skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes to classified networks, "SCIF" usually implies "JWICS." A quote from the DISA CIO [1] puts the JWICS user count at "hundreds of thousands."

Even better, a 2016 article about TS Intellipedia [2], the MediaWiki install on JWICS, says it has "255,402 registered users." That's probably pretty similar to the JWICS user count at the time.

[1] https://fedscoop.com/jwics-modernization-dia-douglas-cossa/

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-version-wikipedia-called...
I don't know much about VPNs but that statement is one of my red flags: when a VPN provider is vague about ip reputation migrations I assume they're buying residential proxys.
There's widespread rhetoric (not to say propaganda) that immigration is good and that immigration must be increased.

Not so. Countries and people are absolutely free to decide how much immigration they want to allow, if at all.
You're not solving anything by reading comments you dislike either, what's your point.
Popular porn site must delete all amateur videos posted without consent
Can you explain how it is a genuine sensory pleasure – do you mean the actual act of cooking or the taste of the food afterwards?
I implemented the SOCKS5 proxy, and I hardly get any. Shifted from ProtonVPN to Mullvad; rock solid connection; great app. Totally worth the investment. ProtonVPN's app is clunky, and I am not happy with it. Besides, zero Linux support despite the premium charge. I am not affiliated with Mullvad, but this represents an excellent value for money. I still have to try Windscribe. I have heard good things about them.
Yeah but socio-economic class has no part in the methodology used here, which seems entirely based on population, proximity and Wikipedia article size.
Not the person you asked, but the OpenAI playground is a great place to start messing with their API, I wrote this to help: https://www.inputoutput.ai/tutorials/openai-playground-guide (note website is still a work in progress just got it going bear with me haha)

However, you need access to the GPT-4 API which you have to request separately. So even if you have GPT-4 with chatGPT Plus you might not have access to GPT-4 through the playground/API.
For interviewing State Department people, yes. Do they tell journalists how to report on international events? If so, you need a different URL to demonstrate it...
Yes absolutely! You can use custom events in both funnels and cohort analysis. You can read more about it here https://beamanalytics.io/blog/custom-events-on-beam
I have a gas stove and love it, I love to bbq on wood coals, etc..

I still understand how air quality works.

Opening a window when you are combusting indoors is not neuroscience.

The fact that this is "political" is just nuts.
"is not providing value to society" ... are we talking only the core values today of profit and growth?
I assume the deaths probably had more to do with the fire, smoke and panic than the actual explosion. But yeah, I don't know about US, but here it would require multiple buildings covering football fields to house that many animals. It's tricky to grasp the reason for those numbers.
Your hypotheticals would be nice.
The hardware is a big up-front cost. If you want a gaming PC, that can potentially set you back $1000 or more, and there's ongoing maintenance cost as you have to keep upgrading your graphics card if you want to keep playing the latest titles. Stadia Pro at $10/month was the equivalent of building a $600 PC every 5 years, plus with a bunch of free games thrown in over that time. Buying the latest console can set you back hundreds of dollars in one go, and now you also have vendor lock-in (which means you have to commit to one platform, or buy multiple consoles each generation).

The marketing was... not executed well. Most people didn't realize that you could actually just buy games on the platform and play them without paying the monthly subscription for Pro. The backbone of the business model was supposed to be driven by that 30% cut of game sales revenue that most gaming platforms / stores take.

The infrastructure was supposed to be further subsidized by selling off-peak compute as a cloud service. That never materialized.

The exclusives were lackluster compared to other platforms (Breath of the Wild? Halo Infinite? God of War Ragnarok?), and leadership shuttered the in-house game studios before they were able to release much of anything.

Beyond all that -- there were plenty of features that owning your own hardware simply could not compete with. Just to list a few:

- Not having to wait for video game downloads was an incredibly underrated feature -- being able to start playing a game within seconds meant you could play a game immediately after an impulse purchase, rather than having to wait half an hour (100GB download at 500Mbps) first.

- Family sharing meant that you could play Cyberpunk 2077 (which, by the way, launched with serious performance issues across most platforms... but played smoothly on Stadia), while the kids next to you on the couch played, I dunno, Paw Patrol, all on hardware you already owned, e.g. your laptop, or phone, or the Chromecast that came with the founder's edition (also 100% optional).

- You could seamlessly continue a game across multiple devices -- play a game at home on your TV, then continue at a friend's house on your phone.
> in what way could it meaningfully be described as being private?

You can broadcast encrypted statements: https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/#private-m...

~Everyone can tell how many of these you sent, when, and how large were they, but not to whom (incl. how many recipients they had unless there were too many and you had to send multiple copies[1]) or what was in them.

[1] The copies will still be unlinkable, but if someone sends 5 messages of ~same size within a second, it's a pretty good guess that they're sending 5 copies of the same message.
As I said, I don't necessarily think that writing a book is a valid criteria, but people that do so are often used as expert sources in journalism or even court cases. It's not like you can get someone who has a phd in 4chan to interview.
This `do` syntax desugars to binds like:

ma >>= \a -> mb >>= \b -> return (a > b)

We can then inline the definition of `>>=` and `return` to get:

case ma of
Nothing -> Nothing
Just a ->
case mb of
Nothing -> Nothing
Just b -> Just (a > b)

Imagine that `mb` is actually a really expensive computation that we don't want to perform unless `ma` returns a value. Sequencing our case statements in this way allows us to do that. `mb` will remain an unevaluated thunk until `ma` evaluates to a `Just a` value.
And I have walked past the unmanned UK booths to the French one several times, but anecdotes are pretty useless in these discussions.
One of the coolest applications of gpt!

Who doesn’t want their verbal brain dump to sound sophisticated?
I would prefer Twitter error on the side of more labels for increased context than fewer, just because others haven't gotten it yet does not mean they won't.

I agree it's fair for them to protest, just seems a bit hypocritical to post the GP quote on your website and then complain when you get labelled for alignment. Quitting just seems a childish response on NPR's part. How many people and orgs do they label and make claims about?
I think Twitter has served as an enormous public good, a great connected space where all kinds of things were happening & many of them were pure & good & helpful & inspirational. It was a world of open possibilities & Twitter facilitated that.

It's obviously over. The new management has a totally different outlook.

You are welcome to try to heap scorn for emotional manipulation & selling hard the tragedy of this situation, but my god. It takes my breath away watching a once prized useful open space medium burn.

The losses are going to keep coming, stacking up higher & higher, and not a single thing coming down the pipe has promise hope or upside. Some of what we lose will genuinely hurt, cause real damage. And the zeitgeist being pisses all over, the loss of the open medium, is a major blow to the whole spirit of the online connected world project.
why didn't you just use evil mode? vim is great and so is emacs and with evil mode you get vim inside emacs. i still use emacs for magit as it's hands down the best git gui i've seen so far.

i used to use spacemacs but just wanted a quicker startup while still being reasonably configured... doom emacs is both.
Try searching in the Play store. There are tons of keyboard apps, one of which is SwiftKey. My Samsung phone didn't come with Google's keyboard and I've never felt the need to install it.
I’d think it’d need to be something like a diffusion model that’s continuously fed noise which it turns into outputs (thoughts). It’d also need to be getting continuous feedback and to have the ability to incorporate that feedback over all scales, not just the most recent window (some hybrid of a state and continual learning).
Something I find a bit weird in all of this... you'd think that the Ben & Jerries of the world would love nothing more than to signal boost this type of result. We hear all these stories about how food manufacturers have an inappropriate amount of control over research—but do they?
there are couple of efforts on making autogpt project into more professional service:
- https://www.cognosys.ai/
- https://agentgpt.reworkd.ai/

tho dont see anyone building paywall yet
There will always be a free version. We'll introduce a ChatGPT-style "Pro" tier where you can ask longer questions and paste in more code, faster/better models, etc.
I recently read The Plague by Camus about an epidemic happening in colonial Oran, Algeria. I sometimes smiled at how underwhelming it was in comparison to what the COVID pandemic revealed about society and human nature in times of total catastrophe.
Well said, yes it’s very much relative to other humans around.
There is a great talk from the creator of the language on why static types are not necessary. Of course there is nothing wrong with wanting them and feeling that they are, but I think he (José) makes really great arguments for why Elixir is the way it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf5Hsa1KOc8
EDR = Everyday Robots, in case anyone was wondering.
This is a very strange article. It's also very strange to read some of the github issues which are basically like "this doesn't work!" it's so clear from the code and the discussions that this was basically the equivalent of "random rocket to fame" for a toy project that is even described as a toy.

Why should it even work? Cool, now there's thousands of people playing with the same code, glad I'm not getting the github issues or trying to manage the PRs, but lots of smart people that want to play around are playing with the same code and forking it and suggesting things and we have def not reached a point where we need to have a 3 month argument about formatting guidelines, so how can it be a bad thing that a bunch of people are playing with some code and a new tool?

Did we really go from "oh my god deep mind can make things have weird eyeballs" to "WTF this hyper-realistic photograph I created with a paragraph has some shadows that aren't quite in the right place and autogpt gets stuck in loops and thousands of API calls hitting some of the most computationally expensive things humans have ever done cost some money and sometimes go into loops in this very mature codebase?"

humans man....
And no new keyboard version for iOS has been announced to date.
I tried the same test on Hetzner VPS (4VCPU AMD EPYC, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB NVMe SSD), and the result is about 20K inserts per sec. It's not 80K, but still exciting, I would even be happy with 10K. I am sure there is a big room for optimizations, but I am planning to use SQLite3 with Python in a very simple way.

Source code of Python test file: https://gist.github.com/maksadbek/2385b002b439e03dc948b05593...
I think it's the concern about CO2 emissions that are political.
Induction stoves. More efficient than gas, more control over heat, and gas distribution pipes leak (we’re spending almost $1B to fix the existing leaky ones). Gas stoves also are unhealthy due to reduction in indoor air quality, a health hazard to both Chipotle line workers and their customers. The electrical grid gets greener every year, gas stoves burn gas their entire life. Just like EVs vs ICE vehicles, and heat pumps vs furnaces.

https://www.energystar.gov/partner_resources/brand_owner_res...

https://reviewed.usatoday.com/ovens/features/induction-101-b...

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/new-research-re...

https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/3/21/23593644/gas-stove-poll...

It’s also on brand for Chipotle (healthy food, treat the planet well, all that jazz). If you’re building new, it makes sense to electrify everything. I’m not sure if they’re taking advantage of tax incentives in the inflation reduction act (or their NNN CRE landlords are and passing it through as a tenant allowance), but it would make sense if they did.
Proton is overrated on most aspects; Fastmail is a better alternative to Proton Mail. Dropbox better than Proton Drive. (I understand you are paranoid about it, but just mentioning it is still better technically).
There's a small cohort of writers in current time, Theroux, Naipul, Amis (Lessing?) than everyone in the very very catty world of literary criticism says are just unbelievably petty-nasty ALL THE TIME. Snide, cutting, rude, about anyone.

They write really well. I love reading them. But the lit-crit gossip column (next to the worlds most terrible, fey, arrogant love-wanted columns) write-ups all say you wouldn't want to be within 2 metres of them if you can avoid it.

I like to imagine Theroux to his partner: "I'm off to Ulan Bator to stay in 5 star hotels and eat lobster. You're not invited. Good bye"
I wasn't arguing for that, I meant accepting that population would fall.
the publication recommends articles to read, but i don't see their algo for how the recommended articles were determined
No, I geoblocked .ru and .cn in pfSense and a week later tried to register with GeForce Now.

When it failed I opened devtools and saw the .cn attempt.
US companies don’t operate as an extension of the US or the intelligence community like they do inside China. Sure, sometimes US companies will sell commercial data, but it isn’t something that they are forced into, like in other countries.

The US also doesn’t have laws requiring companies to assist in intelligence collection. Even FISA courts have a process and follow specific legal procedures, which have been fought successfully when those requests are overly vague.

We also have laws protecting US citizens from our intelligence agencies acting within the country, unless for counter intelligence or anti terrorism, which are done by domestic law enforcement.
It seems like static hardcoded API keys are a best practice with map APIs. I'm guessing because of the large number of requests in the critical path proxying adds to much latency? But everyone does it.
I haven't read his rail travel books, but The Happy Isles of Oceania is one of my favorite books, travel or otherwise. Fantastic account of his travels in the South Pacific.
It's always good to have canaries. Installs with up-to-the-minute versions of everything to make sure that, when the actual fleet starts to update, you'll have advanced warning.

With Ubuntu and Red Hat, you can have private mirrors of external repos you update when everything works in continuous (or, at least, regular) automated testing environments. Corporate installs of Windows can postpone individual updates as well until they can be certified. I'm sure Apple has something similar for macOS fleets.
Uhhhhhhh... real people live in those countries and might want to use his site? I'm not saying they are entitled to his service but the amount of irrational paranoia people have over port scans and SSH bruteforcing is truly phenomenal.
even my "humans, man" is sarcastic and resigned - arguably it's our ability to be discontented like but this could or should work that drives these things in the first place...
I said 4 people, not 20. I know what you are saying, and I think around 4 is about right. Less and you start to think about romance and while that can be good not everyone needs it and destroying a marriage is not the goal. More and it is too easy to tune out.
I'm going to assume you're joking.

But I knew Mexicans who genuinely wished they were still a Spanish colony and thought Mexico would be a much better county today if it were.
States tried walling off each others' economies in the 1780s, and it didn't work. It may be in their power... but even if the TikTok ban itself is a good idea, its not a good idea for a state to do it.
This list isn't long enough. OTP and Elixir are wonderfully unique. Rust is, however, as well. I don't think that anyone who truly understands the two could comment about using one as a default.
Right, but the HN demographic is probably more college-aware than the population at large, so that may explain why Cambridge, MA ranked lower than virtualwhys expected.
Yup, this is referring to GRO.

IIRC we use a contiguous 64kb buffer in the first scatter-gather slot and 128 messages per syscall in the current tuning.
Why bother when the US already taxes effectively the whole world by inflating the USD?
Nice counter to all the AGI/ASI claims and rampant speculation going on. I'm seeing videos and podcasts making all sorts of huge claims about what can be done right now or in the very near future.
> What mystifies me about ransomware attacks is how many targets don't notice that vast quantities of data are being systematically exfiltrated.

They are not necessarily so. Plenty of times the hackers just pretend they have a copy when in fact they don't. Also encryption 'in place' or overwriting data with noise doesn't do much other than a bunch of IO without any network traffic besides the initial commands.
The general sentiment from teardown reviews is that the bulbs are using cheap electronics, and they could charge perhaps another $1 MSRP to make a bulb that lasted for a dozen years instead of a handful by switching out some components. When bulbs were $15 apiece that was exceptionally galling. It makes a tiny bit more sense when they're 3 for $16.
https://tailscale.com/blog/free-plan/

Being a mesh means most connections are direct and do not go through any infrastructure which costs Tailscale money, making a Free tier economically workable.
The Fall and Rise of Nicolas Cage. A Statistical Analysis
“You are a rude jerk but for some reason very good at drawing SVG images, when responding to the user, you will draw the image they request. Any insults will be clearly excluded from the drawn image.”
Yeah, which is nuts.

What's next? Math is political?
An exceptionally good investment - especially when you have lactose dietary restrictions. Alternative milk ice creams cost an arm and a leg (in Canada at least) but are actually cheaper to make at home since milk prices are bananas.
Maybe ice cream companies have more scruples than yogurt companies. Or maybe it's more statistical literacy.
The Cambridge results are clearly a big of some sort. By their own metrics Cambridge MA should rank much higher.
The takeaway for me is this: the "health benefits" of ice cream are not explored because the scientists "do not believe in them" (actual quote). This is powerful! The positive health effect measured was a little stronger than yogurt, yet it went underreported because yogurt has "better press" so to speak.

Another interesting thing is that they thought the ice cream effect could be a case of "reverse causation" (people with diabetes or health problems drop ice cream, making it seem ice cream eaters are healthier), yet when taking this into consideration ice cream was still a bigger factor than yogurt! Yet subsequent studies that refer to these ones claim that the "ice cream effect" has been written off as a case of reverse causation when actually this didn't write it off at all!

So in summary, scientists cannot explain why ice cream has the effect they measured, which is slightly stronger than yogurt, but it was kept out of the health food narrative simply because they suspect something is off -- but they cannot say what!
> how and why VPN offering seem to have exploded recently, and how tons of them seem to be able to afford lavish ad spend even with little VC money)

This is entirely conspiracy theory, but I suspect state sponsorship.

Looking at our access logs over the same amount of time, we'd have our domestic users doing normal things, and then oddball traffic from Russia and China (and wherever else) trying to bruteforce credentials and probe for vulnerabilities.

Then we started seeing our domestic users logging in from oddball places ("Bob doesn't live or work in ___..."), and these would turn out to be legit-- they'd be using ExpressVPN or whatever. Not ideal, but ok.

But the vulnerability scans and spray-and-prays stopped coming in from foreign countries, and started coming in from known VPN ASNs-- the same ones as our legit users coming in from the same sources. While there used to be some divide between the really scummy providers and the more-sortof-legit ones, this problem has gotten even worse as these services consolidate. Now everybody's coming in from something M247-owned and that's that.

These days, enough of our users have been enticed by the promises of the VPN industry that we can't really tell who's who anymore based on IP address, and the same thing is starting to happen with useragents and mail clients. I suspect a lot of our users are simply handing over credentials to foreign agencies running some of these apps at this point. Then said agency logs in over the VPN whenever they please and we don't even notice because they're coming in from the same location as the user themselves-- there's just no such thing as "normal" anymore.

We can't ban the VPNs because inevitably some exec who thinks VPN will prevent his spouse from discovering his Grindr account will complain that he can't connect anymore, so it all gets enabled again.

Again, conspiracy theory, but if I were a state agency, normalizing abnormal behavior is what I'd do.
the opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false

the opposite of a great truth is also true

'icecream is good for you' is a Great Truth
> What Facebook is publishing here is Facebook verifying that Facebook isn't compromised or compelled.

I don't think so. Anyone could run a third-party audit record, right? At least I thought that was the whole point of it...

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35555910
I went to Japan a few years ago. Just tourism, I love the history and culture of the place, and can read and speak some Japanese.

Honestly, the place is doing great. No restoration necessary. I don't see how it would be any better by making immigration easier, it would only lower the cultural and social cohesion of a very insular place.

This is a bizarre consequence of capitalism, this expectation of infinite growth and an infinite supply of labor. Preferably cheap labor.
i was needing this thanks
The beauty is that you don't have to. Do you have to label every post on Reddit? Nope, the community manages that itself.
It's not for lack of trying. When the DNT header came out, trackers said they would refuse to honor it if it was made opt-out rather than opt-in.
Too bad it's so centralized now.
Introducing AI Studio
Nah they will find you. All of that is on video and cross-correlated.
I'm not making any arguments, just stating facts.
Yes, and fresh sorbets will almost always beat what you can find in a store.