skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that the whole Western world pulling together can barely keep Ukraine from being conquered by a much poorer invader, most likely we could not defend Taiwan.

Especially because China might not care if it is destroyed, but "saving" a decimated Taiwan is losing, not winning.
Temporarily. The district court stayed it, the Fifth Circuit (which has been on a nutty tear lately) reinstated it, and SCOTUS put the district court's stay back in place. It'll wind up at SCOTUS again at some point.
So you could tunnel ipv4 through DNS, and serve HTML via DNS, and use DNS over HTTPS?
I still don't see the problem. Apple is a minority player in this market. Android presumably allows whatever you want, right? If you want the customized experience, use that.
Reduces the jitter/anxiety. It's present in green tea, and its to caffeine as CBD is to THC.

Doesn't do much on its own, but dampens some of the unpleasant side effects of the main psychoactive chemical in its plant.
I will show this to my boss, while he eats (again) a full water melon at his desk.
Except there is a sustainable market, just make it available on amazon, apple, etc.

I just finished watching the first Jurassic World with the kids, if cost £3.50 on apple. I have a feeling I may have a dvd or bluray of it somewhere in a box as I've seen it before, and it wasn't at the Cinema, but it wasn't worth the half hour trying to find it.

Discovery Season 1-3 was on netflix, Picard and Lower decks on Amazon Prime. Discovery Season 4 came out on amazon and apple at something like £2 or £3 an episode.

That's how you make money. It doesn't cost a lot to put your program on platforms like Amazon or Apple (Presumably it's a simple "x% of the price in commission").
It feels like the plan has always been to price the working class off the roads, with no alternative beyond walking or cycling.

But if so, they underestimated how much this could cripple economies.

When you've got the elite/ruling-class flying in to climate conferences on dozens of private jets, it's clear who isn't going to modify their lifestyle for the sake of the environment.

EVs will remain luxuries for the relatively wealthy. You need a spacious home with a garage or at least a driveway if you want to charge at home. No luck if you're in an apartment. And there's still no sign of serious efforts to build charging infrastructure on a 'for the masses' scale, despite bans on new ICE cars planned for less than a decade from now.

(If we get to the point of fully-autonomous self-driving taxis being a thing - they'll be owned in bulk by the super-rich and their corporations, not by regular individuals. It'll probably be illegal for a regular citizen to operate such a service, even when the tech is ubiquitous)
It's exhausting. His thinking is literally a direct threat to human survival as we know it. Yet somehow, we accept this shit as part of the discourse. I don't see why we don't treat them like flat earthers or cultists.
I've been to at least 2-3 restaurants with winding staircases and tables reasonably close to the stairs. It's not just transparency that's an issue
IMO, it’s kind of like the ‘longest most ornate nails’ competition that happens with some folks.

The whole point is it’s obnoxious and actively interferes with getting things done - it’s a flex showing that they are so highly valued and supported with such luxury that they can get away with it.

Like peacock feathers, but professional.
You can both be rich and clueless. Which is about 99% of the crypto startup universe
Of course, you have no idea if that's true, but you say it because you want to believe it. This is textbook Frankfurtian bullshit.

What we do know:

1. Yandex and Baidu can't find it either. Russian and Chinese search engines have no incentive to derank Trump - if anything, the opposite (he's great for sowing division among Americans and it would boost the tech bias narrative).

2. As another commenter has noted, Truth Social bans all robots, including search engine web crawlers.
Those are all Skylake CPUs with very minor tweaks. The biggest change being clock frequencies steadily increasing due to 14 nm evolving into the ultra-mature 14+++ nm process.
Why can’t you have both? That is my thesis, and I’m attempting to support it with data using a first principles approach. If productivity is high enough, why does that time delta warrant material consideration?
> The current Taiwanese government's only stated goal is to defend itself.

That is entirely wrong. There are plenty of people in the current government pushing the envelope to achieve more "pronounced" independence.

Two examples:

Biden’s democracy summit incident. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/curious-case-map-...

Change of passport. The current government is also pushing to get the day-to-day name Taiwan more prominent. For example, they are putting the Taiwan name on the passport now, even though their constitutional name is Republic of China (I am wondering when they will change that).

Depending on which side you are, you may consider these are declaration of independence and a change of status quo.

> China could attack Taiwan (particularly Matsu and Kinmen), but an attack on the mainland also appears less likely these days, given the very real chance of humiliation a la Russia in Ukraine.

I think you may misunderstand the CCP. Even the perception of losing Taiwan will cause them to lose control in the mainland. What matters most to CCP? And imagine what they will do.
The Myth of Affordability
It also looks like ads for a world with far less refrigeration and freezing. When things are canned to preserve their palatability, they end up needing help to make them palatable. But they’re ok, which isn’t the case for food that exceeds its fridge time.
The next 5 years could be very interesting and sad if it turns out that COVID has lasting, long term damaging effects on your organs and vascular system, we are just beginning to see the tip of the iceberg.

For example, there is an extremely serious post covid multi-system organ inflammation that occurs in children : https://www.cdc.gov/mis/mis-c.html

Watch, I bet we will even see a huge jump in rare cancers.

Edit: And in adults, it does weird things to your alcohol tolerance: https://www.kevinmd.com/2021/03/could-a-glass-of-wine-diagno...

I can not drink wine really anymore.
New Crypto Regulation in the US
I was curious as to what the 'community AI' research org's stances on distributed training of deep neural nets were so some weeks ago I stumbled upon Eleuther AI's FAQ page which was talking about how it was not a task that they were looking at due to various technological challenges:

Source: https://www.eleuther.ai/faq/

What about volunteer-driven distributed computing, like BOINC, Folding@Home, or hivemind?
-Backpropagation is dense and sensitive to precision, therefore requiring high-bandwidth communication. Consumer-grade internet connections are wholly insufficient.
-Mixture-of-experts-based models tend to significantly underperform monolithic (regular) models for the same number of parameters.
-Having enough contributors to outweigh the high overhead is infeasible.
-Verifiability and resistance to outside attack are not currently possible without significant additional overhead.
In short, doing volunteer-driven distributed compute well for this use case is an unsolved problem.

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Am really excited to see inroads being made in this field of active research and hope that all AI orgs - OpenAI, Eleuther, etc. - can take part in this in domain of much-needed (IMO) research.
I picked it because it is someone who wasn't taught this sort of thinking, and who took a job where they didn't until recently do this sort of thinking on the main.

Yes, the paper itself isn't a turning point, but the claims of the paper, if one chooses to accept them, are damning. A science should never confuse theoretical prediction and empiric evidence.

Indeed, other agencies like the FDA make the opposite mistake e.g. insisting on endless RCTs for e.g. JJ + mRNA booster vaccine when the theory-based extrapolation from other evidence is simple, and the opportunity cost of waiting non-negligible.

It is bad and quite odd given the overall trend of science towards "mindless empiricism" that Econ has the opposite problem!
Fair enough, but that doea still mean that higher rates are factored in. Not just as well/strongly as you and I would like.
I think there's a difference between "blockchain + PoW" and "blockchain". Blockchain taken literally is just verification of history via hashing. It's a form of provenance that is hard to fake. Even if you are a central authority as to what transactions are being made, you can't rewrite history beyond any point that you've made publicly visible, without losing the trust of people who rely on you as a central authority, as to do so you would need to break the hashing algorithm.
I do not think the many worlds interpretation provides any value. I only care about what is experimentally determinable.
The original Deus Ex. It's not particularly educational, but it's the most enjoyment I've gotten out of any game. And it's not so open-ended that it's too big of a time sink. I love simulation and management games, but I find that they take a lot more time than they give back in supposed benefits.

I'll give gaming one thing, and that's that it's probably the cheapest and most accessible hobby out there. Sure, there are some titles that require expensive hardware, or have exorbitant subscription fees, or dupe you into spending money on inconsequential things like skins. But there are already more classics out there to play in a lifetime that require none of those things.
So the USA is a remnant of the British Empire?

Or perhaps a better analogy is that Britain is a remnant of the USA?
Would have loved a Newton back in the day, but it was too expensive for a young adult salary. By the time it could have gotten cheaper it was killed.
1. The article omits </p> liberally.

2. The spec details situations where the </p> tag may be omitted.

3. None of these (2) apply to what's going on at (1).
I'm sure there are plenty of less-risky alternatives - Iceland? Switzerland? Estonia?
If you squint a bit it almost looks like a derivative of a derivative, and the underlying assets are already over-leveraged.
Certainly you can probably do it faster than the 10,000 years or so it took the first time.

But it's not a panacea. A "cold start" of a complex system isn't just about replicating the system itself, it's about replicating the conditions that gave rise to it. (Witness how many ex-Googlers have founded search startups and failed to get traction, or how many people have replicated Facebook and Reddit clones and failed to get traction.) A lot of our industrial processes (like building microchips, photovoltaics, plastics, modern manufacturing) require a large base of tooling that itself requires prerequisites which may not be available. In some cases the raw materials (eg. crude oil, rare earths) are no longer accessible.

The knowledge is useful, but it'll be useful in the sense that then people can look at their current situation and bring portions of the past into it. That's probably going to involve a lot of scavenging and looting, because why dig iron ore out of the ground and fire it with coal dug out of the ground when there are large supplies of abandoned scrap steel in the world?
The difference between a kilt and a skirt is whether or not you're wearing underwear.

I mean, not technically, but it usually shuts up anybody who wants to give you a hard time about wearing a skirt.
The TTL doesn't really matter in this case because you query the dns.toys DNS server directly, rather than going through a remote recursive resolver (which would normally cache any results it gets based on the TTL).
Yeah, floating staircases and balconies with grates caused nightmares for me when I was a kid. When you're small and everything is big, the gaps induce severe fear of height; at 6, you see nothing where adults see guardrails. What's worse, some Soviet architectural genius built floating stairs in my school. I got used to it over time, but in the first year I felt a bit lightheaded every time I had to use them.
Because the problem is not the access to drugs. Sure, it's illegal, but you can find weed, heroin, cocaine, lsd, shrooms, anything you want provided you know the right sellers.

Only heroin is in the sweet spot of strong kick, immense pain relief and extremely cheap. People take cheap drugs because they're poor, not because they don't want to get their hands on pure colombian coke.
In your analogy the US government would be moving to Nowhere, Kansas and the revolutionary movement would have taken Washington D.C. The only remnant of the "Old US" would then be Nowhere, Kansas and its surrounding.

I think it would be closer to the situation in China if that revolutionary movement had taken over all of the continental US with the government fleeing to Hawaii.
This has been an incredible gift to me. Thank you everyone who worked on it!
how does this compare to kaggle?
Show HN: A Matrix Home Server with Libp2p
Could you shuttle more data through this method to have a browser that works on unauthenticated captive portal wifi networks?
My job doesn't force tests, but if you choose to test yourself and test positive, you're asked to work from home. How is this not reasonable?

It's getting a bit tiring hearing a certain corner of society complaining how minor inconveniences are oppressing them.
By your logic, it would be wrong to say that OpenAI is closer to consciousness than a piece of lumber.

However, your comment is a good reminder that non-rigid thought patterns are not a prerequisite for consciousness. (How apropos your username!)
The worst part is when you pay for a 12 month subscription and they cancel it after 11 and ask you to renew.
Keep in mind that it isn’t usually really sociopathicness. Sociopath denotes a particular type of negative pathology that rarely can exist in a real leadership position for any length of time. By definition it’s too destructive.

That being said, low empathy/low affect for others emotional and mental state is a clear advantage past a certain (low) organizational level, if combined with decision making that does weight it at least a little. A lot of people call that sociopathic, but that is because they haven’t met an actual sociopath.

Caring about people has advantages in our day to day lives (especially for others), but being able to make clear headed pragmatic decisions about people for your benefit (with sometimes severe negative consequences for others) isn’t one of them.

And if someone is in a leadership position and can’t do that, they won’t be effective. The larger the scope of the leadership position, the more true it is.

Ineffective leadership dooms everyone, sooner or later.
I have no inside info about this, but it wouldn't change my opinion if there had been an internal ask first. It's a fact of life that sometimes you will lose the argument, and fail to convince others of your ideas, even when you care deeply. I have been there, and it sucks. At that point, you can chose to stay and live with it, or decide it's a dealbreaker for you and move on.

The third option -- to escalate the argument to the public square and enlist the public as allies -- is available, but think what would happen if everybody did this. In a company of thousands of people there will always be passionate disagreement. If companies tolerated this kind of public escalation, it would erode the trust that is necessary for any organization to operate. It would be its own kind of toxic culture.
It's long since named a concept rather than a specific set of companies, nobody cares (or intends to mean) what it actually stands for.
>because I don't like how it was designed

can you elaborate?
Step Size Is a Consequential Parameter in Continuous Cellular Automata
Hi HN,

This is my independent effort on building a decentralized messaging app combining the Matrix protocol and the libp2p library.

The idea keeps popping up in my head when I was reading the Matrix protocol specification, on how we can, if ever, enter a world where communication base on decentralized technologies become mainstream for ordinary people:

1. There are plenty of messaging apps with end-to-end encryption. They are centralized, only work when their domain names are not blocked, and ask your phone number for creating an account.

2. There are also plenty of messaging platforms that allows private deployment, with a little knowledge on Linux, server management, and maybe also buying a domain name.

3. And to my surprise, there are quite a number of decentralized messaging apps already exist, or in active development. I wish any of them successfully become mainstream, with their own protocol stack, cryptography and cross platform UIs.

I don’t want to just sit there and wait. The protocol is open, and much of the ingredient already exists, in either the Matrix specification or libp2p: cryptography, authorization rules, conflict resolution algorithms, decentralized networking, etc. If one day my friends switch to Matrix, maybe they only need a custom URL to switch to P2P. There is also official effort on making Matrix fully decentralized (P2P), so this project may be obsoleted, but until then, please give it a try :D.

P.S.: I used C# because that’s the language I am most familiar with, and as a side product there is a Windows desktop application which you can simply unzip and run. Alternatives would be JS, which can play nicely together with the client (a mobile version?), or go, which has the most complete libp2p implementation.
The causes of rogue waves are not understood.
Doesn’t this go both ways? If executives no longer believe in their employees, the executives can leave?
> I can appreciate the potential of the technology, but that doesn’t mean I embrace the community.

That seems fine, and is basically the opinion I hold.

The intellectually challenging thing about crypto is that it is very easy to go from “I don’t like these people” to “these people’s predictions are wrong”.

Hacker news seems so caught up in disliking a subset crypto people, that they assume that not only are they “bad people”, but they’re wrong.
I suggest you read my w3 consortium link. Self sovereign identities and decentralised identities very much overlap to the point of being synonyms.
You could have explained them instead, agree?
I think the second link is broken.
Thanks for the link, hadn’t seen it. It actually reinforces my point — don’t you think it’s a bit weird that a 30 page “legal framework” uses the word “securities” only once, in a footnote? I can tell you as a matter of fact that IRL conversations with any competent legal counsel about DAO governance does not relegate the topic of securities to a single footnote.

These guys know they’re playing with fire. They assume they can buy their way out of legal problems — which, well, it’s America in 2022. It’s probably true!
I doubt that. The majority are using plain old proxies and VPNs. A very temporary attack on Tor would hardly make a dent.

There's near-constant ddosing on Tor of darknet markets, some if it might've spilled over. Even more likely a random group is doing it because they can. Russia is definitely not the only or main choice even if they are on everyone's minds currently.
The biggest impact of this change is for organizations with big codebases who want to stay on LTS versions.

With the canonical schedule you can do an upgrade every 2 years, skipping over every other LTS. eg you could go from Node 14 to Node 18 to Node 22.

But with the early EOL, if you're on Node 16 you can't jump to Node 20, so you have to do an extra upgrade.

For companies with big production codebases it can be a lot of work to qualify new releases.

It would be great if the Node team pulls forward Node 20 LTS by 6 months to preserve the skip-every-other pattern.

https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/
China is always overstepping their bounds and needs to be checked by the superpowers of the world. Without checks and balances, they will continue to bully the neighboring countries by force and deception.
yeah, I suspect anything that disrputs the flow of LNG to Europe is a pretty high priority for russian agents in the US
You could compare this to the Rosetta code version:

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Y_combinator
Wow, thanks for this! I had absolutely no idea either.
Ask HN: Why do you prefer non-wrapping lines in code examples?
I'm reading documentation and noticing that a lot of blogs use non wrapping lines for code examples despite also using numbered lines.

Example: https://stripe.com/docs/development/quickstart/go

I am not a UI expert, so I'm genuinely asking for those of you who prefer to horizontally scroll content, why is this better?

What aggravates me is that I can't simply zoom out more to get it all on one page, I end up with a 2 inch strip of content down the middle of the page. This suggests, to me, that assuming all things are done for good reason that the author is asserting some type of choice on my behalf.

My only question is why?
What’s wrong with it? Facebook twitter or other left main stream medias are using this method for years.
Sure feels like, but ultimately it's just an excuse, trust me.

It takes a lot of effort to be a great communicator regardless of which language you are speaking
According to your linked article:

> The OpenSSL 3.0 release schedule is documented on the OpenSSL 3.0 Release Schedule wiki page. We expect the final release to be in early Q4 2020.

Node 16 Release date:

> 2021-04-20

They gave themselves 3-6 months buffer from 3.0 release to Node 16 release, and decided to move forward when OpenSSL was 4-6 months behind schedule, with no idea when 3.0 would release

OpenSSL was then released in SEPTEMBER of 2021, nearly a year late, and 4 months after Node 16's LTS start date.... As of April, the Node team could not know if OpenSSL was going to be released tomorrow, next month, or next year

I think they made the right choice to keep moving forward instead of halting work waiting on OpenSSL to get back on schedule... by April 2021, when SSL 3.0 was already ~5-6 months behind, I would have expected them to extend support for 1.1.1 for another few months... they didn't but that's mostly a moot point -- OpenSSL has committed to security fixes through the Node 16 end-of-life.. but the Node team isn't comfortable with that, so they made a change
I was hoping for this to be openttd but for routing email.
What CCP did in Hong Kong is exactly they think necessary to stop the independence movement in Hong Kong. Same goes to Taiwan, it will lead to a war eventually.
Evidently Truth Social is AGPLv3 open source (based on Mastodon) and publishes their source code here: https://help.truthsocial.com/open-source

Wikipedia says "...initially did not make its source code available, violating Mastodon's AGPLv3 license. After Eugen Rochko sent a formal letter to Truth Social's chief legal officer on 26 October 2021,[57] Truth Social published its source code on 12 November 2021." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)
The basic premise of this article seems to be "writing good programs without heavy runtime checks is physically impossible".

I'd like to ask the author, how does he think his computer works? The hardware is rather complex and it has to work near perfectly all the time. It should be impossible according to his premise, but it's clearning happening.
I'm not a regular reader, but I'm interested in why you say that. Any particularly egregious examples in your opinion?
RSS is a negative revenue generator. Every person that uses it is one less person that will see ads. It's great for users but not sites. I suspect Google was losing a lot of ad revenue so they mostly killed support.

I ignored it for a long time but decided to start using. Unfortunately that's when website support started to decline. Shame I really liked it.
I've never stubbed my toe on a wrapped line of numbered code. Why is this so common?