skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I’m crystal clear on the difference between authentication and encryption.

> The transport (https) might be encrypted, but that’s not what anyone cares about.

I was referring to transport encryption. Paul was rather vague about what he meant by unencrypted, and if there’s no transport encryption this is a breathtakingly big issue. So I’d argue that people do/should care about this.

Data encryption would obviously be ideal, but in my mind, that wasn’t even the initial bar to clear after a claim of “unauthenticated and unencrypted”.

The biggest issue with all of the communication up to this point has been a lack of precision/specificity, and that has led to multiple interpretations of the findings and plenty of misunderstanding.
You probably don't want to mess with someone who is both dumb and with low political tolerance. Now you can reduce this to avoiding people who are dumb...
Even worse, why can’t they just report the tweets via the app like every other Twitter user?
This is far from guaranteed, though: it's a nice quirk of baseball regulations that pitcher skill and batting skill can both be trained to provide about the same improvement over amateurs.

In other sports this doesn't hold in the same way: e.g. amateur soccer games tend to be higher scoring than at the professional level, because defence improves more with training than attacking does.

That said, fields where adversarial generative methods are useful have an inbuilt damping effect where gains on one side tend to cancel out gains on the other.
That somehow "we" decided to not hold software (or its creators) liable for bad behavior while for humans there's at least a semblance of responsibility.

"Oh that malfunctioning server that caused an outage to hospital infrastructure? Yeah, Software is hard, isn't it?"

Somehow shitty software is acceptable as an explanation for things, and as soon they are explained, they are understandable, and somehow we decided that makes them okay.
you'll find that almost every major corner of the internet is obsessed with Japan
What's this talk about Libgen "losing its authority"? Over 80% of Zlibrary is a mirror of it.
Elon Musk polls whether Assange and Snowden should be pardoned
Part of why the US now fully acknowledges Area 51 (more or less) is lawsuits by former workers over cancers and other conditions caused by exposure to toxic materials.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/area-51-secre...
During the war he debriefed people interrogated by the Gestapo to figure out ways to resist and briefed other resistance fighters with what to expect. Its obviously impossible to "resist" many things on that level, for example the threat of having your family put into Sippenhaft with you. While other mechanisms, especially on a societal level, are much more easily countered. You can summarize his approach with "knowledge is power". So the book is using the same approach he applied during the war and which he had recommended since, that true and honest information in an open society is the best medicine against a rise in totalitarianism and the resulting corruption.

Its an approach you should be familiar with when it comes to combating the different methods of propaganda, psychological warfare or information operations. Or simply cognitive biases. Once you describe how they work, you are primed to recognize them when you come across them. Which hopefully reduces their effectiveness.

To give an example, there is the rather famous quote concerning the title:

>“Many victims of totalitarianism have told me in interviews that the most upsetting experience they faced "…" was the feeling of loss of logic, the state of confusion into which they had been brought — the state in which nothing had any validity "…" they simply did not know what was what.”

Recognizing that this is an actual tactic, aimed at creating a predictable reaction is rather helpful to break out of that predetermined path for your thoughts.
Yandex YaLM 100B: Largest GPT-Like Neural Network in Open Source
We have a hiring freeze so no layoffs unless company mandated. You can demand higher productivity but management doesn’t like being laughed at due to credibility issues. They need to be careful.
You can apply the same logic to conclude that Mesopotamians shouldn't have invented the wheel while they still fought wars with their neighbours and had people living in reed houses.
That’s alright, but when the tweet doesn’t actually violate the ToS, it’s a true negative that requires no intervention by interested political parties.
What’s the fluoride in water conspiracy theory that’s been proven to be true?

And I guess I have the same question about which false flags you’re talking about.
Same reason you're not supposed to extinguish an oil fire in your frying pan by splashing water on it.
"Programmer-archeologist", to borrow a term from Vernor Vinge. I imagine the job would entail refining the prompts and doing some work yourself to chain together modules or legacy software, sorta like splitting the tasks with the AI assistant. Pair-coding with the AI, if you will.
That article doesn’t address the point I’m making, which is whether content moderation decisions are protected speech. I agree with French’s analysis that the Hunter Biden stuff isn’t a first amendment violation insofar as Biden wasn’t a government actor at the time he made the request.

The rationale behind regulating Twitter would be the same as the ones behind campaign finance laws: to keep a big corporation from using its power to influence elections. Except the difference is that producing a political movie is clear political speech, while the decision to delete particular items from a firehose of user generated content doesn’t seem to be expressing any message in the part of Twitter itself. As far as I can tell, the Twitterati are not addressing the implications of the “must carry” line of cases like TBS v. FCC which hold that forcing a corporation that provides a pipe for content to carry particular types of content isn’t a first amendment violation.

The Twitter internal emails confirm that folks inside Twitter weren’t treating suppression of the Hunter Biden news as a political statement on the part of Twitter. They were concerned about the potential impact on the election.
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This is a ludicrous definition of tolerance of opposition, if any active campaigning for your position is considered "intolerance"
Email Submission should be on port 465
Openly admitting racism is pretty brave
Encouraging people to rethink their political position isn't intolerant unless it cross over to some sort of coercion. There has to be an ability to argue what a best policy is, or there would be no reason for democracy in the first place.
Because I presume the commenter talking about how this shows them being on their last legs is Western, but mainly because I've seen countless articles about how all this is basically a great opportunity for regime change.

If you believe that there's no opportunistic involvement of the various Western governments here, (to the determent of the actual Iranians protesting btw), I have a bridge to sell you.

I am a citizen of the West and as such I am somewhat indirectly responsible for its actions, so I feel its important to call it out, since its my money also financing its actions.
And please document your findings! Would love to read.
Sounds like you went to five cities and Miyakojima. And yeah if you don’t like tropical islands (in winter) then it’s not surprising Miyakojima wasn’t your tea.
From my perspective it has little to do with "teams" and any assumption of there being Our Team and The Other Team and far more to do with seeing an equivilance drawn between social policy such as health care (and inclusion of assisted death) etc, and phrases such "high minded communist ideals ...".

It just reminds me of the bicameral fiercely partisan political desert that lies within central north america.

I'm 60 now and dimly recall reading Rand during puberty .. it's interesting stuff for a while.

As for:
> This sort of thing is only going to become more common.

The CBC article expands on the circumstances of the occurence, the investigation and dismissal of the individual that pushed MAID (medical assistance in dying) as an option, and the steps being taken to see that it doesn't happen going forward.
So their samples were drawn from Mechanical Turk users and the Danish military, exclusively? I'm dubious about how representative these samples are.
It appears I worded my argument wrongly. I am not comparing asian countries. I am only stating that the ones directly in charge of forced labor in this case are asian companies (Foxcon to start with). And that the ones giving orders are interchangeably asian or "westerner" companies (Samsung and Apple being two examples).

My point was that when it comes to profit and exploitation of workers, dividing in between "nice asians" and "mean westerners" is completely wrong.
Weird, I didn't see that trash for so long I thought it was fixed at least in 7.0.
I stand corrected- it was not the government but the Biden campaign team 1 month before the 2020 election.
I've stayed in an APA that literally had a sign outside advertising short stays (=love hotel) and even that one was really nice and well-run (lol)
How do you define leading?
Every time wealth disparity comes to the forefront in society the powers that be stamp that out real quick. I feel a lot of the left-right confrontations are just so we are pre occupied amongst ourselves. Divide and conquer and all that.
Anecdotally, the reverse is not true. West to East non-stop flights have been scarce as of late to many major cities, even from a major hub, compared to a few years ago. Some flights in the same direction have sometimes been faster via Canada than staying the US.

I too am curious as to the shift.
But taxing means there's an opportunity for revenue to build more green infrastructure. Yes, that tax needs revisited in the future to make sure it's still accomplishing it's goal, but Europe is currently in the midst of an energy crisis due to lack of investment in local green power infrastructure (and instead relying on Russian gas for electricity). What solves this problem? Investment! What does investment require? Money! What do taxes generate? Money!
I mean, do the woke not control academia?

What do other writings have to do with evaluating the truth or falsity of this one?

To me it seems pretty obvious that modern Western academia is an environment where certain ideas get censored based on factors other than whether they are true or not.

This is not a new phenomenon. Before the woke controlled it, other power groups did. The woke are just the latest in a long line of ideological groups to control academia.
I skimmed the article trying to find the conclusion/main point. And I think it's not about getting back to the office. Actually, the word "office" doesn't even occur in it - the article is about the difference between the actual experience and its digital representation, praising the former. So, fortunately, it's not one of these employer propaganda articles where they find creative ways to get their cattle back to the box.
This blog is reporting on doing the advent of code via ChatGPT : https://note89.github.io/the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/
They can just report the tweet like I or you could.
I don’t understand how this study is being presented symmetrically when the actual results are completely asymmetrical.
But it will be still you that initially has to intent to create something and manage the process. You got to manage AIs in order to do things. I bet in the future all corporate employees will be given access to a team of bots to manage their work.
> This why people are taking the plane, because it's less expensive that high speed rail, nothing more.

This is often true. But - not always. Depends on which endpoints. Sometimes it's speed, sometimes convenience, sometime price.

> free market distortion

1. Markets are not free. They are based on violent coercion of private ownership of land, factories, service providing corporations etc.

2. Markets are always "distorted", in the sense that they don't just occur naturally.

3. I can't say for certain whether this specific measure is appropriate or well-intentioned, but - emissions need to be reduced drastically over the next several years; and not just in one sector of the economy. So in _some_ way, people do need to change their habits in favor of using more carbon-frugal modes of travel.
I hear you on integrating with other apps, but it may take some time until many apps converge on a way to share data. My invalidated guess is the trend is in the other direction at the moment.
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Why can’t this argument be used against any new technology?

They said exactly this about the Internet… why do you need it? See all the well established solutions at the time:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tgODUgHeT5Y
To understand what AI expects of us, and perform what it wants properly. Of course.
For anyone else who didn't have a clue what PFAS were, an Australian Department of Defence website gives a nice 101: https://defence.gov.au/Environment/pfas/pfas.asp

Key points:

> PFAS stands for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances

> Legacy firefighting foams containing perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) as active ingredients were once used extensively worldwide and within Australia, including at Defence bases, due to their effectiveness in fighting liquid fuel fires.

> In 2004 Defence commenced phasing out its use of legacy firefighting foam containing PFOS and PFOA as active ingredients and transitioned to a more environmentally safe product.

> The release of PFAS into the environment has become a concern, because we’ve learned these chemicals can persist in humans, animals and the environment.
Personal CO2 emissions tracking is a red herring devised by the fossil fuel industry to distract from the powerlessness of individuals.

The solution to a problem of the commons is to address it through the commons - limiting (and perhaps auctioning) of emissions rights. But the amount of emissions must be eventually capped to reach any scenario other than RCP8.5, which we are still on [1].

Prices must internalize the true cost of emissions, for meaningful progress. This way, individuals will automatically account for their personal emissions through proportionally-rewarded cost optimization.

The minimum amount to tax would be until the global food supply is no longer in peril.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2007117117
This is the bluff. You can fire me so I get a severance and can claim unemployment. That’s fine with me as I can take an extended break. Employers forget that employees have other opportunities so will just shrug when threatened. Just ask Elon who wet the bed.
It's happening not only Okinawa but anywhere around the U.S. military bases in Japan.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20221124/k10013899691000.ht...
Funnily enough there's a Rackspace logo in the 'TRUSTED BY' section: https://www.open-xchange.com/products/ox-cloud
It does seem like maybe that is the next step. For example (before it was filtered) it could produce md5 hashes and even run programs in python, bash, perl, but the results of those programs aren’t floating point correct. Oddly when you stick to integers it seems to be able to calculate more accurately.

Sticking to integer math I think it might have computational capabilities of some sort but after the degrading of the system by them, we might not be able to figure out how far that goes anymore.
Not just corporations. We have created an entire societal system that's fundamentally uninterested in people, but relies on us tentatively aligning the interests of global capital to our political human goals.

We are already living in the "AI apocalypse", that's why the story has so much emotional weight. We all know how it feels when the system optimizes away something we like, when we get run over by an inhuman institution. The AI nerds need to stop taking the AI stories so literally.
Ask HN: Hunting for a Framework
Hello HN!

My primary background is in desktop development and my knowledge of web development is a little rusty by now. I know about Node.JS, Angular, React, Express and the like and have done a few small projects with these technologies. So far, I have implemented the below requirements for each project myself or copied them from previous projects. Now I am looking for a reasonable fullstack framework with the following requirements:

- A central definition of data schemas. I don't want to define my schema or validation twice, once in the frontend and once in the backend.

- Automatic generation of REST endpoints. I hate boilerplate code and don't want to reimplement Get/GetOne/Add/Update/Delete and Websocket for each data model. Even better would be a GraphQL interface.

- Authorization and Authentication

- No manual HTTP calls for standard cases. I want to define my model at the server and have the data available in an array at the client. As soon as a client inserts a record in his list I want that automatically a POST with the new record is sent to the server, it verifies the model and the authorization and inserts the record into the database. Then the server notifies the other clients about the change using websockets. The other clients see the new data record in their array without having to write a single manual HTTP call or websocket connection.

- Open Source Only. No Firebase or similar.

I've been searching for a while, but haven't found anything that seems reasonable. If I don't find anything I will write a small framework myself. I apologize if I seem lazy and don't want to search myself, but I'm really getting desperate. I want to spend as little time as possible on writing boilerplate and instead write business logic. There are thousands of javascript frameworks out there but none of them seem to handle these simple standard cases very well. They all require manual implementation of CRUD for each model or manual data fetching and subscription. Please make suggestions for frameworks and help me to see through the framework jungle!
There are file systems, like zfs, that support transparent block level compression. This means that you can just copy a normal disk image file to the zfs partition and zfs will handle everything for you. The image can be mounted in r/w mode the way you normally would, because as far as you're concerned the image file is a normal (uncompressed) image file. Why not use that? Sounds way easier and safer.

But oh well, the author works at Red Hat so I'm sure they have their reasons :p
To use the physics sense, we found vacationing in Japan high friction. Yeah, it was totally different than anywhere we have been on n America or Western Europe. At times, it felt like we were looking at everything on the other side of a closed window, amazing yet inaccessible. This was ‘05 or earlier, and the lack of Roman lettering outside Kyoto was hard. Outrunning English has not been a problem elsewhere, but losing the ability to read was hard. We had a native set up our trains and hotels, and could not imagine trying to do it ourselves. Packaged tours suck, so that was never considered.

In the end, the sheer wonder lost to the effort of appreciating it. Which, of course, is a commentary on us not Japan. I suspect they encounter the same problems doing the reverse, possibly the same wonder and friction as well.

To add, we were amazed by the politeness and helpfulness of the people we met everywhere. We were obviously tourists trying to navigate and trying not to annoy.
The Whigs did so it’s possible! ;)
it doesn’t refute it, and it wasn’t my intention to do so. i was trying to point out that such an “extreme” position might not be sensible for such a fractionally small amount of CO2 emissions.
I question the integrity of the journalist reporting those tweets (Matt Taibbi) at that point I must admit.

So many people seem to conflate the requests for review of ToS violating messages with some kind of power the Democrats had to get Twitter to block the story.

If the Democrats had that kind of power and it was visible in the info available, no doubt this would be shown upfront. Instead we get pretty loaded (lying?) mentions of "requests from connected actors to delete tweets" when the message clearly mentions tweets to review.

In fact the answer "handled" doesn't even imply anything was deleted. Also this so called journalist didn't even try to see what had been deleted in the end to see if it wasn't just blattant ToS violations and worse, material that had really nothing much to do with the campaign in the first place. I fail to see how the right of some tweets of revenge porn to survive a few hours longer because they had to go through the regular queue of moderation was of any import.

It's easy to paint a team as having excessive influence on Twitter. Just have your own team post a lot of ToS abusing materials then later on show the stats of deleted tweets to show the "bias"
Could you share in the offline/paper scenario a bit more? Would you be carrying pen and paper with you for tracking? Hang piece of paper in the wall?
The best non-fiction book I read in 2022 was Plagues Upon the Earth (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57423807-plagues-upon-th...) a history of infectious disease in humans. It really changed my views on a lot of things, especially how recently many contagious diseases crossed over from animals.

The best fiction book I read in 2022 was Spinning Silver (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36896898-spinning-silver). A really awesome riff on Russian fairy tales.
Just insert Paris in between. Nantes - Paris - Marseille shouldnt be too bad really.
Also worth pointing out that this was a sample of only Mechanical Turk users in America, and members of the Danish Military in Denmark.
Paying respect as in "Rest in peace, Iran"
Fair enough. What is the keybinding then?
I would hang about for severance and to claim unemployment. I don’t leave voluntarily unless I have something lined up. But my job is just a job.
I thought that too. There is a video by John Oliver talking about PFAS and the other hundred or so variants of these compounds. [1] There are other videos talking about how companies can still use these compounds because the EPA only outlawed about 3 of the 130 or so.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W74aeuqsiU [video]
Wait until everyone hears about ITAR restrictions...
Emacs: Using SQLite as a Data Source
Slightly OT but checkout Tag Across Europe: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7ZcpBcwdC5B-l2FQNOP...
Also yeah, while I was actively campaigning I met many people from other parties - and the other side of the aisle, and stood next to them outside voting booths and had some nice conversations.
> Oh wait, one thing. This is the only real advice. There's travel SIMs at convenience stores

These days, I'd recommend getting a travel eSIM so you set it up in advance and hit the ground running (what with the entry vaccine check being a web site QR code you need to load on flakey airport wifi)
The party system in the US does feel rigged to entrench the two remaining parties in the US. My hope is dropping first past the pole and adding ranked choice will help break up the duopoly.

Still, there are glimmers of hope now and again. Like Ross Pero running as independent or the Bull Moose party.
Well, if you've been following Iranian elections you might reach the opposite conclusion... Now, I'm no fan of the Iranian regime, but I doubt you can make trustworthy conclusions about what the public wants from sampling posts on social media. (I wouldn't say that even elections are the end-all of what "the public wants".)
Putin made some concessions after protests in 2012. It bought him time to introduce harsh laws with extreme punishments for protests, strengthen riot police and state security. Then he proceeded to crush / jail / force to emigrate everyone who protested.