skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't put a premium on head protection. It's not just brain injury - it's where all your sense organs are, as well. Stuff flying into your eyes and ears will make you combat ineffective even if you're not concussed. It tends to be the first thing to get hit when something falls (or is dropped!) on you, not an uncommon thing to have happen in premodern war. Or even in modern war. Furthermore, it's where most of your environmental heat loss occurs, so you'll want something on your dome no matter what. Might as well add some leather/horn/wood/metal.

Head protection probably naturally flowed from protective headgear worn against the environment, which can be seen in decorative ceramics as far back as 25,000 BC. It might very well cross Hominid species boundaries, as the spread and success of H. Erectus was based at least partly on fire usage. Today, many species of Pongines use large leaves and other material as semi-wearable rain shelters; it's a habit the locals have picked up, as well. Soft armor, who knows? Textiles don't age well, unfortunately.

The first signs of military helmets (and shields!) very nearly precede the earliest dates for domestic agriculture, lending weight to the growing view that coercion led to centralized agricultural statism, rather than the reverse, which is the more standard, traditional view. The "Meskalamdug Helmet" is a a highly-ornamented example of an early helm, stylized in such a way that suggests the form of the infantry helm was a recognizable semiotic to contemporaries. You don't build a statue of a cell phone in 1880s London, so they made it look that way for a reason.

And again we come to morale. A helmet de-humanizes the soldier, both to the enemy and to allies, which keeps combatants from engaging in normal nonverbal communication. Restrict empathy, and you increase the chance of violence and the strength of the violence when it does happen. So you wear a mask when you do it, a scary one, like a lion head or an angry fire being. It's pretty common-sense stuff - I mean, look at the plumes on the Spartan's helm - but it's cross-cultural as well, which hints at a deeper principle. Helmets from the Neolithic far east seem to have developed this aspect first, as they start out from ceremonial pottery, then the same design reinforced with basketry, and then you have the same design as a lacquer mask on a more dedicated military helmet. We do have to be very careful here, because the pattern of civilization building is just very, very different in China, and probably all over. It's deceptive, you're tempted to think of it the same, but look at the details of the timeline and you realize whoa, hold up a second, they did this waaaayyyy before this other thing.
While reading this article I looked around for some more information on the model 15 teletype he mentioned, and I found this great playlist about how they work, including using it with an Altair 8800 running CP/M and BASIC

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB3mwSROoJ4JoPgcLzZ3k...
I used the stored procedures approach sometimes. The usual criticisms are

1. Almost nobody in the team knows SQL, stored procedures more so.

2. It's not possible to deploy and test stored procedures with the usual tooling. Actually I don't know what's the usual way to do it in projects that go with that approach.
flying is not safer than driving- unless you drive 500 miles with 150 other people every time you get in the car- statistics are massaged, and I think risk of accident per journey is better (and is higher in flying)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18439872
Until they're drafted. Then they flee, become unhappy. Putin ain't drafting there (yet). He is practicing classic divide & conquer like NKVD did during Great Terror and Holodomor.

Vader (father in Dutch) put it well in Cloud City, talking to Lando: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
Cooking is creative, and you're building something interesting or delightful, but it's not made to last.

Maybe it would help to put some of that same type energy into building something more concrete over a longer term, that might have the ability to stand the test of time.

It would take a certain amount of purpose just to conduct the actions needed, and this may not be your ultimate purpose but you may very well know better by then.

How about purposefully taking action that would not have been possible before, whether it is very challenging or well within reach?
I'm in banking and we have similar pressure to leave AWS, but for different reasons. Simply too many banking services are already on AWS, and if a single could goes down it mustn't take most of banking infrastructure of a country.
Not just senators, they also had a mole in the tender process passing secrets and making decisions that Boeing then "hired" on an inflated salary. They were later convicted for fraud for their part and Boeing was fined but they still got to keep the contract.
No approvals and no CI with clickops is indeed not a core tenet, but these are things you can implement on top of a solution like Jamf.

However, the market wasn’t always asking for it. Most Mac management is done by a sole individual at the org, usually not a large team where everyone can review everyone’s changes. This is steadily changing, but there are still tons of people who do clickops in Jamf because it’s what they understand and have the bandwidth to do.
When obscurity is the only option, like opting not to expose AWS account ID, why not do it? Don’t think this should be conflated with replacing proper security with obscurity, which is obviously wrong. The less you expose about your operation, the better. Not exposing details of your infrastructure to the public is another commonly suggested best practice that is obscurity, not security, that nobody challenges. For example, cleaning up common default response headers for things like cloud front.
I have a server with a bunch of PCIe slots and like 4 Nvidia GPUs with 24GB of RAM each. What's the best model I can realistically run?
For my last employer, I set up Superset for a number of our clients to show all sorts of heavily customized marketing analytics dashboards, web performance graphs, project management burndown reports, you name it. As with another commenter's experience, we also got a client to replace Tableau with it, and not look back. Such a great product.
To me it looks exactly like what the author says: mainstream,
corporate captured product marketing, in group signalling, an
aesthetic subculture...

i'm well into middle age now, and i have always thought this about "subculture/counterculture" groups in general -- how are you even rebelling when you all look the same? you're conforming, just to the norms of a smaller group.

however, you're missing (at least!) a few major pillars of what's happening with the LGBT+ community.

1. for those who have (and still do) have to spend much of their lives hiding their true identities, just getting to express themselves openly and with pride is a joy. something that's hard to imagine if you've never had to hide.

2. being gay/trans/etc is a pretty material and fundamental part of one's identity. it's orders of magnitude different from "liking grunge music in 1993" or whatever.

3. it is not necessarily acceptable, or even safe, to be LGBT+ in many places or around many people. in that sense these shared and "stereotypical" aesthetics serve actual functional purposes - they allow LGBT folks to identify others who are not likely to negatively judge or persecute them.

...feigning angst and struggle

they're feigning? who are you to decide that?
>Why would any of the pharma companies out there want to invent a permanent cure, when there's far more money to be made with a cure that is not permanent? Makes no sense

Then why are there permanent cures credited to pharmaceutical companies such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofosbuvir
No I was just talking about that “net cost” number the original post came up with. After all expenses, interest, and sale of the house, they were claiming they would lose $500k over the lifetime of owning the house.
Their modem is also a (semi-) public hotspot for other Xfinity customers (the "xfinitywifi" SSID, that they've made something of a "mesh-ish" network). It's separated out, I believe by VLAN at least. But yeah, the incentive is "use our modem so we can increase that network footprint" (and it's not the case any more or actually probably more on the Business side, but it used to be that even with their modem, you could opt out of providing the hotspot network, but if you did so, you were unable to use the hotspot network).
Oh I know it’s better, I’m always happy to teach others how to self host and am happy to trade content.

But I won’t profit from piracy. I rather be a customer in a fair market.
This is a good use of LLMs, if you check that the formatted code it creates is the same as the original code, it has been pretty good in my experience. It's especially handy when the code is in an unfamiliar language or library, and looks like gibberish to you, asking it to add comments makes things very clear.
This is posted in other places but Amazon explicitly says they're not secret, sensitive, or confidential.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/manage...

> While account IDs, like any identifying information, should be used and shared carefully, they are not considered secret, sensitive, or confidential information.
Well there are two issues right now:

1. Text has come car, but I don't think anything other than blogspam sites have heavily leveraged AI as a commercial product. There's a huge gulf of difference between "this looks okay enough that the common user won't question it" and "this is helping professionals make money for products consumers the self seek out". AI is 90% of the way there, and it has another 90% to go, just like any human.

2. With all that noted, Video is a lot more computationally expensive than text generation. Which is multiple magnitudes of more information to edit/refine. It will only magnify the problem since the common user is a lot better at recognizing defects in visuals than in text (where native speakers famously don't process every word while reading).

I'm not saying that this won't massively improve efficiency. But I think we both will agree that this tech won't lead to a large studio making content in months so much as letting a very lean team make content in 3-5 years for much less money when they lay off 95% of the staff.
You can't justify your neoliberal capitalism on free consumer choice then just take that away as you please.

I suggest reorganizing society because there simply isn't another option. If meat were too expensive to eat, people would eat less of it, but it's not too expensive because capitalists can just outsource the cost of their destruction. This is fundamental to capitalism, which people forget is literally defined as an economic system that prioritizes the right of individuals to exercise their existing capital to accumulate more of it, above everything else.
AFAIK YC startups don't get any more boost on the front page than normal posts.
Way over my pay grade, but they appear to be claiming this is not just a simulation. Whether you agree may depend on your metaphysics.

> These experiments go beyond merely simulating non-Abelian order and statistics. As we elaborate in A1, the data obtained from prior benchmarking [36] is compatible with the fact that both the quantum operations as well as the dominant imperfections follow the 2D geometry to which the qubits are assigned. Thus, the ions are entangled in precisely the same way as the low-energy states of Eq. (1), making them indistinguishable from states arising in the low-temperature limit of, e.g., a solid-state system governed by the same Hamiltonian. Ground state degeneracy then refers to the number of locally indistinguishable states, while anyons are local deformations which cannot be individually created by a local process.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.03766.pdf
Somebody actually did that experiment:

https://digg.com/video/knight-firefighter-soldier-obstacle-c...

The plate armour guy was marginally faster than the guy in modern soldier's gear. Plate armour was less cumbersome than most people imagine and the weight is more evenly distributed than a modern soldier (where it is nearly all on their back).
Gene Therapy Makers Struggle to Find Patients for Miracle Cures
How does this compare to Jupyter notebooks and the ecosystem around that? Do the use cases overlap, or are they completely different things?
Answered what? I'm sorry that you can't figure out certificates, I don't see how that excuses a system that is made more complicated that it needs to be, and more complicated than anybody else does it, which was my initial claim. Again, you are still giving me more "it's not that bad" or "it's not the main issue", which are not reasons to do the thing wrong in the first place.

This "conversation" has reached my threshold for puzzlement, so I'm dipping out. Let me show you how it feels to me with an analogy:

Some company is making a new revolutionary car. It gets about 10 miles of autonomy, can only turn right, and stalls every 100 feet. I point that out in the comments.

Then lifthrasiir shows up and says that some people have driven it successfully, that you can get anywhere by only turning right with careful planning, that most vehicles don't get a lot of autonomy only cars and trucks, that there are commercial services that will get the car where I need it to (by loading it on a truck), and anyway if I really want to get somewhere why don't I take a bus?

Sure, I never claimed that it couldn't be moved, or that it would prevent its owner from getting places. What I said is that it's a terrible car.
I thought the whole reason for the MAX was that Airbus released a plane that featured better engines and performance.
Should it? If you really need that, join the different sources with TrinoDB (or any related managed service like AWS Athena) and connect it to Superset.
I went through the first example in the README more than a few times, and found it quite difficult to make sense of...

Are the query params stored in `q`? Which is also updated when it's inserted in the query itself? Why does a `sqlbind.Dialect.default()` turn into an `str`?

And... what's the difference between that and normal parameterized queries? It just seems weirder and with a lot of side effect magic going on.
I don't understand why should I care that an AI model is being trained on Reddit text. So what? It's all out there for anyone to read; if I didn't want people reading what I wrote, I wouldn't have written it. What difference should it make if that someone happens to be a robot?
And a few nits, because I'm personally sick of others coming up with their own contrived definitions of intelligence. All of which, unsurprisingly of course, also claim to be hyper intelligent. I wouldn't expect to have to explain any of the following to a polymath.

- The ability to consume information (or the accumulated volume of information), even with perfect recall, is by no means a direct measure of intelligence -- large performant databases of useful information are by no means intelligent. And it's clear that you at least partially believe this, given your comments on the ability for others to "catch up". As if intelligence is something that can be measured linearaly to begin with (though, of course we try to approximate it). Does the path to catching up have to be linear wrt. time, or even continuous? No. The simplest counter-example being, maybe you've been reading garbage.

- 3rd gear gives higher velocity than 1st gear, and the RPMs can be redlined in either case. Or maybe the measure is the potential of acceleration from stop, I don't know, but either way, this doesn't make sense. As a polymath I suppose your knowledge of transmissions must be a bit lacking.

- I don't think people generally have a problem believing that people "like you" (polymaths) exist. It's more likely that people have a problem with you specifically claiming to be a polymath.

- You must have repeatedly attempted to convey this belief of yourself. In this post, for one, but, moreso to the point of being _sick_ of people not believing people "like you" exist.
Make sure to check out
Open Web Advocate page to take action/complete they survey:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attempts-killing-webapps...
This seems to make certain metaphysical assumptions, like the apparent deterministic nature of the universe extends flawlessly into reality, which in my experience seems like a bit of a leap of faith.
> there’s limited evidence that a phone has ever interfered with a plane’s electrical systems.

Very much expected. Not sure why anyone ever bought into the idea that a phone could interfere with the plane. You really think the airlines would risk some random asshole not following directions that could fuck up their electrical systems? If that was possible they wouldn't have allow phones on the plane at all. No airline would have taken that risk.
That's not what the accountants do at a company.

The accountants are given the receipts after the engineers have already spent company money, and their job is to account for that spending.

The finance department are the people who decide whether the engineers get to spend the money. (They're also known as the FP&A team = financial planning and analysis.)
Every system you've worked on is likely an ACL based system, which is why the confused deputy problem was in play.

I don't have any experience with capability based OSs, because you can't get one as a daily driver... yet.

I do have plenty of real world experience with capabilities, though.... cash in a wallet is an economic capability. Circuit Breakers are an electrical version of capabilities.

Virtual Machines are a low resolution version of capabilities.

The whole point is to limit side effects before they happen.

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Back in the 1980s before we had hard drives, a 2 floppy DOS machine was an excellent capabilities based system.... you could only corrupt the data on un-write protected diskettes in the system. Thanks to this fact, and the ease of backing up boot disks, we routinely bought/shared/copied dozens, sometimes hundreds of diskettes full of programs from everywhere, just to see if we liked them. In perfect safety.

People don't know what they're missing these days. Eventually, I'll have Genode's Sculpt OS[1] as my daily driver, and I'll be able to just run things, once again, without worry. No more virus scanners, worry about clicking on the wrong attachment, or a bad PDF, etc.

[1] https://genode.org/download/sculpt
It's post 2022, it will not be used.
Later in the article it says:

> Four airlines in the U.S. fly MAX planes: Alaska, American, United and Southwest.

So: Don't fly those airlines. It is your responsibility to punish them.

(It is also the FAA's responsibility to regulate them, but it's increasingly clear that every regulator is captured. So I'll focus on what I can control.)

And since there was an Ethiopian airlines crash, clearly there are also non-US airlines using the MAX, so let's dig more... This website appears to have done the research:

https://www.alternativeairlines.com/airlines-not-flying-boei...

This should help us boycott the correct airlines.

...

Unfortunately, the route I use most frequently is serviced almost exclusively by one of these bad airlines. I do have some alternatives if I'm willing to take more time though. I guess, if I want to put my money where my mouth is, I will need to start using those alternatives.
2markdown is actually very interesting. You could expand into handling request proxies + JS rendering for people as well then it would be the easiest way to index web pages. We should definitely chat. I built unclutter.it before and the content ingestion for a reading tech startup. Will send you an email.

And thank you for the shout out of aboutideasnow.com :)

Making connections like this is exactly the purpose of the website.
> he can now ask ChatGPT to draft up a basic website.

I'm pretty sure he could have done that with one of the thousands tools like Wix, many years before ChatGPT.
Garbage in, garbage out. This is why training data is important.
If I understand your code correctly, you are bypassing DBAPI's binding functionality and opening yourself up for SQL injection.

QParams = sqlbind.Dialect.some_dialect

@QParams
def make_my_query(value1: str, value2: int):
# SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 = ? AND field2 > ?
return f'SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 = {value1} AND field2 > {value2}'

data = connection.execute(*make_my_query(foo, bar), [foo, bar])
the challenge from a psychiatry perspective is that psychiatrists almost literally just do drugs (as do many MDs). therapy is almost always done by LCSW’s sometimes Psychologists, rarely by Psychiatrists. Same with PT and physical therapists vs MDs.

And as any PT/MD will tell you, even getting people to take a full course of antibiotics or their drugs properly is difficult. 1 in 3 odds? 1 in 2?

Getting someone to finish a full course of PT? Nearly impossible. Like 1 in 20 type odds.

So, the system throws medicines and surguries/treatments at the patients when possible (because they can control those things, and they work!) whenever they can, and do tell people about the other options - and they do work and are necessary for issues to really work out well a lot of time - but almost no one really does it.

Then they blame the medicine or surgury for not fully solving the problem, or when it comes back in a different form/direction.

Like weight loss.

But what else are we going to do?
You are also not entitled to a human response.
How is it possible for a user of AWS to keep the account ID secret if Amazon doesn't even consider it secret? If Amazon leaked your account ID they could point to their docs and say the account ID was never meant to be a secret, sensitive, or confidential.
Not in Europe they're not; thanks to Open Access you have your choice of three different companies to take a train between Madrid and Barcelona, only one of which is the state carrier.
depends on what your personal filters are - i've always felt like a large amount of the things i see on the internet are clearly shaped in some artificial way.

either by a "raid" by some organized group seeking to shape discourse or just accidentally by someone creating the right conditions via entertainment. With enough digging into names/phrases you can backtrack to the source.

LLMs trained on these sources are gonna have the same biases inherently. This is before considering the idea that the people training these things could just obfuscate a particularly biased node and claim innocence.
It's slightly similar but HITRUST is still more comprehensive and is built on the CSF framework.

HITRUST was initially developed as the answer to HIPAA compliance, although the framework has now been rebranded as industry-agnostic. Hence, there is a good amount of overlap as you mentioned.
what aspects of sideloading prevent Facebook from starting their own App Store and saying “give us full permissions to mine your microphone and email for marketing or you don’t get to use Facebook”?

(and yes, apple is still doing review but people object to that part too, right?)

there are no technological solutions to social problems, and the network power of Facebook/etc is a social problem.
Maybe they aim to eventually sell their equipment and know-how to NASA and others interested in space exploration. It could be a big business if there ever is something like a moon base, but it's definitely a risky bet.
> there's a difference between being attracted to kids and diddling kids, further explaining that labeling all pedos as evil is harmful and prejudicial.

You think there's something incorrect about this?

For god's sake I hope you aren't blind to the difference between a thought and actually raping a child.