skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the easiest solution is growing dense vegetation including trees, then using that for things[0] or burying it until we have a better mitigation strategy for atmospheric carbon.

Another solution, and one that, if i weren't such a lazy, is ocean based carbon binding. You can run electricity directly through ocean water and precipitate the carbon out as calcium carbonate, which is both: useful to humans as is and after processing; and useful to the coral reefs and crustaceans/mollusks or whatever in the oceans.

If anyone wants to kick me about a million US dollars, i can make a POC on a used barge with solar panels and as much recycled material as possible, and have that just run off the coast of florida or something. I figure the total cost to get a barge is around a quarter million, all-in[1], the electronics and seawater stuff is about another $150-200 thousand, and the rest is mine for the idea and the lawyers' to get this approved and left alone to do the research.

[0] burning it for heat is fine, as the net CO2 levels will remain constant, but i mean things like houses and boardwalks and boats, furniture, and so on.

[1] could be more, now, the last time i was researching seaworthy barge costs it was between $100,000 and $200,000. I'm hoping there's someone that can donate the barge so i can make the rest more fit for purpose - redundancy, better solar, better mppt, better batteries, better materials for the electrodes (it takes platinum and titanium iirc, i haven't looked at my documents for a long while.)
dibs on 'root' ;)
I believe Musk is a naturalized citizen of the U.S. The legal status of alien refers to one who has not gone through the naturalization process, IIRC.

I'm sure Brazil could attempt to have anyone extradited, regardless of citizenship status.

Whether the US would honor that request or be in any way obligated to is beyond my understanding of the law.
Happened to use with GCP too. We had Oracle Cloud instances being flagged as from Iran and had to file forms with them to get them to not block the IPs.
> Songbo Xie, also at Purdue University, says that the teleported energy is small and fragile, so using this additional storage qubit saves it from getting lost. “This was our goal, to save it for future use,” he says. The researchers tested the protocol by running it on an actual quantum computer. The results agreed well with what their calculations predicted.

Not the key to ZPE we are looking for but still cool!
Previous discussion (2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33908576
Some eBay ex-enterprise laptops include vendor warranty that can sometimes be extended. Dell US-based ProSupport and Lenovo International Warranty (3 years, optional years extra) offer competent phone support and relatively quick repairs. Well worth the insurance for mobile computing devices in a hostile world.
I term Islamists the ones who claim themselves to be Islamists – Islamist Republic of Iran, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas. It shows you have no idea what are you talking about.
Final Cut Camera by Apple
I think the threat model is that the majority are not run by cooperating malicious parties.

Russia, china and usa all dont like each other much so are probably not sharing notes (in theory).
This strange obsession with synthetic CSAM as the absolute epitome of "AI safety" says more about the collective phobias and sensibilities of our society than about any objective "safety" issues.

Of course, from a PR perspective, it would be extremely "unsafe" for a publicly traded company to release a tool that can spew out pedophile literature, to the point of being an existential threat. Twitter was economically cancelled for much less. But as far as dangerous AI goes, it's one of the most benign and inconsequential failure modes.
> petty criminals to get away with their crimes

Like human rights activists, journalists and dissidents in totalitarian countries.
Modern US society seems to be layers upon layers of gamified results with little coherent vision. We blame other countries for having "stifling" regulation, "burdensome" oversight and "top-down" planning, but honestly - it seems we simply let problems precipitate for decades on end and in many cases think it's some sort of achievement.
I get those 3 points but none seem to be the problem they are being portrayed as. Not to say academia does not have huge issues, but these specific ones don’t ring true to me. Granted, my experience is limited to my field- liberal arts academia is very different and shares little with science/engineering academia.

a) There are more PhDs than PI positions, but most of the hard science PhDs are in high demand, in industry jobs that generally pay much better than academic PI positions. At my institution we lose more of the postdocs we would like to recruit as PIs to industry offers than other academic positions.
b) You do need a lot of political skill to get tenure, which is unfortunate and pushes out a lot of the smartest scientists. In this sense politics means social and emotional skills- which are required for doing anything involving other, and isn’t unique to academia. Still, sure it would be nice if academia could better accommodate people with technical skill but lacking in political skill.
c) Not in my field or experience at least. To publish in a high impact journal nowadays the work usually has to be pretty solid. Obviously not everyone will agree on which work is good or not. Sometimes people do skimp on making it easy to access or use, e.g. publishing good code, making biological samples available, etc. but usually this is because they could not fund that part of the work.

I cannot think of anyone I know in any science or engineering department at research focused university whose work lacks significant real world implications. In fact, I find this annoying- as I think there would be a lot of value in more abstract and risky work, but the big funding agencies only fund things with obvious practical value based on their official priorities.
Last I checked, there was a movement in the biggest instances to defederate from meta's embrace stage of "embrace extend extinguish" playbook. I didn't check back to see if it got pushed through.

Given the nature of the fediverse, if it happened or not depends on the instance you use/follow.
Updated 23andMe Board of Directors Website
Honest Q, why compare MS to IBM?

MS has (mostly) products and licensing, and as far as I understand, IBM has consulting and licenses. Pretty different in this day/age.
Do you have a budget that isn't based on your imagination?
Just in case, from the command line I recommend uni: https://github.com/arp242/uni
In fact, you should assume they are. This doesn't imply the network doesn't have utility for a given actor.
If he simply didn’t confess, they likely could not have proven it was him - but yes, it is best to avoid suspicion altogether.
with zero coding experience I am building the website builder I wish I had.

i don't want to spend time learning tools or messing around with settings I just want to add text and images and press "Go" launch a clean website to get signups or email addresses

this is my 1st week progress with no coding skills using no code to code.

please leave feedback in comments or email me at dimitri@builtwithatlas.com
and supporting the narrative pushed by the Islamists is harming the Muslims, resulting in Islamophobia. The fact you are mixing the two terms to simply "mark these who attack America" is actually really bad for the normal people affiliated with Islam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Islamism
Discrimination doesn't have to be so explicit. Saying "I'm going to fire everyone over 50" is obviously discrimination, but so is "I'm going to fire everyone near the top of the salary range for their job family". It has the same impact, but it's discrimination is cloaked behind a layer of misdirection. The law isn't so blind
Aging, overworked and underfunded: NASA faces dire future, according to experts
> could capture the sessions of 10,940 criminals in a given month

Let’s say to do that, and now you have found 10k people accessing pirate bay in countries where it is blocked.

Also you captured someone who lives in Siberia and watches illegal porn, now what?

Many of these will not be actionable, like not criminals you would have interest in.
This is hypocritical content marketing from a company that doesn't want you to be vendor neutral. As seen by the laughable use of hyperlinks to their products but no links when mentioning Prometheus or elasticsearch.

OTEL is great, I just wish the CNCF had better alternatives to Grafana labs.
Having your data mined for AI?
> Doesn't a solid VPN

Finding a solid one is the hard part. With tor, you kind of know what you are buying. The risks are in the open. With VPN maybe the operator is selling your data to advertizers. Maybe they are keeping logs. You kind of have to just trust them and have no way to verify.
I'm so much less articulate when I'm speaking than when I'm typing. I can't see myself ever having the wherewithal to use this,but u have to say it's an interesting concept!
Ridiculous in what sense? Perhaps those low-income countries should get their shit together and stop sponsoring terrorists, introduce multiparty democracy with free elections, allow free-market capitalism, extradite wanted criminals, and adhere to the treaties that they've ratified. The USA is under no obligation to trade with unfriendly countries.
From what I can find, the targeted pager-model can receive UHF messages in the 450~470MHz range. That could reach passenger jet cruise altitudes if the transmitter is strong enough.

I think it's safest to assume Hezbollah are using strong transmitters, because they'll want to be able to broadcast across rather large areas and in a way that resists potential jamming.

On the flip side, I'm having a hard time imagining these as threats to an entire airplane, given the tight constraints on how much explosive power can be secretly snuck into a functioning pager.
Sure, their can be industrial accidents. But just because some company made a radiation therapy device that accidentally fataly irradiated people, doesn't mean that radiation isn't an effective treatment for cancer
Fort Hood?

>On November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood (now Fort Cavazos), near Killeen, Texas.[1] Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others.[2][3] It was the deadliest mass shooting on an American military base and the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since the September 11 attacks until it was surpassed by the San Bernardino attack in 2015.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Fort_Hood_shooting
> Fair enough, but we also know that an index fund beats "professional investment managers" over any reasonable time horizon.

OK, now couple that with a mandatory contribution + defined benefit calculated by actuaries and you've got a pension except now everyone knows exactly what they're going to retire with and can plan accordingly and, BONUS, they can still contribute into self-managed retirement accounts if they wish to.

Pensions provide socioeconomic stability and predictability in a way that a 401k never can.
To be fair a huge reason openAI was created was because google had LLM's but wasnt letting anyone use them. Remember the google researcher who claimed his ai was sentient? Obviously wasnt true but that product was in no way open to the public.
It’s an email and takes me about 10 seconds to send. So not really no.
Yes, but "safety" or "peace" is not always desirable. MLK himself said it best: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/whe...

A short snippet:

> The next day after Autherine was dismissed the paper came out with this headline: 'Things are quiet in Tuscaloosa today. There is peace on the campus of the university of Alabama.' Yes things were quiet in Tuscaloosa. yes there was peace on the campus, but it was peace at a great price. It was peace that had been purchased at the exorbitant price of an inept trustee board succoming to the whims and carprices of a vicious mob. It was peace that had been purchased at the price of allowing mobocracy to reign supreme over democracy. It was peace that had been purchased at the price of the capitulating to the forces of darkness. This is the type of peace that all men of goodwill hate. It is the type of peace that is obnoxious. It is the type of peace that stinks in the nostrils of the almighty God.

Of course, you could either view this sentiment as trivially applying to international politics or so different as to be a category error. But it's enough of an opening to suggest that these loaded terms are not as easily transferrable to ethical context as invested parties might want you to believe. It is difficult for folks to place their values firmly before external pressures when a country is much less empathizable with than an obviously abused person, but I think americans would be surprised at how giving a little might invite a larger revelation about their role in the world stage than desired by the powers that be.
Someone has to maintain the code. Can you imagine making students doing that kind of work? They'd rightly asked to be paid for it. And getting faculty to manage the students doing that kind of work, they'd definitely want extra pay.
Nice. It is these sort of issues that made me realize that ML Engineering/MLOps are a very different kind of beast where Statistics and coupling of input data to the Model plays a very significant part. The awareness about the data domain is vital.
Load Balancing && WAF or CDN enablement usually suggests at least a decrypt step or two in the HTTP(s) chain. WAF for layer7 payload inspection, or the default wildcard cert'ing your Cloudflare site for instance.

There's also significant aggregation of traffic at handfuls of service providers amongst service categories, all generally HTTP(s) type services too ... Mail, CDN, Video, Voice, Chat, Social, etc. Each of these are still likely to employ Load Balancing & WAF.

Most WAF/Load Balancing providers have documentation about when/where to perform decrypt in your architecture.

How many Cloudflare sites are just using the Cloudflare wildcard cert?

From there, plenty of 3 letter agency space to start whiteboarding how they might continue to evolve their attack chain.
College rankings are a bit like corruption rankings: they are measurements of perceptions. Not only that, perceptions are heavily influenced by previous rankings.

If your ranking doesn't show Harvard and MIT near the top, it is wrong. If your corruption index doesn't show Scandinavia and Western Europe above Africa and South America, it is wrong.

If it's wrong, people will not want to read it. If you do an "objective" ranking and it doesn't quite say what you expected, you need to weight things differently, so that your ranking has credibility.

At best you can do a bit of massage to show that you are actually doing something when compiling these rankings, and you might be able to highlight a few trends. But in the end, if you are not showing the usual suspects in the usual places, people will not believe you.

Reputation, at the end of the day, moves slowly.
I was just having a chat with some friends yesterday about sanctions in general, and how wildly ineffective they are most of the time. I believe they often have a negative effect: they hurt regular citizens while the leaders who they're meant to target suffer little, and instead of achieving their intended goals, they turn citizens in the target country -- even those who are not happy with their government -- against the countries imposing the sanctions.

I do expect that sanctions make inroads toward their stated goals. Sure, less money means less weapons, probably, and the choice of suppliers becomes more limited, meaning costs are higher, and quality might suffer.

But Iranian sanctions have been in place for decades, with little to no changes in their government that the West would consider favorable. Cuban sanctions didn't do much "good". Russian sanctions haven't ended their war in Ukraine.

Sure, sanctions can serve to contain adversaries to some degree, and slow things down, but they don't seem to really do much positive. And their negative effect on goodwill and relations really sours longer-term diplomatic efforts. I do tend to feel like they have a net negative effect, most of the time.
> Is there any reason to not just have RT on by default?

It's a latency vs throughput trade-off usually. Ideally you'd want both to improve, but the more you switch between the processes, the more time you waste on busywork and cache invalidation rather than what the processes want to achieve. For example if RT wants to guarantee that your audio is more in sync, you're going to switch from your app to the audio system more often.
Gay marriage, for instance. In the 90s (and even the 2000s) it was pretty common even for people on the left to come down on the side of "I don't think we should allow gay marriage". Whereas now, it's so firmly within the Overton window that even most of the right thinks gay marriage is fine.
That is why in tor it picks a specific guard node and sticks with it. To prevent this kind of attack where you change nodes until you hit a bad one.
What GPL/MIT Open source software do you wish existed but doesn't?
Please no.. trash in - trash out!
Also, you don’t need to train anything, you can generate a very “successful” LinkedIn post easily:

https://viralpostgenerator.taplio.com/
That’s totally fair and likely very common the more I think about it.
I don't live in Tibet, or any other place that China might decide to invade and/or claim as its own territory.
> could capture the sessions of 10,940 criminals

What does that mean? The way I understand it you would be getting traffic correlations -- which means an IP that requested traffic from another IP and got that traffic back in a certain time period. What does that tell you, exactly, about the criminal? If you aren't looking for a specific person, how would you even know they are doing crimes?
> disingenuous

How about we leave the silly accusations of malice at whatever low rent other website they were learned at. You don't know motivations.
Is this page being broken the point? Seems to be related to your submission yesterday Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board (596 points, 334 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41573034
Likewise, if you target enemy personnel knowing that civilians are going to be the primary victims, you might be committing war crimes, even when it works.
I agree, both sides act with extreme disregard for the other side. Blaming Israel ignores that Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran are constantly provoking them, blaming Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran ignores that Israel is constantly provoking them. Going back and forth with "theyre terrorists" only leads to more terrorism.
Well we're up to two children dead
Georgia website to cancel voter registrations briefly displayed personal data
Post-covid, take out containers have replaced most my non-glass food storage options. You order a ~$9~ $14 pad thai and they are just giving you tupperware now.
It's really hard for me to answer this question. In hindsight, I feel like I should always have been more stubborn, more intransigent, more uncompromising. However, who knows how things would have really turned out if I'd have lived life like a wrecking ball.
Obviously this stuff is personal, so if you like, awesome. For me, my first thought was "what about italics"?
Another Comic Code user here, although I only bought it because I didn't know about these free alternatives which look just as good. It seriously reduces eyestrain and makes me more efficient. First thing I install on any new computer!
Right. Can you share how such issues are handled in the ML pipeline?
> they don't want to deal with GDPR

or cannot afford to. add in DSA and DMA as additional burdens.
I think they meant for assembly of the iPhones.
If you want to talk down to someone who was born and brought up as one that’s your prerogative but you’re the one who’s looking stupid. Yes, your spelling is the “official” one.
You’re right, this is probably true quite often.

Take payroll companies. Their customers pay a lot for the service and in all but one case I’m aware of, the customers’ data is being sold.
OverallGPT – Compare Answers from Different AI Models Side-by-Side
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on a tool called OverallGPT, which lets you compare answers from different AI models side-by-side in real time. The idea is to help users see how various models (like GPT-4, Claude, Llama, etc.) handle the same prompt, and figure out which one best suits their needs for different tasks.

I’d love some genuine feedback from the HN community. What do you think of the concept? What features would you find most valuable? Any rough edges you’ve noticed?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
It's not a falsehood though. IP address is a reasonably reliable means of geolocation. Lawyers tend to be more comfortable with gray areas than engineers. Intent counts for a lot in assessing legal compliance.
Google also has traditions that created Broccoli Man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI
My favorite is EUPL: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/introduction-eup...

Essentially licensing your software like this behaves like ASL unless you: modify + distribute (either binaries or by creating a service). Then you owe the changeset back, but it does not have a viral clause like the AGPL.

This solves a large part of the greedy AWS problem (Amazon copying entire open source projects and contributing nothing back), but also strikes a balance and allows API Compatibility.
This hypothetical was about "a low value target" looking for "basic anonymity". Just get Mullvad and assume the entire company wasn't a 15 year long con set up to better target ads at you specifically.
> inappropriate places

You're begging the question. Why is it inappropriate?
Crowdwave is definitely the perfect name for the app. Wave means sound waves, and it also means a "wave" hi. Perfect.
Perspectives on Plastic Waste Management
I agree. NATS is much more simplistic to use and deploy. Easy to run locally for development. Jetstream offers useful features like persistent streams, and kv and object stores.
Ironically I find "legibility" to be a real train wreck of a word to read. Not just in this font (although I do find the shorter ascenders difficult) but as a word, generally.
Could you clarify? I see some reports of extraterritorial assaults, as well as harassment (particularly including threats against relatives within Chinese territory), but couldn't find examples of extraterritorial killings, at least with my best attempt at ctrl-f.
Cracks Emerge in U.S. CHIPS Act
Just playing around, not mitigating anything. I think it would be poor practice to share my ideas/techniques- think of your own! Contrary to popular philosophy- obscurity is a powerful security method. People still rob houses with expensive locks… nobody robs secret underground bunkers.
My claim was that an act is more likely to be called terrorism if it was done by a Muslim. Your claim was that there might be a causal connection explaining that, implying that Muslims are more likely to commit terrorism.

Nowhere was I talking about extremists nor any ideology for that matter. Either you misunderstood me or you have moved the goalpost.

Your racist propaganda includes this sentence featured prominently on the page:

> TROP is a non-political, fact-based site which examines the ideological threat that Islam poses to human dignity and freedom

Note they say “Islam”, not “Islamic fundamentalism” or “extreme ideologies self proclaimed to be based on Islam”.

It is entirely not clear it is talking about a specific ideology or extremism, something one would expect they would make abundantly clear if their purpose was not to spread hate propaganda. In fact it seems like they are actually talking about an entire peoples and judging them based on the actions of the few. In other words, racism.