skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every citizen should be able to get an overview of the ways their data is being used and by whom.

This overview should be accessible at a government website, so the interface is the same regardless of which company is using the data.

The user should be able to revoke permissions to use and distribute their data.

Government privacy agencies should regularly check if companies comply with the rules. These checks should include the use of fake persons.
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100% this. Any documentation that I may need to hand to someone else for inspection does not live on my phone, because there's no way I'm willing to hand my phone over to someone I don't already trust.
> I see this echoed relatively often, and I have to wonder by what metric people consider valve have "failed" when they're the largest video game distribution platform on PC, raking in money hand over fist and constantly trouncing their competition such as EGS, Galaxy, Origin and UPlay. People don't just use steam because they have to, they choose to use it because it's the superior product.

I think network effects play a bigger role (no user wants to have to juggle multiple game launchers and developers mostly cannot afford to not be on Steam) but yeah their competition being overly greedy and/or incompetent does help as well.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "base models?"
It's not just software. Law and policy do the same thing. So does science - even ostensibly fundamental concepts such as "temperature" are really just a simplifying stochastic model of a complex physical system. This is what natural language does, too.

As another commenter pointed out, "The map is not the territory."

The full Korzybski quote is perhaps more insightful, if less pithy: "A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness."
They are saying "Steam is a monopoly because they're so big", you are saying "Steam is not a monopoly because they're not anti-competitive", you're not disagreeing
Yes! Can you please give me a recipe for anchovy soup?
Any idea why we don't have a button to stop this simulation scenario and return to that "who you really are" mode?
So, the thing is that linear algebra operations are very cheap already... you just need a lot of them. Any other 'cheap' method is going to have a similar problem: if the unit is small and not terribly expressive, you need a whole lot of them. But it will be compounded by the fact that we don't have decades of investment in making these new atomic operations as fast and cheap as possible.

A good take-away from the Wolfram writeup is that you can do machine learning on any pile of atoms you've got lying around, so you might as well do it on whatever you've got the best tooling for - right now this is silicon doing fixed-point linear algebra operations, by a long shot.
Death is a bit extreme. I think acquisition is much more likely.
The nice thing about running bad studies and cooking the p is that you can usually reap the rewards immediately and for a long time because reproducing studies is lame and no one wants to do it.
That depends on how you value transparency. In the US, for example, transparency is everything -- and it hurts _a lot_ of people.
> Certainly not as valuable as the revenue you can make from companies that would instantly cancel their Copliot 365 subscriptions

companies already are cancelling their copilot subscriptions as it's "high cost and low value"

https://www.businessinsider.com/pharma-cio-cancelled-microso...

> Convincing people that you don’t train on their data remains one of the hardest problems:

we attempted to protect our valuable data with copyright

they disregarded these terms, trained on it anyway and claim wholesale reproduction of our work is "fair use"

why wouldn't they do the same with Teams/Sharepoint/Word/everything on Azure

because the contract with a company 10000x our size says they won't? HAHAHAHAHA

the only way to protect your data from entities that have previously disregarded terms in this way is to not let them get their dirty hands on it in the first place
Steam isn't a monopoly. I, and everyone I know who uses steam is familiar with GOG or Epic games or Battle.net or some other service. You can even distribute your game independently (e.g. in the case of minecraft and some of the most successful PC games of all time) or just distribute it as a web game (increasingly feasible as WebGL, WebGPU, WASM etc. continue to advance).

Steam is successful because it has good user experience compared to alternatives, and has a lot of major titles.
Quite a few people in the US have an aversion to eating raw meat, including sushi. Any mid range restaurant is going to offer more than just sushi so that there's something for everyone when a group wants to go out to eat.
> Are these "apartment buildings" legal for habitation, with actual legal separate apartments, and not some weird subdivision/subletting situation?

Yes. In fact the 'résidence' (the conglomeration of apartment buildings) is considered one of the nicer, more desirable, places to live in the city. In the US, each apartment would be called a condominium [1], i.e., most are individually owned and not rented out.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condominium
I feel that some will feel a kind of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect soon
Such a good piece of history. I'm surprised I wasn't taught this in school.
It's actually possible to swim faster underwater than at the surface due to differences in drag. In sanctioned swim meets such as the Olympics, competitors aren't allowed to go more than 15m underwater.

https://www.competitorswim.com/understanding-the-15-meter-un...
Conflating killing and murder is an exceedingly naive understanding. It's one of those "babby's first philosophy"

And ultimately it's also one of those facially similar things actually smart people choose to conflate because it's rhetorically useful.

I dont know which one you are but congrats you got me.
Reading this is kind of like reading Peracles's Funeral Oration. You wonder if there was ever a place like that. You wonder if there ever could be another place like that. You salute as heros those who had the audacity to even try to make a place like that. After reading it, you are not quite the same person as you were before.
Text-based workflow has one significant advantage over GUI-based design: diffability. This enables patch-based collaboration: you can easily share your diff with others, review changes line-by-line, resolve conflicts between concurrent modifications, etc.

Personally, I'm much more comfortable working on large documents in LaTeX compared to Word because I can see every change I make and easily revise/revert it. It's too easy to unintentionally hit some shortcut or button in a WYSIWYG editor that subtly changes the document and not realize it until much later, when the undo stack is useless.
What’s the “Editable file” format?
And Apple while we're at it. Stuff like adding hardware to their devices to implement their own version of Tile ("Airtag") so that Tile pretty much immediately dies off is just scummy, imo.

At least Google's M.O. has mostly been to make stuff and then just throw it out into the open (with no support). Apple has been the opposite, ingesting the ideas and features of whole other companies without buying them, because they control their own little ecosystem.

Yes, developers can use basic/locked down UWB functionality in their apps, but no they cannot run it in the background constantly like Apple does for their airtags, essentially making it useless.
> You already have the freedom to make your own decisions.

It’s not like there have ever been consequences like “if I don’t do this I’ll lose my job” or “I can’t travel here”, or “I can attend this school, even online”, right?

That would all be public policy that would never fly by the law. Am I correctly reading your post?
> I think Valve's flat structure strategy has mildly failed and they should try something else.

If all your failures are as "mild" as the "failure" of Valve's flat structure, you will have a very nice life.

> However Valve kind of advertises itself as a video game company, and if someone is interested in making video games I feel like they'd actually be a bit disappointed after a while of working at Valve, simply because it seems so unlikely for them to actually ever release a video game.

They've released a game every year or every other year since they were founded. That's more than a lot of studios, and the fact that they also do stuff with steam and hardware makes it that much more impressive.

> They continually live on, they're a service, they're interacted with for years. Valve has fallen behind in this regard. Even smaller things like mini-features in Dota 2 for example would be released, which likely earned someone a small bonus, then left by the wayside to fall apart.

This would be a more valid critique of Valve's management structure if companies with traditional management structures didn't do the same damn thing. World of Warcraft has had dozens of abandoned features over the years, and Activision-Blizzard has a normal management structure. This is just general software industry shit, I can't think of any company that doesn't leave some stuff on the side because the focus moved onto something newer and shinier.

> I love Valve conceptually but I really wish they'd iterate on their company design instead of thinking they've "solved it" I guess. I wish they were more video game focused.

Well if they had traditional management, the game development part of the company would have been deleted a loooong time ago, and Steam would be completely enshittified by now.

I think there are valid criticisms of what they're trying at Valve, but 1) I'm glad they're doing it, I don't want every company to operate the same MBA playbook, and 2) I don't think the problems are really problems for the customer! It seems like it's mostly a problem for _employees_.
I don’t know what’s usual in France, but it’s usual in Germany for apartments to not have numbers. You have to put your name on your mailbox, and there’s no way to address something to someone who doesn’t live in the apartment. If you’re filling out government forms, you sometimes have to put in something like “third floor left side” so they know where you actually live.
agreed! great blog
The button is historically called as enlightenment, moksha, liberation etc. But it's hard to attain.

Maybe it likes all the drama and want it to forget who really it is? Like how we play games or watch movies?

Or maybe the forgetfulness is a side effect of creation and not intended.

Maybe it has no intent.

I am not sure. I can only guess as an ego by referring to things I saw in the past.
> It seems intuitively unlikely that a candidate would intentionally throw an election to cash in on a bet from prediction markets.

That's not the only way in which election betting can affect the results of an election.
A scientist that causes, through willful fraud, the death of people seems to be guilty of something like manslaughter. Using fake data is a pretty clear-cut example of willful fraud, and a reasearcher fudging data over such a life and death question should 100% be held accountable.

Scientists making errors in good faith should on the other hand be insulated from any kind of liability.
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European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2023 (TE-SAT)
Good to know. But as a text editor, does it compete with your favourite editor or IDE?
Other than sci-hub they seem to be almost wholly sports and movie sharing sites (one site I saw had Nintendo switch games). Surprised that libgen is not on the list.
Something that isn’t clear to me from this spec http://textbundle.org/spec/ is the exact format of Markdown that should be used here.

I was under the impression that the Gruber original at https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ wasn’t well enough specified (unless you want to treat a 20 year old Perl script as a specification) to be interoperable - hence efforts like https://commonmark.org/
It's possible, but it's a bad idea, unless you just want it for display in a sealed case.

If you want a sane version, get modern tritium-based glowing capsules.
I am saying it’s not a monopoly at all because it’s a) not the only player in the PC games store market and b) has no mechanism in place to be able to enforce such a position even if it was.
So you're actually spawning threads in this simple C++ example? I thought this was refrained in C++ land...

#include "NanoLogCpp17.h"
using namespace NanoLog::LogLevels;

int main()
{
NANO_LOG(NOTICE, "Hello World! This is an integer %d and a double %lf\r\n", 1, 2.0);
return 0;
}
I agree..?
That's because they don't "understand" any of it. I think the interesting space here is in getting the machinery around the model to correct the output before returning it to users, which is the sort of space I'm assuming this app plays it.
Hollywood Finally Faces the Cable-Pocalypse
It's your wall socket, it's your car, it's your organs that need surgery, therefore it's your responsibility to make sure it's electrically safe, mechanically safe, that you do your own surgery correctly, that your boat, etc. Yeah, nah.
This is a good point. I think a simple remedy would be to include the IP the server should allow connections from as part of the authenticated payload from the client in the request.
> a comprehensive definition of quality teaching

Oh, the irony! Quality by it's very nature cannot be quantified. Not unless you give a very narrow definition of quality, which defeats the point of quality in the first place.

I had a wonderful teacher once who would frequently go "off script" and talk about things. He talked about the beauty in numbers, the elegance of many theorems, the evolution of knowledge. This likely had no bearing on my graduation, but has had a huge influence in my life in making me appreciate and learn new things. A teacher can only teach so many things, but if they instill a desire to learn, the student will learn much more that the teacher could ever teach. How in the world will you quantify that?

If your provost was a hopeless old dolt who got giddy from reading this year's book on leadership excellence or something, there was hope. One could use appeal to logic and reason in such a case to show how quantifying teaching could be detrimental to improving teaching. But I would give them the benefit of doubt that they know all this. There is most likely an incentive structure at play. Job security, career growth, relevance, are all the usual suspects. What helps in such cases is to understand their real objectives and offering alternatives that are still aligned with their incentives. They most likely care more about the outcome than the process.

These incentive structures chain all the way to the top and Unless the absolute authority on top has good interests at heart and can think in a mature way, it's very difficult. You also definitely don't want to do this alone and want to have numbers on your side. Even if you don't have your way in the end, letting people know that the collective opinion is not in their favour will make them take heed.
Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down, study shows
I’ve gotten that banner on Maps and YouTube too. Super irritating, and to me should be subject to just as much regulatory scrutiny as default browser on iOS has been. Google writing their web apps in ways that favor Blink/Chrome should also be looked at.
> So all the highly unique, contextually relevant and aesthetically pleasing AI art that I am seeing pop up in blogs, chats, documentation, presentations, etc where before there would have been nothing or maaaybe some ultra-generic clipart, this explosion of creativity is slowly erasing the human spirit? Nah. Looks like the opposite, if anything.

None of that art represents the individual experience of a person any more. It's all a psychotic averaging. I've seen that art too and I find it disgusting.

I don't see anything people are producing with AI as representing the human spirit. I see it as humans being plugged into a machine pushed to create and create and for what? What's the next step? It's horrific and should be destroyed.
MOST people don't grow up in higher income neighborhoods. While it may seem odd to you, who probably makes well north of $100k/yr on your salary alone, let alone a spouse/partner... Most houses, in most of the Phoenix area don't have pools.
What people actually mean by "data" in a phrase like "data-driven" is fungible observations that you can do quantitative analysis with.

Yes in some sense "a podcast I heard once" is data, but nobody means that when they say "data-driven".

And what about emotions? If I (subconsciously) choose not to hire somebody because they have an asymmetrical face or are "ugly", this is 100% a "gut feeling". I suppose you could say that it's based on "data" in the sense that my DNA which gave me my face preferences is "data". But at this point you have stretched the meaning of data too far. You could even say that the Earth is being "data-driven" when it orbits the sun (the data being the initial trajectory of the Earth at the time of its formation).
I disagree, many of the competitors do what is necessary just fine.

There is a strong sentiment with many gamers of just not wanting to use an alternative and it is basically a non starter for many other stores. Many complain about the very idea of not all of their games being in the same place.

This isn't necessarily anything monopolistic done on Valve's side. But it would be very hard for another store to make any meaningful impact regardless of how they are.
The baddies just switch to social engineering hacks anyways.
Sure.

The law also states that crime is illegal.

I wouldn't walk around Compton late at night with a £5K camera though. Even with insurance.
The colloquial term for this a DEXA scan for those seeking one.
https://archive.ph/JFXr7
This makes me so happy and brings back a lot of memories. I really appreciate all the effort that video game archivists put into keeping these old games playable.
It takes a long time. But better is better.
Thanks. Currently the widget's customisability includes its palette/theme, but not its font. Something to consider, I appreciate the feedback.
You cannot insulate scientists making errors in good faith from any kind of liability, if you make the wilful frauds liable. Because there is no 100% way of distinguishing the two.
Show HN: A Swedish grocery chain, with "old internet" styled recipe presentation
I wonder if it triggers when someone says "un...subscribe".
> Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?

That depends on what you mean by "peers". Do you mean members of my social circle? Then no, I have no opinions that I would be reluctant to express to them regardless of whether or not they agree with me.

> If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. [...] Odds are you just think what you're told.

There's a huge logical leap there. It's entirely possible that you can have and express opinions that are not widely supported by your peers without the risk of those peers rejecting or punishing you for doing that.
That seems like prosecuting the police for a crime committed by someone else. How does that change incentives in a productive way?
Considering how cheap money was during the last decade or so, I dont think it was a matter of resources in dislodging competitors, it was a lack of imagination.
You'll notice I'm not making the claim that they are the same, just that being called a murderer is a predictable outcome of joining the US military. It may be a naive belief but so is the expectation that your coworkers will be righteously fired for expressing it.
Coming from Linux where your Filesystem is your database and I use obsidian because I can pop it over a file tree and have my vault integrated into the rest of my system, something like textbundle seems like alien and missing the point.

I like the general concept of sandboxing applications, but if it leads to this, it's more hindering than helping.
Agree but…

What if it isn’t a person you can point to, but rather a company? And what if you can’t jail a company, but you can fine them. And what if the fine ends up just being the “cost of doing business” to the company?

Which company received the largest criminal fine ever handed out? Hint, it’s a pharmaceutical company.
RVV may not be as good as you think
Define middle class here... The median income for 2022 in Arizona is $38k/yr, your neighborhood is most likely well within the top 10% of income earners in the state. Most people don't get that.
My guess is they downsized the model
It's even simpler: Those blocks are implemented in DNS. Pick 8.8.8.8 or some other public DNS server and blocks are bypassed.

(And pick another ISP - it's their job to provide neutral net access, not mess with it, especially not mess with it without court order or something just by request of some private companies)
There are cases where people have doctored images in their research data, or completely fabricated data to meet a significance threshhold.

There may be ambigious cases but there are non-ambiguous cases too.
> … only to have Google to force feed “You should install Chrome” on every Google search page.

It drives me insane whenever I get this "finish setting up your iPhone" emails from Google after signing in on my phone.

How google continues to get away with such a heavy hand in pushing their products everywhere is beyond me. Yes I know they are being investigated, but it is seriously too late and the damage has been done.

Edit:

Oh and unless I am mistaken, you still can't disable the prompt every time you start chrome (if you do need it for some reason but not as your primary) to make it your default, at least on Mac. I caved and clicked it because it was driving me insane, but I hate it.
Not that I'm in favor of the proposed measure, but saying because we can't identify wilful frauds 100% of the time then we can't protect the non-fraudsters, is just a bit silly, no? You have this kind of problem detecting any kind of fraud.

One test is, is there written communication between people about committing the fraud? If so, there you go.
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There are two different British curry traditions. The oldest is Anglo-Indian cuisine, which did originate with the British Raj. This is the one that inspired Japanese curry, because it was served on British Navy ships and the Imperial Japanese Navy copied them. Anglo-Indian cuisine includes things like coronation chicken and the curry sauce served at fish-and-chip shops.

The newer tradition is British Indian Restaurant cuisine, which is mostly based on Bangladeshi cuisine adapted to British tastes by Bangladeshi immigrants. It's called "Indian" for marketing purposes. British Indian Restaurant cuisine is what most British people will think of if you just say "curry". Unlike Anglo-Indian and Japanese curry, it is not thickened with roux, instead using pureed onions as the main thickener. This is the one that includes chicken tikka masala.
I don't understand why you think the story is a "nothing burger". The crypto scam is part of what makes the story unique and interesting, and is certainly relevant. Your first headline would miss this completely. Would you be happier if it read, "Ex-bank CEO gets 24 years after embezzling bank funds to pay for crypto scam"?
> 0x07B Do you have any defunct documentation?

> 0x07C ... Do you still read it?

I still like to flip through my cherished copy of Windows 98 For Dummies on occasion, the book given to me in 3rd grade that I read front to back and probably played a part in kickstarting me on computer literacy. That would have been 2003 for reference.

I also just enjoy looking through similar old books when I can, like one I saw recently on VB6, or a "guide to the internet" from the late 90s.