skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> iconic status in the UK for those of a certain age.

I remember introducing my partner to Bill Hicks around 2006.

I remember pointing out that all his Gulf War jokes were about the 1990 war.... She thought he was joking about the 2003+ conflict as, shockingly, the reasons for the war were exactly the same and the jokes all translated perfectly to the new war.

Sad.
You probably already know this (since you wrote "silly thought"), but real-life neurons are ridiculously more complex than simulated "neurons" in an NN. So the analogy doesn't really hold.
You maybe ahead of 12 cars on your offramp, but you've also caught up to 12 cars that haven't had a chance to get off the offramp, yet. The amount of traffic on said ramp is only going to vary based on the time of day and some dumb luck.
We as humans are quite excellent in judging our own behavior as correct. We are not so good at imagining the downstream effects of our actions. The author is no doubt correct that there are not catastrophic effects from his choice of business model, but then to conclude that it means that advertising is really fine as long as some constraints are net seems to ignore that combined with corporate directives to (by law) maximize profit, large-scale ad-based businesses will find more and more justification for releasing those constraints. I’m a fan of brownies but it doesn’t mean I’m going to argue that sugar is not harmful and the sugar industry not a driver of poor health outcomes.
He's at least implying a public good motive, and I'm being charitable by assuming one exists. But my statement was intended to either educate myself on some detail that I didn't know, or implicitly call into question the motive in the absence of an answer.
Also Vaadin which sort of combines two approaches and these days even allows you to go Java-only or Javascript-only. The company is still alive and well so I assume it's popular for internal enterprise apps.
Perhaps it's a fragmented internet that is best aligned with our own interests.

I, for one, would really like to have more fragments to explore.
Ahh, that's a very good observation. I'm surprised that wasn't my first thought as well.
I’ve been using Xbox Game Pass on PC, and while for me it’s a good value. Their invite system is terrible compared to Valve. I just want to play games with my friends and Valve seems to have that part down. Hell even the whole “play with friends” thing has worked great. Like the good old days of friends coming over and playing a four player game only now we play on the internet (and we only need one person to own it).
Sure. Just make IPv6 work everywhere flawlessly, and then all of our devices can easily access all of our other devices, we can use whatever DNS scheme we want to return the IPv6 addresses to those devices, and then we won't need to punch through NAT firewalls and routers to reflect off corp-owned servers just to access machines trapped behind NAT firewalls! What could possibly go wrong?
Just as an aside, a CPU from 2022 will generally be much faster and efficient than one from 2014, even if the clock speed is similar, due to architecture improvements.
> On average, it's manipulation, brainwashing and commodification of well told lies.

This belief is actually compatible with my argument, thanks to the "on average" qualifier! I've never said that "most advertising as it exists today is good," rather my point is "advertising in a fundamental sense doesn't have to be bad." I think there is a real need that can be served by advertising, and thus we should find good ways of serving that need which don't involve "manipulation, brainwashing and commodification of well told lies."
....Ummmm.

That's fairly arse backwards. But okay lets go ahead and trace this out then.

If they want you to share your credentials, they are probably aggregating all data on a machine by machine basis, and access controlling only through the customer. If that is the case, that suggests, not guarantees, but suggests, that they aren't providing auditing in terms of who accessed what data, and why, which is generally part and parcel of what someone is on the hook for. Technically speaking, the spirit of the law is that access of information should be discernable down to a unique individual. One person, one user. Credential sharing nukes that. In fact, it IS in a sense illegal, or at least non-compliant, because they cannot discern whether or not your information has been leaked without authorization. Which is half the onus put on a covered entity.

So I'm going to guess they are not integrated with HCP's, nor are they implementing an access control mechanism whereby users can grant HCP's access to their data tracked in their systems and ACK'd to an HCP and possibly the insurer.

I'd have to emit a WTF are they doing? Tbqh. However, I'd need access to proprietary docs to make any really authoritative statements, because they could be arranging their affairs in a way I haven't been exposed to before.

T. done the HIPAA jig more than once
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It doesn't support your point. It supports the original commenter's, who points out that not confirming internal titles is SOP at a bunch of companies.
I know web exploits happen all the time first hand.

> all 15 compromised Ukrainian sites were using an outdated version of the October CMS, vulnerable to CVE-2021-32648.

That cve looks like it was caused by someone doing == instead of === in php.

My question was things like request smuggling and protocol abuse attacks have ever been seen in the "wild".
Is there a Europe-native company that could invest the tens of billions to spin up an EU-centric cloud to appease the regulators?
>Like implicit in this line of reasoning is a bit of a sense that like, there's a "true", base set of desires that we all have that would exist completely independently of any kind of outside influence...

This is a good point, because I think it surfaces the real problem with modern advertising, versus the kind of persuasive speech that has existed since the beginning of time. And that problem is scale: modern advertising is mass-produced on a scale unimagined when the first merchants cried out their advertising in open-air markets. The power to reach millions of people means that capital can be used to manufacture demand on an industrial scale, to the point where the underlying product or service is almost immaterial (see the bottled water industry for an extreme example). Since advertising drives sales, which generates even more capital, the modern media landscape creates a massive rich-get-richer marketing feedback loop. As capital competes more keenly for scarcer and scarcer consumer attention, more and more advertising is injected into the media stream. And by doing so, the winners accumulate more capital to push more advertising. It's a race to the bottom, and I don't believe this particular bottom is a very good place for society. Can I prove that society would be better off without advertising entirely? No, but I can make a pretty good case based on history that extreme wealth inequality is bad for society, and modern mass advertising contributes to rising inequality.
> If something coincides with something else nearly 100% of the time, I think its safe to say there's some relation between the two. And printing money is always prior to inflation.

Not really no, which is why we have the whole correlation != causation thing. The number of people who drowned in a swimming pool perfectly correlates with power generated by US nuclear plants over 10 years. [1] There's obviously no causative relationship. The same is true here - you need a model to adequately explain otherwise you're just intuiting, and intuition is frequently wrong.

> Are you talking about monthly? Maybe... The other thing about those times is we didn't have an unprecedented decline in commercial activity. How could businesses shut down indefinitely and a global pandemic looming over the world and the natural market response be "bullish for business!". Come on...

Again, much of the market performance is in big tech which has done extremely well over the last two years. Google is just one example. Look at the top NASDAQ and S&P holdings and you'll see the same thing. The market isn't the economy.

> Yes, they're invested in fixed income who yield < 2% and will likely drop a lot in dollar terms once rates ramp up.

Doesn't when they entered the market, and their allocation, mean a whole lot more?

[1] https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Unfortunately, the list doesn't seem to be compatible with piHole (at least >5.0), and in searching around there's some beef between pi-hole folks and the oisd maintainer. I won't perpetuate it by posting links, but it's sad to see for sure.
Yes, github's language detection is definitely messed up, especially in the C language family. A while ago, a C or C++ source file would be detected as Objective-C if you had a variable called "id" (I think that's been fixed though).
This is a really cool science fiction idea, but I don't see anything like evidence in this article, nothing testable at least. As a scifi fan, I think ideas like this are one of the important purposes of the genre. Maybe one day we can divise an experiment to test some of this.
No disagreement from me.

My comment on the main post is that the most in demand type of engineer is one that is cheap.
Do you know anything about the manufacturing process? I always connect most of the benefits of surface mount with reflow soldering and pick and place machines. I doubt they used pick and place in 1972 for consumer goods, but maybe you can just have assembly line workers placing by hand before before the line runs through a reflow oven?
You can modify the A* cost function to take the sensing cost into account:

f(x) = g(x) + h(x)

Just becomes:

f(x) = (g(x) + [past sensing costs]) + (h(x) + [estimate of future sensing costs])
But network effects and marketing are irrelevant for products that can't be used in your country because they violate local laws. If some Google product can't legally be used in the EU, then it has zero network effects there and Google wouldn't waste money marketing it there.

Also, the competing EU-based service might be strong competitors to the ones in the U.S., among people like me who are privacy conscious. I don't use Google services, but I'd be happy to consider using GDPR-compliant services based in Europe.
are we certain they're not? i'm not sure we know how to measure smartness
Someone posted a comment I’d replied to in another thread here about iOS sideloading.

They’d asked ‘why do you even need sideloading, what apps would you even need?’

I’d said ‘emulators’, but uBlock is definitely another thing I wish I could sideload onto my iPhone.
> Seemingly admitting the lack of internal
capability, discipline and experience, Foley is
looking to outsiders for answers

> Hiring McKinsey is a clear declaration of failure
The Trojan Horse Affair
Excellent storytelling from Serial about an unbelievable alleged Islamist plot in British schools.
Here's one that lists some older references: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04328
You can't be a one man band, but if the organisation supports it, you can achieve both. In my experience, it doesn't need to be a trade off. We can get close to the users and program to your hearts content. We need the right company and environment to want to invest in that for us. There's a great loop we can get into by doing things like offering demos of new features to clients weekly or bi-weekly. What I've seen happen is that we don't need to code as much because we know the specific problems that need to be solved, rather than loads of guesswork and trying to write blanket solutions for misunderstood problems.
Past a certain level of seniority (Principal Engineer and above), you get recruited by headhunter types.

They take a lot more time and effort to figure out who you are before even reaching out.

My guess is that these are the hardest ones to fill, which involve some sort of leadership in the role.
"Open Source, but not for X" is not open source, it's source available.
They didn't delete RaTG13. The WIV published a Nature article describing RaTG13 in early 2020, identifying it as the (then) closest known relative of SARS-CoV-2.

Far from destroying or hiding data, the WIV is the institute that publicized the existence and highlighted the importance of RaTG13.
This is just how it works. I'm not making the rules. The CNIL send "mise en demeure" to companies that do not complies with the GDPR and even before that with the "loi informatique et libertés" and if the companies ignore the "mise en demeure" after some time the CNIL can fine them.

It also happens that the CNIL is notoriously more and more lenient on a lot of things.
Or... Or... these co's stop mining/saving data on all EU folks altogether. If they could prove to regulators that the tracking and mining and selling of data does not happen at all for EU folks perhaps these cloud players could still sell services to the EU market.
> People interested in having something will find a way to know about them.

Ouch. This couldn't be more wrong. Throughout my life, I've met so many people who wanted something and didn't find it by trying very hard. Sometimes, they finally find it via an ad. Ads definitely helped them.
DeepETA: How Uber Predicts Arrival Times Using Deep Learning
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Privately I host nearly everything on a shared host in Germany (that is everything I can host without sudo) [1].

For company policy reasons I must absolutely use AWS or GCE.

For an internal project I need to setup Matomo. Something I did thrice in the last few month on [1].

OK login through SSO into AWS. Look around, ask Google, find the bitnami image, click few buttons. Done. OH shit. Now I need to somehow make it publicly available. OK. Google again. Ah this is the way. Few hours of reading and clicking later I have a publicly reachable Matomo instance. Oh hey. It warms me that it is not ssl encrypted. OK. How to do let's encrypt? Google again with my second batch of coffee (or was it the third). Found an easy way, just enter a command in the shell. Oh hey, how do I get my ssh pub key into my EC2 instance?

Damn the day is nearly gone and I have yet to deliver this tangential asset to an internal project while killing my CCI (how much I am booked on client work) for something that the first time took me 30 minutes with the great documentation from [1].

To me as a meager Data Analyst the complexity of cloud offerings is a nightmare. And the documentation is written for other echelons of tech understanding most of the time.

[1] uberspace.de
This is a key part of it that I left out actually, the egregious nature of it. Interesting to hear you say this too.
Because, IIRC, a lot of neurons are dedicated to motion/sensing.

Bigger animals may require more neurons to handle moving larger and/or more complicated muscle groups.

Interesting related point there is the encephalization quotient which is related to the predicted ratio of brain size to body mass. On the wikipedia page [0] they list the EQ for various animals. Humans are the highest but dolphins and ravens are not far behind.
So... root cause: Phone ran out of battery. Solution: Does not address root cause at all.

I mean, it's cool, and quite likely an improvement over the previous thing, but I predict there'll be a follow-up article within the year :)
Agreed with the senior engineer sentiment. Finding entry level is difficult, but doable. Especially with a good intern program, etc.

But finding _any_ senior engineers is hard right now. With FAANG paying so much, it's just hard to compete.

IMO it gets even worse when you end up in specialized ares. Eg CV, ML, etc. Pretty much anything that requires a masters degree (or a heck of a lot of self motivation)
Student-to-student mentoring is a part of the solution. Empirically shown to work really well. I don't know why more schools don't do it.
Me, obviously, since I made the comment?

And why the heck would I want to give my data to a bunch of random companies? What's the benefit in it for me, anyway?
Same with Polygon their Ethereum L2+Sidechaining scaling solutions. Polygon is quickly building a reputation for solid secure code, mostly because their team kicks ass and is proactive.
> One that is cheap.

This makes me happy.
Aside from other points, more neurons might be better "all else equal", but there are differences between our brain and an elephant's beyond just neuron count.

It's like how just getting a bigger faster computer can help with your problem, but its less powerful than a new more efficient algorithm on the same computer.
Elephants very likely could be more intelligent than us, it just seems that intelligence is a difficult thing to measure quantitatively.
Canada border protests start halting Detroit auto plant production
While the table doesn't say that much about intent (other than what you might infer from the SQL Compatibility, ACID and Category columns), I had hoped it was clear from the rest of the article that I was saying there is no relationship between the wire protocol and being PostgreSQL compatible in general.

> It does NOT encompass the actual query language itself, let alone database semantics.

> This doesn't mean that any PostgreSQL or MySQL query will work with them since, as mentioned previously, query language and database semantics are independent of the wire protocol.

> To reiterate, the wire protocol doesn't specify anything about the query language.

> Just because a database implements the PostgreSQL wire protocol does not mean it intends to be a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL.

> So just looking at parser support is not enough to talk about PostgreSQL query or semantic compatibility. But it is a starting point.

But I guess it wasn't clear.
I use a similar setup. The VPN is needed because it is the only port accessible outside my network. Wireguard is easy to setup right, and I already need it for accessing other stuff on my home network.
1000&plus; PostgreSQL EXTENSIONs
So yeah the two things you mentioned.
EdgeDB co-founder Yury here. Ask me anything :)

Live launch stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRZ3o-NsU_4
I think the assumption that past rivals are dumb, as we tend to roll over the details. I think overall there’s an assumption that modern humans = better.

Looking at contemporary history, there are dramatic differences in power dynamic between different human cohorts. There’s nothing that separates the biological abilities of any two populations on earth, but the one with the machine guns and artillery will always beat the guy with a bow and spear.

Look at the fate of the indigenous people of the americas. Europe didn’t send its best people, but disease, better weapons and toxic politics carried the age.
saurik is pretty famous, I would estimate that most serious players in this space know the money is here. What is good about this post and the fact it's on top of HN is that maybe the average HN reader will be curious and help shift the crypto narrative on HN from negativity to at least neutrality.
> Regulation mixed with "operating more freely" is oxymoronic

Common regulation between jurisdictions allows businesses subjected to the regulatory oversight of multiple involve jurisdictions to operate more freely than if the jurisdictions did not coordinate and instead adopted regulations where it was impossible to comply with one without violating the other.

You shouldn't just pick one word from one part of a statement and a two-word phrase in another part and ignore the rest of the statement in order to create your own argument to respond to.
Yes, because people are depressed. People are committing suicide. People are opting to not go to grad school in the first place. Why put people through that pain when they don't have to be put through it if they were only paid more fairly for their responsibilities and the skills they bring to the table?
There are two types of tech debt in my experience, things get out of date because they weren't maintained and it's harder to do now years later than absorbing some of that work a little at a time throughout the years. And the other kind is because of poorly written code which is often caused by poor business practices and changing requirements.
I think they are rare to find since corporates mostly prefer checkbox insecurity and not a well rounded security professional, better to grow your own in-house talent.
The language test is incredibly easy, for what it’s worth. It is nowhere near fluent, or really even conversationally competent. It’s things like saying the correct words when buying an apple at a store.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/books/review/dark-hero-of...

> The catastrophe emerged from Wiener's German-born wife, Margaret, and their almost gothically weird relationship. Though Wiener was Jewish, Margaret became an outspoken Nazi supporter during World War II. (She kept a copy of "Mein Kampf" on a dresser at home.) She was even more hostile to her daughters, and accused the elder of inspiring "unnatural" sexual feelings in her father. As Wiener's reputation grew and he crisscrossed the globe on lecture circuits, Margaret attempted to trigger his depressions with undercutting remarks. At the peak of Wiener's fame, she told an audacious lie that destroyed his relationship with his closest scientific collaborators. One of Wiener's daughters had interned for a spring with the colleagues; Margaret told Wiener that their daughter had had sex with several of them. Wiener chose to believe the falsehood. He immediately cut off all contact with his collaborators, never explained the accusation and never spoke to them again. And that, the authors contend, is the real reason cybernetics died. Wiener's colleagues were shattered, and without his participation, their explorations of his ideas quickly atrophied. One of Wiener's former protégés, the young mathematical genius Walter Pitts, was so scarred that ultimately he drank himself to death. By the time of Wiener's death in 1964, there were few proselytizers left; Soviet scientists were interested, but this only served to give cybernetics a "red" tinge.

Just a dream of a spouse, that one. :: eye roll ::
After watching the misery that has been the Flanderization of the Simpsons and its complete decline I'm quite happy with King of the Hill staying out of remakes and anything that would straight up destroy the treasure that it is.
How to let your friends control your PC using Discord [video]
Firefox + UBlock works great on android.

DNS66 works ok for apps that aren't browsers.
Ah the never ending difference between what employers say they want and what they actually want.
Awesome. Now if Germany would only follow.
Sadly, those kinds of laws rarely get enforced.
Nobody will ever make the connection between this, and the lockdowns they imposed on humans. Well, nobody "respectable" so the status followers won't ever hold the opinion where it matters, the court.

"When you are paid not to notice, it is hard to notice" etc.
> I provided an example of why you would want to still load it remotely (specific situations where it's beneficial) rather than simply copying the code into the source repo

Doesn't Node cache imports, though? I think this approach would protect you if you were running a script on a timer (thus triggering a fresh load at a regular interval) but not if you were running an Express server (which would only verify the hash of the remote library at application startup).
So some advertising is ok, while the vast majority of online advertising today falls into the bad category? I think I could agree that advertising is acceptable if we'd have:

* No personalisation
* Full transparency (must be publicly available who is paying for this, ...)
* No brainwashing, lies, propaganda, ...
* No advertising of certain controversial things (alcohol, tabacco,... I don't know who'd define what's ok)

Since we have basically no restrictions today on what is allowed, I'll still use ad blocker, advice everyone to do the same. And of course I'll rant how ads are bad on the internet.