skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(2) wouldn't work. People agree with propaganda not because they think it is telling the truth. On the contrary, they agree with propaganda and then they start believing it. I'd say it is more like a social adaptation, you need to be like others.

(3) wouldn't work either, I think. Propaganda can absorb losses and paint them as a heroic struggle against overhelming odds.

> Are there alternatives (that don’t require classified information or a SCIF) that don’t rely on these or is the task complexity simply at that scale?

I don't know any, but I think that some way to form societies independent from the government might help. Some way to meet people, to discuss things with them, to plan actions and to do it at a large scale. But the problem is how you can distinguish a goverment spy from a freedom fighter? It is the key problem, everything else is just an implementation detail.
John isn't a bad guy, and if he was close to achieving good things, I would be all for supporting him.

Unfortunately, he is living off a 6 figure sum he got from stock years ago. He is rapidly burning it to 0 by buying unprofitable real estate. Instead of proving out ideas on a small scale, and scaling up from there, he thinks if he just tries for a home run, he can eventually do it. But he has multiple kids that he isn't seeing when he's in Pine Bluff most of the time. It's obvious that he's burning through his savings and will go bankrupt if he doesn't change course sooner. The nuclear reactor or mayor of Pine Bluff moonshots are never going to pan out.
I think there must be a way of doing this so you just have to trust the OS. The camera feed itself could be essentially private and only pass on locations and types of objects. In this way you could whitelist / blocklist items or categories.

But you would defo have to trust the OS, and in this case Meta…
This entire post is so great. Love that it was posted by dbcooper lol
In Spanish doesn't, and it never did.

However I remember hitting Ctrl+G to save often
Meet our hero: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-39459831.
The blog entry titled "Less variables, more flows example vs Python" is strange. ( https://ryelang.blogspot.com/2021/11/less-variables-more-flo... )

The Python version uses intermediate variables so the author of the code is to blame for verbosity, not the language.
Presumably as functions, the same way as excel?

and(x, y) -> bool

or(x, y) -> bool

if(cond, funcTrue, funcFalse) -> void
> I said a lower CPI is better for the government because it makes it look like inflation isn't as bad as it is.

Let me guess, you think anything other than 0% inflation is "bad"?
Why stop there? Add more than 15 sails and you could be generating fuel!
People that a really too wide to fit in a single seat are already required to pay for two.
Waymo to launch commercial robotaxi service in Austin by end of the year
I originally tried binstall but it seemed to not work with our corporate proxy. However, I decided to give it another go after seeing your comment.

Now, it works great! I tried it with a mise update, and it pulled down the right binary with no proxy problems.

Thank you for the reminder and recommendation, much appreciated!!
If it were common enough in available foods then they wouldn't have added it to table salt.
> They are not treating Bitcoin as money.

Indeed. So will Bitcoin become relevant to this discussion in 2140 when new issuance ends? I’m not sure there’s much difference between then and now in practice as 95% it all Bitcoin possible is already live on the chain.
What’s the story of dbcooper?
Performance improvements that don't force me to adapt my workflow are great! Making a page load faster is always a good thing. They're also not super visible. I think there's a theory of this from game design where something like 100ms is just as annoying as 500ms, but get it below ~30ms and you're golden. I've forgotten what it's called.
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I guess you aren't too familiar with the context. The Chechens wars were major post-USSR wars fought by Russia, extremely bloody and violent, and an awkward point in Russia's self image as a major power. In the first Chechen war, the tiny, remote breakaway region declared, and maintained on battlefield, it's independence from Mighty Russia. The Second installment undid that, and was what you would consider the first major popularity booster for Putin - regardless of whether the FSB was bombing its own people. Either way, the stakes were high, these weren't obscure wars.

As for the "pure psychopaths" bit... Russia has a long history of sacrificing its citizens for the Greater Good. The "meat grinder" in Ukraine is one example. Another, quite unambiguous one, is the Dubrovka theatre hostage crisis: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisi... . Terrorists (Chechen actually, though there is speculation, again, about FSB involvement) took a whole Moscow theatre hostage. The anti terrorist units attacked, killing all 40 terrorists but also over 120 of the hostages. A combat gas was injected into the theatre, which incapacitated the terrorists and allowed an armed attack, but also killed lots of the bystanders.

As for books, I can't recommend any "latest history" books on Russia, but you could do a lot worse than "Red Notice" by Bill Browder for general context. It's a great book, about a Western (American?) guy who goes to Russia in the 90s, sets up an activist hedge fund, and makes a killing. All was well so long as he was useful to the government, but when their paths diverged, all got rather messy.
It doesn't really matter how many times the T is constructed: the pointer resulting from "new" points to the T object, but the pointer from accessing the member just points to the byte array, and the latter cannot be turned into the former without std::launder().
If technological progress doesn't end somehow (due to some catastrophe on Earth), then it's only a matter of time before humans land on Mars and (later on) figure out how to live there long-term.

Eg. underground dwellings are a thing.
Another (weird) advantage of a landline: you didn't always know who was going to answer, sometimes you were just calling "the house," and it allowed for more serendipitous conversation.

The main example is probably just calling up your parents, whether as a kid or even as an adult calling up their elderly parents. Sometimes you just want to speak to "your parents." You didn't have to decide whether to call mom's cellphone or dad's cellphone. And you didn't have to worry about who you called last. Heck, with caller ID, mom or dad could even decide who wanted to chat with you.

My mother-in-law actually complains about this going the other way. Sometimes she just wants to call our house, because she'd love it if I randomly picked up and she could chat with me in passing. She'd find it awkward to call my phone, because we don't quite have that "chat about nothing on the phone" relationship, but it used to be that you could get two minutes of catching up with someone before you said "ok, now pass me to the person I was really calling for."
Not quite, it's like having them both on your hand and your face, and someone comes and cleans up your face.
> One neither gets to choose when the Sabbath comes, nor do believers get to opt out of observing it.

That may be true in some traditions (e.g. Judaism) but not others.

In the Christian tradition they choose to observe the sabbath on Sunday, not because it is the 7th day (which would be the same day that the Jews observe), but because it is the day of resurrection. There's nothing saying it could not be yet another day.

Additionally, the scriptures say that observation is not mandatory by saying "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath", therefore the believers have authority over their observation of it (with observation still highly recommended).
> Do be do be do

Solvers in the night
Exchanging glances
Wondering in the night
What were the chances
We'd be solving it
Before the night was through

(anachronistic, but) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnPy7DmMHgQ&t=140
Why hasn’t the market corrected the imbalance: more women moving to Bay to get access to these high income men ?
This is possible with fexprs or equivalent constructs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fexpr

It looks like that's how Rye does it as well, blocks can be conditionally evaluated: https://ryelang.org/meet_rye/basics/if_either/

"In REBOL, contrary to Lisps, blocks or lists don’t evaluate by default. For better or for worse, this little difference is what makes REBOL - REBOL." https://ryelang.org/meet_rye/basics/doing_blocks/

It's difficult for a language with this semantics to be made efficient, but efficiency isn't everything.
I read this, took a shower and can now share my own shower thoughts.

Imagine explaining all of this to a person asking you why you're unavailable on a Sunday. It's much easier to just say "my god says so". Depending on the person, it also often gives much higher chances of them respecting your way of life.

I embrace the Christian concept of the seventh day of the week free from work, having arrived here in a completely non-religious way. It's one of the things that made me convinced that there is some value in religion, despite all the corruption and misguided dogmatism on the surface.
That's approximately two Honda Civics.
we agree: still not amazing.
> Victims, looking forward to confirming they were up for cocktails and canapes, were directed to click on a link to a hijacked, Cozy Bear-controlled website – waterforvoiceless[.]org/invite.php – which would download a .zip file. Marks who opened the archive and then its contents would end up executing a program called ROOTSAW, which would infect the PC with the WINELOADER backdoor, fetched from waterforvoiceless[.]org/util.php

It is a damning indictment of modern UI design that users will mindlessly click through so many intricate and red-flaggy steps without stopping to wonder if ROOTSAW.EXE which they have just extracted from an unexpectedly received .zip file is really a plausible invite confirmation mechanism.
Of course, the definition of 'too wide' has changed over time as seats have shrunk.
I don’t think the hyper competitive fixation some men develop is healthy, nor something women should aspire to. Maybe it looks cool to be “the best” at something but if you look into the mental health of olympic athletes you get a very disturbing picture of what is going on here.
This looks very promising!

The problem I most want to solve with this kind of library is execution of untrusted user-provided code in a sandbox.

For that I need three things:

1. Total control over what APIs the user's code can call. I don't want their code being able to access the filesystem, or run subprocesses, or make network calls - not without me explicitly allowing a controlled subset of those things.

2. Memory limits. I need to be able to run code without fear that it will attempt to allocate all available memory on my computer - generally that means I want to be able to set e.g. a 128MB maximum on the amount it can use.

3. Time limits. I don't want someone to be able to paste "while true() {}" into my system and consume an entire CPU thread in an infinite loop. Usually I want to say something like "run this untrusted code and throw an error if it takes more than 1s to run"

My most recent favourite solution to this is the https://pypi.org/project/quickjs/ Python library wrapper around QuickJS, which offers those exact features that I want - memory limits, control over what the code can do, and a robust time limit.

(The one thing it's missing is good documentation, but the https://github.com/PetterS/quickjs/blob/master/test_quickjs.... test suite covers all of those features and is quite readable.)

Can PyMiniRacer handle those requirements as well?
BYD sees NEV share reaching 50% in next 3 months in China, EV price war heats up
I just scrolled through his tweets (Xeets?) and I must say I really like the guy. Hugely entertaining.

I hope for his sake this is all a performance art but but I doubt it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

If he is posting, I sincerely hope he's doing it through the security-from-state of some anonymized internet access. Chances are he's just dead though.
> There are simply no viable alternatives to something like Excel, for a lot of organizations at least.

Anyone want to educate me on this? Anything I want to do in a spreadsheet, I can do in Gnumeric, Libre Office, or even Numbers; anything more complicated I'd rather do in a proper programming language. What makes Excel really so indispensable?
Probably LibreDrive for use with MakeMKV.

https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18856
NEV = new energy vehicles = EVs and PHEVs (plug in hybrid electric vehicles)
Cargo ships have ridiculous life expectancies measured in decades, so it's very likely to make a significant dent.

Note that 12 tons/day was the best case, the average was 3 tons, so that's more like $2000/day or around $400K/year assuming the ship is at sea 200 days/year.

Anything on a ship with moving parts has significant maintenance costs, so it'd be nice if they had a ballpark figure of the installation/maintenance costs as well as expected lifetime of the system.

And what happens in a serious storm? It looks like these can be rotated but not folded down flat, so what happens in unpredictable winds during a storm?
No, not really. A big part of the problem is half baked software on the client side.

For devcontainers even the reference implementation CLI is significantly incomplete.
It feels to me that what they're saying is that there is a pool of people who are unable to work (the percentage of people being disabled by Covid is a decent percentage of the total prior disability rate) but are currently on unemployment benefits rather than disability benefits because the latter requires a lot of jumping through hoops.

Cracking down on "malingering" will drive these people to jump through the hoops for disability rather than actually pushing them into the workforce.

We see a related issue in the US--conservative obsession with pushing them into the labor force. Hint: most of those people are either taking care of someone else (and pushing them into the labor force will dump that other person into the state system, costing the state more), or are those who are marginally functional physically but fully there mentally--whose time is much better spent in school learning some sort of knowledge skill rather than minimally productive physical labor.
The first two links are about Gmail and personalized results in web search specifically. Even as late as 2011 SSL being activated for a product was treated as unusual enough to write blog posts about, and it was up to individual projects whether or not to activate it and how to trade off the latency costs.

You're right that I might be mis-remembering the ordering of things, but I'm pretty sure by the time Snowden came around the vast majority of traffic was still unencrypted. Bearing in mind that lot of Google's traffic was stuff you wouldn't necessarily think of, like YouTube Thumbnails, map tiles and Omaha pings (for software update). Web search and Gmail by that point made up a relatively small amount of it, albeit valuable. Look at how the Chrome updater does update checks and you'll discover it uses some weird custom protocol which exists purely because at the time it was designed Google was in a massive LB CPU capacity crunch caused by turning on SSL for as many services as possible. Omaha controlled the client so had the flexibility to do cryptographic offload and was pushed to do so, to free up capacity for other services.

> What changed after Snowden was how Google encrypts traffic on its network, according to an article quoting you at the time.[5]

That also changed and did so at enormous speed, but I'm pretty sure by June 2013 most external traffic still didn't have TLS applied. It looks like Facebook started going all-SSL just 8 months before Snowden.
They’ve long been anti-competitive against alternatives like Hackintosh’s or file lawsuits over interface similarities. That aggressive suppression of competing suppliers is partly how they got tens of billions of dollars. They’re not doing it for security.

One test, though, would be to look at customizability of Mac OS vs iOS. They claim to be securing both. Can we run custom apps easily on Mac OS, script it, get full access to our files, etc? If so, why would they restrict the iPhones from doing those things, but leave Macs wide open, if it was merely a security issue?

Another example might be remote, access tools. Aka remote control of iPhones. If App Store has any, then they’d put iPhones at much higher risk than users running their own code on their own devices. Even with a review given that a RAT might have a zero day that gives attackers full control. If they restrict user freedom, but allow RAT’s, that would be another hint that they restrict user freedom for anti-competitive reasons.

I don’t have Mac OS, though. It might be as locked down as the iPhone. That would make my argument useless.
Ah, the Fifth Element strategy.
Let me choose how much work is enough for me. I don't need an LLM wiping my butt, and I enjoy reading the filtered results; not all work is bad.
I think I'm totally missing the reference (apparently the Robert in the video?). I thought it was Bob's your uncle (instructions complete), or Uncle Bob the photographer (who doesn't know how to use his own equipment).

Pretty sure its not a T-800 Terminator or smoking pot like Bob Marley reference.

Also, totally feel like an LLM doing the %chance this word game.
Stole a bunch of money, hijacked a plane, jumped out with a parachute, escaped capture.
I think buying a warehouse is kinda cool! But if he’s facing security problems, can’t he just hire guards? The labor price must be as low as land price there.
That's amazing!

I'm separately very interested in LLMs, but still very much in a "keep them the hell away from my kids" mindset.
Interval Parsing Grammars for File Format Parsing (2023) [pdf]
in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam it's an established concept that the suits used 'AMBAC' to coordinate in space[0], which is really just a computer coordinated method of flailing the limbs on the robot to get inertia and mass to do its' thing to move the robot without thrusters, similar to a mass wheel but without the needed additional weight of a flywheel.

I always sort of wished that they had animated the little micromovements into the suits to show this feature more readily ,but production costs and weird looking movement generally prevented AMBAC from ever being demonstrated visually.

This concept reminds me a lot of that.

[0]: https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Active_Mass_Balance_Auto-Cont...
A minor quibble; iirc it was only connections that crossed datacenters that were encrypted. RPC connections within a cluster didn't need it, as the fiber taps were all done on the long distance fibers or at telco switching centers.

But otherwise you're totally right. I suspect the NSA got a nasty shock when the internal RPCs started becoming encrypted nearly overnight, just weeks after the "added and removed here" presentation. The fact that Google could roll out a change of that magnitude and at that speed, across the entire organization, would have been quite astonishing to them. And to think... all that work reverse engineering the internal protocols, burned in a matter of weeks.
FWIW, I tend to find that it doesn't have to be a full brain idle. Some active component seems to be helpful, but I think it needs to be easy to pause and that there's a sweet spot on the amount of engagement.

Reading actual books or other longform documents is usually pretty fertile/generative. Watching youtube or a movie or listening to a podcast doesn't do the trick. Writing and editing are both also pretty good.

Walks are good, but biking/running/swimming don't seem to be.

Programming can be good in the sense that it regularly reveals missing tools/libraries, but I don't find the work itself all that generative.
Taking a night train in Europe, especially if it involves a sleeper car, is absolutely not cheaper than flying a budget airline. (Although it may be if you count saving a hotel room.) But trains generally are not cheaper than flying in much of the world.
US is easing vehicle emissions rules, timeline for all-electric vehicle adoption
Heck, we saw a Show HN of a direct excel competitor for much larger spreadsheets that churns through them like if its nothing, made by former Amazon S3 engineers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39551064
> You save money by re-architecting and using more managed services.

Managed services are more expensive, not less, per unit compute, per operation, etc. How exactly does that make things magically cheaper?
In Pentium the cache memory became split into instruction cache and data cache.

This has forced the introduction of the snooping workaround, otherwise the stores into the data cache would not have influenced the content of the instruction cache.
Same here. Great movies (most of the imdb Top 250 easily qualifies) can be rewatched every couple of years IMO, unless you have unusually good memory.
> but vinyl and CD differences have nothing to do with it; it's just incompetent producers and sound engineers aiming at making their work more loud to attract listeners.

The physical limitations of vinyl don't allow it to be pushed as hard as a digital medium, or even tape, can be.

It's kind of like making a road that only allows air-cooled VWs and noting that speeding drops to almost zero.
Has anyone looked into recreating the original Netflix with dvd by mail?

Yes, streaming is that bad.
>programming language based on ideas from Rebol, flavored by Factor, Linux shell and Go

That makes it potential interesting to me.
> You don't have a liberty from being investigated if they have evidence.

The evidence has to be specific to an individual. In these cases they're obviously not.

> The swatter was watching the live stream, and the timestamped IP logs can corroborate.

He wasn't the only one doing so.

> Just because it was an IP address and not a face or license plate on camera doesn't make it any different.

Yes it does. There are wildly different expectations of privacy between these two scenarios, this is immediately apparent, and easily demonstrable.

I feel like you're just trying to win an argument and not actually thinking this through. I'm not saying you're fundamentally wrong on facts it's just that to follow your conclusions blindly does in fact violate individual rights, and those rights are superior to the governments "right" to investigate crime.

> You can't hide behind a chosen technology stack as a shield when the fundamentals of the case are the same.

You can't hide behind weak evidence to violate the privacy of groups of individuals. The crime has already occurred. The damage is done. You can't solve that problem by causing _more_ damage.
De rigueur for SF.

I was slightly sad there wasn't a Dahon among the list.

When I was a kid, I rode around the foothills of Almaden Valley and the Santa Cruz mountains. Flying Bernal Road or Harwood Road after slogging up steep roads was a reward of its own. Probably why I went to UC Davis.* ;]

* Its logo is a bicycle.
Suppose that's fair.
As a (male) long-time tournament competitor and USCF Expert, my initial reaction was "not this dead horse again!"

But it turns out to be a very well-written and comprehensive overview; could serve as a single reference on the topic.