skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ie. there are probably 250 people who would find out if I got diabetes and died. Those people would then probably take a little more care of their health

Around 14% of Americans have diabetes, so I don't think that really pans out.
Going to buy shares in VPN providers.

Seriously though, this just feels like the walls closing in on the freedom we had online. There’s no way these powers won’t be extended into more surveillance and censorship generally, now that they’re in the door. We all lose.

And it won’t make the lives better for miserable children whom this bill is supposed to help - if anything, by controlling online content more they have even fewer places to reach out and find help without ‘somebody watching’.

The children prone to “online harms” will just find another outlet, and the parents (probably responsible for their misery in the first place) will switch to blaming that and demanding legislation to control it. Rinse and repeat.
Not a lawyer (barrister?), but no. Generally, businesses are not obligated to do business with folks they dislike.
Not sure about this - seems like Elon's personal meddling has shown that Starlink is not reliable for military purposes. Military would have to have complete ownership/control
It's possible to modify it and add a 4G modem, but that would probably be third-party.

The creators of the project suggest using your phone's hotspot if you need connectivity when not connected to Wi-fi (something I heard in interviews they gave).
A Promise is not ordinary blocking code.

String res = someRestCall();

is.
the algorithm steered the videos

More accurately, the algorithm gave Brand incentive to change his videos. "The algorithm" can't steer the video directly; it needs to influence the content creators. It's the conscious decision, following incentives, of these people to change their content. And while we can understand why they may have done it, that doesn't make them blameless.
In the beginning YouTube was popular and had very little moderation. You could watch illegal streams of many films and movies and you could find some porn before it’d be taken down.

Advertisers are what demand moderation not users so as to protect their bottom line. It’s disingenuous to say otherwise and ignores a multitude of services that became and still are incredible popular with little moderation.
I’m under no legal obligation either to deny the allegations until proven. And in this case I choice to believe the victims. And I will keep calling them victims until proven otherwise.
Because zero day vulnerabilities are usually patched when discovered by the vendor. They're completely different than an intentional backdoor.
The risks seem to come from tire dust, which obviously is only generated when a tire rolls along the ground. So it's probably not all that bad for playgrounds.
I'm not a court of law. I can say whatever I want. What happened to freedom of speech?
I think the opposite. Imagine how many MTX iPhone games we'd get. Please GOD no.
I hate that you're right. It doesn't apply exclusively to the UK
This fact is overstated. At the end of the day as shown over and over again they want to make games for the largest audience, which is why they’re priced accordingly.
I am a bit puzzled: governments and big corp are pouring indecent amounts of money in developing quantum computers, which main application, afaict, is to break cryptography.

...and this is defeated by changing our algorithms ?

Whats the use in developing quantum computers then?
In an XML document you can specify the XML schema location with `xsi:schemaLocation`. In a JSON document you can specify the JSON Schema location with `$schema`.

In a Cue document how do you specify the location of the Cue schema? As far as I can tell you can't.

And yes I am aware that the concept of a "document" and a "schema" are basically merged in Cue, but that doesn't mean I don't want to do this.

> CUE is most often used as a CLI, so no Go is needed

Only because that's the only way you can use it.

> Being Go, you can compile to SO or WASM

Compiling to a shared library is awkward because you then need to have the Go toolchain installed. WASM might be an option ... I couldn't find out how Go actually works in WASM though given that it needs a GC and threads, and WASM currently has neither. Do they ship their own WASM GC?

Either way, it's of no practical use since nobody has actually done that. Look at the languages supported by Jsonnet for comparison: https://jsonnet.org/ref/bindings.html

Python, C, Rust (twice), Go (twice), Lua, Node, PHP, Ruby, Haskell.

If I'm loading a config file from Python I don't want to have to mess around with `subprocess.run()` to read it. It's a solvable problem... but today, it's a bit of a turn-off.
Unfortunately PDF is, like, one of the most reassuring file formats.

https://xkcd.com/1301/

What would you put at the top?

.PS is pretty fancy, although, just because it is probably saying “this is basically a PDF but from the olden days.”
They are building a US-military controlled one called Starshield.
The entire story of go seems to be learning through repeating the same mistakes as other languages, one at a time.

Nil being another big one. Even more impressively they doubled down on this mistake with typed nils. Even if you explicitly do a comparison with nil you can still shoot yourself in the foot because it was a different nil than the one you compared against.
Firefox, not Chrome, dethroned IE. It was just short lived because very soon after, Google hired half the Firefox team away from Mozilla and created Chrome.
StoryMage: Create LinkedIn and Blogs that turn into Sales
When I created my first business Founders Cafe, the biggest problem I ran into was how to get more inbounds.

I spammed everyday on Reddit, Linkedin DMs, Slack and more.

I would get a few people trickling in here and there. But nothing consistent.

When I started writing blog posts on Medium, LinkedIn, that's when I noticed the biggest influx of traffic.

Suddenly people started applying. YC founders paid $4k and referenced that one article as to why they joined.

One person started paying $1,000/mo without even talking to me.

It was insane.

I knew I needed a way to scale out this content. All I did was write about was my frameworks, my interviews with other VCs/Founders, and my experiences.

All of this was recorded on Zoom/Otter.

So I ended up building out a tool to turn these recordings into revenue generating content. That business scaled to 240k revenue over the next 24 months.

I want to help other founders scale out their content, so that they go from spammming / outbound to having a revenue generating content system.

I believe that we all have thought leadership inside our companies, but we just need some help massaging it out into the world.
Telephone services and internet services in some states are considered common carriers (net neutrality). In the case of an oligopoly like the streaming video market, it makes sense to force large players to make their platforms available on a non-discriminatory basis. I agree that breaking up YouTube would also solve the problem though.
FTFY: Youtube has decided to believe the multiple independent lines of evidence which came out of a four year investigation by multiple journalists across more than one organisation.

This is not currently a legal matter, but a matter that concerns a public figure's ethical standards. Multiple independent lines of evidence is a powerful thing.
Really? I wish I saw Apple ads, I mostly see a barrage of clickbait products that fall somewhere between "late night infomercial" and "obvious scam".
I think he talks about sobriety a lot, pretty sure he’s clean. Have you looked at any of his content or are you just emerging from 2007?
That doesn't prove anything. You're just saying that Huawei could theoretically be compromised, but the above commenter asked for evidence.
I wonder if YouTube takes into consideration local values when doing this. For example, nudity and other controversial stuff can have much different standards on what's acceptable and what's not. If this is not baked into the formula, then it's likely that YouTube is pushing cultures to align with SV or some managers in Google.

I'm not going to defend Russel Brand, just making a point about YT's impact. This time around maybe many people agree with their decisions on content but what happens if the managers change and the rules change with them? What happens if Andrew Tate types get positions in the corporate? Will people be OK about promoting videos about how you can make money by pimping your girlfriend on live stream and how to recruit more girlfriends and demonetise videos on climate change?

It's very disturbing that those utility level services can pick winners and losers. IMHO, we need to move to a model where if you can moderate content you are liable for the content. If you don't want to be liable for content then you should have nothing to do with that content, just provide the service and cooperate with the law enforcement when they are after someone who posts illegal content.

You can't be the curator and have no responsibility, and if you don't want responsibility don't be the curator.

I'm sorry that you don't like this unpopular opinion but we need to go to the dumb wire days of the telephone companies who couldn't control what people say on the phone and if their services were used to do bad things it was the law enforcements job to deal with it.
There are different kinds of order. Yes, there’s no total order in a distributed system, but you can have certain partial order guarantees. It’s nice if something is added before it’s updated, for instance.
Nintendo has their freemium iPhone games to rake in money from that segment of players. The people interested in the good games are gonna buy into Nintendo's ecosystem. They win both ways, and they don't risk screwing up their brand.
Thanks! Create a channel and/or post sometime!
Level 1 is pretty easy to meet IIRC. It's 2-4 that are hard, with pretty much no Level 4 certified ones on market I believe?
I think https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2019/go-internals-capturing-lo... describes the problem in more detail?
That would have to be a separate discussion. It's obviously not the one we're having here right now.

It was asserted that "in Canada, have something called the Rule of Law".

I don't think that assertion is true based on recent events.

Forced masking was just one of many abuses of government power we saw in Canada very recently. If there actually were rule of law in Canada, as was claimed, then none of those abuses would have happened.
different.

The US government is designed to be inefficient and requires bipartisan agreement or a majority in both chambers to do stuff.

The UK government has significantly more executive powers, far more than the president, and normally has a majority to pass things that can't be done by the excutive.

the problem is that brexit and bad party leaders has been exceedingly disruptive and killed both the conservative and labour party. This is because it ripped apart the coalitions inside both parties. Suddenly the us and them was not our party and thier party, but people within the same party.

The competent have been driven out by the populists, and then they've burnt up and been replaced by the "tim, nice but dims". (populists were boris and corbyn)

Until we actually "deal" with or defuse brexit, and actually begin to structurally reform large parts of the country (education, industrial relations, health and local government to name but a few) we are going to be stuck
It does seem like there is an upper bound on Starlink's success given that terrestrial gigabit fiber exists in major markets. Maybe they have a plan for this?
It is their pride, their nation's representative to the global audience. When people speak of Nintendo, they implicitly acknowledge Japan as a global player in the entertainment industry. It is a source of patriotism and advertisement.

In a way, everyone know of the US because everyone needs Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. When you talk about Huawei, you acknowledge China as a powerhouse in phone and tech. When you mention TSMC, you have to remember about Taiwan. etc.
These were all intentional tradeoffs though, not any ignorance of theory. Also, it's pretty rich for someone to be complaining about Go while referencing Javascript of all languages. Javascript's design flaws are legendary. And I mean no disrespect to the creators of Javascript, they had to deal with some crazy last minute change requests to the language.
So we're evaluating the US policy on international espionage on constructed examples now?

> Let's imagine OpenAI was a Russian company

Nevermind that they're not and that Russia can't currently develop these models, due to lack of silicon. All targets I mentioned, with the exception of the brazillian oil company we're in european states, at the time (and still!) closely allied with the US.

> The distinction being made is that the NSA may steal data related to this, but they aren't just giving it to Google to make Bard better.

How would you even know at this point? Who controls the NSA? There haven't been any leaks since the Snowden revelations and there likely won't ever be any again, since Snowden could only make his move due to some misconfigured/outdated network quota control software.

Hell you can't even FOIA information about these policies, and agencies will go so far to withhold evidence in court when it concerns espionage! And soon as a court case involves this information, the court recedes from the public and is held in secret.

My hostility against US policy is by no means anywhere above the european average, but when it comes to public statements about surveillance, I have no reason to trust the US Government. The Bush administration has proven that it is possible to flout the US constitution on a massive scale with just 10-12 people. At this point I can't blame people putting forward some crazy conspiracy theories about the deep state or qanon, because the US gov has given no indication to be believably concerned about compliance with their own laws.
MGM and Caesars reveal cyberattacks in wake of new SEC disclosure rules
This seems like a generalization with as many counterexamples as examples. Also, users don't actually want censorship, they want a tailored experience that filters out whatever content they don't like.
>Furthermore, the human vision system is a bit weird and perfect circles look vertically elongated. You have to make them non-circular for people to consider them properly circular.

Just like how cows don’t look like cows on film![0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbkNul4wQH0
>If it was really bad?

Well, that’s enough of this thread for me.

Unfuckingbelievable.
Millions of people can program, and it only takes one to anonymously release code that anyone can use. Code is free speech. We -should- teach ethics, but we must also live in the reality that any code, text, or media that can be imagined will exist now. This genie is not going back in the bottle.
Anti-bacterial gel is significantly more effective than other silver-based drugs
Here an example: https://go.dev/play/p/He0lBEYZJ03

Value is always a copy. Either a copy of a struct (in case of map[T]struct{}) or a copy of a pointer (in case of map[T]*struct{})
Risk ultimately is a statistics game. There is a certain percent chance of some defined outcome, in this case a bad one. And many factors change the numbers on a daily basis, most of them unknown in advance.

I, for one, gladly accept the risks of ASI, because also a great deal of rewards are on the table. Not to mention that some risks also can be avoided through ASI itself!

Not to mention that I would wholeheartedly support artificial life forms as the next evolutionary step of humanity - but this is probably very far future thinking.
> A bit of a harsh way to phrase that. In my experience, the backwards compatibility promises have been very good, and the way you stay up-to-date with security fixes and bugs in the standard library is to upgrade Go.

I don’t think we disagree? There is no reason to use old version of go.

I speak about grandparent comment who wanted to still run go1.18. It is not a good idea to still run go1.18, as it doesn’t get security updates.
> You can get all the same advantages of message acknowledgments, but now you can also replay queues

with rmq you can reject/nack a message and have it put back on the queue. rmq is not well suited for long term historical retention inside queues a-la kafka's logs but it is possible to do.

> let different applications use the messages (handy for cross cutting event/notification systems)

rmq also does a publish once and fanout to multiple queues to support this. data is replicated so that could be a deal breaker, but it is possible.

how often have you had to diagnose a stuck consumer or some other kind of offset glitch where a consumer is unable to resume where it left off?

not knocking kafka here but I do think it is a tool you should reach for when you need to solve a very hyper focused problem, while rabbit is a tool more suited to most cases where queuing is required. kafka is a code smell in a lot of organizations from my experience - most do not need it.
In contrast to the view of many, programming language theory is very closely intertwined with programming practice. It both drives practice and reacts to practice.

In this particular case I imagine the issue was uncovered some time in the 1970s, which is when lexical scoping came to the fore in Scheme (in the US) and ML (in Europe). It's a fairly natural problem to run into if you're either thinking deeply about the interaction between closures (which capture environments) and loop constructs, or if you're programming in a language that supports these features.
Our country is crumbling and people are starting to realise it’s the Tory’s fault. 13 years of Tory rule, cutting services to the bone and making themselves rich at our expense is seriously taking its toll. Councils are going bankrupt, schools are falling apart, public transport is in managed decline in a lot of areas, various sectors regularly going on strike, people can’t afford their bills, mortgages sky-rocketed, inflation is high…so many things

It’s widely accepted that Labour are a government-in-waiting.
But you do know that apple authorized service center service is often worse because instead of reflowing components they go for stuffing your device with shoe rubber to push chips with defective connections tighter to the pcb? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaGHcBZjmWA
well, that's why touch id/face id are a secure enclave and have largely replaced passwords.

but philosophically there's no reason the digitizer can't be a secure enclave too, and sign a message authenticating that it's really the digitizer that you think it is. unless you can force it to leak the secret or you can break RSA, it's as secure as any other cryptosystem.

remote attestation does work and I don't really get why people continue to assert that it doesn't. root-of-trust and remote attestation are solved problems, and detecting component swapouts (and other "hostile component" attacks) are one of the primary use-cases for these systems.
Why? Which DC voltage? The low voltage that use now is too low voltage for running in the walls. You're going to need converter boxes; DC-DC converters are more efficient but you are going to have wall warts everywhere. Also, USB-C is not enough power for things like TVs.

Plus, I have a bunch of things like fans and lamps that need AC. So now going to have converter boxes from AC toDC.

Also, appliances are where all the efficiency gains are because that is where all the power goes.
I agree, from an outside perspective it is bewildering. Especially when GraalVM itself becomes a platform for other languages, ie Truffle https://www.graalvm.org/latest/graalvm-as-a-platform/
The problem is the language when its ergonomics coerce most developers to assume a construct works in a way it does not.

Programmers are often at fault when a language complex, but I'd give them a pass when it's simply counterintuitive.
Caseta is definitely the non-tinkerer's premium option, I have family members who have used it for years with no complaints.

I don't like their weird button pads, but more recently they also come in a normal looking rocker version. Don't know how tactile it feels but I would bet nicer than the original Caseta controls.

https://www.casetawireless.com/us/en/product/diva-smart-dimm...

Inovelli makes a Z-wave version (red series) as well as a Zigbee (blue series) which is supposed to support Thread/Matter eventually. Among other things, they can operate either as a switch to turn off a circuit, or in "smart bulb mode" where the circuit stays powered and on/off commands are sent to the bulb.
Zeynep Tufekci, a sociologist, has been writing about this issue since half a decade now: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...
Anonymous allegations from more than a decade ago, procured by a fishing reporter, should not lead to the cancellation of someone's means of supporting themselves. This is absurd, regardless of whether the accusations are ultimately true or not. Beyond the absurdity, this is tyrannical.

Even the "testimony" they released was recorded by an actor. There's simply very little of substance here.
Understanding the Attack Vector for CVE-2023-28432 and CVE-2023-28434
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.

CVE-2023-28434 MinIO Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/09/19/cisa-adds...
So... who's using these dedicated hosts for non-CI/CD purposes? The VM limitation inherent to MacOS heavily limits how I'd imagine these getting used in production.
> water sandwich

Fantastic
Think about what makes this alleged crime "really bad", and then consider if that might make it difficult for a victim to come forward. There is no statute of limitations for sexual assault in the UK.
I would say, generally, the people in power used to have a certain level of competence, even if they were despicable. They also had to act, outwardly at least, like they weren't deliberately shafting the common man.

Brexit changed all that. All that mattered was whether you believed in One True Brexit. Lots of heretics were hounded out. Behaviour didn't matter. You could say terrible things, as long as you were a BeLeaver.

Then Brexit was over. There was nothing left to believe in, but the cult were still in charge...
> It's a little dismissive to pretend that other language designers, eg. those of Python, Kotlin, haven't done their years of research

Different features have different levels of depth in languages - as mentioned, where it is only a frontend compiler level change, it definitely didn’t require as much background knowledge as Loom.

Hell, Ron has been working on this exact problem for close to a decade, if I’m not mistaken! Kotlin is barely a decade old!
Recent and related: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Elite Parents Enabled His Crypto Empire - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37540451 - Sept 2023 (23 comments)
What on earth is a sauce machine?
"But our BoD has seen the full writeup on Nintendo (and Valve) and they are fully supportive on either if opportunity arises as am I."

(emphasis mine)

Oh please God no, not Valve. MS has changed pretty dramatically since the Gates/Ballmer days, but Valve is way too valuable to computer gaming to be owned by a company like MS. Luckily Valve is privately owned, and even if they were public, their valuation would/should be pretty insane. So I think anyone buying Valve is unlikely.