skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A security" is not a concept that exists in nature where you can do a genetic test and figure out if something is a security.

Securities exist only in the context of legal systems and regulators that label things as securities. They have literally no meaning outside of that context.

If you can create a token in a way that either is not clearly in the jurisdiction of one of these bodies or in a way where it is impractical for those bodies to enforce those rules, then people can scream "security" all they want but it's not going to have any practical effect.

There are other ways they can do proxy enforcement and such but if your question is seriously "how can this exist", id say that's a pretty straightforward answer and the potentially interesting question is "what is the framework for preventing this" and "do we have/ are we willing to allocate the resources and manpower to actually do those things"

Until you figure that out, these things will be around
> remove hardware acceleration for decoding video via VA-API

??? They only removed hardware acceleration for patent-encumbered codecs...

And FYI the most popular streaming sites (Netflix, YouTube, PrimeVideo, etc...) all use royalty-free codecs (AV1, VP9) so won't be affected...
FDA approves cultivated meat in the United States for the first time
>Somehow the SEC can’t even win a case against XRP which fails the Howey Test miserably. If XRP isn’t a security I don’t know what is.

They're beholden to the established financial system and players and "regulating" crypto would also mean giving crypto a stamp of approval, which they seemingly do not want to do.
Am I the only one who still pays for and like Evernote? (:

I don’t love it, it’s too bloated for that. But it still works (if not optimally).

I could switch, but doing research to find an alternative and then migrate would take quite a lot of time, and time is always a constrained resource.
Most features that appear to only be available in native apps can quite trivially be added using any cross-platform framework like Electron. Multiple windows is not something the is platform-restricted i.e. even web apps can do it if they try.

Have you given Notesnook a try? While it doesn't have multi window support they have it on their roadmap: https://notesnook.com/roadmap
>> Where the C users are hiding?

Not hiding... C domain are rather "limited" these days, like embedded system, microcontroller, OS kernel, robotics, etc.

I worked at a local smartcard manufactur for a few years, and the team who worked on our smartcard OS were C coders.

Well, try to apply those embedded jobs. I think experience requirement are negotiable through interview.
> For rephrasing, or for making text flow more easily, or for reorganizing an outline and having the text update to reflect that higher-level reorganization?

Current models can kind of do this, e.g. you could give some text to GPT-3 and ask it to do this. Not sure what the limit on the input length before results degraded would be. But yep, would be nice to see this out there in a nice interface and working well.

> Where is the support for finding other text you've previously written that might be appropriate?

Semantic search could be used for this, e.g. finding blocks of text similar to what you've already written

But yep, this stuff isn't all nicely packaged in one place
because crypto is icky and weird
Roubini = After receiving a BA in political economics at Bocconi University, Milan and a doctorate in international economics at Harvard University, he became an academic at Yale and a visiting researcher/advisor at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Federal Reserve, World Bank, and Bank of Israel.

CZ (Binance CEO) = Zhao attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where he majored in computer science.

I am not into judgements based on education alone... Especially considering the recent developments with the MIT grads at FTX. However, calling Roubini a "pop economist" is really not accurate to the slightest degree.
Transip Stack cloud storage, 6 euro/month for 1 tb of storage. Not as polished app and experience as Dropbox, but gets the job done for a descent price. They support both webdav and sftp, i use the latter for editing my markdown notes on my phone. https://www.transip.nl/stack/

Im thinking of giving nextcloud a try to see how it compares.

Oh and Bitwarden. It's great that I can share passwords with my partner that way.
LoRa isn't even a good alternative for SMS. The duty cycle, at least in Europe is too low to have a real-time conversation.
Nina.chat is rebuilding the original AIM, AOL Desktop, Yahoo and ICQ platforms
Every single moral system leads to repugnant conclusions if you push it just right.

So okay, you don't like utilitarianism. Let's try deontology for size. Deontology works effectively to following a set of rules and duties, consequences be damned. So if our rules say you don't steal, then you don't. Don't murder. Etc.

But the snag is that since you don't care about the consequences, any consequences, of any size are irrelevant. So for instance, if contraception is deemed bad, then no amount of negative consequences has any relevance. Families are brought down to crushing poverty, orphanages are overflowing, starving children are wandering on the streets? Absolutely not a reason to change that rule.

Also, where utilitarianism can make iffy tradeoffs (eg, this particular person would be better dead because we'd benefit from it), there's usually some practical limit to that. If you ever can do that under deontology you can do it on an unlimited scale. If you ever work out that "those people" aren't really people legally speaking and you can just kill one of them, then you can kill them all you want, any time you want, on any scale you want.

Point being, most any system followed indiscriminately has problems because people are people and will look for loopholes and ways to exploit any rules to benefit.
The atom bomb was once a hypothetical construct. The Einstein-Szilard letter was talking about a danger that they had no way of proving was even possible.

This isn't an accurate representation, really. The letter was written exactly because it was clear that a fission bomb is very likely within the short-term reach of current technological and industrial capability. This is very much not the case with AGI.
Too bad this investor doesn't own any voting shares in Google so he's really just pressing his nose up against the window and hoping to be noticed.
Why WASM is the future of cloud computing
Business/Product managers don't know what "do one thing and do it well" means.
Every point you make is completely valid. The debate over file formats, and efforts to preserve file formats algorithmically (ON PAPER LOLOLOL) is a crisis historians are raising red flags about all over the place.

To give you an example, a good friend of mine did her PhD on two 16th century French philosophers' correspondence. It was a very comprehensive analysis of all of their exchanged letters, diaries, and journals. She's in a complete panic about the fact that today, all correspondence is done via email, which is protected with passwords; and once people die their passwords go with them unless they make arrangements. Maybe this is OK with a few big brains that the world knows about, but what about all the quiet geniuses that haven't been discovered? Historians will never have access to these lost works. Of course there are analogies to the analog world, but the point is: digital media is causing a type of dark age right under our noses.
Data exfiltration is an extremely dangerous risk in the world of corporate espionage, especially for a company like Tesla that is trying to be first to market with something as massive as FSD.

There is no way I would send anything to an external print shop from company equipment; they are almost certainly on top of that as well.
Maybe you are a social sports person. Football, tennis, etc.

One non-social sport that I found I enjoyed was putting some globes on and punching a punching bag. I have not taken classes and probably I am doing everything wrong, but it releases a lot of adrenaline.
How we made recruiting scale like a cloud deployment
Gross profit generally means profit on sales/services after COGS (costs directly related to producing/providing those revenues) but not including other costs like admin, etc.
I was a paying user and they switched plans, removed me. Bloat, constant unwanted change killed it for me. I now use a mix of Notes, Joplin, Notion, Paper and Google Docs.
Your advice above about maybe not spending recent withdrawals is really good. I just want to point out that recovery of "preferences" (which is what these withdrawals might, possibly, be) doesn't depend on there having been a Ponzi scheme, or any fraud at all, in the underlying business. Identifying and recovering preferential transfers is one of the main jobs of a bankruptcy trustee, and they are given legal superpowers with which to do their jobs.
Because what else there's left to do? Getting your family arrested for playing in the front yard or walking to your friend or hanging in a parking lot? So we destroyed all fun activities then we're still complaining they don't do any fun activities?
> Just think about the shape of the function you’d want, then type that into Hoogle.

Do you really think this is a adequate replacement for proper IDE support?
If this is the end for Genesis, this could be more impactful than FTX
There are those who create and those who complain on the internet about tools they've used one time
The Pricker
Imagine being a Notion user that’s been wishing for sensible things like offline mode or performance improvements on large databases/docs and finding out they’ve spent their time and money on this instead.
The article zips by kind of quickly, so I transcribed it:

> Introducing Notion Al

> Notion Al: Your New Digital Assistant

> Introduction

> Notion Al is a new artificial intelligence feature from the productivity app Notion. Notion Al is designed to help you be more productive by understanding your work habits and providing suggestions on how to improve them. In this blog post, we'll introduce you to Notion Al and show you how it can help you get more out of your work.

> What is Notion Al?

> Notion Al is an artificial intelligence feature that is designed to help you be more productive. Notion Al uses machine learning to understand your work habits and provides suggestions on how to improve them. For example, if you tend to procrastinate on certain tasks, Notion Al will suggest ways to overcome that behavior

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> Promotion Ideas

- Make a video showing all the features of Notion Al

- Create a blog post highlighting the benefits of using Notion Al

- Give a presentation to potential users about the advantages of Notion Al

- Reach out to social media influencers and ask them to try out Notion Al

- Give free trials to users who are interested in trying out the software
You don't have a pension plan, or 401k, or holdings in some index or mutual fund?
>This is because it's a distributed version control system, not just a tool to upload files to GitHub.

99.9% of git users use only one remote.
Most of them (>85%?) use GitHub.
It's like having your car be super complex to drive to work every day, but if you want, it could also dig a hole in the ground. You never use the damn drill, yet it bothers you every day on your way to work ;)
Frontier can be really cheap, I've gotten trips from New York to Miami for $39. It's just not worth 4 hours on the phone for a $39 refund.
> If you live in the fantasy world where AI is just an arbitrary construct that can do whatever task by itself it is an easy point to make but anyone who is down and getting their hands dirty in the pile of linear algebra that makes up current AI knows that there is not even a credible pathway to creating an AGI in current research (i.e. you cannot optimize for a task you don't know at train time and if you are optimizing for a specific task you are not creating a general AI).

Humans are optimized for the specific task of reproducing, and yet we evolved general intelligence. "General intelligence" doesn't have to be a goal for it to emerge.
It’s not the amount you donate relative to others, it’s the amount you donate relative to how much you are capable of donating. Not many people would work a high-stress, high-barrier-to-entry job and give away almost everything they earned, while their peers live richly.

Even if we accept that the average person usually acts morally when confronted with an obvious moral choice, they still fall morally behind someone who actively exerts themselves to the limit of their ability for the benefit of needy people who they’ve never even met.

Maybe we just disagree about where the “average person” is morally? Or maybe you’re ascribing selfish intent to selfless action because the hypothetical person works in finance and/or makes lots of money?
Good question... I think there will be less demand for the high house prices/rent. But there are a lot of other factors, like high inflation.
It is good to see awareness being raised of accidental philosophical positions, sometimes unwittingly assumed through word choice.

For example, I was starting to doubt whether anyone realizes that they make a leap whenever they imply physiology/biology is the cause of what happens in our consciousness (or indeed causes consciousness to happen), but entry 29 reassured me not all hope is lost (emphasis mine):

> Nevertheless, conceptualizing biological functioning as inherently more “fundamental” than (that is, causally prior to) psychological functioning, such as cognitive and emotional functioning, is misleading (Miller, 1996). The relation between biological variables and other variables is virtually always bidirectional. For example, although the magnitude of the P300 event-related potential tends to be diminished among individuals with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) compared with other individuals (Costa et al., 2000), this finding does not necessarily mean that the P300 deficit precedes, let alone plays a causal role in, ASPD. It is at least equally plausible that the personality dispositions associated with ASPD, such as inattention, low motivation, and poor impulse control, contribute to smaller P300 magnitudes (Lilienfeld, 2014).

I believe the equal likelihood of such reverse causality and its implications are severely underexplored in modern medicine.

Similarly appreciated the warning against accidentally assuming mind-body dualism (entry 40) and a fundamental point about natural sciences—that there is never definitive proof, only limited to various degrees models (entry 45).
I think more tech companies need to give up on growth mode and be OK with just being a regular old dividend paying company. I mean honestly, how big can some note-taking app possibly get? Or Snap for instance, which is getting into hardware, into content creation, etc. Who asked for this? I think the business and the users would be better served with being realistic about what an app is for and doubling down on a good user experience, rather than piling on layer after layer of bloat in the hope that some of it sticks.
I think the problem is that the market is much more interested in things like container development, which doesn't generally need hardware access beyond CPU, RAM, network, maybe storage, and maybe GPU.

WSL2 is much better than WSL1 at solving my problems. But that sucks it has become worse for you :/
Then you're locking failed institutions into an even bigger monopoly. The problem is that they were already "too big to fail" as a result of regulatory capture, revolving doors between government and big banks and bailouts. Just let them fail.
I think to some degree the people making these decisions to some extent are more likely to be those who enjoy the external approval aspects of work - the "clueless middle management" in the Gervais Principle framework, who enjoy doing more work and want to see those below them do the same.
> I'm not a fan of pure functional programming

> Being explicit what is mutable and what can produces side effects is really good

!!! That's what Haskell is !!!

What language are you using which is explicit about side effects?
Intervista Pythonista – Ep 31
If you exclude AVX-512, the number is probably less than half that.

And since Intel locked AVX-512 out of alder-lake processors, if you want a consume grade processor which supports it you would buy a Zen4 from AMD.
I got one coming in the mail. Almost as much fun as a Commander x16
> In other words, this is a fancier version of the kind of attestation that Tether makes, the ones that leave loopholes you can drive dump trucks through.

100% and this just drives me bonkers. I'm not entirely unsympathetic to wanting to avoid financial regulation, like while I disagree it's a good idea, I can understand wanting to build a system that is built on math and not people. Fine.

But isn't the whole point of crypto radical transparency? As in: you know at all times where all the coins are and the details of every transaction that has ever occurred? Shouldn't this meet 100% of your auditing needs? Why are audits even useful? Well, they're really helpful if you want to run a shell game off chain, but still assure customers that you're not gambling with their money so they keep giving you more of it.

Like, arguing in good faith here, this is just a worst of both worlds situation. You have an extremely slow financial transaction system that you still have to hand audit.
For regular command-line stuff, Cygwin is very nice.
no...they can't.
Parallel Domain Raises $30M to Super-Train AI with Synthetic Data
The development of centralized exchanges into a class of companies equal to the existing financial infrastructure is unlikely to happen. Unlike traditional finance, the use cases for crypto seem to be mainly speculative. You can't pay your rent, buy a car or pay taxes using crypto, so it's unlikely that you'll be very affected by the rise or fall of these exchanges unless you choose to participate yourself.
> Both are good changes, BTW.

I disagree. The entire point of setAccessible is to say I want to access nonpublic things. I shouldn't have to also say "Simon says, pretty please" for each such access on the command line to be able to do so.
> Do not doubt that the number of instructions will grow as large as is found in x86 and ARM, making a mockery of the "R".

https://danluu.com/risc-definition/

Number of instructions isn't what is "Reduced" in RISC, but rather the complexity of instructions: Single-width opcodes with very few addressing modes, such that pipelining is easy and taking exceptions is not as painful as it is when your opcodes have lots of ALU state, like with indirect addressing and opcodes that mix addressing modes with their own ALU operations.

RISC is also somewhat nebulous, with some ISAs being "more RISC" (RISCier?) than others, and some RISC ideas (architectural delay slots, integer multiplication and divide opcodes requiring their own registers) eventually getting dropped entirely as chip technology moves on.

> It is not a mistake to optimize an ISA for use in undergraduate courses, but probably is one to use identically the same ISA industrially.

I don't know that a good ISA needs to be optimized for undergraduate courses to be used in them: MIPS is famously used in H&P and it has quite a following to this day, just not on the desktop or in servers. Was RISC-V optimized for use as a "model organism" like that?
Evernote was the first note taking app I ever used. It was simple and effective. It turned into an unusable monstrosity at some point.
Finnish and Hungarian are non-IE, but they are not pre-IE, they are Uralic languages that also entered Europe through migration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages#History
Thank you!

I think that might be because Safari uses the HEVC version of the video. I'm also seeing 25% usage on an M1 Max MacBook, which is more than I expected.

Firefox and Chrome don't have noticeable CPU usage. They only support the H264 encoded video.

I might have to reencode the video and optimize for hardware decoding. Default ffmpeg options were not enough apparently.

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EDIT: it's actually because of the HDR section from https://lunar.fyi/#xdr

Safari is the only browser that can activate the HDR subsystem on these Display P3 screens, and by doing that it taxes the GPU more when playing back video.
In Switzerland you'd get called by the teacher if you don't let your kid walk by itself to kindergarten, because independence and learning and all.
Do you guys optimize for local-first? Can I drop in to start editing without having to wait for network lag or sync? Is multi-device syncing rock solid?

Can I add pictures and links to other entries?

Can I import my existing Evernote notes?

If I wanted a team workflow, I'd use Google Docs and Notion. This is for just personal note and knowledge base I can tap into quickly via my phone.
> At least in Europe you don't have some highschool dropout rifle through your luggage and leave your suitcase open, though (that's happened to me in the US).

No but the people putting the suitcase - that you had to take apart yourself - through the scanner will steal things from you - my credit card and powerbank went missing during the process this summer.
> How do you manage your important personal documents and other data?

A: Poorly! Two, getting ready for a third, of those old school expanding/accordion style document folders under my bed. I should improve on that.

Data is scattered across dropbox and a couple external hard drives. Near term I have a project to build a NAS to keep things on and mirror the important bits to dropbox.
The counterpoint to this is that this is exactly what the police do in downtown Waco as well. It just doesn't normally happen to "respectable" society, so you don't hear about it.
> Yes, but what's their incentive to do so?

Not only that, they have a reverse incentive: Say something bad happens to that kid, now the cops will be on the hook for letting them alone.

The real problem is that the fabric of society is mostly gone. In years past, those cops would be chewed out by the old ladies at church the next Sunday. No wonder there is such a backlash building up in conservative areas of the country.
Mastodon: What you need to know for your security and privacy
Paranoid suburbanites. In the US, happened to me twice as an 11/12 year old north of Chicago, just for walking down the street - and once in Charlottesville, in the burbs, aged 24 - again for walking down the street. Once in Germany, aged 10 in a suburb of Frankfurt - I was sitting in a park with a book. Oh, and once in the U.K., in Hatfield aged 22, waiting outside my girlfriend’s house having arrived a bit before her.

Only got put in a cop car in the US - in both Germany and the U.K. they realised I was just doing normal human stuff - both childhood occasions in the US they gave my parents a talking to, as an adult they were unreasonably suspicious as to why I would be walking rather than driving, but let me go with a warning to drive in future.

So - the problem is the police, and the justice system, as curtain-twitchers live the world over.
what is alternative to MLflow other than SQLite, like Kubeflow, Metaflow?
omg, so much negativity here...

you should read the previous articles from the author, eg.
https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2022/javascript-function-com...

then

https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2022/what-if-the-team-hates-...

it would address some of the concerns and critiques ppl had on this topic here.
That's WSL1. This 1.0.0 announcement is about WSL2, which is based on Hyper-V VMs. As mentioned by others, the naming is quite confusing.