skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But by the definition of conspiracy, I don’t get why so many commenters are trying to argue that what assange did does not fit that description.

Classifying this as "conspiracy" violates the first amendment. What he did should be expected behavior of the press, I won't just abandon this encroachment and move on.
Do Not Engage the Mind in the Intense Pursuit of Too Many Things at Once
One thing I'd really love to have on BEAM was a strong type system. Does this help achieve that? Is there a way to interop with Erlang/Elixir libraries?
That is a simplified argument. Facebook is not a phone company. A phone company has an amplification effect on communication, but Facebook, with a billion customers reachable through their choice of algorithms is in a totally different class. A phone company doesn’t push content on the user. Facebook does.
> It's like that. I don't know what sort of laws you guys have there but just the paperwork is going to kill me, probably. And then any time you want to do anything, the paperwork will kill you, the regulators will be on your case, and all that. And that's the way Europeans like it. It's culturally normal there to be like "Oh, well why do you think you should be allowed to do that".

Come on, really? It's hardly that much paperwork. Sure, it sucks, but compared to building a business, filling out paperwork doesn't come close to being the hardest thing.

Sounds like what you describe here is that it's more paperwork in the US than in the European countries I'm familiar with, so kind of goes against what you're arguing here.

> And that's the way Europeans like it. It's culturally normal there to be like "Oh, well why do you think you should be allowed to do that".

I'm not sure where you are from, but I hardly get the feeling you're "European". Throwing blanket statements like "that's the way Europeans like it" is impossible, it's a huge and diverse area, so you can't generalize like that. Plenty of people here wants things to improve/change and depending on the location, you're right or wrong. Rules in Sweden are seen as "must follow" while rules in Spain is mostly seen as "advised to follow but if you must, do what you want, as long as you don't harm others".
The historian Yuval Noah Harari says that we are transitioning from an era dominated by human emotion, into an era dominated by data-driven manipulation of those emotions.

By gathering data from each individual, it is possible to build a profile that can be used to predict how that person would react to different stimuli. And at scale, it can be used to trigger people's emotions like playing a piano, manipulating them at will.

Today we can already see that by emphasizing divisive topics like: "abortion", "gun control", "immigration"... it is possible to make people upset towards each other with a high success rate. What if the reason these topics are emphasized is not morality but really about how people will emotionally react to them?
Libraries are writing a new chapter during the pandemic
I was hoping this article was going in the direction of "Making it clearer what startups are providing for free and what they're providing for a cost" but unfortunately it's just about the wording of your sign up button.

I was trying to download Postman to test something out earlier this week, and not only is there no button on the webpage to go to downloads, but even when you download the app it still prompts you to sign up/log in with a tiny greyed out link at the bottom saying "Skip signing in".

If you want to really drive sales, stop with this user-hostile adversarial bullshit and start putting my needs first. For me, this article is still putting the companies needs first.
It's absolutely true, but put this way, it lends an argument towards force-subjugating the entire planet under one government just to end the bickering about fairness. Global warming isn't fair.

What I'd honestly want to see happening instead is developed nations doubling down on greentech, and donating all of that (+ expertise and IP) to developing nations, so that the latter can leapfrog the CO₂-intensive energy generation methods. After all, the developing nations aren't into greenhouse emissions for the sake of greenhouse emissions - they just want to have the same level of prosperity for their people as the West enjoys. So I say we should just give them the means to achieve that without burning fossil fuels, for free - and screw intellectual property and some perceived "fairness". This is a global problem, we're all in this together.
> Nobody 100 years ago had the slightest clue that the industrialization at the time could cause global warming, for example.

This is incorrect. The first measurements and effects were calculated at the end of the 19th Century (quoted as 1896).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_scie...
I wonder how ordinary people felt in 1848, or 1871, or 1789 or ....
As far as I can tell, consciousness is just empathy for the self. I am conscious of myself in the same way I'm conscious of others (he's happy, he's angry, he's reliable etc). Of course being conscious of (and empathetic towards) others is a vital part of being a complex social animal like humans. So consciousness as we experience it is just a side effect of empathy which is selected for by evolution because it allows the sort of complex and limited cooperation humans use to survive.

I have never seen anyone else say any of this. So maybe I'm missing some deeper revelation...
One note of caution. There's a pleasure to solving problems that arise from type systems akin to solving Sodoku puzzles. It's intellectually satisfying and feels like productive work.

I sometime worry that a lot of the overhead and baggage that type systems sneak into coding are hidden because it's fun to resolve them.

I'm still on the fence about types. I love them when they help me but I find myself generally writing more boilerplate and less elegant code than I can sometimes write in Python.

My typed language is C# so I do have type inference (although not the most advanced). I don't have Union types. My IDE does warn me about potential nulls.

So I've got 50-75% of the things listed in this article. And I'm still not 100% sure there's not a hidden cost that's quite hard to define.
Yes. Try prototyping for a quick POC/casual demo with javascript, then try with typescript. If you get back to your demo two month later (or have one other person to explain your code to), typescript is Infinitely superior.

For quick hacks types are not useful though.
The millenary histories of the Egyptian and Chinese empires disagree. Yes, dynasties came and went, but those polities endured for thousands of years—indeed one could argue that the ongoing governance of China by the Communist Party is just the latest dynastic swing.
Where was the chip, these last 30 years?
> Backend developers should make a conscious decision on how to ship log events out of the box

Great! hand waving. What are you going to do is this log streaming process stops working, and cannot restart? Kill the machine and lose the logs? That might be ok for your webapp, it could be trouble for more serious applications.

> You’d be surprised at how much less stress there is when you can have alerts on log events from your application when things break instead of a support call or a support ticket.

Giving SSH access doesn't mean you don't have event logs.

> stopped teaching people to treat their app and server as a second home, as a pet, that must be nurtured

In our case, nobody is treating anything as a pet. Our servers are mostly spot/preemptibles, but we still have SSH access. Because it makes it really easy to debug if things do go badly wrong. From being able to see htop output, to being able to upload custom binaries to investigate an issue, or to smoke test a code change... it's a huge time saver.

Give me SSH or give me death.
If the stakes keep on rising, how high would they be 50 years from now? And in 200? 2000?

How high were the stakes 300 years ago? Should we think people living in 1720 didn't have it that bad compared to now? Will people in the future look at now and think the same?
>Maybe PowerShell would be the default command-line interface.

You have no idea how much stuff expects the shell to behave like bourne shell.
Yes, but we're stretching our global economies thin in the process. At this point in our civilizational development, it's the systems that are important. If this or a future pandemic pushes most economies past breaking point, the death toll will very quickly skyrocket from a mere million to a bit larger billions dying in wars and starvation.
Which one do you use? Because I've been fighting dry, clogged sinuses for five years now.
Landmark. It was a slum. Seven dials is a landmark. Holburn arch is a landmark. The rookery was like the tenderloin, which a cop told me to 180 out of after 5pm.
Material Scientists Learn How to Make Liquid Crystal Shape-Shift
> There is also the issue of what happens when you run into a pedestrian.

I guess that's not relevant to parent's analysis from the perspective of maximizing his/her utility.
There would have just been another spark for WW1.
I'll have to read up on Egypt and pre-XX-century China. How oppressive were these dynasties typically? What did the life look like for a regular subject?
What one do you take? I currently take allergy tablets every day and would love something to just help it
About wolf og wall street: if you look at some john belfort material online in reality (or what he chose to put online) he does what you suggest. (Of course not in phone cold call selling)
> The base ISA is very plain and RISCy. But I'd encourage you to go read the Bitmanip extension and find an opcode in there that doesn't have at least one obscure alternate use! =)

Ah, the Hacker's Delight opcodes! :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%27s_Delight

https://www.eetimes.com/book-review-hackers-delight-by-henry...
genius^
Surely it would be better to concentrate on the existing sources of bias, e.g. the judges? This would presumably carry over to their other duties.

Perhaps this model could be used to generate a set of rules that were clear and less open to interpretation by judges, and in that way it could be valuable.
European Citizens' Initiative: Start Unconditional Basic Incomes (UBI)
This only applies to addressing modes with side effects, which e.g. x86 doesn't have.
What the next generation of the Internet means to the people building it
A new effort just popped up to have another crack at adding strong types https://elixirforum.com/t/typechecker-for-elixir/34474/7
‘For most people’

How do you know?
I've uprooted once and found it very difficult. When you move to a new city, you basically have to build a new circle of friends from scratch. Making close friends takes time, years, and you face a bootstrapping problem: it's much harder to make new friends when you have no friends. I honestly don't get why some people want to do that multiple times within their life.

Call me cynical, but nomadism like this just seems like another form of consumerism to me. You're consuming living experiences I guess, but you're never really building anything long-term anywhere. As soon as you get close to people, after a few years, you leave it all behind, move on to the next thing? I'd just be afraid of waking up at 50 and realizing I have no close friends anywhere.
That's true, but diesel engines are only really less polluting in terms of CO2 due to using a lower amount of fuel consumed. If your goal is to reduce that, then as you say biofuels are the right answer.

However any mass adoption to biofuels would require different engine (existing engines will work fine on a low blend of biofuels, but very few will work on 10P%). For cars, why would you stick with a biodiesel engine which is more complicated and has higher levels of other pollutants, than some sort of biogasoline engine?
Is the CO2 absorption calculated too?

https://constructionclimatechallenge.com/2016/11/18/co2-abso...
I don't know about Maybe Haskell, but you can give Real World Haskell a try for free: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/

I found it a pretty good introduction. Unfortunately at some point it devolves into typical Haskell "how can we turn this clear, readable three-line function into a two-line function by peppering it with obscure operators".
No this is a graphviz wrapper written in GO.
Given the movement to static linking in compiled languages like LLVM, Go, Rust for deploying self-contained servers and cross-platform single binary executables, I think this guy has clearly lost the argument.

Both him and the authors of glibc.
> basically the world has only been getting better since

You made me really curious how we measure this! Sorry this turned into a massive wall of text but considering how depressing every news cycle has been for the past few years I hoped it would feel grounding to be able to put some numbers to things, even if they aren't happy numbers :)

Worldwide average human is what I want an idea of, but the closest and largest "good" or "bad" measurement I see in the news on a regular basis is USA economic health as a graph of GDP-per-capita of the entire economy, no divisions based on any geographic boundaries since the economy is borderless, with 'health' seemingly the result of Worthington's Law on the entire-economy scope.

U.S. Economy health data doesn't seem to provide a path to any physical human scope at all, since . I hate the idea of defining "good life" in monetary terms at all, but it seems impossible with only the whole-USA data due to income inequality within a region like the Bay Area, huge disparities in other regions compared to the coasts, people who don't "participate" in the economy directly or at all, etc. The graph of USA GDP growth over time did show a general upward curve, never under 0%, in a way that felt like things getting "generally better" as we hope. Looking at headlines made the data more confusing though, like Bloomberg's from a 2019 report:

> "U.S. GDP Grew a Disappointing 1.2% in Second Quarter — Economic growth was well below expectations; cautious business investment offset robust consumer spending"

I had assumed "Good Health" (or at least "Okay" health) was growth over 0.0%, but I guess not if growing by 1.2% was disappointing. The headline is unclear if that's some sort of official expectation percentage or just theirs, but since it doesn't say what the expected rate was I dunno.

I gave up on the officially-published data being usable here, but I remembered a bunch of press in 2018 about California having the 5th largest economy in the world, larger than the UK's. No "world" or even "USA" average would come from CA-only data, but at least it might be personally fulfilling for me. Unfortunately all the news websites ultimately just link back to this tweet as the original source https://twitter.com/psaffo/status/992530974515781633

I'm aware of the World Happiness Index, but it asks people to describe their own happiness in their own words based on their own area which is useless here. I guess I will have to trust that US GDP growth has the possibility to be an okay representation on the country-wide scale, as long as any growth is separated-equally per capita :)
If you go this route, why not go all the way and do Kerberos SSO so you don't need to fiddle with ssh keys at all.
There's no inherent conflict between taking things down and preserving evidence - it should not be difficult for Facebook to "cease publishing" a particular piece of content (i.e. stop showing it to the public) while preserving it in their systems as evidence, together with all the metadata of who/when/how posted or reposted it.

In fact, for the main categories that must be taken down quickly (e.g. child abuse material, death threats, etc) it seems obvious that the evidence must be preserved - why not extend it to all the violent stuff that gets banned.
Agreed! It's one thing to be aware of rhetorical tricks of urgency and its another not to do anything.

I think it's very telling that the post that started this whole thing off was on an Effective Altruism forum.
I think it's pretty clear it's legal. But even though it's legal, it doesn't mean it's acceptable to do it.
Dont you ozone your water in US?
Just want to say I regret the tone I used in my reply, which was not in the spirit of HN. You're correct that some level of skepticism is good. My actual view, if I leave out the hyperbole, is that in the current era, we've reached paranoid levels of it.
I'm going to guess that random here doesn't quite mean random. The Republic of the Congo probably wasn't on his list of possible places to live... Realistically, probably half of the countries in the world or more I wouldn't want to live in. I'm going to assume he probably pre-selected a number of places that he was okay with, and then randomly selected among those.
Brexit travel permits for Jan depend on software won't be finished till April
I want to see nudes, but not gore so the NSFW filter doesn't work.

I want to see posts about accomplishments, but not instagramable food. I want your honest accomplishments, not your drama. I want to see pictures of puppies, but not babies.

In other words, what I want is different from what other posters want. This is fine, until you throw us all together into the same area. Then we end up having all these fights.
Maybe we should call it Petrov Day?
Not the OP, but Socialism is generally concerned with democratic ownership of the means of production.
>Concrete might look very different in 25-50 years.

True more like it looked in 150 BC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete
Yes the whole procurement process is designed to recenter the equation on the economic benefit. That’s why you need a champion on the side of the company you’re selling to, who will help you overcome the hurdle because they are really invested in your product
Writing my masters thesis, where i worked a lot with TikZ, the real power came from being able to defined your own graphing primitives.

With that you can defined your own graphing system. Maybe you have a type of arrow that means something UML doesn't have, just define that class and then defined how it will look. Maybe you have a connection type that requires separate arrows in both directions, just defined the syntax.

You can make all these things happen with regular TikZ, but the ability to define macros and classes makes for easier graph drawing, and a unified definition. It also means you can distribute these styles and let others work on your graph language.
No, it's technically and scientifically known as the h'arse of history.
Would you like to answer the question, Teever?

At what number of cells do you figure consciousness exists? Call that N.

How does the addition of cells beyond N-1 imbue consciousness?

How did you determine N?
Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It
How many languages have true sum or union types though? For example, in Haskell I can’t declare a function as (foo: (String | Int) -> Int) and then call (foo “bar”) or (foo 123), I need to create some kind of wrapper type (like Either) to contain the possibility of a String or Int.

If this were possible, there would not be such a proliferation of useless types throughout code, and code could be updated incrementally much more easily, since if I want to add the possibility of another type in a functions inputs, I don’t have to go and update every callsite.
Does YouTube expose an API to get a full listing of all videos available?
I'm not sure how much I buy the "size of the brain" limitation, given the brain-size ratio between parrots and chimps hardly reflects their intelligence ratio as far as we can tell.

I tend to believe any creature who has the capacity to learn language also has ehe capacity to solve Sokoban and vice-versa, so testing the easier to test of the two should be the first step and figuring how to teach them a complex language should be the second.

(By the way, corvids pass such complex information that some people suspect they already have language, although I would bet against. We know of cases where people the crows hated left a place, returned years later to visit and all the local crows still hated them, and it was implied where I read it that it was long enough that it was all a new generation of crows.
I heard that citizens are allowed to vote directly on national law in Switzerland... I don't think we need representatives anymore, if we aren't competent enough to elect the laws,how can we be competent enough to elect "representatives?" Electing representatives adds the complexity of guessing if you're voting on a liar to any policy stance. Democracy isn't perfect, but I prefer imperfection to centralized power.
Same here! I've started with C++ and Java, learned to hate excessive typing, went through a long period of dynamic typing, and now I'm at the point you and the the author are.

I still code a lot of Common Lisp on the side, but my Lisp code now looks entirely different than it looked just 3 years ago. The language standard does support optional typing declarations, and there's an implementation (SBCL) that makes use of it to both optimize code and provide some static typechecking at compile time (with type inference). So my Lisp code now is exploiting this, and is littered with type declarations.

However, the CL type system is very much lacking compared to Rust or Haskell. I'm hoping one day someone will make a statically, strongly typed Lisp that still doesn't sacrifice its flexibility and expressive power. I'd jump to that in an instant.
> At a national productivity level 30% below France and Germany

Where you got that number? UK has higher GDP per capita than France and it's lower than Germany but not by 30%. Also the UK is just coming out of a messy divorce. I'll give it 5-10 years to figure stuff out.
Rebuilding Linkerd's CI with Kubernetes in Docker and GitHub Actions
In many langauges it is possible to have complex types that are pass-by-value. Rust also completely solves the mutation issues with pass-by-reference by putting the mutability of references in the function signatures and only allowing one mutable reference at a time.
Then they turn blue like smurfs and you are warned and can avoid them. What's the problem?
What you're describing is a tiny part of consciousness, and even that is hard to explain in this way.

The way we empathize with others is exactly the opposite of what you describe - we notice certain outwards appearances and we imagine how we would have to feel to display the same, and so we identify their state as equivalent to what we have felt in the past. This is one reason why it is hard to empathize with situations that are way outside of our own lived experiences. Even this observation alone makes your argument dubious to me.

But it is much harder to expand this argument to our ability to visualize situations, to experience sensations as they come, to feel joy or sadness or helplessness etc in the first place.

My own belief (I don't believe we can say anything really scientific about this subject yet) is that consciousness will turn out to be a natural consequence of how a generally intelligent algorithm interacts with information, some necessary internal state. Most likely, as AI will advance in the next couple of centuries, we will be able to start observing this internal state in the first animal-level intelligence AIs.
Gleam looks really neat.

https://gleam.run
Annoyingly SSM still requires managing ssh keys and users somehow, it really only takes care of the network layer. I have been thinking of combining SSM with EC2 Instance Connect to deal with that issue, but haven't gotten around to actually implement that.

Also SSM has some annoying glitches like e.g. https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/issues/274

Edit: found this blog post that shows how the two can work together https://skorfmann.com/blog/aws-ecs-instance-connect-meets-aw...