skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2000+ engineers. Yes - we use runbooks broadly.

Most are in a wiki with a few corner cases using GDocs or Dropbox Paper.
Yea, although making benchmarks properly is no easy task, and can be pretty time consuming, especially if you involve all the contestants for fairness. They are not interested in releasing a benchmark if they don't look good in it.
The problem with banning things like "racism" is that words change meaning over time. Maybe some time in the future, any reference to "White Privlege" may be considered racist, for instance.
I like the powerline plugs as well. I've been using them for years now, upgrading as speeds improved.

I also installed a mesh wifi network, but installed one that would do the backhaul to the router over ethernet (and powerline) rather than via an extra wifi channel.
I honestly do not understand why anyone having a fraud call, would not bother to go to the bank itself. That is my rule and would have avoided the situation. I had a call similar to the article's and in the end I just said I will go to the bank myself and sort the issue in person. As i did not see any communication in my bank's page, nor app(it has push notification), nor any letter I never bothered to waste more time.

I put the effort on the bank, as the bank has the duty to safeguard my money, not the other way around. The bank's responsibility on suspicion of fraud is to block the transaction and summon the account holder.

I use the bank's channels for communication and this does not include random calls. It communicates with me through the bank's web page and app and it has never sent me any email. This is true for my experience in Poland and Portugal. The Portuguese bank used to have a crappy web-banking system and even this worked properly. When I got contacted by my bank, it was an in-person summon with no ability to discuss through the phone, the end.

Being so "remote" these days that we do not consider it important to go to the bank in person is maybe the issue. It is ridiculous one's ability to handle one's fortune in a phone call. It should be bureaucratic by nature.

I can understand being busy but not a single time the article's writer mentioned he will go and sort things himself in the bank. Are physical banks rare in the United States?
Calling for the murder of a dead person?
Blender was used for other big films as well. But it is still not an industry standard. But that might change very soon.
Indeed. First commit is two days old: https://github.com/benbjohnson/postlite/commit/35974771877cd...
Same as usual – someone dobbed him in.
Amazon AWS outage, a short story from the war room
Scalability, allocation, and processing of data for multitenancy
The alternative would be selling pre-sliced food like most Asian countries.

Anticipating news of someone being spooned to death.
I'm relating what I heard on NBC News 4.
>Which is easier to get out of?

Depends massively on other yet unknown facts about the situation, but generally the snow.
Alternatively, because the Suez canal incident was so widespread news, you're now hearing about incidents with this company that otherwise would have stayed as footnotes in specialty media
Where would the "8/10" number come from?
If they "took his code", that's a copyright issue, and patents aren't necessary to prevent it. Regardless, "e-mail, but on mobile internet" is not something that should be patentable, and even if this one case were justified, the overall effect of software patents is negative, and consists mostly of incidents such as Microsoft only supporting filesystems they have patents on, and extorting with them any device manufacturer that wants to interoperate with Windows [1], or patent trolls threatening small businesses for connecting their printer to the internet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Legal_status
I can't take a DLL and expect it to work on Linux/Mac. Wasm allows free sharing of portable binaries - with cross-language interop.
I think I'm falling for Poe's law.

Here is a honest answer. The problem is frankly unsolvable thanks to the halting problem. It's impossible to determine in general whether a program is going to reach a certain state except by testing all potential inputs and even that is only going to give you an approximate answer. If it were possible we would have written a program that solves the problem through static analysis.
My Pet theory for "Why did 100MbitOverHDMI not see traction" is, that -apart from linux/BSD- no other mainstream OS had reasonable-if-any support for meshed ethernet.

I always hoped for a future, where all the devices can ootb intelligently decide, over which of the available interfaces (Eth, Wifi, HDMI) to send data per peer device. It would substantially reduce WIFI congestion in lots of (MediaCenter) installations.

Same with CEC: "Windows doesn't support it, so why add it to GFX-card hardware?" ARC: Same deal

"Not-supported-by-windows" has led to the death/non_implementation of lots of useful things/tech not only related to HDMI. E.g. the Per-Port-Power-Control spec part of USB is only implemented by some rare USB HUB(-Chip) vendors, and never tested for in any review. On supported hardware it works great with `uhubctl`. Ubiquitous 802.11s Wifi mesh support is in the same boat.

As I say, my "pet theory". Happy to learn specifics.
Aren't those are using radioactive source (which for obvious reasons you don't want to let proliferate…)
To anyone that just bought a new/newish house with only RJ-11/phone outlets installed...

Pull off the face plate and check to see what kind of wire they used. Chances are that it is cat-5/6/7/8 and you MIGHT be able to use it as an ethernet outlet if it was installed appropriately.

This was done in a former property of mine and I went through the place and replaced certain RJ-11 outlets with RJ-45 ones.
What's the easiest way to get a list of all current big cargo ships stuck somewhere in the world? I assume most of them don't hit headlines.
Also important re chat that most firms want a /very/ short list of approved apps to manage for inter firm chat. Typically it would look something like Bloomberg, Refinitiv Eikon, and Symphony.
I do not understand the distinction you're making in the second paragraph.
There is 'laptop-friendly workspace' as a checkbox, but not always accurate.
The posture you'd want when writing on a paper is that of a flat desk that allow your elbow to lean still so that your palm and fingers have full control of the pen.

This is (I only guess) not the case for artist _painting_on real canvas and using broad/long strokes against a canvas, and for that kind of usage I understand what might be the benefits of an angled pen display.
I think a lot of them are not on Airbnb, that's the trick. American people might be a bit chocked, but a lot of those places are not really made to make money, or their owners are not trying to grow that business.
Which only shows their activities are graded with wrong criteria. But as we all know from office life, picking valid criteria for performance ratings is an adventure by itself...
Or maybe the Turing test is the right test but interpreted more literally: it is passed when the society that invented it genuinely believes it to have been passed. Hammering out the specific criteria ahead of time will only lead to frustration as it becomes clear that is not what the surrounding society actually holds as qualifying. The reason the goal posts move is that we fundamental misjudge what it is we find to be human intelligence, and given that we have a nasty habit of denying this quality to other humans, let alone animals, it's entirely possible we will never genuinely grant it to technical artefacts that we devise.
Incidentally, my favourite Wikipedia article is the one about the Drone Bee and his dick:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(bee)#Mating_and_the_dro...

"Mating between a single drone and the queen lasts less than 5 seconds, and it is often completed within 1–2 seconds. Mating occurs mid-flight, and 10–40 m above ground. Since the queen mates with 5– 19 drones, and drones die after mating, each drone must make the most of his single shot. The drone makes first contact from above the queen, his thorax above her abdomen, straddling her. He then grasps her with all six legs, and everts the endophallus into her opened sting chamber. If the queen’s sting chamber is not fully opened, mating is unsuccessful, so some males that mount the queen do not transfer semen. Once the endophallus has been everted, the drone is paralyzed, flipping backwards as he ejaculates. The process of ejaculation is explosive—semen is blasted through the queen’s sting chamber and into the oviduct. The process is sometimes audible to the human ear, akin to a "popping" sound. The ejaculation is so powerful that it ruptures the endophallus, disconnecting the drone from the queen."
Still haven’t seen a solid critique of Mearsheimer’s thesis and I’m starting to believe that maybe there won’t be one…

I think one of the confusing points is trying to approach these events from a moral or “who’s to blame” point of view which is maybe important when attributing war crimes, calculating reparations or even giving us someone to hate if the world should end.

But the key aspect should be outcomes. And his thesis is quite simple: if you push a major power, they will push back hard - just as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow. So the solution’s also quite simple: if you don’t want the outcome, don’t take actions that lead to it. He’s said it right in the New Yorker article at the end - strategy trumps morality.
Drunk in charge of a communications device is hardly on the same scale as driving a vehicle. One is likely to cause actual bodily harm. The other is most likely to result in minor embarrassment, except in a few wild outlier cases.
Aside from religious arguments AGI might be philosophically impossible given that we do not seem to have a proven, accepted definition of GI. If you cannot actually define it how can you know if you have achieved it?

So then we ask will we be able to define it? And here is where the real problem comes in, because if we are to define GI and as you say 'humans are sentient with GI' it is arguable we need to be able to fully understand ourselves. and this is problematic because can the constituent parts of a system understand itself from within the system. From within the system you cannot see from outside and thus understand it separate from the inner workings.

But another issue also pertains, we can understand a simple system because we are more complicated than it. Just as we can understand how 2 or 1 dimensions work because we exist in 3 dimensions. Thus we can model how a 1 dimensional being intersecting with a 2 dimensional object would perceive the experience.

So the question also is can a system of complexity X fully understand systems of complexity X, or do you need a more complicated system. This is of course the reason for the Turing test, to come up with a way to disregard these problems and agree that a machine is good enough.

So it may be that some people think AGI is impossible for philsophical reason, but that Turing test passing machines are possible.

Not to say that I hold to any particular belief regarding these kinds of arguments.
> And at the end you seem to be proposing the fact that they haven't faked a zoonotic origin is evidence that it was lab-created? That sounds backwards.

You actually sort of can make that argument, yeah.

At this point, with the lab leak theory having become a lot more popular over the past year or so, the Chinese government would kill to be able to point to an animal reservoir. If they can't find it, the incentive for them to try to fake it is huge. My initial assumption is that if they haven't faked a zoonotic origin, it's probably because they can't, not because they don't want to. By assuming this, I'm assuming that they have basically looked in all the places possible by now, which seems reasonable because they have a lot of manpower and we're 2+ years into the pandemic. If they can't get the virus to infect bats/pangolins/etc, that indicates that the virus didn't originate in the wild and hence supports the lab leak theory
When the UK brought in laws around lockdowns and handling covid people here were complaining that it was a slippery slope and the government would never give up those restrictions yet they did exactly that and those laws are no longer in play.

In that case the slippery slope argument was a fallacy.
I'm suffering from severe chronical lower back pain.

> Yet approximately 90% of patients with CLBP cannot identify any clear specific cause or origin of their pain.

Same here.

More than once in my life I seemed to not feel any pain unless my injury get to the point of damage preventing proper physical operations.

It feels like I was doing something wrong and didn't get feedback from my body until it was too late.

Learning from this article about correlation between lower back pain and with lower brain volumes in pain-related brain areas strikes home.
Security experts fear the DMA will break WhatsApp encryption
That argument relies on the utilitarian assumption that maximizing the global well-being is the goal.

For most people, that is not the case, and understandably so. We care about our neighbors, but we don't care about alien lifeforms on other planets, because we have no contact with them and no way to help them. Same can be applied to poor people living on the other side of the world. Where exactly do we draw the line?

The simple answer is that helping is inherently selfish - we help people because we expect to be helped when we are in need (for those who disagree - imagine being in a community where everyone asks for help, but nobody gives it to you when you need it). So the obvious answer is we need to help people in our proximity.

Of course, like many other human affairs, there's no simple algorithm to decide what do to in a general situation. It all comes down to an individual's will.
L1 regularisation is the usual way (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasso_(statistics))
Maybe it would be better to send a link. Then it can't be sent to the wrong domain.

Of course you need to then educate people that they shouldn't trust the domain they land one and always immediately close the tab. Even if that tab says "Warning you have a fraud alert on your account. Click here to check your recent transactions"
It doesn’t, but it matters when you extrapolate and generalize that Wi-Fi is more than fine for most if not all the people ( even if that wasn’t you intention )
Not scissors. Or folding pocket knives <3ins long.

https://www.bromley.gov.uk/leaflet/122601/20/480/d
That analogy is like a car that...
...over the speed limit, yes. The point of parent's post is that the offensive nature of a statement or speech in general is subjective and can change with whims and the time. A speed limit is objective and quantifiable; if you go over the speed limit stated you get fined, there's no room for interpretation
Are you responding to the right post?
It does seem possible, e.g. rather than sending an uppercase alphabetic message as 8-bit ASCII bytes, you can send their position in the alphabet instead, so 01000001 becomes 00001.

Of course this only works when you're limiting yourself to a subset of all possible data (in this case, the uppercase alphabet). A general method where all possible binary combinations are indexed (and the indexes are sent rather than the data) would not save any data as the binary data would always be its own index.
I think they have the opportunity, whether they take it or not is up to them.

I don't worry about SpaceX dominating all aspects of space development, because their launch capacity will far, far exceed the volume of products they can reasonably develop to fill it. We're talking about the ability to deliver thousands of tons of payload to orbit per month. It's going to take many companies, many product ideas, many business models and industrial sectors to fill that capacity.

It's a bit like how in the early days of the iPhone Steve Jobs imagined that Apple would develop all the apps for the phone, sometimes along with business partners, as they did with the early versions of Google Maps. His colleagues realised that the platform had the capacity to run a vast ecosystem of apps across many use cases and business models they couldn't even think of yet. The only way to realise it's potential was to carry other people's stuff, in that case apps, in SpaceX case cargo.
Those things are a pain to sort out in the short term, but irrelevant in the scale of 2 years, or even 6 months. Which is probably why it's not a thing.
I wouldn't even know about the corruption if they were not so completely sure to be untouchable.

One anecdote: a friend moved into a new neighborhood, a gated community. One evening when walking the dogs, a neighbor who is a cop greeted her by her full legal name. She said she never uses her middle name anywhere. As far as we know, there is no way the cop could know her middle name without looking her up. Who in any social situation greets someone by their full legal name (and that too without ever being introduced)?

As far as she can tell this was their way of telling her that the officer knows who she is, knows where she lives, and is watching her. Who does that?
What is this stack that you mention, and what is it for?
Slippery slope isn’t automatically a fallacy. It’s a fallacy if you don’t articulate why A would lead to B.

The government using an anti-CSAM filter to further restrict, say, copyright infringements has precedent, so could be a valid slippery slope.

The idea people pushed that marriage equality would lead to people being able to legally marry their animals was fallacious because nobody could articulate a logical jump from same sec couples to interspecies.
Look, if you stop considering slippery slope to be a fallacy, next thing you'll start making straw men arguments.
Problem is, the neighbours of airbnbs are often airbnbs themselves, so you get a stream of incoming people who don't care about noise.
Only if you think there's no difference between saying something and publishing it on the internet. When I said "saying" I mean that in a literal sense - speaking to people face to face. That is not the same as publishing something.
Pi Search – find any given number in the digits of pi
It is a bit of a tricky one; there are a lot of valid and reasonable arguments in the same mental area as slippery slopes.

But the argument that must be rejected is "this is a step in the direction of X, therefore it is equivalent to supporting X", which is a common argument and a bad one. Arguments in that form should be rejected.
It actually might be an excuse to some degree. Diminished capacity is considered in many jurisdictions, and defendants who can demonstrate diminished capacity at the time of the offense can often get lesser sentences.
Ridiculous. Look up how many homicides and suicides there are every day in the US. A lot of them are associated with such emergency requests.

It's so funny that you are using the word "proof" without using any logic or reasoning, but just talking out of your head -- "that number seems too large, so it must be wrong"!
From other users of this extension
I have maintained for some time a Linux device driver a couple of years ago.

It was not official maintenance, it was just an unmaintained open-source device driver found somewhere, which was needed for my hardware. I had to update it after every Linux kernel release in order to be able to continue to use it.

What was annoying was not the fact that almost every kernel release required modifications in the device driver, but the lack of a documentation about the kernel changes that is usable by someone who does not follow every day the kernel mailing lists.

The 3 main reasons which broke the device driver after each new kernel release were:

1. Some reorganization of the kernel header files, which moved some definitions to other header files, which were not included in the previous driver code.

2. Some structures had members added or deleted

3. Some functions had parameters added or deleted

Point 1 was easily solved by a search through the entire Linux source tree.

When structure members or function parameters were deleted, it could be hoped that it is enough to also delete them in the device driver, even if in some cases some earlier-executed initialization code had to be modified to make everything work like before.

The worst was when there were new structure members or function parameters, as there was no way to guess which values should be put in them.

Because, at least then, but I suppose that nothing has changed, there was no centralized document with the changes that need to be applied to drivers, the only way was to search the kernel mailing lists, to discover where was the patch that changed that structure or function.

That search was not too difficult, but I have never seen a message with the changes that will also explain what values must be put in the new members/parameters.

So after finding who did the changes, the mailing lists had to be searched for messages with the same authors or similar subjects to find any relevant information.

In many cases the search was too long, so it could be simpler to pass to the final solution of anything, i.e. to reading the source code of various kernel subsystems or of other device drivers, where the offending structures or functions were also used, to discover what values might be expected.

None of these activities was too difficult, but they were quite time-consuming.

What I would have expected is that anyone who makes a kernel change like that, would also write a short migration guide, saying e.g. that whoever used the previous function with 5 parameters now has to put the X value in the 6th parameter to obtain the previous behavior.

With the right documentation of the kernel changes, I could have updated the device driver in a couple of minutes every time, but, unfortunately, I have never seen such documentation.

(The "ChangeLog" of the kernel is usually completely irrelevant for device driver maintenance, because it does not list the symbols affected by changes, so when your device driver compilation stops on function or structure XYZ, you cannot search it in the ChangeLog to discover which is the change that affected it.)
I've had this conversation with (dutch) government employees a good number of times long ago.

I use to wait with filling out a form until the absolute latest moment. I knew they [often] couldn't process the forms until they had all of them. I would get reminders and sometimes a phone call.

I explain my sabotage: If you already have access to these numbers. Why are you asking me for it? If it is up to me I will exercise my right to make a mess of it.

Same for paying taxes: You present it like I have a choice I can pay it or I can not pay it? But if I don't pay it you will give me a 5 euro fine and then a 50 euro fine and then the 800 euro fine and then you take the money out of my account or seize my income. So they choices are: 1) PAY or 2) PAY. Just take it out of my account? Why would you invite millions of people to make a mess from your administration?

I give the employee an example. I can request a form, it is send to my house, at the top of the form it asks for my name and address. As if I have nothing better to do? Then I return the form and someone has to check my name and address???? As if they too have nothing better to do. Multiply the effort by many millions and by dozens of forms and it becomes a horrific waste of of time.

Why are we doing this?

Now it is just a web page that shows the data they have on me. I click accept, even if it is slightly inaccurate and I'm done. Wonderful!