skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many indigenous tribes in Brazil for example (still surviving in more or less pre-colonial territory). I'm very far from a specialist (and specialists do exist), but I know there are many different attitudes. Some tribes have known technology but don't like it. Some use smartphones and wear clothes (usually those have some economic activity I guess). Some have an inbetween approach, and the leaders are reluctant to let technology in (it's interesting in Brazil usually the role of spiritual leader is different from the "executive leader" afaik, it's the Paje (more spiritual) and the Cacique (more executive)).

So it's a reality many actually don't want to mix with civilization.

I haven't gotten to read it yet, but I highly recommend Ailton Krenak's book "A vida não é Util"[1] (Life is Not Useful) and his other ones, he discusses some of those questions as an indigenous person.

Also, really most tribes in Brazil are in existential danger from many activities, specially illegal logging and mining. One significant role they perform is defend the forest since it's their territory and traditional livelihood.[2] Differently from elsewhere, tribes in Brazil are quite unique because many have been agricultural in pre-colonization times (I believe cassava is the staple crop generally), and have unique cultures like music, languages, garments and dishes.

But generally each tribes has its own unique culture and history and we cannot generalize much (some are more violent, some much less, etc. too).

[1] Seems to be available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Not-Useful-Ailton-Krenak-ebook/d... (This time Amazon's name is fitting :) )

[2] Brazil has quite generous indigenous reservations I think and we generally quite value indigenous people culturally, but we are struggling to defend most forests from criminals and, what other word to use, evil business interests in the region.

(One significant cultural movement is Brazil from the early 20th century was the idea of "Anthropophagy", which is to value all cultures and learn what we can from them, absorb ("eat") what's good they have to teach us)
Those 100 year timescale numbers are misleading as the impact is so front loaded. They only make sense when talking about an emissions that are constant through long timescales.
I was absolutely flabbergasted that they didn't even white-label the third party stuff behind their own .gov domain, which means they're mis-training users towards "It's normal to hand over extremely sensitive official information to vaguely-plausible-looking companies with websites and certificates ultimately under the control of Montenegro."
There is a strong argument that they should remain uncontacted, because they are not exposed to our pathogens. Death rates of 90% are typical. This was the story on islands all over the Pacific. It still happens to Amazon tribes today.

It is a general pattern. Whenever the larger evolutionary pool encounters the smaller one, the larger pool's viruses spread like wildfire through the smaller population, wrecking it. And it's not just viruses. Whenever predators from Eurasia/Africa, the "Old World", the largest landmass, arrive on an island, it is an extinction event. How much destruction has the housecat wrought?

Now, perhaps this is, fundamentally, an unstable dynamic, literally in the dynamical-systems sense, and the situation cannot be maintained. Ultimately they will come into contact with these diseases; the only question is how and when.

(To strike a philosophical note, however, your death is also inevitable, yet you seek to delay it.)

So perhaps some protocol, as you suggest, of extremely careful, "clean room" contact, with vaccines, or something like that, might be possible and desirable. How to win sufficient trust, I don't know.

But the disease aspect is important.
I used to be a volunteer firefighter and I see some of the fatalities (but not all) on this map. Looking at one of them some of the information is quite accurate (type of accident, what caused it, age of person) while other information is not at all accurate (number of people in the car, if a seatbelt was in use). It's curious how some fairly important pieces of data can be quite wrong.
There certainly are systematic solutions to at least _some_ of the real problems, based on formal methods, of which Rust's checkers are a simple example, and it's an inexcusable moral failure that they are not used more widely.

Reliable software is expensive to develop; more expensive than we are willing to admit. You can either take the expense at development time by increasing development cost, or you can shift it until later and externalise the cost by making the end-user and society at large suck it up in terms of unreliability and occasional disaster.

We are at the stage the Victorians were with exploding boilers, or people in early Medieval times were with collapsing cathedrals. They fixed their problems, and so can we.
Sorry when I meant link I specifically meant a network link. A way to route net traffic out of the country. It wouldn't be too hard given how far the outskirts of Dhaka are from the West Bengal border and plenty of Indian Bengalis have ties in Bangladesh.
Ok I doubled it again wow
> Also, what is the long term fate of such tribes? Without genes flowing in, it's probably not good.

If contact was made, the short term fate of the tribes would likely be bad. They likely don't have immunity to all the diseases that we do. It could prove devasting.
yeah, I agree. I think most places will at least keep it until the existing contract comes time for renegotiation and most will probably keep using cs.

It's far easier for IT departments to just keep using it than it is to switch and managers will complain about "the cost of migrating" and "the time to evaluate and test a new solution" or "other products don't have feature X that we need" (even when they don't need that feature, but THINK they do).
Rather morbid, but I'm trying to find details for my 24 year old cousin who was struck and killed by a drunk driver in 2008(?). Somewhere in Texas.

Any plans to add search/filter functionality?
Product in stealth for a little bit longer, so can’t say much. :-)
also there are some free [and open source] solvers fwiw

[1] https://wasm-postflop.pages.dev/
[2] https://github.com/b-inary/desktop-postflop
Appreciated, but still not loading for me fwiw.
What was your toolset for the analysis? Can’t see now because of HOD? Excited to see your data! I haven’t seen it yet but I imagine this is will be similar to the private actuarial structured data of a any car insurance company. By no means am I diminishing your efforts.
there are open source models. If/when chatgpt has adds you will probably be able to just run something equiv with open source tools.
I think there's a savior complex on both sides, both intervention and non-intervention. In general, humans tend to think they know what's best for other people no matter what the situation is.

I tend to agree with your assessment that the balls in their Court and they can do what they want
I feel the same way but do agree there’s a general lack of respect for the field relative to other professions. Here’s another thread on the subject https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676651
Document classification in highly ambiguous contextual space. Solving some specific large scale classification tasks, so multi million document sets.
> in real terms

I’m not sure how better to dice up emissions then by consumption per person, and by that measure the US is clearly emitting the most

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...

Conversely China is doing the most about emissions

> China commissioned as much solar PV as the entire world did in 2022, while its wind additions also grew by 66% year-on-year.

https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2023/executive-summar...
I imagine that the closing of Arkane studios Austin was a big motivator for worker's to unionize. They created successful games and Microsoft shut them down for pretty much no reason. I am kinda on the periphery of the gaming scene in Austin and that was a huge deal when it happened.
very interesting share ^ !
Are you weighing the deaths by use of the road. Otherwise it's not representative of danger level right
East India company calls to say forget me not.

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

The beginnings of capitalism & colonialism. Systemic wealth transfer is not a mystery.
In Massachusetts, Lost and Unaccounted for Gas (LAUG) is estimated per mile of pipe, rather than evaluated by regulators or even industry. It is a simple multiplication problem with little bearing on reality. Consumers bear the cost of LAUG while the utilities are guaranteed a 10% profit on their infrastructure expenses. This, along with subsidies for leak prone pipe replacement, leads to needless investment in outmoded fossil fuel infrastructure (i.e., pipe replacement) being prioritized over leak repair.
Netflix big? Bigger or Smaller?

I'm betting I have a good idea of one of the possible orgs you work for, since I used to work specifically with the largest 100 customers during my ~3yr stint in premium support
A heuristic that has served me well for years is that anyone who uses the word “cybersecurity” is likely incompetent and should be treated with suspicion.

My first encounter with CrowdStrike was overwhelmingly negative. I was wondering why for the last couple weeks my laptop slowed to a crawl for 1-4 hours on most days. In the process list I eventually found CrowdStrike using massive amounts of disk i/o, enough to double my compile times even with a nice SSD. Then they started installing it on servers in prod, I guess because our cloud bill wasn’t high enough.
Give it like, a week before bothering to ask such questions...
I don’t get it. Thought tracking pixels were just for unsophisticated websites and those who wanted to track people across different sites.

USPS has an authenticated page where they know their customers. Why wouldn’t they just analyze THEIR OWN logs instead of relying on third-party advertising companies?

Was this really an accident?
I high recommend people get into NHTSA's FARS database. It's an old school GSA type database, so it's format is a little unusual, but you can hoist into an SQL table without much difficulty, and then you can ask and answer all of these questions.

They often include things like "path of accident" so you can even run queries and ask questions like "how many vehicles flipped over before crashing" or "how many passengers get ejected from the vehicle before dying" or even "how often are snow banks involved in crashes?"

Odd things last I checked in 2015:

More people die in Texas than California. In total. Not per capita.

Most people in Florida die between 7pm and 9pm which is far later than most other states.

Pedestrians usually die at night.

Anyways, a great database last I used it: https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-report...
Better octuple it.
Pilots know where there are other places to land, e.g. there are a lot of military strips and private airfields where some craft can land, depending on size.
Except this actually was an opportunity for malicious actors https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/19/cyber_criminals_quick...
You should see his bio.
What NIST requirement is that?
> According to Petronius (c. 27 AD – c. 66 AD) in his work Satyricon, the inventor of flexible glass (vitrum flexile) brought a drinking bowl made of the material before Tiberius Caesar. The bowl was put through a test to break it, but it merely dented, rather than shattering. The inventor repaired the bowl very easily with a small hammer, which he pulled from a pocket in his toga, according to Petronius. After the inventor swore that he was the only man alive who knew the manufacturing technique, Tiberius had the man beheaded. It has been suggested this was either to protect the existing glassmaking industry,[2] to ensure that glass remained breakable as an effective planned obsolescence or because he feared that the glass would devalue gold and silver, since the material might be more valuable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_glass
You don't descend from all your ancestors [video]
The money in modern music isn't there for greatness. It follows the lowest common denominator. See: Taylor Swift and Beyonce.

Bach was writing pieces that were commissioned. Commissioned artwork always has a different character than artwork created for mass consumption.
This is analogous to what top chess players do. They try to take the opponent into suboptimal positions hoping that they are not familiar with the best lines, even though technically the position isn’t as good as the main line.
Another way to look at it is that you can have more hospitals using systems with a lower cost, thus saving more lifes comparing to only a few hospitals using an expensive system.
You’re definitely right about that. CharGPT is almost too accurate/structured. I think OpenAI is positioned to take over the ‘search’ industry.

Pro Tip: Use a model like llama3 to ‘humanize’ text.

Llama is trained with Metas data sets so you get more of a natural sounding, conversational tone.
I meant if you tried to delete them in the recovery mode.
Cyber- is pretty much a code prefix for anything targeted at the public sector. I too see it as a kind of dirty word TBH.
A good system is resilient. Paper process could take over when system is down. Form my understanding healthcare systems undergo recurrent outages for various reasons.
This data is good for cognitive behavioral therapy and not much else.

In that, the world is certainly not going to end, and maybe it's helpful to look at some data that trends positive in order to inspire hope. But we are committed now to living in a world that will be radically different and less pleasant for a lot of people. How fast these trends improve will determine the scope and magnitude of degraded pleasentness.

Regardless of any change, more extreme weather events more frequently will become more normal. The socioeconomic impacts that are likely to be the most jarring in the global north will probably surface from migration pressure as people from the global south are displaced due to heat and sea level rise.

It is optimistic to think that we'll be on track for 2 degrees of warming, let alone 1.5. At this point, the quiet part just starting to be said out loud is that we'll never hit 1.5. We'll probably never achieve any semblance of the paris agreement goals.

And even as we approach 2 degrees, 2050 looks hotter and more extreme than anything humans have ever experienced in the past.

Probably one of the only short term options between now and 2100 will be solar radiation management -- a largely untested tech that is surely a terrible outcome.

I'm just summarizing the latest IPCC synthesis report [1]. Adding a bit of editorialization in perceived outcomes. One of the most conservative organizations on earth, their assessment is bleak: systems are already permanently damaged, and they're likely to become more so in the near-to-distant future.

My goal is not to make anyone reading despondent. I just think these kind of short snipes of perceived positive trends bury the reality of the situation that we are living through.

If the goal is to assure us that the world's not going to end, it's quite a low bar to set. And there's quite a gradient of suffering between.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/
They do not have to. They are the government and will garnish the income directly.
I think omoikane pinpointed the primary cause, hard power loss. I definitely do some writing when receiving the shutdown signal, and I bet some people initiate a normal shutdown but remove power before it finishes. I think trying to avoid writes upon receipt of a shutdown signal will help.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40988954
The best I have right now is place and time to find a specific incident, but yes I should be able to get some basic filters up soon
CrowdStrike Bug likely caused by unsafe NULL Pointer
Ok. But it does feel like we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Time will tell whether it's foolish or not.
> There is literally no driver for change away from windows.

(Not including this colossal fuck up.)
I love that this apology for setting the world on fire today is concluded with their signup form for a free trial.
Hardening is absolutely not what crowdstrike sells. They essentially sell OS monitoring and anomaly detection. OS monitoring involves minimizing the attack surface, usually by minimizing the number of services running and limiting the ability to modify the OS
> It's interesting to think about why many people believe tribes like this should remain "uncontacted".

It's less "they should remain uncontacted", and more "any contact should be on their terms". If they prefer being left alone, that must be respected.
What language/framework are you using? Typically you would implement your own authentication for learning the nuts and bolts of auth, but never for a production/live system on the web.

You would either use something like Firebase Auth or the built-in one that comes with your framework of choice. Identity in .NET core for example.

On the topic of auth, and as an aside, wondering if anyone has used a UUID + API key combination to do auth instead of JWT/cookies?
It's all from the FARS database
A lot of tabs do have them... Also you're not always picking notes from a chord, though I guess often you are.
The real reason is because we tune instruments differently.
Anything about "why would you want to be a copy cat of Bach?" is just non-sense - musicians have been copy-catting each other endlessly since music existed, and still do today.

The writing technique of the baroque era revolved around line conductions that dodged harsh-sounding intervals in the temperament of the time.

Nowadays, we tune using equal temperament. Equal temperament doesn't have harsh-sounding intervals (except flat 9th on a major chord), which makes classical writing technique obsolete.
Is this the rsync.net HN account? If so, lmao @ the comment you replied to.

> As a craft, and a passion

I believe you’ve nailed the core problem. Many people in tech are not in it because they genuinely love it, do it in their off time, and so on. Companies, doubly so. I get it, you have to make money, but IME, there is a WORLD of difference in ability and self-solving ability between those who love this shit, and those who just do it for the money.

What’s worse is that actual fundamental knowledge is being lost. I’ve tried at multiple companies to shift DBs off of RDS / Aurora and onto at the very least, EC2s.

“We don’t have the personnel to support that.”

“Me. I do this at home, for fun. I have a rack. I run ZFS. Literally everything in this RFC, I know how to do.”

“Well, we don’t have anyone else.”

And that’s the damn tragedy. I can count on one hand the number of people I know with a homelab who are doing anything other than storing media. But you try telling people that they should know how to administer Linux before they know how to administer a K8s cluster, and they look at you like you’re an idiot.
is it not the problem, that CrowdStrike takes hold of the root certificate authority of a computer? There is an update, and after that what is causing the problem?

If it is the certificate, that could be solved in the future by putting the certificates on the blockchain. If it is just incompetent management, then i don't see a great deal of technical solutions.

Craig Wright, claims to be a mathematician not a stellar coder.
It would be great to drop a few a Starlink terminals and some solar panels to contact these people and explain the disease risks
Planes always get landing clearance via radio. "Planes in the air were unable to get clearance to land or divert" strongly suggests that the radios themselves were not working if it's actually true.
Vendor competition helps, but it might not be enough depending on how the incentives are set up, especially with a literally-captive customer base.

If all costs are passed to the inmates, then the prison doesn't have much of an incentive to pick a cheap vendor, compared to a convenient one or the one that takes prison officials on free golf trips.

Worse, hyphies may be considered a feature if the institution is trying to pressure inmates into to "work" programs which are profitable for the institution.
here for a good time not a long time...
Your lawyer made $600K and you got $3250?
You wouldn't airgap individual rooms.

And sending data out can be done quite securely. Then replies could be highly sanitized or kept on specific machines outside the air gap.
There is no doubt that the headline is an important hook. Yet there is a difference between a deliberately vague or misleading hook (which I would consider clickbait), and one that conveys what the article is about.

I don't like watering down the defition of clickbait to mean any headline that gets the reader to click on it. That sort of definition is mostly an excuse for bad behaviour (e.g. misleading the reader).
Radical cultural relativism is rooted in a profound ignorance of human cognition: it is true for every human, who has ever lived, that a more precise empirical knowledge of the world is preferable. It is even likely that we might also learn from them (e.g medicinal use of undocumented amazonian plants, or even just ingenious ways of structuring language and social organisation).

In the past, this particular aspect co-occurred with colonial genocide and economic exploitation. But that is not an excuse to stipulate that there isn’t an objective benefit to the progress of understanding and culture.
This is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen on Hacker News. Great work whoever did this!
for one, normal person can't even install it with local account
> agree that Sheikh Hasina is extremely authoritarian and corrupt dictator but imo JeI are the actual fascists

The challenge of escalating partisanship is self-reïnforcing polarisation. The worse the leadership, the worse the opposition.

The operant question, thus, is not who is good but who is less evil, in the hope that this ratchet, a few times turned, yields goodness.
> I had to explain why we wanted PostgreSQL instead of MS SQL server.

Tbf, you are giving up a clustering index in that trade. May or may not matter for your workload, but it’s a remarkably different storage strategy that can result in massive performance differences. But also, you could have the same by shifting to MySQL, sooooo…
Nutrition is to me all the nutrients we need to consume. The same rules apply to them all - we need a certain amount of them all, all non-engineered foods only cover some subset of it (hence needing to eat “balanced” to even things out), and we handle abundance of any of them very poorly. “Big food” is not problematic because of what it lacks (getting more of any time of nutrition is easy in modern society), but because of what it has too much of (hard to uneat something). Hence too nutritious. I won’t argue against there being other definitions, but I find this one most appropriate and indicative of the problem. :)

No, your assumption of my definition of “tasty” is not right. Did you like the taste? Then it is tasty. Eating tasty foods is pleasurable, and therefore addictive. And what home cook wouldn’t try to make their food more tasty?

Fats, sugars and salts are shortcuts to maximizing primitive tastiness because “tasty” is meant to drive a search for nutrients and a guidance away from dangerous foods (especially salt giving how rare it can be - ever seen what animals do to get to a salt lick?), but that’s all.

Complexity is itself not tastiness. If a “complex” taste does not make you want to eat more, I’d argue that the food was not at all tasty, but just an interesting experience. Like seeing an art piece that was not beautiful and certainly not something you’d ever consider buying, but still worth having a look at once on a special day.
They are there, you just have to look. Tasksource, NuNER, Flan, T0. There’s not a lot, but still at least a few good zero shot models in both architectures.