skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone (Larry Carlton? Not sure) said, Stanley Jordan is two of the most mediocre guitarists

But we love him anyway, of course
False calls for active shooters are rising. Behind them is a strange pattern
This solves the underpants problem:

https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1222516037704249344
Ranger is really nice, I wish there was something as quick for windows.
I mean, let's think this all can work.

You turn it off at $ALTITUDE. When do you turn them on ? There's no button and it is powered off.
I doubt that any SaaS pays taxes based on where the users are located, so the only burden is in setting up the business in the first place. In any case, projects like open collective could help to manage fiscal issues.

For smaller instances, I really have a hard time seeing tax authorities going after people because they decided to host a server and ask a total of $100-$1000 per year from a few dozen people.

Lastly, perhaps if you weren't so biased against crypto, you'd realize that this is one actual valid use case for it?
Help pick a syntax for CSS nesting survey results
Thriller but every lyric is an animated AI generated image
I would say norm for 20 years at least.
Hebcal is one of the few websites I have used consistently for as long as I've had a computer with Internet. In fact it might be the only one!
There's no conflict. Nowadays whoever takes some courses in statistics will be exposed to Bayesian statistics. The universal reaction when exposed to Bayesian statistics is to fall in love with it, to think it's the answer to all of the world's problems (with the possible exception of war and hunger). But most people get to the point where they realize that Bayesian statistics is just a set of tools. Frequentist statistics can often times get you essentially the same results, with less effort.

And by the way, what do you call MLE (maximum likelihood estimation)? Is it frequentist? Because it looks awfully close to Bayesian.
Whether `ls` is the BSD-derived ls that is shipped with MacOS or GNU ls has effects on how well Dired works, and a similar thing applies for M-x grep and M-x compile, but coreutils has no bearing on whether Emacs can successfully draw a window (frame in Emacs terminology) on the screen that is functional enough to, e.g., echo the user's keystrokes.

I know that because I used to have GNU coreutils installed on my Mac, then I was a Linux user for a little while, and now I am back on a different Mac, but I have yet to bother installing GNU coreutils on this Mac and I notice no difference. Also, I've been using Emacs since 1991.

But yes, I am almost sure I had GNU coreutils installed when I had the very pathological problems with FSF Emacs circa 2012.
Spiders Can See the iPhone's Lidar
There is no silver bullet, every approach has benefits and drawbacks.

One of the drawbacks of the Algorand approach is that both participating blockchains involved a swap need to be aware of each other's block signers/validators in order to be able to verify each other's proofs.
These validator lists need to be kept up to date on both blockchains and this adds performance costs (since block validators can change over time).
A blockchain which serves as a hub for many other blockchains (such as the Algorand mainchain) would have to keep track of the state of validators on many different blockchains.
Recurring fees need to be paid in order to keep track of validator lists. This is not suitable for low-volume markets with low fees since trading fees need to be sufficient to cover the ongoing blockchain fees.
The Algorand approach is only suitable for certain blockchains where the block validator list is relatively stable and predictable, it's not suitable for a broad range of consensus mechanisms including proof of work.

With Algorand, the proof-generation Algorithm should ideally be baked into the blockchain consensus mechanism (this adds complexity and performance costs/fees to the blockchain).
Aside from having the proof algorithm baked into the blockchain's code, the alternative approach is to have a separate federation of 'proof validators' on each chain which are distinct from block validators...
This setup has essentially the same security characteristics as a standard multi-chain federated bridge (whose validators have visibility over both participating blockchains) except it has more complexity (risk/attack surface).

The benefit of the Algorand approach (assuming that the proof-generation is baked directly into the blockchain logic) is that it offers the maximum degree of decentralization (which matches that of the underlying blockchains). Though this is at the cost of higher fees. Markets based on it would have to have good volume in order to make it viable.

Finally, in practice, most smart contracts are controlled and can be updated by certain multisig wallets (and their members) so they're really just federations behind the scenes.
The Bakflip I have on my F-250 works great
> I run an instance and I really have none of these problems. Keeping open applications off solves a lot of them, you have to ask me for an invitation and I’m not going to give you one if I think you’re going to be a problem.

You're not building social network then. Just a single isolated place. So obviously problems of running bigger social space won't apply as much
As far as I know, all sensory evolution prior to this point has been motivated based on incremental gains in fitting a changing environment.

True vision requires motive and embodied self. I’m ignorant about the state of the art here, but I’m way more terrified of what these things don’t see than interested in what they could show us. It seems to me that the only human motives accessible to machines are extremely superficial and behavioral based.

Knowledge is not some disconnected map of symbols that results in easily measurable behavior, it has a deep and fundamental relation to conscious and unconscious human motivation.

I don’t see any possible way to give a machine that same set of motives without having it go through our same evolutionary and cultural history, and strongly believe most of our true motives are under many protective layers of behavioral feints and tests and require voluntary connection and deep introspection to fractionally expose to our conscious selves, let alone others, let alone a computer.

These models seem to be amazingly good at combining maps of already travelled territory. Trying to use them to create maps for territory that is new to us seems incredibly dangerous.

Am I missing something here, or is it not true that AI models operate purely on bias? What we chose to measure and train the model on seems to predetermine the outcome, it’s not actually empirical because it can’t evaluate whether it’s predictions make sense outside of that model. At some point it’s always dependent on a human saying “success/fail”, and seems more like an incredibly complicated kaleidoscope. Maybe they can cause humans to see patterns we didn’t see before, but I don’t think it’s something that could actually make new discoveries on its own.
A Cheap 2.5GbE PoE Unmanaged Switch
If you're doing a single round-trip it's really not bad. You don't get that big an impact compared to the round-trip to the user.

If you are doing multiple dependent loads, e.g. loading an index that tells you which part of the data to load which tells you which other related table to look into (e.g. a complex join)... that would be bad.
There are no running reactors at Hanford and haven't been since 1987.

While one reactor did generate power, they were all designed to create plutonium, which you would not otherwise do if power was the only goal. Thus, the blame is solely on weapons development, not power.

1987: https://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/HanfordHistory
Hitting a wall??? Deep learning is winning and making insane strides right now. What is this nonsense?
I think this comes from a supportive mindset, but working with homeless populations over the years I think they often were more at risk than many other groups. Significant numbers deal with domestic violence or otherwise abusive relationships, as one example, where these kinds of security issues can be life or death, and they often lack the digital hygiene skills many folks take for granted (I think half the folks in a computer lap I worked with left their password saved when chrome offered to remember it, or even wrote it down in a text file).
You don't solve a trolley problem. The entire point is that it's unresolvable from most ethical paradigms other than naïve utilitarianism (which is why it exists - to mock that way of thinking).
I've been on a similar team. The three original people devised some rituals they fell in love with and they tried to onboard their next 6-7 hires (myself included) in them.

Worked out horribly badly. Almost everybody left. Only one guy liked the endless meetings during which they played council of elders and every legitimate problem was shot down with "this is not the topic of this meeting, let's have a GitHub discussion and then schedule another meeting" (you can guess how well that worked out but hint: anemic discussions, nobody agrees to next meeting day/hour and the entire thing is forgotten and then weeks later you are at fault for not pursuing it aggressively enough. Yeah...)

You should start some tough conversations, like yesterday. I deliberately chose not to engage in any position that requires a lot of diplomacy (I am 42 and been offered a PM / managerial / VP of Eng position no less than 6 times in the last 5 years) and can't advise you on what exact brand of perfumed language to use but the main message should be:

"I realize that you, X, has been instrumental in the initial company's success and everyone around appreciates that. Things did however change and our approach must change as well. Are you open to start doing things a little differently? If not, why not? Did the legal team crucify you for not providing enough written details in the past? Let's work through the initial problem and solve it, please."

...or some such.

We are people and we LOVE rituals and we love stability and we especially love when we are in a tribe of like-minded people. But this has a steep cost when a team scales beyond a certain size -- as you yourself are finding out.

At one point management has to pick between the inner core of calcified programmers, or everyone else, because it seems they don't mix that well.

Again, I can't give you an advice how exactly you should present that to the relevant people that you must raise the issue to. But from my experience I can guarantee to you that entrenched old-time developers in a company (namely those who were there when it all started) tend to become way too self-important and with illusions of grandeur. This gets in the way more and more with time.

Uncomfortable conversations at work, exactly like in intimate relationships, must be done early. Seems you're already a bit late to the party but still -- the second best time is tomorrow.

Don't delay this. Or if you find yourself unwilling to tackle the problem you better start looking for another job because culture is one of the hardest things to change in any community.
Got a dental 3d scan recently and I also couldn’t get that as any sort of digital file
Agreed. It's funny I would tell people that light aircraft are still allowed to burn leaded fuel and they are shocked.

The other thing that is also ridiculous that no one is mentioning, is that in the middle of a climate crisis that we allow people to fly as a "hobby". They are not doing anything but just taking joy rides dumping tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Really, all non-essential flights should be banned.
> This same argument could have been used to argue against the Internet

No because we didn't have anything else before the internet other than landline phones, one per household.

In my comment where I said "we already have it", that's the key point. VR is not an incredible shift like mobiles and internet were, and yet your last line flirts with the word "default". Of course it will be popular and clever, and will do well for the special times we want VR by placing a thing on our heads. But like drone cameras, VR will not elbow out the default cameras we already have that work better in most cases.

> but to attribute some mystical quality to physical connections neglects the sheer growth of the internet

Some mystical quality? You say that like "meh, real life"! The internet isn't trying to be "reality", it's just the internet. VR literally has the word reality in its name. Obviously comparisons will be made to actual reality for technologies that use the same word in the name.
My daughter's homework included the question "without an atmosphere would there be gravity?". At the time Google's featured snippet for this phrase claimed without an atmosphere we'd all float off into space. Worse, my wife (a primary school teacher) believed this to be true "because Google says".
Regardless of Google's stated desire to organise all the world's information, they appear to be further from this goal than they were in the "10 blue links" era.
This only happens to me exclusively after I've updated the software. But never have to relink. Just the crash after a link click. OSX handles it better by presenting me a "restart signal" button after an update.
NIST’s Superconducting Hardware Could Scale Up Brain-Inspired Computing
Yeah, I think input lag is a big part of it - those old machines feel so ridiculously responsive.
Microplastics found in human breast milk for the first time
Malaysia's palm planters eye robots, drones to combat labour crunch
Rethinking the Computer Chip in the Age of AI
yes I am confused why people aren't discussing OTBC ... is it an assumption that if you lose all your possessions then you lost these as well? Doesn't seem valid as you can certainly give them to a trusted person for safe keeping as well. Or bury them in the ground if you want somewhere.
The existing software is already that fork, isn't it? Even ignoring the other reasons that lazy counter is bad to throw out.
Ok, what do you mean by “guess and check”?

Because general rule for a sudoku to not be considered is that at no point should you be in a position where you are needing to simply try different solution paths to find one that works.

I’d recommend watch a video by cracking the cryptic on YouTube to see how the solve works at the higher levels, as it’s possible I’m misunderstanding what you’re meaning by guess and check, and you’re meaning similar logic to what is used. In that case the problem is calling it “guess and check” leading us sudoku folk to think you’re meaning bifurcation.
No. IPFS is only to shared static content, and it has no access controls.
Yahoo Groups
It wouldn't need single devops person full time job. But it would make more sense to just pay a company to manage the technical side for you
because that is your identity, the full "user@domain" the domain you are on is an intrinsic part of addressing to get to your account. so the question then becomes why can't you change your name? and it has mainly to do with avoiding name conflicts in administratively isolated systems.

A major problem in distributed systems is names. one solution is to do what dns did, you can have nice names but you only get to pick them under the part of the hierarchy you control. another solution is to do what git or ipfs does. nobody gets useful names but at least you don't need any sort of central name database.

mastodon went the dns/email route, which makes sense people want nice names. but now your name is stuck on your domain. perhaps someone could have setup a central name server to avoid name collisions, but who would you trust to run it? what happens when it goes down? might as well just use dns.

Off tangent opinion on names in a federated system.

Unfortunately mastodon adopted the twitter style "@user" but because this only make sense in the context of a single domain mastodon mainly uses the awkward form "@user@domain" I think the email/xmpp form "user@domain" would have been better, but if they felt the @ prefix was critical to the experience of a twitter like micro blog than they probably should have adopted the form "@user.domain"
Oops, I meant to say test size, not test power.

A test size of 0.05 is only really 0.05 if the entire process you used was free from p-hacking. And as a reader of that paper that process includes the file drawer effect. All these things have an impact on distorting the test size away from what it is advertised to be.
Frontline Ukraine troops are reportedly enduring Starlink outages
That's ridiculously expensive for that tiny amount of users
Both. Reagan was a staunch anti-Communist, and worked towards their downfall. But also, all presidents need public support for their policies so they can get Congress to send them the bills they want[0]. So speeches are usually written so that citizens will call their Representatives and urge them to draft or vote for legislation on the issue.

Reagan's nickname is "The Great Communicator" and he was one of the most effective presidential speakers of his time (I would pick Kennedy over him as being the best of the 20th century, but both were very good)

https://www.reaganfoundation.org/education/virtual-learning-...

[0] The use of Executive Orders used to be much less frequent. The President would instead use their influence to get bills passed and sent to him for signing.
Except that that's the opposite of what's going on. The CPU performs better with the "wasted" mitigations turned on.
I think it comes down to respect. Modern designers seem to have very little respect for users, and in some cases, it seems to veer into contempt.

No, you may not disregard what I want you to do, the most I’ll allow is for you to delay it by an hour, at which point I’ll interrupt what you’re doing again. Because I know better than you what you should do, despite my having zero context.
Fastmail doesn't require a phone number for 2FA.
I guess I should have specified "loan originators". You're right, creditors don't have any incentive to do this. But that salesman at the used car dealership doesn't really have anything to lose.
Of course - but it's an indication of the ludicrous scale. How many vehicles do they use to move these 20,000 bags around to London hotels? Even if it's each one doing 20 bags a day do they have a like a fleet of thousand vans or something just for moving lost bags? Just for Heathrow?
> Can someone explain why a Mastodon account is so intrinsically tied to the instance it was registered on?

There's no central server, and not all of the instances talk to each other.

Where... where would you put the account data?
Im testing this argument out, but doesnt this apply to all tasks, not just language? I can learn to paint from scratch in what like 300 attempts? 1000 attempts? It takes far more examples to train a guided diffusion model. I'd struggle to believe that our brains are hardwired for painting
My experience is that Doc A sends the thumbnail of the image to Doc B. Doc B is happy that Doc A sent an unusable file because he now gets to charge for a new image.

Hospitals track MRIs and other images ordered per doctor, and doctors are under pressure to hit their quota.
That and the same with Bluetooth is something that really grinds my gears with apple
This just convinced me to buy some.
I never thought I'd actually shop for a 10Gbe switch here in canada, but I went from a 100mbps trash-tier docsis (ugh) connection to an almost too-good-to-be-true symmetric 1.5gbs FTTH with Bell Fibe. For the same price (!), around 60$/month with a permanent discount that Bell seems to hand out to everyone who asks.

The issue is that it seems to be very hard to find affordable switches with 10gbe ethernet copper ports, instead of SFP. The few that exist either cost more than what I pay for my connection in an entire year, or don't interact well with the ISP provided hub/modem (it has no SFP). Bell also seems to have locked down their new hardware so it is impossible to bypass their hub. And while I have a home server rack, even the more affordable second hand enterprise switches are usually ancient powerhogs.

So for now wifi 6e is basically just as fast as my wired setup, which is weird.

I guess I'm not used to being at the edge of home networking tech as a canadian... but I'd be happy to hear about recommendations and what to look for/avoid with that type of gear either (new or used)
Discover & Capital One offers free online only no fee checking account.

To add, use special emails for zelle, not your regular phone number or regular email.
Doubly doesn't track as airplane mode is often required during takeoff and landing, which barring controlled or uncontrolled flight into terrain usually happens at the airport, where you and the so many folks taking the same airplane as well as several other airplanes are not required to take their cell phone off as a courtesy to operators.

I can get the EM interference angle just fine, which stays (or stayed until recently) in place as a vestigial CYA rule of a time when cell phones were crude enough to be able to produce a spark which is what makes gas stations display a "no cellphone" sign to this day because back then it could ignite gasoline vapour.
Here is a link to hazard vs. frequency:

https://ehs.lbl.gov/resource/documents/radiation-protection/...
I don't understand how Musk could use WeChat at a template - given the degree of censorship on that platform.

I also don't understand how a "pay to yell" approach will achieve anything approaching free speech.

I just don't see a good outcome here for Twitter.
Yes! I read "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog [something] times", and was scratching my head over the penultimate "word". Had to go into the source to recognize it as a string of digits.
Why can't they use Fastmail? It's as if Gmail is the only email provider any more.
The similarity that I'm talking about (letters with excessively similar shapes) is a hindrance, not a help. Specially because, as you said, we don't read words letter-by-letter; if the shapes are too similar you need to pay more attention to each one of them, otherwise everything becomes a jumbled mess.

I'm not blind, mind you, although I can read Braille by touch. And sometimes I feel like Braille is the tactile version of this: https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/r... - sure, you can decode the letters, but you waste seconds doing so.

Fakoo doesn't address that, and I feel that it's a more pressing concern than making the letters look like Latin letters.
I seriously never even noticed Apple never used the term laptop. Then again, so many people use the terms interchangeably I feel like the difference is beyond pedantic.

Besides, MacBook sounds better than Mactop.
The operator can just pay for the high speed handover feature license ;)
> because that is your identity

That seems like a very, very poor choice. I have the same concern with Matrix.
I’d be interested in that guide if you could find it.
:) thanks herve.

There are 100 already minted (and visible on OpenSea)

900 more can be minted from https://nft.bueno.art/mint/DzEAxReA6JrPgklMIj7fK for 0.08 although the floor is 0.01 on OpenSea.
I think for most people rumination is involuntary
Oh man, I’m so happy people are keeping Bolo alive. Thanks for doing that.
I think it’s an argument for small, composable libraries. Think Go’s std instead of Java’s Spring.
I’ve had a bakflip for years. Exactly ZERO problems. One of the best tonneaus ever made. I still get truck owners asking me where they can get one.
One account for incoming money. Only your employer knows about it.

One account for holding money. Nobody knows it except you.

One account for all money outgoing. Only payees knoq about it.

You transfer all incoming from above first account to second asap.

You transfer money from second to third only on per need basis.

Capital One, Discover offers free multiple checking accounts.
Make sure you don't have children or anything selfish like that.
What do you use? Or you don't search the internet at all?

> Everyday I hate this website and the people on it more.

Why?