skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nearly 20 years ago I was attacked on forums for suggesting such treats were even a possibility. What surprised me was the vehemence of the attack - that is I had a damn hide and temerity to even suggest the notion was possible.

What they didn't realize was that several years earlier that as a part of my work I'd been given the job of investigating if backdoors had been installed on certain critical hardware.

Yes, it's palpable and it's been so for a long time, unfortunately I'm not at liberty to be more specific.

Don't be fooled by the deafening silence from hardware types. Knowlwdge of existing treats and the current 'security' climate/milieu along with basic commonsense ought to suggest this problem is already with us and will be increasingly so in the near future.
I live within earshot of one of these! It's definitely a clever solution to marking the coastline, since it doesn't require electricity, lights, or much maintenance. It basically "whistles" all winter long, though. Some people may hate them, but at this point it feels like a friend or something, like birdsong or the wind in the trees.
You might wanna argue his characteristic nose is the biggest giveaway.
I found Anne Boden a tad disingenuous, mentioning 'the book' at every opportunity. Tom sounded more genuine, to me.
All 'deep learning' things eventually fail on Windows for me. I almost got an AI image model repo setup on windows but ONE package for indexing is only available on Linux.... oh well time to redo it all
People thought Mark Twain was a fool at the time, right?
The two best:

1) Working (professionally) on a project that happens to be open source: https://github.com/metabase/metabase/

2) Coming to a Rails project mostly written by a very senior 7-person team. There was still a fair amount of jank (mostly from seed-round assumptions that weren't holding up when I joined after the Series A) but it still followed The Rails Way and nothing was too gross. It also helped that everyone important was still at the company and available for questions.

PS on (2): Seven of those original eight dev are now gone, including me; the median years of experience has gone from 8-10 to 0-3; the team size is at least 40 and I think more; and my understanding from friends still at the company is that the codebase is in general a flaming mess.
Someone cribbing our approach would be mission partially accomplished.

The idea is to displace the journal system and advance open science and academic publishing. If it accomplishes that goal, mission accomplished. I'll be a little sad if I didn't get to participate, but the whole world of software development awaits and there are other neat projects to work on. If they crib our approach, but execute poorly and don't succeed in opening publishing, that's not mission accomplished, but there's no reason we can't move forward and execute better in that scenario. If they crib the approach and show why it doesn't work, that's also mission accomplished. It shows that this isn't the right solution to the problem.

Or maybe we succeed - it remains to be seen. Any of those outcomes - cribbed and failed, cribbed and succeeded, or we fail/succeed in a way that shows whether the concept works clearly - we would consider mission accomplished.
RalfJ if you see this: you have my permission to use Cool Bear on your blog. Thanks for asking!
For woodworking porn I like Pask Makes. He has a great series called "scrapwood challenge" where he makes stuff from fire wood.
> ....and your chances of being able to do those things (without severe risk of poverty and homelessness) are increased dramatically by having been lucky enough to be born wealthy, or at least upper-middle-class.

That's some good insight porn right there!
Has anyone done any vocoding/deep fakes using this? Appreciate any articles/tips you can share if so.
Because it fits the meaning of what he is trying to convey. Porn, is immediate gratification that makes you feel good at the moment, but doesn't really satisfy the deeper needs you might have.
I think before lab meat, we're going to see an explosion in both volume and diversity of plant-based meats. Discount chains in Europe and NA are jumping on the bandwagon and creating all sorts of plant-based products and bringing the price way down - already cheaper than meat sometimes. Plant-based raw materials are the cheapest, we just need to improve processes and scale up. And unless governments increase meat subsidies even more, it's likely that meat, specially beef becomes too expensive for some people to eat regularly in the next 10 years.
It's a good question, and I'm not sure I have a great answer. I suspect the main motivator (besides the obvious analytic data) is offloading storage to the cloud.
Is there a reason you assume people won't simply charge at night with relatively standard 240V (or even 120V) chargers? Most cars don't average more than 60 miles a day, which is less than 20kWh. In much of the US you could install 10-15 solar panels to do that even in the winter.

Now solar panels are mostly made in China (as are almost all consumer electronics), but that seems like a far more general problem to solve.
There's an easy thing we can do to start fixing: ban ag exports. We been subsidizing it for too long and literally shipping our water overseas. We reduce our own ag production to feed just us, even those uses of water are probably doable.
+++ News: +++ Aged Worker remain having social-contacts to colleagues and may have satisfying feelings if their knowledge is in demand.

And like any other 'bubble' at least the ultimate goal seem to fleece somebody.

Honestly the whole point of this is 'to make things easier'. +++

P-:
I think we are starting to see first conflicts.

But it is not the type of war that we fight over oil or gas. But instead very localised conflicts over rivers. Think of Nile and Kashmir.

There is no point of conquering other countries for lakes or ground water. The transport is just too expensive.
Just consume new epiphanies until you die and you lived a very happy life.
The author also wrote this excellent article:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty
There's no such thing as procrastination. There's definitely depression and the reason why many people "procrastinate" is because accomplishing tasks simply does not produce any feelings of reward in their brains.

Otherwise the natural aspect of wanting to do work would have kicked in and with it the loop of work hard -> reward cycle. Every single thing I've learned about productivity is wrong. If you ever go down the rabbit hole of productivity or battling procrastination the odds are that something else is very wrong.
Get a cheap domain, create a custom email address (hn@mydomain.com), and forward email to whatever you use. In your post put something like "please put this random string in the email subject so I know you're not a bot." Set up a filter in your email. It's not foolproof but it's something.
I know you mean well by posting this, but this isn't going to help anyone with depression "deal with it."
When I remarked yesterday that engineering curriculums that emphasized memorization of engineering formulas rather than understanding how to derive them were inferior, I was dismissed as arrogant and egotistical :-)
Hey everybody, at the time I’m posting this, four of the top five comments are about energy. Many people are in fact talking about the climate crisis.
Exactly. There will be no need for "legacy" energy. Companies that are too invested in fossil energy can die and be replaced with companies that invested in solar.
I have a monzo personal and business account and I haven't had any major issues. As a former Barclays customer, they'd have to be fairly terrible to be any worse though.

I did try an open a Starling account once but they claimed my phone number was already linked to an existing account, which I found strange and wasn't prepared to jump through the hoops required to prove otherwise.
Async crowd is not mad at all! And in fact for a truly global & remote organization is impossible to schedule time for everyone. Just open your work email at times you work. Done.
Right, and that's where I question whether the "clean room" is something that is morally necessary.

If it's okay to copy something in the legal way that Compaq did it, why is it not legal to skip the clean room and just copy a design?

I don't mean espionage and actual stealing of code/schematics (I don't think many Chinese companies engage in that, contrary to the perception). I mean, the company buys the product, inspects it, then copies it.

If Compaq had done that directly, it would have been illegal, but the outcome would have been the same as the clean room design.

I question the merits of having that level of copy protection where reverse engineering is only legal in a specific and arbitrarily convoluted way. To me it seems like that idea might encourage monopolies and higher prices for everyone.
Here's what Meta's blenderbot replied with: "The Tokyo tower is taller than the eiffel tower. Interesting facts like that interest me. Do you know about it?"
There are several I know of right now, although they're each in very specific spaces. From weeding, to insect removal, to high value picking.
I often give myself a clear task, and then set a 10 minute timer, and make myself focus for just 10 minutes. This is usually enough to get the ball rolling, and let me overcome the hump of not wanting to work. It's a simple little trick, but is usually enough to help me focus for much longer than 10 minutes.
What’s weird is the images in the article freaked me out. The Google search images did nothing for me. Maybe I was just primed / warned ?
The article gets very fluffy at the end in particular. "Anyone" can join, which immediately made me think that there is now ample opportunity for the existing problem industry players to interfere with impunity.
Hi Amos, thanks a ton. :)
You say that now, but our leaders have regressed to such a degree that I don't believe they have any kind of foresight to plan ahead more than a couple years.
I’m also confused about OP. Military now controls some the largest and most productive farmland in Europe.

And the Ruble remains strong because Russia is insisting on taking payments in Rubles, and Europe agrees or will freeze to death this winter.
Distribution of Byzantine finds outside of its boundaries in 6th century
Go look up how much money they have in deposits. When I checked in 2017/18 they had like 87mm USD total. That’s a single UHNW account at a “real” bank. Maybe it would earn 1-2mm in annual profits from AUM to cover a dozen staff? Idk I’m not an expert.
> Certainly cross country electric lines aren't going to needed as much because the energy can be produced by a relatively clean factory. With coal, we want it very far away enough away from consumers so as not to cause health concerns. Decentralized energy, at the very least, means we can create solar power plants next to larger cities and towns.

Your going to need very long electric lines, to send clean energy from places where its sunny to places where it cloudy, or from places where its windy, to places where its currently calm.
"The software industry has been doing daily stand-ups for so long that it doesn’t remember why they exist"

I've been a professional developer at one major software company after another (including ones that have tried SCRUM) since the '90s, and never heard the term "stand-up" at work until last year. That's a broadcast-news term as far as I'm concerned.

Maybe they've been doing them but not calling them that.
Google DNS IPv6 Broken
My first thought when I saw MiniRust was "cool, a way to get the binaries small enough for embedded" but what I got was actually way cooler. Ralf is a great writer, even though I'm too slow for Rust he's got a talent of making all the arcane concepts seem accessible.
A gem from this article: "Minecraft would probably never have happened, if Notch started by asking in the forums if he should use Java or not."

Most things wouldn't happen if the creator asked ahead of time what they should do. This is the dark side of peer review and relying on peers. It leads to a kind of mental / creative vetocracy situation where ideas are killed in their most fragile state by casual comments.
Why not just use the standard Voight-Kampff test?
Common Use Cases for Fastify
I didn't think anyone paid more than Google?
Under that argument, why bother improving anything?

At the end of the day, you can do anything you need to do in C.

What's the point of having all these other languages?
You wanna provide some sources for your claims?
That's certainly the hard way!

There are shortcut formulas, and before calculators a lot of calculations were done using drafting equipment.
Well, if I can't rob banks in my Tesla then I don't think it's even worth getting one anymore.
The repo itself has good tutorials under the notebooks/ folder to get started with training and generating synthesized voices. Check out
"Tutorial_2_train_your_first_TTS_model" you could start there.

FYI the format that they expect in metadata.csv has changed over time, it used to be "filename|transcribed text" and now it expects "filename|speaker name|transcribed text" but that's not reflected in the notebook.
You need to shift into structured procrastination [1]. Play your tasks off of one another. Beware that sometimes you are avoiding doing truly important tasks, but you'd likely be avoiding those anyway so you may as well make use of their existence.

[1] http://www.structuredprocrastination.com
Try also `dig @2001:4860:4802:34::a aaaa ipv6.l.google.com`

Resolving ipv6.google.com from ipv6 only host give no result.
Using IPv4 DNS is ok.
The problem is that it's a classic large-scale prisoner's dilemma. Living in a walking city is nicer than living in a driving city. But living in a walking city with a car is even nicer!

The only way to fix it is by passing taxes or other restrictive legislation, which has so far been extremely difficult because most voters choose "let's make things a bit easier for you today" over "we should all sacrifice now to make things probably better later".
California DMV accuses Tesla of making false claims about Autopilot and FSD
You can access a monzo business account on the web to access statements and such. I believe they also have an emergency web access feature for personal accounts.

https://monzo.com/blog/2018/06/13/how-to-get-online-in-an-em...
I'd be curious what your wind setup looks like. I have some land off grid which gets good wind, and I'm trying to decide whether that could be a reasonable alternative to solar. I don't see nearly as much information about residential wind turbines as I do solar.
Jocko willinck (and many others I am sure) likes to state that you can’t rely on motivation because it comes and goes. Rely on discipline, build habits using discipline if you want to get anything done. A trite but in my opinion helpful statement is discipline equals freedom.
> First, a note about the context. We started the company in the UK in February 2015, when “digital banks” weren’t yet a popular idea. BankSimple had launched in 2012 with some big plans, but sold to BBVA in early 2014 with about 100,000 accounts, having struggled to raise sufficient funding to continue. N26 started development in late 2013, initially as a card for kids, while Revolut was founded a few months after Monzo, in April 2015.

Is it odd that the author, along with the rest of the founders, came from Starling Bank[1], a UK digital bank founded in 2014, and yet Starling Bank isn't mentioned?

Slightly less obvious, but still important, is the UK's first internet bank, Egg, was founded in 1998! [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monzo
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_Banking
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds fuses midcentury design with SciFi futurism
What of adenoviruses or Novovax? Are there any vaccines that meet your approval?
U.S. Lawmakers Look to Digital Dollar to Compete with China
They didn't, but those nukes did end up in various member states. The last couple months people have talked a lot about the 1993 deal between the US, Russia and Ukraine that got Ukraine to give up its nukes in exchange of (now apparently worthless) guarantees of territorial integrity.

If Russia collapses, there's going to be mostly tribal territories in Siberia that have nukes.
Librem 5 USA at Shipping Parity: New Orders Ship Within 10 Business Days
> According to Jaynes, the earliest Greek text of sufficient size to test the question of whether there is any evidence of consciousness is the Iliad. In fact, the Iliad does not seem to mention any subjective thoughts or the contents of anyone’s mind. The heroes of the Iliad were not able to make decisions, no one was introspecting or even reminiscing. Apparently, they were noble “automata” who were not aware of what they did. Iliadic man did not have subjectivity as we do; he had no internal mind-space to introspect upon. Some lexical oddities in the Homeric text (such as the absence of a single word translating “consciousness”, “mind”, “soul”, or even “body”) led Jaynes to formulate the hypothesis that the Iliad was composed by nonconscious minds, which automatically recorded and objectively reported events, in a manner rather similar to the characters of the poem. The transition to subjective and introspective writings of the conscious mind occurred in later works, beginning with the Odyssey.

I was speaking with an actor friend of mine recently, and the topic of novels came up. I asked him when the first novel was written, and he cited some book I'd never heard of written in England hundreds of years ago. The definition he gave was that the piece of literature, in order to be a novel, must spend a good bit of time dwelling on character's introspection. Next time we speak I'm going to have to mention this conclusion of Jayne's for him.
What are you even on about? Why bring a digression about royality when the comment was about varna being heridetary? Despite being the perfect embodiment of Kshatriya dharma, Karna is referred to as a sutaputra and a suta throughout the text. Quoting from the Bibek Debroy translation of the BORI edition you hold in such high regard:

"Rama angrily spoke these words to Karna. ‘O foolish one! No one who has been born as a brahmana can endure such great suffering. Your patience is like that of a kshatriya. I wish to hear the truth.’ Karna was frightened of being cursed. He sought his favours and said, ‘O Bhargava! Know me to be between a brahmana and a kshatriya, born as a suta."

> You should read the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute's (BORI) Critical Edition of the Mahabharata - which is the definitive edition

Please read the original Sanskrit or an edition that isn't watered down by wishy washy translation. For instance, in Sanskrit, the charactersitics of each varna are described as 'स्वभावजम्'. Bibek Debroy translates it to nature, focussing on the 'स्वभाव' and entirelly omitting the 'जम्' part. Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan preserves the full implications of the term and translates it as born of their nature.

> Shabari, from whom Rama accepted half-eaten berries

And which critical edition of the Ramayana did you read that story in? The irony of reaching for apocrypha to argue against perceived revisionism!
>But if occasionally someone has a low credit score not because they're an actual credit risk but because an ex-spouse lied about them

okay but I fail to see how that's "shady" behavior on the part of experian, any more than amazon is "shady" for allowing to post false/defamatory reviews.

>because they published an article critical of Experian, then they're going to lose access to medical care all the same

is this something that actually happened, or something theoretical?
It's just empty self aggrandizement. "Be the right sort of person and you'll have the right hunches" is transparent nonsense.
Just because mobile companies are bad doesn’t mean we would be ok with Tesla being less worse. Both are issues and should be tackled simultaneously
I wish my subconscious was fooled so easily.
If nothing else DALL-E showed that automation will takeover artists jobs too.

GPT-3 can generate quite sensible paragraphs but is far away from generating pages of internally consistent content. On there other hand it works OK as semantic aware knowledge base: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32348768
There are a few no doubt. For being either 10x or 100x simpler problem to solve than full self-driving, there are far fewer companies pursuing it.

All of the tech companies and all the ICE car companies should (in theory) be able to solve these problems on their way to FSD. But it largely ignored IMO.
I'm having a very difficult time understanding what you're trying to get across here; can you rephrase?
Yes, MiniRust is basically a slightly extended MIR. But MIR is designed for borrow checking and MiniRust is designed for exploring semantics. And MIR doesn't have a precise operational semantics so it's not like this is duplicating much if anything.
The initialism is increasingly known. And yet bad: we could argue that "ICE vehicles" are connected cars, because - after William Gibson - Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics are not relevant on traditional combustion-based vehicles.
DevDash: A highly configurable terminal dashboard
Japan's bigger problem was that for all that area they conquered in the Pacific, they obtained no industrial capacity. It was just space they had to garrison and supply.

There was something deeply irrational about their decision to go to war. The same irrationality led to subsequent errors, including Midway.
I got to work on a (very) brief project -- I had two weeks to add features to a product to demo at a trade show. The person who had written the code I inherited had done a really good job of setting up a nice architecture, and used a library I had not encountered before, but which turned out to be really nice. So extending it was (nigh) trivial, and changing things was really straightforward.

The project lead was incredibly impressed that I was able to make a solid contribution check-in on my first day :-)
People do all sorts of home renovation with lighting, fuse boxes, outlets and the like. I don't want to dismiss safety concerns but at the same time this is well within scope of many home owners.

> I don't understand why commercial solar isn't even bigger than it is - are they waiting for prices to come down, or what?

I think this is a really good question and I don't know the answer to it.

My not-very-well-informed opinion is that there are a confluence of factors involved:

* Infrastructure buildout, especially in the USA where the infrastructure projects take massive amounts of effort and the population is spread out over a large area of land, takes a lot of time, effort and money.

* The prices involved aren't as lucrative yet as they could be. When the price per MWh is 1/10 that of coal, then we'll see huge rollout (in my opinion).

* Adoption/rollout is happening but, in some places at least, there's government capture preventing widespread rollout/adoption (Pennsylvania?)

* Aging infrastructure prevents large scale energy injection at random points.

To the last point, here in New York state, I've heard one has to pay to first do a survey if the site where you want to build a solar array can actually inject that much more energy into the grid (at a cost of $10k+ or more) and even then, you're limited by what the aging energy infrastructure can support, capping the amount of energy available.
Malcolm Gladwell slams working from home
Serendipitously over the weekend I was thinking about a future where for key sensitive data access (e.g. production main) you may need to have a quick 5 minute call (4th factor, "3D verification") where you would be asked to turn on your camera and be asked to answer some simple question and in different positions...

Main thinking was how out of control it would get, it would probably end up looking like anti-cheat systems where its a constant cat and mouse game due to growing sophistication of deep fake models.