skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In other words, one could, with a high degree of accuracy, predict the results of the annual test of student learning and teacher effectiveness without actually giving students a single test.

True, but it misses the point. The goal of standardized tests is to measure student preparation only, not academics or potential. This is a well known quantum correlated for bias as determined by the content of the given test. Since preparation costs money and dedicated time it’s a form of class distinction whose bell curve is filtered against an intelligence baseline.
"Who else will do better, make only perfect decisions, such that no one else ever need touch or address the topic again?"

Nobody, of course, but complaining about "kids these days" is never going to stop being popular.
It is pretty funny, and thank you for bringing Clive James to my attention :)
This was my first thought as well.

As far as the OP's statement:

> (Note github does not require any personal information at all and still prevents abuse)

GitHub has also been fighting with crypto-leeches. The difference is that they're loaded with cash and can afford to "eat" more of it than GitLab.
> Unweighted keys require the same involvement as typing on a computer keyboard.

…and who’d have any fun with that?
Cap-X and COMP-X: how the Tandy Pocket Computers got a sucky Japanese assembler
He was amazing. It was a long time ago, but he's made me laugh till I cried. He was it.
Mind elaborating why this would be a good reference? Not saying it isn't, just want to understand why you think so
I am glad you have never had to deal with a job search after being fired so someone can make the quarterly numbers that result in getting a bonus that is more than you will earn in a life time, but the rest of us recognize it as an unfair deprivation from the outset.
I have a general problem with uploading any proprietary confidential source code to a third party, whether it be github, gitlab, etc... thanks but i will continue to run my own private git server over ssh.
> I was accused of writing fraud: passing off ‘writing’ produced by artificial intelligence (AI) as my own. That hurts, because — like many people — I find writing a paper to be a somewhat painful process.

This is what worries me the most about AI (and large language models in particular). You can summarily dismiss someone's work by simply claiming it was written by ChatGPT.
Well, I honestly do such things on one monitor and I don't need more, I don't know what else to say; switching virtual desktops seamlessly is second nature and from this I fail to see the point of having multiple monitors when there is a clever approach to the problem. Shader editor, game engine, IDE, debugger, all of this can fit on a single screen, be peeked when needed to, you can layer stuff, make use of transparency, whatever you want given the appropriate window manager and keybindings server, I prefer to invest on this than on monitors as it seems a clever way to get informations from the computer. You can develop a 3d model by not looking at it when you code, because you are coding and not drawing or sculpting and because what you do is deterministic.
In the case of fly.io it’s a little different because they have a anycast network with traffic being accepted at the closest region and being proxied to your running VM. This is not unlike a CDN, and if you look at the North America/Europe pricing of most CDNs, fly.io is quite similar.
Weighted keys aren't about requirements from the 1600s, they're about being able to achieve an extremely wide and sensitive dynamic range.

Unweighted is fine if you're making synth sounds. And of course for understanding the things you've listed.

But you can't actually play emotionally expressive piano music on them -- not in the style of classical or jazz. If you tried to play the Moonlight Sonata first movement, it would sound terrible, because the dynamic shadings couldn't be done.

I'm not really sure how you've determined what "core skills" are. Sure, if your kids are only going to spend a couple years learning the very basics, and then move onto other things, then it's fine.

But the heart and soul of piano music is in the precise touch to generate the dynamic sensitivity. If you want them to learn how to be emotionally expressive through music, playing either classical or jazz, weighted keys are essential. It's not piano otherwise -- it's a synth.

(And going from unweighted to weighted isn't trivial. It's an entirely different muscle memory that needs to be developed. They're fundamentally different instruments.)
Yeah. It’s the bullying feedback loop - there would be no point in bullying someone if you didn’t get a reaction out of them. If you reliably freak out in a grandiose way you’re just reinforcing yourself as a good bullying target by providing entertainment for your bullies.
How can one imagine this? A big underground hall with a concrete ceiling in which there are buildings?

Or are the underground building like a -1 floor to the ones above?
I was going to make this point above as well but it felt to cynical. Ultimately, I think its just a case of normal people having to respond to an extremely rare and kinetic situation with no playbook as every decision you make is scrutinized and broadcast in HD with full commentary. I'm honestly curious how many times the "hostage negotiator" has had to show up and negotiate for hostages. It's hard to imagine what success looks like in that role as (luckily) each of these situations are rare and highly unique. Outside of incidents that good information about the legitimacy of the threat are established, it seems like we should put a lot more effort into tracking down people who make false claims and doing PR on the perpetrators of false allegations. Right now it seems like the risk to the "informant" of a SWAT is low and the victim is insanely high. If we narrow these odds without destroying privacy and freedom, that would be the best case.
Anybody who SWATs anybody is essentially attempting to kill that person. That's the joke.
The speed of light is a tremendous limitation. W/o FTL there's no such thing as "loud alien civilizations" that can "control 40%-50% of [the] universe['s] volume".
Thanks. I think those cover details of what I'm talking about but not the blog post I remember.

A key issue discussed was some setting relating to BGP (or similar) that consumer ISPs wouldn't initially implement or wouldnt configure for Riot. Something related to weights or something that affected the cost analysis for routing decisions that prevented packets from wanting to take the Riot path.

edit:

Just fully read that QZ article. I think it does a good job of describing what they did with useful inforgraphics (esp the "Actual Data Route" graphic) for a layman audience. I think many of us here can extrapolate what kind of effort they had to go through to get that done.
For the author of a now deleted comment, should they return.

Worldwide, failures to successfully rehabilitate mangroves are almost invariably associated with the same issues.

These are; poor site selection, choice of wrong species, unsuitable hydrological regime, absence of clearly defined goals and a lack of follow-up monitoring and maintenance.

Often, projects move immediately into planting of mangroves without determining first why natural recovery has not occurred.

Paling E. I. and Erftemeijer P. (2013) A review of mangrove rehabilitation and its application and implementation in Western Australia in regard to oil and gas development.
A sad example: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/14/us/swatting-sentence-casey-vi...
The entire premise of SWAT calls is to figure out the precise set of circumstances in which police responders can't wait and have to act now.
Aggressive personalities aren’t the same as strong personalities, in precisely the way status trinkets aren’t class.

I’d say strong personalities are essential for consensus:

When it’s clear who is holding court, there’s much less talking over each other and bickering, precisely because the leader has made it clear what the expectation is — and everyone knows it will be enforced.

“Let’s quiet down for a moment, I really want to hear what @edmundsauto is saying.”
Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper
Not saying they are the same, no, but you seem to think it is so different that it's impossible for NF to have a business model without stamping out bootlegging?

If so, they're done for, because it's not going to be possible to do that.

But I think providing a product that desirable and easy to view might work and they're just not doing it and blaming evil-doers for their own failure as a business.
I'm with you. The fact that Joshua is not the number one on this list really speaks to my age.

In my youth, Joshua was a password I used a lot, and only dropped it because I felt it was, like, too obvious.

Another one I used, especially when numbers became mandatory was Turk182. But that reference is from a seriously obscure mid 80s movie (of the same name.) I'm guessing precisely nobody here has heard of it :)

Who flew? Who knew? Turk182
They literally are attempted murder. It's the literal online equivalent of hurling huge rocks from a height onto cars passing on the freeway.
The lengths people go to, to mess with a stranger.

Is there such a thing as a para-anti-social relationship?
I think both of you have points that are important parts of its success
That's not actually moving the goalposts ;)

Feel free to run your own experiment - I can almost guarantee that people will disagree with statements that seem like common sense to you, e.g. "a space station orbiting above a park is not in the park."
and we already have a bunch of these.
Something happened to me within the last couple of years that has me questioning my cognitive abilities as well. Have you found any mitigating factors for the spiral? I’ve become a lot more aware of the subconscious things that used to be mysterious to me.
Understandable concern, but this kind of fervor over this kind of problem feels a lot like the zealots who tear apart Firefox and it seems to be why open source community leadership suffers constantly. Is this good? Definitely not. But "stop using gitlab" and fleeing like rats into Microsoft's honey pot is like shooting off your face to spite your body.

I know, very clearly, that many HNetizens won't be using Github either. But piling on the hate train for these companies that at least try to support open source in earnest is doing strange things.
Wouldn't that damage stuff? Plastics will go weak and start outgassing. Electronics might break.. and if you move all that stuff out you might take them with you
Your point on missing IR halos is valid, but don't overlook anomalies like Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852) [0]. Its odd dimming led to theories about alien megastructures like Dyson Spheres, though dust or comets are possible explanations. Still, Tabby's Star highlights the difficulty in excluding advanced alien activities with our current tech. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby%27s_Star

[1] https://youtu.be/mZve2Oy3cFg?t=82
GitHub still knows all of your individual visits to GitHub, and which repos you viewed. Most of the time I don’t want to be browsing GitHub itself whilst logged in. I don’t like or trust Microsoft with my location or waking hours or browsing history.
Try playing Moonlight Sonata Third Movement on a synthesizer! The Third movement is one of the most incredibly intricate and brilliant piano pieces I’ve ever heard in my life!
Awaiting crypto apologists blaming Gitlab that they’re the one who should do a better job without any registration.
This isn't just a game, it's a political analogy. If we treat it as a game without connection to real life then we can't fairly connect behavior in it to its real life analog. It's like telling someone "Counterstrike is just a game" then acting morally outraged when they shot someone in-game with an AK.
Let’s correct a few misconceptions here. Firstly, the notion that Bitcoin mining merely consumes energy without contributing to economic growth is fundamentally flawed. Bitcoin miners, by paying for electricity, essentially fund the development of new, clean power infrastructure. This model incentivizes the construction of renewable energy sources in areas rich in resources but lacking in local demand, mitigating the risk associated with such investments. The revenue from Bitcoin mining can support local infrastructure development, sparking economic growth in previously underserved areas.

Moreover, it’s important to underscore the unique agility of Bitcoin mining operations. Far from being static data centers, these miners embody a level of mobility unparalleled in the energy sector. Many operations are housed within cargo containers, ready to be deployed to any corner of the globe with short notice. This mobility allows them to capitalize on the most cost-effective, sustainable energy sources available, further reducing the risk for renewable energy investments. They’re not tied to any single location or power source, making them a potent force for driving the demand for renewable energy worldwide. Their ability to ‘vote with their feet’ and move to locations with the best energy policies and resources is a game-changer, ensuring that Bitcoin mining contributes positively to global energy markets and local economies alike.

Regarding the financial disaster claim, it’s crucial to distinguish between the cryptocurrency space and high-profile fraud cases within the traditional financial system. The collapse of FTX, for instance, exploited the traditional financial system under the guise of cryptocurrency innovation. If we look at Bitcoin’s track record, an investor allocating just 1% of their portfolio to Bitcoin in 2014 would have seen an astronomical return, making it one of the most lucrative investments of our time. This fact alone dispels the myth of cryptocurrency as a financial disaster.

As for your point about IMF and World Bank programs, suggesting that Ethiopia’s challenges are beyond their scope is a misrepresentation. These institutions have been deeply involved in supporting local economic development and energy infrastructure projects across the globe, including Ethiopia. Here’s a link to one such program from 2019, clearly indicating their commitment: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2019/12/20/pr19486-ethi...

In light of these points, it appears there’s a significant gap in understanding the actual impact and potential of Bitcoin mining, as well as the broader cryptocurrency ecosystem. Educating oneself on these matters is crucial before making sweeping generalizations.
Rather depends on other factors though: you can perfectly well run an interstellar empire with very long communication times and people going into suspended animation for transit.

Control strategy simply has to adapt accordingly: i.e. a message probably comes with a fleet sufficient to ensure its obeyed.

This was one of the ideas in the Doom novelizations: that the aliens had spent so long travelling that there was little chance of victory because of you attacked a place you took along everything needed for overwhelming victory.
As stated in the paper: “The second of our three model parameters is the (assumed universal) speed at which
grabby civilizations expand. Our model predicts that on average at grabby origin dates,
a third to a half of the universe is within grabby-controlled volumes. So if the grabby
expansion speed were low, many such volumes should appear quite large and noticeable
in our sky. However, as noted by (Olson ’15; Olsen ’17) and discussed in Section 13, if
their expansion speed were within ∼25% of lightspeed, a selection effect implies that we
are less likely to see than to not see such volumes. Thus if we could have seen them, they
would likely be here now instead of us. As we do not now see such volumes, we conclude
that grabby aliens, if they exist, expand very fast.”
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Wouldn't something like this, work for your specific use case:

head -n4 sqldump > sqldump2

Then change the line 4 in sqldump2 to whatever you wanted to, and after that:

tail -n+5 sqldump >> sqldump2

And now sqldump2 contains sqldump but with line 4 edited.

This still requires double the disk space, but at least shouldn't take 30 minutes.
Clever is fine, if long enough, but it doesn't scale.

The problem is not that i need a clever password, it's that I need 100 of them. Given that problem I either reuse my clever one everywhere, or have a formula based on it, and the domain.

In this age of scale, a password manager generating long random passwords is not "good to do", it's absolutely a requirement.

Now all you need is one long, clever, resilient password to access the password manager.
Yeah I get what you are saying. And sure, if the installation or usage is suboptimal then you won't get high efficiency.

And it's also true that it's much easier to use a heatpump wrongly compared to e.g. gas heating.

On the other hand it's also not black magic and the more people install and use it, the less mistakes will be made.
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Yeah. People need to be more aware of who is funding what they’re reading.

Quanta naturally covers research that is funded by Simons Foundation. There have actually been many big news that Quanta has not covered or pretended didn’t exist when writing other articles. It’s a PR arm of Simons Foundation.

Also the writers are decent, but all of the scientific-to-lay explanations and analogies are coming from the researchers, if that wasn’t obvious. They are just paraphrasing since they can’t just write blocks of verbatim quotes or such.

Also yeah, the writers get access to researchers as a part of the funding.
Have you ever found any by doing that?
I read that as openTDD, and the comments about it being a game had me confused for a bit.
You might be greatly overestimating technology budgets and skills in city government. What does it take to use STIR/SHAKEN on their end?
That says less about crypto and more about default permissions for new accounts. E.g. if your CI let you open connections to tcp/25, got abused by spammers, and then added extra registration steps, would you blame existence of email?
I wonder if we are somehow at peak GPU profitability? It seems that either efficiencies in AI or competition will emerge.
Sadly, yes. He's rightfully pissed off — and I don't think victims of harassment should have to go dark online or isolate themselves — but the reaction and the spectacle is usually what the perpetrators want. The old adage "don't feed the trolls" exists for a reason (see also, "grey rock method").

With torswats in custody, hopefully no one else is dumb enough to pick up where he left off.
That's not how it works with other species like humans :)
A good chunk of network capital is also amortized into these costs, it isn't just the 20 cents per megabit for IP settlement, it would also be all the routers those ports are connected to, the racks those sit in, the electricity those consume, and the networks beneath that from the hypervisor upwards.

Add on the usual and egregious $150-400/mo for a SMF/OS1 crossconnect in many datacenters.

Now, I'll grant you, "not even close" and handsome margins likely still applies but "I'm going to hook a server directly into a 1Gbps IP transit port for $200" vs. all the complexity of a hyperscaler network is not apples to apples.
Here in Washington state we have a pretty good system for helping elderly people not get forced out due to rising property taxes.

If you are at least 61, and your disposable income is less than 70% of the median income for your county you get two forms of property tax relief:

1. The assessed value of your property is frozen at the value of the first year you signed up for the tax relief. If your disposable income goes about the threshold for a year but comes back down the next you won't lose your frozen assessment. If you go above the threshold for two consecutive years you do lose the freeze. When it comes back down again you get a new freeze at whatever the current assessment is.

2. You are exempt from all "excess property taxes" and part of the state property tax that is for schools. An "excess property tax" generally means voter-approved levies, such as local school taxes.

If your disposable income is under 60% of the median income for your county but above 50% in addition to #1 and #2, you get:

3. You are exempt from regular property taxes on the maximum of $50k or 35% of the property value, but not more than $70k. For example for a $400k property you'd be exempt for $70k, so your regular property taxes would be computed as if your property was assessed at $330k.

If your disposable is under 50% of the median income for your county, in addition to #1 and #2, instead of #3 you get:

#4. You are exempt from regular property taxes on the maximum of $60k or 60% of the property value. For a $400k property this would mean regular property taxes would be based on a value of $160k.

In my county the 70/60/50% thresholds are $65k/$56k/$46k.

In my county a $400k assessed value home for someone below the $46k threshold would have an annual tax of $900, compared to around $3400 for someone not in the tax relief program. Here is a breakdown of the two (with some rounding):

$300 $ 760 fire
$240 $1000 state general
$ 930 local school
$140 $ 360 county road
$100 $ 260 county
$ 50 $ 130 stormwater management
$ 40 $ 111 regional library
$ 7 $ 18 PUD
$ 2 $ 2 noxious weed

Someone below the 70% threshold but not below the 60% threshold would pay about $2200, so still a big savings over the normal amount.
Yes, I look at note-taking as a skill that essentially is summarizing what you are listening to, writing down questions, etc. It should be an active process, not a passive one.

But this is a skill that takes time to cultivate. Writing down what you hear and then rewriting your notes later does accomplish the same task, and it gives you more time to do it.
Among the instructions you get are to put batteries and anything sensitive to heat in the fridge for protection. I didn't notice any damage after I had it done; my laptop, robot vacuum, and smart switches worked fine afterwards.
It's called a hypothetical.

Except it's not even hypothetical, the swatter did swat himself repeatedly.
Why are they not noting down the address? I mean 4 times in one day? WTF?
Not passwords but used movie references to name my machines on the corporate network. Pretty sure my "TMA-1" build machine was unique.
>Danluu is arguing that because a set of randomly chosen people cannot agree how to apply a simple statement like "No vehicles in the park" that moderation is impossible.

I don't think this is correct, I think they're arguing that uncontroversial moderation is impossible. That moderation will inevitably lead to drama.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Thanks, I appreciate it. That's an interesting remark. I find this game is a lot about visual pattern matching.
Alas, there's a fifth possibility:

5. Controlled transportation between the stars, sufficient for colonization, is sufficiently impractical that there are no grabby aliens within our light-cone.