skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with any of this. People in those areas should be able to hold their own conferences, and should get questions on funding answered in a timely manner. The point I wanted to make was that there are valid reasons to not hold (or fund) a conference based on local laws.
p.s. it appears (speaking as an Iranian) that there does seem to be a overall cultural element that has contributed to this matter: information is highly compartmentalized (and likely has always been) in Iranian society, down to the family unit with parents carefully curating what aspects of family history is discussed in front of adults or when children are present. Per this theory, the information was there but the channels for its dissemination were selective and regrettably all bound up with state structures that went belly up and not maintained in the larger collective oral lore in accurate form. So for example, Shahnameh clearly mismaps known historic figures for mythical ones so some form of preservation was maintained but this was couched in occult symbolism that is accessible to a much more limited readership.
And sometimes barely tolerable, but usually fine.
For your immediate issue, if you're getting charged for services you did not order and Comcast won't make it right, take them to small claims court. You don't need a lawyer to do this. The odds are very good that Comcast will make it right when they're notified of the lawsuit. If they don't, they'll probably not show up and you'll get a default judgement.

For the larger issue, I don't know. Since Comcast is the only real option where I live, I've been wrestling with this question for years.
How do you define vulnerability? To me, jailbreaking an LLM is ostensibly a way to make it behave _correctly_. As opposed to _intended by the provider_. It's like breaking DRM: nothing of value is lost.
This is in no way unique to the government. The private sector operates on basically the same rules, but with even less oversight. CEOs meet up for golf and make a secret exclusivity deal, shareholders buy a company and then force their other companies to do business with it, a company buys the company it used to buy from so they get a better price than their competitors... At least when politicians do it, you can track it and at least try to do something about it.

> All while the real economy disintegrates and concentrates in fewer and fewer hands

Exactly! Even "the real economy" (by which I guess you mean the part of the private sector that doesn't take any government tenders and subsidies) is consolidating in the hands of a few unimaginably rich private organisations. This isn't a problem of governments, it's a problem of "free-market" capitalism. If you try to compete, they try to buy you out and if you refuse, they use their near-limitless pile of money to essentially buy your market share and drive you out of business.
That's intriguing - you can't make thin sheet of metal rounded?

I know precisely nothing about metal design, but why can't you bend it? Steel pipes can be rounded and be made of thin-ish metal.
> But that should not be a reason to not fund conferences in those countries

How would you feel about the PSF (or any other society you sponsor) helping conferences in places you'd not be able to attend because you simply would not be safe there? I understand there are good reasons for funding conferences in countries that would be hostile to many PSF members, because not all people who'd attend to such conferences agree with the intolerance (by law or by custom).

> "In our country, the law forbid XXX"

I would not wish the PSF to be seen as supportive of such behavior.
Totally. I get bank statements, paychecks and living history ready when I go into apartment hunting mode. I transfer around $4-5K to my checking account to be ready to get a bank check in a 24-hr turnaround period.

Optimal Stopping alone makes Algorithms to Live By worth the read
That one is unsafe since it supports powerline ethernet. Powerlines should not be in a shower. Other than that, it is supposed to be looking after babies. It is unsafe to leave babies in a shower, water or not, camera or not. Also there is no clear usage description, how to mount, how to pair,... I can't believe it passed CE certification.
Well it's pretty unlikely such a law would stand up in any court even small claim's court
Serbia non-aligned militarily?

I'm not sure that is accurate.
Remember to get your heatpump cleaned
Continually posting on social media about topics unrelated to building cars, rockets, satellites is all about influencing public perception of yourself. So clearly he does care what people think of him and actively spends time managing that.
Oh nice! I didn't realize those kinds of effects were possible without SH
> Seems like a pretty open and shut case of unconstitutional restriction of speech

I wish it didn't cost a lot of money and years of your life to beat these over-reaches.
I wonder if this has anything to do with RISC-V and them needing TrustZone equivalent functionality in that environment.
>That is not true, eastern Europe has strong labour laws.

Maybe compared to the US, but not compared to France, Germany or Nordics.

>World leading companies were moving to eastern Europe because it was cheap. Both land and labour.

The "cheap-ness" of labor is also related on the availability and strength of unions, lack of bureaucracy and red tape, taxes, worker's rights and social benefits, not just on their local supply/demand and purchasing power.

Having had strong unions in EE that could strike on a whim and demand better conditions, wouldn't have made it very attractive to foreign investors despite the lower wages.

In fact, the constant strikes in the early to mid '90's is what kept foreign investors away from Romania causing it to fall behind most of its post comunist neighbors at the time.

Foreign investors are also looking for stability, not just cheap labor.
So you'd be fine with paying for a subscription?
There are plenty of countries that you get algebra in elementary school. Saying it's only middle school is overly dismisive to the massive amounts of damage to mathematical education in the country this policy is doing.
Given the US has a 4th Amendment-free zone within 100 miles of all national borders in the name of national security, I expect the same justification and level of oversight here.

https://www.aclu.org/documents/constitution-100-mile-border-...
Not having a PR team is cool but it’s really just a doorway to seeing how most of these folks really are and it’s just desperately wanting to be seen as Tony Stark.
At the start of article:

> Cosimo didn’t just spend his money on private mansions and cellars full of wine; he became one of Europe’s most prominent patrons of the arts.

In the rest of the article there is nothing about giving money on to actual thinkers. When you just "Find the synthesis", "Play the ball, not the person" and "Move outside in" and try to extract ideas from thinkers without giving them a lot of money, you won't have "the medici effect".
The evolution of AI, especially as it becomes more powerful is going to be interesting.

Eventually the biggest threat to AI will be other AI if we assume that AI capabilities are going to be come at least as good as human intellect. Once you get AI designed to self learn to attack, and ones that self learn how to defend (and the mix of both) and remove humans from this learning loop it's easy to see how things could go off the rails.
That's interesting. I used to regularly donate to FSFE but their weird relationship with FSF prompted me to stop recently.
"And why do you feel so strong about these policies? It's not like they're going to ask if you are a children when you arrive at the airport."

Just to also point how the grandparent comment's remark kind of misses the point.
> I wonder if this is a case of American intelligence outsourcing the surveillance of American citizens to foreign intelligence. If that is indeed the case, I’d expect a quid pro quo.

Yet it is the US government who revealed it: "In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and Apple (AAPL.O). Although details were sparse, the letter lays out yet another path by which governments can track smartphones." - https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments...
How can you get more SMS spam on one platform than another? With SMS they're just blindly sending to your phone number, your SIM could be in any device. They don't know what platform you're receiving it on.
Unless that coffeeshop is in Sonnenallee
They are research organizations that hope to be bought by a larger company once they have something that works. It's the same model as in biotech. Startups do the research to then get bought by the few giants who don't do much research themselves. Almost none of the startups are even trying to become a real business.
And yet still they're the most popular sites, why hasn't everyone moved to an objectively better solution?
Not free if you pay for it.

Not the point, but I felt like I had to mention it.
Given how many large chat systems are based on XMPP, it should be possible to select a set of standard extensions to interoperate with each other. Sadly, I don't see it happening.
If the Manufacturer doesn't put security systems in place, situations like this are more likely

https://news.sky.com/story/fraud-officers-arrest-one-in-dawn...

> "The company supplies engine parts to several major airlines in the UK and abroad.

> In August. the Civil Aviation Authority announced it was investigating the same company for the "supply of a large number of suspect unapproved parts"."
Because that grows his popularity with other groups. Same tactics Trump uses.
Others have mentioned the timing attacks but also payloads are not encrypted unless the app developers remember to build that. This linked essay discusses both threats:

https://blog.davidlibeau.fr/push-notifications-are-a-privacy...
The point is that many successful YouTubers wouldn't be broke if they stopped making ad revenue from YouTube, because they make most of their money elsewhere anyways.

Which means they would continue making content
Yes, you must understand that there are countries that have different cultures and that’s just the reality irrespective of being right or wrong. If you don’t feel safe, don’t go. I don’t go to Arab countries at all and my life is just fine.
If notification is malformed or erroneous it should be invisible, shouldn't it?
I was talking about actual woodworking hand tools.
Last time I checked, as an apostate, I'd have a death penalty waiting for me in many countries that operate under such religious laws.

Also, if they know I am an apostate, and they ask me that at the border, I'll have to choose between death because I am an apostate, and death by a likely more painful method because I am an apostate and I also lied to a customs officer.
Grandma Moses and the Art of Aging
Exactly. Stockholm experienced 10cm of snow last week and now ~-15°C (well, -20 in Uppsala) and the trains are in total chaos
The EU economy is doing so great, we can surely afford to introduce even more bureaucracy around doing business - perhaps even a new, separate committee that all business has to go through!
I have. And it's a preposterous statement. And the Serbs that I consider my friends would readily agree with that.
Letters can be a lot of things.

Sometimes letters are about love, sometimes they're insulting, sometimes they're ambivalent, sometimes they're begging, sometimes they're threatening. So letters can be a lot of things, but they're fundamentally letters, and some letters are open, like this one.

The authors here called their letter an open letter because that's what it is. If you think it's just a whining email, that's a you thing, that's your own personal interpretation of the letter. I personally would not call it a whining email. It's a letter with people raising their genuine heartfelt thoughts.
Yep. Most likely to try and catch Chinese spies or other countries like India, Iran, Russia, and others as they continue to go after dissidents abroad.
Given a lot of journalists and activists use encrypted communications to be able to do their job without being unduly or unjustly persecuted (yes, the bad guys use them too!), and 12 US State Attorney Generals just signed a letter and delivered it to the major news agencies (NYT, CNN, Reuters, AP, etc.) that warns of any "support to terrorist organizations" and specifically points out Hamas, but is not very clear on what "support" or "business relationship" means (sending a camera to do a report where the press is not allowed due to Israel's complete control of the media - echoes of US journalist access during the Iraq War), and puts them on notice. Nothing is safe from Big Brother, anywhere, any country.
Although I'm a full time Vim (terminal) user, I like Geany a lot for the occasional visual scanning through of files, doing search and replace (which I feel is somehow easier in GUI text apps), or copy and pasting (which can be quirky for vim in the terminal).

If it would have just a bit more IDE-level plugins, for things like syntax highlighting, and a vim mode, it would be perfect!
CM&C MSU masters -https://cs.msu.ru/sites/cmc/files/docs/sopostavlenie_magiste...

MIPT - https://mipt.ru/english/edu/master/

There’s everything, including traditional CS topics (compilers etc), AI and quantum informatics.
“Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić met in Belgrade with computer engineer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.” And didn’t you see the photo and the video (time mark ~32:00) in TFA?

Also from https://apnews.com/article/wozniak-apple-serbia-passport-ele...:

“The convivial Wozniak, who teamed up with the late Steve Jobs to found Apple in 1976, arrived in Serbia ahead of Dec. 17 parliamentary and local elections, in an apparent boost for President Aleksandar Vučić and his populist right-wing governing party.

Wozniak said he feels “so lucky” to be in Serbia and that he and his wife Janet, who is also getting a passport, will from now on “promote” Serbia. He said he will become a Serb living in the U.S.

Vučić said at a joint news conference in Belgrade that “it is an honor” for Serbia to deliver the passports to Wozniak and his wife.”
right, but those reasons could have been considered when the permission to host an event called pycon was sought and given.

i'd like to assume that once i have permission to organize a pycon, then funding is a mere question of how much, and whether the expenses are appropriate, not whether it should be funded at all.
It is driven entirely by battery life. Android used to allow 3rd party apps to receive push notifications, and it caused battery life to be terrible compared to Apple. Forcing a single path was done for that reason.

Btw, here's the telegram team complaining about the change: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas...

Facebook abused this a bunch. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/01/uninstall...
It's a case of grift by continual fundraising on (mostly) false cybersecurity fears. There are no really useful quantum computers and there won't be because it's mostly a scam. Feel free to downvote me but if you search hard enough, past the marketing hype and billions continually poured into research you come to this truth.
Latvia does this today.
You can model any conservative system with stable equilibria this way (i.e. anything with local minima in the potential). As another poster pointed out, just do a Taylor expansion around the equilibrium state, and you have a locally quadratic potential, i.e. a harmonic oscillator.

Explicitly, WLOG the potential is `V(x) = V_0 + V_1 (x-x_0) + V_2 (x-x_0)^2 + ...`. But the first derivative is 0 near a minimum, so V_1 = 0. The constant V_0 term doesn't affect dynamics, so choose it to be 0. Then the higher order terms go to 0 as x->x_0, so you have `V(x) = V_2 x^2` near any stable point.

And it's pretty obvious that lots of real-world phenomena 1. do have stable states and 2. do oscillate around them before settling, so the model is pretty good for lots of real-world systems (with the error being that the system is generally not conservative, so eventually it settles into the equilibrium because friction is stealing the energy).
Just because you are paying for a service doesn't mean that companies won't double dip or triple dip by either showing you ads or selling your data.
> So, if someone attends with their partner, are you suggesting they "just... not" show any affection towards them while they're there? No hugging, no hand-holding, no pecks on the cheek? No resting a head on a shoulder?

Yes, I expect that absolutely. We also expect that behavior from students in high school during class. There's a time and place for things, and attending a conference in a country where such things are considered illegal is neither.

> That kind of assumes that the hosts rules are at least somewhat fair. If straight people can act naturally around their partners, but people with other sexual preferences have to police all their normal behaviours all the time, lest they are impolite enough to break the hosts rules, should those rules really be considered worthy of respect?

I am terribly sorry and I get how you feel and yes, this is unfair, but those are the rules made by the country. If a software conference is the hill you want to die on for your values, I respect that, but please also respect that most people just don't care or are fine with respecting the rules, so the conference can take place with or without you. And no, there is no magic country that has no unfairness towards any group, there will always be groups that have it easier in some countries than in others, so in my opinion it's fair to conduct conferences in different countries. There will never be 100% fairness in the world.
No, but I also don't expect Google to change, I want their business model to become untenable so better alternatives can get a larger market share. If content creators don't think they get anything out of enabling advertising on YouTube, then they'll stop or move to other platforms which are not based on providing algorithmically generated feeds with interspersed ads based on user profiles. I hate advertising; I think it results in perverse incentives which promotes short-form generic low-effort entertainment. I therefore want to actively steal compute resources from companies whose business model is based on online advertising without giving them ad impressions and pay content creators that I like via other means such as Patreon.

I also just think 99% of advertising is bad taste which makes me mentally exhausted and puts me in a bad mood, so I just want it out of my sight.

Yes, I could pay for YouTube Premium, but that would go against my own interests since I would be financially supporting a platform with perverse incentives for content creators.
> Kinda how we don't use toxic ammonia as a refrigerant.

Ammonia is definitely still used as a refrigerant, just not in consumer equipment. It’s commonly used for ice rink chillers, at least in the US and Canada. Not sure about Europe.
That didn't prevent lots of commercial airliners from flying with potentially dangerous parts but a software restriction would have.

> "In August. the Civil Aviation Authority announced it was investigating the same company for the "supply of a large number of suspect unapproved parts"."

https://news.sky.com/story/fraud-officers-arrest-one-in-dawn...
Eh, this is much too simplistic of view.

Yea jailbreaking your instance so it says "fuck the police" is one thing.

Jailbreaking an LLM so if it looks at some particular picture and if that user happens to have XXX variable set it transfers $1,000,000 from their account to your account is a different story.

These can both fall under the same wide umbrella.
There’s also ProWritingAid. You can buy a lifetime license if you don’t want another subscription.
You're trying to find a rational reason for impulsive behavior. There is no "why". He thought the anti-semitic meme was funny/right without thinking too much about it. Then he got mad at advertisers for, as he thought, trying to rein him in.

If you want proof that Elon isn't too concerned about making good products, try using Twitter/X without being logged in. The experience is significantly worse than before the takeover.
That depends on the company, some are making money by doing research the same way universities do (by applying for grants from governments). Some are essentially selling hype (we're building this cool thing, get in on the ground floor). Some are selling expertise in classical computing as consultancies, especially those focussed on optimization. Some are probably straight-up lying to people.
It's wild to me how many people writing native software opt to sandbox everything with docker these days
In Japan there are maps of old caste demographics that are used to exclude categories of people based on where they’re from or their families are from from working - companies have been caught using versions of these maps that are illegal for businesses to use in hiring. They are legal to print or exist without being in use by business.
I'm trying to have my meetup rotate venue, so it's encouraging to hear that it works for you. Thanks for sharing!

Do you rotate on a fixed schedule? Or based on venue availability?
Goodbye cold boot – how we made LoRA Inference 300% faster
What's happening is what's happening everywhere else: there are different Serbians, some are great, some are nice, some are not so nice and some are terrible.
How much of reality is a stable system under equilibrium?
> Dealing with mold is pretty easy, just get everything dry.

No, that's not enough. Dormant/dead mold can still cause air quality problems. In most cases damaged material needs to be replaced. In some cases it's sufficient to isolate the damaged material to reduce its impact on air quality.

I'm from Finland and it seems that we treat mold much more seriously compared to other countries. I don't know if Finnish people have a genetic or environmental effect that makes people much more susceptible to get symptoms in moldy buildings, but it's super weird reading about how other countries treat mold...
Domino that called exit(); for Twilio's Programmable Video
Ask HN: How to subscribe for specific repeated stories on HN
Does someone have a tool to subscribe for repeated stories like "Who is hiring" or "Yearly AMA by YC lawyer Peter Roberts"?
That doesn't sound like a strike at all. They presumably are still working and getting paid their wages

Legally that seems a bit crazy that shipping company workers can select what gets shipped based on their political beliefs.

Next the power utility company workers are going to refuse to give Tesla electricity