skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Wikipedia:

> The Roku box runs a custom Linux distribution called Roku OS.

Looks like yes.
Mods can help a but, but 80-90% using mass transit is pretty impressive.

The main problem with the simulator is "shortest pathing" but the mods can help fix that.
From context, I'm assuming Microsoft / Amazon / Google, referring to Azure / AWS / Google Cloud respectively.
I really hate Roku as a product, ads on the home screen and the remote(??) of something I paid for? No thanks. Though, I will concede it is cool to load mostly "unapproved" apps if the developer shares the app ID. (Certain x-rated sites liked to advertise they have a Roku app, something that would never make its way to most other TV boxes)
The author had me until half way through, when he started to babble about "Cultural Marxism", revealing the length of his own bias and lack of knowledge outside his own field.

I am honestly concerned about how modern social-media related amplification moralism (aka Cancel Culture) may impact Science in general. Not for the reasons the author claim - at all - though. My perception, and fear, is that the current generation is overly concerned with "feeling good" to the point esoteric pseudocience is taking over important fields like medicine, with stuff like Homeopathy becoming accepted as medical practice in some countries.

The author, however, seems to be simply ranting about science taking a direction he personally does not like, and trying to sugarcoat his own prejudice in citations to credible sources.

There is NUMEROUS scientific evidence that demonstrated over and over again that the LACK of diversity in science has held us back tremendously in many fields, Medicine in particular. Years of experiments made by white men on white men, failing to take into account gender, ethnicity and other types of variations, leading to theories and therapies that only work as intended on white men.

Introducing diversity as a scientific requirement makes sure the very designing of experiments is less biased, as people with different backgrounds participate in the process.

I find it really ironic that people who supposedly understand the importance of variation in experimental samples can't see the importance of variation in experiment t designers.
You can’t just change the size of an IPv4 address without creating a whole new thing.
It's like choosing between a pro photographer who only has a phone vs a beginner who has the latest full frame DSLR.

The technology is important, but it's impotent without foundational understanding.
> Voters are also able to change their votes up until a few days before the election.

This is interesting and in my view one of the main differences to traditional (mail) voting. Especially with discussions/rallies increasing towards the end of the parties' campains, there may be more changes of mind than when votes have to be cast irreversably on a set day of people's choosing.

On a related note: will results only be checked on the day of the election?
It's like weapons policy. If country A is going to have them country B will be foolish not to have them.
I can't imagine a LLM trained on the entirety of the internet would have any material influence from writings around AI safety
> First off I despise both Apple and that other evil empire (house of mouse) I want nothing to do with either of them.

It’s funny that the poster despises Apple. But is okay with a company where the CEO explicitly said that they want to make money not via hardware sells, but via selling user’s television watching behavior.

Everything about the Roku is a janky experience. From the ad that takes up the Home Screen to the hard coded buttons that go to the highest bidder.

I have one remote that still has a useless Rdio button.
At least for local applications at home, this has been my experience as well. I'm sure data center operators love ipv6 but it's been nothing but a headache with no benefit for home consumer use.
> SLAAC is cool but doesn't provide DNS configuration. (there is RFC8106 but is it supported by all OSes?)

For the most part, yes it's supported by major OSes. (ND RDNSS)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IPv6_support_in_...
> Estimating how long something is going to take is really difficult

No one says it is easy, but it is not impossible too. It is okay to change one's estimation after several hours/days of work. But after months working on the same codebase estimations are getting better and better.
I have used the Java smtp test email server FakeSMTP which has been around since around 2015. It can run via CLI as a service with no GUI, or with a GUI interface via Swing:

http://nilhcem.com/FakeSMTP/
Google associates different accounts that are from the same owner when handling issues FYI. So if they think your account is doing something wrong on GCP, be wary of associated accounts.
I remember when I first got Google Fiber and the solution to "amazon.com will not load, ever, period" was to disable ipv6 on their router.

Not sure I've ever bothered to turn it back on.
There's a pedestrian focused expansion pack.
Detection Stays One Step Ahead of Deepfakes–For Now
Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
Sounds about right for the increasingly ironically-named LessWrong site…
I don't use Google Drive, but I can tell you that, for my use case, folders are useful for keeping notes, spreadsheets, and other resources for each project separate from each other. Search and Stars won't be adequate replacement for folders.
The government does need a warrant to put a GPS tracker on a car.

Although, these days, your car already has one or more GPS devices in it sending that data to third parties. And there are many organizations that run plate readers on public streets.
Totally agree with this mindset. My digital life is on the line because Google refuses to separate services.
It doesn't say a lot. What says more is how often you seek home networking advice and one of the first troubleshooting steps is to disable ipv6 (though restarting the router is probably first).
Driving in to the office to my software support and development role I would see roadworkers and pray for a brain dead job where I just needed to do simple things to help people and could enjoy the sunshine and outdoors.

After a downturn in my contracting gigs I trained in traffic. It is NOT as well paid as you think! And standing for 8 to 10 hours is physically damaging. And the boredom is not brain-dead it is soul destroying.

I am back in IT and very thankful!
Zero-Bug Software Development (2016)
Well you've changed the assertion a little bit there. I shared that one particular technical innovation shifted the mix of jobs towards more skilled jobs. That doesn't say anything about any individual person of course.

Your statement says that "people were made obsolete", which I take to mean that some people are individually unable to switch to the more skilled jobs.

I think the effect on current employees due to technical innovation is a reasonable issue to be concerned about but it's not the same phenomenon as the job "mix" changing towards more skilled jobs, even some that didn't exist before. The two phenomena aren't mutually exclusive either.

We don't have too many stagecoach drivers these days but we do have a lot more "drivers".
Is the original good? Growing up playing SimCity 2000
might well have been yak shaving. If a company is under US jurisdiction it simply cannot comply to EU data protection.
There's a "realistic population mod" but depending on how you use it it just ands some multipliers.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=20251...

Note that it is VERY easy to make the game impossible with this mod, and to make it painfully easy.
> via selling user’s television watching behavior

Gross. I hate how commonplace this is becoming. Even your basic non-Roku-OS TV people are saying never to connect it to the internet as it'll just fingerprint stuff on your HDMI and tell advertisers you're watching Game of Thrones
> It is interesting Python didn't make it into the in-demand skill list.

Since Python is on the top of all of the other lists, I think this is a consequence of their methodology.

Demand for coding skill over the market average... well if every job in the market requires Python you're not going to see a much "over the average".
In fairness, a CEO who has basically been Kanye-ing himself and his company into irrelevance is a low bar.
Every conceivable metric except convenience, then... That sounds like a regression to me.
Not to mention that 99.99% of IoT devices connect to the mothership using an outbound connection, which is permitted by default on both IPv6 and IPv4+NAT.
The central problem is the methodology of science not being taught explicitly anywhere.

It should be part of the school curriculum, instead a scientism-version is part of folklore.
I work in live entertainment - theater, concerts, corporate shows, theme parks, etc. While my job is multidisciplinary, covering tech areas such as lighting, sound, video, projection, etc, to be REALLY good at the job requires a much broader scope.

My physical and electronic inboxes are full of marketing mail from a slew of industries; IT, medical, construction, industrial controls, business, and so on. Why? Because in the entertainment industries we are regularly called upon to solve problems that require out-of-the-box solutions. The more exposed you are to other industries and the tools they have, the more you can think "oh I remember seeing Gadget X that the Y industry uses, I think maybe we can adapt that to our purposes."

I don't do it nearly as often as I'd like, but attending random trade shows can be a goldmine for learning about alternate solutions, there's a LOT of industry specific solutions out that you would have no idea about and would never think to search for.
Ehhh… all you have to do is take a look at instagram or TikTok to yourself convince yourself otherwise. Humans are pack / herd animals and we tend enjoy the safety of crowds.
I am continually reminded of PG's joke on Twitter a few years ago:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1231699385525903360?lang=en
Where Dutch directness comes from (2018)
This is not about jealousy. When people working second jobs, their productivity tanks dramatically.
It's turtles all the way down. You can replace the renderer wholesale, or strip out the top, middle, and/or low level abstractions. You choose how much meat you want stripped off from the bones. It's not that well-documented (something I want to address soon), but IMO it lives up to Bevy's reputation of modularity.

For a comparison with Unity, it's equivalent to the scriptable render pipeline, but abandoning the default one doesn't mean you need to write your own pipeline from the ground up.
Who the hell is giving their Roku a public IP? How is this remotely a problem? This is 100% not the fault of Roku, and 100% the fault of the ISP. The ISP should have an IPv6 to IPv4 gateway built into their modem/router. You have a WAN port that is IPv6 and an LAN port that IPv4.

IPv6 for local networks, makes no sense is completely unnecessary, and is a hill I will die on. IPv4 is here to stay.
Thank you for flagging! We've come across them in prior searches, but interesting to learn how well-known they are
> It's probably harder to tie devices in a single household together with IPv6 than with IPv4, or so they think

So I wonder if this means it is harder to ID the consumer with IPv6 ?
Disagree. A mile is a well-defined quantity, and furlongs are widely understood by older men.
This seems like a pretty limited viewpoint. We could all be coding in assembler still but generally we find value in using something higher level. Does that make us all dumb?
See: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqMiv31aEAAjd-3?format=jpg&name=...
You're right that it is orthogonal to the size of the variable, but thinking in bounds, precision, and yes, types (that can carry many notions, including dimensionality) is more interesting, to me, than 'just' u32 to u64. In my experience, being prompted to think about what you actually mean and have a tool to express it and check it is a good way to write understandable and correct code.
Well, no, not really - the example of Simcity 2013 vs Cities: Skylines given above is a great example where the user-hostile crap was much less profitable than what EA could have gotten based on their brand if they would have just made a straightforward remake similar to Cities: Skylines.
Yes, but let's not pretend that IPv6 was just IPv4 with a larger addr size. A lot of other unnecessary cruft got changed. That is kinda the issue. Add an extra octet to IPv4, call it IPv5. Done. DHCP (as is) can already handle variable-length addresses so it'll work unmodified for 5-byte addrs, for example. Same for ARP.
Dwarf Fortress (previously officially named Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress) is a construction and management simulation and roguelike indie video game created by Bay 12 Games. Available as freeware and in development since 2002, its first alpha version was released in 2006 and received attention for being a two-member project surviving solely on donations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress
If only everyone hadn't dragged their feet "because it's too hard"; we could maybe be living in an IPv6 utopia? Maybe if the government started handing out fines? haha
try uBlock origin (and/or uMatrix, it's still very useful even though it's out of support).
> It's probably harder to tie devices in a single household together with IPv6 than with IPv4, or so they think.

It's probably easier, in fact. A significant and growing number of households are behind CGNAT on IPv4 and not have a 1:1 household : ip address relationship. On the other hand, if they're on IPv6, they're most likely on the same /64.

But, Roku's not doing IPv6 was handy for me when Netflix decided not to accept IPv6 connections over Hurricane Electric tunnels. I didn't have to change anything, and I didn't have to do anything, the Rokus were already ignoring IPv6.
By traffic it seems like "if only we didn't have these Rokus!" but it's a streaming device, it generates a lot of traffic compared to the other IPv4 only devices. Inevitably the long tail of devices is what's costing them extra (sounds like CG-NAT dual stack or 464xlat at the gateway) not just the Roku devices.

As someone who operates their own ASN with IPv6 because I like v6 so much the problem here was simply poor planning. Handing out Apple TV's to replace Roku devices isn't going to make the need for v4 services go away at these homes.
It's all getting to be so convoluted... The common thread is usually in buying already popular/followed accounts, running platform ads, and subverting everyone else with downvotes so your posts rise to the top... Yikes...

I had a sub of my own, and I just kept it set to personal posts, but eventually reddit banned all my associated accounts for cross posting to a music subreddit (first time offense = permanent ban), and that orphaned my subreddit to this day.

I refuse to have to resort to wild tactics online just to be visible, even though I could hack things, I also fear that's exactly what will cause me to eventually quit out of a lack of growth.
Thought it was kind of funny you uploaded the demo video to YouTube, cool regardless
This is the thought which comes around often.

The problem is, for an intellectual, it's important to live in an environment rich with mental talent. Bay Area is the intellectual capital of the world, and while Einstein could maintain his patent clerkship and have famous physicists visit him in Bern (http://norvig.com/performance-review.html) for the lesser minds in another era settling on another place is a loss.
We can take a look at the St. Louis Fed "Fred" database take a look at historical affordability of 20 % down payment.
Let's divide two numbers, a and b to get a ratio of yearly median wage divided by median house price, from 1980 to 2023. [1]

a) Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings: Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over

b) Median Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States

We see that the a/b ratio was 0.25 in 1980, and has declined to 0.05 today.

Therefore, a 20 % down payment in 1980 would equal to a 4 % down payment today.
Conversely, a 20 % down payment on a house in 2023 (median wage, median house) is equal to a (25/5)*20 % = 100 % down payment in 1980!

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q#0
Cryptographers Show How to Hide Invisible Backdoors in AI
Google can challenge the content flagging as well. These trusted flaggers can only flag content for Google to review, they can't remove it themselves, as far I understand it. So it is exactly the same as before, just that it is formalized.

Edit: Think the Twitter files, with how the American government flags content on Twitter and then Twitter bans it. USA already has that trusted flagging system, but under the hood so you don't see it. I don't see why moving that to the open would be any worse.
I get that IP is screwed ip in the US, partially by lobbying and partially by ineffective regulation. But we have it on the books and US courts are all too happy to encourage IP knife fights (see the court in that forgettable “West” Texas county that all of the major tech companies choose to use for their litigation).

In practice, Chinese companies don’t use IP and have much closer to perfect market competition. The Chinese government chooses not to enforce what IP they have on the books, suggesting it only exists for the purposes of homogenizing with international trade treaties.
http://www.salaam.co.uk/new-light-on-the-origin-of-the-term-...

http://www.wata.cc/forums/archive/index.php/t-16001.html
Energy efficiency is mostly about finishing faster, so the CPU can go to low power state earlier.
I didn't say a thing about being mad that they had a solution. I am mad at the guy for claiming that this tremendously useful tool could be had for "pennies".

I will grant you this. A hacker, meaning a teen in a basement making it work in the minimum way, could create a thing like this.

I'm not that. The person who did this for that cycle company is not that (because that low-class hacker couldn't procure and implement dozens of pi's, or the networking, or the training). And, if he or she could, the company would be nuts to base their business on it.

IT systems like this are hard and expensive. Suggesting otherwise is, I think, irresponsible. Someone that sees that video, believes it's just "pennies" and goes to his boss, promising to accomplish something like that is going to fail and be harmed.

And that makes me mad, too.
The part where making money is so intoxicating, I assume.
I don’t believe this is true, it’s a coping mechanism that people use to keep from learning new skills. It’s also a very popular cope to claim “it’s more expensive” to cook at home because you typically have to buy more ingredients than you’d use to make a single serving of some food item.

If people want to stay ignorant and economically and nutritionally disadvantaged it’s not something I pity. I can’t but help feeling disgusted and scornful toward people with these attitudes. Cave people made bread.
It's even worse with London, where £1 is worth about $1.22 _before_ adjusting for PPP.
> in space, a vacuum tube is a couple funny shaped pieces of metal in close proximity

I can't believe this never occurred to me before. The possibilities are staggering :-)
No, the point is it can't be done. It's like cleaning your house with an 100 year old tortoise: you absolutely would do that, if tortoises were plentiful and do a good job cleaning. Why would anyone clean their houses themselves, when there were all these old tortoises willing and able to do the job for them?
Now if the tortoise moves all your crap around so you can't find it, leaves streaks on your mirrors and windows, fire his scaly butt!
One of the big benefits of edge compute is that it’s geographically distributed. Doesn’t make a big impact across the US, but globally a lot of nations have specific data laws, so it’s important to host data in the required nation. Keep customer data in its nation of origin, but have a single control plane and platform for ever data center.
This is huge. Even as a member of a larger company, this stuff matters. If you have a vendor that doesn't bullshit you when things go wrong, you can actually trust. This is how you avoid companies having the "hmmm they seem to be having lots of issues recently, let's consider moving off them" conversation.
Separating concerns, isolating things that are not related, these are some basic tenets of good engineering. Yet we all keep rolling the ball of mud downhill and act shocked it keeps growing and swallowing everything.
I feel this. I hope you get over the hump and your job gets fun. We've had flashes, at least, but I do think what we're doing (and probably what you're doing) require some irrational behavior.
Federated Social Web Manifesto
> > Applicable to much of the rationalist AI risk discourse

> I hesitate to defend AI safety discourse

The rationalist AI risk discourse is not the same thing as AI safety discourse, in any case; it’s a small corner of the larger whole.
I've been saying this too. Don't tell me that going from 8.8.8.8 to :whatever::the::heck:::: is an upgrade.

First step of dual-stack networks should've been, every device's IPv6 address is the same as the IPv4 address, just padded technically, and represented textually the same. If I put in 8.8.8.8 and the systems want to speak IPv6 instead, go ahead. A little hacky but addresses (no pun intended) both technical and marketing problems. You could even use a v4 DHCP server and DNS but speak IPv6, instead of trying to sell people on a whole stack change at once.
> I mean, it's the same point, single address to single node, just more often, so need to identify more often.

But how would they know it is to the same node?

I have my DSL router-modem reboot every night, and I get all sorts of crazy results for ads: I'm in southern Ontario, as is my ISP, but they service folks in Quebec, and so sometimes I get Youtube ads in French since (per my IP) I'm "in" Quebec.

Similarly with the reboot I get a new /64 prefix delegation (actually /56), so I would hazard to guess if IPv6 starts getting tracked, I'd get the same crazy results.
Speculation without evidence applied to a nation.
For my own curiosity, I am interested in hearing what features Crunchy adds on top that RDS doesn't have, that folks find pretty useful!

(Timescale -- I think i know, it adds features specifically about storing time series? But I don't think crunchy has additional domain-specific stuff like this? What are the pretty useful features folks find in crunchy that RDS lacks?)
With iCloud Drive, you can view your files in the normal finder, including the folder structure. You can do so in Windows explorer too, if you install iCloud in Windows.

The only thing keeping me from moving over to iCloud is the linux support. I can use Google drive using rclone. I wish I could mount iCloud Drive in Linux as well.
> __and information about other devices connected to the same network__

They may also be doing more nefarious things, but this might just mean it watches for UPNP and other announcement-broadcast messages on your network (like, say, mdns).
My friend got fired from his job for sticking his nose in other departments. Which is very strange because his boss told him to look at transferring into another department because he would have to transfer in the next six months or get fired. And the department he stuck his nose into offered him a lateral job. But because he failed to keep the bosses of each department apprised of where he was in the process, he trod on some toes and got fired before the lateral position could become official and it had to be an internal hire. Total mess.
capital gains ought to be taxed like regular income. it's insane that we cut breaks for wealth generation that requires no effort, and is scalable
I promise you, LG's WebOS is worse in almost every conceivable way.