skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One sees less of that, since apparently, when a government with strong leftist signaling does the same or worse, it's all for a decent if slightly misguided cause perhaps.

I'm wondering what they're talking about, since it seems like all mainstream media in the US already do what they claim?

For example, everything bad that happens in China/North Korea gets reported in the US, usually with no regard of if it's true or a baseless conspiracy theory, even good things such as constructing a billion miles of high speed rail per hour or turning deserts green is reported with headlines suggesting that you should think it's a bad thing.

So maybe they meant something that filters out sensationalism and misinformation and sticks to just the facts? Good luck fact checking the narrative NATO wants you to know without learning the languages of every "leftist" government of interest to you, and also not falling into somewhat obscure media outlets that are more often reactively contrarian to NATO propaganda rather than downstream of strong primary sources.
They can demand whatever they want, it doesn't mean their demands should or will be respected.

The UK only has ~70 million people.
Because it's micromanagement.
If I had to put one thing as the major boost in difficulty it'd be the crew rating. It's a lot easier to build a craft when it doesn't need to hold and maintain a breathable atmosphere.
> Trump rather infamously stood up at a press conference and said, in effect, he trusted Putin more than his own intelligence agencies.

Words are not policy.

Biden stopped selling weapons to Ukraine and removed sanctions on Nord stream 2.
DeepSeek is not a model.Which model did you use (v3 ? R1 ? a distillation ?) at which quantization ?
Then you have a very easily confused process yourself. They did not make such a declarative statement as you suggest. They just said that blocking them is still a good idea even though it's not going to stop Meta from knowing about you. Being able to see the details in someone's comment is easier when you don't have a preconceived agenda
But they can still notify the public, through those canary statements. (I forgot the name commonly used).

For example (a simplistic one), you can have a statement like "we do not have any backdoors in our software" added to your legal documents (TOS, etc). But once a backdoor is added, you are compelled by your lawyers to remove that statement. So you aren't disclosing that you have added a backdoor. You're just updating your legal documents to make accurate claims.
That's an employer telling employees what to do? Google can tell the same thing to it's employees and does. I don't see the relevance to the government telling other entities what to do.
Well, we'll see how will it generate value and for whom.
Given that government lawyers are unable to answer questions about who has access and what they're doing with it, I'd say that point has come and gone.

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"I'm not sure that is accurate, and I just don't have -- I'm not, I just don't have the information necessarily," Humphreys responded.
Console meets cartridge: Breaking down the architecture of NES's unique design
Government experts have a rather poor track record when arguing some point in the media.
It's an oligarchy, always has been. I don't know how colossal the pile of evidence supporting this has to get before people finally accept it.
The realization sets in that the whole culture war of the abstract on the ornamental, migtht boil down to avoiding having to draw till your hands fell off.
Middle eastern monarchies are currently better than Russian "democracy". If you had asked me 30 years ago I would have said differently. If you ask again in 30 years I have no idea what I will say. The US likewise has good and bad points and exactly how they come to play changes over time. There is a lot to dislike about the EU as well which anyone living there should be concerned about more than the US (though since I live in the US I worry more about the US - I have a chance to change it maybe)
This article is highly tech relevant and should not be flagged.
Western academia got pumped chock full of former soviet bloc professionals after the walls fell so a generation of urban planners and other professionals spent their education hearing a fair bit about that kind of construction and planning.
Jean-Claude Pressac, the Holocaust denier who changed his mind
You're right. Dumping refers to international trade. I believe parent commenter was thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
My understanding is the old Photoshop was pretty bad. I went through a phase of being a student of file formats and the PSD format is practically a case study in how not to do it. (By my metrics, PDF was excellent for its time; they've been able to cram so much crazy stuff into PDF because the foundation is good)

When I first used it on a Mac circa '95 or '96, it felt like a legacy product when I was using it for web work because the color management features intended for print meant it would always screw the colors up if you output for the web [1] if you didn't disable color management, whereas the GIMP 'just worked' because it didn't color manage. [2]

To play devil's advocate, the old Photoshop was a huge lump sum which meant you'd buy one version and then go six years without updating it. The new one is more accessible to people. Also, I find the A.I. features in Photoshop pretty useful, it is easier than ever to zap things out of images: it took just seconds to disappear a cable in [3] for which the older tools didn't work so well. For [4] it removed a splotch and later I had it add a row of bricks to the bottom to improve the visual balance of the image.

Note people sure complained about Office in the '95 era, see [5]

[1] sRGB was new!

[2] Funny I do a lot of work for print now, some of which pushes the boundaries of color management, such as making red-cyan anaglyph stereograms

[3] https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social/post/3lh7qqbqra22y

[4] https://mastodon.social/@UP8/110607460518784045

[5] https://www.amazon.com/Office-97-Annoyances-Lee-Hudspeth/dp/...
If the world has taught me anything, it's that nothing is permanent, and nothing is perfect. Forums from days of yore are littered with tinybucket 404 pictures and anonymous Imgur images are gone. We like to imagine that the internet will stay the way it is forever, but I dont believe it. Free internet services like email, file uploads, etc. wont last forever. The idea is amazing, and exactly what we need for a constantly changing internet, but the only thing that is forever is nothingness.
> Spread the entire budget out, all expenses line by line for all to see, and may they survive or be culled based solely upon their merits in the eyes of the American people.

What do you envision this looks like? To my mind this is already done. For example, here's the appendix to the FY2018 budget: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BUDGET-2018-APP/pdf/BUDG...

Note that the appendix is described thusly:

"Contains detailed information on the various appropriations and funds that constitute the budget and is designed primarily for the use of the Appropriations Committees. The Appendix contains more detailed financial information on individual programs and appropriation accounts than any of the other budget documents. It includes for each agency: the proposed text of appropriations language; budget schedules for each account; legislative proposals; explanations of the work to be performed and the funds needed; and proposed general provisions applicable to the appropriations of entire agencies or group of agencies. Information is also provided on certain activities whose transactions are not part of the budget totals."

I feel like a lot of people clamor for this and it's right there for everyone to read. Not that I expect citizens to read >1,000 pages of budget information alone every year: I certainly don't. But let's not pretend the information isn't there for people who want it.
Baltic countries disconnect from the Russian power grid
On Saturday (8th of Feb), Baltic countries will disconnect from the Russian power grid and synchronise with the Continental European electricity system. They will operate in "island mode" for 33 hours, and then synchronize with the European grid frequency.

The frequency is a key parameter of the grid. If there is too much load, it goes down, and if there is too much production it goes up. A lot of critical grid infrastructure relies on the frequency being in the 49.5-50.5 Hz range.

I built a tool together with some colleagues to track the grid frequency in real time during this operation over the past few days to follow this process in real time!

If you're curious for more details, there is also a great post on the Estonian TSO's website about the process:
https://elering.ee/en/synchronization-continental-europe
Can you offer an example of someone being jailed for "disagreeing with the extreme left on social media," or is this an alternative fact that you've acquired via osmosis?

I am aware of people being jailed in the UK for making terrorist threats on social media, and arguably those prosecutions were inappropriate, but that doesn't appear to be what you're claiming.
I think Europeans are unprepared for the dangers of peace breaking out in Eastern Europe and what that entails.
The employer is the US federal government, in this case.
I’d like one source please
Bounds checking exists at very least since JOVIAL in 1958, or if you consider FORTRAN compilers have add an option for bounds checking for quite some time, 1957.

Here is my favourite quote, every time we discuss bounds checking.

"A consequence of this principle is that every occurrence of every subscript of every subscripted variable was on every occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared bounds of the array. Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980 language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."

-- C.A.R Hoare's "The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture"

Guess what programming language he is referring to by "1980 language designers and users have not learned this lesson".
One of my all-time favorites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41595924
Great, what about people that cannot install blockers?

What about sites that sell the data they collect to Meta? If you think Meta's trackers are the only way Meta collects data, then you just need to learn more about data collection.
> And yes, I have spent time in Mexico City, and nobody got in my face for saying “soy Americano”.

Oh but you can basically guarantee there's an inner eye roll everytime you call yourself Americano. Estadounidense works, as Estados Unidos Mexicanos is largely not in use, and Mexicano(a) is the prefered term.

It's not a different mental model, it's just a mis translation. In Spanish saying "soy Americano" translates to 'I am from the Americas'. That's why the preference is to just use Estadounidense. It effectively means that US people are wrong if they say 'soy Americano' in Spanish, and Latin Americans are wrong for saying 'I am American' is wrong in english.
What is the interpretation of "cancer" in this context that isn't rude, offensive, or hostile to the R4L project?
They might even have gotten away with legitimate use argument if it was not seeded.
One mistake that bitten me a couple of times is not to reseed after fork(). AFAIR Perl calls srand automatically on fork, and I've been surprised that ruby at circa version 1.8 - didn't, which gave me quite some interesting behavior on production.

I'm sure some other runtimes don't do it, too.
That one is tough, because they are blind to the risk. I try to only work with people who have been burned before or have been around long enough to have seen the aftermath. Let me guess, they are probably telling you "show me the vulnerability", but refuse to delay shipping or fund the PoC.

Best advice is to communicate in writing the most likely risk and threat scenarios, with as much data or extrapolated data as possible. When the security flaws are later discovered, that is data you can refer to.

From what I read, this is what Zoom was like early on. They had amateur hour security and then when s*t hit the fan they beefed it up and retained a security team. I guess you could say it worked for them?
Yes, perhaps a C-only Linux would do that and die, and perhaps it would continue its customization of C flavor and runtime it uses (e.g., the various static and dynamic memory limitations and checkers) and closes the gap with Rust to a point where the incremental benefit of using it is not significant enough that it makes a Rust based competitor an inevitability. We may already be beyond that point, even.
For those who don't know -- Boca Raton, Florida is well known in the US as a major center of scams and borderline-scams like MLMs. Utah has a history of being a home for this stuff too, as well as a lot of quack supplement companies and self-help nonsense.

Just pointing this out so we don't think this doesn't exist here.
The hotel and taxi industry were legit terrible before those two disrupted them.

Laws are ment to be broken. Especially in cronist systems where incumbents write the laws.
Humans and other animals with cognition have the ability to form theories about the minds of others and can anticipate their reactions.

I don’t know if vector spaces and transformers can encode that ability.

It’s a key skill in thinking and writing. I definitely tailor my writing for my audience in order to get a point across. Often the goal isn't simply an answer, it’s a convincing answer.

Update: forgot a word
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Creating parsers which entirely ignore parts of the input is generally a bad idea, because you lose the ability to round-trip. That is, it's often a desirable property to have a way to go text1 -> DOM -> text2, and have text2 be identical to text1, or at least very close to it. This is particularly true for markup languages, which intermix text and tags.
> LibGen gives you access to a much smaller body of works than either of those.

> Just go to a real library.

The thrill of waiting a week for a book to arrive or navigating the labyrinthine interlibrary loan system is truly a privilege that many can afford. And who needs instant access to knowledge when you can have the pleasure of paying for shipping or commuting to a physical library?

It's also fascinating that you mention compensating authors, as if the current publishing model is a paragon of fairness and equity. I'm sure the authors are just thrilled to receive their meager royalties while the rest of the industry reaps the benefits.

LibGen, on the other hand, is a quaint little website that only offers access to a vast, sprawling library of texts, completely free of charge and accessible to anyone with an internet connection. I'm sure it's totally insignificant compared to the robust and equitable systems you mentioned.

Your suggestion to "just go to a real library" is also a brilliant solution, assuming that everyone has the luxury of living near a well-stocked library, having the time and resources to visit it, and not having any other obligations or responsibilities. I'm sure it's not at all a tone-deaf, out-of-touch recommendation.
they have lot of 50% off deals throughout the year, especially towards the end of the year
you are located in Berlin and happy that estonians will pay x5 for electricity?
Hierarchical Political Power and the Value of Cash Holdings
Reminds me of the line. People layed into that idea- because its a dysfunctional arcology - but its actually a statistic bunker- pretty OP when you expect your people to survive regional nuclear exchanges.
Empirically, human-flipped coins have about a 1% bias toward the same side they started on: https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/math-history/hap7-fifty-o...
Depression and disengagement?
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Lack of official standards, lack of certifications (not everywhere thankfully), and the relative youth of software as a profession all lead to a bit of a "will wild west" industry. I don't fault the developers themselves mind you, but it will take time (probably a few decades) for things to settle.
This is one of the best cases of "username checks out" that I've ever seen.
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Yeah I do actually relate a lot to what you're saying. I should emphasise though that such individuals may still be worth reaching. I don't think most people stay lost causes indefinitely. But you have to break down the desire to support authoritarianism first before it makes sense to tackle digital privacy.

Unfortunately that just means there's a lot more sticky work untangling the kind of tribalistic politics we find ourselves in today.
This. Few people here would remember ebooksclub/gigapedia/smiley/library.nu [1] which predated LibGen by several years. But that online library had a lot of books that are not availble nowadays. There were lots of scanned books (djvu) that people uploaded. So much lost knowledge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library.nu
Probably a manouver to make them look good but also privately complying anyway.
I really hope so. I would love to see that showdown. Hopefully, "can't buy an iPhone in the UK and everyone knows why" makes the Snooper's Charter a radioactive mess that legislators fall all over themselves to repeal.
lightroom's UI/UX is trash compared to captureone, your productivity will skyrocket once you get to know C1. the company has lots of good videos where you can learn the whole program in 1-2 days.
Shame though that corpos aren't responsible for their actions too :|
It's all equivalent to me. C is code that targets the C "abstract machine". LLVM IR targets an "abstract machine". "Binary" also targets a abstract machine that may happen to have a hardware implementation.
Will big data lift the veil of ignorance?
It seems to me like elevator shafts with a single elevator going up and down is somewhat of a waste of building volume, with limited throughput similar to that of single-track railway.

Couldn't a smaller number of shafts move a greater amount of people using one-way traffic, paternoster-style?
14 Years of Systemd
And because of the way Android updates are controlled by the carrier, who knows how many weeks/months it'll be until a phone will actually get the patch
I like that analogy, rules are pipes through which behavior flows.
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That is just China's general rules around tech. Awful? Yes. But not a global issue. Most non-chinese companies are forced to have their chinese properties ran by a chinese company.
This is shown by companies like VW having cars made in china with effectively a license model, these cars are designed and built by a third party with a few interesting exceptions (VW actually licensed a design, the Taos, back and shipped it worldwide)

The insane overreach was the UK wanting data on people not in the UK
"The reason so many movies look like this is because the filmmakers are trying hard to make the lighting realistic to the environment."

Good for them. There are many reasons why movies stopped being interesting to me over the past several years, and this lighting problem is one of them.
Normal applications do not completely replace themselves every time they are run. I hope you can see the difference. It's easy to see that the files in an actual application running on your OS don't change. It's much harder when there are no files and everything is downloaded anew every time you start the application.

Totally different than "automatic updates" of actual applications.
> I thought we were making progress in the anti-surveillance privacy narrative, but this says otherwise.

I think we are perhaps the lowest point ever in terms of anti-surveillance efforts. There seems to be bipartisan effort among many (most?) western governments that the government should have unfettered access to all data, regardless of any reasonable expectation of privacy.

Encryption seems barely tolerated these days. Governments are insisting on backdoors, they are making it illegal in some cases for companies to even discuss what is going on or that monitoring is happening.

We barely know what is going on with the programs and efforts that get leaked to the media, much less the programs that operate in total secret.
The Mythical Silver Bullet
Keeping it in a designated place, where you have to go to look for it deliberately? Like yellow pages, as suggested? Sounds good to me.

When advertising was new, people really liked it. It sold newspapers, it was the thing people wanted before news.
I quite enjoyed the “in our neighborhood” bit ;)
Historically, volcano ejecta have caused far more devastation than asteroid impacts
Musk's move fast and break things mantra won't work in US.gov
In this very post, the EFF premise is that you are upset about Meta’s shift to less censorship. Meta’s new policies are a win for free speech.
A Mind Forever Voyaging was way ahead of its time.
Pelgrane Press has a wonderful Yellow King role-playing game (tabletop) that would be worth checking out if you're a fan of TTRPGs, stories and other related media.
Social media ban for under 16s is the latest half witted idea enacted by the government here.