skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I'm not too keen on either of your takes. I do remember Trump getting an unusual amount of attention, but it was mainly because the media was mocking the idea of him running. Whether this had the Streisand effect I think is pretty irrelevant.

NYT is "left" as far as an every day citizen is concerned; how left the NYT is I think is a non-sequitur. There's a pattern on the left of unclaiming anything anyone raises about "the left" that's negative. You unclaimed the NYT but I've also heard this done rhetorically with Antifa. People will say they don't exist because there's no one leading it or that "they're not left" in a no-true-Scotsman fashion. I don't think these are helpful or truthful positions to hold.

There are pretty thoughtful takes on what motivated Trump supporters. I'll leave a few for both of you.

- https://dangerousintersection.org/2021/08/06/what-motivates-... (During and post-presidency)

- https://electionsetc.com/2016/11/12/why-was-trump-elected/ (Election)

tldr: The areas Trump won in were rural areas, those were key to capturing the presidency in a tight race. I lived in one of these areas at the time; not a single Democrat showed up. There were no ads, there was nobody shaking hands, at that point I doubted people would even know what a Democrat or a left-leaning Libertarian were. QAnon and Neo-Nazis certainly did vote for him, but that doesn't make up the huge swing needed for him to win in a race as close as that one.

There's a rather easy fix for this: Send the fucking Democrats. Show up in the primaries in rural areas. Make policy and plans for improving rural areas. Speak directly to these people without telling them that you aim to take their jobs. Show them a trajectory to a better life and I'll bet they'll follow. People forget that many of these areas are historically Democrat or swing states.
Dont use gmail. Google motto these days is really be evil everyday, if not a day then it is wasted. Use Tuta. Use Proton. Use pgp. Use Telios. Pretty much anything except Google product. Heck even Apple iCloud is way more privacy in the entire Google history ever achieved.
It protects the right to publish, "on github", or by any other means, and saying that in no way says "compels github to perform a service against their will"

Why do some people jump to interpret things that way? There's something kind of pathetic at the heart of that.
Stable Diffusion already includes a GPT-type language model - that's what's understanding your text prompt.
> I am reading the spec, discussing online and trying to understand the subject better, what is wrong with that? I said I might be wrong _multiple times_, and its genuine.

I encourage you to reread the comment I replied to again and see if it has the tone of someone “trying to learn” or rather something different.

> I don't regret a single thing, I love being actually proven wrong.

Me too!
history of 19th century physics is fascinating; big questions that took a really long time to resolve, often because the right answer defied common sense

the guy who in 1901 developed the double-slit experiment, actually a single paper card back then, created a mystery that lasted at least a century, if not until today. (it was the same guy who decoded the rosetta stone, weirdly).

In a large way the project of the century was understanding the elements, separating them and measuring their weights. I think constantly about this 1870s essay by an important geochemist asking 'are the elements elementary'[1]. It is nearly poetry (to me at least).

the key observations coevolved with the math, so sometimes experiment led (someone put a wire near a compass and the compass moved), other times the math led. (As in the 20th century, when lasers were a numeric phenomenon before anyone thought to build one). Maxwell's math feels to me like it's at the center of it all. A 20th century physicist, Wigner, has an essay about the 'unreasonable effectiveness of math in science'.

maxwell's equations predict a speed limit for light, and were largely intact in einstein. (the speed of light was known experimentally way before this from eclipse observations, I think). you could say that maxwell + electron research + planck led naturally to einstein, and there's no reason someone's annus mirabilis couldn't have been 50 years earlier other than that it took this long to think of these ideas.

if there's any takeaway from this history it's that big questions, if you sink your teeth into them, lead to big answers

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=CSIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA463
Which of these do you think ACU's NEXT project is pursuing?
Agreed, but that's not what I'm annoyed by here.
Ah, #jeopardy brings back a lot of great memories. Met a lot of great people back in the day playing that on irc.

Canter and Siegel- two names that don’t mean much to people nowadays but that was a turning point in the “spam” industry.

I still have my copy of the Whole Internet Catalog on my bookshelf. It’s a great reminder of where we’ve come from. I’ll have to share it with my kids some day.

Thanks for the trip back memory lane.
What is mva? Oh basically watts?
That is ok. Feminist stuff is allowed otherwise Google will be labelled as bigot racist. That scared them even more then law enforcement.
Your doubt is absolutely reasonable.

I think it's also reasonable to trust Apple to actually implement the security and privacy features they claim to, because those features are a part of their product, which means their incentives are clearly aligned, and there is some professional auditing being done.

I think it's even more reasonable to have a relative preference for Apple products, when compared to Google products, because Google's incentives are clearly perversely aligned against user privacy.

Even so, the fact that AOSP can be readily audited by literally anyone does create a more provable reason to trust devices running Android. This does, unfortunately, have some serious limitations, like the fact that most Android devices can only run whatever closed-source AOSP fork the manufacturer flashes on it, and Android is considered generally incomplete without the closed-source Google Play store and its associated apps.
startup valuation milestones are based on how well you can communicate why/how you will win to the next set of investors, what your next set of risks are and how a few more data points remove them and extrapolate to an inevitable future business. present cash flows don’t matter, only future cash flows do. we can only invest in what we understand, so more clarity = more prospective investors = more competition for your round. traction numbers are super helpful to communicate that certain risks are cleared but are not necessary early if your story of how/why you will win quickly is crystal clear without them. this applies from concept stage all the way to public cos like Tesla.
Sampling has been part of music for a few decades now. That presents all the copyright issues you could want.
> Could anyone seriously imagine an x86-based phone?

> ... Atom?

Indeed! The Motorola RAZR i was Atom-powered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_RAZR_i
Not really for the likes of Fanny Mendelssohn.
I think one of the reasons I like working on the backend more is that every once in a while, you get to do a clean sweep and throw away layers of abstraction. You can work on some app with Ruby on Rails and then load librarys on top of that and then load libraries on top of those that monkeypatch the original libraries... but nothing stops you from grabbing one particular critical API call and reimplementing it in a raw http.Handler in Go that spews simple SQL straight to your DB, sweeping away half-a-dozen layers of abstraction in one fell swoop, or whatever similar story you like to tell. The backend's responsibility ends with delivering the correct bytes in response to some HTTP message and it doesn't matter how you get there.

The frontend... well... the equivalent is technically there, if you are willing and able to work with the grain of the browser. When I'm left to my own devices I can successfully front-end a lot of things with just some basic Javascript and some simple HTML. But it doesn't tend to scale, and it really doesn't scale if you've got some manager who loves that prototype of the calendar selector you did (that was just the browser widget), but really needs these three bullet points that are impossible to do with the native widget so now you're pulling in a library to provide a framework that provides the backbone of the actual widget that does the job and there's simply no other practical alternative because, what, are you going to spend six weeks implementing it yourself instead? No. Of course not.

It's not that the front end never drops a layer of abstraction. jQuery was pretty successfully dropped, to cite one specific example. But you don't ever get that clean sweep, because that's just... too clean a sweep to satisfy any manager or designer.
GATE, but with M140 ATACMS, drones, and more competency. Also, no fan service because everyone involved with that in the real show dies in the initial shock and awe bombing.
> The license removes that liability

As you evidently know, that's the defining characteristic of a license: it removes criminal or civil liability for an otherwise illicit act. For example a Barber's license permits a person to hold a knife to someone's throat without it being assault, modulo some additional conditions. So much for generalities.

To the specifics, you look to be quite well informed on this particular matter. Are you saying that someone that has assets in Tornado that they cannot otherwise cash out without violating sanctions can lawfully sell them to a licensee, but nobody else? Because if so that sounds like a wonderful buying opportunity for the licensee. Or is getting a license trivially easy, such that anyone with assets legally tied up can just go through a TSA pre level process to establish that they're not an international terrorist drug dealing child trafficker, or whatever activity these sanctions are meant to discourage?
More commonly, these are simply different matters, and the different parts of Government that handle them don't care.

Even more generally, governments ruled by laws do not care in the sense that they do not, as a system, carry grudges and the like. A government contract is awarded by tender, for which there are rules. And unless you have exactly the same people handling two issues, there's just no mechanism for any interest to bend the rules to be transmitted from one group of people to the other.

There are sometimes cracks in this system, but even those are somewhat formalized: "buy American" rules, for example. There are also rules that apply to government contractors but not businesses operating in the private sector exclusively, such as higher minimum wages, enhanced environmental protection, or union requirements. The reason here is that these can be instituted by the executive alone, without the legislative.

But punishing a single company just because they're taking an issue to court? That'd be consider rather corrupt. It's also silly: there are thousands of lawsuits between governments and private businesses every year. Every single Fortune 500 is probably involved in a few dozens at any given time.
namedpipes didn't work on linux last I checked, but that's fairly insignificant.
Anyone can see what amount of money one address has put into Tornado Cash, so it’s no surprise that we can estimate how much money North Korea has put in. The whole reason they do put that money in, though, is so that they can have a different account take that money out, and have it not be clear where the money came from. For a sanctioned country, that output seems much more spendable.
> Tons of code converting back and forth between ints. Code was a mess.

Never experienced this myself, it’s trivial in all the languages I can think of. Sometimes you have multiply or divide by 1000 if JavaScript is involved.

I always prefer Unix epoch time. What was the language and stack causing the mess so I know to avoid it?
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I'm not American, nor a lawyer, but this seems like a cut and dry First Amendment issue. Glad Matt is going to put up the fight.
Haha, right on. I love me some Indian food, and there's ten different Indian "restaurants" near me, all located at the same address. I looked it up on Google Maps, and it's basically a hole-in-the-wall restaurant space that can barely hold one restaurant, never mind ten. Yet Grubhub et al. don't seem to care one way or another
I think it's more interesting to see HN's past discussion from 2015:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9244240

Some key take away:

- A lot of people got it wrong with the bet on Intel.

- 2 people that said it will take 5 years were right.

- Suggestion to use Rosetta was right.

- Indicator for fan less Macbooks was right.

It's easy to doubt but it actually takes effort to form educated guesses about the future.
A new study shows how much social capital matters
No connection to the car's systems is needed; so nothing in the car is likely to help. Not in the sense of a "check engine" idjit light, anyhow. "sniffer" sensors for explosives exist, but they don't cover all the possible chemicals and your car carries a good amount of potentially explosive fuel with it anyway.
There's a link to try it out, quite buried in the blog post: https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion
I feel like C screwed up cross-compilation so badly that people think it is hard for some reason. Which it obviously isn't. The Virgil compiler just includes all of its backends in builds for all of its hosts. There's nothing special about the host machine.
Looks like someone didn't read the link because that thread it's already acknowledged in it.
Microsoft owns GitHUB and you're talking about GitLAB and those are different things.
I only remembered it because recently I pulled an old android tablet out of a junk drawer, installed CPU-Z on it, and scratched my head for a moment about why it said “x86” as the architecture…

I then remembered why it was in the junk drawer.
> Where are the dreams about flying cars and great cities? Robots serving us while we spend our lives at the beach?

I'm surprised you're more upset about your kids knowing they have no future than that somebody sold your kids future.
There has actually been a lot of that showing up in my google search results for the past few years… there are thousands of sites out there that were created by scraping news articles and blog posts and replacing random words with thesaurus alternatives.

The results vary from incomprehensible to some kind of uncanny valley “is this just…really terrible writing or am I having a brain problem?” territory.

I’ve actually encountered lively discussions of these sorts of cloned articles with nary a mention of the weird writing.

With what we’ve seen from AI text and image generators recently, it’s only going to get weirder soon.
"Challenging the government" doesn't make sense there, because the government never ordered anyone to take down the source code.

Microsoft just did some risk management and decided that it's not worth it to keep their own users data. I find it quite interesting that someone puts Github's management in a difficult situation. Are they gonna terminate Prof Green's account too? Are they gonna hunt down every copy of the source code on Github? Are they giving high-profile users a special treatment?

Looking forward to how this plays out.
As someone else has stated elsewhere in this discussion, I don't think GitHub have much to worry about. Tornado Cash the service was sanctioned, and MS would choose to censor the repo out of an abundance of caution.
In the same way that the pair that open-sourced the ransomware PoC didn't get arrested because they are further away from the offenses.

I have mixed thoughts on safe harbor for centralised exchanges, they are the closest thing we have to banks in cryptoland. Mostly because with grey areas like that, a prosecution is only going to be pursued with clear evidence they knew but did nothing.
The next step in this, of course, is Spotify just generating music on the fly algorithmically based on your choices. Skip the middleman, so to speak. Maybe it is Spotify behind it?
Well they don't have to break TLS if they can man in the middle everything and force browsers to use a CA they control.
People now go out instead of quarantine and gaming, crypto market crashing, and ETH will go to PoS soon.
We've had several.

• Mountain Lion / Mavericks

• El Capitan

• High Sierra

Yes, these releases had new features, but so did Snow Leopard. Behind the scenes there was grand central dispatch, and in front there was QuickTime X, App Exposé, and Exchange support.

I also happen to think Snow Leopard is overrated, its legacy largely due to the fact that Lion was really bad.

This isn't to say Apple shouldn't do another polish release. They're overdue for one.
With the success of AI content generation for text (GPT-3 etc.) and images (DALL-E etc.), it seems inevitable that music will soon be targeted as well, if not already.

What's particularly interesting in the music sphere is that there are already well-established trends towards building a sort of ambient, atmospheric, generated soundscape. (For example, the famous "Lo-Fi girl" stream.) AI-generated content is a very natural progression here.

Regarding the broader pop music industry, a "GPT-3 for music" would likely further inequalize the relative power of labels and musicians. If people who control music distribution can easily make hit songs without needing to hire songwriters, arrangers, or performers, they surely will do so. I can imagine a lot of music-related occupations potentially having to pivot to rely much more heavily on live performances to make any money.
Why would it need to? If Monero transactions can't meet AML/KYC compliance (they can't), then exchanges in the US can't serve as an offramp for Monero/USD transactions. Isn't that sufficient?
Annoyingly, I thought about doing this a few minutes into the outage and then said: "Nah... they'll fix it pretty quickly".

Five hours later I finally made the change. UGH.
Conversely, when I was in Iran some 10-15 years ago, a few people mentioned wanting to be bombed/ freed from the government by the US. Our taxi driver in particular seemed to have a rosy mental image of what was going on in Afghanistan, which was quite surprising.
I believe a bunch of Usenet archives are available for download from archive.org. I remember when google gobbled up dejanews but I think that’s no longer online?
ah it's gobar gas, I kept searching for bogar gas in futility just like 2 days ago from an idea an Indian colleague of mine shared with me some 10 years ago. Seems like bio-gas has become the preferred term for this technique.
It's illegal in other countries, Canada and Australia are especially uptight about it.
> The standard way to test material's resistance to molten salt is to put a coupon in a crucible full of salt for a few hundred hours.

Q: What is a coupon in this context?
Capital Records just signed an AI rapper: https://www.xxlmag.com/fn-meka-virtual-rapper-signs-major-la...
Nominatim requires a lot of resources for full planet installs. I'd recommend looking into Pelias or Photon instead. They're both amazing. Headway has used both of them at various points. Photon is definitely easier to set up for the planet, though, you can just download a pre-computed search index from GraphHopper and you're good to go.
I'm happy to tell anyone who thinks this way that THEY should bugger off.

A random movie reference can be expected to not caught by anyone more than 10 years different from you in age, or who is from a different culture. You will also miss some mavericks like me who really don't care much about a lot of popular culture.

If you value matching on those criteria over, say, knowing about something interesting, then I'm happy to ignore you.
Please get the mental help you need and stop visiting Kiwifarms
Not all problems require software engineers. Just having someone to filter the appropriate problem to the appropriate person is sufficient. For example,

> but also slashed our corporate card limits with no explanation and refused to restore them despite our bank writing letters supporting our position.

Even a response stating “we do not have the capacity to resolve your issue” is acceptable.

Getting black holed or wasting hours of customers’ time in phone trees and getting passed around is not acceptable.
I don't see why you can't add guardrails to things like subpoenas -- it's not like they are allowed to engage in aggressive subpoenaing of non digital info without a due process procedure, just make the digital one more rigorous. The issue lies in the flawed execution of the current legal system, so fix that instead of taking a hatchet to big tech.

>Google makes most of its money on ads that don't really need aggressive tracking, like ads for toasters when you search "toaster" or ads for other car brands when you search "Ford SUV." Arguably, the tracking might hurt their system since they try to produce fully personalized results for you.

A very non trivial subset of their revenue is personalized ads, and I promise you they work pretty well; if you don't believe me I recommend taking a job on the ads team. This is a huge revenue hit, for a company that's consistently putting that money into product innovations as well as societally important moonshot projects, all in order to side step the issue of your concerns with the American justice system's subpoena process.

>it would be very likely that Comcast would bundle a Google subscription into your cable plan the way they do for entertainment products.

If you're a SWE you probably have coworkers raised in India. Ask them how likely they would have been able to afford such a subscription system and by extension how much worse their life would be if they didn't have access to Google. I would bet a substantial fraction of them would still be in India and not software engineers.

>This kind of cognitive distortion is traditionally addressed with laws: social security, healthcare mandates

We have healthcare mandates and social security because if a person has no money and is out in the street or gets health care and then can't pay, it's society's problem. If you get nailed by the government for doing something illegal due to invasive subpoenas, it's not only not society's problem, depending on your opinions on the role of the state this is a feature not a bug.
I recall reading an article on HN a while ago about how recipe/cooking blogs are basically becoming just that—centrally run networks of independently branded sites that just serve to drive clicks on affiliate links. But then again, I can't find that link, so it's probably a conspiracy theory I just made up
This is a middlebrow dismissal. From what I can see this article played out exactly as predicted, and the idea that NeXTSEP rans on multiple architectures in the 90s is just half-assed retconning. In 2014 the conventional wisdom was that Intel was best-in-class and would remain dominant.

Per the other thread, I'm not seeing the storyline that the author is arguing that Mac OS will run on ARM but still be first class on Intel architecture. We can assume that is not the case because Apple doesn't half-ass their transitions.

Please highlight what you think the prediction got wrong so we can talk about that specifically.
Electrical currents to the brain improve memory for older adults