skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the Grateful Dead Yule log for anyone looking for background music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jClpJmljZLg
Counterpoint: moved to the burbs after 40 years of city life (Europe and NYC) and I absolutely love it. Cars work absolutely great and with the decreased need to be physically in the office, suburban life is better and more convenient than ever.

I feel like every post that shits on the suburbs should include how many kids do you have, for transparency. No family or kids, of course the city is better for you.
And if you don't pump up your tires to compensate, the lower pressure from cold temps will increase your rolling resistance. Not a 40% drop but enough to notice if you're tracking mpg.
You've called Uber when a cab didn't show? How'd you do that? Which number did you use?
> It’s hard to be sure that anything has understanding beyond being able to be emit finely tuned responses though. It’s entirely plausible that humans differ from chatGPT only in that:

This is a non-response.

Unlike an algorithm, humans have the faculties of creativity, intelligence and sentience. Furthermore, we have the crucial traits of self-awareness and being able to have experiences. We humans do many, many things that cannot be reduced down to algorithmic or computable steps.
If companies and government doesn't want people making judgments based on their experiences then they shouldn't overhype the vehicles and charge such high premiums unless they are going to be realistic that people are essentially spending 40k or more to beta test a city commuter car.
As someone who went to a party school (Penn State). I don’t have a lot of good things to say about the fraternities there, and will be the first to cheer their dissolution. But even that university was so hostile to everything. They made running an engineering student org close to impossible. I had to meet with risk management and mitigation multiple times a semester to build a robot. It was ridiculous.
How should I get in touch?
Those awful responses are exactly what I would expect from someone who plagiarizes and thinks it's okay.
This isn't a problem in practice. Ime you can cover 99.9% of sites with uppercase, numbers, and a special symbol like "!".
>I don't know that anyone that lived through Enron and rolling blackouts in the middle of summer in California has forgotten about it, so I'm not sure why you think that Texas is unfairly being singled out. It's just that a cold snap back in 2011 prompted regulators to give recommendations to winterize which were prompted ignored

Enron happened so long ago folks who couldn't vote then are now in their mid 30s. We did not choose to be born, and you do not choose how we parse the reality created when previous generations seized power. A contact once chastised me she doesn't hate Cuba, she hates Castro... I suspect if you replace Cuba with Texas and Castro with Cruz, a similar sentiment permeates the Lone Star State.

I'm just one guy, and I can only speak for myself, but from my perspective as a Pennsylvanian who's voted in every presidential election I've been eligible as boomers and bitcoin boys bleat about how I'm lazy and ignorant when they only hear what they want lest they have a violent meltdown, Texas maintained it's own grid to make succession easier, thumbed it's nose at the feds, turned it's back on science, and that's the... reason... that Texans will be having a situation like this every year.

Make no mistake: Due to climate change, events that used to come once a decade will plunge Texans into cold and darkness on the regular, since it turns out something and large and complex a system as a power grid is hard to maintain, especially as you experience brain drain due to a persistent lack of respect for basic democratic norms.

This comment thread is not about singling any individual... state... out. It is about painting a vivid picture that if you repeatedly and violently insist that things been done a certain way in contravention of all reason, then will you notice you got exactly what you asked for and be given no choice but to submit to what you opted in to as those who made better decisions under uncertainly literally laugh out loud that you thought this moment would be any other way.

(Or to put it simply: as they say in Appalachia: fuck around... find out.)
I really really hate hostels to be honest. I actually lived in Melbs for a couple of years in the past and have an Aussie ex wife too. I used to live in Middle Park (of all places) and so going and staying in a dorm in St Kilda just isn't my idea of a fun time right now. Can appreciate I'm in a bit of a strange place but I'm in some kind of middle ground between tourist and resident, and the days of entertaining ideas of dorms are well behind me.

Edit: but that said, thanks for the tip. I realise I'm being diva-ish so I'll give it some thought. Would likely have a good time there. Just still sad at being stiched up for someone's kicks at Christmas.
The voltage and current combined is the actually important number which is the total wattage available on that circuit. The US standard 220/240V outlet will provide ~30A of current usually while a UK outlet usually has a 13A fuse in the plug matching the circuit's rough availability.
I copy pasted whatever you mentioned in the comment and I made one change. I asked it to return 5-letter words that end with "nar"

Here is a list of 5-letter words that end with the letters "nar":

banar
canar
danar
fanar
granar
hanar
janar
khanar
manar
panar
ranar
sanar
tanar
vanar
zanar
I hope this list is helpful to the user. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to assist.
I think you are giving too much credit to Twitter and an ex manager from it. Shaping the civilization? Oh come on, the whole saga is just a part of a billionaire’s clash in the culture war. Could have played out entirely differently had he bought it for cheaper.
Ugh the reaction is so pathetic. The waving of academic titles …
Me! First Christmas at my new (fully remote) job on an SRE team and I'm on call through most of this coming week. Not complaining though, I actually asked for this stretch, due to awkward timing with other commitments during other weeks. Fortunately there are other members of the team I can reach if I need them, and family live nearby. I'm just thankful to be gainfully employed.

It's pretty quiet at the moment and I'm actually kind of jealous that I'm not facing the kind of excitement you are... I guess I should be careful what I wish for lol.

Merry Christmas all!
It's interesting that the slanderer came to these conclusions as a result of Tarot. I've been seeing a weird resurgence of Tarot recently.
Yeah, familiar with this phenomenon.
Also mail in a box user here, runs on a VM with both a static IP V4 and IP V6 along with all of the DNS fun that comes with it.

Mailinabox just works, and I use it for my whole family.
> technology gets better over time (see: the past 1000 years)

> can't judge today what an EV will be like in 50 years

i can't wait for 50 yrs to have EV be better than ICE cars. If they aren't better _today_, i cannot switch. I would assume the majority of consumers have this attitude.

Therefore, in order to transition to EVs for environmental reasons, you either force consumers to have a lesser product by legislation, or improve EVs so that they are the natural choice to purchase.

I don't believe consumers would be willing to suck up a legislated rule that forces them to consume an inferior product, and so they would choose not to elect someone that stand for such.

Therefore, the only realistic way is to have EVs be _better_ than ICE. I think they are on the cusp today though, and soon will surpass ICE.
> I didn't see him try to reappropriate private property to illegal invaders

I suppose the slash and burn agriculture he explicitly encouraged in the Amazon involved legal invaders, so that's fair.
This is why I respect how the Green Bay Packers raise money. They sell “ownership” of the team. Sure, it’s largely a novelty without much real ownership benefits, but it seems like a better approach than using taxpayer dollars to subsidize a highly profitable business.
Can you do it for years though? How about decades?

The evidence is that even the Harvard-trained finance grads, best of their class, making 1 million a year, heading the very best funds, with 2nd degrees in mathematics etc., cannot do this.

I almost feel like the discussion at this point should proceed straight to "no anecdotes please, show your work" (evidence, data, the more the better).

The evidence is extremely strong that the index fund strategy vs. human fund managers contest is really just another form of the computer chess strategy vs. human chess player one (or Go, if you prefer that). Just think of it as 'computer game players vs. human game players,' as a category. It really isn't much of a contest in the long term.

The computers have been winning, and will continue to win, as history is ever more on their side.
I'm an opponent of EV, but bring a cable from power input to garage is really not a big problem. Done that for many things over the last 20 years, including network cabling for internet access.
Are you ignoring his more recent history, like the part about being the cofounder of SOFREP?

The Team House podcast which he runs has also featured enough ex-CIA guests that he certainly has some very solid contacts & knowledge both.

At a quick glance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGND8fejKsE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtuue79XsiA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdnHPTGcW3M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-tZN_mqgow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjxsK-jGbSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFnfTDbcPOA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-4d6tWJEYc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR9i4eqkd_o

Not only experienced CIA in there, but also from the same group there are published authors on CIA history.
Merry Christmas & good luck. I was scheduled to be on call but a lifesaver of a coworker covered for me. Turned out my flights were canceled and I’ll be missing the holiday with my family after all. No active incidents, thankfully.
If your plan is to live a short life and you are somehow going to not fail yourself on that plan, then I agree your saving strategy doesn't matter.

The fact is I see much more people who are too poor relative to their age living miserable lives because of that.
I am disappointed to see no jokes asking how to exit.
I'm on call during the Christmas week 2nd time in a row in my team. Nothing earth shattering so far. There's one issue that could be resolved earlier (by the previous oncall) so it wouldn't cause more delays in other parts...

Merry Christmas to all those are on call now.
Thanks!

The first thing that jumps out at me on that animation is that the Bay shrank over the past 2000 years.

I'm wondering why that was --- sedimentation and wetlands filling in the Bay, falling sea levels, or ... ?

Really interesting to watch, though, appreciated.
If you don’t like seeing this sort of thing, actually reach out to the organizations that Prof Carla Rossi is associated with. Let them know that this is not okay.
That are only problems when you live in russia or maybee canada.
They also kill rivers and lakes. In my country, a massive move to dairying has corresponded to a massive increase in eutrophication.

But that move to dairy from beef or sheep farming wasn't to feed the world, it was just to sell milk powder to China.
I fucking love self-checkout, but that's probably the crushing social anxiety talking.
>How about every village in Poland? Russia? Belarus?

Seems like you are making their point
Over by the Great Highway mold can be an issue. But not only there. Yes the cool temps make the humidity very much less noticeable.
Tell me you know the true meaning of Christmas, without telling me you know the true meaning of Christmas.
Which is like the same as 60 mph vs 59 mph.
> no matter what level of SAE autonomy they qualify for.

Yet, it clearly disproved your point. A self driving Taxi or Semi needs to be fully autonomous to be useful, coverage area is a useful feature only after you can get rid of the driver.

I’ve seen a FSD Tesla have issues with bad road markings recently. That’s a complete failure from an autonomy standpoint, because if they can’t predict and thus avoid bad situations the system is completely dependent on a human driver.

And that’s the problem, Tesla has been stuck at at the cool tech demo stage for years and adding features alone isn’t progress because something that generally works as long as a human can take over is so vastly easier they can just gloss over the hard bits. Eventually they will run out of new feature that sort of work and the cars will still still be unable drive anywhere by it’s self. Perhaps they start trying to level 4+ in a few years, but their going to need to start over getting each feature to actually work without that safety net.
This is also why claims of round trip energy efficiency for BEVs need a disclaimer. You need to put energy in to heat the battery, so under certain conditions, your roundtrip efficiency can hit 0%; i.e. all input energy going towards heating the battery, and none going towards charging the vehicle.
Brian Krebs on Twitter Breach
> I don’t think ChatGPT can be said to understand what it is talking about in any meaningful sense.

I’ve spent about a week trying to working with ChatGPT to bootstrap my knowledge of computer networking, as I’ve had to assume a new role in my organization. I agree completely with the quoted sentiment. It is pretty simple to trick ChatGPT into contradicting itself, and it’s clear that ChatGPT leans towards affirming your postulations and sentiments, rather than dissecting them “thoughtfully.” What it does very well is summarize known information in plain English, oh and it does a pretty good job of baking kiddie-scripts that would be otherwise tedious and laborious, but it clearly has a hard time adapting to what you’re actually asking.

It’s like an average high school student, capable of regurgitating facts it picked up on the internet, but lacking the tell-tale signs of deep-engagement with a topic that actually spell mastery.
I think you're missing the bigger problem here - climate change. We cannot drive in ICE cars forever if we want our environment to remain livable. Your car-based lifestyle might be fine for you, right now, but it's still unsustainable and contributing to a worse world for your kids and their kids. If EVs aren't going to to be a drop in solution, then we really do need to talk about reorganizing society away from cars, so that we can have a society at all in the future.

The only other option is some kind of technological silver bullet for carbon capture that manages to arrive in time.

Personally I'm fairly pessimistic about this problem. I don't see a political path to widespread mass transit in the US, and I don't know how you remove the incentive that developing economies have to pollute. It feels like a prisoners' dilemma.
Ubuntu 22.04 on a Dell XPS. Literally every piece of hardware works great including the fingerprint scanner.
FWIW, the webcam and fingerprint scanners on my 12th gen Framework functioned out of the box on NixOS.

I have yet to get the camera color balance working remotely well in artificial lighting, though.
So I thought I'd add a follow up. The day after I posted that I had fewer colds, etc., I came down with the flu.
No, it's caused by the fact that too many cars are trying to go into places they don't all fit.
I stopped using sql and switched to mongodb. As a frontend developer I am now able to develop a better database without relying on schemas
> San Francisco is one of the most humid cities in the US (so much that mold can be a problem).

I've lived in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia and mold has never not been a problem in those states. I have never lived in San Francisco though so I can't compare.
Peanuts are kind of expensive these days though. ;)
So, there can be no solution? Why would you not assume that as density increases, the amenities would also get better?

I find this lack of optimism very dissonant and just divisive.
subsidizing electric vehicles does not automatically involve self driving. those are completely independent technologies.
Generally no. Line drying has a connotation of poverty in the US and many cities have ordinances like this that make it tough to do. Also houses being generally larger and detached in the US we have an easier time installing them compared to row houses in Europe. They're also just built more recently so they have accommodations for them built in already.

"No person shall place or allow to remain exposed to the elements laundry, clothing, rags, or other cloth items hung or stored on a front porch or front or other street yard of a dwelling."
Fair enough, not getting blackout drunk should definitely reduce your risk of making bad decisions with lifelong consequences. Nothing but respect for that decision.

I still question the premise that the only worthwhile activities are the ones that look good on a resume.
what was the course name?
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/109569533436686804

BrianKrebs
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange

A user on the cybercrime forum Breached is selling what they claim is info scraped via Twitter APIs from 400 million Twitter profiles, including email, name, account name, follower count and in many cases phone number. This was first brought to my attention by Alon Gal at Hudson Rock.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alon-gal-utb/

The seller told me they scraped the data using the same set of weaknesses in Birdsite APIs that allowed the scraping (and publishing) early this year of profile data on 5.4M Twitter users.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/54-million-tw...

They said they scraped the data via an exploit that was patched earlier this year, in the login api, and specifically the part of it that checks for duplicate accounts.

That, according to the seller, leaked the Twitter user ID, which was then converted via another Twitter API into a username. They also said that same iterative process worked for user telephone numbers.

The vulnerability that was reportedly used to scrape the previously dumped 5.4M twitter user data set was reported to Hacker One on Jan. 1, 2022.

https://hackerone.com/reports/1439026

The seller released 1,000 new records as a teaser, and is trying to get Twitter to buy the data for an undisclosed amount.

They also pasted a number of "celebrity" accounts directly into the sales thread. Curiously, this record set does not have the phone number associated w/ my Twitter account. But it was in the 5.4M scrape that got released on the same forum last month. However, I removed the burner phone number from my profile around the time the seller said they scraped this data (beginning of 2022).

The data in both the teaser and the 1,000 user file includes follower counts for each user, and a spot check on about a half dozen of them show follower numbers consistent with what Archive.org and Sociable says about follower accounts at the beginning of Jan 2022/end of December.

They are selling it through the escrow service set up by the administrators of the forum, which is what you'd expect to see in a real offering for this volume of data.
Generally there has always been some pre-existing parser or a basic regex that took 30 seconds to write that I’ve done that with. Maybe I’m blessed?
There's also a "how much it reads to produce that data."

If you go to https://beta.openai.com/account/usage

you will see things like:

text-davinci, 5 requests
187 prompt + 218 completion = 405 tokens

Note at the bottom of https://beta.openai.com/playground/p/default-grammar?model=t... - you will see a counter in the lower right corner. The default that this playground model opens with shows 15 tokens in the prompt and the friend chat ( https://beta.openai.com/playground/p/default-friend-chat?mod... ) starts out with 28 tokens. Submitting it, and the conversation now has 41 tokens in it... and adding another line, 50 tokens... and the response, now 97 tokens. And so on.
I think there is no reason to believe any of the claims he makes are true (or false). Like all punditry it is part performative and part pandering to whatever the target audience will buy into. Being ex-CIA doesn’t indicate, necessarily, that that person is “in the know”.

I doubt very much there is active involvement of the U.S. within Russia. It would make no sense for the U.S. to be involved directly. I think it reasonable to believe the U.S. gives Ukraine actionable information in real time.
I find it fascinating that society can support the range of conspiracy and illogical thought out there. I'd always assumed that someone's faulty reasoning would get in their way of their Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), but apparently this is not the case. It's emperically possible to hold the wildest beliefs and still manage a daily existence.

These folks are still hold jobs, pay their bills, raise kids and then meetup with folks on the weekend who sling conspiracy theories that would have been Poe's Law material on 1990s internet.

Maybe I'm wrong in a different way, but at least that means I still have something new to learn.
/r/mallninjashit for wannabe hackers... two knives, a novelty coin, random multimeter, 2000 random usb sticks, dongles and adapters (not even a ducky), ifixit kit, medical supplies...

In short the backpack of a overmotivated individual who really wants to show everyone that he is theoretically prepared for everything but sits muttering in the corner when shit hits the fan playing with a fidget toy.
> I wonder how he ended up getting sent to the meat grinder. I had assumed people with resources were able to buy their way out but maybe not, or just bad luck.

What a cynical view. Isn’t it possible that he volunteered or served willingly to defend his homeland after it was attacked unprovoked by a country that is trying to take it over and end his freedoms and way of life?

Your comment sounds like something the pro-Russia American “conservatives” would say. Should he have just let them have his country rather than putting himself at risk?
> ~$78k post tax, means that someone likely needs to earn $120k or more in income to foot this bill.

You seem to be assuming a 35% total tax rate at $120k gross income, which seems wildly high.
Great! You’ve got a lot of time to find and talk with agriculture experts. Should be a fun journey, whatever you decide to do.
I just wish I had someone to talk to. This year, like last year, and the year before, and the year before… I spend it alone, hating myself for being the unlovable mass of fat and depression that I am.

It’s just be nice if one night a year I could pretend not to be me, to pretend that there are people who have warm feelings towards me, who will not lock me up in a mental institution and then block me on everything from SMS to Discord for reasons I do not understand.

I guess I pay can some psychological expert to tell me what to do. That’s what most advice I see seems to lean towards. Just… that doesn’t really help on Christmas Eve when the only human contact you had was with the UberEats driver who dropped off a double quarter pounder and fried apple pie.

Honestly, I got two. It’s Christmas Eve after all.
https://twitter.com/iamraisini/status/1606785472512016384

RΛISINI ライシニ
@iamraisini

Big Data Breach, Big Names, Bigger Damage. “The threat actor provided a valid sample of 1,000 notable accounts and included the private information of
@AOC,
@briankrebs,
@VitalikButerin,
@kevinolearytv, Trump Jr., and many more,” Gal wrote in his LinkedIn post
@elonmusk

They claim data was obtained up to early 2022 due to an exploit in Twitter & in their post they talk directly to Elon asking him to buy the data to avoid GDPR lawsuits. In an independent verification the data appears to be legitimate, follow for updates!

https://breached.vc/Thread-Selling-Twitter-Data-Breach-400-m...