skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a dashboard we made keeping track of the economy. We're now at a higher number of layoffs in January than any month in 2022 except for November

https://app.plusdocs.com/startup-funding-/page/clcgzzo551257...
True, but my point is that no population has a consensus. Whether you live in China or the West, there are people who know the truth and people who don't know the truth. There are people who are well-informed and people who are ignorant.
Why should the West have more influence from the other side of the world than the largest economy in the region?
> Interesting that Twitter is shipping features faster than ever after 80% layoffs

Desperation from the remaining devs? I mean, I can crank out crap as fast as anyone wants me to if it doesn't have to work right.
Explain this conversation I just had: https://imgur.com/a/FSC9gAJ
This isn't a moral justification, but isn't laying off workers when other companies have layoffs a simple supply and demand response? That is, the demand curve is the same for these workers but the supply curve shifts to the right and prices for the same job drops. They're betting that the people hired in a recession will perform better per dollar than the people let go.
Original source: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq7cxl9h0i.fsf@gitster.g/T/#u
It's not really - especially given that the author is aware that ChatGPT actually is a computer. The Turing test relies on either the tester not knowing a computer is involved or not knowing which of two parties is a computer.

Ironically, one of the easiest thing to spot that marks ChatGPT's responses as inhuman is its confidence in reporting something as factual and then when contradicted the way that it reports the opposite. In my experience, humans tend to put up more of a fight to defend their perspectives even when they are wrong.

This just comes down to the author being loose with their conclusions. It's unclear to me whether this is intentionally hyperbolic or satirical, or whether the author's claims are their actual beliefs. I'd lean towards the first explanation based on Eric Holloway's bio. But this is the real kicker that I'd disagree with:

> "Now, I have an explicit admission from the chatbot"

No, you have a language model's prediction of what would complete a conversation where you presented an idea and the model has sufficient data to write sentences that would conform to the idea rather than contradicting it. Given knowledge that this is how the responses work, inferring that the model is reporting any sort of accurate information must be inherently treated as suspect.

It's reasonably possible to lead the model down a path of conversation where the opposite idea is presented (that humans are not in the loop). That this is so indicates that this article is incorrect in it's stated conclusion (again assuming that it's not satire).
Never owned a Fit, I take it?

My wife and I owned a Fit for over ten years. We took many long roadtrips (i.e. 8+ hours in the car). For a couple with no kids, it's perfect, with a decent amount of cargo space, and great mileage.

Frankly, outside of North America, small cars are by far the norm rather than the exception. The American SUV or pickup are quite literally jokes in other parts of the world for how absurdly large they are.
China has already stated that they fully intend for Taiwan to revert back to Chinese control by 2050. It will be pretty interesting over the next 30 years to see how the geopolitics evolve around this, I hope I live long enough to see it.
In cases where you're willing to take the perf hit, you can just use languages like Python which abstract over integer size entirely.
https://usebracket.com in case you're interested!
All such statements have the comical subtext of suggesting Chinese "ownership" of Taiwan would be a better scenario.
Neat idea and great website!

I thought about having some periodic reminders, maybe using something in the spreadsheet (e.g. columns) as prompts or questions to be answered, but have not implemented anything yet. I am pretty disciplined myself so I rarely forget to write down an expense after I put my wallet away, but I can totally see that this is be a pain point for some users.

I could add a feature like that, but I do not really have lots of users to get feedback from, yet. I am currently in the "tell people" stage after I "did things" [1], so I should probably try to make a landing page as cool as yours ;)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30193714#30219978
New Psychedelic Under Development with Effect Like Psilocybin but Only 2-3 Hours
They also put back the "for you" tab to force people into algorithmic timelines, which they already tried once and pulled back since everyone hated it.
> My conclusion is that most of us probably would benefit from either intentional choices or self-imposed restrictions... but most of us could also probably benefit more from a combination of both.

This sentence is a good tldr for the book, Atomic Habits.
The irony in this is that many of these representatives were elected by rural voters who were promised better broadband access and remote working opportunities.
Part of the second and third wave can take the form of a hiring freeze or slowdown. People who quit are not replaced and soon you have a 5% reduction in headcount
the Mindstorms Robot Inventor is a bit more advanced (Scratch-like vs Scratch Jr on the Boost) and twice as expensive: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/robot-inventor-51515
That's what I say every time my room-mate and I discuss our subscriptions.
> would think the figure of public companies gone bankrupt to be much much higher over that long of a time frame

Bankruptcy is a symptom of leverage. Companies more and more fail by being acquired into oblivion. (It's also common for a dying industry to consolidate until its last gasp.)
> since moving the President and other important officials to a basement would be sufficient to protect them from a Cessna.

I think it's safe to assume that the bunkers under the White House are sufficient protection against as much explosives as a Cessna could possibly carry. The plane itself will do almost no damage, it's a flimsy thing built light out of aluminum and it's not even fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Tampa_Cessna_172_crash#/m...
The remembering to log is seeing the paper/book on the night stand when I go to bed. So it's mostly only for daily tasks. Finer grained logging doesn't happen because of the remembering and inconvenience.

The analysis hasn't been anything rigorous or long term. More eyeballing the data and checking for general trends. I'd like to be better at logging, but it's been too hard without an app to help remind and structure the data.

I tried using Google sheets or plain text on my phone, but the friction decreased my motivation to enter the data.
The Democrats you are referencing have about as much in common with the modern Democratic party as cars and carpenters.
Well there are these cases, for example:

https://www.feministcurrent.com/2022/07/22/christina-ellings... (Christina Ellingsen)

https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/tonje-gjevjon-faces-up-to-3-ye... (Tonje Gjevjon)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/04/gender-criti... (Marion Millar)

https://reduxx.info/exclusive-brazilian-feminist-facing-25-y... (Isabela Cêpa)

Here we see feminists threatened with prosecution and jail time for speaking out against this new ideology of gender identity, or just simply saying what they see: not women, but men performing stereotypes of women.

It's political and ideological censorship, enforced by the state.
It would be cool to follow through with evidence for this popular but overly simplistic claim.
It really depends on the surgery. Heart surgery isn't exactly minor and doctors do tend to prefer non-invasive treatment.

I like to minimize on my needed medications though. I would probably opt for this if it were available.
How about this example? https://imgur.com/a/FSC9gAJ

Seems convincing to me, and at the end I have it demonstrate its understanding. It also accurately reports when it is stumped and "still trying to understand" but can't.
My 2021 MBP 16" M1 Max doesn't get hot with the USB-C power connected to the left side. Unknown if that's still an issue with the Air.
I thought that loyalty oaths were not allowed in the UC system? I recall there was a brouhaha many years ago where they were requiring employees to disavow communism; several people refused and were fired. As a result, the UC system adopted a rule that political litmus tests would not be allowed when making hiring/firing decisions.
Why not be open and honest about it? Say you can hand in your notice straight away if they’ll give you a $30k signing bonus to make up for the bonus you’d miss out on?

(I guess it depends whether you think they’re at risk of announcing job cuts and rescinding job offers.)
It all depends on whether you're willing to lose the job offer to keep the bonus.

If so, just tell the company making the offer that you won't be able to start until whatever date you want to say.

If they say no, try countering with a signing bonus for the amount you're losing out on - or some percentage of the amount you're missing out on. Whatever you're willing to accept.

If you're not willing to lose the job offer, just accept it and give up the bonus.
Normally these posts would by called advisories (or more specifically security advisories)

Some vendors use the term Security Bulletins
exactly. this isn’t to say that US agencies have backdoors written into TOR per se, but they have had TOR delay the patching of exploits in order to achieve the same end
Biggest reason we are stuck on windows is because we use some windows-specific dependencies. If we dedicated ~6 months we could consider cross platform, but that would just be the beginning of the conversation. The 3rd party hosting/licensing costs on a per-customer basis don't even approach 1% of the total cost of the solution.
Not if you have ample time to move everyone to safety before it arrives. Seems a good trade off to make if you aren't confident what the pilot's intentions are instead of just blowing them out of the sky.
An equivalent reformulation: is there a point where most of everything is behind you? [edited]
But they have offices in those districts they can work at. I didn't say it had to be in DC.
Ah so this is why they messed up the overflow menu.

Kind of hoping I can actually order the extensions at some point though, it's a bit messy if you can no longer control which extensions are in the overflow menu or what order they're in.
It's worth noting that many companies have cash hordes outside the US but need to make payroll inside the US.
https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+repatriated+cash
Do you have a cite for that. The most I can find is that 120 million Chinese had passports in 2016. According to https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-07-09/Chinese-passport-holde..., they still had 120 million in 2019, and were expecting 240 million by 2020 because of a price cut in the passport fee (and then the pandemic comes, so I doubt they made those numbers). According to https://www.statista.com/statistics/1107607/china-number-of-..., it might be up to 170 million now?

But if what you say is true, that means most Chinese with a passport are taking international trips every year. If we discount Hong Kong (which doesn't require a passport, and anyways, is part of China, though it does count as an international trip from the airport's perspective, and you have to go through emigration, you also didn't say if you were counting HK residents also, so I guess we could have a bunch of different numbers there), I don't see how that could be true given the dearth of people with passports who are even capable of taking trips abroad.
This product specifically is DOA. Its userbase is too niche. Gamers are not found of latency and this product is very much latency. I used something like stadia called OnLive in 2012 and while very neat, I preferred gaming on my system or PC.
If only they had said beforehand that's going to be their shutdown process they probably wouldn't have had to shut it down..
Usermaven tracks retrurning visitors by fingerprinting.
This is true, but let's not pretend the Democrats don't do the same thing. It may not be "culture war" stuff per se that they put forth knowingly without the votes to pass, but they use this tactic as well.
Your private sector company might also one day be subject to the whims of a boss who bans remote work.
I see parallels to Nikola's "Nikola One" video, where they claimed that their truck was driving along using its newfangled zero-emission engines, but in reality it was just rolling downhill in a totally staged video. Nikola's CEO was recently convicted of fraud, and that incident featured very prominently in his indictment...
It's not using all of the atoms in the universe as training data...

Any collection of human writing is going to contain objectively wrong assertions, and those errors will vary based on the time and place the training data was sourced from.
That is possible, but I feel like usually we take the middle-of-the-road approach later than we should. So it won't be an optimal transition but it will be OK. I'd advocate for figuring it out sooner and more generously though!
It’s not a copy so…. Let me ask this, if you paint a realistic copy of a photo is that copyright infringement?

And where do you draw the line:
https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-a....
It's not e-waste because the controllers work over USB already.
> Use a VPN when connecting to TOR

You should not do this. It is at best useless, at worst strictly negative.

A VPN tunnels all your traffic through their own servers, so they are a single point of failure roughly equivalent to your ISP. Anyone with access to the VPN servers could spy on all of your traffic, completely bypassing Tor. If you pay for the VPN with a credit card, you can be easily identified.
Seems like a non-sequitur as that's not the argument I'm making. I gave context and reasons, perhaps you should try the same approach.
They obviously did that because the API is not benefiting them at all from a revenue perspective. If it were, they wouldn't have gotten rid of it.

Twitter was run as a charity prior to the acquisition. Just as many VC fat tech companies were
Quite incredible he can go from DoD spokesperson to working at TikTok. I guess there's no law against it, but incredible personal choice.
Sure, but a logic error is a fundamentally different class of error compared to a memory error. The potential harm of a logic error is limited in scope to what the program was written to be able to do. A memory error can lead to arbitrary code execution.
Pegasus might make handy click bait, but NSO Group doesn't get a tiny fraction of the data that Goggle Corp gathers.

But, since pretty much everyone in the US is allowing goggle to continue it's massive violation of the 4th amendment, it's not really news worthy.
It's as simple as dropping a show like a hot stone before they have to increase their actors' pay contractually. Terminal bean-counting.
I'm in a similar boat. GPS, Camera, but also Telegram and a basic browser for reference.

Dumbing down a smart phone doesn't fix the size and delicateness of the device either. I essentially want a tiny durable smartphone, ie size of an iPhone 3g.

My biggest thing is I hate how important this device is while also being unwieldy and easy to break. The only entertainment I use on my phone is twitter and even then I find it easy to stop scrolling.

I want the abilities of a smart phone, but something I can keep on me without worrying about it, like wearing a watch or how I can throw around my wallet.
That's fantastic debt though, at presumably low interest rates. A dollar in my pocket today is worth way more than a dollar in debt at 3.0% interest or less. You can't subtract debt from cash on hand and get a usable value, they're different types.
> Why would they spend any amount much less $3b or $10b to keep people they don’t need/want?

I understand that HN is a US-centric forum, where neoliberalism dictates the baseline and the interpretation of all things in life is reduced to a simplistic transaction in a theoretical free market.

However, society is comprised of people with family and a personal life and hopes and dreams and aspirations. Hiring someone has a profound impact on their life, and firing them moreso. There's the income aspect, but also the impact it has on where a person can live and consequently all roots their family have in a community. Hiring a person entails a tremendous social responsibility, and moreso firing them. Microsoft has a hefty amount of immigrants from all corners of the world, and some who have visas that limit the odds they can stay even in the country, let alone their community.

It's deplorable how a company can toy with someone's life like that just because some exec feels like it.
I heard Hawthorn just lost a lot of people and has a bunch of openings.
Just because something is a COTS doesn't mean it will get great Linux support. The Nintendo Switch should be the best-supported Linux board availible by that logic, but alas, even an unlocked Tegra is only so capable.

At a certain point, vendor cooperation becomes outright necessary. Asahi has come a long way, but getting to "best-in-class Linux support" takes more than community effort with commodity hardware. Stalled-out projects like Nouveau don't lend a lot of hope for the future.
Still one of the best foundational texts on the topic!
>Sure, geography matters

It more than matters. It dictates the very shape of humanity.

>But that doesn't really say much about a developed country

It matters as much to developed countries as it does to non developed. Switzerland didn't get wealthy by being easy to invade.

>However I am against Russian imperialism as well, and this situation is rooted in Russian imperialism.

Realistically treating Russian defense concerns as a sheer irrelevance is helping to perpetuate this war.

We can be aggressive imperialists or we can stay out of their neighborhood but we can't be both and not provoke a reaction. You can condemn Russian imperialism all you like but if you threaten the bear it will still claw your eyes out.

>Once again you're trying to justify offensive conquest by invoking the necessity of defense. If Russia was/is going to "end up like Libya", this has only been made more likely by Russia invading its neighbor.

The scary part is that this just isnt true. Control over Sevastopol and the land bridge to crimea puts them in a much better defensive position than before.

Destroying western Ukraine ("demilitarising") as a viable functioning state also renders it much less useful to the west, both as a partner and as a means of threatening Russia, turning it into an expensive and dangerous liability.
If only we are consistent in applying this standard. Are Hawaiian, native American, Puerto Rican, Ryuku etc independence activists' wish also important or is only Taiwan's wish important? If only Taiwan, then we do truly believe in this standard or is it just a moral cover for geopolitical interest?
I hope you keep your Uber drivers, Landscapers and Cleaning Ladies on retainers because you have so much cash in your brokerage/bank account
Twitter stopped working entirely for some 3rd party apps late last week. Dev communication looks extremely slim and the only comms has been a very vague tweet: "Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working."
Some more detail about the control that the new extensions button gives users: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/11/17/unified-extension...

It allows you to disable extensions only on specific sites. (And presumably, that's also the reason you need to dive into about:config to remove it: if you remove it, it's pretty hard for casual users to find out why an extension isn't working. By gating it behind about:config, people who are able to deal with that can still remove it without rendering casual users helpless. That's my personal interpretation though.)
The next article on the same news site:

https://mindmatters.ai/2023/01/large-language-models-can-ent...

> The reality is quite different. LLMs are text predictors, nothing more. They are not designed to know any facts whatsoever. Indeed, they have no way of distinguishing between true and false statements because they literally do not know the meaning of any of the words in the text they generate. They are convincing BS artists, which is why one of us proposed that they be called faux intelligence instead of artificial intelligence.

...

> Our point is not that LLMs sometimes give dumb answers. We use these examples to demonstrate that, because LLMs do not know what words mean, they cannot use knowledge of the real world, common sense, wisdom, or logical reasoning to assess whether a statement is likely to be true or false.
It would be pretty hard to put a charge on the right side as it only have a headphone jack there every other port (2xUSB+Magsafe) is on the left.

On the other hand, my M1 Pro MacBook Pro don't have any problem charging on either side, not like my previous Intel.
And where is the proof of that?

Just because someone gives money to the Tor Project doesn't mean they get to tell them exactly what to do.
You can double those numbers if you consider all additional costs.
I agree. This further degrades the meaning of owning private property.
React acknowledges that nothing can ever be purely declarative, it allows you to declare a view while giving you an outlet for imperative computations and side-effects (hooks). There is no contradiction in that.

In Fiber to animate is to use useFrame, which happens to be outside of React and bears no extra cost or overhead, nor does it conflict with reactive prop updates. useFrame allows any individual component to tie its mutations into the render loop.

The reactivity debate is next to irrelevant in WebGL because that is a loop driven system, it is not event-driven like the DOM. If you doubt that observe Svelte/Threlte, which can update the view directly, yet relies on useFrame modeled after Fibers. That is because you need deltas (to be refresh-rate independent), flags (needsUpdate), imperative functions (updateProjectionMatrix etc), it is never just a prop update.

That said, i don't know much about React-Pixi/Konva and so on, and if these do not have a loop outlet then yes i agree. But the whole premise of that article just falls flat.
> If they’ve found a way to hack one iPhone,” says Edward Snowden, “they’ve found a way to hack all iPhones.”

I thought the way this works is that NSO Group determines there's a vulnerability in ios or android that lets them insert Pegasus, but soon after it gets deployed to spy on 1 person by a NSO Group client, Apple and Google eventually detects it and patches the vulnerability.

I don't think it scales to 'all iphones'.

There is a recent Frontline episode where NSO Group denies any knowledge of how Pegasus gets deployed once they sell the exploit system to a client, but that seems false to me since it is my understanding NSO Group runs a large amount of infrastructure to collect data from infected phones and to report data to the client, a multi tenant system.

I can't find a source for Snowden saying this either.
> Advertisers dropped spending because they don't like Elon/his behavior.

I mean, yeah? If someone fired all my contacts at a company and didn’t return my emails as my revenue dropped as a result of their changes I would also stop paying them?
To be fair, I always assumed that the cliffhanger thing was for the benefit of the studios. Like "hey, we have a story to tell and viewers have a reason to come back. please renew us for another season".

It sucks that 1899 was cancelled but to be fair I was expecting it personally.
Interview with the authors on the Lawfare podcast

https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-how-spy-your-poc...
I've followed Western media studiously for years. NYT, WSJ, CNN, BBC, etc. I've yet to see a story about China that doesn't spin things negatively for China. It doesn't have to be "extreme reporting."