skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Before, authorities could get a warrant to wiretap phones

So basically, before the invention of phones, no criminal was ever caught?

Clearly that's not true. It is entirely possible to follow and spy on people in person and that's how it was always done before the 20th century.

Just because new technologies exist does not justify using them to inifinitely augment surveillance powers of the state.

> a big deal if your job is say, stopping and apprehending human trafficking rings or organized crime

You don't succeed at human trafficking or organized crime if you never leave the house and spend all your day just chatting on signal. You have to actually go out into the real world and do the crimes. As soon as you step out of the house you can be followed and monitored and caught in the act.
Not really. I mean, in general sure but that specific snippet was very accurate for his time. And perhaps it still even applies now.
It is a cool app but it might spill secrets? It told me some things like someone’s name who you know, but it could be making it up.
See my sibling answer: if you dip meat directly into oil at above 100°C (212°F), you will get something resembling leather, as the high temperature will make any water inside the meat boil and escape as vapor.

What you want is to coat the meat with something that prevents water from escaping: usually a tempura batter.
They run the companies that we throw our money at.
Ah well they suspected it so it's fine :). And yeah sure, they drone striked American citizens without any judicial process but spying on them would never, ever! Happen. That's just too far.
Old school: The query building in Microsoft Access 2000 was fairly easy to use, and the resulting query could be viewed as an SQL statement.
Guy wanted to ride out the apocalypse on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean? Max elevation of 65m, how much of Nauru would still exist if global warming is the apocalypse he tries to ride out?
I'm afraid you'll throw a fit when you find out there's a whole field called structural health monitoring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_health_monitoring
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/technology/ftx-caroline-e...

SBF admitted he met with NYT authors. Source material likely came from SBF personal files. These materials were not shared with the Government through discovery. How will Judge Kaplan respond.
It's Kyiv, not Kiev :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev
Any recommendations for a book about Hoover?

I just finished reading The Devil's Chessboard about Allen Dulles and the nascent CIA. It's a great book if you haven't read it.
Digital Fortress ruined Dan Brown for me.

When Da Vinci Code came out, I knew essentially zilch about Renaissance Italy, or early church history or art or many of the other topics it touches on, and I thought it was fascinating!

Then I read Digital Fortress and realized that it was quite possible that Dan Brown was very comfortable writing entire books on topics which he also knew essentially zilch about, and perhaps I should be a bit more skeptical of the historical and factual basis of his novels.
I guess we would just disagree on this key point that salary differences are based on gender behavior and not just on gender. As far as I can see, the salary differences (and others, including votes for women, leadership positions etc) are based on perceived gender differences and not on actual behavior changes.
>myopic consumption pattern
To be fair, some scientists made fools of themselves and their (and mine!) profession when speaking to the media. And most of the time journalists treated them as infallible priests handing down absolute truths (like when someone mistook relative risk reduction for proportion of patients responding to a drug... in an EU national newspaper). I even saw falsehoods (yes, falsehoods) on immunity appearing on mainstream papers ("Omicron bypasses vaccines" - totally false): at some point I thought my immunology textbooks would self-combust.

More on topic, even though I tend towards the natural origin hypothesis, there's not enough evidence to show that it is the only possible idea, and that at least a leak (I think bioengineering is far less likely) is possible.

And personally I think (of course, that's just my opinion) the whole debate is there due to the Fauci controversy about GoF research, not necessarily about the actual virus.

Shutting down debate like this was never a good idea and in fact reinforced the conspiracy theory supporters. Because people are people, and despite the uncertainty, they started treating lack of evidence as "facts".
However it only takes 1 person to take it the wrong way and feed it to the court of public opinion.

The comment is dangerous not because someone might take it badly - but because out of context it sounds like a doctor making fun of a patient for a medical condition. It would be extremely easy for a disgruntled patient to weaponize it (even if the patient knew it was a joke at the time and even found it funny, they can still use it if they are disgruntled for some other reason).

That's not to say professionals can't joke or talk to people like humans, but some jokes are very risky.
> [6] Raise the money from elsewhere (e.g. by taxing investment gains oe by raising wages and have a bigger fraction of the wage going to retirement funds)

yeah, for example I googled and found that corp tax dropped from 33 to 25 in last five years, so they literally took money from employees and gave to employers.

But trivial change could be to make pensions base on retirement age: someone can retire at 62, but get smaller pension, and another could retire at 78 but get much larger pension, plus have pension base on contribution.
The right has been accused of denialism for decades at this point, but any time solutions they might be in favor of are proposed, the left gives us hysterics about how geo-engineering is too dangerous to contemplate.

This leads me to believe that they're lying about how important it is to them. Supposedly, it is a world-ending scenario... at least when it comes to wrecking economies. But the moment real fixes are discussed it's "oh no, we can't do that". Considering how much they've had hardons for economic meddling for a century and a half at this point, why should I believe that it's anything other than a ploy to do what they've always wanted?
The real problem with the lack of skepticism in journalism is not science but foreign policy, literally the death of more than a million people (in the case of the iraq war) can directly be attributed to journalist malpractice and there has been ZERO change or recognition of their structural failure, its exactly the same deeply incurious journalists parroting often harmful propaganda today.
This is speculation, Apple doesn’t generally produce cheaper-for-the-low-end, they wait for inflation and expectations to climb and make their high-end products “normal”.
In such cases it's useful to occasionally direct all your imagination to the highest ideal known to you, better if it's abstract. This can be compared with trying to hear the finest sound in your surroundings, and making it crystal clear to you.
This is how we won our war on fruit flies:

- repot all plants after rinsing all soil from them

- use leca balls instead of soil and water the plants with a water + fertilizer solution (this is what they do for office plants and why they have stickers saying “do not water”)

- all incoming fruits and vegetables soak in water + vinegar for 20–30 min as this kills any eggs (they’ll also last longer because they don’t spoil as fast)

- have bug screens on any window that we keep open (they don’t come standard in Europe)

- the fruit basket is also enclosed in a bug screen for good measure

I believe fruit flies mostly came through grocery store fruits (eggs on the fruits) and then hatched and went to live in the houseplants soil where they’d eat the roots.
It gives some people comfort to think that complex problems have simple solutions. If it’s just the fault of the billionaires, that’s a small group that can be relatively easily targeted.

The alternative is facing the uncomfortable truth that climate change is the aggregate of small decisions made every day by every human, and there is no single action that will address it.
Fruit flies are easy to manage but these monsters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciaridae
I'm curious, can you ballpark how many tokens you use for the round trip of link ingestion and article creation? I haven't really tinkered with LLMs, so I'm trying to wrap my head around the cost of projects like this.
Back when I used to do Mechanical Turk now and then, I would see rewording tasks show up pretty often there too. I assume they were for this kind of purpose. Typically they were just one sentence out of context that you were supposed to reword. I guess they pasted the article back together out of the reworded sentences?
Does anyone else think the logo looks more like an onion than a bun?
I found it useful to screenrecord all my computer activity. It is OCR searchable. This way if I vaguely remember some bits, I can reconstruct my sources. It also preserves original text, in case sources get edited.
Unable to admit being wrong is narcissistic personality disorder. Do some research it’s fascinating.
Related:

Internet Search Tips - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26847596 - April 2021 (77 comments)

Internet Search Tips - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18666574 - Dec 2018 (28 comments)
> wealthy westerners should pay for, say, pensions or services in Africa?

actually this sounds reasonable, and Western countries obviously pay already through various programs.
I can only compare physics and computer science, because these are the only domains I have a formal education in. But I'll tell you that in physics, philosophy is well discussed and at the core. The study is called "natural philosophy" after all. There's a reason there isn't a shortage of philosopher mathematicians and philosopher physicists. You can't do those subjects without philosophy, but you can do philosophy without those subjects and you definitely lose some rigor and to be blunt I feel that the academics I meet there appear to have just toked a large bowl. There is a reason the mathematicians broke away from philosophers fairly early on, because there was a goal of finding truth rather than endless debate, which is based on charisma and linguistic flexibility. The goalpost is too easy to move as people continue to act smug weaseling their way into the contradictory provable evidence to their claims actually being proof of their own (because they're not arguing for truth but rather for intellectual superiority). Because of this, I'd be careful with your diction if you want to actually communicate. I'm sure you know of Hacking, but that's a great place to start for anyone unaware. But the point of science is that which Asimov explained: The Relativity of Wrong. We must not ignore the fact that we get more right over time, and not pretend that all wrongs are equally wrong. That just prevents progress (and why many philosophers come off as annoying. They try to poke holes without understanding the fabric they are prodding, often pointing at the well known holes as if they were invisible). Not to say that physicists aren't pretentious, they are and I'm not sure you could get many to even pursue the subject if you didn't promise them a fictitious pedestal in intellectual superiority ;) (It's why you look for those who's eyes light up when they talk). On the other hand, I find computer scientists to be lacking in philosophy and especially in a discussion of ethics. They have a high focus on empirical evidence but despite discussing it do not seem to internalize the tyranny of metrics, but rather place it even higher on a pedestal. Maybe it is that they often are more jack of all trades, master of none, but think that they are because they did a project that took a week or two in a domain. But if I don't use spacing who's going to read my text anyways?
> At which point do you think humanity will start seriously thinking about radical solutions?

You mean, like, switching to a vegan diet, using public transport and stop flying? Those seem radical enough for most people in the Northern Hemisphere.

> Such as detonating thermonuclear weapons to throw enough dust above the troposphere to cool the planet down?

Weird world, one in which people can consider drastically changing the composition of the atmosphere, affecting all forms of life over the planet at the same time, instead of purchasing less from Amazon and doing some changes in their diet and holiday plans.
Perhaps a bit awkwardly named but nice:

> bun --smol is a new CLI flag which configures the JavaScriptCore heap size to be smaller and grow slower, at a cost to runtime performance. This is useful for running Bun in memory-constrained environments.

From the example they gave (https://i.imgur.com/IDHTaAh.png):

Bun 343 MB
Bun with --smol 54 MB
Node.js 138 MB
Exactly... People just don't learn. For example currently there is a huge number of companies here in Poland that are migrating all of their cloud apps to GCP (Google cloud) from AWS. Why? Because Google has opened a region in Poland.

AWS has live customer support you can ring (if you pay for it) and frequently as a client you get an account manager you can call in case of trouble and that person has direct access to support teams. These support peoole can actually fix stuff for you. Back in the day I've handled lots of support cases like this.

Google on their website claims they also offer live support, but I read enough stories with headlines like "Google deleted my business overnight and there's no one to talk to" to question it's usefulness. I haven't had a chance to deal with Google's GCP support yet so I don't know how good or bad it might be, but I had a couple of support cases raised for other products (play store, book publishing etc) and it was obvious people that work there can't really do anything if stuff breaks. They're there just for Google to be able to say "we too have live support" and to tell you how to do stuff in lieu of documentation. When stuff breaks... You get an email "we're escalating it _to_developers_" to never hear from them again (or you get an email every month asking you if the issue is still ongoing)

So I think it is the biggest case of "putting all your eggs in one basket" I saw in a while. If anyone has contrary experience of GCP support I'd love to hear it.
It goes a lot deeper than the 30 year mortgage. The entire US financial system seems to be premised on the idea that free markets aren't reckless enough and that they needed to be pushed out into riskier territory. 30 year mortgages are one aspect of this strategy. Pumping money into stock and bond markets via the fed and the "President's Working Group on Financial Markets" are another wing drawing money into riskier assets. Listening to Peter Schiff talking about what happened when he tried to open a full reserve bank was also eye opening (spoilers: banking regulators do not like full reserve banks).

I feel it is unfair that capitalism is tarred with the inevitable collapses that follow. Capitalists are being pushed to the brink here. The regulators are where the push comes from that forces the US economy to take far more risk than is sensible.
What brought you to that conclusion? There are lots of counterexamples: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> do you think that wealthy westerners should pay for, say, pensions or services in Africa?

If they have business interests in Africa, absolutely.

The world's biggest corporations are profiting massively from having access to the French market. But that access is not a given, it is being granted by the French people, and can be taken away at any time for any reason the French people consider valid.
For complement I would recommend Russian yandex, and vk.com (russian facebook). It is like snapshot of internet from 2018, before everything was hit by massive censorship. It has some very niche communities that are no longer on internet. For example Ancient Egypt history, western net is filled with alien theories, Russians are doing experimental archaeology. Also repair, electronics...

Also Telegram is like second internet, nobody talks about!
I'm sorry, how does that answer my question? You're changing the topic.
Check out the roadmap: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/159
> But the moment real fixes are discussed

Yeah, Nuh.

"detonating thermonuclear weapons to throw enough dust above the troposphere to cool the planet down" isn't a real solution, and we've done this before .. leaving aside the two atomic detonations at the end of WWII and looking just at the 2,000 test detonations since (many larger, much larger, than the H & N explosions) the absolute worst case examples were ground level blasts that lifted material into the sky. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo

Better fixes include inflating bubbles between the earth and sun to reduce incoming light .. at least that one is reversable and fine tuneable.

Or, you know, maybe consuming less and winding down a bit on the baby making?
When was the video taken? If it was during the initial time, why do you use it as evidence that the Pfizer CEO hasn't taken the vaccine? Why didn't you mention that, instead making it seem like the CEO hasn't taken the vaccine for other reasons than he literally stated in the video?

And let's consider you were right, the Pfizer CEO doesn't trust the vaccine and still hasn't taken it. Why the hell would he ever admit he didn't take it? Why wouldn't he say "yeah, I took the first dose"?
It stood out to me that this website states, as a matter of inevitable and accepted fact, that the use of refrigerants will be banned from the EU in some kind of short timeframe. That seems a bit insane on its face unless I am completely out of touch with EU politics since I am in the USA. Refrigerants are extremely useful and are capable of offsetting their greenhouse effects by so many orders of magnitude it isn’t even worth discussing. Heat pumps are finally taking off and have the potential to throw out fossil fuel heating in most of the world within the next decade. Why would anyone want to stop that?
That's a fair take. Which kind of begs the question: How much innovation in tech is actually just people getting around limitations imposed by monopoly/high influence players?

I'd guess not an insignificant amount.
MPT-30B – Apache 2.0 licensed LLM
This seemed to slip under the radar for me, and given the discussion around the lack of truly open source LLMs I thought it may be useful for others.

It’s only the base model (the finetune ones are various CC) but given it’s only a few hundred dollars to finetune these base models into something akin to GPT 3.5 seems like a good starting point?

Are there any others you are aware of?
The article clearly says that it is for the US but I still can not think of a reason why that would be valid for US and not Europe for example.

I'm not an economist but my math is simple. I compare the Mortgage rates with Rent rates and the fact is that Paying rent for 30 years is money sent down the drain. For an average difference of 10% you would be the owner of the house after 30 years instead of just wasting all your money on rent without anything to show for it.

The whole discussion that this is a bet that your property will still hold or improve the value is meaningless, because even if it loses value (very improbable in most cases) it's still better than 0 that you are left with after paying 30 years of rent.

Now all of my math is not valid anymore if you taking a mortgage as an investement and not for your first Home and maybe that is what the article is about but still the Mortgage is very helpful for many people and just because it doesnt make sense as an investment does not make it toxic.
If these keys are so important, why are they not treated with similar security measures as CA keys?

Why is it just a handful of keys shared by dozens, hundreds, or likely even thousands of servers? Where is the HSM-backed root key, per-DC intermediate, and per-server transient signing key? Where is the certificate revocation list?

Is it even possible to secure a bearer token from an attack like this? Should we go back to a nonce which we present to the originating service to securely retrieve the payload?
Also lots of nano plastic in papertowels as coated fibres are woven on
"Subjective" and "arbitrary" are not the same thing.
Are there any English novels like Xenogears or Xenosaga?
> Capital is just more effective than labour

At what? Capital doesn’t plant seeds, harvest crops, stock shelves, or cook meals.

In a world with perfect 100% automation, yeah - sure, everybody can be a capitalist. In the real world labour is absolutely necessary, and being a capitalist is just exploiting those people that do the actual real work.

Your suggestion that everybody should try to be a capitalist is saying everyone should fight like crabs in a bucket to be the top crab crushing all the other crabs. Good plan.
Still no solution for nuclear waste, still depend on external water cooling, security can't handle threads like cyber attacks and airplane crashes.

That generation of power plants isn't really helping and new ones need a lot of time to build and produce lots of CO2 in the process.
With the amount of rice and wheat stockpile India has on books it should not be affected. But elections are so close ruling government can't afford to take the risk of a shortage revealing half empty silo's.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. How are those connected to the topic? Those functions aren't infrastructure implementations either.
Very good point about owing your livelihood. Same here. I learned a ton from installing Slackware 8.1 in the early '00s (from printing out the manual no less -- something I would be aghast to do today). I should probably cut Patrick Volkerding a check!

Anyway, happy birthday, Slackware!
The workarounds often lag months if not years behind new versions, and sometimes no workaround is available. It’s just not practical.
>attestation means websites can check to see if you're running modified or forked browsers that might allow for broader extension APIs.

It does not tell you what browser the user is using. Websites can not block a specific browser.

>Blocking ad fraud, blocking bots, blocking malware from a banking site, and blocking cheating in web games -- all of that requires blocking extensions

How does this affect browser modifications and extensions?
Web Environment Integrity attests the legitimacy of the underlying hardware and software stack, it does not restrict the indicated application’s functionality: E.g. if the browser allows extensions, the user may use extensions; if a browser is modified, the modified browser can still request Web Environment Integrity attestation.

It's about reducing the rate of those things.

>Do you genuinely think that an Open Linux environment is going to support attestation?

When Linux distributions start to actually care about security yes I do see plenty.

>Play Integrity

Play Integrity covers both attesting to if the system is in a secure state and if the app you are running is from the play store. This proposal only has an equivalent for the former.

>this is also not very difficult to look up

Chrome has worked on CNAME stuff since that was written and most of it does not really matter to most people.

>another long explanation of why advertisers are the victim and FLOC is actually making the web more private

Advertisers aren't the victim in this situation. It's the users who are losing privacy due to cross site tracking.