skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it worth leaving services like this? Seems like an indicator that whatever service I'm using has little respect for my time if they can't figure out a better way to keep the bots away. I have bank accounts that throw me a captcha even though I have MFA enabled and an extremely strong password. Seems like they are just being obtuse.
"Environmentalism" didn't originally have anything to do with preserving human life. If you don't regard the preservation of human life/civilization as the goal, what's the argument for CO2 emissions being an emergency?
A society in which energy is cheap is better able to help the homeless than one in which it is expensive. Same with food or any other necessity.

Also, the mere existence of housing problems doesn't negate the point that cheap energy is immensely beneficial to human flourishing in general.
The floating AD exactly where your thumb goes in mobile made me instantly stop reading
This is relatively straightforward.

First, introduced species tend to, by definition, not breed with the 'original habitat' population, simply because they're separated by sufficient distances.

Second, these types of gene terminator approaches tend to work relatively quickly - several generations, I think, but I've only read about these in insect populations where generations are months not years. Anyway, the fallback approach is to maintain a breeding stock of non-edited, isolated somewhere safe, and if the original habitat specimens do get wiped out accidentally you can re-introduce if appropriate.

This is a good solution for mosquitoes - where you basically do want to wipe out a handful of species for a year or more, as the actual intent is to wipe out malaria (Plasmodium). Once that's done, you have the option to safely reintroduce those original-gene mosquito species.
It's best to treat the Silmarillion as you would read the Bible. The styles are intentionally similar and both evolve throughout the works. There are narrative diversions throughout Tolkien's work, but it's ultimately a history of Middle Earth rather than a narrative story.
Climate change caused deaths. Famine, heat, draught, etc.
I think it’s partly a communication and organization issue. The local police funnel most immediate public requests through the same two intakes (emergency and non-emergency numbers) which don’t appear to be staffed by people eager to shop your small loss around until they find the individual or department who wants to use it to build a case.

Larger agencies like the FBI have more intake points, but don’t seem to reliably route to local police.
It's not all that different than going home and doing the cooking or the laundry. Surely you don't leave housework to your partner "because your time would be better spent elsewhere", right?

We don't think of brushing our teeth as "wading into the weeds", it's just an integral part of life for us. Cooking and laundry is (hopefully) just as much an integral part of life. Similarly, the Japanese famously don't have public trash bins everywhere and yet their streets are spotless because they consider public space cleanliness an integral part of life.

And one would hope that saying hi to people is an integral part of life too.
I agree, and think the article writer agrees, it was mainly their fault (after the actual fraudster of course).

I still genuinely don't understand why such a basic thing as ip restriction is not part of the security settings in stripe. I keep looking for it thinking I must be missing it. On the user's site, it could be as simple as a fail2ban rule to deal with most of this. And no doubt he is not the only one to have done such a thing, given the number of libraries and frameworks people throw on their sites, all with their own layers of configuration.
I don't think the reference you provided makes the point you think it makes. The ACLU states that their mission is to fight for better access to education. Nowhere do they say that their job is done.
Maybe your subjective opinion is different than other people's subjective opinions?
Yeah, looking that way. Biggest contributor to plastic in the ocean, directly killing it too.
Speaking of star trek, I'd highly recommend "lower decks" to anyone who is repulsed by the latest live action horror show. It's kind of funny that a lower budget cartoon has managed to be more authentic, original and well written all at the same time - it manages to pull off making fun of the old franchise while also being nostalgic about it. For any true star trek fans, the only real new star trek show is lower decks imo.
This study answers a simple question: "If I deploy this treatment to x people, how will this affect the outcomes of those people over the next y months (where y is roughly the same as the study length)?" And this sort of study, when impartially carried out, can provide a reasonably accurate answer to that question.

I fully agree that there are plentiful problems with this. Such a study would conclude that smoking cigarettes is perfectly healthy! But going beyond that is generally not possible in any meaningful way, because one cannot see into the future. For instance you now claim, with hindsight, that effectively 100% of people will be infected by COVID. Yet at the same time these studies were happening, we were carrying out actions, ostensibly well informed and in good faith, that promised to be able to effectively eliminate COVID if we just e.g. shut down the country for 'x' weeks.

And so you now want to compare risk(COVID) vs risk(vaccine), but these vaccines ultimately proved themselves unable to meaningfully prevent COVID infection or spread. So instead you need to compare risk(COVID) vs risk(COVID + vaccine). And similarly the vaccines also ended up with brief periods of efficacy, so again you need to factor in yet another variable: risk(COVID + vaccine + boosters x time).

And that's really just getting started. Imagine trying to factor in completely unknowable, yet inevitable, viral mutations. Ultimately, these long term models are more likely to reflect the biases of the person building them than any actual relationship to expected outcomes. And when there are tens of billions of dollars at stake for a model to give the "right" answer, I don't think this is anything we ought ever aim for. Like in software, KISS. [1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
> I’ve been telling anyone who will listen that AI art isn’t stealing much lunch when it comes to professional art.

Yet. These models have been out for only a matter of months. Just last year the state of the art was DALL-e v1, which is a toy in comparison[0] to DALL-e 2/imagen/SD.

Making predictions is perilous but it would be surprising to me if computers did not have fully super-human artistic ability in the next 5 years.

[0] https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
I can access anyone room just simply changing the MD5 hash url
Random Password protection for room may be the best feature
Running a test room right now: https://chitchatter.im/public/8872ba64-6f4f-4d67-a71a-d47e9b...
G7 company emissions falling short of global climate goal, study shows
Hopefully the availability of fast IP networks at sea will help with observers disappearing without a trace in the future.
> You can also do some crazy stuff with recursive SQL evaluation. I.e. a UDF that executes raw SQL command text, which itself can contain the same invocation. Bonus points if this command text resides in the same database and can reflect/edit itself at runtime...

This is super intriguing, would love to see more details / examples of this.
Oh hey, me too. I just thought you might be interested.

It didn't go well, and the description wasn't great. It left me thinking they maybe hadn't tried very hard, like didn't iterate the design.

Seems like they're a really easy target, though.
Also, they didn't (and still don't?) pay to winterize plants, so if it gets mildly cold by northern US standards (which happens about once a decade) a bunch of their plants (and unwinterized windmills) shut off.
It has become increasingly clear over the recent years that there is no real rationality that we can apply here. You cannot reason about it. The foundational axioms have fallen off and eroded.
Deep learning classifiers can handle essays almost as cheaply as multiple choice questions. Teachers are inconsistent and expensive as graders.
fwiw i found that a large proportion of the metacritic user reviews i looked at the night it come out appeared to be fake, not all containing racist/sexist content, and more seemed to take a "tolkein would be rolling in his grave" slant

it was a fun problem to consider though, how to evaluate whether a review is fake or not. obviously the most powerful tools would be ip logging or browser fingerprinting or requiring other user verification but absent that i wonder what approaches review verification services take based on the content alone. i use some plugin for amazon reviews that i think looks for similar terms but it seems like it can sometimes be overzealous when products are very simple so many reviews seem similar when they might be from unique people
I've been happy with Flacbox. Obviously it supports FLAC but it also supports OPUS which is great for the portability/sound quality tradeoff.
Aoe?
The best "review" system I've ever come across was Netflix's DVD plan. You would rate a bunch of movies and then it would give rating estimations of other movies based on how people with similar taste to you rated them, which is exactly what I want from a review system.

The general population, groups of trolls, review bombers, people who just didn't like the same kinds of movies as you, etc. would all be irrelevant.
Regarding cables, I just exclusively use 0.8m Thunderbolt 4 100 W cables. If something isn't working, for sure it is the device on one end of the cable and not the cable itself.
You can also use Caddy in place of NGINX and let it handle Lets Encrypt for you :)
Neat. Reminds me of the hidden shoe computers developed by Claude Shannon and Ed Thorp in 1960 for cheating at roulette.

https://nautil.us/claude-shannon-the-las-vegas-cheat-6397

J. Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard from UC Santa Cruz also developed one in the late 70s as part of a group called The Eudaemons.

http://physics.ucsc.edu/people/eudaemons/layout.html
It's like 10 seconds of your time.
> The problem with velocity isn’t poor metrics, the problem with velocity is it’s trying to measure a meaningless quantity.

that's exactly right, it's taking 2 dimensions (estimate and fitness of estimate) and quashing it down into 1 dimension, where you necessarily lose information.

It's a point in that it's an abstract idea that can represent an atom or a universe.

It's not useful for anything outside of the abstract.
I designed, built, and programmed my own keyboard [video]
Eagles are literally servants of an angel, they aren't a taxi dispatch service.
I honestly wonder how many studies have been done on peoples fitness in 2022.

Most people I know do next to nothing for their cardio vascular systems, or their health.

Maybe these things are unavoidable no matter how fit one is, but some in their thirties are less fit than 75 year olds I know.
Looks like that uses aucdtect:

http://tausoft.org/wiki/aucdtect

I wonder if there is any open source implementation of the algorithm it uses.

http://tausoft.org/wiki/True_Audio_Checker_Algorithm
In that case the Priority card is a lot less valuable! (maybe that's OK)
It's kind of enjoyable if you fast forward through the parts where they're doing mundane things in slow motion. Like picking up that key at the mountain.
> This adaptation leaves a dull impression.

I got the same impression as far as the story and dialog goes (-"You have not seen what I have seen.", -"Yes, I have!", - "No, you haven't!"). I am trying to like Galadriel but she's just too different than the movie or the book version, so it's a struggle for me.

However, I do like special effects and the costumes. I like how they did the ship sailing to Valinor. It's not how I imagined it when reading, but it's still interesting.

Khazad-dûm in the second episode looked pretty epic, I thought. The wife could have used a beard :-) but, oh well, not not a big deal.
> "The effect of vaccination was not systematically assessed."

I think you're either paraphrasing deceptively, or you are being intellectually lazy. Perhaps it is better to not assume malice...

The rest of the quote is:

"In total, 144 participants received an mRNA vaccination between the baseline and the follow-up scan. We performed separate analyses for participants with vaccination as well as for participants without vaccination. The results were not different from the findings of the full cohort as presented. The cardiac effects of vaccination require further research."
> I am likely not the target audience, seeing as how Amazon provides ~14 languages for closed captioning - they may be seeking a more global audience with this content.

Yes -- instead of you they're focusing strictly on Earthlings.
Totally opposed to capital punishment, but as long as the person who enjoys the work isn't the person who decides that it needs done it seems fine, maybe even better if they enjoyed it. You probably want the person who isn't going to get PTSD from it carrying it out if minimizing human suffering is the goal.

I can't decide if doing the same thing with pedophiles and CP moderation is terrible or not. My gut reaction is terrible but after hearing about how traumatizing it is for the people who do it maybe it's some kind of fucked up win win. Because I could straight up not do that job, but that job being done prevents real life abuse.
It's disheartening how antisocial well paid coders seem to be. I mean that in the most literal way.
They’ve slipped the ring on
Could the browsers lose the connexion when not the app with focus on the phone? Like maybe it reset the websocket?
Can this explain why the quality of twitter has taken a dive (in my opinion of course)? I blocked all the crypto stuff by blocking 'bitcoin' and 'crypto', as well as 'trump', but something has been going on for the last 6-12 months.

I mean, all the crypto stuff at least objectively made sense: people trying to make money, but I don't know what's going on anymore.
when looking at the metacritic user reviews the other day they seemed obviously brigaded / amplified and i was wishing there was a tool available for filtering so i could do what i would consider their job, verifying reviews / protecting from bots. i was kind of thinking a good comparison for a userscript approach could be to just exclude the 0,1 and 9,10 ratings for everything assuming that anyone trying to skew the aggregate rating will choose an extreme individual rating
yeah, this study is missing controls
> Besides telling you that “velocity is low,” what else does a burndown chart reveal about your team’s bottlenecks, problems, and inefficiencies? Nothing.

I’ve been in “The room where it happened” a number of times, and this question just reveals that we have collectively forgotten what a burndown chart is for.

The point of a burndown chart is that management is asking the wrong questions, and you’re giving them something that looks like what they asked for but invites a bunch of uncomfortable questions later on. It’s insidious, in a useful way. What we’re trying to show is that wishy washy decisions - from management - keep moving the goal post and costing us hundreds of thousands of dollars. Potentially millions. It’s an up-management technique in the right - or even passingly competent - hands.

The mistake we made is in thinking that putting a mirror in front of somebody will lead them to improve. But what happens when you put a mirror in front of a narcissist? They thank you for your help getting that stray eyebrow hair to lay straight, and then change the subject.
> Vegetarian meals can be very tasty and satisfying.

As someone who grew up never eating a single piece of meat until about the age of 20, yes, but that's not the full picture.

After I started eating meat I ate pretty much ate the amount the average American does for about a decade. Nowadays I eat a lot less meat, and certainly don't require it every meal. I _can_ go a few days without it, but after that I get real cravings to the point that meals start to feel empty with out it. More so if I have been working out a lot.
I always wonder with these reports, how does Covid-19 compare with other illnesses of comparable severity such as influenza? Such as, does the flu have potential of long term cardiac pathology? Is it possible we will eventually determine that all manner of infectious disease generally has a deleterious, long term systematic effect on the body that has largely gone unnoticed, albeit not perhaps to the same extent as Covid?
Similar story with the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre)
Why would I want physical media? I listen to music on the go, at the gym, working, traveling and with friends.

Do you have any favourite artists? what do you do when they have a new release? surely Spotify monthly sub out weighs the cost of buying new albums.
I love the discover feature, I love being able to search for any artist, at any time - my taste changes with my mood.

Not sure how YouTube even compares, especially with adverts, their monthly sub is costs more than spotify.

BTW i'm an 80s kid and used to collect a lot of vinyl. I love physical media but it doesn't compare to what Spotify is offering, especially for 10.99 EUR/month
> You gotta have some way of answering the "how long is it going to take" question.

Code (implementation) is an integral alert part of the software design and planning process, and you can’t know how long something will take until that’s complete.

While estimation seems to be a shibboleth of certain types of project management, the fact that implementation time estimates are rarely accurate - and often significantly wrong - suggests that they are not as vital as we’re lead to believe.
> Why those three specifically? Why not degree. Or years of experience. Or whether someone grew up in poverty. Or LGBTQIA+ split out.

It's only companies with 100 or more employees. That's a big clue that suggests why those categories.

The EEOC already requires all private employers in the US with 100 or more employees to annually report demographic workforce data, including race and sex data [1].

I'd bet that California picked those categories, and only those categories, and only made it apply to 100+ employee companies to make it easily fit in with that.

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo-1-data-collection
No I'm pretty sure ipinfo just lists their AS as inactive because it might not be announcing their prefix at the moment or may not have an active peer

https://whois.arin.net/rest/asn/AS397702/pft?s=AS397702
> This got me thinking - as drone tech continues to improve and drop in price, I wonder if we could deploy a fleet of cheap autonomous fish-killing submersibles. The failure modes or evolutionary pressures might be problematic, but imagine the lionfish we could kill at volume.

You're not the only one with that idea, automated underwater robots [0] are developed to kill crown-of-thorns starfish that eat corals[1]. They can cause a lot of damage to coral reefs and don't have a lot of predators.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COTSBot

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown-of-thorns_starfish#Ecolo...
Add to this the fact that they recently deleted all reviews on this show with a rating lower than 6 from IMDB, which confirms for me that they are not to be trusted to be subjective about this at all.

I wonder what the decision process about this is like. It’s as if this show is “too big to fail”, and management is scrambling to make it appear a success.
New Zealand would like to have a word
We never had a problem like the Internet as parents. It's completely beyond our ability to control. We are in the middle of a grand sociological experiment, and the results so far show sharply increased mental problems and worse academic results.

I'm also not a big fan of censorship, but this is a big problem we should not just ignore. The best way I think would be if it became a norm that children simply don't get to spend their time on screens. Kind of like it's a norm (also law, but mostly norm) that kids don't get to drink alcohol and smoke.
For some reason all I can think of is Lady Galadriel
"Every time money changes hands, GDP goes up. And every time money changes hands, that's usually becomes someone is doing something. As we've seen, that takes energy. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that GDP and energy are highly correlated."

Which is where economics goes wrong. The working units are incorrect.

You'll note that economics likes to use currency as its working denomination, when the actual underlying denominations are kWh and the labour hour.

Nearly all the failures of macroeconomics can be laid at the belief that there is a one-to-one correlation between moving money around and doing stuff. There isn't and that's the problem.

The issue is similar to electrical engineers assuming that true power and apparent power are always the same.
Well, where can you get a large population who haven't been exposed to Covid-19, to be that control group?
Insurance companies do not place a dollar value on human life. They provide a service that lets the client decide the dollar value.
Malice with respect to the researchers or the CDC/Pfizer?
Casting choices and politics aside, the intro was weak, the story lacked grip and the characters were all unlikable. It doesn't even feel like Tolkien. As a huge Tolkein fan, it feels like yet another betrayal (just like The Hobbit movies). I'll give it the benefit of doubt for another episode or two, and if it fails to improve I'll give up.
We're producing more power than we need during the day, and that's a great time to charge commuter cars.

Also, the state is literally burning down due to climate change. If you want to talk about standards of living for lower classes, look at what our PM 2.5 levels do during fire season. (On those days, the middle class and up buys HEPA filters close ther windows and crank up the AC.)
> forgotten the exceedingly mediocre The Hobbits trilogy.

True. That could have been a 2 hour movie or at most two episodes. However, one difference is that the characters there do not seem that much at odds with the book or the first three movies. Galadriel in the Amazon show, on the other hand, just doesn't feel like the book or the movie Galadriel so it's a bit jarring. For their large budget, the dialog and characters should have been done a bit better I thought.
Apple gets this right. When I plug in my iPhone at night, regardless of the PD of the source it's connected to - it informs me that it's doing "Optimized Battery Charging" and will be fully charged by my wake up time. It slurps up whatever it can get if I plug in my phone any other time of the day - if I plug in my phone at 11% at 1pm, it probably means I missed my nightly charging cycle and I do really need the fast charge.
> believe that free speech, as a doctrine, is an intrinsic good.

I don't believe so. For example, hate speech and verbal abuse against a mentally vulnerable person, privately communicated, with only the intent to harm that person is clearly morally bad. It then follows that if we can identify exactly when this occurs and limit it without further externalities, then that would be morally good.

Another example: there is a fire, and you give firefighters misinformation with the intent to prevent people from being saved. That is a moral bad, externalities notwithstanding, and it is a moral good if we could prevent exactly such acts.

If you accept these, then the discussion is no longer that free speech is always good, but that what forms of speech in what contexts are acceptable, and what limits on enforcement on free speech is acceptable. I suppose that most people accept these, as opposed to having an absolute stance as yours, and people with varied experiences have different positions on this complicated issue, hence the constant conversation and reappraisal.