skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's mostly wrong, particularly in the context of the proposal above. Fallout comes not only from the unfissioned nuclear material of the bomb, but also from the fisson byproducts and from neutron activation of other bomb components, such as the bomb case. And with a ground burst, or worse a bomb buried deep enough to create a very large crater (the above proposal), a huge amount of fallout is created through the neutron activation of the ground itself. This is true even with extremely efficient fission-fusion-fission bombs (e.g. thermonuclear bombs which use depleted uranium tampers), which produce a massive amount of neutron radiation and a great deal of fallout from the fission of the tamper which is caused by the fusion stage.
monads help solve the problem of sequential computation in Haskell

It probably confuses people because this is a problem haskell created for itself.
I can't help but wonder why it's prudent to sweep in for a comment like that, but not any of the comments that have been associating homelessness with murder rates on an article apparently about a dispute between two tech workers. It's almost like the guidelines are catered not towards high-quality discussion so much as an aesthetic of high-quality discussion by protecting the emotions of a specific class of people who would get offended by that comment. Or should I be flagging comments that euphemistically mention the "homeless problem"?
People argue that ChatGPT isn't sentient because it's designed to perform the function of "give me a response that resembles a response to this question."

But that's exactly how human brains learn. It's training based on feedback.
One could say the same about things like push polling and humans. There's plenty of data from psychological studies showing that we can prompt humans into making false statements and/or doing/saying things against what their ostensible values are.
I would like to see this tech stress tested by a few of the firearm Youtubers. Perhaps Garand Thumb, DemolitionRanch and hickok45. Specifically I would like to see how much time is required in a home defense incident to activate the device. Maybe even send a demo model to each of them.
Matt, we had this conversation in person at a bsimm conference years ago when we were talking about how best to focus energy during threat modeling exercises. And while your position has become more nuanced, it still reconciles with our original agreement that time is the finite resource.

Unless I'm missing something specific? I imagine the reason why an agency would avoid said hostile battles is specifically to preserve time or perhaps to also buy time. (Being noisy is a great way to lose time quickly)

Agree to disagree on the money component, though. Maybe my comment is best clarified as "infinite from the perspective of [defender]"
Thanks! I had only looked at the Gerbil docs and couldn’t find anything about Windows.
It will be a constant arms race though and I don't see how the detection side could possibly keep up. The generative models will continue evolving and propogating. Any detectable pattern in one model won't be reliable for other cases.
It's very valuable to have someone on your team thinking about infra all the time.

We know that we are constantly pulled in many directions in our industry, and often we take shortcuts to get the work out the door. Infra is not a place you typically want to take shortcuts. Burdening devs with the infra | ops responsibilities is a sure way to security incidents and inflated costs.

It does provide a good market for consultants|contractors to come in and clean up afterwards.

If we look at this job separation in a different analogy, why do we typically separate FE & BE development? b/c people can only be expected to be proficient in so much of the stack? And you typically want someone around who is proficient for each part of the stack?
Maybe type in λ-Calculus
No, the message is from 2010; the book was published in 1982 and the film, adapted from the book, in 1984.
Oh wow what a wild ride of an article! As someone who has led the building of recommender systems (PM) for the last 5 years this rubs me the wrong way.

> I defend myself from arbitrary data collection that fuels the algorithms using PiHole, the tracker-blocking Disconnect plugin, and Firefox, plus a few other tricks.

The author clearly has no idea what he/she is talking about. Sure, Everything they mention blocks collecting tracking information but recommender systems mainly track your behaviour in the experience itself (clicks, page views, time on page).

> That leaves me and other privacy conscious folk with just one lever to pull offer - disliking a video

Again this author has it all wrong. If you’re serious about privacy the last thing you want to be doing is providing more input into the models we create!

And finally the comment that made me realise this author has no idea what he’s talking about;

> The solution to both issues is obvious, technically easy, and yet commercially a nearly impossible proposition: open up all recommendation algorithms. Make them completely transparent, and, for the individual being targeted by the recommendation engine, completely programmable.

Are you joking? So he/she thinks the east answer if for every user to ”program” their own algorithm. That’s like saying every Tesla owner should be able to program their own car! Let’s open the source code of Tesla to every owner!

Idiotic article.
"Rifters" series also has some of the most grimdark-fun & chaotic versions of the "net" that I've ever read.

I had an absolute blast with so far the first two books. Watts' mastery of psychology & neurosis & suspense is captured in an incredibly tightly confined dark scary isolated space at the bottom of the ocean. The setting here is just so exceeding. What a series (so far).
So how many times will I have click next page to get past the spam in search results?
Thanks for the info. He seems rather more lucid than some of the other writers and more in line with my thinking so I'll take him with a grain of salt as I familiarize myself with his writings.

I don't think "mind" is the necessarily wrong word. When I was beat by a chess machine in 1981 I sensed an intelligence that felt like a mind. I didn't know anything about computers then. I imagine a lot of people are having that experience right now.
I agree that the Achilles Desjardins torture porn was disturbing, but I've always interpreted it as an argument against Utilitarianism, and not BSDM porn per se. It's a more vividly disturbing version of The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas.

Watts sets up Desjardins as a Utilitarian demon, an evil that we tolerate because his specific evils are less than the overall good he provides the world.

In the end it turns out that the overall good he provided the world was a deception, and the man was revealed to have been pure villain for the entirety of books 3 and 4.

But yeah, I agree with you that I'd prefer to have not read those scenes. I'll still recommend Starfish, but not its sequels.
I was going to have GPT-4 summarize it, but:

"Input too long, submit something shorter."
One of the girls in my poly pod (I am both poly and lesbian), I'll call her 'Y', is South Korean and bisexual, and has repeatedly stated she'd rather die alone than to be stuck with an average Korean man. It seems like family pressure is the only reason left for South Korean women to give into the absolute shit deal that marriage is for them.
I bloody hope so...
American Football (throwball) or International Football (soccer)?
Interesting, thanks. Crazy I had it completely backwards.
The good friday agreement is genius. It allows Unionists to pretend they live in the UK still, and nationalists to pretend they live in a United Ireland.

The Brits should be held to account here by all parties- EU, and other trading partners - Brexit should not harm the agreement they entered freely, and has provided peace for decades.
It will reduce the demand for sure.
- Faster learning, debugging, template code generation, optimizing, etc.
- Faster documentation, meeting notes, everything non-core things that engineer engage in.

It will also increase the opportunities.
- Small companies and individuals will learn to be 10x more efficient.
- Many, many newer business and side hustles will pop up in matter of days.
Okay, so you write your own string library. Now you'd like to do the same thing for resizable arrays, so you write a resizable array li… oops, you can't, because C doesn't have parametric types.
> iot lightbulb in your grandpa's garage as the exit node

Obvious hyperbole and all, but just how much data is transmitted to accomplish a sophisticated nation-state level attack?

I’d believe a regular laptop is sufficient but not a lightbulb. Then again, if it’s only a matter of 100KB, then maybe a lightbulb makes sense.
> The system’s brilliance turns out to be the result less of a ghost in the machine than of the relentless churning of endless multiplications.

Isn't this the very "machine" being referenced?
it's anti-terrorism laws
I mean, setting up a WireGuard vpn is pretty darn simple, even into a k8s cluster. It’s not rocket science or anything; which is kinda my point. They make it too easy, and that worries me.
Why not? I netblock everything from .ru and .cn from my own servers. It's the way to go.
This will likely last you:

https://www.dyson.com/lighting
Let’s say everybody had rooftop solar and net metering. Everybody produces an excess of energy during the day which they give to the grid, then at night they start pulling energy from the grid. They could very well have a net energy consumption of 0 and pay very little. But someone, somewhere that is connected to the grid has to be doing something to provide that energy at night, whether it’s batteries or a gas peaker plant or pumped hydro or whatever.

Who is going to pay for all that power if none of the consumers are?

At least in that thought experiment, everybody gets to pay little for electricity. But in the real world not everybody can install solar (I live in an apartment building, others in less sunny areas) and not everybody can afford it. So I don’t end up with a net 0 bill and get charged the actual per-kwh rates, which the utility company sets to recoup their costs. Sure I use energy just like the zero-metered folks, but I have to pay full price while they pay very little relative to what it actually costs to give them power when the Sun is down, so I end up subsidizing them.
Maybe he likes the attention he gets from his fans but doesn't mind them losing money buying the top when he goes on TV and screams "to the mooooooon", and more examples as such
i mean sure if you want to split hairs over that, but "kids, don't believe what you read on the internet" is like a meme for a millennial who grew up with the internet.
> b) why the hell was finding that worth your time

Generally the only reason people dig up a trans person's deadname is for harassment or discrimination.
Node.js/JavaScript Testing Using the Test Runner Module
If you're extending Elixir with Rust, familiarize yourself with precompiled rustler: https://dashbit.co/blog/rustler-precompiled
People who are downvoting this... care to justify your point of view? Genuinely curious.
There are attempts at solving this issue more generally, by giving the GPTs access to external sources of information, and ofc the right prompts & chaining
Classism (lack of social mobility, dehumanization of homeless, etc...) is a more pressing problem to US society than whatever remain of institutional racism, but it doesnt get nothing of the airtime in the public sphere; influential community/thought leaders usually look more interested into getting into the next performative gig/grift to pay their high class lifestyle. what could be done?
I continue to be amazed how many people resort to this "its just doing math it isn't thinking" without reflecting on how their own mind is built up out of nothing but synapses firing, or bringing up the concept of turing completeness.
Heck, I'd pay $25/month if there were early access to videos and many an hour live q&a session!
I am personnally fan of command line vi modes. readline has one (bash, gdb, and others), zsh and fish have (a better) one too.
I have remapped Caps Lock to Esc and it's never been easier to just go up and down the history with j an k and to make quick edits.
> They often “get it wrong” and the individual will later feel they are the wrong gender WITHOUT necessarily knowing they were intersex at birth.

You see a similar phenomenon with trans people too. By a huge margin trans people know they're the wrong gender at age 5-6 well before they have any idea what boys vs girls even means. And it can't be they go with whatever people say they are because otherwise they wouldn't reject it. It's not something socialized. The expression is cultural -- boys have short hair, girls wear makeup, but the identity is fixed.

It's not really all that surprising in hindsight but humans seem to have an internal sense of their gender that's independent of their chromosomes. I mean if you swapped my body or did some weird gene therapy I would still know I'm a woman.

Trans folks seem to just be people for whom the firmware doesn't match the hardware. It's not even up there with the weirdest human things and now that we don't stigmatize it as much we're seeing that it happens wayyy more often than we thought it did.
We have clues, we know at a high level how our brain is built, and when we make a vague, mostly wrong copy, it works really well.
Well, to be blunt, it's because there are billion dollar pharmaceutical companies that want to keep making money off of these drugs, with around 20% of adults taking anti-depressants at any given time.
I think there is a demand for this service, as a similar service seems to be offered by Japan Rabbit[0] (sorry if you already were aware). But it's a proxy service (as mentioned by another commenter) while it sounds like you are purchasing direct.

I would buy sake, and I have heard the Japanese-exclusive Peace cigarettes are a treat, have been on the search for those.

You have a cool idea, good luck!

[0]: https://japanrabbit.com/
Isn’t that just the news? As in what they publicize is their internal editorial decision?

Aside sticking a camera in the newsroom and livestreaming all day, what would this entail?
Mind is a reasonable term.
I have love/hate relationship with Emacs too, but for the stuff I do in Emacs I hate other software more. So Emacs it is.
Treating a trans developer as no different from a cishet developer is not 'wokeness'.
Everyone's an expert on human learning all of a sudden.
I work on a lot of 'glue' issues, often with languages like Perl, PHP, and Erlang (and a bit of Javascript here and there). Specifying types all over the place in languages like C, C++, Java, and Rust feels like it gets in the way and limits more than it helps. (feelings more than data here, of course)

Sure, at boundaries between teams, you need to specify the data in some way. That could be a type, but for me, often the other team is using a different language than me, so it needs to be a language agnostic type, and it can't include unsigned numbers because Java can't cope, and it can't include large integers because Javascript can't cope, etc. Protobufs are popular, json is too.

I have a lot of unpopular opinions though, and that's fine. It's just tiresome that everyone wants to come in and add types to things that don't need them. Also, I agree with dllthomas, most developers and teams are capable of creating dumpster fires in all sorts of environments, with all sorts of tooling. :)
It's super weird that they've removed the founder's and CEO information from the site, and there is so little information about them on the Internet. Specially when WeVPN founder claims to "have been running" Private Internet Access for years, and there's a blog post saying that he used to be the President for PIA, and some other press releases saying he was the CEO.

The cache for their "about us" section [0]:

Jonathan Roudier
Founder

VPN Experience: 8 years

Jon has nearly a decade of working in the VPN industry originally in Marketing and later in leadership and senior management. With his years of insight and customer knowledge gained from running Private Internet Access®, one of the world's biggest VPN providers, Jon decided to build his own VPN to ensure that the moral and ethics which he holds true are upheld and to provide an industry leader in transparency and accountability. Outside of WeVPN, He enjoys spending time at the gym and watching movies.

Press release in PIA's blog for when they bought Cypherpunk VPN [1]:

Private Internet Access President Jon Roudier

Press release announcing CES sponsor [2]:

Jonathan Roudier, CEO of PIA, said “We, at Private Internet Access, are so thrilled..."

0: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LVfIvHK77E4J:https://wevpn.com/about-us&cd=2&hl=es&ct=clnk&gl=es
1: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/private-internet-access-london-trust-media-acquired-cypherpunk-vpn/
2: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151221005130/en/Private-Internet-Access-Top-Mobile-Sponsor-2016
It’s a negative signal, when searching for a hiring manager, to find a prominent medium article by them in which they extol the virtue of them repeatedly using the same programming problem when hiring without exploring the impact and consequences of this in a context that allows for a control group and other questions. The amount of smug confidence this person has is unwarranted, in my opinion. I used the word smug as this is the emotional description I read in this article. Please don’t ding me for using an adjective on purpose
Not surprising. Hacker news is made up of a lot of people who worship billionaires and have a contempt for the poor
Slack has a system called Nebula that's pretty adjacent to userspace WireGuard.
Why is that dystopian? Sounds like the standard, good-idea architecture for an application that communicates with a paid 3rd party API.
there you go https://towardsdatascience.com/i-used-chatgpt-to-create-an-e...
People will argue this up until the point a global platform approaching a monopoly censors their politics.
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Going a bit against the grain here I think but: I think tools like GPT-4 and beyond will increase the value of software engineers for companies as time goes on.

Folks building software can be more ambitious with the things they create, and it can become easier to plug in another software engineer to your team if tooling can make them more predictable in their output.

I see people here saying that increased efficiency is going to reduce their team's headcount which makes zero sense to me. I've never been on a team where there wasn't enough work to be done, it's usually a problem of too much work and needing to choose which is most important.

That being said, as someone who's been heavily using GPT-4 in their work and personal projects I feel like the gains are minimal. It's really great when I'm exploring an API I was unfamiliar with before, but for stuff I've been doing daily for years it's really not much help at all. Even places where ChatGPT shines, it takes some discernment to sift through the bullshit.
I've switched to tailscale because their nat busting is actually hard to do "by hand"
You would have separate JS and Python stacks that could share outputs, similar to a `terraform_remote_state` data source in terraform-land. There's also a yaml "language" support if you just want to use a config language: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/languages/yaml/, but I have never messed with this, as we really just use typescript.

As somebody who maintains public terraform providers though, I do want to point out that "With TF, there is one language and one binary" is not totally accurate. Each provider you install must be installed separately, and runs separately as its own process, and the core terraform library calls out to the providers via gRPC. You can verify this by running `ps` during your next terraform run and seeing all the different providers on their own processes.

Pulumi actually uses the same gRPC setup, and can even communicate with Terraform providers. So the only real different part binary wise is the "core" terraform binary being replaced by a different "core" pulumi binary based on the language you are using, but the rest of the providers will all be the same, and you'll run multiple languages either way.

If your company only supports one or a few languages in your normal production code, you can also just use those languages for Pulumi, and still get one language and one binary. There's nothing forcing you to use multiple different languages.
The median driver is a risk to his own life as much as the life of other motorists. The average robotaxi is not only an imperfect driver, but also has no concept of its own mortality, which is not the case for almost all the worst human drivers. The benchmark for "safer" is a lot higher than you think.
What's the "working solution" you're talking about?
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https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop/ seems to be the docs.

It's the first I hear of this. I wonder if there's any big advantage of this for someone who is already using syncthing for the same purpose? Biggest thing I could hope for is that it's faster. But I generally don't keep Tailscale running on mobile because I don't need it to and don't like the persistent notification.
You build a multi language component: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pulumiup-pulumi-packages-multi-l...

You can then publish a language SDK for your supported languages, so npm for node packages, pip for python.

The invoking peer needs to have the language they're using runtime locally

The python boilerplater is here: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-component-provider-py-boile...

Here's an example component built in Go: https://github.com/jaxxstorm/pulumi-productionapp

Then in examples you can see it being using: https://github.com/jaxxstorm/pulumi-productionapp/tree/main/...
The configurable time of use pricing is still probably useful for PG&E and indirectly consumers. If they know X% of customers here and Y% there are on a certain plan they’re somewhat incentivized to work around, they can use that to predict demand and incentivize some kind of useful demand pattern
>de-dollarization

American social media has been surprisingly loud in their predictions about the total imminent collapse of the US dollar and economy since February 2022.

As a European I would like cheaper American products and services caused by a weakened US dollar. But I don't see it happening yet. The US dollar is still strong, American companies are still competitive, and the S&P500 is a lucrative ingredient in most European pension funds.
what jobs have been "automated out of existence" recently in the US or elsewhere?
"We don't want our customers being unable to afford our products" is, I suspect, a common opinion among businesses. I'm not sure why you'd find it surprising.

Walmart wants people to spend their food stamps on their groceries. Tesla wants people to use the EV tax credits on their cars. They don't get accused of being government controlled because of it.
> Their trust relationship is with other companies, not with codebases they don't have time to build or audit anyway.

Sums up the book, Selling the Invisible.

(a pretty good summary: https://penniesintofortunes.com/2016/09/20/selling-the-invis...)