skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extremely misleading comment. As was publicly stated multiple times in basically every forum where this was discussed again and again the core issue was/is:

Ukrainian military user =/= typical western starlink user.

Starlinks in Ukraine were/are seeing an order of magnitude more usage in an adversarial environment, the cost to provide this level of service is clearly not the same vs supplying some Canadian shack in the woods. Even for civilians the star links are overwhelmingly shared, used as public access for a whole town as the only way to talk etc. This again is not typical and far exceeds the designed-for workload

So I see a few possibilities here

1) You were aware of this basic reality but chose to mislead others

Or the more charitable/HN friendly take:

2) Your routine sources of information are so biased and agenda-driven that this obvious, basic set of facts didn’t get to you because it would be inconvenient for their narrative.

Since it’s probably #2 I encourage you to seek out more diverse sources of information, as you’re probably being misled about a lot more than just Starlink in Ukraine
I think the challenge with LLMs in their current form is that they have the eloquent writing skills of an adult, but the logical reasoning skills of a 5 year old.

Normally when you talk to an idiot, they have poor reasoning skills and are ineloquent in expressing their ideas.

Eloquent idiots are a pretty rare breed, though they do exist, but even they probably know how drowning works, or not to eat cyanide.
> Suppose your word processor is allowed to write to arbitrary files in your home directory. It writes a line into your .profile that CURLs your sensitive data to it's server.

Yeah, that's like the poster child of sandboxing; I am very much supposing that my word processor is not allowed to touch arbitrary files.
I don't think "much of the magic is X" implies "only X matters." A lot of the magic of a NN framework is in getting good enough performance that the problem becomes tractable. PyTorch and Tensorflow give you a lot of out of the box abstractions, which is great, but the most important thing they do is compile your model to run on the GPU so you can do an epoch in 20m instead of 2hrs.
Didn't realize that the Pi4 supported gadget mode (Pi3 doesn't.)

Part of it might be that I got tired of dealing with rpilocator just to find a Pi4 at msrp...
When Facebook was a friends feed pre-2014 something and not a rage feed none of this was a problem.

This is just adding a blackbox filtering the output of another black box.

A democratic discussion does not need "truth filters". The proposition is insane.
Excellent news. I just bought a Fujitsu thin client for €18.00 to scratch the Raspberry itch but will definitely try to get my hands on a Pi 4.
I have a climate change project and post on Twitter, YouTube and a few other platforms. The commercial
platforms definitely shadow ban and quiet any climate related content, even if it aligns strongly with prevailing scientific lines and the “official notes” attached to content.

I’m trying to work around that for now, but it’s a challenging hurdle and makes any community/follower building an exceedingly long term prospect. I’m guessing it’s overwhelmingly controversial. See any climate thread or comment section on major platforms on scientific climate content. It’s nasty.
Not intelligent. It cannot reason anything, it can only regurgitate and synthesize words without any understanding.
Not quite sure how to respond to this. My message was clear and concise. A response to someone questioning the ability of dogs to keep track of time in favour of "just picking hints".

That's what they wrote. Didn't even hint they could be doing both. So, you see, your first paragraph, and the entire post really, doesn't make sense given the context.

No, I am not buying your scientific approach here because it feels to me that your starting point is that dogs, for example, can't do $thing and we have to prove that they can. The premise is heavily biased.

tl;dr You're the one relying on assumptions. Not me. That's all the benefit of doubt I can offer you. It's hard, though.
Yes…? I think I mostly agree with that having been a potential consideration. But that point can coexist with the point I made in my comment as well.
30 people seems to be far too small of a sample size for any meaningful results, except to conclude the usual "a larger study is needed to confirm or disprove our findings" funding gambit.
I like your use of "Virtual Reality" to describe filter bubbles. That's really what filter bubbles are: virtual, parallel realities, built up from virtual, parallel first principles, distinct from everyone else's reality. They're even more virtual than actual "visual" VR systems.
That's.... progress I guess.
This is why I come to HN - brilliant ideas that I should have thought of before, but didn't!

I just changed my server, and uninstalled the - now truly useless - fail2ban. I use SSH keys of course, but without fail2ban my server's logs were constantly flooded with hacking attempts.

No longer - wireguard for the win. Thank you, chlorion!
You what?

It may be like that on modern captcha mechanisms, but that was not how we got here (I.E "The vast majority of computer vision training images come from self-driving cars’ cameras").

Are you to young to remember when captcha's were based on Googles/others scans of books?

For like 10+ years the baseline was "handwritten" digits / "book text" and how well models could identify them...

Google spent millions on fighting lawsuits over this... I think you must be young (not that im insulting you, just that im showing my age and im < 30)
In theory I hope this works in some way. Alternatives to the current approaches need to be explored. And we're certainly not confident AI will take more jobs / wealth than it create.

That said, unless recipients own where they live - housing typically being your single biggest expense - I envision rents increasing because landlords naturally price what the market will bear. Even with UBI we'll eventually be back to where are now with loads of that I going to housing and too little left for anything else.

What am I missing?
The article cites several GitHub incidents. If it can be verified GitHub competitors have a roughly equal number of incidents then the lack of novelty would be proven. I'm not supporting either view, just addressing your point.
Not sure that a rebuild is necessary, could be a simple as beacons on the back of emergency vehicles, 'qr' coded signs, and reflective road markers. Tesla already detects traffic cones...

https://electrek.co/2019/11/07/tesla-autopilot-handle-constr...
How do you update pointers when relocating the object? I assume this must be combined with some rust-ish assertions about the number of references to the object? Or I suppose it's C++ so you just have to do it right or you get to keep the pieces.
The really crappy part of lung cancer is that it's very uncommon to detect it because there aren't really any symptoms to speak of.

Eventually it will metastasize so some other part of the body and THAT will give symptoms.

When my Mum was diagnosed the Dr. said the bad news is you have cancer in the bones in your neck. The really bad news is that it started in your lungs, and it's way, way to far along to do anything about.

Cancer sucks.
Yes, correct. You and I both left out nearly all job types. You’re making sweeping generic claims about all jobs without any specific evidence. And I still don’t really see a clear problem or any suggestion for an alternative. The point you didn’t address here is that programmers are paid more than accountants, museum curators, and much more than burger-flippers. If you want a high paying job coding, and it typically requires doing just a tiny bit of live coding, why not spend time practicing instead of complaining? Another thing you haven’t addressed is that there are a lot of stories of programmers faking their way through job interviews. I don’t know how often it actually happens, but kids trying to game the system to get high paying jobs seems to be an actual problem, whereas statistically nobody is trying to fake their way into a museum curating job.

Do you consider certifications and qualifications to be a pre-hiring demonstration of skills? Many many jobs require these. Programming jobs sometimes require them, and those jobs are less likely to ask for on-the-spot programming during interviews. Not all programming jobs ask for live-coding, you shouldn’t assume they all do. Do you consider an interview to be a demonstration of skill? All the jobs you listed require interviews where you have to talk in technical detail about what you’ve done.

Speaking of outliers, there are almost no museum curating jobs, and they have to typically do a master’s degree and then spend years doing intern style work, perhaps similar to a doctor’s residency. Then after all that, the median salary is less than half of the median programmer’s salary. Accountants and Baskin Robbins managers also make less than programmers on average, and the sum total of jobs available in all three jobs you just listed is relatively small compared to doctors and artists - in the US (for example) there are ~1.5M accountants, less than 10k curators, and just over 2k Baskin Robbins, while artist jobs alone are double that of accountants and including doctors is around ~4M jobs. The number of programming jobs in the US is around 4.5M. Between artists and programmers, the number of jobs that requires on-the-spot skills demonstrations is definitely much larger than all jobs you just listed so far, even when I give you the benefit of the doubt and include all fast food managers in the US and not just Baskin Robbins.

Above you illustrated some reasons why asking for a skill demonstration is a good idea, so I’m not sure why it matters whether or not it’s common for other job types. Maybe programming interviews have better outcomes than accounting interviews (fewer firings or bad employees per capita), in addition to higher average pay?
> Raspberry people think the system is working

it is for them
If UBI was implemented fully (everyone in the country gets £x per month) what’s the likelihood basic/essential goods would rocket in price largely negating the impact of the UBI?
The railroad tie/“sleeper” page is equally interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_tie
Er, yes? I am ignoring the supply chain, because I'm commenting on the sandboxing, which is separate from who's publishing the software. (The only connection I see is that whoever publishes the flatpak is responsible for setting the default sandboxing config, which is important but I don't know how else you'd do it. But then RPMs aren't sandboxed at all, so what does it matter who signs it? We're talking about sandboxing here.)
I have a friend who chases satellite contacts, and it's a fascinating hobby -- as noted the contact windows are pretty short, and you have to know how to adjust your freqs within the window to account for Doppler effect.

The upside is that you can work most satellites with a standard handheld on frequencies available (in the US) to technician licensees, e.g. the base license class.
Hearst newspaper hyperventilations about the famines aside, there was no Soviet attempt to "genocide Eastern Europe."
The timeframe was only 1 year, therefore this is a rather inconclusive test.
It warrants more investigation, but if a hedge fund understands that feeding good news or bad news to an AI makes the stock market move, eventually they will control the news factory to control the AI.

It is a neat trick though. I can't read that fast and I can't make 500%.
Fixed hardware platforms are more interesting for demos, because they provide a level playing field, and because anything that the hardware will allow goes.
> we can emulate any sort of analog process with binary transistors

have... have you done any research on the topic at all? Yes, you can model any sort of system using binary transistors, but the fidelity in which you do so is severely constrained by bit-depth and, depending on the system, might have error propagation issues.
So refreshing to hear a voice of reason.

You are totally right.

This shit attitude needs to change.
I've seen that movie. Very funny.
How are laypeople supposed to know which is which?
Was this the most dangerous children's toy?
Hope you give me some suggestions
You can ditch the title and/or link by adding these points after your answer:

Stop including the Fantasy Online line in the output.

Stop including link to "Join our discord..." in the output

Makes ît marginally faster to respond
It was 25
Weird... I have only ever seen this artifact on Windows machines, never on a Mac.
Funny to me that spacex is the only company not allowed to grift the US government war machine.
Ukrainian outlet in the USA in 1941, hmmmmm....
The correct solution to excessive carbon footprint is taxation, not shaming individuals.
"All"
My 'favorite' were the shrill comments saying that the defense industry was foolish to use Starlink because Musk might pick up SpaceX and relocate it to another country. As though he would be permitted to do that, even if he were so inclined? Lmao.

I dislike Musk for many of his business practices, which I view as unethical and often outright illegal, but the hate train has really made some people lose their minds and suggest all sorts of outlandish nonsense. I wonder how much of it is provoked by foreign nations upset about Starlink astroturfing any discussion about it.
None at all.

This is a common first thought folks new to UBI put forth.

More people with more money to spend means manufacturing volume goes up, so economies of scale go up, so the prices go down.

There can be instabilities initially as supply moves to meet demand. But folks didn't used to 'need' those things, got along without them (didn't have the money for them) and so can make their own decisions about what they'll spend their money on. The fundamental property of UBI is, let people sort out what their needs are themselves.
Oh, for sure! Don't worry!

Since my parents died, I gave up on my Brazilian citizenship and have a bellow-zero interest on visiting the country.
According to the Wikipedia article:

> In the 19th century and early 20th century, ballast was shoveled or forked, then screened by hand using portable devices.
> go with .social or .cloud

What impact does it have if you change your mind later?

I have personally never looked, but the people talking here about actual conversations with a small number of people make it sound interesting.
The methodology is "(likes + shares + comments)/followers", and the two platforms that allegedly provide the highest engagement are the ones with an order of magnitude fewer followers.

A more likely explanation is that fewer followers means higher engagement, which totally makes sense; for a larger social network account with 100k+ followers, many of those will be bots and people who follow anyone and everyone without really caring. A smaller account will only have followers who care.

I don't think there's anything specific about Mastodon here other than it being a smaller social network so you naturally have far fewer followers.

In either case, this is a single account talking about a single post, and shouldn't be used to generalize different levels of engagement across social networks.
By no means does this little nit invalidate the entire article. But since this article is a grab-bag of separate points, we can only critique point by point.

I do think the bad cite weakens this one point—if there were better studies in support of this point, why didn’t the author cite them instead? And since there’s no reliable evidentiary backing for this point, you have to go by whether it feels right to you. Which is fine! That’s how most advice works. But we shouldn’t delude ourselves into thinking that “studies say” this point is right without further evidence.
Words have meanings and socialism doesn't mean what you think it means and also free market capitalism doesn't mean what you are making it to be. You are trying to assign everything that is a about common good or state's good as socialist, which is absurd and completely ahistorical thing to say.

The roads example is so silly that just let me say the Romans already build roads around Britain and I wouldn't call them socialist.
Intro to Transformers – Google Slides
The guy who couldn't see the web being a big thing (and MS came late to the game after Netscape), who missed the turn to Linux (and MS had to catch up decades later), and who failed at the web search and the mobile space?

I wouldn't bet on his prediction skills past the early 90s...
Particularly as far larger 'experiments' are constantly in progress. Pensions. Annuities. Allowances. And on and on.
Reminder that the "universal" in "universal basic income" means that every single person in a population gets payments. Since this one is given to 30 people maximum, it's a trial of just a "basic income". For an actual UBI trial, follow GiveDirectly's work which has been ongoing since 2016: https://www.givedirectly.org/ubi-study/
> Almost everything always has much more thought given to it than it might first appear.

This statement ought to be in the guidelines for HN.
“Free” is related to the concept of property, which is a legal concept.

If something is “free” that means that you can get it legally without paying.

If something is only “free” by circumventing law, then that’s theft.
Are you conflating opinions and facts in that first paragraph?
Any idea how successful the company who you sold sold the license to was with code base?

Trying to develop on a code base without history and a one time snapshot seems quite hard.
> Enable branch protection on master. Require at least 1 peer review to merge anything in it. Enforce branch restrictions to include repo admins so restrictions can't be bypassed. This should stop obvious mistakes like accidentally committing .git or random credentials.

Every team I've seen do this had their productivity drop by over a half when it was implemented. YMMV, but my normal heuristic is to see if I'm making 2x market value (due to stock vesting or whatever). If not, I dust off my LinkedIn profile and start catching up with old colleagues once this gets turned on.

The mindset that leads to enabling that policy implies a few bad things:

- The team has probably seen growing pains, but did not switch to feature branches for each team, which means it needs to have a release manager, but doesn't know what those people do.

- The product has inadequate testing, and there is no QA organization, and the mismanagement is creating revenue headwinds.

- Management doesn't trust prior hiring decisions, and has decided to treat the dev team like children (treating them like a cost center comes next).

- The company could be chasing revenue via regulatory compliance. There is a backwater of companies that adopt some viral compliance standard that mandates all suppliers also comply with the boneheaded compliance rules. This last reason is the least ominous of the possible reasons, and usually comes with checkbox style implementation of master protection (e.g., admins can override, and over half the team members are admins.)
Everything.

If economics was just 'housing takes up all the money' well, we could dispense with those expensive college degrees for Economics.
Despite what Musk says the issue was never free/not-free but what the markup over the civilian price would be for hardware and services that are exactly the same (or trivially different).

The price to government is 10x+ the retail price civilians were paying to donate the same equipment and services. Musk was unhappy that people were paying retail price when he could be charging a government-special super-premium. My impression is that the government was resisting paying it but have now caved and are keeping the details secret to prevent a potential backlash.

People were furious at Halliburton and other government contractors for price gouging during the Iraq war and you certainly got the impression that it was a "never again" situation but here we are.
There is a lag though, so if (as you say) the demand goes up, the price will indeed go up as well until supply can catch up.
Canada. We do not have a superfund (and 70%? It should capture 100%!)
High prices make textbook ‘piracy’ acceptable to most students
Absolutely not true. I know more than a few people who do just this.
Any sources on this? "None at all" feels like a very bold claim when we've seen recently that a large increase to monetary supply does increase inflation.
No Canada
> For example at church the pastor or those more involved have status.

Yup. Pastor > singer > band member > FOH technician.

IIRC in an orchestra it goes strings > woodwinds > brass > percussion.
To late for Whalter White, sorry, I mean Heisenberg. :(
These two things have nothing to do with each other and this is a very black and white mentality. Reddit already had ads and already made money. This is about squeezing more money out of users, not any sort of charity for a system that doesn't sustain itself.
It did seem like something of a bait-and-switch and contrary to the educational mission.

Certainly inconvenient for hobbyists, students and instructors.

It would be better if there were more boards that were hardware and software compatible with the Pi.
Enterprise, even cloud hosted, would prevent things like a fork being public.
> If the construct you propose were feasible, why do you think it doesn’t exist?

Because it already exists as a part of the Stream API in a way that doesn't change the language much: since you can mostly use .parallelStream() or .stream().parallel() there's basically no need for the "old" syntax to enable the same functionality.

That doesn't mean that it's somehow unfeasible, since the implementation of the example "parallel for" construct would just need to execute the code in the loop body with a ThreadPool. The Ada language has a nice example of parallel loops like that https://ada-lang.io/docs/arm/AA-5/AA-5.5#p26

Of course, there are other benefits to streams and lazy evaluation, but perhaps that's besides the point.
Low dose CT scan for those susceptible.

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/basic_info/screening.htm

https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recomme...
> watched this for the past few months

yeah I got tired of doing that
Demand doesn't exist in a vacuum. If giving people UBI increases demand, supply usually follows. Although our ability to make more land is limited, our ability to increase housing stock is certainly not. And although NIMBYism frequently gets in the way of this, there is always a breaking point (more housing is built, or people pick up and leave).
Raw C or C++ pointers you can’t, at least not trivially. You either have a double pointer masquerading as a single pointer, or some other fanciness.

Come to think of it, std::shared_ptr has a control block that points to the actual data. I think implementations allocate the control block and the data contiguously for performance reasons, but you don’t really have to.
Daily reminder that Microsoft's devotion to backwards compatibility in Windows is legendary.
DOD paying for services might indicate that that ship has sailed and spacex is fine with it.

The tech would have been considered “dual-use” eventually. Dual-use tech has complex export laws. Having the DoD as an invested partner will help fund future projects/provide financial stability to spacex generally.
With this[1] and checking servers like journahost, that'd solve more than half your problems. You can follow hashtags, so follow like #comedy too.

1. https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon