skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant hardcoded authenticated DNS i.e. something you can't just blind redirect or configure the destination of. Reworded to say hardcoded while ignoring the local resolver for clarity.

Encryption is technically the hard wall of "technically infeasible" but I say authentication because at that point you start getting massive delays in things being operationally feasible since you're waiting for things to give up on resolving rather than signaling it's unresolvable/a bogus location.
Can the planet afford the exorbitant power demands of machine learning?
Why do you imagine that? My impression is that police officers are more likely than the average person to be abusive themselves, and that police departments are still fairly unsympathetic to domestic abuse victims.
That's the first thing that struck me as well; a person like my dad (a retired blacksmith), could make the first one ...
I recently wanted to do a small project in React and found this site: https://reactjs.org/docs/add-react-to-a-website.html. It was a painless, plug-and-play solution that got me coding within 3 minutes. I didn't need any data from external APIs. Obviously Gatsby would have been overkill here -- but that left me wondering why anyone would use Gatsby at all, since it's billed as "the static React site generator", and I had done that easily without it.

This tutorial is appropriately concise and answered my question perfectly: Gatsby's main use case seems to be when you want to repeatedly generate a static site dependent on some data source changing (e.g. blogs, online stores, etc.)
What’s the difference to pihole?
The international silence on this issue is deafening.
I disagree with such a blanket statement. Interfaces must remain simple, while implementations are free to be as complex as needed. Take a look at this article -- clearly the SIMD code is dense to get through, but it's very-much-so worth it for the performance gains.

https://lemire.me/blog/2017/01/20/how-quickly-can-you-remove...
That free service has rate limits, which are presumably set to a sustainable level for them.
There is also no practical reason to have windows in a telephone equipment building. They cannot be opened to cool, they only would light a limited area along the wall. The entire building must be air conditioned, and lighting is only turned on when people are in the equipment aisles.

Warehouses and data centers are the same, except that they don't attract attention since they are low horizontal structures with much more utilitarian cladding.

The most interesting telecom buildings are the ones underground.
You could run the browser on other machine and use VNC to access this from a iphone (or any other mobile device). While this is rather complicated and probably less reliable solution, the bonus points would be (almost) perfect isolation of the browser process.
Well, in comparison with stoicism, epicureanism is more about experiencing pleasure than avoiding pain, given that the latter tries to avoid all feeling. But yeah, they're more fundamentally alike there.
Don’t forget to set GATSBY_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 in your environment.
He said it would have been stupid had someone designed it that way but given that it evolved it made perfect sense why it was the way it was.
>We've reintroduced infinities; so now our rationalist must accept that there are infinitely many situations with the same properties as the Mugging (positive expected value, Almost Sure to lose the stake).

Yes, in the presence of infinities the decision function is inconsistent.

>Their strategy would have to be to reject deals like the Mugging and seek out deals that have positive expected return and probably keep the stake/have a tiny stake compared to their reserves.

Try formalizing that.

Kelly criterion doesn't work. Your link says it maximizes log wealth. If potential wealth is unbounded, you will still take bets that are positive E(log utility).
It amazes me that these things are not as easy as Medium or Blogger or Wordpress.

There should be a Digital Ocean script that sets up a basic personal blog on Github pages/Gitlab pages/Netlify. The server let’s me pick a theme, a host, I set up the blog.

I never know if the static pages use Gatsby or Hugo or Jekyll or Pelican.

Use of a CLI would be strictly optional. It might even give me the option of porting my pages, posts and structure from one vendor to another.
These Five “Witness Trees” Were Present at Key Moments in America’s History
There is a story about startpage earlier this month

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577
“These broader applications of cybernetics were an almost unequivocal failure.“

This is incorrect. There are no “cybernetics” department at universities, nor people with this title or role. However the concepts and ideas from cybernetics have infiltrated and influenced most areas of science. If you trace the ideas you will find them, you will recognize the DNA. The ideas from cybernetics + information theory was a paradigm shift in science at the time. I would say the cybernetic ideas were a victim of its own success. It became subsumed into many other disciplines by other names. It is like a snake eating its own tail. See the Ouroboros symbol [0] .

“Finally, because of his emphasis on control”

Here he is assuming control means too-down with a naive view of control. Control here could be replaced with regulation, direction, steering, facilitation. I would define control as the mechanism that allows a system to achieve it's purpose in an efficient and effective way. This definition says nothing about top-down. In actual fact there is a concept within cybernetics of "self-regulation" or "internal control". This means that control must be exhibited from within the system and not from an external party.

"Wiener could not foresee a technological world in which innovation and self-organization bubble up from the bottom rather than being imposed from the top."

Within the field of there is a ton of material on self-organization. This was one of the topics that was specifically investigated and written about at length. In particular how do you design for "self-organization"? Staford Beer and the organizational cybernetician were specifically focused on maximizing freedom, by balancing of both bottom up, and top-down feedback loops.

While Weiner did give the field the name i would hesitate in calling him the "father" of the field. Alot of the ideas were developed in collaboration with others, particularly at the Macy conferences [1]. The ideas have a long history and cybernetics has been heavily influenced by Ashby, Beer, Shannon, Maturana, Van Forester etc. Cybernetics itself born out of the tradition of operational research and systems engineering.

[0] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serpiente_alquimic...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy_conferences
Some sort of home ice advantage I assume.
"The US is getting there"

Hmm... last I checked, I can protest, sue the government, flip a bird to the president and question authorities when they pull me over for a probable cause, go to court, have a fair trail, escalate to supreme court, all while being able to have the right to vote politicians out, hold free press and have the freedom of speech.

I am not saying that there aren't issues in the US, and we should fearlessly debate, take action and challenge. Organizations such as EFF are doing that. But let's not compare this with China to smear out the massive surveillance program China has going for them. Please keep these issues separate. It is frustrating to be able to not criticize the Chinese government as people bring up issues about US government. Foo is bad, but look at Bar and Baz - they are doing bad things too. So, Foo is justified?

In general, digitization is worrying for every nation because it may have benevolent cause today, but information doesn't rot and it will bite us decades into the future if not today. In US, in EU, in Africa, in Asia, in the world.
Internal structure damage reducing effectiveness in future impacts.

There are shock stickers shippers use to verify if shipments have exceeded certain shock thresholds; car seats with a similar feature would allow for a second hand market (as data shows car seats should be safe to use for 20-30 years, if they haven’t been exposed to stresses from an accident).

You just need enough customers to ask for it, or regulation.
Me, as well. I wanted a "mission", but everything I've done is more about the content, quiet life.
The ISO images are compressed with RAR. What a bizarre choice.
You’re better off using a DoH client like unbound and pointing it at a nextdns.io upstream.

dnsmasq simply isn’t very good.
I think the word 'real' is way too vague in this context.
Sorry for the slow response, just got off an airplane. These were not after the fact. Instead, we knew these were the potential benefits and we moved over. I personally wasn't happy about having to run a daemon to get a container, but we saw the benefits far outweighed the downside for the approach. The other approach on the table was for docker (pre client/server split) to continue requiring sudo. I don't recall anyone suggesting an alternative approach though.
Yeah, exactly. The synchronous, one-to-one method calls of C++ or Java bare basically no resemblance at all to bacteria chemical signals. The former are essentially functions which dispatch on the first parameter.

The blackboard model isn't quite accurate though. Chemical signals have spatial locality, propagation delay, and half-lives. An asynchronous, peer-to-peer mesh network of actors would be a closer approximation to the bacterial signal model.
This is actually half the reason that I use pi hole.
Code that is easy to work with is usually that way because the author went out of their way to make it easy to work with, often this takes 2-3x as long to write as normal code that just works. Publicly exposed api's typically get this special attention and internal things get the normal spaghetti treatment.
It's quite possible she could see some of those colors in real life if you had access to a light-source with "adjustable spectrum".

Think something like an RGB lamp but with more colors/wavelengths, and adapted to her particular spectral response.

Having built a similar kind of lamp myself, I have to say it was quite wild even for a boring old trichromat as me!
Works on all devices, including mobile phones and tablets.
Here's a badly-worked out theory.

We see magenta as a separate color because we can distinguish it from green- it's not green, because Red and Blue don't activate our green cones. But we can't distinguish between spectral yellow and R+G because there's no yellow cone: the activations of all our cones are more or less identical in both cases.

If you have a yellow cone, you'd conceivably be able to distinguish between both kinds of yellow: redgreen and yellow could look as different as green and redblue do. I'm not sure how that would look as a "wheel", perhaps a figure-eight with the crossing at yellow.
Title assumes that Alan did in fact get anything wrong, which is incorrect
Such a clever swipe!

Don't know where you are sourcing your definitions from, but, conventionally, being a library merely means that it's a reusable piece of code that does something well-defined.
I think it would be fun to find a mathematical way to describe the shape of the known universe.

There's borders, zones, arms, as if connected by fibrous tissue that our current understanding of gravity alone cannot explain. I want to read about a fractal generating function (and the initial conditions) which describe this shape. Of course there's room for statistical variation within each populated zone... But the general shape should hold true. And I know we'll be able to model this in the near future.

Who knows - known universal constants might pop up in new places. Then we can look for analogous examples, smaller scope, which share similarities - this would a wildly fun exercise. The kinds of systems we find analog to it? Will allow us to reason by analogy.

This is what quantum computers should be for.
> but then its your kids so you shrug and fork out for a new seat

And marketers know this.
> both these algorithms and nature are optimizing for efficiency.

nature certainly doesn’t optimize for “efficiency”
Coal is being replaced by natural gas, not renewables. A net benefit, but not a void being filled significantly by wind/solar yet.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=38632
What were the reasons for failure? It would be great to learn more about your experience.
In my current state almost everyone has a weapon. My neighbor (legally) owns a fully automatic gun. I have had a gun pointed at me twice during two separate crimes when I lived in another state. That state has extremely harsh gun laws, one year minimum for every bullet in a illegal weapon.

Just last week there was a home invasion robbery and the mans guard dog was shot and killed in my current city.

Slightly more than one in a billion chance.

Guns can’t be taken out of citizens’ hands. Teach responsible use and double down.
This is true as the point of getters and setters is encapsulation, if you totally ignore it there is no real reason to have them at all and public access is a language feature to use.
I think this is a fine attitude in the short term, and an absolutely terrible one in the long. It's certainly bad for the business; companies that (by your numbers) are happy paying 150% extra in costs will have a hard time competing over time with companies that keep their costs low.

But I think it's also bad for the developer. Giving up and accepting bad code and low productivity means we develop habits and attitudes appropriate to that environment. It keeps us from getting better at our jobs, from keeping up with new technologies and new approaches. And given how our industry keeps changing, I think that's a recipe for disaster.
>Sure, but then you're liable for everything your spoofer says

I've actually wondered about the potential for this as performance art. Spoof some peoples voices, and have a bunch of Alexas read the script to some kind of play to each other. The play, of course, worded in such a way to trigger some Alexa's "report to law enforcement" features.
Have an upvote.

By coincidence I just read Scott’s book not too long ago and can attest that it contains not a single suggestion that imposing any sort of order on a system is ever a good idea. Quite the opposite, in fact.

There may be lessons for city planners and agriculturalists in the book, but I’m pretty sure there isn’t a single one for software developers.
I actually think having business people who have control over what programmers do is the mistake very often. It leads to very bad decisions for the codebase as a whole and the programmers often don’t know the best way to fit in the random business needs because they are never told why the feature should exist. I think we need a better method to be able to make the right decisions for the code while still achieving the desired outcomes without making quite such a mess. Maybe something like sessions where the business has to persuade the developers to build the features in detail rather than throwing random unclear solutions over the fence and saying we need this.
You can record as much as you want, it's redistribution that might be a problem (before copyright on the piece ran out)
I was seven when velvet revolution happened. I remember few days later when my father come home from work, I went to the door to greet him. He stepped in, put his suitcase on the floor, looked at me and said: "Well, from now on they will not call me comrade but mister". That was revolution for me.

I was as grumpy kid as I am now adult, but I had quite reasonable parents. They would always asked me if I wanted to join some club activities or hobbies. Teacher thought I have musical ear so they asked me if I want to play saxophone. I said no. They asked me if I wanted to be a pioneer (state run scouts, every kid was member). I said no. And to my surprise my parents accepted it. I was the only one in my class who wasn't pioneer. But then people probably started to telling my parents that I could have problems later on if I don't became pioneer so parents started asking me to join. After a long while I finally agreed and started preparing for the pioneer entry exams. Then the revolution came and it all fell down. "What do you mean I cannot be pioneer?! I want to be a pioneer." I could understand when they told me that they no longer exists. I even refused to call teacher Mrs and kept calling her comrade but after a while kids started making fun of me so I eventually stopped. And I never became pioneer.
"Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water."
For something hosted on a phone, I think they could improve the feel of privacy just by discarding the wake-word concept. This also allows them to cut out the passive listening hardware (saving money) or software load (saving battery life and CPU overhead)

If you have the phone in your hands anyway, it's not that outlandish to have a button you press to engage Siri/Cortana/etc. This also avoids annoying/embarrassing accidental triggers.

The only thing I ever used Cortana for (back in the Windows Phone 8 days) was the geofenced stuff-- "take the perishable items out of the car when you get home".

Absurd thought: With enough data mining, not having the assistant's features discoverable could become itself a feature: Sifting through a billion requests and where it falls back to web requests could expose "desire paths"-- the specific functionality consumers expect a voice-assistant to provide but wouldn't necessarily know to ask for on a marketing survey.
I imagine the cost is too much for them or for any business to sponsor them unless it's by a FAANG-level company. $125k is the cost for gTLDs, and 2-letter TLDs can't be bought.
>There are literally zero browser engines allowed on iOS, other than Safari/webkit, with a purposefully depleted feature set, to force developers and users to the app store.

Apple is clearly moving towards a more secure set of operating systems and that starts by reducing the attack surface.

On macOS, Apple is deprecating kernel extensions; the boot partition on macOS Catalina is read-only so that it can’t be modified by malicious software: https://wccftech.com/macos-catalina-runs-on-dedicated-read-o...

Even Safari on iOS doesn’t support browser extensions.

>instead of simply allowing an open-market to thrive on iOS.

The App Store paid developers $34 billion in 2018; I would say the market is thriving: https://fortune.com/2019/01/28/apple-app-store-developer-ear...

>Safari/webkit, with a purposefully depleted feature set

Just checked html5test.com from my iPhone 7 running iOS 13.2.2; Safari scores 463 and Firefox 48 mobile scored 468 out of 555 points. And this is without enabling a bunch of experimental work-in-progress features: https://imgur.com/a/Y5NHwct

So there's no meaningful difference in capability of these browsers when it comes to features.

Of course, Safari is faster, requires less RAM and consumes less power, which should count for something on a mobile device.
The decision in “Gonzales v. Raich” was narrowly focused on the question of growing cannabis for in-state consumption (for medicinal purposes). Even Scalia broke from being a pure textualist to side with the government, specifically stating that the merits of that case in no way overturn U.S. vs Lopez and U.S. vs Morrison in which it was held that Congress exceeded its authority under the enumerated powers.
Oh yes. And I know they know this. But kids.
Consider the extremes: if everyone only has $1, they are all objectively "poor", but without a comparison, they do not feel any difference. If they all have a great deal of resources, again, they have no grounds to compare.

On the other hand, if one has great resources and the others little, then they have a noticable in wealth and power.
Are the forces in an accident strong enough to damage an engineered car seat? It's already protected by crumple zones, and I'd expect the car seat to be more robust than the occupant.
> It would be interesting to see a movie where an AI takes over and turns reality in to a Rube Goldberg machine.

How would that be distinct from actual reality?
^ This.

My iPhones usually got janky after using tons of apps but always after jailbreaking them (and installing yet more apps). Same with Android. Stay clean on mobile!
LidarView: The ParaView Lidar App
Interesting post OP. From reading your paper about storage combinators it seems to suggest that this has been used in the Wunderlist app.

It sounds quite promising in theory but more people would need to try it before we know how beneficial it is.

Would it be possible to open source the library or be able to read an actual code sample ?

Might help popularize it better than if this knowledge were in a paper.
The problem I see is that many websites that rely heavily on JS have become pretty much applications rather than websites and as a result they heavily rely on a long running process. The way I understand this problem, this would rather require a long running browser process and (socket based) API exposed for external commands/apps to work with. But then again this would be not much different than Selenium or the likes. The API could be very different but the general principle (web browser process and an API for external applications to control it) would be the same.
The equal protection clause applies to citizenship status. The key case on citizenship discrimination and public education is Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982) available at https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-a...
The other problem I have is the lack of themes. You spinup WP and have access to a load of themes, but not with Gatsby.

Its not to say it wont get there - but I dont have the time to be writing my own themes
But they are addressed differently; in particular internal memory corruption is hard to address from a framework perspective, while external memory corruption can be almost entirely eliminated.
Stupid pedantry on my part: ADC.
I haven't looked into what your macro definition would do to it, but just running

grep -r '\b__f\b' /usr/include/

on my system shows a bunch of uses of this symbol. Looks like it's generally used as a parameter, though I also see it as a field name in a union, e.g. in /usr/include/math.h:

__header_always_inline int __inline_signbitf(float __x) {
union { float __f; unsigned int __u; } __u;
__u.__f = __x;
return (int)(__u.__u >> 31);
}

I wonder how the compiler likes it if you try to #include that header after you've defined a __f() macro?