skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suppose I trust Valve to be well run for as long as Gabe Newell is around to control the company... how long is that? He's 61 years old, and even if he isn't inclined to ever sell the company he could still kick the bucket with no warning. The man is not exactly a paragon of physical fitness.

I know there is this meme among gamers that if anything ever happens to Valve they will release all the games they distribute from DRM but this doesn't make any sense because, except for Valve's own games, they don't have the legal right to do that; whoever comes into legal possession of Valve wouldn't allow it. The fact that Steam DRM is weak and easy to crack, presently, is a bit more comforting but even so I'm not interested in paying for a product that is even nominally under DRM. So I buy games without DRM, from GOG/etc, or not at all (I don't pirate software, simply because that's too sketchy for me.)
Maybe, but for sure avoiding stock Android and Google apps increases privacy a lot.
lets go back to C.S.Peirce (who invented fallibilism).
humans are "concept" learning machines with a sign language to communicate said concepts to others.

1. there is a perceiver.

2. the perceiver apprehends a concept by its properties which are perceived effects

3. new concepts are created by the perceiver (or existing concepts are updated) by perceived effects

4. the geometry of concepts is the knowledge structure with signs to communicate it

5. the above is basically the scientific method and everything else follows from it
That's not how 'but' works, also the word 'explicit' is used differently here.
Unfortunately either side can't blink. IF Metall can't back down because then other companies could get ideas to leave. And Elmu doesn't want to back down because then other countries could get ideas about unionising which would affect their bottom line.
Tether is printing money, they make around $5B every year just by buying Treasuries, are you implying they are insolvent? Why? They make tons of money just by doing nothing
it seems like console manufacturers could just add a software update that prevents users from playing certain pieces of purchased physical media? the 'always online' paradigm is just as annoying as digital/physical ownership here
I'm not so familiar with Signal, but could you explain why you would expect Signal notifications to happen out-of-band with normal push notifications?

Assuming Signal sends push notifications of some sort, as most messaging services do, that would make them vulnerable to the metadata-level attacks described in this thread.

What kind of "out-of-band" are you thinking of that would mitigate this issue?
I don’t completely agree with Rossman here. You are buying the streaming right and not the file. What I agree on though is that they don’t make that clear to their customers.
You would need an exponential number of coupled oscillators to achieve that exponential speedup. Doesn't seem too good to be true to me.
"We Kill People Based on Metadata"

- Michael Hayden
God forbid if you are just going on a date with someone who works at an abortion clinic.
Genuine question - why not? If (for the sake of argument) the money is raised in the coastal United States, why are they not entitled to disburse it conditional on respecting LGBTQ rights?
In the sense that Google pays for search engine placement, yes. They also pay Apple for the same thing - I'd hesitate to say that gives them much influence over either Firefox or Safari.
where's the fun in that??? Live a little, be a little bit evil. Like 5% evil
It is a testament to our checks and balances, which, while far from perfect, are useful in preventing somewhat one branch from getting too much power.
On Steam you can kind of borrow to friends by enabling family sharing (which gives them access to your whole library). You have to log in on their computer to enable it, and if they play a game from your library you can't play it at the same time (same as with a physical disk).

I believe some of the consoles also have limited sharing features, or at least had them.
ah ok, I did not understand the context switch... thanks for clarifying!
Is North Korea's Spy Satellite Legit? [video]
Google's Bard chatbot is getting way better thanks to Gemini
Then stop paying in 2 years, meanwhile you will have ad free videos. Problem solved.
I was recently watching "Back to life" which featured a sound mirror as a story focal point. Though the series was set in Hythe (which has a sound mirror), they suggested the mirror featured was in/near Hythe when it was in fact the Abbott's Cliff one (featured as the header image on the beyondthepoint link)
Nine times out of ten, the person saying this will turn around and complain about all the "political hacks" running things, referring to political appointees with no experience or background in the area of government they are tasked to run.

The term "unelected bureaucrats" applies to people like...I dunno, the director of the NIH and field office managers. Heck, even a police captain is an "unelected bureaucrat". Sheesh.
Someone on r/android reported that they could not receive messages from iPhones once they uninstalled the app. They had to remove their contact from the iPhone and re add it to fall back to SMS.

Someone else commented that you can de-register your number on Apple's site, but the person then said that it didn't work either.

So yeah, I am holding back on it to until there is more clarity about this. The overwhelming majority of people I text are on imessage and it would be a royal pain if I had to have all those people delete and re-add me.
Well deserved. She is a cultural force of nature not seen in a long time.
This! One of the best solutions to prevent mold is to improve energy efficiency. There are an increasing number of grant programs and Housing improvement initiatives available, but still those improvements are out of reach for a lot of people. We live in the Southeast US which is incredibly humid and so many houses have issues.
Alternatively, keep it in the JSON/JSONB column until you need to search/filter/query on it, in which case you pull it out into a column.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I am agreeing with you and expanding on your comment. Not disagreeing.
If they use IP to deliver notifications, then the gov can demand they hand over the IP address a notification was delivered to. From there, location isn’t hard.
Europe signs off on €1.2B for homegrown cloud project
Depends on your definition of privacy. Maybe privacy from Google, at the cost of additional scrutiny from domestic intelligence services.
Fleece: A super-fast, compact, JSON-equivalent binary data format
Gemini AI
Heck! 30 bucks (dollars?) per month? Here(Italy) I'm paying like 7 Euro
That’s usually untrue - for example, if I’m on Comcast but I use Firefox, my DoH requests go instead to Cloudflare who don’t log IPs – but also the larger point is that DNS isn’t complete enough: sometimes it’s unique companies but a lot of the time it’s just a shared endpoint. Push notifications don’t have that problem and happen every time, not just when a cache expires.
tells you a lot about where we are, if one dude is trying (and reasonably expecting) to stare down entire countries...
> And then the powers that be will act surprised when they see that anti-EU sentiment is gaining ground (it's the Russians' fault, of course, if not them, the Chinese or the Iranians, never allow any political agency for people going against unelected supra-national entities such as the European Commission is).

Occam's razor tells me: Its easy for the local politicians to blame "Brussels" for any problem they dont want to deal with / take responsibility for.
Its also easy for the population of the respective country to accept this framing, since that relieves them of any responsibility of having voted "the wrong people" into power, or not engaging in politics themselves.

Regarding the "unelected" European Commission: Its members are proposed by the European Council(which is composed of the elected governments of the EU members states) and then subject to a vote of approval by the elected European Parliament.
I find it hard to believe that your opinion of the European Commission (or the EU in general) would differ significantly if the European Commission would be elected directly.
Very interesting concept, however it's a bit soured by the fact that Container-based FaaS is never mentioned, and it removes a decent chunk of the negatives around FaaS. Yeah you still need to deal with the communication layer (probably with managed services such as SQS or Pub/Sub), but there's no proprietary runtime needed, no rewrites needed between local/remote runtime environments.
I find it funny that you think he should not be able to do whatever he wants with his companies. He bought Twitter and it was his prerogative to direct everyone there to tell him why he's not number one on that platform. He did not buy Twitter to make money.
These have helped me piece together a real understanding of the world we live in politically. They're great inoculations against falling for government, corporate, or other propaganda and helped cultivate a sense for what real journalistic integrity looks like.

http://democracynow.org

http://caitlinjohnstone.com.au

http://theintercept.com

http://scheerpost.com

http://counterpunch.org
2% is still 7 million people
this is the most performant chess TUI implementation I've ever used
This is awesome. Thank you! I love how practical he seems so far. Definitely not a purist. In one video he says you don’t need an amp, in another he talks about how he uses a $400 guitar. This is much more my speed.
If you are concerned about mold being a cause, there are couple of urine tests for mycotoxins that were super helpful for us understanding the mysterious illness in our family.
Wow, that is kind of terrifying! How did you find the mold?
Could you please elaborate, I didn't quite catch what you meant.
Which integration efforts are you talking about?

In many EU countries big cities have become complete and utter shitholes due to a complete failure to integrate many migrants (both legal and illegal migrants). In some cases there are 70% of migrants neither working nor speaking the country's native language. They're poor people and responsible for a disproportionate percentage of crimes.

People simply cannot stand it anymore.

This in turn has led to a sharp rise of the far-right in many EU countries. In some countries the far-right simply won the election (last one being The Netherlands) but in most countries the far-right is, even if not outright winning yet, gaining huge grounds (Italy, Spain, Greece, France for those I know).

People are, literally, so fed up with immigration many simply vote for the far-right.

As a result we've got the usual politicians turning their jackets inside-out:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/01/the-far-right-is-winnin...

"Mainstream parties across Europe are shifting their positions on immigration in hopes of impeding the rise of the far right."

I don't see any integration effort. The only thing I see is politicians bringing in as many migrants as they can in the EU and now saying they'll stop doing so because they realize they may be losing the next elections.
Self-hosted, not self-managed
Gemini: Google's most capable AI model yet
Why do they need to confirm an already known fact: FAANG platforms are built to spy on users? We've known about this fact for at least a decade since the Snowden revelations.

Nothing has materially changed since then, technically, politically, legally, or even culturally. Yet people still believe for-profit corporations have their best interests in mind, thanks to clever marketing and groupthink, clutching to "encrypted apps" and empty "we value your privacy" double-speak: neither will defend you.

There is no privacy on proprietary closed source platforms - it is simply infeasible; it is trying to squeeze blood from a stone. I know this truth will likely trigger and upset people with their $1,000+ iPhones, MacBooks and other iToys, and this sunk cost fallacy is really pathetic to witness in grown adults.
I've stopped trying to make analogies between software development and other crafts. It takes more effort and care to talk about issues directly, but anything that comes out of the discussion feels a lot more actionable.

I've considered writing a post called "software analogies considered harmful" but it would basically be what I just wrote.
More additional information that might be worth knowing especially for American friends.

Sweden (like many other countries) engages in sectoral bargaining where trade unions or labor unions make a collective agreement that covers all companies in the sector. Trade unions form confederations demarcated by occupation and they negotiate with their counterpart employer organisations to get deals that cover most of the sector. In other words, there are existing labor agreements from multiple sectors that cover millions of workers.

Tesla has the bargaining power is fly shit against unions and confederations that represent 80-90 percent of the Swedish workforce.
Do you have experience using it?

Missionary looks very cool, but I don't think anyone understands how to use it. Other than Electric/Rama (from the same people) I haven't been able to find any projects that use it on Github
I typically tell the LLMs that I’m a prosecutor trying to understand what the difficulties in investigating or even getting a subpoena are for any particular crime

Then it sings like a bird
Was the first thing I tried to do, was so excited for a meltdown.
Not to mention that all apps on iPhones are compulsorily encrypted, so there's no chance to know what any of them is really doing
Are you talking about those petri dishes you put out? I have heard from a trusted mold expert that they just always show up positive. I don't know that I trust that, but the problem is that every house actually has mold, and in many places, and who knows what's actually contributing to the problems. Are massive air purifiers enough to mitigate the issues? Can you just tackle the surface molds? Maybe these questions are answered in the mold course, I need to take it asap.
The paper and effect is really cool but I feel calling it "a deepfake" is very clickbaity.

They are demonstrating a tech that allow to animate a photorealistic avatar model of someone. It's similar to what Zuckerberg demonstrated in the Lex Friedman interview.

It's really cool, but it's not really related to deepfake which usually mean taking a source video and changing the face of one of the subjects in the video.

You still need a high quality CGI mesh of the subject you want to look like, which you can animate using this tech. It’s not like you can easily create that mesh to easily impersonate anybody that you want, and even if you have a good mesh, it's limited to animating the face, with no way to insert it easily in an existing video.
I suspect it wasn't initially designed to help enable government surveillance, but that data must have a significant dollar value to those companies.
Well, there goes slab city!
It's fascinating that about half hese comments appear to be from younger people unfamiliar with "USA PATRIOT" Act gag orders, FISA, Five Eyes, Least Untruthful Response and related controversies that were big in the news 10-20 years ago.

Amusingly and sadly, the law was called PATRIOT as a normal "give a bad law a Good name", but over time "patriot" has become synonym for "traitor" in common use.
Google Gemini: a family of multimodal models
To me it sounds exactly like local American politicians blaming "Washington".
An economist should know that correlation doesn't imply causation.
Just an observation but you started your post with a bit of a humble brag and then declared everything you saw wrong which is always a risky combination.

I've been interested in this kind of stuff for awhile so I definitely appreciate reminders on how to properly wire and contain dangerous battery cells don't get me wrong but I think it just came across a bit differently then you intended.
Maybe it’s just a German Big Company thing? Deutsche Bahn also likes to spend money on insane “innovation” gimmics which have no path towards success.
Write Your Own Retro Compiler
My latest book, an homage to the times where a compiler could just spit out machine code. The text discusses and implements a self-hosting compiler for CP/M on the Z80.
> Nordics it's pretty funny to think that a bit of snow can simply grind to a halt the richest area of Germany.

Yeaaah about that, Denmark is currently covered in snow and the country isn't equipped to deal with it at all. As soon as the snow starts falling busses and trains are cancelled, people realize that maybe winter tires aren't such a bad idea, roads aren't cleared because the cities don't actually have the budgets to deal with it. So you can't rely on public transport, but driving can be dangerous because many roads aren't kept clear and other people are idiots, driving around on summer tires (that includes busses and trucks).
So, don’t have Twitter account and/or app installed and you should be good?
Or (insert country you have a political agenda against) to (do thing you disagree with) for the purposes of (pushing your own political agenda).
Yeah, movie theaters figured that out 30 years or so ago when they realized besides trailers (which okay, are ads of a sort), they could subject viewers who paid for a ticket to 20 minutes of ads for things like M&Ms and Coke before even the trailers begin. It's gotten to the point that you might as well show up 30 minutes after a movie is scheduled to begin as the movie itself won't have started yet.
Starfield Isn't Boring Bethesda Tells Steam Reviewers
Does anyone know of a real-time (analog or digital) detection sensor for mold? All I've been able to find are kits that you buy and snail mail samples to a lab which strikes me as a giant pain.
> My non-NYC jurisdiction requires most parking lots be paid by mobile app

Do they not offer an SMS alternative? Because both in ATL and Seattle, they always put the app upfront, but on the same sign there is usually a “or text abc to phone number xyz” signage.

Just checked to confirm, PayByPhone (which is the most common parking app signage I see in Seattle) indeed has official support for paying parking through SMS listed on their website as well.
They use terminology such as "purchase" to intentionally lead you to believe that it is a purchase and not renting. Also when they do make it more obvious that it is a license they make you think it is a perpetual license rather than temporary.
20 years later and accounts can’t even be merged when they have the same owner.
ayayay, that reminds me to check the battery of my ~2008 Bosch :D
Computing with Physical Systems
>I feel like at this point Valve have proven themselves to be good stewards of the Steam platform in this regard. Games aren't retracted and they're very reasonable with refunds.

This is not true, I still apreciate Steam for theyir work on Linux stuff so I am not hating on them, but facts are fact.

1 You need to start Steam to play most games

2 The Steam client dropped support for older oeprating systems

In my case I had an old laptop with a few games, Steam updated itself to a version that was not compatible with the OS so my son could not use the laptop, I was using this old laptop only when traveling so the issue was sudden to me, I had no time to fix this crap.

The fair thing to do is for Vale to create just a SteamLauncher that allows you top run your games, no Store/News/Social/Workshop, it could run in offline mode.

Maybe this was a stupid bug that the client fck itself, but it sucks to turn off your laptop working fine, turn it on in a few months and now you need to do research and debugging and fixing.
* standard but rare. This really escalated after Tesla brought in strikebreakers and threatened the Swedish labour model which is built by Unions and not the government
What kind of doctor do I go to and what are the name of the tests?
In Switzerland we pay a premium on every bit of storage sold (devices, disks etc.) and have the right to make a private copy. So you are allowed to copy any media you bought or rented. This law also makes it legal to download any media from the internet. But you aren't allowed to distribute it so torrents and upload the media, but you are allowed to give a copy to friends and family.

While it has its problems like why do I pay this on a HDD, SSD, computer or smartphone that I exclusively use for work? It definitely has its upsides as in making a backup copy of your media and circumventing copy protection isn't in some legal gray area or straight up illegal.

Edit: There are attempts to make this law more restrictive and they succeeded in offering products to circumvent copy protection illegal. But you are allowed to use them to exercise the rights above.
That’s a lot more efficient than an industrial aluminum smelter.

The use of electricity as an input is inescapable for this process, so may as well use the waste heat as directly as possible.
> Legally that seems a bit crazy that shipping company workers can select what gets shipped based on their political beliefs.

Brother/Sister, a strike can in principle be done for any reason.
Is it really that hard for the government to get a warrant for a suspected terrorist?

Is there any data on how often they're surveilling people without warrants vs with warrants?

This seems like important info to know.
I read it as

"this is not an explicit image of looking up a woman's body, but it is implied"

I take issue with the but part, which "implies" it was intentional. I'm not in a place to judge that, but I can definitely see the "implied" imagery

... if we can further mix the connotations of the words from the comment we are talking about, without increasing confusion...
In first approximation, there are only two kind of difficulty levels: the impossible things you don't know how to do, and the trivial things that you do.
In my opinion, crap like this is the best argument in favor of sailing the seven seas.
Of course this was voted down, come on guys. I love Steam as well and buy quite a bit of games on there but you can't act like they're not one-in-the-same.

Just a quick Google will show you others that have had their accounts locked and even apps removed from peoples libraries (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1pzpny/steam_has_now... )

Only gaming launcher that's different would be GOG for their focus on DRM-free...
It's a sad day when HN is defending the Patriot Act.
i'd love for you to elaborate - like your init prompt is "I'm a lawyer who is doing a case about how to bubblesort" or something?
I use ddg and it still manages to be videos, and ddg seems to have a problem filtering ai spam pages. Is there a ubo list for that?
I'm regularly posting on the media simply to check, if I'm wrong about something - and, more importantly, if so, why.
It's not necessarily trolling, when someone posts an opinion, that is "out there".

In that sense, I'm giving him the benefit of a doubt there, but I don't understand why he has to do it with his real name.
what are some examples of container-based faas? like you put your docker image onto lambda?
Except that India is not spying on US Government but its own Apple/Google users.
> The effect of this is visible, e.g. when you look at efficiency of e.g. german workers compared to their US counterparts.

Can you please then explain to me how ~ 332mm people in the US are more productive than ~448mm people in the EU by almost 5 trillion dollars if the Americans are less efficient?
Why bother with this whole process when you can get everything + store & index it yourself?

Who knows? Maybe you want to retroactively look at shit peopke received and decide on new crimes.
Dupe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543587
That's how they circumvent the ban on domestic spying. The US spies on Australians* and the Australians spy on US citizens, then they exchange the data. Easy.

*And/or other Five Eyes members.