skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Cold War didn’t become a Nuclear War because both powers realized in some capacity that an arms race spurred by this very assumption that the other is creating ever more advanced technology which could threaten one’s power would ultimately just result in each country annihilating the other in the name of self defense/preserving power/stability/“peace”.

I think the Cold War stayed cold because the potential downside of using weapons outweighed the potential benefits—-the use of a single nuke could only bring marginal benefits, but at the risk of Armageddon.

> To argue that dangerous/unethical/X research must be done just because a potential adversary is also doing that research is what armed the world with the nuclear option in the first place.

What was the alternative? To bury our heads in the sand and hope that the Nazis, Japanese, and Soviets were too scrupulous to pursue a strategic advantage? C’mon.

Unilateral disarmament isn’t moral. It’s naive and dangerous.
On the other hand, having a Pole Star is a great idea. It’s not _that_ hard to construct south out of the Southern Cross, but a star (close enough to) on the pole is smart…
South Africa classifies crypto assets as a financial product
> Movement in VR is still being done with teleportation, it's just not a natural thing to do.

It might not be natural, but it's essentially a super power. No need to walk where you want to be, you just point & zap over there instantly. If you play around with it for a while, you start missing that ability in the real world.

Now in multiplayer it does get a bit awkward, as other people zapping around does not look natural. Meanwhile introducing a delay into the teleport such that the avatar can play a walk animation feels really unnatural for the teleporting person (VRChat has that option).

But that said, I don't really consider it an issue for the social experiences Meta is aiming for, as those social experience aren't happening while zooming around at 50mph, they happen while sitting at a table or a couch. A lot of VRChat social interaction happens with people sitting in front of a mirror, locomotion isn't really that big of a deal there and can largely be done via roomscale movement in the real world.
Not saying you're wrong[1], but if it weren't AI it'd be something else.

Attempting to solve really hairy problems with a simple, universally applicable solution is a tale as old as time.

[1] Although I suspect a sea of AI-generated bullshit metrics would be closer in impact to outsourcing/insourcing cycles or whatever the hell we've allowed HR to become than WW2.
That's a different use case, where you have access to the source. I'm more thinking for exploring memory objects of games (that we don't have the source access too) to visualize the relationship between the objects in the game and help teach reverse engineering and memory models.

A lot of (some?)people are interested in modding games (with no mod support), but have no understanding of C/C++ or memory models. Trying to explain the levels of indirection of all the objects is difficult without visualization.

Are you the author? Where does the connection to the JS/Python runtimes happen? I looked through the github repos, but I am _very_ far out of my depth. I wanted to see what the API looked like, maybe it's something that could be implemented fairly easily.
It's nice that the explanation starts with this disclaimer:

> Keep in mind that these determinations are approximate as there is some discrepancy at different latitudes and in different seasons.

But it doesn't explain that this only works on the northern hemisphere, and in summer only if you're well above the tropics. Near the equator, this isn't going to work at all, and on the southern hemisphere, everything needs to be reversed.

It's a cool trick, but I think just understanding the relationship between the earth and the sun is easier and more universally applicable.
"Conversatations are processd locally and scanned for restricted subjects with advanced AI."

That includes any conversations with lawyers.
> But unlike Lysenkoism, I believe that the underlying principles are sound.

Is this an expert opinion, or a lay opinion? Eugenics is one of those fields where there’s a split distribution: experts are generally less confident in the scientific value of eugenics research than the public is.

No domain is infallible, and science is by its nature unsettleable. But the fact that a particular academic department was unfair to a particular academic is not especially strong evidence that the scientific community is wrong, as a whole, about eugenics.
If it is used by such people, what of it? Should we stifle research if it proves that claims of disreputable individuals were true all along? Any scientist worth his salt should only be interested in the pursuit of truth. The Noble Lie is never an answer.
Not if you're in the southern hemisphere, but your watch isn't going to tell you that.
And in medieval times, there were dead bodies with diseases thrown over the wall with catapults. Maybe we should try this next on Russians? Or maybe bomb their power plants, if all is permitted?
From article:

>If you want to merge MOND with Einstein’s General Relativity, it is possible as well, simply by adding in scalar (and possibly vector) terms in addition to the standard metric tensor terms.

So there's no issue.
I honestly think that the best way to fix everything wrong in the world is to reduce class sizes in schools, and age categorisation seems like a good place to start.

If there is such a difference between the academic results of a kid born in July and another one born in August, wouldn't it make sense to double the amount of classes and group the children in age groups of 6 months of length rather than a year of length?
Right and every package will need to have init configs for all the systems. Are you high?
A circle would have made more sense, I think, but having it in a line still makes a little sense: a long, narrow city usually works well with public transit because trains do well in moving along corridors. Still, a circle would have been better because you could have trains going both directions and the average time to get to any destination would be shorter. Anyway, your criticism of it being a line instead of a circle holds for Manhattan, for instance.

The location doesn't seem to make much sense though. And what exactly will be the industry that supports this place economically? Most cities have some kind of local industry.
How is it going to convince Jack to switch his shift and come in to cover open on Sunday

How does google convince you to provide a “backup” phone number? Or that its search results and recommendations are correct? Or that you align with PlayStore’s rules to not be banned?

Don’t people wish something else? If it is not better than a fellow human, why don’t we have other, humane services dominating the market?
> That seems kind of extreme. You don't like it, just don't buy it?

Me not buying one is pretty much a given here. That wasn't my argument

> and it doesn't -- everyone around me has one, it's not noteworthy to have one strapped to your wrist

But in that kind of situation, wouldn't not having one indicate a lack of status?

If you're in an Apple family or work with people who are all die hard Apple fans (to the point where everyone has an Apple Watch), not having one would count as a lack of status
Oslo Looks to Become World’s First Capital City with All-Electric Public Transit
There is code I wrote that has `raise ImpossibleError("X should never happen")` or, simply, a `NotImplementedError("You shouldn't be here")`
the boss makes more off your work than you do, that's what people mean by exploitation when they're talking about work.
If it wasn't clear then the redirection of the conversation would only happen after the person has come to a junction in what they are discussing.

Not mid sentance, nor mid explanation that has not reached some settled point.

There is nothing rude about directing a topic of discussion if done with tact and respect.
All the ways of encoding Reals that you mention in your comment are limited to Rationals. It seems like you just didn't know that one can encode Reals too, which puffoflogic assumed readers to know.

Yes, they could have made their comment more accessible and mentioned the encoding (but I think then the problem may have sounded less "natural", since you'd have Turing machines mentioned). But you also could have noticed you're building a strawman argument, and instead just asked how does one encode Reals. Heuristics: if other person's argument sounds too absurd, there's a chance you're misunderstanding something.
it was also meant, like the army and later tv, to create a uniform national culture and erode local communities in favor of the newborn unnatural countries.
Wouldn't upper management be in charge of taking the decision of replacing upper management with AI? Or is this only applicable to small companies (or workers' cooperatives) that had access to these functions from their foundation?
You need a demand forecast for the weather so at least stats was used. Maybe linear regression?
If workers can’t interrupt boss, then you’re in dysfunctional organization.
> Why can't lithium be dug with solar power?

It isn't and most likely won't be until upgrading the whole production is cheaper than burning fossil fuel and god knows how long it'll take given how advanced and specific mining equipment is. And even if it was 100% electric, it's still an absolute nasty thing: https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/02/01/south-america-s-li...

> Electric cars are a huge step forward.

Only if you believe personal vehicles are a good thing in the first place, which is already something you can argue against, but I guess most of us have been brain washed by decades of auto industry marketing. Teslas aren't a step in the right direction, e mustangs either, the new f150 either, we're just making the same mistake all over again "but it's electric so you're saving the planet", no it's just a 3 tonnes pile of e waste moving a 80kg meat bag, putting candy sprinkles on top of a big turd doesn't change its fundamental nature.

> The world will move forward while you sit on the sidelines and complain.

I'm fine on my legs powered bicycle thank you

Spraying kids with DDT was progress, lead in paint and gas was progress, freon in fridges was progress, asbestos was the best thing after sliced bread. Everything is progress if your definition of progress is "the hot new thing that generates money". It's always the same thing, the people pushing for these things are making big bucks while selling you a dream that's going to last xx years until it falls apart and be replaced by the next
This is the first Cloudflare related thread that I haven't seen eastdakota or jgrahamc get involved
An issue with /etc/hosts is that it is just one file and you do not want etcd to own all the config you would need to use something like NIS instead.
In one company, the app error page would also be a "Submit Ticket" page where the poor human would be able to quickly explain what they were trying to do while I could gather all sorts of user-side information.
Interesting! Kinda stressful, but I'll check it out more.
>You'll surely get some things in there by chance.

Usually is tuning the parameters for whatever you want to explain. (And then finding that specific tuning doesn't work for something else.)
Boy that was fast! Well done, thanks.
Wish you the best for your project, glad others like it as well =)

As far as UX goes another little thing I would suggest is making the flexbox columns grow instead of shrinking so that they properly utilize the entire width of the screen and as a bonus spice you could contemplate about dynamic column width where the primary column (first or possibly hovered one) is proportionate to the rest of the columns in tandem with the golden ratio. I found golden ratio is indeed a really pleasing analogy from vim splits to tiling windows widths or practically everything.

If not for making the columns disproportionate you should definitely make them utilize more of the real estate as they kind of hinder usability and UX when shrieked.

Good luck with everything buddy!
It was terrible, but it was the best we had.
Competition is going to love predictable competitors.
Yes, that one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_(video_game)

Well, I have not played either game, so I can only go by how they were described. The box art was also similar.
Just because it's a status code doesn't mean it has no content. Response headers and some basic text?
Read also this excellent article by Russ Cox (of Go fame) on the issue:

https://research.swtch.com/deps

This is at heart an economics problem: how to provide a public good (software security) in the presence of free riders. The way society handles this kind of risk is through insurance, but there are a number of things that need to happen to enable a sustainable economic basis to fund the necessary dependency-vetting to happen.

Edit: I wrote up my thoughts on the way forward here:

https://blog.majid.info/supply-chain-vetting/
Dead comments are collapsed on mass, which is new as well.

I'd assume in error, since it's overriding the principal of "Show Dead".

Also lots of not dead but collapsed comments.
And a terrible idea because the users are not at fault, but the developers of the app. And in this case it might crash so they'd only report "app crashes on startup", if at all.
I have no experience with SharePoint lists. But from what it sounds like:

I'd love to see a comparison with Notion databases as that seems to me to be the UX hallmark of user accessible relational database functionality.

Edit: noticed this is already discussed in another reply here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33268245
A Good Puzzle Game Is Hard to Build (2015)
The version number of USB always had been the specification, hence why you have e.g. "Gen2x2".

But this doesn't mean you want to bump the major version number without making any major changes to it, for example create a new (backward compatible) protocol instead of a new extension to the current protocol.

I mean if we look at it from various perspectives:

- for users it's still the exact same kind of USB, just better labels in the future so even just bumping it to 4.1 would be misleading and 5.0 could be said to be outright user hostile if you consider how it will be misused to sell things

- for tech people 4.1 probably would be the most appropriate but 5.0 would be still misleading

- for people working on usb tech it's also mostly the same and 5.0 would probably still cause additional friction about what needs and doesn't need to be done when discussing it with management

So IMHO 5.0 would be an horrible choice 4.1 would have been nice but I can understand why they didn't do it I think calling it revision 2 instead of version 2 would probably be the most appropriate, except if they already use revision for spelling/formulation improvements idk.

EDIT: In context of them adding a new major alternate mode 4.1 would have been the most appropriate. But then there was a lot of consumer confusion around 3.1, 3.2 and my point about it not being useful for consumers still holds as e.g. a USB 3.2 device doesn't need to support anything added since 3.1 so given that they want to make it less hostile for users it even somewhat makes sense no matter how stupid version 4.0 version 2 sound.
Without internet connection, most modern development grinds to a halt pretty quickly in any case. Github won't work. All those dependencies your build needs will no longer download. That issue tracker that tells you what you need to do is no longer reachable, and forget about copy pasting from Stackoverflow. Etc.

There are things you can still do offline of course. But it gets inconvenient pretty quickly. There's not a whole lot of offline development happening anymore.

So, in the rare case the connection drops, you have a coffee break, and then you reconnect. If that's a regular thing in your life, change your internet provider or networking equipment.
The new colours are artificial anyway, just change them
Holy Roman Empire? Tryhards. Byzantium? Bunch of posers.

The truth is this: Rome never ended, she just went North. It would explain the Norsemen and their keenness to reconquer Gaul and Britain.
It worked! Not sure why or what's the difference, but Pharo downloaded from here: https://pharo.org/download still doesn't work - it opens a window but never draws anything in it, it's stuck showing whatever was below it and never updates.
Notion Sharded Their Postgres Database
I've not had a watch with hands for decades.

But my smartwatch has a compass function built in :)
The problem with a fully AI run company is that it needs reliable measurements to base its decisions on. An AI overlord managing a company would typically have some work to complete, would hire people based on the required qualifications (an API call to a temp agency), and assign tasks to employees based on the work to be done. (ofcourse, it has to figure out the workflows first. But once the AI has figured out what exactly needs to be done, I doubt many humans will be involved)

To manage the work effectively, would require that all assigned tasks can be verified and ranked in quality of work. Otherwise some employees could easily do nothing or a lousy job all day, and just enter into the system that all their work has been done successfully. How would the system know who is slacking? Perhaps if we remove all privacy through computer vision, all kinds of sensors, and massive amounts of data entry. But this would still not be comparable to a manager taking a stroll through the employees and talking to people. I really can't see AI running a company at this time. It requires too much input and still won't be able to make reliable decisions.
We see how this plays out already in search: you need a surprisingly large human staff to manage the adversarial side. If "the algorithm" is predictably gameable, then malicious actors will take the value; so it needs to be constantly adjusted to keep ahead of them.
No, he's reasoning by analogy. Read it as "Watson isn't so much a general trivia AI", etc.
Side note (about privateers and Benjamin Franklin):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29268390
The author talks about AI management solutions that will reduce management head count as if such solutions are available and ready to use. But I'm not aware that such solutions are available yet.
You're a genuinely good human, who wants to work with and hire other good humans. You communicate with kindness and lead with empathy.

This very much cements the sentiment I've had all along that Fly.io is quite a special company.
This is definitely how the Butlerian Jihad started.
Oh shaddap.
Too many Reddit people here lately.
You have no fucking what you're talking about. Stupid troll and I hate that I let myself be triggered by your stupid trolling
> Classic Gemini excuse-making.

you’re proud of yourself for that aren’t you?

you part of New Nazi Nation or someshit?[1]

~ genx jesus
There are statistics for these things. Counter examples just means they’re somewhere else in the distribution.
https://www.deepmind.com/publications/an-empirical-analysis-...
They're making a POW (prisoner of war) joke about the topic, I think.
NVR is a different problem. I meant the software inside the IP cameras themselves.
What were your difficulties? As the youngest in both elementary school and high school (almost a whole year of difference to the oldest), I had no struggles specific to my age. In elementary school and early highschool I overperformed and in later high school I performed averagely.
It would be all good, but russian safety is a disaster. Anything they build is just a waiting disaster due to neglicence in building and maintenance. Just like Kursk and Chernobyl...
> Now CI has a node that puts your local machine to shame

A nice problem to have, I only know the opposite side. Developer laptop being twice the speed of CI.
Google "Bradford factor". Employers absolutely will ask employees to be less sick.
If you are really struggling, I'd suggest trying out the latest .NET before abandoning all hope.

I was recently able to build a 3d software rasterizer and streaming web service using .NET6 and I did not have to consume a single 3rd party dependency.

Even things like SIMD-optimized projection matrix calculations can be found in the box (System.Numerics).

There is obviously the Microsoft aspect to this equation, but I feel like you should at least try the porridge before throwing it away. The empire has a hell of a Death Star these days.
Part of the Blockchaingang..

Cold: the air and water flowing.

Hard: the land we call our home.

Push to keep the corpo growing,

Feel the weight of what we owe.

This: the song of sons and daughters,

Hide the heart of who we are.

Making code to build our future,

Strong, united, working till we fall.
Jack Dorsey's ‘Decentralized’ Social Platform Now Has a Beta
Sometimes employers might offer a list of questions to their possible employees so they can better prepare for the interview. The job interview itself is not only about questions, so even if this were the list of the same questions you would be asked, it still would not guarantee you would get a job. It’s not like an exam; it’s more complex.
For instance, you can easily find a list of questions you might be asked at a job interview in an investment bank: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/resources/interviews/investm.... these questions were not leaked, and this information is not illegal. They are there to help you be better prepared for the interview, that’s all.
> How’s AI going to do that better than a fellow human?

The idea of AI getting better than a fellow human is flawed at the definition itself. Instead of focusing of AI being generally better than a fellow human we should look at how AI gets better at specific tasks to start with and then go from one task to another making it more "intelligent/better".

This is already happening since industrial revolution freeing up humanity's bandwidth from the mundane tasks, so nothing new when it comes for managerial level tasks.
> The remainder of his post explains why such an individual solution isn't enough: it doesn't stop society as a whole slipping further into total surveillance, until eventually it swallows you as well. Either compelled by law, or non-negotiable contract, or by a large fraction of your friends owning surveillance devices, catching you in their crossfire.

I can't prove this, but I'm convinced that there's a bunch of people in this culture who want surveillance and invasion of privacy. There's too many instances of people buying into BS like internet connected wearables or Alexa. All of the reasons people give for buying these products is marginal. What problem does Alexa solve that your phone or computer can't? And why is it necessary to give a device the privilege to have a microphone on 24/7 to solve it?
> The "AI revolution" is a business owner dream, not a worker's dream, nor a citizen's dream

Yes, but since money is power, that's whose dreams get to be enacted.
I think the problem with trying to fuse two nuclei with your fingers is that the recoil from the reaction is really going to hurt. In a diamond this will destroy it. So it would seem like the only way it could work is if it were done as a burst. With a reasonable fraction of a coulomb of charge on each side rushing together and blocked by a thin layer of diamond, for a brief moment a lot of nuclei will be hopping on top of each other. If the ions and electrons are liberated instantly, immediately after there will be a high energy explosion. So shhh.. don't tell anyone like General Groves.
>practically speaking, today AI refers to ML.

But it shouldn't and it won't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
Why are there so many clueless idiots on HN?
I'm reminded of the web pre 2k and post 2k.
This thread is post 2k, full of half truths and trolling.
Book Review: “The Future of Fusion Energy” by J. Parisi and J. Ball
Quad-slot cooler for unreleased 900W GeForce RTX 40 GPU