skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about corrupting NIST nor corrupting individual officials of NIST, but I can easily imagine NIST committees not understanding something, being tricked, not looking closely, protecting big orgs by default (without maliciousness), and overall being sloppy.

Running standards without full transparency, in my experiences of web security standards + web GPU standards is almost always due to hiding weaknesses, incompetence, security gaps of big players, & internal politics of these powerful incumbents. Think some hardware vendor not playing ball without guarantee of privacy, some Google/Apple committee member dragging their feet because of internal politics & monopoly plays. Seperately, mistakes may come from standards committee member glossing over stuff in emails because they're busy: senior folks are the most technically qualified yet also most busy. Generally not because some NSA/CIA employee is telling them to do something sneaky or lying. Still FOIA-worthy (and why I rather public lists for standards), but for much lamer reasons.
Yeah, this is a giant problem with clothing.

I entirely blame the manufacturers and online stores for not having proper measurements for each article of clothing. Just that alone would ensure a lot fewer returns. There are several brands that I can't even trust that a 38/32 will be the same in two of the same "exact" pair of pants.
If a lot of people used NixOS, the world would be a better place to live - Tommy Wiseau
> The other behaviours that they normalized and now all of us deal with are what they call ‘serial returns’ where you buy maybe one of everything and return what you don’t want.

At least for clothing, this behaviour is officially supported by Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Absolutely horrific :(
I could use some yocto developers if anyone is interested. Let me know!
My bad. Same applies to any for profit corporation, however.
There is/was a decentralized prediction market called Augur, on the Ethereum blockchain. I had a lot of fun with it in the v1 days, but after it was replaced to v2 I stopped using it, and I'm pretty sure everyone else did, too.
Why do people keep saying this? It's so trivially easy to disprove.
No one person had to understand everything about feudal society for the next stage to emerge. It just emerged, as always happens in an evolutionary process.

To try again with a more complete answer to your initial question:

Why is transhuman-ness or posthuman-ness a special exception for the to the general rule that surpassing (or at least passing) something does not in fact require understanding it?

In all the examples you’ve given, organic life is the common denominator. Each is a case of the natural progression of life, either the natural life cycles that have existed for billions of years, or of the culture that has emerged out of that.

If by “transhumanism” we mean a transition of human “life” (i.e, consciousness and culture) off our evolved biological platform onto some other recently or newly-created technology platform, someone would have to understand what human life actually is in order to make it happen or recognize that it has happened.

If we mean something else then people need to explain what they mean, but that’s really why we get stuck in the weeds on this topic; we don’t have a simple, agreed understanding of what it is we’re transitioning from/to and what is doing the transitioning.

But the simple answer to your central question is that the key difference here from the rule you’re positing is that we’re talking about a departure from the natural biological and cultural evolution that has brought us to this point.
I'd say it's slightly different; countries always make jokes about neighbor countries, but why this story stroke me and I pointed to the same Spanish reference is that somehow Spain has agreed to make jokes about a tiny otherwise unknown town _within_ the same country.
As a Typescript developer, I have long retired my use of JavaScript… and won’t touch it unless I have to (in which case I’m likely converting it). And I absolutely love Typescript.

JavaScript is a solved problem thanks to TS, and in my opinion, should almost never be used unless strictly necessary in 2022.

The fact that JS is still used for new projects on purpose bothers me about as much as the fact that only one comment in this thread mentions Typescript so far…
>No you're wrong on this one. What you're referencing is only specific to the civil case in Texas, it is not material to the J6 federal investigation and irrelevant illicitly obtained material cannot be used for it.

Nope. They forfeited privilege over it, there was nothing illicit about it. That phone image is now legally possessed by the plaintiff's lawyers. They can in turn be served for it by any other entity from there. It's just classic third party doctrine at that point. They could choose to fight it themselves if they wanted, but Jones simply doesn't have any say anymore. You're clearly Big Mad over this since you're trying to claim that legally obtained material is "illicitly maintained" but you're wrong.

>but the fact is protected information was leaked without AJ's approval, and irrelevant illicitly obtained information was sent to a partisan committee. It's an abuse of the system.

You've invented this make believe law in your head that is no doubt very pretty but doesn't really have anything to do with the actual law. Jones could potentially sue his lawyers for malpractice, but that doesn't magically pull back the information. They had a 10 day window to do that. Or perhaps another window when it came out, in court, to immediately object. They chose not to do so.
The use of phone verification to login or sign up, is a solution looking for a problem and it solves nothing as it creates more problems.

Due to Twitter's poor security and use of SMS 2FA which has been proven for years to be insecure as I have repeatedly said [0], now the SS7 2FA hacks, SIM-swapping and SMS phishing scams are going to be much scarier.

Henceforth, one can expect a Pegasus-like zero day to be mass deployed on to Twitter users in that breach and remotely exploit their devices easily.

It's 2022, and we're still using SMS 2FA. Twitter should get a massive multi-million fine for this breach.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29264937
It was an actual realized insurrection. Were you meaning to say it was an attempted coup?
https://indianculture.gov.in/ebooks/daily-life-ancient-india...

A book by a westerner.
Not sure what you mean by "tiny dataset" by DynamboDB is great for something with 100 or a few thousand items. Especially if these are only occasionally accessed but need to be shared.

Half the time it'll be in the Free Quota or perhaps $1/month. Certainly cheaper than creating an instance.
Funny you mention their routers, I specifically avoid ASUS routers as they usually use Broadcom chips, which means horrible software support and no chance of OpenWRT working well. I look up individual models and can't recommend any whole brand, but the Netgear R6220 is pretty good, and I think there are a couple other Netgear routers with good support. TP-Link has some as well, like the Archer C7.
Serious question but where's the proposal to allow WebAssembly to interact with the DOM? I'm assuming it's in the works somewhere...
I'm not familiar with what you're referring to, could you please provide a link?
its mostly for myself, i prefer to annotate variables so i can quickly know what type they should be when writing code (especially for bigger projects). I guess since lowbar is small, its pretty pointless, but its just a habit thats been stuck
Your strategy could be backfiring here. More time with the spammer could equate to more interest to them. Even if you ultimately say no every time, maybe it’s a signal in their system that you could be persuadable - so they try again.
This is an old article, but at least it openly makes the case that we should value racial diversity and people who look like "the communities they serve" being valued more, and absolute technical perfection being valued less. We discriminate based on absolute technical perfection, instead we should discriminate based on identity and then based on absolute technical perfection. That's about as coherent as an argument as I've heard on the subject, and it's an argument entirely about what we should value, which makes it difficult to logically refute.

Personally, I don't see any reason each orchestra can't come up with its own basis to select its members, and you can let people vote with their feet.
I don't get how his comment relates at all to your article. Paying attention to conservatives makes him a white nationalist?
Is he even capable of selling just because he wants to buy something?

Insiders have to have a stock acquisition/disposition window and follow that schedule to only sell during that pre-determined schedule

I don't really understand this theory/criticism, can you elaborate? note, its not about whether he did, its about whether its important since all insiders have windows and schedules they can and can't sell in

in this criticism, did he sell outside of that window? and is that compliant?

if it was within the window, then... who cares?
Sorry but I don't recognize your authority to tell people when to tell jokes or not.
No, it's great that he signed the contract. It could ruin him, which would be fantastic.
> According to a white paper shared by Otis Elevator, the vertical transportation of the future will be able to recognize you as soon as you step onboard, and “the lighting, music or infotainment in the elevator cab will be tuned exactly to your preferences.”

Oh no please … not this crap again…
We can see in markers of extreme poverty in remains of people who died in pre-modern times:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_bioarchaeology#

>>Anne L. Grauer, Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago, assessed the presence of porotic hyperostosis and periosteal reactions in the population (n=1,014) from St. Helen-on-the-Walls in York, England. She used porotic hyperostosis and periosteal reactions to examine health and disease in urban medieval England. Grauer discovered that 58% of the population displayed evidence of porotic hyperostosis and 21.5% displayed evidence of periosteal reactions.[6]

Without industrial civilization, the amount of labor people do is not sufficient for most of the comforts of modern life, like insulated and waterproof shelter, sanitary pads, diapers, vaccines, bandages, regular laundrying of clothing, etc etc.
Reading Notes on the Beginning of Infinity
I found insomnia's grpc support a bit lacking - notably, it won't refresh the grpc definitions from disk without reloading your whole environment, and doesn't auto-populate the window with the keys. The latter is a more minor concern, but when you have larger protos it does become annoying.
Rdms is breezingly easy, as long as you know how to operate your clusters effectively
The IT world on Twitter may be a bit more responsible because there are too many tech savvy people reading everything... I also work in entertainment, and it's a dumpster fire daily though because competition is more fierce, and I guess credibility comes based on followers and likes rather than resumes and skill sets.

I think it may involve what field you work in for perception of the matter, but a lot of others complain about botting in Crypto (etc) and a few other industries... I think on the inverse, there are still a lot of community issues that have affected everyone on the platform...

Has your account grown in followers over time? Do you interact well with other users on you account?

Many people have complained that organic growth/discovery has stalled and that interaction is low across the site for ages now to drive ad sales.
I'm a westerner and of course I brush my teeths after having had food. Why should I brush them if they are clean?
No one mentioned Seattle's own huge tunnel machine that infamously broke down partway into the job. It was a little larger, at 17.5 meters vs 11.91 meters for this latest UK tunnel machine. It broke down about 1000 feet into the 10k long tunnel. Among the many reasons why the US can't build infrastructure like this is we had specific public votes and lots of grousing along the way. I was proud we managed to pull it off and recover from that major failure. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_(tunnel_boring_machin...
I was on mobile forced to use Google Japan and in a rush so that was a similar-ish pic, the one I had actually seen before was this:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/pancake-moon--7803900602743385...

But either works, as long as it's a pancake that looks a bit like the moon.
Ray Dalio explains it here https://youtu.be/PHe0bXAIuk0
It’s the only way to buy clothing sight unseen on the internet. If you don’t want to sell sized goods on the internet, don’t, but otherwise people need to try multiple sizes and return some.
Yeah, but only for monks. Not for householders or the like.

A person who eats 3 meals a day is a rogi (Diseased)

A person who eats 2 meals a day is a bhogi (A content, satisfied person)

A person who eats 1 meal a day is a yogi (A person on the path to spiritual bliss)
In my case it was incapable of answering some very simple questions. Pure frustration for me!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360850
>IMHO it's in a trough on the hype curve. Tech needs to improve before it'll rise again.

You're assuming that the technology will still be attractive even as other technologies improve in parallel or as we learn more about how the use of technology effects people.

The article mentions RNA vaccines are partially transhuman, but I'm not sure I buy that. Maybe my concept is wrong, but the perception I got was always more cyborg than biological.

The magnet implants always seemed to have a very, very low benefit to me. Making interfacing with computers even easier seems to have a similarly low benefit. We are already at the point where people go on tech cleanses, your technology gives you screen time reports so you can make sure you are not using it too much, people are abandoning social networks. We are literally trying to use computers less.
The person is saying one thing then denying saying that thing and being a jerk about it. Either a bot or someone with a broken thesaurus. Glad you pointed it out because it’s ridiculous/risible.
> The buyer starts harassing the homeowner to sell to them, they say no, so he buys up the mortgage lender and tries to force a sale.

It's more complicated. The incumbent management of Twitter are not the owners of Twitter.

Initially, Musk bought shares of Twitter on the open market from willing sellers (previous homeowners in your analogy).

Because of various regulations he could not just keep doing that, and instead had to go via the complicated takeover route.

Twitter's incumbent management is a bit like the janitor in an apartment block, not the homeowner.

(Just to be clear, I am not making any moral arguments here. And when in doubt, I defer to whatever Matt Levine says on the topic.

I have opinions on 'hostile' takeovers, but this comment is not trying to express any opinion on whether the 'janitor' should have a right to interfere with 'homeowners' who are willing to sell.)
“Modern problems require old solutions”
I had one of the early Archer C7 versions and it soured me for the whole brand. I've heard the newer ones are better but bad wifi is so exhausting they don't get a second chance.
TypeScript is great: a tremendous improvement over JavaScript and a boon to web development since it’s so easy to transition into it.

But Crockford is looking farther out here. Languages like E are designed for safe concurrency first, which is going to be a huge deal as we continue to see an explosion of processing cores on the client end and highly distributed backend deployments through infrastructure like serverless platforms.

You can implement that model with TypeScript and some discipline, but languages that treat it as central part of their design can require less discipline and can provide smarter automated optimizations.

I don’t know that E is going to establish itself in that space, but it’s the space we’re headed towards and TypeScript isn’t quite the most natural thing to use there.
#' is feet and #" is inches, fyi.
A DB wizard I used to work for showed me HAVING after looking at this nasty sub-sub select I did, with some app-layer-loop after.

Caesar if you see this thanks for being a great mentor.
Wow you really hate nature huh?

Like sure the space exists (ignoring the fact that most of that land is inhospitable and/or already used for agriculture), but maybe we should leave something for the other species?

But hey, maybe your 7 acres is at the top of the Sierra and you can get some good fire insurance.
Cool! It isn't surprising that someone thought of it before me!
What about copying someone else’s design, making minor improvements (often regressions due to incomplete RE), and having a lower cost basis sounds like innovation to you?
Thanks for sharing your perspective, no one has actually brought this up among the 100+ Taro Premium members we have.

I view our product as more than a Q&A database. Certainly getting questions answered is valuable part, and our goal is to make that interaction high-quality and easy (a coach can often be hundreds of dollars an hour). However, we also offer case studies from tech veterans and community features such as member matching.

We're focused on delivering as much career growth to members as possible. Working with this group of software engineers, the cost of upskilling pays for itself very, very quickly (we charge <0.1% of yearly comp for typical mid-level engineer in FAANG).
I'm mildly annoyed that I'll have to pay the 5%.
> Beyond books, residents visit the library for its wifi, he said, and it houses the very room where the vote took place.

lol this vendetta and ire went deep
Right. But being able to live as your authentic self is a good thing, unlike your examples. Opposing good modifications is anti-transhumanist.
Clearly one doesn't need to just accept return fraud. I'm not familiar enough with EU laws, but I'm assuming their consumer protection laws are a little stronger than a merchant just being allowed to unilaterally say "this is fraud, no refund for you".

If the company gets dragged in front of a tribunal, or needs to provide evidence, what could they do in the situations where someone received a normal item, pilfered it for replacement parts, and then sent back the rest. How could one show that this is fraud and not the company just sending out an incomplete product? I suppose they could just ban the customer(can they?), but dedicated fraudsters would have no problem using numerous fake identities in order to conduct their fraud.
It sounds like a diabolical idea, but why would someone risk that much money on something that is pretty much guaranteed to get tied up in long-term and very public litigation?

There's no way to simply back out of a very public offer for a major social app without litigation that costs time out of your life (which is in that case more of a painful thing than losing the money). Paying capital gains (after huge deductions of course) might prove to be less by the time it's all done.
>I still regularly encounter people who are spitting angry against transgender folks and then later in the conversation will completely unironically talk about how much they love the cyberpunk genre.

There is a difference between messing with your body and augmenting it. Transhumanists generally believe in augmenting the human body with cybernetic parts, not changing the body's internal chemistry.
You are OK with the Church lying because you agree with what they are saying?
That is not the difference between a college and a university as colleges absolutely confer doctorates. So I guess it’s not so well known, is it?

https://www.wm.edu/as/computerscience/graduate/phd-programs/...

https://www.brynmawr.edu/gsas/phd-programs
Has the general notion of "conspiracy theory" ever carried any positive value? It only seems to exist to discredit "doubters against the majority consensus" without substance. But I guess words like "crank" wouldn't even exist if there weren't many people like it, so it carries some "definitional" value.

Because they show total disregard for someones opinion (in a more formal way: "unlike you/them, i completely agree with the (apparent) majority consensus (which it also implies), these words probably don't belong into a serious discussion.
This would be more useful with detail on what share of the population lived in urban environments, as well as insight into what life was life for the share that didn’t.

Do you know that? Do you have that?
> The vote leaves the library with funds through the first quarter of next year. Once a reserve fund is used up, it would be forced to close, Larry Walton, the library board’s president, told Bridge Michigan – harming not just readers but the community at large.

Can anyone knowledgeably comment on the accuracy of this statement?
Maybe?

A troll farm might employ 50 people... But at low wages. Trump & has social media director parceled out a lot of money to bot controllers, but it didn't seem like a lot to any individual. We know some boring influencers go big (ex: Kardashians) is a data point, but to see that Alex Jones is in this league is surprising.

When I looked at some bigger anti-vaxxers, they seemed to be shilling courses that required a lot of work, so I wouldn't have guessed 8 figured in this world.
I used to just look at the titles on the spines of my records (back when I had them) to decide what to play. I'd look at one and listen to the music in my head for a few minutes before deciding whether to actually put the record on, or else look at the spine of another record and do the same thing. I could spend hours doing that, and by that time I had to go do something else. I got a whole concert with no equipment at all. That's when I decided I wasn't an audiophile.
A simple way to add real-time notification in your django app with minimal effort.
one way to fight back is to make requests to remove the Bible and other Holy Books, since they contain the same themes from other works of fiction that are requested to be banned

all paths probably result in simply defunding though, but there is more introspective potential from pointing out the holes in the arguments for banning books with "confusing" themes
> This experience is much better than the traditional iptables approach, where the 'load from file' and 'save to file' operations have the feel of a hack rather than a designed format and it can be easier to automate your rule setup with a script.

I found that statement to be weird given the existence of iptables-save and iptables-restore.

Anyway.

I manage a large fleet of OpenWRT devices with some crazy iptables stuff.

I have played with NFT multiple times over the last decade. It's never gone well. Like systemd and wayland it's being over-hyped by influenced teenagers that don't know what they are talking about and distro-paid bloggers.

NFT has a lot of problems and there's still a few things that it can't do, mostly because of missing modules.

I hope some day NFT becomes a good proper successor to iptables, but unfortunately the transition has been really slow, drawn out, and it's being pushed as a solid solution when it's just not ready.
It's useful to distinguish things that are made with human influence and things that aren't, and it can be done without value judgments (one is superior or inferior). It's useful because of the disproportionate effect of synthetic things vs. natural things. No species prior to humans had the ability to obliterate all life on earth.