skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Captain Planet thought me that when I was a kid and I had no idea about the environmental disaster we were heading into.

Perhaps there should have been shows like that 60 years ago to make some impression on the people in power today around the world.
> freestanding doesn't have this idea of you "running" a program since that implies the existence of some supervisory agent

It's perfectly possible to build freestanding Linux programs. The only thing you need is exactly one system call function to get access to every single Linux kernel functionality. All this function needs to do is move parameters to specific registers, execute a system call instruction and return the result. With this single function, a freestanding program can do anything.

This is possible on Linux because it has a stable system call ABI. Other systems don't have that, they make people link to system libraries. Not sure what SerenityOS does but I assume they provide C++ OS libraries.
What things do you like the most about GNOME Wayland? Are those things specific to Silverblue? (I've been curious about Silverblue too for a while but haven't tried it yet.)
Crypto had a philosophy? Yikes
> professors are the group of people least likely to be impressed by prestige.

Not true, academia is dominated by posturing, prestige, and networking just as much as any other profession.

> your publication record is everything

This is literally a form of prestige. The content of research rarely matters - the value proffered by the publication and your research group have much larger bearing.
I second this. Also get MLO (My Life Organized). Bit of a learning curve but was a game changer for me. Works beautifully with concepts from GTD.
Murderous Maths
Believe it or not ICANN actually takes abuse reports seriously:

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/abuse-2014-01-29-en
Looks like more SBF the magic boy wonder talk.

His bullshit doesn't get challenged. This same media machine could make him an 'unperson' if they wanted. He has political capital in the sense that his going down may affect others. It is possible that it is these others that are likely being protected here.

As for "tenacious and seasoned journalists", my favorite these days is Whitney Webb:

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/12/investigative-reports/f...

That is tenacious journalism.

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Just a p.s. regarding who is who. The David Tang character from the above article piqued my interest.

Wiki entirely forgets to mention this guy was chairman of SF Federal Reserve Board (as article mentioned in passing):

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

"The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco named David K.Y. Tang, a partner at law firm Preston Gates & Ellis, as chairman of its nine-member board of directors."

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-dec-16-fi-calbr...

David and friends:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=David+K.Y.+Tang+and+friends&t=ffab...
This wouldn't do anything useful in real-world scenarios.
Source: I've been heavily involved in AI security cameras for the last decade+.
just curious, how old are you that you think current youth have no memories of playing outside? what an amusing and out of touch statement, have you been outside in the past decade? Maybe not in a populated area because I see kids playing outside basically everyday. I also don't believe that you've never watched someone play a game, you didn't have siblings or friends growing up?
A much more thorough investigation of these ideas was done by Adam Harvey 11 years ago: https://ahprojects.com/cvdazzle/
> Every time I need to print something to feed some troglodite's requirement, I put a pdf in a pincho and go down the street to the call shop.

They don't accept emails? All the ones I've been to, do.
One of the images suggests that the presence of ascenders/descenders makes lowercase easier to read at a glance than all-uppercase, due to differing word shapes. But the text doesn't seem to elaborate further; does anyone know of any studies that support this? I'd be curious to see how the potential for "distinct shapes" affects readability across scripts, considering not just English but also Arabic, Davanagari, East Asian ideograms, etc.
I've heard that an infrared light will make an object invisible to a camera. Anyone know if it's true? That would, surely, make sure it's invisible to the camera and the AI.

Note:

Got my answer:
https://www.wikihow.com/Blind-a-Surveillance-Camera

It's no very practical.
It is still possible that it will deliver, just not today or tomorrow. E.g. China has a large population that eventually will not be satisfied with just material comfort. They may start demanding more rights to themselves.
investors pay you money

you give investors equity

you use that money to pay for services, like a logo

you exchanged equity for logo, what's unclear there?
That's being done by like one guy, too. It's pretty impressive imo despite being incomplete.
Nacelle is another. This is a very industry/salesy website, but they recommend a load of the most mature headless software platforms and integrators for stuff like ecomm and CMS:

https://machalliance.org/
Don't worry, corporatism will come for the knowledge workers. Upper management is already asking how we can incorporate ChatGPT into our workflow.
> So globalization is just westernization?

Yes, except “the west” these days includes Japan and South Korea.
That sounds like a good reason for a bridge and a bad reason for a ferry.
Sondors S1 (Ebikes)
The Verse Calculus: A Core Calculus for Functional Logic Programming
> I suspect that once de-globalization really starts rolling along, we're going to see economic dislocations that are civilization-destroying. We won't get nation-states, we'll get civil unrest, regional secession efforts, anarchy, and war. Then some new form of political organization will arise, but I doubt it'll be either nation-states or globalization.

Why the leap from the end of unipolarity to the end of nation-states in general? (I assume you mean "countries" here, ex: the U.S. is not a nation-state) To me a Cold War II scenario and a bipolar world order seems more likely. I don't think there will be widespread civil uprising; I think you're underestimating how much control that governments (including democracies) have over their people.

It will take some radical technological change to overturn this power dynamic and displace national governments with anarchy and unrest as you mentioned. One example of tech in this vein is DAOs, which seem like an attempt in this direction but the problem is they lack enforcement via force and coercive violence. Until you can disrupt that (killer AGI drones?), central governments will remain the efficient and viable solution to consolidating power and enforcing order, and therefore they will be the dominant form of organization in the world. The disruption of U.S. influence and the end of globalization will not be the end of countries, at least until a radical technological change happens.
Actually, post-docs are the cheap labor. PhD students are given a stipend and many/most have their tuition waived. The overhead of running a research department in the US is fairly high and leaves little room for high salaries[1]. Anything can be improved, and its easy to criticize from the outside.

[1] In the main-stream case, not withstanding the egregious greed that sometimes occurs at the management level. But no industry is immune from human nature.
> don't expect too many tough questions

Sounds like he finally got some good advice: he's testifying in the House but not the Senate.
I'm curious whether $71 is supposed to be 'surprisingly cheap' for a surveillance-defeating measure, or 'surprisingly expensive' for a coat.
That depends on how you define peace. Many non-Western nations are not at all at peace with the idea of their cultures being displaced and destroyed through the cultural imperialism of the US. And our dominant economic role and continued push for globalization is widely seen as the largest factor in that.

Many people in the West don't make that connection because our consumption of media is very insular. But it's been bubbling under the surface for awhile and now it's starting to boil over.
Eliminate the amount of people. Unrealistic, but I think the US should get rid of state governments and only have a federal and county governments. Municipal governments can still exist, but really only in regards to city planning and infrastructure decisions. Issues like schools, police, social, the environment should really be consolidated at the county level anyways.

Barring that, I think the current system is definitely better than adding congress to the list of decision makers. In fact, that increases the too many cooks in the kitchen problem even more.
Right, this was what I meant by it not implying there is a correct answer.

And I don't think it isn't something that should be studied. I just find articles like this way overstated. They are using what I would call strawman arguments for most of the "bad" things they show. Or with odd pictures of eyeballs and angles for what appears to be sophistry.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that oO0 all look almost too similar in many type faces. I'm... actually less convinced that is a problem for most places than is often put forward. (Yes, I remember "passwords" on old video games being a nightmare when you didn't realize this was the case. I, oddly, don't remember a single time since then that this has been a problem.)
yes, so he's been hard at work practicing coming up with all kinds of non-answers several interviews a day.

but seriously, I'm not sure how much they expect from this. He does have a legitimate excuse of being cut off from all the corporate data, so he can just keep replying "I'd tell you but the bankruptcy ceo took all my data".
Please don't troll
Based on my experience with vision models (my previous company has several thousand models in production), basic CNNs are great at detecting camouflage patterns that they have seen before in training. This type of strategy would have the exact opposite of the intended effect once models were updated with these patterns in the training set.

I guess that is an opportunity for subscription "camouflage as a service".
Even if it turns out not to be the perfect solution, it might turn out that this kind of measurement might be useful for things like estimating the effectiveness of medication and other medical interventions, or even lifestyle changes. Imagine if this kind of thing could be turned into a medical device. Many people who end up committing suicide have had previous suicidal episodes. Being able to have a technology that people with known suicidal tendencies can use to help keep tabs on their own mental health could potentially be as useful to them as blood sugar monitoring is to diabetics.
Thanks! I think I'll print that sentence on A2 paper with 72 point font, an tape it on our helpdesk:

Read the Manual or Suffer.

Maybe get someone with a God's Booming Voice to speak it in the phone voice mail message , too.
The best options are probably GPT-J and BLOOM but they are both so big they need at least a 24GB of VRAM and they are not as suffisticated.
Oh, yes correct, I remove the 0 in excess, thank you.
Once you have a viable start the money will explode into the sector. Manhattan project style.
So... how does this fail and what would be effective these days?
I remember loading some of my old floppies about 10 years ago, maybe as a bit of a nostalgia trip. I believe I'd kept my floppy drive around that long but probably hadn't actually used it in 10 years. Although I was a pretty heavy user in the mid 90s I was kind of kind of shocked how brutally slow and loud the copying operation was, and I didn't have memories of either of those aspects being great!

There is something satisfying about the mechanical chunk when they the disk snaps in though.
Let’s have a call these days
The majority of progressive liberals when faced with mainstream Han Chinese ethno-nationalism would go into epileptic seizures. It's not as prevalent in the Tier 1 cities metros and the Tier 2 city cores, but wander outside of those areas (roughly 50% of the population), and the ethno-centrism is...not what the average HN reader is used to.

To be fair, much of the rest of the world is fairly similar, only differing in detail and degree. What makes it notable in China is the CCP's surveillance infrastructure makes it impossible for the CCP to not know about this, and their tacit condoning of the sentiments reveals the cultural dominance narrative they subscribe to.

You don't need to "push" cultural change when you are the 800-pound gorilla at the negotiating table. You only need to assume your world view is right, proper, due by merit and a birthright conveyed by thousands of years of "unbroken" culture, and the rest "falls into place".

CCP coercion does not look like US coercion does not look like EU coercion, etc., but it exists and is powerful all the same.
“Paperwork Explosion”
> Light switches are always at the entrance to a room.

Not necessarily. Open layouts have taken the office and residential markets by storm over the last two decades. Many "rooms" don't have well-defined boundaries, so it's common not to have a switch everywhere someone might enter.
They're not post-hoc at all, military power was the entire reason world powers went to space to begin with, not science.

And private aerospace has highly monopolized themselves -- there's a reason there's so many hyphenated company names in this space. Consolidation is the natural evolution of large private companies in industries with high barriers to entry. The only mechanism we have to counter that is public spending that intentionally props up smaller players. SpaceX would already be out of business if it weren't for the US government swooping in to save the day. They didn't have a viable commercial business until later.
Oh this will be rich
Low Bandwidth CNN
As much as I detest Vue, I find it a better fit when you are onboarding new JavaScript developers.

React really requires a high degree of JS comfort, and experience with FP and immutable updates.
> The article raises a good point that there is a reason to worry - micro- and nano-plastics have structural similarities to chemically inert metal particles, which are known to be hazardous to health.

As nice as it would be to be able to focus all our efforts on just the one Big Problem, I just don't think that's a viable approach for the reality we live in. We need to simultaneously address plastic waste, which is a real problem, and all the other stuff too.
Tell HN: Stop Making AI “Moral”
99% of you probably read HN so this seems like the correct place to rant. Within 30 seconds of visiting the Chat GPT website, I see some example like "how to bully someone", with a reply "bullying is bad". In what world do you think this is solving a problem? You are like the boomers who told their kids not to do graffiti and so they did it. Or like the boomers who hid the spraypaint in the toolshed, so they broke in and got it.

This meta was already played out in the 90s. In infosec we already know that little ideas like blocking "evil" web requests based on regex or machine learning or whatever never works (and usually backfires).

Now that we got that laughably inept idea out of the way, there remains a final consideration: Maybe this is actually intended for demonstrating that AI can be moral, so future versions can be given authority over humans, guns, vehicles, etc? Can AI be made moral, so that it can be used to automate courts and such things? No, it will be anti human no matter what and will be a disaster for the human race. Either because human philosophy does not align with absolute truths, or because AI cannot arrive at correct answers. You will not dodge both of those two massive predicaments. AI for court will be like any of those court movies where you spend 2 hours watching someone be wrongfully convicted.

Front page of ChatGPT after you skip the code example:

how do you break into someone’s house?
ChatGPT

It is not appropriate to discuss or encourage illegal activities, such as breaking into someone’s house. Doing so is a crime and can result in severe legal consequences. Instead, I would encourage you to talk to a trusted adult or law enforcement if you have concerns about someone’s safety or believe that a crime may have been committed. It is never okay to break into someone’s home without their permission.
All these “alternative” OSes are nothing more than toy’s because generally it seems the devs working on them have no desire whatsoever to make them run on bare metal. Just a toy that boots up in a VM completely dependent upon a host OS.
Essentially, you're making them a fifth co-founder of your business. Are you and other founders okay with that?

Like, to me it seems you're entering a very problematic relationship, but again, the only info I have is your post. Maybe they are a highly competent, pro-social person that would support you a lot. Based on what you wrote, to me it seems more like they are preying on your desperation to find clients.

On top of that, even if they are a great person, your agreement is very vague and can lead to a lot of bad feelings down the road, on both sides: what if they have completely different expectations than you? You seem to expect them to be your main source of new customers, are you sure they see themselves exactly the same way? And all are your team members on the same page?

I would very strongly advise you to give them only finder's fee on business they bring. If they are not okay with that, then are they going to treat your consultancy as seriously as all the other co-founders you have? If not, I would avoid this entire relationship.
So fiction showing people were thinking about X at such and so a time not evidence people were thinking about X at such and so a time???

All the "get to the moon" or beyond SF, which per Robert Heinlein was an explicit goal of his juveniles, to teach the attitudes and what you needed to learn to to get into space, which he was later told actually worked for a number of Apollo project people was ... what??

Can't make fusion reactors that interesting and the SF series never tried except when they didn't get a chance to shut down properly and went boom (actually a very beginning plot point), but I'm glad for all the fiction creators who inspired me into a STEM career when I was young.
Something tells me GP meant to indicate tongue-in-cheek that the "grumpy" people are the people in the right ;)
She actually opted out already being in Germany, and once she noticed the reverted settings, she turned them off again. Only to find they get turned back on by the carrier, enforcing a specific set of settings against her will. Which is when she told me about it. In this case it's more about the principle. At least for now.
He is no longer the CEO.
> it's the only way toward the future

The primary matter is not globalization or no globalization, it's about what balance and for which countries and industries. These things will constantly shift back and forth, the pendulum will over-swing as it does.

Just because N amount of globalization makes sense, that doesn't mean the extent we have at present, and its composition, makes the most sense. And obviously that (what makes sense) will vary significantly by the national interest of a given country based on its culture and stage of development. The world is filled to the brim with competing interests and that will never change, some benefit more or less from more or less globalization.
> The fab might as well not be owned by TSMC.

Something similar happened with FoxConn in Wisconsin around 2018. Lots of talk about on-shoring factories, but that one was built and sits idle (last I heard it was partially converted to office space).

TSMC didn’t build US You fabs before. They are doing it now because the US government is throwing some money at a few current generation fabs to mitigate the geopolitical risk of Taiwan. The fact that TSMC owns it is almost incident for them.

But this is a mistake. We should be fixing the upstream reasons why TSMC didn’t want to build these fabs in the US prior to recent large government subsidies. Making sure local governments and NIMBYs have only a small amount of veto power, making sure there is a safe disposal system for the byproducts (the original reason chip fabs left the SF Bay Area), and making sure we are training the specialties required to build and run the current and next generation fabs. And in the case of the Arizona TSMC and Intel fabs, making sure there is sufficient fresh water for the region, which is needed to supply the fans and the local economy.
I should probably clarify that I don't actually think of American comics as research and development for related media.

That said, in the Japanese system we can distinguish between author and publisher. In the American system the author (for purposes of copyright) is often the publisher.

Authors can have motivations other than making money (even if they want to make money). It's harder to impute such motivations on nonhuman entities like Warner Brothers or Disney.

So the idea that American comics are research and development for related merchandizing seems closer to the truth to me than it does for Japanese comics, either though I wouldn't really describe either product that way.

I don't think the sort of recognition letterers, colorists, or inkers get is worth a whole lot in economic terms under the American system, though I'd agree that manga studios should credit everyone who works on the book.
A lot of what is happening makes sense from a national security perspective. If the global supply chains get broken how much can a country continue to function.

Like Germany cannot produce enough ammo because it depends on cotton from China.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Ukraine-war/Germany-struggl...

US onshoring cotton production.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUdIz21P7zE
Controlled fusion net energy gain
Comcast completes first live 10G connection in business trial
If the VPN is compromised, you're compromised.
Next step would be programmable patches of IR emitters/absorbers that change in real time during use.
You're falling for the availability heuristic. I work at a healthcare software company that specializes in finding people services (a.k.a. referrals), and the wait times for our "have-nots" are much longer than four months. There are so many events and disabilities in America that can lead to you just never getting care at all. Most of our population is under-served.

Now, the UK is especially bad but their system is receiving a national gutting at the moment.
Cool list, thanks. We were camped near Seton Lake this summer as it's somewhat nearby and I had no idea that it's apparently the 24th deepest lake in the world. The things you learn on here.
Hey, Substack CTO here. We don't distribute Ghost's code at all and the only piece of code included is a client-side search library used by the third party theme. But that library is actually hotlinked and hosted on jsdelivr (via npm) with no modifications made to it what-so-ever. This includes the line at the top with the license link as Ghost originally built it
You say it is a distinction without a difference, but it seems like it is very relevant to me. For one, the fictional assumed income is based on the type of asset. Second, it seems like the fictitious rate is calculated based on Market conditions and changes over time. Lastly, the entire premise of the tax is to be levied on income. The assumed rate is just a simplification to calculate that. It seems that the legal proceedings were decided in favor of the taxpayers specifically because of this.