skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who else would it be if not parents, the Government? How would that really go? Would we really have to provide our ID to Facebook and such? That would suck.
You aren't wrong. Most people don't care about decentralization so browsers don't prioritize it either.
I stumbled upon this document on a friends kindle maybe 5 yrs ago. It was attributed the same. Think it is or was distributed for free in the Kindle bookstore and they downloaded every free book.
Well that’s objectively terrible.

Question about security ramifications: aren’t APs without x509 set up trivially spoofable anyways? Or is that fixed? I have not paid attention to wifi security in a minute.
Which is fine for a house, but imagine a (wifi) crowded condo/apartment. You could be in bed but opposite your neighbors closet so physically closer to their WiFi thus “louder”.
>I remember a time when stem cell research was an off-limit topic because of the moral issues.

IIRC there were two points of contention. The first being the origins of embryonic stem cell lines require human embryos, which resulted in a similar controversy to abortion. The second is the notion of "playing God" which I think is still a pretty large controversy. Stem cell research really benefited from the introduction of induced pluripotent stem cells to a certain extent. I don't think the ethical debate really resolved so much as petered out because the notion and extent to which stem cell research is playing God is much more abstract than an extension of the abortion debate.

>Meanwhile, China is beginning to show breakthroughs with human-animal hybrids.

This is a bit extreme wording. It evokes mixed-parentage hybrids but in reality it's just inserting a gene that produces a protein in one organism to the genome of another. It's much more similar to inserting a gene found in one human into the genome of another to resolve some genetic disorder.

Nits aside, I'd hazard that the ethics of gene editing are still pretty important to consider, at the very least because of the historical relationship between genetics research and eugenics. Playing God in my opinion is less about the ability to manipulate genomes so much as the discursive determination of what genetic changes ought to be made. That said, I think fears of the Chinese making unusual or unethical advancements in this field are overblown and always have been. Things are probably even more tightly regulated there (hell, TCM is considered a strategic resource), and the idea that the East is unrestricted by the more civilized Western values is also a pretty old trope that doesn't really have much historical basis.
Indoor cats live longer and have fewer health issues. Sorry kitty, I like the idea of native wildlife existing and less vet bills more than your freedom.
> An ideal transistor does the following:

That's odd. From my perspective, an ideal transistor has zero temperature sensitivity across the linear range, zero voltage drop across the PN junctions, a beta cutoff frequency of infinity Hz, 0 ohm stray base resistance. Oh, and doesn't overheat.

I think OP meant "An ideal MOSFET". :)
Sure, but a lot of those things listed are chance. Chance is the biggest differentiator. Chance is why you connected with the right person in university to start a business you two aligned with. Chance is why you were raised with parents who prioritized teaching you charisma skills. Chance is why you didn't have to work in a factory since you were 14. Chance is why you didn't get that girl pregnant despite the condom being ripped. So many moments in our life are "just chance".

I don't understand why we have to ignore this reality, I'm not wealthier than someone else because of "charisma" or "talent". I was born into a family that could afford to take risks (lucky), embraced tech early (lucky), kept me healthy and without defects (lucky), I got great teachers growing up (lucky), met the right people who kept me from falling into the traps of drugs and abuse (lucky), the list goes on. I'm grateful for so much in my life, and very little of it has anything to do with some conscious entirely isolated choice of climbing this "fitness landscape of wealth".

So much of what we believe are active choices aren't really. They're a consequence of previous choices. You are limited based off those previous choices. I mean, if you believe in free will, which is hotly debated!
US industrialized sooner and belched far more in the past.

Most of that was:

* before the public accepted global warming

* before strong alternatives were available
I think a lot of companies agree with you more or less — well, companies don’t have personalities or psychologies, so psychopathy is not really possible. But charging for security updates is too much of a reputation risk.

Of course because they are profit driven entities and they can’t charge for security patches, they just stop writing them.
it's not about louder, it's about who it sees first. Once you manually override it should be good unless your wifi drops out for some reason.
Probably because the people the guide is aimed for are not living in the US?
E-Bikes and cars on the same road present new type of risks.

(USA, right side drive story follows).

On three occasions in the past few months, I've driven my car past a bicyclist riding safely in the bike lane - no issue. I arrive at an intersection with a Stop sign - check to see if the intersection is clear - and then initiate a right turn. As I'm turning, the e-bicyclist has sped up beyond usual expectations and a) tried to make the same right turn before me or b) tried to speed through the intersection in front of me. In both cases, I've had to slam on my brakes to avoid hitting the e-bicyclist.

In every case, it is because e-bikes are much faster at accelerating and get to a higher top-speed than human powered bikes. Bikes have no special right-of-way privileges. Nevertheless these three e-bikers have blasted right in front of my turning car - forcing me to stop.
Steve used to care about things like this. And even if he didn’t once it has his attention you know something will be done or at least looked into with a reasonable eye. Now it is nothing.
I live in Japan and first noticed this "feature" when I'd lose connection as every time I'd walk past a FamilyMart convenience store (which you can find every 3 blocks or so) it would connect to "0000docomo" and then immediately lose connection as I kept walking. Although in my case, disabling auto-join works fine.

Why would they install WiFi repeaters and not just 4G/5G microcells on the trains?
A riveting read. Waiting at the airport for delayed departure, with your wife and daughter, while they are starting to search for you...

To me as a Russian (though I read the English translation) the part where he really never talked about it with mom rings true sadly. Watching TV is a good indicator too.

Also, made me feel a bit better about not thinking a war would begin, contrary to US intelligence, if even this guy (who saw Putin in person many times apparently?) did not see it coming.

I worry about this guy and his family by the way. I almost wish he didn't go public and draw attention for his family's sake. But I applaud the move.
Are you saying that a "good prompt" has the same properties no matter what network you're feeding it to? If so, why? It seems to me that writing a good prompt would require an understanding of the nature of the network you're using, at a minimum - for example "trending on artstation" is common in image generation prompts, and that's not going to be very useful input when generating text for a blog post.

If not, what is the specific thing people should be practicing right now?
I know that Fire Emblem Heroes is very profitable because it uses the gacha system. But I also know that it is a drop in the ocean compared to Nintendo's own console game business.
Audiovisual systems integration. It's a mix of systems engineering, software development, DSP, acoustics, interaction design and physical infrastructure. Think of the tech that makes or captures sound or light at a venue, in meeting room, stadium or other bits of built environment. It's a fairly eclectic mix of disciplines and a lot of fun.
Unbelievable. I used to be a collector of twisty puzzles and there was quite a few levels of challenging puzzles beyond my ability, but seeing this is just astounding! I only have barely a clue what each of the moves are doing but it makes me smile knowing someone cared enough to make this. Science has gone too far
Thank you for kindly explaining that I missed something obvious. :)
How can I like, share, or reply to this post?

If federated social media is to work, it needs to be easy to perform these basic actions.

What am I missing here?
It wasn't intended for US citizens, but for those in enemy states.
> a well-respected brand by most of their customers

Not surprising. I don’t respect or trust them, so I’m not one of their customers.
Paxlovid: Drug Development at a Full Sprint
How they managed to create a novel anti-viral drug so quickly, building on past work.
Of course, it is... that's all it takes to get VC funding these days.
Good article, I'm an occasional active trader and I see a lot of pathological behaviors and pretty frequent losses of the magnitudes you read about in /r/WSB...
This was probably the most fascinating thing I’ve read to to bottom in several years
Companies have a responsibility to make sure harassment doesn't take place.

'Failing to provide a work environment free of racial harassment is a form of discrimination' see https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/section-15-race-and-color...

Similar to unsafe work places, such as if an accident occurs at work then the business can be held responsible for not caring about safety.
Do we ignore the ethical dilemma or does it not exist? It really seems like it does not exist.
I am finding that I use YouTube a lot less these days. Back in the late 2000s I remember when I watched a music video, the recommended videos would be other videos by the same artist. Now it's just videos I've watched before and unrelated videos. The front page is mostly videos I've watched before and ones that it has shown before that I didn't click on. So there is not much difference between the front page and the recommended videos section. It doesn't even really show new videos from channels I've subscribed to, I have to go to the subscriptions page and look for them there. So I just get bored easily and do something else. I tried the shorts page, but I have no interest in the toxic political and far right garbage from the US, since I'm from Australia, so that was useless. I even tried looking for a page that showed what live videos are currently playing, like a twitch page, but the only live page only had a few videos listed.
Steam just announced[0] their client will no longer work on Windows 7 come Jan 1st 2024. I figured this would happen as soon as I noticed they adopted Chromium Embedded Framework, guaranteeing that Google's supported OSes become Steam's supported OSes. I'm not exactly sure how I'm supposed to play Steam games from 2004 (or whatever) on the OS they were designed for, when Steam won't even run on that OS anymore. I guess I can hope that compatibility layers work well enough in newer Windows versions? Just kidding, my Windows gaming PC will now be a Linux gaming PC :)

[0] https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4784-4F2B-1321-80...
"Edge" all over again.
This is really a lot less necessary with GPT-4. What required careful prompting in 3.5 often you can give it something slapdash in 4 and it can do a great job figuring out intent.
No, no it doesn't. Nary a peep about appliances.
I’m 60 and am one of his paying subscribers.
> Build a project and explain it is a much better way to get a sense of skill.

I HATE project interviews, because their skills aren't transferable to the next interview. Take home projects also tend to "go-over", because you want to put your best foot forward and you're betting that the other people they interview are also going to exceed time.
Even better if the parts for your robot(s) are machined using the DIY metal-shop tools! It's DIY all the way down...

All joking aside, I've always longed for a complete set of those Gingery books in print format. I have ebooks of most of them, but I'd love to have a bound set. And even more, I'd love to have time (and space) to actually take a stab at building the Gingery metal shop. Seems like it would be real blast (no pun intended).
Hacker News is social media no?
How much do you know about networking in general? TCP/UDP/IP/DNS, etc?

I ask because building a simple p2p app is built on top of the foundational stuff.
> Sugars and <edit> complex carbohydrates </edit> that break down to derive a lot of fructose

https://twitter.com/sguyenet/status/669638118400749568
Same. I have WinXP on VirtualBox for all my Windows work. I do have a Win7 image on hand, but I've only had to use it twice over the past several years.
What a bellwether. The contrarian point of view is apparently now believing the internet helps.
Check out Mochi
Sorry, it looks like the modal background overlaps the logo so it only works once you've loaded the model -- here's a direct link: https://github.com/vishnumenon/ermine-ai
What was your motivation for setting this up? What kind of uses did you have in mind? Virtual shared hacker space?

Edit: also, what motivated you to use Void Linux? I’m not familiar with it, but I’m always curious to hear about new Linux distributions! (Especially ones like Void that are unique.)
Unironically, this might be one of the biggest blockers to Artificial Intelligence adoption at most companies.
You see similar patterns in many populations with the convergence to even numbers.

Typically, it’s old people struggling with memory or folks who immigrated. In the United States, there are >10,000 jurisdictions issuing vital records, many of which are less than reliable.

Fraud is a strong word and inaccurate connotation. Are people lying about their age to scam pension or other benefits? Sure. But that is just one of many frauds in this area. Folks will fail to report deaths, steal the identities of dead children or any number of things.
FWIW I just tried it and it worked for me. Perhaps you can check the base64 value you generated for the token? Sometimes error messages can be misleading...

Good luck!
And this is why I can't get behind LLMs as a universal GUI replacement. Not in their current form.

We know that users are increasingly likely to leave a page as load time increases. Now what happens when you have an unpredictable black box that sometimes doesn't do what the user expects, or flat out refuses to cooperate? This is poor UX for many tasks.
> IMO it would be better for a city to be built from the start

sure .. but we aren't in that situation, unless a major metropolitan area gets fucking carpet bombed. Every city started as a village, they grow. They are generally not planned from the beginning to be a city.

You can't rewrite this shit from scratch, you refactor it. Look at european cities that date back centuries. Weird little cramped streets that were designed for walking and narrow carts that got made into barely usable motorcar roads. Lets refactor that stuff back, and while we are at it let's refactor some of the nearly infinite roads into some safer ped/bike traffic.
This is perfectly legal, FCC will not care.

But it will not work.
Thanks for the feedback! I tested in Chrome and Firefox but unfortunately I run Fedora so I haven't been able to test in Safari. I'll look into it!
EPIRBs are required by law in Australia. They are attached to the vessel though, the PLB is attached to you. That's an important detail when those two things become suddenly separated.
what are the security requirements put forth by the carriers? is the backhaul encrypted in any way? are the devices tamper resistant? on one hand this seems similar to 5G stations where third parties have physical access but on the other this seems easier to pwn
> I get it isn't perfect but it's impossible to eliminate all risk.

>> I don't think I said that anywhere in my comment. You are stating an obvious fact of life.

Your original comment implied it's too expensive to be worth undertaking and I just don't think that's the case unless we're letting perfect be the enemy of good.

> I think we should be evaluating drone failure within the scope of the wider picture. If drone accidents are less likely and deadly than motor vehicle accidents (including lives lost to pollution) then we should probably press ahead with them even if the technology isn't perfect because we'll be saving more lives overall.

>> Good luck with that.

Well we have lots of traffic accident data and there are also lots of studies on estimated deaths due to pollution. It would not be difficult to get early data in pilot studies of these drones, extrapolate it and compare it with the traffic and pollution studies.
> or having to use that same crap spyware that schools use to lock down your computer by essentially rooting it.

The most extreme one I’m aware of is “Lockdown Browser” and the student who lives with me has effectively rendered it useless. Students use MST with DisplayPort to mirror a monitor in a way such that the OS cannot see that two monitors exist. (I don’t think there’s a windows API for LDB to see this? Could be wrong)

Anyways, one student faces the other, each looking at a mirrored display, one student out of view of the webcam. Then a microphone with a hardwired switch soldered in which, again, doesn’t alert the OS that a microphone has been disconnected, is switched off.

Then student 2 can freely speak at the student taking the test and announce all the answers. The test taker is able to keep their eyes on the monitor at all times (so eye tracking won’t show anything weird).

If I were black-hat enough to lead a product like lockdownbrowser, I would beat this technique by looking for electrical hum frequency signatures in the audio feed which can pinpoint what time the audio was recorded due to fluctuations in the grid electricity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_network_frequency...

If there is zero audio waveform, that would be a flag for review. If the cheater attempts to loop pre-recorded audio, it will be noticeable that the ~60hz frequency signature is “wrong” for the time that the test was being taken.

This would then in turn be defeated by the cheating student running a remote microphone to a quiet room which can be switched to.

I’ve put a lot of thought into this and no matter what, the cheater eventually wins given infinite cat-and-mouse iterations. But most would be caught somewhere along the way.
Thanks for writing it.

Whenever I see WebGL posts like yours & chiechanowski I think like these folks must really love JavaScript to create such masterpiece & with my apprehension towards the JS ecosystem I couldn't indulge myself to put such effort.

Your post on JS ecosystem resonates with me & perhaps there's a narrow gap for someone without liking the JS ecosystem could do something extraordinary with JavaScript.
The article contradicts itself. The text says Apple is laying off “a small number of people”. And yet…

“Amazon has laid off 27,000, Meta has laid off 21,000, Microsoft has laid off 10,000, and Google has laid off 10,000 workers in recent months, for comparison.”

Apple’s last “big layoff” was 200 people.

This isn’t comparable to the other tech giants at all. Seems like lazy framing.
Windows 2000 was better
Safety over freedom and happiness certainly is an increasingly common way of viewing the world.
i mean really.. the site is called "Hacker News" and breaking established rules and restrictions is kind of the point.
Ha, I just built a very cheap XP rig to play old games on a native machine. Hope none of them require an internet connection..
say the line, genejak
Yup. Sorry buddy, a government has more authority to set up these kinds of systems than a joe rando crypto bro.
Just because a service is marketed as having a feature doesn't mean they have an excuse to undo a user setting in their OS that explicitly says they don't want to use it. Maybe they do want to connect to the advertised network when traveling but auto connect shouldn't be forced on them.
I don't understand why you are trying to defend this so adamantly.
My daily driver computing timeline is something like Win3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, OSX 10.4-10.11, then some combo of Ubuntu/Pop_OS.

I think Windows peaked with XP and macOS with Snow Leopard, with the caveats that Spotlight-like searching in both was primitive/nonexistent at that time and would have been a great improvement, and XP didn't have virtual desktops.

That 2001-2006 era featured systems that had learned a bunch of lessons from 10-20 years of mainstream GUI computing, but hadn't been consumed by feature bloat and a bunch of Internet connectivity and convergence stuff that I'm not interested in.

XP's design was apparently polarizing but I loved it. I was in a modding phase at that point and loved making my own themes.
I always love it when this pops up. I'm unfamiliar with the origins of this particular version, but the Office of Strategic Services, working alongside the SOE and other Allied intelligence agencies distributed a wide array of manuals, pamphlets, and propaganda like this starting in WWII.

I'm a former Green Beret, and we reference a lot of this stuff when studying guerrilla warfare (we call it Unconventional Warfare). Here's a graphic I love to reference – the Soro pyramid. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Original-version-of-the-...

and here's an updated one: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333222899/figure/fi...

This shows how sabotage, resistance, and underground activities progress towards full-on guerrilla war.

It was deeply frustrating for me to get out of the service and go to work in large organizations who seemingly employed these very techniques as a matter of practice!
Indeed possible. That's partly why the prompt chain is set up to build a 'cheat sheet' type of answer, instead of a fully-formed answer that can be repeated verbatim.
This is cool and pretty funny. I’m curious what the prompts look like, since everyone I talked was short with me and told me to quit wasting their time (which I guess is pretty in line with their characters).
... iOS is the spyware for the masses? I have a background in security and I prefer iOS devices over android devices because the latter is an absolute wild west in comparison.

The most relevant bit I recall from the Snowden revelations is that NSA was treating big-4 tech companies as adversaries and splicing into their fiber networks. How would android be any better at protecting against that than apple/ios?
Xfinity hardware provides a separate SSID that uses WPA2/3 to secure your connection and a SSID for "Xfinity WIFI". On Android one can and should in fact select which nodes to connect to not merely whether to connect to all nodes but whether to connect to individual nodes. This is essential because in real world non test environments real customers using real networking hardware and phones do not handle adjacent networks well because signal strength varies wildly throughout their space resulting in devices roaming back and forth for no fucking good reason. This is especially true in dense environments like apartment buildings.

Xfinity customers using xfinity wifi on their android device NEVER experience conflict from dancing between AP with xfinitywifi in their home or from their neighbors unless they explicitly connect to adjacent networks and if they do so they can correct the issue by long pressing on the undesired AP name and selecting "forget".

Nobody cares what a company thinks they signed up for. They give essentially two shits. They pay tech companies to solve their problems and expect solutions that work. The situation as described doesn't work for normal network conditions and equipment. The fact that it also breaks niche stuff that techies like is just diarrhea icing on a shit cake.
Mathematical models of this sort have always been a reliable way to get out whatever conclusion you put in.