skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What makes you think I’m white?

I didn't say you were.

>whites are increasingly irrelevant to the discussion about South Africa’s future-they’re dwindling as a percentage

Not true, the owners of the vast majority of SA land are still a tiny white minority. As long as this is the case, they are relevant.

>The country is, objectively, deteriorating.

The world's worst wealth inequality [0] will do that to a country until resolved. As I mentioned above, the transition will not be comfortable and anyone expecting it to be is wildly misinformed.

[0] "South Africa is the most economically unequal country in the world, according to the World Bank. The difference between wealthy and poor in South Africa has been increasing steadily since the end of apartheid in 1994, and this inequality is closely linked to racial divisions in society."

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_South_A...
You don't even have to emit signals. Consumer WiFi equipment can already be used as active radar[0] to track individual movement, and ubiquitous deployment of dense high-frequency cellular networking equipment (5G, 6G) will basically render most house walls transparent (especially if you're living in a USAmerican stick-framed drywall house) potentially allowing for things like face tracking at a distance.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgDdaMy8KNE
I did some co-op work terms at a spinoff company of Noma Outdoor that made development tools (CASE) for Wang, other minicomputers, workstations, and mainframes. The Wang office sharing system and terminals were exceptionally nice. The terminals were programmable in PL/I and had multi-session capability where the PL/I terminal code could manipulate data between sessions.

Now that I think of it, my high school had a Wang computer as well with dual large (much larger than 5.25") floppy disks with vertical slots in separate box/cabinet, and a 2256 looking terminal (integrated keyboard, green screen, slightly sloped sides). I mostly used the Tandy TRS-80 Model III's though.
"[That] guy" hates pretty much every commercial software endeavor.
In Sydney you need to apply for a permit to stage a protest.
As the sibling comment notes, this would unfortunately be too aggressive. In addition to the problems with non-idempotent GETs, doing full prerendering means downloading all subresources and running all JavaScript, so things like analytics or tracking pixels or "update the user's most recently visited document list" in a document-viewer app might get triggered as well. That is, in reality while a HTTP GET might be idempotent on a well-designed page, very few people design their page so that a HTTP GET + running all the page's on-load JavaScript is idempotent.

To solve this, for the modern implementation you can read about in the article, (1) prerenders are limited to same-site pages, to avoid cross-site identity joining; (2) prerendering is opt-in on the referrer side (and, for cross-origin same-site cases, on the destination side as well).

This unfortunately means only sites that are willing to put in the extra work, get the speed benefit. In particular, right now the effort of auditing all your third party libraries is probably the biggest cost. We're looking into what kind of providers we can work with to reduce this, by evangelizing them into becoming prerendering-aware (e.g., not logging analytics while being prerendered).
Breaking Bad gave it recognition
Are you saying that sending and scanning are the same? I think we need to define "scan" (or "sniff" or whatever other metaphors are used here) as more than just receiving a copy that's still encrypted. What definition is there, which is distinct from "decrypt"?

You can often determine the source, the destination, the amount of data over time, etc. but those are hardly sufficient to suspect wrongdoing unless there's also other overwhelming evidence already.
The brightest gamma explosion ever
If there is no IP I can just download your game and sell it on the epic store. In fact, Steam doesn't even need to pay the developers royalties at all.
Can you recommend some blues artists that I may not know about?
>Tidal MQA crap

>audiophile

Pick one
Wouldn't these protective laws help promote outsourcing tho? Less headache, not to mention wages

Similar to that in finance, where big corporations have the luxury to establish entities in tax heavens and avoid paying large sums while still operating just fine
The fact that you have reached out to this community seeking advice clearly shows that you have what it takes to find the next job , be the next great team member. Many people simply cannot open up , or go beyond their comfort zone. Open up to the universe of possibilities, keep reaching out ruthlessly and success will eventually follow. Good luck with your job search!
Yep. For comparison, there are 53 incorporated cities in the United States that have a greater population than all of Iceland (372,520). If you expand it to metropolitan areas, it's 147.

Edit to expand: 37 of the 50 United States have a greater land area than Iceland too. So Iceland is pretty small in both regards.
Unfortunately it really isn't obvious, plenty of people believe and repeat exactly what they said. Fauci even had an interview recently where he said his biggest regret was not locking down faster and harder.
I feel like I'm on board with science. I have a PhD in physics and a position at a researcher both in an industrial research lab and part-time at a university. I spend most days thinking about something related to science.

But I also think about how we as individuals perceive reality and is there an objective perception of that reality? Often times our perceptions bias even what we choose to observe scientifically. This can blind us or make us stick to things even when they are no longer useful. For example, Sabine Hossenfelders criticism of inventing new particles with the only evidence being various unexplained statistical uncertainties [1]. Science is quite useful because it's a way to try and average our perceptions of reality such that we get an explanation that we all more or less agree with. But, most of these explanations are wrong in some way depending on what initial and boundary conditions you pick. That is, it's all about the perspective you choose when approaching a problem as to whether you ever arrive at a meaningful solution or not.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/physic...
I don't recall the source, but I'm pretty sure some of my k-12 civics courses mentioned something along the lines of benjamin franklin borrowing some concepts from indigenous civil structures.
FaustIDE: An IDE for creating high performance webaudio worklets
Given China's cozying up to Russia, I'd think harder about which countries are really on your side when push comes to shove.

As a European you're effectively only protected from Russian aggression (or re-invasion, depending on which country you're in) because of NATO, which is substantially led by the US. Germany, Poland, the Baltic states, etc. would be completely up shit creek right now if it wasn't for US military involvement in NATO and arms in Ukraine. It's why you see Finland etc. racing to join after years of non-alignment.
Wow, the app is nice.

I subscribe to both Apple and YouTube Music, love them both, and I don't mind having an extra music app on my iPhone.
> The Russian bloc of the upcoming Cold War v2 will likely coalesce around the notion that America/Europe has no right to dictate global policy.

Hasn't that been their position since the first cold war?
You linked a paper that came months after the release of GPT-2. It is also a modified transformer, the basis of most LLMs today and an architecture that was released only two years prior.

and this is without mentioning that NLP is far from the only things LLMs do/excel at.

Frankly, nothing you have said so far has made me think your opinion is more informed than mine.
What I don't get is why we didn't pursue something in the WTO years ago.

China doesn't allow FB, Insta, Twitter, etc to operate in its market, but its companies can provide such a service to US customers? Is that not protectionism?

If we're afraid that China will use TikTok to push their propaganda in the US, we should be appropriately concerned that banning a platform to stop targeted speech is in conflict with our own norms around free speech. But instead insisting that TikTok can only operate in the US if FB/Snap/Twitter can operate in China on equal terms seems like it would be more in line with our rhetoric around wanting a rules-based international order, and freedom of both trade and speech under most circumstances.

If western social media companies were able to offer their services in China, their fear of our propaganda would be much worse than our fear of theirs.
I recognize that we use the word "war" with much hyperbole here in the USA.

But when I'm using "War with China", I'm talking about true war, like the kind going on in Ukraine. I'm talking about vicious weapons designed to kill hundreds, or thousands, in the blink of an eye, and at risk of escalation into Nuclear Armageddon.

In this context, I am not taking the word "war" with any amount of whimsy or hyperbole. This isn't a "class war", or "war on poverty" or "war on drugs". What we're unfortunately preparing for is a true war.

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With any luck, China will back down and keep the tenuous peace and status quo.
I'm going to have to side with the X-Files in terms of influence, considering that its corps of writers, directors and producers has thrown off numerous TV shows including Breaking Bad that many critics rank among the best shows of all time.
Ask HN: Why are there no mice without an extra wireless adapter?
In a mac, you have the mouse which does not need "unified adapters" and communicates directly, what mice are there out there that can do the same on a *nix machine?
Thank you! Very useful reference.
It's clear you know nothing or are being obtuse to spread an agenda.

See: one China policy
> const random = (seed: number) => Math.sin(seed * 1000) * 0.5 + 0.5

Seriously? I knew js was a backward programming language but is there no seeded random function?
Don't forget 2001, we were also around for 9/11. It's the first major event I remember.

And I actually missed the 2008 financial crisis because I was in college and insulated from it.
Signal is everything for some
Anecdotally, I rarely get migraines, but when I do NSAIDS don't touch it. Acetaminophen helps though. Definitely not useless to me.
I really wish we could effectively apply Hanlon’s Razor in these cases and force the CEO and board of directs to literally chose between "are you and your CIO malicious" or "is your CIO so grossly incompetent that you have utterly failed in your fiduciary duty"
The prof on the paper is also the author of MOSH and has an account here.
To be effective it would however need all applications plus the underlying OS to be Open Source, since hiding code that phones home on an encrypted covert channel, for example using the same addresses and ports used for updates, then shows ads to the user, is a lot easier on closed systems. How could the user know, for example, that among the 350 MB of updates the OS just downloaded, half of it are actually adverts that will be shown according to certain conditions such as date and time, sites visited, online searches, email contents, software installed or removed, etc.
Depends on the "We"

I personally was deep into digital privacy back in grade school and college when the Arab Spring began, but my own thinking shifted after learning about and working with people who blue teamed incidents like Operation Aurora and Titan Rain, as well as censorship of FB and Whatsapp in the PRC following unrest in East Turkestan in 2009.
Spotify EU did a layoff not too long ago and so did Miro.
That's rms for you.

Regardless of context, it harms one's argument (and is blatantly disrespectful) to refer to people or groups or items with labels other than their actual names. That kind of foolishness has the same level of rhetorical value as MAGA types calling the opposition party the "Dummycrats" or whatever.
I don't feel any sympathy for Tiktok considering they block and remove content that goes against the CCP's narratives. So yeah, it's fair game when they do shit like that.
> Who will dictate its actions and to whom will the benefits accrue?

Corporations, of course.

Capitalist society has never achieved a consensus on the proper limits of corporate power. There is a school of thought, popularized by Milton Friedman, that says the only duty of corporations is to their stockholders. This is about to backfire.
If we treat AIs as a component of corporate power, there are few limits on what they can do.

Changes will come when AI systems start outperforming CEOs. Which may not be far off.
Thank you, Ron Moore, who probably deserves at least a fractional share of the credit for the evolution of genre TV from the episodic structure of the ‘80’s and early ‘90’s to the serialized structure we take for granted today.

Hard to believe now, but at the time shows that embraced multi-episode character arcs and season-long plots ran a risk of being tarred as soap operas.
The actual entities that control people through software are very rarely developers, but institutions and corporations. And one of the things that software freedom really does allow is for those developers to jump ship without abandoning the software when those entities become abusive or change the deal.

And this does happen! The response to Oracle's anti-F/OSS, user-hostile moves when they bought Sun is a powerful example.

Free software also means that you can pay developers to take the software in a different direction if you can't do so yourself.

There are lots of user-serving forks in the world. Cinnamon and MATE really did serve Gnome 2 users who were pissed off and disappointed about what they saw in GNOME 3. LEDE really did resurrect OpenWrt by giving people a way to push the project forward when development had stagnated. yt-dlp saved a bunch of youtube-dl users who would have been left in the lurch.

Of course creating and maintaining a fork requires non-trivial resources. But forks do happen and their possibility absolutely makes a difference to end users, lots of the time.
> Big-budget movies should get made because people democratically decided that we want to collectively spend resources on making such a movie, not because unelected company execs say so who have exclusive control over a huge amount of capital and who can use IP laws to extol more capital from innocent people who just wanna watch a decent movie.

Communist countries make weird propaganda films all the time. You can go watch them and see what that looks like.
Please let me know should you stumble over some useful resources! I'm interested in this too. Sorry I don't have anything more to add.
Certainly. Nobody is born into the free software choir.
There are, just look up "Bluetooth mouse". On Linux, I've had no trouble with my Microsoft wireless, Magic Trackpad 2 or my Razer Basilisk X.
coming off of close to 50 years of anti-union sentiment as well as fewer unions and more union busting. We're as close to black and white as we can get in any discussion about current events.

Is the claim defendable, probably not, but the NLRB just found that Starbucks is trying to discourage stores from unionizing (which sounds like something they would do...) So I'm much more inclined to believe they're being unhelpful in union negotiations than a newly minted union is.
The government has a databases of synthetic medical insurance claims that developers can use for testing.

https://www.ahrq.gov/data/innovations/syh-dr.html
I imagine it was this one [0]. I was confused by it at first because it amounts to more than 100%, then I understood it's a multiple choice question, so the correct affirmation would be around 50% of spftware developers use Windows in a professional capacity, but that doesn't exclude them also using Linux, macOS or BSD.

[0]: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-t...
I've read estimates that it's expected gpt4+ could displace 300 million jobs world-wide in the next 3 years. That's not a small number.
SOGo v5.8.2 Released
I'm bored, let's try it:

I chose three domains, and for each of them, did a whois query from a local terminal then looked them up on Namecheap. All three are domains I can imagine someone registering (i.e. not just keyboard mashing).

They have these SHA1 hashes (echo -n '$domain $salt', all salts are the same string):

3ded27709bfcbba44ce893262f531c595ee82f72

78eb52058b915fde23df7289250146e4a6622a9e*

e5db7a02eec8ce2b351a5955d84cc6daa561a41f*

These three I did not whois first, and only looked up on Namecheap:

8d59b003b9261bbb7f8268d8f56fbebb1574688f

68a87269d6011110c43ec6bb928ca008de4fcb6e

fa636723fb66d2fb4e93b317f185eb058149e53b*

I will check them again sometime tomorrow and report back (and reveal the domains then).

(I have four domains registered with Namecheap, no other allegiances of any sort. I was not logged in while testing this.)

* Edit: Well, this is embarrassing. I posted this, then closed the Termux session on my phone where I was hashing them... without saving the hashes. Apparently that doesn't write to .bash_history. I recovered three of them from memory by brute forcing words I'd used against a list of TLDs. I'll update again if I remember any of the others.

If this sounds incredibly suspicious to you given the entire point of this comment, I don't blame you. I encourage people to try the same experiment on their own anyway, especially sometime when this isn't in the news.

Archive link of this comment from before I edited it: https://web.archive.org/web/20230329003044/https://news.ycom...
That all sounds similar to US payment processors. But you aren't exposed to the challenges unless you're a business.
Yeah I guess I was bored while waiting on my code to finish running. Oh well. My gf would say, "why are you talking to people on the internet?"
> A company should not force anyone to use non-free software: it's unethical.

Why is it unethical?

Would it be unethical to be required to use an entirely mechanical machine that was still covered by patents or trade secrets?
They're close to their goal at wefunder: https://wefunder.com/substack
I'm really disappointed to see the HN reaction of straight up scoffing at this like it's irreversible and so let's just step on the gas. It's some weird combination of techno-utopianism and nihilism and good old elitism.
Thanks, I really appreciate those references. There are still subtleties in a real world setup that may be missed in those explanations though. A bit depth of 16 would be enough if everything in the system from recording to speaker was working properly. But for example with digital volume control there is effectively a loss of bit depth. Starting with 24 bits might help here. This isn't necessary if you control the volume in the DAC and the DAC has a larger bit depth, but this doesn't always correspond to what exists and is convenient in every setup.

https://www.thewelltemperedcomputer.com/Intro/SQ/VolumeContr...
Those aren't really relevant to the topic of Chinese ownership, unless you believe the government told TikTok to actively promote those videos. The stupid destruction trends seem organic to me, and did not require CCP interference.
> not report on it

I wonder who will be getting reparations 200 years from now for this? What form will those reparations take? Will they be perhaps... in-kind?
> Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones?

You don't necessarily need jobs because you don't need money. What you need is wealth. I am going to leave it to PG to explain the difference [1]: Wealth is not money. Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so on. You can have wealth without having money. If you had a magic machine that could on command make you a car or cook you dinner or do your laundry, or do anything else you wanted, you wouldn't need money. Whereas if you were in the middle of Antarctica, where there is nothing to buy, it wouldn't matter how much money you had.

In the next 10 years, AI/robots will generate wealth at an unprecedented scale. Food, clothing and shelter will be plentiful. The industrial revolution didn't make human lives miserable, it made it better. AI/robots will be the same. Because of productivity gains humans will work very little, and yet live comfortably.

As a practical example of how this works, look to Alaska. If you lived in Alaska last year and had a pulse you received $3,284 just for living there. Where does the state get money for this? Oil. Oil is not the only possible source of wealth. AI & robots will generate wealth at unprecedented scale, and humans will reap the benefits, the same way Alaskans reap the benefits of their natural resources.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Actual #1. TikTok is banned in China, but in their similar app (Douyin) their kids are limited to 40min a day and restricted from a lot of the digital opium drip that US kids are receiving in infinite quantities. Sounds like it'd only be fair to follow suit if China itself is limiting the poisoning of their own citizens:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2023/03/24/douyin-tiktok...
Why the definition of "spyware" since the 90's and 2000's, something I lived, I can assure Windows 10 it's spyware the same way Active X and WMP were.
Sure, but it also provides a good deal of inspiration for free and open source software.

And it's good enough for many purposes.
I guess I interpreted the expression literally as "changed the world [at all]", when most people interpret it as "changed the world [significantly]".
Senior-level engineers in India, of the caliber that GitHub would hire, easily clear USD 100k+/year. It's not as expensive as Bay Area talent but not cheap either.
Majority of the 'ordinary people' don't care, and don't want to care. They just want to think about their next tourist trip, or getting coffee, or where to get lunch and dinner next. You try talking about the world-historical impact, the job-ending impact, the sci-fi level progression, THEY DON'T CARE. And that even includes tech workers.

The time to adapt to AI is now (Getting a trade is the safest bet), but obviously 99% of the population doesn't want to do any adaptation. So when GPT5,GPT6 comes out, only then will they confront AI, without any mental preparation.

That's why there's no point slowing down. People won't be alerted until the AI's get advanced enough, so better push it forward, to shock people into action. Institutions can move suprisingly fast when pushed to, every school and university has had to respond to ChatGPT already, and it kind of works. Otherwise people will just try and pretend this doesn't exist, forever.
> People often forget that the first seasons of Star Trek TNG and DS9 were ... not good.

The thing is you can safely skip those and pretend those episodes don't exist. There's actually episode guides for this [1][2] and I used this when I watched the show with my girlfriend a few years back. You could argue a bit about which episodes should or shouldn't be included, but reducing the entire show to about a quarter of "the good parts" is entirely feasible.

With Babylon 5 that'll be a lot harder. Not saying you can't trim any of it, but substantially less. Note that for TNG it includes just 3 episodes for the first season; I'm pretty sure you can't reduce Babylon 5's first season to just 3 episodes without losing the plot.

[1]: https://scribe.rip/maxistentialism-blog/star-trek-the-next-g...

[2]: https://scribe.rip/maxistentialism-blog/star-trek-deep-space...