skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing innate to the universe that defines things this way. But they, as a society, have defined things that way. They, as a society, worked together to build up the infrastructure and the resources that are on top of that infrastructure. And then, as a society, decided what the rules are to participate in that society. So no, there's no universal law that says "the people born here have the rights of this society"; but the people of that society have decreed it so.

It's the same way every other right exists. Property rights don't exist as a law of the universe. Rather, "the people" decided they like the stability of having "permanent" control over things so, as a group, decided to enforce those rights.
My friend works there! This is the most I have heard about his work since he was so secretive.
I would be very interested to read more about this, and any explanations for it. I assume they're grounded in political science realities but I would love to know the details if you can remember a source.
Do French Kids Have ADHD? (2012)
Findings from 2k-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network
Podría ser mucho peor, el problema no es lo mal que está, el problema es que en términos generales no mejora.

Hay países en el este de Europa que claramente están progresando, sus estados, su economía, su sociedad.

España cada vez está más dividida, pobre, y su sociedad más tensionada.
I read TSOANM and Stephen Levy's "Hackers" at about the same time, and they are both foundational to my interest in computer history, which seems to have done nothing but grow recently. Good call-out for a great book!
Throttling Requests by Single-Flighting
Zoë Harcombe's primary value appears to be providing reading material for a specific audience of anti-establishment contrarians.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Zo%C3%AB_Harcombe
But this has no protections under the law. If your public support of say pro-life/choice means you can no longer get a job, that's a problem.
The PC is an open platform and that's allowed for things like Firefox with UBlock Origin and Facebook Container. That's much better than what Apple's doing isn't it?

Apple isn't some altruist protecting you from Facebook. The most likely scenario is that Apple wants to be the sole owner of your data so they can sell it instead of Facebook selling it. I bet Apple's ad business grows substantially over the next 5 years.
Just wanted to say thanks too. Back when I was at the university, your blog helped me discover programming languages are something you can actually design. I even ended up contributing to the Rust compiler, which was an incredible learning experience. Thanks for the inspiration!
> Musk also asked people to report suspected Antifa accounts to Andy Ngo a right-wing conservative journalist.

Is there a source on that? Because if so, holy crap... but I'd like to see some evidence.
I haven't, mainly because of this warning on their Limits page:

> Your account is too new to request a limit increase. Please note that we generally do not answer questions regarding limit increase on the telephone.
Thanks for the Wikipedia links. I have a degree that included a great amount of study of (socio-)linguistics and am well acquainted with the distinction.

Describing something in such a way that it furthers an agenda is not objective, nor is it good sociolinguistics, but that's what the dictionary in question has been accused of doing.
>Most people desire to be happy. I don't believe I need to prove this.

Yes, but it is not all people want. Humans have a long list of values which can conflict with happiness.

Hedonism is a very popular philosophy at the moment, but it is not the only one, and other objectives often influence our daily lives.

It is possible that the optimal solution to these other values are in conflict.
That’s the transition we went through. Our dependencies are / were pretty weird so the transition took a bit of effort - I suspect more complicated than many people would have to go through.

We all use Macs at work so we knew it was a matter of time before we were on ARM. I’m glad we made the transition. M1 airs are a delight to work with and Graviton machines are great bang for buck.
Bret Taylor to Step Down at Salesforce; Marc Benioff to Be Chair and CEO
I understand. I've taken meaning from problematic books before too, specifically the adjacent community (with similar problems) of "body language experts" (which turns out to be a grift unsupported by evidence). I did try to use this, with cringey results. I don't recommend these books to people anymore, but there is the odd concept I still find interesting.

I figured that many people would be lurking this thread, potentially for years after this, looking for advice, and I just wanted to put up a sign post in front of this rabbit hole.

Once I went through a terrible breakup with a woman who emotionally abused and gaslit me. I was traumatized and vulnerable, and looking for answers. Thank goodness I didn't stumble into the pickup or Manosphere communities; I worry I'd have been easy pickings for the grifters who prey on them.
I see, but what were the harms of that oligopoly?

The case documented that they violated the law, to be sure. There was certainly the potential for harm. But how much harm was actually done?

As far as I can tell the ones who objected most to the studio system were the actors, not the audiences. It's why the Screen Actors Guild was created; the abuses were well documented.

This case illustrates that an oligopoly can be broken up if it acts as a cartel. Do Apple and Google do that?

Sorry; I don't mean to sound like I'm "Just Asking Questions". I'm not a lawyer, but I am an actor with a bit of understanding of the studio system history so I'm interested in the lessons.
> The only thing that will help here is finding small, less PR minded brands or businesses to replace the players in the nine figure club.

My partner runs a small business that spends a few million on ads each year.

Why would she take the risk (and it is a huge risk) of advertising on Twitter when Facebook, Google etc. give her the confidence and results her business depends on. Smaller businesses are far less likely to take risks.
I would have thought moving LEOs away from danger would _decrease_ the use of unnecessary lethal force.

Their lives are no longer in danger and thus they have no reason to panic and react (with lethal force) to unconfirmed threats.

Thoughts?
This title is painfully sensationalist. Physicists simulated a wormhole using a quantum computer, they did not create one.
I'm interested in hearing more about their switching to Graviton with Clickhouse.

We've been testing Clickhouse on Graviton and the performance isn't there due to a variety of reasons, most notably it seems because Clickhouse for arm64 is cross-complied and JIT isn't enabled like it is for amd64[1].

1. https://fosstodon.org/@manish/109397948927679076
I ordered a replacement toner cartridge for our HP laser printer in 2019 when it reported it was low. We print a few pages a day on average and the new one is still in the box... I haven't even had to take it out and shake it.
Interesting. https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1129603377401401345
If a buzzy restaurant or show has a long queue outside you can usually skip it on your own. Feels very cool!
I'm kind of annoyed by ChatGPT claiming - in an authorative tone - things that are wrong. This particular model should be trained to be humble and admit when it doesn't know something instead of making stuff up.
On November 23, Twitter stopped enforcing its "COVID-19 misleading information" policy.

The previous policy received acclaim from medical professionals: In an advisory to technology platforms, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy cited Twitter’s rules as an example of what companies should do to combat misinformation.
When journalist Kara Swisher in September 2020 confronted Musk with the possibility that many people could die if they didn’t follow public health recommendations, the man who believes he is making cars safer and saving mankind by going to Mars replied bluntly: “Everybody dies.”

The argument could be made that Elon cares more about virtual, future people than actual people living today.
Some of the most effective app-asssisted games I've played involved hidden knowledge. Alchemists and Mansions of Madness in particular.
But in the real world, bitcoin and indeed all of crypto is a/are token/s without an army behind it or any form of legal promises except those conferred to them by $L1. Unless you want to go to El Salvador or that one other nation that made it legal tender, Bitcoin is L2 (and a shitty one at that looking at stability, fees and speed)
It's a very old business model. Often cited in introductory businesss classes as the "Kodak model" (give away the camera, sell the film) or the "Gillette model" (give away the handle, sell the blades).

Generically you use the initial equipment purchase as a loss leader and then profit by marking up the required supplies.
Google customers win class-action status in lawsuit over app store prices
I've met many climate change deniers, both in real life and online. They used to be very thick on the ground on sites like this one and particularly on Slashdot. (Ugh, remember "Climategate”?) It has been something of a pleasure watching them gradually disappear from sites with more thoughtful readers. Sadly, the reason they're disappearing is because boldfaced climate denial doesn't fly with reasonably intelligent HN folks anymore, given what we can see with our own eyes.

The smarter new ones have switched away from rants about "AGW" and scientists being untrustworthy. They now tell us climate change won't be that bad and we can "adapt."
Musk might be feeling the heat, among other things, from the EU's commissioner for internal market.

https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1598015892457426944
Rent servers: yes. Host your own: maybe. You can run a whole-ass company on 2 $70/mo servers from Hetzner (and some B2 for durable storage) while you figure out whether you have a market or not.

Like there's just no point in coloing when you're small because either all non-server bits will cost you for no reason or you're using something managed which is just cloud but more annoying.
Uh, yes? That's exactly what I've been saying upthread.
I already linked a video that covers some of this history ("A CONSERVATIVE solution to global warming") in another comment, but basically the Koch brothers and a few other fossil fuel magnates freaked out when George H W Bush was going to commit to Kyoto, and started the long term suicide pact of the American right and climate change denial:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/kochland-examin...

“Kochland” Examines the Koch Brothers’ Early, Crucial Role in Climate-Change Denial

> The meeting, in 1991, was sponsored by the Cato Institute, a Washington-based libertarian think tank, which the Kochs founded and heavily funded for years. As Leonard describes it, Charles Koch and other fossil-fuel magnates sprang into action that year, after President George H. W. Bush announced that he would support a treaty limiting carbon emissions, a move that posed a potentially devastating threat to the profits of Koch Industries. At the time, Bush was not an outlier in the Republican Party. Like the Democrats, the Republicans largely accepted the scientific consensus on climate change, reflected in the findings of expert groups such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which had formed in 1988, under the auspices of the United Nations.
> The acceptance of the real number continuum is not even settled.'

What do you mean by that?
They are related. If you can detect it early enough you can deal with it. The problem is that most people don't even know they have pancreatic cancer until it has metastasized to other sites, at which point it's basically a lost cause.
Facebook and Spotify CEOs Slam Apple's App Store
> People used to be free to go anywhere in the world...

Except that ~zero prehistoric people had access to the resources / skills / knowledge / etc. to actually travel really long distances.

And if they tried moving, at scale, into an already-inhabited area - well, whether or not the people in the destination qualified as a "state", I suspect that pretty universally resulted in violent push-back.
I am a Rust fan, but 10% degradation in performance (29ms to 33ms) is not "a pretty small change" nor "within noise threshold". If the accuracy of the tests are +/- 10% then that needs to be proven and then fixed. I didn't see any evidence in the article that there is, in fact, a 10% error, and it looks like there is a genuine 10% drop in performance.
I think the article would have been better if it used standard money supply definitions M0, M1, M2, and M3 instead of the "Layer" terminology. That way the reader would be able to carry that knowledge to other conversations. But an advantage of his terminology is that it keeps the layers separate while the standard definitions are nested, so M1 includes M0, M2 includes M1, M3 includes M2. With his layered model he is able to highlight some of the power struggles more easily.
Are there any societies that have not exerted, or at least claimed the right to exert, control over who is and is not part of that society? The reasons for exercising that control may vary, but I can't think of or even imagine one that doesn't have this control.
With bounds checking by default, even if a compiler can't statically prove that an index is in bounds, if the index in practice is always in bounds, the compiler inlines the check/branch into the calling function, and you're not starved of branch prediction resources, the check will be "free" because the branch will always be predicted as taken.
> I think the author paints a rosier picture of their achievements than I would. Let’s just say there is more than one side to the story.

If this is all you are willing to say here, then there's no value to your contribution.
Many will also push http/https proxies regardless of
IP addressing schemes, so even if one user bypasses it,
anyone using defaults will come from whatever the external proxy IP is.
This is sort of what I was getting at with my original comment. I also don’t give credence to the idea that this is primarily about will power, although I see how my original comment could be construed that way.

The US is dumpster fire, and I say that as a US citizen. We have so much high-calorie, low quality food, and so many obstacles to healthful food security in some places, that it borders on the intuitive that these would be significant contributing factors.
How much money did it save? How much was this in savings after paying their salaries? Article doesn't say. If they were breaking even, or barely "profitable", then maybe it wasn't worth the management overhead, especially with a team lead vehemently opposed to the company's focus.
Mastodon FTW
Starlink Global (?) Outage
Lots of reports on Starlink outage, from UK to Australia. Unfortunately looks like no central status page for Starlink?
If it heads in a Fox News or UK Sun type of direction, I'm gone. But for the time being, it really is one of the few sources of high-quality business coverage. That's partially why it's so inordinately expensive compared to other papers.
EU raises prospect of big fine or ban if Twitter fails to follow new legislation
Censorship isn't cancellation, at least as far as the two terms are popularly used. Censorship involves being prevented from publicly speaking or promulgating one's views. Cancellation is shaming, social ostracization, or mass repudiation. There's some overlap in that a party with the power to censor you can use that power when cancelling you. But you can censor someone without cancelling them and cancel someone without censoring them.

I do agree with you that being against cancellation isn't necessarily pro censorship either.
If your threat model is the same as an intelligence service, which it basically would if in effect you wanted to protect against state intelligence services, then you would need to follow similar procedures.

AFAIK, it's a common practice to have critical systems disconnected from the internet or external networks and located in rooms protected against human intrusion (duh) but also against remote sensing, which these days includes pretty much anything (RF, sound, light, etc).

You'd also need to take special measures to avoid equipment from being tampered with before it reaches you.

I read articles that the Russians were banning computers altogether in some circumstances and using typewriters instead.

But of course if this is indeed "threatening" you'd be as likely to have an 'unfortunate accident' in any case.
Probably not use a computer.
They don't also (I believe) take work away from younger workers because they are more likely to change jobs frequently—which is much more common. Pretty clearly ageism.
These official statements are worthless when Elon decides everything based on a poll on his private account and by his circle of yes-men.
Introduction to Cubical Type Theory
If you've seen it, you can point us to it instead of claiming the rest of us are burying our heads in the sand.

I raised my head up high and actively looked for the story by Googling "lost business daughter joke" and came up empty.
Ironically this quote also show how broken the US is: It's normal to take pain killers.

It should not be.

It should be a last resort.

You should take what fixes the problem and give your body time to heal not take pain killers and pretend nothing is wrong.

Pain killers are addicting, can have an increasingly reduced effect, can have a bunch of side effects and can make the end result much worse by not healing wounds (metaphorically) when they are still easy to heal(1).

(1): Through sometimes they can also help you healing by preventing you from doing pain-caused bad actions, like setting down your food in a bad angle.

EDIT: Just to be clear I mean pain killers for a "normal live" situation, not in context of you lying in a hospital bed or having extrema healthy issue which can't be fixed/heal anytime shortly.
Cancellation is different in that it attempts to "boycott" an individual for holding non-majority views. If you can no longer get a job because you are vocally pro-choice for example, that's a problem. The state should protect someone's right to express their beliefs. This means that you will have pro-life / pro-choice people at the same company, and that needs to be ok. If it's not, it has a chilling effect on freedom of speech.
My laser Samsung from 2013 has a just small display and simple function buttons. But I never got an original cartridge - the replacement I can get online are far cheaper and cost me about 8.50 EUR without the delivery cost.

The printer works but paper feeder rollers seem to struggle now. I'm afraid that once it gets broken beyond any repair I'll have to get new which will chain me to official supplies.

ghacks.net [1] has published a news about Epson ending the laser printers production while focusing more on inkjet segment from now on, which as they claim are more eco than laser ones. One of the users in the comments says HP already region-locks their cartridges

[1] - https://www.ghacks.net/2022/11/29/epson-announces-end-of-las...
> The point is though, all laws make someone "less free", because the purpose of law is to prohibit.

I think you're wrong. Not all laws prohibit. For example, take a law that establishes public libraries. It doesn't prohibit anybody from anything.
Actually it said “peas help”.

Stupid computer.
Completely agree... the only exception I've run into is that for small operations build tooling often doesn't work well with arm64.

EG: GitHub actions can build a container in a few minutes in x64 or 35 minutes in arm64... likewise aws-cdk literally could not run an arm64 fargate ecs deployment for months after support was added (They simply did not support the required attribute in the container definition).

I would love to see this change as I've had nothing but great experiences with graviton for virtually anything arm supported.
I don't think I've ever been introduced to artists I wouldn't have listened to otherwise through Spotify.

In general I find Spotify's recommendation to be slightly worse than just listening to the radio.

I don't have a good alternative at the moment though. A long time ago I built a music recommendation system based on Discogs that made a vector space based on the genres and then found the most similar albums of one album. When I listened to a track I'd then lookup the album for the track, find the most similar albums and then play some random songs from those albums, but with some controls to make larger jumps possible. It was not using a vector database like FAISS so it was kinda slow and had other issues and with too much bitrot I'd need a complete rewrite to get it working again, but I found lots of new music with it.

Maybe there's some services like that out there now that can hook up to streaming services like Spotify?
Epson announces end of laser printer production
Rewilding Human-Computer Interaction
It's a trope with some truth to it, but it runs out of steam fairly quickly. Was original facebook a painkiller? Instagram? $1000 iPhone? Liver King?

I find it's a useful framework for selling b2b. Even then, desire can win over pain many times.

Fear and greed are the real big sellers in b2b anyway.
There is a world between using AWS and buying your own servers
What's the threshold for this though? If you choose the hash and I have to produce the preimage, that scenario means you could always pick a "strong" hash, but if e.g. 50% of hashes are "weak" hashes, then a completely randomly selected hash would have a 50% chance of being "weak" and therefore attackable. If I can break 50% of randomly-selected hashes, does that count? Or would it have to be more like producing a preimage for hashes generated by randomly-selected inputs (and therefore the "weak" hashes in this scenario would be unlikely to be produced).
Safe iterators have to have bounds checks for dynamically sized arrays; otherwise, how you prevent iterators from walking past the end?
https://www.google.com/search?q=castigating since you seem confused by whether that word is "flame language" or merely descriptive.

Calling it "hilarious" was definitely the work of a flamer though.
Nothing in your comment refutes my position. The very rules and actions of "Trust and safety" are what I am talking about, not what links users of the platform share.

Try to actually talk about what I am complaining about
> VR as a technology is cool and revolutionary

That's a funny way of saying decades old at this point and still not ready for prime time.
Can't be done. The state is the one that produces the chips (Intel is just another branch of the government). Software is just a layer on top that can always be subverted with hardware by someone who knows the sequence of operations that will give them access.
I use Facebook to keep in touch with old friends and sometimes people organize events and they invite me on Facebook and it works and makes my life a tiny bit better.