skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It cannot. It can refuse an organized protest, and ask the prefect to deploy the police at particular location, but cannot prohibit protests.

Actually, Paris' mayor is the mayor with the less executive power, as they don't have a municipal police. Paris prefect, on the other hand, is the most powerful prefect in France.

But prefects in France have too much power. It would be fine if the legislative and judiciary branch acted as they should in a healthy democracy, but the legislative power is subordinate to the executive, and different presidents over tim choose to reduce the judiciary power. The fact that Macron and ex-Sarkozists claim Erdoğan is going too far with his judicial reform is a joke. A bad one.
Russia can defeat Ukraine even if they consistently suffer double the casualties, other things being equal.

"Other things being equal" means they'll continue the current state of never gaining territory. And perhaps again losing large chunks of it, like back in Sept and Nov.

How does that translate to a win for them?
Eh, put it on the tab. Millennials have never known stability anyways, they'd probably get uncomfortable if their lives stopped staggering from one externally-imposed crisis to another.
Subtitle: Debugging w/ ChatGPT
The 5th season was really pretty bad though. I know they had to rush things for fear of there not being a 5th season.
American news falls over itself rushing to cover disasters.
Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are major owners of OpenAI. Both with right wing puritan political aspirations. This should be no surprise.
As always, knowing what to do with a tool is more important than having the tool in front of you. If the value is in having the tool itself, then it will quickly lose its value, because everyone else will be using it.
The Restrict Act
The real concerns, in order of importance, are:

1. This is a way of getting memes to the masses that we (the US political establishment) can't fully control.

2. Meta and others are getting their asses kicked revenue-wise by Tik Tok. Like any business, they'd use anything they could to fight back. Turns out they can use China fear mongering, so they are.

3. (Added) Believe it or not, there's nationalistic pride here. There is a reluctance to admit that an app from "the other side" (China) is more appealing to the masses than _our_ social media apps. Surprising then that we don't ban Hondas and Toyotas, even though they're far superior to American cars (but at least they're made by Asians who are _allies_ I guess).

No matter that banning an app is completely against the principles we claim, such as freedom for individuals, competition in a free market, and freedom of information.
There’s something similar at http://z-lib.org/
Or actually enforcing laws on the book to prevent legal guns to becoming illegal guns. Saw this a lot growing up in the south. Jimbo is gonna get charged with some crime that will take away his ability to own a gun, so Jimbo sells/transfers the ownership of the gun to his brother/best friend bob. Bob now legally owns that/those guns, but those guns never actually end up in Bob's ownership. 5 years later, Jimbo still has the guns in his closet.
Years ago, I helped spin up TEPCO's (Japan's largest power utility) innovation and investment group.

Geothermal has a lot of potential in Japan, but as the article points out it's a political nightmare.

The data and research ahas been done. There are plenty of real-world examples of geothermal plants operating in Japan for years with no impact on local hot springs. Opposition from hot spring operators is real and it's been going on for decades.

A big part of the problem is that the developers are not just negotiating with local governments and the population as a whole, but effectively with families individually. The way things are structured, just one family can usually stall negotiations.

"Well yes, we've seen your fancy science and heard your promises, but grandad isn't convinced. It's just not worth taking the risk of putting our onsen out of business."

To be fair, these people generally are not trying to extort money from the developers, and seem to be sincere in their beliefs.

In recent years, the Japanese government has started allowing limited development on national lands to combat this. Despite it's technical promise, most of the time geothermal is not worth the political effort required.
Here are the same page for other companies:

- Google: https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.html

- Apple: https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html
It's not about the fuzzy border. It doesn't matter if the border is fuzzy or not.

The point is the border doesn't exist in the first place. You created the border with the vocabulary. The concept itself is not intrinsic to reality. It was created. You came up with the word white and you made an arbitrary border. Whether that border is fuzzy or not is defined by you. It's made up.

We have a gradient. That's all that exists. You came in here and decided to arbitrarily call a section white and another section black. You made up the concepts of black and white. But those concepts are arbitrary. So it's pointless to argue about the border. Does it matter where the border is? Does it matter if the border is fuzzy? No. You'd be just arguing about pointless vocabulary and arbitrary definitions of the word black and white. The argument is not deep or meaningful it is simply a debate about English semantics.

Same with consciousness. We have a gradient for intelligence and awareness from something really stupid to something really intelligent. Does it really matter where we demarcate where something is conscious? and where it is not? Likely no, because the demarcation is arbitrary.

It's illusive but when people debate about consciousness. Oftentimes it could be that they are just debating about Vocabulary. Consciousness could be some word that's just poorly defined; it doesn't make sense to do a deep analysis on an arbitrary vocabulary word.
> I vaguely recall that people did state that rowing is what you should use to get the most energy out of a human body

The limit for athletes is normally cardiovascular, commonly oxygen - VO2max the the measurement there. For less fit people it can be the cardio side, their heart just isn't up to it so their muscles fail and they lie on the ground twitching. Oxygen-deprived people pant and gasp.

So recruiting more muscle groups really doesn't help. What does is increasing oxygen intake, and this is where recumbent bikes come in. The laid back position opens the thorax and increases effective lung capacity. As well as reducing air resistance, except that that's a very subtle thing that mostly depends on the rules governing the sport in question (fairing on bike and kayak, for example, are variously restricted or banned in most relevant sports).

You can also reverse that and exercise at high altitude... less oxygen for everyone!
1.) The iPad 2 only accepts four digit codes, but Apple is now using more digits.

2.) This doesn't work when the app has been removed from the app store.

As an aside, I threw away my 1st gen Apple TV over a year ago because Apple bricked it. It needed MFA to sign in (because it timed out?) and only accepted four digits.
How to Generate Images Using the OpenAI API and DALL·E 2 in Python
It's worth noting that Wireguard doesn't use any persistent connection (although you can configure clients to send Keepalive packets). It sends UDP packets only as long as you're opening connections to remote endpoints over its network interface, and lazily sends handshakes only when it determines it hasn't sent one in a while. In the normal setup, that network interface is "persistent," but only in the sense it has an entry in the routing table, etc.; by default there is no daemon sending any packets over it (unlike say, OpenVPN for example), because the nature of UDP means there is no connection to maintain.
Right, I don’t have a lot of love for EU bureaucrats (thanks cookie law!), but this criticism misses the mark in many places.

You can have E2E encryption, as that term is understood, and scan the communications, you just have to do so locally on the end devices. The example the bureaucrat gave of scanning for a URL and inserting a thumbnail is actually quite relevant and technologically similar, even if the ramifications/scale/difficulty are very different.

Whether this type of forced scanning is desirable or not is another question. We can have the debate, but if you are going to say “wow this politician is so dumb, she doesn’t understand anything technical”, then your takedown better be pedantically correct.

Also, I was really confused about the critique that (I think?) is saying the politician is dumb for thinking that some nude pictures of children are legal. But in fact this IS true, not all pictures of nude children are pornography or illegal (in the US at least). And I don’t mean that in some weaselly, CP apologist way. One famous example is the “napalm girl” photo from the Vietnam war (a Pulitzer Prize winner in fact), another more recent one are the photos those parents sent to their child’s doctor at the doctor’s behest. Or am I misunderstanding the critique here?
Depends what they are installing it on? If they built the computer themselves, I believe it's permitted as a "system builder." That said I did just Google it and apparently "system builder" is open to interpretation as to whether it includes home users building from scratch.
Same here. I tried at one point to watch it after "acquiring" the first episode and just couldn't do it.

I'm badly wanting an AI upscaled version made by someone. I've read articles about someone even recreating the CGI and remastering it themselves, something crazy like that.

That's how I want to finally one day watch this show. Not the granny 280p or whatever.
Abstract:

This is a review of Ibn al Quff's account of surgical pain relief in his surgical book Al Omdah, in which he mentioned the word anesthetic (Al moukhadder) and the involvement of physician (al tabbaaee) to give mixture of drugs to prevent pain in a surgical condition to relieve the patient from pain or to make surgical management possible. Hich indicated one rare occasion to such description in Arabic medical texts. Methods of administration of these drugs were inhalation, ingestion and by rectal suppositories. The drugs used in anesthetic sponges include all the drugs that are recorded in the modern literature of anesthesia. They are as follows: opium, mandrake, Hyocymus albus, belladonna, Cannabis sativus, Cannabis indica, wild lettuce. The anesthetic sponge, mentioned in many references as an inhalation method, may be of symbolic value to surgery.

I was unfamiliar with "wild lettuce", but apparently its secretions are somewhat similar in effect to opium.
There’s this gap between ~$150k HH income (where the good aid disappears) and whatever you think it takes to afford $90k/year and still support the rest of your nuclear family. That gap covers a lot of the HN population so I think you can see why people here are salty when the upper end of the gap is receding so fast there’s a red-shift.
> they can't just hand a warrant over to ByteDance get the data they want

Of course they can. Bytedance is keeping American TikTok data in the U.S. The problem is that it's also filtering out to China.
A Short History of Artificial Intelligence
What does the Pacific have to do with that? I’m sure it would be the same if the adversaries were cross-Atlantic.

I’m finding the wording strange because the US arguably has more cross-Pacific allies than adversaries.
They have to deal with the metal/battery recycling problem otherwise they have to make a fleet of batteries every n years and deal with staggering landfills. Uneven distribution of raw materials in such a case will cause tensions.
This reverts Windows 11 back to taskbar sanity from Windows 7/10 era and gets rid of ads as a bonus:

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
So, they're clearly trying to describe what they're doing in general terms. I'm not a lawyer, but I wonder if that's partly a constitutional matter -- just going after TikTok by name based on a knowledge of _past_ access to American data by staff in China would sound like an ex post facto law. So they have to frame it as being about a class of services with relationships to a group of foreign adversaries. But then are there other companies that might fall afoul of this? Yandex?
Most bird flu in the past only spreads from birds to humans, or is like MERS in that it can technically spread human to human but with an R0 far less than 1.
TikTok has a US business presence and definitely can be subpoenaed for information.

This is not something you have to speculate about, they clearly outline the process for law enforcement to get information: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/global/law-enforcement/en
This is literally a hitpiece on the newcomer by an encumbent competitor.
Or areas with weaker employees.

I doubt they axed an entire team for monetary reasons alone. They could have axed 1/10th the employees in the bay area and probably covered the entire India roster (financial cost wise).
Political discussions should be open and transparent. If there is reprisal for well-intentioned statements, proportional action should be taken to stop the reprisal.

Though it is nice to allow various beliefs, it is more important to have a cohesive community, even if it means sacrificing some personal beliefs. Personal values should line up with community values. If they are in contradiction, an open discussion should be had to realign them.
Not disagreeing with your sequence of events, as reduced energy production and wars do send prices higher. But, there's another sequence to consider that I think is simultaneously happening:

economic production makes a widget representing 100,000th of overall economy > prices set based on 100,000th of all money in existence > the banking system quadruples existing money in the system > the widget's price (eventually) quadruples as people realize there's a ton more money chasing the same number if goods.

And, at least according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve bank's numbers, the US Dollar money supply has increased some 13x since the 2008 financial crises, and 5x since the beginning of 2020. Ballooning the world's reserve currency like that will have disastrous inflationary effects /at some point/. The fact its happening now, while tragic, seems wholely foreseeable.
Big red font at top says "EMBARGOED UNTIL WEDNESDAY MARCH 29 00:01 AM EDT. No media coverage & no online linking."

I'm sorry but who do these people think they are? Next...
"peaceful" is absolutely not the word I'd use for 18-wheeler trucks blaring their horns around the clock in a city center.
When the memes involve destroying the school bathrooms and stealing cars. It's probably worth considering what control is had over it.
Never seen this. May I recommend win aero tweaker?
Bitwarden, open source security, zero knowledge encryption to secrets management
>Nonfree software is controlled by its developers, which puts them in a position of power over the users...

The implication is that FOSS developers have no control over their users. Sure, you COULD fork your favorite tool's repository and spend many hours trying to figure out how to make it do 'what you want instead of what the developers wanted'; but very few people are really willing and/or able to do that.

Nearly all software (open source or proprietary) except trivial programs, are controlled by the developers who build it and maintain it. They are given that power by the mere fact that most programs are sufficiently complex that few others can and will assume control instead. If someone does (and that someone isn't you) then the new boss is same as the old boss (to quote a line from a song by The Who).
Re: 1 and 2, I'm not sure this is as tit-for-tat. China has a -lot- of business regulations unfair to outsiders that the US doesn't and hasn't retaliated much on, even if it puts us on uneven grounds so to speak. And it's not like TikTok is so advanced and the US can't compete so we're banning it. There are many apps from foreign countries which are popular and not banned. It's a fear, legitimate or not, about data access and data harvesting and potential device control to what's becoming a direct adversary.

Re: 3, can't argue there.
Guessing by some of the details in your post, you're a bit of a prole. I'm a prole who did manage to get a college education. It was great, no lie. But I'll tell you, almost every other prole I meet in this business, institutionally educated or no has the same credential/class anxiety.

Despite that anxiety, they keep turning up. I keep finding them. I think this is because the bottom line is that most companies don't care about a degree. For some jobs yes but for most positions, they care about where you worked last, what you did and what was the impact.

I feel you. The employment anxiety has been killer. I dropped some pounds not eating for about a week myself. Medical bills and broken down cars still haunt my dreams. But try to remember that you are so far ahead of most people it's almost a laugh. Because 4 years can get you a degree but it takes a life to be where you are. Disciplined to grow your own food, humble to work any job to get by, unattached to material posessions enough to let go of your home rather than let it sink you (look how many made this mistake in 2008) that is resilience.

You really are in a good place. It's corny but the biggest thing you need is to believe in the fact that you belong in this business and that there will be a next job.
It’s absurd that Android even allows apps access to the APIs that enable this sort of thing.

It was pretty much impossible on Symbian OS.
Many actions can be made faster and with better precision in UI compared to slow texting with gpt.
I think serverless is fine as long as you don't lock yourself in to proprietary, vendor-specific APIs. For example, with AWS Lambda and Python, you could use Mangum (see https://mangum.io/ ) so you're deploying an ASGI app, based on say FastAPI or Starlette. For databases, stick with Postgres.
You should get more technical skills. I've seen many people burned by taking some basic data-wrangling SQL knowledge, working at a single company for a long time, building up non-transferable domain knowledge, and then getting kicked out the door with nothing to show for it.

Pick up any relatively popular programming language: Python, Java, whatever. This will help even if you aren't going after a software dev position. Demonstrate to interviewers that you can retrain. Throw out the phrase "automation skills" as much as possible during interviews.

If your situation allows for it and you're close enough, be prepared to commute into Indy, even if the position you interview for is still Covid remote. Showing up in person will give you a leg up.
So we can just calling time-of-death on the United States' social tech dominance now, right?

Domestic tech companies shamelessly sold access to American users for manipulation by "foreign adversaries" for years, made billions, suffered no lasting consequences. Then Chinese Vine walks in, smokes everybody else in ~24 months, the mad South African buys and destroys Twitter, and Mark toddles off the cliff of irrelevance with a social network in each pocket and an Oculus strapped to his face.

I guess it was fun while it lasted.
You know what's the thing intelligence community hates even more? Giving data on the silver plate to the adversaries.
If anyone is interested, the arm and a leg podcast covers how people leverage transparency data and other strategies to fight hospital bills. Most recently it was covered that so few people take hospitals to small claims court over their billing practices that hospitals can afford exorbitant teams of lawyers to establish more case law that their behavior is legal.

https://armandalegshow.com/
This doubly bears repeating: within the grace period for COBRA enrollment (for me, it was 60 days, but check with your (former) employer's HR ppl; they will still talk to you regardless of your now-non-employee status), you can even break your arm, get care, and still retroactively enroll in COBRA as long as you're within the grace period.
You won't cut off your legs just because you drove a car for the first time.
"Please stop training these AI" is almost comical, even if they are right and the signers are significant.

It would be far more effective to lobby for legislation on, say, liability related to the use of AI, data privacy (especially when it comes to training datasets), psycological manipulation, actual AGI research bounds and so on. They are just burning donator money with messages like that, and the research is not going to be bound without law or incentives.
Ask HN: Vetting a Biz Dev Cofounder?
Hi HN,
I have a potential opportunity to join a startup. It's a one person company, first time entrepreneur, self funded, with 15 years experience in the space. Founder claims top of funnel for first 1000-5000 users is seeded. Idea seems solid to me, working prototype is out, founder is clearly invested (2+ yrs and $$). Founder plans to exit in 3-5 after a VC raise in 6-12 mo.

What questions should I ask, or other diligence can I do on my end, before committing? Is there anything specific to watch out for? Are any potential questions somewhat undecidable, and if so which ones and to what degree and why?

Questions I am considering:
- talk to the pre-seeded top of funnel prospects
- talk to the interested VC investor
- ask for personal references
- talk to 5-10 prospects founder doesnt yet know to validate value prop
- talk to the existing contractor team

Thanks in advance for advice / suggestions!
On the other hand, there have been plenty of TV series in the past 20 years where the first season is excellent and then the quality steadily drops in the later seasons.
I like to think that Babylon 5 was one of the best things that could happen to Star Trek.
God I wish the full Apple pay features were available outside the US
What towns in South America have a concentration of software developers? Might target my real estate purchases there

I’m finding that there's a lot more focus on timezone quality of life for US centric organizations, and that includes getting rid of their teams in Asia now and avoiding that

Re-Discovering South America over and over again for similar help and cost
I mean, yeah, same thought after seeing the signatories. What are some of the cliches being used around here ? Toothpaste is out of the tub? Arrow has left the bow. The dye is cast. The ship has sailed. (Thanks ChatGPT).
it's not the image embedding. It's the objective task. Image to text is simply not good enough. It's really lossy and the datasets are garbage so it's not very robust.
You seem to be missing the entire point of the article.
Almost. It'd be boring if it'd handle these Postgres connections efficiently for me instead of making me rely on workarounds.
> Above all, she continues to claim that it’s possible to scan end-to-end encrypted communication without breaking the encryption.

This is trivially possible.

1. send an end to end encrypted message to the recipient

2. also send an end to end encrypted copy of the message to the government.

I’m not agreeing with it. But you can clearly send end to end encrypted messages to multiple parties without fundamentally breaking the encryption…
I thought Twin Peaks was the primary influence on the modern long form TV series.
Boomer/zoomer generational trope meme + "comer" as in someone who comes. See also: Doomer
Thanks for the kind comments! The final version should be available in a day or two.
Ok but if you're from a high-tax country and work temporarily in Iceland you're paying those higher taxes without most of the benefits. You can't access the better healthcare, education, and safer streets of your home country.
What Is an Embedding, Anyways?
Sounds like you’ve spent a lot of time experimenting! Got any pics of the weird bicycles?
Yeah, it basically was 5 seasons compressed into 3 seasons. The 5th season didn't even happen on the same network as the first few, IIRC.