skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
^ bots.

2 Billion DAUs is an insanely larger number of users and I hardly know anyone who is using Facebook much anymore. Surely that's anecdotal and there are parts of the world where FB is the gateway to the Internet.
If this is considered an application for credit, you actually can sue them individually and you definitely would be successful.
Privately would have been the better word choice.
Sqlite has an odbc driver that excel can use
The smartphone, fucking really?

No mention of CRISPR-Cas9, the explosion of deep learning and "AI," the James Webb Space Telescope, detection of gravitational waves...?

My god. Are people really that myopically spellbound by computing these days?
My take on it is that because there are so many good singers out there, people generally don't really care about that aspect of music as much (anymore?).

With so much technology available to basically anyone who cares enough to learn how to use it, it's becoming much more important to use that technology creatively than to have some natural talent for singing.
M 7.3 – 57 km ENE of Namie, Japan
The slate star codex article directly on-topic is The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...

Scott Alexander makes the not-politically-correct but plausible case for genetics having a significant component. And that the grim events of the 20th century may have significantly thinned that genetic reserve.

The first couple paragraphs are a pretty good hook:

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A group of Manhattan Project physicists created a tongue-in-cheek mythology where superintelligent Martian scouts landed in Budapest in the late 19th century and stayed for about a generation, after which they decided the planet was unsuitable for their needs and disappeared. The only clue to their existence were the children they had with local women.

The joke was that this explained why the Manhattan Project was led by a group of Hungarian supergeniuses, all born in Budapest between 1890 and 1920. These included Manhattan Project founder Leo Szilard, H-bomb creator Edward Teller, Nobel-Prize-winning quantum physicist Eugene Wigner, and legendary polymath John von Neumann, namesake of the List Of Things Named After John Von Neumann.
An hour here or there won't make a difference. An 5-8 hr change will get you laughed out of Congress. They have to answer to their constituents come election time, and they know that. Even if it happened it would be undone within two years.
I had previously read an article about making all computation happen through linear algebra, they seemed pretty close to that goal which would allow any python operation to run on GPUs.

If anyone has a link to that please post.
Because in no way should payment product y be able to see, store, access, or otherwise use google product x's sensitive stored information without explicit user consent

In storing card data in product x, the assumption of the user would be that that product is storing that card data for future autofill purposes in product x

Discovering that this data has somehow been turned into an entire financial account on product y without consent should enrage any reasonable user of product x
On a unrelated note, I can't believe someone using Chrome is surprised by something like this. If I were using Chrome and signed into my google account from there, I'd assume all bets were off.
The product solves the problem of the time it takes to access sensitive data for analytics and machine learning. When you work in a large healthcare or financial organization, each dataset is highly protected. Each time a data practitioner needs to work on it, they may have to wait for months for compliance processes to opine on a data masking strategy and engineering teams to prepare a data lab and implement this strategy. With Sarus, data practitioner no longer need to access data to do analytics or machine learning on sensitive data assets.

When internal access to personal data is not a concern within an organization, data sharing with external partners certainly is. This process can be avoided just the same.

Hence the promise of taking time-to-data form months to minutes.

Hope that helps clarify.
How'd you do the retraining?
I felt a 3-ish small one for about 5 seconds and then it was over. About a minute later it began again but this time it was definitely over 4 (I’m in Tokyo). It was long too, almost a minute I think (by the end it was not so strong, maybe 4-5 during the first 15 seconds or so)
Chrome would offer to store passwords, and if you misread, it would offer to store passwords in your Google account so you can use it on any Chrome session as long as you log in.

I didn't appreciate finding out that Google had my passwords...
Agreed. It's like complaining we don't make Leif Erikssons anymore. You can't discover a new continent every day.
You're asking about a technology solution to a legal problem. Depending on the agreement between you and your employer, even a separate account may not be sufficient.

Understand that first, then determine how to best implement it.
It's too bad the author hinges the article on the perceived lack of genius today, it is too hard to quantify. Genius, it's one of those things, you know it when you see it. The incremental progress on the margins that characterizes science today is just not that, requires smart people maybe, but not genius. I think that's the author's intuition (which I share fwiw). The typical hacker news reader seeing the headline is immediately pushing up their glasses up their nose, going, well, ecksjuwally, computers bleep bloop self driving cars, space, space, space, how's that for genius etc.

But that's not really what is the article is about. It's about the loss of a value system, one in which education was valued in its own right, and not as a means for credentialing. Many examples of the superiority of personal tutelage over classroom education in it. The author draws parallels with a loss of quality in other domains (art, clothing, artisanship, ...).

The author is at the vanguard. There is a spiritual shift happening this century. It is the rejection of modernism, the progressive ideology that life and society can (nay, must!) be completely mediated through technology, in order for it to be efficient, equitable, predictable, bureaucratic. In other words, modernism turned a person into a widget, that can be jiggered and manipulated to be useful. It is modernism that gave us pedagogics, the science on how to teach children useful skills with the least amount of money (which is not the same as education). It is modernism that razed our cities, so we can rebuild them for cars, because cars are high technology that moves things fast, and fast is better than slow. Modernism gave us the chronically medicated, because our bodies needs to be supplemented.

The intuitive sense that modernism is a failure has existed for a long time, first real criticism were in the 70s. The difference now is we're seeing "regular" people making real changes now, it's not just the new age weirdos. Homeschooling is taking off, because it is better full stop for a child (as explained in the article). Walkable neighborhoods are the most expensive to live, clearly showing a preference. Fine arts and architecture are seeing a return to more classical ideals.

These are individual families now, but this movement is in opposition to the current bureaucratic interests. It is also inherently elitist, since it's families with means making these choices. Curious how this will go, but it is a positive evolution, because it puts the human individual central again.
I don’t think the the utility of a tank is completely obviated. At a minimum, a heavy force needs them to assault and breach at speed under fire. The Russians are not exactly offering a tour de force in optimal support of their heavy armor. I will take their user error in favor of the good guys but don’t want to draw a broader lesson about the utility of the tank quite yet.

120mm cannon rounds are cheaper and more plentiful than guided missiles, which means a lot.

That said, it’s getting harder and harder to understand a scenario in which tanks can be employed successfully against a motivated, competent defender with plentiful ATGM and loitering munition stocks.
If it's an electric bike, one might care a lot less than on a bike that runs on meat power only. You may consider the battery to be the primary energy source, and pedal power a supplement.
> A one sentence horror story.

Too true. My favorite quote on this topic is that "work will never love you back". It's easy to get wrapped up in what we are doing (sometimes the less important it is to the world, the more I need to get wrapped up in it to be motivated), but work pales in comparison to:

* a good conversation with a friend

* time outside, contemplating nature and purpose

* a hug from a family member

But we don't treat it like that, unfortunately.

Of course, we all need to eat and I realize I'm speaking from a position of privilege (not worried about where my next meal is coming from).

Once you get to an income of X (where X varies by location, needs, but is definitely a finite number), time is so much more valuable than money.
Tanks are heavily armored underneath.

You can only set a mine off once.
Your comment makes it sound like nobody cares, is that the case in such situations?
I am really happy about this. Kinds should really learn basic concepts of programming and in general of how a computer works. They don't all need to become super programmers, but it would definitely help them in the future, if only to know what to expect from their IT co-workers and what is possible. I hope though that this computer science classes are really something in this direction and not only learn how to use powerpoint or word (I am convinced that many politics in Germany still think this is what is meant with computer science).
Caving into bullies (a.k.a., here we go again)
Well as a programmer I've seen how the sausage is made in the tech industry, and thus have less faith in the security and reliability of software than the average citizen does. So what you say could make sense.
Just to clarify for others, the numbers used in the above post are shindo-scale which are a location-dependent measurement of actual movement. They are used much more in Japan versus magnitude numbers.
Tsunami advisory: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/tsunami/index.html?lang=en
I think so. Plus the thumb clusters which makes accessing modifiers like ctrl as well as home/end and page up/down easier than a standard keyboard. I personally never used home/end and page up/down before I got my Advantage 2 but I find I use them more since they are easy to access without going off home row. I also use the "numpad" more and I've taken a lot of common programming symbols like {},[],| off my pinky and onto the numpad layer. Although that's more a pain thing.
It's possible to decode DTMF in your head if you have a good ear for tones. You don't even need perfect pitch in many cases. Not very useful, but fun party trick I guess. Listen to someone dial a number and tell them what they dialed.
Well this and the thread are fascinating. At first I was excited by a succinct little rebuttal to the world that wants me to follow a bunch of nonsensical details and rules, but HN is pushing back pretty hard. lol
I generally agree with this, however, the rough men willing to do violence on our behalf are more and more becoming the quirky scientists who are very disconnected from the actual impact of their work. I think there's a big difference between those types of people. It seems like people don't feel the weight of violence as much as they used to. I imagine this will increase as we develop more AI driven weapons.
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Wouldn't that create a strange feeling of being disconnected from the driving wheel?
The other way around is scratch the weather proof, and just encase it in something weatherproof.
One on one a single soldier can take a tank, but war isn't one on one. First there isn't going to be one tank. There's going to be a bunch. The tanks are basically immune to small arms fire. Not true of an infantryman who is vulnerable to pretty much everything. So the guy with the Javalin has to steel his nerves while he hears the tanks coming towards him, then he has to pop up to take his shot and hope no one sees him and kills him. Then, even if he's successful he still might get killed afterwards. The tanks usually have infantry support as well. The article talks about the Javelin having greater range than infantry, but I doubt that is true in an urban environment (too many buildings).
> I'm not saying that this validates Republicans positions, but it certainly doesn't provide evidence against it.

But it does. It shows that Democratic run states (California, New York, Illinois, Washington, etc.) have lower murder rates than Republican run states (Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, etc.) REGARDLESS of what the murder rate is in cities (of which Democratic-run states states tend to have more of).

None of the most urbanized states (NJ, CA, MA, NV, etc.) are in the top-10 murder for states [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...
I have a PM9A3 U.2 drive, does anyone happen to know the update procedure on that thing? Everything Samsung when lifecycle handling seem like utter pain.
Right, and if you had ordered 3 barrels of the stuff, you'd get a visit from the feds.
Sure, most of us understand there are different uses of the word "routing" with respect to technology stacks. But they specifically say "Internet Routing" in the article title and elsewhere. "Internet Routing" does have a fairly specific meaning i.e. IP routing as define by a bunch of RFC's. What they're doing isn't really "internet routing", it's really just redirecting traffic.
Google Latitude was an opt-in service.
This weekend I was working in the garden, having an epic battle with the bamboo infestation, and messed up my hands badly.[0]

The pain and soreness in my hands made me notice something: My thumb hurts when I use it to hit the command key! And my pinky hurts when I hit ctrl!

This, along with a generous bonus from my work, inspired me to cut the problem off at the pass and invest in a Moonlander keyboard. I love weird controls and input methods, so it doubles as a quirky hobby purchase for me as well.

That being said: I am absolutely ready for the day we have viable alternatives to finger typing. I would also love a way to interact with my phone better. I've looked at the "twiddler" one-handed chorded keyboard, but it seems like a gimmick.

I remember a few years ago there was a promising project that read your keystrokes through your wrists. Hopefully something like that will pan out in the near future.

0: Basically... i was using pruning sheers to cut through the bamboo by squeezing the shears really hard. I KNOW I AM AN IDIOT. I already ordered a hand saw for my next battle.
Do you really need a total ordering of messages instead of the partial ordering that separate queues could give you? Also do you really need broadcasting or point-to-point or anycasting would be more appropriate? That's what I mean by specialized.
>Here’s the early revenue chart again. Blue Company is none other than MongoDB, one of the most successful standalone database companies. Red Company is Ethereum.

My eyes rolled to the back of my head so far I almost passed out.

Of course Red exploded. It's full of people trying to get rich quick lol.
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Corporations treat fines as cost of doing business. In order to actually be effective, there need to be mandatory minimum prison terms for C-level staff who greenlit a particular program.
One way or the other, regardless of the company, properly one if not both of those countries. Sure, those countries are rich, I just hope that Ukraine showed us in the Democratic west that certain values, like human rights, shouldn't be compromised upon, which we all did in the last decades.

I do understand why those companies chase Saudi and UAE contracts, that's where the money is. Maybe that changes if NATO members increase defense spending, it would be a nice side effect, wouldn't it?
> Tanks are heavily armored underneath.

Not a truthful statement.

They have very little armour underneath, and what they have is just basic metal - nothing technical. They have armour in the front, primarily.

https://i.redd.it/4enb88un2de71.jpg

This was a big problem in Afghanistan, and why vehicles designed urgently in that era look completely different to what we were using before.
Indeed, if you know how to design a custom PCB, have it made, and write embedded software, then Jacdac might be an overkill for you.

The Qwiic cables have to be really short (Jacdac cables can be a few meters) and are not designed for easy plug-in and out thousands of times. Also, the I2C devices are not standardized meaning you need a new driver in your software environment for every single accelerometer. Finally, I2C doesn't let you have multiple instances of the same device because of address collisions.
I still remember when the engineering company I worked at obtained its first 486 PC - through acquisition of another company, no less.

We reverently talked about "the 486" and it was stored behind a locked door. Only the most CPU-intensive jobs would be deemed worthy of CPU time on the beast.

And then the CAD department bought a whole bunch of 486s to do PCB layout, and the mystique was gone.
It was two earthquakes -- one "small" one and another "big" one that followed about a minute later.

On TV, they were announcing the quake intensity of the first one and and there was a video feed of the Fukushima nuclear plant, as they usually do when there's a strong quake in that area. A moment later, the feed was shaking violently -- I thought it was a replay of what was taken earlier, but it must have been the "big" one.

In Tokyo, we felt the secondary wave of the first overlapping with the primary of the second, so it was disorienting and scary. Although the quake intensity itself wasn't serious in Tokyo.
Is that toxic bottle still sealed, in the fridge, after you've left the institution? I've had to deal with a few EHS situations like that.
A sibling comment put it well that refusing to wrestle with these important questions is the unethical position as it just pushes the decision off onto other people. "Cute philosophy" is a perfect way to describe that because it's completely untenable if everyone were to think that way.

The gun thing is completely tautological though. Yes, if you have a gun you're more likely to be injured by your gun than someone who doesn't. How would someone who doesn't own a gun be injured by their own guns in the first place? It's like saying you're more likely to be in a car accident if you own a car. Of course you are.
I think a lot of companies are going this direction now with search, what are you all finding are the best language models?
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BTFGen: One Step Closer to Truly Portable eBPF Programs
>>Ah, yes! Advertising technology!

>Wether you like it or not, it's a significant step. Modulating content to maximize the attention-reach of your audience is scientifically significant. Again, that we use this for bullshit is a side-effect of your broken and time-local culture, it doesn't invalidate the progress we made along the way.

One of the most significant applications of Einstein's work was to vaporize hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians.
Good point. I have always run integration tests with Postgres etc. and have found value in it. I do think that you should have a substantially smaller set of those sorts of tests though.
Because neighbor in this context literally means next to or very near another country. Open any map and you’ll se that Syria’s neighbors are Iraq and Turkey, not Sweden and Germany.

The EU doesn’t owe any support to Syria, critics should be thankful that the EU is doing so much given the cost in social harmony and a rise in extreme right-wing sentiments.
Or iptables-save (note the nat and filter sections)
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I came to make this point, but you said it better. The only other thing I was going to mention is that it's a somewhat predictable miss when Nature takes on economics.
There's a lot that can be done to help in terms of preventing jamming and detecting, and it mostly involves a tradeoff with bandwidth/latency. The simple approach to evade jamming is to decrease the FEC (forward error correction) ratio (meaning using more bandwidth to send each bit, simply put) and increase retransmit backoff and any timeouts, to make detection harder you would send packets from the user's dish less frequently and with random delay (increasing upstream latency).

Both could be countered by a sophisticated adversary, but the Russian troops may be a little preoccupied at the moment, and their EW teams are probably going to focus on Bayraktar before Starlink...

Starlink have already enabled "Roaming" for Ukraine which involves similar tradeoffs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PDVURcvWeg (in fact I wouldn't be surprised if the changes enabled for roaming also improve jamming resilience)
What you are describing is what was called an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in the US/Iraq war[1]. Very effective against a superiorly equipped invading force. Works great against lightly armored vehicles like fuel trucks.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device
It's a way to appear like "you're helping" without actually lifting a finger to do anything useful. Lecturing others gives you some temporary relief from your conscience with a superiority complex.
If it were just up to me, I could survive on sandwiches or grilling some chicken and veggies on a grill 5x a week real quick, nbd. But I'm married, and my wife not only insists on hearty cooked meals (or takeout, which we already spend a ton of money on), but she's also not a big fan of leftovers.

Two meals for each of us per cooking "session" is our current norm (dinner, then lunch the next day), although I almost had to throw away leftovers last night because she wasn't in the mood to eat it for three days (I kind of forced it last night), but more than that and it's probably just going to be me eating it and still having to cook something else for dinner (or she spends money on takeout) anyway.
To be fair to newcomers: More people are active in the matrix channel nowadays.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/join-us-on-matrix-at-nix-nixos...
> it took 18 years instead of 6 and total cost is difficult to know exactly but is over 12 Bns instead of 3.

The cynic in me would like to point out that it's not really running yet:

> Olkiluoto 3 started test production at just over 0.1 gigawatt, a small fraction of its capacity, with a ramp-up to full, regular electricity output planned by the end of July.
Tanks are an asset in a lot of situations. Most nations don't go to toe to toe with tanks against Javelin missiles or NLAWs. It's important to remember though that NLAWs are like $30,000 per shot. Javelins are like $200k/shot. Most nations don't have hardware like that.
I agree. Changing times on everyone was always silly. If a group of people want to change the time they go to school or work, they should just do that.
It's deeper than that. How long do people tend to stay happy after they get what they long desired (material or otherwise)?
I don't understand how the leftpad debacle is similar to this...and what's this about Russians?
Are there places where fuel taxes actually exceed the amount needed to maintain the infrastructure? It doesn't seem likely anywhere in the US, but I know taxes are higher elsewhere.
Someone will quickly point out that this is exactly the advantage American startups have over European ones.
Correct, though this is often improperly left out of the threat model.