skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all a canard because things like Roblox are a far more efficient means of connecting children to both undue sexual and economic exploitation than any of the old, distributed server methods.

All of those old games were rated for teenagers or adults. Some of the worst actual threats to young children come from things like Roblox that give parents a false sense that the company is moderating the content effectively.

Unfortunately, most of the industry has chosen to support two bad models: either pure P2P or the uni-corporate-server-farm model. Neither of them really provide the best experience for consumers. While the distributed dedicated server model does have its own problems, it also has many advantages, including that of outsourcing server management to small businesses and hobbyists rather than absorbing all those costs to the software maintainer.
Ah, but they do want to fit in and speak like their peers, and while a significant part of their socialisation happens online, and as long as that is where they absorb most content, AI will soon infiltrate the circle of online strangers with whom they interact. That's all the more so considering that teenagers are prime targets for advertising networks of dubious ethical standards, who will be the first to deploy (or may already have deployed) well trained and self-correcting "How do you do, fellow kids?" NNs in potentially lucrative communities or social networks.

(I'm not always as doom-and-gloom as it may seem, I'm just in a pessimistic mood today for some reason)
First, Monsanto and its way of operating very much still exist. Just because it was purchased by another company (which of course resulted in an even greater monopoly), does not make its impact to the world disappear.

Second, everytime this topic comes up, pro-GMOist make it sound like the technology is making some great strides with providing 'healthier food for everyone' with no downside. Why is it that the current model for GMO aims to increase resistance to pesticides instead of simply growing the yield? It probably has nothing to do with the fact that the company that provides you the seeds, also sells the pesticide. And how about the said pesticides tendency to destroy the micro-organisms in the soil, in effect making it harder to grow crops, and ultimately starting a loop for "more GMO, more pesticide, more land, repeat".

Figure a less disruptive business model, and I might be more pro-GMO myself.
Well, it's hard to maintain 80mph in the mountains, it's also less likely to be very warm as you go up. A summer trip to Tahoe from where I live in the central valley is about 2.5 hours and it easily makes that. I am even close to making it home on the same charge.
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Their server auction is great if you find one you like.

Much less than a day. I found new auction servers took only a few minutes to be up and running after selecting them.
Same with default config new servers (no extra SSDs etc).
Charging stations are cheap compared to diesel pumps, it’s not a huge logistical challenge, just some hardware, space, and an electrician to turn things on.

Chargers at truck stops can only be good for their margins, who would have to cater to people waiting for their trucks to charge on things they actually make money in (hint: it’s not diesel or electrons).
GMOs are terrible which is why they're banned in most European countries.

> bad wrap they've gotten from science ignorants

Science is not about blind trust. How many times have scientists discovered wondrous new things like asbestos, Thalidomide, leaded gasoline, teflon, only to take decades to realize the consequences?

Even if we blindly trust science, there are various other issues like: patenting life, monopolization, reducing genetic diversity, GMO cross-pollination, &c.
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When I was working as a team lead, I rejected any PR that was not in line with the rules. I stopped the review immediately I saw the rule breaking line(s).

One time, a manager asked me why I rejected a PR at the end of the sprint, before the demo, and I said, as you wrote above, that it's my responsibility and if he wants to overrule me, he should do that officially by assuming responsibility and escalating to our boss.

Make sure the rules are clear and then stop trying to appease.

edit: I wanted to make it clear that the rules were broken only when a new dev joined the team, after a rejection or two, PRs were extremely rare instantly rejected.
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The problem with Xi is that his demonstrated domain experience is in becoming powerful in the CCP, not in anything else I'm aware of; no reason strategy there will translate into good results for the country including its power; see Mao. The observation that he's "not a very good helmsman" comes from all the things he's not handled well since clawing his way to the top, many before COVID started roaming the land.

In sort of the same domain, see how poor the response was to "pig Ebloa" (African swine fever) which was certain to hit the PRC once it broke out in the Caucuses and was not contained there. See the 2021-22 winter thermal fuel situation which started with pique which ended Australian coal imports (which are also cheaper than the PRC's own production on the mainland).

Other stuff he inherited, like the one child policy and I'm pretty sure the residential real estate bubble, so judging the quality of his response to them in the context of all their inertia is hard. That said, puncturing economic bubbles is not thing that should be delayed, although here again it would have needed to be replaced by _something_ or the PRC would have to end its financial repression (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_repression), something you also see most of the rest of the world continuing.
Didn't disappear. Thanks for sharing!
I was just cruising ebay for a used thin client pc to set up as a pihole to replace a flood damaged pi 2, but holy crap are pi's hard to get. Even with the pi-tracker website, if you're don't Immediately buy one listed (or live in Europe apparently), you miss out. Like, even if you miss it by 20 minutes. I've been trying for a month or so to get one, and can't other than the re-sale (read: Marked way UP in price) market.

It's a bit frustrating, but it is what it is, I suppose.
Maybe I'm the exeption, but there is nothing digital in my current life that I have any expectation to live beyond me. If anyone cared about my photographs, there are folders and folders of negatives. If anyone cares about the music I've written, there are printed folders with all my music in them. Same for short stories and screenplays. Honestly, I've always treated the entirety of tech as ephemeral. Of course, being permanantly single makes that a little easier for me.
Can you think of a scenario where you would be playing the role of Bob, not Alice, here? Suppose it went down this way:

Alice: Say, for the sake of argument, Bob beats his wife.

Bob: But I don't beat my wife...

Alice: Whether you beat your wife or not is a different question. For purposes of our conversation about consequences you beat your wife.

In this scenario Bob understands the implication of logical conclusions but considers the conversation to be a trap.
> I was considering something similar and then found this: https://gist.github.com/frozenice/fafb1565f8299a888f94d11137... (benchmarking Hetzner's cloud volumes, with unfavorable comments from people trying PG and MySQL deployments).

Network volumes always have lower iops than local disks. Thats expected, except when you pay a huge price.

> I emphasize that I personally did not run any such tests, yet. But was wondering, since this is Hetzner thread, that maybe someone can share their experience, in particular comparing AWS's gp2/gp3 based deployments vs Hetzner's volumes.

AWS GP3 has a baseline performance of 3000 iops, and from there on you have to pay for each iop/s. To reach the performance of hetzner volumes you have to add 20$/month. But with AWS you can get higher than the hetzner value. But the iops performance of the dedicated machine is not possible with gp3 (max. 16k, compared to hetzner 30-40k for local disks).

With io2 devices you can get higher than 16k iops, and higher than the hetzner local disk.

https://aws.amazon.com/de/ebs/general-purpose/
I’m having trouble finding an article to back up my claim, so I fear I must be misremembering. Current consensus seems to be that LUCA was part of the hydrothermal vent ecosystem.
> You're claiming that the security issue detailed in the article will be fixed through the Play Store, for devices no longer receiving updates from the device maker?

Yes. The Webkit equivalent (Webview) is updated via the Play Store ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... ). A bug on Webview would be fixed with an app update, which doesn't even require a restart. Makes sense if we think about it... we don't need a system update to update Chrome/Firefox/Edge/Safari on our computer.

On iOS, a fix or new features on the email, photos, phone, messages, etc, apps are presented as a security/new OS update. On Android, you get an app update.

It's not only apps, they can also update system parts. For example, if there's an issue with the "module" that deals with media, wifi/bluetooth, etc, Google can issue an update and the phone receives it via the Play Store. This article (scroll down) has a list of all modules that can be updated: https://blog.esper.io/what-is-project-mainline/ . I don't know if it's from Google or the different SoC makers, but they can also update things like GPU drivers on newer devices (the user obviously doesn't see any of this).

And Google can backport features without updates from the brand. For example, during the pandemic, Apple and Google added support for Covid apps... in Google's case, they released an update via the store and every phone going back to Android 6 (2015) got it. That's also how they added support for earthquake detection/warnings, nearby share (similar to airdrop), etc.

> There are advantages to the iOS model of six years of full support followed by security updates for many years later, especially when an actively exploited issue is discovered.

Long term support is good and Apple is ahead here offering 5 or 6 major updates. However, it's important to understand what these "security updates" bring.

The iPhone 5s isn't as secure as the iPhone 14 because iOS 12 isn't supported any more. This security update, which was essentially a browser update, reminds me of Microsoft releasing a patch for EOL Windows XP or Win 7 because some malware was taking computers left and right. They fixed one problem, but many remain and you can't consider XP to be safe.

I have used iPhones before (iPhone 5) and am aware of the benefits of Apple's system updates, but we're screwed when those 5 or 6 major updates end. Your browser might get a patch like this, but it's still outdated and doesn't support new web features. On Android, because they are detached from the system, the device maker could be out of business and your 6 year old device running an old Android build will have the latest Chrome, photo gallery, email, etc.
I had no idea there 10k different car models.
You should definitely stick with Postgres -- you made the right call.

But also...

https://www.rethinkdb.cloud

Don't know who is behind it -- a company named MostlyTyped (not sure if this has old RDB engineers in it), but warms my heart that the repo is still seeing commits and usage.
If people who weren't going to do something in a safe matter stop doing something altogether, that's not a failure of a safety law.
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Google doesn’t actually have to do anything at all other than slurp personal data up and use it to improve ad margins. Once your the default search engine, the default home page, and the default browser, you’ve locked 99% of the world into your portal. You control what people see and do, and they have to accept it. That’s what triggered the browser wars of the 1990’s - the realization that that trifecta is the keys to world domination.

Saying “yeah but Kagi” is talking about you and your tribe only. The world isn’t going to pay for Kagi or take the N steps required to switch. Microsoft realized they could kill Netscape by simply not requiring the user to download anything, then failed to consolidate. Google managed to be better for just long enough to consolidate so pervasively that any further investment in improvement is a literal waste of energy and money.

So, don’t hold your breath from an improvement in SEO garbage. It’ll just get worse. Definitely use Kagi and hopefully we will have great niche subscription based tools that have an incentive to be better. But don’t expect that Google perceives ANY problems with the status quo or that they have to do anything about anything other than increasing ad margins.
Ah, I see the problem, you appear to never have used a smartwatch. Let me explain. It does that all the time regardless of what you’re doing. Activity specific tracking is it keeping track of additional things (precise gps, reps, running cadence, etc) during a tracked activity.

As I said previously, this additional tracking is for training that needs additional sports-specific data. Everyone gets the same always on steps, sit/stand, and heartbeat tracking.
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So.... All your base are belong to us?
Isn't that how the UK monarch always travels? No need for a passport, because the host country knows who he or she is?
> Monsanto hasn't existed for years.

Of course it has, Bayer just tried to ditch the bad brand image:

> The closing sets the stage for the 117-year-old agribusiness brand name “Monsanto” to be dropped by Bayer. Monsanto’s efforts to promote genetically modified crops have been the subject of much controversy from anti-GMO activists, and the U.S. company has spent millions of dollars over the years on brand and corporate ad campaigns to improve its overall image.

It's now called Bayer Crop Science Division and does the same thing.

Are you also outraged if someone says Facebook instead of Meta, although the social network is just one of the products from the company called Meta today?
> "Adobe, by contrast, seems comfortable with the legal risk. Although it is requiring creators to affirm they have proper rights to the works they submit, it will indemnify buyers of stock images should there be any legal challenges. That's significant given that there are a number of unanswered questions around generative AI, including whether people whose works have been part of training the AI systems have any legal claim to the systems or the works they produce."

It is legally risky - however, if history shows anything, US Courts are terrified of shutting down fledgling industries just because it doesn't fit well with the old way of doing things. For example - the VCR (Sony vs Universal). Similarly, computers being used for copyright violations en masse did not make Adobe Photoshop or BitTorrent illegal. Criminals using encryption ultimately did not make VeraCrypt or PGP illegal. People changing their region to watch out-of-region videos did not make VPNs illegal.

So, actually... precedent-wise, supporting the AI-generated photographs industry and getting it off the ground is arguably the best way to keep it legally in the clear. If it was this super-niche thing that everyone was scared to touch, the odds of courts shutting it down increase.
OpenBSD still supports it, regardless of whether users can actually purchase the hardware. I mean, it also supports loads of hardware that hasn't even been manufactured in years if not decades, so availability of the hardware on the market is hardly its limiting factor.
> any layperson can say "hey AI slave, write me a program that..."?

I think this is one of the big challenges. From my limited experience, a person without expertise being able to describe accurately enough what a program should do is often a challenge. Further more it is often after an initial implementation that even engineers are able to understand the full requirements of a system. It's possible that generating yet-another-crud-app wouldn't be any challenge to GPT but then at that point there could be a market saturation of CRUD applications (is that not the case already?) and value might shift to apps that are able to do more than just CRUD.

Then again, predicting the future is tricky business when we are so notorious at not being able to predict what can we do during the next sprint! :-D
Is this really the case? While CRDT's are designed to work peer-to-peer, they don't need to be fully connected to all clients. Forcing the synchronization through controlled nodes (a server or cluster) allows adding read/write permissions. Depending on the use case, it may require additional logic for reversing operations before propagating to other clients, or in some cases forcing a client to revert to a snapshot (this can be a bit complex). That's an approach I've used in the past.

Have I overlooked something (highly likely)?
Yeah I figured they were scanning faces already.
A solution has to start somewhere, and this is such a place: https://github.com/sowbug/b39tools. It produces five physical cards, each containing a share of a Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme secret, that can be used to decrypt a text document with important passphrases that next of kin will need.

Every time I return to this repo, I think it's awful, and I try to improve the recovery phase's usability.

That said, the author of the article notes that "[His wife is] not a techie and has absolutely no interest in becoming one." I'd advise him to separate the concerns of living the life of a techie, and handling the death of one. If you've ever been an executor of a loved one's estate, or worse, in charge of the estate of someone who died without a will but with significant assets, you know that dealing with someone's affairs after death is complicated or expensive (and often both). Asking someone to install some software and enter credentials is well within bounds.
IMO the issue is that an artist does not have copyright on a style.

"Salvador Dali style painting" does not violate Dali's copyright any more than Dali violated the copyright of his surrealist influences.

It is like saying music made with guitar/bass/drums/vocals violates The Beatles copyright. No matter how remote, the influence of The Beatles is in the "training data" at this point with that configuration.

Stable Diffusion would have nothing on a band like Oasis violating The Beatles copyright if we want to go down this road of artist copyrighting a style. It is nonsense.
I feel good about the unhackability of my 2001 corvette. It don’t have any connected anything.
My bad, then the dog kicker gets to live in the economy of 2022. using the reimbursements from 1995.

Still a lovely display of empathy and entitlement from people who blindly refuse to acknowledge that the person who created mIRC is human.
> Another way I'm thinking about it is with GMO food. GMO food supporters point out that GMOs help us feed more people, but it still makes others uneasy.

a very apt analogy perhaps in a way you didn't intend. it makes people uneasy, there's a natural reaction towards the unnatural, maybe for emotional reasons. it's the same way with GMO crops and AI poems—they will not be able to tell the difference between actual creativity and "artificial artefacts"/"random statistical noise", but they're supposed to have mystical difference. One authentic, the other inauthentic. One that is actually good, and one that merely tricks you into thinking it is good. But don't attempt to scientifically determine if there's any difference... you'll be disappointed.
There are some other pieces missing.
The cluster-autoscaler implementation is quite basic. It doesn't have a way to managing multiple clusters inside the same project and no way to add custom tags. That makes it harder to track resources.
The permissions/security is quite simple. Read/write tokens with full permissions on the project is very wide. Adding S3 like service without more security would be interesting.
These are the most important ones, but I remember there were a few more nice to have feature (like server groups for scaling up an down and the ability to retrieve the userdata, image and ssh keys for a running server.
It's a very small step from there to saying that activities like above treeline winter hiking, ice climbing, motorcycle riding, playing football, etc. should be prohibited (or at least require expensive private insurance) because some number of people consider them unreasonably dangerous.
None of these AI systems significantly outperform searching for the answer online. The AI is good because:
- The programs it generates are small
- The programs generated solve well known problems with well known answer

Current AI replaces SW developers the same way StackOverflow and blog posts replace SW developers.

The real question is how fast new AI is going to be developed which overcomes these challenges. I think what is pretty certain that current language models will never be a serious contender against programmers, their whole structure makes it very difficult to perform actual logical reasoning about the structure of a computer program.

Another thought: How useful is an AI which is correct 99% of the time?
How much development resources would be needed to fix a code base which is 1% total nonsense that does not even compile or is just plain wrong. Would the developer time (all of which have never seen the code) spent fixing that code base be actually less than a total rewrite?
Er, serial and telnet are very different things; what exactly are you doing?
Is the actual constraint on your actual application actually CPU cycles?

Most applications are constrained by IO, network properties, or humans in the loop.

And most of those work well enough anyway.

Good luck.