skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah. Something I was so interested in, I wrote a history book about it: https://explodingthephone.com/

If you like old documents, check out, e.g., https://explodingthephone.com/search.php?q=captain+crunch&so...

Someone mentioned phrack above. There was (still is!) also 2600, and before that, YIPL/TAP, the original phone phreak newsletter: https://archive.org/details/YIPLTAP_1-91

If you get up Seattle way ever, be sure to check out the Connections Museum, where you can see not just old telephones, but old telephone switching equipment, lovingly maintained by some amazing people: https://www.telcomhistory.org/connections-museum-seattle/ They have an amazing youtube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/c/connectionsmuseum
If you don't have the space for a pond, you can grow interesting critters in a jar on the windowsill. And if you don't have time for that, you can veg out to the Life In Jars channel: https://youtube.com/@LifeinJars
It’s doubly funny with haskell considering the biggest haskell shop i am aware of has a lot of defense contracts
That's an interesting way to look at it. I don't entirely agree that a hobby is "skilled work of no apparent value". Several of my hobbies is skilled work of great apparent value.

My own personal differentiation is that work is what I do to pay the bills and to maintain the mechanics of living (housework, repairing things, civic duties, etc.) Hobbies are what I do to enjoy life and improve myself as a person.
Culture war grandstanding drowning out the much more interesting discussion around Determinate System’s pledge to support the long-debated Nix Flakes officially.

Nix Flakes looking like the real source of the schism in the Nix community.
See the history of "peaceful nuclear explosions". The USA and USSR used a few nuclear warheads for civil engineering purposes. It seems crazy now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_nuclear_explosion
I think the idea is that if Apple and Google cant/wont host TikTok then it functionally is banned for most users. I'd guess a massive percentage of tiktok usage is directly on their app, not their website.
> Elena was also deeply involved with her husband’s enterprise and intimately aware of Imex’s operations. In many ways, she seemed to be supervising and directing Nikolay’s activities in direct coordination with Andrey Averyanov, the head of Unit 29155. She communicated with Gen. Andrey Averyanov via email; his Gmail address, registered from a Russian IP address, is vitazi31@gmail.com. (“Vitazi” in Russian means “knights.”)

So what's the working hypothesis these days, either American SIGINT works, or it doesn't? Update my priors in a moment... What is it, 50/50 either true or false? Well, you know what they say; the Americans truly are on the game!
> reciprocity of access to the Chinese market

This is an argument that is too complex to be wrap into the ban of a single company.

For instance the US car market has incentives helping cars under some specific conditions that conveniently put all foreign cars and truck at a disadvantage, if there's not an outright "built in the US" specification on it [0]. And China will have other indirect ways to protect specific markets (denying IP protection basically kills some industry sectors for instance). Then the US will raise tariffs, and China put other barriers etc.

Reciprocity is a moral assessment, international trade is just way too complicated for that IMHO.

On TikTok specifically, the US gov seeking control over a foreign asset is probably not a about following policies or not. Otherwise asking for an ownership change makes no sense: imagine a court deciding that FTX didn't follow banking policies so another entity buying it within a year is the solution. No, in these cases the problematic entity is disolved and people go to jail.

[0] https://medium.com/vision-zero-cities-journal/the-chicken-ta...
Nobody has been killed by AI, unless you're arguing it impacts mental health [1].

A better-fitting analogy I'd make is that sex causes disease and other negative externalities, so we should pass laws that force people to be married and licensed in order to have sex.

In any case, this bill is the walking epitome of something a "nanny state" might produce.

[1] TikTok and Instagram have far more impact on this, and we've yet to do anything there. We seem to be of the opinion that this should be an individual responsibility.
Bridging Stallman's article to the issue at hand of sponsorship, I find it hard to believe that because he's fine with say Oracle using his code that he would also be fine with giving them a platform as a sponsor.

I don't actually know his position on this, but mean to communicate I see the use of free software and the sponsorship issue as separate issues.
Loosely based on an actual case.
Sometimes no other choice at all, sometimes no other feasible choice.
Ah - all is clear
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Develop new muscle memory, having to move your hand off the home row to the arrow keys is an absolute waste, god help the people using a pinky finger. Secondly, I would argue disabling the mouse in vim is commonplace.
So can it be used by freelancer who are providing services on fiver & upwork both ?
See f.2 which essentially says that if you can reach the same capability with fewer calculations, then you are still covered by this bill

It essentially creates 2 thresholds

1. number of math operations

2. 2024 benchmark results

100% agreement this will hurt CA and others, especially nefarious, will ignore it
maybe I don’t believe lawmakers understand where we are going long-term with this stuff.

Wait, you're saying that a bunch of legislators who believe the Earth is 6000 years old may not have a valid perspective on complex technical matters? No. Say it isn't so.
I talk about this more here: https://www.warpstream.com/blog/s3-express-is-all-you-need

RE: comparing to a single-zone Kafka cluster. A lot of people really dislike operating Kafka. Some people don't mind it and that's cool too, but its not the majority in my experience.
They rebranded Java 1.x as Java SE x, then later just Java x.
Frequency illusion :-P

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
who archived it tho? github repos don't just get archived by themselves
Is this blogspan? It looks much longer...
That is about licenses, not about community participation, let alone community policy or sponsorships. Those are all very different things with very different considerations.

(Signed, someone who absolutely does not want military contractors in their community, but feels that a license is the wrong place to enforce that.)
> one other (Eelco) likely relies on undisclosed military-tech work.

While this may be technically true, the framing seems disingenuous, unless I am missing something. I have not been following the situation closely. My understanding is that Eelco's company, Determinate Systems, _may_ have contracts with customers connected to the military-industrial complex, but I dislike the implication as it renders Eelco as a bad-faith actor. It seems like a circular argument. I also dislike the implication that it is somehow problematic for Eelco's _for profit_, separate entity to have customers that the _community_ finds problematic.
Literally true. OTOH, there's quite a bit that the US could do, in most cases. But that would require that the US actually care about the problem.

Don't hold your breath.
Zoho is another one I'm actually considering as I think it's free for one email
> It's clearly a response to people getting unfiltered news from Tiktok that it otherwise not presented on mainstream media at all. It's why the ban was in the defense spending bill last week.

These kinds of unrelated laws attached to bills that are likely to pass are called "riders", and they've been used since the early days of Congress. Attaching the TikTok rider to the defense spending bill doesn't necessarily mean that Congress sees it as related to national defense, just that the leaders saw it more likely to easily pass when attached to a defense bill.

Also, I'm positive that I heard about the Ohio derailment on Reddit before mainstream media coverage, and there's no way it wasn't on Twitter either. But those companies aren't targeted in this ban because they aren't owned by foreign adversaries.
I have never heard of the company in question and don't know anything about them other than what was mentioned in TFA, but a main portion of the conflicts that have happened seem to be about whether a particular company should be allowed to sponsor or not. If it were special treatment for that company that others wouldn't get then that would be a different story, but it seems mainly that people don't like what the company builds and don't want them sponsoring, at least explicitly. That seems ideological to me.

I absolutely sympathize with them fwiw. I despise DRM and think it's a reprehensible practice, and I would be extremely off-put if my code were being used by one of those companies. I would hate to see them at a conference. But I acknowledge that is my ideological bend, so my opposition there is "ideological"
Tesla Reaches Deals in China on Self-Driving Cars
> Instead of regulating the development of AI models, the focus should be on regulating their applications, particularly those that pose high risks to public safety and security. Regulate the use of AI in high-risk areas such as healthcare, criminal justice, and critical infrastructure, where the potential for harm is greatest, would ensure accountability for harmful use, whilst allowing for the continued advancement of AI technology.

I really like this proposed model. Are there good arguments against this?
If you find this interesting you might also like this youtube channel run by a Seattle museum that has a large collection of running vintage telephone central office equipment https://www.youtube.com/@ConnectionsMuseum
> Nix is a software project, not a social movement.

Upholding the status quo is a social (and political) movement, it's just the most popular and accepted one.
I think most papers should effectively just be scavenged through. In (mathematics) grad school I’ve only had time to seriously study a single digit number of research papers, but I at least feel like I gained a lot from looking through many many more than that.
You've already commented ten times in this thread. If you don't know, maybe don't say anything?
Best practices will say things like "you should test it". While we are ignorant, there are just many reasonable things to do. Human biology is not completely understood, but that does not mean medical checklists are useless.
The entire concept is a clean crowdsourced feed of projects. When you start to introduce categorization and tag the UI gets busy and you lose focus of the main thing they want you to do- rate/comment.

This is also why the search bar is only at the bottom of the pages.
And... Alogolia search is quite robust, so you should be able to find what you need with longtail search and the date/popularity filter.
Is there free credits for initial users? If yes how many free credits or like a free trial?
Costs are coming down significantly every year.
No problems with Herons? Here in suburban Atlanta I have several different kinds visit our big pond daily, including Great Blue. Fun to watch them fish.

Your pond looks lovely.
The license allowing for something does not mean you are okay with anyone being part of your community.
Ironic considering that the sole reason I ever BlueBoxed was due to computers.
I wanted to connect to BBSes at 300bps that were long distance from my home.
I started blue boxing entirely to access those BBSes.

After I got started, I got really into it. A friend and I did some dumpster dives at the local CO, we learned how to connect to inward operators directly, and using the right jargon were able to essentially control parts of the phone system. We explored and exploited diverters, voice conferencing systems, voice mail systems and more. That friend and I even created our own box, we named the PSI-box (Phone speaker interface). Hold your phone up to your speaker NO MORE!

It led to many things, but what started it was a computer. ;)
Which war crimes are revealed specifically on TikTok that aren't also revealed on Twitter, Reddit or YouTube?
Isn't the US Gov'mnt required to buy prescription drugs at market value? One of the Medicare Prescription Drug Expansions from the GW Bush era.

They're not buying generics, and even at a 20% discount will get hosed compared to the $7 generics
> resounding disapproval from the public at large

Is this true? Is there any real data around this? I don't know any adults who feel strongly about this. I image some very vocal young people are upset. But other than maybe some polls is there any real data saying people are aganst this?

And even if there is... The government does things people dont like for safety all the time.
>until that covered model is the subject of a limited duty exemption.

The second half of that sentence clarifies. It's not that you have to be able to shut down the model, everyone knows it's trivial to turn off a computer. It's that the government can force you to shut down your program until such time as they give you regulatory approval to turn it back on again.
This is the first time I’m reading of this, why?
It’s generally not possible for California state legislature to regulate deepfakes; closing the metaphorical doors now doesn’t make sense as the metaphorical horses weren’t even contained in their barn to begin with. (I’d argue it’s not desirable for the US to try regulating the creation of these tools rather than their use at a federal level either but that’s another discussion)
Thread#stop no longer works as of at least Java 21.
What about China and rest of the world. Their training, some are training open source models (Mistral). So the US is going to be left behind?
>Nobody has been killed by AI

Some of us worry that billions of people will be killed by AI in the future -- possibly without anything that you or the average decision-maker might regard as a warning. (They're likely to be killed all at the same time.)

I.e., it is more like a large asteroid slamming into the Earth than a stream of deaths over time such as produced by the deployment in society of the automobile (except that the asteroid does not have the capability of noticing that it's first plan failed to kill a group of human over there, then to devise a second plan for killing those).
Do you honestly think that every article posted on a product's blog should include a disclaimer that the post may contain information highlighting the usefulness of their product?
Based on how these things have historically tuned out, yes. This is very problematic.

The root of the problem is that it is basically impossible to defend yourself against the accusation that you are secretly a fascist. If you say yes, you admit to being a fascist, if you say no, you're a lying fascist. If you question why the accusation is levied against someone else, you're defending a fascist, if you speak out against the proceedings, you're defending fascism.

The only way to prevent accusations of harboring secret fascist sympathies is to deflect the accusation by lashing out against others with the same sort of accusation, thus demonstrating that you are not secretly a fascist.

This is a dynamic that has repeated itself many times, it's the engine behind countless actual witch hunts, but also metaphorical ones such as the McCarthy-era red scare, the ideological persecution under Stalin.
We're still drafting our next post in this series, but the answer is actually very simple: two tiers of object storage do not have the same drawbacks as a combination of object storage and local disk. We wanted to explain that in this post too, but it would've been unreasonably long.

We've designed WarpStream to work extremely well on the slower, harder-to-use one first, and that is how 95+% of our workloads run in production. The tiered storage solutions from other streaming vendors do the opposite, where they were first designed for local SSDs and then bolted on object storage later.

The equivalent would be if we were pitching our support for an even slower, cheaper tier of object storage like AWS S3 Glacier.
It's so very unlikely that there aren't millions of other lifeforms out there.

Sometimes I think that life could well have been just my soul and no one else, but here I am sharing this world with billions of other people, trillions of other lifeforms on this planet alone. So it is possible that more than one lifeform exists, that they share this universe and communicate in it. Why shouldn't this also be possible on millions of other earth-like planets out there?
I don't believe that the boards composition for engineering and technological organizations or projects should be chosen based on the results of measuring skulls, genetics or what partners they openly prefer for sexual intercourse, that seems unrelated to the work.

The slander against the board is quite obvious and I believe you're being disingenuous.
I’m skeptical; we’re already automating as hard as possible by extorting defendants to not exercise their right to a trial. E.g. a typical court case will involve a plea deal for X days in jail, with the prosecutor threatening to argue for 10*X days if the defendant goes to trial.

98% of federal cases never make it to trial. Most states have rates above 90%. Some counties haven’t had a case go to trial in like a decade, everyone pleas out.

To be clear, we have already gutted everything not strictly necessary from the judicial system, and it’s faltering even under the ‘crisis mode’ operations they’ve been pursuing.

There’s a latent black swan event waiting to happen there. If defendants ever band together and collectively refuse to take plea deals, our judicial system would cease to function almost overnight. We barely have enough judges for the couple of percent of cases that actually go to trial; we would be talking an order of magnitude or two more cases.

More generally, I think the complexity of law grows exponentially based on the size of the corpus that makes it up. The laws interact with each other, so the number of interactions grows exponentially rather than linearly. Our ability to automate grows quickly, but not as quickly as that exponent.
Yeah, like sourceforge.

I just googled them and the top sub-result is for "AutoClicker download" which, I assume, is intended for click fraud. Luckily "Forge Auto Clicker comes with no ads or malware making an amazing user experience!"
So you acknowledge these apps are banned in China, and your assertion that what I said was "factually incorrect" was wrong?
What is the composition of the nix community?
Elon Musk's Malign Influence in Brazil
He’ll push to safeguard people from AI but not safeguard people from fentanyl dealers. Got it.

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/fentanyl-dealers-in-...
In the early days there were people who could do it with their voices, no tools needed.
If Oracle wanted to give a bunch of money to the FSF and sponsor them? I would think RMS would be overjoyed by that development. The beauty of *GPL is that it can't be used exclusively to the benefit of one party (Oracle). It respects the freedom of the user. That's the whole point.
State politics are important, but electricity prices and availability of real estate for new data centers also matters. California has particularly high electricity prices and makes it difficult to construct new industrial facilities (especially near bodies of water that could help with cooling requirements). While companies might locate some employees in CA, the hardware will likely run elsewhere.
Naively I wonder if the tendency towards "plausible bullsh*t" could be problem here? Making very convincing legal arguments that rest of precedents that don't exist etc.
Cool amongst peers, sure, but chicks still never paid any attention to me, even after I started carrying around a DTMF tone generator and the knowledge of how to use it... ;)
And that right there explains why needing to "bootstrap manufacturing" at this level is a pure fantasy. There's no conceivable future in which it would be necessary. Every country on the planet has existing machine tools that, no matter their condition, would be easier to restore than building them from scratch by smelting iron, melting aluminum, etc.

Even in the case where you can't get old machine tools and fix them, there are people using e.g., old engine blocks and crankshafts as lathe headstocks.

There is simply so much technology cast-offs in the world that can be repurposed into usable items that I think the whole "manufacturing bootstrap" concept is misguided.

But I'll admit that it's a fun mental exercise on a boring afternoon.
> My worry is that billions of people will be killed (probably all at the same time) by AI in the future

Science fiction.
Hey! Thank you for your feedback, initially this product was going to be a SaaS, and I just forgot it to remove from the main website, but i change my mind and then make open to everyone, I just need to remove that, thanks!
I agree nobody has been killed by AI. In order to continue to ensure that, the law stipulates you should report if someone is killed by AI.
While I personally disagree with the Chinese censorship laws, it is quite common that companies have to obey local laws to do business. If they're foreign companies and don't like it they can stay away.

So not a weird stance to take that US companies are not banned - they're not directly but indirectly it prevents many companies from anywhere who don't want to do business in China.

Subtle but important difference
Thanks! The comparison table is really enlightening. I think I'll try hacking up Colemak first with layer 3-6, but if I can't make it I'll try habituating with KOY layout.
I recommend "The Octopus Murders" on Netflix. The "spy world" is active in all kinds of activities. Many unsavory. All in the name of "the National Interest". Also the story of Gary Webb is quite interesting too.
I think that it is because Google caches the leading search results at the edge so they can load instantly on mobile. If you add the ability to search by date you cannot possibly cache every variation of the top results, so the user experience would suffer.

Maybe they also rolled it out as a trial for a minute and saw that users don't want that functionality. There are many tests that Google runs that we might not be aware :-)
My personal favorite https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink
No. e.g. BSD is considered Free Software despite no such requirements. Free Software is software that the user controls instead of controlling the user. If you publish code with no stipulations at all, it is Free Software. It is only when you place requirements on the user that it might become unfree. In fact there are plenty of Free Software licenses that are incompatible with the GPL.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html
I don’t know if it is interesting for this project, but I recently set up a Grafana dashboard for the telemetry feed from the ISS:

https://github.com/Radiergummi/iss-metrics

There’s also data on the position and rotation of various parts of the station in this feed.
Might make for some interesting options when rendering the station!
>Pass laws against improper use and go after the malicious users.

I think they are having to deal with things like sales to countries outside of their legal reach. So, while I understand the tack here, there's probably more to it than this.
Many of them use this tool: https://www.fastbuild.org/docs/home.html

It's was built and is regularly maintained by a Riot Games principal C++ architect, and automatically compiles files in large "unity" chunks, distributes builds across all machines in an organization, and creates convenient Visual Studio .sln files, and XCode projects. It's also all command line driven and open source.

This is industrial strength C++ builds for very large rapidly changing code bases. It works.