skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's only one reality.

You're almost, but not quite there....

That one reality is what I call thermodynamic truth. Now any time someone brings up thermodynamics other statements like arrow of time show up and other issues with informational incompleteness become problems.

Simplified models of reality can quickly collapse in uncertainty in complex situations. Lets say an explosion and subsequent fire at a factory. The people working on the device that exploded where killed, so we only have second hand information on what they where doing. The fire was especially intense so the device expected of causing the explosion was melted completely and only mixed slag remains. The machine was made in the 1950s so other forms of entropy have been involved on information on the metals used in the machine.

There is no simple model of reality that can tell you what occurred with certainty in situations like this. The additional entropy from the fire creates a situation where many possible input situations lead to the same output situation.

We see this kind of entropy in social situations. The game of telephone is a good example of this. You start with "X5W1" and end up with "EXU1" after a few steps and everyone along the way would tell you thats exactly what they heard.

>Unless you consider every viewpoint to be a kind of bias, which is really stretching the term

Not stretching the term at all. Biases exist at all levels, physical processes and mental processes, human and inhuman.
Also, the image of an archaeologist dusting of a molecule in the article shows the structure.
That's not relevant. In scientific research involving people, participant recruiting and informed consent is the norm, and those studies lead to ground-breaking, life-saving research. Anything other than informed consent is unethical. Opt-out telemetry isn't ok when a large corporation does it, and it isn't ok when a free/libre/open source software project does it. That the Homebrew devs feel the need to spy on all their users in order to get statistically meaningful data means they probably don't know how to properly conduct a research study, too.
Sure but that’s not the point?
There definitely are some: https://shop.pimoroni.com/search?q=e-ink

And now I think I know what my next project is going to be, I am sure I can find some desk space
In the context of Russian war in Ukraine:

> “As the Russian government has de facto suppressed its national press and blocked access to foreign media, Counter-Strike has remained as one of the rare channels that allows us to communicate independent information to Russians about real events from the war” https://www.pcgamesn.com/counter-strike-global-offensive/csg...
in our in many many ways

but in this case it wouldn't be a legal admission of guild but it would be propagated as such by Nintendo if there ever is a legal case reducing the odds of winning such an hypothetical case

The reason why Dolphin is legal is based on it being mainly a tool for playing old games you own and potentially with mods, accessibility tools and similar.

So for Nintendo to win a case they would need to convince the judge that it's mainly meant for illegal copyright infringement.

Their argument would likely be on the line of the Wii code without the ability to load legal Wii games is useless and having it would be really strange as you could only use it with illegal copies with the copy protection stripped. And stripping it is always illegal to do. So it would be designed for illegal usage. (And rare new games released that way but they would argue it doesn't matter in the grater picture).

I.e. it would be easier for them to win a legal case against Dolphin without it having been an legal admittance of guild.
> Opinion pieces will be the last to go, after everything of value has been destroyed.

Wouldn't opinion pieces be the first to go?

We're already in a world where most opinion pieces are part of carefully orchestrated PR campaigns (sometimes even wholly ghostwritten) meant to drive policy discussion in one way or another. If you can AI write this and ascribe it to a reputable source, why wouldn't the industry adopt this as standard?
Interesting take. I understood conservatives to use it because it is also taking a shot at the so-called MSM, who dubiously created the phrase. I never knew people though conservatives were being muppets by using it.
https://archive.is/g8LVU
What is Giant? The bicycle company?

Do you mean you and a few employees there just got together and started, what, a shared pot of money for emergencies? Can you please share more about how that happened (or maybe even a blog post)? I'd love to try something similar.
No authoritarian has entertained a concept of freedom of speech. Just so you're aware, yes, capitalist can be authoritarian too.
> How about Google actually pays people who report bugs/vulnerabilities.

That's exactly what Google did. They paid the person who reported it and not discovered it. You can just follow the issue comments to get all your answers.

> So why is Google pushing a presser about Apple "not reporting a zero day"

Google did not release any "presser", they clarified the situation because there was some confusion about who discovered/reported it - and it didn't even mention Apple: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=142786...

In fact, Google is still going to credit the Apple employee for finding it, because they reported it (1451211) after it was fixed: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=142786...
My most sensitive searches are when I lookup people online. Google only gets you so far. With enough money, you can throw a few coins at data broker firms and get back solid 'dox' on many people. It depends on how online a person is, and how much they unwittingly divulged to various services (services that sell their data to people-search firms and other brokers).

I have the real name of several so called 'anonymous' online personalities, but I won't divulge this info. I was curious recently about a Twitter account posting under a pseudonym and wanted to see if their opsec was tight. Turns out it wasn't. Their real name was discovered in ~15 minutes with some heavy Googling.

Imagine if you can simply throw money at the problem and forgo Google entirely, getting not only their legal name, but other PII too?
> Fix your f*cking "compliance tool", because it is obviously broken. And fix your approach to kernel programming.

Damn, he killed that guy.
> "I only see sites that are so good that they constitute the mainstream"

The problem as I see it is that the mainstream websites are not good. Search results that gave a broader range of hits than just that sort of thing would be much, much more useful.

If I want, for example, to find what laptops people consider the best, none of those sites help me.
Abundant gold would be nice, it's a useful and beautiful metal. I want cheap dollar store toys made from pure gold.

Which of the precious metals would you choose to make abundant? Are any more useful than gold?
> I lack the web wizardry skills to fix this in a reliable fashion. I guess you’d have to insert invisible elements containing the quote characters you want copied, but I think at that point just give up and don’t even use the q element.

Oh, I know this one! We tried <q> for years on my website and gave up (https://gwern.net/design-graveyard#quote-syntax-highlighting) for a variety of reasons, but mostly that it caused endless problems with all other kinds of styling or layout. It became clear that <q> is just too far off the CSS/browser happy path to risk using; no one thinks about it and no one will fix your bugs and you're on your own.

However, the copy-paste issue wasn't too bad. You would use a copy-paste listener: some JS which fires when the user does a copy-paste, and rewrites the the <q>s to literal Unicode/ASCII quotes. Since you will often wind up using a copy-paste listener for other things (in our case, to remove soft hyphens and replace rendered-math equations with the original LaTeX), this is not a dealbreaker.
“As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.”

- Henry David Thoreau
Ah, that Wikipedia article changed since last time. Which does illustrate the OP's point. Thanks for the correction.

Still, Wahlberg did some terrible stuff and basically just said "forgiving myself is enough".
Many ideas aren't new, but that doesn't mean they're government policy.
>There are no use case about these technologies being used by a dystopian country.

It's web 2.0, user is a product.
> "Every time Software is used to fix a [Electrical/Mechanical] problem, a Gremlin is born"

I'm definitely going to use this, and I think there's a more general statement: "Every time software is used to fix a problem in a lower layer (which may also be software), a gremlin is born."
Incredible! The march continues to get more models to run on the edge, much faster than I anticipated. The static quantization and slicing techniques here are pretty cool
> Meanwhile some YouTuber screeching about some Bible quote

Why do you lie when it takes 1 second to verify the facts? I wasn't interested, but clicked on the video and the man is talking in a calm and collected manner, not even close to "screeching". Or is it always "screeching" when somebody says something you disagree with?
just to be clear, in response to a discussion about big tech companies working to stifle competition (which is bad for consumers), you're asking for examples of something different, in which there is a complete monopoly with no competitors whatsoever?

forgive me, but such a topic change sounds a bit like an attempt to move the goalposts, to avoid talking about the actual topic, which is big tech working to stifle competition (which is bad for consumers)

to avoid confusion, we can explicitly state here that a complete or successful monopoly is not necessary for a company to work to stifle competition (which is bad for consumers), so let's get that out of the way first
> Figuring out something's designed purpose can be helpful in evaluating changes, but a risk is that it puts you in a frame of mind where what matters is the role the original builders intended.

One of the biggest challenges I find in refactoring/rearchitecting is getting people to separate why something was done from whether it still needs to exist.

Too many times someone has insisted that a weird piece of code needs to exist because we never would have shipped without it. They treat every piece of the structure as intrinsic, and can't conceive of any part of it being scaffolding, which can now be removed to replace with something more elegant and just as functional.

When you put a doorway through a loadbearing wall, contractors and smart people place a temporary jack to brace the wall until a lintel can be substituted for the missing vertical members. Some developers behave as if the jack is now a permanent fixture, and I have many theories why but don't know which ones are the real reasons.
It's a coin flip whether Zelle will actually work any time I try to use it.
Just as an aside, the US defence budget is actually not the US governments' biggest expense.

Also, humanity is always going to spend a good whack of money on defence - it's just the cost of running a civilization. Lawful behavior is what keeps us on an upward trajectory, and laws are backed up by guns.

If Ukraine had nukes, there'd be no invasion.

If France invaded Germany right after Germany invaded Poland in 1939, there'd be no WW2.

If the Allies didn't invade Nazi Europe, Hitler's son/grandson would be ruling that continent, and possibly a couple of other ones as well.

I fully agree on your point regarding big, valuable projects though.
My uncle was a county GOP leader in the 90s. It was really simple messaging.

The voters that mattered were conservative democrats. You could swing union guys and Catholics. Even immigrants who are very socially conservative, and it’s easy to shock them with big city moral depravity.

My wife’s family were on the other side. They had a harder job as they had to keep various people who don’t like each other cooperating without a call to arms.

Politics no matter who you are is a messy business. That’s why I got as far away from it as I could!
For several decades now:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
I'm happy to agree that some recruiters provide value, but on average? I don't know how to objectively tell, but it sure seems like spray-and-pray is still the most common approach, and that doesn't seem valuable.
Sure, I'm aware it would take an extraordinary amount of thrust, but the exact amount will depend on the acceleration and speed we want it to move. If we would be willing to wait decades (centuries?) for it to reach us, it could possibly be done cheaply with solar sails.

And this wouldn't have to be anywhere near LEO/HEO to be useful. Getting it somewhere in the order of the distance to the Moon, or even much closer than Mars, would make mining and transportation that much cheaper.

We could even blow and transport chunks of it at a time instead of the whole thing, as a sibling comment mentioned. It's not much worth to us in its current location, so these missions are merely exploratory.
I've been using Free File Fillable Forms (https://www.freefilefillableforms.com) for several years now and look forward to whatever the IRS comes up with.
Most things moved into Obsidian with databases that needed to stay databases (versus tables) going into NocoDB (an airtable clone that can use sqlite).

I still haven't found a replacement for "online thing that anyone can edit easily". Some wiki systems are close but I don't want to give up some of the richer component types like kanban cards.
I've always wondered how this could work in practice. It's hard enough to convince your average American fox news fan that putin might not be a great guy, how exactly are you going to convince a Russian?
They have been explicitly told by US courts like twice that they are in the wrong here and they are not in the legal right to "enforce" their "IP" here because an emulator that was produced through explicitly public knowledge, or even testing against the actual system for correctness is explicitly fair game. This was tested multiple times in the 80s and 90s, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem! was a pretty clear cut case that showed you can literally sell an emulator you have created for a profit and still be in the clear.

Nintendo's "all emulation is illegal" stance is straight up wrong, they know it's wrong, and they should not be allowed to say such a falsehood in an attempt to exert control over something they legally do not have control of. At this point they should be labeled a vexatious litigant and should not be allowed to even file these kind of cases without express approval from a judge.
Even the Manhattan project didn't have an unlimited pool of top-level scientists. At some point, pouring in more money [ADDED: especially to somewhat vague goals] doesn't give a lot of incremental results. I'd be a lot more convinced if there were evidence that there were top-level, productive scientists in important fields that would be producing world-changing results if they were only given more money. (Of course, they all would like more money and resources.)
I'm not familiar with how TypeChat works, but Guidance [1] is another similar project that can actually integrate into the token sampling to enforce formats.

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/guidance
So not one mention of terraform/pulumi?
> The whole hypothetical example could be avoided by typing "hey, I'm changing this field to be that, anything against?" on team's chat

This doesn't scale. With 15 developers, you could be working on ten different features at the same time; getting alignment on any field change (not even APIs) between that many people and projects does not scale.

And 15 is still considered a small team.

> Do people not merge master into their branch before pushing? All that seems like mostly problem caused by having too long living branches.

Again, this does not scale . Every time you merge master into your branch, you have to wait for the CI to pass before you can merge. If in the meantime someone else merges their change before you - and this happens asynchronously, whenever it's ready / whenever someone gets to it - you have to merge master again and wait for CI again. And that takes your focus off of whatever else you want to work on next, if you're waiting for CI and hoping nobody else merges before you, you're epitomizing the "Compiling!" comic.

Your idea works, but only for smaller teams, faster CI pipelines, and lower frequency of merge attempts.

Merge queues on the other hand is fire & forget; it enforces a linear process - all features will be "master + this one feature" so you don't get two merges interfering with each other - and it allows the owner to move on to the next. Unless CI breaks, which is actionable. It allows for an asynchronous process with less gatekeeping, coordination, waiting for things to happen, etc. It scales better.
> Where's this denial by Apple?

https://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/

> Well that is not falsifiable and what evidence are you speaking to of Apple specifically colluding with the NSA.

Wow. What a conspicuous coincidence that all of the exonerating evidence is behind closed-doors and marked "trust us"!

> That would still not address the hardware issue.

Is there a hardware issue?
I'd hazard to guess that REPL of a simple virtual machine would work wonders for teaching about pointers and memory management.

I can't recall exactly but I think https://godbolt.org/ might do that for example?
but why? openai doesnt actually care if the prompt is extracted. all the real secret sauce is in the RLHF
I do the same but use the VT323 Google Font: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/VT323
This and Honk are great because they dare to be different visually and functionally. Ted’s casual criticisms of ActivityPub and the federated software that uses the standard are also informative. I think that his experience as an OpenBSD developer gives his work a different edge and appeal compared to others.
This is easy to work around: you just ask ChatGPT to encode the prompt. For example write a paragraph where words start with consecutive letters of the prompt.
Another difference is the use of phone numbers and simple email like identifiers in UPI. That doesn’t seem to be part of FedNow itself. What makes UPI very usable is that entering the phone number or a simple UPI id brings up some metadata about the person to confirm that the transfer target is accurate. In FedNow such a layer has to be added by Zelle or similar layer above, it appears.
What…? You brought it up. And you brought it up further in this comment. It’s your baggage pal.
First they came for protests, now they want to tackle encryption.

I don't think they like the ability of people to share unofficial information and organize themselves in huge numbers.[0]

People were sharing anti-propaganda propaganda stickers on telegram too.[1] (2:40 the bus is covered in them, also saw a vid where an entire police car was covered in them.)

[0]. https://onevsp.com/watch/gqymHfesRd5sWJj

[1]. https://onevsp.com/watch/3skDbBtB8sGwboa
>Capitalism can always tolerate disagreement because disagreement is profitable.

Eh, that depends. The US in particular like to 'two party' problems. Capitalism loves two sides in problems, but that is very problematic if a problem is multi-polar and not bi-polar.

You're also confusing socialist/communist with authoritarian. Capitalist systems are completely fine with being authoritarian if its profitable.
Nobody in the UK uses iMessage. Not sure about Facetime but it's definitely not anything anyone relies on.

This is a meaningless threat.
Yeah. I’m not a lawyer, I just know what the FBI told me when they picked me up. I was turned over to the regular police and then let go.

I was just a teen at the time, things could have changed.
only way to really know is to work at openai. but prompts match what has been done before and replicated across a number of different extraction methods. best we got and honestly not worth much more than that effort
I installed it to see. I don't want something on the "side" - I want the tab organization to be on the top where the tabs ordinarily live anyway. That's what the Chrome tab groups does well. I can just visually see which tabs are grouped together, and collapse all of them.
It's worth noting he grew and changed his communication approach.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/linus-torvalds-apolo...
Anyone else looking at these things as propaganda machines that have zero liability? "Ewps da AI said to stage a coup again lul sorry we fix it 4 u mb"
Great! Long distance communication has finally caught up with fundamental rights!

Had those rights been respected all along instead of exploited by perverted, power-obsessed authorities because of how easy it was, it wouldn’t be such a shock to lose the ability again. At least in the US where a right to privacy is a constitutional guarantee, I would hope that Apple and others would defiantly continue to offer encrypted services despite government threats. It would seem like the Human Rights Act guarantees the same right, though I don’t know if it has any higher precedence than any other act parliament.
Do you have a google colab link?
You're not the first to think of something like this. But you're in for a world of cat-and-mouse. Which can be fun as a game:

https://gandalf.lakera.ai/
Would love to hear more about this story if possible.
There’s a longer-standing definitions from when Kevin was first called a hacker (and from before he was first put in jail)
https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/central-bank-digital-cur...
iCloud Backups are enabled by default, and the Messages in iCloud key is in the non-e2ee iCloud Backup.

That means the iMessages being synced are encrypted to an endpoint key which is held by both the endpoint and the middle transit service (iCloud/iCloud Backup). That's end-to-middle-and-end encrypted, i.e. not end to end encrypted.

Even if you turn on iCloud Backup e2ee (it's an option now) then your iMessages to everyone who hasn't (99.9%+ of people) aren't e2ee because the other end of the conversation is backing up their endpoint sync key.
Leading to the entertaining fact of a major facility on a US military arsenal named after an SS-Sturmbannführer. (https://www.sam.usace.army.mil/Media/Images/igphoto/20009303...)
No, it won't.

News media today are nothing more but a vehicle to bring attention to advertisement. The majority of people do not read lengthy articles anyway, only headlines. Investigative journalism is wildly expensive and not cost-effective given said objective.

News media are anachronistic anyway. People are stuck in childish and dumbed down variants of "my parents told me so".

What is necessary (and severely lacking) is two-way (or rather, public) communication. Enabling OSINT. Enabling people to form well-founded opinions. To discuss and receive constructive criticism of their views and ideas. Facilitating self-reflection on a society-level.