skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Present crimes against humanism do not get a free ride! The author explicitly said so in this recent post [1]

> ...uploading isn't real (now), so the things "Lena" has to say about uploading are academic (now).

> The reason "Lena" is a concerning story isn't that one day we may be able to upload one another and when that happens we will do terrible things to those uploads. ... This is about appetites which, as we are all uncomfortably aware, already exist within human nature.

> Oh boy, what if there was a maligned sector of human society whose members were for some reason considered less than human? What if they were less visible than most people, or invisible, and were exploited and abused, and had little ability to exercise their rights or even make their plight known?

> That's real! That actually happens! You can name four groups of people matching that description without even thinking. We don't need to add some manufactured debate about fictitious, magical uploads to these real scenarios. They are already terrible!

...

> "Lena" is a true story. You knew it was when you read it.

> So, what do we do about this? In reality?

...

> I've got no clue. It turns out that causing problems is a lot easier than organising against them, and I am just a science fiction writer.

> Good luck, everyone.

[1] https://qntm.org/uploading
There's a game called "SOMA" which does a great job of exploring this question.

Ultimately it comes to the same conclusion, using the player character as a foil who spends most of the game refusing to understand what is going on.
I recommend this for watching lectures & other long videos. Compared to the web player mpv gives finer control of playback speed and seeking forwards and backwards.
One consistent plot/reflection item I see missing from these stories (I definitely may have missed stories although - happy for references) is beyond the "creation/invention/conquest", deeper into the "maintenance" part (the part that nature goes about with the birth/reproduction/death cycle).
I love these extreme air gap exploits. Detecting keyboard entry by analyzing the sound of the typing and reading CRT monitor radiation to mirror the screen from a distance come to mind.

But have any of these extreme exploits ever been used in the wild? They all seem impossible to pull off in anything but lab controlled conditions.
Guilty! Well, not quite 5 years but my writing has slowed down a lot. As I get older, I have less time to write and spend a lot more time on other hobbies and obligations.
Bun: A JavaScript Runtime for the Whole Dev Lifecycle
Outsourcing teachers with ML: a search engine for student questions
CIA isn't putting out diss tracks or toting guns wearing baklavas
Note that reforestation up here is a different game than in places like California (read: "warmer locations more amicable to life"). Species that survive here mostly already existed and trees grow very, very slowly. For the most part, we'll welcome anything that will survive, and turns out (big surprise) that our existing species are the best at surviving here. An exception (as in, a newly introduced potentially invasive species) is the Californian Poplar, which was imported in the 40s, but that isn't really used much for reforestation anymore.

There are notable examples of invasive species in the non-tree category though, the Lupine probably being the most controversial. It's been used to reclaim and create soil in sandy areas and in only a few decades since being imported, the blue of the flowering lupine absolutely dominates some areas. I think it's pretty, but it's aggressive as all hell.
True but if your emitter is not underwater like the receiver then you will have to account for air/water refraction not sure how that would work in the real world. Also I suspect it would be fairly easy for a rogue state to infer submarine locations from emitter beam orientation in low orbit space.
RSS is still the default distribution system for podcasts. It's probably the thin thread that is keeping Spotify from building a walled garden for audio.
How do we measure toughness, resilience, etc.? Is wealth the only metric of success?

Anecdotally, in my experience through athletics, I would describe groups of athletes from certain countries to be certainly tougher. They train harder, they endure more, they have less access to quality nutrition, medicine, equipment, etc. And yet they accomplish more despite having less. You can't phase or intimidate them because they've already endured far worse.

Ex: Dagestani wrestlers, Thai kick boxers.

So while this is a hyper-granular examination, the rewards are going to those "strong men" who endured "hard times". Of course there's a lot of selection bias going on here as well.
Wow, this looks incredibly good considering that the solution for hiding the seams is just to blend things together with a noisy gradient. (EDIT: Or I've misunderstood how it works!)

I assume it works a lot less well on more isotropic textures (e.g. what does wood grain look like?) than on the examples presented here.

What do pathological cases look like?
> Have there been? And why?

A few reasons why people might want to do this:

- Optimizing for small approachable codebase instead of featurefulness or performance (sbase)[1]

- Dissatisfaction with GPL (toybox)[2]

- Desire to replace C (described as an "unsafe" language) with Rust or Go (examples exist but I don't know of specific ones)

[1]: https://core.suckless.org/sbase/

[2]: https://landley.net/toybox/
Isn't there a 3rd possibility that the galaxy is quenched leaving only redder stars?
https://archive.ph/O54vF
I've been checked out on the news for about a decade. The main issue for me wasn't that it's attention grabby and sensationalist, or that it's often blatantly biased. At the end of the day it's just sloppy as fuck.

I read a lot of dense subject matter material. Whether it be software, our product domain, or just personal interest. It's possible to write high quality surface-level explainers, but the news feels like a college student's research essay written entirely in the free period before the class where it was due.

Even their blatantly biased calls to action are sloppy. They can drive me away from positions I believe in by arguing for them so poorly.
I always pipe from cat, as a matter of habit.

Reason being: I've probably just catted the file at least once, and it's even likely I catted it right before piping it. So I can extend that command from the history, and if I keep piping (likely) I don't have the weird syntactic stutter at the beginning where `blah < file.txt` | next` puts things out of order.

Also, you can't mistype `cat file.txt | blah` and overwrite file.txt accidentally with the output of blah. That's ergonomic.
Complex web apps aside, the average page today doesn’t have more information than five years ago. There’s nothing useful to slip in.
that sounds awesome, thanks for the recommendation. that sounds like exactly how I'd want to start, and the explanations sound like exactly what I'd want, too.
by colonizing mars, we split our evolutionary tree more so wiping out 1 branch isn't catastrophic. yes a species has to keep getting lucky to survive. but more branches means more rolls of the dice.
A lot of McDonald's are franchised, its probably up to the franchise owner whether or not to build a play area. In the age of covid and monkeypox I doubt many franchisees would shell out the cash.
> Indeed, it may even have adverse effects: you draw people who want the money, instead of people drawn to the profession intrinsically.

This sentiment is a big part of suppressing teacher wages, and needs to stop. No, raising teacher pay will not result in getting worse teachers. We shouldn't be relying on charity and self-sacrifice on the part of teachers.

[EDIT] The general problem here is that we default to "pay more to get better workers" unless the job produces clear social good, then it's suddenly like "well if you don't want to badly under-earn compared to what you could make doing almost anything else, then you must not have your heart in the right place so will be bad at this anyway". It's some weird kind of sour-grapes thinking that we use to avoid paying people doing actually clearly important and socially beneficial jobs what they're worth, while the real money goes to people doing jobs that... aren't so clearly beneficial.
Are you sure it's related to working out? I'd stop workouts for a week, and if you still have trouble sleeping, at least you'll know it isn't related to your workout schedule.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fall-asleep-fast-sl...

https://medium.com/s/story/combat-tested-training-unwind-and...
You do realize... There are many designs, styles, sizes of bathroom sink faucets. Typically the builder or person commissioning the build chooses the sink and the faucet fitures. You can change either...
Yes, early 1980s.
Basically, hash all your data items, keep track of the maximum number of leading 0 bits seen in a hash so far.

This is a decent proxy (but not without error) for how many distinct items you've seen so far since large numbers of leading zeros should be uncommon. Finding this means you probably saw a lot of other things to get to that point (intuitively, about N leading zeroes are expected after seeing 2^N items).

This is actually the same thing that a proof of work cryptocurrency does to control difficulty: change target number of leading zeros so miners have to do more/less work to find a match.

Of course, you could get "lucky" with a single counter and the resolution isn't great, so HLL first separates the values into buckets which are estimated separately and then combined to give a more robust estimate.
> Total size of all member websites combined: 169.4 MB

Apparently that is comparable to a single page load of digital ocean’s blog

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32076634
True; my choices alone are not. I am one is seven billion making similar choices though; that adds up.

Your insistence you live in a bubble and have no impact on others is what’s turning people away from Federalism; people who don’t know you don’t feel obligated to coddle your sensibilities, hence the down votes.
My impression (from very far away, I don't have any kind of contact with them) is that Uber is based on a fundamentally bad informatics structure that has a very high operational costs. Those now can only be reduced by the same kinds of competent decision-making that would have lead to an structure with low operational costs at the first time.
Great point. That helps reduce the perceived solution space in my head for how a cocktail is made. as a noob it sometimes feels like a black box where these crazy recipes and ingredients come together to make something tasty. I'll start looking for core or common ingredients and preparation methods
Same. After Google Reader I went with Feedly for a while, then self-hosted TTRSS, and currently self-hosted Miniflux. Miniflutt is my preferred Android client and ReadKit on Mac. The Miniflux web app is nice and simple but I prefer clients that mark as read on scroll.

I occasionally venture onto Reddit or HN to see if I've missed anything big but rarely do.
will check that out as well, thank you!
For anyone wondering why the title of the short story is “Lena”, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
In case it was not clear, my point was not entirely serious.

However I have to say that I have seen several appalled comments from Windows devs looking at using Linux on the theme of how awfully stone-aged the tools are.
double-click? So you /do/ use a GUI! I type 'mpv filename' in my terminal. I don't need a fancy GUI to choose my files.
Like someone who can understand basic facts around us? We are already changing, because our way of interacting with the world has fundamentally changed. “Great Filter” - I’m guessing you might want to google that one. Suffering - let me remind you the consequences of climate catastrophe.
> The conditions are also damn stressful, unless you're lucky enough to be at a school with amazing admin and co-workers and parents.

As a teacher at a school with pretty amazing admin and co-workers and parents.. they're pretty dang stressful even with those things. And I come from a background of founding startups, so I'm not some complete lightweight.

The thing is, you can endure stress and suck if it feels worthwhile. If you're missing those things, it stops feeling worthwhile.
If using Google's BeyondCorp architecture as the definition of "Zero Trust"[1], it does away with traditional "defence in depth" redundancy such as implementing, in series, IPSec/Wireguard/TLS tunneling AND mutually authenticated application layer TLS to mitigate a single technology failing. Instead, network boundaries are removed and anyone can access internal system login pages across the Internet from a web browser[2]. In place of network boundaries, device attestation[3] is relied upon to ensure control over the state of devices that are being used to access the internal system.

I would argue that the "Zero Trust" definition in the BeyondCorp architecture is somewhat an opposite of "defence in depth" because it appears to advocate so many single points of failure. You have to trust the TPM manufacturer's claims. You have to be certain the software running the public facing login portal is free of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. You have to trust your whole business on the source code of a single vendor providing the software for centralised user authentication. You have to trust the few employees who manage these single points of failure with an entire business rather than a small part of the business.

Defence in depth is either achieved by implementing systems in series, or in parallel.

Systems in series have decreased availability and thus have a downside of an exploitation in any one system in series being a more likely occurrence (larger attack surface), and upon an occurrence, the availability of all systems in series is impacted. For example, let there be two proxies in series from two vendors, each proxy performing deep packet inspection and analysis of files being transferred. To get a file transferred through both proxies, an attacker has to convince both proxies (independently implemented) that the file is not malicious, and thus it is harder to fool two systems rather than one. However an attacker can find a content parsing vulnerability in either proxy (double the attack surface) and use the access gained to more readily deny service, leak information or inject or modify information.

Systems in parallel introduce a larger attack surface and thus exploitation occurrences are more likely, but each occurrence has significantly decreased consequence. An example of such an architecture is different divisions of a business using SFTP, TLS or SMB protocols to transfer files, and different divisions using different implementations of those protocols in different software. An encryption vulnerability in one implementation of one protocol may only expose two divisions of the business, but the other divisions would not be directly impacted. It is likely that incidents occur more frequently as there is a much larger attack surface, but each incident has a less severe outcome.

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...

[2] Example: https://login.corp.google.com/

[3] Example of how device attestation could work: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/
Maybe it was actually what they claimed about it being a corrupted update then? And considering the issue is still an active fire they're putting out, I'm l is give them the benefit of the doubt. They seem to be genuinely scrambling, so their comms are going to suffer. If, in a couple days, things haven't changed, then there's reason to question the intentionality of missing followup communication.

Also, if they pushed a fix that worked reliably, they'd be shouting that loud and clear as THE solution, not merely suggesting to try updating and to see if it might help.
>I shouldn't need sled dogs and pemmican to navigate your visual design.

This was great. Thank you!
I've seen similar things said by Duke Ellington and Kevin Kelly.

I think the reasoning KK gave was the deadline will force you to drop all the unnecessary cruft to focus on delivering the essential as fast as possible.
If there's auto shifting there's a computer somewhere, and so you'd think a firmware update that made it so that it wouldn't auto-shift under heavy load could be applied (call it semi-auto mode or something); then you could leave it in auto but if you wanted it to shift when pushing hard just let off the pedals a bit and it'd do so.
I boycott all podcasts that are exclusive to Spotify because I want to do my part in at least slowing down the eventual podcast walled garden future.
Basically - yes.

If you are using other platforms for exposure or expression, then you are the product of that platform. If you can drive traffic to your blog for whatever reason you would like to, then it becomes more of a value prop depending on motivations.

I can't be more constructive, then asking why its worth it than freedom of expression and monetization through content generation.
What? Even in popular culture it has been uncontroversial since at least the nuclear age to posit that humanity faces serious existential risks in the near and mid future. You're questioning this? You think there is nothing at all risky about any of the many powerful new technologies we've developed over the last couple centuries? I'm a little perplexed. What do you know that we all don't?

Or are you merely referring to the OP's tone? I am looking mainly at their substantive point, not their tone.

> The third paragraph makes you sound like you ARE a religious fundamentalist, albeit from a different tradition. "Fundamentally change as a species?" "Great Filters?" "The road is fraught with many perils?" "Unimaginable suffering?" I don't mean to be rude, but do you realize how you sound?
At long last people are realizing Southern Europeans are not lazy.
UK has 40C for one day and hospitals are shutting down. Down here in Spain it's just Monday.
MPV is great for setting upscaling filters like Anime4k or Nvidia Image Scaling. All you have to do is add a glsl file to the shaders folder and voilà, you get a crisp, clean image on the other side. I often watch 1080p to upscaled 4k shows and anime through this method.
Nobody is sure it's possible! But it might be.
Show HN: Ec2instances.info now has Detail Pages for 500 Instances
I'd echo almost everything you said, except for:

> As a 32 year old man, you'd do better avoiding hoodies, activewear, baseball caps, and sneakers.

I'm not sure why there are still so many people around that look down on casual wear as office attire. A tech worker these days in an office surrounded by others doing the same isn't going to stand out. Save the dress shirts and Italian leather shoes for big events and fine dining; they're not going to impress anyone at the office. Gone are the days of everyone wearing a tie and jacket to sit at a desk for 8 hours.
They will not be able to reliably tell their users if the end user landed on the page, and most importantly, specific users. They will only be able to guess. Today, the tracking mechanism works in tandem with the facebook pixels or tracking scripts on the receiving end to give full E2E campaign clarity. This will break that, or at least introduce heavy uncertainty that will definitely impact their revenue model.
The thing I'm most impressed and surprised about is that archive.org runs a Windows 3.1 emulator in the page, so you can actually use the program. I fully expected it to just be information about the program, perhaps with some screenshots. Modern browser tech is amazing.
This is a bit of a weird post. The author sets up benchmarks, shows that hstore appears to work best, then suggests to use HyperLogLog despite performing worse. The reason being because it scales better, but the author didn't really discuss how HLL works so I'm not sure why it scales better other than that it has a cool name.
> It's funny, I foresaw about 75% of the things that have happened, but it's still sad as a 90s kid who started to turn wrenches at 11 to see how systematically worse the Auto Industry has gotten to keep up with the times, in my lifetime as most late millennials and Gen Z couldn't care less about car culture and prefer to live in cities and use drive apps like lyft/uber than own their own and learn all the lessons that come with car ownership that I think vastly transfer to real life.

As one of these millennials that moved to a city and sold their car, I think it's for the best. I still love cars for their technical aspects and engineering, but car companies have lost me. I agree with everything you said.

Cars suck now, and car companies suck. The more I learn about cars, and how we've been pigeon-holed into depending on them, and the cost they put on society (dollars, climate, social interaction, etc), the more I despise them.

I feel betrayed. We went all in on cars for so long, and for what cost? They've nearly monopolized personal transport in North America, and culturally stigmatized the options that once were. I could list all the negatives, but I've seen them discussed on here many times.

I learned a lot about cars growing up, and was once fully involved with car culture. But now my relationship with them is more parasitic. Cars kill, cars make people poor, and they negatively impact our social interactions. I don't think millennials, Gen Z, or any other future generations should worship the car like generations past. The amount of harm is not worth it. They should understand transportation, but certainly do so with an open mind while learning about alternatives to cars.
> RSS and advertising never really made good bedfellows.

Isn't Feedburner part of Google nowadays? I remember reading somewhere that they inject ads in the feeds.
> But if are also consider GNU AT&T syntax

Why, though? The official x86 syntax is Intel syntax. In any case, it doesn't matter. Every possible encoding of each mnemonic is given in Intel's manual. This whole business about "what is an instruction anyway" is just sophistry. Anyone using gas would hopefully know how the AT&T syntax is mapping to Intel encodings.

> but we actually cannot count how many instructions there are in x86/amd64.

Again, you can. It's quite simple. Define an instruction how ever you want, and then go and look at the manual. It's a finite known set. Intel isn't hiding this info.
There are a number of subscription grocery delivery companies in the UK that work on a fixed delivery day model. i.e. you sign up and based on your address you're given a day that all deliveries will happen on.

This works by having fixed routes, known ahead of time, which optimise for local driver knowledge (it's supposed to be the same driver every week), and therefore can afford to be really quite cheap for delivery.

I like the model and I'd like to see it applied to more types of food delivery.
This was likely a screw up by the plumber when connecting the fixture. Likely not hard to correct.
Im still using & love their end to end encrypted git but im worried it might disappear at some point. There doesnt seem to be any alternatives.