skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fifth amendment provides blanket protection from forcing you to divulge any information that can be used to convict you of a crime. This includes passwords. It also means that people can be forced to testify if given immunity to the crimes they will confess to (this is what freed Bill Cosby recently).

There is no such protection covering other evidence (although a warrant may be required). The police can force you to give up DNA, fingerprints and to stand still and be photographed.

Whether the information in either case is used to unlock a computer or a safe, is shown to witness or matched against samples is irrelevant.
I am going to guess and say they are probably pressed amphetamine made to look like Captagon
Sorry to report this, but stimulant withdrawal absolutely exacerbates the symptoms of ADHD.

Not so much with amphetamine (which is weakly reinforcing at recommended doses), but for nicotine, I know ADHD folks who have straight quit for a couple months, then go back because their life has become a complete shambles and it doesn't seem to be getting better.
What do you think about the following (if you know about them):

- Diaspora by Greg Egan (and honestly much of Greg Egan's work in general), which is basically from the viewpoint of an AI entity and keeps "unzooming". The very beginning (the "birth") is as confusing as it is powerful

- Culture series by Iain M. Banks (refers to AI entitites at human levels like knife missiles all the way up to pretty godly and mostly benevolent entities that the Minds are)

- Social treatment of Golems in Terry Pratchett's discworld which are essentially AI of the past (put a scroll of instructions in the body to see it become animated and have volition - and how humans exploit it, marvel at it and simultaneously reject it altogether)
It's a causality problem, not a technology problem.

Information can't be changed in two places simultaneously. That latency, no matter how small, requires us to either eat the latency, give up guarantees, or alter our system's behavior in some other small way.
I like to tell people that actual, programmable quantum computers do exist (which is a very important point—they’re not vaporware), but exactly like you say, in order to make them useful and scalable, more “actual science” needs to happen.
Why? It's not obvious to me.
I thought it was accepted now that those were cicadas? [1] [2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/science/sonic-attack-cuba...

[2] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/76hgkmv/havana-synd...
If you're asking about debugging macros, I've put a huge effort to this [1]. There are several macros that help you test, debug, and report errors at compile-time. For example, you can make calls to ML99_abort and see the expansion with -E. Usually I debug macros in this way.

If you're asking about debugging code generated by macros, Interface99 has no problems with it since the generated code is trivial, pretty much as if you wrote by hand. Datatype99 can introduce a little inconvenience into it as it generates a single-step for-loop for each variable binding [2], but this should not be a big problem too.

[1]: https://hirrolot.gitbook.io/metalang99/testing-debugging-and...
[2]: https://hirrolot.github.io/posts/compiling-algebraic-data-ty...
> Hence, algorithm implies that it provides correct answers within the parameters of the problem.

And so they always do. The problem that an algorithm solves is defined by the algorithm itself. The purpose of a system is what it does[0].

Algorithms are useful to solve problems for us - the trick is always in making sure that the problem the algorithm solves is the one we want.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
Decentralized control of a centralized finite resource (domain names) requires consensus. For example, Joe Smith and Joe Blow both want joe.com.

You want a protocol that gives consistent "global" state without any centralized / trusted users - blockchain/bitcoin is one of the only technical solutions to provide that.

I agree that it's a garbage solution in practice, but that's why it's got cryptoshit bundled in.

A potential different solution to DNS monopoly, if that is a problem that needs solving, is multiple name-resolution providers that have differing records on what name points where. (The tradeoff is that an owner may need to register their name with multiple different providers).
> Whataboutism: a conversational tactic in which a person responds to an argument or attack by changing the subject to focus on someone else’s misconduct, implying that all criticism is invalid because no one is completely blameless [0]

We aren't talking about BLM at all right now, we are talking about Jan 6th. If you want to include BLM then we can first talk about how cops took photos with the people who broke into the capitol while they beat and maced BLM protestors for far lesser infractions. If you actually watched BLM footage and compared it to Jan 6th then the difference is stark, officers going out of their way in most cases to not fight back against the people storming the capitol or just holding the line whereas during BLM protests they took any slight as a reason to unleash tear gas, start attacking, and start making arrests.

Secondly "insurrection" is only really used (in my experience and from what I've seen in history) when talking about actual attempts to overthrow said authority. Even calls for defunding the police don't meet this bar. Even burning a police building in MN doesn't really meet that bar for me, no one thought burning 1 station was going to overthrow the police. On the other hand the people on Jan 6th marched in large part to stop the certification of the election, chanted to hang the VP because he wouldn't refuse to certify, and openly talked about killing/hanging member of congress. There is a very clear difference between protesting a provably systematically racist system and attempting to overturn the votes of the majority of Americans based on a lie.

I'm sorry but I don't for a second believe you asked that question in good faith.

[0] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whataboutism
I touched in this subject the other day in a deep thread full of flaggings, since HN is [primarily] user moderated, these kind of comments seem like they must be here because enough users either want them here, or don’t care either way. Otherwise they’d be flagged as they do violate guildines.

As to why they’ve been like this recently, I can’t tell for sure. I feel like it’s been a bit kore than just a few months though, obviously 2020 was a US election cycle and things tend to get dicey around those times. I recall in both 2016 and 2020 people getting upset by the low quality threads, and other attempted to placate them by swearing it’d be over in a few months. Now it’s been more than a few months at this point, but there was also so much more than an election cycle in 2020 to cause political division.

Which leads to another point. HN is explicitly not a venue for politics, but politics infects everything so it gets complicated. For example, are political threads related to tech and startups off topic? I wouldn’t say no offhand, but there certainly have been an increase in the number of inheritor political threads that I’d personally consider this not the place for. Often this is justified by a lax interpretation of “anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity” (note though that the sort of threads I’m thinking of almost never contain inquisitive or intellectual discussion) from the submission guidelines. So if political threads are more common and more accepted, that’s going to invite all the sort of antics you get with internet politics including the sort of comment you mention in your comment. Some of the most egregious stuff will get flagged, but some surprisingly bad comments can stay upvoted if the opinion expressed resonates with enough of the community.
As far as I know, to the degree it doesn't compromise the investigation (e.g. reporting that person X turned on his co-conspirators before they can be arrested), there is transparency in this case. Is there something you are worried is insufficiently covered.
The theory states that our consciousness is a linguistic phenomenon, produced by culturally given ideas like the metaphorical I.
Maybe other mental configurations could give rise to consciousness but if an animal was to possess the type of consciousness described in this book, it would need the ability to symbolically represent pretty much everything and the ability to share those symbolic representations with others.
Video Gaming the System
Stack Rank reminds me of a mistake our owner made... We purchased a tall Sprinter van for mobile work. When we went to purchase a second, he asked for feedback/complaints and heard it was "blown around in heavy winds." To compensate, the next one they bought was not a tall model. No one wants to use it because being able to stand up straight while in the rear is much more important than the few times we drive in heavy winds. Had they stack ranked the feedback they would have seen that the complaint was small compared to the new issues they were creating.
They're doing polar launches but compared to the number of customers in sub-70 latitudes it's a pretty small market.
I get schizophrenia from smoking pot. But I also know people who get it who've never been pot heads.

Something about THC is at the center of this. And also something about age.

I used to be able to smoke as much as I wanted and just enjoy it, then one day it started making me crazy.. and I kept smoking for a few years and truly lost my mind.

I've heard this story countless times... something (usually around age 20) just snaps, and suddenly THC == paranoia.
Honestly why is that a problem? Wouldn't one thing that we'd want the people with the most experience in higher level management positions.

I don't think the problem with Congress is that members are in their 70s. The problem is that ideally they would have real jobs till their 60s THEN run for government. Instead they bum around various government roles till they get elected in their 30s and once they are there dig in like tics.
As others have mentioned, that etymology section is complete bunk. Sanskrit and English words have similarities because they are both Indo-European, and those specific words are descended pretty directly from PIE roots.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/be

PIE *bheue- "to be, exist, grow"

https://www.etymonline.com/word/am

PIE *esmi-, first person singular form of root *es- "to be"

https://www.etymonline.com/word/was

PIE *wes- (3) "remain, abide, live, dwell"

And the merger of all these forms in English from different verbs happened around the 13th century, not because of some pre-linguistic history.
I guess the mother of all Network Downtime checker is HN.
I watched the live BBC coverage of the London 2011 riots. Their live coverage was so completely out of touch and basically wrong it was disillusioning.

Reporters and anchors were completely unwilling to discuss the issue as a whole - each fire was treated individually, the anchor repeating every few minutes "there seems to be a new fire, but, it is not related in any way to the other 200 fires set this evening....." a few minutes pass "we have shocking new information that a fire has started, as of right now, we have no indication that it is related to the rest of the fires"....few minutes later "thugs are starting fires elsewhere, it seems totally unrelated to the other fires"

Completely unwilling to discuss poverty or any of the reasons people riot, instead, treating each incident as individual and not remotely related to the rest. It's like they want to pretend that everything is totally great in the UK like always and any problem you think you see is just temporary and unrelated to any other problem you see.

BBC is allergic to anything that is systematically wrong. No greater vision for what is happening in the world, just demeaning words for the poor and controlling-the-narrative that the UK is awesome and can do nothing wrong, systematically at least.
I’m not sure if it’s an endeavour worth taking honestly..
Starlink is still in beta, and once they can use starship to launch the satellites (hopefully somewhere next year) the launch capability will increase to 400 satellites compared to 60 on falcon 9. At that point they will be limited just by the satellites build throughput, so they will reach the 11k coverage very quickly.
It's totally fair to review the current state of a beta service. It could be informative for people who are unsure if they want to try the beta-service.

But to compare it as an equal, in it's beta form, against a service that it's not even built to compete against is just plain dumb. If you already have access to high speed internet, starlink it not intended for you.

His final comment about "Liking, but not loving starlink" implies that he's comparing starlink to cable internet as equal competitors. They are not and they are not intended to be and that's even considering the fact that starlink is in beta.

This guy should not even be allowed on starlink (in the long run) because he already has access to high speed internet.

This whole comment section is full of stupidity like:

"isn't 100watts a lot of power?" <-- typed from gaming computer with a 1000watt power supply
"what about space garbage, isn't space garbage bad" <-- as if LEO garbage won't just decay back to earth
"will starlink be like FSD and maybe never get delivered" <-- as if they are related issues, they are not
"I don't like Elon" <- because reasons, but also irrelevant
"starlink bad because worky less good when obstructed" <-- too dumb for words
"i'm worried about the starlink monopoly" <-- you should be banned from the internet
The font in Concrete Mathematics, interestingly enough, is a reparameterized version of Computer Modern. I'd have to look at the MF sources, but if I recall correctly, it doesn't have any changes to the actual character programs. The "math italic" is the Euler typeface designed by Hermann Zapf. While this was implemented in Metafont, it is not really a "meta" font. Instead, the grad students who worked on this (under the direction of Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes, IIRC) instead created MF outlines for each size independently. There is no shared code for different sizes or even for common aspects of the characters in the font.
Regarding imposter syndrome:
While I know that imposter syndrome is a real phenomenon that people experience, I think that it's become some catch-all solution to the fact that many young people have not actually put in the practice to master their craft. The times in my life where I've felt "imposter syndrome", it would go away after I had put in the work to get better at whatever subject/hobby I was feeling like an imposter doing. This has led me to believe that the majority of people who are dealing with imposter syndrome are in fact just experiencing the perfectly normal discomfort of recognizing that they are not yet as competent in something as they would like to be.

I think this may be a result of the postmodern emphasis on subjectivity that has pervaded American culture for the past decade and a half. If your art sucks, which of the following options is easier on your ego? Saying people "just don't get it" and that you're suffering from a psychological condition, or that you just need to practice more?
These sound like two separate problems. That is only 500 people you are talking about. What about the other 7.4B of u s?

Also, they are the ones who are supposed to fix that problem.
> Atlassian replaced it with Slack

Not before migrating to their own Hipchat successor / Slack clone, Stride, which was infinitely worse than both in every way. The product and IP was sold to Slack for, rumour has it, $1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stride_(software)
Covid also spreads asymptomatically, and for a lot of people, days 1-14 of it can feel a lot like a common cold. You need to take preventable measures to not be a potential spreader. Those measures are... Getting vaccinated.

Unless you are living in a spacesuit, you shedding viral particles into common spaces does make you responsible for the health of other people.
The Opposition get it - that’s what they’re there for. And unlike the press they’re elected, paid, accountable, and recallable.
That's interesting. The reason I'm asking is that I'm interested in the open source adoption angle. For example, say Linux went ham on DSLs, would people unwillingly learn it for the sake of being able to be part of the large community, would they embrace it as if it's the next best thing after sliced bread, or is that just never going to happen because of some strong conceptual aversion to the paradigm? Or say a not-so-known C projects wants to gain adoption/popularity, would the choice of using DSLs be a showstopping consideration?
Always Has Been

You have always been responsible not only for your own safety but also for the safety of your contacts/co-workers/environment. If you think otherwise, you might want to reflect about communicable diseases/STDs/traffic/gun safety/work place safety/you name it in general and it should become glaringly obvious. Covid safety is not different. For now, the required measures are more severe but it is not true that it is a special in regard of having to look out for others.
Because each of us have an interior experience of consciousness which is quite different from the external world.

I think that the brain is definitely associated with consciousness but we have literally no useful path from nerve impulses to the feeling of love.
Bitwarden offers this as well, but I don't really understand why you would want it. If someone compromises your password manager, 2FA is now worthless. Or am I misunderstanding how it works?
When I evaluate someone for hire, if they have side projects I will be looking at those much more extensively than I will their employment history.

How you spend your time, what you spend it on, and how you executed your vision are much more interesting and informative to me about how you'll handle your work than which corporations you've fit into a slot for.
This is a good question and deserves serious thought, including real empirical data on what people believe, and TFA provides that. I also recommend more perspective from Ed Yong[1], which is empathetic towards the unvaccinated.

But I don't think it's super mysterious. The US is one of the few countries that has a major news network constantly pushing the antivax message (Russia being the other that comes to mind, and that strengthens my point). We also have an erosion of trust in institutions, the media, and authority that goes deeper than in most other places.

We also see evidence here on HN: every Covid thread has a significant number of antivax comments. They are also aggressive on Twitter, and even in the chat of TWiV livestreams.

There is some reason for optimism though. Very recently, there has been something of a turnaround in right-leaning news sources, where they are now advocating the vaccine. I'm not sure if that will hold up, but in any case I expect it will boost vax numbers considerably, and in the process save many thousands of lives.

A deeper question remains: what can we do toward having an information ecosystem that is not so terribly dysfunctional that antivax messages thrive in it?

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/unvaccina...
I like how the first example of "bringing your desktop applications to the browser" is Figma, which is already a web app that just runs in Electron. Very trippy lol

Nice launch, congrats!
> financial institutions don't have any regulation for redundancy

As CTO of a bank, I wasn’t aware of this. So either we wasted a ton of money and time constantly upgrading redundancy and business continuity technologies to satisfy our regulators… or this statement could be mistaken.
If you want ADTs and can afford the (slight) performance hit and the higher resource consumption, you can even look into OCaml.
lol, if only? :^p

I recently set up a little discord community and corresponding github repo for a couple of other artists trying to break into tech to share resources, connect etc. Hit me up on there or github for sure!

https://discord.gg/3vdb6rk24D |
https://github.com/tombetthauser/artists-in-tech-resources
If you look at it from a global perspective, there are more forests now, up by 7% since 1982. Some regions see decreased life, others increased life:

"Here we analyse 35 years’ worth of satellite data and provide a comprehensive record of global land-change dynamics during the period 1982–2016. We show that—contrary to the prevailing view that forest area has declined globally—tree cover has increased by 2.24 million km2 (+7.1% relative to the 1982 level). This overall net gain is the result of a net loss in the tropics being outweighed by a net gain in the extratropics."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0411-9
It's not clear to me these theories were outside scientific enquiry:

They had an observation: birds disappear in winter, that they were trying to explain.

As you say there is precedent with other animals transmuting of which they had observations of.

So it's not really unscientific to combine these two pieces of evidence into a theory.

Certainly happens often enough today that people do these things, but end up being quite wrong.
It's code language to work around censorship, like antivaxxers calling themselves non-dancers and worrying that the dancer's glitter can rub in and make them sick.
I prefer solving my own need and curiosity than focusing on market fit. This probably means I will never be game for investors but I also won't measure my success by the money I've made. It will be measured in passion and happiness
French cybersecurity agency warns of China-linked APT31 attacks
I feel UI designers are all imposters pretending that their job is some kind of ultra high value skill set. The UI designer is an important job but to compare it to a still life painting? Laughable.

Literally, that still life painting takes 1000x more skill to render than arranging text, pictures and geometric elements on a website. ANYONE can arrange these elements on a website in a pleasing way. It takes time and effort to consider the best way to arrange these elements but it doesn't take extraordinary talent to do this... anyone can do it.

Mind you there are some programmers that are really inept at all forms of "art" but this post isn't direct at those people. On average arranging text in a pleasing way is a trivial exercise. Adding this "color" and "depth" theory on top of it (there's no real science theory here) is just pretentious. Yes these "theories" are sort of applicable but at the same time "what just looks good" also works just as well.
> Artificially inflated

Can someone please explain why is this company any different than any US company? In my eyes they are all artificially inflated. I love Tesla for instance but please P/E ratio of 654.03 isn't that the same thing? (it is genuine question)
Aesthetics of a fonts is such a personal feeling. And fonts feel different on screen vs print.
I've always found that psychedelics are a far far different experience than THC, do you have anything to back this up other than "they both make you sorta hallucinate"?
Was the app installed/running using a secondary PSN account by any chance? This shouldn't be happening on a primary account/console pair.
When I travel on an airplane, I pay a fee to the airport on each end and I pay sales tax on the ticket.

I don't see why the same taxes wouldn't apply to space travel.
My first thought seeing the name was "Neat. Glue APIs together.", but now I know this other connotation, I'ma need some "brain bleach". Sometimes the Internet needs an "Un-See" button. ;)
It’s relevant because that’s his defence. As cited in the article we are discussing.
Consider Assange in Belmarsh. For the Uk to rule that Us prisons are human rights violations it would have to apply the same ruling to itself.