skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is clearly evidence that China is the problem. It's exactly what everyone predicted. And it's what I've witnessed in the past few years at scientific conferences. This is how the system puts pressure on outsiders, it gets the locals to explain how dire the consequences would be for them.

15 years ago conferences were legitimately free and everyone felt free. I felt comfortable visiting China.

Now, I get emails asking for slides ahead of time to make we don't say anything. Chinese faculty members show up with minders. I get pleading comments in private to make sure to never say anything political because my hosts would be punished.

Heck, we had to change the ethics section of a paper recently to make my student comfortable in case he plans to return home because employers and the government would hold him accountable for what it said originally. Nothing crazy by the way, nothing even directly mentioning China, just about the general idea of freedom.

15 years later, I don't feel comfortable going to China anymore or letting any of my students go to conferences there anymore.

The only thing you know about Dave McCarty's actions is that he was extremely concerned about the locals. I could have said something in my talk about the Uyghurs and Hong Kong when I was there. And if it was a Chinese funded event in the West I would have. But it would have been my innocent friends and their families who were hosting us at the conference that would have paid the price for that. You're really buying into exactly what the system wants you to think here.
Old man lose horse.
What are the options for the rest of us plebs without rooted phones?
This is basically regulatory capture for the fraudsters. Fraudsters will have forums full of ID fraud services to fix their KYC problem. Big platforms won't blink at the costs involved with verification. Fraudsters will simply rinse and repeat when their scheme collapses.

Normal business people will have yet another headache. Corner cases will exist where users are condemned to unending bureaucratic limbo. A human support person, if they exist at all, will repeat a meaningless mantra, "I'm sorry sir, we've been unable to verify your identity with the documents provided. This is a compliance requirement as per the online platform safety act of 2026"

All the while, scammers will be churning out new KYC'd accounts. The process will have nothing to do with safety, as the platform will only care about complying with the new regulation. Don't forget that Amazon still earns fees from each sale. Large platforms will enjoy the compliance requirements as an additional barrier to entry for competitors.

Not to mention the inevitable day when all of that personal data is released. Breeches exposed for all to see. Another headache the fraudsters won't have. The regulars of the ID fraud forum will probably enjoy it.

I could start my own VC fund if I had $1 for every post on HN claiming, "It is so simple and easy! We can fix this with more government!" It is never so simple when you are dealing with humans and incentives. Human societies are not codebases you can just patch to eliminate bugs.
> for not cracking down on student groups critical of US imperialism

My understanding is that the controversy you are referring to was regarding what circumstances it is ok for students to call for genocide against Jews, and whether that specific speech would violate the universities' policies against hate speech.

I don't think it's accurate to reframe that controversy as "critical of US imperialism".
There probably was no way to hold this in china without not screwing it up.
Ask yourself what will occur when natural resources are no longer feasible to supply at the rate they are now, such as Oil or vital resources to produce electrical components.
Not wonderful UX, but intended to illustrate underlying capabilities. A collaborative composable community ecosystem of recommendation, vs status-quo black-box recommendation engines and vote-with-your-feet "personalization".
No, I think that is very important which is why I fight against DNSSEC.

Have a look at DNSCurve, it solves many of the problems DNSSEC was attempting to address but with proper transport security. We implemented this at OpenDNS back in 2010 so it would opportunistically use it if available.
Pretty sweet, but a few requests: output to insert statements. Provide small drop down box after clicking on a button that let's me input the schema and table (ie in mssql: db.schema.table_name) and a copy to clipboard button.
Votes are (to a greater extent than HN) used to indicate disagreement rather than low quality (which leads to more low quality comments); political content is allowed and encouraged (but only that which aligns with the beliefs of the moderators); many users have been banned without any transparency as to why; significant groupthink about technical topics (separate from the political content).
> the short of it is: one of the 2023 award administrators leaked a set of emails showing that the American/Canadian contingent of the committee (voluntarily! proactively! and incompetently!) vetted potential finalists for political statements relating to China, and then the main administrator presumably used that info to mark some of them ineligible. It should be said: there’s no indication that Chinese censors even cared about the content of the English work. Some of it had already been translated into Chinese for goodness’ sake! So the Western members of the committee appear to have been flailing about based on what they thought China wouldn’t like, and preemptively self-censored, rather than, oh, I dunno, refusing to censor anything in the first place.

That's how censorship works, though. A country with mostly free speech will clearly and unambiguously ban a list of works (or types of content). There are always some limits to speech, but debates are possible as long as the rules are clearly defined.

Authoritarians expect self-censorship and have vague rules because they expect you to be making an effort to do what they want (or at least to pretend you are). Having platforms do the censorship, and banning the platforms that do a poor job is a lot more scalable than making it all centralised.

In an authoritarian state you can't get a decent official list of banned works, and in a distopian state you can't even get a list of alllowed works. Incompetence in how censorship is applied by platforms is expected, if not always tolerated.
Does that mean Google can take them away at any time? Does Google have any contractual obligation to keep them available, or transfer them to some trusted third party to host them when Google kills the product?
Yeah, these days I'd put Laravel and Rails pretty toe-to-toe on features and productivity. Django is good but it's not in the same tier, imo.
Do you have evidence for this claim?

As evidence against: Lobsters, which uses an invite tree, has virtually no spam to speak of.
Freedom only exists is when it is periodically exercised and consistently defended without compliance or compromise.
One might ask the same of us who use our initials on hacker news.
The houses aren't fake. They were bought as an investment (it isn't uncommon in China to own several) with no people to live in them. The rest of the world hasn't collapsed yet, but the problem is the same.
You can imagine it as Bitcoin: it has no value, but the prices stay high as long as people pour more money in than they pull out.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39415234 - Feb 2024 (301 comments)

Hugo Awards – A Report on Censorship and Exclusion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39382323 - Feb 2024 (1 comment)

The 2023 Hugo nomination statistics have been released and we have questions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132185 - Jan 2024 (74 comments)

Hugo Nomination Report Has Unexplained Ineligibility Rulings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39083571 - Jan 2024 (3 comments)

2023 Hugo Awards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38012127 - Oct 2023 (67 comments)
Unlike Google you still managed to not pull in a irrelevant pages but instead tell the truth whenever you didn't have any results.
Negative, irrational and transcendental numbers are all on the same number line.

Getting out into a plane (and losing something as important as the order relation) is radically different from figuring out what other numbers are on a line.
I'm almost certain Cogi will record calls.
Party of Crooks and Thieves
In that case, it doesn't matter unless and until (first-party) mod tools are available, which ain't the case yet (last I checked).
Related ongoing thread:

Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39415234 - Feb 2024 (301 comments)
For what it’s worth, I quite enjoyed Parasite and Everything Everywhere All At Once, “despite” the fact that they won Oscars.
Order relations don't appear in QM.
Capturing Avian Perspectives: Pigeon photography
From the point of view of somebody outside of Florida, that particular state seems to have a larger than normal amount of MLM scams, telemarketing fraud, real estate fraud and money laundering.
Consumer tech has improved so we can attach cameras to pigeons again once again.
The right tech stack will not bring success, the wrong one will doom it.
I assumed he meant an ankle bracelet?
The flooding and naval battles were done in a time before the colosseum had tunnels underneath iirc. After these were dug, no more naval battles.
That's not what I'm saying. Bell or any CHSH-like experiment can be equivalently described using random variables and quasi-stochastic processes instead of quantum states, unitaries, and measurements. It would still involve non-local correlations and inequality violations, but without mentioning the Born rule, phases, and interference with imaginary numbers. It is just an equivalent mathematical framework.
Let's indeed hope that it will still be humans doing most of the voting on HN.
We didn't say that we are affiliated with OpenAI. In our FAQ, we've described SoraApp.Art as an innovative platform leveraging OpenAI's Sora model to convert text descriptions into dynamic, high-quality videos.

We anticipate that OpenAI will eventually make their Sora API available to the public, and we're betting on that possibility. However, we view OpenAI's Sora API as akin to chat completion, with numerous add-ons that we can integrate. For instance:

1. Implementing captions and video voiceovers atop the generated videos to streamline the movie generation process.

2. Incorporating features for transferring to 3D models.

3. Developing a built-in tool to assist users in generating more precise prompts and exerting finer control over the video elements.

In essence, our current product development is predicated on the assumption that we will gain access to an API from OpenAI's Sora in the future.
> what appears to have been a xenophobic quest to keep the awards firmly American

The mental gymnastics required to reach this conclusion are truly impressive.
We have finite resources.

Tesla thinks that investing in AI is more effective than investing in lidar and radar.

Google thinks that investing in lidar and radar is worth it.

We'll see how it turns out.

My feeling is that Tesla is right.
How do you set your domain on fast mail to use @.domain.com? I only know @.
Paid mods have been a thing for Bethesda games for a long while; that's effectively what the Creation Club is.

In any case, they haven't introduced paid Starfield mods yet (nor have they introduced official support for Starfield mods at all), so until that happens it ain't (yet) a live service game.
It was already extensively covered when it was new.

It probably died down because when you strip the sensationalism from the stories it comes down to this.

1. Bad guys took leaked emails and passwords that were leaked from other sites and tried them on 23andMe.

2. 14000 of those people in those leaks from other sites had 23andMe accounts and used the same email and password at 23andMe.

3. That gave the bad guys access to everything on those accounts.

4. 23andMe has an opt in feature that shows you all your relatives on 23andMe who have also opted in. "Relative" means people out to 4th cousins. Mine has 1500, although I suspect that the average is more like 700.

5. The majority of 23andMe users opt in to relative sharing. This is not surprising since finding relatives is one of the major reasons people use DNA testing services.

6. If you are on 23andMe and opted into relative sharing, and any one of your relatives who also opted in is one of the 14000 from #2, then the bad guys can see your name, geographical area, and DNA relationship to your relative from #2 on that person's relatives list.

7. That turns out to be about 7 million people.
It's already a thing. With showdead, you can see the corpses of tens of marketing posts at the bottom of a submission with a high score.
> currently only supported in Debian and Ubuntu, but cool to see BSD getting in on the action ahead of other players like Arch or Redhat

VPP is available in AUR and there is nothing stopping anyone from building and running it on RHEL or any other Linux distro. A former employer had a commercial deployment on a custom RHEL derivative.
There is nothing I can share because it is proprietary information and would assist in informing spammers on how spam detection works on the platform I used to work on.

That being said, if there are lots of dormant accounts on lobsters, they are likely spam bots just waiting to be activated once the rules are deeply understood and there is something to gain, or be waiting until there are more than the mods could actively fight against because they lack the tools to do so (see: false sense of security).
Probably the main point that the software should function at least as well as a non-impaired capable human still stands…
I was a giant Star Wars fan as a kid—watched them on vhs so many times I could re-play the trilogy in my head, every line, every cut, every musical cue; games, comics, way too many novels (seriously, in hindsight any is too many, even the “good” ones were bad—yes, even those). Toys. That crappy CCG. All of it.

Lapsed after AOTC, but, still, quite a fan. I definitely don’t hate Star Wars.

I’d rank The Last Jedi as the 3rd best Star Wars movie and my 4th favorite. I was very surprised at the Internet reaction to it—came out of the theater like “oh wow, that was kinda almost good, people will be so happy!” LOL.
It's only incomplete if you require particular operations, you're perfectly fine with +-*/ and real numbers.
The original Likud charter said from the river to the sea should be Jewish domination. Netanyahu recently affirmed that.

Funny to speak of genocide when the self-described Jewish state is committing genocide in Gaza and is being brought up on charges of genocide at the ICJ. The words Jews and genocide will be linked from now and in the future - the genocide the Jewish state is committing against the Palestinians.

In November the UN voted recently Palestinians have the right to self-determination. The only countries who voted against were Israel, the US, US compact member Micronesia, and the 10,000 population island of Nauru which gets a UN vote although the US blocks Palestine from having one. 70% of Americans want a ceasefire incidentally.

The world and 70% of Americans stand in horror against the genocide the self-described Jewish state is committing.
Will the last one to leave please turn off the robots?
They do, a lot, just not about wave-function amplitudes.
I've used Call Recorder from f-droid but success will vary across phone manufacturers.
What I am not really liking about Gemini is how they haven't bundled this into an existing tier of Google One. I am paying for 2TB and I have to cough up extra to get access to the best model.
If we evolve into Eloi and Morlocks, I want a time machine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlock
This paper [1] doesn't stoop to providing an example, but isn't that just the thing where you can write 1 and i as 2x2 matrices? I don't think that's what Scott is talking about. Requiring that the elements of the density matrix be real (or allowing them to be quaternion) creates a non-equivalent theory.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.08525.pdf
I'd throw this guide in the trash:

1. tiny fonts

2. too busy slides

3. way too much text in them

People complain my slides are too simple. (They're supposed to be!) Stick to 3 points. Remove all unnecessary words. Make the font as big as you can.

Never, ever show a slide full of code.
Bookcision: Backup Kindle Highlights (open source bookmarklet)
> I’m embarrassed to have been used in this way — as a nice “no issues” name on a list, in order to further what appears to have been a xenophobic quest to keep the awards firmly American

I disagree
Given your refusal to provide any evidence or counterexamples, the cop-out that "there are probably actually lots of spam accounts of Lobsters that haven't activated yet", and the extremely naive nature of your comment that ignores simple modifications that can be made to an invite system to nullify all of the flaws you claim it has, I don't think that you actually have any evidence whatsoever.

It's pretty clear that invite trees provide actual value and the opposite of a "false sense of security".
There is no legal doctrine under which Adobe could sue him over copying the functionality of Photoshop.
On an iOS device that potentially means erasing GBs of content (photos, iCloud Drive and app files, Safari bookmarks etc) and re syncing GBs of content from the new account. Over and over.

Not to mention potential criss crossing of accounts that happens. Heck my work phone still rings when my personal FaceTime get a call even if I completely logged out of my personal iCloud on the work phone (was a bad idea should never have experimented). No obvious way to fix that.

At some point all my personal iCloud photos showed up on my work phone due to a similar problem. That’s fixed now but I’m always worried it’ll happen again.

I’ll never login with a personal iCloud on a work device ever again.
Poor sample size: N = 8
Short timespan: duration = 6 months
lack of NGS to support claim.
but mainly... your article lacks a reference. Do better journalism.
> I think the value of metrics like this is limited, since code base size only very roughly corresponds to implementation complexity.

This sounds a lot like the "your model is wrong because nuance X" argument. I want to remind you that all models are wrong, but some of them are useful anyway. In particular, I have found the size of source code to be a highly useful predictor of complexity. It has helped me predict where bugs are, where changes are made, where developers point out areas of large technical debt, and many other variables associated with complexity.

The test of a model is not whether it accounts for all theoretical nuances, but rather whether it's empirically useful – and critically, has higher return-on-investment than alternative models. What model do you suggest for implementation complexity that you have verified to be better than code size? Genuinely interested!

(Additionally, I have also successfully used the compressed size of input data to predict the resource requirements of processing that data, without actually having to process it first. This is useful because the compressed size can be approximated on-line rather cheaply.)
> "these systems have to be fully automated because no one could afford to operate manual systems at our scale", what's really being said is more along the lines of "we would not be able to generate as many billions a year in profit if we hired enough competent people to manually review cases our system should flag as ambiguous, so we settle for what we can get without compromising profits".

well anything that comes out of any business has these intentions for sure, but statements could be like multi-dimensional vectors, they could be doing 2 things at once

the ROI for fraud is low for a smaller platform and so it doesn't happen for smaller scale companies as much as it does for bigger scale. but given the interested party who is explicitly looking for the target cohort even the smaller platforms see the fraud

so even if social media as whole were to split into multiple entities, the ROI would still make sense for fraudsters to continue the fraud.

even if you have 1000s of entities, there would be a startup who can build a wrapper out of those 1000s of entities to make the fraud ROI possible. just like how there are businesses that offer scraping competitors
name+service@email.com is also a good way to find out. It’s standard and accepted by most sites and most email providers. I use it, didn’t find any proof of service selling my adress except some random Ali express vendor the one and only time I bought here an item I couldn’t find anywhere.
They don't appear in the mechanics, they appear in the things we say about the mechanics.
> I could have said something in my talk about the Uyghurs

What a laugh to point a finger at Chinese treatment of Muslims when the NATO countries are arming the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
All platitudes are pure baloney, including this one.

Good slides are good slides, bullet points or not.

Slide’s message immediately grockable, not too jarring color scheme that’s appropriate for the occasion, and clear, crisp and concise language.

You can over do bullet points, but that’s true of every single element that’s commonly used in slides.
Unfortunately, this is the kind of thing that all bullshido practitioners say. "It's too deadly to use in a ring since I might break bones or kill the opponent" so I can't. Please note that I'm not saying that you are one. I'm just saying that you're using the same argument that charlatans do.

If Tai Chi is indeed so deadly, it must be possible to tone it down just a little to make it 75% as effective inside a ring. Just short stop of breaking bones or dislodging joins (submission holds) and still be useful. Good martial arts and artists are flexible enough to adapt. If Tai Chi were so deadly and a practitioner gets accosted in a narrow alley, it should be flexible enough to be useful. Otherwise, it's simply not effective as a fighting system.
Either that or we can make the claim that it's not a fighting system. It's a set of exercises (like pilates etc.) that achieve certain outcomes and measure against those metrics. That's fine too.

The tendency has been parodied in countless media instances. e.g.The Bruce Lee appearance in "Once upon a time on Hollywood", the youtube channel "Master Ken", The instagram account "McDojo life" etc. Master Ken does this especially well with his "Ameri do te" which is so street lethal that it's impossible to even demo some of the techniques.
Sorry about Ginny
There are maps.

And in South Berkeley, I pay almost $30k/year. Neighbor pays $3.5k.

https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/
Her short stories, including "Rabbit Test", can be found on this page: https://samtasticbooks.com/short-fiction/
I mean, I don't work on lobsters, I have no desire to be a member there. So why would I have any evidence to support my claim about a platform I give two shits about?

I'm simply telling you how spammers work on OTHER platforms, quite successfully. Whether lobsters is immune to that or not, I don't know, nor do I care to know. If you think they are immune, then great (see: false sense of security).
There's no magnet link for this new (Mistral Next) model as of right now.
they have, it's part of Google one.