skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have indeed gone backwards. Most homes and businesses have LANs, and yet almost every app works in a client/remote-server model, adding dozens of SPOFs where there need not be any.
Love the idea. Just signed up https://secalerts.co and added the script to our homepage.
Saying that an argument is fallacious isn’t the same thing as saying that because the argument is fallacious, it is therefore wrong.

Surely you don’t think that all cases of pointing out that something is a fallacy need to include a disclaimer saying “but of course, that doesn’t in itself imply that the conclusion is wrong”. After all, you did not include such a disclaimer yourself.

That being said, it seems that the back and forth here doesn’t really seem to have any statements of the form “X (and also Y), therefore Z”.

So, I guess that makes it hard to analyze formally as an argument, as instead much of the things like that being explicitly said, there are things being mentioned, with a number of things left implicit.
Not surprising, since Hyundai acquired a majority stake in Kia in 1998.
Oh and funnily enough when I showed that on Twitter people asked for exactly what you did so you might be up to something, though I wonder if displayed like you do now the resolution will be high enough
Absolutely and given the resources that firms spend on servers running Rails (GitHub, Shopify etc) I could see the effort being put into it - if it's possible. I suspect the metaprogramming issue is really tricky though.
Yes, you have to control 51% of the online voting power.
> Is a potential employer ever going to look over every one of my commits to see what percentage are meaningful? Nope.

What they'll do instead is look at a semi-random sampling of your repositories and commits. They don't need to look at every commit to get a statistically meaningful sampling of what your commits look like, and they can look at even less to get a vague, rough idea of what you're up to.
China alone is building 12 reactors alone and if the US isn’t going to get their act together and stops with that renewables-for-all non-sense, China will be the dominating world power.
I can say that I fully agree on the "remove the weekend" option. It's definitely on the list.
Super interesting I've never heard of the setup fee ask -- great perspective. Will definitely use that moving forward
> An app can be compromised but the damage is limited

AKA the "we don't care" security model. What exact use is the fact that the web browser is "contained" if it is compromised? The mail client? Your PIM program? On a server, what use is that the database engine is contained if it is compromised?

I am the first to accept the security benefits of sandboxing, but it is just _one_ thing. It doesn't even help against the majority of issues. Not even on Android/iOS.
Really cool idea! Style aside, I think you’ve developed an interesting product with lots of appeal, especially for those looking to be “less” connected.

For those complaining about the style, perhaps offering a DIY kit may be a viable alternative that allows anyone to add their own flair.
Do I need to recompile the shared library and the clients if one of them needs a newer compiler or if the client is provided as binary by the vendor?
Why should land values go up? The fraction of land needed for PV vs. the available land is very small.
I can't help but think of web rings on Geocities.
Wind and solar need backup power plants and therefore *CANNOT* replace nuclear power plants.
> No, this is not true, for the simple reason that there will _always_ be unpinned dependencies (e.g. your compiler. your hardware. your processor) and thus _those_ are the ones that will guarantee bitrot.

Docker with sha256 tags fixes that issue (and docker container even specify a processor architecture).
Tesla model 3 vs. model Y
There's a lot of symmetry with farmers buying 40 year old tractors. For exactly the same reasons. I really hope the pendulum swings the other way if even just a bit. I mean, there are still new dumb-phones being made. So maybe there's hope for dumb-other-things as well.
The old lady who runs our neighborhood Polish grocery store would smack me upside the head if I tried to order Pączkis!
I just remembered, there is no face recognition in google cloud, they provide only face detection.
If you need face detection, you still can use CompreFace, just don't upload any photos to Face Collection, and it will just find the face and return it's coordinates
Shakti k executable is 140 KB (0 libraries)
On stackoverflow you can spend your reputation on bounties for certain questions (niche, difficult) that would otherwise get ignored.

Personally I spent about 1000 reputation points on those, and some of the answers were surprisingly good.
I do wonder how far the human brain is from theoretical optimums. There is obviously something working really well, but there is also a lot of baggage that I do not doubt limits performance in some domains (cognitive) in order to preserve other basic functions (fight or flight or f*k).
The biggest opponent to progress is ourselves. Even if you came up with an implant that would make humans smarter and more moral/ethical, people won't adopt it readily for fear of change. Unless AI becomes attached conservationist in nature, I'm not sure they'd retain the baggage not optimal for modern environments.
Which is so little, that I'm surprised that he even bothered to write a blog post about it. Clicking through the links it looks like a lot of the pages are blogspam/secondary language versions of bigger websites, so I doubt that a lot of those webmasters are even trying to have a properly set up MX record (or care about that).
Department of Energy’s take on the Simpsons:

> https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/7-things-simpsons-got-wro...
It's only fitting, bitcoin is decentralized, it wants to kill centralized security/locks
>Modern cars are far more efficient, performant and easier to drive than a 15 year one

Can you clarify what being "easier to drive" means?
> The only advantage I can fathom for being able to unlock and start a car over the Internet instead of only by being within radio range seems more oriented towards attackers and other user-hostile scenarios

Your car might be parked further away than the radio distance, especially if you're living in a big city with few parking spaces. There are also a lot of scenarios where you are not at home but want to preheat your car anyways.
It's not just Venezuela that is a corner case. China is another one, a one billion "corner case".

Lots of banking problems in your so called "stable" countries like your account getting blocked (try running a business on transferwise or paypal) because of some shit algortihm.
Maybe, but that doesn't make the question invalid.
If a majority decides a subset of coins is invalid or should not be used, wouldn't that work?
Hi Carl.

Thanks for sharing and your work in general.

I always thought Godel results’ point is undecidability. Which (always?) arise with (StringTheoremsAreEnumerable and SomeKindOfCantorDiagonalReasoning). Where am I wrong?

Do you have any historical writings to recommend about Wittgenstein/Gödel battle?
Well, except your printer now has its own OS, and asks to be connected to the Internet so it can download security updates it wouldn't need if it wasn't connected to the internet.
The whole idea of an internet connected car that constantly 'phones home' without any easy way to bypass or disable is kind of mind boggling to me.

I don't understand why after this people weren't in an uproar.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/business/tesla-battery-ir...

When Tesla decided generously to temporarily grant residents fleeing a hurricane an upgrade that allowed full usage of their battery.

People's lives were literally in the hands of an optional, upsold firmware softlock.

The fact that it's come to that is completely appalling. When the manufacturer of your car has the power to save your life because if they didn't they'd suffer bad publicity is disgusting.

And the fact is, the only reason why hackers are able to gain access to vehicles, the only reason for any of it is because companies have decided cars need to be a service provided by them so they can keep making money after the initial purchase.

People buy cars so they can travel freely without relying on others. Making cars reliant on a third party server for something as basic as the ingition goes against the entire premise of owning a car.
My business law professor in Canada was one of attorneys for survivor families in Hampton case.

He started as a criminal lawyer in Chicago, but had a very short career because he completely ruined his track record by often defending Panthers, and blacks in general, and predictably loosing every time.

Had he have a choice to pick clients, he said he would've declined, but being a young lawyer he had to put bread on the table somehow.

First, he said made it for money, but then he got a near personal enmity with the judge, and continued just for the sake of inflicting just one defeat on them.

It was around late seventies when he noticed judges casually smoking with prosecutors in between court brakes.

And then he decided to move to Canada, and continue his career there as a contract lawyer, and in civil litigation.
Thanks, it just confirming what I thought. Solar is in the same bracket as nuclear. The difference is pretty small. Adding the energy density to the mix makes it obvious which one is a better option.
I somehow agree that there is no good strategy against "dual use" . However, why not simply put usage terms in the licence. The copyright owner chooses actively what uses they allow. IMHO it would be an ethically good thing to at least try to at least legally disallow "abuse": Authors of software need to claim more responsibilty and at least actively reflect on potential uses of their software.
I have the exact same issues you’re describing - but only on my third monitor that’s attached to its own GPU. - I’m still investigating, but I think it’s a PCIe issue.

Also, do you have an NVMe or Optane SSD attached?
Not for me. (I own a Kia Soul, electric.) Many owners use a similar feature to get their car to warm up at a specific time, though. I haven’t used it myself, though, being too disorganized to know ahead of time when I want to use the car. But I find it very useful to be able to keep an eye on the charging status, so I can return to the car when the battery is full enough.

Of course, if the intruders have the means to disable my car remotely, that is a much more serious issue.
> If Ehrlichman did say that (as you pointed out, even that is disputed) it's quite absurd. The prohibition of drugs started decades before the Vietnam War or the Civil Rights movement, and it was an international effort, in response to real dangers. It's not tenable to argue that it was all about control, nor that Nixon's motives (if those were his motives) were even relevant to the passage of the CSA with only 6 opposing votes in Congress.

Nominally, perhaps. But nobody can argue against the fact that widespread enforcement efforts stepped up drastically in the late 60s and 70s, with drugs being a particular focus after Nixon declared war on them explicitly. Just look at any chart documenting the incarceration rates [1], not to mention the literal creation of agency with (in modern times) a multi-billion dollar budget dedicated exclusively to drug enforcement.

[1] https://www.nap.edu/read/18613/chapter/4#35 figures 2-1 and 2-6
He does talk about that use of 500s:

> In 1993, NANP allocated the 500 NPA to Personal Communications Service (PCS), not to be confused with Personal Communications Service (PCS). ... [T]he former refers to... EasyReach 700 all over again, except for now it's called True Connections.
If I understand correctly, catering to C on modern mainstream processors results in excessively complex C compilers and excessive power consumption.

If I further understand correctly, the author observes at least one solution: processor design free from enabling C's rosy picture of today's processor.

Which is cool.

But what languages, or classes of languages, or maybe program architectures, are best deployed on the processors we have today? The author seems to suggest functional languages?
I know. It's an honest question though. Look at my blog and see how trollish I am, if you want.

I wonder whether the difficulty of quoting extensively contributes to the sometimes too polarised tone on HN. As far as I can tell it's ~impossible to do civilised things like quoting two paragraphs, emphasising the key parts and appending "emphasis mine". Try it, and IME people will be unable to tell the quoted parts from your own. It's a magnet for misunderstandig due to lack of markup.

The best I've been able to do is to keep quotations down to a line or a little more than that, so that both quotation marks are clearly visible at the same time. But that shortness opens the quotation to people saying "taken out of context", no matter how much I try to pick fairly.

"The best that I've been able to do" ≠ "the best that can be done".
A free market approach also places focus on the wrong performance indicators. Why is “very low cost” even a consideration when it leads to under investment which in turn results in significant power outages for significant periods of time.

The low cost of delivery is irrelevant if there is a strong chance that I’ll freeze to death because my service provider tries to be efficient and profitable instead of trying to be 100% online.

I understand the desire to avoid waste and inefficiency, but free market approaches tend to ignore the human factors and prioritise the financial. That’s not the correct.
>Mistake 3: Communicating something one time is enough

I feel better reading this as I am known to repeat myself!

It communicates what matters, separate from the reminder aspect of the act.
> Dependencies are far more likely to rot because they change in incompatible ways than the underlying hardware does

Yes, that is true. It is also very likely that you can more easily go back to a previous version of a dependency than you can go back to a previous hardware. The argument is that, therefore, pinning can only speed up your rotting.

If you don't statically link your dependencies, and due to an upgrade something breaks, you can always go back to the previous version. If you statically link, and the hardware, compiler, processor, operating system, whatever causes your software to break, now you can't update the dependency that is causing the breakage. And it is likely that your issue is within that dependency.

Pinning can only make you rot faster.
Yes, it has indeed gone backwards. I refuse to pay for the remote start 'subscription'. Utter stupidity.
Yes - we know this. We've known this for a long time.

The question is what now? Western nations have shown no political will to stand up to China.
Ah great explanation, thanks!
The Sandy Bridge SATA issue did make big waves back then and Intel did a recall IIRC.

Only the B2 stepping of chipsets should be affected by this tough.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-discovers-bug-in-6...

https://techreport.com/news/20326/intel-finds-flaw-in-sandy-...
Not entirely sure why you're being downvoted—maybe some are reading your list of groups, seeing their own, and saying, "well they were right up until that part," and got offended—but you are correct that illiberalism exists on all sides of the political spectrum.

And of course when it does, the now-illiberal faction rationalizes it with some manner of, "liberalism, except when..."

The problem with liberalism is that—while it is the most sane mode of structural organization—it is extremely brittle in the face of illiberalism.

Liberalism—and its ancestors/influences—never ate itself, unlike illiberalism. But it does always fall to barbarism. It's like having an argument with an insane person: you may be right, but you'll never win that fight.

That is a seriously concerning weakness, because when liberalism is threatened, the default modes of self preservation are either: roll over and get beaten (as a matter of principal) or reject some (or all) liberalism in order to fight back. In either case, liberalism goes away.

I'm not sure that anyone has ever come up with a reasonable defense. (And maybe there is none.) Humanity seems to prefer pendula. The grass is always greener...
1-700-555-4141 used to tell you who was set up as your primary interexchange carrier. It might still if you're on a truly old-school land line.
>It’s disingenuous to factor in mining requirement for solar panels but not uranium.

It would be if it wasn't for the fact that nuclear power is incredibly energy dense so mining requirements for Uranium or Thorium or whatever iteration of nuclear we have, are not even in the same universe as what we will need to scale solar and wind.

> But these include better recycling of existing minerals (this includes solar panels)

I don't know what to say to that. Solar panels are not recyclable. Neither are wind mills. Both are high-tech devices. They may never be recyclable. Also recycling, especially recycling of high-tech devices, is not free as it tends to be incredibly energy intensive. In most situations it's more efficient to just bury the darn thing.

>better forest management, better land use for food production, more careful road design that doesn’t fragment the wildlife, etc. A

The problem is that by going with solar and wind you're compounding all these problems, and the general problem of ecosystem collapse.

>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.

That's not true. It's where the mindshare inertia is (notice the deployment of wind and solar is pathetically low on a global scale), but if we truly internalized the danger of not just global warming but environmental collapse, we could pivot on a dime and we could expand our nuclear infrastructure probably in around two decades (we already lost 50 years by the way). It's like what happened with this pandemic. It takes a decade or more to roll out a new vaccine, unless a global pandemic shuts down the global economy and kills millions of people. Under those constrains, it turns out you can develop a vaccine in a year, and take another year to roll it out.

The other aspect is that there are no technical or engineering barriers to nuclear deployment. It's solely regulations and cost (though not prohibitively impossible costs. I'm willing to concede that nuclear is more expensive than things like natural gas). Wind and solar, on the other hand, still have unsolved technical challenges. You can't will those into existence.

But again, we haven't really internalized the dangerous of global warming and ecosystem collapse, so we're dicking around with wind and solar because it feels right.
>People's lives were literally in the hands of an optional, upsold firmware softlock

People's lives are literally in the hands of optional firmware softlock all the time in medical devices that you can find in hospitals. If the hospital doesn't pay for x feature or for support technicians to service them, then some people could actually die.

Saving lives or not, you can't blame a company for not giving you for free features you haven't paid for.
As far as I’ve read, no data on clinical effectiveness of the mRNA vaccines against the SA strain. There have been several reports where groups measure neutralizing antibodies in serum of people who have received vaccines against the various variants (with some methodological differences between those reports). One recent preprint found a 100 fold drop off in neutralizing activity against the SA strain (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.14.21251704v...), but others have found a less steep drop off. Also, that’s just measuring neutralizing antibodies, not other cell-mediated components of the immune response, and it is not clear what dropoff in neutralizing antibodies is clinically meaningful. I think there is data on the reduction in hospitalizations and deaths with other vaccines against the SA strain, but I don’t have those refs on hand. I imagine clinical data on the mRNA vaccines and the SA and P1 strains is being gathered now.
Then you should read Rodney Brooks for an argument against AGI coming soon with no mention of human exceptionalism. In fact, he argues that an artificially created organism with intelligence is more likely soon than an engineered one.

>> there is a DAMN surprising level of intelligence in significantly less complex life. we are just so attached to intelligence as defined by human culture to call it as it is.

Totally agree btw
With this price, Just buy a tablet and mount it.
>Of course this cannot work. _Think about it_. There are innumerable ways two pieces of code can be incompatible.

There's a very simple solution here: just don't write bugs.
This competitive mentality of who gets to be the dominating world superpower is beneficial to no-one.
Nano uses open representative voting, not DPoS and you would need much more than a single representative to hurt the network. The largest representative currently has 19.8% of the online voting weigh. An attacker would need to get above 50%.
I don't think you appreciate how old DNS is or why it uses the data structures it does.
As far as I can make out, this narrative is simply not true, at least not with regard to power generation. Texas is subject to the same NERC regulations as the rest of the U.S. and Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Reliability_Entity
Transclusions are great indeed! With proper filer mechanisms it's amazing what you can do. Have a look a TiddlyWiki (https://tiddlywiki.com/), which is open source and essentially built on transclusions. It's a bit hard to explain, but when one gets one's head around the concept, it's extremely powerful and flexible!
Quoting from the documentation I linked:

> Strongly prefer to upstream all patches to LLVM before including them in rustc.

That is, this is already the case. We don't like maintaining a fork. We try to upstream as much as we can.

But, at the same time, even when you do this, it takes tons of time. A contributor was talking about exactly this on Twitter earlier today, and estimated that, even if the patch was written and accepted as fast as possible, it would still take roughly a year for that patch to make it into the release used by Rust. This is the opposite side of the whole "move slow and only use old versions of things" tradeoff: that would take even longer to get into, say, the LLVM in Debian stable, as suggested in another comment chain.

So our approach is, upstream the patches, keep them in our fork, and then remove them when they inevitably make it back downstream.

(EDIT: Also, what Rusky said: there's basically always going to be more than one patch, in various stages of this process...)
It's likely a similar situation to televisions. Large fleet acquisitions may have the option to request telematics be disabled on their vehicles.

Never operated a fleet, though - so that's my speculation.
Both Forth and Lisp (and Basic, and every other interpreted language) -- implement symbol lookup at runtime

False for both Forth and Lisp — for Lisp since the beginning, for Forth since the early 1970s.
Honest question: does that mean anything on a DEX?