skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure myself. I think on the range of that I wish contributors were is some form of known identity but that doesn’t have to be specific form of one. Some form of social contract that when you contribute you are not someone who will disappear. However it looks like that’s something that not everyone subscribes to any more.

I would love to know how the kernel and other projects approach this nowadays. Their contribution guides imply an abstract sense of identity but it doesn’t describe much what this entails.
Crazy! I can't get fibre internet in Central London
I think you may be right. Half the links on the page don't work.
Just as many other things, like organised crime. Government is still society's main enemy and never should be trusted with anything that a monopoly on violence is not necessary for.
For many people (most?), part of appreciating art is to engage with it beyond mere color and shape. I mean context about the artist themselves, and their life and work, and what they were trying to articulate, and why they made the choices that they did. All of this is embedded in a social context in which art expresses intention and meaning and some artifact of human experience.

It's because many/most people feel and understand this context that they react so differently to artwork that they know is forged. If a painting were just an issue of color and shape, forgery would be irrelevant to how we relate to art. But for most, a painting is embedded in the social context I described above, and forgery feels like a violation of that contract.

AI art seems to fall in a similar category, since AI systems are not social agents and not human beings.
How can the the American voter trust the IC when the rubric for deciding what is secret, private, confidential or in the national interest is so far removed from them personally, removed even from their elected representatives? I think more transparency and open discussion of the actual rubric itself would go a long way to building trust.
I took an excellent course (professional development for teachers) from The Coding School on machine learning. I got 4 CEUs from Stanford and it was a great course.
This entire post describes my experience precisely. One flip-side to the poor face recognition is that my brain occasionally massively over compensates, especially when I've not slept well, and I'll have an entire day where I'm convinced I know every single person I see - curious if you get this too given how aligned our other experiences are.

Edit: Oh! And one other oddness that I often wonder if it's related - I get exploding head syndrome. You?
It is a crime, although it doesn't seem to be public knowledge who actually did it. The "Jrbiltmore" account is the most likely suspect, but AFAIK that's just speculation at this point.
Amazing!

I can imagine how it works on the server side, but what's really fascinating is that my client (macOS) can handle negative response times at all.

Does anybody know how that's possible? Do ICMP sockets just queue incoming "responses" until there is a pending matching request?

Or does the ping command take complete ICMP "ownership" over... something? more than a socket? while it runs, and this is an implementation quirk of that userspace tool's synchronization/threading/event handling mechanisms?
Your suspicion is incorrect. Warping happens as wood dries due to uneven drying and stresses in the wood. Old growth can be just as stressed as new wood - those stresses arise from winds, growing on a steep grade, etc. And old wood can be incorrectly dried just as new timber can be. The wood will not warp further after it is milled into a 2x4, kiln-dried and installed in a building. It may expand and contract due to humidity changes, but those changes will be minimal within a sealed wall. Timber found in a Home Depot is more warped than wood 50 years ago because of cost-cutting at the kiln and the use of much smaller trees for the mass market.

Water penetration into a building is 100% down to the exterior cladding and waterproofing system, it has absolutely nothing to do with the material used for the skeleton of the building. Cladding is done with traditional plywood, which is infinitely better than old-growth diagonal planking used a century ago. Waterproofing is via plastic wraps like HouseWrap or more recently the Zip system where the waterproofing is integral with the sheathing.

Houses today may be less durable than houses 100 years ago (although there's huge survivorship bias in that claim), but if they are it will come down to tract houses being built to a very low standard of workmanship. It has nothing to do with old-growth versus new-growth timber.
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Studies have shown that just dodging 37 emails a day can increase developer productivity by as much as 253%.
As I understand it Ed448 was only recently added to openssh, so maybe it was chosen in order to evade detection by analysis tools that scan for keys (if such a thing is possible.)
With nix, you wouldn't need to back up the images - you can start from source every time.
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If by assumed you mean hotly debated, yes
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"Art more complicated than just aesthetics"

Thanks science. More news at 11.

Less facetiously, I think there's value in both. AI seems ideal for a hero image on a blog, but I expect something I hang on my wall to have a backstory.
My view on this is that the mind is the instrument that acknowledges it's own existence. "I think therefore I am" and all that. I findnit funny, we all walk around absolutely certain of our own existence, very much aware of it, and then question that this is even occurring. I'm satisfied that I've identified consciousness with 100% certainty by simply noticing it in myself, even being able to notice it is proof that it's there. And heuristically I presume others with form similar to mine have done the same thing, I think that's a safe bet to make.
> ...never deviates in spelling.

In South Slavic languages it's spelled Danijel as well (same pronunciation).
>cohercing people into taking untested injections

The vaccines were extremely well-tested and anyone saying they weren't is either lying or was lied to by a liar.

They did not follow the typical drug approval process.

That does not mean they were not tested.

I was one of the test subjects.
1) The real answer might depend on the time-frame you're considering. In the short run, crypto does use up a good amount of electricity, which nobody disputes. But in the long-run, crypto fortunes being dependent on electricity prices probably puts a hell of a lot of financial pressure to emphasize the most efficient possible sources of power. Crypto creates its own financial award for those who promote capital investment in the most efficient sources of power. This incentive matters in a bigger timescale.

2) Keep in mind that the climate isn't the only important variable in society. If crypto is bad for the environment, but great for freedom from government tyranny, is it not still good on balance?

3) A lot of the criticism of crypto you read might not be very genuine. A lot of criticism of crypto may come from people/corporations in the media with vested interests in the primacy of the current financial order. So make up your own mind about crypto rather than being influenced by the generic media broadcasts.
GPU is itself a standalone computer now, so are CPUs, might as well use the same thing for housekeeping tasks like controlling voltages and clocks.
> As I understand, you’d need to know all the confounding factors to account for variations?

Not necessarily, the idea of these methods is to basically find natural ways to group your study pop such that confounders are matched 'automatically'. Regression discontinuity analysis, for example, should handle most confounders outside of some egregious edge cases. The idea there is find a continuous variable which thresholds people into receiving the treatment or not, and then limit your analysis to only individuals on 'the cusp' of falling above or below the cutoff: idea is that these are people who basically fell into or out of the treatment due to random chance, so they form a quasi-experimental population. If this assumption is satisfied, then the confounders will be handled as if treatments were assigned truly randomly (classic application of this method is college scholarships assigned based on SAT scores or GPA). It's hard to speak super generally about the efficacy of these methods, because it does hinge strongly on the particular assumptions of each method being satisfied, but I will say that as a whole they're very well attested to in the professional stats literature and have a long and respected history in ex. econometrics.

> I really don’t trust meta analysis or statistical gymnastics to draw causal conclusions from nutrition studies given the wide array of factors that we really can’t account for.

That's fair, again I can't really cosign any of the results in the world of nutrition because I have no experience with that field; just wanted to chime in with some additional context about stats methods. I will say that, if properly done, the interpretation of a causal inference technique should be pretty straight up, they're not like some black box method. For example the discontinuity regression I mentioned above is simple enough conceptually that I think it's actually pretty strong evidence, even it seems like 'gymnastics' at first glance. However you are of course free to draw whatever conclusions you like regarding the rigor of the analysis or the propriety of the methods.

> They need to get their act together

No doubt, I would actually point to causal inference methods as a very promising avenue for the field to improve in this way (if they haven't embraced them already). Generally dealing with questions of causality explicitly in your methods (IMO) makes it way harder to just p-hack your way to a conclusion; you have to actually think through the mechanism of action and how it's represented in your model.

edit: Forgot to address one question:

> What about multi-variate problems?

Methods definitely exist for this, but in general multivariate stats is just harder than single variate stuff. Seems like the example about red meat vs. seed oils is more of an omitted variable concern than what I'd usually refer to as a multivariate question, and to this I'd again point out that if a quasi-experimental method is properly employed confounders should be handled (though this presumes a bunch of assumptions are met, and ideally the analyst should apply some diagnostics to check that they are).
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The Fourth Turning and his newer one, The Fourth Turning is Here by Neil Howe goes into this phenomenon and how it shapes society and humanity. It's roughly 80 years in length and covers 4 generations of archetypes. Every society, every culture, everywhere for as long as we know...
> But what we are seeing is a pretty steady .9% mortality rate for people who are exposed.

The distribution of risk is almost entirely concentrated on people who have so few years left in their life compared to the rest of humanity whereas the burden of all the interventions falls squarely on the young, who DO propagate humanity into the future, and who are at essentially no major risk.

Representing covid as a .9% generalized risk is nothing short of willful (self?) deception.
I have this exact toy for my daughter I think. I would tinker with it a bit, I think just the fact that you hit a certain set of the buttons was enough on its own - I’d have to find the toy to test but I have heard the same voice stab but didn’t do the Konami code.

Sorry to be a spoilsport! :)
If Trump becomes president, yes. Otherwise, no.

Prioritizing loyalty and ideology over competence will cause problems. We know Trump prizes loyalty over every other quality.
My most recent project launched in January. NextJS 14 client integrated with PayloadCMS (http://payloadcms.com) for the back-end. I love both technologies in theory, but they're both going through a renaissance period and "bleeding edge" doesn't even begin to describe it.

If I'm just building a client app, create-react-app is still my go to.

Before now, I'd been building on WordPress for 10+ years for anything client-administered. Planning on using Payload from here on out.
Just to point out... the whole point of Terraform Industries is to solve the problems that are raised in that sobering view! That doesn't mean they will succeed, but saying "this is hard, so they won't" is also not terribly useful. Ultimately, when faced with difficult problems, the only hope is to try to figure out how to solve them.
Perhaps, trees have a very muted consciousness. Perhaps every living thing is conscious at some level ranging from nearly zero to far in excess of human consciousness.
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What is the reason for “open sourcing” this , when any meaningful implementation is locked away behind services and is closed source. I just think these kind of use cases confuses users. There is no problem in being closed source and proprietary (unless you are using preexisting open source code and open sourcing those parts of your code makes it legally compliant) . In any case it is confusing at best and misleading at the worst.
Chaining multiple different login system can make sense. A more sensible solution over port knocking would be an alternative sshd implementation with a tunnel to the second sshd implementation. Naturally the first one should not run as root (similar to the port knocking daemon).

That way it would not be in clear text, and the number of bits of security will be order of magnitude larger even with very simple password. The public facing sshd can also run more lightweight algorithms and disable loggings for lower resource usage.

Regardless if one uses two sshd or port knocking software, the public facing daemon can have backdoors and security bugs. If we want to avoid Xz-like problems then this first layer need to be significant hardened (With SELinux as one solution). Their only capability should be to open the second layer.
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I’m heartbroken, I would love a .exe domain

But I did fall for it..
There’s some irony with long-range batteries. It’s chemistry degrade quicker and they fail earlier. Haven’t seen an LFP battery fail yet.
> Port Knocking doesn't add any security benefit in the sense that there are known non avoidable security risk aka your transmit your password(knocking) in clear text over the network.

This take is bordering on not even wrong territory. The point of port knocking isn't to increase entropy of your password or authentication keys per se, it is to control who can send packets to your SSH daemon, either to limit the noise in your logs or to mitigate an RCE in the SSH daemon. The vast majority of potential attackers in the real world are off-path and aren't going to be in a position to observe someone's port-knocking sequence.

Is VPN a better solution? Maybe, but VPNs, especially commercial VPNs have their own set of challenges with regard to auditability and attack surface.
In the context "lessons we learned from covid that we shouldn't forget", "the government is sometimes right about important things" cannot be one of them without specifics on what is it they supposedly got right.
That’s a fabulous one. Thanks for sharing.
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Yes, and it's not an academic exercise: it's being used in Guix (together with related projects such as stage0, M2-Planet, and Gash) to build everything from source starting from a 357-byte program:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-...

This gives the level of auditability and transparency that we desperately need.

However, the same problem of "yogurt software" manifests at higher levels of the stack, typically with compilers and build systems, some of which still cannot be built from source (GHC and Bazel come to mind).
Fair, we disagree then. The way it looks from the story and the way it feels from your experience can certainly be different and without control talking about "sorry you're wrong" is more ego than reason.
> we have to explain the mechanism by which permutations of the states of matter can create a new dimension of "feeling" and "awareness" where one did not already exist.

You mean, like a newborn baby? That's not a "tall order," that's an everyday affair.
Yeah all the links they reference in the beginning are negative towards Google too
I had a customer who used a line of sight system for extending their network across part of a city.

I had a shortcut on my desktop with the weather for that town ready when they would inevitably call and blame our unrelated equipment for some problem.
In theory, maybe. The reality is very different. The debt keeps increasing because:

1) We don't have the political will to increase revenues (read: taxes)

2) We don't have the political will to cut spending. That is, politicians keep buying votes with new programs, and we keep smiling as we sell our votes to the highest bidder.

In short, you're over-simplifying the base financial system (i.e., The Fed), the broader financial system (i.e., banks and the fractional banking system), as well as the sociopolitical system.

There's more to this than debt in some amount and GDP in some amount, and saying the ratio of those two is all we need to understand and not worry.

btw, for bonus points, read the first three or four chapters from Lyn Alden's "Broken Money".

https://www.lynalden.com/broken-money/
I wonder how many people on this board decrying the cost effectiveness here are also invested heavily in cryptocurrency...
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The Myth of Down Migrations
As good a time as any to mention Chris Langan's CTMU, which posits that the universe is a self-generating concept-cum-reality.
I would say it is waste on all levels. Proof of work on massive resource level. And proof of stake as wasted effort... Lot of time and human energy spend on it could likely be much better spend.
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Rough range for Senior BA role?
Hence, my suggestion to invent new words!)
I can't think of anyone better to teach attention mechanism to the masses. This is a dream come true