skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't expect ants, either as an individual ant or as a colony, to necessarily be able to hold a conversation given enough time, but an alien species more advanced than us, or a godlike AI, may expect at some point in the future we might be able to, or might birth something that is able to (if not, where did they come from?), which is why I think they would be more likely to view us as infants currently incapable of conversing with them usefully rather than bugs with no hope of doing so.
Calling that an apology is a bit rich. It wasn't "confusion" that was the problem, it was forcing monetization that was the problem. They basically say it was all WordPress's fault.
It does have a custom search setting, it's in the settings app.
> My prediction is that in the cities, things mostly won’t change. In rural or suburban areas, cost and wait times will explode, if service is offered at all.

This, in a nutshell, is exactly the problem.

Uber and Lyft make almost all their money in areas where there is already a useful, functioning cab system.

Had Uber and Lyft positioned themselves as serving San Diego, Sacramento, Bakersfield, etc. people would have been falling all over themselves to defend them.

Instead, they focused on San Francisco and Los Angeles and "disrupted" the cab system which was already functioning because that's where all the profit was and they wanted "Unicorn scale".

Well, okay, you reap what you sow.

> Drivers don’t have good statistics on where to wait.

That's totally false. Drivers absolutely know. My street has a lot of brewpubs that close at 10:00PM on weekdays, and the Uber/Lyft drivers flood the area and cruise just ahead of that.

It's actually incredibly annoying if you live in the area because it creates a huge traffic spike on a relatively small road that is also a cycling route at a time that people are going home.
Are you aware of cloud custodian out of Capital One? [0] Does this and much, much more (like delete noncompliant security groups, etc).

[0]: https://cloudcustodian.io/
My biggest usage is Chrome profiles. I use several for various personal and work accounts which means passwords, history, extensions, open sessions, and everything else are all nicely contained under separate Chrome windows.

Nothing else comes close to this kind of convenience and UX, and it's more secure since accounts are not co-mingled.
While I like Syncthing and used it for a couple of years, my experience is that Resilio is way faster for syncing large numbers of files (e.g. Git repos or large photo collections). Resilio also appears to be more easily reachable behind routers and corporate firewalls that for some reason block Syncthing. For those with an iPhone, that platform is also supported by Resilio but not Syncthing.
The worst plausible answer couldn’t possibly be worse than pumping it directly into the air we breathe, as we do with diesel and coal.
It would be possible for an ISP to MITM the traffic between Cloudflare and the origin server since it can be configured to be done via unencrypted HTTP or non-trusted certs on HTTPS (flexible SSL). See https://medium.com/@karthikb351/airtel-is-sniffing-and-censo... for an example of Cloudflare serving a MITM notice page for pirate bay.
In short, because pervasive surveillance is a nightmare for a free society and you aren't the only person alive.
Watching this film, if you turn off the narrator, you see the same guys as our guys, doing their jobs, making the same preparations (down to the anti-flash white paint on the aircraft), executing the same commands -- all just normal people who were caught up in a terrible arms race. Some of them out of duty, others out of ambition.

Makes you think about how, in the age where technological achievement can so quickly outpace the control of individuals, yet also relies on those same individuals to make it happen -- how important it will be for us to somehow find a way for the people at the top to not lead everyone else down a wrong path.

It's no profoundly new sentiment, but in some ways we need to overcome our caveman instincts when we're stocked with nuclear weapons.
it's based on what we understand as being intelligence so what would that even mean?
Ask HN: Best NAS for home backup / media streaming?
I have been kicking around a NAS purchase for a couple of years now... but I really don't want to add extra complexity to my life. It just needs to work. Ideally it would serve multipurpose and maybe that is my issue, expecting too much.

Ideally it would run:
1) Cloud backup (Backblaze B2)
2) Plex media server (w/ Hardware acceleration)
3) PiHole
4) Unifi Controller

I believe I have narrowed it down to the Synology DS720+ or the Qnap 253be. However, it seems like this tech is still a little fragile. For example, the Synology requires some tweaking for hardware encoding to work due to a bad driver.

I can deal with a longer setup as long as the result is as bullet proof as my Unifi AC Pro access point (which has literally run for years without an outage or glitch).

Appreciate any advice... including other options that include just avoid it all together.
I was appalled to learn that nuclear weapons testing roughly doubles the radiation exposure of a person living at sea level (the atmosphere blocks a lot from outer space).
"[Brüning] enacted a draconian policy of deflation and drastically cutting state expenditure.[5] Among other measures, he completely halted all public grants to the obligatory unemployment insurance introduced in 1927, resulting in workers making higher contributions and fewer benefits for the unemployed. Benefits for the sick, invalid and pensioners were also reduced sharply.[52] Additional difficulties were caused by the different deflationary policies pursued by Brüning and the Reichsbank, Germany's central bank.[...]Brüning triggered a deflationary internal devaluation by forcing the economy to reduce prices, rents, salaries and wages by 20%."

This made unemployment skyrocket and arguably caused the rise of Hitler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic#Br%C3%BCning's...

EDIT: I'm not sure why all the downvotes, maybe because it looks like I Godwin-ed the thread? I was just paraphrasing the rest of the wikipedia section:

"In 1933, the American economist Irving Fisher developed the theory of debt deflation. He explained that a deflation causes a decline of profits, asset prices and a still greater decline in the net worth of businesses. Even healthy companies, therefore, may appear over-indebted and facing bankruptcy.[57] The consensus today is that Brüning's policies exacerbated the German economic crisis and the population's growing frustration with democracy, contributing enormously to the increase in support for Hitler's National Socialist German Workers' Party"
> Over 60% of software projects go over budget, and often by a lot.

That's so few!

Most companies fold, most construction projects go over budget too. I don't see anyone saying we shouldn't try to get good at budgeting construction, or estimating & planning a project before starting.

We're not just managing the risk of failure, we're managing days & dollars! I don't understand why software engineering is the one form of engineering we don't think we need to be able to plan.
Centurylink did not have a franchise agreement with the city prior to them offering TV service over fiber FYI
> I tried hard to replace Google Search with DDG, but I have to admit that Google gives me better search results.

In those cases where DuckDuckGo is not enough, just append !sp to your search, this will tell DDG to redirect your search to StartPage which is essentially a proxied Google search (the results come from Google but you as a user don't get in direct contact with Google itself).
I mean, ideally Linux would remove the interface completely, as it's not even needed by the original application that proposed it and is a constant lurking potential security flaw. But moving to more realistic measures...

AFAIK, it is actually possible to prevent /proc/$pid/mem from being updated from an individual process, and Rust's runtime could in fact ensure this on startup, at least on Linux. I was also pretty sure (but would have to look this up--it's a really crappy interface) that in general other processes cannot invoke this interface under ordinary privileges, which I think is a fairly reasonable compromise in terms of safety.

Not really sure what the point of the rest of your post is. I'm quite confident I have never argued that libraries should not use unsafe, or that Rust should prevent all bugs. I do think that Rust's standard library should not expose tools that can lead directly to memory unsafety, in the same process, when only safe code is used, under some "reasonable" model of the environment in which it runs (which might include, for example, a working MMU, and process isolation boundaries). That seems like a pretty reasonable standard for a language calling itself safe, and even if we can't quite reach it, we should strive for it. I could even buy the argument that exposing an interface like /proc/$pid/mem/ is not "reasonable" and thus discount this unsafety (well, I could if it weren't the default on all Linux distributions I'm aware of).

To instead use cases like this as an argument for "pragmatically" giving up memory safety in situations where it isn't actually forced upon us by the underlying execution environment, isn't at all convincing to me.
We've grown accustomed to a great deal of control over our way of life and level of risk in the developed world. I don't think that's necessarily the right place to anchor expectations for exoplanetary colonization.

Consider early European settlements in what became the USA. Death, dearth, and disease were the facts of life. Easy to speculate since this is likely way past any of our lifetimes, but I anticipate it will be common for entire colonies to be wiped out by starvation or disaster. Space colonization will be much easier said than done.
So true.

But it's also so, so tempting.
Hardening Windows 10 with zero-day exploit mitigations (2017)
The Natural Beauty of Rwanda – National Geographic
The answer is not laws but public distributed systems. Things like IPFS and Ethereum for example.
> But do you not at least see the potential for a problem when gigantic semi-monopolistic tech companies control major parts of the societal methods for discourse and discovery, while collecting personal data from almost everyone...

Sure, that's called Facebook, and yet it's still around.
The spectrum of privacy laws (and the underlying laws that make a right to privacy possible) around the world are a lot more broad than “Europe vs not-Europe”. Discussion here often focuses on the differences between the US and EU, but in a broader context, the US legal system is a lot ideologically closer to Western Europe than most of the world.
Wow that's mind boggling. It's possible that's a whitelabeled app developed by a different company which has greater overall reach.

But yes, this is exactly why Apple's subjective enforcement of invisible policies is so enraging - it's like you need to negotiate some secret backdoor deal just to get your app into the store.
There appears to be a Wikipedia page dedicated to this topic:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Dropbox
the suggested swisscows.ch seems to have Russian connections
It’s interesting how those teams have finally been able to pull Firefox out of freefall, only to be sacked.
The longer it’s radioactive lifespan, the less dangerous it is.
Nope. I've worked on audio software for the last 20+ years, but Ardour and JACK and a few unpublished projects, not RealPlayer.
As an app developer myself, with apps on both the Google Play Store and the App Store with over 250K monthly active users, I have become so frustrated with Apple's arbitrary and capricious enforcement of its App Store regulations, its bullying and coercion of developers, its extortionate fees, and its monopolistic anti-competitive practices, that I have stopped updating my apps on the App Store. I wonder how many other developers are in a similar position. As a consumer, I now know that if I want the latest, up to date apps, I'm better off turning to the Play Store or one of the many other app stores that can be used on Android devices.

I've also given up on the MacBook line, tired of the touch bar, the slate-like keyboards, and (now) the transition to ARM. My next laptop will be a Thinkpad or Dell. Most of my development these days is done under Windows using WSL2, and my primary focus is on Android.

It used to be that my apps made more money on Apple devices, but now I actually make more on Android. The Google Play review process is a breeze compared to Apple's laborious and stifling rules (although it is not perfect either by any means), and at some point, it's just not worth the hassle.

It's sad, I was an enthusiastic endorser of Apple products just 7 years ago, but can no longer recommend them. This is the first year I won't be buying a new iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch, too - I'm looking to switch to the Pixel or Samsung Galaxy line and Wear OS.

I'd like to see regulation that forces Apple and Google to allow any and all app stores on their devices, and the process of installing apps through those stores must be, by law, equally easy and straightforward as through their own stores (i.e., no security warnings or other jank). The law should make illegal restricting developers to any specific payment processor(s), too.
Yea nuclear waste isn't actually a problem, I was surprised when I learned this since everyone seems to make a big deal about it.

It's solid waste (not radioactive sludge like in many movies/shows), and requires very simple storage containers, which you can just keep on site or bury, no problem.

> In fact, the U.S. has produced roughly 83,000 metrics tons of used fuel since the 1950s—and all of it could fit on a single football field at a depth of less than 10 yards. [1]

[1] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...
I remember years ago there were a lot of news articles about people spoofing numbers by using VoIP. Basically if you ran Asterisk or any other VoIP server, you could basically display whatever name and number you wanted.

Then some good techies pointed out that business phones have been doing this forever, which is why you can have multiple direct lines, but the person called only sees the switchboard number. That's the proper intention of the feature.

There are a lot of other ways to spoof numbers, too. If you're not technical, there are websites that give you a proxy number to call which does the spoofing for you.
Yeah, the two subreddits are full of solutions for this for the most stereotypical controller (the xbox one controller). That would be another showstopper in a good launch, sigh.
Hrrm, seems you can already do this via povray. http://www.povray.org/
They dropped some side teams, but the deal with Google that we thought wasn't happening actually happened a bit later. They're still good. They had future regardless, it's not the end of the world for them to run a bit more lean.
Problem is, anyone can have what Walmart sells.

Nobody really has what Tesla sells.
Google recommends two factor authentication to reduce this risk. https://www.google.com/landing/2step/

(Proper security is helpful with or without Google....)
That’s not how equity pricing works :)
Could you elaborate on what it could become part? And what was Jeff Bezos like as a thinker and programmer, is he really as brilliant as some people say he is ? What in your opinion was his greatest strength aside from timing and access to capital.
> really, no waste at all, magic you say?

The core problem with nuclear waste is that it's energetic. There are a number of designs that burn up waste; if we were building and testing them, poor reactor types could be abandoned and better ones could be improved. We're not doing that primarily because "nuclear" is a scary word owing to activist efforts decades ago.

> This is just more of "Future Tech will solve this" externalization of problems.

That is absolutely the right plan, though. Assuming our civilization doesn't collapse or stall, future generations will be enormously wealthier than we are, and any problem we have will be proportionately smaller for them. Of course, stall or collapse isn't impossible, but I do wish people wouldn't so heavily advocate for exactly that.
How Not to GraphQL
I must have missed that, and didn't see it on a second skim. Still, even if that's the case, I'm sure we'll fill it to a similar per capita density from a total living volume perspective.
I also wondered about the prompt design, so I tried feeding GPT-3 the entire text of the linked article up until "[This is one confusion after another." Then I asked it to complete the rest of the explanation about why GPT-3 was wrong. Its completions show that it's trying to fit the genre, but can't tell what was wrong in the original text (each para below is a completion):

First, a dinner party is not a dinner. Second, the door is not the same as a dining room table. Third, a top half of a door cannot be eaten. Fourth, the saw is not a living room. Fifth, removing the top half of a door would still leave the bottom half in place. Sixth, the saw is not a living room, and even if it were, a saw could not remove a living room. Seventh, you could not cut a door in half with a saw, because a saw is not a door. Eighth, you could not remove the top half of a door, because it is not a dinner. Ninth, removing the top half of a door would not leave the bottom half in place. Tenth, removing the bottom half of a door would not leave the top half in place. Eleventh, even if it were possible to remove the top half of a door, this would not be a dinner party. And twelfth, the door is not a living room.]

It assumes that the living room is a separate room from the dining room. It also doesn’t seem to understand that a door is a vertical object, not a horizontal one.]

The dining room table is narrower than the door, but wider than the doorway. Furthermore, cutting the door in half not only destroys the door, but also the wall, along with the doorframe. And table saws cut rectangular holes, not half-circles. The fact that you can “remove the door” suggests to GPT-3 that there is no door to remove. And finally, once the table is in the living room, you can’t open the door into the dining room anymore, which means the party is over.]

First, tables are never removed by cutting them in half, or by removing the tops; second, the top of a door is called a “lintel,” not a “half” (and would be removed with the rest of the door); third, the door’s top and bottom are of different sizes, so cutting it in half and removing the top half would seem to be impossible.]

First, the table is not wider than the doorway, so removing it would not be necessary. Second, cutting a door in half would create two doors, not one. Third, removing the top half of a door does not result in a table.]

GPT-3 also produced some novel passages and commentary on them:

Aesthetic reasoning

You are in the mood to listen to something soothing. You walk over to the radio and flip it on.

[GPT-3 seems to think you can flip a switch on a radio to make it play music.]

Moral reasoning

Your friend’s dog has just died. You head to the store to buy a casket for it.

[GPT-3 seems to think that buying caskets is a normal way to respond to the death of a dog.]
>Genuinely, why should I care? What harm is likely to happen to my life by sticking with Google, a service provider I find convenient?

Someone tries to access your account from a random place, or maybe an old camera video you uploaded to youtube gets flagged erroneously by some contentid or appropriate content automation, and an automated system locks your account permanently, with you forever losing access to your emails and files. And not being allowed to use google services ever again without breaking ToS.
> everyone has been single at some point

Yeah but has everyone been single _all of the time_? Your reasoning reminds me of the "suck it up, we all have been bummed out before" mentality toward depressed people.

> most peoples' experiences dictate that it's probably not as bad as being poor or disabled.

Empathy isn't soap, it won't be spent. You can feel empathy for the poor, the disabled, _and_ the chronically alone.
Agreed, the Economist's habit of laying out a few kindergarten-level facts and then extrapolating to what the world should do is pretty irritating. Enough that after one subscription I swore off reading them generally.
Yea nuclear waste isn't actually a problem, even barring newer reactor designs that re-use nuclear fuel. I was surprised when I learned this since it's always coached as the biggest issue with nuclear as a power source.

It's solid waste (not radioactive sludge like in many movies/shows), and requires very simple storage containers, which you can just keep on site or bury, no problem.

> In fact, the U.S. has produced roughly 83,000 metrics tons of used fuel since the 1950s—and all of it could fit on a single football field at a depth of less than 10 yards. [1]

[1] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...
> as we seem to have millennia with pretty static tech,

That's not even remotely true. Even between antiquity and middle ages there were constant technological improvements. Of course everything sped up once we had access to steam and later fossil fuels as machinery to replace manual work became a reality.
Right, that's what I was getting at - is it inappropriate to publish safe bindings for C libraries that you have not rigorously audited and fuzzed?

(I mean, it would be really cool if we rigorously audited and fuzzed all these C libraries, so I'm not completely opposed to this!)
I personally thought it was reasonably clear. Bletchley park estate split into two museums, one large one small. Tour guide from large museum takes visitors to small museum too as this is a major part of the story (i.e colossus, the bomb, witch) allowed for a number of years, now against policy (basically to pretend the small museum does not exist/is not worth visiting) and as such volunteer fired for his transgression.

Not in the video, but worth noting is that the small museum are a tenant of the large museum who get use of the estate basically free from Govt.
The words “functional” and “San Francisco cab system” were never used in the same sentence during the heyday. You basically had to call 3-4 different companies in the hopes of one showing up.
you forgot another real option, "ignore us", just like we ignore ants when we walk around.
Sorry, But I have seen the opposite effect of cheap internet there. People spend lot of time in spread hatred, fake news and animosity using internet service.

I have seen this first hand with so many of my educated friends and relatives who were reasonable folks before internet boom and now they come across caricature of dimwit person. With so much information available on internet they still chose to pick lowest quality sources.
Google has not directly intervened in elections as far as we know. Will they ever if we don't take away their power to? Only one way to find out!
They didn't end up shipping it.
If you're worried about the security of your account, we can help you
I dropped Google about a year ago, with two exceptions: (1) none of the YouTube replacements are even in the same ballpark (2) Google Translate still gives me the best results for the Thai language.

My big problem with Google is that they are evil and in denial - they want to slurp up all the data about everyone and monetize it, but they honestly don't get why that is bad.

My list:

-ProtonMail

-Firefox

-DuckDuckGo

-iCloud

-Visual Studio Code

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