skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have zero faith in P2P video distribution until copyright liability for watching those videos is shifted off of individuals.

Right now, using something like PeerTube is taking your life into your hands. Look at all of the copyright nonsense that hits otherwise legitimate YouTube channels, and now imagine that they get to sue everyone who watched the video, too.

Centralized services can rely on DMCA 512 for liability limitation; and individual viewers almost certainly do not have copyright liability for merely watching a video on a central service. At the very least, you'd have to subpoena the service to get an IP address, and then subpoena the ISP to get at DHCP logs, and then argue to a court that a user that the temporary copies involved with merely watching a video had infringed your copyright.

When you join a swarm that shares a file, you just broadcast that IP address directly to the person who's going to sue you. That's how these networks work. There's a cottage industry of firms that deliberately "leak" their content to BitTorrent and then sue whoever downloads it; that also applies with PeerTube, IPFS, etc. You don't get DMCA 512 liability limitation because it's your own copyright liability. Furthermore it's easier to argue that someone in a P2P swarm has infringed copyright as there's uploading - further copying - involved. So both practically and theoretically speaking it's far easier to get sued in a P2P system.

Also, P2P video is terrible for mobile use-cases. Mobile devices are leeches in a P2P system - they don't have access to unlimited power like a desktop does. So you either flatten the batteries of everyone on phones, or you detect the use of a battery and lose the benefit of the swarm.
Germany pushes back on Vaccine IP Waiver
Software Engineering at Google [pdf]
> Unsafe is dangerous and requires care, but unsafe == evil is definitely not true.

The quote doesn't say it will unleash indescribable horrors. Just that it provides no warranty that it won't. That's entirely fair considering what optimizing compilers will do when you break a contract.
So it doesn't say unsafe == evil. It just says evil things may or may not happen when you use unsafe.
That 32-bit price format is in the message protocol used by many NASDAQ customers.[1] The spec, though, says "Prices are integer fields,supplied with an associated precision. When converted to a decimal format, prices are in fixed point format, where the precision defines the number of decimal places. For example,a field flagged as Price(4) has an implied 4 decimal places. The maximum value of price(4) in Total View-•-ITCH is 200,000.0000 (decimal, 77359400 hex)."

This is a feed used in high-frequency trading. It's fixed format and intended to be read by FPGAs. Sent over UDP.

I wonder what they've been doing for BRK.A for that feed.

[1] http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/content/technicalsupport/specifi...
Correct.

It's not a fatal flaw in terms of building a perfectly serviceable structure.

It's a fatal flaw in terms of building a structure that lasts the ages like the pyramids.

Like all engineering problems, the solution is greatly dependent on your goals.
> Business users looooove drag and drop. I've seen products burn a stupid amount of money to have it, and decision-makers insisting it was a must-have no matter the cost

This just made me laugh because it is so true. I thought it was just my stupid luck that I keep working with companies obsessed with drag and drop. But you are right. I have seen companies blow hundreds of thousands of dollars implementing drag and drop on a trivial feature. The same company will then complain about spending a few thousand dollars implementing a security feature or implementing training programs to teach employees about the importance of securely handling PII.

Edit: PII = Personal Identifiable Information (social security numbers, credit cards, birthdates, etc).
That's exactly right. I've seen zero products where the blockchain is a compelling value ad, with the exception of:

- it makes it easier to raise capital by claiming that what you are doing involves crypto, because then you get crypto-type valuations

- you can get money from people who want to speculate
Depends on the drive. Sometimes it really is the NAND getting too hot.
Identify the problems first. Everyone is searching for a solution when half the time they don't even know what the problems are.

Sure, releases might be slow. Why, though? Is it because you're not letting your engineers fix broken windows? How long does it take for PRs to get reviewed? If a long time, why? Do your engineers even know how to make proper commits? Are your PRs more than about 100 changes on average? Are you building your product from a prototype a non-programmer made? etc.

There is no silver bullet, period. Searching for one indicates you're looking for workarounds to fundamental issues on your team.
I’m glad you wrote this, my favorite part coming up is when they pretend a MySQL database would be better for cross chain yield farming
Traditionally, podcasts worked like radio and everyone got the same ad. Recently, people have been trying to "innovate" by ruining podcasts like how the web was ruined and use dynamic ad insertion. AFAICT, it still hasn't totally caught on yet. Anecdotally, I used to hear it on one of my shows, but then they changed networks and it went away.
The link here between the individual psychology and the broad political thrust seems very unclear to me. I haf the feeling of having a bias confirmed with very tenuous logic.
Over 100 officers were injured in the riots. It doesn't have to have killed people for it have been a violent riot.
Very ironic that I had to scroll through an ad midway through that article.
You seem to be describing exactly what I said. They are trying to get around the law, and trying to get around the intent of the law.

So the aim is to break the intent of the law. Laws that were put there on purpose.

So I really don't understand what you mean by "nah". It's exactly that. Company sees the law, says "that's dumb, I'm going to break that but in a complicated way" and then does breaks it using what they consider a loophole.

"Nah"? No, you exactly agree.

> In finance, ignorance of the law is an excuse

Yet you can also get convicted for tax fraud without having intent.

And the flip side of what you said is also that (depending on jurisdiction) it can be illegal to do something legal, if your motive was to get around the intent of the law. Using loopholes can be illegal, even though the act is legal.

> This also means that each and every project has to recreate the legal guidance, until Congress explicitly makes a safe harbor route a default regulatory regime.

This is just delusional. I think you forgot who has the guns.
“Make sure it doesn’t catch the exception” is like “make sure it doesn’t do a tap dance” - there are quite a few things a function could do, we don’t generally ask unit testing to prove negatives.
Trees take decades to start capturing serious amount of carbon and it levels off when trees mature. Unless you cut them and plant new, of course. And don't burn the resulting wood.

Also, trees cost at minimum the value of property that they are growing on. If we had infinite amount of land that we could use for just trees, we would never have to talk about climate change, but that's not the case.
Somewhat related:

I always find myself clearing the drive in order to install the latest macOS. Perhaps psychological, but it always gives me a fresh starting point that is benefited by an implicit boost in performance. While it does require some time for setup, and much of what I do is manual, I never regret it --almost like spring cleaning.
Buffet has said before that it's intentionally high to keep out short-term traders and inexperienced traders. He wants investors who will hold for long terms. If the price is so high, there's only a particular clientele that can afford to buy it.

They do have a different code of class b stock that is more affordable.
Hong Kong's Joshua Wong handed extra jail time for Tiananmen vigil
As bad as male circumcision can be, female circumcision is next level terrible. A Google points Wikipedia to an entry for “Female Genital Mutilation” which seems appropriate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation
> The U.S. stock with the second-highest share price, home builder NVR Inc., is trading just above $5,100 a share.

Exchanges have a minimum stock price requirement for a stock to be listed. Seems reasonable that they should have a maximum too instead of redesigning the system for a single outlier.
There are two defaults: web default and OS default. I can understand the default default(!) being the web, at least then it looks consistent across platforms.
The Truth About Mental Models
Ah those humans with their sunny day privileges. Don't you think about all those who live in the UK?
Had the thought before. I think it's self delusion to think this would be true unless we think of humans being designed/modified machines and dreams/meditation are the console.
Discussion from the last time this was posted in 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099835

Also the macOS Security and Privacy Guide may be of interest

https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

as discussed on HN last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24242890
Provocative. What he describes as TIV seems like a transparent proxy for sadism and some other dark personality traits and disorders.

We get what we reward, kids do what works for them, and while there is a massive amount of prior art on solutions to mitigating this, I think we're in a spot where we never thought there would be such an acute need to explain to adults what this issue is, and so we've been culturally backfooted in producing critical tools for dealing with it.
I'm not OP, but I've stopped using Google products as much as possible, and browse the internet with Firefox and uMatrix. There are very few physical world ads where I live, due to local restrictions. The only ads I see these days are sponsored posts when I open Instagram, and I'm doing that less and less because in my experience 80% of the content on Instagram is either a sponsored post or cheap low-quality recommended posts, and only 20% are the friends that I follow.

My point is, it's not impossible to avoid ads these days.
Make Berskshire Hathaway stock priced in 1/100th unit instead of 1/10,000th unit and the stock price can go 100 times higher and you don't have to change the existing data feeds - which would be quite expensive. All you have to do is send everyone the message that this stock symbol is priced in 1/100 units instead of 1/10000. Seems to me this would be the least-intrusive solution.
The word is "Attempt". It doesn't need to be anywhere near successful for it to have been an attempted coup. Rioters acting with the hope of disrupting the transfer of power. That's all that matters in correctly labelling the event.
It's actually not that hard to get an intuitive understanding of QM even as an adult. The key is having the right pedagogy, which is very rare. IMHO the key to the right pedagogy is just one crucial insight: the wave function lives in configuration space, not in physical space. How physical space emerges from configuration space is a deep mystery. No one knows. But it is CRUCIAL not to conflate these two things. Most "quantum weirdness" is simply a result of confusing them.

It is also important to understand that the reason these things are often conflated is that much of what is (or at least used to be before quantum computation became a thing) taught as quantum mechanics focuses on the special case of a single particle considered in isolation. In that one special case -- and ONLY in that one special case -- configuration space is the same as (or at least isomorphic to) physical space. But as soon as you add a second particle, that stops being true.

So the key to understanding QM is to START with the multi-particle case. This is actually easier than the single particle case because it forces you to set aside a lot of the things that make quantum mechanics difficult in general and focus on the thing that makes it hard to wrap your brain around: entanglement. But the reason that entanglement is hard to wrap your brain around is that it's weird when considered from the point of view of physical space. If you start with multi-particle systems, that forces you to start with configuration space, and that gets you past the hard part right from the start. After that it's just math.
Lofty AI looking for feedback on new idea
Maybe they should implement photo ID, to stop fraud. It’s almost like we should have secure elections too!
A compelling analysis, but what if they are just reaching a plateau of users with their current product?

From the limited data provided by the article, their retention looks good, which matters more in the long run.
> Every dollar spent on dev didn't 40x in ETH over the last year, or 400x in some other things.

Yes, but thats why you collect a ton of other people’s money in token sale revenue to begin with!

You have larger than normal
overhead costs, but still larger than normal earnings
You probably still want to use virtual memory to simplify the programming model (flat address space) and to be able to overallocate memory across many processes. Without virtual memory you are pushing these functionalities to app developers.
So you don't use an ad blocker?
If you read about the heyday of RJ Reynolds tobacco and all the money they had and all the good they did for Winston-Salem, I think there is a big parallel. If someone wrote a "Why I work in big tobacco" post, talking about their charitable work, I don't think they'd make any friends. But I think order of magnitude wise, the impact on quality of life, mental health, public discourse, etc etc of internet advertising (and specifically the attention economy it gives rise to) will be shown to be (a) just as addictive and (b) as harmful as tobacco was.

So I agree with you, there is no moral high ground for the people involved. They should be looked on no differently than anyone else exploiting addiction for profit.
I really wish that the article did not use the old EFAIL thing. Is that really the worst aspect of the GnuPG API? From that one might get the impression that the API must be pretty awesome if everyone keeps bringing up something that is, after all, a legitimate difference of opinion.
NSA released a now older OSX hardening PDF, still lots of relevant stuff:

https://cirka.net/wiki/_media/macosx_hardening_tips.pdf

And NIST did a long form one as well for macOS Sierra (10.2)

https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Publications/sp/800-179/rev...

Hardening operating systems is extremely difficult, I put a ton of research into it, but making it harder for APTs is always valuable. Linux with GRSecurity used to be the gold standard. Not sure what is now.

I noticed a lot of "zero days" or vulnerbilities target specific versions of popular software so there may be plenty of security in obscurity just based on the nature of the hacking business. And there's a huge shadowy hacking business if you weren't aware.

And as a side note one thing I learned from grugq is that managing your identity online is worth 10 fold than any of this hardening business. Creating fake identities with real back stories and linkedin pages etc. That sort of thing. But that getting a little deep into the "shadowy arts" of the infosec world.
True, but it's been weaponized extremely well by one side in recent years (2012~14 and onwards). Reminds me a lot of how it was weaponized by the other side in the late 80s and 90s.
I'm not sure what answer would have satisfied your question if it wasn't asked with poor intent. There are many differences, including Trump organizing the group together that then turned into rioters after his speech.
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Is this a moral or a factual statement?

I guess I'd reject the whole victim/perpetrator dichotomy and say that people's conditions are contingent on forces largely out of their control. That's a factual statement. Lots of people and societies find this very uncomfortable - we generally like the cosmos to be largely about us, down to our decisions, both for the better and for the worse.
See my other comments on responses to specific claims. 99% of HN comments on the matter talk about irrelevant or unrelated risks.
One of the big lies is that Insurance Companies have an incentive (aligned with the customer) to lower costs.

In fact Insurance Companies have an incentive to pay no more than competition, but for costs to rise. Due to regulated %overhead this is one of the few ways they increase profits every year.

To maintain current inflation adjusted stock valuations (based on earnings and growth) Insurance companies need prices to rise and they are incentivized to produce this outcome. Surprise!
So r/wallstreetbets needs to pool together to buy voting shares and send their best and brightest to crash the party?
EverParse: Hardening attack surfaces with formally proven message parsers
> Burying it is not a technical problem.

it is. the problem is that it needs to be stored way longer than any human is living. basically there are very few sites which might be able to withstand a timeframe so large without every polluting the environment. you know just burying is not enough, you need to be sure that no water or anything else might break your containments.
it's probably impossible to do it and it's also not a good idea to think that burying it and forgetting about it is a good idea either.
No, no you won't. You will attract people who are committed to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
You would have to demineralize the water first or you are going to get deposits building up on the warm parts of the compressor (most of it) where the water evaporates on contact.

It would seem to be better to have a closed loop water cooling system around the compressor head, but this is a very rare feature. So many home compressors treat cooling like "LOL 5% duty cycle for you", it's pretty annoying. Most of the time the cooling fans aren't even running unless the compressor is squeezing air, so the whole thing just soaks in its own heat once the tank is full.
Entertainment vs a censorship resistant financial network

>there are ways to do so that do not incur the same costs.

What are the other ways to make censorship resistant financial transactions globally?

One of these products/services is orders of magnitude more valuable than the other.
80% of the 22M comments on net neutrality rollback were fake
This is a good time to recommend some supplementary reading: The Coddling of the American Mind[1], a book that does a great job of outlining what has changed in the last 30 years and why there is very much a generational gap at play with how people perceive themselves. It turns out, raising kids in an environment of "safetyism" where nothing ever goes wrong makes full-grown adults really unresilient, and more prone to thinking of themselves as victims.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Gen...
> what would you pay to be able to be 100% remote forever in this job

Nothing since I'm absolutely, definitely more productive in the office than I could ever be at home.
No, you have never been able to target by race. NY times is referring to algorithmic targeting that incidentally correlated to race, which FB cleaned up in 2019.
MindStorms is a must for any kid _remotely_ interested in STEM. It's not cheap, but IMO schools should definitely invest in a large set. It solidified my interest in engineering early on, paired with playing RCT and the like.
The alternative is to pay 20ct a year not $10 a month
It could be very easy. Just hide all posts from that specific website, a very easy filter, not classification problem.

> It's really easy to just move your eyes to the next line.

Well if it's that easy, then why is there an hide button on HN in the first place?
The best way forward for folks who don't want to go back to an office setting is start looking for a remote job. When you're having your exit interview, let them know why you're leaving and the fact that they weren't willing to be flexible. If it happens enough they'll get the hint real quick that change is necessary.
I certainly hope you're joking
He still uses an iMac G3
The hallmark of great software engineering: tell product to adapt to technical lazyness
Would you say that Ads are still unethical if they're not paid for?

As just an anecdote, I'm always shocked by the amount of advertising at Burning Man. There's always people trying to get you to come to their event or join in their activity. Signs and street barkers are everywhere. There's no money and no bartering allowed, but advertising is everywhere, since ultimately attention is what is in limited supply.

If they aren't unethical in this scenario, it seems like what you're saying is that it's the underlying socio-economic system that's unethical, which would explain why all of the alternatives to ads also appear to be unethical.
Absolutely. And that's due to AMA lobbying in the 90s. It doesn't have anything much to do with stringency of US medical licensing or ensuring quality and everything to do with existing MDs protecting their lucrative practices.
What are your plans to do with it?
Create a reseller website?
I agree. These are examples of things I initially dismissed, in part because I thought didn’t see how they addressed the minor factors that were holding back a sudden and widespread adoption. And yeah, I think there is a technical element to this and I do recall technical people puzzled about how popular web pages in a browser had become (seeing it as an unusually limited interface).

Not all though, for all I know this was an unusual perspective even among technically savvy people. I suppose the people who saw the possibility and could act in it were both technical but capable of seeing things outside that narrow lense.

Also remember I wrote these as examples of things I reasoned incorrectly about!

EDIT - re-reading my comment above, I see I did write "technical people" rather than "me". I'm sure I'm not at all alone in having this tendency, but I'm definitely not ready to defend the idea that this is a universal or even common tendency among technical people. Perhaps I should have written "when I find myself thinking "couldn't you just""...
I haven't come across accusations that pro-NN were systematically submitting fraudulently support comments to the FCC. Absent that, there's no "both sides" argument here.
All I know is any compressed air tank you have needs water drained from it regularly. Air pipes count as a tank (just a small diameter) so you have to consider where the water will go.
The point, which you (deliberately?) miss, is that you have simply declared ads to be worthwhile, and are now working backwards to argue your conclusion. You are begging the question.
"Streaming money" doesn't sound like sci-fi at all. It just sounds like something I absolutely would try to avoid at all costs.
>Management agreed that a list of funny names does not count.

But why? What process led those people to decide it doesn't count? And why would only the management have a voice in that decision?
Fair enough, I should have chose wording better. In any case I would posit that the police using search engine history in evidence for cases is not a bad thing.
Tech Hubs Held on to Technology Jobs During Pandemic
... and how do you find a guild? Apply out-of-game? Play only with r/l friends?
Even the first-generation runtimes no longer use this mechanism. Note https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/java/migrat...: "All standard Java classes are now available, and there is no class allowlist."
ADA and in a minor extent COBOL, were heavily subsidized by the government. Probably even PL/1
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