skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is BlockBear a good solution on iOS? I switched to iOS from Android because they were the only ones making a good, small-ish phone (on Android, I'd just use Firefox and uBlock Origin), but I had no idea what ad blocker to pick. What I have kinda works, but I do still see ads sometimes, and the app seems kinda skeevy. Would be happy to try something else if it is recommended.
It’s an interesting thought experiment to wonder if consumer protections extend to defects from state sponsored acts of espionage.
Being stranded in Moscow because the State Department cancels your passport while you're en route to Ecuador = "defection"? Cute.
Insurance Fraud at Japan Car Company BigMotor [video]
"The Bigmotor scandal came to light in July after the used-car dealer disclosed a third-party investigation report that revealed at least 1,275 cases of improper repairs by employees at body and paint shops. These involved using screwdrivers and sandpaper to scratch car bodies, hitting vehicles with golf ball-filled socks and doing unnecessary paint work."
> But the calculus in your mind should be that the writing of the dependency is a loss. It is a loss of developer time, of future maintenance, of mental mindshare

Why should it? Why is efficiency some kind of moral imperative here? Why should we deny ourselves the freedom of being inefficient? Has the author considered that there's more to life than efficiency?
The reason for asking this question was that maybe it's possible to deduce something about such CEO. As he is not even using a calendar or mobile app to schedule his tasks upfront of at least a week, they want an assistant to remind him of everything. It seems for me that if they want someone to totally manage his time, it by default may not be 100% effective if the person didn't make a conscious action to put something on a calendar.
> everything else I use google for are just addresses

> LLMs can not yet replace good web search ... think navigational queries, shopping /reviews, location aware

amusing.
Genuinely, at this point you should just assume 100% of your electronics are compromised by someone. If it’s not a government (yours or otherwise) then a corporation will fill the gaps (while in most cases also giving it to those governments)

You should assume you have no privacy anywhere in your life.
Celebrity impersonators/impressionists have been doing this since forever. Remember Rich Little? Of course what's different now is the automation, but I expect there is existing legal theory that will be brought into play to cover this.
Yes, but this is supposedly transparent. At least until you interface directly with native libraries, or with leaky abstractions that don’t account for that.
Yes. Check 8bit.ws. Code for LLAMA plugin using GPU is here https://github.com/samyfodil/taubyte-llama-satellite
Actual title should be "A case against scroll hijacking."
It isn't theft, that's a gross exaggeration. Alas it's a popular one. https://www.tomsguide.com/us/ad-blocking-is-stealing,news-20...

> These days, most Web publishers rely on advertising to pay the bills. Some charge subscription fees, but for the most part, readers have shown that they aren't willing to pay for access to Web content. Even if they earn revenue from subscriptions or e-commerce links, few sites can turn a profit without running a substantial number of ads.

Boo friggin' hoo. If you don't like it, shutter your site. Since 2015 when this article was written, ads have gotten worse, and the blame can't be placed entirely on people using ad blockers. FWIW I don't use one, I use the ad blocker in my brain (the article says "However, trying to actively filter ads from websites is stealing" and that's what I do when I ignore ads). I guess by their logic I should stop doing that and read every ad or else I'm tantamount to a burglar.
The 24GB of VRAM of the 3090/4090 (instead of 80GB) is a deal breaker for a lot of stuff. Also 3090 only does 2x nvlink (and 4090 has no nvlink).

But a lot of people (including me) run 3090/4090 rigs at home, or rent them at runpod/vastai to save a buck.
That’s hyperbole
I don't think you can argue exactly that Switzerland is prefering road expansion instead of rail. There is still an enormous amount spent on rail but the huge NEAT investment is done and now some failing old road tunnels are in need of work and the costs are tremendous.

One such tunnel requires building a 3rd because closing one of the two for x years is economicaly worse for the country than building the 3rd. The 3rd tunnel however will be closed at the end of construction and can not be used to expand capacity. It will be a service tunnel only.

Also Switzerland just presented their 2035 [1] and 2050 [2] rail plans. The 2035 plan alone includes several new tunnels and new/upgrades to rail stations. The expansion at Zürich Stadelhofen alone is estimated at 1.1 billion Swiss francs and that is not the main train station in Zürich. Zürich Hartbrücke also need to be upgraded and is estimated over triple digit millions as well.

[1] https://company.sbb.ch/de/ueber-die-sbb/projekte/nationale-p...

[2] https://www.bav.admin.ch/bav/de/home/verkehrsmittel/eisenbah...
>You have a different definition of original than me, it seems.

Probably, as I prefer the standard dictionary one.

>Monetary value? You mean money laundering?

I also mean the traditional art buying public, before the 70s when modern random figures came into the picture, when money laundering wasn't needed and money laundering laws and checks where almost or entirely non-existent. Did Peggy Guggenheim and other such figures do it for money laundering?

>Critics and art audiences: totally no "opinion monopoly" or manufactured consent at play, right?

As opposed to the non-manufactured consent or opinion plurality of Joe Random?
All those vendors offer Oracle software that's licensed to you by Oracle. Amazon, for example, cannot change the license on the Oracle software they're distributing because it's not their software. The Oracle license is a standard open-source license, but if it makes you feel better to download Oracle software with an Oracle license from some other company's website -- go for it, and you're welcome.
Click on the timestamp of any HN comment, then a 'favorite' link will appear.

To find it again, head to your profile -> Favorite comments

If you forget to 'favorite' a comment and vaguely remember it, sometimes a google search with site:news.ycombinator.com will do the trick.

Another way is you can use the HN searchbar (at the bottom of the page), and when it loads results, switch from searching stories to searching comments. E.g. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Capitalism is all of about 200 years old. It's a revolutionary idea. Previously, if a group of people wanted to pool capital for a venture, they had to have the support of the state or the church, usually one in the same. The US allowed for the pooling of capital for ventures that were purely for profit. The result was the rapid expansion of the country.

But that's the initial effect of a system that's relatively brand new. Now we're facing the constant conglomeration of ownership of capital, resources, and production. We used to push back against the monopolization of industry but we're losing that battle. And as anyone who's played a lot of Monopoly knows, it never ends well.

Capitalism results in many improvements, such as funding for research towards medicines that impact millions of people around the globe. However, capitalism overlooks many improvments such as funding research of medicines that only effect a few people - because that's not profitable enough.

The biggest failure of our model of capitalism thus far is that we have allowed the corporate takeover of our political system. Laws are now crafted by corporate lawyers and politicians spend all of their time raising more campaign funds for the next election cycle. Anyone we would actually want to vote into positions of leadership are overshadowed by corporate-sponsored puppets.

A democracy can not function without an informed populous. Our populous is informed by one of few corporate owned and controlled media channels. Since the telecommunications act of 1996, the quality of news reporting has plummeted and now pushes one of 2 available narratives, both equally fabricated.

Yes, capitalism was an amazing evolutionary step in society. But if we don't take the next step forward soon, we'll be taking a step backwards.
>Brand's management company/agent dropped him too. Should they have to continue to represent Russell Brand while the accusations pile up, his reputation sinks, and anyone associated with him risks collateral damage?

His management agent is not a globally dominant platform or infrastructure provider.
Oracle's OpenJDK builds are only updated for six months after each release, while Adoptium receives long-term support (like the commercial Oracle JDK).
Isn't the natural solution to just use attention layers instead of graph convolution layers then? Then there the attention mechanism will end up learning the useful graph structure via the attention weights?
This probably works if each person has a cyanide+happy drug pill or a grenade and is willing to sacrifice themselves and the rubber-hoser(s). I think that requires a rare level of devotion. This process must also disable a simple and fragile signalling device to let the others know what's coming.
> The title of the page is a "basic guide". Not a "comprehensive guide".

Straw man. Thep post could give more useful advice with a few extra words without being "comprehensive".

> And they note that "the person’s preference is the most important thing to consider", which already covers your "but I have name cards in a different format" objection.

The post suggests putting Japanese family names first, with a generic, obvious disclaimer at the top about personal preference taking priority. There a lot more to what tkgally (who is a professor emeritus at University of Tokyo and former professional translator, by the way) said about that than "I have name cards in a different format". For one, he estimated 50% of the business cards he received had the family name last. He also linked the guidance from the Japan Style Sheet which provides many additional points in favor of not assuming the family name goes first.
It is not legal. I disagree with the law but it is not legal at the federal level to have marijuana.
This is the right approach IMO.

Just assume you’re being persistently surveilled - if you use a computer or electronics then the likelihood approaches 100% over your lifetime.
> A lot of Boston is built on old swampland. Would Georgists say that the 2023 tax value of all of Back Bay is $0?

This is exactly what I was addressing in:

> In practice likely the taxation would apply on a lot by lot basis, so you would have to count your huge land ownership as 150 thousand small lots each with significant unimproved value.

Let's play an experiment: in the middle of nowhere Alice and Bob each own two closeby land lots. Each lot by itself is worth essentially 0 dollars so neither Alice nor Bob pay any taxes on it.

One year Alice builds an hotel on her lot, her unimproved landvalue remains unchanged but Bob's increases to X dollars.

Another year Bob builds a restaurant on his lot, his unimproved landvalue remains unchanged at X but Alice's increases to Y dollars.

Honestly I am not sure how this would handle infrastructure development like a road or a railroad

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For georgist taxation to work you need to set a sensible limit to how big or small a lot can be: an entire city is too big and a square foot is to small.

The possible failure mode of this taxation is that all but the most efficient use of land can become impossible, but right now I believe that the problem of excessive rent-seeking and "parked land" are more critical
Moreover, Russell Brand has not been kicked off of YouTube. His channel is still there, as ever:

https://www.youtube.com/@RussellBrand

They are just withholding revenue. I am not defending sexual abuse. My point is well articulated here by The Hill's Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr_Kjd0xXNA

From the transcript (starts about 1:00 min into the video):

I find this extremely disturbing and you know with the caveat that of course YouTube is a private company they are not bound to give you free speech rights or do process rights they're not bound by the First Amendment they can literally do whatever they want we don't have to like it we can criticize it and I think this is well worth criticizing this is not him being punished even for some speech some content he's produced on the platform which is some a problem we've had you know with YouTube in the past this the show has had problems with that in the past this is him being punished for and I'm not trying to detract from from the things people are saying about him but at this point these are Anonymous accusations that have not been substantiated through any kind of formal legal process the idea that you would be you would be canceled on us in a significant financial Revenue sort of way I know his main thing is Rumble but he also posts on YouTube for anonymous accusations against you reflecting behavior from decades ago uh I think that's pretty wild [...]
The other end of the spectrum from detecting bio-signatures of life on individual planets, would be mega structures.

Once a civilization began harvesting the energy of a few star systems, it would have a good chance of colonizing their whole galaxy in a blink of an eye.

(100 thousand years, plus or minus an order of magnitude, as compared to universe time in billions of years.)

So we would be much more likely to see totally colonized galaxies, rather than partially colonized.

I would be curious about which instruments would detect infra-red galaxies, I.e. galaxy sized objects where all starlight was put to use, with only infra-red light as waste.

And would that be an object that would stand out if a major telescope came across it, or require specific initiative to search and find?

And speaking of optics, is there any reason to suspect an efficient civilization would leak lower frequency light than infra-red?
Yeah, I have one at home too, so I really want more detail on what the exploit is (I wonder if if is perhaps IPSEC specific, like an RNG flaw since they talk about VPN and encryption appliances, or it could be something to do with Cavium HSMs and unrelated to the network processors).
> the Leavers are being steadily proven correct.

Now this is delusional. The "prime Leaver", Nigel Farage, thinks Brexit has failed and has said so. The press is full of Leavers saying the country is broken right now.
The fact they waste taxpayer money on the military only for them to admit that they don't even have the tech to track these 100 million dollar planes is so disheartening. You know that the giant cost of these planes is just lining military contractors' pockets.
It is really awesome - For example quickly pull up all emails from <xyz @ name .com) in the last 60 days.

check my email and make a list of all emails from no_reply@blank.apple.com in 2023, provide a summary in table format, date, subject, summary of content, amount
The twitter files showed government agencies were coercing Twitter into suppressing information. I would find it hard to believe they don't also coerce at newspapers, particularly with the cozy relationship they already have with "anonymous sources" from said agencies.
I mean, that sounds like just a few tweaks to the setting of "Snow Crash"
The idea of the Dyson swarm is just taking humanity as we've seen it over the past 200 years and assuming the exact energy curve would continue for 2K more years. It's kind of silly. People don't need infinite energy to live. Many people are happy to live as much in harmony with nature as they can.

This whole line of thinking is short sighted. For example "No magic theorized materials are required;" but we literally WILL have 'magic' materials in the future. Of course we can't predict the things we don't have yet, but assuming we'd just move in some linear line from where we are is probably unlikely.
In TypeScript at least, async-ness is encoded in the type system, because async/await is just syntactic sugar for Promise/then/catch.
Every car will soon have inward facing cameras.

In the 2021 infrastructure bill, by 2026 cars have to include technology that must “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired.”

The most straightforward way to implement this is with driver-facing cameras: "Sam Abuelsamid, principal mobility analyst for Guidehouse Insights, said the most likely system to prevent drunken driving is infrared cameras that monitor driver behavior."

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-te...
There seems to be a prevailing opinion that one can't even be friends with someone who doesn't share the same political views.
So in real life terms, what does this mean for people that own USG3s? If you're so inclined, replace it? Or not use the VPN feature in the Unifi admin console?

Personally, I just forward all WireGuard traffic to another computer on my network and use https://github.com/burghardt/easy-wg-quick to setup a simple VPN.
There's no legal weed in the US. Not when dealing with federal authorities.
> By recording driver behavior, Musk could argue that driver error led to the accidents rather than Tesla technology

We really need the US government to iron out the liability questions around self-driving. It's kind of a joke at this point.

Tesla is offering people the ability to NOT DRIVE. In the case of an accident, they want to prove that the driver was being negligent by NOT DRIVING.

Or you can take GM's approach and literally have cameras pointed at your eyes to make sure they are looking at the road and a steering wheel that can tell when you let go. And disable your ability to NOT DRIVE, whenever they detect you NOT DRIVING.

In comparison, Tesla is at least being an "honest liar". They are giving you what you want, which is borderline illegal, and will rat you out for using it the first chance they get.
Check out foreflight. It's an app that does exactly what you are talking about. It will definitely show relevant NOTAMs and TFRs and update in flight. I don't know about europe, but its pretty rare for people to fly GA in North America without some sort of phone app running.

There is also FltPlanGo which is free, but it is less full featured than foreflight.
Do you really think the entire American IC is a "criminal conspiracy", or are you just trying to justify the fact that Snowden is an angry and vindictive sharepoint admin who simply dumped everything he had access to without regard for what was actually in those documents?
Despite the naysayers, college is still probably the single greatest ROI you can get. Be practical when picking what to study; balance pursuing passions and interests with the need for marketable skills.
As we learned from a certain governor "hiking the Appalachian trail", some people get treated differently.
The really concerning part is to be STILL believing that after the Snowden scandal, after everybody has seen the slides that explain in detail how the NSA sends an FBI team to gather data from (then, in 2013) Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL, Apple (and Dropbox being planned).

Also how Yahoo first refused but was forced to comply by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.

https://www.electrospaces.net/2014/04/what-is-known-about-ns...

(Note that supposedly, "the companies prefer installing their own monitoring capabilities to their networks and servers, instead of allowing the FBI to plug in government-controlled equipment.")
1) Boot Access inside Wine and use it to export the tables into csv or similar. From there it's a relative doddle to import them into SQLite, Postgres, etc.

2) Use one of the open source Access file readers (e.g., Jackcess) to do the same. Make a backup first!
Lombok is unfortunately a separate programming language, albeit insufficiently distinct from Java.

(Why? Because it uses internal compiler APIs to change the behaviour of code you write in ways that are not valid: annotation processors are supposed to generate new classes, not mutate existing classes.)
Yeah, I guess my mistake was to pay with Paypal with money directly pulled from my bank account. Ugh. Ebay owned paypal for 13 years and spun them off a few years ago, but they still seem to be in bed together.
You're supposed to either await a Task, or to block on it (thus blocking the underlying OS thread which probably eats a couple of megabytes of RAM). It's a completely different system more akin to what Go has been using.
Being in the US, it’s a shame these countries are making this same mistake. I’m probably warped being in Gen Z, but cars/car-centric infrastructure seem like a fundamental mistake, and a shameful investment. Everyone should have a right to walkability, and frankly in my experience, cities without it feel substantially less pleasant. Having good inner-city transit and inner/inter-city rail makes places feel so much nicer and more developed.

Obviously, cities with good transit are substantially rarer and probably far worse maintained in the US than Europe, so I’m sure Europe is in an overall far better spot with it - but I struggle to understand the appeal of developing against walkability and transit-ability in 2023.
All models are wrong, some are useful. The map is not the territory.
Spot on. Musk is doing it with the cybertruck as well. It's a dog whistle for the rich being mindful about the unwashed masses finally picking up pitchforks.
This is in poor taste.

It's used for a number of reasons, like planning things relative to the number of people living in an area. It also becomes your official address where the government sends all your important mail. It's also how you get registered for church tax.
They run with drivers, of course.

But such servers have no need to, for example, suspend and resume correctly. Or handle hot-plugging of displays correctly. Or install updates in a completely reliable manner. Or include the 32 bit support needed for Steam to work.
Except much like technology or politics it had real, measurable impacts on millions of people's lives, and not for the better

Hell the damage it's done to the planet alone should give most people pause
Nobody was going to torture or kill snowden. His risk was prison, no more.
All of the alternatives commented so far have the same downside, you got a LLM response and you can either run it or abort.

https://github.com/tom-doerr/zsh_codex

^ This is much nicer as it hook into zsh completion so you got a response that drop right into the shell input (enter to execute or edit away)

Also you can write shell script directly in prompt and use it to auto complete the rest
Some details of Ubuntu 23.10 are becoming apparent even before it goes into beta
Remember the time when each game company had their own engine? And that led to many technological marvels, like RollerCoaster Tycoon by Chris Sawyer, to name one. Now innovation in game engines seems to be stalled, as big ones are just looking how to push more ads, instead of more polygons. Maybe building own game engine will become a thing again?
Then you don’t start it in a virtual thread. Your calls automatically become blocking or not blocking depending on your callsites, which is the proper place to decide that.
So every company that ever sells me anything should be able to install cameras in my house, because I could potentially use the product incorrectly and then sue them for it, and they need to protect themselves.
> Ok the claim is the CPU was compromised and they using ARM based tech.

MIPS and ARM.

And Linux MIPS doesn't even have DEP and ASLR.
You are talking about what ended up being implemented, the post talks about what musk wanted to do. Different things.