skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have exactly described how freedom of speech works in North Korea. You are allowed to say "I think that Kim is a bad leader", which is guaranteed by the article 67 of The Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. But this doesn't mean you can spread untrue claims and cause societal disrupt, so Kim arrests you for your reckless actions and you go to gulag.

Again, freedom of speech exists in North Korea and it's protected by law, it's just that you're not free from the consequences of abusing freedom of speech.
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What problem here would be solved by ratifying a constitution?

Like -- ISTM that the relevant property here is the ability of the courts to overturn ordinary legislation for incompatibility with basic human rights provisions. But the EU already has this. the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (which is pretty much a superset of the european convention on human rights) is incorporated into the Lisbon treaty, and all EU legislation must be compatible with it. EU courts have overturned legislation for incompatibility with the CFR, eg Digital Rights Ireland[0].

The collection of member state treaties is for ~all intents and purposes a constitution, just not in a single document, and without the word "constitution" at the top.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
People love calling everything nazi
The misunderstood Kessler Syndrome
How does this allow for it to be sneakily applied, as you suggest ?
Whoa, what a weird take. I'm talking about stuff like starting a local photo club/drawing club/etc and sharing your work with like-minded people and starting exhibitions in your local town. Voluntary.

You make it sound like some weird manipulation scheme. Sounds like you've never actually done anything like this in real life.
The idea that outsourcing production had anything to their downfall seems far-fetched.

The richest hardware company in the world, Apple, completely outsourced production.

Maybe things are different with cars but that seems unlikely to me.
Following the links from this article to the EU directory[0] I tried to visit the site listed as my country's official representatives only to find a literal blinking "under construction" gif: http://www.irelandrepbrussels.be/

Amazing.

[0] https://op.europa.eu/en/web/who-is-who/organization/-/organi...
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western democracy is good for people in the west.

not other countless nations that have been enslaved, colonized, invaded, subjugated, stripped in the name of democracy and religion.

Russia, CCP etc are horrible too - but let us not forget history.

The Global South Remembers.
I mean e.g. the safe harbour scandal that EUGH nullified after a 10-year legal struggle. Was violating EU core values. That's as close to unconsitutional as one may get not having one. Then came privacy shield, another 10-year legal fight and groundhog day. You get the idea.
> I doubt he'd have even learnt to read on his own.

Of course not, not any more than he’d learn to program a computer on his own.

Reading and writing are not natural skills. They are a technology that was invented by humans and they must be taught in some capacity. As we learn to read and write, parts of our brain related to language and other skills (which we do possess naturally) are co-opted to enable reading and writing, an unnatural skill.

Intelligence and language, however, are natural human abilities that we have evolved, likely over millions of years. Any parent will tell you this is obvious. It’s amazing how much children are able to infer and learn on their own.
No need to compare to China, the German authorities can be repressive, they do search your home if you call an official a penis. Home searches are done casually because the judicative branch is overworked, neglects its responsibility and just waves such demands through. You lose your electronics and maybe your property gets damaged. Of course for a developer your electronics might be quite valuable as well.

With a mechanism like this, this probably will increase further, apart of course for the unjust violation of privacy and even dignity. This is a law that contradicts the constitution very directly.

Also, this is policy that was not brought through democracy. It was created by European Commissioners that only have a very low democratic legitimacy for far reaching policies like this.

It would be a disaster for the EU and all its citizens if this comes through and everyone will loose.
It's not about the usual AV software, but about "fake" system used to try and detect and analyse malware. AV Vendors and malware researcher in general use such honeypots to find malware that hasn't been identified yet.

This software seems to fake some idiciators that are used by malware to detect wheter they're on a "real system" or a honeypot.
Yeah, what policts of the pirate party is/was even remotely "nazi".
Show HN: Aurora, an extensible Python static site generator
Aurora is a fast, extensible Python static site generator. With Aurora, I can generate my personal website [1] (~1,700 files, with multiple layers of jinja2 templates for each page) in < 4 seconds. Aurora generated 292,884 pages from a Hacker News post dataset in 2m:20s.

I appreciate being able to see changes I make as soon as possible, so Aurora comes with hot reloading and incremental static regeneration for development. Refreshes and reloads are ~200ms, and trigger automatically.

You can see a demo at:

https://github.com/capjamesg/aurora/assets/37276661/39f62bd8...

Aurora comes with a "hooks" API that lets you control state before page generation and after site build. I use the former feature to read locally-cached link previews. There is also a feature to load data from JSON and CSV files.

I would love feedback!

[1] https://jamesg.blog
[2] https://jamesg.blog/2024/06/16/aurora-isr/
https://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude/

The W3C specced out such a tag nearly 20 years ago, but because the browser devs are terrified of all things XML it was never implemented.
It's kinda curious that AMD GPUs still don't have idiot-proof power management. Can you still blow them up from software as well?
The public, as a group, can only keep a small number of subjects in focus at a time. This feels like a phenomenon that I take for granted to be true but I haven't heard any name for it or read any studies.

It really feels like a symptomatic phenomenon of our time.
True, but it was still worth the meme (:
> So whenever you send anything to example.com you also send it to government-snooping-service.org?domain=example.com.

No, it's client side scanning - you have a database with bad material / a neural network trained to detect such material.
Only when it detects a positive match, it will contact the government server.
Why don’t you instead look at the number of people killed throughout the globe as a result of China and then compare that to the number with the West.

Literally soul destroying. As in life destroying.

Meta data kills people. Now it’s moving way further than meta data..
> We also dont have a code signing certificate yet either, they are expensive for windows.

When someone is offering you a certificate and the only thing you have to do in order to get it is pay them a significant amount of money, that's a major red flag that it's either a scam or you're being extorted. Or both. In any case you should not pay them and neither should anyone else.
Western nations aren't solely responsible for insufficient historical education.
In the specific cases of openai and anthropic, both have 'tool use' interfaces which will generate valid JSON following a schema of your choice.

You're right, though, that reprompting works with pretty much everything out there, including hosted models that don't have tool use as part of their API. And its simple too, you don't even need to know what "token masking" is.

Reprompting can also apply arbitrarily criteria that are more complex than just a json schema. You ask it to choose an excerpt of a document and the string it returns isn't an excerpt? Just reprompt.
Strava Is the Last Good Social Media App
As an Aphantasian, this!

Because there’s no rigorous scientific definition of what consciousness is, and you can’t even just roughly point to it, just like most quasi-sciences it’s all up for debate.

From my perspective, the only people questioning whether or not non-humans have consciousness are coming from a religious perspective trying to reconcile their cognitive dissonance
An observation from a little while ago:

> Pretty straightforward really. You combine Brazil's history of monetary stability, with Russia's respect for property rights, India's domestic tranquility, China's financial transparency, and South Africa's investment opportunities - and hey presto, you've got a new global money

* https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1665053372402081792
I’ve always wondered if there’s any correlation between the cost of the wedding (as a ratio of income) and later divorces.

We had a very simple wedding 25+ years ago. A few close family and friends as guest, registry office and a local hotel for the reception - and had the entire thing paid for the next month when the CC came through.

It was no less meaningful or memorable- we still talk about our favorite parts today and need no major Instagramable set of videos and pictures to remind us of it.

I fear that some of these hyper stylized weddings later become metaphorical albatross’s because they constantly remind people of a time gone by that can never be returned to.

My personal view is to simply remember the past with fondness but always look to the future.
Crime, whether CSAM or drugs or theft, all have a component in the real-world: it’s never purely in messaging.

Stop the CSAM where it’s being created. Catch the drug manufacturers and distributors. Etc. do police work.
In this case it's not really about mass surveillance. I genuinely do not believe it's the intended purpose (even if it is the actual outcome).

The issue is that Europe is behind in tech; particularly big communication networks (aka: social networks). One key element here is that the amount of taxes paid by the Facebooks and co. is ridiculously low and their importance in the economy is getting bigger and bigger. This causes a significant risk for the future.

Any attempt that we made to combat this on the technological aspect has been a complete failure.

To protect its citizen, Europe uses the biggest weapon at its disposal: regulations. The point is not to impose mass surveillance, nor is it to protect the children; the point is to hurt social networks because they are perceived as a threat (real or not). Hammer them with regulations until it's almost impossible to comply, if possible by implementing conflicting ideas (protect privacy of everyone BUT check every image for child pornography !).

The desired outcome is that: either the social network goes out of Europe, or decides to accept the fines, which more or less corresponds to what Europe believes should have been paid by a fair tax system.

Expect the exact same thing to happen with AI.
> And EU professionals like lawyers, journalists, and physicians could no longer uphold their duty to confidentiality online.

This is the point that needs to be hammered home. Allowing governments access to everyone's confidential information is a massive security disaster waiting to happen because bad actor's will target this backdoor.
The issue is the rise of mass surveillance tech, which makes it too easy. Also, tech creates new threats (including terror plots, protecting children etc) which drive demand for the surveillance.
> To my understanding optical […] can be faster (both medium dependent) […]

The speed of light in optical fiber — for all types based on glass, ignoring miniscule differences — is 68% that of air/vaccuum. And that's not changing, and no state-of-the-art high speed applications are being developed on plastic fibre or free air.

So, latency wise, on runs with non-negligible length, optical will lose out to electrical, which is generally quite close to the speed of light. (Except of course after some point the electrical signal is just noise, and if you factor in delay caused by amplifiers/repeaters it becomes much harder of a question.)

There's this kinda-famous story of some HFT company pulling a copper cable across some bay, because they'd gain some nanoseconds compared to the fiber they had.

The transceiver latency for "long-range" links (well, call 100m long range for copper…) is actually worse for the copper links, as the whole DSP getup you need for that takes a few symbol times to process. Optical transceivers are just optodiodes and "simple" amplifiers, the latency is much less than a symbol.

(symbol = unit of transmission, roughly 1 bit on "old" fibre [≤ 25G lane rate], ca. 4 bit for 10Gbase-T, will vary more for faster connections.)
Well they do keep electing communists in Europe so it makes sense the Soviet dream state is near completion.
It would be more fair incarcerating each adult male citizen for 5-7 days, all female citizen for 0.5-1 days of high security prison in the name of child abuse mitigation.

Reasoning: they all have the opportunity to do such.
Representative in what way? 700 MEPs for about 450M people means each one has 640k "constituents". Those "constituents" are really a fraction each person all smeared about. Lastly if they were actual people and an MEP were to hold a consultation to get their views it gives each person less than 1 minute each year assuming the MEP was available 24/7/365.
Yeah I understood the mechanism, just wanted to know the companies that enable such things.
You realize criminals can stack infinitely many layers of encryption onto any compromised (govt-controlled) channel right? So how is "Chat Control" supposed to be the solution??
If you insist on updating. I've been more than fine staying 3-4 OS versions behind – on original machines that support the updates.
does anyone know if any of these tools offer support for a qualitative scores for the results? For example, if I have a text "my little pony.."

returns {"childrens comic": 99, "adult comedy":1,...}
> But all coming on here and saying "ooohh, this is bad, innit!" is not very interesting, and unlikely to prevent it.

I disagree - this is how the internet can strengthen democracy.

Upvoting and commenting makes this post hit the top of HN and stay there. This makes it visible to many EU citizens who can reach out to their MEP's to ask them to vote against it. Seems a pretty effective strategy to me as someone living in a non-EU country.

Although agree that we should also be discussing the questions you raised.
My favourite are queries "why are you rejecting my email?"

Ehh... Because your dmarc policy told us to?
This "thing" is always spawning 3 processes at the time. The processes are always the ones from the virustotal link. I can upload the DLL to a file sharing service of your choice if you don't have a VT premium license. I can also provide an any.run link:
https://app.any.run/tasks/bc557b04-5025-46a1-a683-aad3b29b9a... (installer)
https://app.any.run/tasks/e257e7f2-7837-4ed1-93c8-5d617d75cc... (zip file containing the files).
Let me know if you need further info :).
Yes, but look at the previous comment. How does "inventing transformers" marry with "Google has managers not visionaries"?
> I am much for 3-strikes here.

You want something over democratic control.

Democratically elected representatives are sovereign decision makers. They can vote and decide whatever they want. Constitutions interpreted by high courts can strike laws down only afterwards.

Democracy should lead to stupid laws if people are ignorant, stupid and easily led.

If we had direct democracy, this bill would have passed decades ago.
And, you know, the whole "intelligence community" folks.
It's not really about "normal" antivirus programs, but tools used by security researchers. It's well-known that more sophisticated malware often try to avoid scrutiny by not running, or masking their intended purpose if the environment looks "suspicious".

A paranoid online game like e.g. Test Drive Unlimited, might not launch because the OS says it's Windows Server 2008 (ask me how I know). A script in a Word document might not deliver its payload if there are no "recently opened documents".

The idea with this thing is to make the environment look suspicious by making it look like an environment where the malware is being deliberately executed in order to study its behaviour.
> This is mostly good news for people doing capacity planning in advance of events etc. If you run your systems at reasonable utilisation levels normally, you don't actually need that much additional capacity to handle peak loads.

Stop using math that will put the hyperscalers/serverless/microservices bros out of business! /s
They sure did! They also (was it around that time? I forget...) pushed pretty hard for everything to be stored in iCloud, where coincidentally it's not protected by any of the on-device security and can (as I understand it) be legally requisitioned by the authorities. Happy to be corrected (with sources) if I'm wrong here but otherwise this seems very much on par.
Perhaps they do not. Perhaps this was proposed with the goal that it will be rejected, so Germany and others can say:

"Look how much we care about your privacy!"

And then they scan in a clandestine manner. I do not trust any of these privacy apps, especially if certain people always try to discredit PGP.

Or it was proposed because some MP needed something on his resume. Or they want to tie up the resources of freedom advocates so that they do not work on even bigger issues.
Not applicable, nor enforceable. If this were to pass then the next Signal will be P2P. There are already some good protocols like Tox.

Ironically the pervs will still be using WhatsApp, and just put their CSAM in a password-protected zip file before sending.
Surely then the government can easily censor anyone who disagrees with them
"The result is, our cultures — from technological problems and solutions to how we organize our institutions — are too complex for individuals to invent on their own.”

Yes, solo geniuses might often make unbelievable inventions on their own.

But science, progress and innovation are all social concepts at the end of the day.

I find this pretty amazing.
This is a great question. I don't think mentoring features nearly enough in our line of work.

Guiding early-career engineers is something I am sure many of us seniors have done (I'm 25+ years in to my own career), but for people like yourself with 10, 15 years+ I do feel it's hard to find such guidance on "what next?" and "is this the right path?", and someone that can help one navigate choices which might become available.

Perhaps a professional life coach? Although I have never done so and cannot recommend or discourage, it might prove completely fruitless...
Ah, so the issue is that you misperceive my genuine reflections to be trolling, which you take for permission to be unkind. Whereas from my perspective, I'm just sharing my reflections about something of interest to me, and find myself somewhat abruptly insulted.

Perhaps you ought identify less with your tools, you'd find yourself feeling less attacked when they're discussed (and attacking others?). There's an alternative version of this exchange where you contribute your Lisp knowledge in good faith and I benefit from your thoughts. Bit late now, but food for thought.
We're talking about something else entirely.

But even for "up to 7.5.3", it is just binaries; no source code.
Donkeys and horses are not the same species, but they interbreed. Their offspring are called mules. Although mules rarely have offspring, so perhaps not a great example.
David Frum being a writer for a US magazine, it seems perhaps worth taking his snickering with a grain of salt.
There's also parinfer, which does pretty much everything for you. I've heard some people don't like it because they dislike auto-insertion of text. Maybe that's more like what OP expected.
> my fear is that the managers have FOMO and want to push to productize asap even tho the tech isn’t ready yet

This is exactly it. With the limitations ChatGPT is encountering around safety and hallucination, Google probably should've just said "we're working on something awesome - hold on" and kept plugging away before releasing, instead of ex-Product CEO making them release something now, even if half of the demo video is fake.
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More Western arrogance from people who can't even spell losing. It is so over.
On some level I can see it being a benefit to the big providers to only accept email from other big providers, as it would incentivise people to buy email services from them, because only email sent from the big providers would "work".
"outrage piece" or not, there's a bunch of interesting history in the article. Also, Ms. Pac man was/is a better game then Pac Man, and a more interesting character design -- It's a shame if she goes away forever.
Ask HN: Is it possible to get chat-GPT to generate a zip file of code?