skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now we begin discussing a national firewall.

It's kind of already in place, since gatekeepers (Google search, Youtube, Apple Appstore, Twitter ...) all have region-specific content filters implemented and control your informational freedom and "digital mobility".

For most non-tech people, if it isn't indexed, it doesn't exist, since search results are basically their DNS.

> I've wondered what the US would do if TikTok sent a notification saying, essentially, "just connect to our servers in China".

TikTok may not be able to send that notification, or have an alternative connection be made at all, if Apple complies with the law and bans the app. I think this shows how important it is for something like the iOS ecosystem and the Apple Appstore to be broken apart, or it will become an instrument of censorship.

Now, I really don't give a fuck about TikTok and China's loss here, but it's easy to see how closed ecosystems of gatekeeper companies are a grave threat to freedom and democracy:

Today it's "protect the children", tomorrow it's "protect the morals"...

Today it's Pornhub, tomorrow it's Grindr...

Today it's TikTok, tomorrow it's Signal...

Today it's Terrorism, tomorrow it's smuggling contraceptives...

... enforced in totality through effectively absolute technical interface/access control.

Imagine there were only locked-down iOS devices, anymore, in control of the US-based company Apple, and then consider the lawful implications of their tight grip in light of a future laid out in Project 2025 [1] or Agenda47 [2]. The threat is very real.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

[2] http://archive.today/7mXlj
The tax system is one of the most infuriating aspects of living in the US. For most people IRS _already knows_ how much you owe and why. If you make a mistake on your taxes and underpay they’ll send you a stern letter, and if you overpay they’ll send you a check (this happened to me once, though the refund was only several hundred dollars).

But they make you waste time and money on “filing taxes” instead of just sending you some automated paperwork to approve or contest. Why?
s/Secure/Local

It's TipTap + Radix wrapped in tauri. No encryption / security features AFAICT.
If buying isn't owning. Piracy is the practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea.
More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691808
Occam's razor says you should not multiple entities beyond what is necessary.

Our scenario is this: There's a guy in a vehicle. He is holding a gun. He has a gunshot wound. He has been under a lot of stress.

Explanation 1: The guy shot himself. Number of entities (people) required: 1

Explanation 2: Someone else shot the guy and staged the scene to look like a suicide. Number of entities (people) required: 2

Occam's razor says suicide is the most likely explanation
Some more discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691808
> looking like hypocrites

This is the paradox of tolerance [1]. It’s a worn discussion and far from hypocritical.

In any case, I’d rather be right than consistent. Particularly when it comes to the survival and wellbeing of our people and allies. More pointedly when the other side is a dictatorship.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
"Laminated glass, which has specific safety qualities to protect people from being ejected during a crash, is nearly impossible to break underwater, AAA found after testing various tools. "
> Why should we throw open our digital borders to Chinese influence campaigns?

Because we are not China and our institutions are built on presumption of freedom of speech and freedom of thought and democracy. If we start emulating China, we will become China. Our institutions are supposed to be robust enough to handle local and foreign propaganda and if they are not, then censorship is certainly not a solution that would be compatible with the liberal democratic values that we are supposed to hold.
Also, I'm always amused that the same anti-Aldi people seem to love Trader Joes and also be the ones talking about food access, poverty issues, etc.
AI-generated sound effects for stock videos using CogVLM and AudioLDM
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691808
I’m a huge nerd about this so I enjoy this question. The logic of the system is that the protocol offers users rights by architecture. They include rights to an identity, to speak, and to choose your providers. The right to control reach is controlled by the applications, and they apply business logic to construct the threads and feeds. So: users are independently publishing structured data (a reply to a post) and applications are interpreting that data into app experiences.

As a consequence, the personal jurisdiction model as I described is a construct of the application. It can ultimately choose the logic of what gets shown. Therefore it’s top down in this case. What an application can’t do is remove a user’s identity or posts from the internet. And consequently other applications can make other decisions.

All decentralized networks are an expression of a political philosophy.
Never let pesky little facts get in the way of a good conspiracy!
> "More specifically, automakers are selling access to the data to Lexis Nexis, which is then crafting “risk scores” insurance companies then use to adjust rates. Usually upward"

In an ideal world, such data-harvesting might lead to cheaper prices / a more efficient insurance market - which would make the privacy loss worth considering from a trade-off standpoint, at least in theory.

Unfortunately it's instead likely to just lead to higher margins for insurance companies. And the only way to compete would be to harvest more data for better predictions.
Maybe not you personally millions of Americans are being directly harmed by China every year.

They're threatening to invade Taiwan, a friendly and sovereign country. They're supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They're spying and stealing IP. They're harassing and threatening dissidents in the US. And the list goes on.

Probably the most aggressively awful thing China is doing is deliberately flooding the US with Fentanyl and other drugs, killing far more Americans than all gun deaths (including suicides!) per year.

The Chinese government is incredibly hostile toward the US government and population.

It'd be really great if China and Russia were friendly countries. The way the UK, EU, Japan, and most other major countries relate to the US. No one would like it more than most Americans.

But China and Russia are run by dictators and dictators have a tendency toward doing evil. It makes sense to shield ourselves against as much of their evil shit as we reasonably can.
Showing the workspaces is really nice. I’m surprised there isn’t a built in button for it, now that you’ve sort of pointed it out
Family Dollar occupies a weird space. The successful stores are in locations where other retailers refuse to go. But they sell dollar store quality stuff at (sometimes higher than) Walmart prices.
What about unintelligent humans is not an argument against stating that there is not intelligence in "artificial intelligence".
A better example would be Conrail, the US owned railroad that took over the Penn Central. Although in this case Penn Central was completely bankrupt, and I'm not sure if the US government actually paid anything to Penn Central's shareholders.
this comment sounds weird and so AI generated.
I like this idea of geriatric McDonnel Douglas vice presidents being taken out of cryosleep every few months to make a terrible engineering decision then being put back in their cabinet.
I don't understand the continued obsession with "grouping" application instances together like this (Windows and macOS both do this, in different places and different ways).

Dear OS: If I have multiple instances of an application open it's because I'm doing different things. If one is a text editor, you should not act differently depending on if the other one is a PDF viewer or another text editor.

Many applications already have their own "grouping", usually called tabs. Web browsers being a really obvious one, and where this application grouping is the worst. Half my "apps" are really just web pages.

Grouping the window where I'm testing the web application I'm currently coding with the IDE where I'm working on the code would make way more sense than grouping it with my web-based email client... yet here we are.
Good find. I was wondering it was possible.
That's your prerogative, but you're doing a disservice to anyone less technical to yourself who you advise to do the same. This pilot is, in its current form, better than what the vast majority of people use to file their taxes. If you're already super-privacy-sensitive in your choice of tax-filing software, then great, you do you, but I'd wager that upwards of 99% of taxpayers don't know or care about this and definitely aren't choosing their tax-filing solution based on it. Maybe some of those people are getting better privacy than this, incidentally, but if so, it's not because they are seeking that out.
i wouldn't be surprised if they can get their hands on "2nd hand" a321s from companies that might find they don't need it or they want to shift to another model
[dupe]

Some more discussion a few days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39672393
> probably easier to ask Elon to start building airplanes

I’m not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but I had the same thought. I can’t imagine that building an airplane is more complicated than self-landing rockets. He could integrate them with Starlink too so customers on the flight had actual wifi that works.
Homebrew Unleashed: The Fast and Efficient Packaging Process – Ruby Rogues
Not in the wealthiest parts they don't. Go to the UES, they are not for "defunding the police" or whatever else you seem to think. The things you describe aren't "anti-police" and you are disingenuously associating reasonable restrictions, like independent oversight and the inclusion of social workers in responses when they would be appropriate, with something like district attorneys that do not wish to prosecute various categories of crimes. To be honest I didn't take you to be this disingenuous based on your earlier post, but this is just ridiculous.
Apparently at the Monaco Grand Prix he was overheard mentioning to Tony Stark his idea for an electric jet.
Not that I'd ever condone illegal activity, but I'm just putting it out there that piracy is broadly more convenient, cheaper, has no DRM, and you can keep the media for as long as you want.

It's obviously theft as well, but Warner Bros has already set the precedent that "stealing property is ok".
I have heard bizarre statements backed up by benchmarks. Eg lodash uses recursion for faster string concatenation for _.repeat() and then proved it was faster.

That said, performance hacks are often temporary: people get one benchmark, update their codebases for 'performance reasons', then the compiler updates and the code is filled with workarounds for an issue that doesn't exist anymore. There's lots of bad JS/TS using other styles because because ES2017 async/await was slow five years ago.
MBA thinking is exactly about squeezing profits by cutting expenses. You can completely gut a company's future by doing so, while having multiple years of profits guaranteed by backlog orders.

There's some kind of inertia, were bad and good decisions take some time to have their effects felt.

Likewise, due to the same inertia, unless something dramatic happens, the current administration of a company is downstream the culture of previous administrations, as the people at the helm in the present were promoted, hired mostly based on the criteria of the the last past dramatical cultural change, that was the managerial takeover by the MD bureaucrats post-merge.
… which can be understood and articulated by the median congressperson. A tall order indeed.
That would be interesting given they use Ireland to basically minimise tax, although they're still fighting a bill of $14bn the EU said they owe.
It’s driven by the PDSes and will be moving to this OAuth system soon: https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/blob/main/0004-o...
I've just been using

shuf -n 5 /usr/share/dict/words

and then manually typing them in, optionally adding any special characters or whatever the particular site requires. Changing 5 as needed, of course.
We certainly could run Federal taxes through States (mandate states to assess and tax income, use the Feds only to investigate states, not investigate individuals), but that requires an attitude of anti-Federalism that is too pedantic for the average government official or citizen who only has headspace for or "government", and is opposed by the modern Federalists who favor a stronger union (intentional power, less civil war) over general independence and local control.

anti-Federalists lose because the governments they build are structurally weaker than Federalist. Similar to how the extreme end of Anti-Federalism, "we don't need laws; everyone should just be nice" is a failed model for practical government.
No, abolishing DST is very safe. My sense is that there's a certain type of programmer who gets a little too hopped up on "abolish DST" arguments, and also is sick of time-zone bugs in their code, so jumps straight to "abolish time zones! everyone can all live on UTC!". Such people need to be gently informed that is a terrible, extremely radical, and totally unworkable proposal, and this article is trying to do that.
I was wanting to build a tool like this to transform photos into templates for doing stained glass work. This is very cool.
A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
I think the concerns are more on the third party there having this?
To give you the opportunity to pay taxes on money you made under the table (or get benefits from non-tracked donations you made charities). There are things they don't know about.
I first read this article several years ago and hated it. Giving it another shot, I still do. There are probably real issues that would come by abolishing time zone but they aren't raised here.

This article was written in 2015, when it was already extremely easy to search "What time does the work day start in Australia?". It's only gotten easier and easier as search engines implement smart widgets, of course, but even then it was not at all the medieval process described. (Finding a webcam in the city? As clever as it is stupid.)

> "It would be neat if there was a lookup table for that kind of thing."

There is now and always would be without timezones. Abolishing timezones doesn't mean people stop caring about time.
Also, it should be noted that it just removes a lot of the administrative overhead of other systems, in the sense that we won’t be employing a bunch of people to figure out who deserves money.
Yeah, sounds like an NFQUEUE helper that releases the packet after it has added the keys.
>Abolishing time zones brings many benefits, I hope.

Yes, it would eliminate jet lag from flying thousands of kilometers in an east/west direction. /s
People are currently lobbying in the US to set up much worse legislation.
Besides Boeing, that’s the last plane people would want to fly in.
Steam is a great platform, albeit with flaws. While that may be true over there, it's not on every digital distribution platform.
You’d get a lot more car crashes. In the UK it causes the peak morning commute to be in daylight
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-1011_TriStar
C4ai-command-r-v01: 35B parameter highly performant generative model
Ah, so it's for the benefit of backend. No wonder I didn't get it, being app-side.

(I wasn't "opposing" them with more boring forms of cookie, it just seemed like reinventing the same benefit but in a more complicated way; thanks for the explanation).
I was 12, and most of my store visits were supervised, largely because I didn't drive much.

It certainly felt like laundering, but you raise a great point!
Privacy isn't the main problem. Having an mildly adversarial nation state wielding a massive propaganda firehouse on US citizens is the bigger issue.
Many people are asymptomatic, and not only that, are exposed by others who are asymptomatic. Short of every single human interaction being preceded by a PCR test, the odds are that he eventually would have been exposed.

It is easy to do an at-home nasal swab test when you are infected but before the viral load has gotten to the point of being highly contagious, at which point you think you are negative but really will soon become contagious.

"Reasonable precautions" would have to be very rigorous, and I have to imagine it would be easy to cave and relax precautions as loneliness sets in.
This is more nuanced than you might expect. A given product on steam is split up into many "depots", which can be things like "windows beta version 1.33" or "mac version 1.07", and a developer has a lot of freedom to do things to depots even if the product is still in your library.

They could also push an update to all of the games they plan to pull that makes them unplayable, and potentially delete the older versions, making it hard to get a playable version of the game even though it's still in your library.

It needs to be possible to do stuff like this so that a game developer (or Valve) is able to comply with things like DMCA notices or legal judgments requiring them to stop distribution of a game.
China has banned YouTube, twitch, wordpress, medium, etc.
Its actually worse than that: in their mind, Suicide Squad was a "traditional" AAA style game with a live service component (because it has a campaign of some kind), they are planning on doubling down on the Helldivers/Payday 3 style live services that only work as live services with no campaign or story mode.
Did you write this exactly backwards? Especially for a voluntary pilot, it makes sense to not wait to launch it until it is better than every other option in every way. That's a pretty big part of the whole "pilot" idea... that something is launched smaller and faster and then incrementally improved and expanded. It's a very good idea to do things in this way!
Agreed, I think 'jack welched' or similar would be a better term. Not all MBAs are destructive to institutions. Followers of Jack Welch mostly are.
Ask HN: Side project might be useful for my team at work – should I share it?
Without delving too much into details, I'm working on a developer tool that might be very useful to my team at work. How should I go about sharing it without losing my IP on it?

- I am working on it in my own free time

- I am a contractor, not an employee. Company is based in Europe. I work remotely

- It's not directly related to the company's business, it just solves a problem in the technical stack that my company uses

- I am planning on releasing it as a product in future and monetizing it

- It might save 20-30% of development time for our team at my job

Now I've heard enough horror stories about employees losing IP of their side project. Should I share (a very unpolished, early version of) my product with my team, and how should I approach it to retain all rights over my IP?
To keep the analogy going, we should be concerned about unregulated companies creating robots with superhuman capabilities and a four-year-old’s sense of the world.

Regulators need to get ahead of this and establish a federal framework for safe robotic entrepreneurship.

For example…does the second amendment give me the right to have a drone which is capable of autonomously shooting a deer? There will be tens of millions of people who disagree on that point alone.

And then we need international agreements - much like nuclear - governing what is “fair game” for the public to have access to.

We must pursue a robot-enhanced future, carefully.
What should I do?

Try to stay calm, unbuckle your seat belt and roll your window down. Exiting through the open window is preferred above anything else. If there are children in the car, get them out first.

What if I can’t open the window?

The situation gets much more complicated.

Laminated glass, which has specific safety qualities to protect people from being ejected during a crash, is nearly impossible to break underwater, AAA found after testing various tools.

So thats that
And it also supports GPU usage monitoring!
Errr, you don't currently get to choose who owns your apps. record scratch
That's an interesting take, since reducing care crashes is one of the main arguments for abolishing DST time changes.
Lol, the US finally showing its true colors. It's a freemarket until our companies start to lose - then suddenly you gotta think of the children, national security, the brainwashed masses and the evil communists.

At this point they're basically using the same arguments the Chinese use to ban Western apps.

Bunch of sore losers. We're losing all moral authority over being a beacon of capitalism. The Chinese made a better app for funny videos and showing people dancing - this has made a lot of people very upset
This is exactly the type of setup I'm interested on replicating on my end. Thanks a lot for the post!!

Are you planning on fine-tunning the LLM further for your own needs? Have you thought about that?
This article presents one approach to doing away with customary time zones. However, there are other approaches that aren’t so jarring in these ways, though maybe in other ways, just as our current arbitrary convention is also jarring. All this to say, the article wasn’t persuasive.

Another approach might be infinite time zones, which on a local level is deferential to local customs. For important times (like transactions), UTC still exists. But, for meeting at the pub, church or school a two second difference from your house isn’t meaningful. Probably each regional hub would recognize its own solar noon anyway. So still regional coordination, but smaller regions than 1-timezone China.
If I book a flight I will definitely try to avoid flying Boeing. If there's an alternative comparable flight with an Airbus, even if it's a bit more expensive, I will book it instead.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who takes Boeing's reputation into account here.
Free trade should go both ways.

It's ridiculous to let Chinese apps and websites operate in the West when China blocks so many Western sites and apps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_...
> USPS is extra weird, because the recipient pays (via ad exposure) for the benefit of the sender (low postage).

No this is 100% wrong.

We do not subsidize bulk mail, the rates we pay are a penalty for the difficulty of processing our mail.

Bulk senders only receive preferred rates if they conform to very specific specifications about presorting, proper labeling, where the mail is dropped off, how far it's traveling, quantity, size, and weight. All of these factors and more impact the cost of the USPS to process a single piece of mail. The business doing some of that preprocessing saves the USPS money and they pass the savings on to the business.

USPS offers flat rate, media mail, and priority options that have dimensional and weight restrictions because those allow them to more cheaply and efficiently process those packages.