skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is paywalled, can anyone confirm that this is actually remote updates? If so, what's the text that shows that?

The only part I can read is the sub-heading, which says "Puffin announces plans to publish a classic collection as it emerges online libraries are being automatically updated with sensitivity changes."

This is not the same as remotely updating a version that you have on your Kindle. Rather, it would be like a library receiving an updated version of the book, which you then check out -- which could totally happen in the physical world as well.
Let’s add a zero to that (as a string).

And add things like adversarial research to try to disprove findings, etc.
On the other hand, what’s the point, cloud providers already have good APIs and clients for almost all languages, so what’s the use of something “interpreting” the API?
I think they choose the simplest path that sounds reasonable. Who would have anticipated edits like these? All I'm suggesting to provide an easy alternative. The simplest path for me is throwing an MIT or GPL snippet in my root folder. A copy/paste clause on a static website should be sufficient.
A lot of people forget or don’t know about how the Railroads have a very different system of laws about several of the things that basically everyone else has to deal with.

Starting with social security, railroad employees have a different social security system and other related law regarding retirement benefits.

Second there’s the labour laws, much of which is older and more Byzantine than “normal” labour laws because of the historical context behind the era when they were introduced, and having been introduced in such a way that they managed to isolate themselves from other kinds of workers. You can really see this in the complex series of steps necessary for a railroad union strike, compared to other workers it’s just crazy, but each step of that complicated process had at least some justification from greed and backhanding to genuine concerns regarding the crucial role the railroad has in the fabric of the nation.

That sort of “crucial role” or justification has been at the heart of how the railroads got to the present state. The railroads were at one point in the 19th century, arguably more powerful than the federal government, to the point where in some places you had to clarify that “The President” didn’t mean the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad if you wanted to refer to the President of the United States. This level of power is obviously long gone, but it represents the level of power they once had, power which has translated into over a century of “special cases” carved out for railways in law at all levels of society across the USA.

The railroad unions can’t just threaten to stop work like others can, because the government has a right of refusal on their ability to strike, which basically acts as a muzzle on widespread union action and allows the railroads to squeeze the shit out of employees… if you haven’t, look at what the unions were trying to strike for last year… and then think about if employees willing to put up with that, will be the sort of people to take a stand and blow the whistle on bad workplace practices… railroad unions just don’t have the same level of power as normal unions, they do have power, just not “tactical” power, the kind you use to fight the small things like individual safety breaches by having everyone in the workplace threaten to walk out.
Silvergate Capital shares plunge 55% as bank raises doubts about its future
> The sad thing is that major universities are filled with researchers who are distracted by pushing on the frontiers.

Or simply writing enough grant proposals to cover their salary and lab expenses for another year
Layoffs can have negative long-term consequences for companies
The learning from mistakes part of the example is – you tried /port_wines but the path is /wines/port instead.

But what about if the path is actually /beer and you have to pass a hidden undocumented query parameter called ?wine=1 for it to give you wines. But then the response is still of Beer objects (because that's the only thing the API validator would allow), so you have to map all the Beer fields to their equivalent Wine counterparts. But not all of them make sense, so you have to ignore them. Which ones? Ask the engineering team. Turns out the guy who wrote all this left years ago, and no one remember how it works. Someone digs up a link to a documentation page, but that internal wiki was taken down and so it returns a 404. You ping a sysadmin to see if they kept any backups. He points you to a few PBs worth of SQL dumps from an internal migration a few years ago and asks you to take a look in those. You simultaneously have to write up a status update for senior leadership which is due by end of day and give them a revised launch date for the project. They want to know why it can't be done in half the time.

The day an AI can figure all this out, I will be looking for another career. Until then I'm fine.
We need to solve what’s causing the epidemic - http://achemicalhunger.com/, declining mental health, deteriorating relationships with food, pandemic habits, and other things.

Even if this medication offers 15% fat loss, each of us on average in western countries probably earn that in a decade now. We’ll need a lot more of these inventions if we wish to ignore the root causes of obesity.
Probably not a fair judgement to make based on 4-5 short paragraphs in a HN comment.
> The image is offensive because, as an photo sourced from a “men’s magazine”, it’s a reminder that mostly men worked on developing image compression and jpeg technology in the past, and this could make women feel left out or uncomfortable today.

Where did you get this idea? The continued use of the image in professional contexts discomforts people because the photo and the magazine were created for men's sexual interests. And there is little technical reason to use it now.
On my computer the Julia algorithm gives .98 seconds for 1M digits and 40.7 seconds for 20M (zen 2 cpu).
NF already offers just about any ISP one or more OpenConnect cache appliances to move 99.9% of the traffic to be internal to the ISP. So I don't really see why NF should be funding basically last-mile infrastructure.
> ... or the worker would risk bankruptcy or other legal shenanigans putting it beyond their reach.

Seems like that would happen anyway? eg it sounds like these companies are mostly going to do their utmost to fight against the legal proceedings. play every legal/bastard tactic they can, discredit the whistleblower, likely hire 3rd parties to disrupt things, etc.

Having the money in escrow doesn't seem like a guarantee the whistleblower would end up getting it either.
Interestingly, Neil Stephenson’s — in the top comment on thread that was also on the front page earlier - gave this advice for improving ones writing: “Stop thinking of it as art, or as something you're born with, and start thinking of it as an acquired skill like cabinet making”
Not enraged. More a feeling of “huh, maybe those free software extremists might have had a point after all.”

Stallman has been warning us about the theoretical risks of ebooks for a long time. But it’s taken so long to actually see the possibilities become realities.
Really makes you wonder what's the difference between NoSQL and SQL databases if they can be rendered as each other.
Teaching kids how to pirate books off lib genesis would be both cost effective and high impact.
The government of the State of Texas certainly does.
1. Shouldn’t it be possible to argue that consumers specifically bought a particular revision of a book and don’t want any new revision?

2. Better yet, shouldn’t we just have a system where consumers have access to all revisions of a book? We’re talking about digital records, not physical books that need to be printed and shipped, after all.
Oakland ransomware attackers leak 'confidential' data
Yeah, I think that's it. Maybe it just needs some more "intuitive" software?
ARMv8 AArch64 is pretty different from earlier ARMs and is probably more performant than the overly academic RISC-V.
The real problem isn't the boomers. It's the people who think it's sentient. There's plenty here on HN, and I'd bet you dinner most of them are far younger than boomer.
I don’t know much about Julia, why would it potentially cause allocations?
The best professors I had at CCC's were part time and actually worked outside of the Academia bubble. Gave a lot of very relevant advice and information. Some were full time researchers at UC's or nearby schools on research as well instead of Tenured faculty paid to not care.
I see several people sharing the Stanford bithacks link, so I'll throw in a slightly-less well-known resource that I found particularly instructive. Basically, a collection of the lemmata we can prove about fixed-length sequences of bits and the fun algorithms that can be built atop those results.

https://www.jjj.de/fxt/

And for the non-pdf-phobic: https://www.jjj.de/fxt/fxtbook.pdf
Thank you! It's definitely worth dipping your toes, I'd say. I made the call to try it at 29 and matriculated at 32. There's one person in my class who is a decade older than me, another my age, and several who were in their late 20s when we started. The average age of med students is slowly climbing, and there are plenty of nontraditional students out there. I wish you success regardless of what you decide!
Sure, but if it was as easy as cutting out the bloat, then wouldn’t Kaiser Permanente (KP) be the healthcare insurer/provider of choice where it exists?

Yet other plans are able to compete on the west coast.
I’m a skeptic. There is no evidence behind this tweet that the technique works. I may be mistaken, but I don’t see the authors as having a background in the field. Likewise they don’t describe the technique in any detail.

Sounds like snake oil to me, or fake it until you make it.
You are right, it is uncommon. But here are some examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387515

(See the last reply in that thread.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19829435

https://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/05/debuggers-are-for-lose...
Absent from your question is the author [1]. The owners may have the legal right to edit and distribute the text, but by passing it off as Roald Dahl's words, they are perpetrating fraud against their readers.

And even if it were the author doing it, it would be dishonest to have multiple versions under the same title, unless there was a note at least briefly mentioning alterations.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35017707
> Should we lobby to limit the rights of an estate edit posthumously?

Maybe a law that requires the old version be made available for free with the digital purchases. This way people can choose which version they want to read. It cost publishers and distributors next to nothing - you can have all the versions within the same "file" so there is no increase in distribution overhead apart from a minor increase in file size.
Railroad companies basically don’t have competition. Check out a track ownership map and see how little overlap there is, if you need to use the railroad to move stuff odds are you have one choice, and when it goes further than their track, sometimes you’ll have to truck it from one rail yard to another company’s rail yard because there’s so little interaction between railroads.
Rosenpass is WireGuard plus a custom addition. This addition continually rotates the optional, per-connection preshared keys used by WireGuard.

This is probably overkill for most use-cases (particular for a consumer-level VPN), but it's a nifty addition if you fear your WireGuard keys may be stolen at some point.
> I run GNU/Linux in VMWare Fusion

Just to be clear, is that an arm64 linux? Because emulating x86-64-linux still seems to be not very good.
They are already better at it than you.
Something about this makes me wonder how Richard Stallman is doing these days.
The Dahl estate doesn't own the rights to his books anymore.
https://www.futuretools.io/ Seems good
If you ever need to join two large dataframes, but are OOMing on the join, write them to disk as parquet files then use DuckDB to do the join. It's amazing what you can do on one machine thanks to DuckDB.
Fora is the correct word, right?
A class action lawsuit against the publisher ought to fix it.

Failing that then deliberate mass piracy of the original works will.

These bastards need to be taught a lesson.
Obviously this is just a coincidence but it is amusing that he has been pretty much removed from public view right around the time most of the stuff he warned about finally came true.

He has been ranting on about ebooks since they were invented. But it took over a decade for the “technically they could do this” to become “they are doing this”
We have nearly all of the extinction level asteroids detected. It is really unlikely that one on collision course would be detected. There could be dangerous comet which appear suddenly but those are even less likely. The other problem is that they are big enough that might be hard to divert.

The test one is small enough that it wouldn’t do that much damage. Worth the expense to send spacecraft to divert something that could destroy a city. Not worth wrecking civilization to protect a city. Most of asteroids we haven’t detected are the smaller size.

Finally, Orion isn’t necessary. Nukes are small, you could send up a bunch in Starship. We could also come up with better propulsion, like nuclear rocket, that would be useful. Orion would be stupid expensive for very unlikely contingency.
Natural Vitamin D level is a marker of sun exposition, not the effective part of the sun.

Infrared is the important part, it is necessary for our system to control inflammation in mitochondria.

Already ton of research on this, but still completely neglected.
Sparse matrices (i.e. filled mostly with zeroes) are apt to represent discrete structures, since you can interpret them as binary/n-hot vectors as opposed to points in space. I'd imagine there's some potential to do sparse matrix optimization on GPT since natural language has a tree-like structure, but it's a well known technique and I'm sure the big players are already doing it
'Plasticosis': a new disease caused by plastic that is affecting seabirds
Trucking between railyards may happen. It is by far not the norm, though. They interchange traffic all the time. "So little interaction" is either ignorance or propaganda.

And, you only truck things that are already in trailers or containers. You don't truck things that are in boxcars or tank cars - the cost of unloading into a trailer just to truck it to a different railroad would be insane.

And, trucks carry, what, 70% of freight in this country? That's the railroads' competition. It's not other railroads. (That said, competition between railroads is not the constraint on railroads passing the cost of fines onto their customers.)
> I think there is or will be a market for a simpler phone OS like Symbian.

As for me, Symbian is not simpler OS, instead Symbian in many cases is better than Android or iOS even now.
Post 2008, bank earnings were effectively subsidized by ZIRP+QE. Pre GFC, banks had to pay interest on deposits to savers who wanted a risk free return. Post GFC, that risk free return went to zero, leaving the banks to scoop up the margins between cost of funding (0%) and the return on lending.

The banks paid back TARP with money that would have accrued to the public pre-GFC. So yes, TARP resulted in a profit for the government, but the organization of the banking system post GFC was a net loss to the public at large - money that savers would have once earned was handed to banks. This government backstop socialized the losses accrued pre-GFC by distributing it across the public; banks were recapitalized at the expense of savers. Of course it wasn't distributed equally. Everyday workers and savers took enormous losses - just spread out over time as the purchasing power of their savings eroded against housing, healthcare and education.

Obama spent his first two years with a Democratic Congress on healthcare - when he should have nationalized, recapitalized and reformed the banking system in favor of workers. Why didn't he? Well, it should be no surprise that the banking industry is one of the largest political donors in any given election year:

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/industries
Yeah I think caring about the word too much can sometimes stand in the ways of actually mastering one's craft and create. I come from an "art school" and seen quite some people like this, especially nowadays where the identity movement is going strong, which is also a lot about words and labels.
Is it ARM64 or aarch64?
I can't speak for cities, but, in my small town in the middle of nowhere America, 2.5k/month will get you a shitty 2-bed, 1-bath apartment. That doesn't include electricity, heat, etc.
Id suggest you get a couple vitamin d tests in different seasons and also consider your latitude. i was taking about 4000iu + natural sources in the winter and i still tested low and had to increase my intake. If you dont test you're sorta just guessing.

take with meal or fats.

cramps could also be from low potassium.

my natural sources i use are
- whole fat yogurt
- pastured eggs (way higher in vit. d than grain fed)
- kippers/hering fish in can (no oils)

oh and like someone else said. i do this too. i take my vit d and k2 mk7 at the same time - with a meal or fatty food always.
No, they're the same thing like my hamster and a blue whale are the same thing: an animal.
Thanks for the suggestion, finally a ML book that isn't bound to python frameworks!
Any day now twitter will die. Any day. Wait for it. It is coming, I promise. Just wait. It will happen. See, its happening, but slowly. Definitely dying. Just wait a little more.
Netflix owns the rights. This isn't the author's family or anyone else. Just a dumb bunch of soulless LA based execs virtue signaling/moralizing in between their coke/hooker binges.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/netflix-acquires-rights...
True but at least "writer" is easier to further conversation. This is a real conversation I once had: "What do you do?" "I'm an artist" "So what do you do?" "..I do art"
My first thought was, "let's see it figure out the Windows SetupAPI", which is probably the worst API I've ever seen.
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It's about having the option.
Mutual assured destruction.
You can never have DNA privacy because you leave it behind wherever you go. It's also probably not worth anything.
Background: the California Master Plan for Higher Eduction (1960) essentially set up a system of free college education to all residents.

It was slowly chipped away until "free" became "not free".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Master_Plan_for_Hig...

The Adjunct job title makes sense in certain situations, but when a college system is relying on Adjuncts for the majority of credit hours taught, simply to save money, this becomes a problem.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/netflix-acquires-rights...
> Salve. Vita auctoris japonicis Yukio Mishima brevi scribe.

> Salve! Yukio Mishima fuit auctor et poeta Japonicus qui natus est in anno 1925 et mortuus est in anno 1970. Nomen eius verum erat Kimitake Hiraoka. Scripsit multos libros, quorum plures celebres sunt et internationale famam adepti sunt.

> Opus magnum Mishimae fuit tetralogia, cui nomen est "Sea of Fertility" quae constat ex libris quattuor: "Spring Snow," "Runaway Horses," "The Temple of Dawn," et "The Decay of the Angel." Inter libros Mishimae celeberrimi sunt "Confessions of a Mask," "Thirst for Love," et "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea."

> Mishima erat etiam notus pro activismis suis politicis et socialibus, et obiit per seppukum (ritualis suicidium samurai) postquam tentavit militares et alios ad se adiungendum ad restaurandam imperium Iaponicum.

Seems accurate enough though the mentioned titles aren't originally English, of course.
Unpaywalled: https://archive.fo/OSLQN

Key paragraphs:

Owners of Roald Dahl ebooks are having their libraries automatically updated with the new censored versions containing hundreds of changes to language related to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race.

Readers who bought electronic versions of the writer’s books, such as Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, before the controversial updates have discovered their copies have now been changed.

[..]

Clarissa Aykroyd, 43, who works in children’s publishing, reported on social media that ebooks she bought before 2020 had been changed. She told The Times: “It feels Orwellian that we are having the updated versions forced upon us and has made me weary of ebooks. “I assumed that because the changes to the work were so big that I would be given the option of whether to download it.”
When you find yourself in a position where you have no arguments left other than calling names, you might want to consider that you are wrong.
You’re missing a key part of that article:

> a good sleuth could construct a family tree and then conduct more targeted research that might lead to someone who had never submitted his or her DNA for testing, as was the case with the Golden State Killer

So this assumes the sleuth does “targeted research”. That’s only going to happen in things like criminal cases or other cases of big interest. It’s not going to happen to someone like me, an average Joe who has no one looking for him but is looking to protect his privacy by attaching a fake name and address to a DNA sequence.
I hope they can bill me a fair price; otherwise their service can't sustain for long.
You need infrared also, vit-D is only part of it.

https://youtu.be/wadKIiGsDTw
Fya:

Thank Netflix for this.

They own all rights to Dahl's books.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/netflix-acquires-rights...

The Roald Dahl Story Company owns the rights, and authorized Penguins changes. They are owned by Netflix. So no, this isn't disinformation you censorious hall monitors.

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-acquires-iconic-ro...

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/22/netflix-is-acquiring-the-r...
The birth rate seems less important to the universities than the raw number of births. Though as with the birth rate, nothing in particular happened in 2009: https://www.statista.com/statistics/195908/number-of-births-...
and 50 years from now?
He’s not saying it’s good to be poor, he’s saying it’s not good to be stupidly rich.
See, hate thought-crimes exist. We committed hate crimes just to show you it exists! Solidarity with our fellow hate crime hoaxers who are doing the brave thing and going out there committing hate crimes to raise awareness for hate crimes, because clearly there are not enough "hate crimes" of people writing unapproved language and holding unapproved ideas. Comrades, we must raise awareness for hate crimes by any means necessary, and this means faking hate crimes. The end justifies the means for our red guard and our cultural revolution, even if we're making this up as we go along.
Ok, correction: there will never be a way to encrypt human thoughts. If we reach that point, we won't be human anymore.