skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good luck telling an eye witness that what they saw isn't an objective fact, or the DA that the handwritten, signed confession in his hand isn't an objective fact.
Precisely. IMHO any civilisation capable of interstellar travel (at any speed) has solved all necessary questions/problems of resource/energy acquisition and control and has no need to plunder the resources of others.
code on demand is optional

self describing messages and HATEOAS is not

would love to chat w/ fielding some time
> We believe Sourgum is an Israel-based private sector offensive actor or PSOA. Citizen Lab has identified the group as a company called Candiru. Sourgum generally sells cyberweapons that enable its customers, often government agencies around the world, to hack into their targets’ computers, phones, network infrastructure and internet-connected devices.
We have a similar system (multi-tenant database) where each tenant (account) has objects that have unique identifiers for that specific account (customers, locations, jobs, invoices, etc).

Customer #C1010 may have 2 locations #L1899 and #L8443 and many invoices #IN1940 and #IN2399 for example.

When we first built the system, I considered using native Postgres sequences to track these, but decided against them because of how they are affected during a rollback. In our system, each account has a record in a table that controls the next value of the sequence.

We have an event in our ORM to automatically generate the next sequence value as part of the transaction so if the transaction is rolled back, the next sequence value is as well. Sure, it requires locking the sequence record but it's a very small table and generating a sequence is quick. We wrapped everything up in a stored procedure named generate_sequence() which returns the next value of the sequence and increments it. It's scaled to millions of records quite well without issue.
frees you from your money...
Probability as a Mental Model Is Bullshit
How do you propose making an antifragile system?

The most antifragile system we know is the earth's biosphere and its component ecosystems. By reorganising it for our industrial processes, we have made it pretty fragile and we will be experiencing the results of that (in the form of more droughts, storms, temperature swings etc.) increasingly if we keep it up.

Adopting the stable world scenario would be accepting that we need to limit our use of the world's resources and give back a lot of land and ocean use to the natural ecosystems that gave us those resources in the first place -- rewilding large portions of the earth. This is about the only reasonable suggesting for antifragility I could conceive of, making it basically the same thing as the SW option.
As far as I understand it this is about the ECS equivalent of an INNER JOIN, that is, some variation on "iterate over all entities that possess instances of component A and B". Iterating over single component types in a system is trivial if they are separated into pools by types. When you have a system requiring more than one component, it isn't that easy to do better than iterating over all entities and checking whether they possess each required component. You can decide to maintain back references from components to their entities, but this means that you incur that management overhead pretty much globally. This essay says that doing away with entities altogether and just keeping direct links between your components is better. And it probably is when it comes to handling related components.

However, I believe (without having actually tried it) that this proposal has its own drawbacks. it's harder to thoroughly clean up all components that form a single entity. My suspicion is that it's easier to produce bugs like keeping e.g. a stray collision shape or sound source around while the other parts of an entity are removed. All you need for that to happen is an incomplete graph traversal.
It can definitely matter---if I mutate one of the socks and the mutation doesn't show up on the other, I've got a problem if I'm assuming equivalence is equality.

I suspect that's key to why the axiom of choice has to be an axiom (and how this may pop up from time-to-time in the realm of computer science problems).
Military industrial complex?
“Alleged” weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists?
Politicians wanting to appear tough on crime?
Avoiding another 1970s energy crisis?
Islamic suicide bombers / terrorists?

I don’t know.
We’re talking about a situation where big investments in lithium batteries have lead to a possible massive increase in the cost of lithium production, and you’re assuming we wouldn’t see similar enhancements in hydrogen production - electrolysis is one route but some of the catalytic pathways are showing some outrageous experimental efficiencies. Dream a little, that’s the subthread I started and the thread you’re necessitated to respond to if you want to have a productive discussion
Because of the distribution problem, my assumption is that hydrogen will be confined to easy to distribute transportation if at all. That's shipping, airlines, maybe trains (though trains really should be made electric)
sounds like me bullshitting on a high school essay to increase the word count
You can pick another commercial software vendor.

With government, you can only complain. So you do.
Wildfire Today article with map and satellite picture. https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/07/15/bootleg-fire-grows-to-a...

Edit: They posted another update, Firefighters pulled off sections of the Bootleg Fire: https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/07/16/firefighters-pulled-off...

And for completeness, here's their front page for further updates: https://wildfiretoday.com/
"Boeing decided late last year that those failures were not a security issue, but the company and the F.A.A. later concluded that they represented a threat after further investigation and analysis." Translation: Boeing tried to ignore it until the F.A.A. told them to cut it out. Obviously this is a bit of a dead horse by now but if anyone still thinks that regulatory capture (I'm deliberatly using an adverserial term like capture despite the fact that this process was a consensual one) that allows Boeing and other manufacturers as much oversight and freedom in their own regulation is a good thing, then they need to wake up.
I've long been a huge fan of Bourdain ever since he started on his television career.

The most important thing I learned from Bourdain shows is very simple and also very true:

When you visit a place that is unfamiliar to you, whether it's another city in your own country or someplace on another continent, go to the traditional food markets. That's where you can best encounter the culture and flavor (literal and figurative) of a place.

It's really good advice (modulo cautions about tap water and uncooked foods).
Perhaps. But we're not talking about individuals.
So I worked on a contract for STScI (the peeps who wrote all the Hubble software). The turnover there is insanely low. As of a few years ago, almost ALL the people I worked with had been there since the initial launch of the Hubble. Anyway, as you walk around the cubes in their offices, many had copies of the political cartoons from the time which mocked the Hubble as a total failure. They are all mission focused, took the initial failure very, very seriously.
Those projects took centuries to complete.
You asked if it was a bad idea in general. It's not.

Perhaps it's a bad idea in this one specific case but not in general.
I was curious myself, and it turns out there were five missions, starting with the one to compensate for the incorrectly ground mirror. IIRC the final one was in doubt, as there was no possibility of a rescue mission in the event of irreparable damage on launch.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/servicing/index.ht...
Chicken Tax
That sounds crazy to me.
I suppose you're dumb; not because you're functionally illiterate but because it's clear that a laptop is both handheld and portable as much as Steam Deck.
So it's an Android with pre installed apps.

Android is pretty cool. I wonder if history was different and M$ replaced Google for phones, if we'd have 2 walled prisons.
Another commenter on a different story shared a dutch proverb that’s appropriate here: reputation arrives on its feet and leaves on a horse.
California's Attorney General backs call for Global Privacy Control adoption
So basically it's existing hardware/software doused in snake oil and sold at a $350 upcharge?

A terrible product, if this review is accurate. But you have to at least admire their boldness in trying to blatantly manipulate a very opinionated and possibly underserved market.
Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google Broke the Mobile Browser Market
A Video Tour of the Standard Model
Civilizations are only detectable for a short period of time. Once they understand physics, they no longer need radio waves or Dyson spheres or to travel through what we call spacetime.
Not sure if it also happened in a movie, but that's definitely from a scene in Better Call Saul.
Designs for instruments are always a practical balance.

See also: lutes. A theorbo might allow for greater expression, but it's not very practical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVabz8LneI4
I know that it is a different challenge reverse engineering a spa's APIs but you gotta admit, the existing system of XML / html parsing and websites making slight tweaks to their layout is the real nightmare.
Visual map of the wildfire can be found here: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4bfb0...

Using the Klamath lakes as a visual guide really gives reference as to just how large an area of forest this is...
Ah this is super helpful. I’m here stuck thinking “just pick any element at random”. Needing to have deterministically consistent pickings from infinite sets makes the problem clear and much more interesting.
There is no time when the outcome of a presidential election was set aside based on "fraud" with no meaningful evidence of fraud.

An event like that would most likely shatter the country and probably end democracy.
Not really. If you want to do iOS development, there's no point in using C++. The Swift interop with C++ is very painful.

I think for Android development, the NDK support is much better and there you might be able to leverage C++ much easier.
Perhaps this is off topic, but I am curious about the future of construction equipment. If all the ICE cars are removed from the picture, including ICE freight trucks, will diesel fuel become vastly more expensive or harder to get? I plan to get some construction equipment within a couple of years. I've never seen electric prototypes for this size equipment, nor hydrogen. Maybe this is already being worked on? I've seen mini-EV-excavators, but never seen an EV in the mid to full sized excavators.

[Edit] Correcting myself, looks like Komatsu/Proterra are working on a bigger EV excavator. [1] I hope this becomes affordable because the noise reduction of electric would surely make my neighbors happy and I would love to not breath diesel exhaust.

[1] - https://www.proterra.com/press-release/komatsu-electric-cons...
What's the consequence of extending the reals with infinities, as my textbook for real analysis does?
"Mass transit, particularly rail needs significant upgrades to coverage quality."

You may be implying this, but not just coverage. How can I depend on a system when there are strikes, or even just incompetence, that render the system unusable for days or weeks?
Open-Source MLOps Fundamentals Course
Hmm, how many meta hobbies are there? I might need to pick up a few. \s
I completely agree. Some of the Jan 6 protestors have recently plead guilty to trespassing or similar petty nonsense after being held im solitary confinement for over 6 months in a DC jail. Solitary confinement for what ends up being a trespassing misdemeanor.

Actual public safety is an afterthought. The point isn’t to solve a crime, but to punish enemies or to boost conviction rates.
> What's the advantage to society of allowing interviewers to lie (to anyone, let alone kids)?

I suppose in many instances lies and bluffs have resulted in the desired outcome.

But not all lies/bluffs are the same, and I agree with you that telling a suspect in interrogation that they have immunity if they just say X is problematic, but I think it is reflected in the current case law and any evidence obtained in such a scenario would likely be suppressed.

I’ve seen more than a few interrogations, a similar one went something like this:

Cop: look, we just want to recover the gun, we don’t care about anything else, just tell us where the gun is.

Suspect: oh…you just want the gun?

Cop: yeah.

Suspect: yeah, I bet you do.

Now the thing is this suspect actually shot someone from his car into an adjacent car, he fled and discarded the firearm, then returned to the scene after police had arrived and he was immediately arrested. It always amazed me someone so dumb as to drive right back to the scene of the crime and deliver himself into the hands of police was so aware and savvy during the interrogation.
There are phones that actually can give you software freedom. The Pinephone and Librem 5 can both run mainline Linux with very few blobs.
They also have a lot of political pressure to "solve crimes," which is literally a score board. I'm not excusing what they do in any way. It's a big mess of a system with too many incompetent bureaucratic careerists who seem to be short on ethics.

I liken it as a game which didn't take hackers into account when designing the system, and the hackers are now rampant, ruining the game, except it isn't a game.
I think better rules on what quality of confessions police and prosecutors take into consideration would probably be sufficient. Eg. if the suspect says "okay, fine, I did it" after hours of interrogation but cannot describe what the victim looked like, what weapon they used, where they hid it afterwards, etc, that confession should be considered near-worthless. The real issue isn't inducing the false confession, it's assigning it such a high evidentiary value and presenting it to a jury out of context.
Scripting flow manipulations in mitmproxy is easy. There are a lot of great examples to learn from which help. The filter syntax is expressive and simplifies writing code to mangle flows. I've done body conversion [0], weird types of authorization testing, manipulated system update packages on the fly, all sorts of bizarre things. Auto-reloading scripts on change is such a time saver. If you want a python-based programmable HTTPS proxy for testing I have not found anything better.

[0]: https://carvesystems.com/news/proxying-wbxml-services/
My Wild Ride into the Cryptosphere
> "Climate change impacts are contributing to wildfires that are increasingly dangerous and destructive across the Western U.S.,"

It's baffling that here we are in the full motions of global warming, and we can find all manner of distractions to take our mind off it, and divert attention. Yes, there is a movement to halt global warming or slow it down, but it needs more traction. The topic needs to be the frontpage of every newspaper. The world is burning before our eyes.
How do we know we aren’t the colonists?
It would be nice if they could install a USB port on the chest somewhere so you can use a good old power bank. But I don't think our biology agrees :)
Elon does not have a long history of process/domain breakthroughs though. SpaceX is doing some very innovative things that ULA never had incentive to do. But otherwise, it’s the same rocketry. Tesla largely same, bucking the expert opinion with Autopilot which seems to be going rather horribly. The Boring company has yet to prove his claims there.
The case for banning non-competes
I really really appreciate your response. I’ll be thinking about this.
Creating accountability is definitely a solid strategy, but I've got to point out that I absolutely procrastinate all of the things you mentioned in your first several paragraphs.
Well yes I was talking about the Netherlands where you have a mandatory insurance, guaranteed to be the same amongst all insurers and for which the cost is subsidized for people with low or no income.

At that point it's basically an income tax.
It’s pretty big but I’m more concerned that all those fires in British Columbia are going to merge into one massive pan-Canadian disaster.
If you're going to make comments like "end democracy," which is pretty inflammatory and hyperbolic, you should probably have an example or two of what you think will happen that will truly end American democracy?
As I understand it. Every library in npm registry (they library you can install using npm) are also automatically approved ( which sounds reasonable you don't want to approve every library by hand).

And that's what the author exploits by registering a library that have a symlink in it. Which then got excuted.
> Yes they are trying to dismantle free speech rights by forcing private companies to provide platforms to publish content they do not want to.

Communications carriers providing content-neutral service? Thank God the post office, USPS, FedEx, phone, fax, ISP, cell-phone, sat-phone, and handheld radio companies have the freedom to engage in partisan political censorship as they please. It would be a tyranny on those poor corporations were it not the case. Oh won't someone think of the shareholders!
If I use humanity as a model, then we don't see other great apes as dangerous competitors. Rather we see them as interesting curiosities. We want them to stay alive. But it's hard to resist the desire to turn their habitats into something economically productive.

Colonizing other planets and making them into homes for aliens long before a native civilization has a chance to arise seems more plausible than just destroying them.
Some cursory searching I did revealed some state and federal guidelines to the contrary. "good faith requirement to search for the parents", e.g. CA statute requires minors taken into custody to consult with attorney prior to questioning.

But there's no constitutional guarantee.
I suspect that any advanced species would abandon life as soon as possible. E.g. become non-biological and immortal. Then interstellar travel is trivial.
>It's slightly less disturbing to think that the cops legitimately think they're doing a good job over the alternative of intentionally ignoring their responsibility. Still troubling to think they could be that deluded.

Stalin truly believed what he was doing was for the greater good of the USSR. It's extremely easy to justify bad deeds and fool yourself that the ends justify the means.
I was expecting a badass base, but it sounds like a piano
The algorithm that executes an element from the set of all algorithms one at a time until an algorithm succeeds to select an element from a set will work on any set and itself?

a = the algorithm
A = set of all selection algorithms
b = any set

def a(x):
while True:
f = a(A) # you have to select an algorithm from the set of selection algorithms
result = f(x)
if result is None:
A = A - f # set of all selection algorithms without f
continue
else:
return result

a(b) #will always return a result or not terminate for any choice of b?

Obviously there's problems with this because I'm not a mathematician and I'm just making stuff up off the top of my head. But would any one who's an expert care to explain what's the issue with the above?

I'm looking at it and such an algorithm is defined in terms of itself (like a factorial, which is legal) and may never terminate (which also legal because an algorithm selecting the smallest number from all sets that only contain positive numbers will never terminate either).

Wait but then if you look at the code it provably will never terminate because A does not shrink as it recurses.
Agreed. The great filter and collapse theory in general are fascinating in theory and can motivate some great positive action but they can't undermine the fact that humans beings are doing better than they've ever done in our history by almost every imaginable metric.
Everyone should be on push-to-talk by default. The meeting organizer/owner of that particular video chat room should have the option of making that mandatory for all participants.

Better handling of audio from multiple simultaneous sources, so that you can mix the audio from multiple speakers, and not just have only one person who can be heard and who talks over everyone else.

The option of a “talking stick” that has to be passed around is also a good one.
Consider all the "real" numbers x that are in the range 0 <= x < 1. We can talk about what the real number are separately, but you can think of them as being infinite decimals starting with "zero point ...". We consider two decimals to represent the same number if one ends with all 9s and the other is identical except for the last non-nine number, and has "n+1" in that place, then all zeros. So these decimal sequences represent the same number:

0.35578439999999999999...
0.35578440000000000000...

OK, now say that two of these numbers are related, they are in the same family, if their difference is a rational number. So these numbers are all related:

0.35578440000000000000...
0.45578440000000000000...
0.85578440000000000000...
0.35578233333333333333...

... and so on. These number are all in the same family. We can show that if a is related to b, and b is related to c, then a is related to c ... being in the same family is transitive.

There are infinitely many families.

Now suppose that there is a council meeting, and every family needs to send one representative. To do so you need to choose one number from each family, and it's not clear how to do that. I invite you to try to think of a rule that works for all families.

So to choose one number from each family we need the Axiom of Choice.
Why wouldn't they need megastructures and travel once they understood enough physics?
A Republic can be a form of Democracy. There are types of Democracy other than direct.
It's just as likely that the Republicans nominate one of Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, or Mitt Romney, and the US presidential election comes down to a qualified center-right Republican and Joe Biden.
As it so happens, I live in Austin...

Yeah, in theory you can stash stuff outside, but that also isn't as simple as it sounds. While I take some issue with the milk analogy below, in this case, I think it fits. Imagine you have a gallon of milk. You lose power. You go stash it in the snow. Okay, it's kept "cold" for some value of cold. That "some value" matters, because with this gallon of milk, you can't smell it to see if it's spoiled, and if something goes horribly wrong, you die. It's not a binary thing as it sounds immediately. "Cold in the snow" is not the same as "kept at the same value I can control exactly in my fridge."
The existing social order is good. And actually a very substantial percentage of people are in prison for crimes against persons not property
I think that's why the "infinite socks vs. infinite shoes" are mentioned---because the socks are equivalent so you can't tell by the 'label' which one you grabbed.
I do too!
Any particular reason that they stay for so long at their jobs?

Obviously working on such cool projects must be a major factor, but it's probably not the only one.
Only about 5 hours of freedom on a full charge though sadly.
Canada has laws against it, so it is illegal in some places.
> Time and time again, we've seen how the justice system doesn't benefit society at large.

Do you mean to imply that we've seen examples of how the justice system, on balance, does not benefit society at large? As in, adding up all the positives and negatives of the justice system, we'd be better off without it? If so, I'd want to see what those examples you mention are.
Just play the games you like then and stop commenting how other types of games that you don't even play need to change
The will of the people unimpeded by voting restrictions, weighted by obtuse electoral college lines with obtuse winner takes all runoffs*