skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This moment of which we speak (500 years ago) has many significant aspects that can be discussed, but recognize a claim is also made on the moment by a story whose scope is measured in tens of thousands of years and whose theater is planetary in scale.

This is the migration of Homo sapiens, their separation and their ultimate reunion. It is difficult to fathom the planetary conditions and durations involved in ever recreating it. For all intents and purposes, it’s not happening again, and its closure happened less than 1000 years ago.

The observation that Columbus is part of that profound story is undoubtedly one thing that makes him very, very remarkable.

There is a difference between observations made irrespective of culture (such as this one), and being disrespectful or insensitive to culture. That’s an important distinction you should take away from this exchange. It is possible to reflect on certain dimensions of an issue without being obligated to repeat safe harbor statements about unrelated dimensions, as we are not children, or repeating acknowledgements of unrelated dimensions like mantras to ward off bad vibes as if we were superstitious. I think we/you are better than that. Read words carefully and take them as they are given without projecting some bad faith meaning into them. And don’t be anxious about what may or may not be in other peoples’ heads. You’ll drive yourself nuts and be seen as very annoying to others.
> 3. Defend your trademarks vigorously from day one. Being lenient in the hope of free brand awareness will bite you.

As far as I see, he did defend his trademark - he just had some very reasonable rules under which you could use it (like saying that you're hosting WordPress).

He then walked back on those rules to attack WPEngine for his personal vendetta.
IANAL, but there is a "Legitimate Interest" exception, which gets abused a lot when a consent popup has about 50 of those pre-checked on a hidden tab, but this looks like a valid case to me.

The UK DPA (basically a fork of GDPR) has this to say [1]: "the following purposes do constitute a legitimate interest [...] fraud prevention; ensuring network and information security; indicating possible criminal acts".

Under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 [2], there's a possible reading under which "hacking" to cheat (even if someone else does the hacking and you jsut install the program) could actually be a crime.

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

[2] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/3
How does WhatsApp make money?
When I was in the dormitory (~6-8 years ago), I used VPN (OpenVPN on my private VPS) over UDP port 53 to omit the firewall which was configured to block big parts of ports.
It is crazy how much misinformation is being spread here.

1. Palantir does more than government work. They have 3 core products:

- Gotham fka PG, used by government agencies for Intel and Mission Planning. Used to extract information from unstructured data, geographical analysis and much more. Just look up Meta Constellation

- Foundry, their commercial big data product, kind of comparable to Databricks or MS Fabric, but much more capable. You can build no code applications on top of your semantic layer (ontology) and even write back to the source systems (ERP).

- Apollo, their deployment product. Haven't used it and I don't know if they are really selling it or just advertising. They are using it internally very heavily though.

2. Palantirs commercial products are not a secret. There are tons of videos out there, the docs are public, you can even sign up for Foundry and use it immediately.

3. Palantirs commercial side of business is bigger than its governmental today.

4. Foundry is NOT "basically Grafana". As I said before, just watch some videos
We absolutely pass on traits to our children based on things that happen to us. See the study of epigenetics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
Apple actually does allow airdropping passkeys across devices and iCloud users!

It’s clearly not (just) a security but a lock-in feature.
Chromium project decides to remove chrome://net-internals because the page is too complex

... and adding chrome://policy with half baked JSON edit support.
"1. As per usual, the things that make palantir well known not even close to being the most dubious things."

please tell us something
> 坂になる!

𐎿𐎣𐎠 𐏐 𐎫𐎡𐎥𐎼𐎧𐎢𐎭𐎠 or 𐎿𐎣𐎠 𐏐 𐏃𐎢𐎶𐎺𐎼𐎥𐎠 ?

(for the former, compare the Budenovka; for the latter, Brave New World: "a gramme is better than a damn")

another hollywood-friendly helmet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipchaks#/media/File:0925_Kipc...

EDIT: re MITI see https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-miti-and-the-japanese-mi... (note the cocytarchy link!) although I think that's a tad more tinfoil hat than my perception: an initial idealistic new deal-ish "reconstruction" of japan quickly followed by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Course "Airstrip Two", complete with baroque electoral system.

In personal experience, I once dealt with a japanese SWE (we had a 7 figure contract from his company) who was surprised I had 3 computers on my desk; as he put it, back home they had 3 engineers sharing a single box. So maybe there were structural as well as technical issues behind the failure of the 5th generation project?

EDIT2: it appears Fyodor Dostoyevsky is part of BSD daemonology...
I didn't see that, are you talking about the bird's leg?
What about some sort of shadowbanning ? Or "shadowsegregating" : I mean if you detect and group cheaters so that they play with other cheaters ? Leaving normal players alone ? (I am not a player, I don't know how these multiplayer games work, I'm just wondering)
I like it when L1 blockchains just increase their system requirements over time, acknowledging improvements in global bandwidth like everything else

I like how we don’t have to debate blocksize on other chains

Someone looked at the Bitcoin whitepaper and said, hey what if nodes required 256gb RAM and a Threadripper CPU because it’s not 2008 anymore. And it was awesome

I would like to see an EVM take a similar approach
My employer likes me and gives me $100k and I have to pay tax.
Hmmm, that's why "feedburner" is^H^Hwas a thing, right?

We have come to full circle.
some people value HMR in development, and like lots of build plugin. esbuild plugin support is not that great, hence they put up with vite. Case study: Remix went from esbuild ot vite
No, extensions are tied to the browser sandbox and they also have to specify their permissions beforehand. They can request fairly wide permissions inside the browser sandbox, yes, but they have to explicitly list the permissions they require in the manifest and the browser will ask you if you're fine with those before installing. Outside of the browser itself, the extensions can't do pretty much anything outside of sending messages to applications that explicitly register to receive them from them.
With a draft standard that we have no way of knowing Google and Apple will implement?
I think this is true for the small percentage of people who get through that initial stage -- but it excludes the (I suspect) majority who just bounce off it.

I just bounced off it, and I have tried quite hard, repeatedly.

Idea: for the rest of us who can't simply flip syntax around in our heads, there should be an infix Lisp that tries to preserve some of the power without the weird syntaxless syntax.

There are of course several, of which maybe the longest-lived is Dylan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)

... but instead of Dylan's Algol- or Pascal-like syntax, do a Dylan 2 with C-style syntax?
All my Kindle library is also books side loaded via Calibre (sent to my kindle email address). I have been doing that for years (more than an decade actually) and have never had any book deleted by the device. Is this real?
The issue is not so much hardware requirements (although they matter as well) but bandwidth which is the main limitation to a distributed decentralized network that's not hosted in datacenters
Correct me if I’m wrong, but remote code execution has the advantage of being able to access information without the user being involved at all. Sure the user needs to install and trigger the exploit, but whatever code the attacker runs doesn’t require the user to interact with certain urls. If you can launch arbitrary programs, you can probably install all sorts of nasty things that are potentially more lucrative than the victim’s bank or coinbase accounts.
>It is because corporations benefit from exploitable labor and competition among workers. For this reason they promote a narrative that opposing illegal immigration is racist.

This is just such an absurd take. How much reality do you have to suspend to believe that corporations around the globe have all zoned in on a policy of somehow propagating a narrative through public life about immigration so that they can exploit illegal immigration.

I know we're in the anti-capitalism, anti-big-corp zeitgeist, but come on.
Yeah in Iran we had something like a hose and it was everywhere. It was so good. Still we make fun of westerners cause they have poopy butts. Unfortunately now i have a poopy butt also :/
Not all. That's Kay Burley, she's probably considered to be above average as a newsreader, but she does have a tendency to put on an air of "this is the most serious situation imaginable" far too often.

I just watched the clip, and the style she's using for the interview would be appropriate if she were interviewing a politician on the subject of war crimes, but for some reason she felt that this story needed that same level of gravitas rather than considering it a light-hearted fluff piece...

edit: Here's an example of her when not in "I need to look like a super serious journalist for this" mode - https://x.com/KayBurley/status/1846114715312754744/mediaView... - I don't watch her very often, but the impression I have is that she spends quite a lot of time in both these "modes", and my feeling is that she consciously decides which fits the topic more, but maybe I'm being unfair and she's just subconsciously acting however feels like a natural fit.

I can't honestly think of any other British news anchors as high profile as her who I'd expect to conduct that conker interview in such an overly serious manner (but again, I'm hardly an expert in current day TV news people, I only see them in clips here and there I'm not a viewer of their full shows).
Gap Year is taken between 2nd and 3rd level education at the persons own impetus - generally used to backpack around SEA and/or work for a bit in the 'real world'.

Transition Year is the 4th year of 2nd Level in Ireland - the conclusion of the 'Junior Cycle' of secondary school, culminating with the 10-14 Subject 'Junior Certificate' exam at the end of 3rd year. It is a regular year in terms of school attendance, but rather than academic modules structure against a strict curriculum, students tend to do a mix of practical and theoretical skills.

Things like intro to psychology, philosophy, an esoteric language or other college accession style intro classes are popular. Photography/Film Making, Cooking, Self-Defense/Martial Arts classes are all popular on the practical side.

Most of the religious schools (i.e. about 80% of all schools) tend to have a charity component as well - seeing TY students out collecting for Irish Cancer Society or packing bags in a supermarket to fund a local Hospice is pretty standard.
How does it save pages that are only available when you are logged in such as social networking pages?
Passkeys are like SSNs, drivers licenses, passports, local phone numbers etc.:

They work perfectly well for 95-99% of people, but oh boy are you screwed if you are in the remaining 1-5%…

Unlike for all these other “forms of identification”, there’s a chance passkeys will bridge the remaining gap, but we’re not there yet, hence many people are cautious.
I've looked at Deno, but I don't see any advantage of it over my simple stack.
Just to be clear, I never suggest that the teams actually working on this wouldn't look into it. I was talking about people who were watching and were happy.
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Why do you think that it doesn't solve the scaling issue?
true, and disgusting.
> The youth are drinking less

What little life expectancy they gain by drinking less - and not stopping completely - is completely overshadowed by their high-sugar, high-sodium, meat-heavy diet.
An rss reader is a user agent (ie. a software acting on behalf of its users). If you define rss readers as a bot (even if it is a good bot), you may as well call Firefox a bot (it also sends off web requests without explicit approval of each request by the browser).
People absurdly trying to circumvent company rules, security team trying to secure the mess and avoid data loss...the vicious circle.
Chromecast from your phone?
I tried Remix, and boy, this is a real mess. Some people just don't value understanding what their code and configuration actually does, I guess. I can assure you, it saves a lot of time if you do. I don't like plugins, especially when the documentation for how plugins work is non-existent or seems to have been written by children.
Ask HN: Good Town in France, Italy or Spain?
What is a good town in France, Italy or Spain, for a good modest life with low housing cost and good climate?
The key insight for both evolution and contemporary AI is that hill-climbing (either completely random a la evolution, or guided locally like in back-propagation) can work really well, if you have enough dimensions to play with.

Hill climbing obviously gets stuck easily in 2 or 3 dimensions. So our intuition ain't reliable.
Maphack that gives vision of other players and resources is a common cheat in many games, including very popular moba games.
On the other hand, I think technology should get more efficient and better over time, rather than expand to be maximally inefficient. This is probably why I dislike blockchain.

At least ETH abandoned proof-of-waste.
If think even more important of who wrote history, is who preserved it. We know of dozens of other version of Christianity just in the second century (already around the time our gospels were written), but their writing are simply no preserved. So the power to not preserve history is just as impactful as writing your own.
Just my personal experience.

One of my family members who lived in China was involved in a Ponzi fraud couple years ago. They told me that when they entered the interrogation room, officers had already printed out their WeChat chatting history, even before they handed out their phone.
Because punching holes in the network that makes data exfiltration simple is a generally considered a bad thing
Reddit nerds only notice in April 2021, https://old.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/mo67x9/the_new_kind...

More "tabloids" in April 2021 https://www.tomsguide.com/news/amazon-kindle-update-adds-kil...

More nerds in August 2021, https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/30x1qmxj "the setting that was added a few months ago in Settings/Device Options to show the "Display Cover" of the book you are currently reading"

Amazon discussing rolling it out during ... April 2021, https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P00008A1VpoSAF/di...

Maybe you were in a pre-release A/B or region, or simply didn't notice the update.
It's about as ingenious as littering to save yourself a 20 second walk to a trash can.
You don't need to slow down, the region where you can do the observations is basically a slowly expanding cone the further you get away from the sun. But it does sound like the current plan involves a 25 year journey before observations start.
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I see this on a regular basis. My self-hosted RSS reader is blocked by Cloudflare even after my IP address was explicitly allowlisted by a few feed owners.
The soothing colors of an open terminal window. ;)
A very interesting project. If I understand correctly it’s being used for Azure infrastructure.
sure -- what is fomo insurance?
NAT is a problem, but in this case I think it's a valid consideration regardless. Banning innocent players behind shitty ISPs sucks, but cheaters suck more.
But that's exactly my point; securing SSH keys properly is hard to do right at scale, and Passkeys are a solution to manage key pairs at scale.
Funnily enough I haven't been getting the original Xbox Series Controller USB dongle to work on Windows (not even with the "airplane mode workaround"). Worked with xone.

On Windows bluetooth pairing works though.
Additional evidence has been uncovered linking Drew to this report, from Certificate Transparency data.

A search for all subdomains of drewdevault.com reveals rms-draft-84eb252.drewdevault.com, which had certificates issued on 29th September 2024, a few days before stallman-report.org was registered:

https://crt.sh/?q=rms-draft-84eb252.drewdevault.com

Helpfully, the Internet Archive monitors the Certificate Transparency logs and crawls all hostnames it finds. Which was done very soon after the certificate for rms-draft-84eb252.drewdevault.com was logged:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/rms-draft-84eb252.drewdevault....

From this, we can see that it is an earlier copy of the document that currently exists on stallman-report.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240929110752/https://rms-draft...

https://archive.today/dPAb6
Interview with dax from opennext on the topic from a couple days ago:

https://youtu.be/E-w0R-leDMc?si=uzPEd42V_6wxwV9l
Fast compilation is undoubtedly more essential in the Lisp paradigm of REPL-driven, interactive programming with S-expressions than in other languages. A pre-requisite perhaps for the world to 'Stop Writing Dead Programs' [0]

[0] https://jackrusher.com/strange-loop-2022/
The strangest thing for me were the article's first two paragraphs:

> Palantir is hot now. The company recently joined the S&P 500. The stock is on a tear, and the company is nearing a $100bn market cap. VCs chase ex-Palantir founders asking to invest.

[...] During the 2016-2020 era especially, telling people you worked at Palantir was unpopular. The company was seen as spy tech, NSA surveillance, or worse. There were regular protests outside the office.

I don't really see the contradiction here? The most morally repugnant companies are often the most profitable, and the stock market sometimes (not always) follows suit. And if the protests outside their offices have decreased, that's probably just a sign that there are other things to protest against now...
Man rants about not expecting weird type system abuse that works on his machine to be undefined behavior
Strictly speaking the two domains have very little in common besides "evolving" in a general sense (as opposed to something being static and unchanging). But if we generalize a bit our target system we can make the analogy more fruitful.

LLM Algorithms don't "evolve" when trained, they just fit data in a pre-existing and hardwired "DNA". More GPU, data, energy consumption etc. simply means different weights (parameters) for the same fixed algorithm. Training involves no feedback loop on the algorithm design itself. The biological analogy is like what happens when you starve or overfeed somebody: They become skinny or obese (but they will not pass on that attribute to their offspring).

The algorithm's DNA is explicitly designed and put in place by human intelligence. When thinking of the observed "evolution" of algorithms we need to include the sum total of the people involved in algorithmic design and deployment, their cognitive toolkit, incentives etc. Now that part is definitely "evolving" (various mathematical, technical or economic breakthroughs), not biologically of course, but culturally.

So-called AI Winters (and other AI Seasons) are indeed evidence of this collective cultural movement. You could say that the invention / adoption of the multilayered neural net pattern has led to a sort of Cambrian explosion similar to going from single cell to multicellular organisms.
> I don’t understand why the companies pushing them are doing so

> your entire digital existence is at the mercy of whatever device or technology platform you use to store your passkeys.
> What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 in the afternoon, and 3 in the evening?

A table. My table. To solve this stupid riddle, I remove 2 of its legs before afternoon and screw one of them back on before the evening.

Sphinx, I dare you to refute me.
I agree it's probably a mistake but I can also see another possibility:

But first, consider the CCP. The CCP has nearly 100 million members. That's a lot of people. More than many countries. It's not a very exclusive club. Clearly such a large organization cannot be considered as a united whole. It's not just whether "the CCP can read it" it's about which part of the CCP can read it.

Can the low ranking CCP member read the wechat message of the high ranking member fucking his wife? Maybe not? But maybe he would like to? Maybe he knows a mathematician that can help him for a reasonable sum of money? Or maybe someone wants to do a bit of corporate espionage?

In other words the inner core of the party wants nobus, whereas the periphery has incentives to undermine it.
Air-cooling is possible. This only effect certain type of reactor. As soon as you go to higher temp reactor air-cooling is very efficient.

And even in France this was only a problem because of their terrible delayed maintenance.

> France is about the best existing case for nuclear, incidentally.

No it isn't. France has done essentially nothing for 30+ years. Has done little maintained, their reactors aren't up to date.

The generation after the generation that built the reactor has always resented the system and wanted to rip it out. They literally decided to retire it by 2035 despite having no plan to replace it.
neither is yours but okay
> Sites still ultimately have to have a recovery process when someone does lose access.

Do they? Is that legally mandated somewhere, or can they just say "You're stuffed, make a new account if you want"?
> This construct works perfectly fine in C

Intuitively, I would say that this is actually undefined behavior (it would probably be difficult to expose a wrong behavior in practice though).

In C specs, I found 6.5.2.2, paragraph 9:

> If the function is defined with a type that is not compatible with the type (of the expression) pointed to by the expression that denotes the called function, the behavior is undefined.

We might discuss whether

void (*)(char *)

is "compatible" with

void (*)(void *)

but I think it isn't, since:

void target(void *ptr) {}
void (*name)(char *ptr) = target;

fails to compile with the error message:

initialization of ‘void (*)(void *)’ from incompatible pointer type ‘void (*)(char *)’

The compiler explicitly says "incompatible pointer type".

Same for:

void target(char *ptr) {}
void (*name)(void *ptr) = target;
So, ruin a thing that works for a few people (and arguably was the primary target of the spec before big tech essentially took it over) for no reason other than marginal relying party convenience?

The only thing needed to preserve their utility would be a minimal rewording (e.g. change “preferred” to “possible” or add a “preferred-if-unlimited-storage” for ResidentKeyRequirement), and a requirement of relying parties to add a username field as a fallback.
1,300 jobs will be eliminated at Intel's Hillsboro campus, company tells state
It's explained elswhere in this thread - only the "DRM'ed" ebooks that "belong" to another Kindle are deleted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866327