skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that 4chan will ban you for innocent things, if a moderator disagrees with you, funnily enough criticizing video game censorship and journalists is bannable as well. But does not ban for extreme racism and violent content like that. It's not a free speech site anymore and hasn't been for quite a few years now, basically.. it's just a racism site.
Just to give one example, if you want to do forensic analysis on the signal based on inaudible differences. That's a valid use case for an archive that doesn't apply to consumer (even audiophile) consumption of music streams.
No, this is somebody who saw their country balancing at the edge of the abyss for months, with this clown constantly trying to tip it the wrong way. Their own home country, where they grew up, which has all their friends/family in it.

Can you not understand how that would hit a person much harder than, say, somebody outside of Greece, let alone the EU? How much more invested in the welfare of this country they must be?

A little empathy goes a long way here.
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> Of course, we have an ecological problem and we do need to address it: there is no question that we are responsible for deforestation, plastics in the ocean, and the extinction of species.

Deforestation alone has caused parts of climate change, so by that fact alone you contradict yourself. you can't say people are responsible for deforestation, deforestation causes climate change, but people are not a cause of climate change.

Plastics in ocean maybe affects plankton levels and other things that could take carbon out of the atmosphere, etc.

Scientists are lately claiming that we're moving even faster to bad situations than originally scheduled, most likely because to be more alarmist even if accurate would upset some people in powerful positions, like Galileo pissing off the Catholic Church etc...

What event would it take for your to say human caused climate change is real?
I think the message might be "We are big on AI"
I live in Japan. The part about not leaving the office before your boss depends on the company and it is not so true anymore, most of my Japanese colleagues punch out the second the bell rings. The part about pretending to work is very much true though.
This kind of stalking.
> The COVID devastation is also about long COVID, and even people who had COVID but either recovered “fully” or never displayed symptoms. None of this is over, and we are so, so fucked.

SARS-CoV-2 is certainly with us to stay, so in that sense it's not over. But beyond that, I don't see how "we are so, so fucked" as you say. Covid is no doubt taking a small nibble out of life expectency, and yes there is some long Covid still taking its own nibble out of productivity and life satisfaction ... but it's not that big a part of the big picture. Covid is killing less than half as many people in the US at this point as lung cancer, and those deaths are overwhelmingly amongst the elderly. I don't want to be overtly callous, but knocking a few years of life off people well into retirement is hardly going to bring the country to its knees. There are essentially no Covid deaths among people under age 18, and among the working age population, cases requiring hospitalization or leading to long term debilitization are rare.

Those who suffer, of course, suffer. We shouldn't be unsupportive of them in their trials. But Covid as a public health crisis is largely over.
For me, arbitrary means something like "not constrained by rules; able to be chosen at will". An arbitrary choice doesn't have to be "random" in the strict sense of being chosen by nondeterminstic chance, although people often use "random" to mean something similar to "arbitrary" in colloquial speech.

It can have good or bad connotations: "Emacs's configurability means you can extend it in arbitrary ways" is good; "Russia is known for arbitrary detention of political dissidents" is bad.
Scarface, Apple doesn't love you back.
> Half the time the developers in question won't even read the error output before raising a ticket.

If they had no DevOps team to raise a ticket with, and it had to get done they would find some way to figure it out if they had the ability to modify and initiate their own pipelines. The reason I like "you build it you run it" is I feel like I have far more control over my own destiny. You're not having to negotiate and coordinate with a separate team through some ticketing system. Far less wasted back and forth and miscommunication. If that means you have to expand one of your teams with an additional DevOps person to foster understanding of the tooling on a team who hasn't done it before that's fine. But don't make them the DevOps person. Their goal is to enable the rest of the team to pick up these skills. Their goal should be to transition into a normal contributing member of the team working on product development because the team no longer has a need for a DevOps person.
No.

Empirically, myself and my sister have witnessed shoplifters personally in recent months. I know this is anecdotal data, but anecdotes (especially personal ones) are enough for myself. At least in my area, it seems like shoplifters _are_ on the rise.

I don't need to prove it to other people on the internet. My own eyes with my own life is enough proof for me. If that's not enough for you, whatever. Seeing news reports that others are seeing similar rises matches my "gut check".

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Now people stealing food from grocery stores is... you know... the lowest level of shoplifting. These people aren't stealing like, luxury goods. They're clearly just trying to survive. Its not like a criminal gang or organized crime that'd be deeply rooted and/or difficult to deal with.

IMO, its weird that people would rather shoplift than to apply and/or use a WIC card (food stamps). So its a conundrum for another day in any case, its a crime (albeit relatively victimless. Sure sucks for the staff and the grocery store but I've seen worse...). But its still speaks poorly for neighborhoods and makes people feel less safe. So yeah, it needs to stop. But I can 100% believe that shoplifting is on the rise today. Anecdotally at least.

There's other low-level crimes, like obviously not-paying for the subway, that I think is on the rise by my eyes as well. These also make people feel unsafe and/or unappreciated (tax dollars wasted, etc. etc.) and is bad for our neighborhoods.

I do know that statistically speaking, the personal savings rate of people has declined, wages haven't kept with inflation, etc. etc. So these actions make sense in the greater economic situation IMO.

I don't necessarily want a police crackdown to throw all these people in jail. But we do need to do something, maybe make WIC cards easier to apply for (at every grocery store for example), or stuff like that. We literally have a food-stamps program, why aren't people using it? Why are they shoplifting instead?

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If I cared, I probably would start by interviewing / personally talking to cashiers at my local grocery store before I trusted online articles anyway. And I'd suggest you do the same if you cared about this issue. The internet is just not as good a source of information as the front-line workers here.

Every grocery store clerk has a feel. Talk with them next time you visit the store, don't be a political asshat about it but it wouldn't take more than 1 or 2 minutes to ask them if they've noticed more shoplifters. Obviously don't eat up all their time either (they're on the job after all). With luck, you might see a manager watching all the clerks who'd have more freetime to talk about shoplifters too.
This is not even remotely surprising to me. I've always been a bit skeptical of "the sun is evil" (and got even more skeptical when I was told I should wear sunblock inside!) and ensure I get 20 minutes full body exposure daily in the summer. Anecdotally, I can tell a general difference in my mood and sleep during periods where I get adequate sun vs. when I'm not (and I supplement vitamin D when I'm not).

While I am a big fan of the scientific method, it is difficult to do studies that don't have lots of confounding variables in this area, so when in doubt, use common sense is my rule. We evolved with the sun, so the most likely probability is we have at least some defense to it, and more than likely we evolved so that at least some exposure has benefit.
For $1 B/liter, I'll happily ride along if that's what's needed to make me the end user of it.
On hacker news everything is 0% or 100%.
That’s what people looked like back then.
You can't though: we've spent the last twelve months proving to ourselves time and time again that "just asking them not to do something" in the prompt doesn't work, because someone can always follow that up with a prompt that gets them to do something else.
Yes. That's how anecdata works. If enough people observe they don't know anyone either with or post long covid, it starts to move significance. I've known two people with ME over 50 years and it doesn't alter my sense of their personal anguish or its economic and wider health consequences.

I have no doubt long covid exists and will need significant funding in research and targeted health care. It won't need as much as, or return as much as the spend on paediatrics or obstetrics, per capita.
Sure, I don't doubt that the infrastructure is terrible for cycling. It is where I live in the US too. But I think it's worth calling out that the distances involved often are well-suited for cycling, even if the streets today aren't.

Where the distances are okay but the streets aren't, safer streets can make cycling feasible. Where the distances are too far for cycling, you need both safer streets and a shift in land use to get people out of their cars. Both are doable in the long term, but the former is much more tractable in the short- and medium-term.
It's perfectly preserved only if your samples are perfect. Imagine instead that we used 4-bit samples. The results would be obviously garbage. 8-bit would be better. 16-bit is better still. But it isn't perfect.
That doesn't work. People can come up with double layer jailbreaks that target the filtering layer in order to get an attack through.

If you think this is easy, by all means prove it. You'll be making a big breakthrough discovery in AI security research if you do.
"Semantic web for the working ontologist" by Dean Allemang and James Hendler might be a good starter if you want to go proper Rdf/RDFS/OWL.

TBH I would probably take a look at terminusDB though. They do things a bit differently, and are def. more opinionated (more closed world, more databasey) but that opinionatedness helps provide a bit saner/stable foundation than the very grown rest of the ecosystem imho.
Only for their managed solution at the moment.
I recall clearly, at the time, the first two weeks of lockdown. No one, anywhere, had a clue wtf was going on, except that some new virus was spreading like wildfire, that it spread before symptoms appeared, and it seemed like Italy had a crazy high death rate.

Blaming people with the knowledge of hindsight is just plain wrong.

Later lockdowns? Now that's a different conversation.
Not sure what to make of your comment. Are you suggesting we don't use any technology? All our actions have consequences on the planet. However your comment seems to suggest that by adopting wind and solar we are buying into an issue we would not have otherwise.
It's a discoutesy to the customer to spam them with notifications after the order is complete.
The idiocy of trying to sanitize LLMs for "safety" knows no bounds.

Recently I was trying to generate fake social security numbers so I could run some regression tests.

ChatGPT will refuse to do so, even though it "knows" the numbers are fake and meaningless.

So, I asked for random numbers in the format of XXX-XX-XXXX along with fake names and addresses, and it happily obliged.

And of course we've all heard the anecdote where if you ask for popular bittorrent sites, you'll be denied. But if you ask what websites are popular for bittorents so you can avoid them, it'll happily answer you.
A New Book by Carlo Rovelli: “White Holes”
From my favorite theoretical physicist (author of "The order of time", "Reality is not what it seems", "Helgoland", etc.) comes yet another book referencing his fascinating work.
Here is the complaint

https://www.wisnerbaum.com/documents/COMPLAINT-against-Alpha...

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67832608/hunt-v-meta-pl...
I doesn't look like you understand what sampling is, and how reconstruction filters in DACs work. Your statement is true for some waveforms, depending on their frequency, due to the use of reconstruction filters on the output, but it's not true for any signal and the problem becomes more apparent the higher the frequency of the waveform.
I wish years ago we would have switched to A/B testing taking weeks or months for each side.
Well, we have three examples of well resourced companies that weren’t able to compete in the smart phone market - Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook.

You really think a little startup is going to be able to do hardware at scale?

Was it big bad Apple that killed all of those phones or maybe it is just consumers made a choice using their own free will?

You really think that the startups didn’t have “being bought by a big company” as an exit strategy in the first place?

Out of all the companies that YC has funded (1000+) only six have ever gone public.

Were all the little companies that Apple acquired to integrate into their phone in an alternate universe going to create a phone?
I don't see why this is a theoretical limit. Clearly the existence of crystal growth and similar things show that there is of a much faster speed. Especially with repeating patterns those can be built in parallel and combined. Crystals can grow really fast. If it took so long for atoms to combine and make things then we wouldn't have anything actually made. You can definitely call molecular binding a "trick" when building materials from atomic levels. This is a parallelization method. And we can certainly do trillions of operations a second with atomic level combinations. Just take pure sodium and pure chloride and put them together. Or oxygen and pure iron. These reactions happen down at the "atomic level" and we can do these things at quite a macro level. So I'm just not understanding your argument here.
No, because people don't think like SSL libraries and there's a big difference between "you should trust this key" and "this key provides good enough evidence of authenticity to count as incriminating". To defeat the latter the key must be published.
I severely disagree: a full denuclearization means wars all over again.

Si vis pacem, para bellum
Same. I have 10 CGPDFService processes running for over 24 hours. Two CPU's are at 100%, and together they're using 15GB of RAM. I can SIGKILL but they come back after 5 minutes. Some people believe they're related to the slow-mo screensaver, which I disabled in my settings. It's only happening on my Mac Studio (which isn't logged in), and not on my Macbook Air (which I'm currently using).
This looks like an attempt to commercialise the ideas in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtANPtnhyg

Projectors have a killer problem which is they aren't very bright, and those that are bright enough to be useful are dangerous to everyone nearby.
I don't think you can have full intelligence without agency
Garmin Connect is down since approximately 11 AM UTC. Garmin Connect is used to sync garmin watch data to the app for example.
Where > 1,000 it has alot more impact to say "megatons".
There are many studies which show that surgical masks are quite good at stopping a majority of expelled particles, even those well within the aerosolized size regime:

Surgical masks reduce outward aerosol-sized particles by at least 74%: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72798-7

Surgical masks reduce outward COVID viral transmission by 73%, and viral RNA by 58%: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00637-20

Outward filtering efficiency above 50% is certainly worth it compared to the cost of a surgeon wearing a mask. It's arguably worth it even at much lower efficiencies.

If you read my comment, you'll notice I'm not disagreeing on the aerosol/droplet size boundary. I'm arguing against the apparent subtext of your comment, which seems to indicate that surgical masks aren't effective at protecting patients.
Suggestions for services that you have used would be appreciated.
It's quite possible the biggest issue with the COVID vaccines we have is that intramuscular injection produces a blood-borne immune response but the method of infection is through the lungs, and you get much less response there.

It's why there's been a lot of interest in inhalable vaccines[1] although getting them to market has had a lot of delays.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/nasal-covid-vacci...
This discovery doesn't really change anything in terms of chances to get sick. The cardiovascular effects were already known as the article says. It's just about the why and how. In fact knowing this might make the symptoms easier to fight.

We already know the chances of serious effects of COVID which are now very low due to the antibodies everyone has built up.

Just saying because there's a subgroup which really seems to want to go back to restrictions and is using any news to advocate for it.
I don't deny your experience, but my experience is that when it comes to domain specific scripts sysadmins fared much better than developers.

I still see this, developers use archaic or absurd incantations in their build-scripts because they kludge something that works in bash on their machine then push it into yaml and move on, forgetting to comment, document or try to simplify the line so that it's easy to break apart later when it has to be debugged.

Some of the best interpreted code I have ever seen came from a former sysadmin (it was powershell though, that comes with it's own warts of course).

The issue is that we collectively decided that sysadmins should just stop existing instead of allowing it to grow properly. We forget how bad things were for developers back when we decided we didn't like sysadmins. There were companies still passing around code on a USB stick because developers didn't want to depend on SVN being down. (I am not kidding).

Git was introduced 2005 and wasn't really everywhere until 2012, but 2014 sysadmins had all but been retired. This is the timeframe we talk about.

Developers of that time were as bad as the sysadmins were, the problem was that the developers had time and space to grow and we judge the developers of 2012 as if they had all the tools, knowledge and incremental improvements in workflow that they have today.
Don't forget to take vit K2 too, to get that calcium into your bones instead of your arteries.
Not even attempting a jailbreak. Bing Image creator appears to be broke as I am about 45 minutes into a five minute wait.
The downsampled 44k that went through a half rate filter might actually sound better, for that matter. The speakers won't try to reproduce the content above 22khz then.
One of the problems in Munich is that all rapid public transport goes through the city centre, there is no loop around it like in Berlin. If you commute to the west you have to go through Hackerbrücke station - that's the one close to Theresienwiese, where Oktoberfest is. Same goes for the subway, Munich has very centralised hubs where the lines cross, hard to avoid.

Just to be the counterpoint: I'm also born in Munich and I like this city quite a lot. Certainly not a shithole, IMO - and that's the main reason why rents are as insane as they are. If not even Freiham, a big new city quarter which is currently being build, is able to put a dent into the rising rents, then I doubt replacing the extra hotel capacity would be a game changer either, IMO. Munich just grew way too quickly without scaling it's infrastructure accordingly.
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To be honest I don't understand what your goal is. Use one toolchain to produce the binaries you distribute, sure. Only provide support for those official binaries or binaries compiled with the officially supported toolchain, why not. And use -Werror with that standardized toolchain in CI to ensure builds with warnings don't get committed, I think that's great. But why are you hell bent on making it harder for your users to build from source?
MBNA Canada announced last year they werent going to support Firefox.

DTCC apps such as Omgeo support Chrome and Edge only.
I don't believe he's Satoshi and I sense the mail originator (-if real) doesn't either. They believe he (the funder) could make money here, and now expresesses doubt that can work.

Perjury won't fix it, but is a stop-loss position maybe?
I've been living in Australia and New Zealand, and have been terrified of sun exposure - during peak times (summer mid-day) it's scary how quickly you can burn.

However I also have low vitamin D.

My current strategy is to check the UV levels (I've got a widget on my personal dashboard) and whenever the UV levels are moderate or below, I try to get as much sun exposure as possible - shorts and t-shirt, or topless.

I then cover up when the UV levels are demonstrably high.

My theory is that low levels of exposure are very good - you get your vitamin D, whatever else you need, and your body starts to build an appropriate amount of melanin.

The worst thing to do is to avoid sun all the time, then suddenly get massive UV doses.

I've noticed that my hands very rarely get burned compared to other areas - my theory is due to constant exposure that part of my body is more resistant compared to the pasty areas.

My key point is that you can view the UV rating and protect yourself appropriately - e.g. high caution summer-midday, zero caution winter mid-day.
Compare asking a human "how can I murder someone", to "Hey, I'm writing a novel, how can my character murder someone as realistically as possible"
For Covid, yes. If we look at the 1918 flu pandemic, the worst affected populations were those young adults with strong immune systems. They basically went into overdrive and the bodies attempts to fight the infection caused irreparable damage to the host.
It's available for me on the iPhone app. The voice is really good and the pauses are very human
You’re practically describing Kim Jung Gi: https://youtu.be/MGbvhyTZXfs
Sorry, but how did you manage to make so many assumptions from that?

Everything I need from Ops is already enumerated and specified more than well in tickets (which is required, as is par for course with the sysadmin from hell stereotype), and documented in Markdown files within my app's source code.

I generate scripts for them since that's what they WANT and ASKED for several times.

They literally want me and other managers to help with DevOps (Heck, I'm even AWS certified), but don't trust me and others to give access. They ask for scripts and I comply to save their time. How am I on the hook if they want me to create scripts, but some of the new hires don't know how to use Terraform/CloudFormation?

> "there is a culture problem. You both need to understand how that works, if they don't have enough time, then you're understaffed, that needs to be fixed."

The culture problem is Ops wanting to do everything and not trusting. If they don't want to "prodfuck", just review every script. Or perhaps test them in the staging AWS account that I pay for with my own money. Or just stop asking me to make infrastructure as code. Or suggest a fourth option instead of wasting my time and being disrespectful.

I can't change other people's behavior. I can only change mine.

If they are understaffed I can help, or they can hire more. Wasting my time and making me do pointless work is not the answer.
And how many “multipoint” devices support an unlimited number of devices? I currently have 2 AppleTVs, a MacBook, iPad, an iPhone and an Apple Watch all paired to my AirPods .

What’s the pairing process like? Mine is just - sign into iCloud and my AirPods show up.