skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “And in this scenario, you can’t really negotiate,” he said. “You aren’t talking with a person who has the power to tell you what went wrong and what didn’t go wrong.”

I find this one of the most telling bits of this entire article. It says the quiet part out loud - people are often not looking purely to understand. People want information so they can negotiate, reason, or argue with the decisions.
TPMs are also highly effective against "you can just use a LiveCD to try Linux temporarily, then reboot and return to Windows."
Who proofreads these journal articles?

In their conclusions, #3 finishes with a sentence that sure looks like someone accidentally a word or phrase.

>(3) Individuals who do not effectively detect fake news tend to have higher levels of anxiety, both state and trait anxiety. These individuals are also highly suggestible and tend to seek strong emotions. Profiles of this type may inappropriately employ intuitive thinking, which could be the psychological mechanism that.
> Six years after my recovery, my memory overall is not as sharp as it was before my illness. I use to-do lists to keep myself on track. I triple-check the rehearsal dates on emails I send my students to make sure I haven’t listed the wrong day or month, although sometimes mistakes still slip through. I also sometimes struggle to remember how far back events in my past happened. I’ll catch myself wondering if I had the oil in my car changed three months ago or a year ago. But every time I take my viola out of its case, I feel grateful to be able to think like a musician again.

Probably a testament more to the savant like intelligence of a classically trained musician than an objective description of someone’s stunted recovery.

For me, I exercise the same extra work to keep up with my day to day, though to my knowledge, have never had a traumatic brain injury.
Cool ,I'll remember that when I'm starving because my account was frozen. For 'efficiency'. I'm glad they care so much about me as a customer.

Banks are about to lose more trust, and money. I'll be doing some research into my credit union as well. Can't trust these institutions, man.
> Ah-hah, so you're a patronising twit to boot, and a credulous one.

> I guarantee DSM VI will be different.

I sure hope it is. Right now they don't have great coverage of dissociative disorders yet.

As for the rest of your comment, I don't see any point in continuing this discussion.
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> that we cannot use empiricism to determine universal rules,

we indeed cannot do this and Feynman illustrated this frequently using the analogy of chess (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1dgrvlWML4).

As Kant argues we can never observe the rules of the physical world as things in themselves, just as we can't directly look at the rules of chess by observing games. We can only get individual hints that we piece together into models of the world in ways we can understand.
Is everything flipped? Right hand, left hand too?
Ma girl also has had like 20 days delay of her periode after the last infection of ours. So, obviously, there is something with it. Hope the mirror-humans can live long and prosper.
"Each error scope stores only the first error it captures; any further errors it captures are silently ignored." is one of the worst design decisions I've ever seen. That means if code is expecting one error to occur, any unexpected errors that occur after it in the scope are unobservable. The only way to handle that would be to push/pop tons of scopes.

How hard is it to make an array of errors instead of a single slot? What's the upside of this other than laziness?
I believe this. I never run so well as I do when I just look down about 10 feet in front of me and let my legs move as much on their own as possible.
Why is America the only country that taxes people who have citizenship but aren't residents?

The only one, guys.
I legally pirate stuff all the time as in “use oss project in compliance with their published license”. Thug life baby!
Too bad Nigel Farage got away with it /s
Companies have to pay for their trademarks and domains to maintain them on all the areas where they want them protected. They aren't free so there's nothing new there.
I thought you need to have the wave/tide based generator as a more stable to compensate when solar and wind is lower down. It is not as efficient but predictable totally (as it is tide).
> Where's that?

In the configuration example on the bottom of the main page.
This seems like a decent summary of Kant, though like Kant's own work, it involves a gross misreading of Hume. To paraphrase Chomsky: Hume and other so-called empiricists did not actually believe in tabula rasa because they were not imbeciles. Hume wrote an entire chapter on how humans have instincts which determine how we think, just like animals do, for instance.

Kant actually said very little about epistemology that Hume didn't say better. They were both cool, but since everyone wants to hype the beef, Hume -- who never got a chance to defend himself against this "rationalist vs empiricist" false dichotomy -- was cooler. I would encourage anyone and everyone to read his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
I noticed it when I was in Brooklyn two months ago. In DC, where speed and stop cameras are the only form of traffic enforcement and where the bus cameras are also being piloted, the proportion of cars with fake (temp Maryland tags printed on a library printer) or obscured plates is probably approaching 10% of vehicles on the road, and 90% of routine reckless drivers. If NYPD demonstrates a studied indifference to public safety, DC MPD is doing a post-doc in the field.
It's not 5x, it's more like double AFAICT. Which isn't great, but compares reasonably to fossil fuels once you factor in greenhouse emissions.

It shouldn't be the default, but it has plenty of niches where it's clearly the best choice - for instance, in Japan/Korea/etc where the bulk of their energy is imported liquefied natural gas. There's very little space to build solar/wind and so nuclear makes a lot of sense there.
Paypal has far more than 100x the adoption of Ethereum
Using Bogrep, I could only find https://tenderowl.com/work/frog/ in my bookmarks which is a bit related, but doesn't seem to be what you're looking for.
Maser
Human perception of how weathered or safe their surroundings are seems to vary extraordinarily.

Posting a (cropped?) picture would make this comment way more interesting.
It bite you later as where to put the rock after it was used. Obviously if it is all about economic as well as risk ... but it is not silly.
For coffee shops plus a concept, it's pretty common. Coffee shop plus guitar shop, plus maker space, plus plant store, etc.
Or Erlang and OTP.
The only problem I see is that the inactivity timeout is 30 days. Make it a year and I can see no valid complaints.
From the data I’ve seen the poverty rate has trended down since the 60’s
Interesting paper. My confidence on the following idea isn't high, but I have an idea I don't think a lot of people agree with me on. The authors pretty convincingly show that transformers don't generalize well. I agree, but I would add that I don't think humans generalize well either, so I don't think showing that transformers don't generalize well precludes them from ultimately being "intelligent" (in some way). In fact, the inability to generalize to new situations is actually a core problem in learning for humans.

For example, think of a college freshmen who knows Algebra and begins Calculus. Even though they have all the fundamental "mental tools" available at their disposal to figure out how to prove that an infinite series converges (or not), I would guess that very few students can actually connect the concepts in the right way to see that. They have to be given examples and be shown how to use the knowledge they gained in algebra and how it applies to infinite series. Is their inability to generalize well evidence that they aren't intelligent?

Perhaps what we're really saying, and the real problem for us, is that these systems aren't intelligent enough to be useful to us. Just like we might say that a very smart student, like a von Neumann, would likely be able to figure out how to solve an infinite series without having seen it before. I think it's reasonable to say "we want transformers to generalize better than the average human."

To that end, I think we'll have to imitate the way that a very smart human solves new problems. For example, the students who are capable of solving an infinite series without having seen the concept before, might use a creative approach of trying different things to see if they can discover the pattern. So, my hunch would be that we will need to provide transformers with bolted-on sub-routines like "generate several hypotheses and test them to see which pattern fits the data best" before we can expect them to generalize well.

Tl;dr: Transformers don't generalize well, but I don't think humans generalize well either, so I don't think that fact precludes their ability to be intelligent in the limit. I think we'll have to imitate how humans generalize by giving the transformers additional "mental tools" before they can generalize like very intelligent humans.
GP and I aren't talking about subjective realities merely on the level of "this is my perspective of this person and that thing". Insofar as you or I could be said to be conscious, to perceive the world and to think about it, that is the extent of our respective subjective realities. It's not that the universe exists for every single human. Rather, as humans, we each perceive the universe, and others, in the ways that we do. We could be in the Matrix right now. The nature of a subjective reality is that, in a sense, there is no difference to us whether we are "real" or in the Matrix. What we perceive is what we perceive. How useful this model is is a different matter, but it's not solipsistic.
It's encouraging to see all this solid (if unglamorous) software engineering work happening, for a powerful platform that also has active research going on.

(Maybe I'll find a way to resume using Scheme/Racket. The last few years, I've been using Python, JS, and Rust, partly for employability reasons. They have their merits, but I'm aware of what I'm missing.)
For one specific purpose, the benefit could be worth it: bootstrapping.

Guix bootstraps from a tiny audited binary, and milliForth could be used for the same purpose.

Imagine bootstrapping a full Linux distro from a milliForth binary and source code for everything. Everything would be fully auditable, no Trusting Trust problem, and a full Software Bill of Materials.
A lot of people fall for fake news, as long as the source seems authorative, at least that is what recent history teached me.

Do we still remember the weapons of mass destruction from Iraq [0]? Assad being accused of the Douma gas attack [1]. Stating vaccines are safe & effective while the contracts received by governments stated that both effectiveness and long-term safety of vaccines was not known [2]? Or the claim that the Hunter Biden laptop leak was Russian disinformation [3]?

In this day and age, we really have to question everything - sadly. Seems all major news sources are compromised by governments or intelligence agencies in order to push their agendas.

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[0]: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/03/1151160567/colin-powell-iraq-...

[1]: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/16/chem-d16.html

[2]: https://archive.org/details/contract_03/page/48/mode/2up (page 49)

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/us/politics/republicans-h...
You are not correct about a lot of what you are saying. Whales are not fish, but birds are dinosaurs, and humans have gills and tails, but your made up version of "whales are fish" might sound superficially similar but its not how any of that works.

You can not "claim whales are fish" but humans do have gills and those are not the same thing, you are just confusing the two examples because they sound the same.
If you're willing to share more on this subject, color me interested.
What security boundary can you hope to hold if the CPU is running malicious code straight out of reset (such as through a bootrom implant)? No amount of layers and defense in depth can paper over the fact that your hardware is physically compromised.

It's the whole trusting-trust thing. We don't really have a way to solve it, so it's best not to burn yourself out on it.
If I was in a position to choose, I think I'd speak directly to engineers, too.

Word of mouth via tech influencers is far more important than you're giving credit.
Tor Project is over 50% funded by individual contributors and relatively smaller private foundations [1]. Their expenses are roughly 50% of the revenue, so they could actually survive without their biggest funder - the US government.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/static/findoc/2020-2021-TorProjec...
I tried a 5mg THC edible last week (new user) and I lost my short term memory for about 50 hours. It was hell because I could still remember some things but my visual memory was 0, so it was like I was always coming out of a dark cloud that's 15 seconds behind me, but perceiving now in full clarity. It really messed with my perception of time. I wonder how many times I thought: "what's going on... ok you lost your short term memory... but now is so clear... but it won't be soon... how long has this been happening... " I cried 40 hours in because I didn't know if it would ever come back. Luckily it did and I'm here a week later with hopefully little scars.
It might be too late for you to see this but "Bitcoin" is the project, BTC and BCH are two forks of the original project.
there are, I am, and it is. (Except for the proliferation of backslashes due to C not having "raw" strings.)
That's genuinely nothing to do with why the Berlin clubs with strict entry policies are great. The experience inside doesn't feel exclusive, it's beautiful - people being free and really immersed in the music, supporting and taking care of one another, creating myriad moments of connection and joy, and a very much lower rate of people being obnoxious or in conflict than in a regular club. It's totally unlike being in a club that doesn't have the same kind of entry standards, and each club has a unique culture that is upheld in part by their door staff.
How does this beat a spreadsheet?
Open Source has a problem only to the degree that getting paid is a problem.

I identify with the author - he's articulating what I know, what we've all known forever; there's no money in open-source (somewhat by design) so make your money elsewhere then donate whatever motivation you have left to open source.

Personally I like programming, but i also like eating, so I trade most of my skills for money. Pretty much like my electrician does. Or my baker. I'm completely comfortable with this.

I use lots of open source tools. I appreciate this authors. I assume they've sorted out their money issues in whatever way they choose. Clearly my donations, nor donations in general, make the slightest bit of difference to them.

To the Europeans who expect OSS developers to flood to your well-documented-solution, with have no funding, I say - good luck with that. That's not really how the world works, that's not how OSS works, (and to be honest doesn't fill me with confidence about your documents) but hey, you do you.

Sure OSS has a funding problem. Every month there's a new startup pitching their solution. Until one comes along that actually works, I'll stick to the funding model that works for me. Which, to be fair, is pretty simple. You pay me. I give you code.
> I suspect the encryption here is broken due to CTR mode AES with IV reuse. Try printing out the IV in the segment function. It's the same value across sessions.

I think it's a little more subtle. IVs are being generated deterministically, but keys are generated randomly per session. The nonce uniqueness requirement in CTR is per key. That said, there doesn't seem like there's any guard against replays of messages, or dropping of messages, or altering of messages.

> Another thing I see is that AES-CTR is being used alone, so there is no integrity guarantee for the messages.

Indeed. They seem to try and do some integrity checking at the start of a session by sending an encrypted all-zero block, as a way of verifying that the client has the correct key (stored in the url hash). From what I can tell, there's no integrity checking on any subsequent messages.

Also the KDF parameters for Argon2id seem way underpowered (19MB RAM, 1 lane, should probably be using at least 2GB RAM in a KDF setting)
Submitted by RGBCube an hour ago. Flagged by the inclusive community, I presume. Thought I'd let it have another shot.
She focuses 100% on the scams which are the least interesting part of the industry but gets the most attention.
MIT physicists turn pencil lead into electronic gold
Does anyone have a good reference to how much of the linux kernel is developed by the "charity of volunteers" and how much by commercial companies providing manpower to get the features that they want in it.
This looks useful, I'll give it a try when I have the need next time.

What are your aspirations for it by the way? Are you looking to monetize it?
Would it be easier to band together the currently-unrecyclable orbital debris and waste and boost bundles of usable material with e.g. solar until it's usable in orbit or on the ground of a planet?

Someone probably has the costs to lift n kg of payload into orbit then and today in today dollars.

Matter persists in cycler orbits around attractors.

Is there a minimum escape velocity for each pending debris object, and then also for a moon gravity-assist solar destination orbit?

How much solar energy per kg of orbital mass is necessary to dispose by ejection in some manner?

I'm reminded of Wonka's cane and the Loompland river. Can such orbits be simulated with Kerbal Space Program 2?
From the article: "The big kids quickly learned to punch the little ones in the face and take their stuff. Elon, who was small and emotionally awkward, got beaten up twice. He would end up losing ten pounds.

The second time Elon went to veldskool, he was about to turn sixteen. He had gotten much bigger, bursting up to six feet with a bearlike frame, and had learned some judo. So veldskool wasn't so bad. "I realized by then that if someone bullied me, I could punch them very hard in the nose, and then they wouldn't bully me again..."

The story was revealed in the recently released book: "Elon Musk" by Walter Isaacson
SBF made all his money stealing from people and arbitrage, he really had nothing to do with cryptocurrency.
why don’t those risky “curl | sh” commands at least do some checksum or sig verification?
I realize my comment above can be read as "time dyslexia is the whole problem with ADHD" and that was not my intention. Thanks for your perspective!

I also totally agree that ADHD-ers know what time is.

That said, ADHD is a thing I have to deal with and for me and a number of those I know who have ADHD, "time dyslexia" is a very good explanation for a subset of the problems we observe.

> They absolutely cannot work on the task no matter how hard they try. They have not forgotten. They are not slacking off. They literally just can't do it. Their brain refuses to think about it, their body refuses to move for it. They don't have the willpower or the motivation for it. They are trapped. They are completely unable to make any progress because their brain will not let them.

Here it is you who are taking agency away from ADHD-ers.

Many can, it just takes a lot more effort than for other students/workers.

Things I have seen working:

- restricting oneself heavily so that the work at hand becomes the only possible thing to do

- conjuring up reasons why something is intersting

- pair programming

- various ways of sneaking up to the subject (start by fixing a few small issues, them improve a unit test, then make a small prototype, then take a look at the actual problem in question)

- gamification

- etc
yes, as far as you know from your 1-sample subjective experience of being a human being, that other beings with nervous systems don't suffer.
The IBM PC had an advantage in that most of the support parts were IIRC largely jellybean 74 series logic - could a PC-PDP have used similar COTS parts?

The larger issue with DEC was a strong NIH trend (almost as strong as IBM), I dont know if they could have bucked that trend to successfully launch a market winning PC. It probably would have looked like the DEC Professional, which I think looks like market failure.

So the dreams of a 64 bit extension to the PDP-11 might be stillborn ;-)
Today's inflation was caused by greedy market forces, collusion, and government loan fraud, by those same capitalists.

Government spending on useful services, or helping their constituents get by on two one-time $600 payments did not create the current economic climate.
That's... an interesting reaction. I'm sorry you had to go through it. What's notable for me is that this happened at such a low dose. Maybe there's something more to it in terms of interaction or reaction in your body?
maybe you are not reading something engaging enough?

You are hard to please and that can be a good thing. I have a friend who is hard to please and i always come to him for recommendations. Cause that means if he likes it, then it must be really good.

I would suggest anything that is dark and gritty. Violent, even. Those are the ones that is the easiest to focus on.
That wasn't what "fell off the truck" actually meant.
MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts
npx it these days
I went into this thinking it'd be bunk but Slava Turyshev definitely knows what he's talking about. His articles on what it'd take to actually resolve an image of an exoplanet using a solar gravitational focus, and why it mostly won't work, are still defining the edges of the field. Which is kind of why the idea of actual power transmission seems so outlandish here. Just sending or receiving information is hard enough but actual power? The catch is that you already have to have the spacecraft positioned extremely accurately hundreds of AU on the others side of the other star system to have a chance of receiving the power. It's not going to power you on the way there.

1tx·---<○sun>------------------------------<○star>---·2rx

The tldr is that you have two stars, the sun and some other star. And you already have some spacecraft in the other system positioned with an accuracy of +-100m along the straight line between it and the sun and the conical array of lasers back out 650 AU+ from the sun in our system. Those lasers illuminate a ring around the solar gravitational lens at an optical wavelength that won't get defocused by a star's corona like radio does.
This reminds me of a common scam that casinos pull: if someone gets caught gambling when they weren't allowed to be, the casino will unwind everything if there was a net win, but will leave it stand if there was a net loss.
Sorry, but why is this on the front page? 63 deaths in 43 years. Im actually surprised only that many have been hit.

I love curiosities as much as the next person, but I’m getting the sense someone’s trying to make a mountain out of a molehill here.
I usually go left to right, top to bottom.