skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does enforcing strong attestation from the user result in a safer internet or reduce life alerting frauds and scams? It's not users injecting that onto pages, it's the ad networks that operators choose to use.
This is an experiment over five days. I think it was very sensible not trying to abruptly change the whole day for a ten and a five year old. That would be very stressful for them. Also the article is about that kids today are in a very shitty situation: they can't roam, because you as a parent get judged or worse (like people call the police, when they see kids unsupervised), and the house is full of so called smart devices, that are highly addictive. We in the western world created an very unhealthy environment for children and we need to change that as soon as we can.
Also wondering if this would become expensive very fast if it ends up using S3 with a large number of PUT calls
> it serves up ads when installed. Literally the definition of adware.

It, literally, doesn't. I'm baffled by your misapprehension - brave exists to block ads.
Zrok: An open source sharing solution built on OpenZiti (zero trust networking)
It’s probably inefficient to deduce an author’s actual position from their [non-autobiographical] work. The more they think of themselves as artists, the more one has to try and read from their comparatively banal actions.

See the following, it threw me off as well.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/should-america-have-a-mo...

> Yarvin is voting for Joe Biden at the next election
Yes, I'm just talking about their supposed software, since it seemed pretty similar to what OP said.
don’t add too many features, one of the usp of this is simplicity and suspense.
> Schmidt earlier told The Wall Street Journal that he “misspoke about Google and their work hours” and requested the video be taken down.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220658/google-eric-schm...

A shame, because this was a very small portion of the overall video, which was otherwise fascinating.
Wada Sanzo. A Dictionary of Color Combinations
Just because the bank didn't reverse the transaction doesn't mean the disabled person can't sue the caretaker and doesn't mean a prosecutor can't charge the caretaker.
I mean the problem is there won't be any books directly refuting Nate Silver's argument because it's essentially just "people who disagree with me are irrational."

Right-of-center, "Wait But Why" by Tim Urban and "Rationality: A-Z" by Eliezer Yudkowsky (and LessWrong in general) are much better at talking about examining our own biases. LessWrong will be much better than the stuff Tim Urban wrote, which is still better than what Nate Silver is writing. LessWrong is arguably not even right-of-center.

Left-of-center, David Graeber's "The Utopia of Rules" does a good job of pointing out a lot of our society's quiet assumptions.

But I mean ultimately when you say that such-and-such a crowd has a problem with "decoupling," you're just talking about what it means to be human. I guarantee you anyone who claims they don't have a problem with "decoupling" is lying. It just takes a little bit of time and you'll find something which seems like a minor point of order to you which makes them fly off the rails.

My own biased and unhinged take is that the decline of religion in the West has given people total cognitive blindness to the idea that people might actually believe different things from you yet still be rational, i.e. that there are plenty of interesting and useful arguments that are valid but not sound.
Firefox supports ublock origin on android.
Your mobile provider stores your location data for 1 (Verizon), 2 (Tmobile), or 7 (AT&T) years. Tower dumps long term, granular advanced timing/ranging to within meters for ~90 days.

Don’t think too fondly of Verizon’s short retention schedule though, they sell your location to data brokers.
He had me up to wading into the water. That seems unwise, and unnecessary when you could shut off the breaker first.

Also, as I assume others have pointed out, modern toasters are both electrical and electronic devices; I expect they wouldn't handle the dishwasher quite as well as older ones did.

Generally though, 100% on board with the author's point about strident repetition of common "wisdom".
Nate Silver's claim to fame was building a statistical electoral results model that correctly predicted a lot of the results in 2012. But since then, a lot of his commentary has shifted from technical details about building statistical models (such as working out which factors are more or less likely to drive changes in the results) towards the political punditry of "let me react to $POLITICIAN's latest speech," with the insight one might expect from such punditry.
Seems like I got killed by a glitch that teleported me off screen and then marked me as "killed by Unknown"
Electricity takes the path of least resistance. If things are done right, that means through the metal heating element and the ground wire, and not through your body.
Copyright does not have clear answers. Teachers has always wanted a clear answer to "how many pages can I copy from a book", and they usually get the same answer. There is no cleanly defined number of pages, but fair use do exist so they have to apply they own judgement in each case.

The same questions has been asked about how many seconds of TV/radio is fair to copy, for example as stock footage or in reviews. Many people will say something like "3-5 seconds generally accepted", but each creator has to apply their own judgement per case.

What is a derivative work is one of the most debated aspect of copyright law, likely only second to fair use debates. Only a court of law has any real ability to give a clear answer and then only to a specific case.
>>more susceptible to Nazism than most people

Any implication that external forces put people in positions that cause them to be 'more susceptible to Nazism' ignores the certainty that for every 1,000 people in the exact same position, some become Nazis while others do not.

The external conditions are irrelevant. No matter how you change the conditions, there will always be a portion that 'become Nazis'.

It is my belief that is because there is something inside them that makes them Nazis to begin with. The external conditions simply present the opportunity for their inner Nazis to express itself.
A semigroup is a set M and a function m: M x M -> M that is associative, m(a,m(b,c)) = m(m(a,b),c). Writing ab for m(a, b) this can be written a(bc) = (ab)c. A monoid is a semigroup with an identity e satisfying em = m = me for every m in M.
This can be used for map-reduce and pivot tables.

A (small) category is a partial monoid. The domain of m is the set of composable arrows.
Yeah, that's reasonable. Assuming the game isn't exploitive or loaded with dark patterns and things like that. How often does that happen though?

It's always possible to dig deep enough and find questionable moral things, in this case, it would be about the platform, how customers are reached etc.

But that's far from my point, it's not reasonable to expect someone to avoid all creations derived through profits.

It's that the overwhelming majority, 99.99% of people who become rich are directly engaging in these questionable practices or are very directly supported by those who do.

Even making the video game likely makes you dependant on Microsoft, Apple or Google and the ills of their rise, but I see that as far enough removed that yes the solo developer could be considered reasonably ethical.

But again, how often does it happen?

In the US there are 1.4 million people with a net worth of over 10 million. How many of them were solo developers with a non-exploitive products that didn't sell out to someone who made the product exploitive?
The McAfee Central America Travel Guide (2023)
Then don't commit crimes? I'm usually pretty sympathetic to executives being used as sacrificial lambs by constantly being put in the position of having to bet their jobs on a coin flip they're calling in the air. But this really isn't defensible.

Jailing people with only knowledge isn't the right move compared to having a fully anonymous whistleblower program, with fine sharing. It sucks that there has to be zero transparency but you don't want some unfortunate schmuck doing the right thing and then getting blackballed for the rest of their career for it. But jailing the people with authority and accountability is completely doable-- if you didn't know that's on you because it's literally your job to know and that lands you 3rd degree $crime. If they can prove you knew that's 2nd degree, and if they can prove you ordered it or signed off on it then that's 1st degree.
I heard the entire thing and it was great (he gave good tips on hard work, where llms/ ai companies are headed, google's breakup by the doj, etc...)

This coming from someone who never enjoyed Eric Schmidt interviews because he's so media trained.

For once he was honest and unfiltered... And they censored it.

Wish there was a reliable WayBack Machine for every YouTube video lol
This was really interesting!
No tax on tips: Why politicians love it, and economists don't
Consumer Price Index slows below 3% for first time since March 2021
Well Texas DPS (transportation dept) leaked thousands driver license info two years ago and many people paid fair price to identity theft losses. There is nobody to initiate a class action lawsuit against DPS, could Texas sue itself to play it fair and balanced? Suing GM is fine with me, how about wipe yourself clean too?
I mean, anyone's free to create whatever art they want on their own time and dime, and accept that it may or may not resonate with others and their pocketbooks. If you're applying for a specific thing for someone to give you money and they've said what they're looking for...yeah, you should probably conform to that.
Once you have a 4yo quite a lot of netflix replaces your bars
Bias and assumption are needed features of non-deterministic thought. We live in an infinite universe so thinking and exploring until you have truly 'got it right' would lead to death. I have built non-deterministic NNs (which are exceptionally effective by the way) and the key is the loss function and training for learning when to predict that the loop should exit.

I really like this article because it shows someone who keeps pushing their 'when to exit loop' training and the positive and negative implications of that.
> This is an actual joke.

No, it’s an actual example of a normal citizen getting a vote on the floor of a bill they wrote.

The Flint water crisis is a crisis in name only. Blood lead levels were lower during the crisis than years before it happened.

So color me shocked it’s not “fully resolved”.

“ The study, which appears in the Journal of Pediatrics, found a decrease in Flint childhood blood lead levels, from 2.33 micrograms per deciliter in 2006 to 1.15 micrograms per deciliter in 2016 — a historic low for the city.”

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/study-examines-b...
Yes, sorry, I meant there's no battery.
The cord connecting Europe to Australia is almost exactly through the centre of the planet.

Also, the latency difference is a lot higher than 24ms because the current best route is via a circuitous fibre link. Light is slowed down in the glass of the fibre significantly (about 30 to 40%).
Who is liable when the ML model hallucinates™ while parsing some critical data?

Better still if it can then become a source of truth for further departures from reality.
Reframing Expectations
Tbh most splats data today is not optimally stored. There’s a lot that could be done for streaming, data reduction and segmentation. So I think it’s definitely both possible and easy to reduce that data size in half if not more.

They’ll likely never be smaller than a mesh and texture though, because the data frequency will be higher. A wall can be two triangles and a texture. The same representation as splats will have to be many hundreds of points, roughly at the count of the pixels of the lowest resolvable version of that texture.

So I agree they’re far from optimal for data size. But they greatly reduce the complexity of data capture and representation.
"This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind."
add a X button to close that huge black info box
took me a while to realize i had to press ESC
Just a quick note that the Vampire may not implement the subset of the 68851 PMMU in the '030 and may not boot this OS (or NetBSD or Linux).
On-prem is theater if the OS isn't libre.
Why?

I used to watch C-Span because it was often educational.

Now everyone is just campaigning, 24/7.

Congress isn’t asking questions. They are making statements in the (sometimes) format of a question which is often just “do you agree with what I just said?”

I’m all for Congress having the power to investigate issues of importance to the American people.

But we’ve got only one scientist in the entire thing and a large number of people with questionable intelligence & ethics. There just doesn’t seem much merit to the effort.
The Statistics That Come Out of Nowhere (2023)
https://archive.is/DA8KC
It's just super hard to prosecute police, because who do you report the misconduct to? If you go to the officer's police dept, they laugh at you. If you go to the local prosecutor -- well, they need the police to give them cases and evidence -- they laugh at you. If you try to go to the Sheriff, they laugh at you. If you go to the State Police or the FBI they tell you they don't have the resources and you need to go the police dept or prosecutor.

It's an unwinnable game. The only way to get traction is with media coverage.
In particular, you seem fond of the application of Lagrange's theorem to deriving facts about prime numbers.

Presumably, what you have in mind here is the proof of Fermat's little theorem by saying "The integers modulo prime p under multiplication form a monoid of size p, among which the invertible subgroup comprises precisely the values not equivalent to zero (thus, of size p - 1). Within these, the order e of any value x is equivalent to the size of the subgroup x generates, which by Lagrange's theorem (decomposing the entire group into its cosets; i.e., its isomorphic orbits under the subgroup acting freely upon it) must divide the size of the overall group. Thus, x^(p - 1) = 1 mod p".

Yes, you can say all that in group-theoretic language. But someone skeptical of the value of group theory might object "All you are doing is using fancy words to say what could be said more straightforwardly. After all, Fermat's little theorem was understood by Fermat and others two hundred years before group theory was invented. Euler published his generalization of Fermat's little theorem a hundred years before group theory was invented. All your fancy-schmancy group theory is just pointlessly obfuscatory language for describing something already well understood".

And indeed, all group theory is doing in this case is showing us how to relate this one particular result to many other similar results. But that is the value of abstraction and generalization. That is how math often works. Recognizing a common pattern that comes up repeatedly, making particular instances obvious in retrospect, through fluently understanding their shared connection, once and for all. That's how it worked for groups, and that's the same way it works for categories.
Very cool, reminiscent of agar.io :)
When so much software is written to rape the normies, I’m surprised FAANG, Goldman, Jane Street, et. al. haven’t sent recruiters.
I had youtube TV for a while and the most annoying thing is that there were no channel numbers.
and I was in the middle of commiting a hot fix D:, I had to push the image directly to the registry D:
With any luck we might work out how to slow it down even more:

https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/slow_glass (1966)

Selling picture view windows that sat out in the scenery of Yellowstone for a few years and nano-glass-dust total surveillance are just a few of the exciting possibilities.
It's a really cool technical achievement but if I were you I'd put in a lot of effort to distinguish yourself from diep.io because at first glance they are identical.
70% of mobile games are Unity too.

Honestly, even outside of gaming, we could probably go back to web apps again, now that hardware is better. Zuck's famous quote about the company's biggest mistake being going with HTML5 instead of native for mobile is 12 years old.
> In my apartment, my deadbolt was so sticky that it was hard to turn even with the door half open. Two spritzes (keyhole and the bolt) with WD-40 classic, and it moved easily, and continued to turn easily for the remaining 6 months in my time there. Could lubricant-X have done a "better" job? Maybe, not that it mattered in practice.

It was likely the solvent properties of WD-40 that helped. It dissolved the old, tacky lubricant or rust and left you with a cleaner lock. For a six month fix on a rental, that is probably fine. For a long term fix on a house you own, it may be worth using one of a plethora of lubricants designed for that specific use case (including a more specific variant of WD-40 that is designed for locks and leave behind a dry lubricant when it evaporates.)

> Because now there's something that can also unstick your lock, but with an even lower coefficient of friction?

WD-40 is decent at removing rust, but not great at repelling water and thus preventing rust.

There are a lot of things that go into picking the right lubricant for a specific application. It isn't just "which lubricant is slipperiest?".

WD-40 is indeed a lubricant, but much of the benefits of using it are due to its solvent properties and people often don't understand that applying it in the wrong circumstances can lead to removing the correct lubricant and result in less lubrication.
But, sorry for stating the obvious, the point of the Amazon web site is not to be convenient, or beautiful, or understandable. Its purpose is to sell you stuff, more stuff, more often. I bet some non-zero amount of confusion is increasing sales. It's much like supermarkets that put simple repeat-purchase items like milk at the other end of the store, to make customers walk and notice other items.
A standout post on the hazards of giving advice.

Nearly all of the advice I’ve ever received was harmful when I applied it, no matter how successful the person who gave it (or perhaps even more so because I naively assumed it was more credible).

Context matters. Be your own guru.
You sure about that?

> They also say they can share your personal information with dealers (there are lots of those around for sure), social media platforms, advertising companies, joint marketing partners, SIRIUS XM radio service, law enforcement, regulatory agencies, and other government agencies.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/ford/
> Google's interview process is so rigorous that I do not doubt the caliber of talent that even currently works there

I do! The process is rigorous. But in my opinion, rigorously wrong. It tests for problem-solving skills. But not something else. (I openly admit I don’t know.) It’s the freshman dorm commons at an Ivy League with a lot of money.

This nonsense clears out above the 8th tier of whatever ranking system they employ (principal?), for the most part. But it’s a lot of making increasingly-elaborate artisan firing mechanisms for guns that shoot a Petri dish of cancer, in the name of curing cancer. It’s technologically marvellous. But it’s so stupidly useless. (Bloom! Self-piloting boat that could mostly keep pace with the winds. Why? The balloon tore itself apart if inflating with even a bit of wind on launch.)
SF tech company once worth $855M shuts down amid wave of complaints
Could be a Double Robotics clone instead of having an arm https://www.doublerobotics.com/

If it does have a large arm, could it fold clothing? If not, hard to think of a killer app. Maybe they expect to pivot.
Aren't satellite-satellite laser links the new standard for latency-sensitive communication since it's point to point and avoids delays from refraction?

I'm not sure if they have true global connectivity yet, but. . . I'm sure SpaceX is working on it.
>...horrible power requirements. ... perfectly fine for a desktop computer. Just not so great for phones, tablets and portable computers.

Except no one buys desktop computers any more: everyone's using phones, tablets, and laptop computers. There's also servers, but even here power efficiency is important; reduced power requirements for a datacenter would save a lot of money, not just in direct electricity consumption by the servers, but also from reduced cooling needs.
NASA Telescopes Work Out Black Hole's Snack Schedule
Not to alarm you but there are for sale all of the car driving data in the US from that emergency request service that kindly the manufacturers install in every new car they sell.

Just make sure that you also pay the subscription because in an emergency it will not call 911 for you, because who cares about you if are not a revenue stream.
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My my he’s certainly very “hands-on”[1] fella, isn’t he? Makes sense why he’s a champion of RTO.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/technology/eric-schmidt-a...
The electrocution only happens if you get into the tub with the plugged-in dryer. Or try to fish it out with your bare hands while it is still plugged in.

Assuming that the dryer continues to run, it is perfectly safe to keep it running indefinitely in a fish tanks (without fish, of course). You just have to unplug it before removing it.
Nothing happens. I click play, it says already connected. I wait, nothing happens. I join a lobby, it puts me in the same scenario.
Lovely and quite impressive.

On the same topic the Brick Experiment Channel had a nice submarine build described here: https://brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com/rc-submarine-4-...
Intel just keeps going farther down the drain, much like another American mainstay, Boeing. At least Intel isn't killing hundreds of people in fiery crashes, or having pieces of their CPUs falling off during use.
There's a short fictional account of a science teacher constructing a gold leaf electroscope using stuff in the school, and plaster dug out of the wall of the classroom to help map radioactivity after a limited-strike nuclear war, in "Warday" by Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka. (at least one of these authors has a bit of a nutty back-story, It's important to remember the book lies solidly in the realms of fiction)

I always thought it was somewhat fantastical. I'm rather delighted they could have beaded some polystyrene and stuck it in a cup for much the same effect.

Several SF novels mention using scintillation plastic. Is that also simply fantasy, or are there passive scintillation meters which could in fact detect levels of radioactivity? The 1900s models demanded 20 minutes of acclimatisation inside a dark chamber and were notoriously hard to use. Rutherford refused to use a counter while he could show his trained workers (women mainly) were as accurate. Those counters were photomultiplier tubes. I think quite a lot of the tech here was a precursor to TV, and ultimately the CCD in some ways.

Filmstrip exposure would tell you about a lethal dose, after the event. Helpful for budding scientists if they have enough lab rats to send out with a chunk of film in a wrapper.