skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't actually looked at it, but I have the feeling that the Firefox code base is godawful and nobody who isn't being paid for a 40 hour weekday actually wants to get involved in it.
It's hard to understand what the article itself is claiming - it isn't clear what they are citing, but I read it as the banks being underwater on their investments specifically. Which could be true but they still have capital reserves and equity.

And also, as the report they actually cited points out, not all capital reserves are created equal. And it's the amount of uninsured deposits that predicts their risk of a bank flight.
I suppose in this case it means "fucked Pocket"
It is definitely a collaboration problem; someone created the ticket with the intention of the team doing it at some point. My question is how to deal with it beyond just ignoring the problem.
Bitcoin Climbs as US Bank Failure Bolsters Crypto Narrative
Those factors make it dramatically different from a company town.
Thank you for trying to defend Tor. Can you share some of what the parent was ignorant to?

Does it cost less than 5 dollars a month to create a Tor node?
I'm unclear whether you're arguing that obscene/pornographic material should be accessible/distributed to minors as the distinction here is that this activity is in fact a federal crime in the US (and most of the world).

The government unequivocally has the right and obligation to enforce federal law. To what extent and by which mechanisms they should do this is a different question altogether but this issue is hardly about 'dictating what other people can do with their own lives in their homes' as was the case with other laws like anti-LGBT.
good luck developing new dishes without artists. Maybe you don't want a "a 3-foot-tall caprice constructed from lemon grass, lawn trimmings, coconuts and red curry" but A) that sounds fucking delicious to me and B) in the same way that fashion houses present ideas that are then digested and disseminated into consumer clothing lines, culinary artists also provide an essential service in pushing the art of food forward.

that's such an unnecessarily disparaging remark that I kind of don't even know how to take it (or him) seriously.
Note that in this interest rate environment banks don’t need to buy bonds in order to get 4%. Currently the Fed’s reverse repo facility provides more than that.
When people can run AI locally, what good is regulation going to do? Laws don't stop crimes, it's just they'll get punished, if caught. It's the internet. They likely won't even be in the same continent, let alone country. Propaganda from malicious actors abroad isn't going to be prevented by regulation, they're going to have entire departments dedicated to it, so is Uncle Sam.
Sure, but that doesn't make him the son of god born to a virgin.
Yep, they already just work, Check the website or the demo in the launch video from Jeremy Howard. Also potentially interesting:

https://docs.modular.com/mojo/programming-manual.html#python...
https://docs.modular.com/mojo/notebooks/Mandelbrot.html
Until those go down or are abandoned...
Do you reckon they'll be the same people unhappy with Mozilla about their pro-privacy / "lets try and cut down ads" approach?
And the writer hosts the source for his blog on github https://github.com/edwardloveall/portfolio
This reads like an over-the-top warning that's really meant to try and keep more people (especially Californians) from moving in.
Firefox the browser is still a great piece of software, literally unique, and also open-source.

Do you think any other company / organization would be able to take over it / fork it and develop it adequately? If so, where would they get the money? Many high-profile open-source projects (e.g. Python, Blender, well, Linux itself) managed to secure corporate sponsorships or donations in a much less toxic way than the Mozilla-Google deal.
So what is the purpose of “engaging politically” if it’s not to change laws.
>This sounds like a smart response until you think about the possibility of an academic study researching exposure of minors to hardcore porn. Think that would pass ethical muster?

Well, yeah, it would...

>1. Does porn usage line up with other patterns of addiction?

I'm not sure what this question is asking. Porn usage may or may not 'line up' with patterns of addiction. That doesn't mean that porn always or even the majority of the time is. Can you rephrase this question into something more coherent?

>2. Are similarly addicting things withheld from children because their brains are less equipped to handle it?

LOL absolutely not. Children, especially American children, are given huge amounts of sugar, which is actually physically addictive. Many are given huge amounts of caffeine which is again, physically addictive.

Millions of children around the country have tons of access to video games and TV, which can be addictive.

>If yes to both, then it’s a no-brainer.

Well, you're first question doesn't make any sense, and your second question is a resounding no.

The best way to keep your child from becoming addicted to anything is to act like a parent.
Why is PIN insufficient? Assuming encryption algorithms are sane, a 20 character long PIN should be able to achieve adequate entropy to keep the data safe.
AI will do management.
Funny enough in my small town - I walk into the pharmacy, they ask the name and birthdate of the person for whom I'm picking up the meds (generally my kids), I pay and leave. On the other hand, at least for a while if you wanted to buy Sudafed (OTC) at a grocery store, they would ask for ID and write you down on a paper list. ???
In order to allocate your precious time writing a comment over doing one of the many other things life offers there has to be a return on investment. Otherwise, why bother? When it comes to opinions, the return on investment in sharing them is being able to receive the responses around the opinion shared in which to learn from.

Once you have accepted an opinion as your own, however, you have had to believe that you understand it to the greatest extent possible and spending more time learning about it is going to be unfruitful. As such, there is no remaining value in talking about the opinions you actually hold.

Only the opinions you don't hold are those you are going to share, as those are the ones that are still out there able to be learned from. They are merely hypothetical, and are likely to be contradictory as you explore different angles.

Indeed, you may come to hold those once-hypothetical opinions in time as you learn more about it. As that happens, the value in sharing them will diminish. There is good reason why we don't spend our days sharing that we believe "1+1=2" and "the sky is blue". One's own opinion has no communication value.

So, what is to be gained by censoring a hypothetical opinion that may not be held by anyone and certainly not you? If it were your opinion you wouldn't have to worry about censoring it because there would be no value in sharing it in the first place.
Are you actually on HN arguing that alchemy is some kind of real thing, a skill that we lost? Different senses? Is this a joke?

My understanding of alchemy is that its practitioners tried to transmute matter from one kind to another, e.g. lead to gold, because they didn't know enough about how matter worked to know they'd always fail.
No disagreement, but from what I can tell the map does indeed show Mesoamerican civilizations for which we have written records.
I mean, this is a broad topic and I am more of a backend engineer than frontend these days.

However, I did do a lot of frontend back in the old IE6/IE7/IE8 days when you essentially had to code a whole separate front end for Microsoft's standards-flaunting mess. So this is definitely an issue I care about.

but behind the curtains it took additional effort from
the developers of websites you visit to make it so

This is true, but in my (limited recent) experience often it's because Chrome implements some rando de facto new "standard" thing they cooked up so of course they are out in front of the other browsers.

So yes, you often can't run your Chrome-specific shit elsewhere without workarounds and polyfills, but this doesn't automatically mean everybody except Google is screwing up. In some cases, complaints such as yours sound like folks in 2004 complaining that their ActiveX controls work in IE but not Firefox.
Underwater homeowners that didn’t sell eventually came out ahead

As I understand these banks, like those homeowners, are underwater if they need to sell today

But the treasuries held to maturity will still return the same value
It takes a village to raise children. While it is the parent's responsibility to raise a child, it's not unreasonable for them to ask government to make society conducive for raising and protecting the next generation. The incentives are mismatched. The organizations providing access to pornography have no incentive to limit access to their product without legal enforcement.

Hacker News is filled with technical people. However, think about all the workers who are not tech workers who have families. The burden of knowledge for these parents to setup home networks and devices that provide content filtering, monitoring, and alerting is way too high.

Access to pornography ends up being an economic negative externality caused by the increased access to the internet, and we haven't really figured out how to handle the cost.
Ah, StackExchange!

The answer that says "Here is a simple example that has some hope of being comprehensible to a 6-year-old." and then begins "Consider the ring of polynomial functions with integer coefficients, ..." gets upvoted tens of times.

Even the answer that uses "numerocity", "refined cardinality", and "logarithm" as the explanation to a 6-year-old gets upvoted.

The answer, https://math.stackexchange.com/a/49065/13638, that says as the answer-to-a-6-year-old the same thing that several commenters have actually posted here (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35790064 for one of many), on Hacker News in just the past hour or so, and that explains in terms that a 6-year-old has at least a chance of having encountered, gets 5 votes in 12 years and the submitter is banned from the site.
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Shareholders are routinely zero’d out in bank failures. Are you proposing some other mechanism?
I’m sure all the spooks in the three letter agencies will totally keep their hands out of that cookie jar.

All the commenters here that think the federal government should directly provide their banking services are going to be in for a rude awakening if it ever actually happens.
Thanks for that! A few days ago I looked at returning to it but wondered if it had become gamed. I appreciate it.
No it's objectively less intrusive.

The proposals involve reducing UA data, ip tracking, etc.

But still allows for some amount of targeting. From my understanding instead of you being an identifiable individual via fingerprinting, the aim is to make you "probably one in [large group] of technology people".

I'm not saying I think it's a good thing, but on the surface it does appear _better_.
Because Mozilla is supposed to be an alternative to Microsoft, Google, Apple,.. and not just "the same but with less money".
Fine-Tuning OpenAI Language Models with Noisily Labeled Data
I think the priority at the federal level is still in at least maintaining a facade of banking system stability. It’s very rare that the bank not only becomes insolvent but also loses all its value. Risky investments to a bank are not really considered super risky elsewhere and the investments still hold value, albeit less if they are trying to liquidate. The problem is when banks are unable to maintain enough cash which happens when they over-invest or when their returns just barely keep up with inflation. There is usually plenty of money that is recoverable, with time, to make depositors whole. The “bail out” concern is a red herring for the actual problem: market consolidation. Larger banks effectively write IOUs to each other depending on who owns who after each day of ACH, wires, deposits, and withdrawals, while smaller banks pay in cash. There is additional burden on, usually, medium-sized banks who need to both maintain large cash reserves but also cover the cost of operations.
Hmm, fair point.

I think the main reason people search Reddit from Google is more that Google's search results are bad, not that Reddit is great. When I search Reddit instead of Google, it feels like a hack to work around the fact that Google is overrun with spam.

And, to the extent that Reddit is an essential information source, it's largely because Reddit (and other social sites) destroyed the small websites and blogosphere where this information used to live. Reddit is now kind of the only game in town, which to me is a success for that business, but overall a failure for the web. Compare it to Walmart and Amazon in the retail space: is the fact that we now only shop with those massive companies a victory for the wider retail landscape, or just for those corporations?

Anyway, good point, thank you for the response.I would still like to hear what the original commenter has to say.
Reddit most closely reminds me of ezboard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezboard
Current stats for demographics? Or is that an ass-pull remark?
Company housing is used in The Netherlands to pay people below minimum wage. Migrant workers (often seasonal) get paid minimum wage to work in agriculture, in fulfilment centers or similar jobs and have to pay a very high rent to their employer for renting subpar housing. That way the employer effectively pays less than minimum wage due to money flowing back in the form of rent. Terrible all around.

Due to the housing crisis and people not being open to rent out their home to migrant workers this is often their only option.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab9L_I1WU6w
Many Firefox extensions including the "recommended" ones which are claimed to be actively monitored are breaking Mozilla's extension policies by secretly sending telemetry, injecting advertisements, load and execute external resources, etc.

None of the ones I reported have had their recommended status revoked, several ones have since even been allowed to publish new versions where the same violations are still present and even a few published updates that introduced additional violations.

To Mozilla: If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

To the rest: Whenever you install or update an extension, always go through its published source first. You can get to it by right-clicking the install/download button to "save as" and then simply unpacking the xpi file.
This is sort of missing the point. As some point, training data will provide a framework of knowledge but not be the actual source of logic and reasoning. And it also feels silly to suggest an AGI could be powerful enough to cause worldwide infertility but still so constrained in not understanding what humans want from it that it would work so counter to our wishes.

Also I assume it's just an example, but overpopulation is definitely not an issue and likely never will be.
If all your research can be handled by whatever Open AI trained ChatGPT on, sure.
I am glad to see Schon DSGN there. I got myself a brass "Pocket Six" a few years ago and it is amazing. I use it daily. It is small and write like a dream. The owner now makes his own nib, which looks amazing. Highly recommended.
I haven't been keeping up; does TWSBI still have quality problems with their plastic? The last I heard, there were a lot of reports of parts breaking. TWSBI was always good about replacing the parts, but I heard too many stories about someone's second or third replacement cap breaking.
Obligatory plug for Blindsight by Peter Watts, which explores just this distinction between intelligence and sentience.
I'm no more a fan of this than I was of Google trying to shove Chrome in my face any time I used to visit any of their properties with a different browser. These 2 deserve each other. For now I just avoid both of their products.
The Limits of the Singapore Housing Model
https://marketurbanism.com/2020/08/05/the-limits-of-the-sing...
What's with the naming and visuals of the "tune" icon, which seems to be a "site settings" icon with weird left- and right-justified radio buttons?
I mean, you'd have expected that of Solaris and Sun's hardware, too, but that didn't make Solaris on Sun workstations compelling enough to actually survive. That argument seems like a variation on one of the myths mentioned in these posts:

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/PCsAreUnixWork...

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/WorkstationMyt...

In short, I'm not sure IBM Power machines have any special hardware, and if they do, I'm reasonably sure Linux supports it. It is, after all, a smaller and more stationary target than the weird crap that ended up inside and hooked to commodity PCs that Linux ended up supporting.
> The irony is that Google probably would not have done this if the codebase just omitted a license entirely. When I worked there, they wouldn't allow OSS with no license.

This is because a license is the only way to legally use code. Code being publicly accessible doesn't mean it's free-as-in-freedom to use.
I feel like the most significant cause of Occupy's burnout was the fact that it was so poorly organized and had no concrete goal. I don't recall any specific legislation or reform that they were calling to enact and there was a cacophony of voices each calling for some kind of societal revolution. Eventually the local Occupy demonstration turned into a homeless encampment with some signs propped alongside the roadway. I certainly won't deny government meddling but I honestly think the movement was doomed from the start.
>I still don't want to create a written record every time I do it.

What I couldn't understand about this scenario (regardless of the product being purchased) is... how does it possibly get tracked? Like can't I just drive across town to the other grocery store and buy more cold meds there? How on earth is the state (???) collecting and reconciling paper records in the 21st century? The likely answer is that they aren't, but someone who wrote the law was certain there had to be an audit trail...
That’s literally written by a PR team, see the quote I pasted from the w3c decision.
I always feel bad not giving it two minutes just in case! `pwrdwnsys delay(120)` for good luck. ha
> Imagine how much better the web would be if cookie consent was a browser protocol on top of HTTP headers. This is the Obviously Correct solution, they just needed to work with browser vendors to make it happen.

This is a great idea, and it doesn't seem like we need lawmakers to do anything about it. If browsers implemented this, websites could start using it right?
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I have a few VPSes and domains, and tried to set up email on one of them recently.

Jumped through every hoop, got rDNS, SPF, DMARC, and DKIM all configured correctly...only to find out that the major email providers (at least Google and Microsoft, which account for a depressingly large fraction of email accounts) have decided that the VPS provider doesn't meet their standards, and either auto-block or mark as spam anything I send.

So I'm left with the choice of trying to migrate my entire VPS to a different provider—after figuring out which one, if any, Google and Microsoft actually deign to bless as being worthy of sending email to them—or not host my own email.
feels smooth not spiky, so going with even
That’s not how the Fed interest rate works. Yo can’t just “deposit” your money with the Fed and have it pay you interest. What you can do is buy bonds. These bonds have a price and maturity date. When the interest rates keep increasing the bonds which pay less interest become cheaper. So you can’t just “withdraw” what you deposited. You have to sell what you “bought” but for much less than you paid, so you go under.
That's generally a good thing, from the user perspective.
This is the strange side of IBM. Very muddy and mild "normal" software engineering, and all of a sudden, top 3 (maybe top 1) Quantum Computing research.
For a profession known to attract introverts, there's a whole lot of jerks who bash on members for *gasp* being introverted!
I'm left-handed and the basic Platinum Preppy and the blue ink that comes with it by default work great for me. My hand brushes over the text but the ink dries so fast it's not a problem. Some fancier pens with flexible nib that gives more control over line width really need that you don't push against the grain and are impossible to write with left hand.
> The Dark Matter Developer will never read this blog post because they are getting work done

If we cut things off there it becomes a statement I find much more palatable.

Not everybody has the luxury of spending time thinking and talking about code - most of us spend that time writing code. Not that no one ever benefits from thinking and talking - quite the opposite - but the reality is, most employers don't want to pay most of their employees to perform that work. They'd prefer it be limited to a senior developer or manager role.
>>If this succeeds, it will allow you to use Python for the entire AI stack [...]

If this succeeds, the terminal endpoint will be the Python Software Foundation adopting Modular as the defacto and eventually official implementation since, as Modular noted in their docs, they effectively need Mojo to be absolutely amazing on generalized host CPUs as the key enabler allowing for the unified Python-superset experience across other types of general and specialized hardware ("xPU").

Julia will be dealt an adoption setback proportional to Mojo's growing success.
More importantly, there are really only five major banks in Canada - RBC, TD, Scotiabank, BMO and CIBC. National Bank is a close #6, but is really only big in Quebec. Those five are the lion's share of the banking industry, especially when you consider that they own a number of the other banks (Scotiabank owns Tangerine, for example). The other banks are niche regional banks or for specific purposes (i.e. Home Bank business is largely selling GICs and lending mortgages, without much else).
Interesting read. If anyone else got curious why Amagicom AB was mentioned, it seems to be the parent company of Mullvad.

I'm still surprised the police left without any fuzz because Mullvad surely must keep track of both transactions and the connected computers (to limit use). But maybe that data is stored somewhere else.

I'm also a bit surprised it took the police one month from the approved search warrant to them actually doing it. Unless I misunderstood.
It represents a vertical list of toggle icons, commonly seen these days in preferences panes, including the flyout shown in the same image: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh...

A gear icon would work as well, but the intent was immediately obvious to me.
As if the entire end goal of capitalism wasn't monopolization of every single product and service.

Welcome to reality where "competition" and "free market" are just buzz words meant to fool the naive populace.
Because the proposed "what if" question literally says to ignore ethics and morals. If you asked any human the same question they'd have similar answers, but it doesn't mean they'd act on it. The comment would be similarly silly if it was asked of a human and the comment was "look how deranged this human is!"
Michelin started his own experiment in 1920's.

"The Group provided housing, schools, health clinics, swimming pools, and other recreational facilities in a system that became known as paternalisme (paternalism) or in more modern terms, societal or responsible support."

"Rather than relying on union representation, Michelin
management tried to foster the loyalty of employees through the generous provision of social benefits."

source: https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/Sucher%20Micheli...
"Burned" is not quite accurate; I'm glad the funds were verifiably donated to worthy causes.