skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what "wipe the phone" means. That could involve clobbering early-stage bootloaders and firmware on daughter microcontrollers - the kinds of things that can only be replaced through JTAG and a good bit of tribal knowledge. It doesn't stop the most sophisticated attackers, but it certainly would disincentivize a large-scale attack of this variety, especially when you consider the wild variations that exist between Android phones at a hardware level.
Do you have a pi-hole, ad blocker, or other such network wide filter in action on your network?

I've found Comcast/Xfinity has all kinds of odd telemetry end points going on (assuming some is ads, some is for in-product observability) that gets blocked on many DNS blocklists and causes all kinds of weird glitches when using their services.

Might be something to double-check.
Keep it up!

What trickery does OrbStack[0] use to be fast?

We went back to Podman Desktop because of the license[1], but the interactions on macOS are almost as slow as Docker Desktop.

As for Podman itself, happy users here, and our workflows have been working for a while now. We are only missing faster local development.

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[0]: https://orbstack.dev/

[1]: https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq#free
Decommissioned lookout Bunker stations here in the cliffs over looking the sf golden gate have extremely deeply sunken thick concrete buried barracks. we turned off the flash lights and it's the darkest I've been in and absolutely quiet with a group of 30+ kids and chaperones. Had better ears back then so no ringing ears. And sunken structures have the benefit of about 65° stable temperature compared to the cold outside air

It was comforting
If you don't take nuclear power seriously, you don't take climate change seriously. Period, dot, full stop. We should have gone all-in on nuclear in the 1970s and 1980s but for a few screeching NIMBY so-called "environmentalists."

Yes, if you screw up badly enough, you can have a disaster. If I drove drunk and ran my Jeep down a crowded city sidewalk, you would also have a disaster, but I would never be that negligent, callous, and stupid. The US Navy has run reactors for 65 years with a flawless safety record . . . it can be done.
As a programmer, I won't put myself into that thing. I'm also not happy to be an unwilling participant in this experiment. Given the state of technology and our capabilities to write bug-free software (Seriously, we can't even get things like buying airline tickets correct), I think it's way too early to approve those vehicles on city streets.
> I don't think the Kolmogorov complexity of Oppenheimer would be much shorter than its gzip length.

I think the conditional Kolmogorov complexity of Oppenheimer given all real world data we could collect [K(Oppenheimer|earth)] would be massively shorter than its gzip length. I agree that by using just the universal distribution alone this might not be the case.

Consider an input tape that consists of all real world data we are able to collect, concatenated with the input data of interest. Now consider the set of all prefix-free universal Turing machines that generate the full sequence on the tape. We then consider a normalized probability distribution based on this set where each program’s output beyond the reproduction of the input tape is weighted by 2^-[length of program].

Roughly speaking (glossing over some details), you can’t do better at predicting the future than this probability distribution assuming the physical Church-Turing thesis. An optimal AGI must incorporate optimal prediction. At this point, you can now develop an agent that utilizes reinforcement learning based upon this probability distribution, but my guess is that this part won’t be nearly as difficult as the prediction step. The particulars of the actual objective function for the agent are kind of irrelevant (could be something along the lines of “maximize whatever the p99 of humans consider AGI to be”), but whatever is chosen, there cannot be a general algorithmic process that would perform better.
Sorry, but it is clear you do not understand these investments.

REITs, whether public or private, are funds.

I am not talking about funds.

REITs usually invest in multiple vehicles to diversify. When you put in $100K in an REIT, it is spread across multiple properties. Some of it may even be used to lend money.

When you invest in the investment I speak of, you are investing in one property. There is no diversification.

When you invest in an REIT (or even in an index fund), you have no ownership of the actual investment vehicle. The REIT manager(s) do, but you don't.

When you investment in the investments I speak of, you are a part owner on paper (even if you have no say in the operations). As a result, you get all the tax benefits of owning a property. When you invest in an REIT, the tax code does not entitle you to any of those tax benefits. The REIT fund may mislead a bit in their wording, but at most they are saying that they'll pass on some of the tax benefits that they accrue to you, so you get a higher return.

There is little to no regulatory barrier to investing in an REIT, which is why their minimum investments are not that high.

The investments I speak of can allow a maximum of 35 non-accredited investors (by law). That is one big reason they carry such high minimum investments - they need enough money to buy a property and have a limited number of folks who can supply it.

In this thread I speak primarily of RE investments, because that is where I have the most knowledge. But the larger principle I speak of applies to other investments - not just RE (people investing in farms, storage businesses, car washes, hotels, etc). Again, the barrier is a rather large minimum investment and accredited status.

Again, most of my investments are in simple index funds, and I stuck to those for almost a decade because I didn't find anything better. I'm a conservative investor, and I always analyze any investment to see if there's a good chance it will exceed the S&P 500 returns in the long run. If it's not clear that it (easily) can, I do not invest. I suggest you do as I did: Join an investment group, and examine/analyze the investments they present. Learn the risks/rewards, and you'll then see that higher return (but higher risk) investments exist. They are higher risk because they are not diversified.
>China isn't kind enough to share cost figures, but has reduced planned plants by a major percentage, indicating that the investment return is not very good. They do not have regulatory hurdles.

PRC is currently building indigenous nuclear relatively economically which appear to be performing around expectations. What happened / what PRC can't seem to do, like the west, is build _western_ nuclear tech economically. Nuclear ambition under 13th 5-year plan has been delayed largely due Fukushima reassessement and drama over western nuclear tech (French EPR / US AP1000 technical and political issues like US sanctions / Westinghouse bankruptcy) forcing PRC to switch to domestic tech. Current 14th 5-year plan still aiming for ~180-200 GWe by 2035 with ~150 reactors, which is in line with mid 2010s assessments. What is also happening is PRC scaling up coal and solar, due to geopolitics of rushing energy security and lower renewable costs, but not at the expense of nuclear rollout.
Nine years ago, during the interview with the manager of a textile company, he asked what my religion was. I said i didn't had any, and then he said "You know what happens with people who don't follow any religion, right?" and pointed down, indicating that i was 'going to hell'. That made me want to quit right there, but i was so much in need of a job.

I wasn't hired in the end, despite doing well on the tests. But it was for the best as everything worked out in the end.
https://archive.is/wxeqp

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Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule : https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha...

How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

https://archive.is/HZ90b

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Reid Hoffman: Musk 'bought what Putin was selling, hook, line, sinker' : https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-bought-what-putin-...

https://archive.is/mnTIL
I wonder if hurling it into the sun could be made cost effective.
Clearly you're unwilling, but if you got in, wouldn't that make you willing? :-)
Trump both railed against the low rates at the end of the Obama presidency and then railed against raising them when he took office. The idea that it was a sudden event that caused rate hikes is only seen by someone not paying attention to it for a decade.
Rooftop solar power is roughly as popular as puppies and kittens.

But the USA has very little of it because it’s expensive in the US (due mostly to regulation and utilities being obstructionist).

By contrast, rooftop solar is very cheap in Australia, so it’s everywhere.

Nuclear is safe and clean, but until it’s cheaper nobody is going to go near building any more of it, and the nuclear industry has been incapable so far of making it cheaper.
Averages are bad whenever the distribution is not normal, which tends to be the case for a lot of social/real world scenarios.

But everyone knows what the average means. It's useful to push certain narratives to a mass population that's poorly educated in statistics.

I really wish they did more to teach statistics in high school, it feels like this is a genuine useful application of a lot of mathematical concepts that are taught throughout the schooling years, but barely given any proper attention in school. I think someone that's in their last ~2 years of high school has enough mathematical background to learn and understand statistics very well. And god, this would be immensely helpful in getting a more educated public.

Seriously, the times I've seen politicians use bullshit graphs to misrepresent data, use subsets of data to push for a certain narrative (78% of people believe A [when in reality it's 78% of a sub-sample] so from the total it might be a 20% or whatever less impressive number). Or just plainly using average to describe a population that doesn't have a normal distribution.

:(
https://archive.is/Ltk9X
It's significantly more absurd to permit highly distractable, slow-reacting meatbags to operate the multi-ton high-velocity death barges in the close vicinity of pedestrians and other meatbags-cum-death-barge-pilots.
Yeah some of my colleagues missed the memo and we got the extortion attempt. The crazy thing is the part of the company that want you to pay the troll is not the same as the field sales.

That’s probably the most noxious business model ever. I’ve dealt with 5-6 companies doing that, and whenever renewal/retention is a different sales organization, i spin up a company project to plan the exit strategy.

The nickel and dime cost stuff is one thing, but the bigger problem is that these companies and products always decline.
Hackers, programmers, coders, lend me your ears...
> In context, it's really a story about an organization's capacity and will to rationalize - this very nearly killed Apple as a business

What damaged Apple's Mac business in the 1990s might been due to tunnel vision and self-delusion, but the driving issue was a loss of obvious differentiation vs. cheaper PCs running Windows. They were all beige boxes with a serviceable GUI that ran the same software, and customers didn't see the value in paying Apple's premium prices.

With the return of Steve Jobs, Apple resolved the PC differentiation issue by refocusing on design in both hardware (iMac) and software (OS X); Apple also sidestepped Windows dominance by focusing on non-PC devices such as the iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
Give this time, and it will change.
Podman Desktop on Windows? Why not podman on WSL2? I've been using Podman on a Fedora 37 WSL instance and it's fantastic.
Who here is living with $700 a month on food? Article states that's some kind of average. I think I spend $110 for 2 days right now... Just myself and wife no kids in California.
Just because you don’t have a license doesn’t mean you miraculously no longer remember how to drive. I recently got my driver’s license renewed after it had been expired for at least 15 years. Never seemed to impact my ability to operate a car safely.

/I have a state ID and passport I use when I need to present valid ID
2023-08-15 : https://archive.is/AzDao
Even if you could somehow do this technically (without the ship blowing up when it hits a micro-asteroid), the fact only a short time passes inside the ship isn't much help when it takes decades or centuries for the ship to get to its destination. Even at light-speed with no accel/decel time, a ship would take 4 years to get here from the nearest star system (Alpha Centauri).
Second that. The crazy t&c required by gov have to be accounted for.
The long tail of alarmist COVID coverage is ... long. Note that while the article is fairly tempered, the title uses the words "highly" and "alert" intentionally. It's almost as if several journalism sites are still fully trying to sell fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
> (defun <name> (list of arguments)
> "docstring"
> (function body))

> How do I read this as an s-expression?

It's still a list.

You can re-write it as:

(let ((my-list '(defun <name> (list of arguments) "docstring" (function body))))
(print (first my-list))
(print (second my-list))
(print (third my-list))
(print (fourth my-list)))

It will print:

DEFUN
<NAME>
(LIST OF ARGUMENTS)
"docstring"

If "docstring" appears twice when you run the above, that's because it's the value produced by the final form in the block, so it shows up as the return value of the block.
The problem is you need to get it into space first, which means putting it on top of a rocket.

Rockets have this nasty habit where sometimes they blow up, and whatever they're carrying gets vaporised into the atmosphere.
In some sense, on an equal temperament piano a major 7th is less dissonant than a major 3rd. But major 7th can’t be played using black keys and major 3rds can.

Check the table in 12 tone equal temperament > Comparison with just intonation section here [1].

Major 7th and major 3rd are both harmonics of the root frequency, so larger differences between JI tuning and 12TET tuning for them cause noise.

In JI, theres a sense where both major 3rd and major 7th are both perfectly in tune with the root frequency. If you play the 3rd two octaves up, all of the harmonics match with all of the harmonics in the root frequency. Same if you play major 7th three octaves up.

The 2 octaves up major 3rds harmonics are 5,10,15,20,… multiples of root. 3 octaves up major 7th are 15,30,45,… multiples of root. The roots harmonics are just 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,… so there’s no new frequencies.

If you play square waves with these notes, in a sense you aren’t even playing a chord, just changing the timbre from a square wave to something else.

Kind of tongue in cheek cuz there are other ways of looking at dissonance. This is just an illustration of some ways you might not have seen before!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament
But there isn't, is the thing. Nuclear might cost $7000/kW but it has a capacity factor of 80%[1]. Solar has a capacity factor of 25%. So while nuclear is closer to $8750/kW after capacity factor, solar is $6000/kW after capacity factor...before storage.

And storage doesn't have a simple analysis: you can only charge pumped hydro at a certain rate, so on any given day if you don't have excess solar, you might not fully recharge at all (and that's before the problems of storing exactly 1 day's worth of excess energy when you don't have a large, dispatchable fossil fuel grid to fall back on).

And how much is pumped hydro per kW, naively? Varies - an optimistic assessment is $1500 per kW, potentially as high as $5,505 per kW (in capex)[2].

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2205429119

[2] https://www.hydroreview.com/business-finance/business/nrel-i...
it's funny that you feel the need to drop your SPAM in this thread.
https://archive.is/Kr3P9
'Right to repair' is important and I hope a good law along these lines gets passed, but other tougher problems to solve are also emerging, for example:

My understanding is many late model cars are moving the fuel filter to being part of a larger assembly inside the fuel tank. On an older car, a clogged fuel filter (a common problem)could be replaced cheaply and easily. My car's fuel filter cost less than $15. But once they put it inside the gas tank, the repair is much more costly. The shop needs to pump the gas out of the tank, remove the tank from the car and take the tank apart to replace whatever the replaceable assembly is on that model.

It appears that car makers are doing this to increase service revenue and to greatly increase customer cost and inconvenience. The inconvenience is a two hour trip to Jiffy Lube or an even faster self-repair becomes a two or three week wait for a major repair appointment and a bill hundreds of dollars more.
I commonly replace discrete (stand-alone)fuel filters 6 to 8 times over the life of my vehicles.

If anyone has a list of car brands that have or have not adopted this design change, please post.
Doesn't matter as long as we give AGI to masses first.
I'm a software engineer and I put myself into that thing. Didn't die. AMA

But last week, a block from home, this old lady killed a 4 year old in this city. Perhaps the little girl was a consenting participant to this, but I am quite doubtful.
I've always (only half-jokingly) offered clients like this the opportunity to buy Gift-Cards (in $10,000 denominations) - I'll issue them in this financial year to soak up budget under-run, and they can spend them (or not) whenever the need arises.

WARNING: May not be SoX-compliant
I have to wonder about your AI method. Surely the way you comb or style your hair in the photos can influence the results? And if you’re going to push product aren’t you not really motivated to make your AI as accurate as possible?

And is balding really all about hairline anyway? Personally while my hairline has not seen any noticeable recession, I have noticed that the individual strands of my hair have gotten thinner with age, to the point that my hair is a bit more difficult to style and scalp is sometimes more visible in certain hard lighting. I have seen older men with hair in all the right places but their actual hairs are so thin you can see quite a bit of scalp, so basically balding. I wonder if I am on a path to end up like these men or if I’m simply seeing a normal maturing of my hair follicles. Probably not something the AI is trained for.
Any study that doesn’t directly address this is pointless to me.

My daughter has a fair bit of screen time. Very little of it is entirely passive.

The closest she gets to passive is watching Frozen and Frozen II, her latest favorites. She’s constantly explaining the movie to us, singing, dancing, and otherwise more using it as a launching pad for activities than just passively consuming it.

When she watches other things it usually involves myself or my wife discussing the show with her as it’s going. Asking questions, making observations, etc. She’s practicing and developing understanding and communication skills.

When she’s playing on a tablet, it’s usually stuff like Duo ABC where she’s learning and then demonstrating understanding of letters and words or games where she’s playing with the sort of equivalent of a virtual interactive dollhouse and is exercising her imagination making up stories and social interactions and then relaying the stories to us.

We don’t really pay attention to how _much_ screen time she gets as much as what she’s getting out of it. I definitely think she’s had more than her share of “4+ hours” days. But any study that doesn’t differentiate what we’re doing from a kid being left unattended and ignored with some YouTube recommendations all day seems to be… incomplete if I’m being polite.

> At some point, this seems to be less about screen time and more about lack of engagement and active involvement with your kids.

When we were told, as many parents are, “no screen time / limited screen time for kids” I didn’t accept it at face value but instead went digging for what the justification for this advice was.

From what I found you hit the nail on the head. The damage comes from the lack of interaction. Small children are absolute sponges and need to be around and observing and interacting with older children or adults to have the opportunity to sponge up how to be a human and then practice those skills. Plopping them in front of a TV doesn’t accomplish that. Especially when they’re quite young they’re not even able to comprehend the TV as much more than colors and sounds and get nothing.
I guess that's why the US still stores a bunch of used fuel at reactors in concrete and steel vessels, with zero long term storage plans... because it's "easy".
You trust a
drunk driver more?
a distracted teenager more?
a parent with a car full of loud kids more?
Do you avoid flying too?
> The typical worker takes home $3308 per month

The article is a good read, but to anyone who's felt the belt tighten lately, it will likely contain no surprises.

I'm just going to make a couple points of comparison to my own situation.

I take home about 7k monthly after taxes. This is our sole income. That puts us about on par with the "typical" household with two working adults.

Our monthly mortgage payment is about 1700 on a 1200 sq ft house which is really too small for our family of five. I often find myself regretting our conservatism when we purchased our home in 2020. We figured that we were buying a starter home for the next few years, but with rates doubled since then and with the crazy housing prices, it's going to be a long time before we can consider an upgrade. That's on a 250k mortgage. Often wish we'd taken another 100k, which probably would have increased our payment to the mid 2k range... We could afford that nowadays. Hindsight...

Our grocery bills have been excessive, well over 1000 monthly. Grocery store prices seem like they've almost doubled over the last few years.

Amenities like summer camps and pool memberships in our area are also pretty high, and spots are limited and competitive. Over the summer keeping the kids entertained was tough and expensive.

We're extremely fortunate to make the kind of money I make. We're able to pay our bills, save, and maintain a nice lifestyle. We feel squeezed but aren't in any danger of homelessness or starvation. We're comfortable, but lots of luxury stuff is out of reach. We camp for vacation. We tend not to make big purchases. We just had to have $2500 worth of plumbing work done. We could afford it but it sure sucked.

We've often considered moving home. We're from a rural area about an hour from the metro area we live in now, and with remote work a tech job back home is actually plausible now. But the schools back home are pretty low ranked, whereas right now we live in one of the top districts in the state.

I don't have some grand point to make, guess I'm just laying out what life looks like on an average+ dev salary (155k gross). I can't help but wonder how people making substantially less are managing, especially in the cities.
Why? We have what, like 50+ years of certainty as to how dangerous people are as drivers? They’re a known quantity and we know we can keep making cars safer to reduce the danger to drivers and passengers.

Instead we’re going to YOLO a half-baked tech-bro fantasy onto the roads and hope for the best?

Also “meatbags” has the same tone as “sportsball” imo.
Honestly, the safety bar set by human drivers is on the floor (and being run over by a "light truck").
𝕏 will be getting rid of the “Tweepcred” system
UIUCFreeFood: Bot that tells you where the free food is (Barbie Explainer)
https://archive.is/XLME2