skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course, there are good psychological reasons for why it is a bad reason to throw away morality. If one's identity is tied to being a good person, doing bad acts in conflict with one's identity can cause a lot of distress. There is also a "hedonistic treadmill" where one gets used to more and more wealth, and how additional wealth at a certain point doesn't make someone happier. Lastly, there are society reasons for why morality is important (e.g. the Golden Rule as you wrote); a low-trust society where no one is moral is not a healthy society to live in.

These aren't counter arguments to what I said. They don't require concepts of objective good and evil, as I pointed out in my original comment and follow-up.
I've spent some of my career doing Data Science consulting, and easily 80% of my time is spent on finding, cleaning, formatting, and studying data. Building the model is almost trivial if you take the time to get your data in the right shape (i.e. removing noise and unsalient features, and making sure you have every usable bit you can get)
- "If there were a worrying problem with ammonia, you would already be hearing about it."

We hear about it pretty regularly,

https://www.google.com/search?q=ammonia+spill+site%3Areddit....

Fortunately the main use of anhydrous ammonia (agriculture) is in sparsely populated places, so its impact is limited. I think it's a questionable idea to put it in urban vehicles though.
I was of the mind of the more skeptical commenters, but this is a great point! In the most classified environments, an esoteric vulnerability like this may be the only nonhuman thing left to exploit.
Invention has been raised in a convent of adoptive mothers.
We spend a lot of time and thought building out our incident management processes and tooling. We were not making things up as we went last night.

https://sre.google/resources/book-update/managing-incidents/ is Google focused, but our flavor of incident response is not too far off.
> it means leaving your capital-expensive electrolysis plant idle for half or 2/3rds of the day.

I think that's an exaggeration, and neglects the possibility of overbuilding solar/wind. It may mean leaving your relatively low capital expenditure wind and solar farms 50% underutilized for half the day but the benefit here is that you can guarantee a 95% capacity factor year-round for the expensive electrolysis plant.
https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS by Jo Freeman:

> Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a structureless group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved. The very fact that we are individuals, with different talents, predispositions, and backgrounds makes this inevitable. Only if we refused to relate or interact on any basis whatsoever could we approximate structurelessness -- and that is not the nature of a human group.

> This means that to strive for a structureless group is as useful, and as deceptive, as to aim at an "objective" news story, "value-free" social science, or a "free" economy. A "laissez faire" group is about as realistic as a "laissez faire" society; the idea becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky to establish unquestioned hegemony over others. This hegemony can be so easily established because the idea of "structurelessness" does not prevent the formation of informal structures, only formal ones. Similarly "laissez faire" philosophy did not prevent the economically powerful from establishing control over wages, prices, and distribution of goods; it only prevented the government from doing so. Thus structurelessness becomes a way of masking power, and within the women's movement is usually most strongly advocated by those who are the most powerful (whether they are conscious of their power or not). As long as the structure of the group is informal, the rules of how decisions are made are known only to a few and awareness of power is limited to those who know the rules. Those who do not know the rules and are not chosen for initiation must remain in confusion, or suffer from paranoid delusions that something is happening of which they are not quite aware.
"Squirrel" is such a common excuse by power utilities that I think it means "we don't really know but seems as likely as anything"
Plus this.

https://www.j-alz.com/content/study-disproves-link-between-l...
Depends how you measure success. Being it a trillion dollar I would call it wildly successful.
In my house it is fiction with fiction, art with art, graphic novels with graphic novels, reference stuff with reference stuff, classics with classics, seems easy enough.

All right thought I guess my russian books are all together, whether it is Tolstoy and Pushkin or Manifesto of Comminist Party, 18th edition from 1886, a great read actually.
I was lucky enough to witness the sea change in a relatively intellectually honest amyloid lab in the 2003-2009 regime. We were actively pursuing results in the amyloid hypothesis but just about every other lab meeting we were careful to mention that the hypothesis might be wrong. All of our papers say "suspected"... Around the end of that period we were getting word that the first attempt at a drug targeting amyloids was failing, and it was a common morbid joke among all of us that this was all a red herring.

~15 years ain't so bad for the skepticism to make its way out of insider speculation to relatively well accepted (drug trials take a long time).

I don't have a skin in the game with the hypothesis (I'm actually biased against it) but it is worth noting that most of the drugs tried are antibodies, which introduces the confounding factor that all antibodies elicit an inflammatory oxidative response by locally catalyzing the conversion of oxygen to ozone (oxidative inflammation is thought to also be causal to Alzheimer's), so before we completely shut the book on it we might want to control for that.

VCs are clueless, but at least they are results-driven in a relatively neutral way, though they are going to be biased toward initial selection of idiotic investments. (You pick to fund something because it's a friend of a friend, a referral, social validation, etc.)
Batteries have the serious downsides that (1) they cost more than almost anything else, and (2) cost is per kWh stored, rather than just kW in and per kW out. Flow batteries could mitigate this some where electrolyte is cheap.

Synthetic fuels have the enormous advantages that (1) tankage is super-cheap (negligible cost per kWh), (2) tankage is easily transported, (3) there is unlimited market for them, (4) you can burn them in existing combined-cycle turbines. These advantages easly overwhelm low round-trip efficiency, which is anyway relentlessly increasing.

We will be shipping hydrogen or ammonia from the tropics to Baltic states in winter. It is hard to imagine any viable green alternative, aside from reliance on fallible transmission lines.
> The books were purchased, meaning they got a license to use the book.

This may be a bit nit-picky, but I don't think that is correct.

Most books I've seen don't say anything about granting a license so there would be no explicit license that comes with them.

Maybe you could find an implicit license if normal use of a book required a license but it does not. Copyright law allows all the normal uses of a book without requiring permission of the copyright owner. You only need a license when you want to do something that requires permission.
Yeah, I wasn't saying you were incorrect, your answer just didn't dig much deeper than "miners do whatever they like, validators check it". The matter of centralisation is answered by what miners can get away with, not the mere fact that validators exist. You must examine this because miners are the ones that are subject to centralisation through efficiencies of scale at buying electricity and computing power. So attacks are possible that are plausibly deniable as accidents, software glitches, dropped packets, etc., but in fact involve coordination by majority miners.

And further, MEV is a problem even if you ignore % of hash rate and centralisation of the mining market -- any single miner will exploit any opportunity you give them if they can, especially the undetectable/unprovable ones. So much of MEV is not a matter of adversarial voting but literally 100% of miners are incentivised to do it, independently and unanimously. It's just a matter of who figures out how to extract it, who has relevant conflicts of interest, or who has enough cash to snap up opportunities that arise. That's less about centralisation though.

And the scope of this discussion was never just bitcoin. TrailOfBits' paper is about the technology generally.
The sales brodown retreat thing seems to be pretty common in the industry. I have worked at a couple startups that do that.

I would expect another round of opportunistic RIF’s to come thru this summer.
> Yes. Modern sailing ships are a symbol of wealth inequality, and historical ones have plenty of other controversial associations, depending on time period.

So what statement am I making about any of these? My painting is of a ship, cresting a wave.

> Also yes. Access to fresh fruit is a political subject. Just look at maps of food deserts.

I didn't paint a food desert, or of anyone having or not-having access to the bowl in my painting. My painting is of fruit. In a bowl. What political statement am I making?

> Stick around here for long enough and you'll find plenty of people arguing over the idealization of rural life, the roles of domesticated animals, etc.

So what political statement is my painting making here?

If the viewer of any of these paintings is interpreting them through their own political lens, it does not mean the art itself is political. It means the viewer is.

Obviously if I paint a group of infantrymen menacing poor villagers who cower in fear, I'm making a statement. A lot of effort is required to present the menace, the fear, the looming and the cowering, the sneers and the pleas, etc. An apple sitting in a bowl presents none of those attributes.

Unless you want to make appreciation of natural beauty a political issue. I won't go there.
I read the blog twice and have some thoughts:
The root cause seems is as: "While deploying a change to our prefix advertisement policies, a re-ordering of terms caused us to withdraw a critical subset of prefixes."

And a dry-run: "a Change Request ticket was created, which includes a dry-run of the change, as well as a stepped rollout procedure."

And a Peer review: "Before it was allowed to go out, it was also peer reviewed by multiple engineers. "

I would doubt the expertise of tech guys of cloudflare, reviewing the change. And there was a dry-run.

But is it really OK to apply the change to a spine network which would affect 50% network traffic? Just out of peer review and a dry run? No green/blue, no gray release, maybe these are not proper for a small change here. But this "small" change really got big affect. I thougt it was worth it.

And from my shallow experience, the dry-run would always have do nothing to the env. It is dry-run anyway.

And at last the three lines are found out. So I wonder how did this re-order happen? And why?

With these tiny changes, there should be some mechanism to verify their correctness, not just review and dry-run.
Ok, so here's a thought: who makes money if people don't die of cancer? Let's assume they're all retirees. Agriculture, housing, the local taxation authority, and possibly their immediate kin (assuming, on average, people love their parents and want to spend time with them).

Maybe Monsanto, Toll Brothers, and local governments should be funding cancer research?
> Let’s charitably say you can run your app with a 1GB cut down snapshot of production.

Plenty of apps can run from an empty database, if the data storage is focused on resources you, the user, have created for yourself.

But I imagine that people with their heads in the future are imagining you'll use one of these new database startups (the names escape me) to manage snapshots, seeding from anonymised production data, etc.
It’s free for open source maintainers.
Sharing code is great, I've moved processing between backend and front-end or even share the same code in both. Makes SSR+SPA possible using the same code.
Typescript is a must for me, but I don't need Deno for that. I haven't used beyond scripting but for the time being I don't see a mayor benefit over node or ts-node other than easier/zero project setup.
There is no better way to get shut out as a scientist than to disprove the career-making findings of the important people in your field. One of the side effects of this is the “discussion does not match the results” paper. It’s routine to read papers where the discussion blatantly contradicts the papers own results. What is happening is the authors are disclaiming their own findings in order to get past hostile reviewers, betting that astute readers will notice the contradiction, ignore the discussion and draw their own conclusions from the results.
While we do need to be suspicious, we can't reject technical solutions on the grounds that it would be too convenient if it worked. Whatever we do does need to be reasonably convenient.
I think that longevity is something that no other solution can bring. In theory, this network can live forever and improve as tech improves. Look at the Bitcoin network. At this point you have to have a top level miner to be worth mining at all. If we can apply the same to a communications network then we would know that the network is running at the very best levels since there is an incentive for that to happen. In current networks the incentive is to use the same tech as long as possible since it's too expensive for all of it to be replaced by new tech. I don't have the answers but Crypto brings something to the network that other tech can't.
Eh, they just love using the lines as runways, though normally it's the lower cable/Telcom lines. It's not terribly surprising the little bastards cause problems, especially where trees grow close.
Sorry, how is this relevant to the question being asked?
Not necessarily for groceries, but otherwise yeah.

There are some things that I need to permanently store in the car, and using backseats for that essentially makes them unusable for their primary purpose (hosting humans). I am not even talking about the bewilderingly very common in the US "I use my car trunk as a small storage unit" scenario. I am talking about storing things like backup tire, first-aid kit, electric tire pump+sealant combo (in case i get a small puncture in my tire, so that I can patch it up and get to the nearest parking lot/service center or home), a charging cable+adapters (in case you drive an EV), a change of clothes, a roll of paper towels, and maybe a change of clothing. Mind you, even with those things in mind, they won't take up a lot of space at all, and trunk is still very usable for groceries and other stuff.

The main issue is that without trunk at all, even a very small subset of bare essential things from that list (first-aid kit and a tire pump) essentially create a problem where they are always occupying the backseat area of the car, which makes it problematic for humans to use.
This might be the "killer app" for AI-based code generation. Small command line tasks often involve ridiculous and inconsistent syntax (e.g. if you have to pipe through different CLI tools), so having some automation to help me skip the Google -> stackoverflow step would be super helpful.
It shouldn't. Fan death is very impossible, while connecting to open wifi is just "they probably don't bother".
Yes, it's FUD. But it's only FUD because they don't need a new backdoor. They already have one.

It's the automatic update system, which ironically has to be there for security updates. The automatic update system means on devices that identify their customers, the act demands any software provider not only provide access to the device via that mechanism, they must also provide assistance such as writing software the host OS won't complain about when it is downloaded using the mechanism. That is why it's called the Assistance and Access act, 2018. It provides access to just about any device, and forces the manufacturer to any and all assistance required to get that access.

Devices that identify their users are ubiquitous. Anybody that sells you something in anticipation of getting an ongoing revenue stream from it will have to identify you. That includes Android, Windows, iOS, your Samsung TV, ... Any device that asks you to register with an email address or phone number can be targeted exactly. The act does devote many words to saying all bugs and spying devices must be targeted very specifically like it's some huge restriction, while never going out of it's way to make it plain just about all devices can now be targeted specifically.

And yes, security updates are systemic weakness. In fact I refuse to own stuff that is supposed to be highly secure that does allow security updates. Think security tokens, SIMs, credit cards, ... If it's broken I'll go down to the store and anonymously buy a new one thank you. And because security updates are a systemic weakness - the long and flowing waffle in the act about no introducing systemic vulnerabilities is there purely as a smoke screen. They don't need to introduce new systemic vulnerabilities - they already have a perfectly good one.
Interesting, I'm not sure I agree.

I can take off and land a small plane in a simulator without looking at the instruments at all (except maybe a couple glances at the air speed indicator as I set up for landing), and I've never flown in a real small plane.

I always thought visual flying was a crutch and instrument flying is the "real thing" that I know I can't do.
is that with virtualbox or something?
Thanks for the review. When I heard Jordan Peele, I thought hey, his sense of the macabre might work well for the show.

But... he might turn out to be sort of "one-flavor," if not quite one-note.
Precisely, but saying “trust the science” just reinforces the status quo.

The very core of science is the idea that a theory is correct because it can stand up to extreme scrutiny.

When I did my graduate degree that idea was drilled into us. It’s your job as a scientist to try and tear apart what other scientists say.

If they can defend their conclusions under such questioning then that advanced the science. If they can't, then it's not a very good conclusion.
> And, just because it is "dead" commercially does not mean there are not drivers in your OS watching for any traffic claiming to be ethernet, and eager to respond to it.

It's not dead in that it never caught on, it's dead in that as far as I'm aware no one ever produced hardware that supported it. So no, there's no concern about it being used as a stealthy attack vector.

Also it's not exactly rocket surgery to see what network hardware your system sees available. All major general purpose OSes make it really easy to see what drivers are loaded, what hardware is attached, etc. Unless you want to propose that GPU and/or SoC vendors are hiding the fact that the hardware even exists until it's activated and rootkitting the OS to prevent the driver from being detected there is absolutely no reason to believe HEC is a threat to anyone anywhere.

Now, there could certainly hypothetically be exploits discovered against the CEC or ARC/eARC implementation but AFAIK ARC is generally implemented in dedicated hardware and CEC is simple enough to present a very limited attack surface.
I wish I could buy things that are expected to last a lifetime. The only things I've purchased in recent months that fall into that category are my cast iron pan and some hardcover books.
I'd guess that HN has nearly zero dependencies, other than the bare metal box we've been told about. That makes things a lot more simple!
I assume that Copilot uses open source projects on GitHub to “learn” what to suggest. Some of these projects might be under, say, GPL v3. A developer uses Copilot for a commercial project and Copilot insert a complete function from a GPL v3 code into this project. Someone notices this and sues the commercial project for breaking GPL v3. Will GitHub pickup the tab?
Disgraced Italian surgeon convicted of criminal harm to stem cell patient
Chasing Glory
> It's a biography of Galileo supplemented with letters he exchanged with his daughter, who was a Catholic nun.

Note: he had two daughters, both nuns. (Which was really the only option for unmarried women at the time.)

It's just that the letters were only with one of them.
I've literally never experienced this.
>your Boeing 737

Not that one :)
I thought it was going to blow apart, especially with the loose dowel pins and fuel all over the place.
The hydrogen or ammonia is the battery.
Summary: Wanting by Luke Burgis
Copying of code needs to be very direct. Even Google copied tens of thousands of lines of code from Oracle character for character and won the case taken all the way to the Supreme Court. When Oracle made changes (even during the court proceedings), Google kept copying the code and every change Oracle made. So I doubt you’re at real legal risk with what you were proposing.
No, you can generate true randomness in a computer. In fact there are now several hardware modules to do this using integrated circuits and standard diode technology. This is enough to seed a good pseudorandom number generator.
Mine are organized by which one I read last. Or tried to read and didn't finish.
Round-trip efficiency is not actually very important when generation has zero marginal cost. You just add more panels. It matters, but other things matter more. Panels are very cheap.
If this person is so critical to your company’s journey you should make them an FTE.
Let's not forget that California has multiple power companies. PG&E may be the largest one, but it doesn't serve the biggest city.

Map of which parts of the state are served by which utility company:
https://cecgis-caenergy.opendata.arcgis.com/documents/electr...
The part where he actually starts running it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OFtGntbS8U&t=392s
unfortunately, webdev does not have a strong performance culture. V8 & Blink/Skia can be crazy fast in the right hands, but it does take some effort and profiling to eek it out.
> Human-sized computing: a reasonable level of complexity for a computing system is that it can be entirely understood by a single person (from the low-level hardware details to the application-level quirks).

That ship sailed many decades ago.
The sibling comment is correct. The EFS mount helper starts up and manages an stunnel process. We have not seen a significant impact on latency from the stunnel process.
China’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How
> I calculated percent difference.

But the difference is 14229, which is 33% of US income, or 50% of France income.
It is intended for investors that got suckered into Meta, there is very high chance that most of their VR investments will fail.
I guess that depends on your contract.
A chip that can do that would be less secure and cost more than like two cents.
OBS is an awesome app.

Its interface is a bit "awkward," but not too bad. It has many tools that are not available elsewhere.
It looks cool when I think of it as art. But wouldn’t do it with books I plan on reading or referencing, and I wouldn’t buy books just to display sorted by color. I’d rather have a cool painting.
There is no natural upper limit on ammonia produced. Add more panels, make more ammonia. The panels, placed intelligently, do not use up land needed for other things.

Compare to bioethanol, strictly limited by acreage under cultivation.