skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is literally a talking point and argument that Twitter's executive management made, according to Mudge's testimony.

In Sen. Klobuchar's questioning, Mudge quotes a conversation he'd had with Parag Agrawal regarding a request by Vladimir Putin to censor and surveil Russian Twitter users: "we don't really have the ability and tools to do things correctly, this is a lot of work, it's not really driving our main executive incentive goals, is there a way that we can simply punt? And since they have elections, doesn't this make them a democracy?"

That specific Q&A exchange begins at 1:00:15.

The immediate prior exchange with Sen. See is also telling. "I'm reminded of one conversation with an executive, when I said, 'I am confident we have a foreign agent', and their response was 'Well, since we already have one, what does it matter if we have more? Let's keep growing the office.'"

For those who haven't listened to the testimony, I strongly recommend doing so --- it's informative, level-headed, and reasonably fast-paced.
If you skip all the math and programs, you'll get to this part:

>> These results of 1-bit PRVHASH say the following: if abstract mathematics contains not just a system of rules for manipulating numbers, but also a freely-defined fixed information that is also "readable" by a person, then mathematics does not just "exist", but "it was formed", because mathematics does not evolve (beside human discovery of new rules and patterns). And since physics cannot be formulated without such mathematics, and physical processes clearly obey these mathematical rules, it means that a Creator/Higher Intelligence/God exists in relation to the Universe. For the author personally, everything is proven here.

I truly don't understand how the author can come to that conclusion because the assumptions are not correct. Specifically this:

> since physics cannot be formulated without such mathematics, and physical processes clearly obey these mathematical rules

The "clearly" is doing a LOT of work here.

All of this reminds me of Stephen Wolfram's claims.
One time I have to migrate around 20 huge pipelines written(using) Pentaho to Apache Airflow (Python). The key was to run Pentaho inside Docker for testing: this was crucial because the developer was able to test locally the new DAG vs the Pentaho pipeline. It was difficult but it was worth it. Later we started having issues with Airflow but that is another story.
There are many valid reasons for not wanting to take part in the covid vaccine experiment. The first long term studies are due in 2024. Whatever informed opinion you hold the studies haven't come out yet and you are taking a gamble. A gamble society encourages all to take and punishes those it can.

If you can't staff your healthcare clinic or hospital because you fired experience doctors, nurses and staff there is a lot of politics taking place and very little practical medicine.

Removing those experienced nurses created worse working conditions for the remaining nurses who quit due to crazy schedules. The new nurses are a net negative on senior staff who have to train them. Higher wages isn't going to help attract experienced nurses who aren't allowed to work.
Both are not modern. I don't think the original post was trying to imply that floppies are modern.
The Work of Nicholas Bourbaki (1970)
It looks like he’s been at it for a while, but quick googling didn’t turn up any substantive rebuttal (of him/his blog). In this post he seems to be making a simplistic Malthusian argument—but we know population growth is not Malthusian.

The trickier problem seems more to be: what happens when the hockey sticks flatline? When China’s population stops growing, will its economy also stagnate? What happens then?

I look forward to reading more of this blog, though, because it does at least appear sincere, and so can sharpen reasoning. And a more general point of his could be abstracted as being that we’re being whipsawed by so many curves, and no doubt several others not discussed, that even if reality isn’t so pessimistic as he lays out, it might still be less than “fun”.
> The question is what someone could gain from using a Chromebook over a similarly-sized laptop running Windows/Linux/MacOS.

It's not foolproof, but these are good candidate devices for the terminally computer illiterate. Scam call centers aren't trained on ChromeOS takeovers as well as they are for Windows, but the user interface is close enough to Windows for users trained to use Windows. In case of large trouble, powerwash is easily accessible and fast. The ephemeral nature means replacing hardware doesn't require data transfer. The big downside is it's tied to a Google account, which means if you can't manage a Google account (because you like resetting your password instead of finding your password book, and writing the new password somewhere else you can't find, etc), you're going to end up with a Guest login account which is less functional.
And that execs simply don't care:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32832796>
The wires are usually the first thing to go out for me too. Have you considered buying a pair of headphones with detachable cable?
Sounds like bitcoin's 51% attack issues.

Only I'm guessing it doesn't take half as much to create crumble the banking system.
Joe Dever has put all of the Lone Wolf and related books online to download for free or play interactively on the website:

https://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home

That's 21 Lone Wolf books and 10 in the New Order books set in the same world, including one only published at the above site.
Yeah, but I would never work at a place with a legal department.

I like getting things done.
Do you have a reference to them buying it out. This is the first time I’ve heard this claim.
On July 1, 2022, the Singapore Information and Communication Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the Telecommunications Standards Advisory Committee (TSAC) issued the specification IMDA TS CD-SEC entitled "Security Requirements to Guard against Network Storms for Cellular Devices". The new specification will take effect on January 2, 2023.

The new specification defines the minimum security technical requirements for designing and managing mobile devices to better protect communication networks from security threats in connection efficiency.

Safety requirements have been defined as follows:

• prevent network storm
• Control access
• security OTA update

Source：https://lnkd.in/gzS7msav

E-mail：sixian.huang@lcs-cert.com
FCC、CE、IC、TELEC、RCM、WFA、BQB、PTCRB...
I made the switch a few months ago and feel your pain. For me editing is the most different. Realizing that I could press and hold the space bar was life changing. It works “almost” like android does… except you can also move the cursor up and down
All the Lone Wolf books are free to download or play online here:

https://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home
I'd point you to many smaller retailers...

https://outlawaudio.com/shop/

https://emotiva.com/collections/amps

and parts-express...

I've owned things from all of these places so there's that I guess :)
Dear HTTPS://Fosstodon.org
Valorant's anti-cheat has been very successful (Riot Vanguard) but it is also an early mode kernel driver, so it can load before any potential cheat driver.

I think Microsoft should just ship an anti-cheat API as part of Windows so games stop relying on kernel drivers.
The standard isn't peer review, it is unusual. https://xkcd.com/882/ applies to science and will get you publishes that green jelly beans cause cancer with no need to mention all experiments that got expected results.

Which is why reproducibility should be the most important topic.
I'm a designer, I'm all for new and crazy designs and all, but I usually go to the Verge at least once a day to check out "new tech / gadgets / sound bites" in the tech world, and this new design makes it incredibly difficult to do.

The headline font is so hard to scan, and they really lost density on the main page.

I think this goes beyond the "everyone hates change" category
I really like the USB based expansion card system. Not sure this is really the best implementation, but I could see a lot of applications for a similar format, if it didn't stick out as much.

We finally have one good connector that almost everyone seems to trust, that is both cheap and reliable. I bet there's a lot of places it can be used.

I'd like to see a home automation hub that had expansion ports like this for adding multiple radios.

Or a Raspberry Pi class device that just had these connections so you could choose exactly what ports you need.

But I kind of have some doubts about this particular use case. I think it will be pretty specialist.

USB to ethernet adapters are cheap. In the future, I could see moving towards direct USB connections. Routers might someday have a usb network port built in. You could have wall outlets that expose the network as a USB to ethernet dongle.

Long term that would seem to be a bit nicer, just not have any bulky Ethernet anywhere near mobile stuff , hide it behind permanently mounted converters.
What does him resigning achieve? Everyone still gets laid off. The board hires another CEO. Maybe they're better, maybe they're worse. Maybe they save a little bit of money. Nobody who was laid off today gets their job back.

The knee-jerk "oh yeah you should quit if you feel bad!!1" reaction is ill-informed and boring, but unfortunately very predictable.
If they wanted to keep it subscriber only, they could achieve that by requiring users to be logged in.

It's clear that the intention is to allow for sharing (although there is the question of "at what scale?").

Then there's the page itself:

> Welcome to LWN.net

> The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net!

The people who run the site seem to have less of a problem with sharing its content than you do.
Easy to say that until people are dying because you fired desperately needed healthcare workers.

Across Canada they changed the rules and now Covid positive healthcare workers can now have direct patient interactions.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-may-allow-some-covid-positive-heal...

Apparently they can fire people who won't get vaccinated, but are willing to have Covid-positive doctors treat patients?

Something doesn't line up. Apparently being unvaccinated is higher risk than actually having Covid?
You don't get to claim runaway growth based on graphs where the industrial age takes 10% of the X axis. You don't get to claim anything based on those, except that industries exist.

If you want to do some detailed analysis to find actual problems, you are welcome. But the article is pure sensationalism.
I see. The drawback of course is that you don't support writing.

So there are for completely different use cases, thanks!
> always fun rotation of passwords on over 1000 servers in 3 months that were mostly manual because the vendors all charge for an SOW to do that (oh yeah this is a YEARLY activity).

Why do I smell Windows Server 2008?
I would bet a great deal that the Mesozoic Era yielded a much higher level of plant biomass than the current era.
Time Travel
Can Anyone tell me the consequences (if any) of time travel, with regard to the total energy embodied in a human being removed from the universe in one time, and added to the universe in another?
If you go the whole way and install a 3rd party firmware, it should be good.

You're unlikely to brick the laptop anyway, but if you rely on the Google firmware to boot other operating systems, it's easy to accidentally push the wrong button and wipe the drive during boot, and I recall reading about some models that did bad things if the battery fully ran down and they lost firmware battery ram storage.
I still don't understand how this facilitates money laundering? You send small amounts to a bunch of accounts and then what exactly?

What is the source of the funds to launder and how/why is it already in the bank?
Do you have a link to said study?
> a pre-IPO startup that had engineering gutted by a FAANG (out of retribution, because said startup had poached some key employees from the FAANG). After I left as part of the exodus wave, I learned there was an unlimited budget for hiring employees from the startup, lol.

I was at a company that lost a lot of employees to a competitor. The founders ended up generating similar myths (supposedly based on information from trusted sources) to explain away the exodus.

The reality was that they couldn’t accept the idea that anyone would give their employees such large raises, so the only explanation they could think of was that it was some sort of evil retribution plan targeting them personally for something.

The reality is that FAANG execs aren’t going to spite-hire random engineers at exorbitant rates just to fight a petty battle. Even at FAANG scale, budgets are still finite and compensation plans aren’t approved in a vacuum.

I’d take that explanation with a huge grain of salt. It’s more likely that the company ended up on their recruiters’ radar and they simply offered the engineers FAANG market rate compensation.
About 69% of Sweden is currently forest, so it doesn't seem infeasible to me (even accounting for the fact that Sweden is not representative).
Thanks for providing the seed, because that would let me show you how exactly the parameters can affect your specific image without generating a "random" different one every time.

Check out the exact same seed and prompt and cfg_scale, but with the steps aka iteration number at 100 (50 in general feels way too low, even for the samplers that are kinda good with low iteration numbers).

https://pasteboard.co/I6yXg5mZip6D.png

Obvious glitchiness in the face. Below is the same one, but with a k_euler_a sampler (I don't use k_lms, mostly k_euler_a or k_dpm_2_a) + 100 iterations.

https://pasteboard.co/xaTJiN6eVhm2.png

Less glitchiness, but Joe looks more caricature-like, than real. And also, not super quite like Joe. Let's try the same, but at 150 iterations and set the CFG at 10.

https://pasteboard.co/a9OigPXS9Ky1.png

Not much different in terms of realism, but the person looks distinctly way more like Joe. Let's up the iteration number to 200.

https://pasteboard.co/ey0ZzC110CrK.png

We got a bit closer to what we wanted. Faces are a bit of a difficult thing to do, but i think we can figure it out. Overall, it feels a bit "wobbly". I noticed that it tends to be beneficial to decrease the CFG as you increase iteration number, if you want photos to be more photorealistic. Let's set it to 6, and the iteration at 200.

https://pasteboard.co/na1fH54LkqO2.png

I would say this looks pretty good, but I think we can do better. The important part is imo the prompt, and I think we can edit yours to get a bit better results. Here is the result for "portrait of Joe Biden in oval office, dslr" with 200 iterations, CFG at 6, and k_euler_a sampler.

https://pasteboard.co/noHbMgxhLU4s.png

That one was probably my favorite (or maybe it was the one before).

Overall, you can play with this almost infinitely. Adding different words to the prompt in different spots can yield pretty different results. And that's not even mentioning all the parameters one can tune.
Agree. I used to think double blind was an obvious requirement for a good peer review system. Your “theatre” take is aptly harsh I’d say.

Also hard agree on publishing reviews. It seems to be the only viable modification of peer review that we have.

My latest experience with peer review was just bad. No matter the conclusion they drew, there was just a clear lack of quality and understanding in their thoughts and effort. And this is not infrequent.

More generally, such a modification has knock on effects that probably warrant some thought on what we do with our publication practices. Published reviews will probably require more work from reviewers who are already time poor. Better reviews, hopefully, but fewer of them and fewer papers?

Counting a good review as a citable publication might be worth considering, as essentially mini idiosyncratic literature reviews. Perhaps in combination with Registered Reports[1], where the proposal is published and reviewed before the study/work is done, in which case the reviewer is closer to symbiotic co-publisher.

Either way, it seems that for both authors and reviewers, who are effectively the same people and both rely on peer-review as a guarantee of the value of their work, that the actual work of peer review needs to be taken more seriously and not conceived of as some sort of feudal aristocratic gentlemen’s duty.

~~~~~~~~

[1] https://www.cos.io/initiatives/registered-reports
Spinning up a separate branch with slightly different branding is probably easier than a different organization setting up shop and re-implementing from scratch.

From your post, you make it seem like OnlyFans cannot possibly exist. It does, and therefore Patreon could have built it.
Don’t plot the amount of wild mammalian biomass, plot the amount of totally mammalian biomass.

Doubt you’ll see a downward hockey stick in that case.

What makes a wild mammal more special than a domestic one?
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

It appears to be pretty common.
This sounds interesting, why is this no longer true?
I mean, GitHub supports svn clients but it’s git all the way down. Granted I haven’t used svn on GitHub but I doubt it’s treated as a first class citizen. This is really just a stepping stone to migrating your VCS to git.
No, just the director and her deputy.
Manhattan Project National Historic Park
I agree, on average it's not common. What's different in this case is I heard it directly from the horses mouth. The FAANG in question is a particularly frugal one, and they don't normally pay 2-5x market rate unless it's a special circumstance. That's why am sharing this story, life can be crazy! It can pay to keep an open mind, you never know what will turn up.

I'd love to drop names but it would be unwise. The decision maker executive is now an even bigger big wig at another BigCo, and they are still as huge of a douche canoe as ever.

Never underestimate the power (or fragility) of the human ego.

Also, El Fandango didn't hire the junky engineers. They poached all the best ones, and the average level of talent at the startup was quite high. The comp was so good that most of said engineers are still at El Fandango even today.
Not sure why you are downvoted for speaking truth. I know as a manager I rarely brought on new hires during this period if I had a choice.
Forgive me for interrupting your attempts to refute the "Liberal Fascism" trolling...

One scenario I've heard, and has me a bit worried, is climate crisis begets a right wing reactionary environmentalism. Basically all the same nativist, anti-immigration, isolationist, anti-trade, yadda yadda, but with an "environmental" justification.

So instead of mitigating or undoing the damage, the reactionaries would be energized by protecting what we have from "the other".

Not too hard to imagine a crackdown, if scarcity leads to hunger leads to unrest.
Still, I'd have plenty of time to worry about those things. In fact that would probably be my "job" - developing, maintaining, and expanding the estate that I would eventually leave to my kids.
Copy II PC Option board, actual floppy notchers, and cleaning disks and diskettes are just some of the other floppy paraphernalia. Floppies have notoriously low reliability (unrecoverable reads) and painful transfer rates. ZIP disks were only slightly better. CDs and DVDs were far better and then USB thumb drives killed everything else with the then futuristic holy grail of solid state storage.
I'm guessing it's because WebAudio won't let you create audio buffers until a user gesture like a click allows audio context to be started ("resumed").
In contrast in 2021 Xiaomi's Cost of Sales (COGS?) was 82.3% of their annual revenue

Source: 2021 Annual report

https://ir.mi.com/static-files/b85f34c0-0010-4a8c-94b9-269d8...
The nostalgia I feel for QBasic as my first programming experience as a kid is followed very closely by my nostalgia for Turbo C++ 3.0.
Regular conversations in the language you want to learn. You CAN'T use your native language at all and you must respond in the language you are learning. And you can't get help from your conversation partner by having them translate to your native language. Doing it this way forces you to search your memory for the words you need and the adrenaline of having to understand the words and answer correctly helps you remember. Do this enough and you will get the language's basics in a relatively short time. It's not the easiest way to learn but it's the fastest way to get to fluency.

BTW, stay away from Duolingo. It won't get to the level you want to be at. There are better and faster ways to learn a new language.
Peer review is useful, no doubt. It is only reviewer anonymity that probably should be re-examined.
Gonna need a non-right-wing source for that “frequent” claim.

Here’s some senators (mostly republicans, but also Feinstein — can we please recall her already? she has late-stage Alzheimer’s, for fuck’s sake) doing it blatantly:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/03/20/senators-a...

The
What about mercury?
Mostly because using pgp (or more specifically gpg) is a pain in the ass and ssh-keygen is not
If this is event driven arch you should checkout batch.sh
Fastmail adds Masked Mail support to Bitwarden, alongside 1Password
Note that signing commits doesn't bar bad actors from pushing unsigned commits with forged identities.

Also note that until you can individually get the good actors' public key you can't verify their commits. So it's not enough to distribute the instructions in this webpage, you also have to have a trusted key exchange. Everyone who wants to verify commits will need a copy of everyone who might sign commits' public keys.

If you trust github then you can use them as a key broker like the "User SSH Keys from GitHub" section suggests, if all of your committers are github users.
While "solved" is a bit optimistic, it is also true that e.g. sports games get sales every year with mainly updates to the player roster.
Animorphs huh. I read a few books a long time back, but then recently read about how the series became quite twisted towards the end. Younger me would probably have enjoyed it.
Land is cheap in the desert, there's often only a small town or two in the vicinity to deal with as far as limitations on directions you can build infra in, and no one moved to the desert for the view (Yes yes, someone's going to chime in that they did but in the real world it's the people moving close to the sea who are doing it for the view typically). So even if panels wear out faster in the desert there's a lot of appealing factors still.
We can make airplanes. I'm sure we can make a folding Ethernet port that is reliable enough.

I will never accept bad design. This is bad design.
The COVID vaccine decreases the severity of the disease's symptoms. Regardless of the other benefits, isn't that enough reason to get it? Firing some nurse who gets their opinions from Dr. Oz and has crystals in their bedroom is a net positive for the healthcare system in my opinion. I want my healthcare practitioners to be people of science, who practice evidence-based medicine, and are willing to change their opinions on a dime based on the most recent studies. I'm certainly not the smartest person in the world, but I've met several healthcare providers in real life who have refused the vaccine and let's just say none of them gives off the air of a mental giant.

Do you understand how insane you sound saying things like "the covid vaccine experiment?" Like some doctors just cooked up some crazy cocktail in 45 minutes and started sticking people with it on the street? Please.