skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never had a VoIP number work for phone verification. Providers seem very diligent in blocking such services to prevent their usefulness from degrading. Very large companies like Google, Meta, and Valve already are quite successful at requiring a phone number for verification at scale.
2000? Too good
Nah, it'll be an overzealous copyright enforcement bot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ
>Fox was telling people "the government is coming for YOUR oven" as if people would have to get rid of their existing ovens.

Citation needed. I don't see that in any of the print articles I can find on Fox, was it on one of their TV segments?

Edit: I did find this - https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/5-ways-biden-still-coming-yo...

And sensationalist headline aside, it's very factual about actual policies (either proposed or being implemented) that will make gas stoves more expensive to purchase and operate. Nowhere does the article claim that the government is planning on busting into houses to take away existing stoves.

Edit 2: I have to wonder, if a Republican politician was proposing a ban on the sale of new hybrids, and a leftwing outlet wrote an article with the title "The GOP is coming for your Prius" would you take as much offense at it? The headlines about gas stoves that I've seen don't seem much different than, say, a lot of the headlines I saw from the left about abortion after Row v. Wade was overturned.
Sorry, it was a rude comment to make based on some strange grammar I noticed. I compared with some of your prior comments and noticed you didn’t have any such issues before. I wasn’t being facetious or judgemental - genuinely curious. There’s not a non rude way to ask that, should have kept it to myself.
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> many straws

Oh I thought you were talking about the vaccine itself, not the politics.

> the redefinition of "recession" as a political exercise

Hasn't the NBER been in charge of it for a very long time? Has the definition actually changed recently?

> rather than taking their concerns seriously.

Weird, I remember a ton of time devoted to taking the concerns seriously.

But "seriously" doesn't mean that if the same concerns get repeated over and over they become more correct. Some concerns were correct but most weren't. And if someone keeps talking about "shedding" or masks trapping CO2, even after multiple corrections, they deserve to be insulted.
Just because we won't play stupid games doesn't mean we're dropping out.
How is that different from any profit seeking endeavor? You could write the same company about software companies that don't open source all of their code..
> I hope this is just prohibited in the EU :-)

That would make no sense.

This device is very similar to what I've pursued for a short time.

Almost every country (with a notable exception of several US states) allow to record conversations for personal use. You just cannot distribute them to third-parties without consent.
HTTP does support content-type tags and Unicode in URLs. Which funny enough comes in two different encodings, punycode and percent escapes.
>If it’s so easy that only incompetence or malice could explain it, why don’t you go work for them and fix it? I’m sure that people who have spent decades in the field would appreciate your wisdom.

Not that poster, but I'll answer your question and challenge happily.

>why don’t you go work for them and fix it?

Because it wouldn't be mine and would never be in any way, and I don't trust those businesses and the executives that end up running them, either as responsible stewards, or fundamentally speaking based on their incentive structure.

>I’m sure that people who have spent decades in the field would appreciate your wisdom.

You mean corporations/orgs, or actually people? The people almost universally do. The corps/orgs on the other hand have liberally demonstrated their appreciation by acquiring the largest shared repositories of code and craftsmanship humanity has hitherto generated, and used that corpus in order to do everything possible to decrease their reliance on hiring people they might have to actually pay, or who might tell them no when they demand someone build something unethical.

So again, comes down to trust. Pretty sure you were setting up a sarcasm burn, but I figured I'd take you at face value, and threw in rendering the elephant in the room.

I know. I'm spouting anathema to the business peeps in the room, but I'm pretty sure the makers in the room know where I'm coming from.
A lot of generic images aren’t art, regardless of how they’re produced. Much the same way as someone’s holiday snapshots are not art, even if some photography definitely is.
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Shift-JIS is still a pain in the ass. I recently encountered two applications that only work properly in Japanese Windows, and in any other locale will just display mojibake. And these are modern applications, made in the last year. How is that even possible in 2023?
They are just completely different things: ML and GOFAI.

It's unfortunate that we seem to have decided to call anything that we don't quite yet know how to make computers do "AI". Good for hype tho
I certainly hope this is false positive rather than Microsoft considering it malware, since it obviously is not unless you live in some place like North Korean and have the NK secret police's perspective.
Does the LLM also reside on the local machine? I presume there would need to be something to manage the transcription and address queries related to that transcription. It seems like the LLM would require a reasonably extensive context window to be functional. Wouldn’t this necessitate a relatively powerful computer? I am definitely not an expert on this so I could be completely off target on one of these assumptions.. genuinely curious though.
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Just as Rob Henderson said at the All in summit. It's basically a luxury belief. Rich tech folks isolated from the effects of stealing encourages poor people to steal and at some point face the consequences.
The talk was specifically saying that despite some very rare mutations, humans have binary sex in the sense that they are XX or XY, so the categorization of skeletons as male and female is a reasonable scientific classification as far as sex is concerned.

How is that not a matter for science?
This is a bit of a stretch, but the end results from either manipulation technique would be comparable if they were meant to skew the truth the same way. However, that sounds stupid as shit when I read it back, but I'm not entirely sure why.

I think a use case for AI image manipulation could be more like if I need a picture where I'm poor but wearing smart borrowed clothes, standing with an unassociated associate and a dead alive, with a backdrop, with the only source image beimg selfie of someone else that incidentally caught half of me way in the background

The intent or use cases for these two (lacking a better term) manipulators aren't orthogonal here. The purpose of AI image generation is, well, images generated by AI. It could technically generate images that misrepresent info, but that's more of a side effect reached in a totally different way than staging a scene in an actual photo. It seems like using manipulation to stage misleading photos would be used primarily for the purpose of deceptive activities or subversive fuckery.
If you record me without my consent, and I know it, good luck!
Building a business is the same way. Just constant punches in the face you have to persevere through.
I have seen verbal fights on the streets of Germany where one side has pulled out their smartphone and started recording. The other person was shouting "don't record me", but the recording person was insisting it was because the other person was breaking some obscure law.

I did not sit to see what the police would have done with the material once they came, but are we sure they would dismiss it immediately, provided it had indeed broke some law?
Amnesty International released Mobile Verification Toolkit to check your phone for malware, by checking encrypted backups on your computer. https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt
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The author did not leave Mastodon, they switched to the largest instance:

> Mastodon's biggest problem is that the majority of Mastodon instance administrators are unqualified, and unsuspecting Mastodon users become the victims of shoddy administration ... Despite Mastodon's ambition to be a decentralized network, I can't recommend joining an instance other than the biggest one, mastodon.social.
It’s worth mentioning that ChromeOS is one of the most secure operating systems.
A lot better than one year late, I guess.
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This works, but the result of the query (starting from an object id) varies. What can a static type system do under these circumstances? It seems like it might as well be a dynamic field access?

The result of a database query may have an immutable type, but it can also become stale, like an invalid cache entry. That's a possible bug. Perhaps there's some trick that would allow us to treat a live object as unchanging, with a fixed type and shape, but only within a limited scope in which we can prove it won't mutate?

For example, in a single-threaded language, it seems like we should be able to do a runtime check to get a more specific type and use it until the next await. The runtime check only needs to be done once in that scope.
>So again: what does this 'security' app you're pushing as so necessary, do that cannot be done with the OS's built-in apps?

They didn't say security app.

They simply mentioned it as related to the comment they replied to, they aren't "pushing as so necessary". They didn't even say the word "necessary", simply explained the app and that they like it.

I don't understand the hostility.
> edit: I suppose I'm being downvoted for spreading Big Wheel's antiwinger talking points.

I downvoted you for complaining about being downvoted.
More accurate to say "some" being critical, sure. But we're talking about it, so I think the juxtaposition is fair.
> And how may of those people slacked a lot in the office, and you just never knew because they were good at looking busy whenever anyone was nearby?

Some of them sure, but I believe less so. In my opinion, most slacking is not a result of very intentional attempts, but more of an environment / opportunity enabling it.

> And how many people were much more productive because other people didn't keep popping over their cubicle walls and interrupting them?

My intuition is that the trade-off is worth it. Larger projects lose the most productivity on information-sharing issues. Wrong things are being worked on, with focus on wrong aspects, which then again creates more useless work. Things are being reworked constantly because of wrong assumptions, people not reading miles long specs and thus missing or misinterpreting some details. People talking to each other frequently is IMHO critical for the success of the bigger organizations.

Sometimes you need uninterrupted time for deep thinking, but that's in my experience a smaller part of the work. In such cases I either go to meeting rooms or home.
My view, and AFAICT the view of most academic organizations in the US at this point, is that there is no such thing as a "male woman". A trans woman is female, a trans man is male. Trying to separate gender from "biological sex" trivializes the reality of trans people. Even if you don't care about that, it's just not very correct: intersex people exist; chromosomes don't always line up with assigned-at-birth gender; and transitioning can involve physical changes that you might consider changing someone's "biological sex".

For situations where one's birth-assigned gender is relevant, the terms "assigned male/female at birth" (AMAB/AFAB) can be used. The researcher's claim about tech diversity could have been framed as, e.g., "a recent uptick in tech diversity can be ascribed to counting trans women by their self-identified gender rather than the gender they were assigned at birth". That comes across as much more sensitive and academic than "men identifying as trans", which just has TERF written all over it.
Exploding diggester tanks are massive messes. My pity goes out to the cleanup crew.. i hope it had no concrete lid that flipped.
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I said the inverse of what I meant to write! oops

*Steve Jobs would make this look tame
If you search "1pib/(10 gbps)" on google, you'll get 10.4 days.

An unmetered 10G port at a US data center is ~$1500/mo. Not particularly expensive
> Kate Bush's lovely "Cloudbusting" is about Reich

If you fancy something a little more lively, Utah Saints 'Something Good' samples it heavily

The video is also amusing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m97WlpsuU74
>$240 per truck for the first hour in labor and $160 after that.

That's a bargain! I needed a kitchen faucet replaced (the kit kind you can buy at Home Depot) in Los Angeles and was quoted "$225 per plumber and two would be required, one hour minimum" and this was not from a large plumbing contractor, but the one recommended by the condo front desk. And I got to thinking, "unless they show up with everything they need, which they haven't even asked me anything about (it's cosmetic, it needs to match the kitchen) there's no chance this is done in an hour"

did it myself.
The "31x" is a bit clickbait --the only way that's possible is 1) start with a really low number --most anyone could do this by digging into the first times they ever got paid for work or 2) have an outlier success, like a business exit or liquidity event.

This guy grinded his salary up to decent ranges, starting from an arbitrary low point.

> I went thru the regular Swiss education system eventually starting an apprenticeship in IT in one of the biggest telcos in Switzerland and doing the professional matura at the same time during these 4 years.

So I'm sure there's a ton of highly-paid SWEs that did work part time at McDonald's at one point. They might have an even better multiplier.

...but all that said, grinding away and getting raises & promotions, combined with saving & investing a significant proportion of that income, is basically one of the few classic ways to repeatably build wealth. It works, but to suggest this to people is like suggesting to exercise for better health.
I get what you’re saying. What’s the relationship between beard and parrot, if all you had was the text of the diagram and didn’t already know nomnoml? A great example would use new syntax to illustrate relationships you already understand to demonstrate how to write them.
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Team reviews photocatalysis for methane conversion to high-value products
Finally! A use for Theranos.
Do you just not go out into public? What about stores with security cameras? What about tourists taking pictures with you in the background?
Types of a Corporate Chief of Staff
Cool! Reminds me of Code Combat a bit.
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That's pure marketing fluff, just like the difference between antivirus and EDR.

Heuristic detection has been a thing for literally decades, and cloud-based antivirus which uses aggregate detection has been around for almost as long. It's notable that NIST does not seem to distinguish between these and just lumps them under endpoint protection.
I looked at adding a much-requested and not-that-hard-to-add feature a while back (allowlist-by-tag), got as far as figuring out where to add it in the server code… but bailed when I realized I’d need to shepherd PRs through at least two repos to get the feature delivered, while juggling both repos to do integration testing. Monorepos for tightly-coupled code are so nice…

Maybe I’ll give it another look.

[edit] incidentally, allowlist-based parental controls are one of the best tools to have, and basically nothing supports them, which is really frustrating.
The Limits to Growth is this book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

which is not by Habermas but came out around a year before Legitimation Crisis and you’d better believe the “Club of Rome” that signed off on that book was circled by all sorts of allegations.

Those guys ran a computer model of coupled differential calculations the simulated a race between technology and population being able to make problems vs solve problems and in various scenarios resource depletion, pollution and insufficient food production eventually result in a system crash. Insofar as something is predicted to occur in a certain time that is an outcome of the model which is: (a) very sample, but (b) run many different times with different parameters (e.g. if you double the supply of natural resources the crisis breaks later but the fundamental picture doesn’t change.)

The thing was people were really inclined to think the world was going to hell in the 1970s, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Gold_Rush_(song)

and many people who heard about Limits to Growth probably thought it was predicting an imminent crash and not something their great grandchildren would be living through.
It's more that it's so broken up that is moves through the digestive system quicker and has a different effect as it is effectively pulverized.

Not an expert.
Emacs supports a "projects" concept:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Pr...

This is useful for segregating groups of work related to a set of files but I would be interested if there's anything for arbitrary unsaved buffers in general.
Germans are really concerned about their privacy. Do you believe if that would be the norm, they wouldn't vote for politicians to completely abolish recording devices out of existence?

Just some food for thought
There are no "issues" with the square wave at 44kHz. Yes, a square wave sampled at 44kHz and converted back to analog does have visible ringing on an oscilloscope, but that's because you're looking at a perfect reconstruction of a band-limited square wave. Before sampling, the square wave is filtered to remove all of the overtones above 22kHz, which are not audible (as that's above the upper limit of human hearing) and would cause aliasing issues in the sampled signal.

In other words, the ringing is an artifact of low-pass-filtering on the square wave, not the sampling process itself. A purely analog system with a 22kHz low-pass filter would have the same "ringing", and your ears couldn't tell either way because they can't detect information above 15-20 kHz. It's not even possible to have a "perfect" square wave in the real world because that would require the speaker cone, air molecules, and your eardrum to teleport instantly from one spot to another -- so you will always have some low-pass filtering, and therefore ringing, on any real-world approximation of a square wave.
I only ran a Vista machine for a few weeks while the 7 upgrade DVD came in the mail.

It was already SP2, and the machine was fairly powerful (quad core CPU, 8GB RAM). It honestly worked pretty well.

I still think it's one of the best looking Windows ever.
I think it's an interesting question to ask whether this contributed to how we evolved our general intelligence?

Selection pressure applying alternatively to those that learn to hack the "language models" of their society and those that learn to resist and respond effectively to those hacks.
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