skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basecamp decamps from cloud: Renting computers a 'bad deal'
Same as electronic industry has a China problem. It is not that difficult to pull those factories back and buy Uranium from Kazakhstan or Australia.
First you would need a new, free graphics, sound effect, and music.
> To simplify it as "Russia invaded Ukraine" is foolish.

Lol wat? It is that simple. Claiming that land other people live in, has its own language, and it’s own nation with internationally recognized borders, doesn’t make it not an invasion when you send troops over those borders.

Is China incapable of invading anyone because their past empires held the view that they were the Middle Kingdom and all land was Chinese but just didn’t know it yet? Does only Russia get this ability to invade but not have it be an invasion?
What does being off mean? If that's how everyone sees it, isn't that what you should use as reference instead of a device with "correct" rendering that only a few people uses?
It’s the fear of env dumps and the fact that env variables are readable by other processes (but only inside the container) and that docker records the env vars as well. One thing I am wondering is: how much does the situation improve if you unset the Env vars after reading them?

My take is that it is noticeably more secure to use the cloud provider secret manager (or hachicorp vault).

There’s not much difference between a configmap and a k8s secret. The secret doesn’t have a separate decrypt operation so you have to lock down even list access and can’t separately view it’s metadata so you don’t get much benefit from k8s anyways.

If you use a k8s secret adapter to the external secret manager tool rather than loading directly in the container out of band, the security picture gets more complicated.
Was an engaging and overall excellent game. Big fan of Nicky Case and their work.

I believe, simple tools and explorables such as these can help understand human psyche much more than a volumes of monograph exploring human conditions. I think these game-based explorables will be big in the future for explaining deep and difficult concepts.
Social media damages appearance satisfaction
Does it follow that same would apply for all humans of Mark Antony's time?
BellingCat has established direct responsibility by FSB employees in numerous operations.
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. The semiconductor industry is ‘near its limit,’ says Nvidia CEO, Intel and Google collaborate on computing ASIC for data centers, Chipmakers expand SiC production as demand for power electronics grows, Oracle Cloud adding Nvidia chips for AI
So as a relatively recent migrant to Aus, I find that odd because AFAICT the regulations here are more strict than back in the UK. I.E. you must wear a helmet, you must have lights after dark, your bike must have a certain configuration of reflectors (two in the wheel, back/front of each pedals, front and rear) etc.

From what I understand the reflector stuff is routinely ignored by 'the community' because it's outdated, rules out use of clipless setups etc.

But the lights ... no idea. It's really really bad idea to cycle on the road at night with no lights. I wouldn't want to risk it, and it's scary as a driver when all of a sudden there's this dark figure out of nowhere.
These kinds of experiments are going to be done either way - for example gain-of-function research on animal smallpox (which usually doesn't kill and can't infect humans) to make it lethal.

Experts on the matter (I read a book recounting smallpox research, not a domain expert myself [0]) were concerned more about the publishing of that research than about the research being done, since proliferation is deemed very easy in the field. You don't need resources as with nuclear weapons to reproduce research like that.

(Edit: typo)

[0] The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
Original RCT1 and 2 are frequently on sale for dirt cheap on GOG. No need to pirate.
For me its even the plot. I mean scientific parts are very fine, but human parts are meh at best.

[minor spoilers below]
It is practically a racist book where everybody non-chinese is evil, conspires to harm chinese in a comical villain fashion, should be killed, and is killed eventually. I get that 100 years ago similar literature was OK in the west too, but we moved our societies quite a bit since then.
That's kind of mad the udp host field always does a DNS lookup and ignores TTL though.
> immediately identified her.

How many others were "immediately identified" but were not carrying bulbs?
> That isn't for Russia to decide.

*yawn*

What happened on March 17, 1995?
I am talking about bad managers here who throw around data a lot. This is not a bad take. AI at this stage is less of a doer, more of a predictor based on data. It should replace management glut that many companies face. It will also make things more consistent instead of leaving them to whims of someone
Fail Fast means your logging infrastructure is going to report to you more quickly to get the problem fixed.

As opposed to 6 months down the road when someone finally notices an uptick in complaints by customers and now the potential problem sites is literally the entire software stack.

fail fast is how stable software is made, the question is whether or not you think customers appreciate stable software.
Mark Hamill sent 500 drones to Ukraine in past month
What if the plant grows?
Against my better judgement, the article /does/ go over H2 (although H3 is all the rage right now).

For TLS, I recommend The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection (Every byte explained and reproduced): https://tls13.xargs.org/
Huge payday in a potential tech Armageddon. I'd sell too.
Thanks for sharing. Do you have experience with them and the Ha integration?
> There is way more to it.

Thank you for that nuanced point of view.

The history of that region is indeed very long and very complex, and the black and white picture painted by both western and Russian media is downright frustrating.

To give examples, Crimea was historically neither Russian nor Ukrainian, it was Tatar, and Ukraine is itself a weird cultural patchwork of Poles, Lithuanians, Prussians, Russians and a long list of other minor ethnic groups.
If Ubuntu and it's derivatives go for Snaps then while that's a minority of distros it's probably a majority of the Linux user base.
> Hence M31 should appear...

I don't think square degrees should be used here. People don't visually approximate that way when fitting round objects into a space.

Andromeda 3.167° across its longest length. Moon 0.518°. That's about 6 moons across the longest length.

Andromeda is 1° across the shorter axis. Approximately 2 moons.

So, appearing about 10-12 moons in area maximum, shaving some off at the corners.
The problem is that you can't know if the cat is dead or alive unless you open the box.

Schrödinger conceived the experiment to "show" that the premises lead to an absurd result: that the cat is dead and alive at the same time.

But now people either consider it plausible (in multiple universes or depending on observer) or try to explain how superposition is lost before it reaches macroscopic objects.
How is WiFi so much more reliable than Bluetooth?

I installed a web server on my phone and send files this way much faster (and Android -> Apple works):

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.basov.lws.fdroid/

I wish there were a standard for streaming (headphones could connect to your network via WPS, and stream some canonical URL with no configuration needed).
Converting a polyglot project build to Bazel
On top of the usual supply/demand dynamic, my impression was that a lot of [clever|greedy|evil] speculators bought up large quantities of many SKU's. If true, and those speculators feel a sudden need to to unwind their positions - things might get interesting++.
> close the Stable doors after the horses Diffused

Encapsulates it all well I like this statement, total pottery
all these companies being responsible and protecting us from “bad AI” are just delaying the inevitable.

With hardware prices going down and new GPUs and better algorithms coming to light, it’s only a matter of few years until anybody will be able to train custom versions as powerful as today’s AI, without protections, probably biased, etc.

Sure, they will be 5-10 years behind big corps, but it won’t matter once poorman AI will be good enough to matter.
Another game from Nicky Case:

https://ncase.me/trust/

The punch line of this game is probably the most painful lesson to see play out in society again and again: In the game of prisoners dilemma, if you let defectors win, then you will end up with more defectors. It is not enough that you "win," defectors must lose. Defection must be a losing strategy.

The results that this game displays so eloquently are so central to living in a high trust society that I think it should be mandatory curriculum for all schools.

Crime or corruption gone unpunished will breed more crime or corruption.
> Mark Antony was a close relative of Julius Caesar (100–44 BC) and a brave general

Brave? I'm sure that the grunts in his army where much, much more likely to die than him (they were in a riskier position, he had better armour, weapons, training etc)
I guess it depends how stressful or demanding your job is and how much involvement your employer expects from you. There are plenty of people with very lax jobs where they're basically on vacation anyway, except getting paid for it, especially at big bloated companies, might as well go "work" in some interesting places.

One of my friends has the dream job. He gets paid to ask his offshore team in Vietnam every day "how's the work going and when is X gonna be ready?" so that he can forward these answers to his own bosses in Germany lol. Perfect job for traveling while working.
That's also my experience
> If we were to show Mary a blue banana instead, she would not be fooled; she would know that it had the wrong colour, argues Daniel Dennett, in what he coined the ‘blue banana trick’.

Why won't she be fooled? Is it because she already knows that a banana has a different color than the sky and she knows the sky is light blue?
>having identical cores who can slow down and deactivate features on-demand or deactivate itself is a better use of space

With a take like that you're either a CPU micro-arch engineer working at the bleeding edge of research in this area or you have no idea how this actually works. One of the major ways we power optimize a core is by just making all the variable size structures smaller. That is, fewer/narrower execution units, smaller ROBs, smaller caches, less deep predictors, etc. Less hardware running means less leakage, which is the knob we're talking about controlling with little cores.

Now, in theory you can partially power gate a cache to turn, say, a 6-way cache into a 4-way cache, but doing so is extremely complicated from a correctness perspective and is really not something anyone is actually doing today.

And, anyways, fwiw: area is not really the a concern for modern SoCs at this point, it really is an issue of power/thermals. The feature size has gotten so small that they can afford to pack in extra stuff like accelerators and get good value out of them on the basis that it allows them to expend less energy than if they were to just use the CPU. For example, one big reason you see a lot of mobile SoCs with dedicated hardware for inference is because they have space and doing it with dedicate hardware lets them avoid burning a ton of energy on the CPU/GPU.
The thought experiment simply contradicts itself.

The premise is that Mary knows everything there is to know about colour vision. If this is true, then she knows what it is like to see colour.

If she doesn't know that, then the premise is false.

It's just nonsense.
I understand the experiment could be reframed to fix this "bug", but it's flawed: when Mary sees a red apple for the first time, some optical/neural pathways get excited that weren't before. She knew everything there was to know about the color red, but a specific physical experience was missing (physical, with observable physical changes that can be physically measured).

So this isn't about metaphysics or anything. Had Mary stimulated her optic nerve with an electric current to simulate a red apple, we'd be closer to the intended message of this thought experiment (and I'd argue in that case that a physical apple and a simulated one are indistinguishable).
I use org-mode a lot as well; I keep a "life.org" file that includes among other things a section called "heap" where I keep my general to-do list of discrete chores (e.g. "buy toilet paper", "email Joe about the foobar", "move pictures from my phone to my PC"), a section called "leads" where I put ideas worth looking into (e.g. "learn to use awk", project ideas), and a section called "dally planning" where I make a subsection each morning containing whatever things I plan on doing that day. All of this could be managed with a normal txt file as well, you don't need to adopt org-mode (though it's a joy to use).

I also do ~20 minutes of meditation each morning which is extremely helpful. Also very helpful are getting regular exercise - even just walking around for half an hour each day helps a lot if you're mostly sedentary - and taking frequent breaks.

Start slow! Phase productivity hacks in piecemeal over a long period of time. Start projects early and slowly and exploratory. Slow and steady wins the race.
The RIAA are already on top of the music AI issue:

https://torrentfreak.com/images/USTR-2022-RIAA.pdf
https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-flags-artificial-intelligence-...
I seem to recall Ukraine not doing much but yelling after Russia took crimea in 2014. Funnily enough the current hot conflict occurred after Russia declared Ukraine was a fake country and people and tried to blitzkrieg Kyiv.

If Russia had actually kept to the naturally Russian ethnic area this would be a much muddier and ideologically partisan discussion. But as they tried to take the whole country, and had sights on Moldova too, it’s pretty clear cut who the bad guys are now
I do not. I can tell you that a Xiaomi device I tested was not affected. All Samsung devices I tested as well as Realme (and therefore I assume also Oneplus and Oppo) are affected.

This issues also hints that at least 4 years ago it was an Android issue and therefore all phones were affected. A lot of users still use phones from 4 years ago that have not been updated to the latest Android version by the manufacturer.

Also, in the issue comments some commenters say that it still happens in Android 11 and Android 10 which at this point are the Android versions that the majority of users have on their phones.

So, to answer your questions in short: all brands who released phones 4 years ago and have not updated the OS with an Android version with the fix can be considered "affected brands". It is a "best case scenario" because it appears also devices with the latest updates still show the same bug (the Realme and Samsung devices I tested were all running on at least Android 10).
US violators of international law should also be tried in the Hague. Everyone involved in the torture regime, especially, and with "extraordinary rendition". They are fully as guilty as any Russian.

And, of course, in US criminal court.

This is not "what about". This is "prosecute all war crimes".
Productivity Tricks That Will Make Using Google Sheets Easier
Google Sheets is an amazing and handy tool for productivity no matter if you are business owner, digital marketer or just someone who likes to optimize his work.
Could easily happen if you compute the combined hash of a set of files, with one chunk per file (mmap'ed fex).
> New motorcycle lighting design could save MOTORCYCLISTS lives

Or they could just drive safely.

Also more lights = more visible = safer, wow, would have never expected that... I wonder how much cost this research and who paid for it.
Wow ! One Hundred Sixyt Million Dollars! Whatever will google do now!
If you want to get more historical it was greek, and whoever was there before them, and so on and so on. Is there any bit of land on earth that has only been held by one people ever?
Maybe if antidepressants weren't pushed so hard by big pharma, people would respect their use more.

If I may,

it's like the recent trend to call everything rape and sexual assault. At some point I have to start naturally doubting the claim on its face. That doesn't imply I think these things don't happen, just that I don't think someone making a stupid dad joke should turn into the woman shouting sexual assault and I find myself questioning all accusations as a result.

---

I have no opinions on any specific person taking antidepressants, but it's not unreasonable for people to get weary when you can't throw a stick without hitting someone who has been diagnosed with something that's being medicated with antidepressants.
In previous recessions they’d be reporting about mass job losses, but instead we have the lowest unemployment in 50 years.

They have been reporting about high gas prices, which people care a lot more about than GDP/GDI.
RIAA Submission on 2022 Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy Review [pdf]
Apparently, there was lively debate prior to it being settle by Lemaître and Hubble. I like the original name of 'island universes'

https://physicsworld.com/a/shapley-curtis-and-the-island-uni...
Welp, that's true, my bad! It seems this rule was relaxed somewhat - mentioning the stack in the rules text is still frowned upon, but there's still some cards that mention it in the rules text (and a lot more that contains the split second reminder)

Note how the waterhouse's link - https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?actio... - contains a bunch of cards that were playtested but eventually rejected (they are the black-and-white cards with just a rough sketch in place of art), presumably because of the high bar that stack-fiddling cards should meet
He made a typo.

> Yes I don't think the capitalization has too much impact.

You missed a comma.
In the past few years, the Google experience has been devolving. GMail loads a ton of JS, app sizes are larger and apps are slower, and Maps won't even show me the name of the town I'm currently in, while navigating (and the UI is terrible).

If it weren't for traffic data and good geocoding, I'd be using OsmAnd all the time (the overall UX is about the same).
> If generative art becomes a notorious market for CSAM, everyone in the field goes to jail.

No one will go to jail, except maybe some people who get caught creating, distributing or collecting those images.
Seems like a great tool to link reddit usernames to IP-addresses.
It reads like a standard horoscope.

Have to admit. I've been an idiot and fell for this data-gathering trap
I mean, in Southern Hemisphere you can see ie Large Magellanic Cloud with naked eye, and its by definition another (albeit smaller) galaxy.

I do love astronomy and can stare at starry skies on top of mountains for half a night, but you don't need to buy some crazy equipment to see similar things, just travel a bit (or not if you live there).

I believe mankind would be mentally in a bit better place of all folks that want enjoyed starry nights more often, and maybe grokked a bit what they actually see. Humility and all.
One could fight terrorism by dropping nukes on all the places terrorists live or work. But that would have bad consequences beyond the intended effect.

It's possible to be for some strategy or aim, but against an individual tactic which could fulfil that aim.

This tactic (pervasive surveillance) has significant, proven fallout. It also has a history of fuelling long-term pervasive discontent that ultimately lead to the collapse of regimes which used it. It should not be on the table.
The Greek word is, in fact, "Λονδίνο" (Londino).
New engineered proteins could be used to develop adaptation-proof Covid vaccine
It’s a well known folks wisdom “your relationship will change with years, it is normal”.

Took me until discovering this book to learn what exactly happens:

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Guide-Chemistry-Love-...

Despite its name, it is a highly practical book which scientifically explains what is going on from neurochemistry point of view, and I think reading and discussing together this book is a productive way to start a conversation on the topic.
It is, but 4chan is hardly the mainstream internet, and there's a lot worse than celebrity deepfakes on it. On Reddit, it has been relegated to a few pariah subreddits. Earlier, you would have spotted some on the homepage.
I learned HTTP1 pretty well but not much of 2.

Since playing with QUIC, I've lost all interest in learning HTTP/2, it feels like something already outdated that we're collectively going to skip over soon.
node-red, along with the dashboard extension[1] would serve a HTTP server that could have many inputs, such as a shell command. You'd run that on a server, not the client.

1. https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-dashboard
What is your point? The article puts forward this point too among many other counterpoints.
Well, it didn’t do too well, with me (“rugged outdoorsman”? Shirley, you jest).

But I’m an oddball. People misjudge me all the time. No reason to think an algorithm would do any better.
Haa! Yes, these days one has to be prepared. Nope, this is not about kids.

This is about tools, intricacies of the tools, appreciation of beauty, beauty in the details, etc.
> I've seen speculation that it has been released this way to provide distance between Stability.AI from eventual future litigations, but it feels more like an internal ultimatum deadline.

It could be both. A company it is not necessarily a monolithic entity.
That was an excellent, well-written, well-thought out, well presented, interesting, humorous, enjoyable read. Coincidentally I recently did a Rust crash course so it all made perfect sense - I am not an IT pro. Anyhows, thanks.
Thanks for the info. Good to know for the next time. Although, at the time they didn't say "we don't let you keep your number because we don't have to" but blamed it on "technical reasons".
“But what is the significance of all this?”

For this particular story none at all. Nothing.
Bitemark analysis for which child got into the block of cheddar cheese is dead accurate, though. You will not so easily overturn the convictions.
Basecamp have fairly consistant loads, and I assume the content is mostly custom produced for each user in their ruby for rails servers (so not much use of cached content on a CDN etc). They're basically renting expensive server boxes and database instances from Amazon, it would make sense that its cheaper to run themselves.

Would be interesting to hear what the target level of availability is for the Basecamp services, and what the overhead from running their own infrastructure is after a year.
This and incompetent politicians want a silver bullet to solve all of the world problems at once, look good to the public on the pedo/terrorist fight, and genuine ignorance on the issue of privacy.
Tory Leadership Election: Who is backing Who in October leadership election
Related very recent suggestions that explore controllable user settings managed through the browser:

- https://kilianvalkhof.com/2022/css-html/on-better-browsers-a...

- https://kittygiraudel.com/2022/09/14/dominant-hand-respectin...
> happens if hygience and mixing of species is sloppily disregarded

Evidence of lab negligence should not become a reason to neglect or defund research and prevention about animal spillover risks. Unfortunately, the two problem classes are synergic rather than mutually exclusive.
GP is wrong. It isn't boomers responsible for poor computer laws, it is normies. Normies who are too dumb to operate the powerful tool they have.
Have to ask... do you log or otherwise save ip address and usernames and if so what are your future plans for this info.