skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are talking about different documents. I mention the privacy policy, which contains a "leaky" wording, likely unintentionally. You mention the audit report that plugs the leak and confirms that Mullvad protects customer data even better than written in their privacy policy.
We aren’t doing that
Fortunately, the difficult cases like 17-year-olds aren't the primary target of age verification efforts. ;D
How did it come for doctors? AI is only useful in narrow applications like radiology and spotting things that are off, maybe radiology techs get displaced?

The hollowing out of primary care via midlevels e.g NPs and PAs is interesting however. They are fighting for the ability to diagnose and prescribe meds and see patients without physician oversight, largely driven by pressures to reduce costs by politicians and big insurance companies.
The west is definitely to blame for GW. Look up cumulative historical emissions before spewing bs on the internet.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1224630/cumulative-co2-e...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1282760/cumulative-histo...
Publishing some less than perfect code doesn't mean failure. No one writes perfect code. All code has bugs and fails, and all code will offend someone's ideas of the "right" way to do it or how your code should look or whatever. Ignore that, do your best, accept criticism and feedback. If you publish code that someone else finds useful in any way you haven't failed.
"Not my problem. My kids and grandkids, though."
You're upset that people who aren't doing anything illegal, but that you disagree with, are allowed to have free speech and privacy too?
That's extremely clever code, yes, and the implementation is "elegant" in the sense that it compresses a concept down to its essence, and casts that essence in code, using a language that is uniquely suited to expressing the structure of the underlying idea.

It's terrible code from a software engineering perspective though. The readability is roughly that of x86 Assembly. The density obfuscates what is actually happening. If someone opened a pull request containing one of these function implementations, I would probably assume they're trying to insert a backdoor somehow. Either way, I'd never accept code like this.

Great code is simple and clear in a human sense, not just minimal in a conceptual or computational sense.
This is true, but there can be advantages to having 32 cores over 16, depending on your workload.
It's fun to think about. I think it would be hard to make the most of the money and have a great lifestyle while keeping a low profile and not getting caught.

It costs a lot less than $10M if you want to move to Thailand and live off-grid in some remote area. You can probably do that for a lot less than $100,000, including a Thailand Elite Visa. If that's part of your plan, then just hold onto the money and earn interest, or maybe give it back and hope for a reward. Or just save up the money normally, it's not that much.

I wonder if it's still possible to change your identity in a developed country. Maybe you could move to a new country and start using a fake passport to establish your new identity over time. But I think that stopped being possible sometime in the 90s or early 2000s.

I found it stressful enough just to move to a new country and get a visa legally. I can't imagine also worrying about getting extradited and sent to prison at any moment. Sounds like a terrible life. I wouldn't keep the money.

EDIT: Just reading some of the other replies, and wow, there are some genius criminals in here. Maybe I would take the money!
Couldn't you have drawn it in Paint, and then scanned the drawing on your computer?
So I made this comment quickly, I didn't expand on the last bit, which is what I think is key to understanding my argument. Basically, the required piece that makes art a social process is feedback, both from other artists and consumers (the public, in the past, patrons), basically whether they like, whether they talk about, whether it stays in the social conscious both for good and bad reasons, etc. Feedback performs the culling. That part thus requires other people, and cannot be reproduced within a black box currently, because you'd otherwise need to model an entire civilization's reaction to art, which is a coupled system which feeds back onto itself. Modelling very large, complex systems is a challenge still, for both traditional modelling (I happen to be a computational scientist) and for AI. AI has picked off some bits but it struggles in other domains. I feel like at this point, arguing "AI will get better at modelling complex systems" is similar to people who say "weather modelling with get better eventually," people really underestimate the difficulty with rounding out the last 10% of the problem.

Anyway, assuming you cannot model "society's reaction to art" in a black box, I think the only way to help refine DALL-E or other future AI systems is to "put humans back into the loop." You already see AI "extrapolating" from the dataset, and more often than not (which you expect from mere statistics) the results are ugly mistakes that AI researchers are trying to "fix", some examples of which the article lampoons as a draw back of DALL-E itself. The thing is creating "ugly" and having those pieces be culled is what is done by the external social process in art I'm referring to already. In this way, DALL-E doesn't replace art or artists, it just becomes another actor in the space, being subject to the same feedback that other artists are. You haven't really replaced artists, you have just added another competitor, so to speak.

Anyway, I went on a monologue, but one last thing I will say, I really think people making this argument seriously underestimate the size of the codomain of "possible styles humans might find appealing," especially since that set changes over time (that is, over the centuries of human history). I really don't know how someone can look at all of human history and think that "nothing new under the sun" really limits the size of that set. Just because a set is finite doesn't mean its "small." Cardinality of sets concerns things mathematicians make up in their heads, not things in the real world that require finite time to consider, count, process, etc.
I guess I could imagine a piano that is 53/12 times the size of a current piano, but I wouldn't want to have to play it :)
Packed structs in Zig make bit/flag sets trivial
I have a question for someone very interested in freedom of speech and censorship.

We know that geopolitical adversaries weaponize narratives to cause destabilization of the body politic of other nations. We know that the internet and social media have exploded in popularity in the last 20 years, giving 'foreign actors' unprecedented access to citizens.

What should a government of a 'free' nation do to counter that destabilization or those weaponized narratives?
Mullvad spends money on open source development and is actively trying to increase privacy technology and being transparent what their servers run.

Sure you can never prove anything 100% but VPN providers can still make moves that make them more or less credible.
Maybe I should remind you of the actual words in the gp comment.

> Let's take your first point for example. If I go on Fox News right now and search for articles about the 2020 election being stolen, I get plenty of articles and opinions talking about it. How exactly was it censored, and how is it comparable to censorship in China?

You have conveniently pivoted to a straw man argument about Covid-19 which was not mentioned.

And there are plenty of people on Facebook talking all sorts of crap about vaccines. If it was so stringently “censored” as you claim, it would be hard for us to argue about - as I would have never heard the anti vaxxers arguments. But good lord, they never shut up- so I’m exceptionally aware of their opinions.
Looks like you missed the point. What’s ‘per-capita’?
The US government hasn't been able to resist censorship entirely. Comedians have been arrested for "obscenity".

There is a federal law on the books against obscenity, but it has never been used to arrest a comedian. Comedians like Lenny Bruce, and Musicians like Jim Morrison have run into trouble with city governments. Bruce was ironically arrested in both San Francisco and New York. Morrison was more expectedly arrested in New Haven.

the Justice Department also briefly banned the Canadian film "If You Love This Planet" for being "foreign political propaganda"

The film was never banned, classifying it as foreign political propaganda meant that before it was shown the audience had to be informed: "This material is prepared, edited, issued or circulated by the National Film Board of Canada, which is registered with the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., under the Foreign Agents Registration Act."
I may be wrong. But OVPN is the only one I know that has actually been proven in court not to store any user activity.

https://www.ovpn.com/en/blog/ovpn-wins-court-order
Pakistan could have prevented this with better water management practices/ more dams along the Indus.
They're all rented out it seems?

https://babylonbee.com/video/i-wish-we-all-could-leave-calif...
Of course it can. Zelle and your bank may not be keen on doing it, but it’s no less reversible than any other transfer.

And for fraudulent transfers, Zelle’s trying to pin them on the customer is them hoping you’d give up rather than remind them that regulation E governs it as well, and they used to acknowledge that on their web site.
Did you read Mullvad plan for System Transparency? They are doing a lot so that they can actually verify where the server is running.
I much prefer the Python code here. The only confusing part is `words` and `WORDS` being used as identifiers, with different semantics. Other than that, the list comprehension syntax looks both clean and clear.
Aren’t paralegals going to get displaced by automated case law cross referencing systems doing the leg work for lawyers? I guess they would want to keep billing the most hours and use slow paralegals, while also using the automated systems to ensure their legal arguments are the best researched.
Apple’s private relay is just CloudFlare WARP with some additional IP blocks + locality built in, not?

I wouldn’t bet on it being super secure in case law enforcement comes after you, for example.
Sure. Apple made a big production about privacy and the Feds made a big production about how they need access to things.

Then they both stopped.

If you need this sort of anonymity, VPNs aren’t the way.
Hence why I said my entire checking account :)

Interestingly enough the amount the scammers “quoted” continually increased as I was on their “recorded line” - it started at $250 or so and kept increasing.

I pretended to be incensed at their lack of integrity, but they just shouted back and eventually resorted to their master insult - calling me a mother fucker. I wish they would come up with some better insults as I’ve been called that exact thing hundreds of times now. Do they teach that at school or something?
Z? Maybe from the russians with their Z symbol[0]? It depends on how recent that Z logging is. And kevin could be a homage to Kevin Mitnick[0]. Or maybe it's common in a certain region? Just my 2 cents.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(military_symbol)

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
Devote your life to saving your parents'..most people are really lazy and don't try that hard.
Since CCPA and this law are both California state legislation, wouldn't the newer law win if no conflict resolution is stated in either law? The conflict with the GDPR will be interesting indeed.
The definition of mistake is quite broad. Not all parties may agree to what is and isn’t, requiring litigation, but the transfer itself isn’t a done deal until a very lengthy process has been exhausted.
I remember being truly shocked when I first read the source code to Dan Bernstein's qmail and djbdns. I had been programming in C forever at that point, but it was so different to anything I had seen before it was a real paradigm shift. Extremely idiosyncratic, but rich with ideas for ways to make software more reliable and secure. For example, because old-school C strings are the source of so many bugs, he created his own string library (stralloc[1]) which was incredibly straightforward to understand and use and avoided all the many many footguns that C strings are prone to.

[1] https://cr.yp.to/lib/stralloc.html
This confirms some of the suspicions I've had after playing with DALL-E for a few months. In the good examples I see from Dall-E, oftentimes the things that it frequently does wrong (face symmetry, hands, feet, limbs) are just missing altogether because they're not needed to produce the prompt. Even in some of the good ones, a lot of elements out of focus seem to get smeared into other objects quite often, or the "smudginess" contributes to its surreal style.

People keep saying that sort of problem with be optimized away, but people often underestimate that when a technology plateaus at a certain point it usually requires a completely new innovation to get past some of the hurdles - not just optimization. It can take decades for those innovations to arrive.

Of course I don't have enough specialized knowledge to know if that's really the case here but it's an observation I've noticed about hyped technologies in my lifetime.
A Brewery’s Anti-Violence Mission, Complicated by a Killing
Beyond sea level rise, how can you prepare for something unpredictable?

From what I've read things will get more extreme. So potentially more rain, but potentially droughts. Potentially higher temperatures, but potentially lower ones as well.

So how do you avoid spending money to prepare for something that may not happen - in fact, the opposite might happen? Spend billions on new flood control, then faced with a decade long drought you didn't prepare for. There isn't enough money to prepare for every possible scenario.

And how do you distinguish being prepared for natural disasters (which happen regardless of climate change) from preparing specifically for climate change?

I mean California making sure they have enough water is just table stakes. Even without climate change they should be doing that (knowing it's naturally a near-desert environment in the Central Valley).
>Counterpoint: as a user, while you realize you hate the frequent changes in UI and workflow -- you're not realizing that you're using software with a much better UI now overall than it would have been if not for the frequent experimentation over the past e.g. 2 years.

CounterCounterPoint: If the software was perfectly functional two years ago, all that can happen with a change, any change, is to make it worse :-)
If the APIs backing the app have changed, then this is better than letting the user deal with the consequences of undefined behaviors.
There's this.

https://www.nacha.org/content/international-ach-transactions...

It still Nacha which is a US institution as you mention. However, I don't see how that protects in the case of a fraudulent overseas transaction. What recourse do you have if an overseas bad actor tricks you into sending money to his overseas account via international ACH?
Yep. A lot of the times I don't care about something, I use the time excuse.
> We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.

Seemingly, the key enemies of fundamental human freedom are wheat and... cats.
Thank you. Based on your modification, I decided to vent the code to improve it a bit. As suggested, syntax code got added in placeholder of the textarea when a page is created. Example here (just an empty page): https://mindwi.se/?testtest

Hope it helps.
Apocalypse Now, a film intended to be anti-war, used Philippine military equipment to stand in for American hardware.

Honestly, with the ubiquity of CGI in film, whether the military choses to participate in a film is hardly a barrier to making a movie.
Okay, then just take, say, van Gogh, and see if you can get it to independently paint The Starry Night (approximately) without having ever seen van Gogh's paintings or anything influenced by him.

Or pick impressionism generally and show that an AI that has only ever seen antecedents to impressionist painters can come up with something similar. It's hard to imagine something like DALL-E being able to do that.
On that topic, I can highly recommend the documentary “Chuck Norris vs. Communism”^[1] about censorship in Romania under Ceaușescu.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2442080/
You just described https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions

The CPU essentially signs running code and API responses using a key that only the CPU manufacturer knows. That way, you can verify that your cloud services are running the binaries you told them to run.

Note the long list of vulnerabilities on that page and the removal of this feature from desktop CPUs. (Let’s be real, its only use case on desktop is DRM)
I did not say "no u," I said you were factually incorrect. You made silly and extraordinary claims without evidence. Don't come asking me for a higher standard than you're willing to uphold yourself.
There was a company called Clean Flicks that did something like what's reported here until they got sued:

https://www.msk.com/newsroom-alerts-2512
Whether or not they would choose it if they could is orthogonal to the fact that they did not and could not choose.
The incentive for dropping a stalking and harassment site from their service is the opportunity to stop providing the services a stalking and harassment site needs to function. Most humans have a sense of morality that influences their actions, which would make this opportunity highly appealing.
> Do we get lost in it?

That is one hypothesis for the fermi paradox, Kardashev scale, and the great filter. At some point all civilizations essentially create infinite dreams/thoughts/Matrix style tech in where we all will retreat inward and have an infinite world to play with and essentially become gods in a virtual reality.
The J-Phone SkyWalker DP-211SW was released by SoftBank on 1 November 1997. NTT's DoCoMo i-mode launched on 22 February 1999.

So while we didn't have modern emoji in the 90s, the seeds were there. At least in Japan.
Who's Hiring Junior Engineers – Edition #1
If I applied this rigorous requirement to all games I purchase then I would have ended up missing out on some of the best games I've ever played. Like Ocarina of Time or Halo.
Here’s the whitepaper: https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Over...

They do two hops, first to an Apple-controlled server, then to the “second relay” which is operated by Cloudflare in a lot of cases. Encryption is terminated at the second relay.

So Cloudflare sees the content (or whatever is visible in a TLS stream), and Apple sees your real IP, but neither can know both without collaboration.
Then it's time to remove beef from your diet.

Less cows = less farts
No doubt the videography is skilled, and well-composed, however I can't help that I get a profound sadness from their videos. It's like an odd dystopia mishmash of characters from a Wes Anderson film and Stepford Wives. Possibly not the target audience here though the music is pleasant.
Europe isn't actually getting series about that. This is mostly just talk.

Europe is neither willing to invest in the rocket technology to make this happen nor has committed to financing of the solar based power or the necessary ground system.

And beyond space based solar is mostly a really bad idea anyway.

But I guess some people in Europe and specially Germany are willing to finance anything other then nuclear.
PIA (Privateinternetaccess) had a similar case: https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-no-logging-...

This was before they were bought by some shady company though, so I wouldn't rely on this policy being unchanged anymore.
They're not locking the account, they're just holding on to your payout until they can fill out the tax form.
Is there any evidence this matters at all?
Can a Particle Accelerator Trace the Origins of Printing?
Invest in relevant technologies

e.g. GPU compute cycle companies (e.g. nvidia/amd/intel/arm/etc..) or invest in cloud compute companies (Amazon/Microsoft/Google/etc..)

Or learn relevant skills and try to have relevant marketable skills. (Always be learning)
India and China have been civilized for much longer than North America.
Orangutans are great apes, not monkeys.
> The point is that facial recognition is not the actual requirement

The requirement is doing something horribly invasive to determine age. We all know it doesn't have to be facial recognition (though this is probably cheapest and least invasive, even though it's still gross).

It's also worth noting that while the bill prohibits entities with significant child audiences from retaining the information, it doesn't appear to extend that limitation to service providers providing age verification services.
It's worth noting that at one point there was an effort to standardise ABIs on Unix-like OSs, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Binary_Compatibility_Sta... although it seems to have mostly been forgotten by the Internet.

(I dug into that a little bit, inspired by a previous article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31456401 )

Four operating systems is under 400 bytes is pretty good!

I have a 26-byte Hello World that works in DOS 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 95, 98, 98se, Me, 2k, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10. If I used CALL 5 I might get down into CP/M-land but possibly miss some of the newer OSs ;-)
Not exactly. WARP hides your content and IP from anyone but the destination website. The website can still track the user. Apple mixed it with own relay such that neither Apple nor Cloudflare can track the IP and content simultaneously.

It’s mostly an anti-tracking feature. But also now government needs cooperation from two companies.

On another note, WARP is a VPN. But Mullvad is preferred to WARP, because Cloudflare most likely logs connections for some time.
> How does that matter.

Someone emitting significantly more GHCs has more room to cut while still maintaining a high standard of living? Someone buring firewood for fuel doesn't really have a lot of other options.