skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't wholly disagree with your overall point, but I'm not entirely onboard, either. I feel like, as someone else mentioned, you're perhaps conflating innovation and "Einsteins" (read: genius) a bit too much. I also think that you're too narrowly focused on innovations within tech, while genius can occur in countless other fields and the article itself doesn't even keep it's focus on "genius" so narrow.

>... all the questions of the 90s are now solved.

This is exceedingly hyperbolic and I can't imagine you actually think this is true.

>Ad tech? Check.

Ah, yes! Advertising technology! I think we're all delighted, as a species, that we've innovated so hard in this realm. Invasive, targeted advertising is the bee's knees and will really propel us forward as a civilization.
Perhaps you meant amiwm¹? awm² looks like a different thing.

amiwm is still packaged in at least Debian, and just firing it up in a Xephyr window is pretty nostalgic.

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiwm

² https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardent_Window_Manager
> Between August and December 2021, Florida experienced more than triple the number of excess deaths (29 252) as New York (8786), despite both states having similar population counts (21.7 million and 19.3 million, respectively).

Gee I wonder why they picked that particular five-month period for a pandemic that lasted two years: https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/blog/states-ranked-by-age-...

> [Rank] [State] [Death Rate] [Age-Adjusted Death Rate]

> 11 New Jersey 353 340

> 11 New York 358 340

> ...

> 31 Connecticut 296 265

> 32 Florida 313 263

> 32 Illinois 263 263

> 34 Delaware 286 261

> 35 Maryland 249 255

For some reason Florida gets a ton of press coverage despite its completely average outcomes, yet nobody hears about states like Connecticut or Illinois that had identical outcomes.

The thesis of the article is similarly offered without support.

> Although the divergence in state health trajectories might reflect changes in demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, a more likely potential explanation is the growing polarization of public policies across states.

The article attempts to correct for just one variable, demographics:

> The widening gap cannot be explained by changes in the racial and ethnic composition of states, because the same trend occurred within racial and ethnic groups.

It doesn't seem to even occur to the authors that there are salient differences between New York and Oklahoma that may drive public policy as well as health outcomes. A white person in New York is going to be much more likely to have a safe office job, while someone in Oklahoma is going to be much more likely to have a more dangerous job in agriculture or industry. That, in turn, may well drive less risk-tolerant public policies in New York and more risk-tolerant public policies in Oklahoma.

And given that death rates are driven by things like heart disease, diabetes complications, and cancer, it didn't occur to the authors to account for the fact that obesity rates in Oklahoma are almost 40% higher than New York?
Another ergo keyboard I am on the lookout for is the Glove80. Been happy with the moonlander but I am really interested in something completely wireless and not as expensive as the AM Hatsu.
I don’t really understand this - is it possible to have a Google account and not have a Google pay account?
> Objectively, as a species, we solved inter-connectivity, high quality media, etc.

I do not think that is an objective statement at all. I think one could just as readily make a highly data-supported argument that never in history have we been more factionalized or inundated with low-quality media than in the current moment.
Precisely. And even so, the things that PHP would need to change to make it acceptable would basically make it a brand new language.
Those only come about every several generations. Many of them needed the entire thinking population of humans in the meantime to package up ideas in a different way so they could bring about their flash of insight.
I understand your point of view. I am not sure whether the notion that there's no space for #2 or #3 etc, is true myself.
Last I checked, Apple is explicit in saying you must add a payment method to Apple Pay.
Far from believable.
This is already supported as $ORIGIN under Linux (well at least with glibc).
Where's the line on this kind of thing? If I type my CC info into a text file using VS Code should I expect Microsoft to add the CC info to my Microsoft account? What about just typing my CC info into any field when using Windows?

Edit:

> How is this evil? There is literally zero negative outcomes from this.

I like to think of every online account as a liability, because any one of them can be compromised and cause me a bunch of headaches. The "level" of headache depends on how much information each service has about me. What gives Google the right to expose me to more risk in this way?
AMD does seem to be trying to goose PCIe 4.0 demand by making some of it's products perform best with it (which is a mistake IMO, since it makes their competitors products more appealing) but it seems like the 6500XT was originally a mobile chipset so it wasn't really meant for the DIY desktop market. But shortages meant it was pressed into this duty anyway.

I was reading a techpower article on the 6500XT recently, because their power usage testing is excellent aand the 6500XT has an incredibly low idle draw versus other desktop cards.
Let's get it started. Anyone who's interested can star this repo now and we can start chipping away on it as we have time.

https://github.com/nicholascgilpin/universal-build-tree
NSA spies ample opportunities to harden Kubernetes
As a long-time Home Depot customer who works on everything DIY (cars/gardens/home improvements/etc) I have found over the past few years that Home Depot search will consistently get me to the product that I am looking to buy or close enough that it is easy to comb through the results to refine the search.

This is in stark contrast with Lowe's where I would describe the difference as being akin to searching via Google (Home Depot) or by Cuil (Lowe's).

For those unfamiliar with Cuil:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/cuil-theory

If you know her please send some high praise from me. I am one of the people who has long experience with making things and knows several ways to describe common tools, materials, parts, etc but who hates to have to cycle through each of them hoping that the inventory management engine recognizes the product and lists it near the top when it delivers search results.

As a customer, I could tell that results from Home Depot searches delivered quality results by a simple search for a 2x4 of a specific length.

Excellent work!
7.3 Magnitude Quake Hits North Japan, Tsunami Alert Issued
Fantastic. So many well covered use cases, good work man.
I find the asymmetry of force in vehicle combat very interesting. If a single foot soldier can take out a tank that costs millions of dollars, is it even worth using a tank? Obviously there are tactics to avoid this but I bet it's a pain in the ass to out-maneuver.
Try a nociception, drug design or pharmacy group at your local university. Chances are they’ve been doing this for years.
If that's what they are doing, then wouldn't the best thing for the article to do is show murder rates for the cities in a state, grouped by political leadership, as compared to each group as well as to the state rate?

I mean, I could play devils advocate here and say that the reason the 1# state (LA at 12) is so high is that the cities drag up the state rate (top three cities have rates over 30 with Democrat leadership). I'm not saying that validates Republican positions, but the article certainly doesn't refute this.

If that's the goal of the article, then it needs to provide the proper argument to invalidate that. Otherwise it seems like it's just obscuring the conversation through what is essentially a strawman argument (in the context of the liberal cities crime/murder argument that its targeting).
About the NHS. I also thought that healthcare workers would most understand be behind vaccines. However an employment expert told me that healthcare workers are basically low paid workers, often from minority backgrounds, the exact same demographic that are vaccine hesitant. The vast majority of NHS staff are not doctors.

It was, therefore a class / social / demographic issue, but there is indeed crossover with the foreign healthcare worker but its on that class rather than where they come from.

I think (but I didnt discuss it with the expert) that the doctors themselves were on the whole opposed to compulsory mandates for ethical reasons. E.g. first do no harm extends to respecting a persons conscience.
The federal government gives 0.5 days leave per every 2 weeks worked. Note that that implies 0.5*(52/2) = 13 days possible to accrue in a year.

I think showing the feds do it should sway you pretty far away from your above position. If not, I'm curious what evidence could be provided that would.
I strongly agree with this sentiment. However, it is hard for an ethical person to participate in developing war technology when possession and usage of the weapons is purely a political question, and history also has seen our side of geopolitics commit atrocities.

My stance has previously been that I am unwilling to work on weapons technology, because history has shown that these weapons sometimes end up being used for an indefensible cause. Then all of a sudden you're an accomplice to murder, and getting away with it.

In the light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which is just a continuation of its historical imperialism, working on weapons is something I would be perfectly okay with and probably even motivated to do. But stop for a moment and think what a history of aggressive military actions does to our society's ability to recruit for this important job.
I'm quite sure we have already invented several chemicals that match your description -- like sarin gas, invented in 1938 by someone who, indeed, wanted to create a decent pesticide. A lethal dose of sarin gas is something like 28-35m³/min over 2 minutes exposure, according to wikipedia. [0]

Hitler was well aware of its creation, and I believe quite a lot of the stuff was produced for the purpose of warfare. There were several in the Nazi military who wanted to use it, but Hitler declined.

That seems rather odd, given his indifference to exterminating people with gas on an industrial scale beyond the theater of war. It has been suggested that Hitler was probably aware that to use sarin gas would be to invite the allies to do so in response, which would result in a dramatic loss of life on the German side due to the sheer lethality of such chemical weapons. [1]

Perhaps he thought it easier to stick to conventional warfare, in which the pace is more manageable than with WMDs, where you would start going down the road of mutually assured destruction but without the strategic framework in place to prevent anyone from actually wiping out a population before realising how bad an idea it would be.

And I think this reluctance to change the game, this seemingly deliberate moderation, perhaps best demonstrates the true difference between the machine and human in warfare.

It is not a difference in innovation -- we have always been very good at inventing highly optimised ways to end life.

The difference is that a machine intelligence will not hesitate. It will not ask for confirmation, pause or break a sweat. It will pull the trigger first, it will point the bombs at anything that is an adversary and anything that could theoretically be or become an adversary, and it will not miss. And it will not have to face ethical criticism and historical condemnation afterwards. [2]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/11...

[2]: Assuming this is a Skynet-like machine intelligence, which doesn't really have the capacity for remorse or negotiation and seems primarily, indeed solely occupied with the task of ending human life.

Obviously, a true AI that is essentially a conscious mind equivalent to our own minds, may experience the same hesitancy that most of us would, were our fingers to be over the buzzer.

Unless the AI independently arrives at a different set of values to us, like the Borg or something.
Magnitude 7.3 earthquake off the Coast of Fukushima Prefecture
It's worse than that. Neural network models are a pile of biases that (sometimes) seem to understand because (1) biases are on balance partially true, (2) our own understanding is rife with biases, (3) we tend to see ourselves mirrored in the environment.

https://www.themarysue.com/things-that-look-like-faces-parei...

Just like all of the other fundamental principles of computer science have been abandoned by the neural net cult, basic principles of cybernetics such as Ashby's Law are forgotten

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27150

Real understanding involves multiple dimensions but one of them is a process like SAT solving that checks the consistency of an "understanding" vs the system's database of world knowledge. Even in the early 1970s the symbolic AI community had some understanding of what the "gap" was, today there is blind faith that if you throw enough computational power at it, neural networks will overcome, with no consideration of what structural features are necessary.
Synthesis was, and still is, the hard part. It was already easy to find public information on seriously nasty nerve agents.

For some intuition on the difficulty in synthesis, note that explosive chemistry and synthesis is comparatively trivial, yet there are relatively few terror attacks that go beyond commercial-off-the-shelf compounds and almost none that do it well.

Personally, I think this model would be a boon for public safety because contract synthesis operations could use it to screen incoming requests for "nerve gas but changed up a bit." Basic chemical intuition probably already gets them far in this regard, but a published model could be standardized and mandated.

Someone else in the thread asked about next steps. Those would be good next steps.
https://www.romanzolotarev.com/openbsd/geteltorito.html
When you're this wrong about a topic, most people quit even trying to correct you.
With permanent DST it's gonna rise at like 8:30 am on average at the latest in winter. That sounds way worse then it rising at 4:30 in the summer to me.
Substack’s Ideology
I think the problem is the vendors loading different information into whatever platform they use. I’ve seen it at other retailers and customer support said the vendors load all the info, in my case she said they entered it wrong.
Do you specialize? Instead of casting a wide net, I'd suggest becoming an expert in just a few small areas. Then, you can cold outreach to companies/people with those needs. Like an expert on Kubernetes, or React, whatever...
Snark is not an argument. Use your words, like an adult.
Can you provide a source or examples? Asking out of ignorance—I've worked in insurance and currently work for a US-based financial services company, but haven't heard of this practice before.
Ask HN: Is China the Next Superpower?
After watching Ray Dalio's Changing World Order video [0] I'm left with more questions than answers. With the main question, can it really be China next? China's world trade share, even the war in Ukraine, and whatever conflicts to come soon next, are all seem to align with Ray's theory... can it be that China is in fact going to be the next superpower?

[0] https://youtu.be/xguam0TKMw8
At one time, that weirdo didn't have anybody to talk to. So he wrote his weird ideas in a journal somewhere, and he'd maybe self-publish a book, and annoy people at the coffee shops with his ideas. Now the crazy finds friends. Somewhere out there in the internets is another weirdo who had your idea too.
I'm surprised this argument is so hidden in the comments. All things being equal I would prefer permanent standard time, but it's pretty obvious that a very rational way to solve this problem is just choose whichever setting we use the majority of the time.
Did it explode
Your link says it was German-occupied not Nazi-occupied.
I don't mind being a "HaX0r" if it means fiddling around with configs and code on my own system. That's not what's happening here though.
The Law of Requisite Variety (2001)
I can hear my lizard brain saying "this time it's different, China can't be the next superpower" - but I have nothing concrete to support this thought, except maybe a few weak attempts like: Chinese language is hard; it's a communist country where the law isn't "the law"; this time there's Bitcoin...
> most of the time life as a tutor was essentially a cushy patronage job, wherein you instilled a sense of intellectual discovery into a young child in return for a hefty salary that left most of your free time intact—surely that’s what the tutors living on the Tolstoy estate must have felt, whiling away the evening hours chasing the local peasant girls after educating the young writer in the morning.

SOLD!

WHERE DO I SIGN UP.
Space isn’t limitless, it’s just very big.

While it currently looks like the human population will plateau, there is no guarantee of this; if it returns to exponential growth, and if we are limited to the speed of light, then we get exponential demand increasing with polynomial supply.

How much this matters to you depends on if you prefer Total
Human Product or Product Per Capita.

But if you care about GDP (i.e. of a nation not of humanity as a whole or average per person), the maximum size of any plausible zone of control for any government is likely to be in the order of a solar system or less, based on the historical precedents of communication lag between empire capitals and outer colonies — exponential growth makes this happen faster than you might otherwise expect.
Not many bad experiences— I looked before I leapt. It's not a hard resource constraint in many cases— the resources just opt out of contributing. Despite the unicorn moniker, many designers know how to code! I've worked as a full-time developer for 12 years, and did comparatively simple but non-trivial systems-focused scripting in sys admin/support roles prior to that. Especially among more UX-oriented designers, most started in other careers, and many of those careers were related to software in some way. A developer I worked with until recently had a BFA in New Media from a top-tier art school. Most designers/developers I know just don't contribute design to FOSS because interfacing with FOSS projects for anything other than bug fixes and feature implementations is often a giant PITA.

Facing critique about work we aren't confident in sucks. Most people reflexively respond with defensiveness, dismissiveness, or just shut down and ignore it. Since most FOSS UIs were created by people without subject matter expertise, most who make decisions about them have the expected response. It's like giving a brand new developer a code review. Calmly explaining how to practically reason about algorithmic complexity won't stop many from insisting a thrice-embedded loop with database calls that gets called every time an event loop runs is the best possible solution— at least for a while. Sometimes you can argue them out of it. Sometimes you just have to say "trust me— it might not matter in your dev environment, but this is fundamentally broken and needs to change."

That doesn't work with FOSS projects, and even getting to that point in the design phase takes a significant amount of work!

Even at work where a project leader is assigning tasks based on quantifiable business needs, dev teams often see design as superfluous. Most FOSS projects don't have that level of oversight. Fighting glib, dismissive, patronizing arguments born from assumptions and egos of people who believe the topic is somewhere from back-burner importance to superfluous just isn't worth it. I'm certainly not going to spend a bunch of time logically analyzing user goals and figuring out the most logical paths and visual cues to help them achieve those goals when I have to fight through that to even start coding.

Sometimes a polished user flow really is superfluous— anyone who sets up procmail enough to care about its usability will soon learn their way past its inscrutable configuration. But most applications aren't like procmail, and most FOSS interfaces aren't sufficient for their purposes. It's sad to see commercial software consistently trounce functionally identical or superior FOSS because of usability. Word of mouth + free could trump damn near any marketing/advertising campaign if people actually liked using it.
Here's the text of the newly signed bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2471...

The ransomware reporting stuff is at the bottom; search for "ransom" and you'll find the section easily.

Note this is amending existing law, so think of it as a legal diff. There may be important context not presented in this text.
Tried to find Orwell's great quote "... lessons of history." Got wildly wrong answers, then selecting page "2", on iPad, redirected to install some app.
Crypto Mania in Texas Risks New Costs and Strains on Shaky Grid
>Once this kind of infrastructure for progress gets compromised then things will become very hard.

I think of it differently: it already did. The old world is already dead. It will just take a couple of generations until that realization kicks in, or until the consequences of that realization are implemented in our cultures and systems. The political incentives in western democracies are not aligned with the interests of the following generations. The opposite is the case, current politicians simply sell the future of their constituents. I'm well aware that lots of things will have to collapse. But I'm coming to a different conclusion than you: I think exactly that's what is conductive for progress.

Unconductive to progress is friction, and social friction is essentially the product of people who hold on to concepts of the world that have already lost their meaning. Very, very few people born before 1990 are worth listening to outside of their exact levels of expertise. But at the same time, almost anyone in power was a) born before 1990 and b) represents the interests of almost exclusively people born before 1990. The number is arbitrary, I just try to illustrate the point.
You should probably mention that your paper at the link costs $33 to download.
This seems like a huge engineering challenge, imagine synchronizing 40 million customers at 50 Hz
I've started thinking twice about clicking x.substack.com articles around here.

Why? Clickbait titles often filled with hot takes that at least in my experience don't have much signal vs noise and there's a tendency for it to just become a "this person is wrong on the internet" comment section.

Just a sign of the content mill cult of personality hot take times we live in and this one apparently got me go ahead and write the comment that's been on my mind

P.S. Not a critique of this article specifically and I'm sure there are decent substack publications. I mean I know they exist, I've read them. Just an observation
>> By introducing a single generic, you could reduce it from 500 lines to 20

No one is writing 500 lines of code - just as when you use the generics syntax you don’t write the code that is generated by the compiler in response.

You could save about 10 lines, specifically these 10:

https://github.com/logic-building/functional-go/blob/master/...

You would still need the comparable ~40 lines of “generic” code:

https://github.com/logic-building/functional-go/blob/master/...
Yeah it totally has that 'quickly-launched-short-lived summer intern project' vibe to it which is fine but is something I'd typically expect out of Google, but not Microsoft.
Generally, yes, and tanks usually roll with air support if not also infantry. Russia's neglect of this armchair-strategist type knowledge is making headlines.
The tussle for your connected car’s data's hitting high gear