skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, along with "It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World"[0] are two of my favorite short pieces of speculative fiction that embody the Frederik Pohl quote, "a good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam."

This story, a sequel, and other great short stories are collected in his book of ten short stories "Valuable Humans in Transit".[1] I'm a big fan of supporting indie scifi offered with DRM-free ebooks! [I am not affiliated with qntm despite my enthusiasm]

[0]: It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World: https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy

[1]: Valuable Humans in Transit: https://qntm.org/vhitaos
Considering this, the only remaining captcha will be hard cold money. Paywalls.
From their description it seems like they will move these into beeper mini and drop the "mini."
The normal spectrogram technique was already invented by Phillips prior to Shazam. What Shazam did was to hash things combinatorial to reduce false positives.
Starlink is completely different from previous satellite internet. Those things are not true about it.
As mentioned in another branch, I took a stab at writing up a "What?" page to pair with the "Why?" page: https://docs.endatabas.com/appendix/what.html

It tries to be less wordy. :)

Same as above, I'd love your feedback, if you have any. Our Discord is on the homepage, if that's easier than email.
I didn't mean to direct focus onto just small arms. The same dynamic applies with explosives, cannons, fighter jets, etc. For example, does having a ready-to-go tank in your back yard eliminate the problems with not getting a building permit?

The point is that focusing on weapons is futile when society is no longer ordered by overt force but rather economic/pragmatic attractors. In the western world the battle based on physical force has essentially been fought and won permanently - the result is democracy which is a similar dynamic without most of the violence. If a critical mass of people come together and want to change things, then that happens. The system has responded by dividing people into tribes and diverting them such that a critical mass opposed to the system itself doesn't actually happen.
This reminds me of the near-ish-future "Rainbow's End" by Vernor Vinge, wherein instead of giving out phone numbers or email addresses or screen names (identifiers), people give out opaque GUIDs [0] that act as communication handles with capabilities baked in. So, you could give out one to friends that allows people to open a synchronous voice channel to you, but give out one on your business card that just allows people to send text messages to you.

The book doesn't talk about it too much, but presumably these handles could be limited-use (time-based or only granting a capability to send a certain number of messages) and could be revoked.

I know it would probably be off-putting to give each person I meet a different GUID for contacting me (kind of like telling them your email address is <their_name>@<my_vanity_domain>), but it might reduce the spam I receive.

[0] if you're searching the ebook, they're called "golden enums" in the text
One could imagine that for a very low Unruh temperature spacetime changes the phase and becomes „solid“. A low Unruh temperature means very low acceleration/gravitation. This might explain dark matter.

Similar things are discussed in the literature under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfluid_vacuum_theory and https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/physicist-theorizes-dark-ma...
> "Universal health care is such a complex beast that only 32 of the world's 33 developed nations have been able to make it work."

Please note that I didn't say Universal health care. I'm a consumer of healthcare and so I'm qualified to judge it as a problem, but I'm not going to prescribe the optimal path - I leave that to the real experts.

I'll also say Universal Health Care =/= health care solved. I've spoken to plenty of people across UK/Canada/EU who have a lot of complaints about their system.
Detroit Is About to Test the Bejeezus Out of Wireless EV Charging
Makes me think of this project: https://www.vesta.earth/
I think Node.js doesn't have a big powerful ORM because the community isn't looking for one. Can't speak of everyone but I take a good query builder over a fat ORM any day.
For those who only lived post-Reagan where the Boomers who took advantage of the New Deal system dismantled it to then claim ownership of everything… government looks like the problem. Prior to that it was actually a quite capable social construct which has been hollowed out intentionally

But it’s the meat suits in charge of government that are the problem. We hide behind reductive euphemisms.

The problem is Nancy Pelosi, Trump, Biden, Mitch McConnell, Schumer, Feinstein, Grassley, RBG… the problem is leaving the same old ossified assholes in charge.

Electrical turnovers have flushed corruption and improved economic gains for public: https://www.nber.org/papers/w29766

Stop voting for post world war, Cold War paranoids, who huffed leaded gas fumes prior to the ban. Ageist? Who cares! Look their implicit ageism deflating the next generation, doing nothing but ignoring global warming.

The problem is not nebulous social terms like “government” or “capitalism”. It’s the fucking nutjobs in power.

Everyone wants to take the Leave it to Beaver approach to our elders. The result is nihilistic indifference to the future as we wax poetic about the problem. It’s bizarre and pathetic how we continue to debate the issue in vacuous abstraction
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527238.)
I strongly agree. I don't think a website is going to do anything with my user agent string that benefits me. I'd much prefer a web where websites can't do things outside of the standard. We ne er needed webmidi, but a company that makes a browser/is hybrid definitely wanted it.

Speaking of Google, won't this interfere with their "look we're not a monopoly" payments to Mozilla Corp?
Apple hardware is mediocre at best.
2020 MacBook Air with i5 is unbearably slow.
I have Samsung ATIV 700T with i5 from 2014 and it feels much faster than 2020 i5 MacBook.
You can now say that it is the problem with Intel and that M1-2-3 are so much better but I have some Intel i7 laptops from 2016 and 2021 and they also blow Intel Mac away in speed and reliability and are comparable in speed with M2 that is sitting next to 2020 Mac.
2 other older MacBooks are falling apart (2009 and G4) wheres even older Dells and comparable HPs are still feeling robust...and are used more than decrepit Apple hardware.
Running cognitive evaluations on large language models: The do's and the don'ts
You need continuous power anyway to allow for app or remote-based control.

It's really nice to be able to use a remote to turn lights on and off from my bed or desk, or use voice control when my hands are full.

Plus, I can have dimmable lights even in locations with a three way switch like a hallway.

Color temperature control is not really possible with hard wired controls either. I'm actually considering replacing all my switches with in-wall remotes.
All my software is that. My monthly subscription is 0$.
Okay, fair. I should have said: "thinks using fingerprints [to unlock their keychain] is actually a good idea"
i second that. for external-facing tools, you probably want something custom, branded, and more flexible. when it comes to internal tools, you typically want something quick to get the job done.

at dropbase, our focus was on enabling developers to get stuff done efficiently. we noticed that for 90% of internal tool use cases, you only need a table and modal to get user input. so we focused on developing those. while it may not be sufficient for external apps, for internal tools, it should cover most of that you need
> He was, I thought, incredibly arrogant, he talked about Spotify as if was OpenAI or something.

What do you mean? They revolutionized everything...by putting an iPod in the cloud. /s
The 1 mistake according to the article: not taking responsibility. Past decisions were made (hiring) to align company with future goals, now new decisions (layoffs) were made to align the company again. Leadership should take responsibilty that the past decisions were wrong (or the goals)
Definitely that would be less portable syntax.
> who destroyed what was left of the Roman republic

Somebody else would've done it instead. It was a semi-permanent state of civil strife or even war for the past 100 years or.

From the perspective of Roman (or even ordinary Romans) aristocrats Ceasar was much preferably to other tyrants they had like Sulla, Cinna, Gaius Marius or even Augustus because he wasn't really into mass murdering his political enemies or sacking Roman/Italian cities.

Not that this did him any good in the end, he failed because he was to 'merciful' and not genocidal enough towards other Romans. Not that he had similar concerns about Celts and other 'barbarians'?

But I don't think the was particularly inherently more cruel or geocidal than most other conquering generals at the time (Cesar was just massively more successful so had the opportunity to murder/enslave a much larger number of people than anyone else). However what the Romans did to Carthage or some Greek cities etc. was no different.
Do you know if it’s been extracted into a standalone library? The state of the open source TTS seems to not be great. Presumably the data for a voice is harder to put together than training a speech to text system like whisper.
Lack of hindsight. IME, in every situation there are a million such issues and you can't invest resources, including limited staff time, in fixing them all.
Yea that stuff is happening here where I live (1hr away) more often as well, it seemed like it started happening more often during COVID. People are running red lights more often and going way over the speed limit.
Yeah I admittedly haven't used it much, our stuff was setup before they had async support at all, and our website doesn't benefit from it really.
Async database queries would in theory be more efficient if you have many long running queries, but all of ours are reasonably fast and we have plenty of dedicated headroom so there's no incentive for us to consider changing anything.

> I reverted everything to sync and re-implemented the hot functions with multi-threading...

I'm curious what your workload is? If you need the requests themselves async then you normally have gunicorn/uwsgi handle that for you. Otherwise you'd send it to a work queue. Do you have a lot of long-running queries or realtime stuff?

Hopefully django's async support improves. I love the ORM so much I use it for non-server based projects.
Economic forces serve those that make the Market possible.

People > Markets.

Or to put it explicitly, people have primacy over Markets.

I.e. two people does not a Market make, and a Market with no people is not thing.
Not many make it that far!
I spent a couple weeks in Switzerland and I came away completely understanding why it's hard to immigrate there: it's a genuinely delightful place to live with an astounding quality of life and climate. I got the sense that Swiss people were really aware of how nice it was and were very protective of it. The COL as a resident vs a tourist is also pretty wild.
When would you say were Mozilla's best years?
Seems like those accounts violated a rule around doxxing. The account that tracked Elon's private jet in real time was banned and those accounts were linking to it on other platforms.

You can disagree with the rule on real time doxxing, or argue that it is irregularly enforced, but your comment seems to be a kind of misinformation where you omit the causal link.
People are tired and demand better. It's a spectrum for sure, but crossing the line is crossing the line.
At my company we’ve written all of our Lambda functions in Rust. It’s a perfect fit with the constraints in Lambda. We did customize the runtime somewhat for our needs but that wasn’t all that complicated.
EveryBuddy
DSA and DMA do not magically grant you the permission to do whatever you want with Apple's servers, nor force they Apple into having to serve any particular valid response to the requests you make.

In whatever way Apple is going to comply with DSA and DMA, this ain't it.
Really depends on the company, in my experience. They should be lateral, but especially larger/older companies, the path from, for instance, analyst->sr analyst->manager is pretty defined, and there’s not often a separate path to a “lead” IC role at the same rate as the manager.
I think it's also about changing expectations and environment. Big customers expect timely updates for the purposes of security, keeping third party integrations working, and bugfixing. They also expect high uptime and prompt outage mitigation. That's really hard to square with on-premise offerings.

Don't get me wrong, it's also hard, but providing on-premise software is less difficult than it used to be in absolute terms. The main things that changed are SaaS driving expectations up, and needing to upgrade faster.
Trans panic?

Totally disagree, it’s now entirely legal in many places for a predatory man to say he identifies as a woman, and change in spaces previously created to keep women safe.

And yes, thanks, I do like thinking about issues of justice, morality, and politics.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/01/30/putting-t...

Excellent example. Is it possible for a convicted criminal to game compassion to be moved from a men’s to women’s prison. Would anyone lie in that situation? There is probably a whole lot more people to take advantage of if your a convicted predator in a woman’s prison.
I think the simple answer is that zoos are held together by duct tape and optimized for human entertainment, not animal welfare or even the safety of visitors.
Reverse engineering iMessage has been touted as some holy grail meme for what... 10+ years now?

So proud that a high school student was the one to finally figure it out.

In a world of 100s of thousands of software engineers, "Cybersecurtiy professionals", and so on.

A kid with almost no credentials out-innovates everyone because they have talent and focus. Literally HackerNews! My favorite kind of news.
I wonder whats going on at the enforcement level. It seems like there is a dumbing down of that system. It would be interesting to see some research on this.
COW2LLVM: The isKnownUniquelyReferenced Deep-Dive
he's done some really impressive things by pushing the bounds of what's possible/legal

i absolutely don't trust him to put user privacy/protection over product development. he thrives off outlandish predictions and aggressive deadlines. user protection is the first thing to go when that's the case
they could call it "apple blue" and charge a few bucks a month for it. People love that stuff
The rule was made afterwards. It was a retcon to justify his actions.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjk5yx/elon-musk-had-his-mos...

> On Wednesday, Twitter chief Elon Musk banned accounts he said he never would in order to protect free speech, made up new rules to justify it, threatened legal action against a 20-year-old, pontificated on how doxing is banned on the platform, and then immediately posted a video doxing a man and asked his 121 million followers to identify him.

> Twitter then retroactively added a new policy that banned accounts "dedicated to sharing someone's live location."

He had previously publicly promised not to ban the account.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456

It is very clear that if Musk wants you off Twitter enough, he's kicking you off Twitter.
Elon Musk's XAI Startup Seeks to Raise $1B in Equity
I've certainly thought about it. But I don't think I have what it take to win an election. And yeah the fundamental problem with democracy imo is that skill to win an election does not equal the skill it takes to govern. We systemically conduct "job interviews" for politicians on the wrong set of skills.

I also do alot (in my opinion) to improve the world in my corner. It's not possible for 1 person to fix healthcare AND climate change AND education AND homelessness, etc.
> Everyone gets a vote on what bitcoin is

As long as you work for Blockstream Inc. If not you have effectively no say.
Nostr is not built on a blockchain
Obviously, not all bots will be held to such standards - these are the standards which apply to western corporations who offer free bots for PR and marketing purposes, since 'politically incorrect' behavior stunts that goal, however, anyone keeping their own bot (e.g. a spammer wanting to solve millions of captchas) has no problems running an 'uncensored' bot - right now you can get reasonably large open source models without the RLHF pretraining and thus also no attempt at 'moral standards' other than those you choose to put in when finetuning the bot for your purposes.

It's relatively trivial to flip the sign on that training data and have a bot that will instead refuse to make antifascist or feminist arguments; if someone wants a Hitlerbot to ghostwrite "My struggle" for them, there's nothing that could prevent them from finetuning such a model from one of the publicly available models; there is no one that can enforce any 'moral standards' on the bots other than their creators.
This is for input but my lav mic is really quiet and has a pretty high noise floor and ground loop (not too bad tho) using the motherboard's 3.5mm port. Bought a USB sound "card" for 5.99 on Amazon a year back, it’s not even close. It’s output is mediocre at best but I don’t use that.
In this post,

https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/111528504674470914

the following assertion is made, wrt generated images: "the thing I want to stress is that generative AI is hurting people today"

I've been discussing this today. TL;dr IMO this assertion is not true as written.

Whether and how synthetic content, harms real people in any sense (moral, legal, emotional, psychic, reptutationally, etc.) is appropriately a matter of societal debate.

One thing we can say is that historically, there has been great societal ambivalence about whether and how harm is done in cases where the nominal victim is unaware of the harm—especially when it's not simply a case of ignorance, e.g. while one's peers or circles or employer are privy to different information—but ones in which the simple fact of some potentially harmful document existing.

Or, as in this case, of there often being I assume no actual individuals involved, so harm such as it is, is inferred from class identification—to apply to all members of a class. (To put a point on that, is harm done to all children, or any child, should someone generate AI images which correspond to no single child?)

"What you don't know, can't/doesn't hurt you" is often the refuge of those acting in bad faith. This case is more complicated, in as much as there has been an argument made that generated images provide societal benefit by acting as a relief valve for fetishes or pathologies which cannot ever be expressed or engaged with in a non-harmful way.

I am not making that argument.

But that argument has been made. And it's not obviously false, any more than the author's assertion is obviously true.

We really should be clear about the way we reason as a society about these things. And the specific case of CSAM is not a good place to start, in as much as it is all but impossible to reason dispassionately about anything adjacent.

We should find some non-triggering analogous case, and sort out our societal consensus there—and only thereafter attempt to either apply it cases more toxic and radioactive only later.

In the meantime, statements like these are actively harmful to urgently needed (and non-trivial) debate.
It's not really similar to your idea, but your idea unlocked a memory of playing Gizmos and Gadgets as a kid.

Edit: So I decided to go and play it on an online archive site. It's just as fun as I remember.
That page was written way before most people had ever heard of linux, a decade before things like secureboot became a thing, and way before the most common personal computing device in the world was a choice of two locked down devices.
Using Google and searching for "cure for cancer", I get a result from WebMD, which states "No “alternative” or natural cancer treatments have been proven to cure cancer." Using Google again, the first result searching for Rieman Hypothesis is a result from Wikipedia, which states that the Rieman Hypothesis is currently unsolved. I believe both of these results to be plausible, thus establishing some level of credibility for using Google (for me). If you have reason to dispute both of those findings, please let me (and the world) know.

Now that we've established Google results are, at least, plausible, searching for "browser market share 2023", I get a result * which states that, on desktop, which seems to be why your objection to "snoop phone", Chrome has 61%, Safari has 13%, and Firefox has 6% market share.

Again, if I should not believe the results from Google about the Rieman Hypothesis or the cure for cancer, please let me know.

* https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...
They weren't "tracking his jet"; it's already being tracked, they're just surfacing the already-available data.
The latest series of Planet Earth III shows chimpanzees crossing roads and farms to reach their foraging areas, the farms have just popped up and encroached on the land they normally just roamed. Nobody tries to approach them and the chimpanzees don’t do anything aggressive in the stuff that was aired. The elephants were much more dangerous at least in the segment they showed from Kenya where they kept stats on number of elephants and humans killed per year.
You violated YouTube's T's & C's and you're complaining about Google putting you in timeout for doing so. You steal from YouTube's content creators yet present Mozilla as the good guys. Have I summed that up accurately?
PARRY Encounters the DOCTOR (1973)
True. But I’m hiring for the data domain. That’s what I mean. I am not looking for super highly specialized compiler engineers but data engineers for a data role.
fwiw it hasn't been called "OSX" for awhile now
It's not an argument that anyone else is obligated to treat at all seriously.

You're uneasy? Boo frickin hoo.
Hypothetical interview:
Host: So Elon, what do you think about the creditor banks?
Elon: F-u!!!1 is this clear enough?!?!
> as I barely know anyone using iphone.

where are you located?
And in my experience you have to provide a lot of this up front BEFORE the contract is signed otherwise they won't even evaluate whether they will purchase it.
I think what you're describing IS activitypub. The major issue is that each implementor has a preferred message type and only basic functionality of the others. I've posted this elsewhere in the thread, but Lemmy top-level posts are implemented as Pages and communities are implemented as Groups. Currently Mastodon has implemented both but with limited functionality. There is a rework of Groups that is listed as in-progress on the roadmap (https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap).

I think the way we ended up in this situation is that there are quite a few types of messages in the AP protocol, and up until recently the up and coming ones were seeing pretty limited use. Without another service to test against, I can understand why a lot of fediverse developers have opted to kick that can down the road. That said, we are definitely in the era of determining the defacto use case for each of these message abstractions, and I suspect that will be a slow process and involve a lot of back and forth between projects.
> There are areas with more opportunities than others that may be worth considering a stack shift.

Such as?