skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't know what to believe because of a lack of trust and faith in our authority figures.

People don't believe what the government is telling them. Our governments are too big and not transparent enough.

News media sacrificed their authority and trust when they decided to choose a side rather than say neutral.

Reporting "the truth" is a for profit business where making slight adjustments to your perception of the truth results in more profit.

If you don't trust the church, the government, or the news, where are you supposed to get your truth?
In fact there’s a `vmin` unit that does this calculation for you. (`vmax` as well)
Ford drove Volvo into the ground before selling it Geely. While I agree CPP needs to be kept at arms length, sentiment like this is pure nationalist dog whistle.
So he can’t make a request to remove non consensual sexual images of a family member based on the TOS of Twitter? Honestly, what are you all complaining about?
Experience is a different thing to truth and it doesn’t help to conflate the two.
No one takes the Green Party seriously in France. They won a few cities because the socialists are a mess and people wanted to punish Macron but generally speaking they are only useful as the butt of jokes. It’s not a serious political party in any way.
But he wasn’t when this happened.

David French explains this well https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/elon-musk-...
I enjoy Rao’s writing, but he has a tendency to overindulge the occasional (and not particularly funny) mean-spirited joke, as well as over-stuffing his essays with half-formed ideas and references to his other work. His frequent insights make it worth it. He doesn’t seem afraid to occasionally get it spectacularly wrong. I admire someone willing to work out their ideas in such a public way.

As a milquetoast center-right op ed columnist for the Times, Brooks is a favorite target of a certain ideological bent (journos and bloggers who use twitter). And some of the criticism is deserved, but it often has the flavor of off-putting, personal vitriol. And Brooks has had a few decent pieces. His book Bohos in Paradise, although fairly dated, is recommended, and includes a few sharp and entertaining observations.
> An NFC-enabled EMV card will happily reveal its entire account number and expiration date over NFC with no authentication whatsoever.

EMV was enabled with the intention of replacing magnetic stripe payments quickly. Together with 3DS on the online payment side, this would have effectively made a card number by itself worthless. Unfortunately this hasn't happend (except for mobile wallets using tokenization like Apple and Google Pay), but given that (at the time entirely reasonable!) assumption, I'd cut the original designers some slack.

Another reason: How would you even implement authentication? There are millions of terminals out there, operated by at least hundreds of different service providers. What key would you use for authentication and how would you hide it in a way that wouldn't eventually be leaked from legitimate terminals?

> issuers accept transactions from EMV (chip)-capable readers that nominally originate from EMV-capable cards without requiring the chip to be

Some issuers do, some don't. That's not the protocol's fault.

> 3. The information leaked in #1 is enough to buy things online (as long as the CVV2 can be found or guessed). Wtf?

At merchants not using 3DS, that is true – but these merchants also bear the full liability for any fraud happening. In the end, it's a prototypical security vs. usability/conversion tradeoff, in the same way that US credit cards don't have PINs, while almost every other market does.
What if we already are, indeed. And early next year they will release GPT-4
So fear is the problem?
Ignoring that the Sun is tabloid trash, nobody raises as many complaints when men sexually assault women or children, nor do they make the same complaints about the "risks" or "predators" when it comes to trans men -- this is specifically a boogeyman rhetoric designed to denigrate trans women.

If you're reading this, you've probably been in a bathroom with a trans person, or someone you know has, and they've been absolutely fine. Trans people by and large want to get in, pee, and get out, same as everyone else -- but perhaps moreso, given the risk of transphobic rhetoric and abuse if they were to be "clocked" (identified) as a trans person.

The primary abusers of women and children are men, followed by (cis) women. Trans women make up an exceedingly small portion of that particular criminal element, but they're vilified and used as boogeymen so much more, to attempt to deny trans women's existence under "think of the children" handwaving.
No, issuers need to enforce 3DS as well (for payments within the EEA), unless there is an applicable exemption.
MIOS: IBM 5150 Bios Replacement Project
Really excellent job illustrating chatgpt obliterates nuance, perfect for those unwilling to read beyond a paragraph and contemplate their lingering thoughts and questions.
I mean, this is all fun stuff to noodle about, but, no: NSO was almost sold to L3Harris; legal drama prevented that from happening.

You really can just look this stuff up. You don't have to start from first principles and try to reason your way to conclusions.
The Internet has the same incentive landscape as bathroom stall graffiti. That's why you're so mad, Robyn.

This isn't a back-and-forth between two real people who mutually respect each other. If I was talking to Robyn in real life, over coffee, for 2 or 3 hours, we'd probably get something productive done.

But online, it's a hit-and-run dumpster where the truth matters a little, and humor and presentation matter _much more._

Robyn writes their wounded-gazelle piece whining about the woke cancel mob, and I try to 'clap back' without 'seething'. Wittgenstein would roll in his grave to see the level of MLG language gamers we have online these days.

Nuance gets buried online. I am not gonna sit here and write a boring screen-long essay expressing my nuanced thoughts on the rights of trans adults and trans children, to an audience that might literally be reading this on the shitter.

It works fine for less-controversial topics like Rust vs C. It just doesn't work for gender.

They who write on shit-house walls...

P.S. - If you have 2 hours to spare for nuance, I highly recommend the Contrapoints video about J. K. Rowling. This is a good, calm, nuanced discussion about why LGBTQ people and our allies don't like Rowling as much as we used to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDKbT_l2us

If you don't have 2 hours to spare, then you aren't gonna get nuance, sorry to tell you.
Rackspace MAJOR outage and terrible communications
It's not the selfie taking that's the problem, it's the showing up just to take a selfie and promptly leaving.

When that escalates into a flow of people arriving and immediately departing just to take selfies it's now become a sort of thoroughfare and the natural environment is entirely disrupted in the interests of giving everyone their own bespoke copy of the same view.

At that point you may as well just pave the trail and install a Starbucks at the overlook.
In physics, dimensionality makes sense. How would one handle money? Can it be represented the same way? A new dimension, next to length, time etc? It would allow to express money per time, eg dollars per second, for example.
The problem with weapons in space are that they put the opposing super-powers in an impossible position. Hence it forces them to make a move asap to prevent being at a total disadvantage. This is mostly because weapons in space can be used with very little warning. There is little defense, and not even any notice that allows you to prepare or setup a second strike.

Plenty of people don't think that's bad, but it seems that the top military decision makers of all super-powers do see the problem with that, and hence they have managed to keep weapons out of space.
This remains a high-level decision, so it only takes a few rational people for the game-theory to work.

Consider the external politics around mobilization. It is a big deal to mobilize externally, because it forces opposing players to also mobilize, hence moving everyone closer to conflict. The thing about weapons in space is that they are effectively always mobilized. Even if you could sustain perpetual mobilization, it wouldn't be a good strategic move.

Something similar goes for missile defense systems that are too effective. It disrupts MAD, and pushes the opposing side in to a corner. Either make a move before the defense system is up, or accept a role as a second grade power from now on. The problem, specifically, is that it removes the second-strike capability much more than that it removes the first-strike capability.

So having a missile-defense system in orbit has game-theoretical downsides both for being in space, and for removing the enemies second-strike capability.

The same does not quite hold for having the capability to launch such a missile defense system. It gives your opponent time to react when you launch it. Hence they do not need to immediately react to you having the capability. So I think research into this area, preparations, and development of the system are fine. Heck it is even important and desirable. We just need to continuously refuse to even ready such systems outside of well-announced and limited tests.
https://github.com/cloudflare/lol-html is a HTML rewriter that explicitly does not construct DOM or an AST, but streams nodes throughs ASAP.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/html-parsing-1/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/html-parsing-2/
Right now the site is not loading.
An ATM at Art Basel has a twist: It posts a picture of you and your bank balance
China’s Influence in International Technology Standards Setting
> We still have the stupid policy in restaurants where you hand your card to the server and they walk away with it (their terminals are usually chip), which is something that a lot of foreigners freak out about.

And rightfully so! What is stopping them from copying the PAN, expiry date and CVV2?
I wouldn't give my card to anyone - that's what portable (wifi/BT) terminals are for.
Great comment. I was reading a book about Lincoln recently and this exact sense of being compelled was upon him. Him as a politician had him saying things he morally didn’t agree with. Once he won the game, he was able to instill the spirit of his philosophy and do something above society’s morals which we look back upon making him one of the best presidents to date.
I think it's more that it's a game of whack-a-mole. There are an infinite number of possible scenarios you could warn about, and each one carries a small cost to implement, a small cost to maintain, and a risk of false-positives. Which ones are worth implementing can be hard to know ahead of time (implementing ones that have actually caused problems would be one strategy for narrowing it down, but the point remains that it's not as simple as "just check for all the unreasonable states")
> People simultaneously refuse to accept what they're really good at and attribute to them capabilities they don't really have.

That's called neurosis generally.
When calling for a cab (in most places you need to call a central dispatch to get one, hailing only works if you’re in the middle of a major city), you have to call into a dispatch service and they put out a request over the radio. Cabbies each decide if they want to take the fare, and if nobody does then too bad for you. There’s no feedback telling you if someone accepted and if you’re too far out of town, it’s very possible that no one will ever show up. I’ve definitely sat for hours waiting for a cab and there’s no way to know the status.

At least with these apps, you know if the ride was accepted and when they’ll be there. If nobody accepts, you can make other arrangements.
> they have been forced to sell up to 100TWh are prices as low as €40/MWh.

Should be plenty. The Swedish paid off nuclear plants operate around €25/MWh. Lazard similarly puts the range for paid-off nuclear plants at $24-$33/MWh.

It's simply mismanagement of a golden goose.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
If that's the case, then Israeli intelligence attempted to sell an arm of their own intelligence apparatus to a US defense contractor. Have you spent a lot of time looking into NSO?
Fear of torment encourages people to go along with religious dogma. What does that have to do with defending the truth?
But considering climate change, having people sized sidewalks and taxing the externalities of the process is really the point you failed to consider. Nuclear might work but there is a lot more to it that doesn’t get addressed in the article. Estonia really gets this correct and proves the point that the American city isn’t going to be well designed if we don’t consider the impact of the rail system and electrification.
It's probably somewhere that doesn't show in the photo. Possibly flush with a leading edge. The static tube can be elsewhere suitable.
The bank/processor also knows it and is able to reject any modifications. Whether they do is a matter of their security posture.
I don't even understand why Microsoft is forcing S0ix this hard, i.e. as i understand, forcing OEMs to remove the option for S3 via certification programmes, etc. Suspend/Resume is painful enough as is, with Thunderbolt devices on a picky pcie-connection and else, even with their "improvements".. What a state of affairs. Half an hour ago, my AMD Desktop freezed from suspend/resume due to a Mellanox ConnectX-3 NIC not properly resuming/entering from sleep. Gotta try to reduce the allocated tx/rx-rings from the kernel module, surely, then everything will be, must be good to go. Oh, well..
Surprised that warm-bloodedness is still an issue. Aren't TRex bones cross-sections shown clearly to be of the warm- blooded marrow type? Makes sense for a predator needed bursts of speed.
Some truths are objective, others are subjective.

“The atomic number of helium is 2” is an objective truth. “The best flavor of ice cream is chocolate” is a subjective truth. It might be my truth, but not yours. Maybe your truth is that strawberry is best.

For a more relevant example (not saying you are disagreeing, just that it’s a topic of the article), the fact that someone experiences gender dysphoria may be, in this sense, their truth. It is a question of the individual’s subjective experience.

Everyone acknowledges that people have different subjective experiences, but for some reason, when it comes to this specific issue, acknowledging subjective experience is treated as tantamount to declaring that everybody gets to pick their own atomic number for helium.
90% would be more accurate.
Are these comments real though?
Conflating crypto and AI seems unhelpful. But the subject of "realish domains" is useful. "Realish is reality rendered a bit user-friendly. Natural reality with some improvements." Like sidewalks and traffic lights, and barriers around holes in the ground. Working definition: a realish environment can be traversed by someone who is looking at a phone.

This is a useful concept for targeting AI systems. I sometimes talk about the difficulties of getting AI to squirrel-level manipulation capability. There was an article today about Amazon's latest bin-picking system. It's way below squirrel level. But, in the "realish domain" of an Amazon warehouse, it's almost good enough to be useful.

This comes up all the time in manufacturing. Do you drop parts into a bin, or put them on something that keeps their orientation? If you lose orientation, at some point you have to pay somebody or something to get it back for the next step in the process.

There are degrees of order in part handling. The strict form is, they're in a mechanical feeder which will dispense one item in the desired orientation through a simple motion. Much of manufacturing works like that, but you need specialized tooling for each part. The other extreme, all the parts in a bin with a human pulling them out, is general-purpose but expensive, and slow for small parts. In the middle, there are systems which use simple computer vision systems to find parts in trays that keep the parts in approximately the right place. The vision system can deal with minor misalignment, empty slots, and upside down parts. Those are becoming popular now that simple vision systems are cheap.

"Realish domains" can get similar treatment. If you pad the sharp edges, the AI can be dumber. This applies to tasks outside manufacturing.
I present to you, ladies & gents, James Cameron:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cameron

Avatar and Titanic are stunningly mediocre films. But look at the box office numbers.
That just comes with the territory of being someone who has to understand the implementation details. No getting away from that.
Precisely that. While it has a clear definition, by and large anyone using the term "woke" these days is dogwhistling, and using it as a slur.

The fact that accusing you of caring about society and intersectional justice is supposedly insulting to some people, is really quite remarkable. It's not insulting to be "woke," but it's certainly telling with folk like the commenter above use it as a slur.
Another very weird NSO take. There was a whole spate of news stories about NSO shopping themselves to US investors, and ultimately putting the whole company on the block. The sale would have actually occurred had the Biden administration not stopped it. No, I think this is comprehensively false.

I think people on HN have a really bad habit of mythologizing CNE shops. You do not in fact need state sponsorship to do exploit R&D and build software implants; dozens of people have started companies that do exactly that, and they get bought routinely. All of them have state actors as their primary client base.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that NSO has a tight relationship with the IDF, the same way lots of commercial CNE shops in the US have relationships with NSA. I wouldn't even be surprised to learn the relationship is deeper than that. But there is no evidence at all that NSO is an "arm of Israeli intelligence" in any formal sense, and a lot of countervailing evidence.

It's possible the only thing that distinguishes NSO from any of a dozen other shops is that they happen to be Israeli. Somehow, a CNE shop in Auckland just doesn't seem to excite HN the same way. Maybe there's more to the story than I'm suggesting! But, like, you know what they say about extraordinary claims.
I think people are somewhat misunderstanding what's going on in this story. MSN's AI isn't generating stories wholesale like GPT-3 -- it's selecting other publications' stories from across the web for syndication, but doing it automatically after the company fired the team previously responsible for that curation process in 2020. Unfortunately, this new system is clearly not exercising good judgment about what articles or publications are credible, because of the ridiculous stuff that it's republishing from fake news sites about bigfoot, mermaids, monsters on Mars etc.
If you can find a copy, "Computer Organization" by V. Carl Hamacher, Zvonko G. Vranesic and Safwat G. Zaky, published by Mcgraw-Hill has, at least in my copy of the 2nd edition, a nice chapter on microcode control units.

If you can find a copy, reading the prior chapter on hardwired control units might be reasonable as it is somewhat "background" for following the microcode chapter.
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This is the best approach if they don't need to consider client-side JS mutations. Not sure why I interpreted it that way in my original reply. Thanks!
They did and replaced it with Lit (www.lit.dev) as far as I know which probably explains why it at least doesn’t feel like such a slugish piece of shit anymore.

Still a bunch of other problems but the performance side feels great at least.
I see what you're getting at, and no, speaking frankly and truthfully about America's history of racial discrimination and persecution, as well as its history of other forms of mainstreamed/institutionalized bigotry, in classrooms and the media is not degradation that will lead to widespread cultural debasement and pedophilia.

To be clear, that is what parent is dog-whistling.
Gandhi was a self-proclaimed seeker of truth (his autobiography is titled, "The Story of My Experiments with Truth") and a religious and very spiritual man. Do you believe he was liar too?
Yeah, you're probably right. I'm not very good with words.
> I'm an atheist because I believe in one less god than you do.

That’s not a reason, it’s just the definition of atheism. Why are you an atheist?

> I'm spiritual as fuck, and while I may have my issues, autism is not one of them.

I’m not sure we mean the same thing by spiritual. For example I believe, as St Augustine explains so marvelously in his Confessions, that God is a purely spiritual being.

Do you believe that a spiritual reality exists independently of the material one and that human beings are both material and spiritual creatures? If not then you aren’t as spiritual as any vulgarity because you don’t actually believe yourself to be spiritual at all.

I don’t want to impute beliefs to you that aren’t truly yours though, so unless you choose to clarify I’ll just consider that one possibility.
Amara's law says “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”

Lots of overestimated excitement about how AI will change the world right now, which is to say, AI ain't going to change the world in the next few years.

But in the long term, AI will underpin everything.

I wonder if, in the future, it will not really be possible to know what is going on in the Internet at a deep technical level - that it will be self managed AI all the way down.
Unless things have changed since i last researched this, there aren't non-smart hdtvs currently being manufactured.
> Advertising should be illegal.

Arguably, it should not be a tax-deductible business expense for businesses. At least not beyond, say, 20% of cost of goods sold.
Curiously, while examples of metacoentary stretch back to antiquity, the concept having a name is modern [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-reference#History-of-th...
The ones from the Brandenburg fab sure are.
Will this reduce the popularity of long-haul flights into hubs in France (e.g. CDG), since it won't be possible to get connecting flights to other cities in France?
Study: A threat from a common enemy may no longer unite polarized Americans
CUM?
Assuming you missed it, blockbench is available in-browser: https://web.blockbench.net/

There's even session sharing! File > Edit Sharing...
>about half the power in France still comes from oil and gas)

What ? Unless you're talking about global consumption, at the time of writing this comment, 12% of our electricity production comes from gas (https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/FR), and despite the situation being dogshit throughout Europe, the only countries cleaner than us at the moment are Norway (because shitloads of hydro and small country), Sweden (because small country and shitloads of nuclear) and Slovenia (because small country and shitloads of hydro). On a good day (read: when half of our nuclear reactors aren't busy being broken), we're at 40g eqCO2/kWh.
What do you achieve by making that argument? I was literally referring to adults and bottom surgery, because *bottom surgery isn't being performed on children*.

The problem is that you missed the point entirely.
I picked go for my language this year, which doesn't have good support for sets. May end up writing my own buggy implementation of this.
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