skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So google doesn't do that? I find that a little hard to believe to be honest
This stuff is fascinating, but also very humbling. Conway, fractals etc is truly a testament to how few and simple ingredients can create structures that are virtually impossible to analyze and predict without running the simulation. It speaks volumes about our limitations.
The Modern Data Stack: Past, Present, and Future
> Not to mention even today, Bluetooth is a shit show outside of the Apple ecosystem as far as handoff an ease of pairing.

I see people mention this, and I don't get it. I have a bunch of el cheapo Bluetooth audio adapters (car/garage/bathroom), one Bose headset, one Jabra headset, one chi-fi headset, one JBL speaker. They just work.

Very occasionally on my Android phone I have to pull down the system tray, click the little arrow next to Bluetooth and select the device I want. But in those few ambiguous situations there is no tech apart from clairvoyance that would allow the phone to know my intentions without my input.
Unwrap is good to use for things that are expected to work 100% of the time. If unwrap fails in such situations, it’s fine to have the program panic and shut down.
Ah, so Apple is linking the feature of finding _my_ phone with reporting on lots of others? That explains why people turn it on, but I find that creepy.
Assuming that the cops recognize the danger and actually do their goddamn job.

Unfortunately, many cops barely know how to operate a computer, way too many outright disregard cases where women are the victims (just look at the various rape kit backlog scandals to see how little the cops care), or have the knowledge on how to correctly request data from Apple, Samsung, Tile or whomever, and then how to use these data to get to the identity of the stalker.

On top of that, way too many people reflexively remove the AirTag or whatever tracker on their own - the correct way is to call the police which can at least use a sealed evidence bag so that fingerprints and DNA remains aren't compromised.
I wondered whether the fjords use US letter, at first. ;)
Hyundai already removed it (kind of) from some of their hybrid ICE cars! I say kind of because they just combined it with the traction battery and designed it to last the life of the car (using lithium instead of lead acid).
> No, use an LSM.

What is an LSM?
This is not an unpopular opinion. Millions of anglophones seem to be unable to grasp or accept that metric measures make intuitive sense to people who use them.
Results and analysis of post-SIGGRAPH Covid poll 2022
Ah, you're right, Samsung does operate a tracking network, Galaxy Find, though it's Samsung-only and still smaller than Apple's network: https://www.theverge.com/22570161/apple-airtag-samsung-smart...
> Hard alcohol for example is mainly sold in 0.75L

This led me down a minor rabbit-hole.

In Australia, at least, hard liquor is sold in 700ml or 1 litre bottles. Wines (not what I'd call hard alcohol) are typically sold in 750ml.

Why 750ml is the default for wine bottles seems to be uncertain.

It may be any or more or none of :

750ml is roughly 1/5 of a gallon

750ml provides 6 servings of a 'comfortable' amount (about 125ml)

glass bottles, when blown rather than cast, were limited by the amount of air a glass blower could push into molten glass - this was around that figure.

Either way, none of that, in and of itself, is a compelling argument for metric.
Mhmm... They have nothing to do with that behaviour. wink They're just joking about the self harm and suicide. wink The swatting of the discussed people is a completely unrelated coincidence. wink wink

It's a terrible art people master. It's like the worst hateful accounts on twitter which are extremely clean - you couldn't report a single tweet, yet we know exactly what they mean. Of course this account for explicitly-super-straight is not against anyone. Of course all this public information collected on specific people and their connections is for fun and not an invitation to harass them.
How much of that can be stored in capacitors to smooth out the peak AC load? Is that done at all?
The person you’re responding to said “designed to promote hate speech”. Your examples don’t sound like that.
I don't think that's coherent. Twitter for example has been the host of many many harassment campaigns which are propped up by its algorithms, it also hosts videos of murder, decapitations and other gruesome crimes. There are also regular death threats, doxxings and hate speech on twitter which are tolerated.

Conversely, KiwiFarms has been actively prohibiting and removing threats and posts that are considered illegal in its jurisdiction, including going to the extent of blocking all new registrations.

By what objective standards do you distinguish these sites when choosing to ban one and to keep another?
keffals.
Not necessarily, if they’re talking about splitting it vertically, not horizontally.
Tor services get DDOS’d all of the time - you generally have a single host somewhere that is the first hop in relaying traffic back to the service and that is easy to overwhelm. There is a hackish way to have several of those hosts but I think it tops out at a dozen. You lose a lot of audience going to Tor so might not be worth it.
Dependabot for CircleCI
We made a dependabot solution for CircleCI config, it will create pull requests for orbs and docker images
it always boils down to cheating yourself, the integrations just make it easier to remove temptation
Show HN: Weather API with forecasts based on AI
Meteosource is SaaS platform with a goal to achieve the highest possible weather forecast accuracy.

Most weather services around the world prepare their forecasts based on a single global NWP model and then apply a local model such as WRF to the data. Meteosource uses a number of data sources and proprietary numerical weather prediction models to extract the most valuable information from each. It learns from historical data and forecasts from many different models, compares their data from different places and meteorological situations, and creates a single output that should minimise inaccuracies and biases of individual models.

API documentation available at https://www.meteosource.com/documentation

I greatly appreciate any feedback and thoughts on how to improve this service and make it easier to use!
Yes, I've looked at the site quite a few times over the past few years. Even if you can't find people explicitly organizing there, you do see their effects across the internet in the form of off-site harrassment campaigns, generally of internet personalities, that seemingly come out of nowhere.
The way I think of China in comparison to Europe is basically, what if the Roman Empire survived until modernity - i.e. a central government for territories the size and importance of Europe and North Africa combined. This kind of centralistic system would probably also have continued Antique knowledge on a similar trajectory, but then stagnated, since fragmented societies with enough wealth to spread around simply create more opportunities to revolutionize various scientific fields.

So yeah, I think you can see it as something not up to a few variables, but you could also, as an example, pinpoint it to the Mongolian invasion creating the Yuan dinasty, which basically adopted Chinese culture and continued the empire, rather than fragmenting it like what the Germanic invasions did to Rome. This might have come down to a couple of decisions by Kublai Khan.
If by "listen" you mean by "blindly listen" (by the context of your comment it seems you mean blindly listen), this is absolutely horrible advice, and I wish people would stop repeating it. Even for most slightly non-trivial problems, physicians are often wrong in either diagnosis or treatment plans. In fact I've found physicians be some of the worst debuggers/problem solvers that I've ever encountered.
I treat these sites as cannaries. As long as they exist I can be confident that censorship isn't too bad, as they start to get shut down I start to worry. First the came for the X and I was not an X etc etc...
You give temperatures for cooking with 5 C resolution anyway, why would you need more than 0.5 C resolution?
How much electricity does an oil refinery require to create 1 litre of petrol?
Before I standardized on the cables below, I had USB-C cables in my laptop bag that:

- were power only up to 100W. But couldn’t do data.

- could do power up to 60W and data at USB2 speeds. But they couldn’t do video over USB-C. I have a USB-C powered portable display that can do power and video directly from my laptop.

- a USB-C cable that can do power, video, and data. But I’m still not sure how much data and power it can deliver.

- a few smaller USB-C cables that came with my Beats headphones and my Anker battery. I don’t know what they can do.

I finally threw away all of my cables besides my MagSafe cable and standardized on these for mobile devices (cheaper and not as thick).

https://a.co/d/7e3gH9u

But these are truly “universal”.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093YVRHMB
Really neat, thank you! I knew about the HRV but not the ERV.
I admit to really liking the X-E3--though the X-E4 wasn't obviously an upgrade. But I might just have stuck with Canon (I have a 5Diii) if I were going mirrorless today.

Fuji (although later getting into the X series), did pretty much what Kodak eventually did--mostly applying emulsion and chemical expertise in addition to legacy pro film business plus commercial printing--but, as you say, much smaller and much more insular.

As I've written about in the past, Kodak gets held up as a classic example of "marketing myopia"--see any Marketing 101 textbook. But, for the reasons you cite, Kodak should just have pivoted harder into digital doesn't really hold up.
> Apple has stressed that the company takes the issue of stalking very seriously, which is why it designed the alert system that appears on your iPhone if an AirTag not registered to you is seen moving with you over time

So if you don't use iPhone then you wouldnt know if you are being tracked?
Sorry for coming across as using bad faith. It's just that I didn't understand the overall model. And the article didn't explain it.

Also, I wouldn't blame the victim. I'd rather blame Apple for making their users opt in.
Like what? The NHS is basically entirely state run. Yes, they buy supplies and equipment from the private sector - they don't literally smelt their own sand into silicon - but the NHS employs all the staff, they own and maintain the buildings, they buy all the drugs and equipment. Private sector involvement in British healthcare is minimal. Literally every single person in the story about this poor girl is a state employee.

And that is why this tragedy happened. The outcomes here are terrible but exactly what you'd expect and what the NHS's critics have been saying for decades. Talk to people who used to live in the Soviet Union and you'll hear stories indistinguishable from this one. There are people and equipment there, in theory the ingredients for success are available, but nobody seems to care about the results. So the system steadily degrades into ever more dysfunctional states, the problems are obvious to everyone who interacts with the system and yet it cannot/will not improve.

This is exactly the reason communism failed and now the NHS is failing in the exact same way, for the exact same reasons. It's not even a new set of problems, it's just that the state of collapse is now so bad that even the most ideological people (e.g. Guardian editors) are starting to open up about it.

Sadly this poor woman is still a long way from being able to understand what happened to her family. Her conclusion at the end of the article is "don't blindly trust doctors, research things on the internet and speak out". Yeah, and then what? She was already doing those things and the doctors/nurses were ignoring her. Patients in the NHS are totally disempowered. It's not like a private sector system where you have options and could go to a competitor. If the doctors aren't diagnosing your child's problem properly because they're WFH then, well, you're just screwed: the child is going to die and the resulting investigation will be a whitewash in which the doctors who messed up the worst get promoted. That's what happens when you have one state run system for everyone.
I believe that the argument goes that processing e-mail in spam filters can take some time, so they accept it and queue it for analysis.
Proper orders include things like “why are we securing this objective”.

Really hard to make good choices unless you understand the next-level goal.

Also: is the town hostile? Friendly? Unknown? Disposition kinda matters.
It's increasing becoming the case that "terrible reputation" now includes the low reputation self hosters who don't have enough volume to even use the tools Google and Microsoft offer.

Google's Postmaster tools all show "No data to display at this time. Please come back later. Postmaster Tools requires that your domain satisfies certain conditions before data is visible for this chart."

Microsoft's Safe Network Data Service shows *"No data for specified IPs on this date" for every day.
Something else to consider is that EVs can remain idle in traffic without consuming much battery. They're not constantly consuming fuel like most ICE vehicles.
This is really interesting, but where is the interactive version? All I see is code and static images.
> I will never forget the time one of them (the founder of the company) told me he would commit suicide.

Wow
DDoS-Guard are in the strange position of being seen as a legitimate service within Russia, used by banks and telecoms and newspapers, but are almost exclusively used for illegal or unsavory purposes outside of Russia. They are well aware of what their global clientele are up to, but I assume they would rather avoid their domestic clients becoming too aware of it.
He said he took down the Daily Stormer because they claimed to have friends at Cloudflare (which was true https://nitter.net/GossiTheDog/status/1565128386753843201)
You're right, but people don't care about the truth. Personally I doubt that keffals is behind the attacks, since the site has been facing them for ages. A site like the KiwiFarms that compiles unsavory deeds is going to attract the ire of those same people who will do unsavory things to get that information hidden.
How to use Firecracker yourself to boot a VM
That wasn't the argument made in the article. There are reasons to believe that the technology is fundamentally unsound, and will never be able to scale or make money.
The issue of consider the grid as a kind of battery is that IF you are paid for the energy you inject you are paid FAR LESS than the energy you grab with a so big delta that's far less than the "efficiency loss" of a battery...

When I've made my actual p.v. (here, France, we are allowed to build p.v. systems as generic citizens because before connect any system you need a certification from a third party body) I choose 5kWp because I thought it's enough. Now I understand that to really maximize my self-consumption I need MUCH more peak power because I need to been able to run on p.v. anything at once as much as possible because sunny hours are not that long. It's the same for the actual heating (water-water heat pump) I have a small reservoir because the system is designed to run when I need heat. It should instead be designed to run full power but really MUCH in few hours per day etc. Now, I'm a sysadmin not a p.v. technician not working for anyone in the industry so I find curios that I personally realize that and no one who damn work for perhaps a decades in the industry do not realize the same...

About resistive heating: yes it's far from being interesting but it is for a thing: it's extremely cheap and run in any external temp condition. air-water heat pumps do not, water-water (geo or from hot water reservoirs) heat pumps are still dependent on the "external side" temp. A small batch of resistence run by relais piloted via a cheap GPIO board in sequence following the maximum p.v. output possible it's a cheap way to maximize self-consumption. A heat pump can't vary much the compressor absorption witch means that if you need a big one to heat quickly a large mass of water you also need to power it. If you have few smaller you might fire up depending on the available power but it's hyper-costly... IMO having a big heat-pump for when the Sun shine well, a small one for when you can't run the big and you are on-grid/battery and resistive for the rest is the cheapest solution to use at best any kWh you can produce, no proof for that, just an idea, but so far that's the result of my limited experience...
How to do visual regression testing
> I currently have a Toyota hybrid that is slowly reverting to an ICE-only after 8 years of ownership.

How do you detect when its doing that? My Prius is 14 years old and I think the hybrid still works. It does switch off the engine still at low speeds. Maybe it is isn't doing as well these days, but still seems good enough to keep for me.
> Combined, there was a 16 % higher risk of serious adverse events in mRNA vaccine recipients: risk difference 13.2 (95 % CI -3.2 to 29.6); risk ratio 1.16 (95 % CI 0.97 to 1.39).

I am not a statistician, but isn't this saying that there's not enough data to reject the null hypothesis (that the risk difference is 0 and the risk ratio is 1.0) with 95% confidence?
Is your comment hand-waving optimism, or do you have evidence that 1) deep learning classifiers are better than teachers at evaluating student competency across a wide range of fields, and 2) that using those tests (vs, say, teacher-observed in-class participation) results in better alignment to the educational needs of the student?

As https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-search-for-c... points out, "no computer algorithm can, for instance, understand whether or not your supporting evidence provides good, er even accurate, support" for the thesis, which seems right to me.

For example, https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/09/03/online-learning-a... has the story of student who answered the question "How did the location of Constantinople help it grow wealthy and prosperous?" with "It was between the Aegean and the Black seas, which made it a hub for boats of traders and passengers. It was also right between Europe and Asia Minor, which made it a huge hub for trade, and it was on many trade routes of the time. Profit Diversity Spain Gaul China India Africa" - and got a perfect score from the robograder.

I'll switch to something that is more measurable - physical education.

Why isn't physical education included in the PISA score?

We can measure someone's speed, weight, height, jump distance, weight lifting ability, and a lot more.

Do those give a good metric by which to judge someone's physical education grade? Or do we also need to include teamwork, improvement, and sportsmanship?
…because they’re way, way better in just about every way imaginable. The only upside to a gas car is that they’re slightly cheaper up front (in exchange for massively higher operating costs).
How is 4chan worse? They rapidly take down any CSAM and anything that vaguely resembles a raid. Most KF threads wouldn't survive on today's 4chan for even an hour.

This 12 years old comment describes the situation in 2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1947648 , although neglects to mention that things were this way due to strict moderation on 4chan.
Not true?

Google grew out of Brin and Page's graduate research project at Columbia University funded by the NSA and CIA through the National Science Foundation and aimed at mass surveillance. And their association with these organizations has continued to the present.

The "Don't be Evil" motto suggests to me that they were fully cognizant right from the start of what they had embraced and wanted to mute any public perception of that. And your apologetic response shows how much they succeeded.

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

https://www.mintpressnews.com/national-security-search-engin...
Torono isnt really typical. It is southern canada, and a bit of a heat island. Fort Mcmurray (that had to evac a few years ago) average january low: -22.5c. Places like that have almost 90c temperature swings from low to high in a given year (-50 to +35).
Exactly.

Most units have access to cash as well. A small stack of bennies and some candies for the kids would do wonders if the town isn’t hostile.
1250ft doesn't seem that big, I don't get why concrete with steel liner cost $25m either despite the height.
Still a blip for a company that was toying with $1B in Bitcoin.
I dunno much about Unicode, but I imagine it is a regular language? (Aka: acception / rejection can be determined by regular expressions / finite state machines)

If so, regular languages are one of those 'surprising things that can be parallelized'. It doesn't seem possible at first thought though.
> At best, that’s really noisy data.

This is the reality of measuring rare events among moderately large groups of people. It’s also possible that any number of unexpected cofounders could have occurred for a small group of people receiving the placebo doses in one segment, such as a small number of placebo doses having an unexpected issue. Impossible to say, which is why large numbers of people are necessary in trials exploring relatively rare events like this.

Regardless, there doesn’t appear to be cause for concern among any of their observed serious events during the study period.
Nah, too much Nazi is their line I believe. Pro Nazi speech is heavily banned in Russia and it is a Russian company.
If you don't know what's exploding left and right, how are you going to fix it?
There has been decent research showing that a lot of Covid vaccine side effects appear when subjects are given placebo, which indicates that the subjects expected the side effects.

So we may someday discover that vaccine misinformation causes people to experience imaginary negative effects from vaccines or placebo.
Fair enough! Thanks for clarifying.
Joining the army and complaining you’re being forced to do something seems… odd.
Is Predestination (2014) the gold standard for film adaptations?
Other than the stalking aspect (which is very real) it's crazy to me that Apple casually built the largest surveillance network in the world and tech-minded people, who are usually up in arms about stuff way milder than this, are actually cheering them on. Is it because of the Apple logo (I remember a million negative comments about Amazon's similar mesh network)? Or because it makes your life 0.01% easier? Is it really worth it to carry a tool in your pocket 24x7 that governments, stalkers, investigators or anyone else can use for their own ends without you even realizing it?
This is less of a critique and more of an additional thought to this study.

We tend to place higher value on things where we have at least a partial understanding of the creation process.

Thought. Are we also undervaluing things where we have no understanding of the process at which it was created?
One of few cases where brain drain is actually a good thing.
Whenever I see the words "vaccine hesitancy", I immediately think of Fox News. It will take years to recover from the damage they've caused.

Growing up in the 80s and 90s, we were all told that music videos, video games, and violent movies would do great harm to our society. But it turns out that Fox News is the single most destructive force in our (US) society.