skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem with "safe deposit boxes" is that they aren't safe.

You can only access the box when the Bank says you can. In other words, the Banks owns the box, you don't. And if the Bank declines to help you open the box it's just 'tough titties' for you. And if the Bank decides that they aren't going to give you access, or the Bank is told by some other entity not you give you access then you can whistle all you like.

It's that old saying once again: "If you can't hold it it in your hot little hand, or touch it then it isn't under your control. If it's not under your control, then it's not yours at all."
Seconded! If there were a feeling I could summon about the turn of the 70s and 80s as a child, it was the uncomfortable cringe of being forced to watch things like these Moog dancers and other bizarre "arts" content. Perhaps it was my upbringing, but if you asked me to describe the late 1970s in Toronto, it would be that adults of that era just seemed creepy and irresponsible.

1970s TV was a bunch of turtleneck and beret wearing, moustached, communist acid heads working for public broadcasters trying to subvert American dominance. The "film strips" I watched as a child in classrooms from Canada's National Film Board were dementedly surreal. The electronic band Boards of Canada were apparently directly inspired by them.

I have been tempted to pitch a netflix series set in a public broadcaster making decisions about film funding and distributing those things to elementary schools, and how absolutely insane these people must have been. Chainsmoking theorists and Quebecois nationalists with government expense accounts trying to create a post-national global society through conceptual art during the hangover from the Montreal Expo. Americans in the 1970s had rock music. Canada had something else. You have no idea how weird this place was. A kind of greater soviet Wisconsin run by small town French pseudointellectuals.

That whole era was just gross.
For what it's worth, it seems authors can disable that popup on their own substack. I did, and it doesn't seem to have reduced subscription sign-ups, but even if it does, not annoying people is always a good principle.

It defaults to 'on' though, and maybe not everyone has explored their settings. It took a while for me to find it.
It’s not that ridiculous, there are human tribes today that do not build structure and are still hunterer/gatherer like the australian aboriginal
The person who posted that isn't just some random nutter, though.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emily-rainey-fort-bragg-captain...
US did this in Iraq and Libya years ago.
https://truthout.org/articles/war-crime-nato-deliberately-de...

On the +GDP side of this, the war makers and reconstruction companies get to replace the broken windows.
I think there's actually a big difference between morality and truth, and what you're saying applies to truth and not morality. If you went around telling people about germ theory, you could say, I'm objectively right and you're objectively wrong, here's the proof. The truth is the truth; it's an invariant. It's arrived at through discovery and investigation. Morality is about people fighting to get what they want. The "right answer" is arrived at through conflict and seeing who wins. We live in a society where "slavery is bad" won.

When you say we should ban debate of slavery because it's settled, what you're in effect saying is that society has made a decision and you would like that decision to be final. So would I. But there's nothing final about it. It's not like God has spoken on the matter. Deciding to ban further appeal of the matter is just moral entrepreneurship, not some absolute right answer.
Perhaps there should be a hefty aviation fuel tax that works inversely: basically, the more you buy at once (per plane), the lower the tax is, by a very large amount.

So, if you're refueling an A380 super-jumbo or a 777, your fuel tax is very low, because those planes need a LOT of fuel. If you're refueling a 737, it'll be significantly higher, to penalize short routes. If you're refueling a small private jet, it'll be huge.

Basically, big jets that carry hundreds of passengers will get the lowest fuel tax this way, and airlines will be forced to prioritize moving people as efficiently as possible.
I meant the kernel itself.
@matthewdgreen theoretically profs chafe at the admin substate in academia ... So with the situation as stated in the article how should we weight the explanatory reasons:

* Profs lost institutional control imposed on them, and can't get it back

* Profs lost institutional control they initiated which grew bigger than them

* Profs are surrounded (by paperwork) and don't see a way out; they've become cynical as it's become a way of life

* Increased tuition to pay for increasingly expensive admin means the uni's customer is more themselves then it should be

At the macro scale the complaint here is analogous to the frustration American doctors have about patients (to much paperwork too little time with people) or Brexit. The question is why can't incentives be aligned; why aren't the purported customers (students, patients, voters resp) able to have more power? For this level of institutional failure if we see it as that, the profs, doctors, reps (resp) have got to be part of the problem sad to day.
This is Duke Energy we are talking about. No way are they going to allocate capital to tons of spares when they could be buying back shares.
That’s pretty neat!
When I worked at Google in 2007, it was a known fact among employees that 20% was not a real thing. It was 120% time even then. You could in theory work on your own thing, but you basically had to do it on your own time.

And I did actually do the 120% time thing for a few months because there was a specific project I really wanted to do, and it would have been nice fit for Google, but my attempts to stir up interest within the company and get any sort of resources were basically dead ends. One of the reasons I eventually left to join a startup.
GPT and its kin are just doing the same thing we had low wage people doing in the past, but with a slightly better quality output in some cases, and possibly lower cost per Megabyte/Text.

The way around this is curation, and an end to monodimensional rankings of postings. In the future, I see the ability to add a number of ratings to a given post and the person who sent it, to allow communities to curate content, instead of a simple OK/Ban approach.

You know how YouTube puts "fighting disinfo" type stuff under some videos? Imagine if instead of some star-chamber buried in the bowels of a corporation, you could choose your own ratings/content verification providers.
This is what happens if you "buy" Activision/Blizzard software - they're driving the service model to the max and will exploit it as much and as deeply as possible. They're the worst of the worst and anyone familiar with their games will tell you the same.

In the end, there's nothing you can do but to put your money into games that respect you as a customer, which is very rare in AAA. These companies hate you. No one will listen to you and nothing will change, as it's extremely profitable. No one will regulate it. In 3 weeks, a dev there will notice that some updater code can break game files which flags people's accounts or something like that, it'll be quietly patched and everybody will forget about it.
If you’re a dev team try Linear or Height
Joe Rogan popping up in the documentary seems to seems to set a lot of people off.
In 30 years of programming I've worked in plenty of systems where this sort of thing is nontrivial too. But its always the result of incompetent abstractions getting in the programmer's way.

Downvotes notwithstanding, I stand by my claim that this is always the result of incompetence. Either at the small level (laziness) or at a larger scale (incompetent system design).
This happened to me for a different reason, but it was the same level of frustrating.

After months of playing MW and Black Ops, one day I queue up with friends and after waiting 5+ minutes no server would be found. We try over and over finally we realize its me.

Googling around shows that I am "Shadow Banned" and everyone is like "go away cheater" online.

I've been playing online games with an in game name that contains the word "Erotica" for a while now (4+ years) and have had zero issues.

Turns out the word "Erotica" is BANNED by Activision, and they synced their identity management with Blizzard it got flagged.

I found ONE random thread on Reddit where a guy ran into the same problem and gave a link to directly log into their system.

Once logged in I got "Your username contains adult content and must be changed".

After changing it, and waiting 3 days, it 'synced' and my account was unbanned.

The whole thing was absolutely stupid, I had paid $60 and could not play any of their games.

It pretty much ruined the game for me, I haven't given them a dollar since.
In the original Italian Job they tossed a stolen bicycle over a fence into the substation to cause a power outage.

I find it hard to believe VHS tape wouldn't just vaporize instantly without disrupting anything. A steel bike frame however...
On the other hand, I just asked it:

If i were to use golang for an application that is running at very large scale, what are some issues that may come up.

And this is the "wrong in almost every possible way" answer that it gave me:

If you were to use Go (also known as Golang) for an application that is running at a very large scale, there are a few potential issues that you might encounter. One issue is that Go does not have a built-in garbage collector, which means that you will need to manage memory manually. This can be difficult, especially at large scale, and can lead to memory leaks or other performance issues. Another potential issue is that Go does not have built-in support for concurrent programming, so you will need to use goroutines and channels to achieve concurrency. This can be challenging to do effectively, especially at large scale. Finally, Go does not have a standard library for dealing with many common tasks, such as networking or data persistence, so you may need to use third-party libraries to handle these tasks.
A lot of that era of dancing involved men it's true, but largely as props for holding the women in provocative poses. You might argue that is some extension of classical ballet (or of the natural strength advantages that men have) but it makes no difference to the titillation factor of TV dance segments of the era.
I think the frustration comes from people who have already asked these questions and provided answers, which he is ignoring in favor of his own speculations.
> > 1. The function dev_write() is declared as returning ssize_t, but the return value at the end of the function is sizeof(int). ssize_t and size_t are different types, so this could cause a type mismatch.

> This is an interesting observation that you and I both missed.

Hah. Call me when you find an architecture where ints use over half the addressable memory.
I have actually been thinking if I should start a new Steam account or several. The blast radius of losing the current one for some reason would be devastating. Also wondering if it would be at all effective (not too hard to see the same credit card used between two accounts).
Yup. Same conclusion I accidentally reached today, randomly thinking about the adage that old people lean a certain way.

Perhaps it's not stupidity, perhaps it's just experience and less emotional volatility. They've experienced how easy it is to be an earnest believer and activist for an idea that later they learned to be misguided, or completely wrong. They've understood that real life is more sophisticated, that simplistic ideas, even pursued with best of intentions, will do more harm than good.

There may be some degree of exhaustion and no longer caring about things too, of course.
‘Worst-case scenario’: Local crypto exchange Swyftx lays off 40% of staff
I mean you have the Russians waging total war on Ukraine with much better than improvised weapons and they can only keep the power off sometimes. That sends a very clear signal to me.
Atlantis legends predate racism.
If you get a warrant to just take possession of a safe deposit box, and the warrant doesn't permit you to open and search it, on what grounds do you justify searching it for a gun?
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Thank you for wu and this too,
Please enlighten me on why nowa is written in C, would you?
It’s a separate org with a big culture difference.
A linguistic extension of godels second incompleteness theorem? Interesting.
> protesters

It crossed the line into soft terrorism for anyone living in the city. Breaking the law has consequences, even in democracies. I don’t remember any praise from right wingers when a Baltimore Mayor gave some protesters “space to destroy”. Civil disobedience has a place, but the law must also be enforced. If you believe in your cause strongly enough, going to jail is part of the point.
I don't have a Cronus. Frankly, I don't really need one or care to have one.

Even with a Cronus, you still need to be able to aim and place your shots. It certainly helps you land more shots, but basic tactics easily overcome a Cronus.
Maybe intelligent people aren't treated in a way that triggers a terroristic response against society?

Or intelligent people have a level of self-preservation that doesn't allow for the execution of ideas. The ideas of what and how to cause mass disorder are fairly easy if you have enough knowledge, the desire to execute is whats usually missing.
A $10k Poker Win Changed How I Think (2021)
Nibbler 4 Bit CPU (2013)
Based on actual events (ie. fiction):

The report, which cost taxpayers $x million, recommended the purchase of spare parts costing $y thousand, which would reduce the downtime of power transmission, due to the failure of these parts, to hours rather than days or possibly weeks.

Actions based on this report are due to be debated following the election, due to be held in 8 months' time.
Yes, but across sufficiently high voltage lines the initial arc would create a plasma channel which would act like a thick wire for the short to continue
To clarify, Biden was not in gov't at the time of the emails being sent to Twitter.
I think it's more that he doesn't have any actual archaeological evidence of note to support the theory of relatively advanced ice-age civilizations, and the claim that 'they all lived by the ocean so the evidence is all buried under 100 meters of water and sediment' isn't what any scientific professional would call a solid argument.

I suppose if he can get some billionaire to fund a series of global underwater archaeology expeditions, that's fine, and might even have some interesting results, but otherwise it all feels like another expedition in search of the resting place of the Biblical Ark.
What is an example of a better approach? Methods that throw exceptions?
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Related:

A $10k poker win changed how I think - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28436541 - Sept 2021 (116 comments)
What were they built with then?
Back when I had cable, all I needed to do to see weird shit was turn on the local public access channel.
> You must specify and affirm in connection to what

The FBI did that: they said they suspect UPV of engaging in, and facilitating, criminal activity, so they wanted to seize the boxes in UPV's possession. But that, in itself, did not justify opening every single box; it only justified seizing the boxes and holding them.
I just learned that this was possible yesterday... now I learn that it already exists today. (Because I use my real name)

Extrapolating forward, I expect The Singularity[1] should happen in the next 5 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
> I set up and supported 200 X1 Carbons over the past few years.

...but the Gen 10 X1 with out-of-the-box Fedora, the topic of this post, was released just a few months ago.

> It's noticeably slower than any Apple Silicon machine

Given how fast it feels, this claim sounded unlikely, so I just ran Geekbench 5, yielding 1769 (single) and 8385 (multi-core):

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/19092431

The 2022 MacBook Air gets 1932 and 8919, respectively, so the X1 matches 92% of its single-core performance and 94% of its multi-core performance. You and I may have different definitions of "noticeably slower" and "terribly inadequate."

> Fan runs, loudly, if you even breathe on the machine

Ironically, the first time I've heard the fans is running geekbench just now, and even then they were quiet.

Given all this, I think it's unlikely we're talking about the same machine.
I'm guessing that someone in that position has the choice of maintaining their money-making proposition with little further investment. Or investing a lot in something that might confirm what he already earns from, or uncover nothing useful for his journalism.
Pedestrian risk is an obvious hypothesis of the risk compensation theory, because seat belts can only functionally protect people who are seated and belted in a vehicle. If the driver does compensate for their own risk, the reasonable hypothesis is any compensation would be at the detriment to others.

This hypothesis was tested by researchers at respected institutions: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4791083_Risk_Compen...

It may be wrong, but it isn't some crazy unreasoned hypothesis posed by "extreme" people with "difficult to believe" arguments.
> what should happen is not what is going to happen

Quite possibly not, but I would at least like to see it go up the chain.
But that's not news. It's known in academia, you are just not in academia, not at any level where it would matter.

> Speculating on what was happening doesn't seem like something beyond the pale of reasonable discourse.

No, yes it is entirely unreasonable in a world wide publicity stunt if all you have is a napkin calculation and no hard evidence of your own.
This was not a government request. No one who asked Twitter to remove these tweets on behalf of Biden was in government. Biden was not in government at the time.
Let employees to start new projects and shut it down later if it does not seem to be profitable. This strategy just make sense. But I just want google to make the works open sourced when abandoned. I hope google opensource Duplex for web...
While back I was listening to a Jocko Podcast episode wherein the host was discussing his watching the meltdown in Iraq.

Internally, the military had some reporting on “Significant Activities,” major protests and bombings and infrastructure attacks and such.

I’ve always wondered is there anything open-source of that nature - tracking “activities” like these?
Reading "military-grade encryption" should trigger everyone's BS detector every time.
Maybe a smart pen?

https://smartpencentral.com/smartpen/
This is a very promising avenue for exploration. Fine tuning on a huge collection of abc files would make it much better.
This is fascinating :)

> North and South Dakota define section lines as a public right of way, which seems to allow corner crossing or at least access to landlocked public lands.

Here in Illinois, my rear property line is a section line, and a neighbor down the street has the intersection of that section line with another; interestingly it is not on his property line (this is land that was sold by the federal government in 40 acre square quarters of a quarter, but farmers had subdivided and consolidated things over the years). But anyway, in his yard is a stone survey marker showing the intersection point, and it has "ROW" engraved on it. It lends credence to this concept being common historically.
2nd order Turing test: two AIs try to convince a human that the other AI is a robot.
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Monitoring input is how modern anti-cheats work. They all still implement the spyware approach, but that’s really the lowest hanging fruit.
Allow me. The tweets violated Twitter's hacked items policy and they removed them. The internal staff had a debate as to whether it fell under the policy and they came to the agreement that it did. They later agreed to update the policy and not remove tweets that referenced it. I don't understand what is so problematic here.
At least they’ll get clean water when they visit Hawai’i. Oh wait https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hawaii-water-navy-investigati...
Who cares if Nassim is wrong about IQ? He isn't an expert in the subject and no one really cares. I follow his writings, but just ignore the IQ stuff because it is clearly not his area of competence.

Also why are you suggesting that Jordan Peterson is a good debating opponent? That guy is an unstable blowhard who throws rhetorical bombs constantly to get reactions from people, and then calls you a sissy if you react. It is a shtick if you haven't figured it out.
Mixed-member proportionate representation requires a constitutional overhaul though, which is why it's a very, very hard-sell without a prerequisite revolution, war, and/or guillotining of the malign parts of the aristocracy...
I wonder how effective it would be at finding exploitable security holes in code.
You usually start with an observation, Hancock starts with the conclusion and works backwards.
I'll not address resolving coastline since that's an already known problem and currently has no solution.

For shallow sea discovery, radar is good enough to get a detailed map of terrain and medium to large scale objects. There is also a heuristic that can be applied in finding whether something is man made or occurs organically. Software applying this heuristic was used to debunk suggested "alien" structures on Mars. This same approach can be used to scan and find potential settlements underwater for excavation. At the very least some follow up core drilling.

The only sales pitch needed is one that gets the money to buy some equipment, pay a few people to sit a long time in a boat trolling, and maybe longer at a desk organizing and publishing the data. None of this is magical, requires magical thinking, or magical amounts of money. The issue is convincing enough people its worth at least trying to find new or more evidence.
Earnest question: Is your opinion that writing books and selling them is a bad form of advocacy? Is there a better one that doesn't require independent wealth?

I'm pretty familiar with Doctorow's body of work, and he writes freely for magazines, comes on podcasts, speaks at Defcon, and generally lives in service of the ideas that are articulated in his books. Part of advocacy requires messaging the same ideas over and over in different ways, since each person will be converted by a slightly different equation of messaging and delivery. I'm not sure I can agree with the nihilistic cynicism that rejects all text that has profit potential.
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You are probably right. I've just tried same query ("los a") in Concur app and it was sorted alphabetically for me. Still included Spain and Chile locations though.
Please elaborate on the semantics you're referring to. The comment above seems to make a point about the context in which the tweets were removed. They do seem to allay those concerns you mention.
I've had similar situations when asking it to write code. It comes up with really good solutions, importing the correct open source projects, but some of the modules/classes don't exist--or at least, I can't find them anywhere.
And yet the weed industry does where it is legal in states.
The problem with doing this in an adversarial online setting is that it's often used as a trick to make someone admit to some position that's 'close' to the original, and then spin that as agreeing to the original position.

Especially on twitter where post length forces shortcuts which are very easy to maliciously leverage.

In some cases if the assumption is what's being argued itself doing this is an attempt at manipulation, not genuine discussion.