skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The security requirements in the legal text are equivalent or higher that of cabforum's, minus the certificate transparency bit. And that's a fair critique. Such mechanism needs to be discussed

No, under no circumstances should browser vendors be forced to "discuss" the development and application of higher security standards with an adversary with a vested interest in holding those standards back. You cannot have a reasonable "discussion" with an entity that claims a regulatory veto.

Certificate Transparency is a great example: it's a reliable way to detect MITM certificates. "Here's an established industry standard for detecting improperly issued certificates and rejecting them to prevent interception of communication, allowing revocation of misused CAs." "So what happens when law enforcement uses a CA to issue a certificate for interception pertaining to a warrant?" "Like we said, it detects improperly issued certificates and rejects them to prevent interception of communications, so we'd detect that and revoke the CA." Further conversation after that point goes very differently depending on whether the governmental entity is empowered to veto or not.

> browser vendors are welcome to participate in ETSI and give their suggestions of allowing certificate transparency

"suggestions"? It's their software; any mechanism that attempts to prevent them from defining their own stronger security standards is broken and should be destroyed via every possible route.

If you want digital sovereignty, make a case for your requirements with the software people want to use. If that case is "we want to reduce security", you should lose; if you don't something is very wrong with the process.
Having made a few dry stone walls I can attest to the merit of this achievement. Judging where rocks are to be placed, and in what orientation is a zen art.

Anecdotally... I once tried to get wild flowers to grow on a stone wall. Every year we would seed the wall, only for the seeds to fall out or be eaten by birds. On inspiration, my boss filled a few shotgun cartridges up with seeds and fired them at the wall. Perfect result! The following year it was covered in flowers.
knowledge.bandcamp.com put me onto bandcamp a decade ago for buying digital music and actually owning it. Spotify is good for discovery but it can disappear at any moment
Are you aware of any similarly definitive library for the Telegram user (non-bot) API?
Maybe it wasn't secret, and Ilya wanted to bring it to the board but Sam fought him.
If you get sued for an AI creative work Anthropic says you're on your own
I dunno all this talk about OpenAI lately really feels more and more like hype to me.

What they've accomplished so far is really impressive. But until I see AGI for real I won't hold my breath.

Just feels to me like some expert/wizard level PR is going on right now.
This is why we need more businesses to run as non-profits.
Another quick tip: resist the urge to stack your stones long-ways parallel to the course of wall. Instead, put the longest dimension perpendicular to the wall.

This makes it much harder for the wall to fall outward as it shifts.
"It's later than you think" is all you really need.
1984 Dune was also kinda legit decent for the first 40 minutes or so. It gets pretty bad after Paul meets Chani.
The thing is, the changes were far more dramatic in between the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's. Even without "getting one's eye in", one can look across the Iron Curtain, and see that 60's, 70's, and 80's fashions were both very distinct, and independent of capitalism and communism.

It shouldn't take much poking about on RuNet to find some comrades in beehives and floral dresses, comrades in sideburns and huge lapels, and comrades with teased hair and legwarmers.

(that said, the picture starting the article could have been taken in 1993 or 1983 as well, and maybe even in 1973. The kids would not have been fashionable for those decades, but they wouldn't have stood out as being anachronistic either.)

then again, "prep/sloane ranger/bcbg" is still going, with minor adjustments, for what, at least a century now? eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6XsIL0jIBI
> I am not convinced you are what you claim.

Knowing where to look without colleagues or steeping in the field is difficult. When teaching people to code, I often run into the same issue: assuming people are good at googling, or know what Stack Overflow is.
Mmm, depends on what “failing” means. Everyone makes mistakes, some people seem to be mistakes themselves.
Oh, if it isn't the joys of the capitalist cycle... Let the enshitification begin.
>Were executives concerned about possible risks to people, or were they trying to use (misuse?) the police to establish the conditions for a contract clause or insurance policy?

this kind of just seems like the system work as intended. if you are thinking you need to call the police to perform a wellness check on somebody just for the purposes of covering your own ass, you're probably justified in calling for a wellness check.
> Again, not questioning your motives or anything, just straight up curious. To use your example, any of us can find bomb building info online fairly easily, and has been a point of social contention since the Anarchist's cookbook. Nobody needs an uncensored LLM for that, of course.

When you ask a local LLM, at worst you get no useful info.
When you ask online, at worst you spend the rest of your life in a government black site without any chance of due process.
anxiety does come from within tho. It is caused as a consequence of contact with the world we live in, but the external world does not cause anxiety in itself, it's a response and it can be diminished with practice
The libraries out there lack the breadth and maturity of some of the other ecosystems (as a simple example).

Or at least they did for some of my corners of the world.
bleep and boomkat are good for electronic music.
Where did the myth of Sam "not being technical at all" come from?

Patrick Collison seemed satisfied with Sam's tech chops [1]. If that isn't enough of a vouch, god help the rest of us.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Is-Sam-Altman-highly-technical-Has-he-...
I got it running by replacing

`https://gitlab.bixilon.de/bixilon/pixlyzer-data` with `https://github.com/Bixilon/pixlyzer-data`

in src/main/java/de/bixilon/minosoft/config/profile/profiles/resources/source/SourceC.kt
It makes no sense because nobody but Sam and the board knows what actually happened.

My guess is that they arrived to an inflection point. The company was on the cusp of taking an investment which would have valued it at 80 billion. One of the board members mentioned that self destruction would have been in line with their mission of safety for humanity. It seems like at some point you have to ditch the "we're doing this for the benefit of humanity" act and act like a profit hungry machine with a startup CEO going balls out. In this case, "balls out" won. The board was way too late. The AGI escaped with the creation of the for-profit company.
For a demonstration of what hypixel is, Technoblade has some great videos. My favorite being The Great Potato War saga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qjnDd1rsII
>Whatever can be done in C in this case can be done with Python

This mindset is why, in a future not far away from now, we will have 20GHz 512-core IoT widgets with 8TB of RAM that still take 4 seconds to turn the lights on.
Real-time improvisational interaction between computer and musician [video]
Nice achievement!

With upcoming multimodal foundation models, there will be many more robots with increasing capabilities soon. The world of robotics will look very different just in the next 5 years.

Some announcements:

China’s plan: “…China aims to be ready to mass-produce humanoids by 2025.”
https://www.therobotreport.com/china-plans-to-mass-produce-h...

Tesla Robot: “…it would be low cost and available to the public sometime between 2025 and 2027. ” https://builtin.com/robotics/tesla-robot
It feels more like spin to distract people from the insane board coup drama.
nothing to do with capitalism. people just don't want to directly pay for music
I've only read the series once, >20 years ago, but I thought the opposite. To me it started out good but ended weird and stupid (I admit I remember almost no details though, so can only give the impression I'm left with). I've read other books I thought much better than any of them though.
yah, it fired that server
As someone who took 165 through Fenton[1] from I-10 to I-49 weekly for 5 years, there's money to build a five-lane federal highway to serve logging, agriculture, and military use, or more cynically for a legislator to say "I brought $XX million in federal funds home this term". (165 is also a hurricane evacuation route, and Fenton is only 12 miles up the road from I-10, this is the typical evacuation demarcation for a major storm. That's why swaths of it are more than two lanes. Further north and between towns, it narrows to two lanes.)

In either case the liability of towns or the well-being of the people who live there do not factor into design decisions of villages whatsoever.

A footbridge doesn't serve anyone in power, and nobody locally would use it. A tunnel in south Louisiana, even that far inland, is logistically stupid even with good intentions.

1: I was born and raised in the Louisiana terminus of 165, which is only a little larger than Fenton, and Fenton is only one of about a dozen such small towns on that route.
Independent client (ie, not a patch on top of the Mojang client) with working physics is actually a sort of holy grail in the third party minecraft development community.

Very few implementations ever reach that level of maturity. Everyone and their mom gets the networking/keepalive/inventory stuff working. Mature clients maybe get gravity and basic movement working. A single digit number of implementations have gone farther than that.

Physics is the least documented corner of Minecraft. Effectively everything about lighting, entities, the map format, and the network protocol is well documented without having to dig through the decompiled source.

Not so with physics. No two physics implementations look alike because:

A) The Java Minecraft physics engine is a pretty tangled mess to begin with

B) Each implementation represents a unique attempt to research and re-implement that mess
Only somewhat related, I've been wondering if you could use zero copy networking with io_uring to send the same bytes over and over. Say you have some data that needs to be send to the different clients (imagine maybe it's a video game sending updates to players), from what I can tell you should be able to create a "fixed" buffer with this contents and re-use it between calls in the ring. Not only would this be zero copy, but you also wouldn't ever need to touch the data at all to send it after the first time. (normally, zero copy is more like 1 copy, since you need to copy it in to the kernel allocated buffer even with zero copy).

My understanding is that there's some contention from the locking involved though which can make this not scale well, but maybe that could be avoided (e.g., maybe by trying to have per core buffers used by the kernel, although I'm not sure you'd have any control over the kernel threads).
One of my clearest memories from childhood is being in the back seat and seeing a store called "Drug Store", and wanting (but feeling too afraid to) tell my parents that they should tell the police about it.
> These decompilation projects are not using the distributed game binary to derive the code in their ports directly

That is the definition of decompilation. What are they using as input, if not the "distributed game binary"?

> The source code generated from this process is not Nintendo's.

This is just claiming the consequent. The output of my magical code transformation method is also not Microsoft's.

> Different from taking Windows ISO and jumbling it up into a rude goldberg machine and claiming it as a new work.

Yet that is exactly what decompilation is...

What distinction are you trying to make here? If I translate it to a different language, it is OK? That's as absurd as it gets and still basically strip all software from copyright.

> Do consumers agree to a end user agreement that specifies they cannot decompile the game?

For the record... yes.
But without the excavator operator, can you not cram more autonomous excavators to get more work done? Seems like sufficiently good sensors would allow them to work in each others safety zones for parallel work.
Does the developer market show any signs of life?
Right, have you tried to port all the C++ libraries to your toaster?
Fr Francis Ching, possibly the only blind Roman Catholic priest in Canada, explained his setup on iPad. Note that this is an older video from 2015. (I cannot find his current setup at the moment.) The key points in the setup are enabling voice over in iOS and getting a set up earbuds.

https://www.facebook.com/francis.ching.731/videos/1646247715...
I really enjoyed that show, but I have no confidence that production assistants weren't gallavanting about at night acting as gremlins.

Clarkson is first and foremost an entertainer, and I'm sure he'd agree with that assessment.
I mean, back in the netheryears when we only had chroot on Linux and no “containers”, we would often compile tight statically-linked mini filesystems that only hosted a single application like Apache (potentially with PHP support baked in). I don’t see a technical reason why we can’t still do this.
Could you elaborate a little more on the “ChatGPT’s recommendations” part? Do you mean asking ChatGPT how to build or something else? I have 0 clue about AI/ML as well. I feel like the world has left me behind and all I know is REST APIs and some basic GraphQL.
Anyone know how to actually download all the albums you have access to?

There's not like a "download all" button...

EDIT: Whoops, missed the extension suggestion in the actual article. RTFL...
"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is" - John von Neumann [1]

Saw this quote on an art blog showing SEMs of diatoms [2]

[1] https://butdoesitfloat.com/Diatoms
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatom

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the original link is now redirecting to github.com, seems like low on capacity. downloading that single file should work now I guess
How much help do they want? Would you want them re-ordering your life to fit their standards?

It can be hard to let go of you parents and let them have an independent life.
why Beckman Coulter Life Sciences supported the development of Swish, an extension of Chez Scheme

Having worked at Beckman¹ from 1978-2022, I strongly suspect that the support of a Scheme-based system was due to the educational background of several of the senior developers in that group of the Life Sciences software development team.

¹ Beckman Instruments
-> SmithKline Beckman
-> Beckman Instruments
-> Beckman Coulter
-> Beckman Coulter acquired by Danaher 2011
-> Beckman Coulter Capillary Electrophoresis business moved (2013) to AB Sciex (also a Danaher company)
You can't really prevent state level actors unless you go full azure information Protection (labelling and encryption of every doc) and review every audit log and have each employee justify each access. Most people don't want to work in such an environment.

They can just pay off someone in security or IT and there you go.

They don't seem to have done this here but they will if they don't get in another way. I'm sure. What we call insider threat is basically every spy agency's MO since history began.
Yes, as a specific example, if the HDMI sink wants DSC, maximizing the quality (minimizing the compression ratio) fundamentally cannot be done without knowing the end-to-end bandwidth.
I'm always uncertain what formats to use if I were to download my digital library from Bandcamp. It seems like at least FLAC, OGG, AAC versions of everything would be pretty mandatory, given how different music players' support is, plus the for archiving. During the day I need to switch between MacOS, Linux, Android, and that's an ethernal technical sudoku...

Any other versions one should take themselves (say one of the MP3 variants), that have any tangible benefits?
Ask HN: Anyone want to have an HN AWS re:invent meetup next week?
Hi folks,

I'll be attending AWS Re:Invent next week and would love to meet up with any HN-folk. A couple of options:

* anyone is welcome to come to the FusionAuth party (details + RSVP here: https://fusionauth.io/aws-reinvent23 ; they are my employer )
* we could crash the Redmonk beers at Atomic Liquors https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1717242116009873817 Wed night (same night, longer timespan, off the beaten path)
* something else? Maybe a breakfast or lunch gathering? (pls comment if this option interests you)
Cloudflare as an AI Play. An Interview with CEO Matthew Prince
...FLAC seems like the winner for your requirements, no?
As opposed to the serious people running OpenAI?
Database encryption? YAGNI
A manifesto: the next era of third spaces as crucibles for meaning-making
If you grab at least the FLAC you can do any other conversions yourself later
Interesting thought. What is this based on?
I mean, why would people just not want to directly pay for the music that they enjoy?
I bought a CD from an artist (The Burning Leaves) through Bandcamp. Even though the artist lives, like 500m from me and I could have just asked her. Just to give Bandcamp my business and their cut to help them along (also it would have been weird).

I've discovered so much through Bandcamp that I would have otherwise not known about, and bought so much I otherwise would have pirated.

I think it's the help the platform help the artist thing that gets me. It means nothing in the end.
Why does everything ultimately have to get sold to big greedy corps? OK the answer is probably simply money as it always is. I guess I just don't want to understand, when it comes to products where it is safe to assume they were a labor of love, born out of passion. You don't build Bandcamp to make money, you build it because you love music.
Blender's peers are products like Maya, 3ds Max, Modo. Go give them a spin and tell me about Blender.

The domain is much deeper than photo editing and it appears to defeat an entirely accessible UI. Blender has kept pace _with its peers_ as a world-class 3D package.

I don't think GIMP comes anywhere near to passing the same test. But, Blender has been showered with money and other support.

What surprises me the most is that there has been no big rally for a real FOSS answer to Photoshop. Animosity toward Adobe is _strong_ and has been for a long time. There's no reason there couldn't be a convergence of moneyed interests in a competitor.
> I don't know about you, but if someone gave me $55m to make a TV show, I'd like to think I wouldn't blow $6m of that betting on the stock market.

The article does claim he lost that, but then claims he made more back.

It claims Netflix transferred him $11M, he tried played markets and lost then speculated crypto and more than doubled the money, then bought toys, and was still up:

Netflix wired Mr. Rinsch’s production company $11 million... Rinsch transferred $10.5 million of the $11 million to his personal brokerage account at Charles Schwab... lost $5.9 million in a matter of weeks [then later] transferred more than $4 million from his Schwab account to an account on the Kraken exchange and bought Dogecoin ... this one paid off: ... a balance of nearly $27 million...

At this point, he's up. Then the spending spree "tab came to $8.7 million", but that still leaves more than the $11M.
actually the rewrite seems not to be compatible with forge or whatever. It is not depending on original minecraft code. Still on jvm.
I have been at three different companies in my career and while I know that's not that many, I can only job hop so much and I have at this point simply given up on believing that a company with good culture can possibly exist. And if it does, it's only like 5 people tops and it'll break down if/when it tries to scale.

Every leader views his workers as replaceable feckless layabouts, front line managers are the designated whip-crackers with far too little actual power, middle managers are stressed out fear-driven creatures with both little real authority AND no whip to crack over the workers, and leaf-node workers are depressed tired cogs in a system that cares tremendously little about them and cares increasingly less about even pretending otherwise, especially post-layoffs.

And yet the software still needs to get written. I cope by just doing what I can, not trying to do anything the system doesn't support me in doing, and making as many friends as I can along the way. And putting my family first every single time.
There is nothing that forces at least a single copy. You could do some processing and write directly into a buffer registered to the kernel.
The other part with Louisiana cops, especially small-towners, is that they have little to no desire to be accurate. They'll radar-clock an 18-wheeler going 70 in a 55 and pull over the car with Texas plates and a LSU Alexandria student parking sticker that the truck was passing, because it's easier to catch and the kid or their parents won't dream of contesting the ticket.

Likewise, locals who do speed through on the regular have a Fraternal Order sticker or a relative of the DA on speed-dial knowing the cop who issues that ticket will conveniently fail to show up to court and the fine will get dismissed.
Twostraws/Inferno: Metal Shaders for SwiftUI
I don't mind C and I don't think it's a security apocalypse, but if I were to use something more recent, with new ideas, I'd probably play with Crystal.

For my needs where a GC is not a show stopper, it's Go all the way down.
Those people will not be well represented by a democracy.

Blind people, cripples, and fetuses barely have a voter base.

You also need to specify in what direction someone is not average. (You meant below average). Wheras my point was just more general. Weirdos wont be represented, whether that means exentric inventor, amish orthodoxy, cripple, or homeless person.

I personally was responding to the other person who was asking why some people come to see the government as an enemy. Assuming they know that for some it is just culture, or indoctrination, I offered a relatable explanation for why an intelligent person might feel impeded by many laws.

I assume given their question they already know and believe democracies are better to live in than other forms of government lol.
It got coverage at the time here’s one story in the middle of it: https://www.texastribune.org/2011/02/03/the-rolling-chain-of...

Here’s a deep dive if you want the nitty gritty details: https://www.nerc.com/pa/rrm/ea/Pages/February-2011-Southwest...
> If that works for you, DM me

At which address? You're not listing an email on your profile
I want a comprehensive directory of all indie/underground music where I can buy physical or digital copies of the music directly from the artist.
I need to know that 80%+ of the money goes to the artist.

Is there any other platform than bandcamp that offers this?
The more you can encrypt up front, the less hassle from SOC et al next year. Minutes now will save days later.
How do you discover stuff through bandcamp? The follow feed? Their front page articles? Search?
Wine 8.21 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
It absolutely is not free to provide infrastructure and front ends to share videos. It’s not watching ads due to blockers that forces ever increased strategies. It’s an arms race of sorts.

The next boogeyman will be stockholders who want increased value on a product with a mature market segment.
Yes, caught hypothermia is pretty standard English. If he was sending weird conspiracy emails and getting interventions, he’s not a well man.
I had no idea about this! Thank you for linking!