skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big thumbs up for Kopia and its very simple GUI / strategy. Have been using it for a couple of years now to remote backup hard drives and working folders on a bunch of family macs to B2. Restored twice now - logic board & corrupt hd. Chose it after trialing both Borg and Restic for ease of use and storage cost. My monthly backblaze bill hovers around $1.40.
I can see the idea of guiding the public to not wear masks if it really is some zero-sum game where first responders lose if the public wears them. I disagree with this strategy due to the second order effects (reduced trust, later confusion), but it at least makes some sort of sense.

I can’t see the logic of telling the public that masks don’t help, if it is possible for people to actually increase the supply of masks by making them at home. In this case it isn’t a small manipulation that doesn’t hurt anyone, but harmful misinformation.
That was really fun!
> You are mistaken if ypu think your government is collecting less data than the euro government

I am EU citizen and i think that my government is collecting much more personal data than necessary. Whether they would also share these data with the US government is for me much smaller concern than the fact they collect it for themselves.
> I recommend that Europeans petition their governments to delete such databases now, so that compliance with American demands simply won't be possible. Delete the databases now so your governments can't fold to pressure later.

LOL dude the EU is one of the driving forcing on making sure there is a complete history of ever person.
I never saw any shady asks when I was there, but my field was different. Name dropping FBI got people to jump through whatever hoops 100% of the time.
My bias may come from asking willing folks things that were legal.

My point was simply that when you come in with that kind of authority, people often just follow orders and don’t push back. That’s a powerful stick to wield and should be wielded responsibly.

In my review of the twitter files, this was not done in every case.
In general most pottery didn't last that long, and was essentially considered disposable. (With the exception of extremely large, or ornate pieces.)

But pottery doesn't help with this because it records the orientation of the magnetic field at that moment, and pottery is movable.
Did you read and understood what I wrote: "The cars the Waymo runs, are running in very dedicated areas, which are highly mapped."
Yea; this was the heart of my 1/10/1000 question. Once? I'd probably just use dd and call it a day. 10 times? Probably download clonezilla. 1000 times? Probably automate something w/ restic and some kind of object storage layer so I don't just have a directory full of giant images/deltas somewhere.
Audio CDs are still able to play back with significant bit errors (CD players just interpolate over the unreadable parts). It’s different for CD-ROMs and data CD-Rs.
- Switch off of Chrome to Firefox if you can and install ublock origin.

- Don't do anything crypto/blockchain related (this is more of an annual reminder).

- Stop getting news from Facebook, it's melting your brain.

- Set up 2fa on everything you can.
Everybody knows that we evolved a smooth firm surface to attach wobbly eyes stickers and impress the females. Deeckaboo!. Is the magic of evolution
Print back up codes for iCloud/gmail. Get a small bank lockbox and put it there.

And stop giving data to these companies. It may not matter in the broader society since the average person won’t stop, but we devs can stop giving data to things like copilot. Switch off GitHub. Use Brave or Firefox.
KeePassXC is excellent on macOS: https://keepassxc.org/download/#mac
here is the list: https://saasproducts.notion.site/50-AI-Startup-Tools-Ideas-5...
I still feel that a fluid that can fill the scratches and cause them to basically disappear is much better.

If the CD is damaged the goal should really be to read the data once, then throw it away. So I think it is fine that the filling/oil/grease is one time only because I don't need it to work more than once.

With toothpaste there are risks. There is the risk that the scratches are deeper. Not only you will not be able to polish it out, you can get toothpaste particles in there permanently.

In any case, applying oil is just so much easier -- you only need to wipe the CD with it and then wipe the excess thoroughly.
Almost no one has too busy of a schedule to not squeeze in a 30-60 minute conversation over coffee within a month.

If I ask someone to coffee and their response is, next month? I’d take it as a clear signal that the content of our conversation or our relationship is not important.
All but one of the stories referenced were from leaks. To figure out Meta's bad news strategy you should only look at stories where Meta picked the date on when to release the information.
I actually authored something for this to work with my workflow on lite-xl (I compile a mid-sized C++ codebase on the regular).

It's still not really ready for release, but it's here, in case you're at all interested: https://github.com/adamharrison/lite-xl-ide ; it's a build system and debugger integration.

The build tasks don't run in a terminal however; they move over to a build window at the bottom of the editor. The execution, however, by default, runs in whatever terminal you want to configure, so the actual program output does dump to an external terminal. Unfortunately, there is no truly integrated terminal as of yet.
Butter —- $13

Lol
Why haven't you guys used <title> <artist> <album> <lyrics> as input to generate the song? It would be much cooler.
I beleive a number of European countries are now covering Starlinks costs in keeping Ukraine connected.
For others' context I took the EIT and passed, but have never taken the PE. I've had a long, good career as a ME, systems engineer
and general product designer for the medical device industry. I don't make bay area software engineer money, but close. There are lots of us MEs that are able to do well, be happy, designing things like surgical robotics, implants, medical instruments, devices, etc.
Holy shit. T I L.
Xwayland is built out of the same tree as the main Xorg server. Same for XQuartz. But the infrastructure for the X server running as the graphics host is rotting and not getting much love.
Yea, i use it to avoid Comcast mostly out of spite.

"Aren't as secure as you think" seems to imply Comcast or the foreign wifi has what, broken the encryption? If so, tell me! But i kinda doubt it.
Guess you've never been simjacked
‘Too much’ nitrite-cured meat brings clear risk of cancer, say scientists
A few devices and services for securing your smart home
It's freely available and worth a read. While it's unlikely to see the average teen's heart on fire, most HN readers will definitely get a kick out of it.
Boston is such a weird airport I'm not sure it's worth bringing up except as perhaps an exception that proves the rule.

BOS has the "advantage" of serving a fairly large population while also not being big enough to be a real hub for anyone[0], while being simultaneously big enough to have service from nearly everyone.

Unlike a lot of airports smaller or serving fewer people than BOS (and some of comparable size), you can get from BOS to a whole mess of hubs.

A few select routes (BOS to SFO as noted) are incredibly well-served because of the volume of lucrative business travel between the two and the fact that a whole mess of airlines already serve both airports.

[0] No, JetBlue doesn't count. Boston is as much a hub for them as CLE[1] was for Continental. I.e. a second class hub at best.

[1] CLE by comparison only really serves Cleveland. Columbus, Dayton, Cinci, Indy, Pittsburgh and probably a few others from a similar radius BOS draws from all have decent(ish) airports. All of those have basically the same problem as CLE or are worse in some way. I've flown through or into and out of all of them.
Don't forget the CDC and FDA completely fucked up COVID testing at the start. The FDA banned unapproved lab tests, and wouldn't quickly approve the tests, The test the CDC developed that they forced everyone to use was shit and didn't work properly.
Selection Bias Is a Fact of Life, Not an Excuse for Rejecting Internet Surveys
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-sch...

This NPR article is a target to actually kill. Epstein'ed.
> boom now you have their answers to security questions to reset their passwords.

Are there any example of this actually happening? It seems like an old wives tale. The simpler explanation for why these posts are so popular is that they generate a lot of engagement, especially in the form of unique comments and number of commenters, which is a signal used for ranking and helps increase reach of these accounts.
> The argument from Andrej Karpathy is that humans use vision and vision alone, so if we can learn to drive by vision, then so should an ML model.

Humans also learn social dynamics through numerous other senses and in situations that Tesla's models never encounter or code for. Those other cars on the road do have human drivers, after all.

Humans also have ears, etc.

Plenty of unusual road or lot situations where those things come in handy.
Agility frameworks: the non-said side effects in engineers
FTA:

> There’s also no way of telling if the Californian bill takes issue with the name Autopilot though it seems unlikely.

HN title is editorialized and incorrect.
> On June 20, 2011, ICANN's board voted to end most restrictions on the creation of generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) -- at which time 22 gTLDs were available. Companies and organizations would be able to choose essentially arbitrary top-level Internet domains.

> The initial price to apply for a new gTLD was $185,000. ICANN expected the new rules to significantly change the face of the internet. Industry analysts predicted 500–1000 new gTLDs, mostly reflecting names of companies and products, but also cities, and generic names like bank and sport.

> ..Esther Dyson, the founding chairwoman of ICANN, wrote that the expansion "will create jobs [for lawyers, marketers and others] but little extra value."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain#New_t...
I’ve been disappointed with Jax which I was trying to use for backward auto differentiation.
The issue is that XLA JIT compilation is very slow and easily adds half a minute of overhead to the first call of the base function just by using jax.numpy instead of numpy, which made it a non starter for my use case. It’s definitely optimised for large flow computations where the JIT overhead is dwarfed by the rest.
In the end I reverted to using autograd which did the job fine.

I had never heard of tai chi until now, I’m curious how it compares.
There's a lot more to life than materialism and money, if that's what you want. Sure, money can help, but money can also be a curse - even before your rich.
Sure, here's the gist of how it works.

- When Trane is asked for a batch of exercises, it performs a depth-first search of every branch in the dependency graph. It picks up exercises as it goes along, and stops exploring a branch when the dependencies of the last node are not met.

- Each exercise is given a 1-5 score by the student and those scores are used to produce a combined score, rather than compute a date on which the exercise should be reviewed. Two reasons:

- Trane is also meant to be used to learn skills, which do not fit the assumptions made by the SuperMemo algorithm.

- I believe most of the gains come from regularly being reminded to perform an exercise, so even a simple scoring algorithm should get most of the gains. Eventually, I want to replace the existing scoring with something more complicated that also makes a distinction between memorization and skill exercises to get better results. But based on my testing, this works for the most part as is and the gains to be made from more complicated algorithms are marginal.

- Once you get exercises from performing the search, you reduce that number into the final batch by grouping exercises based on difficulty and selecting a percentage from each bucket. This is done to make sure not too many very difficult or easy exercises are included in each batch.

There's also some elements of randomness added to prevent the same exercises from appearing all the time. For example, the branches are explored in random order and the elements from each difficulty bucket are selected at random. But that is the gist of it.
I championed nothing. I merely proposed that listening to alternative viewpoints on controversial topics is now something that is now on the table for me.

Literally a Strawman.
> Fediverse is interpreting Website Boy as damage and routing around him

Funny that this comment works for both Eugen or Alex.
> The doctor should not react with horror in any case, because the doctor is a medical professional, not a paid actor in a pro-life advertisement, and I would certainly hope for him to behave as such.

Indeed, and in 1910 progressives were saying similar things about sterilising the feeble minded. This is why the education system is so important. If you control the education system you get to decide what a professional should think. If there are professionals who disagree there’s always disbarment.
Exactly, a lot of what I do is creating software, scripts, etc. to help with or partially automate the design process. Designing a physical object using modern CAD tools is akin to creating a giant interconnected script that generates geometry. Much of it can be, and needs to be automated to get it all done.
On top of bad usb-C, the chips used for Ethernet and HDMI are also overwhelmingly poor. Every adapter overheats, so hot you cannot touch it, even with a full metal case. We need a standards body to ban junk products designed to be unsafe and/or destroy your devices.
It is a recycling symbol for sure. It doesn’t mean “so put this in your blue bin” because your blue bin processing is probably not set up to separate all the different resins.
I wouldn’t call it ridiculous. It is a viable strategy. Difficult to say if we’re seeing a coincidence or said strategy.
Politicians usually do not fulfill their campaign promises. That's bc they do not represent their voters, they represent their campaign donors.

There is a reason why congressional approval ratings are at an all time low and re-elections rates are at an all-time high, at the same time.

No wonder voters, and not just young voters, feel hopeless.
I said human-centric and I most certainly mean it. Humans cannot be trusted to do the right thing when it comes to mass scale, nameless faces. We need to be kept in check, and we have the mathematics to do it.

Custodial services can always still exist for those among us that are incompetent.
This is configurable. I use it in my android fork that I use for creative writing, `write-xl` (in case you're interested, here: https://github.com/adamharrison/write-xl ; not really ready for public consumption). You can set the word wrapping configuration via your user plugin by doing:

config.plugins.linewrapping.mode = "word"

The full list of options is here: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl/blob/master/data/plugins/...
The exact dates quoted in popular science articles are typically not what you find in scientific papers. There you have a lot of data points and discussions of confidence intervals, etc. To address your pottery example: Indeed, if we had dated only one shard, we could not conclude much from it. If instead we had 10,000 shards over the whole area of a city and find that they suddenly stop at a certain date, we can be fairly sure that this date is very close to the destruction of this city.

The general problem with biblical archaeology is that it is particularly susceptible to dogmatically motivated biases. During my studies in Heidelberg in the 1990s, I also took a few courses in this field. I never met an archaeologist at the entire university who even remotely believed in the existence of king David, let alone Solomon, Saul or even Joshua or Moses. However, when I visited Israel with a group of students, we were proudly presented with artifacts from these "empires" in some kibbutz museums. We or our professors did not directly object, of course, but smiled politely, just like in the churches where we were allowed to admire the miraculous icons.
After not being able to rewrite Twitter, George now wants to rewrite Avatar
Sad that you have to use an exploit.
> He said they should negotiate an end to the war, that’s not “pro-putin”.

People are trying to end this war and the next one. Anyone who believes Putin will back down after success in Ukraine isn't paying attention. Furthermore, the people who should be particularly quiet about what to do in Ukraine are those who swore that Russia would not invade in the first place, because they don't have a clue what makes Putin tick. The people who saw this war coming from a mile away are the ones who deserve attention now, and that's not Musk.
In all honesty, the fact that this laser based communication exists makes me a lot more likely to believe that SDI was actually a success in the classified world.
The soundtrack to Speedball 2 was great (on the Amiga anyways). Some dude did a remix of it a few years back and it's an absolute cracker.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kyeAX27GDC4
Nothing about this says Brooklyn to me other than being sort of hipsterish I guess.
Even before assignment at birth, they were geographically allocated based on the applicant's address, which is even worse because that allows you to make accurate guesses about recent ZIP instead of ZIP at birth. These correlations were well-known even before 1987, when they switched to assignment at birth.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6613981/
I remember this as well, but wasn't this way back if a usb 2.0 device was on a 1.1 (!) port?

Not sure if they continued this for USB 3.0 and USB-C.
That would be the most American thing ever
> I sincerely hope that the EU will give the appropriate but unprintable response to this request.

I hope not normally the EU just complies behind the scenes. I understand why that's unprintable but I wish they wouldn't lie to the population about how they handle this.
Can you explain what the direct and practical implications are?
I don't know if I buy what the link says about this, but I do know that no one has ever found utility by being frustrated about many worlds
I dont agree. In tech, med device, aerospace, etc. a Mech E can do very well, especially in relationship to the average american.
Thank you, vertis :)
Are there any competing connectors under development now? I personally wonder of the mechanical robustness of a device-side port that isn’t a pure female port.
I haven’t filtered through all the jobs here, but it seems perfect for continuing your search: https://www.climatetechlist.com/

More generally: https://www.probablygood.org/
Well Social Security full mane is Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance.

Imagine paying for car insurance and never seeing a dime back.

Some people win, mostly lower income widows that didn't pay in much. And then lived long past retirement. And then you have some single guy that dies in his early 60s.
"true nature" -- I'd say that this idea of a "true" nature (even existing) is quite arrogant.
It's relieving to hear that. Thanks, leandot!
I know, but I'm saying it does mean that. The plastic manufacturer is attempting to communicate "you can put this in the blue bin". You are understanding the message correctly, and it's not your fault that the message is a lie.
This might be the comment that helps me get back on my zim install. I abandoned it for "life stuff" and I was meaning to "find something similar, or pick zim back" for some months.
F-15 Eagles that is.
Other Reddit discussion (with the occasional insider chiming in):

https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/zwd1fq/u4sammich_ex...

https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/zw5lsl/southwest_pi...
> where US and Saudi systems did not communicate and resulted in known terrorists in Saudi Arabia being able to travel at will into the USA.

I'm not even sure how to classify this sentence...
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I don't think we know any of that. We know many of the mechanisms through which neurons act but not all of them, nor do we know that we can simulate a human brain on a computer.
You're describing a separate problem than ease hell, what you are looking for is fixed just by changing the lapses->new interval setting to be from 0% to something higher like 50%. I do agree that the default 0 is pretty bad though.
I would like that too. I'm sure lots of posters will have excellent suggestions.
Does it have LAN multiplayer? Please say it has...
> Btw, these lists are csv files often...some sophistication.

And surely this critically sensitive data is not left on a shared location with loose permissions, or sent around as an email attachment, right? ...right?

I'm worried about the ability of this data to enable authoritarianism and I'm also worried about it being handled by those with the competence of the average government official.

"Never blame on malice what you can blame on stupidity", however the problem is government has both of those in spades.
The Math Behind Sudoku
Probably. My benchmark was mostly to compare Borg v1.2 and v2 and some network optimizations. Restic was a stretch goal really.

For Kopia, I do try it once a year, but I still find the docs and CLI args confusing. Running the server part behind a reverse proxy needs 2x HTTPS and searching the forum to get it somewhat working. For a webdav target, the progress display doesn't really work and it's not possible to cancel a backup run. So for now I'm observing and will retry next year.
I like my work laptop. I have an ergonomic desk setup with a dock. If I need to demo something I can pick up my laptop and go to a meeting with my environment already setup and ready.

I'd like a better performing computer but my laptop is super fast.
I wonder if that’s worse than tires being worn down by roads?
I do actually. Although it's pretty easy to reject because both the hypothetical and the outcome are pretty vague like obviously a big bowl of cash is gonna lose most of it's money to the wind. But to be clear I do think a system where any one could receive money without first demonstrating "need" could be successfully continuously funded and would help a lot of people that "need" help. Although in my system "need" is in scare quotes because I don't think that its only the starving for food that have a moral claim to aid.

I'd also point out that in a system where I just ask the mayor for a hundred bucks and he gives it to me, there can't be fraud. There's nothing to defraud. It's only once we start adding shit like "prove you're poor enough" or "prove you can't get paid for work" that we have something to commit fraud about. Indeed the more constraints you add the more frauds become possible.
I think it will handle edges better because it's explicitly not trying to classify everything into objects (for the purpose of loading into their virtual representation).

So it doesn't need to "understand" a situation in terms of what is physically true, it just needs to understand what information is valuable for the task of driving.

Consider this edge case: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kM-xBgz26pE

A utility truck carrying a load of new traffic lights. Tesla correctly identifies them as traffic lights and loads virtual representations into its world model. It doesn't seem to cause any weird behavior (thankfully), but this demonstrates a case where doing this fancy classification actually makes your system less robust.
Option 4) find a niche to specialize in, like medical devices or aerospace and develop a deep skillset in that, a track record of delivering real results. It doesn't matter what door you come in, chemist, various engineering degrees, if you get good at thr business of delivering what companies want they don't care what your degree is in.