skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is only first strike, and whoever attacks first wins. This is a huge part of why every player is incredibly careful - there is no surviving, enduring, or being prepared for an attack.

There are three key attributes to a dark forest strike. They are increadibly cheap for the attacker, they are abosultely devastating to the victim, and they do not give away the attacker’s position.

Given these attributes a few hunters could set up conditions where civilizations that decide to communicate would be quickly eliminated. Being friendly would be a trait conditions would select against.

It’s an interesting game, and a truly horrifying answer to Femi’s paradox.
That wouldn't be this scientists fault. We shouldn't blame the researchers, but should blame the people who wield the technology. We can't blame the guy who invented the firearm for every death related to firearms. Plus, he explicitly states here how he is against that future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th0vnOmFltc&app=desktop

Whether or not humans are responsible to equip technology is not really a concern to people who are advancing science, and maybe it shouldn't be.
A new documentary addresses the stigma of menstruation in India
Which laptop is this?
Vain seems like an appropriate word to use, when interpretated as "producing no result; useless"

That is, after all, the end result of many of Google's attempts at dominating a space. Their love of shutting services down will likely make further future dominations of new fields even harder.
Its a bad thing when the population of countries at the top of this list are decreasing, and those at the bottom increasing:

https://www.natureindex.com/country-outputs/generate/All/glo...

The taxes in Europe are too high and Government and Welfare programs need to be scaled way back. The fact that you have for example millions of young foreign men walking on foot all the way through the continent to access welfare-rich States indicates that something is amiss.
Body modding has been around for thousands of years in various cultures.

It's just something weird humans enjoy doing.

What is wrong with wanting to look different? What makes you so great that you can judge people?
translation: the experiment didn't work so China is disavowing him. This would have played out differently if he had succeeded I would be willing to bet.
It’s really difficult to sell used items on Amazon but much easier on ebay despite their legacy UI (from when they used to actually charge for listings).

If you really want to be green, buy used items and sell your things which you aren’t using so it’s not wasting resources.
My own personal anecdote is that Firefox spins my laptop fans audibly, while Chrome does not.
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There definitely are, but there are many potential factors that impact how something wears: most notably temperature and humidity. I reckon all it takes is a few opening movements in cold and dry weather to weaken the rubber or plastic in such a way that it'll fail, but much later. But I'm just guessing
Obviously, the utility was limited, but apparently people did it.

For graphics yes.
But around that time all Borland (C, Pascal) products supported debugging with to monitors (VGA+Hercules). And I used a little TSR for years that transferred the contents of the main VGA Screen to Hercules via 'PtrScr' key, which was handy too.
All text mode of course.
I know someone doing the same drive that hit a kangaroo and left their car written off in the middle of no where - had to wait for a call to come out for someone to pick them up.
Not these particular ones, they have been genetically engineered to do this job. They added a gene from mice liver that takes out certain toxins. I think/hope the team plans to commercialize the plants though.
I wouldn't argue that we should be happy about how the web turned out.

It always feels like computers are stuck in the same place because every time we improve CPU performance, we end up adding more layers of abstraction so the whole thing is moot.
Please share your rulelist
Free Firefox Focus provides iOS Content blocker too, which you can use in Safari.
I wonder how quickly servo could become feature if a major player decided to adopt it.
Am I the only one testing software libraries cross-compiled to windows on wine? I do use Appveyor native, but for debugging tricky issues I rather use wine on Linux or macOS, than spinning up a Windows VM and try to debug it there. I just have to maintain seperate win32 and win64 registries and ENV vars.
Is wealth truly proportional to matter? How many physical resources are used when making software, music, art, theater, writing? How much wealth did the internet create and how much matter did it use?

There may be a finite limit on potential wealth but it’s effectively limitless for human planning purposes.

(For the trees, we can certainly mismanage our resources; it doesn’t mean it’s a priori impossible to create a growing and sustainable form of wealth.)
You are just seeing a reversion to mean for those poorer ex-communist states getting richer. The growth is driven by cheap labour, energy and land.

You cannot imagine that once free of the shackles of Communism, a high-IQ country like Poland will stay forever poor, instead they will eventually equalise with neighbours like Germany:

https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php
Relationship Between Hierarchy and Wealth
Try Orzo coffee.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3%A8_d%27orzo
uBlock Origin is why I use Firefox on Android.
Pre 900 series Nvidia GPUs would, I think, since Nouveau wasn't forced to use signed nvidia firmware until the 900.
I used to watch the ever living daylights out of his channel, but I kinda forgot about Kerbal Space Program for a while. I'm gonna have to pick it up again now get to binging his videos again.

Him saying "Mün" is just one of the best things ever.
Even more ironic, the Dutch have a horse based dish called "Filet Americain". (Although it's mostly made with beef now)
Current growth strategies are all fundamentally 'warm body growth' i.e. the economy is grown mostly through babies or immigration, not any kind of real industrial growth or innovation.

If you look at USA growth vs. Western Europe, the USA does better, but not so much if you account for headcount.

As Western nations have fewer babies, there's a push for more migration, which in some places can work, not so much in others.

Europe has quite a lot of people and there are real physical limits to that growth - surely, it could all be as dense as Hong Kong but at some point, there needs be some consideration.

The West should not be trying to compete with Asia by having as many babies as them, surely.

If anything, we should maybe be trying to help tackle population explosion in some places, which can be done even with fairly non controversial methods like basic economic prosperity.
Why not just use Firefox?
Excellent 1960's video demonstrating the AGC, which gives an indication of the thought processes and design rigor that were going on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6S-mmunKuo
Pupils refused hot school dinners due to credit debt
Well there are surely other informal ways of doing 'ontology'.

The point being - more rigorous methods can definitely be valuable in areas, and I don't think it's a good idea to ignore this fact.

It's a bygone issue because there wasn't a critical mass in place to make it work, but there could be.
He was probably getting at the notion that women tend to be much more selective than men in choosing partners.
If your using stuff like MSYS2 does cmake/meson have a big advantage over old make/autoconf? I thought cross platform was the biggest selling point for these tools.
Extensions should act on behalf of users but, like websites, some don't. A questionable or poorly-maintained extension can do more damage than any single website, and browsers can support user agency by replacing APIs with better ones: an effective declarative API for content blocking would majorly speed up extensions like uBlock Origin and make it harder for other extensions to follow users around the web.

That said, we should all fight for changes that let extensions like uBlock maintain feature parity.

Disclaimer: I'm both a Chromium developer and a uBlock Origin user and speak only for myself.
Google, Facebook spend big on U.S. lobbying amid policy battles
We sure do, but Apple is trustworthy. Their business is not grabbing user data but keep it as private as possible. That sells devices.
Please add http://www.shift.studio to the list as well :)
The reason Kangaroos have come to be considered pests is simple: land clearing.
Where there was once forest or dense scrub is now open pasture or grassland.

This increases the food supply for livestock but of course also increases the
supply for Kangaroos - and Kangaroos are much more efficient eaters than sheep
or cattle.

So there are two options really:

* Maintain livestock and cull Kangaroos; or

* Reduce stocking rates, replant native vegetation on cleared land and the
Kangaroo population will reduce accordingly.
To expand on this (complete correct) response, unsupervised training is often part of the training process for a zero-shot prediction task.

For example it's pretty common to use unsupervised learning to build embeddings for each target language, align the embeddings somehow (noting that you don't have labels, so you are using the multi-dimensional shapes within the embeddings to try to match them) and then finally test against labelled data (the zero-shot thing).

Zero shot, cross modal transfer is something humans do really well. You can read a description of a Platypus and then label it correctly even if you have never seen one before.

A seminal paper in this was Richard Socher's Zero-Shot Learning Through Cross-Modal Transfer[1]. It's the paper that earmarked him as a star, and look at the co-authors (Chris Manning and Andrew Ng).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3666
Ask HN: Tools for teaching basic electronics/electricity
What is the best kit for teaching my nine year old daughter about electricity / basic electronics?
eBay kind of got eaten from all sides: Amazon took over the regular stuff, Etsy got the niche and handmade stuff, Alibaba and Aliexpress got the cheap Chinese stuff outside of Amazon.

So a lot of what's left as a regular user are scams or simple resellers. Amazon also has a lot of the "garage sale" type of stuff these days
Injections of local anaesthetics into end arteries like fingers are only dangerous if the formulation contains a vasoconstrictor (adrenalin/epinephrine) in addition to the anaesthetic agent.
Is/was there a natural predator in Australia to keep their numbers in balance?
Is it still worth learning Objective-C with Swift getting more and more popular?
Optimising Spark RDD pipelines: 7 tips learned the hard way
Look into underlying health issues and treat those. Some obvious suspects: allergies and respiratory problems.

I used to drink a lot of coffee at times. I hardly touch the stuff right now. I made zero effort to give it up. It's entirely about no longer needing it as a stealth drug to treat allergies and respiratory problems.

My coffee consumption dropped substantially following moving from a city with terrible air quality to one with better air quality than where I had been living.
Ask HN: Examples of one man site(s) built by truly passionate people?
There was this site recently on HN, it was new to me and it is awesome

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895833

Are you aware of more such sites? Preferably not too commercialized, built by small passionate teams who care more about the topic of the site rather than optimizing every single aspect of the site for SEO etc.
When you invent the wheelbarrow, stack bricks into a house, plant a seed, where is wealth diverted from? Who is losing? What shrank?

Potential wealth is ‘finite’ because humans are finite but there’s no practical limit. (Just like there’s no practical limit to how much art can be made. If art isn’t being made it isn’t because there’s only so much creativity to go around.)
Bitcoin to Witness Short Term Rally: Bloomberg Analyst
gorhill is a very short sighted zealot
> and sell it to even dodgier companies

And banks and insurances for credit ratings. And for screening companies, that are contracted to evaluate your job application on basis of your purchases, locations and so on
Buy Crossover - it employs a pile of the WINE developers, and their changes are fed back into the main codebase.
I'd be interested to see how effective algae and mosses are at cleaning air, too, since they are so easy to grow and propagate.
Those who live by the algorithm will die by the algorithm.

I wonder when it is going to be fashionable to intentionally do shit again rather than passively half-living through digital agents.
You pay 10 a mo for subscription. You listen 50 tracks a day 30 days, 1500 tracks total, 0.005 per play.

12000/2000000 gives the same price per play.

If you think it’s pittance, you should agree to pay 10 times more for subscription. But I guess you won’t.
To be fair, Amazon has 10 years of purchase history on my account, and they can't manage to put up anything on the home page that I'm interested in. Personally, I'm very much starting to doubt algorithmic recommendations for shopping sites. They work for books and music, but as Amazon has morphed into offering everything they can't recommend anything decent. I just get the same generic recommendations for products similar to my last few purchases, similar to Google advertising products that I've already searched for and bought. Adtech has promised a lot, but in my experience it hasn't delivered on most of those promises.

Oddly, I find the ebay homepage more useful, since it also displays a selection of products from sellers I watch, and has figured out I have a fetish for vintage test equipment. I don't think I've ever bought anything from the Amazon homepage, but I bought at least 3 items that I saw on the eBay homepage (from sellers I watched) in the last year. This relies on active participation from the user, however, and benefits people who have used the site for a long time. And I can't kid myself, eBay can't grow selling used test equipment and motorcycle parts, but they still do the online sale of unique items better than anyone else.

I do miss the 'rummage sale' aspect though, it's now nearly impossible to browse and find weird items, you have to just search for specific items rather than browse.
tbh, nobody gives a shit what "hacker" communities think, that is precisely why Firefox exists
Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud
Code Loops Without Any Loop Statement or 'goto' or Recursion
Not a formal criticism because we didn't investigate too much into this, but just last week our dev db instance run out of disk and postgres did some really suspicious things. We confirmed that on multiple occasions queries returned with success (because we have logs of success) but the db writes weren't persisted. So the software assumed data was written and continued on happy path, leaving the db in a bad state. Luckily this was only a dev machine and trivial to recover from, and granted out of disk is a fatal problem, but we were still upset.
FWIW, in my experience there's lots of middle ground between the host being completely untrusted and the user having root on both the host and the BMC. Anywhere from "we're letting random third party collaborators share our machines" to "it's only in-house users, but they may not properly secure their machines" is a use case where regular users even with root on the host would not have root on the BMC.
You, like so many others, are conflating "ideal" market and "free" market. Free markets do not always behave ideally, and ideal markets is really what we should be aiming for.
New Zealanders tend to refer to themselves as kiwis. But outside of NZ I hear a mix of Kiwi vs New Zealander.

In Singapore I was asked if it’s ok to refer to me and a Kiwi because they thought it may be a racist term.
Ok? Well it's my choice to use a content blocker and "run all those regexes"
What can make us less sad is that quality of people who notes the Professor is also important, not only quantity.

There was a fun story I can't find here on HN right now (Algolia is pretty good to search now , but Im out of coffee), On how the guys who make OpenBSD(If I recall) use/used(not clear) CVS instead of GIT to filter out people they didn't ultimately wished to have the attention from.
I can rarely make heads or tails of the media theorists like McLuhan, Foucault, Baudrillard but this essay is both lucid and concrete. Well done to the author.
I was tasked by my company with using Pagedraw in the early days. The team behind it was extremely patient and helpful and would literally fix bugs in real-time. I would keep an eye on them and look out for their other products. Good folks.
It's for reasons like this that I'm very thankful that the OpenBMC effort is getting off the ground. The prior lack of documentation and understanding of what the communication channels, and how they're configured is a huge problem. Perhaps it's time to get the SPI programmer out again and see if I can't finish replacing the BMC firmware on a bunch of my boards.
Back then? Hawaii was made a state in 1959. There was still quite a lot of colonization related conflict happening in the 20th century.
Apple has never been shy to cannibalize their own sales, in fact it's straight out of the Steve Jobs playbook (“If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will”). I'd challenge you to find a company better at it than they are.

Examples include:

iPod mini cannibalizing iPod

iPhone cannibalizing all iPods

iPad cannibalizing Macs

iPad (2017) cannibalizing iPad Pro

iPhone XR cannibalizing iPhone XS

They're even organized to support product cannibalization, being functionally organized instead of divisionally. If they had an 'iPod division', that division would fight tooth & nail against the 'iPhone division' to keep their P&L running.

They're not doing a 2-in-1 because it's not a product they feel makes sense right now. That's all.
Lessons from SpaceX: How to Build the Next Toyota Camry for Space
You can fry the hardware even now, if you set fan curve incorrectly, or create some other power management mess. Opening up firmware isn't really affecting that.

In the end, opening it up isn't any worse than opening up the kernel driver to begin with (you could apply similar arguments to that). And AMD were OK with it, and from what I've heard, DRM is really the main issue here. As usual, media lobby poisoned the technology for us.
This group is working on that. You can currently buy a moss engineered to put fragrance in your home: https://www.mosspirationbiotech.com/shop
How is it that billion dollar companies with legions of employees cannot recognize why people don't use their product?

What is ebay? The online auction site. If you have something to sell, you should be going there. If you want something you can't find in a normal store, you should be checking ebay first.

If you aren't selling on Ebay, or aren't checking Ebay, those are the areas they need to improve on. You don't take the most successful business in a market (peer to peer auctions) and try to spin it into some other store to keep up with impossible growth expectations.

So you go look at why people aren't using your service...

I don't sell on Ebay because either the fees are too high to justify going through the effort making a listing, shipping the thing, and losing about 20% of the sale price to Ebay on something that I'm often getting poor margins on anyway. Or I'm not selling on Ebay because I don't trust their buyer contention system to be honest. I've heard enough horror stories of sellers getting refunded against and losing their often expensive products in the process with no recourse despite mountains of photo evidence of what they sold.

I don't buy on Ebay because its so hard to find legitimacy. I have never figured out why I should ever trust feedback scores - every single seller is always gold starred maxed out positive feedback, some are "Top Rated Plus" which I have no idea what that even is supposed to mean, and you can't comment on most listings or seller pages to call out the bad actors. I got some fake batteries for a Note 4 a few years back and while Ebay accepted my complaint and refunded me the batteries while letting me keep them because they were falsely advertised as NFC capable when they weren't, I had no real way to indicate to others a seller with 100,000 feedback score was selling counterfeits.

Generally their search is pretty good and their filtering is solid. I can almost always find what I'm looking for and figure out the right place to list what I want to sell. Those aren't problems. If they want more of my business, I need to have confidence that when I act legitimately I won't get scammed, and when I buy something the buyer is also legitimate. Its the exact same reason I shop so much less on Amazon nowadays and it seems zero tech company wants to take responsibility for actually insuring their storefronts are selling what the pages say they are and that sellers can expect not to be screwed over illegitimately too.
Meh, I waste way too much time on the internet anyway. Maybe it's time to rediscover some outdoor hobbies.
Any inside stories on what twitter discovered when they benchmarked Google with other providers. I imagine they must have done a very exhaustive evaluation
REALLY MAGNIFICENT WORD I SEE THERE
Just no. Don't think about this. It's not just headaches that come with caffeine withdrawal. The muscle pain is real, very real. Taper it off.
I just opened both browsers and it's pretty hard to really see much of difference in UI. If anything, Chrome's UI is slightly more basic. But the icons, positions of menus, etc are almost identical.
You can find a 1br all over LA for ~1500 you know. Studios even less. Go on craigslist and check it out.
Silhouette: The Story (1998)
Turbo Tax is incentivized to maximize your savings. The government is incentivized to do the opposite.

It's not that they can't. It's that eventually someone will be in charge that will decide they shouldn't.
Gmail users let third parties access their data, i.e., their e-mails. We should not blame Google if Gmail users can decide whether a third party can access their e-mails.
yup you can(surprisingly imo) make a pretty penny on freelancing just setting up static websites on wix for people

making stuff is never going to go mainstream when you can just pay someone to do it for you