skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If societal IQ was as pervasively tracked as global temperature

Part of the reason we're not ready for it is that any notion of "societal IQ" is simply not as mature, well-understood, proven, or even useful as our understanding of climate science. Scientists who studied the topic understood the greenhouse effect and the potential for CO2 emissions to result in global warming over 100 years ago. Meanwhile, nobody can agree on whether the Myers-Briggs personality test means anything at all.

We just don't have a way to "rate" humans in a general sense, nor is it obvious that increasing their "rating" would even be a good thing. Selecting for humans with the highest IQ would be like selecting for crops that grow the tallest. Sure, sometimes that's a good measure of general health, but it's so blunt compared to the intricate nuances of how DNA works and the huge variety of outcomes we'd like from our crops. Besides, it's just a weird stance to want to create a "superior human". Why do we want to do that? So they can solve humanity's problems (no pressure!)? So we can have sex with them? So we can "purify our gene pool" (shudder)? So they can live a happier life and avoid disease? Some of those reasons are much better than others.

Yes, messing with the climate has risks, but global climate is a lot less complicated than the DNA of a single human. And we know our climate is headed for disaster if we do nothing, so the risk of not messing with it is much higher. Similarly, we know people with certain genes are doomed to a die young or doomed to have certain major disabilities. Those will (and should) be our first targets of human gene editing, because the risks of not doing anything are higher.

And of course we already are practicing a light form of selective breeding at IVF clinics during embryo selection. Mostly they look for chromosomal abnormalities, but I'd guess there are clinics out there that offer more advanced gene selection (if not now, then soon).
They are far from an abundant source of water, like you said.

Taking 400W *24/7 is quite a lot of energy, and I'm not really believing the 4-8L output.

At 17° Celsius and 38% humidity, you get 0.008g of water out of 1L of air. There are physical limits to this, of course.

The dude in the video does the calculations, and it's far from "no problem to make water out of air". It would be better to use the energy for something else.

If it was so easy to do, there would be no problems with water shortages around the globe (and soon maybe "water wars") just take it out of the air with solar.
We shouldn't be such a puritanical society that stigmatizes sex. We also shouldn't be a society that denies people their right to privacy. Both of these unrelated statements are true.
"Type ahead" or "autocomplete" is absolutely a different type of problem, and often simpler. This generally falls into the use case where the searcher already knows the specific item they are looking for. Often the results are objects owned by or known to the user in question, or you are searching through a very limited and relatively static set of documents and topics. Reference documentation for software often falls into this category.

In my experience, you don't have to spend a lot of time thinking about scoring and relevancy for these types of search. Generally you only want to include a small edit distance in the results at all to handle misspellings.

This is so vastly different when you have a corpus of millions of documents about an encyclopedia's worth of topics.

> I do wonder how much deep search really matters when people only really expect to look at the first page.

Getting the first page to have the best quality and relevancy is much more difficult if the user is searching through something like scientific papers, stock video footage. It is a challenge in bridging the distance between ideas and expectations.
How can this not be GDPR-illegal?
Kinda old and inaccurate nowadays news. Mocaccino was announced (2020) as Sabayon rebrand[1], on same day an announcement was made that Funtoo was joining[2], and a little more than a year later the two failed apart[2]. Funnily Mocaccino was never even mentioned on Funtoo's site.

[1]: https://www.sabayon.org/article/sabayon-is-rebranding/

[2]: https://www.sabayon.org/article/joining-funtoo/

[3]: https://www.mocaccino.org/blog/2021/12/06/updates-on-funtoo-...
This is NOT expected behavior. A VPN killswitch is supposed to cut all non-VPN connections on ALL INTERFACES. Not doing so could lead to leaks, especially with things like Torrent clients.

Case in point:

- IVPN and Mullvad does not have this issue on Linux. It is ProtonVPN specific.

- IVPN, Mullvad, AND PROTONVPN do block all non-VPN connections on macOS. Yes, the ProtonVPN client DOES NOT have the same behavior on macOS.

How would you go about "[creating] additional isolation to limit the interfaces that applications can attach to?" Is it actually any better than a firewall based implementation?

If only you would just spend 15 minutes doing basic testing before calling other people "clickbait".
Everytime I see posts like these it makes me happy that I ditched that horrible messaging app and moved to telegram.

The constant struggle against the monopoly to not betray me just wasn't worth it.
>For example, the data leaked from Uber in the recent breach is way more impactful than anything which ever leaked from Equifax.

What could be more impactful than the social security numbers, personal information, and financial records of every adult in the US?

>But hey, maybe that's just because nobody noticed that Latha Maripuri is also a woman.

Yes, that should tell you that gender has nothing to do with it which you are vehemently trying to make this about.

>How would you know it wasn't her superiors constantly blocking her from doing her job properly?

I don't know that, that's why the company should have been liquidated as compensation, or at the very least it should have been taken to court where she can testify to what she tried to do and what she was blocked from doing. Otherwise, the responsibility lies with her -- that is literally her job description.
>> you do not learn anything new
> And...?

Besides the fact that entertainment and relaxation are necessary parts of staying sane enough and having enough context to absorb new information properly, the OP's claim isn't even true. Many bestsellers include copious amounts of information as background - history, culture, even technology. Often that's why they are bestsellers. Try reading Name of the Rose or Hunt for Red October without learning anything. Yes, there's also a lot of trashy fiction that really does contain nothing new, but the author's overgeneralization and outright stereotyping are the very antithesis of intellectual curiosity.
Yet I have a variety of usb-c chargers which are not like this, that have a male end only. They are for phones for laptops, for my Switch, for a variety of things.
They said "nsfw", not "not safe for me" or "this is porn". They're making a comment about workplace conditions, not their own viewpoints.

You aren't badass for "being cool" with this imagery.
Does this issue apply to their AME feature?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/o...
Already registered/squatted
Wow, that’s some old code :).

But here is the newest documentation for PHP

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-php/v3/developer-guide/s...
That can't be the only reason. Valve's Steamdeck has been a big success and it runs linux.
I've been exposed to the world of law enforcement a few times in my career. They're mostly good people, with a few bad apples. They're granted extraordinary authority by society and should be subjected to scrutiny from outside agencies and third parties. Defunding the police seems more likely to hurt than help the most at-risk communities. If anything, they should get more funding, and it should be used to raise hiring standards and increase in-service training time particularly around mental health awareness, civil rights (first and fourth amendment law), appropriate use of force, and de-escalation tactics. They're subjected to a lot of job related PTSD but receive almost no mental health counseling or support.

I'd also separate privacy and security (especially privacy) from the debate over funding or defunding the police. The solution to abuses like the Accurint breach is to dramatically reverse the proliferation of sensitive personal data held in the digital ecosystem. If it's not there, it can't be found and exploited.
Credit cards worth their salt don't have any foreign transaction fees and convert transparently.
> How do the micro kernel folks get around this?

AIUI, in general, they don't. Avoiding the overhead of context switches is the research question in microkernels, and while there is progress being made, last I'd heard there wasn't a solution that didn't carry caveats. Now to be fair, sometimes those caveats are fine - ex. if you only write software in rust maybe you can get away with actually passing around memory without copies - but often they undermine the ability to run arbitrary software on general purpose hardware.

(If I'm behind and this has been solved in the general case, I'm happy to be corrected, but this was my undestanding of things as of a few years ago and I haven't heard about a breakthrough)
> And like good fiction, travel changes you. For the better. Mostly.

Fiction changes you? For the better?! Mostly?!?!?!?
I need some expansion on this. I have been living in the non-fiction darkness.
Interesting, I haven't had the experience with CloudFormation.

At that scale, however, I tend to group my Lambdas as microservices not per endpoint. It helps with cold start time as well. So for example, if I have a
page" resource, I don't make that 5+ endpoints, I make it a wildcard / prefix match and do the routing inside of the service lambda.

Maybe you legitimately have 100+ different microservices, in which case, I don't doubt that is a problem, I just haven't experienced it.
Generally, it's considered best practice to not post "vaguely penis" content to official work communications channels.
Show HN: The Definitive Guide to Homeschooling and Modular Learning
Hi everyone, I’m Manisha, the CEO and Co-founder of Modulo.

This comprehensive guide is based on our learnings over the last seven years, talking to thousands of secular homeschoolers, reading their questions and comments on reddit and facebook and helping over 100k families in seven countries homeschool during the pandemic through our non-profit, schoolclosures.org.

As a K12 teacher and tech entrepreneur for over 20 years, I’ve seen the full scope of the education system, from pricey private schools to failing public schools, to microschools, homeschool, and everything in between.

There’s a latent movement of techies, teachers and other innovators that are designing their children’s education using curriculum, tutors, online classes, educational software and social modules.

We call them modular learners. And they’re getting significantly better learning outcomes.

But most parents lack the time and confidence to do modular learning, even though they envy the outcomes they’re seeing in their friends.

We’ve created this guide for them - and anyone interested in playing a role in the fastest growing trend in K12 education.

Big thanks to Nir Eyal and Rachel Thomas, PhD for sharing their personal stories as homeschoolers.

If you have a moment, we’d LOVE to hear your feedback. What’s missing? What should we add? What could be improved?

Also happy to answer anyone's questions about homeschooling and modular learning in the thread
> e.g. bribes necessary to get the shipment, insurance over shipment theft, margin risk due to volatile forex, etc

Sorry but this is one of the many plain lies companies tell in order to justify their overpriced products.
Some people are waiting to be offended. I used Mighty Boosh as a test image a couple of years back and was told off for it.

https://imgur.com/a/hOfmKpy
It's amazing that some people do this, but it just seems very inconvenient
Aside from niche subs or subs that aren't easily politicized due to their nature, Reddit is trash.

https://teddit.net/ is a must if you want to browse Reddit on mobile. Also https://old.reddit.com/ although it doesn't work as well on mobile.
A YouTube channel primarily dedicated to precision: https://www.youtube.com/c/machinethinking

Example video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNRnrn5DE58

I think it's fair to call these mini-documentaries.
What about Yoda driving a go-kart is even remotely offensive?!

A client being offended at something like that is a bit of a red flag for me...
Which, if you made it through TFA is 3 years of probation, no jail time.
The cryogenic freezing facility with 199 humans on ice
I am seeing they claim the issue is with Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption. Does this factor in if people have Azure Information Protection services/licensing? This is quite the vulnerability if Azure Information Protection is unable to fully secure email communication.
The EU requires a USB-C PD compatible charging port for smartphones and other small devices starting in 2024(?).

This is primarily directed at lightning.
Eliminate the job all together and refocus the money and effort into actually improving peoples lives instead of forcing them to live in fear of incarnation/death by state employees.
"In June, the DOJ announced that Wilson, 36 at the time, had pleaded guilty to a cyberstalking charge as well as to a charge related to what LMPD has called “Slushygate,” a series of incidents in which Wilson and other officers assaulted pedestrians by throwing beverages out of unmarked patrol vehicles, sometimes filming their exploits."

Me thinks there are other problems within that particular police department.
Thank you for posting this. Code generation is an interest of mine and a core foundation of the technology that I build.

It will take me some time to read through this blog, but I have a question:

Is there any research being done where people are using large language models to generate or transform syntax trees for programs as opposed to operating with programs as simply streams of tokens?
Much better link:

https://github.com/PurpleVsGreen/beacown
I think you probably have a lot of valuable knowledge that should be written down.

What knowledge about networking do new hires lack? How does one get comfortable with networking? I'm an undergrad, and my plan for that topic was to learn how to read pcap files and also learn to use wireshark to monitor my network.
I occasionally raise chickens on my small farm. I sell them for $25 each, which barely covers my costs. When looking at the books, I lose money on the operation overall, because I put some of the birds in my own freezer. To make a profit, I cannot afford to eat my own chickens.

Costco and other food retailers creates an unrealistic idea of what good food actually costs. People tell me $25 is too much. I explain my cost structure and the differences in conditions and quality, but it does not seem to make an impact.
I believe sortition is far from optimal, but would still probably function better than the current way we select our senate and congress in the US.
Alchemy Web3 Developer Report (Q3 2022)
Was covered in Register as well https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/13/ai_recruitment_softwa... if you feel the need for a bit more sarcasm and some interesting comments :)
It seems we get all kinds of Windows emulation, but was there ever a marginally worked out attempt of "just" providing the necessary libraries for a basic Win32 application, open source or commercial? So not aiming at a binary-level compatibility, but source-level.
Never used Snapchat, but isn't it main feature that messages get deleted automatically and have very short TTL?
It is because of the massive psychological engineering that takes place behind the scenes. Authors or book publishing companies do not hire teams of psychologists to engineer and A/B test their products to try to get you locked into a dopamine reward cycle. The same kind of approaches that casinos do to hook you in and keep you addicted are now standard in these mobile apps.
I would love to see more headlines like this. Tech isn't value neutral. Oil and ICE cars inherently, by their very nature, create the conditions for a more aggressive and dehumanizing society.
>I gave up and installed the app.

If you've to use an app, then go for a third-party app such as RedReader, Dawn for Reddit, Relay, etc.
Wow.

Yea. I think the hiring processes is broken in a lot of ways. I also think trying to get AI to solve it or adding even more layers into the process is only going to make things worse.
But it’s not though, most laptops and most phones seem to have come with a usb-c male connector for years.
> I don't want to entrust my life and my baggage to a company so incompetent.

even supposing the stories were true and accurate, if this is enough to get you to never use an airline, which ones are left for you to use?
Data Residency. Scaling to dozens of global regions is not cost effective for running your own DCs.
Reliability. That's what Google traded for a quick and sudden exit. I think the damage is far greater than the rather small number of people in and around Stadia.

I guess there is a message: "When a Google product does not show a reasonable growth after a certain time, it will be killed". There are many examples (See https://killedbygoogle.com/), and I think people will more and more consider this when jumping on a newly launched platform that they will later rely on.
Human brain cells implanted in rats prompt excitement – and concern
In my opinion you should think of WebAuthn as the first factor. If you want additional second factors (of whatever nature they may be) you can still add these of course.

Think of it like logging in using a SSH-key.
prosecutors should be subject to same scrutiny
Sri Lanka is an interesting example as their organic fertilizer mandate would (I imagine, being less nutrient dense) fail to provide enough nutrients to support the increased growth of the plants in the new higher-CO2 atmosphere. The synthetic fertilizer ban situation also doesn't seem to indicate that they would be adept at implementing large scale agricultural changes without throwing the whole system into disarray.

Don't forget to factor in the cognitive impairment from higher CO2 as well - even if CO2 magically made the food both more nutrient-dense and with higher growth rate (instead of higher growth rate with lower nutrient-density) the overall health effect on humans would still be presumably a massive net negative due to the cognitive function decline.
Set up Shopify GDPR Webhooks without code
I can’t tell whether or not this is satire. Either way, this is utterly ridiculous.

Now only hiring people from OxCam + Ivy + Stanford — that’s the big brain move.
Did you two move there for jobs? Do you have Italian citizenship?

I’d love to make that move but AFAIK Italy doesn’t have a “digital nomad” visa like many other countries now have.
Same thing that is going to happen to all defined benefits, including mine. They will get inflated away.

That is the beauty of benefits defined in currency. You can have the nominal amount, and you can even adjust it per a CPI, but whether or not it retains the same purchasing power is pretty much always a no.
I wonder if fly.io & co have built home grown solutions for this?
Travel is easy now. You don't need to ask locals, you can't get lost, and only a few remote places have anthropologic interest. The author travels for entertainment, it is certainly a time-consuming kind with slow reward's but as time goes by i wonder if travel will simply go out of fashion, as every place looks alike. We have google earth to explore even remote dangerous favelas, (accompanied by police). Tech is making travel a pure exercise in movement, without need or purpose
>When I decided to go to Vietnam, everything and everyone told me to go to Ho Chi Minh City. It had better food. More art. More high culture. Less government. So I went to Hanoi.

>The US equivalent is to go to Indianapolis instead of NYC or Houston instead of LA.

This is a really odd thing to say when Hanoi is the second largest city in Vietnam (larger than LA) and a huge tourist destination in itself. It's more akin to choosing LA instead of NYC.
If you're using an IaC tool like Terraform or Pulumi, you can just setup/tear down test resources on demand (for integration/acceptance tests). Under normal usage, hopefully you can get away with mocks/stubs/fakes. Some development frameworks make this a lot easier than others

Using real resources is usually fine for smaller applications but can be very problematic as your application grows. With that in mind, it's good to create boundaries so you limit the amount of "real infrastructure" you need to test/deploy. Reference https://martinfowler.com/bliki/IntegrationTest.html
They're not afraid of normal people.
Sure, the receivers could experience interference from satcom frequencies in theory, but in practice satcom broadcasts are very low strength, so there was not much risk of harmful interference until the frequency was repurposed for terrestrial, high power broadcasts.

You don't put hurricane windows on buildings that have no hurricane risk, and you don't put tight bandpass filters on receivers in the satellite bands.

When hurricane patterns or satellite bands change, you get problems though.
>Prosecutors recommended that Wilson receive “a sentence at the lowest end of the applicable sentencing guidelines”

slow clap
Oftentimes the 5 floor limit is for timber framed walls. In the United States this is due to fire codes and the ability to evacuate buildings. You'll often see two stories of cement construction for stores and parking with 4 or 5 stories of apartments above, or just 5 stories of apartments alone. Larger buildings are possible, they just don't have the return on investment.

There are some interesting articles on the design choice, but it's a bit sad that we've gelled on this design.
I use BoxedWine (http://www.boxedwine.org/) on my desktop environment in the browser (https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS) to run exe's directly. Works quite good for things like SkiFree or even Notepad++. Happy to see projects like Retrowin32 to move this tech forward, or at least keep it alive.
They should redirect to meatspin
Ah neat, I'd heard that term before but didn't know it's real meaning. Thanks! How are punitive damages determined though? Surely there's still some methodology to follow when calculating them, I don't see how any reasonable methology would have arrived at $1b.
Charge dropped against New Zealand science agency after deadly volcano eruption
> I get that there are some use cases where performance really matters to the point where kernel network stack and drivers make a difference (high-throughput and/or low-latency services running on servers, high-performance routers...), but that should not be the default for everyone.

I’m on board so long as there is a choice. Routers with crappy hardware need as much help as possible. Also tangentially this is why the current darling of VPN tech, WireGuard, is implemented in kernel not userspace.
Instead every year, we pass laws moving further and further away from this: "Privacy and security should be a sort of digital human right".

The government does not want you to maintain any privacy.

Last year the Biden White House and the Democratic Congress passed laws lowering reporting requirements of digital transactions to $600 - down from $20,000. So now if you receive >$600 of payments in Paypal/Venmo/etc., they will report it to the IRS. Also, they will demand your SSN because they need it to report to the IRS.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/venmo-paypal-zelle-must-report-...

https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2021-11-04-New-US-Tax-Repor...
> We can assume that playing lacrosse was predictive.

I am not going to assume that without further investigation. I am rather skeptical of the robustness of predictive models in the absence of relevant causal relationships.
I was unaware, and absolutely! Thanks for showing me this.