skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the FBI did something to try to make it harder for the routers to be re-infected. So they have proactively used the backdoor to further mess with the router.

I think I trust the FBI more than a hostile actor. I'm definitely discomfited at my objects being tussled over by Godzilla and Rodan.

Is there a searchable database of every router's backdoors? They are there, someone knows about each one.
Then you'd filter them by resume first to manage costs. Pick your poison.
NASA Releases Stem Toolkit for Advanced Air Mobility
> Ted Kaczynski would be proud. He'd also be a literal mad genius but still...

You know he killed people, right?
Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, etc. Coming to Apple's Vision Pro at Launch
The shameful thing about this act is that it has a few good ideas, they're just riding along with a bunch of truly abhorrent ones. If they just axed the entire censorship angle and age verification requirement, and kept the requirement of opt-in (via self-declaration of the user as a minor/guardian account pair) tools for parents and extended the tools available to minors to everybody, I wouldn't even be opposed to the bill.

Summary:

- Establishes a duty of care for covered platforms (basically any internet connected platform (social media, videogames, etc) that isn't a common carrier, an email service, a private messaging service disconnected from any broader platform, VOIP service, VPN, or education related.

- Covered platforms must take reasonable measures to mitigate harms to minors, with a list of specific harms being things like mental illness, addiction, physical violence, bullying, narcotics, and predatory or deceptive marketing tactics. Platforms do not need to hide such content if the minor is specifically searching for/requesting such content, or if the content is providing resources for the prevention of said harms.

-Covered platforms must provide certain safeguards to minors on their platform, to be used at the minor's (or guardian's) discretion. These include blocking, basic privacy settings, opting out of personalized recommendation systems, while still allowing the display of content based on a chronological format or limit types or categories of recommendations from such systems, hiding geolocation, and deleting the account and all associated data.

-The default settings for minors must be the most protective.

-Covered Platforms need to provide parental tools, including the ability to change privacy settings, restrict purchases, view metrics of usage, and restrict the amount of time the minor uses on the platform.

-Covered platforms need a system to receive reports about minor harming on their platform, and must "substantively respond" to such reports withing either 10 or 21 days depending on whether the service has more or less than 10,000,000 monthly active users

-Covered platforms are liable for advertising illegal stuff to minors (including stuff that's only illegal for minors to purchase, like alcohol and tobacco).
The fentanyl drug addiction crisis and the TikTok digital addiction crisis are more of a problem than government debt, from where I'm standing. there's also the housing crisis to consider, as well as the job market. government debt death spiral isn't a thing. fentanyl is.
Glass transformed into quantum computer materials using strain
No one buys stocks for the hell of it, it is 100% a financial instrument used to profit by the buyer and the seller. If you couldn't sell to someone for a higher price, no one would buy them. If that's your bar, then cryptocurrencies are as legit as stocks as far as a financial tool is concerned. Stocks may arguably have more utility, but for the buyers/sellers, they aren't much more that a speculation instrument.

If someone will take Pokemon cards for a pizza, or a house, whatever, then it has some utility. If someone collects pokemon cards, and has enough for a house, they might (probably) need to exchange them for some real currency to complete that transaction. But pokemon cards are not inherently a scam.. just because the price can go up and down.. they are probably considered a collectable.

Now cryptocurrencies are not collectibles, and they are not currencies, but they have attributes of both I'd propose. They are entirely speculatory in nature, but can sometimes be used as a currency. So, in some ways, I argue, they should be treated like pokemon cards, in other ways, regarding regulation, they might need to be considered a currency to be able to regulate the industry in such a way that protects investors, just like private transactions (selling collectibles) and financial investing (trading stocks/etc) have regulations.

Although this is nuanced, and cryptocurrency is not currency or a collectible entirely, it is not inherently a 'greaters fools game' any more than trading stocks or Pokemon cards.

It's just another thing that needs to be regulated, and if people didn't use it for something, it would just go away, and we wouldn't be having this discussion.
I'm sure I'm butchering this, but...

Alan Kay: an object should be just as powerful as the entire computer, ie an object is a recursive structure.

The rest is implementation details. The implementation details chosen over the past many years, particularly those favored by OOP, generally involve making objects way less powerful than the entire computer.
That was actually an amazing read, thank you so much. It reflects my thoughts on the matter pretty well — to use the analogy of the article, there are certainly some versions of social media that are poison, and online interaction may be less "socially nutritious" than in person interaction ceterus paribus, but things are rarely eever ceterus paribus! You have to take into account the relative barrier to entry of online interaction versus in person interaction, because the alternatives may well be online or nothing because the barriers of anything else are far too high for an individual, and you have to take into account the possibility that the available in person interaction for someome may in fact be non nutritious or poison itself. Likewise, depending on the way you use the internet to socialize, it may be more or less socially nutritious: interacting on something like Instagram is basically poison, Twitter Facebook and Tumblr offer almost no nutrition at all, and forums and medium to large IRC chats (or Discord servers) maybe significantly more over time or none at all depending on how they work, while conversely a small IRC chat or Discord or group chat of close friends that you met online in other places and consciously gathered over time into an intentional community of people who all intimately know each other and share every day's victories and defeats, hopes and fears, traumas and healing, art and jokes, means a whole lot more, even if being with them in person would be better. That last option, where you use niche interest online communities to find people, but then graduate them to something "online" but far more intimate, with maybe even the goal of living near each other one day, is rarely pointed out, but it's something I started to intentionally do four years ago and I've found it's by far the healthiest option.
Sounds like the Frontier team wasn't able to convince GPTs team to run an extra model.
Researchers Scale Up Multipurpose 2D Nanosheets
So many childhood memories reading Farside. Here’s my favourite: https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2...
When undefined behavior causes a nonsensical error (in Rust)
What's the Deal with the Industrial Revolution
I’m sorry I was only speaking of the US, as this is a US company.

> You already knew that home broadband competition is sorely lacking through much of the US, but a new report released today helps shed more light on Americans who have just one choice for high-speed Internet.

> Comcast is the only choice for 30 million Americans when it comes to broadband speeds of at least 25Mbps downstream and 3Mbps upstream, the report says. Charter Communications is the only choice for 38 million Americans. Combined, Comcast and Charter offer service in the majority of the US, with almost no overlap.

> Yet many Americans are even worse off, living in areas where DSL is the best option. AT&T, Verizon, and other telcos still provide only sub-broadband speeds over copper wires throughout huge parts of their territories. The telcos have mostly avoided upgrading their copper networks to fiber—except in areas where they face competition from cable companies.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/comca...

Also, “broadband” being 25 mbit is their lobby’s choice and definitely should not be a legitimate threshold in the modern world.

Then add that even though others operate in different regions, they generally do not compete for high speed service or are very poor at delivering it, thereby not actually presenting an alternative even though they “officially” do.

Also, be clear that these two companies, that dominate areas of the US, collude.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/comca...

https://corporate.charter.com/newsroom/comcast-charter-annou...

https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/comcast-charter...
Yes, I much prefer the idea of comms via email, but news via RSS. Email being bidirectional makes more sense to just stick to comms for, especially with `noreply@` for most newsletters.
I would say don't.
Thanks for clarifying what criteria you were talking about. I agree that he seems to be able to pursue his goals without major setbacks due to lack of funding. That said, I'm not inside his mind, and dont know what he would like to be doing, but is in some way has to compromise or is prevented from doing so.
As another commenter here put it, this is "endemic in biology," unfortunately.

I once had a job at a top research lab doing engineering on their HPC clusters. There are a lot of big-ego fraudsters in science.

I think the most egregious thing I knew about was that payments, I mean donations, would come in from the nearby Roman Catholic Diocese to certain researchers. A few months later, something like a research paper supporting the idea that genital mutilation (male circumcision) reduces AIDs transmission rates would come out.

Things like faking, I mean "correcting" datasets and just making stuff up wasn't uncommon at all. You had to publish or perish.
They open-cored Synapse. I guess Element needs money, so they're crowdfunding. It doesn't take long to see that the open protocol is pretty geared towards Synapse/Element. By the way this is out of date: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/servers/ It says Apache 2, but if you click it, it goes to an archived repository, and if you click the link in the README to the new repository, it's under AGPL. That would be community-driven and all if they wanted to use it, but it's another case of AGPL for thee, but not for me.
We should also deeply worry about space aliens showing up and blasting us out of the sky. If they're sufficiently powerful, that could absolutely happen! Stop any radio emissions!

xRisk is an absolutely stupid way to reason about AI. It's an unprovable risk that requires "mitigation just in case". All this is is saying "but if it were to happen, the cost is infinity, so any risk is a danger! Infinity times anything is infinity!". It's playground reasoning. (The same playground reasoning the EA community engages in, which is a large vector for the xrisk hype. Just multiply by a large enough number, and you will surely have the biggest number)

To the credit of the authors, they don't engage in that. There is no hand wringing over the absolutely unlikely case of "but what if the AI awakens".

But it's still an extremely weak study - it proves nothing (none of the results are statistically significant), and even if it had shown significant uplift, it's meaningless without a control. Of course people who have access to a knowledge store do slightly better than people who don't. I'm willing to bet that "access to a 10-book research library" produces roughly the same uplift. Without that (trivial) control, it's really bad study design.

And the moment you take this study and its non-results and call it "Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation", you've absolutely lost all credibility.
Ah <3 Upspin! It's been a minute. I've personally read through & love Upspin. I always found solid a little too tied to RDF & the semantic web push. The solid project is/was super valiant effort, but these days I feel like the semantic web push peaked with HTML & schema.org.

> By storing the data on my personal device and (presumably?) paying for a managed relay (and maybe an encrypted backup), I can keep my data in my physical possession, but I won't have to host anything on my own. Is that the idea?

We're hoping to give that exact setup to app developers (maybe that's you :). We still have work to do on encryption at rest to keep the hosted server "dumb", and more plumbing into existing app development ecosystems like flutter, expo, tauri, etc. but yes, that's the hope. Give developers tools to ship apps that renegotiate the "user social contract".
That's gotta be the best deal I've ever seen. Probably a year of service just to break even on the hardware to connect you to the upstream device, not counting actually providing the service. It's hard to find a base VPS with that level of service even allowing for a low data cap for the price and that's just for a connection with no hardware and a limited place to put data in the first place.

They don't happen to offer colocation do they :p.
The rise of right wing parties all over the world suggest it's not a uniquely American problem, unfortunately.
My current test of image models is generating React code from a screenshot of the top of a HackerNews comment page. Llava-1.6 gave me this (over two responses), which is honestly not bad:

```ts

const CommentForm = () => {
// State to hold the user's input
const [comment, setComment] = useState('');
// State to hold the list of comments
const [comments, setComments] = useState([]);

// Function for posting a new comment
const postComment = (e) => {
e.preventDefault();
// Add logic here to handle the POST request and update state
setComments([...comments, { content: comment }]); // Assuming you want the entire object in your state
setComment(''); // Reset the input field after posting
};

...
```

```ts

import React from 'react';
import { CommentForm } from './CommentForm';

const App = () => {
return (
<div>
<h1>Comments</h1>
<CommentForm />
{comments && <ul>
{comments.map(comment => <li>{comment.content}</li>)}
</ul>}
</div>
);
};

export default App;
```
Mark Zuckerberg stood in Congress and apologized to families of victimized teens
What would be really cool is if all of this information was readily formatted and readable on something like Wikipedia, with all of the sourced images, and then people could "print" their own personal book copies through a great printer. I can already order custom books for my toddler with his name woven into the books illustrations from places like Uncommon Goods.

It sucks there is no inbetween from <send webpage to desktop printers> and <buy a niche book that needed $750k in crowd funding to even exist>.

I'd love to be able to ship myself beautifully printed and bound books on all sorts of free information.
It must be a pretty exciting time for you.

I can't imagine how much of a difference it would make when vision models like this can be run at the edge in real time for blind users, including proper triage of relevant scene information narration.

Wild to think about the long tail of accessibility and how that's going to be wildly different with the improvements to generative AI.
On a related tangent of cars, windshields and songs within a radio play from the 1970's

[sfx: frogs, Eartha Kitt on the radio]

I was just waking up when the front tyre went.

At the same time a horse appeared, the headlights blew and the horizon came through the windshield.

I kissed Ertha Kitt and left the road like a jumbo jet diving into a swamp.

Some time later I regained a level of consciousness more ugly than the one I just left.

I'd seen some strange movies on the insides of my eyelids again and now I was wide awake.

https://youtu.be/t5o-AxAlHYM?t=60

http://www.simonrumble.com/psychedelicatessen/rangoon.html
You should push to have fiber. Once you get 1gb symmetrical (in my fortunate case after moving), there is no going back.

Not-fond memories of getting through to Crapcast support to resolve outage (e.g. cable laid in 90s failed) and then being pitched a "a great deal just for you" of "upgrading" to get catv sh*t package, as I waited.

Damn though, Crapcast did get to IPv6 fast and that specifically was solid in my previous house.
> determining if a candidate can perform the job duties. A candidate who cheated -- from the perspective of the interviewer, I guess -- but still manages to adequately perform in their role very plainly did not cheat

That's not what anyone means when they say "cheating". Cheating means to violate the conditions and assumptions of an examination or contest.

For example, if a chess grandmaster uses an AI implant to win a game and gets caught, it doesn't make it OK if they could consistently win against the same opponent even without the AI.
>Please don’t try to print it.

Sounds like a print bomb waiting to happen. Last time I had a printer it was next to impossible to cancel a print job on Windows. Back when people had wifi printers that were open or ill-secured, those were fun times.
I'm not sure why they're so often so bad. I wonder if it's the Upton Sinclair effect; to paraphrase slightly: "It is difficult to get a person to understand something, when their hoped-for future wealth depends on not understanding it."
Speeding is illegal yet most people do it because it’s impossible to enforce. There are (and aren’t) tons of laws that are like that.
Wasn't the original prolog implemented on a PDP-11/20 which only had 256kb of physical address space and no virtual memory?
So is calling HN contributions "throwing messages in conversations".

Sure, some of us might, but most folks here don't. Same way some of the contributions in that database are low value, but most aren't.
No Free Parking: An Urban Reform Movement Takes Hold
> Economics is the study of manipulating that power.

Hello! Your friendly neighborhood economist here. Economics is the study of resource allocation under scarcity.

In your comment, I think you actually mean Game Theory and Mechanism Design, which are about assessing strategic behavior (Game Theory) and about creating mechanisms that align with strategic behavior to result in preferred outcomes (Mechanism Design, sort of the opposite approach to Game Theory).

Alternatively, based on your comment here:

> The potential to have people value things differently because the means underlying that valuation had changed was there.

you might find your thoughts more appropriately align to sociology and social psychology than economics, as economics doesn't care where your valuation or preferences come from--just that you have them.

Up, up, and away!
Peter Benchley's _Jaws_ Turns 50
amb makes an appearance in the TXR Lisp test suite:

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/tests/012/cont.tl
> You have absolutely no idea what their constraints are or what their IPv6 decision making process is.

Yes I do. I've talked to them about it in depth.

> But it's not "because the hardware doesn't support it";

I never said the hardware doesn't support it. I said the hardware needs upgrades to support it at their scale, which includes software updates to the hardware, as well as the operations around said hardware.

It's been a priority for them for years and customers have been asking for years. It's not done because it requires a lot of work and capital. Hopefully the revenue they bring in from charging for IPv4 will help offset the cost of upgrades.
Hulu is cracking down on password sharing, just like Disney Plus and Netflix
> It's been very reliable so far, but sooner or later it's going to start failing.

It's not going to start to fall. The whole reason why serial port is there is to be the fallback access if everything else. It is a dumb and simple protocol, doesn't need any network to be configured.

I don't understand how serial is instead included in the complexity of networking, easily losing access if you accidentally bring down the interface or forgetting the IP.

You can't debug kernel boot because there is no networking when the kernel just started.

I think it's just obsession on complexity coupled with cutting down cost.
Kinda. Shooting from the hip based on fuzzy gatherings from IPFS usage here, but as I understand it: The leaf-level data blocks will be shared between the Merkle trees, but at least the tip (the object a given hash actually refers to) and maybe some of the other structural information will be different.
Nowhere close to the same magnitude. You’re saying with 100 years, 1000 years, 10,000 years, etc of technological progress we will never be able to simulate, or emulate what is between your ears.
It was predictable, just like the reddit comments section.
Prefix: SAFe in general is an accumulation of buzzwords. Especially geared towards larger organizations. As such I dislike it to on principle.

I will assume that you do accept that Agile overall has sensible elements. Here are some of those that do appear in SAFe. The way SAFe goes about packaging and advertising them: questionable to say the least. As would be customary when we're trying to appeal to a large corporation that wants to feel safe and minimize divergence from processes that can be applied by exchangeable cogs in the machine.

A release train

Continuously releasing functionality in small increments makes a lot of sense to me and is part of certain Agile principles.

Kanban and WIP limits

Believe it or not, they mention this. Of course they do, they want to appeal to ops teams. Kanban makes a lot of sense to me. Personally I use it on my teams whenever I'm allowed/able to where we do away with Story Points and just size things about the same into vertical slices. Of course I'm in a constant fight w/ "corporate" about hard deadlines and the "need to estimate" and they don't understand lead and cycle time and how you can estimate using those w/ same-sized tasks sigh

Refactoring

Yes, they include refactoring as a topic of note. Isn't that awesome? :P It's amazing how much text (and training you can sell I'm sure!) you can write on the simple fact that refactoring may be necessary at some point. XP refactoring mercilessly anyone?
'Western diet' apparently meaning 'refined grains, high-sugar drinks, and sweets'.
Related CGPGrey video comparing metric paper sizes to comparable objects from the plank scale to the galactic[1]; could have been an XKCD comic

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUF5esTscZI
Health care spending has been basically flat in terms of GDP for the past decade. The doom and gloom of the early part of this century is, so far, not coming to pass, and so it’s not clear at all right now that Medicare/Medicaid is a crisis. The solution to Social Security solvency is pretty straightforward forward - when the trust fund runs out around 2035-2040, either cut benefits by 25% or raise taxes by ~1% of GDP, and it’s solvent for the next century. At that point, it’s merely a political question as to which option is more palatable to the politicians. Of course the most painless way to solve the issue would be to do something about it today, but, well, you know.