skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if it's really a matter of "trusting" the government, but of accepting that they already have access to most of my data anyway. Between credit cards, IP logs, subpoenas, national security letters, warrantless wiretapping, etc., they already know everything there is to know about me.

What makes this tradeoff (of convenience vs privacy) acceptable to me is not that I trust the government, but that I already accept I have near-zero privacy right now, as it is. Making it slightly easier for them isn't a big deal. I'm not a very exciting person to begin with.

And frankly I suspect that outside of techno-libertarian echo chambers, this is the case for most regular people. They just don't really care if the government knows about them. Not everyone has the same degree of desire/need for privacy.
Came here to make the same comment. I do mostly the same thing (and created an alias to make it less cumbersome to type.)

But... I guess if you didn't want to type this and were okay with an additional dependency, gitid has the advantage that you just have to remember what identity is current.
Not just corporate firewalls, there a lot of overly pessimistically configured by default home/consumer firewalls, routers, and ISP NAT/CGNAT gateways in the wild. "UPnP" is a hack of a solution for that in the consumer space, and it sometimes mostly works, except when it silently breaks in ways that only confuse average users and blame the application rather than their (or their ISP's) hardware.
Didn't come out of my pocket so I could really not care less about the money spent. On the other hand I am deeply appreciative of the way it shaped life and culture since then, particularly in the optimism it gives me for the future.
The 90s were wild. We used to just print entire credit card numbers on the receipt!
Tax collectors have traditionally extracted from low wealth individuals to enrich wealthy individuals.

I'll let you figure out why.
This is called 'blackstart', particularly in the energy sector.

My earliest exposure to this concept as a child was watching the film Jurassic Park. As someone fascinated by systems I found the idea of having to bring the whole system back up from scratch pretty interesting.

Today I still find these kinds of bootstrapping processes fascinating - both these megascale processes, but also the boot process that occurs whenever you turn on your computer. The latter is probably one of the most Rube Goldbergian feats of engineering with us today that actually still achieves a useful purpose. In fact it's absurd how Rube Goldbergian it is. And the complexity of the boot processes for modern systems (see [1] for a small glimpse) is extraordinary.

When you turn on your computer, it's like you're re-executing the entire process of a civilization bringing itself into being, gradually developing progressively more sophisticated technologies: at first RAM isn't working, but then you get RAM working and that lets you get progressively more sophisticated parts of the hardware working, etc.

By comparison, humans have no "automatic boot process". We're constructed in the 'on' state via fork(). So this repetition of entire process of, ah, 'abiogenesis' whenever you turn on your computer is kind of insane by comparison. Entire kingdoms of hardware state rise and fall with the press of a power button.

As an aside, I'm fond of the Red Dwarf novels, which are set on a massive mothership-type spaceship. The ship was constructed in space and never designed to enter a planet's atmosphere. In particular, the ship, and its engines, was constructed in the 'on' state by the crew that built it originally. It was never conceived that the ship would ever need to be rebooted, because it was assumed once the engines were initially fired during the commissioning of the ship, they would never be turned off until decommissioning. Thus, the ship has no automatic boot process for the engines, only a manual engine firing procedure which is extraordinarily arduous and long-winded and takes weeks to execute, said procedure having been included in the manual only as a curiosity more than anything else. This idea of a ship built "on" under the assumption it would never once be shut down or "restarted" until decommissioning is interesting, but of course also directly mirrors biological life.

[1] https://www.devever.net/~hl/backstage-cast
> If only there were an objective reality to know which car was in the wrong.

That's not what I was referring to as a change in facts. The change I was referring to is that he thought the woman was permanently disabled, but then found out she wasn't. That's the key fact that enabled both of them to change their stories about what happened. The fact that the woman also believed the accident was her fault was a nice bit of icing on the cake, but it wasn't the key fact.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron_monoxide
My point was that minimizing the csam issue isn't that relevant to the terribleness of a proposed law. Csam will likely always exist, unfortunately. It's too hard to prevent; the punishments seem to be nondeterrents.

We already have mountains of awful laws that are passed via appeal to csam emotion. I see no reason to pass another one under the appeal of csam reduction when we all know how it will really be used.
From what I've read about the current FTC, let the billionaire tantrums begin lol
It could probably be done with a merkle based signature log that whoever is hosting the service could provide.

To cheat, the party hosting it would probably have to forge signatures for everyone after the disputed signature.
I also think that the outcome value of going to space is far superior to spending those same R&D dollars on DARPA. Don't get me wrong, DARPA does make some cool tech...but instead of generating some science, some footprints, and a flag on the moon, and some rocket science to put communications satellites into orbit, those dollars in R&D put bullets and bombs into people, and prepare ICBMs to drop overseas. They're going to spend the money anyways, I'd rather they literally burn the cash than spend it on killing people.
Just wondering, but how is this different from our current system where judges can approve search warrants and companies have to comply?

Are you think they won’t need search warrants?
I mean if we're talking that level of societal breakdown they would just use the system we already have for tracking semi-restricted purchases which is scanning and reporting your government ID.

Then you can enforce meat and fossil fuel rations with no way to buy yourself around it.
> Intuit spent at least $25.6 million since 2006 on lobbying, H&R Block about $9.6 million and the conservative Americans for Tax Reform roughly $3 million.

> In contrast, the NAACP has spent $140,000 lobbying on “free-file” since 2006 and Public Citizen has spent $110,000 in the same time frame.

With two orders of magnitude of lobbying dollars difference on either side, I'm surprised this is going anywhere.

> “An IRS direct-to-e-file system is redundant and will not be free – not free to build, not free to operate, and not free for taxpayers,” Plummer (a spokesman for Intuit) said, adding that it “will unnecessarily cost taxpayers billions of dollars.”

Oh, like the system your company built and lobbies for? How do you say stuff like this out loud without your pants bursting into flames on the spot?
A pretty good 1:10 scale model in population, maybe. If the US were still in the Commonwealth, it'd be the second-largest nation in population by 110 million and the largest in GDP by about $20 trillion. Parent comment's GDP rounding error for the US is the entirety of the UK's 2019 GDP ($3.1T).
I see it more as an art piece. And I think instead of stupid, it's better described as superfluous.

Second thought: since it's Minecraft, a secondary purpose can be that it signals the values not just the supposed target demography, but to all people interested in Minecraft.
> So why is Apple not reporting vulns to others when others are reporting to them?

The article includes an explanation. It seems plausible.
Is this by the same people or is it a competitor to the PNG development group (http://libpng.org/pub/png/)?

The latter's website still heavily says that PNG is a still image only format, and promotes MNG as the animation alternative. Of course, that's not how web browsers have played it out, and it also appears to me that the libpng source code still lacks "APNG" support. This makes me think it's a competing standard to the original developers.
Auden: https://allpoetry.com/moon-landing
Can you explain to us all why reducing the data you gather to a self-selecting 0.1% of users would still allow for it being useful?
I could definitely go for national health care right now.
The Adam Freeland track "We Want Your Soul" is the perfect background track for reading the article. For those unfamiliar, here's the original : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oMEuyhBkRo . There's also a longer updated 2012 unofficial remake : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG29C4skboc . Enjoy!
Is this a brownian motion/maxwell's demon argument or are you suggesting that progress is guaranteed by some principle?
> Any time a big hack makes the news it turns out that either some system had no security, they used social engineering, or a disgruntled former employee.

Back in 2003 or so, my boss showed up at my desk at work, and looked like he was about to blow a gasket. There was a hack that was on the news, and it was getting featured in news stories all over the world.

He basically said he was going to fire me if it turned out it was my fault. (I built the servers that held the data that was compromised.)

Within a day, it turned out that it wasn't all the data, it was just one person, who had a lot of famous friends.

What had happened was that someone had accessed her account. The way that they did it was by guessing her password. Her password was the same as her dog's name, and she was a celebrity known to be seen at events with her dog.
So the CCP is just content to leave this encrypted form of communication controlled by an American company while simultaneously locking down every other avenue of electronic communication? Because “no one uses it?” If no one uses it why not block it then?

I mean, I hope so. Im not convinced though.
No, because the time value of money is a thing.

Even a 700% IRR can be not worth it, if you have alternatives with similar or lower risk with a higher annual return.
Or you can chaos monkey style shut off the continent on a regular basis.
You're right, it's not a matter of opinion, and in this case you are the one with the wrong opinion.
Outer Wilds is the only game that made me cry it was so good. Incredibly deep and meaningful story, 10/10
> I think you underestimate the power consumption of streaming video compared to what a VR headset already does

Rayban stories have a 167mah battery[1] the quest2 has a 3640mah battery[2] even then, it only last 2 hours, more or less, rather than an entire day.

[1]https://beckystern.com/2023/04/30/ray-bans-stories-teardown/

[2]https://www.meta.com/gb/legal/quest/product-information-shee...
Isn't it a feature? Now search engines will skip drm sites.
Why still? In-house corporate recruiters working at Big tech are not making the Lions share of money available in that field. Good recruiters work on commission and not fixed salary.
There are a lot of conspiracy theories about AIDS, and in the case like the death of Steve Jobs I guess this sort of rumor is bolstered by the fact that a lot of people hid their diagnosis due to stigma. Jobs was famously very focused on image. But I think most of that stigma was gone by 2010.
A bigger reason is all the tooling for HTTP. Every language has libraries for HTTP. There are lots of proxy servers and application servers. It works in the browser. It is all tested and reliable.

Also, a lot of uses fit the request-response model of HTTP. Does it make sense to make new protocol or adapt HTTP when it can do the same thing? It makes more sense to focus on the application logic.
Which is why nobody considers it good practice to do anything with a SINGLE first hand source.
The two newspaper blurbs that the author didn't highlight, but imho have implications that continue to resonate today:

--eisenhower didn't think it was fiscally sound to lower taxes. Here was a Republican who understood the strategic importance of the Moon landings, and was not afraid to say to the rest of his party- and the wealthy class- that they need to stop whining about tax cuts. Well we know who won that argument, ultimately. The tax base in the early 60s was VERY robust compared to today, despite the explosive growth of the multinationals and megacorps.

Robert Weiner warns about expecting computers to make moral decisions. Seemed paranoid in context, but really it was eerily prescient. Especially considering developments in the last year.
Is this US specific? It lacks UK brands like King Dick.
Now I want to see the results of one done by chatgpt.
Is it abandoned? Last commit was Mar 31, 2022 and there are 24 open PRs - most without any discussion happening.
just wondering if this AI is aware of that Google will sunset the AI within the next two years, and if it will then write its own farewell article
Comedy of course but also an indication that it wasn't a hugely unpopular opinion in the intro to Tom Lehrer's Wernher von Braun.

And what is it that put America in the forefront of
The nuclear nations? And what is it that will make it
possible to spend twenty billion dollars of your money
to put some clown on the moon? Well, it was good old
American know-how, that's what, as provided by good
old Americans like Dr. Wernher von Braun!
> Maybe, but what's the point in not generating 7 dollars of economic activity for every dollar spent, inspiring millions, and bootstrapping the process?

Because not spending that dollar on putting a guy on the moon could have generated 20 dollars elsewhere.
Which ironically they are trying to move away from(custom ASICS), towards more fpga based systems, since they can be somewhat harder to reverse engineer (battery back your memory/processor and scramble the bitstream when the device is tampered with).
Yeah this is something I'll need to fix. Also, the repos limit is to keep resources in check. For example, crunching 5000 repos for Microsoft takes about 10 minutes and ties up 8 out of 20 query threads.

Thanks for the feedback.
The British administration of Canada was surely informed by the experiences of the 1770s. And Canada had its own rebellions, just not successful ones.
I use old Mac Minis. You can find some decent cheap ones on eBay. They run quiet, have a small footprint and have all the ports I need for projects. I run OpenBSD on them but Linux support is robust for those as well.
A Duplicate refers to the same Article source URL,

or a word for word copy of the Story submitted to two different Publishers.

This is neither, two different Stories on the same Subject, by two different Authors.

By Joe Wituschek - https://bgr.com/tech/threads-has-lost-half-of-its-daily-acti...

BY Chris Morris - https://fortune.com/2023/07/18/threads-loses-half-active-use...

If you claim the above are Duplicates, then you must also deem Wikipedia #Userbase a Duplicate as well.

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This is super helpful! Currently it runs 4-bit quantization models (with names often ending in q4_0). Sorry this isn't more obvious. Will fix that and soon update the hosted models to support different quantization levels, so you can choose including k quant models. More to come there.

It does use GGML under the hood. Will definitely make sure that's more obvious for compatibility. There's about to be an update as well that includes those recent changes. We do vendor the source code since it made building with Go a lot easier, but definitely don't want to be "forking" it (vs supporting it) – it's a brilliant piece of software!
Despite the lack of name recognition, the Polk Award is a serious award which is well respected among journalists.
> There's constant sweating over how much context to include so that the reader is well-informed vs the risk of burying the important stuff

Won't help you when you have to edit the AI output because…

> Editing other people's stuff is even worse, because many writers aren't burdened by editorial concerns and don't bother to put in the effort to make their story coherent and interesting

So in the end, what do you gain?
HTTPS is HTTP over TLS/SSL. It is still HTTP.
> There is one little quirky js thing you can do to get the script element from inside the script.

Now you *have* to elaborate. And what's the problem it solves?
No policy is designed to last 10k years. Period.

Reminder that even the oldest of official policies in the US are just over 300 years old. Two magnitudes less. Most policies currently in use are less than a hundred years old and are a result of changes and amendments to those that proceeded them.

Even common law is only a thousand years old and has been revised over time.

None of that has anything to do with the issue still being relevant now and for the foreseeable future, ie the colloquial definition of “always”. When that eventually changes, then it can be re-evaluated, but that’s not likely to happen within our lifetimes, so it should very much be remembered when policies are made.
I was curious about this so I looked it up. We didn't have JSON.parse and JSON.stringify in place worldwide until fourteen years later. Horrible times.

https://caniuse.com/?search=JSON
$7 for each $1 is marketing math. Someone is being very generous in attributing too much economic activity to the space program.
Doubtful. The US was the first government of its kind and it triggered the French Revolution and every anti-monarchist revolution since then. Canada and every other commonwealth state was influenced by that. The snowballing GDP under republics begin to have its own gravity until a huge portion of the world got pulled into our orbit.

History is not a linear journey from point a to point b. Capitalist republics are not inevitable and liberalism is not assured. We could indeed all be bowing to Charles right now.
A knock-on effect of non-retrainable workers being displaced is that they become convenient vectors for authoritarianism.
Someone should just get this working on Llama 2 instead of O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com [0]

All this is it's just talking to a AI model sitting on someone else's server.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeChat/blob/main/src/model.ts...
$25 billion, for the coolest photo-op in history. Hell yeah. We flush orders of magnitude more money down the drain for shits and giggles any way, might as well do something no one else has ever done before.
You know about Katyn.
>Reducing the normal team size from 6->5 was probably also intended, in part, to help with establishing matches more quickly. For me, this kicked off a catastrophic series of design changes that pushed me away from the game completely.

Agreed. OW1 wasn't perfect but getting rid of the 2nd tank wasn't the solution. Making tank more fun is the solution. People play Hanzo genji doomfist because they are fun. People don't play Orisa because she is boring.
It will slow page loads for Chrome and browsers not supporting it but it will be blazing fast on Safari. You keep the file size savings and high image quality.

I’m sure YouTubers and tech sites will love to do Safari vs Chrome (and Co.) content to spread the message that Chrome is inferior.
You know, I was going to argue that such an historical landmark has value beyond what is learned. Those who are inspired, those who believe in funding science, the sheer awe of what civilization can achieve and all.

But it would seem the cost ascended to what would now be $280 billion, adjusted for inflation.

CERN's Large Hadron Collider cost 4.75 billion.
International Space Station? A cool 150 billion
GPS costed 12 billion to put in orbit.
James Webb telescope, 10 billion.
Human Genome, 5 billion.

Now, there is a point to be made that maybe we just don't do other very valuable, very expensive projects, and you can always compare it to the US defense budget if you want to make the number look small, but I really wasn't aware of the sheer amount of money poured into this. Damn.
>Any money spent on a goal that leads to valuable side effects, could instead have been spent on researching the valuable side effect directly.

What a wonderful tautology.

These things were researched because they were necessary. You don't just sit down and think of new things to invent, you invent things to fix a problem. Without a problem to solve, how is one supposed to suddenly decide what to research?
The Revolutionary War was also opposed by the majority of the people in the colonies.

The majority of a large population is always and without exception a dumb herd. It's the rare context where you should listen to what that type of majority says or claims to want. The wisdom of crowds is one of the more idiotic concepts popularized in the past 30 years.

Even more than intelligence is a very scarce attribute, being competent at utilizing reason and generally being rational (by intent, wilfully; being focused on purpose in the direction of being rational and working to maintain that orientation, which requires persistent effort, while the median person is exceptionally lazy).

It's why you shouldn't bother asking people what they want when it comes to building the future. The masses have absolutely no idea what they're doing with their own lives most of the time, much less have any grasp of what's possible when it comes to assembling the future (as referenced Henry Ford & faster horses).

People will say: well then you're invalidating Democracy by ignoring the majority! No. Concepts of rights as in the Bill of Rights are specifically created to protect the minority from the irrational, dangerous majority; it's overwhelmingly meant as a restraint on the ill behavior of the majority. It helps (emphasis) to prevent the majority from voting your rights as a minority individual out of existence just because they have that majority vote.

We need things like the Bill of Rights precisely because the majority are so often dumb, dangerous and irrational (and they're not irrational + dangerous 24/7, the tendency is for them to go on rampages historically, so they must be caged by something like the Bill of Rights to try to prevent that behavior).
It's Norbert Wiener.
And that's OK. I'm sure there would still be anonymous forums, the 4chans and reddits of the world and such. But this would enable real-identity communities that we don't currently have, useful for things like public comments and discussions for local news (god, those newspaper comment sections are horrible right now), government requests for comments (like when they're starting a new development or changing land use or whatever), things like a public version of Nextdoor/Yelp/etc.

The hope is not that it would kill anonymity altogether, but that it would create some alternative communities linked to real-world identities, and maybe that would help people behave better, with real-world decorum, in those specific identities. Yeah, some people would never sign up for those... and maybe that's OK, as long as the remaining community is more civil and thoughtful?
Nuclear reactors require constant cooling. That usually entails constantly running pumps.
That would be pretty sweet. Big fan of Biden's moonshot cancer initiative. I'd love to see another "space race" type event pursued by America in the name of advancing our scientific understanding. Trying to cure cancer seems like it would be an awesome place to start.

2.5% of GDP would be... 500bn a year?

Coordinating that would be wild. What about a race to negative emissions for 2.5% GDP? With the promise of well paying jobs, cleaner air (long term saves money due to reduced asthma, etc), reduced foreign energy dependence, and increasing the number of products we can sell abroad (long term positive), reducing climate impact (long term saves money in reduced disaster relief).
They all use WhatsApp