skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a different, orthogonal issue. Look it up there's a bunch of tedious FRA rules about crash-worthiness which Europe doesn't have. It makes the trains which can legally run needlessly expensive and they wear out the tracks faster. The rules don't apply to metros and subways, but if the tracks have any switch anywhere connecting to the national network then FRA rules apply to the whole system. The result is that planners can't extend their metro via shared freight corridors. There are plenty of regulations already, and in some cases they are clearly counterproductive. Proposing to solve things by putting more regs on the pile is a dubious proposition.
He's speaking again this year at Clojure Conj, so maybe there will soon be something again.
Touch capacitive buttons aren't an induction thing: they're a new appliances thing. My gas stove uses touch buttons for the oven. Plenty of crappy resistive electric cooktops use touch controls.

In fact the same people making those cheap units you're complaining about do the same thing for gas: https://cindychenzs.en.ec21.com/Touch_Button_Gas_Stove--7335...

Of course, it's also kind of silly to act like that's the focus when of the first 20 or so replies, 16 of them are people confirming they enjoyed the switch...
Not sure what you mean exactly. It's already happened currently where a lot of areas require both parents to work to have good living standards, which wasn't the case before widespread dual incomes.
he said he was "driving home at 3am," you know, as one does, and two girls were "crawling on the highway." i am honestly not sure i've ever heard a less believable story
That basically shows a lack of interest from readers. The NYTimes publishes a newspaper worth of articles and opinion pieces daily. And then they add a whole bunch of videos, cooking stuff, reviews (wire cutter), sports (athletic) online.

Most of it gets surfaced largely by algorithm. And it’s evident the algorithm is not tracking any interest from readers.
"All photographs from Chaplin films made from 1918 onwards © Roy Export S.A.S. All Rights Reserved."

105 years! An outrageous abuse of copyright law.
From the article you shared:
> Russia passes law to jail people for 15 days for 'disrespecting' government

Pick up any 24x7 Indian news channels, and you can find govt being disrespected by half of the panel. Sure that doesn't justify certain action by the govt but I too think, one needs to be in India to understand India.

Modi or no Modi, things have been same as far I recall. Only new we have now is free internet which has amplified everything.
When I first learned about homomorphic encryption it gave me the idea of "cryptographic AI", as some sort of sci-fi writing prompt. Suppose compute is readily available to interstellar civilizations but actually designing a (super)intelligent AI is difficult. Then it could be economically feasible for cryptographic AI to exist. These are descriptions of AIs that run under homomorphic encryption, where the private key is only known by the AI itself. The description of the AI program and its state is spread throughout many locations and generally runs in a decentralized way. Planet earth might receive a segment of a cryptographic AI and make deal: Earth executes the program with some inputs it may choose to compute a solution to a problem. The program can be given inputs via a public key. The execution of the program can not be modified or manipulated since it is running under homomorphic encryption. What the AI gets in return is that earth provides it with additional compute that it may use for its own purposes. Earth furthermore allows the AI to transmit updated fragments of state into the stars. Over the course of many years, the pieces of state of the decentralized AI spread throughout the galaxy combine to represent the thoughts and actions of a singular entity.
If earth modified the computations then the transmitted state could cryptographically be seen to not be valid, and hence would not be used in the decentralized galaxy spanning computation of the AI. Furthermore if earth cheats the AI in the deal then there may be consequences such as relativistic kinetic kill projectiles.
The USSR certainly didn't stay out of the fight; but your point is taken. Inclusive might was proven more effective than exclusive might.

One of these states collapsed and was replaced by nation-states which are more or less inclusive of minorities, more or less democratic; some very much so, others not at all. The other, although it still projects power around the world, is riven by internal dissent and the type of self-questioning of its own history and validity that would never fly in a nationalist, expansionist, authoritarian state like Germany or Japan during the war.

Some people think that's a sign of weakness for the US, but since the US's hold on the world hasn't lapsed perhaps we should consider it a sign of strength. In that case it's not just inclusive might, but self-reflection against the foundations of "might" that lets one write and rewrite history by appealing to people stuck in less flexible systems.
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This is all interesting and I’m thinking now with all the talk of privacy and data sovereignty etc why this is coming out or Google now and not Apple? Anyone know if Apple is thinking along these lines? Would be nice if we could get performant computation on things without having to decrypt our own data. Then again my understanding and real world applications of homomorphic encryption is pedestrian at best.

What I do really enjoy is the author’s tone and style. The article was fun to read and easy to follow and it seems like a really cool project.
How about VirGL with QEMU/KVM? It's also not perfect but might work for you.
99% of these projects include core-js by accident through Babel...
And they're commies!
GDPR and Emails
On May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect in the EU. Before this, there were many concerns as to the impact GDPR would have on email marketing.
This necessitates actually doing social activities. I know lots of people who sit at home all day, especially with work-from-home, who don't date, search, or look for partners and they're still alone.
Started working on it. https://app.finclout.io/themes
We already have custom aggregated themes based on what companies do on the platform. Needs more visual updates and some data quality checking.
Thank you for the inspiration!
Same here. That’s how I follow HN. Would definitely follow paperlist if there was a RSS feed.
Well, consider it.

I can:

1 - Pay my 20-year-experience lawyer 1000 USD an hour to draft me a customized EULA that respect GDPR, works in UK and US, and contains specific provisions about no-no use-cases, IP of content created and what happens when you don't pay your license fees. Lawyer takes 4 hours to produce mediocre output that will require another 8 hours to revise (because he's smart like that), and I pay him 10K and call it a day.

or;

2 - Consult with ChatGPT (Law version ~~ coming soon!) to draft the same. I have zero legal training but will probably be done in 4 hours. I pay my fancy-arse lawyer 1K to review the contract (that I lie I have left over from a previous product~~before I knew him of course!), he spends 20 minutes glancing at it, while picking his toe-nails, then bills the rest to his paralegal who spends 30 minutes checking layouts and margins in Word, and I get swindled for 10 minutes) and I'm done.

If you are saying you couldn't do that with ChatGPT (law version~~coming soon!) then I'd say in fact it is _you_ sir who is out of touch with reality, and clearly have not used ChatGPT in any serious capacity whatsoever. Good day to you sir!
[Sometimes wall of text is necessary to convey proper depth of thought]

> It's like something is diverting that processing ability from the personal goals to something else. Dawkins' memeplexes might be the answer here: the memeplex "alternative medicine" was competing with the goals of the individual, and leeching off his processing ability to its own end, like a parasite of the mind.

I think this reinforces my argument about minimising time spent thinking. This is esentially a "stopping problem", i.e. when do you settle on a solution. When solution seems good enough, some people will stop critical thinking and looking for errors in that solution and just accept it as settled matter. Intelligent agents have to act on imperfect solutions because in many situations acting now is better than slightly better solution a hour later. This pattern can be used for all other problems, and is reason for "sometimes smart people act stupid". Plus sometimes people have a bad hour or day and don't have enough mental resources to properly make coffee without accidents.

Intelligence is also not universal, you can be more intelligent in one domain and less intelligent in other domain (street smart vs educated), which is a reason for "for some problems smart people act stupid" which is shown again and again when you ask technology experts about social issues.
> Doing only things that you otherwise despise but which advance you somehow is also a way to a major depression, or some other mental injury.

> OTOH diving head-first into your passion and ignoring everything else, including such things as the need to earn a subsistence, is also a recipe for disaster in all but very few exceptional cases.

I think this presents a false dichotomy and isn't really what I tend to see in my generation in my country.

What I personally see is a generation of people who were brought up on "do what you love", "follow your passion", who then went on to study degrees in things they enjoyed (photographic art, english lit., contemporary dance, illustration, to name a few).

After 4 years of racking up tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt they all now work in call centres, warehouses, office administration. I.E, dead-end jobs that provide no passion. A number of them are being medically treated for anxiety & depression.

I think instead if of "Do / study / follow your passion" we taught the matra of "be practical, find a career that pays well, has room for learning new skills, challenges you in interesting ways but it might not be the thing you love dearest" would have lead my generation to study degrees or enter trades that provided a pathway for a rewarding career, both fiscally and mentally.

I'm passionate about computer science, but my real passion isn't writing middleware services for B2B customers. I do it because there's still interesting challenges, it's an outlet for my skillset and it pays well.
You target an ad campaign to IDs representing 100 users, 1 of which is your target and 99 don't really exist or are bots.
I hear you. I'm one of those people too, or I was (maybe). What got me wasn't even the core failures themselves, but all the lies and pretense about it. If we are to ignore our fundamental flaws in order for sales to score their next big hit, at least be honest. Just admit we only really care about quarterly results. Don't pretend we are on some wonderful mission instead of the duct taping ragtag conmans that we really are. I can handle the mess, kind of, I surely can't handle all the falsehoods.

But people do need some level of chill to hold it all together. If there isn't some sunny shiny thing on the horizon at least, then it is too hard to put in any effort and get out of bed. The worse the situation is, the greater the need for soothing. I have a personal law that says something like: the level of organizational dysfunction is directly and inversely proportional to the degree to which reality is allowed to disturb a positive story. You could call it institutional codependency.

In really dysfunctional organizations you will find shocking levels of denial and incongruence between the state of affairs and what can be spoken about without being sidelined. This breeds bitterness, because there is an actual and insurmountable difference in needs. Some people can't thrive in a minefield of falsehoods. Being earnest is an actual need, for some people it is more important than being fun and positive. For others people, it is the other way around.

The biggest lesson for me was that there really is a difference between organizations in this kind of dysfunction. The trick is to kick yourself in the butt and move around. Bitterness is just a signal you stayed too long in a context where you are stifled. Even if the ideal context doesn't exist, there are likely places where you are vastly more appreciated and it is worth the effort to try and find them.
> I won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for that work

Proof by authority?

> I’ve been told my stories were wrong, invented, outrageous for as long as I can remember

That doesn't mean that every story by him that is called wrong is right.

> What you’ll find here is, I hope, a reflection of that freedom.

Freedom doesn't equate to truth. On the internet everybody can claim everything.

Especially if you are drawing from anonymous sources. Nobody else can verify those. And can you be sure that you aren't used as a tool for disinformation?
I mean, that part isn't really surprising or noteworthy. Lots of people in russian prison don't deserve to be there (the ones detained on protests, political cases etc).
I felt this way after participating in patent harvesting sessions at my employer, where they would collect patents from us without ever intending to reduce them to practice (in other words: use them), as well as researching some ideas in my spare time only to find that they were covered by extremely broad non-practiced patents as well.
> It's also safely localized

... It sure as fuck isn't. You need to get more news sources than CNN and the EPA.
How Long Until We’re All Amish? (2018)
So they do 40 billion stock buyback out of concern of their employers wellbeing? Wow, did not know Zucc is so selfless.
> So judges doesn't need to take any political stance to make any political party happy.

The Centre refused to appoint Saurabh Kirpal because he is openly gay. This isn't some wild conjecture, this is the official government position: https://www.barandbench.com/news/law-ministry-says-saurabh-k...
The noun "pepper" is pretty badly overloaded too.
Nice! Is there something similar on mobile?
Cloudflare ddos mitigation is overrated.
First they force you to upgrade your plan, if that does not help, anotyer upgrade, if that fails, chances are you will get a termination notice.
We use TeamViewer for online meetings. Lets you share your screen. It's also used for support on customer sites. Works very reliably. We use Teams or WebEx only when interacting with customers and they demand those applications.
The patience and resilience this man must have. I would have left Foss development way earlier if I was in his place.
He has every right to just deprecate or remove the package from npm and give everyone the middle finger.
It really gave an insight into the mind of a troll.
That is a strange take.

Do you really believe that everything worthwhile has an enforceable patent attached to it? That there is no room for innovation anymore? You won't ship anything with that attitude, patents or not.

Besides, if you want to use a $THING in your product and I have a patent for it, then we can certainly work out a mutually beneficial deal.
"Life expectancy at age five" (or 4 or wotevs) seems much more useful, but it is rarely seen nowadays. No idea why.
>Most of my time as a consultant was asking low-level employees very obvious questions: What are you wasting your time on? What's the bottleneck on X? What could you be doing that made the company more money?

Come all ye good workmen beware the command. That comes down on high from the desk of a man. Who's never held steel or torch in his hand.
I worked in space as well and it is very impressive. But also, this is a blog post, not news.

I would also want to know if Akamai sees similar attacks.
Important (IMO) reminder that StackAid exists and has been made just to solve this kind of problems.

(I’m not affiliated with them)
Now, don't take this as legal advice, but if the company re-scans/makes alterations to the image for display on the web, I think that counts as a new work

But I'm a bit hazy about how derivative works are actually defined.
I have onboarded developers coming directly from university and it went fine?

In fact, at my old job, the entire team learned Clojure on the job. I was the only hire who had learned it prior to being hired. Our codebase was fine and very maintainable.

The other teams were similarly new to Clojure. Most people spent a few months doing increasingly more advanced things until they were comfortable with the language and the codebase.

The main issue for complete beginners is learning to grapple with the different development setup compared to what they might be used to, i.e. interactive development on a live system using an editor-integrated REPL. We basically set everyone up with IntelliJ and parinfer. Paredit was optional, as was alternative editors such as emacs.

IntelliJ + parinfer is a similar development experience to Python. The only part that is foreign in that case is the interactive development of a live system which the new devs quickly come around to seeing the benefits of. It helps having seniors who point out the new concepts.
The problem is that there is no reason to believe the war would stop even if Ukraine managed to push all Russian troops from their territory (with or without Crimea), which is quite unlikely in the first place. In fact, I've yet to hear a single concrete scenario for how that war could end other than with either government collapsing. I don't believe the Russian government will collapse any time soon.

Assuming China will attack Taiwan in the meantime, which I think is a lot more likely than not, it seems the world is looking at a lot of war indeed, perhaps even global. Even more senseless killing while issues like the climate and global poverty will lose the little relevance they have now. The future seems really sad.
Sure. And then, after you've transferred 5 dollars to me, I say "What 5 dollars? What are you talking about?" and refuse to hand over the thing that you thought you bought.

Add perfect anonymity to the mix and I get to do it over and over again, too.
lol, that's why I am doing my PhD in management. I figured this out early on. Humans are hard, the emerging social problems are hard.
Correct. It is indeed beefed up auto predict
Smallest packet flood size is like ~60 bytes, so ~16M req/s on a 1Gbit connection or ~166M req/s on 10 Gbit.

But I'm sure most providers or ISPs would block such output - thus, why it's a DDOS.
+1 for the additional information. Also, nice username, upvoted.
I wouldn't be so dismissive of 71M rps. At around 100 bytes per packet, that's ~70 Gbps minimum, only on requests. It's quite the volume of traffic, you'd need quite a bit of cores, good parsing code and good core and memory distribution. It isn't impossible but it isn't trivial either.

Edit: I misunderstood the comment and thought about "ingestion" and not "generation"
> Why would they spend money for something that's free? They're under pressure to cut costs anyway.

But isn't this like saying, "what's an AWS? Why do we need that thing?"

Is there really no one technical saying, "look we need to offer support to core-js because core-js is the software that ensures our website works for everyone using it".

And you're a large company who project depends on core-js (like Spotify) it just seems sensible to offer a little support to the project to ensure it continues to be well maintained, and also so if you need anything the maintainers will prioritise you.

Even if your only concern is money, then it probably pays to ensure your software works and isn't dependent on some guy in Russia continuing to make his life a living hell just so your product is functional.
How to mask data in Redpanda/Kafka topics with Python and DataCater
There's a player called HereSphere that works a whole lot better than any other VR video player on the market. Nothing I have tried comes even close to the level of smoothness, even over SMB on a crappy external drive.

https://heresphere.itch.io/heresphere-vr-video-player-quest-...

The demo is limited only by a nag screen if you want to check it out.
I can envision many ways that can happen in America.
Standard Annotations for Java Static Analysis
Once spent an evening eating at an Iranian place. At some point I had to stop eating, simply because the food had put too much / too many spices in me. It was a really odd sensation. Just could not eat any more. The only time this has happened. Not hotness/chili, nothing like that. Just a full-body sensation of too much spice.
You can spit out all the traffic you want but who is going to route at that rate for you? If you somehow get it down to say 600 byte per request, that is 42GBps and 340Gbps.

That is 35 10G nics at wire rate.
1. Return to Russia because things are cheaper so you will have more money, nevermind the whole war crimes and genocide thing

2. Russia puts you in prison, you dont get a fair trial and you don't have freedom of speech

3. No profit
This guy must be from the UK!
Didn't original Alexa do that? It needed very specific word ordering because of it.
In almost the entire EU and especially here in the UK, governments have stepped in to spend huge amounts subsidising energy (including gas), SPECIFICALLY AND EXPRESSLY to that people don't use any less. As someone with decent insulation and solar panels etc, this was exactly the time those investments should have paid off and for other people to be left behind because they refused to take basic measures. Instead they've been bailed out and progress has been put off for another decade. And this sums up the whole of our green policy for the last 40years: we absolutely must do something, unless people don't want to, which they don't.
Ask HN: Why Microsoft sill asks security questions during the account setup?
I had to reinstall one laptop and Microsoft is really pushing you towards using their on-line MS accounts. Even if manage not to create on for the local account you still get asked with three security questions.

Didn't they get the memo that this is not so good security measure? Why are they still insisting on it?
Something about using a PRNG with a large internal state just to generate an output in a large space of possibilities feels wrong to me. If you have enough entropy to fill a high entropy RNG, why not use all that entropy to generate the output in the first place?

Also I'm curious how they generate the latin squares, their claims require a uniform distribution of some kind, which is interesting.
Why would they do this? Ukrainians are supposed to be the good guys.
Weight could be better balanced, I think. Batteries and computing could be at least partially located in the earcups.
Neural Cryptography (2002)
I didn't think that, quite the contrary. Since you seem to have trouble with comprehension, let me break this comment thread down for you:

- GP says that loyalty isn't always always a good thing because it causes small companies to keep incompetent or lazy employees.

- You make an ideological remark about how GP is "sticking up for Corporate Man" by saying that.

- I respond that yes, in fact, small companies often do employ useless people out of misplaced loyalty, perhaps you just haven't personally experienced it.

- You somehow misinterpret my comment as accusing YOU of sticking up for companies. I did not. Don't worry, I fully understand that your entire philosophy boils down to "companies bad".

- You are here.

Does that clear things up, or are you still lost?
They released it because ChatGPT went to 100M active users near instantly and caused a big dent in Google's stock for not having it. The investors don't seem to have noticed that the product isn't reliable.
Note that speaker works on this as a hobby, not as Mozilla.
In my experience most developers just want to reduce the cognitive load as much as possible. That sometimes means rewriting a lot of things so they make sense to them.