skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Subordination is a key component to an effective military force. In order for commanders to maximize their units’ effectiveness on the battlefield, their subordinates must execute their orders fully and without delay.

It's a leader's job to establish credibility and to protect morale in order to ensure that troops are responsive to commands. This article's focus on the soldier's insubordination rather than their own baseness is tone-deaf and lacks any sort of self reflection.

It's clear that masking young, healthy adults who are tasked with the responsibility of rushing into oncoming bullets and missiles if need be, to mask themselves for going on now well into our third year of covid, which was never a particular threat for young people, is bad for morale. It's absurd and non-sensical.

Meanwhile the dark tone set by the title and the subsequent remedies proposed make me more concerned than I've perhaps ever been about the direction our armed forces are under.
Same here. I think I noticed within an hour or two because I checked, but can see other people being bitten on it.
"but it will be vastly preferable"

To whom? The government, sure. The individuals using those programs, probably not. Healthcare costs alone would likely wipe that out (for the demographics using Medicare). Rent in many areas would eat more than half.
I totally get the fragmentation, I asked in some techy groups if they prefer matrix, signal, wire, anything. Virtually nobody knows anything but telegram (because we were currently on tg) and facebook messaging systems. So I made a choice and now the tg side is dead and the new platform is missing some people... yup fragmentation at work.

But at that moment a choice for a new system was made, it's not so much about doing yet another move right after the previous and fragmenting it further. Any particular reason you didn't try Wire in the first place, if you don't like the phone number requirement?
> Is there nobody in the room who is the voice of the customer?

No. Google have an institutional contempt for humanity.

Just look at the support:

david.king Gold Product Expert
Volunteer since 2011 (not a Google employee)

They can't even be bothered hiring people to support their offerings.
Wow, this is one of the most impressive demos of GPT-3 I've seen.
Can't edit or delete the comment. I was dmed by the WSB mod who posted the daily GME megathread on reddit.

I have confused the GME subreddit with WSB on the point about the child moderator.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/mkdpk3/plumdrag...

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Also WSB discontinued the daily GME thread and people moved (refugee-d) to superstonk.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/ms8681/rwallstr...
I'm all for that, but that means a lot of other federal laws and regulations getting wiped from the books.

Which I think is a good thing, but many arguing this angle for marijuana legalization haven't fully considered the implications.

Nevertheless, it's not the current law as far as the courts are concerned, despite what the 10th amendment says. (I suspect the current SCOTUS wouldn't mind rectifying that, given the proper cases and opportunity.)

But in the current political climate, try saying the words "state's rights" without getting labeled a racist or extremist or anti-masker/vaxxer.
Second-system syndrome. *

Even if you think you're making sure to not fall into the trap, it always happens. The first version solves a specific problem and has enormous success, there might be some cleanup (v2), but then the Big Rewrite is going to clean up all the little issues and add in some highly requested features which will be so much easier because of the new architecture, programming language, etc. You estimate about six months, tops.

Then three years goes by.

I find the phenomenon amazing because I've experienced it personally and it's maddening. All the hours spent talking about the second system trap and planning how to avoid it had absolutely zero effect on it actually happening. It was like a black hole void where you just kept making one step forward and two steps back.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
And from this article:

> The philosophy and principles of mission command give subordinate leaders room to implement their superiors’ intent using disciplined initiative. This is the resistant behavior that Hundman characterizes as refinement. Leaders at lower echelons are best able to understand the practical ramifications of any policy implementation. General Mark Milley, the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went so far as to say that subordinates needed to exercise “disciplined disobedience” and ignore specific orders to achieve their higher commanders’ intent. On the battlefield, this enables subordinate leaders to react to changing situations and take advantage of new opportunities as they arise, without needing to seek approval from their superiors. Historically the Army has made great use of mission command, enabling victories from the defense of Little Round Top to the thunder runs into Baghdad. [emphasis added]
I was hoping Theil is being opportunistic when he pandered to the previous guy, but looks like he fully believes in that form of governance and really likes everything the guy stands for. So much so that Theil is heavily supporting candidates that are aligned with the previous guy. Very disappointing. I would really like to know what he stands for and what his political motivations are, but I guess its obvious.
Signal stores your contact list on your phone (and not on their servers). Unlike other devices, people typically only have one active phone at any time, which means that your contact list on your phone can be your contact list on any linked device (its primary, they're secondary).

If they didn't anchor to something that they knew you only had one of, then it's not clear which of your devices should be authoritative. The alternative is to store your contact list on their servers, but they don't do that because they aren't confident that they could do so in a way that keeps your contacts hidden from somebody who gained access to their servers.

Often, letting an adversary know who you associate with is just as dangerous as letting them know what you say to those people. Having your phone number be the key means that metadata security comes down to whether you lock your phone instead of whether the bad guys can get a warrant to compromise Signal's servers.

It's a worse user experience, but I can understand not wanting to be responsible for the bad things that happen when bad guys map a target's social network.
I wouldn't know the first thing about medical drugs. But I noticed, interestingly, Ketamine is a mentioned drug in the first research paper I cited above.
Styling a radio button, a select box and a slider would be amazing, too.

Now the only option is to replace them which is quite sad.
> math, emacs, web dev, etc.

And sex: http://xahlee.org/sex/all_things_sex.html

His Emacs-specific content is great, but the last thing I want to read are his creepy, gremlin-like takes on relationships and sex.
> What's a universal thing to the portable device that everyone has got in their pocket?

All phones have internet connectivity... The phone number is completely useless to talk via the internet anyways...

> The government can track you a lot easier than pinging via signal btw. A lot easier!

I think that it is easier to connect a real-world identity to an internet account when they also have your phone number associated with the account...
Capiche – It's about the software people
I'm not sure if it's great. It just lets you communicate without endangering valuable resource that your phone number is.

> Can you send SMS to a regular number with this?

Why would it do that? Every phone has perfectly good sms app.

What would that even mean? Using sms as a transport layer? Or making messages passed through internet look like pseudo sms messages to someones phone number?
I STRONGLY prefer my work to be as isolated as possible. I don't want work invading my real-life spaces - not in my living room, my study, my kitchen, or any other non-work related place I may go. Work is just work, it's the thing I do so I can afford to do the stuff I actually enjoy. Having the mental and physical separation of going to a totally different place to do work is something I like having, and you can't beat the bandwidth of an organic face-to-face conversation with no delay or audio problems.

I also couldn't care less about commuting, its 20 minutes either way and I actually enjoy having a chance to just chill out on the train and read. If your commute is too long then you're either living or working in the wrong spot.
No that figure is the study being transparent on how it controlled for imbalances of selected input conditions showing raw numbers then the post processed reweighting of the samples. How does that fail as a way to account for differences in those conditions?

What would be your preferred technique of accounting for the differences of characteristics in those groups?
> It’s just a simple numbers game: there are more obscure books than popular books, so there are more obscure good books than popular good books, so the more books you read the more likely your favorite is an obscure one.

There is an unstated dubious assumption that popularity is independent from goodness here. Not that I disagree with the conclusion.
Is there a library or application that can take an annotated algorithm, and then generate a website like this one? That would be great for beginning CS and the sorting algorithms and other basic data structures too.
You must be kidding, for 30k/year I can hire my own human python developer.
He's Silicon Valley's gwern
if the service can get your conversations then it is a backdoor simple...
I feel like we’ve been trapped between Vue 2 and 3 for a little while. A lot of libraries and wrappers have not been updated for use with 3 and I’m not good enough with JS to try forking and updating them myself. And then there’s stuff we’d like to use (like Headless UI from the Tailwind folks) that’s only available for Vue 3.
> (There's also something to be said for giving users a choice, but unfortunately very few people could actually make an informed choice when it comes to that)

Irrelevant, ethically speaking they still deserve that choice.
thank god for the 23% of us who have some good sense!
100% agreed, and I’ve said as much in the past. I winced to forget to qualify my statement with “but this part is nuts.” Thanks for calling that out.
already switched to the new 'storage share' offering... doubled my storage space, additional backup/restore capability and that for ~0.3Euro a month less (!) than before :)
>> As a rule of thumb you need almost twice as much RAM with a 64-bit userland compared to 32-bit with the same programs/services running.

That doesn't make sense; going 64-bit should only double the size of pointers, it shouldn't touch the size of code or data in memory.
I love the energy, but I'm not sure you're right. Do you have specific case law you'd cite?
Thanks! I'll reply to you there as well.

1. There are two places where deep learning and prior-based approaches can come into play for combinatorial auctions. One is pretty analogous to AlphaZero, but substitute placing a piece on a Go board with accepting a bid, hoping that upon reaching a terminal state the set of bids accepted is feasible and close to optimal. The second is perhaps more in line with what you mentioned—using ML for hyperparameter selection in an algorithm portfolio. When we go live and have production data, our meta optimizer will measure how different approaches are doing and allocate computational resources accordingly in an online fashion. We always use a vanilla unit double auction as a baseline to measure relative performance within an auction cycle, and if the baseline is better, we use it instead.

2. There's a fun and serendipitous story here. I wrote an extremely early prototype as a tiny lisp and evaluator to go with it. We needed a very restricted and functionally pure language that we could control the execution context of, symbolically execute, and do basic formal methods on. The approach worked for a POC, but it was a far cry from real-world adoptable. We proceeded to prototype a DSL with an HM inspired type system and a more pythonic syntax, arriving at a poor man's ML. Better, but a DSL, and something limited/bespoke that would ultimately be annoying for developers. Then we met the guys at Imandra [1], who convinced us that we could have our cake and eat it too using vanilla OCaml/ReasonML and an ultra-high level theorem prover to keep code in an acceptable logic fragment. As an aside, rust is our systems PL and where we do most of the heavy lifting. Evaluating Expressive Bids isn't computationally expensive relative to the optimization problem.

[1]: https://www.imandra.ai/
> He's pretty whiny.

FTFY
The US can basically print money, because USD is the world reserve currency (most of the world, that is).

This puts the US in unique position when it can inject massive amounts of liquidity into the economy, and nothing bad is apparently happening for years! The world happily buys dollars.

Then the consequences still catch up and bite, but it's already a different administration. So the temptation is high.
> This is very frustrating. But it does serve as yet another reminder of the dangers inherent to closed ecosystems.

The bulk of the code in my day job is deeply proprietary and runs on deeply proprietary, closed systems: stuff like 40 year old COBOL running on CICS on zOS.

The problem is not that the system is closed. The problem is that some vendors have an institutional sense of responsibility to their customers. Others have nothing but contempt.
> AFAIK, it prompts at first, maybe a few times, but then stops.

It's been re-prompting me for years. If there's a time it stops, I haven't found it.

> I am not sure how Signal backups work or that user contacts, encrypted, are backed up to the SGX enclave. Where does it say that?

You're talking about backups. I'm talking about contact-discovery, wherein the client regularly sends (hashed versions of) all the phone numbers from your contacts (if you've shared them with the app) to Signal's servers, to let you (& them!) know you're both on Signal. How else would you think the notification you get when someone in your contact list joins Signal is generated?

Signal's claim that these oft-repeated intersection operations leave no permanent records on their servers seemed (last I looked deeply) based on the SGX attestation: that your list is encrypted such that only the trusted code will process it. If Signal, or hackers, or Intel Corp, or the "Intel Community" can compromise SGX's guarantees, they can decrypt & log the full set of phone numbers uploaded.

So again, it reduces to how much you trust Intel™ SGX®.

(Also note that even if you do trust SGX, someone you've never met can, by having your phone number in their contacts, receive a notification when you join Signal. And separately from any SGX-mediated threats, a persistent attacker with privileged views of your devices' network traffic – such as via an ISP or mobile carrier – can get, via the volume & timing of traffic to and from Signal's servers, a pretty good idea of who you're talking to.)
I would take "unfettered speech" over alternatives any day of the week.
> Only Google's or Amazon's should be purchased.

Sounds like a monopolistic system reinforcing itself.
If these images were painted by hand, they would also be derivative.

But technologists insist that since one step in the chain of creation was algorithmic, the technologist gets all the credit and the original artist gets none.
Parent was exaggerating, but the 2022 set has 25% more pieces (and 50% more distinct pieces), but isn't any larger.
i'd wager it has something to do with this:

https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/11067831?hl=en#w...

my guess is that after the sonos debacle, they've got some kind of internal "lawyers gone wild" debacle unfolding where literally everything is being examined in a big giant legal audit.

i'd go on to wager that they identified some highly gymnastic exposure in some part of the world with respect to offering unfiltered public internet terminals to children, so they crammed a quickfix in under their digital wellbeing stuff and it's only supported on pixel/google devices.

just another reminder that anyone who can push updates has total control well beyond anything labeled "root" on the devices they push updates to.
I'm recently unsubscribed from your RSS feed because your "blog" reads more like a Twitter feed.
Absolutely. A lot of funding gets poured into dead end alzheimers research or similar that will never work. A fraction of that redirected to rare diseases that get zero funding will do wonders. It is a shame that academia and research are so burdened with graft and politics.
> being kind when delivering pointed critiques helps a difficult pill go down

While I am sympathetic to this, I think it fails to recognize a very important thing that we expect, or at least should expect, from people who claim to be doing science: that every scientist is responsible for sanity checking their own work before making any claims based on it. As Richard Feynman said, your first duty as a scientist is to not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool.

That means every scientist needs to be an expert in whatever fields are relevant to the work they're doing. If a scientist is going to make claims based on some purported correspondence between human psychology and fluid dynamics, they need to be an expert, not just in human psychology, but also in fluid dynamics; and if they're not, they need to not make the claims, no matter how enthusiastic they are about them. And the scientists who published the claims that Nick and his colleagues debunked were not experts in fluid dynamics, and knew it, yet they chose to publish anyway.

And that kind of thing, if science as an institution is going to be trustworthy, cannot be handled by kind words when delivering pointed critiques. It has to be labeled as what it is: not just being mistaken, but being scientifically dishonest, by making claims that you do not have the expertise to make. In a sane world, scientists who did that would be stripped of the label "scientist", the same way we disbar dishonest lawyers or revoke the medical licenses of dishonest doctors. At the very least, it justifies language that does not include kind words, but the opposite.

I have no problem with using kind words when calling out a scientist who is just mistaken. But I don't think kind words are called for when a scientist knowingly publishes claims that they don't have the expertise to evaluate for themselves.
> On the contrary, the "blockchain part" is the bit that prevents the contract from being modified after the fact. It's an essential property of any contract, and immutability is core feature provided by a blockchain.

I get that, but I fail to see the relevance in practice. If someone wants to go and commit fraud they can just do it, ignoring what it says in the immutable contract just as they ignore what it says in the law against fraud.
Possibly. Thiel has Clarium, “Thiel Capital” and “Thiel Macro” associated with his name. Weinstein was a managing director at Thiel Capital.

I interviewed with Thiel Macro years ago when I got the story of the investors pulling out and the fund being primarily Thiel’s money from my interviewer. Not sure which if any of these are the same corporate entity.
They're not really ok though. You have to flip both horizontally AND vertically to get the correct results:

1. Flip the fretboard left to right so the open string is on the left
2. Play the open strings by clicking their names, hear the correct pitches
3. Play fret 1 on the low E string, you hear an F two octaves up (ie fret 1 on the high E string). Continue with fret 1 on the other strings - on the A string, you hear a C, as if you were playing fret 1 on the B string.

So it's only flipping the open strings, and not inverting the fretboard. I guess the idea is that you can have righty, lefty, and lefty-strung-righty, but the labels are wrong so I think this is just a mistake.

But, click both flip buttons and you'll end up where you want to be.
Honestly if anything, web frameworks are way ahead of the rest of the world.

The real difficulty is that web UIs have to be very flexible and varied: you have different screen sizes, mobile vs desktop, and every website has a different UI vs native apps all looking similar. And yeah, there are over 100 different web frameworks most which have a particular use case, although you don't have to use the perfect tool for the job. Also, there are a few quirks left over from the old days of HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

But making a basic website nowadays on modern tools is very straightforward. Clone a vite starter project, write out your DOM in React or Vue or Svelte or Solid.js or whatever, and launch a live-server with a browser inspector to fine-tune the design. There are some especially bad JS frameworks (looking at you Meteor), but that's the case for most platforms.
It protects metadata using a mixnet and the E2E encryption for authenticated channels uses post quantum cryptography(SIDH) to establish symmetric keys. The infrastructure is run by 3rd party node runners and there's an open source API for other applications in addition to the messenger being open source.

I'm not having issues with the website, but I will raise it with the web developers to see if they know what's happening.
Yea you're right, that's like the biggest one. Can't believe I forgot that.
He’s actually very Christian and I’m told attends services every week. I’m not sure what denomination though.
> But at the ballot box, they act very differently.

> Why does almost no Green Party win an outright majority in any European national election?

> By the current set of politicians. Who are ultimately voted in by voters.

> voting isn't that much of a personal sacrifice

> Why does half the US continue to vote for a political party that outright denies man-made climate change?

Average citizen preferences have no bearing[1] on the adoption of legislation.
[1](https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...)

> Because we had slightly more sensible politicians back then

I cannot understate how much I disagree with the idea that politics was somehow more sensible "back then". Politicians are not more stubborn or unreasonable today, because __people__ are not more stubborn or unreasonable today.
Anyone who has used both Vue 3 and React that wants to share their experiences? Which framework do you prefer overall (including dev experience and ecosystem support)?
Yes, if you "break SGX", Signal's contact-intersection-privacy guarantees fall. Are you confident that SGX is unbroken?
Thanks for looking it up— sounds totally innocuous. It’s pretty common to see this type of activity after board meetings to avoid insider trading allegations. In my mind it raises a question that the meetings occur and are announced during trading hours (as opposed to releases made after trading hours). Which would give an information advantage to insiders trading the day of because it takes time to digest all the data in the release and form an opinion. Not saying that’s happening just that a same day trade after an announcement could theoretically be advantaged.
The incentive might be the seized property, but the purpose is to disrupt the drug trade in cases where prosecution would be difficult or impossible.

Which it is technically accomplishing.