skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like humans lack the capacity to optimise for success beyond reproduction and acquiring power, especially at large scales and timelines. Maybe there is a non-technological solution to this - new ways of organising that enforces better choices for the planet and our long term survival - but it's hard to see that.

Perhaps the bit flipping will be the way out of this mess - using machine intelligence to understand and help us optimise for things that we can't. I think that will take a while though - we need more legislation around polluting and overuse of resources as the immediate step.
Well, given that you don't exist, mind if I eat your sandwich?
>can't even increase recruitment into their ranks

The part of the story that I'm trying to emphasize is that the "ranks," although heavily embedded in academia to the point of controlling it, are perceived enemies of the public at large. They hold power within the academic world but are disliked outside of it, and the outside forces are responsible for the declines of enrollment, and so on. True or not it's self-consistent. You could compare it to the executives at a corporation that was notorious for polluting and hiding scientific evidence: they hold power within their company, and even if the public found out what they were doing and started to react it would still be very dangerous for an employee within the company to speak out against them. You can't say, for example, "Kim Jong Un isn't really powerful because the US is sanctioning his country, so you should try to usurp his position" because although he has little power outside of his country, he has a lot of power inside of it.

To further cement the point, imagine a kidnapper defending themselves by saying, "I could not have exerted force on the victim because I am not powerful, and I can prove that I am not powerful because if I was powerful I would not be in court."
Clean them. Modern plastic headlights oxidize and grow dimmer over time, but can be cleaned (from the inside) to restore brightness. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4QwzHOO-3lk
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It's an interesting position we've put ourselves into, at least in the US. Half the population in denial that anything is wrong, the other half convinced the only solution is conservation.

Eventually we're going to have to engineer our way out of it, or die trying. But I expect it will get pretty dire before enough people across the spectrum get on board.
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Quite a chilling post. I'm definitely never going to China.
No they wouldn't. Have fun sending rounds into the sky hitting nothing but air. You can hit a randomly moving target at 1000 feet consistently?
There are enough sadists that I wouldn’t rule out a homicide yet.
I'm still on the "affected by negativity" phase. May I ask what concrete actions are you taking (besides being optimistic).

I spent one morning with a group which plants and looks after trees in a reserve near my place. We were putting protections around young saplings so cows wouldn't eat them. It took my team of three the whole morning to put protections around a single sapling.

The whole thing made me sad. There is no way we are going to counteract our consumption with single individual actions like that. So I am looking for ways to be more effective.
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Tourists won’t have many problems in China (beyond air pollution of course); rule of law wouldn’t be much of an issue to them, you aren’t really living there. Workers on the other hand.....
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You're right, my comment was regarding microphone. I do cover webcam when not in use along with phone camera.
Part of that $107 is internet access.
I did not realize that squid could provide false certificates on the fly. The whole business of invalid certificates made people nervous about some sites. Now someone can sit in starbucks with a squid proxy in the middle and harvest everything, regardless of ssl encryption. Looking at the little lock in the URL means nothing to a MITM running squid. Will a VPN protect me by encrypting everything from my machine so that a squid in the middle will be thwarted?
I like it OK as a song. It's not spectacular, but it's adequate, and "adequate" is a modestly high bar from me. It wouldn't stand up to being elaborated on much more than it is, but there's a place for such simplicity.

However, philosophically, the lyrics of the song boils down to "What if we could all just get along?", which is an even weaker message than "Why can't we all just get along?", which is already a sentiment so childish that I never deploy it as anything other than an example of something so hopelessly naive that it can't be taken seriously by any adult.
> "The USA military got what it needed under the cover of a civilian space race."

This sort of cynicism is very popular but largely unfounded. In terms of rocket technology, the moon missions were following in the wake of ICBM tech, not the other way around. The Mercury/Redstone, Mercury/Atlas and Gemini programs were all using rockets that were designed initially as ICBMs (well, the Redstone was an SRBM.) Those rockets were already developed and paid for by the time a civilian applications were found for them.

Consider this timeline of launches: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/USAF_ICB...

'Atlas D' and 'GLV' are the Mercury and Gemini programs, respectively. They both came after the majority of ICBM tests for their military siblings. The military wasn't using rockets built for NASA; NASA was using rockets built for the military.

Then there is the Saturn V itself. A massive purpose built cryogenic liquid propellant rocket first flying in the late 60s. ICBM technology had moved on, cryogenic liquid propellant ICBMs were already discontinued by that time. In 1962 you had the introduction of solid fuel Minutemen and in 1963 the storable fuel Titan II's were brought into service. Both of these rendered cryogenic propellant ICBMs like the Atlas family and the Titan I obsolete, and both were finally fully retired in 1965 (and subsequently recycled as satellite launchers, roles that they served for many years following. The last Titan II launched a weather satellite in 2003.) This is years before the Saturn V ever flew. The Saturn V simply was not an ICBM program.

Now, the Space Shuttle is another matter entirely...
Wild ass guess? Multiple separate lasers. The interference patterns from each laser will overlap and additively smudge each other out.
That is correct - it is then a JTB - but not a “Gettier”. None of his examples are Gettiers.
I will still happily pay for Netflix. I can share an account with my family, and the quality is still very high IMO.
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Taking the tube is relatively expensive in London compared to Europe. Taking the bus is relatively cheap: £1.50 for any journey, including any number of changes up to 70 minutes after your first hop-on.

It's great that I can commute to work for a £3 round-trip with a change halfway if I choose not to cycle! Of course, that's in South-West London and even then the traffic can get pretty bad. In central it's probably nightmarish to do it regularly.
Which languages? I'd think it's rare because I know no such standard function from the top of my head.
It was pretty easy to predict right? And it's gonna get worse when people need to sign up with Netflix, Disney, Amazon, etc because they like one show from each.

I guess we got the ability to watch whenever we want, including all seasons being available right away.
Move over Next.js and Webpack
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The identity system is now on Ethereum. It has always been the least innovative or sophisticated part of the project, but the one requiring the most trust, so parking its root on Ethereum (at least for now) is a pragmatic choice without many drawbacks.

As far as I understand (not too far), individual Urbit nodes can still function independent of the Ethereum blockchain. Their parents can feed them the subset of the Ethereum/Urbit PKI graph that they need to validate any signature. The blockchain is only required if the node wants to personally verify that an asset hasn't been double-transfered to multiple parties in different forks, and don't trust their parents to have ensure that. This is a strict improvement over the older Urbit model, where you had to rely on your parents to relay that information.

The actual network and computing layers are still distinct from Ethereum, and have no knowledge of it outside of the identity system.

It's a neat project. I'm glad I won't need to make disclaimers about Curtis the next time I introduce it to someone.
Horse racing (parimutuel wagering) is specifically allowed in some states, such as Florida. In those states, it's legal to bet online on any horse race around the world. Twinspires (the company that owns Churchill Downs) lets you bet online, for example: https://www.twinspires.com/
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Optic fiber latency is questionable
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I've seen a few off-road-capable vehicles lately with something that looks like the bumper-mounted light bar shown in the pictures here. I don't know if it's this same product, but I can say with confidence that it is blindingly bright to oncoming drivers, unlike the claims made in this article. I sit very high in my vehicle and have been painfully dazzled by these every time I encounter them.

But this strikes me as a very lazy piece anyway. There's no skepticism about the claims, or the reasons why the US might have its current headlight standards. It's basically a PR piece for this product.

The opening line clued me in to how bad it was going to be, though: "Most people don’t turn on their car’s headlights and think, I wish they were brighter." Sure I do! But on the other hand, I also don't want to blind the cars I'm about to pass within six feet of that are coming towards me at an effective 140mph when I'm driving on a dark back country road after dark, which I do hundreds of miles of every week. That's why we have dimmable headlights in the first place.
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> Not really a problem.

Your gravity vector will have to be uniform, otherwise your crustal will turned curved.

Your centrifuge will have to be either very large, or you will have to find out how to do that without convetion
Consider that the Tor Foundation itself may have been started by NSA agents and collaborators. Tor was originally invented for the US Navy, after all. There's a foundation that provides legal representation to "average people" who want to run Tor exit nodes. I read a study of Tor exit nodes in Germany and they are all financed and legally represented by a foundation that, to my eyes at least, is obviously a CIA front.

The CIA has been doing things like this since forever. Many of the "storied journalists" of the late 20th century were CIA propagandists. It would be trivially easy for the CIA to turn one of their own assets into a "privacy celebrity." They would go around giving conferences to "privacy advocates" and techies, spinning yarns about their "dedication to user privacy" and the average person would believe it. In fact, the CIA, in the 1950s, used a personality test heuristic that could identify narcissists and liars and would recruit these people to insert into various "movements."

I actually do find it rather amusing when I read comments from seemingly well meaning techies praising some celebrity "privacy activist" that travels around the country giving TED talks and the like, promoting various privacy technology initiatives, never once even considering that it's quite likely that celebrity is working for the NSA and simply mouths all the "progressive" and "cyber-libertarian" talking points that sell the idea to idealists. Idealists are easily manipulated because they "want to believe."

The Three Letter Agencies are "people hackers" more than "technology hackers" and the average techie-type doesn't have a clue.

tl;dr the entire "electronic privacy movement" is likely astroturf run by the intelligence community.
> A philosopher might say that these aren’t bona fide Gettier cases. True gettiers are rare. But it’s still a useful idea...

At least as presented, I see the idea being used to do more harm than good.

Take the first example, with the form not autofocusing. We're already not in a Gettier case, because the author didn't have JTB. The belief that he caused the bug obviously wasn't true. But it wasn't justified, either. The fact that he had rebased before committing means that he knew that there were more changes than just what he was working on between the last known state and the one in which he observed the defect. So all he had was a belief - an unjustified, untrue belief.

I realize this may sound like an unnecessarily pedantic and harsh criticism, but I think it's actually fairly important in practice. If you frame this as a Gettier problem, you're sort of implying that there's not much you can do to avoid these sorts of snafus, because philosophy. At which point you're on a track toward the ultimate conclusion the author was implying, that you just have to rely on instinct to steer clear of these situations. If you frame it as a failure to isolate the source of the bug before trying to fix it, then there's one simple thing you can do: take a moment to find and understand the bug rather than just making assumptions and trying to debug by guess and check.

tl; dr: Never send philosophy when a forehead slap will do.
What about them? The 4th amendment explicitly gives the government power to seize and search “effects” (personal possessions) given a valid warrant.

Moreover, the 4th amendment is usually applied against state police. But the bill of rights originally didn’t apply to the states (until some clever interpretation of the 15th amendment). The state governments are not ones of explicitly enumerated powers. It makes no sense to interpret the 10th amendment to keep states from doing something because it’s not explicitly enumerated in the Constitution, when the whole point is that powers not enumerated are reserved to the States by default.
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OP here... Any guesses why this was flagged? Yasha Levine is the author of Surveillance Valley, a well-reviewed book that covers this topic extensively.
Wait, that's a thing? Do they reset them before the TüV inspection every time?

Having been blinded by oncoming traffic on the Autobahn a few times, reading this is extremely infuriating. Xenon headlights are especially vile.
So why would Apple be doing this now? Maybe preparing the terrain to enter the cloud space and compete with Azure and AWS in a couple of years?

After all, it's no mystery Apple wants to expand their services revenue. Their hardware revenue it's not growing as much as it used to.
Now this is the kind of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish I like. I wish more companies bought technologies just to open source them.
Yep. I was actually thinking several times over the last month that I should discontinue Netflix as I don't use it as often as I wish due to the user experience.

I think about putting on a film but then I think about the constant barrage of trailers and the difficulty of finding something good (recommendations are useless), so usually I end up dropping the idea.

Just need to finish Altered Carbon and I'll be dropping it.
Not safe to assume that. My internet only bill (gigabit over coax) was just bumped to $105
So, do i need to change the tor client configuration to not favor fast (exit) nodes as much?
Lights should block out your night time vision no matter what, that is unavoidable. It is only a matter of how much goes.

When driving in rural areas, I sometimes flip off the lights to see much more in my periphery than I could with the lights on. This is dangerous of course, as the lights are meant more to be seen than to see.
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I like the idea behind it, but after owning a Novena, I have a couple of concerns that I would want addressed before I would commit any funding:

- The Novena has an i.MX6QP, and Firefox on it is all but unusable for it, as well as libreoffice. I would personally reconsider upgrading to the i.MX8 for a faster processor.

- Even though the Novena was open source, it did not keep up with 4.4 or 4.9, and had out of upstream patches for Linux. I attempted to keep up with patches, but I stopped having time for it after some upgrades broke hardware features on the Novena. I would want the board to %100 upstream so I knew I wouldn't have to worry about it.
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I so miss EOF[1] and really wish it had made the transition to OS X.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Objects_Framework
Oh, it totally is, but your attention is sure when they come in flying from behind and starting to blind you. I think that's what they want to achieve by being such jerks.
It seems to me the only thing we can really do is not have children. There are too many people on the planet.
It may also be due to the fact that they get your money regardless of how much you watch per month. It may be an effort to reduce operating costs by having you watch less.
If you're lucky. Cut my cable last year, didn't have anything extravagant and our bill was easily $100 just for TV.
That is already done with IR cameras and flashing the object on the dash. We can have a discussion whether that is better or worse than trying to shine light directly on the object in the real world.

Look at 1:50 for demonstration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5fl7r-E9WY

(it looks like this system can actually "flash" at the object in real life, it can be seen a bit further in that video)
It's much better than it used to be. Expensive though.
Sibling comment has good points. My go-to was years back when HD put a single disc with a single piston caliper up front. Anything Japanese at that point put two discs, usually multiple pistons. Some sport bikes were running monster six piston calipers.

And there’s that fat-ass Harley hauling it’s bulk down with that one scrawny disc and anemic caliper. ‘cuz, you know, style. Always seemed like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Can you imagine a car manufacturer saying, “the braking system is not even close to state-of-the-art because it wouldn’t look good”?
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I remember reading/hearing about a ~2000w PSU about 10 years ago that needed to be run off 2 circuits. Fortunately, SLI never became that popular, and even 1000w PSUs (while readily available) are overkill for most gaming setups, even with 2 GPUs.
> But I do get to hide much of my sagging face under a beard.

Why do you do this? Have you experienced discrimination due to your looks?
I used to think this way. Its not an accurate assessment of the situation. Its not about code execution on the OS leaking access to the camera, its that Spyware browser you use grabbing the camera via its js APIs. Malversting; Video Conf Apps; Browser Bugs. Don't take a nihilistic view on the Camera cover. Its saved folks from embarrassment many times.
The whole point of certificates is for the browser to check with a cert authority. How does squid circumvent the certificate authority?

I think VPN may not be safe if the local machine has to negotiate encryption with the VPN server.
Squid seems like it couldn't intercelt that.
This article is from 2014. I did a lot of research on this a few years ago, and found plenty of circumstantial evidence that either (a) TOR is a honeypot, or (b) a large % of users have bad OPSEC, or (c) both a and b are true.

Because of “parallel construction” (1) it will always be difficult to really get to the bottom of this issue. I’m not sure we’re ever safe from the prying eyes of nation states. We should all assume we’re never totally secure, and act accordingly.

But I get “burnt out” on the level of paranoia necessary for that kind of research. I’m also exhausted from trying to convince others to wake up from their apathy over privacy and security.

Security is a process that requires continuous improvement. New exploits, new information, and new technology will never stop affecting our security postures. I accept that I will miss things, get breached, and improve over time.

For whistle-blowers, spies, and criminals, breaches have much more severe consequences. But it’s going to happen to them as part of the “job.” Cat-and-mouse, I suppose.

Anyway, I assume Tor isn’t secure, because no networks are secure.

1.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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I've seen one major use for it. We had a "site" running on a tv (think Netflix tv app).

It had to be run on one page for technical limitations of the hardware's browser. It also had to do all the login, persistent connections at the same time.

A lot of it was videos. Meaning we had to check whether users were still watching, which profiles they were logged in to, and had to optimize the API calls. Which is difficult on multiple pages.

There were plenty of overlays - we had videos on the background, navigation on the foreground. Sometimes we'd have to play another app nested within the app. And the only way of closing that app was through a command sent to the parent.
iPhones "only" support WLAN with a theoretical max of 867 Megabit per second (802.11ac with 2x2 MIMO), so no, you don't get 400 Megabytes data transfer to it.
Do you have a better guide to this? The model seems to be infinitely thin, which makes it unprintable in all the slicers I've tried.
Along the same lines, Saša Jurić wrong Erlang before picking up Elixir, and wrote about that here: https://www.theerlangelist.com/article/why_elixir

Also, Devin Torres, author of Poolboy, wrote https://devinus.io/the-excitement-of-elixir/ and https://devinus.io/elixir-its-not-about-syntax/
What's the alternative? IMO Apple's season pass was a great idea. $10 a month can either buy you two shows you want and a 1000 you don't (Netflix et al) or it can buy you 4 shows you want. (season pass).

But consumers have spoken and season pass is a failure.
Very true. I'd recommend Yasha Levine's (the post author's) book Surveillance Valley for anyone interested in this topic.

You'll notice any web posts about "how to get on the dark web" suggest Tor. Uh, huh.