skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You left the first point unaddressed- that there is a white supremacy problem in the United States, and the fact the people of color are _already_ under police state surveillance.

Secondly, your argument that _only_ 0.15% of cops are racist is disingenuous. If you RTFA [1]:

> Obviously, only a tiny percentage of law enforcement officials are likely to be active members of white supremacist groups. But one doesn’t need access to secretive intelligence gathered in FBI terrorism investigations to find evidence of overt and explicit racism within law enforcement. Since 2000, law enforcement officials with alleged connections to white supremacist groups or far-right militant activities have been exposed in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and elsewhere.

> Research organizations have uncovered hundreds of federal, state, and local law enforcement officials participating in racist, nativist, and sexist social media activity, which demonstrates that overt bias is far too common.

> These officers’ racist activities are often known within their departments, but only result in disciplinary action or termination if they trigger public scandals.

> Few law enforcement agencies have policies that specifically prohibit affiliating with white supremacist groups. Instead, these officers typically face discipline, if at all, for more generally defined prohibitions against conduct detrimental to the department or for violations of anti-discrimination regulations or social media policies. Firings often lead to prolonged litigation, with dismissed officers claiming violations of their First Amendment speech and association rights. Most courts have upheld dismissals of police officers who have affiliated with racist or militant groups, following Supreme ? Court decisions limiting free speech rights for public employees to matters of public concern.

> Courts have given law enforcement agencies even greater latitude to restrict speech and association, citing their “heightened need for order, loyalty, morale and harmony.”

It's fine if you want to bury your head in the sand and pretend the infiltration of law enforcement and military by white supremacists isn't happening, but that won't make it true. Furthermore, your argument that it's all a media conspiracy to enable the government to spy on white people is... sketchy.

[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidd...
My favorite lesson from a senior NASA guy: “You need to screw up just enough to get noticed”
JEP draft: No longer require super() and this() to appear first in a constructor
It is well known with experimental evidence that when people justify their decisions with the reasoning leading to it, it does not necessarily have anything to do with the actual reasons for the decision; even ignoring lying, we do not have privileged insight into all the factors our brain used to make a decision, and when asked for a justification for any decision which wasn't 100% the result of explicit rational planning (which is almost every decision, as even high-planning decisions are demonstrably influenced by non-rational factors, intuition, etc), we use our social skills to effectively invent a post-factum reasoning that both sounds plausible and is socially acceptable - just as language models can do. We often deceive ourselves, we have biases that discourage us from admitting and acknowledging certain reasons for why we did or do something; in some cases extensive therapy can help us recognize why some justification or reason we told others and ourselves was a false one, etc.

In essence, dealing with plausible but potentially misleading justifications is something that we have had to do forever, and will still have to do for future artificial agents as well.
These look small on my setup. They used to be displayed 1:1 with low-dpi screen pixels, no scaling.
Surely they’ll never get laid off with that approach.

<Yes, this comment is intentionally ambiguous>
If you want to interview for any job at an FPGA company, please read this paper first :-). I majorly blew an interview question which this paper would have helped me ace.
I think the 210 can rightly point to over a decade of compromising, and they can make a pretty compelling case that every compromise led to more extreme and dangerous behavior from that small minority. I say this as someone who supported this compromises and now deeply regrets it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_States_debt-ceil...
ChatGPT is GPT-3.5 plus some human feedback reinforcement learning[1] to steer it away from the things that tanked Tay. Meaning they had a bunch humans test the thing out, rate responses, and incorporate that into future training.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT#Training
there are many interesting breathing techniques, interestingly it usually provides benefits similar to a meditation practice.
I added this one to my routines:
https://routineshub.com/public/items/760bb353-35cc-483c-adce...

I also regularly practice Andrew Weil's 478 breathing https://routineshub.com/public/items/fb2c75bd-4d6d-424e-925a...
ChatGPT Ghostwriting and Publishing – SMS Novel
Like I said in another comment, I'm only halfway through. I'm not sure what the denouement is going to be or where they are going to take the evidence that there have been urban civilisations that were not ruled by kings or other hierarchical power arrangements and resolve it with the present, but their goal to show how the Hobbesian and Rousseauian views of human history are not supported by evidence only needs a single counter example and I feel they've supplied plenty.

I think their mission of puncturing the grand narratives of the evolution of human society is a good one, and I think they have the evidence, but I'm not sure it's going to have any effect in the long run.
If you use Foundation as your pump you may enjoy John C. Wright's Count to the Escaton sequence. It's Foundation with aliens, logic, ethics, love, and scales of time and intelligence beyond anything else I have ever read.

N. B. It most closely resembles the part of Foundation where the Mule shows up.
apple and pear don't hybridize. They don't even can be grafted one in the other. The tissues are rejected. There are round species of pears naturally shaped as an apple but they are not "pears" (common pears) neither apples. Are from Japan and are called nashis or sand pears. Tasty and crunchy, very good in salads

Pear and quince can hybridize producing a fruit called Pyronia (= Pyrus x Cydonia). Is not better than any of the parents, so it remains basically unknown and unavailable.
> They just have higher standards.

To me it’s amazing how much people will contort themselves to find disqualifying fault in Japan or Singapore, etc but not also hold their own Western country to a standard. It’s line no one is saying Japan is perfect in every way. But if you’ve been there then it’s plainly obvious how much higher their standards are and their expectations for each other.

It took about a day of being there to see they have the most fundamental quality any decent place has - order. And this is why their society is much nicer because from a foundation of order you can build amazing social systems. Look to Norway for a Western example. Or even a place like Denmark who accept the anarchists but keep them cordoned off and made into a tourism curiosity.
I actually bought a box of Cox Orange online from this orchard in VT. They were good, but the descriptions are always better.

https://www.scottfarmvermont.com/coxs-orange-pippin

Salt Spring Island, BC also seems to have a big heirloom apple thing going on, for any Van folks. (ex: I bought a couple of trees from this orchard https://www.saltspringapplecompany.com/)
Ukraine war: Hiding from Putin's call-up by living off-grid in a freezing forest
Does anyone know about an expert, non-partisan (whatever the parties are in the field of pre-history) review of Dawn of Everything? Someone who can summarize the strengths and weaknesses, claims and critiques, etc.?
If the "Google other" revenue is $25 billions, how many unicorns is that?

As for what googlers told you, keep in mind that they are pretty loyal - they have that Lamda chatbot as if an employee perk, and only one of them leaked a sample.
Deserving of a career here implies the career is desirable.

So, I understand if reality makes you uncomfortable but reality doesn’t care.
OK, so I have a few comments about your experiments:

> I am surprised that mounting worked without error but I guess the device is still active via losetup.

Exactly. `rm` doesn't actually delete the file contents while the file is still open, it just unlinks it from the filesystem tree. So your loopback-mounted disk is still there and all its contents are still available through /dev/loopX.

> I'm assuming this would be similar to an actual disk failure though, if the device weren't there maybe btrfs will complain and ask to be mounted with the `-o degraded` flag.

If the /dev/loopX device wasn't there then it would be similar to a complete disk failure, yes.

> In this test about 26% of data is still fully readable

It's true that only 26% of data is still fully readable if you account only for files that are fully intact. But also note that about 78% of files were still completely intact.

This is not clear from your comment, but I'm assuming that you are using 4 devices for the btrfs pool as well?

In this scenario, with such a disk configuration and subsequent disk failure you would expect to lose about 25% of files, while the remaining 75% would be intact (especially if the files are small enough)...

But actually, in reality things can be quite better or quite worse, depending on a few factors.

For example:

1. If the free space was fragmented. In such a case, a significant percentage of files might actually be allocated on more than one disk, so you'd lose more files than expected if a single disk fails. Although I can see that on your latter experiment, you've defragged the btrfs filesystem beforehand, so perhaps this is not the main issue.

2. Depending on how btrfs allocates data, if the files are not completely filling all of the disks then they can be heavily skewed towards a subset of the disks.

For example, imagine that each of your disks are 1 TB-sized and your files total less than 1 TB.

In this case, all of your files could be allocated on the first disk only, so losing this disk could lead to losing 100% of your data.

Or for example, if your files are less than 2 TB, they might all be allocated on the first 2 disks only, so losing one of these disks would lead to losing a lot more files than you'd expect if files were evenly distributed across all disks.

But on the other hand, if you'd lose one of the other disks, you might not lose any data whatsoever.

3. Depending on how large files are and how much free space there is on each disk, btrfs might be forced to (or might choose to) span a file across more than 1 disk even on the 'single' profile, even if free space was not fragmented.

4. But of course, more generally, how many files you would lose basically depends on how btrfs allocates disk space across the disks for each file.

These disk space allocation algorithms can be quite more complex than you'd expect from a naive allocator, mostly due to performance reasons.

Unfortunately, I know exactly nothing about how btrfs allocates data, so I can't give you more insight than this, sorry!
I enjoy and use this breathing technique but I haven't ever practiced or cared about mindful meditation. In my experience doing breathing exercises while doing something physical helps me way more than doing it while sitting. The most interesting result from this study was the change in the spread for HRV.

I personally found that having physical markers for when to breathe in and out made it a lot easier to understand and practice. Tying yoga poses to the amount of time I hold air made is easier to track my improvements too. I imagine swimming similarly allows a more structured way to practice cyclic breathing. I was able to break an 8 minute 2k row when I did it with cyclic breathing. Nothing has improved my cardio as much as erg + controlled breathing, I use pretty short intervals.

Another place cyclic breathing was crucial was when I did marching band. I played trombone so it was mandatory that I have athletic lung capacity. I was told that the exercises aren't making your lungs bigger, you're getting used to having your lungs stay expanded for longer.

The most important thing was the extra breath you take after you feel like your lungs are completely full. Everyone coughs when you take in that extra bit of air after breathing in deeply, in the beginning. There's plastic ball valve things you can buy to observe your breathing but I never personally saw it as useful. A relative was given something similar after a heart attack in order to monitor lung strength during recovery.

It's also pretty common to recommend some type of cyclic breathing when handling anxiety. It helps control and lower the physical symptoms of anxiety like rapid heart rate.

Looking up box/cyclic breathing guides for athletes or music students might help, if you are looking for more structure guides. The cyclic breathing in this study is not the same as circular breathing.
i'd like to understand wtf my upstairs neighbor is doing. can this help me?
This is not exact source, where I've read statement, but looks like reprinted from same source.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15344706/self-driving-mer...
this dangerous line of reasoning we can to a large degree control our actions however this idea of control in the first place is in the wrong frame ihmho
Even pre-WiFi 7, there are companies such as Cognitive who allow you to detect motion (as well as occupant activity, etc.). I implemented such a system at my previous company which sold Wi-Fi.
I think pulumi has a but of that but i also kind of think there's a reason it doesnt exist. I mean even a "cross-blob-store" client is hard or impossible to come by.

If you're writing go though, you can probably leverage docker-machine which i would have to guess has such abstraction internally.
Wolf3D as I recall could run on a 286 but it required a "fast" late model 286 (like the 16 MHz part from AMD) to run at an acceptable frame rate. It was also quite choppy in frame rate on like a 386SX/16.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/am286
>How can I get these people to think that I will be good enough and polite enough to make their lives easier without being a threat.

This. Consulting for my market weakened significantly within the past 5 years, so I had to subcontract for a bit. I know many others around me who did the same thing (several of which used to have a decent staff!), or got perm positions at former clients.

You know what's great? Making some existing system 3000 times faster (no exaggeration!) on the same hardware in your first few weeks, giving a presentation on the improvements at the request of the now very happy director ... then getting pulled into a 1-on-1 by some peer and having them scream at the top of their lungs for making them look bad by comparison.

...and having that happen on FIVE GIGS in a row. You do it beyond politely, it's just whitepapers and PowerPoints, and detailed how-tos, but then one or two existing staff members tries to stop you at all costs. Everyone else (other peers, directors, VPs) are stoked, but there'll be one or two who'd might physically assault you in person.

--

Sadly, that's reality. Having remoted all of those gigs (SFBA, Boston, Connecticut, Dallas, and Minneapolis), that behavior is EVERYWHERE too.

Thankfully I had an SVP contact I could reach out to for a solid perm position to get me out of that mess... to actually just go through the SAME MESS for ten months. Ever have people literally block access to the resources to do your work for SEVEN MONTHS, including getting the CTO (who has just stepped down) to tell SVPs that I'd need to work on other projects? I now can say I have. I just spent ten months losing every battle to try to get work done, to finally "win the war." I'm allowed to do my job now, and a lot of other groups are happy, but I DESPISE the place.

--

People are nuts. I've come full circle in 15 years from what made me go independent, to now re-committing to going back to full independent once I have a few new hot skills I can easily bill. Those few nutters are the same ones will tell their boss to pass on your resume.
All history is post-literary by definition. To go back further is to visit myths and legends. Some of which are even perhaps something like true.
James Vitech did this, but manually and with humorous results:

https://youtu.be/4o5hSxvN_-s

https://youtu.be/IUjpoauJcKo
Out of the millions of things I find “interesting”, helping a huge corporation make money is very low on the list. The company pays me to exchange labor for money.
That depends. How well am I treated when times are good? If my company followed Lincoln Electric’s example, I’d stay. If not, the whole thing would unravel.

That’s been the one conclusion of every study on Lincoln. You can’t mimic a small part and expect similar performance.
No. You cannot copyright an abstract style. Process is not copyrightable.
I mean sure, as long as you’re a white christian man, why would you ever need to fear violent acts committed by white christian nationalists?

Now if you’re Muslim, Sikh, Jewish, or any other religion, or your skin is dark, or you’re a woman, or you’re gay or trans —- and therefore have legitimate safety concerns… well then that’s just more identity politics, isn’t it?
Agreed. Even when you own the space, from time to time you revamp some major subsystem (e.g. your typesetting pipeline) and it's a pain. But at least its on your terms.

If your hoster shuts down, you're looking at lot of work to port your stuff elsewhere.

That said, there are a lot of things about Substack that I like. They're doing a pretty good job of it.

That said, I still 100% plan to host my own stuff. :)
Well, so in theory they could have used some of the billions they have on hand to start a dividend to prop up the stock price while making their own decisions about staffing.

This narrative that the market forced them to do layoffs feels flimsy when they have so much money, doesn't it? They had other options.
If you can, try comice. A diva to culture, but the fruit is fantastic.

Pears are not the easiest fruit to culture and in some areas is a doomed project from the start. --Don't-- buy trees in the supermarket without a sanitary tag. Go to a professional. Fireblight is a real pain
> A transition from IPV4 to IPV6 creates a new per device tracking capability that leaks internal network structure.

I doubt it. Your load balancers will be the only addresses that will be addressable anyway. Your IPv4 load balancers will also be "leaking" IP addresses.
Would Chat GPT3 Get a Wharton MBA? New White Paper by Christian Terwiesch
Are you uninformed or being disingenuous on purpose regarding these attacks and the nature of them?
My review: the main story and ideas of the book are great, and the many small stories of the book are great too. I have read many of Graeber's books, and it is full of novel ideas.

But, the book could have used a bit more editing. As the arc is coming to an end, many new examples are hastily introduced that don't seem to lead anywhere. The book has a great first half, but the second half is lacking.

I feel like it has all the raw material of a masterpiece, but it is missing the polishing, possibly due to Graeber's unfortunate early passing.

There is an often heard comment that they provide too few data. I find that of little importance. I value novel perspectives on history a lot more. I kind of agree with Graeber that the focus on data succombs to paradox that if you focus on what you can measure, you will automatically look at history with today's eyes, as today is metric-focused.
Common Excuses for Bad Programming
The intended userbase of pass is clearly not non-tech-savvy/non-security aware philipinno mothers, so your remark is irrelevant.
My issue with gui is that sometimes I need to work with git in terminal, over ssh, so I need to know it. Once I learned it, what's the point of using a gui? [0]

[0] there is one operation where gui is more convenient for me - exploring branches in gui or GitLab ("repository -> graph") has no equivalent in cli that I know of (interestingly, GitHub doesn't have that either, but many gui tools do).
No. I speak from experience both with being a founder and an employee at startup. Your network is mostly related to how many people of what type you meet at work. You'll make connections at any company not just at a startup. Your founder's network will most likely not benefit you. So focus on building your own network actively over time.
It was either text-davinci-002-render or text-davinci-003-render
In addition to being unsubstantiated, the criticisms of Harari completely mischaracterize his position. The overriding point of the chapter on agriculture in Sapiens is that farming was a huge step back for humans compared to the hunter gatherer lifestyle.

I suspect the the authors of this piece really object to Harari’s framing of agriculture as a step on the path of “human progress”. It would have been more honest to stick to a purely moral and ideological critique in that case, instead of misrepresenting his factual points.
This, of course, is not how Stanford itself does it.

2020

https://stanforddaily.com/2020/07/29/stanford-to-lay-off-208...

2009

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32660764
I judged by the timeline and mention of AI project among the stars... :)
UK privacy watchdog silent as Google Topics API fails to reform ad-tracking
Yes, some vendors have shipped their own implementations. There's also custom firmware for some radios. But standardization will bring scale and ubiquity to non-technical users. Are millions of city occupants ready for transparent walls, floors and ceilings? Are businesses ready for remote keystroke detection?
Bluntly, taking business advice from an academic who has never worked in the private sector is suicide.

If you attempt to socialize losses and cut pay, your best employees leave for other opportunities while your worst performers stick around.

That’s a recipe for disaster in a competitive market.

When done surgically, laying off non-productive employees can improve the morale of the top performing employees, because it shows that management is aware and appreciates them.
> The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such catalog so far [...]

> The Milky Way Galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, glimmering star-forming regions, and towering dark clouds of dust and gas.

So our best data set of the milky way shows 310^9 objects. How do we know then, that the are x100*10^9 objects in total?

If true, is staggering that all this data represents less than 1% of all there is in the milky way alone.
controlling feeling is black and white all we need absence of blood flow so we can tense our muscles we can go to near hypothermic conditions and stil we are subject to the brain stem survival needs and whos to say that doesnt have feeling
I’m gonna have to totally disagree with you and say that the scene is definitely amber and teal, not green and yellow. Look at their skin tones, and the plates/walls.
some thumbnails of television commercials exhibiting this slightly out of focus background https://i.jollo.org/jiWn4jTj.png
Haha, very true. I told a friend to seek a contract W2 job through fly-by-night recruiter spam mails or through indeed/dice sites. He was like "I wanna get a job at X-named company in the bay area". He wasted his time like that for two years.

For many people (esp without a great pedigree), getting a contract-W2 job through some staffing company is a great option, if everything else is not working out. Also, tone down your resume a bit, if you want to work for some bank on a contract W2 gig.