skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transportation allowed us to do something we couldn't do before, would we have "evolved" it is a function of selective pressure and physics.

As for genes and medicine, medicine DOES change which genes are selected for survival. Sometimes quite literally, such as caring about type 1 diabetics, or in-vitro fertilization, and I doubt you actually have something objective to say here to reject that.

This doesn't imply we need to have no hospitals. But it helps to be aware of the holistic effect of the environment we create for ourselves, because it selects us in ways we don't fully comprehend.

Recently I read an article about rising child obesity in the US, and the recommendation is surgery and better "weight loss drugs". I'll leave it as an exercise to you where this path leads.

Making tools is great. I love that we make tools. I love to make tools, myself. I program, like many here. But the plot twist in that story is that at some point the tools become better, do more of the job, and more, and eventually... the tools don't need us to do the job. They just need us to make them. But as these tools get advanced, eventually we start using tools to make the tools (no modern CPU is designed by hand, BTW). So what happens in the end? Our role decreases, and decreases, and a new loop forms of tools making tools.

And suddenly, we're unnecessary.

And do you know when this moment where we're not necessary comes? When we outsource our "core competency". This is the same situation that led to IBM selling its business to their outsourcing manufacturer, Lenovo, and how DELL almost lost its business. It starts with "we don't need to assemble it, we'll assemble in China". Then "we'll make some more parts in China". Then "we'll design it in China too". And suddenly you're not doing anything, except slapping a logo on it. You're useless. You outsourced your core competency.

Humanity's core competency is intelligence. If AI is better at this... our only role in "the human civilization" is slapping a "human" name on it. There's nothing human left IN it.
My guess is — this would be quicker. Having to stop and twist together a new tie every 6 inches vs. just continuing your daisy-chain of loops only having to expend any significant effort at the beginning and end of the chain.
How about "Parsing IS validation"?
archived at https://archive.fo/QMZQw

How Much Power Do Autonomous Vehicles Use? A Lot

A model of power consumption by autonomous vehicles predicts that once widely adopted, they will consume as much power worldwide as data centers do.

By Bill Schweber 02.27.2023

My summary:

> “1 billion autonomous vehicles, each driving for one hour per day with a computer consuming 840 W, would consume enough energy to generate about the same amount of emissions as data centers currently do.”

> Well… maybe yes, maybe not. Despite the academic veneer and a detailed table explaining their model and its embedded assumptions, the inherent nature of the model has many rough estimates, sophisticated guesses and outright assumptions. I’d compare it more to a fancy “back of the envelope” assessment (Figure 2) rather than a rigorous academic analysis. Step back, and there’s the reality that any assessment of the future for a situation such as this is simply not possible.

> Call me cynical, but it seems that the design reality is that system demands and thus power use often expand to the maximum the system can provide or tolerate. Remember, when transistors and ICs were devised and then went to ever-lower voltage/power, the per-function dissipation dropped by several orders of magnitude—you can’t argue with that fact.

> However, coincidentally with this good news, user requirements increased at a greater rate, so now you have server racks pushing almost 10 kW each—an almost unthinkable figure just a decade ago, up from about 2.4 kW each in 2011 according to one survey (I have seen others, and those numbers are similar) (Figure 3).
Lacing dates back to the beginning of electrical wiring (late 1800s, early 1900s)

a) "Zip ties" were not invented yet (nylon was invented in 1935)

b) Twisty ties are thin metal wires covered by paper (plastic covered ones were not practical until the late 1900s). The twisty wires were a threat to cut into the wire bundle. They also rust.

Even in modern days with zip ties, lacing has a significant advantage in that zip ties have sharp "tails" that stick out from the bundle and cut your hands and arms when you reach into a compartment.
Lacing lies flat against the bundle and has no sharp ends.
Why do you think this would change their minds?
> it's on the cusp of a full scale fascist take over

Not really.

Or, rather, that claim is being used as justification for overreach and power grabs from the same authoritarians who claim to be against fascism.
I'm sorry, I actually meant to include your link when I submitted this. NASA's wiring documents are beyond amazing.
"Skill Issue"
IPv6 actually makes such attacks more difficult, not less.

An attacker looking to be stealthy is not going to blast the network with nmap...

ARP is broadcast, NDP is solicited node multicast so simply by passively listening on the network you will discover nodes in the same layer 2 segment, with v6 and properly configured switches your passive discovery will be a lot more limited.

Other passive techniques would be monitoring things like DNS, and things the host you've compromised is actively communicating with. This isn't any different regardless of the protocol used.

You can also actively communicate with services like DNS or Active Directory and query information about the network, depending on your level of risk.

Just knowing the in-use IPv6 block is useless, the blocks are massive so even just identifying active hosts in a single known IPv6 block is a lot harder than simply scanning the entire RFC1918 legacy address space.

For active discovery, IPv6 is harder to attack - you can't scan the entire address block looking for hosts. The fact that such scans should be detected is exactly the same for either protocol. You also have to consider response time and what an attacker may be able to achieve before your response kicks in.

IPv6 makes it harder for attackers, not easier.
Great to see you launch!

I just finished something similar in Telegram, I added a way to connect to "live data" via system commands, so the bot can get weather updates or cryptocurrency prices. I want to wire it up to send emails, make reminders, view or update the calendar and see what else makes sense.

If you force the bot to decide to do something (eg: If you feel the user want to start again, respond with --RESTART--) I think you could make AI that feels sentient or can do things on its own.

A curious experiment for now, let's see how it goes:

https://magicbuddy.chat

https://t.me/magicbuddybot
It does if they use their stock price as a benchmark, which they do if it is a part of their compensation. Higher interest rates push investors to sell their Facebook shares and buy bonds instead. This means that Facebook needs to earn higher profits in order to pull its stock price upwards. Low-IRR projects are eliminated and with them the people who worked on them.
I use KeepassXC password manager[1], it keeps my TOTP information and makes it available to use on all my devices. It syncs between my devices using Dropbox. Kepassium[2] makes it available on iOS, and Keepass2Android[3] makes it available on Android. It also manages my SSH keys and adds them to the ssh-agent, even on Windows. It houses a backup of my GPG keys. I even found that it can manage my credentials for use in scripts and git using git-credential-keepassxc[4].

Similar functionality can be had from 1Password[5], if you're into the more fancy experience. As a bonus this approach makes it very easy to store all those backup codes that totp services often give you. Won't help your current predicament but will prevent it from happening again :)

1: https://keepassxc.org/

2: https://keepassium.com/

3: https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android

4: https://github.com/Frederick888/git-credential-keepassxc

5: https://1password.com/
That's not an easy fix at all. One of the forms of fraud they're worried about is people who aren't actually living in Denmark claiming benefits - generally by actually living in another country with lower cost of living and income (and potentially claiming benefits or working there without having to report that income). Universal basic income makes that easier if anything. There's also the huge difficulty of how to fund it, especially if you can't guarantee that the recipients are actually paying taxes to your government on their wages...
The reddit post is just some guy ranting/asserting without even a small anecdote as evidence. Oh Gen-Z doesn't understand folders? Oh noes...

What a useless HN submission. And they're directories, not folders.
Well, this is the challenge, because most people don't care. So anyone who wants effective decentralisation rather than just the possibility of decentralisation need to solve that challenge.
This is genius I love it.

On stream inference with something like "continuous" data in the same structure I think is the final material form for "AI" so this is a great step towards that

Thanks for the writeup
I've seen this with a lot of tech and younger people.

"Kids" these days are just used to things working and not having to fix things themselves and missing out on getting the better understanding.

The only reason I'm in tech at all is from years of running game servers for my friends, fixing my computer, buying something cheap and putting the time in to save a small amount of money.
All companies have reliability issues, especially in this problem space. I’d rather go with someone who acknowledges their failings in public.
about the trademarking random wordsoup makes for a cool deal for trademark attorneys.

Being one, i wonder if it would be possible to capitalize on this
Uninvolved citizens lead to authoritarianism. Either some "enlightened leader" will take over the conservatives, or some apparatchik system will take over the socialism... or any other forms of soul- and life-crushing abominations just waiting to take over.
+1 for Authy, though I keep the backups and multi-device turned on for convenience.

My old phone died and I had no way of getting into some of my 2FA secured accounts a while back and it was a wakeup call that eventually led to using Authy.
In my experience, I find that working with Virtual Desktops is the most frustrating user experience as a developer you could have. I prefer working in containerized environments which are more efficient and do not require the same amount of configuration processes as a Virtual Desktop.

You should check some solutions out.
I worry the most about my sister. My mum said today she wanted to study abroad Operrete. My mother is handling this poorly also. With father this was doable now it seems like childish dreams to me.

I do not want to have a serious talk about growing up as I am afraid she will go crazy because life is now unfair. It will be a week in a couple of hours since we found out. Dad was well meaning. She collected the money from reading books(could go up to 100eur a month) and I guess for birthday, dad took the money, added some and bought her the iphone. I do not think she is spoilt but was raised to like good things and educate.

Two days ago she asked if mother could buy her an ice cream, they would usually buy it at a discount for 3euro but now it cost 6eur. Sis said it is expensive and sadly accepted the fate. But mum bought it anyway, because well father wouldn’t have said no. Mum also said that she will continue eating good food but less if money is tight. The point is quality over quantity always and being realistic.

Again about serious talk with sister - I sometimes feel like being harsh and saying things like “dad’s gone, now is the time to grow up, you need to forget about your childish dreams and choose something realistic” might relieve me of some of the stress but I do not think is for the best for anyone of us, especially because I feel bad about it afterwards.
>Which is why socialism trends to authoritarianism in practice

False. Authoritarianism has nothing to do with socialism.

Authoritarianism thrives because the people fail at holding their leaders accountable for their actions.

The leaders will keep overreaching with their power as long as they see no consequences for them.
The nudging being required is basically the fraud. The systems are set up to be used "in case of emergency", not as a life style. If you need to be nudged towards "hey, maybe get a job and start contributing to society", you're abusing the welfare system. It's for those who can't, not for those who prefer not to.
Is there a reason these plugins aren't directly available in Pidgin?
That's an interesting idea. How would it detect bad intent? It handles sarcasm fine with the right context. Assuming good intent seems to be the correct, logical approach in most situations.

As humans, we tend to assume bad intent quite often. I wonder if this is just something that grows on us. Maybe AI is in a childlike phase now, but in twenty years it'll grow cynical and crusty like Google and Facebook, where they automatically assume malicious intent based on certain heuristics.
When you go to a grocery store, manufacturers have paid money for specific locations in the store to draw your attention to their product. This is everywhere. Advertising is not something that only free services turn to in order to make money. It is something that everybody turns to in order to make money because they've got a platform for advertisement.
I use it in Spanish all the time and it works perfectly fine.
Recently I've seen many sites put a "reject all" button in the same size and color as the "accept all" button, Stack Overflow for example. I thought some legislation must have changed somewhere.
ADHD startups are exploding, and now there even a dedicated browser
Not in my experience, but I got the cheaper one, so of course it's terrible.
Oh wow, this is great. We're up against similar problems here, but what I've got as unnamed musings you've got as links to relevant Wikipedia articles. I've got some reading and thinking to do.

I'll probably just include both algorithms, make it a parameter, and do a bunch of testing (which I'll be sure to publish). I can't put my finger exactly on why I feel better about Rabin fingerprints, maybe buzhash just needs time to sink in.

It's only recently that I've been thinking of this as a framing problem. The right words eluded me because I only care about the frames near the annotation. So instead of "multiple statistically independent framings" I've been thinking of separate "feature channels" (one for each prime polynomial in GF2) which cause different substrings to be identified as features, but I think it's more or less the same thought deep down.

I want a more or less uniform distribution of features so that wherever a user wants to put an annotation, there's always something nearby to anchor it to. In the event of a large gap I've imagined schemes to switch to different framings until its filled . Or maybe I show the features to the user and let them click something to "change the channel" until they get a set of features that works for their particular annotation.

Putting this as a nearly-duplicate-files problem makes me wonder if it could be used to arrange files into a graph based on how they differ. Like when browsers unhelpfully just increment a counter and redownloads the the file every time you click a link to it. It's hard to keep track of the fact that copy 6 is the one I want, but if they were rendered as a sort of constellation of files, where the edges are longer for more dissimilarity... That would be fun to play with.

Anyway, I'll be looking through this more in the future. Thanks for sharing it.
Mailed asthma, cancer, erectile drugs are seized the most, despite opioid claims
"We're from the factory and we've come to play"
So is this a cool feature or just gonna prevent your everyday person from signing up, “what? I have to do what to sign up?!”
Practical Strategies for Implementing DevSecOps in Large Enterprises
Reading the paper, they mention the robotic control is handled by RT-1:

The low-level policies are from

RT-1 (Brohan et al., 2022), a transformer model that takes

RGB image and natural language instruction, and outputs
end-effector control commands.

For those that don't know, RT-1 (Robotic transformer) is previous work from the team that converts natural language to custom control code.

You can read more about Rt-1 here:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/12/rt-1-robotics-transformer-...

Maybe I'm missing something, but this sounds quite generalizable.
> But the real question is why they don't do the same for tax evasion?

Who says they don't?

If I had to guess, I would say the magnitude of the problem is just more complex. The tax system is more complicated and impacts more people.

They did attempt to change the law to give the tax agency more similar powers[1]. Last I checked, it was rejected due to public outcry[2]. I do not expect this to be the last attempt.

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[1] https://kammeradvokaten.dk/nyheder/nyt-lovforslag-kunstig-in...

[2] https://pro.ing.dk/datatech/artikel/efter-massiv-kritik-mini...
As a foil, people building point-to-point tube amplifiers are very concerned about "crosstalk" in the circuit itself and try to have signal carrying wires cross at right angles to each other rather than run parallel (for obvious electrical-theory reasons).
Apple Reportedly Planning M3-Powered iMac for Release This Year
I guess what I meant is that my ISP won’t hand out a stable IPv6 allocation. Ie, my entire address range changes weekly.
We would have also accepted "yes."
Once again glad I don't work with Linus
Everything is amplified since the physical space on a screen is much smaller than the field of vision in a store. The real estate on phone is basically 2 products or 4 on laptop at a time for everything. This makes the ads wayyyy more powerful-not to mention targeted-than shelf placement or end caps or whatever else.
Ask HN: Who is the best programmer you know?
Could you point me in the direction of the best programmer you know? Please drop their LinkedIn or profile here.

Thank you!
> Indeed it's on the cusp of a full scale fascist take over.

From the democrats or republicans? ("Both" would be closest to correct, if we assume your statement is true.)

Edit: oooh did I make the left or the right angry with this comment? Both sides are authoritarian and infringing on your rights wherever they can, while simultaneously convincing their followers that only the opponents do it.
1. I find it extremely hard to believe that France has a 0.39% fraud rate, I still have not seen an even remotely convincing debunk of Cartel des Fraudes by Charles Prats to suggest that the Cour des comptes numbers resemble reality. Just putting this here because article says that the supposed 5% fraud size in Denmark is very disproportionate to Europe and lists France as one of the examples.

2. The social contract of welfare is that you have a right to receive money from government when you hit hard times and the corresponding responsibility to not abuse the privilege. It's not a contract if it isn't enforceable by either of the parties.
TIL. So, it's always been and will forever be arrogant in all cases. Good to know.
My favorite "arduino-apocalypse" is CollapseOS: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=collapseos
I knew a guy (older, old school generation) who's one among other responsibilities was to go store-to-store and bring the end cap materials. In addition he would spot check that the end cap displays their company paid for were in fact being placed.
Yes, I also meant for the food truck owner to do the work himself. Still, it's a lot of money to invest, even if it's much less than opening a restaurant. The owner could invest that money and his skills into another type of business and be better off.
I find eSIMs are less convenient as:

- there are far less providers that support eSIM and the ones that do generally charge more than providers that also support a standard SIM

- it’s often not possible to create a new account using an eSIM. I’ve had to buy a physical SIM and then go through a complicated transfer process and have to either wait on hold for a long time or go into a store to swap over to an eSIM with two different providers.

Most physical SIM cards these days come as a 3-in-1 that fits standard, micro and nano sizes so the size incompatibility issues seem to be mostly fixed in my country at least.
Surely a massive breach of that cluster is high income inequality. And that leads sometimes to socialism as one possible reaction.
Pretty much every banking app I've used in recent memory (Chase, Citi, AmEx) has some kind of ad in it. Either to promote the bank's services, or promoting partnership deals (extra points for spending at certain retailers; discounts if you add a retailer's deal to what is basically a virtual coupon book). They're not quite as intrusive at Amazon's search result ads, but they're there.
I am happy to know if any NASA spaceships are intercepted by aliens that they'll have good quality lacing to represent us.
Ask HN: Did DuckDuckGo make an update, and is anyone else getting random porn?
Just noticed when searching duckduckgo for terms mixing japanese characters and english depending on one letter differences i will get relevant results or alternatively random images from xhamster etc. anyone know whats up?
NASA Cable Lacing Guide
> Nobody has a secure password on their phone, so your requirement fails.

Well, you could if you want to. That you don't want to, is a failure on your part, not on "everyone"'s part, since most phones do offer you the feature of setting a sufficiently secure password.

> However many people only have a phone, and no other computer (or at least not a computer they use often enough that we can trust the 2fa isn't expired).

You don't need a second device in order to backup your codes. By leveraging "cryptographic splitting" you can divide a secret into N parts and share them with friends and family, and if you need to regain access, ask them each for their part back and then you can recover from there. Now I guess that's kind of advanced so most people won't/can't do that, but it is possible at least. You could try something like https://iancoleman.io/shamir/ if you're curious about the process, I've done this myself for some things.

Easier solution is to create a encrypted archive with your backups, and upload to various cloud services. As long as the encryption scheme is secure, you'll be safe.

> The 2fa I've seen mostly has a SMS based fallback, and thus is no more secure than SMS.

I'm using TOTP 2FA for 100% of every service I use and that offers it. I think only one requires SMS-based fallback, the rest are optional so obviously I'm not using that.
Not everyone loves Steve Jobs. Lots of people don't. I don't.

I do hate that Zuck ruined the word meta for everyone.
yeah, commenting "reddit bad" is no less of a faux-pas than linking directly to reddit, especially for something so random that doesn't satisfy any specific intellectual curiosity except by linking to other, much better articles

instead it's just redditors vying for upvotes, talking about old news, making the same dozen tired jokes and references they hijack top comment in _every single thread_ to make, possibly with some humorous anecdotes and genuinely useful links mixed in.

This is not necessarily what I come to HN to read. The mental strain of separating the wheat from the chaff on reddit is too great so I come here to skip that part.

Despite this, I feel that addressing it is mostly nonproductive, and who am I to talk, but all the same, you brought it up so there's my 2 cents - I agree with you.