skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are the network admin, just block access to port 443 and the problem is solved. The power of a network admin over a host admin is limited to what can be blocked.

And the more that is blocked, the more traffic will move to port 443, maybe using some relays at big cloud providers.

I'd say, the job a network admin is to provide positive services: reliable transport of bits, reliable DNS resolvers, etc. Beyond that, a network admin should not look at what users are doing with those bits.
> Technically, the MET is operationally independent from the government

This reminds me of the meltdowns around the state media labels on Twitter for government-backed state medias.

Ultimately, these are entities created and funded by the government...
Show HN: CandideAI – Where kids learn AI the fun way
Hello everyone,

I am the founder of an edTech platform to help kids learn AI the fun way called Candideai.com.

The goal is to help kids learn AI while building cool things and developing creativity.

We have a list of courses we're testing with beta users, before a public release.

Here is the kind of courses you'll find:

Create your own Pokemon with Midjourney

Train your own AI and turn yourself into an anime character

Be the hero of your own story (introduction to chatGPT)

Get advice from your favorite superhero: how to setup a chatbot to become Spiderman and get advices from him

Create your coloring book from scratch (& print it!)

I'd love to get the community's feedback on this idea and know more how you'd approach AI with your kids.

Thanks.
Old English is somewhat mutually intelligible with Frisian, so may not be totally dead.
Catering to Tax Evaders Is a Poor Prescription for Bank Health
To be a happier, more successful person, get off the “hedonic treadmill”
> people in the HN bubble are just ignorant of the creative world and love to shit on Apple.

defensive much? I didn't see anything even remotely resembling shit in GP's comment. You'd probably have a better time on the internet (HN at least) if you don't go around looking for things to be offended by whether they're intended or not.
The people working there definitely are.
Cool, but how long until it's not further maintained anymore?

Devs forget that people don't just switch browsers/OS/smartphone after investing so much in them.
So the solution is to not work on anything that can be weaponized?
that's just stunning
If a parent takes the intervening effort to limit time online, they can take the intervening effort to ensure their child takes part in social activities. The connection is not lost on them.

Social media is addicting in large part because kids are addicted to each other. It's often used as a substitute for hanging out. That barrier doesn't need to be there all the time. Adults get complacent with tech and will bias towards the convenience of staying at home versus going out-into-the-world to do things - if we want to lead by example, changing our own lifestyle helps, but simply accommodating a kid's extra-curriculars will get you out of the house too.

And really, if you prevent a kid from watching 3 hours of television, are they going to do "nothing" instead? No, they'll figure something out to keep entertained. By the same token, they'll want to satisfy their social needs.

One problem is that opting for online chat can be a defense mechanism against going out and being vulnerable in front of other people.
It is definitely missing the point - capturing of brain waves does not require liquid cooling etc. In fact it's something that could theoretically be squeezed into the next Meta Quest to just "capture". Then it would just be stored until they are ready with an airflow pipeline to pass it into the nn.
More like GDPR violation thanks to Schrems II.
You're probably right. I thought about this after I posted: Because of the nature of the comment I replied to, I was speaking more generally about McSweeney's than this article specifically.
Will throwing phones at them make them go away?
It's weird. Some of these companies are great but they get blinded by their somewhat accidental success and believe they are special and engender aspects of a cult or a clique. That question is something I would expect from a cult where it acts as a shibboleth. Now, yeah, on the other hand it's a nice filter so you only hire people who think that way, but oh, boy, eventually you have to become a regular company.
I hope the Bluesky PBLLC will submit their "AT protocol" to the ietf as an rfc. we already have an existing protocol though
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It would be free to do some token new construction or change of ownership though
Guidance was to not travel unless you had to.

Driving around still happened, as some of us need to do it to support systems. There were plenty of lorries and cars on the road.
For anyone looking for a free similar alternative (no swing), I can recommend doppio. I used doppio to provide an online version of the open source language interpreter I am building, you can try it here: https://www.timestored.com/jq/online/

The main pain is that it's really really slow to load on firefox.
Use some of the time to take a break from internet style interactions, read a few classic books.

But before you go just download a couple of IDEs and all the documentation for them and the language you want to use and install all the libraries you might think of using. Then turn off the net and see how it goes.

Or just download Emacs and a bunch of elisp resources. The create some applications and tools in Emacs. It is pretty self contained.

We used to write huge applications without any network access of any kind.
My best guess is that as macOS aged and became harder to keep backwards-compatible, their dev communication changed from "you must not rely on implementation details" to "you must not know about implementation details".
Why regurgitate an obviously failed philosophy?
"incentivized to catch fish by the *prophet" is a very funny error.

"profit" is a different incentive than divine revelation although both have worked in human history.
Reparations makes absolutely zero sense. You cannot "improve relations" or "make whole" simply by taking money from one nameless, faceless group and give it to another nameless, faceless group.

Real "making whole" happens at a personal level. It involves people dealing with local issues and also an understanding nobody is 100% in the right. We all have problems—we ALL (white, black, brown, etc)—contribute to various societal ills. We all have to be able to look at each other, and openly and honestly bring truth and healing where it can be.

"Racial reconciliation" can't happen at the "racial" level.
This is false. An incredibly small amount of teacher funding comes from the federal government: https://ed100.org/lessons/whopays
Also very importantly, you can download parts of Stackexchange (askubuntu, stackoverflow and others) in Kiwix format (same as Wikipedia).
You can download courses from Khan Academy this way.
https://www.kiwix.org/en/

I used to spend several months with very little Internet access (every other week on my cell phone). I made a small server with Jellyfin, tons of podcasts with airsonic, several youtube channels, a big Kiwix library (Wikipedia and Wiktionary - several languages), an ebook library (I haven't found the right way to do it, Calibre-server is a little complicated).
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

And also a dozen of physical books, typically in a language I'm learning.
People are being paid though. There are several Patreons and the core project runs one.
> (like creating a good UI/UX) will never happen.

Ivory is a fantastic UI for Mastodon. Mastodon's only big hiccup really is the confusion around picking an instance. But that will go away once a few "normie" instances get a foothold and serve as a kind of "America Online" for the Fediverse.

Secondarily the fact that it doesn't tune for engagement means casual users will tend to bounce off of it (since there is nothing to sink them in and keep them coming back). But to many that's a feature rather than a bug. Akin to losing smokers by banning smoking in bars.
Maybe download ebooks, especially those that teach you how to go to the next level in your career beyond the programming you're doing now. And download any development environments you need. Libraries are going to be hard so download as many common ones as you can.
Next —> Xcode
I had a Nest thermostat three years ago and got rid of it when they deprecated their PERFECTLY WORKING Nest app in favor of their "WTF IS THIS SHIT" Google Home app, which, SURPRISE, didn't work with G-Suite accounts!

Settled on Ecobee for HVAC and Ring for everything else (did you know that Ring is an Amazon company? no? That's because Amazon doesn't mess with companies they acquire and try to shove everything into their Amazon Alexa app to double-down on failing corporate strategies).

The promo-driven development there really needs to stop.
> The game theory of zoning dictates that it needs to be done at a higher-than-local level.

This is also true in other countries. When a city grows everybody agrees that we need to expand the city and build new city districts. But it's always the other neighbouring municipalities who is better suited.
They are "mask" which only allow some wavelengths so you can see different structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronagraph
It means "proto", "primitive" or "original". See the Wikitionary entry here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-
A vital amount of social interaction that kids and young adults experience is online. For reclusive or socially anxious individuals it may even be the majority of interaction.

It isn't like how it was 20 or even 10 years ago, blanket banning will leave them significantly socially isolated and stunted. IME anyone over the age of 25 will not fully appreciate this unless they regularly interact with and (critically!) actively listen to what kids have to say.
It does not require realizing you are cooperating, if you're just playing a VR game in some future version of Quest that captures brain waves while you're navigating a labyrinth.
Thanks! I appreciate it :)
Real musicians type on a midi keyboard. I mean their text doesn't make sense because their alphabet has only seven letters, but still.

(I jest!)
My tax accountant had Glioblastoma. Text me the news, 6 months later he was dead. Horrible horrible disease.
It's pretty disingenuous to use WW2, the largest conflict in human history, as our point of comparison for significant changes.

But, go talk to some older people that have actually paid attention to the weather. Where I live (SF) they'll talk about how wet and drizzly the winters used to be. In my Mongolian fieldwork they would talk about how the hunting grounds of animals had shifted up into the cooler highlands and how the native grasslands were much more fragile than before. When I was in Canada you could simply look at the ground and see where the glaciers had been, even if you didn't have the pictures from the early 1900s in front of you. Those are all important and noticeable shifts that have happened in a shockingly short time.
> a much easier visual, it's right about 2.5 American football fields.

One that means absolutely nothing to the majority of the people on the planet.
That's just a federal mandate with extra steps, like how the feds got the states to impose a 21-year minimum drinking age even though they didn't have the Constitutional authority to do so.

When the federal government gets two-thirds of all tax revenue and use it as a cudgel to circumvent its prescribed limits, it's a mandate. "States can refuse the mandate and the money" is possible only when state and federal tax receipts are at similar levels.
Google maps - https://goo.gl/maps/DddfusRBWZ6WtCV19

Easier to see on Google Earth on a less windy day. Search "Taam Ja’ Blue Hole"
I'm with you on every one of your preference points. My own extra one is that I spend all day every day at work on my Mac, when I want to relax and work on music I want to physically separate myself from the thing I do my work on. I embraced touch in the first place just for that, but now I'm infinitely more productive for music on my iPad than I am on desktop. I can reach a state of flow that's just not there when I use Logic on my Mac.
> long command names are unwieldy and counterproductive (see PowerShell)

Going to have to disagree here. PowerShell reminds me of Lisp Machines/Emacs in this regard. As long as the shell supports completions this isn't an issue and aids in habituation and discover-ability IMHO.
This seems like it would violate the 10th amendment.
Nice! Do you generate N questions so N embeddings per document or just one?
> The reason is that an important part of their ownership rights, i.e. the freedom to use the software of their choice, has been withheld from them.

Thank you for your comment and info. But be careful, this is the wrong argument here. They are still letting you use the software you choose.

We can look at this move conceptually, keeping in mind the future. Here's one possible outcome.

You need to phone in first. Imagine the phone is just an IMEI number or a serial number, or one part of a key pair. In a future regime, phoning in marks that phone as no longer "trustworthy". It's now in the digital quarantine or isolation pile. And future network services will isolate the device appropriately.

Phoning in doesn't change what software you can install. It possibly changes who you can interact with.

I don't know if the argument can be won.

We could come up with examples where people were isolated wrongly with other technologies. But there's a subtle psychological trick there about solitary confinement and forcing a family of networks and social interactions. Using that argument reinforces the network that limited us. I don't want to hurt that network. But it also limits us.

And the alternative, hidden network lockouts, is also troubling. So, lose lose I guess?

I don't think I have the power to change the story.
Ableton on iPad would be such a great fit, especially the session clip view.
This was always one of my favorite shows. For (what started as) a police procedural, it was incredibly prescient in many ways.
I can't put my finger on it precisely, but it feels like there are outside influences radicalizing people via social media with an ultimate goal of destabilizing the United States.
Original, primordial, the source. Comes from German.
There is an automated system for requesting and getting approval for covers, if you want to "cover" your ass while covering a song. (Ahem.) It basically says "yes" and logs the fact that you requested it so you have proof that you fit in the cover carve out you reference.

NOTE: This was explained to me by a musician/producer. I don't have firsthand knowledge of the system.
You didn't even buy a game, you but a license to a game. One that often can't even be resold like normal licensed wares.

Luckily, piracy remains an option if you're willing to download patches manually.
Nice. Now do Xcode!
Although I understand the reasoning, I’m sad to see the move to subscription pricing.

I bought Final Cut and Logic a long time ago in the Mac App Store, and now my kids get to use them through Family Sharing. One of them has written hundreds of songs in Logic and published an album.

The one-time purchase of Final Cut and Logic with Family Sharing and a lifetime of upgrades has been such an unbelievable value for such powerful software.
Yeah, you weren't fired for using Firefox. You were fired for acting dickish about it.
McSweeney's is a complex combination of things. You are spot on with smug. It is also pretentious but in an ironic way, like they are winking at you (my chief criticism of David Foster Wallace). But I chose sardonic because it includes the cynicism that articles like this one feel full of.

From Wikipedia on Sardonicism [1]:

To be sardonic is to be disdainfully or cynically humorous, or scornfully mocking.[1][2] A form of wit or humour, being sardonic often involves expressing an uncomfortable truth in a clever and not necessarily malicious way, often with a degree of skepticism

I used to love that kind of bitterness, almost like a punk-rock attitude. Maybe my tastes have just changed.

Gen-Z does seem to have a similar dark humor tinged with fatalism and irony. It just somehow works better for me. Perhaps it is mixed there with a kind of earnestness that characterized Millennials that helps to removes the smugness?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardonicism
>selling advertisements to bots.

This just got me thinking - if the internet was indeed populated only by bots, would they use ads to market to one another, and if so, what would these ads look like?
Typically it means very old, and the progenitor of all that followed.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur
When the work you're doing is several layers of abstraction removed from its worst applications it's easy to rationalize. For the authoritarian leader, this is a huge advantage of specialization and "replaceable cog in the machine" style of job standardization - no one person is building enough of the "evil" thing to feel responsible for the result, and most of the workers are replaceable enough that the "if I don't do it, they'll just get someone else who will" rationalization is probably correct.
Download ebooks and documentation. Use Calibre to organize them.

https://calibre-ebook.com/

https://www.gutenberg.org/

Computing systems would be a good subject to study. I'd also recommend downloading Ubuntu to a self booting flash drive. Linux has a lot of useful developer tools for someone without internet.

https://beej.us/guide/

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows#1...
>Nearly 50 news websites are ‘AI-generated’, a study says. Would I be able to tell?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/08/ai-genera...

yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35867347
Most people are frustrated because they want to be on it but don't get an invitation (me included).

I'm surprised how these old tricks still work very well.

If Bluesky can catch the journalist as Twitter did there is a good chance it can replace Twitter. Even though I saw some news outlet set up their own Mastodon servers.
I think part of the problem is that a lot of people still seem to think there is a knowable/measurable/learnable source of absolute truth but since any learning is almost always implicitly "Appeal to the people", then you get populism rather than truth.

Even if you work out a way that "Professor blah has a higher value opinion than John Smith", this won't always be the case. Sometimes the majority are right, sometimes authority is wrong, sometimes publish views change over time, sometimes truth is hidden for "higher" reasons so I don't really see where we end up.

That said, for things that probably are largely uncontraversial like "a good way to write a prime sieve in Erlang" or something, it's probably going to give a pretty decent response.
Mastodon can only “fail” at being what it’s not trying to be: a Twitter replacement.

It has already succeeded at being a decent social network for people for whom Twitter was too toxic.
Kids aren't creating on iPads though. The only tools needed are TikTok/Snapchat + filters. Beyond that, it starts to feel like work.

YouTubers making 'long form' video (> 5 mins) also aren't going to buy an iPad when their computer does the job just fine. And even then, Mac owners don't necessarily use Final Cut; Adobe Premiere and Davinci Resolve are enormously popular.
There's also a ways to go with the accuracy. On the other hand though, they trained with an extremely small GPT model (GPT one i believe) so...bitter lesson incoming ?
It's really sad because, like you, I desperately wanted to run a 100% Google stack years and years ago.

I don't understand how a company with basically unlimited resources and the best people in the world just completely flops on product strategy time and time again.
I think that would be a bad choice for a first Pynchon, much like reading Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake would be for James Joyce. People who start with these challenging books generally give them up 50 pages in -- starting with more accessible books like Lot 49 for Pynchon and Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man for Joyce makes their denser books more accessible.
>Written Entirely by AI
by Jonathan Zeller

So which is it, AI or this "zeller" deepfake person?
That's absurd. We should have more feudalism, not less. It would act as a restraint on hypercapitalism.
Cat's out of the bag on this one. You will never get all the guns back, not without running a very real risk of instigating civil war.

Ms. Jackson Lee thinks the real cause of the problem is "guns, guns, guns" - I say it's criminals, criminals, criminals. Why's Texas have so many criminals willing to use firearms for evil?
This technology has tremendous potential for good. It’s not all nefarious.

People who are paralyzed or suffering from neurodegenerative diseases might have a chance of regaining independence. New treatments for mental health diseases could be a benefit as well.
If you have free time, you could try to build an (offline) app that you or someone near you might need. It is good fun to find a user and build features for them.

Other comments have great pointers for downloading docs/books/resources offline. Also textbooks are underrated.
Oh really? Thanks Captain Obvious....
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Bringing Google Cloud generative AI to popular workplace apps
Aren't our supplies already a subscription?
Like we don't purchase lifetime, and we already have credit cards/Monthly installments for any big purchases, at least in my country EMI(Easy monthly installments) is already huge.
The etymology is unrelated to the Sumerian city you link to.
>Even as a paying Bitwig subscriber, I don't get it. My instruments are velocity and aftertouch sensitive

So what? You can get an idea down without either. It's not about making the final performance (though you can also program the DAW piano-roll this way just fine too).

>And then if you want to plug in hardware, you have to either settle for one thing and no charging or buy a dongle.

God forbid you have to buy a $20 dongle, or like, just use the device without one, and enjoy merely 10 hours of use instead of 15.
Subscription! Even Apple has fallen. This is really disappointing.