skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://cybernews.com/news/france-senate-surveillance-camera...

> In France, the Senate just approved a controversial provision to a justice bill that would allow law enforcement to secretly activate cameras and microphones on a suspect’s devices. This type of surveillance would be activated without notifying the owner of the device. The same provision would also allow agencies easier access to geolocation data to track suspected criminals ... Critics are urging French parliamentarians to dismiss the controversial provisions. And it’s not too late – the update to the bill must still be approved in the National Assembly, the more powerful lower house of the Parliament.

Any startup employees working directly on technology trade secrets or otherwise non-public intellectual property should enable iOS Lockdown Mode.

Thanks to years of invasive online targeting, bulk data breaches and mobile phone network structural insecurity, it has never been cheaper to screen for higher-than-average-value targets with digital assets that can be exfiltrated.
Since targeting costs have fallen, it is profitable to target employees below the C-suite, e.g. those in strategic or development roles who routinely need to access sensitive information and digital assets.

This applies to enterprise, mobile and WFH environments, e.g. leveraging mobile phone foothold to reach other devices like a home router.
OpenDarwin is Shutting Down (2007)
The Factor language implemented Unicode support this way.
Mobile version is pretty much unusable
you can define functions outside of a module using fn blocks
Meh it's a tradeoff usually. De-normalize for better read performance at the expense of some complexity and worse update performance/semantics.
https://archive.is/GB5oS
Seems a bit hugged right now...

http://web.archive.org/web/20230612200920/https://think.ing....
You can have a freedom or order, but not both at the same time. Most social networks decided for the order, suppressing freedom. Freedom brings some positives and many negatives, that's life I guess.
A classically trained pianist's profession does not carry the risk of killing millions of people! There is zero proof outside of circumstantial conjecture that SARS2 has a natural origin. Up to 20 million people have died due to an animal virus modified to be highly infectious towards humans and you expect everyone to just take your word for it?

I mean it sucks if it hurts your career or impacts your profession, but highly dangerous work needs to be reviewed and banned if need be!

Humanity > Your personal career
So you do think that most Democrats ignored scientists/science?

I know you've been asked this question 3 or 4 times now, and ignored it each time, but I thought maybe you'd answer it this time.
> I'm tired of websites deciding that a password is not strong enough simply because it does not contain enough random subsclasses of basic ACSII characters

me too. and i'd guess at least half of people put 1! at the end to fulfil the requirements anyway.
Love it. Will be big. But most VCs again won't get it
For really really large sets, you'll still eventually want to reduce read compute costs by limiting specific tenants to specific shards in order to reduce request fan out for every single read request. If say I get a super quiet forum, would it make sense to query 2 shards or 6000? Clearly there's a loss of performance when all read requests have infinite fan out.
Better than tariffs making them more expensive?
>the industry may indeed be building the future but contrary to its claims, it is not a future with human needs centered

It is usually profit centered. There's exceptions of course, but the people working would themselves need to make a living. Naturally, if you had replicators and massive energy production it would be a different story because those things destroy material economics.
I've been recording myself driving in my car for years as sort of a journal, but never did anything with the videos. Will start using this!
>Well woke culture does seem to exist since so many people talk about it,

Lots of people talk about a flat Earth but that doesn't mean a flat earth exists

Also, 'people talk about it' is hilarious. The only people who talk about it are right-wingers who are trying get their base riled up. There is no serious academic work that supports the idea that 'woke culture' exists. It's clowns like Tucker who profit off the culture war that continue to talk about it.

> and it has its own term in our lexicon.

It's an undefined term.

>I could give you a million examples of it, but I think you already know what it is.

That's literally the point of the term. You could give examples of ideas and things you don't like, and because 'woke' has no definition, it's just based purely on your opinion.

Like the game of baseball is well-defined. If I asked you what you consider the game of baseball to be, it would be mostly the same as what I consider baseball. We'd agree that there are nine players on the field. We'd agree that it's played with a ball, etc. We might disagree on strategy, or what the rules should be, but the basics are well defined.

That's not the case with 'woke'. Your definition of the basic parameters of 'woke culture' would probably differ from even other people who believe in 'woke culture'. That's why you are defaulting to examples, because it's just going to be a list of things you don't like, which is the essence of the word.

It's a empty box for which intellectually lazy or unable people put all the ideas they don't/can't understand or don't agree with.

>You are right, all I have are anecdotes

Forming huge ideas about the nature of the world based on our personal experiences is generally a pretty terrible idea.
I can sort of understand the mentality, but right now Reddit looks like a terrible IPO prospect. It isn't profitable, it's poorly managed, lacks transparency, depends on volunteers to function on a daily basis, and when they make a move to make themselves profitable their user base rebels in a fairly public and humiliating way.

All of this in the post-Fed rate hike world where money isn't free. Besides I feel it's important to remember that Reddit has been talking about an IPO for many years, and I doubt it's going to happen now.
I think you'd be surprised. Nature abhors a vacuum and there will be many users waiting in the wings for the tiny internet power of that prestigious mod hat.
that's nothing like that on biz or g, stop FUDing
Yep. It was also used against Occupy Wall Street protestors.
I'm curious whereabouts in Europe you went where people would chat to you at random?
This is true, but FWIW (it probably wouldn't save you here, too much is changing too fast) something like a SQL materialized view can very often give you both the chocolate and the peanut butter.
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4chan's moderation style has allowed for a truly organic culture-growth. Of shocking depth. Nigh-unique.

Other communities are rather shallow, comparatively. Mere implementations of conventional values.

For good and ill, of course.
Ahh makes sense!
Juliana v. United States (2015) [pdf]
I tried to register by clicking multiple times and nothing is happening. I tried to register in Brave, Firefox and Chrome
Yep, and it always has. It's super reliable on desktop.
There's nothing to debunk. That's the entire point. He's trying to prop up his claims with more claims. If we cannot determine the veracity of his anecdotes, they are of no use to us in determining the validity of his conclusions.

His entire response could be boiled down to "Trust me, bro".

I get the feeling he knows he cannot defend his position based on either commonly known information or on reasoning about the situation. So he has to purport to have special information that most don't. And that special information, which you cannot have, is enough to turn everything around. But he also won't give you enough information to independently verify. He won't tell you which campaigns he did these things for, which politicians he worked for. But they were top men. Top. Men.
Golang and Rust are not any better at scale. Just try resolving go dependencies in a Kubernetes ecosystem project.
> It being for sale means anyone can be doing it which might be a framing that would be more alarming to the law-and-order types.

How about "more alarming to the lawmakers?"

Someone could show that movement info, for example, is available for sale on a legislator. Or a legislator's spouse or child.

Now do you see the problem, oh you who write the laws?
I still think this is coming. After the 48hr strike, how many mods are going to turn their sub back to public, look at their mod inbox filled with confused and angry users, and then see some pending non-response from Reddit post-strike, and wonder why they do this?
I'm not sure why you interpreted my comment as "antagonistic" or "unfriendly". Yes I do disagree with you (at least assuming I'm understanding you correctly), but I'm not attacking you personally, just your argument.

I guess it's fair to say my examples are cherry-picked too (though I didn't really give specific examples in my comment so much as entire general categories of problems ChatGPT is known to be proficient at solving). But they aren't so cherry-picked as for "random chance" or "that example was in the training data verbatim" to be possible explanations. It's not like I had ChatGPT answer 100 billion questions and am only showing you the top 0.1%. It's very common for ChatGPT to be perfectly correct even when answering logic puzzles or coding problems not in its training set. So if not those then what's your explanation other than "understanding"?

On the flip side, I don't think it's possible to prove ChatGPT does not posses understanding with individual examples. (And it seems you agree?) Those are easily dismissable as just "ChatGPT isn't great at that particular task". Particularly given how many other tasks ChatGPT is great at.

Scott Alexander figured this out back in 2019 before GPT-3 was even a thing (let alone ChatGPT), I think it's worth a read: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-g...

> The example was shown because it demonstrates a simple question that we'd expect any reasonable understanding creature, that knows what a pound and kilogram are, to be able to answer.

Not really though. The "pound of bricks or pound of feathers" question is specifically designed to trip up humans, and the specific formulation you used seems specifically designed to trip up LLMs (by playing off their tenancy to pattern match common sayings), yet despite those disadvantages GPT-4 succeeds.

Further, I don't think "I'd expect even a child to be able to answer this" is a good metric. ChatGPT isn't human, so we shouldn't expect it to be good at everything humans are good at just because it's good at some things humans are good at. Again, I'm not trying to argue ChatGPT is a human-like AGI.
good thing pixelfed supports stories
they took their time, but the next iOS/MacOS release brings them to the OS with full support as far as I can tell
How AI Is Revolutionizing Stock Markets
I miss the long posts that explain a thoughtful, technical, essay on a subject. I vaguely remember from the ~2010s internet reading some very informative posts on bulletin boards and reddit.

Mostly gaming stuff, but there was some great work on math, science, and DIY. Today even the "Reddit gold" posts are garbage by the standards of those days.
The purpose of a country having a military is about the threat of killing people. The purpose the military itself is killing people. The military doesn't threaten, it is the threat. The same way I own a gun to defend myself, but the intrinsic purpose of the gun itself is to kill.
> Trademark is suppose to be about customer confusion, no one is confused here.

I disagree about the confusion.

1) Trying to answer the question "Is that dog toy sponsored by Jack Daniels?" suggests that there is plenty of confusion here. You have to look and read the toy in question to see that it's not actual Jack Daniel's merchandise.

2) Jack Daniel's must enforce it's trademark or it will lose it.

3) Jack Daniel's are some of the nicest people about enforcing their trademarks. See: https://brokenpianoforpresident.com/2012/07/19/jack-daniels-...
I can't decide whether I'm relieved or disappointed that you didn't take advantage of the fantastic rick-rolling opportunity.
They should disclose what happens in their system when a subreddit goes private, and how it scales with subreddit size. Otherwise, I call BS.
I've not investigated it to prove my hypothesis, but I've long suspected that CSS doesn't get enough of the blame for the modern Web being so bloated and resource-hungry.

But then, I still remember when it was considered disrespectful to the user and generally ill-advised to ship vector graphics unless absolutely necessary, because it'd offload too much processing on the client and harm performance. Now people do 3D transforms of DIVs and apply blur and such with CSS on every page load because pre-calculating it would be more work (or practically impossible). And they think nothing of doing this, maybe dozens of times on a single page.
I don't know what his ethnicity is, so I don't know if I know the heroes of his ethnicity or not. I know an unusual amount about world history and non-western cultures compared to the average person with my general characteristics, so I believe it unlikely that I "never paid attention" or "don't care".

I am more interested in examining the moral double-standard implied by his comment, that it is just for him to refuse to acknowledge me if I admire Churchill, but that he would find it unjust if I refused to acknowledge him because he admired <hero from his own culture with beliefs I didn't like>.
I remember the whimsical memes and comics made by the refugees. It was a different air; optimism that safer shores were ahead. This is more like confusion in the vacuum of space.
Some of my captures go into ~/org/refile.org, which I use as triage/inbox, but I usually use this template that puts entries into a datetree in another org file:

(setq org-capture-templates
(quote (
[...]
("j" "Journal" entry (file+olp+datetree "~/org/work/work.org" "Diary")
"* %?\n\n\n" :clock-in t :clock-resume t :empty-lines-after 1)
[...])))
Boy, speak about projection. Believe it or not, but there was a time when you didn't know everything about the world, and even simple concepts needed to be explicitly taught to you.
Currently over 90% of subs are private or restricted.

https://reddark.untone.uk

Re-hosts of that site have the figure even higher.
Let me flip that around on you:

There's this really insidious meme that just because their parent(s) made astronomically absurd amounts of money, children should be able to spend their entire lives doing nothing productive, treating regular people like shit, and wrecking the environment all in the name of enjoying themselves.

I genuinely believe that every human being should be given the means to survive without having to work for it—even a bit more, because psychological needs are a thing, too. The vast majority of people have an innate drive to do something, to contribute to our world, to make other people's lives better, to create something real.

Being given enough money that you can just pop from NYC to Paris on a whim on the family private jet—or even just buy a new jet to do so, because the other jet is in use—is entirely different.

Being disconnected from work, and from people without enough money to treat other humans like animals, is genuinely an unhealthy thing.
Wuhan scientists ‘created mutant virus before pandemic’
The Vision Pro Is the Perfect Gadget for the Apocalypse
https://archive.is/GywIR
Ask a conservative Christian if they think women are equal to men and they'll end up with "seperate but equal" bullshit.

Baby machines. It reminds me of the Tleilaxu in Dune. It's understandable because humans were dropping like flies 2000 years ago.
Apple’s game porting toolkit is there because they realize that the primary use of this is gaming. But they have hardly any games yet.

The current “executive toy” vision is, I believe, just a stop-gap measure until they get the hardware cheaper and games ported.

I don’t believe anyone wants to work in 2D with a thing strapped to their face for hours on end. Sure you get a bigger screen but it’s also super uncomfortable, especially this metal and glass conception. It’s only worth it if you are doing something in 3D, like playing a game.
Lawsuit: Bitwarden Fired Employee for Listing Pronouns as “Assigned by God”
I have an '84 300zx Turbo. It doesn't say "door ajar", and instead says "Left (Right) door is open" if I try to drive away with a door not properly closed. There's no dad joke set up.
Germans have this innate desire to end their civilization through technoanarchism.
TBF ruby lets you use inline bundler. See https://bundler.io/guides/bundler_in_a_single_file_ruby_scri...
You never want to threaten people with a good time.
I think reddit will never be the same after this, not because of the API thing (I dont agree with the blackouts), but because it shows how much they neglected their website. Over the years they have made it impossible to compete with the established subreddits. They have allowed a single uniform mob to take over the site, establish themselves as permanent tyrants and grow their ban lists to enormous scale. Even today with the blackouts, you can't find alternative subs to the closed ones, because new subreddits are hidden in search results and popular lists. Without this competition, how do they expect their subs to improve?

It's as if their mismanagement has come back to bite them. Mods have been allowed to run the show and ruin communities for years and years.

Very few people are using 3rd party apps but now they are causing inconvenience to millions for their own capricious reasons. I knew that the site was ran by a small powertripping group of mods but now that they make it so obvious it has kind of chepened the whole medium in my mind
No, comments are outside the contribution model.

I have some early designs that show a user setting that lets you allocate a % split between comments and posts, but for now I wanted to preserve the simplicity of the model.
I think ChatGPT makes quite clear that understanding language and understanding underlying concepts expressed in language are different things. While it seems to be competent in processing and producing language, it appears to have no underlying concept of logic, physics, society, etc. We shouldn't conflate different kinds of understanding. There's no need to say "it's either shuffling tokens blindly or showing intelligence".
I also wouldn't tell individuals how to live. I'd support society-level mores and laws though.
Like I said, people are unfamiliar with the topic. In the industry, CSAM is the term used.
Because reddit is running out of money, and the investors have stopped giving any more. At least, that is what I infer from their direct statement of "Reddit must be self-sustainable". I have no inside info to know for sure.

So buying apps would just shorten their runway even further. And even if they did, they would just be bringing in more users of the same type they have today - users who are unwilling to pay for reddit accounts.

They need to figure out what their business model is, not just buy apps that keep them running down the same path they have been on for years without profitability.
I really enjoyed Zume Pizza as a product. They sometimes could get a pizza to my door within 10 minutes of me ordering.
Good advice. Early this morning I installed Safari extension on my iPad and iPhone that blocks those annoying “install our app” and “use our app” banners on web sites. Not having any social media apps installed makes me feel better about using my devices and not seeing those annoying nag banners keeps me calm

I get some real value from social media, but I like to severely limit my time.

Services like Apple Screen time to see how much time you loses every week help a lot. The Freedom.to service (and their web blog and podcasts) is also a great resource.
Nah, there's plenty of people just waiting to take over even the smallest of niche subs. I saw it firsthand back during the 2nd wave of gentrification in spring 2018 when a bunch of commercially uncomfortable subreddits like r/gundeals and their users (like my 2008 reddit account) were banned. The subreddits I moderated like r/radioastronomy were given to other users to moderate within a month or two. Reddit eventually admitted it was wrong about banning r/gundeals and reinstated the sub but my account was never unbanned.

And any sub with serious activity will have power mods submitting applications for take-over so they can commercialize it.
Drink 500ml of water immediately after waking up. A dehydrated brain is not a smart brain.
Why not write one? A text interface UI is trivial.
Simple. It's a gift for a kid's bday party.
Why not use your own api key and collect payment from your customers?

or add advertising and make sure you use 3.5
Not talked about in the article, is that this report is actually trying to move progress forward to addressing the issues surrounding the new, abundant, and detailed information and how the current framework of 4A legislation isn't really appropriate in the new data market.

From the conclusion:

U) Third, as part of this set of policies and procedures, and/or as a complement to it, the IC (Intelligence Community) should develop more precise sensitivity and privacy-protecting guidance for CAI (Commercially Available Information). Again, we offer several suggestions for the development of such guidance.

So, in some light this should be considered progress, not the 800lb gorilla in the room.
> Today we have secure erase which is necessary to clear SSDs and I doubt there is any actual technology to recover from thia mechanism.

You might doubt it, but you also cannot provide much evidence against it. Trim commands just tell the controller to erase data – what they actually do internally isn't easy to discover without a major operation and internal knowledge.

The best bet is not trusting the drives at all, perhaps by storing only encrypted data, then throwing away the key.
The premise, as far as I understand it, is that Star Trek offers a view of the future of technology that is preferrable to the one in Snow Crash. Preferrable because it's about the humans, not the machines.

That's how I read the article anyway. It is a bit hastily written, I think.
two reasons:

1. you prefer functional style languages, such as elixir
2. you want to avoid `pip install` ing dependencies
+1 for the article actually mentioning the 4th ammendment, even if it was only in a quote from Sen. Ron Wyden:

“I’ve been warning for years that if using a credit card to buy an Americans’ personal information voids their Fourth Amendment rights, then traditional checks and balances for government surveillance will crumble,” Ron Wyden, a US senator from Oregon, says.

I continue to try to highlight the degree to which the 2nd ammendmennt is quoted versus the 4th ammendment The 4th being much much more relvent to the current state of affairs.
I second this.

Btw, I witness, in an almost daily basis, the power of a shared classification system based on numerical IDs/prefixes.

My parents use a web app based on an old-school text user interface (the vendor translated the original Pascal code to a CGI-based web app). The multiple routines are identified by numbers, (kind of) following a certain organization logic. Routines can optionally be called directly by typing its ID instead of navigating menus.

The team's communication and work-flow naturally organize around this classification method. The vendor's support staff also use the same language. "You can find this in 938, that in 835, and then check the overall status in 104". Repetition + predictability provided by the underlying classification logic quickly imprints those IDs in users' memory.

Such a simple, ellegant system.