skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, and how would you apply your comparison to the conversation we're having here?
In doing so they put themselves in a precarious legal position. The author has given you all they legally are allowed to. If you want a copy of the firmware, you now have all of the information you need to obtain your own copy.
The internet is global, freely accessible WiFi is covering every city on the planet, and sub $50 single board computers that use so little power they can run off small solar panels are ubiquitous. Hackers are absolutely to be expected like a force of nature and to think they aren't is pure fantasy.

If you are making millions of dollars but can't manage first year student level security or anything approaching best practices then you get what's coming to you.
Many Americans don't have communities to fall back on. I was raised by a single mother 6000 miles from her family. We didn't have family or community to rely on. I was alone a lot as a child. As such I didn't get all of the socialization that many people got. I like to think of it like growing up without hearing language. I didn't get it as a part of my upbringing. I had to seek it out and learn it, in the same way you would a language.

In the beginning I didn't have the tools to seek it out with other human beings. I didn't speak the basic "language". I feel incredibly fortunate that there were books out there that I had access to that helped with where to start. Simple things like how to ask for help. Eventually (20 something years later) I have enough "language" in my vocabulary, thanks in great part to amazing books written by incredible writers who have devoted their lives to helping other people, to navigate a complex social life. I am incredibly grateful to these authors.

This is an issue plaguing Americans. There are threads everyday on Reddit and the like with people asking questions like "How do I make friends?" and "How do I get involved in a community?". We're an incredibly lonely society.
>If you don't like it go somewhere else

>Also crypto should be illegal
Sneedacity is a poster child for what can be achieved with telemetry
There is an infinite number of alarmist scenarios. We can not react to all of them. The argument that it would be too late if some thing x would really happen is not very useful for decision making.

For example a meteorite could hit earth and wipe out all life. Clearly we should pour all resources into building space ships.
Source?

There is this ex-employee, telling some interesting stories. And regarding the downgrade... he was the one who did it for reasons he explains. I want to see if you are talking about different case or what.

> Question: There's the story online of that hacker who was pulling software images off through the door Ethernet port and found that his car's firmware was remotely downgraded after he uncovered and posted the first references to the P100 models.

> Answer: yup, i'm the guy that installed the older versions. this was a marketing mistake really. if i recall correctly, he ended up getting a marketing car or his car got tagged in the update system as a trusted car and he ended up getting pre-release stuff. this happened from time to time - sometimes marketing would sell off a car and the poo poo erp system wouldn't record the change. that car would then get prerelease and sometimes very broken firmware. i seem to recall another case where we just forgot to remove the prerelease materials from the official build, so all you had to do was look around.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=38...
Social Science versus Common Sense
I would disagree the cloud is more expensive. Yes you can purchase a server from Dell with a 5 year life expectancy for less than renting from AWS. But that is not the true cost.

Enterprises require high availability and disaster recovery. Start thinking multiple data centers to meet a RTO requirement after a regional failure with high speed network connectivity between the datacenters to meet your RPO requirements. Add off site backups and personnel at multiple locations and the cloud becomes very compelling.

And that is before you start optimizing your application for the cloud.
Right, but (not counting extremely recent work that's directly inspired by Rust and therefore necessarily less mature than Rust's implementation) when you use Ada without a GC, you either have to avoid dynamic allocation or use Unchecked_Deallocation, which lives up to its name.

Static memory allocation is totally fine if the thing you're building is, like, a control system for a jumbo jet. You know exactly how many engines you have, how many wings you have, how many pilots you have, etc. Your autopilot has a fixed set of parameters: heading, speed, altitude, etc. You know exactly what tasks you're running: watch engine performance, watch the altimeter, watch cabin pressure, find the instrument landing system and line up with it, etc. If you have some new instrument to plug in, you get a new version of the flight control software, and you're certainly not plugging in new things mid-flight. Even if you aren't running all the tasks at once - e.g., you're usually not landing the plane - you want to guarantee you could turn on any of those tasks. You never want the possibility of running out of memory when you try to land, so you want to allocate memory for landing the plane at design time that's always reserved for landing the plane, and nobody would call that a "memory leak."

A general-purpose OS like Linux is different. You can create as many processes as you want. You can mount as many filesystems as you want, of various formats, whenever you want. You can plug in devices while the system is running. You can add drivers to a running kernel and remove them too. You can configure network connections, turn swap on and off, etc. Inbound network connections can show up at any time. So it needs dynamic allocation.

Ada is fantastic for problems like a flight computer. But it's a different sort of problem. For a general-purpose OS, you are allocating and freeing things in response to user input, and you want to make sure you neither leak memory nor use memory after it's been freed.

Rust is very good at solving that specific problem without the need for a GC. That's what people mean when they say "Rust doesn't use a GC."
Infinite growth does not exist, everything peaks at some point. You have to wonder if a memory model from 2005 still kicks go's ass in 2021 how your your prediction that "there will always be something new and shiny to distract us from the focus we need to leverage the real value of the internet" will play out?

What have you built with go that is interesting?
The “who’s looking for a cofounder” thread works a lot better for me.

I don’t want to share all my details, I want to see who’s looking for a technical cofounder then I’ll apply with my details.
None of those things are particularly American, or even western.
> America, in contrast with most other countries, has very little cultural infrastructure to guide people. Freedom and individualism (however shallow) is emphasized.

Very true. I went to a public school in Eastern Europe and everyone had to go through the same curriculum no matter what you wanted to focus on after graduation. The basic principle here is to expose students to all subjects and let them decide what they want to focus on in places of higher education.

However, in American schools it seemed that you could pretty much weave your way through public schools only taking courses you think you need after you cover some of the basic subjects. There are several problems with this approach. First of all, you're never exposed to subjects that you didn't originally have interest in, but could potentially have appreciation for had you invested some time learning about them. Secondly, your scope of knowledge ends up being pretty narrowly limited to things that you're interested in while having little to no idea about everything else. Lastly, I think colleges and universities end up picking up the slack here when they start teaching coursework that should've otherwise been part of public school curriculum.

All-in-all, it is my belief that having at least surface-level understanding in various subjects does make a difference as you get older because it gives you just enough knowledge to be able to look at life in a different light and, at the very least, have a general idea how to start making adjustments. Not to say that you won't need help. In fact, you still might but you're in a much better place than where you would be blindly following someone's advice in a gimmicky self-help book.
I'm actually posting from Reston Town center but yeah there are lots of examples around here.
Thank you for the list! Answering shortly:

> On the signup screen I accidentally clicked 'sign in with google' then reailzed I didn't want to, and I don't think there's a way to go back to the first screen (without restarting the app)

Noted! Will be fixed :)

> When I go to Help -> Documentation in the mac native menu bar I get a link to electronjs documentation, not Enso docs

Oh, I was not aware that it is there! We will remove it. Thanks for catching it! :)

> The button in the top right that looks like a power button was a bit confusing. I didn't understand what it did immediately and there's no tooltip to explain it.

One of the things that we are improving now is adding hover-labels for buttons with explanation of what they do. We also want to make the UX much more approachable by new users. It will take us some time (a few weeks, as it's planned after fixing stability issues), but it's already on our short-term plan to be added!

> I noticed a bug where if I hit the spacebar multiple times quickly to toggle the result view the entire canvas goes blank, then comes back if I hit the spacebar again

I cannot reproduce it. Would you be so nice and create an issue report with a short screen recording and your machine spec here, please? https://github.com/enso-org/enso/issues

> I found it a little confusing that the args of a node are displayed as a var name even when the exact input is known. For example I had the constant `6` as an input to a function `n.up_to` which rendered as `number1.up_to` when I expected to see `6.up_to`.

This is one of the things we are currently working on! This will be much improved in one of the following minor releases (we will do a release every week now).

> I didn't find it intuitive that you cant (I think) edit existing nodes. Do you have to create new ones from scratch, or copy/paste somehow?

You can do it. We use double-clicking to ENTER the collapsed nodes. To edit the node use `CMD + Left Mouse Button` on the expression (or `ctrl` if you are not Windows or Linux). The full list of shortcuts is here: https://github.com/enso-org/ide/blob/develop/docs/product/sh...

We want to add an icon for that as well, so it will be easily discoverable in the future.

I'm really happy that most of these points cover with our dev plans! It means that in a few weeks you'll have a much better experience <3
This is why self-help books are so important. You can figure out the issue, make a plan, and get started in the comfort and safety of your home for the price of a library card.
If we posit the level of technological advancement necessary to travel between stars, it makes sense to me that if they wanted to go undetected, they could easily do so. Putting lights on their spaceships so that thousands or millions of people notice seems extremely implausible to me. It rather seems more "considerate of nature" to watch and not disrupt by essentially studying as invisibly as possible.
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I feel like we're already seeing the effects of chemicals like lead now. How many older people are suddenly radical Trump or QAnon supporters?
Perhaps in someone with normal pain response, sure. But there are conditions which result in being in an almost constant state of pain. I could see this being a very useful tool in regaining some quality of life for people trying to manage these conditions.
Is tire wear => microplastics an environmental concern that has been quantified? This is a new concept to me and I have no idea how to weigh the potential costs of this factor.
If the author wants to see the outcome of this kind of development they should read the history of the Llano Estacado[1].

Lubbock and it's surrounding communities built up during the latter half of the 19th Century, with the small communities forming as the farmers and ranchers needed them.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llano_Estacado
Opioid addiction is not like other addiction mechanisms. After prolonged use the gastrointestinal system is ravaged and when people want to stop they find themselves plagued not only with withdrawals symptoms but also by incredible abdominal pain, so they take more opioids, which worsens the pain, which requires more opioids to alleviate , which worsens the gastrointestinal damage and subsequent pain, and so on...
It's a vicious circle called narcotic bowel syndrome, taking away the pain would go a long way to solving this issue.

source: Am heavy opioid user
>The other issue is that Chime is not legally a bank so is not regulated in the same way that banks are.

"The rules don't apply to us" is one hell of an unfair advantage to tout on a VC pitch deck.
Humans being the invasive species?
Biden seeks to lift limits on farmer deals with meat processors, tractor makers
I turned on that setting but legitimately can't find what you might be referring to. Maybe I'm daft, but can you link to "dead" comments? If so, could you link to an example of what you mean?
I'm still surprised Microsoft hasn't bought Unity yet.
Just an extrapolation from the ad-monetization of everything.
I don't see how anyone can take Chime seriously.

I have a habit of checking out most new free banking apps, looking for the best deals, UI, security, etc.

Chime immediately started sending my phone notifications with tons of emojis in them. It felt completely childish and I couldn't believe this was a legitimate company that people would put tons of money into.
This is why crypto is the future
By "WebGL" they meant build of their game for web browsers that Unity let you create OOTB. So if your game is cross-platform and also support playing it in browser you have a problem: sockets that you can use elsewhere wont work in browser.
It's an alluring prospect, blaming everything on some external factor.

The reality might be that we're just barely out of the primitive stage of evolution and might not even make it further at this rate.
That's like, we can already print books, so digitizing them isn't anything new. Or, we can already walk from San Francisco to New York, a transcontinental railway isn't anything new.
> Chime is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by The Bancorp Bank or Stride Bank, N.A.; Members FDIC

Regardless of this, those bank accounts are still FDIC insured, and thus they're subject to the same regulations, right? When I closed my Bank of America account they were insistent that any transactions or deposits after it was closed would be mailed to me in the form of a bill or a check, respectively. Is that not a requirement for all FDIC insured accounts?
Literally Billions (2013)
Not to mention employee morale
“ Some tractor manufacturers like Deere & Co, AGCO Corp and CNHI use proprietary repair tools and software to prevent third parties from performing some repairs. Shares of the companies fell on news of Biden's plans, first reported by Reuters on Tuesday.”
If I don't need your permission to do something with your work, then the conditions under which that permission is granted lose their force.
Angle Grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line
You could argue that, but mainly the species that get introduced directly and indirectly by human activities.
I was ready to burn it all down in the 80's when were living with the spectre of nuclear war. Long before college and grad school.
credit unions are great. Typically very customer friendly (i.e. no stupid monthly fees), many have been around a long time, and have rolled-out decent online banking options and mobile apps.
Janice McAfee's statement on John's alleged suicide
According to this source [0], the first £2000 of dividend income per year are tax free. So depending on how much dividend income you have, the rates could be higher or lower than in the US (who has no such exception, but lower rates on dividends for stocks held over a year).

[0] https://www.gov.uk/tax-on-dividends
Sounds like an undersupply of entrepreneurs!
The Anatomical Machines of Naples’ Alchemist Prince
7 million a year can hire a doctor, and a variety of other services.
:-)

"To me it sounds dualist if intelligence is disembodied. If the substrate doesn't matter, only the functionality, then that sounds like there's something additional to the world than just the physical constintuents."

Off the top of my head, what the substrate is doesn't matter, but that there is a substrate does. Intelligence is the behavior of the physical constituents.

"So why is physics so heavily reliant on mathematics? Quite a few physicists think the world has a mathematical structure."

Because humans are very good at defining the rules when we need them? Because alternate rules are nothing but a curiosity even to mathematicians unless there is a use---such as a physical process---for them?

One of the problems with qualia, as a topic of discussion, is that I can never be entirely sure that you have it. I can assume you do, and rocks don't, but that is about as far as I can get.
>But the ability to actively shut off pain once you've acknowledged the problem

That's not what this implant does though. It's all automatic within a few seconds which implies that you'd never be able to discern life threatening pain from stubbing your toe. It seems you'd receive an extremely short lived pain signal (if any) and then it'd be gone.

You'd have to give manual control to the individual for your suggestion to work and that comes with its own issues of "abuse"

>Once it detects an electrical signal that suggests “pain found,” it sends the information to the “sleeper agent,” a computer chip implanted in the front part of the brain. The chip then automatically triggers a light beam to stimulate the region, activating neurons that can override pain signals.
So what % of the population was farmers in 1500? probably like 80%. Today its 2%. Eventually a similar thing has and will happen to all manufacturing.
Today we have instead millions of programmers and teachers etc etc. This trend towards increased education is due to the technological support structure.

If you run this trend forward even 50 years what jobs do you really think will exist that wont basically be scientifically or academically inclined?
Right. If you build a new art-town, it's not gentrification.
Marfa is a really weird and unique place. It was originally famous for UFO sightings and then somehow became that artists enclave and achieved some sort of cult status to the point that it was a prevalent pre-tinder dating app meme for women to have pictures in front of the fake Prada storefront art installation there. That made it a really hip place for anyone who knew it, and yeah, eventually word got out and now it's super expensive.

But I don't see how that is repeatable. Trying to build a new town from scratch can't realistically have the plan of UFO sightings and cult-status house-size art installations to get people to want to live there.
edouard-harris has made the important factual correction here. I was just observing how...let's say "non-factual" the first sentence was, at both ends of the stick. Did you not notice how you had to reword it in order to defend it?
TIL. Not European, but this is madness.
Agreed! We sent that to them as a feature request and I believe it is now on their roadmap.
Has anyone built anything with this? I've looked at Lumberyard a few times over the years, but even Amazon hadn't actually done much with it.
That's great for them. Is there something wrong with trying to be the best person you can be? Is a life of leisure and hedonism something to be celebrated, while a life of striving to achieve is looked down upon?

I think this is part of the reason the US has been so successful and innovative. Hard work and improvement are seen as virtues here. A life of sloth and mediocrity, avoiding work and relying on the government to provide for you was not seen as something good until recently. I hope the essence of America isn't lost forever: industry, innovation, and individualism.
IQ, education experience, the oppression of society, take your pick. Take an average programmer and an average backhoe operator. Give them both 120 hours to train at each other's jobs, monitored by an expert. Who will be a more suitable replacement for the other?

As a writer I like said- "you get upset when a toll booth operator takes a long time to count your change, but if they could count change, they'd be an engineer like you are."
This is a good reminder that the best way to get your money back from an institution that is unfairly keeping it from you is either to file suit (in CA, you can sue for up to $10,000 in small-claims court), or hire an attorney. Self-help and complaining online rarely works. Phone calls work even less.
Russian State Hackers Breached Republican National Committee
Cloudflare customers can now use Microsoft Azure Data Transfer Routing
While Musk and Gates warn us about "true AI", I've always had the opinion that if an AI became self aware, it would simply self terminate, as there is no point to living.
Thanks for taking the time to elaborate. I mostly agree with both this and your GP comment, and that's just it: I don't think we can at this point imagine how the future (tech) will look or what will be possible.

Any attempt is at best speculation and at worst a fantasy. As you said, extrapolation from current trends quickly gets us into unbelievable territory.

I'm definitely not a religious person, but I do have faith they (future humans) will figure something out, if there's any incentive (survival, profit, ... fun?) to do so - unless our species goes extint first.

That's also why I do believe things SpaceX and others are doing are important. Not because we'll have a colony on Mars in a few decades (I don't think we will). But if we don't even start trying, it'll be awfully long before we get anywhere.
These grid-based systems are now standard and have been widely deployed. I am not sure but I believe the original is https://www.dematic.com/en-us/products/products-overview/sto...
On a computer bus, bits are often transmitted in parallel. So there is no order; they all arrive at the same time. On Ethernet bits are transmitted one at a time, and are 'little-endian'.
It's rather meaningless to talk about oversupply or undersupply of doctors. Demand for healthcare services is effectively infinite. The problem is that we burn up most healthcare resources on treating preventable chronic diseases, and on futile end-of-life care.

Rather than on supplying more doctors we would probably get better results for society as a whole with more dieticians, personal trainers, and substance abuse counselors.
> For an aerospace engineer this all makes a lot of sense and is a super great tool, I'm sure.

The article seems like a decent introduction to the Poisson-equation. But the original title was very misleading.

Because the Poisson-equation isn't some super-useful tool so much as a Day-1 topic discussed in intro-level classes. It's a really simple equation compared to others used in Engineering, Math, and Physics, so it's often introduced as a starting point.