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The sociological implications of code is often not explored enough.

If you look at code as in, only syntax and its meaning for the language, I can see how folks might reason along the lines of 'law is similar enough to code. You are saying what can and can't be done'

However, code is rarely only its syntax. Its meaning is contextual, often to the business of which it applies, and would have no real meaning outside of that context, and context may change at any given time, which means reinterpreting the code, replacing the code etc.

That is what law in practice, is what code is in practice. Its syntax is very technical, but its meaning is entirely dependent upon its applied context.

I been thinking alot about this lately, and understanding the sociological implications of code in an organization (or in more extreme cases, society) has really changed my point of view of how to build software
I'm not too worried.

As long as someone needs to be held accountable, you will need humans.

As long as you're doing novel work not in the training set, you will probably need humans.
> It wasn't a question of morality - we don't know what the long term side effects are.

But we actually do. And they seem to be all positive so far.

> It will take time to find out if there are long term detrimental effects.

It's been 20 years already from the development of the earliest GLP-1 agonists.
Non-technical management is often completely unable to understand technologies. "AI" is already far beyond a specific technology, it is a general buzzword, which describes an arbitrary thing which solves whatever problem you throw at it.

I am absolutely convinced that none of these companies have done any benchmarking or trials.

>I mean, they must have used ChatGPT, right? How does ChatGPT give them the conclusion about this?

Ask ChatGPT to generate a program for you. Imagine what the result would look like to you if you had never read a single line of code in your life. It is pretty obvious that the output of ChatGPT is indistinguishable from what your developers produce, so they obviously are superfluous.

You may think I am exaggerating, but there are many people in very large companies who think exactly like that. Often their ambitions are smaller, but usually that just worsens their lack of understanding. Problems which could be trivially solved by a mediocre software engineer in a week suddenly become AI Game changing Technologies.
Okay, but I don't see that happening here? Like, nobody is comparing my code to legalese. And if they did, I'd apologize profusely if normal people had to interact with my source code on a regular basis! I wouldn't try to defend writing it the same way I write it when a single digit number of people have to read it ever. And lots and lots of people have to read and follow laws.
Good laws should also "scale out" into unknown complexity and situations.

For example, every german has a right to control pictures of their own self, and the way the law was worded, it already applied an idea on the legality of sharing/distributing deepfakes of regular citizens.

However, this kind of generalization requires very careful wording. Every single word and every single statement will be examined for inclusion and exclusion of situations across many court cases. This means it's hard to formulate these laws.

And then you rely on age-old, court- and battle-proven formulations... even if they are clunky and not intuitive.
How is this ugly when healthcare is tied to employment already. All the arguments about you can lose your job then you lose X at any time apply.
Jeff Barr is stepping back from being the Voice of AWS/lead blogger after 20 years.
Ironically I've seen technical users far more confused by passkeys than 70 year olds on eBay. 70 years olds on eBay don't ask how the "Use Apple Face ID to Login to eBay" works and how secure it is, they just just generally trust Apple and eBay and just do it and it generally just works. It's the technical users that want to know all the details of passkeys down to minutia and have too many devices with syncing problems because at least one machine is a Linux machine with no hardware security enclave but "that's fine" because it is locked down to no real "cloud" access but still needs to login to eBay in an ancient Firefox fork that doesn't support passkeys once every couple of days for some hacky shell script bidder they've been running since they downloaded it off mIRC in the 90s…
You were in the courtroom once, the lawyer will be in that room many, many times. He wants what is easiest for him, with some deference to you, but really mainly for him.

All this stuff is hard to navigate if you're not used to it, or haven't been involved before.
I think that link will only improve your appreciation for how magical a mechanical watch is. Especially when you consider people have been making them or a few hundred years.
I remember learning about chirality from an Isaac Asimov article about “left-handed” sugar which, while it tastes the same as normal sugar, is unable to be metabolized by our digestive systems. I would imagine that something similar would come into play with a left-handed organism: it would be unable to consume right-handed nutrients so would starve to death. Overall, my assumption is that mirror bacteria would be unable to interact in any significant way with non-mirror organisms, but being somebody whose expertise begins and ends with reading an Isaac Asimov article on the subject as a 10-year-old, I’m very open to the possibility that I may be wrong.
Do you run your own Bitwarden server? If so are there any issues you've come across?
Tangential, is there studies on rewriting legal laws in some language with formal verification? I see how it can be used to assert correctness and consistence.
Another masterpiece I am sure!
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>But, in practice, how hard is it to host a website anonymously? Or off-shore?

Obviously it is trivial, but so is shoplifting.

Both are illegal and telling people to commit crimes is not helpful.
safety! Safety!! SAFETY !!!
brighter is safer, you loose:)
there has been another insane thing ,where the lights in schools have gotten impossibly bright, and school bussses have strobes on top that can be seen 50 miles away.
Its guaranteed that there are saftey comitties trying to legeslate much more extream measures
Of all the places to broach tyranny, you'd think Northern Ireland would know better. I refer to the IRA and the old folks who knew about calculated murder and car bombs to dissuade certain political actions.

I am not advocating violence, simply stating that the peoples of Northern Ireland are well familiar with tyranny, and are mentally equipped to do something about it. They used to be, anyway.
For antitrust reasons, I do not see this as actually happening.
> my work days are dictated to a large extent by the current Moon phase

Could you explain further?
Even if rare, surely something like the rapid advancement of AI could be something that qualifies. At minimum I agree with GP to keep an open mind about it.
> ultimately more value seems to be produced.

Is more value produced or are costs just shifted off the balance sheet onto the public commons? Driving instead of walking/public transit has certainly been profitable for some people/companies. But it has also been less than ideal from a public health standpoint. And the time spent commuting is unpaid, so while the business saves money on rent, the increase in travel time is still a cost borne by society as a whole. I would describe this as the opposite of 'efficient land use' personally.
Which is why I was careful to say that it was a difference without distinction only in some scenarios. Namely offline attack to a physical device.

In this scenario, even with the attempt restrictions the attacker has a couple of chances of relatively easy guesses, before falling back to the password protection. If we consider shoulder surfing, it’s a lot easier to distinguish a four or six digit PIN than a password.

I aware the PIN doesn’t give actual access to credential and so doesn’t impact online attacks. But that isn’t the only scenario.

Incidentally how much work is “in general” doing when you talk about the access Io Microsoft services granted by the PIN + TPM? It isnt zero access is it.
People don’t think about death enough. Be ready to go at any moment. Are you at work? Take a moment, and pretend your partner, mom, dad, or child’s last time speaking to you forever was the last time you chatted.

What comes to mind? Do you wish you had said/done something? Take action before it’s too late.
There are perverse incentives at work.

Given media is advertising funded, they need it to be necessary. It means they cannot run cultural content that informs you of things of a commercial nature. It would be to give away their revenue generating product for free.

Rather than your example showing the advertising-economy is successfully informing you of things, it may show that it has extinguished an entire category of cultural programming that could have kept you entertained and informed without being a pay-to-win manipulation game.
The big tech corporations which are the presumed targets of this will have absolutely zero problems paying their legal teams for the work they have to do to comply.
Thanks, this post was insightful. I laughed at the reason why you rejected Arize Phoenix, I had similar thoughts while going through their site!=)

> "Another notable feature of Langfuse is the use of a model as a judge ... this is not enabled in the free version/self-hosted version"

I think you can add LLM-as-judge to the self-hosted version of Langfuse by defining your own evaluation pipeline: https://langfuse.com/docs/scores/external-evaluation-pipelin...
That's why i don't. Especially considering unknowns. If i'm not actively wanting to leave my job i probably generally like it, and who knows what the next job could be like.

Leaving my current job might mean just one new job or a half dozen until i find a good place again.
Shouldn't the app storing the private key be protected by a 4-digit PIN, or a fingerprint, both of which are less secure than a plain old password? What have we achieved?
Delerium tremens can kill you

True. They claimed my best friend's dad but it was a long path getting there. He was the most extreme alcoholic I ever knew, went into DTs many times.

Three anecdotes: Piles of steel schlitz cans taller than 8yo me, long conversations with the screen dot after turning off the b/w TV - and for reasons I still don't understand he preferred Listerine during his final years.
I do think that explorables are useful in understanding, but man I feel overwhelmed with them. I feel like I do my t know when and where to stop. I feel less anxious with a plain PDF or similar. I guess it's a skill issue.
Companies do not care. They treat employees like tissue paper. Sneeze, throw out, pull out another one.
I get this. You’ve got me wondering how to get this project Wife Approved Status
It's not quite as bad, your average user with an iPhone or Android phone will be fine. Just scan a QR code on the Windows machine and log in with the phone.

The problem is that the UX for this is extra super confusing, and people will end up with passkeys that aren't backed up anywhere and get locked out of their accounts.
Copy, not convert. The copies will be the ones exploring the new worlds while the originals continue their mundane life.
Fuzzy skin finish might also get you pretty close along with a wood PLA. They can do both wall and top layer fuzzy skin now.
I don't have a keyring or a car key anymore so any additional physical object to carry is less convenient.
I'm assuming those applications are hardcoded to use either Apple or Google (respectively) as the passkey service provider? IE. that the problem is that they don't allow you to configure your own 3rd party passkey service?
> I don’t, no I work in a quiet office building.

But you work in some capacity with loud cars. Right? Why else would you be so defensive?

> As another commenter pointed out, it’s done because they enjoy the sound for themselves and their own pleasure while driving.

As I said, they could enjoy it driving on race tracks designated for such things. They also enjoy annoying others with said sound. Lets be honest here. That's why they drive through residentia neighborhoods disturbing the peace.

> This is the exact behavior why this argument can’t ever be had

An argument can't be had because you are not an honest debater. You have an agenda. Anyone can read this comment thread and see it. You are the problem. Not everyone else. Okay pal.

> Thankfully I live in America which was founded based on the concept of freedom.

Where do you think I live and all the people who despise people like you live. Good ol' America. Yes, the concept of freedom must be why smoking is banned in most public spaces? Why there are noise ordinances in most places. You have to be one sick puppy to think the founder's concept of freedom includes morons disturbing the people while they sleep in their homes. Here is a another concept of freedom". Freedom from unnecessary noise pollution.
Why not just use one of the many open source ngrok alternatives - https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling. I will advocate for zrok.io as I work on its parent project, OpenZiti. zrok is open source and has a free (more generous and capable) SaaS than ngrok. Whats the use for the log/inspector + replay? I don't think we have it today, but could develop if its useful for others.
I'm assuming it saves $0.47 per car to use slow PWM to set brightness rather than a linear regulator.
The heap allocation could transparently happen at use. The only additional performance overhead that would bring is the conditional around if it has already been initialized or not, which is negligible for modern computers. Go is not obsessed with eking every last bit of performance anyway.

But, that is not the convention. It is well understood that if a struct needs allocations that you must first call a constructor function (e.g. package.NewFoo). It is reasonable to expect that map would stick to the same convention.
“Banned” means someone else decides what’s considered advertising. Does it include Monday Night Football brought to you by MSFT Surface? The MLB World Series powered by GOOG? Or Pepsi’s American Idol?

Stop buying things from advertisers and it will die on its own.
I would honestly love to see a full documentation and history of MySQL use a Meta considering it is the largest MySQL shop in the world. Would honestly give soo many small tricks and ideas.
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Alternate link to episode: https://corecursive.com/the-story-graph-with-nadia-odunayo/
Yes, we should stop doing that too, its a horrible system.
> Every vendor has customers that have gone out of business or discontinued a product, so this is effectively a ban of all B2B closed source hardware or software components.

Not exactly. If you don't have to release it until support ends then you could require the licensee to provide support for a specific number of years and carry bankruptcy insurance that would pay for support to continue for that period of time, if you wanted to.

It would tend to cause the source code to be released after ten or twenty years, but what are you really protecting at that point? The source code for Windows XP and 3G cellular radios?

> Do you realize this is a ban on approximately all commercially available computers, and a ban on many types of radio devices, including cellphones?

It seems pretty likely that the vendors would choose to license the code under terms that would allow the source code to be published in that circumstance, since otherwise they have no customers.

> Copyright doesn't require any other authors of other works to release any foundational sources, and it never has.

Other media is distributed in a human-readable form rather than compiled into an opaque binary. If you want to make a derivative of Alice in Wonderland you can easily do it from a copy of the book as published without needing any of Lewis Carroll's notes. If you want to fix a firmware bug, doing it without the source code is commonly infeasible.
This is a crazy question, but what song is used in the intro of that video?
"The French people" and "French people" are subtly grammatically distinct. People is the plural of person but a people (singular) means a race or ethnicity.
Japan sees these things very differently. If anything, the only reason something like this would happen is because behind the scenes Japanese administrators are orchestrating a shotgun wedding.
It is in a dry dock.
With what hardware? These PQC standards are still slow and definitely not ready for deployment.
They seem like they'd be vulnerable to a net thrown over them as well.
Maybe, but also I get flashed by people thinking I have my high beams on when I don't, so could be mistaken.
I often wonder if you can create databases like this using the data in the training datasets of LLMs. Generate the list of spices by asking for categories, countries of origin, etc and then asking about a list of properties for each. You could use these kinds of Wikipedia lists as a validation mechanic.
Where did this happen? Typically the government covers some or all of the parental leave costs where it is mandated, and while a company can't fire her they are allowed to hire someone to do the job in the meantime with the money they would have paid her. It's obviously not ideal but it's hard to imagine it is screwing the company over all THAT badly.
This article is really touching, for reasons that I'm not super clear on. I've never struggled with addiction -- at least, not in a traditional sense, but, reading this nearly brought me to tears several times.
The point is that Russia is supposed to be a "totalitarian state". The UK is supposed to be a modern Western democracy with "freedom of expression" (which isn't freedom of speech). The whole point is that there really shouldn't be any speech related offences at all. These arrests should not happen in the first place. Many of these arrests do end up with prosecutions as well.

> And then by conflating the UK's legislation (which, whatever you make of it, is essential non-political, and covers forms of communication that most people would agree are basically "harmful" even though they would be opposed to a ban on them) with the restrictions in Russia, which are of course highly political (as indicated by the article you linked to), and not related to protecting anyone from harm in any meaningful sense.

They specifically say that certain forms of speech are prohibited, that includes political speech that you and I might find detestable. That speech you may find offence but it is still political speech. Some of it includes opposition against Israel's military campaigns in Palestine.

What most people agree is "harmful" isn't objective measure.

> That is: the UK's idea of harmful speech is that which promotes "terror, hate, fraud, child sexual abuse and assisting or encouraging suicide"

Terror and hate are nebulous terms that are entirely subjective. Pretending that they are somehow objective is what everyone does when they side with the UK government on this issue and they use the same nebulous terminology as the UK government such as "harmful". Speech cannot be harmful in itself. The vast majority of adults outside of mentally disabled have their own agency. People choose how to react to speech.

Also notice you also groped speech related offences with things that should be banned like CSAM material and things that are already illegal (fraud).

> Anastasia Bubeyeva shows a screenshot on her computer of a picture of a toothpaste tube with the words: “Squeeze Russia out of yourself!” For sharing this picture on a social media site with his 12 friends, her husband was sentenced this month to more than two years in prison.

That isn't actually fundamentally different to what happens in the UK. So no I don't see the difference. It so funny that you think it is a gotcha and it really isn't.
Congratulations @Marc. Been using this product for 5ish months, love the iteration and how the team reacts to feedback. The prompt versioning has been immensely valuable!
I'd appreciate it if they let me block specific countries, etc from even attempting to log in. You can see the failure attempts somewhere in your user settings and I have them all day long from countries I'll never step foot in and quite a few adversarial.
1000x this. I was fortunate & got to spend the terminal 3mo of my father's life staying with him. He didn't want a funeral at all. His perspective, "If you can't visit me while I'm still alive & have time, then don't bother." Seeing his friends & family visit was touching.
You are obviously rewriting a lot of the law, and ignoring that the penalty seems to still be "up to 18 million pounds". So no, there is a deliberate bias against smaller sites.
Bartosz has a patreon where you can sponsor these works, and on it he posts very detailed explainers of why and how he created each page.

The one for Moon is at https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-moon-118130286
https://archive.is/wvXV8
> Maybe you lost that server

Everything, ownership of the domain, codebase, digital assets for instance.

> I don't follow -- if Big Corp owns the site, won't it lose everything

Good question
If Big Corp owns the domain, codebase, IP etc. and lets Web Corp operate a site using those assets, Big Corp is not responsible for Web Corps transgressions.

A simpler analogy. Big Corp owns a pub, rents it to Web Corp. Web Corp plays music too loud, opens too late and gets fined and loses its alcohol licence. Web Corp is insolvent, but Big Corp still owns the pub.
Holy crap! only afew hours ago i was scraping his site and hoarding the delicious javascript. I wondered how long its been since the airfoil post and, bam! , a new article! More juicy javascript to hoard!
As I understand it, there are a number of cultures where funerals are somewhat celebrations, rather than sad moments. Of course, everyone is sad to lose a friend, but you can change your perspective a bit, you can make a big difference in how things feel
I designed and built a 3D-printable RC truck
The counterparty risk is too large.
Uhh, Newtonian physics doesn't really apply to black holes very well. You would be hard pressed to conclude ANYTHING about black holes using Newton's laws and equations and end up with the right answer except by accident.

That being said, momentum is conserved, so if there was only a single jet then the "black hole system" minus the jet would have momentum. However, I don't think we've ever seen a single jet black hole.

Also keep in mind we have a rather poor understanding of black holes, and that a lot of information that is stated as "we know X about black holes" is actually "general relativity equations evaluate to X" and has not been observed or verified by data. There's still serious open questions about their physics.
Ask HN: How would you classify an email signature using NLP?
This is a challenge I have been working on for a few days now.

I have 150gb of mail that I will try to work with from an NLP perspective.

I wish to do some different classification with the emails.

But the first fun thing I ran into was how I need to classify the signature in an email.

I ended up manually picking around 500 email signatures and trained a model for recognition. My model performs horrible.

How would you do that ?
Do you mean that there are two servers:

1. a basic open source one you can self-host,

2. and another closed-source one with accounts and other features that schem.io uses?

And (I'm just thinking out loud, and don't want to encourage any development as I am not a real user) is there a server-less embeddable version that perhaps just saves/loads locally with a javascript API for use in other apps?
Discussion (41 points, 3 hours ago, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42442107