skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'm very interested in Free Speech and the immorality of censorship, so I will take this.

First, I will point out that almost no government, ever and everywhere, isn't full to the core with corruption and lying, like a decaying and rotten fruit left for weeks in a garbage dump.

Some Westerners are deluded with the strange thought that it somehow makes a difference that those who are bamboozling them do it through convoluted interlocking systems of protocols and processes, commonly called Democracy, and not through brute force or other such barbarous means.

From a dispassionate analysis of raw results, however, considering just the outside blackbox behaviour of a country without reference to its internal algorithms and data structures, almost every single thing China or Russia can do to a citizen, USA and Canada and UK And Germany can (and does), just maybe not as frequently and not as publicly (yet).

This rather large caveat\objection aside, I will take the question at face value : what can a (supposedly benevolent) government do in the face of outside propaganda? A lot.

First, propaganda is easy, especially when you're a government. If a foreign country is paying X to propagandize your citizens, you can afford to pay 10X, discounted by all the natural advantages you have when you're propagandizing your own citizens (same language and culture, official capacity to make and enforce laws, privileged position when dealing with media outlets, etc..., you literally rule). Indeed, for the same reason that religions always need a devil and revolutions always need enemies, the foreign propaganda might be a boon to you, a thing to rally against in your own propaganda, food for your propaganda artists.

Second, talk is cheap, and the vast majority of people would rather rage than do anything in real life. So, let propaganda fester, like a harmless fever. This an unfortunate effect of large human populations, known at the smaller scales as the bystander effect. In essence, everybody just says "not my problem" and just keeps shouting (if they do even that), hoping for someone else to actually do something, but everybody is thinking like that so nothing really gets done. This is bad for the people, but it's good for governments, it means most Free Speech is harmless. (which is bad news for any serious Free Speech advocate, because the goal isn't Free Speech in and of itself, but Free Expression, which starts with Free Speech but must end with Free Action. But again, this is all normative land, in actual material fact, most Free Speech is pure thunder without lightning or rain, and nobody loses anything by allowing it unless what they're hiding is truly egregious.)

Finally, returning to the first caveat again, maybe just fuck you, the government? Maybe the foreign government is actually correct and the citizens should revolt and create unrest and become ungovernable till their demands are met?

In summary, don't worry about the poor little governments, they can manage very well, with all the monopoly on violence and money printing and whatnot.
* is exponentiation

⍳ is range 0…n–1

÷ is reciprocal of everything to its right

×/ is product of everything to its right

+/ is sum of everything to its right
I only see the monthly releases :o

though looking at the history the number of recovery (point) releases have increased a lot

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases
And where you live is better?
I use NextDNS but I don't use it for adblock because if it breaks a website (which happens) I need a quick way around it that isn't a DNS change. I suppose I could use another browser that uses DNS over HTTPS via Cloudflare but I've chosen Firefox and uBlock origin. I use NextDNS to block actual websites like Twitter, Reddit and occasionally HN. It is nice to support a company that provides configurable DNS.
FWIW git has recently reorganised their docs a lot, and moved some things to man pages.

The pack format docs were one of the documents affected, it now lives at https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitform....
It used to be documented really well and Arch has a good entry about it too:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_GVT-g

Not sure if you were thinking of something else, but both NVIDIA and AMD could really approve in this regard. There is no reason to limit sharing your GPU across VMS except to primarily limit platforms.
"Climate" typically refers to mean weather over decadal periods .. weather cycles such as El Niño | La Niña collectively make up a longer term climate condition that's been stable on average for thousands of years.

>> The climate changes daily . . .

Perhaps you're thinking of "weather".
I actually appreciated to read this article in full on HN. People should do that more often…
I'd submit that this is not adequate, because it allows for too much bias towards that which you already believe to be true; and to too-easily reject that which does not already fit in with your preconceptions. Actively falsifying claims you already believe is pretty key. Doing that on your own is essential. It's difficult, especially if you're embedded within a social context that believes "the other side" is stupid at best.
>always convert to big endian when sending data over a wire

What is this awful advice. Only convert to big-endian where legacy demands it.
But it's leaps and bounds more private than any VPN including this (no shade on these guys, if I ever need a VPN that isn't tor, I'll choose them). E

To me, comparing tor's privacy features against normal VPN is like comparing a jet plane to a tricycle
Who the hell is emad
Old Pratchett joke.
> Don’t pick something that needs a pretty UI

For frontend engineers, should the advice be the opposite: "Pick something that needs good UI/UX"?
Crazy & Inspiring! Way to go, Angad
So if I understand this correctly, "a + b" is syntactic sugar for "a.+(b)" (modulo the exact name of the method)?
python optimizedSD/optimized_txt2img.py --device cpu --precision full --prompt "…" --H 512 --W 512 --n_iter 1 --n_samples 1 --ddim_steps 50
Well, I agree that some technologies do justify themselves by creating more jobs/roles than they take (I think you're overstating the number of people making a living as social media streamers/influencers though). But the question is whether AI art specifically is going to do that, or if it will simply remove jobs and not add any back. People might still buy books and train themselves, but if the demand for art can't scale up, they won't be able to find good jobs or creative fulfillment.
Simon–Ehrlich Wager
"Emoji Rain" made me feel good.
The title is slightly misleading. Swimming pools are not hidden. They are undeclared for tax purpose. AI finds these pools from aerial images so that they can be taxed along with the houses.
That is such a refresh. I have used the highest-spec i9/i7 Macbooks at work with 32GB of RAM and they would always, always get incredibly noisy and hot for even the basic things. One of them couldn't live for more than two years because of that.
True.

But the fact that the way the story was told (the structure of the story) as well as the characters psychology was very "modern".

For example, I think I can't like japanese literature (for the few I've read) because of their weird way of telling stories [0]. So I would have expected something older and less "cosmopolitan" to be harder to get into... Well perhaps the translator took some "freedom" by modernizing it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishotenketsu
Bit fields in C are notoriously non-portable (exact physical layout depends on the compiler). Is Zig any better (apart from the fact that there is only one Zig compiler for now)?
Azure Europe is currently experiencing DNS problems
Ive used "the most dangerous writing app" extensively to just blurt out what the idea is. It has a timer set and if you stop typing before the timer ends, it will just delete everything you wrote. You can set word limits too. Ilove this tool
When publishing an ebook, you set a different price (usually a multiple) for libraries.
Coincidentally also a good tool for managing the access to the meat space.
Thanks! good to know!
> Here, we have a decent selection of ISPs, and the industry is tightly regulated by OFCOM.

The may be the perception because stats show otherwise:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Interne...

The Uk is doing pretty bad.
Mullvad is pretty much the only VPN provider saying the right things and doing the right things. They actually publish open source code and articles backing up their statements.

Ontop of that many of us here in Sweden know people at Mullvad and can attest to them being conscious of privacy issues.
It is very imperfect, I would say
Conversely, I wouldn't want to go to a doc who doesn't know how to Google basic stuff.
A craft you can't earn money on is called a hobby. I have a lot of hobbies I don't earn a dime on. Why would art be any different?
So if the majority of a country vote in a party on their discriminatory position towards minorities, that's all well and good? Legal, sure, but is that ok?
I wonder what you all think of this, in light of that:

https://qbix.com/blog/2019/03/08/how-qbix-platform-can-chang...
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Windsor Chairmaking in Tasmania
Completely right, but my point is it's the review sites / honeypots that move the needle on whether people will choose A over B, not A or B out-bidding each other in Google Ads.
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It was clear that more people will now demand content not be served by Cloudflare. I think it started with the daily stormer? Cloudflare now has a lot harder case to defend their neutrality, which is most valuable for such a service or a healthy net.

Not a fan of the daily stormer obviously, but I would have preferred to keep an eye on it myself. They were at the lowest point when they tried to groom my little pony fans and were completely unsuccessful here. This is a game where others are much better at. We could have left it at that.

These activist or researchers might mean well, but they have lost perspective and are driven by fear and moral panics. If they would address state propaganda it would be another story, but the study as it is isn't particularly useful to shine light on problems. There being less and less counterweights that can be trusted for example. If large platforms censor content on behest of executive agencies it is far more relevant than some crackhead putting their opinion on the net.

North Korea obviously has another definition of misinformation. A bit of reflection on the problem should lay bare the pitfalls of censoring content. Funnily the problem of misinformation started to grow exponentially since we started to do censor. Of course that would begin with content nearly everyone has a problem with. Like the daily stormer. It will go on for political candidates, medical and financial information... This will escalate endlessly if providers like Cloudflare cannot defend against the complainers.

study:
https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/19292/1906...

James Ball:
"A decision to keep serving a customer is a decision to help them get their content out."

I think Mr. Ball actually shares some views of people writing for the Daily Stormer. Guilt comes with far association. Maybe a more objective critique is appropriate, but that would require effort from both parts.
> So the Justice Department broke up AT&T, then allowed them to effectively reform decades later, and somehow that proves that regulation doesn't work...

I fail to see how this is proof that regulation doesn't work. Perhaps proof that America fails to apply anti-trust laws aggressively enough. The DOJ, if it chose to, could do a hell of a lot here on its own, if it wanted to.

Hell, imagine if AT&T had just gotten nationalized outright! Every other developed nation in the world built out its internet infrastructure thanks to national structures, the post office is a public thing... obviously a bit late in the game now but nice to think about.

Not to mention that mandating peering agreements is also regulation! I do agree that peering agreements are a very good and reasonable solution for when something is already built out though.
Stable diffusion is impressive, but still is a subset of what one _can_ imagine.
> They just need to learn how to choose better content sites.

Just terrible advice. You're saying I should train my grandma to get her news on just some "safer" website instead of giving the entire ad industry the middle finger and installing uBlock?

If we adblock users are paranoid, some of you go through some serious mental gymnastics not to admit the modern ad-riddled web is awful to use.
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Given where Canada is and what we have, this is our perfect place. We have never needed to be a superpower, and we don't have the population base nor the geography. Our economy is resource based, and most everything centres around that, so more efficiency rather than innovation is needed.

We have a reasonably high quality standard of living and output. Not every nation needs to be a testosterone driven "we're #1".
I don't have experience with this area, but...

> this would require that unions can work on the 'bit level' in packed structs

Just as Zig has packed structs, it also has packed unions. So that part shouldn't be an issue.
I think the word is industrialized, not civilized. India and China have been industrialized for a much shorter time.
I think the author is making some huge generalisations here.

"Don’t pick something that needs a pretty UI": What if I'm really skilled in UI dev and have a good visual eye? Or a friend happy to do some free mockups?

"In-person sales are very weird for the developer personality": there is no one developer personality, I wouldn't rule this out at all.

"You don’t want to be going around talking to actual humans.": this is almost never going to work for a startup. Actually talking to people (users, clients, integration partners) is probably the most important thing you can do as a founder.
More precisely, "During 2022, Rep. nonincumbent challengers shared news that came from unreliable sources 45% of the time, which is almost 8 times as much as Rep. incumbents".

While the phenomenon remains quite interesting and of concern, methodology remains to be noted: the discriminator for "good and bad" information is NewsGuard, and apart from a number of indirect indicators (e.g. clear labelling of advertisement) the main one remains a second-grade flat "«Does not repeatedly publish false content»", which has the usual weakness: determining falsehood is generally non-trivial. Of course for trivial cases it is - denying some facts would be pythonesque farce. But for non-trivial cases (which is most of them), it has become frequent to find unduly simplification replacing "strongly corroborated" with "denying that would be false" - and this grossery is a flashing light eliciting distrust. You do not trust those who label "true" what is "apparently plausible over some threshold". And such vice can be found in the very page of the Washington Post.

The actual piece of info seems to be "Nonincumbent Rep.s share news from disreputed sources".
But it never has been about art?
HDMI ?! Now that's news.

I have a Windows laptop currently for Adobe though. It still runs fine, and since 32GB seems to push me back by another 500 bucks or so, I am still contemplating whether to go any higher than 16GB. Would the 16 gigs be okay for Mobile development? I frequently go over or get in the red zone for my 16GB Windows laptop with Android Studio, and Node along with some debugging tools.
Not quite. If the parent manages a child’s access to the internet, then they are quite smart about their approach. That makes them no longer a tool.
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>Don't think to implement, implement to think.

No matter how much I plan out the process/code, once I actually start coding I think of new edge cases, issues, and often better solutions.
I’m old enough to remember when the Square CEO campaigned for the gross receipts tax. It was the tech industry’s idea.[1]

Bonus points for saying “hobo”!

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/SF-Citi-video-plugs-...
They're not providing a regulated utility though and it's not like the harassment was occasional and dealt with on the customer end. At this point cloudflare is aware their customer basically exists to provide space for organising that kind of behaviour. And they know they're the provider of choice because they enable that service to exist. That's effectively the same as backing.

They helped prevent law enforcement being involved too https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1485731108822077443 - they actually spent money on lawyers to protect that customer.

They're not legally forced to act here. They're just bad people for not doing it.
Admittedly from the article: "used two separate anonymity tools to cover his tracks — the routing service Tor, which covered his web traffic, and the temporary mail service Guerrilla Mail, which offered a one-time email"

Then they noticed that "that the originating IP address would have been revealed in the email header, which would have indicated Tor usage"

And from there "agents checked to see if anyone had accessed Tor through the local wireless networks. That led them to <culprit>, who promptly confessed."

Doesn't sound like they even had to engage with Tor infrastructure or Guerrilla Mail backends, just 'hmmm did a student use Tor, oh some did, let's check them out in full FBI livery' which freaked the kid out and he confessed.

It's easy to check if an IP is a Tor exit node, but unless you happen to also have egress logs it's still a thornier problem to de-anonymize without heavy resources.
If you're a designer, pick something that needs to look good

If you're a UX person and have access to a pool of people to do user testing with: pick something that needs good UX

Those two are somewhat at odds with each other, and neither is really the job description of a typical frontend engineer (though of course some frontend engineers are good at one or both)
Regarding a dedicated person to handle the CI, here is my experience.

In the small company I am working now, I had setup a adhoc deployment script that was working fine, took less than 5min (with no user interaction) on my dev PC.
Since it is not a SaaS, our release cycle was a bit slower than wanted, 1 or 2 times per month, depending on circumstances.

A guy was hired and he wanted to speed this up. I explained clearly that the build/deploy script was not the cullprit of the "slow" release cycle. It takes time to decide was is ready for production, write a nice changelog for users (not just collecting git messages), testing on the custom hardware...

That is why it took me an hour to half a day when the boss said: we need a release today.
The above guy was justifying its work by: "After I am done, you will just need to put a tag and the rest will be automatic". I could not convince my boss this was fantasy land.

Result 3 years later: we have a "nice" CI which rebuild the world several times per day. But we are doing maximum 2 official releases per year, with much more stress. We had a few "releases" which needed very urgent hot-fixes because of last-minute changes and not enough testing on hardware.

And the CI person is constantly tweaking bits of the CI (it has become part of his job), breaking thing here and there.

I long for the old days...
Hi HN!

I’m Mathias, the founder of Adless.

A bit of additional info about Adless:

- Currently it’s just me and I’ve and bootstrapped Adless to this point over the last months.

- It’s not crypto. Adless is about finding a more consumer-friendly solution to the problem of Internet monetization, not experimenting with new technologies. My stance is that implementation details can change later if we find product-market fit and decide that a crypto-based solution offer an overall superior technology for the problem.

- Instead of focusing on privacy-by-technology, the focus is on achieving privacy-by-policy and ultimately privacy-by-business-model.

- I have long wanted to explore this problem because I hate how ads manipulate me (and in particular my child) but I also do not particularly enjoy what stand-alone subscriptions are doing in terms of accessibility of content (+ there is no chance I’m making that many subscriptions). And with concepts like “metaverse” being pushed, I think it is more urgent than ever to explore alternatives to ads (and generally data-dependent revenue models) as the primary way of financing the decentralized Internet.

- The typical subscription sales channel will be via content creator partners websites, so you will not find a strong consumer-focused sales channel directly on adless.net, although you can obviously subscribe from there.