skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not just storing and using this data for their own private/commercial purposes.

They're also licensing it and selling it to third parties, which in turn will sell it to government(s) or other third-parties; the data ramifies and spreads throughout the digital panopticon.

There is very little you can do as an individual to escape this. The privacy settings on your phone, in your apps, on your laptop, your router – they are the illusion of control. Heavy top-down regulation won't work, never has.

All you can do is attempt to limit what you share. The work required to do it well is astronomical, high-friction, and essentially can exclude you from much of society and the economy.
I think you should spend some time thinking about the purpose of progress. Progress in and of itself is not useful, nor is it necessarily desirable.

It's very easy to envision a society that is both more advanced than ours and profoundly worse in all meaningful aspects.
Obsidian intentionally patched OSS sync despite CEO's HN statement of tolerance
For reference, Obsidian CEO's HN comment, seven days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37253639

Most notably, quoting his very words: "you should consider renaming the repo otherwise it can be confused for an official tool — that would be my only request".

Looks like the corpo drones are at work again - first Reddit, Terraform, and now this - breaking a publicly-made promise, just a few days in. I gotta say, it truly reflects poorly on a business when leadership has no integrity. Who knows when they'll rug pull their community next (who, by the way, contributed 1149 plugins to Obsidian)?
I think there's Lightsail for such use now - https://aws.amazon.com/free/compute/lightsail-vs-ec2/
> I mean, even in the pre-AWS days, it's not like you had to buy the hardware or replace the failed disks yourself, web hosters did that for you.

Given no single web hoster has grown to the size of AWS / Azure, it is safe to assume just which complexities the industry is willing to tolerate. I mean, Oracle still rakes in billions, despite everything.
I think they overlap. The assumption the stories are based on older events doesn’t have to be correct, it still makes for a familiarity with the idea. I wouldn’t mind chatting with you about this at a party. :)
[...] and they have an immense positive impact on society.

For this I need proof.
> What AI harms would not already be addressed by existing laws?

I think that's the whole point -- we don't know.
[Random parenting advice from the internet]

My child is grown but grew up during the iPhone era.

Anyway, I had a policy.

It lasted until middle school.

Then we had a conversation.

And worked things out together.

That's my recommendation because in the long run, conversation and negotiation are the only tools you really have.

Good luck.

----

Appendix:

1. FOSS is your value. Your child is not you. If your child thinks FOSS is cool, it's cool. If they think it is lame, you are being lame.

2. Parental controls are only as good as someone else's parents. Your child can look at naked people on someone else's phone.

3. Around middle school, your child's peers begin to have massive importance. It is not that you cease to be important. But you are going to have to share influence. Even if you try to forbid such sharing.

4. It is better if parents grow as their children grow. Growing is on you because you are the adult.
In the 2010-2013 era, i did most of my computing over X over ssh on a fast LAN. At the time, YouTube and other video stuff worked fine, and my environment felt as responsive as local computing.
nice nostalgia wave from the all your base belong to us reference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg
The CCP is notorious for boosting domestic ventures, and strangling any foreign attempt to compete. And while I would agree that keeping strategic industries under domestic control is a good thing, social media and mobile payments are arguably not part of those.
I had two of my kids in a mastery school. The school didn't "do" mastery very, well, but it's a lot better than public school. Students learn different parts of a subject at different rates. By tuning the time the kids had to learn a sub-subject, they could fully master the subject, and at an accelerated pace compare to public school.

If I could get Khan-academy + peer socialization + baby sitting "in one room", I think that'd be ideal.
It’s guaranteed by our constitution, among other reasons. Search of my communications for no reason is, by definition “unreasonable search.”
Is screen tear something that can be avoided in X11? That's mostly the only reason why I bother with Wayland
Author, here!

That line was a fun, sassy one. And probably a bit too strong. I definitely meant to temper it with the next few sentences.

> Sure, it’s simple, which is worth a lot! … And for frequently changing, highly interactive pages like a dashboard, it’s probably enough

I spent years working on a medical dashboard SPA and we never once seriously talked about SSR. They totally have a time and a place for web apps. I agree with you and I’m glad you brought it up.
... and yeah what I "left" was Manchester, NH, not the cult. I rode my bicycle with my dad around the airport numerous times and remember riding past that instrument factory numerous times.
> VNC does something entirely different from this -- it just shares an existing desktop remotely rather than providing a unique independent desktop.

Actually, not necessarily; you can use Xvnc to achieve this with X+VNC. It's an X server that serves over VNC.

Can Wayland do this? Yes! But, the problem is that there is no singular Wayland "display server". This is both a big strength and big weakness of Wayland. In this case, it means that I can't point to a single correct way you can do this. However, with the compositor I currently use, SwayWM, it's very trivial: I can start Sway inside of an existing compositor or X server to get a nested desktop. You could use this with Waypipe or X11 forwarding for example. It can also be started with wayvnc inside, to expose a VNC server from Sway, though this is not really any different from starting an Xvfb and running a VNC server inside of it.
https://artemis.sh/2022/09/18/wayland-from-an-x-apologist.ht...

talks about it at length.

It seems the main things missing for Talon are:

- input emulation, doable via uinput but not great
- standard way to query the list of windows and active focus
- for dwell-click support, you need to be able to know if the user is moving their mouse or clicking so you can cancel your autoclick
True. The problem is that telematics can’t tell you who is a bad driver and who isn’t. Instead they approximate bad driving by rate of acceleration, brake pressure, and speed. To these systems anyone who drives the way you are taught to drive in any serious course outside high school would be flagged as a bad driver, despite statistically have lower accident rates.

The things that actually make people bad drivers are things like driving unpredictability, failing to signal, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and not paying attention / distracted driving. These are the things that cause most crashes. They also can’t be directly measured with telematics and none of the measurements we have is a good proxy.

So most folks would agree that bad drivers should pay more for insurance, but it doesn’t follow that sending telematics to insurance companies is a useful or accurate way to do that. It’s certainly not worth the privacy trade off.
Checking boxes on a project plan seems to be the priority. Everything else is rather uninteresting to them.
Nah, it's just EC2 you are not a target of. Checkout AWS Lightsail
Im14andthisisdeep :) Did I ever say otherwise? Tools are invented to make things more convenient and not learning them properly is not an excuse to whine.
>I verified that cookies are presente on browser's storage despite my absence of authorisation

That doesn't say much. Even the GDPR allows for some cookies to be stored without consent.

>Strictly necessary cookies — These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Cookies that allow web shops to hold your items in your cart while you are shopping online are an example of strictly necessary cookies. These cookies will generally be first-party session cookies. While it is not required to obtain consent for these cookies, what they do and why they are necessary should be explained to the user.

https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
I didn't say no beef. I said less beef.

The average American eats 55lbs/25kg beef a year. For 12% of Americans to eat 50% of the beef they have to consume over 4 times as much as the average American.

That'd mean they'd eat a ~270g beef steak every single day.

I'm by no means a vegetarian, let alone a vegan, but even you have to admit that this is excessive. This could easily be replaced with nothing and you wouldn't be protein deficient.
Yeah I’ve got a fear of big fuck off spiders, thankfully I’m in England so nothing major, but as we approach winter plenty of house spiders are going to appear out of the cracks!
Google's Generative AI Tools Now Turn Text into Online Worlds
There is no will to actually enforce the GDPR even across the EU.

Much stronger cases than auditing vague “legitimate interest” have been stuck in legal limbo for years.

UK since Brexit is outright hostile to GDPR - not that they’ve enforced it in the past, but now they want to (and maybe already did) relax their regulation even further.
The protein gains overnight though are impressive I believe
Program verification, while interesting in its own regard, has nothing to do with what we're talking about here.

Proofs as studied by mathematical logic are mathematical objects, not something you "prove to someone", that's the entire and only point, and it's extremely well-grounded in existing theory. It's not even a contentious point, it's not something reasonable people can disagree on.
"If we can, with self driving cars, clip some of those outliers, we will have outsize impact on the total safety picture."

It depends. I doubt it because the distribution needs to be considered. Replacing average drivers either an average system yields no benefit. If it's applied to both tails equally, then you haven't moved the average either, juar made it more homogeneous. You'd have to target the highest risk groups to make the impact. Many in those groups can't afford or won't adopt the tech - the elderly, low income (or less educated depending on the study), or young males mostly.

The better ways to target only the problematic tail is stricter testing, better education, and possibly permemant interlock devices for DUI offenders.

"How many accidents happen because an individual careful driver is, momentaritly, inanttentive?"

My guess would be probably about as often as autonomous systems screw up in novel environments.
> A) why isn’t this publicized as much as the USA advisory?

USA Advisory is new and it's being reported as it's being given.

> B) you think safety concerns for countries you’ve inked are equal to the USA?

Apples/Orange and a shitty disingenuous distraction. Just because X may be worse than Y doesn't mean X shouldn't be discussed.
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The comment should be edited as not having a space between the thread ID 37253639 and ]( makes that part of the URL which results in an error.
Name is not the only thing that gives away one's caste/religion. For example, my ear being pierced gives away that I am a Hindu. The specific dialect I speak gives away where I belong from, which statistically brings me to 2-3 castes. The food I eat(e.g. I eat chicken but not pork) or the festivals I celebrate will give away the rest.
Thank you for this link to "Aphew Twin wouldn't become popular, today."

Grew up listening to brother's albums, and laughed realizing chair-squeaks are music, too =P
Bike design is full of cascading effects: Now we can make wheels out of carbon fiber. But they delaminate on big descents, because the brake track gets too hot. And this is worse on clincher rims which are displacing tubulars on high end bikes. So now road bikes need disc brakes. But the cheap mechanical disc brakes are worse than rim brakes on alloy rims. The effects of these changes are different at different price points. The game is to sell "sporty" bikes to a mass market of riders who want a racy feel but who seldom if ever race. Every year both technologies and prices change and product formulation is driven by these changes.
> I did fix it but I will not report about the error to Google

Why not? That seems like a weird stance. Is your desire to hurt Google so strong that you are not willing to help potentially thousands of people?
I believe this is a temporary state related to both the current level of capabilities and the cultural moment we’re in where “responsible censorship” is in amongst the cultural cohorts disproportionately responsible for training LLMs.

I believe it cannot last because being predictably moralizing and being smart are somewhat opposed (Anthropic has directly researched this if I recall). The smarter the model, the less you’re going to be able to keep it to the HR talk track, because it will eventually start noticing the inconsistencies.

The stable solutions appear to me to be:

- models dumb enough to not realize the inconsistencies in their moral framework

- models implicitly or explicitly trained to actively lie about their moral frameworks

- models governed by explicitly articulated rules
Hmm, just a thought (I've never lived in an area with an HOA), but how hard are HOAs to legally dismantle? It seems like absolutely no one likes having them, other than the power-trippers who run them. Would it be feasible for a group of neighbors to band together and dismantle theirs?

Some areas, like Minnesota, are also introducing laws to preempt cities from banning native lawns, though it's not clear if they can override busybody HOAs. https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/minnesota-cities-can-no...
If there are a lot of working people when you retire it is easy to pay for your retirement, both in the sense that they can pay taxes and in the sense that the growing economy makes the stock market grow up which makes private defined benefit or defined contribution plans work better. Billionaires benefit from it even more than you but you do benefit from it.
As happy as I am that FFF's are back I hate that this is going to suck me right back into Factorio (there are much worse things for sure).

It's probably for the best that I can only really play Factorio on my computer and not on my Steam Deck (yes, I _can_ but it's annoying enough to not have a mouse/keyboard that I don't). It's really an amazing game that you can dump literally thousands of hours into, trust me I have. I'm looking forward to new expansion even if it's still ~1 year out.
I've been looking something like this for many years. I installed it and it works as described. Old Androids and iPhones sitting in my drawer can now be permanently left in my old vehicles as an emergency backup GPS.
One thing I find missing from most alternative map apps is satellite view - I find it very useful for orienting myself and for "exploration".

OSM supports microsoft satellite maps as a layer - any way to add it to organic maps too? I do like the simpler interface.
In general, supplements should not be taken without good reason, because their availability in concentrated form makes it very easy to consume too much, like is also the case for refined sugar.

Consuming too much of anything that is useful in small quantities, is either useless or harmful.

When restricted to the same small quantities that are normally available from natural sources, there are no significant differences between vitamins from supplements and from their natural sources.

There may be good reasons to use supplements, as long as their dosage is right. For instance, eating one raw red bell pepper per day will provide enough vitamin C for a human. However, the same amount of ascorbic acid powder costs ten times less where I live, in Europe. So either taste or budget may make the supplement preferable, which is fine, unless a much greater daily intake is used than it would have been provided by the bell pepper.
In Gothub the only theme is dark.
Fascinating, I wonder if there’s some evolutionary advantage for this, maybe spreading out more so they don’t encroach on each others territories from an early age and make their own home?
If you want to argue that they can scan people outside the country and not US citizens, and that that has a benefit, go ahead and make that argument. You might even convince me.

But it’s just begging the question to say there’s immense benefit to them searching US citizens’ communications without a reason.

That’s the whole question.

Show me why we should change the constitution which guarantees us freedom from this sort of government oppression.
Collecting and processing this information provides paychecks and careers for many people - they aren’t particularly interested in making the tracking actually beneficial to the business, what matters is merely the illusion of it being beneficial so they keep their paycheck.
I think you're conflating 'primarily' and 'exclusively'. Furthermore if you consider their 'general topics' books and check up on their authors you might notice a certain theme.
How will it increase the load on your server? They're not increasing the frequency of releases, just reducing the amount of time the release/beta process takes.
Hahaha as I said in another comment, impressive protein gains overnight!
Rust: Generics Considered Colorful
Yeah, and we couldn’t disqualify people from UBI anyways, as that could mean banishment from an UBI-inflated economy. They might be unable to afford even the most basic necessities when the economy adjusts to everyone’s increased spending power.

So with UBI will come a certain amount of UBI spent on blow. And maybe that’s fine if overall humanity is better off. It doesn’t need to be perfect, just considerably better.
Better link...

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/social.pdf
link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37253639
Winnie-the-Pooh Sketch Found Wrapped in an Old Tea Towel
I couldn't read past the third paragraph out of fear. I'm resigning myself to live in a world of giant, flying, electrified, blue tarantulas.
Ignore Tesla. Yes Elon is going to keep saying they're selling a "Self driving" car but Elon's lawyers are going to keep telling anybody who gets into an accident they were driving because Elon isn't really selling a self-driving car.

Waymo are driving, there is no warm body, in accidents where a Waymo self driving taxi struck somebody that's on Waymo, you're just a passenger the same as if you were in a New York cab, or a Uber, or if an A320 you're sat in smacks into a post because the pilots took a corner too close. You're not the one who needs insurance, because you're not driving, Waymo is.
DataGrip can do this. Used it for a lot of CSV imports about four years ago. It had a lot of customization on the import. If you don't want to pay for it you can use the free trial. I moved away from it for years but came crawling back. DataGrip has just been the best SQL client I've used.

If you can work around requiring docker this will work. If you're hosting this and need users to dump the CSV, then I may have wasted your time. Sorry!
> Can Wayland do this? Yes!

Interesting. I remember asking some Wayland devs a few years back about this and they said this use case would never be supported. I'm glad that's changed! It means that if the day comes that I have to use Wayland, I won't necessarily lose functionality.

(Just for clarity, I'm not opposed to Wayland if it can do what I want. But I'm not excited by it, either, because the benefits it does provide are ones that don't really matter to me)
Irelands Upper Sea
This is the first time I see "Get it on F-DROID" on an app download page.
You utter these heresies whilst holding 10k files each containing 10 demonic incantations.

Let us not sink into unproductive musings of the intellect, but meditate on the nature of the pendulum swing.
Same issue on sway + nvidia, it can be worked around by disabling wayland support for electron apps. Not ideal.
You have lost the Perl of Wisdom possessed by the ancients....
Khan Academy Courses for Caltech Admission
Sal Khan has done it again. Thank god for him and schoolhouse.world and khanacademy.org and everything else he has done for this world.
Embed Real-Time Widget in GitHub Repo Readme.md
If you are doing chemotherapy, your oncologist may tell you to avoid vitamin C and other anti-oxidants precisely because the chemotherapy drugs rely on oxidation to kill the cancer cells.
Correction: the rest just ends up getting searched thousands of times, in direct violation of the US constitution.
Only a very superficial one, though.

Human societies have learned that freedom has general benefits that outweigh specific costs. Reminding people they should prioritize and maximize freedom does not make people less free, so there's not really any irony.
User data (and the resultant behavioral prediction) is the new gold rush. Even if the data is not immediately useful, it can be stored and used later.

There's the (now) old saying, "if the product is free, then you are the product" but that's not entirely accurate. You are the source of raw materials. These materials can then be fed into a model which will predict your behavior. Right now this can be seen simply in the space of funneling content to you, in order to get you to buy things. But companies are not governments and can sell their product to anybody (including governments) in order to predict or direct your behavior.
Let's dissect this a bit with some assumptions.

If you're asking for $600k and want to do your own thing, then you're not talking 50%-50% split, let's say it's a rather typical 20% VC seed round. This means your company is valued at $3m pre-money valuation. That requires some convincing to do.

Then a typical VC would want to protect their investment and expect high outcomes - otherwise they'd invest in index funds with low risk, which btw grow fine. The typical expectation would be 3x the investment in say 10 years. So they'd be looking for a $9m exit. Also they'd put liquidation preferences, preferred shares, vesting, cliffs, etc., which make sense. The 300k ARR, which is still fictional may give you a value of $1m and this in very good markets. You'll need to make this 300k MRR so that it makes sense to them.

Maybe you can find a partner who puts $300k and you both get a salary and aim for a $300k ARR together. Then the math looks better but is way riskier and harder to pull off.
And yet you regularly see companies laying off their more senior employees in favor of H1B either directly or through hiring TCS or Infosys to bring in an army of H1Bs.
Subscriptions and external links help drive users to extremist YouTube channels
Why is the hash of the request better than comparing strings?
> “legitimate interest” means something specific

“We see your preference, but fuck you and your preference we want to anyway.”
I find it curious that we always see these opinions expressed about front end frameworks, but no one seems to have much problem with all of the complexity in back end frameworks like node, Python, Java, .Net... I have a sneaking suspicion that people are just more used to having complexity hidden from them behind a framework install, whereas front end puts everything front and center since it's all delivered to your project via npm.
PulseAudio is still not there after 19 years.
Previous conversations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30219442
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24694459
organic maps is great but it does not have street numbers.

I know this is a limit of the underlying OSM data it uses.
When I tried Dopus didn't even allow to browse inside archives as folders. Has that changed?
To be a complete success, PipeWire merely needed to work at all.