skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of term limits, I’d much rather they be paid a 99% percentile wage until death, but be banned from accepting any other income or gifts, investing in stocks or owning any sort of business or investment property (again, for life).

It might be better to lower the income to 90th or 50th percentile, so only people that actually wanted the job
would take it.

Ideally, the restrictions would extend to the kids. It would definitely extend to the spouses.

Also, all no campaign donations over $50. Finally, all campaign communications must be publicly archived in realtime, and no more political ads. (The latter is because some politicians now tell different, personalized lies to each constituent, thanks to the internet).

Another possibility is to let anyone volunteer for congress, then pick the winner at random from the pool each term. This worked amazingly well for local positions in some country that tried it. (Government efficiency immediately doubled or something.)
Well no, because of compound interest.
> Cancelled is probably the wrong word. I think what the other commenter meant was that the moral reputation of individuals tends to decline with time since what is considered moral is relative to a given society and a given period of time.

My personal view is ... did this person move society ahead? I will give someone who fought against slavery 200 years ago, a pass for being what would be considered misogynistic now or a racist who fought for suffrage at the turn of last century. If the person was just all around "a product of their times" or specifically evil, cancel away!

> Even people who are obviously anti-racist like Justin Trudeau used to believe black face was acceptable until very recently, for example.

This is an interesting case. When I first saw the picture, I was immediately struck by the fact that Trudeau was dressed up as a Djinn which were historically often (mostly?) displayed as black skinned in Islamic art. I totally understand why he didn't try to explain that and just took the hit (when I dressed as a Djinn, I went with green rather than black for the obvious reason that Trudeau also should have gone with red, green or blue).
I agree, he has been overall a great benefit to society.

He once got irritated with me in an email because I wouldn’t do something (release one of my old Lisp books under a FSF document license), but I happily accepted that irritation because I understand where he was coming from.

Richard, get well.
I am a fan of the 4-column style, which what you are saying, separating into 2 bits & 5. I think it's alot more intuitive to see the modifiers in action

https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/
You missed the opportunity to talk about WoW private servers like Trinitycore.

Trinitycore emulator can handle 10k+ players on a single server.
Neither.

Bitwarden is the one.
I remember seeing on Twitter a while back that a really rich influencer lady had her husband buy enough books to fill a wall-sized bookshelf in their house purely for aesthetic purposes. I did some math in my head and, purchasing from somewhere like Barnes & Noble they would’ve spent something like $10,000 to get all those books. Now I realize they must’ve just ordered them from somewhere like this.
Biden Administration Moves Ahead With New Plan To Cancel Student Debt
Price would be definitely something that could persuade me to take the number 2 service
It's only a limitation in the UI. Using powershell you can still create client secrets that are valid for hundreds of years.
"and nothing was done about it"

Who was supposed to do something?
Well, kinda. Due to features like BCC headers, each recipient is supposed to get their own unique copy of every email, so email servers can end up spending a lot of time writing tens of thousands of copies of every mail sent to the list to disk. And then of course they have to sync that to all of the redundant servers, to support HA.
I love JAX. It can be a great replacement for Numba or whatever, the @jit works really well. And vmap is amazing... I often get lost in the matrix sauce when batching, using JAX I develop as if it's just a single instance, then vmap that shit. The ecosystem I was using was: jax, optax, haiku.

The big issue I had was: I was developing on the CPU, then moved to running it on a GPU, and it wasn't as fast as I expected-- I started debugging, and saw there was still lots of communication between the CPU and GPU even tho it was all jit'd. I think PyTorch is a more user friendly for writing high performance models if you're not straying too far from the beaten path. But I really love JAX would like to play around with it more to understand these pits I'm falling into.

And another complaint is I can't run it on my Macbook M1 GPU... but I'm seeing this page now, so maybe that's not true anymore: https://developer.apple.com/metal/jax/
it's incredible isn't it? Even beyond cognitive inabilities, average age is like 64 and the median net worth of congress is $1M (probably much higher for senate given cost of campaign). Compare that to 62% of American's reportedly living paycheck to paycheck.
I tend to think it should be up to voters to decide. I feel picking any one number is too arbitrary.
It is, but it is no longer marketed as a general replacement for JavaScript.
Ask HN: OSS discussions you'd call canonical/prototypical for the project?
I'm chewing on some ideas on maintainership culture for OSS projects and how it relates to a projects health and long-term viability.

My thought is that one can extrapolate a lot about a project from particular discussions. However, my exposure to OSS is quite limited to the projects close to me.

Can anyone share canonical public discussions that demonstrate project values and culture? Perhaps that would belong in Erdos's "book" for that project or those that you find yourself referring back to.
Excellent. Very well said.

> You need to be someone who will do something about it.

Apparently "do something" doesn't extend so far as to naming names?
I can offer one piece of puzzle: the demographics of registered votes has increased significantly. Take a look at "Age and generation" at https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/10/26/what-the-... .

> The U.S. electorate is aging: 52% of registered voters are ages 50 and older, up from 41% in 1996. This shift has occurred in both partisan coalitions. More than half of Republican and GOP-leaning voters (56%) are ages 50 and older, up from 39% in 1996. And among Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters, half are 50 and older, up from 41% in 1996.

> Another way to consider the aging of the electorate is to look at median age. The median age among all registered voters increased from 44 in 1996 to 50 in 2019. It rose from 43 to 52 among Republican registered voters and from 45 to 49 among Democratic registered voters.

I think that on average, people consider age significant, so they expect their candidate to be around as old as them. I don't think it's the whole picture, but it helps me feel less baffled at least.
Adding an age limit would just get you a slightly younger equivalent in that seat (wheelchair?).

At least now you have the (minuscule, I admit) chance that some secure senator will go against his or her party because they know their seat is secure in re-election.
On the topic of this, hey HN, would you play a factorio-like game that ditches all belts and trains and just looks like UE blueprint from hell (i.e. like this https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/image/185614874046)? So abstract item-producing nodes that can be moved around freely and are connected via some logistic network? Thanks for feedback!
My entire adult life and career has been MS free. It’s not that rare.
The MBTA is a disgrace and shows the incredible level of corruption in Massachusetts. Half of all rail accidents are due to the MBTA and over 90% of all injuries.

Workers routinely fake results. Corporations fake work. The MBTA and more broadly MA infrastructure is falling apart. I've never lived in a state with such disastrously bad drivers and roads. Oh and the police refuse to enforce traffic laws here (the state tried to literally pay our city to ask the police to enforce traffic laws and they refused so we had to return the money; sitting around construction sites doing nothing is easier).

Our city tried to sue one of the DoT contractors that damaged city infrastructure and caused many safety violations. DoT stepped in behind our back at a closed meeting the city wasn't allowed to attend and gave the contractor a special exemption that cleared their record and made them immune. Even though the law says they shouldn't be allowed to get new contracts for several years after such shoddy work.
In this sense subjective opinions can be said to be objective to some extent: subjective opinion is brain configuration, and the latter is objective. But moral realists probably mean something else.
Is this for the ESM custom loaders?
I'm not seeing it. It looks contradictory what they're saying.

> This means that whenever a user visits a website on Cloudflare that has ECH enabled, no one except for the user and the website will be able to determine which website was visited.

But if you look at the inner/outer SNI part:

> The outer SNI is a common name that, in our case, represents that a user is trying to visit an encrypted website on Cloudflare. We chose cloudflare-ech.com as the SNI that all websites will share on Cloudflare. Because Cloudflare controls that domain we have the appropriate certificates to be able to negotiate a TLS handshake for that server name.

> The inner SNI contains the actual server name that the user is trying to visit. This is encrypted using a public key and can only be read by Cloudflare. Once the handshake completes the web page is loaded as normal, just like any other website loaded over TLS.

So Cloudflare sees it? That's definitely not the same as what they're describing, it's more of a wink-wink Applesque "trust me bro" style of "privacy" - a consolidation of traffic under the pretext of something else.

I also looked at the draft document they linked, and that seems to match up with what I'm understanding.

> If ECHClientHello.type is outer, then the server acts as a client-
facing server and proceeds as described in Section 7.1 to extract
a ClientHelloInner, if available.
Great point. To be clear, I wanted to emphasize how audacious it is that you get flooded with ads & tracking on a product marketed as "professional".
This doesn't seem too difficult of an ask. Let me see if I can scrape something together.
Side note to your side note: the official beta ChatGPT browser plugin’s user agent is Python/3.9 aiohttp/3.8.4 (I just tested it on a domain that I control)

And like a sibling comment says, any plugins/agents that are trying to scrape will have various fingerprints.
The WoW development diary talks abit about their server code and how they handle the load.
Reminder to everyone: The freedom of the press is not for journalists or some other protected class. It is for every single person who wants to share their opinion with others broadly.

Journalists are not special or have more rights. The freedom of the press belongs to everyone.

Many times media outlets will try to give themselves a special protected status and make you think they have freedoms that you do not. That is false. There is no credentialing needed for the First Amendment.
Europe's parliament website[1] uses cookie banner, even though its job is literally to just show information. If they want to track visitors any non trivial site would.

[1]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/portal/en
> Since 1789, 301 [ed: 302] Senators have died in office. When a
sitting Member dies, the Senate and House of
Representatives carry out a number of actions based in part on chamber rules, statutes, long-standing practices, and other variables extant at the time of the Senator’s demise.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12393
Family relationships are much closer and have more trust than relationship between employer and employee.
Using ChatGPT to fix annoying Safari UI issue on macOS
I'm not totally opposed to max age limits, that has tradeoffs just like term limits would.

Theres no magic bullet unfortunately. Any line in the sand will have people caught in the crossfire, whether that's a person over the age limit that would make an excellent representative or a person who is blocked from a third term that actually isn't corrupted by the machine of political favor, lobbyists, etc.
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SF has 2% of the population of California and senate is a statewide election. The real problem for the democratic organization in California is that Feinstein cruised to reelection because the only challenger was Kevin De León, a career criminal. The state party needs to examine why it doesn't have a bench of credible candidates.
This battery is for a car, not grid storage (or at least this is my read)
Because, like most people, they want to feel they have purpose in their life. Giving up the job is almost like accepting death, especially if they are old.
https://agenthub.dev - not my project (but I have a similar project in my bio if anyone is interested)
I think the answer to your "back and forth" is probably laid out in: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2960/

Sum types are useful, even very useful in the right place, but I do think there's a lot of people who use them a couple of times, probably in one of those "right places" and then mistakenly label them in their mind as "better". Just, universally, Platonically "better". They aren't in fact "better"; they're a tool. Sometimes they're the right tool for the job, but much, much more often, they're just a tool that works, and so do several other tools. People who get too excited about sum types need to be sure they square their understanding of how useful they are with the fact that the vast majority of programs are written without them.
>"I could do this 3x cheaper myself"

Such an easy thing to say.

Then when I say it and think "I really just need a little bit of what this does, and this API is kinda complicated for that." and I go and start creating the thing it evolves and changes and "Hey this looks a lot like that complicated API ... ooooooohhhhh I see why that is what it is... this is going to take a long while."

It's just so easy to boil down something into something simple and think that's all it is, but do even that thing reliably and all the corner cases and other things you need, suddenly you find it is way more than your initial poo pooing if whatever the thing is.
Perhaps the more generous take is that, with FLOSS software, you don't have to go it alone. My Pinephone Pro will not be running security fixes I write myself. But entirely because of its open nature, it doesn't need to - it will continue to recieve updates for years and years. For once, the hardware of a cell phone is likely to die before the software.
Tech Entrepreneur Niklas Zennström: ‘Let’s Break the Silicon Valley Monopoly’
https://archive.ph/7hF6w
Interesting. To me, it's the ability to fully contemplate reality and the ability to choose paths in that reality if it doesn't harm others. There's certainly control and power aspects involved in this when it plays out.
Also see: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/pe4rwt/comment/k...
What we've seen is term limits just result in the "party machine" really running the seat, as the warm body is replaced time and time again.

Term limits are effective against populists, for whatever that's worth.
It’s funny how you describe it as “ASCII with the top bit set”. As in, by default ASCII doesn’t have the top bit set. You can have malformed Unicode too. There are plenty of invalid ranges defined in the UTF-8 spec, does that mean that UTF-8 is just a convention and those malformed pieces are counterexamples to the convention?
About 50% of human beings view their instinctual immediate directive as internal (self) instead of external
I've been using the alpha version of this to help recruiting engineering candidates, has been really useful so far (just saves me scrolling through LinkedIn etc). Basically I give it my notion of candidates with their LinkedIn and it generates some useful copy that I can include in an email, which it then emails for me.

Super helpful and Lorenzo has been very responsive - would recommend.
> Not sure if enough people have Rimac on the radar.

I've been aware of them for a while but they are largely irrelevant for most people. The technology is interesting and styling is cool but they were something like 1.9m euro.
This article seems to be missing the point somehow. The CDEI advisory board seem to have been set up with a time-boxed tenure, which has now passed. It's not some nefarious deal - the outgoing board even posted a blog about it on the official CDEI website https://cdei.blog.gov.uk/2023/09/26/championing-responsible-...
I also don't want people with decreased mental abilities representing me in government, so I don't vote for them to be elected to those positions. The people of California elected Senator Feinstein for years, so they get what they voted for.

Edit: I don't disagree with you in theory, but I don't think the system you propose is practicable.
Great article. Much of these things were still very relevant in the 80’s and early 90’s.
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Agreed. Part of it is geometry too - especially if you have front bags.
> This issue is specific to Azure and Microsoft. I find AWS and GCP to be fine.

This issue.

Services get compromised often, cloud or customer managed. Microsoft has a mature, professional and effective security team. They got compromised, due to implementation flaws and one or more (my conjecture) corrupted insiders. Most organizations would have no idea wtf happened and would not be able to identify what has been revealed to the public.

Hindsight is 20/20.
other instances are working. they are denoted at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances and more readably at https://status.d420.de/
From a NYTimes update thread:

"Colleagues, critics and an increasingly restive field of aspiring successors have questioned her health and fitness for office — a concern, her supporters noted, that few have raised for male octogenarians in the Senate — but friends said she made her decision on her own timetable."

Proof is in the pudding, eh? But more seriously, plenty have criticized McConnell for his public health lapses, and the two of them together kicked off a lot of bipartisan (citizen) grumbling about old politicians. Then of course our main presidential candidates...

The kerfuffle about sexism when criticizing Feinstein is hogwash.

I don't know her full legacy, and I recall her being a good thorn in the side of Bush when he needed one. Sad it took this event to get a replacement.

And Newsom promised to put in a black woman, but also promised not to put in someone actually running for Senate. I wonder if the relevant groups of citizens care about that declaration.
Oh I'm all for anything that can be done to prevent politicians from getting rich through insider trading, "gifts", favors, and happening into fortunes just after leaving office.

I see that as a different problem to solve, but yeah if the solution to one can supercede the other I'd get behind that.
I've seen this before, long ago, and it was fun to revisit it.

He talks about how they are working on Teraflop-scale machines in their near future, and a Tflop-capable CM5 would take up 'about the size of this room'. In reality, the CM5/1024 only hit 131 gigaflops, and even that was enough to be the top of the TOP500 list at the time.

Wild that I have something capable of 35+ teraflops of FP32 sitting right here on my desk now.
Rust isn't really showing the kind of adoption rate required for long-term success (at least not that exhibited in the past by almost all languages that have achieved long-term success), either. Early adopters tend to be fickle, it seems.
My favourite ice cream is vanilla. My wife thinks I like chocolate. Is my preference a lie?
Ask HN: Need help drafting a profession's policy for AI governance
I've been asked to contribute to a fairly significant policy document for my profession and I am seeking your help, particularly the cryptography, ML, and legal folks, to help draft this particular concept around the chain of custody for AI inferences:

==========
Inferences made by an AI marketed for use in decision-making (e.g. decision support) should be cryptographically signed using a certificate on the vendor’s machine, who's certificates should be managed in a Public Key Infrastructure program, so the inferences are immutable and their provenance is traceable, and those signed inferences should retained as part of the record.

Additionally, any verification or validation procedure performed by a person should result in the machine's signing certificate being countersigned by the person performing the verification or validation, such that this procedure is also captured in the signed inference.
==========

Is that a sensible way to ensure inferences are admissible as evidence? Does it cover causal interventions? What am I missing? Critique most welcome.
It can be wonderful for soundproofing and vibration isolation mounts; gotta watch the temperatures tho. treat it as a fluid and float things on it.
Point taken. But the point I was trying to make is that deception isn’t cool. AI lowers the bar for deception.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein
Not yet, but I'll have a look, thanks!

I'd need it to work well with touch, for phone or pad users.
Amit Patel is the man. I always say his last name like Matthew Patel says his name in Scott Pilgrim. Side note: Sebastian Lague is great too.
For a Phoenix application, a Ruby on Rails developer will be able to pick it up pretty fast. Usually just takes one or two pair programming sessions going through the full MVC flow with test-driven development and they're good to take on most tasks. Then reading up some of the official Getting Started Elixir docs fills in the gaps, particularly understanding how a Process[0] works, working up to Tasks/GenServers/Supervisors under the Mix and OTP section.

For hires that already know Elixir, I've found the talent pool to be way above the average (and expensive). They're usually senior devs that fell in love with Elixir, wanting to move away from their previous tech stacks or have already worked at an Elixir shop.

[0] https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/processes.html
nah. they're definitely under a microscope and may be nailed before too long.

courts move slow. how long did it take to see Elizabeth Holmes get convicted?
I'm confused, do you mean "PostHog"? I've never heard of this being used that way.
Im quite bothered by the “standard” one foot roll-out that car manufacturers advertise these day with their 0-60 times. It’s not 0-60 with it when there’s one foot roll out so it just feels unrealistic. And besides the difference in time measured between actual 0-60 and the one with the one foot roll-out is huge.
Yes, but even in the era of ANSI code pages, it was that way for many "accented" characters and non Latin alphabets. And you still needed a little more in ASCII than blindly flipping bits or you'd turn your numerals into control characters.
I feel like I see the opposite -- that everything scientific computing is getting rewritten in something autodifferentiable! Whether that's JAX or something else.

My experience might be biased though: shameless advert for Equinox (https://github.com/patrick-kidger/equinox, 1.4k GitHub stars), which is now the foundation of quite a lot of SciComp in JAX. (Both internal and open-source.)
yep. this guy keeps up to date with quantised models: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke
Certain app seem like those that were built with web app looking got my iPhone 13 overheated when upgraded to iOS 17, still happen on 17.0.1.