skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans are net positive; that’s where all those words and grammar and ideas came from. As a practical example, Google says it sees about 15% new queries every year (queries that have never before been entered into Google).

Is that a good proxy for how net positive people are in general? I don’t know, and the exact number may not be stable or even really matter.

Human intelligence is kind of a red herring in this discussion, because our intelligence rides on something deeper, something we share with all animal life. Call it “will,” or “drive,” or even “soul,” the name doesn’t really matter. What matters is that we make decisions with that deeper thing, and then we apply our intelligence to execute and interpret those decisions.

What’s your favorite food? Who are you attracted to? What sounds like a fun thing to do today? Why do you sometimes feel like not going to work? We can think about these answers, and how to get what we want, but we can’t really logically reason our way into changing what we want. Not all of them, anyway.

That’s what is missing from ML systems, and why they are clearly tools. If you train up an ML system and then leave it alone, it just sits there until you prompt it. If you raise a human, they do NOT just sit there until you ask them to do something. And there’s a good chance they might not do what you want even if you ask, because they have “wants” as well.

To go back to my mirror analogy, people don’t suddenly step out of mirrors and disagree with us. And ML systems don’t suddenly want to write a novel instead of respond to whatever question we input. They’re not alive, they’re just really good at mirroring back written language when we give them written language as an input.

Edit to clarify: I’m not claiming that “will” has to be metaphysical or supernatural. Even if you believe humans are purely physical systems (as I do), we can characterize their behavior, compare it to ML systems, and see what’s missing.

And more to the point, we know it is missing from ML systems since we designed those systems and we did not put it in there. We should not ignore our existing knowledge of how an ML system works when thinking about its output. Just like we shouldn’t ignore our knowledge of how mirrors work when looking at a perfect reflection of a person.
The leak is one thing, if true. The cover-up (if there was a leak) during a critical window of possible containment is another thing. But we will likely never get the truth.
They were very popular 10 years ago in the STEM and business schools at the prestigious public university I attended (in the US).

A lot of people were graduating addicted to stimulants. I probably should've been prescribed ADD medication, but I never went through the necessary hurdles.

Anecdotal, but that was my experience.
It doesn't depend on modules. And in fact, you don't even have to wait until runtime and throw an exception: plugins like https://github.com/basepom/duplicate-finder-maven-plugin/wik... can enforce this at build time, with neat features like allowing two classes with the same name as long as their contents are 100% identical, or allowing specific exceptions where you can confirm they aren't going to cause problems.

We run this plugin where I work. We have no plans to modularize our build since the duplicate class protection would just be worse that this plugin.
My bank let's me make a "temporary credit card" with only so much money on it. Good luck squeezing blood from this stone
You absolutely do have a choice. You just have to decide where your line is.

If you are asked to commit a crime by your employer, do you go ahead and do it for the sake of keeping your job? What about something legal yet highly questionable on moral grounds? Going ahead with an annoying UI feature you don't agree with is probably justified if the alternative is getting deported, but there's a threshold somewhere and it's different for everyone.
Except it's not just Starbucks. It's all sites that use TrustArc. TrustArc is a scummy middleman that is extracting money in the name of privacy without providing any serious protection (except to the companies who pay their protection money). I worked with them when I whored my services to a list broker as a contractor for a brief time. They are a virtual money printer because their certifications are so incredibly expensive for what they actually provide.
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Only if your definition of "security" ignores privacy, freedom from surveillance and bugdoors.
Prescribed medical use may have been higher, but was overall use higher? Assuming the anecdata in the tweet are true, I just can’t imagine 20-30% of people aged 16-30 were prescribed amphetamines in the 50s.

Anyway, given that medical use was probably high enough back in the day that we can draw reliable conclusions about its long-term effects, are there any studies discussing this?
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I moved to Japan. Well run is a fair stretch, but at least there’s basically zero chance of them dropping a hellfire missile on anyone’s head (even their actual enemies).
The majority of those who were killed in the actual airport attack were shot by US soldiers, who in confusion and panic fired indiscriminately into the fleeing crowd. This is by the words of several of those who were present and whom investigated the injuries on the bodies afterwards, as interviewed by bbc reporters. The crowd was packed, and bullet wounds were on the top if their bodies (the soldiers shot them from the towers).

In fact, estimates say about 200 people died in total. But evidence also suggests the bomb may have killed only a few dozen.
Often wondering about the down-votes on HN. Pretty cowardly to down-vote statements of fact without comment.
I don't see them anywhere other than as a light red rectangle in the uBlock popup - they're not in my whitelist so they end up blocked by default. Things tend to work just fine without it, the same goes for many other "trust"-related sites. Some sites won't work at all without them but, fortunately, the web is a large place full of choice.
> I don’t see any reason why this wouldn’t kill all these gas stations

Because they'll just put in fast chargers. There is a need for many more DC fast chargers than are currently available and gas stations are installing them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TVohXHjLro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6BGJy49u4w

EV fast charger installation is all about the location and gas stations already have good locations.
That's complete bullshit propaganda and you know it. Remember how the govt simply pushed Covid surveillance apps to Android users without their consent? Yeah, try that on a bare Linux phone.
How do you know chimps and bonobos aren't conscious?
An appeal to authority is only inherently invalid insofar as the authority claimed is irrelevant authority or used to paper over weaknesses in the actual argument. Forums not entirely overrun with imaginary internet doctors and cranks can probably start with the polite presumption that you are actually a biologist and proceed with reasonable discussion from there without further ado.
> entire science

I am not sure how you would replace the structural formulas used in organic chemistry, for example. Going beyond science, most engineering disciplines use schematic notation that you would find esoteric, yet with no chance to be translated into algorithms in any meaningful way.
Please stop doing this. Not everything you don't like needs to be illegal, and taking your business elsewhere has literally never been easier in the history of the world.

I don't want to live in a world where the criminalization of everything that ever happened that you didn't like means that I'm always breaking the law.
Not necessarily. IRL, If I don't enjoy hanging around someone, I just won't hang around them. same goes gor social media. If I have a few friends who share my interests, I'll keep following them, but some friend who keeps spouting stupid stuff? I'll avoid them IRL and on Social Media.

If uncle Joe keeps talking about conspiracy theories in family gatherings, I'll keep away as much as possible.

I hang withy friends on Discord. we talk daily and game together.
There's a better webcam demo that's kind of buried but fun to play with here: https://www.bryanbraun.com/checkboxland/docs/demos/webcam-te...
The web page claims that the electric motor can output 2000 kW at 10 kW/kg.

For comparison, Europrop TP400, a modern turboprop engine, has

8200 kW
1938 kg (= 4.1 kW/kg)

So, although the electric motor is smaller by a factor of 4, its power density is about 2.5 times higher. The web page claims that the motor design is scalable up to 4000 kW, which is great.

The fastest turboprop airplane was TU-114, a Soviet airliner in the 50's that flew almost as fast as modern jet airliners. TU-114 uses four engines (Kuznetsov NK-12) that are the most powerful turboprop engines ever in production (11000 kW at 2900 kg). We need more powerful electric motors to emulate this performance..
No, the only company that gets a commission is the one that directed the user to your site before the actual purchase. It works like ad attribution and affiliate links.
Hard to catch Covid when you can't leave your house without a visit from the goon squad.
More details on Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) U spacecraft contract

https://spacenews.com/spacex-wins-contract-to-launch-weather...
1. An unsafe lab is one, where pathogens can possibly get out with a non-negligible probability. And where those pathogens are infectious and deadly enough to be of concern.

2. Microsoft products don't carry biological viruses, because most of them are software. Microsoft hardware comes out of China I'd guess. Apple also doesn't produce most hardware in the US. Besides, computer hardware can be sterilized. Biological matter, like food and drink are more of a concern. And there is already a lot of regulation around those, e.g. you cannot get imported German sausage or French cheese in the US, and you cannot get US chicken in the EU for those reasons. You also cannot travel anywhere from an Ebola-affected region for example.

I am very serious. But I'm really not sure what you are getting at.
One thing I haven’t seen covered is multiple servers = redundancy.

If a server goes down, having a net split is a lot better than having the entire network down.
> Services are treated like bots with higher privilege

A slight correction: Services normally link as a server to the network, which is how they get the higher privilege that they do (because only servers, not clients, get the ability to kill users from the network, etc).

And to add to this for others who may be curious: typically there is some special configuration on the IRC server side to allow the link, and some additional configuration to disallow clients from changing their nickname to names like "NickServ", etc (but to still allow the names when a server on the network broadcasts a user with that nick). Normal non-Services IRC bots, on the other hand, connect as regular clients.
> “There is a possibility it was influenza,” he said. “But I’m very doubtful that three people in highly protected circumstances in a level three laboratory working on coronaviruses would all get sick with influenza that put them in a hospital or in severe conditions all in the same week, and it didn’t have anything with the coronavirus. That’s highly hard to believe. From that point forward, it certainly seemed to have started to spread within their community.”

People working in highly protected circumstances in a level 3 laboratory still have plenty of opportunity to pass influenza to each other.

First, it is level 4 where the workers wear the full body suits. At level 3 the concern is more just with keeping whatever they are working on from getting out, not with keeping the workers from bringing stuff in.

Second, even virus researchers like to socialize and so do things like have lunch together. As far as I know a biology lab lunchroom is pretty much the same as any other office lunchroom as far as biosafety goes.
Why would you risk all of those things on the whim of an employer.

I swear the US must be the worst possible country in the world to emigrate to.
There is a long waiting list for research at the south pole. Also, if that research is important enough, it can be sufficiently high-paid, so that people willing to do it can be found. If there isn't enough money for that, that research is obviously not important enough. If it isn't important enough to spend that money on, it also isn't important enough to justify the risk to society.
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> although the electric motor is smaller by a factor of 4, its power density is about 2.5 times higher

Is there any standard way of calculating this with the battery / full tank?
As far as I can tell, Fediverse embraces this as a privacy feature. (It's more of a bump than a roadblock, but still.) I'm not aware of any projects to fix this (although I'm not very immersed into Fediverse development, so maybe check https://fediverse.party, they have a list of Fedi projects).
You can skip a lot of the dread by using a UI toolkit like TailwindCSS, Bulma, or others.

Watch some videos on how they are used and learn from them. Check this channel out:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TailwindLabs

But, if you want to be a web developer, sooner or later you'll have to grok CSS.
No, it’s actually the opposite. Re read. If you compare an actually LEO capable vehicle and a moon lander of the same payload, you’ll see that the difference is not that big.

Saturn had a massive payload, hence the gap in difficulty.

But my point anyway was that Saturn V is not 1000x larger than a soyouz, despite the moon being 1000x further away. Distance is not what counts in space.
In terms of bugs, I'd like to add a particularly interesting one, where for some reason, the latest Google Drive can cause UWP Icons to disappear. Now, this is some odd interaction between Google Drive and Windows, but it is... strange [0].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/8jx5ym/google_dr...
As much as anti-abortionists will jump up and down screaming "it's murder!"; I don't think they genuinely believe that.

If you had a choice between saving the life of an actual, breathing, crying child vs a tray, filled with dishes, all together accounting for HUNDREDS of fertilized embryos the choice is obvious.

The anti-abortionist would have you believe otherwise, of course, but I think deep down in their souls they know it's true.
Could you not skip those with prescriptions to the stimulants (Adderall, etc) to reduce sample space? Then your method would work well in theory. Of course, in practice, who wants to take a drug test? Certainly not before an exam! It would be chaotic
Yeah, I'm not trying to diminish the situation; it's appalling.

I'm just pointing out that relying on figures with unknown (or in this case, frankly ridiculous) methodologies to make comparisons to other countries (which will have different methodologies again) muddies the water at best.
Note that my comment on the OP was not hate mail directed at docker—I took their statements and showed them false or at least misleading by contrasting them with my own experiences. Maybe I could have saved on the lolz, but I feel they were necessary to convey the absolute ridiculousness of the statements in the face of reality.

It looks to me like they are attempting to attract funding.
After a long search (5 years), finally happily settled with selfhosted miniflux.
It’s a measure of the energy needed to move from one orbit to another.
I would be interested to see a more comprehensive article.

Pure OS, and the Librem phone get a lot of coverage but they aren't the totality of Linux phones.

As I understand it Ubuntu Touch, which is the most mature Linux phone OS, does have app sandboxing.

This blog post might be a little out of date but is hopefully useful; https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-sa...
Liberal as in "liberal" with the contemporary meaning, as understood in US culture, not as allowing liberty of thought.
Adding electric charging station to an existing parking lot is much cheaper/easier than adding a gas pump. In a few years every hotel, mall, restaurant and food store parking lot will have charging stations, making 'dedicated' charging stations basically obsolete.

The only places I see dedicated electric 'gas stations' surviving is in rural locations along major highways.
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Yep - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

Not sure what's the catch though, Hope someone else who have used it will enlighten us. If I have to take a guess, It would be network performance like most other inexpensive cloud infrastructure providers but the load balancer says 10mbps.
Blood donors are going to be underrepresentative of people with a fear of needles, people who don't trust the medical system, and be overrepresentative of selfless people.

I suspect an extremely strong correlation between giving blood and being vaccinated.
None of them have 20 MW to feed.
Both are important. People who go "a couple degrees average isn't that big of a deal" are missing a big part of the dangers of global climate change.

Humans can't survive more than a few hours at a wet bulb temperature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature) of 35°C, even if they have shade, drinking water, and fans available. If air conditioning fails, you're dead.

As the global average creeps up, some of these local variations in hot, humid places without sufficient power infrastructure to reliably run A/C for everyone like Bangladesh have the potential to kill millions.
Which year did Amazon pay 21% in federal taxes in USA?
The truth matters a great deal to anyone who has suffered and lost. It’s not unique to the pandemic. The parent who has lost a child. The spouse who has been cheated on. The employee who has been unjustly fired. They want the truth. The not knowing makes it almost unbearable.
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I had never heard of this so found the article interesting but it seems like this place is clearly real so I am a little confused why the article is written the way it is.
The article makes plenty of completely arbitrary statements and ignores entire categories of attacks.
My immediate smart ass reaction when I saw the headline was it must take a lot of effort to make it so slow and cumbersome.

Read through the article and the mystery still remains on why it’s so slow and cumbersome for what it supposedly does.

On MacOS I have to restart it every other day for no apparent reason. Upgrading versions sometimes breaks working setups (new experimental options enabled by default until you find and disable them).

I don’t get any joy in using the product. This is not what great dev tools should feel like. But we need to align on something and picked this as part of our workflow.

Docker: If I make time to read about Podman and come up with a strategy to migrate my team I’m out.
I was overseas recently checking out the Huawei Harmony OS devices and did stop to consider that while the Chinese could be spying on me with their distribution, they’d totally lack authority over me and may be less inclined to provide account details as Google will do for location based dragnet requests.
"at a cost of around $7.6 per gallon"

I hope that is the cost of the product, not the costs to make it.
Security is only one of many factors people consider when purchasing a phone.

That said, the author isn't very convincing when he mentions trivial stuff like verified boot. My takeaway is that Linux (or PureOS) has some issues but Android still has more closed source.
What a crap. Secure boot is a straw man for "locked down" phone. In this view it is insecure to be free to use any software you like. And this article on a hacker site. BS.
Classpath isolation is part of the JEE (and now Jakarta EE) specification for application servers. This guarantees that the application servers can host multiple applications without the classes in one application bring used in another.

More concretely, if one application packages log4j 1.2 and another packages log4j 2, the application servers guarantees that the two log4j libraries are isolated and do not interfere with each other.
I'm involved in postmarketOS, one of the Linux phone distributions the article talks about. Also a heavy Qubes OS user and previously user of a certain hardened android project on the nexus 5x while strcat was still involved in it.

I think it's quite simple,

* if you are a more casual user with strong security and privacy needs, then the Linux phone distros are not there yet. Use something else.

* if you are a Linux enthusiast/developer/hacker who is interested in getting away from Google and Apple eco systems, consider getting involved in one of these Linux phone projects and helping out there.

This should not be seen as competition, it's all free and open source software. Android hardening projects focus on delivering a reasonable solution today while Linux phone projects focus on getting something truly independent in the long run.
These Lifeline phones are sold, or given away, by major USA telecoms.

You would think they would be partially liable for malware on their phones?

They make money counting on low income Americans going over their free rate tier, and advertising.
Vaccine passport proponents routinely cite "slowing [the] spread" as a reason to impose vaccination requirements despite discoveries earlier this year showing that vaccinated individuals can still spread the disease. In light of these discoveries, vaccine passports and other coercive measures don't make any dense.

Delta has an R value of 8. That makes it one of the most infectious diseases we know about. Future variants are likely to be even more contagious. (That's the evolutionary pattern we see in other diseases.) Even if universal vaccination were to somewhat reduce the R value, the R value would remain above the critical threshold value of 1.0 regardless --- because R starts out so high naturally. We know R is above one post-vaccination because highly-vaccinated places like Iceland and Gibraltar see COVID waves despite near-universal vaccination. If R is above one, everyone will get the virus sooner or later anyway no matter what, and we are not operating in the regime in which universal vaccination has the kind of large positive externalities that might justify a universal vaccination program for other diseases (e.g. measles).

It's only large positive externalities that can justify state intervention in individual health. (The 1905 SCOTUS case that people have been citing discusses the issue in detail.) Current COVID vaccines, due to the R-value threshold effect, don't have the large positive externalities attached to previous vaccines.

As an analogy: a leather jacket might reduce a bullet's velocity to some extent, but that bullet will still penetrate and kill you. Nothing short of body armor that can actually stop the bullet is effective. Likewise, unless the vaccine can reduce R below 1 --- and no current COVID vaccine can do that --- universal vaccination cannot stop the spread of the disease.

The vaccines may be beneficial, but being beneficial, by itself, doesn't present a case for coercive state action. If it did, we'd probably all eat healthier and exercise more --- and we'd be less free as a people.

There are real social and economic costs to creating a "papers, please!" culture and setting a precedent for state intervention in individual medical choices. As it stands, the low risk posed by COVID and the insufficiency of current vaccines can't the coercive state programs being proposed around the world.
Big claims for sure, but it looks like they're tied in with ARPA-E and a major airline. So, it's not some backwoods mechanics making bold claims about their infinite energy machine that runs on their special brew of moonshine.

https://mediacentre.easyjet.com/story/14628/easyjet-partner-...