skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have not presented any evidence that any John Brown Gun Club chapters have assaulted or killed anybody.

The Gun Club arms itself to defend against far-right violence and often appears as a security force at protests to protect against expected far-right violence.

To date, Gun Club members have reportedly not engaged anyone with their weapons during one of these protests.

https://www.counterextremism.com/supremacy/john-brown-gun-cl...

Being invited by Republicans to speak before Congress is just more evidence that Andy Ngo is far right, from my perspective.
The issue is in the word "merely".

Of course the goal of law writ large is to engender "good" conditions in a society by restricting "bad" elements and encouraging "good" ones. In this sense the law has a moral quality.

Roughly speaking, "law" is morality as practiced by a state. The difference is in the acknowledgment or ignorance of the laws' congruence with the moralities of the citizens' opinions and preferences those laws are meant to represent. One could say the entire goal of democracy is the messy process of aligning the state's morality with the collective morality of its citizens. Fascism is then comparable to defining a single normative moral position and imposing it on the entire populace unilaterally.

In short, the question is: whose morals?
I think that's fair but on the flip side there's ways of handling on prem much better than Atlassian does. GitHub would be a good example of that. It's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
You can beat the Turing test with a large generative model, you don't need the model to feel emotions, have genuine goals or anything other than being indistinguishable from a human being, If you build an agent that has and quote: "genuine motivations and some concept of an internal experience" than you will fail the Turing test because the agent will probably recognize the fact it's not human, just as a human recognizes the fact that it's not an AI, that's why the Turing test is so criticized, you're testing how human-like the model is, and that literally means how well it fits the distribution it was trained on; the technology is already here, there's no reason to scale the models further, also context windows can big enough to fool humans, we can see this happening also in other fields than text generation like image generation, sometimes it seems impossible to distinguish the output of these big generative models from one created by a human. The actual goal of today research is alignment, an AI that acts like an human is not useful, it should behave like an AI, that's why OpenAI has spent so much time on aligning its AI to behave like one and not like a human.
Don't drink too much.
High-Level Effect Handlers in C++ [pdf]
For HNers who have julia experience, would you deploy it in a production release or is it too unstable?
This is one of the main reason you should use indices instead of pointers to store references to other objects (regardless of if you’re using Rust or C++): memory safety. Indices can be bound-checked, pointers can’t.
Comment from Noam Brown in the article's comments section:

"I'm an author on the paper. I want to point out what I think are a few mistakes with the blog.

First, Zvi says "The strategic engine, as I evaluated it based on a sample game with six bots and a human, is mediocre at tactics and lousy at strategy." This is not the feedback we have gotten from expert Diplomacy players. The general consensus among expert Diplomacy players is that the strategy/tactics are extremely strong, perhaps expert level, but that there is room for improvement in the dialogue. I'm not familiar with Zvi's experience with the game of Diplomacy, but I did place 3rd in the North American championship this year and have learned a lot about the game of Diplomacy, including how humans play it, over the past 3 years, so I feel somewhat qualified to comment on Diplomacy strategy.

In particular, I disagree with Zvi's opinion on the bot's strategy. Zvi says "I hate France’s tactical play, both its actual plays and the communications with Russia that are based on its tactics, dating back to at least 1903. The move here to Irish Sea needs to be accompanied by a convoy of Picardy into London or Wales, fighting for Belgium here is silly."

It's well-known among experienced Diplomacy players that France needs 3 armies on its mainland in order to defend itself well from a hostile Germany. Moreover, a convoy to London or Wales is unnecessary here. By moving to Irish Sea, France is setting themselves up for the option to convoy directly into Liverpool next turn. England can't block it because they have no army on their mainland. In short, I feel pretty confident saying that France made the right move here. If Zvi still disagrees, we could pull in some consensus expert Diplomacy players to get their opinions on this.

Second, we did a 200-game tournament for no-press (that is, no-dialogue) Diplomacy back in January where players were informed that one of the players in each game was a bot. Our bot, Diplodocus, placed first in this tournament. There's a video on it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWQFhYSD7h4&ab_channel=Diplo... . You can see in the Youtube comments that one expert Diplomacy player (Sploack) described the bot as "currently the best gunboat player in existence, or at least in the top 5." The strategy/tactics in no-press Diplomacy don't match up perfectly with full-press, but they do carry over to some extent.

Third, Zvi criticizes the fixed 1908 end date as working to the bot's advantage. The no-press tournament mentioned above did not have fixed end dates. Also, I think the fact that the full-press games ended in 1908 rather than a later date (say, 1910) actually hurt the bot. The bot handles endgame tactics quite well."
Interview with SBF starts here: https://youtu.be/0ik497cvvcE?t=956
SBF Broke and down to one credit card
I have over 14,000 songs in iTunes on my Mac, iPod Touch and Galaxy 10e.
I personally think their migration to subscription based revenue and advertising says differently (just personal opinion). Were now the product with Apple too, not the customer. We used to pay more to not deal with that.
>... everyone normal doesn't need that.

The "normal" person holding down a C-level job providing for his family only to hurl plates at his wife whenever he's mad is "doing fine".

The "normal" person going to a therapist every week is "doing fine".

The otherwise friendly person who gets filled with road rage every time they're behind the wheel is "doing fine".

Your friend who kinda takes jokes too personally and gets cries whenever y'all crack wise is "doing fine".

The point is that while we may all figure out how to process emotions, we don't always nail it. "Normal people" are not always fine. Plenty of people have problems handling their emotions, and how you handle your emotions impacts you and those around you. Many people are raised under the impression that expressing certain emotions, or acting on them in certain ways, is wrong. This approach changes that.

Good for you, you figured it out. But you're displaying an incredible amount of ignorance by going, "Well, I turned out just fine, so why can't everyone else?". Nobody else has the exact same upbringing you had.
> Enron forgot to grease the right palms in Washington, and crucially also help deliver a Midterm victory to the Party.

Enron collapsed right after the 2000 election and before the 2002 primaries. Their outgoing CEO and chairman of the board was co-chairman of Bush's campaign and a personal friend of Bush Sr. and Dick Cheney. One major reason he was retiring was moving into politics, being mentioned as being on the short list for cabinet appointments (Treasury or Energy).

The chief US economics advisor and the chief US trade representative under W. were Enron advisory board members (well, they had to resign from the board when appointed by W.).

My point is, Enron was well connected.
Yeah, if that was everyone's experience being bullied no one would care.

My bullies would tackle me, surround me, and kick me while I was down for minutes. Never less then 6 of them at a time. I had 3 concussions from being tackled and having my head smashed against the floor.

They would throw sand into my eyes. I remember not being able to see while being beat. I remember having to wear an eye patch for a week from the abrasions.

They would throw large sticks at me, I have numerous scars from being hit in the face.

They would break my things, I had multiple bikes smashed on the bike rack.

They would steal my things, if I had anything nice in my desk they would steal it when the teacher was out of the room.

They would shove dog shit in my face when they tackled me to the ground in their groups.

They would ostracize me from every other person at school, anyone I tried to talk to would have to ignore me for fear of being beaten up and treated the same. Even those that I was good friends with outside of school felt they couldn't let it be known in school.

I'd have my pants pulled down almost every single day while I was walking in crowds.

I stood up and fought for myself every single time. I never backed out. I always tried to fight back. I was larger then any of them individually. I had my dad take me to Taekwondo from the time I was in grade 2. I started lifting weights in grade 4.

My only recourse was to avoid them. From grade 2 to grade 11 I would pretend to be sick for weeks at a time in order to avoid going to school. Avoidance was my ONLY option, nothing else worked. I would use up every single sick day I could without getting expelled in high school. I'm not even sure about elementary school, they didn't have a max number of days, but I'm sure I missed at least half of every year.

Finally in grade 11 I managed to get the fight to stop by knocking four teeth out of my main bullies mouth and giving him 18 stitches. I was knocked out cold and barely remember the fight.

Standing up for yourself doesn't always work, everyone in this thread that thinks it does is extremely naive.

I'm glad that you punching your bully once solved the problem for you though.
im so glad its been useful, thank you for the kind words :)
> You can deposit cash at a bank and get it back, but that's almost an exception.

You get back the same cash but you almost certainly don't get back the same value due to inflation.
Multiplayer games of old where usually p2p. DoS attacks from sad losers an cheating put an end to that.
> "how can one player trust the dice of the other player?"

I have an algorithm for that.
To roll a dice:
1. both players create a random x bytes long number.

2. both players make a hash from their number and then send it to the other one.

3. players exchange their random numbers and check if hashes are correct

4. concat both players random numbers and hash it to get the final random number

By exchanging hashes, both players can be sure that other player didn't tamper with their random number after getting yours.

(edited formatting)
Oh interesting. That seems academic given the reserve requirements by the Fed under Regulation D which basically says every bank must have $x dollars in reserve for every $10 loaned out. Thus, the bank already has to have that $10 deposit before it's able to make the loan, but as long as those reserve requirements are met, they can make all the loans they want. Given the size of a commercial bank with deposits and withdrawals going on constantly across many customers, they run with some amount of margin, but basically they'll be able to make a good number of loans before they're anywhere close to their reserve limit. So to answer your question... sorta?

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
The big competitor to Apple is Samsung, and Samsung devices tend to be just as locked down as Apple devices (though the prevalence of jailbreaks has been higher, and of course you can sideload apps). Those two companies make up over 75% of smartphones in the US, and neither of their next competitors down (OnePlus and Lenovo) are Google.

People talk about Android like it is the "do anything you want device marketed at end users", but it is the "do anything you want operating system marketed at device manufacturers". One of the many things you can do with such a device is lock it down, and that's what companies who make devices that run Android, like quite-notably Samsung, have largely decided to do.

Google's first-party devices are often quite open, and that's cool and all, but they do not have much marketshare because, in the end, they kind of suck with the various limited hardware tradeoffs they make. Users, generally, are unable to provide a very strong purchasing signal
preference on "is an open device" because they are too busy optimizing for having good cameras or screens or whatever it is that they consider the primary point of owning the phone in the first place is.

At the end of the day, Android then become more of a coalition of brands herded by Google--but led by Samsung, whom at least used to make the vast majority of the actual profit, disproportionate even to their marketshare--in attempts to reign them in on what crazy changes they make, but those limitations do not enforce the device to be open... far from it, really! And so we have seen Google also the target of lawsuits for anti-competitive behavior with their store (including by Epic, whose argument almost made more sense against Google than Apple).
IBM should call themselves Blueys

Come join the Oracult

Snowflake ... well let's not go there.

Signed: a Brickster
Last time I tried it the UX for sharing/collaborating on a keepass database was horrendous at best. Has that improved in the intervening years?
This. 3 and 1.5 here. If you are pulling your weight (or more) at the homefront then there is no time/energy for much else beyond staying afloat.
> makes it sound like people will die from freezing to death, which is just not true.

It's 100% true in my part of the US.
Thank you sir! Already in my shopping cart.
Bias, misinformation and deception are the norm. Not the exception.
If every single windows computer required you to pay them 30% for every transaction from those computers, yeah that would be an anti trust violation as well.

Microsoft got in trouble for the much less bad act of merely bundling a browser with the OS.

Imagine how much worse it would be if they took 30% of every transaction on every computer in the world.
It's stunning how we've made it so illegal to be without a house.
KeePass2android and KeePassDX can help on Android. You can self host such as on NextCloud
I can never recommend 1Password enough.

When it comes to hosted options, they are hands down the best. Worth pointing out that they also have integrated 2FA, if you're satisfied with first and second factor living in the same spot.

https://1password.com
You might want to look into cleaning and lubricating your rollers. Paper creates a lot of dust that could be causing the issue.
Yes and with relations.

In object orientated programming, there is the observer pattern and there is reactive style.

But how do you group a set of objects and run the equivalent of epoll() or select() on it when the objects state changes?

I kind of want to group a set of objects together and define a relation between them and tell them to maintain some invariant.

For example, if I wanted to implement multithreading and associate a 500 sockets per kernel thread and multiplex 1000 clients to each thread. And recv for receive threads and send for send threads. And have a pipeline of steps to process incoming messages and outgoing messages. This is a lot of code.

If I could just create a thread object and associate it with a list of sockets and tell them to send messages to eachother when to run what. Then I could use OOP to manage files, sockets, containers. Kubernetes is not really OOP but it does manage objects.

I feel the abstraction doesn't exist yet. What comes to mind is the Knuth shell script versus a low level program.

https://matt-rickard.com/instinct-and-culture

A shell pipeline is easily 1000s of lines in C.

I feel the interface to the operating system should help you write less code.

I want the messages sent between objects to be capable of reorganising the arrangement of the relations between objects themselves.
With a license that prohibits OEMs from distributing forked versions.
Well, it should go without saying but their architecture cannot be trusted at this point.
What a silly and 100% incorrect statement.

Do you truly believe someone not capable of speaking English is not being discriminated in the US? Seriously now?
What would have really helped me as a child was a way to deal with Alexithymia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia

This is when you have complex indescribable emotions for reasons you cannot describe. I feel like the Feeling Monster is still too simple to handle complex indescribable emotions, which is where the biggest problems are.
Dennett, theory of humour as a debugging instinct.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262518697/inside-jokes/
I don't understand your point. All browsers on iOS use the same underlying technology (Webkit) so the only relevant features between iOS browsers is those other features like password support, tab design, etc.
> suicides among white males push up firearm fatalities

This part could be linked to toxic masculinity.
Depends on how you define "insecurity". Availability is one of the pillars of security, so even your joke falls apart.

Several years ago the trendy thing to do for security was to get a USB-A security dongle and lock your important accounts with it. Nowadays, laptops from several major manufacturers no longer ship with a USB-A port, so if you need to log in again and don't have a USB-C dock handy, you're locked out until you can find one.
Apart from App Store recommendations, where are you seeing Apple-originated ads on an iPhone?
All very compelling. I guess I wonder when you plan on permanently hosting as many refugees inside of your home as is physically possible (say 18 or if we're being charitable 9), how many would that be and when would you plan to start? After all, comrade, I'm sure we both agree that direct action would be a more material form of achieving justice through solidarity than the ultimately petit bourgeoisie activity of internet comment squabbling.

Of course, one could be motivated to make such impassioned outpourings by a guilt regarding an ultimately comfortable existence, a fear of lacking virtue, and a thrill of proselytizing the nonbelievers, rather than a compulsion to achieve material socioeconomic outcomes for the postcolonial working class of the world. But I'm sure, dear interlocutor, you are motivated by nothing of the sort, and your intentions are of course, impregnable and wholly pure.
> You just have to deal with the very mild inconvenience of keeping your database synchronized across devices.

For HN crowd that is likely easy. (I also use that solution)
There were rumors a couple years ago that this already happened to one of them.

My layperson's armchair guess is that a successful attacker would probably seek to keep it quiet.

If you were a bad person, and you got access of tons of credentials from one of the major trust-us password managers, would you:

1. Focus on finding and looting big-payout cryptocurrency stashes, as quietly as you can (so you can keep doing it longer, before news gets out of how)?

2. Sell to a state actor to use for probably high-value purposes, while keeping it quiet?

3. Something else, and would that involve keeping it quiet, or making a big noisy mess?
Earning $6500/month helping businesses save time using no-code tools
It is interesting you focus on just one of the banned accounts, glossing over the case of CrimethInc, for example:

In the 14 years that CrimethInc has been on Twitter, the account has never violated Twitter policies and has never been suspended. This changed last week after a Twitter exchange between Musk and Ngo.

Ngo asked Musk to suspend the CrimethInc account, calling it an “Antifa collective” and falsely claiming the group had “claimed a number of attacks.” Within hours of Ngo’s request to Musk, and without citing any specific violations of policies, Twitter suspended the @crimethinc account.

You can call this piece "a tissue of insinuations", but the evidence, taken together, is quite damning. A pattern emerges. At least for anyone who does not have tissues in their ears.
> Apple owns the platform. Apple sets the rules

They do until we force them, via government action to change them.

It's already happening in the EU with the digital markets act soon.

Maybe this new controversy will finally convince the US to pass the open app market act that is under consideration.
not sure about alexa but google assistant/nest audio is pretty great and i'm finding it quite difficult to stop using it.

i use it for everything from playing music, adding stuff to my to do list, getting sports scores, turning on/off my smart lights, to figuring out measurements and setting timers while cooking.

the speech recognition and speech synthesis is great! this is actually the only google product i still use...everything else has been replaced by apple, duckduckgo, fastmail, etc.
> the password export malfunctions

oh wow, what a surprise.
Bitwarden is better, but Vaultwarden (the self-hosted version written in Rust) is the absolute best option. Host it yourself on a free tier VM in one of the clouds, configure a backup solution, and never worry about it again. And you don't need to trust anyone with your passwords.

Use tailscale if you want to get fancy and keep it off the public internet or go the easy route and install fail2ban and expose it via public IP.
Did it start with Googlers? Or maybe Teamsters?
I've put over 10000 of pages through my $150 laser printer at a consumables cost of about $0.02 per page, resulting in an amortized cost (including the printer) of $0.035 per page.
I have sooo many pet and mother maiden names, but I can't remember any of them because they are all `openssl rand -hex 32`
A lot of things did, not just what you mentioned. It's a lot harder to replicate a high amount of data to a high amount of players in p2p, since you have to send that data to everyone you're playing with, and you're basically limiting yourself to residential connections/wifi which are still crappy and have a high amount of lag. For the kind of fast-paced games people make/expect nowadays, this isn't really acceptable anymore.
This is rekindling an interest I had in doing exactly the same thing. Nice to see another implementation. I’ll have to revive my old code. I think the key to getting uptake would be making it easy for anyone to live edit their copy and have the changes propagate to peers. Also some easy way of browsing what connected peers are hosting.
Why would he be lying about this?
This is essentially just the typical corporate aversion to taxation. They want to benefit from the infrastructure, but don't want to pay for it.

Nothing new here, other than the weird tech bros leaping to defend the behaviour...
Perhaps in the future the company would not be adding any new models or require optimization of any new surfaces, so they don't expect to be spending enough on new initiatives to justify optimizing them. And all the existing initiatives have been optimized efficiently already (though that does seem unlikely when I type it out).
I have owned many Samsung android devices over the years and have always been able to install fdroid and other alternate app stores as well as "side load" applications from apk files. Is there a new thing where Samsung have removed this feature in recent (last two years or so) devices?
> Our customers’ passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture.

https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/11/notice-of-recent-security-...
I'm not sure I understand why a system trained on which word follows the next statistically would be considered useful for a chat when the system literally has no understanding whatsoever of what words mean?