skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying it is a secret while it is full of tourists every summer is a big stretch.
Ah, but if you're playing offline, obviously you're a filthy pirate.
That's theft. The theft pure and simple, ancient, which has been around forever. Nothing new.
>Why should we expect the arising of experience to be a one off occurrence ?

Given 7.9 billion people alive right now, give or take, I'm not quite sure where the idea it might be a one-off occurrence comes from.

But even if you mean our individual personal experience, I'm not sure what that would mean. A copy of me would think and experience in ways similar to me to a point, but we would still have different and distinct actual individual experiences of being.
It’s quite a bit more complicated than it’d seem. The Scopes trial for example is widely misconstrued (IMHO) as science vs religious ignorance and is a good exemplar. It really had more to do with eugenics which went hand in hand with evolution at the time. The science book in question was full of racist and eugenics pseudoscience.

There’s a few of the accounts of the Scopes trial from a more wholistic understanding:

A more academic one:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0950543080206288...

> Using Bryan's unread closing remarks as a key to his views, this revisionist historical work argues that Bryan opposed evolution primarily for political and ethical reasons—reasons that have been lost to historical memory. Bryan's overarching concern was the threat to society posed by extrapolations of evolutionary doctrine—namely, Social Darwinism and eugenics. His commitment to the Social Gospel put him at odds with the concept of natural selection being applied to humans.

A more biased one but which highlights the emotional aspects better:

https://unherd.com/2019/11/americas-great-victory-for-scienc...

> The relevant statute, known as the Butler Act, was not a fusty old one. In fact the Governor had signed it into law only two months previously. The Tennessee House of Representatives had passed the bill by 71 votes to 5; the state Senate endorsed it 24 votes to 6. …

> At this time almost everyone who considered themselves ‘progressive’, including everyone who considered themselves a ‘Darwinist’, strongly supported the-then rampant eugenics movement. In rural Tennessee, folks may not have had a sophisticated grasp of Darwin’s theory of evolution, nor of his cousin, Francis Galton’s related, but pseudo-scientific theory of eugenics; but they knew the progressives who preached Darwinism in the cities despised country people, called them “imbeciles” and “defectives” and would sterilise them if they got half a chance.

> More than 60,000 Americans were forcibly sterilised under eugenics laws passed by 33 states. It wasn’t just low IQ that established someone as likely to have a dysgenic effect: a history of heavy drinking, or conceiving a child out of wedlock, were enough to mark someone down as a “moral imbecile”.
I don't think it ever did, and he kind of deserved that codename, IMO.
It's a secret because it's a pain to get to.
Hmm I guess after attaining my current worldview and dropping religion, I stopped worrying about death as a “state”. Because I was not uncomfortable before I was born I always reasoned. I tell my kids the same if they ask what is after death? I ask them back, what was it like before being born? It will be like that. Of course I still don't want to die.
Mine is above 53,000 hours ... time to check my backups!
Where do they own the market? I use Lyft everywhere I go in the US just fine.
There is a difference between letting China export low value added products with many producers vs a literal spy in your bedroom.

Is this now US policy too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCqXlDjx18
In my country we used to have Uber but they pulled out maybe 4-5 years ago. I wish they have stayed, because now we only have one and it is driving the price way up high due to lack of competition.
This was an easier both sides-ism to get away a decade ago. It stretches credulity today.
No, there should not be a law that forces anyone to give away their property. That's just complete nonsense.

You should draw your own conclusion as to what you spend your money on, and possibly you might conclude that "buying" online games that can be taken away from you at any time is a waste of money. But you can't go from there to "we must take away intellectual property from these capitalist swine!".
Yea. Actually, they should get hands on with error handling other than go or your run of the mill exceptions.
Maybe you could get a piggyback from the cops while they're dealing with something?
Gotta love that paywall.
I don't think it's that helpful if you're letting Stockfish make a move or two for you per game, or at least at the level I'm at.

The engine is so good that it often makes moves that are incomprehensible, setting itself up for an attack in n moves where n is often 10+.

If you did want to cheat (but what's the point?) a chrome extension that prevented you from making moves where you lost more then some certain amount of centipawns would be the way to do it.
You missed the point. There is something special and enlightening about living an ethical life.
Wouldn't be surprised if the ACCC (Australian Competition & Consumer Commission) went after them. This is almost certainly breaking the ACL, and all customers would be eligible for a refund.
> It's not like there's likely hidden segfaults or memory vulns waiting there…

It's funny you mention that, because the now-deprecated 'failure' crate has such a memory-safety vulnerability: https://github.com/rust-lang-deprecated/failure/issues/336

Granted, consuming code is only vulnerable if they opt-in to implementing a provided trait method that most people should never ever need to implement. But I would still try to eliminate 'failure' from my dependency graph if possible (and I recently submitted PRs to two dependencies I was using to remove 'failure' from their dependencies).
Lol! Of course they would! Thanks for this info.
think their office in Quebec is losing talent too after they enacted that bill mandating French language. English speaking engineers are leaving Montreal.
Show HN: Typewaiter, the typewriter that doesn't wait
Howdy HN, just recently made this silly typewriter variant and think some of you might enjoy it so thought I'd share.

Here the cursor takes no heed of what you're typing and just advances at a steady pace, with the effect that typing something reasonable-looking requires you to type at a very steady rhythm. There's also the bonus that the space character is no longer needed—you can (and kind of have to) just wait—so the keyboard minimalists among us can shave even more space off their devices. Only desktop for now.

It's an interesting contrast to the last one I made—which requires you to do all the heavy lifting in moving the cursor position yourself—https://oisinmoran.com/typewriter
Does it matter? At least people are paying the right price for power, and it gives those who need it the ability to save money by shifting demand.
> If it was worse, why were people using it?

Because it was impossibly cheap.
It starts understanding the meaning of the word "estimate" in the English language.
I briefly scanned the paper. This is not a computer model for cardiotoxicity as a whole, it's a model for one very specific type of cardiotoxicity. These things may have their uses, bit they are a long way from replacing animal testing.

This model checks for one side effect in one organ system. Animal testing can check all organ systems for thousands of side effects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Rules were made to be broken!
If it was just inertia, it means the options have similar outcomes and the only factor is the cost of switching. As you pointed out, there are other trade-offs.
I’m very curious how they’re getting around section 1713.02 of the Ohio Revised Code as seen at https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1713.02

They’re not on the Ohio Department of Higher Education’s authorized list. They make no mention on their website of even seeking authorization. They’re not clearly identifying themselves as a “Bible College” to take advantage of that loophole.
> Do note that this doesn’t appear to be affecting the Remastered rerelease, though keep in mind that would require an additional purchase as the original release does not grant you access to it.

Ah, great. So poor little Ubisoft doesn’t want to pay for the activation servers of Liberation HD and Liberation HD++. How nice of them to drop just the older, original version and not even offer the working remastered version to existing owners.
I am from latin america and at least neither China nor Russia have participated in coup d'etat to install a military junta to then torture and massacre anyone slightly left of the US "Democratic" Party.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI
It's worth remembering that words aren't static over time and the negative connotations you attach to the word 'cult' wouldn't have existed for the early romans and greeks we get the word from. Early archaeologists and historians, being gigantic geeks for classical civilizations, basically copied the meaning during the renaissance / early modern period and that's where the modern term-of-art comes from. If it helps, you can understand it as "specific practices of worship by a group, especially if they're non-christian and non-western". There's some historical pejorative implications from colonial mindsets, but that's a different discussion.
Are you sure TV didn't rot our brains?
It matters how much of a reduction 17 implies. Scale-free numbers can be extremely misleading.

E.g. last half, I had about 350 separate people I DM'd. Per year I generally break 500. If you include the size of email groups I have sent messages to, I'm consistently over 1,000 most months, possibly over 2,000 (maybe even significantly more). Microsoft has around 180,000 employees, that number could trivially go much much higher if I worked there.

17 is nothing if that's the criteria. Probably just noise, and you'll likely get different results next year.

For people I would consider to be my network... 30-40? Maybe 50? They're the ones I actually interact with repeatedly on purpose. Reducing that by 17 is substantial, and I don't think I'd be as useful if I cut that size.
Ah, another one for my list, and this one from a big vendor like Cloudflare!

On my to-do list is a little project that takes many password "managers" like these, which are really just hash functions with an interface (called "vaultless" here), takes as second input a dump of password hashes that nobody has cracked yet, and goes to down the hashes list trying the usual password list but running it through these "managers"' algorithms first. I wonder how many people turn out to use weak passwords as their master key for this sort of thing. Maybe this is more clear:

foreach linkedin_hashlist as hash do
foreach brainpwdmgr_algorithms as algo do
foreach wordlist as word do
c = algo(pwd=word, site='linkedin.com')
if c == hash then
print(c, word)
fi
end
end
end

If the --password input for these tools is guessable, an attacker can use this to retrieve the key that this tool will generate for any website. I can then go on and try likely usernames (I've already got one, presumably) on various sites with what I know is probably the correct password. A handful of failed logins per website don't attract attention, and I'm already virtually certain of the login credentials.

This "gokey" does have the option to add a seed file, which would make such an attack impossible if generated securely. How many people use that option is the question. In the readme the seed-file-less mode is labeled as the "simple mode", perhaps that sounds attractive to some readers that don't realize the danger of the simple mode (kind of sounds like "default mode", when you don't want fancy options, just a standard password vault?).

(If someone wants to steal this idea, feel free to pick it up of course; the actual work is in the execution as always.)
I know where DDG gets the results from, but in all the years using it, it has never failed to find what I am looking for. Or, I’ve never needed to check google because DDG didn’t find what I was looking for.
No. It really isn't. There are tens of thousands of instances of gun violence and very few instances of police violence. When people say they are worried about being shot, they do not mean by police.
While most people on HN would agree that they would like more regulation of their data on FB and Google, these are largely still separate actors from the US government. You can even indicate that something like Cambridge Analytica is starting within a party, rather than the actual governing body.

There is too much sharing, IMO, without a doubt. That being said, they are not near synonymous as TikTok is.

Data regulation, privacy, influence through exposure are real issues worldwide. Tiktok has a raised profile due to its closeness with a governing state body.
Games were already cracked before companies like Valve started pulling them from players' libraries. If games are cracked anyway, why would studios and publishers care one way or another?
Do they have a live Peertube?
and scheduled me a 5:15am ride at 10pm the night before so i could get to their airport at the click of a button. where else is the driver going to make $25 (guessing their actual profit from $40 ride) in 20min at 5am? it's in the best interest of the people and progress. that's what the law should be enabling, not defending taxi licenses and unions
>In this case, the citizenry needs to be prepared cognitively.

This is such a pie in the sky suggestion that I'm forced to wonder if you even pay attention to US politics. To give you some context some of the biggest issues in education right now is:

1. Arming teachers with rifles

2. Dismantling the public school system and replacing them with vouchers.

The last federally mandated educational solution, No Child Left Behind, was a massive failure and has soured most future federally mandated educational policies. Asking underfunded teachers to teach 9 year olds why they shouldn't use the "funny cat app" because of complex geopolitics will end up ignored at best or lead to incredibly xenophobia at worst (Ms. Adams told me not to use TikTok because China is evil, henceforth all asians are out to trick me).

>I don't see what other long-term things that a democracy can do.

Actually enforce data privacy laws universally. Of course this will anger the Facebook/Google trillion dollar oligarchs so we are told there is nothing we can do. The crux of the issue is that US wants everyone else data (EU, Oceania, Asia) but it doesn't want other companies to do the same. Your solutions are either you ban it for hegemony reasons, and pray that Europe/India/Japan/Australia doesn't enact the same law, or you ban it for privacy reasons.
Physical games can still have DRM.

The best way is to buy at https://www.gog.com/

They offer lot's of DRM-free games, even newer titles so you can actually own the games and back them up wherever and however you want.
> Reloading the entire source file was always fast enough

The point is that you might want to keep the state.
You are likely mistaken.
FB/Meta is still the leading data-broker because

(a) they track you even though you are not on their app [1]
(b) they own 55% of app downloads in the US [2]

[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_...
[2] https://app.finclout.io/t/b9BbQa4
In some cases, but a product must fulfill its core purpose. If a SSD intentionally dumped data and self destructed at a set time, that would be disastrous for the brand. Same way a car doesn't adopt planned obsolescence by blowing up after 200k miles.
>Please re-read my original comment. In particular, the 92% bit

Better than nothing.

>Are you suggesting testing on humans? Clearly that's the only way to clear those "surprises".

No, I'm just saying a full body with multiple organ systems, hormones, and everything else has many more variables than a cell in a petri dish. So a living organism of some sort is a big plus. It's true that if you tested on humans you'd have even fewer unknowns, but that's obviously unethical.

>I think the gist of my argument against animal testing is that animal models aren't very good at predicting outcomes in humans

They aren't perfect. They're just the best thing we have right now
I'm giving Superhuman a second go. So far it is O.K. - I keep going back to Gmail, perhaps because I'm so use to its workflow.
Two things: Test restores or you don't actually have backups. Just saying.
its not steam, its ubisoft DRM servers
And? They'd figure it out. Millions of businesses have to deal with changes in law every day.

In fact, there is a good chance this would result in standardising the most basic aspects of online activity (license checks etc) into free opensource libraries, saving such corporations a decent amount of money in the long run.
The paper linked by bsdz checks for one specific cardiac side effect, it is not anywhere close to being a model for cardiotoxicity as a whole, a very important distinction.
Well, I think that most people don't believe in reincarnation.
Social media addiction is a very real thing and tiktok does it better than any of its competitors.
the color do carry a separate meaning. Each group of letter is a digraph and make one of the 44 english sounds.

if you didn’t know that it’s because your old enough to have learn to read using « sight word/ whole word» method. instead of using the new « phonics » method.

This is also probably why it make it harder for you to read it. Because your brain is not trying to recognize syllable or sound but instead to recognize each word as a whole unit.
What if this is an app for women to find a relatively well off (replace with intelligent, etc) partner given that this app is, essentially, a filter that dictates level of income/job bracket (location dependent, but you get the idea).
I started dabbling with Linux around 2001. As I got deeper into the ecosystem, particularly trying to run Linux on the laptops available at the time, I dreamt of a day when we’d have good (mobile) Linux hardware.

A common sentiment at the time was that Linux would never be a viable desktop OS, and thinking otherwise was well…dreaming.

It’s so incredible exciting to see the continued evolution of Linux-first hardware in the 2020s, with Framework at the forefront.

As trust in institutions and mega vendors continues to erode, I can’t help but feel like this is the moment Linux was made for. The idealism of the time is now realized as a real alternative to closed solutions - solutions that are increasingly hard to trust.

It’s gratifying to see as an aging Linux nerd. I hope it continues.
its really puzzling how a technology so perfect for lowering cost of entry and promoting disintermediation has done the exact opposite.
This is almost definitely because Ubisoft shipped this with some SecuROM-alike DRM and doesn’t want to keep paying pennies for activation servers. If we’re lucky, they probably even opted out of offline machine keys (because “piracy”) so that the game will stop running because reactivation will fail.
I don't think it's that they're hijacking the scroll wheel, but that there are parts of the page that just don't respond to it. Mildly infuriating to say the least.
This article does the opposite for me. If you like the Economist, I also suggest the Spectator[1]. British in every sense of the word and also as old as the Economist.

[1] https://www.spectator.co.uk/
We want to damage ourselves by sanctioning others? You said that taking others wealth makes people lose trust in you and therefore hurts yourself. So I don't see why we would do that on purpose.
For devops, I'll always start with a bash... but anything more complicated than a few commands and subroutines, I default to my beloved Perl <3
Hi from Venezuela
The point of an Alcubierre drive is that there aren't any reference frames that are moving FTL. There's cases where spacetime itself is stretching FTL but we know that's possible because we can already see that in the expansion of the universe. Pretty much all of the galaxies outside of the local group are going to slowly fade away from our perspective because of the stretching of space crossing FTL.
In the world where US controls the petrodollar system. That world.
Often when I read about physics like this, I'm reminded that there are two possibilities:

Either there is no practical way for a human to ever travel faster than light; or there is.

Both possibilities are fascinating.

(And yes I know about time travel paradoxes if FTL is possible- it's still fascinating!)
Lyft still hasn’t even broke out of the US and Canada.
> So sure, experimentation effects may vary but the upper limit is fucking brutal and definitely depends on what stage the drug is in. Early on in development, the effects could be worse than death.

So could the effects of e.g. life in the wild. Anything can go very badly.

IMO: You can't be completely blind to the utilitarian angle. The average and distribution of outcomes matters.

So, we go through an escalating series of tests-- designed to both weed-out drugs cheaply and to avoid suffering; from conceptual models to computation to tissue cultures to organ models to small animals to larger animals to small numbers of humans to large numbers of humans.

If you weed out the last couple of steps before humans, you're going to either try a lot fewer drugs on humans, or increase human suffering a whole lot to protect smaller animals.
I would suggest a random sampling. Maybe taste 1% of them, and if you find a single bad one throw away the entire bag or return it.
On PC you’re actually at a disadvantage if you do. At best it’s just the same as digital (boxed Steam key), at worst it’s some alternative DRM that stops working much before Steam/Origin/uPlay does, e.g. SecuROM, Games For Windows LIVE, etc.
I think this may be an unfamiliar pattern for towns that haven’t yet crowded their name into university titles but it’s a well established pattern when enough institutions land on the ground.

Eg

University of San Francisco (USF)
San Francisco State University (SFSU)
University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Same exact pattern in San Diego too. Probably going to see this pattern permutations across several towns in the future. I think Seattle and towns in Florida May have a similar pattern too. Kind of makes a schools named after individuals a bit more distinctive come to think about it.
There are plenty of other gas pipelines into europe.

Gas is traded internally all round europe, so 'cutting off' one country doesn't have much impact because they just buy from another.

It's the continent-wide energy shortfall that will be the issue, but as OP points out, there are plenty of ways to steeply cut energy use while keeping some semblance of regular life.

There are also lots of shuttered coal mines all round europe, many of which could be reopened if necessary, and coal to gas is an option - not done since the 1980's since it cost more, but it might well be back on the cards.
Dude, I'm a card-carrying member of the UK Labour Party. As far as America is concerned, I'm left of frigging Gandhi, and IMHO guns ought simply be banned - yep, straight up banned, I am one of the people coming for <insert appropriate pronoun> guns...

But, it's not my country, I don't even get to vote, and I don't intend to stay past the money being plentiful and the kid leaving for college. America's a great place to make a few bob, but it's not somewhere I want to retire to. So, knock yourselves out y'all, I don't really care.
Based on the reaction of Russians, HIMARS are doing real damage to them and they are not happy at all.