skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or the AI would suggest attacking unacceptable non-military targets, or inflict collateral damage

I would expect the people who wrote the AI would impose on it constraints to avoid this – to be useful in the real world, an AI has to comply with the same constraints that real world military commanders have to follow, and the laws of war are among those (certainly if we are talking about the US military.)

(A realistic risk is that it might interpret those rules differently than a human would – maybe in an overly pedantic manner – and its overly pedantic readings of the rules might give human commanders cover or encouragement to engage in the same harmful pedantry.)

> or suggest nuking the enemy as a first strike

I doubt they'd even give an AI that option to consider. Realistically if you are a US military commander – in Afghanistan or Iraq or Syria or wherever the US might intervene next – that's not an option on the menu. The decision to use nuclear weapons only comes from the very top, and the very top will only consider it in utterly dire circumstances.

To be actually a useful tool to military commanders, you want an AI which suggests to them strategies they might not have thought of, or which gives them a reasoned opinion on which of the various options they are considering is most advisable. A useful AI tells them how to use the resources they have, and nuclear weapons are not–in normal circumstances–an available resource to US military operations.
AI should never be allowed to take human life.
Well, the Supreme Court is the fallback method. In reality, Congress is the branch that's supposed to say, "whoa, that new technology opens some new questions about privacy and such, let's pass a law clarifying the situation". But, in practice, our fallback method appears to be resorted to at least as often as the intended method.
I couldn’t even log into Skype after the acquisition!
Is this the case outside of London?

Prices for older homes in more historic cities are high, even in the USA. But that's because commuting in Boston or DC is a fucking nightmare and most new development is occurring pretty far from the city centers. (though, not nearly to the degree of London)

When you get to places like Nashville, it's still possible to build a new home 15 minutes from downtown. Plus, fly-over cities tend to have satellite "office districts"* in the suburbs. So there's really no benefit to dealing with an older house, so, unless they are particularly charming, old homes come at relative discounts to new ones.

* Basically a town, usually off of a major highway, that is made up entirely of large office complexes designed for commuting by car from nearby suburbia.
Free as in freedom, even
Skype for business school case studies on how to destroy a massive lead in video chat and messaging.
> Jefferson, and the founders in general, were referring to covenants or trusts governing the use of property after death, such that no living person had unrestricted use of it

Did you read the article I linked? Cause that doesn't seem to be the case. He repealed the laws of primogeniture and entail, and he himself quoted Smith, showing that he was in agreement with Smith.

And confirmed here as well:

> Some founders wanted to eliminate inheritance entirely. In a letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson suggested that all property be redistributed every fifty years, because "the earth belongs in usufruct to the living." Madison gently pointed out the plan's impracticality. Benjamin Franklin unsuccessfully pushed for the first Pennsylvania constitution to declare concentrated wealth "a danger to the happiness of mankind."

From https://origins.osu.edu/history-news/death-taxes-and-america...
The UI is so ugly. The use of contrast between elements is so half-assed that it’s hard to find basic buttons like send, attach, end call.

They mess with the Windows audio driver somehow, so even though I have an audio interface that works with Windows for Ableton and Zoom browser calls, Teams will not permit it to be used in calls. It will start the call and then every time you speak say “This microphone isn’t compatible with Teams”, so it is detecting sound and choosing not to pass it. There’s no reason for the application to do anything other than refer to the default audio device but for some reason it doesn’t do that.
I actually like the feel, and later versions didn't sound like a thundering herd. But it was just so unreliable that it was completely not worth it.
Did you tame the ego via meditation? If not what other method? Curious about the path that lead to depersonalization. It’s discussed in meditation circles as a fear some have, but really, many monks and “enlightened” are interesting characters eg. Shinzen Young
Can confirm. My city shot down ALL Airbnb’s before I could even get in the game.
Um, yea. That past realization led to my comment, and my habit of yelling at PHBs in exchange for money (we call it "business consulting")
> Interestingly, most of the transaction costs hit you when you sell, not when you buy

When you buy, the seller is paying the transaction fees. Where do you think that money comes from? They get it from _you_ the buyer.
I believe the implication is that wars are won by taking and holding ground.
Then why the USAMRIID lab leak theory should be dismissed ?
Most people I know use Discord like IRC during the day. Voice chat if and when they play games. Or big events, like election night or big sporting events. It's not all voice chat all the time.
> Similarly, dangerous game (e.g., Cape buffalo and long-horned buffalo; see SOM Table S2) are recorded in small numbers throughout the faunal dataset. Increased proportions of dangerous game within MSA assemblages have been argued to reflect improvements in projectile technology, which provides the ability to hunt game at greater distances (Klein et al., 2007). While the proportion of these species increases from the early (0.03%) to late Middle Pleistocene (4%), they never predominate.

Even in the modern era with high powered rifles, Cape Buffalo are still considered dangerous. I would not want to be anywhere near one with armed only with a spear.

Given that, a 100-fold increase in how much is hunted after spears are introduced, seems like a huge difference.
The article does not mention that one major thing MS-DOS improved on was the filesystem. CP/M had no concept of a hierarchical filesystem, instead the filesystem was flat and only divided into a set of numbered user areas.
I just run them on different machines. My life is so much simpler without all those layers. Windows never messes with my Linux and vice versa.

Of course it helps that RDP and freeRDP both work very well. Whenever I need Windows I just fired up and I'm there instantly. If I want to play a game I go over to my gaming machine. Personally I never mix games and business.
Kind of interesting given that they passed on Slack for $8B not too long ago...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/source-microsoft-mulled-an...
Not only inspiration, there are various linked articles with good suggestions on how to write good readmes: https://github.com/matiassingers/awesome-readme#articles
Sure but I could just run Ubuntu and containerd in a VM and it's the same thing. Or just run k8s instead...
My exact thoughts.
Because the intermediate animal is likely animal farming, and they don't want to take the economic and political hit of shutting down an entire industry. We don't have the will to do that either, we still haven't shut down our mink farms.

And just for domestic propaganda reasons. If it came from China they could be blamed for it, and they want to deny/deny/deny and defect blame. Serves their propaganda purposes to have people believe it was imported and generates an us-vs-them bunker narrative where the rest of the world is unfairly blaming them. That leaves their citizens questioning the rest of the world and not their own government.
Well that's probably at least in part because a major motivation for that acquisition was not to actually improve the underlying technology. To quote verbatim one of my favorite hn posts of all time (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18411779):

A series of headlines:

2009 - NSA offering 'billions' for Skype eavesdrop solution [1]
2011 - Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion. Why, exactly? [2]
2012 - Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft [3]
2013 - Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages. Subhead: Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls [4]

1. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_for_skype_pwnage/
2. https://www.wired.com/2011/05/microsoft-buys-skype-2/
3. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft/
4. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
ClickUp is so good it feels like an endgame for this kind of products
China is pushing real hard to discount it and try to hype up zoonotic transmission. That should tell you something.
In case you haven’t been following along with the community the last prerequisite for parallelism will land with 4.13 in the next 3-6 months (guesstimate). Once that lands 5.0 is next which will have true parallelism.
I've never worked on a team of more than 7 on a product, so even testing on Firefox is considered too much work for testing.

Put in dollars, it probably costs 5-10 million a year (if not more) to test extensions even haphazardly.
I've used DDG for years now. They give me the exact same results that Google does, all the time. And why wouldn't they when they're indexing the same web sites. Full-text search isn't rocket science, after all, and it's not like new websites with quality content have surfaced lately given the incentives. I don't even bother to cross-check Google's result anymore, something I occasionally used to do maybe two years ago.
I think that is pretty narrow sighted. A new major world war could be won with viruses, bacteria, drones, small robots, hacking financial systems, space lazers, genetically enhancing your population for financial domination, etc.. Air superiority is possibly a factor in some possible versions of war, but the reality is that it mostly gives us an advantage that allows us to press our will upon lesser militaries. That doesn't mean it couldn't be the dominant factor, but I imagine a major war between any super powers would be so costly to human life (since we are so good at killing now), that alternatives to traditional means of takeover would probably be preferred.
I find the shorthand clearer. Having to ignore less boilerplate code often makes it easier to process the highlights of what is happening.

(I know people are awfully smug about paying more attention to the "unhappy path," but when it comes to reading and understanding the intent behind code, understanding the happy path comes first).
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -Albert Einstein

The post 1945 peace we've enjoyed is because a lot changed after WWII, not the least of which was the development of nuclear weapons and frameworks of nuclear deterance used around the world.

The problem now is that so many players have nuclear weapons they might leverage in dire situations should things go south that these sort of conflicts have largely been avoided. Most 'wars' now occur through financial/economic, information, and psychological means to gain upper hands. The rest of the conflicts are largely against smaller players who don't have nuclear weapons or even comprable fighter jets.

I wouldn't rule out another major war though because people seem to crave conflict but I think it's going to take a lot more to get into the scale of conflicts we've seen before.
Looking at the source of the actual page, it's very odd markup.

There's a real input field, and a hidden input field "on top of" each other. I guess one is the stylized user-interactive one of which the value gets normalized into cents into the hidden one?

<span class="variable-amount">
$
<input class="variable-amount-input" type="text" style="width: 25px;">
<input name="amount" type="hidden" value="19900">
/year
</span>
The haves fight drone wars between themselves. But that won't happen because of nuclear deterrent.

So the haves will fight with drones and the have-nots will spill their blood.

This was presaged in Afghanistan. Army drone pilots did their shift killing Afghan soldiers with drones in an American base, get in car, drive to family in suburbs once your shift was up.

Next up: all those "shooter" gamers can get paid to operate robot infantry! None of that pesky resistance to actually killing people like they dealt with back in WWI and WWII.
I’m glad to hear you made it through and are enjoying the freedoms every human being ought to have the right to. I feel a combination of sadness and anger when I read such stories and how society and inherent conditioning can be so cruel. If you have any books or resources to recommend, I’d like to learn more and keep those handy (I’m not gender queer, but am someone who could be called an “ally” and would like to be a better ally in supporting people’s freedoms to live as they wish to).
The CMS interface is only a small part of the value. If you cut loose and try to run a high profile blog/newsletter on your own, suddenly you're paying for IT professionals to do security because you are a high profile target and what you want to do is write, not stay constantly up-to-date on hardening your CMS, database, and sensitive information. Good operational security for a website with the threat model of a high profile, heterodox journalist probably costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

If Substack can effectively economize the provision of security for the blogs/newsletters of high profile writers, they might actually reach a scenario that inverts the dynamic of others like YouTube or Patreon: the higher your profile, the more attractive something like Substack becomes; the lower your profile, the easier it is to handle your own website administration and not worry about security.
The pendulum of remote-to-onsite work is swinging back away from full-remote, yes, but I think this type of report has the air of "buggy-cart vendors in the age of the Model T" about it.

Major (or a subset of) employers do not like losing centralised control of their employees, but there are a large cohort of employees who wish to see remote or hybrid models of work and, critically, this trend was growing prior to COVID-19. COVID merely accelerated this trend, as it did with a lot of pre-existing social and industrial changes.

> And lastly I'm just not convinced that businesses actually act based solely on hard figures.

Correct. Large, Big-5-hiring, corporations are probably going to be the last companies to move to true hybrid models. They are behemoths that cannot be turned quickly. They have slow bones, vast inertia, and long memories, and will have been optimised for reporting chains that require face-to-face interactions and strong visual signaling. All of this takes time to change.

But I wouldn't expect that this return to all-onsite work will be completed before the pendulum begins to swing back again the other way.
It's possible—nay likely—that I don't understand the true value of generics. It's something that I've looked into on occasion and it never seemed all that useful to me. Most examples I've come across in the past were C++ and seemed like formalised workarounds for deficiencies in the C++ type system rather than being actually useful. I'm sure I've failed to grok them—or based on the code I write I'm not the target audience for them.

I have no problem when a language allows the programmer to explicitly opt for a variable to be an undefined/dynamic type, whether as part of generics or as part of a defensive ingest of untrusted data. I admit this is previously unspecified nuance but in my mind this doesn't break my rule: "this variable is always going to be a dynamic type, never not a dynamic type." This means you know when to interact with it defensively.

The thing I'd like in a hybrid static-dynamic language is type assertion blocks which restore some benefits of static typing while dealing with dynamic typed variables. E.g.:

declare x as dynamic;
x = untrusted_source();
if (x IS_A string) {
// Inside here, x behaves as a statically typed string.
// The compiler knows it and checks types appropriately.
// Passing x elsewhere will send a static typed string.
function_that_demands_a_string(x);
}
else if (x CAN_SAFELY_BECOME_A uint) {
// True for any non-negative integer regardless of data type.
// Inside here, x is always a statically typed uint.
// If it was some other type, it was converted for me.
}

(This probably already exists in some language somewhere but my familiarity with languages is narrow.)
An article on HN a few years ago on how easy it is to steal data using auto form fill.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13329525

For this reason, never use auto form fill.
I think that strategy is much more complex than tactics, while improving tactics has real tangible benefits that can be realized sooner, amplifying power. Even stupid genderals can win if their army is 10x as smart, 10x as powerful than the enemy.
Investing the money in a proper crimp tool helps a LOT with these fiddly little buggers. I've got a nice set of interchangeable crimp dies that go with one of two different sized crimpers, ( Its from the same ODM/manufacturer as this tool set https://www.altronics.com.au/p/t2177-crimptool-ratchet-multi..., I just collected my own set from several different stores because I wanted a different set of crimp dies) and while I can crimp right down to these sorts of small connectors... the moment I have any problems or it doesn't crimp right first time I'll put down my big crimp tool, and swap over to the little crimp tool I have thats specific for these darn things, pretty sure its this one, https://www.altronics.com.au/p/t1537-crimptool-telephone-ter..., I've had it so long I've forgotten which model it is.

While having good tools helps, they are still a PITA, just no longer a RPITA.
This is a horror story and its bigger than just dell. Replacing a macbook battery is virtually impossible as well. IMO this is a problem that needs government action. The right to repair laws should include that ALL consumer electronics which use a battery have a serviceable battery and that parts be sold for x years.
If they start requiring a Microsoft account to sign in like they did with Mixer then I know a bunch of people will be out, including me.

If they treat it like GitHub and let it be it's own thing then maybe I'll stick around. I doubt they're going to treat it like that though because they don't treat gamers like they do devs.

Maybe now's a good time for somebody to start building an alternative.
I suspect that it may have been "bred." That is, engineered in the same way that dog breeds are engineered, which isn't so exotic.
>>A happy life is not a life of retirement, its a life of meaning. What was meaningful once (aiming for retirement), loses its meaning once it has been attained.

Who said anything about happiness. We are mixing two different things 'retirement' and 'happiness'. Happiness is an emotional state, and Retirement is a financial state. Happiness/Sadness can apply to any situation. It has nothing to do with wealth or financial independence.

Retirement is about having enough to not worry about being in need of a job to just keep your head above water.

Retirement is just worth the independence and availability of options.
Not enough, and not in November when the Chinese first discovered the cases.

flu cases year to year have a very wide variety. In the U.S. the low number of cases one year was 16M two years later it was 68 Million cases.
Skype was always garbage software, even long before Microsoft bought it
> China is pushing real hard to discount it and try to hype up zoonotic transmission. That should tell you something.

That's what China would be expected to do:

(1) if it knew the Wuhan lab leak theory was correct,

(2) if it knew zoonotic transmission was correct.

(3) if it had no idea what was going on.

(4) if it wasn't a lab leak but a deliberate biological weapons test that went wrong, and they has engineered both their overt argument and the lab leaks story as layers of cover.

So, no, their behavior here tells us nothing.
Not in November when the Chinese "discovered" the virus.
> We need to avoid demonizing China over this if we want to ever find out the truth

Or China can start to be more honest if it does not want to be demonized.
Probably just through their HR service: https://www.upwork.com/i/payroll-client

I didn’t see a HR person listed on staff, so it’s probably just easier to use a third party service to handle all of that.
In US Congress you can only vote down the member from your district. In the EU, your vote impacts the selection of MEPS not just for one small district, but for an entire country’s worth of MEPs. So your vote does matter and you can vote down the party you disagree with. You just don’t seem to understand how it works. Watch any parliament at work and it’s just as eye opening.
There are shit loads of people who own expensive offices, in London that includes Russian oligarchs, no wonder so many stories are out saying people want to come back to the office - they don't.
Super anecdotal comment here, but my down arrow key on my Macbook Air M1 2020 was recently sticking. No spills. Removed it, found nothing, and tried to put it back, but now I've cracked the key. Off to the Apple Genius bar I go. I've had it for nearly 4 months now. Hopefully this is just a one off.
Trying to upgrade stuff like Spring from 4.3 because you need 5.1 to run on Java 11+ is where we've felt the pain the most, but then we were doing some awful Spring stuff.
Not in November when the Chinese first discovered the virus.
NFTs will run their course. People are just dazzled by all the big money pumping up the hype, but there is just nothing satisfying about owning a mark in a digital ledger that has no actual connection to the work it references, it's simply not sustainable as a cultural phenomenon.
I think many bureaucrats everywhere view the press as an annoyance, but in places where they're used be being able to push the press around, pushing the press around becomes standard operating procedure even when there's nothing in particular to hide. Also, without a free press, nobody is incentivized short-term to dig deeper if a cursory investigation doesn't turn anything up. The end result is predictable stonewalling if a cursory investigation came up with nothing, even if the officials are pretty sure they have nothing to hide. (Also, due to incentives, it's harder for officials to be certain they really have nothing to hide.)

Having been in Hong Kong for just under a decade, I've seen several cases of bureaucrats making tone-deaf statements partly because they aren't used to dealing with a free(-ish) press. I have journalist friends, and I wish the relationship with the press were different, but bullying the press is less a sign of a cover-up when officials aren't used to dealing with a free press.
Finally an NFT I can get behind.

I still cannot fathom why people think buying a certificate of authenticity authenticated by nobody, whose supply can be arbitrarily increased by the seller at any time, is an interesting exercise.

All you get is a certificate of authenticity for a URL lol. Nice.
Something that might help is that reddit has voting, so astroturfing requires fooling users which lots of blogspam wouldn't.