skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's honestly a given that mass surveillance creates a chilling effect and erosion of trust, and the onus should really be on you to disprove it.

But it isn't, and this is the entire problem with your argument: you've assumed your conclusion to be true. This leads you to ignore basic initial questions, like "do you have evidence for this specific claim?"

When pressed, it turns out you don't, and instead you substitute hypotheticals (that you again assume to be true!), but then blame me for not already believing them to be true.

Again, I can point to specific things that call your original statement into question, such as the continued presence of protests and mass demonstrations in the very city you claim to be subject to this "chilling effect". Instead of providing an explanation as to why that's consistent with your original claim (it isn't!), you then point to more sources with the same hypothetical, and expect me to take them as truth.

The problem is, there's a distinct lack of evidence for your repeated claims, and additional hypotheticals do not fill that void.

So no, I do understand, and I understand why your argument is flawed. It's simple, really: the "chilling effect" makes sense on the surface, is plausible as a hypothetical, is sometimes true, and is used frequently by sources you already trust. The problem is that it's just a hypothetical, and there a myriad of counterexamples exist which call it into question as a blanket rule, all of which you discount out of hand with no explanation, or simply refuse to acknowledge in the first place.

It's a hypothetical I've seen repeatedly claimed as truth throughout my entire life, only to see its predictions fail to manifest in the vast majority of cases in which it's invoked. What other choice do I have than to question its validity? Your refusal to acknowledge this lack of predictive power does nothing to convince me, in contrast to my lived experience, that it does indeed have predictive power in the first place, and in fact only does the opposite.

I've also repeatedly told you that I understand the hypothetical, and what I'm interested in is concrete evidence of the hypothetical's predicted effects in a specific place where you've claimed it is present. But instead of providing this evidence, you just repeatedly cite more examples of the hypothetical effect being claimed, along with its implied predictions... Surely you can see that this was not what I asked for, is redundant to your original claim, and does nothing to demonstrate the hypothetical's predicted effects in a specific example where you've claimed it as fact? Why are you expecting me to be convinced by just repeatedly making the same assertion over and over, finally just saying "it's a given"?

You made a claim stated as fact, and I asked you for evidence of that specific claim. You have not delivered it, and instead have made it clear you just assume it's true without any evidence at all! How am I supposed to be convinced by that?
Money from customers of all non-US countries is the biggest reason. Where US tech companies can't grow, local alternatives grow to the same level (China, Russia).
Looks like that’s going through the legal system so is already illegal?

You can’t make a rule that says “hey don’t break the rules”.

That seems logically fallacious.
> If you really think more government action is needed then why not ask gov to address ISP monopolies or introduce municipal providers.

Municipal providers? yes, please. I am on municipal fiber, and it is fantastic. Fixed monthly price, little downtime, fantastic local tech support (not that I've ever had to call them). I've been in conversations with friends where they're going around the table complaining about various aspects of their dinosaur ISPs and I'm just sitting there twiddling my thumbs. Internet access is now just a solved problem for me. Municipal Internet is a great example of government taking on a new mandate and directly providing service across the board to everyone. (I responded to this point first so you can hopefully see that I am arguing in good faith here, not just shilling FUD for dinosaur ISPs)

Creating more competition in general is much less straightforward to discuss or implement. However the law we're talking about is quite similar in spirit to the "franchise agreements" that required cable companies to build out entire cities/towns (despite some areas being a loss) in an exchange for a guaranteed monopoly. It's exactly the type of thing that hurts competition.

> Other places have cheaper internet driven by market forces. The low income plans very likely arent loss generating.

I agree that Internet access can be provided much cheaper than it generally is in the US. However the high price market failures in the US seems to be from construction costs, extra layers of middle management, and bureaucracy rather than straight profit going to owners. On the balance sheet of ISPs, those low income plans will indeed be losses (wrongly or rightly).

> Do you have any links to the actual process? I was curious but couldnt find any. Either way, might not be an issue considering you need internet. Might be the difference between having employment and proper education or not.

I was speaking about the general shape of these public-private "synergies". Given how much of the responsibility has been placed on the companies here, it's a reasonable assumption.

How does a strong coercive incentive to give private information to companies make it into a non-issue? Especially in a country with little data protection regulation, and little appetite for it? I would say the strong incentive makes it more of an issue. And people needing help but not actually getting it because they don't want to spend lots of time jumping through paperwork hoops is a well known problem.

> This just means giving money to ISPs for the same result.

No, it means keeping the power of choice with the ISP subscriber so they can weigh their own needs across everything the market offers. I wouldn't be surprised if when building out new last-mile connections to serve $15 plans is unprofitable, ISPs will respond by offering a special plan that involves a 5G router to meet their legal requirements.

It also means spending public money more effectively - on things the consumer market is already providing, rather than creating a new bespoke offering that meets the desires/constraints of government.
The inefficiencies in the crawling for these AI products is surely going to get better in a hurry, they'll be burning through resources/money as it stands.
Not soon, it seems. Nvidia is so far ahead that they're artificially limiting their 4090's to half speed to fill a market niche.

https://x.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1868356459542770087
Software (2020)
And that's almost exactly how the company I work for started.
Wonderful! But I see the picture you included in the README. It looks a little weird when zoomed in; the coordinates don't zoom together.
When counterfeit products are imported, the importer is liable.
Never? AMD can't write proper drivers...Most don't realize how far ahead NVIDIA is.
we may only be aware of a single thread at any given time

We may be not a single mind, but a bunch of minds. It just happens that the mind that “you” are reads this and has written the above comment, cause it’s of that kind (just like “all biological beings in this thread happen to be humans” type of a filter). Other minds can live completely different lives, just inside the same skull. And share emotions and thoughts with you sometimes from their prison.

This “aware” part is pretty mysterious, because the physical mind could operate without it perfectly. But for some reason, the space containing a mind experiences this awareness thing.
And you will never see it. The whole source of all this "aliens" hysteria is precisely because all our natural or artificial optics have an outer boundary range, where they still can see something but it is barely resolvable, or barely trackable, or barely visible at all. If the "aliens" were closer to the optics, or the environment conditions were clearer then human could always understand what it was and so the story would die immediately. Or alternative if "aliens" are too far from the optics or the weather is too bad, then there is no record and also no story to be had.
"aliens" will always remain right at the edge of the optical capabilities, because that's what they are in 100% of cases - misidentification or optical effects.

PS: I also refuse to use doublespeak and call them OOPS, UAPS and whatever else ufologists have invented to legitimize their lies. They all look for "aliens" and we should call these illusions accordingly.
Think about it terms of how precarious their sleeping arrangement is.

Own your place? You're golden.

Rent officially? Probably have good tenant protection laws.

Anything else is subject to circumstances which might change with short notice. If you're crashing on a friends' couch you're one disagreement or girlfriend away from being kicked out.
What would a defeat device look like for an electric car?
Vinfast is acting as a Tier 1 for Jaguar, designing parts of the front chassis. This guy was on one of the engineering teams.
Exposing food manufacturers to widespread civil suits like this would surely depress domestic production of food just as opening up fabric manufacturers to fire-related civil suits (e.g. Chapman v Brown) destroyed domestic fabric production. Even if the manufacturer wins 99% of the time, the proliferation of suits like this is sufficiently costly to force production overseas. You still end up with the same (or greater) risks, but the system routes around the legal friction by reducing production in the costly legal regime.
Yeah. I think that other CPUs do also have a large chunk of 'dummy' silicon, except it's just the wafer that it's manufactured on the surface of, instead of a seperate part that's added after the wafer is ground down to allow for the connections through the back.
OK, fine. But give me an actual office, not the open plan that's like standing in a train station with a constant loud noise level (I'm from the US - I have to imagine that horror). If I wanted to be around people, I'd be in marketing or management, but I like to pretend I'm actually useful and that means I need the quiet of a graveyard so I can concentrate on actually getting work done.
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Is there a possible way to unblow the fuse? I imagine it depends on the type of e-fuse used. The Athlon XP pencil trick probably won't work, haha. Curious if anyone has more information.

Fascinating, I had no idea this was even a thing. Simultaneously badass team green is far ahead and also a bummer to be artificially limited / segmented.

I wonder if the upcoming 5090 core will mostly be a fuse-intact 4090. I imagine nearly all of NVs current focus is on H200 and Blackwell and whatever else is in the pipeline rather than these "silly" little gamer cards which bring in comparably trivial financial resources.

/me *cries a tear*
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In no other country in the world is money considered speech, and in no other country in the world is there remotely as much money in politics as the USA.

I understand you want to justify it's existence, but that doesn't mean it's good for society as a whole.
I think we're more at the point (or beyond) of it being deliberately obnoxious as a failed attempt at humor. But maybe I'm underestimating just how idolized that original paper is.

At any rate, by now I'm erring on the side of not promoting or citing them.
I thought it involved pork. Clearly these people aren't paying for a quarter cut they won't receive.
Boeing Resumes Production of Airplanes, Including 737
Didn't know the mini nuke in Fallout was actually real: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Mini_nuke
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Quotes from the article:

> BBC News Arabic compiled engagement data on the Facebook pages of 20 prominent Palestinian-based news organisations in the year leading up to the 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel, and in the year since.

> Palestine TV has 5.8 million followers on Facebook. Journalists at the newsroom shared statistics with us showing a 60% drop in the number of people seeing their posts.

> To test this, we carried out the same data analysis on the Facebook pages of 20 Israeli news organisations such as Yediot Ahronot, Israel Hayom and Channel 13. These pages also posted a large amount of war-related content, but their audience engagement increased by nearly 37%.

> Meta has previously been accused by Palestinians and human rights groups of failing to moderate online activity fairly.

> An independent report in 2021 commissioned by the company said this was not deliberate but because of a lack of Arabic-speaking expertise among moderators. Words and phrases were being interpreted as offensive or violent, when they were in fact innocuous.

> For example, the Arabic phrase "Alhamdulillah", which means "Praise be to God", was sometimes being auto-translated as "Praise be to God, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom".

> To see if this explained the decline in engagement with Palestinian outlets, the BBC carried out the same analysis on Facebook pages for 30 prominent Arabic-language news sources based elsewhere, such as Sky News Arabia and Al-Jazeera.

> However, these pages saw an average increase in engagement of nearly 100%.
Worlds first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US
It depends on the situation; I would absolutely consider someone homeless if they don’t know where they are going to sleep tonight, or three days from now, etc and does not have a safety net. A friend lets you crash on the couch a few days then back to sleeping in your car as your only option aside from sleeping in the streets - that’s homeless for sure in my book.

I would not consider someone homeless who chooses to couch surf around friends’ pads for a while as they figure out something permanent, but has options and means, certainly not homeless
Maybe in some circles? But not any I remember. It got popularized because of early reports from China that HCQ+Zinc seemed to help, not really HCQ alone.
Ive also seen some pretty terrible implementations that don’t even allow end users to manage enrolled devices; so if someone steals your authenticator they have access to your account indefinitely.

Personally I like the benefits passkeys offer but some work still needs to be done around management of enrolled devices
[dupe] More discussion on the official release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450413
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Maybe just call it “ChopperGPT” or some other synonym for “blender”
Non-compliance is a weird way of saying "refusal to install US backdoors"
Colors can be expressed in many ways. For example in Android it's common to see hex codes as #AARRGGBB, but in CSS the alpha is at the end (#RRGGBBAA). With wider gamuts (lch, dcip3...), there are separate channels and alpha is expressed separately. We also need to provide ways for folks to codify dark mode / light mode / high contrast values.

Another example is what we call "aliases" or "references": a token can reference another one. Their resolution process needs to be specified (as in: when exactly does an alias get resolved in the lifecycle, and how tools must process them, whether it's okay to rasterize them in the CSS/XML/JS/.. output, etc).

Note that we intend to provide a JSON schema, and the community has already published a few TypeScript type definitions, linting tools, and build tools based on the spec.

> some are pixels or rem or whatever

The 'or whatever' part is what we're trying to tame. For example an Android app may need to consume 'dp' values, web 'rem', iOS 'pt'... There are tons more examples where platforms differ in how they would express dimensions, typography, color... The spec provides a way to encode the source tokens, and then translation tools handle the conversion to platform-specific values.
Trying to make cheap non-electrical vehicles makes sense, because it's mainstream and has been for a long time. A cheap brand would make a car like the ones we had 5 years ago, which are safe. A kind of random number, but you get the idea.

I've always viewed EVs as a luxury.
While it's interesting to experiment with cheap EV designs, the short or midterm goal shouldn't be production.

There's a reason Tesla sells its cars even though they are expensive. They're supposed to be expensive since they are basically high-scale experiment.
> Exposing food manufacturers to widespread civil suits like this would surely depress domestic production of food just as opening up fabric manufacturers to fire-related civil suits destroyed domestic fabric production.

"Requiring safe standards is bad for business" is possibly true (at least in the short term), but I'm not sure that the alternative is better.

EDIT: I inadvertently read the parent post uncharitably, as suggesting that there should be no enforcement at all. gizmodo (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42452514) points out that arguing against civil liability is not arguing against effective regulation and enforcement.
Sexual assault has a broader connotation than rape too.
Yea - the idea is that Snowflake will generate these after a query runs in order to help you look at multiple runs of the same query. So imagine you run a query that's "select a from b where c = 1" and you want to find all examples of that query running. That's where "query_hash" comes in. But Snowflake also says well what if we let you be generic about the parameters - so "where c=1" and "where c=2" and "where c=300000" all have the same query_parameterized_hash.

That's the intent but turns out it's only doing a very simple hashing and not actually looking at the canonical version of the query. For example it won't treat aliases/renames as the same even though it should. This makes it harder to look at all queries that are in essence doing the same thing.
The traditional view held by Christians is that the Gospel of Matthew was written within 10 years of Jesus' death. Modern scholars (often atheists) do not believe it though.
Sounds like something you could fix once and for all with some metaprogramming converting between the two case cases?
Chips should be standardized and easily replaceable. Have a replacement schedule during regular maintenance. Problem solved.
Given the number of broken arrow incidents, it’s remarkable that a random city hasn’t been terrorist nuked or at least dirty bombed yet. Obama made a big deal about warning the world about the risks of nuclear proliferation. He told us that al Queda and ISIS have tried to acquire weapons of mass destruction including nuclear.

I literally live in fear that one day I’ll wake up to find that some big city is just gone and that the world is about to go through some real authoritarian shit in the wake of it. Imagine Chicago getting nuked from some terrorists and then no one takes responsibility right after. Trump would start WW3.

I’ve had the idea to write a book about this scenario (or ideally a mod for a better version of hoi4) called “Good Morning America” about the nation responding to this exact scenario.
I currently use a bunch of Unifi APs, not got full-house coverage yet, but I have key areas and run their management software on a Raspberry Pi.

They've mostly been solid, and aren't too expensive. I did replace the one in the hall (on the ceiling) outside my living room recently though, upgrading it from an AP-AC-Pro to an U6-Pro and the range is significantly worse on the same WiFi spec, making the living room TV basically unusable for streaming, despite being flawless on the older AP.

I'm going to try the newer U7 Pros and if that doesn't work out, I'll start looking at alternatives, but I suspect anything acceptable will be more expensive. I run ethernet almost everywhere so WiFi is just for our mobiles/laptops/tablets/IoT, but the TV in the living room currently has no easy way to get cables to so that AP is critical.
I understand that the Didache doesn't mention Jesus itself.
Self-Hosting a VPN with Tailscale on a Raspberry Pi
Locking the barn door after the previous (and now incoming) administration opened them.

https://www.usda.gov/article/usda-announces-proposed-rule-mo...

This is just the natural result of these policies. Did they really expect the companies to actually self-report all the deficiencies?
Moonshine Web: real-time speech recognition running 100% locally in the browser
I thought the issue was deregulation? Something like Trump rolled back some rules about oversight and then Biden never put them back into place? Does the USDA even have the power to fix this?

Anyways, having a pregnant wife right now, it's worrying that listeria is on the rise. We're already avoiding stuff like deli meat but when there's listeria in the frozen waffles, mushrooms, and vegetables you have to wonder what's really going on.
The US meat industry cartel does not value safety. It's not priced in.
Responsibility for what? This is such an asinine statement.
That paratrooper image is very Doctor Strangelovian
Of course there is. There are millions of examples of usage for the word "red", enough to model its relational semantics. Relational representations don't need external reference systems. LLMs represent words in context of other words, and humans represent experience in relation to past experiences. The brain itself is locked away in the skull only connected by a few bundles of unlabeled nerves, it gets patterns not semantic symbols as input. All semantics are relational, they don't need access to the thing in itself, only to how it relates to all other things.
It sounds like a variation of a - not so much that they abandoned their faith, per-se, but that the faith they espouse as being Jewish is not acceptably ‘in the same room’ as other Jewish faith.

It would be somewhat like saying you were a Messianic Christian because you believed that Mohammed was a later prophet. There is a word for that kind of religion, and it isn’t Christianity.
> Every one had a .ru domain.

Brand-new to the Internet, are ya?

Just because you cherry-pick Russian informational sites doesn’t mean that third-party firmwares have any connection to Russia whatsoever.

Third-party firmwares are open-source projects, worked on by tens of thousands of volunteers from around the planet, and frequently have ZERO CONNECTION to any one hardware manufacturer.

There are some collaboration efforts, when a particular manufacturer decides to adopt an open-source firmware as the exclusive firmware for their own hardware, but that simply means the hardware is fully unlocked for any third-party firmware that wants to be adapted for that hardware. These manufacturers just decided that they had no desire to f**k over the consumer by locking them into custom-made firmware.

For example, I believe Turris https://www.turris.com/ takes a stock, latest copy of OpenWRT and makes a few tweaks to extend its capabilities for additional, server-like features.
It's more efficient to treat food safety standards as a criminal matter rather than a civil matter. If it's frequently treated as a civil matter, it results in endless (and endlessly costly) civil suits. The standards for successfully pursuing a civil judgement have to be extremely high in situations like this to discourage destructive ambulance-chasing.