skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The analogy would be that what we call Genius is secular sainthood today.

What I think about sainthood now is that "they forgave you when you won," as many of them could have been condemned as zealots and heretics, and many of them have what are effectively cults. But if you made enough of a mark, the church authorities had to weigh the balance and decide whether to ignore you as a heretic, or cannonize you as a saint. Not much has changed about the world today, and some of my favourite modern writers could have been said to have lived similar lives to saints.

What I have come to appreciate about that religion is related to St. Francis and the Franciscans, which is being in nature and relating to it. That is, without language or self, which seems heavy on the woo, but it can make stark the smallness and absurdities of our material world and the suffering we impose on each other as the effect of our opinions and perceptions filtered through ideas of self. It's meaningful that rivers and trees in nature don't care. The Japanese "forest bathing," is related, where I think people really benefit from being free from their own judgments of themselves and the percieved judgments of others.

Where it relates to Francis is that animals absolutely notice and behave differently around people who have let go of their self-ness(?) and wants, since "wanting" in nature necessarily means predation to every other being. Life consumes life, and something expressing want of any kind is going to eat something so you don't want to be around it. I suspect that hunger is something repellant to everything in nature, as you don't want to be around anything that is expressing it. If you've ever heard someone described as "a bit thirsty," it means to avoid them. There's some deep psychosexual stuff going on with that bit of slang, imo, but the story of Francis was how he had given up that need.

People certainly let go of that want and hunger of spirit without the Christian path, just ask those Buddhist monks how they live with tigers. But if someone wanted to emmulate Jesus's example from those stories in scripture, I think the stories of Francis communing with animals are an example of someone who was able to understand that facet of Jesus' presence, and to present himself to animals without the want and hunger that defines the self in many religions, and like the lions laying down in front of the martyrs thrown to them, the acceptance by other animal beings was evidence of faith curing that spiritual hunger. The message in the canonization of Francis is, we are not merely our hungers and thirsts, we are more, and we can exercise it by emmulating Christ's example as a map - or just find a way to figure it out for yourself through some other path.

If you are in fact a genius, consider that your odds of being cannonized as one are pretty low, just do good work and make things people want that relieve their suffering, and maybe just keep your head down for a bit, as one gets the impression the inquisitors these days are restless.
Last I checked, the USA spends more on military than the next nine nations, combined. Do we need to spend _more_, or do we need to change how we spend the vast amounts already collected?
You forgot those damn avocado toasts
I would go the opposite route and suggest perhaps the idea of individual geniuses is flawed. The cluster is the genius. Even in the cases where we point specifically to single geniuses, outside of the times and places mentioned in this essay, if you look at the history more closely it is typical that the individuals in question didn't arise out of the blue.

They were part of a community that had collectively just about figured something out or created something new. One person was the one to make the last step and have their name in the history book. But in most cases it's likely if that person didn't exist, someone else would have made that step at approximately the same time in history.
As an Armenian speaker i was pretty surprised at this part

> Recent ancient DNA data suggest that the Anatolian branch of Indo-European did not emerge from the Steppe, but from further south, in or near the northern arc of the Fertile Crescent — as the earliest source of the Indo-European family. Our language family tree topology, and our lineage split dates, point to other early branches that may also have spread directly from there, not through the Steppe.”
Nostalgia, funzies.
One week of empathy training (2019)
> No, as they never get loaded into the ssh binary and are external programs communicating over an interface.

my understanding is that the same would apply if you use ykcs11 in the OpenSSH agent instead of using it directly in `ssh`, which would make this a comparison between (OpenSSH agent + YKCS11) vs e.g., ssh-tpm-agent.

from the qualys report you linked:

> Note to the curious readers: for security reasons, and as explained in
the "Background" section below, ssh-agent does not actually load such a
shared library in its own address space (where private keys are stored),
but in a separate, dedicated process, ssh-pkcs11-helper.

additionally, as I understand it, this basically boils down to use-after-free due to unsafe code, which could occur in either agent implementation, even without loading an extra .so, although the presence of .so loading in general certainly does increase the attack surface.

> `ssh-tpm-agent` is not dealing with secret material.

while the agent is certainly not accessing the private key directly, as long as you can access the agent and make it sign whatever you want, this will still be a very valuable vulnerability, with the only downside (compared to non-HSM keys) that you won't have persistent access to the private key, only temporary access for signing.

this can also be partially mitigated by requiring user interaction for every signing operation, but it's also not necessarily something that works for all use cases, such as when connecting to a few hundred destination hosts.

> There is a separation of concerns here though.

when you compare (OpenSSH agent + YKCS11) to ssh-tpm-agent, they're both separated from the main `ssh` process and communicate through the SSH agent API.

PKCS11 allows you to use `ssh -I /path/to/lib.so` directly, which there doesn't seem to be a comparable alternative for in ssh-tpm-agent, so I'll ignore that feature for now.
The power of weeds to end hunger in an uncertain climate
First it was "support a family of five", then "luxurious lifestyle" then "humble lifestyle". Except for the "luxurious" one, it was possible pretty much at any time in human history, including now.
Interesting observation, it hadn't occurred to me but I think you're right. My dissatisfaction with software work started right around the time that agile practices became popular. The work changed, and started feeling like less of a craft and more like flipping burgers.
If there’s no solution within democracy then maybe it’s time for a solution outside of democracy
That was a good description of Patrick at the time he wrote this post, but stopped being accurate shortly afterwards. The majority of his career, in fact, has not been consulting or advice-giving; he made his living on a micro-SAAS, like you, for a bunch of years, and left consulting after an ill-fated startup he did with some schmuck on HN and spent the longest stretch of his career to date working in the payment industry mines at Stripe.

Your point is well taken! I appreciate also that you're not making an absolute declaration that advice is untrustworthy. I spent a long time as a professional advice-giver too, but if you lashed yourself to the mast and ignored my advice that there was a CBC padding oracle in your session cookie implementation, you were plotting a course to the ocean floor. Running a business means being careful which advice you let in and which you don't.

My only nit here is: between this and your other comment on the thread, I don't think Patrick's advice here was unwelcome. I have a vague recollection of Colin being asked first. Also: if anyone was going to ask before publishing unsolicited advice about someone else's business, it would be Patrick. So the Bingo Card thing is a bit of a low blow. Also, easy to make fun of when you exclude the context that he lived off that Bingo thingy for years.
Llama 2.
So what you're saying is that Confluence search is bad, because it has no understanding of relevance, something we figured how to do even before the PageRank algorithm got published in 1998?

Search is meant to help humans find what they need to find. If your search function doesn't (and Confluence's sure as hell doesn't) then it's bad. And arguably, plain mislabeled because it's not performing searches. At best, it's grepping.
This is so sad. I think there is an underdiscussed crisis with some segments of men.
Do you live IN the Venice of tourist photos or outside on dry land?

Assisi was a great stop on my drive through Italy in 2016.
Tobacco is a model organism because TMV is so easy to work with. You can grow tobacco to maturity quicky, transfect it with TMV, isolate the TMV and then transfect another generation extremely rapidly, with low effort, and you don't even need PPE really.

It's so easy to work with that chemists (who often suck at biology) use it as a model for supramolecular chemistry.
An Introduction to APIs
Bizarre remark. Adobe has no power to unify the Linux desktop. They cannot force me to stop using the DE/WM of my choice. Desktop fragmentation is a natural and desirable consequence of user choice. You seem to be confused as to what this conversation is even about.
It's possible people vote up articles like these because they want skeptical readers to analyze them.

(I don't do that, and I don't know anyone else's HN voting habits, but it seems at least plausible.)
A federal system mitigates this somewhat in the US where one region screwing up can suddenly see their neighbors thriving and hopefully lead them to wonder what they’re doing wrong.
Nigeria also has a rapidly growing population that likely will exceed that of the United States in a couple of decades but that alone isn't the secret sauce to passing the US economically and militarily.
Hauntingly beautiful, with a hint of blackberry beefiness. Are these the base prompts, or the refined ones?
I've only read one study [1] and its follow-up [2] with code-density benchmarks but according to them (one source), x86-64 is actually one of the denser contemporary ISA's ... provided that the compiler/programmer is smart enough to adapt to the ISA's quirks.

1. <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224114307_Code_dens...>

2. <https://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/papers/iccd09/ll_documen...>
Wait, that doesn’t track. Until 2020, Britain had one of the most open and trade dependent economies. And austerity dates only back to 2010 or so. It’s doubtful that Britain’s current situation can be explained by policies that are barely a decade old.

In terms of per-capita GDP, the UK was behind France from 1985 to 1998. It jumped to parity with the US from 1998 to 2008. But that jump seems to be a product of the very financialization that the Atlantic article complains of. That evaporated after the 2007 recession. And since then, the UK hasn’t done any worse than France or Italy: https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+per+capita+gdp&client=saf...
Background on the authors according to a far-left website.

Let's at least be honest.
NeXTSTEP ended up being the visual foundation and the actual foundation of the two major operating systems that it had sought to supplant in the first place.
This is the standard response, but we’re not measuring the deaths caused by bad software. Bad software causes deaths by:

- user error

- It’s expensive so people don’t get treated in the first place

- doctors making treatment errors because they couldn’t see the whole picture because they couldn’t work the software

Also the non-regulated software is observably better and more reliable than regulated software. The author even compares regulated software to non-regulated software in the article.

Paradoxically ensuring that an error is never made reduces the probability that the system will do the right thing.
You could remove all the arcane laws, regulations, and zoning which make constructing new houses ludicrously expensive. Most people would be perfectly happy to live even in a shoddy log cabin built by them and their family if it meant they would could save those hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars they would've spent otherwise to improve their lives in other ways. This alone could be enough to shave decades off the career of the average person.

You could disallow corporate ownership of dwellings of any sort, and heavily tax ownership of more than two homes per family unit.

You could provide significant tax benefits to lifestyles that approach self-sufficiency, such as people in rural areas that grow their own food.

You could mandate a quota of completely remote workers for many industries, encouraging the diffusion of people and opportunities across the country, instead of everyone rushing to expensive cities in hopes of finding work.
Is it just me or this article somewhat confusing to read? It reads more like a very first draft that hasn't been reviewed yet.

The original source is also much more informative, contains actual benchmarks and is somewhat readable if you just translate it: https://www.cnews.ru/news/top/2023-07-28_rossijskie_bajkaly_...
You should check out Randal Carlson on Joe Rogan, and this is a very interesting video on the topic.

https://youtu.be/3qXuAzzVOTQ
Not sure why this comment is dead.

You’re partially correct that a fair bit of health software is stagnant and fixing bugs takes time (although not years) but when discussing EMRs, especially the biggest player (Epic), they fairly regularly change the UI and I’ve had to learn a new workflow at least once a year for the last decade.
Related: I have a small library of personal videos, including from my wedding, and I'd like to compress it as much as I can to reduce its storage footprint. I don't care much about codec compatibility, as long as I can watch them on my (ARM) MacBook, it's good.

In the past (over 10 years ago), I used to work with H.264, but I remember fiddling with parameters was a pain. I wonder if nowadays there are some promising new codecs based on ML. Again, as long as it works in my machine it's good, so anything from GitHub, HuggingFace and so on is acceptable, as long as it doesn't need too much effort and specialized knowledge to run it.
> I highlight this because it's not an unsolvable problem for emacs. It requires making a recommended default configuration that will be more correct for the 95% use case and advocating that configuration on the install channels for the tool.

For people interested in this, I know about Doom Emacs [1] and Spacemacs [2].

[1] https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs
[2] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
100%. And all of this regression is either in the name of pure vapid trendiness, or an attempt to supposedly make things “easier for non-technical people” — and yet these people still have no idea how to use their devices any more expertly than they could Windows 95. The only difference is back then people knew what a file was and where it was located. Now there are a lot of people who don’t.

TL;DR millennial shakes fist at cloud
By causing the vehicle to start operation, the driver accepted responsibility and liability, per the current laws on SDCs. Therefore, "scapegoat" is a misnomer that wrongly implies innocence or detachment from the sinful deed(s). The driver accepted her fate by signing up and settling into the left-hand front seat.

I call bullshit.

Why was the "SDC" even on the road?

See, refusal to deal with this question is the attitude that increasingly pisses me off about tech companies. Oh, it's totally fine for me to deploy a multi-ton vehicle system with a "backup" operator that all human factors research reasonably tells us is going to be rendered unsafe by the levels of detachment induced by too good, but not good enough" levels of automation. Heaven forbid though that the company be ultimately culpable for the hazard they create. After all, they got an "independent contractor" to transfer risk onto. Likely one that poorly the nature, implementation, mechanics, and character of the system they were to supervise.

Gotta exploit the opportunity for massive profit, while saddling someone else with all the bite of the risk, because conventional testing and sane operational practices (which includes not deploying shit you know is going to be unsafe) is toooooooooo expensive and too much to ask.

Uber, apparently made the decision to deactivate the AEB system (likely because otherwise they couldn't convince anyone sane to ride in the car because they system wasn't ready). Uber decided to undertake risk transference to an independent contractor that, lets be real, every executive there knew they weren't going to have a great success rate at getting across the real operational envelope of these vehicles. The same exec team that brought you things like their networks kill switch to frustrate LE raids in other jurisdictions, and project Greyball, a system to gaslight LE in other jurisdictions as well. If anyone was "Jesus take the wheel"-ing that night, and every night leading up to it, it was Uber.

But nah... We all sit back and accept these types of shenanigans as just "cost of doing business". It's "too important" to develop safely.
My company would call that taking a mental health day, which is considered a legitimate reason for not coming into work.
Actually $279 million.

An interesting part:

> Both the $200 million CFTC award and the $279 million SEC award involved individuals who blew the whistle after the agency had already begun to investigate the misconduct at issue.
Many practical applications require ductility and durability. So it depends; if the material is ceramic, it's not so useful.
That link is basically infinity times better than the article we're all commenting on.
Question is, if this has always been the case or has become a new/increasing phenomena.

I would call foul if insurances could just weasle their way out of anything that might affect their bottomline because they miscalculated risk.

What if your life insurance drops you because they suddenly get access to genetic data, so they increase their odds after the fact?
There is a company in Taiwan called Gogoro, which created this market; they sell scooters that you can't charge, but they have modular batteries and battery swap stations all over the island.

You just stop at any station, insert your depleted batteries, click a button on the app and they give you freshly charged batteries to put back in and go.

gogoro youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ddtHj_N2E

asianometry video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZigLuaijsI
Seems like a faster route to destruction would be letting Elon buy it.

But yeah, this does seem to happen painfully often. The particulars of this specific incident remind me a lot of the FFmpeg vs LibAV split (or the LibAV+Debian vs. FFmpeg+Everyone Else split).
I can't believe I'm on the side of Facebook on this one.

The problem is "nations" don't represent the people in those nations, and those in power are just as capable as big tech in to relying on scare tactics and duplicitous messaging and misleading the populace in order to push forward their own agendas.

Fighting encryption has nothing to do with "saving the children", no more than all the misguided disastrous crusades against one thing or another over the past 50 years have been about saving the children.

I come from a place where in the 2000s the religious institutions through a hissy fit about certain music and subcultures and how they must be suppressed in order to "save the children". Fighting encryption may not be religious in nature but is born out of the same need for power and control.
Walk behind restaurants in many US cities and you'll see the cheap mountain bikes that the lower-paid kitchen staff (mostly immigrants) rode to work. This is particularly common in the SF Bay Area.

(I am in favor of improving cycling infrastructure for everyone regardless of income level.)
Cialis has been linked to mitigation of cognitive decline:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6705107/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-53136-y

And Viagra has been identified as a potential tool against Alzhimers:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-021-00138-z

https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-...

Ideally, we'd identify the key mechanisms at play and be able to develop lifestyle modifications that would support them, but it's pretty cool that these drugs have benefits beyond just better bedroom performance.
I'm sure we did but basically you're showing there is no critical theory bastion, they are a diffuse minority compared to most actual departments.

And that tracks with my personal campus experiences, as well as the historical account of critical theory itself.
The other great feature of Emacs is that its keybindings are so pervasive. Most native MacOS text input widgets and modern POSIX shells like bash and zsh use Emacs-style key binds for navigation and text editing. Also anything that uses GNU readline supports them as well out of the box.
"weeds" is such a misnomer in many instances, such as milkweed and dandelions and clover being very important.

Whatever that weed is with the little spikey-ball-nodes that get into your pets hair, or in your laces and socks - that weed sucks - but nature has a balance between insects and "weeds" that we shouldnt be decimating with glyphosate...

Monsanto is more a threat than climate change. Because killing the shade, plants, ecosystem etc will make it compoundedly harder for the general ecosystem (which means food pollination) will be more heavily affected by greater average temps.
Unable? No. The format of competitive debates often lends itself to awarding 'points' based on the number of arguments that can be put out, rather than examining their validity. A time limit only makes that pressure worse.

The Socratic dialogues are written like normal human conversations in an attempt to give the audience the ability to read and understand the ideas being spoken. That's why they are still studied, thousands of years later. The insane drivel-speak of competitive debates will be lucky to be remembered for any few years after the topics they regurgitate stop being relevant.
I'm filled with anger that it was so easy to gull the people into going along with so much self harming but here we are.

Until the people start making smarter decisions this country will race further and further into the morass it finds itself in.

I despise the establishment. I despise the generally spineless main stream media who are strangely unable to ask the right questions and dig deeper for the truth. I despise right wing voters. I despise people who conflates socialism with communism.

Pretty much sums up the country.
Finding normal human emotions to be weird seems even weirder. Are you not also a human? I guess we can't actually take this for granted these days.