skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that containers exist and are prevalent is a damning indictment on the Linux model imho.

Producing software that can simply launch is so wildly complex that the solution is... to snapshot an entire operating system install to run the application.

That’s INSANE. But it’s unfortunately required. https://xkcd.com/1987/

> Now, for the worst of all — one that combines all the aforementioned issues, and adds even more. Bundling (often called vendoring in newspeak) means including the dependencies of your program along with it. The exact consequences of bundling vary depending on the method used.

Let’s consider this statement at face value. The WORST thing a program can do is... include the things the program needs to run? So programs should... NOT include the things they REQUIRE to run?

I get it. I understand the argument. But if you take just a half step back it should be clear how utterly broken the whole situation is.
so a ripoff of sherlock?
Thanks for explaining! I would have assumed that there are some cross-coin mining pools out there that have a similarly good UX, where you would end up with the mined coins directly, but it kind of makes sense that it exists on that abstraction level.
Could you clarify?, it is pierogies or pyrogis?
A non-sequitur.

Monero is compliant with all FATF goals. The state has gotten used to surveillance of digital transactions over the past 50 years by deputizing financial institutions, this was a temporary convenience for them and now digital transactions don't require financial institutions, which is simply a reversion to a mean with a millenium of precedent. For now they can strongarm the intermediary as they havent even noticed that they’ve just been taking a convenience for granted, but the reality is pretty clear: the state will have to deter whichever activities they dont like by actually investigating and stopping that person as regulating/strongarming the intermediary wont be a tool they have anymore.
Nuclear fuel is several orders of magnitude more energy dense than solar or wind, so the amount of fuel required is shockingly low, especially compared to how many resources all those panels and windmills require to build and transport.

> How much land solar and wind farms use seems kind of minuscule next to all these efforts. And given how urgent the climate disaster is, complaining about land use from solar farms seems like a distraction.

No, it's part of the equation for picking energy sources. Solar and wind both work better in some areas than others, and none of the equipment maintains itself. The 100 acre solar farm you build instead of a 1 acre Nuclear plant is going to have its' own environmental and maintenance challenges. It's not clear why it is a priority to limit roads through wildlife, but not apply the same principles to energy policy.

> Given the timescale we have to react to and reverse the climate crisis the best technology that we have right now is wind and solar.

What are you basing this on? Nuclear technology is being held back by regulation and economics, not by engineering or technology.
In case anyone is curious, the proof of LEM from AC is: Diaconescu's Theorem [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaconescu%27s_theorem#:~:text....
Was his house in the US or UK? If it was in the US the it doesn't matter, the local government is gonna get theirs.
There kinda is: Renault has Dacia.
Seven dead in Nigerian military plane crash, says air force
Can they? And which metadata?

In any case, that's assuming you talk with a business. So if you don't, will they sell that metadata too?

If you talk with a business, lets say a bakery, Facebook will know you talked with that bakery, and if you talk with a different business that other business may know it too. That's metadata about you that they explicitly say they collect.

But if you never talked with a business...what will Facebook know?
It's been years so I can't recall the name or find a source, but I recall reading at the time that there was in fact an engineer working on Fukushima's design that loudly protested that the sea wall and related preparations were inadequate based on historical records. Basically that they planned for the 100 year event but should have planned for the 1000 year event. It also wouldn't have been a huge cost burden. Putting the gensets on piers would have prevented the worst of it.
How is the Church-Turing thesis an argument against AGI? If anything, it is an argument FOR AGI: it claims that a Turing machine is capable of solving any problem that can be solved, which directly implies that you can create a computer with the exact reasoning capacities of the human mind (or more). AGI would be a strong signal that the thesis is valid, though it remains un provable (as it is an assertion about an informal idea, 'functions that can be solved').

Thinking about simulations leads nowhere, so I won't engage, it's too far outside of what can be reasonably investigated, it's scientifically sounding religion.
Secrets on how to sell software consulting services
Why would white people not want to live around black people?
I have a longstanding habit of buying my laptops refurbished - so, a few months of wear and sometimes a "scratch and dent". To date, every one of them has been a winner on longevity.
Vi was 1976. The Canon Cat was 1987, and Raskin's work on the Macintosh was before it was launched in 1984.

This work was a _response_ to vi and modal editing.

And it was _right_ because it's how basically every GUI app and web app in the world works.

Sure, programs have functions that while you perform them put you in a special restricted environment, but it's not a mode. If there's a search-and-replace operation going on, you can see that on the screen. You can see if you're browsing menus or stepping through a tab bar or something.

In modal programs, it's the same program all the time, but in one mode, for instance, pressing ``dd`` types a double D like in "middle", and in another mode, it deletes the whole line, and unless you are experienced enough to look for a single character somewhere else on the screen, you don't know which it will do. You have to memorize the sequence of operations and know where you are. If I blindfold you, sit you in front of someone else's computer, take the blindfold off and ask you what "dd" will do at this point, you might not be able to tell.

And that is bad UI, and bad design, and we have learned better now.

The fact is that this is _proved_ by _every user-facing computer having a GUI.

Larry Tesler was right:

DON'T MODE ME IN.

Even his website is NOMODES.COM: http://nomodes.com/Larry_Tesler_Consulting/Home.html
> Cars had remote unlock and start decades ago

Do you mean buttons on key fobs? That's not what this is about. This is apps on phones that let you access the car. Why would you want to do that? Range of the signal, additional functionality (you can see the fuel level for example), and you don't need to have your key fob to use it.
I love these kind of projects. But what I'd like is slightly bigger than kindle e-ink display that shows a webpage of my choice. And I'd like it to run off mains power.

Then I can pretty much show what I want - so it's easy to set up a rotating dashboard with the weather, my calendar, TFL alerts, whatever.

Why doesn't this exist?!
That's a really silly and wrong way of looking at it. Tesla has down society and you a great service by including additional capacity in your car above what you payed for. If they choose to let you have it for free, pat on the back for them. If not, then it is no different at all from someone dying in a Ford Focus that was only front wheel drive where all-wheel drive would have saved their lives.
Cars are really going in the wrong direction overall. I do like a car with some tech like power windows, memory seats etc but I do not want to connect it to the internet. I have my smartphone for it already. I want my car to be dumb. Add Key, it works. No key, you are locked out and you can call someone to unlock it for you.

Btw, not to mention that New Cars are becoming too expensive compared to say 15-20 years ago due to all this "tech" while the engines are becoming crappy with plastic (shout out to famous youtuber Scotty Kilmer if anyone knows him :))
> Today i believe, most usage of Bitcoin is for legitimate purposes.

Like what? Aside from "speculating that it will increase in value", what are these legitimate purposes?
3rd plane in last hours to experience engine failure. This time, catastrophic ending :(

Different plane tho.
An argument could be made if we don't apply the Carbon Tax to poor or third-world countries it will help them develop faster... but those third-world countries shouldn't be shipping us resources in the first place!
I mean, that is the assumption right? I' m just complaining about how it was written in the article(s)
Maybe not as cheap as an used phone, but close: https://a.aliexpress.com/_mK1XuTt
Hopefully we'll be selected for GSOC see: https://twitter.com/play0ad/status/1363607317653180419
The time someone explained email to me, I was immediately hooked.

But we're well over a decade into cryptocurrencies, and there is no application for them yet except crime.
Are there countries/cities you would point to that have gotten this right? (i.e. proximity of everyone to better quality care regardless of neighborhood?). I mean, some of it is just a function of where doctors prefer to live when they are successful enough to have a say in the matter. Those with a say, like all of us, probably prefer nicer neighborhoods/offices.
Welcome to HN. Where a cohort of id*ots can look CH in the eye and confidently downvote him.
This preprint seems to indicate Pfizer vaccine is effective against the SA strain:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.07.425740v1
This is groupthink propaganda nonsense. Bitcoin can only do 1.5KB/s of transactions and the average transaction costs $26. Any rapid decrease in price will lead to rapid decreases in mining and thus transaction throughput. Does this seem like the future of financial transactions to you?
Bad news for Bitcoin and other crypto

If crypto become the payment system for criminals I wonder what will happen with crypto.
Isn't this basically the case with github now? i.e all the cryptos have their code public on github so if I wanted to start mining, I'd have to go there to get the code
It sounded like the previous comment wasn't asking for orientation detection as a feature. I interpreted the question to be asking under what orientations CompreFace can be expected to work.
> Remote unlock is the least of the problems here, the real issue is that cars have no business being connected to the vendors servers at all.

Why do you think that? It provides valuable functionality that I use, such as journey logging, fuel status, access from an app, and so on. You need an intermediate server run by the vendor. I can't give it my phone's IP address, can I!
>Algorithms, he says, are reducing everything to "subject matter or genre", rendering any kind of curation, and understanding of artistic worth, meaningless.

I have to agree with Scorsese. They talk about how much Netflix does to personalize the recommendations but they have never been worse than they are today. No matter how many times I like or dislike anything Netflix keeps recommending things I really don't want to watch (no one is using my profile but me). If it is supposed to be that good then why does watching for example stand-up end up with it recommanding all stand-up to me? It seems to me all it really does is go "he liked an action movie, let's recommend some action to him" which is like recommending a meal at a restaurant based on if your last meal was hot or cold.

Netflix is IMO a perfect example of how quickly it can go down hill. The recommendation used to be like Google Search. Now it is like Bing. What happened to the Netflix that let you like and dislike on the website and had a competition to find the best way to recommend the correct content to a user? Now it is basically like a YouTube clone for streaming with like and dislikes that are totally irrelevant (like... YouTube).
There’s a bit more here, also interesting:
https://acoup.blog/2019/12/12/collections-a-trip-through-cic...

We could use a revival of these ideas (which were the foundation of the enlightenment) in our era of blasé cynicism.

Then, if I understood, your point goes back to “might makes right”, as in, we have the power, we might as well take the money, and to hell with long term prospects or society. It is unfortunate that these people have so much influence over the rest of us. It is also a demonstration that optimising private interests does not result in public good, that is, the invisible hand of the market is utter bollocks.
What's described in the article is not a security problem. It's an availability problem. I would argue consumers DO care about the availability and I see lots of cloud based systems with local fallbacks.

When IKEA introduced cloud devices, IKEA hardly a company known for high prices or using expensive stuff in their products, they had local fallbacks. Their product is competing with the reliability of less expensive devices controlled with a light switch. Locks are another case where if you reinvent the wheel and get significantly less reliability people will be mad.
I eventually personally found the microcontroller and shorted the modem myself

I would think that breaking the antenna would be easier.

Or are they not that large anymore since car bodies have so much plastic in them these days and not so much metal to interfere with the signal?
Meh, a plane can fly with one engine, and glide with none. I wouldn’t be too worried, unless it blew up and took out a wing. And even if they were flying over the pacific, planes are required to be within a certain distance of land at all times. Probably enough to get to an airport.

Edit: I don’t get the downvotes. It’s true.
> Miners expend the same amount of energy regardless if they are validating 1 or 1000 transactions in a block.

This ignores the transaction fees. Even though they are only 10-20% of the total fees a miner collects, 10-20% of a round-trip from SF to NYC is still a lot of energy.
Can you elaborate more? It seems to be that a lot of very smart people think the opposite and are investing huge time and money in it
It's pretty telling that some people respond with strong dismissals of an actual accomplished researcher in the field we're discussing versus the musings of some programmer who blogs.
You're still wrong in the case of Lisp. The first runnable versions were interpreted, but even the earliest interpreter didn't do symbol-table lookups from the textual name on every function call. The symbols ("atoms") were absolutely stuck into the parsed code as addresses, removing all table lookups at that point. (But the interpreter still had to walk the atom's property list to find a property that would allow it to invoke the atom as a function, either EXPR, FEXPR, SUBR, or FSUBR.)

You're speculating without knowledge both about how early versions of Lisp worked and, I suspect, about how to teach an introductory CS class.
Not really, for most functional adults. But it's offensive you need the OEM's servers to do it.
> Have we gone backwards...?

Sort of. A lot of this is pushed by fleet sales, where it makes more sense (to the customer).
There is on trac.wildfiregames.com

One of the biggest but sadly not the only problem is pathfinder threading https://code.wildfiregames.com/D14

Other things like the messaging system could probably be threaded.

Rendering needs to run in another thread than simulation too.

Feel free to reach out to us on quakenet.org #0ad-dev. We're usually there on CET.
You are absolutely right! A tool that can cover everyones needs is a great goal, and a pluggable or modularized approach might be even the best. SnowFS is not a one-way street, there are certain features that are currently investigated to be feature-proposed for libgit2. Means, this project is a great way to explore the possibilities without any historical or technical barriers because it is so lightweight. Best proof are the benchmarks
BTW - We empirically do not need AGI for computational/intelligence explosion.

Single virus has no chance of out computing and evading an immune system, but billions of billions of viruses can out compute and evade even human civilization as a whole.
> Transparent aluminium

Good sci-fi always has an eye towards the future - we have transparent aluminium now. The whole point of science is to push the boundries of our knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride
If your package management is worth it’s salt then you don’t care about static linking, you just update every package that links to that package. IBM’s AIX had the best package management ever IMO, you could roll forward or back and things would just work. Completely deterministic. On the backend whenever a package was updated they would regression test it and everything that depended on it to ensure the update didn’t break anything - when a bug did get through they would fix it and add another regression test so it didn’t happen again. All of that kinda broke when they adopted RPM as a secondary format because the RPMs didn’t make the same guarantees.

One of the best features of Golang is being able to cut a single static linked Linux binary that works on Alpine, Red Hat, CentOS, etc. With Go your also not linking to OpenSSL or Libxml, and those two packages are responsible for every emergency roll out I’ve ever had to do.

Time and again end result of version pinning is that when forced to update developers are required to advance through multiple major version updates and what should be a patch becomes a rewrite. I have to constantly deal with a bunch of web sites on jquery 2 and the developers boo-hooing every day because jquery 3.5 is completely different and all I can tell them is that jquery 2 is no longer maintained so they need to stop using it for new projects and they need to update or retire their existing projects using it.

One of the things I liked about Golang was that it didn’t have any versions to pin so it avoided all of that nonsense altogether. However then they added “modules” and it’s getting harder to not use those, so that killed that magic. Though I did make sure the CI/CD pipelines I use do a go get -u so hopefully that will force the local Go devs to keep their code fresh.
No. People in this thread are (deliberately?) misunderstanding and (pretending to?) think it means being able to start them at all.
Is the AWD drivetrain included in the base model?
pretty easy to launder BTC actually using tornado
The US dollars' value is comparatively stable...
> I eventually personally found the microcontroller and shorted the modem myself,

(perhaps silly?) question - why not just disable the antenna or put it in an appropriate faraday cage?
With IP addresses, it is not possible to validate TLS certificate as well. This should not work at all.

Also we have HTTPS everywhere, but DKIM is still not supported by most domains. That is a more serious issue and it also covers this as well.
I agree with this the most. What's the point of having millions upon retirement if you had to live like a pauper with sad memories while you did it?

I messed up a lot of my post high school years. Now I'm trying to revitalize it since I'm financially behind by a lot compared to others portfolios my age. But I figure having a more interesting life will garner me a more positive outlook throughout the bad times.
It is hard to take peoples arguments of cost seriously when governments around the world are printing fiat at alarming rates. Covid has proven that where there is a will the money can be found.
> All assets tend to zero in Bitcoin terms, long term.

Good luck with _that!_
I don't have a Mac but have used the windows version for years. So thank you for your hard work.
The complexity of C++ isn't accidental, it is self-inflicted.
This is probably easier than "normal" money laundering due to the traceability of BTC. But it flounders on the usual problems of money laundering (for example the biggest money laundering locations globally are London and NYC.)

We can solve money laundering but it needs political will - write your congressman!
They do, they even have their own website. Their repo is closed source so we can't take any patch from them though.
https://fork-ad.gitlab.io/
Ok, maybe I'm just to spoiled by my previous experience then. I never had any problems getting patches upstreamed relatively quickly, but then e.g. meson or picolibc are much smaller than LLVM and patches are simpler to reason about (I know some compiler construction).

Thanks for the answer.
The problem is that the modern practices are being adopted to meet the changing needs of this code, which weren't an issue in the enthusiast linux and BSD communities, but are an issue when open source code is being put in mission critical professionally managed production environments on AWS, or into cars and appliances.

The userland is much more complex now, so freezing dependencies and bundling them in order to have a smaller number of test cases may not have been necessary when the environment was smaller and simpler. The reliability expectations were lower, and there weren't big money professional support contracts which required you to validate your application against a set of well defined environments. All that has changed.
I like this.

It reminds me of the old internet :-)
Aren’t Dacia cars just facelifted older Renault models with the manufacturing moved to markets with cheaper labour?
Can we bring these back?
You’re not alone. I can justify it more for a LoB platform app vs something like a user’s Acrobat license. Adobe is perhaps the single worst software company I’ve ever dealt with.
Not sure about the probation but assuming 50$/hr, that's 25k$ to get into Harvard, versus bribes of usually >1M$ for alumni getting their kids in by funding a building, scholarship, or whatever. Sounds like they got a steep (if unreliable) discount.
Agreed, the discussions on HN are getting ever more ridiculous.
Nuclear waste is nuclear fuel
> Bitcoin solves a problem for almost nobody

This is a very Western centric view. Also, I live in the west and see Bitcoin as a good alternative store of wealth.
> educate yourself

With a twitter thread?

I mean, what is the application of Bitcoin, except crime?
I definitely can't be calm and shooting video like this. For me, a plane flight is a totally magical blackbox, in which I just get onboard, sit, lay back, and done. Maybe I should be more informed.
I believe this is a typo on your home page:

"No specific version numbers or IP addresses are saves."

Should be "saved".
Hey! I submitted my project with stories of "data hackers" ( https://datapeek.org/stories ) . Would you be open to an interview? Your project is quite ingenous it would be a great fit :)
Nuclear waste occurs naturally well before humans created it, I think we will manage
Is this a big part of why companies are buying up tons of bitcoin? Insurance against these kinds of attacks?
Generally this attitude, if actually held, would be described as psychopathic.

And if you think that your quality of life would be the same, even if you survive, then you are blind to the violence that must surely come when the world goes to hell.

When that many people die from starvation and dislocation, you better believe that the pitchforks will come out, and no one will give a damn if you are a BTC lord, you'll be left in a latrine by roving mobs who out-number you 100000 to 1.
I am surprised they did not manage to put her age in the headline, hometown, gender, and age seem to be the common ID for small newspapers.
This is a great comment and is spot on. Mastery has exponential returns over proficiency. The best thing is that mastery feels really good once you have it. I've been bouncing around the past several years not finding what I want, but I've realized the past year that I want to have the mastery with a stack that I haven't since my C/C++ OpenGL computer graphics years.