skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone is saying it is 100% fake. But heavily tampered and manipulated, absolutely plausible.

Remember the emails that got everyone believing there was a pedo ring running under that pizza joint? Ends up there is no "under" in that pizza joint, let alone the rest of the story. Those were real emails from a real leak, but they were heavily tampered with. There has been a couple of years to tamper with this laptop and online access already.

EDIT: Looks like there has already been a lot of work put into faking "evidence" in re: Hunter's laptop. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hunter-biden-melania-trump...
People get paid a LOT of money to produce a document like what you (might have) had the great joy-in-humor to just read.
Yea I think something was borked with my Linux Nvidia driver. Works at 60fps in Windows.
It kills you, literally takes the breath away.
It’s called entrapment, and it’s not a normal part of a criminal investigation. It’s why they knew they wouldn’t be able to land the murder-for-hire charges. It could have invalidated the whole case.
It really depends. A very good competent friend can help you. For technical, at least adjacent, articles there are online pubs who will work with you so long as the content is at least ok. But no one is going to edit a book for you for free and a publisher has at least a middling high bar to take you on.
It’s not the level of effort that’s weird, it’s the terrible output despite the level of effort.
According to Wikipedia Sweden has a higher rate of homelessness per capita than the United States.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeles...
That's beautiful. I always wondered if there's some lost knowledge from ye olde ancient past where people knew more (about what we consider scinetific facts now) than we thought they did when they came up with these stories.
I was about to make the rsync/Dropbox comparison. As someone who has little real interest in mushroom cultivation but a love for charming desk objects, if someone bought me this as a gift I’d love it.
It's the only viable weapon (in the court of public opinion) in the current political landscape.
fire out of bear's mouth

Finally a way for the Asylum* to cut VFX techs and editors out of the loop altogether and allow producers to keep the good cocaine for themselves.

* the people who brought you the Sharknado franchise
We can clean up nuclear waste. Wash away the radioactive fallout, remove the top layer of soil. The majority of the Fukushima exclusion zone has been cleaned up and resettled. There was no real desire to clean up the Chernobyl exclusion zone because that area was only populated for the purpose of supporting the now defunct power plant. By comparison, how do we go about cleaning up the carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuels? I'd say the opposite: nuclear waste is much easier to clean up than fossil fuel waste.
Or build this for yourself - bins to help contain humidity, a pump with irrigation tube, old gallon jug as a reservoir, and a timer to spray them a couple times a day.

https://i.postimg.cc/qBtCZJPR/20220502-161435.jpg
I am giddy about what we will see once they start pointing it at nearby exoplanets.
There is supposed to be some sort of intelligence in the software of the Lightning which uses historical data for your tow loads to refine the range estimates.

In one of the video reviews, they even showed that the car would let you plan a route and give you stopping points customized per load.
The similarity you see between this DeepMind project, the DARPA program, and research in Tenenbaum's lab is not incidental: there's a steady stream of crosstalk and cross-training between machine learning researchers who engineering artificial intelligences and cognitive scientists who reverse-engineer human intelligences. (Note, for example, that Peter Battaglia, one of the co-authors of this DeepMind project, was a postdoc with Tenenbaum.)
As Regulatory Scrutiny of BaaS Grows, Rumors Swirl
This thread makes me think about how the common usage "a quarter past" and "a quarter two" likely come from the clock dial, and how we don't use that kind of language in other measuring scenarios - with a metre rule saying "a quarter to three metres", and how we don't say "a third past" or "a third to" meaning twenty minutes past the hour and twenty minutes to the hour.
I've worked in small and big design shops. When done right, the process should make sense to a layperson, like you're respecting their intelligence.

This Pepsi rebrand farce feels more like The Emperor's New Clothes. My guess, and someone with more knowledge can absolutely correct me, is that whatever agency bid for the job, they knew they were basically milking Pepsi for every penny they could, and it was pure greed. And in order to justify the utterly exorbitant estimate, they pulled so much bullshit out of their asses hoping to completely overwhelm the clients and utterly baffle and confuse them and make them feel too stupid to even ask about anything.

Basically, design process should make sense and be understandable to the average empathetic, intelligent business owners.
Well, that's what happens when you make what people want... I guess.
> They plan to use the exact same code!

Did they announce a change of plans? Their website just says that they have no plans for a borrow checker (i.e. it's not required to actually implement rust).

From the website for the project:

> There are no immediate plans for a borrow checker as this is not required to compile rust code and is the last pass in the RustC compiler. This can be handled as a separate project when we get to that point.

Link here: https://rust-gcc.github.io/
Later they placed it in between a physical Esc key and power button.
Seems that the value this device provides is creating a clearing house for more experienced mushroomers to share info with interested noobs on how to bypas it and do it in a cardboard box. Perhaps it's not what the founders of the company intended, but it's a value add nonetheless.
Just a quick experiment:

I started 4 copies of VLC. `top` shows this:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1806287 adam 20 0 1091068 74664 56228 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.22 vlc
1806426 adam 20 0 1091064 74548 56128 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.21 vlc
1806537 adam 20 0 1091064 74572 56144 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.22 vlc
1806600 adam 20 0 1091064 74960 56536 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.23 vlc

Summing RES (RSS) gives 298744.

VLC loads many shared libraries:

$ lsof -p 1806426 | grep .so | wc -l
195

I'd hope some/most of those are shared between the instances of VLC and are included in SHR (if I'm reading the top man page correctly).

Doing RES-SHR isn't totally correct either. Those shared pages might be "marked as shared" (i.e, a .so that's only loaded by one process). But lets assume that most of what VLC uses as SHR is shared libraries, and they're used by each instance.

RES-SHR = 73708

I also ran `free` before and after launching the 4 instances of VLC.
Used increased by 66068. Hard to rely on the accuracy of this number since this is a desktop system and I'd imagine used goes up and down all the time. But it's strikingly close to the RES-SHR figure.

IMHO just summing RES isn't correct.

Linux memory usage is complex.
Beethoven's 9th is overwrought trash, so not following the comparison to one of the greatest novels ever written?
This is the most galaxy brain thing I have ever read.
You’re assuming genuine curiosity which probably isn’t there.
I'm not arguing that these factors are large enough to change the answer, but other ways someone can be a net drain include

a) being criminals who inflict various kinds of harm on others

b) working in jobs that would otherwise be taken by existing locals, who are now displaced onto benefits

c) working in jobs that would otherwise not be able to find employees, thus asserting downward pressure on wages/conditions

d) using those benefits which are available, such as (in the US) public schools, emergency departments, and sometimes state-specific benefits

e) using resources from a finite pool such as e.g land in a farming county, houses in a city that refuses to allow further development

Most of these arguments can be found when people are objecting to legal immigration
Good, that's a more colorful story

You can find the ones that don't work in the same places you find the locals that don't work (not saying it's the majority - and it might be even smaller than local unemployment). Or you can search for statistics around that area.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/mi...

> estimated the net fiscal contribution of EEA migrants in the financial year (FY) 2016/17 at £4.7bn, compared to a net cost of £9bn for non-EEA migrants.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/th...
The author hasn't provided any reason this is correct besides "betcha".

Was there a more common insult than "communist" by the American right in the last decade? Most using it think it's synonymous with "socialist" and means Obamacare.

All the examples were NOT cold war era; Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Salt, Kundun, lots more. The Death of Stalin is a poor example, along with praise, it was criticized for making light of great suffering.
So in exchange to gaining access to US treasuries (debt) before action, they had to buy US treasuries? How is that a concession made by the KSA if that’s what they wanted in the first place?
Not sure where you're getting your facts. I'm sitting in a house with all of these things you claim don't exist, and I'm not an anomaly where I live. My water heater, cooking stove, furnace.. all electric. Most of it installed in the 80's and all original (other than the water heater which has a 10-15 year lifespan).

Electric water heaters and baseboard heaters are common, and extremely efficient. In fact, resistive heaters in the scientific sense (watts in vs. watts out) are the most efficient form of heating.

They're extremely reliable and cheap because of how simple they are.

They may not be _cost effective to run_ in many regions due to high cost of electricity (per watt as compared to gas). But here in BC Canada, resistive elements are extremely common due to relatively cheap power (Hydro in our case). For whole home heating, heat pumps are usually used in new builds because of their advantages, but they're still very tied to the grid and have elements in them for defrosting and the like.

If you scaled up nuclear you'd similarly see prices of electricity drop, and if you have the grid infrastructure (or build it), electric heating (for your home, water, cooking, whatever) becomes pretty attractive.
Not to say there is no such a boundary, it just might not be what intuition would tell us like a baloon, a sphere or similar. Geometry of universe might be a torus, but also not really. Shit gets weird when you start reading research, and it takes a lot of effort to even start reading with comprehension there.
Yes, but Earth obstructs the field of view for about half that time. The way HST refers to an "orbit" for scheduling, only part of the elapsed time is usable observational time, for a single target.

https://hst-docs.stsci.edu/hsp/the-hubble-space-telescope-pr...

- "HST GO observing time is counted in terms of orbits. Each 96-minute orbit contains a certain amount of useful time when the target can be observed, called the orbital visibility period..."
Another similar take: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_expansion_of_the_....
> If they ever decided to follow the law to the letter, most of the Internet would have to disconnect the EU.

Or those sites would have to comply with GDPR. Why is that not an option?
Former Pepsi CEO Thomas Rattigan ran Commodore Computer for a bit; former Pepsi President John Sculley ran Apple Computer. So there's a certain link to computing, for some unknown reason
As a parent, I don't think kids these days are any stupider. The tech has gotten easier for both good and nefarious purposes, and IMO the education around it has kept up. I think it's FUD that's leveraged (deliberately or otherwise) to influence and gain authority, more than anything.

I'm certainly biased as a more technical parent than most, but I don't think the average layperson knows that much less about the risks. If anything it's shouted from the news any time something remotely internet related happens, and people notice, because it plays on a pretty fundamental fear. I think awareness is up (not always in a good way) more than anything. There's a balance to strike between trying to make things safer and just teaching kids to navigate dangers that will always be there (and always be changing) and I tend to think these laws are a step or so too far into diminishing returns on making things safer. Even then, that's assuming we can even agree what safer means.
That just illustrates how important California is to the world economy.
Ask HN: What's a Web 3.0 consumer idea that can take off?
Most of the big Crypto / Web 3.0 ideas are restricted to infra, defi, gaming or NFT projects. I have yet to see a Web 3.0 consumer idea that has taken off.

Any predictions here ?
You can do that today, with Erlang, with relatively little setup
>there was no way to roll back the software update

oof

>During this period, incoming email, outgoing email, and push notifications were also temporarily delayed

They say no data was lost but I'm not sure how they can know a sending mail server didn't give up trying to deliver a message to Proton
> Password must contain at least 1 primary Griffin family character

The fact that meg isn't a valid answer for this has me laughing out loud.
I kept thinking this was going to be an Allegory for system logs until I realized it was literal
https://www.gnod.com/ ?
It seems what this device is especially good at is separating fools from their money.
It depends if school A costs 100,000 and school B almost free. I would put my money on the 100 who spent 100,000 over the free 10,000.
How is that a problem with the quote? It sounds like a problem with the system, a problem the essay correctly identified.
There is much less speckle noise in the JWST image, but the relative sizes of light patches roughly match.

The lack of speckle noise is what will be important, because the dim stuff that doesn't show here is what will turn up in longer exposures, and not be obscured by it.
Having done some identity work, some stuff is done on purpose and some stuff is justified post-hoc to make the pitch better.

“It looks nice” doesn’t play all that well, and doesn’t give you much protection from a decision maker who (incorrectly) says “I think my idea looks nicer”.

This is not representative of all design experiences though, I’m sure.
AT 2016 SOBO section hiker. Just the northern half (from Katahdin to Harper's Ferry), so I might have only came back half a different person. :) I took it pretty leisurely and stopped in at towns often, so I probably averaged about 9-10 miles per day. I'm not an outdoorsman by any stretch, but it was nice to just get away for a while. Definitely made me appreciate the small and simple conveniences of civilization that I often take for granted.
I would entertain the possibility that improving or maintaining the existing standards of living is not a policy objective of most representative governments or their key donors.
Could be an internal reflection. The optical path for many JWST instruments is, uh, compact: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2021/09/Webb_MIRI_... (Every kilo on telescope structure you save by folding the optical path is a kilo you can add in propellant, extending the working life of the spacecraft)

Instrument internals are painted black and heavily baffled, but nothing in optics is perfect. Dithering the direction the telescope is pointed in and image stacking should cancel out most optical artifacts, but internal reflections will be worse for bright objects like stars, which JWST probably isn't usually going to be observing with the imaging instruments.
pepsi. I thought at the time that this 'leaked document' was a brilliant piece of gorilla marketing. It was making an internet meme before they were ubiquitous, and we're still sharing it and laughing about it today. pepsi. contributing to brand omni presence pepsi.
Do you have some links that show the tax burden for Europe vs US is similar for low 6-figure earners? I can find plenty of calculators that estimate total tax burden for the US states, but not most European countries.

For example, I used someone in New Jersey (a US state known to be high-tax) vs France at a salary of 100K (which is the same in Euros now!): In NJ, including Federal, state and sales taxes, total tax is $27K. That seems to be a far cry from the $41K (sorry, Euro) I get in France from a very basic calculator that only includes country-level taxes AFAICT.
Anyone know whether we’ve crossed the boundary on “the next Einstein will be an AI”?

Specifically, do scientists believe the next breakthroughs will come from humanity or are we waiting for AI at this point?
Sure, that's where the hard computer science is - but if you use a tool like Elasticsearch other people have spent decades solving those problems for you already.
Saint Pepsi fan?
I think I found the (first) set of contradictory requirements.

It must start with cat, must end with dog, must be a palindrome. All 3 can not be true.
Piggie in the middle submarine cables, not all go through the UK, but it is good to point out the covert politics & nationalism of entities providing tech services or infrastructure, strangely dominated by the US mil funded US tech sector. I wonder why?

https://cryptome.org/fiber-weak.htm
That joke probably is going over a lot of heads. People associate Chomsky with Manufacturing Consent now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_Behavior#Chomsky's_revi...
>Fossil fuels are horrible too, but the disasters they cause we can clean up.

Huh?

>We don't just have to stuff it in a mountain and pretend it doesn't exist.

What is your problem with the current state of nuclear waste management? Seems pretty safe to me. I mean, you already seem to pretend that background and cosmic radiation doesn't exist.

>regulate the industry and require better practices.

... Which will inevitably increase costs.
You could say that about anything that looks silly. At some point you gotta actually just say outright and unequivocally that something is silly. If this logo redesign wasn't absurd, nothing is.
I wonder how much Richard Stallman gets paid to carry a bottle of diet coke everywhere he goes..
Honestly, this is actually pretty good. 100 miles towing a big old trailer? I'm assuming they gunned it on the freeway to make that range drop-off (they didn't post travel times, so I'll assume they gave it some beans).

Given that towing was never a core capacity of the Lightning (Ford themselves probably wouldn't have even recommended the ICE version of this car without a towing package) this still works surprisingly well as "something to take my boat to the lake" vehicle.
You hit the out-of-pocket maximum for the year and then no longer pay anything on the bills.

Most upper middle class jobs offer different plans with different maximums and monthly payments.
Pumped storage is hard because you need a lot of space on a hill for a reservoir. Perhaps we can turn lake mead into a giant pumped storage project with a bunch of solar installed over it to limit evaporation. Then use wind, solar, or even nuclear to fill it (but that’s a lot of water that farmers might want for their fields, again, limiting evaporation is important).
Various languages have ways of automatically including file paths and line numbers without the caller having to include them every time

C# has CallerFilePathAttribute https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime.c...

C has the __FILE__, __func__, and __LINE__ pre-processor macros.
And the unsettling question: is this terrible output actually good? Do I just not have what it takes to recognize great sugar water salesmanship?
I’d love to see that too. Mormonism for example would rank very high in “Alumni Salary” and “Quality of Alumni Network”, but low in “Diversity”, “Fees”, and “Amount of Bullshit You Need to Swallow”.
What came first: logo or journey?

I wonder what was created first - the agency creating the new logo (and then backing into the justification for it), or did the justification for it actually come first & that lead the agency down the path to how the logo was ultimately created.
I don't think this sounds weirdly privileged at all. The trouble is people will solve problems typically through the path of least resistance. It's much easier to find legal loopholes than it is to try and comply. And contrary to the rhetoric, it's expensive and uncertain to simply buy law-making through lobbying.

Consider how hard it is in the United States to lay new fiber (and this is an imperfect metaphor). The ideal solution would be to get legislative branches to solve the telcos oligopoly problem. That has not and is not working. So what's happening? Wireless internet over LTE, and 5G being deployed everywhere. Route around.
More the labor I'd assume. Development to continue scaling, maintenance and moderation.
Quite a lot smaller than the EU…
Not sure about best practices. But at our small shop, we’ve rigged up our homegrown logging infrastructure to do that automatically by using the C/C++ macros __FILE__, __FUNCTION__ and __LINE__

We hide the data in our log viewer to reduce clutter but display it as a tooltip.
This is a mid-point in Matt Keeter's research.

Start at:

http://mattkeeter.com/research/thesis.pdf

then see:

http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/kokopelli/

then Antimony (see the article at: http://hackaday.com/2015/05/29/otherworldy-cad-software-hail... ), then the current effort:

https://github.com/libfive/libfive

(and also see: https://www.gitlab.com/kavalogic-inc/tovero "a binding of Libfive to Common Lisp, including a standalone REPL-based viewer"[https://github.com/Irev-Dev/curated-code-cad] can be integrated with https://www.gitlab.com/kavalogic-inc/clive

Currently I'm using OpenSCAD (w/ BlockSCAD as a front-end: https://www.blockscad3d.com because I prefer a sort of visual representation), but have been stymied by the lack of file I/O (I want to write out G-code).

Still looking for a 3D modeling tool which is:

- a node or block editor
- can write out/append text files
- has loops

Bounced on PythonOCC in Ryven (install is a awkward), and was trying to make Nodezator work, but no loops, so currently trying pyflow (but can't get it installed on my Mac).
Pepsi. Universe.
Ross Ulbricht was offered a plea deal before his indictment. The plea called for a minimum sentence of ten years up to a maximum of one life term.

He should have taken the plea.
I completely disagree. Boring diets only increase the chance of relapse.

It's perfectly possible to diet on enjoyable food if you do some research. And it will be much easier to stick to it.
> With Netflix or whatever Streaming Service you have you have an immense catalogue…

I got curious, so let's look it up.

Googling, it looks like maybe Netflix has 17,000 titles total in in it's collection internationally in april 2022, but only a portion of those are available in a given market. One page from 2021 said the US catalog was ~5K titles, but I bet it's bigger in 2022 as the overall catalog has grown as much as 30% maybe. So I dunno, let's say somewhere between 5K and 8K titles available in USA market netflix?

How many titles did a typical Blockbuster carry? From 1988: "Blockbuster, for instance, operates superstores that stock roughly 10,000 tapes (about 6,500 different titles), compared to the 1,500 to 2,500 a typical independent offers." —https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/01/business/a-tight-squeeze-...

(Blockbuster didn't have much/any TV, while that's potentially a big part of Netflix though?)

So it's the same ballpark anyway. Netflix doesn't actually have a whole lot more titles than a Blockbuster did.
Pregnant Texas woman cited in HOV lane; unborn child doesn't count as passenger
My question is, bullshit aside, can we measure how effective this new logo was for Pepsi? Did it have any effect at all?