skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The White House just invoked the Defense Production Act ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950 ) to assert sweeping authority over private-company software developers. What the fuck are they smoking?

- "In accordance with the Defense Production Act, the Order will require that companies developing any foundation model that poses a serious risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety must notify the federal government when training the model, and must share the results of all red-team safety tests."

I assume this is a major constitutional overreach that will be overturned by courts at the first challenge?

Or else, all the AI companies who haven't captured their regulators will simply move their R&D to some other country—like how the OpenSSH (?) core development moved to Canada during in the 1990's crypto wars. (edit: Maybe that's the real goal–scare away OpenAI's competition, dredge for them a deeper regulatory moat).
The big brick phones went out of fashion before the iphone. Apple resurrected the big and thick phones. I remember I didn't get the first iphone models due their size.
I'm selfhosting Immich (Google photos clone) on my NAS which has a 70TB's+ of storage. Every night a backup to Glacier runs (which is pennies to store, expensive to retrieve). Every so often I hook up an external hdd and just copy the backup over.

I've had some pretty severe data loss a few years back where I had photos on a cloud service that shut down and I was too careless to properly back them up. Once I got kids I stepped it up a notch and vowed to never let that happen again (the Glacier backup is for when my house burns down or something). Still need to write some proper instructions for my family to retrieve the data if I am unable but they're basically files on a hdd.

As for curating them, I'll leave that to the next person. I think I'd have loved to comb through pics my parents took of us. I do select pictures that are super great and add them to an album. Throwing away isn't worth the effort imo.
Well, it is set in Washington...
Sweden. I can count on one hand how many times I’ve used cash in the last 5 years. Cash is extremely rarely used. For paying in stores, contactless cards or Apple/Google/Samsung pay are the most common payment methods by far. For paying people (such as splitting the cost of a meal at a restaurant) we use a service called Swish which is connected to your bank account and works similarly to Venmo or Zelle in the US. Swish can also be used for paying businesses. Some businesses such as food trucks have a QR code that you can scan to pay them.

Paying businesses can also be done by using services called Bankgiro and Plusgiro. These are done directly via your bank account and if done after 10 AM are processed the next business day.
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I live in Germany, Bavaria specifically, and I don't carry cash most of the time. That works fine for groceries and almost all restaurants/cafes, but there are some weird places it causes problems. Post offices don't like to take anything except cash for example.
The US Army Corps of Engineers no longer accepts cash for campsites they manage. The US Government no longer accepts its own currency. That's where we are in the USA at least.
You weren’t kidding. I like the list but the vast majority are really just more specific examples of #1. Not that that’s a problem, just telling how much of what is wrong (and I agree with pretty much everything on the list) really does boil down to that.
I’m not talking about “product owner” as it’s practiced in shitty scrum orgs.

I mean product owner as in the person responsible for the product.
this is true for the affluent class.

smartphones are necessary to pay via UPI

smartphones--bank accounts--aadhaar card

in case of some low income workers, smartphones are not universal

in case of some migrant workers (including those that come from neighboring countries in search of jobs) .. aadhaar or bank account may not be immediately available

while digital payments are definitely becoming common cash is still accepted

in some cases autorikshaw drivers either avoided UPI (because something went wrong previously and their account went into negative balance ..so any payments they accept there will be swallowed by the app) ..or sometimes ask for cash as preferred mode because for them it is easier to spend immediately (sometimes even for sentimental reasons like first ride of the day)
Most games are still stuck on their older consoles. Even well known games like Super Mario Galaxy 1/2 and Xenoblade Chronicles X. They port only their most popular stuff. This is why piracy is necessary in the long term. Platform holders don't care about game preservation.
Since nobody's chimed in here from Germany yet:

Germany's broadly a hold-out. Particularly a lot of restaurants, bars and clubs are still cash-only, and some smaller shops definitely prefer cash. Used cars are, interestingly, almost always cash-only. Person to person transactions (i.e. buying something you pick up in person) are almost always cash. Open air markets (produce, flea markets) are always cash.

Electronic payments are becoming more accepted, but it's wise to almost always have some cash on hand.

Cash retains a certain appeal for privacy reasons, and, let's be honest, for businesses avoiding paying their taxes. I'm actually happy cash remains. I don't like the idea of everything I ever buy being recorded. I also don't mind when e.g. going out that I have to consciously get more cash from the ATM when I've blown through my evening budget.

This is in amusing contrast with my trip to Sweden last year, where I pulled out the equivalent of €100 for emergencies, and had trouble getting rid of it in the week and a half there since most places didn't seem to even take cash.
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Why does this fucking article keep lagging my entire browser and keeps reloading? I have a constant loading bar. Just let me read the damn text.

Of course reader mode is broken.

Decide what you want to do: Do you want to publish content, or visual art? Don't try doing both when you're not great at either.
I've got kids so I'll never use a Google product for any pictures of them. Degoogling myself 1 service at a time as well.
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I'm surprised so many here seem to be fine with paying by credit card.

Isn't it causing you an uncomfortable feeling, that one company gets all the data about every single thing you buy?

And via this also everywhere you go and when you go there?

So you are a 100% "see through" person to Apple, Google and/or Visa?
In the spirit of bullshit-busting and critical thought here's a thought experiment...

Alan Turing: The claims made in the Halting Problem is genrally true, and is therefore unfalsifiable even in principle.

Carl Sagan: Propositions that are untestable, unfalsifiable are not worth much.

All computer scientists in synchronized act of distributed consensus: Bullshit.
They most likely will. The same happened with the previous zelda game.
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Qualcomm now refers to ARM as a “legacy architecture.” Cold.

But in all seriousness, I think RISC-V takes over the low- and mid-segments of embedded, industrial and maybe automotive SoCs
Europe plans to fight Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them
It’s makes sense to me, showing you can cheerfully fire people shows you aren’t making decisions based on likability. If you were invested in this company wouldn’t you want to know the CEO values you more than his own employees? Makes perfect sense to me.
Netherlands. Only carry cash because I received some as a gift at some point. Only place that I use my cash on is the local barbershop which only takes cash (probably avoids paying taxes that way).

I pay everything through contactless payments through my phone or my debit card barring that.

Some shops don't even take cash anymore because of how few of their customers paid in cash compared to how risky carrying that cash to the bank is. I'm not very happy with that development, but I can understand why they do it.

Some people prefer cash, some people prefer using their debit card (chip + PIN is generally very secure, of course!).
I also have a follow up to this topic. I would say it looks like in Azure nobody is verifying TCP checksums. A bitflip in tcp payload should have been noticed at the NIC/tcp level but it reaches my application with corrupted data.
no, the nuance is not about rules, the nuance is about right and wrong.

It’s wrong for someone to walk around with an animal that could be dangerous or could harm other people or itself. In this case, the rules aligned with my moral understanding.

Ashan sense of right and wrong is not based on outside rules, but it are internal perception. This is why many of us have anti-authoritarian tendencies.

https://neuroclastic.com/autism-and-responding-to-authority/...
Pleonexia might be used in some certain way by Illich, but it's not his neologism. Or particularly new either. It's an ancient Greek word meaning greed or literally "apetite for (ever) more", where pleon = more, coming from PIE root for the same meaning.
Impotent action to appear relevant.
How do I make it draw pretty things? What to I type in?
https://untested.sonnet.io/rss.xml

Website says on the bottom right that it’s “Powered by Obsidian Publish” so that seemed like a request for the platform more than the website. Searched online for “Obsidian Publish RSS” and found a feature request on their forum.

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/rss-feed-for-obsidian-publish/18...

Last post points out there are feeds at `/rss.xml`.

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/rss-feed-for-obsidian-publish/18...
The person existed external to the DID system, but your internal system came to depend on their continued existence in your life. The DID system changed how it worked to adapt to the existence of this person. When that person left (stopped collaborating), the internal systems that depended on that person's existence collapsed.

System dynamics are universal. :)
"It's now effectively impossible to not use private land to get around the area."

That implies public rights of way were removed. I fail to see any other interpretation of this. If there were never public rights of way then it was always impossible to get around the area.

Unless they mean they themselves live on one of these developments and must therefore traverse private land to get back on to a public highway. If so, ability to access the public highway is protected and living on such a development should always grant rights (and responsibilities) over use of the land (any decent solicitor would flag this up if not).
Consider simultaneous functional equations:

f(x) = dg(x)/dx

g(x) = df(x)/dx

Its only linearly independent solutions are sin(x+c) and cos(x+c) with, x being in radians, periodic by 2pi.
India is really frustrating for tourists right now... I was there earlier this year, and there were several things I just couldn't do without UPI... Some restaurants just didn't accept cash so I couldn't eat there... Bus tickets had to be booked online with UPI... I think they're moving towards opening it up, but when I was there it was completely impossible for a foreigner to use UPI.
USA: rarely use cash. Either p2p apps (zelle, Venmo, cash app, apple cash) for sending money to ppl or buying and selling used items.

Debit or credit cards for businesses. I keep a $20 on me plus a debit card w/ atm access and checking account that reimburses atm fees. Just for those super rare purposes that cash is needed. Although most of the time, I will just not buy from that merchant.
What are we talking about here? There's a difference between what you can do and what you have a right to do. You can walk across any land you can gain physical access to. But in England and Wales you almost certainly don't have a right to walk across said land. In Scotland you do but you are mistaken if you think England and Wales are like Scotland in this regard (sadly).
A normadic lifestyle with multiple people looks different from one with just a single person (or a young couple).

You need to bring your support network with you. That is: your nanny, your teacher, etc.

You can outsource healthcare, but the others require stable persons.
> had H&N not been atom bombed they would have been firebombed .. with very similar levels of death and follow on disease.

Wrong! Don't be ignorant.

An entire city can't be firebombed by a single plane and that plane can't drop all it's bombs at the same time everywhere. People would run to underground shelters once they hear the first explosions and they would survive. A group of bombers would also trigger an air raid alarm and people would have even more time to run to shelters and survive.

This is a quote from Wikipedia:

> The air raid warning had been cleared at 07:31, and many people were outside, going about their activities.

I'm not even going to mention the difference in after-bombing disease.
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> Don't "we" also need a grouping to make it even clearer that some fields can't produce any falsifiable theories if other fields don't produce any unfalsifiable theorems?

Sure. And I suspect a subset of pure mathematicians would want terminology to make clear that they produce theorems out of intellectual curiosity rather than because they have any regard for whether those theorems can be applied by other fields. Fortunately we can categorize things in multiple ways. I'm open to suggestions on the semantics, but something more widely understood and less clunky than my own theorem/theory-producers would be good! Perhaps "Natural Sciences" or "Empirical Sciences" might be more specific terms for fields that produce theories, if you like.

I differentiate simply because seems possible to do so. And as I said, because it's worth considering whether different processes and cultures are useful. I'm intrigued as to why you object so strongly.

I am afraid my intellect isn't quite up to the application of scientific principles to the philosophy of science itself this morning. I'll have to think harder about whether that's even a valid thing to do.

I don't think you've shown that falsifiability makes no difference in practice. The fact that it's possible to come up with some borderline or problematic examples (which themselves aren't terribly practical) doesn't mean it's not a useful criterion for a scientific theory. Falsifiability is a valuable filter for ideas that the natural sciences are not able to speak to. String theory has been criticized as unfalsifiable. I think a good string theorist would accept that it's a serious accusation that requires an answer.

To be honest I'm quite happy to say "All humans are mortal" is not a well-stated scientific theory. "Human lifespan is limited to 180 years" is better, as it may one day be falsified.
You actually understood "safe" to mean "safe for you" as in, making it actually safer for the user and systemically protecting structures that safeguard the data, privacy, and well-being of users as they understand their safety and well-being.

Nooo... if they talk about something being safe, they mean safe for THEM and their political interests. Not for you. They mean censorship.
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If they're so important, people will fork them to make them work with pledge.
For me, the answer is no, I don't care about this at all.
How do they know which voters are eligible and which aren't?
Yes, I agree, I was going to write the same. But to be honest, I like cash. The feeling of the cash flowing out of your hand is much more palpable than when you use a card :)
In Switzerland there is a national app for sending cash to friends that is really handy and popular (TWINT)
Thanks. Makes the point better than my misunderstanding did (or should have): words the author thought the reader might not know were called out.
Would you also not care if that dataset gets leaked to the internet some day?
I tried it for a while but the crypto slant put me off. Kinda felt like a cool kids club for crypto bros and I wasn’t the user template
I really don't get why it's terrifying. Maybe it would help to just do it rather than reading docs about it?

As an example, let's say your ISP gives you the details:

WAN IP: 2001:db8:ffff:200::2/64 (like "203.0.113.2/24")
Default router: 2001:db8:ffff:200::1 (like "203.0.113.1")
Routed prefix: 2001:db8:42::/48 (like "192.168.0.0/16")

On a Linux router, you would set this up by doing:

ip addr add 2001:db8:ffff:200::2/64 dev wan0
ip route add default via 2001:db8:ffff:200::1
ip addr add 2001:db8:42:1::1/64 dev lan0 [like "192.168.1.1/24"]

Then install radvd, put the following into /etc/radvd.conf and start the radvd daemon:

interface lan0 {
AdvSendAdvert on;
prefix ::/64 { DeprecatePrefix on; };
RDNSS 2001:4860:4860::8888 { };
};

This is enough to give you a functioning network. Your machines will pick up the announcement, assign themselves addresses and default routes, and can talk to each other and the Internet. And as you can see, this L3 setup isn't any different to v4 -- you've got a WAN IP, a LAN IP and a route. Devices get IPs from 2001:db8:42:1::/64 like they get IPs from 192.168.1.0/24. The client autoconfig is different but it's a lot simpler than DHCP.

What am I glossing over? Most ISPs aren't static, which means you need to automate the above setup, and even for a static ISP you'd need to persist the `ip` commands (e.g. via /etc/network/interfaces or whatever your distro uses to do network config). If your ISP needs ppp or VLANs or whatever then you gotta deal with those too, but that's not v6-specific.

You're also going to want a firewall, but that will look very similar to your v4 one: deny new connections from the WAN, allow new connections from the LAN, allow packets from existing connections in both directions. I can give you ip6tables or ferm for that if you want.

Lastly, I'll point this out explicitly, but you don't need NAT which is why there's no mention of it above. It's just not necessary. The ISP has an inbound route set for 2001:db8:42::/48 to your router, and a /48 is more than enough address space.

Other than that, those three commands + radvd config really are enough for a fully-functioning network. It doesn't seem terrifying to me, nor does it seem inaccessible to someone that already knows how v4 networks work.
Rather this is a typical HN religous-substituting faith in "progress" (of the non-reflective "just more of everything" variety), and a knew-jerk reaction to any mention of limits to growth and other concerns aside from enlargement.

Every. Single. Time.
It's a statement of my estimated impact of the post on the development of AI.

The blocking of "AI content" and the bit about authentication don't seem related to AI frankly. Detection isn't real and authentication is the government's version of an explosive wet dream.
You're right. Most are design patents. Only 10.75% are utility patents.
I did a solo project on L-Systems for my bachelors degree at university two decades ago (sadly looks lost to time).

Embedding different symbols you can add more than just draw and rotation in one plane:

* Rotation in 3D space
* Stochastic steps
* Stacks to remember where the cursor was and return when done drawing a branch
* Depth-limited steps (can simulate gravity's effect on tree branches)

With this I was rendering biological life (trees, coral etc) in three dimensions.

I also tried applying it to MIDI, with "draw" being play a note, and symbols going up and down the scales. It made for interesting fractal music, but I never figured out the best approach for, say, a decent-sounding fugue.
This was my take on Zeihan too. He's one of the few I've approached in the way the OP is talking about (minus the worship part). I bought and read one of his books.

I completely agree with your take: his demographics work was a new model of thought for me, and interesting to think about and apply. A lot of his extrapolation felt really off, though.

For Zeihan in particular I went a bit deeper in trying to figure out why a lot of his analysis didn't sit well with me. Part of it was the America-centricity - the superficial non-interest for Europe and other continents. The second part, though, was that I don't think he really considers that the people making these systems work also suffer if the systems collapse. At a societal level, we are motivated to keep our global systems maintained because they sustain our ways of life - not because somebody signed an agreement. The signing was just a means of getting it started.

Anyway, end rant, but I guess his ideas feel too far down the isolationist line. My analysis of which probably proves the OP's worshipping point. It's designed to pull you in.
How would you like it if I break into your house and start living with you against your will, and then boss you around deciding what we eat for dinner, how our budget (your salary) should be spent, and so on?
In the Netherlands; mostly haven't carried cash for 5-6 years now. Since Apple Pay was enabled here around 2019, the majority of my purchases are through the phone or watch. About once a year there will be some situation that requires cash, usually when traveling.

Even street vendors have debit/pin machines (Zettle/SumUp etc), and with mobile phones starting to be able to act as a receiver there would be no reason to use cash at all. I don't like the privacy implications but it's immensely practical.

For sending money to others, sharing bills etc you use Tikkie which generates a link or QR code that anyone can use to pay you via iDeal (debit).
Counterpoint: the last four decades have seen some of the biggest explosions in technological progress in history. And based on what we've seen, not on anyone's imagination.
I didn't use cash for years in Russia, all about card payments and instant bank payments between people. Last year many of POS asking to pay via QR code to avoid card fee (2-3%).

Central Bank will test digital Ruble asset in the recent time, it's some sort of limited conversion currency, like you get a payment for child care and it's possible to use only for limited products to purchase.
Ah, wait until you discover what video games do!