skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
*sigh* Dude, if it's really that relevant and compelling at least quote it properly. It's 2024, finding and copy-pasting is barely slower than typing a bad paraphrase.

> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

-- A committee which included Benjamin Franklin

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That said, this quote is typically misused, or at best being used wayyy outside its original context. [0]

The Penn family, the local semi-nobility of Pennsylvania, are offering the government a one-time "donation"... in exchange for getting a perpetual exemption from all taxes.

A committee of elected representatives--among them Franklin--are strongly opposed to it, since they believe the democratic legislature's "essential Liberty" to impose taxes for its citizens is way more important than any "temporary Safety" of a one-time lump sum.

[0] https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-06-02-01...
The Fabric of the Cosmos is far far better in my opinion and doesn't stick to theories - he attempts to explain concepts in an intuitive manner and it's an amazing exposition into physics.
Discussion (319 points, 247 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341353
Lol. Who else is in this class? Little Piotr Communism dropped out of school 30 years ago. China's busy just trying to catch up. Everybody else can't seem to figure out how to pass econ-101.
Sure, if you don't mind regular drops while you're handed off between satellites, and many areas being oversubscribed so badly that people are getting performance worse than DSL.
Mostly talking to people irl

Good communities are tough to find and you have to constantly build them
It is also the case on Linux/BSD.
That would be really cool! There was something kind of like that in 2010, you had to score soccer balls in goals. But there were these obstacles on the field and poles you could climb at the end for extra points. It was called breakaway.
I upvoted your comment so that it has a bit of visibility because I know some people think this, but I disagree with it, very strongly.

First, your analogy is broken -- roads, telephones, pen and paper, motor vehicles all fit your description just as aptly.

Second, you propose your preferred moral economy as one that only curtails harms. In fact, you create another harm implementing what you think is right.

Reasonable people disagree about which is worse -- the creation and public support of a technocratic oligarchy in control of how humans communicate or the proliferation of some harms that take advantage of unfettered communication. But please don't be simple minded, pretending to yourself or others that there aren't real costs, social and physical, on both sides of this.

For myself, I think private communications are a human right and a massive good for society, and I don't condone criminal acts undertaken using messaging.
The weird thing about rants like this is I tell customers that there are very few business-oriented new features in Windows 11 that justifies the upgrade, but there are quite a few developer-oriented features that are unique to it.

Windows Terminal is a nice example, but proper support for Windows Containers is huge. It was “technically possible” to containerise workloads on Windows 10 but you had to maintain the exact same patch level as the server OS the containers would run on! Windows 11 removed this restriction.

There’s also Dev Drive and a bunch of other small things like HTTP/3 and TLS 1.3 support and whatnot.

At $dayjob I have to hold the hand of helpless devs mired in corporate miasma complete with out-of-date Windows 10 desktops. I regularly have the issue of trying to show them something and failing because I forgot I have Windows 11 and they don’t.
Unelected officials = experts

We don’t expect our politicians to dedicate their lives to scientific research so this perspective is inherently flawed.
This and the sexual blackmail the network fully permits. Although it's my understanding they have been doing slightly better when it comes down to children (the fact it was made possible in the first place is unbelievable though).

Not counting the pro-Israeli channels posting details of anti-genocide activists and encouraging violence (and sometimes openly putting bounties on activists' heads). All constantly reported yet no action is taken.

There have been so many things this guy has allowed for years, believing he could act (or fail to act) with total impunity because of his fortune. Hell, he got offered a French passport because Macron used to be a big Telegram fan (might still be). It's absolutely incredible he was so brazen he would just travel to France because there is absolutely no way he wasn't aware he could be held liable (especially considering recent EU legislation), he probably just believed he was above the law.
When I looked at the claimed coverage map from providers it was a joke - they just played "color inside the lines" for our region. Ask anyone who has spent more than a couple days here and they can tick off all the areas you don't get any coverage.
See sibling comment for a more accurate description https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341848
I mean that if you are starting a company, as the young Google founders were back in the day, there is almost always more money in having a B2B model instead of a B2C model.

If you’re one of the biggest companies in the world, you can do whatever you want.
Though I’d bet that Microsoft makes more money off of their cut from 3rd party games sold on their platform than off of the sales of their first party titles alone.
Sadly, this isn't the case.

I keep bringing it up since people forget about it: in 2006 the EU adopted the Data Retention Directive that forced all ISPs to save the browsing history of everyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive

It was eventually declared invalid by the European court of human rights, but it was still in effect for many years. Countries that did not implement this (eg Romania because their constitutional court found it illegal) were sued by the EU commission.

The EU's attempts to spy on people go back decades. You'll also note that government gets exemptions from all the privacy stuff the EU pushes.

I hope the EU changes course on this, but as with their handling of other tech... I'm not holding my breath.
> Telegram was also banned in Russia for a few years.

And how exactly do you think it got unbanned?

Their "encryption" used to use an in-house algorithm (in house algorithms almost always are vastly inferior to standard ones) and even today encryption stores the keys on their servers (in Russia...) and E2EE has to be enabled per-conversation by hand.
Are popular Reddit links suggested by ChatGPT being "hijacked" and redirected?
See the link at the bottom the subpath is

r/MachineLearning/comments/llgzv1/diy_4x_rtx_3090_deep_learning_rig/

At the moment it leads to a NSFW OnlyFans thing:

https://streamable.com/z7lx72

And this is not the first time I am seeing this.

EDIT: diy_4x_rtx_3090_deep_learning_rig is just the slug. So it does not matter. Though it is interesting its happened a few times now. Does any one also see this NSFW redirect?
> On Linux, if you get a SIGBUS from poking a memory map that generally means you'd have certainly gotten -ENOMEM or -EIO during an equivalent sequence of syscalls (or been oom-killed, if you overcommit). Those are treated as fatal in the vast majority of programs, so dying to SIGBUS isn't meaningfully different for most usecases.

No. EIO is not instantly fatal in the same way that SIGBUS is. It allows for printing an error message, associating the error with some context of what failed, and either recovering in a degraded state or exiting cleanly. Doing any of this in a SIGBUS handler ranges from unwieldy to impossible.
Went from "NOO that's just an irresponsible conspiracy theory!" to trickling that truth out, and then barely mentioning it.
I can't tell if it's just uninformed grassroots mistrust of big tech, or the result of astroturf PsyOps to get more people to use the app with weaker encryption.
Try Diffusion Bee's latest release https://github.com/divamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-...
Read the luxon.js docs (the timezone section.) It’s the successor to moment.js. They do a great job explaining the common footguns developers face.
I’m in my mid 20s and FRC was probably my favorite high school memory. From the community, to the challenges, to the robots you get to participate in building. It’s such a cool program.

Hopefully it gains higher adoption among other public schools, FRC was foundational to my SWE journey
You have to assume Boeings reputation is an issue here. It changes the expected value for the decision maker(s) since the cost of going with Boeing (allowing a crewed return) is so much higher for them personally in the failure case.
I think anyone following these news was shorting Boeing for quite some time already.
It isn’t? I’m sure the railway workers who were just forced back to work would disagree.
"They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let them crash."
Wouldn't in this case the culprit is that Georgia didn't have rule of law? Yes, Telegram didn't help and ignored your plea, but prosecuting the owner for the presumed malice? I'm not sure how that will go well in the long run.
The "free world" took a new hostage.
To be clear, the legislation in France and in the EU that is most likely behind this arrest is that companies have to at least try to do some moderation. There is an understanding that not everything can be moderated (obviously, the entire Internet would be banned otherwise) but there has to be a genuine attempt.

Which every company does more or less. The fact that Telegram doesn't reach this extremely low, very low bar is quite something.
Thank you, I went looking for how the original copilot worked a few months ago, but didn't find it.
The military solution is to standardize on a zero offset time, specified as time zone Zulu. That is just a named time zone representing the TAI variant of UTC.

The challenge is that local computer time comes from a time and time zone set locally and stored in the hardware CMOS. That is not precise, varies from computer to computer, and provides all the offset problems mentioned in the article. Network hardware solved for that long ago using NTP. So the military applied a similar solution as an OS image enhancement that receives updates from a network time service whose time is defined according to the mesh of atomic clocks. Then it does not matter what offset is shown to the user by the OS when all your reports and data artifacts log against a universally synchronized time zone defined by a service.

The military solution works fine for the military but it requires centralized governance normal people do not have.
Where did it start out of curiosity?
> What you call moderation is also a tool dictatorships use to censor people. It goes both ways.

The veracity of this claim aside, posting this as a reply to someone who just shared their own experience getting doxxed in a country where victims have legitimate grounds to fear for their lives... feels a little out of place.

Also, usually the dictatorships abuse the censors once their grasp is firm. Until then, they're typically abusing the lack of censorship for their own ends. We see that here in the US with troll farms abusing limited content moderation around misinformation to sway public opinion with falsehoods. Countries are trying to pull the US election in both directions right now this way.
Except for any media you post which end up as a unique key behind CloudFlare or Google Cloud load balancers. They may not reveal your chats, but they certainly export your metadata (i.e. list of devices fetching and putting a key) to the worst possible parties
"Who else is in the pool of promising candidates for intelligent economics?" is the question we're trying to answer.

> China's busy just trying to catch up. Everybody else can't seem to figure out how to pass econ-101.

edit: Getting to the frustration of realizing all reasonable options have been exhausted is an obstacle to climb over.
If you have an interest in FRC, consider becoming a mentor at a local program in your area. I've mentored Team 812 in La Jolla California for about 14 years. It's incredibly rewarding.

https://www.firstinspires.org/resource-library/volunteer/men...
Do you think Lua (for example, or any other GC'd language) has valid use cases? If so, it needs an implementation. This blog post shows (part of) one way to do that.
And what app was used by the protestors to communicate with one another?
We changed the URL from https://www.tf1info.fr/justice-faits-divers/info-tf1-lci-le-... to an article in English. If there's a better article in English, we can change it again.
Because Telegram is not just a messenger, it's a platform for distributing news/info through channels. Signal simply does not have that.
I would be very surprised if the _trial_ was to take place "very soon". (Trials hardly ever take place "very soon" in France.)

However, I could imagine him staying in custody while being investigated for a couple days, then quickly facing some level of judge to decide whether he has to stay in jail or can be released.

Once this is done, don't expect a formal trial until multiple months (and most realistically, at least a year.)
I'm sure if those workers picked up a dictionary and looked up the word dictatorship, they would agree.
They have a vote. One person does not rule the country.
I don’t understand. Is it possible to mathematically prove that a codebase written in rust has no vulnerabilities or something?
The trial will take place soon?

That seems very unlikely. I don't think France has a statutory number of days in their speedy trial right, so even if you demand trial as you walk in the door, for a serious trial of this size, with this many charges, my experience is saying one to two years for trial.

Now, France does have more rights on pre-trial detention, so he might be able to get some sort of bail, but he's an enormously high flight risk, so.. maybe not.
Unfortunately telegram actively engaging with russian govenment. Since 2022 it became nothing but a propaganda tool itself.
I know there are tons of problems that are solved in excel while they really shouldn't. Instead of getting the expert business analyst to use a better tool (like pandas), money is spent to "fix" excel.

Apparently there is also a class of problems that outgrow pandas. And instead of the business side switching to more suitable tools, some really smart people are hired to build crutches around pandas.

Oh well, they probably had fun doing it. Maybe they get to work on nogil python next
compact_str is a fantastic crate, used by many projects. Do you know the byteyarn crate [0]? This could be nice to add this to the `Similar Crates` section if it makes sense.

[0] https://docs.rs/byteyarn/latest/byteyarn/
Yes, but there are lots of ways to get different encodings (and therefore hashes) for the same data: whitespace, JSON object key order, and the different ways of escaping characters.

If you want a unique hash (like, for a hash table lookup) then you'll need to sort the keys of every object and use a particular implementation of JSON.stringify.

(Also, what do you mean by "you don't even need any separator?")
fantozzi
>Hi, I'm [AI name], an AI assistant for...

Instant hang-up/block/ignore from me.
Not sure what they can do, he’s worth ten times what all those groups are together, so I doubt he’ll have an issue with legal costs.
> Complex solutions exists for complex needs. If you just need to...

Personally, to me, this sounds like madness.

Deciding you need to custom tailor and brew up a specific solution that exactly matches each use case begets endless complexity. Constantly negotiating a position & changing approaches begets endless complexity.

And the complexity needle moves over time, such that your initial assumptions often don't stand. Getting something running usually isn't too hard. But creeping demands of observability, monitoring, rotating certs, backups, and other concerns are going to start getting tacked on. If you only ever do one thing, and there aren't many of ya'll & never will be, and very few newcomers will ever join, maybe maybe maybe you find a win today by doing less, by hand picking your options & getting in there & cobbling your stack of tools together. Convincing yourself to start small, to avoid "complex" Kubernetes to do less, is in most cases though going to backfire even for a single piece of software, as situations evolve.

There is such a fear that Kubernetes is complex, but it just feels like so many are missing the point, are resisting the standards & practices that erulabs' spoke to.

But man, it is so not complex to prop up a big k3s node & push some containers at it. And anyone whose spent more than 1 hours with kube will be able to look around, see what's running on the node, see how everything works; you won't have to explain what you did, it'll be obvious. And they'll be able to keep going. And you'll be able to keep encorporating concerns & platform & new apps in. And those skills - mastering that complexity - will transfer to every other thing you want to do, will scale way up and way down.

(I do think systemd offers a good number of similar advantages of replicatability, consistency, paved-roadness, and is pretty solid an option, but involves more finding-your-practice than kube)
Are you in Cumberland? Would you say 99% of households having the possibility of > 100 Mbps is wildly inaccurate?
If Apple hypothetically agreed to iMessage backdoors, why would you trust the Telegram app updates served up by Apple's app store? Western government's can pretty much hack into any device they want - the only reason for backdooring messaging apps would be for dragnet surveillance, and I don't see big tech having the appetite for the bad publicity and lawsuits that will result when that inevitably becomes public
I 100% agree with you - I don't buy anything about string theory and I believe it has almost nothing to do with the state of reality, but the attempt itself is honorable and the mathematics behind it is beautiful and can be used to advance our understanding of the universe. If it also inspires others to get into physics and discover new things about reality - it's an overall win for humanity so kudos to any string theorists out there :)
(This was originally posted in aother thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341873) that we merged hither.)
No moderation + anonymity is very nasty.

IMHO people unfairly come on you about your expectation for moderation.

What often happens is, you lose your anonymity and get personally attacked by people in position of impunity.

That should not be a thing.
> I have yet to see evidence of this being a huge story for those people

Can you honestly claim that you keep in touch with those people?

I mean, this is an english-speaking us-centric forum. It is somewhat atypical for people here to actually know what happens outside this bubble.
That's right. It's definitely those darn environmental regulations. Nothing at all to do with short-term profits and MBA-syndrome.
Make is great when working with the languages it was originally designed and intended for (C, C++, yacc, bison, etc). Basically the GNU ecosystem.

It's far less great when working with anything else, like Go, Python, JS/TS, etc.

People want great tools that work well with the way their software and teams work. Seems logical to me.

After all, someone reinvented the build system when they created make to solve the problems of their time. What if they just stuck with csh or plain POSIX compatible build scripts?
There’s also the Microsoft Teals program that is focused on CS (I’m a volunteer). Just putting it out there. Not all schools have robotics programs.

Btw, congrats to the OP and team. Proud of yalls work!
Durov has been shilling his crypto scams while shitting on all those services you're talking about (well, at least Signal) claiming they don't do anything for privacy.

Considering how he's tarnished Signal, there is absolutely no reason for them or anyone else to back him up.

What will be very funny is the fact that Telegram is pretty much not encrypted (yeah ok, "secret chats", whatever sure) and now that investigators probably have access to Durov's phone, that lack of encryption might come back to bite him in the ass. Can't wait to know what they find and if they do find something, it might be interesting to see if he finally changes his stance.
* Laurel Canyon (Christian Bale/Kate Beckinsale)

* World War Z

* The Proposal

* The Dark Knight

* Assassination Nation

* Live Die Repeat

* Real Genius

* Back to the Future

* Top Secret!

* Alien Nation

* Star Wars (the first 2 made)

* American Ultra

* Deja Vue (Denzel)

* Mumford

* Groundhog Day

* State and Main

* Star Trek (Chris Pine)
Interesting, some of us migrated to date fns since
He's a super high flight risk, so I'm thinking the prosecution is going to make a pretty solid case for him staying in pre-trial until trial in a year or two.

He's gonna have a very miserable time. Flying private jet --> watching another man shitting next to you.
Titushki is tool of russian world politicians to deal with descent. They are used all over the place.
Going after the one with the least care factor first would make a lot of sense, assuming their cryptographic implementation is inline with their care factor.
Yeah why would it be backdoored by the Russian government? Because Durov is Russian?
My impression is that his books sold in places where other poetry wasn't, e.g. card stores. But it has been a while since I've seen his poetry anywhere.
The offloading is easy, I don't think the optical aspects of breakthrough VR/AR will be overcome for quite a while.
>A City on Mars

That book is full of bad science. Some of the silly claims are addressed here: https://planetocracy.org/p/review-of-a-city-on-mars-part-ii
Thanks! And the explanation of 217 makes sense too.

Since I have you here, wouldn't it be better to name that type "LastByte" or something? It's not a (Rust) char, and it's not necessarily UTF-8 whereas it is definitely the last byte.
Perhaps that should also be compensated but you're talking about another cost associated with publication (and even non-publication). Since there's no guarantee that reviewers even read the crap they are assigned to read, I don't think paying them is the best approach. It would perhaps be better to publish the names of the reviewers. And if you reject a paper, you have to go on the record with your gripes. I'm sure these policies would slow reviews down an awful lot though. Reviews are only supposed to uncover blatant errors I suppose, and not offer definitive endorsement of results.
Look at a best-seller list sometime from 1950 or 1920. Authors who were powers in their day are now forgotten.
Similar story of me in 2002. Although I didn't come across geocities, and directly found freeservers.com & made a site davinder.8m.net , which is still up. I lost its password from 2007 to 2022, and recovered it back when I recovered my yahoo email account.
> I suspect that we'll all have to carry always-on cameras that log and sign everything just to prove we didn't do whatever some picture or video shows us doing.

Yeah good luck with that :')

PS: A change to "guilty until proven innocent" policy would require a serious constitutional change in most countries.
The achievement society is burning us out, we need more play
On second reading, I probably misunderstood you. I think you mean that "katsu" just means something else in the UK. Which -- I guess it does. Drats! Sapir-Whorf has robbed me of a dish.