skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that as long as the person remains mostly anonymous (personally I've no interest in digging further, for this exact reason), things like this need to be talked about.

Sure, lying about some of the details while getting the gist across might be a good idea (e.g. naming a different OS when you actually have Ubuntu), but there definitely needs to be discourse about the circumstances that people are dealing with in reality, instead of everyone pretending that they are on the forefront of the industry with their security and other practices.

The more you think about it, the murkier everything gets - talking about how things were in a company 5 years ago that's now defunct might be the best possible circumstance, but in a currently active org that might also be a way of getting yourself sacked, depending on how juicy of a target it is and how much attention it attracts.

That said, the company has made the choice to use EOL software, their clients have made the choice to use EOL software and it's bad practices all around - honestly, should any of the software be exposed publicly, I'm pretty sure that this person's comments won't be the first to call attention to the setup, since nation X's hackers/crackers might have already ran automated attacks against it anyways.

In summary, bad practices probably deserve to get called out, just so we know what the situation in the industry is like in reality, but hopefully not at too great of a personal expense.
The interesting thing about Orkut was the weird geographical distribution of adoption. I think it was something like Brazil, Turkey and India.

It is interesting to contemplate a world where one social network like facebook didn't end up dominating the entire space, but instead we had a bunch of social networks each dominating their own geographical region. And each such social network had its own peculiar dynamics, features and product experience that reflected the culture of the region it dominated.

I think such a world would have lead to way more innovation in this space.

After all in our world the only region that remained independent of Facebook and developed its own form of social network, China, has definitely contributed its own distinctive take on social network design. For good or bad, no one can deny the contribution of wechat and tiktok to this space, with their take on economic design in social network or insanely personalised algorithms.

Now imagine instead of a bipolar world of social networks that we inhabit, we had a multipolar one with for example the Nordic, Latin American and African region each having their own thriving social network universe that reflected their culture, and it is easy to contemplate a much more richer and innovative social networking landscape.
I’m not sure whether this is true, because the governance vote to control the whale account seems to have been their first ever governance vote with a brand new DAO set up seemingly to take that vote.

It is true that their contract will have had some upgrade authority, so people would know that the contract could be changed. But I’m not sure people could previously have been expected to predict that they might create a DAO and have governance votes with a few hours notice.
For many victims we'd not even know - for example about 50000 civilians have been killed by Russian forces in Mariupol and many bodies are inside the ruined buildings which Russia is just demolishing right now without taking the bodies out.

A lot of people on occupied territories - government/municipal officials, former military, journalists, activists, etc. - have already been kidnapped by the Russian SS force ("Russian Guard") and nobody knows and may never know the fate of the many of them.

About million of people have been moved into Russia - they are moved through "filtration camps" where those who deemed "nationalist" (anti-Russian posts in FB/Twitter for example or having family members who have fought on Ukrainian side) are filtered out and again fate unknown. The fate of the rest is officially some resettlement in Russia though there is no way to account for all of them.

Also a note about the Putin regime actions to erase the memory of the millions of victims of another mass killing - during recent years Russia de-facto outlawed (assigned impossible to exist with status of "foreign agent" which led to the organization closing) to the "Memorial" organization the main work of which was maintaining the public memory of the victims of the Stalin repressions.
Yes it was, in the accepted sense of the term (a silo website with social graphs for users).
You can't be forced to introduce a "systemic" weakness. On the other hand, a certain four-letter agency can certainly craft a TAN requesting you to, say, weaken your key negotiation for a specific client.

That's targetted, not systemic. And hey, you're not removing the encryption your just making it slightly less secure. Neatly sidesteps a whole bunch of restrictions in 317ZG.

It's only FUD until the policy makers decide it's the norm :P
Fair points, however at least in Australia is that bartenders are legally supposed to stop serving people that are drunk, (Our Responsible Service of Alcohol laws say 'it is against the law to serve alcohol to an intoxicated customer'.
My anecdotal evidence is that you actually have to be too obliterated to verbally get the order out or to stand up for that to happen.
From a quick look that is about 500€? (100 for the capture and about 400 for the cam on ebay). Also, you probably still want a stand, battery, lighting, microphone...

That is at least 5 times as expensive as a webcam. Is it at least 5 times as good?
If you already have a system camera, that might be a good alternative, but otherwise?
A kernel module doesn't have to match the kernel version, it has to be able to resolve all the symbols (function calls, variables etc) it uses into valid symbols supplied by the kernel you are loading on.

The greater the difference between the kernel version you compiled for, and the kernel version you are trying to load it on, the greater the chance something you are relying on changed and the module loader cant resolve all the symbols and so it fails.

So saying a kmod has to match the kernel version is good practice but the reality is not quite as strict.

Red Hat has a list of "white listed" symbols that they try to maintain across a major version of RHEL so if your kmod only relies on them and nothing else then it should load on any kernel version within that release. But that's a Red Hat thing, not a Linux kernel thing.
Yes, very true. However when people forget the passphrase to their wallet and lose access to their funds, suddenly they don't want to be their own bank anymore, they want a name and number to yell at down the phone until it comes back.
Defining this word must be one of the favorite exercises on HN. Imo, consciousness is just perception: that's the literal meaning of this word in sanskrit and that's the implied meaning in how we use it - unconscious means "cannot perceive anything". When applied to AI, consciousness would mean an array of sensors connected to some memory block where sensory input become 0s and 1s. Traditional types of consciousness register things from outside, but we can think of an internal consciousness that observes internal events. Perhaps, when some of the sensory inputs observe outputs of the processing unit, that's self consciousness. But even self-consciosness doesn't imply intelligence - the latter is about prediction and cause-result relationships.
Don't you usually have a battery you charge using the rtg's, so that you can deliver some real power when you need to do a manouvre?
Not him, but in my opinion upgradeable contracts (not all erc20 use them of course)
One curious class of jobs might be hanger-ons: people who are just there to give attention to rich-enough folks.
>And it’s lots of small features and details such as built in translation for messages in a foreign language

Is "automatically sends your message text to google" supposed to be a plus?
For those who wants to understand the issue here,

please take a look at the first proposal [0].

[0]: https://realms.today/dao/SLND/proposal/HuaL6cDtuNtfnJgvwMnYi...
it is impossible to asses whether someone is emotionally able to care for children without observing them how they actually treat their own children. observing them with other children does not work either. i have seen wonderful teachers who were not so good at parenting.

requiring parents to be financially stable would cut out a way to large portion of society. you only want rich people to have kids?

how about building a society where raising children does not cost money? free schools, healthcare, financial support (basic income?) for having children, can go a long way.

same for emotional support. instead of attempting to weed out potentially bad parents, provide a support system where parents can get the help needed if they struggle with their kids.
If you like metric, a good approximation is also 1 calorie per kilometer and kilogram of body weight. So a 80kg person running a 10k will approx. burn 800 calories.

Only an approximation but seems to roughly fit many "measurements" by smart watches for both males and females of different weight ranges.
Riffing on your example: even just the though of making all appliances cheap enough to be replaced when they break down, instead of repairing them, was and is a big step in this direction.
Lemmy is still a good project despite the fact that the developers used it as a platform for pushing their political cause. Dismissing them out of hand because their principles differ to yours is not great either in my opinion.

Personally I disagree with this stance in open-source, and I do take "freedom 0" seriously for my projects. At the same time I will be quite sad if they will end up being used by communities trying to disseminate unpalatable ideas.

That's why the mechanism for establishing federating links between littr.me instances will be specifically opt-in. An instance will "follow" another instance, and that other instance will have to "accept" the follow, for content from the second one to propagate to the first.

At the same time a user will be free to follow an instance and receive its content at any time, but it will not seep into the "federated" timeline that the instance presents to the other users.

This behaviour is not set in stone yet - it's the last major hurdle - that and the 502s everyone is complaining about :D - before I feel confident to launch the platform in a more public manner - and it's different from what the major players in the fediverse world do at the moment, which is accrete instances as their users follow other users on those instances. This, in my opinion is a little irresponsible and has everything to do with the chase for the "network effect" and users numbers, which I personally see as the main down-fall of every social network that has been launched in the past 20 years.
As far as I understand -- that's ok, i.e. different clients will get what they're asking for.
I like Scott Aaronson's response[1] to the argument:

> So, class, how might a strong AI proponent respond to this argument? Duh: you might not understand Chinese, but the rule book does! Or if you like, understanding Chinese is an emergent property of the system consisting of you and the rule book, in the same sense that understanding English is an emergent property of the neurons in your brain. Like many other thought experiments, the Chinese Room gets its mileage from a deceptive choice of imagery -- and more to the point, from ignoring computational complexity. We're invited to imagine someone pushing around slips of paper with zero understanding or insight -- much like the doofus freshmen who write (a+b)^2=a^2+b^2 on their math tests. But how many slips of paper are we talking about? How big would the rule book have to be, and how quickly would you have to consult it, to carry out an intelligent Chinese conversation in anything resembling real time? If each page of the rule book corresponded to one neuron of (say) Debbie's brain, then probably we'd be talking about a "rule book" at least the size of the Earth, its pages searchable by a swarm of robots traveling at close to the speed of light. When you put it that way, maybe it's not so hard to imagine that this enormous Chinese-speaking entity -- this dian nao -- that we've brought into being might have something we'd be prepared to call understanding or insight.

[1]: https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec4.html
The ICOs were the OG NFT's. The whole crypto ecosystem of today is definitely wilder though.
Great work - this is badly needed.

> I'd love more feedback especially about any UX issues.

Embarrassingly, it took me a moment to understand what the ^ sign meant in shortcuts.

Alt + L is "Ł" in some keyboard layouts (namely Polish (programmers)).

I suppose KeyEvent.location combined with default prevention could help here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEve...
> the presence of randomness does not necessarily preclude something from being computational in nature

In the case of single events, it does preclude something from being computational in nature, if you take unpredictability as the hallmark of randomness.

Predictability and repeatability are built in to computation and built out of randomness, as it were.

In one stringent definition of randomness (that of algorithmic information theory) it is literally defined by reference to its uncomputability.
The German government had reiterate the German responsibility continuously, in words, diplomatic action and payments for the surviving victims. The Polish government however has decided lately on line of denying their share in the war crimes, effort that includes anti-historic legislation.
another social media site, do we not have enough already
It's the same mistake Walmart and initially McDonalds did, they think their usual crap will fly in Europe, and it just doesn't. You need to adapt to the local market's specifics ( it's also why EU based companies have a harder time growing than US based ones - the single market still required a lot of adaptations).
Yes, if you do a lot of business communication, this stuff is important. I talk to way too many people that should know better that clearly don't have a clue about any of this and that end up looking and sounding pretty poorly

It's pretty simple. Most bluetooth headsets are not great, including the expensive ones that Apple sells you. And even if they are good, the bluetooth audio compression is pretty bad. So, you are unlikely to sound very clear. So, avoid that and use wired headsets or even your laptop's build in microphone instead. For optimal results, invest in a good microphone. There's a reason professional podcast hosts sound so good: they use proper microphones. You can sound that good as well. A simple, wired clip on microphone doesn't cost a fortune.

Audio filtering is pretty aggressive these days and that can cause additional issues. For example eliminating feedback and echoes is something that a lot of software tries that can result in your audio cutting out and getting distorted. Solution: wear headphones to listen to the sound. This prevents feedback from having to be filtered out. Also, being in a quiet environment helps.

As the article notes, many webcams are not great in terms of hardware. In practical terms this means low resolution sensors that will have a lot of noise. The darker it gets, the worse it gets. So be in a well lit room and pay some attention to the light situation. A simple desk light turned the right way can do wonders at night. Professional youtubers tend to invest in special lights for a reason: it makes things look good.

Obviously, you need a stable network connection. Doing multiple video calls on a domestic wifi that has multiple family members doing whatever in a room that is around 10 meters from the base station is probably going to result in a pretty bad connection. A few meters can make all the difference. And if you are upload constrained (like many DSL connections are), there are going to be issues. If it's really bad, turn off your video. You'll sound better that way and people will be able to understand you at least.

Finally, pay attention to where the camera is pointing. If you are a sales person that spends a lot of money on their outfit, do you really want the lasting impression to make to be your nostrils filmed from below? Also, clean the room you are in and don't have a backdrop of your domestic crap, laundry, and worse. It just does not look professional to do that. It's not hard but you need to pay some attention. If it's really bad, you can use a fake backdrop or blur it. But be aware that that can look a bit glitchy on the other side. Better to just be in a nice looking place. Also nice for yourself BTW.
Is Searle's Chinese Room still considered a state-of-the-art philosophical argument? If so, that's very disappointing. It's old! I would have hoped things had moved on a bit. And more importantly, it's not very productive; it claims to rule out certain hypotheses (very unconvincingly, I'd say) but doesn't give any useful steer on new directions that might be worth pursuing.

(Edit to add: I consider this post equivalent to Searle's argument as I don't see any significant new material, except possibly a stated assumption that "consciousness does not require an external observer".)
> Now, you can find an interpretation of the iron bar that shows that the iron bar casually and deterministically went through those exact same states for a full 1 second. What is the difference between those two situations? Why would the program be conscious but the iron bar would not be?

Let's say you find an interpretation that perfectly matches 1 second of calculation, after searching an exponential bazillion states.

Then you decide to test the next second, to see if it's the real deal.

Oh, it always fails, with certainty 1 - 1 / [exponential bazillion].

Even if you had perfect random noise you could always find an interpretation to XOR with it and "find" any target you're searching for.

Even if you had flat 0000000..., you could always find an interpretation to XOR with it and "find" any target you're searching for.

The problem is that you actually did the computation when you were finding the "interpretation". Whatever value the rock had becomes irrelevant in a search process like this. The rock isn't doing the computation.

Just like in the library of babel, where the book doesn't have the information, the location of the book has the information.
Sadly (IMHO) the world is generally going in the opposite direction. At least in Northern Europe there is more and more standardization of "this should be done exactly in Y dimension using material Z with connector X", and if you can't document compliance with that standard, your house is worth slightly less when you try to sell it.
You could execute a loop that reflects on an internal model using pen and paper. Is that system conscious? Imagine only one computational step of that loop happening everyday. Does qualia arise from that? What is detecting that that one step is part of a larger series of steps that can be considered a computation? What provides the continuity?

This is why the strange loop idea implemented using traditional computation doesn't make sense to me.
yeah but that's back to android, nice to have the option
Q: But why would I want to use Ada at all in the first place? Isn't it just some kind of historical language?

A: I wouldn't know personally, but here's what the Ada people say about this:

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/Ada_For_The_CPP_Java_Devel...

the main pitch point is that Ada is useful as a language you can validate code in, and thus more safe in scenarios where errors or bugs are critical and cost human lives.

Again, not sure if I buy this (especially w.r.t. to other languages with stronger safety features, not just C/C++).
This is largely incorrect. SNI is used to tell the server which domain it needs to send a certificate for (i.e. to securely prove it owns that domain). You are right that it is separate from the HTTP host header, but in practice they are always the same because (in lieu of other information) the client wants assurance that the server owns a valid certificate for the HTTP host it is requesting to.

What makes SNI complicated to secure is that until the client has securely established the server's identity, it could be a MITM. But to prove the identity to the client, the server needs to know which proof the client needs.

Alternative solutions like "send certificates for all domains" have other issues such as performance, scalability and trivially leaking to anyone the full list of domains served.

ESNI is clever, but more complex to deploy. It's only in recent years that HTTPS has become widely used at all, and that's mainly thanks to deployment becoming largely trivial via ACME and free via Let's Encrypt.
The consciousness problem is a tricky one, because unlike with most dilemmas, it's not that obvious on which side the burden of proof lies here.

Is the "consciousness is just computation" side obliged to prove HOW consciousness is generated out of computation alone? (Which they never do?)

Or are the opponents obliged to find the unique aspect that couldn't possibly be reduced to computation? (Which they never do either?)
Making something work with a IPv4 octet of 300 (decimal) is a trick I'd like to see... (and I'm not talking about https://ma.ttias.be/theres-more-than-one-way-to-write-an-ip-... )
Ah, I see you have discovered the joys of "dynamic contrast". Just about every monitor I've bought recently has that "feature", but luckily it can usually be disabled. Unfortunately they still measure contrast with that feature enabled so it's like five-billion-to-one, allegedly.
Even people who continue to stand by their racist statement that there are "very fine people on both sides", and continue to have the fanatical support of the majority of the Republican party.
Apologies, it was a difficult weekend. It only served to remind me how brittle my code is when it comes to real concurrency. :(

I hope the next show and tell will go better.
They are called "tripping cobbles", but they are actually flush with the rest of the cobbles - everything else would be a huge hazard for people not watching where they walk.

So I don't think the "grave insult" applies here, or else why would the Stolpersteine have been inserted into the middle of the boardwalk of streets with lots of pedestrian traffic? If you're in a hurry and don't look down, you will not even know they are there. And if you read the artistic statement, that's exactly what they are meant to be - a part of daily life, not a sculpture to stand in front of and study.

Of course, if someone wanted to insult the dead, they could make a show of repeatedly stepping on them. I don't think it would provoke much of a reaction other than people thinking "what a pitiful loser".
Great work!

One minor feedback about the keyboard shortcuts: On macOS I would treat Option+Letter as reserved shortcuts because they are used to write special characters like Ω≈ç√∫.

Option-N is used to write any letter with a tilde, such as ñãõ and ÑÃÕ.
> They collect everything they can, including screenshots at regular intervals and send them back to Samsung so that they can sell this to "partners"

Isn't this a gross violation of privacy and be clearly illegal? I could be playing my home videos with very private content. Add to that copyright violation if they are using screenshots of my content for commercial purposes.
> He's spent his entire adulthood recycling the same idea over and over.

If it's something Googlers are famous for it's A) seeing themselves as much better at building stuff than they actually are and B) trying to reimplement the same thing over and over again hoping that this time, it'll actually work. See various social networks and/or chat applications.