skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We all want to find a bogeyman to pin climate change on. Especially if that bogeyman is someone we already like hating. Popular targets of hate which might be compatible include: capitalism, corporations, oil companies, our government, someone else's government, and someone else's generation.

But, if you choose to frame it in terms of guilt, the truth is we are all "guilty". We all benefited from it. Some definitely share more guilt than others, but honestly we let many of them get away with it on purpose so we could get the benefits.

Internal combustion engines (and before that external combustion engines) are how industrialization happened. It's how we got to our current level of development. We, the human race, used energy to lift ourselves out of what we'd now consider poverty, and we created that energy by burning whatever we could get our hands on that would burn. And I really think there was no other way at the time.

If you are able to read this message through the magic of the internet, or if you have access to a reliable source of food and some choice of what to eat, or if you're wearing clothes you didn't sew yourself, or if you received modern healthcare, or if you lived in a society that was prosperous enough that it could give you an education, all that was to a large degree made possible by the industrial revolution and fossil fuels.

What's more, if you have a solar panel on your roof, or if you are able to buy electricity that comes from wind energy, or if you drive an electric car, all of that was also made possible by fossil fuels. Clean technology didn't invent itself. We had to get to the point where we could invent it, and that is the result of humanity having the resources available for centuries to invest in developing science, math, engineering, and manufacturing.

Now, of course, we've put ourselves in a situation which is unsustainable, and we have to move on to the next phase and basically discard half the world's infrastructure and start over. It absolutely has to be done, but it's going to be crazy expensive and disruptive, and that's a tough pill to swallow. But making it about guilt and blame doesn't actually help get it done. The only thing it does is help you feel better if you believe the guilt rests on someone else. You can tell yourself, "We're screwed, but it's not my fault." Even if it's true, the value of that consolation prize isn't much.
I seem to recall an ubuntu music variant distro with the RT patch baked in but cannot for the life of me dig it up.

This however may give you a nice point to dive in from:

https://ubuntu.com/engage/an-introduction-to-real-time-linux...

for more advanced projects consider getting preempt-rt going in a yocto install.
I'm sure it's not coincidental that I got an email today about wired Ring cameras.

Have we yet developed consumer grade counter-jamming tech? Seems like the tech to detect and recognize these attacks shouldn't be very expensive at all, and then it can text you (mobile network, of course) to call the police on the jammers (I imagine the police would get pretty peeved if you don't have a human in the loop.)

From there we can get some sort of adaptive, agile jammers for the criminals, and then FPGAs recording the jammers for processing and recognition at a central anti-jamming-as-a-service company.

Advanced missile warfare for my neighborhood, without the explosives!
A reasonable fee in one country might be completely unreasonable in another. Or between two people. Internet is basically free to provide, the cost per month is entirely dependent on the average salary of a system administrator in the region. Entry level PCs are also not very expensive. This all means you can get Internet access for a reasonable price wherever you live.

There is also the fact that file sharing is just better than buying. If I torrent a movie, I get the best version, with no region locking, no drm, which I can copy to any device. If the service goes away, or the Internet is down, I can still watch my movie just fine. For practical purposes, I actually own files I download, but don't own files I pay for.
I just got downvoted hard for that but it’s true. Both political and etiquette teaching. Teaches people what things are currently right and wrong to believe though very strong social pressure.
>large open areas free of obstructions.

https://www.beaconhealthsystem.org/beacon-medical-transport/...

You need roughly a football field of clear flat land for human-piloted helicopters.

In the US at least, that's nothing. It's comparable to one quarter of a clover-leaf offramp.
They recently merged
Launching a nuke only makes sense if Putin just wants to try and end the world? A tactical nuke isn't likely to change the strategic direction of the war, it's just escalation for the sake of escalation. He's already losing the war. Launching a nuke in Ukraine or NATO does not mean that NATO respond with nukes. They can respond with conventional weapons and end the war within a week.

Plus there's a non-zero chance that the chain of command refuses to carry out the order and undermines all internal authority that Putin has.
stay classy

cc @dang
Syntax is probably within an hour. Spurious colon in a few places, whitespace deemed more important than lambda. Brief confusion over the scoping rules.

Then the library ecosystem is probably good for a lifetime.
I have been hearing this same argument for at least two decades now, yet the numbers never back it up. People may think college degrees are useless but they will still get in line (and in debt) to get one. The only ever big dent in enrollment came because of covid, and it is not (yet) a valid victory lap for all these narratives.
https://www.learnreitit.com/
No, I wouldn't. I'd say 'eccentric' maybe, but not a nutcase. Lots of very smart, sane people believe things I think are false. I mean, two of the greatest thinkers in the realm of mathematical probability (Pascal and Bayes) were staunch theists.
DIY option, https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Professional-Open-Source-N...

eBay sometimes has older Axis (enterprise) PoE cameras, but those no longer get firmware updates.

Axis P1204 has a camera sensor that can be separated from the camera by 25 feet, https://www.networkcamerastore.com/axis-p1204-0531-001-minia.... Would be nice to accomplish the same with a Linux SBC (RPi, ODROID, Rock64), where MIPI camera cables are usually limited to cm, not meters.
> What we need is a tertiary education model that seeks to refine critical thinking, awareness of the world, and a funnel into degrees with practical job outcomes

This was the purpose of a University education, and the reason most degrees have a component that is liberal arts even in STEM.

Unfortunately, liberal arts colleges have become indoctrination camps for fringe views rather than honest explorations of all aspects of society. In particular Sociology as a science seems to be to blame for this. Going through school I never felt like I was being indoctrinated in my philosophy courses, but I certainly felt that way taking the mandatory "culture" classes.
Hans account found
> inb4 "it was all 4D chess, this is what he wanted" Yeah, sure pal ...

He would need more sleep for that. I think a lot of his bizarre behavior can be explained by (a) generally being an asshole (b) medicating to avoid sleep.
Competence is very much a secondary priority of universities whose primary goal is a demonstration of loyalty.

All college students are double majoring in Ideology, as demonstrated by their ability to conform for four years. This in turn unlocks a host of professions only accessible to Ideology majors: bureaucracies, paper pushers, journalists, NGOs, HR, teachers, etc. The extra patient and above-average smart ones can sit through more college and get better deals in finance, medicine, law, and science (although society is definitely losing out on the most competent people in these fields, because they are constitutionally unable to sit through 8 years of Ideology).

There are very few arenas were raw competence is needed badly enough and results can't be faked, even in the short term, that begrudgingly, people with no Ideology certifications are allowed to operate: engineers are the ones with the highest wealth potential of these. I'd bet that most engineers are successful in spite of college, many would choose to skip it if they could get a do-over, and the best engineers have the lowest opinion of higher education.
My favourite thing about his 3:16 project is the name he gave to the technique (of, effectively, taking a stratified sample of the Bible in order to get an overview of its themes): "the way of the cross section". (If the pun isn't immediately apparent, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stations_of_the_Cross.)
You quoted the important part. Specifically, this paragraph negates your post.

> 2004 Project Bioshield Act and $290 million in Project BioShield designated funding to purchase this supply of the drug. Amgen will maintain this supply in vendor-managed inventory. This approach decreases life-cycle management costs for taxpayers because doses that near expiration can be rotated into the commercial market for rapid use prior to expiry and new doses can be added to the government supply.

Read it carefully. Doses that approach expiration will be rotated into the commercial market and replenished with fresh doses.

There is very little cost to the supplier in doing that. They get to sell a healthy dose of medication for full retail value and the government always has a fresh, healthy supply. FIFO (First in, first out).

Most companies try to reduce the value of the products they have on hand to save in taxes and keep their operation lean. The government is basically stepping in and saying "We will make it worth your while to keep a bunch of this on hand. Just guarantee me X number of fresh doses and we're happy."
Have you paid attention to what politicians are actually doing? President Biden is pushing for an additional $37 billion in police funding and hiring an additional 100,000 officers. In my home state, Governor Hochul is emphatically against any sort of defunding and has pledged an additional $50 million to local police departments. NYC Mayor Adams (a former cop) is rabidly pro-police, even though the NYPD are among the worst lawbreakers in the city.

It’s true that Republicans are an order of magnitude more bloodthirsty — which makes the Democrats’ full-throated embrace of carceral policies all the more baffling. If I wanted regressive faux–law and order, why would I vote for them instead of a Republican?
I feel the same. Now Twitter will potentially be manipulated by him. He will have a lot more sway over public opinion.
That you throw in higher math as cultural instead of vocational just shows your own biases. I routinely use things I learned doing a PhD in physics in my code because mathematical abstractions really speed things up. Lumping something as useful as group theory with something as trivial as Shakespeare does a disservice to both.
I only ever really got into calculus when I decided I wanted to know how AI worked—I'm a strong believer that academic learning needs to be motivated or it simply won't benefit most students.
And none of the programmers who don't learn calculus will use it.

I am surprised by the places where calculus comes up. I certainly didn't thing e.g. a class titled "Discrete Math" would need it, but it did. And Discrete Math is to CS what Calculus is to Physics.
> Have you people actually taken a basic statistics course that doesn't require calculus? They are all about memorizing formulas that you plug numbers in to calculate different statistical measures, they don't teach you to understand anything at all.

Disclaimer I should have included: I personally took statistics in high school instead of calculus.

I can't say what my experience would have been like if I'd known calculus, but loved learning statistics. I don't remember exactly what we did, but I recall it being quite conceptual. Certainly not just a ton of formulas.
If anyone is interested in what that means, it appears to be China's version of "resisting arrest" and "assaulting an officer": a spurious, ill-defined charge with which the inconvenient could be bludgeoned.

What the parent comment means by referencing this phenomenon, which already has an Occidental analogue, is still unclear to me.
Two things though:

1. He admitted to cheating twice, so it's not a question of an innocent man being punished by mistake.

2. As noted already, it's not a game, it's a professional sport that people at his level make their living doing, and every cheater in this scenario is stealing money from someone who has earned it.
Are you suggesting the unbiased stance should be to ignore all prior evidence?

People repeat themselves and form habits.
While drones/quadcopters are a more continuous physical system than any clocked digital circuit, they can be controlled quite well with algorithms updating at "only" 1khz, which is probably a relatively wide open door for someone to gatekeep "that isn't realtime"
Tens of thousands of people died at the beginning of the pandemic due to lack of medical and PPE supplies. Nurses were wrapping themselves in garbage bags and searching out construction masks.
How weird to see this on HN, I just bought a house 8 minutes down the road from the chosen site. It's completely unrelated, this is the first I've seen this news.
There are no capitalist nuclear reactors.

They're all funded through government intervention for non-market reasons. The general trend is for more private intervention leading to them being less successful and more likely not to even be built. The EDF was a public entity when they built most of their reactors, and Flamanville was an absolute debacle.

Capitalism is fundamentally incapable of building for the future and paying for its externalities in the way required to build safe nuclear power. This is exactly the same problem that leads to climate change.

Thankfully we have solar panels which are compatable with capitalism.
There are a lot of scholarships and special programs for those jobs missing people - but we need it expanded and maybe setup on a federal level.
I struggled with trigonometry in high school, to the point that I had to repeat the class twice. Each time I took the class it was the exact same lesson, and I struggled.

During my senior year I was able to take a course through BOCES on audio production. That course related some of the trigonometry I was struggling with to a subject I was deeply interested in.

I don't expect Math teachers to start teaching audio production, but it would have been nice if the teacher had seen me struggling and at least attempted to approach the subject from a different angle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The current trend is the opposite. Working class whites and Latinos are moving republican. The upper middle class is moving democrat.
Not sure if they meant Monkeypox? There was a story in Aug about a substantial stock (20 million doses) of monkeypox vaccine that expired.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/nyregion/monkeypox-vaccin...
What I imagine will happen is that kids will share hosts files over discord with the IPs of banned sites.
They should buy them at cost if manufacturing plus small profit only. We shouldn’t pay royalties for drugs that will never be used
The worst outcome is nuclear war.

The second worst outcome is teaching Putin - and all other nuclear armed authoritarian governments - that all you need to do is threaten usage of nuclear weapons and you get what you demand. Within months China will demand Taiwan be handed over under threat of nuclear attack. Maybe eventually they'll demand the same of Australia - easy to do if you want the resources and know that threat of nukes gets you a country handed on a platter.

What do you propose can be done to resolve this?

Probably China and India are the only parties now able to influence Putin to back down.
> text you ... to call the police

Those with the ability to jam/deauth WPA3 could potentially use an IMSI catcher to block SMS.
> Agents built a detailed financial picture of Larry. Inspecting his cloud accounts...

Scariest part of the article.
Yes. They're a disgrace.
Don't conflate the two.
> they consider professors a bunch of freeloaders who get summers off

When you go through 4 years for your undergraduate and your professor does the very barest minimum to teach the class, provides no help, defers constantly to their GAs, etc it's hard to not come to this conclusion. While it may not be true in general my experience is not much different than average and I can count the number of actual good, thought provoking, professors I've had on exactly 1 hand.

I understand the point of tenure but the dose makes the poison. Tenure should have a way to be taken under these circumstances. Otherwise, it provides an ivory tower from which a barely capable professor rests their laurels. The result, of course, is a vastly negative view of professors and academia in general.
I don't think it's unreasonable to issue a 5 year ban from competitive chess to a 16 year old who gets caught cheating online in a cash prize tournament. Hans is only 3 years past his admitted cheating event, and I don't think its unjust to say that his cheating was too recent to justify giving him a second chance.

Maybe when he's 24 or 30 we can try again.
Honestly, American Grades 10-12 are a waste. Sure, you learn some important fundamentals for college but outside of that meh.

At least in my experience I would have far preferred being able to jump straight into college and have gotten the first 2 or so years out of the way in lieu of whatever passes for high school education. I would be far ahead of where I am and have benefited much more from the opportunity, but today you can only do such a thing by getting your GED (with parental permission) and being an incredibly driven and self-promoting autodidact with a lot of parental support.

It's a farce.
Good ole' X10 that later became Insteon. I actually have Insteon for all the lights and fans in my house and am quite happy with it's performance. I've been considering a migration, but I'm holding out until I see how Matter/Thread do as an ecosystem first.
> The "signal path" is simply having more money in the hands of buyers, which will then necessarily cause an increase in prices.

So from that point on, the mechanism is supply & demand right? Buyers with money increase demand, therefore the prices increase.
My tinfoil hat spider sense is tingling with this. If the government wanted 250 mil of anti nuke meds don’t you think they’d keep that quiet? So they are publishing this for… some purpose, but I can’t imagine why. Just to cover bases? Just to share news? To drive stock? To scare the public? The list goes on. Someone help me understand the logic behind this maneuver.
A rare example where Betteridge's law does not apply.

The answer is 100% yes, and we should ban other forms of advertising as well. Ban as many as possible.
Someone has already created a proof of concept for this: https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/sockfish.html
On the basis that esoteric languages come with fewer libraries and new features largely involve gluing libraries together to make things like other things that already exist?
Noob here: how did he cheat without getting caught? did he memorize chess engine responses? Or did he have a secret computer somewhere feeding him the moves?
That's true, but if he really wanted out, it was a good chance for him and Twitter to set a price to exit the deal. I would bet that Musk had offered a settlement of a $5-10 billion payout to get out of the deal, but Twitter rejected it.
Not that one. The relevant specs aren't open / prevent third party motherboards, cases, etc.

What the world needs is something like ATX or ITX specs, but for laptops. Then anyone can make laptops/cases/boards/psus/otherparts.
I went to Cuba and there was no advertising allowed on the roads. It was really refreshing, and it made our excursions feel a lot more engaging. The government did have some propaganda billboards on the roads, but it was ridiculous stuff like Uncle Sam getting punched in the face. I found those pretty entertaining…
In the past I would say billboards are the scourge, but other than nuisance they do not harm me.

On the other hand online advertising...
Please. Putin has not yet launched a nuclear attack, and I can assure you he would have already if he didn't care about MAD.
The people who survive, usually. It's obviously scale dependent, but I can't imagine not wanting this around just in case. Many humans will survive initially and we will need everyone we can to try and find a way to survive.
NFO is the National Farmer's Organization, an American farmer's organisation with the stated goal of obtaining higher prices for farm produce

perhaps you're thinking of .nfo?
Mask don't have expiry dates unless you use them
I love the US
Umm... it works very well on most people, that's why i lt exists. If you doubt this, examine your own beliefs and look for propaganda.
That's not a "more full analysis". It's a) not a statistical analysis, b) not "more full" as it's covering a totally different time period rather than being a superset, c) I don't really understand why the "Tournaments" and "no live games" section have totally different columns.

(Oh, haha, 2 out of the 3 tournaments under "no live games" from that tweet are in the small set that the chess.com report says merit investigation.)
I’m wondering if having something like dnsmasq would be better in this situation over parsing a huge hosts file?
They say Putin (and TFG) is a master of 10-dimensional chess but what they don't tell you is that the game always ends with everyone dead.
Undoodle AI – worldle like game
Happy to announce the release of https://undoodle.ai a little side project I've been working on recently.

Puzzle out what prompted stable diffusion to create the image. New puzzle each day.
the irradiated? lots of people survived in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and had to deal with cancer and other radiation related health issues after.
I don’t know about the author’s take. It’s good at first blush but the aftertaste feels like a bad over-simplification. It implies to the audience (ahem dumbass high schoolers) that Calculus is just brain teasers. So then, if they just do brain teasers like crossword puzzles or something (remember, high schoolers), they’re getting a substitutable “workout”. Which they’re clearly not.

The other thing is the ironic self-fulfilling prophecy wrapped up in all of this: the question is “when will we use calculus?” the “answer” is “never”; the jobs that don’t require calculus are the ones filled by people who never mastered calculus. They’re also statistically speaking, the lower paying jobs. I work in a field that I’m not particularly fond of that has nothing to do with calculus, yet, given that it’s the 21st century, and given that AI is on the rise as an applied technology, rest assured that EVERYTHING uses Calculus.
You don't have to code for a living.

I can code and have been doing so about as long as you (albeit less seriously), but I came to the conclusion that for me coding is like fiction writing: I am really, really good at it, but coding is a creative endeavor for me and I cannot do it for a living, be it at a job or as a business. Solo one off projects, things for my own use, or passion projects only.

I'd recommend looking at switching fields to something where the knowledge of how to code is a benefit but that doesn't directly involve coding. E.g technology law and policy.
Yeah, I beat the blog post out when I saw the repo go live. This is probably the better post, though wasn't sure if either would take.
Sounds like PoE is the way to go. Another option might be to get a webcam that doesn't operate on wifi at all (maybe some other unregulated band which is tougher to block and more importantly, tougher to recognize)