skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it is worth reflecting, a few years from now, what really is the difference between a dream you had a few days ago, compared with an experience from, say 10 years ago? The difference is very little

Depends on the dream and the experience. I can recall many dreams and many experiences in breathtaking clarity as if they were actual photos. Compared to photos, these also carry sentiment, meaning and they have impact.
>One “out there” reason I can think is that I use Amazon Affiliate links on my Bookshelf and my /Uses page and that triggers a shadow ban?

It's probably not the reason, but it's worth noting that the author is using Amazon affiliate links in violation of Amazon and FTC rules because they're not disclosing the fact that they profit from purchases through their links.

Per Amazon:

>Anytime you share an affiliate link, it's important to disclose that to your audience... you must (1) include a legally compliant disclosure with your links and (2) identify yourself on your Site as an Amazon Associate with the language required by the Operating Agreement.

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/node/topic/GHQNZAU...

Per FTC:

>As for where to place a disclosure, the guiding principle is that it has to be clear and conspicuous... Consumers should be able to notice the disclosure easily. They shouldn’t have to hunt for it.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftcs-endorse...
Regards the containers, I started my profile compartmentalization practice before they arrived, so I never explored them. But I'm curious as to whether each container comes with a complete set of browser permissions, like profiles do, which would enable you (for example) to have a location-enabled container specifically for google maps (in reference to[0]) while disabling it on the container used for search, as you could quite easily do with profile compartmentalization? (Which, tbf, is a privacy rather than a security concern.)

0: https://www.simpleanalytics.com/en/blog/google-changed-googl...
I was being a bit flip when I said gzip, a lossless mechanism is unlikely to give much insight!

I should have said JPEG or 264 or something: a DCT is what I meant.

Thank you for the correction.
So this is sort of a repl for Rust?
You can play with this in that situation. I assume all my cloud and local data is and just keep that in mind. But I also assume there's layers of access... so not everyone who can access it, has access to every part of it. One group maybe can access DNS queries; one group can access cellphone metadata and SMS; one group maybe can access unencrypted iCloud/Google/OneDrive data; one group needs warrants to access and creates lies to fraudulently obtain/fake-justify those; some other group doesn't need warrants and just has access, either through agreement or covert access.

Once Advanced Data Protection switches on globally "in early 2023" I'll have another compartment. But I assume that someone can access basically everything. You can have fun with it.

I also think what's happening on my devices is some of the least interesting parts of life, so, yeah, there's that, too. :)
It’s still used by the SEC to render company filings on their EDGAR site. I can’t find the exact files/docs, but I’ve rendered filings like this using the XML and XSLT they provide: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/320193/00003...
> It's not only about performance, but also about all the guarantees that you get "for free"

Note that some filesystems have mount options that let you remove some of those guarantees.
Even so...

> "Bill Gates owns more private farmland in the US than anyone else. His 242,000 acres of farmland stretch across 18 states from Washington to Florida."

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-land-portfolio-bi...
The Flintstones were on television, in a prime-time slot, three decades before the Simpsons. Wikipedia lists more North American adult TV shows from before 1990.[1]

The Simpsons are important in the history of animation, but however you look at it they were definitely not the first to explore animation for adults. They weren’t the first in their own country, nor were they first on a regular non-kids schedule on TV, nor were they the first successful case.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adult_animated_televis...
How is it a convenient scapegoat? If the supply of gas wasn't restricted we wouldn't be in this situation, I don't see how you can deny that.
There are some conspiracy theories, fuelled by the fact that Russinovich only pulled the tool after being acquihired by Microsoft.

It's undeniable, in my experience, that the tool did help, despite all the swearing to the contrary. Making a leap from there to believing that it probably made it too easy to clone Windows machines in a way that Microsoft had no control on, and hence asked him to pull it, doesn't seem so crazy though.
You know what definitely affects DNA? Viruses. It’s literally how they reproduce. In fact the genome of every animal is littered with thousands of partial copies of ancient viruses that are now permanent parts of the human genome. So many that the human genome is 8% virus. Every time you catch a cold your dna is being altered. Covid messes with your dna orders of magnitude more than any vaccine- if the vaccine does at all, which is dubious.
It actually creates a directory with hashes of the packages, so if you run another install that requires a package within that was previously downloaded, it just skips the download too.
Sure, but it is also a very low effort thing with little friction involved.
That’s not how fair use works. It’s not a binary switch where commercial derivatives automatically require licensing. Such a college would be ruled transformative and non competitive.

Me having bought the magazines also has nothing to do with anything. Would apply equally if they were gifted or free or stolen.
A workflow that involves multiple VMs is usually very cumbersome.

I feel that our OSes should solve this problem. Unix was built with the mindset that other users cannot be trusted, but they forgot that applications can also be malicious. There is a huge opportunity here for better OSes.
So does it mean that these pi-calculating competitions & record are now going to devolve to special olympiads in pointless storage capacity? What will the super computers going to do in view of this discovery? Fascinating times for humans as well as for the machines...
AMD’s linux-firmware blobs also exclude OpenCL support IIRC.
I really don't think the willingness to refine words willy-nilly is a behavior I would associate first with Trump or Elon. Using the wrong word and insisting it means the same thing, maybe, but certainly not redefining words.
Ask HN: Are there any “claim a job” platforms for gig work?
I have a niche business, with a surplus of "gig tasks" that I want to post with a price paid or allow folks interested in doing the gig the opportunity to bid. Are there any platforms like this that exist?
Is it even a ban? Your followers can still see it. People that don't follow that go to your profile can still see it. Elon says no one has the right to "freedom of reach" but never describes this concept as a ban.
“You Have No Rights” – Former Guantánamo Detainee Living Without Legal Status
Another price hike for camera film: Kodak prices to soar up to 40%
I hope I adequately advertised this as personal metaphysics, certainly I don’t have figures that I can share.

Asymmetry, blemish, teeth a different color than the corpus all consume entropy in the Shannon sense.

In a very real sense, movie stars are the most boring people to take still photos of.
It feels like a cargo cult approach to the problem. "I'm safe because I compile from source" is an absurd statement when a million LoC is involved.
Theoretically, yes. Technically, however, these people are getting bailed out. That makes inflation. The government still have to pay for the debt, but it seems like it’s not happening anytime soon (the debt ceiling just keep getting higher and higher).

US government debt is around 31.5 Trillion $$ at the moment. If the US government were to pay its debt today, all that liquidity will be removed from the market and this will have enormous deflationary pressures.

In the same way for private individuals, if you can always keep renewing your debt and pricing your assets higher (a bubble would help), you’d create inflation.
Here's a plausible explanation for making screw worse on 2 landers and flood worse on 5 landers: Wizards has data showing that keeping a 2 or 5 lander is bad for their metrics but players still tend to do it often, and they wish to artificially deflate results with such hands to disincentivize people keeping them. Let's say naturally your deck will have a 30% win rate keeping a 2 lander but the shuffler enforces screw and your actual win rate is 20%. You remember keeping as worse than it really is and you mull more often on 2 lands, leading to longer and more engaging games.

Of course, no evidence for this at all, but it seems like a plausible reason to me why they might do something like what's described.
pyyaml is a good example as well
How about Algorithmic Oppression
It was fine, unless you reach far enough to take it literally, which is quite obviously not what Timnit intended. The call to stop DEI work was a rhetorical device to highlight to an audience that presumably cares strongly about diversity that the current work is not meaningful without broader systemic change within Google. Plus an emotional plea to what should have been a sympathetic audience to understand how exhausting doing any real diversity work within Google is. This is true and resonant and so triggered a lot of said change after she was fired. The change is still ongoing.

Everyone who tries to actually enact real systemic change within Google Research to improve how women and people of color are treated, or the work environment in general, burns out or gets fired. It is only toeing the company line when it's officially your role to do so, taking extremely conservative actions while ignoring real issues like abuse, harassment, and discrimination, that lets you survive while doing DEI work at Google in Research without burning out or getting fired. The sole exception I know of right now is Kat Heller, god bless her.

The feeling of "none of this is worthwhile, what's the point of any of it" is something everyone who tries to do real diversity and culture work within Google Research or even within the computer science research community more broadly has felt, and a diversity mailing list ought to have been a safe place to share that feeling.

Instead it was used against her. Now nobody feels safe sharing these feelings anywhere within Google Research.

Jeff to his credit is now working on many of these things. As is the DEI committee. I hope they all succeed. But I don't think any of that would have happened without Timnit highlighting these very real issues. It's depressing that she was fired for it. She wanted to change things and keep her job and her team, not to be a martyr.
You can't pick your battles when you're trying to win the war
Plouffe ...

He used to teach in my university. He is a fantastic man. This is serious, he is crazy about numbers. He is one of the guy behind OEIS (oeis.org).

That is not the first formula he found about pi and some of the previous one had been used to break world record about the number of known decimals.
I've worked in places where that once a year slip-up would mean you sent an email offering to buy lunch for the team or get your background changed to a David Hasselhoff pinup picture from the 80's. I do feel weird locking my computer when I'm alone though.
> unofficially reinforced by the local jokers who would rotate the screen and / or send prank messages if you didn't.

Same here. The all time favorite is sending a resignation notice to the person's manager (the manager usually gets a fair warning first and plays along with it).
You realise you are literally terrorized by US propaganda and that there is exactly zero chance you will get hit by a drone because you wear an F91 (even if you're from afghanistan, have a big beard and pray in the mosque everyday)
The longer it goes on, I'm thinking it's both. The initial down was an accident/breakage, but the people who could fix it were fired. Obviously this situation is embarrassing for Musk so no communication. But, now that's it's down there are probably discussions about leaving it down with no decision made yet.
πfs: Never worry about data again! - https://github.com/philipl/pifs
Firefox has this built in on desktop and Android. Just add view-source: in front of the URL.

This has the added benifit that it will preserve any cookies that you have so you can view-source for authenticated pages as well.
The same way you can't be sure that when you drive to work today you are not going to die, you can't be sure that your machine isn't compromised somewhere. That's just how reality is: safety is an illusion.

Like with driving, make an effort to lower the probability to wherever makes you comfortable, then just accept that there's a non-zero chance it wasn't good enough.
AI Discovers New Nanostructures
There’s a reason the SATs are not used in most of the world. They select for test takers. Kind of like the problem with the big tech style interview.

A human and a robot are both good at taking a bad test. This doesn’t say much about the robot.
Would very much recommend updating Windows ASAP.
Here's the thing: there exist 2x, 3x, even 10x developers. They won't get 2x, 3x, or 10x the comp of an average developer, but they'll get 20%, 30%, even 100% more. The firm is much better off, of course. The 3x developer is leaving money on the table, but they enjoy the respect of colleagues and managers. It just feels good when people need you and you deliver.

But once the 3x developer's salary that's 30% higher than the average becomes public, you can be sure there'll be some grumbling. The 3x is somewhat subjective, while the 30% is very objective. A lot of people don't have the visibility to appreciate that the 3x guy deliver 3x more. For them, they are just a guy who codes just like them, and, maybe even leaves earlier in the evening then them.
They don’t which is why they have become hostile to customers in the last 10-20 years. Especially with negative interest rates, the customer is a net negative. Still, people with money are usually the people who generate most business for the bank (either via loans or by buying other products), but it helps to have your account there first.
I'd say that's subjective, depending on context and individuals. Sure etymology might be amazing to know for a lit major or author, but for someone who wants to just be able to write clearly, knowing a lot of words is useful.
It isn't just finance and economics, although I totally agree with you that they're especially bad. The forum has become too wide in scope and started attracting the usual online idiot horde that dominates all other sites already.

You can see this even in tech. Most of the commenters have been handed incredibly powerful database / IDE / computation tools which makes them think they're very smart to be playing around with it. What they don't realize is high level tools are not meant for people who want to understand the tooling. They are meant for users of the tools whose task is something else entirely. So you get folks who don't understand how a simple race condition would occur or something else very obvious to folks who have done a bit of low level programming, but they will hold forth on mutexes and locks as though they invented them.
I'd venture to guess that the OP knows all this (the practice is pretty much self-explanatory) and nevertheless finds the practice risible. It is funny to watch.
Mixtile Blade 3 – A stackable, Rockchip RK3588 single board computer
Indeed. Some people seem to be trying to make it apply any time the top result of an algorithmic ranking isn't what they think it should be (eg if they have been deboosted rather than shadow banned).
The worst bug I've seen in (IBM) BMC

The device in question didn't had NTP so to get accurate BMC logs timing it had to be synced from host OS

BMC is them fucking up the watchdog implementation, that worked on wall time.

Which means if you changed time in-between OS sending watchdog ping and BMC checking for timeout, you got system reboot.

But it was intermittent enough that you might set the cron to update the BMC clock (because you want accurate time on it for log correlation) and be lucky enough time to not connect to the cause when it finally happens.

Also we generally observed that BMCs got better, 10 years server were lucky if it was working and not crashing every few weeks (all mostly on IBM gear), to the point we had to stop alerting on that, and it was unreliable as method for OOB access, so far anything newer than few years have been fine. Althought I have no idea how you make modern hardware take minutes to return list of sensors(I'm looking at you Lenovo)
Haha! That's a great joke! It can definitely be applied to a lot of situations.
It's not a missing meta description at least, the same is true for my site and I'm still ranking relatively highly for some keywords on DDG.
Yeah but that also says nothing about how useful or useless that is
I'm currently in uni, learnt about both but has already forgotten what the Laplace transform is about, but still remember Fourier vividly as I got to play with it a lot.

If you read more into it's history, the DFT actually helped a lot during the nuclear arms race as it can detect any nuclear test that happened anywhere except underground.
To learn drawing it has to click in your head. I couldnt draw for life and then I read "drawing on the right side of the brain" and now Im drawing portraits
> about the size of life peoples

Statistics folks, data science peeps. Just needing to get things done, and not necessarily interested in--or aware of--programming ergonomics (for example).

> LARP

Personalities, like a Carmack. People we refer to just by name, due to technical agility, charisma, or sheer output.

I liked _why's stuff. The way he left is not how I would expect a persona to depart. There were some shifts in the programming landscape, and it led to a kind of forlorn sadness or mourning.

If I had to list others, Chris Crawford and Mark Pilgrim.

> Seems people just about... what's needed for language to flourish

Folks needing to munge data from CSV or Excel found python (and R, and other data libs) earlier, or more convenient to use; this built momentum as others tried Python instead.

Maybe also academia, python was there so it was taught. Another example could be students learned UNIX and brought it to their jobs. Same with Java.
Match making games are actually designed to keep successful players and teams from winning too much. Essentially in something like Halo a competitive team will slowly empty out players in the queue over the course of the night, as their opponents choose to stop a few games early (devs responded by keeping those teams in queues longer than necessary).

MTGArena aggressively manipulates what kind of deck you will play against (which disables the ability to make a counter META deck, since after picking a few counter mechanisms you're very rarely going to be put against the archetype you foil even if you hunt half the field), manipulates who goes first (some Streamers stand at recording over a thousand games and have gone first under 30% of the time, current formats are extremely powered up so the first turn advantage is the deciding factor of who wins often), and manipulates opening hands (something the devs have blogged about).

While harder to prove MTGArena also buries/floats cards. Some cards have patterns of existing in your opening hand or only after your 17th-22th draw, others occur in your opening hand more than 50% of the time, some truly toxic cards like Agent of Treachery are likely to have 3 of 4 of your copies in the last 20 cards. (Agent of Treachery is the easiest to see since such decks also have to tools to cycle through their deck and stall out the game to see their whole deck).

The shuffler also has a habit of giving duplicates of cards or making someone draw a duplicate of a card more often than "expected".
I was a big proponent of hasselhoffing unlocked computers (set up a wallpaper of David hasselhoff in his Bay watch days sprawling over desktop :)
Yes, there is a BayesianGaussianMixture class in sklearn.mixture [0]. There’s also sklearn.gaussian_process [1] which offers Gaussian process classification and regression, Bayesian learning algorithms which can be thought of as analogs of the support vector machine. Rasmussen’s Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (2006) is a great introduction despite being a little old. [2].

[0] https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/mixture.html

[1] https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/gaussian_process.htm...

[2] http://gaussianprocess.org/gpml/chapters/
You are posing questions to the AI that only economists ever ask. You think you are instructing to it to reason “as a libertarian”, but you are actually using such economics lingo that the AI is regurgitating via “based on economist descriptions of libertarian decision making, what decision should the AI make.”

Imagine this scenario. You have a group of students and you teach them how libertarians, socialists, optimists, etc empirically respond to game theory questions. For the final exam, you ask them “assuming you are a libertarian, what would you do in this game?” Now the students mostly get the answers right according to economic theory. By teaching economic theory, and having students regurgitate the ideas on an exam, the exam results provide nothing new for field of economics. The AI is answering questions just like the students taking the final exam.

It would be like me teaching my child lots of things, and then when my child shares my own opinions, then I take that as evidence my beliefs are correct. Since I already believe my beliefs are correct, it is natural, but incorrect, to think the child’s utterances offer confirmation.
These people influence the ones who write the laws.
> This thread has inspired me to setup a tripwire for my workstation. It's something I used to use many years ago but I think it's a good setup to have some sort of alerting if files start changing.

Can you explain what you setup?
Biden’s “Diplomacy” in Yemen Means Taking Saudi Arabia’s Side
In proper environment the BMC is on its own dedicated NIC with no way to bridge to that network from the machine and only access from host machine being from root/admin account.

And then there are people that just port-forward BMC ports to the internet as cheap remote KVM...
Headline is now changed.

> Updated headline to better reflect the customer data that was taken.

Probably should be updated on HN too.
> It would be interesting if somehow credible (including heterodox) experts could be tagged so you could differentiate them from people with no or limited knowledge larping as experts.

These endorsements are highly sought by the larpers and confidently incorrect. Meanwhile the actual experts aren’t as interested in going through the process of getting the mark.

One pattern I’ve seen repeated across many forums over decades of internet use: The confidently incorrect have more time and energy to dedicate to online misinformation than the actual experts. I’ve watched many knowledgeable forum users eventually tire of participation and leave communities because they get overrun by younger, inexperienced people who are still in the phase of life where we think we know everything.
It would be quite surprising if reverse records were the reason. The vast majority of sites certainly don't have them pointing back. Impossible to do with many providers and probably basically all CDNs.
You can get data out of an air gapped machine several published ways (ultrasound, hard drive light, monitor flicker, emf, etc)
Lol how stupid are these people. Just make a bank that only lends then.