skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more I think about the problem the more fiendish it is and the more I understand why it's a paradox.

I think regardless of whether you agree with the author's conclusions about what is correct strategy, they're correct the paradox arises in that it pits the optimality of two different strategies against one another, where the strategies depend on the causal processes involved. I think the paradox raises a lot of questions about prediction versus causality and free will, and it's fair to ask (as another poster suggested) whether or not the machine in the paradox can ever exist.

The problem is that in the case where the machine is 100% accurate, it is still not causing anything. So although it's fair to conclude in that scenario that optimal strategy is the 1-box decision, it doesn't make sense from a causal perspective because you shouldn't have any causal agency over the decision the machine made.
I had a thought about this regarding not seeing users using what I built. I generally know what it's for (medical) but I just make it, it gets released, cool onto the next one. Only time I hear about it is if something is broken.

On the other side I like seeing metrics/feedback of something I made get used. Always sad when a venture dies/nothing happens to it.
Yea IDK, back then everyone I knew called all of them disks or 'floppy' (since as pointed out the actual recording tape of the 3.5's was still 'floppy').

Man the good ol days. I remember when the movie Hackers came out we all loved it for its bullshit, the way it made the scene 'cool' and not just for us dweebs. But but we also hated it as hacking could definitely be some of the most boring time until something happens.

The floppy conversations always make me think of Johnny Lee Miller throwing a floppy in the trash yelling 'they're trashing our rights!' or Angelina Jolie pretending to pee in the men's bathroom to get the one hidden there.

It even made floppys seem cool somehow.

When in reality even installing Eye of The Beholder was 20+ disks and several hours. And God help you if you lost/damaged/rewrote one!
What do you think of that in the context of the so called

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic , then?

Which enables aimlessly 'toying' around with (already existing) things,

discovering new (sometimes unforeseen) applications.

In opposotion to [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic

where everything has to be 'goal oriented' from the start, guided by expected

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_on_investment and

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_market

While I (sometimes) can see the value of 2, 3 and 4 a world without 1 is very boring and drab.
None taken it all. It got me thinking about what I learned in high school about what you said about sources. It is really is appreciated.
>> Let's take Mein Kampf, for example.

Not that I want to defend that book, but it at least has some historic value. It is the sort of thing I would envision a research library keeping on a back shelf. But space lasers and pizza restaurants with dungeons, such things are beneath even Freenet.
> That is evidenced by the fact that the USSR had many, many more peaceful transfers of power than any dictatorship I can think of, and military/security service coups were always very unsuccessful. Ultimately this all comes from decentralization of power.

Saying the USSR had decentralized power is only true in a relative sense. What they actually had was a stable tripartite structure (security, military, party) where each 'leg' held a metaphorical gun to the head of the other two, but any two working in concert could take out the third. The party was the weakest of the three in terms of physical force but controlled promotions in the other two, the military had most of the big guns, and the security services watched and listened to everything and controlled information and movement. With a few extra checks and balances like political officers in the military, the whole thing was mostly stable even through transfers of political power, at the cost of periodic purges of the losers in power struggles (stable doesn't mean bloodless).
Wonder if Biden even is aware of it? The guy has full blown dementia. He can barely articulate what is written for him during his press conferences which are quite few. I would really like to know who is in charge of the country because it is sure as hell not him.
As a new downloader of Linux ISOs, please start an FAQ when you find the answer.
Nothing a series of nukes couldnt solve.
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US Open Banking Uptake Hindered by ‘Fragmented’ Market with Too Many Players
I'm not American, that was also wrong
My immediate thought is that it could offer an alternative tier of support to subscriptions / patreon - i.e. people who supply a specific amount of storage / bandwidth can be considered a premium tier "fan" and get perks... exclusive gifts, services, cough content cough, moderation rights, etc.

This could be an avenue for tech savvy sex workers who need an alternative to OnlyFans.
It would be very nice to have a cross language and cross platform package manager.

Most single language package managers are cross platform, and many single platform managers are cross language.
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That's really nice. Here they just show up after the fact, tell you the first thing they find wrong and then leave.

If it's not to code, it can take many visits to get a full list of issues.
Someone that worked at one of the former sort of organizations once described it to me as having a 'money hammer'. The money hammer is the solution to all problems.

Sometimes, for some organizations, spending 0.1 or 5 or 10 million dollars to solve a problem for now, right now is the smart and prudent choice.
Pick up dust, that's an interesting comment. How does stock paper help with that?
It's like saying investing in startups is flawed, so let's choose where to invest by lottery.

Instead government's role should be minimized to its essential role (justice, defense) and budgets shrunk (in the case of other departments, completely eliminated). Then it wouldn't matter what representatives do and who is elected. But that can't happen - lottery or not - when the system is design to spend as much as it can, and the voters constantly mission-creeping for more government control (Exhibit A: Hacker News).
Yes please to HN
Nix, guix and traditional package managers that support multiple versions (like dnf) are better solutions than just containerizing the whole thing.

But here we are, some projects only give development instructions based on containers, others support only container based deployment. You need to go out of the way trying to convert dockerfiles into regular install/setup instructions.

Containers are great and all, they solve many problems but they're not the only solution and theyre definitely not the best solution to every problem.
> Until ultimately a KGB agent took over and has been in power ever since.

Amazing how Andropov has stayed in power so long. The guy's 107 years old!
The child care point has been my wife's and I's position for the past three years. She pretty much did not work a job because it would have cost more to put two in day care than she would have brought in.
No.

We had better solutions, but the combination of "FREE!" and "network effects" meant that the GitHub virus won and the Git host came along for the ride.

Even Linus hates the way GitHub does things, but he can't do anything about it at this point except complain.
Look, I'm not trying to shit on NASA, but their status as a space company went way down after losing the ability to actually, you know, get to space. They can design all of these kick ass rovers and drones and orbital surveyors, but without private launch companies, they'd be useless stuck on the ground.
Author here. It's a question of beneath the iceberg dependencies revealed by static linking.

$ make clean && CC="x86_64-linux-musl-gcc -s -static -DNDEBUG -Os" make
$ ls -hal bestline_example
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jart jart 38K Sep 19 21:41 bestline_example

Linenoise grows considerably when statically linked, since it needs functions like printf/scanf, which add footprint without adding a whole lot of value to the library.

$ make clean && CC="x86_64-linux-musl-gcc -s -static -DNDEBUG -Os" make
$ ls -hal linenoise_example
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jart jart 50K Sep 19 21:41 linenoise_example

Bestline refactors the Linenoise code so the linker won't pull printf functions into the linkage. That freed up about 30kb of space, which was then used to provide UNICODE and near-feature parity with GNU Readline.

It matters because a library that's this low-level and so fundamental to the needs of nearly every program, should impose as few choices upon the user as possible, in terms of what other things they're required to support. For example, many people don't like printf() style interfaces and therefore do not want them included in their address space. The same goes for huge libraries like Curses and ICU that require you to link in megs of code/data just to read a character correctly. You want the value those things offer, but you don't want the baggage if all you care about is just reading a line comfortably.

That's where Bestline comes in. It distills the value of all those heavyweight dependencies down into a single .c file focused on reading lines and only reading lines, which everyone can agree on, that's actually tinier than the original library at the end of the day. So you get a better value as a software developer in terms of the code complexity and dependency bloat you need to take on.
I'm pro lockdown. Vaccines are a red herring and relying on them is ignoring science over profit.

When we know vaccines still put people at risk why are we not locking everyone down and closing borders?
Fuzzing Zig Code Using AFL++
2G is end of life. If you bought a 2G emergency phone more than halfway inside the 10 year life of 2G believing you had 15 years to live, you'd be disappointed when you turned it on.

Mothballed devices like cars often need grease change, If tires haven't been stored properly they're useless. More to the point if your car needs leaded petrol, you will have a hard time with current fuel.

So "obsolete" can apply to the real world as well as the digital.
I phrased my comment poorly. Do we know of a case where cops or prosecutors have actually faked such a “key”? If so, it’s terrifying that you could have any encrypted data, with cops and their invented xor “keys” claiming your data is whatever they want it to be.
PeerTube addresses this specific problem by employing WebTorrent so that when many people are watching a video at the same time they download from each other instead of everyone using up the server's available bandwidth.
I agree. It's not for everyone but there are many different kinds of developers.

If you are and can hire smart people who can use generics without introducing extra tech debt and complexity, I definitely recommend the ones with generics like Rust and Haskell. But the problem is that I'm not smart enough.
Since nuclear reactors emit neutrinos as well, there are experiments measuring the neutrino output at two different locations from a commercial power plant and compare the flux of neutrinos taking the mixing into account (as well as all the other sources, of course).
Actually, I did an internship after school with one of the groups: https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/lin/research_dc.en.html
All software is wrong. The job of software creators is to try and reduce that
Other than the battery - as long as the devices wasn't exposed to corrosion, what do we think could fail on it, if it wasn't being used?
> Regarding the test runtime - it's just something to be wary of. You can easily start running tens of thousands of test cases depending on how you configure the library. It makes things like testing against a real database really impractical, unless you really control which inputs get generated, which defeats the purpose of random data generation.

Whether that's practical or not depends on your tooling and your resources. If you're willing to spend US$100k on a test machine, and some people are, you can have a 4096-node test cluster.
>> Never mind that US citizenship is a prerequisite for working at NASA.

No. It is far more complicated than that. Plenty of non-Americans work at NASA. Most are paid by other agencies or are in complicated contractor roles, but they are working in the same spaces at NASA. Such people have been a large part of the program since the very early days.

"In April 1959, the “brilliant and professional” Canadians, who made up a third of the Space Task Group, arrived at the Langley Research Center in Virginia to begin their new careers. [...] One of those brilliant engineers was a man from Kamloops, B.C. named Jim Chamberlin."

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/meet-the-canadians-who-helpe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Chamberlin

"he is often cited as an example of Canadian brain drain to the U.S. In the early 1960s, he was one of the key people that proposed and moved that Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) was the best option for landing a crew on the Moon"
It's hard to introduce random into actual fonts. I don't even know how I'd do that. What I could've done is just generate the SVG and then print it, that would've been a lot easier but way less fun.

The reason you get crappy printed mail that's obviously a fake is because it's cheap and easy. Not everyone wants to build robots.
But how good is a phone call.... if you cannot speak.
I agree with you. I'm not sure I see the direct link between privacy and freedom.

I can be free to do what ever I like, with a complete lack of privacy. Inversely I can lose all my freedom but have relative privacy (i.e solitary confinement). It seems more, repercussion curtails freedom, not privacy. (Perhaps a pointless distinction).
Q: As of 2021, is Debian stable's stability really worth it compared to Ubuntu LTS for server usage? Ubuntu has a larger community, hence a bit easier to find help.

A: "Secondly, you have to understand that all software is wrong, and the job of us people that create software is to try and reduce that wrongness. Now if by some miracle your software is perfectly right, it still depends on someone else’s library, or operating system, or processor, etc, that is wrong. One of the big ways to reduce wrongness is to actually use the software in as many ways as possible to detect what it does wrong and that takes time. The apparent lack of wrongness of Debian stable is a consequence of the fact that a lot of the packages contain fairly old versions of the artefact they install and, given their age, these packages have had enough use to detect and fix (or document) most of the more common bugs."
> But if it were to be posted into non-CSAM forums then the community's web of trust would flag it as spam and thus make it disappear. So you're unlikely to just run into CSAM involuntarily.

But how can a censorship-resistant network make certain content disappear? Isn't that impossible by design on Freenet, except by the slow, unreliable process of all nodes purging the data?
Tin whiskers.

https://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/background/index.htm
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Careful posting that here, you might get called Moloch (whatever that is) or an amoral douchebag!

Seriously though, Axidraws rule. Glad it's working for y'all.
Oof, that's not a good look.
Infrastructure to handle them.

Programming on the device not being corrupted or erased due to lack of power, insufficient power.
I think people will be able to tell the difference between the handwritten SVG and the font on anything more than a short paragraph. Our brains are great at finding patterns, and the regular shapes of fonts are such a pattern.

So depending on your use case your time might be better spend on improving the handwriting->vector pipeline instead of designing a font (not that that isn't fun too)
> Video encoding is 70% of Netflix’s computing needs, running on 300,000 CPUs in over 1000 different autoscaling groups.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2017/12/4/the-eternal-cost-s...
It is, though? Just swap "standards" with "programs"
There are 2 kinds of people/governments during a pandemic: Those with okay parents, and those who need that inheritance/medical savings

On a serious note, were Sweden's larger deaths early on in the pandemic when the government could be given a pass thinking COVID would be more easily controlled than it was? Or was it a long slow crawl? It's not like it would be easy to move thousands of elderly out of nursing homes to control things anyway. Nursing homes are not anywhere close to isolation wards so it might have been inevitable outcome.
Given the widespread use of git now, it's probably the first VCS that people are exposed to. But, for several years after it was released, it was the first distributed VCS that people used (if they hadn't had a chance to work with other DVSs like mercurial or bazaar). So, it's likely most people at that time were used to using svn or cvs.

As for overloading the checkout command, the git man page lists the following

1. checkout a branch

2. checkout and create a new branch (combining git checkout and git branch)

3. checkout a path at a certain commit

In contrast, the svn co/checkout command has the following options

1. Checkout a directory

2. Checkout a file

3. Checkout a directory or file at a certain revision

Which really isn't that different. Given svn's concept of branches really being copies of the repository, one would switch branches by just checking out a different branch by using the switch command. In this case, I think git's interface is better since you don't need a different command to just change between branches.
Yeah, there has been a discussion on that matter. It would take the same time as the entire bootstrapping and the search query processing to open such an URL. This is doable but may exhibit inadequate performance.

I support you, though, that independent of the search time it is valuable to have a linking standard like that.
I just did a quick search for "Virus Scanner" and this was in the first 10 results:

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/phone-protection/id1282949977

Pretty clearly fake reviews, what it provides seems like a complete scam, in app subscriptions - ticks all the boxes from that article!

Four years on and it's still happening. Pretty incredible. Apple largely justifies its 30% cut as providing a curated experience, which is hard to reconcile with this reality.
The TÜV has its roots in the prevention of steam boiler explosions to prevent loss of lives. Its application to other domains came much later, AFAIK.
Dang, there’s a blast from the past. I wrote up the original wiki for the Featherstone Library, creating the fiction that it was named after Donald Featherstone, and was a founder of the FFL.
When I was kid my dream I was to be NASA engineer.. from kindergarten to high school if you asked me what you wanted to do I would say work for NASA building rockets!!. Heck no joke I am wearing a shirt right now I got Kennedy space center with all the shuttle's on it. We were visiting Disney world when the last shuttle was on the Launchpad. Convinced them to drive out for the day to check out. Got vip tour and everything best thing ever. Then I read up more about the challenger diaster and was heartbroken. Swore off NASA except for JPL. Thought about working for SpaceX but did not want suffer under them. I am really hoping by the time I am 50 or so I can pay to do a few Orbits around the world. I would pay atleast 100k of today money for it.
I think NixOS is great, but you don’t need to switch to NixOS to use Nix. You can also install Nix on other Linux distributions or even on macOS, and use Nix to manage individual tools and projects without using it to manage your entire system.
Check with your local laws whether you expose yourself to the risk of a friendly 2am visit by the police for hosting illegal content.
Basically, everything is about “pinning” the hardware on a low level.

You pin the network adapters to be handled by a specific set of cores.

You pin the filesystem to handle specific sets of files on specific cores.

You then ensure the router in the rack to distribute the http requests to the network ports exactly in the way that they always arrive on the network adapters that have those files pinned.

It’s not much different from partitioning / sharding and “smart” load balancing a cluster of servers, it’s just on a lower level of abstraction.
As JS developer it took me sometimes realizing the importance of generics, as by default in JS problems it solves doesn't exist. Funny how typed language advocates want automatic casting in the end after all.
Ah I see the irony is still, indeed, lost.
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Yeah it didn’t exist under Blair — then Gordon Brown was the de facto #2 but it was never an official designation.
Nice, it would make a great side hustle if you have a flexible enough job to attend the hearings! Or if your angle was strictly preparing packets for homeowners to attend their own hearings. I say go for it
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Here's a non UBI/anarchist/no state explanation:

If something needs to be done and no one does it, then

1. Does it ACTUALLY need to be done?
2. The society starts just start splitting the work and doing it together.

This is strength of mini-governance. You're doing it because you care about the community and EVERYONE is responsible for it. Not a class system.
I basically stopped writing Python because of the 2 -> 3 transition: the cost of waiting for dependencies to be ready for Python 3 was high enough that it made sense just to switch languages for everything.

Python was saved, basically, by it becoming _the_ language for data science in the same time frame. But, this could have very well turned into a Perl 6-style fiasco.
he's just asking for trouble isn't he
Who said they "cared"? I said intercepted. They basically intercept everything, and specifically will capture everything they monitor of terrorists.

> In the years since 9/11, police raids of terrorist cells in the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain have yielded countless images of hard-core child pornography.

https://nypost.com/2015/02/17/why-are-jihadis-so-obsessed-wi...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/191554-nsa...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S2qtGisT34

I'm done with this thread. You guys are way too literal. If I cared I would find better sources, but two simple Google searches is enough for me. I have dishes to wash which is much more productive than these threads have become.
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I feel like the most interesting part is that a bit at the end was redacted. I guess im curious what could possibly need to still be secret 53 years later about a country that hadn't existed for 17 years.
It's a composite design, not everything placed in one location. Even from this primitive explanation it is clear that taking it down is a nontrivial task. And with time this system will only grow stronger without applying more effort, just because the number of supporting participants will grow when they pin the antisite. This will make the blocking formidable.
> It made me, someone not from NY, unsubscribe.

If you're not going to support right to repair because you unsubscribed from a youtube channel then you didn't care about right to repair to begin with.
Moloch!

Glad you enjoyed it. I feel like the jigs were one of my best inventions. Especially the pen alignment jig that gave me a reference point for dead reckoning. When I figured that out I was pretty tickled. Good luck, reach out if you need anything!