skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also need to research them to learn how to counter them if an enemy does use them. Given that most of the conflicts of the last few decades were not with states but with groups the chance of someone using them is high. Especially as technology becomes more accessible.
Indeed, but the accredited investor rules do have a relatively easy escape. The corresponding escape for medicine is really hard.
It would be a disaster to enter a military conflict with an adversary that has autonomous weapons if you don’t have at least effective countermeasures yourself.

I suppose nuclear states could in principle rest on their laurels, but at least from a layman’s perspective it doesn’t give an impression of being strategically sound.

But obviously it’s a scary rabbit hole to enter. It’s not fun when game-theoretical considerations or human nature seems to make dubious technological developments inevitable.
I recall reading about workplace accidents where (inert gas) displaced oxygen and workers didn’t notice until they literally started dropping dead
> The continuity is an illusion.

That is an assertion.

> Your body?

No, my body is part of me, it makes little sense to try to divorce what appears to be the emergent phenomenon of consciousness from the wetware that it runs on. There is no sense in which I am not tied to my brain.

> Your genes?

No, I likely would be different without my particular genetic makeup. It's an odd question to ask, there's not really a way to separate me from that.

> Consider things like Alien Hand Syndrome, or that people can live with half their brain removed and it doesn't even matter which half

People can live, but damage to parts of the brain very much changes them, and can change all aspects of their personality. At that point the "you" is very much changed or (usually) diminished. But that doesn't speak to continuity of experience or singularity either.

None of this makes any difference or even much sense in the context of my consciousness being continuous or singular. It's subject to change and physical damage. That doesn't mean if you copy my brain into a computer somehow that it's anything other than a copy, I will not experience its experiences, live its life.

> Consider why people are willing to sacrifice their lives for others

This seems entirely orthogonal to any question about whether consciousness is continuous or singular. There are many reasons that people may choose to do this, none of them maintains their conscious experience.
There's an embedded cultural assumption in all of this: children are the property of their parents, rather than members of a community raised by the community as a whole.
Otherwise, by the poster’s logic, why hasn’t CloudFlare been a DDoS vector?
You've basically built a message queue as a service using HTTP. I personally don't see the innovation here or the kind of moat you expect to build, but I wish you the best of luck in your endeavor.
There is - pay money.
The Mysterious Psychic Coin
Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript
https://www.unix.com/man-page/mojave/2/fclonefileat/

summary: this is a nice cow/cloning wrapper for use on a single ssd partition!

-- but cloning not copying between volumes or partitions is .. and when you actually want to copy with fcp, it can be very slow as detailed in other comments.
> Permanently divorcing physical location from economic opportunity gives us a real shot at radically expanding the number of good jobs in the world while also dramatically improving quality of life for millions, or billions, of people.

This doesn't seem consistent with what is happening in A16Z's own backyard. Either Marc knows something we don't or this is unwarranted hyperbole.
You can still buy those sets: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/themes/classic

The highly detailed sets really takes nothing away from those.

It is also my understanding that those free play sets sells well, so they really are complimentary.
What's are the differences between a VPN and an onion router approach? Could anyone explain or link to an article?
I am reminded of my favorite web comic, The Land of Upp:
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/08/02
Almost certainly. You'd be going almost 8km/s in low earth orbit. When your body reenters, it's going to experience the same compression heat as anything else moving several kilometers a second entering the atmosphere.
Then why does the very gdpr.eu website have a cookie banner at the bottom of the page?! There is clearly no session or shopping cart going on.
Once again, I'm a big fan of this idea. I wish this service existed 4 years ago when I built my own. Lots of time has been spent there. Probably bad timing, but I actually *just* finished a blog post on how I built my webhook system and posted it to HN [0]. I gave Svix a shout out. :)

Anyways -- I think really nailing API uptime is going to be critical for a service like this, to reduce the chance of having to do queuing on the customer's end to replay failed requests to Svix. That's one of my big concerns at first glance. Some of the webhooks I send are table-stakes for many customers.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27528212
I’m not so sure. If you read back up that thread, the thought that triggered it was from qzervaas:

Apple's already shown they don't like this behaviour with their randomised MAC addresses in iOS 8+.

And elsewhere in the thread people called out the fact apple had already introduced support for ad blocking. So Apple’s privacy-positive posture was already in the air.

I think there is a sense in which privacy was already a differentiator for Apple in iOS (as contrasted with Google’s motives in android in particular of course) - so this did feel like a not completely implausible way they could go to double down on that differentiator.
Doesn't a consumer VPN keep my ISP from building a data profile on me?

Yes, I get that now my VPN provider can build that data profile, but I am certain that my ISP is a vile monopoly that has corrupted the regulators that are supposed to represent me.
I just want to know which communities the red dots are. I wish they'd made a zoomable version of the map with labels.
Jon Stewart just made that point yesterday too:

“I think we owe a great debt of gratitude to science,” Stewart said. “Science has, in many ways, helped ease the suffering of this pandemic, which was more than likely caused by science.” (1)

I disagree with regard to climate change though because that externality has so far been a net positive for humanity and we can solve the downside. Yes, technology enabled us to dig up and burn buried carbon at scale sufficient to alter the climate, but that's what lifted billions out of poverty and eliminated starvation in much of the world. We'll solve the negative externality with renewable energy, clean nuclear energy, carbon capture, improved manufacturing efficiency and materials, etc.

1) https://news.yahoo.com/jon-stewart-endorses-lab-leak-1305162...
Is it the same "Tombez Potato" writers of the 19th century report as being commonly grown and consumed in the Pacific Islands like Marquesas?
"Then NASA’s plan dictates that you take manual control and fly back to safety."

I believe that visually flying back would be extremely difficult unless you're already quite close. The further you are away, the more you'll be thwarted in your efforts by orbital mechanics acting in counter-intuitive way. Unless you have a good understanding of orbital mechanics and can apply it to your advantage by using just your eyes.

I wonder if NASA has any plans or provides any training around this.
Come on, I'm just saying that banning everyone from a typical experience just because there are a few bad actors makes flying extremely irritating. Maybe ban those people instead of making the experience terrible for the rest of us.
I mean, they're willing to work for ISPs doing torrent detection, which has been a scummy business from the start. Somehow, I would imagine they would be even less respected than the feds at defcon, since the feds actually do technically challenging things occasionally.
> Data and science doesn't make something objective

Well the “US is a third world country” take is based on no evidence whatsoever and defies all common sense, experience, etc, so I guess I’ll take the significant but imperfect evidence.
I'm no expert but this part seems to stretch science into hollywood sensationalism: "At the right angle and velocity, you might even fall back into Earth’s atmosphere and burn up."

There is a Scott Manley video that describes orbital mechanics well where he covers if someone could throw a ball from orbit back to earth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxNJoaBLLNM It is pretty clear that the best one can do is throw the ball directly backwards which would slightly decrease the orbital height on the opposite side of the earth. I can't imagine someone drifting off a structure faster than someone could hit a golf ball so it seems extremely unlikely that falling back to earth and burning up would be an outcome.

I love Kerbal Space Program and find orbital mechanics interestingly counterintuitive so please correct me if I am wrong.
> All in all, a very Apple approach: They deny themselves any knowledge of a customer's DNS queries and Web traffic, so if served with a subpoena they have very little to respond with.

Maybe I am missing something but I view this is a rather genius move. They have plausible deniability + actually introduce some protection for their users.

Not sure how to read the original post though. Is it praising Apple? Is it mocking them? We don't have to be polar of course, I am just wondering.
Aha disagree with business practices, but happy to use their infrastructure to consume content, and still complaining about watching ads - ok
How would you do that without potentially creating colliding names?
What about having a large enough module on a space station, and you simply stuck in the center of it, just floating and cannot push/pull yourself anywhere?
See https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1401216879293874185
As a user of Orgzly, it's not the best note taking tool on mobile. Its a _great_ todo/reminder app that stores and syncs using org-mode.
Vurvey, a Video Survey Platform
Google does end-to-end encryption of Android backups. And Apple knows how to do it too, but they intentionally restricted their implementation to only cover backups of Keychain passwords and a few other things, apparently because they don't have the courage to stand up to the FBI, according to Reuters. Strange considering their public stance against the FBI in the San Bernardino case and on privacy issues in general. Especially since iCloud backup totally defeats the highly touted end-to-end encryption in iMessage.
Xonsh is also my daily driver for years and years. Combined with direnv I have really not missed much of anything from other shells. So much stuff either works out of the box or has some little hacky wrapper to handle it.
Kerbal Space Program has ruined my ability to suspend disbelief when watching things move around in space.
A VPN is a middleman that accepts your traffic and forwards it, hiding who you are to servers. An onion router is like a VPN but instead of 1 middleman, the middleman is a whole random network of middlemen, and those middlemen also hand off to other middlemen.
Winner will be the one who will design biological equivalents - genetically modified eagles or something similar.
Sometimes it's easier to use tools you know will be available than to ensure your tool of choice will be available everywhere you need it to be. JavaScript, esp. pre v6, is another example that makes almost no sense when you ignore its ubiquity
If I were in your shoes, I would AB test phrasing it like this and then also as the op said in a more serious tone. Do it on some jobs that you wouldn’t be devastated if they don’t reply and see where your (I hate myself for saying this) brand gets traction
The problem would be solved overnight if the gov allowed short term serfdom contracts.
while it can be a pain to deal with windows quirks, writing a wrapper script to deal with low level file IO stuff sounds like a good way to open a whole can of worms and irrevocably mess up your whole system
There’s no such thing as a former journalist
Eventually you work less so you never earn that money in the first place. This may involve saving up first so you have more economic bargaining power, or it may involve collective action to reduce working hours across the board.
I am still surprised that they didn't buy Boston Dynamics. I would have been all over that. Perhaps they know something I do not.
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A Comprehensive Guide on How to Monitor Your Models in Production
I, for one, welcome our murderbot overlords. If we can't stop using drones to kill people, we should at least try to reduce collateral damage. With some advancements autonomous drones could be more precise and reliable than human operated ones, meaning that as an outcome fewer weddings will get blown up.
Andreessen's posts are strongly biased towards what is beneficial for his position.

I have read a lot of his posts since 2008 and before. They are intelligent and insightful, but in hindsight lot of them were not best advice for founders/readers but best for the VC.
Absolutely, yes. A disturbing number of fairly vocal people. Probably none in the Senate who are the voters in question here, but a non-zero number of them who are influenced by a minority of their constituents. I've met and spoken to these people in real life. Perhaps you have not had the privilege.

And it is worth noting that it took more than 150 years for something so obviously correct and worthy to be commemorated. We don't even celebrate the end of the Civil War. Some people still earnestly call it the War of Northern Aggression. These things all mean something.
[Clearly not turn itself on.]

Funny story, I was shocked and quite annoyed that an iPhone automatically turns on Wifi and stuff every day by itself - even if you turn it off...

Still dont know how to actually turn it off
Liable for what? GDPR says you can only collect data if you have informed consent from the user. It does not imply any right on the side of the business to be able to obtain such consent.
That’s all fine and dandy until, lacking medication, you faint at the wheel and kill a family of five. Five being greater than four it is clearly worse not to allow for self-medication.
People who take stimulants as prescribed for many years don’t understand the euphoric effects because they built a tolerance long ago. Their experience cannot be compared to someone just starting the medication.

The idea that ADHD medications do not cause euphoria in ADHD patients is a myth. It’s one of the reasons some practitioners are moving to titration schedules that start with low doses and move up over time.
Against Flow
Filebase: Geo-redundant S3-compatible object storage
remailable works by associating their email with a device ID in its own db, so you don't even need to ask users for their device ID as long as you can send emails from a unique email addr. (I can explain more if helpful!)

I also have a public free version hosted at https://remailable.getneutrality.org/ if you prefer not to run one yourself, which you and your users are welcome to use. (it's tricky if you haven't worked with AWS serverless tech previously!)
If the astronaut jumps directly to the direction of the orbit normal at any velocity, it will end up in an orbit with equal period but slightly higher inclination, and meet the space station twice every orbit 45 minutes apart at the ascending and descending nodes, ie. where the orbital planes cross.

Any other direction is more difficult as a significant velocity change is needed to get into an orbital resonance. E.g. 2:1 resonance with an 180 minute orbit where astronaut orbits twice for every 90 minute orbit the ISS makes, meeting at the astronaut's perigee or lowest orbit point. Other fractions also work for a more infrequent encounter.
The Amazon that customers don’t see
Pfizer/BioNTech gave me tinnitus, which is probably permanent. It's an experimental vaccine that hasn't gone through the full testing & approval process. This was the warning I received from the doctor who obtained my consent for the shot. Was she a horrible anti-vaxer from the "other side" then? Everybody calm down, open your minds and leave the "culture war" to Twitter.
Google’s first retail store is the anti-Apple
Modern explorers also can be reasonably assured there will be enough food to go around next year or the year after if they stay home.
Have children. Then you get to buy as many Lego sets as you want, but they're really for them... honest.

The Saturn V set is excellent, BTW.
There's tons of free ones on youtube so there's no need to spend a bunch of money. Proko has some good stuff on his channel. He does a lot of comic book stuff but he's a classically trained artist. Pretty sure he's got a beginner's section. He also has some videos giving advice on learning resources. There are lots of others that are really good too.

Drawabox.com has some good free stuff too.

If you'd prefer books I think Andrew Loomis books might be public domain. Fun with a Pencil is a good one. If they aren't public domain you can get them for $10-15 on Amazon because they started reprinting them.

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way is also a really good introduction to drawing. Don't let the title fool you though because its one of the best beginner's drawing books regardless of the genre.

Those are just examples though, there's tons and tons of great resources and everyone has their favorites.
Can't Log in on Pithos [Pandora Kills OSS Clients]
I'll be starting the talk therapy side of things soon I believe! Bit of a lag on that due to covid etc.

I've already had some systems in place (if it's not in Todoist it's not getting done) but I was falling behind even my norm. If I can get to a point where I can function well enough without meds that will be brilliant, here's to hoping :)
How many people enter the workforce annually?

Workers are renewable for annual exploitation
You could throw something one direction so you float in the other.
This seems like it might not be a holistic model.

Pay transparency might result in lower wages at the transparent company, as underpaid employees jump ship to another company - leaving only the lower-value companies being perhaps more fairly paid.

That doesn't mean lower wages overall for all workers involved, though. The ones that jumped ship may be getting much more somewhere else, raising the average in a way that wasn't looked at in this model.
As a retro enthusiast, I've been asked "why bother with old technology" a few times and, in my opinion, the best answer is simply "because I like it". There are probably some underlying objective reasons behind that which I'm not consciously aware of (like maybe studying old technology makes me a better tech person today, some kind of indirect pedagogical effect), but I can't really pinpoint that specifically, and it can be a bit tiresome sometimes. Next time I guess I'll link them to this article!
The two copies would then go on to live separate lives, the original would not experience the experiences of the immortal copy, and would die. To them, from their subjective viewpoint, they have not achieved immortality.
they assume 1 successful colonization ship per 100k years. This might take into account periods of stagnation and Luddite revolutions and such. Sentient beings do various weird thing but they do them fairly quickly.
Agreed. We've already trod this ground with chemical weapons, so at least we have a template when we follow it once more with autonomous weapons.
And if fewer weddings get blown up, we'll use them more and more to kill people. I wonder whether the absolute number of killings will go up or down this way.
And that is a choice you can make for yourself. It is good that no one demands you treat yourself, only that you have the option.
"Moderna, a product of the American venture capital system, created the first mRNA COVID vaccine within two days of receiving the genetic code for COVID by email."

I love how the lab leak theory is now mainstream but everytime I brought that up along with where the sequencing came from I looked like a crackpot.

That email and sequence came directly from China.

Look at the Jan 11 note here:
https://www.modernatx.com/modernas-work-potential-vaccine-ag...
How does Utopia compare with Dreamweaver or FrontPage?
You're not the first person to think of that. See Juniper's libxo: https://github.com/Juniper/libxo

It's integrated into a lot of FreeBSD's command line tooling, and is very useful, when it's available.
Greenpeace logo probably prevented the use of snipers
I’ve traveled Europe a lot as well and was similarly surprised at first (because the media’s portrayal of reality is severely warped). People say things like “America is a literal ethnostate” and other such nonsense but they don’t realize that America is one of the most egalitarian places in the history of the planet. That isn’t contradicted by the bad things that happen or have happened here; it’s just a testament to how bad things are and have been everywhere for all time.
Well, just like many others I own - both directly and indirectly - some tech stocks, but it doesn't influence my view on privacy at all.

Actually, the view that they have to either do unethical things like tracking or perish is one of the greatest fallacies and a sign of lazy thinking.
Looking at the video, and assuming that indeed that's how a Type II->Type III civilization spreads around, I've counted 2 full rotations of the original star. One rotation in our galaxy takes 230 million years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_year) which means even if we start today to spread around would still take half a billion years to populate the galaxy. Now if only genetics would deal away with aging to be around when that happens :).
Use proprietary services, get proprietary service. It can't be any surprise, can it? Discord is well known for doing the same.
It would be very simple, fast, effective and not costly to use airliners with sulfur added to their fuel to increase earth's albedo. Problem solved. Of course we don't want to do this but it is an option.
But we can stop using drones to kill people, we choose not to. Instead, we see drones as a measure to lower the operational cost of killing people allowing us to kill people simply because they are there.
Is anybody else reminded of blipverts[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blipvert
This feels like the same thing that happened with tanks. The end of WW1 saw tanks deployed effectively. WW2 was then fought using entirely new tactics and strategies enabled by tanks (not least "blitzkrieg").

Britain and France, notably, hadn't really worked out how to use them effectively and so were left fighting the last war, horribly disadvantaged until they worked out how to catch up (though air power being developed at the same time also had an influence).

So now we have drones, and all those incredibly expensive fighter planes are useless. Aircraft carriers will be replaced with cheap drone swarm carriers, so naval strategy will need to change. Anti-tank drone swarms will make conventional armour more or less ineffective. And so on.

The good news is that there will be anti-drone swarms too. And so we'll end up fighting battles mostly by destroying drones instead of people. Once you've knocked out all the enemy drones, they'll surrender because humans can't fight drones.

Interesting times.