skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no evidence that Snowden brought his supposed 'concerns' to anybody in his chain of command, prior to defecting to Russia. The documents he began stealing in 2012 weren't targeted towards the bulk data collection program - he exfiltrated whatever he could lay his hands on, which of the hundreds of thousands of items were mostly military secrets, and classified information on intelligence work abroad. The claim that this was all driven by watching Clapper testify in committee is a convenient lie, a cover-up for what he was really doing: a massive theft of secrets across the board.

Serial liars do often go back and 'clarify' their lies once called out, it's part of spinning a web of deception. Admitting any wrongdoing, as normal people might do, isn't on the agenda for people like Snowden, all puffed up and full of ego, living off their own bullshit.

Not only did he defect to Russia and enjoy being celebrated there, he also has many people in the US and allies lauding his espionage, filmmakers and journalists gushing over his narrative and airbrushing out inconvenient facts. What a series of accolades for a liar and thief. He seems to revel in this 'wise whistleblower-in-exile' act he's carved out for himself while remaining Putin's pet. This treacherous escapade worked out better than he ever could have imagined.
The queuing theory interpretation is that they have events appearing faster than they can consume them, so there is a long queue (of events) to attend. If the queue is ~3 months long and they have about 1 day/time per day we can work out some things about the situation.

"Leaving slack" is impossible, they don't have enough free time to do everything they are committed to. It would make the situation worse.
This is why such a list should be public. You don't trust random grey hat hacker at .gay TLD to distribute the list to people who won't do harm with it. I don't trust the government to not distribute it, accidentally or otherwise, to people who want to do harm with it.

In fact, the government does do harm with it, by putting people on it without telling them (they might send a letter, that's not guaranteed), and you only get to find out a few hours before your flight when you get rejected at security.

Furthermore, this particular government fails to properly secure info all the time. Seems the last two presidents have been just leaving classified papers strewn all over the place.

No, I'll trust the gay hackers over the government, thank you very much.
Wow, some programs do give you a lot of time for your thesis!
This. Responsibilities, work, family and reduced metabolism over age.

Also, try to remember how many old geezers you had in your parties when they were held? Yep, close to none. Now we are that category.
While that is very true, I think my point still stands.

Even if you consider the application to be the combination of stateless binary + stateful auxiliary services (like a database), the statelessness of the binary allows for some neat things.

I replied to a comment talking about how network based database access is not necessary, and I think it very much is if you want to host stuff with the current popular architecture. Unless you implement a general shared persistence layer on which you can run e.g sqlite, but that dosen't seem better/easier to me.
Tangentially, this is where I see a ton of potential in these new ML tools like ChatGPT. If you're expecting it to produce finished work, you'll often be disappointed, but if it can even produce a bad version of what you need, the time saved could be enormous.
Sure but "he" isn't, which is what OP used.
> nothing prevents reissuing new certificates before expiration, if necessary.

So you want a product advertised with a 10 year lifespan, but sometimes it fails much earlier? I guess I have great news, you can use the existing product this way, although everybody you work with may find you exasperatingly incompetent.
Organise parties, invite people. Eventually people will bring more people who like parties, while people who don't like parties will stop coming. Eventually, you will have got to know party people and will get invited to other parties they know of.

Not sure where you are at in life, but I like the concept of a salon as a form of party (if you need inspiration): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(gathering)
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
> my goto strategy is similar to what writers call a vomit draft

A "vomit draft" might be good approach to a writer's block. But I think the blog describes a burnout. You probably need actual help to recover from a burnout.
Always use 2FA !
My master thesis, which is supposed to take 8 months, took me 2 years and 4 months.

Every morning I would wake up and think 'today is the day I will do good work!'. And every night I would go to bed and feel terrible and like a failure because no, I did not write or even read a single line. In hindside, I was definitely depressed during these days. I wish someone had told me I needed to get help for my mental health.

I only 'snapped out of it' because of how the student loan system in my country works, and there was a huge financial incentive to finish it before a certain date.
Learning mostly!

There is another post about another language model using RNN so i had chaptgpt have a look at it:

just by showing it the 3 source files:

> The first code file defines the architecture of the model, including the custom operations and classes used to handle different float precision modes and device placement. The second code file sets the hyperparameter settings and loads the pre-trained model's weights. The third code file defines several utility functions and classes to tokenize input text, refine and process text input, and sample the next token in a sequence given the current context.

>The overall goal of the project is to generate text by training the model on a large dataset of text, the model can be fine-tuned on a specific task, such as language translation, text summarization, or text completion. The model can also be used for generating text in a conversational context, such as chatbots or virtual assistants, where the model generates text based on the current context, and the user's previous inputs.

and

> I can't determine if the code achieves the claims of the project, as the model has not been trained and run on any specific dataset and it is not clear what kind of performance results the developers were able to achieve with it. However, the approach used in the code appears to be logically sound. The code implements a standard transformer-based language model architecture, but with a custom implementation of the operations in order to handle different float precision modes and device placement, which is a common technique to optimize the performance of deep learning models. The code also includes some utility functions and classes that handle tokenization, text processing, and sampling of the model's output, which are also common in large-scale language model implementations.

> It would be important to run the model with a large dataset of text, fine-tune it on a specific task and compare its performance with other state of the art models, to measure its quality and scaling.

if you continue this road it can teach you the basics of machine learning really fast and can even get you started with a vs code dev container for it.
Wow ! That sounds like a very useful technique to me. Will definitely try to adopt that. Thank you.
I think it is for the following reason:
They don't have a concept yet. Spotify Continuity, or however it is called, is wonderful for 3 devices and less. But add more devices and it will get frustrating. What if I want to listen to multiple song on different devices (family setups)? Spotify makes it awful, actually this is one of the main reason I left Spotify. Whenever I left the living room and wanted to play my music on my Mac, the lining room would stop and the people in the living room had to start the music from one of their accounts. This is awful and annoying. Sure, as a single, this wouldn't bother. But most people are not single. So, I think it is due to a missing concept. The HomePod transfer feature was supposed to close the gab a little, but this needs more work. So maybe in the future a switch stream to device button will come, but until then, I will ask Siri to do it for me, Siri transfer to [room name]. Just wish this would work on my iPhone, iPad and Mac as well.
You're quite welcome to believe that, but that doesn't satisfyingly account for entropy.

Also, the longer any complex but lifeless structure in that scenario exists, the more likely it is to be destroyed by natural forces that we know and operate with every day.

It's not likely, in fact, it takes more faith to believe in those odds than it does to believe that humans are the deliberately engineered.
Note that virtually no one implements that RFC. CSV is merely a style of file, not a true file format.
Synthesizer and other electronic music enthusiasts also have GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome)
Have you ever witnessed this file being used by companies moving money stored in S3 as "shitlist2019.txt" for screening incoming transactions in production? Because that's what the article is alluding to.
The New Math of Dependency: $1,200,000 divided by 1200 students = $1000 per student
The text of the first tweet reads:
"This evening, Genesis Global Capital, LLC (Genesis) filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. This is a crucial step towards us being able to recover your assets."

Hopefully that helps clear up which "Genesis" this concerns since the title was ambiguous or maybe save somebody a click to twitter
For work parties, COVID changed everything. The company I used to work for used to love parties. There were parties every month at a minimum (last Friday of the month) and for successful projects etc.

With COVID, many people moved out of the city centre with the option of remote/hybrid work. That means less people can drink at the work parties. Instead of just catching a bus home or walking, they need to drive to the office.

The people I'm still in contact with said the work party group is basically dead now.

For personal parties, that solely depends on your friend group.
Both of you can be correct here. It's possible (and I would say likely) that you end up having a bunch of social activities and yet still not go to parties.

I know as I've gotten older (still younger than OP but well on my way), my tastes have changed and mellowed. Gone are the days where me and my friends want to be in a noisy, booze-filled environment. Dining out, theatre trips, hiking, even an international holiday with friends to take part in a running event. Just no parties.
Xbox studios behind Starfield, Halo, and Gears of War have been hit by layoffs
Probable nuclear war also averted earlier, again by a single individual, in 1962.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov
Probably a combination of all three reasons you listed. Covid did kill a lot of parties, and rightly so, and it's not over yet. That said, a lot of people seem to think Covid is over and are desperate to finally have a party again. Friends of ours celebrated their 12.5 years of marriage with a party on a big sailing ship. My wife and I celebrated our 15 years of marriage pretty big (food and drinks, board games and silent disco) and everybody loved it.

So if you want parties, organise some. But maybe first check what the Covid infection rates in your area are...
You could do (a) but I don't think there exists oxygen concentrator running on anything else than electricity on the market, so if you need to design you own custom oxygen concentrator and get it built, your CapEx are going to be ludicrous. Or you can make electricity from the heat then power a regular concentrator, that would be more reasonable but that's still another complex and costly machine to add to the system. that's the thing with thermodynamic machines, you can always increase the yield by increasing temperature and getting closer to the Carnot cycle, but every step is more costly than the previous one.

In the real world you always have CapEx + OpEx as additional input.

Regarding (b), here waste heat is hardly usable as it is low temperature and diffuse. You could still you the residual heat from the engine in (a) since it would still be hot enough, but the 350W dissipated by the concentrator can't realistically be collected.
> "Skip painful iOS and Android deployments. Ship to the App Store and Google Play Store, or as a PWA in seconds."

So it looks like this is mostly web-based and the app is just a wrapper.
Then the app store ban isn't a big deal. They just use it through the Web (PWA).
"Child" is gender neutral and was historically neuter when English had genders.

I guess calling a child "it" is impersonal. Calling it "it" to its face is just strange since "it" is 3rd person.
Know at least in part what you're going through. Submitted by crap draft of my PhD thesis in 2003 and then spent 4 years in full time non-academic employment doing the huge list of revisions in my spare time and commuting on a train!

You're doing all the right things - getting help, seeking therapy (I wish I had done earlier), being fair to yourself.

It might be helpful to try the following:
Remind yourself why you started the PhD. Look back before you accepted. Might help to talk to friends about this. Why did you accept the challenge? What about yourself meant that you had to do it? Everyone's ignorant of what it entails until after completion and every PhD is different but why did you start at all? Reminding yourself of how brave you were to begin with is important.

Next thing is to divide and conquer. Find the smallest, easiest task of all. It might be insignificant to the final work but it's something. For me it was a paper I had been putting off reading. I decided to code one small piece of it. Not the whole thing, not a reproduction of the results, not beautiful code, just something. For me, that broke the spell.

Finally, accept that it's OK to walk away. Like everyone else here, I believe you can do it - I can feel it from your blog post. That said, it's OK if you don't complete it. Yes, there will be regret but you'll go on to other, brighter things, unshackled and free. That's OK too. You don't have to complete everything you start, that wouldn't be fair to you. I know a good few that didn't complete for a myriad of reasons and they're all doing great. I think you should give it a go but the world won't end if you don't.

Best of luck, will be thinking of you today.
Here is an anecdote. I had my iPhone replaced last year due to a battery issue and I forgot to migrate my authenticator codes to the new phone (I did not realize they did not restore if you changed phones). I was able to log in via a known authenticated web browser and reset my 2FA TOTP. I am a little hazy on if it used my mobile gmail app as a second factor though (with content restored from backup). I did not need my backup code. Perhaps it would be good to get an additional hardware security key for the account just in case.
You can also just disable JS.
I think I've got a better idea now. So openbsd has ASLR which affects data, code/library, and stack positions. Then this solution works on top of it by reordering symbols within the code.

One thing I'm still not sure about is whether the kernel could theoretically do the same reordering at load time using relocatable symbols.
Bro, you are not alone. I have similar problems with my master's thesis.
Two things help me:
- every Sunday I report to my sister on my progress - on the evening she asks me how my paper is going and I honestly answer her even if there is no progress
- I try to work on it every weekend. I stopped fooling myself that working on it on working day evenings is even possible with a kid running around.
And... There is some progress!
Anytime someone says "scientists arent arguing about popular topic x", a new Einstein gets aborted.

"Cooked vegetable oil worsened inflammation in the colon, enhanced tumor growth, promoted gut leakage, and caused harmful bacterial products to leak."
https://www.foundmyfitness.com/news/s/dtqdmb
In my experience impostor syndrome is mostly a mismatch between thinking and feeling. E.g. I know I'm a competent programmer, probably even a good one. I still feel like I'm going to get fired for gross incompetence on a semi-regular basis though.
Good article even though it has a provocative title.

The section about the misleading safety reports seem damning if true. Is Musk willfully ignorant?
Winnebago’s Electric Motorhome Prototype
I am sure you've considered this but it seems that a PDF would work for a number of those features.

One major benefit is that you could probably export your booklet to PDF without any changes at all.
1 - (1 - 0.01)^100
Surprised this hasn't been ported to JS, at first glance it already looks 90% done.
- The Covid hysteria was brutal in destroying what was left of the social fabric.

- People have become more and more anti social since the introduction of the smart phone.

- Intense schooling has made people apathetic to life and reluctant towards taking any initiative.

- Wealthy individuals don't need to host parties to impress their communities anymore.

- Sex soliciting apps like Tinder makes parties a place where the action isn't anymore.

- Young adults are extremely poor today. They don't have houses to throw parties in, they're too old to throw them in their parents houses, their landlord will complain if they throw a party in their apartment.

- People are afraid of being filmed when drunk and embarrassing themselves.

- Men are afraid of false sexual accusations.

- It is difficult to cater to people today if you serve food at your party or even throw a dinner. Everybody has allergies, diets and other eating problems, and they're not ashamed to demand you adapt to them.

- Wide spread narcissism. Young women and men stopped having conversations with each other at parties.

- People don't have patience to talk to each other and don't understand how to find something interesting in their fellow man.

- And yes, you're getting older.

But the number one reason I think is that the people who have been keeping up the good fight and throwing parties, barbecues, dinners and other events are sick and tired of always having to host and always invite people. So many people just float along and expect others to plan everything, contributing nothing themselves.

During the many years of schooling in childhood and being raised by parents who were also schooled, most people have had it hammered into their head that the worst crime you can do is come up with an idea or suggest something out of the routine. Of course they will not throw a party.
> the time that advocates spent arguing about why C users are ignorant and stubborn could have been spent contributing to a minimal kernel.

Problems with that is that:

A) not everyone wants to dabble in writing kernels

B) there are proof of concepts see Redox

C) whatever OS you write there is almost zero chance it will make a dent. So why bother with it? It's grueling work for almost no impact.
The US also refrained from using that weapon to further conquer the world though. I've read somewhere that the US generals were pumped to use that super weapon to further advance their military interests but the political class opposed it.

There are many sins of the US but overall I'm inlined to believe that the US is much more rational superpower that ultimately brings more good than bad because the US interests are in peaceful world that play on their rules. The relative world peace since the WW2 is known as PAX Americana and the moment it falters wannabe warlords start regional wars, causing big tragedies and any conflict happens wherever the US can't project it's force over the regional powers. The weaker the US the more wars happen.

You can argue that US rules are not fair and there is quite a lot of American exceptionalism but I'm not convinced that the proposed replacements are any better, thus the wars to change the system are wars fought in vein. IMHO, working with the US is much better any given day. The only risk is, the US itself changing into something bad or retreats voluntarily and leaving vacuum.
Is it possible to make a "air hockey" table with (electro)-magnets underneath (positive side up), and a disc composed of two magnets glued back to back (positive side out), so that it should always be floating?

It would seem that should be much more reliable than fans.

My guess is that the disc may need some playing with - perhaps a ball instead comprised of magnets spliced together, perhaps the disk would need to taper off towerds the end, or perhaps the disc would even need to be spun (flat), since as long as it is rotating it might less flip to the side.

I actually tried building this once, but did not have the materials or skillset to see if it could really be done.

Is it possible?
https://www.foundmyfitness.com/news/s/dtqdmb

"Cooked vegetable oil worsened inflammation in the colon, enhanced tumor growth, promoted gut leakage, and caused harmful bacterial products to leak into the bloodstream in mice.

This study used canola oil which is high in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) as are other vegetable oils such as soy and corn. PUFAs are prone to oxidation which was shown to be the mechanism causing damage in this study.

Other cooking oils and fats that are not high in PUFAs such as avocado oil, olive oil, coconut oil, and butter are not likely to have the same effect. One thing to keep in mind is that olive oil has a low smoke point so when frying things at very high temperatures avocado oil may be a better option since it has a high smoke point."
My nephew(5 years old) loves text-to-speach software. He likes to type in wierd stuff and then starts laughing, And that makes me start to laugh, we have a lot of fun with it.

I still think the best gift you can give to a young child is a big cardboard box.
Tesla is a public company with shareholders which expect the best possible return on invest. Obviously "to catalyze the world's shift from fossil fuels to EV's to as quickly as possible" cannot be the intent, but only a welcome byproduct of the actual intent, which is to maximize profit and thus RoI for their shareholders.
costs thousands a months, and over a million to fix.

Whatever energy savings they are getting from that system, it doesn't seem to be enough for it to pay for itself.
My problem with many of the comments is that even at 35 I'd find it quite strange, "taking someone to a party." So assuming that I'm remotely normal by almost 50 there is very little chance of successfully using the host more parties and meet more people that like parties strategy.

If you invite people to a party, I think they are most likely to bring their spouse/SO so you are thus unlikely to meet new people that might reciprocate.

The one exception to this is the dinner party. A main stay of the UK Upper Middle Class that have a dining room that can seat 12 and a cook/housekeeper.