skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the synergy of everything that matters. This same factoid is and was used by people doubting the feasability of battery electric cars and trucks because, especially in it's very misleading pre-combustion version, it's seems like an insurmountable difference.

But the total impact is related to the full system, which in cars includes:

- The useful power at the interface of road and wheel.

- The weight of the engine you get rid of (including the safety precautions to stop this killing passengers).

- The location of the weight.

- high torque at low speeds feeling "peppy"

- The type of journeys (stop'n'go traffic vs long distance trucking)

- The ability to use regen to save brake weight and pollution.

And so on.

Some of these have unexpected impacts, in EV the low center of gravity, the ability to put the wheels closer to the corners, the quiter operation, the ease of home refueling, ease of building on a shared platform are among the things that emerged.

For a while it seemed like hybrid cars might make the most sense, but a thousand small changes added up to basically make fully BEV the logical next step.

In aircraft, it's all still a bit up in the air (pun totally intended) but things like operating in thinner air that give combustion engines trouble, the ability to have lots of propellers and rethink a bunch of design assumptions, quieter operation in urban areas are already being noted and explored.
As far as this paper goes, the main idea is pluralism. Much software lore leans quite heavily on grand narratives about how things "should be done". The "postmodern" view is a reaction against that: in favour of multiple, coexisting, smaller stories. These do not have to be mutually consistent.

Of course there are lots of other overlaps between software and postmodernism in other culture, and that was the wider observation of the Noble & Biddle essay... true that it is a bit oblique. You might enjoy this a bit better: https://www.se-radio.net/2006/11/episode-38-interview-james-... -- it's now slightly dated, e.g. how "programming by Google / StackOverflow" was a much newer idea then than it is now.
Noticed the same thing. I am sure I saw it on the front page, but now it only shows on "new"
The slow mutation rate helps us date the "spillover". But it isn't relevant to my argument. If we saw one, two, and three mutations per strain in late December, it means their common ancestor couldn't have been more than a few months prior. If we saw tens, or different clades with specific geographic distribution patterns, then we might look at those to understand where the introduction to humans was. My point is that this introduction probably happened in Wuhan itself, or there would have had to be a complex and highly improbable series of transmissions from a host animal (presumably a bat 1000km away from Wuhan) which spawned no daughter strains. And thanks to the high fidelity replication process of the virus, these strains would be exactly the same in phenotype as the one that showed up in Wuhan. Why did we miss them?

SARS-CoV-1 underwent clear adaptation in humans that was observed through sequencing. In observation, the mutation pattern over time wasn't initially driven by a stable molecular clock. There were easily-discoverable mutations which yielded phenotypic gain. The virus is high fidelity, but there is enough of it that it's exploring a wide range of possible options at every infection. For a virus close to optimum, very few of these will yield a benefit, and so we see mutations that are mostly synonymous that occur at a clock like rate. Sound familiar?
PostgreSQL is a fine graph database. It would be nice if it supported the graph-like query language that's now being standardized as an extension to SQL, but other than that it works quite well.
Rectangle{} debugging in QML – like printf(), but for QT
That's pretty close to how Vitess handles sequences (distributed auto-increment)
‘Lost’ first languages leave permanent mark on the brain, study reveals (2014)
Ask HN: Has Hacker News lost interest in crypto?
I rarely see any posts on crypto here. What happened?
Wikipedia says it was Jim Sensenbrenner (R). It makes no mention of Biden having a hand in it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act
Does Google track everyone's phone location with Android to be able to give traffic info? Well I guess similarly they track the foot traffic and can indicate where in cities there is extremely concentrated foot traffic ... I.e. perfect areas to walk and explore.
Actual source document ( pdf ) linked to here : https://vault.fbi.gov/9-11-attacks-investigation-and-related...

"Release of FBI Electronic Communication dated April 4, 2016
Pursuant to Executive Order 14040 § 2(a) (Sept. 3, 2021)"
I've used RDF triples for some specific part of a bigger business data model. It was implemented on a regular database and used to encode things like "Joe Hates Propaganda" which is exactly what was needed and hence was a success (meaning that it had worked as intended).
> app sandboxing is huge difference alone. Is anyone implementing it?

No, sandboxing exists in Linux and tools like firejail are built-in in Debian/Mobian.

> How are app specific permissions handled?

With fine grained security profiles.

Besides, this is all largely irrelevant when the average android TORCH app is a blob of closed source code that can do telemetries.

Contrasted to FOSS applications developed in the open, reviewed by package managers and users, built reproducibly.

> How full e2ee or secure boot is implemented?

It's there and it works. And secure boot is really unimportant for the attack vectors of most phones.

> By default, you have to add alot in top of Linux kernel.

Not at all, it's all supported by seccomp, cgroups and co.
I get the impression this story is warped quite a bit by the source Jason Rohrer.
If I understand correctly, the so called "censorship" were safety precautions for AI development.

The response of some posters seems to be to discard the safety topic alltogether as something "old", that "neanderthals" do.

I think it is exactly those "curious" people AI research has to worry about most, who do not take the time to think about the consequences and possible outcomes of what they are doing.
Maybe a chatbot will not gain superpowers and take over the world, but it can surely do lots of other harm.
Then, when AI tech moves beyond narrow AI and includes more abilities, this will in fact lead to desaster, as the same careless people with the greatest "curiosity" will throw caution overboard as was the case with the narrow AI before...

It's not a slippery slope, we are right in the territory AI safety researchers warn about for a decade now, write lengthy books about and try to create awareness for in the public and governments.
That's a nostalgic sentiment.
I think your criticism would have been better received if you hadn't phrased it so harshly (e.g. "terrible website structure").
Not all networks have services, for example that happened a lot on IRCNet which doesn't(? maybe now has?)
Death and Windows licensing fees, like B. Franklin said.
Those billionaires still have the means to impact the world in ways that you or I do not, should they chose to do so.
They should have used diethylene glycol, like the Austrians:

https://www.thewinestalker.net/2015/04/austria.html

I wonder which tastes better?
I had a brief love affair with Elixir/OTP recently. The language ist beautiful, the platform very impressive. Genserver and the actor model are very powerful tools for concurrent systems and Phoenix is one of the best web frameworks I ever tried.

BUT the tooling was a bit lacking (e.g JetBrains IDE, good debugging workflow), the library support was a bit spotty (e.g for Auth, everything high quality but often abandoned). Then if you use e.g GCP there is no real first class language support and if you deploy to Kubernetes then there is a lot of overlap with Beam/OTP for deployment management etc. this and I feel for most quick web development pure functional programming is too much mental overhead for me (maybe this comes down to practice). I feel way more productive with e.g Go or Node.

I have mad respect for Jose Valim and the community for delivering such an exceptional project in a world saturated with languages and frameworks. But I fear its not for me. At least not yet.
Vulcan depends on the BE-4 engines from BO, so this is basically just a low stakes staring contest until then.
Piracy, espionage (spying) etc are crimes and people who commit them are routinely prosecuted in civilian courts.
Do planes use most energy to get airborne?

If so catapults like aircraft carriers maybe a good idea.

Or extension cords that pop out when it gets airborne?
Free markets work as long as there's competition. When companies become so big they can kill any nascent competitor on a whim, that's when it becomes an issue. That's why trust busting and regulations and governments are necessary.
When you're trying to convince STEM professionals to go from hand written design documents to computer generated, you'd better be able to reproduce every little symbol that they're accustomed to using, or else it's just an excuse for non-compliance.

Something like:

(X+1)/X ≈ 1 for X ⋙ 1

We actually use a bit for showing derivation work on engineering design documents, especially for stating requirements for an equation to be valid. Or for equations that need to be simplified to be algebraically solved.

A one line equation might have two pages of definitions, assumptions, and constraints.

In this case, ⋙ is used to mean not just much greater-than, but big enough to justify whatever the simplification it is that you're making.

Eg, 10 could be considered much greater (≫) than 1, but is still a 10% error in the equation above.
> It kind of is - there's a single API call that lets you instantiate a module graph with every module mapped to its own classloader....

This is what I would expect -- and hence would likely solve most of my issues managing the classpath.
> They're not forwarding it at all.

They indeed are, "for your privacy".

And our topic started exactly out of this:

From: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/135222/why-does-...

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Official Statement

archive.today had this to say about the issue:

https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1017902875949793285

2018-07-13T1545: yes, unlike other public DNS services, 1.1.1.1 does not support EDNS Client Subnet

https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680

2018-07-15T1958: "Having to do" is not so direct here. Absence of EDNS and massive mismatch (not only on AS/Country, but even on the continent level) of where DNS and related HTTP requests come from causes so many troubles so I consider EDNS-less requests from Cloudflare as invalid.

```

> Or time travel to 2010 and try to respond to DNS queries while no servers are sending ECS.

That is exactly what `archive.{*}` does.

It responses to

[+] requests from IPs with geo-information (as in 2010, and it seems to be the most of requests still)

[+] AND to requests from public global resolvers with EDNS, which supply information to which region the server IP will be forwarded (as in 2015)

[-] But not requests from a public global resolver which conceal the source region (as it does a single privacy minded megacorp in 2019)
> I can’t think of a period of human history, or a political system, where the richest families within it, didn’t have much more power than the ordinary citizen

You presumably haven’t lived in a society where the powerful become wealthy rather than the wealthy becoming powerful.

In republican Rome, the elite families controlled (to a major degree) the expenditures of the state, but their own fortunes waxed and waned. Gaius Julius Caesar came from an old but not especially wealthy family (his was a cadet branch), worked his way up the system (elected a tribune etc — didn’t start at the bottom!) but made his fortune in the usual way, by running Spain and then winning some wars. His chief asset was the Julian name.

His friend amd heir, Augustus inverted this system (e.g. was able to pay the national budget out of his own assets).

Aristocracies worked this way too — you gained or lost wealth due to your power and proximity to the king, not the other way around. In fact if you became too wealthy it could cost you your fortune or even your life.

Modern kleptocracies still operate this way, on scales from Congo to Russia to China.
I use Rclone with BackBlaze for a while now, because fuck Google:

https://github.com/rclone/rclone
> Elixir is quite new (2015) and with every release it gains in maturity, and the ecosystem is growing.

One thing I really like is that it's considered mostly done. The community has the wisdom of not always trying to add new features and deprecating old ones. There's no 2.0 planned but that doesn't stop people from doing impressive work like Nx. I don't know about the ecosystem, but the language itself seem like a stable investment.
> What concrete benefit do people expect from an additional 10% of the population being forced to vaccinate?

An intact hospital / critical care system.
I am told the extra loudness is from owners removing the exhaust baffles

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=harley+davidson+remove+baffles
This NPR news doesn't require subscription.

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/12/1036389448/biden-declassifies...

So Saudis has connections with 9/11 terrorists, and Washington invaded Iraq instead?
Now that this comment is getting a bit of attention, if you work for SpaceX, please get in touch (email in profile) — I’m really interested in doing a software internship there!
Despite the pictures, they mainly interviewed the people that stuck it out, and perhaps had more patience and humility in order to be able to do so.

That said, this sort of deep green stuff buttressed lots of NIMBY low density bullshit, sometimes overtly, sometimes as a weird sort of ideological cover. The result of that has been disastrous to humans and nature, and antithetical to their original goals.
"Cryptocurrency" as a subject went full scam, then it went mainstream.

Actually the rise of interest also helped the rise in several other forums for discussing the subject, which i assume took over a lot of the chatter on that and related topics.
Nobody is suppressing anything. The vaccines help but not 100%. You're rounding everything down to "doesn't work". Would you say condoms "don't work" because they are not 100%?
Why don't we directly harvest incorrect measurements then?
It’s possible to return to that prelapsarian state (at least to the degree it actually existed)
Frankly: the discussion point of "suicide drones" is pretty ignorant.

25mph drones will not hold back a warship. They can't effectively close range at 10km out, let alone at 5km, 1km, or shorter. As I stated earlier: warships are literally faster than that.

The "meta" under discussion, by serious people (including Chinese investments / Chinese saber rattling) is the missile. 500mph cruise missiles, 1000mph supersonic missiles, and 3000mph hypersonic missiles.

If you're going to "suicide drone", you do it at 3000mph to impress people. You don't do it at 25mph. Even at 500mph and 1000mph, the methodology is so clearly ineffective that China has spent billions making 3000mph missiles instead.

The minute you start thinking about how these drones are going to take off, refuel, get their payloads (etc. etc.), is the minute you realize how impractical the whole proposal is. What kind of launch platform will these drones take off in? What's the effective range of a drone?

US Destroyers have tomahawk cruise missiles that can reliably hit targets 2000km away, and these missiles fly at 500mph+. How long does it take for your 25mph drone to cover the 2000km range that these Destroyers are at defending Taiwan?

By the time your drones get there, the Destroyers have already launched all their missiles and have gone home.

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How do you even find the warships in the first place? You keep saying "hundreds of drones", but drones flying at 10km high can only see 300km out.

Secondly: if you fly "like a bird" at say 1000meters, you can only see 100km out before the horizon blocks you. It'd be impossible to track down the warships firing from 2000km away.

At these ranges, the E2 Hawkeye of the Carrier will see your drones, and an appropriate response will be dispatched. Most likely, the warships will just avoid the drones. Hiding behind the horizon.

What kind of drone are you using to even try to tavel 2000km over water? I'm pretty sure that your typical $1000 drone simply don't have the range or speed to even get to the warships.
Yes, but that isn’t the context of this thread. This thread is about what Apple could claim they have a right to collect, if they wanted to.
the same military intelligence that blew up an aid worker and his family and lied about it a couple weeks ago? oh ok
I am happy that there are such a discussion exists, understanding the problem is the first step toward resolving it. I hope we as humans being, would eventually learn and apply a better system for handling decisions that affect the public. I do think that it might take time however I am kinda optimistic.
Ah, I didn't know that, but I run uBlock Origin anyway, which should block nearly all of that stuff.

It does appear (from their website) like the aforementioned Stardust can auto-decline everything, but I haven't tried it myself.

One problem you run into when declining cookies is that on many sites you won't be able to view embedded YouTube videos, tweets, etc. unless you go back in and allow social media cookies.
By that logic America should also ban video games because Chinese kids arn't "zonked out" on Fortnite. You're not having a real discussion either, you're employing overblown rhetoric in your request to bring the conversation to a more sane environment.

In most states there are limits on purchases for different products. While I totally agree that more regulation should be in place to inform consumers, I cannot at all agree with your rational or verbiage.
I don't know if there's that much to it - they launched Google Video in January of 2005, and by November of that year, were already looking into purchasing YouTube, a purchase that they completed a year later (https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1433837480449613839).

Google loses interest in all sorts of projects, sometimes even when they're dominating their target market. More than anything, I'm amazed that Google Video lasted until 2012, considering it duplicated most of the functionality of their expensive and hugely successful acquisition.
I've been in heated debates about this, and it's good to see the case for my point of view stated plainly and with supporting evidence.
> Perhaps the only widespread misconception is that there's a tier of artists below the superstar level, who can earn a living at it.

Music and writing are especially bad, but in areas where you make an unique non-copyable artifact, such as a painting or a sculpture, there's a significant number of working artists who are definitely not superstars. Probably most of them take commissions to make ends meet, but they get to do them with their choice of style and technique, which is half of the fun for many.
Google glass failed because it was so obvious who was wearing a camera and people didn’t like being constantly recorded. Facebook PMs took that realization and decided to make more a more covert version.
> The worst offenders by far were motorcycles and cars which had aftermarket exhausts designed to be noisy.

You aren't wrong.
Pay to read.
It's my lived experience. I've watched it happen. Two of my jobs, both of my favourite ones in my careers, were working for companies founded by ordinary people from what I suppose are reasonably call disadvantaged backgrounds. One of them was started by Mo Ibrahim, who started life in Sudan too poor to afford shoes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Ibrahim
What kind of security issues? A random native app is more secure?
I’d say homeless people are people who have fallen through safety nets of their families and friends, if they even had family or friends.

People with poor financial decisions have roofs over their head and thousands in credit card debt.
> The freer a society is, the less control and influence bureaucracies and gatekeepers have

which is why governments and corporations continue to expand and add more and more rules, regulations, verifications, safety checks, privacy violations etc... they have a vested interest in restricting, rather than promoting, freedom.
Written by my former colleague Steve Summit, probably the most knowledgeable person this side of Dennis Ritchie about programming C, especially in Unix environments.
> When you’ve raised a $20M round and have an employee pool that is 10-20% in total, you don’t have many 1% grants to give…and you have exactly zero 6% grants to give.

This is true, but the percentages illustrate how silly many investors are being about the resources necessary to put together a good engineering team.

I've had offers from startups with well known VC backers who wanted me specifically. They'd tell me their upper bound on cash, and then assuming I thought they had a decent chance, I'd calculate how much stock I'd need to make for the expected value for working for them to be at least as good as at a big tech company. Generally the calculation came out to 4-6% of the company per year.

That number could be lowered if I had access to the cap table or were being issued some kind of preferred stock, but no one's willing to do those things either.

Cash is cheap and labor is expensive but investors still want a way better deal than any engineer could dream of.
Sure, but 911 goes much deeper than "chance encounters at a mosque":

- it's been reported that Saudi embassies were involved in the US. The US govt. would have sigint on their communications. Stay tuned.

- often mosques get stricter imams after large donations from KSA

- the Saudi royal family is known to donate to Islamists

- Canadian mosques were involved in arranging citizenship, etc. for one of the organizers

- in Islam, the only guaranteed path to heaven is jihad, or funding jihad - the latter is something anybody can do with little risk and high perceived reward. (This is partly why France finds 50 people supporting each Paris attack. It takes a village.)

When you combine the above with OBL being independently wealthy, you can start to understand how this happened.
Yup, Apple just said this to The Verge: “As we’ve said all along, we would welcome Epic’s return to the App Store if they agree to play by the same rules as everyone else”.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22666146/apple-epic-korea...
We are making the assumption that dropping the batteries would actually be useful in an emergency situation. Considering that the plane needs to be designed to land fully loaded, since you're not dumping the batteries every flight, I think you would need to be way outside the operations planned safety envelopes to ever need to do that.

I think building battery cells designed to fail safely in an accident is probably a more reasonable option than trying to dump them.
you mean not coincidental?
Ingestion of gasoline US CDC

"350 g (12 oz.) can result in death for a 70 kg individual. As little as 10 to 15 g (less than one-half ounce) may be fatal in children. Symptoms of intoxication by ingestion of gasoline can range from vomiting, vertigo, drowsiness and confusion to loss of consciousness, convulsions, hemorrhaging of the lungs and internal organs, and death due to circulatory failure. Ingestion can cause irritation to the gastrointestinal mucosa and can be complicated by pulmonary aspiration, resulting in chemical pneumonitis."

https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/MMG/MMGDetails.aspx?mmgid=465&toxid...