skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Naturally, there's an adversarial game playing out, and we accelerate it massively. If the results of our small games enter the larger playspace, we're damned, so I get your concern.

Is there some scifi solution to step outside of the game? Are the problems involved in understanding the systems involved (to the extent that you can predict realistic risk and mitigate) solvable?

I don't know the level of realistic risk for a devastating virus naturally occurring, nor the potential for us to address it without this kind of research, so I don't know what is within reason here. It would be cool to see any studies that attempt to address these two questions.

Edit: And a systematic review of past and considered lab leak scenarios probably wouldn't hurt either. If we still have to do this work, and just decide it must be done by isolated monks/robots in space, for humanity ending risks I guess that's worth discussing
I mean, good? They did cause a global pandemic costing trillions of dollars and millions of lives, so maybe they should just chill TF out for a while?
You're being juvenile. If you're going to cheer for a historical faction that you feel reflects your values and jeer their opponents, it's probably best to not have a "basic knowledge of history". Historical groups aren't sports teams.
> Ah, I see. We’re supposed to engage these ideas in the “reality” in which interlocutors don’t have motivations, incentives, perspectives, personal histories, or attitudes toward topics that are revealed in their tone.

No, but if that's the 1st subtext into which you rush, rather than all the other ideas on offer here, much broader than any of Mr. Andreesen's life particulars, then you've chosen to play a pettier game. It's a free country.

> There are several “techno-optimist” (and adjacent) horses one can hitch their wagon to.

Ok, then. Who are your favorites, and in which ideas/dimensions are they offering something with better insight/appeal/non-'askew'ness than Andreesen?

Or do you only nitpick?
And, especially in the context where the same result could have been achieved as easily without resorting to law-breaking, how does that constitute a license to break other laws?
Decoupling economies is step 1 to war.

Perhaps still 30 years away... but I think it will happen, and a war between two nuclear nations won't be pretty (although I doubt it'll actually be a nuclear war)
Oh. Wow!
I haven’t read the article so I don’t know if this is the same thing as passkeys but most password managers should support TOTP authentication
I think we've actually hit the world the postmodernist theorists of the 1980s/1990s talked about where culture as a whole is so diffuse and decentered that speaking about counterculture is mostly meaningless.

The market can provide any "experience" you want. So there's really no single mainstream dominant focus to be "counter" to. In the 90s I had to hunt for all the "alternative" media I could get my hands on (in record stores, book stores, conventions, clubs, etc. etc), now it can play out on your phone after about 30 seconds of searching.
How about a JS fork bomb, on rotation with 42.zip?
Over the years I've seen so many variations of this. "u mad", "triggered", "seethe", "rent free", etc.

I don't know why the internet insists on deriding anyone that reacts strongly to anything. It's something you ought to grow out of after middle school.
>"won't someone think of the children!?!?!" is a meme for a reason.

Indeed, and it is well-represented here. In fact, I assumed we'd see some of it here and went looking for it. I was not disappointed. It means plenty of people missed the point entirely.
Where's the bad part?
Not much, I just thought they had taken that one out of DSM-5
Why would you still pay it even if you aren't in the union, if it's a slice of members' pay?
The why is hearsay and speculative. But all jobs at SpaceX are ITAR (https://www.spacex.com/careers/jobs/), and the DOJ apparently has no problem with that part of it.
My main gripe with this article, is it mentions that their product was born as a result of a "painful expensive experience" of not creating a "Pricing Engine", but they don't at all elaborate on what that experience was.

I want to know what problems that they built this to solve specifically, so that I can foresee future problems that I may run into. But they don't elaborate at all, and instead just mention that their product solves those unmentioned problems.
So you reference check with the company’s HR department, no? There is way too much info on a W2 that no future employer should have.
Get out of here with your facts. I want to live in a world where I can believe an individual will get hard time for acquiring too many IP addresses.
Just a correction: I am not making a gradient argument. The word brings to mind a one-dimensional scale. That is a measly one-step-up from black-and-white. The implication of a "gradient" is that there is "good" on one side and "evil" on the other, and everybody falls somewhere on the gradient. This is not strictly false in all senses, but it is almost always a gross oversimplification and, effectively, a useless measure. A core part of my point is multi-dimensionality.
When you shill so hard you should disclose you have a stake
In California, you can now sell your ADU
It is strange that you claim you cannot imagine how selling a primary residence sooner than expected increases the number of houses being sold, but you do have the imagination to pretend an agent is working full time for single clients in 30-45 day stretches to ensure they get what they want (despite misaligned incentives to do so). And that they "often" spend a year on this.
The clock is ticking: Atlassian's support for Bitbucket Server ends on February
I don't actually know what they sell. Back when I did go, it was to get games and movies.
Isn't it the anti-anti-showing-buttholes-to-children community? Nobody wants to force you to show buttholes to children, but you should feel free to if desired
I kinda wish streaming could basically become like something that maybe has some consistency between platforms and allows for some bundling packages... People can't afford 15 streaming plans, but maybe buy 10 get the last 5 free, and all the plans share based on shared data of usage (medium like model, views / subscribers = % of payout). They could have an added bonus, whoever refers the customer to signup gets an extra x%.
They certainly will if they haven't already. Last I heard they were waiting for amd to fix their code before they unban people.

This is the third false-VAC since the cs2 beta. First was a unprotected yaw command (no commands should get you vacced unless they're protected by sv_cheats), windows 7 users, and now amd anti-lag+.

Although in the case of AMD, this is definitely not valve's fault. They detected exactly what they're supposed to.
Persuasive writing is a skill. You lost my attention and I turned against your argument because of your "stylistic point". If it'd been written differently, I would have definitely agreed and supported the points I did read.
1) Florida did not switch to e-voting machines. They switched to what most people mean by HMPB - hand marked bubble fill, scanned optically and retained for audits.

Most importantly:

2) There is no problem with hand marked paper ballots optically scanned. And those aren't considered e-voting machines where votes are recorded electronically.

The whole point of whether hand marked paper is a problem depends on how they are marked (eg NOT punched) and to not acknowledge that is disingenuous.

I'm glad we are on the same page with improving efficiencies. Lack of polling places => long lines on election day is particularly egregious.
You don't find classifying and treating a whole group of people the same... bigatory?

You don't think there are Chinese that want a different governance model for their country?
I mean, are we supposed to feel bad for a handful of scientists and not the millions of people who died and the billions whose lives were disrupted? Seriously?
How you should think about DynamoDB costs
Sony has a streaming service called Bravia Core. To use it, you need to be able to download at a sustained 115 Mbps.

It's kind of funny that on Bravia TVs, this means you have to connect wirelessly because their ethernet port only supports 100 Mbps.
The users of these apps probably don't even understand what it means to hotlink someone else's resources, and, rather than simply remove the resources, you replaced them with an overtly offensive message. I'm not saying you weren't within your rights to do that, but you can't at this point high-horse and complain about the abusive emails you got as a reaction.
Much larger problems with voter intimidation in the UK through the postal vote system.

I've been to several counts in the UK, spotting a specific ballot, even if you know which box it's in, is impossible.

You've then got to be able to enforce that enough to make a difference. You'd have to have a unique mark for every person (at least at every station) you're trying to enforce, one that can be quickly spotted by one of about 5 people you can get at the verification stage.

Even then there's no guarantee you didn't just miss it.

Sure, you can write "WANK" next to everyone you don't like, and that's great, but again the number of votes you could affect in this way would be a tiny number.
Given the public outcry over the sudden and unexpected demise of CSGO (especially for those that paid), this will only make things worse.
I think you overestimate how long such a change would take.

If Nvidia was banned tomorrow, I think within 6 months another leader would emerge and be supported by all the big libraries.
UHD disc media has a bitrate from 72mbps to 144mbps. I won't say it's a night and day difference, my parents can't tell the difference. But there's a difference and if you're really particular about quality (okay okay, I'm a bit of a snob) it's a big deal.

For something like a Marvel movie, whatever. For something like Planet Earth or 2001, watching it on streaming is disappointing after owning the disc version.
> hole thread

I see what you did there.
PTO is paying people to not work.

There is no financial difference between paying someone to not work one day every two weeks, and having them show up that day but not do anything (which we can agree would be unproductive).

Paying someone to stay home, and then paying someone else to cover them, reduces productivity of the factory because it requires more total labor to produce the same number of parts.

You can argue that the person will be more refreshed or whatever, which I think is probably a good argument for many types of jobs that are not manufacturing line work.

People who have engineering or creative jobs constantly think that you can get the same work out of four days as five. And for their jobs, because they have significantly decreasing marginal productivity per hour worked, they might be right. But that's very different than line work. The 40th hour worked does not have appreciably different productivity than the 35th hour worked in a week on a line.
Except they didn't make a cheat at all? They applied smart engineering and reduced lag for players.
For fraud?
> This is a Scottish person driving in conditions that would never be encountered by over 99% of the Teslas out there.

I don't know if this was meant as a sarcastic remark; I assume that the share of Tesla drivers that live in rainy places is more than 1%
I'm no saint, I've definitely been guilty of a "spite downvote" when I've let my anger and frustration get the better of me, especially in my earlier days of commenting, both here and elsewhere. I don't think I've done it in a long time though and hopefully never will again. I did however the other day accuse animal lovers of acting like "fucking militants" and quite rightly got flagged for it.

I'm a work in progress and striving to be better and I think that's all you can ask of anyone really. We're all at various stages of development and none of us know what's going on in the life of the people we're talking to. You could be speaking to a teenager with very little life experience who's just ignorant and doesn't really understand the consequences of the position they're arguing for or you could have someone in the 60s who's just lost their spouse and had their whole life come crashing down around them. Downvoting is going to help neither of these people, but leaving a comment might. In the case of the former, what's obvious to you isn't so obvious to them, so you can help enlighten. In the case of the latter, sometimes if you can say the right thing or ask the right question it can help them right themselves.

It doesn't even have to be that extreme, I've had plenty of debates on here that end up arriving at a point of mutual agreement which is always nice and often leads to growth on both sides.
If one element of the law that you are claiming that he broke is intent to cause distress and he didn’t have that intent, the elements of the crime were not present. This is not debatable as a matter of law; the only question of fact would be “what was the intent?”
Ask HN: Is SQL Anywhere dead? OEM Agreements aren't getting extended beyond 2025
It seems like SQL Anywhere is going to die. It's a great DBMS, and I wish SAP hadn't bought Sybase in the first place.

See discussion here:
https://sqlanywhere-forum.sap.com/questions/38924/action-required-sap-oem-partner-agreement-response
This is what I don't get, why is this all happenning in cities?

Like I live in a place where one of the major employers is a government research facility and every day people go to the designated meeting point and a bus takes them the rest of the way, or they spend 45 minutes driving on a dirt road to the middle of nowhere to keep anything from work (in this case nuclear related stuff) from coming home with them.

Why the hell are we putting biological virology institutes in the middle of the major population centers instead of the middle of nowhere?

Like there's plenty of unused land in the west, hell WY has like 2 dozen people living there, it seems that would be safe.
Only Docker, again.
Speaking of stagnation, Andreessen's manifesto seems to be aimed at a specific group of people who are not the majority of Americans.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
> The underlying crime was wire fraud

The other crime was looking like a douche canoe for his profile pic - https://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/amirg...
Yep, that pretty much mirrors my own experience as well, and I am also Swiss.

Sadly, IT companies in Switzerland aren't serious about security. Even big, reputable firms have been shown to be sub par when it comes to it... One of such incidents involved a highly reputable firm in Geneva that had many federal contracts. They got a data breach and their dirty laundry got aired out in the open: passwords to client networks/accounts/... were stored in clear text, contracts and other confidential information barely protected...

So I'd say, while in Switzerland we do some things right, IT ain't it.
What I don't get is why Argentina's economy has so much problems and inflation compared to Brazil, what is it they are doing differently? Why don't they do whatever it is Brazil is doing to be stable?
you guessed wrongly
Sure, remember how useful GoF was during the pandemic? Oh wait, no, that was mRNA vaccines. In fact, if there was ever a time GoF could have been helpful, it would have been a global pandemic. So maybe it's a crappy technique that should be banned by all countries everywhere because it is all costs and no benefits. :-/
I think of the poor Wuhan Lab that lost it's US funding finally. What a dark day for Science, right?
The truckers are likely unionized though
I'd estimate that 98% of companies are just receive-deserilze-validate-transform-store a.k a CRUD shops though some might have borken it down into distributed chunks (Micro Services) without any of the distributed tooling or mindset and awareness in place.

So... That's less likely where you'll need your dynamic programming or palindromes in constant time or space.
Agreed on the importance of passkeys "portability" (being able to import/export passkeys across ecosystems).

Edit: But don't we have the same problem with TOPT? I don't there is a standard letting us export/import TOPT keys from one system to another (like Authy, Google Authentication, Microsoft Authenticator, 1Password, Apple Keychain, etc.).
Interesting concept. I've experimented with a couple of inbox cleaners before, and both times, I had to share my login details. Unfortunately, one of them was a total disaster and deleted some crucial emails. Seeing that goodbyemail doesn't require my logins and puts me in control of mails I want to delete, I'm thinking of giving it a shot. Anyone else tried it yet?
Isn't this the motto of security in general? "There are no roadblocks, only speed bump." (obviously you can make pretty powerful speed bumps that make you essentially stop but hey, you could try to crack AES256 if you're willing to spend astronomical time)
I really had high hopes about Tesla as a company when they released Model 3. It was revolutionary and I was big fan. But then this English diver “incident” happened. Ok, funny things happen and I tried to forget. And ignore continuous weird tweets from the owner. When I was able to afford one they removed ultrasonic sensors… And I understood, that this brand does not align with my understanding of ethics and technology.
But then they could justify turning the screws some more, since we're agreed we're living in a police state.
Uncover methods to increase productivity and creative thinking in programming through the flow state.
The Story of O
It's looks cool. As someone who have been maintaining (among other thing, we also have our actual product) a home made pricing engine, I appreciate the value of this kind of thing.

In our case, stripe support wouldn't be enough though (we also need playstore & apple IAP, PayPal, other CC billing engine), and the truth is even if support excited, migrating would probably so painful that it would probably not be worth it (even though I'd happily throw away all those lines of code)
At the machine layer, the machine is doing symbol manipulation on bit patterns. Whether those symbols ultimately mean anything is entirely up to the eventual observer of the end result.

The concept of "types" breaks down at this level much like the concept of "a dog" breaks down at the atomic level.
Looked into it, and as near as I could tell, DoJ negotiated a consent decree with the NAR and both parties were ready to agree (~2020).

Then DoJ and NAR got into an argument about whether or not the consent decree prevented DoJ from bringing future actions.

As a result of NAR wanting a guarantee they'd be covered, DoJ decided to request dismissal of the case.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-v-national-association-r...

Reading between the lines, I'd guess either (a) ongoing investigation or (b) chickenshit prosecutor.
Are they constructed better too?
Here is the discussion for the other recent paper by some of them on 4D Gaussian Splatting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37905601
The Chinese are a great people. I want them to succeed. I know many tremendous individuals from Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Its the CCP that is the problem. I will say this plainly: Freedom for Hong Kong. Freedom for Taiwan.

I think I said that clearly, but apologies if it came out that way.
Third party site asks user's browser to request an image from the author. User requests an image from the author. Author says "sure thing", distributes an image of goatse to the user.
Covering homes with fine dust, and then having that abate in 30 seconds, is not a thing.
It's not clear to me how this approach would work with common tools like GitHub and gitlab. If we look at the visualisation[0] of the proposed approach, each diff goes onto the original PR branch and gets reviewed and merged independently. But neither GitHub not gitlab has this capability. A commit on a PR/MR branch becomes a part of the changeset and it will all be merged together.

Gitlab allows you to review individual versions of a merge request (GitHub probably does too, I haven't used it in years). So the review stages here would work, although this workflow falls apart if the author ever rebases or merges master.

Unless I'm missing something, you would need to create pull requests into PR branches and then change their targets as each one gets merged, or target them all at master but notify reviewers to please ignore the dependent changes and only review this stack.

Ultimately this feels like a hack to work around bad processes and bad CI/CD. I encourage developers to work in the smallest pull requests possible and focus on getting each work item merged, rather than hopping around from work item to work item. Very small PRs can be reviewed quickly. This workflow depends on a good CI pipeline, feature flagging and excellent communication in the team. I'm absolutely in favour of breaking features into multiple PR's. The smaller the better - smaller than you think.

0 https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_728,c_limit,f_webp,q_a...
His sister was murdered in Colorado, so maybe his views were complicated.
> Tesla urges US to adopt much tougher fuel efficiency rules

Color me surprised. Not.
Some companies try to have few levels of management. Span of control, the number of people reporting to each manager, has been increasing slowly for decades.
Here's a 1976 paper, from before business had much computer power.[1]

Here's a Delotte report on how to find managers to lay off.[2]

There should be studies of how computerization of management affects span of control. What do JIRA and Slack do to it? Haven't found one yet.

(Now and then I mention the future being "Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0". Amusingly, neither Google nor Bing has the reference. It's from "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe", by Yu, where the protagonist has that program as a boss.)

[1] https://faculty.lsu.edu/bedeian/files/a-history-of-the-span-...

[2] https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/human-capital/articles...
I live in Edinburgh and one of the first things I noticed when I first came here was how many Tesla's there are. I put some of it down to a dealership in a central swanky street with rich footfall (gone now). Things snowball. We get a lot of "weather" in Scotland. Not quite as much rain as Glasgow and the West, but plenty. And there has been some torrential (really, monsoon-style) rain on occasion recently (past two or three years really). I've rarely seen so much water come down so quickly.

However, I would still assume a Tesla was waterproof! Something seems odd about this.
It’s possible the jury is not scientifically literate. One of the damning emails said “you can’t say Roundup doesn’t cause cancer.”

To a layman, this may be heard as “Roundup can cause cancer.”

To a scientist, this may simply mean “There isn’t sufficient data to make a strong claim.”

Same words, two very different interpretations. That’s why lawyers fight so hard for jury selection.
Using the language of labor movements to describe police isn't adequate for understanding the constraints they work under. What makes a cop a cop isn't the work they do, but the power they have. To what extent they are free to apply this power, or sell it, outside of its normal sanctioned purpose is a critical question. And one completely separate from the issue of workers selling their labor to multiple parties.

Workers aren't slaves, but police are closer to slave drivers than they are to workers in this model. They do not labor, but are part of the system that coordinates who labors, to what ends, and to whose benefit.
Why pride yourself on being unreasonable? The text was clear enough and the exact phrasing is immaterial.
Your comment is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37918690 :)
yes, by manipulating running code from another process. I'm actually quite amazed no AV software immediately stopped it.