skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to have a superiority complex with a desire to win an argument rather than engage in an honest discussion, but I'll indulge you for a moment.

> The magnitude of these operations, and what they actually did (as opposed to what is claimed/implied/believed they did, typically without conclusive evidence, but lots of innuendo and rhetoric) is not actually known.

First of all, a basic principle of information warfare, and warfare of any kind for that matter, is to keep your enemy and the public at large in the dark as to how it's actually performed, and the extent of its operations. So the general public will only hear about what gets to leak out, and run through the filter of their own country's media, with its own biases and agendas.

I'm speaking from the perspective of a layperson, and only know what the general public has access to. But I'm educated enough to be able to put 2 and 2 together, see the clear effects of psyops, and with the power of deduction conclude that this isn't just a single warehouse in an isolated town, but that these are operations on a global scale that are rarely reported in mainstream media.

You, on the other hand, are implying to have some insider knowledge that contradicts mine. So how about you follow your own statement, and be precise in your framing of reality?

> This is a subjective ontological claim, and it is not possible for you to prove that it is true

Which part? QAnon started on 4chan[1].

The part about conspiracy theories thriving on forums and social media comes from my own experience on the internet. So, yes, it's subjective. Do you have a different opinion about this that you would like to share?

> It may also be possible that it is not possible for you to realize this.

It very well may be. I'm not very smart.

> Reality may appear to be binary (True/False - and portions of it are), but it is actually fundamentally ternary (True/False/Other).

What? Are you claiming that Cambridge Analytica didn't exist? Or that it existed in some other dimension? It's difficult to follow your big brain arguments.

> I wonder which of us possesses more knowledge on that topic.

I would like to say that I wonder that as well, but so far you haven't said anything that made me think that you do. So I think I have more knowledge.

> Does your intuition suggest to you that it is you?

Yes. Please prove me wrong.

> Do you possess any tools and techniques in your epistemic toolkit for dealing with this very tricky aspect of consciousness?

I don't think I do. I never thought I would be contemplating conciousness in a thread about disinformation, but here we are. Can you teach some some techniques to improve my perception of reality?

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/53498434
PR move obviously, but why not.
Thought web components were dead
It's not victim blaming. They (the creditors) are the victims and they expect you to make them whole.
> Every little feature and adjustment drags for many 2-weeks sprints. Every task gets broken down to its atoms.

Can you provide some examples so readers can get a sense of whether we think your perception is accurate?

It might be that you have very high expectations or it might be that they really are slow, maybe so slow they should be replaced. But without examples it’s not possible to get a sense of which is the case.
I was using it at that time as my main desktop OS. I ported and wrote several tools of it. The gui itself was simple, nice to use and to program for.

Driver support wasn't extensive, but the available drivers were working fine. With qnxstart.com at the time and all the oss tooling I didn't have anything missing.

I was in love in a way that only beos gave me before.

This was the last commercial/closed-source OS I ever used in no small part due to the license change.
I think part of it is there are instances that are just sooooo broad. Mastodon.social … shouldn’t exist? I think. It’s too broad and kinda duplicates the general social network issues of everyone using the thing.

Meanwhile there are loads of three-digit-user instances that are more focused (and have less problems on a tech level, and on a social level)
In California the estimate is that 25% of consumers are buying from licensed retailers.
Aren't trademarks dependent on enforcement? i.e. if you allow your mark be diluted[1] by projects you like - you will have a harder time down the road defending against use by projects you don't like. So the best strategy is to go ape on everyone, including those you like. IANAL.

1. e.g. Kleenex
Wikipedia math has competition and they are generally much harsher than Wikipedia, which indicates the direction which communities of volunteers wish to go when they disagree with Wikipedia's execution.

https://ncatlab.org/

https://kerodon.net/

https://stacks.math.columbia.edu/

The people who are looking up references to advanced math concepts are likely students who are already on a mainstream pedagogical pathway and are looking to fill in holes to a concept map they're already building.

The use case of someone who (1) does not wish to consult the vast and well-discussed pedagogy of math and (2) is not an advanced math student and thus wishes to have stand-alone math definitions is a Very special case.
Unsurprising.

This is exactly why banks are so eager to come up with payment systems that go directly to/from bank accounts, as opposed to credit cards.

It's also why I don't use Zelle or Venmo.
been there. Worst offender I've seen is an eslint rule that forces you to not mutate the object you're creating with reduce() because mutation is bad. So now you're doing object spreading and went from an O(n) algorithm to an O(n^2) algorithm. Wonderful.

There is a lot of unquestioned dogma going around in this industry.
Overwatch 2 Chat Bug Is Randomly Buying Skins from the Shop
The USPS should operate a free public email service and provide support at every post office.

The government has the resources to navigate complex situations that digital safeguards can’t.

If someone has no paperwork, lost the device they made their account with, and cannot remember a password they made—no tech company has the resources or expertise to handle this at scale as well as local institutions can. If someone needs to take over an account of a loved one that they have legal guardianship of, you don’t want a support agent at a call center to make these decisions.
FiScript: Execute custom scripts on your files / folders from macOS context menu
Finish it. You'll be sad when it's over.
Well, one has to admit that Ukraine’s media strategy is top notch.
I think a lot of people are just really averse to answering those type of questionnaires too. I've seen companies offer incentives which I think probably works decently well.
The state could run an email service.
I have a sibling who's "no fixed abode". Teaching him how to use 2fa isn't the problem. It's that all property is transient, so the 2nd-factor can't be tied to property. It doesn't matter if that's his phone or his socks. "Something you know and something you have" does not account for those who have nothing.
I wish I hadn’t spent all that time on Twitter and pop culture in my twenties, and instead devoted myself to learning and upskilling.
Yeah I had a similar issue. I had TOTP 2FA set up on my google account, and connected an android phone to it purely to download something from the app store.

Google then decided that it was going to ignore TOTP set up and prefer the "Trusted mobile device."

In a way it actually made my account less secure, since that was a testing device and had no passcode on it.
Oh, I was happily happily using my 16GB mid-2012 15" MBP as my main machine until the motherboard developed some issue with power and died a month ago.

I fired up a 15" 2008 MBP to run some non-CS Photoshop and you know, it works great as long as I'm not using the Internet! It's a solid machine, and I miss it.

Now typing on my work machine, an 8GB M1 13" MBP. I wouldn't say I've been blown away by this and it's probably because I need 16GB to deal with Chrome and its zombie Electrons.
He was selected (reported by him) for the eulogy he wrote for Robert Jordan on his blog. At the time he hadn't published "thousand pages" books. Though he later did, concurrently with writing the final Wheel of Time books (themselves thousand pages tomes).

And having read both of those authors, I really couldn't accuse Sanderson of being as long winded as Jordan. Sanderson's chapters (even in his long books) are bite sized and very comfortable for me, since that means I only remember the chapter number and don't use a bookmark. (often upward of 70 chapters for his Stormlight Archives series, which means less than 15 pages per chapters)

It should also be noted that Sanderson writes taking into account that readers can probably use a wiki to remember things, while Jordan keeps repeating things. Those books (while only a few months apart) weren't written for the same iternet era.
Or trying to ally japan against russia
Right, yeah, duh. I was thinking too abstractly as in "the perfect spherical cow salesman in a frictionless vacuum"
To elaborate on Noe's comment, the article is suggesting the use of LSH where the hashing function is learned by a neural network such that similar vectors correspond to similar hashes via Hamming weight (whilst enforcing some load factor). In effect, a good hash is generated by a neural network. It appears Elastiknn a prioi chooses the hash function? Not sure, not my area of knowledge.

This approach seems feasible tbh. For example, a stock's historical bids/asks probably don't deviate greatly from month to month. That said, the generation of a good hash is dependent on the stock ticker, and a human doesn't have the time to find a good one for every stock at scale.
There is a vital difference with companies getting hacked.

I know I might get robbed at any time, maybe I don't lock my door, thats why I put my money in a bank.

The bank has one job - to keep my money safe. If they have no guards andleave the door open, yes, it is their fault.

If you are not prepared to keep armed guards money safe, then you shouldn't be taking other people's money.

Similarly, companies that cannot keep data safe shouldn't be storing my data in the first place.
Apparently if you outlaw murder, the fact that people are constantly creating new ways to murder makes it confusing as to whether or not murder is outlawed.
Blogless – Writing articles online without a blog (2021)
Is that because the military knows they can invest in employees without worrying they’ll take the training and leave? This would be due to both their relative monopsony position, and the fact that many employees are on years-long contracts.
Maybe things aren't meant to live forever; perhaps trying to make the ephemeral internet tied to long-lived permanent identities is the fundamental mistake.
If you also had a dog named cow it would be very on topic ;)
It rarely helps with learning vs. natural counterfactuals. It harms by socializing kids to not believe that their own curiosity is hopeworthy.

See John Taylor Gatto's work.

Instead of inefficient spending for large, programmed classes, you should have daycare/day supervision with lots of resources (books, internet, age-appropriate tinker equipment like electronics and tools and so on, microscopes, telescopes, a few adults on hand who are experts in whatever topic to help kids get traction / navigate), more free-rangness, less authoritarianness, more mastery learning, more apprenticeship.
I've heard 7-10 referred to as "the slog." It definitely slows down a bit, but I still enjoyed them. There's a lot of character development that you don't really recognize is even happening until later.
https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/russia/territory/index....

I wasn't aware of the controversy until now and I assume most people didn't either. This declaration will likely raise awareness but I'd be surprised if it did much else.
Aww, I was kinda hoping this was something official because of the 30th Anniversary.
> hardware running 100% won't last five years

Five year is a pretty typical amortisation schedule for HPC hardware. During my sysadmin days, of CPU, memory, cooling, power, storage, and networking, the only things that broke were hard disks and a few cooling fans. Disks were replaced by just grabbing a space and slotting it in, and fans were replaced by, well, swapping them out.

Modern CPUs and memory last a very long time. I think I remember seeing Ivy Bridge CPUs running in Hetzner servers in a video they put out, and they're still fine.
> cordorcet methods are overly complicated

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33111997

> and don't optimize the right thing

Apparently "candidate that would beat all others head to head should win" isn't the right thing? You'll need to explain that.

> maximal social utility

Some folks define social utility as erring toward more passionate voters, which is a potential problem with all cardinal methods. If they don't elect the Condorcet Winner, they are fatally flawed for any election that purports to be democratic.
Jewish Calendar Demystified (2007)
One thousand percent agree. I can't even bring myself to finish Streets of Laredo because I cannot say goodbye to the world McMurtry created. I haven't teared up at a book since I was a kid, but Lonesome Dove made it happen. I feel like all I've wanted to do since finishing Lonesome Dove in July... is talk about Lonesome Dove. It catapulted itself into my top 3 books list. I have to re-read Anna Karenina to decide which is better at this point. I wish Lonesome Dove was 1500+ pages.
That exchange in all its aristocratic floridness brings to mind a scene with my favorite phrase from another work that was paid-per-word:

"The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance upon Monseigneur." - A Tale of Two Cities
I am in the USA. Wasn’t aware there are different types under that name.
> Furthermore, the paper you linked was talking about wind directions not about whether the molten rods reached the cooling water underneath the reactor room floor.

I did not say that the IAEA paper was about molten rods hitting the coolant water. There is more than one way that Chernobyl could have been much much worse. According to the paper, different wind and rainfall could have made the disaster 200-400x worse in terms of radiation consequences to humans. To say that is significantly worse would be an understatement.

> Popular books have the incentive to garner sales - often through dramatization - not report accurate findings.

It seems like you've made up your mind and no amount of evidence to the contrary will change it. I don't think I'll bother to continue participating in this line of discussion.
I have met a few of my heroes and I have always been let down. I hear Ed is a nice guy, but I don't think I could take being disappointed again.
> Or maybe it means that these sites don’t like people abusing their networks to spread garbage.

Is that based upon the desire of the users, or the desire of the owners? Why do we talk about the concerns of the owners as if they were the concerns of the users?

It's an odd sleight of hand.
Unfortunately, I don't think that works at all. Not all universities use education specific TLDs, and not all departments/labs in universities with a domain name under an education specific TLD actually keep there website under that TLD.

Completely random example of such a lab (and if you check publications you'll see they host papers under this domain name) https://www.honeylab.org/
Nah. Destructure all the things. The alternative is writing unsafe code or using a library in place of standard language features.
If you think the various mechanisms of transacting fiat money don’t work, then I literally don’t know what you’re talking about.

As for the rest of it, that’s exactly my point. Crypto is still capitalism. Or are you suggesting that moving from fiat currency to crypto will solve the failures of capitalism? I’d be fascinated to hear why you think that.

Perhaps you are conflating a switch to crypto with a switch away from governments, taxes, employment contracts, etc? That’s certainly an opinion, but then it isn’t actually crypto which is the operative solution.
>"Or trying to ally japan against russia"

Putin is doing this part just fine on his own. No need for external "help".
Ok but the reason it is broken really has nothing to do with mobile vs desktop.
I'm happy for Neolink. Discovered it on the Reolink subreddit.

Like OP, I wound up with one of these neutered Reolink cameras. I had purchased a bunch of normal ONVIF/RTSP ones, but one box contained a D800. It also had a slightly damaged mounting plate with dried silicon caulk residue on it. Seems I was a victim of Amazon return fraud, where someone sent them back the D800 instead of an RLC-822A. I was already past the return window and some couldn't even raise an issue about it.

Now I'm thinking I could have saved a lot of money by simply buying their cheaper "dumb" cameras.
I have fond memories of QNX.

We used QNX in my last company as the foundation for our router. It was a "tandem" HA system (at least one of our lead architects were formerly from Tandem, the company). It had 2x Control Plane (1 Active, 1 Standby) boards, and 3x Data Plane boards (2 Active, 1 Standby). QNX was an important part of our architecture.

Some features I loved in QNX: process control across the network. I could control processes on any of the processors (running QNX) on any of the boards of the system. Launch a program on a different processor with just the appropriate command prefix (which I forget). Also, driver restart: by the nature of being a microkernel, drivers were "just another process", and if they crashed or hung I could just restart/kill the process. Also, tighter coupling between drivers and files under /dev, unlike whatever Linux is doing, especially for networking devices!
After the weird and constant describing of women in flowery dresses admiring themselves in dreamscapes and book of weird lady attempting to drug and rape one of the main characters "as a joke!" I realized that this guy was way too horny and not nearly as interested in writing a good book series as everyone had told me.
> The toolchain is expected to become a public domain source code release as
soon as it has reached an appropriate level of usability and stability.

So, never?
There is a great paper, Weight Agnostic Neural Networks [0], that explores this topic. They experiment with using a single shared weight for a network while using an evolutionary algorithm to find architectures that are themselves biased towards being effective on specific problems.

The upshot is that once you've found an architecture that is already biased towards solving a specific problem, then the training of the weights is faster and results in better performance.

From the abstract, "...In this work, we question to what extent neural network architectures alone, without learning any weight parameters, can encode solutions for a given task.... We demonstrate that our method can find minimal neural network architectures that can perform several reinforcement learning tasks without weight training. On a supervised learning domain, we find network architectures that achieve much higher than chance accuracy on MNIST using random weights."

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04358
And crypto solves that how?
It doesn’t scroll on mobile safari.
As I said, I really don't have much insight into virology, but I also get a lot of what I'd classify as "god of the gaps"[0] type feelings when people start talking about gaps in the documented evolutionary record of the virus. I suspect there was not much interest in studying the evolution of corona viruses in raccoon dogs of the Wuhan region prior to 2020, so if there's a spotty history of all the variations that it went through, I'm not really surprised.

> but I don't see why "there are different theories that could be glossed as 'lab leak'" is any sort of evidence that the total probability of all the theories that could be glossed as such is lower (relative to the situation where there is exactly one theory)

I didn't say that to mean that I think a spectrum of lab leak theories changes the odds of whether or not it is true; what I'm saying is that I don't know that there is a coherent story of what the "lab leak theory" is supposed to mean; I've seen many different ones. And without a single coherent theory, it just looks like anomaly hunting to me, which is a feature of grand conspiracy theories.

And yes, without a singular theory of a lab leak, I don't understand the goals of those pushing them, but seeking a coherent, understandable explanation for complex and capricious natural phenomena seems like a natural human feature, and perhaps an adaptation to allow us to cognitively process the world around us; it also seems to me like the basis for religion.

> I mean, I could say the same thing of the converse - it seems like most people on the natural origin side just want it to be false for some reason;

I certainly see some of this, and some of it is I'm sure a backfire response to the people pushing the lab leak thing, or perhaps the wilder versions of the lab leak theory. But for myself, the natural origin just seems... natural. Viruses have existed since presumably the dawn of life and been with us and adapted along with us since long before we were homo sapiens, and this is most likely just another one.

As for what would I consider sufficient evidence of a lab leak? Again I don't know much about viruses, so as far as genomic/molecular analysis, a group of well respected authorities in the field who had reason to believe of an artificial tampering would be a nice start, but that will always be tough for me to interrogate and understand, and I have a hard time believing it could be truly definitive. Much better would be human evidence - notes from the lab, scientists espousing their role in the leak, etc...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
How are they not automatically allies yet?
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Ukraine & Japan always had good relations[0], so actual step is more about confirming longstanding friendship.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Ukraine_relation...
Using a password multiple times helps you remember it.
It doesn't matter how many people you survey, you will always end up only getting responses from the type of people who respond to surveys
Different account for direct deposit from the account used for paying bills. Problem solved.
https://www.ics.uci.edu/~jajones/INF102-S18/readings/07_dijk... - Also relevant. An early (earliest?) description of a call stack and using it to hold activation records (stack frames as they're commonly called today).