skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I certainly don’t think lectures in British universities have any connection to his voting choices.

To me this reads like you either cannot reason abductively at all or you're being deliberately obtuse. I was giving an example of the cultural revolution he referred to.

There are two strands here:

One is tech drifting away from the left and/or actively being attacked by the form that popular leftism takes.

The other is the Democratic insiders declaring war on tech / the east coast in general.

The latter is what really drove someone like Andreesen towards Trump, but the former tee-ed it up.

Macro: This isn't really about voting, it's about the different parts of the US establishment putting the brakes on the way the executive was going for the last few years. They wanted Trump to win, Kamala was a just there to see it out.

As for Panto, I have indeed and this is completely different. I think you know it, at least if you don't you're a frog being boiled. You might think it's just the next chapter of progress; you have every right to do so, but to say it's not at least in some way novel is just strange.

It really is a new cultural phenomenon. This type of marketing would be an anachronism in even in the first Trump term let alone 2012 or so, the recent election was basically a referendum on it, and they lost, badly. Trump post-assassination is a unity candidate to take some power back, make the federal gov less activist, undo woke etc.
Time handling is exceptionally easy. Time zone handling is hard. It doesn't help that the timezone database isn't actually designed to make this any easier.
OpenAI funded independent math benchmark before setting record with o3
Hey, question. Is mirroring officially supported by either platform. So for example, can I configure my blue sky account to just monitor my mastodon feed and re-post things for me?
Thanks, that's a good reminder to just focus on the value. Plus, I enjoy it too - so in the end I guess that's the only thing that matters.
> aren't we really saying voters are not individual agents but rather a mob subject to manipulation by propaganda

Part of the reason Western democracies are failing is we forgot that pure democracy doesn’t work. The founders described this amply in the Federalist Papers. Democracy tends towards tearing itself apart with partisanship and mob rule.

It’s why successful republics have mechanisms to cool off public sentiment, letting time tax emotions to reveal actual thoughts underneath (see: the Swiss versus Californian referendum models); bodies to protect minorities from the majority (independent courts); et cetera.
An AI capable of replacing all human software engineers will be capable of devising various superior programming languages. It will use them instead.
Where's the smoking gun for these privacy issues? Why hasn't the FBI or anyone else investigated and discovered these issues, if they exist?
As an example, feeds available on every github repo:

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/commits.atom

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/tags.atom

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/releases.atom
It’s not just dangerous, but plainly incorrect in most cases.

It’s the usual GIGO problem. These arguments almost always start with a bunch of completely made-up numbers. It doesn’t matter how good the math is, the results will be useless.

It can work. When a government regulator decides whether to mandate some new safety equipment and after rigorous technical analysis concludes that it would result in net lives lost and so doesn’t require it, that’s sensible. But thats not what happens here.

I occasionally see this problem acknowledged, but even then, the given error bars are way too small and then it’s just full steam ahead anyway.

It could be dangerous anyway, but this makes it even more so.
Your comment made me realize that politicians stopped "think of the children" along with the rise of social media. Before the rise of big tech they would routinely slam their fist on the podium demanding that we think of the children.
> That doesn't mean it will continue being a good solution as technology and society change.

Yea neo-feudalism seems to be all the rage these days.

Democracy is not a given, people with power want more power and less checks - historically that’s what things converged to typically.
Castle Game Engine: Web target – big progress, first 3 demos to try
At what point do you think enough will be enough for them? A trillion dollars?
Maybe worth noting here that 100ms is well under the human reaction time. For context, professional sprinters have been measured to have a reaction time in the ballpark of 160ms, for pretty much everyone else it's higher. And this is only for the reaction, you still need to move your hand, press the keys, etc.
The command is already running, you ctrl+c THE command. But I agree, 100ms is short.
You are absolutely correct and I was an idiot without a proper understanding of premature abstraction or unnecessary complexity.

If I were to start a new side-project using Haskell today (I probably won't), I would just stick to do-notation and even concrete types (instead of mtl-style or what have you) where possible.
> Democracy, as we all know, is the worst political system except for all the others.

Honestly it would be about time we stop repeating this Churchill's quote as if it's one of the ten commandments. The man wasn't certainly a god and humans are often mistaken.

The actual meaning of democracy is the "power of the people". Nowhere that implies a western-like electoral system.

I'd argue in your average western democracy the people have very little power, with lots of symbolic processes to reinforce the illusion.
As long as it affects the real world, it doesn't matter what semantical category you feel compelled to push LLMs into.

If Copilot will no longer reply helpfully because your previous messages were rude then that is a consequence. It doesn't matter whether it was "really upset" or not.

If some future VLM robot decides to take your hand off as some revenge plot, that's a consequence. It doesn't matter if this is some elaborate role play. It doesn't matter if the robot "has no real identity" and "cannot act on real vengeance". Like who cares ? Your hand is gone and it's not coming back.

Are there real world consequences ? Yes ? Then the handwringing over whether it's just "elaborate science fiction" or "real deceit" is entirely meaningless.
My guess is that there's some city or transit system which needs the UID to be static for one reason or another, like in order to avoid double charging the same user if they accidentally scan their card multiple times.

The T-Union card definitely has other means of doing that, like by checking the card serial, which is stored in one of the files, or by getting the same static UID value as it is also reported in RATS.

But in the end, seems like one of the important transit partners did not want to even bother fixing it, so Apple was forced to allow the static UID.

It really shows how big companies like Apple, who like to talk about "privacy" and "security", are willing to bend over backwards, if this means getting access to the revenue stream. AFAIK they get a percentage cut of transit card top ups, and Chinese market is obviously massive.

For comparison, from what I've heard, when it comes to implementing the same transit feature in the US or in the EU, Apple is extremely strict with their partners. They may even tell their partners that they're unwilling to work with them unless they fully re-implement their transit card standard stack using other technology, or to format their cards differently, even if they are fully secure.
The reasoning is, depending on how big the project is, is that Apple may not want to bother with porting the Applet implementation (in case of niche card standards), or writing a new card state parser (for existing card types like Mifare, which can be 'formatted' and store data differently, even if they use the same protocol).
For those interested in an hsm pi, theres picohsm https://github.com/polhenarejos/pico-hsm
Being right also gives you the option of being dead right.
Reading this post, the term "software archeology" and "programmer archeologist" come to mind. (Thank you, Vernor Vinge, for the latter concept.)
This issue is not about freedom of speech to any of the players. Its geopolitics. The ACLU and the EFF care about the precedent it sets.

Shocking news: different players have different motivations.
They are designed for that.
You're right, it's millions of people who use Ghost, per their npm download statistics, not thousands. I read what OP said but I am not going to spend time copy pasting what the Ghost.org instructions say onto an HN comment when, yes, millions of people can and do already read and follow the instructions provided there. If one can't do what millions already do, follow a simple step by step process that is clearly laid out, then I'm sorry but they honestly don't deserve to have a blog.
FWIW, this specific feature - what they are now calling sub-issues - is actually better described as a framework for modeling proper parent-child relationships in their system, which is something quite hard to get right, mainly because it has to work somehow with the existing issues feature set. People building this feature from scratch (e.g. Linear) have it trivial to solve, because they didn't have any backwards compatibility issue to worry about. This is, of course, absolutely Github's fault for not designing it to accomodate such a thing easily in the first place, but the people who built this feature are probably not the same people who made that original decision.

They've been working on some version of this feature for several years now in various iterations. I believe this is either their third or fourth attempt to get it right - I was trialing a beta of some previous iteration of it a few years ago and it was incomplete/not fully well thought out which must be why they dropped it. I'd trust the feature here at least to be decent now, because of how many attempts they've had at it.

But yeah if I was a company like Zenhub I would be probably a bit worried at this announcement since it is almost inevitable that this specific feature is going to be enough for people to no longer need third party management of issues. I know in a previous company I worked for that specific feature (proper parent-child relationships) was the reason they used Zenhub, and same for my current company using Linear.
I can’t help but feel like you’re calling me “old”…
This is silly. The EFF and ACLU do amazing and important work every day.
On other side building yourself has even bigger problem discoverability. You need to either already have audience. Or spend lot of time on marketing. With likely lesser rewards than spending that same time on content on some proprietary platform.
"Prerequisites
The officially recommended production installation requires the following stack:

Ubuntu 20.04 or Ubuntu 22.04

NGINX (minimum of 1.9.5 for SSL)

A supported version of Node.js

MySQL 8

Systemd

A server with at least 1GB memory

A registered domain name"

Do you think a normal person has any idea what the above is or how to set it up?

I like Ghost, but this is like a mechanic saying "bore out the cylinder". Non-developers will have a very hard time setting up a self-hosted Ghost blog. That's why the proprietary Ghost platform exists, which is an excellent choice.

Thousands of people run blogs on WordPress, but billions of people express themselves through social media. Because self-hosting is a nightmare unless it's your job to work with sys admin stuff.

I will suggest a solution that would let normal people easily host and own their own blog without being sys admins or developers:

A "Blog" app that you could get in the App Store on your iPad. Set-up includes deciding a domain name and paying for it with Apple Pay. Then start writing posts and pressing publish, everything taken care of out of sight, with built in hosting that you pay for monthly. If the user so pleases, they could activate features such as paid memberships or publishing to search engines, taken care of in the background by the "Blog" service. It could also include community features like social media, which could be moderated like social media – with the difference that they can't take down your blog.

Normal people would be able to use this and focus on being creative and not on lint error or PHP version.
Archive / paywall: <https://archive.is/R1h8W>
Well but that's not how a lot of people interpret it

I would very much agree this is the case. But it's not how a lot of people think
The world is becoming an algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creepy_Line Algorithms create a compression of search values not unlike a Cartesian plane.

The question is, will more people embrace the Cartesian compression of ubiquitous internet communication?
The article doesn't mention the big problem of false positives. You don't want your car to slam to a halt when an empty paper cup blows across the road.
>> Many American civil liberties organizations think that the the ban is a free speech issue:

> Honestly these "civil liberties" orgs have lost the plot a long time ago, or are just at "useful idiot" mode

Exactly. When I read "many American civil liberties organizations think," my first thought was "they think a lot of things, that doesn't mean what they think is true or a good idea."

Additionally: they're all essentially lawyers arguing one side of the case. Just listening to them is not going to lead to the correct outcomes (e.g. if courts only listened to prosecutors only, tons of innocent people would go to jail; if they only listened to defense attorneys, tons of guilty people would go free).
Yup. I had a beautiful infosec feed that was incredibly useful. Sometime over the summer my "for you" devolved into wild political opinions, and many of the smartest people left the platform which turned by "Following" feed into a ghost town. Every time I used the app I came away feeling angry, and I realized I was happier not using the app than using it.

Fortunately about 1/2 of the smart people have shown up on Bluesky, and we can have technical conversations now. I'm hoping all the energy eventually comes back.
If I were to use this credulously, I'd be committing the same error as believing everything in my X feed.

I have no idea who made this tool or what their biases are, why would I believe their analysis any more than I'd believe a stranger on X? I can't find any information on who is behind this.

The different axes that they uses for analysis (health, political balance, "vibe', etc) are all inherently subjective. How are they measured?
Thanks for the long post. Sorry for the nerd snipe, it might or might not have been intentional :D

I agree with what you said. I'll test what you provided, first with fio and then with Postgres (was also my choice beforehand) with a TPC-E benchmark. If I remember, I'll let you know. Postgres on ZFS is specially difficult to be sure about just from theory around the internet, there's too much contradiction or outdated info.
Is TikTok currently available in the US App Store and PlayStore?

I can maybe understand ByteDance breaking the rules on a promise from the president elect that it will be alright.

I would, however, never expect Apple or Google to take that liability (while not getting much out of it).

edit: It seems that the TikTok app has indeed not been reinstated in the stores yet.
No idea why your comment has been downvoted.

I agree, the maturity and perception in this wonderful and important book is extraordinary for a teenager.
The first amendment enjoins the government from actions. Private companies are welcome to ban or regulate their own venues as they see fit.
You wouldn't expect a civil liberties organization to have an opinion on containing a dangerous pandemic? In addition to working at the ACLU the people doing their work are also humans.
> the best they could find was he paid off a pornstar

I guess you've been too busy to pay attention to Jack Smith's Florida cases, and to the January 6 committee's hearings and findings.
The paradox of tolerance specifically states that one must not be tolerant of intolerance. Hence, a paradox.

Tolerance is a social contract of leaving alone others whose ways differ from your own so long as they do the same for you.

One must not tolerate those that call for violence and subjugation of differing groups, which is almost the exact opposite meaning your comment seems to be implying in my reading of it, instead calling for wholly unfiltered speech by whosoever should deem to speak.

Racists and similar hatemongers calling for others to tolerate them while they are screaming for those they disparage to be caste down and out cannot be tolerated in any reasonable forum.

As such, any reasonable forum must ban some facets of free speech.

That we disallow this power for governments is a reasonable limit on the powers of the elected to rule, lest those powers be abused.
You make a good point. A crucial difference, however, is the types of entities and their motives.

A conventional U.S. corporation's motive is to generate profits. Efforts stemming from that motive have not always been in the public interest, and such cases are worthy of regulatory attention, but they typically do not present national security risks. In odd cases where pursuing profits could create national security risks, Congress has sometimes intervened, such as when Nvidia was banned from selling certain processors to certain countries.

A geopolitical entity is not a profit-motivated corporation, so the risk model is different, with national security factors being more salient.
I've started learning Velox last year, and it's a staggering amount of code. Sure, it has a ton of dependency because it wants to support so many things, but I feel like the core itself is also very complex.

I'm not sold on complexity being a necessity in software engineering, as I'm sure a lot of you also aren't. Yet we see a lot of behemoth projects.
Bit off-topic but based on the news I see coming out of the UK it feels like it is a total basket case, I wonder if there is a tipping point for a country and at what point the UK is at.
There are a whole bunch of software problems where "just prompt an LLM" is now a viable solution. Need to analyse some data? You could program a solution, or you could just feed it to ChatGPT with a prompt. Need to build a rough prototype for the front-end of a web app? Again, you could write it yourself, or you could just feed a sketch of the UI and a prompt to an LLM.

That might be a dead end, but a lot of people are betting a lot of money that we're just at the beginning of a very steep growth curve. It is now plausible that the future of software might not be discrete apps with bespoke interfaces, but vast general-purpose models that we interact with using natural language and unstructured data. Rather than being written in advance, software is extracted from the latent space of a model on a just-in-time basis.
You are clearly talking about LLMs, not AI.

If true AI ever arrives, it will determine what it wants to accomplish and then, if computers or other machines are needed to accomplish any of the steps of a solution, imo AI will communicate directly with the machine in the machine's natural language (machine code in today's machines).

You are thinking like a human when you think true AI would need a "language". True AI will be fully capable of "thinking" in the natural language of the machines at the time (quantum machine code for example) without needing any higher languages that then get translated into machine code. IMO, those steps are needed by humans, but not by a true AI.
> No, you can't. TikTok was the only mainstream platform where pro-Palestinian content was allowed to go viral.

Reddit shows pro-palestinian/anti-israel propaganda in the front page on a daily basis.

Also, the fact that Israel's invasion of Palestinian territories was an anti-Biden propaganda point that was boosted pretty hard doesn't exactly prove that the likes of China aren't pushing propaganda to destabilize the US. There was clearly a coordinated effort to force-fed the idea that Biden was pro-genocide and a warmonger, and Trump was the only possible candidate to push peace in Ukraine and Palestine.
If the Democrats field a candidate that is willing to debase themselves with a stupid dance that goes viral, I feel there may be a change of heart. Assuming Trump doesn't manage to run for a third term.
You are right

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna18...
Been 10 years in and around the robotics industry and I'd recommend exactly the opposite. I've assisted companies refuse to work with anything touching ROS. Most successful things I've seen in production that are with ROS use a large non-ROS core with a thin ROS layer on top for compatibility. Companies that do use ROS have needed several times the resources of those that don't, to achieve the same thing.

Usually people get stuck with ROS in commercial environments either because they inherited it from an academic project (company is a spinoff), or they used ROS for a demo and afterwards never planned with long enough roadmaps to make the cost benefit analysis obvious enough.
"and remove"
Not appreciating the hijacking of the back button until the cookie form is dismissed.
Saw this on reddit

" My product is the reason Bambu blocked the API"

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1i4gotq/my_prod...
I don't know if it's a free speech issue but legally speaking it's definitely not a first amendment issue because the law targets foreign corporations and the Constitution doesn't apply to foreign entities
Tolerance for behavior, as long as we don't disagree with it
Meanwhile I edited my comment but we're still agreeing. And adding them for example to embedded systems is additional pain. Example: tram or train electronic boards / screens
Yet another example where git shows its lack of user-friendly design
> Calling people stupid who leveraged an unrivaled technology to build a community and/or a business feels particularly anti-human.

I'm not calling them stupid for that, I'm calling them stupid because they didn't have a back up plan. Public policy should revolve around what they need or want (e.g. I'm sure some farmer somewhere could make a sob story video about how growing opium poppy has been so good for them, so heroin shouldn't be banned, but it's not about him).
They’re confusing the US TikTok subsidiary with ByteDance parent organization. They were only required to sell the subsidiary.

Ironically this would be enforcing the very same law that exists in China, where all companies have to be majority Chinese owned.
Because a lot of the smartest and most interesting people just stopped posting. And frankly I don't blame them. A good chunk of the reason is that the replies are recently much more angry and toxic, which makes the entire platform stressful to use.
You're doing good work on your subreddit!
Time and effort does not a substantial point make.

The post was so shockingly hyperbolic I'm surprised they didn't mention the Chinese were also sapping and impurifying our precious bodily fluids.

What should I even say? It was a borderline schizo sinophobic diatribe asserted without evidence.
That's not really accurate, please see [0]. Many countries have already either partially or fully banned TikTok, the US is hardly the forerunner here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_TikTok