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While the persons mentionned in the articles are indubitably most of the most well-informed people in the world. They are also the most likely to have internalized that their work is leading to superhuman intelligence/AGI. But is it really realistic ?

So they have a strong bias towards imagining the most catastrophic scenario.

With uBlock Origin no redirection, it's a fine article.

Gouvernement using social networks to fight or do foreign influence campaign is not exactly the same thing. This is covert propaganda, or the government targeting its own citizen, in a domestic influence campaign. Much more problematic in its concept.

On mobile it shows a zoomed in version of the image. It shows the small details even more. I was not really agreeing with the author on the superiority of Enlarger.

With the full images, the comparison is much more to the advantage of Enlarger.

Interesting but it feels like giving an agent the HTTP protocol documentation and a raw socket tool instead of curl, to make requests. Very wasteful in tokens and ultimately computation.

This is of course because we are limited to using agents interactively to avoid paying the API rates. An agent harness with this integrated would be much more efficient.

The comparison only starts to make sense in a post-work society where there is no working-class, whose existence depends on working.

Unfortunately these companies are working to eliminate jobs, but not in any way making a path for a transition to a post-work society.

I have been made aware of ReFS thanks to the "Dev drive"[1] technology in Win11. ReFS is apparently particularly suited to store source code and code artifacts for dev workloads.

I have been using it (dedicated DevDrive partition) for some time but performance improvement are subtle and not easily visible without measurements. Which I haven't done.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

Mozilla is a hot topic around here. The Mozilla Foundation recently made this survey, HN might be interested in telling what they think.

I agree about the importance of better infrastructure but I had to check this 50% loss number.

Water distribution efficiency in France was actually 81.5% in 2021.[1] Which means 18.5% is lost to leaks. The figure often given is 20%, maybe taking into account the error margins of the studies.

According to another study from 2019 [2], it's actually similarly or more efficient than other rich countries in Europe (losses of 21% in the UK, Belgium 27%, Italy 34%). The author of the study says that according to experts reaching efficiency above 85% is extremely difficult. [2]

[1] https://www.services.eaufrance.fr/rapport-national (Synthese, p.2)

[2] Good article about the study (link to PDF inside) : https://www.banquedesterritoires.fr/distribution-deau-20-de-...

Mandating that the takedown go through this agency means states won't be able to hire private companies specialising in takedowns (and faster). Takedowns take way longer, which hurts the children.

I believe they are a for-profit company. You can also check their financial reports : https://tab.gladly.io/financials/2021-Q4.pdf

Only 30% goes to charity. They would not be well rated on Charity Navigator (if they were a nonprofit).

Also, the business model is displaying ads on the new tag page so you also give up your personal data.

All in all, I am not convinced.

This is a very common complaint on the internet, the introductory paragraphs of recipe blogs.

Yet, when I am looking for a recipe, I always look for the blogs. Why ? Because the alternative is a commercial website full of ads and trackers, trying to upsell me on paid features on every page.

Yes I have to scroll past an uninteresting paragraph, but it's much better than the alternative.

This new website might be more respectful of my privacy now, but it is yet to be seen what will change when/if they need to monetize it.

Looks nice and very extensive.

It looks like it's based on the Feather[1] icon set (MIT licensed so all good license-wise).

Personally, I have been using the Lucide [2] icon set, which is also based on Feather. And it does not hide it.

- Feather: 287 icons

- Lucide: 593 icons

- Tabler : 1919 icons

[1] https://github.com/feathericons/feather [2] https://github.com/lucide-icons/lucide

Nice game, but the server may be overloaded right now. It is possible to be in 2 games at once (and losing both).

A bug made my game end as if the opponent had quit, I went back to the menu and started another one. Made one or 2 moves and then I was back in the game I had just quit, where my opponent was still playing. Of course I was AFK for 1 turn (playing the other game) so my position was revealed. Then I was switched back to the other game where I had also appeared AFK for a turn.

I thought it was an app to match people that want an half loaf so they can share a full loaf of bread. That would be innovative.

But no, it only searches store inventories for half-loaves for sale.

I love the laser focus on half-loaves anyway.

I cant use it either (mostly because it's Mac only and also because of the sign-in requirement), but at least they are transparent about it :

https://docs.warp.dev/getting-started/getting-started-with-w...

https://docs.warp.dev/getting-started/privacy

Not impressed, it can deduct gender, age and accent (with biases) but calling the portrait 'accurate' is clickbait. All the use-cases we are told about (like police sketch) are totally irrealstic. The portraits look "realistic" but they do not look like the model . They look like a different person with the same ethnicity, similar age and gender. With biases, again...

I love the 'usa' in every classes !

You can't forget where you come from when you are putting 'usa-checkboxes' into 'usa-fieldsets' into 'usa-forms' !

At least it's shorter than 'america' !

They are a GCP support team that Google is outsourcing. Fired to be replaced by contractors, to reduce costs.

IMHO a bad way to treat your workforce.

Given Google is not in financial difficulty and these employees were not at fault of anything, this layoff would have been illegal in France.

If these employees were not contractors or on a short-term contract, this layoff could easily be contested and Google would have to pay up to 1 month's pay per year worked at Google (minimum 3 month's pays)

Google could have negotiated with the employees to end the contract at a better price.

To widen your perspectives.

Yes ! Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT)[1] exist in most countries and publish security advisories as newsletters or RSS. e.g. CERT-EU security advisories [2]

But there are so many softwares and exploits that the signal to noise ratio is low if you are not in charge of a big IT infra.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_emergency_response_...

[2] https://cert.europa.eu/cert/newsletter/en/latest_SecurityBul...

When you read this with the classical crypto-skeptic arguments in mind, it's hard not to "cringe". How can "Rare Pepes" and "Crypto-kitties" be the reason you invest in a teghnology ? And yet those investments must have been highly profitable.

I am still a crypto-skeptic but I wonder if in the future my tendency to over-analyze (based on intuition and generalist tech knowledge) will make me overlook a truly revolutionary innovation.

Am I wrong about crypto ? Will the metaverse be this tech I overlooked ?

Maybe this article is right and I should keep it simple. Trust the hype and stop worrying ?

I visited improving.duckduckgo.com and they are linking to this article[0] that explains how this domain hosts an "anonymous tracking pixel" (that respects DDG privacy policy) to collect data on how DDG is used (feature usage, A/B testing etc)

But it does not tell how it could end up on other domains. Are you sure it is not part of the DDG result page or extension ?

I use uBlock so I do not check every request.

[0] https://help.duckduckgo.com/privacy/atb/

By the way, you are including a lot of useless files and binary files in your git repository. (.egg folder, pycache, pyc files). They make your repo very heavy. Take a look at this example .gitignore : https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Python.gitigno...

Offtopic but there is a strange bug on this website when browsing to another article through the "previous" and "next" buttons at the bottom of the page. The displayed title changes as expected but the content doesn't.

I was able to see the same content titled as "Beam..." then "Announcing Vitess 13" when switching to previous. And when switching tab and back, the page was displaying "Beam..." but the content was about Vitess 13.

> Another argument is that crypto enables ransomware attacks. This to me sounds akin to saying “encryption enables child exploitation”. I.e. it focuses on one abhorrent element of society that would take place no matter what and blames its existence on a system which has great potential for good, a kind of propagandist thinking.

You are biased too. How about comparing "crypto enables ransomware" to "unregulated gun sales enable mass shootings" ? Most western countries have regulated gun sales to avoid mass shootings, it works and the people sees this as a positive thing.

OK, it's controversial so replace "gun" with something else that is forbidden in the US for the greater good.

Compared to "guns for everyone", encryption has a lot of usages that are necessary (and beneficial). That's why banning encryption on the pretense of child exploitation is a mistake.

What does crypto bring to the table that is as necessary and beneficial as encryption ? Is it more like encryption or more like guns ?

On the other hand you also have to compare the bad side : is enabling ransomware as bad as enabling child exploitation or mass shootings ? (certainly not).

Thanks, I learned about Websub today. I love reading about all the "relatively new" web standards around decentralization.

If I understood correctly, one has to publish their topic so that others can sub through this hub ? Or can I use this hub with any publisher ?

Edit : after thinkin about it more, it could be that you publish for every change. The hub then validates the topic URL has changed to send an update.

About that streamlit. On Firefox for Android it doesn't work and displays a "Oh no" error message. I checked other streamlit examples from the streamlit front page and they worked. So yours is broken somehow.

Learning by example is a thing in math too. Learning theorems and methods is not sufficient, they are tools and you need training to master them. Not everyone is able to generalize from one class example to other situations. For that you need to work with other examples. Not only the problems, the answers too.

Also if no one liked this course there is certainly a problem that can't be dismissed in a handwave like you did in your answer.

Don't forget Apache Atlas (Data Gouvernance framework). Very popular name !