skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the fundamental problem as I see it: probabilities are meaningless. We can talk about conditionals...potentials...likelihoods....whatever until we are blue in the face. All they do is provide a thin veneer over what I see is the truth: we simply have no real idea regarding most existential risks. Probability is a false god that justifies our wasting resources on problems we can't hope to solve, as we don't even understand them. AGI is the canonical problem of this type--absolutely no real understanding of the parameter space. What can it do...can it do this or that...what will it do...how to bound/align what it will do...???; well--just tell me what it is first. Aliens could show up tomorrow and smoke us (in theory), so what dollar amount should we spend on that (it's the same problem really...what capabilities will the aliens have so as to focus our efforts on their not smoking us).

> What do you propose we spend money on that actually moves the conditional probabilities away from global nuclear war?

First, let me say that I appreciate the frank discussion, and that I also appreciate the original author's willingness to author posts on this topic, these are in fact important issues. To answer your question, if it were my decision (I actually just responded to a couple RFPs with a sketch of a system for viral bioinformatics [which were declined]), I would say our largest current existential threat is our systems of government that have not made significant progress in the last couple hundred years. Regardless of how we score existential threats (I eschew probabilities personally), it's clear that we will need effective governance to respond to them as they arise (let's call covid a fire drill that we failed miserably at). We need research into questioning the fundamental assumptions by which we govern (secrecy, militancy, the paradigm of competition). How do we set goals as a world, not as nations? How do we engineer trusted environments, not zero trust environments? This is where my money would be.
Sure, if their terms of service allow it.

Conversely, should every user of a platform get to dictate terms? No.

In both cases you and a provider enter into a mutually agreeable relation under some terms of service. And you both can terminate that relationship up to terms of service.
Get over it, it’s another architecture which is incompatible with x86/x64.
Author of linuxcommandlibrary.com here.

Thanks! That's how it actually was in the past. Makes a huge difference. Fixed it.
That's not true, many applications have moved to the "constant save" model (and games too). For instance, you never ever save in Final Cut Pro anymore (I wish ProTools would go this route). There is no reason a browser can't persist your tab state, or your window state, window positions, etc to disk continually and always relaunch with the persisted state.
This is how you could make Photoshop free back in the day. Add their stuff to /etc/hosts and voila
First, I'd look at what devops you can implement. I'd imagine testing and automated deployments are a bare minimum. Testing may slow you down, but if most of your work is maintenance, you'll see longer term gains. Automated deployments will prevent any manual errors from occurring and instead of taking hours to deploy, it'll take minutes. Both together will give you some confidence in what you're pushing out.

Second, I'd talk with your boss more about "communicating too much". Especially if you're already having problems, you'll want to keep an open line of communication with your boss to let him know where you're succeeding and struggling. I'd try to figure out what kind of communication they're looking for and develop a plan around that.

Third, over complicating solutions is a tough problem to overcome, especially alone. Is your boss technical? Was he a developer? Who's your mentor in all of this? Can you give an example on how you've over complicated something? Without knowing anything, I'd encourage you to spend more time designing and less coding. Design the solution first and take time to look for ways to simplify it.

Fourth, timeframes are always hard. I agree with agile and would encourage you to read up on it. Even splitting a project into milestones could help.
But Macs already work fine with no internet connection, and apparently modifying the hosts file does resolve this problem.
He's quoting another headline: https://www.thewrap.com/steve-bannon-suspended-by-twitter-af...

I am going to post this as a reply to every single one of your comments that repeats this lie.
Kali linux certainly has the pointiest sticks.
It's not. But it is a bipartisan argument for the NPVIC. Call your state rep.
With the same grades as others?
Maybe suicide linux? https://qntm.org/suicide
mStream does look very nice and straightforward. Is there any better UI for seeing all your music than what appears to be just a file dialog?
Fear or concern for the unknown can be a good thing, there just isn’t any studies saying conclusively that a large number of people are seriously affected.

What are the long-term effects of not being able to have a normal life due to restrictions ?
Lots of comments are downvoted quickly without replies, I don't think you can infer that much from it.

I also don't think the rate at which amendments are proposed is a good indication of how healthy our country is. Shouldn't things stabilize and require less revision eventually?
Part of it is that TypeScript doesn't need to worry about memory layout - everything is basically a hashtable.
The post discusses only first order effects. In case of nuclear war most people will die not from kinetic shock or radiation, but from famine and deceases caused by collapse of supply chain and medical infrastructures, and from unavoidable violence during the fight for scarce remaining resources.
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Potential Organized Fraud in Tier-1 Systems Conferences
> Okay, but what's unique about COVID where we're supposed to discount that? Surely we care about a murderer who kills an elderly person.

I'm not sure what you're saying here. If a murder kills someone, the murder was the direct cause of death and we count it as murder. If you die of old age while having covid, it is not necessarily covid that is the killer, so it's not clear that it should necessarily be counted as the killer in all old-age cases.

> and are going to die whether or not they have it

Yes but... you understand I'm talking about the specific case of actually being on your deathbed, right?
This can be debated on a case by case basis, but that's not how racism works. We're talking statistics here. If you're white in the US you are statistically more likely to have privileges not afforded to others.

If you're white re you more likely to be successful and face less discrimination from your point of birth going forward? Yes you are.

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/race-report-statistic...
You still can run the same program checked by windows though, by opting in to use the program. And definitely you still run other programs as the check only occurs on installation, and not every time after running it.
What's more FF History window is fully searchable, to the point that I am regularly (it seems) bringing up results from years past, and have actually restored my firefox profile from Time Machine to get my history back. The location bar search is more limited than the history window search (if nothing else it's easier to browse the results.)
Do we rely on Bannon's account (which is available, and different from these three words that keep being repeated, as stated by others), or the choice of words of a click-baity editorial summary of the Fan Page, or Reuters' alternative choice: "urged beheading"?

EDIT: As noticed below, I have edited this comment to include Reuters.
Thanks — I agree that’s a bit worse. But it’s still pretty clear he’s speaking in the context of what the President should do, and obviously the President can’t have his enemies’ heads displayed Tudor-style on the White House fence. He’s not bringing up Tudors as a sincere suggestion, he’s arguing that any (realistic) punishment would be mild by historical standards.
A centralized repository of all your executable hashes is a high precision fingerprint.
Checking for notarization on each launch was introduced in catalina. Older versions have trustd, but it was only used for the gatekeeper checks added in 10.8.
This reminds me those managers who use to say "It's just a little 'IF' here and there" and you find out a lot of hidden/broken corner cases.
I agree--I also de-googled within the last couple years. I also did it because I need my e-mail to always work, it's just unacceptable that Google could take it away with no reasonable recourse.

I was also hit by this outage today, at work, on my work laptop, while I was working. Apple literally cost me time and my employer money today, because their lack of foresight or inadequate provisioning of servers or whatever the fuck it was, fucked up my laptop. No good reason. They just fucked up, and it cost something.
We changed the title but not the url.
That freedom of Linux comes at a cost that people aren't paid to take care of the level of details other OS have.

Paying $100 for Windows seems like a better solution if you just want a working OS without a hassle.

And what premium do Mac hardwares have? It seems I paid what they deserved as I can't find anything better in the market. Even moreso now that M1 is out, it seems all Windows machines have premium.
Please don't do this. We're trying for something different.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
I think the future is made up of powerful tools so simple that only great resources can build them. Simple tools that hide the magic are harder to build.

The fix is in because vscode itself will be forkable at any time. It will just be that _services_ from microsoft and other companies will be designed for the tool.

For example, this AI code completion behavior. I can say right now that if tabnine had a version working in Pycharm that did not break autoimports, I would already be paying a monthly subscription for it. Jetbrains should be offering something similar ASAP.

Another example would be PaaS for frameworks using Azure. Start a project, choose a domain name, instant staging and production deployments.

Anyone could build these kinds of plugins to sell in services. It will really be about who does it best. Though, I think Microsoft is specifically positioning itself for a long term play here and I think much of it centers around vscode.
Seriously when does this go into effect? Where is the blog post or e-mail notification? The HN link just goes to the billing landing page?
Gonna miss this. YouTube music feels quite glitchy still
Also, the equivalent would be “Heads should roll. Just right onto the carpet of the Oval Office, as a warning to federal bureaucrats.” When you elaborate graphically, it becomes much more of an actual call for violence. At the very least it’s in poorer taste than the idiom usually is...
My favorite one, similar to this, is impossible colors.

https://sciencenotes.org/impossible-colors-work-see/

By training your eye on a vivid color, then withdrawing the stimulus, and presenting an opposite or complementary color, you can experience physically impossible colors, like blue-yellow or red-green.
Even when it works right, it’s transmitting the apps that you use, as well as your timestamped coarse geolocation (from client IP) to Apple, which logs all of it. It’s good for city-level location.

They know what times you're at home, and what apps you're using there. They know what times you're at work. They know what times you're tethered. They know when you travel, and to which cities. They know when you're on a friend's Wi-Fi, and they know which apps you open from that connection.

Apple is a partner in the US military’s PRISM spying program, so this log is available to US military intelligence at any time without a warrant.

Thanks to API changes in Big Sur, it’s impossible to use Little Snitch to block these system level connections, and they will also bypass any configured VPN. To control this, you’ll need to use external network hardware, like a travel router that you can operate a vpn/firewall on.

Big Sur is the only OS that will run on the new Apple Silicon macs, so it’ll be impossible to use the new machines without leaking your track log and app usage history in a way that is available to the FBI/CIA/et al whenever they want it.

Note also that Apple recently backdoored iMessage’s end-to-end encryption by defaulting the non e2e-encrypted iCloud Backup to on for all users: it backs up (to Apple) your device’s complete plaintext iMessage history, as well as your device’s iMessage keys, using Apple keys, each night when you plug it in. You should immediately stop using iMessage as a result of this, because even if you have disabled iCloud or iCloud Backup, your conversation partners likely have it enabled. iMessage is no longer meaningfully encrypted.

Apple’s marketing about privacy is lip service, not real.
Today arsenals are so much smaller than during the Cold War. Both the US and the USSR had almost 70K warheads; today they have 1600 each. Reading about SIOP plans makes you realize how hard the US planned to hit the USSR; I have no doubts the Soviets had similar plans. Today, 3200 warheads can ruin your day; but 140K warheads (discounting the relatively small number of Chinese/French/UK warheads) would ruin all but the Southern Hemisphere.
A decade down, Gojek looks towards a path to profitability
So I'm going off of this clip:

https://twitter.com/FrankFigliuzzi1/status/13244858190427054...

It's hard for me to believe that someone can watch that and think that Bannon is literally suggesting we put Fauci's head on a pike, when it's clearly intended to be a metaphor.

If I get exasperated with this conversation and say something like "kill me now," I guess you'd call the suicide hotline?
I guess the flip side is that, hopefully, the Docker ecosystem will start getting a lot better at multi-arch, at least for x86-64 and ARM. I just ordered an M1 MBP and I'll be quite happy to start thwacking bugs in images and upstreaming the fixes.
Are you saying that the result of Citizens United is that instead of being a slave to the people or organizations that own the media landscape we are slaves to simply the richest people or organizations. How is that any better? That is trading one devil for another. I don't want a good guy with $1B battling a bad guy with a $1B. That doesn't fix anything. I want everyone's political speech to be on a more even playing field. That currently can't happen due to the First Amendment and the interpretation that says money is equal to speech.
Off topic: is there a reason why lesswrong.com needs an Intercom button? Shortly after opening the page, the button expanded and asking me "need help?". I understand how that might be desired for a SaaS landing page, but a blogging platform? What "help" can you possibly need while reading an article?
All: there are multiple pages of comments; if you're curious to read them, click More at the bottom of the page, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959&p=4
No. Carbon dioxide will still be in the air when the aerosols settle.

The collapse of the global economy will limit the addition of more carbon dioxide though.
If the conversation ended there, in it's most favorable light Bannon could be assumed to be using "heads on pikes" as a euphemism for "getting tough / serious".

However, immediately after this quote, the other speaker and Bannon discuss historical political hangings and how the death penalty for treason is necessary during a civil war.

And Bannon appears to double down in his own FB post: https://www.facebook.com/SteveKBannon/posts/376710023761776

> Steve Bannon Under Massive Attack
> - Steve Bannon’s Twitter Account Suspended After Calling for Execution of Dr Fauci and FBI Director Wray

Regardless of where you come down on the free speech side of calling for a public figure's execution, Bannon seems to concede that he meant what he said.
> Why, Why WHY can't we just have tabs:// ?

That's actually a nifty feature idea, but it seems like it could be easily abused with a little client-side JS for the sake of fingerprinting or analytics, unless it's treated similarly to chrome:// urls. You could probably whip up your own small browser extension to provide a simple formatted list of tabs, though.
Author of linuxcommandlibrary.com here.

Reasonable feedback. The design isn't great and can only get better from here one. I pushed some quick design updates with a new standard font, decreased the font size for the headline, slightly bigger columns and some other fixes and improvements
Are they senior advisors to the president of the united states, or nah?
How to use PR as a growth lever – an interactive event
Perhaps they should also be banned from Facebook.
NAS for my personal stuff, AWS for recurring jobs and some websites.

And of course there's the rest of the internet, which is a large part of my computer time.
Or use the opensource take of it - https://cdap.io/
I have a copy of "the federalist papers in modern english - indexed for modern political issues" that I used as a companion reference when I first bought the Federalist Papers. It was good for looking up which essays were relevant to my interests, but personally I felt that my comprehension suffered from being a step removed from the primary source when I used the "Modern Language" version. I think there's a lot to be said for having access to the subtlety and tone from the author, even if it takes some time to adjust to the language.

The upside is that if you get used to reading texts from this era, other writers of the time period become more accessible as well. For example, I recently read many of the sermons of Jon Wesley and found them to be an easier read than I was expecting, perhaps due to my exposure to the federalist papers and others.
That's a fair point. I put that in the title above.
just go to anyones profile and read their comments. if you like notifications use any tool that updates you on changes of a webpage.
‘Are We Getting Invaded?’ U.S. Boats Faced Russian Aggression Near Alaska
definitely a little of this.
However I think my main issue is so many good/real things vying for my attention. I could all day helping new engineers AND all day chasing the bugs everyone is missing AND all day doing architectural review comments AND all day on personal goals ... So sometimes things get dropped and often i get tired of going All Day...
Your app helps me every day. Thank you for all your hard work
Which third party apps do you mean? And the worst keyboard? I understand it being subjective as a taste, but the worst? Idk...
It was not a metaphor, it was hyperbole. “I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England. I’d put their heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats, you either get with the program or you’re gone.”

It is a call to violence. He is saying that these people deserved to be killed for what they have done to Trump. That in his estimation, the world would be a better place if someone were to kill Fauci and Wray as examples to the rest of Washington.

Sure, he's not really suggesting that he would actually do it, but he is certainly asking someone to.
My gripe with RxJS is how difficult it is. I've put thousands of hours into learning it and I just know the rest of the team don't understand the long chains I've written with it.

I have the same problem where people are doing backflips to do simple things and I'll come in afterwards like... What ARE you trying to do here? And why are you not cleaning these up?

Originally I was trying to stay away from behaviour subjects as recommended by the RxJS purists but now I just want to use them everywhere so its easier for everyone else to get values out of a stream
What you can't say now:

- Homosexuality is morally wrong.

- Races have some genuine differences.

- The sexes are not completely interchangeable.

- Banks should be allowed to fail.

- Undocumented immigration is actually illegal, and needs to be stopped.

- Voter fraud might be a genuine problem.

- Postmodernism, and especially critical theory, is a dead end.

What have I missed?

I note that far more of these step on the left's toes rather than the right's. That's at least partly because right now, the left has more control of the discourse than the right.

Note well: Do not take this as a list of things that I believe. Some I do; some I don't. My point is, these are things that currently you can't say.
I ran into this on trying to load a new video file on VLC, with Mojave, so I guess it's not just apps, but maybe any new file load.
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I would accept "flaw", "incorrect choice", or "mistake". But if they considered it, and chose this path, knowing full well this would happen, that's not a bug.
I don't think most people are aware that this could happen or even understand what happened and how it was Apple's fault.
As someone who cross compiles C++ to arm (and others) as part of my $dayjob, I sincerely don't understand this comment. I would like to, as maybe there's something I misunderstand.

Ninja edit: I guess you're suggesting that some parts are in hand rolled x86 assembly, not just pure C++ that would be output as the cross compiler target architecture?
Patrick,

I think Stripe does a lot of things right, but your comments back in 2018 certainly indicated that Billing could be used in perpetuity:

"- For existing customers, there's no pricing change. You just get more functionality than before for free. This is what we generally try to do: we want Stripe to continually become better value for you over time, as you get more functionality for the same price."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16766846

I specifically reached out to Stripe support back then to verify this would be the case and they confirmed. If you've since changed your mind, I think you should come out and say that's the case as opposed to saying this is a communications issue.
> Despite an electric shaver-like power efficiency, the human brain has limits that some of the Very Large Parameter models transcend (even if that’s unreliable today).

Are there any examples where a VLP model actually transcends the limits of the human brain?
Text as a User Interface
I hold out hope during every release announcement that Apple will finally push out support DisplayPort MST[0], but they never do. It sucks when the hardware supports everything but MacOS is holding it back.

[0]: https://medium.com/@sebvance/everything-you-need-to-know-abo...
In my (public school) experience, the Anti-Federalist Papers were taught only as an excerpted footnote while giving more airtime to the contents of the Federalist Papers. Another one of those "winners write history" effects - the losing argument is only remembered as a foil to the winning arguments.
Author of linuxcommandlibrary.com here.

You are 100% right. That was quite dump. I think I got the idea from the SSH icon I used in the basics page.

Replaced ">_" with "$". Looks much better and I also updated some of the design and content on the site. Update is live.
Please drop the 'lie' bit- there's no evidence that AaronFriel is being intentionally misleading.