skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's really no wonder that virus that spreads through human population is slightly better adjusted to humans than animal species its ancestor was infecting.

This does not make sense to me, because I think the COVID virus was pretty stable for a long time (being an RNA virus and all that, I don't know). So the idea is that it was optimally adapted during the time of the jump to humans (of course it could have got the perfect mutation right at the time of the jump, but the chances of that happening is astronomically small), and the optimal human transmission was not acquired later when it started circulating in humans.

So the only way to have this happened is if it was optimized in a GoF research in a lab.
> I understand your frustration but I still cannot get past the point that, generally speaking, an individual must make a specific, conscious, and unforced series of decisions in order to repeatedly end up in front of movies that they dislike.

That seems like another odd assumption to make. It doesn't need to be based on individual choices, social dynamics drive plenty of decision making [1]. FWIW, I've only seen 1 new movie this year, and I only plan to see 1 other, so it's not like I disagree with you at an individual level. That's not how it works out in the larger population though - for many people it's their leisure activity of choice.

[1] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox
It's far less online contrasted to what, than analytic processing contrasted to transaction processing.

OLAP was a departure from OLTP, online transaction processing, the mainstay of business transactional networks. And of course, both are contrasted to batch processing which occurs later or after the fact, though in practice, much OLAP was specific triggered reports or ad hoc analysis, at least from the world as I saw it.

Where OLTP and OLAP differ is in that OLTP deals with a transaction at a time, typically following a single entity or account through a single transaction or operation. The data loads are small though the transaction counts are high, and there's virtually no summation of information. Database optimisation is built around these needs.

OLAP, in theory, was based around realtime or near-realitime access to transactional data, but the analysis looked across entities (typically accounts, products, divisions, regions, time, etc.), and relied heavily on summarised data (counts, sums, means, medians, min, max, standard deviation, occasionally other metrics). This was typically rationalised by either defining views, or (more often in my experience) by precomputing what were thought to be sufficient and useful summary statistics. (In practice, neither ambition ever seemed to be reliably met, requiring returning to source or disaggregated data.)

From a statistical stadpoint, one of the chief failures of OLAP is that it attempts to substitute summarisation for sampling. In practice, a small sample of a very large dataset is quite frequently orders of magnitude more easily compiled and analysed, with very little loss of information. Even aggregate computations can often be closely estimated by this method.

The article explicitly makes most of these points, FWIW.
In the context of social media Trust & Safety policies, it definitely seems to be consensus.

> We are committed to combating abuse motivated by hatred, prejudice or intolerance, particularly abuse that seeks to silence the voices of those who have been historically marginalized. For this reason, we prohibit behavior that targets individuals with abuse based on protected category.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-condu...

Note the weight of "Particularly" above.

Reddit had a similar policy but recently removed the clause "For example, the rule does not protect groups who are in the majority".
But it's basically layered on top of Amazon AWS

https://cloud.gov/docs/technology/iaas/#the-infrastructure-u...

So, no I don't think it really fits the bill because underneath it's using a solution built by a private business.
There's just always a "who watches the watcher" recursive paradox with formal specification / verification. Who ensures the specification is a good one?

I believe it is just that - a logical paradox. It cannot be answered. We will always have to be double-checking the specifications, perhaps via model checking.

All that's to say, I agree with you, it's not like this is going to solve all problems just by using formal specs.
Does this mean anything other than the obvious-- the US starting to cede some of the globe back to countries not named USA?
If I had to download source in zip format I probably wouldn't touch it outside a VM.
can't say for sure but I'd wager that it's not
Not really they don't say if its larger dimensions or image payload.

You can have a physically larger image that has a smaller file size
Thanks. I downloaded (mac) and played around a bit and have some notes below. I'm not a data analyst, just a programmer interested in new programming systems.

- 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)

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

- 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.

- 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 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`.

- 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?
So dead "because I said so" in essence?
Humans are always looking for things to believe in. When people become less religious, they still need something to put their faith in.

Motivation and happiness are vague words or concepts.

Existentialism and existential nihilism explain this.

Those books are not based on science, and if they were, they would talk about it.

Apart from saving the world from climate change and tax justice I cannot find any meaning I could find in those books.
Clean energy alone is not nearly enough to solve ecological collapse. You also need to stop the conversion of wild areas into monocrop agriculture and confine metropolitan development, to stop the loss of further carbon sinks. And even once you can stop all new greenhouse gas emissions, there’s still the massive task of removing all the excess CO2 currently in the atmosphere, which would otherwise remain for thousands of years and continue to drive carbon-releasing feedback loops in the permafrost, ocean, arctic ice, and rainforests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...

"In other words, the Curry–Howard correspondence is the observation that two families of seemingly unrelated formalisms—namely, the proof systems on one hand, and the models of computation on the other—are in fact the same kind of mathematical objects.

If one abstracts on the peculiarities of either formalism, the following generalization arises: a proof is a program, and the formula it proves is the type for the program."
This is expected to be the ultimate fate of the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) after the Sun leaves the main sequence in about 5 billion years. Within 30 billion years of the Sun becoming a red giant, Jupiter and Saturn are predicted to fall into a 5:2 orbital resonance that destabilizes the system, eventually causing all but 1 planet to be ejected within 30 billion years. The remaining planet is expected to be ejected within another 50 billion or so years.[0]

So, within about 100 billion years, all that's going to be left of our solar system is a white dwarf (which will likely survive for trillions of years[1]), and 4 rogue planets, each drifting alone in space.

Somehow, I think this little story is more interesting than the posted article, perhaps because it literally hits home.

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[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.07296.pdf

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf#Fate
I know you're sarcastic, but it wouldn't be a bad outcome. Sure, the vendor would have to be particularly dumb in their usage of telemetry[0], but the result would be... software that is useful to you. All the professional features you need would be in there, with none of the glitter.

Of course, I would opt-in too, with the same mindset but different use cases, and the software would provide equally for both of us. Add in a few more people like us, and we'd end up with a quality tool, offering powerful and streamlined workflows. Those who don't like it would start using a competing product, and tailor it towards their needs. Everyone wins.

Reality of course is not that pretty, but at face value, it still beats software optimized to lowest common denominator, serving everyone a little bit, but sucking out the oxygen from the market, preventing powerful functionality from being available anywhere.

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[0] - It's a mistake that's much easier to make when you're flooded with data from everyone, rather than having a small trickle of data from people who bothered to opt in.
This problem isn't specific to global variables; it happens with all shared mutable state. I would assume that the author only used global variables because that lets them keep the working examples as short as possible, and minimize irrelevant details.

And yes, you can put a full memory fence around every access to a variable that is shared across threads. But doing so would just destroy the performance of your program. Compared to using a register, accessing main memory typically takes something on the order of 100 times as long. Given that we're talking about concerns that are specific to a relatively low-level approach to parallelism, I think it's safe to assume that performance is the whole point, so that would be an unacceptable tradeoff.
Podcast listing will break your stuff. Probably
Nope not based on my experience,
GitHub Copilot Telemetry
The data looks exactly like that. The graph is an xkcd rendition of the graph in the FDA report:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/12/th...
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Thought this was going to be a blog post detailing why etc.

It’s the invite link :/
I couldn't tell on mobile, in that context it's admittedly a lot less peculiar
And Trump hasn't dismissed the possibility that he won the 2020 election. At some point you have to produce the evidence. Where are the career DoD procurement people leaking to WaPo that they were pressured?

This was AMZN thinking that all they needed to include in their proposal was market share numbers. MSFT's proposal was more responsive to the DoD's needs.
Warning - This goes directly to discord server instead of any website that gives details.
One million lira was equivalent to one new lira.
They keep saying things like "arid, parched" which leads me to believe they are looking at land in West Texas (it is very cheap land). These things do not apply to South East Texas, which is mostly subtropical. However, even in the South East we've had issues with subsidence due to over pumping (which we've mostly weaned off from), so the point of being self sustaining on surface water still applies.

East Texas has a huge logging and tree farming industry, so if you're building in East Texas, you'll probably want to leverage the natural resources; rammed earth doesn't quite make sense there.

Also, and this is my personal opinion, I do not believe it is possible to create a successful, large town without vehicles or air conditioning here, it isn't practical, and it isn't in the culture. If you look at the history of success of Texas towns, many further West and South/South East did not become successful until the advent of the vehicle and the air conditioner. The idea of lugging groceries for even a 150m walk in this weather sounds miserable. I recommend the author looks more local to find out what makes Texas towns tick rather than global, because while there's great ideas from around the world that could be imported, you shouldn't discount the local maxima.
> many people disconnect cold storage wallets for years

Yes, and when they come back, they should update their software - which should have a hardcoded checkpoint in it from much more recently. That's the solution that you're repeatedly ignoring.

> a PoS attacker who creates a blockchain can emit blocks at a very high rate

You're just wrong. Show me a single active PoS protocol that works this way. You won't be able to because that's not how it works. No one else would accept most of these blocks. Why are you so sure about yourself when you clearly have enormous holes in your understanding of how PoS protocols work in general?
What is especially exciting about the idea, is the opportunity to incorporate modern internet into the town from the start.

The article mentions solar panels and wifi technicians. Naturally, the town would be equipped with a kind of mesh net for local communication in cases of outages, etc.

But also, the town librarian could maintain something like community resources hosted on the mesh network. Design documents, etc.

Of course, the town would provide a Pleroma or Matrix server to all residents too :)
My point is that solicitations for grant money do not provide the assurance that products that actually exist do.
This seems to be focused on the cruise phase of flight, not take-offs or landings:

> The programme, known within Airbus as Project Connect, aims to certify its A350 jet for single-pilot operations during high-altitude cruise, starting in 2025 on Cathay passenger flights, the sources said.

> High hurdles remain on the path to international acceptance. Once cleared, longer flights would become possible with a pair of pilots alternating rest breaks, instead of the three or four currently needed to maintain at least two in the cockpit.
This is a significantly false generalization about the TTPs for rware operators.

Vast majority of these attacks don't work with 0days. They work with malformed IAM policies, social engineering/phishing, and poor asset registries and cloud vis.

Keseya being a 0day is an outlier in many ways.
Mac OS 9 is probably the weirdest evolution of 1980s single-task computing into something you could still use as a daily driver.

It was kept alive by two entirely disparate user groups: the iMac crowd who only used a browser (or the AOL client), and professional designer users who spent the entire day in Avid (or Pro Tools or After Effects or QuarkXPress or Photoshop).
Heavy AI/ML ecom tech, prototype complete, smashes anything out there -- but only for a very narrow FMCG sector

Need someone to talk to VCs etc. as too autistic to do it myself
"I disagree with X, and therefore no one else gets to do X"

You're a self righteous asshole.

And "hacker" in HN clearly refers to people doing things with their own computers, not people trying to break other people's hardware.
The point is to add resistance to strengthen your breathing muscles, not just to slow down your breathing rate.
Report the company then, not the "worker bee". You're pursuing evil in your current plan.
It's overwhelming for the first couple of days, as periodic jobs wake up and ask for permission to connect to the Internet. Once you're over that initial hump, it basically disappears until some new app wants to connect to something unexpected.
Correct, he (jgm on GitHub) is still by far the biggest contributor to the spec: https://github.com/commonmark/commonmark-spec/graphs/contrib...
No software should look over your shoulder on your computer without explicitly asking to do so. This was flatly unacceptable, not all that long ago. I hate that the Overton window on this topic has shifted so far toward spying's side.
Haha it's clear to basically every competent security team that this audit has to occur, but it usually is not clear to product, engineering and operations.
>The real problem is that TV killed the middle-rung movie.

You're 70 years too late. Life magazine in 1957 talked about how one of the consequences of the Hollywood studio system (from both TV, and the 1948 Paramount antitrust case) was the death of the "million-dollar mediocrity" (<https://books.google.com/books?id=Nz8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA146>):

"It wasn't good entertainment and it wasn't art, and most of the movies produced had a uniform mediocrity, but they were also uniformly profitable ... The million-dollar mediocrity was the very backbone of Hollywood".

The "million-dollar mediocrity" died because the Paramount case forbade block booking, in which studios required that theaters purchase said mediocrities to also buy big films. Original TV movies appeared in the 1960s but their budgets and production values were too low to really fill the hole in Hollywood, but today's streaming companies' insatiable appetite for content has opened a new outlet for middle-tier films (and, more importantly, series).
Huh. My hiccup remedy has never once failed me:
- Sit upright, and ignore any hiccups till they're gone.
- 1. Inhale and exhale normally for a couple breaths.
- 2. Inhale extremely deeply, filling lungs to max capacity, and hold it (lungs full) for a slow 5-count.
- 3. Forcibly exhale steadily until lungs are completely empty, and hold it (lungs empty) for a slow 5-count.
- 4. Steadily inhale (repeating step 2).

If they're stubborn you may need to repeat the fill/empty cycle 2 or 3 times. 100% success rate for me and my family and friends. I guess the it helps relax the diaphram to take control of it and put it through its paces.
The Medieval church's philosophy was called Neoplatonism, after Plato, a 'pagan'. IIRC, they would have loved to have Aristotle's works too, and they were finally discovered in the time of Aquinas.
What's wrong with seeding with time so long as you do it with nanoseconds?
Zircon is a kernel.
> CVEs pop up decades after products have died.

Are they even covered within the warranty period? I never tried it, but I think I'd have an interesting conversation if I went to a shop and told them I want to return a product because while it works flawlessly it's got a vulnerability.
The standard procedure is usually getting a replacement, but this isn't possible here as the whole product range is affected.
Because what I really want is a ton of different random bullshit enviroment variables next time I go to debug something :/
Slick new UI! Excited to get started and rysolving!
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raesene9 says >"The thing about Classic ASP is that it has no in-built protections and the individual developer has to code all defence,,,"<

Yes, it is just like PHP or Perl or Ruby with the CGI specification.

raesene9 says >" how many classic ASP developers are there now ..."<

Good question! But IMO a web developer could learn classic ASP in a single day!8-))

raesene9 says >"the individual developer has to code all defence,<

Yes, just like PHP or Perl or Python.
He's planning for Wifi, but not A/C. Best of luck to this fellow, but I'm not sure his priorities align with most folks in this part of the country.
Private sector pays over double the government. Why do you think the US government has so many problems with security?

What security engineer worth his salt is going to accept half the pay to work for the government where things move at a snails pace?
It's been relatively fixed on the timescales that human civilization has grown - in particular our modern civilization as it exists over the past few hundred years.

As we have developed, we have spent the majority of our human productivity on efforts to optimize ourselves, our cultures, and our infrastructure for the relatively static status quo climate.

This includes the placement of cities, the choice of crop cultivars in various regions, the effort put into irrigation systems and infrastructure, the planning of building codes and expected lifetimes of infrastructure based on regional climate, the kinds of diseases and pests we guard against in various regions, and on and on. Billions of people depend on those optimizations. A slippage of a percent in the effectiveness of those optimizations will be counted in the lives of millions.

What we are about to see is the most massive and abrupt, systematic disruption of every single one of those careful optimizations. This will lead to massive direct suffering, as well as indirect suffering as people invariably react to these changes, and engage in war over shifting and scarcer resources. The chance of these conflicts going large-scale nuclear will be far higher than it ever was during the cold war.
The prospect and opportunity of rogue planets is fascinating to me.

So I'm firmly in the camp that the speed of light is a hard limit in the Universe. Any talk of wormholes, FTL and space folding just seems like wishful thinking and the product of not understanding the domain of functions (eg putting negative values into mass or energy).

Additionally there's macro evidence to this speed limit because if it wasn't a limit it would make the likelihood of encountering spacefaring civilizations that much more likely.

So given this, it seems like traveling to other stars requires some form of generational ship. And that seems like a problem because the energy required is massive and that's even before you get into issues of having reaction mass. There are workarounds for this (eg space laser propulsion) but the problems seem... significant.

So, rogue planets. I wonder if the first vessel for interstellar travel will in fact be some largish rogue body that visits the Solar System. Even something 100km wide will contain a wealth of raw materials that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive to accelerate to interstellar speeds.

And sure it might take 10,000 years or more for such a body to travel to a nearby star but there's really not a lot of difference between several centuries and 10,000 years.

What's more, such travelers could likely seed other rogue bodies they encounter along the way.

Could this be the initial vector of interstellar colonization?

As an aside, George RR Martin 40+ years ago wrote a book called Dying of the Light. I really enjoyed it just for the concept. In this book there are so-called Festival worlds. These are worlds that wander between systems. When they approach stars they get sufficiently warm and thaw out and may have oceans and atmospheres in that time. People would build cities in that time knowing it was all temporary.
That's a strawman for an entirely separate discussion.

But I'll bite. No, it wouldn't. However that's not only why we shouldn't. It is most effectively and altruistically addressed as a medical and humanitarian issue.
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Imagine meeting one of these planets while travelling in space, the entire planet all dark and you are ordered to investigate.
It’s pretty well established by science that the effects will be overwhelmingly bad. To try to find the “silver lining” in the sixth mass extinction sounds like a pundit’s exercise in devil’s advocacy. You may as well be trying to “look on the bright side” of the holocaust.