skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These people are playing dangerous games with millions of lives potentially at stake and economies at the precipice of collapse.

At last since the Iraq war the intelligence services really lost any independent credibility they had during the Cold War.

It’s the boy who cried wolf once too many times. Maybe they’re right, but just as likely they are making it up for realpolitik or worse domestic politics.
1. From the article:

> By comparing the specimens' ages and degrees of DNA degradation, the researchers calculated that DNA has a half-life of 521 years. That means that after 521 years, half of the bonds between nucleotides in the backbone of a sample would have broken; after another 521 years half of the remaining bonds would have gone; and so on.
> Literally nobody else in the media discusses these things with so much earnestness as Joe Rogan.

You say this like it's bad.
"That ship has sailed" i.e. POSIX forbidding argc==0 when standardizing.

I agree it's worth considering it now. I think argc>0 is close enough to a convention that things ought to mostly work, but it kind of irks me that it's necessary. But it should reduce ambiguity.
You might perhaps says that it happened when the current wave showed that the vaccinations did the job. IMO it's correct to focus on the part that did the job, so I left out the "that showed" part first.

In a rich, first-world country where fewer people are vaccinated than in Denmark, omicron is currently killing roughly as many people per week as the flu kills per year. You may consider that similar, or not.
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Ah, so the modern equivalent of "I buy Playboy for the articles". Ok.
Reminds me of this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DZA4J1f_NFw
If it is so hard to listen to him why do people want him censored? Just don't play his podcast!
I probably wasn't clear in context because different meanings of sensitivity seem to have crossed paths. I was referring to the physics of signal detection in MRI vs PET, not clinical disease detection. MRI only detects signal from an extremely small fraction of the protons in the sample. You have no chance of detecting individual protons. MRI makes up for that with brute force of proton numbers in tissue.

Modalities like PET can detect events from a far greater fraction of the isotopes present. But they are limited in spatial resolution by the physics. This is why MRI is said to be a very insensitive modality.

See for example the discussion about MRI vs other modalities here:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_imaging

which notes that MRI has a sensitivity around 10^−3 to 10^−5 mol/L whereas PET is many orders of magnitude more sensitive at 10^-11 to 10^-12 mol/L.

So what I meant was if there's an analogy that you're looking at a skyscraper, MRI can "see" which which rooms have floodlights turned on. PET could detect whether there's a single candle burning somewhere in the building, but it can't tell you which room it's in.
>MR PRICE: I’m sorry you are doubting the information that is in the possession of the U.S. Government.

That’s literally his job.
Here's the video. Definitely worth watching:

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1489336004637044746
Tangential: is it just me or speakers made a huge leap forward over the last 20 years? I mean for given price range. Laptop speakers, headphone speakers, car speakers, any minisystem/potrable stereo speakers. Was there some prominent techonolgical improvement or just a miriad of small improvements?

Also RIP to mister Koss.
There are 2^24 times more /56 networks than entire ipv4 address spaces.
Video version: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTSSvtg19I

The journalist is from the AP, for additional context.
> I don't really understand why anyone who claims to be a proponent of a free market economy has an issue with a private corporation deciding what type of content they want to broadcast.

C'mon, you know these claimants only mean "I want a free market for me".
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I made a vite plugin to make it possible to write, manage and deploy documentations in vite.
> but just as likely they are making it up for realpolitik or worse domestic politics.

Are you talking about US or Russian intelligence services here?

As it could easily apply to both.
Yeah that sounds more technically correct.
The whole thing is an incredible read. The evidence is that we said it, so you don’t need evidence.
> I agree… Republic screwed up here in allowing the passengers to board before sorting out the crew seats.

That severely softens your previous line (if not changing the meaning altogether):

> The airline was well within its rights.

It's ok to simply write, "Gee, I didn't consider that. Thanks."
The idea that we have to silence these people because they are spreading incorrect information implies that no one has any personal responsibility to educate themselves.

Personally, I thought that it was hilarious that Peterson criticized climate scientists for building models without the full information, because that is exactly what his field of clinical psychologists do.

Your argument is that because some people choose to get their information about the vax and climate change from people that are not experts in those fields none of us should have access to that media.

If that is how you feel you should also be in favor of shutting down fast food restaurants and liquor stores because some people don't take responsibility in those areas and become obese and alcoholics.
>To be clear, the production of this propaganda video is one of a number of options that the Russian Government is developing as a fake pretext to initiate and potentially justify military aggression against Ukraine. We don’t know if Russia will necessarily use this or another option in the coming days.
The biggest mistake I see managers make is not letting their engineers work on anything for longer than four hours without demanding a status check abd injecting FUD into the process. Utterly demoralizing.
Oh, man, what negativity.

Even if the term “half life” isn’t really appropriate here, it’s clear enough (and explained well enough) in the article. This isn’t a published scientific paper, this is an article likely meant for a more general audience, so, jeez, cut it some slack.
I’ve found that it makes absolutely no difference. Even flying first class, no difference. Flying is just miserable regardless of how you do it.
> But, would this passenger have acted any differently if they had to ask him to leave under one of the acceptable conditions?

He would have been wrong to act the same way had the circumstances been different, but then the circumstances were what they were and not something else. People usually behave differently in different circumstances. Unless you are suggesting that he might actually be a primitive automaton, I'm not sure what you are arguing here.
>and less on people that turn it into a serious hobby or try to build it into their personal identity.

Sadly this is almost true for all products out there, just a small percentage of exceptions. In software it's more tolerant and occasionally encouraged (ID Software's open source policy). We are on our own.
How do you imagine this going down otherwise? Do you want them to declassify the name of the source, or just the department where he works?
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I've been playing with Tor v3 hidden services to connect to my home lab from remote things, and came up with oniongrok, a small & simple utility that makes it easy to export local services to a .onion ingress, and import onions into your local network.

With a single command you can spin up a hidden service:

oniongrok 8000

sets up a forward from localhost:8000 to onion service listening on the same port.

oniongrok 8000~80

maps it to port 80 on the onion,

oniongrok xyz.onion~12000

Forwards an onion service to localhost:12000

It's kind of like an onion-flavored socat.

Service addresses are temporary, but I'm working on making these persistent there, as well as client auth.
Yeah those vouchers sound shitty as hell. Terms and conditions may apply.

Basically monopoly money, $800 in monopoly money, they want to be able to say they offered $800, dollar-sign-eight-zero-zero, they want to put that in their response to why they were right and the passenger was wrong. But I wouldn't eg buy 800 dollars worth of travel vouchers in order to use those travel vouchers to buy a ticket.
> Which value is more important - property rights (which depend on socialized services like justice and enforcement) or free speech (which thrive by removing regulation)?

Don't ask us, ask J.R.. He remains free to return the 100 million to Spotify and broadcast his stupid crap elsewhere.
Reminded me of this as well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM, with the back and forth talking past each other.
> > As a manager, you get verbal (never written) lashings from your manager and skip manager to put the lowest performers on performance plans that ensure that any attrition counts. As soon as you capitulate, your lowest performer is now considered a low performer.
> Clearly, I'm preaching to the choir here, but... I am constantly amazed at companies that do this.

I agree. I’d hate to work at any org that does this as a rule.

To play devils advocate however, I’m sure many of us have been in a situation where a co-worker was coasting, or doing the minimal amount of work, while spending energy to look busy.

I’m thinking this cynical outlook could have contributed to this practice being implemented in large organizations.
> Spotify is NOT the open web.

Of course it is not.

It is bait and switch process.

First you get a company create a large platform that makes it very difficult to for individual people to thrive in the space around it.

Then the large company starts deciding what can or cannot be published, effectively making it impossible for some people to even be present in that space.

Now, imagine the same happens for every possible space you could use to contact other people. Videos, podcasts, have a web page searchable on search engines, tweet, instant messaging, and so on and on. You are effectively excluded because your views do not match mainstream or touch controversial or taboo subjects.

I may not agree with Rogan or other people that are being excluded but that does not necessarily give me right to decide whether they shouldn't be heard by other people.

I strongly believe this is where judicial system is supposed to represent us to follow laws to judge which instances of speech are and which are not lawful.

What we have now is effectively mob rule.

Imagine some people win and decide that talking about racism should quieted down. Is it that hard to imagine?
Keep in mind that Russia has gathered hundreds of thousands of troops & their equipment on the border of Ukraine, for zero good reason other than to bully, intimidate, or invade. This is entirely a crisis of Russia's making.
>I fly all the time, and I have to buy the more expensive fares because I’m an adult that has appointments.

I have status on the airline I usually fly on and don't buy "Economy minus" fares. But I certainly don't generally fly business or otherwise pay higher fares because "I'm an adult who has appointments" and my company almost certainly wouldn't reimburse me if I did. And I'm sure that's true for almost everyone.
Readers will find HOW.md interesting too: https://github.com/Kindelia/HVM/blob/master/HOW.md
Could it be built so that is an org uploads an ip, only they can block it. Other companies can still see the ips, but not be able to download until a certain number of companies have uploaded it. Sort of like blockchain confirmations. Maybe, ips from countries with higher numbers of attacks would require less confirmations. The bad guy can't be in all the participating orgs. Another alternative is to allow all ips to be downloaded, with data about the number of confirmations, so companies could decide on their own depending on the risk they're willing to take (might not work is most go for zero risk).
I’d like that. I’d hate to live through something like “The Troubles” in Ireland.
My rule of thumb after flying is that I owe myself 500cc of water for each hour of flight time, and that's after drinking carry on water and the complementary (soft) drinks: flying itself is severely dehydrating, and hauling luggage around may be light exercise but I'll usually end up sweating at some point in it.

Having two drinks on the flight just means another 500cc of water, but yeah, skip rehydration after flying and you're going to have a bad time. Add booze, it will be a worse time.
More money, different "stuff" (challenges, people, perspectives, tech, business domain, level of contribution, you name it). The human brain needs novelty.
Perhaps we should start replacing the co-pilot by a software engineer.
> There is still so much to do with music (streaming quality, music videos, lyrics, chords...)

Correct, but:

1. Everyone wants to be the Netflix of podcasts.
2. It's premium advertising real estate. The ad formats you can chuck into a podcast have higher CPM.

Caveat re 2.: I'm not sure how much advertising contributes to Spotify revenue, so take this one with a grain of salt. It used to be the next hot thing in adtech when I worked in the industry before 2021.

Remember: why charge the user directly, when you can charge them indirectly using a bunch of random middlemen (DAAST, VAST, potato, potahtoh)!

> Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Example of a slightly less stupid* game: The Apple Podcasts app. The UX is mediocre, but the ability to pay for series/bundles is something I'd like to see more. Just let me pay for the content.
As much as podcast content can be decoupled from the user agent, I'd like to see the same done with payments.

* or differently stupid
I once stumbled upon a conspiracy post suggesting that the logo of chrome is three sixes molded together. Since then I cannot see it as anything else.
So if the airline asked him to leave mid flight he’d also be trespassing? They let him board the plane and that’s it, if the airline can’t figure out how many people the can fit on a plane before everyone is seated that’s entirely their problem.
Traders are selling themselves their own NFTs to drive up prices
> Nobody is censored here

How do you know? This is about Spotify's intentions, do you know them? Do they follow orders from, or are they pressured by gov't(s)?

And what about the eps that were removed, do they show a pattern as to what could by Spotify reasons for removing them?
The US is testing robot patrol dogs on its borders
Derailing free speech with US-centric legalisms is a tired trope on all sites.
> Spotify is NOT the open web. Rogan can host the audio files on his own site. That’s the open web.

I know. My point is that he can do that, and he'd lose most of his reach. Or he can keep his reach, by staying on the big (closed web) platforms, and be at these corporations' mercy. Users have been trained: they want to watch videos, they open youtube.com, maybe TikTok, and start clicking and scrolling. Most people won't expand the effort to keep up with you if you're not on the big (closed web) platforms, who have effectively taken over the web and discoverability of content.

It's like Cloudflare's free speech argument: if you're big and controversial, you essentially need DDoS protection, meaning you're dependent on the goodwill of a few big corporations. From their corporate blog[0]:

> Increasing Dependence On A Few Giant Networks

> In a not-so-distant future, if we're not there already, it may be that if you're going to put content on the Internet you'll need to use a company with a giant network like Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, or Alibaba [to prevent being taken down].

> For context, Cloudflare currently handles around 10% of Internet requests.

> Without a clear framework as a guide for content regulation, a small number of companies will largely determine what can and cannot be online.

[0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
Can citing original sources break the stalemates?
I think you have it all upside down, and it's a huge mess to make sense of it because it sounds like you want an elite of experts to dictated what circulates in the public sphere.

If that's your take, I admit I might have got it wrong, but it would be a recipe for disaster imo.

You have public broadcasts that have the objective to inform the people, it's called the "News", with journalists that have an ethics code. Remember journalists are not copywriters, or entertainers, or celebrities - they have a duty and an important role in the society. At least it used to mean something at some point in time.

Now, if people are looking to inform themselves on other sources, maybe you should question first if the news are doing a proper job. In a lot of places, I don't think they are, maybe the US is one of them.

When you have different news channels that pretty much openly support different political views, you're already splitting up and dividing people.

If people are looking for Joe Rogan to be informed, the problem isn't Joe Rogan, or the people who go there to be informed, but the ones who should have been informing people all along and failed to the point of people not caring, or worst, not believing it.

It would be easy to label those who don't believe the news as "nuts", which in fact is the common label. When in reality those "nuts" at some point in time were fooled, or misinformed by those organizations - which probably didn't take responsibility for it, and never owned up to their mistakes.
I got a Game Gear when I was a kid. It was a thrift store find, otherwise my parents would never spend that kind of money on a toy.

I played it for literally a half hour before the batteries ran out. It didn't come with a power cord and batteries were very strictly rationed in my house growing up, so I was never able to play it again. I was heartbroken.

Again, I got only a half hour of play out of a video game console. Parents sold it several months later when they realized how useless it was.

I don't know how a product like that could even be released on the market - it's basically false advertisement. It's been nearly three decades and I'm still heartbroken by it.
This is two days old
"Growth" and scale are interesting concerns. Companies, cities, languages, etc that aren't "growing" are considered to be in crisis. You could have a little gig that produces and sells 100 gadgets a month. At $100 per, it's enough to quit your day job. In fact, you're considering hiring some help. Two years later, you're still selling 100 per month and can't figure out what's the problem. Maybe you need to shut it all down.

A podcast with 10,000 listeners? Wow! Who'd have ever thought our little Joey would attract so much interest? Two years later, Joseph Productions is struggling to keep the doors open with only 500,000 listeners.

Back in the day, people found a website by word of mouth and bookmarked it. 100 page views a week was awesome. 1000 a month was maybe even better than all that money spent stuffing mailboxes with flyers. This internet thing has a lot of potential.

Today? If you can't break into the front page of a Google search, what's the point?

An automaker that sells $1 billion of product is in deep trouble because growth is flat. A city that hosts 2 million convention visitors a year is "struggling" and needs a new Chief of Tourism. A town with a population of 10,000 with clean streets and no crime is at a dead end because they don't have a Walmart and can't attract new businesses.

Human discontent is fascinating.
> although it ends up being 150% of the work to learn both art and CS.

I'd be fine with that. People forget, art is hard. An artist is the genius of his society, it requires devotion to produce that art, a masterpiece is the work of a master of his art.
Link for those having trouble accessing the article link

https://web.archive.org/web/20220205135606/https://www.washi...
I think the latter, but any of those options you listed are valid. The company has zero loyalty to you, get out if there's anything better and you should be looking for anything better at least annually.
The reporters are asking tough (but correct) questions. The government is also doing its diligence to protect sources and methods. The thing to remember, though, the point of releasing this information is probably to prevent Russia from using this method. It would be pretty ironic if the US government releases this information.. and then a few days later such a video is released. Time will tell.
> I fail to see how anyone can seriously listen to Joe Rogan

I can't speak for others, but I'm there for the guests. Not all of them, but I find Joe to be an entertaining host, mostly because it's just different. The ones I enjoy the most are the ones where it feels like some random dude has recognised he's on a train with a leading world expert in a field he finds interesting but knows nothing about. It's just earnest conversation from someone curious.

> when he does occasionally have a legitimate scientist he can barely muster any response beyond “wow that blows my mind”

I love watching Joe explore complex subject matter with experts. There are so few interesting interviews with scientists just talking about why they do what they do and what it is that they find fascinating and why they love their craft. There are some real good interviews where they just geek out and Joe asks them really stoned questions. It's not for everyone, I guess.

More to the point, as long as people hold elitist opinions like this, then there will be people who distrust science (and people abusing that to make money)
> How does "just using ingress" work on your local cluster with K3d/KinD/minikube/Docker Desktop etc?

The nginx ingress controller works great when running on a local cluster using KinD and others. You can drop it in and it works, then for the hostname + path combo in your ingress config you can use a combo that produces URLs like `localhost/myapp/test` or `localhost/myapp/prod` to test different app + environment combos if you were using Kustomize or Helm variables. No port forwarding or extra tooling needed.

This lets you keep things fairly simple at the Kubernetes level where all services end up being a ClusterIP type and then you hook up an ingress to the services you want to route traffic to from outside of your cluster.

The same ends up working in production except you'd use your cloud provider's ingress controller instead if they happen to have one (such as the AWS Load Balancer Controller). From your service's point of view nothing changes, the ingress config is also mainly the same except for a few different annotations being set which is easy to account for with Kustomize or Helm. This gives you a consistent interface to your services in any environment.
You may enjoy the book Hold My Blackberry.
Si much time, energy and money always wasted at Google doing useless redesign of icons and stuffs every other years.

In the meantime, no one can be paid to support users and developer when Google IA decide to mess with your accounts.
Training a model on your own voice clips with Common Voice and Coqui
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They can still ride, just not operate, which is what requires the license.

No license is required to be a passenger in a car or on an airplane.