skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking about the recent Meta presentation by Zuckerberg on the VR prototypes and other plans groups have for more comfortable goggle-type VR. I think that the concept of "going to the office" or "presenting" is going to evolve to include VR.

Upcoming VR devices will have eye tracking and eye contact, facial expression broadcasting and more realism.

Which is to say, even if you are working from home, you won't be able to escape from your manager breathing down your neck, if that's what they insist on.

I think that eventually being in a virtual environment, or Discord, or anything, lends itself to easily sharing and tracking work product. Or just basically, the manager needs to be able to read git commits, and if he can't figure out if they are doing useful work from that or other outputs or discussions every few days to a week, then maybe they aren't competent.
How to swap or sellback a booking [tokenised hotel room secondary market]
Collision isn't a spooky action at distance. Even if they tricked the victim into accepting a file they have a collision for, they still can't do anything nefarious. Attack requires an opportunity to replace the colliding file with its evil twin, and that requires write access to victim's repository or tricking the victim into re-fetching their files from an attacker-controlled repository.

Besides, the known collision attack generates files with blocks of binary garbage, which makes it difficult to trick someone into accepting. It won't look like source code, and if someone accepts binary blobs of executable code, you don't need collisions to pwn them.
The controversial post discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31772211
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Each day sounding more as Zopilote, it seems.
A well executed squat uses hamstrings and abs a ton, unless you believe you don't need to have completely tight abs when squatting 1.5x your bodyweight.
Long term, financial constraints are the biggest factor. But short and medium term you can be more constrained by the organizational capacity to make decisions, hire fast enough, onboard new people, receive timely feedback, etc. We all have the same amount of time in a day +/- a few nanoseconds.

I'm not in any way associated with Brex.
For a couple years I've been working on a personal Flask App that will collect and organize my SingleFile [1] downloads. Uses inotify to automatically detect a SingleFile generated html file and processes it into a database, where it also creates a screenshot thumbnail.

Been working great for me so far, and definitely help me improve my coding skills. One of the things I like the most is that it records the time I downloaded the SingleFile page, which means I can view a timeline of bookmarks. It is nice to visually review over the month what I decided to save, often as a way to reinforce what I learned.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefile/mpiodij...
For sure, this isn't an indictment against state machines, my message was exactly to be careful when making the decision to use them. They fit a lot of workflows and I've also worked in environments where they were not at all a bottlenecks, and regardless of the performance bottleneck it wasn't hard to reason about or adjust which for a long time meant more than performance for that business.

I guess I could amend my statement to "be careful about which library or implementation of a state machine you go with"
> "Taking your product to be serviced by a repair shop that is not affiliated with or an authorized dealer of [Company] will not void this warranty. Also, using third-party parts will not void this warranty."

I do not own or plan to ever own a Harley Davidson or Westinghouse product. I understand and 100% agree with the right to repair parts. The second part, however, I have a few concerns. So, if I buy a cheap replica part from eBay and put it into my Harley Davidson, it causes other problems with the engine and then I make a warranty claim, they have to honor it?
Why didn't Linux migrate their repo to SHA-256 ? is it that difficult to migrate a repo ?
World of Warcraft for me, Plaguelands.
BCI: Facts, Fiction, and Tom Cruise
The idea of BCIs in pop culture isn't new. Tom Cruise and/or Vanilla Sky fans might remember a scene where he's shown in a lucid dream state while his body is cryogenically frozen. Let's look at facts vs fiction and how might fiction become fact...
> Secondary benefits of detecting early are needing less extensive surgery, less intensive chemotherapy and radiation, less expensive next generation therapies in the long run.

This is true, but you have to not have too many false positives.

A friend of mine went to get her mammogram, and it saw "something". She was a mess until the biopsy came back negative. "Mess" meaning high blood pressure, palpitations, etc.--that false positive could very well have killed her with a cardiac event. A screening test like this that has even worse false positives will kill some people like her.

Another one has always had negative mammograms and extensive 3D imaging. Suddenly, her breast blew up to twice its size. Everyone assumed it was a localized infection because she just had a negative mammogram set less than 30 days earlier. The only reason they bothered to order a biopsy was to try to break whatever lymph clog was causing her "edema". Oops--Stage 3 invasive lobular breast cancer throughout the entire breast.

You can't see lobular breast cancers on mammograms because they never form a lump, they just inflitrate all throughout the normal cells. They're about 30% of all breast cancers and a screening test that can flag these (even with a false positive) would be a godsend. Being able to flag people for a followup MRI would be a significant improvement if it doesn't have too many false positives. A screening test like this would be quite beneficial.

As always in medicine, things are complicated.
ASAN isn't just "for testing". A lot of people went straight to the chart (like me) and it reeks of bullshit. double free is the same as use after free, null pointer dereference is essentially the same as type confusion since a nullable pointer is confused with a non null pointer, invalid stack read/write is the same as array out of bounds (or invalid pointers), etc

I also never heard of a data race existing without a race condition existing. That's a pointless metric like many of the above I mentioned
LucasFilm → Pixar → Disney. I wonder if the mouse owns Duff's Device…
I have seen this, but on the flip-side, the most successful person I know (and they are quite successful) is also the biggest stoner I know.
If I unknowingly named my command the same as some system command and the custom command ends up earlier in my path it doesn't really cause any problems does it? I wasn't using that system command anyways, and my custom command is only going to take priority if my .bashrc file was run first.
Makes sense! My colleagues work on some research[1] that's intended to be the counterpart to this: identifying which subset of a format parser is actually activated by a corpus of inputs, and automatically generating a subset parser that only accepts those inputs.

I think you mentioned WUFFS before the edit; I find that approach very promising!

[1]: https://www.darpa.mil/program/safe-documents
Once you use a software are you stuck with it? How would you move away from it to another one?
If you couldn't find the sibling comment and needed me to copy-paste the comment, you could've just said so...

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Herd immunization was estimated to be reached with 60-70% of vaccination. I'd be totally in favor of as much campaigning as possible to get to those levels. I was rushing to get the vaccines whenever I could just to contribute to this number.

At the same time, I don't think it is morally justifiable to force anyone to inject a substance in their bodies.

Even if the number was higher, I was still encouraging people to get the vaccine. Even when it was clear that vaccine was not that effective to stop infection or reduce spread, I would still tell people "at least it can help you to build up your own immunity". But I would never defend the idea that people should be forced or compelled to get the vaccine.
The spirit of searching interrogation is there, along with Socrates' daemon who, Socrates said, prevented him from saying anything untrue (I'm hamming it up here).

The philosophical prototype of Socrates also gives license to be a gad-fly, piss people off for a good cause, etc. Instead of offering to pay a modest fine when he was found guilty of corrupting the youth, Socrates was so certain of his rectitude he told the court he should instead be awarded free meals for life like the Olympic champions. Now there's someone with chutzpah.
I have used a similar windows trick.
I wanted to add to the default window system a place for my library of tools.
Most are "portable" cmd apps from various sources (sysinternals, nirsoft). I put them all into a directory called ] in the root of a drive.

Because of some common layout of keyboards the \ and ] are near each other,
or in reach of left and right pinkies I can type \]\ before the name of the tools. This means I don't even have add a dir to the path.

I am sure this violates someone sensibilities but it has saved time over the years as a consultant when I had to deal with a wonky machine and owner did not want permanent install of diagnostic tools.
Although I agree that a somehow less extreme version of that will happen in the course of this decade bar a legal decision to prohibit using those models, that won't translate to comparable revenues. The companies providing those services will struggle to make even 10% of the salaries of the displaced workers in revenue. In fact, this will probably be a GDP-destroying (though not value-destroying) application of technology.
Device Naming Conventions (University of Alaska Anchorage)
Reading all the comments here, there's a legit but crazy sounding scientific voice crying out in the wilderness "hey we need solid-state utility-scale molecular sensing and this is weirdly the way to get there." www.molecularreality.com
If you want to help, get in touch.
Not at all, you can put any license on your code that you want.
> ah, the ad hominem, never a good sign for the proceeding argument.

GP never says that you’re naive, but the comment was.
As a user, I don't want to give this info. I'm glad the EU is giving folks an avenue to express this preference.
If you're going to assume bad faith then there's no point to the discussion.
>They are the best search engine by far for politically controversial topics.

This is an interesting take given the political censorship in Russia (for some ineffable reason much harsher now than it used to be 4 months ago) and cases like https://twitter.com/kevinrothrock/status/1510944781492531208.
I don't know why Rust gets "runtime" and Nim gets "compile time" for type confusion?
Well I’m not an expert but I think the main issue is that American citizens have protections that non-Americans do not. The government cannot spy on Americans without a court order.
> It's not just money, it's people, it's culture, it's all the great projects the company does.

What about people killed by the Russian army, sponsored by Yandex?

I guess those matter less than the company culture, right?
It's not perfect but encryption should keep most people honest assuming you practice good opsec.
Two basic explanations come to mind.

(1) Most of Europe had less of a population boom during the time that the auto/highway build-out happened. Part of the reason, ironically, is that there was a lot of migration from Europe to the US. Many descendants of Europeans are stuck in car culture in the US, while their cousins who stayed home are not.

(2) There's a strong correlation between the ability of governments to "spend for the future" on things like transportation and the existence of decent transit infrastructure. It's no accident that Europe's infrastructure is better, Japan's and China's better still, while in hyper-individualist government-hating US it's the worst.

These two factors reinforce each other as well. Most of the "developed" world got out in front on this issue, while we veered off into insanity (thanks lobbyists!) and are now stuck with the near-impossible task of retrofitting The Right Thing onto a well entrenched Wrong Thing.
job seekers? It could become a site companies pay for placement on?
hahaha that's brutal

last week: "we've decided to close your account, you have one month to f off"

this week: "We didn’t clearly communicate who qualifies as a Brex customer moving forward, the truth is you're dead weight so f off (you have three weeks)"

edit: lol whoops deadline was aug 16, but i read it as july 16, which made the numbers sound a lot punchier.. still brutal tho
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>For me, it feels like mj is underclocking my brain. I am aware of it and I hate being slow. It’s a terrible feeling.

That's funny. I like it because it underclocks my brain. It's not as needed these days now that I have meds for ADHD, but before I was diagnosed my brain felt like I was constantly thinking too fast. While I enjoy that I make connections quickly and that I retrain and recall information quickly, it's a depressing burden when it's out of control. So before the meds weed was the only thing that kept me feeling calm, focused and in control
It appears to be a pretty fantastic time for full-stack development and solo founders.

For me, the context switch between client and server was always difficult using a Scala/TypeScript setup (startup).

As you said, unless you rely on some niche technology only available on the JVM, it‘s probably more productive to go full stack TypeScript. For perf-heavy workloads I would probably pick Rust instead of Scala.
> And IIRC RMS has said the same thing; that he'd be in favor of the removal of copyright over code as a concept even if it meant neutering the protections of the GPL.

Do you have a citation? I was under the impression he defended copyright because copyleft depends on it.
Is this comment from a bot? You just reiterated everything from the article.
Not generally, but they do apply to Google Italia, who would not legally be allowed to respond to requests from Google USA for European PII.
Thank you! I just fixed the link, thanks for letting me know! And if any of my articles are ever confusing, feel welcome to swing by the discord or file an issue =)

I'm pretty excited about all the memory safety advances languages have made in the last few years. Zig is doing some really interesting things (see Andrew's thread above), D's new static analysis for zero-cost memory safety hit the front page yesterday, we're currently prototyping Vale's region borrow checker, and it feels like the space is really exploding. Good time to be alive!
I'm sorry, I am not trying to frustrate you or avoid your questions. I'm enjoying this conversation. I will try to work with you.

> From this it follows that I can create a computer model of a human brain, complete with all the cells, proteins, neurons, etc, and that human brain will be capable of any action (eg, the signals sent by neurons out of the brain) a real human brain is. There would be no way to discern between a real flesh and blood human brain and the simulated one by talking to it. Since a real human brain tells you that it's conscious and has internal experience, the simulated one must tell you the same.

> While the simulated human brain will tell you that it's conscious, it is of course not proof that it is.

I still agree with all of this. A simulated brain could give the appearance of consciousness while not being conscious. It would not have a private conscious inner life, but it could say things that make it look like it did.

> If thoughts and feelings are a thing that don't pass the computability test, but a simulated human brain doesn't have external behavior that differs from a flesh and blood human brain, then no, thoughts and feelings have no effect or even influence on your behavior. In such a case they are a mere passenger. Any effect they have would necessitate that the particles and fields within the brain suddenly behave in a way that violates our model of particles and fields.

I am struggling to follow your point here. Thoughts and feelings are internal experiences which correlate with phenomenal consciousness and are absent in a simulation. Could you give me an example of the effect you are describing and how that would violate our current models?
The internet is far too "entropic" to trust bookmarks alone. This has been a clear failing of the web since the 1990s.

I've literally been downloading pages since then to have a local image. I've written various native code tools to extract text, index that and then markup the files with keywords and then create a local search engine back.

SO MUCH is shadow-edited, deleted or lost. It's foolish to rely on ANYTHING online for more than a year or even less. If it matters you must have a full archive.

When PDFs are referenced (e.g. scientific papers - I have 1000s of COVID papers), I download those and index them.

This is also why I never rely on e-books - I order a hard copy because in 20-100 years, it will ONLY be the paper version that will still be around.
Parents basically can't do anything leisure-related with electronics or the Internet, at all, if they shut that stuff off at 8:30 every day.

Which might be for the best anyway, but it is so tempting to still try to keep up with movies, TV, video games, side-projects, social media, et c, even though you're effectively working damn near an 80-hour week. Easier to fit in exercise after the kids are asleep, too, unless you save all that for the weekend or take time out of paying work to do it instead. Or get up stupid early. Like, much earlier than 7.
You missed the point. Just like the author did when he disqualified all the C++ tools

Writing unsafe code and removing tools "because production" gets you unsafe code as shown in that rust cve
Abu Dhabi Fossil Dunes: A frozen landscape created by climate change
Sorry but no, as an EU Citizen we need a real EU instead of a financial-only one.

- We need a Constitution;

- we need a common fiscal system;

- we need to agree with a neutral language for documents, witch can only be an auxiliary language NOT spoken by anyone inside or outside the EU;

- we need a common defence;

- we need to remember that we are European till the Urals so Russia is largely Europe and have already offered more times the EAEU (EurAsian union) partnership witch is a FAIR one since we needs each others and we have industry and tech, they have land and resources with ground contiguity;

- we need to rule ourselves outside the anglosphere because UK and USA governments do their OWN (rightly) interest NOT our EU interest and their "international" institutions only serve them not us;

- we need to remember that an united Eurasian union is the first world power no one can break except ourselves (as it happen with two world wars in the recent past);

- we need to IMPOSE by People will a Political ruling class above finance, who represent OUR interests not the interests of some criminals in Davos;

- we need a Democratic model like the Swiss one where People vote every two months and there is a conscription of one month per year, 18-28 years of age, with weapons at home, so the government CAN'T go against Citizens without a bloodbath no one is interested in and so must respect people will and people must know how to protest, peaceful and armed+trained as needed, si vis pacem para bellum;

...

The last thing we need is the Germany model who actually DEVASTATE Germany making it a dummy and fragile empty economical power only for very few.
How far does "separating corporate interests from governmental ones" go?

Can the government purchase a car? Hire a private corporation to build a road? Hire a consulting company to check the security of their (now-free-and-without-a-support-contract FOSS?) computer setup?
phones are on a different level than fiction or radio or arguably even cannabis imo

you can do something else while you listen to the radio or smoke pot (e.g., clean your house, hang out with friends or family, with weed you can even read or program)

phones and books both consume your attention, but a book at least demands a bit of effort to follow and might introduce you to new ideas or vocabulary, even if you're reading pulp fiction

on the other hand you can scroll twitter or insta or watch tiktok absolutely mindlessly, and doing so will tend to become a habit all while it chips away at your attention span and your willpower

weed can make boredom feel ok too, and can certainly affect attention, willpower and memory, but if used in moderation it can also magnify your curiosity and sense of wonder, help you introspect, etc

cannabis is a powerful entheogen and it deserves far more respect and restraint than it currently receives

smartphones give us enormous powers but they can also exert massive power over our minds and actions, they too should be treated with caution and used with far more restraint

cannabis might make you lazy or suggestible, and it can even be dangerous for some people or if used irresponsibly, but it won't spoon feed you mind-melting pablum or ads or propaganda or spy on you
Google returned nothing which contained exact matches of some of the more interesting dialogue. It would be a serious find - worthy of a paper - to disprove that GPT-3 is generating novel text/code.
> And you just won't get as much out of your life as you could get, won't achieve as much relationship success, professional success, or personal fulfillment.

Chicken vs. the Egg.

Perhaps many are drawn to cannabis due to the inability to achieve such goals due to whatever individual or societal issues/reasons one may have.
Until you use a different machine and accidentally type your command without realizing it's not there.
I provide free tutorials and articles like this. If you don't want to provide this info then I don't want to provide you free content.
Record bacterium discovered as long as human eyelash
The word "spy" is so loose these days. I'd consider the vast swaths of metadata other companies compile on me "spying" to an extent.
Here in NH we have a group of people trying to compile their own. I never thought of them as distro hipsters, but it tracks.
If you're a data cleaning guy, you might be interested in our data bounties program. It's collaborative data importing / cleaning. The current one is building a catalog of museum collections. We launch a new one every month.

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-06-14-announcing-museums-b...
It can if you are executing programs that then try to execute those commands and get your commands instead.
Robots.json – machine learning access control proposal
You cannot have a real major powerful country if the people can't communicate with each other. You cannot have a people.

All of these countries with multiple languages on the list are tiny, monolingual in practice or struggling with separatism/conflict. Most fit into into at least 2 of these 3 categories. And certainly none of them have 20+ official languages.
The PayPal ban seems particularly nasty. He was definitely trying to be provocative on Etsy.
"According to the Magnuson-Moss Act, a vehicle manufacturer cannot automatically cancel your warranty just because you’ve installed aftermarket car parts. This is an illegal practice. That said, if your aftermarket part somehow causes or contributes to a failure in your vehicle, the dealer may be able to deny your warranty claim—as long as they can prove the connection. In these cases, the burden of proof is entirely on the dealership."

If your cheap replica part causes issues to the thing you're trying to warranty then yes. If you replace the headlights with crappy clones from ebay, and Chevy says your warranty is void on your transmission, no.
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