skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The insane majority has a great marketing campaign that has inflicted most of the world with lust for their standard of living, which is completely unsustainable. So we are all forced onto the same hedonistic treadmill and told it is for our own good. The machine is always tripping forward, running a little faster to keep from falling on its face. Until it can't anymore. Because you can't grow a watermelon in a light bulb.
Copywriters have destroyed the meaning of "beautiful"
Voice sounds even more unrealistic than the video (source: I'm Ukrainian). No one in Ukraine would believe the audio part of this fake, even if video was perfect. This is a pathetic attempt.

Also, the script (the text that is being read) is written as if the target audience are Russian, not Ukrainian people (because it's based on propaganda narratives that people outside of Russia are not familiar with). This is such a poor fake from every standpoint.
It's not that simple. Alot of highschool aged kids need to work to save for college or just to feed their families.

Starting school later sound good if you live a very privileged life, but makes life impossible if you need to leave a 3 to work.
Self promotion about the shell history:

I have built an app, that allows you to easy access your shell history https://loshadki.app/shellhistory/ and sync via iCloud. MacOS only.
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Good point. Hm, it might be my bubble making me think, that of course people will have heard of usage of AI to fake videos, even if they don't necessarily call them "deep fake" or stuff like that. I wonder how likely it really is, that people have not heard about the idea of videos being fake, involving making people say things they never said and making them look realistic.
> If they're getting a lot of flak, it's because they've earned it.

I guess so, but I think in a different way. Only if they talked more about how much attention they pay to safety of people when they roll out beta to more users and add features, then perhaps the general public would be more understanding. I know about it from obscure tweets and fleeting mentions having watched countless hours of Tesla people talking about FSD, but you really have to dig to hear about it.
How is this on the front page? There are just so many statistical methodology problems that you cannot draw any conclusions. First of all, they vast majority of the article is n=1 where they sampled one year. Then, they talk about increase over one year and come up with the mind blowing stat of "6 out of 10 Highest Murder Rate Increases are in Trump-Voting States". From a statistical view point, that is to be expected if there are no differences. Furthermore, the entire analysis is stupid because 2020 was the pandemic year. Finally, it doesn't take a genius to correlate these to wealth levels. Go to [1] and sort by median household income. What you will find is basically the same ranking as in this article. What do you believe - poverty or political preference leads to increases of crime?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
> the _actual_ question is more like: "Given the finite resources of the environment, human lifespans, available knowledge.. and so on..., at what point does economic and industrial growth in <_these specific ways_> stop adding to overall human happiness, utility and long term survival?"

Take out the industrial growth requirement and other crud and this question naturally simplifies to “given finite resources how can we keep increasing human happiness, utility and surivival?” And the answer is simple. Use fewer resources to create more happiness. Which we’re doing. Energy and material intensity of GDP is falling. We need it to fall faster. And we probably need more metrics. But fundamentally, the issue isn’t a problem of stupid people. It’s one of limited definitions of production, growth and what makes us happy.
> If economic growth is defined simply in terms of tons of refined resources pulled out of the ground, then yes, of course economic growth has a limit. Trivially so.

Once we master mining in space we will have limitless resources. I think this decade we’ll see the first attempts.
Because it isn't caused by the moral degeneracy of the youth but by media landscape changes driven by a combination of technological change (the Internet) and government policy choices (not breaking up the YouTube monopoly, not creating a compulsory streaming license).
And yet you do have streets named after Antonescu in Romania:

1) Strada Ion Antonescu
https://goo.gl/maps/WsVVsW13Eb9BjnRm9 2) Strada Ion Antonescu
https://goo.gl/maps/Fe4Ggh3EPZyF7Z6r8 3) Strada Ion Antonescu
https://goo.gl/maps/ANV22wPVDnaoFRVw5 4) Strada Ion Antonescu
https://goo.gl/maps/hhN2jDvsiD9eXnVB6 5) Strada Ion Antonescu
https://goo.gl/maps/a4gjwkDAzD5VrXj77
This one one of those granular issues where there is no single right answer. Given the forum, the best answer would be why has our given technology been shaped to act as aristocratic tutors to us all?

Further, is there enough room for any given Einstein in this dogmatic landscape?
I've heard that in Tang dynasty Pu-Erh was important in order to keep the peace in remote areas partially because it was consumed as a substitute for fresh vegetables in areas where one could not grow them.

Consuming tea as thick soup to me suggests the idea that maybe tea was used in that way even back in Han dynasty (I'm sure that whether this is correct or not would be obvious to a historian, which I'm not).

Do you have any recommendations for a curriculum of sort for tea history?
That's the whole point of the article...to tell you that it's not a Blue v. Red state issue, it's both. Did you even read it?
> If anything, because urban areas have a higher population density, one would expect them to have a higher rate of murder per capita, but shockingly, they don't.

I think this is the part that is causing the malfunction. None of the traditional arguments work against this simple data set.
Yes. Von Neumann's method is definitely not safe against adversarial input.
Firms must report hacks to DHS in 72 hours under law
The API is designed to be hosted by our clients so that the software runs directly on their data infrastructure and no sensitive data leaves their systems. In this demo, it is obviously hosted by us.

A big innovation is that, with Sarus, the data practitioner does not need to see the data and can still manipulate it. Most DP libraries are designed for researchers that have access to the data. They can prepare the data however they like, tune the libraries all they want, and eventually use the library to produce protected outputs from the data. With Sarus, someone who never saw the data, can achieve the same.
and they are quite behind schedule by now, maybe 3 years late
If this was actually a counter example, wouldn't they be looking at the cities within the state as well as distribution throughout the state? For example, rural PA is much different than Philly, Pittsburgh, and other cities in leadership and policy. Not sure about murder rate, but would guess it's mostly similar.

That said, it would be much better if they actually got into the causes or contributors, like the various socioeconomic factors that correlate with murder/crime.
So, what email address do you use to communicate with your registrar?
If you are going to start using deepfakes as part of your campaign you first want to make couple bad ones so people feel good about themselves and trust their ability to spot the fake. Then start drip feeding the actual good material.

Same tactics as with what Internet at large nowdays calls "trolls". The onces that you spot were probably ment to be spotted, so you lower your guard against the actual propaganda that isn't as obvious.
Monitoring, managing and troubleshooting large scale networks (2015)
The fact you are paranoid doesn't mean they are not after you.
> How are you going to get your kid to school?

They walk there, use a bus, etc.
My point is mostly that email validation is broken in a lot of places even if it's not a "weird" ending.
great tool, very useful. Thanks for share
Fantastic. Email handling is a canary for code quality. If a company can't parse a simple text string, they probably can't bring up efficient/bug-free cloud services and keep up with cybersecurity.
It maybe less about dogma and more about the size of the remaining problems. A single Einstein can't go find the Higgs boson; you need a multi-national consortium willing to build a city-sized machine for it.

You see the same in all sorts of fields. Inventing the telescope is neat. Inventing the JWST isn't something a single contributor is capable of.
Neither is your shell. You may as well complain that there is no way to use Linux at all without some form of 3rd party software one way or the other. It's a silly complaint; this is why distros exist.
The simple answer would be you don't have to. The underlying assumption is someone already have personal or professional interest in those projects.
> ricin is (fortunately) not all that easy to turn into a weapon, and the people who try to do it are generally somewhat disconnected from reality (and also from technical proficiency).

Of course that fact was no barrier to much hype about the "dangers" it posed, either. I suspect the same now; that we have more to fear from the fear junkie propaganda than the actual facts.
This is ridiculous. We’re seeing innovation EVERYWHERE, and looking back, this will be a golden age for progress (if the species makes it far enough to look back, that is).
Think of it like this: we invented personal computers. At the time, only nerds had access to computation. These days, all kinds of scientists just script up things in python. We have how many million people who are able to code? I don’t even care how minuscule the odds are that ONE coder changes the world. The numbers make it impossible for us to lose on all the fronts. Tech is basically matured to the point where all the questions of the 90s are now solved. Ad tech? Check. Search? Check. Mobile hq video and photo beyond the 90s imagination? Check. The list goes on. Computers ALREADY BEAT HUMANS AT GO, let that sink in.

I don’t even care how pessimistic you are - if you fail to see how we are a) blooming right now and b) will continue to bloom for the foreseeable future, the wording is exactly right: YOU fail to see it.

It’s there. It’s everywhere. The fact that you can read this message, that I’m typing while my girlfriend lies in my arm in our bed, should be mind blowing. If you lost that sense of wonder, maybe it’s time to reconsider your models.
My very first job I built a code library that, when I trained my teammates on its use (I was angling for a team lead position) we found, on average, reduced their time per project by a range of 50-90% per project by automating out tons of boilerplate, and allowing us to leverage previously created work.

We're talking about things that used to take 1-2 weeks, being done by Tuesday, if it was assigned on a Monday morning. It was nuts.

My immediate manager, didn't understand it.

His manager sat down with me and read through the code, and was ecstatic.

He brought the CEO in (it was a small shop, that was the next level), and explained out the implications.

AND..... that was the last I ever heard of it. They bought me some pizza.

On their own they decided that if they repackaged the library itself, they could sell it as a b2b tool (which was a pretty good idea).

And they assigned devs and PMs from other teams to build it.

And those devs and PMs never took a look at my code. I'm guessing they were never told about it. They did, however, build their design the exact same way they had built everything else before my library. Which meant, it made all the same mistakes they had always made. Their final product didn't really move the needle. It did not really save anyone much time. And it did not successfully sell to other businesses.

Except by then, it was the new "company initiative". And the % of resources the company had put into its development was substantial. So when it failed completely to materialize real results, it was devastating for the company.

They ended up laying off some ~20% of the company to recover losses in the months after I quit.

So yeah: "Give me your best ideas so we can implement them with out you" doesn't work. If you could have implemented the idea, you would have had it already.
as someone with at least a cursory knowledge of physics i can say with some degree of certitude there is no man-made system that is limitless in growth or expansion. eventually, you will run out of materials from which the growth of the system is derived.

a better question might be, is the consumption of all available resources reasonable in the pursuit of maximizing economic growth?
> Clearly, many people doesn't support him.

Unfortunately this is not so clear. I've never heard any numbers that would indicate that the explicit support is less than 50%. The most recent figure I've seen is 58%: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/08/russia-publi... But when I visit Russian reddit (pikabu.ru and d3.ru) I am appalled by the fervent support of this war by the common people, subjectively it feels like 95+%.

To put it bluntly, I believe that the modern Russia is fascist. There are many definitions of fascism, but common themes seem to be:

1. Cult of personality. Putin. Enough said.

2. Powerful and continuing nationalism. Russia has updated their constitution to include article 68 which defines Russian language as "язык государствообразующего народа" that is "the language of state-forming people".

3. Identification of enemies as unifying force. Huge disdain for USA, EU, and NATO. Obama personally steals money from Russia's retirees, EU is being openly described as gayrope.

4. Rampant sexism ... I don't think this can be applied to Russia. In general women from ex-USSR states are pretty badass.

5. Controlled Mass Media. You got it.

6. Obsession with national security. Russia's rhetoric is like that of an abusive spouse: Ukraine forced us to preemptively attack, or otherwise they (Ukr) would have attacked us (Rus).

7. Religion and government intertwined. I'll pull you up a video of Russia's main priest (archbishop? patriarch) blessing this war: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/07/russian-church-lea.... Also there are numerous videos of Russian priests blessing ICBMs: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/6b54ml/a_russian_or...

8. Fraudlent elections. You got it.

9. Rampant croynism and corruption. Yep.

10. Those guys even got their own swastika -- the Z letter. Displayed publicly and numerously.

Please let me know if you want me to elaborate on any of the above points and I'll gladly provide you with examples. I'd elaborate from the start, but there's an air raid siren and I have to run to the bomb shelter :(.
> the time to replace them would be a few years.

I'm not sure how you can be certain of that. It is true that the last 3 annual procurements for Tomahawks were 90, 122, 60 [1, page 23], but that's because the US is a nation at peace. Most procurement programs have to deal with the issue that at peace you don't need that many weapons, but at war you do. So the Department of Defense pays both for the actual weapons it buys, but also to insure the ongoing production capacity, just in case. You can see this is the case as the 3 annual costs for these missiles were essentially the same and not actually proportional to the number of missiles.

If you think about it, it can't be any other way. The alternative to buy every single year of peace as if it were a year of war would be extraordinarily costly, and the defense budget is not really cheap as is.

So, while currently we procure about 100 Tomahawks per year, the production could easily be ramped up to 1000 per year, and probably more.

For example, in the 2010 budget, the statement about Tomahawks was: "Continues production at a minimum sustaining rate." [2, page 45]. At the time, that sustaining rate was judged to be 191. Just 2 years before it was 496.

[1] https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudg...

[2] https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudg...
That goalpost can be fairly moved. Fair point.
I believe the difficulty of the past enforced a set of healthy constraints too. Today everything is organic and can be "fixed later" and few really put efforts to make it right in the first place. Value is in the mass.. like architecture.
Alibaba is not far behind them:

https://www.statista.com/chart/18819/worldwide-market-share-...

It's not hard to imagine some customers jumping to AWS or Azure, which most large organizations are likely to already be familiar with[1] moves like this & that looming mandate causing C-level concerns since everyone knows GCP is not profitable at the current pricing but is expected to become so soon. A lot of big organizations prefer to pay a predictable amount of money than run the risk of price increases blowing their budget.

The other possibility I was thinking about is consolidation in the less popular providers — e.g. what happens if IBM sells their cloud service to Oracle or Salesforce, or a major customer switches a lot of volume to them. Oracle comes to mind since their bandwidth pricing is like an order of magnitude lower than AWS — I'm sure Zoom negotiated hefty discounts but they still picked Oracle for a reason and I'd bet it's the fact that their business is largely network egress.

1. e.g. if you use Office 365 and GCP, there is a valid argument for consolidating on a single vendor and I'd be surprised if that didn't work on a few customers since there's approximately a 0% chance that the Microsoft reps aren't going to toss some discounts around to encourage it.
Leap seconds are a problem too, but in entirely different settings, and in a way that is much better encapsulated in the software engineering world. I personally think the world would be better off without them, and that we should just let the clock/calendar drift back and forth, and in the long term off, true midnight. Outside of navigation and astronomy and a few other highly specialized fields, this has no meaningful impact, and would vastly simplify automated time recording. But it's a decision that has to be made globally, not nationally or locally, and requires a LOT of coordination to get right.

It is also fundamentally different in nature, in that leap seconds never create duplicate times in the time sequence. Leap seconds are changes to the sequence of the underlying elapsed time sequence; DST changes are not, but only change the representation and use of time values.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-the-w...
Not sure I would use state borders for this. Murderer is up in most larger cities in the US. Alot of these states have 1 or 2 large cities and then it is going to be more rural.

This could easily skew the numbers per capita for a state that does not have population more broadly spread out in its borders.

Crime varies a lot based off location. For example burgarly per capita last I checked was more common in rural areas. This make sense since more unattended buildings and such.

State level is far to coarse, and also why the political spin.
Well, if you want to go backwards, you kind of have to know p?

Though I can see an interesting problem:

You have a known unbiased coin, and a biased coin with unknown p.

Your task is to create a stream of coin flips with bias p. You want to minimize how often you have to flip the biased coin; and somehow work out a way to make use of the unbiased coin to 'stretch' your sequence of biased coin flips.

I am not sure if this is possible.
The Western brands unable to leave Russia
The cynical use of feminism as a justification for war-mongering then bookended by abandoning the same girls to starve to death is not something to be proud of.
It's one way to look at the increase in men picking up body-building as a hobby if they are competing with other men for the attention of women.
How does this compare to Fusion360?
I remember xm used to have a 40s and 50s channel. Of course that was 20 years ago in its infancy. IANAL, but an interesting case could be made that by the ‘public’ (radio) no longer broadcasting music that they are no longer asserting their copyright. Similar to trademarks that are no longer defended. If there are satellite and or terrestrial radio stations playing something the copyright expires.
It's easy to say "oh the research shows we should do this." It's much harder to actually do it. The amount of coordination required to get everyone to agree to change schedule is far to high for it to actually happen.
I think this is more of a version of the "why have we stopped making good music/movies, almost everything today is garbage?" issue. With the benefit of hindsight, we only remember the greats (and the very worst villains) from past eras. While if we look around today, we see all the people who will never make it into the history books, just like we see all the songs and movies that will never become "classics."

Edit: And yes, the internet has brought about immense and immeasurable benefits to science and innovation. It can both be true that most people on Facebook are dunces and getting dumber because of Facebook, and that there has been massive developments in research and development that would not have happened without the internet.
Are you sure? Looking at this[0] which is obviously partial, but it doesn't seem so. Of course they might nevertheless be mired in chaos due to closing their Russian office.

[0] https://miro.com/blog/update-from-miro-team/
Did you notice you share your name with a convicted drug lord from the UK? Maybe there was/is some mixup...
I completely disagree with the premise, that geniuses are vanishing - I think we have more than ever, it just takes a lot more to make notable progress these days. However, the article still ended up being a decent read, exploring how a lot of geniuses had tutors. I think our education system is messed up in a lot of ways, and we'd have a better society if kids got more adult attention. Saying this as a parent of a middle schooler, I really feel the issues in staff-constrained pandemic years.

It would be interesting to have past geniuses sit in today's world - I think we'd be dismayed that in the massive ocean of knowledge we have these days, they wouldn't seem so legendary anymore.
There is no known engineering path to get there, where you come back with more resources than you spent. Not even if SpaceX Starship works as well as we hope.
Especially if eg 5 had an extremely low probability of showing up. Or perhaps even 0% probability.
Yes, I've seen this as well. I will admit I do using a __tests__ or __mocks__ folder to "separate" helper files for testing; but I think now I prefer core tests to be in the component directory entirely.
Are they pointing out a lack of geniuses, or just a lack of pop culture geniuses? And are the silos in knowledge so stratified now that we as a culture just don't recognize those who are?