skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascism is not just "expanding the size of the state". That's just incredibly naive, bordering on denialism. Substitute "the State" with "il Duce" or "der Fuhrer" in the statement you quoted. That's the true meaning behind the statement -- it's propaganda. You really don't need to take the words of notorious propagandists and liars at face value, especially on a subject that's been studied for almost 100 years now.

Mussolini and Hitler did not care about empowering "the State" for its own sake. The State was simply a vehicle to exercise a particular racial and/or political ideology and to gain personal power. If they could've excised state apparatuses and achieved power in some other way, they would've. Indeed, that's exactly what both dictators (though more so Hitler) did once they found the appropriate political leverage to do so. Everything is subordinate not to the State, but to the Fuhrer. The State itself was subordinate to the Fuhrer. You only need look at Hitler's public actions leading up to the war, not to mention the private memoranda, letters, and other documents, to see that. How many times did Hitler risk the complete destruction or occupation of Germany by the Versailles powers? How many times did he exclaim that if he failed, Germany would fail, and would deserve it? Hitler did not care about the State, he cared about his own personal power and legacy and maintaining the facade at all costs.
While there is a boundless, growing amount of prior work, from (an interested) outsiders point of view there also seems to be progress on discoverability and formalisations around how this is expressed. Building on the abstractions of others seems like it would provide an environment for _more_ novel work.

The abstractions need to be understood, but potentially only to a level of n-1. Isn't this one of the core principles of proofs?
There is no reliable evidence that coronaviruses can remain dormant in the body of a recovered patient. They don't work like herpesviruses.
Moreover, I think (and have done a quick check to try to confirm, although I haven't checked thorougly) that KataGo has won the example game even in the rule set it was trained with, which was Chinese rules. See https://senseis.xmp.net/?ChineseRules, which says "Life and death settled by: Game resumption for online play. Adjudicated by tournament moderator for over the board play." - *either* game resumption or any tournament moderator would count the lone black stones as captured, without loss of points for white.
There is `slab` (each instance can only store a single type), and `bumpalo` (which allows a mix a types in the same memory chunk).

There is also `slotmap` which isn't really an arena, but can be used for some of the same use cases.
I knew about that feature of viruses, but hadn't consider it in this context. Not that even regular COVID tests are worth a shit. Better now than 2020, but still... About as useful as tests for gonorrhea/chlamydia. If you think you need the test, then the test is a formality. Dose for the potential risk... not that we have a treatment/dose in this situation.

Thinking about this now though gives me some ideas that could even be testable that could help. Thank you for sharing this.
I don't use YouTube TV because I don't like supporting Fox News. Additionally, I only watch F1 so there's no reason for $10 of my YouTube TV subscription going to ESPN when I can just pay F1TV.com.

Also the interface is complete garbage.
Don’t Panic About Putin
>> a rush to genetic engineering is something that might behave like cancer itself over time.

Can you elaborate on this? To me, it seems perfectly reasonable that a directed and intentional process of man-made engineering could blow the random process of evolution out of the water, both in timescale and in effectiveness. For example, there's not really an evolutionary advantage to eliminating geriatric cancer: kids have been made, genes have been passed, in all likelihood multiple generations down by the time old-age related illnesses develop. Yet, we want to live longer, and live better lives during that time, so we can take the reigns and address what evolution couldn't.
> Not common unless authors used Ubuntu desktop, which pushed sudo usage to the extremes.

Ubuntu, and Fedora and RHEL et al., and SUSE. Most of the big players prefer sudo.
>I think these days with neural nets being better understood perhaps we dont fall into this thought trap so much.

From what I've read, the designers of AI/ML systems are less and less able to definitively explain how the algorithm works, or how the system is going to respond to a given input. I suppose for 'sentient' AI thats the goal, but I think it is a bit scary if we get a result from a system, and nobody can tell you why or how it was computed.
I'm to the point of getting a separate hardware firewall and putting that between my computer and home network. But when you do that, you won't be able to tie activity back to an application... maybe the new nextgen firewalls can if you install some sort of agent on the computer? Idk....
It would just be a tighter distribution of income.
1500s is probably too late of an end date. The little ice age would have put a stop to that sooner. See also: the Norse colonization of Iceland and temporarily Greenland.
There's a big difference between "oh you're an academic? Sure you can come pick through my basement archive of video" and "hey everyone, check out my youtube channel"

That's before you even get into issues of Youtube's aggressive compression
This. Advertising is a fair idea in principle. When you make a new company that truly revolutionizes a product or service, people won't magically find out about it overnight. Word of mouth takes time. As a customer, I don't want to wait years for a good product to get memed before I find out about it. I want to know right away! But the ads are never for revolutionary products that just came out, that I would love to buy. They're always for crap I would never pay for in a million years.

I know there's all the studies about mere exposure effect and what not. Yaawn. It seems like the dominant paradigm by far is that no matter how shitty your product, no matter how much you hate your customers (and vice versa), you can just nag them into buying it with enough saturation marketing. I don't get how people just accept this uncritically as a law of nature.

Why can't the ads be for quality stuff that people actually care about? Everyone's so obsessed with tracking every aspect of my life, so how come they just show the same slot app ad to every single person regardless, even if I've never shown interest in anything similar in a million years?

I remember back in the 90s-ternet, I would get lots of relevant ads for products, sites relevant to me. I loved looking at and clicking at ads, since they made me discover companies that I enjoyed for years after. I don't think they did any of this modern analytics stuff, they probably just had some guy with a good intuitive understanding of a site's userbase and what they care about go on his gut feeling. Maybe we should go back.
Have to agree there. But the purpose is HTML, PDF is a historical artifact (or list your reason why that should make sense and not this...), blah blah. People can come up with some very interesting ideas about why something unnatural is great (WASM and the nutty ideas some have about that) and why something like supporting an extremely popular static doc format is "out there".
He's a Them instead of an Us, and is therefore evil and motivated by ill intent.
Well, we could argue about the filter bubble and algorithmic amplification, which can be (and often are) terrible things -- however, as it stands right at this moment, as far as the individual is concerned, you can still, mostly, choose what you see -- the algorithm will just show you more of whatever you clicked, rather than trying to steer you to something.

The Algorithm is still arguably a terrible detriment to society at large, but I think one can still find use in twitter and see very little of what one doesn't want to see. That may cease to be true sometime, perhaps even soon, but it works at the moment if you are judicious with who you follow.
2% inflation and 10% inflation are both exponential. It’s a matter of degree, not of kind.
It feels a bit Sisyphusian at this point. I think I've probably worn out my flagging privileges (they get taken away if you flag too many stories).

The sequence seems to be:

1. Musk posts something on Twitter. (This gets posted to HN.)

2. Ten different news outlets publish stories about his tweet. (These all get posted to HN.)

3. Hundreds of "notable people" publicly react on Twitter/blogs/newsletters/etc. to the news stories about his tweet. (Some of these get posted to HN.) Some of these contain speculation that's essentially fanfic for/against their made-up image of Musk, whom they've never met and with whom they've never conversed.

4. News outlets start publishing stories about the tweet reactions, elevating gossip to "news" in the process.

5. We get a whole new news cycle about how the gossip—shocker!—turned out to be false.

Then for each of these stories, the HN comment section invariably devolves into name-calling and the same, tired, boring ideological battles about whether or not all billionaires are bad.

Maybe some sort of delay instead of moratorium? Or a ban on news stories about tweets (keeping the option of posting the tweet itself)? Or a stricter banhammer for commentators in these threads who can't behave? Flagging/downvoting no longer seems to be working.
It's very well documented: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/magazine/russiagate-paul-...
Yeah, we do that now, and it's a great example of something we wouldn't have had to think or plan for but need to make an effort now.
I find having to switch between different roles is also quite energizing. There's a variety to my days that just plain feels good compared to staring at code for 8 hours a day.
Altitude, atmospheric effects, and relative angular velocity are all factors in photography. Imaging from orbital platforms is also cheaper than airborne reconnaissance (per square meter, although the up-front capital investment is greater), covers a wider variety of purposes, and you don't have to worry about airspace violations; however, it may provide poorer definition, especially the more affordable commercial satellite imagery, and cannot compensate for cloud cover. So the distinction is significant on technical, operational, financial, and political levels.
I mean, you could look at the examples in the article and see that, yes, they resume from a yield point. But here's a simple illustrative example:

function* bar() {
yield 3;
console.log("Resumed after the 3")
yield 4;
console.log("Resumed after the 4")
}
function* foo() {
yield 1;
console.log("Resumed after the 1")
yield 2;
console.log("Resumed after the 2")
yield* bar();
}

for(let n of foo()) {
console.log(n);
}

Output:

1
Resumed after the 1
2
Resumed after the 2
3
Resumed after the 3
4
Resumed after the 4
It’s a subtype of ADD. I have it too. Sluggish cognitive tempo.

I don’t suppose you’re also a very visual person, who prefers to solve math problems geometrically rather than algebraically, etc. There may be a link between that buffering and the ability to turn abstract shapes in one’s mind.
Also, no one is mentioning that this "comedian" impersonated Musk on her main account because it was verified, and without warning that it was a new parody account, urged people to vote democrat a day before the elections. She could have done the same before the acquisition, and likely be banned anyway.

I think she only wanted publicity. The timing and action is questionable, but now everyone knows her name.
I don't know what it's associated with, but I see it randomly on all communities. It doesn't seem to be specifically a alt right thing
It's more like running Windows 11 on an ancient PC. If it ran Windows 3.1 when it came out, it's probably still pretty snappy if you run Windows 3.1 on it today.

The cheap phones we have now could totally blow away higher end phones from the past...

But security updates, and lack of support on old phones essentially means you can't do that. Because they're gonna bundle in a ton of bullshit with the security updates.
Startup is more of a term to describe companies that (may)receive Vc funding with the primary intent of getting bigger.
BitLocker does this much better. With TPM+PIN mode, the TPM will only decrypt the volume master key if all the right hashes are in the platform configuration registers for the BIOS, option ROMs, MBR, filesystem headers and bootloader, and the user-specified PIN is correct. Or if you enter the 128-bit recovery key.

The BSDs and Linux have a lot of catching up to do.
You’ve only emphasized one side of the interval, which suggests some bias. Eg you haven’t written out that the other side implies you might have a smaller chance of these issues once you get covid. That said, it probably is reasonable to have as a prior that it’s unlikely that covid would lower your risk of these issues.
Sure capacity is higher but the comparison is like 2-3x not an order of magnitude.
Very true, but we know almost nothing about what it's doing in the body in the short or long term other than some very dramatic lethal pathologies. If you aren't experiencing something like this in your life than it's easy to wait to know what evidence is there, but if you are... Well, just because scientists that I don't know haven't published a paper doesn't mean that exploration of an idea or possibility can't have a positive effect on my outcome. Sometimes that effect might be because I've looked at that possibility so much over time that it just isn't relevant to me, even though later it might come out that the effect or subsequent compounding effect were relevant. Anyway, while what you said could be true, it presents as an absolute that is only relevant to people who aren't studying this or are afflicted with it.
Yes, that’s what Xi says in my link as well, but most westerners do not consider single party democracy to be legitimate.
Nothing is recorded.

Users store a data structure in the list associated with their membership.

This data structure contains, among other things, a pointer to the content file or files as well as parameters on which episodes you watched, how long, etc.

The content is gone.

The data structure and the pointer become meaningless.

Google and others use the term "record" because the above explanation is incomprehensible to most users.
You seem to have completely missed the main point. Your ideological bias is showing here: "He's saying virtue signaling is bad. I can stop reading now."

> Instead, I’d like to argue that the market, at least important parts of it, may have become notably less efficient due to changes to the information landscape.

That's the point. The narrower the window of acceptable discourse, the more opportunity there is in looking outside it.

> For investors who dare to think differently, who dare to dig where few other dare to dig, there will likely be more alpha to be had, perhaps more than ever. And this will be particularly so where Overton’s window deviate the most from actual reality.
I get it, it’s fun to make jabs at posts on HN. You don’t need to lean so hard into the trope.

I may have assumed that your backups were encrypted, just because so many backup tools do it automatically. And I didn’t put that in the post. Predictably, I get some kind of jerk replying to the comment with a sarcastic jab, rather than any kind of interesting discussion.

Accidental data loss is the big risk, and for most people, it’s a bigger risk than any risk of someone reading your unencrypted data. It makes sense to start with the most serious risks (data loss), and work your way down to the minor risks (compromise).

It makes not sense to start by encrypting your data, because it significantly increases your risk of data loss, in the absence of good backups. That’s what the article is talking about.
I think this post buried the lead a little bit.

"All other social media companies give us more than is"

An app logging signal strength can pin point your location, which is then commonly sold to companies such as telcos as alleged in this story.

Owning a phone without GPS turned on, any app can track and sell your every movement without violation of any T&C or local laws.

That is beyond distressing.
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Reminds me of this old classic: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
If you think information preservation is important enough to warrant repetition wouldn't it be more efficient to repeat the few highly significant characters several times rather than hope that the deterioration of characters happens to allow significance to still be gleaned? If the sentiment takes 1/6th of the characters to express you could just replicate it six times which would probably have a better chance of surviving wear than a single sentiment written once.

Also - we, living humans, are very good at context based inference due to our high familiarity with the language - but someone who didn't know that "President" was a political position or had never heard of Joe Biden or the US would probably struggle to piece together even what that sentence was trying to convey. "They reside at of the Unit Potates. S'Cuppa Joe By Den"
Interesting. This is a question I've been curious about before. How does it work for chains? Does each location need to be scouted out individually, or can you determine multiple locations at once?
Yes, I guess (never heard about toki pona before) you would have to rethink how to communicate. Maybe shallow could be presented as "lukin ala" (nothing to examine), "taso sele" (only a surface) or "kote muli" (hearing something dead)

I am more surprised that you would spend one of your 137 words on "sex, to have
sexual relations" as almost every language has countless ways of referring to sex without using the word itself
I'm pretty happy with the Chromebook thing even though I'll probably never buy one, as apparently passing Google's test suite for Chromebook certification led to several firmware fixes that will help power consumption during sleep for the non-Chromebook models, which is my biggest annoyance with mine.
With encryption, you always have to balance the risk of having others access to your data to that of you also potentially losing access to your data forever. In other words, is it more important that no one, not even myself, can gain access, or is it more important that I can always have access, even if that means everyone else could? I suspect for much of the data people have, they'll categorise it as the latter instead of the former.

If you're looking for something in between, then deliberately weaker encryption might be what you want, although almost no one seems to mention that much.
How is this on Amazon? And a suggested item no less?

Same with:
https://smile.amazon.com/Portable-Mobile-External-Storage-La...

Why are no-name fraudulent items coming up before anything legitimate?
Ah, but what if I send different vouch messages to different users?

There is actually a way to do it, if you assume PKI (which signal provides) and that all messages will be delivered in some bounded time. It’s called the dolev-strong protocol and it guarantees that all honest members of the group will agree with each other. Unfortunately, it requires one round per group member and delivering all messages within a bounded time isn’t easy.
I thought you were another guy and was about to ask you if the test you had was a Videonystagmography.

Thank you for sharing more (probably this was your first post and I missed it) about your story and diagnosis. Seriously. Very helpful.
I legitimately didn't, and still don't, see how this solves the problem of less technical users losing their encryption keys.
Unfortunately you don't seem to have understood much of what I wrote.

The most crucial thing to understand is that C++ 0x Concepts were a significantly more powerful feature than the C++ 20 Concepts you got. Even though I emphasised this, you seem to have muddled them together to produce what you're calling "C++ x0 concepts" in several places, which is not actually a thing.

> That's not possible AFAICT with Rust's traits.

It is of course possible to write a Rust trait for something as useless as "any numeric type regardless of what kind", that's what the Num crate's Num trait is. Because Rust's traits have semantics, useless traits reveal themselves - you can't do much with something whose only decisive property is that it's numeric in some way.

Num also defines some traits for numeric properties that are way more useful, like the additive and multiplicative identities (Zero and One). A type can be numeric without having zero (NonZeroU32 is a trivial Rust example from the standard library) so expressing that you mean specifically a type with additive identity is useful in a way that merely "numeric" largely is not.

The "HasPower" example is revealing though, lots of people's toy Concepts are like this. They just dictate a morsel of syntax. C++ 20 Concepts are indeed suitable for this, but so is nothing whatsoever, because of C++ template "magic".

Why C++ 20 Concepts at all then? Your C++ compiler's diagnostics with nothing whatsoever are terrible because Substitution Failure Is Not An Error. Bjarne's simple "Concepts" can hide this somewhat - the diagnostics you get for a Concept failure are more digestible.

> That's true for C++ concepts, but not entirely true for Rust traits.

No, it would be true for C++ 0x Concepts but those never existed beyond a draft document. It does work for Rust traits as you say but you can't do it for C++ 20 Concepts.

> That doesn't appear to match with C++ resources like: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/constraints

Once again you're confused, that document is about C++ 20 Concepts, which exist, but I was describing C++ 0x Concepts, which are much closer to the capabilities of Rust's Traits and were never implemented.

> Everything in Rust traits requires them to be encoded into existing traits.

What you've written is a tautology. So I can only guess what insight you thought you had here.

Maybe you're imagining it's not possible to do obvious stuff like say that a type T must implement both trait A and trait B (a conjunction, signified in C++ Concepts with &&)? I assure you things do that all the time in Rust. foo<T: A + B + C, S: C + D>(p1: T, p2: S) is a function which takes two parameters p1 and p2, the type of p1 must implement traits A, B and C, while the type of p2 must implement traits C and D. For such complicated trait bounds idiomatic Rust would use the where keyword, but it's not mandatory, just easier to read.

In Rust you can't write the disjunctive bounds C++ 20 Concepts can express as || because it's not yet clear (and might never become clear) how to do so in a sound way. C++ doesn't care, none of the rest of the language is sound anyway, so it's too late to worry.
You are right that a transition to the cloud is not going to help. Bad software will still be bad in the cloud, good software can be just as good (and often better on several axes) when not in the cloud. Though from reading some of the complaints in the thread you link here, Amazon does have very good OCR software (called Textract), so that could help.

But on this point:

> And while search technology has improved, it hasn't become orders of magnitude better.

In general it has, it is just that the USPTO's software hasn't. I imagine a team of the right 2-5 people could make something better than you would wish for in your wildest dreams. But how to actually make that happen is another kettle of fish. Anyone capable of fixing this would most likely be better remunerated doing something else, but nerds are easy to snipe and even just reading your gripes here and in the subreddit has made me want to solve this problem if for no other reason than the humanitarian one.
C is the wrong tool for defining ABIs.
Or hydrology