skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And sure, wars could target civilians, and sometimes did.

They very often do. It is not exceptional. In pretty much all wars, civilians die. Cities, villages, farms get attacked and destroyed along people in them. War where civilians don't die would be an exception.

Also, wars happen where people live.

> I was referring to wars prior to WWII

In those, civilians died too, cities/villages were attacked for fun and profit and all that.

In addition, prior wold wars, armies lived off the land. Meaning taking food off whoever happened to live there, by force if necessary. Meaning, additional deaths off lack of food.
If all you have is a hummer everything look like a nail: when Hadoop first appeared there was almost no other open source systems to process 'big data' and it was widely adopted. Now there are many options to choose from. We don't have to use map-reduce for every task which could be solved using map-redude. E. g. for some tasks a columnar store, like ClickHouse is a better fit.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 156x in Ethereum and uh..."

Good ol' totally centralized inept Ethereum platform strikes again! Always good for some belly laughs.
That was my first reaction as well: let's start mucking with earth's orbit, what could possibly go wrong? But the problem statement is trying to avoid being incinerated when the sun goes red-giant in a few billion years, so doing nothing is clearly not a viable alternative here.

On the other hand, given our current blase response to climate change, I'll give you long odds against human civilization being around in a billion years, or even a million -- or, for that matter, a thousand. And unless something changes radically in the next few years, I'll give you even odds against it lasting to the end of this century.
Not really. The US is a common law system. The letter of the law is secondary to judicial opinions by definition.
This makes it even better. Thank you for that insight!
Where are you getting your sample from? In some areas of academia it's usual that people overworks and burn out. (We use to made a joke with one of my friends, if his PhD advisor let him go outside the lab on weekends. He finally escaped and now he has his own lab. He looks happy.)

> Can a intelligent person live happily forever?

Nobody lives happily all the time. Enjoy the good times. Try to get nice people around you to help in the bad times.
> If the federal government mandates their citizens pay taxes on crypto, it most definitely should come with federal help in catching criminals.

Not necessarily. The OP is pretty light on details on what this "hack" was, but if this was the case of someone playing "code is law" games with a flawed smart contract, then I think it'd be totally legitimate for the government to require taxes be paid but not swoop in with law enforcement when someone made a bad deal (i.e. had their flawed contract exploited).
U can't cash out 550 million stolen into fiat easily if at all. It will languish in the stolen wallets for years as the thief devises a way to launder it slowly and wait for the heat to die down
I would add that "they got funding." Lots of companies have one or the other (viable product, enough money) but not both.
> But they are so scared of their chatbot saying a bad thing and the PR around that they've removed the possibility of doing anything useful with it.

It's not unreasonable to have checks-and-balances on AI content, and there should be.

However, in my testing of GPT-3's content filter when it was released (it could be improved now), it was very sensitive to the point that it had tons of false positives. Given that passing content filter checks is required for productionizing a GPT-3 app, it makes using the API too risky to use, and part of the reason I'm researching more with train-your-own GPT models.
First line of the article:

> Hackers exploited Poly Network on DeFi exchanges Polygon, Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain

When even a website supposedly specializing on blockchain can't get their basic terminology right.
It's pretty simple to use sccache, which is what we do.
Won't that expose confidential information (private data, proprietary code, authentication secrets, etc.) to the "friendly startups"?
Not GP, but what I find uplifting is that sensible institutions (the European Investment Bank) could fund things that turned out to be immensely important before the need was obvious.
> sleep earplugs

Not the best practice to insert stuff inside the ear. Instead, there exist pretty flat and efficient earmuffs, e.g. from 3M, comfortable for bedtime.
Forget deduplicating songs, how about reliably deduplicating contacts?
I always think of https://xkcd.com/2044/ and shrug when people get excited about their new way to finally do security right. You either get a rats nest or people don't use it.
Eh, I could still see a clearly labeled chatbot on a video game causing a major PR scandal if it says something offensive. Not really worth the risk.

Pretty bad that they took so long to decide on this, though, pulling out the rug from under developers' feet.
Why? Gnome web is actually simpler and easier to use than Firefox for elderly people. It performs surprisingly well, too.
Not always. One of the biggest advantages of a revolver is that if you have a misfire you still have your next chamber waiting for you. That doesn't go away.
Teenagers are idiots in many ways, but also hunger for real, deep ideas. Maybe if they weren't so consistently underestimated they would take things more seriously.
Because in practice, that causes students to disengage from the learning process:

> If we just tell that student their way is the wrong way, we risk turning them off to math for life.

I certainly disengaged from some subjects in school due to frustration with "thou shalt" methods of teaching. I was even removed from an upper level English language class because I didn't draw the same conclusions as the teacher from the material.
yeah thats what i mean, people will do boring work if they feel the other rewards of life make it worthwhile. right now in an uncertain lonely period one questions whether the juice is worth the squeeze
Of course you need insulin. Just not when your glucose is 75 (below 70 is hypoglycemia).

Sure, it's complex.

People with type 1 don't have any insulin production at all, and typically get it in large doses (syringe) that absorb slowly or dripped out from a pump. With no endogenous production, we do not make c-peptide (it's a protein or something cleaved off of pro-insulin in the body's synthesis of insulin. Levels are measured in blood tests to determine your level of insulin production - after honeymoon period, type 1s produce no insulin and therefore no c-peptide).
The presence or lack of an argument by Apple that they're being coerced by intelligence/LE agencies is not demonstrative of anything. You know that gag orders are a thing. You know that the programs revealed by Snowden were not the subject of disclosures by the participant organizations or any argument such as you're expecting Apple to make under the same conditions.

All we know is what they do. It's not a stretch by any means to suspect that when an American corporation adopts uncharacteristic policies that violate their customers' privacy, the government is probably involved. Difference here is that unlike TrueCrypt, Apple can't just shut down. Hell, even the rumor of Apple doing this has beneficial impact to law enforcement. The press release may be the product.

Let's take the effort at the most altruistic face value - defeating child porn mongers. If you're trying to herd such people to a very narrow set of solutions that you can monitor and/or control, simply undermining trust in the alternative options may be enough without actually implementing invasive tools being discussed. The comedy in some of this is how hammy the next act can get - if I were a cynical man, I'd expect a technology to come out in response to Apple's move, or maybe it's out there already but suddenly gets a new push for mindshare. I'm sure the security world has a term for solutions like this. Not really honey pots, but more like fly paper. A product the agencies have either straight up owned or surreptitiously gained control over, marketed to people who would use it for ill.
How many languages does GPT3 support at the moment?
Oregon seems like they've collectively decided to say "Fuck it!"
U.S. Kids Are Getting Nearly 70% of Their Calories from 'Ultra-Processed' Foods
The greed and selfishness of my managers are significant factors in determining who I want to work for/with. And why I'm so grateful I can work with people I am friends with outside of work.

But I understand this is difficult, even impossible, to know during the interview process.
but does it really matter, if 20x is 1 week instead of 2 hours?

are startups really that shallow?
XQuartz and GTK apps on MacOS are the exception. A bigger problem with regards to inconsistent UI/UX stems from Electron apps and apps like Firefox which implement its own context menus, for example, and don't interact with the OS with things like Applescript, which Chromium browsers and Safari do. Still, there's a lot of applications that do respect the OS paradigms for design and user experience. Interfacing with applications is fairly consistent, though this has been degrading for some time with the rise of Electron.

On linux, there is no paradigm to stray from and there's no consistent design language or UX because of the fractured nature of its ecosystem. There are incredibly well made applications for KDE, GTK, and Electron, all with their own ideas of what UX should be and what UI it should look like.
The largest community I know of that truly believes that "Code is Law" is the side of Ethereum that simply accepted the DAO hack: Ethereum Classic.

EDIT: here's a pretty good write up of why you might think that ETC doesn't follow "Code is Law" either. In short after forking from ETH years ago because they had a stronger conviction that code is law they decided to break compatibility of existing code deployed on the chain to keep in sync with ETH development.

https://that.world/~classic/2020/06/10/deprecate/
The notion of a toy like a chatbot being "dangerous" is just so ludicrous. The OpenAI folks take themselves way too seriously. Their technology is cool and scientifically interesting, but in the end it's nothing more than a clever parlor trick.
> The lack of practical applications of "advanced" maths is a big problem.

I vividly remember self-studying calculus because I absolutely wanted to know how to find the area under a polynomial curve. I knew how to find areas of normal geometric shapes, but finding the area under the curve seemed like black magic that I _had_ to learn. If schools could somehow give this to students, there would be no need for "practical applications".
Part of the problem is in the nature of one of the ‘pluses’ of crypto - lack of the ability to roll back a transaction.

If someone breaks into the fed and transfers a billion dollars to their account, it’s pretty pointless, because the next day or hour or whatever, it will be rolled back and except for them being in jail, it will be like it never happened.

For it to be worthwhile, you would need to avoid having any of the oversight mechanisms step in, AND get the cash out in a way that is independent of the system AND won’t leave a trail for the army of slow and methodical investigators. And that is waaay harder.

Providing an ability to do something criminal that will cause a non-reversible transfer of value? Ho boy. That raises the stakes a LOT - and it’s why you see so many bank robberies and why gold transports are guarded so heavily.
Up until the DAO hack (that you're referring to) "code is law" was commonly believed.

That is until the Ethereum Core developers were massively affected by the hack and decided on an unprecedented rules rewrite to address the hack. (Which they haven't considered ever since, despite other hacks of the same type.)
I thought it might be this[0], which surprised me how clearly the bird seems to know what it's doing is "wrong" and how it tries to act unsuspecting.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/i69mu1/no...
Amazon S3 on Outposts (more info at https://aws.amazon.com/s3/outposts/ ) runs on-premises, offers durable storage, high throughput, the S3 API, currently scales to 380 TB, and doesn't require you to watch for and deal with failing disks.

I believe that it addresses many of the OP's reasons for deciding against S3.
Please elaborate more on the "obvious economic reasons".

For some reason, I don't see anything economic (do you care where stuff is made? I don't, really, only that it gets made, the rest is irrelevant detail), nor obvious here.
The miners will not block as it would destroy the credibility of eth itself. It would probably hard fork if such a thing were attempted. So dumb for them to even suggest it
New Nuxt Features past v2.10
If you read the article,

> [BioNTech] now expects to accrue 15.9 billion euros ($18.63 billion) in revenue from the vaccine this year <...>
“Since BioNTech procures relatively few preliminary products from abroad, this is almost entirely domestic added value,” Dullien said. “So this has a direct impact on economic growth.”
I missed using FlashBlock (Firebird extension) back when Shockwave/Flash is popular. FlashBlock did what it said and block all Flash video in the page until I click the element to load that Flash object and it will play the video. Back then, there is no escaping with this extension, it is relentless and very good at it.

Now, browsers bastardized the version of FlashBlock and implemented this shitty approach with HTML5 autoplay which sometime work but never did in the same level as FlashBlock. We need HTML5Block extension (there are one extension but it is no longer maintained) that can do the same level as FlashBlock.
There's no way to argue with these people. Every time we try, they just double down on the same arguments.
Another long-time Mac user, who is also increasingly frustrated with how dumbed down & bloated OSX is becoming [I'm sticking on Mavericks for the foreseeable future and only 'upgraded' from El Capitán because more and more of my apps were breaking after applying updates].

With all OSX Finder's faults and all the annoyances of the OS, I still think it's miles ahead of any Linux distro I've tried to get on with.

Two words "Quicklook" --OK. that's one word made of two. I find it incredible that no Linux desktop environment has something like this. Pressing spacebar to preview the content of a file without needing to open it first is something I do literally every single day and often multiple times. Why, in 2021, does every single Linux desktop require me to open a file first to see what's inside it?

That's my biggest bugbear with Linux desktops. Other annoyances are more vague. Mostly to do with the inconsistencies in the interface. Coming from something like OSX which, for all its faults, presents a completely consistent user interface, every Linux desktop I've tried [even the polished ones like Ubuntu & Mint] always have those annoying glitches & inconsistencies which just scream 'Designed by Committee' [which I suppose they are, to an extent].

As regards apps; a big part of what I do is graphic design and that pretty much rules Linux out for anything work-related. Whatever you think of Adobe, Photoshop and Illustrator just blow The Gimp [dire!] and Inkscape [tolerable but clunky] out of the water.

I did have high hopes that new kids on the block Affinity might bring their Photo and Designer [which actually do give Photoshop and Illustrator a run for their money] to Linux. But it seems they've decided to follow Adobe's lead and make thei offerings OSX & Windows only.

About the only quality graphic design app I've seen available for Linux is Krita. But it's more of a digital painting app than an image manipulation one. And, of course, no vector graphics.
Unrelated and I expect to be downvoted but you were right https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1428764

The U.S did leave Afghanistan and now the Taliban's are about taking over, I'm always stunned when I see decade old predictions that were accurate.
Lost Girl Georgie
> Aerial mobility gives you reach, range, and resolution

Sounds like the 1st Cav in Vietnam - cower, you tentacled Martian fiends!
Sh*t happens on trips; Georgie reminds you to find the silver lining!
How about geometric algebra libraries like Klein and g3.
Klein has operator overloading for the basis elements of the algebra implemented using intel's SSE, while g3 does the same but uses the Rust's portable stdsimd crate.

Klein: https://www.jeremyong.com/klein/
g3: https://github.com/wrnrlr/g3
Ray Porter is an excellent audio book voice actor. He narrates the Bobiverse books (as well as "The Singularity Trap" by the same author) which I enjoy and "Project Hail Mary" is next on my reading list after I finish out the ExForce series.
Oh man, I was looking forward to this a ton! Are you thinking to keep working on it with the open source GPT J or something similar by any chance?
my guess is that the problem is the assignment of responsibility and the requirement to pay for cleanup - the technology is available and already nearby
I think what the "centralised authority" steal from the people every year will put the all the crypto theft till now, combined, to shame.
45k or 600 m
A 2 hour commute isn't necessarily good, but it's also not necessarily horrible. The Seattle employee referenced in the article might commute by public ferry, which is very pleasant. A 10-minute drive to the ferry terminal, 5 mins waiting for the ferry, a 30 minute ferry ride, 5 mins disembarking, and 10 more mins to the office is not bad. Repeat for the evening commute.

The ride is beautiful and the interior of the ferries are very nice; you can sit at a booth and drink coffee and eat breakfast. If you're lucky, you might see some orca whales while you're out on the water.
"Money has three primary functions. It is a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value"

Crypto/BitCoin currently delivers mostly on the last one "store of value". So the hackers keep them. Indefinitely.
What I really want is for all cookies to be deleted when the browser exits, except for the sites assigned to the containers I've created.

At least Firefox 90.x has a checkbox "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" in the privacy section, along with a button to "Manage exceptions..."
Most HN crowd presumable isn't actually worried about CSAM detection itself - its the local-side scanning where you lose control over your own hardware.
"Tradition credits" seems like as much weasel words as "some people say". Whose tradition? Since when? Where does the tradition come from?

> Note, it would be against wikipedia policies to say "Some scholars say X"

But.. that's exactly what the linked wikipedia article says! I'm not vested enough to care to change it, but if you're right, that is a violation of policy.
Yeah, so my question comes down to 'how much can we play around with weight efficiency?' For example, maybe I can drop a lot of solar cells in exchange for a small battery or capacitor capable of providing the needed power for the higher exhaust velocity, but in bursts. Then we change the firing pattern from a continuous burn to alternating between burning and recharging the batteries, and save a lot of solar panel weight.

[on edit: the weight efficiency of the solar panels will also depend on where you are in the solar system...]
Is it just me, or has GTK4 ditched subpixel font rendering? Extensions v40.0 fonts look blurry as compared to other applications.
Never knew about this functionality, thanks for sharing!

It even appears to exist and work in Chrome.
I'll echo many of the other comments here -- seems like the Eastern Bloc's math education really out-shone the West's.

I came to Canada mid-way through high school, and breezed through with little to no effort until my 2nd year of university.

I remember math class in elementary school, how everything was explained, and if you were clever enough you could see where the teacher was going with the rest of the story, because everything inherently made sense.

This type of learning instilled in me a deep comfort with math - knowing that you can always break down a problem into a set of familiar problems, that proofs are kind of like nested Russian dolls, and that you can synthesize a solution out of first principles if you're persistent enough.
The hashes of your photos are compared against a database of hashes from known child pornography photos. So your photos would not be flagged.
So you wouldn't be in a position to know this - but that would be a dramatic oversimplification of the situation, though my anecdote is specific, I think it highlights how scope is often broader than we think in general.

'The situation' involved legal overview of ambiguous legal statutes, to the point wherein we had to engage specialized, outside law firms. Even just making that determination, and the wherewithal to know hat we needed outside help, the type of help, the firm to use ... way beyond me. We're dealing with a government agency using those 'backdoor' channels within the bureaucracy, very sensitive, political, relationship based.

In that context, the 'product part' (my job) was frankly the easiest, most obvious thing. It was all of the 'other things' that made it very difficult to navigate.

In the other anecdote, where I was 'blindsided' by an executive requiring a specific thing for a product without much discussion, there were broader issues at play, I think your assessment of 'context' might have helped, but even then, it still would have required coordination.

So these things all touch each other, and where they do, there's an VP involved, having to make decisions, every day.

I'm really wary of some of the commentary here that is dismissive of the kind of work executives do, I think those comments lack a kind of organizational maturity. Director and VP level jobs are the most brutal kinds of work, they're very stressful and operationally oriented, they are not these 'big office grand strategy' type jobs that I think maybe some people think they are. Though obviously 'it depends'.
And only costs $169,000 to start
From the wiki:

> For example, when a user clicks the element X, then we only allow a website to start the element X from a function that is in the call stack based on the X's “click” event handler.

I could be misinterpreting this, but doesn't that imply that scrolling into view would generally not be sufficient to allow autoplay? Since the scroll event would be on the body/window, and the video itself is not the target of the event?
That's an interesting idea, although I suspect a number of US only services would then reject the number for being international.
WhatsApp has a setting you can disable:

Settings → Chats → Save to Camera Roll

Not sure about other messaging apps.
Sales cycle for this kind of software is really long - very often timeframe from the first contact to subscriptions purchase is up to year. I'm not talking about cloud-version paid users, this is about installations. Also, users that contact on technical things / purchases are not users that made a decision (= who finds the solution).

In these conditions, I simply cannot determine what channel works and in most cases, I've no full information on how existing customers found SeekTable.