skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unclear if you've read the post, or the linked audit documents. But here's the PwC audit, https://58a44b37-ba55-451b-989d-b8bc5339d45f.usrfiles.com/ug...

I am going to quote it,

> For five (5) of 12 sample enrollments, complete End Customer pricing information was not provided and therefore we were unable to determine whether the related discounts were passed through. We requested Exceed IT Services to obtain end customer purchase order, contract, invoicing and payment proof from the additional resellers, however after multiple requests and follow ups during the audit, these documents were not made available.

And it shows $13,693,903 in discounts as "missing" for one customer. Why do you think that the "documents were not made available"?

And why do you think that MS looked the other way?

I am unsure why you're going to bat for MS here. But it's not just "passion" and "leaps", there's millions of missing dollars at play and MS isn't the least bit concerned. Why do you think that is? Does MS not care that money is magically disappearing between it and Government customers?

Are they that irresponsible?

There are two explanations here, corruption or stupidity. They're either too stupid to read the reports that the auditors wrote about the missing money, or they're corrupt and that missing money is buying them something.
I too would like to see less unixy OSes more often. I'm happy to see this on HN
Better to have random young people fabricate shitcoins whenever they feel like it... see it works both ways
You should be more worried about all the pedophiles working there that are bending young minds...
Thanks for your input @flankk. Question, this isn't necessarily from a unknown developer, the download link is in fact dropbox unless Im misunderstanding the definition of an unknown developer. I suppose what Im really trying to understand is should we be trusting of dropbox? I know in the past they would circumvent apples sandbox via an exploit and they thought it was totally fine to do this gives me pause.
A lot of the skills were very similar back then, with almost everything just about how to blit 2D data to the screen in the shortest amount of time. At the time period you're talking about communities were starting to appear, certainly on Usenet and BBSes where coding techniques were discussed and traded. There was a huge amount of competition too between coders back then to get more and more out of the limited hardware we had to work with.

And you had to code everything yourself from scratch. There was no throwing a bunch of vertices and textures at some hardware and getting back a fully rendered scene. It was a fun era. I know I did the same as Carmack and went from writing 2D platformers to writing Phong-shaded, perspective-corrected texture-mapped worlds in under a year.

Everything that Carmack did had been done before, but Carmack made it cool. He had way more vision and imagination than the guys that had done it before.
Thank you for removing your comment and flagging mine. Speaks volumes.
I saw a study like that a year or two ago. It wasn't just correlation, they did an actual clinical trial. They measured BP before intervention, had people do a specific exercise to increase hand strength, had a control group, and measured everybody afterwards.
Anecdotally, that’s about the number I’d expect to be going back full time among tech workers. Maybe even a bit low. Some people just don’t like working from home, or don’t have a home that’s easy to work out of, or are doing work that’s difficult to do remotely.
Australian large corporate workplaces whose employees notified this site - a little bit less impressive than it sounds
Come on. Have you never seen a person whose only skill is to show up at the office. Seems there is about 7.2% of them :)
> I never found the identity/distributed-account thing on keybase useful, as I explicitly DO NOT want my accounts linked, but if that's your thing, definitely worth checking out.

The funny thing is that is the only reason I wanted to use Keybase and what I found most useful was that I DO want my accounts linked (at least ones with related identities) so that it is easier to verify my identity across platforms in a still-pseudonymous but user friendly way.

I used to be in a position where it mattered more but it's still nice to have.
> Finally I worked my way up to “first walled, territorial state”. Not thinking super hard, I googled “first walled city”, and got a date 3000 years before the one Scott cites. Not a big deal, he specified state, not walls. What I can google to find that out? “Earliest state”, obviously, and the first google hit does match Scott’s timing, but… what made something a state, and how can we assess those traits from archeological records? I checked, and nowhere in the preface, introduction, or first three chapters was “state” defined. No work can define every term it uses, but this is a pretty important one for a book whose full title is Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States.

Isn't this kind of spiral going to appear when you analyze almost any claim? It's where skepticism comes from. When you get down to it it's very hard to say a claim is truly "epistemically legible" outside math and the hard sciences (and even there there are dissenters).

And if someone does manage to write a history that's relatively epistemically legible it's going to be boring as hell. All histories contain narratives and all historical narratives are seriously flawed. What saves history (besides the entertainment value) is that some narratives are better than others. We can move closer to the truth through discovery and analysis of information. At the end, though, we're still left with seriously flawed narratives, just less flawed than the previous ones if history as a discipline is functioning.
So a project with primarily Japanese support with what looks like a Japanese lead dev (https://za.kuro.red/) should use easy English words? K.
You are taking the worst possible interpretation of my comment. I was responding to literally the aspect of the GP that said "mourn.... move on"

It is a factual matter, easily discovered through simple searches, that non-Western cultures often take a different approach. Including, literally, ancestor worship. I am not making a judgement on which is better. I believe there are multiple healthy ways of dealing with grief, and "mourn & move on" can be one, but not the only one.

This is very far from an obsessive interaction with a semi-emulated version of a dead person in VR. However things wouldn't have to be that extreme.

In cultures that practice it, it's not uncommon for a small shrine in the home to be setup. And yet that is of limited access to family located further away, so a digital form of this not bound to a specific location could also be of use to people from these cultures. There is no reason that such things couldn't compliment existing practices of honoring ancestors.
Kopete was amazing. Still the best chat experience I've had to date. Thank you for the fantastic work.
For cavemen or office workers?
Data set seems off as the sampling heavily biases to Tech, Law and consulting and away from Retail, Logistics and Primary Industries all of which are a higher proportion of the Australian workforce. Additionally companies such as Coles and Woolworths (Supermarket chains) are listed as 100% Remote, where as this is only going to be for a small proportion of their workforce.

The change is happening, and I work for an energy company where they literally do not have the office space for 100% of staff to be back in the office (currently target 50%). So the change is happening, but I don’t think its as far along as this data states. I can say from a recruitment perspective there are many candidates who want a significant pay bump to go back to 100% office.
This. The comparisons to S3 are specious. Filecoin is doing some interesting things such as their proof of storage and collateralized contracts, but there are significant differences between S3 and Filecoin:
- Filecoin is 'cold storage' similar to AWS Glacier. Retrieval times can be really long and certainly aren't web time.
- Redundancy is left up to the user (or the user's client). Sure, you can store your files with multiple providers, but good luck determining the reliability of your hand-rolled storage logic.
- Retrieval prices are known up front with S3 and other cloud providers. Given that retrieval prices aren't part of storage contracts, costs of retrieval can vary widely (and change). A user's only defense against usurious retrieval pricing is to store with multiple providers.
- Bandwidth available to users is largely unknown and likely pretty variable
- Miners serve a 'dumb box interface' that will serve anyone any data that they are holding.

In the end, users are still writing contracts with individual storage providers, each of which has their own degree of experience, expertise and proven service history.

Obviously, the Filecoin community is working on improving many of these, but costs will certainly change as Filecoin evolves closer in functionality to s3 and other cloud providers.
I place strict scrutiny on limits to speech. I don't limit hate speech even though I disagree with it. Even fire is only limited to ways that cause a stampede
> We need to let go of Unixisms.

Why?
I highly recommend using 'autoruns' [0].

0 - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/auto...
This is really cool, I felt deeply relaxed and curious at the same time just thinking of the implications.

There’s got to be tons of stuff to dig out and rediscover from early CS R&D. Some of these are more advanced than what we have today, but we seem to be obsessed with patching over existing solutions.
I do think Filecoin is closer to cloud storage than 'free hard drive space'. The hardware requirements for miners (storage providers) are pretty significant and pretty much guarantee that miners are running dedicated hardware. While I'm sure some storage providers operate out of data centers, I don't think a server needs to be located in a data center to be called cloud storage.
Is there a study that looks at grip strength vs falls? As is, grip strength could be a result of exercise which obviously improves health outcomes.
macOS does something kinda like it. For when your battery dies you just have to boot the machine and all running apps will sort of start in their previous state.
> What about the U.S. accusations? Well, as always they produce a lot of accusations but never provide any proof. Make of that what you will.

This is a fair point. I don't have any insight as to the truth (and, myself, would very much like to know thr details), but one of the factors for this sort of inscrutability is that revealing the information would also reveal how it was collected.

As an hypoyhetical: if YeOldeSecurityService has p0wn3d Kaspersky and are watching what is going on inside, and are seeing the Kaspersky endpoint agent software feeding not just hashes of what they scan (which itself is damned valuable), but that the endpoint agents have a full command & control type of "execute this command" capability, and that this capability has been used (*this* is the specific detail that we'd want), then Kaspersky can narrow down how this was found out, eject the persistent presence which allowed this to be gathered, and the effort spent getting into Kaspersky's infra, as well as the juicy juicy data to which this persistence has given access are traded away for the satisfaction of curiosity.

There really isn't a need for that. FCC makes the administrative ruling. Enterprises switch AV vendors because from a risk/compliance perspective, this is a sane thing to do, and the only people left dissatisfied are those of us with a curiosity itch.
Are American banks required by FATCA to report the same sort of data on EU citizens as EU banks are on American citizens? I.e. are you saying that the US isn't meeting its obligations? I always just assumed the US had negotiated an unequal deal.

edit: Yeah so it seems FATCA never intended any sort of reciprocity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...

Also maybe my statement above "...the US had negotiated..." seems off since it doesn't really appear like the US negotiated much at all. Looks more like they just demand it.

edit: Reading that Wikipedia article makes this seem like an even bigger clusterfuck than I ever expected and I have dealt with and hated the implications of FATCA for years.
ENHANCE. ROTATE.

I mean, obviously generated images can't be used as proof in the court of law, but this feels like we're slipping into crummy USA show territory.
These people will say anything to avoid accepting that the oscars getting super woke and preachy in the past 5 years has alienated 50% of their audience.
I know this is a joke, but Jaron Lanier actually proposes machines communicate through human (?) or VR (?) interfaces. Something like that. I spent 15 minutes searching the web and my library but couldn't find it. I read two books of his, it must be in "Dawn of the New Everything" or "You Are Not a Gadget". I'm fuzzy on the idea, but found it interesting enough that I remember it.
Running a tiny embeddable computer in a highly contingent environment. Off the top of my head I know someone running such computers to measure biodiversity through audio recordings. They fail all the time due to extreme weather and in one instance a bear pissing on it. I imagine the security could be useful in such an instance
Don't knock it til you try it?

I mean, already in recent years people have made some very low fidelity 'resurrections' and gotten some measure of comfort from it, never mind the many years of history of people who visit gravestones to 'chat' (some even believing they get replies to some extent or another). When markov chains were hip, "talk with Charles Dickens!" (play with a markov model trained on his works) was at least interesting to some, GPT of course can do a lot better. Imagine we had actual superintelligent AI working on this, which actually tried to recreate brain models, or even restore a sense of existence to the resurrection that can continue independently and to their own delight rather than just being some static VR experience turned on and off whenever. (I jotted some thoughts a few years ago... https://www.thejach.com/view/2017/6/how_you_might_see_some_o...)

I'm in agreement though at least for now that even if you dialed up the fidelity to the point I can't point to anything objectively "off", let alone went with a low fidelity VR thing or just a chat bot, I'd still always think in the back of my mind that this isn't really the same person. Nevertheless, it could still be comforting to some, and interesting to others, and so if it's at all possible for potential future humans/ems/aligned AIs to work at it, they will.

Curiously I don't have the same back of the mind feeling at all when considering the idea of someone preserved with cryonics and then brought back as an em, the person would be the same to me, even if there was a bit of damage from the vitrification process that was error-corrected. I have a disagreement with a friend on that point, who thinks it would be something similar but not the same. Anyway, I think this is due to just having a much higher fidelity "source of truth" to work from that is the preserved adult brain, whereas someone supposedly information-theoretically dead requires a lot more guess-work, perhaps truly impossibly too much more even for a superintelligence, to bring back convincingly.
What does Android collect?
I think it's comparing to crunching through many more images to get a comparable quality scene.
Seems to me like the article is mostly pointing out the stress and out of pocket costs that come with all these false positives.

An ultrasound is not intrusive at all, a biopsy however is.

If I was a conspiracy theorist I'd say that a high amount of false positives are in fact an economic incentive for the medical community.
And anyone having seen the hell metastatic breast cancer is, up close and personal, will insist that 1000 false positives is worth it to catch one case early on.

Cancer awareness spam combined with obsessive screening and mild hostility towards women who do not frequently line up for ovarian/breast cancer testing (I don't see men being targeted nearly as much as women) is probably less about saving lives and more about making money imho.

A biopsy is not at all harmless neither in the breast nor vagina. Do a quick internet search on prostate biopsy to see some gruesome numbers.
All are pretty painful, prone to infection and a high chance of side effects.
Some pretty severe, and they are not astronomically rare. The severe ones are in the 1% range.

The fear of the brutality that is metastatic cancer is enough for few object to being routinely subjected and even coerced into this pretty dangerous and intrusive procedure.

Those who do object are generally dismissed or even ridiculed.

There is even a radiologist in the commentary here who sees no issue with the high rates of false positives as a potentially dangerous biopsy will quickly clear up the cancer scare...

For vaginal scraping which is actually recommended as a screening measure for my age group
2-4 out of 100 women will have side effects.
About 1 out of 100 will have severe side effects.

Anecdotally. I have even had one doctor ( female if that matters ) tell me that after 50 it is probably best to have both my breasts and ovaries removed.
As a preventative measure.

This is the link I received from my doctor in Iceland about vaginal scraping and this is where I took my side effect statistics from.
https://www.landspitali.is/library/Sameiginlegar-skrar/Gagna...

Medical doctors tend to terrify me. I really do avoid them unless I have something really concrete to show them that needs fixing and is not up for interpretation.
EDIT: typos
Network protocols, kernel modules, proxies and filesystems. To be fair parts of them were written in C++, Go and even Python.
> I was hoping someone finally had a library or something to make python good at the things shell does well (mostly, running stuff and piping output around). If only.

xonsh (https://xon.sh/)

Been using it for a few years now. It's worth it.
There is a recording “Rochelle Bragg speaks Oji-Cree”.

I can hear she speaks it with a massive USA accent, even though I don’t know squat about Oji-Cree. It is weird how we can hear an accent even without knowing anything about a language.
Ask HN: Sequester Carbon with Wave Power?
Picture a fabric structure floating, anchored, in the ocean, roughly tube-shaped. At the surface, the edge is supported a few feet above average water level, positioned so waves wash over the edge into it. Once in, the only way out is down to the bottom end of the tube, say a thousand meters deep.

In the tube, where it narrows, is a flow meter and a pH meter. Water at the surface has atmospheric CO2 dissolved in it, which in water becomes carbonic acid, so the metrics report the exact quantity of atmospheric CO2 being driven to the deeps. Certified, transmitted by satellite, I think this should be able to be sold as carbon credits.

High waves are a shallow-water phenomenon, so the tube would need to be slanted to exhaust out in deep water, and probably best situated near an underwater cliff. The amount of wave water that can be collected depends on the perimeter, so the overall shape needs to be like a funnel, very wide at the top, but narrower below so the total amount of fabric needed is not extreme.

(Some may question whether this would acidify the deep ocean. A bit of calculation shows not, provided we cut carbon emissions in coming decades.)

I imagine thousands, maybe ultimately millions of these installed worldwide to draw down atmospheric CO2 using the whole ocean surface to collect it.

Is there anything I am misunderstanding about how carbon credits are awarded? How does one get metrics certified?
> I seem to have made you angry.

Not possible.

> fallacy of thinking that the fact that "X does not exist" is not provable with the same finality as "X does exist" somehow means that "X does not exist" is not a question that is open to analysis on the basis of evidence and reason.

What fallacy are you referring to? Please name it. In fact, this entire post, nearly every sentence, there is a lack of any actual identifiable reference to what you are referring. When you are trying to explain something, it helps immensely to be specific, as opposed to vaguely referring to some previous statement.

> Note that you haven't asked at all what evidence and reasoning my conviction that the God of the bible does not exist is based on.

Noted. But when someone or anyone makes a claim, the onus is upon them to support their claim. I am not responsible for your claims or your lack of support for your claims.

> I'd be happy to discuss that evidence and weigh it against any evidence you're aware of for the contrary view.

What was stopping you before? Look, I think you have it all figured out, and that's really all that matters.

> your flawed reasoning above.

I'd appreciate it if you would be specific.

> Edit: It occurs to me that you haven't explicitly stated that the negative existential is the reason you consider the atheist position a claim to "know the unknowable".

My claim, as always, is that atheists make the same exact mistake that deists make, which is that they both claim to know something, like knowing 2 + 3 = 5, that, in fact, they do not know that something, they merely believe it. It is belief, and belief is not knowledge, no matter how strong that belief is. Certainly, they have knowledge of their belief, and may think their belief is knowledge, but it is clearly not. You forgot your keys and you believe you left them on the coffee table, but that belief could be wrong. You may have left them on the counter. What is that "belief" when it is proven incorrect? One can not prove that 2 + 3 != 5, no matter how much it is believed. The best that could happen is to personally accept responsibility for the error, relinquish belief, which can be wrong and probably is wrong more often than not, and gain in its place actual genuine bone fide knowledge and awareness of the truth of the matter. And if the truth can not be revealed, then relinquish the possibility of knowledge, which is exactly what agnostics do, and they do know something. They know that they don't know, which is the most honest and most supportable position to have among the choices of atheism, deism, and agnosticism. If one is not aware of what one does not know, there are some serious problems.
Answer from another layperson: The photons even while the lightbulb are on are constantly being emitted and absorbed by the materials around you as energy. When you turn off the light, the stream of photons stops but the remaining photons continue on their way to their destination where they are absorbed as energy, or reflected to be absorbed somewhere else. The photons no longer exist as particles but do exist as energy in the objects around you.
I wonder if any of these are brought up in "Game Engine Black Book Wolfenstein 3D"by Fabien Sanglard?

https://fabiensanglard.net/
> if woke culture is being enforced by China

Don’t they mandate Chinese lead actors on movies filmed in China - regardless of merit

> Diversity is not a primary factor for purchasing for the large majority of America or the world.

Is the opposite true ? If they don’t care either way - does it matter?

> The latest iteration of 'woke' Ghost busters is a prime example of how this can spectacularly backfire.

Are you sure it failed because of its wokeness ?

FWIW 2022 “woke” Dune did a lot better than 1984 white Dune
If people don't report/just assume their Dr filed the report, issues go unreported.

I suspect this is largely the case in USA at minimum.
I'm interested in learning Ojibwe and I've been planning to look into a tutor soon. If you don't mind me asking, how does your aunt teach? Does she work online or locally? Is she teaching only as a volunteer or professionally?
The video itself: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=17iLOLn9znY&feature=emb_title