skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you post "maybe not" or "not really" maybe refrain from posting?

Sometimes people use hedging language like this because they’re being vulnerable beyond their comfort level. So even though a post might truly have been life changing for them they brace for someone responding with a dismissive or snarky comment by hedging with “maybe not really” type words. It’s a form of self-protection, in a way.

So I fear your comment could very likely discourage people who were already on the fence about sharing, perhaps even sharing something interesting. So I say, the more the merrier! Who knows what might be life changing for someone. I definitely didn’t expect to open this thread and read a blog post about bone trumpets but I’m really glad I did.
> does that mean that in the near future

I think the parent comment is in reference not to the current system, but to potential future functionality, enabled by opening the Pandora's Box of client-side scanning.

Though I agree that underage nudity detection in particular is a little fanciful
do you have a pointer to a reasonably accessible device I can buy? I work with CNC and 3D printers and other motion stuff a lot and always want to find better products than the cheap steppers I'm using.
Apple can already decrypt your iCloud photos, same with google etc. I don’t get this argument as they can already do that.
This shouldn't be surprising.

There have been millions of people on SNAP & HUD & Medicaid with no income for a long time. There's just more programs and a lot more people now.

This time, however, it seems like these new programs are quite massive and are more "want" based than "need" based.

It's quite obvious people with no income and kids "need" money. It's less obvious to me that people who had kids for years, and still have their jobs, suddenly need $1k per month. I don't think anyone would debate whether this $1k is improving their lives.
I think you're right, but it's partly because we weren't couching the quest for efficiency in the context of risk.

I might be more time efficient by speeding everywhere, but that efficiency gain needs to be understood in terms of how much additional risk it incurs.
Really? For which use-cases would you be able to pick and choose? Running *nix software under w2k would mean cygwin and some kind of commercial x-server or something along those lines? Maybe the commercial ssh.com ssh client?
Japan had just around 40 years since the civil war once they got into another big one.

Germany was the messiest of all European countries even before the war as well...

Your knowledge of history gives your wrong image of things.

And yes, Afghanistan was close to being a centralised nation, with a running government for more time in the 20th century, than it wasn't.

They did far better than German, or Italian kingdoms at least.
Good thing we don't use semiconductors in anything more important then.
They needed money in order to compete with Google and Facebook, so they switched the model to "investors make a maximum of 10x return and after that they lose their stake" or something like that.

As for being open, I think keeping potentially dangerous tech private for a while while openly sharing the results of research is prudent. The last thing I want is some AI model goes public then we find a way to generate a bunch of computer viruses or propaganda.
I participated in the Prosopagnosia study at Imperial a few years ago. I also don't hear any internal monologue; When I think, I think in words, and it is very similar to reading.

I think I can imagine sounds in my head, but it is a little like singing, or humming a tune without making noise. I believe I have the cadence and rhythm of sounds, but it's not really easy to get words that way.

I can also recognise some specific images I have seen previously, but I definitely do not see them and cannot conjure up any imagery of any kind.

You might be amused to know that until I joined that study I had no idea that you were thinking any differently than I was, and since learning you-all are freaks, I have wondered if the reason you guys get distracted so easily is that you're watching a movie out of the corner of your eye, or maybe the reason you think code is unreadable is that you need to sound out your program in order to read it.
That's part of it, but also it's typically much more difficult and there's an element of "why are you making this so much harder on yourself".
Is this a product or a feature though? Seems very much a feature in a VC software product to me.

No moat; Google/Zoom will just build this if it’s popular and then you are out of business. Unless you can somehow stay ahead of them with sophistication of the UI?

I think plenty of people would like this feature, I just can’t see many people paying for it.
In my experience SPARQL is really hard to use, and Wikidata data quality is really low. To the point that one of my larger project is trying to filter data to make it usable for my usecase.

Yes, I made some improvements ( https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Mateusz_... ).

But overall I would not encourage using it, if I would know how much work it takes to get usable data I would not bother with it.

Queries as simple as "is this entry describing event, bridge or neither" are requiring extreme effort to get right in a reliable way, including maintaining private list of patches and exemptions.

And bots creating millions of known duplicated entries and expecting people to resolve this manually is quite discouraging. Creating Wikidata entries for Cebuano Wikipedia 'articles' was accepted, despite that Cebuano botpedia is nearly completely bot-generated.

And that is without unclear legal status. Yes, they can legally import databases covered by database rights - but they should either make clear that Wikidata is a legal quagmire in EU or forbid such imports. But Wikidata community did neither.
Find someone to play chess with in San Diego
Okay. I'm not sure dissecting the technical inaccuracies of a joke ("but an imam would never walk into a bar!") is itself a joke (and I'm pretty sure you edited the comment just above to agree it was a joke, but maybe I just didn't read it closely enough), especially when you'd give the exact same response if you didn't know it was a joke, but did know it was technically incorrect, but fair enough.
This happens because (paraphrased) the standard dictates that loops without side-effects eventually terminate, and all other programs have undefined behaviour. You can't turn hitting that undefined behaviour into a compiler error, as distinguishing between the two requires solving the halting problem. You can remove the whole assumption, but that limits the optimization capabilities of the compiler. That gives a trade-off: do we want actual infinite loops, or do we want better optimizations? The second seems more useful to me, even though it might sometimes give surprising behaviour for the programmer.
Good take but I'm not convinced. I would suspect (see epistemic status) that while correctness is easy to reason about and maintain by a single accountant using spreadsheets, since there is a clean mapping from a precise excel api to function, the mapping from natural language to code is problematic. I won a t-shirt in the recent OpenAI codex challenge and found it hard to reason systemically about the behavior and generalization properties of generated code. When the generated code is wrong, it was frustrating on a different level than if I wrote the code myself.

Epistemic status: I don't know anything about accounting
>IANAL but since the pages are published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, if someone wishes to collect the text on the basis of the HTML version then there's not much you can do about it.

They said please don't, not don't do it or they'll sue you.

But content license and site terms of use are different things.

From their terms of use you aren’t allowed to

> [Disrupt] the services by placing an undue burden on a Project website or the networks or servers connected with a Project website;

Wikipedia is also well within their rights to implement scraping countermeasures.
Why should more people know SPARQL?
Sadly there is very little activity aiming at bare metal and VMs nowadays. If you look at features presented during couple of past months, you will find mainly kubernetes. Switching from charms to operators. But kudos to openstack charmers holding on and doing great work.
Screenshots of text are inaccessible to assistive technologies without alt text. Twitter's alt text limit is 1000 characters.

But, again, if you're also annoyed that social story telling IRL happens with interruptions and digressions and background noise (and perhaps even four to six drinks!) then you are really asking for something other than what it is.
1. Your comment doesn't even provide a prime facie argument against some forms of government intervention. E.g., we could let the market determine prices but mandate that fab equipment suppliers go to the front of the line.

2. Price is probably a red herring anyways. I'm willing to bet that fab equipment suppliers are losing out not on price negotiations, but on volume negotiations. I.e., they might even be willing to pay more -- even much more -- than other users, but can't buy in massive quantities so don't go to the front of the line.

3. Is there any (legal) mechanism at the moment that prevents chip makers from increasing prices?

4. Fab equipment producers are small consumers of chips but have such a disproportionately high impact on the rate of future supply. In the midst of a global shortage, we could straight up socialize 0.00...01% of chips produced every year and hand them out for free to fab equipment manufacturers without even effecting the short-term price dynamics. I'm not actually advocating this, but the assertion that earmarking a small number of chips for a particular high-value use fundamentally skew the market in the short-term is probably false.

5. Even if markets can eventually work in this case -- and for the record I'm convinced that this is a perfect example of contract negotiators being extremely myopic -- market dynamics have non-O(1) time complexity and the chip shortage is wrecking havoc on the real economy.

My comment wasn't suggesting price controls or socializing chip fabrication. It was suggesting that we very temporarily give special treatment to a very small consumer of chips that has an outsized impact on production rate, in the midst of a global chip shortage.
I didn't receive my 2021 tax refund for a few weeks and gave them a call. It turned out that something had gotten stuck and they pushed it through. Got it a week later.

The paper returns were taking forever last year due to COVID, but I filed my 2020 refund by paper and got that last summer as well. If you haven't already, call them and figure out what happened.
For you guys getting in the weeds about how the govt spends money, here's the data: https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function
How are those concepts related? Currently I fund, under threat of armed men coming to my house to arrest me, a framework that largely aims to undermine, regulate, and eliminate my rights.

The states unconditional right to your labor has no mechanism to encourage preservation of rights.
Key exchange would be easy in real life, just bump phones when you meet someone. It's only difficult on IRC.
It’s possible this is as advanced as we can get. Innovation seems to be slowing down don’t you think? At some point you have exhausted the laws of physics and this is what you’ve got to work with.

https://www.cold-takes.com/this-cant-go-on/
I unironically solved this problem by running docker-compose in Docker. You can build an image that's just the official docker/compose image with your docker-compose.yml on top, mount /var/run/docker.sock into it, and then when you start the docker-compose container, it starts all your dependencies. If you run Watchtower as well, everything auto-updates.

Instead of deploying changes as git commits, you deploy them as container image updates. I'm not going to call it a good solution, exactly, but it meant I could just use one kind of thing to solve my problem, which is a real treat if you've spent much time in the dockerverse.
Wing Commander 2 is responsible for putting the most SoundBlasters into pre-Win95 computers. And it wasn't just for the sound capabilities. The first generation of SB cards included a CD-ROM interface. Prior to ATAPI there was no standard way to put an optical drive in a PC. SoundBlaster put the sound and CD-ROM interface on one card it saved you having to buy extra hardware, and encouraged developers to use discs for distributing their software.

Eventually IDE/ATAPI drives became the norm, and I believe the SB16 dropped the proprietary CD-ROM.
Fully correct, stupid me, thanks!

Was still on time to edit it.
Yeah, so don't upload your pictures to google photo. The main take away here is find an alternate backup cloud spot or host your own. Apple is forcing spying software on their phones on the customer to use your very own device to spy. Unless you're simply trying to avoid false positives as a reason, most people are complaining about apple turning their device into a government 4th amendment free zone.
You may also enjoy https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...

Hes not someone ive read a lot of so there may be more better of which im unaware.
You're speculating on "why" they're punished. I ask for "how". How is someone posting a link punished?
Same here. It was an eye-opener for me.

This logic of alpha/beta/omega always seemed incomplete to me.

The Gervais principle seems to capture reality better, the losers are the ones that form groups where people can be categorized as alpha/beta/omega etc. and the clueless and sociopaths act completely outside of such groups. For the worse (clueless) or the better (sociopaths) of themselves.

Funny enough, lately alpha/beta/omega logic includes a "sigma", which is the ham-fisted try to add sociopaths to their flawed system.
I wonder if old alu cars will suffer from metal fatigue.
Automate OpenShift 4 deployments on libvirt with Ansible and Terraform
http://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2013/03/smart-guy-productivit...

Made me realise smartwork is bs. If you want to boost productivity, increase your focus span. There's no other hack.
> The DELL Optiplex 386SX will run around 800 to 1200 DLLS

Dumb question (maybe I've been out of Windows world too long) but what does this mean?
At the time these countries were created none of them were powerful enough to be a regional competitor to Britain. The brits were keen for individual countries to be stable so that they were easier to govern. Remember also that the British empire wasn’t created following a top-down strategic plan and that operationally it was a mass of country-specific special cases
People would move their income streams into non-$ denominations, keep their bank accounts in foreign currencies and so on to avoid the inflationary effect.

Further, it would be a regressive tax, not even flat, in practice: poor people are more reliant on cash and short term income which can't be diverted to a different currency. And even if high income people couldn't switch currency, flat taxes are already regressive on a marginal utility basis. Every extra dollar of income or wealth has less utility, because you no longer need to cover essentials like shelter and food, but are spending on entertainment, higher and higher quality, or Veblen goods, etc.
Honestly, I’m starting to think that this is deliberate attack by opponents of e2ee that want to prevent iCloud going dark (right now Apple holds the keys just like every other cloud storage provider but after implementing these CSAM features they could transition to true e2ee).
>> it defends against comparing one user's hashed password to a second user's hashed password,

> This has zero value.

I find it disturbing that you would say this. The purpose of salting passwords is to block this attack. Please familiarize yourself with the field before opining on what its goals are.
Stock market correction may be right around the corner
I check that weekly, as I did last year. And I would be one of the last people reviewed, my taxes are dead simple and I use TurboTax anyway because I am a coward.

My guess is that it will be late again.
C:\Windows\explorer.exe shell:::{BB06C0E4-D293-4f75-8A90-CB05B6477EEE} for the old system dialogue.

The new one actually does the same for once, but I often use it to jump to the menues of the left. At least those weren't replaced yet. The new ones are just dreadful.
They aren't a non-profit at all anymore: https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/
Failing to intentionally create a stable country and intentionally creating an unstable country are two different things.
Author here: happy to answer any questions about the bitcode format, at least as far as I've explored it :-)

This post also has a second part, which I published last week[1]. That part contains even more nitty-gritty details on how the bitstream is actually interpreted, and shows off a proof-of-concept bitstream parser in Rust.

[1]: https://blog.yossarian.net/2021/08/10/LLVM-internals-part-2-...
So key signing parties would resurface? :)
That post reeks of confirmation bias.
To respond to everything in this that I found either intellectually or personally offensive would be exhausting.

Gay marriage doesn't fit neatly into left/right ideological politics and the author's core complaint is that the supporters of gay marriage aren't sufficiently leftist.

The claim that the only people benefitting from the overturn of doma were/are the wealthy is patently absurd and factually false. The claim that the push for marriage caused harm by diverting resources from community health causes is also ridiculous. The disregard for gay families with children is palpable.

The core argument is no different than an extreme conservative libertarian argument that gay marriage shouldn't be supported because marriage shouldn't be the concern of the state. The near or medium term possibility of a socialist or libertarian utopia us zero. The harms of lack of access to the social institutions that do exist are real. Describing gaining access to those existing social structures as actively harmful because it doesn't suit your hard left ideology is gross.
> The Californian company SpaceX alone has launched some 1,700 satellites over the past 2 years as part of its Starlink network, which provides broadband Internet, with thousands more planned.

None of which are high enough in orbit for this to be an issue. They have a lifespan of 5 years or so before they fall and burn up in the atmosphere. Why was it included in the article? In the first paragraph nonetheless.

None of the other mega constellations are a problem either, they are mega constellations because they are in VLEO. You need more satellites to cover the Earth when they are lower, but they will also all fall back down, posing no long term threat.

Either the author is unaware of what he is writing about, or has malicious intent, either way, it doesn't instill trust in the article if there's no distinction of which type of orbit the satellite is in.

Sure we should be careful with satellites in more fixed positions, but the top paragraph seems like a hit piece against SpaceX, and slightly against the other companies wanting to do satellite constellations (although no name drop)
That was fun.

EDIT: Although, for those who haven’t seen the show, the video contains a massive spoiler.
Critical uses have the potential to support much higher prices.
What a great idea!

Why aren't debit cards normally hooked into the credit history system?
I work for a FAANG-like company right now, and used to work for Apple, and worked for startups too. Some thoughts.

• Engineers in large tech companies are neither better nor worse engineers than in startups on average. They just work on different things.

• Large tech companies are a lot more heterogeneous than it looks at first. I had a great experience with talented and respectful people at Apple, while a friend of mine was in another engineering division also at Apple, and… not so much. It’s so large, it can’t be the same throughout the company. It wouldn’t be surprising that your team is struggling to hire quality talent, but some others have an easier time, for all kinds of reasons.

• But each company does have some common cultural traits you’re likely to find throughout all its teams though. My current company takes a lot about the importance of work-life balance, while Apple told us at bootcamp on day 1 that we’d be working our asses off. In both cases, it turned out true.

So, one FAANG might be wrong for you, but another FAANG might be better. And one team in a FAANG might be wrong for you, but another team in the same FAANG might be better.

One reason I like larger companies is because once you’re in, they’re so large that it’s easy to switch to another role all the while having a lot of insider information about what you’re getting into, way more than if you were to switch companies. But yeah, a lot of the time they want to keep you on one team for a little bit first, so at least they’re getting some ROI on their efforts to find you.
it's not cheating the government out of tax money at all. He's providing a service which offers simple cryptographic solutions to enhance a bitcoin user's privacy
Incorporating 3D artificial intelligence with AR and VR technology
I bought 2x4s for $3.60 last weekend.

Just a month ago, HN was rife with lumber apocalypse.
Generation of TypeScript declaration files from JavaScript code
I wonder how much the water to oil exchange rate is.
This doesn't exactly follow the Collatz conjecture because multiplication by 3 will be truncated to a 128-bit unsigned int. It is possible that this truncation causes a loop. Even though the Collatz conjecture has been tested for all numbers in this range, it has probably not been tested with this overflow effect.
OpenAI transitioned from non-profit to for-profit in 2019, took about $1 billion from Microsoft (there has been speculation that this was mostly in the form of Azure credits), and announced that Microsoft would be their preferred partner for commercializing OpenAI technologies: https://openai.com/blog/microsoft/

The name is now a complete misnomer.

There may still be some benefit for researchers to collaborate with them (same as with any of the other corporate research labs), but anyone trying to build a business on non-public APIs should obviously tread carefully.

So, no. You aren't missing anything.
We're talking about supply chain here

e.g. Foxconn investing in capacity outside of China (India) and Apple being part of it (as customer)
I'm not sure the concurrency key can solve the issue of old code after new code, in the general case.

What happens if there are conflicting migrations on two "parallel" branches?

What happens in you bad luck situation when commits are pushed in rapid succession on the same branch?
> Apple really screwed up PR by launching the iMessage feature alongside the scanning-and-reporting iCloud Photos feature. There's so much confusion out there about this.

It's possible that they determined that dealing with the backlash in one go would be easier than having two separate blowups. Most consumers have only fuzzy, vague senses of brands based on a poorly-understood game of Telephone linked to each news cycle. This only counts as "one" privacy ding against Apple for most people, whereas two separate news cycles would do much more damage to their reputation around privacy.
Twitter is now serving modals on search that try to trick you into logging in
1. Go to https://twitter.com/explore

2. Search for anything.

3. A modal will come up asking you to login while also displaying the search results. The button to close the modal, located in the least obvious location on the top left, is just a link to the login page.

To circumvent this behavior, refresh the page after searching. Twitter is trying to make itself accessible to direct links while being hostile to anyone attempting to explore twitter unauthenticated.