skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This proof-of-concept would be a breakthrough for healthcare, security, gaming (VR), and a host of other industries.

/facepalm

They do acknowledge the privacy concerns but go to make (imho) pie-in-the-sky arguments like 'this will enhance privacy because security cameras won't be as necessary in public spaces. Journalism doesn't pay much, so maybe this is some naively idealistic person's first writing job. I once believed that adding public comments on news websites would elevate the standard of public discourse and I mentally kick myself on the regular for the time I spent promoting this idea back in the 1990s.

The researchers offering the same ideas in the paper don't have such an excuse; they're creating an entire new class of surveillance technology and pretending that this will somehow enhance privacy, which flies in the face of all experience and research on the topic. The technicals result are outstanding and I'm very impressed by them, as well as the exposition and direction of research. The potential applications are numerous and exciting to my inner geek.

But I'm also worried. The existing limitations will fall sooner than expected, and it will be productized while the ethicists are still drafting their arguments (at which point they'll shift to asking for donations to counter the latest threat). Semi-seriously considering repainting the inside of my house to make a faraday cage by mixing copper paint in the underlayer.
What a coincidence! I've been thinking about taking a sabbatical and walking the the Camino de Santiago. During that time I will likely study for some IT certs to demonstrate new skills in cloud servers & security.

How did you feel about balancing studying skills with socializing & enjoying the journey of the Camino?
only electrical tape will work though. it's the only one that actually blocks electrons
the best thing about them is you can constantly schedule large stock sales, and just cancel the ones that don't favour you.

Look ma, no inside information.
> One more way to bypass this requirement is to add a private static method

This doesn’t work if it requires multiple arguments to be generated with common code, unless you’re okay with effectively running that common code twice, which in turn is problematic when it has side-effects (like logging). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34482908 for an alternative way of solving this.
I suppose "Why?" is a rhetorical question. If you think they should get fined again, I agree with you.
Meritocracy is a form of propaganda to keep a compliant populace in general and workforce in particular.

It is the idea that if you work really hard you will be rewarded. It is the basis for most people thinking they're above average. It is why so many people believe they'll be Elon Musk one day so they die on the hill opposing any effort to tax the 10 richest people in America slightly ore because, hey, that will be them some day.

But what this really does is just allows someone to be exploited.

This permeated every aspect of life and starts from a very young age. It's going to better schools (even from a pre-K level), having access to tutors to better your results on standardized testing, getting access to lucrative internships and jobs (eg nepo babies), having social connections, getting into good colleges and so on. And it compounds.

Many fields require you to take jobs that pay nothing or minimum wage (eg a production assistant on a movie set). Having the means to do this gives you an enormous advantage for someone for whom this simply isn't an option.

For example, there's a lot of disagreement about affirmative action in college admissions. This is really the wrong conversation to be having. The right one is about how ~36% of each new undergraduate class at Harvard are legacy admissions and the legacy admission rate is 20% or higher.

It goes beyond wealth and privilege however. So much of the working world isn't about doing the best work or working the hardest. Instead much of it comes down to being liked and that encompasses a lot of things, not the least of which is coming from a similar background.
I have a strong feeling this is a setting your org has enabled. You reference draconian rules, talk to your admins.

I can see how this feature might be useful, eg disallowing IE6. But that's taken to the next level of restriction
Sorry, I realise how my comment was a bit confusing. I kinda butchered my point.

I guess my point is more ethical than legal.

Sure, another artist could copy your style, but they would still need to study it for a long time (composition, palette, perspective, grading, line work, etc) to get an accurate understanding of it. They also needed to have spent years training their hand-eye coordination, as well as art theory to achieve it. Whether it's ethical is debatable, but they've earned their skills. And they'd still take a while to produce it, so they earned their money.

If someone without training just asked a computer program to produce "dragon in style of X" then this means people can sidestep artists to create works.

One could be smug and say "work smart not hard" here, but it creates a tricky situation.

What if people start pulling down their works or not posting them for fears a megacorp will crawl their works without permission?

What if someone asks for the same piece (by describing it as a prompt and saying "in the style of X"); is that plagiarism or copytheft?

What will happen to the models in this case? Do they become "inbred" over time?

What becomes of artists? It will no longer be a viable career (especially digital artists) for them. I know most artist enjoy the process more than selling the art, but the process won't put food on the table.

I guess it's a lot of what ifs too here, but they're not unlikely scenarios.
https://twitter.com/iBrews/status/1570844710155190275
So you’re saying you had to think, and that the AI did not take your job, but possibly alleviated some of the work in it?
Oh my god, you made the Hapland games?
I spent hours of through high school playing them.
Wanted to say thanks for the great times!
And in college I remember a professor or a TA demonstrated jamming by operating a modified microwave oven while running iperf or something similar on a nearby Wi-Fi network.
The idea of mummifying oneself seems quite specific, especially if they ritualized it and had some cocktail of botanicals they ingested to facilitate the process. Is there a name for this 3rd century Chinese Buddhist monastic culture and practice?
The Christian often sees the Devil around every corner.

The socialist sees capitalism.

The capitalist sees socialism.

Something like that....

Being so fashionable to bash on capitalism these days, I can't help suspecting that it is an opposing ideology, rather than truth or facts, driving the bus.

Interesting to consider pre-Athens democracy.

I'm not so sure Gobekli Tepe overthrows the idea of an agricultural revolution. It just changes its texture. We are, after all, all agriculturalists now. And 3000 years is _not_ a long time for an anthropological "revolution"!
Maybe something like this foil-backed gypsum board, https://www.goldbondbuilding.com/products/drywall-panels/foi...

RF/sound blocking drywall for SCIFs costs a small fortune, https://www.quietrock.com/products/quietrock-530rf

EMF shielding case study, https://www.zokazola.com/emf_reduction.html
This TV programme from the Open University (OU) is a model of clarity and explanation. The visual examples are excellent and well thought out. This TV programme was broadcast almost 40 years ago and yet beats many online video computing courses, lectures and tutorials today.
Yet apparently you still paid (at least your attention) to give house of dragons a try reinforcing this disgusting habit of making only remakes and childish franchise bollocks. We must punish them
Akamai edgecompute.live certificate has expired
edgecompute.live certificate expired at approx. 2023-01-22T13:00:00Z.

This is their marketing/demo site for Edge Compute and the fact that perhaps the largest CDN lets certificates expire is a bit surprising.

We auto-rotate local browser access certificates across tens of thousands of IIoT devices 1 month before expiry accounting for eventual breakage with ACME providers we work with.

Wish everyone a happy lunar new year of the rabbit!
Here is a potentially daft question that I nonetheless would appreciate if someone could answer. Is it possible to deny the axiom of choice for the purposes of measures while accepting it for vector spaces? I am wondering if you could say, "there are two kinds of sets, ones equipped with a choice function and ones without it, and measurable sets are of the latter kind."
An absolutely amazing story. I’ve wondered for a while how powerful bringing skilled software engineers (let’s be honest, people don’t give us credit for the amount of actual business skill is required to effectively do this job) into small businesses would work. Most people who don’t work in tech or advertising don’t think so much about tracking everything. It presents a pretty big opportunity for both small business owners and software people.
A lot of traffic also comes from the mission editor:

https://www.escape-team.com/create
I don't think it's inevitable, because governments notice what large financial companies do. It might be aaaaaalmost inevitable, depending on who's got the best lobbyists. Let's hope not.
It's easier if you just use a factory pattern. That way your constructors stay as simple allocation and the logic to build instances can break out into full methods. Exceptions can stay out of your constructors and it just makes things easier to work with over all.
If we thought the signal vs noise problem was bad, wait until 90% of data is banal AI drivel drowning out any semblance of authenticity.

Boring, brown, homogeneous noise
Those departments are largely executive agencies. The executive branch is supposed to enforce but over time it began to do both. The court is pulling this back now.
For non-java guys like me: this() is used to call one constructor from the other of the same class.
KMFDM is admittedly pretty awesome to discover
Check out Roger Ebert's walk.
The first version of Microsoft BASIC was written for the MITS Altair 8800 – which didn't come with any graphics hardware, it was normally used over a serial port, from a teletype. Given a serial port talking to a teletype, full-screen editing is impossible.

Microsoft went on to port their BASIC to more platforms, many of which were capable of full-screen editing, yet they kept with the line-oriented interface–why? It was a lowest common denominator which worked across all hardware and was trivial to bring up on a new hardware platform or operating system–full screen editing would have required a lot more platform-specific code to be written, and would have been more affected by differences in capabilities between different platforms (screen sizes/etc).
Fuchsia debuted seven years ago and was in development even before that. And it hasn't been cancelled more than 80% of the team remains.

Crack addled flea? That's how you'd describe seven years?
"last liberal court" -- it remains the case that 6 of the 9 justices on the court that decided Roe were put there by Republican Presidents.

That's not a lock that they were in fact "conservative," but four of them were put on the court by Nixon, and regarding Blackmun, "The Justice Department including future Chief Justice William Rehnquist investigated Fortas at the behest of President Richard Nixon who saw the idea of removing Fortas as a chance to move the Court in a more conservative direction, and Attorney General John N. Mitchell pressured Fortas into resigning." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Fortas

So four were appointed by Nixon, who specifically had in mind moving the court to a more conservative stance. The fact that he failed miserably with Blackmun notwithstanding, the only thing that can honestly be said of the court at the time is that it was less conservative than courts that followed, not that it was liberal.
Proud of the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians killed by the US?
> Not sure I trust a book which has activism against the current economic system as a goal.

Thinking about this, I don't know a single book that has an economical and/or political focus that doesn't in some way or another criticize the status quo or at least challenge our understanding of it. In fact I doubt such a book would be worth reading at all.
People used to make movies to make a point. Now people make data-driven drivel.
https://extensionpay.com — A really simple way for browser extension developers to take payments in their extensions. I made it to use in my own extensions since it's a pain in the butt to take payments in browser extensions.

It has an open source library that works across all browsers and allows for one-time or subscription payments. Since 2021 developers have made over $125k with ExtensionPay which makes me happy :)
I think the ethical question is the only one that really requires even discussing consciousness.

Unless there are externally observable things that can't or are unlikely to be done without consciousness, which doesn't seem to be a solved question either.
Why is there no pricing info?
They can sell it as improving Wi-Fi in your own home too, even if you trust neighbors not to pull any shenanigans, since your Wi-Fi network won't be subject to interference from neighboring networks.
I never saw this answer until now, probably because it got flagged at first, but chatGPT never ceases to amaze lately, even when it makes errors
The problem begins when you want to do more complex things. For example, you can't call super() inside a try{} block as far as I understand, but that doesn't immediately follow from "super calls the parent class' constructor" - and it did follow from "either super() or this() must be the first statement in your constructor".
ChatGPT Has Passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)
Interesting.. What do you think about Survey Propagation?
How I Lost 76 Pounds at Age 59 and Changed My Life
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Anyone whoever programmed on punch cards always numbered them so the you could sort them if you ever dropped your deck. Strategic numbering was even more important then. Most of us preprogrammed the punch machines, via a punch card itself mounted to a drum, to help with the numbering.
Surprises in the Rust JSON Ecosystem
CMI says 2022 had the worst second half for mortality since 2010
The boog guys I know are not far-right, nor are they accelerationists. They're mostly socially liberal young vets who are sick of constant wars, creeping tyranny, and the hypocrisy of powerful people, and who are willing to fight back if they're pushed, but most wouldn't start anything. There might be some people like you talk about, or they might be provocateurs, but in either case, they're a small minority.
Google needs a CEO that is driven and with a product-centric approach and this is not what I currently see in Sundar.

Google is extremely well positioned to respond to ChatGPT as they already have a very popular assistant in people's pockets and homes all over the world.
i guess back in those pre-resource-accumulation days, they managed to kill all the charming psycopaths before they became tyrants. Maybe it was the teenage mothers and high infant mortality rate that did it?
Another reason: BASIC had a GOTO statement to change program flow to any point in the code. There was no idea of nested blocks of code that executed conditionally. The GOSUB directive was only useful in some situations.

GOTO needed somewhere to jump to and the easiest thing to delineate was a line number.
it could make it much easier for a bad actor to use social engineering to pretend to be someone in a certain role that requires a certain amount of domain-specific knowledge and/or lingo
> Noble savage myth

The noble savage is a trope represents the innate goodness of humanity when free from the corrupting influence of civilization. If anything, it's Graeber propagating the noble savage myth. Societies that are smaller have have less stuff are obviously going to have less material inequality. That doesn't mean that they lacked hierarchies and selfishness.
Daniel Quinn (author of Ishmael) wrote about this sort of thing in a non-scientific sort of way. More from a philosophy standpoint.

But anyway one point he makes that really stuck with me, is that in a hunter gatherer society, you might get a tribe leader or chief or something. But if you dont like what they're doing, you can just leave and be a hunter gatherer somewhere else. No one is depending on any centralised place for food. So you can get complex social structures if thats what everyone wants, but hierarchies are difficult to maintain by force. People will just quit if they dont like it.

Whereas in an agricultural society, you get specialisation of skills which helps towards the sort of thing we now think of as 'progress' but you can also have hierarchies enforced by force because someone or some subgroup ends up in charge of the food and can lock it away, and peoples option to just leave and go and fend for themselves is less feasible and so they get stuck being subjects of some ruler.

TLDR: You dont have to think of hunter gatherer societies as simple or backward. But they are less likely to have deep hierarchies and specialisation
TCP_NODELAY to the rescue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm#Operating_...
On WOlf3D, does it exist free data as it does for Doom (FreeDoom) and Heretic (Blasphemer)?
I'm one of the cofounders of PriceTable. [1] It has been a side project since 2018 or so.

About a year and a half ago I posted about it on HN [2] and back then our revenue was $2,500/mo. We recently passed the $6,000/mo.

At this point we have a few very happy customers who make up the bulk of our revenue. We have been trying to grow more, but our challenge is that we haven't been able to figure out a cost-effective way of reaching potential customers. We target the landscaping market, and most landscaping companies are either too small, or they don't have tech-savvy owners/staff who are motivated to learn and leverage a software solution effectively in order to grow their sales. Phone and email outreach haven't worked well.

If anyone has experience in this market or similar, please drop me a line! ege@pricetable.io

[1] - https://pricetable.io
[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26855726
>... And from the police radar surveillance van sitting in the street in front of your house.

Nothing a kind note and an order of small-batch artisan donuts can't solve.
over 90% of the world's smartphones are onboarding with gmail
Graeber was an activist and anarchist, so his motivation is definitely to critique modern society with the hope of it eventually being replaced with something more to his liking. My understanding is that modern society in general (not the specifics) is the most likely outcome of human development over time, in that some sort of technologically advanced global civilization with governments, global trade and militaries was probable once modern humans spread out and colonized the planet, providing no extinction event happened before then. It was just a matter of time before population density and technological advances led to civilization as we understand it, whatever detours that may have taken, and however different it might have played out given various historical contingencies.

My guess is that if there are any technological alien life out there, it likely follows the same general development, at least up to this point (given we don't know how the future plays out and of course just using our history so far, and also allowing for significantly different biologies or climates and geologies leading to divergent outcomes from ours).
This isn't just an issue with Edge, Adobe Acrobat, and a few other apps (I forget which ones now) will add a shortcut to the desktop when they update.

It's super annoying, and doesn't seem to be a way to just disallow that behavior without uninstalling the apps (which I think with Edge you can't do anymore).

I'm very tempted to try a Linux installation on my next device, it might actually be worth the extra effort now.
I make videogames for a living:

- Flipon (https://flipon.net) an arcade puzzle/match-3 inspired by Tetris attack on PC mobiles and switch

- Steredenn (https://Steredenn.pixelnest.io) a roguelike shoot them up, pc, iOS, switch.

I’ve been lucky to have an extra income with those two games for a few year.
A variation of this was used in "The Dark Knight", and you'll recall that Morgan Freeman quit (ok or maybe threatened to quit per the comment below, we know he was back in The Dark Knight Rises) over the ethical implications.
Relatedly, I don’t know if the following has already been fixed in more recent Java versions, but it should:

final Foo foo;
try
{
foo = bar(baz);
}
catch (SomeException ex)
{
foo = SOME_DEFAULT;
}

For some reason, the assignment in the catch clause is seen as a reassignment ("variable foo might already have been assigned"). As a workaround, one can factor it out into a separate method and have “return” there instead of “foo =“. This is particularly inconvenient in constructors when you want to assign to a final field.
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Here's a video approximating coding on a early-'80s home computer, complete with some simulated(?) NTSC TV ambiance effects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOqguR3bBsk&t=1m8s

(Some things I didn't notice them getting into were `RESEQUENCE`, retyping a line with its number to edit a line, storing the program to flaky audiocassette, and losing the only copy of the game you were developing because you left your tape in, and your little brother absent-mindedly pressed the Record button while waiting his turn to play Parsec.)
what tool was used to create these diagrams?
Thank you! Precisely. Anonymity levels the playing field. We aim to capture the upside of anonymity by moderating with AI and team effort.
The next question is what the setting is called. If it's something like "Allow connections only from trustworthy browsers", then plenty of the guilt should still fall on MS.
Does Signal still work as an SMS app? It stopped recently for me, supposedly because SMS fallback is insecure
The US has the power to really cause damage to India (and well any other country). They can cause a stink on the UN front and if that does not work, escalate financially like they do to countries like Iran. Its just not that important for the extremely old and corrupt leadership at the top to care about though. I suspect once someone from the internet generation takes the presidency, there will be some chance of something changing.
I personally don't like static factories that much. They have their place, but half the JDK is now `.of` or `.from` or `.newInstance` or `.get`.

I'd really like to be able to define a constructor on sealed interfaces:

sealed interface Path permits WindowsPath, UnixPath {
public Path(String p) {
if (isWindows()) {
return new WindowsPath(p);
}

return new UnixPath(p);
}
}

That way user code to construct an object is always the same:

var p = new Path(s);

Instead of:

var p = Paths.get(s);
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2022/07/22/we're-going-to...
Ah yes, and the Internet is just a series of tubes.
>talk to your admins

How? Maybe this hits harder for me as a work from home employee but it's never been harder to get ahold of an admin. Everything must be done in channels and rarely does anything seem to pass through the local supervisor level. Most things are presented as a take it or leave it situation and no consideration or nuance is even pretended at.

Stuff where admins use ridiculous settings are expected to be accepted without feedback.