skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad locks himself of accounts on a weekly basis. Paper is the only system that is anyway reliable. Ultimately, the only 100% system is me, although not always convenient.

He used to manage fine when he could use the same password for everything but alas those days are gone.

Funnily enough I had to hack into his account last week since he was locked out and the only way back in was a phone call to the bank which I was able to make and answer every question required for a reset. It was basically standard name address and date of birth stuff.
The reduction in upper rate marginal taxes and the narrative about government incompetence were both promulgated by the same people. They are not distinct.

The reality is that all human organizations - government, for-profit, not-for-profit - suffer from incompetence, corruption and inefficiency.

The story that the right likes to tell us is that because there is (typically) a choice of companies (and that they are subject to competition with each other), it doesn't matter (as much) if a company suffers from these things, because you can "go elsewhere".

Vertical integration in so many business sectors, along with corporate mergers and the waning of antitrust really does give lie to this, in my opinion.

For example, all US cell phone companies are shit, they all have shitty websites, shitty customer service, shitty rates, idiot salespeople ... moving from T-Mobile to Verizon because the former screwed something up solves absolutely nothing.
Managed?
On the topic of cold fusion, it's being rebranded as Low Energy Nuclear Reactions and is seeing a resurgence in research. We know catalyzed fusion is possible (see Muon catalyzed fusion) and quantum phenomenon in complex crystalline structures is very poorly understood at best - as highlighted by superconductivity. We know nuclear processes can be influenced by solid state structure in rare cases, and don't know the limits of this. I'm not going to claim it's viable as an energy source, but it's exciting when we encounter physics we don't fully understand. Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbzcYQVrTxQ for a great summary of this controversial field.
I'm forever re-realizing that there was awesome technology 100+ years ago. Not everything cool was invented yesterday.
They were talking about calcium. But let's plug some iron sources into cronometer:

- 100g lentils: 3.3mg iron, 116cal

- 100g spinach: 2.7mg iron, 23cal

- 100g cooked tofu: 2.7mg iron, 110cal

That's more than 50% of the day's iron recommendation for women in about 250 calories or about 1/8th of the day's calories for the average woman.
Many people are more persuaded by rhetoric than truth.

Which is a huge problem. It reduces politics to a high school popularity contest which excludes discussions of substance.

Real experts lose the debate because they're not trained in rhetorical manipulation, and they can easily be demonised.

The idea that experts with PhDs and decades of experience may have more skill and experience than an ordinary person offends the ignorant. ("You don't tell me what to do.")

The result is popular support for disastrous self-harming policies.
I just get D3 and K2 together and seems to work pretty well

https://www.amazon.com/Sports-Research-Plant-Based-Verified-...
Great write up. There were a few grammatical errors - I’d suggest piping it through a LLM prompted to find grammar errors :-)

Another area of interesting research is the use of transformer like models for highly dimensional time series prediction. While language and vision are interesting and have their uses, my opinion is the application of these techniques for multidimensional non linear effects in time series may ultimately have more broad and significant impact. Ex:

https://github.com/Thinklab-SJTU/Crossformer
In such cases like on the picture, and the ones I observe (blurry pictures), tapping on the object barely makes it appear into focus.
Which means there is a problem somewhere in the focus functionality (either software or hardware).

Manually adjusting it works though, but it requires lot of efforts and third-party software.
It's silently converted to just "x.com", though I'm not sure what standard that's based on. It's not an IDN as the other comment suggests, as that character is disallowed under IDNA2008.
Interesting, TIL. I guess it's not perfect, I had to replace the USB-C port on a phone after the center post got ripped out.
I visited a park/reserve that definitely walked the line on this stuff.
On the one hand it was open to the public 5 days/week, most of the year, provided you purchased!! generally-available tickets in advance.

On the other hand after a few visits I learned that the giant mansion at the center of the park was still occupied by the textile baron owner who set up the foundation. This foundation was setup almost as soon as the mansion was built, and he subsequently lived out his days for 30 years there.

They also charged to use the estate for weddings/catered events.

And they also had the gall to ask people to donate to the foundation.
Incredibly, some well heeled locals have given 6 figure donations.

It seemed to me an amazing structure to live out your days on a beautiful estate with the upkeep of the incredible garden/art collection partially subsidized by both the government (tax deduction) and public (ticket sales / events / donations).

He eventually passed away and the foundation leadership devolved into a circular firing squad but that's a separate issue.
> I thought it was someone else's

Eisenhower did not say it was his idea. See https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/09/urgent/

> It is a great procedure

That is a classification procedure¹, not a ranking procedure. It does not satisfy the original poster's request.

¹(Acted upon immediately; scheduled for action; delegated; dropped.)
I don't think it's actually a "tax dodge" because having the money donated to a nonprofit does limit what the money can be for and to the extent salaries are paid back to family members that's getting taxed anyway (theoretically they could be shifting it to lower tax brackets but when you look at current US tax rates it's not going to make much difference anyway).

I think there's a real question of whether rich people should be able to get tax exemptions for donating massive amounts of money to nonprofits of their choice with no limit, but it's not a "scam" because Bill Gates is doing exactly the thing that the current tax code is intended to incentivize; he's not using some sort of complicated loophole to use the money for personal purposes while getting a tax exemption, he's just using it for charitable purposes that he chooses, exactly as intended.

That said, personally I don't think it necessarily makes sense to say that someone should be able to e.g. choose to donate a billion dollars of income to an art museum and not get taxed when the tax revenue from that income if it were not made deductible (even if less than a billion dollars) could be used for potentially more important uses once you factor in marginal utility, etc.

Framing it as a "scam" or "loophole" is somewhat misleading imo because it implies that rich people are somehow cheating the system, whereas in reality they are just using the system as intended, but it might actually be a bad system.
How do you "find" them? You can just download the list with all exit node IPs.

https://check.torproject.org/torbulkexitlist
When you go to the extremes those tiny details suddenly aren't tiny details anymore. As a semi-random example, a significant source of noise in LIGO, the gravitational wave detectors, is the push of photons striking the 40kg mirrors[1][2].

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/ligo-is-so-sensitive...

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01519
Maybe they became uninterested after you started micromanaging them.
VSCode is very much a fad, much like Eclipse, Atom, Sublime and any number of others before it. Emacs and Vim just keep going whilst others fade away.
Effectively, placing ss before the input filename seeks the file (the container?) without decoding it. Placing it after will decode the streams while skipping to the point you specify.

Seeking the container is usually much faster than decoding and then throwing away what you don't need, but it has fatal flaw: most videos use p-frames and thus require you to decode the frames before it.

So, say you want to skip to 60 seconds in. The solution is to do "-ss 50 -i input.mkv -ss 10", which is fast and should get the keyframes you need.
Like storing energy in a magnetic field?
So by your logic we should be trying to reduce human life expectancy?!

But honestly I really don't think these arguments are motivated by/a consequence of real belief in them, it's more a kind of cope with the current situation that we've become acclimated to, something in the vein of "if god intended men to fly they'd have wings".
>The model [uses] semantic geocells – bounded areas of land, similar to counties or provinces, that consider region-specific details like road markings, infrastructure quality, and street signs

>The model can['t] pinpoint exactly where a street-level photo was taken; it can instead reliably figure out the country, and make a good guess, within 15 miles of the correct location, a lot of the time

I could imagine that a more qualitative model like this one could be used to restrict the search space of a more quantitative model akin to the one I (very roughly) proposed.
Maybe you used nLite? I credit this tool for making me into a Windows power user. Taking the OS apart checkbox-by-checkbox gave me a good understanding of how the pieces fit together and what is required vs optional.

https://www.nliteos.com/
FTC Chair says AI could “turbocharge” fraud, be used to “squash competition”
> I've decided there are two mutually-exclusive sorts of people: (a) those who want search to surface things for them, and hate having to remember where to find things & (b) those who want to remember where/how to find things, and hate relying on fuzzy search to surface them.

Funny because I belong in both camps, but for different things.

I prefer fuzzy, flat search for launching applications (I mean we basically do the same on the CLI right? Hierarchy for apps seem more like arbitrary labels. Some things don't neatly fit into one label.

And prefer to locate files by hierarchy. With the exception of less familiar and very large file systems and codebases, where I will resort to either fuzzy filename find or grep like tools. I use broot for my file manager which caters to all of these modes quite nicely.
IntelliJ is lightyears ahead of VS Code or any other LSP using editor including Emacs for what it’s good at, namely working with Java in complex ways.

I will use IntelliJ or Eclipse over Emacs or VS Code for Java development any day. But having used both VS Code and Doom Emacs for other development, the latter is quicker, more featureful, and more discoverable, just as easy to configure, and more extensible.
If the truth doesn't exist, whats the point of debating at all?
People migrate -- they always bring their DNA with them and their language. No? The connections between these have been studied for a long time -- for example, this popular book was published 20 years ago: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520228733/genes-peoples-and...
Photosynthesis produces oxygen from water. Burning hydrogen creates water. So, plants are the answer.
I drove the same route, at the same time, at the speed limit, the days immediately following the event. I would have easily been able to see a cyclist crossing the road, with plenty of time to react.
>power transmission without loss. Very long range power transmission becomes viable and low cost (buried cables near roads?). For instance, solar energy transmitted in real time from where the sun shines to where it is dark or cloudy.

For practical purposes this is only true if the cost of the material and support systems for the superconducting transmission is substantially less than the cost of the power lost in the existing system. Existing power transmission systems are already quite efficient, and we don't bother making them more efficient with HVDC because the infrastructure costs don't justify the power savings. It's almost certainly the case that superconductor cable would be significantly more expensive than that.

What we really need is more capacity, which this material as presented doesn't seem to help with.
The MRI implications of this are huge. Imagine what cheap portable MRIs could do for the world.
NM state tax online services are outright phenomenal. Filing my state taxes (after the first year) takes me less than 8 minutes, and the refund shows up in my bank account about 3 days later. Everything about it is precisely as it should be.
> "All we have is a picture and a fake name"

That's an admission that they don't know the target's age. Which we knew anyway; they can't know it until after they do the doxx.

Even if they go for the ones who both have pictures and look young, there are more 18-and-19-year-olds out there than 16-and-17-year-olds, so their "random" sample will be mostly adults. And of course nobody is going to post a picture of a CHILD-child, since that's obviously a huge red flag that will get them caught.

> "but, using some of these tools, you’re able to identify her mugshot."

Children don't tend to have mugshots that often. And, by the way, if they have one, that means the system has arrested them in the past and obviously failed to get anywhere.

> "Finding a target’s high school diploma or sonogram imagery nets 15 points,"

Children don't tend to have high school diplomas almost ever.

I have no idea what the sonogram thing is about.

> "while finding the same tattoo on multiple women would earn a whopping 300"

I will admit that that does sound pretty off, so I won't claim it as going after the "self-employed". However, it does count as going after adults, since it's hard for a minor to get a tattoo at all.

> "In a July Skull Games webinar, one participant noted that they had been able to use PimEyes to find a sex worker’s driver’s license posted to the web."

The longer you have your license, the more time there is for a picture of it to get posted.

In fact, all of the stuff they say they're using tends to accumulate over time. You are far more likely to find any of that stuff on an adult than on a teenaged minor, and you'll pretty much never find any of it on a child as the term is normally understood.

As for arrests, first, they've already been doxxed, by people most of them would really prefer not know who they are, before the question of arrest comes into it. Second, "the group has no information about how many have resulted in prosecutions or indictments of actual traffickers". So they're handing this stuff over to cops and at best just hoping they won't prosecute any of the people they consider to be victims. That's, um, irresponsibly optimistic.
They tried with Quibi, didn't they? /s
well, DRM has its necessarily out there. not everything on the internet can be free
It's always nobody wants to work anymore at the wages you are presently offering.

It's like concluding we've run out of oil because the price of gasoline went up.
I'm not really getting what makes this a world first?

Controlled deorbits have been a thing for a while, and if we're talking about deorbits designed to minimize risk of debris impact, IIRC Starlink satellites were designed to maximize the amount of the satellite that is vaporized by reentry.

Edit: Ah, the "world's first" is that they were able to choose where any parts that aren't vaporized would crash. The esa article is clearer on that.

I guess if I were to be unnecessarily pedantic, most crewed capsules and reusable ISS resupply vehicles have also technically done that.
I would still invest those resources into documenting more knowledge that currently doesn't exist online on their original languages and immediately translating to English. For better or for worse English is the "abstract" representation of language online and there's so much absent stuff that worrying about another universal format seems pointless.
That expectation of sameness is exactly the problem.

We don't all express ourselves or react in the same ways, despite whatever our HR training videos claim.

When someone "yells at me," I tend to think they're excited and it piques my interest in what they're saying. At the same time, they're excited so I expect them to omit some details and not give me a complete picture - I'm less discerning about the details. Was that one of the responses I'm supposed to feel?
MEG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoencephalography) SQUIDs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID) that do not require cooling with liquid helium -- A LOT cheaper and more available.
> Well, JSON would have never been created in C++.

Why? Marshalling is a common requirement that's not a monopoly of a single language, and there is no technical limitation on C++ that stops it from parsing any particular data interchange language.

> The moral equivalent in statically compiled language was dumping struct memory raw out to files.

If you've chosen to go the miopic path and focus on JSON's eval trick, you'd be missing the whole point of JSON.

If you're focusing on marshalling languages, you're somehow pretending that things like Apache Avro, Protocol Buffers, Apache Thrift, etc don't exist.

> And many programs did that, it just wasn't platform independent.

I don't think this is true at all. See examples above.
Spacemacs hinders your growth with Emacs over the long run. It hides Emacs internals from you and jumps through a lot of hoops to make Emacs feel modern. But the beauty is skin-deep and the second you start wanting something off-script, you'll find it getting in your way, with online threads and such catering towards vanilla rather than frameworks.
It's worth noting that necessity has tendency to make this possible though: the original CD laser diodes required extreme equipment investment to mass produce.

You could conceive of making the speed up in parallel production.
Because I conserve energy: I turn my PC off at the end of each session (so about one/two times a day). And because the "sleep" mode is not reliable (I have a 14 years old PC, upgraded in RAM and GPU and SDD; and here I conserve hardware).

So having things take time on start up is an annoyance to me (but I live with it, I was just saying that emacs is slower than VSCode)
> I don't get it, what else would you expect? Any claimed scientific breakthrough should generally be met with a healthy dose of skepticism at first.

Well, I've heard the name LK-99 is from the initials of discoverers Lee and JH Kim, and the year of discovery (1999).

So I don't buy that they were under great time pressure due to fear of getting scooped. Surely they'd have mountains of samples if they've been making it for 24 years?
People give up on recession just as it arrives
Most commenters here seem to have a false impression of the distribution of taxation. "The rich pay little taxes" is disinfo. The truth is more like "the rich pay most of the taxes."

The US has had progressive taxation since 1913. Today, taxes on the top 1% of earners comprise 40% of federal income tax revenue, top 5% comprise 60%, while the bottom 50% comprise 2% (however note income taxes are only half of federal revenue). Per CBO, the US gini coefficient falls by 0.17 (a third) when you account for taxes and transfers.

Our legislators have created tons of complexity in our tax codes which people use to reduce their tax burdens. I mainly blame congress and the electorate. Donors are only culpable for funding congressional campaigns' appeals to voters.
If you want to be overly reductionist about it, that’s up to you. The reality that there’s never been a time in human history where this hasn’t been true. Why make perfect the enemy of good?

Lots of rich people exploited PPP during the pandemic, does that mean the government shouldn’t ever hand out life-saving subsidies like that?
Wagner troops moving toward Polish border and could try sneaking across, PM says
Where are the dollars that show up on spreadsheets going?

> So anyway, if we’re going to be able to match Chinese military power — even in concert with all our friends and allies — we need to spend a lot more on the military. If you say this in public, someone will inevitably reply that “we spend more on our military than the next 10 countries combined”,[1] and call for cutting defense spending in order to fund either social spending or tax cuts, depending on which side of the political aisle they fall. But what does it mean for the U.S. to outspend all other nations when China can build warships at 200 times the rate we can? What does it mean for the U.S. to outspend all other nations if we can’t even keep up enough munitions production to supply Ukraine?

> Nothing. Dollars on paper mean nothing; shells and missiles and ships are real things that can be counted. As with health care and housing and train stations and everything else,[2] Americans have deluded themselves into believing that as long as they allocate dollars to something in a spreadsheet, then valuable and useful real stuff is actually getting built. Again and again, that delusion has been shattered when excess costs and interminable delays block the paper dollars from becoming real tangible goods.
You’ve got it backwards, the rich should fear the masses. There’s a reason Leland Stanford moved to Palo Alto.
You get in trouble only if you see hanging indentations:

Foo(Bar(...),
baz)

But they are not required for a happy life:

Foo(
Bar(...),
baz,
)

It's not PEP8, but it works, and it does not depend on the font at all. 80 columns is bollocks in any case, but with this style, width is usually even reduced.

Alternatively, Elastic Tabstops solves this, but it's supported by approximately no one.

https://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
Bring back Twitter to the Android homescreen
I'll second the parent's experience, it's actually kind of insane how fast XFCE is. With the Chicago95 theme, the feeling you end up with is:

"how fast would Windows 95 be if you ran it on modern hardware"

It is actually just astounding, to the point that you end up feeling "jesus is my hardware really that fast?".
When the pandemic hit I went the opposite. Focused on a healthy mind and body, was able to study a bunch and finally broken through a few mental plateaus.

But then I _got_ COVID and I can tell you COVID brain is real. Even after I had recovered physically there were a few weeks of obvious cognitive degradation. One of my first days testing negative I was trying to implement some pretty basic pagination logic but when it came time to writing the algos for it, it was like my body flipped a switch and I would get impossibly drowsy and have to go lie down.

I've had covid twice since then without the same problem but it is very real and wild.
It's a blatantly false assumption, but one that persists in popularity among policy makers. The skills needed to be a zero-effort straight-A student are not necessarily the skills needed to make positive impacts on the world.
Europe already has fairly high standards for ADAS performance to be road-legal. The Comma units don't even attempt to meet that standard. It's possible those requirements don't apply due to some technicality or that installing uncertified safety critical features in your car is perfectly legal, but I wouldn't bet money on either.
What is "dynamic completion" ?