skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an unrelated question: I assume "CP" stands for card-present here. Why would Paypal shut off your payment gateway for having CP?
I seriously doubt IMs and email are being censored. You sound like someone who gets their information from grifters that complain about censorship despite having huge audiences captured by masses of lazy thinkers.
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> Here's the problem is that people who oppose The Science have fundamentally shown themselves incapable of listening to reason or being educated they have willfully chosen ignorance

And the solution to that is to silence them, yet that is not considered a form of incapable listening and wilfully chosen ignorance by those who are so wise as to know the difference between good and bad information?

“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”

J. S. Mill, On Liberty
Does it let me test the built-in browser? I’m starting to get issues only on Samsung’s built-in browser (as opposed to an Android’s Chrome default).
Is this satire or just Poe's law at work?
One complaint: "chair a canon" is nothing in particular to the reader's eye, but "chair à canon" is the French equivalent, perhaps the original, of the English "cannon fodder".
I acquired an old Sony CMT-EX1 CD player a while back and was tinkering around with it. I found the service manual online and was blown away. There are pinouts! Block diagrams [0] for the PCBs! Capacitor inventories! I wish we still did this for consumer hardware.

[0] https://servlib.com/sony/audio/cmt-ex1-hcd-ex1.html?start=29
From the article:

> For example, blocking content from future AI models could decrease a site's or a brand's cultural footprint if AI chatbots become a primary user interface in the future.

I would rather leave the internet entirely if AI chatbots become a primary user interface.
Experimental gene therapy huh? Go back to 4chan friend.
I really like the idea of a version control system based on commutative patches but I'm just not seeing how it's going to translate to a system that's intuitive and easy to use not just for programmers, but also for lawyers and artists.

Consider a patch like this one, titled "Solving conflicts":

https://nest.pijul.com/pijul/pijul/changes/2MLOE3FPVT4ZXC4L7...

"Solving an order conflict" and "Resurrecting zombie bytes" sound like the tricky parts of the patch-based workflow. I would very much like to understand how to work with these parts of Pijul. How are these actions performed? How does the user interact with the graph to perform these actions? Is the conflict state rendered into the file? It's not mentioned in the video, and I cannot find it in the documentation or in blog posts.

I cannot be the only one that's interested in learning about those things, and I think it would be more effective than anything else in raising interest for Pijul.

My best guess is that the workflow is still rough around the edges and requires the user to have a good understanding of the underlying graph, and therefore it's not ready to be presented yet. And my hot take is that it's still rough around the edges because there is no easy way, and maybe no way at all, to make it polished and intuitive for a new user. But I want to be proven wrong.
As opposed to free speech?
Sure, but in any case where the patches were independent enough to automatically apply in any order, `git rebase --interactive` would have worked just as well and has done for about two decades. It can reorder, drop, squash, amend, etc. all in your $EDITOR. The much more common limitation that hits every VCS is that patches are rarely that independent and manual merges are tedious and error-prone, but when that's not a blocker, interactive rebase is hard to beat.

The biggest problem, in my experience, is that 99% of people using git have no idea just how powerful it actually is. That is a mark against git, but it is what it is, and it's a mark against engineers who refuse to learn the tools they use every day for years.

Weirdest case was when I asked someone to fix up a bad merge they did that resulted in duplicate commits they didn't even notice in the log. I said just do an interactive rebase, the dude said "that is outside my operating parameters", yes really, I couldn't make that up if I tried. Dude boasted 25+ years experience and didn't know about this incredible feature, and apart from the weird robot response, this is consistent with almost everyone I talk to about almost any semi-advanced git feature.
You said the same 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34956592

Any reason to believe this to be true this time around?
Nix the idea is great. That it works with proprietary closed source stuff is a must. Does guix support these sorts of things? How would I package up a big tar of stuff from a vendor? Patchelf and nix have some tools, although perhaps overly clever at times, for doing just that.
> > people aren't only into EVs for the environmental aspects; they're unique and offer a unique experience.

Automotive is a 150yr old industry, you will not re-invent the wheel. Progress has plateued in the 1970-80s as far as fun goes.

When Americans come to Europe and try the Vespas and the Lambrettas , that's about the same fun upgrade as going from an ICE which does 0-60 in 8s to an EVs which does it in 4s, only the Vespa experience costs 20$ and the Vespa itself 1000$.

for some reason they come back home and completely forget about it and decide to fork 50,000$ for an EV instead
Do you think telephones and email should be censored?
A little margin/padding would go a long way
But does it emulate Samsung CPU bugs too?
Suzuki. 100€ or more, and only if you ask your dealership politely. Same for Renault. I had to find a torrent somewhere.
Both already are.
His parents are unequivocally NOT trial lawyers, in fact, I would doubt either of them is currently barred in any state to actually practice. I know Prof. Fried practiced for approx 3 years with a white shoe tax firm in NY before getting on with academia and Prof. Bankman practiced in LA for a similar period.

All that to say, there reactions are more likely to be those of elite academics and parents, definitely not those of litigation attorneys. Also, both professors are widely thought to be rather free-spirited and gregarious. Additionally, Bankman is a psychologist and seems to really get into the whole California ‘wellness’ and freedom vibe.

People react how they react, but these two are ultra elite academics who dabble in political circles and consultancy, so their world view is going to be different than the family of an average defendant being denied bail in a court.
I have moved significantly more than the average person to do exactly what I’m talking about here. Without money, with money, without kids, with kids. I feel like I have a pretty reasonable amount of experience.

It’s not that bad.
Don’t forget that a lot of offices are leased for many years or even purchased/built.

Do you know what looks REALLY bad? A giant fancy office with five people in it.

Better force people to fill it up. We are stuck, we spent the money, can’t have it look bad.
Indeed this is the case. The timing was unfortunate in that the pandemic hit during the absolute lowest point in trust of public institutions and bad faith actors stepped into the void to take advantage of that.

In terms of covid specifically, experts did what they typically do for high mortality diseases e.g. ebola, SARS where the mortality is high and the only course of action is to seal an area and let it burn through the population but at least contain it. That turned out to be the direct opposite course of action needed.
Well, that's why I said it exacerbates the problem. In a bipolar societal environment, you're either right or a crackpot. We need a finer grained filter than that.

There are really well spoken proponents of ESP (extra sensory perception) and even "studies" that prove it exists. But they are not reproducible and there's no company/government/commune producing extraordinary results that point back to it.
> Apple's market share in the US smartphone market is at almost 58%.

And less than 30% worldwide.

> and PC where you can switch browser.

Under condition that you are not using anything other than Windows/ChromeOS - then no matter how much you switch the browser the OS stack will still not be certified - like DRM always fails to work on my end.

>If Apple is stopped, there are no reasons to go after Google, as it would also be illegal for them to do the same.

You are missing the point for me - Apple is just somewhat big¹ hardware company with niche¹ system. If you want to fight them because they have enormous power on your market - power to you, but from global perspective "no reasons to go after Google" is clearly misguided.

¹from my country perspective
From what I've seen in this thread, that basically means junior devs still need to learn about the entire codebase before working on anything meaningful. I have to say I'm very skeptical of AI tools actually replacing developers because AI tools depend so critically on data to function.
If you are referring to the vaccine as “experimental gene therapy”, it places you in the crackpot territory for anyone knowledgeable about immune vaccine research. Who knows if the rest of your “mountains of evidence “ exist when you lead with nonsense.
The advantage of being distributed and using IPFS is that you don't need to rely on Cedalio to be alive to access your data. You can spin up your own Cedalio gateway connect to the network where the smart-contract backing your data lives and recover the database.

The advantage of using blockchain is that you can proove that the data being stored in the off-chain database hasn't been tampered with and by having the access control on-chain you have full controll on who can access the data. Also because the operation log is replicated on IPFS you can see who mutated the database.

As for locally stored if you mean using a local database (or file) inside the app, e.g: SQLite, CoreData or IndexDB, that may be good enough for your local use case. But if third parties or other apps need to access data without having to rely on the application owner to be connected / available you need a database that can be accesed over the internet / network. If by local you mean a regular SQL database exposed over an web service, that may also be good enough for your use case. The benefit of using something like Cedalio, is that in cases where you need guarantees that the data hasn't been manipulated by users that shouldn't have then you have a trust-free setup to do so. We are talking with users where this is a requirement specially to avoid internal fraud (from the db admins for example).

The last point of 'how do I get past "everything is on someone else's chain & machines that we don't control"?' this is the same trade-off that you currently have with any PaaS / SaaS tool. That being said, we plan to open source our gateway so you will be able to host your own infra and you will own the off-chain database. As for the data that's stored on chain, we only store the ACL and hashes of the committed operation in the operation log. The operation log currently is stored in plain text on IPFS but we are soon launching operation log encryption. We also plan to make the operation log storage configurable, if you don't care about data ownership / portability (meaning that you don't want to give an option to your users to migrate from your service without having to ask for it) then you could use AWS S3 or whatever storage that you see fit.

Full disclosure I'm Cedalio's CTO
No, twisted pair wires are really cool but different. When you push current down one wire you pull current down the other. The signal is passed through the differential of those 2 wires. If the wire is hit with EM interference, that change will be seen as a 'common mode voltage', that is, both wires will be 'pushed' or 'pulled' the same amount, and you won't see a differential.

That effect works both ways too, where a single wire with a digital signal will spew out radio waves, 2 wires with opposing signal cancel each other out and emit no em waves.

The effect with the stellarator is more like stirring a pot.
Reduce consumption? They want to reduce production locally which will have no effect on consumption globally.

It’s ironic that the first discipline you choose as an example has such a significant replication crisis. In the same way that mainstream climate models lack predictive power, mainstream economics models often fail to predict huge events like the GFC.

I think I understand now why you don’t engage with my arguments or provide academic references: you believe the science is settled and you no longer have any skepticism. You think it’s a political problem and not a scientific question which is why you mostly provide links to newspapers rather than scientific journals.

If you aren’t willing to consider the possibility of being wrong then evidence (or lack thereof) isn’t going to sway you. Your position has turned from scientific to dogmatic. You infer that I haven’t read enough which doesn’t make sense since I seem to bring up points you aren’t aware of (eg sulphate aerosol effects). I think you should read more, less mainstream media and more actual scientific literature. I used to be worried about climate change until I started looking at climate model papers and learnt enough about the models to understand their limits. Once you see how the sausage is actually made you won’t be so convinced.
WritetheDocs
It is surely entirely possible to get stuck in the no-man's land where you know something is seriously wrong but you cannot prove it to the level of qualifying for the kind of whistleblower protections you need to survive the process.

In this situation, blowing the whistle and failing to be heard is one outcome. Blowing the whistle and having the consensus in a light-touch regulatory system be that you're doing so without cause or worse maliciously is another.

Blowing the whistle, being unable to prove it and being sued into oblivion is yet another. If you are sued into oblivion by a crook, you tend not to get your money back when they are finally caught.

My own feeling is that in such a situation I would walk away, refuse to give interviews, pointedly not take a job for a while, talk to a lawyer in a way that is recorded, and likely brief an appropriate journalist off the record.

Time will tell if he did.
I didn't realize that. So if I have Mozilla Thunderbird running on a computer fetching emails from an account, it isn't good enough?

> Reading or sending an email

I would need to actually mark incoming emails as read?
I don't work for google. I use Google, I have multiple Gmail as well as hosted by Google workspace domains.

Overall I think this is reasonable. I can't see why people are upset, when the general burden to make it "live" is low.

There are specific corner case problems: people who cannot login for various reasons, can't get Google humans to help, and who get mail forwarded so are limping along. And, there are a surprisingly high number of people who seem to trip up over account recovery. If I had one criticism of google here, it's that they're judge, jury and executioner. There's no appeal mechanism for ordinary mortal. It's capricious, sometimes squeaky wheels get oiled, sometimes not.

I pay for google 1 and I takeout periodically.

Don't depend on "free" for critical functions.
Sure, and at that point we can shift the goalposts to some other task since driving (like chess) will seem easy in retrospect.

Put another way, what would a system which has taught itself to drive tell us about general intelligence that we didn’t already know? Because as of now it seems like the pattern is

Computers could never do X

Computers can’t do X

Computers can’t do X very well

Computers can’t do X well in some cases

X wasn’t really a test of AGI because it’s just <algorithm to do X>
RTO is fun when I'm the only one working in my section. I get a quiet and large workspace, good coffee, free lunch and some snacks.

But it's going to be bad if everyone starts coming back and I have to get in a long line to grab lunch...
> 90% of jobs aren't people's "passions" and have no chance at becoming some big world changing venture. Lots of employers like to delude themselves that their company is some big important, cutting-edge enterprise that's making a real impact in the world.

They're not completely to blame; the hordes of people who claim their 'passion' is analyzing widget sales or what have you share some of it. Going along with what are essentially lies about motivations to fit in with the perceived trends of the crowd is understandable (people want to get and keep jobs), but still immoral. And, n=1, but in my experience, it isn't actually necessary.
Place I work at ended up dropping all juniors because they hadn’t got up to speed after a year and a bit.

Personally I find myself thinking “I need to discuss this thing with this person, but I don’t feel like booking in a meeting and having a video call, I’ll just wait until we see each other in the office some time”
How do you assess which robots benefit you?
The few times I’ve been back it’s worse. Since everyone is on zoom meetings anyway, everyone is just talking all day long making it hard for the other people on zoom meetings at the office to hear what they’re doing. So productivity actually goes down.

All of which makes things worse for the people at home on the zoom meetings.

As soon as a significant fraction of your employees aren’t in office, it starts to become a productivity problem to force people to stay! Well, unless you gave everyone their individual offices with doors. But you can’t do that can you. Because then what would make the senior people special? So you have to use cubes so everyone can hear each other on zoom calls.
Git itself might not have been revolutionary, but the concept of distributed version control certainly was. Git wasn't the only tool from that era to adopt this model, but it's fair to say that it has won the popularity contest, and is the modern standard in most projects.

Mercurial, Darcs and Fossil are also interesting, and in some ways better than Git, but Git won because it had the persona of Linus behind it, one of the most popular and influential OSS projects using it as proving ground, and a successful and user friendly commercial service built directly around it, that included it even in its name. All of this was enough for Git to gain traction and pull ahead of other DVCSs, even though in the early days Mercurial and Bitbucket were also solid and popular choices.

I used and preferred Mercurial for a long time, but ultimately Git was more prevalent, and it felt like swimming against the current. I feel like that also happened with Docker (Swarm) and Kubernetes, where k8s is now the de facto container orchestration standard, much to my own chagrin.
I won't debate any further with someone who resorts to name-calling or dismissive language. You didn't provide a proof of contradiction or any argument. I provided valid reasons and evidence to support my point of view.
> you will grasp where you went wrong.

Beginning a back and forth over how to use a dictionary with someone who defines how to use a dictionary after the fact to help their point?

> Galaxy brain.

This is not Reddit or Twitter, please refrain from such petty, openly disrespectful and, shall we say arduous, slurs.
Two things can be true. Snowden likely committed acts of treason for which the govt will pursue him. Snowden did pose a threat to US national security interests. If you look at the Schneier essay, he shared privileged info with journalists with poor operational security experience, one of whom crossed borders with a USB thumb drive full of docs. As a whistleblower, he might have enjoyed some legal protections if he had stayed within the lines, which would've at last implied staying in the US and dealing with the possibility of being tried. By fleeing abroad (to the PRC no less, then Russia), he made it easy to write him off as a traitor.

At the same time, he exposed behaviors that were clearly wrong in both government and industry, and spurred a number of people into actions that would not have been undertaken otherwise. For this he should be thanked. That doesn't erase everything.
You can safely mutate your system instead of using an immutable one.
Working in an office is extremely safe compared to almost every other kind of job.
U.S. to Fund a $1.2B Effort to Vacuum Greenhouse Gases from the Sky
Can you please walk me through it on the site? I'm logged in and can't find any service manual (I can find the regular "Owner's Manual" though under "Documents" under the a specific car selected.
Is that state specific? (I'm in CA)
There are many humans that can't manipulate the world much if at all. The blind, the handicapped, the disabled. are those people unintelligent ?

It's not like LLMs can't be successfully used to control robots.
For those interested they found SARS in a bat cave (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07766-9 )but it took five years of hunting. Something similar will probably happen with Covid here in the future.

Like 9/11 conspiracies, it’s more comforting to think someone is in charge and in control when terrible things happen then that terrible things can happen from random and weak sources.
Why do you think they should be free of consequences for their actions?
Exactly. The worry was that it would provide justification for violence against specific groups which is why it wasn't publicly entertained as a theory even if privately it was. Planting the seed of that thought in an armed populace already on edge is a recipe for disaster.
And yet HN loves Snowden but hates Bitcoin and crypto. Let the cognitive dissonance seep in and realize maybe it does have a purpose other than scams. Maybe software devs making 400k a year working for tech giants don’t need it, but lots of other people do.

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1444794906967486469
The only real reason for open offices is cost saving. Everything else is just an excuse to make it not seem like it is.
I tried to click Sign In but the button moved around the page like a joke site.

When I did get it I had to sign in with my Samsung ID and I had to remember what that is because regardless of how much you try to work through their REST API their interface won't let you register any email address that contains the word "samsung" in it.

Then I got this:

Couldn't load webpage

The webpage didn’t respond to the request in time.

※ IAMGCSaeucentral1_1691802735028_99999-5683573436.999

-- I give up.
Something darker similiar to the wealth gap right now, but instead of the 0.1% of humans with it, it's just AIs that can live forever and hoard wealth as long as they want. Learning loopholes, technicalities, and faster processing to take advantage of every market condition.
The headphones thing reminds me of a big events ticketing company I worked for that, when people complained about noise, distractions, etc they came up with the amazing solution of using your health and wellness budget to buy noise cancelling headphones.

Most full of bullshit company I’ve ever worked for.
Yes, indeed! I understand how it might sound. We have already started doing it and discussed it within our community – in other words, it's not just a plan. Expect it within the next 2 weeks maximum.
Actually, everything will work out fine if we just could pick the optimal algorithm for each situation. How? Use an oracle to pick the right algorithm!
“Slavery is when you get paid to work at the work site”