skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Liked by certain interest groups and not others.

Despite really disliking Elon as a whole, one thing I like about him is that he expresses himself like a human being, contrary to most of the HR/PR/D&I drones who claim he's an antisemite now.
Assume you're writing an editor for JSON files. Don't think many users of that editor would be very happy if you change the order of the attributes in their json files, even though technically it's the same...
A sponsor/steward of the conference like the PSF certainly can ask for their Code of Conduct to be enforced

and that already happened by allowing them to call it pycon, as doing so requires permission from the PSF trademark workgroup. and one of the conditions is having a code of conduct.
While I understand your point, I think it's important to note that the significance of this research isn't just about the technique used, but also the implications. The ability of AI chatbots to "jailbreak" other chatbots and bypass built-in restrictions is a significant finding, as it raises serious questions about AI ethics, security, and regulation. It's not just about spamming until a loophole is found, but about the potential misuse of AI technology and the need for more robust safeguards.

Furthermore, the fact that this method was successful against some of the most advanced language models like GPT-4, Claude 2, and Vicuna, underscores the urgency and importance of this issue. It's a reminder that even the most sophisticated AI systems can have vulnerabilities that need to be addressed.

Scientific American, as a publication dedicated to communicating science to a broad audience, is an appropriate platform for this kind of research. It's important that both the scientific community and the general public are aware of these developments, as they have far-reaching implications for the future of AI.
They're not profitable. The business model will be selling machines to cryptographically adverse intelligence agencies and maybe some biotech companies if the quantum computers actually work.
The article says that Google and Apple know about the push notifications being shown on the phone and governments can make these companies turn over customer data.

I'm not sure if it only covers (for example) the unified notification service on Android or whether Apple and Google know of notifications that don't make use of that API. It's not clear from the article.
"In a statement given to Reuters, Apple said that Wyden's letter gave them the opening they needed to share more details with the public about how governments monitored push notifications."
Ha! What a pivot that would have been! And the story behind it!
Is anyone surprised? Why would there be pen registers, and tap and trace for phone calls and email, but not for other traffic? The ability of governments to do secret surveillance of such metadata is well established in law and jurisprudence, variously in various countries.

It is a Weird Nerd Thing to believe that old laws can't apply to new computer thing.
If you were able to do this, and you also had control of the person's ISP/cell network (not unusual for the threat model here), then one thing you could do is interfere with their communications, "shadowbanning" them from their friends/contacts. Say you used a particular app, like LINE, to speak to one particular friend who your "benefactors" didn't want you speaking with, they could drop connections between your device and that app's servers whenever they intercept a push notification from Google or Apple targeted to that app on your device. Effectively preventing the two parties ever communicating.

Depending on specifics, it seems it would be possible to do this cleverly, so the app still thinks it's connected, but just never receives these messages.

I'm not an expert on this, it just seems a plausible possibility. Best effort response to your question! :)
Just for the record, in Java (JVM) this is done (routinely circa first 'bean containers' of ancient history) via interfaces and class loaders. Using Java I can have n distinct versions of a class each implementing the same interface in the same process as long it is the interface reference that is passed around.

> immutability

Make a case for immutability being so critical to HMR. How does an immutable data allow for swapping of code.
The Bifurcation of Application Networking
Yeah, it was a much more symbiotic relationship until the 1970s. During WW2, the rail companies would ship war goods and troops to and from, part of the deal to get those public funds for rail expansion. In the 1970s the rail companies were struggling due to interstate trucking and so they were deregulated in 1980 and privatized (reasoning: only the free market will determine if they should fall). The privatization of the US rail system then made it easier for companies such as Conrail at the time, to raise their rates and increase profits. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staggers_Rail_Act
> Sure, ad revenue is an important method of funding media

No it isn't. It's a horrible method of funding media because as you correctly realized it ends up lowering the quality of that media. This isn't just a problem with YouTube's implementation, it is an inherent aspect of ad-based funding.
Once upon a time, we wanted something nice but couldn't afford it. Someone gave us money but we wanted the money faster so we complained and publicly shamed the people who gave it to us. The next time we asked for money they didn't help at all and we don't know why. The end.
Veteran editors Notepad++ and Geany – good and Electron-free – hit milestones
This, to me, is the more disturbing part of the article:

> In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information," the company said in a statement. "Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests.

What is the point of transparency reports if they don't include major vectors of government surveillance?

IMO such gag orders shouldn't be legal when applied to dragnet surveillance. If you want to gag a company from notifying an individual they're being surveilled (with a warrant), then fine. But gagging a company from disclosing untargeted or semi-targeted surveillance, especially if it involves American citizens, seems like it should be unconstitutional on free speech grounds.
You can already to that with termux, XSDL and some scripts. No virtualization needed.
Sarcasm often doesn't do well here (for good reason, there's a signal:noise expectation) but it's still surprising that sibling comments are taking this seriously.
>Anti-BDS laws

These would seem to contravene the First Amendment.
I don't see why. The system operator knows to whom the message is being sent. They get a court order, ordering them to track messages sent to enumerated entities and they have to comply.
Their specific issue seems to be elmu's anti-union stance. May be a different union, but that's what solidarity is. So possibly their specific reason is solidarity.
I so hate when people put words "only" and "metadata" in the same sentence...

They know you rang a phone sex line at 2:24 am and spoke for 18 minutes. But they don't know what you talked about.

They know you called the suicide prevention hotline from the Golden Gate Bridge. But the topic of the call remains a secret.

They know you got an email from an HIV testing service, then called your doctor, then visited an HIV support group website in the same hour. But they don't know what was in the email or what you talked about on the phone.

They know you received an email from a digital rights activist group with the subject line “Let’s Tell Congress: Stop SESTA/FOSTA” and then called your elected representative immediately after. But the content of those communications remains safe from government intrusion.

They know you called a gynecologist, spoke for a half hour, and then called the local abortion clinic’s number later that day.
How to Email an Invoice After Payments Are Complete
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_That
It’s likely the five eyes allied nations.
Ghostwriting's Plagiarism Problem
Exactly. Metadata is how you go from pwning the phone of one dissenter to learning about their whole group.
"democracies allied to the United States." - includes India too.
I'm not so sure about email being more reliable than a phone number. I believe more people have a contract with their cellular provider than with their email. Free email accounts could be banned with no recourse.
No, it's the other way round. You setup this DNS server to serve e.g. evil.com on the global internet.

Then if you can control the client, you can just do regular DNS lookups for <longstring>.evil.com, that goes to the victim's DNS server, and that DNS server forwards it to this DNS server, which saves <longstring> (many of them) to a file.

Edit: looking closer, this isn't exactly how this tool works, this DNS server assumes the client can send directly to this DNS server, I was assuming it didn't need to do that (and if it sends to the victim's DNS server instead, it's a lot harder to block). If you used it as I thought above, the output filename would just be "evil.com".
Dude, did you read my point? I said it was still bad.
Is there a theorem/law of AI for this: Every AI system is at least vulnerable to data is has never seen before.
I think the best balance is somewhere like 90% / 10%. So you spend 90% of the time finding and capturing opportunities, while 10% you spend on risks for sanity checking.

Is 90/10 an optimist?

I was diagnosed with depression 15 years ago and at the time also subscribed to this pessimist = realist idea or in some ways intelligence. And there's a lot of validation on the internet for that idea "intelligent people are more depressed and pessimistic", so as a teenager I thought that this is the right way to be because I wanted to think that I am intelligent.

I think I'm very glad that I managed to escape this sort of mindset. To provide most value I believe I should look for opportunities and the ways they play out positively, while spending a limited amount of time to make sure I'm not wasting my time.
Their business model is selling dreams of future profits to VCs. Or, if the VCs are knowledgeable enough, the business model is selling dreams of future profits to unsophisticated investors at a future IPO.
I guess it was not only the fusion that interested Soviet scientists. I remember attending lectures on parallel computing there, where Vladimir Voevodin was telling the story about Soviet computers in 1970s calculating ICBM flight routes 30 minutes faster than American ones. Not sure if this story was true, but there was always a significant military component in research.
The system was designed around the idea that people take voting seriously.
Sadly, we're not there. We're in a country where 1/3rd of the population thinks a rebellion against the government is needed. Not because they are being downtrodden, not because the government is taking their food, not because of mass slaughter by the military...nope. They want a world where only whites are allowed to own property, where there are strict rules for everyone except themselves, where other people's lives and choices are subject to their big magic beliefs, which are somehow better and more accurate than the 3000 other religions on the face of the Earth...somehow.

Voting is problematic when voters are either apathetic or worse, callous, like little children mad because they were denied 3rd dessert.
I would expect that grants should skew towards where the need is greatest. Countries with more resources shouldn’t need grants as much.
I mean wanting to put people in jail for using their first amendment rights is kind of big deal.
This is probably one of the most egregious "in rust" projects I've seen. Should I care about the performance improvements over something like Python in a program where I'm going to spend 99.999% of the time thinking? Should I be concerned about memory safety in other chess implementations written in C? The only thing Rust seems to add over Python or Go for things like this is making it harder to hack.
I 100% agree with this, even as much as I am someone who spends a lot of time on meta-improvement: the equivalent of sharpening one's blades is more like keeping all of my devices charged. I have to do this or the device fails me, and it is time and effort that is at times annoying, but can itself be optimized, and there are some tools that need this work done less often, leading to interesting trade-offs.
For the app it is probably just done server side.
Agenda 2010 sound like something Putin would fund to weaken Germany.

(for those who don't know, Schröder were a Putin stooge):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der
#191,000 in the waitlist. Can't wait to try it in a couple months hahaha.
Better to be a fungible labour on the assembly plant than be without the work.

The alternative for eastern Europeans always was to go to UK or Germany and be a fungible labour there.

Current strategy increased quality of life in EE countries. So far that in main cities in Poland housing prices are 4000-5000 USD per square meter.
"sanction the whole country to death because they don't agree with policies of people in power." 'Sanctioning to death' is perhaps not reasonable but, still, there should be standards for dealing with countries. Let us consider a different example. Without standards you end up with buying cheap goods made by children who work 12 hours a day on Saturday combined with driving your own child to violin lessons on Sunday. Not to mention that the children who work 12 hours a day are competing with properly paid adults in other countries.

To get back to LGBTQ rights, there also should be some standards. The standards should perhaps not be as high as western nations would like but they should exclude the worst places in the world. The story sounds like the PSF had at the time not yet decided what standards should be in place for subsidizing conferences. They should correct this omission because keeping a conference organization with this kind of uncertainty is not good.
Like I said, get back with me when the Mozilla Foundation has done a fraction of what Google has done in furthering our knowledge of computer science.

I would also consider which Big Tech company you're fighting. Last I looked, Google wasn't cited as the cause of a significant uptick in US teenagers committing suicide and being plagued with mental health issues. I could go on, but in the realm of Bad Actors in the land of Big Tech, Google is actually one of the least problematic entities.
You are taking it out of context. Following that he said Eff the police 420 blaze it and took a bite out of a baby.
AWS's Ban Reselling Reserved Instances: What You Need to Know
State control is very reliant on the state being competent and trustworthy. Feels like that's the exception rather than the rule, but it's great Norway's done it.
Interesting! I haven’t done much digging but that is a much larger share than I was expecting.
Some places I've looked in the past: Crown Heights & Prospect Heights, Flatbush-Ditmars, Prospect-Leffert, Astoria, Sunnyside, Financial District, Ridgewood, Bushwick, "East Williamsburg", LIC, Harlem, Hell's Kitchen, Lower East side (sometimes, though it's also getting some of the most overpriced apartments in the city for what you get).
Well established ban, since you cannot discriminate anymore or voluntarily associate anymore as a business
> Is the law actionable?

Yup. I'm pretty willing to defer to what human rights organizations and the country itself say about their laws.

> Weed is illegal in the Netherlands.

Which:

1. is something that should change if it's an inaccurate reflection of the country

2. is nonetheless a far discussion from (what should be) a fundamental human right

> If you don't know the reality of the situation then maybe you shouldn't act at all because you're ignorant about the entire thing?

The Python Software Foundation didn't act on enabling this conference; that's precisely why the OP exists. Your argument, if you're defending the OP, is instead that we should act on our supposed "ignorance" in the face of laws which say one thing and internet people say another thing.
Here's an example i have running on a pi with a temperature sensor. All data is received as json messages in mqtt, then stored as is in a postgres table. The view turns it into relational data.

If i just need the messages between certain temperatures i can speed this up by adding an index on the 'temperature' field in json.

create or replace view bme680_v(ts, message, temperature, humidity, pressure, gas, iaq) as
SELECT mqtt_raw.created_at AS ts
, mqtt_raw.message
, (mqtt_raw.message::jsonb ->> 'temperature'::text)::numeric AS temperature
, (mqtt_raw.message::jsonb ->> 'humidity'::text)::numeric AS humidity
, (mqtt_raw.message::jsonb ->> 'pressure'::text)::numeric AS pressure
, (mqtt_raw.message::jsonb ->> 'gas_resistance'::text)::numeric AS gas
, (mqtt_raw.message::jsonb ->> 'IAQ'::text)::numeric AS iaq
FROM mqtt_raw
WHERE mqtt_raw.topic::text = 'pi/bme680'::text
ORDER BY mqtt_raw.created_at DESC;
Seems like a pretty open and shut case of unconstitutional restriction of speech in the US. Especially when you consider the wording of the Apple communication saying that they can talk about it openly now that it's public knowledge.
Nah, it's just so much quicker to speak across a desk relative to sending a slack message.

Let's be honest, I love my current team and company, and we have enough overlap (5 hours difference in the worst case) that it's relatively straightforward.

Like, in-person is substantially higher bandwidth. Remote has lots of things that make up for it, but let's not pretend there's no difference.
They are dedicated high-risk investment vehicles.

Think of them as research centers in search of grants. People investing in them accept a short/medium/long term loss, betting that it will turn a large profit if it works (i.e. if one entity wins over the problem of noise).

High risk and reward.
Interesting, I use both Messages and a few third-party messengers, and I wouldn't say that Messages is integrated more deeply with iOS, in the way that e.g. Safari and Mail were for a long time (before you could re-associate http and mailto URLs).

The share sheet just shows my most-frequently-used messengers, as well as direct contact names for my most important contacts, no matter what messenger they're actually on.

The only thing I can't yet do on my third-party messenger is initiate messages from my Apple Watch, but that's presumably due to a lack of a native watch app more than anything.
The business model is raising VC money and using it to do R&D that will show results good enough to be able to raise more VC money...

Striking similarities to biotech.
DRM already uses a trusted execution environment (TEE), which provides more robust isolation than a VM. Thus I doubt needs of video streaming apps are the main motivation.
From what I understand only a small portion of Tesla workers are on strike. It's mostly union members working at other companies and institutions who are striking. E.g. the postal office workers refused to deliver Tesla's mail which is baffling to me.
Nvidia CEO: Digital Biology will be the next revolution - one of biggest ever
Standard Template Construct
https://huggingface.co/blog/gaussian-splatting

Think of this as a LiDAR visualization on steroids... A point cloud of information that can be used to render "The Blob".
It's actually the answer ChatGPT should give, with the citation to back up the quote.
California will be too costly for me. I am a work-life balance person and I don't think I want to get into something where it means employer owns my hind. And a lower salary in California, if at all I have to go by popular understanding, won't be enough to save and live. Because I want to come back, I don't want to settle abroad. Anyway that is too far in the future. Thanks for the tip. Have friends in that state so will definitely visit.
Fair point, I think it just looks silly to me because I'm not used to it and in this modern age it seems a bit quaint. The other thing is that sometimes it might not be immediately obvious that Matthew Perry is the same person as Metju Peri. And since today everyone is exposed to english and other big languages, knowing the original spelling can be considered a part of basic literacy.
If it sticks out onto the street or the pavement, can you call the non-emergency police number to get that guy a ticket?
I couldn’t find the physical switch on mine (the tv is hung to close to the wall and just below it is our mantle) but there was a GUI option under the settings “privacy” area!
While optimism bias can lead to poor decision-making and under preparedness for potential setbacks, it is also considered a positive bias because it contributes to resilience, motivation, and well-being. It helps maintain a positive outlook, set and pursue goals, and cope with adversity.

Seems like a clear net win to me.
Tangental:

Are there thermoelectric modules less prone to failure than Peltier modules?

They have an awfully high failure rate in every project I’ve tried to integrate them into
Maybe so, but it seems clear that the surveillance goes both ways: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-09-23/us-dip...
How does his behavior on X contradict it? I'm not following.
Timing would have been important here, if I recall correctly.

I believe the Apple II was a 6502 chipset, which was common then. They diverged into Moto 68k series, while the rest went towards 8088.

It's debatable, in my mind. Without Apple being unique, they wouldn't hold the niche they do today, but at the same time, had they made their OS Open Source, I suspect they would have had a great deal more Desktop Adoption, since for most, the barrier was/is price.

$1200 Macbook or $400 laptop?
*I know the technical differences, but a large portion of the buying public doesnt

For me, I work in Windows a majority of the time, but being a career IT monkey, what I believe is the right tool for the right job, so it's not always Windows. :)

I have old macbook that I use to stay up on the OS, at least as far as it can upgrade. I have a home server, with some windows instances, a couple *nix instances, etc.
TFA also mentions Danish truckers. I’m not sure what the current state of Swedish land transport workers is in this regard, but given even the Swedish postal service has been refusing to deliver Tesla’s mail, I doubt they’ll be the weak link here.
Because his fans love it when he does
It’s already pretty much the law. You can submit your complaints to the Office of Anti-Boycott Compliance [1].

Foreign governments can’t force government contractors to comply with boycotts. This bill AFAIK simply closes the loophole of Palestine not technically being a foreign government.

[1]: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac
"Still bad" strongly underestimates the problem. Metadata often is more important than the data as demonstrated in the above examples.
From what I understand Tesla employees in Sweden do not want to join a/the union. The IF Metall union I believe. So these actions are unions trying to force people to do something they don't want to do. If people are happy working for Tesla without a union (stock options, flexible work rules, etc.) from my (American) perspective, why should they be forced to create an additional administrative system you would have to deal with.

Are all people represented by unions in Sweden? If so, this situation makes more sense to me. It could be seen more as preserving the culture of Sweden than just an act against one company. If not, why are the unions not ganging up on other companies?
I wouldn't be surprised if Elon designed these as a getaway vehicle should the poors decide to rise up.

Need a Mad Max car to take you to your escape rocket - now all of his endeavors make sense!