skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The critical point of the article holds true of everything in human social networks (be it religion/culture/philosophy/apps/industry...).

If you don't achieve virality, you're as good as dead. Once a episteme/meme spreads like wild-fire there's very little chance for a reassessment based on value/function - because the scope is now the big axis of valuation.

It's actually worse because humanity is now a single big borg. Even 30-40 years back, there were sparsely connected pools where different species of fish could exist - not any more. The elites of every single country is a part of the Anglosphere, and their populations mimic them (eventually).

This tumbling towards widespread mono-memetism in every single sphere of life is deeply dissatisfying about the modern human life, not just for PL/OS/... but also for culture etc.

Anthropocene of humanity itself.
Inductive heating can be more efficient than resistive heating because less energy is lost to the environment.
You're editorializing. Tweet text: I'm an atheist, but I've enjoyed many of his religious allegories. So too his various definitions of masculinity. And I find him a far more rigorous thinker than his detractors the vast majority of the time. That he's ALSO entertaining is a cherry on top!
attackers and defenders of zero day vulns in iOS black boxes
So, it's impossible to transfer a value from one machine to another if there's no network connection between them? How did this extremely trivial observation become a well-known theorem?
Baking and eating bread dates back way farther than the bible. Leavened bread arose (pun intended) around the same time as agriculture. Many communities had a central hearth and would bake large loaves of bread.

It is easy to imagine that the bible and Christianity most likely tapped into an existing metaphor.

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That's a nonsensical thing to say. An electric cooktop using heated rings is indisputably less efficient than an induction cooktop. It simply doesn't get all of its energy into the cookware.

What's the parent commenter supposed to do? Live without a stovetop because the old one can't be fixed?
No, of course I wouldn't argue that, and I not only did not, but it also has nothing to do with what I mentioned Thiel was referring to. I think you also know that your example is tangential and hardly comparable. The Homestead Act, and all other related land grant acts, have no relation to the modern beneficiary system that only came into existence in the US in the early 20th century. The modern beneficiary system is what is being referred to by Thiel.
I don't want to fix it myself either, and I don't see how a repair industry could exist without the right to repair.
The "HIMARS is ineffective" soundbite seems to rest on a single quote from an unnamed Ukrainian official. Which we have no reason to doubt, but it doesn't specify what they meant it to be ineffective at (for example, what kinds of targets and with which type of munitions).

Meanwhile, in the very same WaPo article whence that quote derives, just an inch or two down, we have the statement "Kyiv still considers HIMARS to be effective". And in Wikipedia we have attestations of its continued use and effect, post-dating the popular "HIMARS is ineffective" quote:

HIMARS has also been used to strike Russian troop concentrations in hard cover, with a HIMARS strike on a Russian base in Makiivka killing 89 Russian soldiers on the admission of the Russian government, although BBC News Russian could confirm at least 139 dead Russian soldiers [July 2024]

On 9 August 2024, HIMARS destroyed a convoy of Russian troops in the Kursk Oblast of Russia in what Russian milbloggers described as one of the bloodiest attacks of the entire war.

So it would seem "HIMARS has become less effective" would be a more suitable description of the current situation.
yeah I'm thinking planes and hacks
Also small drones, which is to say smart grenades, are a counter to trench warfare.
The court having asinine double-standards when it comes to Apple? What's their HN account? edit: the replies basically just reinforcing the point, absolute :chefskiss:
We need a law that requires manufacturers to, in the very least, provide the documentation and keys to install an open source OS on their devices when they drop support for the things.
Replace the word “fursuit” in the last few paragraphs with the word “painting”
or “sculpture,” and suddenly it’s normal again. Suddenly you’re not raising your
eyebrows. Suddenly, Millican is an artist to the skeptic, as if they haven’t been
this whole time.

I love that logic. Replace the word with "homicide" with "cuddle" and it's suddenly normal. Yes that's how it works. If you change the subject of a sentence you change the meaning of the sentence...

That's not a dig at furries just a dig at the authors logic.
FTX creditors will make money on bankruptcy
You may be interested in Ferrocene[0], a version of the Rust toolchain that is vetted for critical systems like automobiles. It's offered by Ferrous Systems, the same people who help maintain Rust Analyzer (the de-facto LSP for Rust).

[0]: https://ferrocene.dev/en/
Or more importantly, refrained from use of chemical weapons against those who could retaliate in kind. Japan used chemical and biological weapons in China.
It's interesting to look at the design of FPV racing drones today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pEqyr_uT-k

When they fly, they basically turn horizontal, relying on body lift + vectored thrust. They're small enough, with high enough power/weight ratios, that that's enough. Apparently there's no need for a tilt-rotor, because the whole airplane becomes a tilt-rotor.

Similar principal as cruise missiles, which have short stubby wings to augment body lift + vectored thrust. When the airframe gets light enough, you don't need much in the way of wings.
What Is Startup Valuation Software?
The ferrocene morph of the toplchian is ISO 26262 and ASIL-D, and as this blog post is about rust in the ECU of a production vehicle of a large manufacturer.

It seems like it already has support in the relevant safety critical standards, at least in the automotive space.
Thank you for the reference! Will definitely look into this!
With any luck, it’ll move north and miss Tampa
I don't understand the use-case for these.

We have always found it better to embed many smaller chunks and average the output as a kind of low-pass filter.
The line referencing the franchise is a separate quote and I'm not even going to pretend to understand sdwhat he was thinking when he wrote that. I assume that he regrets that quote, since he hasn't said anything similar since.
Or, indeed, that Volvo’s manufacturing quality had declined to the point that the cars themselves were shipping with their bodies literally already rusting
> Throwing the blame back on the poor countries getting exploited by corporate interest of rich western countries doing greenwashing

That's not what the person you're replying to said at all:

> we need to ensure that electronic waste doesn't end up being dumped on random impoverished towns in Africa

The point is that recycling isn't the problem, it's the companies who direct the waste. Nobody is blaming the third world countries for these problems. Holding these examples of terrible conditions up as evidence that recycling doesn't work just gives recycling a bad reputation rather than showing the irresponsibility of the companies that put the waste there in the first place. Neither the producers nor the recipients of the waste decided for it to be this way, it's the people in the middle.
"Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" is in my list!

I only read "In Search of the Miraculous" when I was 22 or 23, though...
I said try not succeed, though it wouldn't be that hard to sedate a cat for thirty minutes or find a boat.

I think some people will think this is a travesty they can fix. Even this thread has some amount of people who don't seem to realize this is intentional and the alternatives aren't great.
Right to repair just means for those that do want to repair it, they can without any undue burden.

If you don't want to repair it, nobody is forcing you to! Just throw it away like you would have done anyways.

The point of right to repair is that there is a non-zero amount of people who want to repair stuff and it shouldn't cost the people who don't anything extra... It's a "right" not an "obligation"...
I look forward to being able to read your notebooks!
I think I get your point. Somehow you imagined that I was attacking HN and saying that here is an echo chamber. And somehow you took that personally too.

First of all: I still think the news cycle is skewed towards AI news, case in point: even most of the items on HN front list right now are not news or not tech related. The tech related ones right now (Oct7th-7:15pm PST time) are either:

- AI news;

- Antitrust/lawsuit/lobbying related to bigtechs (kinda tech news, kinda business news);

- Apple related news about their new products and rumors about future hardware

And I don't mean just HN but also looking at my favorite tech podcasts that send tech news (techmeme, hardfork, this week in tech, and so on);
So yeah, objectively speaking not many tech news outside of AI (unless you consider the law stuff and Apple ads).

--

Second point, and I beg to differ from your main point:
I think there are different groups here on HN and I assume some people may know things I don't know. AI is getting a lot of attention, but there are a lot of building doing other interesting things in silence.

I hope this clarifies what I meant by news cycle, because I literally meant news and not just frontpage links, and I don't assume the echo chamber is gone... But I also do not assume that everyone is in a conspiracy to post only AI stuff - that just it is natural when most of the money and startups are looking to AI the topic will sometimes burry other things happening.

Btw, have you checked the Show HN recent posts? It is in a similar situation. Does it mean I think that all HN people are building only AI stuff? no.
You can't expect everyone to be perfectly ideologically pure on every topic. I'm not a fan of Peterson and honestly, I think that after the whole benzo addiction and coma I think he's kind of lost it, he's always putting out strange statements. But he's not even saying that he agrees with Peterson on everything.
The real reason is that it's impossible to safely upgrade a dependency in Python. And by the time you realise this you're probably already committed to building your system in Python (for mostly good reasons). So the only way to get access to new functionality is to break off parts of your system into new deployables that can have new versions of your dependencies, and you keep doing this forever.
How small are the autonomous attack subs? GPUs powerful enough to power autonomous decision making attack subs are going to consume a lot of energy, a lot more than what a car sized system powered by batteries can provide.

As such, only nuclear AI subs may be viable, since that gives the strategic advantage of a submarine that doesn't need to resurface for like years. But putting nuclear reactors in an autonomous AI system sounds like a terrible idea.

Human societies have spent millenia developing the infrastructure to produce reliable/trustworthy soldiers. AI is not nearly at that level in terms of trustworthiness/fault tolerance, even if they will quickly be as smart as soliders.
Don't expect human life expectancy to grow much more, researcher says
Yeah I need a filter down to the individual ingredients.
Absolutely. This is what I came here to say.

Coffee gives me the anxious jitters. L-theanine turns that into focused alertness. I have reduced my coffee intake overall and supplemented my caffeine intake with a small glass of energy drink each day (not a whole can).

My daily supplements intake includes L-theanine (the brand depicted by the video thumbnail in the linked post), St Johns Wort and an IBS support supplement (NutraLife Gut Relief) that contains 2000mg of glutamine per dose.

All of that really helps with anxiety and depression. If I want extra energy, throw in some L-carnitine.
I get money back when I trade in my phone. Give me back less. It's not like I want a box of old devices that I don't need or use, and I suspect most other folks would feel the same. Take some of that money and put it towards recycling the devices properly.
> If you don't achieve virality, you're as good as dead.

Are you? Maybe the worse solution peaks faster, but can be supplanted by a better solution in the future, like how Rust is displacing C/C++ in new projects. The better solution may never be popular yet persist.
It's too far outside the Overton Window: not only should KYC not be mandatory, KYC should be illegal. MoneyGram should not be permitted to collect its customers' personally identifiable information. That's because breaches like this are a national security vulnerability. Privacy is the foundation of civil defense.

This policy will remain outside the Overton Window until several more digital Pearl Harbors like the one that just happened in Lebanon, where Israel was able to leverage its surveillance of Hizbullah members into an almost total annihilation of Hizbullah as an organization. Many other armed forces around the world are going to experience the same thing over the next decade, because it's far too late for soldiers' and politicians' family members to avoid ever signing up for Facebook, Zelle, PayPal, MoneyGram, etc.

I don't know what the landing looks like, but before we get there, this flight may experience some turbulence.
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes by Jacques Ellul.
The original academic article:

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00702-3

S. Jay Olshansky et al., "Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century", Nature Aging (2024)

Open access, here is the abstract:

> Over the course of the twentieth century, human life expectancy at birth rose in high-income nations by approximately 30 years, largely driven by advances in public health and medicine. Mortality reduction was observed initially at an early age and continued into middle and older ages. However, it was unclear whether this phenomenon and the resulting accelerated rise in life expectancy would continue into the twenty-first century. Here using demographic survivorship metrics from national vital statistics in the eight countries with the longest-lived populations (Australia, France, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland) and in Hong Kong and the United States from 1990 to 2019, we explored recent trends in death rates and life expectancy. We found that, since 1990, improvements overall in life expectancy have decelerated. Our analysis also revealed that resistance to improvements in life expectancy increased while lifespan inequality declined and mortality compression occurred. Our analysis suggests that survival to age 100 years is unlikely to exceed 15% for females and 5% for males, altogether suggesting that, unless the processes of biological aging can be markedly slowed, radical human life extension is implausible in this century.
Customers might feel and act that way, but companies sure dont
> Hurricane Milton

If a picturesque area is damaged, I can already editors making headlines about "Paradise Lost."
To be pedantic, the comic doesn't mention _targeted_ lightning strikes.
Check out his conversation with Matt Dillahunty.
I am sorry?
Myth? It's a well-documented Russian tactic. They basically have a two-tier military at this point: competent professionals, and untrained expendable cannon fodder. Professionals are used to operate weaponry that's more sophisticated than your basic AK, machine gun and 70s-era armour. They are valuable because of their training and (at this point) a lot of experience. The second tier is used to conduct the kind of attritional warfare that requires far less training of individual soldiers or smaller-size units, and results in very high casualties. This type of offensive operation makes slow progress, the only real downside being the sky-high casualties, so recruitment and training adapted - take everyone regardless of health and age, and give them just enough training to accomplish something before dying. It's very effective if you don't care about the lives of these soldiers. The professional tier goes in to exploit a breach, mans the self-propelled artillery, flies the drones, etc.
I find Amazon’s shipping to be fastest about 9 times out of 10—and that 1 is just the direct seller matching, not beating. With Prime, shipping is also “free” (so long as you’ve saved enough on shipping to recoup the cost of Prime itself).

But aside from that, Amazon almost always has a better return process, and you only need to give one site your payment details rather than many.

(That said, I often buy outside of Amazon, because for certain specialty items, Amazon is pretty lacking.)
They have sat-to-sat now. I was on a cruise ship this past summer that used starlink. I was able to get a consistent 3-5 mbps up/down in the middle of the ocean with nearest land at least several hundred miles away.
I don't even think curried functions by default is a good idea, but that article really made me support them. Richard Feldman is usually so reasonable, what happened? That's the worst argument I've seen in a while.
So what? Differing opinions seem to upset so many so easily.
To be blunt, we need to find some endgame that allows the Russians to feel like they won something.

Yes, there has been tragic carnage. You can call me Neville Chamberlain, and insist I'm rewarding a bully for being a bully. But this conflict is reaping the proceeds of 30 years of whittling down the Russian sphere of influence and global respect. Even Putin's rise fits well into that narrative-- if Russia had been pulled closer to Europe after 1991, had a less catastrophic switch to private enterprise, had an economic rebirth more like, say, Estonia, would his brand of politics have gotten any traction in the first place? We could see this coming and did nothing to prevent it.

If the war is dragged out until it delivers, say, "a return to 1991 borders and some show trials at the Hague", there's no way that the Russian people don't spend decades in a full scale decoupling and brooding at the West. Even if Putin disappears, there are plenty of others who can stoke that fire. Worst case, you get a DPRK-style hermit state that spans 14 time zones with the industrial capacity and natural resources to back up its resentment.

Conversely, making a quick deal where they walk away as "winners"-- if you don't want to give them Donetsk, how about Cyprus-- lets us pivot towards breaking down the "Russia vs the West" narrative. Try to restructure some international organizations to ensure Russia feels like a respected participant instead of a pariah. Give them opportunities to use their military capability for peacemaking and retaining regional order-- let them have a sphere of influence they crave, but acknowledge it has costs. Develop some trade and joint-venture plans that aren't blatant plundering of a defeated foe. It took decades for many of the former Soviet-bloc states to fit into the modern European order, so we should start the countdown for Russia as soon as possible.
Truly modern fighters have advanced defenses across the EM spectrum. Hardening a drone against those defenses makes them no longer “small” and “cheap”. Also, drones typically have much lower speed than a modern fighter. An air-to-air missile is essentially a single-use drone where a key property is that it is much faster than the fighter, but this makes it expensive.
Huh interesting observation. I wonder if anything in the first two sentences of the article can shed any light.

In my job I get to speak to lots of people about Rust. Some are just starting out, some have barely ever heard of it, and then some people are running Rust silently in production at a very large company in a very serious product.

Yeah I've definitely heard of people "running (iron oxide) silently in production". Super ambiguous
An LLM promoting strategy for deep thinking
He is almost saying that.
https://x.com/dhh/status/1843015457911287814?t=kJjk1pXTZx9jn...
That's their claimed perspective. Unfortunately Russia's current regime tends to lie a lot, and there's no reason to take anything it says at face value. "Indiscriminate shelling of the Donbas (by Ukrainian forces)" is one of its many talking points that lots of people like to repeat, but which no one seems to be able to substantiate. Meanwhile reports of shelling by Russian forces are quite ample.

In any case: No, that's not why they went into the Donbas, or why they're trying to hold onto it.
Are you talking about cheap drones replacing modern fighters, or cheap drones shooting down modern fighters?

They will absolutely replace modern fighters to a degree and already have to an extent, like we've seen in Ukraine with drones serving as close infantry support etc. instead of manned aircraft.

There are still some things "cheap" drones won't be able to do.

Specifically, if you want to carry big bombs and missiles, you need a large aircraft even if it's unmanned. The drone is also presumably going to need to be able to survive enemy air defenses to some extent. So you wind up with a big expensive drone like the MQ-9 Reaper ($30mil plus, lol) that is approaching the size and complexity of a manned fighter.

Also, and I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but "small, cheap drones" are not likely to be shooting down modern fighters in the way that small cheap drones are currently killing tanks directly.

If you want an aircraft that can fly at mach 1.6+ and shoot missiles at other things (some of them stealthy) traveling at mach 1.6+, you are going to wind up with something fairly close to the size/cost/complexity of an F-35 even if you don't have a human being sitting inside.
I suppose it's called in english "chain of command" - it is not about loyalty, it is about execution of orders. Literally any army in the world are built on this principle. More then this, that "mutiny" was not about overthrowing of the government. It was сonflict between different branches of the army, and Prigozhin tried to put pressure on Putin to resolve it.

The closest thing to a private army that you can find in Russia - is Kadyrov's ~2k core forces. Everything else - is de facto government forces.
You don't think there are brand and reputational risks with data breaches, or cost to notify and provide free credit reporting?

Breaches only happen because corporations "don't care"? I guess the US government doesn't care, then?

Event Description Date Agency Number of People Affected
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SolarWinds Cyberattack December 2020 Multiple federal agencies Approximately 18,000

U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Breach June 2015 Office of Personnel Management 21.5 million

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Breach May 2006 Department of Veterans Affairs 26.5 million

Georgia Secretary of State Office Breach November 2015 Georgia Secretary of State 6.2 million

Virginia Department of Health Professions Breach May 2009 Virginia Department of Health 8.3 million

Texas Attorney General Office Breach April 2012 Texas Attorney General 6.5 million

Department of Transportation Data Breach May 12, 2023 Department of Transportation 237,000

National Public Data Breach (reported) August 2024 National Public Data Nearly 3 billion
Every few years, new progresses might remind me of this talk by Gary Bernhardt:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
sorry if my answer came off the wrong way, I just meant, yes I'll be releasing the source code for the VS Code extension.
Religious ones help. Especially the parts
About regulating and observing your own emotions. Bhagwad Gita was helpful to me as a Hindu.

Deliberate Calm is another one that helped understand on a more scientific level now our emotions are created and how that leads to our behavior.
California Passes Law Protecting Consumer Brain Data