skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what you describe is a likely end-state, and what large cloud providers will move to. The problem right now is that a setup like this isn't cheap; but its only expensive because economics of scale aren't behind it; that will change if demand for more isolated VMs increases.

Essentially, a board with an array of "mini computers", 1-4 cores bussed to their own physically and logically isolated memory pool. Storage is oftentimes already networked in public cloud, and seemingly less susceptible to these kinds of attacks, so probably little change is necessary there.

Its also likely we'll see vendors produce more "card computers", like the raspberry pi, but oriented at a server environment. At massive scale like what AWS runs at, these are less compelling, but they do have advantages; the biggest being, maintenance is a cinch, and the blast radius on one failing is isolated to just the workload on that card. I imagine these will be more interesting for current VPS providers like DigitalOcean, who also want to offer dedicated hosts with smaller core/memory counts. Even RPis today are super compelling; a $50 multicore computer that's easy to manufacture and replace, with density high enough to fit 100+ inside a 4U? Just need a bit more core perf and ARM adoption (though its easy to see Intel also hoping on this train with their long-term investment in pro/consumer NUCs).

Writing is on the wall. The tipping point will be an industry thought leader saying, in effect, "you should be using dedicated hosts, because at this point physics is our enemy and we're not winning, by the way here's a new dedicated host instance type that's perfectly suited for horizontally scaled workloads, its 20% more expensive than virtual hosts of the same size, byeeee".
Hey everyone. Greg from Intercoin here.

Forget DAOs for a second, how about just putting roles and permissions on the blockchain? Why do I have to trust some site won't have a guy gain access to the centralized database and change everyone's roles and permissions willy nilly? What if we had a trusted and audited codebase (like Uniswap factory) for creating smart contracts which any website on the Internet could query through Infura or GetBlock or another gateway to popular blockchains? And this codebase was about membership in communities, roles, tickets, etc. displayed as non-transferrable NFTs, and so forth.

I see smart contracts as enabling stuff like that. Managing communities. Running elections for representatives, and making sure you know that someone "really was" elected or appointed to a position. Constitutions can be expressed in this way. Direct democracy and delegating your votes to actual scientists when it comes to certain issues etc. And that is only the "base functionality", if you will. Here is what you can build on top of it: https://intercoin.org/applications

For instance, last year I wrote this for CoinDesk, and since then we have built it: https://coindesk.com/tech/2020/03/12/in-defense-of-blockchai...

PS: To me, one of the biggest problems in the crypto space is that each team roll their own smart contracts, and same goes for Web 2.0 startups and their app code. It's far better to have factories of heavily audited and battle-tested code on the blockchain, and produce instances from that. People would then make decisions about using the smart contracts based on standard init() parameters that can be easily documented around the web. The smart contracts wouldn't have an "owner", but would serve entire communities, with multiple businesses providing "utility" by accepting their "utility tokens", so the whole thing wouldn't be dependent on one single team or business. There is so much we can do, we've only scratched the surface.

PPS: If you are a Solidity developer, contact me at the email greg at-sign intercoin.org, we are currently looking for partners to go and deploy all this to our millions of users worldwide by early 2022, here are the repos: https://github.com/Intercoin
To be fair, I just found out about this literally from the link at the top of this page, a couple of hours ago. Not exactly enough time to become an expert in supply chain logistics in a province I don't even live in.

I'm reading now that there's already some stress due to displacements from the Lytton fire earlier this year, and displacements from Abbotsford, Merritt, etc are not gonna help the situation. I'm still trying to piece together the wider scope of the incident and don't yet have a good sense of what the overall damage looks like (though it increasingly looks like it isn't merely "a few key bridges happened to have flooded, it'll be fine once the water recedes" and it's more like "there are several landslides blocking roads along the route to Calgary and we're gonna be scrambling to staff the clean up efforts in time for winter").

On the one hand, you just need enough room for a truck to pass through, dirt road carved by a tractor as it might be, in order to establish a supply line. On the other hand, given that some communities barely only ever had that in the first place, I imagine many might need to figure out plan B arrangements.
There’s no excuse for a word processor to be anything but. :(
Am I the only one who's mildly annoyed by the 9th planet being referred to as Planet X?

Seems like "Planet Ix" (same pronunciation!) would have been a better name?
The increasing percentage of non-divorcing marriages might be self-selecting in a sense since it is now socially acceptable to never get married, so we miss out on ‘breakups’ that are long/medium term. (E.g. non-married couples sleeping together for 5 years and having no children and then having a horrible breakup is more likely today than 100 years ago, and they are lost in the divorce statistic).
Ask HN: Where would you move to escape climate change?
Title says it all. Which city or country would you move to protect yourself from the impact of climate change?
No. But why would you?

Come to think of it, I've got plenty of plastic bags lying about the place for you to eat as well.
I can confirm that the poll is still easy to manipulate. I enjoyed and agree with all your comments about castanet.
Same. It's not about making friends with the right people...except for the part where he had already done so.

It's a tremendous blind spot, where "the right people" are defined as people his friend would have to pay for some business thing, rather than the people who have the money to give him.

Coincidentally I'm helping someone in this way right now. She has a good business idea because she has the talent and potential clients already (as well as being a good people-person), but the fact that she has me to make a website for her and advise on her technological needs for free isn't the thing that makes it a good business idea. Don't get me wrong, it can be extremely valuable and thrifty to have someone who knows enough to know where and when to say "no," or YAGNI, but those are cashflow and time questions, not a fundamental viability one.
> We can cut fossil fuel use drastically and cut carbon emissions, but still use them when needed, and everything will be OK!

Not to detract from your core point as there are ways to solve this[1], but long term the necessary level of solution is 99.9% reduction over all sources of CO2, so no, it isn’t OK unless it’s no more than 8 hours per year[1].

[0] hydrogen, synthetic hydrocarbons, even burning wood instead of coal works in this situation, so long as the costs are lower than for fossil carbon

[1] on average, with a margin of error of way more than 100% depending on all the carbon sources that aren’t electrical
Perhaps: Moore's Second Law
Hey there! I really like the interactive maps. Would you mind elaborate on how you did them? I thought of something comparable but have no front end experience, I basically wanted to tell a story by pointing at specific parts of the map.
> Stalin's regime is estimated to have killed 20 MILLION of his own people. I wonder if the murdered would say, "Yeah, but its worth it in the end because no more monarchy!"

> Mao's derangements are estimated to have resulted in 45 MILLION dead Chinese.

Both of these death estimates are primarily due to starvation (not murder and not the result of violent revolution decades earlier) and are based off of differential estimates of population (ie. counting declining births as deaths, etc.).

Most importantly, they are not comparative with famine deaths prior to these revolutions under the feudal system. Integrated over time, those deaths almost certainly outnumber the deaths due to these events. Moreover, many of those who died post-revolution would never have even had the chance to be born in a feudal society given how many children died of starvation etc. during those times.

Tens of millions of people die of easily preventable deaths (no water, no food, etc.) in the status quo every year. Those numbers were even worse under feudalism. Do those not get to be counted against the non-revolutionary status quo?
I'm very excited to configure DNS blocking for the quantum dust particles trying to serve me advertisements in my home.
I apologize I misread OP's question. I incorrectly interpreted it as "hardware that supports opensource firmware such as DD-WRT/Tomato".

In terms of hardware like you mentioned there's few open source SBC's at all. Even fairly open hardware like the raspberry pi have a proprietary firmware blob. I guess it will come down to how strictly you define "open source". If you define it as "we have firmware/schematics for every chip on the board" then we'll likely never have that (I don't think even Linksys has that type of access).
Ask for a raise and bring up these points.

You're doing a lot more work, but never got paid for it. Doesn't hurt to ask, or go get an offer from another company and use it as leverage if you want to stay at your current company.
Yes, there are quite a number of choke points that are unavoidable in BC. Alberta is pretty much flat with some mild elevation changes and lots of parallel roads. In BC it is the opposite, the z-axis dominates everything.
meh. The problem is authority. PM / manager as described above is a co-ordination issue. Often administrative as well.

Either the company is imposing administrative burden a that it can remove with a little effort and scripting, or again it is co-ordination - which software usually excels at.

We can endlessly debate specifics but yes, there are many corporate environments that are almost impossible to navigate without full-time skilled administration - it that is a choice by the company not an inherent law of nature.

I seem to recall a Microsoft anecdote where someone released an internal form for developers to fill out, and billg personally sent round collecting the form telling people that sort of thing was not the Microsoft way. Far be MSFT from an ideal but bureaucracy is a choice.

Edit: my take on hierarchy and decision making is that it is clearly "obvious" that in war and times of stress there is only enough time for one person, the "hero", to review the battlefield and make decisions, which everyone else then follows. The problem with that is throughout human history that idea has literally had no better than 50/50 chance of succeeding.

I am very much short on Project management, administrative management as authority and generally anything that points away from democracy.
The question is whether what causes us to understand things is a computational process.

See my comment to the other reply, an others in this thread about chaos/non-determinism to see why I doubt.

Ie., I dont think our organic growth and adaption to our environment, in being profoundly chaotic (and via QM, thef. non-deterministic) is likely to be describable as a computable function.
New Brunswick neurological syndrome of unknown cause
The fine print doesn't mandate that the applications be of high quality. You do the best you can with the one's that are "real" and cheese the rest, if you really think you're going to get your refund by doing so.
But during a labor shortage, that’s largely moot. Whatever staff gets fired, if they’re remotely competent, can walk down the street and get a job at a better performing company with ease.
Maybe “:s^Twd.J;3hzg=Q~ if I don’t spell it, it’s not me”?
Almost no one that appreciates the unique characteristics of Bitcoin want anything to do with those 2 blockchains.

CryptoA != CryptoB. Specifics matter, _a lot_
Read the book The Great Crash of 1929, written in 1955. Our current market is similarly speculative as that one. If the federal reserve reacts by tightening up monetary policy, a lot of existing assets can go to zero and you will still be holding that debt.
As with most things it depends, a driver that is current limited and drawing 50 mA is probably gonna hurt you but you have much beffier drivers. Typically nixie drivers will have large reservoir caps on the output side for ripple, someone less aware can easily get hurt.
The designation was not a Roman numeral but Lowell's designation for "unknown". It would have been the 9th planet if discovered, at the time Lowell coined it, anyway
OP here, Yes, I agree, we (modemly) could do better

1. Show the vulnerability status (patched / open)
2. Show affected firmware versions
3. Display manufacturer's last patch release date

Though lots of the dataset is clean, still we do lots of parsing and regexing to extract insights out of a massive haystack. The intention of this tool is for everyone to realize and keep their firmware updated

And No, we don't sell any services. The security reminder emails are free
On a whim, I looked into poverty-level taxation by plugging $12,880 into various online tax [gu]estimate calculators. Results varied from -$114 to $1080 (FICA included). Short of running it thru a real tax program (which I will in due course), struck me how US income tax law presumes you will pay at least a 10% tax rate, even if below the poverty line. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-provides-tax-inflation-adju... I assume a little finesse with a 1040EZ form should get it down to $0, but it's unsettling that legislators who unanimously agree "something should be done for the poor" actually legislate a 10% tax rate on the poor.
With compliments to tutfbhuf who first shared it here:

https://i.ibb.co/DtxrRH3/eventual-consistency.png

You will get into your Tesla one day and the USB port will be there...eventually.
> When you cross the boundary of intimacy you normally set for people other than your significant other with someone else, that can easily be interpreted as disingenuous or betraying to your SO.

So for example, going on dates with someone else than your SO? I can see how that would be betraying/cheating in a way, though I'm not sure if "emotional cheating" is a good way to express it.
The story around types in Workers should be leaps-and-bounds better than it was a few months ago (thanks to the work outlined in this blog post) - would love to hear your thoughts on this new work, and hope it helps!
In your first post in this thread you wrote "the Chinese room needs to be taken super-literally" - a sentiment I agreed with - but since then (starting immediately afterwards, in fact) you seem to think that Searle is restricting the capabilities of the room to those of a hash table. I am pretty sure that a close reading of his paper will fail to reveal any such restriction, and, in fact, if it did, that would count against his argument. Similarly, nothing you say, here or elsewhere among these replies, about the limitations of hash tables, supports Searle's argument (or more general arguments against Hard AI.)

Nor is Searle arguing that the Chinese room, if it could be implemented, must use language (beyond the capabilities that he does require of it, which is answering questions from an ill-defined domain.) And as far as I can tell, he does not require it to, as you somewhat vaguely put it, "act in the world with words" beyond this.

The systems reply does not need to do anything more than show that Searle is making some unargued-for assumptions about what Hard AI would imply - and Searle's response to it so completely misses the point of that reply that he is actually helping make it clear! (For more details, see the second paragraph of my previous post; as far as I can tell, no argument has been raised against the points I made there.)

The limitations of Turing machines are similarly beside the point. A computer, such as those involved in the composition and delivery of this reply, is not just a Turing machine (not even a universal one), even though it is capable of implementing one (up to the physical limits of memory). In particular, a computer (as opposed to a Turing machine) can incorporate environmental inputs, including physically-derived entropy, and can use these in simulating physical processes.

You are evidently fond of the phrase "[Reality/the world] is not a computer"; that may be so, but rather more definitively, I think, one can say that the mind is an information processor.

I understand that it seems inconceivable to you that a mind could be produced by a suitably-programmed computer of any power, and I am aware that I can only offer hand-wavy arguments for that proposition. I think you are mistaken, however, to read Searle's Chinese Room argument as being about, let alone supporting, the broader intuitions you have expressed in your reply to me and to others. Searle, who is, after all, a philosopher of considerable stature, is well aware that you need something more than just one's intuitions to make a respectable argument; that alone would not pass peer review.
They must have never played LoL.
At least analytics won’t be able to tell if you looked at the ad or not
I have a drain-to-waste system running open loop, with a constant dose of acid and sensors monitoring the pH of the leachate that drains from the pots. In that system, I've seen step changes in that pH that I believe correspond to step changes in my source water, perhaps when my utility changes which wells supply me. Hard to say without a detailed water analysis, but I'd guess the changes in nutrient profile (e.g., ppm Ca) aren't too important, and that as long as I adjust the acid dosing to maintain target pH the plants won't be affected much.

A single well may also show gradual seasonality, like from snowmelt and such. I assume that's happening too, but in my current setup that would be hard to distinguish from gradual pH variation due to changes in the plant nutrient uptake.
So say we all.

I watch all of his videos and it's always an interesting, learning experience.
device makers should be forced to support their devices and if they don't they must have something like 6 month period where if they don't push a security check flag to their devices they initiate code to nag the user telling them this devices is not secure anymore because manufacture is not supporting it anymore, in this case they should also be forced to release way to load 3rd party code etc to allow others to fix their crap.

This is a serious issue because many people use old devices without knowing anything is wrong.
Welcome to IBM. Is Quantum the new Watson?
A DAO can automate things currently handled by humans. There may need to still be some human involvement (and probably should be), but I'd say there can probably be less involvement than there is now in, for example, real estate transactions. It doesn't even have to be a DAO, it can just be a smart contract. Things like escrow can be automated. These things can also improve transparency assuming they are done on an open ledger. That could make corruption more visible and harder to get away with. There is more to this technology than just evading securities laws.
I've been using Brave Search. The fast answers are better than duck duck go in my opinion
Hmm I'm not sure most people mean html files when they say 'web server' - I used to run a mail server, a couple websites, a blog, a couple wikis, with auth integration, and a couple custom web apps with live two-way messaging capabilities and associated backends...

You don't need much fancy for a plain page, no, but that's also not really what I'm talking about. I still sometimes use local services on my lan, with web interfaces, which are NOT routers, dishwashers, etc. - think file or media management.
structuredClone for deep cloning JavaScript objects
If the argument keeps being repeated it must have inherent value.
The TV show DEVS has a computer that looks a lot like those first three links. I always thought their prop was a set designer's imagination run wild, not actually based in what quantum computers look like.
The NRO struggles to put normal reconnaissance satellites in the sky[1]. Special satellites with enough juice to Van Eck your screen from LEO (or HEO) feels like a stretch. All things being equal, it's probably easier for the USG (or any government) to just MITM you or exploit the crappy router in your closet.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Imagery_Architecture
Dilution refrigerator. They are the type of refrigerator used to chill quantum computing devices. The wikipedia article has a pretty good description of how they work. It took me a few reads to understand it!
Yeah, with money supply I actually was thunking of some vague future approach rather than the current setup. Be that some crypto thing, or the intriguing Sovereign Money[1] proposal.

And as for redistribution, I suppose just “printing” money into peoples account would more or less have the intended effect as well. I do suspect a 10% inflation rate would lead to simple logistics costs as the nominal amounts kept changing.

But yes, if only more policy was evidence based…

[1] https://assets.kpmg/content/dam/kpmg/is/pdf/2016/09/KPMG-Mon...
I don't have asuch time to read as I used to but I used to read a lot (like 3-4 novels a week) and John Ringo's books stand out to me as the type that are so bad they're funny if that makes sense. Its not that he can't write because he can, it's that he crossed the line of "well that's in bad taste" over into "you're doing this on purpose right?".

I can't say "good times" but i read a bunch of Ringo's books just because I couldn't believe how an original so bad could get multiple sequals.
I think this is a “choose your poison” scenario. Are you trying to evade fire, flooding, aridity, hurricane impact etc? There is no silver bullet IMO, you have to trade off the negatives. Somewhere with a natural aquifer, not too much surrounding forestry (maybe high deserts)
It's a crypto wallet with a javascript API, so web apps can do crypto things.
Check out Lowdefy - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy

It is open source, self hosted and you write your apps in config (yaml / json). So your are not trapped in a UI, you are free to copy paste find and replace and you can version control as you like.
Also, we use it extensively with mongo.

Shameless plug. Cofounder of Lowdefy
Agree to disagree I guess. I don't want to go to bat for JS, but I've done more than my share of C and C++ and Make, CMake, Autotools, etc are just fucking nuts, and that's ignoring the fact that they completely punt on package management. JS is painful by the standards of modern programming languages, but C and C++ are on the next level.

"Stockholm Syndrome" is the only way I can rationalize people vouching for C or C++ (or JS, to a significantly-lesser-but-still-not-negligible extent) build tooling.
I'm not sure what you mean. Just listing the steps of an algorithm is quite different than executing the steps of an algorithm. As an obvious example, with an algorithm for summing two numbers together, the difference between listing the steps and executing them is that when you execute them you are provided with the sum.

I don't see any sense in which these aren't different, unless perhaps you're introducing some separate cosmological "Boltzmann brain"-style argument that all possible finite results of all halting algorithms will arise or have arisen due to random fluctuations. But in that case you've got a whole new set of assumptions to address.
This level of negligence should be criminal.