skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wealth and power, the complicity of institutions, governments and communities that ignore the rights of children and disbelieve and disempower them—all of these provide far better privacy protections for child sex abusers than the Tor relay network ever could.

Either the technology is good enough to make people anonymous despite their lack of wealth, power, complicity of institutions, or it's not. It can't be a weak technology only in the context of the biggest problem with Tor.

> Some pointed out that it was bizarre for Tor to condemn neo-Nazis using its network when it had been largely silent on the documented issues of child abuse... much of the negative reaction to the activist turn in Tor was motivated by a reactionary queasiness towards feminism.

Well yeah, that is bizarre. You're making it sound like, if we understood the tribe of college and graybeard libertarians better, compared to better-known, run-of-the-mill progressives and "intersectionality," then we can forgive how "bizarre" this sounds.

I don't think that stuff matters. The commentary from the operators makes the whole effort look insincere. I don't think that relay operator actually cares that much about Turkish dissidents or whatever. That operator is definitely interested in being dramatic and provocative. That's how most libertarian ideas sound. They could align in some ways with social justice, but its failure in the marketplace of ideas is as simple as insincerity + drama.
>I am consistently amazed by how far off the public Internet perception of our activities is, whether that be capabilities or operations

If the public knew the truth about what really goes on, they would riot.

Not because their rights are being violated but because the apparatus is so mired in bureaucracy that hardly anything ever gets done so it is a colossal waste of money.

Everyone thinks spies are racing across the globe when in reality they're stuck in annual training and can't go anywhere anyways because their travel card is maxed out and their expense reports are stuck in the system being processed.

One of the reasons the Russians are so much more effective dollar-per-dollar is that they aren't buried under sixty layers of procedure.
Firstly, I'd argue it's only a tautology when you phrase it in a particular way (and take some knowledge about how the brain works as "given"). The point isn't that the effect happens at all, it's about the degree to which even small instances influence who we are.

But more importantly, we are creatures of habit before we are creatures of intellect. Stating things like "you are the sum of your experiences" isn't necessarily to reveal new and profound information, it is to emphasize a fact of existence that can easily become overlooked or underappreciated. Especially as we get on in the years and more and more of our behavior is on autopilot. There is value in reminding people to look for potential blindspots and providing some motivation a more careful consideration of the aspects of your life that have become unconscious even if the message comes in a trite or tautological package.

It's like people who have been stuck for the past 5 years spending 2+ hours every day scrolling a social media feeds littered with bad news, snapshots of arguments, and fake representations of the world but can't make a connection between this maladaptive behavior and the growing sense of cynicism and existential malaise that's impacting their happiness. Sometimes it is helpful to hear this kind of stuff (assuming it actually gets through) even though it should be obvious.
Internet connections can be used to SSH into a box to deploy and run software. IANAL, but I could see that catching ISP's and VPN's.
Reduce and patch it until it becomes POSIX compliant
> The less out-and-out math used to make a point about programming, the better, I think.

Curry and Howard have some bad news for you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...
Villains may live long enough to become heroes
When has big tech had a good history of proactive compliance?
It's a shame. TikTok is a well engineered platform and has brought a lot of fun, good content and community to a lot of people.

I do think it's a national security threat, and agree with the ban.

I just wish humans could figure out how to get along better, so that everything didn't have to be so politicized.
Ironically enough, we’d already lost one by then: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-military-missing...
I was born in 1980, so it would be before my musical "peak" so to speak, but I dislike pretty much anything from the 80s popular enough to have been on the radio in the 80s. Right now the 80s style is so popular, I find myself even disliking a lot of modern music that has that "80s retro feel"

I was in the car with an older Gen-Z'er last year and they expressed jealousy at me having grown up in the 80s because they "like the music so much" and were shocked to find out I didn't.
> You shared a single infographic without a source

The source was the submitted article under discussion in these comments!

> I'm sorry that it's difficult for you to find what you like.

I never said that. I'm not even discussing me, or you for that matter. I'm discussing the aggregate differences between the generations.
Your biometrics and gov ID data don't have to be collected or stored by the provider.

They can be used during the identity check and deleted right after, without ever entering the provider's infrastructure (assuming they are using a trusted 3rd party).
What kind of IP has "a physics-based sandbox game" (quote Wikipedia) that warrants DCMA notices?

I mean to send out their own DCMA notices. Not receiving them.
It’s not really though - if it was known in advance that you did not like a track then there would be no reason to recommend it. It’s the classic precision vs recall trade off: I can create a recommendation algorithm that only recommends your favourite song, forever, and that will have perfect precision but miserable recall. To increase recall we have to accept a drop in precision.
Was hoping classic paint would be restored too ha
> Why are we constraining it to Founding-era

I wasn't a part of the NYSRPA v Bruen voting decision, you're welcome to read the jurists' extraordinarily well-written opinions regarding the law of the land here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf

Even if this document is intended to be a "living document," it should be changed through that amendment process, not executive edicts or regular statutes. Good luck.

> I don't hear people lamenting about the need for "Founding-era" precedent when it comes to suffrage rights

Perhaps because this was increasing liberty (rather than restricting it) and actually happened via Constitutional amendment?
> If the glue has failed, there are some serious craftsmanship issues regardless of the joint type.

No. You can't simply use whatever joint you want and expect the glue to deal with the (sometimes enormous) forces applied to it.
Geez … those are some long emerging occurrences.
There's an argument to be made that we would be far better off with a benevolent monarchy than whatever this is.
Maybe the population hates the dictatorship in the same way that pretty much every country hates their government.
Does that mean that they would cheer for a western take over of their land and economy?
IIRC the NT kernel used to be POSIX compliant but... y'know.
Let's see:

0. What conversation? Current LLMs don't really sound like conversation.

1. Running LLMs in real time for NPC conversation is a no no because they don't have extra cpu/gpu time for that, they need to have 8k ultra HDR at 240 fps.

2. Even if they did, to have a 'natural' conversation experience they'd have to ask their players to ... type text into the game. The tendency is to remove even text based predefined options and replace them with icons - see Fallout 4.

3. Even if they somehow got past 1 and 2, that would mean user generated content into the game and you'll soon see screenshots online of people playing the latest open world rpg thingy and generating furry porn inside it without any mods. That's not wholesome family fun, only violence is.

4. But don't worry, they will use LLMs to pregenerate bland content and stuff it in every corner of the world. If we're lucky, maybe they'll even human check it before release.

That being said, I'd enjoy a new generation of text adventure games that don't have you guess at what the parser can understand. But just the parser for my input.
infinity engine games - baldurs gate, torment, icewind dale
A point very eloquently made by Rick and Morty
The ways the stock price influences a business that already has gone public are subtle and not to be taken for granted
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40157111
I normally interview in Java, partly because I know it's deepest demons, and partly because pretty much anywhere will let you interview in it.

But recently I interviewed for a staff engineer position and there was a portion that was "API programming." Just writing a basic REST API to CRUD a model object. And I was like, oh my god, I know what I have to do. So I used rails. It was an hour and 15 minute block, and I ran the interviewer out of extensions to the problem after 30-40 mins. So we just chatted for 20 more and then both went to an early dinner.

(Unfortunately I didn't get the job - they were hiring a staff engineer but afaict ended up downgrading the seat to a senior engineer spot (50% the total comp) and rejected me and the other guy who was interviewing for the staff spot.)

But damn did I feel like I properly represented Ruby and rails in that one interview.
Of course it is a good thing but nevertheless funny because it is something we take for granted. We are also used to get a compensation on top of the refund.

Btw escalate it to CAA and they will handle this. Not only you will get a refund but the compensation as well
Nice. But the link is to a clickbait site with dark patterns for the privacy policy. The real article is here.[1]

Somebody should run these through a finite-element package to compute their strength. Some of those look fragile.

[1] http://winterdienst.info/50-digital-wood-joints-by-jochen-gr...
This level of lack of understanding the basics of our system of government is why we used to have civics classes.

If someone is using infomercial level logic/details/understanding to get you riled up, step one is to step back and get a better understanding, not to grab a pitchfork and get bitter.

An post highlighting that the government is soliciting comments shows we don't actually have a king that can do whatever they want. You personally can comment on this proposal, and if you have a compelling argument, can stop it or in the future force your comment to be addressed. Remember the standard is that the Federal government's actions can not be arbitrary and capricious.
I think this misses the point of the article, which is that a third party is filing fake DMCA notices in Nintendo’s name.
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Reply All did a pretty good episode about it. It’s just really good at pushing the exact content you will interact with, 1000x better than anything Meta owns

https://gimletmedia.com/amp/shows/reply-all/z3h78d6
South Africa apartheid is a pretty good example.
US defence spending is still below its 2010s level. Besides, you mentioned EU banning US apps. Last I checked, with some exceptions, all EU nations are in NATO, and directly procure weapons from the US.

It’s absurd to compare banning a Chinese-owned app to EU banning US apps.
You're right! I've just spun one up at that url.

Could be cool to have a restricted demo version in the future for people to poke around in.
What's this thing the government has been doing recently where they're no longer content to just let major corporations screw consumers?
Lab leak is such a bad example here since it's now officially considered the most probable explanation. Labeling something as a conspiracy theory especially when the explanation is the simplest and most probable explanation just screams politics or groupthink. A lot of conspiracy theories are just plain true but they get labeled as questionable because it goes against official narratives, interests, etc or are associated with kooky people. Well that's how the world works I guess.
> Israel didn't "invade" the land. Jews moved into the land legally, and then the rulers of the land at the time gave it to the UN to recommend what to do with it, given that there were two peoples there.

Right, and remember, slave owners didn't kidnap people, slaves were legal property.

Moreover, there were not two people living there, there were the people who had been living there for thousands of years, who had been claimed by Britain (though not colonized). Claiming there were "two people" is revisionist BS.

> The UN recommended splitting it into two parts, one for each people (the Arabs and the Jews). The Jews agreed to this plan, the Arabs didn't.

That is, the government sold half your home to a stranger, they agreed to this, you however unreasonably did not. What an asshole you are.

> The Jews then declared independence, and other Arab countries launched a war on Israel, urging the current Arab inhabitants of that land to flee, and return when the land is taken away from the Jews.

The jews, who just moved into a country, and seized a pile of land and property from the occupants of that country without the occupants consent "declare independence", starting a war. Civilians flee there home so as to not be killed, these are called normally called refugees, but in this case they are Palestinians which Israel has established are not people. When the fighting ends, the refugees returned to their homes to find that the Israeli government had now given their homes to yet more settlers. Opposing that is a criminal offense.

I don't know about you but this sure as shit sounds like their homes were illegally invaded. To back up my assessment: Israel has never stopped doing this, and it has been found to be explicitly illegal every single time it has gone to court.

> Arab Israelis make up 20% of Israel

Right, except 100% of Israel is Palestine, and the overwhelming proportion of the Palestinian population has been forced into ghettos that are not considered part of Israel and have no voting rights in Israel, despite Israel having near total control of all food, water, medical care, ...

You're playing BS semantic games, and by your logic SA could have claimed to not be apartheid by just saying that the black South Africans were part of a "different" country that just happened to significantly overlap .. South Africa.

I want to be absolutely clear, these BS arguments about Israel not be a colonial invader are no different from claiming that there was nothing illegal when the US government sold the land of native Americans to colonists, and allowed them to eradicate those inhabitants.

I get it, you're pro-Israel, and believe the Palestinians don't have any rights to their own homeland, but pretending that Israel is not an invading colony, and pretending Palestinians have equal rights to Israelis (or lets be honest, Israeli jews - the discrimination against muslims and even arabic jews in Israel is well documented - is objectively false. Just say you don't believe Palestinians are people so didn't have any right to their homeland.
The AI Problem is not Alignment
> Isn't this a configuration issue?

No. It's a "people think phone calls are the most important things in the world and they override all other concerns" issue. It's quite visible in the design and implementation of phones and smartphones.

> iOS and Android both have sufficiently nuanced control for do-not-disturb to accommodate a ton of usage scenarios.

They do not allow calls to be completely disabled. Even with all those configurations applied, all my Android phones still show a notification that someone is calling me and that calls were missed. The notifications cannot be disabled. Phone still manages to be an absolute pain even when completely silenced. I got two of those notifications while writing this comment. Literally right now.

The voice mail notification was the worst. It was impossible to get rid of. I tried killing the phone apps via debugger and they still came back somehow. Would not go away until I listened to all the voice mails in full. Of course companies would leave ads in the voice mail. Words can't describe how much I hated that thing. Mercifully I managed to turn voice mail off at the phone company itself after performing some arcane dialing incantations that I don't even care to remember.

> I don't see fault being the caller's

Well I do. Callers think it's OK to interrupt others. That's presumptuous and rude in of itself. The same attitude of an advertiser.
Probably merge / update link to status page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40160193
> without me getting any reward outside of the raw challenge itself - which then feels just like working

Do you prefer being spoon fed rewards for grinding endlessly, like in your average free game?
I agree with this. I this misunderstanding is the root cause of, well a lot of shit, but particularly the increase in belief in conspiracy theories by members of the public. Most people lack a conceptual understanding of emergent behavior in complex systems, and instead rely on linear narrativization to understand the world (which by the way is not an insult to the public's intelligence, it's just the way our brains work unless you make a concerted effort to step outside of that default). And if you aren't considering multivariate, emergent behavior as a possible explanation for unpredictable and inscrutable world events, the next and really only reasonable explanation is intricate conspiracies by powerful agents.
Yes, the one thing I was missing from all of this is what is the appropriate application for each joint
A number of threads seem to assume that KYC (or identity check) implies that your biometrics or gov ID data is collected/stored by the provider, but it does not have to be.

The identity check is typically done by a trusted 3rd party that can delete the data right after the identity check (and can be required to do so).

So you basically end up guaranteeing that the name, address and D.O.B that you provided to the IaaS provider is actually correct, nothing more and nothing less.
The design optimization software for modern semiconductors is arguably the most advanced design software on earth with likely tens if not hundreds of millions of man-years put into it. It takes into account not only the complex physics that apply at the nano-scale but also the interplay of the various manufacturing steps and optimizes trillions of features. Every process change brings about new potential optimizations, so rather than compensating for bigger nodes it actually widens the gap further. By analogy, the jump from hatchet to scalpel in the hands a layman is far less than the jump from hatchet to scalpel for a skilled surgeon.
> They can be used during the identity check and deleted right after, without ever entering the provider's infrastructure

You trust them to delete it right after? What about the human reviewers in other countries that are working at home taking pictures of their laptops with your id on it?

> trusted 3rd party

You trust that 3rd party's intent and word? It's pretty weird to bring another company to steal your data and details.
I did not mean to disparage the DOM API, I intended to show that the DOM API was not (initially) designed as a Javascript API and was instead expressed in a language independent (but Java inspired) IDL.

I would not surprise me if modern addition or revisions to the spec were more JS inspired
I am familiar with KYC from a banker's perspective (at least that of a close relative who was a bank manager).

KYC helped them by deny-listing abusive clients between branches, or by allowing the bank to develop heuristics for things like allowing customers to bypass cheque clearing times.

From an end-user perspective, I've had no hangups personally but I do share your grievances about yet-another-shoddy institution holding a photocopy of my ID. My bank truncates passwords when setting them, and when logging in, without telling the user. It boggles the mind.
Excellent thank you for the video!
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Merge/update other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40159868
You're just experiencing time passing on the internet. Some discussions spring eternal, because there's a constant stream of people having it for the first time.
its not that they dont care, they care a lot. chinese way of thinking is if you know how its made/how it works you can always make more, make another. no company is above the govt, china.
The most important feature of my phone is to make it very difficult to make a phone call to me. Google Pixel is quite good at this with about three layers of protection before a call gets through. It's absurd that we have to take these measures against criminals abusing our communications network.
Whew, glad we can finally use the Internet again! It's been a long 7 years since the Internet was entirely destroyed.
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You really should use whatever works best in the situation. Languages are tools. Javascript, Typescript, C, C++, C#, Java, Go, Rust, Zig, etc all have their strengths and weaknesses. It's a mistake to typecast yourself as a specific kind of programmer. Technologies change all the time.
Your main issue is that other people receive annoying phone calls yet are unwilling to take simple steps to address the problem?
I don't know, maybe you're just not hearing what I'm hearing. Watch Cory Henry on Snarky's Lingus. Jacob Collier do his recent crowd work with the NSO. Cory Wong talk about Vulfpeck and their MSG show and never rehearsing. Hiromi and Tank and the Bangas on NPR's tiny desks. I'd say Abigail Lapell adds tremendously to the folk of the era you are referencing.

Watered down is just not how I'd describe any of the musicians I listed
This is excellent analysis and expresses what I was thinking on the subject better than I could have. Thanks!
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No subscription sounds too good to be true long term considering API calls costs and their rabbit hole storage.