skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conflict itself is an inherent part of society, but the level of its impact is not. In fact, I would say that making the mediation of conflict more efficient is an integral part of progress. For example, we no longer walk around continually prepared to get into physical fights (either by training ourselves or hiring bodyguards to do it for us), but have made it so the average person does not have to deal with this conflict (for the most part).

The US legal system is basically at the stage where you either hire bodyguards (attorneys), bulk yourself up (extensive legal study), or allow yourself to be pushed around by others.

Interacting with the current legal system is nowhere as easy as you're making it out to be. As a software engineer, yes one can straightforwardly read the law, develop legal intuition, and do a decent job representing yourself. I personally have done my own deeds, administrative court filings, and contract reviews. But I recognize that doing so took many days that I could have spent doing something else. It's nice to be able understand a different system at that level, do my own work, and really know what I'm dealing with - but it's anything but free. And I don't know that I'd ever be comfortable representing myself in a trademark dispute against professional adversaries that know the system intimately.

FWIW online surveillance is basically at the same stage of development. I've got a pretty good setup of VMs, custom router, VPNs, browser extensions, etc that does a good job keeping me protected. But I recognize that this takes resources to setup and maintain, and it would be ridiculous for me to tell the average person that surveillance isn't a problem because they can "just" do what I've done.
That only creates a link between SSH keys and a domain; It's even worse than relying on GitHub since you have to trust that multiple account haven't been hacked (registrar + DNS) and that neither the DNS host nor the registrar are acting maliciously.
The ethics of digital technology in the food sector
ProCo Rat Analysis
If accurate this means any mailgun user can pretend to be another one when sending email out- that's pretty damn bad. Since companies add mailgun to their SPF/DKIM records it means those spoofed emails will be hard to distinguish as fake.
I prefer to think of myself as a rational, scientific-thinking human. Nevertheless, I don’t think I could setup a tent and sleep in a cemetery, which calls into question just how rational I am.
… no, but the fast breeder reactor can.

The Bulletin deserves blame for this predicament together with Exxon-Mobil and the rest of the fossil fuel industry it enabled.
That argument may work in a first-year philosophy essay or—equivalently—a post on medium, but something tells me it's not going to hold up in a court, regardless of jurisdiction.
That got downvoted fast! A price one pays in modern society for having an opinion different from that of a crowd.
Distribution trumps all in the enterprise space. If you have the distribution you can sell complete garbage for the price of gold, while sucker upstarts make quality products and live off crumbs.
Wouldn't the 120 IQ subpopulation also have some people whose IQs are "genetically" more like 130 but they've gotten unlucky with environmental factors, pushing the genetic average a bit towards 120? It would be smaller than the number of 110 people who got lucky, but non-zero. Is this baked in to h^2?
*with ssh-keygen.

I'm sure this has been a technical possibility since the dawn of ssh keys themselves.
You are right, but "it's just profitable and not illegal yet" is how we get all kinds of negative externalities, like dumped waste into rivers and this borderline usuriousness. I think it's worth regulating (but carefully)
I disagree. It makes sense for Snowflake to response to what-they-think-is an unreasonably bad result published by Databricks. And they focused more on Snowflake’s result and only compared dollar cost against Databricks. It’s consistent with their philosophy that public benchmark war is beside the point and mostly a distraction.
The original population has an avg IQ of 100 but the new island population has an avg IQ of 110
Linguistically, the art is the process, and the result is a “work of art”. One of my favourite misunderstood language quirks.
Of course it has to be an end of scary immigration.

Best distract from the story of workers not showing up for peanuts anymore.
That's going to be quite a loaded metric considering how verbose Java is.
> Lost your debit card for some reason? Just a simple click in your online banking app on your phone is enough to block the current one and recieve a new card the day after.

This is how it works in the US as well. What you haven't addressed is how you get money back in your debit account if someone manages to steal it. For that period of time, you are out the money until the bank resolves it. By definition, this is not true of a credit card.
I'm Gen Z and I never thought about it before, but I suppose I do regard "Ok" to have a very slight passive-aggressive tone in some contexts. I would never replace it with "kk" though, rather things like "yup", "yap", "oki", or "sure".
Unless you become a workaholic, get back problems which makes life miserable, or someone outcompetes you in a winner-takes-all-market by convincing a bunch of investors.
First things first, doubt quantum supremacy. Every example has turned out to be an equation tuning exercise or something unprovable. I personally believe the qubit is a dead end, and we won’t see truly impressive quantum computation without quantum holography (treat the quantum domain as a sieve).
"And of course the breeder’s equation explains how average IQ potential is declining today, because of low fertility among highly educated women."

In the Heinlein universe, the Howard Foundation runs a voluntary eugenics program by paying people with particularly long lived ancestors to mate with each other. Protagonist Lazarus Long is a product of this.

The author is saying that this would work as expected, with offspring gaining around 50% of their parents' extra longevity.

I'm a firm opponent of any kind of coercive eugenics. But it seems like it would be a good use of a billionaire's fortune to establish such a foundation for the promotion of intelligence, by paying very smart people to make babies together.

But in Heinlein, the "Howards" became reviled and were forced off of the planet. If we do create a particularly smart population by eugenics, perhaps their primary task should be to find a way to protect themselves from us normals, a treatment for tall poppy syndrome. Of course, the first resort is secrecy. So we wouldn't know if they already exist.
If you have a subscriber account at Wired’s partner it is easier to read without the advertising https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/this-intrepid-robot-...
So SAP as a "big cooperate" software concern isn't better then the other "big cooperate" software concerns.

I know that is a bit sarcastic, but not only is IP theft of big software concerns pretty common (the article makes it look like a sensation, a bit (bad) surprise).

But at the same time IP law is often so broken that you could say probably every larger software out there does somehow infringe on some IP.

So without having details is naught impossible to say if it's IP theft which should be IP theft, or IP theft which is only IP theft due to broken laws, and might also not be judged as IP theft after going through a expensive many year law-suite.

And the article fails to lay down why it's the former (ethical questionable IP theft) instead of the later (ethical questionable IP claims).

Through I wouldn't be surprising if it is ethical questionable IP theft.

But I would even be less surprised if it a mixture of both.
It wasn’t illegal, and maybe isn’t (although I thought it was). I know that I was impacted by this as a college student, and ended up paying hundreds of dollars in fees for a single weekend. I had OD protection fees and “bounce fees” for the “protection fees”. It was insane. However I thought this was at least made unprofitable by capping fees and limiting when they could be applied.

All of this insane behavior is a big reason why the CFPB was created, and legislation was passed to limit “overdraft protection” auto-opt-in.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/rules-policy/regulations/100...
My definition of personal autonomy is extreme? What definition? Why do you think it's irrational to assess how getting into debt affects my personal autonomy?
> Isn't the efficiency of MagSafe quite high?

A quick search says 75%, which still seems quite wasteful.

> Out of curiosity, is it harder to charge on early morning flights?

Good point. I guess I just meant that everyone packed in tight using wireless chargers seemed more cumbersome than a simple lightning cable, but perhaps that view isn't reasonable. I've never tried it.
Generalising is also expensive.
Small but mighty wine vintage expected
This is correct. IP usually refers to one of:

- copyright

- trademark

- patent

Which are legitimate legal constructs in their own right, but they're not property. In this case, I think we're talking about patent infringement.

So long as both jurisdictions have agreed to recognize each other's patent laws, it may still be just as illegal as theft.

Whether it's as immoral as theft is a different sort of thing (I say it isn't, which is why I nitpick like this).
I come from a functional background (significant work in SML and Ocaml) and went into learning Rust excited to implement all my favorite persistent data structures, only to find myself foiled by borrow and lifetime madness similar to what’s described in the naive implementation in the OP. Where I could define a simple tree in one line of SML, I struggled to define one at all in Rust!

(I think my problem actually just came down to the lifetime on the object holding the tree itself and the way I was instantiating nodes; but when those lifetime compiler warnings popped up my eyes would glaze over and I knew it was time to put rust down for the day)

I imagine Haskell programmers have a step up because the Monad system is significantly less forgiving than SML’s look-the-other-way approach to side effects, and in this sense Haskell and Rust are more similar than many other functional languages.
Businesses are always paying the actual market rate for the work. It’s just that immigration changes the supply side of that market.
That's cool. I didn't know ssh-keygen could do this, but, to be honest, the UX of gpg is a step better as it manages the "allowed signers" file. Not that ssh-keygen couldn't do that, but it seems to be minimal design (which is fine and right for that tool).

Also, article is biased toward pki (vs web of trust) and tries to pass off github as a type of 'cert authority'. ssh signing is 'web of trust' but it leaves the trust implementation totally up to the user. Neither system is "better", the tradeoffs just need to be known and at least pgp implementations will have ux to provide for web of trust.
Tree of mariah
I've been really impressed with the heart and soul into a single focus. When I saw this link pop up I thought "Oh it must be using buttplug.io" but was surprised to see it was from you and predates buttplug.io.

As someone who can't always retain focus without getting drawn away to the new shiny I want to know, how do you remain focused on this a single family of projects? How deal will keeping from getting drawn away to a fun new idea?

I'm especially interested because its a topic that others might consider as a bit of a joke. It's obvious you've embrace that a lot in your online persona, but does it ever get to you or sap motivation?
Alle Unternehmen stehlen Ideen von jungen Studenten voller Hoffnungen und Träume. Sehr heuchlerisch aber auch sehr lustig, dass diese Nachrichten gerade jetzt herauskommen...

Aka, big companies are full of c*p!
Love to commit high profile cyber crime that could land me in prison, as a prank.
> We've had some ideas around using this for distributed querying: in our case, each node responsible for a given partition of a dataset would be able to download just the objects in that partition on the fly (though constraint pruning), so we wouldn't need to knowingly seed each worker with data.

IMHO, if you're going to do this, I'd recommend not doing this in Postgres itself, but rather doing it at the filesystem level. It's effectively just a tiered-storage read-through cache, and filesystems have those all figured out already.

You know how pgBackRest does "partial restore" (https://pgbackrest.org/user-guide.html#restore/option-db-inc...), by making all the heap files seem to be there, but actually the ones you don't need are sparse files ftruncate(1)'d to the right length to make PG happy? And that this works because PG only cares about DB objects it's not actively querying insofar as making sure they're there under readdir(2) with the expected metadata?

Well, an object-storage FUSE filesystems, e.g. https://github.com/kahing/goofys, would make PG just as happy, because PG could see all the right files as "being there" under readdir(2), even though the files aren't really "there", and PG would block on first fopen(2) of each file while goofys fetched the actual object to back the file.

(IIRC PG might fopen(2) all its files once on startup, just to ensure it can; you can hack around this by modding the origin-object-storage filesystem library to not eagerly "push down" its fopen(2)s into object fetches — instead just returning a file-descriptor connected to a lazy promise for the object — and then have read(2) and write(2) thunk that lazy promise, such that the first real IO done against the virtual file be what ends up blocking to fetch the object.)

So you could just make your pg_base dir into an overlayfs mountpoint for:

• top layer: tmpfs (only necessary if you don't give temp tables their own tablespace)

• middle layer: https://github.com/kahing/catfs

• bottom layer: goofys mount of the shared heap-file origin-storage bucket

Note that catfs here does better than just "fetching objects and holding onto them" — it does LRU cache eviction of origin objects when your disk gets full!

(Of course, this setup doesn't allow writes to the tables held under it. So maybe don't make this your default tablespace, but instead a secondary tablespace that "closed" partitions live in, while "open" partitions live in a node-local tablespace, with something like pg_partman creating new hourly tables, and then pg_cron running a session to note down the old ones and do a VACUUM FREEZE ?; ALTER TABLE ? SET TABLESPACE ?; on them to shove them into the secondary tablespace — which will write-through the catfs cache, pushing them down into object storage.)
For example:

> konkurrenzsoftware [..] untersuchen zu lassen

(roughly ~ Investigate the software of the competition.)

is in the article made to sound bad, dodgy borderline illegal (and maybe was).

But then investigating the marked and your competition is one of the most fundamental practices when it comes to competing on the marked as a large cooperation...
People who break these mandates aren't universally removed from society, politics and the economy. Moreso, even if they were, the measure would be more effective than removing unvaccinated people from society, because the vaccines don't work well enough to be a silver bullet.

At some point you'll have to accept that death is a natural part of life, but I have a feeling that you're willing to sell yourself and the future of everyone who comes after you for a tiny bit of safety that is actually biologically infeasible before you need to look reality in the eye.
Indiana Jones and the Hybrid Heroes
I looked up the names for the parts of the fork: It's the part of the fork called the dropout that fails. Here's a picture of a dropout itself: https://i.stack.imgur.com/VZ8bO.jpg, not mine.

When it fails it may look exactly the same (you won't see anything wrong), if you take calipers to it, you'll notice the gap has widened. So measure it now and remeasure every once in a while. If it's changing you've got a problem.

OR you may be able to see it is visibly slightly wider, like more bowl shaped. It doesn't take much for the wheel to come off, it's very tight tolerances. I've never had one snap yet, but I've heard of other's whose dropouts have snapped.

You will notice it is starting to fail when you brake and the wheel feels like it is shifting ever so slightly. It might make a tiny little clink sound. Sometimes it will make the wheel clink around in the dropout when you go over bumps, since the tolerances are SO tight in that area.

It's not just stretching the C towards a straight line that happens, but also twisting at that area or flattening from side to side movement.

Ever since they failed on me a few times I've been riding less because it's a problem I have not solved yet. I reinforced them with 1/4 inch steel. Still it moved independently.

One other solution I've heard about to get bigger tires, they are often called "fat tires". That dampens the stress on the bike a lot. It also makes for a much smoother ride. But I've not done that yet since fat tires need space in the fork. I think a stronger fork and fat tires may totally solve the problem. Fat tires would be nice because it'll turn your bike into a nice smooth ride, and you know how rough the ride can be at that speed for that long.
As one of those web programmers, I'm also rediscovering that you don't have to use HTTP all the time. To be fair, there's already so much to learn just on the web side that it's hard to know everything.
If the labor shortage generates inflation that outpaces wage growth it's a problem.
Is everyone on this thread in Steve’s sphere?? I’m surprised (in a good way) to see so many familiar faces, and I guess a little surprised it’s in a thread about fast-math and not a thread about ray tracing. Okay on second thought it’s not very surprising.

Pixar has told me recently they still use doubles for some things in the CPU side of RenderMan, but I don’t know what for. There are some legitimate cases for it, and occasionally I dip my toes in hot water attempting to give advice to avoid doubles to people who know more than I do about how floats work and why they need doubles.
I guess that's kind of subjective. Personally I'm anti USB-C from a durability standpoint. USB-C is designed to fail on the device-side, whereas lighting and microUSB are designed to fail on the cable side. So I see all devices using USB-C as throwaways because the port will fail.

If Apple gets rid of lightning they lose their durability advantage vs competitors by using a poorly designed connector.
I am happy to throw stones. I resent FANG for hoovering up the best talent just to keep them on payroll, lest they actually have to compete or acquire competition for many billions of dollars later, much cheaper to keep them busy on internal tooling.
I think the mandate’s true purpose is to end the pandemic in the US and save lives.
Ha, it's true, the limit enforced by a debit card is handy. I love my wife dearly, but her spending habit is 'if it is in the account, I can spend it.' So after trying various strategies, we just settled on keeping a debit account specifically for routine household purchases, groceries, etc. It is budgeted exactly what we plan for, not a dollar more, and she knows that when it's gone it's gone. That's not strictly true, of course, we replenish if we buy a lot of groceries in a month, but it serves as a useful signal for her that she's spending more than the generous amount we budgeted for this purpose.
I like the fact that they are basically dumping Java for Kotlin. I think it will help Kotlin thrive and also set the precedent that if you sue a company for stupid reasons it will do more damage to your cause than if you had not.
The Blue Tape List
America surely uses a lot of symbolism from the Roman Republic but I am not so sure they have ever claimed to be the successors to the throne once held by Julius Caesar, as all the other ones mentioned above have.
Recently going through something very similar. I purchased a domain name for an app I was about to release, but it happened to conflict with a random German pharmaceutical drug for pets. There’s no industry overlap so I should be entitled to a trademark. But I got roped into a domain dispute case with WIPO for my .app domain. My lawyer said I could probably win the WIPO case, but the company would simply re-open the case in some other jurisdiction. Since my app is pre-revenue, I can’t really fight it. My lawyer recommended even though I was in the right, I should give up the fight because it could cost 100s of thousands of dollars with no guarantee of success.

The lesson I learned is that before purchasing a domain name, secure a trademark from the USPTO. It’s not cheap though. Can run $300 to $1000, which is nothing for a big corporation, but a big barrier for individual creators trying to get something off the ground.

This experience made me lose a lot of faith in “the law”. Rather than an level playing field among equals, it seems more like a protective moat for the rich and powerful.
> Python is not an option for me, since I like static typing.

Have you checked out mypy recently (past few years)? With all the strict flags, it's pretty damn hard to get anything but bulletproof static typed code to pass. The only major downside is it lacks higher kinded types at the moment, and there is a PR in the works to add that. But it has all of the other accoutrements you'd expect from a modern type system: generics, structural subtyping, co/contravariance.
The parents genes are only 120 because 10 points were based on environmental "luck". Genetically they had the genes for 110 IQ +/- 10 points to accommodate the environmental luck.

The two kids had average luck, so they got 110 IQ, but they still have the same genes. So when they have kids with others with the 110 IQ gene's, they will still be 110 +/- 10.

A simpler explanation: you might be the child of geniuses but they dropped you on your head repeatedly as a baby. You might not be so smart as an adult because of it but your kids will have genius genes, not dropped on head genes.
I understand that Veritas is suing the NYT, and that leaking the communications between them and their lawyers to the other party in that suit might be kindof a big deal too.
Likewise but since it's now owned by Bethesda, no surprises here whatsoever. Bethesda has been awful since day one.
hey thanks! goes to show i need to step out of my ebay bubble from time to time
In the first example, their IQ of 120 is from a mix of factors and the author estimates some percentage that is due to the environment outside genetics, and that is what is lost in reverting to the mean of the environment. In the second example the author assumes that the environment of the desert island contributes nothing to genetics and so the offspring get the full 110 (heritability is 100%).

It's odd to me though because it wasn't clear that the environment was meant to be affecting the parent and not the child too- the trick is the author treats the heritability parameter different for the parent and the child. Also, I don't think the desert island would actually have no effect on the 110 generation's IQ, or their upbringing outside of it, but I guess I can accept it as a thought-experiment-only place that does that by definition and not a literal desert island.
Teledildonics is a term coined for the anals of history

Can't wait for it to be linked to most emacs tutorials.

You get an answer right > good buzz

Wrong answer > bad buzz, if there's one
Campfires and NFTs
You can use `restic mount` to mount a repository and browse and restore backed up files using your file browser GUI of choice. Works quite well.
Like many laws, IP law doesn't apply to big powerful companies unless they go after another big company
China? :-D