skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
127/8 is fun!

I'm using it to run electron-like apps, abusing Bonjour to provide .local domains with reverse (ex: spreadsheet.local could go to 127.1.2.3 if you forge and send the right mDNS packet on port 5353)

Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to do the same in IPv6: fec0::/10 for site-local address precedence 1 was deprecated by RFC3879

See my proof of concept https://github.com/csdvrx/PerlPleBean/blob/main/experiments/... and the IPv6 explanations around line 70

For your usecase, if you don't want to be restricted to ::1/128 you could maybe replace the 127/8 by fc00::/7 but it would require setting the link up while I want everything to be automatic
I've never heard anything like that. As your sibling comments mention the check in the legislature is the official role of the monarch. It's not about the possibility of a military coup.

It still counts as a coup if somebody in a legitimate position of authority uses the military to seize more power in a manner not permitted by law
Every cop I saw in Guangzhou had at least an old makarov in an aging holster, except the metro police.
Ardour has not yet converted to GTK 3 and now ....

does it matter?
If you ask Chinese people outside of China, they also really don't care. They know what happened, its like the Kent State shooting for them.

The west severely exaggerates every bad thing that happens over there then pretends like every misstep is solved with execution. Sure there's censorship but its exaggerated to a level of fiction in the west, like a movie that's "based on real events".

More than likely if you ask a Chinese person in China about Tiananmen, they'll see you like one of those Nazi streamers who call girls whores in public. Just a weird edgelord looking to stir up trouble.
> Failing to applaud a speech by Joseph Stalin could get a person arrested. So could listening to bootlegged copy of the Beatles.

Moreover, Stalin died in 1953. The Beatles were not even formed until 1960. It's fair too sweeping a way to paint a picture of a very complicated country.
Automatic translation is impressive, to be sure.

But looking up information and translating it into other languages is well within the realm of human skill. And the information it's translating came from people to begin with.
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Before anyone says the FAA is the biggest impediment to us being a spacefaring civilization again, please note that China just drops rocket stages in populated areas without consequence. Fine, if that is the cost of progress, we as a nation should be ready to accept it, but via democratic methods
Just to offer a different perspective, this line

> There are real humans out there, put down the phone man.

was the part of this thread that actually provoked disgust for me. It's akin to telling a person suffering from depression "you should just be happy!" as if they haven't tried.

There are people out there who will never succeed in finding human companionship, it's a fact of life. I see it as a positive that they can at least find some form of companionship, because the alternative is a dark path that can lead to self-loathing, radicalization, and in the worst case scenario, violence.
> if government provides a health insurance scheme, it's Gulags right away

The price of health care in the US rose at the same rate as inflation, up until 1968. Then, the price increases tilted upwards, and have not slowed down since. What happened in 1968? Government health insurance.
part of the point is to separate the "is a place to deposit and withdraw your money" portion of banking from the "does financial speculation" portion.
LOL. Hinton won the f**ing Turing Award for his research in deep learning / neural networks, and you're telling us his knowledge is irrelevant.
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I’d rather they show off to each other than shoot at each other. Anything that reinforces their fundamental similarities has to count as a good thing.
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Feel the primitives are in place now (even down to a Habit version control system for the rules engine) and have daily users who are getting value, so focusing now implementing user feedback and trying to get it out there (as have done no real marketing), before I tackle the next big feature I'm excited about.
That doesn't really follow from the linked research (which is interesting, though).
Just a quick reminder that while paid time off was mandatory, working was also mandatory in the Soviet Union. One couldn’t just go on a sabbatical, that’d be a crime there.

> Those who refused to work, study or serve in another way risked being criminally charged with social parasitism (Russian: тунеядство)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_parasitism_(offense)
Let's skirt as closely to the edge of the safety envelope as we can. That'll work!
Please make your substantive points without crossing into flamewar or personal attack. Those things are not what HN is for, and destroy what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: we've had to ask you this more than once before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32655788 (Aug 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256585 (Aug 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23950934 (July 2020)

Worse, it looks like you've been using HN primarily to post this kind of thing. Please stop! We have to ban accounts that do that and I don't want to ban you.
When population is increasing you get bigger and bigger workforce and also more and more consumers.

When it is decreasing your workforce not only get smaller, but get smaller faster than the older population. And in total you get less consumers too.

So in a growing population situation, you can take loans with high interest rate and open business knowing you will have cheap labor, thanks to all new young people becoming adults, and over time lots of new consumers, so your business has guaranteed growth.

But if your population is declining, labor become expensive as each year there are less young people and less workers in total, while total demand also gets smaller but not fast enough. So taking a high interest loan is stupid idea, you have guaranteed high costs, and less sales long term, thus your business profits will never be bigger than the interest and you will eventually go bankrupt.
Sort of, but not really. There is a prisoner's dilemma here. People would like [better public transit, more art, you name it], but what's actually produced (and rewarded) doesn't completely overlap with what people want. It overlaps mainly with what _rich_ people want, which is different.

The reason investment bankers are paid well is that they make money _for rich people_. If you look at any professions, the closer you are to the money source and to the rich, the more you make.

Rich people want to stay rich in relative terms, not in absolute terms - something people always forget (because that makes them able to command other people's time and make other people "dance" for them, not buy gadgets or luxury goods which don't matter anyway).

I.e. I would argue that a lot of things that command a high income in the U.S. are actually net-negative for society overall (if we look at the value not in $ value, but in human value). Extracting monopolistic rents, for example. Slumlording. Speculating in Bitcoin. The list is long if you want to really make it.
I agree that emergent behaviors are real, and important.

I am skeptical, although not completely unconvinced, that LLMs like GPT are going to produce truly emergent phenomena, such as true first-principles logical reasoning. The limitations of the underlying transformer architecture itself are, in my opinion, the problem. The first problem is that the embedding space of the transformer needs to grow much, much larger, and it's already huge. This matters because you need to model the order of neurons in the brain. The second problem is that you're never going to train an LLM (as they're designed today) that is going to produce a truly good 'emergent-phenomena' answer without multiple network traversals. This is because the human mind constantly and autonomously refines its thoughts.

Perhaps a good counter-argument is that emergent phenomena are fundamentally a space-time domain concept.

I am aware that things like Conway's Game of Life are a fantastic counterargument to my "the transformer architecture doesn't support it" argument. But I agree that the definition of "emergent behavior" when it comes to machine learning is too easily corrupted to be novel rather than rigorous.
> reverse the direction of entropy

This is unironically my spiritual belief in a greater power and purpose for living even if I can’t directly do anything to affect it. I think it is one of the most fundamental dogmas of any religion, that ultimately there is order.
The OED is always going to be a lagging indicator -- usually decades lagging.

Their sibling project, The Oxford Dictionary of English, is going to be much more current on slang. The names are confusing, but aside from having the same publisher they're almost completely unrelated. The OED is an academic project for past language evolution; the Oxford Dictionary of English is a practical dictionary for use by everyday English speakers.
Ask HN: HN for the outdoors?
I visit HN more than any other website. I like the format, even though some posts are over my head. I often find myself looking for something similar in the outdoor space. Perhaps covering topics like long road trips, endurance activities, and the like. Has anyone here spotted something of the sort?
Google Maps does this for you. And nearly every local provider tends to have apps with end to end directions these days.
> XINJIANG, China (AP) — The razor wire that once ringed public buildings in China’s far northwestern Xinjiang region is nearly all gone.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-ch...
Twitter co-founder Rabble talks the future of social media
Don't pay too much attention to scores on HN, they mean very little. Usually over 24 hours or so things will normalize anyways.
Would this cause arthritis in hips too, or just hands?
> Moving to a cashless society has some real drawbacks when it comes to privacy and freedom.

As I understand it, the people developing GNU Taler, are trying to solve this problem and have come up with a promising system.

https://taler.net/en/
Companies Should Invest in Their Website Agreements (2021)
I want to disagree but thanks be to the lack of agreed definitions I will agree.
Anyone who regularly uses public transit in the USA could tell you this isn't a serious solution to a real issue.

You use either Google Maps, Apple Maps, or the Transit app to tell you what to get on. You either buy a local nfc card or have an app on your phone you tap on the sensor to pay.

Having to use more than one app isn't an significant burden compared to the fact that that trains and busses don't come to the places I want at the times I want reliably.
Wow i'm curious why prison?
Environmental groups sue FAA for SpaceX launch that exploded in April
Came here to mention AS and the klebsiella hypothesis. Like you said, nothing conclusive has come out of it (and certainly no evidence of using antibacterial treatment successfully to treat AS), but I still find it super interesting considering the high comorbidity between AS and intestinal diseases like Crohn's and ulcerative colitis. IIRC some of the more recent "AS is a form of reactive arthritis" truthers have focused on gut infections specifically as the pathway.

Big grain of salt, of course. Thankfully even if we can't pinpoint its exact etiology we still have a million proven drugs to throw at this thing.
He won't rest until he's home
NYC/SF let you just tap your phone to get on transit. Apple Maps does a great job of trip planning using real time information about the status of trains. It is super smooth and easy. Easier than Uber even.
Oscillating Plasmas for Proton- Boron Fusion in Miniature Vacuum Discharge
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I think there is an enormous survivorship bias here. Research advances come in alternating of periods torrents and droughts, not in a steady trickle. Hamming, Shannon, and their contemporaries worked at a time of revolution in computer science.

Let's put deep learning aside for a second. Can anyone here name a single academic in any other subfield of computer science who had a string of groundbreaking research works where every one of those works is from 1980 or after? I can't. And that's almost half a century that we're working with. Many people who defended their PhDs in the 1980s are already retired.

This applies to plenty of other fields as well. Medicine, for instance: There were surgeons in the 1960s and 1970s who have half a dozen new surgical techniques to their name. (If you want some examples, look up Michael DeBakey, Mark Coventry, and Thomas Starzl.) You will not find a single academic surgeon today who comes even close to that, and at least in my opinion it's not because modern surgeons lack drive or creativity or the ambition to tackle big problems.

Hamming is probably right that the role of luck in the sense of serendipity is overblown, but he ignores role of luck in the sense of structural factors that are out of your control. Because he and his colleagues largely operated in a context where all those structural factors were completely optimized.

If you decide to start a PhD in a field 10 years before that field is destined to hit a multi-decade rut, if your advisor fails to make tenure partway through your PhD and your lab is shut down, if you get your first academic appointment in an environment where research funding is trending down and regulatory burdens are trending up, these are all factors that are by and large out of your control that can significantly alter the trajectory of your career.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35762026 and marked it off topic.

Incidentally, bogus generalizations about HN are one of the lowest-quality forms of this. Please avoid that.

The community is divided on most topics, especially the divisive ones—this is neither surprising nor interesting, and perceptions about what's "saturated" are driven by people's passions on $topic.
This is not even a prude thing, based on further replies on this thread, I actually find it disturbing how they can take the most innocent of images and find it sexually suggestive. The only requirement to trigger "semi-nsfw" seems to be that the character is female. If this is prudishness, it's the sort of prudishness that's caricatured as coming from repressed perversion of some sort.
For those wondering why these guys are located in Michigan's upper peninsula. In the sixties NASA built a launch site on Lake Superior nearby. They wanted trained locals to man it. So the local mining school, Northern Michigan University, added a space tech curriculum.

NASA left in the mid-seventies but the degree program continued although most students left Michigan after graduating. I find it encouraging if these guys succeed then students would have a chance to stay in state.
Omnipresent habit to turn everything into the slightest personal attack is tiresome

Social media is a dumpster fire of apes reciting memorized experience.

Sorry not-sorry reality is not thinking of you first.
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Funny, I have been to China many times visiting family and have never felt that western media has been particularly unfair in its portrayal.

I would rather not ever go back while Xi is still in power if I can help it (unfortunately I may have to one or two more times for familial obligations) and would recommend against going to anyone on the fence. Don't get Brittney Griner'd.
Yup.

Family member is on Remicade. It's administered in two doses (IV infusions) every 4 months, so 6 treatments/year. And retails for something like $12k/treatment. And many insurance companies have removed it from their list of preferred drugs due to the cost, leaving patients to fight for medically necessary treatment.

It's a fucking nightmare (as if RA on it's own isn't bad enough).
I had lunch with Yoshua Bengio at the AGI 2014 conference in Laval, CA. This was just before his talk on pathways to AGI via neural networks.

Everyone at that conference, including myself, have assumed we will eventually create smarter than human computers and beyond.

So it’s not a new position for people who have been in AI for a long time, though generally it was seen as an outsider position until recently.

There’s a ton of really great work done prior to all of this around these questions and technical approaches - I think my mentor Ben Goertzel was the pioneer here holistically, but others were doing good technical work then too.
Cool! Semi-related: I wish Google Docs had a text only mode.
This makes me think about the ghost in the shell movie. When you have that kind of technology at your disposal, you can inflict great suffering.
> No, by printing money, the government dilutes/devalues the money they already have. You still have 100 dollars. Theft would be that you have 98 dollars.

No, I cannot agree with you. If I had 100 dollars and then the government devalued them so that they are worth 98 old dollars then how is it different from taking 2 dollars out of my pocket? It is the same thing just called the other name. Of course, the government won't use words like "take out of the pocket" or "rob", they have scientific names for that like "monetary policy".
> That's quite the cost increase for the DX improvement.

It depends how much you spend on egress vs developers.
Roundup/Glyphosate is such a nasty chemical. Farmers use it in practice regularly for crop desiccation [1] in order to yield more harvest cycles. Why do we still allow it knowing what we know?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation
And for visitors who may not even speak the primary language, public transit is awful in most places in terms of onboarding jet lagged visitors. Apparently no one does UX trials of people who have zero familiarity with the system and don't speak the language--though at least they maybe accommodate major Western languages. But, in general, it's pretty awful and you at least should do some research in advance.
If the government doesn't allow to use these apps, ISPs probably also have to comply in some way (probably blocking URLs). And if not, app stores would probably need to hide these apps.

I mean, those are legal issues. The point is they're banning them and if you use them you go against the law.
Drug expiry debate: the myth and the reality
Prices of articles can vary due to changes in the price level and due to other causes (such as obsolescence, changes in consumer preferences, and so on). CPI only informs us about changes in the price level, it doesn't tell us anything about anything else. So the fact that the price of a particular article hasn't changed exactly according to CPI is completely normal, and not a reason to believe that the CPI is "wrong".
> In other words, I agree men are being made miserable by social media, because you sound miserable.

Ah yes, shaming language. The correct response to a suicide epidemic.

Well done -that's never been done before /s
Unlimited vacation has the greatest negative spread between "how it sounds" and "how it actually works". It's incredibly employee unfriendly.

As a leader, I will fight against it every time it gets proposed.
You're not paying for my software engineering either, at least not directly. In fact, you don't have a choice about it. It's included in the markup of the products you purchase - in all of them.

In fact, if you had a choice, if we sold software services the way we sell art today, software salaries would go way down (in fact, someone could increase revenues for a company by making it impossible for you to unsubscribe. If that's not anti-value, I don't know what is. In fact, it's so bad that we even have to pass laws to outlaw it). Same for medicine and many other things - the financialization and obscurity of the actual source of the money is part of what allows this whole thing to continue.
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I didn’t even say anything about covid. I was refuting that it should be referenced as horse dewormer. You seem to have some major bias as well.
So here in this forum right now, convince everyone that you are intelligent.

….
I think the real hazard is insufficient testing of infrequently used features.
It wasn't followed, of course. Indeed, the early dissident movement in 1960s started with demands for the government to actually follow the constitution, and then kinda evolved from there. But also, as usual with constitutions, the wording in many cases is vague enough to allow for some ... creative interpretations.

In preparation for the 1980 Olympics, Soviets published a pamphlet titled "USSR: 100 questions and answers", meant primarily for Soviet citizens as an agitprop manual - basically a list of precanned answers to the most common questions that Western tourists were expected to ask. It is a hilarious read, but also very informative if you want to know how it was all sold in official propaganda.

https://sovtime.ru/answers

(So far as I know, it's only available in Russian, but automated translation is good enough these days.)
All of the dozen or so locals I talked to at Brownsville / San Padre Island were supportive of SpaceX moving in.
> a market economy can['t] accurately assign prices

Well, that is meaningless unless you define what "accurately" means here. This word is carrying a huge amount of weight, and isn't capable of that at all. (And when doing that, keep in mind that "price" is not "value", and there is no reason at all to equate those two.)