skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a mere 8 year timeframe, the predictions seem rather poor. It feels like there was such a push among people to have the forward thinking ideas that they overestimated how much would change.

Looking back, the biggest changes between now and 2012 are:

* Git (and github) took over the world in the version control. Git was already the leader in 2012, but mercurial was doing ok and svn was still around to a much greater extent.

* Docker/Kubernetes and the container ecosystem. There was a guess here about app servers, but the poster seemed to thinking of PaaS platforms and Java app servers like Jetty more so. I guess you could say "serverless" is sort of in that vein, but it's far from the majority of use cases as the poster predicted.

* Functional programming ideas became mainstream, except in Go, which is a sort of reactionary back to basics language.

Overall though:

Good predictions:

* The IDE/editor space gets a shake up, though maybe not in the way any of the specific predictions guessed (the rise of VS code)

* Machine learning gets bigger

* Apple introduces a new language to replace Objective-C

* Some sort of middle ground to the dynamic/static divide (static languages have got local type inference, dynamic languages have got optional typing)

Bad predictions:

* No-code tools are still no further along mainstream adoption than 2012

* Various predictions that Lisp/ML/Haskell get more mainstream rather than just having their most accessible ideas cherry picked.

* A new development in version control displaces git

* DSLs, DSLs everywhere. DSLs for app development, DSLs for standard cross database NoSQL access,
Would you have to catch all the ants and then burn them? Seems like a lot of extra work.
I lost so much money when Nortel died. It was unimaginable at the time. It’s like Cisco going belly up overnight, it would be so shocking no one would believe it.
Shi Zheng-Li/"Bat Woman" was sent to investigate a lethal outbreak with CFR of 50% in Yunnan in 2012 (!!!)

"Lethal Pneumonia Cases in Mojiang Miners (2012)"
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.7021...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bat-cave-solves-m...

Supposedly that's the closest related virus?
> imposition of impossible standards

This is one of the pluses, not the minuses. There's nobody out there saying you can achieve the standards. But there are lots of people out there saying you should push yourself in the direction of the standards.
Those contracts are sometimes negotiated in private mediated sessions. It's not all open air by default.
> > "Only a person can have rights. A machine cannot," wrote Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing in her judgement.

The fight will then be to get AGI classified as a person. If a corporation can have personhood, it is not impossible for AGI to have the same.
Or Fail2Ban. I have mine setup so that it does an API call to my OPNSense firewall. A few wrong logins to my self hosted things (SSH included) and that IP is permanently blocked from everything.
I would even extend this to other animals. If we reach a point where they can communicate and work in legal system like humans they should also gain authorship rights.

Now what standards and how to apply them is complicated question. Specially with software. Which can be written to make complex actions. But still not have consciousness
They ban bots all the time. Bots are consider public and have to comply with telegrams ToS and to an extent with Apple/Googles ToS. Problems here mostly are related to illegal data, copyright infringement and adult content. If they could not remove such stuff Telegram would have long been shut down or at least kicked from all app stores.

The same rules apply to any other app on the stores. No technical solution (encryption or whatever) would make this go away.
> Edit 2011-06-30: Was inspired by one of the comments to try and compress the 58 kB png file. IzArc can create a 7z file which is only 705 bytes large! That is 1/71436th the size of the uncompressed image in Tiff format. That’s pretty impressive stuff!

This is hard to believe. An already compressed PNG can be substantially re-compressed by a generic lossless process?
Betteridge's law of headlines applies: No.

I mean, from the description in the article of how the hack occurred, and how management basically did nothing to respond, makes it pretty clear that if weren't a Chinese government hack, it would have been something else. Nortel management appeared very "asleep at the wheel" and it seems pretty apparent the company was suffering from a significant cultural rot.
TADNE is trained on n ~2.8m source images (augmented to ~4m), covering k ~ tens of thousands of different characters. OP is trained on... I'm not sure because the site is devoid of any information, but I would guess it's closer to 10k images from a few hundred characters at most. So the diversity will be drastically reduced, although the use of -ADA should mean that it doesn't overfit as catastrophically as one would expect from previous GANs to such small n/k.
Green Groups Thwarting Geothermal Solutions to Energy Problems
Not necessarily true with Julia. Many libraries like DifferentialEquations.jl are Julia all of the way down because the pure Julia BLAS tools outperform OpenBLAS and MKL in certain areas. For example see:

https://github.com/YingboMa/RecursiveFactorization.jl/pull/2...

So a stiff ODE solve is pure Julia, LU-factorizations and all. This is what allows it to outperform the common C and Fortran libraries very consistently. See https://benchmarks.sciml.ai/html/MultiLanguage/wrapper_packa... and https://benchmarks.sciml.ai/html/Bio/BCR.html
From 2000: Napster was taking up a significant amount of bandwidth in colleges at the time, enough for it to be problematic:

https://www.iowastatedaily.com/article_23a8a315-cccc-5e15-9f...
I use `unp` for the same thing. `-u` extracts into a directory.
It took me two days to learn it's specifics 3 years ago, and after that I never-ever had a problem with it. ItJustWorks(TM).

In this sense it's a bit like Sqlite, which also JustWorks, as opposed to something like Postgres which requires more fiddling and maintenance.

And functionally, it allowed me to create a service-bus topology where multiple processes can post messages on a set of subjects that can be subscribed by multiple other processes (think stock market quotes). This pattern is surprisingly difficult to implement in other message brokers.
Ay my school in the early 2000s, we had on-campus fiber to the desktop--we had to buy fiber PCI cards for our computers--and no security whatsoever. I don't remember how fast the connection to the outside world was (fast enough for heavy Napstering and Lime-wiring for sure), but the internal network was blazing fast, and a lot of music and movies made the rounds on SMB shares.
Loosely related past threads:

Only Humans, Not AI Machines, Can Get a U.S. Patent, Judge Rules - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28405333 - Sept 2021 (7 comments)

South Africa issues world’s first patent listing AI as inventor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27995313 - July 2021 (75 comments)

EPO and UKIPO Refuse AI-Invented Patent Applications - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21990346 - Jan 2020 (39 comments)
They do provide the apks on their website which dondon't have the app stores' rules upon them. You might try that.
> All other viruses from animals were found very soon after an outbreak.

It took a long time to find the animal source for HIV and if memory serves, swine flu took some time to be tracked down.

> obvious now it didn’t

I’m open to the lab leak origin as a possibility, but it seems far from obvious either way. The evidence is still pretty circumstantial. It’s worth further investigation, but I don’t think we should rush to a conclusion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otweN9sCSd8
> Faith in religion is a completely different thing to believing the scientific method works. Science is self correcting.

This is not at all accurate; the faith people express in science is generally identical to the faith other people express in religion, with no difference in the reasons, motivations, or justifications offered.

It is true that science is often self-correcting. The same is true of religion - you don't hear much about the Xhosa cattle-killing cult anymore.
Reprogramming heart muscle cells to repair damage from heart attacks
Rust in 2021 is basically the functional programming language this commenter was predicting:

> I predict that functional programming will continue to gain ground as people discover the benefits of immutability and easy parallelismâ€”but the functional language will not be Haskell, nor Scala, nor Clojure. At a guess, people will use something with:

>Strong tooling and libraries

>An accessible type system

>Deterministic memory behaviour

>By-default strict evaluation

>Commercial backing

>Every mainstream functional language is lacking in at least one of these areas.
Tech Savvy
US military eyes prototype mobile nuclear reactor in Idaho
Perhaps because at a university you can learn skills that you can utilize to create things and outcomes with relatively more predictable results.

If you need a complex surgery, would you like to go to a doctor or a priest?
While Telegram is seen as a "wild west" of free speech by many, its centralization and worrying lack of encryption for most "non-secret" chats is something to keep in mind when reading Durov's passionate claims.

- https://www.wired.com/story/telegram-encryption-whatsapp-set...

- https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/amp/multiple-encryption-f...

Also, the optional E2EE encryption is way more limited (e.g., single-device, rather than having a key sharing mechanism) than most other, possibly more genuine, alternatives (Matrix, Signal).

- https://telegram.org/faq#:~:text=Remember%20that%20Telegram%....
> Also the firefox binary is usually somewhere you need admin access to write (i.e. admin prompt).

No reason custom certs couldn't also be stored somewhere that needs admin access.
Past related threads:

OpenTTD 1.11 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26660154 - April 2021 (58 comments)

OpenTTD 1.10 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22772536 - April 2020 (114 comments)

OpenTTD 1.10.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22752066 - April 2020 (2 comments)

OpenTTD Compiled to WebAssembly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19538715 - March 2019 (88 comments)

OpenTTD 1.8.0-RC1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16725375 - March 2018 (28 comments)
It appears to be interlaced:

all16777216rgb-scrambled.png: PNG image data, 4096 x 4096, 8-bit/color RGB, interlaced
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"The same exact tool" as you refer to it has a very high learning curve and includes for just one example its own functional programming language. If you search the web for a solution to a Linux problem, translating the instructions (and an example of what I mean by an "instruction" would be, "add to this config file these lines of text") into instructions that work on NixOS is impossible unless you know a lot about Nixos. I ran NixOS as my daily driver for 2.5 months earlier this year, and I got nowhere close to learning enough about it so that I had a decent chance of being able to translate a solution published on the web that works on most other Linux distros into something that works on NixOS. (I know enough to know that it is unlikely that I would need to learn the aforementioned Nix-specific functional programming language to do the translation, but there are many other pieces of Nixos I would need to master.)

One thing NixOS has going for it though is currently having many more users than Silverblue has if comments on HN are any indication (and they probably are) which is probably an effect of its having been around a lot longer. Wikipedia claims that NixOS's initial release was in 2003.
from the webpage:

> Swarm’s data plan is an annual contract that provides 750 data packets per device per month, up to 192 Bytes per packet.

https://swarm.space/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Swarm-Eval-Ki...

"Bit Rate 1 kbps (Max packet size 192 bytes)"

this really doesn't sound like something suited to sending video or photos at all. It's M2M IOT very small data as competition for things like orbcomm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbcomm_(satellite)

If you have an off grid location you need to send video/photos upstream from, even just a few hundred KB per hour, and all forms of terrestrial WISP are off the table as a option... You'd be much better suited with one of the lowest tiers of cheap consumer geostationary ku/ka-band vsat services (viasat/wildblue/hughesnet etc), or if you can get, it, starlink.
Well, if the uploader's using copyrighted recordings rather than a midi or performing the pieces themself or using a more liberally licensed recording, it is understandable. Bach's pieces may be free but musicians' performances of them aren't.
https://github.com/pwntester/octo.nvim
I can share sources to Russian websites but will it tell you anything?

https://www.rbc.ru/business/23/03/2021/605a3fbc9a79470b2eb35...

They created a very elegant scheme when through a fictional Arabic investment fund they put russian government money (Government fund invests into Arabic fund which invests into bonds). It is kind of Russian classic and they did it a lot in the last.

Nowadays Telegram Bonds are traded at Saint-Petersburg stock exchange and there are a lot of rumors that Durov attends a lot of private parties in Russia for kids of oligarchs.
I am a research fellow at a large tech company and part of my job is to produce a certain number of patents per year. I have used AI as an "aid" to developing a patent several times but never thought for one minute it would make sense to list AI as the inventor. That is ridiculous. I have used Excel, R, Google Search, Mathematica, Python and several other modeling tools etc. to develop new IPR, obviously no one would list any of those. It was me doing the inventing, I am just using tool like any other.
How do you know? Maybe if you studied the Bible you'd end up believing in it. :-)

It turns out that you actually can induce subjective experiences in yourself that I believe are similar to what religious people describe as "feeling the presence of God". It's an interesting and worthwhile exercise (though not what we do in my study group, that's a more academic format). But it's worth doing at least once in your life. It actually feels pretty good, not unlike taking certain psychoactive drugs.
Complete failure adopted by a nation state: https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1441846960332361730?s...
You can use use one of the web archive services to get a url to share if Telegraph is blocked. By combining the 2 services you can get what you want without identification.
Agree. You need to structure your talent pipeline, and organization, based on the average level of talent you can likely receive at your compensation bracket. You cannot create a single point of dependency on an employee who you'll never be able to replace for the same amount of money.

However, the issue is that productivity is logarithmic.

The unfortunate truth the school of hard knocks has shown me is that someone without the "roll your sleeves up" attitude to learn Docker is generally speaking just not going to be that effective when push comes to shove.

Now if you're using tools to abstract the time of data scientists who are CAPABLE of learning Docker, that is a different story.

But someone who starts grumbling about having to learn the command line to containerize their pipeline is generally speaking on the west side of the Pareto principle.

I can only guess at which particular area they will trip up, but it'll be somewhere.
I'm sure this was the easiest path this time.

They have in the past blocked large swaths of AWS to block this app:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16859299
You powered that comment with two "if's" and a "would"! At what point should we expect you guys to start using "because" and "did"?
"Impossible standards," for some religions, include things like being happy and fulfilled in a mixed orientation marriage with a large number of children.

Not all directions are worth pushing in, and religion is actually really bad at identifying the good directions.
The nasty side applies just as well to non-religious, non-spiritual communities. Even worse, perhaps. There are many examples.

Look at the intolerance and hypocrisy in France, one of the most secular states. A girl is not allowed to go to school with the Muslim head scarf. This is worse than the Taliban.

France allows insulting the Prophet (pbuh), but you'll get to jail for insulting the president.

France has killed/raped/maimed tens of thousands for the sake of Imperialism.

Just today, France allowed wild bird poaching: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/pvbdbh/french_pr...
There's an old joke: Catholics believe in transubstantiation. Baptists believe in the Rapture. Unitarian Universalists believe in donuts on Sunday.
Remove it and replace it with what exactly?!

Telegram remains the only mainstream free speech platform on the web today, with the least amount of censorship and the most resiliency against being taken down.
I am somewhat confused by the argument offered here. Providing an application that helps voters to decide whom they can choose to vote for, or who the alternative candidates are in an election is not the same as campaigning.

From what I've found so far, I disagree with this interpretation. It's as if saying that publishing a list of people with their stances on a particular policy is the same as campaigning for them. It's not.

By this metric, a website like isidewith is campaigning, https://www.isidewith.com/, as are voting guides that help voters pick out candidates who back action on Climate Change, https://voteclimatepac.org/voters-guide/, or who are pro/anti-2A, https://www.nrapvf.org/grades/ / https://gunsensevoter.org/ . Are these campaigning as well?

Admittedly, the application differed from isidewith by focusing on a single issue - anti-totalitarianism, it did not do anything different that voteclimatepac, the NRA-PVF, Gun Sense Voter etc don't do. It was meant to match voters with candidates who already offer their preferred position - anti-totalitarianism. I don't see how this is campaigning.

Further, the app wasn't affiliated with most of the people it was recommending. While it was designed by Navalny, it recommended people across multiple parties. This fact weakens the argument even further.

Here is the app for you to judge for yourself, https://votesmart.appspot.com/ English translation: https://votesmart-appspot-com.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=auto&...

As you will see, it doesn't advocate for a party or a candidate, but across parties and candidates based on a single issue - anti-totalitarianism.

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While Telegram has taken a stand against the Russian govt. in the past, I do not believe that past action is necessarily predictive of future results in this regard. Given that the new Kremlin, in particular, is famous for bringing its opposition under their thumbs and turning them into controlled opposition.

> With a flourish he sponsored lavish arts festivals for the most provocative modern artists in Moscow, then supported Orthodox fundamentalists, dressed all in black and carrying crosses, who in turn attacked the modern-art exhibitions. The Kremlin’s idea is to own all forms of political discourse, to not let any independent movements develop outside of its walls. Its Moscow can feel like an oligarchy in the morning and a democracy in the afternoon, a monarchy for dinner and a totalitarian state by bedtime.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/hi...

This assertion may seem conspiratorial. And it is. Though not guaranteed, it is well within the realm of possibility that the state leader bred by the KGB found ways to turn the screws on M. Durov to keep his hold on power. Given that he kills regularly for it. Should we consider it unlikely that he's willing to coerce others for it?
> changing the RNA of the virus with the exact changes present in COVID-19

Sorry, not sure what you're reading, but this isn't remotely correct. Wild mistruths like this are precisely why no one takes you people seriously.
Sure, and those sufficiently powerful computers don’t exist yet.
There are actually 2 virology institutions in Wuhan. WIV is fairly far from the neighborhood where things got going.

Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention is a 5 minute walk from the wet market. And went through the disruption of a move just before COVID broke out.

See https://nypost.com/2021/08/13/who-scientist-eyes-on-wuhan-la... for more.
tmux or gnu screen work fine (screen is sometimes installed when tmux is not)
We're talking about non-technical users here - the only such users who would be on Brave/FF are those with a family member in tech who told them to. Furthermore, it's my understanding that some sites tell users to use Chrome, as they don't test on other browsers.
Any suggestion for a good HTML scraper that generates RSS feeds from Twitter profiles without relying in the API or third-party services?
NotebookCheck doesn't do SSD reviews, this story is under the news portion of the site hence the complete lack of any information you'd find on a review site.
There's a minimum threshold, and I don't think crows would earn enough to end up paying it. But if they did… surely there's some mechanism for dealing with individuals who have the capacity to provide significant value to society (=¹ get paid a lot), but lack the capacity to do government paperwork.

¹: for the sake of argument, assume this
Corporate personhood is a misunderstood issue. They aren’t treated like a natural person. Corporations for example can’t be inventors on a patent either.
I am not sure of the example that this video pointed out in particular, but most others seem to have "Public Domain Compositions" of many sorts as the "music in the video" tagged by YouTube.

While I agree that it lacks some context, it seems like smaller mislabeled clips were the source of this "violation" rather than the usage of whole copyrighted clips.
Youtube is _filled_ with classical musicians getting shafted by this, from amateur ensembles to semi-pros and even some professional groups getting silenced or defunded by these algos. The trouble is that Bach played well sounds like...well, Bach. If you're not "the first owner" of the copyright (and a big music company), you tend to get screwed financially (and the big companies do a LOT of screwing). YT's algorithms are designed to detect "I took this whole TV show up a tone in pitch and put a fake pair of curtains on the front to evade content ID". The Bach will sound "the same" to a copyright algorithm.

I only listen to classical music, and I've noticed that where YT used to once be a great source of legally-free brilliant performances (often with scores!) it's been going downhill and I've slowly been redirected to copyrighted Big Media recordings of old classics (which usually I do not prefer).
> If a corporation can have personhood, it is not impossible for AGI to have the same.

The basis for corporate personhood is that it is made up of humans. The benefits of a corporation flow to real humans. Real humans actually direct how a corporation will be run. In the event of crimes, the corporate veil can be pierced to go after the real humans behind it.

The “personhood” of corporations flows from the “personhood” of the humans behind it.

Imagine a world where corporations held no rights at all. For example, while an individual human had the right to freedom of the press, a corporation like the New York Times would not have that right.