skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author, Terry Bisson, is now in his 70s and has bowel cancer. :-(

This recent New Yorker profile and interview is a great read.

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Terry Bisson’s History of the Future

For more than two decades, one of pulp sci-fi’s masters has delivered headlines from a time line defined by the absurd.

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https://archive.ph/k0RRI#selection-573.0-577.119
His first publication was "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures" for Mad Magazine in June 1967 when he was 19-years old.

https://silezukuk.tumblr.com/image/616657913
You can either order them preregistered from ebay or your local slightly shady phone resale store. It's also likely possible (though i havent tried) to use eSim and global providers like airalo.com to get one without enforced controlled registration (unlikely that they check, specially if you register via proxy).

And lastly, especially if you live in west german you can just take a train to the netherlands and by a sim there, no registration required.
Are terms and conditions that specifically stipulate what local laws and courts preside over any legal actions useless?

Cloudflare's terms of use call out that it is governed by the laws of California and any litigation wipp be tried there [1]. How did Germany get to enforce their laws and courts on Cloudflare?

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/
You are the second person to imply that OP was saying we need censoring, when the comment could be read very differently.

We can do better than jumping to that conclusion. ;P
My techno-optimism
Nope. The 'correct' tool for the job. When simple formatting is needed, Markdown works fine. It's even better when someone else has to fix or update your work in the future. Why not take out that pesky mosquito with a MOAB? Same reasoning works for other tools.

https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2001732840...
Yes, it's a whole thing, e.g. https://userstyles.world/

But, I don't think those `dquo-open-*` tags would get in the way at all.
This was one of the main reasons HTTPS took off. The other was Firesheep.
You can get prepaid data SIM (I think also regular but not 100%) without ID in at least some EU countries. And they work across the EU usually
The German court is not forcing Cloudflare to do anything with DNS.

It's their CDN Cloudflare have been ordered to do something with as CF are essentially hosting part of the Pirate Site.
At least in Germany, you can, but it's still tied to an ID, so you'd need to find someone who's willing to sell it and potentially get in trouble. When you buy a prepaid SIM in the supermarkets, one of the first things you have to do when installing it in your phone is do some kind of ID verification, either with the digital functionality in your ID or via some app like Postident which will do a face and ID verification.
One level 50 problem was Exercise 1.2.6.63:

"Develop computer programs for simplifying sums that involve binomial coefficients"

Which was solved in the book titled "A = B":

https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html

or

https://www.amazon.com/B-Marko-Petkovsek/dp/1568810636
I would agree with this take in general, yes. We are more or less saying the same thing though I appreciate the nuance injection. :)
A: because the higher you go value comes not from rapidly typing things but from thoughts.
Google search advises you to just use Google.
Upon learning what your customer is doing, one can choose to stop doing business with them. Whether it should be a requirement of a B2B enterprise with a liability component is easily separable from that.

Any sufficiently large corporation providing services to criminal organizations is an attractive target for a certain type of lawsuit. Maybe the plaintiffs honestly felt wronged and wanted the courts to make them right, but based on the history of these types of suits I feel it is simply weaponization of the legal system which ultimately undermines public opinion that our laws (ought to or do) serve justice. The cynical view that laws are wholly divorced from justice, while perhaps a realist view, is not beneficial to a free and democratic society.
I had always wondered, if they were going to try to give copyright infringement the name of a worse crime to dissuadde people, why would they pick something as cool and popular as PIRATES?

I had no idea the usage was so old. It makes sense now, thanks!
Prepaid data sims will not activate until you either talk to a store employee and show them your ID, or use a service online to videocall with somebody and show them your ID.
Might as well throttle everyone's CPU to 1GHz as well.
> that it does not really work with Google Meet

It does sound like a feature, not a bug though...
Two of my favorite names in computer programming, working across time. Love to see it.
I didn’t hear much anthropomorphism outside of the subtitle.

Anyways, this is Scott’s writing style. I recall an earlier ACX post on alignment that was real heavy on ascribing desires and goals to AI models.
Tax, healthcare, immigration: why Dutch people voted for Geert Wilders
It wasn't a folly from the beginning because it seemed like it could be done when Russel and Whitehead started on the PM. It was only after it was published that Gödel proved it to have been a folly.
Not continental Europe, but 3 weeks ago I bought a sandwitch, drink and a Vodaphone sim card at Dublin international, right outside Terminal 2. I paid cash for it. Came with 20GB of data. I never tried it, but apparently you can buy topup vouchers at retailers also for cash.

I converted my number to a bill-pay last week, and I had to submit proof of residence for that. I think they also asked for proof of ID (passport) and proof of residence status.
That doesn’t provide a constraint. The quote you mentioned is about why to model computation as a Turing machine vs. some other model, not about how to “find the largest number representable in 64-bits”, which doesn't have an answer.
Tesla could do that. Nothing stops them from hiring someone else to provide this service, someone that has a collective agreement in place. This is the most likely outcome here as the other options are withdrawing from Sweden or signing the agreement.

American companies also has a pretty strong resemblance to organized crime.

What do you believe is so unreasonable in the collective agreement? Supposedly Tesla already exceeds the minimum bar it sets.

More than 90% of workers in Sweden have a collective agreement. This isn't the first time that an American company ran into the Swedish system, they've set the precedent multiple times already, this isn't going to be any different.
Yggdrasil in the browser? Come on.
Compost heaps don't include cooked food, so they aren't so attractive to flies, vermin, etc that can spread bacteria and disease.

Seems likely too that the collection of rags and bones (for their various uses) became more systematic, with rags and bones as side-products of industrialised processes, and therefore collecting a few rags and bones from individuals was no longer economically worthwhile. There are also other ways to make money now, that are more profitable to the individual than collecting bones worth a few pence per bag.

I suspect too that the rise of plastics mean that we have fewer day-to-day uses for bones, as handles for things, ornaments, etc. This leaves only the larger scale industrial uses, that get bone from other industrial food production processes.

The article mentions that Rag & Bone men moved to items that were still valuable e.g. scrap metal. They weren't chased out of neighborhoods.
Free from Space
I remember when GLSL was being proposed and there was a lot of debate about how General Purpose it should be. Would people run non-graphical shaders on their GPUs? Yup.
Yes, the users of Stylish, Stylus, usercss.com, TamperMonkey, GreaseMonkey, ...

It's definitely not a 'regular user' thing, but I'm fairly sure it's more common than things like 'r/unixporn', or theming Linux to look like Windows XP or macOS, that are themselves quite large niches.
I did some testing of peertube a little over a year ago, and in practice you never used the webtorrent stuff anyway.

The webtorrent always had a static http seed which is how videos played fast, but that web seed was usually more than capable of serving all the traffic. More so, it _must_ be capable of doing so because not all your clients will be able to support webtorrent effectively.

In order to use a webtorrent, you needed someone else to be watching the same exact video as you at the same time, talk to the tracker, create a p2p connection, negotiate chunks and hope the other side has those chunks.

This just never happened. Even when I tried to force ideal scenarios it was just too slow to be usable.

I did some similar experiments with IPFS and results where much better but got worse every time I revisited the tests in the months after. Then protocol-labs completely scrapped all the libraries I was using and it doesn't work at all.

At the point I'm pretty uncertain if a p2p web browser video app can exist and be usable enough to have people actually want to use it.
Hosting the sites on Pwned Hardware and IPs seems like a reasonable precaution (though doubtful that is what is actually done these days since at least sites like 1337x.to or thepiratebay.org seem to have uptimes and speeds that would make such a setup at least unlikely to be practical for their usecases. I suspect they are using servers in non-compliant states and use cloudflare as a global CDN where possible.

Still doesn't quite make sense to me but the court being completely retarded in that regard wouldn't suprise me when it comes to german courts and internet law. Though it seems that this cologne court has at least understood the issue, especially compared to the clowshow thats the OLG Hamburg.
Advanced cryptography. OTOH:

* Each transaction is signed by a "ring signature", where it's known that 1 of a set of 8 keys signed the transaction, but not which one. This is your actual input plus 7 other random inputs drawn from the same probability distribution as actual inputs.

* Double-spending is prevented by a "key image" which is something mathematically related to your actual key (not sure how that's verified without knowing which key it is). Each key image can only be used once, or it's a double-spend.

* Input amounts and output amounts have to balance using some kind of zero-knowledge proof.
It's a bit extreme imo to call Principia wrong. It isn't wrong so much as it will never completely succeed. These are two different things. The logical perspective presented in Principia is still sound and a relatively useful framework for understanding most of mathematics, and it's a monumental and impressive piece of work. I find it hard to believe anyone who has read it wouldn't leave with a better overall comprehension of what exactly it is that we are doing when we do mathematics.
I think because many of us are not big fans of fediverse. For all of those examples you provided I would rather just pay for an existing service rather than burn time running PeerTube. The fediverse projects are interesting and glad people enjoy them but they are still not made for the masses (which I suppose is to the liking of those that enjoy the fediverse.
A few years ago before they changed the liability laws you wouldn't find free wifi anywhere because they would be liable for anything. So this means places you would normally get free wifi didn't. It's been quite nice having free wifi in public places since the law has changed.
I already have 125% on my 1080p 15.6-inch laptop display.

> Windows can't handle this, and will render blurry text in system dialogs.

Fix:

reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers" /v "C:\Windows\System32\mmc.exe" /f /t REG_SZ /d "~ HIGHDPIAWARE"

Nearly all system dialogues use mmc.exe, so this should fix your issue.
Sure, but you may never have found yourself on Twitter to begin with if it was full of neo Nazis. It’s like showing up to an important meeting in the wrong attire - how you present matters.

The issue isn’t hiding it away - be it by user or other - it’s that it hampers growth in general when you’re all of a sudden the platform of the deranged. It’s fair to question whether it’s seeing actual use outside of those communities.

(It might be telling that we’ve spent this many comments discussing it rather than pointing out e.g GNOME/Blender/etc use it - it’s not like it’s all bad)
Source filtering with file sets
UK isn't in the EU anymore, but here you've always been able to get anonymous pay-as-you-go SIM cards at the shop and top them up with cash. We don't even have a national ID card. If you sign up for a contract, which is cheaper, you do need to provide some proof of identity though.
Most Civ[1-6] players can verify that life is indeed there, and arrived hundreds of times from Earth.
Can’t even do fraud these days without people saying it is bad to do fraud. It’s political correctness gone mad!
It doesn't need a sense of "I".

Waze doesn't have a sense of "I". If I tell it to plot a route between one city and another, it plots that route. If I make Waze a lot more capable and feed it more data, it takes traffic data into account. If I make it more powerful and capable of accessing the internet, maybe it hacks into spy satellites to get more accurate data.

It didn't need any sense of I to increase what it does, just more capability.

If at some point it is capable of doing something more dangerous than just hacking into spy satellites, it might do it without any sense of "I" involved, just in trying to fulfill a basic command.
It used to be like that but these days you can get free internet with no strings attached at fast food restaurants like McDonalds.
> Nowhere it's touted as a rival to youtube in the popularity sense, just like you wouldn't call WordPress a rival to Twitter.

But I also wouldn't give it a name that, to the casual observer, makes it _sound_ like a rival to Twitter.
If you flip that over, then trademarks will become the #1 problem, not resolving without interference. It will be just as bad, but different.

Maybe you're thinking of trademarks as some bureaucratic intellectual property nonsense but they are practically important as well. I could own ycombinator.com in that system. What would you do about it besides changing the name of Y Combinator?
It doesn't matter waht the terms and conditions are. This is German courts deciding what Cloudflare's legal liabilities are within Germany if they want to operate within Germany.

Cloudflare either complies or is blocked within Germany. That happens Cloudflare loses lots of customers.
Are you suggesting that Knuth's approach is "depth first"?
The principal flaw of PM if you were to read it now is that it is an evolutionary dead end.

The elementary vernacular foundations of modern mathematics is (more or less) naive set theory; the starting tools of serious foundational work (as arcane as it is even within maths as a whole) are logic and more rigorous set theory, perhaps with some computability mixed in; the main tool of a mathematician who wants to reason in great generality is category theory (with some handwaving in the direction of the previous point about universe hierarchies and whatnot). There are some signs of convergence between these (and of mainstream mathematicians starting to once again take foundations seriously), but at the basic level those are what you’ll be dealing with.

None of them existed in their current form at the time PM was written, even logic (no Kripke semantics! no forcing! and no Gödel of course). Some did not yet exist at all. Some changed quite drastically in direct response to PM. And of course PM is the origin of (embryonic) type theory, which is the inspiration of the unified approach I referenced above. So as a historically important text, sure, if that’s what you want, but as a gateway to understanding more interesting maths it’d be terribly inefficient.

In that respect TAoCP was uniquely lucky. It was also a self-obsoleting book: it ceased to be comprehensive months after it was published, exactly because it told you everything there was to know about algorithms to date. Yet none of the stuff that’s in it is itself obsolete, there’s just immesurably more stuff now. PM, on the other hand, was attempt at “rationalization” in the 19th-century sense, and mostly a failed one except for serving as fertilizer for all of the later ones.
At first I thought, the city is an extension of phenotype of an individual human.

But perhaps it's the web where the human collective thinks its super-thoughts. Or, we have no collective at all, just a bunch of individuals behaving selfishly. ..Or both, the selfish behavior adds up to our collective behavior, in which case, the human super-organism seems only dimly aware of itself.
“Doc Smith” woulda loved it. Would have explained where the Eddorans came from.
They are employees, members of a union, so the union has the right to demand a collective agreement. Tesla has the right to not sign it, but we have the right to strike enshrined in our constitution and sympathy strikes are legal.
Mastodon is called an alternative to Twitter.
ChatGPT Prompts for Startup Founders
I use ChatGPT a lot when building my own startup and love to share some of the most useful prompts with fellow founders. I'm updating the page whenever I have something new in my workflow.
Well, for life to emerge you likely need some kind of liquid medium/solvent to enable chemicals to move around and interact with each other. It's hard to imagine how that could happen in a solid/frozen environment.

So, assuming a liquid solvent as a basic requirement, the next question is, what sort? There are other options beyond water, but water actually some unique properties that make it a potentially ideal medium - not least it's less dense when frozen. This meant the seas in early earth never completely froze, with liquid water remaining under the surface. If ice was heavy than water, then ice would sink, the oceans would likely have completely frozen, and no life would have evolved.

More discussion here: https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/uncategorized/2019/biological-r...
Yeah good point, the reason for the strange comparison is that I started to write “I wish I could make more time for [TAOCP]” and was immediately forced to confront my time spent on social media/HN, so I did. :)

There is also a contrast between the two: they lie on opposite ends of a spectrum from shallow to deep, of things that make you really think / put in honest effort, and also give a deeper enjoyment.

As for reading other (good) books: like anything else, it's ultimately a question of what gives you most joy, I guess. Learning (say) real analysis from Rudin would also be deep and make you work, but Knuth has more jokes.
JavaScript: Double Bitwise Not (~~) (2010)
Nice! I prototyped a manual version of this a while ago. https://twitter.com/conradgodfrey/status/1712564282167300226

I think the thing that strikes me is that the default for chatGPT and the API is to create images in "vivid" mode. There's some interesting discussion on the differences between the "vivid" and "natural" here https://cookbook.openai.com/articles/what_is_new_with_dalle_...

I think these contribute to the images becoming more surreal - would be interested to compare to natural mode - it looks like you're using vivid mode based on the examples?
Can you explain to a university student in Western Europe how to exist without WhatsApp and Instagram?

For example, parties are organized in Whatsapp group chats and the local library’s events are posted to Instagram.
I would really like to see a comparison of this against the idea of sending an array of drones to Oort cloud that could use our Sun's gravitation as a lens to image exoplanets to about 20km per pixel resolution.

Definitely an array could be more easily reorganised to image multiple planets. For gravitational lensing you need to send them to precise point in space that will be different for every exoplanet.
Why pass query as a string and parse it instead of using vararg?
General Availability of Amazon RDS for IBM DB2
Weirdly, probably not. I know if I sold it, then I'd suddenly get the urge to read it.

Also, it's really heavy (I'd say at least over 1kg), so by the time I sold it at less than the current price because it's no longer new (also mine is 1-4A, the current edition is 1-4B) and paid postage to package and ship it somewhere, it's probably not really worth the effort.
Taking control of your digital life will always be unappealing because it means you have to do the drudge work. There is no possible escape from massive corporations.
I live in France. It is very easy to get a prepaid card without any id.
Revisiting the greenhouse effect–a hydrological perspective
I don't know anything about that, but he was born in 1938, so he wasn't 19 years old.
Astro 4.0 Beta Release
I think that your usage was actually correct- if I understand correctly, choosing to use Mac's native keychain is kind of "going along with" what Apple prefers- is that the sense of what you were saying? If so then you could definitely say apps "toe the line" when they do this.

It was just the spelling I was pedant-ing about!
I’ve been having a very similar experience with chromium supplementation (which supposedly improves insulin resistance), but likely not as strong an effect.
Pesky Little Scripts
They just didn't have the proper marketing
That's impossible. When you let people host their own content some Nazis will host Nazi content, and there's nothing you can do about it because you are not the one hosting it. I guess we should ban HTTP so there can't be Nazi websites.
PS. I know some HN users has made book recommendation compilations based on HN threads. Would be cool if someone made the same for mail/DNS/registrar recommendations :)
Didn't they ask you for your boarding pass? Far fetched, but it could be the reason they didn't ask you anything at the airport.
For me: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P4V6489IkCM
The box has one job: to stream a Remote Desktop from a virtual machine running at AWS. You could do this with a FireTV stick if it wasn't for the need to attach a keyboard and mouse.

If the workspace thing takes off you can be sure this will be cost reduced to a disposable item while the cloud instances get faster.
"BIND (aka named, the occasional remote sudo implementation)" made me chuckle! I wonder if Paul Vixie still holds the record for the largest number of CERT advisories due to a single author?
I pick light but any object too close to the light creates darkness for all, balance between the light source so darkness is kept at bay is my style. Ma’at.
if you want it, you got it, you just have to belieeeeeve!
And how would PeerTube avoid that, without actively censoring particular content? Ask nicely? Pray? Hope?
They carved out a special exemption from the law for free wifi.
The article brings up those two exact points
ToS are a contracted. You can specify a legal venue as part of a contract (though that’s not always enforceable, especially in B2C relationships).

However in this case, Universal sued them without being a customer (or, if they are a customer, in a matter unrelated to their customer/vendor relationship). You can’t pick the venue where people/organizations that don’t have a contract with you sue you.

Of course, the other question is then how to enforce the court order. Since Cloudflare has a German subsidiary, that won’t be a problem.

Note also that the effect of this ruling is limited to the territory of Germany. Cloudflare doesn’t have to block this website anywhere else.
Second this. Even when someone said it was in screen shot, it took a minute to go back and refocus to find it.

But. No knock on this guy. I find all STEM writing could be helped a little with some up front what/why/how in introduction.

I want to dig this, but on first scan through, I have no idea what this is doing or why it is cool. So, for getting an article out, if I'm a casual that isn't a die hard user of JFR, then what makes me want to dig deeper? Of course, maybe the goal isn't a wider readership.
Microsoft open-sources ThreadX