skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree it's progress. I think it is just constant change. I also think it's likely unavoidable, so I don't lament about it too much.

Actually when I read Why Nations Fail was the first time I realised that things don't only go in the direction of progress and that sometimes all the progress a society has made is erased and things revert. That got me to consider that it will happen to us at some point too.

Actually, though this is an interesting point to philosophise on and I find Nietzsche a fun thinker. I guess what you are alluding to saying that this endless loop is always driving forward progress (or maybe your distinction is that it is always progressing and that isn't necessarily a value judgement on whether the 'progress' is good or bad, just that the situation is always becoming different), is that perhaps and I think that in some way this is the case that our actions and the record of it sort of acts like a ratchet. That is, it turns one way and once it turns that way it doesn't turn back the other way. That's analagous to 'some things can't be unseen' I suppose. Even if it's all reset you can't negate how far we did come this time.
This was an excellent read. I'll have to take a deeper look at the NimPy project that was mentioned in the article. Thanks for sharing.
Just thinking about filing the paperwork for 60 patents... Gah!
I'm really excited about QUIC and Quinn because I think a lot of networking problems map on to the "many serial streams in parallel" model. QUIC libraries will make it easier to write those apps than plopping them on top of TCP, while getting better performance with lower latency.

QUIC makes great progress on so many different networking problems: head of line blocking, connection establishment latency, connection migration, multiplexing...
On 2) NO! I'm not busting down my own door to get into my property. And if I have to, I'm evicting you.

On your greater point, there are a million ways to skin a Roman senator. There are alternatives that don't require a smartlock and if an otherwise great tenant (or applicant) really pressed the issue, perhaps I'd go with another one. In the absence of that, I'll go with what's easiest and sensibly secure (which, by the by, a smartlock is).
You can get novolin-n at Walmart for about $26 a vial without a prescription. I’m a type 1 diabetic and fallback to this when I’m unable to get a prescription.
We are a part of nature too. So when humans create AI isn't it still just nature creating AI?

...is strong AI a more sophisticated invention than cells? Is AI more sophisticated than DNA? Is AI a more sophisticated invention than a habitable orb of magma orbiting a nuclear explosion in space? It's all crazy. It's all amazing. ...We are all lucky enough to be here for a little while to see whatever this is. We're a point on a stream.
> Remember, even with Connection: Keep-alive, you still have to request every file synchronously after you're done with the previous one.

Wait, why? I don't know of any reason HTTP clients can't pipeline requests.
Basic Primitives for most backends:

- Persistence
- Messaging
- Publish-Subscribe / Event Handling
- Latency
- Separation of Concerns / Layering
I’ve been using https://libraries.io/ to get at-a-glance stats on age, activity, number of dependent projects and other metrics that, arguably, are a good proxy for quality.
Hunt for the Nazi Loot Still Sitting on Library Shelves
> My point is that GDPR is bad (for internet users) at the very core (intent) of GDPR legislation.

You're conflating interests of internet companies and interests of users a lot here. No doubt, this is not in the interests of internet companies - however, I fail to see how it's actually bad for users.

If you're ennerved by the cookie banners and don't care about your privacy, you're always free to click the prominent "accept all" buttons and continue like before.
> But they also need to simulate a nervous system, mobility, food needs, interaction etc to have a remotely persuasive argument that a 302 node neural network actually resembles a worm brain. It can't be as smart as even a really stupid worm until it can perform analogous tasks to the worm, which means having some sort of artificial body to wiggle.

It has those things[1]. There’s a video of its simulated body wiggling around on the project’s github repository.

[1] except possibly food, I was skimming the page.
I don't see the paradox.

If intolerant speech turns into violence, extant rule of law gets triggered. I believe most countries have conspiracy laws to deal with groups that plan out a path from speech to violent destruction. So unless this is a "bootstrapping" thought experiment, I don't see the problem.

On the other hand if intolerant speech doesn't generate violence, then the speech should not and cannot be curtailed without being unconstitutional-- at least in the U.S.

Now, think of the common modern case which does an end run around what I've said. That is-- large sums of money paying for a) public relations to manipulate the public into voting/acting against their own interests, and b) using the resulting power to further corrupt the democratic process.

Where does intolerance come into play in that scenario? AFAICT not at all.

Now suppose society believes the paradox of tolerance is a thing. They will attempt to use intolerance as a kind of "emergency tool" to combat what they perceive to be an anti-democratic PR manipulation campaign. But the PR manipulation campaign already beat them once-- otherwise the democratic process wouldn't have gotten corrupted. It's like playing a chess game against a team of 10 grandmasters who corner you, and then you agree to let them add ten queens to their side if you can add one to your side.

So a) I don't see the paradox, b) anti-democratic forces don't need intolerance to prevail, and c) introducing intolerance into the defense of democracy gives the enemies of freedom a force multiplier.

Edit: clarification
I port your number to another provider, 2fa sms simply doesnt work.
I don't think I did claim that? Yeah, it might well be necessary, sure. In particular, when someone is themselves using/threatening to use violence to prevent you from doing something that doesn't harm them. But the point is you (or rather, the state) then apply/ies as much violence as is necessary so that you can do what you have the right to do, but you don't beat them up to teach them a lesson. Or rather, if you do punish them in this scenario, you punish them for their use of violence, not for their idea.
Only that the chat response is not just function of the 500 character query but also of all previous queries:

You could ask the bot things like "Did I ever tell you about [...]?" or "What was the last time we talked about X?"
Maybe we just need a new word for the phenomenon which prevents tolerance from progressing towards integration?
I think there is definitely a bit of sleight of hand going on in order for people to describe whatever outgroup they want as intolerant. In the footnote where he describes the paradox, Popper describes the intolerant's actions as:

1. being unwilling to engage in rational argument

2. forbidding their followers from listening to rational argument

3. teaching their followers to answer rational argument with violence

Usually when I see someone bring up the paradox of tolerance it is because they do not want to engage in rational argument and instead seek to justify pre-emptive violence against a person or group that is at most expressing intolerant opinions.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that one before - some really interesting historical context. That's about the clearest articulation I've ever seen of the contrast between the idealized purely-deductive hypothesis-falsification paradigm and the way science has actually progressed.
How much is 1.2 terabyte of debt? :P
Can we please as least try to steer it towards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think ?
Just seems to lookup subdomains in DNS that are on bypass. Checked a few domains that I have with Cloudflare and they only listed IP's that I'm explicitly bypassing Cloudflare.
> providing a huge worldwide mirror network available over SSL is not only a complicated engineering task

Nobody said each mirror couldn't have its own certificate and its own domain. The host names of these mirrors are usually obtained from a trusted source.

HTTPS in addition to GPG signatures does no harm. It also means that one would have to compromise two entities, my distro's GPG key and my mirror's certificate.
The original 4K standard is 4096
It's against HN guidelines to insinuate a commenter didn't read the article, but I'd at least suggest you read it again. She only pulls back from tipping point on the basis that political action could head it off. This is identical to saying that on a BAU basis, we are approaching a tipping point.
In Firefox, Ctrl-K selects the address bar, and doesn't trigger the "New Node" action.
Unicode Consortium requests addition of new block “Symbols for Legacy Computing” [pdf]
OP here. Perhaps I should have clarified what I meant by "having nothing to show for it". I meant in the sense of my portfolio. If you asked me to see what I've built, I'd have nothing to show you other than corporate websites.
China confirms birth of gene-edited babies, blames scientist for breaking rules
I don't really intend to call out anyone, so please don't feel that way. Keep in mind what I'm trying to construe is someone who has a lot of broad (not deep) book knowledge, but who can't do even basic practical implementation.

If you can explain how to design a system and you can do it, but don't know the exact commands off the top of your head, my comment isn't describing you. I don't expect people to e.g. know awk like the back of their hand, or to write perfectly compiling code on their first try.

But even if you don't have perfect recall of the commands, it should be pretty clear whether or not you've ever opened an editor and done basic implementation. If the GUI is your thing that's fine. But your knowledge must have some practical foundation which demonstrates you can actually walk the walk.
I wouldn't actually mind that. What does annoy me is that most prompts are heavily biased to make you give consent - e.g., declining is made a lot harder than just blanket accepting.

The reasons for those are obvious and somewhat understandable from the companies' POV. Nevertheless, I don't see how a prompt employing dark patterns constitutes free and informed consent.

As such, I'm glad this descision seem to go in the same direction.
That just sounds like a place that doesn’t have smart people. He was done a favor because it forced him to move on to somewhere better
Nope. The main determinants of effectiveness are 2 things:

1) general intelligence

2) conscientiousness (how much effort you put into what you do)

Don't you think asking applied textbook problems is an excellent way to test for both at the same time ?

If you are smart, then what is the problem with going through an algorithm textbook, listening to Youtube explanations when you can't follow and just spending your evenings for 3 weeks or so. Frankly, if you get to chapter 5 out of 20, you've probably seen what you will be asked, so you could easily stop after one week and still easily pass the interview bar.

And if that's too much effort, why should they assume you'll put in effort once you get hired ? They'll be expecting more than one week's worth of effort from you.

Furthermore, Google actually tracks how well it's questions work, how the resulting hires perform. If there really was no correlation there, they'd have changed it (also they've documented it in Laszlo's book, well at this point books)

I bet it would measure even better if they told you a week beforehand that the question would involve some obscure, not super easy but not super difficult algorithm, but one that they can reasonably assume you've never seen before and then asked you to apply it on the interview.
I was thinking more of Martin Buber. What little I recall of Kant right now is probably on point, though -- as i recall, he was on board with "humans have intrinsic worth".

"treating people as things" doesn't necessarily mean that you believe that people _are_ things -- as you note, a willful blurring of that line in the knowledge (even subliminal knowledge) that you're acting in bad faith is, perhaps, where "it" starts in the first place.

To your examples: Employing people does not necessarily constitute treating them as things; many sharp critiques of the labor market basically center around the idea that treating your employees as things is both unnecessary and harmful.

I don't necessarily agree that pornography is obligate depersonalization -- c.f. The Stranger's HUMP fest, for example, which seems pretty person-ful to me.
You're right about this. I do have other hobbies and I have a wonderful family. I think I failed to note that this was in the manor of my portfolio, not my life.
Hi there. I'm the original posted of the Reddit thread.
I made an account here just to tell you this.

You are exactly spot on in the order of happening below.
(1) publisher breaches contract (2) developer voids contract in response (3) publisher no longer has right to distribute game (4) DMCA takedown notice.

And yes contract was voided properly through multiple notices and failure to adhere to cure period. These were the life saving clauses that wasn't in the original contract but we squeezed it in last few rounds of negotiation.
Reefer Madness 2.0: What Marijuana Science Says, and Doesn’t Say
Well ok if your standards for yourself are that low.... nothing more to say
> I think that's an unfair characterization. For one, doesn't a dollar of QE cause just as much inflation as a dollar of MMT?

In theory, yes. In practice, not at all. Recessions are exigent circumstances, and no one was under the impression that the government would continue increasing the supply of money to pay for arbitrary things. Not to mention, the bulk of this quantatitive easing took place during two years were we saw deflation - so increasing the money supply was something the government would have likely done anyway.

By comparison, if the government announced that starting in 2020 it would start paying for everything by printing more money then the first thing that will happen is that smart, wealthy, people will just move their assets into things other than dollars. Like resources futures, which are independent of inflation.

The people who actually take on the burden of taxation are people who don't have the means or know-how to manage their assets. So the result is probably that poor and middle class people are even worse off.
Is that related to this?

https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu
apple does for a few things
Well it is JavaScript...
Having insight is different than solving the problem. For example, developing AlphaGo didn't give us any insight into how to play Go (besides through watching it play). Similarly, it might be the case that developing a software which passes the Turing test gives us no insight into the nature of language. Nonetheless the problem would still be solved.

> You might as well reverse engineer every possible AES-128 output for every possible key and input (up to a certain length) and declare the cipher broken.

But we don't say that AES is impossible to crack. We only say that it's infeasible to crack. Just like with Go, where we had algorithms to solve it even 50 years ago, but it was just infeasible at that time. If what you are saying is that solving the Turing test is possible, but infeasible, then that is a more agreeable position to me. Regardless, I don't see how you can say that the Turing test is "spiritual in nature" while AES isn't.
It won't always be 2ppm/year. The rate increases yearly. We can expect 1000ppm somewhere around 2100, perhaps a bit after.

Of course 1000ppm has far nastier effects than just those on human cognition.
Could see the windows from outside the building, probably, without needing to wake the players up, if that was his wish at a certain point of the night.
Slightly related[0]: Explains the effect of CO2 concentration on cognition.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nh_vxpycEA
However, the same scientist characterizes the research as showing that “a little bit of a nudge is going to have an outsized impact” on the Greenland ice pack, which is basically the paradigmatic definition of a “tipping point.” She objects to the term because it could discourage effective policies that could slow or otherwise mitigate climate change. Not a bad reason, but one rooted in politics, not science per se.
Apple isn't a company without a middle management layer and never was, of course. The quote is used to illustrate a point.

Middle management is a structural requirement in an organization past a certain size. If it's not working out, it's more likely just _poor_ management skills that's the cause.
You've reminded me of David Brin's "Dogma of Otherness".

http://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/dogmaofotherness.html

Basically this dogma of otherness is that in any discussion or situation, there is always room for another viewpoint. Everything is potentially valid. (This relates to tolerance, obviously).

This dogma is thoroughly the product/manifestation of western liberal elitism. To borrow your words, it's not actually virtuous, but an exclusionary idea.
there should be a link to a demo already, instead of asking me for a github url
Totally agree. That is part of the fear I've dealt with. Would these developer even accept or want my help? I realize now, I have to just do it and learn to improve until they do.
Stop Trusting Viral Videos
Is that even true? In practice rather than downloading a single package you'd download/update a bunch of packages over the same connection, and an attacker would only see the accumulated size, right?
> true in some strict sense

But it's not! Many intolerant societies became tolerant, whereas the paradox implies something like that is impossible!
I currently live in Colombia and every once in a while, around 40-60% of packages drop. I noticed it was a peer connection in Miami, and almost all traffic went through there. Even if I went to an Argentinian IP, it would still go up north to Miami and then south (my guess is cheap residential peering connections). Anyways I basically got a server from a provider that bypasses this peer connection, and setup a VPN. When my internet starts misbihaving, I simply connect thru that VPN and it fixes the package loss. You adapt.
Where Gmail refuses to accept the forwarded email (because the DMARC policy doesn't allow forwarding) I receive the 'Mail Forward Failure' notification but the email has been accepted into the original mailbox, so will be pulled into my Gmail mailbox the next time the POP3 check runs. I have a rule on the Gmail side to remove those failure notifications.

I haven't noticed any impact to Gmail's actual spam filtering, either garbage slipping through or false positives.

I've just checked a few random emails and Gmail shows "SPF: PASS with IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx". For most emails, the DKIM and DMARC checks also show PASS, but this is obviously dependent on the sender.
> This doesn't work as well with the 'recognize package size' method because you need to download the entire package before you know the size. Given the need for Ack in TCP, an MitM can't just buffer data until they have the entire package size.

All they have to do is corrupt the final packet and the package checksum fails. An attacker only needs to buffer a single packet worth of data.
It’s about fraternities.
Objective-Smalltalk: now serving its own web site
I think there's a conflation going on here between tolerance of ideas and tolerance of people. My statement was regarding tolerance of ideas, you're talking about tolerance of people.

So attacking people for living a different way is obviously wrong. At the same time, if a lifestyle is based on bad ideas, it seems like a benefit to attack those ideas.

So applying this to real world example, my culture has the caste system which some experts say has been as damaging for the lower caste individuals as slavery has been for people in the West. Demanding tolerance of the caste system because we should 'tolerate different ways of living' is absurd. It is a bad idea and should be challenged. I see nothing wrong with being intolerant of caste systems. This is a case where there is obvious truth vs untruth - ie. the caste system is based on beliefs about reincarnation which we now know to be false. Calling for intolerance of this untrue belief is in no way the same thing as calling for intolerance of or mistreatment of Indians or Hindu people.
This is by Jamis Buck! He wrote Mazes for Programmers, one of the best programming books I've ever read. It is clear and well-explained; you could write the code from the text description without seeing the code samples, which is incredibly rare.

I had no idea he'd written more. Going by author alone, this book is a must-buy.
Let's see if it can survive the HN "new" page. :)
> Have you found drama in IRC channels before?

Petty flamewars and off-topic discussion (e.g. the channel regulars chit-chatting about their hobbies or personal lives, 4Chan-like memes, etc.) are why some Freenode communities decided to set up a new channel with a double ##- prefix to be strictly on-topic, while they let the old channel just go to hell.
Well i've been coding since 11. I also mentioned only professionally for 15 years. I could see how it comes of in a misleading manor if read from a different view, but I have literally been coding since 11, now 36 so saying 25 years doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Reflections from a Nobel winner: Scientists need time to make discoveries
should have done it as a postgres ltree haha
Seems to be a similar theme: there is a ridiculous amount of money at the top that has nowhere to go and nothing to do but inflate debt and asset bubbles.
What does ethics have to do with answering interview questions? If he knows the answer from seeing the question before, that means he's a perfect candidate for the job. Are you seriously suggesting he should sabotage himself and ask for a question he doesn't know? That's beyond absurd. Frankly, it's stupid bordering on insane. What it isn't is unethical. Should the interviewee also ask for different questions on his final course exams because he knows the answers to the ones on the test from studying? What insanity!
related

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18881649

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16757128

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13530924
I disagree, it depends on the person.
If your personal ISP injected into HTTPS, it'd be broken too. So this is purely a complaint about the particular behavior of your ISP in that it serves HTTPS more faithfully than HTTP.

My corporate ISP hijacks HTTPS (MITM with self-signed CA), but not HTTP. Any system that uses any HTTPS security properties will verify certificates and fail on my work's network.

The argument about poorly behaved ISPs for one particular protocol but not the other cuts both ways — there are different kinds of poorly behaved ISP.
> But how long did it take Nature to get from a mammal with mouse-level intelligence to a human-level brain

Not that I agree with the sentiment in the GP, but it took a relatively short time from the first development of multicellular life until nervous systems developed and an even shorter amount of time to go from small mammal intelligence to human intelligence. However, evolution isn't about "progress" as we understand it. The most we can say with regards to intelligence and evolution is that human intelligence satisfied a niche that existed at a certain place and time.
Sure, I've even seen the wiggles; I was making the point that's why they needed it to yield anything that could be compared with the real thing (though I'm not sure it has food and reproduction simulated yet, and I'd imagine a large portion of the worm's limited capability for cognition is ultimately directed to pursuing those ends)
How would one go about shorting this debt?