skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see it different, and to the comment one level up...we have the illusion of democracy, which takes the oppression of opposition to a whole new level.

In fact, this episode of Freakanomics talks about The Politics Industrial Complex and how The Media is on the inside of that bubble. In short, without a healthy and objective Fourth Estate there is no democracy. Add in the duopoly one-party choices and it gets even worse.

There's more to democracy than getting to vote. What we're living is the Orwellian defintion of democracy.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/im-your-biggest-fan/

I also heard it said on another reputable podcast - I think it was "How I built this" - that the top corporate guest of the Obama WH was Google. I'm trying to verify that. This looks close enough.

It's odd that a POTUS who sold hope would be so closely aligned with a surveillance company.

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close...

See also: "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" for a look behind Google's public facing narrative.

The Pentagon keeps failing its audits, to the tune of trillions of dollars, and the people are silent. Trillions? If it walks like corruption and talks like corruption...well we all should see where this is going. Yet, zero opposition to this?

That's enough for now.
Clashes over FTX Bankruptcy Go Global
I did a bit of digging on this just now, since I was curious why the Biden administration would want to stop a US defense contractor from pursuing this acquisition. Strictly from a strategic perspective, the purchase seems like it would have benefited the US, since NSO possesses uniquely valuable capabilities, and bringing them under the wing of a US defense contractor would mean the US would get to determine which zero-days it kept for itself and which it parsed out to its allies.

According to The Guardian:

"...a senior White House official suggested that any possible deal could be seen as an effort by a foreign government to circumvent US export control measures. The senior White House official also said that a transaction with a blacklisted company involving any American company – particularly a cleared defence contractor – 'would spur intensive review to examine whether the transaction poses a counterintelligence threat to the US government and its systems and information'.

...

There were other complications. The Israeli ministry of defence would have had to sign off on any takeover of NSO surveillance technology by a US company and it is far from clear whether officials were willing to bless any deal that took control of NSO’s licences away from Israel.

...the person also said that the deal faced several unresolved issues, including whether the technology would be housed in Israel or the US and whether Israel would be allowed to continue to use the technology as a customer." [1]

Of these obstacles, it seems like the biggest was related to counter-intelligence, i.e. that the Israeli intelligence services could feed any disinformation they liked to the American intelligence services via NSO? That's how I read this, anyway. I'm a noob to this though, and would love to be corrected if I'm wrong.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/10/us-defence-f...
AlphaCode is solving much harder problems than these first few days of AoC
Laws should not be decided just based on what is good for you in particular, but in considering what is the most efficient in average.

Sure, you may have an easy access to the airport outside the city centre, but people in the city centre, which constitute a bigger number, have a worst access. And people who are not in the city centre but on the other side also have a worst access to the airport than the city centre.

The comment you answer to is still very relevant: it is true that in average using the train is not as disastrous as one could think (so the disadvantages are compensated by the advantage with regard to environment). The fact that it is not advantageous for every one is trivial and not really relevant.
Low-DPI screens (e.g. Full-HD) are common on desktop systems and laptops, and will remain so for the foreseeable future, due to their lower cost, and due to native applications that aren’t designed for hi-DPI. Pixel-based icons look better on those than vector icons. “Slightly blurry” is the bane of modern visual UI design.
The 'West' might support the protesters, sure, but the effort is still negligible to the will of Iranians. What I read in your comment is that the ppl of Iran have no agency, all is just conflict between the 'West' and whatever. I just find this stance incredibly patronising. One hears the same thing on Ukraine (from Chomsky, for example).
Gajim 1.5.4 has been released – XMPP Chat Client
There's a whole lot of difference between hating a political party and hating the supporters of said party.

I have had to explain this to online friends who felt persecuted while in reality people's issues is the party not the person.
I haven't seen any evidence that leading edge research is anything but public.

The leading labs (Google Brain/DeepMind/NVIDIA/Meta/Microsoft/OpenAI) all publish in the open.

I'm excited by three things:

This emergent phenomenon thing - as we build bigger models there is a step function where they suddenly develop new abilities. Unclear where that ends.

The work people are doing to move these abilities to smaller models

Multi-modal models. If you think this is impressive just wait until you can do the same but with images and text and video and sound and code all in the same model.
NYC is an amazing place. What about it makes you want to never visit?
Elon Musk Says Apple Is ‘Fully’ Advertising on Twitter Again
Slightly different reason to change the title: I first read it as though the physical office was breached.
It might be a common problem to all air forces around the world but how many other countries have so many air bases around the world? I guess that no Japanese ever complained about the environmental impact of an Italian or French air force base in Okinawa.
Does this include the 12.8 million Uyghurs in China?
Why do you think this? I don't think there's any reason it would be able to reproduce its own code. It's never seen it so it's not in the weights, and it doesn't have that type of reflection so it can't look it up dynamically.
I’m on the paid plan myself but it’s for personal use. Thanks for the information though. Seems like as a company, Protonmail has a long way to go still
> Jet fuel is tax free in the EU, a huge market-distorting subsidy:

Also, are the externalities of jet exhaust taken into account? Is there any kind of carbon pricing in EU/France?
Yes, in Democracies people are culpable for the actions of their government. But I think the obligations of the Americans, Israelis, Russians, Chinese, etc is limited to consent to paying reparations to people their state has committed atrocities against. For example by paying a special tax which goes to the wronged people.
There's not enough people.

Unemployment rates are like 4%, population density is like 115 people per square mile, and workforce participation is like 60%.

That's like ~2.8 per square mile you can employ. That's not even ~100,000 people in a 100 mile radius. No way you're going to attract 10% of them to work in your factory.

Somewhere like Detroit might be possible - ~4.5M people, 6.1% unemployment, ~62% participation = ~170k - a lot with previous manufacturing experience.

All that in a ~33 mile radius instead of ~100 mile radius...
a telephone, generally in a public place, where you deposit payment for phone calls, usually in the form of coins.
Consider OpenAPI for the first two points - you can define a schema (YAML or JSON) and use it to generate both server & client stubs.

Depending on the language/framework used it'll validate too - e.g. the python backend framework connexion (a thin wrapper around flask) will 500 if you return a non-conforming response, and 400/405/etc. if the request doesn't fit the declared schema, automatically.
This article reads to me that people who read quickly are braggarts and those who read slowly are pompous.

There's a joy to doing things slowly just so much as there is a joy of doing things quickly. Reminds me of the Francis Bacon? quote:

> Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
The problem is that the LLM is just that - a language model. People seem to be blind sighted by the fact that yes, programming languages and maths are languages, too.

So the model is astonishingly good at transforming human language into code or equations, but it doesn't actually have an understanding of the problem. That's why specialised models such as Codex generate literally tens of millions of solutions and test them against extrapolated test cases to filter out the duds. ChatGPT doesn't do that.

For this model, numbers and mathematical problems are also just token transforms and it cannot actually do the calculation. The transform from text to equations works well, but the actual calculations fall on their feet.

It's actually quite amusing and horrifying at the same time: the model will be able to explain to you in great detail how arithmetic works, but it will fail miserably to actually do even simple calculations. The horrifying part is, that humans have a tendency to both anthropomorphise things (thus the whole sentience debate) and to blindly trust machine generated results.

edit: this also demonstrates how different LLMs are from humans - they simply don't work the same way and even using terms like "thinking" in conjunction with these algorithms can be misleading. Maybe we need new terminology when talking about what these systems do.
> Because liberalism is largely a Western concept, at least in origin.

Hum... I suggest you take a deeper look at this.

Modern liberalism is an obvious progression of the ancient variety, and it's really ironic that we are talking about Iran.
The main issue to me seems to be sideloading apps, playstore apps seem to be protected. Sideloaded apps could be anything since its the app key that is compromised.
As a Dart/Flutter outsider myself, I am finding all this "Dart no, Flutter yes" traffic intriguing. I am also a lisper, so no need to sell me on the difficulties of Dart, even if it were the perfect static typed OO, but it sounds like we have a great UI stuck inside an unloved language.

Happy opportunity for ClojureDart!

btw, in case anyone is wondering, I am not a part of Team CLJD at all. My hack is my own separate effort.
I'm not on Twitter, probably because I blocked Elon.
Ask HN: Personal computing, a low-hanging fruit?
Proponents of mainframe/time-sharing/big computing opposed personal computers pretty strongly. To them(e.g. John McCarthy), it probably seemed like computers are there to be the big-brains, sort of oracles, humans should seek help from solving complex problems like AI. So, relegating majestic computers to companions filling people's desks/pockets was not acceptable.
From a historical perspective, coming up with the idea of personal computers, with TX-2 to be the first actual PC followed by PARC's ALTO, and amid all the drama and money poured on developing big machines(lobbied by big names), was the PC, along with its metaphors: GUI, desktop publishing, ..., something that could have been invented by anyone easily?
One funny thing about bazaars is that they decrease desirability for adjacent houses but increase desirability for houses that are 3-6 tiles away. A good strategy is to build them close to the houses, but surrounded by other service buildings.
>> Incidentally the solution is not fewer features, but better UI.

I completely agree in principle. The problem is IMHO that the best UX is almost no UI.

Microsoft UI is IMHO essentially industrial automation. Select you data, then push a button (or menu item, or ribbon) to cause something to happen to your data. Apple attempts to encourage more direct interaction with data. The best example is pinch zoom. Remember when maps used navigation buttons to pan and zoom? Direct touch manipulation is better. This is very hard to do with a large feature set though.

One solution is hot-keys, but they do require learning and are limited in number. Context dependent hot keys can also be confusing.

In solvespace we have almost no UI and hot keys are critical to productivity. We avoid context dependence partly by having consistency. The constraint solver is always present, from 2d sketching to building an assembly, so those function keys are universal.

UX is hard, but also distinct from UI.
Been using this for minecraft mods for a while, main benefit of this program vs something like blender is the exports
> so if you have any integrity you'd stand on the side of the right to create some equality/justice

On the one hand, the leading Presidential candidate on the right has within the last 24 hours said he wants to suspend the Constitution and be reinstated President by dictate on social media. On the other hand, some people were constantly posting he was saying mean things, and some executives at a social media company tried to handle some things.

Totally gotta stand on the side of balance!
Well, we took their agency away and removed a government that at least wasn't outright killing women for wearing pants. This is also a great way to produce extremists, which then moved into the power vacuum created by throwing their governing system into chaos.

We've done it a number of times in South America as well. I'd say there's enough data points to believe that we punted them into the downwards spiral that they're struggling in now.
The United States' elections are simply not at the same level as Iran's (if that is what this comment is implying)
An unguided, yet somehow planned and modelled economy?

AIs with total surveillance perhaps? Would need weather-control too or giant surpluses squirreled away in a distributed fashion.

Some kind of ascetic commune, but at global scale?
Might work in a military setup when fighting the alien invasion.
You could consider LiveView but you would need to learn Elixir and the Beam.
Elon is increasing Twitter usage and registration with these ‘controversial’ polls. An acquaintance of mine (a non-speaker of English) who never had or used Twitter has now opened an account. I believe others in his milieu have also done so. I think Elon’s billion user prediction is achievable.
At my last (non tech, extremely large) employer we joked that every product (supporting our business, not standalone) was Maximum Viable Product, as every user story was required for launch, including endless change requests. Sometimes we even shipped something when they ran out of ideas...
Yes, but that's not all humans do. If it were, we'd never have created anything new.
Software Defined Radio: 20 Years Later (2015)
DRM: The urinary tract infection business-model
> absolutely hate

Does that necessarily mean the don’t tolerate them though?
Sure. Are any of the linked cases tweets that didn't actually violate the ToS? Is there any evidence that twitter took down tweets without reviewing them further?
Ah man that burst the illusion - tried again with a small variation on the defaults and it tried but wasn't nearly as convincing.

It was still able to realize that publish(X) should cause a log with timestamps and X on each line, and correctly show the topics that should exist, but changing the rate doesn't work _quite_ right in the timestamps, and it started to skip some steps (e.g. automatically showing rostopic echo). I wonder if it knows about launch files...

If you stick to the basic tutorial it's indistinguishable from running it locally, in my opinion.
Signing your app using this key would allow you to name your app system.uid.android, effectively giving you root for free. You probably won't be able to sign firmware in the Linux sense of the word, but in android world "firmware" is loosely defined and is often used to talk about the android ROM.
The spectrum is too wide, might need to dabble to see which works for you:

- Mainstream vision/text/speech, something Huggingface et al do. The classic advice where you learn SGD, stack net layers and put loss, train, deploy on web, clean and collect data, retrain

- Hardware accelerators, inference and training. Check out startups like tenstorrent, tinygrad, mythic. Also involve compilers, net graph data structure and good software frontends and abstraction to hardware to write models onto hardware.

- Anything else, applying ML for finance, manufacturing, oil and gas, all those boring but important stuff
>As far as I remember, it was still possible (in terms of banking systems/santions) to pay the gas in Euros as usual; Russia decided, unilaterally, that they would require the payment to be in Rubles (to try and limit its plummeting value)...

That's a bit disingenuous, ins't it?

Maybe you're right and EU/UK could still have paid in Euros but, with Russia being frozen out of the world's banking system, they [Russia] wouldn't have actually been able to access the money. So it pretty much amounts to the same thing. They'd be giving the gas away.

If you were working on a job for someone and suddenly had your bank accounts frozen, it wouldn't be unreasonable for you to tell the person employing you that, while you were happy to keep on working, since you couldn't access your bank account, you'd need to be paid in cash for the rest of your time.

And you'd rightly feel aggrieved if that person refused, but then put it about that you were an unreliable worker who'd walked off the job.
Tired of this type of FUD. I run my own servers for years without any problems. So do many of the companies I deal with. They're not so fond of paying 10x and more to Amazon for less capacity and performance.

I agree about email servers, no business case for it. Dirt cheap from multiple 3rd parties. Just have your own domain so that you can transfer at whim.
But Japan seems less "fundamental" than many other cultures including the Greeks, Persians and Chinese for example who all lay claim to thousands of years of cultural significance.

Is there a Japanese equivalent of Budha or Aristotle or Confucius.
Of course these issues are straw man generators.

Everyone is a tough guy for issues like this until they or a loved one need care. Nobody is ranting about communists in a waiting room.
When I visited the Great Buddha in Kamakura a couple of years ago, there were dozens of foreign tourists laying down, sitting, or posing on or next to the statue in a way that our native Japanese friend remarked how disrespectful they were being. I don't think it would've been as bad before smartphones and influencer/YouTube culture, but I can't really say.
So I hated the ribbon when it was introduced mostly for Excel. Because I did maybe 6-8 spreadsheets a year, but I had been doing that for at least a decade. It took a long time to build new muscle memory for the location of the small bits I use. Now? It doesn’t bother me, but at the rate I use it, it took years to get there.
Who's in charge of certificate stuff in these situations?
> Google search absolutely does hallucinate completely fictitious results

No, it absolutely does not. Yes, there is SEO spam in the index, but no - it is not Google hallucating it. It really exists on the internet, see also the second point of my comment.

> the same thing will happen to something like chatgpt

This isn't something that "happens to" GPT, GPT is doing it. There's probably even already GPT -> SEO spam pipelines out there generating websites.
This trivially becomes very fragile. Each of those 100 programs now doesn't just do stuff, but is held to a contract. A contract that it's well possible nobody intended to provide, but yet organically happened anyway.

And so you find that a small change somewhere like deprecating an option, fixing a typo, or adding extra data to the output makes the integration explode horribly in a confusing fashion.

There's also that plain text is a horrible serialization mechanism. Every program has to deal with parsing text that's mostly made for human consumption and deal with things like imprecise boundaries and arbitrary limitations per tool and per system.

Eg, /etc/passwd is a nice simple format, until you consider that somebody might want to use a ":" in a field, or to add more fields, or to store multiple lines of data. And all those quirks are specific for that particular file and may be handled subtly differently by other parts of the system.

And internationalization is an extra bit of fun, which ensures random bizarre bugs that use ',' instead of '.' as the decimal separator, or just emit text in some language that isn't English.
Thank you for linking to zero2prod. I just bought it after looking at the repo for the example code and scanning the sample. I wish I’d read this book a year ago.

I’ve worked my way through a couple of rust books, but this was the first one that actually talked not just about the language, but the entire development flow. Git workflows, CI/CD, docker, comprehensive testing.

Even after clearing the initial rust fundamentals, there are so many standard libraries like anyhow, chrono, serde, thiserror, and tokio that are almost required knowledge, but aren’t covered in most books.

Thank you for sharing your discovery!
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> Google search absolutely does hallucinate completely fictitious results. It's called SEO spam.

I wouldn't categorise that as "hallucinating fictitious results" - the algorithms still only returns existing results. If you follow the link, you will find key words embedded in the HTML or visible text in the browser.

Different kettle of fish entirely.
Presumably if trains truly were better, there should be no need for a law. Perhaps they should focus their efforts on making trains an obviously superior service.