skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Stuff like Signal, Telegram, Tor or whatever are not included in this proposal.

Yet...
So I've been working on a sci-fi book that involves interplanetary governance, and one of the things I've realized is that if one wanted to have a civilization that worked on an interplanetary scale nuclear is probably the only way to go for meaningful power production.

Chemical means, based on carbon products that we've used up till now, would be very rare on remote planets, solar wouldn't work because planets could be various distances from a star they orbit, or could have different atmospheric, or magnetospheric conditions that would make that impractical, wind suffers a similar issue.

The only power source that could be guaranteed to work at the large scale, both in terms of space and time, reliably, and is likely to be available is nuclear power. With your other options being the quantum vacuum energy or anti-matter, but both fall more into the fiction part of sci-fi right now than the science part.

it was just a fun interesting little thought exercise. I'd love to hear if anyone has a criticism of the reading though.
Haha! Only real ones understand.

This has echoes of his Disconnecting Distraction piece!
It sounds like you’re referring to nuclear pulse propulsion, a proposed method of reaching Mars from the Earth’s surface in 2 weeks.[1]

I’m not sure what’s “horrible” about it. Research was halted because of the Test Ban Treaty, but if a safe way could be found to get the nuclear material into orbit, why not try it?

2 weeks is far better than 45 days which is what Nasa estimates nuclear thermal propulsion would achieve.

Zero gravity and space radiation are deadly to humans, and the more exposure we can cut, the better.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion
Let’s try not to help encourage a recovering adding to do drugs in a new, more efficient, way.
> if you have the source code of a Windows program you can compile it against Wine's implementation of the Windows API and get a native executable out the other side

Interesting if anyone tried this on Notepad++.
What kind of consistent performer? consistently mediocre?

> Solid 83% man my whole life, and I'll give you a solid 83 for all 4 years I'm there!
Miele isn't longer what it used to be.

I was along term user (30 years) but my latest purchase was disappointing.
Well, it would have been much simpler if Britain had banned encrypted communications during WW2 and Germany had cheerfully complied.
I'll chime in with personal experience as well, I've been diagnosed with severe ADHD at 25 (about a year ago) and starting on meds (Concerta 18 -> 36 -> 36 with ocassional 18 boost during the day) has been trully life changing, many of the organisational methods I've tried in the past and failed miserably have finally started to make sense.

It's not a super drug that magically fixes everything, it just moves stuff closer into realm of possibility, I sometimes still procrastinate, now with lazer sharp focus into the thing I'm procrastinating with, so it still takes a lot of discipline to begin doing productive things, but once I do I no longer have to continously fight myself to keep at it.

As per side effects, I don't really have any, the only thing I have noticed is that I have to choose the dosage carefully, as it flactuates a lot, some days I can get by on 18mg, some days 36+18 feels as if I haven't taken anything, as I'm told it is very personal and you have to find your rhythm with it.

As a bonus, despite getting enough sleep, I also have been drowsy during the day for as long as I remember and it was always difficult to fight through it (excessive amounts of sugar and energy drinks in my case). Concerta has fixed that instantly.
Is there any way to tell how many SSD lanes you have without opening up the device?
You know I've no idea where I got 14 days from. But I'm not US based and the last time I disputed something was in the EU at the start of the pandemic.

I'm probably entirely wrong!
You joke, but until the year 2000, open-source asymmetric encryption such as TLS was export-controlled as a munition under ITAR in the United States.

Apparently the government didn't see much of a problem with that classification until online merchants started wanting to encrypt credit card transactions in the mid-'90s, and the ball was slowly rolled uphill from there.
>"the UK is trying to ban encryption outright", that's not the whole story

It really is though.

They’ll always have a good reason to present, and they’ll always say it won’t go any further.
If Paul were Clippy.
Cryptography is in the forbidden library Harry
You should be sending the pictures of the reciept and the menu to your attorney general. Typically hidden non-tax fees are not legal if you never mention it early on.
Can't they just criminalize crime and put away the bad guys so that good people can enjoy society?
The proposal does not seek to simply ban encryption.

> Sophisticated encrypted communication devices have been used extensively by criminals to facilitate organised crime. We’re targeting the modified and bespoke devices that enable access to platforms, similar to Encro Chat, where the software/ hardware has been developed to anonymise its users and their communications and its user base is assessed to be almost certainly criminal. Under Option 1 where articles will be specified, we will be targeting those that supply, modify, and possess these bespoke devices; the provisions will not apply to commercially available mobile phones nor the encrypted messaging apps available on them. The proposed offences will seek to tackle those supplying and exploiting these devices in order to carry out serious crimes and will seek to
reduce the supply of these devices to serious criminals
It ought to be illegal, I've went to a take-out place that had a tiny note card taped to the counter where no one EVER looks before ordering: "optional" COVID surcharge.
If that helps to compartment knowledge in order to further UK security, one can expect it, eventually.

Nothing is scarier to me than a distant techno landscape where knowledge in irresponsible or irrational hands can be used for unimaginable horrors. Such extreme measures as censorship of undergrad STEM education would, in such a case, seem appealing to authorities.

Encryption offers table stakes for weaponization of math. I do, however, agree in spirit with your slippery slope arg
> ... reaches up and flips the pressurization switch, cutting off bleed air to the cabin. The airplane rapidly begins to depressurize ...

I cannot believe that a "kill everyone" switch actually exists, and if it really does this seems like a bug. Especially because not hitting the switch would also kill everyone.
>Those might need the end of life pain management one day

If you need end of life pain management, then it means you never fatally OD'd on fentanyl, which is the likely outcome of opiate addiction.
Your response appears to be much more emotionally driven than articbull’s. He is simply acknowledging their business model and the fact it is clearly a system that works, you’re assigning it some kind of value.
they keep trying, public outrage keeps it from being viewed by our ruling class as anything other than political suicide.

These policies will get implemented as soon as we are sick of being outraged.
Two things to fear: the criminalization of mathematics; secondly, the enforcement of the new regulations being in the hands of the UK's weather service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Met_Office
You'll be shocked to hear how most countries already ban large pieces of chemistry, and even inappropriate uses of momentum.
Isaac Arthur on YouTube has some interesting commentary on antimatter, and other advanced proposed propulsion systems. It seems that for the moment, at least, antimatter is strictly in the realm of science fiction, until some very difficult problems are solved.
My buddy and I used to crack whippets with a knife and frantically try to put the neck into a balloon with.... mixed results. The idea of using a plastic bag never occurred to us!
> CleanMyMac X is all-in-one package to awesomize your Mac. It cleans megatons of junk and makes your computer run faster. Just like it did on day one.

Looks like it's badly infected with PatronizingPandering.exe... you might need to nuke this one from orbit and cut your losses.
> Digital files or templates for 3D-printed firearms components

Since freedom of speech is no longer a value of the UK, the population can now be arrested for having files that the government doesn't care for.

Mirroring thingiverse? That's a crime now.
"How much will I get for my NFT?
You’ll receive 0.000007 ETH (roughly $0.01) for each NFT you sell"

"How are platform fees calculated?
Each transaction is subject to a platform fee. You’ll pay 0.0033 ETH per NFT, plus gas."

So I am guessing the "0.0033 ETH"(about $5.28") fee is also tax deductible.
Radar is not exactly “new” technology, to your point I wonder why airports are not equipped with one. Shouldn’t break the bank.

Plus don’t militaries have radar anyways for air defense? How is it possible that no radar from multiple countries picked up a silent Boeing 777 flying to nowhere?
Hard to Explain, Easy to Verify
Nice. Great to hear that it's built the way it should be!
That would be hilarious, indeed. Chaps shall communicate clearly. Makes sense.
> but if you're reading it as "the UK is trying to ban encryption outright", that's not the whole story.

But isn't that the whole story? A device produced to securely encrypt data is proposed to be outlawed - if that's a physical device today, it'll be an algorithmic device tomorrow. A law against one effective safe is a law against all effective safes.

Any encryption device is "sophisticated" if it is useful. Maybe we could read it as "UK is trying to ban /useful/ encryption outright"
No, you're not missing anything. $5 to deliver medication seems like a good deal for some people.
This. So much this. The OP is outraged Paypal is preventing them from getting scammed using a well-known scamming technique.
For every success story (Mojang) there are 3-4 horror stories (Fast, Yammer, Nokia, aQuantive, etc.)
I mean the source is there, so if you could code it up in a weekend, more power to ya! I always find it strange that people say this instead of just doing it and making millions being a solo dev.
Visible is $30 all in.
It's dangerous to assume context and intent when writing a law will limit how that law, once passed, is applied. Because they won't. And there's a lot of "not available commercially" language in there, that makes me think it'll apply to anything you can't buy at a local mall, e.g. a privacy-focused Android fork.

It's also a dangerous step in making the mere act of hiding from the government a crime.
In the late 19th century Native Americans' refused to have their photo taken, fearful the process would steal a person's soul and own nature. How prescient of them, to know 100 years later, the algorithms would be coming. To chew on our photos, average our voice, scan our faces, integrate and differentiate our words, generalize our gait and demeanor, generalize our ideas into a multilayered deep network that completely steals all our essence and soul. We are destined to be cloned into thousands of insipid Agent Smiths. :-( I say we burn it now....
Very excited to have the same experience on Mac once MoltenVK's DirectX 12 layer is complete.
Framing it like that doesn't help, when they banned drugs did they banned chemical reactions or the atomic theory or the gas laws?

Obviously the intentions here are not to ban computations but devices doing computations that makes jobs of those people harder.
Hmm... that could potentially allow to get rid of test environment like some redundant server that is a copy of production environment that one can use to test introduction of changes. Am I catching up what group of cases you have in mind more or less?
Putting this out there in case it may help others: My mother suffered from GERD for years and years and about two years ago, her condition seemed to have taken a turn for the worse. We’re talking waking up in the middle of the night projectile vomiting. Constant heartburn, burping and indigestion after meals and daily constipation. The doctors were completely unable to help except to recommend antacids and possibly PPI medication which can have serious side-effects.

I put her on a prebiotic + probiotic diet (kaffir, yogurt, whole grains, dark leafy greens, etc) along with a basic probiotic supplement every night and now according to her, at least 95% of the symptoms have gone away. She’s able to sleep through the night now, better mood, better energy, better everything.

Not saying it will work for everyone, but it worked for her. I feel like so little is understood about the gut microbiome and modern medicine is letting people suffer needlessly.

Edit: just realized this sounds exactly like a paid infomercial lol
That is a great question.
Well you're not alone with this view. This is were Valetudo and dustbuilder should be mentioned.

With these projects, you can replace the nasty privacy-invasive bits in the vendor's SW stack.

There's a buying guide to find a matching rootable robot for your needs:
https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/buying-supported-robots...

I got a pair of Dreame W10s in the last Black Friday deals and they're a great help.

I wish my money wouldn't go towards the vendor crapware that takes extra efforts to get rid of.
But i couldn't be happier with the result, having automated the vacuuming and mopping.
Samsung TV starts playing ads ... in the US.

This kind of craziness is illegal in Europe and I honestly cannot understand why this is not regulated in the US.
You're confusing "air travel" with "jet travel". Jet travel was obviously a startup in the 60s.
So... computers running firewall software? Perhaps browsers with TLS support and anonymous mode as well?
In the US when you buy a vehicle you pay the tax on it. Every time. It's ridiculous.
The intersection of all typescript types is `never`. `any` is approximately equivalent to `unknown` in contravariant positions and `never` in covariant ones.
> This sort of thing would be purchased by clueless/gullible mid and low level people only now.

And therefor should actually be subsidized immediately.
But most alternatives choose not to retain personal data and have much more stringent privacy policies.

Realistically I don't think the average individual can fathom how much personal data the likes of Google has on people. Small example, I deleted my entire Youtube subscription/history several times, I keep getting recommended the same things. Clearly there's more to 'deleting it entirely'.
Is he really that forgotten? Camus talks about him in "Myth of Sisyphus" and while I haven't read his work personally I definitely recognize his name from the "existentialist pantheon"
Thieves eventually learn not to steal worthless bricks.
would love to hear from someone in the embalming industry about the claims in that movie DiedSuddenly. It was all very one sided. They had like five embalmers all in agreement that recently, right after the covid, human bodies had these long fibers never seen before. But can we hear from some other embalmers?
Everytime there is an uproar to fight it again, so they wait and try again a year later.

They aren't giving up, they are just waiting as they "only have to get lucky once"

Meanwhile those who recognize the issue instead must live by the maximum "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"
What the Longest Study on Human Happiness Found Is the Key to a Good Life
There's a conversation in Harper's this month along these lines:

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/02/is-liberalism-worth-savi...

The conversation flits around a bit too quickly for my taste, but some interesting points are made.
There's a lot of redundancy and obsolete stuff in the main repo Wine package. I maintain wine-stable and I have just 45 lib32 dependencies.

To compare:

Main repo wine: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/abf380b...

AUR wine-stable: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=wine-...
PDF-XChange Viewer, the only program that I know that can passably be used to fill very complex pdf forms with many fields.
Too bad crossover on mac keeps on breaking...
I'm yet to find another pdf app that can substitute it on mac...
Ask HN: Phil-of-lang question: What do LLMs mean for indexicals?
In my youth, I was eyeball-deep in analytic philosophy, and I remember that so-called indexicals -- 'you', 'I', etc -- are (or were) philosophically mysterious. This was often explained as the difference between seeing a trail of sugar in the grocery store, and recognizing that your cart was the one with the leaking bag of sugar. (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/indexicals/)

Like everyone else, I'm agog at ChatGPT, but the part that has me nearly calling up my old professors is, "how, when I tell ChatGPT 'you are writing a screenplay', does it 'know' (in whatever level of scare-quotes are necessary here) that it is writing the screenplay?

This, to me, feels like the most urgent of the many questions ChatGPT raises, but I'm unsure of how even to structure the worry into a proper question, let alone how to answer it. Put another way, I'm less concerned about the putative personhood of ChatGPT (it most certainly is not a person) than I am its possible language agency -- it status as a speaker -- which is a distinct question, and, with regard to language, would (at least to my cursory and obsolete understanding) be less settled.

Any ML-savvy phil nerds on here with a good way of marshalling these worries into something coherent?
I'd be interested to hear about how the infrastructure works, the queueing, the storage, how it's hosted, how it's throttled...
Not everything is a slippery slope. PFAS are causing health and hormone dysregulation issues across the globe. Working to eliminate them in the interests of improved health and happiness for all humanity is not a bad thing and will not necessarily lead to banning whatever the bogey of the month happens to be.
I imagine it's using a variant of the semantic search answers pattern. I wrote a bit about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jan/13/semantic-search-answer...
Well, it certainly helps there is an effective police force where they are.

In the US, the police wouldn't have done much. Maybe issue a restraining order or three if she's lucky.

Also helps that the danger of everyone carrying murder device firearms isn't as prevalent over there.
It's difficult to understand a codebase without understanding who built it. I'd try something like CODEOWNERS.com to generate a CODEOWNERS file and see which GitHub users contributed to each piece of the pie
Almost enough to undermine your faith in commercially available mobile phone encryption, hm?
It's still troublesome as a precedent: Making a particular class of software illegal to be in possession of.

As others have pointed out - once the precedent is in place, what is stopping them from deciding that some other piece of software superficially matches the law close enough that the police will ding you for it? After all, this is policing 101, where they use whatever laws are on the book as leverage for something totally unrelated to the laws they're using.

Having a look at the wording on offer:

- An offence of making, modifying, supplying, offering to supply a specified article
where a person has reasonable grounds to suspect that it will be used in any serious
crime.

- An offence of possessing any specified article where a person intends or, has
reasonable grounds to suspect, that it will be used in any serious crime.

Every time we get new laws like this, we take a step towards the police being able to arrest anyone, for any reason, at any time.
Music.youtube.com Service Outage
Currently not loading for me from multiple networks.

Anyone else experiencing issues? Seems to be app level not network level
My point is precisely that we do have the technology, so I don't know what you're trying to say.
If you don't believe violence is going to occur, why not go alone?
https://archive.is/iUuBw
I think the majority of people here over age 40 who saw early career SWEs routinely discussing $250k-$350k packages knew that the past couple of years was not an exact repeat of, but certainly rhymed with, the dot com era.
What joke?
was it related to https://cdc.gov/chikungunya
The number of new podcasts launched fell by nearly 80% between 2020 and 2022
I would imagine that the "attention" phase of the LLMs could get longer over time as more resources are dedicated to them.

e.g. we are seeing the equivalent of movies that are 5 minutes long b/c they were hand animated. Once we move to computer animated movies, it becomes a lot easier to generate an entire film.
Isn't this how the show Lost starts?
Dang, that's really pretty. Could do with a little interface polish, but really nice visualizations. How does 't' work? Would love to be able to feed an audio waveform into a fullscreen mode and some palette options.
Fair pricing would result in reduced profits for the ISP otherwise they wouldn't do it.

Therefore consumers would benefit on net from fair pricing. Certainly some hard negotiators do benefit from discriminatory pricing, but their gains are less than the losses incurred by those who aren't.
I wouldn't know how to draft a rule (I don't even know if what they are doing is illegal). I think the Flights interface is superior to the competitors as well. However, it's unclear to what extent Google is using their control of ranking to ensure that their onebox shows up on top, and how much that prevents people from seeing competitor's sites.
I think in his case he saw the flaws with Twitter, the bans, the algorithmic black box and thought he could bring something better to the table. Perhaps he learnt better after the fact.

At least having more private black box algos gives people a choice rather than a monopoly on choice.
I was assuming should be the Met Office as they would have the mathematical education :-)))
> I do think that in 2005 they were way, way ahead of keeping their console "secure" according to their threat model.

I agree, see my other comment re: KV.bin

They built the x360 with layers, upon layers, like an onion.

Two exploits (JTAG and RGH), and a few forever-unspeakable social engineering incidents aside, they did great work.

Until Mw2 came out in 2011.
I agree with you considering parent comment has currently been downvoted. This was one of the most fascinating articles I've read but it was so long I still didn't finish reading the entire thing
Modern aircraft have very good warning systems that warn when configuration of the aircraft or systems necessary for life are in incorrect states, and the way they're used generally afford a decent chunk of time if something goes wrong.
deep relationships
I do feel like some of those companies were doomed before microsoft was involved at least
Does the difference matter? You're still out $100k/yr. If you pay for my rent, food, clothes, electricity, heat, water, gym membership, healthcare, internet, and a one person subscription to rent-a-prison-guard the fact that I'm not seeing the cash is immaterial.

> would we punish criminals in a different way

Yes, this is implied. The most popular alternative is "house arrest" (i.e "adult grounding") where you're monitored but allowed to go to work, school, and essential places like the doctor, grocery store, etc.. If you need more we can keep stacking on things like garnished wages, daily detention, mandatory community service.

I think that's way more human. The number of people that, for the safety of others, need to be separated from society I think it's vanishingly small, and smaller than that the number who are such a danger that they require confinement in cells.
Typically random mouse movements are Bluetooth mice people forget are connected.

I suggest checking for that/ disable Bluetooth to see what happens.
You can't claim a loss on crypto if you lose the password or get hacked. Is declaring the crypto worthless different?