skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would recommend getting your ham radio licence. When covid hit last year and then lockdown, I found out in the UK you could take the exam online. It's a few multiple guess questions.
The first level (foundation) is really quite easy, I think its similar in the USA.
Zadar Airport in Croatia had the runway intersecting road up until 2010. It is fairly busy airport during summer season.
The road was closed as a part of aligning road safety policies during EU negotiations

[1.] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadar_Airport#History

[2.]
https://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/zatvorena-cesta-zad...
VMware Fusion uses the macOS Hypervisor.framework now, so it no longer needs extensions.
The "don't recommend this" notably has two reasons on the "tell us more" dialog: "I've already seen this video", and "I don't like this video".

I often use the former, after watching stuff via mpv (chromium has tearing, but more notably, high enough CPU usage to annoy me with a half-broken fan that's quite loud).
The way the model is set up, a zero-CoVID strategy is impossible. If you close the borders and impose a full lockdown on day 1, you still end up getting about 10 cases/day forever (I believe this is due to assumptions about imported cases).

There are, however, countries that have achieved zero CoVID and then reopened and sustained zero CoVID. But this is only possible with strict border quarantine rules, extensive contact tracing and immediate mass testing whenever a new case shows up.
From my understanding, the quantum threshold theorem states that if you have a low base error rate (1-3%) you can apply multiple levels of a single quantum error correcting code to get arbitrarily low levels of errors on a logical qubit ("remove errors faster than you introduce them"). Right now that means that you need approximately 1000x physical qubits for 1 logical qubit, but to me that's a solid mathematical/theoretical demonstration that you can scale QC.
Ted Kaczynski calls for something like this, but against industrial technology generally. Even though his manifesto is a rational argument aimed at intellectuals, he has said in his more recent writings that to actually carry out his “stop technological advancement” plan you'd need to persuade people on an emotional level.
Which makes it even more puzzling that marketing would insist on something that burns the company's money and the customer's money with zero (or negative) benefit.
Since taxes are not just for raising funds, but also for coercing/ encouraging certain behaviors, or even as penalties for not participating in certain behavior, then any tax on religious organizations is arguably the state imposing it's say on how the organization should/must operate.

This is problematic on its own, but becomes worse if the tax laws don't result in equal treatment. For instance, a rule that exempted collections on Sunday from taxes, but not any other day results in favoring some religions, even if the rule is applied equally to all.

And the extreme case is that the government could just tax all religious orgs out of business, leaving us with religious freedom, but not any churches to join.
I did a similar thing with CUDA docs for Go : https://youtube.com/watch?v=7R39CMW4MJQ
Very interesting essay. I didn’t realize the narrative of Stardew Valley was about a struggle against a large corporation.
I appreciate the result, but this test is heavily biased against certain builds. I weigh about 280 pounds, and the distribution of mass and the girth of my trunk basically make it impossible to balance while sitting or standing up without using a hand for support. This is regardless of how strong or agile I might be, and despite my otherwise fine cardiovascular health. I'm not sure the researchers accounted for builds like mine.
Perhaps I should have said "de-fi" instead of "crypto" ?
Fitbit smart ring patent reveals medical grade SpO2 and blood pressure tracking
The end user does the linking and very likely never distributes a compiled binary to other parties so GPL doesn't take effect.
The JWST's mission is to see deep infared, which can pass through interstellar clouds. It will uncover things that have been veiled to us since the beginning of history. It can only be built as a space telescope because the frequency of its intended observations are so low that to a device sensitive to them, air radiates light of blinding intensity.
I find Jetbrains quite acceptable compared to other commercial dev tools. Their licensing is also easy to manage.
I think this is a bad assumption.
They're not impulse purchasing a ride, but you can bet they will be thinking of Uber when the time comes that they do need a ride.
this is actually something various JITs have to deal with as it provides an attack vector for loading shell code
So, a point of nerdity: mentats were not portrayed as disfigured in Dune. They had personalities and foibles and loyalties and so on. In fact, there was no limit on who could be a mentat, or what other position of power they could hold (some of Paul's friends note how formidable a mentat-duke would be - not something they would say if it were a disfigurement).

Another point of nerdity that no-one has mentioned yet, including the OP: Herbert sketched out an extended story that portrays humanity and the machines it had fought against so long merging in the long run. In part this is why Leto II never destroyed Ix even though it was constantly (quietly) breaking the Bulterian Jihad rules.

None of this invalidates the OP's core point, of course. I think it's a good and valuable discussion to consider technology from fundamentally moral grounds, and I wish we'd do it more.
> Is AI simply a pursuit of slavery without guilt?

Or simply a pursuit of labor without pay?
Might even be closer to rstudio server[1]. License software but run it on your own hardware. IMHO no one has yet come close to rstudio in terms of providing a complete-ish solution: multiple account support, full-featured ide, hosting env taken care of etc.

[1] https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/

edit: clarify
>"Despite the claims of some activists, circumcision has no negative consequences, so if it helps, then it helps."

It's really telling that studies in non-circumcising cultures show that the foreskin has a purpose and that removing it has an actual effect on the body. They do not recommend it as a routine practice, despite the claimed benefits. And, those benefits themselves are also questioned from an efficacy standpoint.

But studies done in circumcising cultures confidently declare that such a densely innervated piece of tissue made to protect a mucous membrane does nothing of value, removing it has no negative consequences, and that its removal has no negative impact whatsoever on sexual function.

These two schools of thought are mutually exclusive.
Author here.

The game has several levels (explored more in my 2017 "fractal stories article"[1]) - from top to bottom it can be something like

> you're in a room > you're talking to this person > you're in this branch of the conversation

OR

> you're in another location > you're in a fight with these two monsters > monster A is swinging at you with an axe
> you've deflected that swing and have an opportunity to counter-attack

It's basically a stack of situations.

To answer your question, the design patterns differ according to the situation. The roaming between the locations is relatively simple node-navigation (except we need to track from which node we come to each location, for example, and we can skip through visited nodes that haven't changed). The dialogue can be something very similar to ink [2]. The combat is similar to roguelikes, where it's turnbased, but as a player, you only "see" your own moves, and the other moves happen in between. I do track of time on the level of milliseconds, and I have moves that take more or less time, also depending on who makes them (an agile goblin readies a sword much quicker than an old man stands up from the ground).

I like your idea of a TRPG helper. I was thinking of something similar. Like, have an app for combat only, where you set up the combatants, and then let the DM simulate effects of different actions done to those combatants. As you say, in TTRPG it's important for the DM to be able to bypass the system, make an exception, etc. But I'd say that 80% of the time, the DM can just report the effect back to the players. And it takes them much less time and mental effort. (Especially if we're talking about one of the more simulationist TRPGs like Blade of the Iron Throne [3].)

[1]: https://filiph.medium.com/skyrim-rendered-in-text-1899548ab2...

[2]: https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/

[3]: http://ironthronepub.com/

(Edit: format)
thanks, that looks excellent!
> You fixed it, one less bug to worry about.

Those "bugs" can be features though - or the work involved to fix the bug meant that high-impact feature work - or other bugfixes, had to be postponed or even cancelled.

Our SaaS frequently gets security "researchers" (read: people running online scanners) submitting emails through our contact-form informing us about click-jacking attacks on our login-page - the problem for us is that we have a lot of second-party and third-party integrations on unbounded origins that offer access to our application, and by extension our login-screen through an <iframe> on their own origin, which is sometimes even an on-prem LAN web-server accessed through embedded devices where we can't use popups to do it properly - let alone switch to a more robust OIDC system - so there is no easy solution that makes the "I ran a tool, gimme $100" people go-away without causing a much bigger problem to now exist.
Yep, it's not perfect. It's just pretty darned good is all I'm saying.
"Look how many hours our users spend watching Netflix on our new refrigerator and using our connected mobile fridge app!"
Illy
Why are so many trans people involved in hacking?
That's a solid joke, but I wonder, does that actually significantly tweak your priors in favor of this being untrue? All of these different boards have their own bizarro codes of honor, so I wouldn't be surprised.
Think of the article as customer feedback. The customer may not appreciate everything the product does for them, nor may they be using it in the fashion where it would be most effective.

So what? Your job (if this was your customer) would be to figure out how to make them happier. Maybe you are getting down-voted because (while you're correct on some fine points), you're broadly dismissing the concerns of the article. Case in point: those "low-quality dependencies" aren't something you can easily switch out for quality parts... they're deep dependencies of many of npm's flagship tools and frameworks.
The RTG is a thermoelectric generator -- it's already doing all it can with that thermal energy.
There's also https://deepnote.com/ which i've seen used in a few fintech startups.
Not only does the RPi foundation not release any board files for the RPi (fine, whatever), their "abbreviated schematic" is insultingly sparse [0].

The processor, memory, microSD card socket, Wi-Fi chip, USB hub chip, and Ethernet controller chip are all missing. If all you can get out of it is the pinout of the HAT and video connectors, then why did they even bother?

[0] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
Also, if we model a brain effectively, then study that model, would our brain not develop new skills from reflecting on such a model and therefore develop again beyond the model?
The UK's lockdown policies were much more strict than those outlined.
They wouldn't operating it like they play computer games. Mars rover has a major latency too, they can simply instruct it with limits and work slightly slower.
Strategically

Model the domain with the experts and end-users (e.g. Eventstorming, DDD, UX). Model "as is" and then "could be", and test/prototyle/mock it with actual users as soon and as often as possible. Automating a paper mess yields an automated mess, and misses an opportunity to learn as a group and improve. Including end users helps ensure you're not building a fantasy/nightmare.

Tactically

Model the workflow for the process in question, noting all information currently collected and how (forms, calls, external systems, etc), then work backwards from the outputs to identify unnecessary information and steps
Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Yes...? There is plenty about them that is not open source: hardware, drivers, etc. Even the Broadcom docs are typically only available under license.
> If you want to focus on your specific proposed implementation on PoS rather than all possible PoS implementations, we can narrow this further.

Sounds good to me.

> I think you're saying that it's possible to verify the checkpoints in a decentralized way without PoW. Is that a fair statement of your opinion?

Yes. To elaborate, for users who don't have any software already installed, this would be a social process of asking many other people/sources what the correct software is. For users who already have correct software already installed, either that correct software has been running recently enough and can generate its own checkpoint, or that software was offline for long enough that it needs a checkpoint, but it can help substantially automate the process of validating a checkpoint and if it cannot validate it, the user should fall back to a similar process of social discovery to determine what the correct checkpoint/update is.

Do you view the idea of asking many untrusted and/or trusted people/entities what the correct checkpoint is, as not decentralized? Or not sufficiently decentralized?

> The other key point I think we disagree on is that you seem to think that it's possible to verify that time has elapsed between block validations in PoS. Is that a fair statement of your opinion?

The question isn't clear enough to me. I think what I can say about that is, given that you have two time anchors (eg one in the past, the checkpoint, and one in the present, your own computer's clock), its possible to ensure that only a certain number of blocks can validly be added between those two time anchors, to a high degree of statistical probability.

But maybe you could clarify the question?
yeah but also a list someone typed is just a list someone typed.
Sorry I have no idea.
It's galling that using notifications for ads is allowed by the marketplaces.
Sure but gcc, clang and python have had a substantial amount of review. There’s no assurance that similar occurs in the non ecosystem.
That was likely just a bare bones estimate and closer to the costs of initiating the project than the full cost of designing, building, and launching a satellite.

Based on this link, NASA hadn't even settled on a design/contractor in 1998.

https://esahubble.org/images/opo9820a/
Pathetic attempt at shilling.
That is a whole 'nother ball of wax.

Consider someone wanting an AI. What exactly do they want? Well, is it a mind? Because we have seven billion of those and we can make more on demand. Takes a bit but they're pretty flexible.

Once you start asking questions about what kind of mind you would like, aside from the pathological types who want a trapped and helpless mind to torture (and don't think that there won't be people who would get their jollies that way), most people seem to have a kind of subconscious archetype of an old-fashioned butler (I assure you I did not pick the profession based on irony).

Your butler -- knows your business but rarely contradicts, perhaps corrects. Slides into the background when not needed, simply ... minding things. Perhaps not watched over by machines of loving grace, as Brautigan would have it, but tended to, looked out for. Without needs or drives or goals of their own to interfere with our individual or collective desires.

Yes, the idea of AI does seem to converge on a fantastically intelligent p-zed in a nice suit, a less bloodthirsty form of some of the minds encountered in Watts' Blindsight, unencumbered by interior experience, desires and attachment, or what arises from thwarted desire and attachment, suffering.
The player's goal in the Stardew Valley universe is to please your dead grandfather. This is not a foreign incentive to players in a capitalist society. As in the game we leverage profit to achieve larger goals. We sometimes sacrifice profit opportunities for the same goals.

The author imagines capitalism as pure profit incentive, and any balancing incentive as anti-capitalist. But profit has always and everywhere been a means, not an end. We participate in the market for a broad spectrum of ends, and earning Grandpa's respect is not an uncommon one.

Here's the subtitle:

> ‘Stardew Valley’ doesn’t challenge capitalism by trying to escape from it, but by teaching a lesson on generosity

Generosity doesn't challenge capitalism. It is frequently enabled by it. And it sure helps capitalism function better. The game simulates that.
And this outbreak currently only affects a single city on the border with Myanmar. The other 1.4 billion people are still going about their daily lives.
It is conceivable that on-orbit repair missions like OSAM-1 could fix a mission with a mechanical failure, depending on the orbit that it reaches.

https://nexis.gsfc.nasa.gov/osam-1.html
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Spam
It's difficult to say either side is venerated as heroes.

It's the combination which is very odd. Plenty of countries have civil strife and have one side viewed as heroes. In the US both Robert E Lee and Abraham Lincoln are venerated.
Seth Godin's marketing secrets [audio]
Unless…
You and me we launch a blockchain-AI-SaaS startup selling pencils by subscription!
Lets just presume you somehow sell that idea to the review board. How do you actually recruit for such a study? Who are these people that are willing to enter a lottery to receive the vaccine or placebo and won't just pop on over to the vaccination center and just get the vaccine for sure?
These are some pharmacists talking about prior authorizations for medicine, and they seem to exist in Canada, UK, AUS, and NZ.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pharmacy/comments/oekhrp/curious_ab...

I would be surprised if any country gave doctors blank checks for everything since no one has unlimited resources. There most likely is a system for figuring out where waste is happening and avoiding it.
That's because investors know those small retailers have no ability to scale. If Amazon did what most retailers do when they have a good quarter, throw their investors some dividends and only employ the people they need to keep things running, then investors would never have valued as high as they were/are.
"we want to prevent counterfeiters"

Hear that? Counterfeiters. As in: criminals. Very, very not open source.
I’ve implemented it several times, and it hasn’t been clearly better. Don’t get me wrong, the alternatives haven’t been great either. I think it’s just hard when you have large organizations, large number of systems some of which are decades old, and you have high volumes of interactions/transactions.
Ironically this slide show wastes my time and attention by forcing me to click through it rather than simply presenting all the slides on one page. I also can't download it as a pdf to read later.
Sad, but at least The Big Ada could fight back by not selling the Pros until they become FOSH.
API fails when creating team. --> might have been just a clitch. It works now.
Not really. HIV vaccine candidates as well as trials for them have existed for decades. One of the earlier ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDSVAX

The issue is just that the trials have all failed. Since the earliest vaccines, a lot has been learned about HIV and its interactions with humans, which allows advanced approaches like this one, targeting parts of the virus that we know are highly conserved.
Not physically disfigured, no. But ... constrained. Narrowed. Awaiting a chance to provide answers, but not questions.
People with specific diseases - diabetes [1], epilepsy [2], etc - and those using specific medicines - corticosteroids [3], etc - carry documents which tell emergency services about them. This also goes for severe allergies - think Penicillin allergy. They tend to carry these documents in their wallet or with their ID, especially when travelling abroad. The documents often carry messages in several languages so as to be intelligible to as many people as possible.

[1] https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetic-products/medipal-card.ht...

[2] https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/daily-life/safety-aids-equi...

[3] https://www.dorsetccg.nhs.uk/Downloads/aboutus/medicines-man...
Thanks for the detailed reply. As a perennial skeptic and witness to government shenanigans back in the day, I'm keeping a wary, open mind concerning these events.

The emerging Glenn Greenwald perspective on early government knowledge and possible participation merits consideration, IMO.

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1412882760675512326
The UK constitutional system has been expanding its “checks and balances” quite a bit.

In the early 2000s the UK Supreme Court was granted a great deal of institutional autonomy. During the Brexit fiasco, it had no problem flexing its muscles.

The House of Lords had likewise been reformed and is much stronger and meritocratic (there’s still work to go on it).

Likewise subsidiary nations and municipalities have an increasingly large amount of independence. If Westminster passed surveillance laws unpopular in Scotland, they likely wouldn’t be implemented in Scotland.

The best example is probably Northern Ireland. There’s much greater support for surveillance powers in NI. But those expanded powers are combined with much greater accountability and oversight of security services.

Some parts of the British Home territory have too little surveillance. Both the City of London and Jersey have a reputation for laundering dirty money - something unthinkable in Northern Ireland.

Nothing about the UKs future is clear.

But I don’t think they need the EU to prevent them from passing overly broad or weak surveillance laws.
As a beginner _just to npm_ I can imagine getting totally freaked out and worried that my whole system was _potentially_ compromised after seeing a “Critical” vulnerability reported as installed on my system.

After all, npm can execute any script with the users permissions on install…except often (compared to bash) it’s less easily inspected due to the common use of nested dependencies!

I, too, would delete my node_modules, and if I even wanted to move forward at that point, would probably waste at least half a day looking up the Critical vulns and discovering that they are probably not at all critical in my particular scenario. Like not at all for the 99.99% use case.

After experiencing something like that, it’s just like the article says. “The boy who called wolf.” Really terrible use of the labels “Critical” and “High”. The labels are fine, but the way they are applied is just stupid.
The quote might have been genuine, but Gates said it an joking manor - e.g. "it was like I didn't have a day off in 40 years".

Or Gates wanted to be viewed as a work-a-holic and lied.

I'm fairly sure it's not literally true.