skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not quite so pointed. I am quite willing to believe 98% of the really bad shit the Chrome Store extensions team has seen, the really henious anti-user malware shit, has been dynamically delivered payloads. I think there's real cases to be made.

But I also don't think those security woes justify the horror Google is besetting upon users. I don't think it justifies stripping away agency in such broad course. I think it's hypocritical & shameful in extreme they'd do what the worst most fascist competitor does on their app store. I think the team isn't honest, hasn't presented viable evidence, hasn't made the case, hasn't presented real evidence for their actions in nudering web extensions. I have many many qualms.

But I think I can still see legit cause for what would make them so very very cowardly, to do such a henious & unbespeakable act as they've doing with WebExtensions MV3.

Alas it's just misaligned incentives here. Ideally users would actually see what pages & the extensions do. We could be our own network, our own reviwers, we could warn each other of malware. But Google, like all app-store providers, is the only intermediary of trust, has made themselves solely responsible. Rather than tackle this as a mature problem of great powers that must be watched and regulated, they've taken an extremely convenient & easy route out that makes their job as authoritarian regulators infinitely easier, at the expense of enormous power, at the expense of becoming extreme & perposterous hypocrites at the foot of the Apple tribulations they've undergone, but in a much worse manner.
This isn't really a technical issue, per-se.

It's a social one, because social means are what are used to enforce the lockdowns - and those social means exist because of socially justified purposes in the societies.

Unless it was literally impossible to block internet access at all (some kind of unjammable starlink with undetectable receivers/transceivers?).
Lisp at JPL is excellent and likely well known. I'm going to read the one on the axiom of choice now. Thank you for the writing
Alice would like to have a word. That case (Alice Corp vs CLS Bank) makes it hard to have a software patent, particularly if that software has no physical effect on the world.
Waiting for the Matt Levine column ‘Are Unrelated Press Releases Securities Fraud?’
Contrary to popular belief, at least in my country (India). I feel bad for the citizens of Pakistan. There has not been a single stint of govt that has lasted peacefully since independence. A country can never grow without a peaceful transfer of power, and constant political imbalance will just not allow anything to advance.

A shared history/culture with us and it's a shame our govts have differences. We fought together to gain freedom and just drifted apart.

Average citizens of both the countries, have nothing against each other, but propaganda doesn't just shut up on both sides, and tries to keep riling people up, and becomes the main topic to get elected.

A peaceful south Asia, would've been the glorious and powerhouse of the world like in the past.
They did try using monal, the main issue with many of these clients was reliable push notifications. The other was it just not being as polished.

Perhaps the state of things are different. This was about a year and a half back.
Very much in the style of Mr Bernard Madoff. But yeah, he’s got some gall.
We could make the minus sign go away if we adopted a balanced base (e.g. balanced ternary), that has both negative and positive digits. That way, just looking at the digits would make evident if a number is positive or negative, without any need for a minus sign.
I do call the US "an empire", but I don't refer to "The American Empire" in a discussion of geopolitics. It reeks of bias. The GP wrote "Russian Empire", capitalized, which is the name of a polity that didn't exist in the late 20th century. (And then they later edited their comment to say "(aka the USSR)" to make me look overly pedantic.)
> JSON document "0" vs the JSON document "0.0"

nope. both those documents are a STRING type, not a number type.
Both the US and Mexico have actual far left parties and movements, from communist parties to the Zapatistas.

I doubt we could do worse than the current US-dominated world.
As someone who uses these professional apps, maybe two or three times a year, the subscription prices would be an absolute blessing. The critical point is that there should be no reason for Apple to sunset the existing price. Surely they can do both. Offer a perpetual license to anyone who wants it. Offer a subscription price to anyone who wants it.

That said, a dual pricing model can get unstuck depending on the future development path of the app. Does the perpetual license include the next major version? What is the price of a major version upgrade? How does that compare to the value of the subscription price?
We now have the ability to train entire language models that contain information, can regurgitate it in the form of articles, and can even interact through conversation. Right now they’re big, but with continued improvements we could likely have useful and accurate models that fit on USB sticks and can be distributed through Bluetooth.
there is no world where using Starlink won't be easily detectable. You're beaming radio waves up into space, all you need is a helicopter with a $100 antenna.
I'm from India, I beg to differ. Despite all the cacophony of news channels, it is much less lawlessness now, partly because people are more aware and focused on their lives.

However, to your point "destroy a portion of the population in the race to put India on the global map." I encourage you do dig deeper than what english media reports and find the truth yourself. For example, the reason for this violence is two tribal communities, X & Y in hilly area. X was enjoying benefits of reservation, while Y had shared same past and situations. Y went to court asking to be included for reservation as schedule tribe, which court agreed to. Immediately, rioting starts. Can you come up a logical reason why Y would create ruckus instead of celebrating these benefits? Now read the news again and fill in who is X and who is Y.
Ha, that reminds me of authorship being determined by a few rounds of SSB:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2021.6526...
He was a cricket legend
Indeed, a future where you'll never lose access to the internet as long as you agree to never make fun of Elon Musk on Twitter.

Jokes aside, corporations are no better than governments when it comes to censorship. They're corruptible, centralized points of failure.
I think the focus on cheating is short sighted.

There’s:

- Stack Overflow

- GitHub copilot

- Google

- ChatGPT

- etc

People use these tools frequently out in the real world.

If students use these tools exclusively on their homework and projects, they are very likely to fail my paper final exam and I tell them that.

You can structure your course such that cheaters don’t prosper.
Lots of Pakistani journalists publish in Indian newspapers due to censorship in Pakistan. Just about every English language Indian newspaper has a column published by senior Pakistani journalists and press offices in every major city in Pakistan.

There's a very healthy cross-border journalism ecosystem in South Asia.
Well at worst it leaves it to the imagination. Is that such a bad thing?
That is part of enabling rootless containers on rhel or similar.
Really curious about your sources, because it doesn’t vibe with me at all (trained MD).

Statins have a phenomenal improvement in outcome on cardiovascular disease. So do many cancer drugs nowadays. Diabetes also has great improvement with good treatment.

Removing these would reduce life expectancy drastically.
StarLink is beholden to at least one major power and directly has business interests exposed to something like 50 more. Its mercurial owner has more obligations and does not want retaliation against his other struggling businesses. For example, if someone protests in China do you really think he’s going to risk Tesla’s investments on their behalf?

Also, consider that ratio triangulation is a century-old technique. It seems exceedingly unlikely that a hostile government would forget this and not take out the transmitters.
You don't need to tamper with the client to cheat. Anything that can scrape a screen and programmatically provide input will get you far and will be difficult for anticheat to reliably detect without hitting false positives. Hell, you might not even need the client, if you can reverse engineer the wire protocol and pretend to be a client.
I can trump your pedantry :)

A JSON document is itself canonically a string / stream of human-writable bytes. (I.e. the JSON specification specifies JSON documents canonically as a string-encoding grammar, not as a set of formal AST-node types like SGML/XML/etc.) When you mention a JSON document in text, you're mentioning an encoded string, so you put it in quotes.

Backticks to represent what you'd type at a REPL: if `"foo"` is a JSON document, then `foo` is the decoding of that JSON document (which will not itself be a JSON document, but rather a primitive or data structure in your programming language — one which happens to have a valid encoding as a JSON document.)
I used Thunderbird, and I donate. It is worth it.
Weird bug I noticed (and I might have missed a better place to report it): The parser got stuck on the word "praction" in the phrase "When this robot deals damage to another robot, prevent all damage that would be dealt to this robot."

"Praction" comes after the comma in that phrase, apparently?
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What kind of system are you asking for? Entire national economic system? News? Stock Market?
Generally speaking, any kind of radio transmission is detectable. It's why radio silence is a thing when stealth is important.
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Your playback quality is still (I consider, severely) restricted[1], among other features I might not be aware of. They might also start injecting ads into the audio stream soon, if they realise ad blocking methods are popular (Twitch has done this for example).

[1]: https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality
The whole world seems to be aligning with this type of politicking, unfortunately.
Working now for me
I love what the company is doing and I really want to support their business, but I just can't get away from macOS.

Hackintoshes aren't super viable anymore, so I have a pie-in-the-sky hope that there will be a viable general arm64 chip for laptops that one day Framework could adopt for Windows-on-ARM and Linux, and that someone will get macOS working on it.
I'd prefer living in a world where social security is enough for me not to worry about things like "saving money".
It turns out that befriending people who hold opposite and even toxic opinions is actually a great way to bring them back to more moderate and rational thinking.

There is a Jordan Harbinger podcast about a black man who single-handedly dismantled multiple KKK clans literally by befriending them. The trick is to approach the other person with curiosity and reason, not with judgement and adversity. Not everyone can be talked out of being a racist (or whateverist) of course but at the end of the day we all have more in common than we have in difference and a surprising number of people are willing to change their views on an entire demographic if they aren't being shouted at, shamed, or just silently shunned.
The steam deck is a way different value proposition compared to consoles though, console manufacturers take a loss for initial consoles sold until they can bring costs.

Whereas the steam deck has likely been sold as a profit from day one.
I'm not sure what logic or system you're applying, but it seems categorically wrong. Java is a VM. JS has a VM. .NET has a VM. These are all virtual machines. They're their own execution engines running compiled user code.

I think your gatekeeping here is very technically incorrect. This isn't tone. This is what the industry actually has used for multiple decades now as terminology. Is the code being run natively compiled? No? Is it running in a machine which is virtual? It's a virtual machine. This has incredibly long precdence of terminology. It's been what Apple has gate-kept with for a long time now. I disagree with your tone policing, on a number of grounds.
That's also my experience with the official clients after their recent big update. It constantly crashed and did all sorts of weird stuff so I uninstalled it and have started using their web client for playback + a quick and dirty GUI for their API to fill in some of the missing features like playing a playlist sorted by last added, proper random shuffle, actually stop playing when queue ends, etc.

This project looks good though, will have to try it later and see if it works any better for me.
You'd need more than an internet that could not be shut off. You'd also need an internet where communication could not be tracked.

One of the most effective ways to maintain an authoritarian regime is to proactively prevent a critical mass of revolt from forming. You just need to keep a steady low volume of arrests and disappearances going for people who express discontent. If not enough people are actively expressing discontent, you fill your quota with members of a group or area that you see as a risk. History shows that your people will stay silent and meek, clinging to the belief that they personally have done nothing wrong.

A means of communication which authorities cannot snoop on is absolutely essential for any oppressed population that yearns to breathe free.
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There are right wing groups that specifically advocate 'martyrdom' and publish material glorifying mass shooters and other acts of political violence, others that emphasize the inevitability of death and provide instructions for how to plan and carry out such actions. I write about this professionally and have a huge collection of such materials; I'm describing rather than theorizing.
> We're being taken for a ride.

You might be. OTOH, you have far more robust consumer protection laws - ISTR reading that UK law requires that you be able to return a product to the place where you bought it for two years or so and get warranty service or replacement. Don't know how it works in EU countries, but that was a pre-Brexit anecdote.

In the US, there are numerous products for which any warranty service requires you to send it to the manufacturer. Only DOA can be addressed at the point of purchase.
> Unless it was literally impossible to block internet access at all (some kind of unjammable starlink with undetectable receivers/transceivers?).

Yah, these types of things would be hard to detect (just point an LNB at the southbound sky... no dish... cheap electronics...)

What it's not is turnkey or filled with a good feed of information that people would want at baseline. There's no adoption model besides being a dissident, and people tend to start planning for that too late.
Roblox is making them billions, so I don't buy that supporting a linux client would cost them too much money to be practical.

Honestly though, I hope they stay off linux and wine. I hope at least some gamers using linux will spend their time on other games. Maybe they'll find some games that aren't full of lootboxes that give children gambling addictions, other games that aren't designed to fill kids with insecurity and FOMO to pressure them into begging for money to spend on endless microtransactions, other games that aren't filled with massive amounts of advertising, other games that don't profit from child labor, or other games that aren't filled with sexual predators.

There are too many great games out there which aren't abusive and hostile to players (both children and adult) for me to be worried about what happens to a scummy game like roblox.
The underlying issue in groups of people is that there is always a means of control (which is always good AND bad for different groups), which always wraps around a means of wealth (to various degrees and in various ways for different groups), so it is fundamentally a battleground between conflicting interests.

It can be civil (friendly arguments resolved directly to lawsuits) or it can be violent (cartels dissolving people in barrels of acid), but it always has the same problems - who has control/sets the rules. Those almost always include control of the money, control of women/men in their respective domains of producing kids/violence, and the definition of 'the truth'.
This is pretty cool :)
can chatgpt be an editor and proofreader for non native speakers who wanted to blog?
Not sure what are you trying to say here. Are you saying it's false news? Manipur has no violence? Hundreds didn't get killed/injured? You have everything to complain about foreign media but not a word on people dying?

Here is the news from Adani's own news channel. Do you think Adani has Vendetta against India?
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/60-killed-over-200-injured-i...

If I can recommend one article to read:
"Your critics are your best friends"
https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/perspective/news/your-c...
As a person I can at least tell you what I do and don't understand about something, ask questions to improve/correct my understanding, and truthfully explain my perspective and reasoning.

The machine model is not only a black box, but one incapable of understanding anything about its input, "thought process", or output. It will blindly spit out a response based on its training data and weights, without knowing the difference whether it true or false, meaningful or complete gibberish.
During our last extended (3 day) power outage, I was surprised to learn that even though I have all of my gear on a very large UPS, the cable network also ceases to function after a few hours. Local nodes apparently only have backup power for a short time. To their credit, I saw Comcast deploying small gas generators to nearby street poles the next day.

The cell network, on the other hand, continued working without a hiccup. This might have been because the nearest cell tower still had power, but even if it didn't, I'd assume that I'd just be able to connect to the nearest in-range tower that _did_ have power.
I use it (once in a while) and I try to donate regularly just to keep it afloat, it's needed.

It's really powerful in many ways but god it's UX is still awful, especially the configurations. The search if pathetic!
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The meaning is not at all clear. The only definition consistent with this set of facts is "a Westerner found out about it". No paper was published in 2021
High-schooler me wanted nothing more than $500 to buy a barrel of Flourinert.

And Star Bridge Systems FPGA based computers were also the future.

Yes so what, I grew up on Slashdot. The future should be exciting. It kind of sort of was.
I spent some time trying to parse your comment, but I’m afraid I just couldn’t do it. Right wing violence is the largest form of extremism in the US today. It is also largely based on the original values of the KKK, but operates on the level of lone wolves at the individual levels of violence (such as mass shootings) instead of the group. Today, the group level focuses on disseminating violent rhetoric from the top down, often from political actors using the cover of free speech through media outlets. It’s also still a major problem with law enforcement, as the ghost skins phenomenon of infiltration shows in FBI reporting on the subject. It’s not a joke, it’s one of the most pressing issues in 2023 America, and is emanating directly from the leaders of the GOP.
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I liked the idea, but it's less actionable than I thought at first sight.

> Do the weirdest things that feel right.

What's weird? Why should it feel right? Maybe the phrase just means one to choose an adventurous yet fun path while having the confidence that things will go right. Nice mindset, but less actionable.
Rust needs to be more prominent in the kernel, and where not rust ebpf. The days of hand mangling pointer arithmetic need to end.
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Gaddafi was overthrown by his own people
Only a minority of people have an aptitude for work consisting of an 8-hour hard-focused physical workout every day.

In the same way that only a minority of people have an aptitude for work consisting of an 8-hour hard-focused (e.g.) mathematical workout every day.

The difference is that the former tends to come with a sub-cultural attitude of "people who can't/won't are Lazy", which is unfortunate and misguided, in the very same manner that a "people who can't/won't do maths all day are Stupid" view would be.
It is pretty nice - I've been using it for over a year to sync files between my Windows desktop and 14" M1 Pro.

I've only come across a few hiccups:

- Sometimes MacOS updates "break" Syncthing (fairly easy to fix, just have to re-authorize permissions)

- Sometimes you end up with a (large) file/folder syncing that you don't want to sync.. Trying to sneak in an ignore rule after the fact and delete the file/folder from the device you don't want it on? That usually doesn't go over well.. I usually end up having to pause sync and fix the resulting conflict manually.
It's been there since the early days of Mac OS X --- during one UI flamewar on usenet on either comp.sys.next.advocacy or comp.sys.mac.advocacy I suggested it as a way to address the perception of "wasted" space and it showed up (probably coincidentally) in the next iteration.
Just had an excellent experience getting a warranty exchange on my Pixel Watch that stopped taking a charge. Talked to a real person within 2 minutes and the whole call was complete in 18 minutes.
> HK protesters tried mesh networking in 2014-2019 as well as anti-Covid protesters in China in 2022 but both were quickly shut down by blocking the service providers (Bluetooth mesh sharing apps were removed in HK app stores and Apple Airdrop for the latter).

It doesn't help that even if app sideloading was made possible on iOS, the significant drop in installations will still happen once the apps are pulled from official stores. Most people are not familiar with installing apps from outside of their phone's sponsored ecosystem.
And yet, you will go sleep tonight pretty sure that the only other animal that could possibly get into your home and kill you is another human. Most humans live their whole lives without having felt like being the prey not even once in their lives.

As individuals, most of us are not that impressive, or as you say, we are downright pathetic. But our power is in our societal organization, and our inherited culture.
How do we know WE are good explainers :-)
thanks for the interest, had some downtime but should be working now!
"the 30 and 40 age groups tend to outperform younger runners"

Source on that? This seems to show the opposite: https://marathonhandbook.com/what-is-a-good-marathon-time/#:...
fantastic article on flocks and NFS! and short and sweet

I was bitten many years ago by a few of the gotchas he covers in it. great to see clear and precise treatment like this. I like to keep an accurate model of the system in my ind, and pieces like this help me to do that a little better
Starlink dishes are trivial to detect with even 1990s military technology when active. There's no way any satellite uplink can be hidden from a motivated adversary.
Until the automatic techbro solution to everything ceases to be "well David should just fight Goliath a little harder" (while they quietly give Goliath an automatic rifle to counter David's slingshot), society will just continue to disintegrate.
Reading the article is what clarifies things.

HN is full of people who think the world needs their hot take based on a headline, unfortunately.