skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True.

Not enough is being done about drug cartels. So far the war on drugs has been staggeringly effective, with such classics as https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-that-have-decr...

Better just add backdoors to the ambient atmosphere in case drug cartels use air.

The thing is, as long as you give the government the door to justify doing shit like this, they will find a justification that will upset few enough people for them to push it through, aka muh children etc.

The only way to win is to literally pursue open source hardware and software exclusively.

>...maybe that's just not good enough?

Perhaps addressing the problem instead of the symptoms could be a way to go?
Decriminalizing responsible recreational drug use would destroy the cartels, as the general public would never trust buying something that could be laced with poison.

Instead of thinly veiled veneer of bullshit smeared over the giant turd that is spying on everyone why not explore these options?

Let me ask the question differently. How many children are being illegally spied on by the government to help "catch" drug cartels?

If I were an ASI though, I would certainly push as hard as possible to get eyes on every organic, by whatever means possible.
Whether it be position tracking via triangulating ambient radiation http://rfpose.csail.mit.edu/ or something else.
> This would be a gigantic GDPR lawsuit.

No. They are not available in the EU.

At least, I assume this is how Google thinks about it.
Once I was on a mountain ridge, trail was basically on the side of the mountain with a sheer drop on one side and sheer incline on the other. Rounded a corner and saw the bull moose facing me, chomping leaves. I mistakenly thought my bear bell might gently prod it to leave, so I shook it a bunch making noise. But instead of it leaving, it looked at me and then slowly started walking towards me.

Luckily I'd read enough about moose and started walking backwards, then sped up my walking as it got closer, and as soon as I rounded the bend, ran like crazy until I found part of the hill I could climb. When the moose got to where I climbed, it stopped and looked around for me. Eventually it moved on.
S/MIME is almost everywhere though. From Outlook to Gmail.

PGP is just quite sucky, that's indeed supported by only a select few.
Your reply is interesting because you strongly believe alphabet will fail but only supported that by arguing that over the very long term so companies fail.

I see a lot of hate for alphabet on HN. It seems very emotional. I think people feel personally betrayed by thier bad behaviours because they were 'supposed to be better'.

The thing is, there are a lot of companies you can hate. Exon, mcdonalds, blackrock, even Microsoft, there are people who are very mad at these companies.

That's not an argument that the company is doomed. If you are really putting your money where your mouth is (what shorting google?) Then I hope you have a better reasoning as to why they will fail not just eventually but this year.
Meetup is pretty active around here, with many things for various interests. A good starting point.

Me, I have found Belegarth and other variations of foam swordfighting to have great communities.

If Habitat For Humanity were active in Germany the way they are in the US, I would certainly volunteer there.
Side note: I understood more or less 80%+ of that article as a Dutch.
Okay. you can do regulatory capture in many countries too

You’re just saying random things about US industries as if it’s insightful because you saw a documentary once, well that’s what its reading like
I think part of this comes down to your definition of "supercomputer", but I mean, pretty much the entire internet is powered by servers. I've never worked there, but I'm assuming that AWS data centers have very powerful computers designed to handle thousands of VMs/containers each, and I suspect with all the AI hype, a large percentage of them have very beefy GPUs in there as well.

If you're talking about the more stereotypical "high performance supercomputers", I think that they are still used very liberally within the defense industry. I think Lockheed Martin, for example, uses them for CFD analysis.
US ‘Won’t Tolerate’ China’s Micron Chips Ban
I can list all sorts of issues with JIRA, but completely agree with you. The hate for JIRA is typically hate for the companies process(es). I've used JIRA for years and it's fine. But, we did a lot of work (and still do) to make sure our development process doesn't suck. JIRA has done a good job adapting to us.
I had the exact same experience commenting on that Tom Sparks video, so my guess is that you're right about the echo chamber.
Gamification isn't just for marketing campaigns anymore. It has the power to revolutionize the recruitment process too!

Incorporating gamification into candidate assessments brings a range of benefits. It boosts engagement, ensures high-quality data, and provides valuable insights.

I wanted to share the article that gives practical tips and real-world examples.
The LAGPL should require a recipient (who only provides a service) to only release source code for the changes they made to the LAGPL project but not require them to release source code for anything built on top.

The same way someone distributing a program that makes use of an LGPL library is only obligated to release the changes they made to the LGPL library, not the entire program. You are allowed to build your proprietary GUI on top of the LAGPL base and offer it as a service over the internet but you are not allowed to hold any changes to the base for yourself.

The line of what is considered a derivative and the line of what is considered distribution are orthogonal and one of the 4 quadrants is currently missing.

The goal is to effectively prevent the introduction of incompatibilities through Embrace-Extend-Extinguish. Weak copyleft like the LGPL has been effective at preventing EEE without discouraging all corporate use. Strong copyleft is actively avoided in corporate environments but weak copyleft is not. The goal would be to achieve the same but in a cloud environment.

The space it would be useful in is preventing cloud providers from introducing incompatibilities between their offering and the original FOSS project yet allowing them to build services on top (GUI's, billing, etc.) which allow them to differentiate.

How this gets encoded in legalese is their job as stewards of the GPL license suite, holders of the copyright over the text of the licenses and social gatekeepers of license proliferation.
True. I crashed into one somewhere in Iowa, we weren't going fast, maybe 45 mph, the deer probably jumped up from the ditch besides the road. Poor deer. Great people in the village where we ended up with the damaged car, the local bodyshop guy opened up for us in the middle of the night, pulled the front more or less back into shape and plugged a hole in the rad and the valve cover. Total charge for 6 hours of work + materials: $0. So we could continue our trip to friends in the Rocky Mountains with only a slight delay when we originally thought we'd have to abort the trip right there.
How do you know it moved on?
These are all good ideas.

I'm careful with my login. I used my Google account with two-factor authentication to log in on booking. I never signed through one of their web pages. I also only use HTTPS.

It is a small independent hotel, not a chain so it seems a lot of work just for a review.
Both approaches are valid, but I would hope they are using a separate model to validate responses, rather than crippling the base model(s).
In OpenAI's case, we don't know for sure, but it seems like a combination of both, resulting in lower quality responses overall.

I imagine LLaMA was fed highly-vetted training data, as opposed to being "fixed" afterwards.
Personally I think what people do in their free time is up to them, so long as it isn't hurting anyone. I don't think it's right for you to police that.
Could FairEmail be of interest?
https://email.faircode.eu/
This! Jira works ok and gets job done, like the UI and the default workflows or not. But for those who are not willing (or required not to) outsource all their business to the Cloud it just doesn't exist anymore.
I'm not serbian, but it doesn't matter.

The KLA is a terrorist group, and the last time some terrorists did something in USA (although the number of dead civilians was ~6x higher), the USA decided to attack and occupy afghanistan for 20 years.... just because some saudis couldn't fly a plane. Imagine mexican terrorist groups killing civilians in mexico for years, usa sending the army in to fix the problem, and then russia nuking the hell out of USA because of the anti terrorist actions.
https://archive.ph/4o5QV
Yes, obviously...? A piece of paper holds more than a single word as well. That piece of paper is the context in this analogy.

It still generates one token at a time and can't backtrack afterwards.
Here in Norway, we call the moose for “elg.” Same in Sweden. Well, almost the same. They call it “älg”. It's very similar to the English word elk, but it means moose, though elk is of course also in the deer family.

While the Northern European moose is smaller than the North American, we still treat it with a lot of respect if we ever come across them in nature. Especially if the moose has calves, you should steer well clear of it, because the mother will attack, and kill or maim you badly.

Sadly, being such a heavy animal – it can easily weigh a literal tonne – it’s also the source of some very serious car accidents, especially on lonely stretches of roads passing through forests, for which there is a lot of on the Scandinavian peninsula.

Being so tall, the car will hit its feet first, and then the rest of the animal will land on the bonnet and window, often crushing the driver and passengers.

Worst of all, they like to trek at dusk, or when the light is dim, so if you’re ever on a lonely, forested stretch of road during that time, you need to keep your eyes peeled. On top of that, that’s the time of day when the pelt disguises them the best against the surrounding nature, so you really must keep on your toes when driving during those hours.
I'm sorry, are woman totally unable to handle hearing immature jokes? I certainly hear them making enough of them, it's not just a male past time. Part of being a human is having a body and making stupid jokes about it. The pervasive blanket prudishness that elicits offence at anything body related is really out of hand.
i am not a fan of adobe but nobody has been eating any margins or market share from adobe, really (c1 aside). skylum tried but guess what, having a half-baked, barely QAed product that you can't rely on is not competing with adobe. adobe's photography products are full fledged and at 10 bucks a month not even expensive.

but thinking you can fight adobe's photography setup (lightroom, ACR, photoshop, bridge etc) with minimal effort and capital to gain users for 6 bucks a month is delusional. but hey, if it happens, awesome.
SMS is another one that is hooked on to the mobile. To some extent Messages app helps on Android regarding this.
I think you’re mistaken. Rust as a language is still very niche, and it has a lot of work to do become mainstream. This work is going to be accomplished (or not) by people very involved in the project’s governance.
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I built a simple site that lists all tech events, meetups, and conferences taking place in Amsterdam.
New high resolution X-ray lensing technique
Luckily for us, we don't need to actually understand this C++ code to use AVX 512 for faster sorting. We can just do

Arrays.sort(arr)

in Java!
No, dude. I’m doing the legal and technical work so that when a piece of real estate is sold as an NFT, the actual ownership of the land changes.

You can actually read the legal contracts which make that happen at mattereum.com/land — go over it with a lawyer, they’ll explain how it works.

It’s straight forward contract law. The property has to be in an SPC (special purpose vehicle) but that’s standard for all commercial real estate and quite a bit of high end residential.

It’s just a lot of lawyering. It actually works.
Thing is, If they want to manufacture tens of thousands of kilometers of fiberoptic, they're probably gonna need something at a scale bigger than can be done on the ISS.

Which in turn means they will need to launch their own manufacturing spacecraft which is fully autonomous.
Agreed. Jira is great, but only if you have an angry tyrant at the helm managing it.

Its too flexible, if you allow people do what they want they'll have no structure at all, and you end up with disasters like a bunch custom "priority" field which are the exact same as the regular priority field except it just has different variations on "low", "medium", "high".

For my team I use basically none of Jiras features. I have a simple kanban board with 7 steps, and encourage my team to use it as a ships log. No story points or sprints or any of that stuff, the only hard requirement is that in order to close a ticket you have to write a paragraph about what was changed or attach an email to the Jira where you did the same but with a client.
"Reading too much" means that the article is not using "reality" in the philosophical sense, and while it's not "wrong" to think about it, it's also orthogonal to the apparent purpose of the article, which is teaching.

I'm not saying whether the reality exists or not. I'm saying that you are not able to learn (about) it without wrapping it in concepts. I doubt there's any such thing as naked, concept-less reality. You can always dig deeper, but if you try, you'll either find more concepts, or the naked unknown, but not the naked real.

Saying "it exists" is different, but does not free us of concepts. It is accepting that all we have is this concept, and that there's nothing more real than this concept.
It's not about honesty vs. political correctness, it is about safety. There's real concern that the model can cause harm to humans, in a variety of ways, which is and should be unethical. If we have to argue about that in 2023, that's concerning.
Presumably because Google did, in fact, give an answer? The fact that the article chooses to ignore it does not justify the lie in the title.
Sorry this is on the desktop. It would probably not be very ergonomic on a tiny screen anyway.
I was watching it from behind the tiny tree I was hiding behind, about 25 yards up the mountain. Was hoping I was far enough and that moose couldn't run uphill...
I’m sure there’s something simpler if really all you need is KPI tracking, but if you happen to also do goal-planning (OKRs or similar) and want to integrate KPIs with those, I’m building a solution to this as part of the YC winter 23 batch.

Our thinking is that KPIs are useful but really what you want over time is to understand which KPIs you can put effort against and get actual movement I.e. “x number of person hours can yield y% change in this KPI.”

Hit me up via the email in my bio if it seems relevant!
> Honestly emulators don’t really have their place on a game marketplace, that would really just be an incentive for people who want to easily pirate games for free.

So what? If Nintendo fails to provide a way to buy the games on that device its on them. We really don't need to make excuses for corporations generating unneccesary E-waste due to their greed.
Seems like the metric they're optimising for is reducing the number of bad answers, not the proportion of bad answers, and giving non-answers to a larger fraction of questions will achieve that.
Just thinking about Teletext and its limitations got me so inspired, I just wrote some thoughts about why it's so amazing and how it should be a source of inspiration for product design in general: https://fairpixelsco.medium.com/teletext-when-less-was-more-...
Teletext: When Less Was More
The way I see it, you could argue for say, wing-nuts to be used everywhere because they can be used tool-free, but then you can't tighten them as much, can't put them is confined spaces etc. AVX is meant to be used with a specialist tool interface that has knowledge of lower level details and is made by someone else who adds a simple handle for you, Array.sort being this example.
Possibly related: “Observation of Phase Transitions in Spreading Activation Networks” (Science, 1987)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1axt_8KfP2wd2p2cwMt5IGEfaekU...
Ignoring the annoyances of Jira-style project management, here's some things I hate about Jira (cloud, on Firefox on Linux):

- the keyboard hotkeys aren't customisable, and often fire when I'm using alt+numbers to switch tabs, so when I come back to the Jira tab it's on some report page I don't care about

- sometimes the content won't render when switching pages, requiring a full refresh. It's difficult to tell whether it's just being slow to load, or it's gotten itself stuck. Sometimes I sit there for a few seconds like an idiot until I remember to hit refresh

- there's pretty poor support for ticket templates as far as I can tell. My company's method uses a confluence page with a table with the templates, then uses the bulk "create Jira ticket" option. But this edits the wiki page for some reason, which you need to revert. They're probably expecting you to duplicate a whole template page before generating, but the editing part could be an option in the generator wizard.
With this method there's no way to go back and amend the auto-generated tickets' titles and descriptions etc. You're stuck with manually editing all of them along with the template.
Surely templates are a common enough use case that warrant a dedicated workflow?
In the last 25 years, algorithmic advances in integer optimization coupled with hardware improvements have resulted in an astonishing 800 billion factor speedup in mixed-integer optimization (MIO).[1]

Still, it is just a constant.

[1] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/110328
A Federation for All of Southern Africa?
Four Layers
Jira is awfully slow though, saying "it could be faster" is an understatement.

The "better Jira" that I dream of is simply Jira but faster and with a better UI, I don't have issues with the underlying process
Well, I duly did get and read the four extant novels. They're not the pinnacle of fine writing, but they're a pleasant time passer.

The first one in particularly did feel a bit too mary-sue ish. That plus the slightly excessive nerd-referencing might put someone off. I wondered several times whether a litigious rightsholder might go to battlestations on some of the use of trademarked franchise names!
It's a used lens, that's not manufactured anymore by the original manufacturer, so there's no way to get VAT on a new product. Also, if it's a legitimate nikon lens, then there is no trademark abuse.

It's just big companies being assholes to their customers (until customers figure it out, and stop buying it... btw, never buy HP printers!)
I guess we'll see won't we. However, it's pretty obvious that Russia is doing massive amounts of trade with China and India. Trade between China and Russia has already reached over 200 billion this year. So, not really sure what this notion that Russian economy is collapsing is based on to be honest.
Wouldn't you need to illustrate how likely each outcome is? I mean, there are lots of possible ways humans could be eradicated.
I was referring to greenfields projects, but the problem is even more acute for the maintenance problem you outline. You have a portfolio of front end projects: each one would involve learning whatever quirks the framework and implementation were used (by necessity). A company with a reasonably consistent back-end architecture, project structures and coding practices would have an easier time onboarding maintenance developers, as long as each project was done with some kind of eye to maintainability.
Yet another thing to put on my wishlist for whenever I become an eccentric billionaire.

I know that I will never be able to afford such a thing (or possibly even afford to power it for more than a few minutes), but a man can dream.
I had a very strange experience yesterday where I asked about git authentication, explicitly telling Bing that I was asking about git itself rather than GitHub, but I was not using GitHub and not to include results referencing GitHub. Bing did not understand.
I am simple but I wish attention could be qualified for value and scheduled somehow for maximum effect and it was more equitable and didn't lead to negative scenarios of lopsided marketplaces. (Spam, low value content and mismatch of customer to supplier, high costs to reach customers)

How do I register my demand for what I want to pay attention to or what I want people to pay attention to? I already have to pay people to have attention of me such as an internet ads or TikTok advert.

One of my ideas is a deliberate demand signal, a bit like a BID order or a reverse Kickstarter where people register what they want to pay attention to. Or what they would contribute to, with a guaranteee you will stump up some resource if your criteria is met.

There has to be a better allocation scheme of attention to recipients. Can we load balance attention?

Imagine attention being a protected resource and was defensible through computers like an advanced attention filter.

Marketplaces schedule attention and load balance it (Uber/DoorDash/JustEat/food delivery services, stock market)

Attention at the SAME TIME as other people is worth more than individual's attention at sporadic times unless that individual attention has intent (such as a search for a product with the intention of buying it). Hence HN front page, live television and value of twitter. HN directs our attention at the same things and each of our individual attention on the same thing is more valuable than if we weren't coincident in time.

The value of a sports game or music concert at the same time versus on television after the fact.

I feel there's a link between the carrying capacity of attention and the market capacity of business: restaurants, cafes, local businesses, coffee shops, internet services, B2B services that can survive in a market. Attention is linked to product market fit. Location is tied to attention (high footfall = lots of attention, Google/Facebook/Twitter = lots of attention)

How many website and startups do you know that didn't ever achieve product market fit? Were everyone's attention on that company at the same time (15 minutes of fame) would they have gotten enough business to sustain themselves? There's nothing new under the sun.

The limited capacity of the market to support a growing number of people forces people in a funnel of competition over the same work. So is work of the same kind a commodity?

Hence we get layoffs where the attention carrying capacity cannot sustain the people. Look at the hifi industry and newspaper industry.

Hence Google adverts where you pay to appear next to searches, television/radio marketing.
ChatGPT for Google Chrome Extension
My statement was sarcastic.
Works to do what? The only purpose of the presumption of innocence is to protect an essential freedom of every democratic society. The only thing it’s ever supposed to do it protect you from the government, and it works to that effect very well, under all circumstances.
Didn't it crack the top 20 languages last year? Maybe even top 15? It's supported in the Linux kernel now, I think we're way past the point where we can consider it niche
> warrant rubberstamping

Is this an assumption? We don't have much information into this process so it surprises me that we jump to the conclusion that they're a rubber stamp. Is there any supporting evidence for this assertion?