skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked at vault, but I opted for a simpler, less flexible solution: rrsync (restricted rsync) to a tree available only to an account with its .ssh/authorized_keys populated with the host public keys with forced rrsync commands restricted to that host's secrets. Root is the only account that can read a host's corresponding private key, so that means an attacker must crack root to get this extra access - but why bother when the secret (e.g. private certificate) is already on the host for root to read? Code to translate the known_hosts into the .ssh/authorized_keys file is a dozen lines more than a perl one-liner only because of triple checking to prevent damage to the result, e.g., in file system full circumstances. Chicken/egg: other means must manage host private keys and ssh_known_hosts. But you had to do that anyways.
I genuinely want to know how much of the ad revenue comes right from Elon.

Nearly every ad lately is either Tesla, or weird fan groups like "Elon musk highest iq to ever live" and someone has built a massive network of bots for "Elon musk sexiest man alive".
Perhaps you're getting downvoted for being weirdly coy. It sounds like you want to paint a bunch of people with one brush, why don't you just go ahead and do it?

I'll never understand this smirking form of reactionary elbow-nudging.
I found “How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read” by Pierre Bayard to be a fascinating look at how we remember and fail to remember what we do and do not read. (Yes, I read it.)

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/how-to-talk-about-books-you-ha...
> Free will hasn’t been proven.

Free will is something that we experience which provides extremely compelling evidence that it is true. Things don't have to be empirically proven in order to be true, if that were the case then empiricism itself would fail the test as it has never been established to be true empirically.
Yes, we will try hard to equate US government and China government. The 2 governments are so fungible and have equivalent due process for everything, especially for US citizens and citizens in other countries with border disputes. lol I can't even.
> I have worn glasses since an early age and my vision got progressively worse even after wearing glasses. I know many people in a similar situation.

That is normal and expected. I have never heard anyone claim that glasses prevent the progression of myopia. They obviously do not.

There is a theory going around that myopia is caused by insufficient exposure to sunlight, which seems highly plausible to me.
War on Drugs.

War on Poverty.

War on Cancer.

America just loves war metaphors. I think you're reading too much into it.

https://www.hoover.org/research/rise-war-metaphor-public-pol...
Haha yep, and I also exclude an entire genre and all of its sub-genres.
I didn't wear glasses as a child and only started doing so in my 30s, when I got my driver's license. At the eye exam the doctor fond out I need about -2 diopters and was rather amazed "did you always see like this and not use glasses?". I honestly don't know.

Anyhow it's about 15 years since and my diopters haven't changed. Also I never use the glasses when up close (ex: reading a book or watching something on my phone). I do use them when at my computer since the monitor is a bit too far to read comfortably. And outside, only if I drive and need to see very clear what's in front. Otherwise no glasses and they bother me: sure, things are a little blurry far away but I'm used to that.

Overall: my myopia is stable and don't know if it's genetic or by the habit of wearing glasses only when absolutely necessary and using the naked eye otherwise.

Which gets me thinking to ... dental care. I'm 46 and have all my teeth, sure some may have some incipient cavities. But some 20+ years ago I went to a dentist and he basically said "Your teeth are terrible, I basically need to puncture and put a filling in every one of them", to which I said "Thanks, I'll think about it" in loud voice and "Yeah, right" in mental one and left. Went to another dentist (a woman this time) and she said "I'll be honest. There are some incipient cavities but it'll do more harm than good breaking the tooth enamel and putting a filling at this point. Monitor them and when they progress, come back". They haven't progressed much in 20 years so again I don't know: would 17 fillings (a figure of style for "many, many fillings") would have helped more over the course of 20 years?
You only have free will in so much as what environments you put yourself in the long term. Our immediate actions are outside of our consciousness.
There’s nothing wrong with their stance and it’s not anti-semitic. They were fired because they overstepped the nature of their protest in Google’s eyes. I think there would be a difference between discussing their perspective, which is nondestructive, vs the sit in, which is directly disruptive to the rest of the office staff. From Google’s perspective, if everyone with a strong viewpoint on anything took part in this behavior, nothing would get done.

I don’t agree that what big G did was right, but I’m not surprised this is the outcome.
Crisis, Conflict, Consequences, Niall Ferguson (video)
So this will be the trust test. If they sell then it's a legit product. If not then it's clearly CCP spyware.
...were they not required to do that before...?
I believe so. It's called "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act" not "TikTok Ban Act", so it can be applied to apps like WeChat as well.
Ahh the starving child in Africa means any complaints are void argument.

Peole shouldn't be homeless, struggling to purchase food or other basics day to day, just so that the entitled rich of Australia can continue to increase their wealth.

I would go as far as to say, if a single person can't afford to purchase these things, there should be a drastic, exponential tax on all revenue until the situation is resolved.
Both Apple and Nvidia use TSMC for chip manufacturing. Actually Apple might do a lot more of the hardware themselves, and more varied. Nvidia is just a design house, chips at TSMC and the surrounding electronics by many partners like Asus or Gigabyte.
Well speaking for myself I'd generally like to keep my data away from nefarious communist regimes.
I happen to personally agree with the general concept of making the CCP divest from the leading social media platform in the USA.

I also wonder if the KSA should be forced to divest from X/Twitter. Prior to owning part of X/Twitter, they did this [0], which led to to the worst of what one could imagine. What is happening now?

But my main question is, are there any other examples of forced divestiture, aside from Firefly Aerospace? [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_infiltration_of_Twitter#...

[1] https://spacenews.com/firefly-halts-launch-preparations-afte...
I've worked on 4 different (pretty heavily used) developer-focused products in my career in product management, and we hand-built SDKs for each of them. This experience is so common: in all cases, a lot of the leadership went into it thinking it would be an easy-to-maintain "background task" to maintain 4-6 SDKS because we generally hired pretty well seasoned and hard working developers

Inevitably in all cases language-specific problems exactly like this happened, but also just some frustrating drift. One of those heroic workhorses would go out on parental leave and maybe a backup would go on vacation or out for extended sick time and the SDKs would start drifting away from the API. Someone would be stuck maintaining code in their absence. At one point, I (a product manager at the time) got tasked with maintaining a Perl SDK while a developer was out on leave for several months because my background is in software development and I was the only person that could really maintain it in the company.

I'm happy to see tools like this come about because it seems everyone underestimates how much work SDKs take to really build functional SDKs. You can get bad ones cheaply by just putting a few people on and accepting bugs and drift. The counter-argument against these tools that I've generally heard is that they'll also produce worse ones cheaply or require effectively the same maintenance to figure out a machine-generated problem as a human-generated problem.
It’s very readable to me, and is much cleaner than the notation in the article.

Is your problem the line wraps in the parent’s comment?
Thank you for commenting this. I can imagine this being supremely useful, especially if you decide to go ahead and read a book and it tells you much more than you would've guessed :) (either the titles/index are bad, or the content is good)
> They haven't progressed much in 20 years so again I don't know: would 17 fillings (a figure of style for "many, many fillings") would have helped more over the course of 20 years?

No. If they're not progressing, there is no problem to solve.

Dental sealant might be worthwhile.
Like Bourbaki? Or they all happened to share a name?
Exactly. We "need" to qualify that, but I don't think we really can. And that's the problem with all such grand generalizations.

There was a point in my life when I was very self-conscious about the fact I haven't really traveled by some people's standards. It kinda gave birth to that silly desire to "compete", to mark as "visited" as many countries as I could. And, I mean, traveling sure is nice, there was some void I filled doing that. But it was much quicker than I could expect, that this contest of sorts became totally meaningless, and I found out that I cannot even tell how many "countries" I visited.

First off, if the only time I was in a country was a long time ago on some guided tour, it somehow feels dishonest to me now to say I've "been there". I feel like I need a refresher for it to actually count. Like, otherwise it's as good as seeing a movie. Right?

Then, the mere saying that "I have visited a country" became kind of meaningless. What does it mean, to visit France? Nice is very different from Paris. Spending a couple of weeks in Alpine mountains (technically in France) kinda isn't what people mean when they say they've been in France. So, how much of it I need to see to say I've traveled France?

Ok, probably it makes more sense to count cities. But what does it mean to visit a city? Do 6 hours in the downtown while I wait for a connecting flight count? Do a couple of days meaninglessly wandering the city count? Does a work trip (which I mostly spent in some office and in some hotel) count? Does spending several night drunk and high in Paris count "visiting Paris" same as walking famous museums and such? What is "better"?

Maybe I should rather limit my accounting to specific places, like offices, restaurants, museums? Like, instead of saying that I've been to Paris, should I say "I've been in Louvre"? By the way, how many days do you need to "see Louvre"? How long do I have to stare at each paining for it to count? Does it count at all, if I have no fucking idea what I'm staring at, and there's nobody to tell me, why it's significant?

I don't want to sound cliche, especially in that way, but, honestly, I cannot even say that I'm completely familiar with the city I've been living in for the most of my life. There is not a "good enough" degree of "visiting a place". It doesn't exist. Your "traveling" isn't necessarily more meaningful than airline pilot's "traveling" (or "commuting", as another person in this thread tried to insult them). And there is no such thing as "experience other cultures and ways of life". Experience your life and culture first and then come back to talk. (I wish to add "in the next life", but it's not like that "next life" of yours can be totally identical to the one you live now, even if it is spent at the same place, so I guess you'll have to experience it first too.)

I wanted to also say a couple of things about reading the books, but this post is excessively large as it is. So, to summarize, all these "horizon broadening" contests are just vain and meaningless. Do whatever you want, read or visit whatever you want, and don't feel inadequate if you don't.
CCP is a major pusher of disinformation/propaganda. Look up Dragonbridge. Or how YouTube had to remove thousands of CCP propaganda channels. Or the classic "US Army Covid Origin" story that China pushed when social media came for Wuhan.

China's 50-cent army buys social media accounts, or creates fake personas, to push narratives and abuses reporting/takedown mechanisms to suppress unfavorable posts and channels.
How do you know you experience it beyond a reasonable doubt? Thoughts and intentions just seemingly appear in consciousness, without any explanation as to how they arose. Feelings are like this too; we don’t determine how we feel, we are simply served them.

When experiencing a negative emotion, some people seem to believe they can ‘free will’ their way out of it by thinking positively or something there over, but that intention too is also just a thought that appears in consciousness. To decide what to think in a manner compatible with what most people think free will is would require you to decide what to think or feel before actually thinking or feeling it, which is not possible.

And when you think about the causality of feelings or thoughts, which are just neuronal signaling patterns/chains in the brain, it begins to appear much more mechanical than free will intention.
I'd challenge this with a thought experiment. Imagine we put a group of toddlers on an island and somehow give them knowledge of language (and enough sustenance to survive), but absolutely 0 external input otherwise. These people, as they grow, would gradually develop their own views, values, and perspectives. Do the exact same thing on another island and you'd get entirely different results! One can see this very thing with the various isolated/uncontacted tribes.

Obviously our environment influences us, but we are largely a product of ourselves. And that aspect is what drives us to seek out the things we do. Which can then, in turn, make it seem that the things we seek out have turned us into who we are.
When we quit seeking.

It helps a lot to be among other people seeking new music.

Without that, many of us stop mid life.
I don't think that GP was asserting that China and Russia are close natural allies. You're drawing some accurate distinctions, but I'm not entirely sure how they relate.
It is absolutely legal. You are simply under-educated in this area. Read up and try again.
How are you experiencing free will? You have no idea what your next thought will be, nor can you control it.
You have the opinion that you have free will, but that doesn't mean it's true.
Mind the Patch Gap: Exploiting an Io_uring Vulnerability in Ubuntu
The US has banned foreign ownership of TV and radio since 1934. Are you really this naive of your own country's operations?
I'm sure the Chinese, their largest trading partner, will approve of this and take a keen interest in all the compromised-by-design technology the Australians will use to "protect" their business interests. They'll probably end up supplying most of that technology anyway. The Australians should be worrying about the backdoors they haven't been told about yet by the Chinese.
They use a set of researched tracks by Arbitron and others seeking to maximize AD revenue by demographic.

There is a TON of great classic rock to enjoy that never sees airplay and the reason is the researched tunes have "known" demographics that can be sold.
If you don’t want to build weapons because you don’t like the variety of ways they may be wielded, that’s a valid and reasonable ethical stance.

If you don’t want to build anything that could ever potentially be used in the manufacture of those weapons, you probably shouldn’t be building open source software or contributing anything to do with any programming language at all.
Perhaps removing CAs too, which should be even less-controversial since it's harder for an attacker to abuse.
This is why blocking and muting (especially "mute words") are essential on social media. You have to be intentional about the diet of language you feed your brain, just as you have to be intentional about the diet of food you feed your stomach.
here to express my support for you before the neocommunists come piling in on you
Resume culling has been going on forever. It’s just a part of the game. This is why you need to make connections with actual people. Not networking. You need to build relationships and those relationships will automatically expand your ability to find work.
> the people I know who use it are extremely passionate about the app

It's addictive and they don't fully understand the dangers of CCP spyware and CCP controlled algorithm. It's like drugs addicts being passionate about drug use.
'The Banker' Review: An African-American Historical Finance Caper (2020)
Debating its existence serves the same purpose regardless of its existence.
"We can issue you a refund for the cash value, but the system takes 3 years to pay out. You can have a voucher right now though."
You can still be breaking “public safety” and “consumer protection” laws if the CCP doesn’t like your content.
I once arrived in Paris on the overnight train from Milan, which had been delayed for a couple of hours en route (allowing us to sleep more!). On the platform in Paris, staff were busily and proactively handing out claim forms to disembarking passengers, explaining that they had the right to a refund for the delay.

If only that were the law in the US.
This is either a bullshit argument or a wildly uninformed opinion. We've been banning foreign ownership of TV and radio in the US since 1934. How is this any different?
He says 33% of hiring managers admit to creating job reqs and advertising them with no intention of filling them so that the existing people on the teams those new hires would go to feel that help is on the way and they don't quit.

But it's a trick to keep people from leaving and to be able to continue to overwork their employees and squeeze out a bit more before burnout.
Probably not much if any “free will”… Check out “Determined” by Robert Sapolsky [0]

[0] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/592344/determined-b...
If we are not in control of our immediate actions, how can we have any sort of meaningful "free will"?
The "why for" is usually learning/gaining experience/FOMO.
Try out RGP lens. These are the sort of contact lenses that you wear before sleep and take off the morning. It maintains the shape of your eye, providing sharper vision in the morning with just the naked eye. I wear it since I'm 11 years old and it has effectively stopped the progression of myopia.
>I have never heard anyone claim that glasses prevent the progression of myopia.

The article seems to claim that:

>Fortunately, just a few minutes a day with glasses or contact lenses that correct for blur stops the progression of myopia, which is why early vision testing and vision correction are important to limit the development of myopia. Eye checks for children are mandatory in some countries, such as the U.K. and now China, as well as most U.S. states.
Same for me too. I tried different VR headsets, but could not use them for more than 15 minutes without getting dizzy.
I thought for the longest time I could tune it all out, that I was calloused. It's only in hindsight that I see how much of the toxicity I willingly looked at deeply affected me. Mostly because I started believing that everybody was like the worst, loudest people on the internet and believed what they did.
It’s like cryptocurrency hashing but, now, all the players are large extremely rich corporations. It is gonna be the funniest historical rhyme ever.
Microsoft is emulating the Meta business model now: The customers are the product....
Note the references to color in the 2022 Nature paper:

> Here we show that, even though filtered movies looked similar, eyes became significantly shorter when the movie was sharp in the red plane but became longer when it was presented sharp in the blue plane. Strikingly, the eyes of young subjects who were already myopic did not respond at all—showing that their retina could no longer decode the sign of defocus based on LCA. Our findings resolve a long-standing question as to how the human retina detects the sign of defocus. It also suggests a new non-invasive strategy to inhibit early myopia development: keeping the red image plane on a computer screen sharp but low pass filtering the blue.
In (another) 5 years all cars will be autonomous!
USA didn't have this rule beforehand? confused in EU
Good, nuanced analysis.

Also, it's nice to see a bipartisan bill in the national interest. There used to be a saying, "politics stops at the water's edge." Every so often we remember that.
Furthermore, TikTok itself is banned in China. The counterpart in China is Douyin, which has limitation for minors, like mandatory STEM videos and limited hours during school days.
Well put! This is exactly why i tell people to always get a book on any subject that catches their fancy and browse them at the very least. Many parts will be fuzzy if you are not using/working with them but that is no excuse for not knowing about them. Once the mind is exposed to various concepts/ideas it automagically stitches them into a coherent whole without you being conscious of it.

A good way to think about it is the description of Mycroft Holmes by Sherlock Holmes;

"The conclusions of every department are passed to him, and he is the central exchange, the clearinghouse, which makes out the balance. All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience. We will suppose that a minister needs information as to a point which involves the Navy, India, Canada and the bimetallic question; he could get his separate advices from various departments upon each, but only Mycroft can focus them all, and say offhand how each factor would affect the other. They began by using him as a short-cut, a convenience; now he has made himself an essential. In that great brain of his everything is pigeon-holed and can be handed out in an instant."
Agreed. I've always found the nvidia drivers to be a pain in the neck and a source of system instability in Linux systems and have actively avoided nvidia hardware.
Common current computing can greatly ease the effort to "remember" what have read, written, thought, learned, etc.

E.g., to help "remember" I have a general purpose file that I read/write with my favorite text editor and with some surprising statistics:

Date started: September 2nd, 2005

Number of entries: 8412

Number of lines: 60,436

Number of bytes: 4,736,380

Really simple. Works really well.

A little laptop computer
handles this file
for zero apparent effort.

Of course, a lot more can be done,
e.g., something like everyone having a Google just for their own life, but it is shocking how much can be done with just the statistics here.
The regulation recently changed and now requires all apps in the App Store to have a permit from the Chinese authority or be removed.
What about connections? Will they also refund the missed flight + hotel stay? My $100 flight was once delayed and I missed the $700 connecting flight. Airline gave me next day $700 ticket and put me in a hotel. Shall I just receive $100 under that new rule?
Would be illegal in some states. https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/collecting-rain-water...
> But for the principles, I don't think so

Smart philosophers have studied this. You may not like the answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

> we can never know that our opinions are the ultimate Truth

Oh yeah, but we can easily spot propaganda/bias from CCP from miles away.

For the principle of freedom of speech to survive, it can never be absolute.
Wow. You make a great point. You got me thinking about those rainwater capture systems for downspouts now. Rainwater hits asphalt shingles and picks up a bunch of hydrocarbons, and then someone uses the contaminated water to grow their tomatoes.
https://archive.ph/2024.04.18-071615/https://www.newyorker.c...