skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long term? There will not be enemy territory, there will not be multiple jurisdictions. Power, it would seem, naturally concentrates. One million nomadic groups to 10,000 tribes to 100 nations to four or five conglomerates. We have been in the endgame since the industrial revolution but AI will speedrun us to the end in decades, and perhaps years, not centuries.

"The mechanical development of weapons, transportation, and communication makes the conquest of the world technically possible, and they make it technically possible to keep the world in that conquered state. Its lack was the reason why great ancient empires, though vast, failed to complete universal conquest of their world and perpetuate the conquest. Now, however, this is possible. Technology undoes both geographic and climatic barriers. Today no technological obstacle stands in the way of a world-wide empire, as modern technology makes it possible to extend the control of mind and action to every corner of the globe regardless of geography and season."

- Hans Morgenthau
Cattle are not raised in feed lots.

Feed lots do sometimes come into play for finishing beef cattle, but this takes only ~4 months. And it is very possible to buy pasture&grass finished beef that doesn’t use feed lots at all.
It’s hard to tell if you accept the premise of the article, that “neuropolitics” is any more informative than other identity politics.

Under any system, those attracted to power will reflect the means of attaining it. Considering gerontocracy, we can expect an industry to emerge based on shaping ideas to appeal to that age range. Ideas found too inaccessible by the very old fall outside the Overton window of what debate is allowed in the legislature. Abortion and adoption, long-term consequences of funding education, technology and as the decision makers age out of daily cultural contact, unfamiliar cultural trends like diet, recreational drugs, public transit. These need to be communicated via staff and lobbyists who pick which issues are most negotiable with favored stances of the very old.

I think you’d agree that this could happen with any set of politicians as it approaches a monoculture. If it were agrarian slaveowners (Ancient Rome or parts of Colonial America), historians would watch as they picked which challenges to solve, and why. We get to watch as legislation is shaped to appeal to people whom it will never be relevant to.
Ideally the long-term value is $0 when IPv4 becomes irrelevant, but how long that takes, and the prices along the way, are anyone's guess. Even explaining past prices is analogous to stock market voodoo.
an article like that would be great!
Blame your ISP. IPv6 should have already been supported since the 2000s.
How many more buses could you run for the same cost, and how much would they reduce car use? Hard to be convinced without seeing the math.
That's really cool!

I was puttering around with the idea of a ricardian compiler for legalese, basically a decompiler for something like this that could compile a legal text into clear logical rules. This would aid in proof checking for legal documents to ensure that they're compatible with existing law, that there are no (unintended lol) loopholes and the like. It would also be useful if you wanted to create self enforcing legal documents that can be enforced deterministically by machines, such as collateralized agreements, and finally, even though someone would still need to know legalese, it could make the development of such agreements easier for people and lower the bar tremendously.

I wonder if anyone has built anything like that, if these guys have, or if anyone has built other interesting ricardian compilers.
Appreciate the answer. In hindsight my use of the word scripts was insufficient.

Looked at the TF code; my solution implements similar functionality to handle AWS CRUD ops. What I avoid is all the DSL parsing and such.

For me an AWS account is a struct with fields of AWS SDK resource types, which it seems is what TF resources map to (they handle a lot more so there’s more to it, but kind of sort of if I squint just right). Either going to duplicate the internal logic or DSL chunks per project, would rather avoid the context switch between syntax, “learning the TF ecosystem”.

Thanks again, though.
Word embeddings are an integral part of natural language processing (NLP) and Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT). Let's look at how they work.
> I am a bit puzzled when you suggest that I am indoctrinated or otherwise brainwashed.

The language you are using is grafted from every narrative being sold.

Nobody who takes the time (it took me about 8 months) to look-up, understand and critically think about the available data says these things.

It's like talking about anti gravity devices to make hoverboards. Sounds fantastic. Not real.

> But dismissing all the research highlighting the problems potentially coming ahead is definitely a big claim, and requires extraordinary evidence to convince me or anybody reading the thread.

This is precisely where everyone goes with this.

What I said is, to put it simply: We cannot "save the planet".

In quotes because the very phrase is ridiculous.

We are being told that, if we spend billions of dollars on nonsense and destroy entire economies we are going to "address climate change" and in some cases they'll add "within a generation or two".

There are only two ways to sell such nonsense. The first is you do a great job of indoctrinating people. The other is to make sure the masses are not educated enough to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

They are using both.

They have actually sold the masses on this idea that we can affect a planetary scale issue in the span of one or two human lives. In a rational society these people would be laughed off the stage.

Reality? If humanity left the planet tomorrow. In other words, the most extreme form of eliminating all of our carbon contributions. It would take somewhere between 50K and 100K years for a reduction of 100ppm of CO2.

How can I make this assertion?

I am not making it myself. We have reliable data showing this in great detail for the last 800K years.

In other words, we know exactly what the planet does without humans around.

So, if the most extreme form of CO2 emissions reduction --no more humans on the planet-- would require 100K years for a 100ppm reduction, how can anyone claim that we can do that A THOUSAND TIMES FASTER while billions of people and all of our industries, etc. are still around.

This is so ridiculous it isn't even a good joke.
If you're going to start with HyperCard, you can't leave out SuperCard and LiveCode, both still around today. And if you include SuperCard, you have to mention that its creators went on to create Flash. And then of course there's Director, mTropolis, iShell, and Apple Media Tool, and many other tools that started on Mac.
>Now, seven months later, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells "CBS News Sunday Morning" the balloon wasn't spying. "The intelligence community, their assessment – and it's a high-confidence assessment – [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon," he said.

>So, why was it over the United States? There are various theories, with at least one leading theory that it was blown off-track.

That's the opposite of a "bizarre secret".

Would everyone that thought the balloon was intentionally spying on the US please come out of the woodworks? I wish there was an easy way to tag accounts that are consistently wrong about stuff like this
NixOS has a desktop installer now. If they had an easy way to setup Flathub and turn on auto updates, it would be as user-friendly as Silverblue. I actually have several family members on it, since I can do that first post-install setup.
They already do.
An IPv4 costs about 5 dollars per month at current prices.
with "half a litter of veg soup plus 2 eggs plus 2 sausages, some bread, some nuts"
you likely have a borderline underweight BMI and little-to-no muscle to speak of.

muscle is extremely important for maintaining mobility and independence as you age. with this diet, even with training, it will be impossible to build any. past 30, without outside intervention, humans lose around 10% of muscle mass per decade. what happens when you're 70 and can barely walk after losing what little muscle you have? best have a reserve...
Make sure your ISP already configures IPv6 correctly and if not write them.
> They created a Mac native Basic at launch, and only Microsoft's anticompetitive arm twisting kept if from being released.

Wow, that almost makes me want to cry.

I discovered personal computers when the computer basically felt like a programming language.

I might be wrong, but if a friendly language installed on every computer out of the box had held, the evolution of “people’s” languages might have been a huge thing to this day.
But once you have repeatable steps and that are good (water, quantities, temperature etc.) the grinder becomes the most important piece even in espresso.
> let in more immigrants while still maintaining their culture.

Impossible.
This is scooching into AlphaGo (or whatever the generic implementation is called) territory: mixing predictive AI with traditional optimization algorithms.
2 hex characters represent 1 byte (8bits) so it lines up nicely if you’re looking at where memory gets saved, and will align nicely with big rollovers since it’s a power of 2 radix. FFFFFFFE => FFFFFFFF => 00000000, rather than 4294967294 => 4294967295 => 0 or the equivalent formatted as a date string. Feels better for a count down thing.

Plus bonus points for, when mentioning how 64 bit ints are the solution here:

FF FF FF FF (u32)

=

00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF (u64)

makes it pretty clear what the trade off in memory usage is vs range gained.
I completely missed that somehow, thanks.
The "deltas" are calculated by the error in how well the current state of the network predicts the output, backpropagated. Sequential runs are not commutative because the state changes.

Consider the trivial example of training a network to distinguish between sample A and sample B. Give it a hundred As in a row and it just learns "everything is A". Give it a hundred Bs in a row and it relearns "no, everything is B". To train it to distinguish, you must alternate As and Bs (and not too regularly, either!)
Who said anything about a lawn? [Edit. And no, not certainly. It would be better for you to procure your food from someone who grows it efficiently. Being /good/ at growing food without waste is fucking hard, leave it to the experts. Now, if you are not looking at this purely from an efficiency standpoint, then things like aesthetics, mental well being etc. come into play and you should do whatever floats your boat]
For a far more in depth look into high intensity gardening, with real data and realistic expectations, I strongly recommend
John Jeavons:
How to Grow More Vegetables: Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine
> Security with Electron is a problem in general given its massive surface area.

I'm new to Electron development. I've read the docs recommending hardened runtime. Would it be sufficient for security? Can you give examples of such security issues?
'National' and 'Museum' are doing the heavy lifting here to make you feel this way. Its a privately owned collection incorporated as a non profit to avoid taxes.
Lodash started because underscore violated semver by releasing breaking changes as a minor version update.
"Klaatu barada nikto"

- The Day the Earth Stood Still
The big nations have already wargamed this scenario and have contingency plans in place.

IMO we'll see this happen in our lifetimes.
See “Slaughterbots” short film: https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU
AppleScript gets a bad rap for being obscure, but the language itself isn't to blame (mostly) -- when I was an AppleScript developer, 97% of my headaches came from applications with weird dictionaries, not the language itself.

One time I spent half a day trying to figure out how to add a page to Quark XPress, only to eventually find that documents didn't contain pages; they contained spreads, and spreads contained pages.

That was 100% not shown in the standard dictionary display in the Script Editor tool; the UI tool I used for creating interfaces for AppleScript apps had a better dictionary display, and that revealed the answer to me.
The cubes have kind of bad vibes, if I'm thinking of the right thing. Feels like I've already breathed all the air in them after 5 minutes.
Why did Drew all of a sudden start doing this advocacy stuff? Not that I disagree with it, I'm just curious... it feels performative. Like is he trying to prove some kind of point to someone? It's definitely an entertaining read, but I wonder why he pivoted to such a strong degree
>I’ve been evangelizing the business benefits of enterprise technology for more than two decades, first as a marketing executive and more recently as a freelance writer. At IBM, I was known as a “Software Evangelist,” and my work always had me delivering secular sermons about the redemptive potential of the latest computer program or hardware.

>As an apostle of digital transformation, a prophet of workflow orchestration, I gushed with messages from the gods of tech about how products like AI and RPA would allow corporations to be born again—or at least generate higher earnings.

>And then, earlier this year, things started to go a little quiet. When you’re a freelancer, a slowdown is never good, but I grew more alarmed as a client notified me that they would no longer require my services because they were switching their content writing to AI. Others simply dropped me and didn’t send a note. Several more accused me of using AI in my writing, so why would they pay me?

This is a skill issue. If your writing is indistinguishable from AI, it has negligible value
Which junior devs?
I'm interested to hear how much of the modern internet you can use with a browser with no JS.

No webapps, obviously. What do you use your browser for? HN, text mode on a couple news sites, nothing else?
“John may desire to be called John, but he can’t realistically expect people won’t call him Bob just because he says it’s not his name.”

Sorry, this is nonsense. That you think John should be called Bob has nothing to do with your view on personal identity - it’s just you being an asshole because you think your politics are the most important thing in the world.
It seems like because there's so much custom code, rather than editor features, the author might as well use a rendering library instead of the engine.
Same in safari on iOS 16
probably they just read the title and thought it was an interesting question so they upvoted
He Mike! How are you doing?
puts isn't applicable here because you actually need to format the %d, but any compiler worth using (i.e. not MSVC: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/zx74vY1za) will optimize a printf of a constant string ending in a newline into a puts.
They are referring to:

a) the fact that Japan's birthrate is below the number needed to sustain the current population

b) the fact that Japan is ethnically homogenous (98.5% ethnically Japanese), and has very limited channels for immigration, meaning that japan, with the policies that exist today, will not be able to significantly mitigate the population decline by accepting immigrants.

Japan takes a very different approach compared to countries like Canada, which is a melting pot of cultures and which has an increasing population largely due to immigration
Then there are a lot of ISPs to blame: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
I’m not sure why you seem so agitated suddenly. As you know I’m sure, a SOAR is meant for automation. The simple tasks with simple decision making are piped to the SOAR.

Additionally there’s a lot of work that goes into the space between “something has alerted” and “this is an incident”.

Also, just as an aside, I’m not sure where you’re getting mixed up about SIEM/SOAR?
> These days with single fibers replacing thousands of cable pairs I'm sure they're a lot more roomy than they were back then.

That's how I ended up working there. 33T used to be packed full of gear but everything shrank so much that AT&T found themselves with dozens of empty floors. They didn't renew a lease on a big NJ lab I worked on, and a number of us ended up being able to choose commuting to NYC.
They switched to 2.2.2.2
A lot of the people who rise above their economic class lived in those zip codes. One way or another the family was able to get/live in a house they really couldnt afford and were far poorer than the others in that zip code but the children tended to do at least as well as their peers.
The problem with TeX is that it's a write-only imperative language. Good luck performing meaningful operations on the data.

XML, for all its human-unfriendliness, is very good for declarative document layout that you can later feed into some random process.
You don't have to turn off sync. Chrome supports end-to-end encryption for sync data. Set a sync password that is different than your Google account password to enable it. This will disable history sync but everything else will still be synced and unreadable by Google.
> Livestock takes up around 80% of agricultural land around the world, yet produces only 20% of the world's supply of calories: https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets

Is this ratio particularly bad? How does this number (4x the land per calorie compared to the agricultural average) compare for, say, broccoli or spinach? My intuition is that 4x is pretty good for anything but grains and perhaps tubers... but I wouldn't know how to start finding evidence one way or the other. Maybe grapes and other densely-growing high-calorie-density fruit are up there with grains?
WTF are you talking about? HealthCare.gov was built by private companies.
> The difficulty in running a CA at a very large scale (public or private) is that the root certificate revocation becomes prohibitively difficult. For this reason, its security is critical and much ceremony is warranted.

Unless the end-to-end, from the CA to the final certs, are managed by yourself or your immediate team, the scale would be irrelevant, and some ceremony would be required, as would be some processes that are internal to the team. My personal approach to avoid much of this is to use really short-lived certs to avoid the revocation theatre, but that doesn’t avoid the need to ensure that the CA is fundamentally secure.

> If that CA gets compromised, I can just re-run the template to generate and deploy a new one! No ceremony. Just press play.

Indeed! That, and re-distribute and implement trust for your CA Chain to all machines that need it. Your examples work fine (and I agree with) for small-scale use-cases, but if you run PKI for anything except yourself, you have to take care of the P for the KI.

Look, I am no fan of the rent-seeking bullshit the big public PKI vendors make us go through, and the incredibly high cost per certificate model. Charge me a reasonable fee for verification, and charge me a reasonable fee to set up my certificate vending endpoint, and be done. The same goes for internal use-cases. But the fact remains that verification and process are required. Fortunately, ACME for internal use and sane APIs and workflows such as Vault or smallstep provide make things very easy and cost effective. As for $400 per month for Azure certificates? Run your own instance, with your own (supposed) management processes, and see how it tallies up…
I think it's a good question. By trying to find something that others want, OP is more likely to find actual users and feedback.
The thing about addiction and the way pure sugar acts on some people is they cannot moderate- especially when the addiction is formed at a young age

People who start smoking before their 20s have a much MUCH harder time quitting.
Heh :)

To be honest I feel as bad for them as I do for Hamachi, when their (otherwise quite nice in that it was a spiritual predecessor to Tailscale!) overlay VPN service fell apart once 5.0.0.0/24 became publicly assigned.
This isn’t really a service. All it does is deploy an infrastructure template into your GCP project. It won’t largely be for deployments on Google Cloud. It’s for automating Terraform, and whatever providers the customer wants to use.

https://cloud.google.com/infrastructure-manager/docs/view-re...

You, the customer, pay for everything deployed, and Google just pre-connects it to all their services for monitoring and maintenance. It would be like if Route53 on AWS was free, but it deployed a VM in your account, added gateways and nats, opened ports, etc., so that it all ran on discrete infrastructure for just you and you got charged for everything and had to do all the scaling.

If you’ve used their Apache Airflow product (Cloud Composer), it’s basically the same thing. With Cloud Composer, they are setting up an Airflow node and cluster on your behalf, in your account, that you pay for, and connecting it to their services.

This is no different than going to a consulting company and asking them to setup and maintain a Terraform automation platform in your account., which Hashicorp said was allowed. Google isn’t reselling it as a product. They’re setting it up on their platform on your behalf and giving it to you.

And there’s no reason you couldn’t switch it out to OpenTF.
I have seven raised garden beds in a typical suburban block, plus espaliered fruit trees. If I had to revamp to make a more concerted effort to feed us rather than just a hobby, I would build in a few things from the start. Probably at serious expense too.

Things like: permanent wiring and netting to keep out possums and rats, a bordering method to deter as many slugs as possible, frameworks such as tubes and hooks to convert beds to polyhouses or add shade for winter and summer. I have a couple of these things now, but they're a bit of a mishmash.

It's too easy to put in a lot of effort and end up with scraps because a pest cleaned you out.
> David Salsburg reports that a colleague of Fisher, H. Fairfield Smith, revealed that in the actual experiment the lady succeeded in identifying all eight cups correctly.
It's not nearly as popular because recent history has shown there are assholes like Vladimir Putin for whom "wanting to help other humans" is only showing weakness and a reason for him to try to overthrow you or conquer you.

How anyone can promote pacifism as a credible foreign policy in 2023 boggles my mind. Ironically, the best quote is Trotsky: it doesn't matter whether or not you're interested in war, but whether or not war is interested in you.

Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Garbage truck sounds extremely challenging for today's EV tech.