skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying to figure out the age of links referenced against a hand crafted database (or trying to figure out if the current version is "too different" based on age automatically) using a browser extension only serves to create an unreliable solution for a few using the extension. Cheaper sure but it's also doing a whole lot less.

Alternative content addressed systems may also work better for finding the content than someone hosting your DNS records for a long time but the bulk of the problem space is in guaranteeing active hosting in a way viewable to viewers of the age will be available for many years not addressing the content. On top of hosting and addressing the Internet Archive offers the ability to view old content on modern browsers even if modern browsers have 0 support for such content anymore (or if browsers ever had support at all even). Forward compatibility isn't something solved by a protocol.
That was around the time that GCC finally started to get some wind, due to the unbundling of UNIX SDK.
As someone in Dallas, not quite, but your point is still valid :)
In my estimation, the likelihood of any AGI we develop actually doing that - in the improbable circumstance we create one before destroying ourselves as a species through ecological devastation, nuclear/biological warfare, resource exhaustion, or something even more stupid - is comparable to blindfolding yourself, spinning randomly, then firing a sniper rifle through a winning lottery ticket a kilometer away.

The simplest(!) problem to solve before AGI becomes anything other than a civilizational footgun is "rigorously defining perfect morality." After that comes the task of programming something that we have very fuzzy, often misleading intuitions about (i.e. general intelligence). And programming it perfectly, of course, since any deviation from the defined spec will trigger the footgun. And since the thing will have to be able to self-modify, we have to assume an adversary who is by definition (likely orders of magnitude) more intelligent than you possibly trying to subvert said programming.

I find Yudkowsky's writing rather illuminating in this regard (for example, https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/4ARaTpNX62uaL86j6/the-hid...) although he remains far more optimistic than I am.

We're programmers, considering the creation of what is essentially a god. As if an algorithm merely destroying a life through a bug were unheard of, or too small stakes.
Assuming 2x or 3x is a reasonable factor between reported cases and total infections. US current official CDC estimates are 4x, and Canada has a lower testing rate (almost half) than the US. Earlier on, US estimated infections were 10x the reported count. Some studies for other developed countries have estimates that approach 30x. IMO, 8x doesn't seem like an unreasonable WAG given this.

I searched Canada's official resources, but I couldn't find anywhere that they publish their own estimates.
I'm disappointed that this post doesn't have the usual Musk apologists defending everything he or his cars do. Is the tide turning, even on HN?
OCaml definitely has a lot of built-in operators, but Haskell makes it absurdly easy to define your own operators as well, with built-in syntax for using binary operators as prefix functions and vice-versa. I'm not sure there's a definitive answer, but that's probably in large part because the idea of "operator stew" is pretty subjective.
Apple Silicon to Be Updated Every 18 Months
That doesn’t solve the ‘everyone you know is dead’ problem.
It's difficult to know beforehand! A startup might be a total flop that delivers nothing of value to us now, but it might be a valuable datapoint for future historians to understand how startup culture changed and evolved. Or it may be interesting to future founders - I've seen some startups with perfectly fine ideas fail, and then a few years later, someone succeeds doing something very similar.

This may not be the best example, but while I'm sure the Rosetta Stone, being a treaty, likely would have seemed like something worth preserving, would anyone have imagined that it would be the pivotal document in understanding ancient Egyptian? That it would be one of the most important documents of all time?
I wish I knew, too.

Every project I've ever done usually involves some sort of major technical hurdle I need to figure out. Once I do, I get that dopamine rush of achieving some sort of technical feat, and then promptly lose interest in fleshing out the project.

For example, I wanted to make a online PC clone of the arcade game Killer Queen (This was before KQ Black came out on PC and Switch), but that meant I needed to figure out how to maintain client/server synchronization while preventing cheating and accounting for latency. Once I figured it out, the next major step was basically fleshing out the game mechanics, as all my tech demo would do is allow people to move around the map and jump. I quickly went "nah, that's too much work" and haven't touched it.
Or you do something to get back. Glorious karma. Employers should just pay overtime.
> Capital One sided with the airline and closed my case. Guess you can't depend on chargebacks like I thought you could.

Yes people tend to have a slightly delusional view of how effective chargebacks can be based on limited experiences. If you're fighting with a small merchant like a local store or a non famous online merchant you're going to win basically every time.

If you're fighting with a rental car company, an airline, a hotel chain, a household name company, or similar, it's an entirely different story. The interaction has much more to do with who's more valuable to the card issuer than who's right.
Tooling got me from Ocaml to F#, I would recommend it if that is a criteria for you.
You still need to provide a separate origin server (i.e. host-of-record) when using Always Online. AO is designed to use IA as a backstop when your origin server goes down.
That's a good suggestion I've been following
Are you doing these things because you're genuinely interested, or because you think that you should be interested in them?

It's really easy to see what other people are doing and think that it's interesting (because they tend to gloss over the boring bits), but once you get into the weeds of learning about it, realize that you really don't care that much.
They still are a big deal, only you can manage up to thousands of them and with modern automation, if you screw up one, you screw up all of them.
Also, programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas, because OCT 31 = DEC 25.
I don’t understand the relevance.
Funny enough, those niche strategy games are, IMO, a great example of middle ground that I think is missing in the industry.

We have a thriving indie scene full of pixel art action platformers, RPGs, and rogue-likes, often built by a couple dozen developers at most. And we have the AAA scene that is expected to eke out every bit of performance and effects out of your RTX 3080, often developed by hundreds of people.

What about something in between?

Some of the newer strategy games have great, polished visuals with some modern sensibilities, but they aren't super high budget productions with infinitely detailed high res textures and countless objects filling every scene. But neither are they going for some C&C or Dune 2 inspired pixel retro look.

And the player base is just fine with that. As long as there is a certain sense of polish and creative direction to the art, then the most important part is "is the game fun?", "does it have solid gameplay systems", "is it balanced", those sorts of things.

This space doesn't really exist much for first person shooters or third person action games. There have been a couple of examples (Yooka-Laylie, A Hat in Time, Pumpkin Jack?) and certainly some rogue-likes like Strafe or Ziggurat that come close, but the market seems small and spotty. I'd argue in part because player expectations don't allow for this as much in the FPS space as they do in the strategy space.
I have definitely considered ADHD, and while correlation != causation, the correlation is of note nonetheless.

> I almost always stick to my projects because they're almost always motivated by a need rather than a fad.

When looking back at my life I now see this pattern as well. The things you end up sticking to are the ones you 'need.' This is something worth taking a look at. Perhaps I should put myself in a position where I would 'need' to complete something, which then would spur me to get ore things done.

And definitely agree on keeping things small and on using the tools you know. These things sound 'obvious' but the temptation to use the latest fad is very strong. Thank you!
What's an example of something you'd want to "do" with your crypto asset while using it as collateral? Obviously you can't spend it, give it away, use it as collateral for another loan etc as that would conflict with the first loan.

But you can do other stuff. For example you could covert ETH to one of the many tokens that represent staked ETH (rocketpool rETH for example) and use that as collateral. Now you are have collateral and staking revenue with the same funds.
There’s two parts to this.

First, robust response to a crash. Maybe this is lighting (flood LEDs on the back of first responder vehicles), maybe this is emergency vehicles with crash shock absorbers (Scorpion Impact Attenuators is a well known brand) that sit behind the accident in lanes of travel to protect responders at the accident scene. Cars should attempt to detect this, but it should be expected this may fail. The crash absorber will take the brunt of the crash, but everyone is going home to their families with some tears shed by the insurers. This applies to all vehicles with traffic aware cruise control and lane keeping who can’t reliably detect stoped vehicles (which is all automakers).

Second, first responders (through dispatch) should be able to issue an alert to Google Maps and any other traffic aggregator to alert about an accident in a lat long “bubble” (think a TFR in air navigation, pushed out over ADS-B or a data link) with an expiration time. Vehicles would receive this event and temporarily apply a reduced speed limit in the area (one that the driver could override, but that’ll be logged in the black box when they push the accelerator past the temporary limit). This also provides alerting to the driver to be attentive about an upcoming event, just like Waze alerts you to an upcoming accident or speed trap. The vehicle integration is key, as the robotics is what needs the safety context and awareness.

Now, if you’re not paying attention as a driver, no amount of tech and effort helps, and these folks end up killing themselves and others every day with inattentive and distracted driving.
But none of them are in Scandinavia.
Agree! Legalize drugs and strong crypto and guns.

Earlier I was against legalizing drugs but I have come to my senses there too, but the last 80 or so years has proven that there is only one group that benefits from drugs being illegal in the long run: the criminals.

As for guns, yes just like with insurance we pay, but compared to the alternative it is a small cost.
Talent ecosystem. Graduates from nearby universities could intern and cut their teeth. Local professors could have coffee/tea chats with everyone, ensuring high throughput of relevant research. The best of the best from nearby related fabs / companies / customers could be poached with high salaries, or less boredom.

As pointed out, Japan has lots of fabs and top-rate high tech companies.

It matters to have a pipeline of high-skill workers and access to high-tech industries for a business like this.
Using existing infrastructure is a solid point, but gets defeated by history that told us how often they needed to stop production due to such natural events

Not wise considering such investment is supposed to counter the current chip shortage

Fighting chip shortage with more chip shortage? hmm not wise, nor is a future proof investment..
Eh, he said it could be improved for the same area and (per-unit) cost, and I trust he knew what he was talking about. Amortized across all the number of units sold, the redesign cost is very little with modern methods.

I enjoyed reading the interview. Besides this snippet, he talked about how modern design differs from back when he made the 555. It's always super impressive to me when someone keeps up with their craft through such huge technological changes.
IMO your foot should be on break if you're in FSD mode. That's where my foot is using just cruise control even. The slightest tap on the break turns off cruise control.

Also, if it's so dark that you can't stop before hitting a car in front of you, then you're going too fast. The speed limit is a max, not a min, and it changes depending on prevailing road conditions no matter what the posted signs say. For example, if it's raining and you get into an accident, you can be fined for speeding even if you were going the speed limit. Going 75mph in pea-soup fog is a recipe for disaster. The dead of night has the same calculus. You should only go as fast as you can see. A good rule of thumb is you should always be able to see 12 seconds clearly ahead of you. That's how some professional human drivers manage to drive literal millions of miles over a career without a single accident.

Frankly, all this talk about how Teslas will improve the safety of traffic because they perform at a superhuman level is belied by this video evidence. Apparently these machines only drive as well as the drivers who programmed them. I wonder if there are even any professional drivers on the engineering team consulting on this project.

If the car can't even operate within the envelope of its own sensing and computing limitations, then how can we make any claims about its safety? It's driving at top speed in situations where it's essentially blind. When I'm blinded, I pull over. When the Tesla is blinded, it doesn't even know. See also, the guy who ran full speed into a tractor trailer and lost his head. It's been years since that incident and Teslas are still driving full speed into things they can't see. How is that a basis for platform that will save us all due to how safe it is?
This guess would be incorrect both in the percentage, and in the assumption that this would be required for exploitability.
As much as I like to point out the emptiness of such trends, it would be unfair to place it fully on the UX folk. It comes down to incentives and economics. We the users won't look at a piece of useful software if it doesn't 'look' like the kind of thing that is up-to-date and modern in its behaviors. Same goes for everyone else in the software production industry, except for the core function developers who complain, myself included.

In short, fashion exists because it sells. It's also good to know who you're selling to, sometimes it's not the person using your product, e.g. Apple is selling to those who don't already have their latest product, so it's important to round-off (or square) those edges, etc.
But are you really off-topic or are you actually much deeply in topic?

After all, why wouldn't it be the case here: making our own states weaker because "we the public will not negociate our privacy!" ? Is the public in question, strongly expressing their opinion here, really going to benefit from having a weaker state ? Is there no limit about how weak we want our state ? At what point does it starts benefiting forces which are hostile to our civilisation ? Has it even started already ? I think I figured your answer to that last one!

What makes our state weaker is not this public, it's whatever forces weaponizing this public against our states, and indeed I'm aware about them, but the public is in the middle, we must win with arguments, by talking about reality, I beleive that's how we can wake up and face reality and actually debate solutions instead of hiding behind distopian scifi scenarios like we are doing here.
I would love for it to be "over" in a few months, but until the media stops fear mongering every variant and case rates and such it won't be over.
I like how we had to figure out some new utterly inconsequential thing to argue about after vim/emacs and tabs/spaces got old
Before doing that, make sure you have a new job lined up, because your life is likely to be made even worse.
This kind of thing is more or less how large companies work. These specifics sound pretty bad, but inability to do work that isn't on the roadmap and a roadmap that's written in stone once a year (maybe twice if you're lucky) is very common. The way to be able to get things done is to reduce dependencies on other groups, especially other groups that are impossible to work with; but that might not fit with corporate policies.

If your retention compensation is good, try to learn to accept it and just keep getting things done, even though it takes longer and you can't get as many things done, until the retention runs out or you can't take it anymore or whatever. If the compensation isn't good, then it's time to look for something else.

One of my coworkers left rather than be part of an acquired team. He had been acquired before and wasn't willing to deal with it again.
I don't know how to do this per tab but in the mean time one thing you may want to read up on is the Proxy PAC file format. [1][2] In that file you can use domain name patterns to send traffic to different proxies, bypass proxies, sink-hole traffic, etc... You can probably find some examples of this file using google and "site:github.com proxy pac example". I know that doesn't really answer your question but it might accomplish some of the intent.

[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Proxy_serv...

[2] - https://help.zscaler.com/zia/configuring-google-chrome-use-p...
> But, enough people like Huxley credit psychedelics that I'm strongly prone to agree.

I think it's more likely that artists like Kubrick and Ligeti did not use psychedelics to create works that were greatly enjoyed by people who use psychedelics.
This is pretty interesting. A while back I was in the early engineering team that built something with similar characteristics (Maginatics > sold to EMC/Dell). It was a cloud (S3, others) distributed file system with variable-length chunks, per-chunk encrypted, with strong deduplication and focus on metadata operation optimization. We were primary storage (vs backup), making it a lot more challenging (performance, app compatibility, real-time collaboration, etc). The demo is pretty interesting, definitely need to read the whitepaper.
Same here, even if I seldom use it. Otherwise all these nice editors will just die, and their authors also have bills to pay.
Technically photos and emulators have been a part of the whole for quite some time now already. The media center is evolving and games are a part of what people have begun to expect to be able to access as part of their ten foot interface. eBooks? Now that is where I too question things.

I don't know the use case where being able to read eBooks from the television is desirable. It certainly doesn't meet my definition of shared entertainment, which is something that media centers are intended for. They're media, yes, and they can be organized, sure--but is there a common use case for reading from the large screen? Unless one is disabled, I really don't see one.

However if looking for a better merge of Kodi and gameplaying I cannot recommend Batocera enough. It has a large retrocomputing (emulation) capability and also supports many DOS games and Windows games via dosbox or wine and has recently added Steam integration. On the media side of things it can be configured to automatically load kodi and seamlessly transition from Kodi to the Emulation Station frontend.

There will be some configuration but once configured it has in my experience generally stayed configured well and can be a set and forget type of appliance if you take the time to organize your games and media and then leave it alone after scraping. Also it's been one of the easiest configurations I've done in a long time. I encourage everyone to look into it.
I cannot imagine people having mini fabs at their house like that have 3d printers. But, the technology could reach the point where making an ASIC could be dirt cheap. Imagine being able to get your own chip created at a micro fab for dirt cheap?
> 9-5 workers are paid for their hours

9-5 workers (in tech atleast) are rarely paid hourly - neither individuals nor managers.

> it’s less immoral to have multiple board positions

I would disagree - I find it immoral that you can be part of multiple decision-making boards, each earning multiples of a yearly wage, and somehow have so little work to do compared to a worker.
'the superficial air of being subversive and contrarian.'

I like this idea, its a great filter for BS.
Tesla's cameras are just not good enough. A camera with a clean lens and better dynamic range would have made the truck much more visible. But also the software approach needs to change. The current approach cannot use cues like headlights or lane lines being occluded or the reflection of lights in the side of the black truck to infer the presence of an object. To enable approaches that can do this, the compute hardware needs to be much faster.

I believe cameras and software can drive cars safely. But these cameras and this software can't.
> Just don't eat it and problem solved for everybody.

Well, certainly not the octopi.
How did you fix it?
Yes this is how it is at almost all large companies,

No, you don’t have to stay, that part is optional. Lots of startups are hiring.
That's a good point, hopefully i am wrong
> Now, it is a remedy to the abstract category of technology — screen light and digital noise

Well, I have a blue light filter screen protector, wear blue light filtering glasses, and have the blue light filter turned on in iOS & Android.

As for 'digital noise', I train my feeds to be high signal, and rarely do mindless scrolling, but prefer mindful scrolling instead.
Do you mean horse dewormer pills?

They should make them really huge and taste terrible and turn your pee blue, just to fuck with people stupid enough to take them for Covid.

umvi:

It would already be long over with vastly fewer deaths, if only certain politicians and their followers hadn't downplayed it and lied about it from the beginning, and made
not wearing masks and not social distancing and not getting vaccinated and instead popping horse pills hot-button political issues, all the while accusing the scientists and media of fear mongering, when the media was actually just reporting the scientific facts that trained experts were telling them, but that those certain politicians were systematically ignoring and lying about.

Fear mongering about the dangers of Covid may annoy and inconvenience you, but the most deadly, consequential, and intentionally deceptive fear mongering is from the lies and propaganda those politicians and their media outlets are spreading against vaccines and masks and social distancing.

qwertywert_:

And how much do you want to bet that the exact same people presently popping horse dewormer pills while refusing for political reasons to social distance, wear masks, or get vaccinated are going to also refuse to take the Pfizer pill because they decided to make it a political issue too?

If they don't trust science and Pfizer and their vaccines, then why would they ever trust Pfizer's pills? (Which begs the question: why the hell do they trust horse dewormer pills if they don't trust vaccines? Answer: because they were told to.)

Those people would eat lead coated asbestos pills if their cult leader told them to.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-as...

https://www.asbestos.com/news/2018/07/11/russia-asbestos-tru...

It's never going to be over until after those people have finished selecting themselves out of the gene pool, and that's going be a long painful time, while they're dragging many innocent people down with them.