skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you can make this argument - that the government should support technologies that emphasize privacy. That could possibly lead to some funding. Creating a policy to support a single vendor, however, is something that I think would be a bit odd for the government. Government spending is supposed to be devoid of bias where possible - you can't just give a contract to someone you like or think is cool, you need to show that it's in the taxpayer's interest (ie: they are cheaper, usually).

To say "we are going to support a browser with 2% market share because we like it more" would therefor be a really big deal. I think a far better avenue would be for the government to provide funding for privacy technologies directly, in an effort to increase their marketshare, and thereby making support of those technologies trivial to justify without any potential issues of bias.

The thing is, the government already does this. The majority of TOR's funding comes from the USG, for example. I'd suggest that maybe the government could fund Mozilla's non profit, to a degree.

This is all based on a premise that Mozilla is worthy of that funding. Is Mozilla really the privacy champion that it touts itself as? Would funding be contingent on anything else? If the government is so determined to prioritize privacy, why not Brave? Or some other entity? Or a new entity?
Meta should be afraid.
Agree on relatively strict self-selection being a necessary component for any thriving community. Also, most (dare I say all?) of my friendships have been formed not because I stumbled across an interesting person I decided to bond with, but because some external circumstance (living situation, hobbies) made it so that we were in close contact over an extended period of time.
> Google are using our browsing and video watching data already.

Why do you think that data is valuable? Because it can better target ads to you. Ads that you then block. Making the data worthless...
Yeah, that's true. Others have said it elsewhere in this thread, but I wish identity was more independent in the fediverse. If federated services just used OAuth or something, your identity could be portable between Mastodon, Lemmy, and PeerTube, and you could use several instances without having to manage a bunch of different accounts. Heck, you wouldn't necessary _need_ accounts, they could just be implicitly created for you when you posted on a server.
no comment on the paper, but there can be a big bias towards optimism if the evolutionary profit of winning is great and/or the cost of losing is low.

It isnt hard to think of situations where this would be true.
I think the current YT Premium model is more fair, creators get paid more the more you watch them. I'm glad it works like this instead of pandering to donations. Anywhere I've looked, I've seen the donations model been a complete failure. Usually I am the only person or one of less than 10 that donates to an OSS project with thousands and thousands of users. People just don't donate to things that are important and useful to them. Likewise with YouTube, nobody will donate to well-made instructional videos or original news reporting, but they will donate to e-girls or gamers because they want to feel associated with those people. So I'm glad that creators are not forced to depend on donations.
Any examples specific to this post?
Sam Bankman-Fried raised $1.8B, yet we know how that ended even with lawyers available, so... We'll see.
>I did the learn a language a year thing and that helped me get a job as a compiler writer.

>And I was able to leverage that into becoming a quant as I put in the hours to relearn all the math I'd forgotten from school.

What was your first job role?
Fun fact: if you check the Talk page of controversial pages you can frequently see all the public interest information the extremely biased editors are trying to suppress. Recent example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2023_Nashville_school_sho...
>they don't get to complain that people stop being interested in contributing when their Truth By Committee design blows up in their face.

Enough people remain that I doubt they are really hurting for more contributors. But yeah, that's a good part of why more technical or niche topics can be spurious.

But at the same time, less people visit those pages so it hurts the site less.
> The dream of open computing from the 90's and 00's era of open web and P2P is dead. That was a glorious but brief moment that greed has all but overtaken.

It’s not completely dead, there’s still the Steam Deck.
Bubble sort is just fantastic to wind up arrogant algo-nerd snobs because you can bust it out for anything that is likely to be already sorted or nearly so and it dominates. Algo-nerd snobs rarely seem to take into account that knowledge and understanding of the input is the most crucial part.

Do it in job interviews only if you've already decided you're unlikely to want to work there and be sure to be smiling and humble as you demonstrate this to their peers, noting that the pure forms of the algo, selection sort is arguably better (Knuth!) but this is unlikely to be an interesting practical concern and totally dwarfed compared to readability of the code.
> However, monetizing the trove of data they have on you is not enough for them.

How do you think they're monetizing your data? By definition it's not by showing you ads, you're blocking them. Also not by using the data to make their paid service so good that you'll really want to subscribe, since you obviously are entitled to the service for free.

The reality is that your data is worthless, and your use of the service is a liability rather than an asset. And you'll be equally worthless to any competitor, which was the GP's actual point.
No worries! From what I saw on the Labor Board site for the case their FOIA request system is being upgraded so no one can request more details at the moment.
18 years later and still waiting for the management/programmers behind Sony's trojan rootkit to face criminal charges for hundreds of thousands if not millions of violations of the CFAA.
They keep changing the design of the app for the worse, just nonsensical stuff. Like how many UX design people do they have? Cause clearly they're just changing stuff to make themselves feel useful. The heart changing to a plus, what the fuck Spotify?
> The Roman empire was almost entirely built on slave labor and exhortation of the territories they subjugated.

This is a description of virtually every ancient society in this region. The Romans were simply the most dominant. And as a rule, they were fairer and more tolerant than the entities they replaced.

> By that point the Celts weren't as much of a threat as they were 50-100+ years ago.

The argument that the Gauls were no longer a threat merely because it had been 40-something years since the last successful invasion of Roman territory doesn't make much sense.

Nothing fundamental had changed. The Romans were stronger by then but the territories bordering Gaul were still at risk. Vercingetorix himself attempted an invasion of the Roman province as a response Caesar's invasion.

> In any case the Roman senate didn't really consider the war to be necessary in that sense.

This is really accepting ancient propaganda at face value. It's more accurate to say that Caesar's opponents in the senate claimed it was unnecessary as a means of attacking him politically. Most of these same Roman senators used the Roman army in much the same way when serving at governors in the provinces.
This could be simply a coincidence, but it's possible they already relax their system based on user behavior.

I used to watch YT through the TV app until the ads became insanely outrageous (six unskippable ads for a 10 min video, including two ads one minute after the video has started). Then I just bought a mini pc and plugged it in the TV and everything was fine (except for HDR that for some reason doesn't work) and without ads.

Then a couple of weeks ago I opened the YT app on TV and it was actually a much better experience than before: skippable ads, no ads on some videos. As if they're trying to lure me to use it again.
This is such a bad take.

I'd love the easy ability to run confidential computing loads with fine grained control over the data it gets access to. You can do this now on the desktop using SGX (etc) but on mobile it's really hard.

As a specific example of this, it'd be great to be able to run Whisper continually and have strong, system level guarantees about what can read the data.
There's no stress on their servers with Beeper Mini, as it communicates with Apple servers directly.
Many countries have Public Service Broadcasting.

In Australia there is ABC, SBS, Community Broadcasting Foundation, Channel 31, etc,
> many people always ask ‘what do you think Apple is going to do about this?’ To be honest, I am shocked that everyone is so shocked by the sheer existence of a 3rd party iMessage client.

These are two completely different concepts?

I’m aware third-party clients have existed for eons.

I also believe Apple would shut this down.
1. Yeah, even if you don't have 2B rows, your sequence can go past 2B because it's not affected by transaction rollbacks. This is even more of an issue if you're using serializable xacts, which need a retry mechanism. Much better to avoid this problem.

5. I like jsonb as a compromise. You can shove things into there, and whenever that stops making sense, you split things into their own cols/tables. The thing to watch out for is arrays within jsonb; usually not a good practice to join or do anything other than simple set/get for those.

7. Often I'm doing nodejs dev which doesn't really need Docker, so installed Postgres ends up being more convenient. Also means data persists across runs, which you may or may not want. But Docker is a better solution overall, especially at scale.
> The US already threatened to invade the Netherlands a few years ago, it worked like a charm.

It worked...at what, exactly? I mean, leaving aside whether what was in question was actually a threat, I don't see that it has had any substantive effect on the policy either of the Netherlands or of the particular international institution headquartered in The Hague that that was its subject, so I don't see how it can be described as working like a charm, except as a piece of US domestic propaganda (which was its real purpose, of course.)
Hum, other platforms have been doing this for ages

Tracking copy pasted like is an old techniques that also allows them to build a unofficial friend graph between cookie profiles.
If the model is successful, it will be able to predict the artist and song title for music it’s never heard.
> There is no theft when I use youtube because I was never going to click on ads in the first place.

Advertising works on multiple levels, with direct sales not necessarily being the only acceptable result:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchase_funnel
>> bubble sort in a production game engine to keep transparent objects mostly sorted.

A single pass of bubble sort per frame is often enough to keep things in order. And if something glitches because it takes 2 passes it's just a single frame glitch!
If that becomes a problem and they get enough funding, I'm sure they can spend a few days / weeks reverse engineering the functions they need. At this point it just needs some effort, not some crazy research capabilities.
Author here. Cleveland rules.

But yeah, I move around for the sake of exploring and seeing new places, not for convenience. I could, however, see meetups in other cities benefitting from that strategy.
If it doesn’t increase revenue that they can tax at 30% they won’t bother to touch it.
thanks for pointing this out. I hope they extend their `thinking in stylex` page with this info.
I used to work at Google adjacent to this stuff and A) you wouldn't boot up a whole VM for this, on a phone, that'd be very wasteful B) there's much simpler ways to provide the same guarantee.

So in general, just would avoid labeling the quality of other people's takes. You never know who is reading yours
Almost all PC games that utilized Games For Windows Live stopped working (new installs and reinstalls could no longer be performed) when Microsoft shut down the service, and AFAIK there are still a couple games that never updated to remove the reliance on GFWL DRM and can only be played by pirating.

That's a lot of games, including several notable big name titles: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Games_for_Windows_%E...

That includes GTA IV, Street Fighter IV, and Resident Evil 5.
But it often not that simple, anyone who has done cross-platform development can tell you this by heart, it doesn't matter what you do, you must adhere to the lowest common denominator. Interoperability isn't free.
Looks cool! I think there is a huge need for tools like this, especially as AI turns more subject matter experts into programmers who can code a bit of python.

At my company we have recently started using NiceGUI which is a python wrapper for quasars+tailwind and seems like a very similar product. I’ve found it has a great level of abstraction that enables you to do Python only web App development without too much magic, but also lets you sprinkle in some CSS and javascript if needed.
S/MIME.
I dont believe Apple would sue. I think they would just change the protocol to block this from happening.
There is no limit to how living standards can be increased.
If the outcomes are the same you can certainly equate the outcomes and if the intent is the same, such as to limit consumption, then you can certainly equate the intent as well. After the intent and the outcome I don't really see how the rest is anything but execution details.
I don't think the government wants to (or possibly is even able to) get involved in defining web standards. Tracking market share seems like the least hands-on way to determine support as it's purely "pull based" - they follow everyone else's lead, they aren't trying to dictate what a "good" browser is.

The government is generally very slow and deliberate about technology recommendations let alone requirements when it comes to generally available software.
How well do you know your Series A investors?

A long runway, without growth, is a ticking time bomb if VCs are in the picture. Unless you really know and trust your investors... cash out now.
I think you might be right, especially with the heat on them from the EU right now. It's faster to play the technical cat-and-mouse game for as long as possible.
Displaced Aggression
Why add the same functionality to all functions. Doesn't having a single function that handles that. In this case apps.
Vampire Tap Networking
In early Ethernet networks, vampire taps were used to connect devices to a single coaxial cable.

You could add a new device in between physically - without disrupting existing connections.

Here's an actual video of a connector bring made:

https://youtu.be/ehCwqMkAxq0
> Why in the holy hell as the world's governments taken such an interest in the sex lives of their citizens?

You're looking at it too narrowly.

Anything anyone can "take away" from you has power over you. It's a dominance play.

Government controls how you engage in sex.

Telcos control who you talk to.

Media controls what you see and hear.

Automakers control how you move.

Banks control how you trade.

I'm sure there are more examples (look how difficult it is to homestead anywhere), but the point is that in gatekeeping functions critical to our existence, we're always beholden to someone. Capturing two of these forms the basis of a cult. No surprise the Church used to worm its way into as much of this stack as possible; these days it's Big Tech doing the same.
> The US views the ICC as an illegitimate kangaroo court that does not meet the minimum standards for such protection

No, it doesn't, which is why it makes referrals to the ICC. The US just believes that the US, uniquely, should not be subject to any external accountability, because it uniquely can be trusted to hold its own war criminals accountable without such external fallback.
More use cases, including an algorithm to dynamically generate lists of them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37938975
I saw it reported that x.ai was going to get merged with x.com. is this some kind of a way of shoring up the Twitter fiasco?
Hi - This is Chris Barton (founder of Shazam). Sony's TrackID was built by licensing (and later buying) a technology invented by Philips. That tech was invented after Shazam. Shazam was the first to create an algorithm that identifies recorded music with background noise in a highly scaled fashion. My co-founder, Avery Wang, invented the algorithm in 2000. Chris (www.chrisjbarton.com)
Or how about no, and instead of just rolling over and paying for bad behavior, we fight for a free, open internet.

Youtube/Google make enough money monetizing our usage data. Now that they have cornered the market (i.e locking in the users), they are using their dominant position to crank up the prices and enshittify the free experience. That's anti-competitive practices, and they shouldn't be encouraged for that but punished instead.
Shouldn't they have done the verification of those credentials before publishing the op-ed?
The intent is to limit waste not consumption.

There is a difference that you're not seeing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538799
Have you tried django-ninja or FastAPI?
Even if you assume that 50% of Firefox users are falling into "they wouldn't visit those sites to begin with" or "they run a user-agent spoofer" you're basically going from 2-4% to 4-8%, and the trend is clearly negative.
I have elevated blood pressure and what I suspect to be an undiagnosed case of ADHD. I've never made the connection until reading your comment. I thought perhaps it's just been years of doomscrolling that has destroyed my attention span. Maybe both?

I routinely get blood pressure spikes in the late afternoons. It's hard to describe but when it happens I feel like I need my vision to "zoom out", it's almost overwhelming / fatiguing to maintain what I'm looking at. I feel "spaced out" cognitively when this happens.
I suspect the fools making these decisions will the first to be replaced with AI.
Yes. When the old online Dominion lost the license to the Dominion card game, they didn't refund buyers with cash; they refunded the buyers with some kind of digital dollars to spend on their other unattractive products. So essentially every dollar spent on Dominion expansions was lost. Really soured me on the idea of purchasing online board games.
Funny, if I were doing that I'd use a spatial index using oct-trees since I have a fairly optimized one. You find all potential overlaps in O(logN), But to check them all would be O(NlogN). So by your approach it looks like bubble sort wins!
For an N^2 sorting algorithm, I think insertion sort is superior to bubble sort when you want something simple:
http://warp.povusers.org/grrr/bubblesort_misconceptions.html
> Let's permanently dispense with this weird notion that blocking ads is theft.

So what is a better term for unauthorized use of compute and bandwidth?

The terms of service for YT are: watch ads or pay for premium. This is so that YT can pay their bills (hosting, salaries, cheques to creators).

> They're giving a product away for free, and people are consuming it for free; end of story.

No they are not. They are providing a service according to certain terms of service. If you don't like the terms feel free not to use the service.
Nightmarish, my condolences.
+1. Visited Cleveland recently. Really great city y'all have. Noble Beast is fantastic.
The surprising rebirth of podcasts is the only standout in that list.

It's as if blogs became popular again. Though the days of simple RSS feeds with a high signal to noise ratio are probably long behind us. (I know some are still around, but I mean popular in the way podcasts are now).
Nuclear powered shipping seems like a crucial piece of infrastructure in the near future. Alternative forms of decarbonized fuel all have significant disadvantages:

* Batteries don't remotely have the energy density required for transoceanic travel.

* Hydrogen had good energy density by mass, but even liquid hydrogen has middling energy density by volume (way better than batteries, but still less than hydrocarbons). It's also less efficient to produce, compress, and cool.

* Synthetic hydrocarbons are difficult to produce. The CO2 concentrations in atmosphere is very small and hard to capture directly. Biomass is a potential source, but it has fairly low energy density. Actually producing the synthetic hydrocarbons also requires hydrogen as an input, which has the same problems as the above.

Furthermore, nuclear powered ships are already proven technology. E.g. the NS Savannah [1], and various Soviet & Russian icebreakers [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arktika-class_icebreaker
I think you just solved the financial issues for the entire Greek economy
I had been wondering where Beeper's route to profitability was, but if they can get Continuity and AirDrop stuff working with Windows that will be an instant no-brainer subscription for a lot of people (including me), so I guess it works out.
>complete executive dysfunction

Could you describe that more? As in the sensation?
Ah you're right, LATS GPT3.5 is 84 while standalone GPT4 is 87

Given standalone GPT3.5 is "just" 48.. it's less about beating and more about meeting

RE:Good Enough & Feel... very much agreed. I find it very task dependent!

For example, GPT4 is 'good enough' that developers are comfortable copy-pasting & trying, even vs stack overflow results. We haven't seen LATS+MagicCoder yet, but as MagicCoder 7b already meets+exceeds GPT3.5 for HumanEval, there's a plausible hope for agent-aided GPT4-grade tools being always-on for all coding tasks, and sooner vs later. We made that bet for Louie.AI's interactive analyst interface, and as each month passes, evidence mounts. We can go surprisingly far with GPT3.5 before wanting to switch to GPT4 for this kind of interaction scenario.

Conversely... I've yet to see a true long-running autonomous coding autoGPT where the error rate doesn't kill it. We're experimenting with design partners on directions here -- think autonomous investigations etc -- but there's more on the advanced fringe and with special use cases, guard rails, etc. For most of our users and use cases... we're able to more reliably deliver -- today -- on the interactive scenarios with smaller snippets.
Good point; unfortunately I sort of missed clarifying that (it's implicit in the school/kindergarten part).

Forced, especially childhood, interaction may yet be the strongest connector of all.

In a way that's what one sets out to do by becoming involved in a club after all, although it's not really the same as it was...
Russell himself said that construction isn't a version of his paradox, and it depends on there being only one ghostwriter in addition to depending on claims nobody made.

So I don't know what the author actually intended. The train of thought in the article never gets particularly close to anything that resembles a paradox.
Yep I can confirm that certainty doesn't seem to work in a reliable way in Firefox on Android. I could only get it to work by tapping the button several times. Either it's not responding quickly enough, or the input field only works if you tap in a specific spot. The general performance of Fastmail in Firefox on Android is quite poor as well -- despite it being fairly snappy in desktop Firefox on Linux/Windows. I use the native Fastmail app on Android which performs much better -- I presume it uses a version of Chrome under the hood.
Huh.
So Android's push notification service is built on their instant messenger (GTalk),
and Apple's instant messenger is built on their push notification service.

How cute.
At least your guy is trying to make money instead of whatever our guys are doing <shrugs> Trying to see it as half full??
Amazing how much the name we use can change the thing we see.