skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could just go to his wikipedia article.

Anyway, he tried to downplay the genocide and the violence committed by the Khmer Rouge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chom...

He, in the same fashion, downplayed the bosnian genocide:
https://www.dw.com/en/dissident-intellectual-noam-chomsky-at...
https://books.google.fr/books?id=7Bl9KT9NME0C&pg=PA142&redir...

And said that the Russian was acting "with restrain and moderation" in Ukraine: https://archive.is/EJp7e

That is how he operate. Whenever there is a conflict involving the U.S, even remotely, he is systematically downplaying the opponent violence and insisting that everyone focus on the U.S and ally violence. This way he can always look like the reasonable man, while basically defending massacre and dictator. How can he do this when criticizing (rightfully so), the U.S for the Vietnam War or the Contra, and not see the hypocrisy, is beside me.
> preventing

The question was about evidence which would show that it could reverse heart disease not prevent it.

IMHO that’s an extremely important distinction.
> Granted, MongoDB eventually switched to a special SSPL license to add specific restrictions on Cloud Providers from distributing a service without contributing to the project, which isn’t OSI approved, but is open-source practically

As an open source consumer (as well as author, but not as a business), I consider it "practically" a part of open source that I can choose to run open source software on any vendor or platform I want, not just ones who have a licensing deal with the software authors. This is a very practical matter.

It may well be that you can't actually build a succesful business on actual open source. The arguments about how you can succeed with an open source business seem to be mostly based on making the source code _available_, with no need for it to be actually open source. It may be that "source-available" without actually being open source can be a viable business model in many more cases than actual open source.

I think the sustainability/viabiilty of open source is indeed currently under question.

But the difference between source-available software without an open source license, and actual open source licensed software, really does make practical difference to the consumer.
why in gods name does FedEx of all websites need motion sensors, on any device?
Don't we basically do this via PhD stipends, student visas and NSF grants?
It's illegal to put cameras in bathrooms. We're already stifling innovation!

It's illegal to record people without their permission, in certain jurisdictions. We're already stifling innovation!

It's illegal pay money for certain services. We're already stifling innovation!

You're arguing against something negative that hasn't yet happened at the cost not doing anything to prevent something negative already happening right now.
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure these are significantly more performant than a used mini PC.
>> They measured that they needed a magnetic field bias applied to the anti-hydrogen equivalent to "pushing them up" with 0.75g (+/- 0.25g or so), so anti-matter is attractive. No new physics.

Antimatter is attracted to matter. Isn't it still an open question if matter is attracted to antimatter, and if antimatter is attracted to antimatter? What if antimatter is gravitationally repulsive? This experiment wouldn't show that.

Not that I think it's likely, but it hasn't been ruled out by this experiment has it?
Not really, all the walled gardens were internally celebrating the decision.
ChatGPT does feel a bit like a refutation of his life's work.

Because whether or not ChatGPT can think, it certainly has a good command of language without starting out with an inborn sense of grammar. It learns grammar by copying. Just like kids do, I suspect.
If you don’t like it then turn it off.
It's odd to me that you chose color as an example of something objective, since so much about perception is subjective.

Even if we think about it in more quantitative terms, with red being defined as having a dominant wavelength approximately 625–740 nanometres, it's a bit of an arbitrary definition isn't it? If we observe a wavelength of 624, objectively we might say it's not red, but someone may still observe it as red considering how close it is to red. Or someone with protanopia won't see anything in those bounds as red either.
I use it, because I am forced to write in as means to configure products that don't give me any other option.

If I was free to use any format, I would always go for XML instead.
hardware equivalent of buying domains for side-projects you never do
In the sci-fi novel "The Mountain in the Sea" (highly recommended btw) there is a piece of tech called "abglanz" which is an identity shield mask that flickers in iridescent blurry patterns to protect a person's privacy from camera surveillance.
As a developer who works on a database management system monitoring tools, user-facing monitoring dashboards have been my bane for a while. I don't know much about the situation in other companies and products, but here are the main pain points I've encountered:

1. Nobody knows what to monitor exactly, every new dashboard is based on a guess.

2. Not much user feedback to base the decisions on if you don't have much users to begin with.

3. Often, the metrics exposed by the app under the monitoring prove grossly inadequate or suitable metrics do not exist.

4. You can't just add new metrics. Users have to update the whole distributed app for the new metric to become available. This has to be accounted for at the UI design stage.

5. Somebody has to spend a significant amount of time gathering all the information from random people in the company, because see 1.
Yes, fair enough, it is more that he systematically downplayed the violence of the "red" side whenever there was a conflict with the U.S. Like how he basically tried to deny the Cambodian and Bosnian genocide.
I'm not a C++ programmer, could you explain why this is a bad idea?
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That is still fingerprinting.

Bots will either all have the same (or a low diversity of) fingerprint, or if not then they will have the same randomisation techniques to mask the fingerprint.

Some of the additional browser features that access devices do reveal the most trivial way to determine "this is not a bot as bots don't have this fingerprint".

Of course that has implications, if privacy makes you look like a bot (it does), then the web has more friction the more private one is.
To his doctrine of the Forms, yes I think it does. He seemed to think that when humans gain knowledge, they do not generate it, but rather discover it. For knowledge to be discovered, it must have already existed - in the abstract, non-material world of the Forms. Plato had an involved epistemological argument for why the human process of gaining incrementally less partial knowledge of a subject fundamentally must be a process of discovery - but I would fail to do it justice.

Chomsky seems to imply that in a moral context, similarly, as humans learn abstract concepts and boundaries from sparse data, we are also carrying out a process of discovery. He seems to skip over the epistemological reasoning.
But it doesn’t seem like rubbish to me, what makes you say that it is? Also, how are you to know this is propaganda? On what do you base that? What agenda is it pushing so strongly and where exactly does the agenda you think it’s pushing, ruffle your feathers so to speak?
This is it, really. I remember back during a previous section of my career when I was running BI for a manufacturing company. We were asked to web-ify some legacy reports that either ran on desktops using Access & Excel or were on older BI products (Cognos). It was shocking -- at the time (I was naive) -- how many business requirements were essentially "replicate Excel in a browser", and completely divorced from the actual business processes and decisions that needed to be made.

Also, it might surprise a lot of less experienced developers just how many reporting tools are actually pieces of a workflow, not just reports. If you sniff this out during the requirements phase, do your best to convert these reports into features of an actual workflow app/system rather than allow them to persist as standalone reports.
> I think to get good value out of it you really have to get a sense for what it's good for and what it's not.

> I don't have it write my day to day code, because that's complicated and usually niche enough that it's not likely to give a good result.

Yep totally agree. I don't think you should just treat it as a black box - throw in literally any prompt you can think of and then use the response verbatim, without even reading it, and expect to have success.

You need to exercise some judgement and be a bit discerning. And think about what areas of your work are most unique to your own skills and experience, and what are the bits of work around the fringes that don't need to be done by you - and are not really part of your core "craft", and, are likely to be well suited to the capabilities of something like GPT-4.

And like every other tool, using it effectively is a skill and requires perserverance, practice, and adjusting your approach as you go. Which means the user can get better at getting value of out an LLM over time. It's not a static or all or nothing thing.
I love this guys channel. You can tell the guy is really good at it because of how easy he make it look. His videos almost got me into it myself, had to remind myself that the reason he makes it look so effortless is because he put so much time into it (and there was no way I was going to achieve the same results without significant effort).
Researching combustion fuels seems like a little bit of a dead end at this point.

(Also, what the fuck, this is a chlorine compound, as perihelions points out. WTAF.)
Why do we need a law when there is already a browser permission setting for it? Deny the access if you don't like it and let others make their own choices.
Hey now who said it can't be both of those things?
Yes! I picked up a 4GB Acer chromebox with a celeron for $20. This is much better value to me than an RPi because I don't have to worry about ARM. Obviously RPi serves a different use case of tinkering with embedded dev, but tons of people are trying to put docker on these things...
Bring back circular keycaps, and get rid of the square key tops that serve as an irresistible nuisance to cats.
What Is an API Proxy?
French equality watchdog finds 90% of online pornography abuses women
Woman sues McDonald's after she's burned by hot coffee, echoing 1994 case
> They measured that they needed a magnetic field bias applied to the anti-hydrogen equivalent to "pushing them up" with 0.75g (+/- 0.25g or so), so anti-matter is attractive. No new physics.

That part bugged me a bit. Why 0.75g? Shouldn't we expect 1.0g? (Yeah, I know, +/- 0.25g...)

Did I miss something, or is antimatter attracted less than regular matter?
What was more fun when the spammers figured out 'net send'. I showed that to one guy I worked with and that thing had a nasty bug. If you got one of the parameters wrong it would send a message to every computer on the domain. He had to explain to the top guys why they had funny messages on their screen.
The RP1 I/O custom silicon hints that this may be the case
This article really sucks at actually engaging with the really extraordinarily interesting debate between Foucault and Chomssky. I mean, even the introduction is a giant leap of logic (the premise that Chomsky was refering to Foucault as an extreme moral relativist).

I think as time goes on, it's been interesting to see more of what Foucault was saying as becoming more and more interesting. The ability of power to generate the field or domain (what he called an "episteme") which defines the unconscious rules for research is something I think still being exposed regardless of any innate morality.

Besides, I think Chomsky's argument regarding "advancement" of morality to be so value-laden as to be sort of meaningless. There are more slaves in existence now than any other period of human history, and this "advancement" is still barely all that stable enough given the politics of Western countries which still maintain large (millions of people) cultural groups who absolutely would stop or even reverse this advancement given the chance.

Also its kind of ironic that Chomsky brings up Turing, because what we're talking about here is a scientifically-driven field which saw homosexuality as an illness and identified medical procedures as the cure which led to Turing's death.

Why is it that every decade we continue to identify fields of science, (which in his framework should be at the forefront of discovering this innate human nature and morality) that are the vanguards of extreme oppression? Why is it that science is consistently, across cultures and political systems, a domain that is almost always intrinsically tied to the justification and defense of the power structures of that culture? Soviet lamarckism, American global electronic surveillance, Western pathological views of homosexuality and psychology are all examples where science was twisted into merely a domain of power, exactly like Foucault described throughout history. Most would hand-wave these away as "not real science", but what even is real science then?

I mean god, we're still discovering new gaps in scientific knowledge that are so large and incomprehensible that we can barely even begin to know what outcomes they have lead to. The reproducibility crisis in medicine, psychology and other domains is portrayed as a sort of minor inconvenience rather than the shattering of one of the core and principal tenets of science in its production of knowledge.
What MMO?
Last time i looked into MOND it remains relatively unconvincing. The primary reason for this being that it is hard to make the universe look like it should with simulations. We are doing better so far with the lambda-CDM model so far.

If someone comes up with a MOND simulation that is better than our current ones it may gain more traction.
So do you want to ban motion sensor and webcams even in cases where the users is informed and consents about their usage?
It's not about being perfect. It's about using the wrong tool for the problem.

Ultimately, code as configuration is the solution. The code generates the actual configuration-data which can be of an arbitrary format (e.g. json) since no one is gonna see it anyways except for debugging.

There are usually two arguments against that:

1.) code can be or become too complicated

It's a non-argument because while code can and will be complicated, the same configuration in non-code will be even worse. In the worst case, people will build things around the configuration because the configuration isn't sufficiently flexible.

What is true is that a single line of code is usually more complex than single line of yaml. The same can be said about assembly vs. any high level language. But it should be clear that what counts is the complexity of the overall solution, not a single line.

2.) code can be dangerous

This is a valid point. You will have to sandbox/restrict it and you need to have a timeout since it could run forever - and that creates some additional complexity.

I think this complexity is worth it in 90% of the cases. Even if you are not using code to generate the configuration, you probably still want to have a timeout, just in case of some malicious actor trying to use a config that takes forever to parse/execute etc.

But if you say that this is a nogo, then at least use a proper configuration language such as Dhall instead of YAML. It already exists. You don't need to invent a new configuration language to avoid YAML.
I really want to know, what do you not like about this person? I doubt know the first thing about this guy and haven't heard about him, ever.
I disagree. Moral relativism is very much a thing. But it's just a muddled matter.

To me, "moral relativism" just means the recognition that different societies had and have different moral ideas, and that even within a single society rules are murky and fluid, and often outright undefined.

Pretty much any moral rule you can name has been proudly broken. Eg, torture? Take Abu Ghraib for instance. Not only was it done, but it was done proudly, with selfies taken for remembering the "good times" later.

I find that on the long term the discussion tends to coalesce towards children. Well, in most wars out there children suffered from it. Even in WWII, you can bet that there was an American or Russian bomb that killed a German child, and you won't find a lot of either feeling all that conflicted about their actions. The atomic bombs are a tad controversial, but still find plenty proponents of that the horrific slow deaths they inflicted on quite a few people (including children) were in the end for the greater good.

So far I think about the closest to an effective "objective moral rule" I've heard is that it's immoral to torture children for fun. But when I think of it that's almost a tautology -- It works out to "It's immoral to cause harm without a good reason", more or less.

Or, if the objection here is that a given individual finds their own code as rigid and unyielding, I don't think that's really true either. Amazing horrors are committed by soldiers in wars even well outside of their own direct duty, and moral compromises of all sorts have been made for the sake of diplomacy.
Ah, this probably also explains why a bunch of sites have started requesting Speech Synthesis capabilities on Firefox, which it blocks (yay) but notifies about each time (less yay). I figured it was fingerprinting or some other nonsense.
> I guess that is fair, especially with inflation nowadays.

The accumulated inflation in the US since June 2019 is c. 17%.[1] This means US$ 55 in June 2019 is "worth" c. US$ 64.35 today. So it seems that you get a 4GB Raspi 5 for c. 7.25% less today.

The "US Real Average Hourly Earnings" have increase by ca. 22% in the same period, from US$ 27.75 to US$ 33.82.[2] So an average person needs to work c. 12% less to buy a 4GB Raspi 5 today.

However, I think the issue is more complicated: There is inherent deflation in electronics, which is included in the inflation rate. you can observe it when looking at the current price of a 4GB Raspi 4 at Amazone, which is c. US$ 67. So if the introductory price for a Rapsi 5 is really going to be US$ 60, you get something better for more than 10% less now.

[1] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infl...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/realer_07112019.ht... and https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t19.htm
All their software and documentation is open source. The only closed source bits are stuff they don’t control from Broadcom. They are easily one of the best SBCs for documentation and continued linux support over time, you can use 5 year old boards with latest kernels
Web client to web server: I'm not sure I can trust you with my user's privacy, so I'm going to give you as little cookies/telemetry/side channels as I can.

Web server to web client: I'm not sure your so-called "user" represents a real-life human user. Can you at least prove that you're a real-life web browser?

Web client to web server: hmm, well okay, here's my User-Agent header. Just curious why you care about who's sending the request?

Web server to web client: Still not convinced, can you give this CAPTCHA to your so-called "user"? As to you second question: bots, spam. And the ad network sponsoring me doesn't trust my tally.

Web client to web server: My human hates CAPTCHAs, and AIs are better at it anyway.

Web server to web client: Ghrmbl. Okay let me talk to Widevine/FairPlay/PlayReady DRM or your microphone/gyroscope/battery level/uptime/...

...

The arms race of surveillance enshittification.
> As the ocean is already exposed to more salt than it can put into solution ...

Haven't heard of that before. Wouldn't it mean there are underwater areas carpeted in salt crystals?
> Why are you and others seemingly eager to dismiss these histories?

Because while I admit some part of me would be highly entertained by HN becoming a hotbed of dominionist propaganda, it's probably a net negative for society overall given the amount of wealth tied up here.
A while back I stumbled upon google chromes privacy settings and found things like serial port on your computer to be accessed by websites. Turns out google has thrown everything in the mix because they probably want their 'Chromebook' users like children in school to use motion sensors for convertibles to maybe play games via a browser. Websites are just taking advantage of these things. The chrome browser has ruined the internet.
I think that's precisely the problem with YAML. By being so unpredictable, it turns from "format I use without thinking much about" into "format that makes me spend a lot of time finding out what's wrong this time".

Maybe you and I haven't been bitten personally by YAML idiosincracies yet, but just learning about examples like the "Norway problem" and the "negative GPS coordinates bug"—and thinking how frustrating must have been to figure those out in the first place—makes me shudder.
During early watch making history the competition was between individual watch makers and the mark of a good watchmaker beyond accurate time telling, was to add more things besides time telling I.e. complications above and beyond just telling the time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37684473
Odd how various watch features are advertised. I'm in the Seiko collectors world and "hacking/handwind" movements are generally seen as more desirable. Since Seiko Modding is pretty common (compared to modding other watch brands at least), the "hacking/handwind movement replacement" mod is one of the most popular.
It’s not so much having a countermeasure but having countermeasures be built in to the system. Similar to a concept called gevulot in the book Quantum Thief.
Ah, I found it intellectually stimulating to draw the comparison to such an ancient and commonly followed school of philosophical thought so it felt worth sharing.

I'm not sure there's anything less "mystical" about Wolfram's postulations though. Is there a new scientific basis for these beliefs?
Elon Musk's antisemitism controversy: Jewish leaders showdown live on X
The reason you're reading this on some nerd website and not every single news outlet is that this was the strongly expected result - we see photons affected normally by gravity all over the place, we see CPT symmetry hold up everywhere we look, and negative gravity would be hard to square in with a general relativity way of thinking.

That all said, the opposite result would have been huge. We know our understanding of gravity is flawed to a degree we don't know about flaws to the theories of (at a low level) literally everything else we're aware of in the universe.
There is no clear definition of "species".
Power efficiency?
I doubt your old laptop is as efficient as a pi.
There are strong incentives for secrecy (military applications), hence encryption which provides solid foundations for private communication in civilian tech. I wonder if counter-surveillance tech could take the same route (e.g. ordinary soldiers can no longer afford to not carry a smartphone -> strong incentive to protect them from tracking; maybe I'm extrapolating too far).
Probably because they are a popular target for scrapers, so some feature of bot detection implemented wrong.