skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to imagine what kind of evolutionary paths would be available to avoid robot weed killers? All I can think of is mimicking the crop that has been planted in the field.
The border between "improving existing technologies with innovative engineering" and "technological breakthroughs" is pretty murky, though.

For example, Raptor engines are the first Full Flow Staged Combustion engines to ever fly and they should be cheap to manufacture on top of that. Orders of magnitude cheaper than other rocket engines, with target price tag lower than a million USD per piece.

By my standards, this is a breakthrough. By your standards, this may just be innovative engineering. We can both argue our positions plausibly.

I can definitely see applications of having at least semireliable robots on Mars or Moon, though. For starters, they need not mind the vacuum and the radiation.
I've just learned about the UK internet blocks.

Is it true that torrent sites are blocked for adults and consensual BDSM like spanking is considered illegal pornography?

I can't really believe it till I hear it from a person.

I had no idea. This completely changes my view of the UK and the world suddenly seems much darker.
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You're wasting your own time.
Dismissing critical thinking as a rant is also very American.
> It's not a contradiction, if each successive generation is more terrible than the one that came beforehand.

The OP considered this though, to quote: It's possible that there is a constant decrease in standards, such that every generation is worse than the one before it. But I doubt it. If such a steady decline had been happening since the 8th century BC civilization ought to have collapsed several times over.
All social networks which expose your real life suck and I hope they are just a long-living fad which will go away occasionally.
Data-driven science and engineering for control of complex systems
When the typical economist tells me about his latest research, my standard reaction is 'Eh, maybe.' Then I forget about it. When Robin Hanson tells me about his latest research, my standard reaction is 'No way! Impossible!' Then I think about it for years - Bryan Caplan
Depending on how your app works, non-idempotent links in emails can often be an over-looked csrf vector. Sometimes people also make such links auto log people in which can be problematic.
> her opposition to prisons was a bit... selective.

So we can be selective in picking from her writings and opinions the things that work. One doesn't have to reject all of a person's work once one discovers that they are flawed human beings.

For instance, Francis Galton was in favour of some rather unpleasant social ideas (eugenics) but we would be the poorer if we rejected his contributions to statistical methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton#Innovations_in_...
> I don't know what you've read, but it's possible a lot of it's way toward the entertaining-but-wrong end.

Not quite... I've gone through the classics, Wealth of Nations, Das Kapital, General Theory of Employment etc, and about to start Ricardo. What I've found is although they sound logical and use many examples to make their case, I still see most (with some exception to Keynes) of these are just opinion with possibly selective bias of examples.

What's bad here, is that these authors each take themselves as gospel, which then politicians have implemented these ideas with a blunt hammer.
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I agree, I'm not blaming Microsoft here, and it is our problem to solve (the service should handle the traffic, and/or the emails should be staggered over time)
This is simply not true. I have developed years .NET Core C# solutions on Linux with zero friction. My choice for IDE in Linux is Jetbrains Rider, which I actually think is in many ways supperior to VS.
Just curious... has anyone so far decided to extend the 3-month certificate expiration deadline? I understand that for the intended use case it makes sense, but in some cases it's an overkill and having a CA support such use case could be useful. There's nothing in the technology itself that prevents us from having certs that expire in, say, a year, right?
they still dont know. the narrative pushed by most of the woke people is that it is slavery and demeaning to raise your children and that women would rather make powerpoints for some random white dude paid 40-70k$/year than be enslaved to raising children
This could be rephrased by replacing meat with fish! Intensive food production process tend to be unsustainable, see overfishing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing)
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Rolling this out requires somehow harvesting and transporting massive quantities of seaweed to feed cows. It's not a practical solution.
Evading the Misuse of Biometric Data [pdf]
Depending on context and implementation details, this can often be a security issue (csrf or something similar). Probably not in the unsubscribe case though
I'm beginning to really dislike the downvote button. This seems like a perfectly reasonable comment so what purpose is served by fading it out?
I don't think you've fully understood how far "statistical associations", as your derisively call it, can get you in understanding text. Modern language models absolutely make both sentiment and semantic distinctions, and they would not complete a sentence like "The movie was like" with "candy" simply because the word candy exists in texts simultaneously with the word "movie". That model would be completely useless.
In the article, here's a dead link in the statement, "Concretely, for the example showed in this section, you can find the complete definition of htmlPages here."
Learn to cook tastier veg food instead. If the veg options are boring cant blame anyone.
It is funny how much they have strived for one platform to rule them all when it would have been easier and cheaper just to maintain windows, web and mobile separately and kept the frameworks suited to their particular platform.
Increasing the amount of seaweed in our diet would be a huge boon to the environment. As illustrated in the top story on HN right now which is about N2O, synthetic nitrogen fertiliser is a primary contributor to both climate change and eutrophication.

Personally I would prefer to see a major carbon tax on synthetic fertiliser and products that get produced from them (naturally this include corn feed meat). That way people would have an economic incentive to select the kind of food that has the lowest greenhouse gas emissions.
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I really hope this will happen. Sometimes my infra doesn't play well with let's encrypt. I don't think I'm alone. I just want 1 single docker instance, but because of let's encrypt I need to use docker compose, which is annoying.

Each 3 months is a lot of work to do it manually. 12 months acceptable.
I don't understand why we care about cow greenhouse gas emissions.

The carbon in that methane and CO2 comes from plants, which extracted it from the atmosphere. If those plants were instead eaten by a different animal, or burned, or decomposed, that carbon would also be released. It's a closed cycle.

Methane currently takes about 9 years to break down into CO2 and H2O. https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2829/greenhouse-gas-detergent-...

All this is a distraction from the real problem - the systematic extraction of sequestered carbon from deep underground. That's the only thing that matters. We need to deal with it by radically limiting hydrocarbon extraction.
No, I'm not convinced you would achieve much at all. Unless you are trying to prevent animals being eaten for ethical reasons. In that case you would dramatically reduce the numbers of some farmed Animals.
Nobody remembers the exact moment they stopped thinking about something because it was easier not to.

Ragequitting is one way to exit a process, but just not going to the next step from distraction is surely more common.
Most people's jobs are utterly pointless. Yet still, by doing these jobs the workers get money with which they can buy their portion of resources. Let's just do the same thing without the pointless and wasteful busy work.

Maybe the only thing stopping us is our cultural values dating back to the industrial revolution when workers were indoctrinated with the idea of work as virtuous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Names

> The word "corn" outside the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand refers to any cereal crop, its meaning understood to vary geographically to refer to the local staple. In the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, corn primarily means maize; this usage started as a shortening of "Indian corn".

I (from the US) learned about this when a botanist pointed out that the movie "Fellowship of the Rings" incorrectly depicted maize for what Tolkein described as 'corn' in the Shire. http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Corn
I'd say a carbon tax only works when applied fair and square to all product, regardless of who buys them. The market will fix the problem, only when given the right incentives.
All models are wrong, but that doesn't stop them from being informative. Looking at things like the Revolutions of 1848, it's easy to see how the idea applies, as so many of them were driven by University students who had no money, had no prospect of being absorbed by the existing power structures, and were not allowed any political participation. The result? Revolutionary agitation.
"some dependencies are only needed to build the image" - it's true if you don't write proper Dockerfiles. You're always free to build an app in a separate image, mark it with `AS build-env`, and then copy the result into an image containing an entrypoint with `COPY --from=build-env`, all within the same dockerfile.
Sadly this is their policy across the board. Even though things like dotnet core 3.1 is supposed to be LTS, when you report a bug, you are most likely to get the response, "we will only fix it in .Net 5" as if upgrading everything is a 5 minute exercise.

For a company who turns over an enormous amount of money and employs 10s of 1000s of people, you would have thought they could support these separate frameworks with dedicated teams of 10-20 reasonably high calibre devs.
I wonder if Algeria is in the same boat; I want to say it has bigger literacy issues though.
Yeah. Sadly.

Funny how easily pain can be ignored when you dont have to see the subjects suffering for you.
But to a large extent the CO2 burped by cows comes from the sequestered carbon from deep underground in the form of fertilisers used to grow the food we feed to the cows.
I really wish the word "racist" had a single meaning.
Reasons to Republish Old Blog Posts
Vegans disagree. We live. We thrive. We have fun. And we do not inflict suffering on individuals of other species as far as reasonably possible (thus allowing for pest control and some animal testing of essential drugs).
Also, even if you remove religion something else will surely take its place. It seems that notions of aggressive conventionality and "crush the unclean" are somewhat baked into a percentage of society, and I definitely think the really hostile climate of the pandemic has added evidence to this theory. There's always going to be a nasty, moralistic, curtain-twitcher segment of society no matter what name or organisation they give it. Sometimes they hide behind religion, sometimes they hide behind politics, sometimes it's another label entirely but what they all have in common is an excessive bias when it comes to the emotion of disgust.

I'm certainly not anti-religious (I'm no atheist myself), but I'm very anti-moral crusading against the business of consenting adults whatever form it takes.
That's a really cool site. Almost like demo scene in JS. Any other similar places?
No, it's just an unexplained but useful pattern in the math:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-gravity-is-a-double-copy-...
Nice explanation, thanks for correcting my mistake.
I’m familiar with the details of the case, tyvm. Wrongful verdicts happen all the time. Especially when there’s enormous social pressure and polarization, then and now.

The left (or progressivism, really) does not need my help undermining itself—it’s just that it’s a painfully slow slide down and I’d rather see something else during my lifetime and for my descendants.
I think Buypass has (or had) 6 months.
The government needs to pay for this.
The taxes collected come from people.
So a fraction of the people have to pay for UBI.

If we assume full automation and no private property, then the machines work for us now. They don't complain like Ben Shapiro that paying for the poor with your wealth/income is "stealing". Communism is a good idea on paper, but humans in general are greedy and envious. If we had unlimited resources, the machines in such a scenario could produce everything for each greedy individual. However, our resources are limited, and one greedy person wants more than the other. That's actually the main issue here. People don't want to put up with getting the same thing as everyone else. (I would put up with it, though, but I am the minority here.)

Then there is Europe or social democracies. There is actually a limited form of UBI called "public assistance". You don't have to pay anything back and it is only for those who can't support themselves.

I hope there is a flaw in my thinking here. It would make my day if you would enlighten me with your wisdom. :)

PS: I couldn't resist sharing a good parody on Ben Shapiro's character: https://youtu.be/wPgwwZ8ih3k
Sorry HN, I know this is somewhat silly from me, but it is too funny. :D

Edit: For the person who downvoted my comment here. Care to share on why you did this? Please enlighten me. I don't care about karma points. I care about why you think that I am wrong.
Was my first sentence the offender? I meant it in this way: For UBI, the government needs to ...

Anyhow, tell me why I am wrong and not just downvote it and leave. Explain, please! Thank you!
Epic vs. Google lawsuit: Google pulled every trick it could, a complaint alleges
Would be nice to see a column with request limit, if any.
Has anybody asked cows if they like to eat maize?
Would be nice to support it in Meson. Currently, there is work-in-progress TinyCC support [1]. But the work is hindered by the lack of recent TCC releases - 0.9.27 is too old to be supported.

[1] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/8248
Here in Sweden, mainstream arcades disappeared in the late 90s. But you can still find some hidden away, ran by enthusiasts. Especially pinball, probably because the experience of real steel balls bouncing around is hard to replicate satisfyingly on a screen.

In my city of 80k, there is an arcade with at least 20 pinball machines. https://m.facebook.com/matchstickpinball/

A slightly smaller city 2 towns over has an arcade with over 80 pinball tables and several original classic arcade videogames, like Pacman, Missile defence, Mario Bros, Asteroids. I think there’s a Sega Rally machine too. https://www.pinballseye.se/
It's been my experience around the world that about 99% of people are honest for the most part and won't rob or harm you. But... that means there's that 1% who _will_. I think no matter what, that 1% will exist (this is just a gut feeling).

That means in the US alone, there are ~3.3 million people roaming around that will rob, steal, murder, rape, and do other horrible things. At a peak, 2.3 million were in prison so I don't think that number is too far off.

Yes, I understand the complexities of this. Yes, I know many of those people are in prison for drug related offenses. I'm not here to debate any of that, it's a complex issue and I'm generalizing big time.

It's just to point out that, the 1% thing probably has some truth to it based on real data.
>civilization ought to have collapsed several times over.

uhm, didn't it?
California family dies under mysterious circumstances
You should not submit the form automatically. Tools like Microsoft O365 ATP run any links in an emulated browser with Javascript support. These will, in some cases, happily autosubmit the form for you.
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Ah yes, ruining things by exposing them as being hives of extremely shady material. I'll stop at Pornhub since it's easy to be specific - there were widely proliferated videos of people literally being raped on the website.

It turns out when you host totally unverified, unfiltered adult content, you end up having no recourse for making sure all content is consensual.

I think it's disturbing to defend something like that.
A colleague of mine got started programming because her fancy sewing machine was programmed using Cobol or Fortran.

It's really fun to hear stories about when she quite literally just started showing up at Oslo University to sneak into classes because she found it so fun.

Now she's maintaining one of our mainframes at work. Extremely knowledgeable and kind. The kind of person you feel lucky to know.
Augmenta.ag fixes that
They use machine vision & hyperapectral cameras to estimate nitrogen on the leaves and accordingly spread more, less or no fertilizer.
Nice, thanks for the creator for making this!
Even if you don't know malloc, you know that it returns void * or foo *. I think most C programmers consider implicit conversion between void * and other object pointers a feature. And yes, it's called an implicit conversion, not a cast -- cast is explicit.
I mean, it depends on what you mean by "violently inclined".

I'm not a sociologist, so I don't know specifically what works and what doesn't, but clearly whatever we've been doing for the last 50 years has led to a smaller percentage of children born with inherently aggressive/antisocial personalities going on to commit violent crimes as an adult.

If you're talking about adults with violent inclinations that have acted on them and committed horrific crimes, then the obvious answer is to segregate them from the rest of society as they're clearly dangerous.

It looks like we're speaking across purposes. I'm not trying to absolve rapists and murderers of blame, nor am I trying to downplay the danger they pose to the rest of us. At the same time, though we should acknowledge that violent crime seems to be a mostly-solvable problem on a population level and simply throwing up your arms and saying "bad people are bad" isn't going to push the stats down.
Haha that's exactly what the linked video is. Are you an AI did you not even click through?
> We cannot let prisons continue being factories for drug addicts and career criminals

or literal factories.
prison labor is not always forced, but always cheap labor and some of it even dangerous. imagine getting paid 2$ a day to fight CA's wildfires
Nah, I don't buy this. Minimizing test error on a socially unbiased dataset will always give a socially unbiased model. Ergo, algorithmic bias does not exist. End of story.
Bats Love To Babble, Just Like Humans
I wonder if the loss of biodiversity during the anthropocene will lead to a post-anthropocenic explosion once humans (which might be the biggest evolutionary constraint at the moment) are gone. If that happens it will be a shame for humans to miss it...
That sounds quite aways away from "perfection" as stated by the other commentator as being "Perfection would be if there were no sentient beings to experience suffering at all."

(In case its not clear, i think this thread is silly)
I find just as many lessons in failures as success, although these are pretty arbitrary labels. Even the greatest success stories are littered with small failures overcome or even ignored.
China seems like the poster child of how effective pursuing homogeny can be. Also, you are referring to the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the partitioning of the Ottoman empire.
Then again, we have things like: https://www.google.com/search?q=when+did+neil+armstrong+set+...
Let's encrypt decided for 3 month to force users to automate and avoid the burden of too much user support. They are a no-profit after all.

I believe commercial CA are offering free certificates milted to 3 months for the same reasons, and for the up-selling opportunities.

I think also cloud providers offer free 1 year TLS certificates, but of course you are also using their other services.
Annnnd please let us know how many limbs you had to sell. I'm actually interested in ballpark numbers for this, as I have very fond memories of QNX as the OS where my 100us timers did fire even under heavy IO, threading churn, etc. I miss that.
Julian Assange is in solitary confinement in Belmarsh prison to disclose the war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan!
Quick appreciation, I'm very thankful of Round 1 for bringing a variety of rhythm arcades to the US (Wacca, SDVX, IIDX, Project Diva, DDR, more arcades that I don't remember the names)
> We can and should build models that attempt to correct those biases, and we also can and should attempt to de-bias the data itself.

What if reality itself is the problem and the source of the "bias"? E.g. say that your ML algo gives less loans to African Americans, but it turns out that in reality African Americans pay back loans less often. Do you accept that some people will have a harder time getting a loan? Or do you instead work to equalise the loan rate across protected characteristics? Or maybe all characteristics?
My doctor was similarly surprised when I inquired about applying for the disability tax credit. I believe he said something like "Doesn't the medication work?" and then went on to emphasize the tax credits use for mainly severely physically impaired people. Yes, it works a bit, but it doesn't give me sufficient short term memory recall, it doesn't work if I haven't taken it, it doesn't help me maintain a livable sleep cycle or prevent me from burning out and keeping a job, or having even a remote sense of time passing. It helps me focus, a bit, under the right circumstances.
> It's a bit strange

Not really, it's a simple pattern, pull people up, pull them down. Keep them confused. They buy products from your ads. They donate to mass corps like environment movements. They pay off politicians. Facts don't matter.

Some evidence it increases weight gain & milk production. No evidence it changes taste for consumers -

https://theconversation.com/feeding-cows-a-few-ounces-of-sea... (2021)

It's seems like a viable, self propagating idea.
Caddy[0] also uses ZeroSSL[1] alongside Let’s Encrypt.

[0] https://caddyserver.com/docs/automatic-https#overview

[1] https://zerossl.com/
Delivering mRNA inside a human protein could help treat many diseases
> The following year, Bob founded Corona Data Systems [0], which created one of the first IBM PC clones.

One of their ads is titled "The Apple vs. IBM debate is over. Meet the Winner." [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Data_Systems

[1] https://imgur.com/a/aDe5mkD
3D images show the coronavirus infecting human airway cells
Is it possible that UBI is inevitable? Machine learning is just getting started at making many jobs redundant, sooner or later it will explode. Yes, new jobs will be created too, but it's hard to imagine they will be on par with the amount lost. Those new jobs will most likely require a high level of education.

A massive wage gap and extreme poverty seems inevitable without UBI. In my personal utopian vision, I see us transitioning from a working culture to a learning culture, where personal growth is the goal.

I'm with you all the way on drug policy and prison reform. Addiction is an illness, not a crime. There's no such thing as good and evil, just cause and effect.