skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Importantly, this means that some specific versions of these games will be gone, even from those who already bought them

This needs a citation, because for all steam games this is untrue. Once you by a steam game, even once taken down you can still redownload it indefinitely.
Maybe his decision to keep using the lung was a smart one. After all 2020 + ventilators...
This seems like a very slippery concept. You could say the same thing about many human beings. That they simply regurgitate opinions to fit into a certain role and aren't actually utilizing intelligence when making decisions.

It's almost as if there is some sort of Platonic ideal of problem solving that we call intelligence, something you can strive for but also someone can poke holes in.

Why not simply use an IQ test? The various multimodal systems coming down the pipe will either improve on taking IQ tests, or stall. If they improve, then they gain more intelligence. If they stall, then they aren't truly intelligent. Just glorified goal to action mappers.
404s: A place to find all those lost pages worthing finding
Once the parachute is deployed, the plane is totaled.

Every twelve years, the parachute and deployment rocket has to be replaced, at a cost of $20-30K.

I learned all that from this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO4YUCd5YPQ
Many years ago, I had Spondoolies Tech[0] Bitcoin miners. I've never understood the name, but maybe the owners liked oysters?

[0] https://www.coindesk.com/tag/spondoolies-tech/
Why is password manager autofill so aweful in Android?
I'm from Europe.

Since China was supporting Russia to start a war on European soil. I sure hope that China's influence is reduced to a minimum as quickly as possible.

Ofc, that includes propaganda through TikTok.
Just let em be. Move on.
And how long did it take Jack Welch to bleed GE dry? Decades. With companies this size, it doesn't happen overnight. There is a LOT built up before you that you have to systematically destroy.
It probably is, but that is a hobbyist implementation. How good RTT looks depends a lot on the resolution, rendering the scene a second time to another high resolution target is not necessarily feasible or justified.
> […] running this story is a just a sad sign of a website losing its focus.

Why? Tabs at the top of their page:

* Latest World Business U.S. Politics Economy Tech Finance Opinion Arts & Culture Lifestyle Real Estate Personal Finance Health Style Sports

Under "Business" they have:

* Airlines Autos C-Suite Deals Earnings Energy & Oil Entrepreneurship Telecom Retail Hospitality Logistics Media

Per the URL, this is Business > Auto.
Not sure I buy that. They're one of only two options in operating system but one of many in hardware models. They're much less able to win regulatory capture being a far less regulated industry and in a consumer market.
Worked for Amtrak didn't it? Well, "worked" to an extent.
Seems a lot like https://www.unison-lang.org/ especially the versioned functions as the package manager.

Can anyone expand on the differences between the projects (beyond the license)?
It’s one of those words I use just rarely enough to never learn how to spell, like supeena, deeposition, and perjery.
I've heard it described as bank-rounding
One thing I noticed about Family Dollar anytime I went into one is their prices were not any better than the local grocery store. You walk into DollarTree and it feels like a dollar store, with Family Dollar there were tons of products I saw where I knew it was cheaper at the local grocery store, and not just cheaper where you would buy a bigger item for more but end up paying less for each unit, but 1-1 products that were more expensive than competitors.

Now if the store was in a rural area with little competition that would be one thing, but this store was in a city where you could walk across the street to a Kroger.
What's your point? During the recent troubles at Boeing, very few of their top executives came from sales and marketing backgrounds. The commercial airliner business is completely unlike the consumer electronics or office automation businesses. Airliner customers are a lot more sophisticated and care deeply about product quality issues which impact their own businesses.
Today we trust humans to manage critical processes.

In the future we will need to trust humans to not run those processes with unreliable tools.

This isn't just about AI. How do we trust the humans who manage critical processes to follow good security practices (keeping systems patched, etc)?
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I once took a biology class from a guy who researched giant sequoias. Giant sequoia cones are serotinous, which means that fire on the forest floor causes them to dry out, which opens and releases their seeds. Without fire, the seed won't reach the earth.
> You have to give up your privacy to even login to IRS.gov

I'm all for privacy, but isn't privacy the opposite of what is needed on IRS.gov

If you're logged into the government website to file your taxes (or get a refund), there should be strong KYC controls in place asserting with extremely high levels of assurance - the individual logged in is who they claim to be.

How can you do that, anonymously (in a private way)?

--

EDIT: it seems like folks are saying this is primary due to using a 3rd party biometric service for login.

The IRS announced over 2-years ago, they are transitioning away from that.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-announces-transition-away-f...
> Should the Iranians and the Chinese think in the same manner?

Yes, and they do.
Bitcoin Fog operator convicted for laundering $400M
Kids dancing, kids talking about how Osama bin Laden was right, propaganda about ongoing wars, ...
I'm not sure I get your meaning. Are you implying that dd over netcat is unreliable because CSMA/CA is unreliable?
Having used an IBM AS/400 I was mightily annoyed when Microsoft dropped development of its database WinFS file system. Since then I'd hoped that Microsoft might have reflected on its WinFS failure and had been adventurous enough to take a minor step and at least extend the file attributing system past the paltry number of file attributes that have been in use for time immemorial but no such luck.

Extending file attributes is certainly not a proper substitute for a database file system but would have gone a long way towards making the management of files easier.

What I had in mind was to add metadata work areas to a file past its usual EOF. As these areas are extensions to a file they would follow the file from machine to machine.

One area would be used by the O/S for say version management, recording history and environment—list of users, user history, machines the file has been loaded on, additional info on file type (a more detailed version of the header bytes in a file), extended description or filename, etc., etc. The second area would be a user scratchpad area with multiple uses. Some or all of this information could be changed or reset depending on permissions/privileges.

As far as possible, files would be compatible with other OSes, these OSes could also be equipped with file managers capable of reading the additional metadata which would further aid compatibility.

Sadly, none of this has come to pass. So hopefully this new push for a database file system will succeed as it's surely needed.
I'm honestly worried about how will we make AI generate good content in the future when we will be able to ask for full-length movies. How will we make sure the values it teaches are what we call "good" values? How will we avoid movies from not getting weird at all?
> It's waaaay better now than it has ever been, and a pale shadow of examples it will become.

I think that depends on what you value. I've been on the internet from well before it was open to the public, and it's absolutely worse for me now than it has ever been. And getting worse every year.

But I say that because it's worse for the purposes I want to use it for. For others who have different purposes, it may very well be better. That doesn't change the fact that it is dying in terms of how well it meets my needs.

These days, the greatest utility I get from the internet is to use it as a dumb pipe between end points.
id.me, including it's horrible facial recognition, has to be one of the worst systems out on the internet
Yes, I am. I should get to use any app, under any ownership that I choose. This is a violation of my rights.
Fair, thanks for your feedback – some images work better than others in terms of the artifacting. There's lots of improvements we'd like to make, for now the best balance I've found is letting the user choose their level of detail on the site and add any masking lines as needed before PDF export
Sure, but at this point I'd settle for "fees that aren't a tiny fraction of the ill gotten gains."
Germany is a federation and US tax filing is still a mess in comparison.

As often with US oddities, the explanation boils down to "the US is big enough to make corruption really attractive and wealthy enough to be able to just ignore it".
This is bombing the front page of HN and completely absent from international news, which is surprising to me
> EU is fundamentally an American colony that has neither the economic power nor the political power to stand up to their colonizer in such a way

This is like arguing Europe was colonised by Britain when they helped the continent repel Napoleon.
That's incredibly interesting. I'm attempting what I believe to be the technique described at the moment. If I'm doing it correctly I can see why he nicknamed it 'frog-breathing.'
How about china … do not just look inside guys.
I think there needs to be some minimum regulatory bar for digital consumer rights. At the moment customers are entirely at the mercy of the vendor and digital distribution platform. To me the most egregious issue is not even publishers removing things people bought after the fact, but account bans which can cause you to lose your entire library.
Original publisher of article, not MSN cloakspam site:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/irs-committed-alarming-c...

The Taibbi visit is certainly fishy. But knocking on his door to intimidate him when he's not there is weird tactic to be intentional.
It's government overreach. No law should ever target a specific company; this is not how free-market capitalism works.
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>What I'm talking about is something you don't even seem to realize exists in professional writing

I've read hundreds of books, fiction and otherwise. This isn't a brag, it's just to say, believe me, I know what professional writing looks like and I know where LLMs currently stand because I've used them a lot. I know the quality you can squeeze out if you're willing to let go of any presumptions.

You'll notice that not once did I say current LLMs could wholesale replace professional writers anymore than they can currently replace professional software devs. I just disagree on the "not a good writer" bit.

If it's the opinion of professional writers you're looking for then you can find some who disagree too.

Rie Kudan won an award on a novel she used GPT to verbatim ghostwrite (no edits essentially) 5% of. Her words, not mine. Who knows how much more of the novel is edited GPT.
I hope Aldi gets 1,000 stores soon. Ideally I'd like to see 5,000+ Aldis in the US.
Why doesn't USA pass a law that enforces data on US citizens to be stored in the US, like GDPR does in EU?
Not necessarily making room for native companies, as the Silicon Valley giants have adapted. But they enforce certain rights, for example privacy, and if US companies (not just social media) do not want to comply they are forced to leave the EU. Some newspaper websites are not visible from Europe for that reason.
There are comments similar to this all throughout the thread. It reminds me of the movie Moneyball. Even when the numbers are clear to see, people will still much rather follow their intuition. The Oakland Athletics' insistence on sticking to the numbers anyway is what led to their enormous success, and now the same strategy is copied by sports teams around the world.

It can be hard to convince people with math alone.
US House passes bill to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face ban
I bought a System76 but had tons of problems.
> China most definitely has their hands in the data that TikTok amasses and given its popularity it's not an insignificant risk to U.S. citizens.

At least according to their website, it seems like US data does not leave US data warehouses: https://usds.tiktok.com/our-approach-to-keeping-u-s-data-sec...

I don’t know the details of course but if China wants the data there are umpteen companies who engage in data brokerage and can get the info they want.

I’m not for or against this bill, but it seems like really the issue is data collection in general, which obviously the Congress has no interest in regulating.
> Advances in medicine made iron lungs obsolete by the 1960s, replaced by ventilators. But Alexander kept living in the cylinder because, he said, he was used to it.

As somebody with a medical condition since birth, this line really hit home. I'm not speaking for Mr. Alexander, but for myself "used to it" is such a great way of putting the odd experience of living with frequent and cumbersome medical intervention.

On the one hand you have no choice so it is quite easy. You just do it. On the other hand there are often periods here and there through your life where you wrestle with the treatment, complain about it, explore other options, etc. But then a new option does come around every so often and, well, some times you stick with what you know even though there are "better" options.

"used to it" is such a disarmingly accurate way of putting it. It is simultaneously the most difficult and easy thing to do.

Requiem aeternum Paul Alexander.
Cosmic: More Alpha, More Fun
Yes, just read through this thread.
That list would also fit PHP 3.0. Those were the days!
Steampipe does live queries against the API endpoint and stores results in an in-memory cache. You can modify the cache expiration to adjust that behavior across queries [1]. If you want to do change data capture to act on results then check out the query trigger [2] in our Flowpipe open source project [3].

1 - https://steampipe.io/docs/guides/caching
2 - https://flowpipe.io/docs/flowpipe-hcl/trigger/query
3 - https://github.com/turbot/flowpipe
> I wonder what he did on those outings...

Contracting Covid, unfortunately. :(
What propaganda is TikTok pushing?

Besides if your country is strong enough you should be able to shrug it off. France recently put the right to abortion in the Constitution despite American media.
My next Amazon shipment is going to have a couple of those window breaker + seatbelt cutter combos
Cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_factor_%28cosmology%29

< 47k years: radiation-dominated era

< 9.8G years: matter-dominated era

> 9.8G years: dark-energy-dominated era
Destroying a successful culture can happen slowly over time, but once it happens, there’s no recovery from it. That’s what seems to have happened with Boeing. The 777 was the last fully pre-merger aircraft. The 787 started right after the merger and mostly seems to have escaped the problems. But since then it’s been a shit show.
Marginal changes. Most people need to fly the route they need to fly. If they're corporate, they have preferred airlines. If they're consumer, they want the lowest fare for the destination. Plus, even if you can filter by plane type, there's no guarantee that plane type is what shows up at the gate - 737NG and 737Max are roughly interchangeable for many routes. Swapping an Airbus for a Boeing would be very rare, but still not impossible (you just can't re-use the same flight crew).
> kind of want to see the owners refuse to divest

It will 100% be enforced if passed. There is marginal political will to pass this. There is no political will to bail out TikTok if ByteDance or Beijing throw a hissy fit.
> Most researchers used to only care about results above all, rather than reliability or reproducibility for other users.

This is mainly because of the way that researchers are evaluated, recognized, and rewarded. The community and your university evaluate you by your papers, not your code/software, no matter how useful/important the latter is. In the community of applied mathematics, software development is generally regarded as lower-tier non-creative work, and people believe that you write code only because you are not good enough to do mathematics.

Developing good software, you will receive many thanks but it helps little to build your reputation as an applied mathematician, if not hurts it. You will not get rewarded but (implicitly) penalized by the system, which includes the university and the community. This did happen to me.

For more details, see the penultimate slide of my talk at ICIAM 2023 (The 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ztalks/20230825-iciam23/ma...
That's entirely fair, but illustrates one of the problems I and others in the thread are having. Code or otherwise, I can't tell if a discontinuity is human or machine generated. Only one of those two things learn from feedback right now; if someone uses AI sometimes it can be hard to tell when they're not using it.
Sure, but there's legal precedent for "lies by omission" too, even legally [1].

I'm not saying that what Warner Bros does is tantamount to perjury, or even enough to sue over, but I do think it's pretty slimy. It might be allowed, but it's still dishonest, it's still theft from an ethical level, and they absolutely, unequivocally, unambiguously are aware of this fact.

[1] https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/lawwire/perjury-by-omiss...
House passes bill that could lead to a TikTok ban; fight shifts to the Senate
No they should not. Stock buybacks of such recklessness were not even legal until Reagan - for this exact reason. It's not good business when your stock is growing and your company is dying. In fact, it's just an accounting trick which is essentially vulture capitalism - but from the inside.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/25/business/bed-bath-beyond-shar...

"The $11.8 billion Bed Bath & Beyond spent on its own stock since 2004 comes to more than twice the $5.2 billion in debt it had on its books in its most recent SEC filing, a debt load that proved crushing for the company. It left the company unable to buy the inventory required to create the sales it needed to reverse losses.

“The company’s stewardship of their capital failed,” said Declan Gargan, retail director and credit analyst who follows Bed Bath & Beyond for S&P Global Ratings."
I don’t disagree, but a lot of “analysis” was not that nuanced. At one time I worked for a company where 90% of revenue was from printed periodicals. Smart, capable executives assured the whole company that the internet was not a threat, just something college kids used for fun.

Colloquial, dismissive use of “hype cycle” does not usually mean “this will change the world but foolish things, soon forgotten, will also be done in the short term”. Though I agree a deeper understanding of the term can suggest that.
ICE cars can use engine braking, and here in Sweden it get focused as part of the driving license and associated training. I recall even getting the recommendation to "exercise" the breaks once in a while in order to assert that they actually do work when you needed, since breaks that don't get used enough can get rust buildup.
I don't know why this was so hard to track down, but it's due to a lack of biometric verification atm; roadmap says they will be certified by 2024.

> Login.gov’s identity verification process does not currently conform to the IAL2 specification because it does not include biometric verification.

https://www.login.gov/partners/our-services/

> Login.gov continues to work toward achieving certification of compliance with NIST’s IAL2 standard from a third-party assessment organization.

https://www.login.gov/policy/how-does-it-work/

https://developers.login.gov/overview/

https://developers.login.gov/attributes/

> In FY 2024, Login.gov plans to offer a solution that complies with the IAL2 level of NIST 800-63 Digital Identity Guidelines.

https://www.login.gov/docs/login-gov-roadmap-november-2023.p...
Curious that the story doesn't mention he died of Covid – an infection that, you'd expect someone with his condition to be extremely keen to avoid, and who should have been able to, given reasonable precautions from his visitors.
> Behind a paywall - guess I'll just die then

Here you go...

https://archive.vn/631N4
If you pay, you would just learn that you have 60 seconds before you just die then.
Congrats on the promotion (if that’s what it is), Stachu.

I was a big fan of Darklang at one point. It really is 10x easier to use for simple stuff.

Reading their recent update, it sounds like they’re aware of the issues. I’m still skeptical that it needs to be a new language.

https://blog.darklang.com/an-overdue-status-update/
I will laugh when they will sell to a newly founded Hungarian company - EU state, but anti-west, and China's biggest ally in the region.
By the gods do I miss Meteor in it's prime. All promise, all optimism, and it worked! Until it didn't. :( Will lament it's fall forever!
The most honest USA competition be like:
Those "caveats" are pretty much direct contradictions. And the actual article on pornography addiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_addiction has even more such caveats. A fair summary is nothing like "porn bad".

So given that, I've got a better idea. Let's not regulate the thing until there's clear cause to do so.
This bill does nothing to address the problem of nation state propaganda spreading via social media. It just allows American politicians to claim a fake national security victory over a Chinese owned company while ignoring the fact that American owned social media companies are a steaming cesspool full of such content.

Dont get me wrong, I think TikTok is terrible. I won't use it. Ever. But that still doesn't mean it should be banned. Unless you want to ban all social media apps all at once. Probably still not something I would support, but I could definitely see proponents being able to form much more compelling arguments in favor of such an action.

As it stands right now, this makes zero logical sense.
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This is a war over cultural influence. I'm 100% for free markets and anti-regulation (as it nearly all is based on bribes targeted to harm competition), but I've never figured out a good theoretical policy for how a free market should interact with a unbridled dictatorship like China.
How is it they are still not quite sure if window hammers work on laminated glass underwater? It seems that this would be an important enough question to warrant testing.
You're moving the goalposts so fast you could be competing with C++ for prioritizing performance over soundness.

Reminder that your original claim was:

> The problem definitely exists in C++, but it's not acknowledged as a problem, let alone fixed.

Now it's degraded to just "but there wasn't a CVE or blog post!" which isn't even that relevant to the broader argument of Herb's that all the language guarantees don't prevent logic bugs (hence how Rust was able to have this CVE in the first place). There's a point of "good enough" for the language itself.

Nobody is making any argument that CVE count is the best or optimal metric for anything
Even if data doesn’t leave US, we want to avoid algorithmic manipulation via TikTok feed.
Zed fills the niche that Sublime left behind. Electron is what you need to make the mass market product in Thu’s class.