skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are thought experiments. So other sensible viewpoints are only a contribution. I am myself also trying to work out where AI leaves us. Not just in this case, but because we will be hit by AI in the computer science field - hardware, software, everywhere - and potentially many places in general society.

I do not immediately see why strong market actors would not be able to close an attacker down in this way. I buy the argument that tech can be 'out of the bottle'. But this does not necessarily mean that it is feasible to use for market competition. It is often more likely that the tech is absorbed by existing strong market players. But as happens right now, you can influence markets, professions and peoples behaviour by making free (no pay) market tests on a large enough scale. Which is interesting in itself.

I did business studies at university and we had a lot of work on market forces. And the text books were full of examples of market situations where competitors attacked and was succesfully fended off using legal action - both warranted and unwarranted. And by other means. And wipe out by buy out is completely normal. I do not have much data on this, but I would think that a lot of acquihires, are actually done as market defence. With the basic intention to close down competitive tech. Maybe the acquired tech, knowledge and brains is used sometimes, and then probably incorporated into existing tech, but I think this is not always the main purpose of the acquihire. It is probably counter intuitive to think like this for tech people (I am one myself). But business people think in market dynamics (and money) first. The tech can often be a surprisingly long way down in the list of priorities - where we think it should be much higher up.

I have myself worked in companies that did a merger, where the merging entity was spun off by a parent company - in all cases a tech department that was no longer wanted by the parent company - and in the aftermath of the merger, the business entity was in reality obliterated by the new company, much more than it was merged or absorbed. Made a lot of people in the merged entity unhappy and rightfully so.
Wouldn't something like the following shell one-liner rename get you quite close?

export javas=$(find . -regex '.*\.java$'); for old in $(grep -hrPo 'class (?!Kt)\K[A-Z]\w+'); do echo $old; sed -i "s/\<$old\>/Kt$old/g" $javas; rename "s/^$old\$/Kt$old/" $javas; done

Untested, unoptimized, needs gnu grep and perl's rename utility (variously packaged as prename or rename-files, as opposed to the crappy linux-utils rename).
Once upon a time I could drink a full pot of coffee every morning and feel fine. Now a single caffeinated (sugar-free) soda makes me feel terrible: racing heart, anxiety, shakiness. I've tried exposing myself to more caffeine to get used to it again. No dice. Bodies are weird.
Your right, but...

- I never mentioned H2 carriers carry 1/2 the energy of LNG. I used the 8.5 MJ/m3 LHV density of H2, which is 38% of the one for LNG, of 22.2 MJ/m3 [1].

- the 35% to 45% liquefaction energy cost. [2] is a paper written by the Department of Energy stating that the range in the industry (as of now) is 10-20 kWh/kg, which is 30% to 60%. Which means 30% is possible. If we massively scale up this industry, lower values are conceivable

- 1% losses to leaks per day. This number is pulled out of a hat (you didn't mention it, but the tweet you linked to did). The leaks of H2 are not very well studied, so 1% is just a conjecture, and probably a very pessimistic one. [2] is a review of the literature done in July 2022. It finds estimates for lifetime leaks of between 0.2% and 3%. Not daily leaks.

- existing H2 carriers have issues. Of course. The economy is geared towards LNG carriers at this point. 20 years ago LNG carriers were a curiosity, and now they are an essential part of the world's energy infrastructure. LH2 carriers are not needed at this point, since the H2 production is just a drop in the bucket compared to natural gas.

- the H2 infrastructure. We don't need to replace all the natural gas infrastructure with H2 infrastructure. As you may have noticed, there's been some noise recently about retiring natural gas stoves for homes. The move is towards replacing a lot of natural gas infrastructure with power cables. H2 will just be needed at the receiving terminals, where it's going to be stored locally, and converted to electricity based on demand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#List_of_materia...

[2] https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/commentary/hy...
More like "You're only getting paid to do this because the solid rocket motor company is politically connected. Either use them, or the program goes away and you get fired."

Nevermind that solid rocket motors is and always have been a terrible idea for crewed launch systems, and were probably the worst mistake made on Shuttle.
> But do you really think, that the socialist states improved anything?

Socialism is a big tent term.

One one end you have "social democracy" where a market economy exists with some state ownership and taxation is used to ensure a good standard of living for all. This is also referred to a social capitalism or a social market economy. This is the kind of socialism you find in the Nordics and to a lesser extent Canada. Your Bernie Sanders socialism if you will.

On the other end you have "authoritarian state socialism" - the kind of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism you may be thinking of.

Then there's communism in which, in it's final form, there is no state at all.

These are all socialism but each has had very different outcomes.

So to answer your question with a question, to which kind of socialism are you referring? I'd say the former has worked out very well. The middle, not so much. The latter may not even be possible?
Probably could use a (2012) label.
I don’t redeem HH points for any less than .7 cpp. You get a free night when you pay all of your nights with points.

But as far as collecting points. Each time I stay at a Hilton, per dollar, I get:

- 10 base points

- 10 points for being Diamond (automatic with the Amex Hilton Aspire)

- 14 points on the Aspire card.

That’s 34 points minimum or around 24%.

But Hilton ran a 3x special the third quarter of last year followed by two 2x specials for 54x and 44x. At 54x that’s almost 38% back.

I don’t use more than 70K points per night or 280K points for 5 nights (fifth night free).

Our “housing budget” is $3500/month. We spend that on our own place during the winter and hotels the rest of the year and the income pays for our mortgage at our “winter home”. I’m also traveling for reimbursed work trips. That means at times, I’m collecting points for two hotels at once if my wife doesn’t come with me.
What does "touchless" mean? Who cleans the place up each day? Who maintains the building? (cleaning the toilets, fixing broken doors and windows, and other general maintenance) Who decides which iof the 95 people who want a booth get one of the 20 available spaces? Who polices that the items sold are safe? etc.. etc..
> [...] chargebacks and disputed that make it easier to enforce things like warranties.

> Plus there are social benefits like reduced crime and saved time and energy visiting banks etc.

All of these benefits are also applicable to debit cards.
This is exactly the situation.

The censorship part of the story is a Trojan Horse for a terribly one-sided deal, in favor of the publisher, for every school district in Florida.
About Security Keys for Apple ID
This is because Rails does not have a strict backwards compatibility policy like many other frameworks. It's done on purpose to stay relevant, aka "Progress over stability".

https://rubyonrails.org/doctrine#progress-over-stability
FYI, this is from 2012, although I would be interested in a similar analysis done today. At a guess, name-brand third-party chargers (Anker, Belkin, etc) are probably more than "good enough" at this point, but it would be neat to see that quantified.
Personally, I think because its feature-set is currently very much "scattered".

Nix is in the transition to use 'flakes': a new concept that gives a bit more structure and allows easier reuse of Nix packages, NixOS modules and more. In addition it includes a standardized 'lock' file. Lock files are quite useful (or even essential) for reproducibility.

However, it is in experimental phase for more than 4 years now. It is behind a configuration flag, so it isn't obvious how to use it. A division in community, projects and documentation happens this way.

Because it is still considered an experimental feature, flakes and its surrounding CLI tools aren't mentioned in the official docs.

Even though it is experimental, flakes is considered an essential part of Nix by a large portion of the community.

This makes those people look for and create their own solutions:

This results in multiple documentation sites:

- Official manual (https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/)
- https://nix.dev/
- https://nixos.wiki/
- Blog posts
- Now https://zero-to-nix.com/

Multiple wrapping tools for development environments:

- `nix-shell` (non-flake style)
- `nix develop` (flake style)
- https://devenv.sh/
- https://www.jetpack.io/devbox/
- https://floxdev.com/

It makes sense that these are created. I'm still hoping Nix flakes will become the default and UX can be iterated upon. But it doesn't make the future of Nix all bright and beautiful atm.
Yes, I’m sure there are lots of people like me who are willing to throw away everything they own that won’t fit in three suitcases and travel around the US for half the year.
Work less, live more: is it time to end the five-day week?
IIRC you can encrypt direct messages on Telegram, so there is some security there.

I'd still rather use Signal though.
Think of it this way. Every move is from 1 position on a 64 location board to another (therefore most moves could be stored in about 12 total bits). There might be a couple more bits to represent enpassant and promotion, and my simple representation could easily be compressed, but for a regular game (generally less than 100 moves), you can store it < 1kb. (You still need the names of the participants, and maybe some other metadata, but my point is that the game compresses easily without too much thinking at all.)

The game gets even more compact in that not all source and destination squares are possible at every move, etc. But, you're dead on in your estimate.
Using debit cards means that you need to keep a sufficient balance on a zero interest checking account in order to make transactions.

Using credit cards allows you to keep close to a zero checking account balance and manage your own cash flow, since credit card bill dates are deterministic.

Why would anybody want to keep _any_ amount of money in a non-interest bearing checking account right now especially when the risk free rate of interest (US treasury bills / equivalent money market funds invested in US treasuries) yields 4.00%+ APY now?
> but they could easily provide a command that works with the standard Git CLI.

And that's what they used to do there.
It sounds like the equivalent of placing a bunch of napkins under the foot of your restaurant table to keep it from wobbling except the napkins were inside the table rather than on the floor. Pretty amazing hack. :)
On his blog as well as his speaking engagements, Stross does mention that he tried to make politics as absurd as possible yet reality seemed to make him seem like the "straight man" in a comedy duo.
Stripe and Amazon Partnership
In an ideal world, that would go into an escrow account which the processor would not be allowed to benefit from--to remove the trigger happy incentives-- and which would have an arbitration route for the merchant.
Engineering giveth and Marketing taketh away.

Apple's unified memory couples great bandwidth and efficiency with annoying non-upgradability.

But it's the pricing tiers that get you: cheapest 8GB at $600, 16GB at $800, 24GB at $1000, and then ... 32GB at $1700 (M2 Pro), 64GB at $2500 (Mac Studio.) The upselling trajectory is clear, as is the separation between the Mac mini and Studio.

My daily driver is a 16GB MacBook Pro; I don't think I would be happy using an 8GB Mac mini. But I'm glad that there is a $600 Mac. It's probably great for some users, and it's cheaper than my iPhone.
You just have to internalize social realism.

Intelligent discourse is a losing proposition. In the social market, whatever captures people's interest _is_ definitionally speaking the most important social thing. If intelligent discourse isn't capturing social attention then it's not socially valuable.

This shouldn't be news to anyone familiar with Society of the Spectacle. If you want sorcery over the spectacle, there are much better ways than pining for intelligent discourse.
OK can you explain to me the interest of using private keys if you publish them afterwards??

I'm missing something..
You could just say you don't prefer the writing style.
"I like Linux and Amazon, hence Azure must be bad. I assume, I've never seen it." is something I've heard commonly.

I have a customer where they use both clouds, and they will spend weeks spinning up Rube Goldberg machines in AWS even though there is a turnkey solution available in Azure.

For example, Elastic File System (EFS) in AWS is only compatible with UNIX-like operating systems, because it is NFS v4. Azure has both NFS and SMB file shares as a service -- the latter is a unique offering. It's not magic, but it does eliminate quite a bit of complexity around managing large, scalable file server clusters for Windows clients if you need that kind of thing.
Online Index Rebuild Requires Enterprise Edition in Oracle but Not in Postgres
I'm absolutely interested in this mysterious 108 micro op! Hopefully you'll find it.
Chinese Cellular IoT technology: An analysis of threats and mitigation measures
Is a paying github user it's not the lowest touch option. For me they just bill me on the card I'm already paying them with so easier than paypal.
1. This is from 2012.

2. No less importantly, I see a bunch of phone-vendor chargers, and am not seeing many of the most popular charger brands: Blitzwolf, Baseus, Kuulaa, USLion, UGreen, etc.
perhaps for most things but probably not to the extent of something like excalidraw, which uses react
https://github.com/bradwood/glsnip

Copy/paste between hosts using Gitlab Snippets as a backend.
Really bad, but I absolutely love trash like this for some reason. I can watch movies like The Core over and over.
I don't think you have to be a Platonist to allow that numbers that do not exactly correspond to humanly measurable quantities can yet be part of a calculation.

Another example would be Binet's formula for Fibonacci n[1], which though it involves Phi, sqrt(5), etc., always evaluates to an integer, given integer n.

The existence of these irrationals in Platonic heaven doesn't follow from the formula, which afaik depends only on the usual rules of algebra and logic, though I admit I'm not sure what constructivists make of this type of calculation.

1: see https://r-knott.surrey.ac.uk/Fibonacci/fibFormula.html or https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BinetsFibonacciNumberFormula.h... for example
Thanks. I've just searched for this, and the original paper is here: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/1/102
Please see the comments on this Morphle HN account for those Alan Kay talks or mail morphle &at& ziggo &dot& nl for all those Alan Kay links student lectures you remember.
absolutely amazingly bad though.

i recently (within a few weeks) watched this from beginning to end, and holy cow was i not impressed. to have so many actors of high report to end up such a horrible movie.
Meanwhile in Europe we just aggressively capped the fees card networks can charge merchants. No one has rewards but everyone benefits from cheap card payments.
I had the main irrigation feed burst over Christmas and it's just a branch off the main line into the house with no valve! Had to turn the water off at the street, and couldn't fix it until the day after Christmas.
I'm not sure if that's relevant. You're pointing out that ordering of the reals is not computable, which is true, but ordering of the computable numbers isn't even computable. This isn't relevant to whether a symbol in a computer algebra system can refer to a particular number (whether computable or not).
Single, no kids, live alone.

I wake up at 6 (ideally, but I struggle sometimes), meditation, make coffee and go to my office, check Slack, Email, PRs, then continue workinng from where I paused previous evening. 10am stand-up, pair up with someone if anyone needs my help or if I need someone's help. Continue work until 3 (hard stop 8 hours after I start, whenever that is).

Recently been doing my bachelor's online, almost done, so I usually work on that during evenings and weekends. Before that, I'd play video games or work on side projects.

I try to cook my own meals, I eat once a day, most of the time dinner.
What do you do to reward yourself in step 2?
What an embarrassment. I wouldn't want to swim in the bay without a wetsuit for fear of someone thinking I was one of these assholes.
It wouldn't blow your mind if you did a bit of research.

Payment processors will ALL (including stripe, authorize, adyen, etc) lock your account (with your money still in it!) if:

1) You're taking money for a product that will be delivered in the distant future (like tickets for an event, or preorders)

2) Your account has a sudden change in ticket size or quantity

3) You're violating their TOS. On HN that might look like a service that winks about piracy, or being a spamming tool.

Ever since I learned about this ~10 years ago, I've been looking into the details every time someone gets their account shut down, and it's always the above. The way people describe what happened to them to carefully leave out one of those points prevents it from ever being shocking.
TTP Secure Computation Using (K,N) Threshold Secret Sharing with a Single Server
Morale hits are real, but tend to fade if people feel confident that they’ve survived another day.
Nice, but that appears to need the (non-portable) `-S` option to `env`. POSIX only requires a single argument string to pass to the utility invoked (though the documentation has it as [argument...] the OPERANDS section uses the singular "a string" form)[1]. Further arguments may be ignored (it's implementation dependent). With `nix-shell` your shebang can be `#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell` and subsequent arguments can be on the following lines, and `nix-shell` itself knows to parse that. Busybox's `env` doesn't support `-S`, and Busybox is the standard shell environment in Alpine (for a common use).

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/e...
Just to add to this comment, one of the grad students who worked on sketch-n-sketch published a successor program for more general programs (not just drawings) called maniposynth: http://maniposynth.org/
You don't, however Disney was making this money before as they were directly licensing it to these services, so it's not just opportunity cost, but actual lost revenue when compared to previous years.
First time hearing about this book.
speaking of interfacing 8087 fresh post from today: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-pa...
LP does a pretty good job on digital too. I often default to physical for this sort of thing but admit to liking LP on phone just because it's with me without extra bulk/weight.
I actually kept my HP Touchpad charging bricks (cylinders?) because they always seemed really solid. They are still useful for all of my Pi stuff as well.
Some weird stuff has cult-like following in some countries. Meaning, in Hungary, the Bud Spencer movies, Torrente and Ford Fairlane script punchlines are something almost every hungarian can recite by heart. I didn't occur this phenomenon anywhere else (yet).
I used to follow Naltrexone trials: blocks opioids by having higher affinity in brain receptors), in principle it can work as a one month injection, but the results were also pretty poor. Even in well functioning medical professionals with opioid addiction, adherence was pretty poor. The hypothesis I remember was that the drug didn't have any tangible benefit, so it was hard to continue using it.
I must have misremembered, they did say they're moving away from nomad in https://fly.io/blog/a-foolish-consistency/

edit: And here they say they're replacing nomad with their own thing: https://fly.io/jobs/platform-engineering/
It's a bit later in the text:

> In “A Private Spy,” a new volume of his letters gathered by his son Tim Cornwell, le Carré corresponds with an eclectic array of recipients

There's a new book about him so this is a review basically.
Blizzard manager departs in protest of employee ranking system
No it doesn't. There are numerous tales of exchanges closing up and keeping/losing their client's money.
From what I've heard, the problem is that the reversal can take a few years, during which there may be almost no field strength. That, and there's no guarantee about exactly where the new poles will develop, apart from them appearing at relatively high latitudes.
Convincing Consumers to Buy EVs
I get prescribed with an ADHD medication.
Schwitters legacy lives on. When I was studying at the Royal College of Art I was part of the Mertziety which made yearly excursions out to the Mertz barn[1] which is where Kurt took shelter in the UK during the Second World War. It’s in a beautiful location located in Elterwater in the Lake District UK. Ian and Celia who take care of the place are very keen to share their stories to anybody who’s visiting and it’s well worth a visit for anybody who’s in the area.

For a contemporary incarnation of Schwitters attitude to making art check out Catriona Robertson [2] who was one of the original founders of Merzierty.

[1] https://www.merz.gallery/

[2] https://instagram.com/catrionart?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Certainly has an Odyssey 2001 vibe to it.
You make a good point regarding incentive structures in pharma - but this is nothing like what OP was saying. OP is asking for a “Frommian psychoanalytic approach,” whatever that is.

Your point about chronic pain increase is totally implausible. Automation of manual labor should result in less chronic pain, not more. The problem here is overprescription, and it’s my fault that my comment didn’t make that clear.

As regards:

> It's far weirder to suggest that "more people want to party for no particular reason"

I never said that. The number of people who want to party and have no foresight has remained constant. But access to opiods (and their normalization) has skyrocketed, due to aforeforementioned over-prescription.
We already have TeX and anyone who writes math is used to it. Why more fragmentaton?
Indexes can be rebuilt ONLINE in PostgreSQL by default.
Whereas in Oracle, it requires Enterprise Edition as the Standard or the Express Edition does not allow ONLINE Index rebuild.

Does this really require Oracle to only make it available under additional license ? Better to switch to Postgres
Can't see how this could comparison from 2012 could still be relevant with the advent of GaN chargers.
I'm not sure what you mean, because you just repeated the first part of my sentence. The fact that one set is countable and the other is uncountable doesn't mean there are specific, fixed numbers in the uncountable set which cannot be paired with any element in the first set.

Consider the usual example of the natural numbers (countable) and the reals (uncountable). It doesn't follow that there is some specific, fixed real number which cannot be part of a bijection of the naturals and the reals. Name any real number and I can give you a bijection of the naturals and the reals which contains your real number.
Critique of Everyday Narco-Capitalism