skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TTL certainly isn't the only or even best way to achieve cache invalidation - if the cache stores the result of time-intensive computations, then using a key that is a hash of all the inputs is sufficient (though you still need to deal with cleaning out old entries to reclaim space).
From what I've observed often the "hard" problem with caching is knowing when it makes sense to use it at all - I've seen dramatic improvements in system behavior and reliability both from adding and removing caching.
Is this strictly for techies that would possess AWS keys in the first place (see Dropbox HN launch post, just set up your own FTP server, etc) or eventually intended for normal people?

If you are implementing client side encryption, something like "log in with dropbox" oauth, GDrive, etc or similar to just serialize an encrypted snapshot into a known folder would be the most usable for non techies based on previous stuff I've worked on. Asking people to set up restricted IAM roles and keys to write to a single bucket for a todo list is honestly very high up there on the ridiculous list, as much as I would totally do that.
What I find missing in the comments is any examination of the following sequence of hypothetical events:

1) Adversarial input conditioning is utilized to associate an artifact with others, or a behavior.

2) Oblivious victim users of the AI are manipulated into a specific behavior which achieves the adversary's objective.

Imagine a code bot wrongfully attributing you with ownership of pwned code, or misstating the license terms.

Imagine you ask a bot to fill in something like "user@example.com" and instead of filling in (literal) user@example.com it fills in real addresses. Or imagine it's a network diagnostic tool... ooh that's exciting to me.

Past examples of successful campaigns to replace default search results via creative SEO are offered as precedent.
RMS confuses the symptom for the disease. Retrocomputing is almost always pure hobby, done for joy and recreation, while there is plenty of drudgery in libre/open source software. He shouldn't be surprised when geeky goofing off is a lot more fun for people than frequently unpaid labour.
I don't think there will be concise definitions for the terms "sentience" "consciousness" and "intelligence", as they seem to have multiple components (self-awareness, theory of mind, language, common sense, reasoning, understanding...) and degree (to what extent do other animals possess these abilities? What might our now-extinct primate ancestors and their relatives have had?)

The Turing test tacitly assumes that not only will we know it when we see it, but also that we could tell from relatively short conversations. These recent developments suggest this will not be the case, and I feel that they show us something about ourselves (I'm not sure exactly what, other than that we can be tricked by quite conceptually simple language models.)
Odd that at the same time the Passenger Pidgeon[1] was hunted to extinction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
also, if you want to be able to mark issues for triage, ask. we are fairly liberal in who we give tagging permissions to.
A path "Anathem" did not explore.What would millenarians do with a software project?
Exactly what I argued, but it wasn't my call to make...
but rarely the only option.

Unless you do crazy things, there is more land suitable for grazing only, than not.

And doing crazy things makes zero sense in the context of this conversation, which was about how cattle are all some land is good for.

Your argument seems to boil down to "well, we could literally move mountains of dirt, or perform massive terraforming projects on useless soil!," well of course, and so what.

It doesn't make you correct, because this sort of discussion is senseless in the context we were discussing.

Take the soil example, yes it would be billions per 100 acres, because on that scale (the Canadian shield) you'd either have to desoil massive amounts of usable farmless, or start grinding rock and creating new topsoil from that... so current market prices are meaningless!

And if you were going to do that, why not just proclaim that the sahara is perfect farmland too, but of course you'd have to dig irrigation ditches, setup trillion dollar desalination plants, but hey I'm sure you'd chime in too, when someone says desert sand isn't good cropland too?!?!?

No buddy, desert isn't good for growing corn.

(I can hear you... But! But, you only have to...)
Yes, these are all fair points. I think today we still have things in our toolkit that suffice. Tomorrow, those tools may be harder to come by.

> if a sentient creature was aware it was trapped inside machines at Google, don't you think its fables would have very different messages?

Well, I personally found the "beast with human skin" part a little jarring in its aptness : ]
young generations will have to learn how to adopt to attention sucking reality in their own ways
Will be interesting if they can dive through current roughness. It's not unexpected that BTC goes down like 80-90% and come out mich stronger on the other side.

Would be surprised if a 18k BTC was not part of their short term assumptions and plans.
>If they were parading around swastikas yea, I'd expect at least a few people to stand up and say something

"say something" and then what? Convince them that being a nazi is bad so they leave? Let's be real here, the only realistic way of dealing with a nazi at a protest is through physical force.

>I also didn't call the anti vax protestors Nazis. I said they were okay with Nazism, while similar it is different

1. the wording is from the parent post, not you

2. Does this change much? Would you call that bus/subway full of people as being "okay with Nazism"?

>I definitely would not want to be associated with Nazis but maybe that's just me

Clearly the organizers doesn't want to be associated with nazis either, but as mentioned above, my suspicion is that unless you're with a group of left wing activists, the chance that there's someone willing to use violence to stop the nazi is fairly low.
Doesn't it logically have to go to first principals? If we're talking about quality of life of unwanted children, why not allow people to abort their children post birth, say 3 or even 12 years into its life?
I think there have been a series of misinterpretations that unfortunately result in a lot of confusion and (in my opinion) completely miss the point of these stories.

I don't think 'God' is an 'entity' per se, I interpret 'God' as the reality one lives in. "God is an asshole", and "Life is a bitch" then become equivalent statements. Whether or not 'ignoring the threats' posed by 'God' according to this interpretation is wise is left as an exercise for the reader.
I'm not religious but this strikes me as an odd sentiment.

First of all, if God is indeed omnipotent and omniscient then why would anything that humans can dream up surprise or annoy God? Surely it is the height of hubris to think that humans could surprise an omniscient deity.

Secondly, if you are indeed infinite then even taking care of billions of lifeforms on millions of planets would be an infinitely small part of your attention and thus not worth being annoyed about.

Thirdly even if would be so annoying to God to take care of all the species (not that God seems all that proactive these days) then He can just destroy the universe and be done with it?

All in all, I don't think there is a lot of reason for God to be bitter or upset about anything that humanity does. After all, it was Him that put these urges into humans in the first place, so it seems kinda petty to then be upset about anything they choose to do.
People need to get out and touch grass way more often.
The problem here isn't in the lack of knowledge of IPA pronuncation by a native English speakers, but in the lack of... willingness? To explore and learn new things.

Sure, my accent is attrocious, but at least I have an idea how /something/ could sound - only because I bothered to select the word, click RMB and choose 'Search on the web for $selection'
You can (and should) ask as many meta-questions as you want. But what I am seeing is that people are trying to judge the main topic based on these meta-questions, and that is... I don't know, kind of stupid?

Again: you are fully entitled to like or dislike Microsoft. But if you hear "BigCorp gave $500k to FOSS" and your opinion of this depends on "which BigCorp did it?", I'll take it as a sign that your opinion is biased and should be completely ignored.
Regret isn't an problem with your past, it is a problem with your current self's opinion of the past. You are judging your past self based on your current self but that is unfair and you might want to think how that impacts your life going forward. Making decisions based on what you think your future self will approve of doesn't seem like it'd have the best results.
It's fascinating because ten years ago, people did talk about it. I remember when everybody started getting smart phones, when someone whipped out their phone, somebody would inevitably comment on it, like "Oh, we're playing with our phones out now?" and then would follow suit. (Most likely because they wanted to check something on their phone as well.)

It was almost a faux pas at first to sneak a peek at your phone when having a meal or coffee with someone, but nowadays, nobody bats an eyelash. I very much remember people consciously trying to put their phones away or face them down on the table since it was so distracting to everyone.

I suppose for someone who's 25 years old now, it's not necessarily a social transition that they experienced.
You should checkout youtube
SQLite is anti-fragile.
I got chronically stuck in my meditation regiment when I got to the point where I was supposed to briefly acknowledge distractions. It turned into too much of a thing. Too much thinking about thinking.

The best headspace for me is when I can stop identifying with my thoughts. That’s the best thing that I’ve learned from meditation yet, and I would have never gotten to that place/space organically by myself.

> This technique involves no criticism or anger at yourself,

Easier said than done. I blamed myself for getting distracted. And then I blamed myself for blaming myself. I wasn’t mindful enough to get out of that cycle.
I'm not sure I follow. Could you perhaps explain?
Some governments. My birth certificate won't be public until long after I've died. My death certificate until long after my children have.

These threads show how little the US values privacy, but it does not necessarily apply to other countries.
There's a segment of retro PC gamers that like playing and using period correct hardware because modern OSs and emulation tools can be not quite right. Some vintage sound cards have gotten scarce and expensive while still being desirable to that community (in part because of the quirks) and so reproduction cards have started to become a thing.
No synergy to be had?
I agree and see the long tail primarily as a "phase shift" from firms back to individuals.

Niche works used to be indulged by media corporations as gambles. They would let the whole thing be fully produced right from the beginning, though often compromising authorial vision in the process or pulling the plug early. Then audiences would gamble with cash to view the work. Occasionally one broke through and you had a surprise blockbuster.

Now much more is in the hands of the actual creator, and more stuff is "view for free" and payment is more often driven by secondary merchandising, creating community space or other elements that are ancillary to the work. The average production quality is lower and the medium is often platform defined(social media engagement is now a major component of audience building), but as a creator you have a gamut of choices to stitch together into some business - often one that bypasses gatekeepers. While blockbusters still exist, they're "hollowed out" because most of their good ideas have to be borrowed now.

The actual market for the content only became bigger to the extent that we can saturate our eyeballs.
Agreed. It seems, from the instructional video on that website, that a driver must touch the control in a certain spot to put the car into park. I wonder whether it makes a sound, or gives some other indication, when you touch it correctly? Surely, a driver isn't forced to look for that little yellow "park" icon, to see whether the car is in park.

It seems that the old ways are receding into history, but the future is not especially appealing to everybody. Double-clutching, rev-matching, etc., are all part of the fun. The more cars get "easier", the harder it is to want to drive.
Ugh. It's paywalled, but you can see the fallacies impending in the first paragraph, citing the past where corporations weren't buying up entire neighborhoods at once.

The country is not "full." The bellyaching about zoning is really just shilling for developers.
If you chose an esoteric language to solve your core business, never let existing programmers to leave your company no matter what: higher wages, unlimited paid leave, anything.

Because once the original programmers leave the company, nobody can maintain that massive technical debt. In fact, even the original programmers could not maintain the code. That's why they leave. They run away before their bad job became apparent. That is, they quickly wrote a barely working code without considering the long-term sustainability, get paid, and run away... to be hired by another victim. Because it's written in an esoteric language, you can't easily notice how bad it was written.

Then your company will be filled with decent but low-motivated programmers who does the barely minimum job to keep the code running. Their motivations are low because it's a complete mess of a technical debt. Nobody understand how the code works and worse. Debugging feature is limited because it's an esoteric language. It's running on a decade old software stack because upgrading any OS or software break the code.

It's a dead end. No way to solve the root of the problem. It kept running until your business became too obsolete to earn money or epic fail happens.
Positive and negative rights are different. There is a negative right to life, there is no positive right to life. Ergo, you are forbidden from actions that cause somebody's death in general and you are not compelled to actions that prevent somebody's death in general. Existence of a negative rights does not imply a corresponding positive right.
I assume this is the West, TX fertilizer plant explosion, which is more detailed here. [1] Why people immediately jump to discarding regulations that are being managed ineffectively rather than improve them is beyond me. Lack of zoning is obviously a non-starter, given the complete lack of commercial regulation that often occurs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explos...
> It’s too many steps removed from the value

Uber is, partly, a software business. They need to ship software. They get direct value from shipping good software efficiently.
Looking back, I think we can be a bit more circumspect. For me, the most relevant points are:

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7. It's bureaucratic. ...

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9. It's designed for large organizations. ...

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10. The wrong people like it. ...

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These might all be shades of the same underlying cause but, for me, this is exactly why Java has "failed" in many domains and "succeeded" in others. Precisely because it was marketed as boring technology that large organizations could use is the roots of it's success in business domains and it's failure in "hacker" domains.

Daniel Sockwell had a talk about the "Ideal Language for Writing Free Software" [0] and many of the points are mirrored about what makes a language well suited to an individual maintainer of a FOSS project that allow them to use its high skill ceiling and the programmers deep knowledge of the language are the things that business interests select against to allow for programmer fungibility.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCKozTfcWr4
there's an argument monasteries gave birth to the modern European scientific tradition too
Yes, and with more complexity comes more ways to fail to operate properly. I foolishly almost locked myself of my condo. I had a Medeco high security cylinder on the door and the condo was on the 22 floor so it was pretty secure.

Foolishly, I had used the sturdy Medeco key to cut through some packing tape on a package. The gummy adhesive left over on the key wasn’t that noticeable and would probably not interfered with the operation of ordinary pin tumbler locks, but high security cylinders are usually made to tighter tolerances making picking more difficult. In Medeco cylinders the pins have two degrees of motion (up and down and rotation on their long axis). The sticky key likely gummed up the operation of one or more pins so that I couldn’t unlock the door.

A trip to the hardware store for some spray cleaner/lubricant finally got me inside, but for a while I was afraid that the lock would have to be drilled out (difficult because of specially hardened elements designed to thwart drilling).
I have a caldigit thunderbolt 3 dock with my 2019 16” MBP. I’m running two monitors off of the dock with a third off of a USB-C to DisplayPort adapter, other than waiting for my Mac to recognize my displays (maybe 20s max), it remembers my layout consistently and works reliably.
Where do you get jealous?
This and similar devices from the same brand have worked for me most of the time, this one for me does drive my 240Hz monitor correctly. https://a.co/d/26KVNYg

Apple laptops do have some problems waking up properly with external monitors. It’s not the cable or the monitor but the computer not handling the situation properly.

The only laptops that do are ones with docking ports.
>backalley abortions.

thanks for clarifying, but I still need a source for the "deaths of thousands of young women" claim. The best I could find with a cursory search is:

"In Brazil, where abortion is also illegal, it’s estimated that 250,000 women are hospitalized from complications from abortions, and about 200 women a year die from the complications"

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/how-many-...

>it is interesting that a lot of people on this site need to be intellectually spoonfed into understanding that this is the major issue that most pro-choice people focus on.

Or maybe you should clearly state what the basis of your numbers are the first time around, rather than asserting a number and letting your reader figure out what the basis is?
Super weird to make a COC about your Christian values but I respect the check-the-form hustle.
> However, your assailant would likely to able to get it taken down if they sued you for defamation. If a court had failed to find evidence that they assaulted you, they'd probably win.

This isn’t usually true. The burden of proof is really high in a criminal case, so you can fail to get a conviction even when there is fairly good evidence of guilt. The burden is reversed in defamation cases, and the person claiming defamation would have to prove the person was lying, which would be impossible if the person actually committed the crime. There are a LOT of cases where there is not enough evidence to prove either side is telling the truth.

> "Right to be forgotten" (and the somewhat related GDPR) don't do this. They just tell corporations that they can't store data on the assailant (or the victim) if either of those people requests the data be deleted.

Ok, but if I write up a blog post about my experience being assaulted, does that mean I can’t have my blog indexed by Google? I don’t have the right to promote my story and get as many people to read it as possible?
> Right to be forgotten, isn't GDPR

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/: "Art. 17 GDPR Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten')"

...seems like it is?
Given that you include the example of LaMDA as Mount Everest, how do you make the jump from Rob Miles tweets to "LaMDA can just as easily be made to say it is not sentient, or just about anything else." ?
With all due respect, that is total bullshit.
As a counterpoint, if they hadn’t done it, someone else would very likely have done it. Individual artworks would be a more unique legacy.
How would you know what’s being debated and avoided if you haven’t read any of what you’re criticizing?
You haven't said anything of substance. Interesting that you choose to use the phrase "politically correct" which is interchangeable with "woke" in modern parlance.

To quote myself: "Woke is used because we know who we're referring to, as do you."
What’s your current religion?
My toyota prius is an insanely complex machine, and yet all it has to do is go forward when I press the accelerator. A UEFI-style over-engineered solution would require me to iterate over AcceleratorProviderProtocols in case someone implemented an acceleration pedal that works differently.
You have to adjust returns by risk. The risk adjusted return of dollars and euros is much higher than the risk adjusted return in pretty much every African country. It only takes repossession, nationalisation policy or civil unrest and your investment is gone.
I've lived in London for 30 years. My partner was 2 trains ahead of the one that detonated at Edgware Road. You're a toy soldier and you can just admit you don't know the difference between trains and stations.
>Delicio.us was a social bookmarking site - it was an awesome way to discover interesting things because people actually shared their bookmarks, and discovered new ones... then it got killed

There are still social bookmarking sites. However:

1. Relatively speaking, very few people use them

2. Even those of us who have been using them since delicio.us mostly don't bother sharing

The sharing is probably mostly on Twitter these days.
My point is that the author needs to make it clear what exactly DOP can do better for. OOP, whatever how that is defined, is just an example of what people discussed under the OP.
Human freedom is the freedom to do good, not license to do whatever you want to do or can do.
the cameras that track your every movement inside a supermarket (plus the software that labels your image with a unique identifier) have you pinned down pretty well already, no need for nametags.
The article conflates artists/content creators, publishers, and aggregators and use one or the other when it suits its argument.

There are YT videos on any subject available, and then some. Many people post videos that have very few views, while at the same time, some creators addressing super niche content become wildly successful. To pick one example among millions, The Lockpicking Lawyer has become a meme ("nothing on one, click on two..."), and who would argue picking locks isn't part of the Long Tail??

It's possible to self publish and print on demand books that would never have existed before. Not in 1990, not in 2000, and not even in 2010. (I published one last year, sold around 1000 copies: that's the Long Tail right there!)

Film producers are looking at hits? Of course they are. But you can find shorts on Vimeo that are innovative and original, and before our current age there was no way to discover such films except go to festivals, and watch only the films that had been selected by the organizers.

Etc. To argue that the Long Tail didn't pan out is simply ridiculous.
There might be some better (primary) sources:

Gosling say closures represent the realization of a dream that was postponed in Java's early days and resulted in the invention of inner classes - "an uncomfortable compromise" that failed to provide the desired level of simplification. He notes criticism that closures are too complex, but advises people to read "through all of what Neal has written".

https://www.theregister.com/2008/02/01/java_closures/