skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia invaded Ukraine, a sovereign country with internationally recognized borders. It is simple.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine broke international law, and it will be punished by the international community for its war crimes, including the tactical use of rape, genocide, terror and destruction of civilian infrastructure. To put it simply.

You personally can choose to spread the propaganda of the enemy, or get on the right side of history and oppose the enemy. That may not be a simple choice for you. If you're Russian, you can oppose your government. You could be free someday. Not simple, though.
> two-sided negotiations of crypto algorithms

This is a common problem, and massively increases attack surface, since if a vulnerability can be found in any algorithm, it can be exploited. Downgrade attacks are a varient of the same.

Let me present an alternative:

Each protocol has one specific encryption algorithm and set of parameters. However, that set isn't fixed, but defined based on the current date and time.

For example, HTTPS could be defined as "SHA1 from 1996 till 2006", "SHA256 from 2005 till 2018", "SHA3 from 2017 till 2032", etc.

The dates can be written 10+ years into the future, so that software deployed today is still usable that many years into the future. As soon as the last date period expires, the software is not usable until it has been upgraded (unless both ends of the communication link choose to fake the date).

There is precedent for software 'expiring' - that happens whenever the root certificate of a trust store reaches an expiry date.

The downside is sometimes an algorithm might be broken before its date comes, and other times an algorithm may still be secure at that date. But that still seems better than our current mess of downgrade attacks.
The only tech tooling I've got specifically for ADHD is that I can add a task from almost anywhere into Todoist. CLI, phone, email. I can get a new task into my list in seconds anywhere I've got internet access.

From there it's a matter of getting round to it. If it's not on my task list I'm probably not going to remember to do it in time.

Aside from that I love writing quick thoughts onto cards (blank business cards is what I use) - ideas for later, thoughts towards a back burner project, ideas that don't really have anywhere to be yet. They need somewhere to sit and wait else I'll keep thinking about them.

One idea per card (expand idea on the back if needed), chuck the card into a tub for later review. Then when you come to do something new, have a skim through your idea tub. All sorts of free ideas fall out when you apply old ideas to new projects!

Once a card's done forever bung it in with the recycling :)
I understand the mild annoyance but this is a problem easily solved by clicking the "Toggle reader view" button on your browser.
Or they can’t make chips with decent yields.
The Social Coding Movement Aims to Reimagine Social Networking
How is dualism supposed to resolve this question, any ideas? I don't really see what it brings to the table on this. The article doesn't seem to address that.

What frustrates me with dualism generally is that it doesn't actually explain anything, it just seems to say "we don't understand how this works physically, therefore woo". It's the god of the gaps argument all over again. I may be seriously mischaracterising it, and that's not my intention. I've just never come across any positive arguments for dualism having any explanatory power on it's own terms, and I'll be very happy if I'm wrong on that. What characteristics or attributes might this non-physical quantity or influence or 'stuff' have that answers any of these questions?
This is a video of Hans being checked before round 4 of the Sinquefield cup.

https://www.chessdom.com/hans-niemann-was-thoroughly-checked...

I don't know what else they could have done other than full body x-ray him. Make your own mind up whether these checks are stringent.

In addition, there was a 15 minute broadcast delay.

His record in that tournament for rounds 4 though 9 was loss, draw, draw, win, draw. Hans was the lowest rated player in the tournament by 57 points.
Castopod: The Voice of the Fediverse
NimConf 2022 – Nim Online Conference
You cant apply the term “dark-ages” to Scandinavia or Iceland.
Every name I've put in so far seems to want the exact same product despite wildly differing but strangely-similar-in-a-way personalities. How fascinating.
> Something might be placed inside the organism

https://www.chessdom.com/hans-niemann-was-thoroughly-checked...

Seems unlikely ...
Thinking about a Fediverse instance focused on fitness and exercise
> It's crazy to think ~half the country just wants to empower big business to rob them.

You'r right. It's more like 90% of the representatives. The republicans are just more brazen about it.
> billions and billions of stars contained within. I don't know, but you feel stuff under those circumstances.

Obligatory link to Gigapixels of Andromeda[1]. There are other Gigapixels of Andromeda videos out there but this one also has the perfect background music.

Crazy how "billions and billions" might be an understatement, looking at how many stars appear after the 2min mark alone. And Andromeda is not even a huge galaxy[2].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_galaxies
I think a more accurate analogy would be that Linus is not preventing OEMs from selling computers with other operating systems cougooglegh, or coercing or forcing them into preventing users from switching to other operating systems ahmicrosoftm, or abusing their dominance in other markets to gain an absurd and unfair advantage in unrelated markets cougooglegh.

Heavens me, my cough is acting up. I wonder why. I'm glad other countries stepped up and are starting to regulate these companies since the US is obviously refusing to do so.

In all ser
The Freewrite has been around for a while.
On a similar vein, I thought of formatters analyzing classes, variables and args names to make improvement suggestions.

Aka, linting/formattimg for the naming conventions.
(It's mentioned in the article.)
> a version with an 80% kill rate

An 80% kill rate of mice that are genetically engineered to express human ACE genes. For comparison, the original SARS-CoV-2 strain killed 100% of those humanised mice. Those rates aren't the same among human populations.
It's not proven at all. He takes speculative jumps to close gaps:

> My conclusion is that his younger sister, Queen Nana (AD 295–337), married King Mirian III of Caucasian Iberia (AD 290–362).

In a footnote he admits that the ancestry of the wife of Mirian III is unknown.
They self-select when they’re spread as viral games, but there’s nothing to stop a teacher from discovering it as a viral game and assigning it as curriculum.
As a pharmacologist reading the HN crowd arguing about hydroxychloroquine a year or so ago really highlighted 90% of this site regarding topics other than development or start-ups is at the same level as youtube comments, but with more arrogance.
I'll never understand the fear some developers have of the for loop.
"Over time, legal but paid alternatives rose up: Spotify, iTunes, Netflix. These players found their place in the market by balancing the interest of copyright holders and the needs of users looking for cheap and easy access to entertainment."

You didn't mention one of the largest (perhaps even the largest) distributor of copyright content (which happens to also be free, for now): YouTube.

You can watch/listen to endless amounts of copyrighted content (and other types of content) on there completely for free, and to say it's tremendously popular would be an understatement.

Google has made it work through ads. Perhaps something like that will happen with image-generating AI.
Knowledge of plain old CGI on a web server seems lost due to fancy frameworks? And even without the CGI-Interface, you can make it work if you have a script monitoring your web server's logs:

I sometimes transfer data with curl via a url which does not exist, but where a script running on the server watches the server's error log and extracts data from those entries. For example: access (via curl or perl' GET, or whatever) these urls

http://my-server/data0815/up+2
http://my-server/data0815/down-3

The script watches for these entries and acts upon the stuff following the data0815 part. It's a fast hack, which can be augmented and expanded in various ways, all without frameworks.
> That somehow international legislation will converge on the strictest possible interpretation of intellectual property, and those models will become illegal by the mere fact they were trained on copyrighted material.

That's the only possible interpretation, really. AI models algorithmically remix input intellectual property en masse, without any significant amount of human creativity, the only thing copyright law protects. As such, the models themselves are wholly derived works, essentially a compressed and compact representation of the artistic features of the original works.

Legally, a AI model is equivalent to a huge tar.gz of copyrighted thumbnails: very limited fair use applies, only in some countries, and only in certain use contexts that generally don't harm the original author or out-compete them in the market place - the polar opposite of what AI models are.
The experiment ask "Has Mary learnt anything new about the colour red upon seeing the colour for the first time?"

Yes, she has learned to detect red colour using her eyes.
Isn't almost everyone aboriginal if you do back far enough?

I remember dimly from school back in the day that homo sapiens supposedly started in Africa, or has that been overturned since?
Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Android finally gets its stable release
> What is “wet” then? Liquid clinging to your skin through surface tension and other forces?

Yes.

> If your hand is submerged in a liquid that will not cling to your skin at all, is your hand “wet” while it is still submerged?

No. If you submerge your hand in mercury you will not get wet. The same if you coat you hand in aerogel. It is empirical fact that people do not describe this situations as being wet.

E.g.: https://youtu.be/GcdB5bFwio4?t=225
These models are intended to converge to the capabilities of human artists and beyond.

A human artist is obviously capable of generating CSAM, even if they have never seen that before.

Filtering of training data is countered by increasing capabilities to generalize:

Two years ago, that was a viable strategy: models could barely produce what was in the training data again.

Today models can generalize much better and compose concepts they have been trained on into new concepts that they haven’t.

Two years from now, filtering will be irrelevant.
Enhancing the anonymity of a privacy-preserving router [pdf]
A nitpick on the image Andromeda image: when viewed with telescope and in most images you can find online, the core of the galaxy and the region around the core is much brighter than the outer branches, while on the composite image it looks like the core is dimmed to make the outer branches stand out more.

So the actual bright part of the Andromeda, seen with naked eye under dark skies, is much smaller.
We managed to get it working for analytical SQL queries [1] for our database. It's kind of questionable whether this is an intended use of Cloudflare, but it feels like it, since we use it for query results, which are essentially a static asset in our use case (dashboards and visualizations).

[1] https://www.splitgraph.com/blog/seafowl-sql-cdn
Those things already exist:
https://shop.boox.com/collections/eink-tablet

Associated with the keyboard of your choice.

But also very easy to DIY by plugging an old laptop or a raspberry pi to an e-ink display/monitor and set it up to automatically start a text editor at boot time. Even a raspberry pi zero would handle that task superbly. I am not sure what prevents you to do that except lazyness if this is really something you want.
Not OP, but I use these to monitor my plants. I use a HackRF and the following software to collect the data.

https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433

It works okay: it drops around 10% of the data due to reception issues, but I think it might be related the parameters I have set for the gain on the software defined radio.
Kinda!

This is covered in Randall Munroe's (of XKCD fame) latest book - What If 2; chapter 33 "Ancestor Fraction"

Obviously a human who did not have any children cannot be the ancestor of anyone - this includes the circa 50% of humans who died during infancy, and the 25% of adult humans who did not have children.

Also, for some people who had children the line will die-out; if you have four children all of whom die in infancy, your line dies out. If none of your grand-children have children, your line dies out. Randall quotes a study which estimated that this applies to 40% of all people who ever had children.

So, taken together roughly 25% of all humans who were ever born went on to have children and form a part of the modern human 'ancestor web'.

In Summary: If you picked a random human of any age from the time of Mark Antony there is a roughly 25% they are an ancestor to all humans. If they are an adult that rises to 50%, and if they already have kids it rises to about 62.5%.
Then those countries will just not tell anyone.
Excellent work, but the author bringing up Wuhan and acting like it could be for legitimate research purposes like Boston’s recent paper was unnecessary.

A patented Moderna sequence was found in the virus.

https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/how-to-blast-your-way-to-the...

There’s no reason to trust “health authorities” when they have no interest in investigating these things or preventing the future release of deadly man-made viruses. Instead they created a biomedical police state, took away rights and freedom of travel, then said “whoops I guess our vaxx never stopped transmission.” Even worse it causes heart problems and clots, yet kids who never die of Covid should take it too… we think it’s so important we’ll add it to the childhood vaccine schedule.

Why does anyone believe a word the CDC/FDA says anymore? I have no idea.
I mean, the Android version is more surprising, especially since the controls don't favor the touch screen. Though I've played OpenTTD on a tablet and it was pretty good, if a bit involved.

OpenRCT2 seems to use SDL, just like OpenTTD—which apparently allows for relatively easy porting on various platforms. Sergii Pylypenko (`pelya` on Github) ported several SDL games on Android aside from OpenTTD—e.g. Ur-Quan Masters.
I would rather prefer the Elder Scrolls version of the Thieves Guild, which places importance on not harming your targets or other members of the guild, as well as emphasizing the need for stealth and skill over violence.
This is not the answer for the previous question.

But judging by downvotes someone here knows what happened at that date.
The keyboard is intriguing: the two "LEAP" keys before the spacebar, obviously to be used with the thumbs, are not dissimilar to what some ergonomic keyboards are now using. Apparently they're both labelled "LEAP" on the top of the key while on the side it's written "LEAP AGAIN" (that's what I see from googling a few images). On Wikipedia it says these keys are for "incremental string search".
The disclosure does seem rather superfluous given your brutal honesty.
There's still tons of pirated content on YouTube.

Is it legal? I don't know. I guess they have the fig-leaf of taking down copyrighted content when asked.

Fig-leaf not withstanding, if Google (YouTube's owner) didn't have such deep pockets I'd be amazed they didn't get sued in to oblivion like Napster.
That depends on a clearer definition of good.
For the US politically and power wise.
For the CIA itself politically and power wise.
For "human rights"
For "being the good guy in the end"

The vast majority of whatever the CIA does, is done in secret (duh)
and regular people won't know about it.
(Or at least not until decades later if its declassified)

We would have to know all the things they do to be able to evaluate
the sum total.

From what little I know I would say

"No they do more harm than good"

But that is based on my biased scale expecting that "do good" means
making the world a better place for people.

A probably better measure would be if it helps the state maintain power,
influence and intelligence services prudent to maintain the US as the
sole superpower.

From that perspective they may do better.
Curious to know how you thought it effected them negatively.

Wondering whether I can see any similar signs…
Right, mmap() lets you get a big buffer without actually using that much physical memory. Good catch!

I still think it's unlikely for an app to be vulnerable to this but having less than 4 GB of RAM isn't an absolute defense. Having a 32-bit address space probably is, though, if you're running on old or embedded hardware.
Google has only 2 months to appeal to SC. And the govt will most likely get the appeal dismissed by the SC immediately.
Hm. AI powered psychic maybe.

https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=pIyOeG445ZYwPjw7qnPCpcEm...
To me it seems a word game, as happens so many time with philosophers. What is meant by the words 'knowledge' and 'consciousness', exactly? Define them strict enough, and the paradox will evaporate.

E.g. in this case, let's define 'scientific knowledge' the ability to predict the future, and to choose scenarios where a specific future happens. Science is then the process for generating scientific knowledge. Newton's theory, for example, allows us to predict the future of an object with mass, and choose ways to put such objects together in such a way that they end up in a specific place at a specific time in the future.

In this case, Mary knows everything about 'Red'. This means she can predict what happens when something red interacts with something else. If she also knows everything about 'Mary', she can predict her own surprise at seeing something red. She can choose actions that make her come in contact with something red in the future. She can then still feel surprised at experiencing red.
NIH Blocks Access to Genetics Database
Yes, it hinges on the definition of "to know everything about something" as if there are neatly defined epistemic boundaries. Not all knowledge can be captured in words. Also, this assumes that all knowledge can exist independent of perspectives.
No.
There are qualia that are necessarily unique (because our constellation of experiences that generate these is unique) that we do not have shared definitions -- which is what words are. To then say that one can "know everything" is meaningless. It's generally the case with these seeming conundrums. The fault lies in the most basic of assumptions that are almost invisible to us because they rely on our intuition.
I'd rather iterate over bugs in Ansible code that I created directly than fear some AI will get something I said/typed wrong and completely break my production environment. It's the kind of work you need checks/validation on your thoughts rather than mindless bootstrapping.
If you’re digging an underground tunnel in NYC throwing low throughout roads in it is the worst idea possible.

There is absolutely no reason to not put a subway track, which would have an order of magnitude higher capacity, in an underground tunnel instead.
That is just a clever ad. It probably doesn't even look at your comments.

Check out this AI "psychic". Much more interesting

https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=pIyOeG445ZYwPjw7qnPCpcEm...
Range and bandwidth is orders of magnitude larger, and both have direct limitations in terms of energy budget.
To paraphrase Oprah Winfrey:

"You get a Raspberry Pi, and you get a Raspberry Pi, and you get a Raspberry Pi, ..."

I am tracking the strike price on eBay, with greater supply the price should edge down towards the market price, looking to see at what point the price will drop down.

Although price is one value, it would be handy to have an idea of the depth of the market at that price, it isn't as though there are thousands listed.
> In the world stage it’s obvious to me that the US is the Least Evil Empire, so they have my backing.

I think this is probably true, but maybe not obvious, and especially not obious if you live in South or Central America, the middle east or some parts of Asia. It's probably very obvious if you live in parts of Africa or other parts of Asia though.

China does some horrific shit, but they never nuked anyone just for fun. And the list of countries they have organized genocides in, installed brutal dictators to, or simply carpet bombed into oblivion for no reason is a lot shorter.
> That's not a plot twist. It's a strategy as old as civilization itself, probably older.

Yep, the good ol' not-so-humble-brag.
Yeah, but the BQE isn’t in random place America. It’s in a city which has less than 30% car ownership.

You could ban all private cars from the roads tomorrow and people in NYC would be getting around much faster (including those who currently drive) if you do nothing else but increase bus service and frequency, as they’re not log jammed because of higjly inefficient cars anymore.
Ask HN: Is Twitter spam getting worse?
I feel like direct message spam has been getting worse, since several months. Anyone else?
Cows don't randomly develop brands on the order of 0.1% to 1% probability. There isn't a great analogy for this and your example, as well as the hyena one in another comment, are way overstating the case.
> It is when literally this week a version with an 80% kill rate but with the spread of the most transmissible was made in a lab for no good reason.

It was a modified version bringing the kill rate down from 100% to 80% in lab mice specifically bread to be weak to this virus.
That's absolutely not correct. There are real experiments to prove Special Relativity and it has been corroborated multiple times.

The train is only a way to explain it, not a thought experiment. Actually, some equivalent experiments to that are not just possible, but has been executed.
Not sure what you mean by "mainstream internet", it's a normal page anyone can access by typing its address into the browser. Well known, too. And if you're looking for this kind of thing it's the first suggestion you're going to find.

Sure, it's not on the most visited homepages of the world - but it hardly went away. Even on the most visited homepage it's just few clicks away.
Was she aware of the bulbs being a potential issue? Maybe she sweated or showed other signs.
They're briefly explained later in the article. It sounds as though they function similarly to ? and / in vim.
They won't legislate AI away, just training them on copyrighted works without attribution and license. As it should be.

Countries that don't do that will be just as successful in the world marketplace as are countries that don't respect copyright.
>Capitalism is a company that is attempting to solve X problem or do Y thing etc

So basically any organized human activity is now "capitalism"?

>Forms of efficiency are "how fast can they solve that problem"

From which follows that "new forms of efficiency" means that previously it didn't matter how fast they can solve that problem, but now, due to "moving further out on the software complexity curve", it has begun to matter?

>And complexity doesn't unlock anything.

Then what is meant by "moving further out on the software complexity curve unlocks new forms of efficiency"?
Their parents are consenting.
I tend to agree with you there, however the thing I'm replacing does HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 is yet another can of worms as far as "production multitenant deployment" goes, so, that's what my life is right now.

As far as learning goes, I do think HTTP/2 is interesting as a step towards understanding HTTP/3 better, because a lot of the concepts are refined: HPACK evolves into QPACK, flow control still exists but is neatly separated into QUIC, I've only taken a cursory look at H3 so far but it seems like a logical progression that I'm excited to dig into deeper, after I've gotten a lot more sleep.