skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This idea comes up all the time. Here's the unabomber [1]

> If the machines are permitted to make all their own decisions, we can’t make any conjectures as to the results, because it is impossible to guess how such machines might behave. We only point out that the fate of the human race would be at the mercy of the machines. It might be argued that the human race would never be foolish enough to hand over all power to the machines. But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would willfully seize power. What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines’ decisions. As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and as machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more and more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won’t be able to just turn the machine off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide.

Here's E. M. Forster [2]

> But there came a day when, without the slightest warning, without any previous hint of feebleness, the entire communication-system broke down, all over the world, and the world, as they understood it, ended.

And here's Yuval Noah Harari [3]

> Even if some societies remain ostensibly democratic, the increasing efficiency of algorithms will still shift more and more authority from individual humans to networked machines. We might willingly give up more and more authority over our lives because we will learn from experience to trust the algorithms more than our own feelings, eventually losing our ability to make many decisions for ourselves. Just think of the way that, within a mere two decades, billions of people have come to entrust Google’s search algorithm with one of the most important tasks of all: finding relevant and trustworthy information. As we rely more on Google for answers, our ability to locate information independently diminishes. Already today, “truth” is defined by the top results of a Google search. This process has likewise affected our physical abilities, such as navigating space. People ask Google not just to find information but also to guide them around. Self-driving cars and AI physicians would represent further erosion: While these innovations would put truckers and human doctors out of work, their larger import lies in the continuing transfer of authority and responsibility to machines.

1: https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/ethics/Unabomber.pdf

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29051853

3: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-n...
Especially funny in this context as recent efforts to created a code of conduct for space have largely been rejected by the US in favour of the unstructured status quo.
subshells don't propagate information out which makes them hard to work with in many cases. Ie ((foo=42)); echo $foo is not going to have 42.
> China and Russia actively test the same capabilities.

> When the rules are not plain, whether in peacetime or war, the situation is “exponentially” more dangerous

That's a good thing. No doubt the US would win most wars but I'd be happier if countries with no bone in the fight could protect themselves from accidental annihilation. Development of Anti-weapons to disarm and disable potential space advantages up to an including complete destruction of GPS, Research sats (yes, including Telescopes) and even the ISS- wholesale.
Reproduction does not imply theft. National pride, sufficient resources, and prioritization are sufficient to replicate the technology.
Learn to not care. Learn to not care about being fired, losing everything, and dying in general. For me, the moment was like a longer more drawn out experience like that of Office Space. But it became that. I didn't care what happened, who screwed what up, or what expectations were of me. Fire me if you don't like it. Now you're really gonna be screwed having to pick up the slack without me there.

Once I unlocked this, the world became flat. I didn't care about the journey, just the goal. Whip something up. Learn how to socially manipulate expectations. Make it seem like you work. Half ass something and convince people there were significant difficulties.

None of your code matters. You are paid to support. Not to reinvent the wheel. So support it with the easiest code possible. Quit trying to do something fancy. It doesn't help when layoffs come about. What does is cozying up to VP's and management who know you work and get things done. Your portfolio means fuck all if not a single person knows what you do, even if you are a better programmer.
This is not the Roman Empire. Those same healthy young men failed at much beyond subsistence agriculture in their home countries. IQ - a factor of genetics and upbringing - is far more important. Predilection away from violence and crime is another.

Most of the migrants from Africa/Middle East represent huge social and economic burdens that might very will permanently sink some European countries, given the differential levels of fertility between the native and introduced populations.

Non-Western migrants in Denmark cost that country about 10% of its total Government spending: https://www.thelocal.dk/20211015/denmark-says-non-western-im...

https://tradingeconomics.com/denmark/government-spending#:~:....

Here's social welfare use in the Netherlands: http://i.imgur.com/dqTa8d4.png
We have enough food for everyone. We should feed everyone. We have enough houses for everyone, we should house them.

Space fantasies aren't part of avoiding scarcity thinking. Space fantasies are a distraction to getting everyone's needs met.

https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/energy-slaves/

Our current "post scarcity" world is built on shaky grounds. But it doesn't have to collapse.
Which part of Italy? What's your experience like with the people? How are taxes working out for you (assuming you're a US Citizen)?
Meta (a great name) was a very promising startup a few years back in scholarly publishing. It had successfully analyzed millions of articles to help with discovery of research. It's a shame it is being shuttered but there are a lot of tools out there now doing similar things and in many cases much much more:

scite.ai (I am co-founder)
semantic scholar
Google cannot secure your data against the real criminals. The 3 letter agencies.
Well that's why the court has to fit it.

So typically a prenup assigns a share of the marriages asset to each party, say 90/10. If the prenup were deemed abusive, instead of her getting 10% of the assets of the marriage, and the husband keeping 90%, she would get 90% and he would get 10%.
> It's not surprising. But what it does is illustrate the absurdity of the current hiring system that some companies choose to employ.

That's a broad statement. It's only absurd if there is a better way to do it that they are not using. And frankly, almost no one knows a better way to hire, which is why almost everyone is doing this. (There are interesting ideas in how to hire better, e.g. `tptacek's and `patio11's old startup, but not sure if there is anything proven, or at scale).

> Any company that works like this is not a company worth working for. Yes, I include FAANGs in that, too. If a company automates its hiring process to this degree, what makes you think any other part of the company is going to be fair to its employees?

Once again a pretty broad statement. Also one that is kind of laughable. FAANGs, for all their other faults, are generally considered some of the best places to work for, in one of the industries that treat its employees best. You're literally talking about places that are better to their employees than 99% of the world experiences, and dismissing them completely. I think your standards are odd.
> Writing a Forth interpreter, to be blunt, is not writing in Forth.

Forth interpreters were traditionally written in Forth, and if you do it that way, that counts imho ;).
However, that has nothing to do with iMessage being exclusive to Apple devices.
So what you’re saying is there’s a market for innovative ISPs and HVAC installers?
Why Technology Favors Tyranny (Yuval Noah Harari) [2018]
from the article it sounds like the market is too small to be profitable
China is shifting their entire coal production to nuclear. America is shutting down nuclear and replacing it with? Coal. Wind and PV cannot handle the load requirements so you end up having to build coal anyway.

I’m not against wind and PV. I’m just realistic about where the energy mixture has to look like to actually accomplish the goal of sustainable energy production. The earth can’t handle us dithering yet more on this argument.
Starship also offers the best potential for depolluting space...
I would recommend watching "The Durells in Corfu" for some wonderful stories about a British family living in a remote Greek village.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Masterpiece-Durrells-Corfu-Seasons-1-...
Nah, you're like all those newspaper articles back in the day arguing about the internet being useless. It's obvious but you just don't want to see it.
It's mostly this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.711 nowadays.

Real POTS(landline) or ISDN is exceedingly rare.

There are some other standards, but they have to be supported on both sides of the line, which is not a given, especially not between different TELCOs/ISPs.

Which makes trying to use FAX over it really 'interesting'.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.38

Technically one should be able to run something like V92/Flex over it, when the stars are aligned right. But nobody does that anymore, because why?
What, raising an objection without providing a full "both sides are bad" article is somehow something to be shamed about?
I never suggested anyone be "protected" from this information. Rather, that people should be given the whole story, instead of omitting information for shock value, entertainment value, provoking engagement, etc.

I am aware that he did give some information about the dangers during the video, but they were mostly presented in a "look how dangerous I am!" style, rather than a "this is dangerous but because of precautions [x, y] and understanding [z], this is not actually putting anyone at harm"
Well so it as a matter of fact was designed for people with poor vision.
> mosquitoes no longer appear to be afraid of the dark.

Might be the Asian Tiger Mosquito[0]. They are active 24/7, unlike their crepuscular North American cousins. They also go for your ankles, so you usually don't get the "mosquito whine" in your ear before you're bitten. They've even evolved to overwinter in freezing conditions.

[0] https://cisr.ucr.edu/invasive-species/asian-tiger-mosquito
May I ask in which region you live?
Those rural areas generally have a problem of unemployment and lack of jobs. These villages do not need" healthy, young and muscular foreigners (though the few employers e.g. large farms might prefer cheap slave-like labor to local laborers), they really do need rich foreigners or educated professionals (who are going to be working remotely) to create some extra demand for local labor, not compete with it.
Just curious how hard it would be to forego POSIX entirely if you were building an OS. I know TempleOS is entirely from scratch. I'd like to implement a small LISP like SectorLISP [1] (see yesterday's posts too on HN). I don't know much about building my own OS, so I'd like to start with something like MenuetOS (my first PL was asm), SerenityOS, TempleOS, or this one. I'd like it to be completely an 'island', i.e. POSIX not a requirement. I want to use it to hack on in isolation without any easy copy/paste shortcuts. I know Mezzano exists, and it has booted on bare metal, but I would like to start with the OS's above, implement my own LISP, and go from there.

Any other OS recommendations base on my ignorant, but wishful, reqs above? I realize there are some others in Rust too. Thanks!

[1] https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp
They didn't really resist, because they knew what the long game was. The people who planned the war didn't.

We should have bombed them for 90 days and declared victory and went home -- it would have been symbolic and pointless, but a lot cheaper in treasure and blood.
Same for Japan https://blog.gaijinpot.com/buy-abandoned-house-in-japan/
I want to disable my USB controller so after every boot, I am forced to open terminal, type
Sudo -s , give password and unbind the USB.

Is there a way to automate this as a shell script without having to type the password?

I assume

Sudo -s | password | unbind string but that doesn't work.
Javascript RORO pattern
> Like Lenovo's "let's ship spyware with Thinkpads" did.

One hopes that companies would value their brand and reputation over some short-term profit (and yet nobody here is holding their breath). To this day I refuse to buy any Lenovo product, and as the tech guy in my family I warn everyone who asks from considering them at all.
The essence of anti-trust is killing vertical integration, or at least keeping that integration from getting so deep it's harmful to the ability to maintain a healthy marketplace.

When you start to see all eggs start to get destined for one basket (Facebook, Amazon, Google, or Microsoft), and especially in Google's or Apple's case of buyout and extinguish, you have a problem.

Amazon is also right on top of that precarious position as well; sitting on top of and utilizing third-party sales data to front-run. It's not just about harm to the consumer, it's harm to the market as a whole.

The case of Tech in particular is fascinating, because what their service offerings enable is apparently highly destabilizing to the very authorities that would regulate them.

And no, Tech isn't the only sector on my sh*tlist. Media consolidation has gotten rather out of hand as well in my opinion. Walmart has also started to devastate the dairy industry for everyone but the industrial ops as well after buying out one of the big packaging outfits.
Just roll the wheelbarrow right over an in-floor scale! Subtract the wheelbarrow's own weight, which can be printed on the wheelbarrow itself. Or for something more high tech, put a QR code on the wheelbarrow and you can periodically update its empty weight in the database when it's empty and scan it at checkout.

This is basically how it works at my local landscaping store where they sell gravel by weight.
Given that Huion is headquartered in Shenzhen, I'm skeptical that the privacy aspect will be much better.
You can think of GarageBand as a simplified version of Logic which is used by a lot of professional producers, so GarageBand is maybe not as amateur as it might seem. More of a simplified entry point into music production to get people eventually into Logic when they get more advanced. Ableton includes a lot of more professional features, but if you want a more serious comparison I might compare Ableton to Logic where you can basically accomplish the same things in each one with different workflows etc.
This is by Klange, the owner of the #osdev channel on Libera chat, associated with osdev.org. Super nice individual and always posts updates and interesting tidbits about ToaruOS.

Strange, but welcome, to see it on the frontpage! :)
> There is a commercial forth called 8th

8th resembles Forth about as much as Javascript resembles C. There is a superficial similarity but 8th underneath is dynamically typed, garbage collected, etc, while Forth is close to assembler. That said, 8th is cool.
editorialized title
Early Evaluator, Late Adopter
technically that could be a straightforward solution. the issue is... that the issue isn't technical. GDPR started this clusterfuck, who knows if it'll take some 20 years until decision makers get together and address this.
By "US specific" he talks about things like 401(k)s and (Roth) IRAs, which are tax-sheltered retirement accounts. As a Canadian, I would translate that to an RRSP. Not sure what you would use.

Note that while investing in the US (and internationally) isn't a bad thing, have some portion of your portfolio in your home country/currency generally helps to reduce volatility:

> In each market we examined, our analysis indicated that volatility was reduced most with an allocation to international equities of between 35% and 55%. While this observation may help investors determine the appropriate mix of domestic and international equities, volatility reduction is not the only factor to consider.

* https://personal.vanguard.com/pdf/ISGGEB_042021_Online.pdf

* https://www.morningstar.ca/ca/news/206577/home-country-bias-...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_home_bias_puzzle

* https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/home-country-bias.asp
Nearly 100% effective power generation from matter via hawking radiation from a nano-sized black hole that was grown from one formed in the upper atmosphere via ultra-energetic cosmic rays.
Hot take: Everyone is wrong about the Metaverse. here's my 3 part theory
That’s not a bad theory. Even the homepage is down so that suggests their entire database was taken down.
How pricing algorithms learn to collude (transcript)
That's why you have pigs. In the South (USA) pumpkin patches, corn mazes, and apple farms are only profitable with weekend day treks sold to urban/subdivision bound parents looking to get their kids outside. Pumpkins sold in Aldi's cost about $5 and we have paid as much as $60 for a similar pumpkin picked out by one of our kids. It gets us all out of the house and helps local farms.
It's a shame that the explicit study of logic, ethics, and aesthetics isn't really part of the secondary school curriculum anymore. Everyone should be able to tell whether a problem falls in the domain of logic or ethics.
Doesn't mean the vaccines have weakened people's immune system. This is just the backlog of people avoiding medical treatment due to the considerably increased risk it posed.
This always brings back memories of Nero Burning ROM

Never appreciated the joke in the software's name before though LOL

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Burning_ROM
Agreed. At first I thought my weeb brain was just making associations and then I read the component names I realized its all based on Raildex.
Yes, what they explained is entirely based on encrypted EBS volume. Nothing related with Kubernetes apart from the ˋencrypted: true` in the StorageClass.
Getting anything out of a subshell that isn't from STDOUT is impossible. So you can't define an array in a subshell and then use it outside the subshell, and you can't return an array (or anything that isn't a string) from a subshell. If you only use subshells and want to use any kind of data structure that isn't a string passed from STDOUT, you have to do it globally. And subshells are slow. So nobody uses subshells.

If you use Bash for programming, you have to stop thinking in terms of the holier-than-thou software engineer, whose ego believes that a superior, "clean" design makes a superior program. You should embrace globals. You should switch between using or not using the enforcement of set variables or program exit status. You should stop using Bashisms and subtle, obscure language features unless you absolutely have to.

Bash is not a "real" programming language, so do not treat it as one. Do not look for hidden features, or try to do things in cute ways that nobody else uses. There is no superior method or hidden knowledge. Just write extremely simple code and understand the quirks of the shell.
It feels like some kind of catastrophic data loss. I can’t imagine that app servers or network infrastructure could have been the root cause, especially because they are running on AWS and there hasn’t been any reports of outages or other customers impacted. Restoring an old backup and rebuilding data from logs seems like the only thing that could take so long. That or an entirely dysfunctional IT org that can’t get out of its own way in a crisis.

Best to them.
Is that another Arms Control Wonk listener I spy?
> economic burdens that might very will permanently sink some European countries, given the differential levels of fertility between the native and introduced populations.

And yes, EU needs productive people, I mean people who can breed well to repopulate its greying small towns.

Native population wait until mid thirties, or not having any.

A simple math tells you will soon run out of tax payers to support the government, and the government will collapse.
I am less concerned about the consumption, but the issue how much available wind energy we can harness in a best case scenario. Only half of transportation seems so low.
Actually, you can expect a recent version of Python 3 from most distros these days. Stdlib is quite powerful and no hurt would come from a small number of globally installed libs with stable APIs, like click and requests.
Figure 2 in their paper [0] shows the mechanism via which (as they say) vitamin D3 is supposed to improve outcomes of a Covid19 infection. It seems to counteract the negative effects on ACE2 levels that a Covid19 infection has which seem to be responsible for bad outcomes.

[0] Open Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/10/3596/htm
“Mortality Rate Close to Zero Could Theoretically Be Achieved at 50 ng/mL 25(OH)D3”

Or in other words, the vaccine could theoretically not be needed if vitamin d3 levels are adequate.
It also works with dynamic names, if you need a slightly different entry point and don't want to risk conflicting with other function names:

run_foo() { echo foo; }
run_bar() { echo bar; }
name=foo
run_$name
I don't disagree. Bad toys lack educational value, and this is a bad toy.
What you inject is up to you. In Angular.js you could inject setTimeout's interface. I've injected fetch (for automatic anti-CSRF header inclusion). Etc.

Facades are good if you're not sure if the API/semantics are set in stone.

For moment.js, one typically only cares to mock specific calls related to things like current time, so it often makes more sense to refactor towards turning currentness into an explicit input, either by mocking the hard-coded moment.js call inside a convoluted unit, or more ideally, by making the value an input argument by design in the first place.

The latter is harder to get to if you already have the code written, so mocking moment.js calls could be an acceptable alternative.

You don't need to bring the whole OOP factory manager baggage if you just want simple contracts.
Well, or as an alternative, we could regulate the collection, retention, and use of data by applications.

Consumers can't meaningfully consent isn't meaningful when businesses don't have an obligation to disclose what data is being collected especially when it is described as

“[including] aggregate usage data, technical session information and information about [my] hardware device.”

Far more consumers would be outraged if each application or license agreement had to:
a) provide a detailed list of information collected and transmitted to the vendor
b) acknowledge each time that list of data changed
c) had to do this for each business they dealt with on a regular basis
I'd argue that most of the work in a bash program is done by functions like find, grep, etc, and that the time to fork is not all that relevant. We don't program the same kinds of things in bash that we might in C++
The FDA has a great page on the topic with citations to medical journals: https://www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting-products/medical-x-ra...

The short answer:

> If you combine the natural risk of a fatal cancer and the estimated risk from a 10 mSv CT scan, the total risk may increase from 400 chances in 2000 to 401 chances in 2000.

Your specific CT scan of the heart might be less than half of the 10mSv dose used in this example so the radiation risk is even lower.