skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anybody wants to hear more about Doug's work and ideas, here is a (fairly long) interview with Doug by Lex Fridman, from last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wMKoSRbGVs&pp=ygUabGV4IGZya...
I'm wondering why there is no measurement, no data about the radiation detected. All in our environment is a little bit radioactive, it's called background radiation : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_radiation#:~:text=B....
A scientific article without any reference to measurements or at least a comparison with background radiation is criticisable. I'll say the obvious but, it the legal limit is near to the background radiation level, all became not safe. Anyway, what about the truffles and other mushrooms of that region ? For logic deduction, they should be unsafe, too.
Your job listing states

Position is remote in the following USA States: California, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington.

Are you open to any other US locations?
> A plaque in the cabin claims this van was upfitted by Innovative Surveillance Technology out of Coral Springs, Fla. for NASA... It’s easy to wonder how on earth a fully-equipped federal surveillance van makes it out of government hands

Why worry about that, when you could just purchase a new one from Innovative Surveillance Technology?
I have mine set to go to power save mode whenever I unplug it. I don’t know what a non-power-save-mode phone works like.
I don't use credit, zero overdraft, saw it go negative many times.
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Interesting. My first followup question is, do those who take supplemental antioxidants die from cancer at a higher rate? Then I would like to know how metastases are affected by antioxidants.
There is also "The Improvement of the Mind" book, by Isaac Watts. It even shaped one of the great minds of science: Michael Faraday
My understanding is that all variations are generally acceptable and no one cares all that much:

* octopodes

* octopi

* octopuses
Someone with money should create a VC fund for simple IPFS alternatives. That's a good idea.
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If those kids were truly applying themselves to the algebra, I think they'd quickly internalize arithmetic too as they used it. But whatever reason led those kids to not do arithmetic without a calculator could well be a reason they don't do well at more advanced math.
Textbooks and reference books are much more useful for training a LLM than twitter. Both reddit and he are vastly overestimating the value of their content for training corpus data.
Why? He shared little with the wider community, contributed to mass surveillance with Cyc's government collaborations, and hasn't really done anything of note.

I don't dislike Lenat, but he doesn't fit the commercial value of people who get black bars, he doesn't fit the ideological one, and he doesn't fit the community-benefit one.
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I think too many people got used to crypto’s “well if the software says it…” mortal/legal/ethical code.

They assume that traditional finance isn’t a thoughtfully designed system with checks and balances because they were blindly railing against it before.
Yeah the level of detail for things people care about is truly unmatched. I like mapping doggie bag dispensers, trash cans, and park benches -- stuff Google will just never care about.
Shares were sold at $10.96, a ~2% discount to the current $11.18 share price. Was the US not able to sell these shares on the open market because it would tank the price and value of the shares?

Edit: Facepalm. 2% not 20%
Only one of the four objects shot down earlier this year was a Chinese surveillance balloon, and that was also the only one we got pictures of. The other three were described as "objects". One of them was reported to have been "cigar-shaped", and other to have messed with one of the jet's electronics.

Regarding the object shot down over Canada:

> Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first announced Saturday's shootdown over the northern Yukon territory, saying Canadian forces would recover and analyze the wreckage. (...) Canadian Defence Minister Anita Anand declined to speculate about the origin of the object, which she said was cylindrical in shape. (...) "The leaders discussed the importance of recovering the object in order to determine more details on its purpose or origin," it said in a statement.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-still-gives-no-details-a...

Officially, they gave up the search after a few days.

And as for the object shot down over Alaska:

> But the pilots later gave differing reports of what they observed, the source briefed on the intelligence said. (...) Some pilots said the object “interfered with their sensors” on the planes, but not all pilots reported experiencing that. (...) Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air, despite the object cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet. (...) It’s unclear what the object looks like, or where it came from. On Friday, Ryder said it was traveling north east across Alaska. He declined to provide a physical characterization, only saying that it was “about the size of a small car” and “not similar in size or shape” to the Chinese surveillance balloon that was downed off the coast of South Carolina on February 4. (...) recovery teams are now collecting the debris that is sitting on top of ice in US territorial waters.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/11/politics/unidentified-obj...

This one was also, officially, not recovered, for some reason.

If these are not bona fide UFO's, I don't know what to call them. What I know is that no government official called them "balloons", nor were they associated with China, nor did we get to see a single photo of them.
Efficient oil-eating bacteria cooperate to maximize dining capacity
ABC transporters are billion-year-old Maxwell Demons
What will SCOTUS do? This SCOTUS? Well, they'll take bribes from some billionaires and overturn previous decisions that will negatively affect most Americans.. And in regards to Civil Asset Forfeiture? Nothing. They will do absolutely nothing. It keeps us rabble where we belong, in the gutter.
I thought this meme was identified decades ago: Whenever a town threatens to cut the fire department's budget, the FD whines loudly, and let a house or two burn down, and then they point fingers back at the mayor / town board.

Once voters know the pattern, they're hep to it.

So what's with the NYPD ? No voter control ? Should NYers start proposing referendums ? Are referendums even possible ?
The current top comment links to this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEXUOPkQPo8

The 6000 is what they counted in one area.

They estimate 20000 total.

Skip to 1:50 for the part they talk about the counts.
Not an automation, technically, but maybe it could be: I have an AppleScript that is set to run every hour that grabs any files on my desktop that have been there longer than a day, and puts them in a dated folder in an archive folder. Same for my downloads.
River pirates are a historical tradition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_pirate
Perhaps, but the posted does not say that...
I can leave the USA. And having to pay so much for healthcare already, it sickens me that I need _more_ to be taken care of in this country. That's why I'm curious what other people are doing here.

I'll hit the eject button on the USA at some point if things don't change.
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Static Pods in Kubernetes
The spheres are from molten metal being dropped into water. It's how lead shot used to be made and shot towers are/were fairly common.
I didn't install it, but I checked that it was already on by default.
ESP32 Cloud AI Demo
https://archive.is/YgSSv
Creating a Live Auction Web App with Amazon IVS
Well, if you are going the impolite route, your comment is pretty dumb actually.

You said “invasion”, so you mean America went into Vietnam to upsurp what, the south Vietnamese government, or the north Vietnamese? It was a civil war with north Vietnam invading the south, with the Americans and south Vietnamese mostly on defense rather than offense. America didn’t invade the north (well, beyond bombing). I guess you are arguing against south Vietnam’s right to exist, but that would be a pretty horrible position to take in my opinion.

China actually invaded Vietnam after it was unified with troops and boots on the ground. There are no other invasions in recent times (the French were basically kicked out in the first phase of the war, their invasion happened in the previous century).
Communists at least seize stuff with good intentions.
Is that podcaster Dan Carlin of Hardcore History? I recall him saying something similar, about the Great Man theory of history.
In my view, a setup where you are forced to enter a decent-quality disk-unlock passphrase on every cold boot is a rather hardened setup. The problem is, this is awful UX. If something causes a lot of friction, folks tend to just avoid that thing. And that's why many people just bind the disk encryption key to their TPM and call it a day. Thus leading to the exploit detailed in the parent article.

Once you have physical access to a computer, the sky really is the limit on the kinds of exploits (both hardware and software) you can execute on an unsuspecting victim.

Disk password and no TPM binding? `dd` the entire contents of the victim's disk to an external disk. Then infect the bootloader so that the early initrd (which is responsible for that disk password prompt) will send the key to you as soon as network connectivity is established. Game over.

Secure boot? Pwn it with something like the technique I explained already.

Actually good secure boot (custom PK+MOK and a locked down BIOS config)? Pop the laptop lid, solder some wires (or in some cases, just a SOIC clip) to the BIOS flash chip (example: https://forum.phala.network/t/topic/2584), dump the BIOS, flash an insecure one, then do the same bootloader trick already described.

Of course depending on how hardened the computer being attacked it, the attacks get more sophisticated, but if someone is at the point where they're invading your physical boundaries and messing with your hardware in person, they're probably willing and capable to deploy fairly sophisticated attacks?
> all those bags will have to be disposed of, if not the actual biscuits themselves.

Nobody will repackage the biscuits. That is not a thing any manufacturer or merchant would seriously consider. Of course it will be disposed of.

Just imagine the liability of selling a food product which already come back from a costumer.
This may be useless information to others but I eat healthy, get some exercise, eat some anti-tumor foods like cruciferous vegetables, keep stress levels down and hope that I buy myself enough time until a magic pill or injection comes out that tricks the body into doing a better job of hunting down cancer. Overall I don't worry about it as that also causes stress contributing to a self fulfilling condition. Eating healthy has a myriad of other benefits, too many to list here.
As a shareholder, I have to agree. It's a huge waste of time and money. While it's a bit humorous considering SpaceX would be used to launch a direct-competitor's satellites, SpaceX is the only successful launchpad around.
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Crates.io Postmortem: User Uploaded Malware
https://archive.is/MF8QZ
Mozilla claims that they review all the code, but in practice they don't. They have an automated tool that looks for certain things. If nothing is found, this is the end of the code review. If things are flagged, then a human will look at the code a little.

If you have an established extension and push an update, odds are there will be no human review of the code changes. That is how most malicious extensions happen.

Sure, Mozilla historically had less malicious extensions than Chrome. But that's for the same reason that Linux has less viruses than Windows: hackers will target the 90% of users and not waste time on the rest.

I say all this as a staunch Firefox user and maintainer of a handful of extensions.
Well, our expense since we impose a system that makes this possible.
Reminder: Adblocking is considered an extremist activity.

https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vSVUwlTGIywV...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akeRz7ouICQ
There is information posted to X which the top 100 newspapers are not willing to / do not care to publish.
Those barriers to entry meant basically nobody hosted malicious sites with an SSL cert back then. "Look for the lock" was a valid security recommendation in those days.
>Voting gets us nowhere with limiting state power.

You have to make a habit of finding out who the incumbent is and not voting for them. Do this every election and it will get better after a decade or so. You have to scramble the shady alliances by inserting new people every election. It's better than what we've been doing.

How do I know this will work? Incumbent politicians were starkly against simply marking who the incumbent was on ballots a decade or two ago the last time it came up.
Why blame Canada or Obama when you can blame swamp gas.
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37259786
https://archive.is/2ojM7
Why do people have to have 'commercial value' to get black bars? Why do people have to pass the ideological police? Why isn't serving as a visible advocate of a certain logical model enough?

I think my bias comes from having started my career in AI on the inference side and having (perhaps not so much long term :) seen Cyc as a shining city on a hill. Lenat certainly established that logical model even if we've since gone onto other things.
This isn't one of those cases. This isn't a Xerox, Hoover, or even Google situation. Simple reference of a trademark is allowed. What holders need to guard against is dilution and generification within the applicable domain.
These terms are probably needed to cover public usage scenarios where someone could claim ownership or privacy violations even over a public forum.
A lot of the effusive praise is from people in Europe, who navigate slightly differently (often directions are based on intersection, etc) and have a lot longer OSM tradition. My guess is that you're American (or at least not European) and so unfortunately the fact is that volunteers like ourselves have to do the work of adding addresses to the map. One easy way anyone can do that is with the RapID / MapWithAI address layer from the National Address Database, I myself have taken to doing large formally-approved imports as well.

OM's only data source is OSM itself and their volunteer dev team is already overloaded so that's the only option there for now (basically the same as with OsmAnd) but if you really want an OpenStreetMaps based GPS app with full address support ASAP you can try Magic Earth in the meantime. It's not FOSS, but at least it's not Google.

As for ice cream, it's a matter of checking to see if those closer businesses are mapped correctly or not. If they're properly tagged as "ice cream" in OrganicMaps but not displaying in the correct order then that's an OM bug to report, but my guess is that they're not entered properly into OpenStreetMap to begin with. Both are free open source projects though so we can make things better ourselves without begging a big corporation to do it for us.

Cheers!
Ten Sed Command Examples
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No. Octopi is just wrong, has no justification, and is based on ignorance.
For example, the one case involves the girl's boyfriend and drugs. It's passed almost as an aside but no one gets that brought up if there isn't more to the story.

The first story sounds more innocent but how do both of these apply to the volume of other cases? The article makes it sound like all of them would be similarly innocent.