skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Hate crime is a fucking stupid term; a crime is a crime is a crime.

Is a crime a crime? Why are there first degree murder, second degree murder, and voluntary manslaughter? They are all the act of killing someone intentionally, with the only difference being the person's thought process and motivation. Most crimes involve taking into consideration the reasons for the act as part of what makes a crime a crime. So, hate crimes are not some outlier in how crimes are defined and differentiated.

> if targeting one group deserves special treatment, then targeting any group should get the same. Equal application of the law, y'know?

Hate crimes (and protected classes in general) are not “one group” nor are they randomly picked. At the federal level, they are race, religion, ethnicity, disability, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity, which basically fall into two different categories; what you are and what you believe. None of them are for what job you happen to choose to do. The “special treatment” statements is particularly fallacious, since most hate crime laws came in response systematic violence committed against these groups and them not receiving equal protection under the law. We don’t have anti lynching laws to give black people special treatment.
The police didn't investigate child sex crimes because the perpetrators were non-white and the police didn't want to be seen as racist. What about that is incorrect?
When selfhosting it - it's possible to connect AWS S3 to store the documents - AWS with S3 logs could be used as a source of trust to ensure the documents are not altered.
> but they're still required to display a cookie banner "notifying" you that cookies are "in use"

Common misconception but this is not true. If you use cookies only for functional purposes (not for tracking for example), you do not need to show any cookie banners. Like if you have a shopping cart and you have a cookie for keeping track of what's in it, it's for functional purposes for the user and hence needs no notice to be used.

The UK's ICO made a handy summary for people who are curious about what the directive actually says: https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1545/co...

Specifically:

> Exceptions from the requirement to provide information and
obtain consent

> Activities likely to fall within the
exception: [...] Some cookies help ensure that the
content of your page loads quickly [...] Certain cookies providing security that is essential to comply with the security requirements [...]
There was something I always wanted to ask him:

He was so meticulous is setting up new identities and moving to random places around the country to avoid the authorities. But would then log back into his previously compromised systems in a way that would expose his current geographic location. It always seemed like such a glaring hole in his otherwise well thought out personal opsec. I'm sure the story was more complicated than what appeared in the press at the time, or in the 2600 knock-off zines that were going around at the time, or in his books. It always confused me. I could never figure out if that was an oversight, or he just wasn't aware he was being watched.

I think I share a similar pendulum swinging feelings about km as other folks here, especially as his story unfolded across many different phases of my life: from adulation as a teen, to realizing that he was just another a*hole who would lie to your face to get what they want. Recently it has swung waaay back the other way -- especially as more of our access to customer service for critical aspects of our lives get buried behind obstructionist systems -- to understanding that we always need people who can tear any system apart.

As an addendum...I think the term hacker should be handed to the sys admin that started was instrumental in getting km located by (If my foggy mind remembers correcly) by emailing logs or log stats to himself and noticing that size was shrinking so someone was deleting them -- that blew my mind at the time.

He will be missed.
Intelligence is extremism. It is the most potentially extreme agent in the universe because it allows you to control all other forms of extremes.

When humans intelligence grew beyond that of the other animals, we became the masters of those animals. We can choose to manipulate them, control them, or if they cannot be controlled, destroy them.

Now, I don't understand why saying "There is no particular reason why humanity is the highest form and capability of intelligence" would be an extreme claim in any way. At least to me, the opposite is true "Humans are the most capable form of intelligence possible" is a anthropocentric and extreme statement.
"Minimizing Dependencies"

Consider the set of dependencies required to recreate this in language / framework X.

I assert that this set of dependencies is larger (in some cases much larger) for probably all languages and frameworks, except those that are built using the same language, compiler, and libraries used by, and shipped with, the target operating system. I would also assert that the speed to build, install, and deploy the package would be worse. Larger here means "includes more lines of code", as well as "requires more libraries" and "requires more executables, probably from interpreters". "Worse" here means "more time required to resolve", "requires more downloads", and/or "requires more CPU cycles to solve the multiple levels of indirection from interpretation".

It just so happens I have npm, nodejs, cargo, g++, python3, pip, and gcc floating around, and I almost always find that 'make' with `gcc` is the fastest gun in the west, as long as you stick to some basic OS libraries, as this project does. Cargo is real, real close, and probably equal if you ignore the long dependency chains that result for almost any project.

But that's much more verbose, and I think the original message implied this for most readers.
XMP metadata: https://dev.exiv2.org/projects/exiv2/wiki/The_Metadata_in_PN...
Yes, that would solve the javascript interpreter aspect, but then you need to provide update services and updaters to customers, logic to update, an installer, support for said installer, testing for breaking changes to updates... It's more complicated than just bundling the code in a static wrapper.
What's more, a National Security Letter is not necessarily addressed to the company's executives and lawyers. A National Security Letter could be send to somebody lower in the organization, closer to the targeted data (for instance a sysadmin) with a clause threatening them with prison time if they tell anybody, even their boss or company lawyers about it.

They can essentially conscript anybody in the company to work as a spy using (probably bullshit but still intimidating) legal threats to keep them quiet.
What I don’t understand is, why still push for JPEG XL when webP already has a lot of support and AVIF has a lot of momentum?
Intent, essentially. This sounds the same as a hate crime designation, which is also a matter of intent.
My Citi Custom Cash card gives me 5% back on gas station purchases (my highest category), even paying the higher price at the pump for credit cards I still come out ahead. I'm fairly certain Citi is not making 5% on interchange fees
They don't need a national id to do that. Lmao

Case in point, the no fly lists, they literally don't care if they just ban all the John Smiths.
Then why does the banner say?

>We use cookies to personalise and improve content and services, deliver relevant advertisements and increase the safety of our users
Ah yes, NIH from a contributor to the spec, makes complete sense.
Searching for moats: Visa, Mastercard, and how they dominate the industry (2016)
+1

Applications of embodied AI very interesting. Additionally a lot of hard problems are increasingly being solved in simulation like this. See Wayve's GAIA world model
ChatGPT study suggests its LLMs are getting dumber at some tasks
It takes a shit ton of time if to weasel around the GDPR if your business model is to collect as much personal data as possible.
You can complain, you'll just get a small karma hit for it. It's inevitable because it's off topic, but karma on HN is more or less meaningless anyway.
That website looks horrible.
I wonder if there is an encryption scheme that could be visualized to look like that.
It would break my family. It would mean living in a small cramped place near the highway(s) with bad public schools.

You can argue from your data all you want, but it would 100% lead to divorce.
Christians would bury the dead, pagans would cremate. As Christianity expanded, people wouldn’t know whether they could trust burial as a proper way to keep the dead from monstrously reanimating, think revenants or vampires. So for a couple of generations as the practice of burial took hold, many dead would be buried with a stake through the heart for good measure. And thats one of the origins for the whole staking the dracula comes from in the modern folklore.
Sadly, unless many webmasters do it, it'll likely feel like "your site is broken" instead of "Chrome is broken" to users.

Maybe with a banner like "You are using Chrome. You might have a degraded experience due to the lack of support for better image formats. Consider Firefox".
I think you're conflating someone's job with a protected characteristic in the context of anti-discrimination and hate speech law. If a cop gets special laws to prevent people smirking at them, or 'being a cop' is considered a protected characteristic, that is not "having the same basic rights as normal people", it's having extra rights that you can choose to opt-into by getting a certain job.

A person cannot choose their race, sex, sexuality, gender identity, able-bodiedness, etc, that is why discriminating against them based on those grounds is inherently unfair and thus not allowed.

No one is born a cop. Someone chooses to join the police, with an understanding of what the job represents and entails. If they choose to join the police when the police are widely considered corrupt and looked down upon by society (or at least some parts of it), that's on them.

Anti-discrimination and hate speech laws are about ensuring the people are not mistreated for a fundamental characteristic of who they are. No one has cop DNA.
Very, very few innocent people are being shot and assaulted by police. You're using hyperbole to throw the discussion off track. Read the post to which I was replying and stop ruining any chance of discourse with nonsense claims.

Your POV is equivalent to shouting in someone's face about surgical malpractice when the discussion is about the benefit of doctors in spite of the fact that some don't live up to expectations when providing GP service. Give us all a break for once, from your warped corner.

If you want statistically inevitable bad-cop events to stop happening, the only way to do that is to reduce the events that cause violent cop interactions. That is, crime has to reduced at the community level without law enforcement.
I think the issue is that the "I'm just asking questions!" technique is used to express opinions without taking responsibility for them.

When anxiety-producing questions keep getting "asked" by a politician when they already have rigorous, data-backed answers, they are being used as a political tool, disguised as skepticism or genuine scientific inquiry.
Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway Security Bulletin for CVE-2023-3519, CVE-2023-3466
"Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway Security Bulletin for CVE-2023-3519, CVE-2023-3466, CVE-2023-3467"

This is a zero-day exploit.

"Exploits of CVE-2023-3519 on unmitigated appliances have been observed. Cloud Software Group strongly urges affected customers of NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway to install the relevant updated versions as soon as possible. "
I assume that the TTL of the money would reset once it has changed hands
A production deployment should be boring and predictable. That is interesting.
How do microbes spread globally?
It’s probably the default language for the company. Technical, t he at allows them to have tracking cookies even if they don’t have them now
> Because we want to provide other organizations with the opportunity to offer paid sync services

Why do you think the GPL is not compatible with this?
I mean that seems like a fair question. The younger generation does care about climate activism more, on average, than older generations. So wondering why the president who was partially elected on a green platform is allowing drilling in Alaska is worth asking.
Current State of SQLite Persistence on the Web
That is not the other side to the argument. What you describe is already a crime. Police officers already have the legal authority to compel people to move away if they are obstructing an investigation.

For example, from California at https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

> 148. (a) (1) Every person who willfully resists, delays, or obstructs any public officer, peace officer, or an emergency medical technician, as defined in Division 2.5 (commencing with Section 1797) of the Health and Safety Code, in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty of his or her office or employment, when no other punishment is prescribed, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

The argument, plainly stated in the article, is that the police don't want to be filmed by people who don't like police:

> These laws take their cue not only from the anti-protest and police protection laws but from a 2022 Arizona law making it a crime to film the police from 8 feet or closer. That law’s sponsor, then–state Rep. John Kavanagh (a former police officer), was frank about his intentions. “There are groups hostile to the police that follow them around to videotape police incidents,” he declared. The new law would put a stop to this nuisance.

and simple filming is not obstruction. Again, from the article:

> “Cops have long tried claiming that [filming them] obstructs their ability to do their job,” observes First Amendment lawyer Ari Cohn. “Now that this argument failed, they are … transparently trying to create a safe space from observation.” The new laws are nothing but “a targeted assault on First Amendment activity.”
I wouldn't worry too much about replacing the US Dollar entirely. We're pretty slow even to get rid of the penny. The US Dollar has a _lot_ of fans, I'm certainly one of them.
Likelihood based on what? Likelihood of some distant past is easier to talk about when you talk about the average and is harder to talk about when you talk about some specialist, like a model.
I agree I'm more concerned about Silicon valley tech bros than my own government.

I can vote for Parliament I can't vote for PayPal's board of directors.
We only have measurements going back to 1979 so it is a short data set. Climate change is real and we need to use fewer fossil fuels. Before we can do that we need a renewable infrastructure to replace the fossil one.
well, I would’ve read this post but I don’t wanna be selfish, so I guess I won’t.
> Google just doesn't matter on the modern web.

It matters hugely, it's still pretty much the only thing that matters. That's the problem.
Apple has perfected their virtue signaling game and all the simps love it.

I don't really mind it either anymore, a lot of people have this hero worship fetish and they can't help painting everything in black and white, even though they're all just different shades of gray.

Apple is definitively brighter on that scale then Google or Meta, but they're all corrupt multinational corporations that will do everything they can get away with to increase their bottom line.
> Amazing what this new language C can do.

To be fair it's a very old language, but what's crazy is that decades later engineer still have not come up with a way to execute the C directly, but have to rely on a process called "compilation". I mean how hard is it to make a CPU that understands C? /s
I never really understood those. Many "online reputation" agencies promise articles on Forbes and many other publications. not sure if any of them actually work
Crazy how few dependencies a toy console program needs.

I wonder how minimal a giant web app written in C would be? Would it still compile in a fraction of a second?
I don't follow. Did you accidentally reply to the wrong comment?
But who is that 25%? iPhone users have money. I’m sure there is some significant overlap between iMessage and WhatsApp users (I know I and everyone I know use(s) both). But if you threaten politicians with losing their blue bubbles they’re gonna fall in line.
I didn't consider that, but it aligns with my experience as well. From a C-Level perspective that is probably desirable as they don't want to get involved with that sort of thing in the first place.
Legally it does, at least if you're in the EU. The only reason websites are slow on the uptake around this is that the legal gears are slow, however we have seen many considerable fines in this space in the last few years and things are improving.
Top rice exporter India bans most shipments as late monsoon hits crops
What's the Russian hoax?
> if you bring it to Earth then it's worth very little

Years ago I did some back-of-the-envelope commodities analysis on this. (Of course, the firm I worked for didn't represent it as such.)

It's worth more than "very little," though obviously not quadrillions of dollars. In the long run, the dominating component of unit costs are refining, not transport. The latter is amortized over a large mass; the former limits the rate at which commodity hits the market.

In the short term, measured in tonnes, it would be transport. Scaling such that the short term, in tonnes, is a short amount of time, in present dollars, defines the venture's economies of scale and thus minimum viable configuration.
Huh, somehow I glossed over the part where a regular neutron star would have bursts from <1s to 60s, while this body has bursts between 30 and 300 seconds. So it's still a different phenomenon than known pulsars.

But I don't think it covers the core of what I meant to suggest/ask: if the object is spinning around 2 axes (for whatever reason) rather than one, that could still be an explanation why the observed periodicity from Earth does not match what we expect its actual rotation period to be.
This has already been said, though you seemingly didn't like it. A journalist is not the same thing as a writer. They develop ideas, conduct investigations, interview subjects and witnesses, travel to locations, check and verify the work of other journalists by calling sources to see if they're told the same thing the second time. They maintain relationships with sources.

Let's imagine that, currently, a journalist spends 50% of their time conducting investigations and 50% of their time sitting at a keyboard typing up their findings. The ideal hope for a technology like this is the future then consists of 90% of a journalist's time being spent conducting investigations and 10% telling a text generator to type up the findings for them and cleaning it up. Overall, more time spent investigating and following up should result in higher-quality, more interesting work.

It may appear to consumers at our end that the work of a journalist is just writing because the writing is all we see, but this is not the case.
The magnitude of the change is somewhat in the eye of the beholder. On the one hand, the government already has a lot of visibility into your finances. On the other hand, this removes some friction that currently exists for certain kinds of transactions. This matters more to some people than others. There is also concern that this might be a step towards the eventual elimination of cash.
This is precisely the reason so many developers have come to love functional programming and side-effect-free designs. If that stud _can't_ affect anything outside of its original intended purpose, it can more easily be understood for its purpose and maintained or removed more easily.
Your only example is a law that is not currently a law? People propose crazy laws all the time. They get used by politicians to get attention and by media outlets to drive clicks from their outrage pornography addicted audience. In both cases it's all sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Provide alternative formats, making the browser autoselect. Or provide a JXL polyfill.

In either case: Have Chrome telemetry report home that "user could have 20% faster page load with JXL support".
What sidewalks are you talking about... That is just one instance of misguided outrage to drive your confirmation bias. No one has context for your sensationalized news story.

If people started attacking other people for being Gluten-free, and the government saw that there was a large amount of cases, they would create regulations trying to curtail the amount of crime targeting those people. They are creating regulation with the intention of lowering crime targeting a small group because it is atypical.
This is important, history will remember emotionally charged comments but indeed a lot of what happens is "normal" and forgotten. We could see that in syria or even ukraine.. the geopolitical tension level was completely removed from most day to day stream we could see.

I wonder if this bias/memory-capacity is studied, I assume so but I don't know the name :)
If you lose your job for disagreeing with the mob, all that means is that your boss is weak. That’s not the culture, that’s your employer.
Ask HN: Is SICP/HtDP still worth reading in 2023? Any alternatives?
I'm a self-taught programmer but I recently realized I need to really understand how to write programs elegantly. GPT-4 was a huge motivation for this because whenever I asked it to rewrite the code like a professional Python programmer, it would come up with amazing things. But after GPT-4 became nerfed by OpenAI, I felt a void: how can I keep writing elegant programs? My answer is: I should learn how to do that myself.

SICP uses Scheme, which I don't mind. My main concern is that it's an old book. Are there ideas and concepts not discussed in the book which are crucial in today's programming landscape? Will I be better off reading a book that uses Python in the first place?
This is so far from true it's absurd.

Roughly 100k Americans per year die from drug overdoses, 30k from car accidents, while only 1k are killed by police.

And while everyone knows cancer and heart disease are the leading causes of death, few people realize they kill significant numbers of young Americans, more than 10k per year.

Even if you limit the discussion to violent crime, you're far more likely to be killed by someone you know than by an officer.
The extension for the file format is .jxl and is pronounced "jixel" :)
Show HN: Ollama – Run LLMs on your Mac
Hi HN

A few folks and I have been working on this project for a couple weeks now. After previously working on the Docker project for a number of years (both on the container runtime and image registry side), the recent rise in open source language models made us think something similar needed to exist for large language models too.

While not exactly the same as running linux containers, running LLMs shares quite a few of the same challenges. There are "base layers" (e.g. models like Llama 2), specific configuration to run correctly (parameters, temperature, context window sizes etc). There's also embeddings that a model can use at runtime to look up data – we don't support this yet but it's something we're looking at doing soon.

It's an early project, and there's still lots to do!
No for the police you should assume malfeasance by default and craft law & policy around that. They have demonstrated over and over that they consider discretionary violence their core role and oversight of it to be interference.