skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Surely you are aware there is zero standard for the functionality you're referring to.

Aside from being patently false—shared memory is standardized by IEEE 1003.1 POSIX[1][2][3] and supported on all modern unices—that's a pretty disingenuous and bad-faith assertion. But anyway:

1. 'shmem' refers generally to the ability of memory pages to mapped into multiple processes' address spaces. The existence (or lack thereof) of any particular implementation does not invalidate the broad point, which refers to a capability which tends to be implemented in some way on arbitrary platforms. Of course, if you want to develop a particular application which uses shared memory, you will want to make decisions about which platforms you want to support and how you want to support them. Of course, this may involve using platform abstraction layer (like openmpi), or building your own, or intentionally tying yourself to a platform or group of platforms. None of that has any bearing on my point, but it does lead to:

2. The functionality referred to in the linked video—that of composing multiple disparate applications with pipes—is one that is uniquely associated with unix. Thus, it is reasonable to assume that any critique of said functionality operates within the framework of unix. And all unices newer than 30 years implement sysv shmem[4].

1. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sy...

2. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sy...

3. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/help/codes....

4. https://tldp.org/LDP/lpg/node21.html
The ignition point of diamond is in the range of 700-800 °C in a pure oxygen atmosphere.
The work exactly the same. They don't even need any modification, as far as I understand.

That's what I'm trying to point out by saying that WebBundles adhere to the current request/response model - they just preload a bunch of responses so you don't need the network round-trip. See the section I already linked: https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-wpack-bundle...

An extension that can modify requests and responses still can with bundles. In fact, it should be easier to identify and block individually address resources out of a WebBundle vs the transpiled bundle out of WebPack, et al.
Why a 3D Model of Your Next Building Project Could Change Everything?
Honestly nobody’s going to remember this prediction either way.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24276488
They didn't poll funding.
Hi everyone! I built Lulim Jewelry after spending some time figuring out how to design and 3D print my own wedding band.

My day job was in the 3D printing industry and I knew how far the technology had come so I busted out the CAD tools and designed a ring with my wife's fingerprint on it. I thought the processes could be much easier and thus Lulim was born.

The website is built with Vue.js, Canvas.js, and Three.js. Unfortunately those last two can be somewhat resource intensive so I'd love to get feedback from others regarding performance on different devices, OSes, and browsers. I decided to do as much work in the client side as possible so that this website is cheap to keep running. I wanted my costs to scale with sales and to minimize any recurring monthly fees. This is my first real Vue app so I am sure there are things that could be better!

Feedback on the company idea, site layout, tech stack or anything else is appreciated!

If anyone is interested in buying a ring shoot me an email (jack @ <companydomain.com>) and I can give you a decent discount.
> Cops carry guns, it's for a reason.

I carry a gun every day too, and there is precisely zero mortal danger to anyone who peacefully interacts with me. It is an entirely reasonable expectation to demand that from government staff.

The police do not have any special legal privileges when it comes to shooting people over any private citizen. To grant them such, de facto, as we have done, is to abandon the rule of law (or the equal application thereof) in society.

I think a higher standard is reasonable and possible. Indeed, almost everyone in society is subject to it. Police, if they are to exist, should be as well.
Is there a source for this? If I search up "NYPD unarmed officer", I get a bunch of results regarding police violence on unarmed civilians, and if I search up "new york unarmed officer", I get a bunch of results relating to security guards.
I wonder what surprises this will lead to in the upcoming election, where the Democrats have firmly placed themselves on the side of those wanting to defund the police.
Some cats recognize that the benefit is mutual. I have 4 cats, and 1 of the 4 will lay with me in a way that we provide a warm surface for each other.
This is hilariously dishonest. How can you expect to be taken seriously?
Why should the police be respected?
Today I watched a police officer in kenosha wisconsin get knocked unconscious with a brick. The fellow police officers picked him up and dragged him away - while the crowd changed "Fuck the police" and recorded it.

In the same vein, I saw store owners starting to shoot at protestors.

I suspect, generally, all parties would rather have police keeping the peace. No one wants a gun battle in the streets as people try to protect their property from looters.

I'm not 100% sure what I'd do in this case, but these are not friendly protests. I'm finding the police remarkably restrained. Even in some of these videos we are seeing, people are taking police officers weapons and / or assaulting a police officer before they open fire.

If you're attacking someone who's armed (police officer or not) you should be prepared to suffer the consequences. (I'm not saying all cases are like this, just mentioning that there's a clear tilt to the coverage here).
A single Norwegian or Canadian has a lot more influence on their federal government than a single Californian on their state government.

And ease of influence is not actually the metric you want to optimize for in this sort of thing.
Well yeah I agree it’s aspirational but just because they want to do security work for Apple doesn’t mean their current customer base isn’t governments.

Their largest project is Palantir Gotham which is exclusively for government agencies (federal, state, ICE, and by Project Maven after the tech companies abandoned it due to ethics concerns!)

You’re talking primarily about Palantir Metropolis which is used by hedge funds. Not exactly some beneficial use of technology to counterweight working with ICE to separate children from their families.

They don’t list their top customers because they are top secret government agencies but if you look at their customers then it’s clear that the ones paying them the most are secretive government agencies and it’s been that way since day 1
Get in game currency, trade or send to accounts you control, cash out
Again, I did not state "WebBundles = a blackbox". That is your misinterpretation of my comment which I took the time to clarify:

"I am hardly claiming any one initiative takes us straight there [to a black box of the web]".

I was extremely clear on that, and further explained that we must consider Google's pattern of behaviour and commercial interests here – not one specific action.

Ignoring my good-faith clarification you seemingly continue to suffer this misconception – that I asserted something I didn't ("back up your description of WebBundles as a black box"). You may be more interested in engaging with and refuting arguments based on a convenient misconception, but I really am not.

For anyone seriously interested in this topic from the perspective of the open web and content blocking, the blog author summarised his concerns in a Github ticket [1].

(The responses throughout the Github issue reflect a similar strategy of a 'fingers-in-the-ears, everything is fine, what are you talking about' approach)

[1] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/551#issuecomment-6...
Why is there such a big opinion gap between men and women? It seems robust across education, party and race.
That’s not a useful or relevant statistic and you know it.
I know this is a typo, but it reverses the meaning so clarifying for future readers in case it's confusing:

They are _now_ the centre for disease control and prevention
>I carry a gun every day too, and there is precisely zero mortal danger to anyone who peacefully interacts with me.

Well. Yeah. That's the critical part isn't it...

So can cops shoot people only when you think it's ok?
Perhaps https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Arrington
I think if we get to AGI full-length movie directors, they won't care if you like it or not. Humans will no longer be the target audience.
I'm trying to search for professional riot organizers but all I can find is articles debunking the idea that this position exists [1] [2] [3]. Would you mind citing where you heard this?

[1] https://www.vox.com/2020/6/3/21275720/george-floyd-protests-...

[2] https://www.snopes.com/ap/2020/06/03/false-claims-of-antifa-...

[3] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/paid-pro...
No, you're right: Checkm8 only lets you boot into a custom OS, but to decrypt any data from the installed iOS, you'd need to hack the secure enclave, which it doesn't touch.

(Technically you could boot a fake OS with a passcode skimmer, but developing this into an actual exploit isn't any easier than simply observing the user entering their passcode.)
Never hear “next slide please” again
Really? Which of the recent high profile incidents didn't involve someone physically resisting the police and/or acting aggressively to others while repeatedly ignoring the police yelling at them to back off?

For each case you can find (if you can find any at all), there are millions - yes, literally millions - of police interactions that don't end that way.

If you interact with the police peacefully, the odds of you experiencing any violence are virtually zero.
>the ones spray painting “Fuck 12” or “ACAB” across their local courthouse certainly do

Yes, graffiti is the most important issue in play here. Won't someone think of the cleaners!

> The literal attacks on police (and police infrastructure)

...such as?

> appear to be an intentional destabilization effort in order to neuter policing capacity within a community, resulting in increased violent crime (i.e. the “Fergusson effect”).

[citation needed]

>the “Defund the police” movement has been hijacked by radical anarchists who professionally organize riots

[citation needed]. This sounds like a right-wing conspiracy theory akin to crisis actors and George Soros-funded protestors.

>perception of BLM which initially spiked positively after Floyd has been decreasing and overall become much more polarized.

And as we all know, people are rational when it comes to political topics, and polarization can only happen when the subject of said polarization changes or does something wrong. Just ask climate scientists!
There would be huge room for impersonation fraud even with a government run PKI. Hackers would steal private keys from individuals and businesses using the same malware and phishing attacks that they use today for stealing credit card numbers.
I wish that was true, but Biden has explicitly said that he wants to increase police funding: https://www.vox.com/2020/8/25/21400782/rnc-republicans-democ...
Protests are a temporary thing. Our area has none.
You mean other programs that you wildly speculate will reduce crime, but like all attempts at social engineering, probably won’t turn out how you expect at all. Maybe get something in place that is already working before you try your lethal experiments on humans?
We have litter boxes that operate 24/7. The problem is when the cats run out of food at 5:30.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Breonna_Taylor
Slogans are no place for subtleties and pragmatism. Slogans build a crowd, but they dumb-down the conversation.
Let's flip the framing: if the republicans said they have a plan to "defund social security and medicare", what do you think they are trying to do? Would your immediate reaction be positive or negative? Would "shifting budget to other programs" come to your mind?
When I read "defund the police" I assume that they mean what they are saying. What do you think is meant by the phrase "defund planned Parenthood"?
The government never promised to keep SSNs secret.
That system is already in place in several european countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_cards_in_the...
Ah yes, pesky humans. If only nature didn't have those killer humans it would be all peace and harmony.
Alex Irpan's post inspired the AGI timelines discussion at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hQysqfSEzciRazx8k which shows 12 people's timelines as probability distributions over future years and their reasoning behind the distributions.

(I work on Elicit, the tool used in the thread.)
You don't need to own the public cloud infrastructure to build a better product.

Example: you can play inside ball on storage infrastructure costs to get a 2x cost benefit at the expense of a lot of extra engineering. Better DBMS storage organization, which is available to any implementation, gets you 10x (or greater) improvement. Which would you rather have?

In fact, products like Redshift don't even really game the infrastructure prices. Costs to customers are comparable with Snowflake for equivalent resources as far as I can tell. They both charge what the market will bear.
This seems like an advanced form of what service workers do, or am I misunderstanding?

Provided that adblock/content block functionality wouldn't be impacted, I can provisionally get behind this. It would certainly make my life as web developer easier.
Their user share is almost irrelevant now. They have no significant user base anymore but they will continue to exist for a long time because they are funded by google purely to make them not a monopoly.
I think there are many that share your view. I like settling in for a nice long ride with nothing else to do but read, think and look at the world passing by out the window. I can recall so many wonderful train journeys but very few if any memorable plane rides.
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I did a similar journey in 2009, and bought my ticket from Helmut Uttenthaler - the guy who wrote that blog!

My trip into North Korea got postponed until 2010, but the rest of the Trans-Siberian (including checking out a purported North Korean labour camp in Chegdomyn) continued as planned.

The route was basically:
Geneva-Beijing-Xian-Beijing-Dandong-Beijing-What do I do with my double-entry Chinese visa and a week-Hong Kong-fly to Taipei-fly to Beijing-Harbin-Vladivostok-Khabarovsk-Chegdomyn-Khabarovsk-Irkutsk (first CouchSurfing experience!)-Moscow-Ukraine-Slovakia-Austria-Switzerland-fly to UK for university.

I liked Taiwan so much I went back the next summer for 2 months at an iPhone app startup, and enjoyed that so much I went back again from 2014-2018 and made many good memories (microSD, USB, DRAM factory).

About the long train journey though: the scenery is beautiful, and being offline for a while is very refreshing "Sorry I didn't answer your email, I was in Siberia". Worth doing every decade or so; it's about time I have another holiday like that. Maybe further south along the ancient Silk Road route.
The Costs of Ethical Review
Didn’t you guys just lose the first black female police chief because of that screaming mob too? The irony...
Can someone here please explain the motivation behind all these SPAC transactions? Is it just to avoid the red tape and S-1 of IPO filing?
Maybe the theives are on the lookout for anyone entering their passcode into the phone in public. If they manage to see the passcode or swipe pattern, then they'll steal the phone.

I've never seen anyone take steps to prevent others from seeing their passcode or swipe pattern in public.
Thanks for an incredible story. Sadly if you'd been an American wandering around Pyongyang without a guide for a couple of days you'd probably still be in one Marshall Kim's prisons.
Gasoline.
Thanks for confirming my intuition. I haven't paid attention to bind performance for well over a decade. So now I am even more flabbergasted that Verisign are even talking about the load.
> my jaw was literally agape from some comments

I am curious, would you mind sharing some of them?
Matt Levine has been talking about SPACs a lot this year. Here's one of his articles that gives a good overview of how they work (esp. vs an IPO): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2020-07-27/money-...
The job ad is around 200 words. If someone is serious about a job that they will be working on for 5 days a week, do you think it's too much to ask if I expect them to read through these words?
I've also travelled in China and Russia in the past. I understand your concern regarding China and I have similar feelings. But I'm curious why you feel this way about Russia; have westerners been disappeared in Russia recently?
Registration, login, or password reset flows commonly leak directly or indirectly (eg via a timing channel) whether a user exists or not.
The point with the population is that we will have 7-9 billion people, with more people doing research, engineering, etc. how many scientists were there in 1900?

We will figure out how the brain works, make better transistors, develop better algorithms, etc

An AI “space race” between the US and China, for instance, will push the field forward over the next decade.
Most Wikipedians are not strongly incluionists nor strongly deletionists. It's a spectrum, rather wide one. My point is that this spectrum can only exist with a pool of editors and labelling the lack thereof as "(strong) inclusionism" is a misunderstanding of that spectrum.
No rights are absolute, and most uss of land carry some externality. I'm not willing to entertain that no consideration be given these.

That's also spectacularly missing the main point that price-inelastic goods and services (those affording economic rents) increase in price where supply can be constrained by some means, setting up an intrinsic and wholly market-consistent dynamic of increasing prices and decreasing supply relative to demand.

The same dynamic is present for most of the price-inflated goods on Collison's list, and goes a long way to explaining the behaviour he ponders.
> despite vast efforts put in.

I disagree with that part. Things slowed dramatically because we stopped putting extreme amounts of effort in, largely because there wasn't enough market demand for aviation or space flight beyond 1970s technology... for a while.
The point of disbanding the Minneapolis Police Department (your 3rd link) is to work around police protections like minimum force size and union protections that are codified in the city's charter. The plan is to remove and replace, not just remove [0].

As for the other two - two is not a "non trivial number" regardless of who gives them a platform. This YouGov poll [1] shows 11% support (and ~20% support among blacks and hispanics) for abolishing the police as of June, which is a non trivial number. But framing it as a yes/no question loses a lot of granularity - I bet most of those people would advocate replacing the current police force with something that materially resembles a (more community-based, less militarized) police force.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racia...

[1] https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/vgqowgynze/econTabReport.pdf
I had the chance to meet Tony in 2009, ~early July. Looking at Wikipedia now, I guess it was a month before they sold to Amazon. I was part of the first "Zappos Insights" class. I was able to find my application, and posted it on Twitter, sorry anyone who sees it who was involved: https://twitter.com/CameronBanga/status/1298465073430700033

No idea what people think of Zappos, their culture, and Tony in 2020. I was able to interact with him I guess via email and in person from ~2008-2010?

Every interaction I had with Tony, and every story I heard, he was just Tony. Personally happy for him, as 21 years at the head of any clothing/fashion/design company has to be tough.
(40 years ago they also used to burn houses down)
Most major US cities are underspending, not overspending. Do you know what % is spent on military surplus?

(Hint: barely anything)
Just out of curiosity, superior performance on which workloads? Thanks!
I was shocked to see them take that position in any seriousness. I think as more places burn they are starting to see it’s a losing narrative. It you are right, it’s the side they took.

Bad word choice from the get go though. Should have been reform the police, they went to hard and landed on defund.
I remember the rioters burning down the police precinct building just a couple miles away from here in Minneapolis. So I think it’s fair to say there have been attacks on police.
I was receptive to your argument up until you mentioned the "Ferguson effect".

The people of Ferguson Missouri were exploited by their policemen years before Garner was killed [1]. The Department of Justice found that the city itself had targeted African Americans, fining them at every turn, and imprisoning them when they couldn't pay. I find it hard to believe that these victims wanted to give their “protectors” even more money.

Frankly, pretending the anger isn't real, that it's just a few professional rabble-rousers riling up the woefully ignorant-- is akin to the rhetoric China has weaponized in Hong Kong.

It's not honest at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson_effect

[2] https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/doj-fin...
The U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010)
> Essentially Amazon is draining away all the deliveries which made UPS/ USPS/ FedEx profitable.

Without Amazon, there is no business for UPS/USPS/FedEx to deliver Amazon packages... Heck, the deliveries that Amazon choses not to do themselvs, is extra business for UPS, USPS and FedEx. Also, there is a great deal of shipping that has nothing to do with Amazon.
For those who enjoy traveling by rail. "The Man in Seat 61" is a great resource:

https://www.seat61.com/
More importantly, the iPhone 12 Pro will launch with one in the next month or two
Comparing historical projections for a variety of topics seems like a decent point of reference. Population growth and flight seem vastly more tractable problems, in hindsight if not at the time then AGI does, yet estimates were way off by many.
As of today somewhat reliable leakers are indicating iPhone 12 will include Lidar and:

>The settings have a toggle to enable "LiDAR" for "assisted auto focus and subject detection for Video and Night Mode."

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/25/iphone-12-pro-max-setti...
Just because there's no public facing service sitting on a domain doesn't mean that domain isn't in use.

I have a domain whose only public facing service is just some picture I took. Am I using that domain? Yes, sure. It hosts all kinds of intranet services -- a few are whitelisted to other external IPs. Could I set up my own DNS on my network for those services and not own a public domain for them? Sure. But then I need to make sure anyone joining the network is first configured to use that DNS, instead of just joining the VPN and now the services all publicly available to you.

As far as Joe-public is concerned, I'm just squatting on that domain and not using it.
The most effective way is for them not to consciously realise there's any alternative. Making the right thing the default or far easier option next. Reward/punishment are quite low on the motivation/incentive scale.