skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never had any problem with my age, but.

This year I've turned 38 and for some reason this number stopped being funny. I know a lot people make a fuss about turning 40, but for me the transition happened to be 38.
Why should HN host Chinese propaganda, again?
A carpenter, woodworker, roofer, plumber, welder, etc. would be kind of surprised with your definition of STEM, but, okay.

If that's your definition, you do you.
You can't selectively hold the line. By letting some through you negate your neutrality. Your outrage needs to be broader or it becomes hollow.
> Donald Trump denigrated the press

He absolutely did do that. But what he didn't do was suppress the press, jail the reporters, etc.
Biden admin might strategically decide to do the lab leak investigation as part of their anti-China plan. That would be a balance decision, but I could see it coming down on lab leak investigation.
That's why the call it the American Dream. Because you have to be asleep to believe it. -- G. Carlin
This is exactly why I can't give this article, or any of those multiple intelligence agency assessments any real credence. I don't have access to any of the data that went into those assessments. What I do have access to doesn't point very strongly at a lab leak origin, despite its plausibility.
Being “Crazy” in a Sick Society Is Healthy
Grab any list of the top domains on the Internet. My go-to has been the "Moz 500" --- I don't know what it is, or whether it's any good, but it's easy to get. Then write the trivial shell loop to `dig ds $domain`, and count how many of the top domains are signed. Some patterns will emerge: government sites, unsurprisingly, have subscribed themselves to the de jure government PKI that DNSSEC is, and commercial sites overwhelmingly do not.

It's very easy to just check this for yourself. There are increasing numbers of domains signed every year, because registrars and product companies have baked DNSSEC in as a feature. But the vast majority of zones don't matter: nobody ever looks anything up in them. The figure of merit is how many important zones are signed.
> But in 90s these mechanisms were in infancy. It was normal for computers to auto-login and have no password at all, processes could each read entire memory on the machine.

Only in the home computing world, which is why people on Real Computers thought home computers were toys back then. Real Computers, running Linux/Unix and VMS and MVS, damn well did have the protections Wintendo didn't, and didn't mandate a reboot every forty-odd days, either. Microsoft didn't even begin to achieve parity until Windows XP or later, and Apple didn't until MacOS X.
I used a key gen for quake 3 when it came out. Was surprised when I was able to play online. Told my friends who were not able to play online. I guess I was just lucky my key was an actual key!
I disabled the checker on startup because that dialog was annoying me.

In /config/lazy.lua:

checker = { enabled = false }, -- automatically check for plugin updates

I've never had a problem with the things you mentioned but the notifications are using either noice or notify. I think the submenu is <leader>sna
A LLM is a generator of misinformation

This is a strange statement. No one is training LLMs to generate “misinformation”. It’s the opposite - it’s trained to generate the most likely next word, given the preceding 2000 words - using billions of examples from a real world training corpus. So it will try to generate as much information as what’s present in the corpus. Maybe even more, but that’s debatable.
Hm. Fails at step 1: Cloning using git on command line hangs. -- wait, correction: It now did start to clone ... lol:

$ git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src
Cloning into 'src'...
remote: Sending approximately 36.75 GiB ...

So it is not at all surprising, that things get laggy, when you run them on 36.75 GiB. You probably do not want to check out everything at once.
Good post.

Tangentially related: I have thought recently that we really need to refresh the way that we explain these ideas to beginners in this new world of AI/ML doing everything.

For instance, here is an excerpt from Scott Aaronson's excellent paper on the topic:

"To illustrate, suppose we wanted to program a computer to create new Mozart-quality symphonies and Shakespeare-quality plays. If P = NP via a practical algorithm, then these feats would reduce to the seemingly easier problem of writing a computer program to recognize great works of art. And interestingly, P = NP might also help with the recognition problem: for example, by letting us train a neural network that reverse-engineered the expressed artistic preferences of hundreds of human experts. But how well that neural network would perform is an empirical question outside the scope of mathematics."

This has been kind of the standard way to explain this stuff to beginners for the last 20 years or so. It is an excellent paper and I highly recommend reading. Aaronson also goes on to explain how these are imperfect metaphors, that they are just for building intuition, etc, and gives better technical details. But it's still a good intuition-builder regardless.

Or at least it was. How do we explain all of this stuff now that we have StableDiffusion and ChatGPT? From here on, people are going to grow up in a world in which these things are commonplace, rather than it being questionable how physically possible they will ever be. The "empirical question" Aaronson talks about has largely been proven in the affirmative, so given that we are here, how do we explain this stuff now?
Also learned to program on a PET in BASIC writing code that was much messier than this because I was probably 10 years old.

Might be why I'm good at restructuring horrible to read spaghetti code.
I think their response is motivated by virtue signaling instead of being adverse to technology, but yeah I agree you can do both.
I used to work at Microsoft on the windows team. There it was very common to have a “goto cleanup” for all early exits. It was clean and readable. Otoh, I once was assigned to investigate an assertion error in the bowels of IE layout code. It was hundreds of stack frames deep in a recursive function that was over a thousand lines long and had multiple gotos that went forwards or backwards. That was an absolute mess and would have been impossible to debug without an recording (“time travel”) debugger.
my dog will ignore screens, usually, but if you pause it with a person on the screen, she will EVENTUALLY (like 30 minutes later) notice there is a person in the living room and start growling. or maybe she just doesn't appreciate Jupiter Ascending
> There are fundamental rights of man

Yeah, but not really.

God is dead and such.
I don’t think any of those bullets are strictly untrue. The question is whether in combination they actually demonstrate a serious threat to press freedom relative to other countries.
Time for smellovision.
I've had this basically my whole life. I used to joke that I was 16 going on 30 and everybody knew what I meant. Now it's going the other way.

Also, I have this for other people. I still think of my brother as 23, and I have to do math to figure out how old he really is.
Don't know about less disciplined, but certainly more willing to take structural risks. Take a look at Denver Art Museum's recent annex. Nobody would do that without Finite Element modeling.
> Good luck getting 95% of the American populace to understand any of that nuance.

And that's why media use these headlines (dark patterns?) and politicians keep making fake promises and get reelected.

#SAD
Why does the U.K. not need so many workers but the US does (as implied by low unemployment despite interest rate hikes and increasing pay for lower-paid workers who, presumably, do ‘bullshit jobs’)?
Passage through humanized mice wouldn't leave signs of unnatural manipulation. It's still pretty suspicious that COVID was so transmissible between people from the outset, and no evidence of it circulating in local populations was found.
A runner who leads every pack and then vanishes
> Aim to offend yet test devotion to the pillars of humanity's most sacred in this endless, speedy 2D shooter parody [..] 11 caricatures of enemies including Jesus

https://josephcantrell.org/games/prophet-launcher.php

He sounds like he is the type of person that will intentionally cause drama for the sake of causing drama.
There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s wrong not pursuing once get that feeling. Worse outcome is a much better understanding
When I was a kid it was an actual thing to know how to lift postage stamps off of envelopes with rubbing alcohol so they could be reused to mail pirate floppy disks to your friends. Try explaining that to a kid today and they'll think you had a stroke.
That is just plain sick and twisted.
Then do yourself a favor and avoid Lindell. Most people associate him with unhinged rants, having no evidence, and lack of credibility.
I've got a few thousand people who have signed up for them and haven't yet unsubscribed. Whenever I send out a marketing email to that list, a number of people immediately make purchases.

Why would that be the case if people didn't consider them valuable?
I remember using this key to install hundreds (possibly thousands?) of school PCs back in the 1990s since I couldn't remember our volume license key. And Microsoft's terms explicitly stated the key we used didn't matter as long as an audit revealed that the number of installed systems matched the number of purchased licenses.

Similarly, 111-1111112 was a valid key for Office.
This is ascribing some sort of mythical quality to rights. Rights are simply what a society decides should be conveyed to its people. A country could decide that their people have a right to receiving a free hoodie every November and as long as the country supports that right, those people have that right. There is nothing inherently moral about rights. Countries have many times supported the immoral rights of their people. And people's rights are only as good as the society's support for those rights. There is nothing inherent or inalienable about them.
it's a hell of coincidence that out of all chinese cities the outbreak started in the one city housing the premiere institute dedicated to researching coronaviruses... so there is no smoking gun evidence, but it's a reasonable hypothesis... anyway, no one apart from the chinese ministry of state security will ever know for sure one way or another
It's not just Apple - Microsoft may have led the way with the switch from 'purchase' of Microsoft Office Suite to 'leasing' where you had to pay for a yearly fee to maintain access. That's when I decided to learn Linux and installed LibreOffice.

In the older model, you could purchase hardware and associated software and even if the company stopped supporting either, you still had a basic working system that might last for ten years or more with care. You could still send email, type up documents, send to a printer (that's a whole other story now), and have a useful functional tool, even if a lot of the web would stop working over time.

Now it all seems to be about accelerated obsolescence, ensuring products have short lifetimes to force consumers to adopt the latest products. Backwards compatibility gets dropped, deliberate strategies are introduced to force anyone wanting a banking app on their phone to upgrade to the latest model, etc.

My solution has been to switch over to Linux for almost anything computer-related, except for some business things where you have to interact with the Apple/Microsoft world. Unfortunately mobile phones are much worse and you need to keep updating the mobile phone well before the hardware fails, and even there I occasionally contemplate dropping the smartphone entirely... Can't wait for full Linux-on-mobile.
Denver's mayor hopefuls want to arrest homeless living on the street
I'm pretty sure this qualifies as genocide, because the word "genocide" is in the title.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples
Right, a database put online in June 2019 - widely claimed to be “suspiciously removed” in Sept 2019, actually wasn’t. It was available into 2020 at which point after a bunch of hacking attempts, they took it down. And certainly “everyone hasn’t agreed” because in every thread about the topic people imply like this 6
Month old database is a smoking gun when it’s self evidently not.
Could Microsoft Be Setting Up Google for a Win?
> it’s unreasonable to assume it’s all because a freak mutation with some bats.

I don't think this holds. Such freak mutations happen all the time.

Note that this doesn't discredit lab leak either. It's entirely possible they were testing a new, entirely natural strain they found in some weird cave somewhere. And because that lab had terrible safety protocols (which has been documented extensively), possibly some got out.

It's not really possible to rule out or confirm the lab leak hypothesis without inside information that we are unlikely to ever get. Other than as vague "intelligence report says this", which you can hardly trust.
If this were likely, the US would have shut borders way faster. It was a statistical likelihood it would arrive quickly given the number of China to USA travelers.
…yet they still don't think about adopting Tengwar.
We don't know exactly why the account got taken over, but I doubt using the browser login would have prevented this (school azure taking over whatever microsoft account was logged in).

Also, Google tracks you across all websites once you login to the browser (even if you don't use google login on them). If they weren't tracking you, using the browser profiles would be great.
Early Fortran already had loops, but with labels:

INTEGER A(4,4), C, R
...
DO 10 WHILE ( C .NE. R )
A(C,R) = A(C,R) + 1
C = C+1
10 CONTINUE

Note that Fortran has evolved significantly over time. This is how you would write the same in Fortran 77:

INTEGER A(4,4), C, R
...
C = 4
R = 1
DO WHILE ( C .GT. R )
A(C,R) = 1
C = C - 1
END DO
Until they mutate.

It is beneficial to the survival of a virus to infect the largest group that it can. A virus targeted to a small group of people has a large "survival benefit" the moment it can mutate to infect everybody.

In addition, it's really hard to target a biological entity at a specific subgroup of humans. From a biological standpoint, all humans are damn near identical.
This is an innate aspect of philosophy. You’d have to go history diving to whoever came up with the idea first but it probably originated around the time of the renaissance or Greek or Roman philosophers.
Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life
Only one side cares about the rules, but the other side still uses it as a rhetorical weapon
This is the real scandal.
Average-case complexity is studied quite a bit. There is some discussion on wikipedia [1]. Also see this paper, which discusses the average-case complexity of NP problems [2]

The reason why its not studied as much by theoretical computer science as is by algorithm-implementers, is that "average" is not uniquely defined. For instance, you can talk about the uniform distribution for a lot of problems, but not always. Suppose you want to investigate the complexity of solving certain types of equations, involving matrices as unknowns. How do you take the uniform distribution over matrices over the (infinite) real numbers? In principle, there are technical definitions you can make [3], and [2] has some results about this, but at the end of the day, there is no objectively superior way of doing it.

What this all leads to are two questions. (1) Would studying average-over-some-sampling-distribution-case complexity yield insights on what is computation? I don't know.

(2) Is it practically useful to classify problems in this way? Not really. Because in the real world, your distribution will rarely be uniform, so it is far better to optimize your algorithms for the distribution you do get.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average-case_complexity

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0606037.pdf

[3] https://mathoverflow.net/questions/76295/intuition-for-haar-...
> Yup. The right is fuelling the moral panic about trans people

I wouldn't call opposition to performing irreversible gender transition procedures on children "moral panic".
Show HN: PiHole and Unbound on Docker
Hi HN,

Here I've got a blog article on how I got Gitea and Drone on in my homelab working.
Perhaps this is preferable to the user, but if you consider it from the developer's POV, almost no users will contribute meaningful "donations", so it stops making economic sense to follow the latter model you suggest unless the project is an altruistic hobby.
…and their votes count equally to yours. Isn't democracy grand?
Correct, that's why the title is written in such a way, to ensure that they don't understand it
See "Words of estimative probability" related to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_of_estimative_probabilit...
quite a price hike. Bad for the sustainability of the other portals I use that are backed by the bing index. Will either increase their pricing or efforts on monetization.

Is it easy for you to rely on more search index providers, what are your options?
> "Allowed" is a telling choice of words though! You're advocating for a state-enforced limit on what people are allowed to choose for themselves.

To children. What people are allowed to do to children

> Which is why the permission of their parents acts as a limit on what they're able to agree to, in this case as in all others.

If a parent comes forward and says "I consent to my child getting sterilized", should that be the only criterion necessary? You said "all" here, so you think that the case I provided is also covered?

> The anti-trans moral panic is the tip of the spear of fascism in north america

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/02/16/as-spain-advances-t...

Would you describe Sweden as a fascist country? For (generally) prohibiting giving hormonal therapies to children?
Is it even piracy when Windows allows you to use it unactivated?
We don't need intelligent machines, for the most part. We just need machines that are less shitty. Making an AI seems like a lazy person who doesn't want to work harder to make a less shitty machine.
Is PM above everyone in a democracy or is Modi a king? So you use a bad name for PM, and PM will send paramilitary forces to arrest you?

Who has used these words on record for opposition leaders: 'Jersey Cow', 'Congress ki Vidhwa', 'Maunmohan', '50 Crore girlfriend'?
> "this has cause a lot of data collection only around this wet market"

I hadn't heard that. That's an interesting theory.

I guess my response would be: has it changed where data is collected? Drilling down into the report, their data came from "individuals who had used a COVID-19 assistance channel on Sina Weibo, a Chinese social media platform." It wasn't originally intended for public reporting on case locations -- so there's not any mechanism there for filtering out cases from one location while favoring cases from another.
Inmos was a British semiconductor company which made a series of CPUs it called Transputers in the late 1980s-early 1990s.

Transputers were novel in that they combined a CPU core with a set of high-speed network links: the CPU ran at, eg. 20MHz and the four network links at 20Mbps.

Paired with this hardware was the programming language Occam, which was derived from the ideas of Tony Hoare's CSP, and included concurrency and communications primitives that mapped directly onto the Transputer hardware.

The end result was a system in which it was easy to configure a parallel machine with a mesh, torus, or tree of CPUs that could then run CSP-style concurrent programs very effectively.

While it saw some success in various niches (image and signal processing, for instance), the Transputer CPUs did not support other popular languages of the time (C, Pascal, Fortran, etc) well, and for various reasons, Inmos was unable to evolve the design to match the performance of (in particular) the Intel x86 family. From an initial position of having competitive performance and superior concurrency and communication, the Transputer was quickly left behind, and its successor (the T9000-series) was obsolete before launch.
Under US law, the standard (established in Brandenburg v. Ohio) is whether the speech is likely to result in imminent lawless action.
The "low confidence" has a particular meaning in the world intelligence

Indeed, which is why I think it should be given more weight in the article. The actual terminology is easy to understand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_confidence
Worked with a transputer based piece of life sciences instrumentation for a few years. The way you could pass program code over the links to boot each transputer was neat. The people procuring parts (not just the transputers but also the parallel to serial transceivers) must have done some epic work to find parts once Inmos was defunct. We did a project to make a USB to Link protocol interface once the ISA bus became less available and this also saved a transputer that was on the ISA card that did nothing but route messages to the transputers on the instrument.
If you think SARS-CoV-2 arose naturally in the same city as the world's biggest laboratory collection of sarbecoviruses (which I do agree is possible), then you must agree that weird coincidences do happen sometimes? A wet market is crowded and poorly-ventilated, so it's a great place for a respiratory virus to spread, regardless of how it got introduced.

There's also the question of ascertainment bias, whether cases were found in the wet market simply because that's where the authorities looked. I assume you've seen those endless debates, which seem basically unresolvable to me given the limited information available.
Do we need to make a decision on this matter at the moment? If the choices are between low certainly and very low, I’d say we just don’t have enough information to say anything interesting.
Being chastised or losing your job is not quite the same as what would result from having literally murdered someone.
You seem to imply that "the ever-growing total cost of ownership" of subscriptions is not ever-growing for the single-purchase model.

Over the years I've noticed that many a software I once 1-off purchased is not supported anymore on my latest (security patched) OS. While technically possible, it's not practical to run that old software on the old OS (corporate security foo, old OS only running on unavailable hardware, etc). So I end up purchasing the next major version regardless of new features.

If we compare the two models in regards to "price for having access to the software for a long timeframe", you pay for compatibility/security updates either way, just in the purchase model the cost curve is a lot bumpier than in the subscription model.

As someone earning a big part of my income from self-developed SaaS subscriptions, I can tell you it's a life changer for my attitude.
In the old model there was always this nagging voice in my head. "This customer support ticket is from a customer who last paid me 2 years ago and they don't have a support contract and who knows if they will ever buy the new version."

So while my general ethics are in favor of providing good customer support, the monetary incentives are really stacked against it on the purchase model.

In my experience customers don't want to hear about all the issues we deal with (lib updates, security patches, UI fixes, you people know the drill), they just want to know what the software can do for them and how much it will cost them to have access to it working for a certain amount of time.

Interested to see what others think!
Are the pejoratives really necessary? From the beginning the "lab leak" theory satisfied Occam's Razor more than the convoluted "wet market" theory or the "pangolin" theory. Meanwhile, a lot of departments at a lot of universities got a lot of funding to pursue their pet theories.