skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How is this worse than any system that depends on a server that routes messages? Like almost all of them...

Not in the same way that email does. Email metadata is much more extensive than that of say Matrix.

If we look at metadata, often the subject isn't encrypted and ugly UX hacks then are made like https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-autocrypt-lamps-protected-...

This replaces the subject with "...", however if I send that email to someone who doesn't support that every email I send is going to have the same subject, making it difficult for them to easily find the "correct" email from a group. Protonmail for example doesn't support encrypted subjects.

With Matrix for example the only real metadata is room id, and flow of events (what Matrix ID is in what room). You can have rooms which are centralized to a specific server and then that's not an issue.

It will be interesting to see where P2P functionality leads in the future. https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/06/introducing-the-pinecone-... I think with any long-term identity, it's going to be trackable to some extent, so that is up to specific threat model, whether you get worried about that.

With Signal and Sealed Sender https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/ even less metadata is available, although this centralized model is not without downsides such as being operated by a single entity.

We discuss in quite some depth https://www.privacyguides.org/real-time-communication/

> Yeah, the world definitely needs more "purpose built" protocols...

With protocols like olm, you also have concept of different devices, device keys, which can be revoked, and shifted without having to ditch all your keys at once. Cross signing means new devices can be "trusted".
- in real estate, generate visions on how an empty apartment / house would look like with different styles of furniture (there are already some products for that but need more work)
- replace all the stock photo industry for professional illustrations
- mèmes. Huge potential there
- accessible image image manipulation. For instance the typical "remove that person", make me smile, add something cool in the background etc.
- not completely sure but I think it could be use as a texture generator for games and FX? For instance it seems to be able to make really nice grass, so I guess making metal / dirt / foilage texture should be possible
- would also need some investigation but it probably is possible to make renders about how a specific piece of clothing would look like on you on the beach. There are already some products that try to do that but they are pretty limited and don't let you change the context either. That might be tough about details and sizes though
I disagree. If we find a particular architecture is good for Chess, and another for image generation, then so be it. We would still have solved important problems. We are seeing both general and specific approaches improving rapidly. I don't think the AI winter was defined by a failure to reach AGI, but rather that they reached a Plateau and produced nothing of great commercial or even intellectual value for some years, while other computer science fields thrived. I would say the situation is the exact opposite right now.
> Instead of providing the IDs of the intended app being marked for deactivation, the team provided the IDs of the entire cloud site where the apps were to be deactivated.

This reminds me of the time I was tasked with changing the gender of a user to female on the production database (since the feature was not available through an interface at the time) and so I opened SQL Explorer on our live database and ran a quick update. Except I forgot the UserID param and accidentally changed over a million registered users to female.

A colleague came up with the idea to use the person's title as a hint to repopulate the database, which worked for Mr, Mrs and Ms.

I apologise now to all the doctors that found they had undergone nonconsensual gender reassignment.
If your comment was aimed at shine specifically, here is an excerpt from the bottom of the readme:

This code was dug out from the dusty crates of those times before internet and github. It apparently was created by Gabriel Bouvigne sometime around the end of the 20th century.
> reasons that are all solved with education

Reasons like "risk to the movement’s reputation for accepting cryptocurrencies", solvable with education, sure.

People who use cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and other related stuff all have a vested interest in it succeeding. That has led to a lot of people who have annoyingly strong opinions about it.

Things like "educating others" by cryptobro-splaining all over things is not going to solve the reputation of the movement.

What's happening here is that you're seeing a peek into a different bubble. In your bubble, only a lack of education would be a valid reason to avoid bitcoin.

In the bubble of wikipedia users who care enough to touch this poll, it is far less one-sided. I assure you all of those users who voted for or against have more than an average amount of education on the issues too, it's not like you can be the sort of person who votes on a wikipedia RFC without _also_ being a very online person.
I don’t think people are jaded. I just think it’s going to take a while for these types of generated images to pass the Turing test, and that’s why it doesn’t feel that impressive yet. It’s very clear they’re made by an AI. Which isn’t bad. It’s just obvious in a way that isn’t fooling anyone. There’s a very specific way that AI generates things like hands, other limbs, eyes, facial features etc. Whoever figures out how to fix that, and then fix the “fractal” like style that’s a hallmark of AI generated images will win the AI race. Maybe it’ll be openai. Maybe it’ll be someone else.
As you observe airline pilots, especially for the big passenger planes, tend to be older. This is because you need to work your way up to flying those planes. If the pilots are 50-60 years old, then, when they were born, (1960's - 1970's) the USA was ~90% white. That compares to now when it's about 60% white. So, it makes sense that older people in the US, airline pilots included, are disproportionately white compared to current population.

Airlines also tend to hire out of the airforce - letting the government do the work of training pilots. The airforce is (and was) disproportionately white and male compared to the general population. It seems perfectly reasonable for airlines to hire trained pilots out of the airforce.

I'm not really sure what you're saying with this comment. As I read it - it seems like you're suggesting that, wittingly or unwittingly, airlines are racist and their racism is so severe that it overrides their financial incentives to source pilots from as wide a pool as possible. And, your reason for believing this, is that you notice airline pilots are often old white men.
Don’t make tools use processes for “plug-in behavior”. Do one thing and do it well doesn’t really appeal to me to begin with but “let the first thing do the next thing on its own” is definitely a bastardization of that idea as well. Git has that Unix disease where the go to method of getting anything user configurable done with one program is launching another program. I’d much rather use tools that use huge convoluted script languages or good plug-in apis than tools that duct tape together with exit codes.
Those who determine Vonnegut is a man of wealth exercising privilege by purchasing an envelope are inherently daft. Nor is he advocating being a Luddite. Nor is he advocating a social critique of technology and a return to the Middle Ages. He is telling a story. If you must, it is a fable. About enjoying a stroll
thru the neighborhood. The various interactions, that are quite happenstance, yet familiar. A simple means of joy, obtained by actually going outside. Life has changed, perhaps not so profoundly, due to various technological changes - but the impacts are large. Nor is the technological wizardry based on wisdom. Why would it be? That is rhetorical and not a question.
Hi! This is the author of the post here. Thank you all for your input and discussion of the term "goated" and different photo formats! I'm not super into photography, I focused mainly on what looks good from a casual browsing experince and also saves space for me.

I want to note that there are formats that are meant to supersede WebP, such as AVIF and JPEG XL, however, AVIF (69.25%, I also mainly use Safari) [1] and JPEG XL (0%) [2] are not as nearly adopted as WebP is (91.38%) [3]. Usage taken on April 13th, 2022. Also, get a browser released after 2013.

[1] https://caniuse.com/avif
[2] https://caniuse.com/jpegxl
[3] https://caniuse.com/webp
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Broot has many features that feel natural... when you know they exist (for example, try looking for what's taking space with `br -w` then stage the files and remove them at the end).

I suggest everyone to have at least a short glance at the introduction at https://dystroy.org/broot/
I take a nightly dump of my dev environment database, and then bake that into a thin docker image based on the MySQL image. I’m not dealing with huge datasets so this isn’t expensive. You can then start up a mysql pod and it comes up with a copy of the dev DB data.

(I also give developers a script to run this fixture DB locally too - it makes the onboarding process a lot easier if you don’t need to run the DB init and migrations, and generally means developers have a more robust set of test data to work with. )
He forgot to mention the classical "But what about the children...".

They claim to be all-in for privacy but definitely they are not an honest company, which makes difficult to also trust their privacy claims.

And for what is worth, I've been an apple customer for more than a decade.
Simplicity on the the resource provider's end?

So I implement separate IAM flows for my website, app and third party api access?

Or... Make use of OAuth to standardize it, using code auth+pkce for web/app, and client credentials (not user/pass, this is client id + secret, scoped to permissions you want) for third party APIs.

The scoping is so useful, api keys tend to ignore that, so platforms like digital ocean only give you an all or nothing key, meaning I can't plumb an acme client in to do DNS challenges, without also letting it spool up a VM...
hah, well just goes to show Ebert's 0 star review worked and I never watched it.
May I suggest lfs (https://dystroy.org/lfs/) as a replacement for df ?
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Yes, exactly like that reason.

Linked to the other reason about their environmental impact which is not relevant to most crypto currencies.

And the problem of supposed implicit endorsement of the perceived environmental impact, which changes when people understand which crypto currencies to use or how to use them or what specific problems to solve or advocate against.

All solved with education.

If people that know this cant be a source then who can be a source, in your opinion?
Biden caused global inflation? Biden can fix global inflation? It's fun to scapegoat and cathartic. But it's counter productive and inaccurate. I seem to remember money printing and pressure to keep fed rates low even before biden, not to mention the pandemic chaos that has jacked up price world wide. It's simpler to blame whoever is currently in the spotlight though and feels so good.
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That’s the point we all smell here: some very fishy bandwagonning going on here defending Spotify by trying to water down the allegations.

I allege Spotify agents here doing paid work.
What an amazing piece of intelectual demonstration. The level is so high, I can't even...

Oh by the way, there are nazis in all countries pretty much. Oh and thank you global overlords, but we don't need you invading into any country do ~ensure the politicians in power are alligned with your economic interests~, ~democratise it~, denazify it. Each shall handle their own nazis, ok? Thanks
> I know nothing about wiring money to Ukraine

You go to your bank and ask them to start a wire transfer. The recipient’s bank will provide the instructions. You can even do this entirely online.
Yup, I have. I have also seen cured in place pipeliner [0], and I have even been inside a 100+ year old 1.8m oviform pipe that has been lined!

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cured-in-place_pipe
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The argument here is that Spotify is adding to their curated playlists songs/artists that they do not need to pay royalties to. So they end up paying out less royalties to musicians like your wife
RunKit provides this functionality and it’s more or less instant (every version of every package on npm is already pre-installed, you won’t feel the boot up time, just the code in question’s actual execution time). Also, it’s free and has been free since it was introduced about 5 years ago. The code lives on your site so the “degraded experience” if we’re ever down is just “falljng back” to the unrunnable code. Try it yourself and see if the speed is acceptable: https://runkit.com/docs/embed
Why was that an option?

What was the voting results otherwise?

So many questions
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Modular design is bad for profit, amirite
> Why do people insist on still using MP3, when better stuff is available?

First, most people here recognize that this is something from the past.

Second, some people work with older systems which do not support AAC due to patent reasons. This is not about libre software, just the fact that MP3 is easy to support because its patent fees (at the time anyway) are lower than AAC and the circuitry can be placed for tenth of a US cent (which Opus don't have advantage of). There are new standalone players (built into speakers or radios) out there which don't support AAC purely because of patent fees (MP3 no longer have active patents). This makes MP3 a lowest-common denominator of compatibility.
My physical bank is in a different country. As a crypto enthusiast, I’m obligated to migrate to a remote tax haven full of like minded nut jobs.
Images for slide decks?
If you really want to win this discussion, no problem, you win. There you go, now you can carry on with your day.
You can combine patterns on file names and/or file content with broot. Here's my usual workflow: https://dystroy.org/blog/broot-c-search/
I think the bigger danger is the speed that people will be able to fabricate 'evidence' to support a false narrative faster than photographs of an event can come in.

The first images of a news story available could be fabrications.

What if news organizations were able to put pictures of Saddam's WMDs (that remember, never existed) on frontpage stories while the executive was trying to manufacture consent for entering a war?

I feel like the human brain is going to have a hard time being skeptical of fake news when fabricated fantasies can be rendered realistically.
The problem is people with zero experience involving raising endangered life will pay loads of money just to say they have something rare in their possession, and people will gladly harvest those things just for money.

Endangered plants are an obvious example. They often take decades or centuries to regrow, and locals will happily dig them up to sell for a few bucks now in exchange for destroying their future.

Governments usually grant special permission to zoos and people with expertise to research how to properly breed animals, and that seems to generally work out better than just throwing them at anyone with some cash who just saw a cute animal on youtube.
Hard to trust chunks of self-reported data like this. Many audience reviewers on the whole tend to give out a perfect spread from 8/10s to 5/10 over the year like they have a quota to maintain along with their positive persona.
oh, I'm sure it is, but I'd much rather lose my sense of smell than my capacity to feel and respond to emotions.
thank you! Yeah, I looked at those as well, but as a safari user, AVIF was just a no go and JPEG XL, looking cool though, is not adequately supported by anything (maybe just yet?)
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Reminds me of the time I parked at a shopping mall next to an oddly parked car which otherwise looked normal except for a small mountain of what I think were used coffee grounds between the driver's seat and front passenger seat. This was in Seattle.
I place a .envrc at the root of our monorepo with a handful of env vars that configure stuff like PATH (to point to the various scripts, tools, and executables that are used in the dev environment), override the sane default config files with an environment variable (extremely useful when chasing down specific bugs) and to redirect or control logging and debug info when running tools and systems.

It makes it a breeze to pull in a commit and set up a development harness that pokes at whatever thing I need to poke at in my local environment. And it does it without changing a line of code or command line invocation, which is a big deal in polyglot environments with various build constraints (not passing -DFLAG=thing is enormous in a big C/C++ code base, for example).

Even just being able to point whether a service is looking at a dev/production/local service/database is a big deal if you've invested in IaC and don't want to mess with any config files to do your work (as .envrc is probably in your .gitignore).
NSA helped a lot with that last one...
All of that gets removed though
I love the AI spring
For that you'd want to look at when the death probability exceeds 50% (108 for men, 109 for women). By 112 there's only a 40% chance you'll live to your next birthday
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> If you already have access to the machine and can create files outside of your home directory, what stops you from causing even greater havoc?

These systems don't let you put files in other people's directories. You can only create things in a specific spot, and if that thing is a directory then you and only you can put files inside it. Sometimes the only thing you can make in that spot is a directory.

(Other users can access those files if you explicitly add them to the permissions, of course.)
I think that most social media is increasing the power of bad faith compared to good faith actors.
Normal perspective versus an extreme perspective then I fear that the more normal perspective people often has a more diverse situation with many other sources and influences.

A less extreme person arguing in good faith probably has many other things in his/her life to worry about, like children/parents/work/neighbours etc.

While bad faith actors often have much less distractions, and can more easily afford to just keep the point going. I think a bad faith actor will relative easy force out more moderate/normal people out of the forum or conversation thread.
Why keep going, if you got a family and work and .. to take cary about, and arguing in good faith will be hard to get anywhere good ?

I think this give a much bigger loudspeaker to people with more extrem views, and help shut up people with more moderate positions.
I suspect the the setup of social media and the tools they use, and the tools within forums influence this.

Engagement is probably increased if such extreme versus moderate is argued, and I think the more extreme position win is likely increasing income for social media.
YC or Heavybit is generalist has a some strong content with playbook and so but will take a 7% (if I'm correct) of your capital for YC and I think 700K for HeavyBit.

An angel typically will put between 10K for small ones to 150K for big ones with big names and network taking way less capital and having actionable insights / network.

Angels are people not institutions and are more willing to help on a daily basis using their names and leverage their network putting their reputation or time on the table because they believe in you VS a YC where you are 1 among thousands and YC depends on who you have to manage you. Ive heard they have an amazing content and network, they have a strong branding, YC brands will help you hire, market your product. but it's more a factory while Angel are more the expert / goldsmith.

YC and VC (in general) are shares driven requesting X% of your capital in general while angels and heavybit are money driven asking to put a certain amount of money without looking at a minimum amount of shares this money would represents (again it's generalist)

Both/Three are complementary bringing different things on the table.

Personally invested in AI, Fintech, InsurTech, Quantum computing.

Started Small helping a friend of a friend with his AI startup (my expertise) and ended up investing in pre-seed.

Then a guy who was also an Angel round also in the pre-seed started a company and ask for my expertise on tech in general (like guidance around architecture and later ML/AI problems etc...) => they asked me to get into their pre-seed.

Then we got along well and started creating a syndicat of 10 people : bringing each other the smartest people we know that were willing to invest/get involve into our syndicat.

Then invested In companies : founders liked the value => some of them joined the syndicat later

each year we would open angel "applications" : all of us bringing the smartest people we know with different expertise (startup specialized lawyers, social network specialist, retail, online distribution, fintech, web3, infrastructure, product management, etc...)
Also everyone has it's own network which make this tentacular very quickly and Founders LOVE this as it's helping them to accelerate super super quickly.

we are now 30+ and it brings even more value and speed/faster time to market to founder.

Local/close to founder expertise => global impact that the job of the BA

my twitter @jilijeanlouis if you want to DM me.
The US absolutely has that combo at plenty of private businesses. I was in NYC last weekend and both Broadway shows required masks and proof of vax to attend. About half of the restaurants we visited also were checking vaccine cards and asking patrons to wear masks if they got up from their tables.

In Portland, it's much the same. Grocery stores are no longer mandating it but many restaurants still are. Concert venues seem about 50/50 at this point. There may no longer be blanket mandates but I'm still showing my proof of vaccine or being asked to wear a mask a couple times a week.
Does the test database contain sensitive data? If not, you can ignore the ransom.
this isn't Reddit but that's actually pretty funny...
Wow! I love LumaFusion! It’s hands down one of the best tools on my iPad for professional videos on-the-go.
It’s a really commonly used among gen z. It’s used to mean it’s really good/one of the best. Eg these tacos are goated.
sure not a usa-ism, but just bad software. We'd probably say the A6 or the A6thou or something short. or the 21-79. whatever's shortest and not a mouthful.

true 'mericans don't even know how to pronounce-out numbers that bigly

here in california there is this delightful local custom to give the freeway some random place name that changes every two miles, but give all the signs a number. or vice versa.

so it sounds like: "turn north on the rancho-el-coronado-pacifico-jackson expressway" which means turn "physically east on the 610" because it's actually north-south, but run's east-west "logically".

then for extra fun, add state highway numbers that overlap the us freeway numbers and use lots of proper nouns. as in "a crash occurred at the interchange of the northbound 415 and the 188 at the south 67 jason plotz memorial parkway on the escobar-de-los-muertos exit headed eastbound". i don't even know what i just said, but at least twenty commuters reading this just rerouted to avoid this mess.
I was vaguely aware that git would search for .git directories. I had no idea that "git status" would run commands from such a directory.
No, uranium - it doesn't make for a silly joke though...