skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gotestdox: A tool for formatting Go test results as readable documentation
Surely you mean high-entropy, ie, uniform? We are talking about extremely low-entropy predictions as being the problem here.
The Murder Trial That Broke Me
> You can't just plant a bunch of trees in the desert ... soil and microbiome ...

I'm aware. There are methods like enhancing the sand with soil sludge (nutrients & microbiome), for example.

> something that would probably take many centuries or longer.

Destruction is fast, regeneration slow. Those deserts might as well be a product of previous civilizations overgrazing.

Environmental Implications of Livestock: Goats

https://epar.evans.uw.edu/research/environmental-implication...

Blame it on the goats? Desertification in the Near East during the Holocene

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09596836166704...

> Grasslands, savannas ... they're not something we created with deforestation

Mongolia for example was much more forested in the past. Apx. 50% of current age grasslands and savannas were previously forests. Also, natural grazers prefer different plants than cows, so the compositions and storage capacity of pastures and grasslands differ extremely.

> I'm not convinced that it's feasible to take places that have been grazed by animals for millennia and somehow turn them all into nut tree forests

We don't have to. Just afforest those pastures and rewild the rest. It would protect the biodiversity for future generations.

https://xkcd.com/1338/
A family member is always complaining that her hearing aids are crap, noisy, harsh and yet, not allowing her to actually hear very well.. Shes had them readjusted multiple times with no improvement.

I tried putting some Beyer-dynamics 990 Pro 80 Ohm on her, and then plugging that into the line-out of a hand-held zoom recorder with the sensitivity turned up. She heard _EVERYTHING_ and she told that the sound was pleasant too..

This leaves me with the impression that hearing aids are way behind off-the-shelf consumer parts.. Maybe too much sound quality (you had ONE job!) is being sacrificed for size ?
Well, I dunno if you've ever driven a performance car say around 420hp but having one extra passenger is absolutely noticable and undesirable, it really slows you down. 4 passengers in the car and it's no longer a fun drive. Not a rounding error as you can directly feel it.

I expect dragging around 120 lbs extra fuel for 100k miles does become noticable on the bank book, you'd be surprised.
> while passengers disembarked on the inflatable slides.

This bit isn't right. They would have brought a tug out to the runway and towed the aircraft to a remote stand, then used a staircase.

The slides are only used if there's imminent danger of fire. People often get injured using them.
There might be small cultural differences at hand here. As a German, I prefer "k" or "K" for fields (as in "Körper"), and I think I've seen 𝔾 mostly as 𝔾_a or 𝔾_m for the additive and multiplicative group. shrug
Ironic, as answering an other question ("What alternatives are to do X?") instead the original one is not indicating smartness at all.
I'm not defending the position, I've never used Nomad (though been wanting to, at home) but have used k8s, including in-cluster database. I was just explaining what the article was saying, because I think 'Nomad, plus EC2 for the db' is a misreading.
I'll tell you this – there are people who watched all Netflix titles and never visited netflix.com. People who read the NYT daily but never visited nytimes.com.

What does this change mean? There will be more such people.
And on top of that, for the most part we only hear about the violations. The rule being followed won't make the news.

That doesn't mean the violations are acceptable, of course.
Google search results have a filter for time, so could potentially improve the results by changing the date range back to 3 years ago.
Just out of curiosity, what are the alternatives?
I still find the moderation approach well made, even if it looks heavy handed. It’s important to create information for the future, not just for now
I still don’t understand why the Video Toaster succeeded on the Amiga and why the software and add on cards didn’t make a successful jump onto PCs and Macs.

Did it simply come down to the coincide of the system clock being a multiple of the NTSC signal?
This is an academic definition. In a system with dependencies, if you change behavior your dependents relied on, you broke them. If you didn't, you didn't.

In other words, if you break prod, "but we never promised to behave this way" is a poor excuse. When changing something, it's your responsibility to check for breakage, not just throw up your hands and say "not our fault" if it occurs.
This seems like a good way to look at it. Another way to put it is, there is a certain "origin" or "default" confidence which is pinned to some fixed value pre-softmax, ie, all outputs are necessarily compared to that fixed value (pretending zero is another input to the softmax) rather than merely each other.
That's still self-signing. So the extra steps are immaterial to the point.
People here will massively downvote your comment. The truth is that you are 100% correct in suspecting about that messenger.

Since a long time that is known how Signal was initially sponsored by Radio Free Asia, which in turn is fueled by the CIA. For some reason western pages are disappearing on this topic, but after some search there are still some: https://greatgameindia.com/how-cia-created-signal-messenger-...

Then comes the development of the algorithm itself. Moxei invited more crypto experts to write the algorithm while surfing in Hawaii. Quite strange of a chouse and zero details how those trips were sponsored but would know by "coincidence" what else is headquartered in Hawaii? NSA.

Last but not least comes WhatsApp. With a billion users decides almost overnight to switch to the algorithm developed by this relatively unknown and smallish group called Signal. I'm not even observing how mainstream media is invariably supporting Signal with positive news while Telegram is negatively pictured.

All these "signals" (that is an intelligence term btw), plus the fact of closed source code should be enough to raise eyebrows. But nope, you will see a sea of pedantic answers and downvoting whenever pointing the facts. Don't worry, you are not alone.
Not sure if I would agree on the awesome, but here's the link for everyone to judge: https://youtu.be/rf0ka2xJF94
Ah sorry, if you answered it it's totally different, sorry for assuming the question was yours! Some of my best answers are also on "simple questions".

The question is asking about the best way of doing X, which has a clear substep of "any way of doing X". Not only that, it's asking about a code solution, not just maths/combinatronics. Not a single line of code in a question about finding the optimal (not any) solution for doing some algebra in code is, IMHO, reason enough to close it.

Edit: for example, I'm not asking and so have no stakes on the question but can already try to think about brute-forcing it, which already shows more effort than the author SHOWS at attempting a solution.
I'd blame Google - at least for the initial drop. When you look at the "new visits" chart you can see that the drop happens in May, 6 months before ChatGPT.
Seems like site got /. copy at https://archive.is/IiBZo

one of their linked youtube video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnt37hu1bRw
Your P.S. really shows that you are not really acting in good faith here. It might be good to take a step back and think about the reaction people are having. Consider the possibility that the problem might not be that the whole rest of the world is acting like toddlers, but rather that there is something fundamentally and objectively problematic with WEI and that the community is having a very strong negative reaction to it for some good reason.
IBM 370 mainframe, 80+ programmers, running VM/370 which creates virtual machines, one for each programmer.
I'm one of two systems programmers with "superuser" privs.

In the virtual machine you normally ran CMS but you could run anything. Some machines ran MVS.

To direct a command to the virtual machine itself you would prefix the command with a special character which by default was #
but any chosen character could be the magic prefix. So #cp ... would be a command to the virtual machine.

Bored one day I wondered if a virtual machine could run VM itself, on the "second level". I booted it up, changed the prefix
character to ! (so, !cp). I could create new virtual machines inside this new VM.

So, could a second level virtual machine run VM? I booted it up on the "third level", changed the prefix to @ (so, @cp)...

I got 8 levels deep. So, yes, VM could run VM, could run VM, could run VM... etc.

Game over. Time to start shutting down these embedded levels.

Out of habit I typed "#cp shutdown" ... and it did. The REAL VM on the REAL machine shut down. Panic run to the machine room to push the start button on the console.

Of course the system keeps a log ... and the other systems programmer showed up at my door ... and said "don't do that again".

Fun times.
I would just remove reference to defined benefit pension, it doesn't really make sense & isn't important. Afaict nothing else needs to change, it's just confusing copy.

I like the tool & UI & feature tour though. :)
Which is the correct response to this question?

> How do I shoot myself in the foot? I’m pointing the gun at my foot and pulling the trigger, but nothing is happening.

Is it:

> A common reason for guns not firing is that they aren’t loaded. Try loading the gun and trying again.

…or is it:

> Woah, hang on a sec! What are you trying to achieve exactly? It seems like you are doing something very wrong here. I’m sure there’s a better way to do whatever it is you are trying to do.

There are many technical questions that give the very strong impression that somebody is asking how to shoot themselves in the foot. It’s not responsible to blindly answer the question regardless of the consequences. Yes, people sometimes overcorrect for this which can be annoying, but they are only trying to steer newbies away from shooting themselves in the foot.
Authoritarian? Our society is already far from perfect.

IPCC: We must change food production to save the world, says leaked report. Cutting carbon from transport and energy ‘not enough’ IPCC finds. Among the measures put forward by the report is the proposal of a major shift towards vegetarian and vegan diets.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/03/ipcc-lan...

IPCC: Slashing Emissions From Meat Crucial to Climate Action

https://sentientmedia.org/ipcc-report-food-system/

Plant-Based Lifestyles Now ‘Imperative’ For Survival, IPCC Climate Expert Says

https://plantbasednews.org/news/plant-based-lifestyles-imper...

How Meat and Fossil Fuel Producers Watered Down the Latest IPCC Report. Scientist authors recommended more plant-based diets and phasing out all fossil fuels. But those recommendations didn't make it into the final report.

https://www.distilled.earth/p/how-meat-and-fossil-fuel-produ...

The meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based diet

https://qz.com/ipcc-report-on-climate-change-meat-industry-1...
Don't know if it's paid vacation, but part of the monthly salary is reserved to pay out next years vacation
Yes.

Size (= compute+battery limitation) and the ear also being a somewhat hostile environment for electronics.

PS: Is that zoom recorder able to "beamform" (~= directional mics / mic modes inside?)
I don't know much about mining though it would be a great idea to draw parallels between seemingly unrelated industries. Any resources in context to mining?
I do see both of your points of view. There are some good answers on SO that capture both. They first explain why it’s infeasible, talk about a better approach, then lastly give pointers on how to achieve what is asked regardless using their best reasoning.
Think it just depends on the quality
0.99999/1 (no %)
You don't need an exact definition in order to be able to measure something approximately.

In fact, one could taboo the word "intelligence" entirely and merely say "that thing we observe where people who do better at these tests seem to also do better at these jobs and are more likely to win board games[1].". While the tails do come apart eventually, the correlation is observable up to at least 130 (there was a strong correlation at my previous work place between those who did well at board games and those who got a lot of good technical work done, these people also tended to have +2sd test scores compared to the +1sd average).

Btw: I've read Taleb's charged essay before and found it rather unconvincing. Very much "given these particular papers it's possible high IQ scores correlate with nothing other than high test scores".

[1] I'm not just basing this off my own observations, good chess players seem to have 130 level IQs: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...
Downvoting costs points.
Yes, two planets can share the same orbit
Wow. I've never seen such a detailed incident report xD
Electric Vehicles: How difficult will the transition be?
What?! The whole founding of Russia starts with locals turning to the vikings in order to protect themselves against the murderous mongols. Hence the Emblem of Ukraine sporting a viking ship…
I use ChatGPT to get started, or as a rubber duck.

I use Copilot when I'm coding.
How to Draw (String Diagrams) [pdf]
Couldn't VMs zero all registers when switching? It shouldn't be much more latency than a typical context switch. Also purge CPU cache to be safe.
The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
> It's well known that ancient Kazakh nomads literally lived and died by their horses

Most of the hunter gatherer populations on this planet adapted to their environment and used what was around them to succeed. Mongolia doesnt really have a lot of vegetation, like trees and bushes, so using horses and strong bows to cover the distance quickly and have a weapon with some range was probably born out of necessity.

Likewise breeding good animals is part of our dna, it also explains arranged marriages in some respects, but viking burial sites have also found Norwegian Elkhound remains buried with them.[1] Even the ancient Egyptians used to have their pets buried with them which included things like gazelles and baboons![2]

The lifestyle back then also meant kids would have learnt a trade from a very young age so expertise would and should be alot higher than today when thinking about the more wide ranging subject matter that is taught today, this perhaps explains why High Functioning Autistics are the experts in their domain of knowledge because they push things to the limit and know everything inside and out, making them ideal employees for some jobs.

[1] https://ahcfargo.com/client-resources/breed-info/norwegian-e....

[2] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/news-egyp....
"The company formerly know as Twitter".
> I am not a contributor to the repo, and stepped in as chair on the repo after writing this

Nobody is missing this; you're defending this work. You can't both defend the work itself and place yourself outside of the process as a "chair."

> If you're objecting to the goals of the proposal [1], it'd serve you better to outline which goals are objectionable and why

Many technologists don't have the clout or sometimes the charisma to explain within this rigid framework you have presented why this proposal is such a bad idea. That doesn't mean their feedback should be dismissed outright.

> It's important to actually read and understand the proposal before objecting to it. For example, WEI has nothing to do with ad-blockers or DRM

But it is DRM because it can be used, in effect, like DRM. You are missing the point that most of the community sees this as DRM-like technology, with all of its warts, whether you agree with that conclusion or not.

> At the end of the day, in the case of Chromium, your goal is not necessarily to convince the proposal's proponents, but the API owners

Okay, so, in summary, your points are that the feedback you've read is (1) not yours to address but you are addressing anyway, (2) not valuable within your own value framework (??), and (3) that the opposing viewpoints are misplaced in commenting on the repo which holds the proposal?

> I'd love to discuss this with y'all like professional adults. Can we do that?

Sure, when do you intend to start? Suggesting that opposing viewpoints are "unprofessional" prima-facie doesn't seem like the best way to win hearts and minds.

Edit: Yoav, I'd be happy to respond to you in good faith as I've done here once Hckrnews lets me post it.
The use of the "nearly" in your comment is exactly occluding the issue as presented.

Enough weights don't fall under that "nearly" that we require more bits per weight to cover those edge cases. If we were able to delete the "nearly" we would need fewer bits (smaller models).
Don't accuse me of such BS. Especially when you're the one not doing research (No, disproven myths and a misleading, generalized LMGTFY don't count when we have specific, up-to-date info). Facts seem at best that Elon had a good childhood, not much reason to believe greatly "better" than a common well-aligned western family could give.

After that, he seems to have been in the position of having to make his own way, while only getting help by a partial investment from his family in a further round of his already-succeeding company that he set up living in his office. So in the positions millions have been. There aren't millions of Musks around but there are millions of younger adults that have more than they deserve. But facts don't bend for your weird fantasies to be true.

Funny thing is, some time ago I thought Elon came from a background where he got a lot of money to start his successes, and still cheered him for making so much more from that than really anyone else. Then people started trying to show in him bad light, which backfired hilariously and now his origin story puts almost anyone to shame.
Black pepper does pretty well, and I believe is what was predominantly used before.
"Walking the line between anarchism and pragmatism" isn't good business. Change my mind.
They have also been the justification for crusades, wich burning, science denial, Jew prosecutions and indulgencies.
This highlights the evil of DMCA. DRM is not that big of a deal if you can freely exploit some vulnerability in you tpm / hardware attestation module, extract the keys, lobotomize the creep, visualize minimal functionality and share your research. With DMCA you're suddenly breaking the law at multiple steps of the way.
It would be easy enough to fake receipts as they go, so relying on surprise would probably be penalizing impulsive fraud over premeditated fraud by people with more resources because they are conducting higher amounts of theft. Kind of a common criticism of the IRS.
That's not what whataboutism is.
I think their point is they have a real-time warehouse that can also be used in “stale snapshot” mode.
A few weeks ago, I found the film Flight (2012) by Robert Zemeckis, starring Denzel, with John Goodman as a coke dealer. It was free to watch on YouTube.

The film is mostly human drama, but the first fifteen are a really gripping, suspenseful depiction of the air disaster at the center of the plot, from the cockpit view. And it's based on a real-life incident. I enjoyed the whole thing, and the aviation part really pulled me in.
> It also required its users to think like engineers, which included participating in exceptionally nerdy activities like attending real-life “key-signing parties” to verify your identity to other users.

In fairness to PGP, Signal uses exactly the same method as PGP does for verifying identities. You need to check a ridiculously long number which represents your correspondent's identity. It's a 40 digit hex "key fingerprint" in the case of PGP and a 60 digit decimal "safety number" in the case of Signal. The difference is that Signal will cheerfully let the user have an insecure conversation before the user has verified the safety number. PGP makes it very difficult to fail in that particular way.

Signal has a separate safety number for each of your devices. So it makes it significantly harder to keep up with the user verification than with PGP which has a single key fingerprint per user.

So you could totally have a Signal identity party for exactly the same reasons as in the PGP case...
I would assume they are prominently putting their names on the proposal to claim they lead this effort during performance review. After all, they are probably expecting a big payout for something like this.
You don’t mark answers as duplicates, you mark questions as duplicates. And if it’s a duplicate question, the new answer should be posted to the old question. So it’s correct to mark the question as a duplicate. Otherwise all the people arriving at the original question won’t see the new answer.
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Must be 20 years ago as Google was a thing and we had a split monitor and kvm with the one computer in the school IT classroom.

My colleague types hello into the Google search box from the next room. The student then typed who's this? Colleague types, Jimi Hendrix...student turns computer off at the plug :-)
I'd say he's pretty decent, provided you keep his slant in mind. He's a radio journalist and not a historian, although he does have a history degree. He hasn't written books on the Mongols, but they're one of his favourite topics and he's probably better read than most on them. He definitely has a taste for the darker side, and the Mongols provided plenty of fodder for that. If you're listening to Dan Carlin, you're probably getting the "most metal" version of what's well-accepted in a decently comprehensive review of available literature, sometimes with a few of the more salacious bits from less accepted sources thrown in for fun with his warning.

Meanwhile, reading a just-released book from an actual historian may, instead, furnish you with views that are innovative and not yet broadly accepted, or just plain wrong. You really need to read a few different historians on any given topic to start to get a real handle on it. Everyone has their own strengths, weaknesses, angles and agendas. You can do far worse than starting with Carlin. He's great at making topics interesting enough to read more on.

I am not a historian though, and I'd defer to one in assessing Carlin.
I thought Google was going to re-open public commenting on the repo after the weekend. It's now Tues in many parts of the world. Is it going to be opened up again as promised?