skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So not only ads are a source of malware, but also of badly written articles.

It's the other way around. Most people who plaster their site with ads want to make easy money. Since the goal is to make money rather than share information, the content doesn't matter. You lure visitors and hopefully generate a click using a purposefully cluttered design encouraging accidental ad clicks while navigating.
Moved from AWS to vultr. Primary reason is unsafe billing practices at AWS. I'm a small shop and felt very uncomfortable about the potential of getting a surprise $xx,000 bill from AWS. The hack in December tripled my anxiety. Changed my password and migrated in January. Closed out my AWS account once every last service was migrated.

I mostly use only basic services so pretty much any cloud provider can fit my use case. It took some time but I have peace of mind now.
I think you're assuming too much. They don't go deep into it because they're used to it - they do tons of live coding/science livestreams, for example. And they pay money and the wage is not bad.
This is a decent refutation of Searle, mainly because Searle's characterisation of the Chinese Room is that it just encodes and processes syntax. Engaging in a conversation requires much more than syntax, it requires analysing and decomposing the meaning of what is being said, which for example could require constructing a model of a situation and reasoning about activities and changes in a situation. It might require critiquing suggested strategy for playing Chess for example, or commenting on economics. Actual conversation takes a lot more than just syntax, so by characterising it in this simplistic way he's stacking the deck in the reader's mind against the Chinese room.

This result is incredibly impressive. There's a lot of analysis going on here, far beyond mere processing of syntax. In this sense it exposes the inadequacies of Searle's critique of AI. It won't kill the Chinese Room argument though, it's supporters will simply extend it beyond just syntax. They will still claim there is no thinking mind producing these results and they're probably right, after all as I understand it this system is essentially a hierarchy of nets that filer input to generate output, there's no persistent running cognitive process that does anything like thinking on an ongoing basis.

The Chinese Room argument is still bunk though for many other reasons.
Nice comment. I am in my 50's and a sysadmin for a large corporation. I absolutely love helping people when I can. I am gifted so that I can give. When I'm gone it won't be long before I'm completely forgotten. That's the way it is. Anyone who is finding life too bleak would do well to seek professional help.
Piston-based aircraft are built to survive numerous failures that wouldn't be a major issue for a land-based vehicle (or a boat) - both of those just kind of sit there when the power generator fails. A plane turns into a glider at that time.

Off the top of my head, they mainly use magnetos instead other forms of ignition, have dual mag setups so that one can fail and the engine will still run.

And lead-based fuel lubrication is simpler than other forms.

Some work is being done on diesel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_diesel_engine#Modern_... - and jets of course run off of kerosene basically.

And a brand-new plane is really hard to build out cost-wise, much of the aviation fleet is very, very old.
Don't you think it would be much easier to teach e.g. astrology or medieval scholastics if you want to produce a stream of mediocre workers that support power? Dictatorships relied on those kind of methods to keep the people in line.

We teach math just in case someone gets it, not to make everybody understand it deeply. And we don't only teach maths, but also languages, geography, biology, physics and all the rest.

The system is far from perfect, but there are not enough people to teach everybody well. Yet here we are: people are fairly well educated, we can create mRNA vaccins, build tiny supercomputers, and huge vertically landing rockets, and today we read about the relation between one-way functions and Kolgomorov complexity. I think the situation is not that bleak, although the golden age of education might indeed be behind us.
A ‘Stunning’ Level of Student Disconnection
At work we moved from AWS to GCP for pricing reasons. We are still paying loads more than before moving to the cloud, but it's hard to find good sysadmins nowadays that don't want to do everything on the cloud. For personal projects I've moved things to Linode and Digital Ocean, as they provide quite decent value. Actually, for a comparison of AWS/GCP/Azure/Linode/DO/Tencent/Ali value & performance, check out an extensive comparison I ran recently: http://blogs.perl.org/users/dimitrios_kechagias/2022/03/clou...
Not really. the article posits that this space was originally reserved for album art and when that was moved to external storage nobody remembered to remove the reserved space. OP is suggesting apple did this intentionally for some sort of profit motive.
A few hobbies are fun even before you’re good. Baking can be a lot of fun… start with super detailed recipes and pay attention to the details. Eventually you learn to improvise and pick up little bits and pieces of how the ingredients work together.

Running/exercise is one with so many levels you can only truly compete with yourself to improve (and you’ll feel good).

Music is one that is sooo difficult. You suck for a long time, but can make incremental improvements.
Mars has not one, but two speeds of sound
I think drop-in replacement fuel is the most realistic approach. The lifespan of aircraft and of some aircraft engines mean that your suggestion would require a large number of engine replacements and make it prohibitively expensive for the whole of GA.

This approach clearly can work, and is only not working because of an incompetent administrator.
https://karthikeshwar.github.io

https://karthikeshwar.github.io/lite
Bioctal: Hexadecimal 2.0
Needs a time suck warning :)

Also, what/how do I use the stickers? Do I give them to other people I am watching fight?
Sadly, Fortran made the same mistake, which prevented it from seeing any significant adoption in science or engineering.
Still dumbfounded Richard Helms died a free man
If you aren't feeling motivated to add structure to plans, this helped me https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
It's 'now or never' to stop climate disaster, UN scientists say
> Puzzles can be fun but it feels like Blow chose quantity over quality, at least for me.

I definitely do not agree with that assessment. Outside of the challenge areas pretty much every single puzzle exists to teach you something about the mechanics, or the conceptual space of the puzzles, even if what it teaches you is not necessarily helpful to completing the game[0]. The challenge sections of course are meant to test your understanding.

> It didn't help my opinion that it goes for the modern writing story writing trope of "say a bunch of interesting things but use player agency as an excuse to not actually tie them together into a coherent narrative with events and consequences".

I can see how you get that feeling, and truth be told so did I early on in my playthrough, but I really don't think that's the case here at all. It's more like, the things that Jon is trying to communicate in The Witness simply do not lend themselves to easy explanation and are, in fact, kind of difficult to fit into a mental framework that demands concreteness in the first place.

As far as tediousness, I think the key there is that it is probably not a good idea to try and play in long sessions. Certainly the longer I would play the more I just kinda wanted the game to be over, at least until I quit and came back to it. The Fool and His Money[1] often makes me feel like that after a single puzzle, so I don't think The Witness is that bad in this regard.

[0] Some of the puzzles are jokes, or even a commentary, told in the language of the puzzle.

[1] I think I've been playing it for 2 years now, and I'm still not even half way through.
Musk vs. Putin Fight Game
Deutsche Bank predicts the US will tumble into recession in 2023
> If your client approved the hours reported in your work diary, please ask them to make a bonus payment to you for the amount reversed.

If we were wrong, get your client to make up the difference. But not directly: we still deserve our cut.
IME GKE on GCP is top-tier if you want a painless managed k8s offering. I've been running my business on it (solo founder) since ~2017 with minimal fuss. Hosting a couple dozen WP sites and some bespoke webapps/apis.
> they share with a celebrity. That makes those people related [...] That phenomenon exists, whatever you decide to call it.

Some call it this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction

A deep link to a Tom Scott video about it: https://youtu.be/leX541Dr2rU?t=33m40s

What gp (Retric) was trying to say is that the terminology of "social relationships" found in the wiki article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

... is not talking about parasocial relationships. Yes "parasocial relationships" is a real phenomenon but that's not what Dunbar was referring to when correlating "# of maintained relationships" with the primate neocortex size in his research.
Haas F1 team sponsor was a Russian oligarch Mazepin, and his son was a driver for the team who was fired as they dropped the sponsorship: I apologize for not providing the details, but I thought that much was well known. These two oligarchs were just top of mind. It has nothing to do with whatever you are arguing about spare parts or whatnot.

"Sanctions are designed to stop the war"? How's that coming along, then?

What has derailed the war is Russian unpreparedness, Ukrainian resistance, and delivery of somewhat advanced weaponry to Ukraine army. Sanctions could only affect a war that lasts quite a bit longer.

Sanctions are a tool that mostly affects the general population (see above), and as such are used as a feel-good tool to show how you are doing something. People can keep parroting that they help something else despite all the evidence to the contrary.

Top Russian officials and oligarchs will figure out a way to do whatever they wanted through shell companies in non-sanctioning countries anyway, but regular people won't. And no, they won't bother overthrowing the government either, since this has never happened in the past in countries under sanctions (closest was South Africa) — people simply struggle to get by in those circumstances.
One of my reasons for dropping Spotify was their desktop client!
They are a good path to cash flow.

I have a good friend who was a firefighter who has built a great cashflow with a few laundromats and attached apartments as well as maintaining in-house laundromats for hotels and apartment complexes. He recently retired and is parlaying that into a motel franchise.

Partners and investors are key part of most businesses. Solo businesses limit you to things like real estate that are more about selling as an agent. I know one guy who found a niche where he is a sales agent for a few VoIP vendors and network integrators. But you need to have a unique personality, broad network (or marry into a deep network) to pull that off.
If you are going to work on a Windows box for a while, you can install some Unix tools and have a poor Unix experience, use WSL, or learn PowerShell. Some places are Windows only environments so learning PowerShell might cut down the frustration and allow you to do the automation you want.
Bangladesh: Dhaka Tribune (https://www.dhakatribune.com)
There are many artists/albums/songs on Apple Music which have all caps too.

I'm not talking about less-known artists too, two examples of this in my collection are Steven Wilson and Linkin Park.

Oh BTW talking about less-known artists, I've even seen the whole song being incorrect (duplicate of another song on same album) on Apple Music after switching part of my old MP3 collection to Apple Music native.
Never attribute to malice that which you can attribute to incompetence.
High inflation also helps.
I use windows full time for a desktop OS and I find myself agreeing with everything in here, I just don't normally notice it day to day because I'm used to it.

I wish CAD software companies would support linux, I've tried FreeCAD and whatnot, but they're nothing like Fusion360.
OODA Loop – DoD Seeking Innovative Ideas on Logistics for Modern Times
That last part is why you will find products and packages that have weird features that don't really seem to be necessary or in align with the rest of the system.

Because you can require that weird feature and then get the "more expensive" product.
If the private sector was in control we would still have leaded petrol in cars.
Why tie it to Zuckerberg rather than the Facebook or Meta brands?
Nuclear power helped prevent ~2M deaths in the last 50 years
"Why shouldn't Dr. X claim that he has originated a completely new theory of physics?"

Because nobody has seen any prediction of any physical phenomenon based on this work.

"Why are you so filled with hatred toward Dr. X?"

Wait, what? I thought you wanted to talk about physics.
Rust 1.60.0
But when watching normal porn, I think part of the thrill for many/most people is knowing that what's happening is real.

Unless you understand real to just mean that actual humans were involved, describing porn as real seems to be a bit of a stretch more often than not.
Related to his conclusion: in one of the areas I train in, there is a famous saying where celebrating achievements is just admitting and accepting your level of mediocrity. Somewhere along the way I acquired a voice that asks, "Was that your level? Was that your price?" It's kind, but knows there's more.

I do a lot of things, but have learned to achieve nothing. The high points I had where I got some fame and recognition are mostly embarassing now, because they remind me of my conceits that get in the way of ideals I intend to spend a lifetime pursuing. Looking back on the thing you were famous for, was it your best? Does it define you today? Have you left your peak behind and you are less now than you were then? Probably not. To me achievements mean nothing unless they were humbling and converted ignorance into appreciation and humility. It's a tough way to be, but it yields a pretty interesting journey.

Sure, I have breakthrough moments. Getting code to work, getting a new piece of music under my fingers, winning a contract or solving a problem, forgiving the person I was who believed things I don't anymore, etc. But I've found expereriences are meaningless unless there is a way to share them to improve the lives of others, even if it's just to make them laugh, or perhaps to serve as a warning, often at the same time. Life isn't in your future and the reflected glory of your achievements, it's now, and you need to breathe it all in and exhale it, over and over again until you can't. I hope the author gets the opportunity to laugh at himself for thinking that his achievement of writing this for New Yorker was the best he could do. I'm pretty sure he's got so much more:)
Mancur Olson[1] strikes again.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_sclerosis
> A tacit assumption of Rust's model is that code is running on top of a transparent virtual memory system e.g. what Linux provides by default.

Where did you get that from? There is nothing more in Rust than there is in C++ that relies on virtual memory subsystem. Rust is perfectly able to compile for platforms with no OS at all.

> This is safe, and you can write abstractions in C++ that make this transparent to the developer, but the compiler can still see it and Rust does not like what it sees.

Rust can do the same abstractions as C++ can. This is pretty much a standard for low-level crates, which come with some unsafe code, wrapped in higher-level, easy and safe to use abstractions.
not sure how bootstrapping works today, marketing is really expensive. i don’t believe organic SEO works anymore. so you need to buy ads which is $$$$$.
Seriously, GitHub is the personal site for me

https://github.com/karthikeshwar1

It's minimal, easy to manage and update.

I did try making my own site though:
https://karthikeshwar1.github.io
https://karthikeshwar1.github.io/lite
Ask HN: Are there any useful/interesting public MQTT feeds?
I've been running a self-hosted MQTT Mosquitto broker for some time now and am curious if anyone's come across any useful/interesting feeds to subscribe to? An hour's search today revealed a realtime Finnish transport monitor, but other than that, nothing.
You mention that no one has figured out how to make GUIs as composable as command lines. I would argue Apple is actually getting there with Shortcuts. Combining that with the Share Sheet/Share Menu and you get some pretty nice composability.
Haters gonna hate.

I rolled my eyes when I saw this link posted with hundreds of comments, ofc not because of Wolfram but because it's been this reaction for 20 years. People demand mediocrity and are furious when they don't get it.* Projection is a real thing.

What's cool about Wolfram is his priority is his work, not peoples' opinions of his work. I know he cares, and sometimes maybe it affects his stance, but he's not letting it stop him from exploring. He's a hero.

*Mediocrity in the outgroup. When ingroup it carries prestige for you by association
I’m a designer who hates redoing my personal site, so I’ve had a relatively stable one at https://quinnkeast.com for years.
> It's a language developed to be used as an international standard by people across all languages and cultures.

Not really. It's not like it was developed by a universal consortium. It was created by a European guy and it draws primarily from Indo-European & Germanic languages. It's foreign to someone who isn't already well-acquainted with an Indo-European or Germanic language.

By contrast, most metric units as currently defined are relevant to most people across the globe. For instance, water boils at around 70-80c in Nepal, but most countries have some population that lives around sea level.
Other downside, no dedicated HDMI port.

Speaking of tanks. I have a T400 from minifree. No PC has ever matched the boot time.
The largest result in the avgas paper, for children living within 500m of an airport, put their lead levels at 0.043 micrograms/dl higher than the general population.

From this paper[1], "An increase in blood lead from 10 to 20 micrograms/dl was associated with a decrease of 2.6 IQ points". So while there is an impact on lead levels, it is not nearly large enough to lead to the loss of 1-2 IQ points.

I'm not saying we shouldn't get rid of leaded avgas, but it accounts for about 0.1% of gasoline used in the US so the impact will be much smaller than banning leaded fuel for cars was.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8162884/
Remember when Spotify made headlines last year for having a button to listen to an album in order? That's how low the bar is.

I switched to Apple Music as well. It's not perfect but at least it's not trying to shove Podcasts into my music.

Spotify also likes to complain about Apple being anti-competitive by locking them out of features, then when Apple does let 3rd party apps do things like Apple Watch offline background music playback, Spotify takes two and a half years to actually use it.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/05/pandora-releases-...

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-05-21/enjoy-more-ways-than...

Edit to add: AirPlay 2 from iOS 11.4 (May 2018) still not supported, so you can't do multi-room audio, only a single speaker at a time
The saying goes that a mathematical theorem is named after the first person to discover it after Gauss.
Hilarious that almost 50% don't trust the Weather Channel - WHY?!
Well, the majority of academic work in physics is not at all enlightening to the "common man". And yet Wolfram's career has benefited and enlightened the common man 100x more than the average academic through Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica alone.
Related article "The Lost Apps of the 80s":

http://scripting.com/2021/04/04/174604.html

And Hacker News thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26692308
Well, I can't click "english" until I accept a cookie popup in French, so that's great.
Thank you for this very useful answer!
> I'm not sure if my taste is just awful

I just stopped caring a long time ago hahahaha I love it!
From what I heard, AMD essentially makes few variants of CCXes then bins them and based on bins sells them as different models, mixing and matching in order to increase total yield.
Ah, yes, thanks, that clears up things.
> So is this the famous mid-life crisis everyone talks about?

It sure sounds like it. Regarding "buying a Harley" I think that can act as a shorthand for "realizing life is short and doing something for yourself now that you have the means and while you can enjoy it", which is a good idea in my opinion.
Yes this is big, with Apple Music I much less frequently have anything promoted at me unless I’m specifically looking for it.

Apple doesn’t twiddle with its UI nearly as much as Spotify does which is nice too. It has its shortcomings, but the consistency means that workarounds stick.

Finally, Apple is surprisingly more permissive with Apple Music’s SDK than Spotify is, even allowing full streaming/playback capabilities (a capability Spotify removed from its SDKs several years ago), which means that there are now several alternative front ends for Apple Music available that can play music themselves — alternative Spotify front ends can only ever control the official Spotify app and Spotify Connect devices which is a real shame.
Fuller quote:

> Professional armies have a basic unit of about 150 men: This was as true of the Roman Army (both before and after the reforms of 104 BC) as of modern armies since the sixteenth century.

And I'm actively against the statement that number 150 is relevant because of all-to-all communication pattern. In army (as well as emergency responders like firefighters) all-to-all communication is actively forbidden, and only possible for groups of 3-6 people of similar ranks/positions. All other communications must go either up or down the authority chain.
Yeah OPENSTEP Enterprise (OSE) was a commercial product sold by NeXT and briefly by Apple. Also later versions of WebObjects that ran on Windows provided much of the same tools.
> how to make GUIs as composable as command lines

beos did
Plastics still need a plasticizer, so those BPA-free plastics simply use a chemical like BPA but not studied.
I only had a brief test, but searching seems a little better since this update

I'm on the monthly plan because I wanted to play with GPU transcoding - despite what a lot of folks say it does work in Windows on an AMD iGPU, although I've switched to discrete now (previous server was Ubuntu, but Linux GPU fan control seems to be a mess and we all know the Nvidia driver saga)
The import { h } made me think it was preact, but I guess it's not even that.
Used at my work. While lauded as great, its the bane of our existence.
Moved from Boulder to Miami and the one nice thing is that I can buy fried sweet plantains at every restaurant down here.

Never know how delicious them shits were, and I'm not even a big banana fan.
Le monde diplomatique created an chart showing the owners of main French medias (in French unfortunately)[1], the data is available on their Github account[2].

[1] https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/PPA
[2] https://github.com/mdiplo/Medias_francais
Ah yes, I mean that graph where each node is a note that can be connected to other notes, you know? Like a mind map?
Between this and the Boeing self-certification fiasco it sure seems like the FAA has lost its way rather thoroughly
I thought maybe it was there to set or clear flags.
I just have a monthly number for all expenses excluding rent and try to stick to it. It doesn't always work, but I kind of stay in the ballpark.