skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The pixel data in this gif are the 23,074,248th through 23,075,235th hexadecimal digits of π!

You might be surprised to learn that π! (pi factorial) is a thing that makes sense

π! = 7.1880827289760327020821943451247587185593017639684371624100356994...

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=pi%21
There is obviously a risk of pathogen leak..

https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Esc...

And there are highly qualified experts in the field who view GoF research as the most likely source of COVID-19, so on what basis are you so confident that it doesn't pose a major risk?
I guess we need to teach people how to use a phone line??
I hate seeing a 1.5 page resume more than I do a 2 page resume. If you’re going to take up a second page, use all of it. If you can’t do that, cut 1/2 of a page and get it all on 1 page.

You’d be amazed at how many 1.125-1.25 page resumes I see.
plot twist: pixels are LEDs
In the beginning websites were simple enough (and also light on resources) that static layouts and styling were more than enough. In those regards, a simple syntax like HTML and CSS worked well. Just like how we still use JSON/YAML/TOML for configuration files, instead of reaching for the nearest turing complete language. However it's only in the past 10-15 years that complexity has really started to grow on the frontend, making it more and more enticing to have conventional programming language constructions (conditionals, functions, loops) in the layout and the styling.
Gee... I'm glad I walked away from it. I was about to go for UDM-Pro when updating my home network devices. Then I read some HN saying they were putting ads to the console pages.
But that wasn't really about product itself. What you mentioned were really really serious product issues in areas I suppose almost every other vendors are rock solid.
> and then put the receiver back down while Becky runs into her big sister’s room to grab the upstairs phone

This is dumb though. Just don't put it down until becky picks up.
First one. The devastation will be unimaginable and irreversible. At least with climate it will be possible for human kind to hobble forward somehow. And changing the climate would be infinitely easier than putting the AGI genie back in its bottle.
congrats on having the worst hn take of the year
Artificial pancreas to revolutionise diabetes care in England
Yes but once you get through your residency your expected earnings go up quite a bit and you don’t go back to square one. If someone had told me that I’d still need to prep for leetcode interviews at age 55 I’d have chosen the MD path given a choice, but I’m also old enough to remember the days when you could get a decent coding job based mainly on your experience so from my perspective things have in general gotten demonstrably worse in terms of process for anything other than a lottery-ticket FAANG position.
It’s definitely doable. Most states operate portals to facilitate many types of transactions, and it would be easy enough to offer this as a service.

This is exactly the way locals use things like codis.
That was mostly due to advances in mRNA technology, no? Moderna was able to design the vaccine in days mostly because of it's RNA tech, not because it was prepared for a coronavirus pandemic.
To answer your question, not "everyone" but rather a tiny minority of people, will throw money at gofundme under whatever circumstances. By contrast, a majority of people, including about half of Republicans, support Medicare for all (ie, "Single payer" health care).

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As for the article, Empathy is what separates us from psychopaths, so it's not surprising that a Yale Psychologist would want to damage it to help his political slant. That said, I would say it's unfortunate that people can be fooled and conned easily due to their empathy, but I'm not sure there's fix besides destroying high-trust society altogether. The professor is not concerned with this downside of empathy, I don't think.
It's not about the treadmill, it is about what makes you happy. Your questioning implies that you are no longer truly happy. A key question is how much wealth (home equity, savings, investments) you have created. If you have minimal wealth, then you have simply been running fast on the treadmill. Living it up. Which is fine until it no longer makes you happy. You will need some significant wealth to make a comfortable transition.

Before you make a decision, look at where your net income is going. Assess what you are willing to give up and of those that you retain, how much you would be spending in a lower cost location. You need to involve your wife in such an analysis and discussions. If you are still interested, take a vacation and visit some of the places you are considering. See if you do like the environment and what it has to offer.
That's his entire point
Just plain algebra is abstract math, and even the most common everyday math most overlapping common programming work.

I didn’t even know until today there was a concept called linear algebra, it was taught to me as introductory geometry alongside other geometry concepts. So that’s neat to learn!
How can they get data without a court order? They ask for it. Providers don't have to turn it over.
I suppose that’s fair to a point. It’s just disappointing.

The thing is this non material whatever can’t have properties. If it stores information, has state and has consistent behaviour then really it’s just a form of material (in the philosophical sense that it’s a part of the world), so it can’t have any of those. At which point, how does it even interact with the world at all? I mean if it influences the brain, then that mechanism of influence makes it part of the world, right? It makes it material.

That’s where I find the idea incoherent. I don’t see how it can be both immaterial but also have material effects. Doing so makes it material, I think by definition. It means it must be part of material reality in that sense. Or at least I’d like to hear an argument why it doesn’t.
The state would not allow you to exchange your local currency into US dollars. In other words, you can’t ask your bank to convert local currency to the dollar: that’s heavily regulated by the state.
Beats me. Enough to turn my backyard into a cartoon and shortly afterwards I was paralyzed in bed with a pounding heartbeat. I knew enough to keep my feet elevated to counteract some of the low blood pressure effects.

In addition to what I said earlier, you also have to consider interactions. A friend gave one of the edibles I made to a friend who was taking some random Chinese herbal medicine and they did end up calling the paramedics.
I spent a good amount of time trying to find some gadgets on jdk8 today no dice besides some DoS
A new Tesla subscription service is coming starting at $995 per month
I am not aware of them silently doing something about the mortgage bubble either.
I do not know on what country data your conclusion about omicron is based on but it really did overwhelm health care system in countries with low vaccination rates.

You could not compare masks with contraception because if you keep having sex, yes, it will result in pregnancy but infections diseases are not like sex because they come in waves and if you can outlive the current wave, your risk drops near zero until next wave hits.

Another important difference is that you could not have lesser pregnancy but you definitely can have less serious symptoms when you are exposed to lesser amount of virus particles.
I can't really fault the tech companies for this, it's not a great place to be in and there isn't an obvious solution.

The bad actors are explicitly exploiting an emergency provision intended for quick information return to prevent serious harm/death using verified police accounts they've compromised.

You either end up with the headline we have here or "Apple's failure to comply with an emergency request led to the death of X"

I don't know what the right policy is, but this is just a tradeoff without an easy answer.
> Is it out of place to suggest edibles in such a way that implies that there's no danger to them?

That's an interesting assumption. I would say it is out of place, for the people that do that. At the same time I don't think a disclaimer is necessary for about figuring out your dosage and that some people experience anxiety as a gatekeeping to discussing a product at all, because we don't do that for anything else. I think its something people should be aware of. That's up to the consumer, but I would absolutely love FDA style packaging with disclaimers about known side effects from actual clinical trials and studies. But we don't have that right now.
>We know that the single best predictor of job success and performance is IQ.

Wow, so many people react so sharply to this, I'm not sure why. May be there is an inherent belief that all one has to do is work hard and success will follow.

Minor nitpick - I think performance has a good correlational with IQ, I think less so a job, because a job also generally requires high conformity (not an enviable trait IMO)
256 at any one time. But, the game has different palletes on different levels. I guess they have to map each pallete to a single display method.
Back in 200x, we had a very old machine. It had 64Mb of RAM only. We had to install AV on this and through sifting through the AV softwares, only eset nod32 ran on it without slowing it down or taking too much resources. I like how they optimised it to the point where I could run it on that old machine. They say they write it in Assembly but I think it's just a marketing ploy. However the result satisfies me enough.

From then until now our business has gone through a lot but ESET has never been something that bothered us too much. It just sits in the background doing its thing. I have terrible memories of Symantec / McAfee just being annoying, but Nod32 is just the thing you install, it sits there and you can forget about it.
"The law of general average is a principle of maritime law whereby all stakeholders in a sea venture proportionately share any losses resulting from a voluntary sacrifice of part of the ship or cargo to save the whole in an emergency. For instance, should the crew jettison some cargo overboard to lighten the ship in a storm, the loss would be shared pro rata by both the carrier and the cargo-owners."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_average
My Switch's CEC is as flaky as yours, but my Xbox One X does wake up the TV from sleep no worries even if I let it go to sleep, last I checked. Though now I really want to double check this, and see whether it's the Xbox that has messed it up, or the Xbox + TV manufacturer combo?

My Apple TV 4K wakes my TV and to the right input with Airplay though!
C++23 Will Be Really Awesome
None of my negative reviews about scammers have ever been approved by Amazon. I have just started taking my business elsewhere.
It would be fun and practical to embed MicropolisJS (SimCity) in Grafana, expose its state as data sources, and use Grafana's dashboards, maps, and time series views to display the SimCity funds, population, city stats, demand gauges, financial overviews, history graphs, event logs, and interactive map overlays, to show off all the cool stuff that Grafana really shines at!

https://www.graememcc.co.uk/micropolisJS/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30585166
When I read the quote at the top of the article, my eyes read it as having the opposite meaning at first, that this would finally be the language that doesn't change the way I think. Because I've been down that rabbit hole with the most hardest darndest languages there are and I feel more enlightened but I'm still waiting for nirvana.
Sure, if someone released it deliberately, that would likely justify death for that person or persons.

But if it were developed with good intent, and released by a pure non-negligent accident, that would

Roughly, if it was deliberately developed with the intent to release, that would justify the same for everyone in the management chain with knowledge of the plot. But that responsibility would stop at the level where the plot intent was hidden.

From the article, it seems the most likely clue would be that the entire US chain and the WIV lab leadership was intent on developing knowledge to stop pandemics, but the Chinese military's involvement in the lab produced corrupt work on some team. Whether this was even known to the lab leadership, or they could know it is doubtful.

To take that and say that everyone all the way up the chain to Fauci should be executed is to advocate for guilt by association. If you want that, you should move to China, Russia, or some other autocracy, because it has no place in a democracy.

If you have some evidence that Fauci had intent and directed anyone to create and release such a virus, you need to produce that evidence before calling for his execution.

(note, I know you specifically avoided making such a call, but your message is easily read as supporting such calls)
Node.js had `http` in its standard library for a long time though.
This is where it becomes more sinister. You have to consider that other countries are doing the same research, and developing super bugs that only they have the treatment for
Good one.

After reading this thread my list is:

* Toilets

* Bicycles

* Water heaters

* Locks

* Guns

The rest seem either a little too specialized, simple, or already in the process of being replaced by things with microchips.

A few of these may be replaced as well (locks?), but it's not quite happening yet.
I can give you a bit of data that is roughly thirty years old. When I was a youngster, I had a job at Subway. I was freakishly nerdy and good at math, so I ended up doing cash most of my shifts. If it went well, it took me twenty minutes. Most of my coworkers spent double that time.

If we split the difference (30 minutes) and factor in my big hourly wage ($7 an hour), it’s at around $3.50 a business day per location. That’s not huge money, but still works out to close to $1,300 a year for one location. Multiple that by a few million and it’s a serious cost.

Great comment.
Ignoring that I didn't ask anything like "what should Krebs have done later?":

> he should've done a retraction and discussed what he knows about "Adam" and how he was likely the hacker who did the extortion.

That's not a retraction. That's an update based on new information. Those aren't the same thing. This is just begging the question of his knowledge. It doesn't really seem like Krebs, even if he is a shitty journalist overall (I know very little about him, so I'm not going to assume one way or another), said anything actually false at the time he said it.

Is a journalist, once they report on a story once, required to continue reporting on that story forever?
If you can’t draw a conclusion from that then you simply don’t get it.

AGI will, as I said, make many things possible. It will be possible to keep a human being alive forever and suspend them in a state of pure pain for eternity. It will be possible to extract memories and information from the human brain. It will be possible to control human behavior with invasive brain surgery. Imagine every grotesque thing that you can do to a human being — it’s on the table for AGI enabled governments in the early days if that’s how it plays out. And that’s just one slice in the infinite pie of grotesque possibilities. You can’t just opt out of these things if they provide a material advantage to your country/meta organism.
Even though I'm not an FB user, the Bookface theme isn't half bad.
Does this run the containers on the DB host itself? How’s that work with replication?

And what’s an actual end user application / use case for this? The post lists some examples but I don’t understand what it means to run them in a container on the DB.
Sean Carroll had a Mindscape episode with Paul Bloom: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/02/18/epis...
Maven and gradle don't have lockfiles(by default), and have never really had a serious need for them, because dependency declarations generally don't use ranges.
The central repositories don't allow versions to be replaced, and artifacts are all signed with PGP keys of the developers(although most people don't verify these).

I've never really seen the value in dependency ranges, they make builds more complicated, and bring minimal value.
Worth noting is that, while go build doesn't run arbitrary code, go generate does:

package evil

import "fmt"

// the echo is intentional, in case someone actually tries this for some reason
//go:generate echo rm -rf /

func PretendGood() {
fmt.Println("I am good")
}

When they say fetching and building code doesn't execute it, that's specific to go get and go build. There's no guarantee that every go subcommand is safe. This is pretty obvious if you know how go generate works and it isn't a flaw of the language, but if I were new to go, this is the kind of article I'd read but still not understand exactly what was safe and what wasn't.
I don't know, maybe look up the police department's number online and call them back? If we can do it when the "bank" calls us and asks for private information, maybe these guys could do the same.
Because universal programs are slush funds. If you want to fix healthcare, make pricing transparent and competitive. Don't just let hospital administrators and insurance companies price fix and charge whatever. Same thing as free tuition. Fix tuition costs, don't just make the taxpayers foot the college administrators rolls royce.
You might find people doing this and not notice it. Sometimes the educational progress is formulating a thing you already know for a subset of people who will receive it more effectively in that format. Might be boring to you, might be brain exploding revelatory for someone else. Even a better articulation of something which might have helped you learn can be in that category! Keep in mind you’re judging education of material you already know.
Despite what the Jay-Z song says police don't need a warrant to search your car
https://baldanilaw.com/jay-zs-99-problems/
That’s mostly agitation by the bar association looking for more employment with public benefits.

There’s always a constraint in resources to take cases to trial - for obvious reasons, they are expensive affairs.

A warrant is mostly boilerplate and there’s no shortage of judges to review them.
If we make an AGI at anything like human level, then even without any real progress past that, it will become superhuman just by removing biological limits (like being able to duplicate itself instead of having to convince and train other humans as we do), and groups of AGI can work together even easier than groups of humans. I think a lot of people describing the "singularity" are imagining scenarios like this too instead of just the idea of a single computer-sized AGI self-optimizing its algorithms to infinite intelligence.

I'm not sure whether I expect AGI to happen within some centuries but it's not ruled out, it's vaguely plausible, and the consequences would be extremely high so I think it's very useful for people to think about.
They put two roundabouts in here on a state highway. I've never talked to anyone who had good things to say about them.

The main problems IMO are:

- you can just go around again if you aren't sure which exit you need; you are forced into taking an exit, right or wrong

- the radius is too small so there is not much time to make a complex decision, especially if you aren't already familiar with the exits

- it's hard to monitor traffic entering the roundabout to make sure I don't get hit by someone having a harder time navigating this than me, while at the same time trying to figure out what the crazy sign diagrams mean.

- there's no confirmation when you do take an exit that you've taken the right one. Might not be a road sign for 10-15 seconds, which is a long time when you're not sure where you're going.

- they're even worse at night because there's not enough lighting. Not too bad for the exits toward civilization, but pretty confusing for the more rustic ones.

I think the idea is okay, but at least for the ones they put in here, the execution is not so hot.
Indeed: Most of the artists at the high-end VFX studios (Weta, ILM, Framestore, MPC, DNEG, etc) are using Linux workstations and have been for years.

There's still a bit of Windows (for ZBrush), and other more smaller studios use Windows or MacOS more, but Linux support is very important for those larger studios.
Yeah, Americans generally prefer doing things voluntarily as opposed to being forced to do them. It’s part of the whole “freedom” thing.
“You can call me by name, or you can call me by value.”
The problem for Krebs is that (if the criminal case against this guy is true) Krebs was a party to the crime. He was the medium for the extortion. He is the guy that published and spread the damaging story! And he’s still doing it!

It’s as if a bank robber was dressed as an innocent old lady and tricked Krebs into carrying the bags of stolen money to the getaway car. Except here, the robber is in the back of a squad car and Krebs is still transporting bags of cash! It doesn’t matter whether the statements were true, they’re an act of extortion! Extortion is defamation per se.
I don’t see this changing until after several lawsuits are appealed to various courts and so on. The AGPL is a very proscriptive license and it’s legal implications are wider than any other open source license. Naturally legal team caution tends towards risk reduction and eliminating AGPL is an effective risk reduction from a customer sue the business over <unknown software component> source access type of risks.

So yeah I don’t see it changing without several expensive lawsuits being pursued by someone willing to use the AGPL and trying to die on that hill of not giving away the code. Between people using the AGPL tending to be aware of this and not wanting to violate the licensing the potential pool of people that might even wind up in the position to be served with such a lawsuit is small and the number willing to die on that hill in order to appeal it high enough to set legal precedent is vanishingly small.

It’s sort of a Drake equation situation… number of license users, number of users of the license users, value involved in the licensing, cost of lawsuits, willingness to defend, etc…
A lot of people find it credible that a hugely complex fast computer system could be intelligent. Many of them seem to find it convincing that a man in a room with a book can’t “understand Chinese” when he personally doesn’t. But the only difference between them is scale.
It's not misleading to anyone casually familiar with those little OLED boards. They are cheap.
At staff, or even senior levels, you only have a limited time after joining a company to identify opportunities and initiate projects. Once your projects go live, you're responsible for them. If your initiatives keep failing and getting scrapped, you'd be out of a job soon.
> Most of the imminent AGI / Singularity / Robot Apocalypse stuff seems to come, with few exceptions, not from practitioners or computer scientists specialized in AI

I'm a practitioner at a top company for many years now, and I think we're getting close to a point of no return. I think best case scenario is some form of unrecognizably transformed "humanity", worst case is too horrible to even spell it out.

The reason why this is not the consensus among experts has to do with a combination of blind spots and biases. Humans are especially bad at (a) evaluating / reflecting on themselves, and (b) extrapolating, especially with non-linear processes.