skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australian authorities claim the church stabbing video may incite reprisal attacks. Censoring is their attempt at behaviour modification of the few, at the expense of the right to raw information for the many.

They want a blindfold mechanism on a per-content basis for the entire internet, at the request of eKaren - the American ex-Twitter staffer whose highly paid job is to threaten Big Tech with takedown orders.

The footage belongs to the church, it's not "extremist content". It's similar to security footage of any crime. Mainstream news in Australia routinely shows home invasion footage, road-rage, all kinds of incidents in prime time news.

The priest who was stabbed made a clear statement forgiving his attacker and wants peace, no reprisals. It worked. That is what a healthy Australian community does. De-escalation with honest expression, not censoring or strong-arm threats to social media with pretentious power-play politics and "keeping people safe" rhetoric.
With where I am compared to family, that's my bet - people doing absurdly well in tech are screwing up the numbers. And I'm not even close to what some people casually toss out on here.
> Is anyone else alarmed that the top tier is book sales of 75,000 units and up? One post on Substack could get more views than that…..

I guarantee any book-length post on substack will get substantially LESS views than that.

This person discovered what any aspiring writer who cares already knows: Publishing like music runs on proven revenue generating content and gambles on the next big hit. Same as it ever was, and Amazon changes nothing about that fact.

Maybe publishing consolidates and changes, companies boom or bust but the business itself has always been like this.
Are there really "millions of people" using it?
What is PNW?
You came into this comment thread without any insight to add or anything interesting to say. You came in just to cast judgement “I feel sorry for people who don’t use Facebook”.

In fact it is you who has tied their identity to feeling superior to others. Other guy doesn’t sound like it’s his identity at all.
Planned obsolescence [1] in the problem. Apple could certainly create modular devices designed to be used and piecemeal modified/updated indefinitely. But it's way more profitable to sell you a brand new phone every couple of years than it is to sell you a modular device that you could update as desired, especially if the parts/connections are standardized meaning you could foster a [normalized] third party market for batteries, screens, etc.

Devices would last way longer, prices would be much lower, and it'd be unimaginably better for the environment. But Apple wouldn't make as much money, and the government's GDP growth figures wouldn't be as high. So clearly it's a terrible idea.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
“We have already censored the content in question for Australia”

That seems relevant. The article didn’t go into more detail on this. Australia is really demanding that content be censored outside of Australia?
The observation in the essay that "the romance category has already gone independent" also leaves that impression - for the romance category.

But the fact that one of two profitable genres is "franchise authors" suggests the opposite. Franchise authors become franchise authors by producing high-quality writing.
Who cares about the ecological impact of buying a book?

You have missed the forest for the trees.
One compromised account that had been granted wide reaching authority was then used to control one third of health care applications in this country ?

This sounds like an economic collapse similar to an ecological collapse due to a single genetic monoculture.
Climatic consequences of saturation of radiation absorption in gases
Gross take. Entitled, self-centered, and a ham-handed attempt to co-opt the term "wealth transfer". If you really have this little regard for folks who actually work for a living you should get in your car and go get your own shit.
Elon Musk accuses Australia of censorship after court bans violent video
An interesting development in Australia, where the government has been ordering censorship of social media content showing a recent stabbing incident. What’s especially odd about the court order in Australia is that they are demanding that Twitter/X censor content globally, not just within Australia:

> The regulator’s lawyer, Christopher Tran, had argued Monday in court that geoblocking Australia did not meet the definition of removal of the footage under Australian law.

As for Twitter/X’s response:

> X said the Australian regulator had demanded the platform “globally withhold these posts or face a daily fine of $785,000.”

> “X believes that eSafety’s order was not within the scope of Australian law and we complied with the directive pending a legal challenge,” the Global Government Affairs account said. “While X respects the right of a country to enforce its laws within its jurisdiction, the eSafety Commissioner does not have the authority to dictate what content X’s users can see globally.”

> “We will robustly challenge this unlawful and dangerous approach in court,” it added.

Personally I think the normalization of governments censoring speech and content in allegedly democratic countries is scary, and opens the door for bigger and more abusive censorship regimes. Another recent example was in Brazil, where a single Supreme Court judge has been ordering censorship of X/Twitter users and also adding gag orders so that censorship is not visible to the public.
Also, if you have kids then you check out tons of books at a time.
https://microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/ with AI-generated people!
The referenced Strategic Vision survey's data disagrees.
Because it's funny and nostalgic. Seriously, who doesn't love those two guys and their videos (I wanted to write "parodies", but damn, some of those really hit hard).
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I'll believe it till I try it for myself, Phi-2 was the clear worst of the 20 LLMs we evaluated (was also smallest so was expected).

But it was slow for its size, generated the longest responses with the most hallucinations, as well as generating the most empty responses. It was also the model ranked with the lowest quality answers.
> look at what hezbollah has done to lebanon

It played a major role in ending the occupation of the southern half of Lebanon by Israel [0], has since repelled another invasion [1], and now serves as a strong deterrent to any further invasions.
Sounds like an extremely successful project, given that Israel is currently occupying parts of lands of multiple surrounding countries and has no intentions of ever giving those lands back [2], in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions.
Hezbollah prevented the same fate in Lebanon.
Yes, I understand that in the eyes of Israel it is the devil, for it has blocked Israel's ambitions of regional expansion, but that is irrelevant to everyone else.

> Calling what they're doing "help" is a pretty .. let's say special ? way of looking at it

Your reading comprehension is special. I said helping the Shia elements, not the countries themselves necessarily. The exact quote: "Iran is absolutely helping the Shia elements in those countries for its own geopolitical gain [...]"
Anyway, given the above about ending the Israeli occupation of Lebanon, it seems that Iran has absolutely helped Lebanon at least.
That Iran also gained regional influence through that act, and thus did it primarily for its own benefit, does not take away from that fact.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Lebanon_conflict_(1985%E...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War#Ground_war

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories
Do Technical Founders Need Business Co-Founders? [video]
Imagine you are the alien finding the probe 10k years from now and have to analyze and reverse engineer the now quite complex logic :)
It might be do-able now. Today, distributors of content (Google, Facebook, etc) have more political clout than copyright holders.

Go for, say 25 years with no formalities. For 25 to 50 years, you have to file a copyright registration with the Library of Congress and pay a modest fee. For 50 to 100 years, you have to pay a huge fee (millions), just so a few classic movies people will still pay for can have coverage, and some famous music that still generates revenue can be covered.
> We could have public libraries be entirely outside the copyright system.

Where is the line between this and something along the lines of libgen? I’ve been using distributed libraries for years and haven’t paid for a textbook once…
Clearly not, although there's an entire other conversation to be had about the state of play of government housing.
You clearly don't use TikTok. There is quite a lot more than just dancing for 15 seconds.

> Any time one hears someone mention the phrase "content creator", one should, by default, execute s/content creator/manipulative parasite/ in their mind.

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Australian authorities assert, with receipts mind you, that the church stabbing video and the unchecked troll accounts on X-Twatter did incite a sustained reprisal riot.

> The priest who was stabbed made a clear statement forgiving his attacker and wants peace, no reprisals. It worked.

By the time the statement from the priest had made it was many hours after actual reprisal attacks that were stoked by false account on social media.

The power of the lord did not apply retrochronologically in this instance.

If you're going to comment then at least do so within the realm of actual events that took place in the real world.
One thing that wasn't mentioned in the article that I wished it did was the size of the compiled binary with and without final. Only reason I would expect the final version to be slower is that we are emitting more code because of inlining and that is resulting in a larger portion of instruction cache misses.

Also, now that I think of it, they should have run the code under perf and compared the stats.
> Californians should be outraged

Outraged about what? My bill has gone up a bit, but PG&E tells me it's because they are burying lines underground to prevent wildfires. It seems like Lydia Lunch hates PG&E, but they don't seem any better or worse than the average utility company.
I can’t remember exactly when macOS made the change. It was a few years back.

>The system domain contains the system software installed by Apple. The resources in the system domain are required by the system to run. Users cannot add, remove, or alter items in this domain.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Fi...

I’m sure it’s still possible to junk a system up, but a user shouldn’t be able to screw up the actual system files.

/Library is probably the biggest wildcard, as it impacts all users on the system, otherwise, creating a new user account should clean up pretty much everything, without having to reinstall the OS itself. I assume making a normal user account for the persons could allow the admin the ability to prevent the user from adding things to /Applications and /Library. The user would still be able to install apps using a ~/Applications folder and have settings in ~/Library. ~/Library is typically used automatically, while ~/Applications is something that needs to be created, but works just fine. I use this at work to install some things I would otherwise not be able to install.
I'm surprised by this article. the author genuinely believes that a language construct to benefit performance was added to the language without anyone ever running any metrics to verify. "just trust me bro", is the quote.

It's is an insane level of ignorance about how these things are decided by the standards committee.
I don't think they're misunderstanding randomness.

They are claiming that randomness is not sufficient for fairness.

And I agree. Adding some determinacy to the shuffling design would reduce the variance of unfair scores that students receive. Ie, it could reduce the likelihood that a student's scores will be biased by a run of advantaged or disadvantaged scoring orders.

It wouldn't be very hard to design such a scheme. It would produce fairer results in the short run. And in the long run, it would converge to the same fair averages as the fully random process.

In fact it would converge faster. This short run statistical efficiency matters. Students don't have access to the long run results - since they're evaluated in the short run.
I’ve imagined a scene playing out, in sci-fi or for real in the distant future, where astronauts test out a new propulsion system by flying out towards Voyager 1 and catch up to it with ease. As they approach, they see the ancient probe grow larger and larger in their window until…
City emails during preemptive Boulder power outage reveal widespread confusion
No doubt the external artificial noises serve a valuable purpose for both the blind and the sometimes inattentive. The artificial sounds pumped into the cabin to simulate a naturally aspirated V8 are nonsensical.
Hahaha, this is so funny because the original cykros comment was like "RSS is in ascent", and I was just agreeing with that in the course of the discussion. And then he changed hahaha! :)

So like the whole conversation became a non sequitur after that so I understand if you're confused. Hahahaha! :) The issues with async I guess hahaha so funny :)
5. tesla share price is down 41% in 2024

6. the WSJ reports that tesla sales are down among democrats, who outnumber republicans 5:2 in EV sales: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/elon-musk-turned-democrat...
“Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”
~ Commissioner Pravin Lal (In Firaxis' "Sid Meier's Alpha Centuri")
My issue is that I don't know how to avoid the apple password never getting in the way (fail them cause account lockdown). Is it possible to totally restrict access to settings/password entering in iPad?
It's so funny how people take this stuff, it's so funny. Yeah I was resopnding to that vibe but it's more like the greybeards who love RSS who keep it alive, but what I see is it keeps building over time.

Hahahaah and it's so funny to see contrarian or animosity against RSS on HN because usually it's the total opposite. I guess it's just 'cause I'm saying it people love to disagree, right? Hahahah! :) so hilarios hahah omg :)
I am kind of the opposite; I have found it much easier to read on Kindle simply because I can make the text as big as I want.

In high school, I remembered that I really struggled to read The Once and Future King, and I never finished it. I eventually assumed I was too dumb to understand it, and that it’s just not for me.

Fast forward about 13 years, and I decide to give the book a try again, this time on the Kindle, and I surprisingly was able to get through it really quickly and didn’t have any issues understanding it.

I don’t think that I’ve gotten appreciably smarter than I was in high school, and I realized that the only really different variable is the font size. As a teenager I was reading my dad’s hand me down copy, which had tiny text on fairly small pages. With the Kindle I make the font gigantic. I have to turn the page more often, but that doesn’t really bother me.

Overwhelmingly I find it easier to read stuff if the text is really big; I am not sure why. My eyesight is fine, and I am not dyslexic (I was tested as a teenager), but tiny text is just really hard for me to read, while big text isn’t.
In addition to intimidating—there is the rote repetitiveness: how many times do you want to style the same components? Or adding the same custom components.

Sometimes I just wanna work on my app and not write css.
Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) is a fork of Carnegie Mellon University Common Lisp (CMUCL).

University founders Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, and Richard Mellon are best known for their work in the steel industry and banking.
Ahahaha, yeah the original cykros comment was "If anything RSS is in ascent" because he took my parent comment to mean it was going down somehow, then I replied and sometime later he changed his comment. Then you guys came along hahahaha@! So funny hahaha :)

You know mercury is retrograde right now so there's a lotta confusion on here hahahah! :)
I'm pretty naive so please forgive it's a stupid question.

To me, what the parent comment is saying is that even though the benchmarks are cool, it's not super helpful to the every day person. Because if you can't chat with it very well (even for a narrow context) what utility does it have with great benchmarks?
The Rediscovery of a Depression-Era Masterpiece
It's an inherently subjective assessment obviously, but I can justify it with e.g. survey results https://theharrispoll.com/partners/media/axios-harrispoll-10....
A shared iMessage note is the scariest thing ever.

I’ll tap on it and it will only open like 50% of the time.
Richest by what metric? Household debt is up, personal savings are down, and wages have been stagnant here for decades. I'm sure the roughly 750 billionaires currently living in the country are having a fine time of it though.
We don’t feed the birds directly, but we do have a fountain the local birds greatly enjoy. We make it a point that algaecide we use is bird safe.

From finches to crows, they all seem to enjoy the running water in our ad hoc birdie bidet. Once or twice a year we get a reenactment of “The Birds” when 10+ rather large crows descend for a spa day.
Those same libraries can then resell their excess copies a few years later at a Friends of the Library sale and recoup a few dollars. This isn’t possible with e-books currently.
What's it for though? Is it optimized for building anything specific?
When we look at this new legistration, together with other copy right policy Japan enforce [0], and how most of the Japan website think disabling copy and paste is a good idea to maintain copyright. One will be very puzzle what they have in their mind.

[0]: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/04/18/japan/crime-leg...
>I expect the expense of this makes it a non-starter.

I am seeing numbers that it costs anywhere between $100k-400k per trip to go through the canal, with some tens of ships per day.

So of course, this highly profitable venture would dedicate basically nothing to improving the infrastructure until it became a tire fire.
And some freight (LNG) is consumed by waiting or going around (the ship burns it to generate power to cool the LNG)!
That's actually a pretty convincing point. If all we were able to understand was the flow of electrons in a transistor and not how they were connected, we wouldn't necessarily be able to conclusively claim that digital computers were indeed digital.
Early in 2038, the AI apocalypse begins and all of humanity is powerless to stop it for six days until Unix time rolls over and the AI serendipitously crashes.
What does "franchise author" mean? I'm not familiar with the term.
They have now added a disclaimer: "Messages are generated by AI and may be inaccurate or inappropriate."
I'm not sure I understand the "I read at least the first 50 pages of most of them". Did you somehow receive 6000 books in one huge batch and you're just checking them out, one by one?

I mean, I've thousands of books in my collection (though I've had to dump a ton of them lately due to space restrictions.. that's sad), and I've read all of them end-to-end. If a book is so bad that I can't finish it.. it does happen with "free" Kindle books, but for my paper book collection I think there are maybe two or three I didn't read all through.
Hi, I'm Ray, GitRoll's dev. What's your affected repo? Let me check for you.
I say this with the kindest intentions but I think you may be at a risk of being recruited into a cult.
Cool, thank you. Yeah that makes sense. I didn't expect you to actually explain the entire thing, I just wondered if you had some, you know, insight. It's all good hahaha! :) I like your cheatsheet, I guess that applies to your previos definition of co-NP ! :)
im having a moment - i'm an absolute dead ringer for Ben Burke..its freaking me out XD Also they are outrageously funny!
How does this compare to n8n? https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n
The problem I think is that when you define an invariant, you are also defining an infinite number of "implicit" invariants. And it's hard to know a priori which of those implicit invariants is not an actual invariant over time.

Take a simple User type

type User {
name: string
email: string
}

This describes some obvious invariants - that a User will have a name and an email.

But it's also describing some less obvious invariants, e.g. that a User will not have a phone number. This has implications if a phone number ever does get added to a User type, and your system has to deal with two different versions of Users.

(This isn't just an academic problem - the problem of trying to evolve fields over time is the reason why Protobufs got rid of the idea of a "required" field.)

And this is an example of a very simple implicit invariant. In practice, systems that interact with each other will give rise to emergent behaviour that one might think is always true, but is not guaranteed.
Yeah, but unfortunately rhat makes you a really bad clinical subject in any trial.

Unfortunately, by the time most people reach the "no hope" stage, the disease has processed to the point where no intervention would help.

Conversely most interventions work best at the "early detection" phase. Which (ironically) is when you're best off with proven stuff, not new experimental stuff.

This catch-22 is precisely why its so hard to get improvements in this field.
When a new book comes out the I know I want to read but do not wish to own for various reasons, I will generally put a hold on both physical and digital copies. Sometimes the audiobook too though that’s my least preferred way of consuming the content. Whichever comes available first is the one I will read. My library does have a holds limit but it is something like 75 items so I rarely have to think about it.
Ha, I love that name too.

I have a background in absolutely nothing. Anyone can do this stuff.

I mentioned in another comment, the book “Plants from Test Tubes: An Introduction to Micro-Propagation” was incredibly helpful to me. You can get a cursory understanding of things from YouTube or similar, but the book does a great job of explaining what you’re actually doing, how, and why.

A good place to start is prepping some media and containers, collecting some plant tissues, sterilizing it, and dropping it into the media in the container! I know each step here is a subject within itself, but it really is this simple when you zoom out a bit. If you aren’t sure about how to make MS media, start with pre-made options from a company like Plant Cell Technologies. You can use glass jars with autoclaveable plastic lids as the containers. You can use a pressure cooker as your autoclave. Collecting the plant material can be simple or extremely difficult (collecting meristem material can be excruciating if you haven’t worked under a microscope before), and it’s fine to start simple (just use a piece of a leaf). You’ll want a flow hood or still air box, and you can make these for peanuts or buy small solutions for pretty reasonable prices.

As someone once told me: There’s nothin to do but to do it
Weights will be realised tomorrow, according to one of the tech report authors on Twitter.