skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like how all we needed to do to replace Facebook in its heyday was to make a better Facebook! Remember Diaspora? Any day now its going to dethrone the king and I'll be able to see all my friends updates on Diaspora!

The social graph lock in problem is well documented and well understood. If most people use a certain solution (in this case texting, and particularly in regions where its dominant such as the US) then attempts to make a replacement solution whose success depends on mass adoption has an exponentially more difficult time in achieving adoption, because there's no incentive for users early on (because the social graph isnt there).

At least in the US, texting has a ton of "gravity" compared to other forms of messaging because it is built in to every phone and entirely free with your phone plan, so every user knows they can reach every other person they meet via texting.

New platforms gain critical mass more due to circumstance and luck than anything else. Or, such as the case with TikTok, via deep pockets and relentless advertising.
Agreed. I thought the analysis in this article was exceptionally poor.

For example, there is a small section handwaving away the potential impact on the search engine market, saying that ChatGPT has been out a year and hasn't made a sizable dent in Google.

But the thing is, the way ChatGPT interface currently works and the way it is marketed, most people don't even think of it as a "Google replacement" in the first place - except perhaps some techies and folks on HN. But it's not hard to o imagine advancing tech (so LLMs can be more frequently updated) and a rethought UI (and I'm not just talking about plugging in some "ChatGPT-in-Bing"-type interface, either) that could radically change where people go when they want information.
Even if I accept the axiom of your second paragraph (which I absolutely categorically do not), that still doesn't logically follow:

* You can love something while recognizing that there have to be reasons that it should end _and still disliking that fact_. Someone who loves chocolate fudge cake does not have to be happy about the fact that they cannot eat that and only that forever. They can begrudgingly accept the necessity of sometimes-not-eating-chocolate-cake, but that doesn't imply that they _want_ to not be able to eat it all the time.

* Having children is _not_ incompatible with living forever. Our hypothetical individual could be the only infinite-lifespan person among the population, free to continue living and experiencing and forming new relationships while the planet continues with an otherwise-unaffected level of population.

* But, hey, you know what, we're _already_ living in fantasy land by hypothesizing infinite lifespan already - why _does_ it have to be "obvious" that overpopulation and resource exhaustion are necessary outcomes of an immortal unaging population? I hereby declare that the same magic mystery sci-fi bullshit that caused immortality _also_ gave us reliable interstellar transportation and settlement, and quantum expansion wibbly-wobbly pocket universes. Oh, and world hunger is solved too. Bam, done. You still gonna tell me that I have to love the idea of death?

There are reasons to accept, in our current society and with our current level of technology, that a finite lifespan is a necessary constraint to prevent further privation - but if "a begrudging acceptance of necessity" is synonymous to "love" in your vocabulary, then I feel deeply sorry for you. Just because rational sensible mature adults recognize that there are _currently_ reasons why humans _have_ to have finite lifespans for societal reasons, or just because death is currently a "fact" of life, doesn't mean we are beholden to celebrate that fact. To use the word "love" about death is _deeply_ offensive. Death is the antithesis of love.
Not sure I understand. You brought up a claim that for profit companies are better to manage people's physical and legal security needs than the courts themselves and law enforcement. That would de facto make them government -- so we are both defending government, just different forms. You think an undemocratic, for profit motivation would work to fulfill public good, and I disagree.

> No it's because in every other area besides government we have standards of security

I guess you never heard of NIST?

I suppose private companies never get hacked and have all their customer's data stolen?
I view emergency preparedness as part of my responsibility to my family (and, to a lesser extent, to my community). So much so that this seems like a strange question.

People worry about what happens when there’s an emergency because people die in mishandled emergencies and failing to think ahead tends to increase this risk.
What's the problem even?! I'm back to torrenting, it feels as awesome as ever.
Closures? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Clos...
Yes, and thats when i will consider buying them. I am hoping we jave a much cheaper, possibly sodium, chemistry by then that is less toxic to the environment to dispose of as well. I will be running the power to charge them this uear when i replace my busted garage though, because there is nowhere near enough capacity for the whole neighboirhood to have fast charging and thats the actual bottleneck to easy adoption.
U mean Apple?
The problem with comparing two software programs is that it's less "feature check list" and more "everything subjective".

For example, say you compare a Ferrari to a Toyota. They overlap in pretty much all features. (Steering wheel, gets you from A to B, and so on.) But of course you don't choose between a ferrari and a Toyota based on a feature list.

So "here a list of cars for those who can't afford a ferrari" would be somewhat useless.

Its easy to compare say Windows to Linux from a featurelist point if view. It's much harder to quantify the non tangibles.

So sure, a list that says "x for those using y" is a useful starting point. But it's very much the tip of the iceberg. Expect to do a LOT of research, and a lot of time experimenting before you can determine if "x can replace y for my situation."

But the list is a start...
Wow -- I had not heard this story before. Did anything ever happen to Kik.com? Did they ever suffer for the harm they caused? Did NPM ever have responsibility for the theft of code that did not belong to them?
You seem to ignore the fact that hamas was elected in 2006 and has indefinitely postponed elections since then. Given the demographics most Palestinians weren't even alive when hamas was elected.
Remind me, when was the last time people in Gaza were given a chance to vote?
RCS Universal Profile.

Vendors are going to have to actually work on improving the standard (and Apple has committed to working within GSMA on an appropriate multi-vendor E2EE mechanism)

In the absence of interoperable standards through GSMA, there will likely still be quite a bit of broken behavior, e.g. when it's not a Google RCS Server and all Google clients.
> the same game but basically on a smaller scale

Isn't that perfect though? Lets them focus more on a denser more focused experience. Lots of people would love that.

Games like valheim aren't popular because they have great graphics or endless content, it is because they have a tight and fun gameplay progression.
Lots of government contractors have junior analysts-type jobs whose work entails responding to government RFPs. I know of one specifically who found ChatGPT was great at these responses - it still took further human review and editing, but so did the initial human drafts. Just one example.
Gilles Deleuze – What is Philosophy? [audio]
My first experience with stores locking up large areas (besides things like electronics/jewelry) was a Target in San Diego. For some reason things like underwear were locked up. A lot of more expensive clothing was not. Have to be honest, if someone is "looting" briefs, I wouldn't get in their way.
iPhones with iCloud backup enabled without ADP are almost certainly the majority. I believe this is essentially the default configuration. Even if you disable backups or enable ADP Apple almost certainly still has most of your messages from the other end of the conversation. It is false advertising to claim your service is E2EE without any disclaimer when in reality you collect the keys to the majority of messages and decrypt them at the request of law enforcement.
When I saw the headline I interpreted "targeted by IDF" as some attempt to compromise his account.
By agreeing that some amount is acceptable, you've conceded the principle. As the famous saying goes, we’re just haggling over the price.

As for whether 3% is reasonable, again we can look to Epic for evidence. Epic's own Steam competitor takes a 12% cut — and they admitted in court that it was a money-losing venture. That should stop and make you think. The Epic Games Store isn't even a complex ecosystem, it's just a glorified Windows app downloader and even then they couldn't make a profit at 12%.

Apple argues that their 15% fee for most (30% for the ultra-successful) pays for a lot more than just payment services. It pays for absorbing the cost of fraud. It pays for dealing with refunds. It pays for developing the APIs. It pays for employing an enormous team to perform some imperfect-but-useful oversight over the 1,800,000 apps in their store. It pays for a lot of things.

If you think Apple makes too much money, fine. That's a perfectly fine argument to make. That's a very different one to claiming that they're not entitled to make money. Or that the government should dictate prices at them.
There is at least one middle ground area where you acknowledge that copyright and intellectual property restrictions should be removed, but that we should also recognize that all of the existing work was created by artists who expected they would have copyright protection. We should in my view not take from artists without their consent, and there is no implied consent when their works were posted at a time they believed they were protected by copyright.

This would mean we have to do a few difficult and worthwhile things: explicitly dismantle the copyright system, encourage artists to donate their existing works to the commons, and then only make datasets based on legally collected information. This would also have the side effect of encouraging the development of new training techniques and model designs which are more sample efficient.

I am afraid that what we will do instead is allow some erosion of copyright for small creators without dismantling the power large intellectual property holders have over the rest of us.
Well, I deserve all the downvotes. My apologies to Fred! I love the video.
Inferring diamond types has been built into the language for _decades_.

Your static utility functions save only 2 characters, but will add massive confusion for other developers.

List<String> names = new ArrayList<>();

or even better just use var:

var names = new ArrayList<String>();

Those static functions are neither simpler nor cleaner. Don’t do this.
Visiting the website, I immediately see "Oracle" and "Java".

Seems like a pretty generic website about enterprise development. That's fine, but is unlikely to light a fire in the hearts of HN users.
You barbarian. I used to switch to a different virtual terminal and do "killall vim" like a normal person.

(These days, I can do basic VI mainly because a crappy mini-VI is often the only editor on systems using Busybox...)
Or add the DNA tests to dating apps.
High paying jobs for the best and brightest for.... optimizing engagement of cat videos?

Sounds more like a real-life imitating the opening of the movie Idiocracy.
I don't think it'd actually be a GDPR case in EU; it's more of a wiretapping case - note some of the victims communication was revealed. (GDPR violations might be a secondary charge, but wiretapping would be way more significant.)

That said it really depends on the exact legal framework (which I have no clue about) and eagerness of a prosecutor to make a case. Hence my "maybe".

FWIW I have a side job at a small community ISP in the EU and the GDPR was a no-op for us. The requirements for anyone operating in the telco space were already stricter. If I remember correctly the GDPR fines are higher though, whereas wiretapping (& co.) laws are much more likely to land you personally in jail.

(I was being intentionally vague with "privacy laws"; I do include wiretapping charges in that but, again, I don't know the US legal situation.)
digital cameras carried on planes in the early days had cosmic ray issues too. So they sent them by boat. Hell. The ones today do. This is a weird article though. A lot of cameras compensate for dead pixels and cosmic rays.

It should also have been designed in every camera to have unique file names. It’s ridiculous they all don’t.
I don't disagree with what you're saying I'm just saying that the skunkworkers may not care about one method of treating their family members if other methods exist and work well.
Most USB media control chips have hardware write protect pins that will physically prevent writing to memory, for example:

https://eu.mouser.com/datasheet/2/268/MCHP_S_A0001038949_1-2...

Obviously if someone has physical access they could take the unit apart and circumvent this (but then they could flip the switch too)
How? Obviously there are two options:

1. MDs: > overworked / hungover / burned out medical personal.

2. Non-MDs. Probably (not necessary), lacking some of the above listed characteristics. Maybe with those. But not doctors.

I'm not sure which way scares me more. Probably I would prefer 1st option. If we have at least the same amount of MDs in 5 years. Or 10 years.

Because "why train and learn things if I can pay AI for making a job done?". This world would be worse than the hell.
AI is here, now, and OpenAI is so saturated they had to cancel new customers.

While the hype is real, so are the benefits. This feels more like the Internet in 1998 - there is a bubble forming and it may burst, but it is not like we got back to the Way Things Were after. Some sectors like (physical) mail continued their decline and others (like Google) continued to grow.

The reason the previous AI winters were winters were that the AI didn't bring any benefits.
Hopefully everyone has learned their lesson and won't be pre-ordering this thing or expecting it to work or deliver on what was promised at launch. However good the game looks, we should expect its release to be a disaster that hopefully improves after a year or so of patches.

Honestly, things would probably be a lot better for everybody if people held off on pre-orders and considered waiting for a few updates before buying even when there hasn't been a massive controversy with the developer's past releases.
That's fair, I will try to do better, but this is a hard one to discuss neutrally. There's a huge mess, it has long been a huge mess, and a lot of people want to focus on only half of the story.
The BIG difference is that you have to trust the hardware and the operating system already, and as these are made by apple, you already have to trust them.

"Trusting the servers of a non E2E service" is adding another trusted party.

If you don't trust apple, you don't have an iPhone.
Yes, and until we pass real consequences for data breaches - protections for individuals - none of this will change.
The difference is LLMs are here to stay. They are already very useful and efficient. There is no turn around. Even if current state is the dead end of their evolution. Which it isn't, of course.

The future.. there are so many ideas in the air right now that we can expect significant progress in next months and years. There will be fluctuations with bubbles and bursts, but that's how economics works.

I expect slow approximation to AGI with increasing capabilities different products will claim to be it. First generations will be just very capable lifeless calculators. Subhuman in general with some superhuman abilities, like LLMs are today. When they will be able to improve themself, so called singularity? We are getting closer. Likely those will be still calculators which can be turned on/off at any moment.
Agreed. As someone else said:

>The term dog whistle is regularly used as a covert form of Ad Hominem that I find logically annoying, basically "ignore everything this person said because" insert assumption of what was meant and derogatory term about political affiliation.

I view the phrase as "I can't find something to attack in what ideological opponent said, so I'm going to pretend that what he said actually means something else, and attack that instead".
And also the context of the ineffectiveness and corruption of collaborationist governing parties like Fatah.
That they will buy from the US or China or Israel, since it's illegal to use in the EU and no domestic company will bother to build such tech for one customer only.
This is solvable with current technology (well at least the components to make this a reality already exists). Combine procedural generation with generative AI. Imagine endless landscapes that are totally original and not samey.
It's not muddled. I doesn't have to be that 100% of the people living on Gaza are refugees from Israel for the current situation to be an atrocity. I am also not saying every Israeli is responsible for that atrocity.

I also don't think Russia/Ukraine is comparable to Israel/Gaza. I find it hard to believe Palestinians living far from Gaza/West Bank/Middle East would have anything but total sympathy for those in Gaza... but that's just a feeling.

Thanks for the link.
I’d bet a fair bit on most realistic users of this website benefiting from Sentry’s inclusion, rather than being hindered by it.

I suppose that maybe this website could be re-labelled ‘source-available’ to appease purists that actually care about this. But practically everyone won’t be affected by the fact that Sentry’s license prohibits creating a direct competitor to Sentry’s hosted service, certainly the intended audience.
If you use a Sony A7 series camera, every month, the camera will take a picture upon shutting it off, which it uses to remove dead pixels/hot pixels - you can hear it, actually.

If ever you have a pixel die or get stuck, you can also manually set the date a couple months ahead and turn it off - it will most likely be fixed when it turns back on.
Why did this upgrade make the 2080 TI slower than a 2070 super and a 2060?
No, there were actual textbooks used in classes too.
That’s way better than my 2015 Leaf gets. I’m 4.1-4.3 miles/kWh in slow speed city use without climate control, and high 3s on mixed highway/use.
Twilio has decided to shut down its Programmable Video SDK. This decision, while understandable, may leave many developers wondering about the future of their video-based applications.

In a recent statement, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson explained the reason behind this decision: While I was disappointed with this decision, the Twilio Video SDK was one of the best products in town, especially for builders.
What would make it illegal, short of antitrust law?
In a democratic election held before around half it's current population was born. Not that the results would likely be much different today.
i use security key by yubikey (blue one, USB A) as one of the mfa. mostly for github and aws. and i personally like the "cool factor" when I have to "look" for the key when the sites ask for it. "bro, what are ya doing ya dingus?" "i literally can't login without the key, bro. like a real renter in a saas world!"
> Well on the other end of the extreme we had Java, which had an awful lot of this:
HashMap<String, List<int>> hashmap = new HashMap<String, List<int>>();

This is untrue. Inferring diamond types has been built into the language for over a decade.

Map<String, List<Integer>> map = new HashMap<>();
Boxed software at physical retail stores was more like 70–90% of revenues, split between the retailer, distributor, publisher, and manufacturing.
Having a state with a de facto dominant culture is not the same as having a dominant ethnicity/religion by law.

Sorry, I don't know about Christians and Muslims in the Ottoman Balkans.. I was more talking about Jews and others in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, etc.
I meant it for the historical aspect thereof, but it's fair to want to keep that out of the discussion.
De-facto seems to be doing a lot of work there. Which of these countries have things like this?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-adopts-divisive-la...

Or this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaization_of_the_Galilee

These are simply not normal things for a country to do in the 21st century. That doesn't mean I don't have massive problems with what these other countries are doing, or what the US is doing, but to say they're ethno-states like Israel in my view is a false equivalency.

> but navigating that transition while preserving it as the safest place the Jews of the world can go

Is it though? I know Jewish folks in the US with family in Israel, and it doesn't seem like they'd feel safer in Israel. These policies don't seem to be making Jews safer.

> Saudi Arabia is named after the Arabs.

nit: It's named after Arabia which is a geographic region that's been named after the Arabs for centuries. The disturbing part of the name Saudi Arabia is that it's named after a specific family of despots, not that it refers to Arabia. But even being named after an ethnic group doesn't make your country an ethno-state.
What, gmail is better?
Predictable comments.

If Facebook does it, uhhh evil.

If Apple does it, right so!
What you quoted is extremely broad, and I don't think it was meant as the definition of anti-Zionism. Since it was prefaced with "all its proponents agree that", it seems like a sort of lower bound on the various definitions.

If we did take that to be the definition of anti-Zionism, then it seems one could be both a Zionist and an anti-Zionist, if they supported the existence of a Jewish state but didn't approve of the particular way Israel was established.
I’m currently evaluating Buildjet. I’m curious about this caching issue.
Were you using actions/cache or buildjet/cache?

https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions/docs/guides/migratin...
I love how, in the last few years, open source infrastructure has become more of a thing.

We're using this Philips Labs module at $dayjob. It's a great piece of work!
That's a lot of links to take in, and I don't do really anything with ML, but feel free to head over to https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/ and start a discussion in the Machine Learning for Theorem Proving stream!

My observation at the moment is that we haven't seen ML formalize a cutting-edge math paper and that it did in fact take a lot of experience to pull it off so quickly, experience that's not yet encoded in ML models. Maybe one day.

Something that I didn't mention is that Terry Tao is perhaps the most intelligent, articulate, and conscientious person I have ever interacted with. I found it very impressive how quickly he absorbed the Lean language, what goes into formalization, and how to direct a formalization project. He could have done this whole thing on his own I am sure. No amount of modern ML can replace him at the helm. However, he is such an excellent communicator that he could have probably gotten well-above-average results from an LLM. My understanding is that he used tools like ChatGPT to learn Lean and formalization, and my experience is that what you get from these tools is proportional to the quality of what you put into them.
A lot of people are just in denial. It's some psychological mechanism. They have to call it a stochastic parrot, they have to think of the LLM as something that's only a toy at worst and at best equivalent to google search. They're wrong. This thing can code too. It won't replace a human coder yet, but it's part way there.

It's only a matter of time before it's fully there.
The last S in OSS already stands for software.
Holy moly. Just got the same email. 6x price hike. Effective less than 30 days from now.

I guess consultants migrating folks from prismic to some other cms will be busy this Christmas.