skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Polarization directs Americans at other Americans, or rather at the Internet caricatures of other Americans, rather than at fundamental problems such as wealth inequality or foreign interference in democratic elections.

I notice that both these "fundamental" problems are talking points from my side of politics. Presumably the other side worries about other things. In that sense, this article is itself an example of polarisation.
‘Outage’ wasn’t a commonly known word?
Solar is still delivering 50% of peak as late as 5pm, and peak air conditioning is between 3-7pm. It's not a perfect fit, but mix in some time of use rates and (as previously mentioned) wind and it seems like you could do it. In buildings with decent insulation, cooling load is not hard to time shift.
You might be amused my this -- Limmy on feathers and steel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg

Not sure why I couldn't find it on his channel.
https://www.youtube.com/c/LimmyLimond/
Are they a company that maximizes their profit or are they moral? In this case, the profit motive points in the wrong direction, so they can't be both.
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So you predicted botnets in 1995 and ..... nothing much happened. botnets suck but there wasn't some world crashing event like the person above is predicting for computer controlled cars. All Windows computers didn't shut off on one day.
Technology has brought much meaning to the lives of many technicians.
That's why the most reliable way to instil this lesson is to instil it into our tools. Automate as much testing as possible, so that bypassing the tests becomes more work than running them.
A couple things here didn't make sense to me:

* $500K / develop from scratch is too expensive:

Nope! I actually hedged by ~10X :) In reality, I'd advocate building successively better verifiers as more & more money flows through, with the first solid prototype being $20K-$50K.

One good MS/PhD student in the verification community can build a decent toolkit over a summer (= $20-50K). The reason is that tools like those I mentioned earlier are intentionally language-agnostic and part of 15+ year movement of building out lightweight generic toolkits for this stuff.

Think of it like a CI system: you get most bang for the buck by building out basic unit tests early on, and as your system becomes worth more $, get into integration testing, and one day, chaos engineering. Same for different levels of verifiers.

* Some problems are inherent to all designs...yet you're better off hiring people? That doesn't make sense to me. What are the expensive per-contract outside people going to do if they can't fix the bug? That's worst of both worlds!

When a verifier flags the issue, if a team can't figure out a fix, at least now they can now mitigate the risk (e.g., shut it off, only put in so much money, get insurance, hedge/diversify, monitor for the exploit happening, ..).

My broader statement is verification tech is increasingly accessible and building out some of it for an org deploying contracts is similar to a utility co building out monitoring or a software shop building out CI. Not for the weekend coder, but should be basic engineering for a professional shop.
Apparently it does not:

~ % which fstat
fstat not found
> I'm sorry you wasted your time checking on something that I didn't state.

Just saying no Flash use our app store apps without contributing to open xp alternatives does not amount to killing Flash. Making the alternative better, accessible to all in an open way does.
Has there been any progress with coming up with a system that can _reliably_ jam them?
The miniature G4 Cube powered by Raspberry Pi 4
The vehicles are autonomous when asked, such as if you click "summon" in the app. If they gained access to Mothership after summon was introduced (they accessed it in 2017, but summon came out in 2019[0]), it could have meant accessing a car and summoning it to attacker.

0: https://youtu.be/nlCQG2rg4sw
The term 'fascism' here is completely inappropriate.

Every one of his claims cold have equally applied to the rise of Stalin, for example.

And these were not 'shadow forces' people were concerned about: during the rise of real fascism in Germany, the Communist Party of Germany had considerable power and influence, and they were 100% funded and directed by the man Stalin himself.

Imagine if Putin had control of a party in Germany that had 15% of the vote, and was vying a revolutionary message, and trying to overthrow local governments, murdering civil staff etc..

From the article: " What mattered was a story of us and them that could begin a politics of conflict and combat."

? This sounds like identity politics to me, which literally defines the 'sides' in terms of race, and legitimises a form of 'well meaning racism' in which people are first and foremost judged by he experiences they 'must have had' due to race.

The US has agitating agents literally taking over parts of cities - by force and violence ... but somehow 'fascism' is the problem?

The disinformation even in popular outlets such as CNN and MSNC is as brutal anywhere else, of course more so on Facebook.

What's happening is a more general problem, ironically, the attempt of 'one side' to blame it on 'some other' is deeply problematic, and indicative of the problem overall.

Shockingly - the vignettes on TikTok can be sometimes more informative - though biased and unprofessional, the sheer variety and opinions expressed, highlighting often overlooked detail, convey more broadly the nuance of any given situation.

Just watching 'reality TV' on TikTok is sometimes informative than listening to the 95% 'editorial' we see on the 'professional' news these days, particularly during an election period when it seems the bias of varying entities ramps way up.

I also see a considerable number of people posting 'coming together' vignettes on TikTok (ie people of different races getting along, police/civilians making things work) - it's deeply refreshing and heartwarming to see, and it's all completely 'counter narrative' to anything run in the popular press, who depend upon division for their clickbait.

There are problems with hyperbole and disinformation, sadly, the degree of editorialisation combined with the economic need for division and 'supporting my side' means the popular press is actually part of the problem, not just Facebook.

Have a little read about Germany during the Weimar republic, and you can see echoes of what is happening now:

Antifa's origins [1]

KPD / Communist party origins [2]

Nazi part origins (obviously much better known) [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(Germany)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party
292 comments and no one talks about the Democratic candidate that was most vocal about nuclear, specifically thorium?

"Yang is absolutely right to make these points, and he has gotten some well-deserved attention. But it’s surprising that he hasn’t gotten more, given how much we’re hearing about the crisis nature of climate change. Because if you take climate change seriously, you have to take nuclear power seriously"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/09/17/2020-democ...
Just buy all the shares in an existing dam.

^Takeover bid* I believe they call it.

Hostile takeover bid is even a thing, and legal.
MacOS has so many features I'll never use. It is starting to feel bloated. I wonder if modern OSs did less would be smaller and feel snappier?
I think it's reasonable to expect people to intuit that "A malicious hacker gained control over the entire Tesla fleet" would be a much bigger deal than a couple hundred points on HN. No cars currently being located in my living room is a pretty big giveaway, for one.
> Casually strolls up to a group and throws the designated victim to the ground and screams fag and runs away.

That's not the game were talking about.
Source for what?
Currently US dollars are entering the cartels pockets, big dollars and there’s no secret. And naturally they scaled up the operations because the demand is high. If drugs became legal demand would go down and it would cut into their operations “biggly”.
Shortcat (https://shortcatapp.com/) works on 10.10+
It will be harder to see larger trends and repot on them. Avoids bad publicity when something is up 100% or more over 10 years
For your goods, services...
The U.S. of A. is a debt hub. Banks are also debt hubs but on a smaller scale and dependent on their sovereign.
Yup, phrased like that it's about right and a legitimate gripe. The limits in C90 were even worse. There are still a few projects around that use the requirement to treat more characters as significant in internal names to work around that, like so:

#define copy_from_memory copy1
#define copy_from_file copy2

And then provide the declarations and definitions of copy_from_memory and copy_from_file as normal, knowing that they will be renamed to copy1 and copy2 by the preprocessor.
This is an oversimplification of what the drug cartels do. The Cartels are the only buyer and seller of significance in Mexico, two narco-technocrats couldn’t get enough cocaine to import to make a difference without their buy in
I wouldnt be surprised if drug cartels and weapon manufacturers lobby to keep the situation unchanged.
Same situation like with nuclear fusion, I guess.
Why is the assumption that it's a bug?

If your index is large, it spins up all cores, because it's parallelized in recent versions.

You know, doing what it's supposed to do.
Unless there is regulation in no automaker is going to do it themselves.
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I didn't know that. If you have more information I'd love to learn about it. I was under the impression that collapse wiped out all information about any other states.
I've used Dhall in production, pushed it fairly hard and can say with utmost certainty it's be an absolute pleasure. We use it as our application configuration format and derive fairly intricate Kubernetes resources from our app config.
It's not possible without rooting your car and losing the warranty. This is legal as long as you don't touch the odometer.
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It doesn't need to be trustless.

Is this a roundabout way of trying to associate cryptocurrencies with a prerequisite of trustlessness for everything that uses them?

This is just corporations using permissionless architecture, there have been companies doing this on blockchains for almost 10 years. I used to own shares of SatoshiDice for the daily dividends it paid onchain from 2012-2013.

The market enforces the behavior. A cartel that pays nice dividends will have a better share price and deeper secondary market, allowing them and their employees to always sell shares for more money. A corporation that doesnt perform well for shareholders doesnt have the same market.

I think I’m the one specifically drawing no distinction between criminal groups and liquidity, because they are unrelated concepts.
Why was the CTO move a mistake? The biggest mistake of your life, at that.
This is the most naive comment I have seen. You do not understand the cartels integration in all parts of life. They control the government. They control business.
Not on macOS
Is that really a proven fact? Ending Prohibition didn't end the Mafia.
https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/how-legali...

Cato report (2018) on the effects of marijuana legalization on border smuggling. It's had a large and direct impact on the market.
It’s not about climate change, it’s about controlling behavior via energy prices. The non-nuclear climate change advocates don’t care about “carbon,” they care about wealth redistribution. That’s why I oppose most “climate” policy. Because it isn’t about climate.

Carbon and wealth redistribution should be separate issues, but activists have made them the same and since I oppose wealth redistribution via government economic control, I can’t get on board with “climate.”

https://ips-dc.org/stop-climate-change-dont-just-cut-carbon-...
> The US has agitating agents literally taking over parts of cities - by force and violence ... but somehow 'fascism' is the problem?

In case you didn’t notice, the article is from 2018.
This is similar to AWS step functions which kinda descended from more general/powerful AWS Simple Workflow.
It's funny, we always talk about compensating leaders for the value they provide to the company. Yet when it comes to non-leaders, it's transforms into a question of "value relative to their current/recent income".
It's not myth that they are really trying and having some effect.

Soviet/Russian policy has been this way forever, they just haven't had the internet to be able to do it.

The US does something like this in places like Eastern Europe.

The support of Western Press outlets and agencies is very important in things like what is happening right now in Belarus, for example.

When margins are very, very narrow, a populist issue can really move the needle.

It's unlikely they have been directly succesfull, but they could be.

Given what's at stake, it's a very serious issue.
Thats why they would mine virgin cryptocurrency.

I think people are conflating which crypto is used for what here lol, but thats predictable. There would be two cryptocurrencies involved: the share, and the cash-surrogate as profits.

Forget about the problems, think solutions and it will be easier to iterate towards and perceive a system that works.
It just needs to be a subtle bug designed by someone much smarter than the comitter, that's plausibly deniable. They certainly don't need to understand how it works, or how it's going to be used months or years later. And I understand that this sort of thing happens with governments, and TLAs, and the people leave after a few years to start their own gig with VC funding and subsequent acquisitions and no-one's the wiser.
Do you know how much silly stuff Google makes in addition to self-driving cars?
What pisses me off is that there are tons of people turning on their bloody fireplaces once the temperature drops below 60F. Then they complain about crap like this
I think this is well known to tech literate people. Problem is that that's not most people. On HN we have sampling bias because we're more likely to be associated with people with similar interests, i.e. tech.
It definitely would not magically get rid of cartels overnight, but it'd cut off a huge source of money for them. If they start multiplying the number of violence-related revenue streams (kidnapping, protection rackets/extortion, murder-for-hire, arms snuggling), their image among people who were neutral towards them may decline, and maybe they'll start to be seen as much closer to nothing but pure terrorist/paramilitary organizations.

I don't know if that would start the process of gradual downsizing and elimination by security forces or if it'd instead first lead to a huge uptick in violence and perhaps civil war, but I feel like in the long-term it'd be much harder for most of them to hold onto as much money and power as they used to.

I'm absolutely not an expert in this area and could be horribly wrong, but I think this idea should at least be considered more seriously.
I guess the way they want you to do it in S3 is using a per tenant key prefix with security policy set? AWS roles and security policies are quite flexible so I guess in theory you would get the desired isolation that way. Separate buckets are still easier, though...
Or they get into the "protection" and kidnapping racket even more than they are currently. Sure their size would probably decrease but the amount of violence would skyrocket. At least for several years. The basically control whole swathes of that. They wouldn't give that up without a fight.
A great advantage of having standards like Amp is that we can then control and limit how things behave. See criterias for autoplay video on Amp:

- the video is automatically muted before autoplay starts

- when the video is scrolled out of view, the video is paused

- when the video is scrolled into view, the video resumes playback

- when the user taps the video, the video is unmuted

- if the user has interacted with the video (e.g., mutes/unmutes, pauses/resumes, etc.), and the video is scrolled in or out of view, the state of the video remains as how the user left it. For example, if the user pauses the video, then scrolls the video out of view and returns to the video, the video is still paused.

Source: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/spec/amp-v...
Thanks for the clarification! I definitely consider you and the Internet Archive part of the "good guys", and well deserving of my trust.
Thank you! That’s good advice
Have you moved on from Cadence to this? What differences are there? Looks interesting.
+1. On Linux, with /proc, it's just much easier.
There no reason it can't use Google maps to travel and be autonomous with facial recognition.

Star-Tracker Algorithm for Smartphones and Commercial Micro-Drones -https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7070887/

The short distance drones can travel is a big problem, you can backtrack to the launch location.

Committing murder for money is mostly unheard of outside of Hollywood.

It happens but it's generally somewhat crazy people or people copying Hollywood. This is more the real reason it wont happen. Society doesn't like murder and will pull out all stops to discontinue it.
Yeah, but he said that as a sales pitch. Remember he was not an engineer.
I think it’s a bug because a) 100%+ cpu usage is ridiculous even for normal spotlight searches past the initial spotlight indexing operation and b) this definitely worked without an issue or insane cpu usage before Catalina (checked on old MBP on Sierra).

The option to use spotlight as a calculator is part of its feature set. And the fact that it still does recognize (after a lot of cpu usage) that I wanted to make a calculation does indicate that the calculator functionality is still there. It just seems to be triggering some huge operation that requires even more cpu usage than a normal spotlight search.
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”.

Not just startups, any corporation too, or retail, hospital, etc. People have another thing coming if they think this is not standard life at most workplaces.

There will always be a tit for tat between labor and employers. It’s a perpetual conflicted relationship that needs constant maintenance and compromise to achieve sane productivity.
Keep in mind the following scenario: if all books were packed to ensure no possible damage, then you would see another set of posts lamenting how wasteful amazon is with packaging.

As a counter anecdote, in my case, all books get delivered in good enough condition where I don't feel the need to remark on it.

At amazon's scale, damned if you do/damned if you don't becomes a certainty.
What????? What he is describing already exists and is extensively used. CRAM - it shoots down rockets and artillery. Go watch a video of it
Luxury! When I was a boy we had to crawl for two hours each way through burning hot gravel to get to school, and if you were late they'd whip you with an old electrical cord.
If they hadn't made it so expensive artificially then the illegal guys couldn't make enough profit to make it worth their time to sell illegally. The California canibus market is a terrible example of what a market should be.
Did I miss the mention of Skripal in that link?

https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/04/the-skripal-case-two-yea...

http://johnhelmer.net/austria-confirms-opcw-report-on-skripa...

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/07/15/mainstream...

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/09/the-impossib...
I agree but everyone has moments of emotional weakness where things come out without thinking. It becomes more about breaking a habit so it doesn't happen unconsciously. Or apologising if it does happen.

It can take a moment to realise, my original post said "bad/lame" because the use of "lame" was another popular one that took over as supposedly less offensive than "gay", but it too has the capacity to offend those that it would apply to so I thought it best to edit that out.
The car can know how to drive (be autonomous) and still receive instructions from a remote source.

The car is autonomous but can't read your mind, you have to provide locations to drive to. These can come from a remote server.
As humanity gets access to higher and higher technology, more and more smaller scale, non-governmental actors will get access to weapons that can cause asymmetrical damage. We will definitely get to a point where a single determined person can destroy an entire city.

I strongly believe this is basically the great filter faced by all intelligent species in the universe.

Only way to overcome this great filter is by adopting policies that provide equal opportunities to each member of the species and create a non-divisive/united society where everyone practically helps each other. Aim would be to colonise other planets as soon as possible to decrease risks of civilisation destruction by technological offshoots.

I strongly believe that most of the alien species that achieve interstellar flight and escape the great filter must be benign, united, and highly intelligent for these reasons.

I also believe humanity’s chances of escaping the great filter is ~0%.
I think a lot of it has shifted over into meth as well, with the availability of cheap precursors from China, and loose security on ports.

Can't stop it at the source anymore.
Maybe a better analogy is: You have a problem with your living room light dimmer not working. The solution is to move all of your furniture out of your house, or being generous, just the living room, and then moving it back. Would you consider that reasonable?

Assuming you have a backup, then lets say some movers come out (for free) and do the moving. That's not inconvenient, right? After all, you don't have to do any of the moving. Just wait an hour or so and the movers will move everything back and quietly disappear.
The variation of the double split experiment that supposedly proves that observance "changes" the outcome, is only a thought experiment, and therefore can be flawed due to incorrect thinking. Obviously, the basic double slit experiment which shows the wave/particle duality of light is done in practice and therefore empirical.
Progress marches on. Autonomous visual navigation have been available for some time. Face recognition can be done with smartphone hardware. Inertial guidance for drones is available but still a bit pricey.[1]

This is going to be a major problem for the golf industry. It's the ideal target environment - high-value targets, no place to take cover.

[1] https://www.uavnavigation.com/products/ahrs-imu/polar-300
Then you just get stealth drones (fixed wing). Bondo, styrofoam, electric ducted fans, frequency hopping radio links, all easily doable. Only hard part really is range. For that, I could see hybrid electrics that power down the gas/nitro engine for stealth.
Those are the 2 assertions made about and by the Evangelicals, for why they support Trump. If you read the article you'd find them both in it, prominently.
It's not a supercomputer.

The reason supercomputers are so tiny compared to cloud data-centers is that cloud computing is highly and mostly-triviallly parallel, but supercomputers are mesh and serial.
The trouble is that a name collision isn't bad data. It's good data, and it sucks to have that name.

If a bad person can simply clear his name by sending a same-name person to complain, we have a security bypass.
Ask HN: Older friends being targeted by Google ads for funerals and cemeteries?
Older friends of mine say they are constantly being targeted by Google ads for funerals and cemeteries.

Needless to say, they don't like it.

They say they've tried to make it stop (I do not know how), but the ads keep coming back.

Is there anything they can do to stop it totally?