skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I correct in saying that, at least from the photos, this post and the article are shorting different pins?
How many 180° turns can a prime minister manage before they fall down?
Which is actually kinda funny, because some of the "complex" technology the OP is railing against allows us today to manage thousands of databases both easily and efficiently... IF the systems are built with a more current approach. This is why I try to understand ALL of the motivations for disruptive change and not immediately assume incompetence and self-interest bordering on criminal.
Yes I always find this funny. England is kind of totally opposite from Canada. Distances and speeds in miles, everything else metric.

Our speedometers can all switch, too these days. For travel into the US. Even Google maps will switch units right after you cross the border.

FWIW MPH has the advantage that it's easier to estimate travel times based on typical 60MPH hwy speed. A minute per mile more or less. 100KMH is more easily divisable etc. but doesn't map to time units as well. So in a way, I kind of enjoy driving in the US.

(In terms of localization stupidity, I find it obnoxious that Google's navigation can smoothly handle the transition into the United States, but cannot handle the mixed French/English nature of signage in Canada. I suppose I should have raised this as a bug when I worked there, but I find it awful that after over a decade of having text-to-speech facilities in both languages, Google can't handle bilingual countries and butchers mixed signs and gets completely fucked when driving into Quebec. Also Google photos thinks "thanksgiving" is end of November, despite me being in Canada.)
If you only compare those two cards it might be a better deal, but there's a spectrum of cards, including soon to be released next generation from competitors.

At any rate, $900 is too much! Of course different buyers have different budgets and tolerance for rapidly increased pricing. Two years ago I increased my $220 budget for GPUs to $300. Maybe next year I'll go as high as $350.
So they selected a few anecdotes that are outdated and decided something doesn’t exist? Sounds like a podcast to stop listening to

If they analyzed hundreds more anecdotes of corporations caving to Twitter mobs they’d have gotten the truth
I think the "hygiene hypothesis" is mostly related to allergies, not infections per se.

Kids in countries with "rough" conditions have a much higher mortality than kids in the developed world. I think it's pretty well accepted that the hygiene revolution decreased child (and adult) mortality a lot. That's not to say it didn't create other problems, but surely on net a "cleaner" world is better. Nobody is advocating not washing your hands before you eat.

So while "tougher raised" kids probably have a better immune system, the risk associated with pathogen exposure grow even more dramatically, such that they surpass the benefit.
Money is not wealth. Money is an IOU for future wealth at an unclear price.

You should spend your money on wealth, or give it to someone who will.

If you save your money and don't spend it, that creates inflation because it isn't stimulating production of wealth.
I'm on my phone right now, and I can't even see a list of what data you have?

What do you have that isn't already publicly available?
Weirdly, the best course of action that a lot of people are realizing is to just lay low for a couple of weeks until there’s a new boogeyman. Whether the cancellation is coming from the left or right side, if you don’t participate in it, you can’t lose. The moment you give out a PR statement, apology, and etc., you basically lose.
Among individuals it's called that but when a politician does it we call it pandering
What makes you think that a simulation of a process is the process itself? If you were to simulate on silicon kidney function down to sub-particle precision, would you expect your computer to pee on your desk? So why would you expect consciousness to be present in a simulation of brain activity or brain complexity? Can you point to _any_ instance of presumed consciousness in a non-biological complex?
Here's my extremely hot take. Almost all cancellation is of net benefit. It doesn't matter if you're cancelled over a lie or a disallowed opinion, all that matters is that you have stopped being a famous person with a platform. Almost no one famous is worth listening to about things that matter, and cancellation is the penalty that famouos people incur for talking about things that matter.

I draw an exception for comedians, who are famous for how worth listening to they are.
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I'm not saying there's nothing wrong with our monetary policy that leads to wild speculation, but isn't "just to maintain their wealth" overstating it? I guess it remains to be seen what happens from here, but ignoring this year the S&P has been a good solution to maintaining wealth, has it not?
If you're in the UK, combination of The Economist and Private Eye will give you very high quality information every two weeks, in print.
I was writing some unit tests yesterday and started to use names from Harry Potter in the test data, then remembered people trying to cancel JK Rowling for being a TERF and if this would make me appear insensitive to trans people, so I changed them all to something else.
Your claims here are something I've heard repeated from people before but I've never seen much substance to them. Especially the idea that being non-white or LGBT is non-minority online much of anywhere.

Do you have any non-anecdotal data to back those up?
> Nah, this is full story 99.9% of the time. I worked for government and this happened all the time

Same experience, also in the private sector.

> This is typical. You need to know how government works to understand it. I understand it, but do not approve it. I am also not frustrated about it, its just how this world works currently, in majority of the countries as far as I know.

Yep, I mean the issues with unnecessary jobs and inflated projects and budgets is not exactly news, I think it's just part of society's struggle to adapt to a post scarcity economy, while not shortening the amount of working hours. It's not really surprising that it also affects software.
The lifetimes are consistently optimistic, so read it as 30 to 50 years with 30 to 50 more years at incredibly high maintenance cost.

The nuclear industry is necessarily incredibly fastidious about where the radioactive stuff goes. Every milligram is accounted for in triplicate. If nothing goes wrong, after decomissioning you can be far more confident that the site is free of harmful levels of radiation than basically anywhere else on earth.

Something will go wrong somewhere if we keep building them, and we'll have a multi trillion dollar publicly funded cleanup, a large area for forest to reclaim that used to be two large cities, and a few tens of thousands of people dead (which is a vanishingly low cost compared to an oil war or a lithium coup).

There will be a lot of steel and similar that counts as low grade waste that will take decades to deal with, but can be moved around safely and wouldn't really do large amounts of harm even if it were lost.

Then there will be 2000t or so of high grade waste. This is the really nasty stuff. The plant operator will claim that the tiny amount of money they put in a fund for it means that they have no responsibility. Everyone will point fingers at everyone else and it'll sit in some temporary site for a while. It will probably eventually find its way into a breeder reactor or some reprocessing method at horiffic taxpayer expense. Alternatively someone will put neutron emitter A in barrel type B and put them half a meter to close together for an instagram photo at some point, and we'll have a permanent no-no zone the size of a state.
Even if this is a distraction tactic ...

Is there value to the distraction if it makes the entire country look like a bunch of idiots?

RIP Britain. A deeply embarassing end ...
I would guess that in British system quite many. As the members of party have no interest to move with new election when they aren't sure they are going to win. So PM needs to end up pretty unpopular before they make any moves for replacement.

Also considering current situation, I don't think there is too many that want to be in the shoes just yet.
Right. It's corporate espionage.
Lion's Mane extract in my coffee, Neuriva, Cognium, Fish Oil and the occasional Alpha Brain powder in water when I need to be particularly alert. I also have been listening to the Huberman Lab podcast and working some of his suggestions into my routine.
Is there some research or theories about the shadow cancel ngo or whoever coordinates the deplatforming?

Considering how slow and unrespobsive big corporates usually are, there must be some real power broker behind it. Deplatformings usually all happen within the same day in a few hours. Last example is probably the deplatfoeming of Andrew Tate.
None of this has ever been needed.

However, it’s fun as hell
> Insular

Does anyone else have any experience with this app?
Scientists reappraise 'zombie' cells anti-aging medicine has sought to eliminate
> Consider the case where millions of people are convinced, influenced by a swarm of people on twitter, that someone in your company should be fired.

Is this a real case though? It seems like only a counterfactual hypothetical. In most cases, millions of people are not going to feel as strongly about something as the minority of people tweeting. If the people tweeting about it even feel strongly; it's easy to tweet about something, but writing a tweet doesn't necessarily represent a powerful and lasting dedication to a cause. These incidents tend to be fleeting.
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Sadly, i'm sure that you are correct.
Huh? Why should a video game company organize a football world cup?
Once you know it’s an explicit strategy, you can watch for it and call it out when you see they’ve chucked a dead cat.
Cancel culture will extend to banking soon.

Then the rage will boil over.
You may not like the fact people have different opinions, but you must accept it. Suppression of their voices leads to revolution.

The top down censorship is a "let them eat cake moment".
You can easily end up with leftovers from a prescription if stop taking them midway through the course once you're feeling better. Those left overs can then be used to self-medicate.

I could speculate on how else it happens, but the important part is that it does happen, and e.g. the Mayo clinic says:

> According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one-third of antibiotic use in people is not needed nor appropriate.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health...
My reading of the Guardian article is that the men feel they were interviewed under false pretenses. If true, that begs the question of the ethics of filmmaker. It also highlights a concern that those rushing to defend the film are either okay with the subjects being lied to or aren't aware of the primary criticisms.
Your T25 will end up like mine, with a cracked case because of poor design.
It's not hope. Things have moved quickly. This discussion started with the false claim that solar needs sunny California type weather. Which was true in recent history. Now it does not need California type weather. Cleve Hill solar park will run as a for-profit commercial enterprise, without government subsidies. In cloudy UK. UK being located at the northern part of the planet.

> As Germany is going to find out this winter.

Germany's problems have more to do with the non-viability of relying on Russian gas than on anything else. You can predict things like the Ukraine war as well as you can predict an earthquake at Fukushima. Or as well as you can predict Westinghouse Electric declaring bankruptcy over the Vogtle nuclear plant in discussion. Not a great look for nuclear when the government needs to step in and guarantee loans.
No. It parses that protocol and logs the metadata observed (time, duration, bytes, source IP, destination IP, ports, cert info, etc.)

Edit: I suppose it could be configured to do that. I've used Zeek in several organizations over the last 15 years and I have never seen it used in that way. However, Zeek running on a client computer (not on a cluster being fed from a 100 Gbit tap or SPAN) would be more scalable. And this announcement is about that.

Here's a nice paper on how Zeek has been configured to monitor fast networks: https://commons.lbl.gov/download/attachments/120063098/100GI...
"Something wrong" is the key criteria here. Ultimately, most of the cancellations are differences of opinion, even if someone finds an opinion particularly offensive.

In my experience, no one's opinion changes because he gets punished by some faceless bureaucratic authority. He simply doubles down, because he believes that not only is his opinion correct, but that it has provoked a crackdown from the authorities.

Not every "wrong" needs to be punished or "held accountable." And "cancel culture" itself is sort of a faux accountability, anyway: an angry mob lobbies some bureaucratic authority to deprive an "offender" from his supporters, often on trumped up accusations and with meticulous organization. They could have instead brought up whatever the offense was forever, they could have debated the person, they could have boycotted, all of which at least give the supporters and the offender the chance to think about what happened.

A large part of cancel culture involved excluding the multitude of middle ground positions down to either legal sanction or a few degrees of unpersoning. There are so many more solutions, including maybe just tolerance of statements we find offensive.
I think they would have still been uneasy that he was a SPOF, even if he had charged a lot more. And there's also a cognitive disconnect if a one-man deliverable costs above a certain threshold.
Yeah, exactly. It's a good thing that power can be taken away with extreme ease in some situations. We need more of that. We should expect more of people we put in positions of power, not less.
I've also been on a team with a technical consultant. Finding someone with that specific expertise and fitting into the environment would have been really difficult and probably more expensive, also considering the risk of a bad hire.
Meh. Watch Breaking Bad. Fiction has a great magic to transport you into the shoes of another.
> But activists should be aware that this can lead to attrition among allys.

How so? With each witch hunt their power will increase and they'll be feared more. Each one after that becomes easier, because people have been seeing the previous one and know what will happen if they don't comply, so they'll be even more inclined to go along with whatever you say.
If you have the keys, it looks like it can[1][2] (a contingency is that connections must use `TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384`) -- it seems like it's basically the same thing as Wireshark (a network packet sniffer for debugging/forensic purposes).

Not sure why everyone on HN is freaking out about it. It's actually pretty annoying to have to install Wireshark (including their capture driver) every time I need to debug over-the-wire network data.

[1] https://docs.zeek.org/en/current/scripts/policy/protocols/ss...

[2] https://docs.zeek.org/en/current/scripts/base/bif/plugins/Ze...
> Yes, zealots tend to be passionate. Passion isn’t by itself a good quality. Especially when you’ve acquired no wisdom at all.

Sure, but this is not a particularly new phenomenon. Nobody expects a generation of children and young adults (at the absolute oldest!) to be wise beyond their years. I'm in my mid-20s, and even I'm too old to be a Zoomer.

People accused Gen Xers of being coddled and "smart without being wise." They called them zealots when they burned their draft cards and tied themselves to trees, engaged in mass strikes, etc. Passion in young people is not new, and neither is "but this generation is different."

For what it's worth, I actually do agree that helicopter parenting (among other things) have a deleterious affect on kids. But that's a 40+ year old phenomenon, one that's not unique to gen Z. And of all the people I know online, Zoomers are the least susceptible to fake information (if only because so many of them are nihilistic).
Can one create a CA with a limitation to `*.example.com`?

Or can one install an arbitrary CA and limit it to `*.example.com`?
I disagree, cancellation usually means no work for ~2 years before a gentle restart with less work that's less well paid.

How well would you survive that? Not purely financially but emotionally.

Added to this is that cancellation usually includes criticism from friends.

I can not imagine publically criticizing a friend. I've cut people off before, I've criticized friends within social circles even.

Criticizing someone for the purposes of strangers I find quite disgusting, akin to tribal excile likely one of the worst traditional punishments of humans probably historically a death sentence.

It hits people hard.

My hot take, the power of social isolation is why older male suicide is horrifically high following divorce.

People on HN collapse if Google shuts their accounts down unexpectedly lol let alone every service and business you've worked with and your friends and family dropping you.
Also grocery stores sometimes sell fruits, vegetables, etc in lbs, sometimes in kg so it's much harder to compare prices between the different chains. I wish it was mandated to use the metric price first and (optionally) put the imperial price in small print.
It's pretty likely that Gandhi's nonviolence strategy would have failed against the Nazis. It almost failed against the British.

Convincing people in power that they they should act isn't power itself.
Absolutely.

Incomplete List of useful jobs that get pay a fraction of my yearly salary but yet provide actual value to society : teacher, nurses, day-care worker, trash collector.

I think what is severely broken is how we compensate different jobs. Something as meaningless as wrapping crypto in a extra layer of code should not be 5 teachers salaries.
OT: Can I ask a question about something that has long puzzled me about Brexit?

Note: I'm not asking about whether or not Brexit was a good idea. No matter where you stand on that, let's assume for the sake of argument that there were terrific arguments for both staying in the EU and leaving.

My puzzlement concerns the specific question asked on the 2016 referendum, which was

> Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?

with the options being remain or leave.

If you wanted the UK to stay in the EU, then clearly "remain" was the right choice for you.

Remaining didn't require the UK to do anything, so if you voted "remain" you were voting for something with a highly predictable outcome.

Leaving, on the other hand, requires a lot of action over the next several years. There were many quite different ways a post-EU UK could turn out, and much disagreement among the people who wanted to leave as to which of those ways they wanted. There could be changes of government over the years it takes to implement so even if you were confident that the people now in power would work toward an implementation of the kind of Brexit you wanted, they might not be the ones in power when it comes to actually finishing the thing.

If you wanted to leave then it seems to me that the best choice would still be to vote "remain" because this particular referendum was terrible. Instead, work to elect politicians who would offer a better referendum. Something like this:

> Should the United Kingdom develop a concrete proposal to leave the EU and then hold a referendum on that, and if that referendum passes negotiate a final deal to leave the EU, and then hold a final referendum on whether to implement that final deal?
> The old app that I wrote would happily take JavaScript or SQL snippets as inputs to any text field and do The Right Thing.

I can't be the only one here who is both skeptical and a little turned off by someone who says "You can stick any user input into a database query and you'll be fine", with a condesending pat on my head.

Your comments continue to be incredibly one-sided and biased. The summary is "My work was perfect and the new system a steaming pile". Perhaps this contributed to your replacement.
This isn't a change from the status quo. HTTP/2 is in practice only used over TLS.
> I haven't seen people celebrating his death.

Strange comment. Just because you haven't seen it in your feed doesn't mean it isn't happening.

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/tr...
Where did you get your 90% for ML stat from? I suspect you just made it up becuase it just happens to fit what you experience personally.

I work with software for virtual studios. It's very similar to gaming in a lot of ways (even using Unreal Engine) and we really push GPUs to the limits. I'd still count this in the "for gaming" category as we;re still rendering 3D scene within a strict time limit.
Though I cognitively understand why it's the case, the fact that operating on the brain isn't painful still weirds me out. Something about the part of the body that processes pain not feeling pain feels bizarre even though I can see why there'd be no benefit to having pain receptors there.
I've used a 3D laser scanner. Want to get a printer soon.
> Which has no bearing on whether or not the "free market" (not that such a thing actually exists) can stop it.

How does it have _no_ bearing on whether the market can stop it? If the status quo is the result of market forces, one should at least consider the possibility that market forces will not result in anything different.

I think maybe you meant to say that market forces _might_ still stop this even if they have not done it so far. That is a bit more defensible.
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This might be helpful:

https://github.com/microsoft/ms-zeek

https://zeek.org/
Getting "cancelled" can also be a lucrative gig, especially for a substack witter. It is not a meaningful word. Just like woke, people invoke the word as a ritual and social marker of their own anxieties and psychological pathologies rather than as a source of linguistic clarity used to enlighten people who aren't already partially indoctrinated into the irrational "cancel panic".

This blog post itself is poor quality writing that adds nothing to what has already been said exhaustively for more than 5 years.
if you want to remain in control, then do fire off abuse reports and consider firewalling off those IPs.
> Subjective experience and the "self" are just emergent properties of the
system

There are other systems with emergent properties where we can explain how the emergent properties are a function of the other properties of the system.

As of now, we can't do that with consciousness and brains/bodies.
That's a good question.

The problem is that syntactically calling a method with no arguments
and accessing a field will look the same, if .f is used to access a field:

(foo .m1 arg1 .m) ; m is a method name
(foo .m1 arg1 .f) ; f is a field name

I guess, one could introduce `_f` for field access.

Right now one can use `getattr` or one can bind the result of `(foo .m1 arg1)` to an indentifier `o.` and then use `o.f`.
https://www.fleetowner.com/emissions-efficiency/article/2124...
No, the 120°C is for residential district heating. According to their website, they can heat up air to over 1000°C: https://rondo.com/how-it-works