skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't feel comfortable taking on mortgage despite having multiples of needed deposit

This is great. It means you have more financial security than most in the event of a worst case scenario and the financial aspect appears to be underpinning a lot of your concerns so give yourself some credit for that.

The most valuable antidote to the concept of AI replacing skilled workers is depth of experience. Before your job becomes obsolete, the jobs of every engineer with half your experience need to become obsolete and we're a very long way away from that happening.
Completely stop what? If you encrypt your drive, then all these attacks fall into a category of 'continuing using a device after someone tampered with it'.

If you're that paranoid, then you can buy anti-tamper stickers. I'm not joking BTW, I think some of those are pretty damn impressive.
The new Doom games have little to do with the original Doom gameplay, perhaps because it wasn't that good in retrospect. For Quake there would be more potential for something like a remake.
The difference is a solar farm consists of 4 million identical modules and a quarter billion identical cells. If a cell is faulty, it decreases output of that module by 2%. If a module is faulty it either decreases the string output by 5% or costs $80 and 15 minutes to replace. If many modules are found to have a long term fault later, repowering comes at a cost penalty of about 1c/kWh. Building terawatts of solar involves trillions of identical cells, and trillions of trials to practise making them cheaply with zero penalty for iteration.

A nuclear reactor consists of many thousands of bespoke parts. If one is faulty, at the very least the whole thing is shut down while millions are spent replacing it, or possibly it kills a lot of people. Building terawatts of nuclear involves making each part thousands of times, and the penalty for iteration is thousands of man hours for validation as well as potentially shutting down every power plant with that part. If there is a major systematic flaw you are out 5-20c/kWh and years of output.
(2022)

Not a bad screed, but I feel that it's stuff that everyone knows, and The Powers That Be won't address, so it's not really useful to rehash it.
The lab-leak scenario presumes zoonotic jump, too. Just rather than from something in the wild, it's from humanized (ACE2-transgenic) mice, which WIV was known to be using to study SARS-like Coronaviruses.
This appears to have been signed into Texas law, to come into effect in September.

This applies to everyone under 18 in Texas.

I think there is a fairly good chance that this will be ruled unconstitutional.

At minimum, restricting the ability of 17 year olds to use a common means of communication is an unconstitutional restriction of free speech.
Yes, regulations makes construction expensive, but changing regulations makes it even more expensive.

The author concludes that while stabilizing regulations would make construction cheaper, it still wouldn't be cheap. And to further reduce costs, we would need to find ways to apply economies of scale in the build process.
The partition key limitation is something you can work out with smart partitioning and horizontal scaling. We do the same already with storage/tables to prevent large data blocks at a smaller limit even for speed/lookups/map.

Tooling could be improved and will be, it is fairly new still and the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator is not bad.

There is a CosmosDB Synapse setup that allows more analytics/intel on top like you said but same with other NoSQL, takes a bit to get worked in.

I actually like the flexibility of query types and that they include SQL as it makes it a bit more standard and somewhat less vendor lockin. You can use other types as well Mongo/Cassandra/Tables syntax. For filtering the SQL side isn't bad but most of what we do is flat/associative and not heavily normalized. For most of our data we are very cache heavy as well to reduce db hits and retries.

ACID compliance is huge and there are some design considerations.

What cloud DB do you use the most DynamoDB?
That would require Reddit to write code that meaningfully improves the site, rather than custom emojis and NFT nonsense.
More countries encouraged to commit to halt destructive ASAT tests
Is your friend Nathan Anderson?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Anderson
I hate that these days it is not clear what is meant by "crypto" without having more context. Because usually they want to kill the wrong kind of crypto.
My hope is that, being easy to deploy to Kubernetes, it should be easy to deploy to your own server! Or at least, as easy as Kubernetes is to deploy. The backend dev instructions are also enough that it should be easy to set it up on your own hardware without Kubernetes. (You’d still need Docker to run MinIO though.) Of course, the challenge in either case is keeping up-to-date TLS certs, but you could always use Certbot!
+1, the link to Joel Spolky's post on Unicode is probably the most interesting read I've found this year: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
There is no way for an individual to self custody digital currency in the current system. Bitcoin solves this.

For the record I don't hold any Bitcoin or classify as a "crypto bro". Your comment is just factually incorrect.
Even Bezos amounts of money won't achieve any of the things you've listed.
Yes but was that known beforehand?
Were there not helots with the Spartans too?
From your own article, we learn that your claim is wrong:

> we will no longer remove the claim that COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured from our apps

This illustrates the problem nicely: because there was so much blatant lying about the virus being a bio weapon, people forget that there was all along more sober discussion about it being a possible leak of a natural virus and that those discussions were never banned.

You’re similarly misrepresenting what little was in the “Twitter files”, no doubt because terms of service violations are a lot less exciting.
Honestly why care? Everyone writes bugs -- the thing is that Quake works fine -- if some quick runners want to exploit a bug 32 years later to impress each other with runs, after having dissected the code to bits to find glitches, is that really a bad mark on anyone? I don't remember anyone complaining about lightning gun glitches when Quake was being played.
A simple idea how to grow Ruby community
The community pretty much brought it to a new height. The custom engine looks cool and the new map packs/mods reflect the height of Quake level design.
> are you a doctor? worked in an er?

No, I'm not. My dad -- who died with dementia -- was in medicine for his entire life. I am writing about what people with cognitive impairment tend to need from the perspective of reassuring, daily, a highly intelligent person who couldn't remember stuff.

> there are a lot of strong words about what doctors should and shouldn’t do, with regard to empathy and compassion. there is a shocking lack of compassion or empathy in the very words demanding them.

The bit about hiring someone with empathy was quite clearly in my second point, which was aimed at the HN audience, not at the doctor.

(Though the guy who wrote the article isn't writing as a doctor in some medical publication, he is writing an executive at VC firm that backs AI startups, as other commenters have observed.)

I have a lot of compassion for doctors. I don't have a lot of compassion or empathy for motivated reasoning in AI marketing bullshit written by well-remunerated people who are trying to force a technology into healthcare where it does not belong.

And yes, the value of the piece of paper is that it bridged the divide. That's exactly what I said. It does it through consistency and constancy. ChatGPT has _no_ magical impact on that.
My PhD alma matter had a library until a year before I graduated and I found myself there once every few months just to browse and find a random Science or Nature issue from the 80s. It was a fascinating read for sure. Definitely much is lost even in science, people discovered a lot more with far fewer methods. I suppose the science was also easier and simpler.
Free for Life
China implementing the National Security Law in Hong Kong, as forcibly as they did, was a trial run for what they want to do in Taiwan.

China's military has been built with the explicit long term goal of invading Taiwan. They drill for it, with pretty provocative displays - e.g. flying ballistic missiles over the island last year.

I think they will continue to build their military until success is assured, winning the battle before it's fought, per Sun Tzu. That's the best way to fight: make resistance obviously pointless.

Russia, to take a different example, never had enough troops to occupy Ukraine. They had ~130k troops on the borders. Per [1], crushing the Czechoslovakia 1968 uprising and maintaining order afterwards required 500k troops for 14 million people, and that was without state military resistance. Ukraine had 3x that, Russia would have needed an army on the order of 1.5 million. So the plan was to fly in and take Kyiv in a decapitation attack, but it failed, and here we are.

China has an army of 2 million people actively serving. Taiwan is 23 million people. I think it's a matter of when, not if, as long as Xi is in the ascendant, and isn't too distracted by the growing problems of the lopsided debt-laden, export-focused, manufacturer subsidizing mercantilist Chinese economy.

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/03/russia-couldnt-occupy-u...
I really like this navigation model - it reminds me a little of the Panorama control [1] that Windows Phone attempted or the column-based, horizontally scolling UIs of the infamous Windows 8 Metro apps [2].

Sadly these more creative approaches seem to be forgotten in place of lazy hamburger menu/pages with back-stack style approaches.

[1] https://www.minddriven.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/wp7_pan...

[2] https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ytfp8btYCkR2rCpW9WS9u3.jpg
That's simple - "crypto" most likely means "fraud".
The clean up was absolutely over the top and not guided by objective measures. The government effectively already absorbs all costs involving the externalities of coal, oil and other dirty sources of energy, which add up to way more than 150 billion.
The jab was more targeted because one of these extremes is much more represented than the other, currently. It has become popular to be far left; it hasn't been popular to be far right in decades.
"...hallucinatory happytalk that paints with a very broad brush, and delivers not the tone you want, but an abstracted 'popularized' tone likely to convince large numbers of stupid and gullible people."

You capture essence beautifully.
"I want this construction done, and making a big deal out of this body will slow it down considerably."
Yes, IIRC it was exactly that teleport. I'll try to repeat this using hint from you :)

I was really confused when I hit that.
It's exactly because most of us can write concisely that there is a perceived benefit to use ChatGPT and similar to expand a concise instruction into a longer message that meets the social expectations. Those social expectations are what often prevents us from sending those concise messages to people today.
Thanks! I've been writing quite a lot of rust lately but have been mostly silo'd to my own so i'll definitely read through and see how wildy un-idiomatic my code is.

Even just scanning through it I saw `Avoid matching Option and Result` and the `if let` stuff that I have NOT been using and it looks much more concise already.
Really? I thought such shooters with quick movement don't work in VR.
It might've been ahead of its time. There is a funny thing that Apple are good at where early adopters decide they're going for something, they "invest", an ecosystem develops, the price goes down (or more models appear, some cheaper) and people start prioritising buying that thing. Tesla also, with their sequences of car releases.

I'm not saying this will follow that pattern, just that low adoption of a lower price product that can technically do something isn't necessarily evidence of failure of the idea.
They probably used encryption while doing the ransoms too so maybe we should ban individuals from using asymmetrical encryption.
So because your preference is different, everyone should be forced to conform?
Latent heat can be radiated into space, and offset with a relatively small, invisible shade at the earth-sun Lagrange point. 10,000 1km aluminum foil and Mylar sails surfing that point would make earths temperatures completely controllable and would be measurable only as a dimming of the sun imperceptible without sophisticated measuring apparatus.

Starship can carry 2 per trip. Inflatable, polymer hardening, weigh-shift controlled kites gliding just beyond L1 on the solar wind. We would have to launch 3 a day indefinitely, so we would still be encouraged to sort out our CO2 situation.
You can just use nvim _as_ the terminal itself:

nvim +startinsert -u $HOME/.i3/terminal.init.vim term://bash

A post with more customizations:
https://www.balajeerc.info/My-New-Favourite-Terminal-Emulato...
There is probably some degree of aliterative appeal in 'ally to adversary'. But they were viewed as at least neutral in the 90s.

Mitt Romney was also mocked for calling Russia the greatest threat in 2012. I was one of those people. I was wrong.
I'm optimistic partly because OpenAI still releases a lot of mistakes despite knowing full well what AI can do. They're rapidly hiring, they basically have a bottomless budget, and yet there's third parties doing what they don't have the manpower to do.
It turns out that humans are very bad at noting the absence of a signal.

Computers, on the other hand, are perfectly happy to use an expired timer to generate mail, a dashboard icon, or any other shout for attention that you please -- as long as you actually set it up. Paying attention to it is still a human problem.
At least AI provides actual value immediately - you can generate cool pictures right now. You don't have to HODL something and hope that you will be able to sell it to a greater fool.
Ask HN: How do developer surveys influence your tech choices
There are now various regular surveys (github, stack overflow, jetbrains etc) that poll thousands of developers about what technologies they use or they would like to use etc.

In turn the results are seen by thousands more of developers, so the question is what has been the effect of that information flow in the way people chose technologies and stacks?

One obvious hypothesis is that it makes people chase the same "popular" technologies. Everybody want to be part of the "winning team".

But the surveys also surface less known and "loved" technologies which migh attract attention that they otherwise wouldn't.

Its not clear which effect is stronger.
Do you have any examples of someone who was banned simply for saying it could have leaked, as opposed to lying about it being a man-made bio weapon? The latter was common in right-wing circles because it excused their leaders’ incompetent handling of the pandemic and scientists pretty quickly established there weren’t signs of genetic modification, but throughout the process there were people discussing the possibility of a sample leaking through a lab safety failure.
I remember someone claimed (I can't find it again) that the early Christian anti-heresy writers were pioneers in this regard. They believed that suppressing heresy was not enough, that unless a particular religious error was described and refuted it would surely be reinvented. This wasn't the norm.

Of course, it wasn't exactly defense of free speech, they still certainly didn't believe in letting heretics describe their beliefs in their own words.
Prison chess clubs helping rehabilitate inmates
Russia has been a mafia state long before the advent of crypto…
Show HN: Molly, a chatbot showing signs of consciousness
I've built a prototype of a conversational agent with an inner monologue, who gives the illusion of consciousness. And, according to Attention Schema Theory, consciousness is an illusion. So, this chatbot may be conscious.
It's built with OpenAI's Completion API (based on GPT3) and React. You can test it / fork it at will, it's open-source.
I would love your feedback on this experiment. Did we just reach artificial consciousness?
Used cars aren't supply constrained only at current prices, which are significantly higher than they used to be.

Demand is keeping prices high, there is no lack of demand.
Redundancy also adds a lot of complexity, as fail-over mechanisms aren't simple either. That added complexity then turns into additional possible error sources.

A friend of mine builds a component for a satellite system and the FDIR mechanisms need to be chosen very carefully, as adding more fail-safes can actually make the system overall more error prone.

There's an interesting blog post on from AWS about that topic [0]. Turns out adding more fallbacks and fail-safes is actually discouraged there.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/avoiding-fallback-in...
An origami-based haptic device that could enhance virtual reality experiences
So HN is basically a wiki :)
Sure, it's a government failing. Or looking wider, perhaps a system failing that the only governments who succeed in getting in are the ones that are cozy with lobbyists who either make big donations to their campaigns, or wield influence with the electorate in other ways.

I don't know how to fix that, but I imagine it's going to require political will from somewhere.
Some roads aren't even open to non-locals on weekends (no through road for motorized traffic). Here in Switzerland, for example: https://lenews.ch/2018/05/24/swiss-mountain-passes-to-be-res...
but I CAN argue its useful because I USE IT every day and can attest to its usefulness, even in the face of other options such as scroll wheel.

so you are free to argue that its not useful TO YOU, but you should qualify that, as you dont speak for everyone, or even a majority of users.
I Use Daily Notes
Show HN: Fire Your Lawyer
Quake 1 was the first stereoscopic game I ever played. Back in the late 90's, some local computer store had a 3D rig with glasses that had LCDs in the lenses that would turn the whole lens opaque. On the CRT, the left eye view would render on one refresh while the right lens was blacked out, and then it would alternate. It was such an amazing effect to see on a 120hz screen.
cryptocurrencies and exchanges mostly resemble casinos now.

so maybe they can just be classified as some kind of gambling product.
You're talking about late 90's-early 00's tech there (basically, LAMP architecture). It wouldn't be that hard to develop an open source, generic hierarchical forum engine that would be easier to deploy than an Apache+PHP+MySQL suite from scratch (on a dedicated Linux server that you have to completely configure all by yourself), and that would work both on a web browser and through a smartphone app.

Security would be less an issue than back then, too. We learned a lot since early PHP and early Javascript's bad practices.
Germany wants to legalize quality control of illegal drugs
tl;dr: The German minister for health wants to an existing law that bans the provision of quality control service for illegal drugs. This would allow federal states to offer "drug checking" services to consumers of illegal drug, reducing risks of accidental overdoses and similar side effects of drug usage.
Yes - I was thinking it was about the attempts to ban encrypted messaging. Really - who cares about cryptocurrencies any more!?
The Stupid Programmer Manifesto
Exactly that!

They just killed a really cool (somewhat toxic) community.

To me Quake World is the best
multiplayer game of all time.

But Quake 3 comes next and was really really fun to play.

Quake Champions is a great disappointment.
The Instant Pot Failed Because It Was a Good Product
Archive link: https://archive.is/yUWjh

Also kinda wish the author paid any sort of attention to the fact that doing this incorrectly may create a flood of DNS queries. At least have the decency to set up a bind cache or something.
What would be the motivation to build those cylinders? Traditionally people ventured into new places in hope of getting return of the effort and cost of the journey. Here it seems like you need to invest a lot, just to survive in emptiness.
https://archive.ph/bj54P
My air being free of electronetic toxins when I sleep between 22:00 and 6:00 is my basic human right.
Intense sounds, WiFi, unnatural lights, phone signals, even freaking radio waves (I forgive moon, it must have some natural function we are adapted too).

it's not natural so it's not humane.

My personal space is sacred and my neighbour has no right invading it in any shape or form.
I don't care if he lives 100m from me or 30cm away behind wall in the same building. it's all the same.

Also the ground under and air above from center of earth all the way up to end of atmosphere is my space, everything founded in that soil as well. If it's mine it's mine.

If I decide with milion other people to concentrate in one big spot our sky will be free from artificial crap obscuring free natural sky view. Your globalist collectivist agenda is completely irrelevant to me.

And if you cross our sky we have full right to get your crap out of our sight in self defense by any means we decide to use.

Clear borders and agreed rights keep everyone more happy and more free.

If people want to kill themselves slowly, poison themselves, test any new fake things on themselves let them.

But keep them away from those who want to live the whole naturally designed length of time that we were given being born on this planet from nature.
And if you shorten my life I get right to shorten yours, what's only fair but creates a never ending cycle on enmity and incompatibility.

Also city is not natural human growth environment.. but that's another topic.
As crypto has a netto negative impact on the world I hope that Coinbase and the other platforms get wrecked.

Regular currency is also abused, but at least it has a clear beneficial use case. Crypto only destroys, it sucks wealth away from those who often can’t spare it.

Crypto is the culmination of all the hubris of both men and capitalism combined. A solution without a problem.

The crypto people have it so backwards: they looked at those bankers and HF traders and they didn’t think: this industry must be regulated to death. No, they didn’t see anything wrong: they just want their cut, they were entitled to (temporary embarrassed millionaires).

The whole Wall Street Bets / GameStop phenomenon is also exactly that. But trying to join a destructive industry is only self absorbed nihilism (getting rich at the expense of others (which may be a tautology)). It doesn’t solve any of the systemic underlying causes and most other people end up being the bag holders.

Crypto in short is so similar to HF trading, just sucking out value without creating any value and as a society at large we can do without.
I agree, Little Boys or Fat Mans per second would be make me think more of physical power and less of kill rate.
Huh. I didn't know Taibbi made a big deal about not taking the salary up front. I misread your comment to mean "substack doesn't pay any of its writers, they all make their money off subscription" and couldn't resist the citation.

Carry on.
In the Netherlands the same happened with the railway and healthcare coverage. The motivation was that market pressure would lead to increased efficiency.
In practice, there's a tendency towards monopoly and a forest of product variants leading to more confusion and people buying sub-optimal.
The net effect over here is negative, in my opinion.
I mean, why would any state support crypto, something explicitly designed to bypass state control of money? Only those suffering oppression of their ability to transact, of course.
I fully agree with your casino comment.

And how about day traders and individual "investors" trying their luck with options?
Exactly, I'm always expecting it to be about cryptozoology!