skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To your second question: ethics, it turns out, aren't as powerful as a mountain of cash to ski down like Scrooge McDuck.
True, but if you get enough people to do it repeatedly theoretically you could also model accuracy as a random variable. So then you get an overall population estimate of accuracy as well as a model of the heterogeneity among individuals.

Still, yes, with this small of a sample and minimal replication, there's issues. But they're not super serious about this scientifically, it's really for entertainment.

Taking this a step further, I think to really test the simple discernment hypothesis, they should have the tasters sort the samples into two groups without labeling. The current approach sort of assumes that not only can they distinguish between the samples, but can also identify which is which. I think those are two different, separable issues.

Where your concerns become more important for me personally are in ratings of foods etc.; I often wonder how much small cultures develop around these things and influence the ratings. It's interesting to me how much ratings can differ sometimes, and I suspect it's related to what you're mentioning.
I have chosen to interpret your response as sarcasm
I used to need my wife's devices on the whitelist too - she had a job working with tracking and needing to see trackers fire when she loaded webpages etc. I once made a mistake and she got unwhitelisted and waited 4 hours wondering why her tracking codes "weren't working"
Yes. Or we would end up comparing multiple news stories, presumably at least partly fact-checked (but you never know these days), against a single post on a random social network.
Now I'm curious too. What parts of the apocrypha would throw a wrench in the gears of an otherwise cohesive narrative?

Also, maybe I wasn't as clear about my point as I could have been. By cohesive narrative I don't mean that the Bible reads seamlessly like a novel. I mean that it has very clear themes that are introduced and fulfilled over the course of the whole book.
> may be mostly relegated to self-managed clusters.

Foreign to me too, but not surprising people report issues as common. there are a lot of footguns in kubernetes that come from a lack of understanding.

You can build a robust kubernetes cluster that hosts an application that’s nearly impossible to bring offline without an act of god, it just takes some know-how and a tiny bit of effort/experience.
My company is a remote only business and somehow HR and IT have figured out how to hire US / Canada / EU / Philippines / various South American countries. But I’m not the accountant or HR expert. I don’t know why you need offices, that’s absurd
> (I won't mention which question)

You must protect the corporate overlords.
> You don't know. The paperwork's fraudulent.

They don't offer these services to anyone. Because the paperwork is fraudulent, a lot of people involved are/will be personally implicated (could easily lose their job and/or face legal challenges on top) in the scheme. It's not like banks are not monitoring delinquency/default rates already, and if the stats are start indicating problems they will certainly investigate...

So while outside observers can't verify anything, those perpetrating the scheme do have to balance their own personal risk and many will in exchange request invasive details around the clients' assets in China to cover their own ass. Not admissible evidence to the bank, of course, but they're not handing these out like candy.

> The Chinese property market is in freefall.

Realistically, people involved have already sold so this doesn't affect them. At least in the Vancouver area, the brokers (who are the usual point-of-contact to the clients) won't even proceed unless you've already sold and have the cash.

> And capital controls can get tightened.

This is the main real risk that those in the scheme look out for, but it's a geopolitical risk rather than a market-based one. Which makes more sense when rates are high, like now. When rates were low, this didn't happen as much since there are plenty of clients to go around.

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Also, in the grand scheme of things, even if the bubble bursts, the broader economy is still not worse off. Each cent paid into these mortgages is real "new money" being introduced into the economy. This is not the subprime mortgage days where at the end it became just a transfer of wealth to the banking industry. For the most part "the public" is not the one being defrauded, it's China...
I disagree, because I think the idiosyncratic aspect was way more of a feature than a bug of Pitchfork. The real purpose of Pitchfork was not to say which music was good or bad. It was to say which music is worth talking about, and it made itself the center of that conversation. Getting reviewed by Pitchfork was more important than getting a good review by Pitchfork. They were notorious for giving bad reviews to good music.

If you're familiar with pro wrestling / kayfabe, then Pitchfork was the heel. They provide something for fans to root against. Look at how much sympathy artists get from their fans when Pitchfork published a bad review. If they didn't think an album was worth talking about, they ignored it. It is worse to be ignored by Pitchfork than it is to get a 0.0 review consisting entirely of a video of a monkey urinating into his own mouth (Jet's 2006 "Shine On").

Music criticism had been corrupted and corporatized and in the way video game reviewing still is. Everything from the big labels got an above-average but not perfect score, so nothing really stood out. You couldn't really be all that critical. Music reviews were boring. Pitchfork shook that up precisely because they printed controversial reviews. And as you just admitted, that was there from the start, so it is not a reason for the fall.

You never knew what to expect out of Pitchfork, and that was why people followed it so closely. But nobody read Pitchfork the way HNers probably read Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes. Neither reviewers or readers were trying to objectively identify the best music. The 0.0 to 10.0 rating is not intended to be a scalar vector or even quantitative; it is an opening to a conversation, expressed as a float.
The translation is correct regarding the articles claim of the stories legitimacy.

To expand on the initial dramatized story:

> Sie steht zu Hause im Badezimmer, doch sie ist Teil einer gross angelegten Cyberattacke. Die elektrische Zahnbürste ist mit Java programmiert, und unbemerkt haben Kriminelle darauf eine Schadsoftware installiert – wie auf 3 Millionen anderen Zahnbürsten auch. Ein Befehl genügt, und die ferngesteuerten Zahnbürsten rufen gleichzeitig die Website einer Schweizer Firma auf. Die Seite bricht zusammen und ist für vier Stunden lahm gelegt. Es entsteht ein Schaden in Millionenhöhe.

The article claims that an electric toothbrush with Java-based software was the target of malware. Criminals then leveraged this malware to execute a ddos from the toothbrushes against the website of a swiss business.

The article further claims this led to a downtime for around five hours with expect damages in the millions.
Comes from Latin. "Germania" was their name for the general area.
My Intelligent RSS reader and agent YOShInOn ingests about 110 RSS feeds. In the last cycle it ingested about 7500 articles and chose 270 it thought I would like and mixed in another 30 randomly chosen for variety, validation, calibration, etc. It groups articles into 20 clusters and shows me the top articles of each cluster rather than top articles overall, otherwise I might see nothing but arXiv papers about recommendation systems. The main UI looks like TikTok, I have to "like" or "dislike" items and that balanced positive and negative samples is good for the model.

I might look at another 100 articles on screens that show articles likely to get on the HN front page, articles likely to get a lot of comments, etc.

It uses embeddings from sbert.net and uses classical methods from scikit-learn such as the probability calibrated SVM and k-means for classification and clustering. It takes maybe three minutes to build a new prediction model so there is no problem doing it every cycle.

It picks an article, then I favorite it, then I pick some things to post to Mastodon or Hacker News, those articles get queued and posted at a controlled rate.

It's highly successful at what it does and I am not afraid to demo it. Back end is python with aiohttp, front end is HTMX. My favorite client is an iPad. Runs on a "Gaming PC" with all the RGB bling

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/110568695732952713

but it would not need such a powerful machine. What it does need is some commitment, that is, you would have to judge 1000 or so articles for the system to start making good predictions.

If I were to try to make a product of it I'd be very concerned about that "cold start" and if it was a SaaS play like Stumbleupon I'd probably lean on the "collaborative filtering" approach because it pools your data with other people's data and also gives popularity signals that would make better recommendations quicker -- however I like the YOShInOn feed better than commercial feeds and I like that is "clean" and based on my preferences and my preferences alone.

Personally I find it a hassle to look at an article and decide what exactly to link. There is a popular article about a scientific paper and the choice of which one to post depends on if the paper is open access, how obnoxious the ads on the site are, which one has better illustrations, etc. I'd like to get it so it can give me a few choices of what link and title to post, particularly when I am on mobile.

It has search but I don't use it much. It wouldn't be hard to make it a bookmark manager ingesting single web pages.

I also envision a "pro" version of the product which maintains multiple classifications at a time aimed at professional "searchers" who could be patent searchers or recruiters or salespeople or researchers who do meta-analysis, open-source intelligence, etc.
"Why would I pay $6/mo (or $60/yr) when I can self host it?!"

Because even if you went with a $5/mo droplet at DigitalOcean, you're going save what? A dollar a month, plus have to do all the maintenance of keeping it running.

I mean yeah if self hosting is more your style, go ahead, but it's weird to me that people expect free to compete with "I'm paying someone else but doing all the work myself"
we are talking in a context where you would spin up a new cluster whenever you want to upgrade kubernetes version.

In that case you don't want to migrate application/user data so you are kind of forced to keep DBs and filesystems outside.
Music, even more so than film and TV, is incredibly subjective in terms of what you find to be good. Pitchfork has trashed a bunch of albums that I love and they've adored lots of music I find to be unlistenable. I suspect this has a lot to do with identity politics and other things that I really don't want being front and center in criticism of the arts. Perhaps I'm just a troglodyte.
On my Pixel I just set Private DNS. Yea I had to setup a SSL certificate but that's easy to do. So when I leave home, I still use my Adguard server for adblocking without having to touch settings etc (except, as mentioned, captival portals)

I could do the same with "vanilla" DNS (udp port 53) as well, but I don't.

Pihole can't, easily, do Dns vis TLS/QUIC etc without 3rd party stuff being bolted on etc. Adguard Home is a single binary, it's great.
GPS availability for the tablet/phone is a nice-to-have and not absolutely necessary for using an EFB. Intentional GPS jamming by the military happens from time to time in many parts of the US (esp. Socal) and it doesn't prevent people from using EFBs.

Personally, I fly with two EFB apps on my ipad and a backup on a separate device. The avionics in the airplane is probably a lot more robust than either device as well.
The key word here is father. If you're in your 20s or 30s, chances of it being heart attack instead of panic attack are incredibly low.
This pained me to see recently at my grandparents house. After my grandpa died my grandma moved into a nursing home and her house had to be sold.

Around 5 auctioneers came to the property and took around and 4 of them basically said "whelp, you would be paying me to take all this to the junk yard". One auctioneer agreed to take it and eventually most things sold for very low prices of like $1-$10 when they were worth much more.

Over 60 years of various collections had accumulated. A lifetime of them collecting and meticulously holding onto them, gone in a flash. The family didn't have the throughput to go through each item, one by one to figure out what everything was worth. It was an emotional tax on the family just to box it all up to get it out of the house.

So much wasted. So now the most important thing I tell people over 65 that they can do in the next 10 years is figure out what they want to do with all their belongings, *BEFORE* their family has to decide what to do with it. Its an emotional and physical burden to your family if you don't figure out what to do with your belongings and I think a little bit selfish. You know whats coming but if you don't plan for it, you are just pushing the work on to the next generation.
I still find the analogy mostly appropriate. Perhaps, it is not the 'high level source code' that is strictly typed as was perhaps believed by some, but I think it can still act as analogous to the runtime memory state of the computer. The genes are like memory mapped services which can operate on one another and change their state, and this couples with interrupts from the external environment that force changes to the state and memory, but the runtime code adapts and still has access to in-memory functions to call when appropriate, but every so often a buffer overflow can occur or be enticed and this causes other issues.
There are few vehicles more cringe than a loud motorcycle of any kind. Kudos to you for still having fun but trying to reduce the blast radius.
Just had another coffee...darn, forgot what I wanted to write ;-)
Funnily enough that happens also when you run the original article through Google translate:

> She's in the bathroom at home, but she's part of a large-scale cyber attack. The electric toothbrush is programmed with Java, and criminals have unnoticed installed malware on it - like on 3 million other toothbrushes.

(In German, toothbrushes are female, like all brushes.)
The Problem with Civil Asset Forfeiture (2016)
The secret comics of Frank Johnson are published
FWIW, $60 seems fair enough from where I stand. It's about the same price as what it'd take to run WordPress off a VPS, except, I don't need to manage the software or the server.

Incidentally, $60 is also the lowest WP.com tier.

> The world needs more cutesy, thought through mini project factories like you.

Totally agreed!
https://archive.is/u7NNi
I think it’s important to remember that the future isn’t known to us. People will fixate on one scenario or another, forgetting that there are others. Our ability to forecast is limited.

Studying the recent past or the deep past gives us some perspective on how things have changed before. Making analogies might help us think of more scenarios, but it’s not so good for ruling things out.
Blueprints specify a lot more detailed information than recipes. That's why I think recipes is a better description of genetic information.
A bizarre claim given that so many are, in practice, starving. Maybe they're just holding it wrong
Similar to sibling comment, mostly just works out of the box. Things I've noticed that are different:

- There's no docker.sock API socket by default, which makes sense because Podman doesn't have Docker's daemon-based architecture. You can run one with `podman system service [...]` if you have non-CLI clients expecting to connect to some $DOCKER_HOST

- Mounts/volumes behave subtly differently IIRC, I had a bunch of scripts that didn't work with podman-as-docker out of the box, I think the issue was that Docker will create some directories automatically that Podman won't?

Aside from that, rootless Podman is great and I've had far fewer issues with it than I did for rootless Docker, only real caveat is that -p <some port> doesn't actually connect to the host, it's still namespaced. You have to use --net=host for actual host networking.
Could they add H to CL then use the HCL and NAOH to drive a acid-base flow battery* during peak loads? I guess it'd be less efficient because the hydrogen would have to come from electrolysis.

https://www.cetjournal.it/cet/23/100/112.pdf
I switch right away.

If you're worried about supporting older Go compilers, you could always have build conditions for older versions that define missing things like:

// +build !go1.7

type any = interface{}
I agree, but wouldn't suggest there should be extra noise created in such an absence.
I run a pair as my DNS. For me they're mostly there to block tracking over ads. Approx 10% of my DNS lookups get eaten by it using the standard ad list. Ublock / privacy badger grabs a bunch, the piholes still kill a bunch more.
Related: https://filestore.fortinet.com/fortiguard/research/toothbrus...

A research presentation by fortinet covering a BLE-enabled toothbrush that communicates with the cloud over a mobile app.

Also mentioned by a comment on the original post.
I mean Asahi Linux works really well on many versions of Apple Silicon these days, you're definitely moving goalposts if you're saying that a MacBook isn't a general purpose device.
Causing rapid decompression is quite hard. Opening a normal door is very difficult during flight except at very low altitudes.
> This was 2011. Foodies were well past artisanal by then.

What does this mean?
Why, of all the people who have researched this, is this the only time I’ve seen this theory and can’t find it anywhere online when I Google it.
Anti-abortion group's studies retracted before Supreme Court mifepristone case
You've been posting on HN since 2009, so at a rough guess you're either late 20s if you started early or somewhere around 35-45.

That's 15 years of time to apply your own advice. Where's your billion dollars? How many "tries" have you made in that time? What do you think the odds of success are based on the number of failures?

We're not talking about middle class family home lifestyles and salaried jobs here, we're talking about SUCCESS which you seem to think has some obvious advice that just needs to be applied and also that you know who is dispensing the good advice. No personal factors, no luck right? Has that worked for you so far? Will you have a billion dollars by the time you're 50? In terms of % towards a billion dollars, where do you sit?
Indeed, I'm quite convinced that individuals have attempted to drive while using their Quest 3, and it wouldn't surprise me if some have been pulled over for such actions. It seems likely that at least one person has taken this reckless behavior to an extreme.

Apple products typically enjoy widespread popularity, though the Vision Pro appears to cater to a somewhat limited demographic that is serious enough to make the purchase. There are numerous instances of people confidently wearing these devices in public. Among the footage I've encountered, one particular video caught my attention, showing someone using a Vision Pro while driving a Tesla and getting pulled over, though I'm unsure about the video's authenticity.
Fortescue says regenerative “Infinity Train” may be on tracks in two years

https://reneweconomy.com.au/fortescue-says-regenerative-infi...

They're also hiring Software Architects and embedded engineers (along with Engineers)

https://careers.fortescue.com/job/Perth-Senior-Software-Arch...

https://careers.fortescue.com/job/Perth-Embedded-Test-Engine...

Perth, Western Australia based.
I don’t think there were two approved procedures.

I think there was an approved procedure (“removing the plug”) and a deviance from process, justified with ad hoc semantic games.
I don't know if self hosting is the competitor to a paid blogging platform, rather it is social media that is the competitor. Most bloggers don't have a domain, they're publishing on Facebook and other social media, who are making a killing of these people without giving them a good damned dime back.
Oh, if your point is that both environment and genetics (and circumstance/luck) plays a large role in development then we completely agree. If you're saying that the role of genetics is overstated or insignificant then I strongly disagree.
"web3" is synonymous with Ethereum so that's no surprise to me.

What is a surprise is ENS having interoperability with BTC, SOL, &c addresses. I assume these exist as TXT records? Not sure I like exposing that...of course, that's the default with .eth names.

The way BTC and HNS works, you can use a different address derived from the same seed and still receive funds. Different strokes for different folks and all that.

No one chain will (or should) be THE solve for everything.
Indeed, someone who, say, isn't even familiar with the difference between CBD and CBN-containing products probably should not be the person giving out recommendations.
We licensed IP from a Uni. It was so basic that we had to do all the development work losing our investors in the process.
Thanks for looking out; those were not the actual names I used! I added those in for comedic effect ;)
Do you really not understand?
General Consul? Is he a Roman general ?
Regulatory requirement.

The question isn’t whether it’s possible, the question is whether remote-first is a significant value-add to the employer.
The article's title and the words of Denis Noble are quite incendiary and come across as misinformed. Are the non-quoted ideas attributable to Ball accurate? I don't know.

The actual quotes from Ball, wherein he laments the comparisons of cells to computers comes across as ill-informed. Computers operate on programs. If a program is dependent on complex state, includes random factors, error correcting codes, etc., how is it incompatible with the description of the cell?

Yes, cells are immensely complex. But that does not preclude analogizing to a computer.

This critique strikes me as refusing to admit the nuance of another's argument while demanding others see the "correct" nuance in one's own.
It's one thing to be able to track a transaction, but it's a real problem that a name exchange is mandatory for micropayments.

I don't know if I'm the only one, but I can't see myself giving my identity for 10c to buy blog articles.

Especially since first and last names are a powerful tracking tool that's not as easy to change as your IP address.
Respectfully, I disagree.

A "Karen" is a particular type of complainer, one who's only aware of themself in their little bubble world, with insufficient regard or empathy for other human beings, or the external factors which sometimes make delivering A+ (or even decent) service infeasible.
> Thinking for yourself required knowledge and actual study, not just something people can do on a moment's notice.

What do you think happens when people work the land? When people cook, plant, tend animals, build their own tools to make more tools with, do handcrafts? They experiment and learn. They pass along knowledge.

I recommend picking up an Eric Sloane book if you're interested in that. He wrote a lot about not the middle ages in Europe, but how people lived in the pre-electrified rural US.

https://ericsloane.com
The point of linking to that article is that it's not plausible that a 3-million-device botnet attack would be first reported as a one-paragraph example at the beginning of a general cybersecurity article in a regional German publication.