skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does come off as harsh. But in my defense, I did spend a decade in the NGO sector, at nominal wage, trying to build support for reducing CO2 etc emissions. Some decades ago.

Although there's been some progress since -- such as improved energy efficiency, and dramatic increases in solar and wind generation -- it's been overall totally inadequate. We're still heading for civilization-threatening changes in global climate.

Am I not entitled to some "I told you so" lulz?

Also, the "I don't care much, because I'll be dead." attitude has arguably been common among US industrial management. That plus "Hey, we can make good money by gaming the changes."
That is so true. From ancient times all the way through to today. People lose their sense of hazard.

From the idiot in their car, "Last time I drove I texted, and there was no problem...."

To ancient Babylon: the ruling class was partying the night they were invaded by Persia because they thought there was no way the Persians would ever be able to breach their walls. They had no sense of hazard.

Kind of reminds me of politicians today. They actually have no idea that their stupidity has a real chance of breaking things.
Reminds me of this quote:

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

- Jay Gould
You're begging the question that systemd should be the init system
Game theory. In a world with network effect and a choice to make money from ads or subscription, the companies that choose defect (bad ads) win. We have to change the environment to get a different outcome.
With the proposed solution, banks and other companies would have more incentive to prevent themselves from being duped by a criminal claiming to be me because they know there is less of a chance of getting the real me to pay up in order to clear my credit. This should have the effect of reducing fraud because it will be less lucrative.
You're right in the sense that these genes will propagate into the rest of the population. However:

1. Rich people are more likely to get into a relationship with other rich people.

2. At least for the next 100 years, it's likely the tech will improve at a rapid rate. That means by the time those high IQ genes spread to children, we will already have identified even better genes. People who can intentionally apply this technology to their designer-babies will stay ahead of the curve.

3. Sexual reproduction is a random process. If we begin to understand genetics well enough, we will almost always be able to get a better, more effective combination of genes by hand-picking them (or letting a computer decide) than by letting sexual gene recombination spin the wheel of fortune.

We're definitely looking at a future where the ruling class will have a huge genetic advantage, and will be able to maintain that advantage because of the huge cost associated.
Steve Gibson is ... well, he used Windows XP until fairly recently. He's not some one you should take advice from.

I used noscript until Firefox changed to the new web API and noscript stopped working briefly. I switched to ublock origin in medium mode and haven't looked back. More compatible and practical nowadays.
Just a joke.
It's simply better to go to the options of your browser and disable third-party cookies altogether. And at that point why not keep using Chrome, which is faster, heh
Could this be used to make light rendering on n-gons to not look like crap?
I usually show them an app that does most of if not all of what they are describing. Or will say I am just too focused on what I have going now to add another thing to the list.

I have also used the same basic idea of "I don't have enough time right now, but if you have customers lined up already or can get them and show me that a real business opportunity exists I am happy to look more into it."

Generally, I try to be polite about it overall and I don't dismiss people or their ideas outright, I listen politely and then judge based on merits (exception would be drunk cousin Eddie who won't remember in the morning so I just walk away).
Be very skeptical about wearing mental disorders as honor badges. I was a higher-than-average IQ kid, but it wasn't because of greater intelligence, but because I was introvert, and introvert hobbies usually make you score better at traditional IQ tests.

I said "was" because I don't think I'm more intelligent than average. Personally, I think IQ tests are bogus because the more you take, the higher your IQ becomes. It's not your intelligence that grows, but your understanding of what IQ tests expect of you.
The climate problem we have right now wasn't caused by incompetence.
You should assume that military adversaries already have access to the source code. Spies are a thing.
Per Nash embedding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_embedding_theorem DG actually is multivariate calculus. However DG can provide an intrinsic point of view of curved spaces without explicit reference to such an embedding. It would indeed be interesting to see a coherent description of ML in a DG framework.
hmm. this view is superlimited. we understand how evolution works and why it happens but the arrogance to believe we could do better is definitely a human trait.
The best content I’ve found in recent years has been either on sites that don’t contain advertisement (because they’re someone’s personal hobby blog, for example, or HN) or from videos where the person was supported directly by fans through Patreon.

Anecdotally, the advertisement-supported content is mostly garbage.
Right now there's zero insight but anecdotally I have been hearing from multiple content creators that they've reported huge engagement drops and their audience claim to be randomly unsubscribed and not see their content in the curated newsfeed.

I see this very often myself on Facebook. There are some politically oriented pages whose content I almost never see on my newsfeed, and I try to nudge the algorithm to change it by engaging with the posts directly on the page - still no luck. Meanwhile pages I am not interested in, liked by others, are able to show up frequently in my newsfeed.

So the general public sort of already knows if something shady is going on, particularly when it's blatant. Regulation just means they have to do something about it, to make it a fair platform or transparently unfair.
> If you're naive enough to fall for their marketing, this should be a wake up call.

I admit that I was naive enough..
I think the best course is actually to opt-out and reserve the right to a lawsuit when your identity gets stolen eventually. Wish there was a simple point-and-click letter generator to opt-out. The govt makes opt-out hard.
I think it's just an example of a common news article pattern: put the most memorable and/or important finding or anecdote at the top, and end with the second most memorable.

It's not a cliffhanger. It's an anecdote – a FAA employee asking what seems like a seemingly-too-basic question "days after the Lion Air crash". The Lion Air crash happened last year, and the body of this article is ostensibly the answer to that employee's outburst.
ITT: Shitty abysmal living conditions are good because mumbles about commute
Obviously I think the Trump Administration is terrible, but do you really think it is at the level of Iran or North Korea? Please. If it was, I would be willing to die for liberty, absolutely.
Systems are getting too complex for traditional methods of validation and certification to operate. Safety and correctness of intelligent machines should be validated by even more intelligent machines.

Another big problem is that there is very little competition. In reality there are only two players. Smaller manufacturers get absorbed by big ones. As a result grounding a single model causes economic catastrophe in many airlines - leading to significant ticket price increase!
The Faa engineer does not write code. They review archictal level changes and plans. I would be surprised if they even saw the raw code, it’s more likely to be a logic diagram or a higher level schematic and then a test plan to validate it works as expected
Hello CERN
this still does a fair amount of processing, curious what the throughput is with just straight reads into a char[] from FileReader
> 3) What's the actual threat model here? Is stopping people from reading a core dump worth breaking the memory safety of the runtime?

well yeah. that’s the point. if you don’t want to write an entire application in C to prevent this. if for your application it’s not worth it, you live with it.
He says that Google search works but results are irreachable.
However you would have a single wildcart cert + key that would need to be placed on thousands, or tens of thousands, of machines, by hundreds of staff is dozens of departments.

It would be meaningless.

I can prove ownership and then receive a wildcard certificate for *.internal.company.com, usually by a TXT record or similar (lets ignore EV certs for now), however that certificate isn't an intermediate certificate which is limited to signing new end certificates for blah1.internal.company.com, but wouldn't be able to sign for blah1.not.company.com.

I'm no SSL/TLS expert by any means, so please let me know if I'm wrong and it is fairly easy to get intermediate certificates that are domain name limited - x509 constraints are apparently flakey.
Yep.

That's the thing with evolution, it's all about the ability to adapt.

Caveat being that you never know what adaptation you'll need until the shock arrives, and at that point it's too late. At that point, you either have the ability to adapt, or you don't. Nature doesn't care if you're the smartest, the strongest, the healthiest, the most whatever. Doesn't matter to her. Can you adapt to this different environment or not? That's all that matters.

Your average physically fit female would have been dead after less than 15 minutes in the water after Titanic went down. Lower body fat percentage, etc etc etc. At the same time, the portly, out of shape, and perpetually drunk chief baker lived in the water for over 8 hours. Now that's not an example of evolution or anything, but it does illustrate the value of adaptability when shock radical change occurs. The chief baker's body was able to adapt to a radical change in environment, everyone else' was not.
Agreed that intelligence is a good thing, but the question is about whether there is a set of genes that are “best” for producing it. At the moment it’s unclear which genes those are, and even if we found some genes related to intelligence, they may have other negative consequences that make the idea of a “best” set of genes questionable
Apparently those are mutually exclusive :P
I wonder whether anti-vaxxers are against gene modification or not? On one hand, their children may truly be immune and not need vaccines. But on the other, they might think the procedures will give them even more diseases.
The current fashion among the right-thinking in the west is to assume all characteristics are genetically heritable save for mental traits like intelligence, hand waving the twin studies which proved pretty conclusively that a huge portion of intelligence is genetically heritable.

Darwin won the body, Lysenko the mind.

Cognitive genomics is already heightening the contradictions of this view. Eventually it will collapse.
It's this core idea that compromise is equivalence that I was arguing against. You're comparing the fish with the birds, but you're forgetting the other fish that got infected with some specific disease before going extinct. Humans are new, living in environments a thousand times newer. There is very little reason to believe that we've hit a local optimum, and a lot to believe that some mental characteristics (like being in the bottom half of aggressiveness) would be pretty much universally positive.
> A lot of things I use everyday are BSD licensed.
> Stallman cannot really make any such demands.

That those programs are licensed under one of the BSD licenses doesn't have anything to do with Stallman's use of the term "GNU/Linux" and recommendation that others join him in using the term "GNU/Linux". This is not a "demand" as you claim. Stallman explains his position in brief in https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux , at length in https://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html and there's a FAQ as well.

In fact the specific point you raise has been raised before and is addressed quite well across multiple questions in the FSF's FAQ on the term GNU/Linux:

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#others -- Many other projects contributed to the system as it is today, but they don't insist on calling it XYZ/Linux. Why should we treat GNU specially?

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#distronames0 -- My distro's developers call it “Foobar Linux”, but that doesn't say anything about what the system consists of. Why shouldn't they call it whatever they like?

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#bsd -- Should we say “GNU/BSD” too?

For a while Debian has distributed multiple systems where GNU was the predominant OS atop other kernels--GNU/Linux, GNU/kFreeBSD, and GNU/Hurd. It helps people understand the major components involved by naming things according to what they are. Such naming is also fair to those who ask for a share of the credit for their major contribution to the overall work, as the GNU Project asks people to give them a share of the credit for their major contribution.
FWIW, the middle-eastern Jews are mostly Sephardic, not Ashkenazi.
I thought it was tangentially related. This happened in reality but thanks for incorrecting me
Ask yourself in Bengali: "Dil ki doya?" (Translated: Is there mercy in your heart?)
It's not worth it. Imagine if they posted video of you on their FB. Many wouldn't believe your justification. You should have just voided both of them and left them there.
> The potential increase in IQ is so high that any country that defects from a global ban, even a smallish one like Iran say, would quickly be producing the vast majority of all genius-level intellects.

I do not know if this is even true. But, I do not see the USA rushing to give good education to its population. The geniuses are already there in crowded classrooms and underfunded schools.

And, a good education pays off even for less gifted people. Their lives are better, they contribute more to the economy and less to crime.

If that race is one, the USA (and Europe also) are already trailing.
Why not simply change the storage path by setting the data root in your configuration?

https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/dockerd...
I apologize for the slow loading... I am trying to optimize...
I'm not sure I wouldn't call the fact that -> function/procedure invocation prepend the caller (aka self) as "not magical"? This seems rather similar to python with its explicit self argument to methods?

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlootut.html
There are somewhere around 3.5-4 million software engineers in the US. What percent would you say will make $600k TC or more this year?
What Is Node.js?
The assertion to which I’m replying is: “Deregulation never seems to result in more competition, just more consolidation and more and more powerful companies with increased lobbying powers and personal connections to top government officials.” That is clearly untrue.

To use financial deregulation as an example. Yes, the 2008 crisis was bad. But on the whole, are people still worse off? When my parents bought a house in 1989, their interest rate was multiples higher than I’m paying now. One of the things that caused interest rates to collapse was securitization. Moreover, the boom times of the 1990s was also partly due to the financial system. It was deregulated banks that provided the private capital for the first tech boom. And, this website covers an industry that resists regulation at every turn—its bankrolled by investors largely free of regulations applicable to investors managing retail deposits, and numerous companies stay private to avoid public company regulations. What is the net cost-benefit from financial deregulation over the last 30 years, accounting for both benefits and costs? Pro-regulation folks never look at it in those terms.

There is no doubt that deregulated markets are leas predictable than regulated ones. Regulation can smooth out the boom-bust cycle. Thus looking at busts, instead of long-term trends, is a convenient way for pro-regulation folks to distort the overall impact of deregulatory measures.
I'm not sure what your point is? Irrespective of the past (whatever wrongdoing the US may or may not have engaged in), it matters not to the current situation for the people of Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria.
Briton who helped stop 2017 WannaCry virus spared jail over malware charges
So, when you ask users with no product at hand they will always be supportive. Only when you ask for money you get the real response. So, if you can get pre order, sure. If you cannot you are wasting your time.
Dash the Robot controlled from Kano Computer Kit for three year olds
this whole article is hilarious. biology and genetic engineering is way way more complicated than anything we’ve done as far as software and hardware goes. performing a few tricks does not equal we can enhance anything we want any way we want it. my guess is that we’re a few decades away from really understanding the underlying mechanisms that would allow us to truly enhance ourselves. some will say that we can edit DNA today - while that’s true we have a limited understanding of what we’re doing or what the effects might be. Evolution is great because it wipes out all of its errors and you only see the beautiful end product. Now, do you want to be a guinea pig and/or be the unfortunate outcome of these experiments?

also: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667997/

another point that a lot of people miss is that super intelligence means nothing if you don’t have the right environment and the right opportunities. being wealthy exponentially increases your chances of a good outcome and it’s almost orthogonal to your IQ.

yet another point is that if we continue to destroy our ecosystem no matter how smart individuals get we’re all collectively doomed.
Couple of nice references:

Observation of high intensity radiation by satellites 1958 Alpha and Gamma J A Van Allen Journal of Jet Propulsion
http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/ProfVanAllen/1958_VanAllen_O...

Apollo Experience Report - Protection from Radiation
Technical Note TN D-7080, March 1973
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/tnD7080RadProtect.html
The main trait of a top researcher is skepticism -- the willingness to doubt results. You learn to be skeptical as part of the training during your Ph.D.

Unfortunately, the standards have fallen. The security community is one of the worst instances of the lack of skepticism in the science arena. The community has started to reward clickbaity papers because they "sell". It's a race to the bottom.
>Who are you to decide how people live their own lives?

What a nonsense comment. I'm not "deciding how people live their lives". The people who are deciding how people live their lives are those in Japan renting out these places and voting for this lack of competent regulation. Who are they to do that? Who are you to support it?

>Sure, if Japan started trying to fund apartment blocks of these places in your country

How do you know which country I own? Maybe my country is Japan?

>But if these people choose these lives

You think people would choose this life if it wasn't their last resort? This is not a choice, it's desperation.
I don't find this that useful in C# since the majority of types in C# tend to be reference types and you can still change the values unless they are immutable types which though considered good practice aren't that common in most C# code in my experience.
He helped with the building of a banking trojan, that's not mass murder, but it is a big crime...
Except those little unobtrusive ads are easy to ignore and hardly anyone clicks on them so no one will pay anything for them. Also there’s no way to verify the clicks that do happen are genuine.
Sounds like the infamous Trains of CS452 at the University of Waterloo. There's a class the ruins people; it seems they do nothing but live in a lab for three months.

They walk away having written a bare-metal real-time operating system, so I guess that's something. I stuck to the less soul-destroying classes.
I concur. Microsoft is now an important and helpful part of the open source ecosystem. For the most part, they've been generous and engaging with the community. Also, the commercial products seem to be living in harmony with their open source counterparts.

We're living in a future better than most of us could have imagined twenty years ago. We should embrace it.
Ask HN: For how much should I sell my side project?
Hi HN,

I have a Saas side project that I'd like to sell, but not sure about the price.

It's solo and bootstrapped. I work on it for 2-3 hours per month, answering emails, no other work is required.

It has 70 paying users and 500 total. Profit is around $4000 monthly. What would you say?
You don't need to have 50% of voting shares to have significant power over a company, if no one organization has 50% of voting shares.

If you have 10% of shares and two other organizations have 45% each, and those two organizations have a conflict, you get to choose which of those two organizations has control over the company. Those organizations are both incentivized to make your needs a priority in order to secure your votes. In this situation no single group can choose the destiny of the company without the assistance of one of the other groups.
Why are you using the word "western" here?

Are non-"western" healthcare practitioners exempt from biases and prejudicial opinions?

I think it's fair to say that, like all humans, healthcare practitioners may have prejudicial opinions on healthcare matters that can lead to erroneous diagnoses. The western ones don't have a monopoly on this behavior.
Just use a service like fastmail that you can push a custom domain on. The. You can move services in the future.

The charge money, but you get backups, support and documentation. They are also committees in Cyrus and other tools, and participate in internet stands setting. Their servers and hosting setup can survive DDOS attacks that yours can’t. They aren’t going to get grey listed.

If you run your own server there is a lot of over head. Not just disk and service status, but patching, new standards like when DKIM came out.

If you want you can get fastmail to forward all email to your own private SMTP server, so you can practice running email on your own server without being exposed to constant port scanning and other attacks.
Because you can check and measure who is actually eligible to vote before they vote.

Let me ask, why do we have identification for joining a company? Checking employment status? Boarding a flight? Starting a business? Opening a bank account? Getting government assistance? Why would that be necessary but not for voting?
>The potential increase in IQ is so high

Not really, at least with the current state of knowledge. There are very few genes where one can predict that altering them will increase intelligence.
> At least an ad you know is an ad.

True. In some countries, mixing content and ads (see social media influencers) is already forbidden, especially when targeting children. I suppose the law could be extended here.