skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How shutting out men from the conversation is an obstacle to change
Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi) is that sci-fi thriller. Granted, it's not about ancient DNA - but about dystopian corporate control of crop seed DNA (think Monsanto/Roundup writ large).
But humans are "preprogrammed with information about the nature or structure of the environment"... i.e. 2 million years of the evolution of genus homo, and far beyond that too.

If real human intelligence is preprogrammed to a massively large extent, sounds like you are holding simulated human intelligence to a double standard.
> The total amount of money commands a fixed set of resources. Increasing the amount of money in circulation does not matter at all for reality. It's just an abstraction. An accounting fiction. If the government spends, there's someone else not using those same resources the government's now using.

You’re completely ignoring the velocity of money. This kind of confusion of stocks and flows is endemic in online macroeconomic discourse sadly. (Some have said that it’s endemic in the economics profession too.)
> Can this last forever? Of course not, nothing lasts forever. But wondering why the wealthiest corporations in the world pay their workers high salaries is perhaps like wondering why water is wet. Software has a low marginal cost, and the rest is basic incentives for the corporations.

Agree
"Marvin Minsky ("Father" of AI at MIT) made the bold claim in 70s that we will be marrying robots by 2000."

I admit, not the year 2000 and overly snarky, but people do marry computers nowadays. [0]

If we think it is what is(the computer controlled mask), we start to believe it really is what it is, a mind(controlling a mask).

Humans are capable of high degrees of auto-suggestion, up to a point where groups of people, and their dynamics, come into play, and some kind of group-thinking, a cult maybe for lack of a better term, takes over.

At this point all is believable, maybe not so far away.
We may trick us into a false AI, not a GAI in any sense mind you, and get stuck with it, because most of us wanted it.
And rest rest has been silenced already, that is very easy, as we all know already today.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvEkEhl999g
> Drug companies would be required to sell to all customers at the same price. This would end all cost-shifting, it's fair for all and forces the drug companies to actually compete on the end price.

Then you only sell the drugs that do profit, and stop making the ones that cost money. You cant make people do what they don't want to do, pharma is no exception.

The source of this problem is patent law, importation restrictions, etc. In short, competition.
Perhaps, but that's a big if. We can't even say for sure whether a complete reverse-engineering of neurons needs to take quantum effects into account, as Penrose has suggested.

All you're saying is that if we knew exactly how humans work, we could build one. Seems like a tautology to me.

If I knew the exact quantum state of the Universe at the Big Bang, I could figure out exactly how the Universe evolved, but that's never going to happen either.

I think the complete reverse engineering the way you are describing will not be possible. We can only try to reproduce the same outputs for the same inputs. But I don't think we'll be able to fully define what happens in the black box in between.

We might come up with something that works similarly, and can do great things with it, but I don't think AI can be invented the way you are describing.
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I guess them raising us as children, changing our diapers, making sacrifices for us etc. doesn't count for any kind of paying it forward because.....

Looks like you left some big-ticket items off that list, at least as far as it concerns me. Or did you just want the good parts paid forward?

Besides, it reminds me of a Chris Rock routine: "Oh, I take care of my kids!"

"That's what you're supposed to do, ya dumbass."
If you botch up something as elementary as a keyboard then it's an utter failure. Keyboards have been a basic design concept for 40 years on computers. How they could mess up so badly through so many revisions (three now?) defies logic.
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I agree on phones. I'd love it if instead of making it 1mm thinner, they made the components in it 1mm thinner and added a bigger battery.

For laptops, I think what Apple et al are trying to do is thin them down until they are tablet sized. So far, Microsoft managed to make a usable tablet/laptop hybrid in the form of the Surface family. Nobody else really has pulled it off: battery life sucks, ergonomics are terrible (those Lenovo monstrosities with the swivel screen!), OS is all wrong.

My bet is that Apple is using it as an opportunity to develop next gen tech. Just like they did with touchpads that became phone touchscreens, etc.
I just found Wallarm leaked source code
I just found amazing stuff. It seems like security service has been hacked by d0ggystyle (?). Source code on GitHub: https://github.com/d0ggystyle/wallarm-source-leak
The last thing HN needs is discussions based around a comment from someone who didn't read the article. I don't care about your contextless philosophy.
"Also what does observability mean is this context?"

Something went wrong, and now your site is serving 500 server errors to everybody at the rate of 25,000 per minute. The ops team already tried "just reboot it" and it didn't help. How are you going to figure out what is going on and fix it?

It's (mostly) too late to add anything, so all you've got is the logs you already had, the metrics you already had, etc. That's the "observable" stuff in a system. There's an art to recording what it is you need to know, while at the same time recording so much that you can't find what you need in the mess.

(The "mostly" is that if you have a good enough setup, you might be able to bring up a new system and route some very small fraction of traffic to it to examine it more intensely in real-time with a debugger or something, though in my experience, on those occasions I've had the opportunity to try this, it's never been a problem that would manifest on a new system receiving a vanishing fraction of a percent of the scale of a production box. But maybe you'll get lucky.)

You certainly want to do everything you can to not be in that mess in the first place, but it won't be enough. You need a system sufficiently observable that you can find the problem and find some sort of solution.
It should be noted though, that the effects of low oxygen are already very well known and well understood, thanks to decades of research funded by air and space agencies.

It should therefore be pretty easy for CO2 researchers to control the outcomes of their experiments against the known physiological effects of hypoxia, to determine what effects are actually caused by CO2.

And aside from that, the dosages being discussed here are far, far lower than would be a noticeable dent in the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. 1000 ppm CO2, the lower bound of observed cognitive effects, is 0.1% CO2, way less than the point where hypoxia is known to cause problems. The atmosphere is 20.9% oxygen at sea level and while I am not an expert in the math of partial pressure, a decrease of atmospheric oxygen to 20.8% doesn't strike me as sufficient to explain the observed effects. That's a 0.4% decrease in the partial pressure of oxygen, or about the equivalent of a 300 foot increase in altitude, or taking an elevator to the 20th floor of a building, nowhere near enough increase in altitude to make you light-headed.
Driftnet listens to network traffic and displays any images it finds (2001)
If the device bends while in a pocket, is that any better?
I think NDE was being used as shorthand here for an experience where one could have died, not the much more clinical definition where one's body is physically near death as above. It's a very interesting study.
Sacrificing usability for fashion is a design failure.
Good catch! I'll try to rerun the experiment. Hopefully the Google Colab TPUs give similar results to the Google Cloud ones so I can keep experimenting.

Still, since Adam performs worse even for non-distributed TPU (where the batch size and learning rate are the same for all devices) this wouldn't explain what we're seeing. Anyway, I'll try to find some time tomorrow to post the code so you can all have a look at it and hopefully see what's up.
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Ah, I confused the hierarchy between TLS and TCP. I thought the acks were protected by TLS, but they are not.

There are still timeout issues with the buffering, but it is a lot weaker defense.
which software businesses have been bailed out by the government?
That's as close to a lifestyle choice as you can get it. It sure does feel like kind of a ripoff when you're paying 60% of your annual salary in taxes and fees and cost the state somewhere around 5% of that amount, but maybe the perception shifts as we get older and use the public services more.
I guess depends on exactly how you use JSDoc, but it sounds like you're talking about relatively informal documentation with some best-effort machine validation. My experience is that you don't get anywhere close to the confidence that you get with a real typechecker. Docs can be overlooked, docs can be misinterpreted, docs can get out of date, docs can be wrong by mistake. And, inevitably, if you have many people working with the same code over the course of years, these issues will be common. Having an actual typechecker avoids all of these problems, at least for documentation of data formats.

If you do mean annotating all types with the thoroughness that you'd annotate TypeScript code, then really you're just writing TypeScript in JS, and TypeScript is a much more concise language than JSDoc for that.
> Is the current system brittle, and growing more so over time? Absolutely.

The current system is growing brittle along one axis.

After World War II, there was a cycle of recession and recovery, but each cycle had a higher level of inflation... until Reagan (or, if you prefer, Volcker). Since then, we've had the same cycle of recession and recovery, but each one with a lower level of inflation. But the problem has moved to a different axis - real wages.
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You don't recoil when you see a snake/spider? You don't get tired when it gets dark out? You aren't born with the knowledge of how to extract milk from your mother? You don't cry when you're hurt? You don't have an innate desire to please, and fear of pain... which ultimately allows your parents to teach you? We are loaded with survival instincts that set us up for successful learning.
But if you visit an HTTPS website via a fake tower your connection is still secure
I think you are massively anthropomorphizing.

Every day I run programs that happily die alone on their own. Painlessly. All of the "pain" we feel is an artifact of our evolution, same with having a will to live. The only reason we animals fight so hard to stay alive is that animals which didn't died off, ergo, only animals with a will to live survived and reproduced. Those same forces don't apply to computer programs.

Even the concept of "terror." Who is going to program terror in? What benefit would it have? Why not wire programs to be "happy" when helping us?
That'd pop up a mention of 'failed update' whereas in plaintext you can simply refuse to provide any packages.
For numerous others in recent times see the coverage of the Covington Catholic situation: misreporting and sensationalism at it's finest. I wonder sometimes if some of these traditional media behemoths even bother to follow basic journalistic practices like

1. cross referencing your sources
2. seeking the other side of the story / opposing viewpoints
3. asking those involved for comment

because it seems glaringly obvious to me in the Covington Catholic case, none of that was done until 48 hours when some high profile twitter names started actually pointing out the glaring errors.
> not as near as the singulariati would have us believe.

I've seen the singularity described as "The Rapture for nerds", which is pretty apt. It's going to be amazing, the future is so bright, we won't have to worry about any problems plaguing mankind now, and it's just around the corner! Any day now! Aaaaaaany day now!

Exhausting. Maybe we'll get a future AI-run utopia a la The Culture. Maybe not.
Have you watched the khan academy videos? He leans on geometry and visual intuition quite a lot.
They were too expencive to buy recreationally, at least for me. Evikon, small company that does science instruments. Sorry, cant find the model anymore, I think it was discontinued.

I do belive now though that even having recreational level sensor will give you at least understanding overall co2 levels and this something we should look into more.

I founs a paper using the same sensors that measured co2 in schools. In all cases, at certain times the measurement was higher than norm. occassionally over 2000. I can now understand much better kids getting sleepy and unable to concentrate in classroom.

Paper sadly in Estonian only: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...
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For me, Hacker News uses whatever I have set as my sans-serif font, which at the moment happens to be B612.
You would be surprised by the level conversation around certain health topics.
I was wondering what the fit with Qubes OS was. Found this
entry on Genode challenges page:

"Genode as virtualization layer for Qubes OS - ...This exploration project pursues the goal of replacing Xen by Genode as virtualization layer for Qubes."
> singulariati

I like this term. Going to use it any chance I get now.
I don't really care about the headphone jack, but I wish they'd just make the phone thicker to accommodate the camera bump. In that extra volume, just fill it with a larger battery.

With their laptops, I enjoy the form factor, but it's really Intel's fault for not delivering the low TDP, low wattage CPUs they promised years ago. The old MBP form factor feels too thick but the battery life of the new ones is disappointing. I actually don't mind the butterfly switch keyboard and like the lower travel distance. The old keyboards felt too mushy.
iphone 3G had a plastic back and a metal border around the screen, I never managed to break the screen with all the falls onto the pavement. iPhones 8/X have glass(!) backs. Broken phones sell more phones, making a sturdier phone is therefore counterproductive.
#4 is a lesson I'm still struggling with in spite of nearly a decade in "leadership" roles. I've been discouraged from coding beyond tiny situationally dependent snippets to teach a more junior programmer something. My value is no longer in producing things directly, my value is in being the guy on the conference call where the customer says "If Consultant32454 says it will work, it will work.". I understand this is valuable, but not having a "thing" I built with my own hands at the end of the day is difficult for me. I wonder if this is a result of low class upbringing or something... Plenty of people in the management/executive class seem to be able to accept credit/responsibility for things they managed into existence rather than produced into existence... It's hard to accept being a force multiplier rather than a force, if that makes sense.
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I think the onus is on the company to pro-actively organise social events which don't centre on drinking.
my original post wasn't clear.

what I meant was one farm generally wouldn't have a crop that yields "great" produce that tastes great while simultaneously having produce that is:

> plasticky, perfect-looking, and utterly tasteless.

these would generally come from completely different crops and farms.

I understand that produce is graded by physical appearance but that produce of varying condition from the same crop would pretty much taste the same, which leads to the whole discussion about ugly produce.
I agree with most of that list - except for cron.

Cron jobs are the definition of the anti pattern of treating servers like pets and not cattle. You have to worry about that one non redundant server running your cron jobs. There are others ways to skin the cat, but my favorite is Hashicorp’s Nomad. I like to call it “distributed cron”. Together with Consul for configuration it’s dead simple to schedule jobs across app servers - the jobs can be executables, Docker containers, shell scripts, anything.
I really haven't had much issue with the keyboard either. Sometimes they keys go a bit rough but a can of air usually fixes it.

Still not a fan of it though, the keys are just too loud for how little travel there is.
If governments do not control debt, at least in theory, though, it is very hard to remain a reserve currency. The definition of a reserve currency is one you can have confidence in, one that will be managed well. If we decided we were not going to do that anymore, we'd stop being a reserve currency.

It seems like the kind of policy that you can flirt with occasionally, but not embrace or actually use. You can get forgiveness for periods of justifiably high deficit spending in a Keynesian model, but if you tell people that you don't think you'll ever need to pay it back...well, they'll try to sell those debts real quick.
I don't know. I'd never considered this subject before the OP posted it.

I'm a husband and father, and I respect my family, and I have friends outside of work, so one of the last things I would ever want to do is drink at work or after hours with my coworkers.

Feels like a non issue, a consequence of working with too many manchildren. If you don't like the brodrinking then don't be friends with them and find a better job.
Ok given what we've seen from headlines recently, this actually makes sense. My grandma is old and I read older people share fake news more then youngins. My grandma (and older aunts/uncles) are the only people who forward emails. I wouldnt be surprised if lots of fake news articles were forwarded around networks of older folks.
Loose into what? A bunch of primitive systems that don't support its hardware requirements?
Specifically, you can't use a touchscreen without looking at it. You can locate and press a button or turn a knob without needing to look at it.
But the HOA won't let you and you'll have a hard time selling it then, because you have indicated that the house is in a dangerous area.
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4K most commonly refers to 3840x2160. Which is of course not exactly 4000 pixels, but neither is 4096 :)
Nutrition or exercise (though I wish my discipline towards these things matched my interest...)
No, you're not reasoning through this all the way. Yes, SS7 vulnerabilities mean that SMS 2FA codes can be captured. But that's not an argument for improving SS7; it's an argument for not trusting SS7 in the first place, and modern 2FA systems don't. Even if you "fixed" SS7, you'd still have to trust the phone companies with part of your authentication to unrelated third-party services.
It would take them half an hour to write that custom software. Under what threat model is "nation-states that can't spend half an hour writing code" a meaningful adversary? Note in particular that they can identify users by previous traffic statistics (and just normal traffic flow statistics that might be kept as a routine log by any network administrator, even); they don't need to write the code in advance. Given the number of bytes transferred, the times, and an archive of the state of the Debian archive (which is publicly available), they can always identify past downloads.

(Would it help if I wrote that code right now and put it on GitHub?)
TLDR: the answer might be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_crisis

I‘m coding for almost 20 yrs now and used to think the same: „when will the bubble pop?“, then it was „how long can this go on?“ until I ended up with „ok, that’s weird, what the heck is keeping this bubble from popping?”

I was told throughout these two decades that I’ll be replaced by some offshore developer from India within the next 5 yrs max. It never even came close.

To me it was against common sense, to climb up so much the social ladder like I was fortunate enough to do, just by being exposed to programming.

Then, I saw a talk given by Uncle Bob where he spoke about the history of software development. It was interesting throughout (like that the rate of female programmers was almost 50% before the dawn of CS degrees), but he also touched the “bubble” issue briefly.

He turned my perma-bearishness into ongoing curiosity: That we’re not in a bubble but in an ongoing “software crisis”. A crisis existing basically since the invention of programming languages. The theory has it that here aren’t enough developers available and may never will be. Is it demand-side economics on steroids what’s behind it? I don’t know.

But what struck me maybe the most is that I’ve never even heard about this theory, and never did any of my much more experienced and better programming friends and colleagues. The fact they didn’t knew kind of underlines the theory: there is so much demand that there is simply no time nor need to even tinker with the history of our craft.
It already exists. It's called tor.

But the question here was why https isn't default in apt, not why tor isn't.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612630/

I did a brief search for scientific evidence on the topic, and came up with nothing in favor of your position.
I just saw something in one of those websites with overloaded side columns that had an article about a UK police officer named Rob Banks.
It's even simpler, "tell me about a challenging bug you've vanguished, what it was and how you solved it." People in the trenches love to tell war stories. I do.
I have a stack of new MBP due to being a freelance consultant and my clients having a high degree of security needs. I use them 90% of the time with the lid closed attached to external keyboard/monitor. (I am a fan of the "Anker USB C Hub, 5-in-1 Premium USB C Adapter with Ethernet Port")

After a year with this configuration one of the keyboards has developed a sticky left shift key. When I jump between the MBP and a 2015 Air, I breathe a sigh of relief for the Air's keyboard. The air, obviously older, does a lot of travel, has no key issues.

I have additional issues with using the MBP keyboard. I always feel like I am burning my finger tips off due to how hot the system always seems to run, especially up top near the touch bar. The caps lock key is every so slightly too far right, so I will regularly hit it instead of the A key.
What? Are you serious?

Do you think anyone ever asked you if you wanna be alive?

Paying it forward? Wtf?
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What is the baseline? How well does a mouse perform when placed in an "unrelated" task for the first time? The mouse also gets an explicit reward function (food, pain, etc) - does the "unrelated" task use the same reward function as what the AI was optimized for?

Also, is it ever really the "first time" for a mouse when behavior has been ingrained and tuned over millions of years of evolution? Is this different than training an algorithm?

My point is just that it's really hard to define these tasks and how to evaluate performance for a machine and a mouse.
Well Musk went from making websites to building a space company and electric car company and now a tunnel making company.

So maybe you're underestimating abilities of some people to master multiple fields
>Loon...craziness...delusions...needs psychiatric help.

I agree many of his predictions are bad but you should calm down with the gaslighting, it's ignorant of science history (the same was said of Aristotle, Semmelweis, Wright Brothers...) and is an impotent way of debating, especially in the context of science.