skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article was very focused on the alt-right, but almost everything it said could be applied to the alt-left as well. Many people on the alt-left seem to wear a diagnosis on their sleeve. Like was bright up in the article, it’s questionable how much of that is real vs proclaiming it for attention, acceptance, or validation. Maybe that’s mentioned somewhere else in the full book, but I didn’t like that the article left it out.

There also seems to be a lot of confirmation bias mixed in. Hopefully this doesn’t give people the impression that everyone with ASD is a political extremist, or even cares about politics… it felt like ASD == alt-right was the idea that was being pushed. There are infinite rabbit holes a person could go down online. Reddit has a a sub where people obsessively talk about drinking water. It seems a much broader approach could be taken.
While it has had funding from some sources we don’t necessarily trust, it’s still entirely open source and the code has been combed through repeatedly.

When it comes to privacy apps, I’d place significantly more trust in something like that than literally anything closed source or unscrutinized to that degree.
The opposite. Complicators gloves would be to use a solar powered fan to make electricity that drives a robot arm which uses a raspberry pi driving a computer vision controlled arm which is plucking individual boxes and folding them neatly into a waiting robot retrieval and delivery bot.

The "uncomplicator" responds with "just blow them off with a fan".

Be the uncomplictaor.

_edit_: actually I'm the 2nd degree complicator compared to crafish's reply, which is just "cut four rounded slots with an x-acto", no adhesive necessary.

2nd edit: two diagonal slots, one for each corner. Be the uncomplicator.
Indie blogs are doing OK
The other day I wrote that indie blogs are doing fine in response to [what happened to blogs](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40949636) on Hacker News. Now that I let the grump out, let me share some of my methods for finding these blogs.
The Mozilla CEO would be very unlikely to receive a positive reception.
Don't make it morbid then? Just talk to them and let them get to know who you are.

That itself is incredibly difficult as most people can't describe who they are beyond their name and title.
Used my Infriray while house hunting. Possibly saved me big time €. Great also for spotting leaks any water in/on surfaces shows up quite clearly. In the same vein I use it to spot pet accidents.

The infriray is the Chinese knockoff brand which is actually better than flir because they don’t have to follow the US weapons law. So with it I get 30(?) fps instead of the ~5 with flir. Resolution is better too. It’s very sensitive and can clearly show a hand print on a surface for a minute or so even if you only touch it for 1/2 a second.
Interestingly the option has a link to an explanation on how it works. Which was handy as I couldn't get past the German cookie dialogue on the original article.

I guess the question is whether the aggregation services can be persuaded by clever attribute manipulation to give the ad site a near unique report for a user across many sites.

<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attr...>

<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-ppm-dap>

<https://github.com/mozilla/explainers/tree/main/ppa-experime...>
The only context I ever understood this in was "macro" scale: it doesn't matter which choice of first language 1,000 students make, as long as there is some diversity. That way the national programming economy has a mix.

I think people privileged to start in a LISP or FP in general have the advantages. I started in imperative FORTRAN in the 70s and it affected my future models massively.

I often think "the road not taken".
Here in South Africa our main electricity supplier has been failing for the last few years due to corruption, nepotism etc.

As a result solar power has really taken off for both businesses and homes.
Maybe now they'll be able to factorize 3*5 with the general Shor's algorithm. AFAIK all previous quantum factorization records used precomputed knowledge of the factors.
Seems like OpenAI is going the Uber route of try to skirt the law and ignore it “because we are tech”. There is nothing new under the sun and no one is above the law.
Why is it so hard to chat to people nearby?
There’s too much variation in size of wires and pipes for it to work well. Wires may also be tucked back farther on the stud.
€5? Meta alone generates over that in ARPU in the EU, and 3× that in the US. And that’s for everyone, not just the salaried subset.
First time I hear about Icecat browser. It seems like something that should be much more known!
pi = 3
When learning and experimenting it could make a difference.
you're almost there.

get a pen and notebook. and have that on you everywhere.

have periods where you sit and do nothing. nothing as in - you're not on your phone, watching tv or reading. then let your mind wonder.

read a lot - i.e skip the typical tech news but read regular stuff like books, newspapers etc .

let me know if you do that and don't come up with 'ideas'
Stupid autocorrect thing, I meant "highly programmable".
Mozilla has never given us a choice to pay for Firefox.
> I have a C++ service running in production

Is it on a network (or other) security boundary, exposed to attack from the Internet?

Is it deployed on millions of machines worldwide?

_Those_ are the primary targets for replacement, because the networked environment is a very hostile place, and people are fed up with the consequences of that. Regular announcements of "sorry all your private data has been leaked lol". Constant upgrade treadmill to fix the latest CVEs.

(the poster child for this was really Shockwave Flash, later owned by Adobe, which had so many RCE exploits everyone united behind Apple killing it off. Even if this meant obsoleting a whole era of media and games which relied on it. That wasn't rewritten, it was just killed.)
Fear as a Game
I have a feeling that is most people out there.

I observed a friend of mine click on a malicious ad link recently in front of me when driving a presentation for a community meeting. It was shown as an overlay for a seemingly harmless site I found. In my home with a pihole I didn't see any of the ads.

I felt terrible that I was partially responsible for her clicking it. This knowledge and habit of ad-blocking and secure computer usage takes factors of time, effort, and money to learn, and not everyone is going to, or is capable of, devoting what's needed.
Since go don’t use the libc related time functions on linux, but rather makes syscalls directly, faketime will not work for any programs written in Go.
Unfortunately Facebook, the flagship React application, does not reflect that.
How does this work? Zuckerberg and investors are getting richer. Who's paying for it? Advertisers? If so, aren't they getting ripped off when bots are generating clicks? Why do they stick around? What am I missing?
You must've misread what I wrote, since we both said the same thing.
Source: I have implemented a OCI-compliant registry [1], though for the most part I've been following the behavior of the reference implementation [2] rather than the spec, on account of its convolutedness.

When the client finalizes a blob upload, they need to supply the digest of the full blob. This requirement evidently serves to enable the server side to validate the integrity of the supplied bytes. If the server only started checking the digest as part of the finalize HTTP request, it would have to read back all the blob contents that had already been written into storage in previous HTTP requests. For large layers, this can introduce an unreasonable delay. (Because of specific client requirements, I have verified my implementation to work with blobs as large as 150 GiB.)

Instead, my implementation runs the digest computation throughout the entire sequence of requests. As blob data is taken in chunk by chunk, it is simultaneously streamed into the digest computation and into blob storage. Between each request, the state of the digest computation is serialized in the upload URL that is passed back to the client in the Location header. This is roughly the part where it happens in my code: https://github.com/sapcc/keppel/blob/7e43d1f6e77ca72f0020645...

I believe that this is the same approach that the reference implementation uses. Because digest computation can only work sequentially, therefore the upload has to proceed sequentially.

[1] https://github.com/sapcc/keppel
[2] https://github.com/distribution/distribution
What the Ju/'hoansi can tell us about group decision-making Essays
So this is just an ImGui frontend for diff-gaussian-rasterization?
You don’t understand what you’re talking about. It’s an open secret in CDC circles that the polygraph is not effective at catching trained liars, more of a ritual than anything. The polygraph is not a test for how gullible or misinformed you are. It is mostly a test for two things:

1) are you willing to play by the rules and follow orders, even if sometimes they don’t make sense?

2) if you are being lightly interrogated, do you immediately freak out and tell the interrogator everything? Do you have a really bad reaction to pressure?

If you don’t match these criteria then you probably aren’t fit to know extremely sensitive government secrets. But like I said, it’s more of a ritual than anything, the value for even those two tests is unproven.

Even smart and informed people who know exactly what a poly does can say and do things they wouldn’t normally when they’re strapped to a chair, hooked up to machines, and being yelled at for hours
Or they could just not do this shit. Completely refuse to help your enemies. Actually support their users.
This sounds awful I hope my job never adopts this.
Paamayim Nekudotayim anyone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_resolution_operator#PHP) ?
Mozilla CEO Salary was US$7 million in 2022. It's beyond taking the piss:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Negative_salary...

No idea how much the new CEO is being paid. Probably just as bad.
While we're nitpicking... "it can’t technically be called a computer until you dock it on an external keyboard"
These agreements will most likely be ironed out.

What I am more interested in is the constant pressure on "safety risks" without anything that feels tangible to me so far. I believe there is indeed risk using models that could be biased but I don't believe that is a new problem. I still don't think we are at risk from a runaway AGI that is going to destroy us.
If there is one single piece of software I will post a recurring fee for, it's a web browser. Look at Kagi and Orion for example (I pay for both).

It's like email. You need to get people over the mental hump. But then if you offer a good product, buyers will be happy they got over it.
It's always been on the straggler to catch up by cheating. That's just how the world works - even in open source. If AMD supported CUDA, it would have a bigger market share. That's a fact. Nvidia doesn't want that. That's a fact. But when Reddit started, it just scraped feeds from Digg, and when Facebook started, it let you link your MySpace credentials and scraped your MySpace account. Adversarial interoperability is nothing new.
I don't know of any "good guys" whatsoever that ever managed to build and maintain a browser. Anyone?

Maybe one day we'll have a usable FOSS browser but I doubt it (the companies will fight tooth and nail against it including legal means, buying out companies, blocking content for them, etc.).
That's just the most brain dead rot I've read in a while.

Mozilla is a joke nowadays.
> In a statement, Hannah Wong, a spokesperson for OpenAI said, “Our whistleblower policy protects employees’ rights to make protected disclosures. Additionally, we believe rigorous debate about this technology is essential and have already made important changes to our departure process to remove nondisparagement terms.”

How can corporate communication always play that card: "Our policy on X is very good, and we believe X is very important, so that's why we're making changes right now to things that were blatantly in contradiction with X, that we wouldn't have made if this didn't make it to the press"?
Yeah it should be the same regulation than drawing some celebrity in a porn situation
How to Create a Liquid Raymarching Scene Using Three.js Shading Language
Then decreasing taxes on capital increases investments. Decreasing them all the way to negative ten thousand percent would increase investments a lot. Is that a good thing?
The science behind an iPhone dumb phone
> Anyone bothered enough by advertising

I don't particularly have an issue with advertising itself. If adverts get on my nerves on a product or page I just leave, as you suggest: problem solved.

The actual issue is the stalky tracking of me throughout my life that is currently inseparable from the advertising. I can't just walk away from that: it happens behind my back, it has happened before I get the chance to walk away.

> can stop using whatever product has been ruined by ads

Which will not stop the stalky behaviour of the ad industry. They'll still track me if I happen to click the wrong thing, or track me through my connections to other people. I suppose I could walk away from life and become a hermit, but that would be just a little extreme.

> or find ways to remove the advertising.

Which is, while I do take part, an ultimately fruitless task. Every block we make for the stalky behaviour, be it technical or legislative (other than outright banning the tracking of personal data except with explicit opt-in without exceptions, and properly enforcing punishments for breaking the ban), they'll find a way around. Removing it is not a long term solution, it is a war or attrition where we have to have our guard up all the time and they only have to get lucky, or just be particularly sneaky, every now and again.

> More laws and larger governments doesn't have to be the answer to all problems.

This has often been said by companies and their shills. Oddly, they are all in favour of extra laws and government reach when it is, for example, to protect what they consider to be their intellectual property.
> Safety risks are not trade secrets.

No, but safety risks are potential securities law violations and a confidentiality agreement that inhibits employees talking to the SEC about anything freely is a SEC violation in itself
How about the new Lenovo Tab? It's very reasonably priced, but I have no experience with it.

All I can see right now is that it has a battery bump that people might object to.

My goals with any device is to be as slim and as vanilla Android as possible, which means Samsung can go to hell.

A friend said he liked the OnePlus tablet.
No doubt and I believe corporate espionage at different levels is alive and well but I don't think we are quite close to full on corporate nation states.
It certainly reads defensively.

> It’s an open source project, people will 100% notice if they tried to do what the parent comment is suggesting.

No-one thinks they'll lie about it. They'd announce it quietly just like this change, letting the fuss blow over. The average user would never even realise and Firefox would continue on its journey towards user hostility.
Sure, but I don't think that really changes anything here. The idea of a law that bans advertising when the customer pays you would miss a huge portion of advertising and data collection including Firefox.
That is provably false. Safari isn’t funded by advertising, neither is Orion, or LibreWolf, or any number of other smaller open-source browsers.
Yes, I believe it is usually better not to treat conversations as competitive games. (Not always. For instance, formal debates have some value, even if only for entertainment.) I'm not sure what "in an absolute sense" really means, though, so I'm not sure whether I've answered your question; I think it's better in the sense that it's more likely for the conversations in question to improve the world overall. (E.g., by making one or both participants' beliefs or thinking more accurate.)

When I say "I could be wrong" it isn't a rhetorical get-out-of-jail-free card, it's a simple statement of fact. You claimed I was "speaking untruthfully" and (by implication) asked whether I was aware of it; I said: so far as I know, what I said was true, but it could be wrong. I'm not sure what nefarious rhetorical goal you imagine I was achieving by saying that, but my intention was simply to summarize my actual epistemic state since you were evidently curious (or, I guess, pretending to be curious) about it.

Anyway. When I said I didn't want to continue this conversation, I meant it. I don't think you're arguing in good faith; you continue to be (apparently deliberately) super-vague about your actual position; you make repeated assertions of bad faith on my part; you've made it clear that you see this as a zero-sum interaction where your goal is to "win"; in view of all that, I think there is negligible chance of anything actually useful coming of the discussion. I shall not be responding further.
Eh? Chrome is famously bulky and a memory hog
So which state that is primarily controlled by one party have all these things?

Hint: None, because it's not as easy as a party system. Not all voters agree on these issues.
That is just noise for undisciplined people. If you track calories you will not be overweight.
What's the rate of change in all three measures:

* Fidelity

* Qubit count

* Coherence time

Without a roadmap to some goal this is just random PR. What's the path to convergence of fidelity of volume qubits for sustained periods to achieve calculations?
On a 59 minutes old account no less.. someone found the secret points padding button.
I agree; it seems worth it. My wife, who resisted dropping cable for the longest time, now prefers adless streaming and asks if wifi is down, because ads popped on her phone. If it has a downside, it is that my kid now is fascinated by ads, when we are in the wild. She normally does not see them and thus has no internal firewall built up.
> Transitive liability would need to be a new law though as I don’t believe that currently exists.

That likely would end up just being case law rather than legislation. Meaning, a lawsuit can be filed for it today and its up to the courts to decide if that liability is reasonable.
How do you think about Wordpress, is it any better than Mastodon?
Ladybird is all about the engine. It's progressing faster than servo
The German term is "Abhalten" (from "halten = to carry") or ("windelfrei = diaper free") and you'll find quite a lot:

https://www.google.com/search?q=baby+abhalten+*.de

Our baby was born potty-trained (which actually means the term is misleading in our case) and a relative started at their childrens' birth.
This is surely either derived from the Alchemist Owl's POC||GTFO musings, or destined to be included in them at some point in the very near future.

https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/

I'll never get my head around the fact that a language that started life as a way to accurately draw things on a printer and on a screen, is capable of being used for full-fledged applications such as this - although I suppose it makes sense, its still just too weird to me.

What's next? A full-blown desktop OS in Postscript, which is also the User Manual?

I sure freakin' hope so .. ;)
I wonder if this can be connected to a fatigue that I experience during clothes shopping. Whenever I enter some kind of a clothing shop I get super tired after 10-20 minutes of searching for something, while my girlfriend could do that for hours on end. (I hate shopping in general it just makes me tired :( )
lots of answers for how to find something to do, few addressing an important choice of word from OP, "worthwhile". imo, adding this requirement in the beginning of a process is quite destructive, because at each new idea you will be asking, "is this worthwhile?" and inevitably it won't be, because no idea starts that way, and you start the loop again.

i am an artist, which has led me to try to understand creativity and idea-generation closely, and i have stumbled on two concepts that helped me to get going on stuff:

“I‘ve forgotten who it was that said creation is memory. My own experiences and the various things I have read remain in my memory and become the basis upon which I create something new. I couldn’t do it out of nothing. For this reason, since the time I was a young man I have always kept a notebook handy when I read a book. I write down my reactions and what particularly moves me. I have stacks and stacks of these college notebooks, and when I go off to write a script, these are what I read. Somewhere they always provide me with a point of breakthrough. Even for single lines of dialogue I have taken hints from these notebooks. So what I want to say is, don’t read books while lying down in bed.” - Akira Kurosawa

basically: do something else to trigger your creativity, get more inputs into your brain.

and the second is that great ideas are not born, they are created. you start with something small, an inkling of something. it's dirty, unpolished, stupid even, but then you start to make something of it over time. it grows and you get feedback on it until one day it's become "worthwhile" - or not. then you cut your losses and try again, with more knowledge.

anyway - i think you will find more great ideas if you get started and think less on whether it's worth your time.
Taisho guardian Kota

https://youtu.be/ZMQLWKZjsbc

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/goblin-cat-finale--37703580006...

Interview with the novelizer pointing out some of the Chinese elements

https://www.bookbang.jp/review/article/734915
And Intel named its licenced implementation of AMD64 as IA-32e, just to make it clear to everyone that it is based on Intel architecture 32bit version with an extension.
Luckily they dropped that name few years later
Yes, yes! Excellent! Then that system can also be improved, so that important websites get more money from a visit because they need the support more. For example the Arch Linux wiki. And also the system should have a blocklist so that dangerous and undemocratic websites do not get any money from the visitors.

Also, individuals who are richer should have more of their salary deducted, since they can afford it, and people who have low income or belong to groups who need special protection should not have to pay, instead they should be paid a monthly internet allowance by the government, which can increase if they visit websites who are beneficial to them and to society. For example the Arch Linux wiki.
The source is actually rather nicely laid out. For example, using a dictionary to map between file extensions and mime types:

/txt (Content-type: text/plain\n) def