skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dr. Birx describing the evolution of viruses and how Covid does not fit that mold is not "pure speculation." I cited her book, and as she's a world class expert in this field I don't know what more beyond that you would expect? Unless you are expecting the CCP to open their books, which is laughable.
Interestingly similar to Lao-Zhe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi
And it's the 'divide by 8' that I find interesting.
How about 2M per year, but at the end there's a vote and if you have less than 50% approval you have to give it back?
Which part? If you get elected to the Senate, you and your kids are set for life.

Do you really want people greedier than that running the country?
You don't see how a desire for public service would suit someone in public service better than the desire to get rich?
really well. Vaccinated people are still 3x less likely to get sick than unvaccinated.
> That doesn't justify the search and seizure of all his customers' property without due process.

The fundamental due process issue doesn't seem to be in dispute, though remedies for that are being litigated.

What the article is focussed on is not the due process issues, but the right of people outside of those directly affected and whose rights related to involved property are being litigated to law enforcement background information relating to the planning for the operations, which is a completely separate issue.
Those were not real numbers and were based on set of assumptions that did not hold true, including but not limited to the core assumption — Starsky was not able to reach an AI drive autonomy level needed. They also assumed margins would not be razor thin if two or more logistics companies succeed in creating autonomous trucks; governments would not allow this, it’s a pipe dream.
Can-in-the-middle assumes that your attacker has a sufficiently high-fidelity soup can :-)
Stargate A.I Highlight Reel
This obviously does not affect me but that was not the purpose of my post. What my message is: if you have something that is normal for adults and you try to forbid it to teenagers, you will lose. They will have their revenge on you, and they will find a way to circumvent it.

For example, if I was still a teenager and had to deal with this, first thing I would do: search and download a collection of thousands of "Harambee nipples" pictures that trigger this filter, send them back and forward between me and my mates non stop to annoy the crap out of my parents and generate noise. Second, I would try to add a "sticker" into one of the pictures until I find a shape, size, and position that will bypass the filter, without hiding the nudity. When such a discovery is made that person will be a hero among teens and it will spread like wildfire.

I don't believe this feature will have the intended effect and I estimate it will take less than 2 hours before it's "broken". My conclusion is that if you want to keep them safe, you have to think vastly outside the "inquisition" box and try education, not prohibition.
I know I've cut back on fast food because both product and service quality have declined dramatically, likely due to staffing shortages. Long wait times, cold food, and incorrect orders have pushed me to the point of staying away. It's a weird time, and it's hard to untangle all these additional factors. That said, I'm sure higher prices are having an impact as well.
I can see the loops in these structures. I dont see the problem. It still added a structure to every embl page, and people are free to judge the predictions themselves. For all I care (ostensibly as the end customer of these structures) I don’t mind having a low confidence structure for any arbitrary protein at all. It’s only marginally less useful to actual biology than full on X-ray structures anyway.
Princeton FRC
description here: https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/stargate-sg1-ai-cast-reunion
Integrity?
I mainly wear grayscale and maybe some beige. I like grayscale cars and appliances. Why? Simply because it's easier on the eye. I grew up in a colour overload and I'm very glad things become more neutral. I'm able to appreciate colour much more when it's not everywhere all the time.

Also, utility and convinience are much more increased with neutral colours. Clothes are easier to match, replace, wear again. Cars and appliances are easier to resell.
ah, ok that makes more sense :D
You should be able to upgrade without any hacks.

21.10 reaching EOL just means that it stopped receiving updates, everything else should still work as is.

Just install the update-manager-core and run "do-release-upgrade -d" as sudo.
You'll get upvoted and I'll get downvoted because your political bias is the orthodoxy here, but the NBER has officially called a recession every single time we had 2 consecutive quarters of negative growth. It's unreasonable to expect anything else in this case.

If Trump was still president, the media would most definitely be calling this a recession. And they would be correct in doing so.
yes i have a hard time seeing robert reich arguing that unemployment is what matters if trump was in office and midterms were 4 months away
As I have exhaustively explained it isn't just occupying a building. It's about the people who are inside that building. In this case congress and the vice president.

There's also an element of symbolism that could embolden similar groups to take over other seats of power.

This isn't about taking over the US Government as it is currently. It is an existential threat to the current paradigm. There's no natural law that says the US must be a federal democratic republic. It could easily be a military dictatorship.

This is all elementary revolutionary stuff.
An idea for the long-term future: I've often felt like cooking would be a perfect use case for very simple augmented reality. Often times my hands are messy while cooking, making it hard to deal with a book or smartphone. Also, recipes are often very time-sensitive. If I could see the ingredients/steps quickly, that'd be terrific. Better yet, it'd be nice to see a demo of what I am making, for things that are difficult to describe in words (e.g. whipping egg whites - what does a "stiff peak" mean?). Obviously the hardware would be an issue, given that you're often standing over heat, steam, oil, etc. But its still a dream I have.
"Low-end" presumably refers to the fact that it's resold graylabel hardware. I wouldn't be surprised if the unit manufacturing cost was below $50.
A better question to ask imho would be what improvements you can make on a larger budget.
Honestly, give it a go. There's a few (a dozen or so) stylistic choices to make but it's mostly the same and standards are shared across the community far more than HTML+CSS / Angular .NET in my experience.
Just used it and completed a course and I am so much loving this, thanks for your work, will let you know if there are any constructive feedback, so far gooooooood
I agree. Seems like they spend more than one (or two) orders of magnitude more than the salary of the job to get the job.
>> Facebook does this weird thing were after someone I know recommends a video, my feed switches to recommended videos entirely until I click back to home

This switching to similar 'stuff' because you looked at one thing seems to be common on social media and my guess is that this is due to 'wrong' application of recommendation engines. Twitter, LinkedIn does it too.

While logged in to Twitter, you click a 'one-off' tweet and suddenly your timeline is filled with those types of tweets and those type of topics. If you go to your settings/topics, you will see that it is now populated with variations of that topic.

Same thing with LinkedIn. You view a job and your feed/job recommendation is now populated with those type of jobs.

Social media companies don't seem to be accounting for - oh, maybe I was just being curious about this tweet or this job or this company. It's especially bad for Twitter given that you already follow certain people so they have an idea of your interest
I didn’t consent to my bedroom being posted here this is an outrage.
Six years ago I took about eight months off. Didn’t get as much done as I’d hoped by half, but I’m almost at the point I could do that again. But at some point I should be hinting if early retirement instead, so I probably won’t.

Live below your means folks. Especially if you think your ethics actually matter to you, instead of something you do for theater.
I only did a cursory look but it looks like the backend for the API is on their Github licensed under AFGL.

https://github.com/getlago/lago-api/
The problem for me is the general weakening of all institutional claims to legitimacy. We don't realize just how much of our society is built on implicit trust. Once trust is gone things grind at a snail's pace, or seize up altogether.
We have to trust credit card companies, banks, the postal service, the police, military, big faangs, et cetera. The individual hasn't the resources to deal with a zero trust environment.
Vapes are very different. Im speaking from experience. Switching from smoking to vaping is way harder than quitting vaping.
TF makes API calls to the underlying cloud. If those hang, you'll have to wait for them to time out.

Whether TF can update the state & release its locks would depend on where those were hosted. If they're in the downed AZ, then ofc. it can't do that, and manual intervention will be required afterwards. I forget if you can make those objects regional when stored in AWS or not. (You can in some other storages.)

… what would you expect to happen here?
Recipes cant be copyrighted, so bloggers write long-form narratives ahead of the recipe to make the contents of the page intellectual property.
That's just it, it's a power imbalance that favors the company and not the interviewee.

Most cases when I've requested accommodations or told interviewers that I don't have time for their take home tests, I've gotten back: "Well, start over again in a year or so when you do think you have time. Let us know when that is, kthxbye."

Even from companies "desperate" to fill roles according to recruiters.

Many of those roles I'm fine with that too, if they want to waste my time on a lengthy take home assignment and a bunch of free labor that truly benefits neither of us, maybe it isn't the right role for me. Many of those roles I do the free labor anyway and regret it and it negatively influences any interest I have in further next steps and/or my entire opinion of the company. (I will absolutely shit talk the companies that have most wasted my time in interview processes.)

There's not a lot I can do about that power imbalance other than point to the fact that it is deeply systemic and wish that we'd mature the industry to better systems.
~zero carb is much easier to maintain than keeping track to stay under 15 Grams
It wouldn't matter if it was "somebody's fault."

In a two tier society like the US (the govt class vs the productive class) the government class protects their own with made up legal doctrine like "qualified immunity" which gives them carte blanche to steal, rape, and murder the productive class.

If the blame were to lie with one single individual at the FBI who committed multiple crimes effecting this illegal search that person would still not be held accountable by the courts, the FBI, nor any other government agency.
Couple of questions:

1) Did you pay everything up front or was it a 50% up front and 50% on delivery basis?
2) Did you manage any deliverables on a google sheet (dates, owner etc) or something similar?
This seems to be a textbook answer, but in reality we live in a world where people(renters and homeowners) have imperfect information. There is no renter out there that knows exactly how much they can get to the dollar. They have to compare with market prices and make a reasonable guess.
https://epic.uchicago.edu/news/why-do-we-import-russian-and-...

We export light sweet crude.

We don't have the refineries set up to refine that type of oil.

We import sour crude that the refineries set up to process more efficiently in the 90s (before fracking).

Saudi oil is the sour type - and so we import that and the price of Saudi oil has the biggest impact on US gas prices.

To change this around, oil companies in the US need to retool their refineries to the light sweet type that is produced domestically.
But it isn't the insurance that defines the price,it is the sales market. It doesn't matter if insurance says it is worth 20k if people will only pay 2k
There is no ”social media” when it comes to politics. The field is full of players with advanced manipulation capabilities, such as orchestrating fleets of fake personalities. This sort of thing is rampant, whether we want to accept it or not.
If Trump was still the president, these headlines would be "we are in a recession" (which is in fact the case), not "fears of recession". Which we are, per the definition that existed so far. The media has no reason to wait for the NBER to make the exact same call they've made every single time in the past.
As said, use some pipes and pumps to move it away. Don't forget to dilute (again, use pipes and pumps or whatever you prefer).
Do you have a place in mind where these things are not common? Like I have friends from Tennessee with colored hair, colored contacts, and like to wear bright "harajuku" style fashion.

but sure, I'm positive there's some towns where dressing in bright colors is frowned on. Not sure where that would be. Even Elvis and Roy Rogers wore outlandish clothing.
Social media in its current form (ad-driven, VC-backed) is far from direct democracy. It's obscurely controlled by not elected persons working for large corporation, optimized by AI/ML algorithms for confrontation (a.k.a. "engagement") and ad revenue, not for social problem-solving. The current social media are simply designed for a different purpose.
> If lobbying is legal, than bribes should be too.

Also selling your vote. Then we can at least choose the pol who sends the biggest check.
My history might be a bit fuzzy, but that exists in lineage from when Stripe had an IRC channel for dev support.

This is Stripe opting to go to where a core customer segment (developers) live. Discord sucks but from a business perspective it’s smart. You wouldn’t use their Discord chat for just any issue.
Not to pile on, but...

One of Tolkien's goals was to create something which resembled history rather than literature. Or if not history, then mythology that plausibly belongs to a real place, rather than a neatly-constructed story. So, some of the things that he does are "janky" from a purely dramatic perspective, but fulfill that purpose.

A common example from Lord of the Rings is having many related characters with the same or similar name. The convention in literature is to make characters distinguishable for practical reasons, but in "real" history naming conventions are messy and people aren't always distinguishable. There are even real debates among historians about whether a name refers to multiple people or not!

Tom Bombadil is a similar thing. He serves no dramatic purpose. But a history, or a mythology, doesn't always have events that fit together in a neat way. Sometimes stuff just happens, or there are things that are only tangentially related. And it's difficult to draw a circle around events and say inside the circle is our story, and outside the circle not our story. There are other stories, intersecting.
These threads are always the same: lots of comments about protein folding, how amazing DeepMind is, how AlphaFold is a success story, how it has flipped an entire field on it's head, etc.

I don't think that's necessarily so - there is a lot of justified scepticism about the wilder claims of ML in this forum; it is in fact quite difficult at times to know as an outsider to the field in question how kneejerk it is.
> One thing really smart ppl have in common is that they see the world as it is.

I wish that were true. Some use they power against themselves, making better delusions instead.
I did, and lots of former mormons who leave their religion and embrace the vices of the world after their two year mission.
>Why is it that philanthropists are always buying up media companies? It couldn't possibly be to promote their own ideologies.

Devil's advocate: why should large media platforms be only for the misanthropic? if you take your suggestion to its conclusion, no "philanthropists" would own a media company, so who does that leave?
It's AGPLv3 licensed indeed!
The notable exception to this, of course, is Trump's primary AND general elections.
There are places in the US where it’s more like Europe.

In Oregon full nudity is 100% legal everywhere, with no restrictions. Yes, I have seen many penisis I didn’t want to see; sometimes from the naked bike rides, sometimes from people in mental health crisis, sometimes from people who are just too high to pull up their pants.

Technically it’s only allowed for “protests” in Portland, but nudity laws just practically aren’t enforced.

Other natural things I get to see without restriction: smoking meth, shitting on transit stop, lying in pool of own fluids, pissing on lamp post, and having psychotic break. Europeans can only dream of such unbridled freedom.
Getting money out of politics would be a great reform (removing lobbyists, campaign finance reform, etc.). It also strikes me as almost impossible to implement. It's like getting the president of a company to switch to system whereby leadership is elected by the workers. It's all risk and low reward for them.

However, another political reform I've toyed with in my head is secret voting in the House and the Senate.

Who cares if Raytheon or Disney "owns" a given representative if those corporate sponsors can't actually be sure that they're getting the votes they paid for. It would also neutralize a lot of the petty party line votes and manipulation. Every issue would ostensibly be decided based on the representatives' actual value system.

Obviously the downside would be that the public at large would be unable to hold their representative accountable for a particular vote, but that seems like the lesser concern compared to the very obvious corporate vote buying and party-line bullshit that happens today.
Earth Overshoot Day 2022: Humanity has already used its resources for the year
It started among ex-smokers, but moved to teens especially as it went from "specialty shops" to "in drug stores". At this point, the number of ex smokers is the minority.
it does if we are able to separate 'what is good for democracy' with 'what is good for society'. It could be our current anxiety is the discovery that those two are distinct, and we can't handle the implication
You made me think of this cool video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
Classically, us-east-1 received most of the hate given its immense size (it used to be several times larger than any other) and status as the first large aws data center. It also seemed to launch new aws features first but that may have been my imagination. If true, I'm sure always running the latest builds was not great for stability.

us-west-2 has had outages as well but it is less common, even rare. I've been pushing companies to make their initial deployments onto us-west-2 for over ten years now. I occasionally get kudos messages in my inbox :)
This might be the one good use case for something like Google Glass. AR to tell you what ingredient to grab (even highlighting/circling/whatever the item if it's already out), timers, notifications ("those egg whites look done!"), etc.
Sure, it’s exactly the same, except that in one case you buy a little piece of a company that produces something, has revenues, holds patents, brands, factories, shops or distribution networks, and in the other case… not.
I'm not sure it is needlessly pedantic.

> In other words, maybe its undermining our current system by actually being more technically democratic.

I think OPs point is valid if the algorithm is really just giving humans more of what they want. In other words, if the engagement metric really is responding to how humans prefer to spend their time, this really is a view into what a more technically democratic society looks like.

Personally, I don't like the idea of that and would prefer the thought that these algorithms really are measuring the wrong thing!

To highlight the point I'm making, assuming the above is true, your stance could be summed up as: "yes, humans prefer this content, but we know better and will make the right decision on their behalf"

To re-enforce a sibling comment, being able to choose your own algorithm is exactly how you tease apart these two takes. Twitter supports this (chronological vs. engagement) - I personally opt for chronological. I'd be interested to see the stats on usage of that!
Agreed. We have way too many laws already.
3D engines on these limited systems fascinate me. There was also the game "X" running on the original gameboy which had a simple wiremesh 3D engine, akin to BattleZone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(1992_video_game)
> The goal is to remove an incentive to pass bad laws

that will happen regardless of the monetary incentive

> that benefit someone's personal finances.

I don't know how to contextualize this. There should be no slaves.

> "why shouldn't they be able to pass laws based on their investments?"

Hopefully, they are invested in their community, their city, their county, their state, their country. I don't know where you want to go with this. Obviously some people are... invested differently. Don't vote for these people

> You're looking at this from the wrong direction

we have different viewpoints, this why it seems this way
It's INSANE to me that this is a software service and not just a software product, like Microsoft Windows. It would be malpractice to use this at any company where security really matters.

If it were a a product you would only merely be at the mercy of the product's source code being securely written. But as a service, you are constantly at the mercy of the entire SaaS organization's security culture. Now you have to worry about every single employee with any access at the SaaS organization getting phished. About every sysadmin at the SaaS organization accidentally screwing up a config that opens up a door into their network. About how hardcore every support person at the SaaS organization is about resisting social engineering. Yeesh, it's exhausting to think about.

You've exploded exponentially the number of things that could go wrong resulting in a security hole. All for what? Nothing, because there's nothing about this product that inherently benefits from a service model technically. There's no large data in the cloud to crunch, nothing from other customers that could benefit a different customer somehow. It ain't napster, it's just authorization. It's a damn simple solved problem and you're making it harder just so you get subscription instead of one time revenue.

If promising your customers your service is secure and/or reliable is in no way a part of your value proposition, this is an ok option, but if it is, you're crazy to put yourself in such a vulnerable position like this
Thanks for an amusing comment thread :P
Maybe there's a hope if they carefully time the debates and votes to happen while Pelosi is on the plane to Taiwan.
"He appeared already to know much about them and all their families, and indeed to know much of all the history and doings of the Shire down from days hardly remembered among the hobbits themselves. It no longer surprised them; but he made no secret that he owed his recent knowledge largely to Farmer Maggot, whom he seemed to regard as a person of more importance than they had imagined. ‘There’s earth under his old feet, and clay on his fingers; wisdom in his bones, and both his eyes are open,’ said Tom. It was also clear that Tom had dealings with the Elves, and it seemed that in some fashion, news had reached him from Gildor concerning the flight of Frodo."