skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's deeper than that.

Currently, there's no research into torturing AI. Why not?

A pain response is universal across most life forms with a nervous system. We seek to replicate a nervous system. Pain would seem to be far easier to replicate than the scientific method.

My wife sat me down and told me a story that horrified me. She had to get it off her chest, and I was sad it happened to her than to me. She was sitting around on the porch and felt something on her leg, and brushed it off. When she got up and looked down, apparently she had stepped on a poor snail. His shell was... And he was...

He wasn't dead. So she frantically looked up what to do. But there was nothing to do. Snails in that situation can't be helped, and the most humane thing is to put it out of its writing anguish, its full-body torture.

She put on some boots, took it out to the sidewalk, and stomped it as hard as she could. And that was the story of that snail.

You probably felt more for that snail than you've ever felt for any AI bot. Why?

It's worth considering.
What is emergence?
I was going to comment the exact same thing.

What's worse than them complaining about what we have done in the past is them questioning why we didn't do it sooner.
> I'll never forget when I joined a hip fintech company, and the director of eng told us in orientation that we should think of their cloud of services as a thousand points of light

Let's be real, if you are old enough to get that reference without Googling, you probably would not have lasted that long at a hip fintech company anyways :-P
> Hong Kong was richer than Spain in 1980.

People really can't help themselves: "Also, it's a joke to compare a city ( hong kong ) to a country ( UK ). I see it done too many times in traditional and social media."

Also is that supposed to be impressive? I've never associated economic strength or wealth with 20th century spain.

> China didn’t open for trade until the 80s.

Wrong. They opened up in the 60s. They tested trade with Japan first in the 60s before opening up relations with the US in the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Japan_relations#...

There is a reason why hong kong's standing improved in the 60s and continued to do so.

> Hong Kong’s prosperity was not based on the China trade between 1945 and 1980.

Yes it was. Hong kong's only value is as an entry point/port into china. There is nothing inherently noteworthy about hong kong. It has no resources and only a few million people.

We know it wasn't based on the UK since from 1842 til china's liberation and opening up, hong kong was a dirt poor colonial outpost where only the british and a few chinese lackey's were wealthy. We know it had nothing to do with hong kong for the reasons I noted. So the only remaining option is china's opening up.

Lets put it this way, if china was still the colonized china of pre-ww2 or if china was the china of 1945-1965ish, then hong kong would still be relatively poor.
Zoom plans to roll out strong encryption for paying customers
A feature introduced in e.g. Nightly 78 might stay out of stable until say version 86. That is features make it to stable by becoming stable not because it first landed in a certain nightly and so everything was held up until all features in that nightly became stable. Releases happen on a fixed 4 week calendar cycle instead.

Based on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1563480 I'd say it's probably a good number of releases away.
I love this, I have been amusing myself with your “I am feeling lucky” button and already found some interesting reads.

I will be submitting my blog via pull request shortly.
They do...

Some things are hard to change, even when you control all the branches of government.
There's a political illiteracy in our politics (I'm including Canada, but more prevalent in the US it seems) that says fascism is hitler himself and the swastika and nothing else.
I don't know, the masks may have increased police fear, or served to dehumanize the appearance of the protesters, and contributed to the use of tear gas and rubber bullets in one of the protests.
Discussed two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322793
Disappointing to be sure, but it's why they already have SN5 (nearly?) complete and SN6 is well on its way.

I like how Elon Musk contrasted past and currently planned human space activity as 'Apollo' and the potential future as 'D-Day'.

The goal is to cheaply and quickly mass manufacture interplanetary space craft. I think that imploding/exploding early serial numbers are an expected early part of that path.
PipeWire: Next-generation audio and video server for Linux
I noticed that and I do think it is nice. I have to extract and transcribe long sequences, so it would be nice to have the audacity label track feature to bookmark/label a bunch of sections and then output them as individual files named by their label along with a .txt. This is audacity's format:

start end label_name

1.02302 2.23193 label_1

You could take it further and have some numeric labeling (audacity doesn't autofill) and that'd be even nicer. This would be super helpful for working with speech processing data. Regardless, keep up the good work!
Rocketry is unforgiving. That's why they test.
I always liked the ones with the hacker wearing a ski mask.
Bash glue has rarely failed me. Never used k8s, but the horror stories I hear ensure I won’t feel dirty for writing a little bash to solve problems anytime soon.
1) Reading Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" has made me expect that the SEC is pretty good at detecting such things.

2) Also, that seems like something which would make more money for someone else, which does not fit with my model of Trump's behavior.
I work at a fintech that runs a rails monolith on k8s and you would probably puke at how cheap our hosting cost is given our AUM. Engineering is a funny thing.
>Not to mention that coding style may require that function calls broken to 2 lines must have the arguments aligned at the opening parenthesis.

That doesn't result in any problems with using <TAB>s, unless the coding style also requires you to replace all (leading) sequences of N spaces with with a <TAB>, which is, IMO, quite brain-dead. For example,

if (cond) {
<TAB>foo(1,
<TAB><SP><SP><SP><SP>2);
}

looks fine regardless of the width of <TAB>.

Admittedly, your first problem remains; a problem with dumb editors. In truth, your editor could well signal if your lines exceed the limit (indent-width*indent + rest) you have set for your project, just as easily as it can draw a line at a column.

The harder problem is that you need a context-aware editor for it to help you with indenting. Most editors are incapable of that by default.
Even vim handles word wrapping well. A text editor which can't... well, it's a pretty poor text editor then, isn't it?

That said, I don't know of many text editors (outside of notepad, and even that's gotten better lately) which don't offer options about how to (or not to) wrap text.
Because Google made it. Same thing with Tensorflow. And, fun fact, both are massively overhyped and a real PITA to learn and use. But Google uses it, so hey.
I was thinking about peltier heated clothes dryer the other day.

Traditional electric dryers heat to approximately 210 degrees using 240v and about 2500 watts.

Recently, (compressor) heat pump dryers have come to the US for ventless options.

So to produce 210 degree, 2000 watt of heat where peltiers are at least more efficient as generating heat than resistors, seems possible with a 750 computer power supply.
Fuchsia Os Overview
The ex-Covid death rate in New York is significantly above its baseline. Part of this may be undiagnosed covid deaths, but with less people out doing dangerous things, a lot of it is probably people avoiding hospitals.
A question here is whether this trick (which I acknowledge is very interesting) is worth doing on Broadwell. Broadwell has a pair of new instructions (ADCX and ADOX) that don't behave like a normal ADC - they only read and set a single bit (carry bit and overflow bit). As such you can do two of these at once and at least on recent Intel processors there are two execution ports (0 and 6) that can handle these instructions.

You'd still need some cleverness if your goal is to add just one giant bignum (as opposed to doing lots of independent add-with-carry sums).
> The big mistake with COVID-19 was telling individuals to boycott masks and that it was wrong to buy or wear them. We could have opened whole new factories for producing them by now, if only demand had been encouraged rather than suppressed.

Classic market economics in a vacuum.

Without the suppression of masks, mass chaos and social unrest would have ensued. The societal fear and unease was easily diverted towards non-essentials (TP, hand sanitizer) - proper public health advice could be given long after shelter-in-place, and thus societal order was established. People would have died had authorities came out the gate stating masks were critical to one’s health.

So many people forget that you have to control the population in times of exceptional fear and anxiety or at any stage you risk a partial or complete societal collapse.
> I know many people are upset that we've left the President's posts up, but our position is that we should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled Out in clear policies.

Very sensible position: leave it up unless there is imminent, serious risk.
Steganography online codec with AES-CBC-256 and PBKDF2
The New York Times is dying before our eyes
I think everyone is missing a key possible outcome here (regarding the startup business model). Tantalising users for a services via cheap prices can actually mean users change their behaviour and preferences.

This can then mean that when prices are increased, the changed preferences will affect how users perceive the value for the service. Suddenly they might be willing to buy it at the higher price.
>> On a practical level, consider this: people drank milk for thousands of years,
but we only started pasteurizing it in the early 1900s. Do you really think
people before 1900 were just living with these supposed diseases of raw milk,
completely unawares? No, they drank raw milk and they were fine.

People fall ill from drinking raw milk and even die today, when we have a
better understanding of the causes of disease and have much better hygiene
standards. I don't understand why you expect that this happened less, or not
at all (?) in the past.

>> To put it bluntly, I don't trust the government's assessments about raw dairy.

Which government's? I linked to sites from the US, the UK and the EU. They are representative of health agencies from around the world.

In any case, this is from the WHO, i.e. not a governmental source:

Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli are among the most common foodborne pathogens that affect millions of people annually – sometimes with severe and fatal outcomes. Symptoms are fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhoea. Examples of foods involved in outbreaks of salmonellosis are eggs, poultry and other products of animal origin. Foodborne cases with Campylobacter are mainly caused by raw milk, raw or undercooked poultry and drinking water. Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli is associated with unpasteurized milk, undercooked meat and fresh fruits and vegetables.

Listeria infection leads to miscarriage in pregnant women or death of newborn babies. Although disease occurrence is relatively low, listeria’s severe and sometimes fatal health consequences, particularly among infants, children and the elderly, count them among the most serious foodborne infections. Listeria is found in unpasteurised dairy products and various ready-to-eat foods and can grow at refrigeration temperatures.

https://www.who.int/NEWS-ROOM/FACT-SHEETS/DETAIL/FOOD-SAFETY

It's interesting to note that some of the diesease associated with raw milk consumption are also caused by consumption of other foods, e.g. raw meat or raw eggs etc. It doesn't make a lot of sense to think that it's possible to get, e.g. E. coli from raw meat, but not from raw milk.
> I think there exist such people

In that case you certainly agree with "I do think however that for someone the value of looted goods can be greater than the random person who looted them" then, despite refusing it earlier.

> We were talking about beliefs and values, not feelings

This part was about sociopaths actually. Having certain feelings is enough to be a sociopath. Do you think that people choose to have ASPD?

> That’s not a feeling

Not feeling sad and not caring when some random person (it can even be someone from your own family) dies is related to feelings however. Something that is probably enough to get you considered as a sociopath by some.

> That’s a choice

Beliefs are a choice now? You do not choose to believe in something, rather, you get convinced due to some event, and this is often not possible depending on your feelings. I do not think that someone can believe that the life of someone who looted their store is all holy and important when they can't feel an emotion when someone dies.

> I would not interact with them.

Mind if I ask why? What would you (or society) gain if you refuse to interact with them? You would discriminate against them just for believing in something?
And "stochastic superoptimization" sounds so much cooler than their original term; "super-duper random improvement."
> OpenSSH 6.7 contains a mitigation,

> OpenSSH 6.7 was released on 2014-10-06.

I am not sure why this matters? If you have not updated your system for 8 years, I am sure you have worse problems than restricted account privilege escalation.
I had this same thing happen to me a couple months ago. Parked legally, came back from a short trip... no car
Sellers gonna sell :-).

There are a lot of retro computer kits these days, I can imagine next up we'll see, "Vintage KIM-1 Computer kit, shipped using 500 N95 respirator masks as packing material to protect it in shipping, only $6,000"
An Introduction to Functional Programming with Python
You're welcome!

> If you disagree that nakedness should be illegal that's a different story and has nothing to do with the police

I do question the logic of nakedness being illegal (in many cases anyway), but I agree that's a different story. :)

> Are you suggesting every person to decide what's allowed and what's not to the best of their judgment?

I'm assuming the case you mentioned at Harvard was this one: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/cambridge-police...

So who gets to decide what "reasonable force required to arrest someone who is refusing arrest" is? You really think that repeatedly punching someone for being naked and on drugs is reasonable? Why? Why not just detain him and work on getting him to a safe place? Why does the situation warrant violence at all? Just because it's common in this country does not mean it's justified or ethical.

What if they had shot him, or knelt on his neck and killed him? Would that be "reasonable"? Where, then, is the line?

Right now, cops basically have 100% discretion to decide where that line is. Because they are not actually accountable to anyone but themselves, they just act and draw the line after the fact. The only difference between this and the murder of George Floyd is degree. That's what I meant.

> If you use common sense then indeed you should try your best to avoid violence in illegal activities that don't put anyone in danger

I agree in the abstract, but unfortunately there's a racial element to this "common sense." In the US, black people especially must use a different kind of common sense, and must always remember that any kind of transgression - up to and including "looking suspicious" - is grounds for detention, which can escalate arbitrarily to execution on the spot. So there's really no "avoiding violence" when your mere existence is grounds for murder with no consequences.

And again, just because you can have a "reasonable" expectation of violence from the cops does not mean that violence is justified.

> the police has no choice

Well, they had a choice to not become cops in the first place, to not enter a system that lacks accountability. They have a choice to not enforce unjust laws, especially in situations where no one's in danger. They have a choice to challenge their colleagues to justify their actions, whether that's kneeling on someone's neck or punching them in the stomach. They have a choice between violence and deescalation.

But they choose violence and escalation with alarming frequency in this country. And the system protects them.
This is a serious question - how do we roll it back? What is our chance?
If you are a developer teaching kids to code, try this online code editor
I'm sorry, I can't find anything about raw milk in the article you linked to. Can you cite the passage from the article that discusses raw milk?

(I assume that by "this area" you mean raw milk, i.e. the subject of my comment above.)
Absolutely.

Saber tooth tigers. Check.
Dire wolves. Check.

The environment adapted just fine to the loss of these species.

The 1000s of other species made extinct recently... Oops!

...But again, the natural ecosystem didn't irrecoverably collapse.

After eliminating so many much more valuable or interesting species (IMO), I certainly don't want to stop right when we're getting to ticks and mosquitoes.
elliptical curve crypto really is pretty simple when explained geometrically.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/a-rel...
How do you acquire 10k sacks of sand on such short notice? Also, how much does that cost?
From personal experience in the industry right now, this is not the case at all institutions. I certainly haven't done a survey, but I know of a few that have been very equitable in their refund policy.
Thank you Radford! This is a long piece and it would take me a while to absorb properly. Does your algorithm lend itself to vectorised implementation?
I love clever domain name projects. I got bobicle.com, pretty good!
As "nerdy" as they look, the CliC brand readers (that separate magnetically at the nose, and that wrap around the back of your head with a solid band) are remarkably good at sticking with you as you move around in the day. 1.0's at the computer, 1.x around your neck.

Sadly, they don't make them with anything under 1.25.
Twitter is mostly retweets, though.
Well this has been a great meeting everyone...now don't ruin it Ralph....
Yes that helps thank you!
You're right about the futures markets, but people don't normally consider that hoarding.
Covid-19 has perhaps been a test of organisation, more than anything else.

Unfortunately the US (from what I observed during my short time there a few years ago), though really amazing in many ways, did rather seem (in my European eyes) to be somewhat floundering in that regard.
Visual line wrapping (that doesn't modify the code) is just fine. Works a treat for prose and notes, and if you combine it with a toggle to switch to horizontally scrolling lines, it works remarkably well.
except on HN, where PG is the only thing for everything always :D the world is a nail. where's my hammer?
A few months is enough time for breast cancer to go from stage 1 to stage 2 ...

Do women normally have breast exams every few months?
Honestly solving the illnesses isn’t enough. I don’t want anything drinking my blood.
And all for the low low cost of a MITM
The police misuse of force and deadly force and police brutality are unfortunately topics that all races can engage with[0].

It is not clear to me that insisting racism is creating a coalition that will change the system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_use_of_deadly_force_in_...
That may be true, but just because ed25519 might be better, doesn't mean RSA is a "problem"
Education is considered a state responsibility, not federal. Every state generally has a "flagship" university. And they usually have the important stuff covered, such as professional schools, so that their state's population has these needed skills.

If you are a smart enough student that you would gain admission to one of the highly-ranked flagship universities of another state, you are going to win scholarships to private schools too. The lower the rankings you are willing to go, the better scholarships you can get.

You can relocate to get in-state benefits but it may take awhile as states put conditions (e.g. living there for a year first, having a a job, etc) specifically to prevent people doing this.
Not disappointing - the more things that go wrong during the extensive series of tests developed and cataloged over the past several decades, the more we can correct and cement into permanence.

I'm looking forward to SN747 (the number corresponds with one of Boeing's standardized atmospheric flight models) sometime in 2024. I'm probably not thinking big enough though.
the other day someone talked about using PG to make a key-value store, and I hit my forehead hard enough that it hurt.

I didn't have the heart to tell them to examine the PG source code, or any other database, and see what sort of primitives are underneath the hood....
Recommend you try out Julia language!
This on definitely started at the bottom. It almost looks like a leak created a FAE (fuel air explosive) mixture around it.

It also blew out the methane flare on the right.
I've been around many alsatians, and many pitbulls (never had one, but many friends have). Given equal training, equal education (or whatever you want to call what some people do to their dogs), most pitbulls will be different from alsatians in temperament. When they are in attack mode, they're much more likely to not let go, and to bite much harder. There's a spectrum among breeds regarding the agressiveness of their attacks, and that's something you can't argue, I think. You can abuse the hell out of Yorkshire Terriers, they just won't be as dangerous as pitbulls.
IBM charged the customer for each server.
Change docker-compose to load balanced dokku nodes. Gives you the deployments and sidecars.
Great question.

Side note: I was reading Hooked last month (https://viggy28.dev/book/hooked/), author Nir Eyal suggests making the product simple to use to be the topmost priority.
Bought a van that has a secondary battery and a 2kw inverter. It'll run a toaster, electric kettle, or a microwave no problem. Also runs a Engel Fridge for 4 days.

Over the years I've read lots of stuff about supposed better mouse trap low tech stoves for people the third world. I suspect what they'd rather is a cheaply financed high tech solar powered mini-kitchen.
I've tried to make the argument that Kubernetes introduces a level of complexity that should make everyone think twice before diving into that eco-system. I've tried to make this argument using both detailed, factual arguments, and also by using humor and parody. I am confused why Kubernetes has so much momentum, especially when you consider that most of the things we want (isolation, security, dependency management, flexible network topologies) can be gained much more simply with Terraform and Packer. With a mix of humor and detailed factual analysis, my most recent attempt to make this argument is here:

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/my-final-post-regardi...
If you include all human activity - like home building and farming, it's probably in the quadrillions.
Also racist is the indifference to these riots, when their cost falls on the same minorities they ostensibly are in protection of. Look at Detroit. Look at Newark. Any wealth that might have been accumulating in the black communities of Minneapolis has just evaporated.
Sorry, what's the reference?
I guess people don't realize calisthenics is a thing...

However, I think it's mainly that pretty much most gyms are closed in affected areas.
Smoke from All Around
but didn't Mongo change their license and basically try to shake everyone down? and then revert this... or am I imagining things here or transposing a villain from a differen DB drama?