skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The leaders of this world, are vile, evil socio paths, but they love one thing, themselves.

Which is why nukes are inherently unuseable and prevent WorldWars. They are the gametheory six-shooters of international politics. He who owns them is equal to each creature under the sun owning a gun. Which means he gets ignored by the bullies in the alley.

Unfortunatly, they do not create the ability to empathy in these flawed creatures who rules us, thus they are still capable to send others en mass to die for silly dreams of greatness, once they do not fall under the protective shade of the mushroom.

Unless, there were a system to peacefully dispose of them every 4 years, once their disability to govern properly is proven beyond a doubt.
TIL python type hints: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html

Thanks.
I looked it up, the regulation was in effect since about 2006, but there was a loophole: It didn’t trigger if you switched from one provider to the same provider. And I guess that still counts when you switch from a reseller. That part has been changed later.
This sounds a lot like what I'm working on with Notado Feeds[1]. Users can curate feeds (with RSS subscriptions) on specific topics from their libraries that get automatically populated. I haven't published a dedicated article on this feature yet, but it's coming.

For an idea of what it looks like in practice, these are my feeds on software development[2] and capitalism[3]. Interested in one but not the other? No problem, ignore the capitalism feed and just sub to the software development feed; you don't have to be hit by a train of all of my thoughts on every little topic by subscribing to an all-encompassing feed.

I'm currently working on a piece around feed discoverability that will integrate RSS subscription stats in few interesting late 90s/early 00s-web ways.

[1]: https://notado.app

[2]: https://notado.app/feeds/jado/software-development

[3]: https://notado.app/feeds/jado/capitalism
To be fair, I imagine that guy thought the same of you.
Back in high school, I think everyone understood the difference between a student being suspended and being expelled.
Are human thoughts really any more independent than any self-learning process that happens to be implemented in silicon?

Yes. It's called "creativity" and "independent thought" --- not programming.

What makes the tiny warm bags of chemicals that are our cells, special?

Maybe quantum physics? This remains to be fully answered but their "specialness" compared to silicon/sand is not in doubt.
I think you're discounting too much the level of skill that 'grit and talent' requires. Cos it is exactly inventing a new algorithm - just not via mathematical proof or vigorous formality.
Note that uBlock Origin will cause it to crash randomly
I comment a lot on /r/cfb and /r/nfl and I wasn’t aware of this. I don’t really trash talk, but I’m surprised at least one of my thousands of comments hasn’t elicited a suicide alert.
It invoked a pretty significant crash so it's a definitely a special category
No funding and incomprehensible timing of abolishing the 45p rate were IMO fatal for the markets and public opinion. worryingly it also seems that nothing was discussed with the BoE beforehand.

But keeping the corporation tax at 19% was the right move, IMO.
Open Source Science Software is generally licensed under MIT or GPL to make the source available, source code inheritable, mark the artifact as a deliverable, and make code reviewable and encourage collaboration.

So the funding bodies can support you financially over the code you released, and other users can support you with improvements to make code more valuable and usable.

This is beyond source available, this how Free Software is designed and dreamed to work in practice.
Nuclear weapon use in a local conflict would be similar to someone unleashing a new coronavirus to win a local conflict. Due to its polluting non-local effects, it instantly paints a target on whoever uses it. This is also why "anonymous" terrorist nuclear bomb use would be very problematic.
Probably the most obvious choice at this moment. If he accepts, that is.
Damn. Not sure why it's so tough to copy, the key aspect seemed to be choosing how long a gap is skipped that none of the free software versions have. That doesn't seem like a difficult feature to add nor one likely patentable but I'm hardly an expert.

Thanks.
And then you read On The Beach by Nevil Shute
A problem with Rust is that the compilation unit is the crate, which pushes developers into splitting something that is one library into multiple crates to get incremental compilation, and it's hard for the user to tell the difference (you can synchronize their version numbers, sure, but the user has to put each crate into their list of dependencies individually).
Calling an election is now back in the hands of the government (not parliament) since the repeal of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act; a PM can ask the monarch to call an election without having to get the agreement of parliament. Neither the current nor next PM (whoever they end up being) is likely to do this if the polling numbers are anything to go by, of course. I think the only other way an election can be called is if the government loses a vote of no confidence.
As they say, democracy sucks, but it’s the least bad system.
thx.

Because your links are noscript/basic (x)html browsers friendly... nasa one... not so much...
The reason for that used to be idealism. But I guess that's no longer in vogue.
> They explained you everything

twitch

Small English correction: the noun directly after the verb "to explain" must be the thing that is being explained. What you wrote means "they explained [anthk] [to everything]". They gave an explanation of you to the whole universe?

This is a common mistake but it winds me up every time.

"They explained" + the thing they explained + optionally to whom or what they explained it.

It should be: "they explained everything to you."
It's going to take a lot more time and a lot worse crap on the internet to have a greater negative impact than FoxNews has had over its last 10 years. So for that reason, TV is still far worse for humanity.

On the positive side, internet has given us access to a lot of valuable information (for those who seek it out), whereas TV only makes available what the media companies want you to have access to.
Email validation is crucial to help you maintain a list of valid and real email addresses. Keeping mistyped and non-existent emails will result in high bounces, low opens, and few conversions. Worse, it can also damage your sending reputation, which can be difficult to repair.
The country needs a general election or a general strike until we get a general election.
Both countries suffer from winner-takes-all district systems, and would probably be much improved by a system of proportional representation.
> What is the judgement founded on? (~18:00)

> 1. Empiricism or Precedent

> [A good engineer] must be familiar with the history of his field of engineering.

> 2. Theory (~23:00)

> They help guide judgement where precedent is not wise to use

I wish software were engineering.
At least she will be memorable during quiz nite at the local pub.
I don't think AI will replace middle management. I think what we consider "middle management" is largely just going to go away over time because it's no longer required or cost-effective. AI replacing it is a big of an oxymoron. AI would just eliminate it, not replace it.
The last line of this article is intended only to confuse people. Odd choice.
But this could have been "solved" by a flag in some advanced settings dialogue or about:config - the collection workaround is terrible.
Biology is really weird. I could imagine it leveraging some fundamental property of space and matter to get, like ~7ms better latency. Or be able to guess north like 3.4% better than chance.

Glue ? Nonono, you gotta use fractally dense nanoscale features that engineer the probability distributions of opposing charges. That's how you adhere to shit

Apparently nature found this so trivial, Geckos lost and re-evolved this ability nine times

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko#Common_Traits
I have been using it ever since It's called Fennec and I can count on one hand how many times it has crashed.

Are you sure it's uBlock?
these leaders are a reflection of the voting population in this and those respective countries.

turns out we don't have that many smart people in the UK
Wrote a blog post about one of my pet peeves when it comes to gitops / Flux:

How the green CI build stopped meaning what it used to mean.

Do you have this problem? how did you solve it?
Only 45 days in the post; shortest in UK history. She tanked the economy quicker than anyone before. It's quite impressive how you can mess up this bad. Borrowing money to pay for tax cuts for the rich... Unbelievable.
> There's no such thing as appropriate moderation at Twitter scale.

If you mean it doesn't exist, that's arguable. If you mean it can't exist, that's nonsense. Just imagine for a second that moderation made money somehow. Boom! A moderation force that can take on planets full of new people. Tech companies are just cheap when it comes to dealing with end users. There is no obstacle but money to them creating capable moderation or customer support. It's a choice (to put profit first.)
Let's say I don't host my open source code on GH (I do). What prevents anyone from mirroring it to GH? The person uploading the code would not have the rights to grant permission to the uploaded code beyond the license.

Edit: which ToS paragraph are you referring to? I haven't been able to find any grant of rights beyond the ones needed to use GitHub.
That 1/3 makes a pretty huge difference...

And more importantly she was announcing these policies at an exact time when the Bank of England was trying to raise interest rates and sell bonds to fight inflation. So you have the government and the central bank pursuing contradictory goals: one trying to jumpstart consumption by borrowing and spending and the other trying to cool it by raising the cost of borrowing and reducing spending. This lead to a lot of wasted time, money and efforts and really destroyed the government's credibility.
I know this topic is important in substance and the thing I'm about to say is an aesthetic issue, but as an American watching this unfold I have admired the Brits for the sense of heart that still seems to be present in their politics.

I'm referring to the parliamentary sessions in which, even though they're savagely roasting each other, they're doing in a way that feels somehow good-hearted and doesn't lay bare the naked resentment and hatred that seems to be all we have left in the USA.

Also, less amusing but still inspiring, has been articulate criticism from politicians and pundits who seem to actually care about the thing they're talking about; on this side of the Atlantic, it's easy to get the sense that anyone in front of a camera has a pile of talking points on a set of index cards in their lap that they pull out to memorize during commercial breaks.

Charles Walker, giving an impromptu interview, seems to care about a thing:
https://youtu.be/Dimw572twfk

Parliament roasts Truss:
https://youtu.be/Zc_9Ty_-PrQ
I'm a big fan of Ben Thompson, and I'm not necessarily on Twitter's side here, but this to me seems more like a case of Ben whining about "Spam is when someone else sends it".

From his own words, this "Stratechery Interviews" account was a new account that only sent out tweets of links from multiple locations around the world. In other words, the only thing really distinguishing it from spam on a technical level is that Ben liked the content it was tweeting about.

Sure, I'd be annoyed too, but Ben's rage tweets just show to me that even the most rational among us become emotional when we don't get something want.
Noise detecting cameras crack down on Britain's loudest drivers
Would he want it now? I'm not so sure. I thought they were gunna keep Truss in over winter and replace in the new year when the worst of the energy crisis has passed.
There were nuclear bombs in the 30s?
Two problems there:

(1) "Animate vs. inanimate" is a separate axis to «every defining feature you've just used for consciousness» vs. «the absence of that»

(2) Inanimate AI can trivially alter their surroundings, all I have to do is say "Alexa, Badezimmer zehn Prozent". And this isn't an AI that I hold in high regard or consider to be conscious or anything like that — I have to ask three times while getting increasingly annoyed, because for some reason Alexa can't hear me properly and the first response is usually "Ich kann nicht Badezimmer auf Spotify finden" even though we don't have Spotify.

Still alters it's surroundings, though.
If the article is accurate, it doesn't sound like your odds are better there, just that your misery will last longer
At dawn and dusk, aka twilight, the sun is below the horizon. So you only get indirect illumination. Contrast is terrible, and shadows will be diffuse. The direction should still be mostly right, but you will be hard pressed to define the end of the shadow.

The position of the sun can be a bit weird depending on the season the further away from the equator you are. Especially in the periods where the sun never rises above the horizon. Other than that I don't know exactly what problems you might have. The midnight sun perhaps flips the direction?
I would put PG&E at the bottom end of providers, at least based on headlines and the attitude of people here on HN. Exacerbated issues there are unique to California’s social climate, complicated by California’s environmental regulation and the standoff relationship between that power provider and the citizens it serves. Further more, if im reading the previous linked report correctly, energy demand has largely plateaued across the market since 2005 as energy efficiency has take a priority, led lighting, and other innovations. Back in 2005, I recall reports that our energy demands would double in the next 10 years as engineers and economists gleefully showed straight line projections. Peak oil, etc. Its just foolish to think the energy market is going to remain static over the next 10-15 years.

But more broadly, the grid is evolving whether a Utility embraces it or not. On a residential basis, I have an EV and a backup generator. Software and policy are the primary inhibitors that prevent me from feeding a few kws back into the grid. But even if I never get to feed back into the grid, if the grid is insufficient, I can always kick on my gen to provide the power I need. That private generator is part of the grid, part of the network. Who is to say utilities or even EV supercharging stations don’t start installing large generators on site to shave demand. New Grid interconnects are possible between regions. These can be massive thousand mile deals or they can be across a river.

People love to complain about their power utilities, and there have been some dramatic shortcomings in recent years across the country, but waving away the opportunity to adapt is a curious approach to me, especially for the HN crowd.
"Television is more detrimental to humans than telephone ever was."

"Telephone is more detrimental to humans than radio ever was."

"Radio is more detrimental to humans than telegraph ever was."
I don't think I've seen anyone bring up patents. Those are a different matter altogether. "Copyrighted algorigthm implementations" is a little trickier, since any program code is essentially an "algorithm implementation" so there's a lot of potential nuance where to draw the line on where (if anywhere) a mere algorithm ends and a work with claimable copyright begins, in a moral sense.

Most software licenses are not full carte-blanche do-whatever copyright waivers. Sure, it would be hypocritical to get up in arms about copilot emitting CC0/WTFPL/Unlicense code, but comparatively little software is released under such licenses.

The GPL (in all its versions) is almost as notable for the specific conditions placed on the freedoms it offers as it is for those freedoms themselves. One possible reason to release your code under GPL is that it you don't want your work used in proprietary developer tools. It doesn't really matter then if the code is used in a proprietary developer tool's training data set instead of its own program code.

Even permissive licenses typically come with some conditions attached. If I release a program under MIT license and someone then uses portions of that code in their own project, I expect to see my name and the MIT license included in some way. Perhaps a line in the README, an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.txt or a comment like

// This function taken from quuxifier (https://example.org/software/quux)
// ⓒ bitofhope 2022, used under the MIT license. See doc/licenses/MIT or
// https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html for details.

The same, in my opinion, applies if recognizable (for some definition and threshold of recognizable, which can and does get deep into lawyer territory) portions of that code are emitted by a convolution network. If Copilot can write my function, why can't it write my name and choice of license too?

Even if you are a full copyright abolitionist, you can still point out the hypocrisy from the opposite side. Github's parent company Microsoft is notoriously protective of its proprietary code and its copyright. The company has historically been explicitly hostile to the free software community and despite its later unilateral declaration of love for open source continues to profit from their proprietary code, including Copilot. If you spend a decade or a few calling open source a cancer and campaigning against it, you can expect that to come bite you in the ass when you later try to sell a neural network trained on a vast corpus of free and open source software.
It's quite an appropriate analogy. We used to write a lot of code in assembly code. I used to write microcode and even modified a CPU. But it's been decades since I last wrote microcode (much less modified an already installed CPU!) and now the instruction sets of MPUs like x86 and ARM are mostly just abstractions over a micromachine that few people think about.

And an OS it the same: it used to be quite common to write for the bare iron, to which an OS is by definition an abstractional interface. I still do that, but it's an arcane skill frankly not in huge demand. Which is probably a good thing.

Nowadays most code is written at nosebleed levels of abstraction, which frankly is a good thing, even if I don't like doing it myself. But still, as developers do it, they are often dragged back down the stack to a level that these days few understand.

I think the person/company that cracks this will be the dominant infrastructure play of the decade.
> avoid uBlock and submit to the surveillance

I think that's what PayPal is trying to teach me, where logins will randomly fail with an adblocker and 2fa enabled.
There's nothing surprising in it for two reasons:

1) People have a kind of illusion that their rulers are (or at least should be) good. But historically speaking, this was almost never the case. Most of the time the rulers thought only about themselves, how to keep power, how to benefit from it and so on. Even most of the things they were commanded on were done of selfishness, too.

2) The people who should actually go into politics never will. Some of them are very active in their local communities, though, but have no desire to participate in this ridiculous show trying to sell themselves to millions of unknown people. Moreover, they have the humility of knowing they can't promise the crowds anything - the opposite of what the crowds expect.
Then there's the delightful (no, I actually mean the opposite) errors that g++ emitted (back when I last wrote C++ and compiled using g++), where I basically could go "OK, there is an error that was detected at line L, in file F; and I think it may be a type error", so a recompile with clang, so I can actually understand what the error was, so I could fix it.
>>a miserable failure who crashed the economy.

Can somebody from the UK tell us what did she do that the economy crashed, in just under two months?
That kind of highlights a flaw in the democratic way of doing things. It's a good system but can be gamed if you know how.
> Not all the tax cuts announced were bad or badly welcomed.

Not a tax cut per se, but I'm curious what will happen with the energy bill support scheme? That seemed like a good thing to implement, one for which Truss and her cabinet got a lot of critics from a certain part of the media.

Granted, I'm not from Britain so maybe I'm reading the room wrong and that support scheme was, in fact, not liked by everyone involved, I wouldn't know.
In addition to other comments, I suspect that the livestreamed lettuce was a reference to an earlier article saying describing Truss as having effectively had seven days in power before everything fell apart, saying "That is roughly the shelf-life of a lettuce." - various other media outlets seemed to pick up & run with the lettuce reference.

(Link: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/11/liz-truss-has-m... )
“Paraquat Papers” corporate tactics to protect weed killer linked to Parkinson's
So the Supply Side Jesus loses once again. But he will be back again the next season :)

https://imgur.com/gallery/bCqRp
Depending on world leaders to be rational evil sociopaths is a game we're bound to lose.
I don't want to be tracked. The options are: swurl is ok with denying users access that it can't spy upon. I am ok with that. Or swurl builds code in a way to gracefully still work if a script doesn't get load. This would be good when google tag manager has a bug and no longer works, and for users who are behind proxy/dns pihole systems or other system settings that prevent them from being tracked.

And for your reference, i enabled googletagmanager in uMatrix, but it still got blocked by uBlock origin. I suspect even if i were to disable both uMatrix/uBlock origin extensions, then my pihole would still block it.

As per using caching proxies , use dns cname. So security conscious people / paranoid configurations know that the caching proxy is in your control and wont leak cookies from other domain accesses. So define something like pix-cdn.swurl.com or static.swurl.com .
But uBlock Origin is one of the add-ons that you can use even with the stable version.
Aren't there several MOND flavors?

Heard there is one which is very good at comisc scale.

At "our" scale, GR is accurate "enough" as far as my limited knowledge is.
I am really sick of this UK drama. They’re really the Kardashians of the world politics at this point. Trying to stay relevant constantly. Just go away.
none of it. directx is a cope.
A dns name may be mapped to multiple IPs (case 1). Same IP could be mapped to multiple dns names (case 2).

So, if you're blocking an IP, you might end up blocking multiple domains (case 2) or end up not even effectively blocking a single domain (case 1). This confuses users, and you get reports like:

1. I blocked a Google IP but my app still connects to google.com (case 1, since Google owns a gazillion IPs).

2. I blocked a cloudflare.com IP and now can't access reactjs.org (case 2, where IPs are shared).

Some folks find it easier to reason about rules on domain names than IPs. So, blocking/allowing domain names makes for a better user experience, when implemented right.
Ask HN: Has anyone implemented Cloudflare Turnstile (free CAPTCHA alternative)?
It's been a few weeks since the public release of Cloudflare's free CAPTCHA alternative, Turnstile. I'd like to know if anyone has implemented it and how well it works.
On one hand I'd love a general election, but on the other hand I feel what's most needed now is a kind of stability and level-headedness that has been lacking with the last two PMs.

From what I can tell, Sunak might actually do a pretty good job there; and for the time being that may be preferable over the delays and uncertainty of a general election. At least for now, considering the state of things.