skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Revealing what is in those documents might threaten US power projection in the world, but it would not threaten US national security in any significant way. That is, it might hurt the US' ability to shape the world as it desires, but it would not make the US significantly more vulnerable to being attacked because no matter how much people know about the NSA's activities, groups that want to attack the US would still be confronted by the US' overwhelming national security strengths of being surrounded by huge oceans, having a nuclear deterrent, and also having the world's most powerful conventional military.

I can imagine there being classified documents that pose an actual significant national security risk. Perhaps some details about how nuclear plants are secured, or the details of the mechanisms by which authorization to fire nuclear missiles is given. Stuff like that. But there should be nothing like that in the NSA documents. Maybe there is something in there that would tip people off about the NSA's encryption-cracking capabilities. But no system that is actually critical for national security should be vulnerable to such information being revealed. And if there is some system that is vulnerable because of it, more surveillance is not the answer anyway.
Yes, the commercial Matrix vendors are all using proprietary forks.

The layoffs were from Element; the Foundation has only a managing director as an employee (who started a few months ago). And yes, the layoffs have been a nightmarish loss for Matrix - as a result P2P Matrix, Third Room, Low Bandwidth Matrix and many other more ambitious projects are currently shelved.

The point of the licensing change is to try to break even and avoid further layoffs, by requiring third party commercial forks to contribute financially.

The amount of hate for doing so is astonishing, but hey.
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You're talking about "profits" when you should really be talking about "costs".

At a macro level, in a large company/business, your employees expect raises for a variety of reasons (inflation, quality of life, promos, etc). A new product or feature may require hiring additional employees. If an employee exits, you may need to spend more money to hire a replacement. In addition to all of that, there are contractual obligations with vendors, your customers may be trying to eliminate product (or leave entirely), etc.

All of that raise the cost to run the business. If you want to keep your margin you need to raise your prices, cut expenses, or both.
You might notice a lot of small businesses fail. Of the ones that don't, they don't generate excessive profits for the owners.

It's only a small sliver of the small business space that ends up being economically succesful.
Getting the school IP temp banned from Wikipedia was a rite of passage in computer class. Tell a bunch of 13yos that there's a site anyone can edit, you know what'll happen.
Interesting read, as usual.

"You can understand why, right? From their perspective, they were just going about their life, doing nothing wrong, and then for some bullshit reason the bank charged them $35."

I'm not sure it's quite right to blame this on math illiteracy. I think some people are still in denial on bank fees.
Something something, the spare tire was flat.
All of these choices seem reasonable except letting an ORM be a sticking point.

Is there an institutional issue with SQL knowledge or is it exceedingly complex database?

As someone who finds ORMs more trouble than they're worth I really struggle with that point, particularly if it's SQLite.

And while Go's testing framework is really nice, I've never had much issue doing unit testing in Rust. I'm assuming the problem was more with the testing + the tauri framework than Rust itself.
How does CALEA work in the USA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...)

Does it fail on HTTPS communications or is a similar "rogue" CA that allows law enforcement to decrypt traffic as they need?
You ask: "Do humans generalize outside of their training data?" But then you give two examples of people specializing outside of their training data. But even then a divorce lawyer would do a lot better than me at M&A because they can generalize from what they learned about the law from divorce cases.
"Our CWV product team is underperforming on our projections. Let's write a FOMO puff piece on this to generate more interest in target product teams."
I for one do not wish to give America's enemies access to all of our classified information.
That being said, while it's 100% the case that SFHs don't pay for themselves, I bet high-rises change the math a bit.
Sisyphus only has one rock to worry about.
No, any law can be changed. The closest you can come is to make a Constitution hard to change and embed a right to free speech, including encrypted speech, therein. Anything beyond that has to be a cultural conservation.
I don't understand how they think they can force EU citizens to use only approved browsers. What's to stop anyone who wishes to from using a non EU one and changing the user agent.
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Or the power supply is sourced from multiple vendors, and other units might not have the same range
That seems pretty close to what I said in the next paragraph, just approaching from the other direction.
I do. I have a variety of Roman coins dating back to Principate up to the Byzantine era. I tend to look for coins for Emperors that I find interesting, such as Trajan, Constantine, Aurelian and others. It looks like most of the coins were Folles, which were a low denomination coin. These coins were pretty much worthless starting in the late 270's until the Empire stabilized in the 330's. The Romans devalued the coins so much and inflation became so bad that the Roman government abandoned using coinage and reverted to a payment in kind system for taxes. (I believe Gold Currency was not affected as much but was only held by the very wealthy) Constantine introduced a new gold coin (solidus) at the time, which became the standard around Europe until the 1100's or so.
The Android team is working harder than ever to be Apple's best advertiser.
I felt like this is somewhat true after dealing with the salespeople at Oracle. After my company moved some data stored from Oracle to Snowflake, I felt like we were not getting robbed anymore.
Ah yes, time again for Ximm's Law: every critique of AI assumes to some degree that contemporary implementations will not, or cannot, be improved upon.

Lemma: any statement about AI which uses the word "never" to preclude some feature from future realization is false.

Clickbait.
Huh, I have a radically different intuition from you. :-) I think "personal ethics" applies to everything and everyone in the world. The people who do things are moral agents.

> On what grounds does Petrobras have any right to privacy from the USG?

Among other things, their confidentiality is protected by Brazilian law. If hackers break that law, Petrobras should be entitled to a remedy against them, just like Americans should be entitled to a remedy against Russian hackers, whether they intend to steal money or private information.

As far as I know, all governments harbor criminals in this sense, but I think they should be incentivized to do so much less, including by pointing out that the espionage is a crime and not glamorizing it (or being upset with governments for not doing it!).
I don’t think you can really blame Netflix for the change in content over time. In the beginning nobody understood how big streaming would be so Netflix could license whatever for cheap. They were successful and everybody said “oh shit we need to build our own streaming service” so now we have this nightmare land of needing a bunch of different services to watch what you want.
> This upper bar on security may even ban browsers from enforcing Certificate Transparency, an IETF technical standard that ensures a CA’s issuing history can be examined by the public in order to detect malfeasance.

I don't quite understand that. How does a browser enforce CT? Even if a browser queries CT logs, they're not that helpful without any context, right? How would a browser get anything useful from the logs beyond knowing a certificate was published to the logs?

Isn't it the job of the domain owner to monitor those logs since they're the only one that's going to know definitively if a certificate is illegitimate?
Claims Grok is better than other models in its compute class, by which it explicitly includes GPT-3. 5-turbo but excluded GPT-4. But how is getting any idea of “compute class”? Neither of the OpenAI models have official published information sufficient to judge this; 3.5 was rumored to be 175 billion parameters, though Microsoft's CodeFusion paper indicated that its a 20 billion parameter model. Lots of people throw around a 1.5 trillion parameter guess for GPT-4, but that doesn't seem to be grounded in anything but speculation (in part itself based on the 175 billion parameter estimate for gpt-3.5-turbo.)
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I bet this is less time than my uBlock Origin rules have saved me. <_<
> The MyQ was the first connected garage door controller on the market. It launched in 2011 to solve problems like being halfway to the airport to start a two-week holiday and having to turn around because you can’t remember if you shut the garage door.

Chamberlain would have a leg to stand on here, however weak, if their stuff even worked. I have two MyQ enabled openers, and due to their location under the bedroom with my "networking closet", they're mere feet from the access point.

In the 5 years of owning the openers, I've successfully received a "door open alert" twice and have successfully used the app to operate the doors exactly once. Once, while on vacation, a neighbor called to say that our door had been open for two straight days and asked if I wanted them to close the door for me. I said yes and they closed the door. Within seconds I received one of the two aforementioned notifications.

And for control via the app? Forget it. The connection actually working between my app and the device so rarely works, I stopped trying years ago and went through the (very nontrivial) effort to get it connected to the built-in opener in my car.

My humble opinion for Chamberlain is to either let third parties build stuff that actually works, or remove the functionality entirely.
The KDE spin from Fedora is really nice. It's pretty much vanilla KDE and is kept up to date with every new release of Fedora. I do agree that it should be one the primary download page as an option.
Honestly I'd be much more worried about Streisand effect than the original images. Nowadays what began as a joke on some Thai Facebook group could easily become a globally recognized meme overnight. Imagine the t-shirts.
That is an example of a side channel.

That's the kind of thing done by people who the bank really doesn't want to offend. The bank decided it wants that to work for them. Therefore the bank created a way of making sure it works.

That it is not documented or advertised is a feature.
If you Google "San Jose Google Construction," you don't even have to click into an article to learn that there has already been a large amount of demolition.
> The reality of the situation would be very obvious. Just because everyone in the EU is in the EU, doesn't make them one big happy family.

The EU thinks they should be
Possibly partially because they can't afford to live near where people most desperately want houses built.
Not knowing what this was about, I immediately figured "planetscale.com" was some Space site and "Vitess 18" was a new moon discovered somewhere ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Punisher skull is a statement that they believe in vigilantism, not the rule of law, to the point where the guy who created the character condemned police officers who do it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190116204016/https://www.syfy....
what he do?
Java would have been a better option.
I used to know some jcl, those were the days. It was used in a few "advanced" classes when I was an undergrad. Was that the one that had the little hello pamplet with details, or was that yellow pamplet describing sys/360 assembly.
"How Google Tag Manager added back 100K years of waiting for web pages to load and further set the planet on fire"
I understand where you are coming from. I think we agree that there is something dysfunctional about mass media and its relationship with those who consume it in 2023. But, we probably disagree about the nature of that dysfunction.

My favorite thing to point at to illustrate my own take is the utter corporate sterility of Meta's "Horizon" social vision compared to the untamed (and often sexually-charged) landscape of spaces like Second Life and VRChat. There is a clear mismatch here: open-ended channels show us the forms of creative expression that the human psyche is drawn towards when given a blank canvas. Meanwhile, Meta reduces creativity down to something that the corporate hegemony considers "brand safe." You can be whatever you want to be on Meta's platform, so long as it is an anatomically correct human who aligns with a handful of well-defined social archetypes (all vetted by committee to be a representative cross-section of the diversity of humanity dontchaknow).

Even if I don't agree with your specific claims, this at least seems to rhyme with some what you're observing here.
Shells and Node.js don't mix well.
No it wouldn't for the exact same reason that regular people don't need guns on them at all times. What makes the police threatening isn't individual cops projecting the threat of violence and dispensing it randomly like Batman. It's that the police as an institution have the people, time, and resources to follow you to the ends of the earth (i.e. "the long arm of the law") and dispense collective justice. If your goal is not going to prison killing a cop is a really terrible way to go about that.
I've DJ'd at a bunch of furry cons now and y'all are the absolute best. Thank you for everything you do <3
In the 90s I had to wait for every webpage to load, every time.

In the early 00s, it got a little faster, but still, a lot of waiting.

Yet, somehow, the web was a much more pleasant experience.
Anti-Money Laundering laws are a complete anti-democratic tyranny. With AML you are assumed guilty anytime you possess money, or participate in any financial transactions, or have any assets. If called upon to do so you will have to prove your innocence beyond a reasonable doubt, and if you fail to do so, your assets or money can be permanently seized. All of this occurs without any form of due process.

The government actually wouldn’t be able to make these regulations for itself, and the only way it manages to make AML laws work is with a complete governance anti-pattern. Where they simply tell the banks that if they unknowingly allow any “money laundering”, then they will be punished, rather than actually creating some regulations for them to follow. So the institutions just create these kafkaesque nightmares themselves, because they don’t really care about who gets screwed over by them.

The worse part is that money laundering is trivially easy for anybody who wants to do it, it just costs money to do the compliance properly. The only people who get thwarted by these laws are immigrants who do a lot of remittance, and law-abiding wealthy people who naively think they’re entitled to possess their own money. Two groups that society generally doesn’t care at all about protecting.

I personally make a lot of money off the AML compliance industry, so I’m not really complaining for my own sake. But these laws are the intended outcome of “anti-terrorism” and “anti-tax-evasion” policies.
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That does seem a more reliable option. I need to update my thinking of I want to be a good scammer!
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Can you be more specific? Otherwise this comes off as reactionary. Most of her term has been about laying the foundations to do antitrust again, since it has been declining since the 60s and dead since Bush settled the MSFT case. It might take a decade to get a big win on breaking up a giant, so it's good that she has already started.
The console versions are quite good
That's the problem with having rule of law, integrity, and honor. Sometimes it's inconvenient and costly.

Something being costly does not absolve you of your moral, legal, and honorable obligations. It is not a justification for ex post facto recontracting.

I would like to see the government uphold it's obligations, stop acting weird exceeds these obligations, I work towards permanent Solutions where advantageous. This may include buying out of contractual obligations for purchasing Indian land and rights
I don't believe CALEA has any provisions for requiring CA providers to allow decrypt.
As people here are (or should be) well aware: any system can be gamed. You can never outsource all of your diligence to a set of rules. Thinking that this must be possible is folly. Important hiring decisions can't be automated. Scaling ladders neither. And don't overestimate the quality of your hiring/promotion decisions while you're at it: you suck at it and so does everyone else.

What kind of people do you want to thrive, and what do you want your business to do?
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> The implication that their data is more important or something just seems like a ploy to get more eyeballs on the research.

So? Their data IS more important from a national security perspective, as the study suggests. If you handle nukes, your personal information would probably be more valuable than the data of someone flipping burgers at McD.

If this framing - 'the data brokerage industry is in itself a threat to national security' - forces congress to better regulate the industry, I think it is a win even if the regulations will only target military folks. It's a foot-in-the-door and objectively a good thing for the US national security.
You need to buy and hold till now. Most people flip it after 50% gain and used it to buy a shoe that looked “nice”
Because the nation-state is constantly using the democratic process to decide which powers should be delegated to which part of the hierarchy.

This thread is about that abstract process, and indeed whether "housing crisis" is enough justification to start overriding local autonomy.

For example, in California the state government recently restricted the power of local governments to regulate ADU construction. This was a case of state democracy overriding local decisions because of their negative externalities when taken in aggregate.

Basically the whole point of a government hierarchy is to resolve the multi-agent coordination problems that routinely occur. The government is the equivalent of the mob boss in the prisoner's dilemma, and without it we will devolve into a tragedy of the commons.
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Why is it a mistake to protect sources and military capabilities?
What about the flow on impact this has for SEO though. Older content is MUCH harder to find because the web service supporting it doesn't support some new standard from Google and we lose access to a lot of niche sites.

Then we also have the challenge that it's harder to crawl and rank new content en masse...

Hard to say for sure of this is overall a net positive if you look across a range of different metrics, it's probably never been more debatable about whether Google knows best.
no plan to consolidate; current plan is to keep improving Synapse as a mature & stable server, and use Dendrite as a test bed for new ideas (eg account portability)
> a system that calls you back is better than a system you wait on hold for

But a lot of customers don't actually want that. An established connection feels safer than a promise of a future connection which may fail to happen for various reasons.
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I've been bitten many times by the CFS scheduler while using containers and cgroups. What's the new scheduler? Has anyone here tried it in a production cluster? We're now going on two decades of wasted cores: https://people.ece.ubc.ca/sasha/papers/eurosys16-final29.pdf.
How many people do you think Red Hat pays to work on all projects within the GNOME namespace on their GitLab? There were no Red Hat employees involved in the development of the new image viewer. It was a community effort.

Will you be stepping up to provide resources?

Why are you ignoring all the other work Red Hat did this cycle with regard to things like HDR?
My Pros are over 2 years old with an hour minimum per day use, usually a few hours. Still working flawlessly.
The #1 Webring List on the Internet (by Ray "brisray" Thomas):
https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm

They are coming back. No, they will never be as prominent as search engines, despite how crappy they've (Google in particular) has gotten. You wanna find personal websites? It's not hard you just gotta put in a little effort:
https://foreverliketh.is/blog/exploring-the-personal-web/

A lot of those collectives are even curated, like the one made by a Hacker News user recently:
https://dm.hn/

This isn't just to OP, it's to the rest of you as well: The Personal Web has never been more dead. But also perhaps never as alive. If you care at all about it, you'd take part, contribute and connect.
Great article. Explains the chalenges that I just had with having all money frozen with Marcus.com. It is literally impossible to break through these layers of support in order to get your case heard / solved. The biggest challenge is that it‘s so intransparent with very little communication from the bank as to how a support case is actually moving through and how close it is to getting resolved.
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> Sometimes the bank will have ability to e.g. share context between their screen and the Tier 2 rep; sometimes they’re literally incapable of proving to the bank that they work there.

I've experienced this one directly: I ran into an issue with a large transfer between banks a few years ago, and watched with a mixture of amusement and anxiety as the branch employee was unable to prove his identity to his counterpart on the line. He was supposed to share some kind of OTP to prove that he was in front of a branch computer, but whatever microservice was responsible for generating and/or delivering the OTPs was offline.
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His audiobooks are his best content, no joke. They're fast paced, funny, clever and action packed. Both his main book series are worth getting into.

He's a better writer than many famous authors, and narrates his own books as well.
Read my sibling reply from 3 hours before yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38175512
You'd be surprised. Mexico & Central America in particular were very well populated - Teotihuacan and Tenochtitlan were among the largest cities in the world in their respected heydays, and the overall population of both Mexico and of the Andes + Amazonia were on par with European nations of the time.

(Ed. - Noting that the thread here was specifically about the US, those populations were also much larger than most are aware, and also had a fairly rich material and social culture, especially in the Pacific Northwest, though admittedly both smaller and unfortunately more biodegradable than the empires in the south. Book recs below still stand.)

If you're interested, Charles Mann's 1491 is a fantastic read on the pre-Colombian Americas - these were large, sophisticated, well-established civilizations before smallpox. Graeber & Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything also spends a lot of time with the various North American civilizations.
It doesn't really have anything to do with the Internet. CALEA only applies to phone calls. VoIP calls are only encrypted to and from the carrier, so they can tap them there with pre-existing telephony hardware if they have a warrant to do so.