skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this view is empirically quite challenged. It's practically impossible to win the debate for strict drug laws because key pieces of sociological evidence are just inadmissible on stereotype grounds.

But when you see the effect of these libertarian policies in American cities the results speak for themselves. Harm reduction and lax enforcement have really destroyed some communities, and this was simply not as large a problem in the 50s or 60s.

There's really no better poster child for this phenomenon than San Francisco. It was the economic center of the technology boom and unlike New York or London of centuries past, completely failed to become a "center of the world" city despite having the “center of the world” economy. By most accounts, it actually functions less well than it did before the internet was invented.
I think it’s just that counterculture almost always becomes the mainstream eventually.

Tattoos, leather jackets and motorcycles used to be cool counterculture. Now they’re trendy.

It does feel like we’ve descended into monoculture.

Though, maybe that’s because those in the counterculture aren’t showing off and are hard to spot, unlike hippies and bikers.

Counterculture is still alive and well I’m sure. Just hidden amongst the noise of our hyper signal to noise ratio reality.
I think those accounts use free api access to post that data in tweets.
hmmm, probably could have been more clear. I meant "metal economy" not literally the whole economy.
Secure compound? Good luck with that. The asteroid is 140 miles in diameter. For comparison, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was less than 10 miles in diameter.

There’s no way you could bring the entire thing down to Earth without causing another extinction event. You’d have to keep it in orbit and at that point it’s anybody’s game.
Tether ownership and company weaknesses revealed in documents
But do we? Population growth slows down at certain level of quality of life, no secret there.
If you want for this to happen worldwide, make sure riches are distributed better than now.
Still unlikely utopia, but easier than laws against having children
https://archive.ph/0xx2x
"Your honor, my client didn't throw Joe out of the window, he merely defenestrated him at high velocity."

"Oh I see. That's totally different. Case dismissed."
The problem is that this test (and others linked in the article) shows a systematic left-wing bias of ChatGPT. If the model just had more or less random biases, not supporting one large ideological school, then the problem would be much less severe.
This analogy is a huge hyperbole and the sole number of people addressing that suggests that many people might consider it to be misinformation that should be corrected before it spreads.

Even if you meant authoritarian approach towards citizen in general (not regarding parenting), this is also incorrect. People who stayed out of politics weren't really persecuted here in Poland. Activists, independent journalists and priests were persecuted by the police but ordinary people just went on with their lives (although it is true that the regime used to be very oppresive in the 1940s-50s before Stalin died in 1956).
Do you really think counting the number of websites of a certain bias and comparing the two counts is an accurate measure?
How many of those websites do you think it takes to equal the readership of a single Reddit or Fox News?

We know most young people are left leaning. We know most content on the internet is created by young people. It isn't a huge leap that the internet is mostly left leaning. If you don't believe me go post some pro-conservative stuff on the biggest social media platforms.
Not a imperial thing
Germany criminalizes opposition to war: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/02/01/qqln-f01.html
Wow that’s quite convincing!
This is unfortunate. I tried to revive my Coinbase account this week after a few years. Submitted my ids and all again.

Have a new number, so had to update 2FA. It gave me one try to update my 2FA, but the message never arrived, and now I am locked out again.
Wyze Service Status and Known Issues
Any other Wyze camera users here who've been experiencing poor availability since a major update to the app around New Year's?
people just love controversy, even those who say they don't. Look at the many answers and engagement you can have comparing and talking about JS frameworks. Musk and apple is the same, makes a great ammount of engagement.
The objection was to you telling Apple employees to shut up and never question Apple authority. And then pulling some mental gymnastics that Apple is 'special' with not being remote friendly
I'm surprised by the ordering [Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Latinos, African Americans, Whites, Native Americans]; I would have expected it to put Native Americans earlier in the list and Asians later.
their new paid plans happened, that's a change.
You don't need to pay to use Xcode, or to run apps on your own devices. If you publish to the app store I think there is a $99/year fee or something to have your app signed, plus they take 30% of your revenue.

You don't absolutely need to have your code signed, I can give apps to my friends, they just get a warning about it not being signed and potentially unsafe when it's first installed.
This idea sounds similar to "software defined radio"... but for tape reading. Interesting.
> I'm in teaching mode most of the time

You have 13 years of experience in the industry more than your buddies. That's expected. And it's not wasted time.
I'm guessing a company worth a quintillion can get away from just about anything.
Sometimes the easiest way to keep the powers and check are to simply not grant them to the state. Some problems are better solved by decentralized power, even if it is imperfect and has collateral damage.
Not really. The bar (at least in the US) for convicting someone of false accusations is just the same as any other crime.

The difference is the police won't go after false reporting often, probably because they are worried it will have a chilling effect on people talking to them.

If 10% of murder convictions are mistaken it would stand to reason that the false accusation conviction error rate would be equally high or higher.

It's fun to say, punish everyone that does crime X. But you have to accept a false positive rate.
Just tried this in my head with a random n=150.

g = 12, since 12x12 = 144, pretty close to 150.

150/12 = 150/(4x3) = 50/4 = 12.5

Average of 12 and 12.5 is 12.25.

Real answer: 12.247

Amazing!
Smart kid.
I would even skip the whole state college thing as soon as she can be dangerous enough to get a job.
> a very serious view in the postmodern, post-WWII academy is

That's just a load of edgy nonsense to get attention. Unfortunately, it seems to have worked.
it's true that all of these things make a pretty noticeable difference when you know what to look for. but you're not going to recognize 60hz or vsync as "unplayable" unless you're very accustomed to playing on a better setup.

> I could understand if the get clock speed was tied to the graphical update rate but I presume that's not the case for CS, server side game etc; or even if it was it's still not going to be that material.

in cs source, the client could not send updates to the server at a faster rate than it was drawing frames. in other words, if you were playing on a 66 tickrate server but only rendering 50 FPS, you were actually losing some simulation fidelity. of course, if you're not the type of person to notice your frame rate dropping to 50 in the first place, you would probably also not notice this consequence. just an interesting technical fact.
@blueridge Well done!!!

For your next blog post, you might consider adding Jabberwocky! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knAvKI33LOM

Because, "...products are for people who don't have a presentation!"
What if they fed the AI crime statistics and it "correctly" identified black people as more violent than other races? What they fed the AI news stories and it "correctly" identified Islam as more violent than other religions?
I think I should be watching more Macross
This sounds nice but I doubt it will ever get enough traction. The vast majority of people in power at tech companies believe that they can make more money creating a walled garden than something interoperable. Heck, it's not even just tech companies, most companies in any industry want to create lock-in wherever possible. A captive audience is easier to squeeze for money, so lots of people want to create such an audience.

This reminds me of all the talk a couple years ago about using blockchains to make video game items work across different game worlds. Sounds great for the players, but game dev companies don't see the point in actually implementing it, so it never goes anywhere.

Not to mention that there are significant technical hurdles. Two different platforms might be different enough that it's difficult or impossible to use the same social graph or game items in both.
How social engineering and exploits crippled a 300k player Minecraft server
The Minecraft server "2b2t" is considered one of the oldest in existence, having been created back in December of 2010, and is notorious for is anarchic style where cheating and trolling are not only allowed but encouraged. The nature of this server has lead to amazing innovations from those seeking to destroy what others have built and those seeking to protect themselves. This video showcases the insane lengths that some groups and individuals have gone through to maintain dominance over others.
macos doesn’t support statically linking to libsystem.dylib (equivalent of glibc) and windows doesn’t have a static version of kernel32.dll. The problem isn’t dynamic vs. static linking, it’s that linux distros don’t offer backwards compatibility (although the linux kernel does). The whole static vs dynamic arguments people make is so weird to me, as what real apps do is ship the dlls/frameworks they need alongside the executable.
I'm confused. We've been putting AI (statistics) to work for a long time.
It's 140 miles across, it only needs to brush up against our atmosphere at orbital speeds to wipe out entire cities.

Also, it has to be decelerated when coming into Earth's influence. If it the thrusters were to break down or something go wrong -- bam, Earth gone.
As European living in country with highest inflation rate I must agree. What annoys me a lot is a trending narration about blaming Putin for everything. Ministry of interior has leaked manuals where is writen guide for public relations about it. Basically it says that media need to blame Putin for hungry and problems with food supply chain.

https://www.mvcr.cz/soubor/krit-memo-putin-hlad-komunikacni-...

If you search for articles, they are writen following this guide exactly.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=putin+a+hlad
yep, that's part of my worry as well, which is why I'm curious how this data is actually getting used.
>Specific answers to your questions will depend on your application and use cases (local network? global website? credit card data? health data? etc...)

Thank you so much for the reply! My application is a SaaS that helps developers add integrations (with apps like Slack, Linear etc.) to their apps really quick. The kind of sensitive data is Client Secrets and Access Tokens.
> You don't need consent from anyone depicted in visual art to make visual art

We're talking about (mr)deepfakes. Which is visual art, yes. Nude visual art.

That's kinda the point. The nudity is what makes it immediately not okay.

If you just deepfake someones face onto Jason Stathams body, they will probably enjoy and laugh about it.

If you deepfake their face onto someone who's getting roughly f*cked in the ass, they might not like it that much.

But then again, not just nudity is wrong. Deepfaking someones face into a video to hurt them is wrong as well.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I really think that AI Ethics should be pushed harder and more seriously.

If someone deepfakes their favorite actresses head into a porn video, I still think that it's wrong. What I would appreciate is if I can at least agree with this person, that what they're doing is not 100% okay.
I have been recently playing CSGO with my family members.

Its honestly very difficult to play, its really not suited for Casual players(playing on speakers with mediocre mice and so on) especially with the very difficult aiming system.

But I didn't find anything that is both free or basically free and can run on everything, from macbooks with Intel/m2 GPU to a gaming PC.

Overwatch 2, too gimmicky and heavy

Fortnite, same thing and we hate battle royal, so no COD WZ2 and so on.

Its definitely an improvement on playing C&C Generals with endless problems that come with a game, which is checks notes 20 years old now.
this is actually something i had to endure as well specifically from knowing these tricks and being well practiced in "doing it in my head". i had to be retrained to show my work. each new teacher would assume i was some how cheating on the homework by just writing the answers. that may be harsh, but that's the way it was always received. if they weren't going to give me the benefit of the doubt, why should i for them?
> Facebook is already irrelevant, and getting more so by the day.

A quarter of the Earth’s population in daily active users is certainly a take on “irrelevant”.
I’d go further and say that writing most software without fuzz testing is insane. Fuzz testing is one of those things they should teach in school. They’re a super useful technique - up there with TDD and it’s a tragedy they aren’t more wildly used.

Fuzzers are so good because they find so many bugs relative to programmer effort (lines of code). They’re some of the most efficient testing you can do. If I had to choose between a full test suite and a fuzzer, I’d choose the fuzzer.

I use fuzzers whenever I have a self contained “machine” in my code which should have well defined behaviour. For example, a b-tree. I write little custom fuzzers each time. The fuzzing code randomly mutates the data structure and keeps a list of the expected btree content. Then periodically I verify that the list and the btree agree on what should be contained inside the list. In the project I’m working on at the moment, I have about 6 different fuzzers sprinkled throughout my testing code. (Btree fuzzer, rope fuzzer, file serialisation fuzzer, a few crdt fuzzers, and so on).

Writing fuzzers is quite devastating for the ego. Usually the first time I point a fuzzer at my code, even when my code has a lot of tests, the fuzzer throws an assertion failure instantly. “Iteration 2 … the state doesn’t match what was expected”.

Getting a fuzzer running all night without finding any bugs is a balm for the soul.

The code looks like this, if anyone is curious. Here’s a fuzzer for a rope (fancy string) implementation: https://github.com/josephg/jumprope-rs/blob/master/tests/tes...
The tip that helped me the most was to get exposure to sun when I wake up. Highly recommend this podcast from huberman lab: https://hubermanlab.com/using-light-sunlight-blue-light-and-...
Same here... probably the same movie.....
I'm not sure hardware helps. All my Apple hardware does is collects data, reshapes it, and resells it.
> Why do you think you would be burning the bridge by leaving the company for a new position? As long as you do it in a respectful way, with notice, then it shouldn't be a concern.

I guess it feels bad because there is so much work to do, but I recon that objectively, that is the result of business decisions that were not made by me. Your input is reassuring.

re: your offer: Thank you! I will think about it.
That doesn't completely settle the issue because Democrats and Republicans use different words and styles of phrase in their polemics.
> I liked it because it was the joke, rather than trying not to draw attention to the fact that it’s all fake.

Same thing they did with South Park (and Team America). It allows for more comedic freedom because you can always fall back on the defense of "this is just some stupid crappy thing, how could you possibly ever take it seriously".
No, that's not happening.
Equal opportunity does not mean enforced equality.
Yes, you are correct. Or, perhaps more accurately, "authoritative". Being an expert in one field does not mean that a person's opinions in other fields are more likely to be correct.
Such comparisons will also indicate that tigers are safer than dogs and guns are safer than cars.
The loss of the DuMont archives adds to our extremely distorted idea of the entire celebrity environment of the past. Some of the biggest entertainers have had their entire careers lost, notably Ernie Kovacs: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dumont-network-gleason...

> In the early 70's the DuMont network was being bought by another company and the lawyers were in heavy negotiation as to who ould be responsible for the library of DuMont shows currently being stored in the facility - who would bear the expense of storing them in a temperature controlled facility, take care of copyright renewal, etc..

> One of the lawyers said he would "take care of it in a fair manner..." He took care of it all right...

> At 2am the next morning he had 3 huge semis back up to the loding dock at ABC, filled them with all the stored kinescopes and 2" videotape, drove them to a waiting barge in n New Jersey, took them out on the water, made a right at the Statue of Liberty and dumped them in Upper New York Bay. Very neat... no problem!

- Edie Adams, comedian, entertainer, and wife of Ernie Kovacs.

https://web.archive.org/web/20081208112200/http://www.loc.go...

Edie Adams’ son explains why her late husband Ernie Kovacs is seemingly forgotten in Hollywood

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/edie-adams-ernie-kovac...
That's the problem: for those of us who run Ubuntu and related (Xubuntu here), we found out about this by our regular updating, and having apt give that rude message.

It's basically a "fuck you pay me" message, with the subtext of "it'd be a shame if someone was to hack that vulnerable program I just gave you"
i think you mean "KYC laws"
Sad tragedy that is the judge's fault for sure. Hope he or she rots in hell - from radioactive poisoning.
What CGI they did exactly ?
Don't think in terms of money. Let's say it's made of just iron.

What they are saying is that there's not only more iron there than we use in Earth's economy but if we priced this additional iron at current prices that additional iron would be worth more than everything else we do here on this planet economically.
I'm wondering if an army of drones (self reproducing ones) could potentially go up there (maybe 5 or so) setup a small 'drone factory' to begin making drilling drones, and delivery drones and then send it all to a staging area on the moon to be shipped back to earth the most economical way.
> there is no reason US shouldn't have same or better food safety standards than say EU or Switzerland, if consumer safety and health is priority.

This is the crux of my point though, everything is relative and composed of trade-offs. A more strict standard is not necessarily better.

We know mercury is toxic and builds up over a lifetime: why is it acceptable to sell any fish which is known to aggregate mercury? Why not only allow extremely low mercury fish?

We know red meat has some carcinogenic effects: why not ban its sale, or only allow species of animals with less of this effect?

> We talk about baseline [...] how safe are the cheapest things that are legally sold in given market.

This is the other side of that trade-off here. Everyone wants access to products. We could reduce the risk of basically any product by increasing its cost.

A very reasonable heuristic for regulators might be "Find an acceptable risk point at which further risk reduction would not warrant the marginal increase in cost". Another reasonable heuristic might be "Minimize risk at all costs: if the market can't bear the product, so be it". Another reasonable heuristic might be "Label all risks, then let individuals sort things out".

We're focusing on the first one here, but we accept the others in different cases: the second applies more to medical testing, the third to items like tobacco and alcohol.

I'm all for reducing the risks that we can reduce -- nobody is arguing against keeping turpentine out of your juice.

My whole point is just that we can't look at two acceptable safety limits, see one that's more stringent, and then conclude that it's a better regulation.
Paperspace (YC W15) Is Hiring an Engineering Manager – AI Cloud
Has anyone used Stytch for Authentication?
Curious what folks think of the product. We're re-implementing authentication and would like to use a 3rd party to take care of it. Okta seemed a bit cumbersome to use and you had little control over the user flow.
Thanks for the reply. I'm fully aware of the dangers of rolling my own and want to avoid it at all costs. Is using a battle-tested Node.js library or the database's own API for encryption also dangerous?
How can you own an Asteroid though? You land a probe on it you own it?
Would you recommend that book or any others on real estate / real estate taxes? I'm thinking about getting into the market soon.
How does this apply to individual software dev consultants/contractors who operate under an LLC?

(Obligatory "should ask a CPA" but I don't see much mention of this case around anywhere)
Is that really surprising? "Apartheid" is literally an Afrikaans word, and it's often used specifically to mean the historical South African system instead of the technical international law term.
Where are the regulations around combat teams hiding in Nuclear Power plants? Artillery shells landing 500ft from reactors? Small quasi-accidents happening because one regime wants to 'blame it' on another? Nuclear staff being locked into the facility?

Regulations exist until someone decides they don't because they don't want to pay for something, they are lazy, incompetent.

Google 'Jamie Metzl' who is a very respected researcher who lays out the history of the establishment of Biolabs in China, and points at the very strong likelihood that COVID was created in a lab and is the result of a long series of regulatory, oversight, political and scientific failures.

Biolabs are 'safe' until the host country decides to screw the regulators because they want to save money on construction, or some person installs substandard materials because somewhere down the long globalized value chain, someone replaced one thing with another, on purpose or by accident, and it compromises the entire system.

Those are the kinds of systemic risks that exist with things like viruses and Nuclear tech that normal thinking doesn't account for.

Likely we need an approach that works even if humans fail completely, or, that can be maintained in more stable systems.
If this were true, this would have been a problem a long time ago. Why would Microsoft wait such a long time to change this when under your assumption it would have been a continuous legal liability?
Comparing a security breach to genocide is beyond tasteless.

Go outside.
To be fair, some of the "circus" aspect could be explained by noise in the tracker, rather than noise in the launch direction or trajectory tracking (as TFA proposes). Mostly I say this because the directions tend to diverge more as they get closer to a highly dynamic target.
Seems like the flavor of the day is out of style. All these fake advocacy groups being weaponized and exposed, better to get ahead of the game and shut it down before they put out more work products that will not hold up well in the post Trump era.

Just look at Hamilton 68. Most of these "disinformation" rackets are simply information warfare units, carrying out the bidding of one ideology.
Absolutely this.

If the hold queue is more than a few minutes, you can't get the issue resolved, etc.:

1. Put it in writing.

2. Write your government's consumer advocate (usually the state AG's office in the US).

It's possible to escalate above and beyond this, but these two steps alone are often startlingly effective.