skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are very, very, very, many "highly educated" people who think that human beings are incapable of grasping the vast scale of the cosmos.

I don't know if they mean "everyone", "everyone, except, of course, me", "everyone and isn't it a shame that they don't even realize it?", "everyone who isn't specially educated".

I am perfectly capable of internalizing and understanding a billion, trillion, or even quadrillion of something-- be they meters, light years, number of atoms of something, or grains of sand, thank you very much.
> In a normal setting of writing code, comments should fade out.

Not convinced by 'should' because it seems like it would make it easier to not notice a comment that needs updating and humans in general (myself definitely included) are bad enough at that already.

(Note that that doesn't mean I'm arguing that it's a -wrong- choice, just yet another trade-off to be considered)
> "this game is played by ignoring links in the references and see also sections of Articles so when I construct this the graph I also ignored links in these sections since these are not necessarily a part of the article" [8:22]

Surely there are also some fascinating topologies amongst the references themselves?
Very few. Covid mass infection events happened mostly through the air, much less so through touching a surface. We learned that early in the pandemic. Hand washing after the first few months was mostly kept as hygiene theatre and for preventing transmission of infections other than covid.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/p0401-avian-flu.html

> The patient reported eye redness (consistent with conjunctivitis), as their only symptom, and is recovering.

This is not a disease with a double digit mortality rate, no matter how many times people try to do math with a three digit sample size of poor people in developing countries.

The CDC only caught this case because it's literally testing anyone with symptoms at the cattle farm.
> how does the brain do it?

It's a lot of organic matmuls. ;)
Found these too, though I can't really find the recent versions in retail (in EU at least). Also not sure how bad the power draw is.
The simplest explanation of consciousness is that its a tool to build an abstract world model including fellow humans turned back on self.

You cant drive the entire network because that is an interactable problem so you model it like a fellow human and either feed broad input to it or sanctify decisions already made as part of the theory of "I"

I dont think gpt4 individual cells nor the algorithm can be said to have a subjective experience. I specifically doubt that the plants have one insofar as there doesn't appear to be a structure capable of building a model.

The boring answer that only the cat and the human are conscious seems like the correct one.

Polling a random sample of the population doesn't seem like a useful way to get at truth.

Since the universe isnt an actor building a model of a larger world I don't see how it could be conscious. If there is no other there is no I.
I'm not too familar with the SSH protocol, but is it possible to impersonate a victim server V without having the private key to their host key?
I dislike calling this "magical thinking", just because the plausible causal relationship takes a little time to discover, it's not implausible at the outset.

In fact, the causal relationship between rain & wifi is taken as a given by the author:

> If anything, rain makes wireless signal quality worse

It's not too surprising to discover a causal relationship between two things we already know are causally related.
Ask HN: Why would you ever use C++ for a new project over Rust?
Was having this debate with a coworker recently who’s a Rust fanatic and prior C++ eng; he said the tooling and support has gotten so good you would just be shooting yourself in the foot if you ever started something new on C++. I wasn’t convinced but is this really the case? Like if you had equal skill in both, is there ever a case for doing a project in C++ (outside of being forced by the platform you’re working on or anything outside your control)?
>> If Apple were doing an Apple@Home kind of deal they might actually want to give away some machines for free or super cheap

In such a case, my guess is that the machines being free would be trumped by the increased cost of electricity.
Book Review: "Tidy First?" By Kent Beck
I wrote a small snippet of code that lets you enable a "Login with Passkeys" button in any React/NextJS app
This gets me all teary eyed thinking how in olden times it took a literal constitutional amendment to make something illegal.
What if it was the language itself?

https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html
Sure. But the problem with GNUstep is the GPL.
I'm sure others also wonder: What is the large hot spot around ~ the Wyoming-Montana border?
What substrate is the universe using and what is it modeling
This was not an IPO, it was a transfer of money (including from foreign parties that might otherwise look suspicious) disguised as an IPO.
That’s not my reading. One of the main symptoms of crohns is inflammation that leads to scarring and then surgery to remove the scarred intestine.

If this stops inflammation/ scarring that’s a big part of it.

Or to put it another way: you get scarring before surgery, too. The problem is that overtime there’s only so much intestine you can remove.
From what I can tell the problem is the use of glibc's IFUNC. This broke the testing for XZ, suddenly accounts appeared to lobby for disabling that testing, which enabled the exploit.
How do you handle versioning? Are there any guidelines/rules one must abide by?

It looks like you using Flutter's Dart<=>JSON serialization; do you recommend using built_value for immutable data structures?

Do you support protobuf/cap'n'proto?
I'm not following, better than what?
99% of them are far from you physically. If you weren’t personally affected it probably doesn’t matter to you.

I was unlucky and lost 3 grandparents between my wife and I. Matters more to me probably.
Just started playing Talos Principle 2 and cross species infections is really on my mind.

For those who enjoyed Portal, it is a nice first person puzzler. Completely different mechanics. I do not think it required much (any?) high precision/twitch actions. Not finished, but I think I am preferring original Talos Principle vs Two, because there were not so many annoying NPCs in the first.
I don't think anyone is shocked but at the same time this is really funny
I've heard it many times in the form of "security through obscurity, lol! you obviously, don't know what you're doing".

Yeah, it's a "straw man" pretending the person they are addressing was just planning on running telnet with port knocking.
"The China Study" was very famous but also pretty notorious for selling the idea that illnesses like Cancer exploded in China after their recent economic boom in the 90s-2000s, pointing to the rise in meat consumption as the source. That's about as observational/macro of a propositon as it gets. Especially with all the other stuff like mass urbanization.

This review explains both the book and the science better than I could

https://www.redpenreviews.org/reviews/the-china-study-the-mo...
I would really appreciate if people would stop referencing this book as evidence for anything. If it was written as a literature review paper and subjected to peer review, it would have been torn to shreds, not published and endorsed by a scientific journal. (Even by the infamous standards of an industry neck-deep in replication crisis)

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-not-to-die-review

https://thehealthsciencesacademy.org/book-reviews/how-not-to...

Meanwhile, what do actually peer-reviewed studies say:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8881926/

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2022/02/22/me...

There seem to be people out there who managed to make plant-based diets work for them, but it took more than reading a single book, and it takes a lot of maintenance and monitoring to sustain. That gets more and more difficult in advanced age, as nutritional needs naturally change, including changes to the the absorption, metabolism, and even transport of the raw nutrients we do eat.

Even steelmanning the cardiovascular case: The population base rates of depression, anxiety, and obesity are far greater than cardiovascular disease. It is ignorant at best and irresponsible at worst to encourage people to optimize for reducing their already slim chances of cardiovascular issues while increasing their already high chances of several other issues.

Even that doesn't hold, of course, because obesity also increases the risk of cardiovascular issues anyway.

I'm going to stop short of accusing plant-based diets of being a scam or a conspiracy, but I do believe they are somewhere in the space of bad science and poor reasoning, even in the most well-trodden easily-avoidable ones like the base rate fallacy.
DNS responses sent over UDP are often truncated if the response is too large. This manifests itself as "machine unreachable if name > x characters" sort of errors when you have really long FQDNs.
Getting DVD players without region locks used to be a thing to get cheaper movies imported from abroad. (Briefly, from what I recall. Bootleg discs got much cheaper and easily available)
Yeah, this is why lockdowns were started. The ER was full of sick people and, if you were in a car wreck or had a heart attack, you would likely die from lack of beds. Go back and look and the ER/ICU/All-Bed occupancy rates were >95% over most of the country for months.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8852235/

This is what it looked like in Dec 2020:
https://www.statista.com/chart/23746/icu-bed-occupancy-rates...
While 'security through obscurity' shouldn't be your only defense, it still plays a crucial role within 'defense in depth' strategies.

In the past, sensitive networks relied heavily on obscurity alone. Just dialing the right phone number could grant access to highly sensitive networks. However, there's a cautionary tale of a security researcher who took the phrase 'don't do security through obscurity' to heart and dared hackers, leading to disastrous consequences.

Obscurity, when used appropriately, complements broader security measures. Take SSH, for example. Most bots target its default port. Simply changing that port removes the easy targets, forcing attackers to use more sophisticated methods, which in turn, leaves your logs with more concerning activity.
“Theoretically, it’s clearly no more outlandish than the idea that a supernatural, all-powerful, all-knowing and omnipresent creator God formed the heavens and the Earth on a whim, and breathed life into inanimate clay bringing forth man and woman.”

If this is the measure of outlandishness, it’s super outlandish. Unless you were indoctrinated starting at a young age of course. In any event, to me it’s a dismissing argument.
There is (rightly) stigma around anything that invites fanaticism. Real value discussion gets drowned out by fanatic hyperbole.
Why not? I've worked with a database where we needed to join more than double that on some common queries, in part because financial stuff tends to touch several other business domains at once.

The explains can be hairy at first but once you've started systematically analysing a query and know some of the quirks of the MySQL query planner you'll manage to identify missing indices and squeeze out very, very good performance.

That was a database where we had warm tables bigger than fifty million rows. I personally migrated it from single instance MySQL 5 to a MySQL 8 clustered rig and optimised hundreds of queries written by people learning basics on the job, going from horrifying to very reasonable latencies as seen from the web clients.
While I don't disagree with your reaction to the article in question...

"[The atrophic principle] tends to be invoked by theorists whenever they do not have a good enough theory to explain the observed facts." - Roger Penrose

Isn't the anthropic principle just the most recent god-of-the-gaps argument - i.e. a de facto mystery explanation of things we can't otherwise explain...?

I suppose that (to me) if or when the multi-verse theory becomes a falsifiable theory AND is empirically validated, then awesome we have the explanation pre-baked (the anthropic principle).

But until then, there doesn't seem to be grounds to say it's 'remedial'.

But curious for your thoughts, it's not my area of expertise beyond a layman's interest.
Part of the issue is that friends and partners, and other people trying to be supportive, often lie about how proficient someone's language skills are. I see it on sites like this and reddit all the time, where commenters say things like "you're better than 99% of the people I talk to" when the poster, while mostly clear has made a lot of mistakes. It's probably a bigger issue for doctors and other professionals, because they are peppering their language with 'fancy' or 'big' words that superficially give them impression that their language stills are better than they actually are. It's one thing to be forgiving, it's another thing to lie to someone causing them to overestimate their skills and understandability.
I mean, it's arguably a security concern if you're not catching the mistakes you intended to catch.
My guess was that the directional antennas were off by enough that it didn't work well in clear conditions, but the rain refracted the signal enough to work. The actual answer was better :D
“sufficiently far from us in any particular dimension” is where that falls apart, though. One million dead within the US alone means a lot of people were touched by COVID death.
It depends a lot which server you join, https://beehaw.org it's very welcoming, https://lemmygrad.ml is full of tankies that hate the West (supposedly it's about communism, because original creator is a communist, but it's more pro Russia pro China, anti US and in support anything the West doesn't support and vice versa). If you go to https://lemmy.world (the biggest server) you'll see mostly memes.

Though you can subscribe to different communities and customize your experience, often what you can experience from specific community depends on which server it is located.

https://programming.dev/ and https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ might be good for technology related communities.
I might sound quite judgmental (and maybe a bit awful) but I can't think of another way to phrase it: but unless you have a history of substance abuse that only makes sense if you have a very strong fear of not being able to control yourself if you try that substance and become instantly addicted to it (which isn't at all rational).

Most people are perfectly capable of consuming alcohol/weed in moderation without doing any major harm to people surrounding them or themselves.
> To use a simple example of what I meant - in the west, the secular section of society has below-replacement fertility. In other words, for whatever reason that group is slowly dying off.

Except that the secular section is also replenished by children of the religious becoming secular, which currently seems to be outweighing the relative birthrate differences and is causing that secular section to be increasing as a percentage of the population.
You also add another program with potential vulnerabilities, and as port knocking is not as popular as e.g. sshd, wireguard, maybe it gets less scrutiny and it leads to a supply chain attack?

That other program is just a stateful firewall, aka the Linux Kernel itself. If you can't trust your kernel then nothing you do matters.
> I think one solution could be in licenses that force companies/business of certain sizes to pay maintenance fees. One idea from the top of my head.

This just doesn't work. Fully open source software (as opposed to source available) is so much more useful than the alternative that there's always going to be an OSS fork for any sufficiently useful project. AFAICT Elasticsearch and Redis have not really "won" by their respective license changes but rather have just fragmented their own market and sown the eventual seeds of their destruction.
Well yeah exactly. And that's not considering boring stuff like weather, wear and tear, and what happens if the cable snaps and the bottom half comes crashing down to earth. Even a super-light wire would presumably cause a catastrophic impact (and that's not considering if whatever payload came crashing down with it).
Yes, but there was some way to put them back my elf metadata
Page 8 has power testing

https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph18794/PowerConsumpt...
> It was reported by an MS engineer who happens to be involved in another OSS project.

I view it as being OSS or postgresql dev that happens to work at microsoft. I've been doing the former for much longer (starting somewhere between 2005 and 2008, depending on how you count) than the latter (2019-12).
$58m to host what is basically a Mastodon instance... lol
Isn't that precisely the argument to extend the definition of consciousness, our own human bias on what is conscious colors what we define as such.

If the 'universe' is conscious, every cell in your body is as well... and well... they are alive - and they do make 'decisions' that end up keeping (royal)us alive that look intelligent from an outside perspective... which is about the same perspective a large (zero-g evolved) kaiju would have of us {small pieces of a whole that do seemingly intelligent things to benefit the group-entity}...

if we don't consider what we are made of as conscious material - from where does consciousness arise from? ...and until we have a clear answer, maybe it's a sliding scale and everything is some degree of 'awareness'?
There are big gaps in the preview for that chapter, but I found this marvelous quote, which I think describes some big elements of Hacker News perfectly (emphasis mine):

> However, endless population expansion has not been possible for animal species in the mast, and only the kind of wild-eyed enthusiast who frequents science fiction conferences and a certain kind of economics department believe it will be possible for the human race to expand endlessly.
IMO ketones are a side effect, not a cause, of any of these improvements. I hypothesize that the actual driver of the improvements is modulation of the microbiome. Keto diets are by definition low in carbs and this starves out certain species in the gut.

"A systematic review of gut microbiota composition in observational studies of major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35194166/
> nor can you audit every line of code all the time

You can if you distribute this job among volunteers or hire people to do that. There are millions of developers around the world capable to do this. But reality is that nobody wants to contribute time or pay for free software.
> it's GPL plus conditions

Not in a uniform way - the license distributed with the code on github doesn’t have the extra conditions.

At this point I’d nuke the repo and force push with AGPL license instead, that seems a better fit.
My wife has complained that open office will never print on Tuesdays!?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...
I still have an old WiiU in my entertainment center exactly because of the robust homebrew community behind it. It has no doubt saved many WiiU consoles from going into the bin.

We need to do better.
> Are you certain I’m the one with the “bias” here?

yes

> Let me quote ODNI from a couple of year ago:

Keywords 'couple of years ago'. Maybe it sounds shocking to some, but things can change over a couple of years, stuff can be researched, new data points can appear or dissapear, presidents get voted out, empires rise and fall within a couple of years.
How much jail time will Sam Bankman-Fried serve?
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It's really not a change or any of those. Mail services have behaved this way in some form or way for a while, these specs have worked like this from the start and the policy is only a logical conclusion of it all.

Untrusted forwarders (also sometimes known as open relays) have been heavily frowned upon for a really long time. SPF has never worked for forwarders that don't do rewriting. Those letters have always been negatively looked upon, unauthenticated mail is a remnant of times long gone.

Google's policies about authentication are the bare minimum you should be doing anyways if you care even a little bit about your customers or recipients in general.
And?

Isn't the whole premise people are voting with their wallets?
I think you miss subtlety in the post you're reacting to.

Weed makes consumption more enjoyable, therefore you consume more than you'd consume without weed, at the opportunity cost of doing other things. Which in general makes you more boring.

I've been around stoner friends a lot (for most of them it was a phase in life which they got out of before ~30) - no matter how boring / interesting they were before / after weed, during their weed days they were more boring than during their non-weed years. Weed makes you content just sitting at home while otherwise you'd rather seek some excitement outside.
>So, your theory is Keto is being suppressed to avoid a modern-day societal collapse?

That would be putting words in my mouth, but I guess ill be getting my downvotes none the less. I'm quite negative already for sharing my opinion.

Im not accusing you because I dont know, if you wouldnt mind sharing why you would downvote my post.

>That's a pretty serious intellectual leap.

The point I was replying to was the weird stigma against keto. Stigma being a suppression.

I was never alleging the US government is censoring speech on keto diet or really any diet.
Why does a private hospital's ER capacity dictate my ability to freely move about?
"Facebook hired a cybersecurity consulting firm to develop a hacking tool, which cost six figures. Our sources described the tool as a zero-day exploit, which refers to a vulnerability in software that is unknown to the software developers. The firm worked with a Facebook engineer and wrote a program that would attach an exploit taking advantage of a flaw in Tails’ video player to reveal the real IP address of the person viewing the video."

They literally hired a team based on an FBI request to create a zero-day exploit. This wasn't just a "give us information" request. They actively R&D'd a tool for the government.
In your book, what would it take for something other than a human or animal to demonstrate consciousness?
But that’s not what the article says? From what I understood they were able to identify only those that end up developing to cancerous tumors. Not the ones that you mention?
Sadly, that's still very non-causal. A lot of things in China were happening at the same time. We just need to be honest that we don't have causal data and we have to make decisions on correlation data (and not try to over-claim causal testing).