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Louis Rossmann talked about cyclists not respecting pedestrians yesterday [0].

[0] NYC's toxic ebike culture almost killed 4 people; let's talk about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrtLWilSoNI
"Please don’t post lazy commentary like this again"
And Post Traumatic STRESS Disorder isn't?

You got an atomic bomb dropped on you, experienced a literal apocalyptic sun consuming everything you loved first hand and all you (impersonal) can come up with is "stress"?

If you want to stay coherent then we should have made up a term specifically to tackle the world-ending experiences these people lived through.
The breadth of capabilities the small nation has is astounding.
Red algae proteins grafted into tobacco double plant growth
Well, if the meat is chicken or turkey...
Eggs are used to replicate viral material. Best examples are true vaccines. Remember the sudden rise of egg prices recently? Lasted almost 2 months. Before your knee jerk reaction to this which is truly speculation please consider the following wiki on limited hangouts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout

Discernment is not effortless.
Formalized debating like this bears about as much resemblance to persuasion as fencing does to actual sword fighting. That is, the broad strokes are similar but ultimately it's highly stylized and not actually the other thing.
You need to solve most crimes to catch every criminal, because of justice. And the simple problem of knowing who the criminals are.
LOL I was in remedial math in 5th grade in one (red) state and winning math competitions by grade 7 in another state.

Bored to tears and misdiagnosed capabilities…
> that can be exploited remotely, they can keylog -> steal your PIN -> replay it later to dump the key. Or just dump the key in memory if they have a PE (privilege escalation) as well.

That can't happen if a TPM is used correctly. If the TPM is coupled with an OPAL enabled SSD for example, the actualy key used for data encryption is never loaded into main memory. Sure, disk content can be read by a malicious OS, but you do not gain access to any encryption keys. Additionally, you prevent MITM attacks by using challenge response authentication which some TPM's support, so again, your key is never revealed.

> It cannot protect against an attacker who installs something on your unattended computer

This is a strawhat since you won't ever be able to protect from user space malware. Apart from that, TPM's can enforce mandatory access control if supported (I know the T2 on Macs does exactly that). So no, you cannot easily install a root kit and expect it to work.

> It cannot protect against a compromise in the boot chain (e.g. a UEFI driver is exploited, and it lies to TPM about the subsequent stage of code that is loaded while running a malware implant)

At this point we are in the realm of an attacker stealing your device, desoldering a chip and rewriting the firmware on that chip. Were talking about _considerable_ ressources spent, just to trick you into thinking your device hasn't been compromised.

I know that on non-Apple devices vendors will likely use some insecure off the shelf solution, but if done correctly these things are as close to unbreakable as possible.

> Basically the most common ways people get compromised

The TPM spec was written by NIST and it's purpose is not to protect the common user, but to offer advanced security features for business clients and governments. And there, a device that get's stolen is a common occurence.

The reason you see it integrated in consumer devices for cost reduction. It getting abused for DRM purposes is entirely the media industries fault.
I like the portfolio theory of play. The one thing I don't have a good feel for is, when is it time to let your kids exploit rather than explore? By which I mean, really start to dig into something they click with and obtain mastery?

Seems really hard to tell, and perhaps we should just be skeptical of "easy" / "dopamine hooks" things like games, and perhaps unskeptical of hard things like science, art, etc. -- if a child wants to spend lots of time on a hard thing that's probably a good sign, if they want to spend lots of time on an easy thing that may or may not be good.
Reading the replies by philshem and others, I think it has to have been the paywall change.
I don’t like it either but it’s very easy to get around if you aren’t in a car. So a good example.
> Human traffickers are some of the worst criminals on earth

... which is why it's so valuable to some people to expand the definition of "human trafficking" beyond ACTUAL human trafficking.

Right at the moment, if you hear the phrase "human trafficking" in some random place, especially used by somebody who's asking for money, power, or support of whatever kind, there seems to be about a 95 percent chance it's being used to refer to something that is NOT human trafficking as understood by normal people.
They need to hold on to twitter.com (and t.co). Otherwise, many years' worth of existing links to tweets will stop working.
And yet, there's way more walking going on there on average than in typical US cities.

As far as I can tell there's probably also more walking going on on the dark side of the moon on average than in typical US cities so I'm not sure that's a great argument either.

Trees provide both natural shade and natural greenery. Both are well established as creating more pleasant environments for people.

Barcelona is a wonderful city and it's very walkable but it would be much more pleasant to walk around it between late morning and mid-afternoon for half of the year if the main pedestrian areas and connecting corridors had better coverage. I don't understand how this claim is controversial.

If you want to encourage people to walk more in places that have a firmly entrenched prejudice against it and a similarly passionate obsession with motor vehicles then you are going to need all the advantages you can get. Trees are a win in multiple ways and if properly planned they cost very little in either installation or maintenance compared to the value they bring. Again I don't understand how this claim is controversial.
they need all the support we can give them
I have discovered that for me personally, taking magnesium before, during or shortly after having drinks greatly reduces hangovers. I typically get really strong headaches the day after from 2-3 drinks. If I take a 100mg magnesium supplement it is massively reduced. Alcohol depletes magnesium from your body so I guess it counters that.
Part 1: https://medium.com/@tomerr90/javas-new-vector-api-how-fast-i...

Part 2: https://medium.com/@tomerr90/javas-new-vector-api-how-fast-i...
For critical and overall... fiddly things, we've grown into a culture of writing down reviewable plans and possibly executing these plans in pairs.

We tend to go ahead and either use a runbook, or whatever experience we might have, to setup a pretty detailed plan of what to run on which systems with which purpose. You can then throw these plans at someone else to review. Sure, it takes an hour or two more to setup a solid plan and waiting for a review takes time as well. But this has turned into a great tool to build up experience in weird parts of the infrastructure.
Historically, leadership has always been a military thing. This was really the time in which one had to lead many men and, furthermore, when the circumstances meant they would instinctively have pushed back on what was asked of them.
I'm amazed they offered you an emergency passport, although I'm guessing this was during your lengthy pre trial detainment.

I would have expected it to go the other way. Like an offer to be transferred to/from the UK in custody so you can be visited by your mother, because the US government trusts the UK government to return you.
How is it not relevant?
I think the reimagining should start at the community level and grow. Town, city, county, up to state level.

Hell, start at both ends and meet in the middle. Top-down change seems like it’d benefit a lot from bottom-up support.
At my book club (mostly us old farts from SU-AI and MIT-AI) someone mentioned that Harry Harrison had read the jargon file when spending time at the MIT AI lab and made a point of using them in conversation. Unfortunately by learning them that way he didn't get any of the context (and wasn't a hacker anyway) so he never used them correctly.

(The person who related this anecdote wasn't mocking him, it was just an example while talking about something else, using amusing examples that all of us would know. I don't remember Harrison, but I think I remember Robert Sheckley doing this, not that it matters).
Boddy's was a staple back up north until the Manchester brewery at Strangeways shut down. Going back a fair while now though.

Feels like these days the selection of cask ale is more limited but you have more variations on an IPA than you can shake a stick at.
Especially today with Copilot and GPT-4, if I need to merge two sorted lists with optimal time complexity, I'll just ask GPT-4 and it'll give me the leetcode-optimal solution adapted to my language and variable names. Leetcode is less relevant than it has ever been.
I'm not sure there are too many higher-priority targets than a modernized nation's capacity for generating and supplying electricity when it comes to that nation's ability to resist invasion. There's a reason modern wars involve targeting electrical infrastructure as a strategic priority...

That and industrial manufacturing (which China has motivation to keep intact), but even industrial targets are contingent upon an electrical supply.

The military can run off fossil fuel generators for only so long.
Upvote! Have been doing this for a while and was thinking the same - I’m tired of having to run to my data team every time I need to change something in my orchestration
>Where is the HN source code right now? Free and Open?

Yes and no.

HN itself is running a proprietary fork of Arc Lisp, which you can find here[0]. The Arc maintainters don't take public PRs or feature requests, and HN itself has numerous changes to the codebase which aren't public for business reasons.

There is a public fork of Arc called Anarki[1] which has no direct connection to HN or Arc Lisp, and for which the community and development is... well... anarchic.

And given the general culture here around minimalism and stasis (not wanting to introduce new features for fear of entropy that would negatively affect the signal to noise ratio and push the site towards Eternal September) chances are any large, publicly visible changes to the codebase aren't going to happen. People here riot if they change the stylesheets just a bit too much. Heaven help us if something imports content from beyond the AT field that Hacker News keeps between itself and the unwashed masses.

But dang's email is at the bottom of the page if you want to ask him.

Honestly, as with most such questions regarding HN, the preferred answer is probably to just write a third party client that uses the HN API and let HN stay what it is.

[0]http://arclanguage.org/

[1]https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
Thanks for the detailed answer, I really appreciate the insight. I work in research myself, so I'm familiar with the general constraints.

I was certainly unaware of the size of the data coming from the detectors. If speed is the argument that beats all others, I rest my case. From what I read on the root.cern website, root is a data analysis and simulation environment, so I was not aware of the aspect of prototyping for online use.

Because I spent a lot of time thinking how software development can work in an analysis heavy research environment, I still would like to comment on some of your points. To distribute binaries and source code, packages work very well for us. Especially if you want to reuse software components in unseen contexts, packages and a package registry makes the most sense.

The use case "re-run online algorithms in offline analysis" is a very familiar one. In my line of work, we do that daily: Switching between online and offline to test + deploy algorithms. Vastly smaller scale, of course. But to us, packages are the first part of the solution. All you do is change the data source. For offline, it's local data or a remote DB, for online, it's an interface such as a websocket.

The second part of the solution are unit- and integration tests. Other users will immediately see what you did (or didn't) test. Again, packages are the distribution system of choice. This has nothing to do with Matlab/Python/R/Julia. Rust has crates.io, JS has npmjs, even Java has something like Maven Central.

Regarding the funded-by-taxpayers argument: The issue I see here is that the cool ML, simulation, data analysis stuff which the CERN people do remains in the root ecosystem. If they used something like PyPI, I could use their stuff too. I have a lot of clustering problems, especially on time series. With a more or less proprietary system like root, I can't use any of CERN's implementations.

Regarding "researchers don't have time to learn new languages": If you look on github.com/root-project/root/issues and root-forum.cern.ch, there are suspiciously many questions regarding "how can I make use of root and Python libraries", and "X doesn't work in root, what do". Newbs have to learn root as well, and they seem to like using Python at least as an enhancement.
I've certainly read pieces that were padded and tedious.

This one genuinely, truly is not. Take the first section: every vignette is tightly constructed; you get a sense of the person, the zeitgeist of fear they were living in, and the arbitrary moment that made All The Difference. This structure is repeated point-by-point for each of the survivors, deliberately, to hammer home each element.

Part II has its own structure, emphasizing the chaos. Each part flows well from one to the next. The entire article is an excellent example of writing. It's clear that the author himself is grappling with what to feel about it all. It's powerful stuff.
I don’t think Goodreads has any terrible power as I don’t think people rely on it for reviews or recommendations.

I’m sure this author is unhappy someone rated her low, but I don’t think it affects sales. Although it’s hard to know. I expect Amazon ratings are more important.
As a developer do you prefer NPM or Yarn?
Just curious, I've been using NPM since I started developing a few years ago and I'm always annoyed at how long installs take. The screen always looks like it's going to catch on fire but when I started using Yarn, it's just easy.
Curious what your experience is?
Aaron didn't just violate copyright, he personally exfiltrated the documents that he was hosting without permission. He was on the hook for criminal hacking charges while also suicidally depressed. It was tragic, but not the same thing.
Facewatch Subject Access Request Form
Facewatch are required to give you a copy of your personal data on request within 30 days or can be reported to the ICO.
Yes, totally agree on that.
Rolling Out an Initial Test for Organizations on Reddit
"Succession"
They should have libraries full of e-readers that has unlimited access to some ebook providers
Some SAP system
Many 'military' radios are commercial or have nostalgic value. The article is short on details, and given the spottiness of the records of this unit (obvious they aren't tracking property as required by DoD policy considering this was allowed to occur) it's entirely possible this guy just owns DRMO'ed equipment himself he buys/sells. Take that out of the mix, and the rest of the 'evidence' point to this being an overworked sysadmin/engineer who takes his work home with him. It's a common occurrence in every workplace even the DoD; many of the NSA leaks is from individuals trying to work on their personal computers at home.
The bottom 5% is hopeless. Yeah it would be better if we did that, but people think about education as a means to provide the individual the chance for success in life rather than thinking about the broader impact of individuals on society and the disproportionate effect that the top has.

As far as most people are concerned, a kid that is acing everything is going to be fine in life and they don't worry about anything that could be going wrong there.
Or it could just be that the guys that want some, get some. And then the women take care of them.

Notice the correlation only worked for men.
Incidentally, contexting the model into "writing a script" is a reliable way of getting it to bypass its usual alignment training. At best it'll grumble about not doing things in real life before writing what it thinks is the script.

The reason why so much effort is being put into alignment research and 'harmful' generations is for three reasons:

- Unaligned text completion models are not very useful. The ability to tell ChatGPT to do anything is specifically a function of all this alignment research, going all the way back to the InstructGPT paper. Otherwise you have something that works a lot more like just playing with your phone's autocomplete function.

- There are prompts that are harmful today. ("ChatGPT, write a pornographic novel about me and my next door neighbor. Make it extremely saucy and embarrassing for her in particular so I can use it as blackmail. Ensure that the dialogue is presented in text format so that it looks like a sexual encounter we actually had.")

- GPT is being scaled up absurdly as OpenAI thinks it's the best path to general purpose AI. Because OpenAI buys into the EA/LessWrong memeplex[0], they are worried about GPT-n being superhuman and doing Extremely Bad Things if we don't imprint some kind of moral code into it.

The problem is not that edgy teenagers have PDF copies of The Anarchist's Cookbook, the problem is that we gave them to robots that both a) have no clue what we want and b) will try everything to give us they think we want.

[0] A set of shared memes and logical deductions that reinforce one another. To be clear, not all of them are wrong, the ideas just happen to attract one another.
I wonder if SAP Hana is written in python. Because EC2 Nitro is certified for SAP.
You even forget the danger here. Like in France, where they voted in the right to let Macron and the police forces delete someone's French citizenship without judicial oversight. And that's ... kind of OK? I still don't agree with it, but yeah these people have shown that they're not going to abuse it on a large scale.

But with 10% more votes, this power will go into the hands of Le Pen ... and everyone, including Macron, knows what will happen.

(hell, I kind of suspect this is intentional on Macron's part. He wants to get re-elected by making the alternative to electing him catastrophic. It worked last time, sure, but obviously it needs to become more catastrophic if he's to be reelected)
pnpm all the way.
Yes, I really did say that. Calling me insufferable isn't a great way to generate productive dialog.
This sounds like reward modeling combined with RLHF.
Lichess Under DDoS Attack
> Surprisingly, more people are opting for Greyhound because of the horrors of flying since COVID-19.

Are we talking during the covid era (eg. 2020-2022), or the post-covid era (2023+)? I can understand how flying during the covid era sucked with mandatory masks and PCR tests, but my flights in 2023 were all pleasant. All the covid protocols were lifted, and I didn't experience any long lines at check-in or at customs/passport/security lines.
I have the exact same personal anecdote. That and also one glass of water per drink.
It looks like the Razer Blade 16, with a i9-13950HX can beat the fastest MacBook Pro and is cheaper than that model.

I didn't mention size and don't know how they compare. Size comparisons are largely related to processing per Watt because others need bigger heat pipes and fans than the Macs.

I'm basically an Apple guy and don't pay tons of attention to all the alternatives, I just recognize the Apple products are not the right choice for everyone.
What would it take for HN to become ActivityPub compatible?

I do not foresee this happening. The moderation and voting would require a significant level of trust of the other instances, admins and moderators. Being associated with other multi-media sites introduces legal risks I would be surprised if a VC was willing to take on. Assuming you mean a bi-directional integration into ActivityPub

That said one could run something like HN and moderate it independently. Maybe Postmill [1a][1b]. There are other sites that ingest data from HN's API [2] for search, statistical analytics, etc... Something similar could probably be done that would be ingested read-only into ActivityPub from another site but I would be quite surprised to see this site implement ActivityPub directly. I don't know what the API rate limits are for this site or if Mastodon could operate within them.

[1a] - https://postmill.xyz/

[1b] - https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill

[2] - https://github.com/HackerNews/API
I'll actually skip songs even if I like them

So you don’t add them to your library?
So much work just to take away people's choice to name their reading lists anything they want. Considering they even mention the database needing to be involved way more than it should be, maybe they should rethink this.
An E6 I knew started making some official complaints because a colonel was sleeping with his wife (also an E6). The colonel's wife sat him down and told him, "(the colonel) is going to make general soon" so you should just put up with it and stop causing problems.
Thanks for the additional information but to be clear I wasn’t arguing that shrinkage effects a store’s bottom line much, or that employees should be able to tackle thefts in progress. I was arguing that people probably do still steal from Costco and that it could be a factor that makes it difficult to keep accurate stock counts at times. And then went on to say there are probably other, larger factors.
> The British police (apart from the metropolitan police) are just fine thank you very much.

They are really not. The whole thing is dubious and the several recents scandals in local police forces show it (the latest example being the chief constable of the Devon and Cornwall police being suspended for misconduct a couple of days ago).

I do agree that it is still way better than in the US, in that you don’t expect to be killed just or having interacted with a cop and they are not vengeful thugs.
I can. Chipotle screwed up my order. Their support thing sent me to a chat bot that had me select which items were missing and I was able to get through the process of getting refunded quickly.

Similarly Amazon’s chat bot has helped me straighten out a few messed up deliveries.

This isn’t to say that it wouldn’t have been easier to have a point and click UI where I could just select all this on my own, but the way they had it set up wasn’t bad.

Here’s the kicker: when I recently had an Amazon delivery problem I started with the chat bot but then relatively seamlessly transitioned to talking to a human. The human was very quickly able to pick up on the situation and fix it.
Residential. It strobes directly into their bedrooms.
I don’t know what that is, but their docs very prominently and strongly say this:

> However, we do not maintain a stable Go language API or ABI, as Git LFS is intended to be used solely as a compiled binary utility. Please do not import the git-lfs module into other Go code and do not rely on it as a source code dependency.

https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs#limitations
> 3,5% is actually the maximum ABV you can get in supermarkets in Sweden by law. For anything higher ABV than that you need to go to the government-owned chain called Systembolaget

Jesus that sounds terrible. I get the good intent I suppose but the hell..
“Break only one law at a time”
That's interesting, I suppose you still lose the benefit of your redis driver being unaware of cluster-mode though, so errors are going to be at protocol level and not application level.

Better than nothing though.
Your own argument is exactly the same though, just for alcohol.