skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See Bateman's principle [1]. In most species, variability in reproductive success is greater in males than in females. This is also true for humans (even today) [2], modern human may have twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors.

This is fairly intuitive result when you consider gestation time - imagine a scenario where there are more male than female in a given moment for a given species. At most each female got fertilized once, so the number of distinct male parents is less than or equal to the number of females. If there are more females than males, the you get the same situation (less distinct male parents). This result is simply because a male parent can fertilize multiple females quickly, while gestation period limit the females.

This dynamic has led to sexual selection mostly affecting the males of the species, which means that this is where the competition happens. The move from polygamy to monogamy in human culture has allowed more males to reproduce and reduced this effect (although it still exists, and is significant).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bateman%27s_principle

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_success#Humans
What a treat. I once hear someone compare Nabokov's novels to a meal where the table is perfectly set and food perfectly prepared for you. As a reader, you don't have to bring a lot to enjoy the book. I find the same is true about Wilder's films.
Humans are terrible at pretty much everything except what they are specifically highly trained in.

von Neuman was a genius, but he also actively promoted nuclear war. Does that mean he is or is not intelligent? Do you think in a world where von Neuman got to nuke the USSR in 1950, we would be happy we gave him the keys?
I think AGI will turn out to be pretty simple (but still could take a long time).

And it has arisen many times in other species, but didn't take off because not tied to survival value. If you put GI in charge of an animal, who knows whether what it will do will be in the animal's best interest? The human trick was brain architecture that somehow controls intelligence, while still being "in charge". The general nature of intelligence makes it difficult to control.

Another way GI is tied to survival value in humans is general division of labour (and general trade), which other species lack.
I've heard a similar idea with giving free food to an area. Influx of free food puts local farmers out of work - they can't compete with free. When the charity dwindles the former farmers can't spin up their production in time and famine reoccurs.
More info on the exploit that was patched found here: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/787.html.

An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
Definitely smart on Honda, considering none of the others have much a hold in cars.
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None of those things mentioned are restricted to having origins from the Southern White Community. That list could pretty much apply to any European extraction in the US.
They specifically called for dual-NIC.
Well sure but also now they are working on integrating neural networks and symbolic learning.
> Go into any crypto related community

Lie down with dogs, and get fleas.
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In fact, my guess is all the commentators thinking VA is about anti-SLAPP are wrong. My guess is VA is about some state-specific cases or interpretations of defamation law around corporations they thought were more favorable to them (i'm barred in DC and MD, but my recollection is that VA has some) They were going to face a relatively fast motion to dismiss in any state.

What really will matter is how favorable the state views the defamation-against-corporation claim, whether it has an anti-SLAPP law or not. If the state views it as strong, anti-SLAPP wouldn't matter because it would survive. If the state views it as weak, anti-SLAPP may kill it a little earlier but it will still go badly for them quickly.

The only practical advantage to the anti-SLAPP for defendants like this is that
A. you often can get a faster hearing
B. you often have guarantees around damages for bad-faith claims.

anti-SLAPP is much more useful when it's david vs goliath, and the small guy either needs a hearing in a week or two or ends up bankrupt from lawyer fees.
I can't pretend to know what numbers are reasonable here, so you'll need more than that to make a compelling case.
See M. Mitchell's Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
I have a crawlspace and a spool of Cat-6 cable, along with plenty of faceplates and a drywall saw, but I have no freaking idea how to get the cable from "in the crawlspace" to "coming out of the drywall." Any tips/links?
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When I want to get work done quickly, I boot up Windows XP in a VM. It's just so damn snappy it's unbelievable.

What Moore giveth, Gates taketh away...
Hah. Mac OS 9 could run iMovie (the first version, anyway). Maybe I should try that in the browser.

edit: ah even playing simple QuickTime movies do not work, I don't think editing will. Oh well.
> that the prices of many different assets are []largely divorced from[] fundamentals.

Actually, I think the claim is that prices are driving fundamentals rather than vice versa - ie rather than "$STUFF shortage causes rising price", you instead get "rising $STUFF price causes shortage".
try org-mode
What do people think of the Mill Computing solution for this?

https://millcomputing.com/docs/security/
To be fair half of $800k is still four hundred fucking thousand dollars a year.
Would not the best choice of palette be the one immediately preceding Waldo in π?
> I think this is generally not how Rust does things

That is correct.

> as by default Cargo.lock is explicitly listed in the .gitignore when making a library crate

Even if it is included in the contents of the package, Cargo will not use it for the purpose of resolution.

The "don't check it in" thing is related, but not because it will be used if it's included. It's because of the opposite; that way new people who download your package to hack on it will get their own, possibly different Cargo.lock, so you end up testing more versions naturally. Some people dislike this recommendation and include theirs in the package, but that never affects resolution behavior.
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If I could straight up detach my genitals when I didn't need them I'd be golden.
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I don't know why you're being downvoted because the answer is no, Firefox is no longer relevant.
These ones aren't random, because they build on previous ones. In nature, you get a sigmoid because you run out of resource, I think? True at any scale.

Pragmatic people point will out one limit on GI is all the accessible matter in the universe.

But, theoretically, I think, there is no limit on complexity.

BTW you might like this paper on the exponential growth in complexity of life on earth, over long timescales. https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/04/15/113741/moores-la...
My experience with roundabouts is they work wonderfully in some places, and horribly in others. I feel like at least where I am, because they work so perfectly and elegantly in certain situations, better than other solutions, they then get overapplied, in situations where they are horrible.

It's a variant of the "when you only have a hammer" analogy: when you first learn how great a hammer can be, everything looks like a nail.
Some clues are available in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 (Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git). There's nothing conclusive about the length of the pondering, but he does say the writing itself took two weeks:

"I decided I can write something better than anything out there in two weeks. And I was right." [1]

[1]: https://youtu.be/4XpnKHJAok8?t=736
That is not an answer to my question.
You use wall fishing kits and practice.

https://youtu.be/O95FJuzHaxQ

Or... train a pet rat!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_rat

Rats have been used for networking since the 90s, it's apparently an easy trick to get them to do.
You can pay people in crypto without going through an exchange/bank, and without meeting in person (like with cash)
Does the author know how computers work? I mean, how they really work?

It feels like the newest tech affine generation of this planet has started to lose a bit of grounding by failing to get a thorough understanding of how things work.

An AGI that is "taking over the internet and other infrastructure" is just - completely overblown hyperbole.
Will they be controlling power plugs too?
Excellent explanation. Thank you!
My current position is remote only with no travel. It was advertised as on site in SF and regular travel. Seems that top engineers with skills can fill such positions remotely, but the company does not want to offer that perk to average engineers. I feel very fortunate and might just be lucky, but I think that there exist more opportunities than there appear on job boards.
It is surprising how even "professionals" (read: companies shipping loads of containers every month) don't get that insurance part. And that insurance is dirt cheap, I used to have one as a basis for my now closed company. It covered all losses, globally, for all modes of transportation for solar modules (and some other electronics falling into the same class of products), covered warehousing. For a projected transported value of appr. 100k € per months I paid roughly 1k per year. And still people for go that, relying on the suppliers "insurance" based on Incoterms... Well, those insurance is usually very limited and leaves some holes, especially if people don't get what incoterms to use and what they mean...
If I was hypothetically in the market for a new Macbook Pro, I'd really like even more colour options than the Air. I'd pay at most $50 - $100 cad more for a really boss colour like the green on the new iPhone, but tbh grey and silver ain't cuttin it, idc how spiffy the internals are. I'd be pretty annoyed if I had to upgrade for some reason, but they still didn't have those options.
I was basing it on this line in the article:

> any police jurisdiction can use an EDR to request immediate access to data without a warrant, provided the law enforcement entity attests that the request is related to an urgent matter of life and death.
The main issue that no mainstream user knows about is bufferbloat. If you use WiFi APs and devices that support AQM and airtime fairness, you'll never know that there is a user on your wifi with low signal as they wouldn't be able to use all the airtime.
I was happiest with xhyve https://github.com/machyve/xhyve

Serial console in terminal was nice (for me!), network configuration was trash (I think I was able to set the subnet by fiddling around with system plists? and it would revert from time to time), and I didn't have to deal with Virtualbox. I've been away from macs for a while, I don't know if xhyve works on the M1, but it might. I ran a FreeBSD vm so I could run my server code on my laptop in an environment that was like production but slower.
Isn't Fedora primarily developed by and used as an upstream by RedHat (i.e. IBM)? Why does anybody need to volunteer to maintain security patches for it, RH can't afford to assign a few engineers to secure the product their very existence is based off of?
Agreed, I was also disappointed by the lack of actual information in the article. Was hoping that maybe those in the know on HN might pipe in with some details..
XP Pen. The support is great. I bought for my son an artist 12 with the fear of some malfunction on Linux but everything works really fine. Or better: there's a real configurable software and you can set everything about tablet and pen. Really really cool.
I think it is a pretty reasonable response to the type of comment that was directed at me. ("you, sir, are a fire. in dumpster. omg."). I don't think you will find a single instance of me insulting anybody without them directing hate and insults against me.

Yet somehow you protect those people and not me. Sorry I can not respect you for that.
> Do you really think we just witnessed a 7-figure heist from the Ukrainian government in plain view, and nobody is reporting on it?

Oh sweet summer child. "A criminal who stole from the government, a heist from the Ukrainian government".

How about: someone in the government found a way to profit during the war using tools that are largely unknown to the public, and where "plain sight" is "write a script, the API is free"?
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Ukraine has always had a ultranationalist problem, and America has always supported it. Where was the Christchurch Shooter trained again? That's right Azov...
There is also the third gender in domesticated animals: human breeders. Humans breeders are curating the species and easing the growth of human-favored varieties. There is also the interesting consequences of that in human-disfavored species who evolve to survive in distributed ways despite, or even possibly using our intelligence and tactics in their favor (cockroaches, rodents, viruses, parasites, kudzu, you name it). Nature is a massive calculator, and its algorithms are so interesting, we’ve got to test more of them in computing.
The best pilot would not rationalize for even a second why their instrument readings did not match their intuition. They would fall back on their training immediately in the face of ambiguity.

This person is not even close to being the best…which is irrelevant, since they should have known better anyway.

That being said, bad stuff can happen to anyone regardless of who they are.
For one, it doesn't really support authentication (although it's on the roadmap).

I'm no Prometheus expert, but since you're pretty much expected to be running a bunch of servers anyway, the operational complexity has to be handled even for just one client.

You do have a point on resource fragmentation, but IME Prometheus' resource usage is fairly predictable, so you could probably mitigate that to a point.
Dumb question, but is any arbitrary string of digits with length N, somewhere in pi?
Defining intelligence in a way that captures everything relevant and isn't self referential is extremely difficult.

Dr. Marcus Hutter's AIXI is a solid mathematical treatise that reduces intelligence to the concept of information compression, and you can exhaustively construct a logical extrapolation from aixi to any particular feature of intelligence at higher levels, but it's similar to string theory in that it's all-encompassing in scope. It's not useful in narrowing the solution space if you want to build a high level intelligent system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI
Is it weird that I really want this to be real? (pun intended)
You shouldn't read so much into a single sentence like that when it's so broad. That's just a summary they wrote offhand. It's not an absolute statement about every jurisdiction or company. Google around and you'll find there's more to it than that. Like "serious physical injury" for example.
Better rule: NEVER answer the phone.
Viewing angles could be a thing.

I can recall back in the early 2000s, we had a wave of people wiring up little character LCD displays for hardware monitoring. They inevitably looked awful at angles, washed out backlight, etc.

The super-lucky people could get a VFD display, which was a million times more legible, but they tended to be spendy, fragile, and warm-running.

OLED gives you everything: cheap, pretty cool running, and easy to read.

I've been experimenting with one of the Digole OLED modules to recreate what I wanted 20 years ago. :) (super-easy to interface to USB and program-- we've come so far!)
All that was needed was knowing spike is a target.
Reminds me of the guy who bought a pass for unlimited flights for $250,000 and cost the airline millions in losses[1]. This is not a vulnerability, and not a crypto problem either, just a poorly designed giveaway

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAirpass#Profitability_investi...
Didn't know wacom was supporting it, kinda just assumed these were community made drivers. Either way, spend a lot of hours with wacom on linux (playing osu!). Also nice that it doesn't have the shitty telemetry that the windows driver has.
You can't contract out of the law. That goes for almost all law I don't see why maritime law would be an exception.
> Numerous Western politicians have had off-mic moments in which they admitted that dangling NATO membership was only ever meant to bait Ukraine and Russia into a ruinous proxy war. Which has now occurred.

Please don't spread conspiracy theories.
The only thing I hate about Redis is that all data has to stay in memory...

Well I know that's obvious, but Redis is nearly the perfect solution in terms of performance. Unlike disk-based databases, Redis has consistently optimal performance on the order of millions of queries per second. And horizontal scaling is trivial with Redis Cluster (it involves running multiple Redis instances and many Redis service providers don't support it - I hope to have an easier way of running cluster though).

Given that memory is cheap it's quite plausible to store an entire database in a single Redis instance. I do hope that Redis finds its way to replace conventional databases. I think we just need an asynchronous `FLUSH` command, which blocks until the next `fsync`, and that should get us closer to ACID compliance.
does anyone else feel like they'll be forever stuck as an engineer and will never be given the chance to manage?
Wait, this is _not_ an April Fools joke?
Are you sure you didn't get bluffed out by their IR emitter?

Chromecast with Google TV contains an IR emitter to handle that, and IR is the default not CEC.
"And what about things people do that don’t make any statistical sense?"

Like what? It is always individual statistics made up from partly faulty data. It is never objective, what mattered in a evolutionary sense, was that it works good enough. (like ants algorithms are not perfect, but get the job done most of the time. I watched ants a lot ...)
1.2 million suicide attempts, 46k successful.

Counting homicides only gives you the "death" part of "life or death".
The fatalities were a vicious spiral. The males were killing more females, deepening the imbalance.
One thing to keep in mind is that evolution does not produce global optimums - only local ones.
I mean...yes, from 2000 to 20005 (the "early 2000s") I indeed had a landline and ethernet cords. Just because a technology preceded the time the author mentioned doesn't mean it didn't also exist in that time.
I have noticed an uptick of “staff X” as the new prestigious goal for technical careers.

Is this a recent phenomenon? Does anyone know why there are so many upvoted stories of people just recounting their daily work?
I swear. What happened here? Like why do things feel sluggish than software over 20 years ago? I just can't wrap my mind around it. We have SSDs and infinite CPU and RAM now compared to those days, yet there is always this feeling the computer is doing something more than I asked for behind the scenes. Even on websites, you can feel when you click on a link, it is doing something more. It's a very uncomfortable feeling.
if it was possible to challenge Bloomberg, many wallstreet companies, banks, hedge funds would've done it already. the fact is they remain a moat. horrible ui but fast news reporters that the industry relies on. this is not something open source can fix (never was the issue), it is about hiring dozens of financial journalists who quickly deliver news
We need another major breakthrough first. As I've pointed out previously, so far nobody can even get squirrel-level AI to work. Even OpenWorm doesn't work. The big problem is "common sense", defined as getting through the next 30 seconds of life without a major screwup. There are animals with brains the size of a peanut that can do that.

The hard problems are down near the bottom. It's not about consciousness, souls, etc. It's about running along the branch without falling off, grabbing nuts along the way.

GPT-3 is fun, but it's more a demonstration of the banality of discourse than a breakthrough in understanding.
Have you used Workers KV? In my experience, it's not just eventually consistent but also delayed - often by 10 seconds at least - the data is not updated even for the same client, unless they implement their own caching.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/how-truly-slow-is-workers...

The other solution is to use cloudflare durable objects. - which is what I use, but it's very verbose.

KV is a poor experience for me.
> there are many reasons why particular actors would want to retain that data

> data availability is likely to remain incentivized within dedicated sub-protocols

> private entities that will have their own external incentives to retain that data

A lot of wishful thinking which is presented as fact. Someone somewhere might still retain all that data because someone somewhere might have some incentives, and hopefully someone might still retain that data.

Whereas the reality is this: history will be purged. There are zero guarantees for availability of any historical data after the purge.

Additionally, the linked reddit thread is hilarious. "State expiry is so important for decentralisation, so we're proposing a solution where actual history and state is stored on a few centralised nodes, maybe". And there are literally no answers to the question "what happens to historical data" except "well maybe there will be altruism and maybe there will be incentives to store data in some protocols, oh and this centralised service infura surely will want to store the data, trust us it will never disappear".

Yeah, right.
The standard definition of “knowledge” used to be “justified true belief”. In other words, knowledge is a type of belief.

(That didn’t turn out to be a good definition, but not because of the “belief” part.)
I would say that if 90% of stable coin transactions are through tether then they have the general trust of the community. It's as plain as day, and you seek to dismiss it as a "side show" when it's really the main act.

Pro crypto arguments these days have come down to basically "You're not allowed to make that argument. It's early days. There are no good critics..." and now "you can't conflate my argument."
Probably helps that they're in private hands, which I don't know how they managed to do for so long.
It's ""fun"", because there is definitely a CEC command for TV to know AVR's current volume.

But I can't blame TV manufacturer for not implementing it: When sending vol+/vol- commands, you're already stretching the CEC bus pretty thin, you can't afford to spam the bus more with more commands...
Correct; the programs can’t scale. Schools give a fixed number of PhDs every year. They can either give them to Americans or to foreign students. Hint: same with PhD employers.

To be fair, I do understand the point of international competition for those slots, but that’s not directly aligned with the interests of the American middle class that pays the tuition and grant money to those schools.

I don’t understand your ASML anecdote. The US has far more immigrant workers than any other country on earth. Is ASML avoiding us because that’s not enough? Are Taiwanese and Korean semiconductor industries failing due to their focus on citizen training and employment rather than labor imports?