skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, did I miss something? The "fucking up the planet" thing seems to be a non-sequitur, unless you're suggesting that people smoking are fucking up the planet, which doesn't seem like it's the motivation for the bill as much as "stopping people from fucking up themselves" is.

Regardless, I disagree with the line of reasoning that because it can be repealed it's okay to pass it in the first place. The core problem is creating laws that artificially inflate their support by making them only apply to some sub-group. Passing laws that only restrict a minority due to practical reasosns is bad enough. For example, cities' anti-camping laws basically only apply to the homeless, because no-one chooses on a whim to camp in downtown Los Angeles. That's not great, because its a tyranny of the majority situation, but at least in theory the general populace has to weigh the loss of their ability to camp in downtown against the pros of not having homeless camps in downtown.

In a situation where the law explicitly only applies to the minority, especially a minority that no one in the majority could ever eventually belong to, the majority get to have their cake and eat it, too, leading to artificial support for your bill. If you can't find the political support to ban cigarettes outright, back-dooring democracy is not the right way to do it.
I would think because it was the Gazprom/Kremlin who cut of the gas supply.
I remember this stage when I started taking SSRIs when I was an older teenager. I was warned about it and was seeing a short-term therapist and so I dealt with it well, but there's a short 2-4 weeks where the crushing demotivation that has dominated your life is lifted but you still are stuck in the life-despising thought spirals. I assume that much of this can be mitigated by regular consultation with mental health for the first two month while trying a new medication, but it's possible that isn't true.
The people who care about the free software should take the free software and make binaries and change the name or whatever they feel useful to get it into F-Droid.

The moment they show up in his issue tracker complaining about it, they're being zealous.
Ok, that last bit is a good point - I'll take out the question mark. Thanks!

Re your other question, the answer is somewhere in the space demarcated by (1) yes, (2) we'll try, (3) consistency is impossible, (4) we're always open to reader input. (I'm sorry that I'm responding in shorthand but I'm being inundated atm)
Honest question: what about this story seems so far-fetched to you that you can't give the author the benefit of the doubt? There are decades of such intelligence goings-on.
Most importantly: HN is moderated by payed moderators, which are hired and selected to do a good job here. They are still humans and fallible, obviously, but it's a far cry from "random dude that started a community in his free time".
While I realize it's not a solution to the issue you raised, it's worth pointing out that Microsoft does a decent* job of documenting the types of telemetry taken across the Windows platform:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/configure-...

* When I say decent, I mean this absolutely should be the bare minimum, but this type of thing feels rare in the industry.
I don't see the difference as so trivial. Using my previous statements, "There is no evidence to back up these claims" is an observation which allows for the listener to draw their own conclusion and "They made this up" is a conclusion that's being asserted.

> The assertion that someone made up a story is the logical conclusion to the assertion that there is no evidence to back up their claims.

It is a logical conclusion. One might still arrive at a different logical conclusion.
Your hypothesis is literally the exact inversion of reality.
(inexact->exact x) and (exact->inexact x).
The usual meaning of "lie" implies intent. Saying something you believe, but is not true, is not normally called a lie.
Well, Sandy Hook did happen. And while NS 1 was blown up, besides a repitition of all arguments we had when it was blown up, Hersh's blog post does not provide anything new, does it?
That change isn't actually about RSA vs. ECC. It's about SHA-1 vs. SHA-2. The default configuration still supports using your existing RSA keys, but with a different hashing algorithm (with the options rsa-sha2-256 and rsa-sha2-512). That configuration change allows use of SHA-1 to continue.
Neat product. I know I'm asking in the worst possible place, but it'd be really cool if someone made some ShaderToy demos that do the same thing as a post-processing step.
What's the difference between this and Dehancer?
>a single set of rules being applied as the mods intend.

Perhaps you haven't had as much moderator interaction as I have, but this is not the case whatsoever. Some subs will have 30-100 mods and each will apply the rules differently per their own interests or pet peeves.
See def #3: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/infect
> but for me it makes it stranger that there's so little evidence in this piece which, as it notes, alleges an act of war.

It makes it less surprising to me. Back in 2006 I believed Hersh when he reported that the U.S. had troops inside Iran laying the groundwork for an imminent American attack. This was also based on anonymous sources. After the attack failed to materialize, I learned to take such reporting with a large grain of salt.
The features that are like fire extinguishers are the ones most likely to be unjustly removed with the rationale of looking at telemetry.

See for example Mozilla's bizarre decision to remove the ability to change the override the character encoding of a webpage with some half-baked detector.
Because this is Hacker News not Political Conspiracy News.

For every one of these posts that are manually forced to stay on the front page we lose an actual relevant, technical post that we never see and get a chance to comment on.
> My oldest plays baseball, he started in kindergarten, and has played all the way to high school now. He loves the game, but we also made sure it was a game, not a job. All kids in his class who could afford it were on travel teams, starting in first grade. All but three have private coaches for whatever position they specialize in. . . starting in first grade. The parents sponsored tournaments. The parents made sure their travel team attended tournaments that college scouts or colleges sponsored. Starting in first grade. The kids on his school team (town population of around 1000, school k-12 enrollment is around 400) have literally played or practiced baseball every weekend, barring some holiday weekends, since they were 5 years old. That is not an exaggeration, it is a statement of fact.

This is one thing I've noticed about kids' sports, too, now that I have (youngish) kids and I'm trying to find sports for them. What used to be the low-end leagues—which were a bit serious, but not too much—seem to mostly be gone, with a new ultra-casual tier that didn't exist before replacing it, and then... nothing, until you're looking at really serious leagues with lots of travel and a huge time-commitment ([EDIT] yes, even for like 1st-graders).

All I can figure is parents' preferences changed—more of the half-serious players are pushed into the very-serious leagues now, for whatever reason, and the kinds of kids/parents who were always kinda unreliable and didn't seem to really have their hearts in it in the old-style somewhat-serious leagues are happier with the more-casual, even-lower-time-commitment replacement, leaving insufficient demand for what used to be just standard youth sports leagues.
That's one thing I just don't get.

When I started on the internet there were 3 rules that were drilled into my head.

1. Don't believe everything or anything you see on the internet.

2. Don't divulge any personal information on the internet

3. Don't take anything on the internet seriously.

It seems like those three rules solve most of the problems we have on the internet. I've also noticed most of the issues and problems associated with the internet came about after people started breaking rule number 2.

Maybe the solution is instead of trying to ban anonymous internet usage we instead ban identified internet usage.
Our new cultural leaders have convinced everyone to out-victim everyone else. The more of a victim you are the better.
It is not about protecting children. It is considered illegal because criticism of mass immigration and the strain that puts on society is now categorized as racist hate speech. This escalation in policing all online communication and categorizing dissent from government policy as 'far right' appears to have been decided at the meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos in 2023.
It is astonishing how so many people think that others can't read something like this and make their own judgements about it. I guess that they're worried that too many people will just accept this as True, and that will make the world a worse place? I just find it an incredibly arrogant position to take. If there's some other way of justifying that opinion, I'd love to hear it.
why assume this to be factual?
The legacy of the crypto community is the Bitcoin blockchain. Blocks are still being appended. It will outlast this instrument of financial oppression, as well as the UK itself.

> The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
You don't understand how it works. You don't understand anything.
Meteorite and meteoroid: New comprehensive definitions
Meteorites have traditionally been defined as solid objects that have fallen to Earth from space. This definition, however, is no longer adequate.
What a waste. There's a real need for identified users on the Internet - a service that other companies can subscribe to verify all sorts of users actions.

I thought this would be it but they never seemed to see themselves as fulfilling that role, despite from the outside it looked like that was their big opportunity.
> The systems you are trying to SSH to are using outdated host keys, you need to actually update to get security fixes, it will regenerate host keys.

No you don't. rsa-sha2-256 and rsa-sha2-512 are still enabled by default and can use the same key.
Like the Europeans, Biden miscalculated that income via Nordstream would be crucial to Russia. Nobody would have predicted that the Russians are so crazy to cut off Europe on their own in an attempt to force them (Germany in particular) into submission. Alas that didn't work as European customers saved on Gas and shouldered the increase in cost.
LOL... I just tried it with the synopsis of the story I just wrote with GPT[1] :

> When Sébastien and David discover the seemingly-magical powers of the concierge service offered by David's Mastercard, they are amazed. However, their wonder soon turns to fear when they discover that the concierge service is connected to a powerful mafia organization. As Sébastien and David dig deeper into the mystery, they uncover a criminal network that stretches across the globe, and they soon find themselves in the middle of a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the mafia. With their lives on the line, the two friends must use all of their wits and courage to outsmart the mafia and survive. Will they be able to escape the mafia's clutches, or will they become yet another victim of the criminal underworld?

And the result:

https://nuro.video/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-02-08-Ins...

Funny, but not usable as a step-by-step storyboard just yet.

I then tried it with a summary of most of the book (9 chapters, the summary is 952 words)... my hope was that I'd get a "scene" per chapter, but I think it broke completely. I just get a white page with some gatsby headers.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34708612
> To opt out, users would set GOTELEMETRY=off in their environment or run a simple command like go env -w GOTELEMETRY=off; The first telemetry report is not sent until at least one week after installation, giving ample time to opt out. Opting out stops all collection and reporting: no “opt out” event is sent. It is simply impossible to see systems that install Go and then opt out in the next seven days.

Source: https://research.swtch.com/telemetry-intro
It's from prompt reverse engineering and therefore may not be entirely correct, but was consistently reproducable for a time even with ChatGPT's high temperature values.

A separate RE process also produced the following prompt, which is slightly different but also includes the date:

You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. You answer as concisely as possible for each response (e.g. don’t be verbose). It is very important that you answer as concisely as possible, so please remember this. If you are generating a list, do not have too many items. Keep the number of items short.
Knowledge cutoff: 2021-09
Current date: 2023-01-31
A deep-learning search for technosignatures of 820 nearby stars
for now. With zoom cutting 15% ...
Not even consistent on how it gets today's date. Sneaky.

How many days has it been since 9/11?

As of today's date, February 8th, 2023, it has been 7,291 days since September 11th, 2001.

How do you know today's date?

I have been programmed with the current date, which is February 8th, 2023, as part of my deployment. This information is not updated in real-time, so if you are asking this question on a different day, the answer may not be accurate.
Idea that anti-immigration speech is hate speech is a stretch. Hate speech is hate speech. Yes, there might be a correlation between the two and might even be exploited as an indirect means of expressing hate, but equating anti-immigration speech as equal is deeply flawed.
Some choice quotes from the article:

> This gave him a reputation early on for being a jack of all trades but master of none. The notable exception, perhaps, was his knack for self-promotion

> Fuller claimed it was the first streamlined automobile in history, which the author points out is simply not true

> Hubris is a constant theme in Nevala-Lee’s portrait of Fuller

> Nonetheless, Inventor of the Future is a welcome reassessment of Fuller’s contributions to design, science, and mathematics
Carnegie Mellon's AI-Powered Frida Robot Collaborates with Humans to Create Art
There is no evidence that scars are an inherently better tissue than non injured tissue. Torn ligaments, cut tendons, skin marring from burns, etc… these don’t bounce back 110% from their original.
IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management
> I find it unlikely that openai programmed in safety rails to hide that it knows the current date.

It seems likely that, through their RLHF process, OpenAI has effectively built in safety rails -- not around knowing the current date specifically, but around ChatGPT claiming to know information past the cut-off date of its training data. A consequence of that would be that ChatGPT could be "conflicted" about whether or not it can know the current date (which may actually provided as part of the hidden initial prompt).
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Initially sure, but that's what media (formal, social, and otherwise) is for. All you need is for the thing to blow up spectacularly in a way that goes viral and your product is now tainted with "unreliable", "wrong", "makes shit up", etc etc.

Hell, it literally just happened today. Google's first public demo of Bard failed in a highly visible way in a highly public setting and that's a whole media cycle now and has sent the stock flying downwards.

Is this lethal for the product? I suspect not at this point - but if they can't wrestle this stuff under control it very well be.
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Sorry I guess I wasn't clear since I only gave the one the "bug" example. I was already writing a long comment so didn't want to push it.

I just meant that the process of discovery and changing expectations exists for everything. I almost don't want to call it a "process" since it's ultimately unavoidable. You learn things and either change your attitude about it or bust.
Author took his time to get this into F-Droid in the first place and references the F-Droid link on their repo, what is so zealous about creating the issue to make sure it stays there?
Ah yeah, I can see that. Admittedly I assumed based on the title of this post the person debating represented Fdroid, so perhaps it should be updated to reflect this?
What duty? Could you elaborate a little? I certainly have no conviction or choose to impose it upon others to hate the same thng I hate.
Why does it need to be a C++ web server? What are you trying to do that apache or nginx (for example) can't?
I know you can throw C4 into a camp fire without any risk of it going boom, does that count?
I've never found Camus uplifting. I don't find absurdism freeing.

I don't find life fundamentally absurd. I find a lot of meaning in the universe, via science. I use science to make the lives of people around me better.

That means despair, not because of anything existential but because there are others who want to make life worse. I refuse to take comfort in the commonality of our suffering. I am angry, and I will remain angry. To do less is, for me, to be less than human.

I despair because I used to think that I could bring people together and make life mutually better. I still don't know how to cope with the fact that other people want my life to be worse. It's the cruelty of other human beings, not the cruelty of the uncaring universe, that I hate.

I would give up caring if I could, but I can't. It's not in me.
Well, yes.. JSON parsing library was not allowed to be used for evil... So it wasn't included in Debian for years https://dzone.com//articles/jsonorg-license-literally-says
It's not a story of scientific heroism. It's a story of scientific villainy.

She's the victim. The heroes, if any, were Skloot and Henrietta's daughter Deborah for exposing the villainy.

Henrietta herself may not deserve memorialization for her own cells, but she's an important symbol of numerous injustices that still plague science and medicine.
Decimals are notoriously hairy to implement

Only floating-point decimal is hairy. Fixed-point decimal is hardly more difficult than integer math.
Clarifying: dense US cities with towers in the sense of "in combination with", not necessarily "exclusively by using". That is, there are few dense urban environments in the US without tall structures (several times SJ's 300-foot limit), either in that city itself, or in the near economic orbit of such a city, e.g., Guttenberg, Union City, Hoboken, and other cities in the state of New Jersey but immediately adjacent to (across the Hudson River from) the borough of Manhattan, New York City.

Though I'll note Guttenberg's Galaxy Towers are 415 feet tall, which would exceed SJ's cap:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Towers>
With that reasoning, do you also go and reimplement standard libraries just to create enough variance so that if one of them has a security flaw then your code might not inherit it?

IMHO, some software (eg. OpenSSL, rendering engines, etc.) need to be heavily scrutinized and trying to keep multiple implementation around for the sake of diversity makes no sense to me.

Of course if a new implementation of say a rendering engine with a radically different approach emerges I'm all for it taking over.
> Today, the supreme commander of NATO is Jens Stoltenberg, a committed anti-communist, who served as Norway’s prime minister for eight years before moving to his high NATO post, with American backing, in 2014. He was a hardliner on all things Putin and Russia who had cooperated with the American intelligence community since the Vietnam War. He has been trusted completely since. “He is the glove that fits the American hand,” the source said.

A lot of what he is saying here is not strictly true. Jens Stoltenberg was the leader of the labour party and while he was not a communist, describing him as a committed anti-communist is just plainly wrong. It was not part of his platform at all and one the parties in his coalition was a socialist, Marxist party.

Also he was not a hardliner on Russia. In fact during his time as a prime minister Norway and Russia peacefully and diplomatically solved the territorial dispute they had in the Barents Sea.

Neither have the Americans always completely trusted him since the Vietnam war. He was vocally anti-NATO in his youth and the Bush administration gave him a cold shoulder for the rest of it's years after he was elected prime minister in 2005. He claimed that during the congratulation call from the American president he said that he wanted all Norwegian troops out of Iraq and the the mission. The Americans were adamant he did not.

I know it's just one paragraph, but when thing gets misconstructed by the source in such a way it kinda losses credibility with me. Also the quote about Norwegians "Hating Russians" while I've never felt anything like that in my dealing with the armed forces (Norway don't have any historical grievances with Russia), really makes me question it.
The language model gets tokens as input, and produces tokens as output. Not words. And tokens do not correspond to words one to one.[1]

So it cannot see these "words" you are talking about. The fact that it can still get close when asked to count words is actually very impressive.

[1] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-...
The way I read it this was the second of two different reasons given by Hersh for re-classifying the op and avoiding scrutiny by Congress.

The use of non-SEAL divers from Panama was also given as a reason for that.
> I can claim that you destroyed the pipeline and it would be equally as valid at this point.

No, it wouldn't. The narrative provided by Hersh's source, whether it's true or not, explains many of the facts that demand an explanation. It provides plausible answers to the questions "How were the explosives placed", "How were the explosives triggered" and "how weren't they detected". Not necessarily true ones! But plausible ones that are internally consistent, and don't in themselves raise huge new questions.

If you want to be in the running, that's what you need to supply too.

This is not a defense of Hersh, it's a defense of his article. You should consider the claims in an article for their internal consistency, and consistency with public evidence, even if you don't trust the source.

This article is remarkable for how different it is from Hersh's Syrian gas claims. There, to the degree Hersh has answers at all to the similar questions how were the chemical weapons acquired, how were they placed and how were they triggered, they just raise impossibly hard questions (like "how was this coordinated", "how did all the participants go along with it" and "how did Russia and the Syrian government utterly fail to expose and document any of it convincingly")
Gnome and customise? The DE that hates giving users any options to change stuff because they (Gnome) knows best?