skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
books can be eaisly lost though
Reminds me of the Rosetta Disk that some folks in the futurist community came up with 15 years ago:

The Rosetta Disk is the physical companion of the Rosetta Digital Language Archive, and a prototype of one facet of The Long Now Foundation's 10,000-Year Library. The Rosetta Disk is intended to be a durable archive of human languages, as well as an aesthetic object that suggests a journey of the imagination across culture and history. We have attempted to create a unique physical artifact which evokes the great diversity of human experience as well as the incredible variety of symbolic systems we have constructed to understand and communicate that experience.

The Disk surface shown here, meant to be a guide to the contents, is etched with a central image of the earth and a message written in eight major world languages: “Languages of the World: This is an archive of over 1,500 human languages assembled in the year 02008 C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to find over 13,000 pages of language documentation.” The text begins at eye-readable scale and spirals down to nano-scale. This tapered ring of languages is intended to maximize the number of people that will be able to read something immediately upon picking up the Disk, as well as implying the directions for using it—‘get a magnifier and there is more.’

On the reverse side of the disk from the globe graphic are over 13,000 microetched pages of language documentation. Since each page is a physical rather than digital image, there is no platform or format dependency. Reading the Disk requires only optical magnification. Each page is .019 inches, or half a millimeter, across. This is about equal in width to 5 human hairs, and can be read with a 650X microscope (individual pages are clearly visible with 100X magnification).

https://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/
If you define "most people" as the people with the most economic power, then yes, because the police are their enforcers. Then you have middle-class types who have been inundated with pro-police information for their entire lives, and who usually aren't on the business end of the gun. Most of them are on board too, obviously. But you're still missing some very large demographics there.
Please make your substantive points without name-calling and personal attacks. You broke the site guidelines badly here.

This is particularly important when your view of the underlying issue is actually correct, because if you post like this about it, you end up discrediting not only yourself but also the truth [1], and that hurts everybody. We're really trying to avoid that sort of internet dynamic here.

I certainly appreciate that you have inside knowledge about this topic and are willing to share it with us! That part is great. I also understand (believe me) the frustration that comes up when people make glib claims about a situation they don't have first-hand knowledge of. But if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
An Ecology of Ideas
I use it daily at work. (EDA space)
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People keep talking like he's focused solely on Facebook.

He does AGI research. He's sent me screenshots of his experiments.
Serious Eats has some coverage of this. https://www.seriouseats.com/shio-koji-marinade
I fully expect my blog on GitHub Pages to outlive me.

They're stored in the Arctic Code Vault, as well as more replicas than you can imagine, because git, so I could imagine there's very little risk of data corruption, and because of the amount of knowledge stored in this standard format of static HTML, there's strong incentive for people to preserve it and keep hosting it if Microsoft becomes evil again and decides its not profitable. Moreover, if you PGP-sign your git commits with a 4096-but RSA key, you can be fairly sure nobody will edit your commits (perhaps for at least for the first 200 years). I believe the key here is lumping your data in with other high-value data.
A terminal ncurses alternative to Magit :)

What is Tig?

Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for git.
It functions mainly as a Git repository browser, but
can also assist in staging changes for commit at
chunk level and act as a pager for output from
various Git commands.
Disk rot is slower than online service rot. The other day I tried FC3 blood dragon and it had an error because they shut the servers down. It hasn't even been 10 years.
Encode the knowledge into the DNA/RNA of a highly contagious and non-deadly human virus and release it into the population. Hopefully, mutations won't overwrite your information.
If you could build a computer that held and displayed the data, you might be able to preserve it - a tablet or handheld device that gets handed down through generations and only activated one a decade or so?

Beyond preservation, though, that's an interesting engineering puzzle - could you fashion a computer intended to operate for 500 years, without replacement parts?

It'd need serious shielding, components that wouldn't degrade, some sort of capacitor based rechargeable power system, connector interfaces designed to be easily modded, and so on.

I imagine such a legacy computer would be durable beyond even advanced military or nasa tech allows for.

https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/the-100-year-computer
I have a 2015 MBP and Docker performance was so bad that it was better to install Virtual box and set up a Linux VM, then run Docker inside it. Now I use a M1 Mac Mini and it is somewhat decent (Linux is still better though). But I've only used docker for very small infrastructures, so your experience may vary.
If you're cooking bachelor chow, an electric pressure cooker is the superior method of cooking to anything else.

I used to eat out about 80% of the time, at huge expense, but since buying a pressure cooker its 5%...

There are plenty of recipes where you just throw in the ingredients, add a specific amount of water, set a specific time, and come back in 20minutes to a perfectly cooked meal. Its far less hassle than cooking with a pan etc, and uses less energy and water.

Smaller items like hard-boiled eggs take about 5 minutes in total.

You're also not venting cooking fumes and steam (and combusted natural gas) into your kitchen, so air quality, mold etc. is much improved.
Related - cool "circular economy" company in Vancouver that collects chopsticks from restaurants and, using a similar process, makes some pretty amazing stuff: https://chopvalue.com/
> Kinda like saying Switzerland is "aggressive" because they have mandatory military service for all males.

I'm curious: Have you heard of the state's "monopoly on violence" before? It comes up a lot in political theory discussions, and it applies to this attempted rebuttal by analogy.
I don't know where you see anger or incredulity in my response. Colbert told the joke first! It also doesn't matter, in exactly the way which liberals misunderstood the comment in the first place! Now it's like a double-joke because it's so ironic, and also the US is probably irrecoverably fucked up. Laughs all around!
Yeah, the flares do add a level of spectacle. Do you see the 2nd amendment protests then as similarly abnormal?

See, to me, any protest involves a mob, and I would be concerned for safety of the target regardless of whether people had guns or flares or fists or rocks, you know?
Android runs ART + C and C++ NDK APIs, the fact that there is a Linux kernel underneath matters zero to app developers.
Sure, so I grabbed a normal ribeye, dusted it with shio koji powder (might be at your local Asian food market, definitely on Amazon) and put it covered in the fridge for 48 hours. Make sure you get the actual powder, because if you get inoculated rice, you'll have to grind it up into a powder and it's a pain. The steak should look like a giant slab of brie when you put it in the fridge.

I then washed off the powder, and cooked the steak like normal (read: sous vide). Steak had the familiar nutty day dry aged flavor (I compared with a dry aged steak I had cooked previously), and caramel coloring with the slightest, almost imperceptible sweetness of miso. It was magic. Be careful with the sear though, because I think some of the sugars are left behind, and it takes only maybe 30 seconds on each side instead of a minute. It'll get crusty much quicker than normal.

Highly recommend if you're ok with molded food (e.g. blue cheese, brie, miso), and it's way way cheaper than getting something off the shelf as dry aged.
Show HN: Productivity timer where you can postpone breaks and reclaim them later
I agree 100% with that comment :) Including the first part:

> 'bash -c $(curl )' doesn't mitigate a website's ability to detect whether you're downloading a file via curl versus accessing it in a browser

You're totally right, I forgot about this one! It's wild how many tricks there are in the security world
Voice of Baceprot: How Indonesian Muslim Trio Found Freedom in Heavy Metal
We're not actually and assuming that is the case is why we're in the mess we're in right now facing an existential risk from global warming and potential ecological collapse.
Rhubarb is delicious raw.
If you scale up production by just building more of the same machines that's right, but over time with new process nodes and increasing fab sizes there are plenty of opportunities to apply new skills to improve automation and scale effects.
Thanks for putting this more eloquently than I could. This is an important point that I didn't state. There are passages in Moby Dick that are indeed beautiful, but the first thing I think of when I hear Moby Dick is how painful it is to read.
Are you asking for a free fantasy way to do this, or serious?

For the former, get your thoughts into the constitution of a country or found a religion whose adherents have to memorize your stuff.

For the latter, it's pretty hard. I think the problem is that tech changes. I guess the question is really whether it's the content, or whether it's the delivery mechanism with the content that needs to be preserved. Content itself can be transformed. Current web standards will probably change over time and it will be similar to trying to time travel to a thousand years ago and chat with the locals: language changes too.
While I doubt that many people are going to want to run desktop applications on the Steam Deck, it appears to have the ability to connect a monitor and keyboard/mouse. Devices like this, Chromebooks, and many others will make Linux a more consumer facing OS in the decades to come.

I agree that the Windows API, beyond those needed for games, is a thorn in Linux's side. On the other hand, I also see the Linux desktop taking a larger percentage in the years to come. It won't really be because of growth in the Linux user base. It will be because desktops will have less of a presence outside of business use.
Buy a piece of art that is timeless, embed your html on its back. Not sure if it meets your presentation goals but it has good chances to survive.
Re [0], there are zillions of these "open patent" initiatives. Every week a new one comes along. It's easy to get lots of tiny companies to sign up for them. It's a lot harder to get anyone with a really valuable patent.

As for the Bork view: all those things you mentioned are "consumer harm" and are not protected. It would be a lot more fruitful to look at the lobbyist spending by the tech giants, and the Astroturf "studies" they fund.
Yep, that'll likely eventually happen...

...after a couple of years of unrest and social instability. Which as simonh pointed out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28959591) is exactly what the CCP does not want.

Knowing that the PRC tends to take the long view, I don't think they'd take the chance regarding Taiwan.
Did they fail to arrest anyone? Or are you just making up stuff to be snarky?
> I also do this regularly, but on my terminal. I don't feel like I'm fighting the git tools. Is this a common experience?

My big hang-up with interactive rebases is that I do them just infrequently enough that what exactly a set of choices will yield—what's going in the commit message, et c.—is something I have to sit there and reason about for a really long (by the standards of something that really is not that complicated an operation) time. I can also never keep it straight when editing messages in-line will have an effect, and when it'll be ignored (in some commands it is, IIRC, in others not? I can never remember, but either way, why the hell let me edit it if it won't do anything?)

What I could really use is a live preview of what the effects of my current choices will be.
From your article:

> the thermal efficiency varies from 13% for electric hobs to 23% for gas hobs

They also have a graph showing induction as being less efficient than gas.

Everything I have read recently says the exact opposite, that gas spews most of its energy into your house and very little into the pot, while a good flat top electric gets a large % into the pot and induction gets 100% of generated heat into the cooking vessel. (Though I don't know what efficiency induction operates on, obviously electric stoves are nearly 1W of energy in, 1W of heat out!)

Unfortunately most articles comparing gas and electric compare energy costs to the consumer, not thermal efficiency, but I do come across papers such as https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2014/data/papers/9-7... that are basically the exact opposite of what the site you linked says.

Digging further, it looks like lowtechmagazine based their findings on https://mb.cision.com/Public/MigratedWpy/91653/9014629/ae07e... which is measuring losses due to grid transmission which seems to put electric at a distinct disadvantage.

That paper does show the massive amount of heat gas stoves dump into the surrounding air, which depending on climate may then have to be removed, likely by an electric air conditioner, taking that into account gas shoots way up in energy costs.

And of course that paper is from 2010, as the grid becomes renewable electric starts winning out in every possible direction.
Yes, that's what happened. Sorry! I've put it back and will try to prevent this from happening again.
imagine if other people's "likes" and "angry face" are broadcasted into your neurons directly
Short answer: yes.

Long answer: I think that the more minds there are working on this (or any other interesting) problem, the more progress will be made. And we shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good enough.

The field of robotics, and especially soft robotics like this, is so new and uncharted that individuals tinkering in their garage can and have made real advances for the field.

That said, really good control systems for these kinds of actuators are something very much lacking. The human nervous system, and in particular the vestibular system is so absurdly effective, efficient and complex all at the same time that it boggles my mind. Nothing anyone has ever designed has ever come close to that level of functionality. But to make a robot that can do human things, we need that level of functionality. We need to have really good proprioception which is integrated with force and feedback sensing.

To give an example; open a bag of potato chips and pull out a decent handful. Now eat the chips one by one out of your hand without dropping any and without using your other hand. I dare say you can probably do this, and without crushing the chips in your hand. You can feel just how much force to apply, you can feel where to place your fingers so that all the chips are held just so. You can make subtle adjustments after each chip is taken away.

There is no robot hand in the world that can do that simple task. Ask any arm amputee. And to get to that point, a lot of really difficult stuff has to be invented and worked out. I suspect this is a problem which will be solved piecemeal, over time, but much of the fundamental work in things like the mathematics of motion control, material science and compliant mechanisms will come from very well funded labs. If I had to guess, I give a 60% chance a robot can do the chip eating task within a 5 years. And 85% within 10 years. (Especially if the work of my team pays off)
Yes, that is what Google says, without citing any examples of what the hate speech in question was. This way they can censor any politics they like under the pretense of hate speech.
You're right. A corrupt cop is unstoppable, especially one with a corrupt municipality supporting their behavior.

However, like netsec, it is a matter of lots of small steps. Asserting "I do not consent to this search" aloud may not stop the search, but it can be used it court, where it may not matter, or it might. The point is, you have to protect yourself. Maybe someone caught recording of you saying that which shows up later, and changes the outcome in a retrial.
Compress to zip file. Get raw code, upload to major blockchains.

Upload static site to archive.is

Put thumb drive in time capsule in hidden location , also printed source code
> Discrimination based on medical or health status is unacceptable.

Weird take when vaccine mandates have been a normal part of life for decades.
If the server is compromised, of course the attacker can impersonate the server. With an _augmented_ PAKE (which OPAQUE is), the attacker cannot impersonate the client without a brute forcing step.
> I was pretty skeptical about magit at first because I know all the basic git commands for my daily workflows by heart and I don't find them to be very difficult or slow to use

Same here. I've found completing-read for branch names to be one of the biggest draws for Magit, personally. I can tab-complete them in my shell, but it's much slower and less reliable.
It is entirely possible that as an American I am just getting oversensitive to this. But all I ever seem to hear on HN (and Reddit) is everything bad about the US. To someone who has never lived here, I suppose it must seem pretty dystopian.

I do think you should visit :). Every time I visit a new country I am struck by just how different it is in real life compared to everything I've ever heard about it. It's the primary reason I like to travel at all. I'm not really into the tourist stuff, I love to get off the beaten path and see how people actually live.

At least go visit Canada. Might be surprising, or not, but it shares a lot of cultural similarities with the US.
I get his annoyance. It's infuriating to keep seeing the opinions of the ignorant elevated on HN as if they're gospel. It's bad enough that this place is a shrine to Paul Graham, let's not add any more fools to this roster.
Honestly, I live in a country with 4 times more homicides than the US after adjusting for population. Our laws state very clearly that the police does not get much extra immunity either (although, corruption gets in the way there), and our courts have no trouble at all to discard any piece of information the police acquires while they have a gun pointed at somebody's head.

I really don't understand how the US justice system works the way it does.
Declare abandonment and open source all documentation and code. This should get you out of the human lifetime burden.
It doesn't need to be human DNA, indeed the part chosen may not 'make' it 500 years. While I have no desire to do this, choosing a variety of other life seems more viable, and more easily rediscovered if necessary.
I have actually. It's not so easy to keep your degrees of freedom down, so it's hard to conclude anything. Or it was for that project.
Fixed now. Sorry. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28959706
Coming soon - the battle of the truths:

>“I created TRUTH Social and TMTG to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech,” Trump said in a statement.
I would agree with you if the case was some sort of web service in general, but a GPU server that is only used in-house to run some common pyTorch training jobs is very simple to buy and install and run. Those cloud credits are going to get eaten fast as its a few $/hour, assuming you can get them (those programs are only available if you get your financing from a participating incubator or investor). But yeah if you do get 100k for free from someone you should of course use them first :)
"Hey, this well-known rich white guy isn't getting abused by the cops, this must mean the cops don't abuse people!"
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I'm not sure that's a good data point considering there is stone/masonry structures that old or older. Is there evidence that wood infrastructure is cheaper/more durable from a lifecycle perspective? The industry estimate for timber bridges is typically 20 years (although they may be treated to extend the life further) while 75 years or more for steel or concrete bridges. Timber/glulam also tends to deteriorate faster.

"At comparable ages and spans, smaller percentages of prestressed concrete bridges are classified "structurally deficient" than steel or timber bridges."[1]

[1]https://trid.trb.org/view/369244
If he isn't, Mark isn't too.
I don't think we need a law, we just need businesses to stay greedy.

DRM licenses are kind of expensive and it's hard to publishers to justify the added cost of DRM after the initial release, when they've made 80% of the revenue for the game. So they often (though, not always) get patched out eventually.
Did you appeal? Or reach out to the ACLU or EFF? I'll admit I'm somewhat skeptical of your account, but if true I would expect a post demonstrating so would be on the front page of this site quite quickly.
Dev tools for Data Privacy – The Benefits
The default for `git reset`, which is `--mixed`, may do what you want. The difference between `--mixed` and `--soft` is that the former resets the index as well as moving the HEAD pointer; the latter only moves the HEAD, so if you’ve `git add`ed any changes, they will remain staged.
Although this particular vulnerability is all about ingress-nginx and has nothing to do with Kubernetes itself, the current design of the ingress API sort of encouraged it.

The reason that an ingress controller need permission to read all secrets across all namespaces in the first place, is because ingress objects can specify their own certs (stored in namespaced secret objects) within their namespaces, hence the ingress controller needs permission to read those secrets and load the certs into the reverse proxy (in case of ingress-nginx, it is nginx). This is such a scary permission to grant that cluster admins have to hand over all the secrets in the cluster to the ingress controller and hope it does the right thing.

Now, ingress-nginx actually allows you to specify a default secret to be used by all ingresses it manages, and that would be the only secret it needs access to. I am not sure how many users out there are willing to dig into thousands lines of its manifest yaml files to tweak its rbac settings.
"people have a valid reason not to trust _____ " is the very definition of prejudice, and synonymous with bigotry. Again: fill in the blank with any group just to stand witness. I hear the historic racialist explaining that Black/Japanese/Chinese/Albinos/whatever are untrustworthy. Plain old prejudice couched in modern clothing.
Carmack made multiple fundamental breakthroughs in 3D graphics. Not only that, but he consistently positioned himself to commercialize those, which is not easy. His Quake 3 engine was the bread and butter of Id Software, generating billions in revenue.

In recent times, he's done coronavirus simulations (I don't know anything else about that), and is doing AGI research.

He's also a true hacker through and through. Simply having an example like his, as a model to follow, is helping humanity. I happen to be human, and I distinctly remember his .plan files influencing my decisions in a positive way since I was 13 or so.

(The line about getting a hotel and accomplishing as much as possible in 2 days of focused effort was particularly impactful.)