skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then given enough time a self-replicating system MUST appear.

The cause "given enough time" seems to leave the questions of how probable it is, and how widespread a phenomenon it would be, wide open.

> I don't see why it would have to lead to a non-Darwinian explanation of evolution.

To be clear, I don't think it does, and I don't read galenmarchetti as going that far, either.

> It's remarkable that this [survivability might just be a high-level manifestation of entropic drive of self-replicating systems] is a claim that can be falsified.

Can it be falsified? It seems a rather broad claim, and it is unclear to me that the falsification of England's theory would rule out some other theory succeeding.
I wonder if the main obstacle to (actual) cross-browser extensions isn't so much technical but rather political.

On a purely technical level, I think it should be possible to write some sort of "emulation layer" that exposes a Chrome-flavored WebExtension sandbox and translates the calls to the respective Firefox APIs wherever possible.

However once that functionality exists, where would you actually get those extensions from and how would you install them? Firefox famously doesn't allow extensions to be installed that are not registered with the Mozilla's store, and Chrome extensions obviously aren't. Even if they relaxed that rule, you'd also expect automatic updating to work, just like for "native" Firefox extensions.

So in effect, Firefox would have to integrate Chrome's store as a second legitimate extension repository. That would be a boon for users, but I can think of reasons while neither Mozilla nor Google would want to do this:

For Mozilla, it would mean loss of control over half of the extension ecosystem: They cannot ban Chrome extensions, they have no control over their approval process etc, but now users could install them and receive continuous updates - sonin effect, Google would suddenly be able to push updates to Firefox installations.

On the other hand, Google would lose its moat around the extension store: Everything that Chrome offers would now be automatically supported by Firefox as well.

So I think, neither would Mozilla want to include Chrome's store in Firefox, nor would Google allow that.
Regardless, you need a device that’s more powerful than whatever the attacker is using.

The article says they target 1 minute solve times under load. If that’s 1 minute on a 5GHz, 64 core machine with 512GB ram, an A100 and an FPGA, then it’s going to be at least 5-15 minutes on your phone.

Also, the server farm can parallelize work across an arbitrary number of challenges, but legitimate users cannot.
I don’t see artists replacing all the images on their websites with Mist processed versions.

Their example Van Gogh images look okay as thumbnails but are really different from the originals when viewed larger.

Overall a neat project though.
Not to mention the deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_reveal_party#Incidents_...
I totally can, you can disagree of course.
If it's anything like Glaze, it's a complete meme. That took a lot of compute to glaze an image (with very visible artifacts) and was bypassed with some trival image processing on a shitty laptop.
Using the word “intuitive” is the hallmark of a mediocre interface designer.

You can’t make an “intuitive interface”. What you can make is an interface that is familiar, and consistent, which means people can reasonably anticipate what doing something they haven’t done before will do.

(Good interfaces should also allow for mistake recovery - eg by supporting universal undo - which is something everyone seems to have forgotten)

Even arrows are not uniformly perceived across cultures as showing direction (although you can safely assume most anyone who lives in 21st century globalized modern society will have learned to decode arrows fairly early in life).

The old quote goes that “the only intuitive interface is the nipple; after that it’s all learned” - but that quote was clearly by someone who was never around newborns, because lots of newborns have to be guided to breastfeeding.
I could believe that for radar (and lidar) but not for ultra sonic sensors which cost close to 0.
How will the service operator know when their site is under "stress". Will this effectively prevent someone from having a "high traffic" hidden service free from Tor-imposed puzzles. If the hidden service operator is aware that the site is receiving high traffic, could the operator run several sites as mirrors, so that users had options if, e.g., one site was not responding fast enough. Is there guidance published anywhere on what is the the "normal" traffic for a hidden service.
It's more like a managed distributed system. A highly available serverless database, like AWS Aurora, is much more than "a server."
But you and I aren't judges in a court. They go by different rules, such as the official intent and meaning of the robots.txt system itself.

I'm not saying a court wouldn't find intent signaled, I don't know, only that it's not clear-cut that it would.
Seems to me that the demand would still be there, it’s just that AI would replace/augment whatever rules engine is mapping the UI into running code.
100% agree re: TOML. Just ... why? Is there really something so compelling about it that makes it worthwhile being different to everything else?

The fact that the PEP was proposed with this, discussed, accepted, implemented and deployed with this is indicative of the failures of process that lead to many of Python's problems. Python3, async, threads, GUI toolkits, the whole mess of tooling ...

Languages and their ecosystems need someone to say "no". To maintain a pragmatic path forward for users of the language, not developers of the language. Python hasn't got this. With all respect to Guido, and now the core group, they let this slide way too often.
Are 3,4 and 5 G Sealed unit radio hardware available the same way 2G are?

I wonder sometimes if moving up the G ladder has motivations which include recapture of the behind walls.

That said, the most likely barrier here is regulatory and complexity. It wouldn't surprise me if the SDR burdens to implement 5G are large, and variant. More variant by economy and situation than 2G
Amazing. Was looking for instructions to do precisely that
Protecting against sybil attacks without violating tor’s security guarantees seems impossible. Would love to see a proof or counter example.
Show HN: Sleepfriends – Hire someone to help you sleep via audio/video call
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Therefore, having a trusted human being could help you relax and sleep. Think about how much easier it was to fall asleep as a kid when someone would read you a bedtime story, etc.

Note that they already have this concept running in psych wards, etc. If a patient is really struggling, they will have a psych nurse to be with them as they sleep. It must work, or else they wouldn't do it.

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It's showing as #19 for me: https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/
Is that so different than some free to play video games? Those are sometimes hundreds of GB and downloaded by millions.
>If I was a developer there, I'd totally started adding those generated tests.

If I were a manager there, I probably wouldn’t hire you. You want people who are actively solving problems that matter, not just automatons beating their chest about how stupid everyone else is while they add to existing problems.
Wieners are harder than hands. The robuts haven't figured them out yet.
Even if you don't edit the page itself, perhaps it's worth adding a comment on the talk page so that editors are aware of your veracity concerns the next time it is reviewed as the most recent review last year indicated no issues at all.
This same breach info shows up if you open up firefox's password manager (about:logins) and have a saved account.

It's a little less useful, since it won't shoot an email your way. But it's super handy to have a list of accounts/passwords/sites you need to change.
The only potential issue I've seen with cloud managed DBMSes is latency between application and DB, since they might be far apart. But that's something you check out day 1 and move away from if it's not tolerable. I would totally start there, not try to set it up myself.
Not that dumb as one might think. What is the purpose of the opening brace after a function declaration in C, for example? It's the only token accepted, so its sole purpose is symmetry with the closing brace, which has an actual purpose.

So it might look silly, but there is no deep reason it couldn't have just been

int main()
printf("hello");
}

That's just as unambiguous to parse.
FDA cracks down on bogus anti-viral products from Amazon, Walmart
Bill aims to ban utilities from using ratepayer funds for political expenses
Maybe you're talking about some other site, but I don't remember HN ever operating this way. Downvoting disagreement is one of the oldest norms on the site.
You can find reference to this in Chaucer. It's very very old = Homo sapiens
I have an idea to minimize traffic on the tor network or make it faster. It should be possible to use the network as a cdn. If I want to make a file available, it should be possible for me to send pieces of the file to nodes who gave me permission to do so. When the file is requested, I then could point to these nodes. Of course, some care should be taken not to turn the tor network into a "anonymous torrent replacement" to avoid defeating its purpose.

The current proposal discussed in the post talks about "prioritize verified network traffic". It would be interesting if sharing "file pieces" could prioritize your traffic since you're actually helping the network. Instead of "proof-of-work" it would be "proof-of-bandwidth-contribution".
For a no-code solution to reduce the complexity of the programming environment it's built on top of it needs to reduce the functionality of that environment (outside of free-wins, which we've mostly already eliminated in modern languages).

In beta phases no-code always looks extremely attractive because you can fudge it and get a fair portion of the functionality with only some of the complexity - but as you start to emulate more and more your "no-code" language just turns into "code".
Really interesting! Digging into the proposal [1]:

> make it harder for attackers to overload the service with introduction
request

> We hope that this proposal can help us defend against the script-kiddie
attacker and small botnets.

Sets expectations: does not counter large botnets.

> We hope that this proposal will allow the motivated user to always connect

A user who really wants to connect can get through durring a DoS attack, but it may still take work.

Interesting choice of PoW algorithm: https://github.com/tevador/equix

> Hence, instead of forcing clients to go below a static target like in Bitcoin to be successful, we ask clients to "bid" using their PoW effort. Effectively, a client gets higher priority the higher effort they put into their proof-of-work. This is similar to how proof-of-stake works but instead of staking coins, you stake work.

[1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/raw/main/pr...
There are so many languages with awesome type systems which can help guide AI to generate better code — and yet, these experiments always choose Python.
In case you're near a printer right now, the poster you'll find on this page[1] is taped by my washer and I've found it quite helpful!

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Note: No endorsement of, or affiliation with Parker's Dry Cleaners.
that lisp is a perfectly usable language for writing cool and usable things :)
UN cybercrime treaty risks becoming a 'global surveillance pact'
Agreed. Would be curious on the math around slower, smaller, short-takeoff, airlines. Fast landing and takeoff is stressful and dangerous. History should have been the lesson about flying around what are effectively missiles. Sound is annoying in metro areas.

More pre-check security. Less hoopla. Many people have to drive 1hr+ to fly in the US.
> I totally can

Okay, then make the argument, rather than just allude to your abstract ability to do so.
I’d argue that if computer hacking wasn’t treated as a crime but rather just a natural occurrence we’d have a much more robust security culture today. It would also be a lot more fun to be a hacker.
My mistake, I think the option goes away after a fixed amount of time.
We’re you in marketing?
Why you believe outsourcing your thinking is the best course of action? Why has government done to earn such blind loyalty from you? As someone who has pretty in depth knowledge of history I can not fathom the level of trust you have placed in government. it is almost theological ...
It literally just adds the code to the file between the comments. There’s nothing more magic than copy+paste and no runtime component.

It’s completely different from a decorator that generates code at runtime? As in, when the code runs?
What's your workflow for adding a new feature to something? In OCaml, with it's "high-tech language features like algebraic data types and ultra-strict typing", my entire workflow is:
- Modify the types to add the new thing.
- Fill in all the pattern matching cases that the compiler tells me I need to fill in.
- Maybe write a little bit extra logic.
And then i'm done, with a solution I know is type safe, will never crash unless i've explicitly let it, etc.
How does this help with moving data? Well, wouldn't it be handy if the compiler could stop your program from crashing when something goes wrong, or you could have the compiler track where you've safely and unsafely done operations, or a million other things.
Maybe this is too strong a statement, but if you can't see the advantage of that, I don't want to work with code you've written, because you're not doing everything you can to make it as safe as possible.
The two I saw on Reddit having this bsod were on 13th gen Intel so I'm not sure but I'd guess some issue handling p and e core transitions is causing the problem.
Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan thanks to abusive users
Think about it from a security and distributed systems perspective. How do you establish that the sensor data is good (sensor isn't failing), the data is trustworthy (not malicious), and ensure you have it when you need it? V2V and V2I take already hard problems like self-driving and add a bunch of other hard problems on top.

They're hardly worth discussing as serious solutions today.
the statement applies equally - the percentage chance that someone is compromised in a certain direction is not.
> you expect me to produce some complete quantitative model here in comments?

No, I don’t expect you to back up the claim at all.

At least in the predictive, as opposed to normative, sense of “expect”.
The correct title: <<China bans seafood from Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant begins its wastewater release>>
The unlikely proposition of the GP is that a grassroots movement with browser extensions would somehow manage to overwhelm and destroy the advertising industry by rendering it unprofitable and nonsensical.

Passing such legislation would be rather redundant at that point, wouldn't it?
While I share your reservations, I think we should either give it a whirl or wait for someone else to try adversarial processing before we dismiss it out of hand.

My guess is though that if you had a training set of processed vs unprocessed pairs that you could train an “unmister” if you wanted to.
While I sympathize with you, in both links the maintainer said it had been fixed. Maybe you ought to report a new bug? I didn't see any evidence regarding "maintainers consider[ing] this not a bug worth porting back fixes for because it still gives correct results" in your links.
So I agree with your point that it would be heavily opposed by local residents if they tried to dump it in a lake. And yes an elected government is going to be more concerned with keeping their voters happy than than their neighbors who are engaged in opportunistic political posturing. But I don't think this is unique to Japan at all. Look at the pushback that the US got when they tried to bury spent nuclear waste in an uninhabited section of desert [1]. And politicians being beholden to their constituents' demands is a feature of democracy, not a bug.

And also like Prickle says it's all moot because releasing it into the ocean is the better solution - in terms of cost, risk, dilution effectiveness, and political feasibility. Maybe their fishing industry would be impacted less if they dumped it in a lake - although I suspect the effect will be temporary as the global market reconfigures itset, and South Korea already bans fish and agricultural products from Fukushima, and Japan was already headed toward a trade war with China for other geopolitical reasons. There would also be economic impacts as a result of dumping it in Lake Inawashiro - for example to tourism in the Lake Inawashiro area. Is that a good trade-off? I don't think the answer is as obvious as you claim.

And I don't know how you can claim "it's simply a solution which they didn't even consider" - were you there in the room when the engineers were drawing up ways to treat the wastewater before deciding on this one? Honestly I find it perplexing that you are so fixated on this notion that because they didn't choose some suboptimal solution to dispose of waste water, somehow that is emblematic of "Japanese domestic politics at it's worst".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
similar to this? https://www.askmarvin.ai/welcome/quickstart/#ai-functions
Karpathy explains the reasoning on Lex's podcast[1]. This was after he left Tesla, but of course he's hardly impartial.

[1] https://youtu.be/cdiD-9MMpb0?feature=shared&t=5279
Which is exactly why the two letters are swapped.
The only thing that should require very strict uptime is the database. Lambda (for your backends) says 99.95% per region, which does seem kinda low, more what I'd expect for an AZ than an entire region. Can you easily add a second region for more 9s?
Those price increases were from covid. Fed raised rates just after eastern Europe hostilities which is being used to split world supply chains.
In preparation for DUNE, scientists examine theory of neutrino oscillations
My "we" was really animals in general, where there are several examples: bats, dolphins. But I have seen some academic papers on human echolocation over the years.
“Writing things in C to appease the C people” is reasoning that can’t possibly die soon enough. You’ve had a good run.
North Korea threat group exploiting ManageEngine ServiceDesk bug
Lookup lipofuscin, many spots are made of it. Goes beyond aesthetics
I tweaked yours a little.

[NSFW] https://generated.photos/human-generator/64e7e1aee4125d000cd...

And then I requested a full bush...

[NSFW] https://generated.photos/human-generator/64e7e47ff56326000b9...
The better article (real technical details) is https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/blob/main/p...

Appearently the PoW function they chose is equi-X.
Lol, ok.

By the same logic, I can argue that "bidenomics" (printing money) started when the Federal Reserve was formed, in 1913. Or that it started when the FED closed the gold window in 1971.

Though all three of those arguments would be reductive and stupid, and I'm sure we're both above that, so let's not.

But really, reconsider your sources, because they're lying to you.
I wonder what common misinformation will be repeated about this law as time goes on. Like the exact meanings of "PII" and "consent" with regards to the GDPR.
I'm not familiar with any court rulings on that
> Our being able to post here at all is a privilege afforded to us, and their choosing to revoke that privilege for any reason is fully within their rights.

I really hate it when discourse about anything devolves into rights.

If I have a genius or terrible take like "Chairs are pointless. Nobody should use chairs because ..." you can't just say "Well actually The Constitution allows people to use chairs and you can't ban the private use of chairs." That doesn't bring anything to the discussion.

Nobody is saying here that HN isn't legally allowed to control the content on its website, but different people have different opinions about what's right and wrong for websites to do which doesn't involve having to bring the government in to settle things.
> When the subsystem is enabled, suggested effort is continuously adjusted and
the computational puzzle can be bypassed entirely when the effort reaches
zero.
government printed lots of money which slightly relaxed economy issues but have many negative long term consequences: debt, hit on well being of bottom 50% of population, bigger wealth gap which will be abused by rich.
Before shooting your mouth off you should really look at what's being talked about. Read the article, watch the video that's attached to the article. When you have something coherent to add, reply below.
PM at Retool, agreed this is hard problem. Like you said, most projects fail so Retool can help you validate and get to success or failure faster. But yeah totally agree that performance, making diffs cleaner, and code search are some things we’re really working on.
I think that right there is the crux of the problem. To think yourself harmed because of what some strange is looking at in their own home is quite a bit odd.

If I knew that someone had a naked painting of me on their wall and they were masterbating to it right now, should I really be bothered by that? Am I supposed to care what is in the head of a stranger?
Ok, then goodbye.
This is misleading and borderline clickbait.

There does not say anywhere in the article about "removal" or "remove"

Please keep the original title: "DigitalOcean Announces Leadership Transition"
That's the point. The conservatives got up in arms about video game violence, but the left too can get over excited about similarly innocuous things in this case.
BRICS is essentially being co-opted by China-Russia now to build a bloc. Since China-Russia on their own are too toxic and enjoy no goodwill. So this is a naked attempt to dilute their negative perceptions via a collective.

On its own BRICS makes no sense, the core interests simply don’t align and some members have real conflicts amongst them. The only real beneficiary will be China since this would be a forum to to do what it could not do via Belt and Road Initiative, build a large market in which China is in the center from which it can try to introduce standards and currencies it controls, a long stated goal of the CCP. Russia is going to be a resource train that is it, its march to irrelevancy is all but set. So really it’s a China play.

Adding these choice 6 countries makes it even tougher, I can see Brazil and India diluting away and eventually leaving BRICS at some point provided their economies get big enough. Although if BRICS keeps increasing in size and more key members join e.g OPEC it could put them in a tough spot.
That’s a lot of text for a landing page targeting people with ADHD.

After a quick skim of it, I still don’t know why shimmer is any different than any other e-therapy service.

Edit: just noticed you mentioned the stream lining of your site in your also very-long-post. The sign up is a type form. Why? That’s actually another barrier to signing up, and it feels weird being “off site”.