MichaelAza

Yes, they will move fast and they will brake things, and some of those breakages will have catastrophic consequences, and then they can go "whoopsy daisy", face no consequences, and try the same thing again. Very normal, extremely sane way to structure society

The AI summaries are what made me switch. I don't love the idea of using Google products for all the obvious reasons, but they had good UX so that's what I kept using. Enter the AI summaries which made Google search unusable for me, and I was more than happy to pay Kagi

I actually liked that version. I have a fairly verbose "personality" configuration and up to this point it seemed that chatgpt mainly incorporated phrasing from it into the answers. With this update, it actually started following it.

For example, I have "be dry and a little cynical" in there and it routinely starts answers with "let's be dry about this" and then gives a generic answer, but the sycophantic chatgpt was just... Dry and a little cynical. I used it to get book recommendations and it actually threw shade at Google. I asked if that was explicit training by Altman and the model made jokes about him as well. It was refreshing.

I'd say that whatever they rolled out was just much much better at following "personality" instructions, and since the default is being a bit of a sycophant... That's what they got.

From reading the report mentioned in the article, it seems (page 63) that once counterespionage intelligence is shared with police no special provisions exist in the law to protect sources and methods of collection from being exposed in court. Obviously no self respecting domestic security service would take that risk, and the Canadian parliament is rightfully criticized in the report for not doing enough to change the relevant laws

Seems like a plausible explanation. Thanks for explaining it.

Very interesting. If I try to think back, my first hobby project must have been in 10th grade. At that point I very well nearly memorized the C# part of the MSDN, as well as CLR via C# and some other programmimg books (maybe GoF?) but haven't actually written any code that does anything useful. In 10th grade everyone in our class was doing some sort of ASP.NET project for school and a lot of the other students were having trouble with the data layer and SQL stuff, so I decided to code up an ORM (a thing I knew existed, but haven't actually used) and later a utility library for exposing REST APIs which were both used by most of my classmates. It was a fun project. Later projects included a script that tells you where to live based on your public transit needs, a wordle clone for the original GameBoy, and probably other even less useful stuff.

> [Britons beleave Brexit] has hampered government attempts to control immigration

I'm not very well versed in UK politics but what's the narrative behind this? In what way do Britons believe Brexit has made controlling immigration harder? While the ways it has hurt trade and the economy in general are obvious to me (both on the factual level and what I presume Britons believe) I have a hard time imagining what they could possibly think on this subject.

Under Telephone History it says:

> The current PABX-based system went live over the weekend of 27-29th July 1990

A PBX serving a whole country, even a small one, is wild. From what I could find [1] the system used was a UXD5 exchange [2] which is technically a PSTN exchange intended for rural areas and based off the Monarch 120 PBX [3].

The architecture of the UXD5 is common to a lot of telephone exchanges of the time (possibly modern ones as well?) with actor based message passing, actors running on different levels (more real time vs less real time) and a combination of assembly and a high level language (in this case, Coral [4]). Fascinating stuff.

[1] https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cable_wireless_has_contrac...

[2] https://sites.google.com/site/monarchcallconnectsystem/uxd5-...

[3] https://sites.google.com/site/monarchcallconnectsystem/monar...

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORAL

In the same way that you could have the best chair design but without the resources, the wood or the steel or what have you, and without the proper tools to shape them, your idea is still just going to be an idea. Would you say that the wood in this scenario has value in and of itself, beyond the value the worker may imbue into it? How about the tools? We as a society have come to recognize the people who dole out access to resources as providing value, but they don't, neither in principle nor in reality. As I said in my earlier comment, the only value one might ascribe to them is only in picking the best ideas and they obviously don't do that. We obviously need a better way to fund creative ideas for the betterment of all.

It is valuable in the sense that someone productive can extract value from it, i.e. secure funding for a company that may actually produce a product that makes someones life better. That is the same sort of value a natural resource like, say, wood has. It has no value in and of itself, unless imbued with the skillfull work of a productive person. An investor needn't add anything besides capital to the mix. Now, some investors do add expertise or other actual skills of value but that doesn't have anything to do with them being the source of capital, per se. You could argue that investors are proactive in choosing investments that have a good potential for ROI but that doesn't correlate to actual value for actual people, as all the very profitable but very stupid Web 3 and other fad investments show. Sometimes they aren't even profitable, but that's another matter. So yes, investors are as worthless as wool or wood or gold without the time and skill and labor of the worker who preforms the alchemy of transforming this worthless commodity into value.

I have to assume that the answer is suicide which is tragically all too common in the trans community. They are denied basic medical care and the psychological pain is too much to bare. Tragically this mechanism of targeting trans people and, basically, encouraging their suicide is happening or is starting to happen in some western countries as well. I guess the world is united in this at least - hate for queer folk.

I'll note that from my experience as a programmer and a manager the best coders (and best code) was done by the people who "just felt this is the right way". Usually the code produced is exactly good enough for the task at hand, and by creating a code base that can be easily refactored (for example, with lots of automated tests) it can be easily changed later. I always tell my junior programmers who tend to ask a lot of questions and get stuck up on process - code whatever you feel like coding. I trust your judgment. I'll correct you during CR if needed.

I've been seeing the occasional post from his blog about the choice to die but didn't connect them to ZMQ until I saw this.

ZMQ, as a library, is a work of art and Code Connected is by and far one of the best programming books I have had the pleasure to read. That, coupled with the deep and interesting posts on his blog show we have lost a truly great mind.

While I agree that the U.S. and other criminal systems do not stress rehabilitation enough (or at all), the problem with all the things you mentioned aren't rehabilitation-centered.

Civil forfeiture is plain unconstitutional. The legal idea behind it, that property is charged with a crime, and so it doesn't matter if a person is guilty/inocnent or even charged is simply absurd. Plea bargains cause people to plead guilty even if they aren't because they fear the lengthy process of litigation that is many times stacked against them. In doing so they may, depending on juresdiction, lose access to wealfare and other forms of government help that is many times vital to these people. As to losing the abbility to vote after being convicted, it's blatantly undemocratic and absurd. A person convicted of a crime loses some rights but that is done for the benefit of society and the convict himself, to allow hime to rehabilitate and become a productive member of society. A convict shouldn't lose rights if they don't directly contribute to the societies well being or his own. A person voting doesn't constitute a danger to society.

So what is, exactly, the current state of the art in container networking? To the best of my understanding all current solutions (including this one) create one big LAN where all containers can see each other, but I'm certainly no expert.

How would one go about creating a network of containers more in line with traditional physical networks, with virtual switches, routers etc. ?

Just got a pull request from the bot, and thought this was worth sharing. Now we only need a bot that scans for common code smells and we're golden :)

This is a horrible, horrible idea. I mean, people are already using platforms like Facebook to bully people, not caring it's done in public and under their real name. Now there's a platform optimised ror that mode of interaction. I hope the founders are simply cynically using the shock value to make a quick buck and don't actually think it's a good idea.

Is there an option to mark specific parts of the image for redaction, beyond what is autodetected? I assume the system can't recognize some forms of identifiable information e.g. addressees or phone numbers

On the contrary, I'm quite interested and impressed by the technical quality of the project. I'm pointing out that throwing all first principles out of the window, even when its clearly unnecessary (renaming the ASCII characters) makes it harder to approach for no good reason.

Well, as I see it, the design of Hoon is definetly different for the sake of being different, syntax wise and considering the pronounciation guide. Using new terminology where existing terminology will suffice (off the to of my head, twig and span) is different for the sake of being different.

I always think of TempleOS as well. Both project maintainers have created some impressive and/or interesting technology that is hindered by inflated self importance and being different for the sake of being different. Another common point - HN has a soft spot for both and upvotes most content related to these projects.

Two questions:

* If the info there is as outdated as you say, where could one find a reasonably complete and up to date intro to car computer technology?

* Are there any tools out there that can be used for simulating a car network (CAN bus, ECU etc.) for lab purposes?

Interesting, didn't know that was valid usage. You learn something every day.

I'm sorry, "fishes"? Shouldn't that be "fish"?

AFAIK, capactive touch screens are permisable from a Jewish law standpoint. For example [1] which is a phone for use on shabbat and uses capactive buttons to avoid closing a circuit.

[1] http://www.zomet.org.il/eng/?CategoryID=249&ArticleID=99

I'm a non-observant Jew and have several observant friends. I always joke with them that Jews are the first hackers, finding ways to circumvent their own religious laws.

Some other clever hacks "exploited" by Jews over the years:

* Say a door needs to be opened by a button. For some reason which I can't quite remember right now, you can't just press the button to open the door, but say that after you press the button there is a random wait befroe the door is opened, then it's OK.

* You can't light fire on shabbat and, by some logic, that also means you can't close an electrical circuit. But say you have a door that requires a keycard to open. You can't put the keycard next to the reader because that will cause a circuit to close but if you were to press a button that turns off the card reader for some random amount of time (which is OK) and then just happen to put your card in range, when the reader turns itself back on it will recognize your card and open the door.

* You can't create permanent things on shabbat and that includes writing. But, say you have to write for some reason - you use a shbbat pan with ink that evaporates after several days (hence, is non-permanent).

There are lots of theese hacks, and even a whole R&D center dedicated to them[1] in Israel. Funny stuff.

[1] http://www.zomet.org.il/ (Hebrew)

I propose a law of esoteric langauges:

If there exists, in popular culture, a character with a comically limited vocabulary (e.g. Groot, The Librarian in Discworld) then there shall be a Brainfuck variant based on its vocabulary. (In our example, Grootlang and Ook)

These classifications are amazing but the fact that the first image in the article is classified as "a dog wearing a wide-brimmed hat" and not as "a chihuahua wearing a sombrero" is telling of how far we are from true understanding of images.

Only a human possessed with the relevant cultural stereotypes (chihuahua implies Mexican, ergo, the hat must be a sombrero) could make that conclusion.

Even so, I firmly believe that at this rate of improvement, we're not far from that kind of deep understanding.

A lot of the terminology here is different just for the sake of being different, I think. That, along with the feeling the author believes himself to be some sort of genius, kinda remind me of Urbit and TempleOS (google at your own peril).

Interestingly enough, all three projects seem to get some level of respect from HN, for reasons that are beyond me.

This is really cool. Both referenced tools (PANDA and Volatility) seem awesome.

I have some experience with IDA and Olly, but learning about new tools is always nice. Any resources you guys recommend on the subject of reversing?