skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is a huge company, yes, but the number of people who drive Blink development is relatively small (of course it is; if most of Google was focused on or even had significant input into Blink, they'd both fail).

I think you have it backwards. It's not that Google has lost the will to fight for good, it's just that Google is a corporation, and their "don't be evil" mantra was only a thing when they were small and it was convenient and profitable for them.

Google has not given a damn about doing "good shit" or about privacy for well over a decade now. Their entire business model is predicated on surveillance capitalism. If they ever truly were the "good guys", they have not been that for most of the evolution of the modern web.

Google is not our friend. They suck, for entirely predictable capitalistic reasons, and their stranglehold overv web standards needs to stop.
Germany doesn't have the capacity to keep anything secret for long. We're a lot worse than the US in that regard, and even they can't keep such things secret.

There were never even rumors anybody wanted a nuclear weapons program. No dark funds. The IAEA is also controlling everything. So yes, any such speculation is ridiculous.
Why do we need to do anything?

We are the grey goo of the universe. Expansion is our thing.
> Right, but how do I know that nobody's watching?

A better way to think about it is: do you have good reason to think someone is actively watching you or will go through the effort to collate your social media posts against some archive (that will be incomplete unless you're an active target)? If you don't, delete away.

If you're still concerned, delete some old stuff randomly to distract from the stuff you really want to delete.

> even if that somebody is some Internet archival robot

Those can't even scrape everything people actually want to keep, let alone comprehensively scrape every social media post from everyone. There are huge gaps.

I actually was peripherally involved in some volunteer efforts to archive a bunch of stuff around the Hong Kong protests and the Afghanistan withdrawal. IIRC, they didn't even try to scrape Facebook posts (because FB was doing so much to thwart scraping, and there may have even been problems with Twitter). There are well-developed tools for YouTube, through.
Databack, a project to backup your MySQL/PostgrSQL
# databack

Backup your data from MySQL/PostgreSQL/SSH etc. to any other storages.

## Introduction

`databack` is a tool to back up your data from MySQL/PostgreSQL/SSH etc. to any other storages like S3, SCP etc. Which
can be run cron job to back up your data automatically.

## Screenshots

You can try it on [Demo](https://demo.databack.dev/) site.

![databack](./images/home.png)
![databack](./images/datasource.png)

## Features

- MySQL/PostgreSQL/SSH/Local data source.
- S3/SCP/Local storage.
- Cron job to back up your data automatically.
- i18n support.

## Deployment

The easiest way to deploy `databack` is to use `docker-compose`.

```yml
version: "3"
services:
databack:
restart: always
env_file: .env
network_mode: host
image: ghcr.io/long2ice/databack/databack
```

## Configuration

Just set environment variables in `.env` file.

```ini
DB_URL = mysql://root:123456@127.0.0.1:3306/databack
DEBUG = True
REDIS_URL = redis://127.0.0.1:6379/0
SENTRY_DSN = 'xxx'
ENV = production
WORKER = True
```

## Worker

By default, `databack` will start a builtin worker to run tasks when environment variable `WORKER` is `True`. If you
want to start multiple workers, you can run `rearq databack.tasks:rearq worker` command.

For `docekr-compose` deployment:

```yml
version: "3"
services:
worker:
restart: always
env_file: .env
network_mode: host
image: ghcr.io/long2ice/databack/databack
entrypoint: rearq databack.tasks:rearq worker -t
```

## Frontend

The frontend project is [here](https://github.com/long2ice/databack-web).

## License

This project is licensed under the [Apache-2.0](./LICENSE) License.
ladybird isn't really what I would call efficient, it's very slow compared to any other browser, because they're still focusing on correctness primarily as they mature their engine.
frozen and bathed in UV is a problem for life AIUI
So you are still able to upload nude video of others, without their consent, as long as they are not recognizable? I don't find that reasonable at all.
That's what i figured. The thing with language models is that there seems to clearly be some kind of behind the veil...thinking ?

There are some completions that are impossible without some form of thinking ahead. The only issue is that this "thought"/state can't be transferred to another generation without being written down.
> In that case, statistics should still be useful to observe trends, if they can't be used to determine accurate absolute numbers. We should expect the same percentage of people to not report crime when there are 1,000 car break-ins per month as when there are 100. Say that's 20%; seeing that number change from 200 to 20 is still teaches you about how crime rates change.

That's definitely not true for car break-ins. In California pretty much every one I knew who lived there experienced some form of car break-in, and of course nobody got their stuff back. If I experienced one there I'd just shrug it off as a fact of life since the process of filing a police report takes time and effort, and the reward is expected to be zero.

In other places with fewer break-ins, I will most likely respond differently.
Maybe the difference is that I do a lot of hiring of junior frontend devs. I interview people that never developed before and now took a 3 month bootcamp for example.

The things they can tell me is basically their curriculum. What I found was working the best was showing them code and they they explain to me what's happening, and I ask some practical questions on that code ("what would happen if I change this?", etc)

I moved from your kind of inteview to a more technical "explain this piece of code to me, what would it do?".

But it's possible the kind of developers I see have different experience level than the ones you see.

I also still interview seniors (maybe 1 out of 10). Maybe I have to think about changing their interview a bit.

The thing is with frontend, you can get a senior that basically did mostly html and never serious programming. And so if you build a complex web app, you really need to see how far they can go with their development skills.
Oh, that seems pretty bad.

Are you ok to name some map apps that are doing this, that you're aware of?

That'll let others dig into those apps, (hopefully) report the security issue, and (again hopefully) get the app makers instead using a better approach for their next releases.
Or abolish the whole process that enforces certain rules are followed in construction and operations - after all, anyone can "vote with their walley", do their own building and fire inspections, and just not go to the hotels/bars/clubs/appartement buildings/roads that are hazardously build.

I swear, libertarians' whole shtick falls appart if you think about it seriously for more than a few minutes in a wider context, yet still so many of them are everywhere.
What matters is the intended purpose for which the data was collected. It is a violation to use it for another purpose than the one you collected consent for (or have another reason for collecting).
Bro I literally checked it within 3 minutes of taibbi's post. I don't expect you to believe me, but that's what I saw.
> For your specific question, a website loading an external font resource would likely fall under legitimate interest since the font is necessary for the website to function.

Google Fonts was ruled to be non-compliant: https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/31/website_fine_google_f...

You can work around this by just uploading the font to your own website.
Sceptic and cynic in me thinks that this is a part of the russian whitewashing company.
I want to be wrong.
It was the USSR, nobody did. But there was a vast institution dedicated to ensuring that everyone maintained the doublespeak.

A country can achieve great things and be built on a greater lie that everyone pays homage to but doesn’t really believe.
I believe these stories are real. To those people, at least. And that there's something after this, and thus a purpose to be here, but anyway.
Fully aware AWS and amazon are different, but my point still stands IMO. Not sure why some people have so much trust in massive corporations who utlimately are all about making money for shareholders. For some people it's like supporting a sports team. My trust in them is one of caution and low expectations.
C++ compilers shipped their own collections, for Borland compilers it was BIDS.

The first version used preprocessor macro tricks for generatic code, basically what Go folks re-discovered with //go:generate, we already had it in 1992.

BIDS 2.0 already used templates.

It was exactly because even C++ for MS-DOS provided safer library than C, that I was never that into C. It wasn't better than TP in features and safety, only in portability, and that I could get from C++ anyway.
EMQX is a highly scalable, distributed MQTT Broker for connecting millions of IoT devices to the cloud, while NanoMQ is a fast and lightweight broker designed for IoT edge. We'll compare these two brokers in this blog.
Those kinds of classes aren't for building ML applications but for understanding all the ideas behind ML, even historical ones, for broad theoretical coverage. Parts of current methods were considered "obsolete" for a good 20 years and fads go in and out.
Well there's a choice and you've made it: you chose to follow orders.

There's another choice: collective action.
At the very least, it’s the fastest way to pick up a new framework or package you’re not familiar with. You can ask questions about the framework instead of digging through documentation.

A massive productivity boost at the very least.
Userspace networking makes me a bit sad in that it's much harder for users to observe or instrument. It's convenient for app developers, but to lock users out of seeing what is happening on their own systems feels awful.
That (the IPA designations) could, and probably is, helpful for breaking down sounds on paper but taking that /t/ from what is a manual of sorts and dropping it into a foreign transliteration is the opposite of helpful.

Everybody expect the French won't have any problem reading out without stumbling Chkalov or Chmil. Supplying the /t/ is a copout to please the French and, as a bonus, to piss of the Russians (especially the Chekalovs ones).
Oh me too? In that case it’s even worse.
Almost a decade ago, when QtWebEngine replaced QtWebkit as the recommended way to embedded HTML capability in Qt apps.
Temporal quality degradation in AI models
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Any insight into the propellant?
Check out https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/ as well. It's a general guide though, doesn't seem to have links for mentorship programs.
PWAs failed in the marketplace and are essentially dead. Google pushed them because they were already on track for web dominance, and the shift toward native apps was a threat to that. These days Google still wants to control the web (and more or less does), but they also have a healthy app ecosystem, albeit only for Android.

I'm sure it still bugs them to no end that they have zero control over the app experience on iOS, which they possibly could have had more input on had webapps ended up being the dominant way of doing things on mobile.
> What's the cost?

The cost is exactly what is pointed in the original tweet:

> a requirement to keep two separate things aligned through future changes is an “invisible constraint” that is quite likely to cause problems eventually

Code changes, and if those two identical or similar pieces of code are likely to change together, now whenever you change one you have the cognitive load to also change the other, or risk having them go out of sync.

Of course, when the two pieces of similar code aren't likely to be changed together, they should be kept separated
If you look at it that way, you can use the same logic here on Earth. Why do you go to work in the morning?

I know how these question chains go, I have a young son.
This is a beautiful recount.

Thank you for sharing it.
Comparing somebody (or an important part of their personality) with excrements in a public forum is not "grumpily ignoring". I am all for civility, but this is not it.
Hindenburg has an incredible track record. Every time they release a report, it’s a major news event in the financial world. If they write about your business, you can easily expect the stock to drop 10-25%. Their last report on Adani caused the stock to drop nearly 60%.

Honestly they’re doing the job regulators should be doing.
When a man dies, he feels he is waking up to a new reality, and a reality is just a shared experience. It is loss of sensory input makes us lose grip on the current reality and look for another source of sensory input, because the void of nonexistence feels worse than the worst existence. The loss of sensory input can be done in a controlled manner: by calming your thoughts and senses before sleep, by floating in a sensory deprivation tank or even by sitting in a completely dark and silent room for many days in a row. In all cases your self will find a way to gather sensory input from other sources and that will be reflected in your memories. I was a hardcore atheist once, hiding in a rock-solid fortress of arrogant scientific knowledge, but that fortress didn't survive an encounter with basic sensory deprivation.
I remember doing something similar to this with many manual steps with Photoshop and aftereffects many years ago.
While Rust doesn't offer this kind of tooling, the JVM and CLR ecosystem certainly do.
Houston Apartment Owner Loses 3,200 Units to Foreclosure
Amnesty International report from 2017. Apple is the top rated consumer electronics company (page 78 for all the companies together, 94 focuses on consumer electronics):

https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AFR627...
What is "function"? If you have a media site is it a function to be able to recommend other articles you might wanna read based on user history.
Ah well then pardon my snark - of course we humans are very determined when it comes to exploiting our environment but a crude look at the figures might set your mind at rest:

Moon's mass - about 0.7x10^23 kgs

Global annual iron ore output - about 2.5x10^12 kgs (per [1])

One over the other - 2.8x10^10 years

So on the order of a billion years to remove one percent of it. And that's assuming we develop the same kind of demand for moon iron as we have here on Earth - so we have some time to think about it at least.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_iron_or...
America’s Smallest Bank Is Kentland Federal Savings and Loan
The Pentagon is full of think tanks and high level policy makers and paper pushers with command stripes all the way down to their pantlegs. They stuff they deal with is pretty much the military at its highest possible level of abstraction (though obviously also at its highest level of Intel clearance).

Any of the actual command and control rooms you are probably thinking of are much more likely to be buried under a mountain in Colorado somewhere or simply in the complexes of actual military bases than they are to be in the Pentagon itself.
Well Volkswagen/Cariad is certainly flirting with that idea. https://datatronic.hu/en/containerisation-in-automotive-indu...
Best one is https://twitter.com/repligate they wrote the simulators essay https://generative.ink/posts/simulators/ but they have veered towards schizoposting so much recently, I hope they get access to base models of GPT-4 or GPT-5 soon! If OpenAI were smart they would let them use it.

Other one is https://twitter.com/emollick it's an entrepreneurship professor but he is good at prompts.

I'm pretty sure the best places to follow are discord channels but I wouldn't know because I'm not on discord. Also some of the mastodons are probably better than twitter for good ones to follow.

Hacker news can be good, one from OpenAI posted a link to a scaling analysis here yesterday for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35548408
You could argue that burning plain quid efficiently distributes the value back to the other holders of quid (deflation).

Burning a million quid in some thing like housing, on the other hand, selfishly removes wealth from society and the economy.
https://archive.ph/jfRGB
I agree with you that Mozilla's mismanagement of... everything... had been a disappointment, but Firefox is... fine. I've used it for years and have few complaints. I expect it's strictly worse than Chrome on several axes, but I doubt in ways that most people would notice or care about.
I like a lot of the LLM use cases mentioned here. A couple more are:

- conducting literature reviews (stay sane while researching LLMs!)

- Talking to textbooks / AI teaching assistants

- language learning with a companion tailored to your level and interested

LLMs are so hyped and written about these days that it would be hilarious if the next version of GPT trained on todays internet would be biased towards praising itself
Elixir, rust and fly.io in the same post. HN bingo.
Flap: A Deterministic Parser with Fused Lexing
I'm definitely going to start stretching before coding now! Maybe even 15 minutes of yoga before debugging.
https://archive.ph/lQruX
It takes somewhere between 1-3 gallons (4-12 L) of water to grow 1 almond.
That he felt need to include such blatant political statements in a letter like this is telling.
Who is using it at this point; or planning to use it?
How come? I've only played around with Datalog. Any production war stories you have to share?
Have you checked out Gleam? It is statically typed running on BEAM
Because Terrans are the greatest species ever. A single planet is literally all our eggs in one basket.
more people is better than fewer people. it means more of humanity, more discoveries, artwork, music, philosophy.

the more we spread out the more freedom we have to pursue our individual dreams and aspirations. (I believe individual freedom is inversely proportional to population density)

the more we spread out the less likely we are to become extinct in a single catastrophic event.

the instinct to explore discover and expand is intrinsically human. Implying humans should stay on earth is about as silly as thinking humans never should have left a small valley in Africa that could only support 100 people.

to stay is to die and become extinct. that might be preferable to some. and you are free to do so yourself, but please don't prevent those of us who have that unquenchable fire from pursuing that which will set our entire species free.
The more we learn, the more hospitable the universe turns out to be.
Honestly, this really confuses me. On the surface, it seems what you said is true. How can a programming language that emulates natural language be good?

However, in practice, SQL is surprisingly easy to write and expressive. I do prefer using ORMs for simpler queries because of intellisense and typing, but for complex queries, SQL is just better. I really don't understand why.
Also note that Servo is no longer a part of Mozilla. Servo's development now has nothing to do with Firefox's needs or roadmap. They're completely independent and are chasing their own goals.
This is not how humans work :-)

In money-making and war everything is allowed! That is what they say.
in the 2008 election, Obama got ~69.5 million votes, McCain got ~59.5 million, out of ~129 million votes total (excluding votes for other parties' nominees for simplicity).

of McCain's ~59.9M, some small number `x` is racists, who voted against Obama, because they didn't want a black President. after the end of Obama's first term (again, for simplicity), some number `y` is people who voted for McCain who were vocally displeased with Obama's presidency (presumably this number includes most if not all of `x`), and some number `z` is people who voted for Obama who were vocally displeased with Obama's presidency.

everyone (racists, Obama-likers, Obama-dislikers) who did not exercise their Constitutional right to vote are irrelevant.

`x` is a much smaller number than `y` plus `z`, so as to be insignificant.
How many data points is a prompt worth? (2021)
I find it very interesting. I don't doubt these experiences take place. I wonder (and suspect) if they influenced by the cultural upbringing and beliefs of the dying subjects.

What I find even more interesting is causation:

* Do these experiences arise from the brain somehow "determining/observing/knowing that the body can no longer be sustained and is indeed about to die ? What seems to talk against that, is that patients sometimes seem to get better" right before.

* Have the brain "determined" that it's time to let to of living? That is, have the dying subject come to term with their fate on such a deep level, that they are able to die ? I think this is sometimes the case.. When the body seemed physically to be able to go on for a little bit longer, and yet people die when they do. (This idea is generally frowned upon, I suspect because of unjust stigma against the willful death, we're supposed to keep fighting forever, no matter how much sense it makes.. but at some point, some of the dying probably accept their lot and let go in a peaceful way)

I don't think every death is the same in this sense, sometimes, the brains seem to WANT to continue living but are physical prevented by something like thrombus somewhere vital. Those people probably don't have the forewarning dream days before..
This is kind of an awkward issue for FSF, since the relevant parts of chrome are free software. You can fork chrome and keep the jpeg-xl implementation in and surf the web.

But that doesn't matter, because the source being free isn't the issue, it's the default in a complex ecosystem of websites responding to browsers supporting standards, which they judge by uptake of the pre-standardized versions, etc etc etc.
I think he’s talking about the institutional capture and monopolization of higher education…essentially coming away with the same skills for free from YouTube but they’re worth nothing in the market because you didn’t pay $50k/year to the higher ed cartel.
People have been loving it!!
Isn't humanity doing pretty well on it's own destroying itself without AI?
The way my dogs have lived runs almost completely counter to this article. My dog has a doggy door, and we live on 15 acres. She can go out whenever she wants. Her food dish is always full of dog food, but she gets scraps at almost every meal. We also work from home, though it’s not like we can give her much attention during the day.

My other dogs we also free to run away at any time and chose not to. Any one of them would have given their life to save mine, and I’ve personally run into (some) danger to save our current dog.

I do agree that people need to think more about what would be best as far as pet ownership goes. I know not everyone is rural so you can’t treat them like I’ve been able to. Still, don’t only give them pet food. Don’t get a big dog if you live in a small place. Don’t get an active breed if you’re not able to give them enough exercise. Some breeds straight up shouldn’t exist as is and you should feel absolutely terrible about buying one. The author’s is included in that (and I’d eliminate them all if I could), but at least they adopted.

Mutts are best.
Sandi Metz is a great resource for working through some of the dogmas out there. She's fully bought into OO and design patterns so it's not a situation where an outsider is assailing your whole worldview, and she puts into words what my intuition is about these things super well.
> It is always nothing

Classic atheistic arrogance here. Our understanding of the brain may be transformed, but had it occurred to you that when you dissect things you begin to miss the wood for the trees?

Nihilism is more absurd than any religion.