skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly suspect it's a natural source, like the little green men sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar

Anyway, we can try to detect strange signals, like signals with a narrow bandwidth, some regularity, like repetitions, and some parts that looks like random, like the letters in a foreign language you don't understand.

For examples, see the image in this article and ignore all the text: "The sound of the dialup, pictured" https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-picture... HN discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15635144 (675 points | Nov 6, 2017 | 108 comments) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9171514 (174 points | March 9, 2015 | 35 comments)

Even if you don't understand what it's happening, there is clearly something weird and not natural.
How long have you been a software engineer?

I've found that going straight into hacking on something can end up biting me in the ass for big projects. I've also worked where we would do everything up front in a design document all the way down to functions, what args they take, and pseudocode for everything. The code would then take a day or two with nothing to redo.
How does it compare to Rust? What do you like about each?
The original RFC came out in 1995, the modern RFC used today in 1998 - almost 25 years ago. When I was in college in 2012 (going through the Cisco NetAcad) they were preaching that our IPv6 future was "just around the corner". I am going on 10 years in network and security now, and I still don't see it. At least in the US, IPv4 is, and will remain, the dominant force.

There are many reasons for this, but one of the biggest is - from a practical standpoint, the only thing wrong with it is the lack of addresses. Even the perceived shortage is hardly felt though - what is the going rate of an Elastic IP not associated with an EC2 instance these days, $0.005 per hour?
Does your household get mad when you forget to get up and stoke the fire?
CEO and CFO are nowhere to be found.
It's a question worth asking, but I think ultimately humanity needs a purpose. Something more than just survival and sensory pleasure. It's almost a given that we will have them both in abundance soon. And so increasingly the question we will face as immortal beings in eternal bliss is "well now what". Particle physics seems a reasonable way to pass time.
> Real work requires sacrifice, sweat, disappointment and all the rest.

But does it have to be like this?
Paperclips are important! We need to optimise paperclip production!

some time later

The entire universe is one giant paperclip constructor.
Another attempt to convince enthusiasts that they are not there for the money
certainly isn't on my underpowered home router, which has offload for ipv4 but none for ipv6

can do ipv4 at gigabit without an issue, ipv6 caps out at around 300mbit
Presumably if it was just based on age, the effect would be fairly uniform, instead of correlated to periods of price shock.
More like BD vs. DVD - 'living with both for a long time' as you say, but also one is a clear successor.
Link plz
I'd be interested in some companion material to evaluate the cost/benefit tradeoff here.

My gut says that single user machines it doesn't matter so much, however these same machines probably run a lot of untrusted JavaScript that may be able to exploit things.

A crud rest service receiving requests from the open internet, probably a bad idea to disable mitigations on that machine.

On the other hand, a video transcoder or similar picking tasks off a queue and writing back to storage maybe it's fine? Though I'll admit I'm not sure that there wouldn't be ways to cause (sensitive) data to get into the output file, so would default to leaving everything enabled, especially since the input to transcode would be arbitrary
How would this work if it's open source hardware? Then it's not bound to any authority that can prove that you're a human with a real device.
Thanks for the info. There were infinite possible combinations that your password could've been before this comment; it's a lot less now...
This kinda thing is a kabuki dance move before Yellen resigns and is replaced by someone who will accept more blame. "needlessly dramatized" is just par for the course on any reporting; and this kind of yard goods "story" produced at the behest of someone in government as a favor for future access is in more need of such than the usual news.
Short answer is all that advice is obsolete. Biometrics as used by secure enclaves have tradeoffs which are unrelated to the (again, obsolete) practice of storing biometrics as authentication per se.

The secure enclave holds biometrics, these are used to generate ordinary key pairs which are revokable.

If you have a device like this, try it! Register a finger, then un-register the finger: congrats, you've changed your fingerprint.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220615100202/https://www.econo...
He's not wrong. Warren Buffett says the same thing. Buffett usually explains them as being non-productive assets.
Great idea! This could be the next Product Hunt (which has gone to the dogs AFAIC)
The LHC cost was 2% of the yearly revenue of Apple I am fairly certain that we can "afford" it.
A Git Origin Story (2018)
Perhaps one such decision is that matter is fundamental. There are increasingly substantial cases being made that this is now holding us back in physics, and that we need to consider that consciousness is fundamental, and matter is only a consequence of it. See, for example Hoffman's The Case Against Reality.
My feeling is that a big part of the physics field is trying to see patterns in noise and equipement artifacts.
A person sitting next to you can wait until you leave, dust every surface you touched, and copy your fingerprints. I hope you can change your fingerprints.
Is there any business working on remote controlled robots or is everyone only focused on AI? Seems like you could probably find a lot of cheap labor if they can control the robot from their house.
Oliver Burkeman is quoted in the article, can you clarify how he's an antithesis to the OP?
Yes. That’s what makes it work. I think we sometimes have a perspective that we can optimize the struggle out of everything but that’s simply not true. It’s okay for life and the things we do with our life to be difficult and mundane. They’re not always so but it’s not a problem or out of the natural order of things when they are.
Have you ever played Animal Crossing? Its basically occupational therapy keeping you busy with maintaining your island-garden. And its hugely popular.
I hate the trivialization of this. The solution is not obvious. Paying more/longer requires more money. Where does that money come from?

At least in my areas of science (chemistry), most of this money comes from grants, which comes from the NIH, DOE, or NSF depending on the project. Ultimately it comes from taxpayers, and portioned out by Congress.

So the solution is either to get Congress to really care about this (ha!) or re-architecture funding of all of higher education.

Neither of these is simple.
Why would this be a nightmare, isn't this good? They know they're going down the wrong path and can probably correct?
i first had this idea more than a decade ago: a way to translate gaming tasks into something productive on the other end of the pipe. the gamer doesn't realise, and the company actually solves issues by just letting the gamer play the game.

in the non-gaming world, i think the closest mass market idea has been google's captcha which actually trains an AI in the background. that's very naive and very simple, and definitely not a game, but imagine something similar with puzzles (i.e. Witness, the game, is all about puzzles. why not replace those puzzles with puzzles from real life that actually need solving).
Only armchair socialists would take a guy coming from a broken home in one of the poorest regions of the world as a golden spoon to push their agenda lol
Just like they were able to with Encrypted Media Extensions, right?
I love the teaching potential here - program this 4 or 8 bit processor. They are so cheap you can give them to pupils in volume that you don't care how they experiment with them, and there is potential that they are simple enough to literally fit in your head.

More of these please - the opportunities must be there
This is a reasonable concern. Although, whenever security-convenience tradeoff is involved, different users will inevitably have different preferences and tolerance for automation. Some will prefer to do things manually, while others will prefer something that "just works" for them.
This seems like it’s virtue signalling honesty but actually it’s slightly deeper - regulation is a path to perceived legitimacy and credibility.

P2P lending companies did the exact same thing here in the U.K. and it worked.
Yeah, I quit after my Masters. I do miss the challenge, the feeling of achievement when you crack something, just the whole feeling of being close to the edge of human knowledge, it's all so much more exciting than development where you know your answer is basically already out there.

But yeah, you gotta do what pays the bills. I'm not making triple figures in dollars, but in my country it's six times what I would get during a PhD program.
Same on Android. Fingerprint is used to enable access to cryptographic key.
I think that as an average, alcoholics would rather not waste their money paying for alcohol in bars. Drinking cheap is more important than socializing fore people with an actual addiction.
Yes, but my impression (maybe wrong) is that the reference to silicon chips comes from the use of the substrate.
No one cares about your research!
Are you saying the article is wrong? They talk about evidence exactly the opposite of your comment.
Aren't most of the parameters implied by mitigations=off ?
Not sure if anyone on HN knows: do wills work for medical emergencies too? Because I would assume you could setup an emergency power of attorney for such a scenario. It is ridiculous that you cannot sell your home if your spouse is incapable of consenting.
The funny thing is two years ago BTC was under 10k. The sky is not falling it's probably just going back to a more sane price.
PhD student looking forward to graduate and move on. I think one can make a decent living with a German salary, which is still 50% lower than an industry position, the reason why I want to leave is the insane competitiveness and inherent up-or-out structure of academia. If I could have a permanent position with the same salary I currently get I would seriously consider staying.
weird conclusion
There were a lot of problems...
Cloudflare knows you're using a device that supports this feature. If a majority of internet users are eventually using devices that support it, some sites will probably deny service to those that do not just as some Android apps refuse to run on devices not using a factory OS.
The SEC regulates securities in the US; Tether Limited is a Hong Kong company.
Sure but how many scripts are scanning the internet for exploitable Spectre and Meltdown vulns? As I understand it they are quite difficult to implement and execute at scale.
If you haven't read Ender's Game, I highly recommend it based on this topic.

I think the tricky part is - if it's an unsolved problem, how does the game know when a task is complete? Feedback loops are a core element of game design, and part of the reason tedious tasks can be satisfying, but unless it's directly manual labor, I'm unsure how to create a proper feedback loop
As someone who has put too many hours into EVE online to count. I do mundane things in video games because of two different reasons.

1) The reward for doing the mundane thing is usually very direct and actually pretty decent if you commit to it. For example with enough grinding in EVE you can afford some very fancy spaceships. Or with hours of code raiding in Rust you can steal all of someones stuff by just typing in 4 digit codes for hours.

2) Doing the mundane thing in the game is still a form of escapism from doing the mundane thing in the real world. Except usually the video game isn't hardcore mode. If I don't do it and a die I just respawn. Meatspace doesn't have this luxury. In this case the video game is an escape from existential dread.
Stop reading pop science articles
GitHub example repository for deploying NFT Collection
> James Clerk Maxwell united electricity and magnetism with a pen and paper. Einstein discovered special and general relativity in the same way.

They had tabletop experiments (and telescope observations) that gave them the clues they needed

A lot of XX century physics was done in tabletop conditions (in the 19xx) with danger to the experimentalists. Also climbing mountains and capturing cosmic rays with photographic film

We might still have something hidden but most of the low-hanging fruit was discovered already.
If you're going to cherry pick indexes, we can pick cryptos that also performed much worse.
The foldit [0] game has players solving protein folding problems that have real world implications. More ideas in this angle would be data labeling type situations to power machine learning systems. These are currently done through MechanicalTurk or large offices in low cost areas of the world dedicated to the task.

The tools are not usually that polished or that pleasant to use, and don't have the same gamified and reward angle. So if you could figure out how to package the work, add some whimsy, and cross validate results you might have something.

0 - https://fold.it/
AFAICT yes, the standard itself is open but certification costs money.
Yes, I realized that semantic issue when I wrote it :). But I figured the meaning was clear enough anyway and I would have tried to hold my ground rhetorically against a counter argument purely on that basis, though I do enjoy arguing from positions where I can't possibly wrong.
First of all, congrats. Writing a book is difficult, and writing one that people actually enjoy reading, even more so.

Second, trade and technical publishing are completely different markets. You need a literary agent to even sit at the table in trade (or traditional) publishing. You also have no chance in hell of getting one ("querying" is a waste of time) if you don't have preexisting connections or have a trendy "hook".

Plus, the objective functions are different. If you write a technical book that only sells 10 copies per month (I'm assuming 0.25% of visitors buy, although that might be on the high side) but it improves your career, you win.

Fiction authors, on the other hand, are trying to make enough in royalties to live on. You'll get about $3 per copy in royalties. You need to be targeting a large audience to even have a chance. Large audiences mean lots of competition; other people out there can hire publicists or somehow have the connections ("querying" agents is a waste of time) to make it in trad-pub (which is deeply flawed, but they can sell books when they get their shit together). If you sell less than 1000 copies, you're done--for good. Your name now has negative value, but no publisher (or agent) is going to touch an anonymous pen name (no platform, no photo with the family and the dog) either.

In traditional publishing, you have to make it a full-time job or you will be flushed out of the system (but they don't tell you that). Most of the time isn't spent on the writing (as the quality of much of what's produced these days shows) but marketing. Your "advance" is basically your marketing budget--they can't force you, but "eating" your advance instead of spending it to market your book (the publishing house won't) is frowned upon.

In self-publishing, there are no rules, but it seems that the successful self-publishers, on average, spend even more time on self-promotion, which writers famously dislike doing.
We won't eliminate all friction. But I'm not satisfied with any answer that neglects finding out what we can eliminate.

Cooking for your family feels very different than cooking at a corporate canteen, yet both are forms of useful work, and both involve some friction. The game makers know it - Euro Truck Simulator is full of both challenges (deadlines) and boredom (traffic jams), and I wouldn't call it frictionless.

So, again, which friction can stay and which needs to go?
I consider cats more intelligent than dogs, frankly. Dogs seem to have evolved or been bred for obedience, as they are much easier to train than cats. I consider cats to be much more autonomous than dogs.

As an ADHD human, I strongly identify with cats. Sometimes I wish I could experience life as a comfortable, loved house cat. Maybe I will next time
Why though? I don’t have an issue with your question or the idea of people remotely controlling pressure washers but whats the case for automation over elbow grease? Why do we always feel the need to automate and optimize instead of just being happy with things taking time and being difficult?
I clicked this thread just to check if it was posted by Mr Lee.
EVE Online has done several citizen science minigames over the years where human players can perform image-classification tasks.

2017: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/05/eve-online-citizen-sc...

2018: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/minigame-integrated-...
That's why I said "should at least have an option". And even when that option is enabled, it still "just works", but with a simple user confirmation and perhaps a visual of the file before and after (What if Apple changes the file format?).

I think you overstate this tradeoff in this case since there is a win-win solution.
Congrats I guess? Your wife is an exception to a very well established norm. Losing weight is a treatment so good (as in, effective, safe, cheap) that most doctors will recommend it as the number 1 step in treating sleep apnea.

"What is becoming increasingly clear is that we need to continue to strongly advocate weight loss for all our patients, regardless of the severity of their OSA or adherence to our other therapies. The benefits of weight loss are, to a degree, unquestionable. This study highlights that tangible benefits can be obtained with weight-loss interventions. The challenge, as always, lies in the implementation of our lofty goals."

https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8384
Facebook...eh Meta.
I use PulseHeberg Storage Cloud VPS, works great, is cheap and uses KVM so you can roll your own distro/kernel.

Emails will be in French mind, which doesn’t really bother me.

Performance is fine, happily/needlessly serving my static website and navidrome using microk8s on one of the slightly beefier boxes.

https://pulseheberg.com/cloud/vps-storage
Structural vs. Nominal Type Systems
What does fundamental mean in this case?
I think this is correct. My sense is that the assumption of _individuation_ is at the core of logic, which then infects all rational thinking. (We add the predicates to "things", and then forget that we added them!)

If there are no individual things, as quantum field theory seems to suggest, what are numbers counting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg

http://www.katabane.com/mt/ontology.html
If only they'd been given literally years to prepare.

When things are that inefficient, it's hard to have too much sympathy.
Evolutionary Data Design
Building a renderer that supports basic features for a fancy UI
Yeah, we don't just burn gas driving everywhere.

"Scar consumption" as a phrase assumes that consumption in the American style is a healthy activity to begin with, and this outcome is damaging or ugly. "Permanently reduce consumption" would be more worthy of an academic setting, that title is clickbaity. Perhaps some will overdo avoidance of something because of fear of expense. Better than masses overdoing from building their lives around unsustainable inexpensive consumption. Look where we are for sprawl and emissions.
Yeah I think it’s scratching the innate human desire for progress. The rewarding feeling of progress without the friction of the real world.
I just don't think the Netherlands is the market for this. Most of my friends would do a lot to avoid subscription. Refurbished phones all the way down.
I won’t speculate why but I will posit that this is not a new phenomenon for the casual gamer. Consider The Sims, originally released 22 years ago and enthralled a huge audience of people who had no other interest in games. Where the purpose of the game was to literally play house and go to work. Now that everyone has a gaming “console” in their pocket perhaps it’s not surprising that these more monotonous time killers have caught on with the broader audience.
Am I the only one that things I write my password faster than putting my finger in the Touch ID?
Thought-provoking use-cases for NFTs
> some of those folks are just technically overweight - BMI at 25 - and aren't going to get as much help

Citation needed. They are absolutely going to be benefited from weight loss.

"What is becoming increasingly clear is that we need to continue to strongly advocate weight loss for all our patients, regardless of the severity of their OSA or adherence to our other therapies. The benefits of weight loss are, to a degree, unquestionable. This study highlights that tangible benefits can be obtained with weight-loss interventions. The challenge, as always, lies in the implementation of our lofty goals."

https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8384

"Results: Relative to stable weight, a 10% weight gain predicted an approximate 32% (95% confidence interval [CI], 20%-45%) increase in the AHI. A 10% weight loss predicted a 26% (95% CI, 18%-34%) decrease in the AHI. A 10% increase in weight predicted a 6-fold (95% CI, 2.2-17.0) increase in the odds of developing moderate-to-severe SDB. "

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11122588/
It depends on the nature of the work and also the project. You don't have to spend $10,000 if you're just looking to create a book that you can give to your friends. If you want it to have any chance of commercial or critical success, though, you're going to need a level of polish that you have to pay for.
> It is absolutely identical to property taxes on homes

Not quite. I can see what I’m getting back from the city for the property taxes on my home (or on my office).

It’s less clear to me what the city or government contributes to my company. I’m more inclined to say that its existence is a public service.
They used to measure in microns, so this is the expected next step I guess. Anyway, I hope this goes well. We need more cutting edge fabs.
If the pattern Kuhn shows in The Structure of a Scientific Revolution holds, one might presume at some time a crisis will emerge which will influence the development of higher resolution tools and techniques and with them more evidence. The "nightmare" seems like exactly what is outlined as a predictable error in the model - it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Good luck convincing management of that.
My point is AI to control a robot to pick strawberries is way more of a leap than someone picking strawberries by remote controlling a robot.
Link to Full paper https://cseveren.github.io/files/FormativeExperiences_Paper_... if that helps?
The official forums don't actually use vibe.d. vibe has the most marketing out of the D web frameworks, followed by hunt, but there's actually a few more too that just don't get as much attention, despite being older and possibly more widely used behind the scenes! The official forum uses the `ae` library. (And I have to mention my own `arsd` library which I'm pretty sure is the oldest web lib - mine dates back to 2008, but ae's pretty old too so he might beat me, and mine actually does better on some benchmarks despite me using GC and such with wild abandon.)

That said though, yeah, I don't think any of them use `@nogc`. I've actually tried to get the gc to interrupt audio code before and couldn't even hear it. I'm sure a bigger heap to scan might cause a problem in some situations, but these fears are really overblown in the popular commentariat.