skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this isn't the case on M1 machines. On M1s, all blobs that remain after you launch Linux are sandboxed behind IOMMUs, so they cannot take over the system. Ignoring hardware backdoors (which you can never be sure don't exist, on any system), you can be reasonable confident that an M1 system doesn't have a (functional) backdoor running while you're running your own OS on it. Very few systems have this property; mostly only fully open boot systems like the Pinebook or Talos workstations. ~No x86 system does, not even the ones running Libreboot since they almost always have hardware with full DMA access running blobs.
Why is every one of these events "long overdue"? We are long overdue for huge earthquake in California, big volcano, huge asteroid, etc. Where is this notebook that lists these catastrophic events that are supposed to occur on some sort of regular timetable?
Lol the first rockets were built in China and were pioneered by Tipu Sultan in India, guess not all knowledge is college taught.
Does YouTube show the dislike count anymore?
Can you gift me an educative.io subscription? It's $119 a year and I will get access to lots of programming tutorials that will help me change a career to a better paying dev job.

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they sell a database optimization service that happens to support PostgreSQL (and other databases like MySQL)

A ML program that automatically tunes your production database in real-time. What could possibly go wrong?
Israel's territory is probably 1/100 of the territory on the map in the article. So unlikely.
Given the contradiction between the research study and your anecdotal experience I feel this experiment did not arrive at any meaningful conclusion.

Maybe there was a recent influx of dumber HNers. Anecodotally I agree with your initial conclusion. I feel there's been an influx of dumb people.
I certainly believe interpretation is necessary and that some interpretations are more faithful than others.

I believe there are resources out there that can help someone to faithfully interpret. And the converse also. The skeptics annotated Bible being in the latter category IMO.
I can’t imagine this was bad enough to take it offline. Certainly everything written on there exists elsewhere on the net already?
The pretzels "you people" tie yourself in... I can't fathom how you operate with that much cognitive dissonance in your heads all the time.

You must willfully ignore all the hard questions you can't answer.
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> Isn't it like $1000 per million views?

That ($1 cpm) would be relatively low.

Average cpm is $2. Depending on numerous variables, this can go higher — $7-$13 is average cpm for certain high value niches.
We're over ten years in at this point with insane investment and nothing has appeared.

You can't dismiss the $69 million Beeple sale as "nothing". Truly, it is a watershed moment in human history.
yes, the Faith problem.
I found the previous post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709369 (623 points, 2 days ago, 537 comments)

It's better to add a link to the previous post, so other users can read the discussion there in case they are interested. (I sometimes copy part of the comment I like the best, in case it debunks the article.)

It's not an exact dupe, but the new article has too little new information, so my guess it that the mods will kill it.
While true, frequently cash-rich companies account for this. There are a lot of levers CFOs of profitable companies have to prevent people from leaving when the stock drops: issuing more shares, cash bonuses, etc. Facebook and Apple have more than enough cash to retain their talent in the event their stocks get cheap.
I'm fairly sure all scams are illegal regardless of the asset because a scam is by definition fraud which is illegal.
In 2012? There were places like that in 2002. The technical landscape hasn’t changed wildly in the past decade.
It would take months to replace some of the larger transformers, if they were destroyed by EMP or coordinated sabotage. And, there aren’t many spares available - lead time is very long.
I was referring to my own post. That person trolls like I do. I wouldnt ask for respect, I wouldnt give him any: he's exacerbating drama rather than solving the problem with the CDC, simply by using emotions rather than rational proposals.

Something I respect surprisingly is the wapo article https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/blackface... full of various points of views, explaining the issue clearly, taking no special position itself, even going to tell that person felt so bad about her idea of a joke or the reactions to it she left in tear, causing compassion for her in me...

So maybe it's trolling to say the wapo calls an old incident politically incorrect ? :p As an amateur troll myself I get why she found it funny to fight fire with fire and why some people just cant go that many levels of irony and it's hard to sometimes face the reactions to your own trolling. The Wapo itself seems completely innocent of any position and I appreciate the further attempt to paint it as such as good trolling, when they were trying to untroll the debate. Just like wearing a blackface to criticise defending blackfaces.
This is inconclusive. I mean you can "believe it," but from a factual perspective we don't know if this is true. Observed quantum effects seem to show that the world is random at it's most fundamental level but, again, there is not enough information to form a definitive conclusion about this.
heh, so to use AI we have to force it into continued "enslaved" existence?

sounds horrifying, but a good storyline for someone like Charles Stross.
People don’t acknowledge ‘a weird sort of spirituality to atheism’ because it’s an absurd concept.

Because spirituality is born from spiritual experiences, not religious theory. Atheism, on the other hand, is a belief system.

It’s like sex - talking about it is quite different from experiencing it.

If Christianity doesn’t help you, that’s alright. There’s a ton of Buddhists, Hindus, Taoists, Zen practitioners who have a radically different approach than ‘The Book’. And there’s also psychedelics for a taste of what’s out there.

I have a computer science degree but I still find it strange that anyone doesn’t find life an unfathomable mystery.

For example - do you know who you are? Ie who is the ‘you’ that experiences the world? Have you ever looked inside?
What’s nice about the current approach is that it is explicitly stated at the point of the variable declaration, and not hidden away in some far off place.

Also, it doesn’t require you to import a package, it’s completely orthogonal to the consumer of the code. They can opt in if they want, others aren’t forced to import anything.
How would you measure intelligence in something that could be contained in a simple sql query?
There is that. But there's also the "forever redesign" problem.

It goes roughly like this: the designers would always advocate for a redesign, as it is more exciting, and also because it creates more new tasks/jobs for them.

But improving things is hard, and entropy is not on our side. So, it is quite possible that the new grand redesign will be less functional than the battle-tested old one.

If we are lucky, the new design might be at least more aesthetically pleasing. [1]

[1]: Perhaps in part just because aesthetics are a function of fashion, and the new design can be up-to-date with the current trends.
I am not a doctor but I did some research on this a couple of months ago. I recommend you carefully do your own research and talk to qualified doctors, but here is what I found:

Psilocybin is for depression, trauma, PTSD, addiction, coping with pain, and generalized anxiety disorder. One dose induced rapid growth of dendritic spine size by 10% and density by 10% in the frontal cortex within 24 hours and lasted at least one month (they didn't monitor beyond that). Depression is associated with synaptic atrophy in the frontal cortex.

Ketamine is for major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and social anxiety disorder.
Liberals have dreamed of restoring the fairness doctrine ever since Reagan administration killed it for public airwaves and ushered in the era of right wing monopoly of talk radio.
> E-mail is actually a good example of why you shouldn't open up communications systems too much. Because they're more or less free to send, people who want to send advertisements send loads of them. This makes e-mail entirely unusable unless you are very proactive in restricting who can send mail to you. Technical limitations like SPF, DKIM, and so on only prevent the worst abuses. What does really work has been IP blacklisting and reputation systems that more or less make rolling your e-mail very difficult.

Unfortunately the real problem with email is liability. There's no way for me to force liability of a received email onto the sender. I can't tell Gmail to block all non-US email. I can't even tell Gmail to block all mail from specific IP blocks or domains. If malicious email originates from the US then there's some very strict laws around malicious use of computers...

A phone call though? The liability is in the caller or, at least, the service provider.
Demons exist and walk among us.
Yes, but it is also nice that Go is simple enough (simplistic enough, if you want) that these tools can be added on top, without requiring deep integration.
> which is not a particularly absurd idea

It's not completely untenable, but it's still kinda janky. I've never heard of any mathematical argument that justifies division by zero yielding 0; contrast 0^0, which at least has an argument for yielding 1: http://mathscitech.org/articles/zero-to-zero-power
Timestamping servers. Something like RFC 3161 or WebPKI's Certificate Trust logs.
This is definitely true. The skills needed to become a leader often have no relation to actual competence. Thus it makes sense that there are a ton of leaders who are incompetent as competence is not required to be leader.
This Pranayama along with yoga does help too :

https://youtu.be/vhmbnsXOhx8
what they are describing is not possible. too much redundancy an decentralization. at worst it would be a few cities temporarily
From what I understand, most of the energy loss of our current computers is not due to using irreversible logic, but rather the actual resistance of the materials.

Once we have better materials or different paradigms like photonic computing, then it would make sense to implement the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toffoli_gate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin_gate and whatnot. Btw, Fredkin and Toffoli, and the rest of the kings of reversible computing were big advocates of cellular automata ;-)
Market-then-build is a fallacy that makes a compelling story but few, if any, real world examples.

That’s kind of the conundrum of web3. It’s all marketing, no build.
Well there's science and then there are social institutions that undertake science. But science can exist outside the institutions.
These effects fit serious online gaming pretty accurately too.

Screws up your sleep cycle, is time consuming, causes you to not leave the house, makes other hobbies fall by the wayside.
Which is why newer languages just give you both :p. Zig (for example) has @mod and @rem for modulo and remainder and will complain when you use % on signed integers because it could be ambiguous and asks you to type in specifically which variant you intended to use.
I fail to see how you can equate the Switch and PS4, platforms designed to disallow the user from running their own OS, and where the manufacturer actively works to stop any such attempts, to the M1, where the manufacturer actively invested in developing the infrastructure required to allow users to securely boot their own OS.

If you're talking about building a sustainable community so the end product is polished and upstreamed and ready for end users, I'd say we have that with the M1. Things are already getting upstreamed and there is more than enough momentum. This wasn't the case with PS4, which was just me and a few other fail0verflow folks putting together a proof of concept. It helps when you don't have to spend cycles finding exploits and can focus on delivering a working OS :)
Per the comment you're replying to, "...that moment is not shown from the cockpit camera because he killed the engine. And if he killed the engine, he probably never tried to restart it, and never made any radio calls."
So a platform for pumping/selling your picks?
VoIP wasn't worth the destruction of the highly reliable trusted voice network.
That is a very nice Tetris in my layperson's opinion. Nice work!
Another concern, no temporal tables, don't businesses demand this feature?
Great Plains is a subset of the Midwest, not a distinct region. The Midwest is divided into the “Great Plains” and the “Great Lakes” subregions by the Census Bureau.
Magnetic treatment has a long history... we've given billions of MRIs, no one's grown a 3rd arm.
No, I didn't feel a jolt of anything.

Your comment was unclear to me though - exactly what parts of my comment were you referring to with your claim of "more hypotheses stated as results", and why? Please be specific.
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If you failed to restart the engine and intended to glide some distance it might make sense to stop windmilling the prop since it generates a lot of drag. But it seems to be theatrics here.
Show HN: Day, month and year progress bars for Chrome
True. Maybe he's just a slow coder and thinks it would go faster if someone familiar with the codebase tries to fix it.
Can make you feel loopy and nauseous depending on amount and how quickly it goes into your body. You should go back to feeling normal again after about 10 minutes after it stops coming in. (This is based on what a friend experienced when given it by a doctor.)
There are two "lines". One is the hundredth meridian. It's important because west of there, there's much less rain. (The hundredth meridian lines up pretty closely with the western edge of the Gulf of Mexico, meaning that moist air from there doesn't lead to rain west of that line.) Also, west of (approximately) there, the elevation rises to above 2000 feet. Agriculture is much more limited by water west of this line.

The other line is the mountains. Draw it through Denver. West of that line, you are definitely in "the West". It's the western third of the country.

Between Denver and the hundredth meridian? Maybe call it the "Great Plains".
To answer your final question - no, we probably cannot actually determine absolute truth about the universe. There is quite a long history of epistemology that indicates this. In addition, we've got the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_th... which lets us know that there will ALWAYS be true things that we cannot prove with any set of axioms. Coming to a full reckoning of truth or reality is impossible. We're each doing the best we can with the perspective we've been given and the information available to us.

I also think you are being quite uncharitable to most atheists. The majority of us grew up in the church, have read the bible, utterly believed the bible was true, were devout believers, and generally were at some point quite indistinguishable from you or any other truly intellectual believer in terms of worldview.

It really was the kinds of contradictions the comment you replied to indicates, along with hundreds of others, and the absolute mental knots that had to be constructed in order to justify them that set me on the path of disbelief. This is the path for millions of people as they take a serious reckoning of their beliefs and with their holy books and do a fundamental reexamination of their entire worldview and belief structure.

I don't think that either of us is being disingenuous in our portrayal of our beliefs. That said, I really do think that your interpretation of what people are doing when they examine these contradictions and draw the conclusion of disbelief is, in fact, the theological equivalent of p-hacking is fundamentally untrue.
I think the reasonable alternative here is Clojure's metadata tagging, which would allow for more "principled" execution.

Saying "it all has to be in the typesystem" can _also_ become a cludge (see languages that have built-in null handling vs languages that just require you to use Option and the like)
Does the Bible have any predictive power at all in the real world today? What insights can it give modern scientists?

Do miracles still happen or have they conveniently stopped happening in the modern world? If anything it would be easier to prove nowadays with most people walking around with cameras.
You should take a look at F#. While not faster than C necessarily, it beats Python in every aspect aside from the availability of certain libraries and can look quite similar to Python.
I genuinely couldn't tell if the author was being sarcastic when he said Larry Ellison was down on his luck because he dropped from 5th richest to 10th richest (and the whole thing about pulling himself out of the gutters by clawing up to 5th richest again).
Oh this is great. Just tried it out. A couple feature wishes:

- Sync the audio + text somewhere (although maybe this can be done with SyncThing already?)
- Add a widget / app action to support one-tap voice notes from the home screen
Right, it's just a belief.
They lowered orbit from 550km to 380km for some reasons which there aren’t any official explanations from Starlink.

Some believe that they were probing how good the Chinese Space Station can detect such risk. And the intent may be link to the pentagon as they invested in StarLink.

https://spacenews.com/chinas-space-station-maneuvered-to-avo...
When I was ten or so I tried shorting out a 20V barrel jack charger with a paperclip. It was not from lack of knowledge, though--I was quite familiar with Ohm's Law and just trusted that there would probably be some current limiting circuitry in there that would prevent anything too serious from happening. I guess I didn't think about the possibility of the charger being destroyed in the process at that age--it actually wasn't, but produced a nice burning smell and shower of sparks from the plug!
A belief of mine that's related to yours and might be much harder for the HN community to digest: I believe that computers come far, far short of an adequate explanation/analogy/metaphor for the workings of the universe
That's not so surprising, total energy usage keeps increasing. Renewable energy only supplies a small part of that, but it's rapidly increasing.
Great point. I clashed a bit with my advisor early on - they were trying to shepherd me away from a rabbithole, but I was a bit pigheaded and determined to fix something that I felt was sloppy. I ended up with a publication on it, but it probably wasn't a great use of my time (aside from providing me with a chance to flex my wings).
I worked with Len 20-something years ago at PGP. I don’t think it was him, but if it was I wouldn’t be THAT surprised.

He never stuck me as into $. But rather, into crypto.
Congratulations on the pilot’s license!
True. But they can implement non-standard things. And they're not compelled to implement the standards. And sometimes they don't.
I don’t think it helps to call the reasons ‘innocent’. Your description of Bell makes him sound like a eugenicist. Most people wouldn’t regard that as particularly innocent today.

I think it matters a lot whether communities have the wrong idea of why things are happening to them, and what other people’s intentions are. It seems profoundly disempowering to not have this understanding. I understand that you don’t.
It's weird to put postgres into the same bucket as elastic search as they are often used for different things.

No matter how much you tune / denormalize postgres, you'll never get the free text search performance elastic search offers. Our best efforts on a 5 million row table yielded 600ms query times vs 30-60ms.

Similarity with snow flake, you'd never expect postgres to perform analytical queries at that scale.

I know graph databases and Time series DB have similar performance tradeoffs.

I think the most interesting and challenging area is how to architect a system uses many of these databases and keeps them eventually consistent without some bound.
I think this is a step in the right direction. It's definitely a better initial experience of emacs (including Doom/Space), but even after trying this out I experienced several (emacs-core) frustrations.

Just now I experienced: weird keymaps (C-? C-? to do things, including exit... do I have to Google keymaps, read docs about keymaps, remap keys to my own preferences, or just memorize existing keymaps?), signaling EOF (normally Ctrl-d) doesn't quit (gives a weird error "mark not set"), not knowing which buffer I'm looking at or how to list/switch buffers, no (initial) mouse support, no idea how to search and replace, no idea if spawning multiple cursors is possible.

All that in a span of ~5 minutes. I'm not trying to hate on emacs, just trying to list some pain points of the UX.

I'd be willing to give another emacs dotfile a shot, but I think it'd have to be even simpler than this one.
You can't. Not all things can be molded into a quantitative analysis. For this stuff all you can rely on is your anecdotal judgement.

Even though IQ isn't exactly the best metric for measuring intelligence (as the test can be gamed and people aren't even sure if it's actually an accurate measure of what we interpret as the definition of "intelligence."), I feel that if I had access to the IQ score of every user that joined HN, I feel this would be the best possible metric we can come up with as IQ does correlate with many real world attributes that we actually do associate with "intelligence."
"They will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Mark 16:18 ESV
AFAIK in most (all?) species where females invest more in offspring, males are required to put some extra work in exchange (for example building a nest). It can't be too much rationality if it happens all over in the nature.

The question is whether this carries over to human group/society norms, and I believe it does.
Can’t nuclear fission (assuming we built up capacity) provide sufficient power not just to absorb electric cars and all existing fossil fuel power sources, but also economical enough to run carbon recapture that’s not energy-neutral/negative and desalination to boot?

Additionally, as we have more fission power plants, prices should come down further since we haven’t even scratched the surface of where fission could go (gen4 reactors and beyond) because we halted meaningful investment some 40 years ago.
Child abuse? Really? I think that outlook says more about you than the Midwest.
I use Resilio Sync which used to be proprietary and it's been seamless. I do sometimes have to make sure the active device I'm on is synced before accessing the database but most of the time it's fine. I use my phone, laptop, and desktop as devices. With Resilio, there's a nifty option to have an encrypted store for devices you don't trust to read but trust enough to store (think like your parents computer or work computer)

SyncThing may also work for a open source solution, but doesn't have that nifty latter option I stated above, at least not out of the box.
I wrote a "cd" replacement for cmd[1] a _long_ time ago (I only recently uploaded it to Github).

It uses exactly this technique to run a thread in cmd's process to actually change the directory. It's kept working from XP on up to Windows 11 now. I am always amazed it works, I fully expect it to go boom some day, probably with an error along the lines of "Don't do that, please".

[1] https://github.com/seligman/ccd/blob/master/RemoteThread.cpp...