skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expected, but meaningless if we can't drive people towards Firefox and away from Chromium products. That's something of a responsibility we all have, especially those of us invested in the safety and security (collectively, trust) of the web.

I haven't seen anything yet on whether Brave will support it, though if I'm understanding correctly, they won't have a choice since they're using Chromium. Hopefully I'm misinformed.
You could present all the evidence that cops have lots of effective oversight, but you cant.

Instead, it has been widely documented that they freqently flaunt programs intended to provide oversight, almost never are successfully prosecuted or punished, and commit homicides with regularity.
As someone who is firmly ( _firmly_ ) in the "nobody can write good manual memory management code" train, zig is probably a better fit than rust here - and this is one of the extremely rare circumstances where I would pick zig over rust.

Tree-sitter is written in C - the memory benefits of rust are completely moot. Zig also has a built-in C++ compiler, so you could generate the object file with a single toolset.
Everybody agrees that there should be reform. One that is done in consensus. But they went and did the most extreme version of reform. And they did it because if they don't do it - coalition will fall and they will loose next election. This is reform is so bad, that leaders of ultra-right party that run on platform of supreme court reform for a decade said that it bad and shouldn't be done

And if we are talking about new justices. One of the next planned laws is the one that gives to government ability to pick justices of their choosing
They do offer a monthly subscription.
Recent? I signed up 4 years ago and this has always been the case.
the thought of this being used is making me much more strongly consider moving to firefox, there are still things I don't love about it, like many of the extensions I use are still chromium only, but now I really feel like I don't have a choice.
For the same reasons a shop owner must sell to all customers without discriminating on ethnicity, religion, disability, etc?

Would it be acceptable for a website owner to block users from Detroit (78% African Americans)[1] or block users from El Paso (82% Hispanic)[2] because the website owner claims that fraudulent ad clicking is more prevalent from those cities?

Would it be acceptable to only serve web pages to people without disabilities and without a need for specialist accessibility software because it's not economically viable to consider users with disabilities?

Would the poorest 10% of the population be able to access web pages and services delivered over the Internet with old hardware (all they can afford) and with limited computer literacy and limited ability to raise complaints (that are ignored anyway or responded to by an AI algorithm that doesn't care)?

A website owner is still discriminating when they hide behind technology such as AI algorithms, Web Integrity APIs, etc and pretend that their use of such technology is non-discriminatory.

[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/detroitcitymich...

[2] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/elpasocitytexas...
I really can't connect your response to what I wrote.
There have been a series of US Supreme Court decisions that allow local law enforcement and prosecutors to a.) not have to reveal any statistics on crime and race b.) enormous discretion on powers to stop and arrest such that law enforcement can give conflicting reasons for each action, i.e. this person was suspicious because they were driving too fast, this person was driving too closely to speed limit and every variation of that. The only thing they are not permitted to do is say "we did this because of the color of their skin." McCleskey v. Kemp is one of the cases in a long line of cases that has led to a catch-22, racial discrimination by law enforcement and prosecution is against the law, but as long as they don't admit to it there is no evidence because one cannot get discovery on the past history of law enforcement and prosecution.
Why can't we count trees per capita? Are they not Co2 sinks? Not one of you care to answer.
It is not unheard of for a presenter to have to pay the same registration fees as a non-presenting attendee, but it is also common for invited speakers to attend for free and even have their travel and accommodation expenses covered. It is extremely abnormal (if not unheard of) for a legitimate conference to charge a speaker an additional fee for presenting.
No, much earlier than that.
We already do. Both are useful.
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Yes thank you. This is my "actually it's GNU + Linux" tic, please fellow Americans (and I would be interested in learning if this problem exists in other countries) do not accept the framing that a bank giving a loan to someone they thought was you is _your problem_! It's their problem! We should not be normalizing this phrase or practice.
https://archive.is/2023.07.25-024306/https://www.nytimes.com...
>"Very common" is probably understatement in this situation.

"very common" has no standard meaning, so the statement is meaningless either way.
Ha, this is such a good example of both the advantage of fault tolerant systems and why so many true-to-life computing metaphors fall flat.
This is standard at self-service checkouts in Australia. Both Coles & Woolworths (the 2 main supermarkets) have this imployed. Unrelated to the topic, they also watch what you bag and will lock up and sound an alarm if it think you've added an item without paying.
Absolutely atrocious. But back on-topic, these stores also have cameras in every single aisle, from ever perspective. They absolutely track people throughout each store.
Judging by all the hate Mozilla gets around here, it would be nice to at least see some credit given where it is due.

Ultimately I think we must permanently return to browser ballots back by the law, like the IE bundling fallout. Otherwise friction and incentives will continue to entrench one dominant player.
Paypal had it, then removed it, then added it again recently.
Re hardware: Maybe it was the case in 2000, but how all virtually all hardware have a capability to support IPv6. Even $3 ESP32 microcontrollers do so. They just don't enable that capability.. why? see below.

Re backwards-compatible: we have no problems upgrading other protocols (like TLS or SSH) while keeping some amount of backward compatibility. The procedure is known: (1) create software which talks both old and new versions, auto-selecting right one (2) start deploying, initially in compatibility mode (3) once a very high fraction of devices are upgraded, start cutting off old versions.

IPv6 could have been the same. Make it use IPv4-like IP address formatting, and change network stack to emit IPv4 packets for ::ffff: addresses - this'd allow changing application software painlessly: the packets are IPv4 on the wire, but apps already use IPv6 code. Next, recommend that every router has some sort of SIIT translator by default: now you can mix and match IPv4 and IPv6 devices on same network (the performance might suffer but at least things work). Eventually you could go full IPv6, and then finally drop that NAT in the router.

But no. One of the large goals of IPv6 was to "simplify everything" so such solutions would be unacceptable. Everything that could be used to ease IPv4 transition was extra complexity, so this information is hidden and left for special circumstances only. IPv6 is a shining example what happens when people want to design nice, clean system without backwards compatibility.

Take your post for example -- you are outright saying "it is impossible [...] without breaking the principle that every node can address other node." and it is correct.. but how often do you have full node-to-node communication? Things like NAT64 can help you transition, but try finding it in a beginners example.
Do you mean to say that changes I make from GitHub.dev are reflected on my local machine?
> You're right: the sum total of human knowledge is larger than it has ever been so to reach the boundaries of our understanding requires more learning than ever. Compressing that learning process therefore seems necessary to continue our upward trajectory.

This happened a while ago and the solution to that was specialization and not tiktokization. As much as I am for modernizing, uhm, everything, I'm not sure I see an advantage in the current trend that's happening right now.

Quality have been declining on the software side, but that's only because I am exposed to that as a software developer. Everyday items quality are on the decline too (my Nike -will be the last ones- shoes have deteriorated in the interval of 3 months, just ridiculous).

So here we have it: a combination of short-span attentions, a system that rewards the short-term and a political class that does not care. It's a mystery how our societies have not collapsed yet. Or maybe we are close?
It isn't a given that the reefs will move north. Migratory fish, certainly. And in some regions some coral species are redistributing poleward, like tropical Pocilopora alicae into Sydney Harbour. The pelagic larvae of some species will probably find hard substrate to settle on further north and colonies will probably grow, in some number at least. Whether there is sufficient hard benthos that isn't exposed to too much eutrophication, wave action, hurricanes, turbidity from coastal development, disease outbreaks et cetera on a regular basis for reefs to grow is another question. Keep in mind that biogenic reefs have formed over thousands and thousands of years.
Everyone seems to be missing the interesting part here.

It's that Twitter is using a generic Monotype font letter for their brand.

Which would mean that their brand will not be able to be trademarked and thus anyone could use it to associate their dodgy product with the main site. So I wouldn't worry about Meta, Microsoft etc but about the insane number of X ripoffs we are going to see in the future e.g. X crypto coin, X bots.
Eh they might have a case here. You present an idea under nda and then the other party makes the same concept immediately? The small guy likely pursued this because google pissed them off “that much”. Never underestimate how much blatant disrespect can motivate another party to pursue you “because”. Or they could just be trolls
This[^1] Barbara Liskov's paper gives me an impression the distributed systems people would be glad if they didn't have to bother with all the theory :)

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[^1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/112600.112601
They talked about it in the Stack Exchange podcast years ago.

IIRC, the vision of the perfect question was one with a canonical answer. They didn’t want to be Quora. I think that concept made and makes a lot of sense, but doesn’t capture the “meta” issues surrounding how you litigate the form of the question, especially as questions get more nuanced.
Yeah so the article isn't about the general comparative application strength of rich vs poor, it's about whether a wealthy advantage exists when controlled for other factors. A meritocratic admission process should not consider family wealth, but these data show that it does. That line chart should, theoretically, be a straight horizontal line; instead we see strong effects of wealth. The Economist once said that a dumb rich kid has a better chance at going to an elite college than a brilliant poor one, and that seems to be the case here.
No mention in your criticism above that bringing genuine e2e encryption to the masses in a way that is actually used by billions of people had not been achieved and many thought was totally impossible until Moxie went and did it.

Once you acknowledge that incredible achievement that nobody else got close to previously, you can then criticise anything you think could have been done better. Or could be improved in the future.

I know when I do it I'm doing something similar to criticising Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's execution of his skyhook and that is a reasonable thing to acknowledge, even when I'm 100% sure that my criticism is legitimate.
The scenerio I commonly see is a dual-stack (IPv4 & IPv6) router blocking all unsolicited incoming IPv4 packets (because of NAT), while all IPv6 LAN hosts will unintentionally be globally accessible through the internet.

This is why I worry about more IPv6 deployment. Too many people are ignorantly relying on IPv4 NAT as a layer of protection.
I'm not an academic, but some of the notation and terminology they use makes me want to hunt them down and 'clockwork orange their eyes open' until they can show me how their math is "intended" to work.

Inconsistent math notatation in papers along with vague terms in descriptions makes me so mad.
Makes me wish python had a pipe operator like Julia's |> and R's %>%
You think that's bad? One of the grocery stores near me has a self-checkout security camera aimed directly at the customer's bald spot and similarly displays it on screen! I had to cut them off entirely to preserve my mental health
And then...your govt login is stolen and you are back to square one with "identity theft".

National ID systems are such nonsense it is appalling there are people stupid enough to think this is a Good Thing.

Easy is NOT always better. The best things in life are definitely not free.
Wasn’t that one ruled a suicide?
X also means ecstasy making the phrase "I am on X" problematic.
I'm real uncomfortable with comparing kinetic weaponry to communications encryption. These aren't even remotely similar things in damage scope.

The argument in favor of private communications is in fact predicated on this: no one can actually cause damage just by communicating. Damage might happen as a result of it, but there is no information so dangerous that the transmission of it must be known up front, and should be pre-emptively scanned for and alerted on. There is always a chain of additional activities and actions which is required for harm to eventuate.
The end result is that DRM and banking sites will just tell you to use chrome to continue. And users will keep migrating to chrome until Mozilla is forced to implement it.
“Autocratic Legalism” by Kim L. Scheppele
Negative, you can request a CVE without specific details, CNA's do this all the time until unembargo.
Jordans are not Veblen goods. They are entry level sneakers. Enough to set you apart from the sketchers wearing squares, but they are not margielas or visvims.
What about $5 for a one week unlock, so I can make quarterly adjustments as necessary? Or, say, $10 for a week during Q1 of the year so I can plan out my taxes for the upcoming year? (While I’m not paying the info is read-only, tempting me to play with it for $5/week.)
Indeed, it suprises people that light aircraft generally have a glide ratio comparable with a brick, whilst airliners are generally quite efficient given the incredible size.
I asked about this 10 years ago and look at the sarcasm I received in response.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/142703
They keep trying this shady type of thing every few months
Thanks for the detailed feedback! A lot of love indeed. And also blood, sweat, and tears haha.

I built PL to be as DIY-centric and unopinionated as I could; and the tool itself doesn't provide formal advice, though I can understand why that's something you might like to see in a planning platform.

Your point about offering a human in the loop somewhere is a good one. I wonder what form that kind of offering could/should take, and also what regulatory hurdles it might introduce.
Which Mozilla knows that they cannot do anything to stop Google anyway.

After all, Google is the one that pays their bills so either way Mozilla is beyond powerless.
So much for me being smarty-pants...
Classic skit on identity theft by Mitchell & Webb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
Well, yeah, blogs are not academic journals. And if a blog post disagrees with academic consensus, the academic consensus will be right the vast majority of the time. But this applies to all blogs on the internet, not only those on LessWrong.
Follow the money - Wired is a Condé Nast property (for some time) which is in turn, owned by Advance Publications, one of the largest media conglomerates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications
Avi Loeb is part of the UFO cult
My wife had a c-section for our first child. We were told they had to get the baby out 24 hours after her water broke. We were confused why they didn't start the operation until hour 36. Hour 24 was in the middle of the night. We realized later it was unnecessary. It was convenient for the doctor and hospital staff to do it when they did. This had little to do with safety for my wife or child.
What are the best ways of externally incentivizing usage that aren't numeric that you know of or think would be worth looking into?
> We have no control over it and there's nothing citizens can do to reduce our footprint.

That's just not true. You can buy cars with better fuel efficiency. (Just say no to SUV.) You can buy electric cars. You can avoid air travel. You can vote for better public transportation policy, so more people take trains not cars. These are big items and they matter.
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Looks like this fell under the radar quite a bit.

Maybe next time, don't be shy about who you are in the title? Who you are is probably your greatest asset.

Show HN: Pierre.co, by Bootstrap authors @mdo and @fat

You don't really have to explain the product in the HN title, as people will want to click just to keep up with you.

Apart from this, I think the main issue with the product is that we (developers) already have & love github and/or gitlab and spent time learning it and building workflows with it, so I don't think anyone is excited currently about a new git hosting platform, unless it's 10x better - which is not clearly stated in the landing page. Pierre.co uses different paradigms, but it's not clear if they're any better. The promises are pretty vague.
The reason HN is a bubble is because people here actually get and interested in real tech news.

If a journalist would explain these news to the masses AND the news has a way to reach the masses.

These days these kinds of news do not make it to broadcasted news and most people do not watch the old broadcasted news.

The news currently get people attention from the news feed on Android and Apples phones.
Those feeds recommend only the kind of content you usually interact with. No many people gets tech articles. And you can even argue that there is some extra filters on what news get on the feed in first place.
I wouldn't say non-generic union types are useless; in fact the vast majority of sum or union types I write in application code (not libraries) are a combination of two or more concrete types, rather than generic ones.
I think it just undermines "colorless functions are good", not that go's functions are colored - they aren't. The problem is that "colors" (ie: "this is async") are helpful to the caller, they let them know which context they should be in when they perform that work.
It has for me, and several developer friends, and considering the fame ChatGPT has gotten, and that StackOverflow's fall has accelerated, it's obvious the milkshake's migrating. Not all of it of course, as I stated, "for the common use case"
Most non-it people I know who are opposed to FedNow are the kinds of folks who get a lot of 'gifts' that they conveniently get around reporting, alongside a CPA they always owe favors to.

I am against government overreach yet these people really seem to want to change my mind.
Yep the author is completely wrong on point one:

>This vector seems to get taller every model year, for example the recent LLaMA 2 model from Meta uses an embedding vector of length 3,204, which works out to 6KB+ in half-precision floating-point, just to represent one word in the vocabulary, which typically contains 30,000 - 50,000 entries.

>Now if you’re a memory-miserly C programmer like me, you might wonder, why in the world are these AI goobers using 6KB to represent something that ought to take, like 2 bytes tops? If their vocabulary is less than 2^16=65,384, we only need 16 bits to represent an entry, yeah?

The reason we have 3204 2B allocations is that each of the 2B contains info (latent space dimension). If you go to just the 2B representation, it is effectively one hot encoding which completely defeats the purpose of word embedding
If that's what people like, why is that a concern?
Bit.ly no longer offers URL shortening without account
I have been using https://bitly.com and I was always able to shorten a link without account but now I am forced to create an account.
It's not just bloggers. There are computer scientists with publications in top CS conferences that post on LW. For example, Alexander Turner, Dan Hendrycks, Paul Christiano, and Jacob Steinhardt all post there.
This is the basis of most older async frameworks (see: Tornado, Twisted). A while ago I put together a short talk on how to go from this feature -> a very basic version of Twisted's @inline_callback decorator.

https://github.com/ltavag/async_presentation/tree/master
I don't know how that works though. What if it just dies on the grapevine and no one uses it for 2 decades? AFAIK It got merged into Paypal then was mostly just killed off as a functional trademark
Timestamp? Text summary?
Yeah, try the chart tab not the map tab.
> It’s much cheaper, too!

IDK a single telegraph cucumber here is $4-6, tomatoes anywhere from $8-16.

1kg of chicken is $12 and you get order of magnitude more calories.

Admittedly NZ had bad flooding recently hence the insane vegetable prices and you can find some cheap stuff, but it's hard. I've gone days without eating a single vegetable and feel my health going down the drain, but what can you do?
Those numbers may or may not be true, but they're extremely low-resolution and draw false dichotomies. Prairie grasslands that are used for cattle and a tremendous amount of other plant commodities were not once old-growth rainforests, and continue providing (albeit probably somewhat degraded) useful habitat for many species. Meanwhile 100% of whatever is covered by parking lots and McMansions is essentially useless for everything except temporary fairgrounds, parking SUVs, trapping heat, causing floods, and killing the appeal of urban landscapes. If all of a sudden we forested the areas that aren't, it would not be a good thing. You can't refer to what's happening in the Amazon and then point a finger at an arbitrary person and be like "See, if you didn't eat meat, this wouldn't be happening". It's probably not even relevant to Argentina.

There are questions to be raised and numbers to be thrown around, but world-level numbers aren't really that interesting.
It’s for AML / Know Your Customer which financial institutions need. But extend that to everything - I’d rather not reveal my phone number if all you want to know is that I have one verified.
somehow hearing this about namecheap is even more infuriating. godaddy has a reputation that makes this no surprise, but i get a lot of conflicting feedback about namecheap. i heard good things and bad things about them. in the recent discussions on HN namecheap came off mostly positive, and then suddenly there is your story, confirming what i heard about namecheap earlier. now i don't know what to think about them.
No, you’re just uninformed and eager to trust power. Asking for cop stats as prerequisite to critique is a pledge to their supremacy
I was equating this to the rise of chatgpt
Math overflow and math.stackexchange are still pretty fantastic and the content does go "stale" as fast as programming / software engineering.