skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a practical point of view, regardless of the scope of the original question, this is the kind of scenario where you'd really want the restriction. More than a simple administrative task it's a dangerous attack vector to allow any user to launch your httpd or DNS.

That being said, check out capabilities(7) in Linux. You can grant an executable the privilege of binding to a low port when run by non-0 uid through setcap. This is a good compromise.
They've been doing it with firearms manufacturers and retailers for a while.
> It could also be more "discoverable".

I definitely agree that I want to type some string and it should show a fuzzy search from all available commands and their descriptions. That would be huge timesaver for functionality I know exist, but I forgot the exact commands.
If you're a CTO of cloud security, you don't warn, you just command.This seems a kind of revenge because the flaw already existed when he was a CTO there. He won 40.000 to "fix" the flaw now, and he already found more other problems on AWS and GCP, this guy will make a million soon. That's why Nadella is bringing more and more hindis to MS, they are at least more trustable!
Bill burr on his podcast is also good. He usually spends the segment making fun of the companys or getting off topic mid read ranting about something else. Hes mentioned hes had a few companies demand refunds afterwards.
It wasn’t that long ago that discrimination on the part of banks was required by the government.
Right? It’s the old, they’re a private enterprise, they can kick you off their platform if they want to (AWS, GoDaddy, for example, or even YouTube).
It always strikes me that the arguments for oversight on AI are because people's conceptions of how-things-oughtta-be are different than actual patterns in the wild.

There should be a name for that tension.
Discrimination against ‘foreign’ doctors widespread in Sweden
Of course people skipped right over this to make their tired political points about Republicans hating women
Indeed. The biggest immediate risk to a newly developed product is that it won't even have any users, much less a sufficiently interested attacker. So why add initial obstacles for yourself, right? So yeah, if effort to increase security is not valued by the buyer it ain't gonna happen.
> "One of the scary parts of open-source AI is how intensely easy it is to use," he says. "The barrier is so low… that almost anyone who has a programming background can figure out how to do it, even if they don't understand, really, what they're doing."

I don't see whats so scary about that, to be honest. Some random person who is messing with ML and doesn't know what they're doing probably isn't in a position to use this in a way that would be harmful to people.

The example of discrimination given in the article would only really apply to corporations and government, who would likely use proprietary datasets (and perhaps implementations.) So I don't understand why this piece takes aim at open source. Seems almost contradictory.
> been using emacs for several years... What could be improved is speed.

Same here. Long lines are especially painful. And it's quite surprising what Emacs considers a "long line". I have a file in my project with tests, where I have an array, with each element of the array on a separate line, averaging at around 125 characters per line (some of them weird Unicode characters, so not just ASCII). There are 52 lines of it. And when I scroll down the file with C-v (Page Down basically) it scrolls quickly up until I get close to this place, then I get something like 1.5 seconds delay while it's hanging there. It's ridiculous.

Another thing is how easy it is to freeze Emacs into being completely unusable when editing files over Tramp (with remote work it's the go-to solution), caused by an unreliable connection. Mostly it happens when the underlying VPN connection is dropped. When that happens, Emacs freezes with no explanation whatsoever. I can only guess what happened. C-g, Esc, nothing works, regardless whether the VPN connection is restored or not. The only solution at this point is killing this instance of Emacs. Specifically for this purpose I crafted a one-liner to kill the right instance of Emacs[1] (the one under the mouse pointer):

kill $(xdotool getwindowpid $(xdotool getmouselocation | cut -d : -f 5))

Also, magit is painfully slow. When using it, I always wonder if Emacs is frozen again, or if it's just magit being magit. It's a shame Fork is not available for Linux.

[1]: The other instance of Emacs is used for tracking in org-mode the time I spend on different tasks. I used to do it all in a single instance, but then I kept losing that data due to Emacs freezing like that, so I started using a separate instance for the time-tracking. I really think Emacs should be a multi-process application to prevent such situations.
Doesn't the kill ring also behave similarly. That if you move through the kill ring and stop, next time it will start from that point, rather than the latest killed text?

I always get confused if I use too much of it.
The centralized financial system is a weak point, and those in power are more than happy to utilize it ala Operation Choke Point.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
@levelsio for one. there's a bunch aggregated on indiehackers.com
> That was invented by Jagadish Chandra Bose in Bangladesh, who built working millimeter-wave radios using Schottky diodes in 01894.

The effect in question was discovered by a German two decades earlier: https://www.computerhistory.org/siliconengine/semiconductor-...

> and of course since 01949 quantum theory has been a field of investigation dominated by non-Western people. As you may be aware, there have been significant improvements in solid-state electronics since 01949

Not quite sure how that matters for the question I was answering, which was emphatically NOT "is there a field of inventions historically wholly monopolized by the west". The question was for "AN example of a western invention not based on existing technology" - one would be sufficient.

> but it was built on the Hindu ayurvedic techniques of mercury distillation

?????? We're not talking about pseudoscience here.
> for these corporations this is not a matter of free expression, as it ought to be, but one of morality

Is it really true that banks block transactions related to sex work because they are morally against it? Last time I checked banks just want to make money. This is a genuine question by the way.

> But just a few weeks in, Twitch shut it down after a change of policy that included, among other things, a ban on visible nipples for those who “present as women”. At a time when societal views around gender and sexuality are in many ways opening up, restrictions on sexual expression [...] feel positively archaic and seem to demonstrate that [...] there remain highly unaccountable powers making decisions about how we express something so utterly natural and human.

Although I fully support the free the nipple movement, I can absolutely understand that a streaming platform wants to ban nudity / sexual content. Sure, sex is natural and normal, but compared to other human behaviour it is still in a league of its own.
So do I have to be THAT guy?

Fine.

Crypto solves this issue...
> Surely not every road or destination is going to have bike lanes

Why not? If there’s space for an entire road there’s more than enough for a bike lane or two. With the possible exception of mountain-side single-lane roads where cars barely fit.
The human condition?
Your link seems to give quite a few similar definitions of what a public school is, but both colloquially and from a government perspective it seems to be that they should meet:
Non-local, fee-paying, expensive, endowed, boarding, selective and non-profit.
The side-effect of this is that they were traditionally reserved for the male children of elites. The boarding requirement seems to be weaker, as two day schools (St Paul’s and Merchant Taylor’s) are listed as part of the nine “major” public schools.

However, the working definition given in the Wikipedia article, and definition used by the British government for the Public Schools Commission means that there are almost 300 “public” schools in England and Wales
.

Your list is supported as being part of the “major” public schools AKA Clarendon schools:

‘Today, while the hierarchical distinction is less commonly used, only the "Great Nine" public schools of England – Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Charterhouse, Merchant Taylors', Westminster, Shrewsbury, Rugby and St Paul's – are referred to as "major"[citation needed] on account of this historical association. Schools outside this group are referred to as "minor"[citation needed], irrespective of contemporary influence’

Citations are missing for that paragraph however, all throughout the article it’s made clear there are certainly a few hundred public schools, and not just a handful.
For instance, the link to the HMC page, of which membership seems to be more or less a good rule of them for a school being “public” : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headmasters%27_and_Headmistr...

Colloquially I do know that boys who attended Eton only acknowledge 3 or so other public schools, but the general public does have a broader definition. Nonetheless have a few hundred is still substantially less than the thousands which exist across England and Wales.
Please read your own quote back to yourself.

Does it make any hard, falsifiable claims (e.g. "eating one clove of garlic daily reduces the probability of catching a cold by 26%")? Does it make any prescriptive recommendations at all (at least to people that are not hyperlypemic)? Does it even sound remotely at all like hard science?

Regardless of the validity of the health claims, does this mean people should actually start eating something that is repulsive to both them and everybody else around them?
The decision was reversed due to public pressure, so how unaccountable are they, really?

And even before that, the decision was made because they were afraid of public opinion. Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense to refuse to do business that generates revenue. The credit card companies’ puritanical values are a reflection of what they think public opinion, among the public that matters to them, is.

They were wrong, or at least outdated, or maybe online sex workers just somehow happen to be better at PR than evangelical christians. But (trying to) follow public opinion isn’t unaccountability, it’s the opposite.
It's tremendously easy to be concerned about unaccountable power opposing your own narrative.
With respect to the Kennedy’s bad experience, are you referring to Rosemary’s involuntary commitment and subsequent lobotomy? That was pretty awful, was there something more?
I was thinking of this just the other day. Just the past few weeks, Apple with CSAM, OnlyFans getting between people and their fans/clients. All of these big corporate moves are making me think more and more of decentralization of platforms. Is that coming?
Sex workers are effectively a subset of women. I'm not sure if this qualifies as a protected class. My personal sense of justice leads me to think that there should be some amount of protection for any worker, even if the powers that be disagree.
Here's what's interesting. We take this "projects have deadlines" idea as gospel and if you dare question it you are an immoral heathen with a poor work ethic.

So you have a software engineer at Apple ruining his mental and physical health to chase a deadline. Only to have someone at Foxconn in China destroy their eyesight slightly sooner gluing digitizers to iPhone screens. Then we can all buy the resulting product for a commercial holiday starring an imaginary jolly fat man.

But is the new iPhone really all that different than the last? It has a marginally better camera and downloads stuff faster, but if it came out a year later nobody would be particularly upset.

I am certain that I am not the only one disillusioned with tech, and indeed consumerism as a whole. The implications of this will be interesting to see once more people work up the courage to say this out loud.
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They're reacting to regulations designed specifically to make it too much of a headache for them to service these customers.
Maybe it could be a separate platform to insulate the risk... but I'd love to see a startup go all in on crypto remittances. Speaking as a Ugandan who has to send money back to Kampala 30-40 times per year.
/<command> as in /help or /rules

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)#Programs
Sounds like a win for Russia, new fertile area for farm land, more co2 presumably accelerates this thus providing new warm water ports across the arctic.
Linux has terrible backwards compatibility, a fact well known to anyone who runs Linux on Parallels without wanting to pay the yearly tax.

macOS deprecated a lot of kernel APIs from Catalina to Big Sur, but there were tons that were around for a decade before.
Looks like the same thing as wikileaks to me. A combination of bad optics and lawyers getting involved causing a monopolistic supplier to pull their services.

Doubt this has much to do with MasterCard attacking the adult industry, it looks more like they want to strongly protect their existing stranglehold on the payment systems. Anything which impacts the way they're seen costs them real actually money I'd bet at their scale.
Don't forget the inherent value of being able to point to a black box and say "that's why" when questioned about some questionable process. The ability for anyone to vet the source code is a weakness. It exposes attack surface for the forces of Responsibility trying to peer into the black box.

"Computer says no" is an incredible force multiplier for Authority, and anything that threatens the truthiness of the black box's output will be mobilized against.

Unaccountable security-through-obscurity is actually a bonus for Authority, too. Look at the whole Signal-Cellbrite [0] thing: Moxie found all these vulnerabilities, some going back years. What are the odds that an avatar of Authority('s technically-minded underling) found one or more of these Cellbrite exploits and used them as tools against enemies, or to exonerate friends? "Make sure you scan this cellphone first." Would any of that be possible if Cellbrite was legally mandated to be built from remote, publicly-viewable source every time they wanted to use it? Or, if you want to be less conspiratorial, how many vulnerabilities would Moxie have been able to find if the source had already been public (and subject to pull requests) for years?

[0] https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/
For the built-in spyware.
Wow. Just wow. That any money would be spent on something like this in a city like that.

Brussels is the saddest, most dilapidated, neglected western European capital I’ve ever been to and I’ve been to many.

I mean it’s so filthy, so filthy that bud drivers refused to park their buses at one of the biggest train stations in the city because of the amount of human excrement from the homeless population.

Sure, dig up a river famous for being an open sewer… boggles the mind.
The interests of the state and its citizens do not always align.
Beancount is great, a lot of the system is actually inspired by ledgercli too. I managed to use some the code for goledger so can import the ledgercli text files into godbledger. The main benefit though is to step away from the text based accounting and put the transactions into a database where you can use traditional tools to analyse your financials. Being able to do this:

https://youtu.be/PeQR7GseFQI

Was pretty exciting early on which you cant do with the text based accounting systems.
I think photopea.com is 1 person doing at least $1m in annual revenue.
Seeing some people whom I knew well offline first and now interact with mostly online (typically schoolmates), it seems like their offline acidity is around lemon juice and their online acidity is 6 to 12 molar HCl.

It’s simultaneously correct to describe them as being “more acidic” online, but practically, the penny arcade cartoon seems to fit better.
I switched into hobbyist self-hosted software instead. It's not as fun, but it lets my brain rest. I guess the secret is to do the opposite of your day job as a hobby.
I think a similar thing can be said about time. There were a lot of novel things to share in the early days, but these days it seems like his essays have taken a turn toward trite elitism. To be clear, I don't think this is specific to PG, but rather the case whenever someone feels the urge to continue producing for the sake of producing, nor am I saying that I'd be able to do any better. PG obviously has orders of magnitude more wisdom to share than me or most other people.
Indeed. Two aphorisms come to mind: out of sight, out of mind. And: perfect is the enemy of good.
Colors could be wave forms. Humans are very good detecting waveforms, because they are perceived as various vowels.

All problems solved now. I bet a human could drive car with this system eventually. Steady tiny "eee" turning into "aaa" is the traffic light changing color.
Too many people don’t understand that not everyone has a strong online presence and not everyone is pestered by recruiters. Yes, it can be annoying, but also consider yourself blessed.
I’d suggest the book red plenty for an interesting set of perspectives on the Soviet system. The Soviet Union was not a classless society by any stretch.
Thanks for the feedback! I clearly made this comment prematurely, but the interest pushed to get a reasonable landing page in place and implement the login in production. Let me know what you think of the extended pitch (click "what is this"): https://www.wax.run/

Can you send me a note mike@wax.run ? Would like to stay in touch as we get closer to launching.
> However, a requirement for this case-distinction must still exist somewhere else in the code, likely multiple times, otherwise we would not have a need for the original function in the first place.

You must work in a nice place - I often find code that does not have an ideal layout.
> As an analogy, this whole discussion of PLs in CS circles is like complaining about whether we should use `dot` notation or `d/d(t)`

The fact that makes all the difference is that informal notations in math, science, linguistics and other fields are interpreted by human brains, human brains are flexible at filling the gaps and deriving most reasonable consequences from their incomplete descriptions. Symbolic notations outside of formal logic and programming are mostly an annotation DSL to augment humans communicating with each other.

In contrast, a programming language imposes itself upon you in a way that those notations don't. You have to describe a lot of things in it. Underspecification leaves too much to the machine, overspecification tortures the poor brains reading after you. The optimal boundary differs depending on the thing being described, might not always exist and sometimes not always that satisfactory (still pisses off the humans or the machines in some parts or another of the program).

Making different programs in different languages and making them somehow all cooperate to describe the same problem opens a whole new can of worms that's just as hard to solve as the original problem. It's nowhere near as hard to mix-and-match mathematical notations (e.g. Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanics where Newtonian dot notation is used to denote time derivatives and Leibnizian fraction notation is used to denote coordinate derivatives). If you're stuck, you can always invent a new notation or whip up a diagram, describe how they work on-the-fly in some shared meta-language, then use it right away anywhere and everywhere you want, including in conjunction with old notations.

So it basically boils down to the capabilities of the underlying machine. The human brain is one hell of a machine, you have a lot of leeway. But programming languages are primarily ways to communicate with a very different type of machine, and as if that wasn't enough they _also_ still have to support wet brains, and as if that wasn't enough they are extremely rigid and heavyweight compared to human notations, i.e. much more difficult and time-consuming to design and implement and spread (when they are new) and de-spread (when they are obsolete and there are better alternatives).
What a strange article. There is almost no substance and it doesn't deliver any convincing arguments why policymakers should focus on open source.

Intuitively I would say policy should focus more on corporationsas open source is publicly auditable.
Computational Analysis of Spoken Language in Acute Psychosis and Mania
This is also my understanding - though I think it’s mostly a side effect of the regulation (which is intended to increase the liability around enabling sex trafficking).

The article mentions this, but I agree with pessimizer that the article seems to get the causality backwards.

I also agree with float4 re: why platforms may not want sexual content. I’m sensing some agenda driven motivated reasoning behind this article that’s being used to shoehorn the events into its frame.

There is something to centralized software companies and payment processors being in a position to do this at all though (whether required by regulation or not). Both blockchain based protocols that create decentralized incentive structures like Audius, and (non-blockchain) approaches like Urbit (along with just regular crypto) help to solve this problem. I’d bet this is what will enable them to be more resilient in the long run.

https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit
The retrocomputing enthusiast in me dies a little every time I am reminded this video exists.
This is still attacking the adult industry. You are just suggesting alternative motivations.
okaq.com is my primary. But I'd like to have the short form "ok.aq". Unfortunately, the ".aq" TLD is country code Antarctica!

If identity is irrelevant, it seems there are many two letters' available: "if.wtf" $30/y at google domains ;)
The plane uses the French spelling with an e, even in English (although it appears there was a bit of back and forth on that back during the 1960s).
My neighbor, who lived a very unhealthy lifestyle, underwent 4 heart surgeries and multiple other procedures before they literally couldn’t keep his body alive anymore. I’m not convinced he was treated humanely.
Sometimes it is easier to do personal projects in the morning and let that low energy feeling be the end of your work day instead :).
What happened to Germany (territory shrinkage and economic sanctions) after WW1 incidentally shows this story pretty well.
I agree with your statement that concepts like formal-proofs is underrated. Fortunately, one of the general trend that I'm seeing going forward is the birth of programming languages with more and more sophisticated type systems. In these languages type systems do not only capture object types (eg., int, string) but also various other aspects.

For example functional languages and their monadic construct supports capturing various interesting aspects. This allows for really useful feature such as capturing concurrency behaviour (Future/Promise) and possibility of returning errors (Try), at compile time.

Then there's Rust where memory ownership can be reasoned about at compile time.

Languages such as Idris allows to declare a type that is dependent on the value (eg., declare that this function "x() can only return odd numbers?)

I also happen to work in a company where we try to bring type-safety to the databse world with our product TypeDB.

I think this trend is very good to see - stronger type-system = safer code. In a way the stronger type system a programming language has, the more it can validate at compile time. And therefore, we can say that such language somewhat provides what formal proof / formal verification systems ought to provide, but in a practical setting.