skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You should ask yourself why conspiracy theories make more sense to people than the truth

While conspiracy theorists believe this to be the case, and they are people, they're a slightly-vocal minority, and thus it'd be disingenuous to represent what conspiracy theorists think as what "people" think, unless you clarify that you're using the term "people" to refer to 1+ persons, not any indicative majority.

As you and I both said upthread: there will always be greater than zero pseudoscience conspiracy theorists who view literally anything as confirmation of the conspiracy theory.

>> I haven't seen anyone saying we can make pseudoscience go away forever.

> You must not have been looking. There are government and media officials coming out against "mis-, dis-, and mal-information" on a constant basis.*

This is not evidence that they, or any significant amount of people, have said they can make conspiracy theories and pseudoscience go away forever. There's nothing wrong with "coming out against" disinformation.
And then on TypeScript.
Apple removed the exclusion list: https://obdev.at/blog/a-wall-without-a-hole/
It's not just trust in a company. Matthew Green was geeking out about iCloud Keychain privacy a few years ago. He sometimes speaks of contacts in Apple security who are really committed and competent engineers. Their professional reputations are on the line too. Nothing would damage their careers like a backdoor that conspiracy types love to speculate on.
Fingers crossed you are starting a competitor to youtube.
A Thread on the Persistence of Status
It's not really a subsidy though (it's a set of actuarial models and contractual agreements).
I was curious whether handling them directly is a good idea. There's some guidance here: https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/how-to-handle-mete...

Try not to handle any freshly fallen meteorites with your bare hands! Oils and microbes from your skin will slowly degrade the surface of a meteorite, dulling the fusion crust, contaminating the meteorite, and promoting rust. The contamination aspect is especially important for carbonaceous meteorites and other uncommon types.
You're paying for convenience. The deal they make with you up front is that you get to not worry about the tank, but in return you pay a super inflated rate for the gas. Plus you pay for a full tank, even if you return it at 3/4 and it only takes a few gallons to fill it.

I get that some people just don't have the time (or executive function?) to deal with refilling before return on some trips, or they're so rich that they just don't care, but otherwise I just do not get why anyone would accept this option.
ViTs also have proven to be more effective for zero-shot generalization tasks due to their ability to capture global context and relationships in the input data, which CNNs struggle with.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02643
Probably google ads are excluded from this. And facebook ads and anyone else who could successfully sue them.
Good, it's been long enough for GPU manufacturers to ensure proper Wayland support and with the exception of EOL Nvidia cards (Kepler and older I think), everything mostly works on Wayland. wlroots + Nvidia still has some issues like flickering but AFAIK that's mostly been solved.

The issue with popular distro's like Ubuntu defaulting to X11 for certain hardware is it allows companies like Nvidia to de-prioritize Wayland support. Even in the best case, Nvidia's Linux docs are still written assuming Ubuntu + Xorg which is very unhelpful.

I bet we'll finally see proper Wayland-focused documentation and more Wayland compatibility updates from Nvidia within a year or two just because Ubuntu changes the default.
There is a difference between businesses like restaurants which can have thousands of reviews. Over time, any fake reviews will be drown out by a large enough sample size.

An apartment will have 1 review every 1-2 years at most. Any fake review will substantially influence the landlord.

For large apartment complexes, Google Maps and Yelp already handle those. What’s left are small time mom and pop landlords. That’s what this website is aiming for based on my observations.
TL;DR – Blogspam site is complaining about the fact that Google is going to start penalizing blogspam.
Aren't big players colocating their CDNs at internet exchanges? Bandwidth should be essentially free for content delivery.
> My father was a Vietnam veteran and a lifelong Republican. He liked to say that women belong in the kitchen. I had become an environmental studies professor, a member of the East Coast liberal elite, a daughter he was ashamed to introduce to his friends at the Post.

It's pretty clear from the context that it's a "badge of shame" label from the point of view of her father, applied since she went down the path of academia instead of becoming a housewife.
Why not, if NASA outsources 100% of the actual operations? Find reasonable contractors (for certain values of "reasonable" that would match SpaceX), give them attainable goals, provide the money, provide publicity, and otherwise stand back and do not interfere. For extra credit, provide some scientific mission spacecraft and rovers, the things NASA us actually quite good at.

Key bureaucratic feat: keep Boeing away.

18 months is really tight though, realistically it should be twice as much maybe.
They also walk significantly less.

As a proxy, 47.7% of children walked or biked to school in 1969, and that fell to 12.7% by 2009. https://archive.cdc.gov/#/details?url=https://www.cdc.gov/po...

This mirrors general commuting changes in the Census.
> I don't know why you're getting downvoted.

Because I'm not here to read a wall of text generated by ChatGPT.
Interest to know why it is off putting.
Which card and desktop environment? The only bug I still experience is occasional desktop flickering.

TBH Archlinux and NixOS have the easiest Nvidia experience because IIRC I think Ubuntu still defaults to Nouveau?
I don't think "twice" is enough to be considered data in support of any point when we're talking about millions of total rentals. Even if they screw this up (intentionally or otherwise) with 10% of all rentals, you're still unlikely to have a problem with only two experiences.
Huh, that was a pretty quick turn around for Apple, glad to know.

Now if only they'd stop trying to get me to enable iCloud Drive just because I use an iPhone for work.
Wayland breaks the GlobalProtect™ VPN client. Quite annoying.
No prison time but one was prosecuted and sentenced to home confinement and community service...

>A former top Wells Fargo executive avoided prison time for her role in the bank’s sham accounts scandal, after a federal judge on Friday instead sentenced her to six months of home confinement and three years of probation. She was also ordered to pay a $100,000 fine and perform 120 hours of community service.
If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. I don't understand this "we have to understand consciousness first" stuff gets so much discussion. If it acts human, and is indiscernible from human or human like, it'll fit our definition. I don't understand why "organic machine" matters, it's the "machine" part that matters, and we are machines. I think all that needs to be seriously considered. Is it ethical to end such an intelligence because it could easily evolve far quicker than us and displace us? Do we just let "natural selection" happen? big questions, but I don't think we'll understand and have universal understanding of consciousness before we stumble onto the first AGI
Xfce is pretty much stuck on Xorg, right? Not that I'm complaining, given what I've heard about the nvidia-wayland experience.
That’s a ridiculous takeaway. It seems like you’re looking for hyperbole or otherwise have a bone to pick.
Then why did they need a quarter trillion dollar bail out?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_takeover_of_Fannie_Mae...

This is a delicious ironic quote from a from 2007 article.

After Sept. 1, Freddie will no longer invest in subprime mortgages that have a "high likelihood" of payment shock and foreclosure, the company announced on Tuesday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN27376399/
They might attack your book deal (which would sell more books!)
Could be stored in keychain.

But I agree. The user should be asked if they want to clear it on app delete
'The Student' and 'Brave New Words': Will AI Teach Teachers New Tricks
Why is that damn client so finicky in the first place? Even on X it's always been unreliable. What the heck did they do that makes it so delicate?
One relief was that it happened in March, not on Dec 31, so it's not like I wouldn't have paid some of that bill in care, which is now 'free'

The other thing I learned, since the hospital was unwilling to negotiate on total price is that they just want you to commit to paying and will give you a long, low monthly, zero interest payment plan to make that happen. I'm a 'no debt' kind of guy, but if they'll float me a loan for free, I plan to just keep adding future visits to this network to my payment plan indefinitely.
Just checked his LinkedIn and yes, literally lol
I view my lawn the same way as the author, in that I do want there to be a good amount of biodiversity there. I let everything grow in the yard sections and even have parts that I leave almost totally wild without even cutting. But I also don't want weeds growing in the cracks between my paving stones, or poison ivy growing anywhere, and there's not a whole lot that works on knotweed! So I don't use a ton of Roundup but I do use a bit here and there. In moderation is again key but doesn't seem to fit into anyone's ideological framework these days.
Hertz used to be the best, I think I heard that PE gutted it, not sure, I avoid it at all costs.
How Is the Salesforce Internship?
I'm starting as a Salesforce intern tomorrow. How are the teams there? Is it possible to get a return offer this summer? How is the company in general?
This is not longer the case.

But another way around is the way VMWare Fusion let you set up networking in Bridged mode. Any traffic from the VM went through without a peep from Little Snitch running on the host. No reason malware couldn't be designed in the same way.
>Instead it might be possible that your consciousness is a product of a simulation where your entire subjectivity - including the observation that you have a brain - is a manifestation of another mechanism that is outside of observability.

Ok, well in that simulation materialism is true and I can make an AI with emergent consciousness ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As much as services like Turo and Getaround have their own gotchas[0], this sort of thing is why I try to use them instead of the legacy car rental companies, when possible. I've had nothing but good experiences with Turo (15 or so rentals, ranging from a single day to a 2-week rental). With the legacy rental companies, the best experiences are barely mediocre.

[0] One big one is that credit cards that offer insurance for rental cars won't cover services like these.
How would it have synced the wifi password from iCloud without the wifi password one wonders?
Since this is polycarbonate can’t it be just buffed, like the car headlight cleaning products do, using a very fine sandpaper?

It’ll just take a thin layer off and can then be polished.

It should cost less than replacing, I think..
That's good news: if there's already one fragment that's been found, there are probably many!
Agreed, the MT32 sounded very bad, but it inspired a scene of MIDI enthusiasts and companies making countless MIDI song files for popular and classical music that travelled via floppy discs and bulletin board systems. And the MT32 was kind of GM before GM - and its drum note assignments can still be found in the bones of some of the most recent and ambitious beat making plugins.

So I value the MT32 as an historic technology culture enabler, rather than as a sonic treasure.

That being said, I should run mine through my guitar pedalboard and see if it can be made to sound cool. :-)
The soul is the animating principle. The Latin for soul, anima, is where we get our words animal, (in)animate, and so on.

In the most loose sense the soul is whatever it is that a living thing stops having when it becomes a dead thing.

Philosophically speaking saying “consciousness requires a soul” is a consequence of the observation that consciousness requires not being dead.

People, many of whom were assuredly considerably more intelligent than you or me, have spent thousands of years pondering what exactly the nature of souls is. Your metasyntactic zinger adds exactly nothing to that ongoing dialog. But by definition we know souls exist, at least as much as any abstract principle does and perhaps more than some.
I think we all can understand the situation here unless people are really dense.. the Artemis program was setup at a time when the private space companies were still very new. SpaceX will soon be quite close to technically doing the entire mission themselves without Artemis at all. SpaceX took the money from NASA to help fund their Starship development and probably for other reasons as well. Net result is that by the time Starship can land on the Moon, they can basically do the entire mission without Artemis. So Artemis would be pointless.
From what I've read there's a trade off in terms of speed and accuracy. 4o is much faster, but its responses will sometimes have lower quality vs 4.
Is this why I sometimes get little tiny pustules on my gums after eating certain foods? I have no idea which foods cause this still. Sometimes in happens with sushi
also radar.com/radar.io which seems to be a geolocation site?
She DEFINITELY made more than $100k in stock and bonuses for the fraud.
As a long time Xorg user, I am finding it very hard to switch to Wayland. I’ve tried twice over the years and each time it only lasted about a day before I got too frustrated and went back to Xorg.

The biggest annoyance by far is all the little scripts I’ve created over the years which use `xdotool` magic for sizing, positioning, and minimizing-and-restoring.

My other annoyance is Wayland has no `easystroke` like application, and having used StrokeIt on Windows for years, then easystroke on Linux for many more years, I just can’t use a computer efficiently without it.
I don’t see how this matters? They’re splines right? Just quickly writing those down I see a very minor variation in how they connect, but ultimately that variance’d be hardly noticable.

Regardless, the end of the o or e, to the beginning of a is still a straight line.
Ballots are a political must have in the sense that they are required for the political system to function

The PFD is a political must have in the sense that voters are now telling the government they would rather cut other services to keep it

You previously disparaged critics for saying that there’s no evidence this would cut public services.

You are now changing your argument to say that it’s worth it in spite of that being shown to be a realized risk.
When we earthlings see a new moon, we see one dark side turned towards us, while another dark side is the far side; Moon is completely in the Earth's shadow.

During a solar eclipse, the far side is brightly lit, while the side turned towards us is dark.

Most of the time the dark side does not match the far or the near side, we see a part of both the dark and lit sides as a crescent.

I don't see how "the far side" and "the dark side" can be used interchangeably in any situation.
The economics fundamentally changed a couple of years ago when cloudflare released R2. I don't know if anyone has built a streaming client for it yet, but R2 takes the largest expense (outgoing bandwidth) and zeroes it out.

Yor business would be wholly dependent on cloudflare. But if you don't have to pay for bandwidth, the economics aren't that bad.

(I ran a large porn site a lifetime ago, long before cdns were ubiquitous. If I was in the business today, I would absolutely put everything on R2 and make it work no matter how much client development it took)
Wayland on Debian has been rock solid for me for several years now (and much better than Xorg ever was to be honest) using Intel GPUs in my experience. I haven't tried AMD/nVidia however. I use Flatpak which is another point of difference vs your setup using Snap. I can't really see myself going back to xorg TBH.
I have OAS/mild latex allergy and cantaloupe/honeydew are pretty terrible, and avocado was a bit bad too (worse when paired with acid e.g. guac)

My wife eats a lot of avocado being from south america and that part went away, and the latex allergy seems to have reduced as well.
I was actually looking for the “web” filter today as I got the generative experience for the first time, and it wasn’t there. Once it does roll out though I’ll be keeping an eye out for a user script that auto switches to that filter. I can’t stand generative AI and I want it out of my damn search.
I believe this is just iCloud Keychain in action.

The other commenter is correct - the last (few?) Wi-Fi passwords are stored in NVRAM so that the recovery environment can connect to the network more conveniently.
> For every terabit of bandwidth, you have to physically build out a terabit of network.

A lot of the content will be cached at/near the edge. I imagine a lot of time is spent watching popular videos.
I have zero medical expertise, but were the two blood tests and an xray really necessary for what seems like a simple case of dehydration?

Anecdotally, I recently got a simple blood test to keep an eye on something that’s been borderline in the past. Unbeknownst to me, my doctor ordered nearly 30 things to be checked in the blood panel, at $50-$100 a piece. Luckily my insurance negotiated a much lower price and covered most of it, but I can’t imagine paying $2,000+ just to check e.g. your cholesterol level.

I think the problem is alignment of incentives: for a doctor, over-testing has little to no negative consequences, but under-testing could lead to guilt due to a patient dying, loss of reputation because something was missed, lawsuits, etc.

As a society, is this how we should be using our limited medical resources? What if we made fewer xray machines and instead spent more on something like cancer screening? How many net lives could we save?
Here's what I want:

- take a soil sample and put it in a cup, add solvent/water and shake

- insert testing strip, or even drip into vials with reagents

- compare color to back of the box to determine what adulterants are in the soil

If I something like this were available locally, I'd see a price of 100 or less selling well for people interested in growing their own produce or simply gaining more insight into what's in their local dirt.
With recent nvidia versions, proprietary drivers work decently with Sway if you enable kernel modesetting. There was some jank with fbdev (an optional framebuffer thing with better performance) at some point, not sure if version 550 fixed it.
I'm kind of worried about virtual assistants, teachers, etc ruining a generation of children who think they are "real people" as much as anything else I've heard about AI. Adults can (usually) discern reality much more easily than children. Some of the assistants are getting these very "emotional" sounding voices and it's freakish to me. I don't need Siri to sound like a doting girlfriend, I just need it to play a song, fetch some information, pull up my schedule, etc.
what exactly is a "weed" this seems like such a nefarious and ill-defined concept.
The article gives explicit examples of where just connecting them with a straight line does not look right, and is noticeable.
After trying a few tiling window managers (including over a year with i3wm), I got xmonad to be the least amount of work/thinking to use.
The NHS is being systematically destroyed by the Tories who want this broken US system in the UK because it makes them money.

Aussie healthcare is the best I've seen (and I've seen a few). Basically free, with more speed or better care (or whatever) if you want to pay for it. Health insurance is like US$75 a month and not tied to employment.
> "How do we validate claims of end-to-end encryption?"

I'm not a security expert, and you can't prove a negative, so AFAIK the only evidence is the lack of reported incidents where Apple's iCloud Keychain data has been directly hacked or compromised. Given that iOS and iDevices are among the highest-value targets for hackers and nation-states, that seems like reasonably solid evidence.

From a business perspective, lying about such a thing would have virtually zero upside but unimaginably massive downside. It's a great Apple-hater fantasy, though.
Oh I just gave this a read through -- this is really neat, thanks for sharing, Karen. I have also been a fan of Tiddlywiki but always felt a bit sad about its apparent lack of support for mathematics typesetting. Although I am not too familiar with Tiddlywiki so perhaps I've been mistaken.

How do you like it? Do you have a wiki up somewhere?

Cheers!
The political brawler who went from a Taiwan mining village to the presidency
I do remember being told to be careful of the mango sap near where the stem attaches and to wash and cut if off before eating, never got any rashes though. Have eaten tons of mangoes directly from the fruit, and wasn’t washed every time.

Am curious now if I’m brave enough to test poison oak immunity. Probably not..
One thing that's fun about Tesla is their full service manuals for (all?) their vehicles are free online https://service.tesla.com/
Some areas have farmers that will drop off a small herd of goats that will happily eat all of that poison ivy for a reasonable price. I've always wanted to do it, but only this year have we produced enough poison ivy where it may make sense.
To be fair Even on MacOS (presumably bigger market for them) a strong breeze breaks GlobalProtect™
The race for an AI-powered personal assistant
Not "could be", it's absolutely stored in the keychain.

The iOS keychain isn't visible to the user which is the problem.
Uh, no.
The ONLY time we see a new moon is during an eclipse. Other times the moon is above or below the sun and is too dim to see. A lunar eclipse is when the moon passes into the earth’s shadow and they happens during full moons
Uh, it seems pretty clear that the "exact biological mechanism" is neural networks. Like, literally the connectedness and firing of neurons in the brain.

And no there is no proof that quantum effects play a significant role.
>Because software could impersonate and trick the user into giving away sensitive information, such as credit card data, or authentication to act on behalf of the user.

Emails and phishing websites are much more widely used than standalone software for tricking users into giving away personal information because 1) compared to building an application in Java or Objective C it's much easier to craft emails and fake websites and 2) everyone is already browsing the web.
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that's the kind of musing that leads you off into the weeds. Sure, anything is possible, but science is useful for observing, cataloging, and utilizing knowledge that is provable or at least "approximately" provable to the point it's useful. Spiritual talk of what the mind "is" really doesn't have much of a place when talking about AGI, I don't think. We need repetitive outputs for given inputs into a system. I can make up "what might be" all day long, but it's not really useful, unless I can prove it or use it.
It's not really NASA that's building this, it's Lockheed Martin and other too big to fail defense companies. This is just a little something something to keep them in the game.

As one person in NASA told me, they "fears NASA is becoming just a white collar jobs program"--artemis is clearly on mission.
Golang is evil on shitty networks
The booming business of eternal youth
Airbnb Ups Its Experience Delistings Amid Strategy Revamp