skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If they become an enemy, it doesn't hurt that we built their military and know everything about it inside out.

What if you know it inside out and all it benefits you is that you now know they have a competent and robust organization, whereas before they were bungling idiots and you only kind-of knew the extent of it?
one of the biggest supporters of non-democratic regimes in the world...

...to fight the spread of Communism.
It becomes different -- but not better or worse.

The truth is that taking kids to the park can feel like even MORE of a chore when it's your own kids, because you've had to do it every week, it has no novelty, and you would love just a few hours to yourself instead because you're a parent and you don't get much of that.

The reason it's still better when it's your kids, though, is that it's an investment. Kids are a lifelong relationship. They outlive you. All that time you spend with them starts paying interest and dividends, the same as it does when you spend time with other people you love and spend time with.

My oldest is 12 now and she's funny, insightful, and one of my favorite people to be with. The years I invested in reading and parks with her in the early years are being paid back with hours spent talking about our favorite books and going outdoors together. It's worth it.
> I’d be interested to hear what anyone who’s able one-shot their writing thinks of this. I feel like that type of person may have less of a desire for this kind of stuff?

Yep. I don't use spell-checking and I don't use auto-complete bars on phone keyboards, largely because I feel it keeps my skills sharp. I would use tools like the article describes when I deem them to have become necessary to stay competitive at what I do, but at the moment I don't feel it's clear-cut whether their use would promote or harm my faculties to write.
Ask HN: Do you curse on Zoom calls?
No culture congratulates themselves for getting the basics right quite like the Scandinavians.

Congratulations Scandinavia. You are good at the thing you've always been good at and everyone knows you're good at, walkable bikable cities.

And it's so easy to fund with all of that oil money in the sovereign wealth fund too!
rdns dev here

Hi, Rethink is more in line with LittleSnitch / LuLu Firewall / Glasswire than NextDNS or Pi-Hole. And it is nothing like Blokada [0]

To illustrate that point, here's some of the features we recently released:

1. Block all connections where an app is deemed to have bypassed user-set DNS (either by using DoH like Telegram does, or connecting straight to hard-coded IPs like WhatsApp and Instagram on occasion).

2. Block all newly installed apps by default. This in particular was apparently helpful for folks in Hong Kong forced to install contact-tracing apps.

3. Per-app IP allowlists. Ideally, you'd set these for apps you tend to use the often and selectively allow it to connect to only a handful no. of IPs (for ex, GMail only to Google-owned IPs; and WhatsApp to Facebook-owned IPs, and so on).

We use a fairly effective heuristic to map DNS names with outgoing IP connections, which comes in handy to impl some of the above features.

Our immediate focus is supporting IPv6 (mostly DNS64, DSLite, & 464Xlat) and embedding WireGuard. If you have any feature requests, I am all ears (:

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/nlzyit/opinion_abo...
I think the main thing that informs me personally is that I didn't enjoy spending time with my parents when I was a kid. I imagine those who want kids must have had a more positive kind of childhood experience and relationship with their parents.
It’s the segment.io client library. I started binary patching mattermost installs and also using NextDNS on my servers too to monitor/block dns traffic to ad/spyware domains.
What a childish and naive take. I'll be blunt and assert its pretty dumb.

Firstly, completely dismissing Japan as a sovereign state. Complete disrespect.

Secondly, nuclear warfare is the dumbest solution possible. Who ever fires first must accept potentially losing the trust of all nations. No matter who fires for whatever reason. Barring an alien attack or something of that magnitide.

Thirdly, the US power does not come from its military - but diplomacy. Allies in strategic places captured by the flow of capital. The military maintains the status quo but isn't invincible. If it were, Russia would not exist. China would not become a superpower.

These are basics.
> The fact that neural networks have been the only way we've been able to solve a lot of problems, which approximate the way that the human brain learns, is pretty strong evidence of this

These are all difficult assertions to make because we're trying to prove a negative. Your claim is evidence that neural networks are one way to do it, and nobody's arging that. But it's not evidence that there doesn't exist a better way, or that alien life might evolve a different and even less optimal way.

Legs are pretty ubiquitous, even flying insects have them. If we'd never seen a fish or snake we might conclude that they're inevitable. Somebody that evolved to be rad-hard on a planet without a magnetosphere might conclude that life can't exist without the thick carapace that they're made of and only look for planets rich in silicon and calcium.
Intel’s Mobileye slashes IPO valuation to below $16B down from $50B in 2021
I’ve found dictionary attacks against non-22 ssh to be effectively zero. Maybe once in awhile you get a port scan and a poke or two, but anyone able to move ssh off of 22 is not likely to have the password “p4ssw0rd”
One thing that might be hard to appreciate is how much, at least for me, having kids changed my personality. I’ve become a much more patient person. Spending extended periods of time with my kids almost has a meditative quality in which I’m living in the moment and absorbing my surroundings in a deliberate way. My son’s presence in his environment provides a fresh perspective that I can tune into and ride along with.
Fair enough; from a legal framework that's a highly practical way to move forward. I don't think many people like to point at the current status quo, with all its flaws, and immediately think "the courts will help me!"; but you did mention you are a lawyer and I respect that you are working in the bounds of what is possible rather than what is ideal.
If you're an oompa loompa living in Willie Wonka's world where there's no such thing as rigid construction and everything is candy, the ability to have any level of technological civilization (including stool building) is dubious.
Looks really nice, I've looking to migrate away from Gitter, whose development stopped already long ago.

For open source project support channel use, I'd strongly recommend adding GitHub login. Most projects are hosted on GitHub anyway and users who have filed issues already have an account there. In my experience one of the most important features of an open source project support channel is as low of a barrier to entry as possible.
have youread nothing about the fact that government was paying salaries of soldiers that did not actually exist, and in fact their commanders were pocketing it.

This whole 'afghans decided not to fight' is really convenient. Like blaming a plane crash on pilot error - nothing to investigate, no defects to correct, the only one at fault is already dead.
I only takes reading about recent events to understand how Xbox is everything but successful

https://twitter.com/Nick_Marseil/status/1582348100424720384

They have more budget, more studios, more services, and yet both Nintendo and Sony do better with much less budget and much less studios

https://www.vgchartz.com/

They recently catch up WRT to console sales, but that was due to
Sony's supply chain issues, since that one resolved, they are failing behind yet again, despite selling the Xbox at a loss! Sony doesn't

About Azure, their growth is not organic, specially when you consider they have been fined multiple times WRT corruption

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-settlement-idUS...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/22/microso...

https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/25/microsoft_accused_of_...

http://techrights.org/2014/05/28/microsoft-brazil/

About Github, it was already a thing and very popular before the acquisition, let's not forget that, otherwise it wouldn't have sold for that much, and outages are now lot more common than before ;)
You get to choose what you do with your kids, to some degree. My cousin and his wife love sports, their kids are all in sports and they go to all the games -- they'd be doing that even without kids. I like walking and sneaking into construction sites, my kid likes walking and sneaking into construction sites because that's what we do.
Well another thought is that the only way to revert this so-called doomerist path is to choose to have and raise kids with empathy for others and with care towards the natural world they've inherited.

Because the people who don't give a shit ain't going to stop having them.
I don’t see how.

Without the engineers, the workers wouldn’t have the techniques, designs or procedures to build such precise and complex machines.
I'm still using my Macbook Pro from 2014 without issue and its on the latest OS.

I don't feel the need to buy an iPad.
Semafor launched today, which I'd realised when a story from the outlet hit HN's front page. The FT backgrounder gives good context on the organisation and its plans. Founders' backgrounds include the FT, Reuters, Bloomberg, the Washington Post, Vox Media, Buzzfeed News (not identical with the viral side of that organisation), and others. The launch itself comes at an interesting time....

There are also a few contextualising articles, erm, semaforms, on Semafor's own site:

"Welcome to Semafor" by CEO Ben Smith: <https://www.semafor.com/article/10/18/2022/welcome-to-semafo...>

"What is a Semaform?" <https://www.semafor.com/article/10/18/2022/what-is-a-semafor...>
For me it was ~2 weeks to get out of "learning mode" and into actually writing production code. 3 months to feel proficient. Maybe a year to feel that I had reached parity of fluency with languages I already knew.
Sure, and that's appropriate.

It's also not quite correct, because it's not a static 'you' spending all that time. We grow and age with our children. The world isn't static either. It's quite beautiful really.
Did you understand the point?

Then communication happened, and oddly enough, communicating succinctly was more important than listing out all possible combinations in an effort for perfection.
I've heard having a dog is like having a kid that never grows up.

In some ways they're always more independent of a child. In some ways they never will be.
> Casting *mut to &mut in a safe function is unsound, and UB if the result is used alternatingly with an earlier &mut to the save object

This is a very different statement than your first comment, and still wrong. Casting *mut to &mut is not, itself, unsound or UB- it is, for example, how `Mutex` and `RefCell` are implemented in the standard library!

Alternating &muts is of course UB, but that has nothing to do with raw pointers- that's just the definition of &mut, however you obtain one. Even if it were not strictly UB, it would still need to be forbidden, because thread safety and library code (like `Mutex`) relies on it.

> I find compile-time lifetime safety to be a tradeoff

Yes, this is exactly what I said in the first place- my further point was that the other side of the trade-off is not fixed, and the ergonomics of raw pointers and interior mutability can, have, and will continue to improve over time.

Or in other words, the Rust language developers are not "on a crusade to stop programmers from writing code in unsafe languages." Rather, they looked (and continue to look) for ways to expand the space of programs that can be written in safe languages. This is an important distinction, and you appear to be causing yourself a lot of grief ("stop at nothing"? really?) by conflating one with the other.
Yes, and I mean, while you could argue that jogging or riding bicycles is a form of self expression, I don't consider them so the same way I consider writing to be so. Cars help you get from point A to point B in a way that is qualitatively different than walking; but both are ontologically different from writing, because writing is not a thing that a single person does -- it's an act of communication. Writing and reading, and the dynamic of both playing out among people, is related to the formation of the self for both parties in the deepest and most crucial way.*

Easier put: the joy of writing and the joy of reading are strongly linked. I don't write things with the expectation that nobody will read them, and I don't read things with the expectation that nobody wrote them. Or, in this case, a machine.

And I think a "writing photoshop" will be much harder to detect than an image Photoshop. Did I picture the author as a white collar Yale graduate because they are one, or because the machine told them that was best?

* For example: I would sooner give up my ability to walk than give up my ability to communicate myself to others; that's the difference I'm talking about.
The comparison with fossile fuel is irrelevant. You must compare it with renewables.

Worldwide we have roughly 10% nuclear energy for electricity. And we had roughly 20 to 25 years between nuclear disasters (Sellafield, Harrisburg, Chernobyl, Fukushima). If we had had 100% nuclear, it would mean such a disaster would occure approx. every 2 to 2.5 years.

We also cannot close the books about this disasters. They still are going to hurt and kill people. Ask the Russian soldiers that camped at Prypiat this spring. You might say: They should not have done this and known better. But this is how things play out in reality, while in theory they should not happen.

And then there is the strategic problem in a war. It is no wonder that on maps of the situation in Ukraine like this https://militaryland.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/day_234_... the locations of nuclear power plants are emphasized. Renewables would provide a far better situation for a nation that needs to defend itself, because they are decentralized.
Some of us think ethics is what you choose between what is right and what is easy.
However true this may be, the difference between 30 years ago and today is still not explained by that.

I grew up in a very much car-centric suburb. My elementary school was 1.5 miles away. For the first 3 years I rode the school bus. As soon as I hit 4th Grade, I was riding my bike or walking. Most of my friends did the same.

I guarantee you that that same school today sees barely 10% biking/walking compared to 1990.
Having a dog is legitimately more than a kid 90% of the time if it's an indoor dog you treat like a kid. It's different, but constant and the dog never becomes self sufficient. It's also more challenging to travel with them.
jawerty, is there other pages/websites you would like added that would help you?
Seattle and surrounding areas have built bunch of protected bike lanes, but the main problem still remains: it's very hilly. Basically there are specific areas you can bike through, but it quickly fails as general transportation mode since not everyone is a super athlete.
FWIW I have two children, aged 3 and 6 months, and I would say it is about accurate (for me) that the first hour is enjoyable and then the next 10 are less so. It's a chore that you are doing every single day.

However, the older they get the less boring they are and I assume at some point I will get more out of the relationship.

But I had the children so I gotta deal with what that entails and I'm comfortable with that. I went into this very willingly.

But I absolutely have no judgement against people who don't want to have children... It might not be for you, I don't have any magical emotion that makes it less work, and there are many, many things I'd rather be doing.
> The key part is "abstracting all of the hardware in your life".

> When I switch between them pretty much nothing changes - I have access to the same core apps: Office, Obsidian, 1Password, web browser.

> There needs to be an "OS" that manages all of that, and right now the frontrunner here is Microsoft.

In your example MS is the app, not the OS. The 'abstractions' that let apps run everywhere that matter nowadays are Unix (MacOS/Linux/Android/iOS), the JVM and the browser. And if we want to talk about an actual OS that runs everywhere, it's only Linux that's running truly everywhere: on servers, consumer devices and IoT devices. Or on the level above that, the browser.

You guys lost out on mobile years ago, now it's just Office, Azure and XBox; admittedly some big businesses there, but far from the layer of abstraction that "everything" runs on...
Do you have a source for that?

A 2013 study showed that journalists had increasingly identified as independent rather than Democrat or Republican. Only 28% Democrat, lower than at any time in the previous 40 years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/05/06/ju...

https://larswillnat.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/2013-america...
Yet more misunderstanding.

First of all they used BA.1 and that spike is nearly extinct and isn't causing much sickness and death, it has been out-competed by BA.5. BA.1 is literally "last years news" and BA.5 is immune evasive against BA.1. Any BA.1 spike is going to be recognized by the same neutralizing antibodies which has suppressed BA.1 circulation in the larger population.

And I should have written something like the additional risk over the existing circulating pandemic strains is zero. It could cause infections and deaths, but just like XD it would be outcompeted quickly by BA.5 and wouldn't go anywhere, and the infected people would run exactly the same risk as they would have against the existing global pandemic. There is no way you get from this lab experiment to "COVID-22", it is still all the same virus, same pandemic, and a variant of the virus which will be substantially less fit against population immunity than BA.5 or whatever new variant winds up circulating this winter.
Semafor is a new media venture which launched today. Its founders have strong former experience.

See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33252667>
My feeling is that crypto is done and dusted.

Too many people got burnt during the last cycle peak and I think its reputation has been completely destroyed. Any semblance of technological innovation was dwarfed by the scams and damage it did to everyday people.

Its now a certified
“Decentralized” casino, and no amount of hype will change that
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Sure, I'm not making any claims on whether they can successfully do that, just that in this widely-studied geopolitical contest, it's the most likely move that they will attempt to achieve their publicly-stated goals. (And not some crazy all-out war on the US and its allies as GP was proposing.)

FWIW on the likelihood of this specific claim, my impression is that the Pentagon considers it likely that they will try to annex Taiwan at some point in the next decade, e.g. see yesterday's headlines from Blinken (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-17/blinken-s...).

I don't have any particular domain knowledge to judge how hard it would be for China to occupy Taiwan (or how much more military power China would need to tip the balance in its favor), but I'm interested in any hard analysis that you can share on the subject. The general reading I've seen has suggested that they would be able to do so in the next 10-20 years if current trends in military growth pan out.
I believe the main reason Python is slow is because the cpython project has rejected performance enhancements in favour of keeping the code simple. JavaScript has similar semantics to Python, and its performance is not far behind Java/C# at all.
She's got less to fear from this lab experiment (based on variants that are existing or nearly existing) than from the ongoing natural pandemic.
That's a very defeatist attitude. It's not about relocating schools. Public policy needs to change to reduce urban sprawl, stop producing homeless and criminals, and improve public transportation and livability to the point where walking to school is normal.
Japan is free to change their constitution at any time. AFAIK they are no longer bound by WWII-era treaties with the US. (Can anyone confirm/refute that? Google fails me.)
The notion that sars-cov-2 arose naturally is risible.

From https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21066966/defuse-propo...

> “We will conduct in vitro pseudovirus binding assays, using established techniques2, and live virus binding assays (at WIV to prevent delays and unnecessary dissemination of viral cultures) for isolated strains.” (D1, p.12)

> “We will validate results from chimeric viruses by re-characterizing full-length genome versions, testing whether backbone genome sequence alters full length SARSr-CoV spillover potential. QS for full-genome characterization will be selected to reflect strain differences in antigenicity, receptor usage, growth in human cells and pathogenesis.”(D1, p.13)

> “We will test growth in primary HAE cultures and in vivo in hACE2 transgenic mice. We anticipate recovering ~3-5 full length genome viruses/year.”(D1, p.13)

> “We will analyze all SARSr-CoV S gene sequences for appropriately conserved proteolytic cleavage sites in S2 and for the presence of potential Furin cleavage sites74,75.

SARSr-CoV S with mismatches in proteolytic cleavage sites can be activated by exogenous Trypsin or Cathepsin L.

Where clear mismatches occur, we will introduce appropriate human-specific cleavage sites and evaluate growth potential in Vero cells and HAE cultures.”

> “We will also review deep sequence data for low abundant high risk SARSr-CoV that encode functional proteolytic cleavage sites, and if so, introduce these changes into the appropriate high abundant, low risk parental strain.” (D1, p.13)
Internal state of sha256 is 512 bits, though the inputs the user can control are limited to about 300 bits. In any case, it's larger than the believed number of atoms in the observable universe.

The important point is that there is no progress, each attempt has an independent probability of success. Imagining it as an infinite haystack with a difficulty controlled density of needles still yields the right understanding.
So much this! Add in health issues to your list of "reasons why things can be different".

It's ignorant to think that your experience with kids is how it is for everyone. Kids can be hard - very hard.
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This is definitely the case - I used to work next to a bakery and a shopping market with a deli - great lunch options - but that option was rarely exercised because they were built in the classic American "island in the middle of a sea of parking spaces" style that meant the walk was incredibly unpleasant. Folks who lived with half a mile of the grocery store would drive over just to avoid spending five minutes walking (and dodging cars in) the parking lot.

Car oriented infrastructure makes cities less habitable.
Imo the closest analog to a corporation is a program. It objectively exists like puppies do, but only when it's executed by the hardware, which are the people. Otherwise it's just a stack of documents without any real power to affect the reality.

You can easily guess what the purpose of the program is.
I have found dogs are more of a pain in the ass than kids. Having a dog is like having a kid that is stuck in the early toddler years in terms of effort IMO. Also far less rewarding, as a dog won’t really change much over time once it gets to adulthood fairly quickly.

If you could have a dog for some significant length of time, a kid will be no problem by comparison.