skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think that the folks who haven't been burned like that before have either not been in the industry for very long, or they have been very, very fortunate in their work environments. Having a supportive work environment that rewards passion is something that everyone who puts in solid work effort deserves, but unfortunately much of the industry works like slash and burn agriculture: exploiting, exhausting, and then moving on.
Or a regex with a \.[a-z]{2,3} suffix. I’ve had similar problems with my email at a newer TLD.
Reach, cost and effectiveness. Newspapers can't follow you around like social networking sites do. A handful of Twitter/FB accounts can do an amount of damage that newspapers can only dream of.

None of which is to say newspapers are great. After all, Murdoch honed his skills in print media first. Just that they are nowhere near as effective as online
I don't think prison time is even what's needed here, I think these issues would resolve themselves if corporate fines were continually issued, rather than one-off lawsuits. For instance, a standing ruling that if your printer stops being able to print for no reason other than a contract breach, then the hardware is eligible for a refund.

We don't need to put CEOs in prison for making consumer-hostile decisions, we just need to also make those decisions bad business.
Right? What a disappointing article. Was more just a little bit about the doctor, a little bit about the war, a little bit about spains history of neuroscience, and just the word “backwards”. The anecdote about him looking at his watch was laughably unhelpful! Would’ve been the perfect example to describe what he saw!
This is a bad take. Representative democracy works and we have plenty of examples of that happening even within our lifetimes. Your negative outlook is a choice and it’s wrong. Do better.

We elect representatives at every level of government. In a country of 335,000,000 people a slow moving central government is a feature. If you really want to make a difference pay attention to your city council.
I wonder whether it's actually legal to extract & independently redistribute these libraries. https://github.com/haileys/vc6-sys/tree/main/sdk/lib
I think you either have not read Enlightenment era philosophy, or you have not read Communist theory, because this comment is woefully off the mark.

Communism's entire thesis (which, frankly, I agree with) is that all historical conflict is class conflict. I have my disagreements, however, with (1) how much of a problem it is purported to be and (2) with both the theory and the implementation of the solutions offered.
> it's a simple choice.

That's funny: I would also say that it's a simple choice, but in the opposite direction.
Exactly. Made the same comment before i got to yours.
> Basically it seems like if you lose, you lose, if you win, everyone shares in your winnings.

More or less why communism is unproductive, because it takes away the incentive for individual achievement.
All i get is the meme of Biden and Trump making beats, I don’t hate it though
LOL, Genesis had enough bullshit in it that I was questioning things immediately. Somewhere in there it says that the stars were created after earth. And then there's Noah and the flood with the completely impossible repopulating the earth with a single family and a single pair of each animal. Exactly how did 2 buffalo's get to the middle east? Of course, the answer would be that god magicked them there - but then I thought - where's the magic now? Why hasn't anyone recorded actual evidence of a miracle?
Dolphin is the correct behavior.
Certain people disagree with you. They have more guns than you do, so their opinion is the only one that matters.
Were you using Typescript with Node? I really can't imagine working on a project that's even moderately complex without static typing. Having a static type checker is like having an assistant that writes automated tests on its own, and having those tests constantly running in the background.

Refactoring code without static type checking is a nightmare. If you're using a strict statically typed ORM like Prisma [1], you can change your data model then run tsc --noEmit --watch in your terminal and the compiler notifies you of every error with their associated file names and line numbers. In VSCode you can even click the line number and it'll open the specific file where the error occurred. Before adopting Typescript, I basically never attempted large refactors, and when I did it consisted of a long process of grepping for specific symbols in the project, and manually writing lots of tedious and verbose tests to do a fraction of what the compiler does automatically.

I remember developers from the Elm community years ago constantly advocating for static typing, and thinking "this has to be hyperbolic". Richard Feldman gave a talk about how he wrote code on an airplane for hours without an internet connection, and without actually running the code, and how the compiler ensured that the code just worked [2]. Typescript is not as sound as a Hindler-Milney type system, but the benefits are similar (especially if you're running Typescript in strict mode).

[1] https://www.prisma.io/

[2] https://youtu.be/sKxEwjKQ5zg?t=384
> If avoiding fragmentation was obviously good

In the general case frags are always bad, and instead of blocking DNS over TCP your firewall should be alerting on them.

In the case of the DNS resolution protocol, UDP frags are double-bad. The protocol (not updated since the 1980s) specifies that TCP retry should only occur if a UDP response is received with TC=1; if the UDP response is dropped, TCP retry never occurs. In the case of a UDP frag if a portion of the original datagram is dropped the response is never reassembled, TC=1 is never observed, and TCP retry never occurs.
Not a Mac guy so this was a blank spot in my brain. thank you.
Any religion is effectively just a collection of someone else's stories.
> Truth is an absolute defence under both systems

My limited understanding (not a lawyer, just a rando) is that truth may be an absolute defense to defamation in the US, but defamation isn't the only ground you want to cover here.

In particular, "public disclosure of private facts" seems to be illegal without the subject's consent in some states. [1] I can't tell if the effective law is significantly different in the UK, or whether the main difference is just the semantics of whether it'd fall under "defamation" or something else.

[1] https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/personal-injury/harm-to-reputat...
>Do you have any resource that talks about the practical implications?

From the man himself, Alan Kay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1355977
No they really didn’t. No designer is making UIs that don’t align, are full of inconsistencies, and have confusing UX.
Similarly, Terrence Tao was taking university-level mathematics courses at age 9. Does that justify teaching all 9-year olds mathematics at that level?
I think that anthropomorphizes the LLM quite a lot. I don't disagree with it, I truly don't know where to draw the line and maybe nobody does yet, but to myself at least I caution the idea of whether or not us using language evocative of the AI as being conscious actually imposes any level of consciousness. At some level, as people keep saying, it's just statistics. Per Chris Olah's work, it's some level of fuzzy induction/attention head repeating plausible things from the context.

The "interesting" test that I keep hearing, and agreeing with, is to somehow strip all of the training data of any notion of "consciousness" anywhere in the text, train the model, and then attempt to see if it begins to discuss consciousness/self de novo. It's be hard to believe that experiment could be actualized, but if it were and the AI still could emulate self-discussion... then we'd be seeing something really interesting/concerning.
It depends on what you're look at. This [1] is a graph of real median wages, for full time workers, since 1979 (date the Fed data begins). They've only increased by about 10%, and that's misleadingly high since 1979 was a local low of the era. The figures they give are in ~1983 constant dollars, so it works out to about $54k real median earnings in 1979 and $58.5k real median earnings today.

And since 1979 people have far more basic 'necessities' like internet and electronic devices. And other necessities like housing, education, and healthcare have all increased in cost far beyond nominal inflation figures. So a person in this situation is most certainly going to have a substantially lower quality of life in modern times. You have to keep in mind that in the past most families were single bread-winner, so wages and life were organized around the vision of one working individual being able to support at least 3 others, in a nuclear household. It was a very different economic vision than what has emerged in more modern times.

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The one thing I'd say these numbers miss out on is opportunity. I think in modern times there is dramatically more opportunity, but if you're just going to live a normal, as expected, life without really aggressively going after the opportunities we all have available - then you'd almost certainly be better off living on the median in the 70s than today. And since most people should be expected to live these sort of perfectly average lives, as that's precisely what the average is, that's a real problem.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
Are we even sure that the customers legally own the printers? For instance, has anyone bothered to read the EULA that came with whatever bundled software someone installs now days to get the printer driver working?

Even if there isn't surreptitious transfer of the hardware, they could certainly have a clause in there that authorizes them to do such things.
But it does show you the url in the tweet. But if you use opengraph the image for your link is more prominent so I bet not as many people look at the domain for it.
Usually systems have a KEK (key exchange key) from Microsoft installed, then Microsoft can revoke keys on their own withot involvement of the UEFI forum, board manufacturers or anyone else (Unless the KEK itself is compromised). They usually publish these revocations later on the UEFI website, but that's not necessarily blocking the rollout.

The actual issue is that the revoked key is the key used by Windows, so revoking it makes Windows unbootable.

Seems a bit weird to call this a Secure Boot vulnerability though since Secure Boot still works, it's just that a validly signed binary happens to be vulnerable and boots arbitrary stuff in a later stage. While this circumvents Secure Boot on all systems which allow booting Windows (so all systems where noone explicitly changes the Secure Boot setup), it sounds more like a Windows boot loader vulnerability than a Secure Boot issue.
Well of course. The point of the joke is to exaggerate some truth.
> you entered a contract in which IKEA rented you a house

I love how any interaction with a company means we enter into a one-sided contract with them and own nothing, despite spending money. Don't like it? Just go live in a cave!

If you are making a purely legal argument, then you are on shaky ground, and there are limits to what is considered a valid contract (especially in the EU), and what terms it may contain, but you might persuade a judge.

If you are making a moral argument, it is indefensible.
Sure you can probably also do it, but this is not the way how the code was originally written. The original ranges present the bounds in their public API, and most code just operated on them.
Ha! Now I am triggered... ;-)
Foreign Groups in Rome During the First Centuries of the Empire (1927) [pdf]
This is kind of an interesting misalignment, where typically one would use conservative vs. progressive, whereas the -wing generally implies a specific critical viewpoint predicated on polarization.
You need to buy the hardware (small edge device based on Nvidia Jetson) to train and run the models locally. The demos on the site are just examples trained on my own personal data.
Right, at least after the (in)famous Hardy's book...
I think people prefer mailing lists over nntp due to a number of reasons:

1. It's easier to set a mailing list up compared to creating a new newsgroup or setting up an on-premise NNTP server (is NNTP as a service even a thing?)

2. Most people have access to email clients (either web based or local applications) compared to NNTP clients.

Personally, I think it would be much better if people use NNTP instead of mailing lists, but doing so would require somoene to maintain the NNTP server and handle account creation for posting access.
I was pinning files with an inexpensive paid service, and it was pretty fast. I don't remember how well it worked when I was self-pinning. But yeah it did seem like it had some technical details to work out.
> For example, I'll watch a youtube video or read a blog post that talks about a topic I'm not an expert it.

Could the fact that you are not expert at things be the reason you think you are learning from the chatbot? If i ask it anything i am an expert in i can quickly tell it’s a waste of time, but if i ask it in fields i am not, i get tricked into thinking it’s right.

Meaning that while it does appear to be right it does so due to my own ignorance about the topic.
.zip files can also be dangerous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb
I have my (sadly inactive) blog on app.rodeo only because I bought this domain a decade ago, and sunk cost fallacy dictates I have to use it for something after so many years of paying fees.

If a rich Texan rodeo entrepreneur showed up in my email inbox wanting to buy this unique domain, I wouldn’t say no. But I’d ask for a pony.
> Im more curious what tiktok data amouts to and how it could be used by CCP

Let's pretend I hire two people: The first is a private detective, the other is an entertainer.

The private detective is able to follow you around and watch everything you do. They know when you eat, when you sleep, and even when you poop. They know who you talk to and for how long. They know everything that interests you and bores you, down to the microsecond (knowing what makes you pause). The PI gets to know you pretty well and honestly, probably better than many close friends.

The entertainer is your main source of entertainment. They offer a wide variety of things and they're highly addictive and prevent you from being bored. Since they are a major part of your day, they are a major influence of the information that you consume. Be this in comedy, politics, academic information, or whatever. That all depends on what interests you that day.

Now I've hired these two people and am able to direct them. The PI are my eyes and ears, the entertainer are my hands. If I want to make the most profit off of you I can make deals with McDonalds and get the entertainer to influence you that way (maybe do comedy bits about burgers) and the PI can track how interested and influential the entertainer is. Allowing us to refine our techniques on a personal level. On the other hand, if I am interested in politics I can do the same. I know what makes you afraid. I know what makes you sad. I know what makes you angry. I know what makes you feel good.

Now we're just looking at you, a single person here. But I have a billion PIs and entertainers. I know all your friends, family members, and even your crushes. I know how close all these bonds are because I'm doing to them what I am doing to you. Consider this and then tell me that I don't have influence over you. I am a significant part of your environment. You may have free will, but you are also a product of your environment.

> My naive assumption is that Tiktok is a meme sharing platform and timesink

And that's why I have influence over you. The less important you think it is, the more influence I have since your guard is down. Same way comedians crack people up.
Yep, people love to "whatabout" it but qualitatively speaking there is an argument to be made for a rather magnificent piece of moral high ground.

Even inasmuch as it annoys a lot of people who don't appreciate this perspective--they tend to overrate it as if it must equate to perfection, a nation without problems, etc.
Gmail was a waitlist or invite only for many years. And that must’ve been their most successful product launch since search
Fwupd 1.9.1 Released with Many Bug Fixes, New Capabilities
Go people might cringe but why wouldn't you just be 100% Rust?

Actual response: Some similarities, different goals, different strengths, different abstraction levels. Go is cool I hear but I don't see a need from over here doing Elixir.
I had always heard they were thought to be much younger than this new number. https://astronomy.com/news/2019/01/saturns-rings-are-surpris...
The FBI has arrested a lot of people under anti-China initiatives in the past few years, and most of the cases have been quietly dropped.
That was my reaction: if you have to say it, you prove that the matter is at least open to question.
I could stuff this all into one single doc, with numerous sheets, but I don't want to deal with the cognitive overhead of having to navigate through an enormous amount of sheets I rarely (if ever) need to touch (again).

So instead, everybody else has to deal with the cognitive overhead of a document model that is used by no other mainstream PC software program known to Man.
I just think it's annoying that if I see a reference to "foo.zip" or "foo.mov" it's not immediately clear anymore whether it's a file or a domain.

The fact that file extensions and TLD's were roughly the same length in the same format wasn't a big issue, when it's generally understood that ".com" and ".edu" are domains, while ".jpg" and ".mp4" are files. (And as the author states ".com" files are rarely seen by users anymore.)

But if the .zip TLD takes off, it's just adding a little bit more cognitive load. Sure, hopefully it's usually clear whether somebody's discussing a filename or a domain name from context. But not always, and that's annoying and anti-user. Conventions have value, and this decreases that value.

So really, it's just like... of all the possible TLD's, is there really any benefit to picking ones that are also common filename extensions? Is our economy really going to suffer if we say, hey let's not make things like .txt and .doc into domains as well? There are tons of other TLD's we can create instead.
I'm not sure Peter Thiel believes in anything resembling "egalitarian enlightenment era principles" unfortunately
Letting the criminals roam free with impunity makes society less safe
The thing is, this is a pretty standard playbook for many intelligence-turned-civilian types. They become "consultants" for basically every industry. Not defending it, but it's not really unique to TikTok.
If it looks like that, then I think those developers did not take a look using the cargo doc perspective. I definitely do that to add docs in the right places. And warn(missing_docs) is good to use too (warn on any public item).
That's kinda circular isn't it? "Since they made a movie it has to be fake"?

Come on my friend, at least try. And without even thinking about my nutrition I am a healthy vegan since 9 years, not taking supplements and eating cheap localish food.
All of that sounds perfectly sensible.
The levels of naivety around this stuff in the aftermath of Assange and Snowden continue to astound me.
isn't this whole problem category technologically solved by applying an approach equivalent to preventing SQL injection using prepared statements?

because at this point most "experts" seem to confuse talking to an LLM with having the LLM trigger an action. this whole censoring problem is of course tricky but if it's about keeping the LLM from pulling a good ole `format C` then this is done by feeding the LLM result into the interpreter as a prepared statement and control execution by run of the mill user rights management.

a lot of the discussion seems to me like rediscovering that you cannot validate XML using regular expressions.
When someone compares LLMs to crypto you know they've lost the plot.
Geeze, what if you accidentally buy a counterfeit ink item off eBay or something?
So the plan is to replace low quality teachers with a low quality bot instead of improving education? Why does openai / chatgpt marketing sound so puerile?
Plenty of other post-soviet countries rushed to privatize too and it worked out fine. At least far better than what it was before.

Russia doling out their biggest companies to their friends turning them into oligarchs was probably a predictable outcome in retrospect. The difference between Russia and the surroundings smaller states was that it was the power center of that entire part of Europe and beyond. That huge amount of backroom power structures (not to mention the KGB) were far larger and not things that were going to fade away easily. It was primed to turn into a pseudo mafia state without proper reforms... By the people themselves, not some foreign overlord (although good advisor's always helps). The responsibility is always ultimately going to rely on people caring internally, as we saw in Afghanistan/Iraq you can't externally prop up democratic/fair organizations without local buy in and local cultural adhesion. So it comes down to what Russia could/would do themselves.

I'm curious what the alternative would have been given Russia's sovereignty. The west not getting involved and pushing raw privatization and not pushing back during the power struggle by the communist factions... I guess it would be more like a modern extreme top-heavy state-capitalism.

So basically China? The oligarchs would have to do their deals via gov annoited monopolies, being run by princelings. Elite party members rather than Oligarchs.

Or maybe best case scenario some top heavy EU style country like Belgium (53%) / France (58%) . Finland (54%) / etc where >50% of GDP is via gov (Russia is currently 36%)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen...
Wow ok I was expecting a emulator or a look-a-like app but this is a real beige computer from the 80s
That would prevent NATO from allowing Sweden from ever joining, as well as pushback from the EU (there goes the Iran Nuclear Deal).

It could be done in the same way that Taiwan, Japan, and SK have clandestine nuclear programs, but the easier thing to do might be to just deport people who fundraise for the PKK (who are pretty fucking terrible tbh - there's a reason they're still banned in most western countries).

It would also be a massive feather in the CHP's hat, neutralize a major reason why Turkey began buying weapons from Russia, and neutralize a major reason people have supported the AKP.

This whole PKK shitshow is Obama+Trump's fault btw - they both wanted a quick win against IS in Syria while also not using American troops. The only solution was the PKK's Syrian branch - the YPG. There was a whole US lead rebranding of the YPG in the 2014-2018 period specifically for this reason [0][1]

> Thomas said he made the Turkish concerns known to the YPG back in 2015.

“We literally played back to them: ‘You have got to change your brand. What do you want to call yourselves besides the YPG?’ With about a day’s notice they declared that they are the Syrian Democratic Forces.”

“I thought it was a stroke of brilliance to put democracy in there somewhere. But it gave them a little bit of credibility.” [0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-usa-ypg/u-...

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/10/09/t...
My scopecart was off to the side like that most of the time except when it rolled over to a chemical instrument in the main lab which needed repair or calibration.

Most people who saw my lab when I was in private practice would not have noticed any difference from this museum piece.