skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you think an emergency has some objective trigger??

No. But it feels faulty to define an emergency by the reaction of the government. For example if we would have multiple years of crop failures, with associated mass starvation and unrest but let’s say the government sticks their fingers in their ears and proclaims “let them eat cake”. That would not count as an emergency per your definition. Do you feel that is right?

In fact when people are arguing if it is an emergency or not, they often argue about it because they do expect their government to do/don’t do things based on which side they are arguing. If we would define an emergency based on the actions of the government solely this would be totally falacious. But it is not. “We are in a climate emergency therefore the gov should do X.” is a perfectly valid thing to believe in. (And so is the opposite of course.)

> Think about the Marshall Plan...

Did the Marshall plan employ every able bodied adult? I must have missed that part of the history.

> I am sure we can get every man and woman to work on the manufacture and use of whatever device can collect CO2 from the atmosphere or whatever.

I will go with whatever then. We have these things called factories. They made manufacturing very efficient. There is zero chance that you could employ every man and woman meaningfully on a task like this. Simply you would run out of raw materials or organisational capacity before that happens.

There is a more fitting historical paralel to what you are proposing. It is very much akin to Mao’s Great Leap Forward. He got a lot of people to do a thing, but since it wasn’t the right thing to do it ended up as a total catastrophy.
> this is an interesting result in philosophy of physics, not in physics.

Yes. Although it has consequences. It's a demonstration that some physical variables have to be quantized or probabilistic to avoid divide by zero errors in reality.

This becomes clear when you do idealized Newtonian physics with impulses.
An impulse is an infinite force applied over zero time with finite energy transfer. That's not something that can exist in the physical universe.
It's just asking for divide by zero problems. It's also why impulse-constraint physics engines for games have some rather strange semantics.
It seems to be going really well in San Francisco and Los Angeles...
I agree that difficulty isn't a virtue, and I'm a big fan of minimal art and music, but I don't think 1-4-5 power chord music is the pinnacle of musical achievement. But I think those simple songs were extremely powerful in their cultural context and the rejection of norms that they represented.

That said, though, a lot of what is considered "punk" today abandoned those simplistic song structures of the 60s lo-fi/garage/protopunk (Stooges, MC5, Sonics, etc.) and started doing intricate and musically-complex studio productions. Including the band "Wire" which the comment I was replying to hails as a high achievement of punk.
Comment from Marginal Revolution by someone who sounds knowledgeable:

"To start with there is a significant problem with the article. Cardiac surgeons don't go to cardiology meetings and don't perform the type of interventions mentioned in the article. Interventional cardiologists are not cardiac surgeons. The recurrent mislabeling of the specialty involved is yet another example of the slipshod treatment and lack of understanding of science and medicine in the lay press which makes for an ill-informed public."

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/08/86...
Only if it doesn't only rely on a master password
Haha.. that brings back memories! The "..." " ." and ".. " directories were legendary :)
Not possible due to geopolitics, and going after the attackers wouldn't absolve the software companies either way. Cyberattacks are not done using missiles, they are done using lockpicking kits. Just like sensitive documents storage companies and banks have a responsibility to build stronger vaults, enterprise software has a responsibility to close security holes.
I'll go with: the sentence takes this as a dimension, this at one end, that at the other. While perhaps what matters is on an entirely different dimension. From a point of view of usefulness to its users, is there a strong correlation with whether the project was "thrown over the fence" or is a work of software artistry?
As long as you’ve got some big numbers, absolutely.

Failing builds and outdated dependencies disappear when sitting beside 20K stars and 100K downloads.
One poor answer is SSH agent forwarding [1]. At best some SSH agents will prompt at each use, but that's questionable security.

Using something like magic wormhole[2] could work. SSH to both sides and run the required commands.

[1] https://matrix.org/blog/2019/05/08/post-mortem-and-remediati...

[2] https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html
Why are you having difficulty explaining all the things you are saying are so commonplace?

You are making claims but unwilling to back any of them up.

Imagine for a moment… if you were so far left that everything looked “far right” to you, how would you know?
The tl;dr of the entire article is “buy and hold low cost index funds” (see final two or three paragraphs).
I can easily imagine that. Let's say Rust 2028 finally comes up with a solution to the incompatible async and error reporting crates. There's finally one blessed way to do async and one blessed type everyone uses for E in Result. Except your codebase was started in 2020 and uses Tokio and snafu, and both are so baked-in that replacing them is too much effort.
This is called “faire la liaison” (“make the link”) between the two words. If the first word ends with a consonant, and the next word starts with a vowel, then do pronounce that last consonant.
Actually official list: <https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/...>
updated with a opening paragraph to reduce confusion, thanks! :)
Vodafone have blocked RT in several EU countries, try it yourself: https://www.rt.com/africa/580875-france-niger-military-agree...
I love it personally! I appreciate Proton, cloud saves, the ease of install, and sometimes even the Friends feature, with some games supporting just right clicking my friend and clicking Join game.
+1 for the blog post howto idea
I don't like it, on one hand it's really sappy in a non-endearing way, on the other, https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Facehugger (which incidentally is probably some foreshadowing of the time when the VCs start trying to get their returns)

It's mildly embarrassing to have to refer to it in a professional context.
Recent versions of OpenSsh don't drag the data through your workstation unless you pass "-3" (for triangle routing).
Computers are better at stuff than humans? Impossible! I am the king of math, no machine beats me in calculating numbers!
I think two-term US President George W. Bush provided one pre-Twitter but modern example of how this effect could work, maybe not intentionally.

Here's a bit from a 2004 NYT piece that stuck with me:

> That was explained to me in late 2002 by Mark McKinnon, a longtime senior media adviser to Bush, who now runs his own consulting firm and helps the president. He started by challenging me. "You think he's an idiot, don't you?" I said, no, I didn't. "No, you do, all of you do, up and down the West Coast, the East Coast, a few blocks in southern Manhattan called Wall Street. Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered 2 to 1 by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working people who don't read The New York Times or Washington Post or The L.A. Times. And you know what they like? They like the way he walks and the way he points, the way he exudes confidence. They have faith in him. And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us. Because you know what those folks don't like? They don't like you!" In this instance, the final "you," of course, meant the entire reality-based community.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-...

I'd guess this might've been a political effect/tactic that's been known or rediscovered for thousands of years.
> But it gets into this weird space where people refuse to turn down a single setting or use even the highest-quality upscalers on PC, but PC is too expensive, so they'll buy a console where the settings are pre-turned-down for them and they'll be upscaled silently from even lower resolutions with even worse-quality upscalers, with no choice in the matter. Consoles are like the Apple products of the world, they take away the choices and that makes people happier because having too much choice is burdensome.

Yeah, i'd rather play the -ing game instead of counting the fps?
>When you trust your government with the power to control the flow of information, you trust them with the power to hide their own actions from you

I think this is as false dilemma - no one's advocating that any institution or system that can regulate the flow of known bad information can operate without any constraints, oversight, etc.

If we assume any exercise of power will ALWAYS be misused under any circumstance, then taken to the extreme we literally shouldn't let people exercise under the notion that they can and will use physical force to coerce people. So we can't run on that assumption; sometimes governments can use power over information to do good things, like prevent the spread of pro-genocide propaganda.

We need to have a far more nuanced discussion about whether or not THIS instance of censorship is more positive or more negative.
It feels like WWCYO is still a good question, abstractly, to ask though even in cases where you don't think there's a good contrary argument, or don't have the knowledge, or it feels more value based.

For example, if I apply your example question to my beliefs, I don't necessarily come up with any specific answer, because I'm not super well versed in philosophy. It highlights that my belief that I exist might be on shaky ground, or it just might not be testable at all, but I'm open to being convinced otherwise.

And so that's the more abstract answer, which is : if I saw an argument that seemed rational to me, I might be convinced that I don't actually exist, but I'm sticking with what I believe for now. That's all you need -- WWCYO doesn't mean that there is a valid contrary argument, but that you're open to hearing one and changing your views. If the belief is more about experience, of course, you can get more specific about your null hypothesis.
And sometimes the record label manages to upload a live album with all the track transitions cut out (the pre-gap bits on the physical CDs – I'm still wondering whether they actually just ripped their own CDs for uploading and somehow mishandled the ripping software to drop the pre-gaps instead of combining them with one of the adjacent tracks?), despite that artist being pretty well-known and one of those albums being somewhat (in)famous for what happens precisely in-between the actual tracks.
But clang and GCC have not reported anything (it doesn't work), but they have always been careful to not get people's hopes up
If they lowered the rent... That would be a permanent loss because of the punitive restrictions on raising it.

That would be effectively writing off part of the property value forever. I'd wait for as long as possible to avoid that kind of loss.
I shouldn’t speak for Bram or ICCF but can point you to the financial docs which give a great explanation https://iccf-holland.org/iccf.html

From KCFs perspective where I worked, during my time there, I fundraised my salary (expenses) personally “door to door” to keep any funds donated to the organization going direct to the kids and community. I understood this was the case for others as well. I believe Bram paid for flights out of his own pocket.
...isn't this just quantization?
Yes. The US is bad.
ah yes, having to store 6 gbit/s on a (somewhat) portable device is best avoided.
Long ago I read a similar opinion about tobacco, saying it was harder to get off than heroin.

I asked an ex-junkie friend which was harder. She stared at me and said "Heroin - I reckon!", and I'm pretty sure she'd say the same of alcohol.
Two words for you: Master password.
And yet I've had 4 years of so many random crashes with my 5700XT that I'm not sure I'd buy AMD again on the GC side…
They don't want it so badly we made it illegal to build the things obviously people didn't want built.
Perhaps a well-designed debugger could do much better than print statements.

Let me visualize the changes of variables over time and what code caused those changes.

Or one click in the gutter to add "log points" vs having to type "print(...)" every time.

Or even track everything and let me activate logs after the fact, as I learn where I need more granularity.

The conclusion of "print is better than debuggers" doesn't sit well with me.

The standard debugger design sucks--so we to resort to print, which sucks a bit less.

If anyone has links to fresh takes on debuggers, please share!
Sleep apnea perhaps?
I don’t think every single Kagi user asked for this feature, so I still wonder how those users who did not ask for the feature could approve of their private settings being used in this way.
As with Wikipedia, what I assumed how the organization operated and how it does is vastly different.

Basically everything here seems biazarre and makes trusting Mozilla very hard. Does anybody believe that they can stand up against Google, when Google, at any point they want to, could crash their whole operation?

I think it is quite likely that Google is keeping Mozilla afloat to avoid anti-trust allegations. Mozilla existing is worth a few hundred millions to Google. But Mozilla apparently has no real use for that money, they spend around 200M on software developmemt that means one thousand high paying software developer positions. And they could hire hundreds of more developers at any point.
Really depends on the game. Aside from my multiplayer shooters, I played all my games on Linux. And these shooters would work too, if not for the pesky anti-cheats. If you'd like, you can check if the Steam game would work on Linux with this tool: https://www.protondb.com/app/1174180

I'm personally using Debian testing with KDE, but as long as Steam works, you should be fine. Zorin is also a nice out of the box experience.
It was funet.fi, sunsite.unc.edu, and prep.ai.mit.edu where I first rounded out my Linux software collection.

I remember searching for stuff using Archie for deeper dives. I remember Archie blinking between = and O while it searched various ftp sites.

Early internet was the freaking bomb. So much to explore, so many secrets to discover.
Huh. That's pretty cool. So did you write the first ORM?
Used to be a brilliant mind could learn all there was known about science. Now its too much, and our minds have a hard time grasping what millions of minds working on a million problems for untold hours can accomplish.
This is how you wind up with fundamentally slow systems that can’t be easily sped up. You need to take some account of performance in systems design. Just don’t micro-optimize too soon.
Cyberdog was a web browser/Internet application suite like Netscape. If it’s the spiritual predecessor to anything, it’s Safari, not iCloud, but I wouldn’t say it was even that. It was really just a tech demo. From what I remember, it was just barely functional. It was something you’d run after you installed OpenDoc and say “that’s neat” about and then never touch again.
New? Sovjet listened to typewriters in the 1970s.
Who define bad?

And why can you not envision a scenario where someone else finds you, or a known good actor to be bad?

The most juvenile view from censorship discussions, is that you will never be the one that’s being censored.
> Today, we’re announcing our first product, MKML. MKML is a software package that can reduce LLM inference costs on GPUs by 2x with just a few lines of Python code. And it is plug and play with popular ecosystems like Hugging Face and PyTorch
Ah really, I missed that. That sounds worthless in my view

Like having empty folders on a computer.
Completely unfettered piracy is arguably not a net-good for society. I would also say the same about the current 95-year copyright term. There's a huge space between those two poles though that can be explored.
The author has overlooked the reality of hidden dotfiles

I learned very early in my UNIX experience two things on the same day:

1) Never do 'normal user' things as root

2) Removing a few dot-directories can be perilous.

I thought I'd clean up a bunch of dot-directories in the /tmp filesystem. It was getting a bit full. So I entered the simple command at the '#' prompt.

rm -fr .*

Wondered why it was taking a while.
If the invisible being doesn't interact with our world in any way,then by definition it cannot be quantified or subjected to experiment?

Also, if the being is super intelligent and running us in a simulation, can you really subject it to experiment?

That would be like processes running in a container going rogue and demanding evidence of their host environment.
Then stop buying it.

Ezekiel 23:19-21

"There she had longed for her lovers. Their private parts seemed as big as those of donkeys. And their flow of semen appeared to be as much as that of horses. You longed for the time when you first became impure in Egypt. That was when you allowed your breasts to be kissed. And you permitted your young breasts to be touched.”
A giant teddy bear is not some sort of 5D trick. It is a trivial case that every DMS designed with even the minimum of care should handle.

This is a safety-critical system. Avoidable deaths occur when it is designed inappropriately. There have already been 38 deaths using the Tesla ADAS; the majority of which occurred because drivers are lulled into complacency and become chronically inattentive doing actions such as watching a video.

A proper DMS could have avoided these deaths caused by ADAS induced complacency. It is completely unacceptable that 5 years after killing a driver watching a video in the drivers seat that it still fails to detect such misuse that is documented to occur and which is easily solved.

A proper DMS should only allow ADAS operation with a positively identified attentive driver. It must fail-safe.

Such a system would trivially reject a teddy bear in the seat regardless of constant torque on the wheel meant to minimally simulate a driver holding the wheel. An inattentive driver holding the wheel is a strictly harder problem in both facial and wheel detection. This is not a “trick” or a “bypass”, this is a T-ball and Tesla struck out.

Any properly designed solution must demonstrate the ability to solve all trivial problems to support the conclusion that all harder problems have been solved robustly. You would not trust a person to do calculus if they can not add. You should not trust a DMS if it can not reject a absent driver even if it sometimes works in harder cases. The lack of awareness needed to fail or not even attempt to solve trivial cases demonstrates systemic incompetence.

[1] https://www.tesladeaths.com/
It's more like regular shared libraries.

You can replace a library with a different one that loads the original library, defines the same symbols, and forwards the function calls.

That's how debugging/protocol inspection tools like 6Jack work, and it's pretty convenient.

It could be done with static libraries, but that would require renaming all the symbols of the upstream library.
Good question. Probably PayPal, even though I would consider them to be even looser with the ban hammer than Stripe. But when speaking internationally, they probably support the most payment methods? Adyen and checkout.com also look quite comparable, but I don’t know how their APIs hold up.
This article is missing a lot of the meaning of cargo cult. It’s got religious tones as well as irrational beliefs.
Good YouTube video on it it: https://youtu.be/x5jbHDMeDFE
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his tesla not present when this happened
The most likely explanation: This is a speck of dirt on a string filmed as an attempt to manipulate the prediction markets.
The list is interesting too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_examples_of_Stigler%27...
It is not sufficient to serve the torrent files (or magnet links) anonymously: you will leak your IP unless you also download the actual files through darknet. However, Tor project does not recommend to use Tor for that: https://support.torproject.org/#misc_misc-4.

The actual solution is torrenting through I2P: https://geti2p.net. They support it out of the box and there are a few good trackers.
https://www.moolenaar.net/bright.html :(
Was just watching an "intro" lecture[1] on DM over at PIRSA, as part of TRISEP 2023[2], a summer school for grad students. There he goes over some of the arguments for DM, but with more math and details than the usual popsci stuff, but still at a fairly accessible level.

I'm just a layman but to me the Bullet Cluster[3] seems very hard to reconcile with just modified theories of gravity. On the other hand it seems unreasonable to me that General Relativity doesn't need corrections due to quantum mechanics, and as this article mentions LCDM has a bunch of other issues.

So how about both? Some non-interacting "dark" particle(s) and some quantum corrections to General Relativity. Anyone know about work trying to combine the two approaches, and see how things stack up?

[1]: https://pirsa.org/23060067

[2]: https://pirsa.org/C23020

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
I'm not having difficulty, I'm choosing not to follow the directives of someone who thinks the Donald wasn't far right radicalism.

"You didn't write responses on my terms so you're wrong and biased to the point of delusion." No, actually, you think a far-right echo chamber finally getting banned for agitating users towards shooting police officers is somehow Hillary Clinton's fault.
Triage doesn't operate on race or category. It looks at the individuals and their individual needs.

You wouldn't operate a hospital triage assuming that someone should go to the front of the line just because they're black, and you shouldn't operate a social triage that way either. Some people have a scratch, and some people are bleeding out
DNS is the _one_ thing that needs to be based on bitcoin type tech so as to forever escape any attempt at centralized control.

Also, being able as an end user to easily choose where you get your name resolution from is essential.

The whole idea of root DNS servers is utterly broken.
Whatever it is, it will likely be copied into the open source tooling like llama.cop soonish or something similar will arrive in llama.cpp. It doesn’t seem defensive advantage. It seems like a feature and fighting against fast moving open source alternatives.
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Open to it, but we don't have much demand since we mostly work with startups!
If you like working with old machines, you quickly learn to appreciate the availability of FTP servers. Encrypted connections are quite CPU intensive, particularly when negotiating the connection.
Claimed Room-Temperature Superconductor Revealed to Be Diamagnetic Semiconductor
Intelectual theft fuelled by spy agencies is nothing new.

Same for people looking at patents from other countries.
Georgi Gerganov created one a few years ago

https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio