skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Basically a theorist is a lazy person masquerading as a diligent one

Tell that to Einstein.
My feeling is that symbolic AI hasn't really been explored that much with modern tools and modern computing capacity. It just needs that one breakthrough to show that for certain areas (IMO NLU) it is far superior.
There's no way of predicting when this will happen, but given the current interest in AI I don't think it will take that long, even if currently there are far more people working on subsymbolic AI.
> use mouse

Noooooo! Not that! Please not that!
Yes, being a good consumer (which is not the same as spending much) is important. Research your stuff before buying.
Lifestyle changes may combat a dementia that strikes people in their 40s and 50s
Twitter thread about the mislabeling/misattribution/removal, for context: https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1214957104206876672

Mashable story tracking the takedown and statements by Teen Vogue: https://mashable.com/article/facebook-teen-vogue-sponsored-c...

Update: Sadly, it looks like the Internet Archive copy has now turned into a 404. Mods should probably replace this link with the Mashable writeup above instead.
It's absolutely not. These calls for relying on renewables are pure fantasy; the storage technology doesn't exist yet, so you can't build a reliable power grid based on something that isn't in existence.

It's just like the calls to rely on fusion power instead of building fission plants. Fusion doesn't exist (as a usable power generation method), so calling for it to be planned for now is ridiculous. It's the same with storage systems; we don't have any that can supply the entire grid yet. We're having a hard enough time just getting enough lithium to make batteries for the relatively small number of electric vehicles on the road now. There are things like pumped-hydro, but those only work in some places, and we already have them (i.e., we can't make more of them, because we've already exhausted all the available hydropower sites), and they're not enough.

Don't get me wrong: renewables are great for what they're good at: supplying variable power, especially on sunny days, and the US in particular could definitely stand to deploy much more, particularly in the sunny states where a lot of power is used for A/C. But it's not a solution yet for baseload power.
It's not that. It's the Argo Tunnel connector https://www.cloudflare.com/products/argo-tunnel/

Also, it wasn't down globally but new connections were failing. Existing ones were fine.
May be it's yet to be discovered
you are being downvoted because you speak the inconvenient truth.

People in this thread want to feel like they save the world by buying an EV but that change is statistically insignificant (even if everyone on the planet bought an EV).

I fully agree with you that real change is going beyond our actual economy. The "micro-step" changes that we are taking right now with solar and EVs are almost useless.
Canadians among dead after Ukrainian plane crash in Iran, airline says
So, is it routing around the damage?
Would be really cool to retro-fit these on an older vehicle. Replace the center console with a tablet, some OS handles the lidar.
Takeaways:

* It is meaningful to speak of animals having "opinions" but it's not clear how those match up with human ones.

* Individual opinion is guided by a combination of random chance and direct perception.

* Individual bee opinions have low success rate, but group consensus of bees has an extremely high success rate.

* Opinions acquired via transmission are more weakly held than opinions acquired directly.

* Wrong opinions are held more weakly than right opinions. I find this fascinating because it means there's some information that would not be revealed without the bees challenging each other.

* Opinions are often never changed in an individual, even if they are wrong.
Reading big difficult books is offered as a way to teach reasoning from first principles. On how to go about it:

"We have our recommended ten-stage process for reading such big books:

1. Figure out beforehand what the author is trying to accomplish in the book.

2. Orient yourself by becoming the kind of reader the book is directed at—the kind of person with whom the arguments would resonate.

3. Read through the book actively, taking notes.

4. “Steelman” the argument, reworking it so that you find it as convincing and clear as you can possibly make it.

5. Find someone else—usually a roommate—and bore them to death by making them listen to you set out your “steelmanned” version of the argument.

6. Go back over the book again, giving it a sympathetic but not credulous reading

7. Then you will be in a good position to figure out what the weak points of this strongest-possible argument version might be.

8. Test the major assertions and interpretations against reality: do they actually make sense of and in the context of the world as it truly is?

9. Decide what you think of the whole.

10. Then comes the task of cementing your interpretation, your reading, into your mind so that it becomes part of your intellectual panoply for the future."
> The life of ten thousand sick pets does not reach the value of one human life.

You don’t get to make that decision for anyone else.
D makes most memory safety bugs disappear through its runtime bounds checking and garbage collection, both proven solutions in a variety of languages.

Yes, Walter is working on more compile time stuff too, but the existing runtime checks really do excellent work and shouldn't be overlooked.
> suicide

Actually, suicide rates in the US are concentrated overwhelmingly in rural areas [1], which corresponds strongly to conservativism, while some of the lowest suicide rates in the country are in ultra-progressive bastions like New York City and San Francisco.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/24/mappi...
Thais do order and eat it.
Will be interesting to see, the last time there was a decline was during the 2008 GFC. As we continue moving to decouple GDP from CO2 emissions eventually we can have a drop without an economic disaster to do it.
You can plug eGPU to NUC and hide it under the desk, it has TB3.
I picked the same and use the menu to build, but I don't have VisualStudio, so perhaps the sample didn't really build. Then I was clicking around the menu and chose the Single-Step option on the menu (F11? F10?) when the IDE crashed.
This is correct. There's a bunch of stuff that would require significant investment and also closed source components. It's telling when even Emby doesn't have a client in the PS4 store.
Learned shift zz after four years of vimming...shame...
Interesting. Is there a good read on iCloud's general document security? My sense is that while Apple is great about iMessage and this stuff in general, they probably haven't implemented the same level of privacy for all of iCloud. That would be very challenging.
Here's the HN discussion about that case [0]. The VPN service was keeping logs of when you signed on and off, not of where you were visiting. The FBI used those timestamps to validate what they already knew from the guy. There was never any working backwards to find an original IP from some VPN-assisted visit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15432827
Exploring Europeana’s Most Viewed Public Domain Works
> Cloudflare is investigating issues with Argo Tunnel connections in our Los Angeles data center. New tunnel registration attempts are impacted globally, as well.

Doesn't disrupt existing non-LAX connections at least.
You mean CloudFlare?
Is it possible to get it working with GUI or are you using it for automation?
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Last mover advantage by example: Slack
reusing my old comment: ADSL2+ uses frequency division duplexing (FDD), ~9:1 ratio (50/448 bins). DOCSIS up to 3.1 is also FDD. Typical EuroDOCSIS 3.0 modem deployments work in 8/4 (max 400/100 Mbit) or 16/8 (max 800/200 Mbit) channel configurations.

Finally 'full duplex' DOCSIS 3.1, renamed to 4.0, promises up to 10Gbps symmetric transfers thanks to echo cancellation (V.34 dialup modem says hi). Of course we barely switched to 3.1 and its unlikely cable networks will jump on the 4.0 bandwagon any time soon.
> What happens when the headlights fail, or if one of them fails, or if a bunch of snow or ice builds up in front of them?

What's expected of a normal driver when the headlights fail? Turning on the hazard blinkers, slowing down carefully, and finding their way to the shoulder?

There's also a reason there are two headlights.
Boobytraps are illegal. Have fun with that in court.
From the article:

"Programmers wanting to avoid the Y2K bug had two broad options: entirely rewrite their code, or adopt a quick fix called “windowing”, which would treat all dates from 00 to 20, as from the 2000s, rather than the 1900s. An estimated 80 per cent of computers fixed in 1999 used the quicker, cheaper option."

So basically
if (date = 00-20) then year = 20XX

This is the most classic, lazy, contractor fix I have ever heard of- would love to hear some people who actually did support work for Y2k weigh in on this article.
Please follow the HN civility guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One Medical IPO Analysis
I wasn't sure, so I checked their help page, and apparently, failed projects aren't charged anything:

>If a project does not reach its funding goal, no fees are collected.

https://help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005028634-...

I don't know how they handle -- or if it would be an issue if you went the route of -- "Funding goal met but canceled anyway".

Or if they have rules against, "I have no idea how to make this thing but that stereotypical overseas factory says they can do it so I'm contracting it out to them."
This mailing list share ideas with an execution plan too. Fun to read in the inbox every now and then.

https://www.startupsfromthebottom.com/
Didn't we recently confirm gravitational waves by checking out a couple interacting black holes, originally theorized by Einstein 100 years ago? I think even Einstein would agree that it was much harder to discover it than to theorize it.
No it's not... Program files and settings are stored in two completely different folders... Even uninstalling a program shouldn't remove your settings unless it asks you first.
Ask HN: What Qualities do you look for when hiring developers?
Hi HN,
I've recently been tasked with interviewing developers and providing hire/don't hire feedback, and I'd like some advice.

I want to know what qualities you look for in a new hire, and how you test for those qualities in an interview?

Please also share any other insights that will help improve our hiring process(both for the company and for applicants)?
Data Privacy Startup BigID Raises Another US$50m to Launch New Products
The use of the color is quite different from a regular character, so measuring by the same yardstick makes no sense. This is a blob of color, not just some thin lines.

> these bizarre characters

At least on Twitter.com, they're not characters, they're SVG images.
Have you ever considered that maybe it is because they have the smarts that they are getting out of both nuclear and coal?

And you might want to read up on Thiange before you tell Belgians to ignore and carry on.
I feel like this is akin to putting your sick mother outside in the snow to avoid the problem of her having a fever.

If you have a model with hundreds of lines, there may be a larger design problem that could be addressed. By extracting lines into other files to arbitrarily keep line counts low, you just increase the effort it takes future developers to understand the code.
Thank you very much for help. I just fixed the link.
Software Investor Insight Partners Acquires IoT Security Firm Armis
I'm curious about this one:

Don't run this, it could break your computer.

:!echo b | sudo tee -a /proc/sysrq-trigger

Why would that break my computer?

Doesn't that just force a reboot without unmounting disks, or about the same thing that would happen if you pull the power cord (but probably safer, since anything in a hard drive write cache (or in the middle of being written to an SSD) will still be written)
What type of questions to ask in an interview as a job seeker?
I wonder if this drop can be attributed to the approval of pembroluzimab? Our oncologists speak highly of it and it got to market around the mentioned time period
Automatic updates don't play nicely with package managers that install things as root, so it is disabled during the build process. It does exist though, and is enabled on Linux if you download firefox from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new.

OP in this thread seems to be using that installer with automatic updates, and then disabling it by hand, since when updating via a package manager you don't run into this issue.
Watson: A wonderful CLI to track your time
CFR -> change order -> $$$
Holding users hostage and pressuring them to purchase expensive unnecessary additional hardware (wasting resources and pollution) is not healthy competition.
What exactly was Sam Altman's motivation for making this bet? Seems foolish to me. I'd rather gamble in the stock market.
was recently posted. no datasheet available, just a generic website with a lot of unsubstantiated promises and an email harvester. basically marketing spam until some actual data is available.
Running it as a different user should suffice.

Anyway, the problem alluded to is probably X11. Any GUI application will be able to do things like sniffing your keyboard and clipboard data.

It's hard to do right (but of course isn't reason to not run untrusted applications with low privileges) and one of the things Wayland set out to improve.
13.3" full color ePaper display
Sure, but that's neither space nor cost effective. At that point it definitely makes sense to have just done a MiniITX build.
I believe the config of which glyphs to show depends on the TLD. There is a hardcoded list of which character ranges are acceptable per TLD, and if any characters are outside those ranges, the xn-- form is shown instead.
Wow pretty interesting, I too wonder why avocados are the only fatty fruit!

Does that page use a framework? Or is it designed from scratch? Very cool design.
This post is making me think I need to change my Chrome extension that injects jQuery as a content script.

I assumed injecting a new/different jquery wouldn't break most sites, but if people are doing this then it definitely would.
Wyoming Legislature considering 'private key protection' [pdf]
On some systems I've worked (and saw), time and date components were simple bytes. Mostly for easy binary manipulation and also laziness, but mostly it was current practice (on msdos) for that period. Not really to save memory.
> "If you choose not to use [automatic updates], then you must accept that you are stepping into an edge case"
WTF Molly Howell.
Until it goes into your frequently accessed sites list, which as a dev, I imagine it would.
Oregon: Silver Falls definitely a solid choice.
Indeed, but you can still achieve good scores on Google Lighthouse. I've been trying Gridsome around 8 months ago with Shopify Storefront API and GraphQL hosted on Netlify.
To be honest, the page speed was the same as on Shopify hosting on the theme that I was building back then.
Use firejail instead. They use similar features (namespaces, seccomp, etc.)
Nitpick: The singular “Democrat” is still standard if used as a noun, as in “Nancy Pelosi is a Democrat.” It’s only using it as an adjective that’s nonstandard.
These are very long articles, and this is long chapter number ten out of twelve. So it's hard to TL;DR with any respect to a series of articles that's trying to TL;DR sociology, politics and polarization over the last half century.

The gist is that we have internal struggles between survival through power compared to thriving through critical thinking. This struggle is affected by the people around us; amplified because being part of a group pulls us in some ways towards survival instincts, and if we're lucky also pulls us towards critical thinking. As groups, we kind of have the same collective struggles as well.

The latest article uses ideas and terminology from the previous nine articles that I've attempted to summarize in a tiny paragraph above. It goes into some depth explaining how our country has slid, politically, from critical thinking and having opinions slightly one way or the other off from center (a center that has shifted over time) to having opinions grouped much further apart. Aka polarization.

And I'm not even done reading it. I enjoy it, and I'm optimistic models like this can help us, but I know that some people believe the models cut too many things out. I think that's problematic, because it is a very complex issue with a multitude of variables, and I think simplified models (and terminology) are necessary to explore the ultimate problem and potential solutions.
I take issue with the article's assumption that only the wealthy engage in philanthropy. That's simply not true.

The wealthy tend to make a lot of noise about their philanthropic endeavors, but most normal people I know, including those who are objectively poor, engage in varying degrees of philanthropy.
Not really that absurd if that one-time-use energy is needed for essentials, such as heating in winter when there are no viable alternatives.

But yes, I agree with your general point.
How much work is it to port the IDE to other platforms?

The IDE is maybe one of the nice/important aspects of this project, but then this really should not be Windows-only. Or maybe that are your priorities, but then I would not expect that it gets much adoption outside of the Windows world, but maybe this is ok for you.
I keep an idea list on my personal website. I like the thought of my ideas being valuable enough to hide in plain sight, but interesting enough to be worth saving and sharing with my fellow nerd friends on occasion.
To me the key takeaway of this is the desperation of the Gauls and the ruthlessness of the Romans. This part sums it up the best:

"The inhabitants of the town sent out their wives and children to save food for the fighters, hoping that Caesar would take them as captives and feed them. However, Caesar forbade their being admitted to his fortification."
Catholic Church Shields $2B in Assets to Limit Abuse Payouts
Nice. But optimistic as it assume you will get to live to 90.

I think there are actuarial tables where you can get an estimate based on your age. Or just mark ~75 as expected and use a different color for extra time beyond the expected.
Did you do a patent search ?
Show HN: Proxy SSH using TLS/SNI and Nginx to bypass firewalls
I wish this question would've been asked 1 week later as I have been trying to find a good weekly summary for years. I got fed up & created my own. I finally published it this weekend, but had to wait 4 days for approval. Anyway, here it is: https://www.wnu.news/
Chome OS represents less than 1% of the market share. It is, for all intent and purpose, not even worth mentioning.

And no, not every searches on google.com asks you to install chrome.

If the nagging is prompting you to do what the nagging is asking you to d, you already failed.
> The world is a giant ship with 8+ billion each with their own oar in the water.

I agree with most of what you said, except for this. We are much more like a modern cruise ship with a few thousand people on the button for the engine, heading full power towards the iceberg because there's some sweets they want in the same direction. If one of them doesn't collect enough sweets, they usually get sent down to the oars.

There are also 7-8 billion other people with oars in the water, pulling in several different directions, getting told either that they will also get some of the sweets if they row towards the iceberg, or that we wouldn't be in this mess if the just rowed against the engines harder. Obviously, the rowers can't change the direction of the ship - they can either hope that the people controlling the engine change their mind, or they can leave their oars and go take down the engine people en masse.

Point being, the vast majority of people, even pulling together, can't do anything to reverse global warming through direct action. We need to organize and take political action to force governments and companies to act if we are to have any real impact. Of course this will in turn affect us as well (less stuff, less meat, less AC and so many others), but the change must come from the top down at this point. At this point, even if entire countries chose spontaneously to buy half the stuff and eat half the meat, that would probably not have a significant impact on CO2 emissions, given that production would likely continue and switch to more exports.
Well, it's true that we can't really tell how serious he was being. And it is worth remembering he was a neuroscientist who studied neurons. He was probably thinking of people who made complex theories about "how the brain works" without ever designing experiments to test them, not physics theorists.
I came to complain about the graphs...

Their 38%s don't line up; like at all.

Also, they don't go into what they mean by "unlabeled" in either the current methodology or their previously linked North Korea methodology either for how the people selected where Iran was. With the datapoints on the map, I'm wondering if they even had country borders; otherwise I'd think a heatmap of the selected countries would be a better telling of the data.

In general, their visual representations of what was produced was, in short, hot freaking garbage. Which may mean that the data is; and kinda throws the entire survey into question.
Which protection in particular is present in US and missing in Germany?
I thought when I was younger I couldn't read big, difficult books and (since it never occurred to me that there might be people smarter than me) I concluded that nobody could read big, difficult books. It was quite an epiphany when I actually really forced myself to get through one - and once I had pushed past that first barrier, it's gotten easier and easier to read really meaningful books.
Is this similar to a passive[1] NFC device?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-field_communication#Desig...
I will never understand how it is that people are OK with installing surveillance equipment in their home that can be accessed by any strangers whatsoever.
I think there is perhaps a dozen reasons why this is an incorrect comparison.

If we want to measure the information limit of DNA, we can argue the DNA is the program input... sure, so far so good. But then what is the "tape"? The tape must be empty at the beginning of the program... So, I guess we really need to consider the "program" is the entire universe of atoms...

Ok... but then... who said that the program ever Halts, exactly? Busy beaver needs to Halt.

So, we actually broke two of the fundamental assumptions of the Busy Beaver problem. So I wouldn't make any guarantees about the complexity of DNA based on it.