2 out of the air, so it all nets out to zero.
This is only the case if the bonds get issued in the country‘s currency. Argentina doesn’t have that luxury[0].

In the long run, if a government devalues its currency too much, investors lose trust, and the country cannot borrow money in its currency. Not necessarily a problem for current politicians since they will be out of office by the time the trust is lost.

0: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN26S07N
My target protein is around 125g. I’m usually within 10% +/- of that number

Doc does standard blood tests on me twice yearly now (used to be quarterly). To date, no issues with my kidneys.

Keto is not really protein heavy. I ate much more protein pre keto.