skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think I, or the idea of affirmative action said anything about racism against asians, in particular the recent surge (most probably due to Mr CHAI-NUH and his base).

A system of “merit” simply cannot be built on top of a system of racism. Merit is a nice end goal, but making it merit based when you’ve already made it impossible for some races to get merit is racist.

Personally, I think this is an “as a black man” reply to distract from the fact that you have zero actual response.
I've deployed microservices in C! It's a PITA. Not to build, but to get the microservice to accept C. It builds real fast. Then zip, and `aws lambda blah blah` works fine.
The obvious counter is that raiding a house is a very public and relatively expensive action. There's a natural disincentive to it. OTOH digital surveillance is more akin to being a ghost who can float through a door without anyone ever knowing you're there, and teleport there and back instantly with no physical time or effort

I think this is the big change people miss when it comes to police powers in the digital age. There's not been really been a culture shift from the police nor the citizens about police powers, just a increase in quantity of ability that has turned into a difference in quality. For decades agents of the state have had the theoretical ability to surveil people, and the people were generally OK with it because of the assumption that "well they won't bother doing it to a random guy like me", which was true, back when it required actual footwork, and even pulling up someone's file was a physical task

Assuming one does accept targeted surveillance in extreme cases, then I'm not sure how to solve this apart from the frustratingly "stupid" and probably unenforceable solution of requiring the police and intelligence agencies to be stuck on 90s tech. Theoretical legal sanctions against doing this appear to have no teeth, the only way to discourage surveillance abuse is to make each instance have a non-circumventable operational cost

So to use a concrete example: I actually like private CCTV in public spaces. I do feel safer knowing the police can use that footage if I'm a victim of crime. But I only accept it because most systems are just writing to a local device, meaning there's a cost to the police asking for it. Any scheme to automate access to these records over the internet, no matter how well-meaning and theoretically legally restricted they are, would inevitably be used to make those scenes from The Bourne Ultimatum seem quaint
You don't need the latest shit. It just works and does what's needed. Also it can be used headless. It's still here because it's not flashy or hot.
It's also quite possible this is knowledge lost and reacquired. Maybe the Romans did know it, but we lost records of them knowing it. And then we subsequently lost the knowledge itself.
And how many bits are in an embedded vector?
> can be every bit as locked down

I've never seen the security stuff from ChromeOS be ported to live outside of ChromeOS. When I looked at it (trying to build the inside-container agents for acustom container image), the error messages for setting it up incorrectly were.. let's charitably say hard to understand. I doubt anyone outside of ChromeOS developers understands it, really.

It's pretty intricate, e.g. giving Wayland access to virtual machines in a safe way.
I think if you could build such a thing they would be banned on the same grounds.
Atlas Finance
Looking for beta testers to test out generating and comparing financials for US equities with a text prompt. For example, you could say "net income, free cash flow, return on equity for AMZN, AAPL, AMZN" and it generates the data for you to be copied into excel or visualized to easily compare the history.
Oh, that makes way more sense! I misunderstood you completely, my bad.
It's very possible but we are meaning different things by the same words. My background isn't English in language, I try not to be formed by Anglosphere in my thinking (as far as it's even possible nowadays) and find the "foobrow" terminology rather silly. Even then, in my mind it connects more with social class, if that, than with a country or region (which is a different topic).

So the thing that rubs me the wrong way, in connection with the OP, is people using intentionally sloppy language in a way that is mainstream cool, more than specific to any group that may be oppressed. I don't claim my thinking on this to be science based (I don't see how it could be), but I think there are hogwash rationalizations of the trend I'm talking about that pose as "science-based" (while being only interpretative) and/or connected to disadvantaged groups. I think it is different from being respected when using my maternal dialect (I hope you won't get offended by using this word, I don't mean to) and this is not what OP was about.

I do think there are connections to the history of thought that are universally available despite attempts of a bunch of North-Western European countries (plus the US) trying to paint themselves as possessing "the" intellectual history. That being said, I do think that how fruitful and useful an intellectual contribution is, is largely unrelated to the power status of the contributor. I also think we are getting into some deep digressions at this point, so I will probably leave you to make you counterpoints as you want.
In theory you spending it would reset the expiration date.

If you know your money will expire you will spend it, thus stimulating the economy. We also can’t have the dirty proles save their way to a higher social class.
Sure but that's a different argument than the one presented above.
An A.I. Supercomputer Whirs to Life, Powered by Giant Computer Chips
https://archive.ph/1lOzh

>The new supercomputer, made by the Silicon Valley start-up Cerebras, was unveiled as the A.I. boom drives demand for chips and computing power.
An $3T company can literally buy governmnets
I hate modern day exaggerations and maybe, gasp, wanted to say also that (and be happily downvoted for that again :)).

And I also don't believe you about spin period or Gauss.. lol.
Laravel Livewire 3
I visited this server a year or two ago and tbqh I think it's more about the library building (a very large and impressive build) then the contents of the library. The library building so so huge you can spend several minutes walking from one book to the other. If it were just about distributing the books through minecraft they could have created a much more compact library where all the books are within convenient reaching distance.

Basically it's more of an art installation than it is a serious censorship circumvention tool. Still neat for what it is I guess.
> What's wrong there, aside from spelling?

If you’re going to classify every critical fact as a “nit” then nothing is ever wrong.

IDS vs iCloud is far more than a nit. They’re completely different services. iCloud is run by a 3rd party in China, this is well publicized, whereas IDS is not. So that’s like not a minor detail.

iMessage does not depend on iCloud. You don't need an iCloud account. These are unrelated.

Contact key verification is a more recent addition, and again not dependent on iCloud.

> How, specifically, does iCloud backup damage the affordance of E2E?

Just saying, you can sync your data to whatever encrypted or unencrypted service you want if you choose to. This may diminish the value to the end user of E2EE but it is unrelated.
I'm not the one that brought up iCloud first. Take that up with the original commenter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MctHTxESCFM
After a bit of brushing up on my acronyms, one could indeed use FOSS or FLOSS to denote that a piece of software is either free (or libre) or just open source [0].

The term "open source" is not referring to software with a free license, but to software whose source code is available to the public irrespective of license [1].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
> crime is a crime is a crime

Fortunately lawyers can not win trials with that argument in particular.

> Equal application of the law, y'know?

The context here is that we have a group (the Police) already enjoys special privileges (like monopoly on the use of force legally) and want to expand those privileges even further. I don't think your argument works the way you seem to think it works.
Flippant response. I didn't abuse jargon and there is no word salad. My comment is clear.

You're describing hate crimes and saying police are trying to treat actions against them the same way they treat hate crimes. It's not hyperbole to say that amounts to them making up laws.
No hint of it in the article, but this was a known (and notorious) problem half a century ago. One quick summary here - https://mleead.umich.edu/files/Key_Points_Michigans_1973_PBB...
I'm surprised it's even 25% in the UK, and I wonder how that's measured. Maybe the 25% includes things like "opening the iMessage app to read SMS messages sent by two-factor authentication services" etc.
On top of not being backward compatible, JPEG 2000 was significantly slower and required more RAM to decode, which at the time it was released was a much bigger deal than that is today. And for all of its technical improvements for some domains (transparency, large images without tiling, multiple color spaces), it was not substantially better at compressing images with high contrast edges and high texture frequency regions at low bitrates because it just replaced JPEG's block artifacts with its own substantial smoothing and ringing artifacts.
Since that asteroid will only be "observed" by this mission, it's exact value if retrieved is moot.

Not that we have the technology to move a dense space object that's "173 miles at its widest point" to a useful place.

What would that useful place even be? Would you put an object "173 miles across" in LEO next to the ISS? I doubt it. We also don't have the technology to land it in a controlled way.
But that doesn't address the point that JPEG XL is only marginally better and has a gigantic mountain to climb if it ever hopes to displace JPEG (and likely never will given the vast set of JPEG files that exist and will never be converted).
This is just my opinion based on what little I know of his protocols but I think he's getting ripped off. I do about half of what he does and I think most people could afford it at the risk of having to buy two or three less shiny things. Unlike him I am not publishing where I landed because it will vary by person. Each person should binge-read everything on nih.gov and binge watch a bunch of doctors, scientists and researchers on Youtube. The data is all within reach. Given how crazy accurate people get with football stats I expect people can become amateur physicians.
It's not about how often but about if a dispute arises.
If in that case the signature can't be trusted why signing in the first place?
PayPal doesn’t have a military and doesn’t extract taxes from you though.
The UK does have a system of judicial review and various laws are classed as “constitutional” (such as the Human Rights Act) and have special protection.

The UK courts are currently weak because the government threatens their independence. But the same thing is happening in other countries such as Israel, so it’s not something that a written constitution can prevent. Ultimately the only thing that can guarantee judicial independence is for people to believe in it, and for people to take to the streets. Most British people just don’t care, that is the problem.
As a user of airtable and not a developer of an airtable app/plugin, the api calls are burdensome (dereferencing lookup fields, data types) and if you want to do any serious work on large bases, you hit rate limits/call limits very quickly.

They make it trivial to import/push data in but accessing it or pulling it out looks like an intentionally hindered dark design pattern (like egress on aws). I have resorted to writing extension scripts in their godforsaken nonstandard javascript framework to access and aggregate data before pushing it out. Accessing google sheets programmatically is a walk in the park, comparatively.
> The government already has the power to do this — just ask any trans person in the South

Any citations on every trans person in the South being singled out for denial of services by the government? Because that sounds like inflammatory nonsense.
Where did you get that info from? You made me curious, so I tried to dig in a bit. The entire early history seems a little murky when you push past the 'official' story and try to find evidence. But even so, I couldn't find anything at all referencing what the flavor was intended to be. I was trying to find Morrison's original patent from ~1885 to see what it had in it, but couldn't dig it up.
FYI: There's a playground at https://llama2.ai/
I wonder if Michael Jackson would have even more success with his beer guides if he chose a pseudonym. https://www.beerbooks.com/cgi/ps4.cgi?action=enter&thispage=...
I'll play Devil's Advocate (because I enjoy throwing myself into the fray — especially when arguing against a point I actually agree with).

No one is mass-sharing their safe of child-porn worldwide with thousands of other child-porn voyeurs.

The internet and its ubiquitous accessibility combined with digital image file formats has changed the landscape for those that would fight these heinous crimes.

It is indeed a new and special case where a locked safe is not.
They also have the power to redefine what a text message is. They don't care about people like you think they do. They're a company who makes decisions to make money.
> If the government wants to tax these transactions - and let's admit it, they do - they'll take it right off the top.

If the federal government wants to tax things they indeed can. But I was asking about a chance from the status quo.

If you owe the US government money right now they can take it out of your bank account.

> Unlike with the banking system where different banks have different prices for wires - or even free under certain conditions - you can't "shop around" for a new government.

You can shop around for a different bank but it will still follow US law and also go above and beyond to help out the feds.

> Further, if a government determines you are not an "acceptable" participant, they have the ability to stop transactions to/from you.

Yes, but this already exists. https://ofac.treasury.gov/specially-designated-nationals-and...

> *Ability doesn't necessarily translate to authority - you can probably fight it - but the government's legal fees are paid by us so they're effectively unlimited.

Yes but your legal remedies might actually be better under FedWire. US fourth amendment law has a massive loophole whereby if a private business "voluntarily" assists the government it doesn't count as a search. So if the government searches your government bank account you'll have potentially better remedies than if they ask your private bank to pretty please send a printout. (and there's very little chance your current bank tells the feds to shove off and come back with a warrant in that kind of situation)
If she tore it up and threw the pieces in their face then maybe it could be construed as assault. If she was tearing it up and smirking without physically threatening the cops then how could it possibly constitute assault?
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-commun... This scandal about scanning your end-to-end encrypted photos on one of the ends, kinda defeating the purpose and reducing everyone's privacy. It lead directly to the legislation that Apple is coming out against today, which I would call ironic but is very predictable. How dare governments require us to do this thing we already planned to do.
Title could include "instant payments system"
And yet another task outsourced to the public, abusing human brains for gfx calculations and hn post as api. Crypto mined the matrix style.
These projects never realize that eSign tech is a commodity, the actual business you are in is creating market level Trust for your platform.

Eg if you’re a CFO, would you being willing to take the risk just to save a couple of bucks on a no-name eSign service for all your sensitive legal & vendor agreements, or use the worldwide Trusted eSign platform of DocuSign - which has gained acceptance by regulators as being an authoritative legal signature of contracts.
document the why, not the what.

this is also why tests are so important. if you want to remove something, you have to think twice... once for the original code and once to fix the broken tests.
Somewhat in the same vein, the original "23" (not the awful Hollywood film with same name):

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0126765/
While we may sneer at the idea of pampered tycoons pouring imemse sums into hourly fecal testing or whatever, these are actually what drive things forwards for the rest of us. After all, who would study life extension otherwise? It wouldn't be done for the sake of ordinary people (who needs us around to cause trouble after we're no longer useful), and govt bureaucrats havent the authority to do so either (unless in some covert program).
Downvoters: instead of reflexively downvoting, why not try reading? Here is some recent history:

Blood for Bananas: United Fruit's Central American Empire [0]
The lawyer who took on Chevron – and now marks his 600th day under house arrest [1]
(Debatable) Business Plot, aka Wall St Putsch [2]

[0] https://history.wsu.edu/rci/sample-research-project/
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/28/chevron-lawy...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
How do you account for the safety and liability of near proximity parties?
In this case the execution and follow-through matters more.

I could be the one to identify that my metropolitan city has a massive homelessness problem. But it's another, much more impressive, achievement to be the one who does the hard work of pursuing and resolving that problem.
Fine-tune Llama 2 in a few lines of code
Garbage poll. It utilized questions that close to zero Americans would disagree with, in that the policies in question aren't controversial and are already enforced. Ignoring the intentionally murky language of the third question. And ignoring the fact that their methods can't be critiqued given America's current rock solid trust in polling.

See the first three:

Require officers to have good relations with the community

Change management practices, so officer abuses are punished

Change management practices, so officers with multiple incidents of abuse of power are not allowed to serve
I keep writing and deleting responses. I am completely baffled. Speechless, really.

You cannot actually believe that meta gives a single solitary fuck about privacy?
I guess it is kinda true for the author, average person isn't looking for his content and his public will find other ways.
is the fee on a per bank or per account basis?
>Word seems interchangeable nowadays

You're so close to understanding.

This has always happened. When you have opinions people find objectionable it tends to make you less popular with those people. For some reason a few years ago we decided that if these ideas are coming from a particular group it's now a special thing deserving of a new term.

It's a dumb term. If you want to have soft power you need to not say all your vile opinions out loud, that's how the human animal has worked for millions of years.
Nothing pisses me off more than non-devs saying how AirTable is for devs when all the devs I know hate interfacing with it or having to work with it.

If you want pretty spreadsheets, cool. If you want to use this as a CMS or CRM, and it has to interface with an external tool, god rest your soul.

edit: a candid example, we were using it to track some payables for advertising campaigns. Marketing team (that likes airtable) was adding the invoice as a file field to the table. That file attachment is not added to any "email" or "external" sync features of airtable, making it impossible to add it programmatically to an accounting software or to a shared accounting drive. Using zapier doesn't fix it since it's just not the file or a link to it in any of the api calls, only a reference field. It also doesn't export when you do an export of the table. You have to manually go in and download the file from each record (in the ui) which makes putting it there vs dropping it into a shared drive pretty useless as far as time savings is concerned.
Inversely, is the UK so much worse off for not having a few games in their market? Neither is so big it can go without the other, not only the UK.
It's not really propaganda but a real-world challenge for us. I worked in the American solar industry and in the span of a few years, China went from irrelevant to eating up most of the world's producers and production. Now they are the overwhelming source of most of the world's solar panels and the American and European companies largely folded because we just couldn't compete with their combination of cheap labor, advanced factories, and state sponsorship.

China has its problems and its risks, to be sure, but it would be dangerous to underestimate their hybrid model of quasi-capitalism, quasi-communism. What is freedom limiting at the small scale (why would I innovate when the government owns me) can become absolute beasts at sufficient economies of scale. When they decide something is of national priority, they can top down refocus much of the national productivity (both money and people) towards it and then spin up a multinational logistics chain behind it across Asia and Africa. Then they scale up and dominate. It's happened to many industries already and just saying "China bad" isn't going to stop it.

It's like a game of Factorio played well, except with a billion workers and a lot of money that can be moved around at will. We see similar effects in the West during controlled wartime economies (when production can be directed to a particular cause), or government subsidies and money injections (like during covid, or with the infrastructure bill). It's also how our military is run, for example, and most of our big companies. Top down control economies have certain efficiencies (and inefficiencies) of scale that a bunch of small businesses don't have. But when it comes to commodity manufacturing, it's hard to beat their hybrid approach.
What has government ever done for us?

https://youtu.be/Qc7HmhrgTuQ
I am very worried when the government knows/governs money transfers; look at china.
PayPal might not but Apple/etc extract a 30% tax from everything you do through their stores.
If you had that much precious metal it wouldn’t be precious anymore.

The really juicy targets for exploitation are carbonaceous asteroids and the wet asteroid Ceres, the latter of which could be cut up into a habitat for a population larger than Earth can support. People have this obsession with technology and metals but really it is Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen that drive civilization in terms of human bodies, cattle, fabrics, plants, food, plastics, chemicals, etc.

Colonizing Mars looks unimaginative and unambiguous in comparison.
The Spanish flu really was very bad but would not have killed as many people if it occurred today. Malnutrition might have been a factor (though today's obesity rate might also be a problem) but the bigger thing was lack of antibiotics. Flu almost never kills you directly- it's the bacterial pneumonia you develop on top of it that does. Without antibiotics back then there would have been little they could do
Being able to use it without a mobile network seems pretty distinguishable. As well as not being subject to international charges.

And then of course the vastly higher fidelity of pictures and video sent via iMessage.
I’ve seen a lot of crazy conspiracy theories reveal themselves to be true in the past five years.

Apply some critical thinking on this. Governments and corporate elites worldwide are salivating over the level of surveillance and control that a CBDC will enable.