skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting/amusing that a lot of the discussion about "China banning Facebook therefore we can ban them too" proceeds kind of ahistorically, as if China had blocked Facebook on a whim.

It's also interesting because it dovetails with the seemingly unrelated separate story of the so-called "Uyghur Genocide." In reality, the two stories are related:

>Following last weekend’s deadly riots in its western region of Xinjiang, China’s central government has taken all the usual steps to block citizens from accessing foreign web services: aside from crippling Internet service in general, the authorities have blocked Twitter, removed unapproved references to the violence from search engines and has now apparently moved to bar its citizens from accessing Facebook from most parts of Mainland China just now. Two weeks ago, the government had already blocked just about every Google service, including communication tools like Gmail, Google Apps and Google Talk.

Basically, China's argument is that Facebook was used to organize terrorism, and when they asked Facebook and Twitter to cooperate, they refused. Then they were banned.

The concern being, of course, that Facebook was being used by U.S. intelligence to organize terrorism within its borders, as seen in this NED tweet:

>@NEDemocracy, December 10, 2020 (https://twitter.com/NEDemocracy/status/1337063301113581568)

>To further #humanrights & human dignity for all people in China, the National Endowment for Democracy has funded Uyghur groups since 2004. #NEDemocracy #HumanRightsDay

And this then dovetails with Zbigniew Brzezinski's admissions regarding Operation Cyclone:

>According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980. That is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan on December 24, 1979. But the reality, closely guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention. [...] We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would. _ ... That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter, essentially: "We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war." Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war that was unsustainable for the regime, a conflict that bought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. [...] What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some agitated Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1998.

https://dgibbs.faculty.arizona.edu/content/brzezinski-interv...

Pretty interesting stuff.
There is also IoT in some of these bulbs, especially the more expensive ones.

That there is a huge turn off for me, even if I don't have a smartphone handy ;)
Also, in a world with nuclear proliferation, an LLM seems a bit minuscule in terms of “dangerous technologies”
I stopped using it, mainly because of an “inverse network effect”. Twitter used to be a useful place to keep up on scientific papers. Science Twitter is dead. Now my feed is like 10 percent science, 10 mildly racist / inflammatory content, 10 percent miscellaneous, and 70 percent a certain VC constantly shaking his fist, yelling about crypto, and shitting on fiat currency. And this is after aggressively curating my feed by unfollowing anybody who cheered on Musk’s takeover of Twitter. No thanks.
Ok. As someone who knows more about the subject than I do, how would you estimate the impact of Italian agriculture on climate change?
Twitter isn't dead but it has competition now.

That competition feels/looks like early 00s blogging -- less mass, pre-eternal-September, Gibsonian ham-radio-postcards -- but then again that's what grew up into what we have now.
Exactly. Way cheaper than jail too.
This sounds more like a problem of your country culture of not encouraging to take sick days. I would have been on sick leave for all the time needed to not have sleeping problems anymore
This. In fact, it may cause humans to seek out meatspace friendships to find true connections and empathy.
It's absolutely tangible. It's an app. It's servers. It's a company.

I don't see how you can arrive at the conclusion that a company isn't tangible.
A great summary of this line of research! I think it should have the (2022) label.
I'm not sure why this was necessary. If you bet big and lose, of course you should hold the bag.
> It said she’d previously taught at universities she’d never even visited.

Don't worry. Some of the details will make it to some websites, which will be cited by the press, which will be included into Wikipedia, and it will become the truth. She will have taught at those universities if she likes it or not.
A key question is what emboldened the politicians to propose such bill? It seems the constituents of the law makers have been getting more and more complacent when it comes to giving the government unchecked power, as long as there is a "good" narrative.
They're remarkably heat sensitive, especially cheap ones. Some bulbs would gladly run for 10 years in a room slightly above freezing temperature, but put them in a semi-enclosed fixture in a normal living space, and they're dead in a few months. Fully enclosed fixtures destroy them in no time, unless you buy really exotic bulbs with truly massive aluminum heatsinks, rated for high temp operating environments. I can't even find domestic suppliers for those, and had to order from China.
Looks like it will act similar to rock armor (around 9:00 in the video)

https://youtu.be/3yNoy4H2Z-o
That's why college should be free for everyone.
The biggest problem in media is the audience
Indeed, here's GitHub doing exactly that (fixing mixed content warnings by reverse-proxying third-party HTTP content), back in 2010: https://github.blog/2010-11-13-sidejack-prevention-phase-3-s...
yes. But hopefully without some of the limitation due to CF's TOS.
Why don't you like Ubuntu? Because of the Amazon store thing?
If you're expecting chatGPT-esque outputs I"d suggest this 7B demo that's fine-tuned on the Alpaca dataset.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/BlinkDL/Raven-RWKV-7B
This is great! The images in the feature reel look amazing!
How does AI not require a command?
I am not the biggest fan of chatGPT but the truth is that you can’t stop it. If you do, someone else will develop something similar.
The two GPUs will need to exchange information in order to complete inference, by having one GPU hold half of the network weights, and the other holding the other half. That transmission of information will be limited by the PCIe bandwidth; for instance, 30 GB/s with v4x16.

Meanwhile the A6000 VRAM bandwidth is 768 GB/s (= 16 Gb/s (GDDR6) × 384 bit-width ÷ 8 bits per byte).
> you can do the research to find those brands and pay extra for them

This is such a lie - no, you can't do the research. There are no reseatch papers conparing consumer products

Doing the research means buying everything avaliable on the market and testing it yourself.

Googling is not research, its choosing which SEO'd fraudulent article will lie to you today.

Quality is going to shit, because there is no way to twll apart which item is qualify. The market is failing.
Scratch also has variables, lists, if/else and looping control flow structures, and procedures (the main limitation, imho, being that procedures don't have scoped local variables and cannot return a value)

It also has event-based concurrency.
GPG's track record of being robust against attacks is not that great, not to mention the complexity and surface of HTTP stacks. It would be great to make that attack surface available only to malicious mirrors.
Many kids created several user profiles. Most of the times when they "level up" and for example "learn functions" (custom blocks), instead of create new projects with the learning old ones they create a new user profile so I would at least divide 103 million users by two.
https://archive.is/oI8jY
Gaussian Processes Extrapolate, Sometimes in Goofy Ways
I sympathize as well, but I also know many many developers are extremely poor at judging what/how the code affects a given Firm's KPI's.

I've been in literally hundreds of conversations with engineers who want to refactor a given technical system and don't realize the code debt is really due to the fact human businesses run on endless edge cases and weird exceptions. They only account for the majority use cases, but the problem is the firm would get sued without complete coverage. So when they deal with the edge cases, the code looks like shit again, and then what was the point of the company spending money on the refactor ?

Application/Code Architecture in real world businesses is extremely tough given moving requirements, endless legal/financial edge cases, and subtly different but similar concepts across different business domains. It's gets even tougher when you have to make difficult decisions about cost centers and profit centers.

My firm has a super specialty team (extremely well paid) that goes in and refactors/clean's up codebase's that are identified as becoming less efficient. However even the average senior engineer lacks the experience and understanding to clean up code debt in most business codebases.
YC used to be for people who investors wouldn’t normally take a chance on…and imo, it still is. If you have a FAANG attached to your name with multiple years of experience, you can probably find better deals elsewhere. YC has done a relatively good job of scaling themselves, but it has never been a “one size fits all” funding solution, and if you are a founder you’d be wise to consider your options carefully.

That being said, removing the relocation requirement was a big mistake — it was partially a forced move, but it’s not at all surprising that you get a significantly degraded founder experience if you are not in SF.
Is he right or not and for how long is the big question, but I agree that is thinking that's animating him, to the extent there is a plan.
Scratch really seems to be well-designed, from what I've seen.

I actually wanted to use Scratch to program Home Assistant automations. My day job is enough 'serious' programming already. Plus maybe my family would be able to modify some automations.
These models are nakedly dangerous, even a cursory glance suggests this.
Maybe. That depends entirely on the extent to which Musk can keep it together -- past Mastodon growth spurts correlate with his erratic and sometimes unhinged policy changes and outbursts. But I don't know what will make comedians and polticos move out; I suspect it'll be individuals coming over to Mastodon here and there and then suddenly it'll reach critical mass.

Disagree about Mastodon -- I think it or the protocols backing it, will be the glue that holds the rest of social media together. You may not be using something branded "Mastodon" in 2035, but it will probably be Mastodon underneath.
wow great article and even in the article and comments no mention of PAR1789! It's the IEEE standard for limiting flicker in bulbs! The Department of Energy has a great presentation on this, https://www.energy.gov/eere/ssl/articles/flicker-understandi...
That's a great way of describing the problem we're trying to solve!

As the tool grows, we definitely hope it becomes powerful enough for designers to use too.
Not yet, nor close to it, does AI have a mind of it's own.
Here again, I think the complaint is the opposite. He's saying that if you have traction already, you don't need YC. You're further along than what they offer. They are there to help people who have no traction and no metrics and no money.

The sad thing is that the hype cycle is more important than the product delivery. Many huge investments are made on products that have nothing delivered. It's more BS than we'd like to admit. My own product failed in the market because I focused on the MVP and making it real and not on getting hype out and using that to get money.
Golang Project Generator
I have build a project to help spinning Go apps/microservices boilerplates as well as moving some trivial issues out of the way.
LLMs have randomness, but they are not random. LLMs probably won't generate new words, for example, so they could not have written shakespeare based on contemporary writings.
So home schooled and/or religious people shouldn’t be allowed to have their voice heard? Shouldn’t be allowed to put forth ideas?
> "sweet I can buy my black market shit, plus get whatever the addiction center place offers me on top of that."

That's the best outcome. In Canada the legal drugs they gave the junkies ended up being sold by mail to other parts of the country.
It's a terrible argument.

The harm is transparent and greatly eclipses most other threats to cybersecurity.
They're not suffering though. And they're choosing it. That's my point. You seem to be projecting your own bias here.
Isn’t this exactly about opening it up to the public internet..?
But you have exposed the entire HTTP and GPG stack to the attacker. It would be unnecessary if those were as secure and under as much scrutiny as TLS libraries are.
Twitter made hundreds of millions a year selling API access.
Sometimes little frustrating that people writing articles in this field seem to have no exposure to computer science.

This is the gene equivalent of a filesystem: the DNA fragments are like disk blocks. The interposing sections are file metadata. The shearing mechanism is the filesystem reconstructing a stream from the lower layer blocks. There's probably some redundancy and error correction in there too.

It needs a filesystem for the same reason they were invented for computers: to provide an impedance match between the upper layer semantics (a stream of pairs describing a protein) and the lower layer storage (blocks). Using block structured storage is more flexible in terms of being able to insert in the middle of a file, etc etc.
Any ideas why waveform doesn’t offer recessed lighting products? Is that a particular form factor that is difficult to support high quality output?
Hmm looks like it's inspired by Sublime.

First impression: intalling plugins is a bit pain in the a*. No online package manager, so gotta load the zip manually.
PRISM was WILLFULL cooperation with the feds by private companies. Other things snowden revealed made it clear the the feds were ALSO snooping inside the companies, and famously google encrypted their internal links and infra to stop it. Funny how they understand the importance of privacy, just not for you.
Don’t be too hard on yourself, the learning curve as a new infra/platform engineer is VERTICAL.
Try not to hide that you’d benefit from some bootstrap assistance in a misguided effort to “not look clueless”, that’s a fast ride to a bad perf review or worse.
One strategy that is incredibly effective in this situation is to ask if you can shadow an experienced/skilled team member for a sprint or two, and then switch to pairing with the same type of person for the following month or two.
Your rate of learning will skyrocket using this approach, compared to trying to “go it alone”
Good luck and enjoy the ride!
YC will absolutely coddle you if you manage to become one of their “darling” startups, just like any other incubator or VC firm.

That’s the type of thing that you have to earn, and if you earn it you don’t need it.
I hear a lot of talk about Tailscale but it's just a branded VPN?
GPT-4 is basically magic when it comes to code. Have you used it?
Probably. In a world where Mastodon exists though, why would you pay for a Twitter subscription when that same amount could run a hosted/managed ActivityPub instance? Musk isn't priced cost-competitively here.
It's because Ubuntu Touch is actually meant to be used from the command line.
> For being unmaintained for months

which describes probably 90% of web apis out there

imho, unless a company is dogfooding its own api, I assume it is broken/bitrotted/owner-left-the-company etc

twitter is by no means alone
I typically use an Apple TV or Chromecast.

Even leaving the cost of buying a new 60" TV aside, the effort of mounting a new one and disposing of the old one would make me hesitate to upgrade even though my existing one isn't 4K.
Home is never far away. If something like that happened 99.9% of things can wait until I've been home to collect my wallet. Just as much chance if me loosing my wallet as most of the things you mentioned.
Anecdotally, I have at least 3 GitHub profiles
This feature is a delight to use. I've tested a few web applications, APIs, and webhooks using it over the last month or two and only experienced a handful of glitches even before it was in beta.

I like the idea of consolidating all my network ACLs with a single configuration file with Tailscale, but I don't like being wedded to a proprietary platform for my personal use. Hopefully headscale gets a similar feature, perhaps minus Tailscale's DNS management.
How could that be ever really be enforceable?

If I use an AI tool to design my Superhero, can't I just submit it without disclosing the help I received from an AI.

I get that it would be very nice to prevent AI SPAM copyrighting of every possible superhero, but if I use the AI to come up with a concept, then quickly redraw it myself with pen and paper, I feel like it would never be provable that it came from an AI.
>>Some of the advice I did not take and did the opposite and it was the right decision. //

FWIW that does not mean the advice was wrong. Trivial example: "head East, there's a great bakery there", "I went West and found a place for a lovely lunch".

Unless the parent elucidates (and maybe even then) you can't tell if the advice was right or wrong.
I'd rather be killed by a superintelligent being than by some super-dump virus. I have standards. ;-)
You can make some pretty robust stuff with Scratch.

User griffpatch has made a lot of advanced stuff here:
https://scratch.mit.edu/users/griffpatch/

He has a youtube series too about building a 2D RPG in Scratch along with a built in tile editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lof-Nu1VVE&list=PLy4zsTUHwG...

There is also a faster interpreter called TurboWarp that runs significantly faster than the official Scratch implementation:
https://turbowarp.org/

Here is an example of the old 2d space shooter Tyrian running in turbowarp:
https://turbowarp.org/151417355
I'm not sure if this is the norm in Europe, the only chain store I know that sells high CRI (>90) bulbs is IKEA. If I go to my local home store or supermarket, they are all junk Chinese bulbs that I doubt are really even 80 CRI.

CRI isn't even something you can filter by on their online catalogues. At least the new EU energy labeling let's you see what the specs are.
The big problem for me is, as a consumer, how do I know that brand X is producing quality bulbs that'll last a long time?

The issue is that LED bulbs aren’t simple devices like incandescent bulbs. LED bulbs have an electronic power supply inside which drives the LEDs at a constant current.

Power supply design is a major subfield of electronics engineering and there are all kinds of tradeoffs you can make to optimize for different goals. Consumer electronics almost always optimizes for cost, to the detriment of all else.

It is possible (and not very difficult) to design LED bulbs that will practically outlive their owners [1]. The problem is that it requires putting more LEDs in the bulb and driving them at lower current. This makes the bulb cost more and the only benefit is longer life. For a manufacturer, there are nothing but downsides to this approach.

[1] https://youtu.be/klaJqofCsu4
I bought a subscription to CodeSpark Academy and my kid has spent literally hundreds of hours on it over the last few years. He’s 9 now but started at 5 or 6. It allows him to do exactly the kind of things you describe- simple animations with kid-provided sound effects, a simple visual building block programming language, etc. I think that the key advantage of these types of systems is that they allow kids to do things that kids like (animated cats, poop noises, whatever) right off the bat. Getting enough python skill to do these kinds of things would take many hours of learning.
The establishment can squash Elon if he gets so far out of line that it pisses a critical mass of them off. He's a US Citizen. His business assets are in the US (mostly). They can get at him so long as some large subset of "they" is ok enough with it.

They can't do that with "hypothetical Chinese Elon" so long as said Elon remains in good standing with the powers that be there.
It was too early for me when I posted this :)

There were two ideas in mind that were conflated:
1) A list for blocking the subpaths of these packages in npm that could be imported.
2) A list for blocking the malicious URLs in the repos themselves. Ie they mentioned that the repos have malicious URLs that navigate you off the page. This is where something like pihole could come in handy.
Client signs previous handshake messages with private key to prove it has possession of private key for client certificate.

It should be a lot faster than a purposefully slow kdf AFAIK.
I’m sorry you think Covid proves anything about nuclear war or that it’s at all relevant to a discussion about life on earth being eradicated.
Make it easier to try
Honestly, some workflows seem complex and I don't think I have the necessary experience to handle them.
I think this case falls under "gut can't handle that and you must use git".

Regarding the telemetry, it is not opt-in by default. On the first launch, the CLI asks if the telemetry can be enabled.

Here is how it looks:
https://cln.sh/rCmVtVhZ
It's possible you were playing Scratch Jr, it sounds a bit like it.
I would agree - BUT try 'Edison style' warm leds - these use the filament style.

They last for YEARS, and give a soft warm light - the bulbs I have a dim (but then 'Edison style squirrel cage bulbs have always been dim).
Your answer is missing some steps involving money
Baltimore PD's gun tracing taskforce stole from public, put innocents in jail
It's the same as having a credit card for web orders that has a lower limit, you load the same card into the phone...
I guess it was pretty incredible watching a missile fly down an air vent, pretty unbelievable, but couldn’t we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food to hungry people? You know what I mean? Fly over the Ethiopia: “There’s a guy that needs a banana!”

Stealth banana. Smart fruit!
I think the implication is that anyone with an account so large it takes up the lions share of $13B probably has enough influence to make this sort of bailout happen:

"Gee [senator|congressperson|etc], my donation to your re-election campaign was in that SVB account, would be a shame if I lost it".
Unless there's large-scale political change, "freed from the need to work" = "freed from the need to be paid". Hard row to hoe, that.