skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This subthread started with that suggestion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40140547

Nobody is currently afraid of it, probably because no one is seriously contemplating it.
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Yeah, I don't buy this argument either. Startups like that often have the best handpicked people, won't be burdened by established processes, won't need segmentation, chips designed for specific customers / use cases, doesn't have a brand to protect abd generally can act aggresively / risky.

It's kind of like comparing Photopea with Photoshop, the former being developed by a single person, and then claiming this huge productivity difference is caused by Photopea using Javascript (vs. C++ for Photoshop).
Go ahead and make your case. Why is the invasion of Ukraine valid? Why would an invasion of Taiwan be valid?

Can you make a coherent argument for either?
Which is why I'm surprised the response is "sanctions" and not topple the government and install western democracy. It's what the countries imposing the sanctions want to happen anyway.

There's so much historical precedent for this working. If a consortium of Western militaries show up and say "join us fighting against your government or when we win you'll be killed/exiled as a traitor" the population will flip immediately.

It's not as if we don't do this already, we just quietly orchestrate violent revolutions and install people loyal to the west. This method would at least be more honest about it.
And it's frankly a childish sentiment. Go look at what's happening in Ukraine today. Why did that occur? Because a dictator woke up on the wrong side of the bed and said "you have, I want, I take." Military force and military innovation is the only thing stopping him from literally committing genocide against the Ukrainian people. Not "genocide" as in faculty lounge hyperbole . . . actual genocide.
Don't worry--we seem to be actively working on this one, too.
Is There Any Hope for Asynchronous Design?
Could you expand on this, my understanding was that Israel held relatively free and fair elections.
Yet the residents are the ones that pay 20% more council tax now...
Still, what the palm did it did with a lot of focus on helping users be more productive.
From the actual study:

"The algorithm studied here, with a prediction accuracy of r = .22, does not allow conclusively determining one’s political views, in the same way as job interviews, with a predictive accuracy of r = .20, cannot conclusively determine future job performance. Nevertheless, even moderately accurate algorithms can have a tremendous impact when applied to large populations in high-stakes contexts. For example, even crude estimates of people’s character traits can significantly improve the efficiency of online mass persuasion campaigns (Kosinski et al., 2013; Matz et al., 2017). Scholars, the public, and policymakers should take notice and consider tightening policies regulating the recording and processing of facial images."

https://awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/2024-65164-001.html

Compare that to the article:

"A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology can accurately assess a person’s political orientation by simply looking at that person’s blank, expressionless face."

The article is misleading. You can't claim the model can accurately assess an individual's political orientation just because it performs better than random chance. Sure, it demonstrates there's a statistically-significant link between facial structure and political orientation, but claiming you can use it to "accurately assess a person’s political orientation" is absurd and not what the study found.
This kind of content should be put in some kind of vault with a sticker "do not open before Christmas year 2100"

I just hope they soft-deleted it.
Marketing materials for the standalone flamethrower product from the same company, https://throwflame.com/arc/ , includes a photo carousel of mounting it on various military rifles in civilian contexts.

Gun manufacturers somehow don't get sued into oblivion for how their products are used. I suspect that product teams found to be reckless in other categories don't have the same protections.

(Is a lawyer going to try to argue that the US Founding Fathers envisioned a well-regulated militia of robot dogs with flamethrowers on their backs?)
>> Melting frozen driveways

Please do not do this. Use a propane torch. A flamethrower literally throws burning fluids. It will melt the ice, then a ribbon of fire will flow down your driveway. It may then melt or even ignite your asphalt.
But for this memorydb it seems it is? Indeed not for entire AWS either way though.
Prompt-Based Feature Engineering: Generative AI Generates Data
Scarcity is just a natural consequence of trust
I was curious as to why someone would prefer bash over zsh i.e. what are the salient differences, and a brief search led me to this thorough answer:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/361870/what-are-th...

…but I’m still not sure there’s a material difference that would impact me, and I’ve been programming professionally since the mid 90s. If I can ask a side question, why would one switch back to bash from zsh?
It adds a launchd service that makes sure stuff sourcing your Nix environment setup script is present in all your shell units on boot, so they get reestablished when macOS updates nuke them.

macOS apps do weird shit to work around macOS quirks. But it's a really good installer. Can't recommend it enough.
These are my definitions: capitalism is private ownership of capital; socialism is public ownership of capital; and the industrial revolution is the discovery and proliferation of processes and mechanisms for the exploitation of capital consistently and efficiently at scale.

Though I have attempted to explain my point, I have not altered it.
I also see white text on your site (and my machine defaults to dark mode).
Iran is one of those dictatorships where the majority of the population already dislikes (or plain hates) the government, as we have seen in many demonstrations that have been extinguished through use of extreme violence by the regime.

Making life more difficult for ordinary Iranians isn't going to change anything as long as the army and revolutionary guard stay loyal to the criminals in power.
How hard would it be to swap that flame thrower for a machine gun?
Without reading the article: I've used Nix on macOS without nix-darwin or home-manager for some time now. I define my packages in a flake.nix that exports an environment and I use install using `nix profile`.
I think we don't understand each other. I'm not giving a moral or legal judgement on what Snowden in particular did. I'm saying, the information he disclosed showed a vast and total violation of American's 4th amendment rights on behalf of the US government.

This KYC requirement seems to me, at a glance, as being a small erosion of our digital privacy.
What do you mean by not sustainable? What has been more sustainable than web dev and web tech lol? Also, being flexible isn't trying to fit a square peg in a hole, it's the opposite actually.
Companies can have private commercial things, get over it.
Yeah that's a clever way to avoid having the rules struck down as unconstitutional. In practice though to avoid liability and possibly jail time, providers will have to assume that every customer is a foreigner until they "prove" their US citizenship (by uploading the same ID and other documentation required by foreigners).
'An enigma': scientists learn what giant prehistoric shark looked like
meh, about 3 meters.
The suggestion isn't carrot-only. Instead of making the whole city more annoying for cars, it's making part of it completely unusable by cars and leaving the rest alone, subject to change as the no-car area grows.

It's like a crystal; you need a seed, not just saturation.
The French controllers strike so often it's hardly unexpected (yesterday/today I believe!). But I agree it's largely out of the airlines' control. But it's a well known issue of many years and should be a part of doing business

I would want compensation from the controllers' bosses (French government?)
Wordpress clearly does not meet the definition of IaaS in the document.

> provides processing, storage, networks, or other fundamental computing resources, and with which the consumer is able to deploy and run software that is not predefined, including operating systems and applications
Estuaries, the 'nurseries of the sea', are disappearing fast
In America, captital-B Black is usually used to refer to people who were forcefully disconnected from their ancestry by the imposition of slavery. In many theoretical frameworks, it is an entirely new ethnic group by virtue of their original ethnicity being severed and the forced co-reculturalization through slavery and the subsequent (and continuing) power structures that forcefully and implicitly group them together.
Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation
Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
Can you give a real-life example of a 2-way data sync you or your users have set up?

Sure:

- A support SaaS uses Nango to sync contacts & companies with CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot, etc.)

- A billing SaaS uses Nango to sync invoices, customers, etc. with accounting systems (Quickbooks, Netsuite, etc.)

- A security-focused SaaS uses Nango to create issues in Jira, Linear, etc., and then syncs the status & other properties between these apps and its own product

I hope this helps!
Wars suck. But sometimes the result of not fighting a war sucks more. Sure, military projects could POTENTIALLY kill innocent civilians. But that's not a guarantee, modern Western militaries go out of their way to minimize that, and again sometimes the result of not fighting a war would cause even more innocent people to suffer or die.

The idea that "this one bad thing could happen, therefore I will do nothing that could remotely cause this one bad thing" is childish reasoning.
Definitely. The Liberalism of today is rooted in secular Hedonist ideas, while Conservatives overwhelmingly support Judeo-Christian principles. This is evident by for example the fact that Liberals largely support recreational drug use while Conservatives largely oppose it.
Good visualization is worth a thousand words! I wonder if Rust stream can contain streams themselves, i.e. higher order streams as in seen in RxJS? I found it very difficult to visualize anything that is of higher order. The RxJS marble diagram was helpful to some extent but they are static.
While modern liberalism rejects realpolitik in theory, in practice the structures it has set up have often been ignored by purportedly liberal actors, so your argument from experience is very tenuous.

As far as prisoner's dilemmas, its a lot more complicated than that. A purely pragmatic approach can lead to win-win outcomes that would be impossible in a purely idealist framework - realist IR scholars would, for example, argue (and could back it up far better than the alternative) that if it wasn't for Bush and Cheney's idealism, the 2003 Iraq war would never have occurred.

The realist counterpoint to the prisoner's dilemma is that it's not just due to conflict prone relationships, but because it's impossible to know what the intentions of other actors are, which is not something that international liberalism can solve in practice. In theory, liberalists would argue that two liberal states can communicate their true intentions well because their intentions reflect the intentions of the population, but this has conclusively been proven to be untrue in the case of foreign policy (not very surprising due to the way intelligence has to be set up), and therefore the liberalist rebuttal to uncertainty of intentions seems much weaker now than it did originally.

As a result, realists argue that following realpolitik can actually reduce the likelihood of war, as agents will be careful to act in such a way as to avoid seeming as to pose a threat in the absence of knowledge of their intentions, while a liberal actor, acting according to their ideals, would act in a way such that an actor who is unsure of their true intentions would have to perceive as a threat.

This means that you just can't assert easily that realism is more likely to cause lose-lose outcomes. It's a complicated argument where this kind of ironclad certainty just isn't justifiable.
The article hints at, but doesn't really nail the strong associations between music and our past that develop as we age. The older we get, the more listening to old music takes on the role of time machine, teleporting us to an earlier time where we can forget all the bad parts, leaving just the good.

Strangely enough, the same thing can be said about cars, and even software.
I’ve written a small Python app to deploy to Swarm mode from CI pipelines, and configure secrets and configs from CI environment variables, taking care of rotation and recreating Swarm secrets if the variable content changes. This delegates the whole secret management to the CI tool (BitBucket in my case).

The default implementation in Swarm has the problem that you cannot update secrets, so you’ll need to reconfigure and redeploy the service with a secret with a new name if that changes. That was quite a pain!
Welcome to the internet and especially HN specifically, haha. Also I enjoy that someone called "shitpostbot" is the one calling this out
> People want native applications

I and many others really, really don't. I prefer webapps for almost everything except things that need full access to things like filesystems, hardware, etc.

I want my mail, calendar, chat, videos, etc. to fully live in my browser where I have consistent management of tabs, bookmarks, extensions, logins and so on. I also really, really don't want to install applications unless needed.

> I just wish there was more separation of website and webapp in the browsers

Sure, that might be nice, but it also might create the opportunity for webapps to require being put in the "webapp" pool, and I really like just being able to run them as a website once and then just close the tab.

I think what you are describing is mostly what we already have with PWAs?
Why is it so hard time for some of this site to understand that some of us are principled when it comes to choosing technologies? Or you know, actually learned from past trauma and make choice to avoid getting burned in the future.
The talking point we should be using is: if banks know their customers, we don’t have to.

The trail of knowing ones customers always leads to payments and finance.

If we are accepting payment for our services with standard bank card transactions or wire transfers, etc., then the knowing of the customer can be centralized at the banks.
And who pays for it. Yet another compliance procedure to add to the stack.

I propose that any new regulation gets financed by the the regulators . And retro actively get all regulations to have their cost covered by the government.

Who pays the auditors. Who pays Accountants, who paid for data protections schemes, who pays for random sanctions making countless companies suddenly lose large part of their business . Regulations are great, it should be at the government charge though, so that we can continue to do business, prevent market entry costs which promotes monopolies/oligopolies, encourage compliance.
Well, it may not be the industry standard definition, but it is the definition used in the actual regulation:

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Infrastructure as a Service product

or

IaaS product

means a product or service offered to a consumer, including complimentary or “trial” offerings, that provides processing, storage, networks, or other fundamental computing resources, and with which the consumer is able to deploy and run software that is not predefined, including operating systems and applications. The consumer typically does not manage or control most of the underlying hardware but has control over the operating systems, storage, and any deployed applications. The term is inclusive of “managed” products or services, in which the provider is responsible for some aspects of system configuration or maintenance, and “unmanaged” products or services, in which the provider is only responsible for ensuring that the product is available to the consumer. The term is also inclusive of “virtualized” products and services, in which the computing resources of a physical machine are split between virtualized computers accessible over the internet (

e.g.,

“virtual private servers”), and “dedicated” products or services in which the total computing resources of a physical machine are provided to a single person (

e.g.,

“bare-metal servers”).

---

So Dreamhost counts, any web host where you can run arbitrary PHP code would count. Wordpess.com -- where you cannot actually modify the PHP code yourself -- would not count as IaaS. But any web host that allows you to install applications on your own, or run any of your own code, would count as IaaS by this regulation.
Amsterdam wasn't built around cars, that's the key. Especially an oversized American road converted to big tree-dotted lanes wouldn't be particularly useful for people if everything is still so far apart, like Dearborn, MI.

Also, if you start with a small central area in an already dense city, you will find a lot more political support from residents and business-owners because there's a clear and immediate benefit to them. Rather than telling an entire city you're "fixing" their way of life and it'll take a long time to pay off.
>Eiswert determined that Darien had submitted the payment to the school payroll system, bypassing proper procedures.

How did he allegedly bypass payroll procedures? An athletics director should not have passwords to the school payroll system. I wonder if social engineering was used? In any case, their security procedures need an audit!
> It's what the countries imposing the sanctions want to happen anyway.

Perhaps that's what the countries wish would happen - but there's dictatorships all around the world that don't enjoy the pointy end of the international community's proverbial sanction stick.

Iran simply has to stop being an international nuisance and people would happily return to doing business there.

In the past decade, we've had two US Administrations that desperately sought to warm relations with Iran. Ball is/was in Iran's court, and so far they keep forcing people to punish them...
Would love to know how they read the selection properly...
Unfortunately the choice is often between an underfunded internal system that doesn't do everything you want and everyone complains about, or an expensive 3rd party rollout that doesn't do everything you want and everyone complains about.
Read this https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

It's not as simple as you say and it doesn't work currently as you say.
The “supreme intelligence” concerns about AI live on one end of a very wide spectrum of concerns.

I don’t think we need anything approaching super intelligence for a large subset of concerns to become reality, and rest of that spectrum is filled with non-theoretical risks, many of which are based on capabilities already in production.
The U.S. President fist-bumped with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia last year... I don't think authoritarianism is at issue here.
Is Philosophy Useful for Science, and/or Vice Versa? [pdf]
Unfortunately, the platform in question (Airbnb) is already notorious for bugs and bad support. Ah, well.
A screenshot or a diary entry locks you into a snapshot of a single story.

Someone saying something about what they talked about does not. You can say one thing today and another tomorrow.

This is why the written word has magic that the spoken word does not. And the longer the append-only chain of written words goes, the more magic it has.
By that same rule, they are also aware of other governments' decisions and actions around the globe.

Concretely, the Reddit user is clearly aware of why this is happening and is blaming the USA government, not his.
Honestly? The writings been on the wall for at least a decade if not longer. This shouldnt really be surprising to anyone with a large corpus of recorded material online.
quadcopter manufacturing has been dramatically increasing over the last year to the order of 10k+/mo on both sides with no sign of slowing down (i believe it's actually much higher than this but can't find the source i saw a few weeks ago); your argument seems to butt up against this reality
Is that game grindy enough to justify a bot?
Are intel really just the best chip designers on the earth or why can they compete with such densities with AMD?
> At least raise the barrier for this kind of action to being able to run your own llm or something.

I think that would result in the average person being less aware of the capabilities existing and therefore being less prepared to defend against it. It isn't like this would be a world law that was universally enforced anyway.
One side effect of such bans is that when something stops working in Iran, you can't easily figure out whether it is blocked by the operators inside the country, or by the operators outside the country...
> When it seems like there is a real person behind it, I respond and tell them if they keep sending me messages I’m going to vote for their opponent out of pure spite.

I used a similar tactic against a city council candidate that was spamming me.

I called the number that was sending the texts and told them if I received one more text about supporting their candidate in the primary, I would run against them myself in the next election and make my entire candidacy about their spam texts.

That was the last text I received from that candidate.
You're not wrong, but there is an important big difference between this and the Snowden revelations: The Snowden stuff was illegal and was being done in secret, and once exposed they had to stop. It was considered bad and embarrassing. This would be legal, and will set a strong precedent.
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Hi HN, I’m Kyle and together with Andrew (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stanleydrew) we’ve been working on Riza (https://riza.io), a project to make WASM sandboxing more approachable. We’re excited to share a developer preview of our code interpreter API with HN.

There’s a bit of a backstory here. A few months ago, an old coworker reached out asking how to execute untrusted code generated by an LLM. Based on our experience building a plugin system for sqlc (https://sqlc.dev), we thought a sandboxed WASM runtime would be a good fit. A bit of hacking later, we got everything wired up to solve his issue. Now the API is ready for other developers to try out.

The Riza Code Interpreter API is an HTTP interface to various dynamic language interpreters, each running inside a WASM sandbox without access to the outside world (for now). We modeled the API to align with a POSIX shell-style interface.

We made a playground so you can try it out without signing up: https://riza.io

The API documentation lives here: https://docs.riza.io

There are many limitations at the moment, but we expect to rapidly expand capabilities so that programs can e.g. access the network and filesystem. Our roadmap has more details: https://docs.riza.io/reference/roadmap

If you need to execute LLM-generated code we’d love to have you try the API and let us know if you run into any issues. You can email us directly at founders@riza.io.
One example I've seen is a less-than-savory company make a purposefully confusing KYC process after purchase of their service/product to prevent users from realizing they're being scammed and are kept in KYC hell hoping to get verified when they never will. Time to start an ISP...
I would suggest creating sanctions that hurt those in power, meaning mainly old bearded men who probably don't play Minecraft. Ordinary people have no power to change anything over there, they get shot if they try.
My bad, that makes sense.