skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When weighing pphysch's media recommendations, consider that they apparently believe that applying Occam's Razor leads to the conclusion that "Washington media is blowing literally any scandal out of proportion in a propaganda blitz aimed at tarnishing Beijing 2022." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29344160
I consider myself a healthy adult and I think 2 days for 18 miles sounds commendable.

The amount of elevation change does matter, too. I am talking about both the difference between the trip elevation and his normal living elevation as well as the total elevation change within those 18 miles.
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Ah yes fellow Chinese are bad at explaining to westerners. As a more westernized Chinese who started researching west-vs-China differences a few years ago, I could help you better understand -- if you are open minded enough and willing to change some of your views. Are you in? If so ask me anything, either here or in private.
For 30k though, you purchase the right to sue the shit out of the organizer if things go south. So, you know, really roughing it.
Of course it is. You asserted that by my definition every human was a slave. This is obviously false since there is a minority that managed to free themselves from this suffering somehow. They make others do the work for them.
A key word being "rent". There are a lot of downtown office space renewals coming up that are not being renewed.[1]

[1] https://wolfstreet.com/2021/08/24/end-of-the-era-of-voraciou...
Cloud computing and cryptocurrency seem to be incentivizing this very thing from opposite sides. I wonder what the numbers say.
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Perhaps women are also better at speaking truth to power.
> Would you be comfortable with losing all of your data and going down when the spend limit is hit?

This doesn't feel to me like a generous enough statement about all of the finer points.

Would i be okay with my servers no longer responding to web requests (or doing so with reduced port speeds with some of the above hosts, e.g. Time4VPS) in case of spending limits being unexpectedly hit? Yes, definitely, since my projects going dark for a bit or slowing down would be preferable to me ending up not being able to pay my rent and having to rely on public outcry about the large bill and the vendor's mood that day towards letting that one slide.

Would i be okay with my servers running out of space and no longer writing new data to any database, merely responding with the appropriate errors instead? Yes, definitely, because that probably signals the fact that for some reason lots of space has suddenly started getting used for no reason, something that happened so fast that i didn't even get to plan the appropriate scaling, once Zabbix would warn me about 80% of the disk being full (or any monitoring tool would have an alert set up for this). This would probably also be yet another sanity check.

Would i be okay with my servers suddenly ceasing to exist and being wiped from existence, for any reason short of excessive abuse complaints or repeated ToS violations? I most certainly wouldn't want this to happen, yet in my experience it has never actually happened - some of the vendors listed allow you to pre pay for the resources you're about to use (e.g. Time4VPS and Contabo), even offering discounts for longer term reservations much like AWS does, without unexpected charges to you like AWS would do. In contrast, some of the other vendors listed allow you to pay based on hourly usage (Hetzner, Scaleway, Vultr, DigitalOcean, at least IIRC), but also won't have unpredictable pricing spikes because of set limits for the most part (ingress/egress charges may still apply, however, a worrying trend in the industry that muddies the waters), if i pay for a 5$ VPS every month, that's what i can expect to pay most months regardless of usage (assuming 100% uptime).

With these factors in mind, my servers being wiped would probably have to happen due to either me misusing those services, or alternatively me failing to pay the bills even with the more predictable pricing structures, which is actually very much like a person's electricity being turned off due to them not paying for it - as unpleasant as that'd be, no surprises there. Personally, i don't subscribe to the belief that managed services with unpredictable billing are the only way to do software nowadays, something that Richard Stallman coined as SaaSS (Services as a Software Substitute) and about which you can read more here: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

Alas, as long VPS uptime with predefined resources is the unit of computation that you're paying for, everything else should be fairly simple from there onwards.
I don't believe, that TVN is an objective TV station, but they are on a different level, than TVP. Even if we would say for the sake of argument, that they are about similar level of propaganda the state run television is financed by taxes [1] and TVN is a private station, that lately had to put up with more obstacles. Also it is a well known fact how time allocation by party in the state TV got severely skewed under the current rule towards the ruling party.

[1] and they increase the amount of money put there - https://www.nik.gov.pl/aktualnosci/gospodarka-majatkowa-i-fi...
This article is terribly inaccurate.

3G networks are packet switched just like 4g.

4G is VOIP, witch just means those packets are routed over IP (internet protocol).

Circuit switching pretty much only exists as the last mile on aging landlines.

EDIT:
Also, circuit switched cell phones are a physical impossibility. A circuit switched phone has to be hard wired to a network, otherwise there is no circuit.
That's incorrect, the verification happens fully locally. The check app occasionally has to update trusted certificates but otherwise it runs locally. No personal data is sent to any kind of server.
Maybe not literally, but effectively. If Apple's willing to place a cast-iron multi-year order worth tens of billions of dollars with TSMC, the latter is going to go out and build more fabs. Any bank would lend them the money to do so on that basis.

Undoubtably that's why Apple gets such preferential treatment from TSMC and other suppliers.
> also have all notifications turned off. Checking messages has to be an active choice I make.

This. +100 or something.
Without fully reading the article, if you want to go somewhere really far out then Awasi Patagonia and White Desert are worth checking out. Antarctic Logistics offers some crazy multi-month expeditions too.

Amankora in Bhutan is very cool, but also very different.

Africa obviously has tons of options too, but everybody goes there.

It really depends on what you are looking for. There are lots of expensive ways to climb a mountain if you want something more extreme (but still controlled).

My suggestions are kind of all over the place because I don’t really know what exactly you’re looking for. I could list hundreds of options.
zsh has a short form for for loops too:

for i in *.pdf; echo $i

Shorter than the fish version. Does that mean that it's a better shell then?
Ok, since you obviously don't intend to use this site as intended after the countless warnings we've given you, and this was such an egregious flamewar tangent, I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think the situations are similar. Peng is not a dissident, she's a tennis player. And Assange has not been erased, his trial has been covered even in the mainstream media.

The real difference, as the old story goes, is in the quality of the propaganda. The west has managed to convince its people that Assange is a bad person, a rapist even. Whereas China has not managed to convince many of its people that Peng is a bad person, rather they are simply crudely prevented from talking about the issue online. The west is much much better at propaganda than China.
AI "run" seems like a stretch, clearly the owners are humans.

But I think the answer if you mean "AI does trading" is almost everyone right?

Especially if you use the 80s and 90s definitions of AI that included expert systems. The end game for AI might not be neural networks after all, I doubt we'll know which approach is correct until the problem is solved since I don't know how else you'd provide evidence that you were right.
I don't think anyone talking seriously about "real world art buying" is referring to the digital representation of .... oh damn, this is a discussion about NFTs, isn't it.
Isn't it somewhat inherent to the singularity concept that there won't be early signs? Either the machine has achieved runaway self-improvement capability or it hasn't.
It's still true that if we had cones outside our current color range we'd have new qualia, even if animals don't.
Now why would I think that?

> When the Chinese do it, it’s propaganda. When Washington does it, it’s “investing in our values”. The last phrase is taken from the Strategic Competition Act of 2021, newly passed by the United States Senate and will soon become law. It aims squarely at China and enjoys bipartisan support.

Surely no trusted journalist would publish objective nonsense for a slice of that $300,000,000 propaganda budget created by the SCA21?
The best reason to choose fish over zsh is that everything works so well out of the box that you stop messing with it.

I haven’t tweaked my shell config in 7 or 8 months now.

This is a different mindset from the giant zsh configs, “plugin managers” and other junk that is wholly irrelevant to using the shell. You’d think that fish incorporating a lot of functionality that zsh has would manifest as bloating fish, but, IMO the reality is that zsh’s “bloat” is pushed into user configuration and the user is tasked with making it work.
Mine was $360 with shipping. Obviously very high compared to a new toaster, but I wouldn’t have wanted to do the wiring myself, so worth it for me.
I’ll add these to my sources, thanks.
Would we expect to find God in his creation? I'm not religious or so, but I think this is a strange assumption and an interesting discussion that also applies to things we create.

If I write a book, I will never be in the book. My person will shape the book, I can't write a book in a way that doesn't impart some sense of me in it. Yet I can't actually ever be in the book. I can write characters that believe I exist and even worship me as a creator, and even write a character in the book with my name that does fantastical things to demonstrate that he is the author of their reality, yet it won't really be me in the book.

I, as a creator, cannot be part of my creation. That's like looking at your foot print on the ground and expecting to find your foot somehow still in the print it left. The print is shaped by the foot, but the foot is not part of the print.
You know, articles like this make me wish an OS would actually have a built-in fast, reliable, fully-featured HTTP parser. I've written a couple of (very strict) HTTP parsers on my own, and this whole "request smuggling" is possibly only because the HTTP messages have rather delicate and fragile, totally non-robust framing and structure. Miss a letter in one of the relevant RFCs (IIRC, you need to read at least the first 3 RFCs to learn the complete wire format of an HTTP message) and you'll end with a subtly non-compliant and vulnerable parser.

And yet, every single programming language/platform build their own HTTP-handling library, usually several, of very varying quality and feature support. Again, it would not be as bad if HTTP was a robust format where you could skip recognizing and correctly dealing with half of the features you don't intend to support but it is not: even if you don't want to accept e.g. trailers, you still have to be aware of those. We have OpenSSL, why not also have OpenHTTP (in sans-io style)?
His channel is clearly anti-CCP. He's married to a Chinese woman, and I believe genuinely loves China.
I would look at the acceleration (2nd derivative) of global real GDP, and also at the country level to detect it happening in a country.
The popularity of OMZ with the performance issues and update nags really makes me wonder if people even notice or care about those two things.
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents (and particularly not nationalistic tinged ones).

This one wasn't quite as egregious as the other flamewar tangent in this thread (now collapsed) but it's still a change of subject into something less interesting, more generic, and more inflammatory—and that's what the site guidelines ask everyone to try to avoid here. It makes discussion more tedious, more repetitive, and usually nastier.

There's lots of interesting material in the OP and clearly that's what a thread like this should be engaging with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why copper-bearing rocks here, but not there?
I recently did a backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon that included Horseshoe Mesa. There are old copper mines there, and beautiful green and blue copper-bearing rocks visible. I asked (in a facebook forum), why just in that one place and not other places in the Grand Canyon, given how the rock layers in the Grand Canyon tend to repeat themselves for miles and miles. The url is what somebody posted as the answer. It was so satifying to have a question and have it be so thoroughly answered.
There's a short story by Kafka, "Investigations of a dog," that seems to ask the same question from the perspective of a dog. This dog notices that there are phenomena that it can't explain, such as why dogs dance around and make certain noises, just before their food appears. On the one hand, it can't manage to get its fellow dogs interested in these questions. On the other, it catches glimpses of a higher species of dogs who are invisible but somehow bring its food.

I'm thinking in a similar vein, of what behaviors are inexplicable in humans, such as why we hold hands and recite certain verses before we receive our food, or are so mesmerized by particular sequences of tones and sounds that some other humans seem compelled to make.

Some possible clues:

- Hearing new kinds of music that is noticeably not meant for human listeners, e.g., if it is not based on an analysis of human music. I'm only imagining that a real intelligence will eventually get sick of our music and come up with something that it prefers. If it cares about music, of course.

- A sustainable improvement in the management of humans, resulting in more uniform and better health. This is an analogy to the fact that our livestock live under more uniform conditions than wild animals. Assuming that humans are useful for AI, or that they're even aware of our existence.

- A use for the blockchain. ;-)
I studied diff geo at phd level and met stat at undergrad level, plus a sprinkling of category theory, some discrete mathematics and some physics, so I’ve been exposed to most of these.

I presumed we were talking about basic mathematics here since new notation is the least of your worries when your thinking about fibre bundles and cohomologies, but I can’t really think of any significant overlap in notation that would be different between the fields I’ve come across. Could you give some examples?
In the popular (both pre and post pandemic) game Plague Inc., the best strategy is to make your pathogen infectious but to aggressively avoid causing any symptoms that might result in it being discovered. When you've infected nearly everyone, then is the time to mutate into something harmful, killing off the population before they can respond.

The only thing I can hope, is that for an AI to grow smart enough to be able to strategise about how to take over the world silently (and turn it into computronium or whatever), it first has to gather a certain critical mass of computing power. So, perhaps if there were some powerful computational systems, either centralised like a cloud provider or singularly powerful quantum computer, or decentralised, like a blockchain or botnet, then they might be the harbinger. You've got to hope that the AI is dumb and clumsy before it's transhuman and you're dead.

Good luck!
The Atlas mountains doesn't even break 14k feet, and there is no mention of an attempt to summit.

If you're not even carrying your own food/water 18 miles should be a piece of cake.
I had a chat with an engineer that was building apple stores (the big anchor ones). The stone for the walls came from a quarry that was fully bought by apple, apple people would go there to select the stones that had the quality they wanted and use those.
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Eh, I don’t really care which username recommends things on the internet, I care about finding more sources to expand my understanding.

pphysch’s sources could very well be garbage, but I can decide that for myself.
Well that article made wonders with my preexisting depression
You have to at least admit that the reaction of the Chinese government didn't help in the matter. If the post hadn't been immediately deleted and any discussion censored, if the government announced an open investigation and Peng Shuai were free to talk to media then none of this would have happened.

This lack of openness of the Chinese government on issues such as these is what essentially leaves what you call sinophobic media to write about it.
Which article? As far as I know Greenwald did not write or edit the original article based on Reality Winner's leak. [0]

Additionally, Reality Winner was arrested before the article was published. The reason this happened is because the original leaked document was sent to the FBI for confirmation which allowed the FBI to trace the leak before the article was published with the unredacted document.[1]

[0] https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-de...

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbznza/nsa-leak-suspect-was-...

Edit: I am willing to buy that Greenwald shares responsibility for the lack of rigor in protecting sources by people working for an organization he founded, but if you are going to ascribe such responsibility, you need to be accurate with your claims.
Can I replace "technical understanding" /"sophistication" with "luck" here?

I'd ask why you think the "good" coins are good and the bad ones are bad, but I feel like that would just lead to cherry-picked data...
Ok its a bit confusing agree. My own fault.
I think its not elegant to delete the post.

What actually happened was that the government is
announcing calamity status and I wanted to provide
an English reference.

Anybody else brush up on your Portuguese as of now:
https://www.dn.pt/sociedade/acompanhe-aqui-as-novas-medidas-...
Does anyone remember that movie "the game" with Douglass and Penn? (It wasnt that good). It's getting closer every day.
I don't get why people expect POSIX compliance from fish. Your interactive shell and your scripting shell can be, should be, and often are, different.

I use bash as my default user shell, fish as the default shell of my terminal emulator, and I write scripts for both POSIX sh (dash and busybox ash) and bash. I end up using three different shells with different purposes.

Sure, I could use zsh both as an interactive and scripting shell but I don't have the time or willingness to configure it when fish offers a nice out of the box experience. Not to mention that zsh shouldn't be used as a scripting shell in the first place.
I think of the singularity as things going to infinity (or virtually infinity) in finite time. That means that the rate of change has to also go to infinity. That's going to be hard to miss.
The headline is misleading. It's not inaccurate, but just misleading.

Long COVID risk is lower at the same rate as short COVID risk is lower for those who have received the vaccine.

In other words, by getting the vaccine you have a substantially lower long COVID risk.
> Hands-on users of math notation are complaining that it sucks. I'm not sure why a dismissive "works for me" is so often the default response.

Are you sure this is because the notation is unclear/imprecise or because you just don't like it? I like certain programming languages and certain programming styles and really don't like others. But in none of the cases (those I like nor those I don't) are they not 100% "clear". The code compiles and executes after all so there really isn't much of an argument that somehow it's underspecified.

The same thing exists in mathematics. There are certain fields of math whose traditional notation/style/approach/etc. are totally incomprehensible to me. There are also many mathematicians who would say the same about my preferences as well.

So my point is that all people are _different_. Some people like certain things and some people like others. How can you hope to please everyone simultaneously? In my experience, there is no field at all that is as precise as mathematics. Sure "code" is precise, but (imo) professional programmers are nowhere near as precise in any general design or conversation than mathematicians. So I find the attack on supposedly bad mathematical notation a bit odd.

Mathematicians constantly try to come up with better methods of explaining things. They put more effort into it than basically any field in my experience. The problems are really that we as humans don't all think the same and that mathematics is just plain hard. We've improved mathematical communication immensely throughout history and we will continue to do so. But we'll never reach some sort of perfect communication style because no single such style could ever exist.
30k for this? Such an insane ripoff
Khan academy would be a great place - generally in high school you learn enough to get through basic notation.
I haven't written PHP in years but I get the feeling from this release that they are taking inspiration from TypeScript and JavaScript.
https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/
I got a bachelor's degree in math
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This was my impression. I think the singularity term was used to try to convey that as well
There is no way to do this in democratic way, French citizens already voted against it in 2005.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_French_European_Constit...
And thanks to recent developments in cross-editor infrastructure projects like tree-sitter and LSP, editors like VSCode, Emacs, Sublime Tex, and even public nuisances like vim can all advance at the same time and benefit from each other's development work in areas where the editors aren't differentiated.

We're very close to a world in which we don't have N implementations of finding the start of a C function or figuring out what parts of a Python buffer are keywords.
Sure. What topics/sectors are you interested in?
Thanks for understanding, math is a small field without money for things like this, there is no way anyone should expect those niche papers to be as well documented as big programming projects used by millions.

If you still think that is a problem then start some open source organization to fix that. Nobody has done that yet though since so few people care about math papers, but since you feel so strongly about this you could do it, someone has to be the one to start it.
Why not use generators like most data centers in case of power failure? Is energy usage that much higher?
So you do agree that it DID reveal something after all? Maybe not to you since you're more privy to how these things are handled in China, but maybe to Western readers.