skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s wrong

First of all, there are many more applications than commerce with physical goods. There’s global payments for services, recurring subscription models, gated access to content, contests, voting, governance, UBI, and much more. Check out https://intercoin.org/applications for a more comprehensive list.

I wrote this article in 2020 after multiple voting debacles in Iowa etc. Paper ballots and hand counting is what lost Al Gore the election for instance and George W Bush got elected, leading to a lot of wars and destruction. With all those paper butterly ballots and other things, it was actually NOT easier at all. People had to recount throughkut multiple days until the Supreme Court simply stopped them:

https://www.coindesk.com/in-defense-of-blockchain-voting/

And now a large proportion of the country believes the 2020 election was rigged due to mail-in ballots arriving and being counted in the middle of the night. Go tell them they’re wrong. You may think they’re crazy but cryptographic signatures and valid IDs could have made it FAR more secure. Unlinkability is the only thing that is hard, for that we could have given everyone a token and used a zero-knowledge proof mixer.

In fact, that is what Google now does with its “privacy sandbox”. But you have to trust Google :-)
> there is no way to verify that it works in the way that it does

Since we're specifically talking about Signal, I think that it's worth mentioning that Signal is uniquely predictable here. They published their entire cryptosystem, it's been extensively inspected by the cryptography community, there are multiple open-source implementations that agree with the published mathematics, and I strongly suspect that more than a few people have sat down to verify that the bytes coming out of the app are actually produced by the published protocols. Claiming that that's not "working the way it does" is reaching out into territory along the lines of Trusting Trust, the unproven existence of trapdoor functions, and the Problem of Induction.
While it is fun to see how to creatively solve such issues, it does raise the question of managability.
When sharding data into loosely (fdw) coupled silo's it would become tricky to make consistent backups, ensure locking mechanisms work when sharded data might sometimes be directly related, handle zone/region failures gracefully, prevent hot spots, perform multi-region schema-changes reliably, etc.
I suppose this pattern principally only works when the data is in fact not strongly related and the silo's are quite independent. I wouldn't call that a distributed system at all, really. This may be a matter of opinion of course.

It does give a "When all you have is a hammer..." vibe to me and begs the question: why not use a system that's designed for use-cases like this and do it reliably and securely ? i.e.: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/multiregion-overvi... (yes, I know full data domiciling requires something even more strict but I currently don't know of any system that can transparently span the globe and stay performant while not sharing any metadata or caching between regions)
Arthur C. Clarke's predictions on AI and remote work
bpython
ptpython
ipython

but , i think the best way to learn and debug python is using vscode
https://archive.is/SMxo9#selection-939.23-939.39
I support (some forms of) cryptocurrencies and I support end-to-end encrypted messaging, but combining both in the same app is so obviously unintelligent that questioning the motives is inevitable.

Cryptocurrencies are taxable assets. While private communication enjoys some legal protections in many countries, trading taxable assets does not.

If an app allows you to trade taxable financial assets, it means that tax authorities have every right to demand access, even if it's just to confirm your claim that you didn't use the feature.
No because Apple still has to “notarize” the app before it can be sideloaded
Scout: Scalable Cognitive Operations Unified Team
SCOUT is an AI-powered personal assistant that aims to empower people through intelligent, adaptive, and personalized support. Built on a foundation of open-source software and community collaboration, SCOUT offers a transparent and user-controlled approach to AI assistance. It serves as a platform for innovation and experimentation, enabling users to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence across various domains.

SCOUT is an innovative AI-powered personal assistant that offers intelligent, scalable, and responsive support for a diverse array of tasks. Utilizing state-of-the-art technologies like transformers, multi-agent systems, and cognitive operations, SCOUT aims to deliver a user experience that is both seamless and highly personalized.
Unless a lot of people are using it, they’ll just go after anyone who is doing suspicious things like using grapheneos
What if it is deepuncertain?
By accident. I had found a book from tom kyte in a garage sale, and was looking around in all kinds of views it described.
Future Interfaces Group interdisciplinary research lab
Apple gets sued for things all the time. I think there's a whole class action system set up for it.

"iPhone owners get $92 payouts from Apple in phone-throttling settlement"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/iphone-owners-ge...

etc...

"Some iPhone users eligible for $349 in lawsuit settlement payout over audio issues"

"Apple Lawsuit: M1 MacBook Pro and Air Have Display Hardware Defects, Causes Screens to Crack"

"AppleCare Class Action: Apple Agrees to $95 Million Settlement for iPhone, iPad Users Given ‘Remanufactured’ Devices"

"Apple Agrees to $50 Million Settlement Over Butterfly Keyboard Complaints"
Sounds like it isn't really a town except in name. More like a densely settle old farming area.

Where I'm from (New Zealand) a 2500 person town would be 1/4 acre suburban sections with wide streets surrounding some shops. eg this place:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZcHRLi9HjNiuMsvc6
Applicant? I don't recall applying for anything.

How did I get here?
I don’t think the source was dishonest. Also, Snowflake hasn’t really denied anything. That press release still reads the same, and still acknowledges that customers were impacted.

Also, both infosec groups and journalists were given sample data. On top of that, Live Nation explicitly said in their SEC filing that the breach happened through a third-party cloud provider, which is what Snowflake is.

I think that if Ticketmaster starts to send out breach emails to their customers next week, that will put any suspicions about this being fake to rest.

It’s difficult to imagine ShinyHunters getting duped as well, since they are the initial strongest link to this whole thing.

vx-underground says that Mandiant and Crowdstrike worked with Snowflake and tl;dr of it is that Snowflake wasn’t breached. That is also strange. They weren’t breached but some customers were affected? :jackie_chan_holding_his_head_pic:
I wish they made it easier to vote in these EU elections. I live abroad. For me to cast my vote I’d have to physically travel to my country’s embassy which is several hours travel away return during the voting hours. Or give proxy to someone living there (don’t know anyone since I’ve never lived in that city).

Meanwhile, Canada lets me vote by mail, no fuss, and they even send the ballot to my home address automatically every election.

Would that really be so hard to do for EU or national elections?
If you have to tip, it's not a tip anymore.
As a european I never understood tip system. The restaurant is already paying the waiver, isn't it? If not, the problem lays there, not on the tips. I'm not tipped when I do a good job at maintaining a IT system providing few dozens millions € of revenues, it's my job and I'm paid for that.
By clients having support and/or plugins for things like OMEMO and OTR.
Is this the same Signal that threatened to "absolutely, 100% walk" away from UK if the Online Safety Act "undermined" their privacy?

So I guess it didn't, and they'll find a reason why this won't either.

All meaningless talk.
What does that look like? Let's say you have a large exporting country that decides its exporting needs are more important than the employment needs of other countries in the block, how do you handle that without political alignment? Economic community is political community. The only question is what flavour of economic community, which IMO is where the EU has gone well off track.
That's some bad activism.

If you think a company is mistreating their employees, don't use that company. At all. The only tip you should be giving employees is to find a better job.

No CEO is getting bent because somebody else is paying their employees' wages. If anything, you've enabled them to continue treating workers poorly for longer.
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> Conservatism and participation in its core institutions - marriage, church, and the military - are associated with better mental health

also anyone who's trying to argue that widespread educational attainment is bad for society deserves to be laughed at
> Name one figure who was prominent in between 1995-2005 who you can't find any content about from that era when using Google's date filters. A single figure.

The original post listed multiple people famous in China at that time (including Taiwanese celebrities) where even Bing and Google didn't get them old enough results. Sure, they return results that supposedly match the date filter, but if you actually read them, it becomes clear that Google got the publication date wrong, because much later events are mentioned in the text. Or e.g. a YouTube video from 2004, before YouTube even existed. (Actually uploaded in 2013.)
It’s already a difficult to convince people to use signal instead of WhatsApp, FB messenger, iMessage, etc… if it requires a new phone with sideloaded software etc, I won’t have many people to text anymore.
Ok, but who is behind enshittification, planned obsolescence, corporate consolidation, private equity raiding, brand value extraction, etc...
Isn't our tongue a similar thing?
Oh nice. So we use Ansible for deploys, and I ended up making a simple playbook to request a new cert whenever we deploy. It works well enough but I still wish it was automatic. I also find it mildly inconvenient that I can't hotswap in a new cert, which was discussed in this[1] GH issue.

[1] https://github.com/nginx/unit/issues/195
I paid them $100/month, and as there was plenty of crime around, most of the other retail businesses no doubt paid up as well. I'm sure they made good money. I eventually had enough of not seeing much difference between the police and the gangs in town and sold the place.
It's either that, lumpy shapes for bodily orifices, or develop some real talent: https://linotagliapietra.com/artwork

Frankly pipes and bongs are much easier and don't have the same health and safety liabilities as bad dragon glasswares.
> cryptographic signatures and valid IDs could have made it FAR more secure

No it wouldn’t, it would make attacks at scale easier. The gold standard is physical ballots with electronic scanning.
Agreed. However, you are then giving your tools to people who have none of that experience and understanding and apply it to the problems they are trying to solve without then taking a pause and checking the results against facts. There is a lot of trust in the outputs and little vigilance. A common reply to such concerns is "well, you should be able to spot incorrect information in the outputs" which is tricky if we are talking about education where by definition students are yet to learn correct answers or lower levels of career development, very much similar to education when they are learning on the job. The lack of ability to quote and trace sources of information used to construct output by an LLM is a major red flag for me, sensitive information leakage is another. They way LLMs are sold is irresponsible, they are sold as tools to solve problems, not as a thousand monkeys trying to type up the whole works of Shakespeare, which isv where we are at the moment.
SMS is far less convenient and lacks many important features, like groups, emojis, speed and presentation.

Independence from known data harvesters is the only reason I got pretty much all of my contacts to switch.
You choose the amount in relation to how you want them to think of you. It’s a social tax.

Go ahead and tip 0 if the consequences are acceptable to you.

In any tipping situation, the price is the base price, not the final price.
It's the governments of the EU countries that are agreeing to this in the Council (apparently it's going through because France is lifting its veto). If enough people cared about this, they would put pressure on their governments to scrap this. But this is not ever talked about except in these circles (unlike, say, the migration pact).
Agreed about Altman, and once again I am trying to point out the key difference: AI can impose massive negative externalities on billions of people who have never opted in, whether they like it or not — while even the shittiest of shitcoins in crypto can only lose you what you voluntarily chose to put at risk. For many people that was under $1000, and for even more it was $0.

To me that is why I consider AI far more dangerous than cryptocurrnecies of any kind. And smart contracts can do far more than cryptocurrencies… while decentralized byzantine-fault-tolerant networks can do even more.

The public fears AI far more than they fear Web3. As for the banks, they couldn’t have exposure to these assets until the ETFs came about, because of laws. And these assets only became interesting because millions of regular people around the world bought into that ecosystem and started using it. The innovation in DeFi was far greater than in regulated FinTech, and without all the arcane needs for interoperability with legacy stuff that still uses fax machines and COBOL. Similarly to how packed switched decentralized VoIP completely eclipsed switchboard operators and legacy telephone networks and trusting the operators like Ma Bell! The costs dropped nearlh overnight to zero and the quality increased, while decades of government antitrust couldn’t achieve anything close to that!
Seriously, who are they expecting to pay for that? AI vision detection run against _every image every person sends to anyone_, among other things, will get ridiculously expensive.

Half of the reason Microsoft is pushing "AI PCs" with special hardware is so they can push their spying to on-device and reduce all the extra costs the data processing they're imagining for things like automatic-screenshot-analysis-every-x-seconds will need.

And they're pretty much experts on spying on users. They've been collecting so much data for so long that apparently they've found a way to utilize what they collect in a way that makes the costs balance out in the end. Whether thats with government access, preferential antitrust treatment, or some actual financial method that directly affects the bottom line, I don't know. Somehow it's worthwhile for them. BUT -- when even Microsoft is looking for more efficient ways to spy on people, and forcing new hardware to support that effort, you know the data collection and analysis technique is definitely not ready to be made a legal mandate.

It doesn't make sense at all for some EU decision makers to decide it's acceptable for their citizens to bear the cost of so much data processing.

....wait, how much do large players in AI contribute to these politicians campaigns? Or if not them, who is really pushing this? It seems like someone should really try following the money on this one.
Loaded this in a 9:16 aspect ratio window and got a blank page showing '55' in the centre. Which is not the result of 84-24.
Or have minibuses that are smaller and come more frequently. Find a few drivers willing to work after hours as a second job perhaps and let them drive smaller shuttle buses or larger passenger vans.

When big buses stop their routes the smaller ones would start.

The key is frequency and dependability.
Why do you believe giving money to a stranger for the only reason of being sexually attracted to them is acceptable behaviour?
Somehow however the NSA was reading Signal chats...
Next time put a link to download an mp3. I can listen while driving or exercising. I don't have time to watch the video or read along transcript.
Isn't it also like gaming, especially with a controller? How "good" you are with gaming is at least a function of how well your brain is able to remap desired actions into necessary controller input muscle movements.
>Executive compensation is part of a business’s expense [...]

Right. So when you said this..

>Spotify loves money so much it has yet to show a profit in almost 20 years.

..was your point that Spotify, the company, doesn't love money, even if the executives might?
Yeah Windows 11 is a bag of delays and buggy interfaces (and telemetry)

It's frankly ridiculous how everything "kinda seems to work" but not really
The reduced allowed amount of phthalates (DEHP, DBP) in Korea is identical to the allowed amount in EU and US. (0.1% by combined weight)

To be precise, they are only restricted on certain products like children's toys and clothing, which is the product found to be problematic.
Eliminating competition is now a theoretical concept
Eliminating competition is now a theoretical concept. This is why startups are currently failing. Being a monopoly and setting the rules no longer works. Now, only the customer sets the rules. Social media has greatly strengthened communication. When a product monopoly tries to change prices or standards against the user's interest, the user can quickly switch to and learn about a competitor's product. The era of permanent moats is over.
Because it's really important to know the difference between NAT and a firewall if you are into networks. And IPv6 discussions generally involve such people. In this case it's nothing to do with NAT and everything to do with being behind a firewall.
Prussian presumably as that is where he was from. According to wikipedia he used to say he was born in Königsberg but there is a possibility he was born in another place near there. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert
I wonder if I can get a coupon with shipping for a specific amazon product.

I feel like I need to start distributing copies of 1984 to people.
Not sure if this is satire but Go's "embed" package was specifically made for this...
The food is not only bought with money, but also subsidized. With tax dollars from cities.
My understanding is that the UK removed clauses that would undermine Signals security. Regardless of which, Signals didn't, and was never going to make concessions to the UK that would compromise it's users privacy.

Their strategy then as it seems to be now, is to do nothing but say they disagree and wait for the regulators to forcibly remove them from the market.

That is if they did themselves non-compliant with a countries laws, they'll do nothing and wait to be evicted rather then comply or voluntarily leave.
There is https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server

> Edit: FYI I use IntelliJ with Lua support,

In other words, you don't like Lua, because your favorite IDE doesn't properly support it? (Or maybe it does, when you install the aforementioned language server)
It's not just poor people who don't want to rely on cars but also those too young to have a license, or momentarily too sick or simply too old to drive safely and of course those with suspended licenses for whatever reason. Mobility should be a right for everyone, not just car owners.
Commerce with software goods, or even exchange for digital traditional currencies, suffers from exactly the same problem as physical goods: there is no possible way to use the block chain to guarantee that a payment on the block chain will result in a good or service being provided outside the block chain. You can try to build more things onto the block chain itself, but that quickly becomes un scalable.

And for elections: if you think for a second that a crypto voting machine wouldn't have been cast doubt on by the people who brought you "Hugo Chavez stole the election through Dominion voting machines", then I have no idea on what planet you live.

On a separate topic, the USA is almost uniquely bad in the world, at least for rich democratic countries, in having such problems carrying out elections.

In my own, incomparably poorer, country, with a 50% rural population, we just don't have these problems. You have a 90% physical voting system: you come to the polling station, they check your ID in an electronic system to make sure you meet the voting age and haven't voted before in this election, they give you a stamp and a ballot, you stamp the ballot in a private booth, typically in a local school. You fold the ballot, and put it in a big urn. At the end of the voting day, representatives of all parties and anyone else who registered as an observer opens the urn and they all count the votes. They report the counts higher up electronically, and safely store the physical ballots. Elections happen on a Sunday, from 8 AM to 8 PM, sometimes with local extensions where a polling station is still full at the close. Preliminary results from exit polls are announced immediately at 8PM by the media. The electoral officials announce the first official preliminary results by 22PM, and then throughout the night. By 12 PM the next day, the vote count and official final results are typically out.

No "hanging chads", etc. There are plenty of other electoral issues (busing, paying for votes, strong local cliques where even representatives of different parties conspire to steal votes for a single party, bad education leading to people not knowing their rights or who to vote for, etc). But not procedural problems, and no machines that make it easy to hide systematic stealing.
The problem with GNU and Gnome is, to put it in the words of Steve jobs about Microsoft, "lack taste". They are too distant from the mainstream to cater to them.

postnote: this comment was Authored on Firefox under Wayland running on Linux 6.
It was. Our 56k modem was a PCI card. Later we had ISDN and ADSL modems (I still use the latter to this day). I only got a router (a Linksys device) to attach multiple computers to the internet. It was a few years before ISPs started bundling routers and WiFi APs.
> This is why Signal needs to decentralise

They have been building a walled garden for a decade. They talk about "market": they want to make Signal profitable.
I was wondering this same thing... It's just off by 5, but still... Must be written in JavaScript
It sounds kind of like something Scott Alexander would write.
llama.cpp is not CPU only…
The Netherlands does allow citizens living abroad to vote using mail-in ballots, so it’s something that your country has to arrange.