skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely.
Theft is violence and it's morally wrong no matter the circumstances.
It doesn't matter if you're stealing a piece of bread not to starve, if you're stealing the money to save the lives of orphans, to help the homeless or pay for hospitals.
It doesn't matter if you're an individual, a dictator's army or a democratically elected government.

Theft is theft.
> the problem is that AI systems are unpredictable, unverifiable, and their correctness is unprovable.

Same can be said about humans.

None of what you listed matters in the real world. Self-driving systems just have to be better than average humans, on average, to be useful.

> boiling it down to 'just needs to be trained properly' is terrifying when peoples lives are at stake

You have no problem with humans being trained to drive. 38.6 thousand people died in car crashes in the US alone last year.
This is an instance where I think the domain (.mil) explains it pretty well. "Warfighter" and "warfighting" have been fairly common vernacular in the literature for awhile in the same way many fields have specialized jargon that may be largely synonymous with more common word choices. If it's unfamiliar it's probably because most people don't read military literature (despite often having strong opinions on military activity).
For folks wondering about applications of this theorem: it is a key building block in the theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS), which in turn are the building block of kernel support vector machines (kernel SVMs), which are widely used in machine learning applications.

The "kernel trick" from kernel SVMs only works because of the existence and uniqueness result from the RRT on the underlying Hilbert space.
ld-linux.so's job is to link and run an executable. It's not a vulnerability that it runs executable it's been handed. If you run "ld-linux.so /bin/ls" you're just running "ls" There's no security issue with this behavior. It's an interpreter like any other - same as /usr/bin/python.

The argument around ldd having a vulnerability is that it appears to be an introspective tool. It is not immediately obvious that it just executes "LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 ld-linux.so /bin/ls" to print what the linker does during an actual, live linking operation.

ldd documenting this fact to remind people seems reasonable to me. There are other tools like readelf which can inspect objects without executing their contents. Dynamic linking is, well, dynamic and it can depend on code executed at runtime -- so it is necessary to do so to get an accurate report of what will happen.
> We should also not gloss over that with a bloom filter can't rule out false positives, and it's really not feasible to figure out which they are.

Nothing says a bloom filter has to be the only data structure you use. It's a performance optimization; even if 1% of the time you have to consult a more expensive data structure to confirm your result, it can still save you a lot of computation in the long run.

> Finding just one hash collision in a wide hash is computationally stupidly hard.

But bloom filters don't use wide hashes; the domain of the hash function is the number of bits in the filter.

> Domains cost quite a lot of money so that is still pretty unrealistic.

In the case of malware, the cost of buying domains isn't that relevant, because you can compromise existing domains using automated attacks.
new-ish edition is out with good cypherpunk essays
I keep making things out of checkboxes
> hypersonics, simply put, can sink US aircraft carriers before their protective fleet can take action

Hypersonic missions are slower than ballistic missiles. Their advantage isn’t speed per se, but in being able to fly under the horizon for longer. They’re also more manoeuvrable, though at those airspeeds you’re somewhat limited in this domain.
> cc processor companies said they no longer would cover fraud from cloned swipes. Sounds fine right?

yes, and it makes sense that it would encourage adoption of the new dip-tap machines. That they can also swipe does not decrease the incented appeal of the new safer system
I've read Blindsight, but wasn't aware of Echopraxia. I'll look for it.

One common disappointment I have with sci-fi is how often AIs or alien intelligence are so close to human intelligence. In the Star Trek universe, every alien species is essentially humanoid with some added prosthetic and makeup. This is understandable in a weekly TV show with a tight schedule and budget. But I've read lots of books where the aliens or AIs not only act human, they think and reason like humans. What a boring waste!

There was a lot to like about Blindsight, but I particularly appreciated the completely alien life forms and their interpretation of broadcasts coming from Sol.
"Also, most of the 20 balls that have been found in the Orkney Islands are carved and etched with patterns and designs. These, on the other hand, were polished smooth."

It seems that these orbs are "complicated". A cooking stone as you describe is unlikely to be decorated. Do you inscribe your kettle! I have never heard of a quern being decorated either.
> ...if it expands more people get richer

Not necessarily.

If you think of money as representing a claim on the finite resources of the world then if the distribution of the increase in the money supply is too concentrated then you can have a situation where more people end up poorer.
Its intentional. If people could easily turn off updates they would do that and the next critical vulnerability would cause millions or billions of damage because it can infect and then use all those private PCs to attack other systems and no sys admin is around to fix stuff.
It would be a disaster and very bad PR for MS.
Yeah, Marines particularly don’t like being called “soldier”, they’re not soldiers they’re Marines. Probably same for the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, CIA operatives, etc. The civilian executive branch probably had a headache over that, and just started using the catchall term warfighter to refer to them all.
Isn't the point of these weapons that even if you can detect them they are too fast to intercept?
Why? ICIJ did the work here.
Cloud computing, splitting identities across platforms, general fracturing of perceptions between two humans looking at the same set of information (you can only "see" the part of cyberspace if you imagine it correctly step by step), etc. Amazing read considering when it was written.
It's a very personal decision though. For example, if I may offer up some counterarguments:

> I step outside my home office to see my family and start unwinding for the evening. No wasted time on commute

I find the commute (by train, I'm lucky enough to get a seat) far more effective for unwinding to be honest. And once I'm home, I'm far more engaged with the family due to having that buffer time between work and home.

> the options for places to live are endless.

That never actually stopped me before. Hence the commute

> Not to mention I eat my own food on my lunch break.

the biggest thing I miss about not commuting into London is the food. The variety, the quality, and above all, not having to cook it myself. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind cooking. But a lot of eateries do a lot better job of their signature meal than I could.

That all said, I'm in no rush to go back. And when I do, it'll be a hybrid approach. Some days in and some days from home.

edit: why am I getting heavily down voted for discussing personal reasons why I enjoyed working in the office? It's not like I'm telling you your opinions are wrong or that you should go back to the office. All I'm doing is voicing that there are some who do enjoy travelling into the city most days. Is it really that offensive a view point to read? Some people on here don't deserve to have moderation privileges.
I feel like this article exposes a huge fallacy in how people think about politics in the US. Politics isn't a horse race. It's not about winning. It's about making the country a better place by enacting laws and making sure everything runs correctly.

If you win the election but make the country a worse place, you've still lost.
Often you need to find not only the soname but the actual .so file that is found and linked. This can be affected by environment variables like LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Unfortunately I don't know of a way to check this without ldd. If somebody knows of a tool that can do this without executing the binary, please share.
Nice, but I can't think of less power-efficient embedded platform than an RPi. Especially with something as low power as E-Ink (zero power when displaying).

Innophase T2, Dialog DA16200, RedPines (SiLabs) RS9116, RealTek Ameba... they all are super low power (like 100x less than RPi) even while maintaining the 802.11 association, and come with easy SDKs ready for REST HTTPS out of the box (and RTC capabilities, not sure about the ameba).
the article generally paid the most attention to the problems the bikes cause for pedestrians. i dont find that petty at all. as a former pedesterian who loathed bikers whose is now an avid rider myself - this is a real problem.
I assume someone thought it sounds cooler and will help them recruit. It's an awful term, although maybe it will make it slightly harder for people to claim that the US military is a force for good because "our warfighters are global peacekeepers". Really highlights the absurdity.
What are the names of the five people listed as having been killed?
One is well know, unsure about these other four.
War fighter showed up to replace soldier about the same time the space force was announced.

It's meant to be a blanket term to satisfy categorization from rifle carrying traditional soldiers to drone pilots in an Idaho parking lot.
The article isn't about remote work, but about Blue Origin's utter failure to thrive.
Every time we hear about how Facebook didn’t do enough to shut down this or that kind of speech on their platform, where that speech was legal, it should be recognized as smuggling in the basic assumption that it is perfectly ok we have a centralized company (and in Facebook’s case, an individual) with the power to influence global discourse to the degree Facebook does.
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Austria and lived until 1942 and wrote a book about the experience in "The World of Yesterday"
This reads like a cover story, so I guess the question is did they figure out what it was and decide to cover it up, or did they just need to make it go away?
Jeff Bezos need to put his ego in check, fire Mr. Smith, and run the company himself or find someone who can.
Another good read is https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-04/pandora-papers-austra...

Australia's ABC TV will be doing a "Four Corners" program on the subject tonight.
They launched their IPO while marginal revenue was still solidly negative; published a bunch of non-standard metrics; and the founders and early investors took out 80% of the money raised even before the IPO.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupon#Initial_public_offer...
> even if you can detect them they are too fast to intercept?

No. They still travel far slower than ballistic missiles. Their advantages are in being able to fly low and (theoretically) manoeuvre to avoid interceptors.

They’re an evolution of cruise missiles, not strategic ballistic missiles.
We also have "serviceperson", but you can't sell Call of Duty games that way.
These abstract businesses are going to have an awful lot of trouble producing anything of value without employees. The three-way relationship between worker, owner, and customer is required to meaningfully model anything about our economy.
I have no idea how a surface spill compares deep water seeps but the seeps have been happening for hundreds of thousands of years.

Not sure where I am going with this but I just thought it was interesting.
Heh that's cool. It renders the calendar as HTML and then uses selenium to open up headless chrome and screenshot it and then send the bitmap to the eink display. Clever.
Compound threatens to dox its own users
What about the ARPAnet? That seemed to have found several applications outside of national defense.
They could just be buying exploits.

I can't imagine professionals capable of hacking useful targets having problems writing a script that encrypts some files with a public key and needs a private key to be unlocked.
They do care. That's the point. Russian's largely have a free pass to attack international targets provided they do not hit domestic targets.
Here's one for $125 that I'd been planning on buying.

https://e-radionica.com/en/inkplate-29.html

The project, found on hn: https://rahulrav.com/blog/e_ink_dashboard.html
For comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-800_Oniks
> You can also say it works on BSD (macOS), but that has no relation to other BSD flavors.

I still don’t get your point. I never said tidal on Linux supported atmos. I said audiophile devices are almost universally running embedded Linux and implied they have had a superior audio stack for a long time, which they have. Additionally I said android direct has had Atmos support for years.

> Tidal doesn't seem to support it on Windows:

I literally just tested it. You’re taking that quote completely out of context, it has nothing to do with windows and doesn’t mention windows. The question you failed to include was:

> Does Dolby Atmos work over headphones (e.g. headphones connected to your TV)?

>No, you cannot get the Dolby Atmos experience on TIDAL using headphones connected to living room devices.

That’s specifically referencing hooking up Bluetooth headphones to your TV. Not windows.
I’ve been sort of wondering if I should sell my year old Model 3 and buy a new one because of this: between price increases, delivery times and the used car market, it almost seems financially irresponsible to hold on to it.
For some reason, writing a less-that-completey-naive JSON parser for C++ seems to be a right of passage for all C++ developers who eventually go on to great things.
> Also everyone should read Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End"

I often wonder if the AI in "Rainbows End" becomes the "Power" that gets resurrected in "Fire upon the Deep".

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*SPOILER!* There's just a hint of the hidden villainy and ruthlessness at the end of Rainbow. *SPOILER!*
The headline is sort of misleading. The article is about two stroke engines. Not specifically leaf blowers.
Seems like Nimbo (https://nimbo.sh) has a Business Source License (https://github.com/nimbo-sh/nimbo/blob/master/LICENSE), so you might want to check with them regarding licensing terms for a startup that is using their code and/or docs in "production"?

Otherwise, this idea is interesting and probably generalizable to other applications. Maybe it's not crystal clear to me, but what are the advantages of your service over existing solutions such as Nimbo and Spotty? FWIW it might be worthwhile adding this to your website.

Good luck!
If I had done directing or camera work during the 4:3 era and saw my work cropped to 16:9, I'd probably be furious. A lot of thought goes into framing a shot just right, making sure it has the right balance and composition.

Even in cases where nothing too important goes missing, cropped video just looks really off. Oftentimes you'll see the tops of heads cut off at the top of the frame, or small details just on the verge of being visible. If something is framed just off center, the cropped version will show it very off center.

Just look at this shot, for example: https://imgur.com/KKiMbWP - nothing is missing, but the right character's bottom half is completely out of frame and it just looks incredibly weird. The floor also is totally invisible so you lose your sense of grounding.

It's just a complete lack of respect for the hard work that went into creating these shows.
I'd hazard a guess at high cost of living
They're too fast to catch up with (i.e., from behind). But if someone sprints straight into your fist, that person will be hurt even if your fist itself is fully stationary. In fact this probably makes them somewhat more vulnerable to an interceptor's warhead's shrapnel: even lesser damage, survivable for a slower target, might be much more serious for a target flying at high Mach speeds (not the mention the imminent "Columbia syndrome" of very hot air suddenly inside your vehicle).
The problem is the scaling. $10k to a billionaire is tissue paper. It simply doesn't matter to them. $1k to the middle/lower class could mean everything.

My point is that this will continue to unreasonably restrict the lifestyle of middle/lower class while the elites won't even notice a difference. They can happily pay more to continue doing what they've always done.

It's just like every single other "climate" policy that gets proposed. It is as if climate change simply doesn't exist for rich people. Just like covid. Which leads me to reasonably deduce that this is about consolidation and control. We can judge these policies by their fruit.
So this shows why flexibility is important, so you can satisfy the different preferences of employees.

From the article, it sounds like the CEO wanted to get rid of remote work all together.
As a recent measure, https://calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/measuring-rents
> Capitalism [is] getting knocked around everywhere I looked.

That's what happened with every social system in the past, and, while failures certainly have happened, we've always found ways for that criticism to result in improvements to our societies.

It would be very surprising for the current shape of our society or, more generally, capitalism to be an exception to the rule, unless you subscribe to the "end of history" thesis.
You definitely need to be able to make out an Information Radiator from across a room. We’ll probably see a tipping point somewhere around a 30” screen, where you can put a large summary at the top, and details farther down.

Is anything going on? Is it worth me crossing the room to see? Should I be checking my email, other dashboards, or coworkers?
Very few times does a riot legitimately change anything, even in response to great corruption. It’s precisely why such times are historically noted. Things like civil rights, the end of slavery in America, gay marriage, and women’s right to vote in America were all from decades and decades of bureaucratic labor.
Also if you’re close to an acquisition and you start laying people off it will probably kill the acquisition anyways, so there’s that to balance.
You can definitely put a price, or you would have never wasted time on commute, etc.
Those that do not work in the office will be replaced by those that do.
The exposed API for Metal is Obj-C, and the one for DirectX is using COM.

(for shaders, MSL is a C++ dialect, but HLSL isn't)
What about possession of the ball? Only Fox seems to show this with a dot next to a teams score. I often glance at the score box when busy, but have wait to see which team takes possession to know the current state of the game before I can continue my busy work away from the TV.
Which programming language are you using? It looks to me like you need exhaustiveness checking for pattern matching. Languages like Scala, OCaml, Purescript or Haskell support this out of the box.

Am I overlooking something?
Most of the technical decisions that led to the incoherence the article is talking about were made from 1995-2005, when Java was still very much under Sun's control. It's also telling that Java is still very much in use despite being owned by Oracle for the last decade. Would C# have much usage at all if Microsoft went bankrupt?
Lots of system consisting of discreet pieces can be modeled fairly exactly.

The thing that makes economies very hard to predict is they're a combination of people acting according to quantifiable economic incentives and people acting accord to a collection of ideas, fashions and emotions that can switch unpredictably or simply aren't known.
What if the point of taxes is not simply to redirect and redistribute funding, but also to reduce economic activity and, by extension, emissions and inflation?
Pretty cool, I'm getting back to coding after a 4.5 year hiatus, and I'm seeing how much cleaner F-strings make python code. Does this course cover them? I'd like to something to measure my progress against and this could be pretty neat to play with.

Awesome job, I just through ran through a few of the levels and it seems easily digestible as a refresher.
CrossCompiling for Arm on Debian
But maneuvering at high velocities won't be that easy. As far as I understand it, your lift/drag ratio decreases appreciably with increasing Mach numbers. So either you'd have to limit your maneuvering, or you'd have to have a propulsion unit with ridiculous amounts of thrust - at a situation when any amount of useful thrust is hard to obtain, since we still don't know really well how to do propulsion in this regime.
"who gets to define what "intelligence" means and how it is measured?"

"best ones to use to determine academic success, or are they arbitrary"

"defined it to mean just what they like"

Intelligence is not arbitrary. It's been studied extensively in the psychometric literature as a construct that strongly predicts numerous outcomes including academic success and job performance. The SAT and its relationship to intelligence has also been studied.

If we're selecting people who are going to lead the country or who are going to be making the next physics breakthrough, the criteria for that had better be strongly grounded in intelligence and it had better be evidence based (to the best of our knowledge/abilities).

It's also untrue that they define it to mean what they like. The shift to somewhat more meritocratic admission decisions by considering the SATs has displaced the old boys club of WASP legacy admits and threatened to replace them with a second-generation Asian cohort. The only thing stopping full on replacement is racial quotas. This has been very bad for their status and it will only get worse if the shift to meritocracy continues. The establishment has always fought against meritocracy. The Jews were systematically excluded on a racial basis for a long time because of it. They would like nothing more than to prolong the status quo of blood, money, fame and connections leading to appointments.

Why did President Xi's daughter and Obama's daughter get admitted, were they brilliant or more likely merely the children of the famous and powerful?

Proponents of merit just believe that it's better for society (both for its prosperity and fairness) for the next Von Neumann or Ramanujan to be admitted instead.

"By what criteria are character and capability for leadership determined, and why?"

I don't know. The specifics of the criteria are not interesting to me, because reasonable people can disagree on the details. The mindset and overall aspiration is what I am interested in. I know the dimensions that I want them to consider (competence) and those I want them to ignore (race). Exactly how they weigh up and measure the former is an implementation detail. Not without risk of bias, mind you, but then again the same can be said for any criteria.

"In any case, the term of "meritocracy" is not a positive one."

I wasn't aware of that etymology, but if the author tried to frame it as a dystopia, then I disagree with that.

Companies and governments need to be organized hierarchically in order to function. That means you're going to have to pick some way to sort people. If they think competence and intelligence is a bad way to pick that hierarchy, then what superior method are they proposing that won't lead to a worsening of the effectiveness of these orgs? Are they seriously proposing that not choosing hierarchies based on competence will lead to better-run orgs? That appointing people with 80 IQ to run our large companies will lead to any kind of outcome that isn't a disaster? That kids with 80 IQ can be sent to the Math Olympiad and win a medal?