skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like I had my games confused. The Forge was supposed to be a faction for Armageddon's Blade, but was cancelled.

3do did rush heroes 4 though, and one of the biggest complaints about it is how bland and lifeless it feels compared to 3.

If you haven't already, you should try the Horn of the Abyss mod for Heroes 3. It's great! Adds tons of qol stuff and has a new campaign and faction.
> While sexual assault is serious if true, it's also the only crime that can ruin someone's life and livelihood with no evidence or actual crime taking place.

This is true. Along with this, it's important to note that there is, in fact, a significant amount of high-quality evidence about this particular allegation (some of which is contemporaneous to the assault itself).

I'd also note that failing to believe & punish a true/credible allegation is itself an abhorrent act. There's no easy defaults in a situation like this: it's A Very Bad Thing to be incorrect in either direction.
As abeppu points out, this is their death estimate: 40.4 million [32.9 million–51.3 million] is their estimate on deaths.

Further, covid deaths are severely undercounted. Our world in data reports 26 million excess deaths to date, about 5 million in the past year. That's with three years of data, vs. three decades for HIV.

There's surely some HIV undercount too, but it's a reasonable bet that covid will exceed HIV in terms of deaths long run.
> Pompeo wanted to whack snowden

There wouldn’t be an issue if New Delhi had stuck to wanting to whack a Canadian.
They missed by 95%, can't say that's a great call, can you?

>This was a presentation to investors, to drum up support for their plans

Isn't that the issue, though?
If you hate readability, sure.
Gonorrhea has become drug resistant due to the overuse of anibiotics (both for people and animals).

Prior to fairly recently, it was easily cured if detected.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/multi-drug-...
I wonder if there will be any substantial increase in pedojacketing among cultural elites towards those they see as undesirables now that the bill is passed, or whether the second order effects of the bill will lead to a backlash against the existing proliferation of it from the young, globally connected, and tech savvy populations still remaining in Britain after the depredations of the last decade.
You misunderstand. The NSA has collected massive amounts of data on everyone, they could easily solve many murders, burglaries and most other crimes. But they don't, in fact they don't event really stop terrorists.

So why collect all this data? They do it so they have a massive backlog of information, so that when someone decides you need to be taken care of they no longer have to figure out something to pin on you, they don't have to navigate around that pesky 4th Amendment. The purpose is so that when they decide you need to be taken care of they can go through the backlog find whatever they want and then boom. You're done.
They can walk somewhere else. They don't have a disease.
Type J is a good design, the Danish one is quite unique. Too big. Schuko is too big as well. I installed Italian Type L/Type C sockets for 10 amp type C plugs where I had half a module left.

The EU has no jurisdiction over Switzerland and Lichtenstein.
If management cared, not updating documentation with every merge would be a strike, with multiple offenses leading to firing. They don't care. All large development is just slapped together and shipped. By the time the reaper of long term problems comes, the problems are too big to fix.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/05/re-victimization-from-po...

Granted, that's dealing with stolen iPhones getting sold and an entirely set of other problems. You'll note that 26.8% of them were either unlocked, easily guessable, or in one instance had the credentials there (compare shoulder surfing before stealing the phone).

> Of phones they won at auction (at an average of $18 per phone), the researchers found 49 had no PIN or passcode; they were able to guess an additional 11 of the PINs by using the top-40 most popular PIN or swipe patterns.
Truly, they could put up any roadblock---a time delay, requiring a phone call, MFA up one side and down the other---and it would be a much better look for them.

I don't buy the anti-theft angle that can only be solved by buying a brand-new genuine part direct from Apple.
visidata anyone?
If I'm not buying a message bus in as a service, then NATS is great for pub/sub and or message passing system

it is simple to configure, has good documentation, and excellent integration into most languages. It guarantees uptime, and thats about it. It clusters really well, so you can swap out instances, or scale in/out as you need.
Interesting...I didn't expect my weird meta comment about how celebrity 'news' has become Real News to be quite so unpopular!
You think Nintendo is more recognizable than Apple? lol
I've never heard of a serious investor that takes these numbers without a teaspoon of salt. I think the total addressable market is generally a bigger concern. At this point, it looks like Starlink is likely to own the whole market (of high-ish bandwidth, low-ish latency internet in remote-ish places). No one else is even close for the necessary launch cadence to maintain a very LEO satellite fleet.

Posted to HN using a Starlink connection.
What does it mean to launch?
Houston comes to mind, it has a very low walkbility index (see https://pedestriansfirst.itdp.org/).
Both Microsoft and the US administration (Trump at that time) were pretty open about it, Twitter was a little bit shy

Wich is funny because that's precisely when the FUD started to appear

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-tiktok-have-held-prelim...

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21357231/microsoft-tiktok-...
More earlier discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37567070
Thank you for this. Next time AWS try and tempt me over to them I’ll tell them literally fuck off. Not up for those games.
I stay away from palm oil and I love coconut oil. Not going to use some weird concoction until overwhelming evidence (lifetimes) convinces me otherwise.
> That said, in a global internet any technology that can be created, will be crated, and made free and open for anyone to use.

Maybe, but that's not an excuse to do it, like: "I do it because anyway someone else will". Silicon Valley is throwing a lot of money into stuff that "someone else" would do, and it is not clear to me that this someone else would always have that kind of resources.
The use is all the other applications of quantum computers that aren't breaking cryptosystems
There's nothing in this comment or your previous one that I disagree with.
The problem with Signal app E2EE solution
Jung brought into psychology the notion that things tend to turn into their opposite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiodromia) as well as the concept of the (psychological) shadow.

The question raised in the article of how could such "deeply ethical people" be "so close to such a massive ethical lapse", is less paradoxical in this light. The same phenomenon shows up with the Effective Altruism movement, and of course lots of other things that present themselves as extremely good.
It's not secret! We want to be as open as possible - and it's in the OSS version if you want to try it out.

The technical details are best explained by the authors of the original paper [1]. We weren't smart enough to come up with it on our own and can't take credit for that haha

[1] http://jiemingzhu.github.io/pub/pjhe_icws2017.pdf
I have 2 questions.

1. Is this optimized for constantly adding and removing rows to the columnar table?

2. Is this supported by Microsoft Azure Flexible Server for Postgres?
I think I used the wrong word here. But they fall under a different legal category iirc.
I believe the Atari 8-bit computers' CTIA/GTIA chips generate their video output through pins in much the same way as the TIA, with digital luminance and a color output, so it makes sense that S-Video (or I guess I should say "some sort of separated luminance/chrominance", since the S-Video standard didn't exist yet) would be the way to go for a higher-quality picture there.
Canada, US worked closely on possible India link to Hardeep Singh Nijjar killing
op is confused with nil interface.
> innocent until proven guilty is a legal concept, not a social one

Yes, legalism is often taken too far, but that doesn't mean that mob rule is a good thing.

> Bad folks have often been shunned without convictions

Are you sure about that? I'd sooner say that only losers get "shunned". Powerful politicians don't get "shunned" for their corruption, actually sometimes it seems to help with their popularity. Likewise with mobsters?

Mobs go after the weak, not after the guilty. Whether they're lynching and necklacing their neighbors or "canceling" minor celebrity cranks.
> I am not an expert in either and have only worked with Kafka.

> I’ve managed a lot of rabbitmq deployments

... ?
Hydra – Tone of Voice
The bill makes sites prove they are committed to removing content:

* promoting or facilitating suicide

* promoting self-harm

Serious question - how will this affect discussions around euthanasia? Can people just not discuss that online in the UK anymore?
Is the argument here that poor uneducated unemployed people in developing countries are the ones profiting from Crypto? As, say, percentage of turnover or revenue?
we used it for some low latency stuff in python. it was about 10ms to enqueue at worst. However we were using raw NATS, and had a clear SLA that meant that the queue was allowed to be offline or messages lost, so long as we notified the right services.
One might argue that the electoral system (FPTP) is a common denominator in both cases. Under another system, new parties might arise to replace to stale ideas of the old (on both the left and the right). Under FPTP, that's almost impossible to achieve.

It's a common refrain that people don't engage with politics because they feel disenfranchised. Which is perhaps unsurprising, because to a large extent they are!
I tried to recall how many instances of theft vs damage there were in my social circle and the ratio is at least 10:1, with damage being the higher number.

I had one case of spontaneous malfunction, one bricking via repeated high humidity environment and one bonk against bare concrete, which resulted in the screen needing to be replaced so I have to ask: how bad is theft in your corner of the world?
if you have a modern bar for accuracy, you require evidence. when you require evidence, because you've spotted a ton of lies in the media, most of it gets rejected.

we did not ask for untrustworthy media, algorithms, exploitation and bribery dictate that.
> I guess I don't fully understand U.S. healthcare system

Yes, it's confusing.

> I pay a $10 co-pay for generic with my insurance, but when I pick up from pharmacy the receipt says "you insurance saved you $1888" (you're right it's not ~$2500/month - I just checked and that's a different prescription I have that I get filled at the same time).

As a rule, the "your insurance saved you $X" is a meaningless statement.

It's actually worse than meaningless - it's effectively an advertisement for health insurance, not an actual statement of fact. It's calculated based on the difference between what you paid and the list price for a drug, which almost nobody is paying (and your insurer is definitely not paying).

Your insurance pays some other negotiated rate for drugs - they will basically never pay list price. Even if you were getting it without insurance, you still would likely not be paying list price. If you were paying out of pocket, you'd probably be using a discount coupon (which usually works as a third party functioning as a pseudo-PBM, a ridiculous concept which I will not bother to try to explain in this post). Or your doctor would explicitly prescribe the branded version ("dispense as written") and you'd be using the Gilead copay assistance coupon to pay for it.

Since there's no situation in which the list price is what you'd be paying, it's completely meaningless to say "you saved $X off the list price". I'm half of the mind that these statements should be banned by the FTC as a deceptive trade practice - that's how misleading they are.
Go never should have implemented closures.

You add them and the next thing people want are objects.
That's revolting. Which radio show was this?
A Programatical Ode to Galileo
What you are missing is that the "tlogs" (transaction logs) actually hold the durable, fault tolerant write log. The sequencer is just a big fast in-memory data structure that checks if the many transactions coming into the system pass isolation checks (the I in ACID). That is, it accepts transaction so long as the keys that the transaction read haven't been modified in the mean time.

The reason it can fail without a correctness issue is that it can just reject all transactions in flight for the clients to retry. This is something the clients need to be prepared to do anyway because of optimistic concurrency.

It can run fine on AWS. Upon a failure, the sequencer role is very fast to re-elect onto another machine in the cluster because there is no persistent state at all.
Nintendo as stated literally on their about page wants to put smiles on people’s faces. Making hardware is certainly one way to accomplish this, but it isn’t strictly necessary.

Not to mention I never said a hypothetical Nintendo acquisition would mean they don’t still make their own input devices compatible with of course Apple devices. See beats for example
Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only
Try explaining that to Julian Assange, who has never stepped foot in America.
Java Library Development: Get Started Quickly with Java-Library-Template
The common economic interest was always seen as the best key to persuade countries to eventually federate. Read the arguments from early leaders of the ECSC and it's all very plain. The vision was always to reach a full political union, through the lever of an economic union that is necessary to remain competitive with the US and (the USSR back then, but today) China. Because in a superpower world, European countries alone are utterly irrelevant.

You can take any trade bloc out there - none has the influence or the prospects of the EU, they are all fundamentally weak. You need shared political force to make a difference.
Loved the aikido reference. I’m in the process of editing a book on verbal aiki and it’s cool to see the prescience in this article
I'd only say we've managed 1, 2, and 3 so far because these issues typically are being controlled by humans in human timeframes and scale so we have a grasp of the situation and stop it before it gets out of control.

Where number 2 becomes iffy is the 'accidentally on purpose' reengineering of the biosphere via burning carbon sources for energy. Overfishing and extinction of numerous species isn't exactly what I call good in the managed so far list.

AI is already in control of any number of harmful activities, and will become more entrenched as time goes on. If you're watching the Ukraine war and the rise of drones as massively impactful in theater operations you'll see where the future is going. Massive numbers of inexpensive but semi-smart and potentially connected devices overwhelming the enemies defenses are what's in every military planners mind right now. Then you have the groups that are trying to figure out how to counter such types of attacks, most likely with their own sets of smart drones. Do you think we are going to have humans controlling hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of these devices at once? Seems unlikely to me, it will be passed off to GlaDOS or some other controller system where people put in the basic goals and the AI figures out the rest.

Even AI screwing up something like global shipping can have deep and impactful economic outcomes, imagine an actual attack on it. Humanity has never been more fragile than it is now.
Child porn is a couple clicks away for anyone with internet access. Any teen boy that wants to see pictures of similarly aged girls, finds them quickly. Remember that such pictures, no matter how gross, are legal in many countries who share the internet with us.

I am not saying that is okay, but I am saying it is impossible to stop without shutting down the internet.

If anything deepfake tech reduces the demand to abuse real humans to obtain some types of pictures, which might reduce harm, even if in gross way.

Also you can find copyright movies too just as easily no matter how many billions have been spent trying to stop it.
Reminds me of how everyone who knew anything about the physics academia scene in the 30s/40s knew what was going on at Los Alamos. Second-order effects are extremely hard to obscure.
> Millions of people can program

Well, not everybody has the resources to make everything. Pretty sure ChatGPT would not have been written (and trained) by a student in their room.
So what? Beats has its own hardware and it’s also owned by Apple. I don’t know why you believe they couldn’t make hardware and be acquired by Apple. You lack imagination.
They're asking that, if the programmer wants the map to store expensivetocopyvalue semantically but also doesn't want to have iteration generate expensive copies, does the programmer have to change the map to store *expensivetocopyvalue instead?

Anyway I believe the answer is that expensivetocopyvalue is not a type that exists in golang, because golang's "copy" operation is always a simple bitwise copy ala C struct copy / Rust's Copy trait, not like C++ copy ctor / Rust's Clone trait that can be arbitrarily expensive.
> nobody has actually done that

CUE, running in the browser: https://cuelang.org/play/?id=#cue@export@cue

I see you are not interested in CUE and the benefits it offers, despite being a young language without all the ecosystem yet

We subprocess.run because there are many problems better solved in CUE that make our other code so much simpler. I can't even tell you the 10s of thousands of lines I don't have to write, both python and other config languages require way more verbosity. There are upsides for the downsides to early adoption
None of these four points are part of the author's focus. Broadly, I would summarize the author's points as:

- Alignment and capabilities research are not separate. There is an "alignment dilemma" on whether to contribute to alignment work or abstain from it.

- Discussions of AI risk are subject to "persuasion paradoxes" that make it difficult to reach clarity.

- It is helpful to take a "recipes" framing: (a) what are recipes for destroying the world? (b) how likely is an AI to discover or enact these recipes?

Overall, a clear post.
I think the slice append semantics are very error-prone, and it would have been better if a slice was a shareable reference to a single mutable thing, like a map (or a list from Python or Java or …)
Newcomers to Java usually dislike the "Variable used in lambda expression should be final or effectively final" compiler error, but once you understand why that restriction is in place and what happens in other languages when there's no such restriction, you start to love the subtle genius in how Java did it this way.
Oh, I think he understands. Constantly criticizing mainstream media for low standards while having far lower standards yourself is the kind of thing that you have to put significant ongoing effort into rationalizing.

Consumers of alt media can do it thoughtlessly. Producers? I'm not convinced.
There isn't really a great way of explaining quantum behavior using everyday (classical) terms. Any analogy you come up with will be deeply flawed yet unsatisfactory opaque to the reader.

The only way is to gear up on math to the level where you can if not reason within the theory then to at least make sense of its presented conclusions.
I would never fault anyone for cashing in and walking away when offered a life-changing sum. Life is too short.
Worth noting that Kafka is getting queues: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-932%3A...
> You misunderstand.

Nice, start with an insult!

> they don't have to navigate around that pesky 4th Amendment.

They got around that in the UK already by not having a 4th Amendment...or indeed a written constitution.

> They do it so they have a massive backlog of information,

This implies a level of competence I do not recognise in the UK government.
> Elon has made it very clear what the fantasy he's selling is

Please read my original comment again, emphasis on the 'dog whistle'

> Oh and finally, make no mistake the people who are driving a cybertruck are plebs. Anyone who doesn't have a professional driver and armed security is a pleb.

Please read my last comment again, emphasis on the 'aspiring'. And there are different classes of plebs. Plebs who can afford a 60k truck != plebs who live in their cars.
yeah, used cars apparently mostly get exported to ghana and some other countries that have extremely loose customs who don't care about stolen goods moving in.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/auto-theft-canada-1.6953242

if you could re-use a phone, people would just factory reset the phone after stealing it, and people did it. then apple locked that down. then people started stripping the phone for parts instead, and apple started serializing parts. Etc.
> A competitive level isn't necessary, but reaching a non-trivial level of fitness has tremendous benefits to one's health and well-being.

Yes, but it's also a significant time and money investment. The additional time and food cost of nutrition/gym membership/supplements is easily $5000/yr or more.
Basic example:

func foo() *bar {
// ...
if something_wrong {
return nil;
}
}

var x interface{}

x = bar()

if x != nil {
// Dereference x
}

This will crash if `foo()` returns nil, because it's checking if `x == interface{}(nil)`, which is false. What you wanted to check was whether `x == *bar{nil}` or one of the other nil types that implements the interface; which must be done with `reflect.ValueOf(x).IsNil()`.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/30865
Like floating point errors, the representation can (in theory) be as precise as we like but that's not something most users are willing/able to adjust.
The process is the punishment
The law has Innocent until proven Guilty, and statutes of limitation. If only the court of public opinion had such checks and balances. And it's clear Youtube is following the latter and not the former
With all the crazy warts that JS has, it is at least a lisp-like very dynamic language if you squint (a lot) at it. Its greatest fault is probably leaving out integers (I can’t even fathom why they decided on that, floats can’t represent properly ints).

Go is just simply badly designed, relying on hard-coded functionality a lot.
I think they will be successful, but it seems like terrestrial internet will always have a significant bandwidth (though not latency) advantage over Starlink.
I'm in good faith when I say the guy is an obvious sleaze ball.
What do they think people are searching for where the ads are valuable? I've never clicked an ad and it be what I wanted, except when it's like a search for "target" and I wanted "target.com" and Target paid for the top ad spot (which would have been the first link if there were no ads)
There is no Bitcoin in Signal. Much has been written about MobileCoin that you can find on other threads.
> Free anonymous and private communication is mandatory for a functional democracy.

Out of curiosity: can you mention one democracy where people generally have "free anonymous and private communication"?