skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can I be afraid by AI if my smartphone use to give its root to anybody but me (bank apps, the vendor, Quallcomm, FBI, Pegasus)?
This is an important comment. Governments, politicians, love to take credit for what other people accomplish, when, in reality, at best, they might provide money.

Imagine a scenario where you start a company that solves a really difficult problem --taking years of hard work-- and then a VC who provided funding takes credit for the effort. Even worse, the news organizations give the VC credit for the results. That's what politicians do.
Microsoft Drops Waitlist for Bing Chatbot
Been using 1Blocker on iOS in combination with my home adguard dns server
Leave a one-time tip occasionally.

It makes a difference.
The US Trade Representative publishes a literal naughty list of countries whose efforts to combat infringement it deems insufficient. The document is filled with language such as "stakeholders report this", "shareholders are concerned about that". Corporations leveraging the might of the US government to sanction other countries that have better things to do than police imaginary american property.

Sickening doesn't even begin to describe it.
> I have never looked into Swift

Which is a valid choice, but it doesn’t mean that it isn’t successful or that it hasn’t taken off. Swift has achieved exactly the goal it was supposed to: become the official language for Apple platforms, replacing Objective-C as the entry point.

> If I need to write a CLI app, why, of all languages, would I pick Swift?

You probably wouldn’t. Other people might, for a variety of reasons including enjoying the language itself. I write CLI apps regularly and use several languages; Swift is one of them.
Does anyone have any other free Common Lisp book recommendations?

I decided to give CL a try after reading about REPL-driven development, especially CL’s interactive condition/debugging experience. I’m almost done going through Practical Common Lisp. It’s been a fun experience so far!

Edit: thanks, everyone!
As opposed to using the clearweb?
> Much of this prejudice, in all walks of life is nothing more than social dogma which is pushed aggressively from parent to child, down the generations, without any rational thought

Generalisations _can_ be used to push "social dogma", but it doesn't have to be, and it doesn't mean generalisations are automatically a bad thing. They are a useful evolutionary shortcut our brains invented.

If I see 100 people with easily identifiable attribute X, and 90 of them are mean to me, my brain makes a useful shortcut in the form of a label and says "attribute X" is connected to being treated meanly, avoid those guys. It's not that I don't know 10 of them treat me fine, it's just that it's less of a problem to miss out on 10 potential friends to avoid having to deal with 90 meanies.

It's probably important to say that I'm speaking as a "brown person", who has been "discriminated" against plenty in my life. I don't make a fuss when I get "randomly selected" every single time at the airport, because they're working with statistics.
> spread out the jobs

Agglomeration is important to our economy. Forcing people into Fordlandia does not work and trying to would destroy our ability to compete on the world stage.
> checks and balances of power

Only in theory, when it comes to National Security Letters.

If you can't prove the government spied on you specifically, you can't take them to court to get a check or balance.
Chrome does not come with an ad blocker.
Until the outage of half your nuclear plants is similarly borne by the grid.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/business/nuclear-power-fr...
You're not wrong. We (Phylum) have seen and called out a security company for typosquatting a popular package as a means of advertising. It felt gross to impact random devs for marketing...
I find it hard to interpret such whataboutism as sincere.

If you care about these perceived abuses by US tech companies, why wouldn't you applaud the outcry against TikTok? At the very least, it moves the needle in the right direction. It increases the awareness of industry practices and helps flesh out some constraints. Even if you're of the mindset that there's no practical difference between the US government and an authoritarian communist dictatorship that murdered millions of its compatriots for having the wrong political views, why defend their right to do the things you hate?
That doesn't quite explain it for me. Recall that they haven't shown these ads for the last 19 years. They were certainly analyzing your data and using that information the whole time, likely to improve their ads business. But until recently, that was enough, and now it's not. That is what is interesting.
This. I started to tunnel my traffic via my Wireguard VPN (when outside) to cut these 30% of connections that are blocked by Pihole.

Pihole is really a great piece of work. It uses standard components (dnsmasq, standard lists) and does it well. I used to have it in a docker container but moved it to the ISP box when I got a new one (a French ISP called Free provides you with an Internet box that has a built-in VPN (WG or OpenVPN) and allows you to create VMs - this is where I ultimately moved Pihole because it is my DNS and DHCP server)
I run wg-easy https://github.com/WeeJeWel/wg-easy for this sort of thing. I use the docker container, and it's great. "Just works".

Also, unrelated, I just decided I don't like the sentiment of "PiMyProjectName" branding. I know most projects don't just run on a Pi, and that the intent is to say "you can self-host thing", but at this point if you want to run a home server sort of thing, just buy some cheap 100-200 dollar minipc thing. That's how much you'd pay for a Pi now anyway, and it comes with such great features as:

* just establishing an ssh connection doesn't take multiple seconds

* the ethernet doesn't go over a usb hub

* it doesn't run on an sd card that is going to fail within a year

I'm pretty dismissive of ARM chips for homelab stuff at this point. There's super cheap minipcs with "real" processors that will just destroy even an expensive ARM board.

Pi's shine with their ability to run both a real/full Linux and also do gpio type stuff that otherwise is usually an arduino board. I don't have anything against low-level programming but damn is it just a lot more fun to do in python. I love the Rpi zero w 2 products for this, just enough juice to run wifi and a python loop, plus the gpio pins. Too bad they've been sold out for literally years.
This is just "citing the sources" of the retrieved documents or am I missing something? I was expecting to read some novel approach like Hypothetical Document Embeddings.
India also regulate satellite telephone heavily iirc
That is where the quote originally came from yes. Thanks! I have been looking for that - couldn't remember it precisely. Here's the actual original:

> Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write fortran programs in any language.
But if the main thing they want is low temperature process heat, then the specific method of generating electricity shouldn't actually matter? NPPs also produce electricity plus lower temperature 'waste' heat.

Unless the waste heat put out by the NPP is too low temperature to be used for process heat? Or the real advantage is that the refineries ramped up their electricity generation (turning waste fractions into electricity), with the process heat becoming a secondary concern?
If you ban all spy apps, the app store would be empty. Heck, as soon as you see the first add in an app, you should know you have been spied on.
Maybe a EU level spending package of 1 trillion, for a resilient and equitable space exploration would solve the problem
I'm a huge fan of classical AI, and adore PAIP, but this isn't really true if your goal is anything other than a deep understanding of AI in the most general sense.

While it would be great if everyone interested in the topic was well versed in the fundamentals, the truth is if you want to do anything from building something cool over the weekend to getting an actual job doing AI work, you're much better off starting not only with ML, but specifically with current SotA neural networks.

If you really want to get started in AI I highly recommend building even a trivial implementation of Stable Diffusion on your own. Not just because it's cool, but because at its heart it is an excellent demonstration of how current differentiable programming works. Diffusion models involve chaining together 3 separate models into an entire system that learns to solve a complex task. Once you understand this deeply, you can now solve a very broad range of tricky problems and are really approaching what we think of when we think of AI.

Differentiable programming is really the current pathway to any sort of AI solution to a problem.

I say this as the token "have you tried logistic regression?" guy in my org.
It's too easy to predict what those post-mortems would look like.

The right will claim we destroyed businesses and created trillions in debt, and yet still millions died, so the monetary losses were pointless, and therefore we shouldn't shut everything down at the next pandemic.

The left will claim that the shut downs didn't go far enough, and so we still had millions dead, and therefore we need to shut down even harder and for longer to save lives.
You're arguing with a point that I haven't made.

> I'm seeing rampant use of ML now for problems we already know how to solve in much simpler ways: linear control theory, bayesian statistics, Kalman filters, etc.

How many of these techniques are in the book in the original post?

I'm not saying the we should throw ML at everything, I'm saying the Norvig's book isn't useful in 2023.
I'm not taking the work phone anywhere I don't have to, that's for sure. I get to them when/if I feel it's appropriate. I've had zero problems there so far.

I don't always have MY phone on me either, and even if I do I don't always answer.

It is this phone where I have the biggest problem with people and boundaries. Sometimes I feel like I'm surrounded by needy children but they're in their 40s, 50s, and 70s.

A phone call, a voice mail, a call back, another voice mail to remind me about the first call, maybe a call that night too. Nobody even died. It's not always the same person either.

So the next call I do answer will be mostly a shaming about how I don't answer the phone. You're right and your behavior right now is why. Have a nice day mom.

Does it sound stressful? I don't care probably even as much as I should, but one day it will be something important but the boy cried wolf too many times and got eaten.

Just remember. If you have them, teach your kids that while they may be the main character in their story, they are not the main character in the story, and the difference between the two.
Iowa governor will sign bill rolling back labor protections for children
> the general principle of Flutter is a terrible idea.

I think Flutter is a good idea with bad execution. Maybe due to the lack of resources or effort put into it or maybe due to the management, I don't know.

The only thing that is cross-platform right now is the web and it is based on graphics engines (Skia in the case of Chrome). My idea of Flutter is that it is being web (i.e. cross-platform) without being a browser (i.e. overhead of being browser). However, in practice, I couldn't observe a good performance from Flutter when I tried it.

Right now, a lot of apps are developed using Electron (aka Chrome). Flutter is the equivalent of Electron for mobile without the extra layer of having a browser. With the advent of frameworks using WebView (WebGPU is also becoming popular) such as Tauri, we may need less Electron and Flutter.

> Flutter Web in particular is fundamentally flawed and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up if it has any hopes of being viable tech that generates semantic, accessible, and modern web experiences.

I don't know the exact technology of Flutter Web, but I think Flutter Web doesn't makes sense because it is running a renderer (Flutter) inside a renderer (browser).
I think you're cutting to the heart of why fun is even a thing. We do fun things, and find them fun, because they help us mentally prepare for critical real-world scenarios. We don't know this going in, but it feels good and we reap the benefits. Just like adults find sex pleasurable so they have the urge to do it and reproduce, children and adults find play pleasurable so they have the urge to do it and build up our brains.

Like, armed conflict isn't fun unless you're a psychopath (in which case militaries are probably very interested in recruiting you). But a de-risked simulation of armed conflict -- anything from chess to sportsball to a modern FPS -- is an almost archetypal fun activity.

This is something to keep in mind when considering the ruinous effects of the removal of recess and free play from American schools.
A lot of their value is turning unstructured text or user intent into the structured data. Even if the primary input is JSON, you want to explain what to do with it in words, and then get JSON back.

Why do you think they will be obsolete in 6 weeks?
would have been interesting to compare with non-mobile, i.e. landline calls.

my hunch would be that talking over the telephone is stressful and causes the high blood pressure and it doesn't matter that the device is mobile.

as-is the article seems to suggest radiation as cause, not the act of talking-without-seeing.
Saying we should have an off switch is different than saying there is tons of UX work going into making you watch these videos. Especially since there is no incentive on Youtube's part to do this because they don't get a content of sponsored revenue. You are moving goal post.
I'm sure there are still some people willing to report the websites to EU commission, it's a guaranteed fine (less so a paycheque, I have no clue if the company has to comply with paying it (unless later on they want to expand to the EU))
Brave is trying to do that, but yeah coverage is an issue. Blocking as is a start.
With secret warrants and secret courts, they can be same thing.
Just like any country with an official language other than English, I would expect them to have bookstores full of Hebrew books, with a small section of English books that you've probably already read.

The parent commenter even explicitly mentions "amongst English and French speakers living here".
haha excellent!

I sort of do this for physical projects too. I call it the "stub your toe method"

Put the physical things on the ground around the house and if you stub your toe on it, address the thing!

thanks for sharing
If it was just based on money, why wouldn't Intel do it themselves, or anyone else for that matter? ASML is basically a monopoly, there is clearly big money to be made if someone else could make those machines.

I think you're doing disservice to the engineers and researchers at ASML suggesting they are only there because the US sent them money.
> This seems like a nice option to have, and I appreciate the thought put into it.

I really appreciate this comment, thanks.

> Personally I think I'd prefer to decouple my email / phone / etc from the ownership of some credential / identifier

I was expecting a lot more of the HN crowd to say this and I understand it. I think technical people who find DNS TXT trivial, could prefer the extra layer – creating a new record for each service provider (btw, you could still do that by specifying a provider in the Domain Verification record).

Ideally this solution would help those that hit friction (or insurmountable problems) creating DNS TXT records, because the records would be setup simply through the Domain Registrar.

> If the Domain Verification spec required everything to render down to a single email address or phone number or whatever, it feels like it adds potentially complicated questions to how do you distill AWS access down to an email address or phone number?

It doesn't. You can have as many Domain Verification records as you like, each with different permissions and expiry dates.

> It just feels like the actual service validating the DNS info is potentially taking on a lot of responsibility / complexity with implementation.

Implementation is incredibly simple – once email verification is dealt with, you could do it in 5-10 lines of code (hash, dns query, parse record).

I agree that service providers could consider it an increase in responsibility but I think that's a trade off with better onboarding.
But I'm never attent on those calls anyways.

Put them on a speaker and blast, but I can see for people that depend on phone for business, it's going to be rough.
AI-assisted APL could totally be a thing.

Why shouldn’t my programs be intense neutron stars of weird symbols, if there’s a superhuman intelligence always at hand to explain and improve the code?
> Ads is something you can rely on

Not necessarily, especially in the long term.

> If you think everyone is out there making big bucks just because they opened a website and put some ads on it, you're wrong.

I never said or implied that.

> Not only does it take time to build reputation and a following, people just don't out of the blue come and throw money at you.

Not my problem.

> what I think a lot of people are really saying is that, "All I want is just free content. Give me a raw white background with a slab of text centered in the middle of it and I will be on my way."

No idea what that has to do with anything.

> That is not how this world works, and trying to argue about it just makes you look selfish.

I don't care if I look selfish.
Dissent is a dirty word in India today.

https://scroll.in/article/954711/in-kashmir-a-spree-of-arres...

Few years who when India unilaterally changed the status of Kashmir so they just banned the while internet. For like 6 months.

Then when it was allowed, the boogeyman of "misuse" which was a dirty word for dissent.

People have been arrested for posting dissent, for having VPN apps on their phones.

Their only aim is to obtain complete control. Dissent is not allowed.

Element does not give them a punching bag rep nor gives them backdoor access. Both things are mentioned in the original news.

WhatsApp does both so their e2ee is irrelevant.

My question on the terrorism is, did terrorism not exist before e2ee? Were they able to stop them completely before now that they are unable to?
I did the same thing!
I stumbled upon an old ‘Al Zimmerman’ programming contest that involved creating wordsearch grids with the most words possible. I had a technique in mind, wrote it in BASIC. Then realized that was too slow. So I tried it in Java (which I’d heard was easy… it wasn’t… st least not to me). And then finally wrote it in C++, a language I found perfect in all respects. I actually ranked near the top in that contest, and I’ve been programming ever since. Ironically, I write programs to make puzzle books and I even have a Jumble knock-off on Amazon (sans cartoons… can’t draw worth a damn.)
He's wrong, per Roger Penrose, if you're making an appeal to authority.

If you're actually examining the reasoning, Penrose points simply to a non-computational quantum phenomenon that we observe in the real world and uses that to say "therefore, the universe is non-computational."
Whitelisting creates friction. Maybe if there's a button in the browser to do that for a site / page it would work, but there really should be a low friction way of supporting content that works across the vast majority of sites one might stumble upon in a given month.
That’s what I use as well even though they’re a tiny bit more expensive than revolut, I don’t mind the extra couple of cents per transaction to avoid giving money to revolut.
Push Technology
Any regards to cache poisoning attacks?

They're actually easier at the subdomain level, because you can keep asking for <rand>._dv.example.com to prevent cache hits, all the while spamming back NS delegation answers for _dv to the cache servers with a long TTL.

DNSSEC of course solves that, but a lot of people are going to roll their eyes at that solution and a lot of things don't support it.

Just curious.
And Manhattan is hardly maximum density. Home building there is as constrained by zoning as it is anywhere else
That's only relevant for device manufacturers who want to prevent the device owners from controller their hardware. This is evil and not a use case worth supporting.

Normal users care about secure boot because it protects their disk encryption.
They will definitely have a monopoly for the next 10 years. But beyond that I doubt it - economies of scale don't matter that much (yet) in rockets which gives other companies a chance to grow.
I believe you need an invite atm
I think it's silly to frame them as a tradeoff, and as protection being something special, when everything is protected by default with limited exceptions.

If you want to argue that pornography should not be an exception, or that violence should be, then fair enough, but given they're such different types of content it's nonsensical to try and put them on an axis and claim one is further along it than the other.
ya this... as far as i know they have plenty?
Assume a capacity factor of 50% then to handle peak loads? Now the nuclear costs $240-440/MWh. That is ridiculous costs, worse than Europe during the last winters Russian war induced gas crisis.

https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/levelized-cost-of-e...
It's all about network effects, but how do you bootstrap an aggregator?

I'm just waiting for substack to realize that $60/year for every writer is too much, and make a curated bundle of writing, reinventing the newsletter/magazine.
I think there’s definitely something to this, and it’s insidious because the technological ability to reach someone at any time has built social expectations accordingly. Everyone is reachable all of the time, and the threshold for agitation when someone cannot be reached has never been shorter.

I like to spend time in the wilderness, and I’ve thought a lot about this concept of “reachability” and how it contributes to the kind of unique feeling I have when I’m deep in the backcountry.

Over time technology has increased the percentage of the day where someone is reachable: home phones became ubiquitous, then answering machines, then cell phones with limited coverage, now cell phones with extremely broad coverage, even on airplanes. Accordingly, most people now assume they can get ahold of you basically whenever. You can try to manage people’s expectations as an individual, but you will be swimming against the current.

I think being unreachable sometimes is healthy. Heading into the backcountry with no cell service is an incredibly freeing feeling for me, and one I think many people simply never feel these days.
As a firefox user it hurts to see this news, wait, isn't mozilla a non-profit organization?
My point was, specifically, that this data doesnt have to fit in RAM.

All of it fits on a single machine on one or a few big, fast SSDs.
Most "content" is not worth the bytes they are encoded in, so usually I don't.
That would mean they use rockets and jet engines. Which, if we're accepting (for the sake of argument) UFO sightings as evidence, they obviously do not. Naively, and as described, they demonstrate traits which strongly suggest technology far in advance of our own, to the point of harnessing physics we don't even understand.

It would also be very easy to see them coming, because there is no stealth in space and they would need to be burning fuel and giving off heat, and doing so for tens of thousands of years or more.
I see ad blockers as theft, and highly unethical. I strongly oppose them.
Im not saying Tesla will always be the leader, but anyone who says they're not now just needs to try to take a long road trip in a mach-e vs a model-y. It will be completely clear who is winning in EVs, from comfortable through the technology and supercharging.