skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the Universe to be based on rules and therefore deterministic - the difference we're talking about is really just whether we can see inside the random number generator or not. A random number generator we can't peek inside doesn't make you any more free, you are still subject to making decisions based on variables outside of your control. There will always be far too much chaos to simulate large systems and make accurate/detailed long-term predictions.

In terms of free will, I believe it is really some manifestation of the human mind to fool ourselves into believing we are in control. This is useful of course, because if we act as if we have agency then we make better decisions as a result and the outcome is therefore better - despite it not being possible to have happened any other way.
You guys really punch above your weight. Like Bruce Lee. Here's hoping you grow slow and stay that way!
Obsidian is not a replacement for Notion tho, no databases, a lot of custom configuration, no nice templates, etc... I can't take how slow Notion is, and I'm looking for a self-hosted replacement, but Obsidian is just not there yet, except for the note taking part, that I dont care about.
> Your moralizing a non moral argument.

I'm responding to a common moralizing argument:

> > A common reason I hear for the fact that investors get more equity is because of the "risk" they take on

> Its simply harder to get access to someone else's capital than someone else's time. So people can charge a premium for the capital.

That's just another consequence of our current system favoring those with capital. There's a glut of capital, it's just allocated in manners that favor asset owners over those who work for a living.

A more democratic approach to capital access wouldn't necessarily have to tip the scales in favor of those who already have it.
The daily volume of BTC is above 50 billion. The cap is over a trillion. This is not a fundamental movement but a value based / perception one.
The funny thing is that just when the politics were getting interesting, the author takes a detour into the effects of memory and hand-waves away all the tensions between Earth and Mars.
It's like people have completely forgotten that rail allowed the USA to open up and develop in the interior in the first place! Look at the amazing featured map in [0]!

(I live in the town that had the first rail line in Australia.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_railroad
Thanks Jeremy! Are all those links related to congestion control? In short, that's basically allowing transactions to be shifted from high-congestion times to lower-congestion times without delaying the transfer (eg the transfer from the sender, even if the receive won't get the coins immediately). Is that right? Or are there more benefits of it?
If the attackers had full access, they probably broke into the financial systems, issued the bitcoin transactions and paid themselves directly. I mean, why bother going through the hassle of trying to teach people how to do all of that stuff?
I'm not sure why, but the two hackers fighting to get control of a tv station's tape robot is simultaneously the greatest and most ridiculous thing in that whole movie.

https://youtu.be/2efhrCxI4J0
Starship Orbital – First Flight FCC Exhibit [PDF]
Clever indeed; I only suspected this the second go-round, after I noticed the reload button flicker as I typed. I also noticed you don't have to press Enter or even type the correct phrase to get past the fake prompt. In hindsight, the easy to guess text should have been a dead give-away, but it wasn't.
You missed the mark, mate. The "single-digit minutes" applies to the one-time onboarding process, not cold-start times for a deployed service!
> yield farming (ponzi scheming)

There are a lot of ponzi scehemes in cryptocurrency markets, but you will have to expand on why you think yield farming is one of them.

The typical yield farming scenario is that users provide liquidity to AMM pools in exchange for LP tokens and accumulate trading fees on the pair while they HODL. The LP tokens themselves can often be staked on the DEX in exchange for governance tokens on that DEX (which may have other utility on the DEX as well).

Where is the ponzi scheme in this scenario?
I’m of the age where I had a Kinect in my bedroom when I read 1984, and it was interesting to reflect on how basically everything was already happening IRL and it wasn’t that big a deal.

Do you remember when people freaked because the new Kinect would be on _all the time_ and (gasp) _always listening_? Obviously no parallels to future technologies.

Alexa, play Despacito.
It's not that non-standard. You are describing the method Dropbox wrote a post about some years ago:

https://dropbox.tech/security/how-dropbox-securely-stores-yo...

> First, the plaintext password is transformed into a hash value using SHA512. This addresses two particular issues with bcrypt. Some implementations of bcrypt truncate the input to 72 bytes, which reduces the entropy of the passwords. Other implementations don’t truncate the input and are therefore vulnerable to DoS attacks because they allow the input of arbitrarily long passwords. By applying SHA, we can quickly convert really long passwords into a fixed length 512 bit value, solving both problems.

> Next, this SHA512 hash is hashed again using bcrypt with a cost of 10, and a unique, per-user salt. Unlike cryptographic hash functions like SHA, bcrypt is designed to be slow and hard to speed up via custom hardware and GPUs. A work factor of 10 translates into roughly 100ms for all these steps on our servers.

> Finally, the resulting bcrypt hash is encrypted with AES256 using a secret key (common to all hashes) that we refer to as a pepper. The pepper is a defense in depth measure. The pepper value is stored separately in a manner that makes it difficult to discover by an attacker (i.e. not in a database table). As a result, if only the password storage is compromised, the password hashes are encrypted and of no use to an attacker.
"If Apple loses control of the store then creating filters like this becomes much much harder."

WHy do people still think this is about Fortnite being on the app store? it was already on the app store.

Epic doesn't want to change the app store's content submission system (Epic has their own and it disallows adult apps). They want to host their own store for fortnite players and the other 12 people to download.

If the worry is about a kid installing external apps, Android already solves this. You need to explicitly opt into the choice to download 3rd party apps. Which can be hidden behind a password (like every other permission).

If your kid can crack that password, they probably already did it for Safari and have access to content you don't want them to see. At that point, it's a personal problem. Not Epic's, not Apple's.
I agree that the proprietary editor has been a showstopper for what is otherwise a very appealing advance in programming environments; many of us are old enough to have learned the hard way not to base our careers on proprietary infrastructure.

But it's not clear that this new project is a fix for that: there's no license file or licensing notice on https://github.com/asg017/dataflow and no mention of licensing in https://observablehq.com/@asg017/introducing-dataflow. So, unfortunately, under Berne Convention copyright laws (which is most of them nowadays) the software is by default restricted by copyright, and looking at it may put you at legal risk, because access plus substantial similarity is deemed to prove copying.

Now, possibly that isn't their intention; https://github.com/asg017/dataflow/blob/main/package.json does say "license": "ISC", so maybe it's just an oversight. But I'd like to see a much clearer and more unambiguous statement of their intent to irrevocably commit Dataflow to an open source license before touching it.
Anyway you look at it, Bitcoin is an energy hog:

Bitcoin mining CO2 output is larger than American Airlines or 8.9 million cars:
https://fortune.com/2021/05/13/musk-bitcoin-mining-bad-plane...
You just hack the machines that are loading the data onto the physical tapes or the system that is collecting the data to put onto the tapes. Essentially, at some point the data goes from where it is being used to the tapes and you just takeover one of the systems in that pathway. You then wait for 6 months silently encrypting the data before you make your demands. Now the absolute worst case is that 6 months of data is lost or however long you were hiding. Industry studies indicate that the average time between infiltration and detection of an agent actively exfiltrating data is a few months, so a few months for an agent not even pushing data out over the network, just silently corrupting data going to your off-site backups that you are not looking at is very reasonable.

Backups are not the end of the story unless you are dealing with attackers with only $10k to their name which is essentially what everybody without backups is losing their minds over and being defeated by. That is a literal rounding error of a rounding error of a rounding error for the financial industry. People spend more on lunch than that. A moderately sophisticated attack with a few million behind it is literally 100x the resources of most of these attacks and that is still just a microscopic pittance compared to the financial industry. Think about that, if you want to reach the $1M level you need a system that can defend against an adversary with 100x the resources of a basic ransomware attack. The gap is so large that the capabilities fundamentally change and intuition for how to defeat a $10k attack does not generalize.

And, we have not even considered a system that would even be considered barely adequate for the financial industry. If you want to get to something barely adequate for the financial industry, like say protecting against an attack funded to a level comparable to one day of disrupted operations for JP Morgan, you would need to protect against an attack on the order of $500M, literally 500x more than those "good" systems and 50,000x better than these basic systems. The gaps are ludicrous and the lessons at one scale do not really apply when you go up another 2 or 4 orders of magnitude.
If there’s truly nothing of value for four years of school, then I’d argue that university isn’t really worth attending…

And the required courses of bio, chem, o chem, and physics give all doctors a basic understanding of the scientific method, how biology works (that’s important), and a basic knowledge of skills required for pharmacology. Everything else is optional for Med school, but I can’t see how, everything else equal, someone who cheats their way through these would be more prepared for medical school than someone who actually learned the concepts.
For the same reason that people are (allegedly) concerned about the tyranny of the majority, or about how everything they buy is made in China.

Why not make local, better media?

For the same reason that Wal-Mart is full of cheap foreign imports, instead of domestic products.
Thank you for the awesome recommendations! Note that Dataflow isn't open source yet, though.
Are you talking about the hackers or Colonial Pipeline?
I feel like this bill makes more sense if you look at it from a geopolitical standpoint instead of an economic standpoint.

Economies of scale dictate that, yes, Disney and Marvel can make billions of dollars of profits year after year. And they can absolutely out-spend Canadian companies, coming from a market with 10x the number of consumers.

For comparison, you can look at Quebec. While France has a larger population than Quebec, the difference is smaller, and the cultural difference is larger, and so they punch above their weight against the rest of Canada when it comes to media because they have a drive to consume local content that isn't found elsewhere.

And so this bill is an attempt to (artificially) bootstrap that same culture in the other 75% of Canada.
These Canadian Content rules have already been in place for a long time. This is about applying them to online providers the way they’re already applied to broadcasters.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content
I don’t think I had encountered the term before reading this article, it certainly isn’t in my vocabulary. I immediately took it to mean “people with a role or characteristic which may not make them a fractional minority of the population but experience similar disadvantages because that role or characteristic is imbued with a minority of power”. Sure, that’s more or less the same as “marginalized”, but having synonyms is part of what makes language expressive, and at least for some of us that makes life a little less dull and talking about challenging subjects more accessible.
Firefox on Android has a setting "Open links in apps" and works similar to the way you describe but it's global, either enabled for all websites or disabled for all. I agree that something similar on desktop would be useful.
This is an excellent point. If you are a hands on techie by inclination, then you should be aware that blindly chasing promotion in an organisation that doesn’t have a track for “individual contributors” is simply going to lead to more time in meetings and less time doing what you are good at and enjoy.
Most of the corporate world is built around the idea that promotion will entail more and more (formal) leadership responsibilities.

My personal experience is that people who wish to specialise in developing their own technical work to a higher level, without taking on management responsibilities, need to be more proactive about seeking the next role that will be right for them and very often that means looking externally.

Of course there are a number of organisations that explicitly provide a specialist seniority track outside management (Sun Microsystems was the first that I encountered), but you probably already know if you work somewhere like that.
Microsoft 365 Sensitivity Labels
I think this is a great example of how to handle such a mistake, and it makes me trust Backblaze more (yes, I am aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_recovery_paradox - I'm more likely to trust a company that admits mistakes, because it makes it less likely that they are hiding other, potentially worse mistakes and I'm more likely to be transparently informed when something that affects me goes wrong).

I was a bit surprised that I didn't see something like "we're working with Facebook to delete any copies of the data Facebook may be storing".
That's symptomatic of a dead organization, in my opinion. All employees should be compensated at the highest level the organization is willing to pay them at that moment, in terms of responsibility, compensation, and title. If there's no room to promote them because the org chart is full, but they deserve it, congratulate them, explain the situation, and give them a raise and more responsibility. Your employees should never be able to call your bluff, because you shouldn't be bluffing!

It really throws me for a loop when people say they were offered better work for more money when they threatened to leave. How can you call yourself a good manager if you're not advocating for the best possible work in exchange for the best possible compensation out of each of your employees?
Our biggest problem is that we don't yet know how to terraform. Certainly we have some theories but we haven't yet been able to put any of them into practice.

We need to learn the ins and outs of how to terraform, at first, at home, on Earth.

We have several current problems on Earth that are good candidates for terraforming:

How to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere.

How to produce drinkable water in places there aren't any.

How to grow plenty of food on land that is sub-optimal.

If we can do those things here on Earth, then we might possibly have some chance of success in terraforming alien places like Mars.
The state is definitely capable of detecting every single speeder and sending them a ticket. You just need some smart centralization, wire traffic cameras and doppler radars on every corner, program tracking algorithms and decode the license plates to match them with the owner and record a fine.

It chooses not to.
As another Canadian I believe this is a pretty strong miscategorization of the bill, this bill is extending the practice of CanCon to online platforms that would, from given comments, require various algorithmic recommendation tools to highlight content that the CRTC marks as being Canadian.

There are some concerns around censorship here (that the Canadian government may decline to mark videos highlighting controversial topics as being Canadian) but it'll honestly just shift those videos out of this preferred requirement.

Most services currently offer some regional and language preferences so this doesn't seem like a huge technical requirement but it is quite possible it'll hurt smaller platforms disproportionately more than larger ones - most regulation, even very warranted stuff, tends to increase the barrier to market entry.

I think this is a pretty fair way to approach trying to supplement the economy and retain more productivity within the country as we're trying to pay off the debts we've racked up during covid, it'll help boost the take home of artists and independent creators without leaving a large line item supporting the arts for the CPC to cut if they regain a majority. But that's totally just my opinion.
Makes you wonder if humans also have less "there" than we give ourselves credit for. How much of sentence construction is just repeating familiar tropes in barely-novel ways?

To what extent have our brains already decided what to say while we still perceive ourselves as 'thinking about the wording'?
Clark's are decent dress shoes. They hold up for 1-2 years of daily wear. They fit, feel, and wear as good as the good Florsheims I had previously (not the rubber soled stuff they make now).

I doubt there are many places in the US that sell really good leather shoes. You can go to Europe and have excellent custom made shoes for about 200 USD. Maybe there are some places still around in NYC or somewhere like that, but I'm guessing the cost will be a lot more.

https://www.amazon.com/Clarks-Tilden-Oxford-Black-Leather/dp...
Every piece of drug marketing I've ever seen has been accompanied by a comically long list of side-effects. What market are you seeing unregulated drug marketing in?
What about “natural” flavors in ingredients. Always wonder what they are adding to
Lacroix flavored water and other things we are ingesting.
That's a neat idea. Using ai to approximate a slow process in real time is already done for different topics, I think I saw something for cloth simulation where they trained the network on a high resolution simulation and then used its output for the real time gameplay.
But maybe you don't get as nice of a look as a real world video source, even the best rendering algorithm and assets might feel a bit "fake" and I wouldn't want to be the guy adding details to a model just to train the ai, and having the model thrown away after training.
I'm absolutely not saying it's right, but there's a point you can reach by setting expectations like this that filters out all of the honest students. I remember reading some statistic on cheating in med school and it's absolutely insane.
Musk in the near future: Transaction efficiency is irrelevant in a Proof of Work system as the energy consumption is a function of asset price and block rewards. I will no longer touch any PoW asset as it stands against everything we stand for. Exploring Chia.

Then we have data storage black markets, people saying goodbye to old photos because run out of storage. Developers pivot to pole dancing because they cannot install Xcode anymore on their drive and cannot afford a larger one.
This is very interesting and I appreciate the author's take on his own work: That it's not, by a long shot, the whole solution. It's great that he modeled the physics and all, and he acknowledges that the amount of work to turn that simulation into a landed rocket is just staggering.

The scale of the complexity comes seems analogous to the complexity of starting with nothing- no raw materials- and building something complex like an internal combustion engine.

Step 1: Find iron ore. Wait, what?

Step .5 answer "What is iron?"

Step .4 "What is ore?".

Step .3 "shoveling is hard."

Step .2 Banging rocks together.
That doesn’t fit given he is still pumping Doge since his announcement about BTC.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392974251011895300?s=21
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392030108274159619?s=21
Interesting work.

It didn't work between firefox and chromium on my linux desktop, even trying the chromium branch. But my linux desktop already puts me into a pretty small bucket of users to begin with, so someone who's doing this may not see any joy in trying to fix that.
There is no reason to believe this is true and/or will be productive. I don't know anything about Musk himself that suggests he would be of unusual help in this field.
Hugely interconnected IT systems are a little more complicated to restore from backup than a wordpress site. Especially since you need to disconnect everything, restore and ensure _nothing_ has been missed, then reconnect everything otherwise any remaining infected devices could just lead to it all happening again. This is all more complicated when those systems are driving actual real world mechanisms and business processes.

As far as I know they have backups and are working on restoring from them.

Keeping spare parts (backups) is good. But there's a difference between pulling your bicycle in the garage and replacing the inner tube and trying to rebuild your car from scratch while you're doing 60mph down the freeway.
Probably for the same reason he tweets about doge. IMO he's pointing out how absurd and dangerous the crypto market is. Cryptocurrency needs regulation and controls before it does significant damage. The manipulators are having a field day right now.
I like her analogies.

For laymen who has followed determinism vs non-determinism (I’m a fan of the latter camp; Bell never ruled out determinism), this article is on the cusp of comprehensible.

There are definitely paragraphs that aren’t, but it’s still a good read.

The exciting point, though, is that super determinism isn’t merely an interpretation of QM. Given time, one expects these theories to be testable.
Then won't they get in trouble? The most recent statement directly says they have not sold any, just stopping accepting payments in it.

That would be an explicit lie then, something the SEC has jurisdiction over? (I'm not actually sure)
Everything Is Becoming Paywalled Content–Even You
So we can't claim Tesla did a pump and dump because there's no evidence showing that.
LaTeX doesn't really support interactive data visualizations or reactive re-rendering, and it's a pretty difficult environment to do things like read a CSV data file and do a linear regression in. Observablehq is closer to Jupyter, Excel, R Studio, Octave, or Tk than LaTeX.
Brave New World becomes ever more prescient. Fahrenheit 451, too:

We're Mildreds too busy being consumed by the stories of our parlour walls (social media?). Or Fabers too cowardly to really speak up and stand up to it when we had the chance. Or Montags working in the system that slowly eats away at us until we wake up one day to what has been lost.

I think the "average" person is fine because they never have the pressing need to exercise a freedom, and when one comes to the occasion and finds that the freedom is gone, it might be too late to regain.
Thank you for the explanation. Most people want to see their physical card in front of them.

In the system you describe people would almost certainly sell the NFT and keep the physical card, while saying they lost it. This would drive the value of collector's memorabilia down to zero. Nobody really cares about NFTs.
> It's also fairly controversial within the Python dev community.

I can't speak to the Python book, but his Unix and SQL books are fantastic.